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5400 | word:
United Nations
word_type:
name
expansion:
the United Nations
forms:
form:
the United Nations
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
United Nations
etymology_text:
Ellipsis of United Nations Organization.
senses_examples:
text:
We hope in particular that the people of China will not be misled or forced into fighting against the United Nations and against the American people, who have always been and still are their friends.
ref:
1950 September 1, Harry S. Truman, 3:28 from the start, in MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162
type:
quotation
text:
jill and i were married by a catholic priest at the United Nations chapel in New York City in June 1977.
ref:
2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
Last week plump Admiral Helfrich was not at sea, but in the United Nations' well-guarded, teeming headquarters in interior Java. Under him, in the top sea command, was a U.S. naval officer whom Admiral Helfrich and all the Dutch had learned to admire: 55-year-old Vice Admiral William A. Glassford Jr. Admiral Glassford needed more cruisers, more destroyers, more submarines for the sea defense of Java. Admiral Helfrich needed men & munitions, but especially aircraft and airmen.
ref:
1942 February 23, “Dutchman's Chance”, in TIME, archived from the original on 2008-03-07
type:
quotation
text:
United Nations Plan Their Domestic Economies / All the United Nations are determined that out of this war shall come a finer and richer life for the average citizen, according to a survey of Postwar Plans of the United Nations by Lewis L. Lorwin which The Twentieth Century Fund (New York) issued this week.
ref:
1943 November 27, Information Service, volume XXII, number 39, New York, N.Y.
type:
quotation
text:
United Nations on the march with flags unfurled
Together fight for victory, a free new world
ref:
1944, “The United Nations”, Harold Jacob Rome (lyrics), Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (music) (SP record), performed by Paul Robeson and Keynote Orchestra And Chorus, N.Y., U.S.A.: Keynote Recordings, Inc., →OCLC, M 1200 B
type:
quotation
text:
Norway feels that imposition of terms “in the interests” of the United Nations other than the principal three powers leaves doubt regarding position of other United Nations towards Germany and may be source of juridical and political conflicts. [Trygve] Lie feels terms should state that in principle all United Nations are entitled to same rights towards Germany. Allies who have made valuable contribution to common victory should take part in notifying terms of surrender to the Germans.
ref:
1945 April 20, [John Gilbert] Winant, “The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State”, in Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1945, volume III (European Advisory Commission; Austria; Germany), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published 1968, page 234
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An international coalition, founded in 1945 and headquartered in New York City, that aims to promote global co-operation and maintain international order.
The Allies of World War II; the countries fighting against the Axis Powers.
senses_topics:
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5401 | word:
Chennai
word_type:
name
expansion:
Chennai
forms:
wikipedia:
Chennai
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Tamil சென்னை (ceṉṉai).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India, formerly known as Madras.
Chennai (a district of Tamil Nadu, India, containing most of metro Chennai)
senses_topics:
|
5402 | word:
bel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bel (plural bels)
forms:
form:
bels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bel
etymology_text:
Named after Alexander Graham Bell.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A measure of relative power, defined as log₁₀(P ₁/P ₂), where P₁ and P₂ are the measured and reference power respectively.
senses_topics:
|
5403 | word:
bel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bel (plural bels)
forms:
form:
bels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bel
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of bael (“Indian tree”)
senses_topics:
|
5404 | word:
whose
word_type:
det
expansion:
whose
forms:
wikipedia:
en:inanimate whose
etymology_text:
From Middle English whos, from Old English hwæs, from Proto-Germanic *hwes, genitive case of *hwaz (“who”) *hwat (“what”).
senses_examples:
text:
Whose wallet is this?
type:
example
text:
This is the man whose dog caused the accident.
(= This man's dog caused the accident.)
type:
example
text:
Venus, whose sister Serena is, won the latest championship.
text:
Pat and Lou, whose house we visited last year
text:
We saw several houses whose rooves were falling off.
(= The rooves were falling off several houses that we saw.)
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.
Of whom, belonging to whom.
Of which, belonging to which.
senses_topics:
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5405 | word:
whose
word_type:
pron
expansion:
whose
forms:
wikipedia:
en:inanimate whose
etymology_text:
From Middle English whos, from Old English hwæs, from Proto-Germanic *hwes, genitive case of *hwaz (“who”) *hwat (“what”).
senses_examples:
text:
Several people have lost their suitcases. Whose have you found?
type:
example
text:
This car is blocking the way, but Mr Smith, whose it is, will be here shortly.
text:
If he starts it on another man's lands, and kills it there, it belongs to the owner of the land; but if he start game on one man's lands, and pursue it to those of another, and kill it there, it is neither the property of the man on whose lands it is started, nor of him on whose it is killed, but belongs to the killer.
ref:
1833, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 3, page 637 (Google Books view)
text:
The notes on authors are extremely brilliant and incisive, not always in good perspective and sometimes freaky in their wit, as, for instance, the reference to Mrs. Holmes, of whose books it is said, "The secret of their long popularity has never been divulged by their readers," and Mrs. Harris, of whose it is said, "To a lively mind they should be conducive of profound sleep," which, whatever its faults, is by no means true of "Rutledge."
ref:
1895, Library Journal, Volume 20, page 397 (Google Books view)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That or those of whom or belonging to whom.
That or those of whom or belonging to whom.
senses_topics:
|
5406 | word:
whose
word_type:
contraction
expansion:
whose
forms:
wikipedia:
en:inanimate whose
etymology_text:
From Middle English whos, from Old English hwæs, from Proto-Germanic *hwes, genitive case of *hwaz (“who”) *hwat (“what”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of who's.
senses_topics:
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5407 | word:
billabong
word_type:
noun
expansion:
billabong (plural billabongs)
forms:
form:
billabongs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Wiradjuri bilabang, likely a compound from Wiradjuri bila (“river”) and Wiradjuri bong or Wiradjuri bung (“dead”).
senses_examples:
text:
Oh there once was a swagman camped in the billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he looked at the old billy boiling,
'Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda, with me.'
ref:
1895, “Waltzing Matilda”, Banjo Paterson (lyrics)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An anabranch, backwater or oxbow lake that is temporarily cut off from the main river, especially one that is only filled with water during the rainy season and can sometimes dry up completely.
senses_topics:
|
5408 | word:
accordance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accordance (countable and uncountable, plural accordances)
forms:
form:
accordances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* (compliance): First attested around 1300.
* (agreement): First attested in the early 14th century.
* accord + -ance
* From Middle English accordaunce, from Old French acordance (“agreeing, reconciliation, harmony”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance.
The act of granting something.
senses_topics:
|
5409 | word:
rose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rose (countable and uncountable, plural roses)
forms:
form:
roses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:rose
etymology_text:
From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa. The Latin is of uncertain origin, but likely via Oscan from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wródon)), from Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀- (var^əδa-), Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr, late Middle Persian [Term?] (gwl /gul/), Persian گل (gol, “rose, flower”), and Middle Iranian borrowings including Old Armenian վարդ (vard, “rose”), Aramaic וַרְדָּא (wardā) / ܘܪܕܐ (wardā), Arabic وَرْدَة (warda), Hebrew וֶרֶד (wéreḏ)), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰos (“sweetbriar”) (compare Old English word (“thornbush”), Latin rubus (“bramble”), Albanian hurdhe (“ivy”)). Possibly ultimately a derivation from a verb for "to grow" only attested in Indo-Iranian (*Hwardʰ-, compare Sanskrit वर्धति (vardhati), with relatives in Avestan).
senses_examples:
text:
1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose:"
O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in june...
text:
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
ref:
1913, Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily
type:
quotation
text:
Web rose:
text:
rose-pink:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
A flower of the rose plant.
A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
Something resembling a rose flower.
The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.
A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
A graph with only one vertex.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
mathematics
sciences
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences |
5410 | word:
rose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rose (third-person singular simple present roses, present participle rosing, simple past and past participle rosed)
forms:
form:
roses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rosing
tags:
participle
present
form:
rosed
tags:
participle
past
form:
rosed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:rose
etymology_text:
From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa. The Latin is of uncertain origin, but likely via Oscan from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wródon)), from Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀- (var^əδa-), Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr, late Middle Persian [Term?] (gwl /gul/), Persian گل (gol, “rose, flower”), and Middle Iranian borrowings including Old Armenian վարդ (vard, “rose”), Aramaic וַרְדָּא (wardā) / ܘܪܕܐ (wardā), Arabic وَرْدَة (warda), Hebrew וֶרֶד (wéreḏ)), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰos (“sweetbriar”) (compare Old English word (“thornbush”), Latin rubus (“bramble”), Albanian hurdhe (“ivy”)). Possibly ultimately a derivation from a verb for "to grow" only attested in Indo-Iranian (*Hwardʰ-, compare Sanskrit वर्धति (vardhati), with relatives in Avestan).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make rose-colored; to redden or flush.
To perfume, as with roses.
senses_topics:
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5411 | word:
rose
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rose (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:rose
etymology_text:
From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa. The Latin is of uncertain origin, but likely via Oscan from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wródon)), from Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀- (var^əδa-), Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr, late Middle Persian [Term?] (gwl /gul/), Persian گل (gol, “rose, flower”), and Middle Iranian borrowings including Old Armenian վարդ (vard, “rose”), Aramaic וַרְדָּא (wardā) / ܘܪܕܐ (wardā), Arabic وَرْدَة (warda), Hebrew וֶרֶד (wéreḏ)), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰos (“sweetbriar”) (compare Old English word (“thornbush”), Latin rubus (“bramble”), Albanian hurdhe (“ivy”)). Possibly ultimately a derivation from a verb for "to grow" only attested in Indo-Iranian (*Hwardʰ-, compare Sanskrit वर्धति (vardhati), with relatives in Avestan).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a purplish-red or pink color; rosy.
senses_topics:
|
5412 | word:
rose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rose
forms:
wikipedia:
en:rose
etymology_text:
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
senses_examples:
text:
Chidley-Mount, Som. on the other ſide of the Parret, oppoſite to Bridgewater, which is ſuppoſed to have roſe from its ruins.
ref:
1775, The Complete Gazetteer of England and Wales […], volume 1, G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
Here the genius of agriculture seems to have rose above its dawn.
ref:
1805, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 8, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
And, it has often been in the most oppressed of times that human beings have rose up and discovered their greatest potential.
ref:
2006 January 30, Timothy Stagich, Conscious Ascension: The Global Rise of Mankind Out of the Depths of Conflict, Global Leadership Resources, page 86
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of rise
past participle of rise
senses_topics:
|
5413 | word:
rose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rose (plural roses)
forms:
form:
roses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:rose
etymology_text:
From French rosé (“pinkish”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of rosé
senses_topics:
|
5414 | word:
center of gravity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
center of gravity (plural centers of gravity)
forms:
form:
centers of gravity
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
center of gravity
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A point, near or within a body, through which its weight can be assumed to act when considering forces on the body and its motion under gravity. This coincides with the center of mass in a uniform gravitational field.
The most central or important part of something, which its other parts are considered in relation to.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
5415 | word:
boke
word_type:
verb
expansion:
boke (third-person singular simple present bokes, present participle boking, simple past and past participle boked)
forms:
form:
bokes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
boking
tags:
participle
present
form:
boked
tags:
participle
past
form:
boked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Scots bock, attested from the 16th century.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To thrust or push out; butt; poke.
To retch or vomit.
senses_topics:
|
5416 | word:
boke
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boke (plural bokes)
forms:
form:
bokes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
That is / like as the church doth read yͤ bokes of Iudith / Thobias / and the Machabees / but receaveth them not emonge the canonicall ſcriptures / even ſo let it read theſe two bokes (he meaneth yͤ boke of ſapience and eccleſiaſticus) vnto the edefyinge of the people / and not to confirme the doctrine of the church therbye.
ref:
[1531], Iohan Frith, A Disputaciõ of Purgatorye Made by Iohan Frith Which Is Deuided in to Thre Bokes
type:
quotation
text:
Fyrſt therfore to ſpeake of Spayne, ⁊ by the teſtimonie of oulde autours to declare the commodities therof: Plinie a graue ⁊ faythful autour, in the laſt boke ⁊ laſt chapiture of his natural hiſtory greatly commendynge Italy aboue al other contreys, giueth the ſecond prayſe vnto Spaine, aſwel for al ſuch thynges as in maner the heuen can geue ⁊ the earth brynge furth for the commoditie of this lyfe as alſo for the excellente wittes of men ⁊ Ciuile gouernaunce.
ref:
1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria, translated by Rycharde Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, London: […] Guilhelmi Powell
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of book.
senses_topics:
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5417 | word:
Down syndrome
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Down syndrome (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after John Langdon Haydon Down (1828–1896), an English physician who first described the condition as a distinct form of mental disability in the 1860s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21 (a chromosomal excess), whereby the patients typically have a delay in cognitive ability and physical growth, as well as a small head and tilted eyelids.
senses_topics:
medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences |
5418 | word:
Zulu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Zulu (countable and uncountable, plural Zulu or Zulus)
forms:
form:
Zulu
tags:
plural
form:
Zulus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Zulu (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Zulu umZulu.
senses_examples:
text:
Noon MST is 19:00 Zulu.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of an African ethnic group living mainly in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in eastern South Africa.
Time along the prime meridian; UTC; Zulu time.
senses_topics:
|
5419 | word:
Zulu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Zulu
forms:
wikipedia:
Zulu (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Zulu umZulu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of these people, a Bantu language; isiZulu.
senses_topics:
|
5420 | word:
Zulu
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Zulu (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Zulu (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Zulu umZulu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to the Zulu people, culture, or language.
senses_topics:
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5421 | word:
rice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rice (countable and uncountable, plural rices)
forms:
form:
rices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rice
etymology_text:
From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from an Eastern Iranian language related to Middle Persian blnc (*brinǰ), Northern Kurdish riz (beyond Euphrates) and Zazaki riz. Theorized to come to Iranian languages from Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi).
Prior to Sanskrit, it is speculated to be possibly a borrowing from a Dravidian language (compare Proto-Dravidian *wariñci (“rice”)), or from Austroasiatic languages further east.
Alternatively Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza) is said to be from Hebrew אורז (órez), from South Arabian areez ultimately from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀭𑀺𑀘𑀺 (arici).
senses_examples:
text:
Rice is a tropical plant; yet Carolina and Georgia grow the finest in the world; heavier grained, better filled, and more merchantable, than any imported into Europe from the Indies.
ref:
1831, Daniel Jay Browne, The Naturalist, volume 1, page 375
type:
quotation
text:
Drought stress causes yield reductions and sometimes total crop failures in rainfed rice areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
ref:
1982, International Rice Research Institute, Drought Resistance in Crops with Emphasis on Rice
type:
quotation
text:
Rice transformed with genes encoding human CYP1a1, CYP2B6, and CYP2C19 are more tolerant of various herbicides than non-transgenic rice plants, due to increased metabolism by the introduced P450 enzymes [Kawwahigashi et al. 2005a, 2007, 2008; James et al. 2008].
ref:
2014, V. S. Rao, Transgenic Herbicide Resistance in Plants
type:
quotation
text:
The rices of Kashmír are infinite in variety. In one tahsíl I have found fifty-three varieties.
ref:
1895, Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, The Valley of Kashmír
type:
quotation
text:
First, we have the Italian rices; secondly, the rices of the French colonies of Indo-China and Madagascar, which are beginning to cultivate rices of very fine quality, altogether superior to those that were cultivated only a few years back.
ref:
1922 April 24, L. Humbert, “America Has Hard Competition in France”, in Rice Journal and Southern Farmer, volume 25, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
For commercial purposes, the rices are classified according to the kernel length as short-grain, medium-grain, longgrain and long-slender-grain.
ref:
2000, R.K Singh, U.S. Singh, G.S. Khush, editors, Aromatic Rices
type:
quotation
text:
Mold boiled rice, when hot, in cups which have been previously dipped in cold water; when cold, turn them out on a flat dish, arranging them uniformly; then with a tea-spoon scoop out a little of the rice from the top of each cone, and put in its place any kind of jelly.
ref:
1881, Mary Foote Henderson, Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving
type:
quotation
text:
In sum, when a modern Japanese family and its members sit around the supper table eating their bowls of Japanese-grown rice, they are not simply indulging a gastronomic preference for short-grained and slightly sticky japonica rice over long-grained indica rice from Thailand.
ref:
1998, Noreen G. Dowling, Sustainability of Rice in the Global Food System
type:
quotation
text:
On the festival day, rice is cooked together with this rice knot above.
ref:
2010, S. D. Sharma, Rice: Origin, Antiquity and History
type:
quotation
text:
This is my first rice!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
A specific variety of this plant.
The seeds of this plant used as food.
The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
An instance of customization of a user interface.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5422 | word:
rice
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rice (third-person singular simple present rices, present participle ricing, simple past and past participle riced)
forms:
form:
rices
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ricing
tags:
participle
present
form:
riced
tags:
participle
past
form:
riced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rice
etymology_text:
From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from an Eastern Iranian language related to Middle Persian blnc (*brinǰ), Northern Kurdish riz (beyond Euphrates) and Zazaki riz. Theorized to come to Iranian languages from Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi).
Prior to Sanskrit, it is speculated to be possibly a borrowing from a Dravidian language (compare Proto-Dravidian *wariñci (“rice”)), or from Austroasiatic languages further east.
Alternatively Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza) is said to be from Hebrew אורז (órez), from South Arabian areez ultimately from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀭𑀺𑀘𑀺 (arici).
senses_examples:
text:
Riced Potato. Have a flat dish and the colander hot. With a spoon, rub mashed potato through the colander on to the hot dish.
ref:
1881, Maria Parloa, Miss Parloa's New Cook Book: A Guide to Marketing and Cooking
type:
quotation
text:
Following ricing, the potato mash proceeds to the drum drier where flaking is done.
ref:
1961, Potato Chipper, volume 21, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
Last night I riced the potatoes and added in the cream and butter while they were hot, so today wll we have to do is add flour and roll them out.
ref:
2015, Lorna Seilstad, As Love Blooms (The Gregory Sisters Book #3): A Novel
type:
quotation
text:
In northern Minnesota the whites have invented the verb "to rice," and speak of "ricing," i. e., harvesting the crop of wild rice.
ref:
1894, John Merle Coulter, Botanical Gazette, page 505
type:
quotation
text:
When ricing, the Ojibway dress warmly at first; by midday they may shed some clothes as harvest toil combines with the hot sun of late summer to warm them.
ref:
1988, Thomas Vennum, Wild rice and the Ojibway people
type:
quotation
text:
As it was, the Indian seldom bothered to harvest wild rice on public waters after opening day of the ricing season.
ref:
2002, David Laursen, A Capital Place: Reminiscences of a Sandy Lake Boyhood
type:
quotation
text:
So far as I can make out, the idiotic function of “ricing” English brides and bridegrooms is not twenty years old.
ref:
1886 July 24, “Echoes of the Week”, in The Illustrated London News, volume 89, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
The couple was well riced and sent on their way.
ref:
2002, Helen Argers, The Gilded Lily
type:
quotation
text:
As the reception ended the two newlyweds were riced to death and fled into an awaiting getaway car and drove off...followed by a stream of tin cans.
ref:
2006, Timothy Lee, Billy: A Gay Trilogy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
To harvest wild rice (Zizania sp.)
To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5423 | word:
rice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rice (plural rices)
forms:
form:
rices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rice
etymology_text:
From Middle English ris, rys, from Old English hrīs (“branch; twig”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīsą (“bush; twig”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreys- (“to turn; bend; wind; move; shake”). Cognate with Scots reise, rice (“twigs; brushwood”), West Frisian riis, rys, Dutch rijs (“little branch; twig; osier; whip”), German Low German Ries, German Reis (“twig; sprig; shoot”), Swedish ris (“twigs; brush; rod”), Icelandic hrís.
senses_examples:
text:
To guard the bank from the impression of the water, a fence, OF STAKE AND RICE, may be made along the bottom of it next the sea, which will last till the surface on that side is sufficiently swarded, and the mound properly consolidated.
ref:
1834, John Johnstone, A systematic treatise on the theory and practice of draining land
type:
quotation
text:
Another form of dead-hedge is the stake-and-rice, and it is formed of the branches of forest trees; and where these are plentiful and thorns scarce, it is an economical dead fence.
ref:
1851, Henry Stephens, The Book of the Farm, volume 1
type:
quotation
text:
"Gilbert White, the well-known naturalist, in a letter dated Selborne, Oct. 4th, 1775, says, 'Our people here, you know, call coppice-wood or hedge-wood rice or rise. Is this word still in use in that neighbourhood? And is it also known in Surrey?"
ref:
1881 July 16, Notes and Queries (6), volume 6
type:
quotation
text:
[…] taken unlawfully from the same house five "machines called 'Engine-Weaving Loomes' worth thirty pounds, and two ounces of silke worth five shillings, and two joynt-stooles worth three shillings, and a pair of 'Rices to wind silke on' worth four shillings […]
ref:
1892, John Cordy Jeaffreson, editor, Middlesex County Records, volume 4
type:
quotation
text:
The hanks are placed upon light, collapsible hexagon reels termed rices, which are easily lifted out of their position for the reception of the hank.
ref:
1895, Richard Marsden, Cotton Weaving: Its Development, Principles, and Practice
type:
quotation
text:
Swift (rice) Skein holder, hank holder.
ref:
1977, Marianne Straub, Hand weaving and cloth design
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A twig or stick.
A bobbin or spool.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving |
5424 | word:
deem
word_type:
verb
expansion:
deem (third-person singular simple present deems, present participle deeming, simple past and past participle deemed)
forms:
form:
deems
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
deeming
tags:
participle
present
form:
deemed
tags:
participle
past
form:
deemed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
deem
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dẹ̄men (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English dēman (“to decide, decree, deem”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōmijan, from Proto-Germanic *dōmijaną (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to set, put”).
The word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to judge”), Dutch doemen (“to condemn, foredoom”), North Frisian dema (“to judge, recognise”), Norwegian Nynorsk døma (“to judge”), Swedish döma (“to judge, sentence, condemn”), Finnish tuomita (“to judge”). It is also related to doom.
senses_examples:
text:
[Section] 39. Being found by a constable on a highway, street, or public place, suspected of coming from land where he has been unlawfully in search or pursuit of game, and game or nets, &c. being found in his possession or in a cart, &c.,—the justices deeming the game unlawfully obtained from some land.
ref:
1872, George C[olwell] Oke, “The Synopsis of Offences, etc. within the Provisions of the 11 & 12 Vict. c. 43”, in The Magisterial Synopsis: A Practical Guide for Magistrates, Their Clerks, Attornies and Constables; […] In Two Volumes, 11th edition, volume I, London: Butterworths, […], →OCLC, page 380
type:
quotation
text:
And it is hereby enacted, that in any zillah, in which the Governor in Council of Fort St. George deems it expedient to establish the zillah court, and the court or courts under subordinate judges or principal sudder ameens, at separate stations, it shall be competent to the said Governor in Council, by an Order in Council, to authorize the session judge to take cognizance of all criminal cases subject ordinarily to the jurisdiction of the subordinate courts, […]
ref:
1843, “Act No. VII. of 1843”, in East India. Acts Passed by the Honourable the President of the Council of India, and by the Right Honourable the Governor-General, for 1843; […] (Accounts and Papers; 328), [London]: Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, […], published 28 May 1845, →OCLC, section XLIV, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
She deemed his efforts insufficient.
type:
example
text:
To this sect belong also the Skakounui, or Jumpers. […] They refuse to take an oath, and will not bear arms, deeming it sinful to shed human blood.
ref:
1874, “Types of Russian Character”, in Edmund Routledge, editor, Routledge’s Every Boy’s Annual, London, New York, N.Y.: George Routledge & Sons, →OCLC, page 254
type:
quotation
text:
[T]herefore had Abel and his works acceptance, when Cain and his had none, becauſe he was righteous, not ſo eſteemed of God while he was not ſo indeed (as T[homas] D[anson] deems) who becauſe he ſo does, deems that God (as himſelf) deems thoſe and theirs to be good and righteous, […]
ref:
1660, Samuel Fisher, “The Fourth Apologeticall, and Expostulatory Exercitation”, in Rusticus ad Academicos in Exercitationibus Expostulatoriis, Apologeticis Quatuor: The Rustick’s Alarm to the Rabbies, […], London: Printed for Robert Wilson, →OCLC, chapter VI, page 220
type:
quotation
text:
[I]f a man doe really deem the weather to be cold, or that his body is diſtempered, he putteth on warmer cloathes, or taketh phyſick: although peradventure he is miſtaken in both: for his deeming them to be ſo, maketh him demeane himſelfe in ſuch ſort, as if really they were ſo.
ref:
1665, Kenelme Digby [i.e., Kenelm Digby], “[The Second Treatise: Declaring the Nature and Operations of Mans Soule.] Of Thinking and Knowing”, in Two Treatises: In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule is Looked into: In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules, London: Printed for Iohn Williams, […], →OCLC, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
[T]hoſe [remedies] that have obtain'd the Name of Antiſcorbutick, Antiſcrophulous, Traumatick, Vulnerary or Healing Medicines, and ſuch as are deem'd Sweeteners of the Blood, and Correctors of Acrimony, […] have all in their turns been held in high Eſteem; […] Some think the Cure of a Phthiſis is to be compaſſed only by Alkalies; others by Acids; abundance of Phyſicians are of Opinion that no Good can be done in thi Diſeaſe without Opiates, which ſome deem very pernicious; […]
ref:
1720, Benjamin Marten, “Of the Great Number of Medicines and Various Methods of Cure Recommended for Consumptions, with the Different Opinions of Authors Concerning Them, &c.”, in A New Theory of Consumptions: More Especially of a Phthisis, or Consumption of the Lungs. […], London: Printed for R. Knaplock, […]; A. Bell, […]; J. Hooke, […], and C. King, […], →OCLC, pages 101–102
type:
quotation
text:
And deemest thou as those who pore, / With aged eyes, short way before? / Think'st Beauty vanished from the coast / Of matter, and thy darling lost?
ref:
1847, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Threnody”, in Poems, London: Chapman, Brothers, 121, Newgate Street, →OCLC, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
Some deem it sweet to wander far abroad, / And view the beauties of another shore; / Some deem it sweet to shun affection's road, / And haunts of them whom once they did adore.
ref:
1853, Adam Anderson, “Some Deem it Sweet to Wander Far Abroad”, in Poems, Edinburgh: Thomas Grant, […], →OCLC, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
For example, record-breaking rainfall in the UK made February 2020 the wettest February on record, while July 2019 was deemed to be the warmest month on record worldwide.
ref:
2020 July 29, Ian Prosser discusses with Paul Stephen, “Rail needs robust and strategic plans”, in Rail, page 42
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
To adjudge, to decree.
To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
senses_topics:
|
5425 | word:
deem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
deem (plural deems)
forms:
form:
deems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English deme, from the verb (see above).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.
senses_topics:
|
5426 | word:
Darwin
word_type:
name
expansion:
Darwin
forms:
wikipedia:
Charles Darwin
etymology_text:
From Middle English Darwin, Derwin, from Old English Dēorwine (“a given name”), composed of dēore (“dear”) + wine (“friend”).
The city in Australia is named after Charles Darwin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname, especially referring to Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British naturalist and founder of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
A municipality of Río Negro province, Argentina.
The capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia.
A ghost town in Tasmania, Australia.
A settlement on the peninsula of Lafonia, East Falkland island, Falkland Islands.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Inyo County, California.
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Fresno County, California.
A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Clark County, Illinois.
A number of places in the United States:
A township and minor city in Meeker County, Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States:
A small unincorporated community in Bedford Township, Meigs County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Webb County, Texas.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Dickenson County, Virginia.
A male given name transferred from the surname, deriving from the Old English name Dēorwine and revived through the surname.
Ellipsis of Darwin College, Cambridge..
An open-source Unix operating system first released by Apple.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5427 | word:
Darwin
word_type:
name
expansion:
Darwin
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant of Derwent.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Derwent (English locative name)
senses_topics:
|
5428 | word:
alley
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alley (plural alleys)
forms:
form:
alleys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Münster
alley
etymology_text:
From Middle English aley, from Old French alee, feminine of alé, past participle of aler (“to go”) (French aller). Doublet of allée.
senses_examples:
text:
The parking lot to my friend's apartment building is in the alley.
type:
example
text:
He hit one deep into the alley.
type:
example
text:
[…] alley of clowns had sprung like a fungus growth from the dung heap of the First World War.
ref:
2017, Charles William Jefford, Academia Nuts, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
“[…] Something must've happened to him when he was little.”
“Which would give him a reason to hate them,” Oliver replied and was pushed aside by an alley of clowns. “Hey!”
“Sorry, kid. Didn't see you there,” one clown called over.
ref:
2021, T. K. Wrathbone, All Clowns Must Die!
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.
The area between the outfielders.
An establishment where bowling is played.
An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
A group of clowns; the collective noun for clowns.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
|
5429 | word:
alley
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alley (plural alleys)
forms:
form:
alleys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Münster
alley
etymology_text:
Diminutive of alabaster, from which they were once made.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A marble (small ball used in games).
senses_topics:
|
5430 | word:
west
word_type:
noun
expansion:
west (plural wests)
forms:
form:
wests
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*wek(ʷ)speros
From Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.
Cognate with Scots wast, Saterland Frisian Wääste, West Frisian west, Dutch west, German West, Danish vest. Cognate also with Old French west, French ouest, Spanish oeste, Portuguese oeste, Catalan oest, Galician oeste, Italian ovest (all ultimately borrowings of the English word). Compare also Latin vesper (“evening”), with which it is possibly cognate via Proto-Indo-European.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: (abbreviation) W
text:
We used to live in the west of the country.
type:
example
text:
Portugal lies to the west of Spain.
type:
example
text:
In two respects, however, the cathedral [of St. Mary's in Sydney, Australia] differs from English traditions: it is oriented north-south, not east-west; and its main entry is from the south (liturgical west) between the two towers, in the French manner.
ref:
1997, John Haskell, John Callanan, Sydney Architecture, UNSW Press
type:
quotation
text:
The seating for honored persons (clergy) is at the liturgical west, opposite the entrance and lectern.
ref:
2000, Mark L. MacDonald, The Chant of Life: Liturgical Studies Four, Church Publishing, Inc., page 98
type:
quotation
text:
In most worship spaces, this will put the thurifer and gospeller facing liturgical west, book bearer facing liturgical east (or the book on the reading desk), and the torch bearers turned inward, facing the book.
ref:
2007, Patrick Malloy, Celebrating the Eucharist: A Practical Ceremonial Guide for Clergy and Other Liturgical Ministers, Church Publishing, Inc., page 155
type:
quotation
text:
Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, the altar is located at the east end of the church, and the gallery, at the west.
ref:
2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press, page 365
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The direction opposite to that of the earth's rotation, specifically 270°.
The western region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
In a church: the direction of the gallery, opposite to the altar, and opposite to the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
senses_topics:
ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion |
5431 | word:
west
word_type:
adj
expansion:
west
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*wek(ʷ)speros
From Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.
Cognate with Scots wast, Saterland Frisian Wääste, West Frisian west, Dutch west, German West, Danish vest. Cognate also with Old French west, French ouest, Spanish oeste, Portuguese oeste, Catalan oest, Galician oeste, Italian ovest (all ultimately borrowings of the English word). Compare also Latin vesper (“evening”), with which it is possibly cognate via Proto-Indo-European.
senses_examples:
text:
Interior in 1925, (left) looking north to chancel and (right) looking south (to liturgical west end) It was on account of this connection that St James's became the clowns 'church', an annual clowns' service being held there ...
ref:
2008, Philip Temple, Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville, Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies, page 356
type:
quotation
text:
as in the mosaic of the ascension on San Frediano's liturgical west (geographically east) façade.
ref:
2017, Stephen Kite, Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching Architecture, Routledge, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
Spence had decided on a huge image of Christ on the [liturgical] east end [which is the geographic north], filling the entire wall and to be visible through the [liturgical] West Window (Fig. 24.2).
ref:
2019, Sarah Hosking, "Coventry Cathedral", in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press, page 371
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.
Of wind: from the west.
Of or pertaining to the west; western.
From the West; occidental.
Designating, or situated in, the liturgical west, that part of a church which is opposite to, and farthest from, the part containing the chancel.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
|
5432 | word:
west
word_type:
adv
expansion:
west (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*wek(ʷ)speros
From Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.
Cognate with Scots wast, Saterland Frisian Wääste, West Frisian west, Dutch west, German West, Danish vest. Cognate also with Old French west, French ouest, Spanish oeste, Portuguese oeste, Catalan oest, Galician oeste, Italian ovest (all ultimately borrowings of the English word). Compare also Latin vesper (“evening”), with which it is possibly cognate via Proto-Indo-European.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Towards the west; westwards.
senses_topics:
|
5433 | word:
west
word_type:
verb
expansion:
west (third-person singular simple present wests, present participle westing, simple past and past participle wested)
forms:
form:
wests
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
westing
tags:
participle
present
form:
wested
tags:
participle
past
form:
wested
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*wek(ʷ)speros
From Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.
Cognate with Scots wast, Saterland Frisian Wääste, West Frisian west, Dutch west, German West, Danish vest. Cognate also with Old French west, French ouest, Spanish oeste, Portuguese oeste, Catalan oest, Galician oeste, Italian ovest (all ultimately borrowings of the English word). Compare also Latin vesper (“evening”), with which it is possibly cognate via Proto-Indo-European.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move to the west; (of the sun) to set.
senses_topics:
|
5434 | word:
ad libitum
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ad libitum (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin ad libitum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
As much as desired, to one's fill, without restriction.
senses_topics:
|
5435 | word:
ad libitum
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ad libitum (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin ad libitum.
senses_examples:
text:
an ad libitum diet
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
As much as desired, to one's fill, without restriction.
senses_topics:
|
5436 | word:
Leon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Leon
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Ultimately from Latin Leo and leo (“lion”), from Ancient Greek Λέων (Léōn) and λέων (léōn, “lion”), likely ultimately from a non-Indo-European language. Sometimes via other related languages such as French Léon and sometimes as a diminutive of related names such as Leonard and Leonardo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from Latin or Ancient Greek.
A surname from Latin.
senses_topics:
|
5437 | word:
Leon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Leon
forms:
wikipedia:
David Camden de Leon
Independence, Iowa
Juan Ponce de Leon
Legio VII Gemina
Martín De León
Mexican–American War
etymology_text:
From Spanish León, from Latin legiō (“legion”), named for the Legio VII Gemina, which settled there. In reference to the New York town and Texan river, taken from the former Spanish kingdom. The Texan lake is named for the river. The Floridian county is named for the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon. The Texan county is named for Martin de Leon, founder of Victoria, Texas. The town in Monroe Co., Wisconsin, was named for the Mexican city. The Iowan town was changed to honor the "Fighting Doctor" of the Mexican–American War David Camden de Leon after it was discovered that Iowa already had a city named Independence. The Kansan town was named for the one in Iowa. Doublet of legion via Old French. The California town was named for the nearby Leon Mine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in northwestern Spain, the former capital of the Kingdom of Leon.
A former polity in the Iberian Peninsula, a kingdom with the city as its capital.
A province of Castile and León, Spain around the city.
A historical region in Spain around the province.
A surname from Spanish.
A department of Nicaragua.
Short for Leon County, a county of Florida, United States around the state capital Tallahassee.
Short for Leon County, a county of Texas, United States around Centerville.
A city in Guanajuato, Mexico.
A city, the county seat of Decatur County, Iowa, United States.
A city in Butler County, Kansas, United States.
A town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States.
A town in Love County, Oklahoma, United States.
A town in Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States.
A town in Waushara County, Wisconsin, United States.
A river in Texas, United States.
A lake in Texas, United States.
A former town in San Diego County, California, United States.
senses_topics:
|
5438 | word:
Leon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Leon
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Breton Leon and French Léon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A former polity in Brittany, in northwestern France, reckoned as either a county or viscounty.
A former region in Brittany, in northwestern France around the former polity.
A surname from French.
senses_topics:
|
5439 | word:
macadam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
macadam (countable and uncountable, plural macadams)
forms:
form:
macadams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), who invented the process of macadamization. Used for describing road surfaces originally constructed using the McAdam method, but now sometimes used for any road or street.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The surface of a road consisting of layers of crushed stone (usually tar-coated for modern traffic).
Any road or street.
senses_topics:
|
5440 | word:
macadam
word_type:
verb
expansion:
macadam (third-person singular simple present macadams, present participle macadaming or macadamming, simple past and past participle macadamed or macadammed)
forms:
form:
macadams
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
macadaming
tags:
participle
present
form:
macadamming
tags:
participle
present
form:
macadamed
tags:
participle
past
form:
macadamed
tags:
past
form:
macadammed
tags:
participle
past
form:
macadammed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), who invented the process of macadamization. Used for describing road surfaces originally constructed using the McAdam method, but now sometimes used for any road or street.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover or surface with macadam.
senses_topics:
|
5441 | word:
gumdrop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gumdrop (plural gumdrops)
forms:
form:
gumdrops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From gum + drop.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small chewy candy made with corn syrup, gelatin, and flavouring.
senses_topics:
|
5442 | word:
piece
word_type:
noun
expansion:
piece (plural pieces)
forms:
form:
pieces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pece, peece, peice, from Old French piece, from Late Latin petia, pettia, possibly from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion, quota”); doublet of English fit, fytte, fytt (“musical piece, chapter”), Icelandic fit (“web”), German Fitze (“skein”), from Old High German *fitjâ. Compare Welsh peth, Breton pez (“thing”), Irish cuid. Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian pezza, Italian pezzo.
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonyms: aspect, portion
text:
I’d like another piece of pie.
type:
example
text:
I've lost a piece of this jigsaw puzzle.
type:
example
text:
a piece of machinery
type:
example
text:
a piece of software
type:
example
text:
a useful piece of advice
type:
example
text:
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […]
ref:
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
Pawns, unlike pieces, move only in one direction: forward.
ref:
1959, Hans Kmoch, Pawn Power in Chess, section I
type:
quotation
text:
a sixpenny piece
text:
She played two beautiful pieces on the piano.
type:
example
text:
Today's paper has an interesting piece on medical research.
type:
example
text:
No, I didn't read the piece on China's faceless masses, I was, I was checking out the lingerie ads.
ref:
1979, Woody Allen, Manhattan, spoken by Isaac Davis (Woody Allen)
type:
quotation
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:
He's packin' a piece!
type:
example
text:
I wanted peace, but now my piece is clearing out the block.
ref:
2005, “Bloody War”, in Certified, performed by David Banner
type:
quotation
text:
The announcer is wearing a new piece.
type:
example
text:
My grannie came and gived them all a piece and jam and cups of water then I was to bring them back out to the street and play a game.
ref:
2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
I got a piece at lunchtime.
type:
example
text:
Ugh, my new computer is such a piece. I'm taking it back to the store tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
he got a piece of that one; she got a piece of the ball[…]and it's going foul.
type:
example
text:
His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world.
ref:
1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aid to Reflection
type:
quotation
text:
a far piece
type:
example
text:
located a fair piece away from their camp
type:
example
text:
a fair piece off
type:
example
text:
At practice we rowed four 5,000 meter pieces.
type:
example
text:
That last piece was torture.
type:
example
text:
In fact, that was back during the era when you could buy a piece of heroin, an ounce of heroin, for $500 and cut it three times for a 3-to-1 cut on it and the dope would still be good.
ref:
2017, Matt Meyer, Déqui Kioni-Sadiki, Sekou Odinga, Look for Me in the Whirlwind
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; by extension, a similar counter etc. in other games.
A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
An article published in the press.
An artillery gun.
A gun.
A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
A cannabis pipe.
Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with get.
An individual; a person.
A castle; a fortified building.
A pacifier; a dummy.
A distance.
A structured practice row, often used for performance evaluation.
An amount of work to be done at one time; a unit of piece work.
An ounce of a recreational drug.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
government
military
politics
war
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
|
5443 | word:
piece
word_type:
verb
expansion:
piece (third-person singular simple present pieces, present participle piecing, simple past and past participle pieced)
forms:
form:
pieces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
piecing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pieced
tags:
participle
past
form:
pieced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pece, peece, peice, from Old French piece, from Late Latin petia, pettia, possibly from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion, quota”); doublet of English fit, fytte, fytt (“musical piece, chapter”), Icelandic fit (“web”), German Fitze (“skein”), from Old High German *fitjâ. Compare Welsh peth, Breton pez (“thing”), Irish cuid. Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian pezza, Italian pezzo.
senses_examples:
text:
These clues allowed us to piece together the solution to the mystery.
type:
example
text:
to piece a garment
type:
example
text:
“It didn't rain, so I decided to come piece with you.[…]” We never finished that piece.
ref:
1994, William Upski Wimsatt, Bomb the Suburbs, revised second edition, Chicago: The Subway and Elevated Press Company, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
It is incorrect to say that toys tag and masters piece; toys just do bad tags, bad throw-ups, and bad pieces.
ref:
2009, Gregory J. Snyder, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing.
ref:
2009, Scape Martinez, GRAFF: The Art & Technique of Graffiti, page 124
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To assemble (something real or figurative).
To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
senses_topics:
|
5444 | word:
admixture
word_type:
noun
expansion:
admixture (countable and uncountable, plural admixtures)
forms:
form:
admixtures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin admixtūra, from admixtus, past participle of admisceō (“to mix in”), from misceō (“to mix”). Analyzable as ad- + mixture.
senses_examples:
text:
The admixture of vanilla extract in the dough improved the pastries' flavor.
type:
example
text:
Gas analysis of blood samples, obtained from different sites in the heart and great vessels, permits demonstration of admixture of oxygenated blood in the venous side or admixture of venous blood in the arterial side of the circulation.
ref:
1951 March, J. H. Lehmann, A. D. Johnson, W. C. Bridges, J. Michel, D. M. Green, “Cardiac Catheterization—A Diagnostic Aid in Congenital Heart Disease”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the wood still flourished high and dense, all of fir on the land side, but towards the sea with a large admixture of live oaks.
ref:
1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
type:
quotation
text:
Both were lean, raw-boned specimens; the man tall, sandy, and grey-eyed, and the woman short and rather dark, with a black straightness of hair suggesting a slight Indian admixture.
ref:
1928, H. P. Lovecraft, Zealia Bishop, The Curse of Yig
type:
quotation
text:
Background EEG demonstrates an admixture of theta and delta waves.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of admixing, a mixing in of something.
An instance of admixing, a mixing in of something.
A mixing-in of a biologically or genetically differentiated group to an established stock.
A mixture, in some contexts
A mixture, in some contexts:
a mixture composed of entities retaining their individual properties.
senses_topics:
|
5445 | word:
Pitjantjatjara
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pitjantjatjara
forms:
wikipedia:
Pitjantjatjara
etymology_text:
From Pitjantjatjara Pitjantjatjara, from pitjantja + tjara, literally "having (the word) pitjantja" (as opposed to the word yankunytja).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Aboriginal language, mainly spoken in central Australia and belonging to the Western Desert language group (Pama-Nyungan subfamily).
The Western Desert language group as a whole.
senses_topics:
|
5446 | word:
Pitjantjatjara
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Pitjantjatjara (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Pitjantjatjara
etymology_text:
From Pitjantjatjara Pitjantjatjara, from pitjantja + tjara, literally "having (the word) pitjantja" (as opposed to the word yankunytja).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the Pitjantjatjara language or people.
senses_topics:
|
5447 | word:
chemical formula
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chemical formula (plural chemical formulas or chemical formulae)
forms:
form:
chemical formulas
tags:
plural
form:
chemical formulae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of molecular formula
Any other formula used in chemistry.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
5448 | word:
weapons of mass destruction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
weapons of mass destruction
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of weapon of mass destruction
senses_topics:
|
5449 | word:
breath
word_type:
noun
expansion:
breath (countable and uncountable, plural breaths)
forms:
form:
breaths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Breath (disambiguation)
Brill Publishers
etymology_text:
From Middle English breeth, breth, from Old English brǣþ (“odor, scent, stink, exhalation, vapor”), from Proto-Germanic *brēþiz (“vapour, waft, exhalation, breath”) (compare German Brodem (“haze, vapor; breath”), of a different but related formation), of unknown origin; perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰwer- (“smell”) or alternatively from *bʰreh₁- (“to blow; breath, vapor, steam”), but without certain Indo-European cognates outside Germanic.
senses_examples:
text:
I could hear the breath of the runner behind me.
type:
example
text:
The child's breath came quickly and unevenly.
type:
example
text:
I took a deep breath and started the test.
type:
example
text:
She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers. She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose. Without it, the first breaths could create a suffocating ice mask.
ref:
2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time
type:
quotation
text:
I could feel the runner's breath on my shoulder.
type:
example
text:
Let's stop for a breath when we get to the top of the hill.
type:
example
text:
Even with all the windows open, there is hardly a breath of air in here.
type:
example
text:
If she had a breath of common sense, she would never have spoken to the man in the first place.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of breathing.
A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.
Air expelled from the lungs.
A rest or pause.
A small amount of something, such as wind, or common sense.
Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.
Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.
senses_topics:
|
5450 | word:
breath
word_type:
adj
expansion:
breath (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Breath (disambiguation)
Brill Publishers
etymology_text:
From Middle English breeth, breth, from Old English brǣþ (“odor, scent, stink, exhalation, vapor”), from Proto-Germanic *brēþiz (“vapour, waft, exhalation, breath”) (compare German Brodem (“haze, vapor; breath”), of a different but related formation), of unknown origin; perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰwer- (“smell”) or alternatively from *bʰreh₁- (“to blow; breath, vapor, steam”), but without certain Indo-European cognates outside Germanic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
voiceless, surd; contrasting with voice (breath sounds, voice sounds)
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences |
5451 | word:
breath
word_type:
verb
expansion:
breath (third-person singular simple present breaths, present participle breathing, simple past and past participle breathed)
forms:
form:
breaths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
breathing
tags:
participle
present
form:
breathed
tags:
participle
past
form:
breathed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Breath (disambiguation)
Brill Publishers
etymology_text:
From Middle English breeth, breth, from Old English brǣþ (“odor, scent, stink, exhalation, vapor”), from Proto-Germanic *brēþiz (“vapour, waft, exhalation, breath”) (compare German Brodem (“haze, vapor; breath”), of a different but related formation), of unknown origin; perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰwer- (“smell”) or alternatively from *bʰreh₁- (“to blow; breath, vapor, steam”), but without certain Indo-European cognates outside Germanic.
senses_examples:
text:
In the polar regions one finds dark cold waters with few places to breath.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of breathe.
senses_topics:
|
5452 | word:
Jaipur
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jaipur
forms:
wikipedia:
Jaipur
etymology_text:
From Hindi जयपुर (jaypur).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state capital of Rajasthan, India.
A district of Rajasthan, India, containing the city of the same name.
senses_topics:
|
5453 | word:
wilde
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wilde
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of wild.
senses_topics:
|
5454 | word:
Madras
word_type:
name
expansion:
Madras
forms:
wikipedia:
Madras
Madras, Oregon
etymology_text:
The etymology is uncertain; it may derive from Madraspattinam. See Wikipedia for several possible etymologies.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Former name of Chennai, the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India.
A city, the county seat of Jefferson County, Oregon, United States.
senses_topics:
|
5455 | word:
Madras
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Madras (countable and uncountable, plural Madrases)
forms:
form:
Madrases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Madras
Madras, Oregon
etymology_text:
The etymology is uncertain; it may derive from Madraspattinam. See Wikipedia for several possible etymologies.
senses_examples:
text:
I’ll have the chicken Madras.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A style of curry dish purported to originate from the Madras region.
senses_topics:
|
5456 | word:
perfect
word_type:
adj
expansion:
perfect (comparative perfecter or more perfect, superlative perfectest or most perfect)
forms:
form:
perfecter
tags:
comparative
form:
more perfect
tags:
comparative
form:
perfectest
tags:
superlative
form:
most perfect
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Perfect (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English perfit, from Old French parfit (modern: parfait), from Latin perfectus, perfect passive participle of perficere (“to finish”), from per- (“through, thorough”) + facere (“to do, to make”). Spelling modified 15c. to conform to Latin etymology. Doublet of parfait.
Displaced native Old English fulfremed.
senses_examples:
text:
a perfect circle
type:
example
text:
That bucket with the hole in the bottom is a poor bucket, but it is perfect for watering plants.
type:
example
text:
The expert forger made a perfect copy of the victim's driver's license
type:
example
text:
Practice makes perfect.
type:
example
text:
word-perfect, letter-perfect
type:
example
text:
The gymnast performed a perfect somersault.
type:
example
text:
I think I'm in love—I can't stop thinking about her. She's perfect!
type:
example
text:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
ref:
1787, Gouverneur Morris, Preamble to the United States Constitution
type:
quotation
text:
a perfect day
type:
example
text:
6 is perfect because the sum of its proper divisors, 1, 2, and 3, which is 6, is equal to the number itself.
type:
example
text:
perfect fifth
type:
example
text:
a perfect Manhattan
type:
example
text:
a perfect Rob Roy
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fitting its definition precisely.
Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.
Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
Exact, correctly reflecting the original in all aspects.
Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
Having thoroughly learned or memorized a part.
Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
Having thoroughly learned or memorized a lesson; of a lesson: having been thoroughly learned or memorized.
Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
Fully trained or very knowledgeable; highly skilled
Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
Excellent and delightful in all respects.
Morally or spiritually immaculate or ideal.
Representing a completed action.
Sexually mature and fully differentiated.
Having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).
Equal to the sum of its proper divisors.
Equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A'.
Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.
Well informed; certain; sure.
Innocent, guiltless; without blemish.
Sane, of sound mind.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
mathematics
sciences
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
5457 | word:
perfect
word_type:
noun
expansion:
perfect (plural perfects)
forms:
form:
perfects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Perfect (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English perfit, from Old French parfit (modern: parfait), from Latin perfectus, perfect passive participle of perficere (“to finish”), from per- (“through, thorough”) + facere (“to do, to make”). Spelling modified 15c. to conform to Latin etymology. Doublet of parfait.
Displaced native Old English fulfremed.
senses_examples:
text:
Awarded for scoring all Perfects in the Dominator rank!
ref:
2007, Barbara Smith, Chad Yancey, Video Game Achievements and Unlockables, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
[…] a table of all the ratings that each player has achieved, giving you several scoring options based on player feedback (I simply record the number of perfects).
ref:
2007, Eli Neiburger, Gamers-- in the Library?!
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.
A leader of the Cathar movement.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
video-games
Christianity |
5458 | word:
perfect
word_type:
verb
expansion:
perfect (third-person singular simple present perfects, present participle perfecting, simple past and past participle perfected)
forms:
form:
perfects
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
perfecting
tags:
participle
present
form:
perfected
tags:
participle
past
form:
perfected
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Perfect (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From perfect (adjective).
senses_examples:
text:
I am going to perfect this article.
type:
example
text:
You spend too much time trying to perfect your dancing.
type:
example
text:
perfect an appeal
type:
example
text:
perfect an interest
type:
example
text:
perfect a judgment
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make perfect; to improve or hone.
To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.
senses_topics:
law |
5459 | word:
man-of-war
word_type:
noun
expansion:
man-of-war (plural men-of-war)
forms:
form:
men-of-war
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Chatto & Windus
Isla Contoy
National Maritime Museum
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English man of wer, man of werre (“fighting man, soldier”). It has been suggested that sense 2 (“powerful armed naval vessel”) derives from the fact that such vessels were manned by men-of-war (“soldiers”; sense 1).
senses_examples:
text:
But there is a Bird they call, a Man of vvar, and he is much bigger than a Heron, and flies out to Sea upon diſcoveries, (for they never light upon the Sea) to ſee vvhat ſhips are comming to the Iland; and vvhen they return the Ilanders look out, and ſay, A ſhip is comming, and finde it true.
ref:
1657, Richard Ligon, “[Birds]”, in A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados. […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […], →OCLC, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A man whose occupation is fighting in wars; a soldier, a warrior.
A powerful armed naval vessel, primarily one armed with cannon and propelled by sails; a warship.
A powerful armed naval vessel, primarily one armed with cannon and propelled by sails; a warship.
In full man-of-war's-man: a sailor serving on board an armed naval vessel.
Senses relating to animals.
Short for man-of-war bird or (obsolete) man-of-war hawk: any of a number of seabirds, especially one which attacks other seabirds to take their food.
A frigatebird (family Fregatidae), especially the magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens).
Senses relating to animals.
Short for man-of-war bird or (obsolete) man-of-war hawk: any of a number of seabirds, especially one which attacks other seabirds to take their food.
The Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).
Senses relating to animals.
Short for man-of-war bird or (obsolete) man-of-war hawk: any of a number of seabirds, especially one which attacks other seabirds to take their food.
Senses relating to animals.
Short for Portuguese man-of-war (“Physalia physalis, a jellyfish-like marine cnidarian consisting of a floating colony of hydrozoans attached to a float”)
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
|
5460 | word:
fish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fish (countable and uncountable, plural fish or fishes)
forms:
form:
fish
tags:
plural
form:
fishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:fish
etymology_text:
From Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”) (compare West Frisian fisk, Dutch vis, German Fisch, Danish fisk, Norwegian fisk, Swedish fisk, Icelandic fiskur), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (“fish”) (compare Irish iasc, Latin piscis).
senses_examples:
text:
Salmon is a fish.
type:
example
text:
The fishmonger sells fishes from all over the world.
type:
example
text:
Ichthyologists study the fish of the world.
type:
example
text:
We have many fish in our aquarium.
type:
example
text:
The whale, the limpet, the tortoise and the oyster… as men have been willing to give them all the name of fishes, it is wisest for us to conform.
ref:
1774, Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature, volume IV
type:
quotation
text:
Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.
ref:
1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
type:
quotation
text:
Include low-mercury fish in your diet (such as salmon) and eat at least five servings a day of fruit and vegetables, especially dark leafy greens, broccoli, and cauliflower. Avoid saturated and trans fats, which may hasten brain aging.
ref:
2012 March, “Flexing your brain”, in Consumer Reports on Health, volume 24, number 3, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
type:
example
text:
Though Lena is a vegetarian, she doesn't have any problem with eating fish.
type:
example
text:
The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.
ref:
1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books, published 2003, page 344
type:
quotation
text:
As we came off patrol we had some torpedoes fired at us by an enemy submarine but we dived out of the way. About April 10 we fired our fish in two salvoes at a convoy.
ref:
1999, John Winton, The Submariners: Life in British Submarines 1901-1999, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
When a young male enters the prison system he is looked over and is labeled a FISH.
ref:
1986 April 19, Michael Rathbone, “Tell Someone”, in Gay Community News, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Him father is a fish so mi know say it's sprat dat
His father is a homosexual, so I know that he is too.
ref:
2007, “Touch The Road” (track 18), in Gangsta for Life: The Symphony of David Brooks, performed by Mavado (singer)
type:
quotation
text:
Bere gunman deh ya we nuh fren fish (hey bwoy)
Lots of gunmen are here, we don't befriend gay men (hey boy)
ref:
2021 August 4, “Street Cred”performed by Skeng
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
Cod; codfish.
The flesh of the fish used as food.
A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
A woman.
An easy victim for swindling.
A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
A purchase used to fish the anchor.
A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebrae)
A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda))
Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda))
Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
A male homosexual; a gay man.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
|
5461 | word:
fish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fish (plural fishes)
forms:
form:
fishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:fish
etymology_text:
Deverbal from to fish (etymology 3).
senses_examples:
text:
The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
type:
example
text:
Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A period of time spent fishing.
An instance of seeking something.
senses_topics:
|
5462 | word:
fish
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fish (third-person singular simple present fishes, present participle fishing, simple past and past participle fished)
forms:
form:
fishes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fishing
tags:
participle
present
form:
fished
tags:
participle
past
form:
fished
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:fish
etymology_text:
From Old English fiscian, from Proto-West Germanic *fiskōn, from Proto-Germanic *fiskōną.
senses_examples:
text:
We went fishing for crabs by the pier.
type:
example
text:
She went to the river to fish for trout.
type:
example
text:
19th c., anonymous, "The Bonny Ship the 'Diamond'"
It's cheer up, my lads, let your hearts never fail,
For the bonny ship the Diamond goes a-fishing for the whale.
text:
They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
type:
example
text:
`What you need are frogs,' said the veteran. `Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.'
ref:
1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Why are you fishing through my things?
type:
example
text:
He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
type:
example
text:
The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
type:
example
text:
The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
type:
example
text:
Laoctonos is fishing for a compliment,
But ’tis his due. Yes, you have drunk more wine,
And shed more blood, than any man in Thebes.
ref:
1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the crew were set to replacing and splicing the rigging and fishing the spars.
ref:
1970, James Henderson, The Frigates, an account of the lesser warships of the wars from 1793 to 1815, Wordsworth, published 1998, page 143
type:
quotation
text:
Found that the cause of the ship's having drifted on the night of the 19th, was from the bight of the chain span (used to fish the anchor,) having slipped between the shank and upper fluke, thereby preventing the lower fluke from opening […]
ref:
1860, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, page 214
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
To use as bait when fishing.
To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
To hoist the flukes of.
senses_topics:
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport
nautical
transport |
5463 | word:
fish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fish (plural fishes)
forms:
form:
fishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:fish
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French fiche (“peg, mark”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A counter, used in various games.
senses_topics:
|
5464 | word:
depleted uranium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
depleted uranium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Uranium that contains a reduced (depleted) amount of the fissile isotope U-235 compared to natural uranium; it is used in applications where the nuclear properties of the uranium are not important, and the uranium is instead being used for its mechanical or chemical properties.
senses_topics:
|
5465 | word:
buku
word_type:
noun
expansion:
buku (plural not attested)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of beaucoup (lots, a large amount)
senses_topics:
|
5466 | word:
buku
word_type:
adv
expansion:
buku (comparative more buku, superlative most buku)
forms:
form:
more buku
tags:
comparative
form:
most buku
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of beaucoup (lots of)
senses_topics:
|
5467 | word:
buku
word_type:
det
expansion:
buku
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of beaucoup (many many many)
senses_topics:
|
5468 | word:
businessman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
businessman (plural businessmen)
forms:
form:
businessmen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From business + -man. Displaced earlier merchant, ultimately from Latin mercāns (“merchant, buyer”).
senses_examples:
text:
I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man
ref:
2005, “Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix)”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West ft. Jay-Z
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.
senses_topics:
|
5469 | word:
touch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
touch (third-person singular simple present touches, present participle touching, simple past and past participle touched)
forms:
form:
touches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
touching
tags:
participle
present
form:
touched
tags:
participle
past
form:
touched
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
touch
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Modern English
Touch (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English touchen, tochen, from Old French tochier (“to touch”) (whence Modern French toucher; compare French doublet toquer (“to offend, bother, harass”)), from Vulgar Latin *tuccō (“to knock, strike, offend”), from Frankish *tukkōn (“to knock, strike, touch”), from Proto-Germanic *tukkōną (“to tug, grab, grasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to draw, pull, lead”). Displaced native Middle English rinen, from Old English hrīnan (whence Modern English rine).
cognates
Cognate with Old High German zochhōn, zuhhōn (“to grasp, take, seize, snatch”) (whence German zucken (“to jerk, flinch”)), German Low German tucken, tocken (“to fidget, twitch, pull up, entice, throb, knock, repeatedly tap”), Middle Dutch tocken, tucken (“to touch, entice”) (whence Dutch tokkelen (“to strum, pluck”)), Old English tucian, tūcian (“to disturb, mistreat”) (whence Modern English tuck). Compare also Old High German tokkōn, tockōn (“to abut, collide”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Albanian cek (“to touch”), Old Church Slavonic тъкнѫти (tŭknǫti). More at tuck, take.
senses_examples:
text:
I touched his face softly.
type:
example
text:
Sitting on the bench, the hem of her skirt touched the ground.
type:
example
text:
They stood next to each other, their shoulders touching.
type:
example
text:
Please can I have a look, if I promise not to touch?
type:
example
text:
If you touch her, I'll kill you.
type:
example
text:
The man was arrested for touching a girl without her consent.
type:
example
text:
Her parents had caught her touching herself when she was fifteen.
type:
example
text:
He quickly touched his knee to the worn marble.
text:
The demonstrator nearly touched the rod on the ball.
text:
She touched her lips to the glass.
text:
Frankly, this wood's so strong that sandpaper won't touch it.
type:
example
text:
Are you all right? You've hardly touched your lunch.
type:
example
text:
But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
ref:
1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
type:
quotation
text:
But in fact the English kings of the seventeenth century usually began to touch form the day of their accession, without waiting for any such consecration.
ref:
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
to touch the wind
type:
example
text:
This year, J. Allen Collier, the artistic director and producer, invited choreographers to create dance pieces exploring the multi-faceted responses to the AIDS crisis. This thematic unity touched the show with additional solemnity and grace.
ref:
1988 April 9, Vicki Gabriner, “Dancing for the Living and the Dead”, in Gay Community News, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
My grandfather, as many people know, was touched with greatness.
type:
example
text:
Next to sorrow still I may annex such accidents as procure fear; for besides those terrors which I have before touched, […] there is a superstitious fear […] which much trouble many of us.
ref:
, I.2.4.vii
text:
And now it seemed he was engaged in something which touched them closely, but must be hidden from their knowledge.
ref:
1919, Saki, ‘The Penance’, The Toys of Peace, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), page 423
text:
Stefan was touched by the song's message of hope.
type:
example
text:
He had been drinking over lunch, and was clearly touched.
type:
example
text:
The bill was finally touched after many hours of deliberation.
type:
example
text:
I was running short, so I touched old Bertie for a fiver.
type:
example
text:
You must be touched if you think I'm taking your advice.
type:
example
text:
There was his mistress, Maria Morano. I don't think I've ever seen anything to touch her, and when you work for the screen [as I do] you're apt to have a pretty exacting standard of female beauty.
ref:
1928, Dorothy L. Sayers, “The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers”, in Lord Peter Views the Body
type:
quotation
text:
'Lind Arden was a great genius, one of the greatest tragic actresses in the world. As Lady Macbeth, as Magda, there was no one to touch her.'
ref:
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 6, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
On Sunday afternoon it was as dark as night, with barely room for two riders abreast on a gradient that touches 20%.
ref:
2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track, Guardian Unlimited
type:
quotation
text:
to touch an instrument of music
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Primarily physical senses.
To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
Primarily physical senses.
To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
Primarily physical senses.
To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
Primarily physical senses.
To make physical contact with a thing.
Primarily physical senses.
To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
Primarily physical senses.
To make intimate physical contact with a person.
Primarily physical senses.
To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
Primarily physical senses.
To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
Primarily physical senses.
To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
Primarily physical senses.
To consume, or otherwise use.
Primarily physical senses.
Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
Primarily physical senses.
To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
Primarily physical senses.
To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
Primarily physical senses.
To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
Primarily physical senses.
To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
Primarily physical senses.
To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
Primarily non-physical senses.
To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
Primarily non-physical senses.
To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to.
Primarily non-physical senses.
To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
Primarily non-physical senses.
To concern, to have to do with.
Primarily non-physical senses.
To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
Primarily non-physical senses.
To affect in a negative way, especially only slightly.
Primarily non-physical senses.
To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
Primarily non-physical senses.
To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
Primarily non-physical senses.
To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
Primarily non-physical senses.
To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
Primarily non-physical senses.
To come close to; to approach.
Primarily non-physical senses.
To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
To infect; to affect slightly.
To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
To perform, as a tune; to play.
To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
history
human-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
5470 | word:
touch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
touch (countable and uncountable, plural touches)
forms:
form:
touches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Modern English
Touch (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English touchen, tochen, from Old French tochier (“to touch”) (whence Modern French toucher; compare French doublet toquer (“to offend, bother, harass”)), from Vulgar Latin *tuccō (“to knock, strike, offend”), from Frankish *tukkōn (“to knock, strike, touch”), from Proto-Germanic *tukkōną (“to tug, grab, grasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to draw, pull, lead”). Displaced native Middle English rinen, from Old English hrīnan (whence Modern English rine).
cognates
Cognate with Old High German zochhōn, zuhhōn (“to grasp, take, seize, snatch”) (whence German zucken (“to jerk, flinch”)), German Low German tucken, tocken (“to fidget, twitch, pull up, entice, throb, knock, repeatedly tap”), Middle Dutch tocken, tucken (“to touch, entice”) (whence Dutch tokkelen (“to strum, pluck”)), Old English tucian, tūcian (“to disturb, mistreat”) (whence Modern English tuck). Compare also Old High German tokkōn, tockōn (“to abut, collide”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Albanian cek (“to touch”), Old Church Slavonic тъкнѫти (tŭknǫti). More at tuck, take.
senses_examples:
text:
Suddenly, in the crowd, I felt a touch at my shoulder.
type:
example
text:
With the lights out, she had to rely on touch to find her desk.
type:
example
text:
He performed one of Ravel's piano concertos with a wonderfully light and playful touch.
type:
example
text:
a heavy touch, or a light touch
type:
example
text:
Clever touches like this are what make her such a brilliant writer.
type:
example
text:
Move it left just a touch and it will be perfect.
type:
example
text:
I'd like to see a touch more enthusiasm in the project.
type:
example
text:
In another example, there are a few touches of white above the eye, and a white postocular stripe, which becomes quite broad where it terminates on the side of the neck.
ref:
1886, “The Masked Bob-white (Colinus ridgewayi) of Arizona, and its Allies”, in Joel Asaph Allen, editor, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, American Museum of Natural History, page 282
type:
quotation
text:
We had looked forward to four or five days' work in Ying-shan similar to that in Yün-mung, but at the end of our two days' walk from the one city to the other (they lie more than fifty miles apart), Mr. Terrell had a touch of fever, so we judged it best to remain in Ying-shan only for a day and then travel as quickly as possible by chair to Teh-ngan to consult our good friend, Dr. Morley, of the Wesleyan Mission Hospital in that city, and from thence take boat for Hankow....
ref:
1894, “From Month to Month”, in The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, number 33, Readers Union, →OCLC, page 220
type:
quotation
text:
He got the ball, and kicked it straight out into touch.
type:
example
text:
He promised to keep in touch while he was away.
type:
example
text:
lose touch
type:
example
text:
I used to be a great chess player but I've lost my touch.
type:
example
text:
Rovers' hopes of pulling off one of the great European shocks of all time lasted just 10 minutes before Spurs finally found their scoring touch.
ref:
2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Never give the least touch with your pencil till you have well examined your design.
ref:
1695, John Dryden, The Art of Painting
type:
quotation
text:
Print my preface in such form as, in the booksellers' phrase, will make a sixpenny touch.
ref:
1713, A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction, Jonathan Swift
type:
quotation
text:
Set off the exact Length forward and aftward from the Observation of the rising of the Keel, by Shipwrights called the Touch, or Place where the Keel's upper Part ends to be streight.
ref:
1711, William Sutherland, The Ship-Builder's Assistant
type:
quotation
text:
Such was Tim Whiffle on the Sunday, with the addition of a cane to indicate riding, it is true he had long had a penchant to a pair of spurs but did not as yet sport them, although a half crown touch at some livery stables was positively decided upon in his own mind, though hitherto the dread of a fall from a horse had prevented the execution of his magnanimous plan.
ref:
1804, William Henry Ireland, The Woman of Feeling, volume 2, page 232
type:
quotation
text:
2019 In the mix: Who's pushing for selection for round seven? Australian Football League, 30 April 2019. Accessed 6 May 2019.
Jackson Hately, Isaac Cumming and Nick Shipley have been in great touch in the NEAFL.
text:
2019 In the mix: Who's pushing for selection for round seven? Australian Football League, 30 April 2019. Accessed 6 May 2019.
With just six touches, small forward Daniel Rioli was uncharacteristically quiet against Melbourne, although he did lay five tackles.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
A little bit; a small amount.
The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
A relationship of close communication or understanding.
The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
Act or power of exciting emotion.
An emotion or affection.
Personal reference or application.
A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
A brief essay.
A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
The children's game of tag.
A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
Tallow.
Form; standard of performance.
A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
business
construction
manufacturing
plumbing
|
5471 | word:
gravitation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gravitation (usually uncountable, plural gravitations)
forms:
form:
gravitations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from New Latin gravitātiō. Equivalent to gravity + -ation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fundamental force of attraction that exists between all matter in the universe, caused by the curvature of spacetime caused by matter. It is the weakest of the four fundamental interactions, and possesses a gauge boson known as the graviton.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
5472 | word:
torta
word_type:
noun
expansion:
torta (plural tortas)
forms:
form:
tortas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish torta, from Latin turta, thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”). Doublet of torte and tart.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sandwich, served either hot or cold, on an oblong white sandwich roll, derived from Mexican cuisine.
A flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.
senses_topics:
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5473 | word:
torta
word_type:
noun
expansion:
torta (plural tortas)
forms:
form:
tortas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Tagalog torta, from Spanish torta, from Latin turta, thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”). Doublet of torte and tart.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Philippine omelette of ground meat and potatoes.
senses_topics:
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5474 | word:
torta
word_type:
noun
expansion:
torta (countable and uncountable, plural tortas)
forms:
form:
tortas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian torta, from Latin turta, thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”). Doublet of torte and tart.
senses_examples:
text:
They include fresh noodles, roasted chickens, savory Italian tortas, caponata and other antipasti like roasted onions in balsamic vinegar, crusty walnut breads, biscotti, and fabulous Italian desserts.
ref:
1991, Patricia Unterman, editor, Best Restaurants of San Francisco: The San Francisco Chronicle Guide to Fine Dining, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, page 275
type:
quotation
text:
Perhaps there could be a smarter balsamic kick in the latte cotto custard, more oomph in the chocolate torta.
ref:
1996 May 6, Gael Greene, “Where the Boys Are”, in New York, page 92, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Internationally popular from his cookbooks and television show, Middione fills the deli case with southern Italian tortas, roasted chicken, polenta, and white bean salad.
ref:
1998, Donna Peck, Romantic Days and Nights in San Francisco: Intimate Escapes in the City by the Bay, Globe Pequot Press, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
To follow, there’s good, strong coffee and desserts such as chocolate torta with fresh whipped cream ($4.50), which comes from the divine Victoria Bakery a few steps away over the road (try their “Ugly But Beautiful” nut meringues), and gelato zabaglione ($3.50), an absolutely ambrosial yellow fluff.
ref:
2003, Elgy Gillespie, “Trattoria Contadina”, in The Rough Guide to San Francisco Restaurants, 2004 edition, Rough Guides Ltd, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
The cuisine is rustic, with a decent choice of fish and meat, and great desserts like hazelnut chocolate torta with meringue doused in espresso and layered chantilly cream with bitter cocoa, or “bugies,” little fried pockets of dough filled with candied lemon zest and grappa di Moscato, then dusted with sugar.
ref:
2003 winter, Linda Marx, “Boardwalk baby”, in Palm Beach Life, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
I cooked for her as I had never cooked before: Spanish appetizers, Thai curries, and Italian tortas landed before her in dizzying, delectable profusion.
ref:
2007, Marusya Bociurkiw, Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl, Arsenal Pulp Press
type:
quotation
text:
Leaving the world behind, I’d wallow in frosty solitude and chocolate torta.
Italian is sometimes mentioned in the book.
ref:
2012, Steven Parlato, The Namesake, Merit Press, Simon & Schuster, Inc.
type:
quotation
text:
He’d spoken in Italian to the woman at the door—the same words of condolence that the Scarlattas had used when visiting their grieving neighbors. People arrived bearing plates of food and fresh-cut flowers. There was a table crowded with offerings: a whole muskmelon, chocolate torta and jugs of wine, lamb stew with a skin of orange grease.
ref:
2015, Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels, Two Roads
type:
quotation
text:
The Venetian writer’s torta (see Appendix II) will serve twenty-five people, and he specifies the quantities of ingredients and how to bake the torta (over a low flame).
ref:
2017, Katherine A. McIver, Kitchens, Cooking, and Eating in Medieval Italy, Rowman & Littlefield, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
It stocks global conceptual fashion from Marni, Martin Margela, Comme des Garçons et al, but come for the more interesting independent Italian labels or just a peek at the whimsical displays and enjoy a slice of torta and espresso in the in-store cafe.
ref:
2018, Italy, 13th edition, Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd
type:
quotation
text:
Life is indeed sweet at Thamel’s best Italian bistro, offering up such delights as parmesan gnocchi; goat’s cheese and spinach ravioli; and sinfully rich chocolate torta.
ref:
2018, Nepal, 11th edition, Lonely Planet Global Limited
type:
quotation
text:
As expected, the coach party arrive too late for afternoon tea, but Rob and Ivy enjoy the evening meal of soup, local fish and vegetables, followed by a slice of chocolate torta, served in a cavernous dining room located in the centre of the hotel’s first floor.
The character takes a holiday in Italy.
ref:
2019, Sue Parritt, chapter 14, in Feed Thy Enemy, Next Chapter, published 2021
type:
quotation
text:
He and Vincente are going head-to-head in a baking challenge. Wyoming meets Italy. Apple pie versus chocolate torta. It should be fun.
ref:
2020, Jane Godman [pseudonym; Amanda Anders], Family in the Crosshairs, Harlequin Romantic Suspense
type:
quotation
text:
Crimson nails flashing dangerously, she slowly cuts a piece of torta with the small fork, and raises it before her parted lips. ‘It is delicious, what’s in it?’ / Straightening his back and lifting his right hand, as if engaging in a poetic recital, he begins. ‘It has all the ingredients of the mountain: almonds and round hazelnuts from the Langhe in Piedmont, flour and eggs from the land, yeast.[…]”
ref:
2020, Mara G. Fox, The Other Side of Como, Eyewear Publishing Ltd
type:
quotation
text:
As dessert was being served—an intensely rich chocolate torta—she asked one of the waiters if she might take the delicacy up to one of the guests who was celebrating his birthday. The waiter returned with a generous slice of the cake, ringed with paste di meliga, cornmeal shortbread cookies that were a specialty of the region.
ref:
2022, Katie Hafner, The Boys, Spiegel & Grau
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Italian cake.
senses_topics:
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5475 | word:
trail
word_type:
verb
expansion:
trail (third-person singular simple present trails, present participle trailing, simple past and past participle trailed)
forms:
form:
trails
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
trailing
tags:
participle
present
form:
trailed
tags:
participle
past
form:
trailed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
trail (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English trailen, from Old French trailler (“to tow; pick up the scent of a quarry”), from Vulgar Latin *tragulāre (“to drag”), from Latin tragula (“dragnet, javelin thrown by a strap”), probably related to Latin trahere (“to pull, drag along”).
senses_examples:
text:
The hunters trailed their prey deep into the woods.
type:
example
text:
Our little life is but a gust That bends the branches of thy tree, And trails its blossoms in the dust!
ref:
1896, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
You'll get your coat all muddy if you trail it around like that.
type:
example
text:
He walked into the house, soaking wet, and trailed water all over the place.
type:
example
text:
His new film was trailed on TV last night.
type:
example
text:
There were no surprises in this morning's much-trailed budget statement.
type:
example
text:
The bride's long dress trailed behind her as she walked down the aisle.
type:
example
text:
Even now I behold a sign, A threatening of wrath divine, A watery, wandering star, through whose streaming hair, and the white Unfolding garments of light, That trail behind it afar, The constellations shine!
ref:
1871, The Divine Tragedy, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
type:
quotation
text:
The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.
ref:
1954 July 29, J.R.R. Tolkien, “I: A Long-Expected Party”, in The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings; 1)
type:
quotation
text:
Our parents marched to church and we trailed behind.
type:
example
text:
Neil Lennon and his players have, in almost no time at all, roared back from trailing Rangers by 15 points in November to ending the year two points clear.
ref:
2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record
type:
quotation
text:
The sun shone on burnished bodies and arm-bands, and robes of beaver trailed the grass as majestic fellows trod back and forth in the passion of eloquence.
ref:
1893 August, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, “The White Islander”, in The Century
type:
quotation
text:
[…] was no mean judge of racing and, having a suspicion of the possible result, she secreted a lemon in the commodious recesses of a dress which, while the height of fashion in those times, nevertheless trailed the grass.
ref:
1929, Frank Proctor, Fox Hunting in Canada and Some Men who Made it, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
Because of the potential damages caused by social trailing, regulations stipulate that all permits are void when a group obtains multiple permits for the same campground or use area for the same night.
ref:
1975, Federal Procedural Forms, Lawyers Edition - Volume 14, page 241
type:
quotation
text:
The monument would use the floowing indicators to determine when and where visitor allocations need to be made: (1) resource damage (e.g., proliferation of campsites, human waste problems, social trailing or vandalism to historical, archaeological, paleontological sites, or destruction of biological soil crusts), […]
ref:
1999, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, page 2-19
type:
quotation
text:
In my mind's eye, I looked down at the toes of high-topped, lace-up leather boots, peeking from under a long brown skirt that bent the grass sideways as it trailed the ground and tented gently outward with every step.
ref:
2018, Amy E. Weldon, The Writer's Eye, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
Trailed three miles down the North side and encamped early, making thirteen miles trailed to-day.
ref:
1906, The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, page 352
type:
quotation
text:
In accordance with the treaty of 1842 they crossed the Missouri River to a reservation in Kansas. Poor crops, however, and a feverish climate made them unhappy in their new home: they trailed back to Iowa.
ref:
1915, Jacob Van der Zee, Early History of Lead Mining in the Iowa Country, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
But we did not see him and now, in the big heat of noon, we made three long circles around some hills and finally came out into a meadow full of little, humpy Masai cattle and, leaving all shade behind, trailed back across the open country under the noon sun to the car.
ref:
1935, Ernest Hemmingway, Green Hills of Africa, page 164
type:
quotation
text:
That control became visible each spring when they trailed back out of the low country to summer range.
ref:
1982, David Lavender, Colorado River Country, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
One operator on the Boise Forest in Idaho reports that where he formerly marketed 80-pound lambs after trailing them 10 days from the allotment, his lambs now often tip the scales at 100 pounds or better, mainly because only one day is required to transport an entire shipment to the railroad through the use of truck pullmans.
ref:
1939, Pacific Stockman - Volumes 5-7
type:
quotation
text:
Genesis, the first book of the Holy Bible, relates the earliest known instance of cattle being trailed to better grass lands (unless Noah's trip with the ark is one).
ref:
1956, John O. Bye, Back Trailing in the Heart of the Short-grass Country, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
The most impressive long-distance traders, however, were the backcountry drovers, who trailed herds of livestock up the wagon road to Philadelphia (Merrens 1964:135; Bridenbaugh 1971:138).
ref:
1989, John Solomon Otto, The Southern Frontiers, 1607-1860, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
In all areas where trails are present, stock must remain on the trails. Free trailing or loose herding is not permitted.
ref:
2008, Ron Kay, Ron Kay's Guide to Zion National Park, page 78
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
To drag (something) behind on the ground.
To leave (a trail of).
To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.
To run or climb like certain plants.
To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.
To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
To create a trail in.
To travel by following or creating trails.
To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
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5476 | word:
trail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trail (plural trails)
forms:
form:
trails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
trail
trail (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English trailen, from Old French trailler (“to tow; pick up the scent of a quarry”), from Vulgar Latin *tragulāre (“to drag”), from Latin tragula (“dragnet, javelin thrown by a strap”), probably related to Latin trahere (“to pull, drag along”).
senses_examples:
text:
trail of blood
type:
example
text:
condensation trail
type:
example
text:
data trail, paper trail
type:
example
text:
Politicians are on the campaign trail in preparation for this year's election.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
A route or circuit generally.
A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
The horizontal distance from where the wheel touches the ground to where the steering axis intersects the ground.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
television
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
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5477 | word:
pizza
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pizza (countable and uncountable, plural pizzas or (rare) pizze)
forms:
form:
pizzas
tags:
plural
form:
pizze
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1931, borrowed from Neapolitan pizza (1590), the Neapolitan dialectal form of Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “cake, pie”).
The Greek word is first attested in 1107 and is itself of uncertain origin.
The northern Italian dialectal form was pinza, the southern (Apulian and Calabrian) form was pitta.
This suggests a derivation from Latin pīnctus (pictus (“painted, smeared”)) or pīnsum, pīnsitum, pistum (“pounded”), but the northern forms appear to be contaminated with pinzare (“to staple”).
There are alternative suggestions involving Greek etymologies (πηκτή (pēktḗ), πηκτός (pēktós, “compacted, congealed”); πήτεα (pḗtea, “bran”); Ancient Greek πιττάκιον (pittákion, “patch; tablet; ticket”)), more remote possibilities involve comparison with Lombardic pizzo, pizza (“bite, morsel, lump, dumpling”); Albanian petë (“layer”), Romanian pată (“blotch, stain, macula”); Albanian pite (“gruel”);
From Aramaic פִיתָּא (pītā, “piece of bread”), Hebrew פַּת (paṯ, “bread”). Doublet of pide and pita.
senses_examples:
text:
a slice of pizza
type:
example
text:
a pizza pie
type:
example
text:
Want to go out for pizza tonight?
type:
example
text:
He ate a whole pizza!
type:
example
text:
Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.
A single instance of this dish.
senses_topics:
|
5478 | word:
virtue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
virtue (countable and uncountable, plural virtues)
forms:
form:
virtues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Modern English
etymology_text:
From Middle English vertu, virtue, borrowed from Anglo-Norman vertu, virtu, from Latin virtus (“manliness, bravery, worth, moral excellence”), from vir (“man”). Doublet of vertu. See virile. In this sense, displaced Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.
senses_examples:
text:
Without virtue, there is no freedom.
type:
example
text:
Virtue is an inner light that can prevail in every soul.
ref:
2004 October 1, “Eight-and-a-Half-Tails”, in Champions of Kamigawa, Wizards of the Coast
type:
quotation
text:
Some men are modest, and seem to take pains to hide their virtues; and, from a natural distance and reserve in their tempers, scarce suffer their good qualities to be known […].
ref:
1766, Laurence Sterne, Sermon, section XLIV
type:
quotation
text:
The divine virtues of truth and equity are the only bands of friendship, the only supports of society.
ref:
1813, John Fleetwood, The Life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
type:
quotation
text:
One virtue of the present coalition government's attack on access to education could be to reopen the questions raised so pertinently by Robinson in the 1960s […].
ref:
2011, The Guardian, Letter, 14 Mar 2011
type:
quotation
text:
though she did not suppose Lydia to be deliberately engaging in an elopement without the intention of marriage, she had no difficulty in believing that neither her virtue nor her understanding would preserve her from falling an easy prey.
ref:
1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
type:
quotation
text:
Here are the glasses, Meg. But I am afraid that the virtue has gone from them, and now they are only glass. Perhaps they were meant to help once and only on Camazotz.
ref:
1962, Madeleine L’Engle, “Aunt Beast”, in A Wrinkle in Time, New York, N.Y.: Ariel Books, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Ariel Books, 1973 printing, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
many Egyptians still worry that the Brotherhood, by virtue of discipline and experience, would hold an unfair advantage if elections were held too soon.
ref:
2011 February 17, “The autumn of the patriarchs”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.
A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.
Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins.
An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage.
A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and archangels, and below seraphim and cherubim.
Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity.
The inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being.
The inherent power or efficacy of something (now only in phrases).
senses_topics:
Christianity
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5479 | word:
east
word_type:
noun
expansion:
east (plural easts)
forms:
form:
easts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English est, from Old English ēast, from Proto-West Germanic *austr, from Proto-Germanic *austrą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér (“east”). Compare West Frisian east, Dutch oost, German Ost, Danish øst, Norwegian Nynorsk aust, Swedish öst.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: (abbreviation) E
text:
Portsmouth is to the east of Southampton.
type:
example
text:
We live in the east of the country.
type:
example
text:
In a few hours the birds come to it from all points of the compass – east, west, north, and south […]
ref:
1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
type:
quotation
text:
We, in the west, agreed amongst ourselves that a penitentiary should be erected with our half of the money arising as above stated; and the east agreed to improve the country in their vicinity with the other half.
ref:
1855, John Reynolds, My Own Times: Embracing Also the History of My Life, page 271
type:
quotation
text:
A few [Anglican churches in South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland] are oriented other than due [geographic] east—St. Paul's, St. George's, and Prince George's parish churches face northeast and St. Andrew's, southeast. […] Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, the altar is located at the east end of the church, and the gallery, at the west.
ref:
2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press, page 365
type:
quotation
text:
However, in Mies' chapel, liturgical east is magnetic west.
ref:
2018, Anat Geva, Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture, Routledge
type:
quotation
text:
The tapestry by Graham Sutherland that occupies the whole wall of the liturgical east and geographic north of the cathedral is recognisable to the point of visual exhaustion.
ref:
2019, Sarah Hosking, "Coventry Cathedral", in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press, page 371
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The direction of the earth's rotation, specifically 90°.
The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
In a church: the direction of the altar and chancel; the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
senses_topics:
ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion |
5480 | word:
east
word_type:
adj
expansion:
east (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English est, from Old English ēast, from Proto-West Germanic *austr, from Proto-Germanic *austrą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér (“east”). Compare West Frisian east, Dutch oost, German Ost, Danish øst, Norwegian Nynorsk aust, Swedish öst.
senses_examples:
text:
the east front of a cathedral
text:
Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, the altar is located at the east end of the church, and the gallery, at the west.
ref:
2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press, page 365
type:
quotation
text:
The tapestry by Graham Sutherland that occupies the whole wall of the liturgical east and geographic north of the cathedral is recognisable […] a huge image of Christ on the [liturgical] east end, filling the entire wall and to be visible through the [liturgical] West Window (Fig. 24.2).
ref:
2019, Sarah Hosking, "Coventry Cathedral", in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press, page 371
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.
Blowing (as wind) from the east.
Of or pertaining to the east; eastern.
From the East; oriental.
Designating, or situated in, the liturgical east.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion |
5481 | word:
east
word_type:
adv
expansion:
east (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English est, from Old English ēast, from Proto-West Germanic *austr, from Proto-Germanic *austrą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér (“east”). Compare West Frisian east, Dutch oost, German Ost, Danish øst, Norwegian Nynorsk aust, Swedish öst.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
towards the east; eastwards
senses_topics:
|
5482 | word:
hitherto
word_type:
adv
expansion:
hitherto (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hiderto, corresponding to hither + to.
senses_examples:
text:
The exhaustless conjecturings of that evening's full conversation, made such of the small party, as had hitherto been strangers, well acquainted with each other's turn of mind[…]
ref:
1830, Anna Maria Porter, The Barony, volume 3, page 460
type:
quotation
text:
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
ref:
1910 [1848 February 21], Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, chapter I, in Samuel Moore, transl., edited by Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & company, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
The results of this study argue for a greater endonormativity in Indian English than has hitherto been recognised.
ref:
2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
North of Tain [...], the line reaches the southern shore of Dornoch Firth. Here, the railway and the A9 trunk road, which have hitherto run close together, diverge.
ref:
2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 49
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Up to this or that time or point.
senses_topics:
law |
5483 | word:
Maori
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Maori (plural Maori or Maoris or (obsolete) Maories)
forms:
form:
Maori
tags:
plural
form:
Maoris
tags:
plural
form:
Maories
tags:
obsolete
plural
wikipedia:
Maori
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Maori māori (“aborigine, native; normal, ordinary, plain”). Doublet of Maoli.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of the indigenous people of New Zealand.
senses_topics:
|
5484 | word:
Maori
word_type:
name
expansion:
Maori
forms:
wikipedia:
Maori
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Maori māori (“aborigine, native; normal, ordinary, plain”). Doublet of Maoli.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of these people.
senses_topics:
|
5485 | word:
Maori
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Maori
forms:
wikipedia:
Maori
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Maori māori (“aborigine, native; normal, ordinary, plain”). Doublet of Maoli.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to the Maori.
senses_topics:
|
5486 | word:
New Delhi
word_type:
name
expansion:
New Delhi
forms:
wikipedia:
New Delhi
etymology_text:
From New + Delhi.
senses_examples:
text:
In a statement issued on 3 November, New Delhi said that it will study the recommendations on institutional changes outlined in the report of the UN Secretary General's panel that had stopped short of definitive recommendations on new permanent members.
ref:
2005, Foreign Policy Annual, 2001-2009: Events, Gyan Publishing House, page 420
type:
quotation
text:
India claimed a diplomatic victory over Pakistan after Islamabad failed to win support for a U.N. resolution on Kashmir that New Delhi said violated its sovereignty. A group of countries led by Pakistan withdrew the resolution, which urged ...
ref:
1995, Asian Bulletin, Volume 20, Issues 1-6, APACL Publications [Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League], unnumbered page
text:
As Russia accords considerable priority to its strategic partnership with India, it has to reckon with the Indian factor and is therefore subject to pressure from New Delhi in its relations with China.
ref:
2004 November 1, Joseph Y.S. Cheng, “Challenges to China's Russian Policy in Early 21st Century”, in Journal of contemporary Asia
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of India, located in the national capital territory of Delhi.
The government of India.
senses_topics:
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5487 | word:
white
word_type:
adj
expansion:
white (comparative whiter or more white, superlative whitest or most white)
forms:
form:
whiter
tags:
comparative
form:
more white
tags:
comparative
form:
whitest
tags:
superlative
form:
most white
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English whit, hwit, from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweydós, a byform of *ḱweytós (“bright; shine”).
cognates
* West Frisian wyt
*Dutch wit
* German weiß
* German weiss
* Norwegian Bokmål hvit
* Norwegian Nynorsk kvit
* Lithuanian šviẽsti (“to gleam”), šviesa (“light”)
* Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ, “light”), свѣтьлъ (světĭlŭ, “clear, bright”)
* Persian سفید (sefid)
* Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀 (spaēta, “white”)
* Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá, “white, bright”).
senses_examples:
text:
Write in black ink on white paper.
type:
example
text:
white as the whitest lily on a stream.
ref:
c. 1878, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Holidays
type:
quotation
text:
[…]more white corporations cognizant of the mounting purchasing power of the Negro consumer, have Negro representatives in the field[…].
ref:
1949, Wendell P. Alston, “The Green Book”, in The Negro Motorist Green Book, New York: Victor H. Green, published 1949, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Ms. Ringwald finds a few things about these films regrettable. One thing she found "significantly disturbing," she wrote, "was how white the films are."
ref:
2004 May 9, Michael Joseph Gross, “When the Losers Ruled in Teenage Movies”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
white drinking fountain
type:
example
text:
white hospital
type:
example
text:
white wine
type:
example
text:
white grapes
type:
example
text:
white birch
type:
example
text:
The white pieces in this set are in fact made of light green glass.
type:
example
text:
a white monk
type:
example
text:
"So I'm here to say I'm sorry." Another big gulp.
Troop heaved himself slowly off the locker he was sitting on and held out an eleven-inch hand. "I mistrusted 'twould do you sights o' good; an' this shows I weren't mistook in my jedgments."
"You're white," said Dan, as Harvey regained the deck, flushed to the tips of his ears.
ref:
1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous
type:
quotation
text:
No whiter page than Addison's remains. / He from the taste obscene reclaims our youth, / And sets the passions on the side of Truth,
ref:
1737, Alexander Pope, First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
“I’ll put you down at my club; and then, the governor will want to see you in the country.” / Jim had no idea of what was involved in being put down at a club, but he consented. “That ’s mighty white of you, old man, but I don’t know where I shall make down.”
ref:
1901, Hamlin Garland, Her Mountain Lover, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
He's a fine fellow, this Gabriel Stanton, a white man all through
ref:
1916, Julia Frankau, Twilight
type:
quotation
text:
‘We've only met twice and you've been more than white to me both times.’
ref:
1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
Even decency has been regarded as a white or Christian attribute, as is evidenced by the expression "that's very white of you"
ref:
1976, United Church of Christ, A.D., number 1, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
I am his white boy, and will not be gulled.
ref:
c. 1626, John Ford, Tis Pity She's a Whore
type:
quotation
text:
Aimée de Coigny had always adopted with enthusiasm the political views of her ruling lover and she had thus already held nearly every shade of opinion from red republicanism to white reaction.
ref:
1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
Most often consisting of a budset pluck, a frost tea has the clarity and freshness of a white tea, with the richness and lingering finish of a finely crafted black tea.
ref:
2012, Mary Lou Heiss, Robert J. Heiss, The Tea Enthusiast's Handbook
type:
quotation
text:
Compare two Unicode symbols: ☞ = "WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX"; ☛ = "BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX"
text:
a white Christmas
type:
example
text:
a white Easter
type:
example
text:
For instance, tyro jousters in fifteenth-century Iberia wore “white armor,” while experienced men wore surcoats over their harness (Fallows 2010, 80), while fabric-covered breastplates are depicted in many examples of fifteenth-century northern European art.
ref:
2015 August 31, Albrecht Classen, Handbook of Medieval Culture, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry):.
By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Designated for use by Caucasians.
Relatively light or pale in colour.
Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
Affected by leucism.
Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
Honourable, fair; decent.
Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
Made from immature leaves and shoots.
Not containing characters; see white space.
Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
Characterised by the presence of snow.
Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
government
politics
media
publishing
typography
media
publishing
typography
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5488 | word:
white
word_type:
noun
expansion:
white (countable and uncountable, plural whites)
forms:
form:
whites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English whit, hwit, from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweydós, a byform of *ḱweytós (“bright; shine”).
cognates
* West Frisian wyt
*Dutch wit
* German weiß
* German weiss
* Norwegian Bokmål hvit
* Norwegian Nynorsk kvit
* Lithuanian šviẽsti (“to gleam”), šviesa (“light”)
* Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ, “light”), свѣтьлъ (světĭlŭ, “clear, bright”)
* Persian سفید (sefid)
* Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀 (spaēta, “white”)
* Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá, “white, bright”).
senses_examples:
text:
Not only were the platforms tiled in white, the tunnels were painted white too - to prettify them, and make them less claustrophobic - and the Central proudly issued a postcard of its tunnel-whitening machine.
ref:
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly whites who remained resentful of black progress, civil rights enforcement, and affirmative action.
ref:
2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
A bottle of red, a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / In our Italian Restaurant.
ref:
1977, “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant”, in Billy Joel (music), The Stranger
type:
quotation
text:
Those were my first impressions of wine: Ladies drink chilled, soft white while they gossip in the kitchen; old men drink strong, room-temperature red to get shellacked.
ref:
2014, Maximillian Potter, Shadows in the Vineyard
type:
quotation
text:
I've got to hit the streets; I've got to move this white.
ref:
2004, “On The Run”, Kanye West (music), performed by Bump J ft. Rick James, Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
Ten grand a week we were clearing: base, white, meth, weed, anything. I can get you anything to get you high.
ref:
2019 January 20, Ann Cleeves, Paul Matthew Thompson, “Cuckoo” (1:26:51 from the start), in Lawrence Gough, director, Vera, season 9, episode 2 (TV series), spoken by Tyler Lennon (Louis Healy)
type:
quotation
text:
We was flyin' up O with white, we was buildin' lines, now it's clothing lines
ref:
2024, “Entrapreneur”, performed by Central Cee
type:
quotation
text:
Venice white
type:
example
text:
Nearly two-thirds of the Idaho crop has been great northerns, one-sixth small reds, and the remainder small flat whites and pintos and seed for snap beans and baby limas (table 21).
ref:
1952, Columbia River and Tributaries, Northwestern United States, United States Government Printing Office, page 3764
type:
quotation
text:
Also it giueth a great grace to your writing, if the whites of certeine letters bee made of one equall bignesse with the o. supposing the same were all round, as the white of the b. of the a. p. y. v. w. x. q. d. g. and s.
ref:
1594, Hugh Plat, chapter 38, in The Jewell House of Art and Nature, London, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the a. b. d. g. o. p. q. &c. […] must be made with equal whites.
ref:
1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
She copied the whole alphabet like that, as though only the inside whites of the letters registered on her mind.
ref:
1931, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in Police at the Funeral, Penguin, published 1939, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
3.—Wing-Quills or Remiges; Whites and Feminas.—The wing-quills are the largest feathers in the wing, and are arranged in a single row. They include the “Whites” in the cock, and the “Feminas” in the hen, as well as the “Byocks” or “Fancies” in the cock.
ref:
1909, Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope, page 514
type:
quotation
text:
The usual kinds of ostrich feathers known to the trade come into the Tripoli market. These are whites, blacks, feminas, byocks, spadonas, boos, drabs and floss.
ref:
1909 August 12, “Ostrich Feathers of Tripoli”, in Neenah Daily Times, volume 53, number 8,451, Neenah, Wis., Menasha, Wis., column 5
type:
quotation
text:
Whites, primes, pound, $120 to $300[…]The whites and blacks come from the male birds, the feminas and drabs from the female, the spadones are the first clipping taken from the young birds and the tails from each.
ref:
1910 October 30, The Arizona Republican, volume XXI, number 161, Phoenix, Ariz., page 9
type:
quotation
text:
This parcel included 286 lbs. of feathers known as whites, and 211 lbs. of feathers known as feminas. The whites are described as lot 12, and the feminas as lot 13.
ref:
1923, South African Law Reports. Cape Provincial Division: Decisions of the Supreme Court of South Africa (Cape of Good Hope Provincial Decision)., page 532
type:
quotation
text:
In this position, white has an opportunity to make a good move.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
A person of European descent with light-coloured skin.
Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
White wine.
White coffee
Any object or substance that is of the color white.
The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
Any object or substance that is of the color white.
The sclera, white of the eye.
Any object or substance that is of the color white.
The cue ball in cue games.
Any object or substance that is of the color white.
Cocaine.
Any object or substance that is of the color white.
The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
Any object or substance that is of the color white.
A white pigment.
Any object or substance that is of the color white.
A white bean.
The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
The person playing with the white set of pieces.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
board-games
chess
games |
5489 | word:
white
word_type:
verb
expansion:
white (third-person singular simple present whites, present participle whiting, simple past and past participle whited)
forms:
form:
whites
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
whiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
whited
tags:
participle
past
form:
whited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English whit, hwit, from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweydós, a byform of *ḱweytós (“bright; shine”).
cognates
* West Frisian wyt
*Dutch wit
* German weiß
* German weiss
* Norwegian Bokmål hvit
* Norwegian Nynorsk kvit
* Lithuanian šviẽsti (“to gleam”), šviesa (“light”)
* Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ, “light”), свѣтьлъ (světĭlŭ, “clear, bright”)
* Persian سفید (sefid)
* Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀 (spaēta, “white”)
* Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá, “white, bright”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
senses_topics:
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5490 | word:
thank you very much
word_type:
intj
expansion:
thank you very much
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Said to express greater gratitude than would be conveyed by thank you.
Expressing indignation that anyone could doubt the preceding statement.
senses_topics:
|
5491 | word:
tin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tin (countable and uncountable, plural tins)
forms:
form:
tins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tin
etymology_text:
From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.
senses_examples:
text:
a tin of baked beans; a tobacco tin; a tin of shoe polish
type:
example
text:
Several tins of paint were needed to paint the house.
type:
example
text:
empty tins, cans, and plastic containers are recycled in the blue bins.
type:
example
text:
When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line.
ref:
1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325
type:
quotation
text:
muffin tin
type:
example
text:
roasting tin
type:
example
text:
baking tin
type:
example
text:
And, indeed, after a tense round of rolling, shaping and filling delicate pastry dough, Rowan can’t even pull his overstuffed pies out of the tins without them bleeding and oozing fruit filling.
ref:
2023 October 28, “Next generation ‘clasico’: Bellingham faces 1st game against a Barcelona brimming with young talents”, in The Washington Times
type:
quotation
text:
Jones was insanely productive last season. He is a clinical route-runner who can line up at any position and catches everything.
ref:
2023 April 30, “The Lions missed their chance, and the Eagles are smarter than everybody”, in The Washington Times
type:
quotation
text:
The father is a cotton lord, and they all have loads of tin, you know
ref:
1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
type:
quotation
text:
When all your tin is gone and spent, / And you've not a mag for bread or rent
ref:
1861, Philip William Perfitt, The Pathfinder, page 377
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product.
A metal pan used for baking, roasting, storing food, etc.
The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
money, especially silver money.
computer hardware.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
squash
|
5492 | word:
tin
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tin (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
tin
etymology_text:
From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.
senses_examples:
text:
[I]n fact he was a big noise, literally, in the Baptist Chapel, known locally as the Tin Tab[ernacle] - whereas my family were 'church' and Uncle Ezekiel was an infidel at that.
ref:
1939, George Orwell, Coming up for Air, London: Victor Gollancz
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of tin.
Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron.
senses_topics:
|
5493 | word:
tin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tin (third-person singular simple present tins, present participle tinning, simple past and past participle tinned)
forms:
form:
tins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tinning
tags:
participle
present
form:
tinned
tags:
participle
past
form:
tinned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tin
etymology_text:
From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place into a metal can (ie. a tin; be it tin, steel, aluminum) in order to preserve.
To cover with tin.
To coat with solder
To coat with solder, in preparation for soldering, to ensure a good solder joint
To coat with solder
To coat with solder, in order to consolidate braided wire, so as to make contact with all strands and reduce fragility of the fraying wire
senses_topics:
|
5494 | word:
gangway
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gangway (plural gangways)
forms:
form:
gangways
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gangway, from Old English gangweġ (“passageway; thoroughfare”), equivalent to gang + way. Related to Dutch gang (“hallway”) and Norwegian gang (“hallway”).
senses_examples:
text:
Morris then allegedly tried to flee into a gangway between the bar and another building, closing a gate on an officer as he did
ref:
2023 December 10, Ryan Krull, “St. Louis Police File Felony Charge Against Bar:PM Owner After SUV Crash”, in Riverfront Times
type:
quotation
text:
We came over on the usual mid-morning service from Victoria and this time, as we came down the gangway of the Invicta, the Shedmaster at Calais, M. Leclerc, and Henri Dutertre were waiting for us.
ref:
1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 150
type:
quotation
text:
Like a lot of my fellow passengers — indie-rock fans who had signed up for a three-day voyage full of bands and beverages — I’d never been on a cruise before. So I don’t know whether most of them begin with a staff member high-fiving each and every person who comes off the gangway.
ref:
2012 March 30, Joe Levy, “Rockers at Sea”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A passageway through which to enter or leave, such as one between seating areas in an auditorium, or between two buildings.
An articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or a ship.
A temporary passageway, such as one made of planks.
A clear path through a crowd or a passageway with people.
An aisle.
A passage along either side of a ship's upper deck.
A passage through the side of a ship or an opening in the railing through which the ship may be boarded.
An earthen and plank ramp leading from the stable yard into the upper storey or mow of a dairy barn.
The narrow space between two buildings or houses, used to access the backyard/alleyway from the front.
A passageway through a passenger car
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
agriculture
business
lifestyle
|
5495 | word:
gangway
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gangway (third-person singular simple present gangways, present participle gangwaying, simple past and past participle gangwayed)
forms:
form:
gangways
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gangwaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
gangwayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
gangwayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gangway, from Old English gangweġ (“passageway; thoroughfare”), equivalent to gang + way. Related to Dutch gang (“hallway”) and Norwegian gang (“hallway”).
senses_examples:
text:
He gangwayed his way through the crowd, and just as the clock struck midnight, he was standing in front of NBC's camera on national TV as the governor-elect of Minnesota and the first Reform Party candidate ever to be elected to high office.
ref:
2004, Bill Hillsman, Run the Other Way
type:
quotation
text:
They're conducting phone conversations without speaking into the wrong end of their mobiles, or gangwaying to the Gents without tripping over, or turning the pages of a newspaper without blacking adjacent eyes.
ref:
2014, Jude Cook, Byron Easy
type:
quotation
text:
Here also of exceptional value were the half-dozen dueling codes published after 1880, gangwaying a detailed analysis in chapter II of the manner in which duels unfolded, and dozens of French sources which formed the core of a chapter on the French duel.
ref:
2014, Kevin McAleer, Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siecle Germany
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To serve as, furnish with, or conduct oneself as though proceeding on a gangway.
senses_topics:
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5496 | word:
gangway
word_type:
intj
expansion:
gangway
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gangway, from Old English gangweġ (“passageway; thoroughfare”), equivalent to gang + way. Related to Dutch gang (“hallway”) and Norwegian gang (“hallway”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Make way! Clear a path!
senses_topics:
|
5497 | word:
activate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
activate (third-person singular simple present activates, present participle activating, simple past and past participle activated)
forms:
form:
activates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
activating
tags:
participle
present
form:
activated
tags:
participle
past
form:
activated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From active + -ate.
senses_examples:
text:
activate the economy
type:
example
text:
The pranksters activated the fire alarm by spraying deodorant next to it.
type:
example
text:
A new squadron was activated.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.
To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
To render more reactive; excite.
To render a molecule reactive, active, or effective in performing its function.
To render a substance radioactive.
To hasten a chemical reaction, especially by heating.
To remove the limitations of demoware by providing a license; to unlock.
To aerate in order to aid decomposition of organic matter.
To organize or create a military unit or station.
To bring a player back after an injury.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
biology
natural-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
government
military
politics
war
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
5498 | word:
zoom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zoom (plural zooms)
forms:
form:
zooms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
zoom
etymology_text:
Uncertain. The verb was attested in 1892, noun in 1918 and interjection in 1942. Apparently related to Scots soom (“to buzz, hum”), dialectal English and Scots soom, swoom, sweem (“to spin or twirl at high speed”). Compare also dialectal English sweem (“to swoon, become dizzy or faint”).
senses_examples:
text:
the zoom of traffic
type:
example
text:
What's the zoom like on your camera?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A humming noise from something moving very fast.
A quick ascent.
A big increase.
An augmentation of a view, by varying the focal length of a lens, or digitally.
senses_topics:
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5499 | word:
zoom
word_type:
verb
expansion:
zoom (third-person singular simple present zooms, present participle zooming, simple past and past participle zoomed)
forms:
form:
zooms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
zooming
tags:
participle
present
form:
zoomed
tags:
participle
past
form:
zoomed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
zoom
etymology_text:
Uncertain. The verb was attested in 1892, noun in 1918 and interjection in 1942. Apparently related to Scots soom (“to buzz, hum”), dialectal English and Scots soom, swoom, sweem (“to spin or twirl at high speed”). Compare also dialectal English sweem (“to swoon, become dizzy or faint”).
senses_examples:
text:
We zoomed along the highway.
type:
example
text:
prices zoomed
type:
example
text:
to zoom in or zoom out
type:
example
text:
"It boggles my mind what kind of mentality is at work there." He pointed to two recent issues of the magazine that featured cover stories were about Whitney Houston and Luther Vandross, two pop music icons whose sexual orientations have been widely speculated on in Black lesbian and gay communities. "It makes you wonder if it's an insult to the intelligence of Essence’s lesbian and gay leadership," Cunningham said. "Who's really zooming whom here?"
ref:
1990 December 16, Chris Nealon, quoting Al Cunningham, “Essence Magazine Agrees To Run Gay Advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move fast with a humming noise.
To zoom climb.
To move rapidly.
To go up sharply.
To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
To check someone out; to investigate someone that one is interested in.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
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