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5500 | word:
zoom
word_type:
intj
expansion:
zoom
forms:
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:
Makowsky was playing the Bassgeige. Zoom... zoom-zoom.... The rest of the orchestra would join in presently.
ref:
1918, Annie Vivanti Chartres, The Outrage, page 196
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Representing a humming sound
Suggesting something moving quickly
Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase
senses_topics:
|
5501 | 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:
Genericization of the trademark Zoom, a video teleconferencing software.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
senses_topics:
|
5502 | word:
zoom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zoom (plural zooms)
forms:
form:
zooms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
zoom
etymology_text:
Genericization of the trademark Zoom, a video teleconferencing software.
senses_examples:
text:
Then, later that day, I logged onto a zoom call and my mother and I set up our yoga mats in the living room, as we had been doing a couple of times a week during the pandemic.
ref:
2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A video teleconferencing call.
senses_topics:
|
5503 | word:
accomplishment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accomplishment (countable and uncountable, plural accomplishments)
forms:
form:
accomplishments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in the early 15th century.
* (completes, perfects, equips): First attested around 1600.
* accomplish + -ment
* Borrowed from French accomplissement, from accomplir
senses_examples:
text:
the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc
type:
example
text:
I’ll make a proof how I advance in / My new accomplishment of dancing.
ref:
1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost, Book III
type:
quotation
text:
Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, / And wisdom falls before exterior grace ;
ref:
1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error
type:
quotation
text:
Increasing sales by 20% in the last quarter was seen as a major accomplishment for the business.
type:
example
text:
Thus it is attested that some children have taken an accomplishment verb like disappear, which does not have a causative counterpart, and used it as a causative accomplishment in sentences like He disappeared it, i.e. ‘He made it disappear.’
ref:
1997, Robert van Valin, Randy LaPolla, Syntax, pages 183-84
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment.
That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.
Something accomplished; an achievement.
The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time until a natural end point.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics |
5504 | word:
rato
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rato (countable and uncountable, plural ratos)
forms:
form:
ratos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of RATO (“rocket-assisted takeoff”)
senses_topics:
|
5505 | word:
lane
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lane (plural lanes)
forms:
form:
lanes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lane
etymology_text:
From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lane, lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”).
Cognate with Scots lone (“cattle-track, by-road”), West Frisian leane, loane (“a walkway, avenue”), Dutch laan (“alley, avenue”), German Low German Lane, Laan (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”).
senses_examples:
text:
Penny Lane
type:
example
text:
There's a shortcut to the shops through this leafy lane.
type:
example
text:
Drivers should overtake in the outside lane
type:
example
text:
We were held up by a truck in the middle lane of the freeway.
type:
example
text:
the exit lane
type:
example
text:
There are eight lanes on an Olympic running track.
type:
example
text:
a swimming lane
type:
example
text:
the checkout lanes in a supermarket
type:
example
text:
shipping lane
type:
example
text:
We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley.
type:
example
text:
And it's Uncle Mo in front by two as they come to the top of the lane.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
A narrow road, as in the country.
A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
A course designated for ships or aircraft.
An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
The home stretch.
senses_topics:
athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
card-games
games
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports |
5506 | word:
eventually
word_type:
adv
expansion:
eventually (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Eventually (mathematics)
etymology_text:
From eventual + -ly. The third sense is influenced by any of several European languages, including Czech eventuálně, Swedish eventuellt.
senses_examples:
text:
Everyone's true colors will be revealed eventually.
type:
example
text:
It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
ref:
2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
type:
quotation
text:
Eventually, all prime numbers are odd.
type:
example
text:
I will come eventually, but haven't decided yet.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.
For some tail; for all terms beyond some term; with only finitely many exceptions.
Possibly, potentially, perhaps
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
|
5507 | word:
entrance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
entrance (countable and uncountable, plural entrances)
forms:
form:
entrances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
entrance
etymology_text:
From Middle French entrance (“entry”). Replaced native Middle English ingang (“entrance, admission”), from Old English ingang (“ingress, entry, entrance”).
senses_examples:
text:
Her entrance attracted no attention whatsoever.
type:
example
text:
the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office
type:
example
text:
Place your bag by the entrance so that you can find it easily.
type:
example
text:
You'll need a ticket to gain entrance to the museum.
type:
example
text:
to give entrance to friends
type:
example
text:
a difficult entrance into business
text:
in the entrance of the history of this great patriarch
ref:
1794, Henry Hunter, Sacred Biography
type:
quotation
text:
His entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
type:
example
text:
A coarse-lined ship, fig. 4, has an angle of entrance of about 40 deg., measured at the load-water line; while a fine-lined ship has only about half that angle.
ref:
1899, Practical Engineer - Volumes 19-20, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
At low , say 9 knots for a 400-ft. ship, 60 deg. entrance angle (side to side) can be accepted.
ref:
1919, Shipbuilding and Shipping Record - Volume 13, page 667
type:
quotation
text:
This bulb therefore creates a greater wave but has a higher form resistance as the waterlines have larger entrance angles.
ref:
2018, A. Marinò, V. Bucci, Technology and Science for the Ships of the Future, page 788
type:
quotation
text:
She [the Albemarle] has a bold entrance, and clean run.
ref:
1781, Horatio Nelson, Diary
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action of entering, or going in.
The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
The right to go in.
The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
The beginning of a musician's playing or singing; entry.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
5508 | word:
entrance
word_type:
verb
expansion:
entrance (third-person singular simple present entrances, present participle entrancing, simple past and past participle entranced)
forms:
form:
entrances
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
entrancing
tags:
participle
present
form:
entranced
tags:
participle
past
form:
entranced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From en- + trance (“daze”).
senses_examples:
text:
The children were immediately entranced by all the balloons.
type:
example
text:
See the finest girl in France make an entrance to entrance...
ref:
1996, Tab Murphy, Irene Mecchi, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, and Jonathan Roberts, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (film)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To delight and fill with wonder.
To put into a trance.
senses_topics:
|
5509 | word:
Georgetown
word_type:
name
expansion:
Georgetown
forms:
wikipedia:
Georgetown
Georgetown (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From George + town.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Guyana; named for George III of the United Kingdom.
A town in Saint Vincent, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
The capital city of Ascension Island; named for George III.
Places in the United States of America:
A village in Alaska; named for traders George Hoffman, George Fredericks, and George Morgan.
Places in the United States of America:
A town in Arkansas.
Places in the United States of America:
A census-designated place in El Dorado County, California, United States; named for British politician George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby.
Places in the United States of America:
A territorial charter municipality, the county seat of Clear Creek County, Colorado; named for founder George Griffith.
Places in the United States of America:
A town, the county seat of Sussex County, Delaware; named for Delaware statesman George Mitchell.
Places in the United States of America:
A city, the county seat of Quitman County, Georgia, United States, named for the neighborhood of Washington, D.C..
Places in the United States of America:
A city in Idaho; named for George Q. Cannon, an early high-ranking Mormon.
Places in the United States of America:
A city in Illinois; perhaps named for landowner George Beckwith, or George Haworth, son of James Haworth, who platted the city.
Places in the United States of America:
A town in Indiana; named for George Waltz, who platted the town.
Places in the United States of America:
A city, the county seat of Scott County, Kentucky; named for George Washington.
Places in the United States of America:
A village in Louisiana.
Places in the United States of America:
A town in Maine.
Places in the United States of America:
A town in Massachusetts.
Places in the United States of America:
A city in Minnesota.
Places in the United States of America:
A town in Mississippi.
Places in the United States of America:
A town in New York.
Places in the United States of America:
A village, the county seat of Brown County, Ohio; named for the city in Kentucky.
Places in the United States of America:
A borough of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
Places in the United States of America:
A census-designated place in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Places in the United States of America:
A census-designated place in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
Places in the United States of America:
A city, the county seat of Georgetown County, South Carolina; named for George III.
Places in the United States of America:
A city, the county seat of Williamson County, Texas; named for landowner George Washington Glasscock.
Places in the United States of America:
A historic neighborhood of Washington, D.C.; named for George II of Great Britain.
Places in the United States of America:
An unincorporated community in Berkeley County, West Virginia.
Places in the United States of America:
An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia.
Places in the United States of America:
An unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia.
Places in the United States of America:
An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia; named for early settler George Pratt.
Places in the United States of America:
A town in Polk County, Wisconsin.
Places in the United States of America:
A town in Price County, Wisconsin.
Places in the United States of America:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Georgetown Township.
Places in Canada:
A ghost town in Alberta.
Places in Canada:
A village in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Places in Canada:
A community of Ontario; named for Canadian businessman George Kennedy.
Places in Canada:
A community of Prince Edward Island; named for George III.
Places in the United Kingdom:
A suburb of Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO1408).
Places in the United Kingdom:
A suburb of Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil county borough, Wales, alternative spelling George Town (OS grid ref SO0406).
Places in the United Kingdom:
A suburb of Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX9975).
Places in Australia and New Zealand (Australasia):
A suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia; named for landowner George Moate.
Places in Australia and New Zealand (Australasia):
A town in Queensland; named for early gold commissioner Howard St George.
Places in Australia and New Zealand (Australasia):
A town in South Australia.
Places in Australia and New Zealand (Australasia):
A suburb of Invercargill, New Zealand.
Georgetown University.
senses_topics:
|
5510 | word:
although
word_type:
conj
expansion:
although
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English althagh, from Old English compound of eall (“all (emphatic)”) + þēah (“though”).
senses_examples:
text:
Although it was very muddy, the football game went on.
type:
example
text:
The patients, (al)though getting stronger, will not come off their medications.
type:
example
text:
With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.
ref:
2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
ref:
2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2012-06-14, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
It was difficult, although not as difficult as we had expected.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Though, even though, in spite of or despite the fact that: introducing a clause that expresses a concession.
But, except.
senses_topics:
|
5511 | word:
ver
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ver (plural vers)
forms:
form:
vers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of version.
senses_topics:
|
5512 | word:
tree
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tree (plural trees or (obsolete) treen)
forms:
form:
trees
tags:
plural
form:
treen
tags:
obsolete
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trow, from Old English trēo, trēow (“tree, wood, timber, beam, log, stake, stick, grove, cross, rood”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree, wood”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).
Cognates
From the same Proto-Indo-European: Scots tree (“wood, rod, stick”), North Frisian tre, trä (“tree”), Middle Dutch tree > Dutch teer (“tree”), Danish træ (“tree”), Swedish trä (“wood”), träd (“tree”), Norwegian tre (“tree”), Icelandic tré (“tree”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu, “tree, wood, piece of wood”), Sanskrit दारु (dāru, “tree, wood”), Albanian dru (“tree, wood”), Welsh dâr (“oaks”), Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “wood, spear”), Russian де́рево (dérevo) or дре́во (drévo), Tocharian A or. Related to tar, true.
senses_examples:
text:
Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.
type:
example
text:
Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
type:
example
text:
B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk about it in the village.
ref:
1992 April 5, “The Full House”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2
type:
quotation
text:
When we see a train trapped behind (or embedded in) a fallen tree our first thought should be 'what was it doing there anyway?' […]Trees are also responsible for numerous minor delays in autumn [due to leaves falling on the track], which rolling stock engineers are supposed to cope with as usual.
ref:
2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.
type:
example
text:
He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree.
type:
example
text:
He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
type:
example
text:
We’ll show it as a tree list.
type:
example
text:
family tree; skill tree
type:
example
text:
I like good pussy and I like good trees / Smoke so much weed you wouldn't believe
ref:
2005, “Shake That”, in Eminem, Nate Dogg (lyrics), Curtain Call: The Hits
type:
quotation
text:
Whiskey with the team, got it bubblin' / I got trees in my luggage, I got tings out in London / Hope UK, what you say? Fuck is you sayin'?
ref:
2018, “Ace”, in Room 25, performed by Noname ft. Smino & Saba
type:
quotation
text:
Tyburn tree
type:
example
text:
Was it for Crimes that I had done / He groan’d upon the Tree?
ref:
1707, Isaac Watts, “Godly Sorrow ariſing from the Sufferings of Chriſt”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
When Jesus died on that tree, he bore the awful curse of the law for us so that we might be saved.
ref:
1997, Warren W. Wiersbe, The Names of Jesus
type:
quotation
text:
Oh, that's not to say Peter's life was easy. In fact, he, too, ended up on a tree—not hung up by guilt, but crucified upside down on a cross for the sake of the One who not only hung on a tree for him, but rose and lived within him, empowering him to live a life of incredible impact and ministry.
ref:
2004, Jon Courson, Jon Courson's Application Commentary, page 1130
type:
quotation
text:
Jesus was crucified on a tree to give us life.
ref:
2015, Bruce Thomas, God's Purpose for His Creation
type:
quotation
text:
Outside of Jerusalem, at Golgotha, Jesus was crucified on a tree with two other thieves because He claimed to be the king of the Jews.
ref:
2022, Sharmila Panirselvam, Life in the Hands of Jesus
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a bush with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, leaves and branches.
Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
The structural frame of a saddle.
A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
Marijuana.
A cross or gallows.
A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
The fifth Lenormand card.
Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
senses_topics:
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
mathematics
sciences |
5513 | word:
tree
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tree (third-person singular simple present trees, present participle treeing, simple past and past participle treed)
forms:
form:
trees
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
treeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
treed
tags:
participle
past
form:
treed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trow, from Old English trēo, trēow (“tree, wood, timber, beam, log, stake, stick, grove, cross, rood”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree, wood”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).
Cognates
From the same Proto-Indo-European: Scots tree (“wood, rod, stick”), North Frisian tre, trä (“tree”), Middle Dutch tree > Dutch teer (“tree”), Danish træ (“tree”), Swedish trä (“wood”), träd (“tree”), Norwegian tre (“tree”), Icelandic tré (“tree”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu, “tree, wood, piece of wood”), Sanskrit दारु (dāru, “tree, wood”), Albanian dru (“tree, wood”), Welsh dâr (“oaks”), Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “wood, spear”), Russian де́рево (dérevo) or дре́во (drévo), Tocharian A or. Related to tar, true.
senses_examples:
text:
The dog treed the cat.
type:
example
text:
When hunted it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.
ref:
1897, Henry Howard et al., editors, Encyclopaedia of Sport, volume I, London: Lawrence & Bullen, page 599
type:
quotation
text:
"And our dogs used to tree the cats on our property here, and we'd dispatch them."
ref:
2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.
type:
example
text:
to tree a boot
type:
example
text:
Two suits and an overcoat hung in the closet over three pairs of carefully treed shoes.
ref:
1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 14, in The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 165
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
To place in a tree.
To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
To take refuge in a tree.
senses_topics:
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5514 | word:
chamois
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chamois (countable and uncountable, plural chamoises or chamois)
forms:
form:
chamoises
tags:
plural
form:
chamois
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chamois
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”). Compare also Old High German gamiza (“chamois”) (whence modern German Gämse).
senses_examples:
text:
chamois:
text:
I took them, breathed on them, polished them with a chamois and hung them on the chandelier.
ref:
1926, Louise de Koven Bowen, Growing Up with a City, University of Illinois Press, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Mirrors can be cleaned with warm water and ammonia or vinegar and polished with a chamois.
ref:
1984, Cruising World, page 158
type:
quotation
text:
Once your paint has been restored, drying your car with a chamois is just about all you have to do to restore the luster.
ref:
1989, Popular Mechanics, page 146
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra.
Short for chamois leather (“soft pliable leather originally made from the skin of chamois (nowadays the hides of deer, sheep, and other species of goat are alternatively used)”).
The traditional colour of chamois leather.
An absorbent cloth used for cleaning and polishing, formerly made of chamois leather.
A padded insert which protects the groin from the bicycle saddle.
senses_topics:
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
5515 | word:
chamois
word_type:
adj
expansion:
chamois (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
chamois
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”). Compare also Old High German gamiza (“chamois”) (whence modern German Gämse).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Chamois-colored.
senses_topics:
|
5516 | word:
chamois
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chamois (third-person singular simple present chamoises, present participle chamoising, simple past and past participle chamoised)
forms:
form:
chamoises
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
chamoising
tags:
participle
present
form:
chamoised
tags:
participle
past
form:
chamoised
tags:
past
wikipedia:
chamois
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”). Compare also Old High German gamiza (“chamois”) (whence modern German Gämse).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To clean with a chamois leather cloth.
senses_topics:
|
5517 | word:
kami
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kami (plural kamis or kami)
forms:
form:
kamis
tags:
plural
form:
kami
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kami
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 神 (kami, “god, spirit, deity”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An animistic God or spirit in the Shinto religion of Japan.
The metaphysical causal generator of motion, life, or divinish aura.
senses_topics:
Shinto
lifestyle
religion
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
5518 | word:
kami
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kami (plural kami)
forms:
form:
kami
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kami
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 紙 (kami, “paper”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A basic origami paper, usually printed with a colour or pattern on one side.
senses_topics:
arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
papercraft |
5519 | word:
Ottawa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ottawa
forms:
wikipedia:
Ottawa
Ottawa (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Ojibwe odaawaa (“traders”)/ᐅᑡᐙ, from Proto-Algonquian *atawewa (“to trade”).
senses_examples:
text:
And of course, in July 1967 De Gaulle did come to Canada. He made his speeches in Quebec, was enthusiastically received on the Chemin du Roy, shouted “Vive le Quebec libre” in Montreal and, on learning of the reaction of the Canadian government, returned to Paris without going to Ottawa.
ref:
1996, Eldon Black, “Prologue: 1960-1967”, in Direct Intervention: Canada-France Relations, 1967-1974, Carleton University Press, →OCLC, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
New vehicles will cut emissions by 5.3 megatonnes by 2010 as part of Ottawa's plans to meet Canada's Kyoto targets.
ref:
2005 April 5, “Ottawa, carmakers reach Kyoto deal”, in CBC News
type:
quotation
text:
Literacy groups across the country demanded Wednesday that Ottawa put back the $17.7 million it cut from adult literacy programs last week.
ref:
2006 October 4, “Literacy groups demand $17M back from Ottawa”, in CBC News
type:
quotation
text:
Ottawa announced the mission in Afghanistan will have a greater focus on reconstruction, development and security training, with an increase in aid of more than a half a billion dollars.
ref:
2008 June 10, “Ottawa boosting aid to Afghanistan by $550 million”, in CBC News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Algonquian people closely related to the Ojibwe; also spelt Ottowa.
The Ottawa dialect of Ojibwe; also spelt Odawa or Odaawaa.
A city in Ontario, Canada; capital city of Canada.
The federal government of Canada.
A river flowing southeast between Ontario and Quebec, Canada into the St. Lawrence River.
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of LaSalle County, Illinois.
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Franklin County, Kansas.
A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Le Sueur County, Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States:
A village, the county seat of Putnam County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ottawa County, Oklahoma.
A number of places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
A number of places in the United States:
Some other townships, listed under Ottawa Township.
A village, formerly a commune in the Ivory Coast.
A suburb of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
senses_topics:
|
5520 | word:
Ottawa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ottawa (plural Ottawas)
forms:
form:
Ottawas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ottawa
Ottawa (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Ojibwe odaawaa (“traders”)/ᐅᑡᐙ, from Proto-Algonquian *atawewa (“to trade”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of the Ottawa people.
senses_topics:
|
5521 | word:
luz
word_type:
noun
expansion:
luz
forms:
wikipedia:
Luz (bone)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Hebrew לוּז (luz, “almond”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small bone in the human spinal column, believed in Muslim and Jewish traditions to be the indestructible bone from which the body will be rebuilt at the time of resurrection.
The almond tree
senses_topics:
|
5522 | word:
arose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
arose
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Mr Bray, diſregarding his own intereſt, and the great profit which would have aroſe from finiſhing his Courſe of Lectures on the plan he had formed,[…]
ref:
1748, Biographia Britannica […], volume 2, page 963
type:
quotation
text:
The whole debate seems to have arose from what appears to some of your honors to include the whole Island in the disturbances alluded to[…]
ref:
1863, Debates and Proceedings of the Legislative Council, of the Province of Prince Edward Island […], "The Examiner" Office, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
The amniote egg is most likely to have arose along the portion of the phylogeny denoted by the solid shading, and is less likely to have arose along the portion denoted by the cross-hatched shading.
ref:
1997 January 5, M. Y. S. Lee, P. Spencer, “Crown Clades and Taxonomic Stability”, in Stuart Sumida, Karen L.M. Martin, editors, Amniote Origins: Completing the Transition to Land, Elsevier, page 70
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of arise
past participle of arise
senses_topics:
|
5523 | word:
teetotal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
teetotal (comparative more teetotal, superlative most teetotal)
forms:
form:
more teetotal
tags:
comparative
form:
most teetotal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Teetotalism
Teetotalism#Etymology
etymology_text:
From total, the reduplicated tee being an intensifier – “T-total”, 1830s.
senses_examples:
text:
That's a teetotal lie.
ref:
1858, Samuel Putnam Avery, The Harp of a Thousand Strings: Or, Laughter for a Lifetime, page 331
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abstinent from alcohol; never drinking alcohol.
Opposed to the drinking of alcohol.
Total.
senses_topics:
|
5524 | word:
teetotal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
teetotal (plural teetotals)
forms:
form:
teetotals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Teetotalism
Teetotalism#Etymology
etymology_text:
From total, the reduplicated tee being an intensifier – “T-total”, 1830s.
senses_examples:
text:
Hubert is trying to persuade James, a strict Presbyterian and teetotal, to come into the pub.
ref:
2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 12, in Small Island, London: Review, page 137
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who abstains from drinking alcohol.
senses_topics:
|
5525 | word:
fortitude
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fortitude (countable and uncountable, plural fortitudes)
forms:
form:
fortitudes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fortitude, from Old French, from Latin fortitūdō (“bravery, strength”), from fortis (“brave, strong”).
senses_examples:
text:
Mitt Romney […] charges that [Barack] Obama is an appeaser who apologizes for America, lacks fortitude and is "tentative, indecisive, timid and nuanced."
ref:
2012 January 30, Fareed Zakaria, “The Strategist”, in Time, archived from the original on 2012-07-26
type:
quotation
text:
The proper fans might also expend time—about twenty hours—trying to visit every Tube station as quickly as possible. […] But to visit every station in record time—which people have been attempting since at least 1960—requires real fortitude. You must get up before dawn, you must drink or eat almost nothing, so niggardly is the Underground with toilet provision.
ref:
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A Passenger’s History of the Tube, Profile Books, page 267
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.
Physical strength.
senses_topics:
|
5526 | word:
SAU
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SAU (plural SAUs)
forms:
form:
SAUs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of school administrative unit.
senses_topics:
education |
5527 | word:
arisen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
arisen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of arise
senses_topics:
|
5528 | word:
talk
word_type:
verb
expansion:
talk (third-person singular simple present talks, present participle talking, simple past and past participle talked)
forms:
form:
talks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
talking
tags:
participle
present
form:
talked
tags:
participle
past
form:
talked
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
talk
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
en:talk
etymology_text:
From Middle English talken, talkien, from Old English *tealcian (“to talk, chat”), from Proto-West Germanic *talkōn, from Proto-Germanic *talkōną (“to talk, chatter”), frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *talōną (“to count, recount, tell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, count”), equivalent to tell + -k.
Cognate with Scots talk (“to talk”), Low German taalken (“to talk”). Related also to Danish tale (“to talk, speak”), Swedish tala (“to talk, speak, say, chatter”), Icelandic tala (“to talk”), Norwegian tale (“speech”), Old English talian (“to count, calculate, reckon, account, consider, think, esteem, value; argue; tell, relate; impute, assign”). More at tale. Despite the surface similarity, unrelated to Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ- (“to talk”) (due to Grimm's law), which is the source of loquacious.
senses_examples:
text:
Let's sit down and talk.
type:
example
text:
Although I don't speak Chinese, I managed to talk with the villagers using signs and gestures.
type:
example
text:
Let’s go to my office and talk. ― I like to talk with you, Ms. Weaver.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
They sat down to talk business.
type:
example
text:
That's enough about work, let's talk holidays!
type:
example
text:
We talk French sometimes.
type:
example
text:
Are you interested in the job? They're talking big money.
type:
example
text:
We're not talking rocket science here: it should be easy.
type:
example
text:
Suppose he talks?
type:
example
text:
She can be relied upon not to talk.
type:
example
text:
They tried to make me talk.
type:
example
text:
I am not the one to talk.
type:
example
text:
She is a fine one to talk.
type:
example
text:
You should talk.
type:
example
text:
Look who's talking.
type:
example
text:
People will talk.
type:
example
text:
Aren't you afraid the neighbours will talk?
type:
example
text:
That's not like you at all, Jared. The drugs are talking. Snap out of it!
type:
example
text:
"So, are you going to give up all this good living and easy money and come fly for the Russians?"
"Hello no. I told you that yesterday."
"That was your wallet talking. The shooting has started. Now I appeal to your patriotism, your manhood, your sense of duty."
ref:
2013, Stephen Coonts, Fortunes of War
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To communicate, usually by means of speech.
To discuss; to talk about.
To speak (a certain language).
Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
To confess, especially implicating others.
To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
To gossip; to create scandal.
To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
senses_topics:
|
5529 | word:
talk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
talk (countable and uncountable, plural talks)
forms:
form:
talks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:talk
etymology_text:
From Middle English talk, talke (“conversation; discourse”), from the verb (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
We need to have a talk about your homework.
type:
example
text:
There is a talk on Shakespeare tonight.
type:
example
text:
There's been talk lately about the two of them.
type:
example
text:
She is the talk of the day.
type:
example
text:
The musical is the talk of the town.
type:
example
text:
Have you had the talk with Jay yet?
type:
example
text:
Later, I made sure to have the talk with my son about being a black boy, […]
ref:
2012, Crystal McCrary, Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World
type:
quotation
text:
The Talk
All the black parents I have ever spoken to have had “the talk” with their sons and daughters. “The talk” is a conversation about how to behave and not to behave with police.
ref:
2016, Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge
type:
quotation
text:
Now, I was a black man in the South, and my folks had had “the talk” with me. No, not the one about the birds and bees. This one is about the black man and the police.
ref:
2016, Stuart Scott, Larry Platt, Every Day I Fight, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
The party leader's speech was all talk.
type:
example
text:
The leaders of the G8 nations are currently in talks over nuclear weapons.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
A lecture.
Gossip; rumour.
A major topic of social discussion.
A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child about a reality of life; in particular:
A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child about a reality of life; in particular:
A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
Empty boasting, promises or claims.
Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
senses_topics:
|
5530 | word:
talent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
talent (plural talents)
forms:
form:
talents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Parable of the Talents
talent
etymology_text:
From Middle English talent, from Old English talente, borrowed from the plural of Latin talentum (“a Grecian weight; a talent of money”), from Ancient Greek τάλαντον (tálanton, “balance, a particular weight, especially of gold, sum of money, a talent”). Compare Old High German talenta (“talent”). Later figurative senses are from Old French talent (“talent, will, inclination, desire”), derived from the biblical Parable of the Talents.
senses_examples:
text:
Feel awfully about Scott... I always knew he couldn't think—he never could—but he had a marvelous talent and the thing is to use it—not whine in public.
ref:
1936 Feb. 15, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Maxwell Perkins
text:
He has a real talent for drawing.
type:
example
text:
The director searched their talent pool to fill the new opening.
type:
example
text:
Not much talent in this bar tonight—let's hit the clubs.
type:
example
text:
I went down to the beach front, of course, for that was the first thing that all Vaalies did: to look at the sea and to check the talent on the beach.
ref:
2011, Nic Venter, Wow! What a Life!, page 179
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A marked natural ability or skill.
A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East, equal to about 30 to 60 kg in various times and places.
A desire or inclination for something.
People of talent, viewed collectively; a talented person.
The men or (especially) women of a place or area, judged by their attractiveness.
senses_topics:
business
hobbies
lifestyle
media
sports
|
5531 | word:
translate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
translate (third-person singular simple present translates, present participle translating, simple past and past participle translated)
forms:
form:
translates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
translating
tags:
participle
present
form:
translated
tags:
participle
past
form:
translated
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
translate
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English translaten (“to transport, translate, transform”), from Anglo-Norman translater, from Latin trānslātus, perfect passive participle of trānsferō (“to transport, carry across, translate”).
In this sense, displaced Old English wendan (“to translate,” also the word for “to turn” and “to change”).
senses_examples:
text:
Hans translated my novel into Welsh.
type:
example
text:
[H]e [Theodore Beza] tranſlateth animam, a Carcaſe: (ſo calling our Sauiour Christes bodie, irreuerently, and wickedly) he tranſlateth infernum, graue.
ref:
1583, William Fulke, “Hereticall Translation against Pvrgatorie, Limbvs Patrvm, Christs Descending Into Hel”, in A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holie Scriptures into the English Tong, against the Manifolde Cauils, Friuolous Quarels, and Impudent Slaunders of Gregorie Martin, […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman for George Bishop, →OCLC, page 199
type:
quotation
text:
"Fool!" said the Tzar [Peter the Great], turning to the monk, "what did I bid you do with the book?" "To translate it, Sire!" "Is this then a translation?" replied the Sovereign, pointing at the same time to a paragraph in the original, where the author had spoken harshly of Russia, and of the character of its inhabitants, but which the good-natured monk had in part omitted, and in part softened down in the most flattering manner to the nation. "Hence!" added the incensed monarch, "and be careful how thou translatest the work faithfully. It is not to flatter my subjects that I bade thee put the book into Russian and print it; but rather to correct them, by placing them under their eye the opinion which foreigners entertain of them, in order that they may at length know what they once were, and what they are now through my exertions."
ref:
1828, A[ugustus] B[ozzi] Granville, “Picture of St. Petersburgh”, in St. Petersburgh. A Journal of Travels to and from that Capital; […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 103–104
type:
quotation
text:
His English is still in its beginning stages, like my Creole, but he was able to translate some Creole songs that he's written into English—not the best English, but English nonetheless. [...] That kind of thing is very interesting to me. When I was learning Spanish, I would often take my favorite songs and try to translate them.
ref:
1997 September 13, Matt Cyr, “Saturday, September 13th [1997]”, in Something to Teach Me: Journal of an American in the Mountains of Haiti, Coconut Creek, Fla.: Educa Vision, published 2002, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Hans translated for us while we were in Marrakesh.
type:
example
text:
That idiom doesn’t really translate.
type:
example
text:
‘Dog’ translates as ‘chien’ in French.
type:
example
text:
However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is Jacques Audiberti, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that translate as Slaughter, or In Favour of Infanticide.
ref:
2004, Ted Jones, chapter 3, in The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers, London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, published 2007, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
The director faithfully translated their experiences to film.
type:
example
text:
Embracing slave spirituals as the foundation of the Negro music he hoped to develop, Cook sought to translate their sonic power and racial character into forms more readily accessible to American audiences of all races in the twentieth century.
ref:
2015, David [Walker] Gilbert, “A New Musical Rhythm was Given to the People: Ragtime and Representation in Black Manhattan”, in The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Music Marketplace, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
If one were to chart the form of most film songs, translated into conventional terms used in Western music, one would likely see a structure that has an introduction and two or three stanzas: [...]
ref:
2015, Jayson Beaster-Jones, “Film Songs at the End of the Colonial Era and the Emergence of Filmi Style”, in Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Music, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press
type:
quotation
text:
Excellent writing does not necessarily translate well into film.
type:
example
text:
His sales experience translated well into his new job as a fund-raiser.
type:
example
text:
When perfection is achieved, the thrill of recognition in the audience fulfills local sensibilities, but translates poorly into academic discourse.
ref:
1999, Karen L. Hero, “Missed Opportunities: American Anthropological Studies of Micronesian Arts”, in Robert C. Kiste, Mac Marshall, editors, American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment, Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, page 257
type:
quotation
text:
Sometimes, ideas don't end up translating well. That's the nature of art. You may have the greatest idea since sliced bread in your mind, but when you translate it into a film, it just may not work.
ref:
2015, Ross Hockrow, “The Editing Process”, in Out of Order: Storytelling Techniques for Video and Cinema Editors, San Francisco, Calif.: Peachpit Press, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
The authors believe that the results obtained in mice will translate well into clinical utility for patients.
ref:
2024 June, “A novel system for non-invasive measurement of blood levels of glucose”, in Nature Reviews Endocrinology, volume 20, →DOI, page 320
type:
quotation
text:
All mRNAs are translated on the basis of consecutive groups of three bases, codons, being interpreted by the translational machinery [...]. Many diverse proteins and RNAs are involved in the translation of mRNA. First is the mRNA itself, which is the template "read" and translated into a protein product.
ref:
2015, Erich Grotewold, Joseph Chappell, Elizabeth A[nne] Kellogg, “Translation of RNA”, in Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, section 15.1 (Translation: A Key Aspect of Gene Expression), page 207, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will[iam] Warham Principal or Moderator thereof; which he leaving this year (having before had ſeveral Deputies therein) becauſe of his preferment to the ſee of London, became void for ſome time. The year following the ſaid Warham was tranſlated to Canterbury, [...]
ref:
1792, Anthony à Wood, The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, […], volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Gutch, →OCLC, page 661
type:
quotation
text:
He [Vitus Theodorus] was called to be a Paſtor at Norinberg, his own country, [...] till it pleaſed God to put an end to his labors, by tranſlating him out of this vale of tears into his Everlaſting Kingdom, Anno Chriſti 1549.
ref:
1654, Samuel Clark[e], “The Life of Vitus Theodorus, who Dyed Anno Christi 1549”, in The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History, […], 2nd edition, London: […] T. V. and are to be sold by William Roybould […], →OCLC, page 323
type:
quotation
text:
And afterwards Thou [God] receivedst Seth and Enoch, and Enoch Thou translatedst; for Thou art the Creator of men, the Fountain of Life, the Supplier of Want, the Giver of Laws, the Rewarder of them that keep them, the Avenger of them that transgress them.
ref:
1873, Thomas Wimberley Mossman, quoting Pope Clement I (in translation), “The Genuine and Supposititious Writings of St. Clement”, in A History of the Catholic Church of Jesus Christ: From the Death of Saint John to the Middle of the Second Century: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
After translating this plane, parallel to the ground line, to the position n#x5F;1L#x5F;1r#x5F;1, these points appear at n#x5F;1 and r#x5F;1.
ref:
1868, S[amuel] Edward Warren, “Removal of Practical Difficulties Arising from the Confusion of Projections and Perspectives”, in A Manual of Elementary Problems in the Linear Perspective of Form and Shadow; […], New York, N.Y.: John Wiley, […], →OCLC, § II (Second Method. Use of Three Planes.), paragraph 74, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
It is convenient at this point to translate the axis of the n dimensional space so that the origin of each axis occurs at its arithmetical mean.
ref:
1957 April–June, Leo Marcus, “A Mathematical Tool in Industry: An Algorithm for Curve Fitting by the Method of Least Squares”, in John Bryant, editor, General Motors Engineering Journal, volume 4, number 2, Detroit, Mich.: Educational Relations Section, Public Relations Staff,General Motors Corporation, →OCLC, page 17, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
He [John Mackintosh] considers all the eruptions, even erysipelas, in the light of natural blisters, established by powers inherent in the constitution, which enable it to translate disease from the internal organs to the skin; [...]
ref:
1857, “Medicine—Surgery”, in William, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’s Information for the People, new edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, page 768, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Consider a collection of objects – perfectly elastic pool balls, perhaps – rattling around inside a closed, isolated container. We can translate the container and its contents through space, and the physics inside the container is unchanged.
ref:
2004, Stephen Webb, “Symmetry”, in Out of this World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics, New York, N.Y.: Copernicus Books, Springer, in association with Praxis Publishing, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
If the ball were to hit the racket at its center of mass (CM) or balance point (which is usually in the throat of the racket), the racket recoil would be pure translation and there would be no rotation of the racket. Instead, if the ball were to hit in the center of the strung area, the racket would both translate (to conserve linear momentum) and rotate (to conserve angular momentum), [...]
ref:
1987, Howard Brody, “The Sweet Spots of a Tennis Racket”, in Tennis Science for Tennis Players, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Let us assume the gas molecule to be a structureless "billiard ball," translating in space and frequently colliding with the neighboring molecules.
ref:
2015, Ethirajan Rathakrishnan, “High-temperature Flows”, in High Enthalpy Gas Dynamics, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore, section 4.10 (Kinetic Theory of Gases), page 109
type:
quotation
text:
Curſed be he which tranſlateth the bounds and dolles of his Neighbor.
ref:
1559, “Injunctions Given by the Queens Majesty, Concerning both the Clergy and Laity, of This Realm, Published Anno Domini Mdlix. being the First Year of the Raign of Our Soveraign Lady Queen Elizabeth”, in Anth[ony] Sparrow, compiler, A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with Other Publick Records of the Church of England, […], 4th edition, London: […] Blanch Rawlet […], published 1684, →OCLC, paragraph 19, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
[H]e [David] Accuſeth not the King [Saul], but tranſlateth the fault wholly upon his Evil Miniſters; as the Iſraelites do in the like Caſe, Exod[us] 5. 16.
ref:
1696, Matthew Poole, “I. Samuel. Chap. XXVI.”, in Sam[uel] Clark, Edward Veale, editors, Annotations upon the Holy Bible. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Thomas Parkhurst, […], →OCLC, note z, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
To find one's self suddenly translated from the wild, flowery prairie into the heart of an aged, moss-grown village, of such foreign aspect, withal, was by no means easy to reconcile with one's notions of reality.
ref:
1838, [Edmund Flagg], chapter XXV, in The Far West: Or, A Tour beyond the Mountains. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
William was translated by the blow to the head he received, being unable to speak for the next few minutes.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
To provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be capable of being, rendered in another language.
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
To express spoken words or written text in a different (often clearer or simpler) way in the same language; to paraphrase, to rephrase, to restate.
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
To change (something) from one form or medium to another.
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
To change (something) from one form or medium to another.
To rearrange (a song or music) in one genre into another.
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another.
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
Senses relating to a change of position.
Senses relating to a change of position.
To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
To transfer the remains of a deceased person (such as a monarch or other important person) from one place to another; (specifically, Christianity) to transfer a holy relic from one shrine to another.
Senses relating to a change of position.
To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
To transfer a bishop or other cleric from one post to another.
Senses relating to a change of position.
To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
Of a holy person or saint: to be assumed into or to rise to Heaven without bodily death; also (figurative) to die and go to Heaven.
Senses relating to a change of position.
To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
In Euclidean geometry: to transform (a geometric figure or space) by moving every point by the same distance in a given direction.
Senses relating to a change of position.
To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
To map (the axes in a coordinate system) to parallel axes in another coordinate system some distance away.
Senses relating to a change of position.
To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
To cause (a disease or something giving rise to a disease) to move from one body part to another, or (rare) between persons.
Senses relating to a change of position.
To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
To subject (a body) to linear motion with no rotation.
Senses relating to a change of position.
To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
Of a body: to be subjected to linear motion with no rotation.
Senses relating to a change of position.
To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
To entrance (“place in a trance”), to cause to lose recollection or sense.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Christianity
Christianity
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
medicine
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
5532 | word:
translate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
translate (plural translates)
forms:
form:
translates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English translaten (“to transport, translate, transform”), from Anglo-Norman translater, from Latin trānslātus, perfect passive participle of trānsferō (“to transport, carry across, translate”).
In this sense, displaced Old English wendan (“to translate,” also the word for “to turn” and “to change”).
senses_examples:
text:
[F]ractions with a defining relation are nothing but linear orthogonal arrays or their translates.
ref:
1999, A. S. Hedayat, N[eil] J[ames] A[lexander] Sloane, John Stufken, “Statistical Application of Orthogonal Arrays”, in Orthogonal Arrays: Theory and Applications (Springer Series in Statistics), New York, N.Y., Berlin: Springer, section 11.5 (Two-level Fractional Factorials with a Defining Relation), page 272
type:
quotation
text:
If L is a vector space, a linear manifold (or affine subspace) in L is a subset which is a translate of a subspace M#x5C;subsetL, that is, a set F of the form x#x5F;0#x2B;M for some x#x5F;0#x5C;inL. [...] The dimension of a linear manifold is the dimension of the subspace of which it is a translate.
ref:
1999, H[elmut] H[einrich] Schaefer, with M. P. Wolff, chapter I, in Topological Vector Spaces (Graduate Texts in Mathematics; 3), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y., Berlin: Springer, section 4 (Linear Manifolds and Hyperplanes), page 24
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.
senses_topics:
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences |
5533 | word:
snake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
snake (plural snakes)
forms:
form:
snakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“snake”) (compare German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”)), derived via Proto-Germanic *snakô from Proto-Germanic *snakaną (“to crawl”) (compare Old High German snahhan), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neg- (“to crawl; a creeping thing”). Cognate with Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “snake”)). Doublet of nāga.
senses_examples:
text:
The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.
ref:
1892, Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates
type:
quotation
text:
After dark the train is a lighted snake, as, even when the passengers' lights are out, each carriage has a side-light in the middle just under the eaves.
ref:
1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263
type:
quotation
text:
Mrs. Kenwigs was horror-stricken to think that she should ever have nourished in her bosom such a snake, adder, viper, serpent, and base crocodile, as Henrietta Petowker.
ref:
1838, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
type:
quotation
text:
Well, if it was Moore, he's a fucking snake.
ref:
2021, Peter McKenna, 5:51 from the start, in Kin, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Frank Kinsella (Aidan Gillen)
type:
quotation
text:
Gem’s a snake for Kamale, man.
type:
example
text:
Yo, bare people and the snakes, yeah, they're just grass / Next minute you're the mate, yeah / Next day stab in the back
ref:
2017 April 7, “War Dub”, performed by Little T (Josh Tate)
type:
quotation
text:
The snake failed to provide an anchor for currency stability and, through it, disinflation.
ref:
2001, W. Bonefeld, The Politics of Europe: Monetary Union and Class, page 69
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
A treacherous person; a rat.
A person who acts deceitfully for social gain.
A tool for unclogging plumbing.
A tool to aid cable pulling.
A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
Trouser snake; the penis.
A series of Bézier curves.
The seventh Lenormand card.
An informer; a rat.
Short for snake in the tunnel.
Short for black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
business
finance
|
5534 | word:
snake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
snake (third-person singular simple present snakes, present participle snaking, simple past and past participle snaked)
forms:
form:
snakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
snaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
snaked
tags:
participle
past
form:
snaked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“snake”) (compare German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”)), derived via Proto-Germanic *snakô from Proto-Germanic *snakaną (“to crawl”) (compare Old High German snahhan), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neg- (“to crawl; a creeping thing”). Cognate with Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “snake”)). Doublet of nāga.
senses_examples:
text:
The path snaked through the forest.
type:
example
text:
The river snakes through the valley.
type:
example
text:
Any Brisbane female interested in snaking down a few beers whilst watching the footy on a big screen?
ref:
1996 September 24, Mark Addinall, “Football fever...”, in aus.personals (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Opened in June of that year [1880], the station was the southern terminus of the much-lamented Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (the S&D or 'Slow and Dirty'), which snaked its way down from Bath.
ref:
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, pages 59–60
type:
quotation
text:
He snaked my DVD!
type:
example
text:
Although it wouldn't be the first time some one patented an idea that I'd had a year earlier.[…]Someone already has :)[…]F*CK ME !! Snaked again !
ref:
2001 April 5, Hyena, “Home made supercharger ?”, in aus.cars (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
November 27 1835, N.B. St. John, letter to George Thompson
his wife and children shall not be forced to flee from the hearth of a friend, lest they should be snaked out by men in civic authority
type:
quotation
text:
He says he didn't snake and I believe him.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To follow or move in a winding route.
To steal slyly.
To clean using a plumbing snake.
To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
To inform; to rat.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
5535 | word:
acidity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acidity (countable and uncountable, plural acidities)
forms:
form:
acidities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French acidité, from Latin aciditātem, accusative singular of aciditās (“sourness, acidity”), from acidus (“sour, acid”). Equivalent to acid + -ity.
senses_examples:
text:
the acidity of lemon juice
type:
example
text:
Empty stomachs lead to acidity and leave a sour taste in the mouth.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality or state of being acid.
Sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste.
Excessive acid quality, as in gastric secretions.
A caustic, sour, biting, or bitter quality.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences
|
5536 | word:
Bangalore
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bangalore
forms:
wikipedia:
Bangalore
etymology_text:
From Kannada ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು (beṅgaḷūru). The source of the name Bengaluru is usually attributed to [script needed] (beṅga-val-ūru, “city of guards”) in Old Kannada or [script needed] (benda-kāl-ūru, “town of boiled beans”) from Kannada folklore.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A megacity, the state capital of Karnataka, India.
senses_topics:
|
5537 | word:
Bangalore
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Bangalore (plural Bangalores)
forms:
form:
Bangalores
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bangalore
etymology_text:
From Kannada ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು (beṅgaḷūru). The source of the name Bengaluru is usually attributed to [script needed] (beṅga-val-ūru, “city of guards”) in Old Kannada or [script needed] (benda-kāl-ūru, “town of boiled beans”) from Kannada folklore.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of Bangalore torpedo.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
5538 | word:
Bangalore
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Bangalore (third-person singular simple present Bangalores, present participle Bangaloring, simple past and past participle Bangalored)
forms:
form:
Bangalores
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Bangaloring
tags:
participle
present
form:
Bangalored
tags:
participle
past
form:
Bangalored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Bangalore
etymology_text:
From Kannada ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು (beṅgaḷūru). The source of the name Bengaluru is usually attributed to [script needed] (beṅga-val-ūru, “city of guards”) in Old Kannada or [script needed] (benda-kāl-ūru, “town of boiled beans”) from Kannada folklore.
senses_examples:
text:
2003, John Wallace, in comp.os.vms http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.vms/msg/ce77d22d1295d23f?dmode=source&hl=en
CPQ UK's order management stuff (which I *think* covers Europe) *was* in the process of being Bangalored.
text:
2004, Christopher Browne, in tor.jobs http://groups.google.com/group/tor.jobs/msg/15ded27663ed52bc?dmode=source&hl=en
They have gotten gored more heavily by being "Bangalored" than they perhaps deserved, but a "great fall" was certainly in the cards.
text:
2005, Dr.Sahib.Pandit.Shri.Shri.Rainam Ji Maharaj Ji Ustad, in soc.culture.indian http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/msg/f44afa71b51ada83?dmode=source
Even though your anger against Indians is justified given that you have been Bangalored by our sambhar-guzzling desi geeks Swami and Murty - who earn 1/5th your salary and ride to work on their pet elephant *Appu*, it is not fair of you to berate any and every Indian you come across.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To outsource (an employee, position, or function) to India, especially to Bangalore.
senses_topics:
business |
5539 | word:
foe
word_type:
adj
expansion:
foe
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier ifo (“foe”), from Old English ġefāh (“enemy”), from fāh (“hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (compare Old Frisian fāch (“punishable”), Middle High German gevēch (“feuder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk/ḱ- (“to hate, be hostile”) (compare Middle Irish óech (“enemy, fiend”), Lithuanian pìktas (“evil”)).
senses_examples:
text:
he, I say, could passe into Affrike onely with two simple ships or small barkes, to commit himselfe in a strange and foe countrie, to engage his person, under the power of a barbarous King […].
ref:
, vol.1, ch.23
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hostile.
senses_topics:
|
5540 | word:
foe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
foe (plural foes)
forms:
form:
foes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier ifo (“foe”), from Old English ġefāh (“enemy”), from fāh (“hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (compare Old Frisian fāch (“punishable”), Middle High German gevēch (“feuder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk/ḱ- (“to hate, be hostile”) (compare Middle Irish óech (“enemy, fiend”), Lithuanian pìktas (“evil”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An enemy.
senses_topics:
|
5541 | word:
foe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
foe (plural foes)
forms:
form:
foes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
foe (unit)
etymology_text:
Acronym of [ten to the power of] fifty-one ergs, due to equalling 10⁵¹ ergs; coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules.
senses_topics:
|
5542 | word:
chat room
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chat room (plural chat rooms)
forms:
form:
chat rooms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
If he got flamed for his lies or his ignorance, he simply moved to another chat room.
ref:
2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
type:
quotation
text:
Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.
ref:
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Part of a website or other network where visitors can converse in typed messages.
senses_topics:
|
5543 | word:
awoke
word_type:
verb
expansion:
awoke
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of awake
past participle of awake
senses_topics:
|
5544 | word:
friction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
friction (usually uncountable, plural frictions)
forms:
form:
frictions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
friction
friction (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle French friction and directly from Latin frictionem, nom. frictio (“a rubbing, rubbing down”).
senses_examples:
text:
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
ref:
2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.
ref:
1839, Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
The frictions should at first be very gentle, and performed with a view to restore heat, and not to force the blood towards the heart, which in drowned persons is already too much distended with it.
ref:
1792, James Curry, Observations on Apparent Death from Drowning, Suffocation
type:
quotation
text:
The frictions are made at bedtime, on a limited portion of the body, and on one side only—the calf of the leg by preference, or the thigh, groin, or axilla. It is enough to continue rubbing for from three to five minutes at most.
ref:
1874 January 7, M. Panas, “Treatment of Syphilis by Mercurial Friction”, in The London Medical Record, volume 1, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Thais have been watching for signs of friction between the armed forces and the monarchy—the country's two biggest sources of political power—since the death in October of Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Vajiralongkorn's long-reigning father.
ref:
2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
Once finances are stabilised, getting Crossrail finished is Byford's most obvious task. Late and over budget, it is causing unwanted headlines and friction between the London Mayor and the Department for Transport that both sides would rather live without.
ref:
2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.
Massage of the body to restore circulation.
Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
(Second Sino-Japanese War) Conflict, as between the Communists and non-Hanjian Kuomintang forces.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
medicine
sciences
|
5545 | word:
highway
word_type:
noun
expansion:
highway (plural highways)
forms:
form:
highways
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:highway
etymology_text:
From Middle English heiȝwai, heiȝwei, from Old English hēahweġ (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high + way. Compare highgate, high street, high road.
Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”).
senses_examples:
text:
You're on a highway to greatness.
type:
example
text:
I'm on the highway to hell
ref:
1979, “Highway to Hell”, in Highway to Hell, performed by AC/DC
type:
quotation
text:
So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.
ref:
2024 May 8, Damian Carrington, “‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair. World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target”, in The Guardian, UK
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A road that is higher than the surrounding land and has drainage ditches at the sides
A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny
Any public road for vehicular traffic.
Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”)
senses_topics:
law
rail-transport
railways
transport
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5546 | word:
highway
word_type:
verb
expansion:
highway (third-person singular simple present highways, present participle highwaying, simple past and past participle highwayed)
forms:
form:
highways
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
highwaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
highwayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
highwayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:highway
etymology_text:
From Middle English heiȝwai, heiȝwei, from Old English hēahweġ (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high + way. Compare highgate, high street, high road.
Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To travel on a highway
senses_topics:
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5547 | word:
dismal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dismal (comparative more dismal, superlative most dismal)
forms:
form:
more dismal
tags:
comparative
form:
most dismal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dismal, dismale, from Anglo-Norman dismal, from Old French (li) dis mals (“(the) bad days”), from Medieval Latin diēs malī (“bad days”).
senses_examples:
text:
He received a dismal compensation.
type:
example
text:
Liverpool's efforts thereafter had an air of desperation as their dismal 2012 league form continued.
ref:
2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The storm made for a dismal weekend
type:
example
text:
She was lost in dismal thoughts of despair
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Disastrous, calamitous.
Disappointingly inadequate.
Causing despair; gloomy and bleak.
Depressing, dreary, cheerless.
senses_topics:
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5548 | word:
you
word_type:
pron
expansion:
you (second person, singular or plural, nominative or objective, possessive determiner your, possessive pronoun yours, singular reflexive yourself, plural reflexive yourselves)
forms:
form:
your
tags:
determiner
possessive
form:
yours
tags:
possessive
pronoun
without-noun
form:
yourself
tags:
reflexive
singular
form:
yourselves
tags:
plural
reflexive
wikipedia:
You (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English you, yow, ȝow (object case of ye), from Old English ēow (“you”, dative case of ġē), from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz (“you”, dative case of *jīz), Western form of *izwiz (“you”, dative case of *jūz), from Proto-Indo-European *yūs (“you”, plural), *yū́.
Cognate with Scots you (“you”), Saterland Frisian jou (“you”), West Frisian jo (“you”), Low German jo, joe and oe (“you”), Dutch jou and u (“you”), Middle High German eu, iu (“you”, object pronoun), Latin vōs (“you”), Avestan 𐬬𐬋 (vō, “you”), Ashkun yë̃́ (“you”), Kamkata-viri šó (“you”), Sanskrit यूयम् (yūyám, “you”)
See usage notes. Ye, you and your are cognate with Dutch jij/je, jou, jouw; Low German ji, jo/ju, jug and German ihr, euch and euer respectively. Ye is also cognate with Danish I and archaic Swedish I.
senses_examples:
text:
Both of you should get ready now.
type:
example
text:
‘Pull you up a chair,’ she offered.
ref:
1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug
type:
quotation
text:
You'd better get you a gun and kill him before he kills you or somebody.
ref:
1975, Joseph Nazel, Death for Hire
type:
quotation
text:
I charge you, as ye woll have my love, that ye warne your kynnesmen that ye woll beare that day the slyve of golde uppon your helmet.
ref:
c. 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VIII
type:
quotation
text:
You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
text:
Are you excited? ― Yes, I am excited!
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
I get that you're from Southeast Michigan, but I'm still surprised that you're a Detroit Lions fan. You have been on the receiving end of losing seasons for a while now.
type:
example
text:
You can't choose your family, your lovers are difficult and volatile, but, oh, you can choose your friends - so doesn't it make much more sense to live and holiday with them instead?
ref:
2001 May 5, Polly Vernon, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
(To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
A person's favorite sports team.
Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
senses_topics:
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5549 | word:
you
word_type:
det
expansion:
you
forms:
wikipedia:
You (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English you, yow, ȝow (object case of ye), from Old English ēow (“you”, dative case of ġē), from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz (“you”, dative case of *jīz), Western form of *izwiz (“you”, dative case of *jūz), from Proto-Indo-European *yūs (“you”, plural), *yū́.
Cognate with Scots you (“you”), Saterland Frisian jou (“you”), West Frisian jo (“you”), Low German jo, joe and oe (“you”), Dutch jou and u (“you”), Middle High German eu, iu (“you”, object pronoun), Latin vōs (“you”), Avestan 𐬬𐬋 (vō, “you”), Ashkun yë̃́ (“you”), Kamkata-viri šó (“you”), Sanskrit यूयम् (yūyám, “you”)
See usage notes. Ye, you and your are cognate with Dutch jij/je, jou, jouw; Low German ji, jo/ju, jug and German ihr, euch and euer respectively. Ye is also cognate with Danish I and archaic Swedish I.
senses_examples:
text:
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
type:
example
text:
You idiot!
type:
example
text:
'You genius!' I shouted in Aretta's ear. 'You absolute genius! Why didn't you tell us you were so good?'
ref:
2015, Judi Curtin, Only Eva, The O'Brien Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The individual or group spoken or written to.
Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
senses_topics:
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5550 | word:
you
word_type:
verb
expansion:
you (third-person singular simple present yous, present participle youing, simple past and past participle youed)
forms:
form:
yous
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
youing
tags:
participle
present
form:
youed
tags:
participle
past
form:
youed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
You (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English you, yow, ȝow (object case of ye), from Old English ēow (“you”, dative case of ġē), from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz (“you”, dative case of *jīz), Western form of *izwiz (“you”, dative case of *jūz), from Proto-Indo-European *yūs (“you”, plural), *yū́.
Cognate with Scots you (“you”), Saterland Frisian jou (“you”), West Frisian jo (“you”), Low German jo, joe and oe (“you”), Dutch jou and u (“you”), Middle High German eu, iu (“you”, object pronoun), Latin vōs (“you”), Avestan 𐬬𐬋 (vō, “you”), Ashkun yë̃́ (“you”), Kamkata-viri šó (“you”), Sanskrit यूयम् (yūyám, “you”)
See usage notes. Ye, you and your are cognate with Dutch jij/je, jou, jouw; Low German ji, jo/ju, jug and German ihr, euch and euer respectively. Ye is also cognate with Danish I and archaic Swedish I.
senses_examples:
text:
Youing consists in relating everything in the conversation to the person you wish to flatter, and introducing the word “you” into your speech as often as possible.
ref:
1930, Barrington Hall, Modern Conversation, Brewer & Warren, page 239
type:
quotation
text:
Now even Princess Anne had dropped it. Sarah had heard her youing away on television the other night just like the inhabitants of her mother’s dominions beyond the seas.
ref:
1992, Barbara Anderson, Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Victoria University Press, page 272
type:
quotation
text:
But even having my very own personal pronoun was risky, because it’s pretty tough to keep stopped-hope stopped up when you are getting all youed up, when someone you really like keeps promising you scary, fun, exciting stuff—and even tougher for the of that moment to remain securely devoid of hope, to make smart, self-denying decisions with Dad youing me—the long ooo of it broad and extended, like a hand.
ref:
2004, Ellen Miller, “Practicing”, in Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).
senses_topics:
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5551 | word:
you
word_type:
noun
expansion:
you (plural yous)
forms:
form:
yous
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
You (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
‘Eff. You. En,’ said Mr Banstead. ‘Fun![…]’
ref:
1969, Michael Feld, The Sabbatical Year, London: Alan Ross Ltd, page 301
type:
quotation
text:
It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."
ref:
2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
‘S-S-C…sitting on a tree…eff-you-cee-kay-i-en-ji.’
ref:
2019, Anand Ranganathan, Chitra Subramaniam, The Rat Eater, Bloomsbury India
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Latin-script letter U/u.
senses_topics:
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5552 | word:
pam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pam (countable and uncountable, plural pams)
forms:
form:
pams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably short for French Pamphile (“a given name”), special use of man's name.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump.
senses_topics:
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5553 | word:
pam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pam (plural pams)
forms:
form:
pams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably alteration of panorama.
senses_examples:
text:
The tripod used on a pam prevents any of that disturbing vertical shake which is so obvious in hand-held slow pams.
ref:
1934, Frank Roy Fraprie, American Photography, volume 28, page 240
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A panorama.
senses_topics:
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography |
5554 | word:
pam
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pam (third-person singular simple present pams, present participle pamming, simple past and past participle pammed)
forms:
form:
pams
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pamming
tags:
participle
present
form:
pammed
tags:
participle
past
form:
pammed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably alteration of panorama.
senses_examples:
text:
In this case the field was laid out in segments, and after the camera had been pammed about ten degrees it was stopped and the whole outfit moved over into the next segment, and so on round for ninety degrees;
ref:
1918, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane, Current Opinion - Volume 64, page 331
type:
quotation
text:
The camera man, in turn, when he had filmed the accident, pammed — the outrageous word "pam" means panorama — immediately to the sheriff in the hope that he would shoot.
ref:
1918, Rob Wagner, Film Folk
type:
quotation
text:
At one time he ordered a panorama effect, in which the cameras “pammed,” swept from one side to the other, giving a succession of faces at close range.
ref:
1921, Arthur Benjamin Reeve, The Film Mystery, page 347
type:
quotation
text:
The mechanism for taking the pictures with these markers on the original film and record can not be operated in quite so simple a manner, since the camera must be left free to be “pammed"—that is, moved about on its tripod to change the field of view.
ref:
1925, Bell Laboratories Record - Volumes 1-2
type:
quotation
text:
The institution is "pammed" from a nearby hill-top, followed by close-ups of the various buildings.
ref:
1932, Educational Screen - Volumes 11-12, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
This equipment has a distance range of 12,000 feet, and a height range of 750 feet and b, one camera is located 1500 feet from the runway and is "pammed" to follow the airplane.
ref:
1947, The SAE Journal - Volume 55, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pan a camera in order to show a panorama.
senses_topics:
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography |
5555 | word:
pam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pam
forms:
wikipedia:
PAM (cooking oil)
etymology_text:
Generic use of PAM.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cooking spray.
senses_topics:
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5556 | word:
pam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pam (plural pams)
forms:
form:
pams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish palmo (“handspan”), from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm, palma, and palmo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of palmo (“traditional Spanish and Portuguese units of measure”).
senses_topics:
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5557 | word:
acanthopteri
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acanthopteri pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Via translingual Acanthopteri, from Ancient Greek ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorn”) + πτερόν (pterón, “feather”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
5558 | word:
hear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hear (third-person singular simple present hears, present participle hearing, simple past and past participle heard)
forms:
form:
hears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
heard
tags:
participle
past
form:
heard
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hear
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti
Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną
Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan
Old English hīeran
Middle English heren
English hear
From Middle English heren, from Old English hīeran (“to hear”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną (“to hear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti (“to be sharp-eared”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) + *h₂ows- (“ear”) + *-yéti (denominative suffix).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian heere (“to hear”), West Frisian hearre (“to hear”), Dutch horen (“to hear”), German hören (“to hear”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høre (“to hear”), Norwegian Nynorsk høyra (“to hear”), Icelandic heyra (“to hear”), Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō, “I hear”).
senses_examples:
text:
I was deaf, and now I can hear.
type:
example
text:
I heard a sound from outside the window.
type:
example
text:
It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”
ref:
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court
type:
quotation
text:
Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties.
type:
example
text:
Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank […]
ref:
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
type:
quotation
text:
When I don't hear from you, My days feel long and lonely.
ref:
2009, Elsa T. Aguries, The Pearl Within, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
They're ten hours overdue. Have you heard from any of them since they left Nineveh?
ref:
2012, Art Wiederhold, Charles Sutphen, From the Depths of Evil, page 343
type:
quotation
text:
She left and I never heard from her again.
ref:
2012, James Meredith, A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America
type:
quotation
text:
Your case will be heard at the end of the month.
type:
example
text:
You're tired of all the ads on TV? I hear ya.
type:
example
text:
SPHÆRUS was of Bosphorus, he first heard Zeno, then Cleanthes, and having made a sufficient progresse in learning, went to Alexandria to Ptolomy Philopater […]
ref:
1656, Thomas Stanley, The History of Philosophy. The Eighth Part, Containing the Stoick Philosophers, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Ammonius, the teacher of both Simplicius and Philoponus, tells us how Julian gave a ruling […] in favor of Maximus, who had heard Iamblichus, and followed him and Porphyry (in An. Pr. 31,15–22).
ref:
1990, Henry J. Blumenthal, “Themistius: the last Peripatetic commentator on Aristotle?”, in Richard Sorabji, editor, Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence, 2nd edition, published 2016, pages 130–31
type:
quotation
text:
Charmadas, never actually Head of School but a prominent Academic who had himself heard Carneades, was prepared to teach Plato’s Gorgias […]
ref:
2018, “Introduction: The Old Academy to Cicero”, in Harold Tarrant et al., editors, Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity, pages 24–25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perceive sounds through the ear.
To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
To receive information about; to come to learn of.
To be contacted by.
To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.
To study under.
senses_topics:
law
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
5559 | word:
hear
word_type:
intj
expansion:
hear
forms:
wikipedia:
hear
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti
Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną
Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan
Old English hīeran
Middle English heren
English hear
From Middle English heren, from Old English hīeran (“to hear”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną (“to hear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti (“to be sharp-eared”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) + *h₂ows- (“ear”) + *-yéti (denominative suffix).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian heere (“to hear”), West Frisian hearre (“to hear”), Dutch horen (“to hear”), German hören (“to hear”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høre (“to hear”), Norwegian Nynorsk høyra (“to hear”), Icelandic heyra (“to hear”), Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō, “I hear”).
senses_examples:
text:
Y'all come back now, hear?
ref:
1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
you hear me
senses_topics:
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5560 | word:
velocity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
velocity (countable and uncountable, plural velocities)
forms:
form:
velocities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
velocity (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle French vélocité, from Latin vēlōcitās (“speed”), from vēlōx (“fast”), thus a doublet of veloce.
senses_examples:
text:
A car racing in a circle may retain the same speed while continually changing its velocity.
type:
example
text:
The train was travelling at a slower velocity than usual.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, combining speed with a directional component.
Rapidity of motion.
The rate of occurrence.
The number of times that an average unit of currency is spent during a specific period of time.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
economics
sciences |
5561 | word:
an
word_type:
article
expansion:
an (indefinite)
forms:
wikipedia:
an
etymology_text:
From Middle English an, from Old English ān (“a, an”, literally “one”). More at one.
senses_examples:
text:
I'll be there in half an hour.
type:
example
text:
'E's staying at an 'otel. (compare He's staying at a hotel.)
type:
example
text:
I was catapulted without preparation into the most difficult job any mortal man can hold. My duties would not wait a week, or a day, or even an hour.
ref:
1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
My hopes, from my earliest years, have been hopes of celebrity as a writer- not of wealth, or of influence, or of accomplishing any of the thousand aims which furnish the great bulk of mankind with motives. You will laugh at me. There is something so emphatically shadowy and unreal in the object of this ambition, that even the full attainment of its provokes a smile. For who does not know
'How vain that second life in others' breath,
The estate which wits inherit after death!'
And what can be more fraught with the ludicrous than an union of this shadowy ambition with mediocre parts and attainments! But I digress.
ref:
(Can we date this quote?), John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of the Borders; Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative, →OCLC, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is open to an European monetary fund but would want it to raise money cheaply on capital markets and lend it to needy euro-zone countries before they faced possible default.
ref:
2010 March 22, Paul Taylor, “Greece Debates Revive Old European Fears and Resentments”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-04-03, Inside Europe
type:
quotation
text:
In an unanimous vote on Monday, the city’s school board approved removing the name of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from Forrest Hill Academy and calling the alternative school the Hank Aaron New Beginnings Academy.
ref:
2021 April 13, Neil Vigdor, “Hank Aaron’s Name Will Replace a Confederate General’s on an Atlanta School”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-14, U.S.
type:
quotation
text:
Having been given seven full days, Jack Smith took exactly one day to file a forty-page response in opposition, to the Supreme Court, making the argument that there was no reason for the Supreme Court to hear Donald Trump's appeal of an unanimous opinion by the second most important court in the country, the Washington, D.C. Federal Court of Appeals, which supported the trial judge's ruling that there is no such thing as immunity from criminal prosecution for former presidents.
ref:
2024 February 14, Lawrence O'Donnell, 0:29 from the start, in Lawrence: Jack Smith asks SCOTUS to move fast on Trump. Nixon case is proof they can., MSNBC, archived from the original on 2024-02-15
type:
quotation
text:
The Province of Nanking, by the Tartars called Kiangnan, is the ſecond in honour, in magnitude and fertility in all China : It is divided into 14 great Territories, having Cities and Towns an hundred and ten; Nanking, or Kiangning being the Metropolis; a City, that if ſhe did not exceed moſt Cities on the Earth in bigneſs and beauty, yet ſhe was inferior to few, for her Pagodes, her Temples, her Porcelane Towers, her Palaces and Triumphal Arches. Fungiang, Sucheu, Sunkiang, Leucheu, Hoaigan, Ganking, Ningue, Hoeicheu, are alſo eminent places, and of great Note and Trade.
ref:
1693, Robert Morden, “Of China”, in Geography Rectified; or a Description of the World, 3rd edition, →OCLC, page 441
type:
quotation
text:
Following the doctrine of Lenin and Stalin, relying on the support of the great Soviet state and all the revolutionary forces of all countries, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people gained an historic victory a few years ago.
ref:
1953, Mao Tse-tung, “Mao Tse-tung's Tribute to Stalin”, in Current Soviet Policies, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 254
type:
quotation
text:
We have agreed on joint ventures in space. We have agreed on ways of working together to protect the environment, to advance health, to cooperate in science and technology. We have agreed on means of preventing incidents at sea. We have established a commission to expand trade between our two nations. Most important, we have taken an historic first step in the limitation of nuclear strategic arms.
ref:
1972 May 28, 3:30 from the start, in President Nixon addresses the Soviet People live from the Kremlin, spoken by Richard Nixon, archived from the original on 2015-12-22
type:
quotation
text:
Well yesterday was an historic day. Uh, there was last minute testimony scheduled in the January 6th committee from a former aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows.
ref:
2022 June 29, David Pakman, 0:00 from the start, in Trump Assaulted Secret Service Agent, Smeared Ketchup on Wall, archived from the original on 2022-06-30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Form of a (all article senses).
Used before a vowel sound.
Form of a (all article senses).
Used before one and words with initial ⟨u⟩, ⟨eu⟩ when pronounced /ju/.
Form of a (all article senses).
Used before /h/ in a stressed or unstressed syllable.
Form of a (all article senses).
Used before all consonants.
senses_topics:
|
5562 | word:
an
word_type:
num
expansion:
an
forms:
wikipedia:
an
etymology_text:
From Middle English an, from Old English ān (“a, an”, literally “one”). More at one.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
one
senses_topics:
|
5563 | word:
an
word_type:
conj
expansion:
an
forms:
wikipedia:
an
etymology_text:
tableFrom Middle English an (“and, if”). Doublet of and.
senses_examples:
text:
An it harm none, do what ye will.
type:
example
text:
At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the Fog it came;
And an it were a Christian Soul,
We hail'd it in God's Name.
ref:
(original version), lines 61–64
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
If
So long as.
As if; as though.
senses_topics:
|
5564 | word:
an
word_type:
noun
expansion:
an (plural ans)
forms:
form:
ans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
an
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Georgian ან (an).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
senses_topics:
|
5565 | word:
an
word_type:
prep
expansion:
an
forms:
wikipedia:
an
etymology_text:
From the Old English an, on (preposition).
senses_examples:
text:
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In each; to or for each; per.
senses_topics:
|
5566 | word:
befell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
befell
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of befall
senses_topics:
|
5567 | word:
⠁
word_type:
article
expansion:
⠁ (a)
forms:
form:
a
tags:
romanization
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a
senses_topics:
|
5568 | word:
give birth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
give birth (third-person singular simple present gives birth, present participle giving birth, simple past gave birth, past participle given birth)
forms:
form:
gives birth
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
giving birth
tags:
participle
present
form:
gave birth
tags:
past
form:
given birth
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
It was clear that she was about to give birth.
type:
example
text:
She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.
type:
example
text:
The case of a woman named Qu Hua from Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang, illustrates this possibility. She married a worker named Xu Baocheng in 1980, and they got along very well until she gave birth to a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack.
ref:
1988, Emily Honig, Gail Hershatter, “Divorce”, in Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
The rest of the Orville's crew underwent changes as well. Bortus' beliefs were challenged when he gave birth to a daughter - on Moclan society, males are the dominant species and females must undergo a mandatory sex change.
ref:
2022 June 1, Collier Jennings, “'The Orville': Everything You Need to Know Before Season 3”, in The Collider
type:
quotation
text:
Einstein gave birth to a famous equation relating energy to mass.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To release live offspring from the body into the environment.
To become the parent of by birthing.
To become the source of.
senses_topics:
|
5569 | word:
LRRP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
LRRP (countable and uncountable, plural LRRPs)
forms:
form:
LRRPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of long-range reconnaissance patrol.
senses_topics:
|
5570 | word:
arts
word_type:
noun
expansion:
arts
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of art.
senses_topics:
|
5571 | word:
arts
word_type:
noun
expansion:
arts pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The humanities.
The study of languages and literature.
The humanities.
The study of literature, philosophy, and the arts.
The liberal arts.
senses_topics:
|
5572 | word:
which
word_type:
det
expansion:
which
forms:
wikipedia:
which
etymology_text:
From Middle English which, hwic, wilche, hwilch, whilk, hwilc, from Old English hwelċ (“which”), from Proto-Germanic *hwilīkaz (“what kind”, literally “like what”), derived from *hwaz, equivalent to who + like. Cognates include Scots whilk (“which”), West Frisian hokker (“which”), Dutch welk (“which”), Low German welk (“which”), German welcher (“which”), Danish hvilken (“which”), Swedish vilken (“which”), Norwegian hvilken (“which”), Icelandic hvílíkur (“which”).
senses_examples:
text:
Which song shall we play?
type:
example
text:
They couldn't decide which song to play.
type:
example
text:
Which one is bigger?
type:
example
text:
Show me which one is bigger.
type:
example
text:
Take which one you want.
type:
example
text:
You may go which way you please.
type:
example
text:
After glaring upon the smoking philosopher, who took his misfortunes with such positive nonchalance, he growled out an oath in German, which language is particularly adapted for growling in; then, raising his hand, he dealt him a blow on his pipe, which sent it, like a rocket, into the midst of the players.
ref:
1860, Alfred Henry Forrester, Fairy footsteps, or, Lessons from legends, with illustr., by Alfred Crowquill, page 166 (Google Books view)
text:
Whitaker’s blog post, housed on a website called Minutes Before Six, goes on to make references to Albert Camus’ 1947 classic, The Plague, dips into a Camus-inspired existential ramble and returns to an attempt to convey the detail of Prieto’s being essentially “noble,” which fact, he admits, will be lost in translation to anyone unfamiliar with death row units.
ref:
2015 January 21, Texas Public Radio, “Voices From Death Row: A Prisoner Writes An Ode To ‘Living Dyingly’”, in Texas Public Radio
type:
quotation
text:
All the phones come in plastic bodies that have been given a brushed-metal finish and carry 64-bit processors from Intel, which fact they proudly announce with an Intel Inside logo on the back.
ref:
2015 May 2, Adarsh Matham, “Battle of the Smartphones”, in The New Indian Express
type:
quotation
text:
He once owned a painting of the house, which painting would later be stolen.
type:
example
text:
Yesterday, I met three men with long beards, which men I remember vividly.
type:
example
text:
For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived.
type:
example
text:
I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
What, of those mentioned or implied.
The/Any ... that; whichever.
Designates the one(s) previously mentioned.
senses_topics:
|
5573 | word:
which
word_type:
pron
expansion:
which
forms:
wikipedia:
which
etymology_text:
From Middle English which, hwic, wilche, hwilch, whilk, hwilc, from Old English hwelċ (“which”), from Proto-Germanic *hwilīkaz (“what kind”, literally “like what”), derived from *hwaz, equivalent to who + like. Cognates include Scots whilk (“which”), West Frisian hokker (“which”), Dutch welk (“which”), Low German welk (“which”), German welcher (“which”), Danish hvilken (“which”), Swedish vilken (“which”), Norwegian hvilken (“which”), Icelandic hvílíkur (“which”).
senses_examples:
text:
Which is which?
type:
example
text:
By now, you must surely know which is which.
type:
example
text:
Which is bigger, the red one or the blue one?
type:
example
text:
I'm unable to determine which is bigger.
type:
example
text:
Which of these do you want to keep?
type:
example
text:
Which of these banes of modern business life is worse remains open to debate. But what is clear is that office workers are on a treadmill of pointless activity. Managers allow meetings to drag on for hours. Workers generate e-mails because it requires little effort and no thought. An entire management industry exists to spin the treadmill ever faster.
ref:
2013 August 17, Schumpeter, “In praise of laziness”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849
type:
quotation
text:
Please take which you please.
type:
example
text:
Flour contains starch, which is a type of carbohydrate.
type:
example
text:
I found my camera, which I thought I'd lost, under the bed.
type:
example
text:
I entered the room, at the far end of which was a small table.
type:
example
text:
Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
She had a young child, which cried incessantly.
type:
example
text:
The front door was open, which concerned me.
type:
example
text:
He had to leave, which was very difficult.
type:
example
text:
She saved my life, for which I am eternally grateful.
type:
example
text:
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
This is the letter which I received.
type:
example
text:
This is the letter in which he explains his decision.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied).
The/Any ones that; whichever.
In a non-restrictive relative clause, referring to something previously mentioned.
Referring to a preceding noun.
In a non-restrictive relative clause, referring to something previously mentioned.
Referring to a preceding noun.
Used of people (now generally who, whom, that; which remains possible with words also referred to by it such as baby, child).
In a non-restrictive relative clause, referring to something previously mentioned.
Referring to a preceding statement.
In a restrictive relative clause, referring to a noun previously mentioned.
In a restrictive relative clause, referring to a noun previously mentioned.
Used of people.
senses_topics:
|
5574 | word:
kara
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kara (plural karas)
forms:
form:
karas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Punjabi ਕੜਾ (kaṛā); see Hindi कड़ा (kaṛā, “bracelet”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bangle worn by Sikhs, one of the five Ks, to remind them to do God's work.
senses_topics:
|
5575 | word:
became
word_type:
verb
expansion:
became
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[…]and had the outlawry been confirmed, he muſt not only have remained ſo, but all his eſtate and effects (if any there were) would have became forfeited to the crown.
ref:
1768, William Murray, A ſhort examination into the conduct of Lord M--f--d through the affair of Mr. Wilkes, Staples Steare, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
[…] In this very city, the jury box has became so corrupted that it is impossible to convict men of the gross outrages they inflicted on voters at the polls last election day.”
ref:
1896, William Temple Hornaday, The Man who Became a Savage: A Story of Our Own Times, Peter Paul Book Company, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
Suppose you are given the semifactual assertion, "even if Nora had liked mathematics then she would have became a scientist" and then you find out that Nora did in fact become a scientist.
ref:
2007 January 26, Ruth M. J. Byrne, The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality, MIT Press, page 140
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of become
past participle of become
senses_topics:
|
5576 | word:
beheld
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beheld
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of behold
senses_topics:
|
5577 | word:
betted
word_type:
verb
expansion:
betted
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of bet
senses_topics:
|
5578 | word:
water vapor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
water vapor (countable and uncountable, plural water vapors)
forms:
form:
water vapors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Water in a gaseous state, especially when diffused in the atmosphere.
Steam.
senses_topics:
|
5579 | word:
wabbit
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wabbit (comparative more wabbit, superlative most wabbit)
forms:
form:
more wabbit
tags:
comparative
form:
most wabbit
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Scots wabbit, ultimate origin uncertain.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exhausted, tired.
senses_topics:
|
5580 | word:
wabbit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wabbit (plural wabbits)
forms:
form:
wabbits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Representing pronunciation of rabbit by children and some adults who have trouble saying the English r (the cartoon character Elmer Fudd is a caricature of the latter). Computing sense refers to the ability of rabbits to multiply quickly.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: fork bomb
text:
For example, a hacker might write a quine virus program that generates complete copies of itself as part of its output, a worm virus program that reproduces itself across a network, or a wabbit virus program designed to perpetually duplicate itself, at least until the system crashes. In contrast to the wabbit's slow growth, a fork bomb quickly generates multiple copies itself.
ref:
2002, Philip E. N. Howard, “Hacktivism”, in edited by Steve Jones, Encyclopedia of New Media, SAGE Publications, page 216
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rabbit.
A self-replicating computer process that (unlike a virus or worm) does not infect host programs or documents and remains on the local computer rather than spreading across networks of computers.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5581 | word:
beat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beat (plural beats)
forms:
form:
beats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
beat
etymology_text:
From Middle English beten, from Old English bēatan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to hit, strike”).
Compare Old Irish fo·botha (“he threatened”), Latin confutō (“I strike down”), fūstis (“stick, club”), Albanian bahe (“sling”), Lithuanian baudžiù, Old Armenian բութ (butʻ)).
senses_examples:
text:
a beat of the heart
type:
example
text:
the beat of the pulse
type:
example
text:
I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!
type:
example
text:
to walk the beat
type:
example
text:
There has been a bad business during the night at 3, Lauriston Gardens, off the Brixton Road. Our man on the beat saw a light there about two in the morning, and as the house was an empty one, suspected that something was amiss.
ref:
1886, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in A Study in Scarlet
type:
quotation
text:
[…]the rise of embedding police into schools – so-called School Resource Officers (SROs), who are employed by the local police, but whose “beat” is a school. Those officers report to the local police department and not the school, and can, and frequently do, have different priorities.
ref:
2019 January 29, Mike Masnick, “How My High School Destroyed An Immigrant Kid's Life Because He Drew The School's Mascot”, in Techdirt
type:
quotation
text:
As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.
ref:
2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophehttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/04/why-we-wont-avoid-a-climate-catastrophe-feature/”, in National Geographic
type:
quotation
text:
It's a beat on the whole country.
ref:
1898, unknown author, Scribner's Magazine, volume 24
type:
quotation
text:
the beat of him
type:
example
text:
a dead beat
type:
example
text:
Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them.
ref:
1911, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo, Encyclopaedia of Sport
type:
quotation
text:
She made sure to give fans all the details about her beat in the caption.
ref:
2018, Leah Prinzivalli, “Kylie Jenner Shared a Sneak Peek of Her New Kylie Cosmetics Blush on Instagram”, in Allure
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stroke; a blow.
A pulsation or throb.
A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
A rhythm.
A rhythm.
The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
An area of a person's responsibility, especially
The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
An area of a person's responsibility, especially
The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
A precinct.
A place of habitual or frequent resort.
A place of habitual or frequent resort.
An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
A low cheat or swindler.
The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
journalism
media
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
|
5582 | word:
beat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beat (third-person singular simple present beats, present participle beating, simple past beat, past participle beaten or (especially colloquial) beat)
forms:
form:
beats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beating
tags:
participle
present
form:
beat
tags:
past
form:
beaten
tags:
participle
past
form:
beat
tags:
colloquial
especially
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
beat
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
beat
etymology_text:
From Middle English beten, from Old English bēatan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to hit, strike”).
Compare Old Irish fo·botha (“he threatened”), Latin confutō (“I strike down”), fūstis (“stick, club”), Albanian bahe (“sling”), Lithuanian baudžiù, Old Armenian բութ (butʻ)).
senses_examples:
text:
As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
type:
example
text:
Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat: that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall […]
ref:
1825?, “Hannah Limbrick, Executed for Murder”, in The Newgate Calendar: comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters, page 231
type:
quotation
text:
The case of a woman named Qu Hua from Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang, illustrates this possibility. She married a worker named Xu Baocheng in 1980, and they got along very well until she gave birth to a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack.
ref:
1988, Emily Honig, Gail Hershatter, “Divorce”, in Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.
ref:
2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.
ref:
2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 5:50 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-10-17
type:
quotation
text:
He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
type:
example
text:
This public envy, seemeth to beat chiefly upon principal officers or ministers, rather than upon kings, and estates themselves.
ref:
1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Envy”, in Essayes
type:
quotation
text:
Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below.
ref:
1662 January 1, John Dryden, To the Lord Chancellor Hyde, line 144
type:
quotation
text:
What tale do the roaring ocean, / And the nightwind, bleak and wild, / As they beat at the crazy casement, / Tell to that little child?
ref:
1850, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Twilight”, in The Seaside and the Fireside
type:
quotation
text:
A thousand hearts beat happily.
ref:
1812–18, George Gordon Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, verse 21
type:
quotation
text:
Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.
type:
example
text:
No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him.
type:
example
text:
I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.
type:
example
text:
There's nothing in this world beats a 52 Vincent and a red-headed girl.
ref:
1991, Richard Thompson (lyrics and music), “1952 Vincent Black Lightning”
type:
quotation
text:
The part of the wood to be beaten for deer sloped all the way from the roadside to the loch.
ref:
1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
type:
example
text:
He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.
type:
example
text:
to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters
type:
example
text:
While I this unexampled task essay, / Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way, / Celestial Dove! divine assistance bring, / Sustain me on thy strong-extended wing,
ref:
1712, Sir Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem, book 1
type:
quotation
text:
I know not why any one should waste his time, and beat his head about the Latin grammar, who does not intend to be a critick, or make speeches, and write dispatches in it.
ref:
1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education
type:
quotation
text:
The drums beat.
type:
example
text:
The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
type:
example
text:
He beat me there.
type:
example
text:
The place is empty; we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch.
type:
example
text:
Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.
type:
example
text:
Millie B gets ten shags a week. New day, different guy, that's just peek. You can't name a guy that you haven't tried to beat. You can't name a guy that you haven't tried to beat.
ref:
2017-02-08, “Big (Millie B reply)”performed by Sophie Aspin
type:
quotation
text:
He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.
type:
example
text:
I already beat him, but he hasn't realized it yet.
type:
example
text:
When one of 'em runs up a bill here, then goes off and deals somewhere else, and dodges me every time he sees me, that's the man I'm after with a sharp stick. [...] Honest people often get into tight places, and we would rather help 'em than hurt 'em then. But some just try to beat you.
ref:
1900, Fame, quoting Retail Trade Advocate, page 472
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hit; to strike.
To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
To indicate by beating or drumming.
To tread, as a path.
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
To be in agitation or doubt.
To make a sound when struck.
To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
To arrive at a place before someone.
To have sexual intercourse.
To rob; to cheat or scam.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
government
military
politics
war
|
5583 | word:
beat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beat
forms:
wikipedia:
beat
etymology_text:
From Middle English bet (simple past of beten "to beat"), from Old English bēot (simple past of bēatan "to beat"). Middle English bet would regularly yield *beet; the modern form is influenced by the present stem and the past participle beaten. Pronunciations with /ɛ/ (from Middle English bette, alternative simple past of beten) are possibly analogous to read (/ɹɛd/), led, met, etc.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past tense of beat
past participle of beat
senses_topics:
|
5584 | word:
beat
word_type:
adj
expansion:
beat (comparative more beat, superlative most beat)
forms:
form:
more beat
tags:
comparative
form:
most beat
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
beat
etymology_text:
From Middle English bet (simple past of beten "to beat"), from Old English bēot (simple past of bēatan "to beat"). Middle English bet would regularly yield *beet; the modern form is influenced by the present stem and the past participle beaten. Pronunciations with /ɛ/ (from Middle English bette, alternative simple past of beten) are possibly analogous to read (/ɹɛd/), led, met, etc.
senses_examples:
text:
After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.
type:
example
text:
Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.
type:
example
text:
Her face was beat for the gods!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exhausted.
Dilapidated, beat up.
Having impressively attractive makeup.
Boring.
Ugly.
senses_topics:
|
5585 | word:
beat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beat (plural beats)
forms:
form:
beats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
beat
etymology_text:
From beatnik, or beat generation.
senses_examples:
text:
The beats were pioneers with no destination, changing the world one impulse at a time.
ref:
2008 March, David Wills, Beatdom, number 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A beatnik.
senses_topics:
|
5586 | word:
beat
word_type:
adj
expansion:
beat (comparative more beat, superlative most beat)
forms:
form:
more beat
tags:
comparative
form:
most beat
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
beat
etymology_text:
From beatnik, or beat generation.
senses_examples:
text:
beat poetry
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to the Beat Generation.
senses_topics:
|
5587 | word:
beaten
word_type:
adj
expansion:
beaten (comparative more beaten, superlative most beaten)
forms:
form:
more beaten
tags:
comparative
form:
most beaten
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From beat + -en.
senses_examples:
text:
a beaten path; beaten gold; the beaten victims of the attack
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Defeated.
Repeatedly struck, or formed or flattened by blows.
Mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement.
Trite; hackneyed.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle
|
5588 | word:
beaten
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beaten
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From beat + -en.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of beat
senses_topics:
|
5589 | word:
arm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
arm (plural arms)
forms:
form:
arms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
arm
etymology_text:
From Middle English arm, from Old English earm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“arm”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“a fitting, joint; arm, forequarter”), a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to join, fit together”).
cognates
Akin to Dutch arm, German Arm, Yiddish אָרעם (orem), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish arm. Indo-European cognates include Latin armus (“the uppermost part of the arm, shoulder”), Armenian արմունկ (armunk, “elbow”), Ancient Greek ἁρμός (harmós, “joint, shoulder”) and ἅρμα (hárma, “wagon, chariot”), Avestan 𐬀𐬭𐬨𐬀 (arma), Old Persian [script needed] (arma).
senses_examples:
text:
She stood with her right arm extended and her palm forward to indicate “Stop!”
type:
example
text:
The arm and forearm are parts of the upper limb in the human body.
type:
example
text:
the arms of an octopus
type:
example
text:
[…] he noticed that a dark stain had appeared under the arm of her grey silk dress.
ref:
1970, J. G. Farrell, Troubles, New York: Knopf, published 1971, page 340
type:
quotation
text:
The robot arm reached out and placed the part on the assembly line.
type:
example
text:
Shelburne Bay is an arm of Lake Champlain.
type:
example
text:
the cavalry arm of the military service
type:
example
text:
Congress has asked the Government Accountability Office, its investigative arm, to review the workplace complaints raised by air marshals, said Charles Young, a spokesman for the office.
ref:
2018 April 25, Ron Nixon, “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
the arm of the law
type:
example
text:
the secular arm
type:
example
text:
The team needs to sign another arm in the offseason.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
The part of a piece of clothing that covers the arm.
A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the armrest of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.
A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
A branch of an organization.
Power; might; strength; support.
A pitcher
One of the two parts of a chromosome.
A group of patients in a medical trial.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
geography
natural-sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
|
5590 | word:
arm
word_type:
verb
expansion:
arm (third-person singular simple present arms, present participle arming, simple past and past participle armed)
forms:
form:
arms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
arming
tags:
participle
present
form:
armed
tags:
participle
past
form:
armed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
arm
etymology_text:
From Middle English arm, from Old English earm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“arm”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“a fitting, joint; arm, forequarter”), a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to join, fit together”).
cognates
Akin to Dutch arm, German Arm, Yiddish אָרעם (orem), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish arm. Indo-European cognates include Latin armus (“the uppermost part of the arm, shoulder”), Armenian արմունկ (armunk, “elbow”), Ancient Greek ἁρμός (harmós, “joint, shoulder”) and ἅρμα (hárma, “wagon, chariot”), Avestan 𐬀𐬭𐬨𐬀 (arma), Old Persian [script needed] (arma).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
senses_topics:
|
5591 | word:
arm
word_type:
adj
expansion:
arm (comparative armer or more arm, superlative armest or most arm)
forms:
form:
armer
tags:
comparative
form:
more arm
tags:
comparative
form:
armest
tags:
superlative
form:
most arm
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
arm
etymology_text:
From Middle English arm (“poor, wretched”), from Old English earm (“poor, miserable, pitiful, wretched”), from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“poor”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erm- (“poor, ill”).
cognates
Akin to Dutch arm (“poor”), German arm (“poor”), Yiddish אָרעם (orem, “poor”), Swedish arm (“poor”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.
senses_topics:
|
5592 | word:
arm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
arm (plural arms)
forms:
form:
arms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
arm
etymology_text:
Back-formation from arms (plural), from Middle English armes, from Old French armes, from Latin arma (“weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mo-, a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to fit together”), hence ultimately cognate with etymology 1.
senses_examples:
text:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
ref:
1789, Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
type:
quotation
text:
The Duke's arms were a sable gryphon rampant on an argent field.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A weapon.
Heraldic bearings or insignia.
War; hostilities; deeds or exploits of war.
senses_topics:
|
5593 | word:
arm
word_type:
verb
expansion:
arm (third-person singular simple present arms, present participle arming, simple past and past participle armed)
forms:
form:
arms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
arming
tags:
participle
present
form:
armed
tags:
participle
past
form:
armed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
arm
etymology_text:
Back-formation from arms (plural), from Middle English armes, from Old French armes, from Latin arma (“weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mo-, a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to fit together”), hence ultimately cognate with etymology 1.
senses_examples:
text:
The king armed his knights with swords and shields.
type:
example
text:
They were arming them with spears and shields, putting iron halfhelms on their heads, and arraying them along the inner wall, a rank of snowy sentinels. "Lord Winter has joined us with his levies," one of the sentries [said].
ref:
2015, George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons, Bantam, page 593
type:
quotation
text:
Many following him, and, in his journeyings, he visited many at their houses, and gave them consolation, arming them with steady resolves, to be patient in suffering and trust to God for their reward; […]
ref:
1801(?), John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress ... to which is Added, the Life and Death of the Author, page 359
text:
[God] directed them to choose out three hundred only, and, arming them with nothing but trumpets and lamps, to send them by night into the camp of the Midianites.
ref:
1806, William turner, An Abstract of the History of the Bible ... With questions for examination, etc, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Q. In other words, you were commissioning men here in Cincinnati to attend the polls, arming them with authority to arrest citizens; men from outside of the city of Cincinnati to arrest citizens of the city of Cincinnati […]
ref:
1885, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 119
type:
quotation
text:
Picture taking soothed support troops' anxieties twice over, empowering them as they navigated a strange environment, and arming them with proof that they really had served in a war.
ref:
2011, Meredith H. Lair, Armed with Abundance: Consumerism & Soldiering in the Vietnam War, Univ of North Carolina Press, page 215
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and arming them with skills, work habits, and inner confidence that no one can ever take away.
ref:
2014, Susan Fawcett, Grassroots with Readings: The Writer's Workbook, Cengage Learning, page 466
type:
quotation
text:
Remember to arm the alarm system before leaving for work.
type:
example
text:
Torpedoes were loosed, but the range was too short for them to actually arm, and they bounced harmlessly off the ship as it cut loose with its secondary and antiaircraft guns, smashing anything that it could see.
ref:
2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 14:43 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-10-17
type:
quotation
text:
to arm the hilt of a sword; to arm a hook in angling
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
To supply with the equipment, knowledge, authority, or other tools needed for a particular task; to furnish with capability; to equip.
To prepare (a tool, weapon, or system) for action; to activate.
To become prepared for action; to activate.
To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
senses_topics:
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weapon
weaponry
|
5594 | word:
balderdash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
balderdash (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown, possibly from the early English drink of wine mixed with beer or water or other substances that was sold cheaply.
senses_examples:
text:
Where, you cried in the name of Wonder, have you been able to gather together such an old fashioned Bundlement of Scientific Balderdash?
ref:
1765, Henry Brooke, “TO THE RIGHT RESPECTABLE MY Ancient and well-beloved PATRON THE PUBLIC”, in The Fool of Quality, volume I, London, page xix
type:
quotation
text:
[He] has the audacity to demand of us, for this twattle, a ‘speedy insertion and prompt pay.’ We neither insert nor purchase any stuff of the sort. There can be no doubt, however, that he would meet with a ready sale for all the balderdash he can scribble, at the office of either the ‘Rowdy-Dow,’ the ‘Lollipop,’ or the ‘Goosetherumfoodle.’
ref:
1844 December, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.”, in Southern Literary Messenger, volume 10, page 720
type:
quotation
text:
Charles Gould assumed that if the appearance of listening to deplorable balderdash must form part of the price he had to pay for being left unmolested, the obligation of uttering balderdash personally was by no means included in the bargain.
ref:
1904, Joseph Conrad, chapter 7, in Nostromo
type:
quotation
text:
A. Fink-Nottle: But it's absolute balderdash, Bertie. I mean, listen to this: "Sure and begorrah, I don't know what's after being the matter with you, Michael." I mean, what on earth is this "what's after being" stuff mean?
B.W. Wooster: My dear old Gussie, that is how people think Irish people talk.
ref:
1992 April 26, “Hot Off the Press”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 5
type:
quotation
text:
1637, John Taylor, Drinke and Welcome, London: Anne Griffin, “Beere,”
Indeede Beere, by a Mixture of Wine, it enjoyes approbation amongst some few (that hardly understand wherefore) but then it is no longer Beere, but hath lost both Name and Nature, and is called Balderdash (an Utopian denomination) …
text:
1783, John O’Keeffe, The Agreeable Surprise, Newry: R. Stevenson, Act I, Scene 1, pp. 6-7,
… I took him to oblige a foolish old friend of mine, who intended him for Saint Omers; so I must keep him to draw good wine, and brew balderdash Latin.
text:
Trugge, therefore, (who has a foul mouth of his own, when he pleases) talked balderdash to Mrs. Sudberry, through the key-hole, which she did not answer, for, indeed, she seems a civil spoken woman, truly [...]
ref:
1776, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 72, in Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence, volume 4, London: G. Robinson & J. Bew, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
With me your work will be easy and your life happy, with him you will be a drudge and the lacquey of a drudge [...]: from me you will hear none but pious and edifying conversation; from them nothing but balderdash and blasphemy in an outlandish dialect [...]
ref:
1795, Richard Cumberland, Henry, London: Charles Dilly, Volume I, Book 1, Chapter 6, p. 42
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Senseless talk or writing; nonsense.
A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
Obscene language or writing.
senses_topics:
|
5595 | word:
balderdash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
balderdash (third-person singular simple present balderdashes, present participle balderdashing, simple past and past participle balderdashed)
forms:
form:
balderdashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
balderdashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
balderdashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
balderdashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown, possibly from the early English drink of wine mixed with beer or water or other substances that was sold cheaply.
senses_examples:
text:
That which is made by the peasants, both red and white, is generally genuine: but the wine-merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeons dung and quick-lime.
ref:
1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, 2nd edition, London: R. Baldwin, Volume I, Letter 19, p. 309
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mix or adulterate.
senses_topics:
|
5596 | word:
Kuala Lumpur
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kuala Lumpur
forms:
wikipedia:
Kuala Lumpur
etymology_text:
From Malay Kuala Lumpur.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A federal territory in western Malaysia, in which the country’s current capital of the same name is located.
The capital city of Malaysia, located in the federal territory of the same name.
senses_topics:
|
5597 | word:
darmstadtium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
darmstadtium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after the German city Darmstadt, where it was first synthesized, + -ium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Ds) with atomic number 110.
senses_topics:
|
5598 | word:
ail
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ail (third-person singular simple present ails, present participle ailing, simple past and past participle ailed)
forms:
form:
ails
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ailing
tags:
participle
present
form:
ailed
tags:
participle
past
form:
ailed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eilen, from Old English eġlan, eġlian (“to trouble, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *aglijan, from Proto-Germanic *aglijaną (“to trouble, vex”), cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (agljan, “to distress”).
senses_examples:
text:
Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.
type:
example
text:
Not content with having in 1996 put a Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the statue book, Congress has now begun to hold hearings on a Respect for Marriage Act. Defended, respected: what could possibly ail marriage in America?
ref:
2011, “Connubial bliss in America”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
When he ails ever so little […] he is so peevish.
ref:
1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
senses_topics:
|
5599 | word:
ail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ail (plural ails)
forms:
form:
ails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eilen, from Old English eġlan, eġlian (“to trouble, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *aglijan, from Proto-Germanic *aglijaną (“to trouble, vex”), cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (agljan, “to distress”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ailment; trouble; illness.
senses_topics:
|
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