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5600 | word:
ail
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ail (comparative ailer or more ail, superlative ailest or most ail)
forms:
form:
ailer
tags:
comparative
form:
more ail
tags:
comparative
form:
ailest
tags:
superlative
form:
most ail
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eyle, eile, from Old English eġle (“hideous, loathsome, hateful, horrid, troublesome, grievous, painful”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌿𐍃 (aglus, “hard, difficult”).
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senses_glosses:
Painful; troublesome.
senses_topics:
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5601 | word:
ail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ail (plural ails)
forms:
form:
ails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Friedrich Kluge
John Francis Davis
etymology_text:
From Middle English eile, eyle, eiȝle, from Old English eġl (“an ail; awn; beard of barley; mote”), from Proto-Germanic *agilō (“awn”), related to *ahaz (“ear (of grain)”). Cognate with German Achel, Egel, Ägel.
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senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The awn of barley or other types of corn.
senses_topics:
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5602 | word:
aforementioned
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aforementioned (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From afore- + mentioned.
senses_examples:
text:
It wasn't until later that we realized that the aforementioned caller and this taciturn man were the same person.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Previously mentioned.
senses_topics:
|
5603 | word:
aforementioned
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aforementioned (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From afore- + mentioned.
senses_examples:
text:
The judge read a list of prisoners' names. She then indicated that the aforementioned were to be set free.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The one or ones mentioned previously.
senses_topics:
|
5604 | word:
festoon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
festoon (plural festoons)
forms:
form:
festoons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French feston.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
A raised cable with light globes attached.
A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone.
Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
senses_topics:
architecture
astronomy
natural-sciences
acarology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
business
manufacturing
dentistry
medicine
sciences |
5605 | word:
festoon
word_type:
verb
expansion:
festoon (third-person singular simple present festoons, present participle festooning, simple past and past participle festooned)
forms:
form:
festoons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
festooning
tags:
participle
present
form:
festooned
tags:
participle
past
form:
festooned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French feston.
senses_examples:
text:
A mysterious woman who shows up at a funeral more droopily festooned in black than the widow is making what is known as a fashion statement.
ref:
2005, Judith Martin, Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Norton, page 804
type:
quotation
text:
Some teachers festoon every spare inch of wall with vocabulary choices or maths techniques to use, which look great at first, but to some children might appear quite daunting. You'll probably see unfamiliar acronyms such as Walt (We Are Learning To). Be sure to ask what they stand for and how they are used in practice.
ref:
2014 September 23, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Most mistletoes are "hemiparasites." This means they don't rely on their hosts for all their needs: Instead, they harvest the sun's energy to make some sugars for themselves. Nonetheless, if you're a tree, you don't want to be festooned with them. Two or three shouldn't be a problem, but dozens of mistletoes can lead to water stress, insect infestation or even death.
ref:
2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, p. 7]”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The room into which Lieutenant Said led Cora was obviously the debriefing room of a lab complex. Schematics models, handwritten papers, and extra haptic terminals festooned the walls, and the circular table had a built-in holo projector.
ref:
2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 10, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →OCLC, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned with backpacks and suitcases.
ref:
2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 77
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To decorate with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
To make festoons.
To decorate or bedeck abundantly.
To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.
senses_topics:
dentistry
medicine
sciences |
5606 | word:
Bombay
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bombay
forms:
wikipedia:
Bombay
Bombay cat
en:Bombay (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Bombaim, possibly from Marathi मुंबादेवी (mumbādevī, “goddess Mumba”) or from bom + baim. Most likely a combination of both.
senses_examples:
text:
Have you heard any word
Of that bloke in the "Third" -
Was it Sotherby, Sedgewick or Sim?
They had him chucked out of a club in Bombay.
But apart from his mess bills exceeding his pay,
He took to pig-sticking in quite the wrong way.
I wonder what happened to him?
ref:
1945, Noël Coward, I Wonder What Happened to Him?
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The former name of Mumbai, the state capital of Maharashtra, India.
A settlement south of Auckland, New Zealand.
A town in Franklin County, New York, United States.
A neighbourhood (Little Bombay) of Marion, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.
senses_topics:
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5607 | word:
Bombay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Bombay (plural Bombays)
forms:
form:
Bombays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bombay
Bombay cat
en:Bombay (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Portuguese Bombaim, possibly from Marathi मुंबादेवी (mumbādevī, “goddess Mumba”) or from bom + baim. Most likely a combination of both.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of Bombay cat (“domestic cat of a medium-sized shorthair breed”).
senses_topics:
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5608 | word:
brought
word_type:
verb
expansion:
brought
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of bring
senses_topics:
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5609 | word:
pants
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pants pl (plural only, attributive pant)
forms:
form:
pant
tags:
attributive
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortened from pantaloons (“trousers”): borrowed from French pantalon, itself derived from Italian Pantalone, one of the principal characters found in commedia dell'arte, who wore tight trousers.
senses_examples:
text:
“But they cover the legs,” Joseph explained. “That is the only reason my people wear pants: to cover the legs in the winter, or when traveling through rough country, full of thorns. In warm weather, or in open country, pants are unnecessary, uncomfortable, and foolish.”
ref:
1933, Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms, published 1996, page 220
type:
quotation
text:
It's in the evening after dark when the blackleg miner creeps to work. With his moleskin pants and his dirty shirt, there goes the blackleg miner.
ref:
1970 June 24, traditional (lyrics and music), “The Blackleg Miner” (track 4), in Hark! The Village Wait, performed by Steeleye Span
type:
quotation
text:
Then he gave me a last desperate push and I tripped over the shorts caught around my ankles and fell down. I tried to pull my pants up with my boxing gloves but without success.[…]In those days nobody wore underpants and I was bare-arsed and fancy free in front of everyone.
ref:
1989, Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One, Penguin, published 2006, page 427
type:
quotation
text:
Look for pants with reinforced seats and knees and full-length side zippers that make it possible to put the pants on while you are wearing boots, crampons, skis, or snowshoes.
ref:
2010, Ronald C. Eng, editor, Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, 8th edition, US: The Mountaineers Books, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
I rolled up the legs of the pants, then I went back into the trees.
ref:
2005, Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
The episode also opens with an inspired bit of business for Homer, who blithely refuses to acquiesce to an elderly neighbor’s utterly reasonable request that he help make the process of selling her house easier by wearing pants when he gallivants about in front of windows, throw out his impressive collection of rotting Jack-O-Lanterns from previous Halloweens and take out his garbage, as it’s attracting wildlife (cue moose and Northern Exposure theme song).
ref:
2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
Taylor was seen nearby and had a three foot machete down his pants.
ref:
2014 January 13, “Blackburn man hid machete down his trousers”, in The Lancashire Telegraph
type:
quotation
text:
I decided to pass up her underclothes, not from feelings of delicacy, but because I couldn't see myself putting her pants on and snapping her brassière.
ref:
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Big girls get candy for dry pants.
ref:
1976, Nathan H. Azrin, Richard M. Foxx, Toilet Training in Less Than a Day, published 1988, page 127
type:
quotation
text:
As she bent over the intercom the little skirt went peek-a-boo and you could see white pants cupping her buttocks like a bra.
ref:
1984, Martin Amis, Money, Vintage, published 2005, page 183
type:
quotation
text:
You're talking pants!
type:
example
text:
The film was a load [or pile] of pants.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants.
Rubbish; something worthless.
senses_topics:
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5610 | word:
pants
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pants (comparative more pants, superlative most pants)
forms:
form:
more pants
tags:
comparative
form:
most pants
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortened from pantaloons (“trousers”): borrowed from French pantalon, itself derived from Italian Pantalone, one of the principal characters found in commedia dell'arte, who wore tight trousers.
senses_examples:
text:
Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?
type:
example
text:
'Is that what you're going to do when you graduate?' he asked. 'Be a photographer?'
'I wish, but I'm pants at the technical stuff. ...'
ref:
2015, T. R. Richmond, What She Left, Penguin Books, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
"Lee? How'd you manage to find your way here? You're pants with directions. You always get lost."
ref:
2019, Game Freak, Pokémon Sword and Shield, spoken by Hop
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of inferior quality, rubbish.
senses_topics:
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5611 | word:
pants
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pants (third-person singular simple present pantses, present participle pantsing, simple past and past participle pantsed)
forms:
form:
pantses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pantsing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pantsed
tags:
participle
past
form:
pantsed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Keith Gerber has been pantsed twice already this summer by Lannie and Cling, and so his face is more resolved, the fear tempered by the fact that he understands these things to be inevitable.
ref:
1948, Carolina Quarterly, University of California, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he other boys, Stretch Latham and Rod Becker mainly, pantsed him, got his jockey shorts away and threw them onto Hubcap Willie’s roof.
ref:
1980, William Hogan (author), The Quartzsite Trip, Atheneum, page 242
type:
quotation
text:
Richard did not stand too close to him, because he was always trying to pants him, and he would have died of shame if he did it tonight, because he knew his BVDs were dirty at the trap door.
ref:
1993, Harold Augenbraum, Ilan Stavans, Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories, page 174
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
senses_topics:
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5612 | word:
pants
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pants
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of pant
senses_topics:
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5613 | word:
pants
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pants
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of pant
senses_topics:
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5614 | word:
re
word_type:
prep
expansion:
re
forms:
wikipedia:
re
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”).
senses_examples:
text:
Re A (conjoined twins) [2000] EWCA Civ 254
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
About, regarding, with reference to; especially in letters, documents, emails and case law.
senses_topics:
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5615 | word:
re
word_type:
noun
expansion:
re (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Ut queant laxis
re
etymology_text:
From Glover's solmization, from Middle English re (“second degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian re in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin resonāre (“made to resound”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
5616 | word:
re
word_type:
noun
expansion:
re (plural res)
forms:
form:
res
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
re
etymology_text:
From re-.
senses_examples:
text:
gg [good game], no re
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of rematch.
Clipping of reinsurance. (used in the branding of reinsurance company names)
senses_topics:
video-games
business
marketing |
5617 | word:
hot
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hot (comparative hotter, superlative hottest)
forms:
form:
hotter
tags:
comparative
form:
hottest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English hāt, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”).
senses_examples:
text:
He forgot that the frying pan was hot and burned his hand.
type:
example
text:
It is too hot to be outside.
type:
example
text:
It is hotter in summer than in winter.
type:
example
text:
I was so hot from being in the sun too long.
type:
example
text:
Aren't you hot with that thick coat on?
type:
example
text:
a hot wire
type:
example
text:
The microphone was hot and the show was on the air.
ref:
2004, Phillip Moore, Sealed for a Purpose, page 213
type:
quotation
text:
So I just blurted out, "This is really a fucking way to make a living, huh?" […] The microphone was hot, and I knew I was in trouble. The radio management came to my house and suspended me immediately.
ref:
2013, Larry Munson, Tony Barnhart, From Herschel to a Hobnail Boot: The Life and Times of Larry Munson, Triumph Books, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
I leaned forward, still ogling, thinking the camera was off me until the end of the song, but then on went the little red light that meant my camera was hot ...
ref:
2014, Don Carpenter, The Hollywood Trilogy: A Couple of Comedians, The True Story of Jody McKeegan, and Turnaround, Catapult
type:
quotation
text:
"Your range is hot, corporal. Wind unchanged. You've got your dope. Fire at will," Hacksaw said, snapping the camera as fast as the motor drive could run ...
ref:
2017, Charles Henderson, Terminal Impact, Penguin, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
I join the space-to-ground channel to warn Terry that his mic is hot and that everyone with an internet connection or tuned to NASA TV can hear every word ...
ref:
2017, Scott Kelly, Endurance: My Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery, Vintage
type:
quotation
text:
"The range is hot, chief. Fire at will." Alex says with a smile as he steps back and puts his shooting ear muffs on. "I'm going to shoot, major."
ref:
2020, A.J. Stone, Project Titan, Page Publishing Inc
type:
quotation
text:
I run an inventory, verify all bullets are hot in the chamber. They are. But the showroom prosthetics have all exited attraction mode.
ref:
2020, Ferrett Steinmetz, Automatic Reload: A Novel, Tor Books
type:
quotation
text:
Be careful, he has a hot temper and may take it out on you.
type:
example
text:
That stripper is hot!
type:
example
text:
There was only one problem. Paul was HIV positive. And just a few weeks after his hot encounter with Max, a letter arrived for him, containing some legalese about HIV infection being a criminal act, with a few chilling words
ref:
2010, Rick R. Reed, Moving Toward The Light, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Enough foreplay! You’ve gotten me so hot already!
type:
example
text:
hot for her English teacher
type:
example
text:
He's a hot young player; we should give him a trial.
type:
example
text:
This new pickup is so hot we can't keep it in stock!
type:
example
text:
a hot topic
text:
The bluebloods of golf began pouring into the sweltering nation’s capital yesterday for the 64th U.S. Open championship, and the hottest topic was not Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus, but Champagne Tony Lema.
ref:
1964 June 16, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 22
type:
quotation
text:
"Keep going! You're hot tonight!" urged Wally.
ref:
1938, Harold M. Sherman, "Shooting Stars," Boys' Life (March 1938), Published by Boy Scouts of America, p.5
text:
The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green. "Nice shot Sarah! You're hot today!" Jenny says.
ref:
2002, Peter Krause, Andy King, Play-By-Play Golf, First Avenue Editions, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
A kid can stand in the street and sell newspapers, if the headlines are hot.
ref:
1960, Super Market Institute, Super Markets of the Sixties: Findings, recommendations.- v.2. The plans and sketches, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot.
ref:
2000, David Cressy, Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: tales of discord and dissension, Oxford University Press, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
The car sped along. She kept her foot permanently on the accelerator, and took every corner at an acute angle. Two motorists we passed looked out of their windows outraged as she swept by, and one pedestrian in a lane waved his stick at her. I felt rather hot for her. She did not seem to notice though. I crouched lower in my seat.
ref:
1938, Daphne de Maurier, Rebecca
type:
quotation
text:
I've been living here a few weeks and it's starting to get a little hot for me … I've written myself out of several states in the last six years.
ref:
1997, David Wojnarowicz with Amy Scholder, The Waterfront Journals
type:
quotation
text:
The police are looking for an anarchist who answers my description, seen leaving the house the day before the fire; there was an explosion[…]So what with one thing and another, His Grace thinks the country a little hot for me now
ref:
1999, Sam Llewellyn, The shadow in the sands, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
"Things are a little hot for us in San Francisco. We'll burn the vardo at Drake's Bay and then head to your place." "Things are hot, so you're heading to my place?" "Hot's not a big deal. Just a matter of jurisdiction and time.
ref:
2004, Meredith Blevins, The Hummingbird Wizard, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
I'd also thought things might have gotten a little hot for him in Atlantic City, so he'd moved West to its bigger, badder cousin, where he wasn't as well known
ref:
2008, Charlaine Harris with Toni L. P. Kelner, Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
I wouldn't speed through here if I was you. This area is hot this time of night.
type:
example
text:
hot merchandise
type:
example
text:
The camera was hot. Buying a hot camera was a parole violation.
ref:
2010, Robert Eversz, Burning Garbo: A Nina Zero Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
I wouldn't trust him. He gave me a hot check last week.
type:
example
text:
Am I warm yet? — You're hot!
type:
example
text:
He was hot on her tail.
type:
example
text:
This kind of chili pepper is way too hot for my taste.
type:
example
text:
He was finished in a hot minute.
type:
example
text:
I dated him for a hot second.
type:
example
text:
Brace yourselves; we're going in a little hot!
ref:
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Marcus Stacker (Pete Stacker), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Covenant
type:
quotation
text:
That plane's coming in hot!
type:
example
text:
a hot pass
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
Having or giving off a high temperature.
Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
Feverish.
Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
Electrically charged.
Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
Radioactive.
Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
Relating to excited emotions.
Easily provoked to anger.
Relating to excited emotions.
Very physically and/or sexually attractive.
Relating to excited emotions.
Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
Relating to excited emotions.
Sexually aroused; randy.
Relating to excited emotions.
Extremely attracted to.
Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
Very good, remarkable, exciting.
Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
Popular; in demand.
Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.
Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
Fresh; just released.
Relating to danger or risk.
Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
Relating to danger or risk.
Characterized by police presence or activity.
Relating to danger or risk.
Stolen.
Relating to danger or risk.
Not covered by funds on account.
Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier or other sound equipment.
Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
Extremely fast or with great speed.
senses_topics:
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5618 | word:
hot
word_type:
adv
expansion:
hot (comparative hotter, superlative hottest)
forms:
form:
hotter
tags:
comparative
form:
hottest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English hāt, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”).
senses_examples:
text:
Oak burns hot and lasts a long time. Its smoke is a medium to heavy flavor but not too overpowering. It leaves a buttersmooth, nutty finish.
ref:
2013, Ted Reader, Gastro Grilling: Fired-up Recipes To Grill Great Everyday Meals, Penguin Canada
type:
quotation
text:
Whatever happened, braking into the next-to-last hairpin, a blue-sky turn called Cog Cut, Durelle went in too hot.
ref:
1994, Cycle World Magazine, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
He went in hotter than he could have, the Cforce snugging him into the bucket seat. At the first switchback, there was already a hundred-foot drop-off […]
ref:
2009, Dan Vining, Among the Living, Penguin
type:
quotation
text:
He rolled over on his belly and raised up enough to see the second chopper coming in hotter, more deliberately than the first. Hollister grabbed Jrae by the ...
ref:
2014, Dennis Foley, Take Back the Night: A Novel of Vietnam, Open Road Media
type:
quotation
text:
They were coming in hotter than Dash liked, nose down toward the watery surface […]
ref:
2016, Patrick Carman, Omega Rising, Random House Books for Young Readers, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
“When landing on dirt, gravel, or pavement, you'll be coming in hotter, faster than a runway made of grass, so try and keep that in mind.
ref:
2019, David W. Nelson, Ghost Squadron: Wwii Teenage Pilot
type:
quotation
text:
"You're coming in hotter than we'd like." "Roger that, Huygens, increasing reverse thrust by 20%."
ref:
2021, Christine D. Shuck, G581: Mars
type:
quotation
text:
We would pop over the riverbank and come down hot (shooting) on a designated target. […] We started rolling in hot with rockets, then suddenly we started taking fire from the […]
ref:
2015, Dave Barr, Four Flags, The Odyssey of a Professional Soldier: Part 1: US Marine Corps Vietnam 1969-72, Israeli Defence Force 1975-77, Helion and Company, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
"Shakedown is rolling in hot in Nakhoney right now. You're just in time. They've been getting shot at and are in overwatch for India 21 patrolling," […]
ref:
2016, Stephen Robertson CD BA ATPL, Go for Shakedown, Xlibris Corporation
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hotly, at a high temperature.
Rapidly, quickly.
While shooting, while firing one's weapon(s).
senses_topics:
|
5619 | word:
hot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hot (third-person singular simple present hots, present participle hotting, simple past and past participle hotted)
forms:
form:
hots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hotting
tags:
participle
present
form:
hotted
tags:
participle
past
form:
hotted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English hāt, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”).
senses_examples:
text:
Turf war's hotting up.
ref:
2018, “Clean Slate”, in Wentworth
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To heat; to make or become hot.
To become lively or exciting.
senses_topics:
|
5620 | word:
hot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hot (plural hots)
forms:
form:
hots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English hāt, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hot meal (usually in the phrase three hots or derivations such as three hots and a cot).
senses_topics:
|
5621 | word:
befallen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
befallen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of befall
senses_topics:
|
5622 | word:
toilet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
toilet (plural toilets)
forms:
form:
toilets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
François Boucher
Georgia (country)
Siple Dome
etymology_text:
From Middle French toilette (“small cloth”), diminutive of toile (“cloth”), from their use to protect clothing while shaving or arranging hair. From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century.
senses_examples:
text:
Sorry, I was in the toilet.
type:
example
text:
He would hit her when she cried and, if this did not work, would lock her in the toilet for hours on end.
ref:
2002, Digby Tantam, Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice: A Narrative Framework, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
He wet his thumb with saliva pressing on the tongue, ran it up and down faster over the letter 'I' of 'TOILET', the 'LADIES TOILET' was transformed into 'LADIES TO LET' in no time.
ref:
2014, C.S. Walter, Abandoned Bridges, pp. 105 f.
type:
quotation
text:
My toilet backed up. Now the bathroom's flooded.
type:
example
text:
Look around you. It's a toilet.
ref:
1982, The Mosquito Coast
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Gaunt was urbane and smiling again, not a hair out of place. "Do you like this little town? Do you love it? […]"
[…]
"I hate this fucking toilet," he said to Leland Gaunt.
ref:
1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
type:
quotation
text:
And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d,
Each silver vase in mystic order laid.
ref:
1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto I, lines 121-126
type:
quotation
text:
Against that short evening her toilet was consulted the whole day […].
ref:
1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Oxford, published 2009, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
Come as you are, tarry not over your toilet.
ref:
1913, Rabindranath Tagore, Come as you are..., Poetry Foundation, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
Three women got down and standing on the curb they made unabashed toilets, smoothing skirts and stockings, brushing one another's back, opening parcels and donning various finery.
ref:
1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
Here, at night, a lonely but brilliantly neon-illuminated figure, I performed my toilet, watched incuriously by the Burmese seated at the tables of the tea-shops below.
ref:
1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth, Chapter 8
type:
quotation
text:
"It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking."
ref:
1917, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A room or enclosed area containing a fixture used for urination and defecation (i.e. a toilet (sense 2)): a bathroom or water closet.
A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly one with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat which uses water to flush the waste material into a septic tank or sewer system.
A very shabby or dirty place.
A small secondary lavatory having a fixture used for urination and defecation (i.e. a toilet (sense 2)) and sink but no bathtub or shower.
A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room.
The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table.
Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair.
One's style of dressing: dress, outfit.
A dressing room.
A chamber pot.
senses_topics:
|
5623 | word:
toilet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
toilet (third-person singular simple present toilets, present participle toileting or toiletting, simple past and past participle toileted or toiletted)
forms:
form:
toilets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
toileting
tags:
participle
present
form:
toiletting
tags:
participle
present
form:
toileted
tags:
participle
past
form:
toileted
tags:
past
form:
toiletted
tags:
participle
past
form:
toiletted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
François Boucher
Georgia (country)
Siple Dome
etymology_text:
From Middle French toilette (“small cloth”), diminutive of toile (“cloth”), from their use to protect clothing while shaving or arranging hair. From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century.
senses_examples:
text:
We use imitation. We take a doll, a doll that can wet, and make sure it has pants on it. We use the principle that a very effective way of learning is by teaching. Se we have him teach the doll how to toilet properly.
ref:
1974, Philip J. Hilts, Behavior Mod, Harper's Magazine Press, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
In many developing regions, toileting at night is especially dangerous for children. Without electrical power for lighting, kids may fall into the deep pits of the latrines through broken or unsteady floorboards. Girls are sometimes assaulted by men who hide in the dark.
ref:
2024 February 17 (last accessed), Jenny Morber, “Scientists turn pee into power in Uganda”, in Upworthy Science
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dress and groom oneself.
To use (urinate or defecate in) a toilet.
To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet.
senses_topics:
|
5624 | word:
prime minister
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prime minister (plural prime ministers)
forms:
form:
prime ministers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of French premier ministre.
senses_examples:
text:
This is a list of all prime ministers since Churchill.
text:
Yesterday we had a visit from the Prime Minister / prime minister. (See usage notes below.)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chief member of the cabinet and head of the government, especially in a parliamentary democracy; often the leader of the majority party.
senses_topics:
|
5625 | word:
gravity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gravity (countable and uncountable, plural gravities)
forms:
form:
gravities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gravity
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin gravitās (“weight”) (compare French gravité), from gravis (“heavy”). Doublet of gravitas. First attested in the 16th century.
senses_examples:
text:
I hope you appreciate the gravity of the situation.
type:
example
text:
The gravity of the situation which confronts the world today necessitates my appearance before a joint session of the Congress. The foreign policy and the national security of this country are involved.
ref:
1947 March 12, Harry S. Truman, 1:05 from the start, in MP72-14 Excerpt - Truman Doctrine Speech, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162
type:
quotation
text:
Since I believe that abortion is absolutely wrong I must choose the course that minimizes the support of it. The gravity of this issue is so great that I must consider my job expendable.
ref:
1990 E.E.O.C. v. University of Detroit, 904 F.2d 331
text:
Could the month's poor performance in these two sectors reveal the true gravity of the labor market's woes?
ref:
2011 September 3, Daniel Indiviglio, “August's Big Reversal for Manufacturing and Retail Jobs”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
Do you know that gravity is pulling at you, tugging at you, trying to drag you down, from the moment you awake in the morning till you tumble into bed at night?
ref:
1950 January, Howard Hayes, “You and Gravity”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next[…].
ref:
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
ref:
2012 January, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-01-26, page 86
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness.
The state or condition of being grave; seriousness.
The lowness of a note.
The force at the Earth's surface, of the attraction by the Earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the Earth's rotation, resulting from gravitation.
Gravitation, the universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other.
Specific gravity.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
5626 | word:
safe
word_type:
adj
expansion:
safe (comparative safer or more safe, superlative safest or most safe)
forms:
form:
safer
tags:
comparative
form:
more safe
tags:
comparative
form:
safest
tags:
superlative
form:
most safe
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sauf, safe, saf, saaf, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf (“safe”), from Latin salvus (“whole, safe”), from Proto-Italic *salwos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, every”).
Displaced native Old English sicor (secure, sure).
senses_examples:
text:
You’ll be safe here.
type:
example
text:
It’s safe to eat this.
type:
example
text:
We have to find a safe spot, where we can hide out until this is over.
type:
example
text:
The pitcher attempted to pick off the runner at first, but he was safe.
type:
example
text:
The documents are safe.
type:
example
text:
dishwasher-safe
type:
example
text:
and you also forgot to mentioned the wheels man you know bmw playing / ragga jungle hip hop tunes / and on the mobile / yeah safe! / nice one / later
ref:
1996 August 12, "Mandrake", “Re: Multiple Messages - an apology”, in uk.people.gothic (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Young Mal: Yu can’t. Irie means yer cool, yer safe, everything awright.
ref:
1996 or 1997, Roy Williams, Plays 1: The No Boys Cricket Club / Startstruck / Lift Off, Methuen, published 2002, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
“If you need more, just ring, yeah?” Punch said.
“Safe,” Brian answered.
ref:
2000, Teddy Hayes, Dead by Popular Demand, Justin, Charles & Co., published 2005, Chapter 14, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
They end the call. Fami goes over to Paul. They touch hands.¶ Femi: Yeah, safe man.
ref:
2002, Danny Braverman, Playing a Part: Drama and Citizenship, Trentham Books, One Thursday — a short play, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
“Yeah, safe mate, wassup?” says one hoodie, who should at least be credited with attempting a more detailed sentence construction.
ref:
2013, Steve Carter, Love, Sex and Tesco's Finest Cava, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
Dom (David Jonsson): Hey, love the photos. They're just so—
Nathan (Simon Manyonda): Safe.
ref:
2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not in danger; out of harm's reach.
Free from risk.
Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.
When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.
In a location that renders it difficult to pot.
Properly secured.
Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.
Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection.
Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.
Reliable; trusty.
Cautious.
Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
5627 | word:
safe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
safe (plural safes)
forms:
form:
safes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sauf, safe, saf, saaf, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf (“safe”), from Latin salvus (“whole, safe”), from Proto-Italic *salwos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, every”).
Displaced native Old English sicor (secure, sure).
senses_examples:
text:
Condoms ARE available, on the underground market, at the outrageous price of ten dollars a piece! Now, I do not mind paying ten bucks for a good piece, as well as some peace of mind, but even the mere possession of these 'safes' is a disciplinary offense!
ref:
1989 August 19, Gerard L. Ready, “Possessing A Condom Is An Offense!”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 6, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
She'd better have an arsenal of Trojans in her purse just in case he wasn't carrying a safe in his back pocket.
ref:
1999, Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, Delta, published 1999, page 328
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.
A condom.
A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
A safety bicycle.
senses_topics:
|
5628 | word:
safe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
safe (third-person singular simple present safes, present participle safing, simple past and past participle safed)
forms:
form:
safes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
safing
tags:
participle
present
form:
safed
tags:
participle
past
form:
safed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sauf, safe, saf, saaf, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf (“safe”), from Latin salvus (“whole, safe”), from Proto-Italic *salwos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, every”).
Displaced native Old English sicor (secure, sure).
senses_examples:
text:
It just trails behind the pylon until I land, then Cramer removes it when he safes the rocket pods. No evidence of anything when I taxi back inside the compound.
ref:
2007, Rocky Raab, Mike Five Eight: Air War Over Cambodia: Air War Over Cambodia
type:
quotation
text:
One of the most important events after touchdown will be to safe the Dauntless, which will include purging the engines and shutting down the landing systems […]
ref:
2012, Erik Seedhouse, Interplanetary Outpost
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make something safe.
senses_topics:
|
5629 | word:
eyesore
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eyesore (plural eyesores)
forms:
form:
eyesores
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eye sor, eie-sor, eyen soore, eæge-sare, equivalent to eye + sore.
senses_examples:
text:
The building, towering over its surroundings with its square concrete frame and reflective walls of gold-tinted glass, was an eyesore visible throughout the city.
type:
example
text:
Two entrants shared this award for their work on two quite different stations, but with the same purpose of bringing a redundant station building back into use for the benefit of the community, with the added result of conserving an historic building. Saltash Town Council bought Saltash station building after it had become very decrepit and 'an eyesore' - such that it was nearly pulled down to make way for housing.
ref:
2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Network Rail Community Award: Saltash and Stow”, in RAIL, number 946, page 58
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An eye lesion.
A displeasing sight; something prominently ugly or unsightly.
senses_topics:
|
5630 | word:
kibitzer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kibitzer (plural kibitzers)
forms:
form:
kibitzers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From kibitz + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Did I ask you what you thought about my cards, you kibitzer?
type:
example
text:
"Don't be a kibitzer!" Grampa snapped. "When I need help, I'll ask for it. No dad-blamed machine is gonna outthink Grampa!" He snorted indignantly.
ref:
1956 January, James E. Gunn, “The Gravity Business”, in Galaxy
type:
quotation
text:
Neither good nor evil exactly, he is the ultimate catalyst or kibitzer, a blue-note howl of pain and laughter such as Charlie Parker might have blown.
ref:
1971 November 5, Anatole Broyard, “Updike Goes All Out at Last”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, Books of The Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who offers unsolicited views, advice, or criticism; one who kibitzes.
senses_topics:
|
5631 | word:
loose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
loose (third-person singular simple present looses, present participle loosing, simple past and past participle loosed)
forms:
form:
looses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
loosing
tags:
participle
present
form:
loosed
tags:
participle
past
form:
loosed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
loose
etymology_text:
From Middle English loos, los, lous, from Old Norse lauss, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also -less, leasing; from Proto-Indo-European *lewH-, *lū- (“to untie, set free, separate”), whence also lyo-, -lysis, via Ancient Greek.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To let loose, to free from restraints.
To unfasten, to loosen.
To make less tight, to loosen.
Of a grip or hold, to let go.
To shoot (an arrow).
To set sail.
To solve; to interpret.
senses_topics:
archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
|
5632 | word:
loose
word_type:
adj
expansion:
loose (comparative looser, superlative loosest)
forms:
form:
looser
tags:
comparative
form:
loosest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
loose
etymology_text:
From Middle English loos, los, lous, from Old Norse lauss, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also -less, leasing; from Proto-Indo-European *lewH-, *lū- (“to untie, set free, separate”), whence also lyo-, -lysis, via Ancient Greek.
senses_examples:
text:
This wheelbarrow has a loose wheel.
type:
example
text:
You can buy apples in a pack, but they are cheaper loose.
type:
example
text:
The dog is loose again.
type:
example
text:
The very idea of a machine set loose to slaughter is chilling.
ref:
2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I wear loose clothes when it is hot.
type:
example
text:
It is difficult walking on loose gravel.
type:
example
text:
a cloth of loose texture
type:
example
text:
She danced with a loose flowing movement.
type:
example
text:
a loose way of reasoning
type:
example
text:
The comparison employed […] must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation.
ref:
1858, William Whewell, The history of scientific ideas
type:
quotation
text:
Loose talk costs lives.
type:
example
text:
In all these he was much and deeply read; / But not a page of any thing that's loose, / Or hints continuation of the species, / Was ever suffer'd, lest he should grow vicious.
ref:
1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section I
type:
quotation
text:
He caught an elbow going after a loose ball.
type:
example
text:
The puck was momentarily loose right in front of the net.
type:
example
text:
Tomas Rosicky released the left-back with a fine pass but his low cross was cut out by Ivan Marcano. However the Brazilian was able to collect the loose ball, cut inside and roll a right-footed effort past Franco Costanzo at his near post.
ref:
2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
Not held or packaged together.
Not under control.
Not fitting closely
Not compact.
Relaxed.
Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
Indiscreet.
Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste.
Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
Not costive; having lax bowels.
Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
Having oversteer.
abnormally wide after multiple penetrations due to having had sexual intercourse multiple times.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
|
5633 | word:
loose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
loose (plural looses)
forms:
form:
looses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
loose
etymology_text:
From Middle English loos, los, lous, from Old Norse lauss, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also -less, leasing; from Proto-Indo-European *lewH-, *lū- (“to untie, set free, separate”), whence also lyo-, -lysis, via Ancient Greek.
senses_examples:
text:
The defeat will leave manager Martin Johnson under pressure after his gamble of pairing Jonny Wilkinson and Toby Flood at 10 and 12 failed to ignite the England back line, while his forwards were repeatedly second best at the set-piece and in the loose.
ref:
2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The release of an arrow.
A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment.
All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).
Freedom from restraint.
A letting go; discharge.
senses_topics:
archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
|
5634 | word:
loose
word_type:
intj
expansion:
loose
forms:
wikipedia:
loose
etymology_text:
From Middle English loos, los, lous, from Old Norse lauss, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also -less, leasing; from Proto-Indo-European *lewH-, *lū- (“to untie, set free, separate”), whence also lyo-, -lysis, via Ancient Greek.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
begin shooting; release your arrows
senses_topics:
archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
5635 | word:
loose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
loose
forms:
wikipedia:
loose
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I'm going to loose this game.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of lose.
senses_topics:
|
5636 | word:
Moslem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Moslem (plural Moslems)
forms:
form:
Moslems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dated spelling of Muslim.
senses_topics:
|
5637 | word:
Moslem
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Moslem (comparative more Moslem, superlative most Moslem)
forms:
form:
more Moslem
tags:
comparative
form:
most Moslem
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Eliza Wyatt's Mirror-Images attempts to explore the conflict between modern and traditional ways of life for residents of an unnamed Moslem country, with an emphasis on women.
ref:
1985 August 24, Mara Math, “Note This!”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dated spelling of Muslim.
senses_topics:
|
5638 | word:
ad lib
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ad lib (comparative more ad lib, superlative most ad lib)
forms:
form:
more ad lib
tags:
comparative
form:
most ad lib
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
ad libitum
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of ad libitum, borrowed from New Latin ad libitum.
senses_examples:
text:
For one thing I had a splendid supper when I got on board—a whack of cold, lean beef and pighells, bread, butter ad lib., tea, and plenty of good bread.
ref:
1951, Katherine Mansfield, Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At pleasure.
At will.
To whatever extent.
Extemporaneously.
senses_topics:
|
5639 | word:
ad lib
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ad lib (comparative more ad lib, superlative most ad lib)
forms:
form:
more ad lib
tags:
comparative
form:
most ad lib
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
ad libitum
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of ad libitum, borrowed from New Latin ad libitum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extemporaneous, impromptu.
senses_topics:
|
5640 | word:
ad lib
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ad lib (plural ad libs)
forms:
form:
ad libs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ad libitum
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of ad libitum, borrowed from New Latin ad libitum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of something improvised, especially a line.
Improvised vocals, added after the main vocals have been recorded, which serve to emphasize the rhythm or fill the lyrical bar line.
senses_topics:
acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
dancing
entertainment
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports |
5641 | word:
ad lib
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ad lib (third-person singular simple present ad libs, present participle ad libbing, simple past and past participle ad libbed)
forms:
form:
ad libs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ad libbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
ad libbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
ad libbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ad libitum
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of ad libitum, borrowed from New Latin ad libitum.
senses_examples:
text:
She ad libbed the rest of the scene.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perform without script.
To perform without preparation.
To perform extemporaneously.
To perform ad libs; to improvise lyrics after the main lyrics have been recorded.
To perform (lyrics) as ad libs.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
5642 | word:
activity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
activity (countable and uncountable, plural activities)
forms:
form:
activities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
activity
etymology_text:
From Middle French activité, from Latin activitas. Equivalent to active + -ity.
senses_examples:
text:
Pit row was abuzz with activity.
type:
example
text:
The activity for the morning was a walk to the store.
type:
example
text:
An increasing number of sports activities are on offer at the university.
type:
example
text:
Quilting can be an enjoyable activity.
type:
example
text:
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref:
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
[…]distinctions among states of affairs are reflected to a striking degree in distinctions among Aktionsart types. That is, situations are expressed by state verbs or predicates, events by achievement verbs or predicates, and actions by activity verbs or predicates.
ref:
1997, Robert van Valin, Randy LaPolla, Syntax, page 92
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state or quality of being active; activeness.
Something done as an action or a movement.
Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.
The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it: becquerel or curie
The property of substances to react with other substances
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
5643 | word:
began
word_type:
verb
expansion:
began
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of begin
past participle of begin
senses_topics:
|
5644 | word:
song
word_type:
noun
expansion:
song (countable and uncountable, plural songs)
forms:
form:
songs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
song
etymology_text:
From Middle English song, sang, from Old English sang, from Proto-West Germanic *sangu, from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz (“singing, song”), from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- (“to sing”). Cognate with Scots sang, song (“singing, song”), Saterland Frisian Song (“song”), West Frisian sang (“song”), Dutch zang (“song”), Low German sang (“song”), German Sang (“singing, song”), Swedish sång (“song”), Norwegian Bokmål sang (“song”), Norwegian Nynorsk song (“song”), Icelandic söngur (“song”), Ancient Greek ὀμφή (omphḗ, “voice, oracle”). More at sing.
senses_examples:
text:
Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.
type:
example
text:
The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge
ref:
1568, William Cornishe [i.e., William Cornysh], “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, in John Skelton, edited by J[ohn] S[tow], Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, Imprinted at London: In Fletestreate, neare vnto Saint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 1736, →OCLC, page 290
type:
quotation
text:
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
ref:
1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
How often the enthusiast has dwelt upon the birds bursting into song, the buds bursting into flower, all nature bursting into life!—as though a state of things in which everything around us is bursting is at all pleasant.
ref:
1884, Spencer Leigh Hughes, “The Weather. A Short Study on a Great Subject.”, in Golden Hours: A Monthly Magazine for Family and General Reading, volume XVII, London: Lile and Fawcett, […], page 28, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Or take one that is less of an explanation and more of a song , The Spider . I knew all along what I wanted to say about a spider . I wanted to say all the good things I could . For spiders are the one order of creation that I thoroughly dislike.[…]
ref:
1942, Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, The Substance that is Poetry (Patten Foundation series), Macmillan, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
I love hearing the song of canary birds.
type:
example
text:
That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
ref:
1833, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Canterbury Pilgrims
type:
quotation
text:
The robin alone by his soft morning song broke the silence and the solitude which reigned in the forest.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
He bought that car for a song.
type:
example
text:
his [a common soldier's] pay is a song.
ref:
1810, Benjamin Silliman, A Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
Any musical composition.
Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
The act or art of singing.
A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory; contrasts with call; also, similar vocalisations made by female birds.
A low price, especially one under the expected value; chiefly in for a song.
An object of derision; a laughing stock.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
|
5645 | word:
bird
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bird (plural birds)
forms:
form:
birds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bird (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English bird, brid, from Old English bridd (“chick, fledgling, chicken”), of uncertain origin (see Old English bridd for more). Originally from a term used of birds that could not fly (chicks, fledglings, chickens) as opposed to the general Old English term for flying birds, fugol (modern fowl). Gradually replaced fowl as the most common term starting in the 14th century.
The "booing/jeering" and "vulgar hand gesture" senses derived from the expression “to give the big bird”, as in “to hiss someone like a goose”, dated in the mid‐18th century.
senses_examples:
text:
Ducks and sparrows are birds.
type:
example
text:
The level below this is called the Phylum; birds belong to the Phylum Chordata, which includes all the vertebrate animals (the sub-phylum Vertebrata) and a few odds and ends.
ref:
2004, Bruce Whittington, Loucas Raptis, Seasons with Birds, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Pitch in and help me stuff the bird if you want Thanksgiving dinner.
type:
example
text:
He once took in his own mother, and was robbed by a 'pal,' who thought he was a doctor. Oh, he's a rare bird is 'Gentleman Joe'!
ref:
1886, Edmund Routledge, Routledge's every boy's annual
type:
quotation
text:
The door opened and a tall hungry-looking bird with a cane and a big nose came in neatly, shut the door behind him against the pressure of the door closer, marched over to the desk and placed a wrapped parcel on the desk.
ref:
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
"Ah, he's a funny bird," said Phaedra, throwing a leg over the sill.
ref:
2006, Jeff Fields, Terry Kay, A cry of angels
type:
quotation
text:
And by my word! the bonny bird / In danger shall not tarry.
ref:
1809, Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter
type:
quotation
text:
After tea, the bright boys wash, clean their boots, and change into their “second-best” attire, and stroll forth[…]; sometimes to saunter, in company with others, up and down that parade until they “click” with one of the “birds.”
ref:
1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
The usual visual grammar was in place – a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if sighted in nature would indicate the presence of poison.
ref:
2013 September 13, Russell Brand, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
“All these fantastic birds, long hair, made up, false eyelashes and things, crowding round this group of scabby, spotty teenagers,” marveled Anderson.
ref:
2017, David Weigel, The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock, W. W. Norton & Company
type:
quotation
text:
Mike went out with his bird last night.
type:
example
text:
But all of a sudden though, just through the smoke / It's your bird laughing and joking with a bloke / Ain't just that either, as she moves closer / In a shape what looks like they're lovers, he's tonguing her!
ref:
2002, “Geezers need excitement”, in Mike Skinner (lyrics), Original Pirate Material, performed by The Streets
type:
quotation
text:
“Cabin cleaners? They have worked on this bird. Don't you know you've always got to clean up after the cleaners? What they don't teach you in school these days.”
ref:
1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New York: Bantam Books, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
Any of our birds squawking?
ref:
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Miranda Keyes (Justis Bolding), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Crow's Nest
type:
quotation
text:
Deployment of the fourth bird "should ensure that Inmarsat has sufficient capacity in orbit in the early 1990s, taking into account the possibility of launch failures and the age of some of the spacecraft in the Inmarsat first generation system
ref:
1988, Satellite communications. Jan-Oct. 1988
type:
quotation
text:
Will a government- backed APSTAR satellite knock out a planned AsiaSat II bird?
ref:
1992, Cable Vision
type:
quotation
text:
In reality, the Air Force was never able to place a bird in orbit that quickly.
ref:
2015, John Fuller, Thor's Legions: Weather Support to the U.S. Air Force and Army, 1937-1987, Springer, page 384
type:
quotation
text:
2002, The Advocate, "Flying fickle finger of faith", page 55.
For whatever reason — and there are so many to chose from — they flipped the bird in the direction of the tinted windows of the Bushmobile.
text:
Then she raised both hands above her shoulders and flipped him the bird with each one.
ref:
2003, James Patterson, Peter de Jonge, The Beach House, Warner Books, page 305
type:
quotation
text:
Never dirt on my knees
I'm just serving these fiends
Sell birds to the bees
I sell birds to the trees
ref:
2015 January 12, Lil Wayne (lyrics and music), “Sh!t” (track 2), in Sorry 4 the Wait 2
type:
quotation
text:
BUBBLES: One time I was making a model and I glued the wing to a B17 bomber to my bird by accident.
ref:
2004 May 9, Mike Clattenburg, Mike Smith (actor), 05:29 from the start, in Trailer Park Boys(Conky), season 4, episode 5 (TV series), spoken by Bubbles (Mike Smith)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
A chicken or turkey used as food.
A man, fellow.
A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
A girlfriend.
An aircraft.
A satellite.
A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
A yardbird.
A kilogram of cocaine.
A penis.
Jailtime; time in prison.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle
|
5646 | word:
bird
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bird (third-person singular simple present birds, present participle birding, simple past and past participle birded)
forms:
form:
birds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
birding
tags:
participle
present
form:
birded
tags:
participle
past
form:
birded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Bird (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English bird, brid, from Old English bridd (“chick, fledgling, chicken”), of uncertain origin (see Old English bridd for more). Originally from a term used of birds that could not fly (chicks, fledglings, chickens) as opposed to the general Old English term for flying birds, fugol (modern fowl). Gradually replaced fowl as the most common term starting in the 14th century.
The "booing/jeering" and "vulgar hand gesture" senses derived from the expression “to give the big bird”, as in “to hiss someone like a goose”, dated in the mid‐18th century.
senses_examples:
text:
Unless the TV crew has its own flyaway, the locals can still defeat a story they couldn't prevent reporters from covering by cutting it off at the pass, when it is being birded through their facilities.
ref:
1995, David D. Pearce, Wary Partners: Diplomats and the Media, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
After being sent by fast car to Tel Aviv the cassettes would be 'birded' by satellite to the USA and London.
ref:
2012, Yoel Cohen, Media Diplomacy, page 127
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
To transmit via satellite.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
television |
5647 | word:
bird
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bird (comparative birdier, superlative birdiest)
forms:
form:
birdier
tags:
comparative
form:
birdiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Bird (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English bird, brid, from Old English bridd (“chick, fledgling, chicken”), of uncertain origin (see Old English bridd for more). Originally from a term used of birds that could not fly (chicks, fledglings, chickens) as opposed to the general Old English term for flying birds, fugol (modern fowl). Gradually replaced fowl as the most common term starting in the 14th century.
The "booing/jeering" and "vulgar hand gesture" senses derived from the expression “to give the big bird”, as in “to hiss someone like a goose”, dated in the mid‐18th century.
senses_examples:
text:
SOC100 isn’t bird at all lol. But ANT101 is super easy & the prof (Dr. Sherry Fukuzawa) is amazing.
ref:
2020 October 16, illegalsalt, “Thoughts on these bird courses”, in Reddit, r/UTM
type:
quotation
text:
but admittedly, all the hours spent creating excel sheets optimizing my course plan, all the research finding the absolutely best professors, all the smart friends i made, all the alumni i contacted to collect crowdmarks of past exams, all the research i did finding the birdiest courses of all...... all of it was wayyyyyy more fun to me than just sitting down and studying like a normal kid. it was kind of just like playing a video game.
ref:
2022 June 17, ConradIsMyDaddy, “How to Graduate from the University of Waterloo's Computer Science Program with the Least Amount of Effort”, in Reddit, r/uwaterloo
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Able to be passed with very little work; having the nature of a bird course.
senses_topics:
|
5648 | word:
bird
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bird (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Bird (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Originally Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from bird-lime for "time".
senses_examples:
text:
He’s doing bird.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A prison sentence.
senses_topics:
|
5649 | word:
bird
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bird (third-person singular simple present birds, present participle birding, simple past and past participle birded)
forms:
form:
birds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
birding
tags:
participle
present
form:
birded
tags:
participle
past
form:
birded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Bird (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Originally Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from bird-lime for "time".
senses_examples:
text:
Free Criminal, he got birded
That's a L but I know he’ll firm it
I was vexed when I heard that verdict
ref:
2017, “No Hook”, ZK & Digga D (lyrics), CDM (music)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bring into prison, to roof.
senses_topics:
|
5650 | word:
jellyfish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jellyfish (countable and uncountable, plural jellyfish or jellyfishes)
forms:
form:
jellyfish
tags:
plural
form:
jellyfishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Early Medieval Latin gelātabor.
Old French geleebor.
Middle English gele
English jelly
English fish
English jellyfish
From jelly + fish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.
A cnidarian, a member of the phylum Cnidaria.
An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.
A cnidarian, a member of the phylum Cnidaria.
A scyphozoan, a member of the class Scyphozoa (true jellies).
An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.
A ctenophore, a member of the phylum Ctenophora (comb jellies).
A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely four rows and four columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.
senses_topics:
|
5651 | word:
enough
word_type:
det
expansion:
enough
forms:
wikipedia:
enough (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ynogh, from Old English ġenōg (“enough”), from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz (“enough”) (compare Scots eneuch, West Frisian genôch, Dutch genoeg, German genug, Low German noog, Danish nok, Swedish nog, Icelandic nógur), from *ganuganą 'to suffice' (compare Old English ġeneah), or from *ga- + an unattested *nōgaz, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂nó(n)ḱe (“he has reached, attained”), perfective of *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”) (compare Old Irish tánaic (“he arrived”), Latin nancisci (“to get”), Lithuanian nèšti (“to carry”), Albanian kënaq (“to please, satisfy”), Ancient Greek ἐνεγκεῖν (enenkeîn, “to carry”).).
senses_examples:
text:
I've already had enough coffee today.
type:
example
text:
There is food enough for us all.
type:
example
text:
But it wasn’t ransom enough.
His captors accepted it all,
But didn’t let go of the king.
ref:
1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.
Used before a noun in the manner of words like some, a bit of, and so on.
Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.
Used after a noun.
senses_topics:
|
5652 | word:
enough
word_type:
adv
expansion:
enough
forms:
wikipedia:
enough (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ynogh, from Old English ġenōg (“enough”), from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz (“enough”) (compare Scots eneuch, West Frisian genôch, Dutch genoeg, German genug, Low German noog, Danish nok, Swedish nog, Icelandic nógur), from *ganuganą 'to suffice' (compare Old English ġeneah), or from *ga- + an unattested *nōgaz, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂nó(n)ḱe (“he has reached, attained”), perfective of *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”) (compare Old Irish tánaic (“he arrived”), Latin nancisci (“to get”), Lithuanian nèšti (“to carry”), Albanian kënaq (“to please, satisfy”), Ancient Greek ἐνεγκεῖν (enenkeîn, “to carry”).).
senses_examples:
text:
I cannot run fast enough to catch up to them.
type:
example
text:
You've worked enough; rest for a bit.
type:
example
text:
He is ready enough to accept the offer.
type:
example
text:
Talking of Mr Smith, funnily enough, I saw him just the other day.
type:
example
text:
I left my camera on the train, but luckily enough someone handed it in to lost property.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sufficiently.
Fully; quite; used after adjectives to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very.
Used after certain adverbs to emphasise that a quality is notable, unexpected, etc.
senses_topics:
|
5653 | word:
enough
word_type:
pron
expansion:
enough
forms:
wikipedia:
enough (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ynogh, from Old English ġenōg (“enough”), from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz (“enough”) (compare Scots eneuch, West Frisian genôch, Dutch genoeg, German genug, Low German noog, Danish nok, Swedish nog, Icelandic nógur), from *ganuganą 'to suffice' (compare Old English ġeneah), or from *ga- + an unattested *nōgaz, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂nó(n)ḱe (“he has reached, attained”), perfective of *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”) (compare Old Irish tánaic (“he arrived”), Latin nancisci (“to get”), Lithuanian nèšti (“to carry”), Albanian kënaq (“to please, satisfy”), Ancient Greek ἐνεγκεῖν (enenkeîn, “to carry”).).
senses_examples:
text:
I have enough (of it) to keep me going.
text:
Enough of you are here to begin the class.
text:
Get some more plates. There aren’t enough yet.
text:
Not enough is known yet about the causes of the pandemic.
text:
There wasn't enough of an economic surplus.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.
senses_topics:
|
5654 | word:
enough
word_type:
intj
expansion:
enough!
forms:
form:
enough!
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
enough (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ynogh, from Old English ġenōg (“enough”), from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz (“enough”) (compare Scots eneuch, West Frisian genôch, Dutch genoeg, German genug, Low German noog, Danish nok, Swedish nog, Icelandic nógur), from *ganuganą 'to suffice' (compare Old English ġeneah), or from *ga- + an unattested *nōgaz, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂nó(n)ḱe (“he has reached, attained”), perfective of *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”) (compare Old Irish tánaic (“he arrived”), Latin nancisci (“to get”), Lithuanian nèšti (“to carry”), Albanian kënaq (“to please, satisfy”), Ancient Greek ἐνεγκεῖν (enenkeîn, “to carry”).).
senses_examples:
text:
I'm sick of you complaining! Enough!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Stop! Don't do that any more!
senses_topics:
|
5655 | word:
enough
word_type:
noun
expansion:
enough (plural enoughs)
forms:
form:
enoughs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
enough (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ynogh, from Old English ġenōg (“enough”), from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz (“enough”) (compare Scots eneuch, West Frisian genôch, Dutch genoeg, German genug, Low German noog, Danish nok, Swedish nog, Icelandic nógur), from *ganuganą 'to suffice' (compare Old English ġeneah), or from *ga- + an unattested *nōgaz, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂nó(n)ḱe (“he has reached, attained”), perfective of *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”) (compare Old Irish tánaic (“he arrived”), Latin nancisci (“to get”), Lithuanian nèšti (“to carry”), Albanian kënaq (“to please, satisfy”), Ancient Greek ἐνεγκεῖν (enenkeîn, “to carry”).).
senses_examples:
text:
And she was neither beautiful nor handsome, but just at the point halfway between which a girl of twenty-three reaches who inherits good features and healthful figure, and who has learned to dance well, ride well, study enough, golf enough, and has attained the thousand other "well and enoughs" which include talking well and listening enough, and allow a woman to be liked and loved with so little consciousness that she never suspects she is particularly liked at all.
ref:
1909, Edwin Balmer, Waylaid by Wireless: A Suspicion, a Warning, a Sporting Proposition, and a Transatlantic Pursuit, page 29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently.
senses_topics:
|
5656 | word:
sing
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sing (third-person singular simple present sings, present participle singing, simple past sang, past participle sung or (archaic) sungen)
forms:
form:
sings
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
singing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sang
tags:
past
form:
sung
tags:
participle
past
form:
sungen
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
sing
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English singen, from Old English singan, from Proto-West Germanic *singwan, from Proto-Germanic *singwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ-. Cognate with German singen (“to sing”).
Recorded singing from a person.
senses_examples:
text:
"I really want to sing in the school choir," said Vera.
type:
example
text:
sing a lullaby
type:
example
text:
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
ref:
1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
to sing somebody to sleep
type:
example
text:
The evening was still very warm, and the birds in the woods were singing in praise of spring.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
The air sings in passing through a crevice.
type:
example
text:
a singing kettle
type:
example
text:
The sauce really makes this lamb sing.
type:
example
text:
[Alissa Monte said] “This result was all about demonstrating that LZ [the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment] works, and it does! As we take more data and mature our analyses, we get to make LZ sing. […]”
ref:
2022 July 7, Sonia Fernandez, “‘Out of the Starting Gate’”, in The Current, University of California, Santa Barbara, archived from the original on 2022-07-07
type:
quotation
text:
No song sings well unless it is open-vowelled, and has the rhythmic stress on the vowels. Tennyson's songs, for instance, are not generally adapted to music.
ref:
1875, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 118, page 685
type:
quotation
text:
‘We sung them two real good. We never give Louis Beck no place to find rest from his torment.’
ref:
2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 343
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
To perform a vocal part in a musical composition, regardless of technique.
To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
To soothe with singing.
Of birds, to vocalise:
To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
Of birds, to vocalise:
To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
To confess under interrogation.
To make a small, shrill sound.
To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.
In traditional Aboriginal culture, to direct a supernatural influence on (a person or thing), usually malign; to curse.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
|
5657 | word:
sing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sing (plural sings)
forms:
form:
sings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English singen, from Old English singan, from Proto-West Germanic *singwan, from Proto-Germanic *singwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ-. Cognate with German singen (“to sing”).
Recorded singing from a person.
senses_examples:
text:
I sometimes have a quick sing in the shower.
type:
example
text:
Then all three would go off in search of the first, give it a good talking to and maybe a bit of a sing as well.
ref:
1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
Some of the young folks asked Mrs. Long could they have a sing at her home that Sunday afternoon; she readily agreed, telling them to come early, bring their songbooks, and have a good sing.
ref:
2002, Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett, Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom, page 198
type:
quotation
text:
'Ah, yes, Miss Fisher, have you had a nice sing?'
ref:
2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 287
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act, or event, of singing songs.
senses_topics:
|
5658 | word:
opportunity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
opportunity (countable and uncountable, plural opportunities)
forms:
form:
opportunities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
opportunity
etymology_text:
From opportune + -ity, from Middle French opportunité, from Latin opportunitas.
senses_examples:
text:
seize the opportunity
type:
example
text:
take an opportunity
type:
example
text:
missed opportunity
type:
example
text:
The world is full of opportunities and it's up to me to see them and pursue them.
type:
example
text:
the opportunity came and went
type:
example
text:
You'll get a second opportunity if you miss this one.
type:
example
text:
Chelsea also struggled to keep possession as QPR harried and chased at every opportunity, giving their opponents no time on the ball.
ref:
2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Having a holiday is a great opportunity to relax.
type:
example
text:
The Court questioned the opportunity of introducing these measures in such an uncertain economic climate.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chance for advancement, progress or profit.
A favorable circumstance or occasion.
opportuneness
senses_topics:
|
5659 | word:
pretzel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pretzel (plural pretzels)
forms:
form:
pretzels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel, from Old High German brēzitella, from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, diminutive of Latin brāchium, bracchium (“arm”); named for the appearance of folded arms.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot.
Anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle
|
5660 | word:
pretzel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pretzel (third-person singular simple present pretzels, present participle pretzelling or (US) pretzeling, simple past and past participle pretzelled or (US) pretzeled)
forms:
form:
pretzels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pretzelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
pretzeling
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
pretzelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
pretzelled
tags:
past
form:
pretzeled
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
pretzeled
tags:
US
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel, from Old High German brēzitella, from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, diminutive of Latin brāchium, bracchium (“arm”); named for the appearance of folded arms.
senses_examples:
text:
They discovered a snake pretzelled into knots.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bend, twist, or contort.
senses_topics:
|
5661 | word:
browbeat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
browbeat (third-person singular simple present browbeats, present participle browbeating, simple past browbeat, past participle browbeaten)
forms:
form:
browbeats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
browbeating
tags:
participle
present
form:
browbeat
tags:
past
form:
browbeaten
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From brow + beat.
senses_examples:
text:
Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.
type:
example
text:
Dudley Fitts reared far back, pronouncing her [Laura Riding] with “few equals” when it came to “browbeating an audience into conviction by sheer force of arrogance, among any poets living or dead.”
ref:
1993 November 28, Carol Muske, quoting Dudley Fitts, “Laura Riding Roughshod”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.
senses_topics:
|
5662 | word:
crept
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crept
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of creep
senses_topics:
|
5663 | word:
dissociative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dissociative
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dissociate + -ive.
senses_examples:
text:
It was a lonely, dissociative time in my life, when I stayed holed up in my apartment for weeks on end.
type:
example
text:
The dissociative techniques separated ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia.
type:
example
text:
He had to take a few weeks off school after a dissociative episode.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
removing or separating from some association
causing dissociation
related to or caused by dissociation or dissociative disorders
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
5664 | word:
dissociative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dissociative (plural dissociatives)
forms:
form:
dissociatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dissociate + -ive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a dissociative drug
senses_topics:
|
5665 | word:
leche
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leche (plural leches)
forms:
form:
leches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of lechwe.
senses_topics:
|
5666 | word:
nada
word_type:
pron
expansion:
nada
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish nada (“nothing”). Doublet of née.
senses_examples:
text:
Sketchers lookin' like Balenciaga / Thrift clothes lookin' like the Prada / Whole fit lit, it cost me nada
ref:
2019, “Balenciaga”, performed by Princess Nokia
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nothing.
senses_topics:
|
5667 | word:
blown
word_type:
adj
expansion:
blown (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English blawen, from Old English blāƿen, blāwen, past participle of Old English blāwan.
Morphologically blow + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: turbocharged
text:
a blown head gasket
type:
example
text:
Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged.
ref:
1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Distended, swollen, or inflated.
Panting and out of breath.
Formed by blowing.
Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
Stale; worthless.
Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
Given a hot rod blower.
Having failed.
senses_topics:
automotive
transport
vehicles
|
5668 | word:
blown
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blown
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English blawen, from Old English blāƿen, blāwen, past participle of Old English blāwan.
Morphologically blow + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of blow
senses_topics:
|
5669 | word:
burned
word_type:
adj
expansion:
burned (comparative more burned, superlative most burned)
forms:
form:
more burned
tags:
comparative
form:
most burned
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Creating more burned range, which is not available in severe winters, would be of no use.
ref:
1985, Ervin G. Schuster, Below-cost Timber Sales, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
It burned around her face, around her breast and arm and face—she was very burned. And her hair was burned, and ... oh God.
ref:
2014, Gregory William Mank, The Very Witching Time of Night, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
That's when the doctors found out that my throat was very burned and swollen, and that I was not lying.
ref:
2017, Brian Soto, My Life with Tumors & Cancer
type:
quotation
text:
Few photos were even taken of the inner side of the closet door, so that only witness memories—police and firefighter witness memories—can attest to which side was more burned.
ref:
2019, Edward Humes, Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't, page 148
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Damaged or consumed by heat, fire, oxidation, or similar process.
senses_topics:
|
5670 | word:
burned
word_type:
verb
expansion:
burned
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of burn
senses_topics:
|
5671 | word:
dealt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dealt
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of deal
senses_topics:
|
5672 | word:
friend
word_type:
noun
expansion:
friend (plural friends)
forms:
form:
friends
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Friendship
etymology_text:
From Middle English frend, freend, from Old English frēond (“friend”, literally “loving[-one], lover”), from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“lover, friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to like, love”), equivalent to free + -nd.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fjund, Früünd (“friend”), West Frisian freon, froen, freondinne (“friend”), Dutch vriend (“friend”), Low German Frund, Fründ (“friend, relative”), Luxembourgish Frënd (“friend”), German Freund (“friend”), Danish frænde (“kinsman”), Swedish frände (“kinsman, relative”), Icelandic frændi (“kinsman”), Welsh ffrind (“friend”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃 (frijōnds, “friend”). More at free.
Other cognates include Russian прия́тель (prijátelʹ, “friend”) and Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).
senses_examples:
text:
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
ref:
1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship”, in Essays, volume I
type:
quotation
text:
...if you consider any man a friend whom you do not trust as you trust yourself, you are mightily mistaken and you do not sufficiently understand what true friendship means.
ref:
1917, Richard M. Gummere translating Seneca as Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Loeb Classical Library, Vol. I, No. 3
text:
...he who looks upon a true friend, looks, as it were, upon a sort of image of himself. Wherefore friends, though absent, are at hand; though in need, yet abound; though weak, are strong; and—harder saying still—though dead, are yet alive; so great is the esteem on the part of their friends, the tender recollection and the deep longing that still attends them.
ref:
1923, William Armistead Falconer translating Cicero as De Amicitia, Loeb Classical Library, Vol. XX, p. 34
text:
...you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I'd get maudlin about how damned swell you are. My god I'd like to see you... You're a hell of a good guy.
ref:
1927 Mar. 31, Ernest Hemingway, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
text:
Definition of a friend: One who walks in—when the rest of the world walks out.
ref:
1933 Dec. 12, Walter Winchell, "On Broadway", Scranton Republican, p. 5
text:
John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college. Trust is important between friends. I used to find it hard to make friends when I was shy.
type:
example
text:
We became friends in the war and remain friends to this day. We were friends with some girls from the other school and stayed friends with them.
type:
example
text:
The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend. The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.
type:
example
text:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref:
2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
a friend of a friend
type:
example
text:
I added him as a friend on Facebook, but I hardly know him.
type:
example
text:
I’m not a friend of cheap wine.
type:
example
text:
Fruit is your friend.
type:
example
text:
You’d better watch it, friend.
type:
example
text:
But don't take the following sections as an endorsement of friends. Top C++ programmers avoid using friends unless absolutely necessary.
ref:
1991, Tom Swan, Learning C++
type:
quotation
text:
In that case, the function needn't (and shouldn't) be a friend.
ref:
2001, Stephen Prata, C++ primer plus
type:
quotation
text:
To make a function be a friend to a class, the reserved word friend precedes the function prototype[…]
ref:
2008, D S Malik, C++ Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design
type:
quotation
text:
Since they were introduced in the 1970s, friends have revolutionized climbing, making protection possible in previously impossible places […]
ref:
1995, Rock Climbing Basics
type:
quotation
text:
Time has been, when a gentleman wanted a friend, I could supply him with choice in an hour; but the market is spoiled, and a body might as soon produce a hare or a partridge […]
ref:
1813, Samuel Foote, The Commissary, Etc., page 17
type:
quotation
text:
I met your friend. She's very nice, what can I say?
ref:
1975, Janis Ian, In the Winter
type:
quotation
text:
Friends agree best at a distance.
text:
Make friends of framet folk.
text:
He was not a drop's blood to me, though him and my wife were far-out friends.
ref:
1895, Crockett, Bog-Myrtle, 232
text:
Meanwhile on The View, Whoopi Goldberg and friends continue to issue forced apologies for their assumptive comments regarding non-profit organisation Turning Point USA...
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
An associate who provides assistance.
A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
A person who backs or supports something.
An object or idea that can be used for good.
Used as a form of address when warning someone.
A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
A spring-loaded camming device.
A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
Used to refer collectively to a group of associated individuals, especially those comprising a cast, company, or crew
senses_topics:
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
5673 | word:
friend
word_type:
verb
expansion:
friend (third-person singular simple present friends, present participle friending, simple past and past participle friended)
forms:
form:
friends
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
friending
tags:
participle
present
form:
friended
tags:
participle
past
form:
friended
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Friendship
etymology_text:
From Middle English frend, freend, from Old English frēond (“friend”, literally “loving[-one], lover”), from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“lover, friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to like, love”), equivalent to free + -nd.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fjund, Früünd (“friend”), West Frisian freon, froen, freondinne (“friend”), Dutch vriend (“friend”), Low German Frund, Fründ (“friend, relative”), Luxembourgish Frënd (“friend”), German Freund (“friend”), Danish frænde (“kinsman”), Swedish frände (“kinsman, relative”), Icelandic frændi (“kinsman”), Welsh ffrind (“friend”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃 (frijōnds, “friend”). More at free.
Other cognates include Russian прия́тель (prijátelʹ, “friend”) and Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).
senses_examples:
text:
Lo sluggish Knight the victors happie pray: / So fortune friends the bold [...].
ref:
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii
type:
quotation
text:
’Tis true, the stuff I bring for sale
Is not so brisk a brew as ale:
Out of a stem that scored the hand
I wrung it in a weary land.
But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the embittered hour;
It should do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul’s stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
ref:
1896, Alfred Edward Housman, A Shropshire Lad, section LXII
type:
quotation
text:
2006, David Fono and Kate Raynes-Goldie, "Hyperfriendship and Beyond: Friends and Social Norms on LiveJournal" (PDF version), Internet Research Annual Volume 4, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 99,
The difference between responses to the statement, "If someone friends me, I will friend them," and "If I friend someone, I expect them to friend me back," is telling.
text:
One of the most used features of MySpace is the practice that is nicknamed "friending." If you "friend" someone, then that person is added to your MySpace friends list, and you are added to their friends list.
ref:
2006, Kevin Farnham, Dale G. Farnham, Myspace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens And Parents, How-To Primers, page 69
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
senses_topics:
|
5674 | word:
dived
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dived
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of dive (scuba diving)
past participle of dive (jump head-first)
senses_topics:
|
5675 | word:
adherent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
adherent (comparative more adherent, superlative most adherent)
forms:
form:
more adherent
tags:
comparative
form:
most adherent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (“to stick to, cling”).
senses_examples:
text:
Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung
And stuck adherent, and suspended hung.
ref:
1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace, Book II, Epistle II
type:
quotation
text:
Half (49.9%) of patients were adherent to their regimens, 42.6% were underadherent, and 7.6% had medication oversupply.
ref:
2007 June, Min Yang, Jamie C. Barner, Jason Worchel, “Factors Related to Antipsychotic Oversupply Among Central Texas Veterans”, in Clinical Therapeutics, volume 29, number 6, →DOI, page 1217
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Adhesive, sticking to something.
Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
Showing adherence to a treatment.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
medicine
sciences |
5676 | word:
adherent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adherent (plural adherents)
forms:
form:
adherents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (“to stick to, cling”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.
senses_topics:
|
5677 | word:
pen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pen (plural pens)
forms:
form:
pens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pen (enclosure)
etymology_text:
From Middle English pen, penne (“enclosure for animals”), from Old English penn (“enclosure, fold, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *pennō, *pannijō (“pin, bolt, nail, tack”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pin.
Sense “prison” originally figurative extension to “enclosure for persons” (1845), later influenced by penitentiary (“prison”), being analyzed as an abbreviation (1884).
senses_examples:
text:
There are two steers in the third pen.
type:
example
text:
They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
type:
example
text:
Two righties are up in the pen.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
The bullpen.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
5678 | word:
pen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pen (third-person singular simple present pens, present participle penning, simple past and past participle penned or pent)
forms:
form:
pens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
penning
tags:
participle
present
form:
penned
tags:
participle
past
form:
penned
tags:
past
form:
pent
tags:
participle
past
form:
pent
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pennen, from Old English *pennian (“to close, lock, bolt”, attested in onpennian (“to open”)), derived from penn (see above). Akin to Low German pennen (“to secure a door with a bolt”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To enclose in a pen.
senses_topics:
|
5679 | word:
pen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pen (plural pens)
forms:
form:
pens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pen
etymology_text:
From Middle English penne, from Anglo-Norman penne, from Old French penne, from Latin penna (“feather”), from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to rush, fly”) (from which petition). Proto-Indo-European base also root of *petra-, from which Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) (whence pterodactyl), Sanskrit पत्रम् (patram, “wing, feather”), Old Church Slavonic перо (pero, “pen”), Old Norse fjǫðr, Old English feðer (Modern English feather); note the /p/ → /f/ Germanic sound change.
Doublet of panne, penna, and pinna. See feather and πέτομαι (pétomai) for more.
senses_examples:
text:
He took notes with a pen.
type:
example
text:
He has a sharp pen.
type:
example
text:
He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
type:
example
text:
A pen is nothing more complex than a decalcified shell, so one mutation of the genes that controlled calcification could be all it took.
ref:
2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
"I'm sure she had more than one EpiPen […]" "But she didn't have one when she got stung or she'd have used it." By all appearances, Mariah died in the woods, […] If she managed to grab the pen found under her leg from her bag or pocket, she never discharged it. But Crystal doesn't have these details. "Doesn't it make sense that she kept an extra pen in her cupboard, and one in her bag? The extra pen fell out, is all."
ref:
2023 August 29, Geri Krotow, A Wasp in the Woods, Tule Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
a dab pen; a wax pen
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
A writer, or their style.
Marks of ink left by a pen.
A light pen.
The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
A wing.
A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
Short for vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”).
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
|
5680 | word:
pen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pen (third-person singular simple present pens, present participle penning, simple past and past participle penned)
forms:
form:
pens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
penning
tags:
participle
present
form:
penned
tags:
participle
past
form:
penned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English penne, from Anglo-Norman penne, from Old French penne, from Latin penna (“feather”), from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to rush, fly”) (from which petition). Proto-Indo-European base also root of *petra-, from which Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) (whence pterodactyl), Sanskrit पत्रम् (patram, “wing, feather”), Old Church Slavonic перо (pero, “pen”), Old Norse fjǫðr, Old English feðer (Modern English feather); note the /p/ → /f/ Germanic sound change.
Doublet of panne, penna, and pinna. See feather and πέτομαι (pétomai) for more.
senses_examples:
text:
Prying open the crate, you discover a carefully wrapped, handwritten copy of one of Matriarch Dilinaga's treatises. It is unlikely she penned it herself, but the flowing brushwork and intricate watercolor illustrations clearly show the hand of a master scribe.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nonuel
type:
quotation
text:
His two most recent films are last year's Greyhound, a Hanks-penned World War Two thriller in which he plays a naval commander, and now News of the World, a Western set in the years immediately following the close of the US Civil War, directed by Paul Greengrass, which is premiering around the world on Netflix tomorrow.
ref:
2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground, a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song.
ref:
2021 December 29, Conrad Landin, “Glasgow Subway: a city institution”, in RAIL, number 947, page 45
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To write (an article, a book, etc.).
senses_topics:
|
5681 | word:
pen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pen (plural pens)
forms:
form:
pens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Origin uncertain. Compare hen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female swan.
senses_topics:
|
5682 | word:
pen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pen (plural pens)
forms:
form:
pens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of penalty.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Penalty.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports |
5683 | word:
pen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pen (plural pens)
forms:
form:
pens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of penetration.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Penetration.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5684 | word:
pen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pen (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
By incorrect analogy with man → men.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of pan
senses_topics:
|
5685 | word:
provenance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
provenance (countable and uncountable, plural provenances)
forms:
form:
provenances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
provenance
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”).
senses_examples:
text:
Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
type:
example
text:
Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little.
ref:
2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
This spear is of Viking provenance.
type:
example
text:
Further support for the Shansi provenance came in 1965, when a bronze quadruped with identical ornamentation and of approximately the same size as the Freer example was unearthed in tomb 126, at Fen-shui-ling, Ch'ang-chih, Shansi Province.
ref:
1982, Thomas Lawton, “Bronze Vessels, Fittings, and Weapons”, in Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, Smithsonian Institution, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The picture is of royal provenance.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Place or source of origin.
The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
The history of ownership of a work of art.
The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance).
The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
Background; history; place of origin.
senses_topics:
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
art
arts
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
5686 | word:
provenance
word_type:
verb
expansion:
provenance (third-person singular simple present provenances, present participle provenancing, simple past and past participle provenanced)
forms:
form:
provenances
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
provenancing
tags:
participle
present
form:
provenanced
tags:
participle
past
form:
provenanced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To establish the provenance of something
senses_topics:
|
5687 | word:
caught
word_type:
adj
expansion:
caught (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of the method of being out in which the striker hits the ball and a fielder catches it.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
5688 | word:
caught
word_type:
verb
expansion:
caught
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of catch
senses_topics:
|
5689 | word:
ductility
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ductility (countable and uncountable, plural ductilities)
forms:
form:
ductilities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ductile + -ity.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ability of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without fracture under the action of a tensile force.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
5690 | word:
beetle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beetle (plural beetles)
forms:
form:
beetles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
beetle (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English bitle, bityl, bytylle, from Old English bitula, bitela, bītel (“beetle”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitilō, *bītil, from Proto-Germanic *bitilô, *bītilaz (“that which tends to bite, biter, beetle”), equivalent to bite + -le. Cognate with Old High German bicco (“beetle”), Danish bille (“beetle”), Icelandic bitil, bitul (“a bite, bit”), Faroese bitil (“small piece, bittock”).
senses_examples:
text:
Guessing competitions were tackled with much enthusiasm, followed by a beetle drive, and judging by the laughter, this was popular with all.
ref:
1944, Queen's Nurses' Magazine, volumes 33-35, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:beetle.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
Alternative letter-case form of Beetle (“car”)
senses_topics:
|
5691 | word:
beetle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beetle (third-person singular simple present beetles, present participle beetling, simple past and past participle beetled)
forms:
form:
beetles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beetling
tags:
participle
present
form:
beetled
tags:
participle
past
form:
beetled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
beetle (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English bitle, bityl, bytylle, from Old English bitula, bitela, bītel (“beetle”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitilō, *bītil, from Proto-Germanic *bitilô, *bītilaz (“that which tends to bite, biter, beetle”), equivalent to bite + -le. Cognate with Old High German bicco (“beetle”), Danish bille (“beetle”), Icelandic bitil, bitul (“a bite, bit”), Faroese bitil (“small piece, bittock”).
senses_examples:
text:
He beetled off on his vacation.
type:
example
text:
I beetled across to our table, but no Pauline, no Mr Cresswell, no Mr Rudyard.
ref:
1982, A Woman of No Importance (TV programme)
text:
[…] But he seems to have beetled off somewhere as usual. […]
ref:
1983, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, Mountaineers Books, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
In the falling darkness Harry saw small collections of lights as they passed over more villages, then a winding road on which a single car was beetling its way home through the hills. …
ref:
2003, J. K. Rowling, “The Department of Mysteries”, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, page 766
type:
quotation
text:
Her eyes still closed, his aunt smiled cruelly. “I know what you are dying to say, Bertie. Go ahead—take the cheap shot. I’ll squash you like the nasty little bug you are.” ¶ Thus chastened, the little man beetled away.
ref:
2005, James Doss, The Witch's Tongue, page 178
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
senses_topics:
|
5692 | word:
beetle
word_type:
adj
expansion:
beetle (comparative more beetle, superlative most beetle)
forms:
form:
more beetle
tags:
comparative
form:
most beetle
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
beetle (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English bitel-brouwed (“beetle-browed”). Possibly after beetle, from the fact that some beetles have bushy antennae.
senses_examples:
text:
beetle brows
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Protruding, jutting, overhanging.
senses_topics:
|
5693 | word:
beetle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beetle (third-person singular simple present beetles, present participle beetling, simple past and past participle beetled)
forms:
form:
beetles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beetling
tags:
participle
present
form:
beetled
tags:
participle
past
form:
beetled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
beetle (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English bitel-brouwed (“beetle-browed”). Possibly after beetle, from the fact that some beetles have bushy antennae.
senses_examples:
text:
The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof.
type:
example
text:
Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.
ref:
1822, William Wordsworth, In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhin
type:
quotation
text:
I was indeed gently affected, and shared his fears, remembering well the bulging walls of the old house, and the toppling mass of heavy chimney work which beetled over the roof, beneath which these poor doves had made their nest.
ref:
1858 January-March, Dean of Pimlico, “A Story for the New Year”, in Dublin University Magazine reprinted in Littell's Living Age, volume 56 (volume 20 of the second series), Littell, Son & Company, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
Impelled by some obscure quest, I ascended a rift or cleft in this beetling precipice, noting as I did so the black mouths of many fearsome burrows extending from both walls into the depths of the stony plateau.
ref:
1941, Chapman Miske, The Thing in the Moonlight
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To loom over; to extend or jut.
senses_topics:
|
5694 | word:
beetle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beetle (plural beetles)
forms:
form:
beetles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
beetle (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English betel, from Old English bȳtel, bīetel (“hammer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautil (“hammer, mallet”), equivalent to beat + -le. Cognate with Low German Bötel (“mallet”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
senses_topics:
|
5695 | word:
beetle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beetle (third-person singular simple present beetles, present participle beetling, simple past and past participle beetled)
forms:
form:
beetles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beetling
tags:
participle
present
form:
beetled
tags:
participle
past
form:
beetled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
beetle (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English betel, from Old English bȳtel, bīetel (“hammer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautil (“hammer, mallet”), equivalent to beat + -le. Cognate with Low German Bötel (“mallet”).
senses_examples:
text:
to beetle cotton goods
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To beat with a heavy mallet.
To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
senses_topics:
|
5696 | word:
ad hoc
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ad hoc (comparative more ad hoc, superlative most ad hoc)
forms:
form:
more ad hoc
tags:
comparative
form:
most ad hoc
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from New Latin ad hoc (“to this, for this”).
senses_examples:
text:
Over the past 20 years or so, from South America to the Danube basin, ad hoc coalitions of politicians, activists and conscience-stricken billionaires (whose core activities, such as Povlsen’s clothing business, are often less than environmentally friendly), have rewilded millions of acres of mostly failed agricultural and grazing land.
ref:
2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Contrary to the traditional condoning of ad hoc hypotheses, and in line with Popper's and Grünbaum's approaches, we see, once an ad hoc hypothesis is introduced we are unhappy about it and try to eliminate it.
ref:
2012 December 6, J. Agassi, Science in Flux, Springer Science & Business Media, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
An ad hoc network is a group of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a temporary network without any fixed infrastructure or centralized administration. The applications for ad hoc networks have grown tremendously with the increase in the use of wireless sensor networks.
ref:
2007 April 23, Jagannathan Sarangapani, Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks: Protocols, Performance, and Control, CRC Press, page 233
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
For a particular purpose.
Created on the spur of the moment; impromptu.
Postulated solely to save a theory from being falsified, without making any new predictions.
Independent of previously instated network structure, like routers or access points.
senses_topics:
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
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5697 | word:
ad hoc
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ad hoc (comparative more ad hoc, superlative most ad hoc)
forms:
form:
more ad hoc
tags:
comparative
form:
most ad hoc
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from New Latin ad hoc (“to this, for this”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On the spur of the moment.
For a particular purpose.
senses_topics:
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5698 | word:
drew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drew
forms:
wikipedia:
drew
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow.
ref:
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
type:
quotation
text:
Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.
ref:
1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of draw
past participle of draw
senses_topics:
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5699 | word:
hither
word_type:
adv
expansion:
hither (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English hider, from Proto-Germanic *hidrê. Cognate with Latin citer.
senses_examples:
text:
He went hither and thither.
type:
example
text:
But the road left the river again; there were certainly twistings and turnings, as the old woman had said, for at one moment it wound hither and the next thither, and at some places it was almost imperceptible.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To this place, to here.
over here
senses_topics:
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