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5700 | word:
hither
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hither (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English hider, from Proto-Germanic *hidrê. Cognate with Latin citer.
senses_examples:
text:
The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil.
ref:
1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, Chatto & Windus, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On this side; the nearer.
senses_topics:
|
5701 | word:
befall
word_type:
verb
expansion:
befall (third-person singular simple present befalls, present participle befalling, simple past befell, past participle befallen)
forms:
form:
befalls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
befalling
tags:
participle
present
form:
befell
tags:
past
form:
befallen
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bifallen, from Old English befeallan, from Proto-Germanic *bifallaną; equivalent to be- + fall.
senses_examples:
text:
At dusk an unusual calm befalls the wetlands.
type:
example
text:
It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon [...] that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time.
ref:
1485 July 24, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter I, in William Caxton, editor, Le Morte D’Arthur, volume 1
type:
quotation
text:
Temptation befell me.
type:
example
text:
As we’ve said before, with the exception of communism itself, the euro has been the biggest economic catastrophe to befall the continent (and the world) since the 1930s.
ref:
2013 April 15, Walter Russell Mead, “The Wreck of the Euro”, in The American Interest, retrieved 2013-04-16
type:
quotation
text:
This wasn't the last tragedy to befall Reading. There were fatal accidents involving trains in 1855 and 1914, while on a lesser scale T E Lawrence (of Arabia) lost his precious manuscript of Seven Pillars of Wisdom when changing trains in 1919.
ref:
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in Rail, number 947, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
With a thought I tooke for Maudline
& a cruse of cockle pottage.
with a thing thus tall, skie blesse you all:
I befell into this dotage.
ref:
c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fall upon; fall all over; overtake
To happen.
To happen to.
To fall.
senses_topics:
|
5702 | word:
befall
word_type:
noun
expansion:
befall (plural befalls)
forms:
form:
befalls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bifallen, from Old English befeallan, from Proto-Germanic *bifallaną; equivalent to be- + fall.
senses_examples:
text:
Or he had tolde al his befall.
ref:
1495, William Caxton, Vitas Patrum
type:
quotation
text:
This is proposed to be done by moving necessary amendment in this befall to the Finance Bill.
ref:
1990, India. Parliament. House of the People, India. Parliament. Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha debates
type:
quotation
text:
He said "I would advise people to cultivate frugal habits. I will not commit the crime of making them helpless by saying that they have no responsibility whatever in the befall of calamities like old age, illness, accident, etc. …"
ref:
1994, Socialist Party (India), Janata: Volume 49
text:
[...], the word "care" asserting itself subliminally in somewhat the same way that "fall" does in the "befall" of "Infant Joy."
ref:
1996, Thomas Pfau, Rhonda Ray Kercsmar, Rhetorical and cultural dissolution in romanticism
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.
senses_topics:
|
5703 | word:
exeat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
exeat (plural exeats)
forms:
form:
exeats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin exeat, third-person singular subjunctive of exeō (“depart”) used as an impersonal imperative, literally “let him go forth”.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: absit
text:
[I]t was impossible to imagine her doing anything except eating ice-cream and smoking, like a child on an exeat from school.
ref:
1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: (plural form) exeunt
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).
A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
Leave of absence from a public school or college.
A stage direction to leave the stage.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
theater |
5704 | word:
bitten
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bitten
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically bit + -en.
senses_examples:
text:
My dog has never bitten anyone before.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of bite
senses_topics:
|
5705 | word:
bought
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bought
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See buy.
senses_examples:
text:
She bought an expensive bag last week.
type:
example
text:
People have bought gas masks.
type:
example
text:
Our products can be bought at your local store.
type:
example
text:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
ref:
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of buy.
senses_topics:
|
5706 | word:
bought
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bought (plural boughts)
forms:
form:
boughts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bought, bowght, bouȝt, *buȝt, probably an alteration of bight, biȝt, byȝt (“bend, bight”) after bowen, buwen, buȝen (“to bow, bend”). Cognate with Scots boucht, bucht, bout (“bend”). More at bight and bout.
senses_examples:
text:
the river it selfe turneth North east and is stil a navigable streame. On the westerne side of this bought is Tauxenent with 40 men.
ref:
1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 159
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
The part of a sling that contains the stone.
A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
senses_topics:
|
5707 | word:
dreamed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dreamed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
He was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long golden beaches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountains.
ref:
1952, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
type:
quotation
text:
[Charlie Brown:] Last night I dreamed about that little red-haired girl […]
ref:
1970 April 29, Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of dream
senses_topics:
|
5708 | word:
dwelt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dwelt
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of dwell
senses_topics:
|
5709 | word:
dwelled
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dwelled
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of dwell
senses_topics:
|
5710 | word:
clung
word_type:
verb
expansion:
clung
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of cling
senses_topics:
|
5711 | word:
clung
word_type:
adj
expansion:
clung (comparative more clung, superlative most clung)
forms:
form:
more clung
tags:
comparative
form:
most clung
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
wasted away; shrunken
senses_topics:
|
5712 | word:
hoist
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hoist (third-person singular simple present hoists, present participle hoisting, simple past and past participle hoisted or hoist)
forms:
form:
hoists
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hoisting
tags:
participle
present
form:
hoisted
tags:
participle
past
form:
hoisted
tags:
past
form:
hoist
tags:
participle
past
form:
hoist
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of earlier hoise (“to hoist”), apparently based on the past tense forms, from Middle Dutch hisen (“to hoist”). Compare modern Dutch hijsen (“to hoist”), German hissen (“to hoist”), Danish hejse (“to hoist”). Compare also French hisser (“to hoist”), Catalan hissar (“to hoist”), Italian issare (“to hoist”), Sicilian jisari (“to hoist”), all borrowed from a Germanic source.
senses_examples:
text:
They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails.
ref:
1725, Alexander Pope, The Odyssey, translation of original by Homer
type:
quotation
text:
[Abasalom's] ambition would needs be fingering the sceptre, and hoisting him into his father's throne
ref:
1675 October 17, Robert South, “Sermon XI. Of the odious Sin of Ingratitude”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, published 1866
type:
quotation
text:
And when skipper Richie McCaw hoisted the Webb Ellis Trophy high into the night, a quarter of a century of hurt was blown away in an explosion of fireworks and cheering.
ref:
2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Again Pilatus answered them, What shall I do to the Jew’s king? They again cried out and said, Hoist him! Then said Pilatus, What evil did he? They so much the more cried, Hoist him!
ref:
1881, H.C. Leonard, A Translation of the Anglo-Saxon Version of St. Mark’s Gospel, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
When you’ve reached neutral territory, when you’ve stashed the loot hoisted from the warlord’s mansion – well, he didn't have much use for it any more, did he?
ref:
2006, Margaret Atwood, The Tent
type:
quotation
text:
Why, it was nothing to travel about the country with fifty grand worth of ice on me. Suppose I hadn’t packed a roscoe—hell, I’d of been hoisted once a week!
ref:
1948, Leslie Charteris, Saint Errant, page 103
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).
To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
To lift someone up to be flogged.
To be lifted up.
To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
To steal.
To rob.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
5713 | word:
hoist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hoist (plural hoists)
forms:
form:
hoists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of earlier hoise (“to hoist”), apparently based on the past tense forms, from Middle Dutch hisen (“to hoist”). Compare modern Dutch hijsen (“to hoist”), German hissen (“to hoist”), Danish hejse (“to hoist”). Compare also French hisser (“to hoist”), Catalan hissar (“to hoist”), Italian issare (“to hoist”), Sicilian jisari (“to hoist”), all borrowed from a Germanic source.
senses_examples:
text:
Give me a hoist over that wall.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any member of certain classes of devices that hoist things.
The act of hoisting; a lift.
The triangular vertical position of a flag, as opposed to the flying state, or triangular vertical position of a sail, when flying from a mast.
The position of a flag (on a mast) or of a sail on a ship when lifted up to its highest level.
The position of a main fore-and-aft topsail on a ship and fore fore-and-aft topsail on a ship.
senses_topics:
|
5714 | word:
molar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
molar (plural molars)
forms:
form:
molars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English molar, from Latin molāris (“millstone, molar”).
senses_examples:
text:
Jamie had a molar removed as it was decaying.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food.
senses_topics:
|
5715 | word:
molar
word_type:
adj
expansion:
molar (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English molar, from Latin molāris (“millstone, molar”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the molar teeth, or to grinding.
senses_topics:
|
5716 | word:
molar
word_type:
adj
expansion:
molar (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mol(e) + -ar in the chemistry usage.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one mole of solute per litre of solution.
Of or relating to a complete body of matter as distinct from its molecular or atomic constituents.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
5717 | word:
molar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
molar (plural molars)
forms:
form:
molars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mol(e) + -ar in the chemistry usage.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of concentration equal to one mole per litre.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
5718 | word:
built
word_type:
adj
expansion:
built (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
well-built, muscular or toned.
senses_topics:
|
5719 | word:
built
word_type:
noun
expansion:
built (plural builts)
forms:
form:
builts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
the built of a ship
text:
The sailor sees the burthen, the built, and the distance of a ship at sea, while she is a great way off.
ref:
1764, Thomas Reid, Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Shape; build; form of structure.
senses_topics:
|
5720 | word:
built
word_type:
verb
expansion:
built
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of build
past participle of build
senses_topics:
|
5721 | word:
eyelid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eyelid (plural eyelids)
forms:
form:
eyelids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eyelidd, eye-led, eiȝelid, eghe-lydd, yȝe-lydd, ehlid, yhelidd, equivalent to eye + lid. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oogenlid (“eyelid”), West Frisian eachlid (“eyelid”), Dutch ooglid (“eyelid”), German Low German Ooglidd (“eyelid”), German Augenlid (“eyelid”).
Generally superseded non-native Middle English palpebre (“eyelid”), borrowed from Latin palpebra (“eyelid”) (see Modern English palpebra).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.
senses_topics:
|
5722 | word:
fought
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fought
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of fight
senses_topics:
|
5723 | word:
north
word_type:
noun
expansion:
north (countable and uncountable, plural norths)
forms:
form:
norths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English north, from Old English norþ, from Proto-West Germanic *norþr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą, ultimately, these may derive from either: (a) Proto-Indo-European *h₁ner- (“inner, under”), from *h₁en (“in”); (b) alternatively from a Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“left, below”), as north is to the left when one faces the rising sun.
Cognate with various Germanic counterparts such as Dutch noord, West Frisian noard, German Nord, Danish and Norwegian nord; also with Greek νέρτερος (nérteros, “infernal, lower”).
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: (abbreviation) N
text:
Minnesota is in the north of the USA.
type:
example
text:
Stock prices are heading back towards the north.
type:
example
text:
[…] and after independence the north clung to sugar production longer than the south, with the result that when the north took […]
ref:
2002, Mats Lundahl, Politics or Markets?: Essays on Haitian Underdevelopment, Routledge
type:
quotation
text:
If candidates stand on the liturgical south facing the presider and liturgical assistants on the liturgical north, it will present better visual lines for the congregation than if they stand facing east and west with their backs toward the congregation.
ref:
1998, Leonel L. Mitchell, Pastoral and Occasional Liturgies: A Ceremonial Guide, Rowman & Littlefield, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Many early Christian basilicas were designed with twin ambos for the proclamation of the epistle (on the liturgical south side) and the Gospel (on the north). The separation of the ambos indicated the distinction that should be accorded the Gospel, which was proclaimed from the north as if evangelization needed to happen to the geographically southern part of the world.
ref:
2011, Paul Turner, At the Supper of the Lamb: A Pastoral and Theological Commentary on the Mass, LiturgyTrainingPublications, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
At St. Andrew's, ecclesiastical north, south, east, and west correspond to geographical northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest.
ref:
2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press, page 365
type:
quotation
text:
The new St Mary's Anglican Church, Walkerville, has an attached rectory flanking to the liturgical south and an attached parish hall flanking to the liturgical north, both half-timbered in the Tudor Revival style. [Referring to a church that is oriented SSE, making "south" WSW]
ref:
2017, Cameron Macdonell, Ghost Storeys: Ralph Adams Cram, Modern Gothic Media, and Deconstructive Microhistory at a Canadian Church, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The direction towards the pole to the left-hand side of someone facing east, specifically 0°, or (on another celestial object) the direction towards the pole lying on the northern side of the invariable plane.
The up or positive direction.
The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).
Alternative letter-case form of North (“a northern region; the inhabitants thereof”).
In a church: the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion |
5724 | word:
north
word_type:
adj
expansion:
north (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English north, from Old English norþ, from Proto-West Germanic *norþr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą, ultimately, these may derive from either: (a) Proto-Indo-European *h₁ner- (“inner, under”), from *h₁en (“in”); (b) alternatively from a Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“left, below”), as north is to the left when one faces the rising sun.
Cognate with various Germanic counterparts such as Dutch noord, West Frisian noard, German Nord, Danish and Norwegian nord; also with Greek νέρτερος (nérteros, “infernal, lower”).
senses_examples:
text:
He lived in north Germany.
text:
She entered through the north gate.
text:
The most dangerous ones are those that develop during October and November and that follow a north path affecting the western part of the island.
ref:
1987, Ana María Brull Vázquez, Rosa E. Casas, Cuba, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
The north wind was cold.
type:
example
text:
north highway 1
text:
Traffic was doing the speed limit on North I-45 one minute and had come to a stand-still the next.
ref:
2001, Joseph R Miller, Pipe Tobacco and Wool
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the high church had liked its clergy to preside at the Eucharist in an ad orientem position; the low church advocated what was called the north end position; but the Liturgical Movement asked the priest to take a basilical position, facing liturgical west, and now both Anglican factions could agree on this third position without either of them losing face.
ref:
2011, Michael Attridge, Catherine E. Clifford, Gilles Routhier, Vatican II: Expériences canadiennes – Canadian experiences, University of Ottawa Press, page 145
type:
quotation
text:
Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, […] The north side faces the river (beyond the subdivision behind the church), and the south side, Ashley River Road. […] At St. Andrew's, ecclesiastical north, south, east, and west correspond to geographical northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest. Unless otherwise indicated, compass directions given in this book are ecclesiastical, not geographical, reference points.
ref:
2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press, page 365
type:
quotation
text:
The wedding ended up costing north of $50,000.
type:
example
text:
The price you're offering had better be north of the highest price this company has ever traded for.
ref:
1993, Barbarians at the Gate, spoken by Charlie Hugel (Tom Aldredge)
type:
quotation
text:
Some of the windscreens we replace cost north of $1800[.]
ref:
2021 December 24, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 57, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
Toward the north; northward.
Of wind, from the north.
Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.
Designating, or situated in, the liturgical north (in a church, the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar).
More or greater than.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
|
5725 | word:
north
word_type:
adv
expansion:
north (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English north, from Old English norþ, from Proto-West Germanic *norþr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą, ultimately, these may derive from either: (a) Proto-Indo-European *h₁ner- (“inner, under”), from *h₁en (“in”); (b) alternatively from a Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“left, below”), as north is to the left when one faces the rising sun.
Cognate with various Germanic counterparts such as Dutch noord, West Frisian noard, German Nord, Danish and Norwegian nord; also with Greek νέρτερος (nérteros, “infernal, lower”).
senses_examples:
text:
Switzerland is north of Italy.
type:
example
text:
We headed north.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Toward the north; northward; northerly.
senses_topics:
|
5726 | word:
north
word_type:
verb
expansion:
north (third-person singular simple present norths, present participle northing, simple past and past participle northed)
forms:
form:
norths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
northing
tags:
participle
present
form:
northed
tags:
participle
past
form:
northed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English north, from Old English norþ, from Proto-West Germanic *norþr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą, ultimately, these may derive from either: (a) Proto-Indo-European *h₁ner- (“inner, under”), from *h₁en (“in”); (b) alternatively from a Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“left, below”), as north is to the left when one faces the rising sun.
Cognate with various Germanic counterparts such as Dutch noord, West Frisian noard, German Nord, Danish and Norwegian nord; also with Greek νέρτερος (nérteros, “infernal, lower”).
senses_examples:
text:
When at B you had northed 3.71[…]
ref:
1769, Henry Wilson, William Hume, Surveying improved, page 239
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To turn or move toward the north.
senses_topics:
|
5727 | word:
Basque
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Basque (plural Basques)
forms:
form:
Basques
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Basque
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of a cultural and ethnic people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.
senses_topics:
|
5728 | word:
Basque
word_type:
name
expansion:
Basque
forms:
wikipedia:
Basque
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of the Basque people.
senses_topics:
|
5729 | word:
Basque
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Basque (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Basque
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to the Basque people or their language.
senses_topics:
|
5730 | word:
thither
word_type:
adv
expansion:
thither (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thider, from Old English þider, an alteration (probably by analogy with hider (“hither”)) of earlier þæder (“to there”), from Proto-Germanic *þadrê.
senses_examples:
text:
The argument tended thither.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To that place.
To that point, end, or result.
senses_topics:
|
5731 | word:
thither
word_type:
adj
expansion:
thither (comparative —, superlative thithermost)
forms:
form:
thithermost
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thider, from Old English þider, an alteration (probably by analogy with hider (“hither”)) of earlier þæder (“to there”), from Proto-Germanic *þadrê.
senses_examples:
text:
the thither side of life, that is to say, afterlife
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The farther, the other and more distant.
senses_topics:
|
5732 | word:
preposition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
preposition (plural prepositions)
forms:
form:
prepositions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
preposition
etymology_text:
From Middle English preposicioun, from Old French preposicion, from Latin praepositio, praepositionem, from praepono (“to place before”), equivalent to pre- + position. Compare French préposition. So called because it is placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in a bridge of iron, he comes from town, it is good for food, he escaped by running.
senses_examples:
text:
And in (121) below, we see that when a wh-NP is used as the Object of a Preposition, the whole Prepositional Phrase can undergo WH MOVEMENT:
(121) (a) [To whom] can I send this letter —?
(121) (b) [About what] are they quarrelling —?
(121) (c) [In which book] did you read about it —?
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 9, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 495
type:
quotation
text:
I love this girl. “On which I can get my hands” — even in her darkest moment, she cannot bring herself to end a sentence with a preposition.
ref:
2014 June 1, “Net Neutrality”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 5, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
[…] he made a longe preposicion & oracion cōcernynge yͤ allegiaūce which he exortyd his lordes to owe
ref:
1811 [1516], Robert Fabyan, edited by Sir Henry Ellis, The New Chronicles of England and France, page 116
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
An adposition.
A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
5733 | word:
preposition
word_type:
verb
expansion:
preposition (third-person singular simple present prepositions, present participle prepositioning, simple past and past participle prepositioned)
forms:
form:
prepositions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
prepositioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
prepositioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
prepositioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
preposition
etymology_text:
From pre- + position.
senses_examples:
text:
It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of pre-position.
senses_topics:
|
5734 | word:
lose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lose (third-person singular simple present loses, present participle losing, simple past and past participle lost)
forms:
form:
loses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
losing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lost
tags:
participle
past
form:
lost
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
lose
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English losen, from Old English losian, from Proto-Germanic *lusōną, *luzōną, from Proto-Germanic *lusą. The modern pronunciation with /uː/ is due to conflation with loose.
senses_examples:
text:
Johnny lost a tooth, but kept it for the tooth fairy.
type:
example
text:
He lost his spleen in a car wreck.
type:
example
text:
I’ve lost five pounds this week.
type:
example
text:
She lost all her sons in the war.
type:
example
text:
Frank had lost $500 staying in Vegas.
type:
example
text:
Users who engage in disruptive behavior may lose their accounts.
text:
Douglas: I took some of the pension money out of the bank and I lost it on a horse.
Nolan: Gambling with our employees' pensions?
Douglas: Gambling? No. I was riding the horse. It fell out of my pocket.
ref:
2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1
text:
Forest, who lost striker Kris Boyd to injury seconds before half-time, produced little after the break, with a Tyson sliced shot from 12 yards their only opportunity of note.
ref:
2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2-1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
If you lose that ten-pound note, you'll be sorry.
type:
example
text:
He lost his hearing in the explosion.
type:
example
text:
She lost her position when the company was taken over.
type:
example
text:
I lost my way in the forest.
type:
example
text:
We lost the football match.
type:
example
text:
You just lost The Game.
type:
example
text:
I fought the battle bravely which I lost, / And lost it but to Macedonians.
ref:
1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
type:
quotation
text:
Well, some news from overseas: according to a new report, Russia is now buying military supplies from North Korea. Yep, Russia's asking North Korea for help. Uh, tell us you're losing the war without telling us you're losing the war.
ref:
2022 September 7, 5:25 from the start, in Trump Tried to Pay Lawyer with a Horse, Also Stole Material on Foreign Nation's Nuclear Capabilities (Comedy), spoken by Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, archived from the original on 2022-09-08
type:
quotation
text:
The policeman lost the robber he was chasing.
type:
example
text:
Mission control lost the satellite as its signal died down.
type:
example
text:
We managed to lose our pursuers in the forest.
type:
example
text:
I can see Mickie getting hot, I'm about to grab his arm, hold him back, say, Whoa, whoa, Mick, not here, it ain't worth it what happened inside just now. But I don't need to because Mickie loses his anger, starts smiling at ponytail, then melodramatically starts looking around at the men and women on the street going in and out of the courthouse.
ref:
2007, Ron Liebman, Death by Rodrigo, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
Her attitude was so bad my mother wound up telling her, “You know we really don't have to be standing here talking to you, so you can lose the attitude or you can leave.
ref:
2012, Tracy Brooks, Dancing in the Rain, page 349
type:
quotation
text:
When we get into the building, please lose the hat.
type:
example
text:
You can bet that the next woman who "loses" the top half of her bikini at the beach was born under the sign of Libra.
ref:
1976, Martine, Sexual Astrology
type:
quotation
text:
My watch loses five minutes a week.
type:
example
text:
It's already 5:30? My watch must have lost a few minutes.
type:
example
text:
O false heart! thou hadst almost betrayed me to eternal flames, and lost me this glory.
ref:
1650, Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
type:
quotation
text:
a. 1699, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, On the Excesses of Grief
How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion?
text:
This lost Catholicism […] any semblance of a claim to special status, and also highlighted the gains which other religious formations had derived from the Revolution.
ref:
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 556
type:
quotation
text:
I lost a part of what he said.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability.
To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability.
To shed (weight).
To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability.
To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability.
To pay or owe (some wager) due from an unsuccessful bet or gamble.
To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability.
To be deprived of (some right or privileged access to something).
To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability.
To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc).
To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
senses_topics:
|
5735 | word:
lose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lose
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French los, loos, from Latin laudēs, plural of laus (“praise”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fame, renown; praise.
senses_topics:
|
5736 | word:
drawn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drawn
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically draw + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
ref:
2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of draw
senses_topics:
|
5737 | word:
drawn
word_type:
adj
expansion:
drawn (comparative more drawn, superlative most drawn)
forms:
form:
more drawn
tags:
comparative
form:
most drawn
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically draw + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
tractor-drawn implement
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Depleted.
Depleted.
Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.
undecided; having no definite winner and loser; at a draw.
Pulled, towed, or extracted in the specified fashion.
senses_topics:
|
5738 | word:
path
word_type:
noun
expansion:
path (plural paths)
forms:
form:
paths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
path
etymology_text:
From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”) (compare West Frisian paad, Dutch pad, German Pfad), Ancient Greek πατέω (patéō) / πάτος (pátos), from Iranian (compare Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬀 (panta, “way”), 𐬞𐬀𐬚𐬀 (paθa, genitive), Old Persian [script needed] (pathi-)), from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs (compare Sanskrit पन्था (panthā), पथ (patha)), from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s, from *pent- (“path”) (compare English find). Doublet of panth.
senses_examples:
text:
the path of a meteor, of a caravan, or of a storm
type:
example
text:
As I explored the possibility of a library science path, having previously been employed in libraries during my school career and afterwards, I decided that I needed to actually experience work in a library setting full time again […]
ref:
2002, Priscilla K. Shontz, Steven J. Oberg, Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
Use the network path \\Marketing\Files to find the documents you need.
type:
example
text:
"Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of being strung out over several block sections, as would be necessary if absolute working were in force.
ref:
1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, in Modern Railways, page 232
type:
quotation
text:
... while the planned hourly fast 'Connect' service from Middlesbrough to Newcastle has been postponed indefinitely due to problems in finding paths for it on the East Coast main line.
ref:
2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival: December 2019 changes”, in Modern Railways, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
Echoing McNaughton's comments in 2009, it adds: "The WCML has exhausted its available train paths and no extra services could be run without further significant investment to enhance current infrastructure or build a new line.
ref:
2020 May 6, Philip Haigh, “Just one more stop on the long journey to HS2 fulfillment [sic]”, in Rail, page 65
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
A course taken.
A metaphorical course or route; progress.
A method or direction of proceeding.
A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
A continuous map f from the unit interval I=[0,1] to a topological space X.
A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
paganism
religion
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
topology
rail-transport
railways
transport |
5739 | word:
path
word_type:
verb
expansion:
path (third-person singular simple present paths, present participle pathing, simple past and past participle pathed)
forms:
form:
paths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pathing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pathed
tags:
participle
past
form:
pathed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
path
etymology_text:
From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”) (compare West Frisian paad, Dutch pad, German Pfad), Ancient Greek πατέω (patéō) / πάτος (pátos), from Iranian (compare Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬀 (panta, “way”), 𐬞𐬀𐬚𐬀 (paθa, genitive), Old Persian [script needed] (pathi-)), from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs (compare Sanskrit पन्था (panthā), पथ (patha)), from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s, from *pent- (“path”) (compare English find). Doublet of panth.
senses_examples:
text:
Next, you need to path to the location of the executable and run it from there.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
To navigate through a file system directory tree (to a desired file or folder).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5740 | word:
path
word_type:
noun
expansion:
path (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
path
etymology_text:
Shortening.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pathology.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
5741 | word:
meringue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meringue (countable and uncountable, plural meringues)
forms:
form:
meringues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Meiringen
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French meringue. Historically, it was believed that meringue was invented in and named for the Swiss village of Meiringen, but the term is now thought to derive instead from Middle Dutch meringue (“light evening meal”), of unclear origin:
* perhaps from Latin merenda (“light evening meal”), or
* perhaps from Middle Dutch *meren (“to dip or soak bread”), from Old Dutch *meren, itself of unclear origin:
** perhaps from Proto-Germanic *marjaną (“to grind, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pack”).
** perhaps from Proto-Germanic *marhin (“soup of bread and wine or water”), from Proto-Indo-European *mark-, *merk- (“wet”).
Compare Middle Low German meringe (from mern (“to dip bread in wine”)), Middle High German merunge (from mëren (“to soak bread in wine or water for dinner”)), Old English merian (“to purify, cleanse, test”). Doublet of merengue.
senses_examples:
text:
The key to a good baked Alaska is the meringue topping.
type:
example
text:
Shirley likes to have strawberry with her meringue.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mixture consisting of beaten egg whites and sugar which is added to the tops of pies then browned.
A shell made of this mixture which serves as the receptacle for fruit, ice cream or sherbet.
senses_topics:
|
5742 | word:
meringue
word_type:
verb
expansion:
meringue (third-person singular simple present meringues, present participle meringuing, simple past and past participle meringued)
forms:
form:
meringues
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
meringuing
tags:
participle
present
form:
meringued
tags:
participle
past
form:
meringued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Meiringen
meringue
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French meringue. Historically, it was believed that meringue was invented in and named for the Swiss village of Meiringen, but the term is now thought to derive instead from Middle Dutch meringue (“light evening meal”), of unclear origin:
* perhaps from Latin merenda (“light evening meal”), or
* perhaps from Middle Dutch *meren (“to dip or soak bread”), from Old Dutch *meren, itself of unclear origin:
** perhaps from Proto-Germanic *marjaną (“to grind, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pack”).
** perhaps from Proto-Germanic *marhin (“soup of bread and wine or water”), from Proto-Indo-European *mark-, *merk- (“wet”).
Compare Middle Low German meringe (from mern (“to dip bread in wine”)), Middle High German merunge (from mëren (“to soak bread in wine or water for dinner”)), Old English merian (“to purify, cleanse, test”). Doublet of merengue.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To prepare as a meringue dish.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle |
5743 | word:
exit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
exit (plural exits)
forms:
form:
exits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English exit, from Latin exitus (“departure, going out; way by which one may go out, egress; (figuratively) conclusion, termination; (figuratively) death; income, revenue”), from exeō (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). Exeō is derived from ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’) + eō (“to go”) (ultimately from ). The English word is cognate with Italian esito, Portuguese êxito, Spanish éxito. Doublet of ejido.
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
He made his exit at the opportune time.
type:
example
text:
On the firſt Day of the eleventh Month of the fortieth Year after the Exit from Egypt, Moſes, after he had numbred the People in the Plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, and found that there was not left a Man of thoſe, whom he had almoſt forty Years before numbered in the Wilderneſs of Sinai, ſave Caleb and Joſhua, by the Command of God made a Covenant with the Iſraelites in the Land of Moab, [...]
ref:
1740, Samuel Shuckford, “Book XI”, in The Sacred and Prophane History of the World Connected, […], 2nd edition, volume III, London: Printed for H. Knaplock, and J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, →OCLC, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
[...] I have purſued you like your ſhadow; I have beſieg'd your door for a glimpſe of your exit and entrance, like a diſtreſſed creditor, who has no arms againſt privilege but perſeverance.
ref:
1762 (first performance), Samuel Foote, The Lyar. A Comedy in Three Acts. […], London: Printed for G. Kearsly, […], published 1764, →OCLC, act I, scene ii, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
The entrance of the river Dart into this bay, as well as its exit into the sea, appear from many situations closed up by the sinuosity of the banks, and give it the form of an inland lake, while the rocks on its sides, composed of glossy purple-coloured slate, have their summits fringed with various plants and shrubs.
ref:
1834, Thomas Moule, W[illiam] Westall, illustrator, “Devonshire. [Dartmouth Castle.]”, in The Landscape Album; or, Great Britain Illustrated: […] Second Series, London: Charles Tilt, […], →OCLC, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Ogilvie, surgeon, deposed that he, in company with Mr. Andrews, had examined the body of George Catt, and found upon him a gun-shot wound, which had entered the right cheek, passed through the mouth and lower part of the brain, making its exit at the posterior and lower part of the bone on the left side of the head.
ref:
1838 June 11, “Inquests on the Rioters”, in The Champion and Weekly Herald, volume 2, number 5 (New Series), London: Printed and published by Richard Cobbett, […], →OCLC, column 141
type:
quotation
text:
Why do directors assume that exits and entrances need not be rehearsed?
ref:
1968, Leon C. Miller, “Blocking the Play”, in How to Direct the High School Play, Chicago, Ill.: The Dramatic Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 39 and 43
type:
quotation
text:
emergency exit fire exit
type:
example
text:
He was looking for the exit and got lost.
type:
example
text:
She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside.
type:
example
text:
[F]or the audience, a direct exit in front of the proscenium wall is preferable to one through it. It seems to us, in fact, that that exits at this point on both sides ought to be de rigueur; for in the first place, it is important not only that there should be many exits, but that they should be as wisely distributed as possible.
ref:
1877 February 17, “The Proposed Act for the Security of Theatres in New York”, in The American Architect and Building News, volume II, number 60, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Osgood & Co. publishers […], →OCLC, page 51, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Ejecting a Violent Patron [...] If a patron is struggling and floormen can hardly keep him under control, the patron must be brought out the nearest exit so the patron cannot harm himself or other patrons. If both parties involved are struggling, both parties must be taken out the nearest exits, but not the same exit. If both parties are ejected at the same time, through the same exit, the altercation will continue outside the club and your floormen will have to break it up again [...].
ref:
2004, Robert A. McManus, Sean M. O’Toole, “Everyday Security Topics, Procedures, and Operations”, in Kathryn M. Gainey, editor, The Nightclub, Bar and Restaurant Security Handbook, 3rd edition, Swampscott, Mass.: Locksley Publishing, section II.3 (Ejections), page 125
type:
quotation
text:
When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any controlled access highway except at such entrances and exits as have been designated by the department.
ref:
1972, “Article III—Driving on Right Side of Roadway—Overtaking and Passing—Use of Roadway”, in Traffic Laws Annotated, Washington, D.C.: National Committee on Uniform Laws and Ordinances, →OCLC, § 11-312 (Restricted Access), page 348
type:
quotation
text:
From Washington Dulles International, follow the signs to Interstate 66 east to Washington. Follow I-66 to the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge (US Route 50). take the Constitution Ave exit off of the bridge.
ref:
2002, “Driving Instructions”, in African Studies Association 45th Annual Meeting: Preliminary Program, [Camden, N.J.]: [African Studies Association], page 2, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
the untimely exit of a respected politician
type:
example
text:
I have contrived a most effectual machine for the easy decapitation for such as chuse that noble and honourable exit; which no doubt must give great satisfaction to all persons of quality, and those who would imitate them.
ref:
1756 September 9, “Thursday, September 9, 1756”, in The World, number 193, London: Printed for R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley [...] and sold by M. Cooper [...], →OCLC; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The British Essayists; with Prefaces Historical and Biographical, volume XXIX, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, [et al.], 1808, →OCLC, page 200
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
A way out.
An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
A way out.
A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
The act of departing from life; death.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
road
transport
|
5744 | word:
exit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
exit (third-person singular simple present exits, present participle exiting, simple past and past participle exited)
forms:
form:
exits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
exiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
exited
tags:
participle
past
form:
exited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English exit, from Latin exitus (“departure, going out; way by which one may go out, egress; (figuratively) conclusion, termination; (figuratively) death; income, revenue”), from exeō (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). Exeō is derived from ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’) + eō (“to go”) (ultimately from ). The English word is cognate with Italian esito, Portuguese êxito, Spanish éxito. Doublet of ejido.
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Come, good Remus, our men await us. Let the lion roar and roam to-day; he may be of service; to-morrow, perchance we'll chain him. [Exit Stephano right fourth entrance. Soft music. Remus, exiting, looks hard at Romulus. Exit Remus right fourth entrance.]
ref:
1873, Henry A. Carroll, Romulus: An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts, Memphis, Tenn.: Partee & Matthews, book and job printers, →OCLC, act I, scene iii, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Lucy enters at 11 o'clock and runs to her mother after blowing kiss to audience with both hands. They both exit at 11 o'clock, after Appleby's line. Ethel crosses to her victim at 3 o'clock, winks at him and then looks over her shoulder as she crosses to door at 1 o'clock, where she speaks her line and exits.
ref:
1971, Henning Nelms, “Note on Curtain Calls”, in Only an Orphan Girl: A Soul-stirring Drama of Human Trials and Tribulations in Four Acts, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, →OCLC, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
The sciatic nerve exits via the greater sciatic foramen and may in fact be divided by all or part of the piriformis muscle. The pudendal nerve exits via greater sciatic foramen and enters perineum via the lesser sciatic foramen.
ref:
1993, Thomas R. Gest, William E. Burkel, Nicholas A. Waanders, “Gluteal Region and Posterior Thigh”, in Review Questions for Gross Anatomy & Embryology, New York, N.Y., Carnforth, Lancashire: Parthenon Publishing Group, page 294, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
A disinfectant footbath is recommended when exiting from the isolation area. Shoe covers or booties can be placed over shoes prior to entering the isolation ward and disposed of immediately before exiting.
ref:
2014, Jennifer Serling, “Disease Transmission, Control, and Prevention”, in Paula Pattengale, Terea Sonsthagen, Tasks for the Veterinary Assistant, 3rd edition, Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell, task 5.4 (Isolation Ward Rules and Sanitation), page 116
type:
quotation
text:
Desdemona exits stage left.
text:
Common Lisp provides a facility for exiting from a complex process in a non-local, dynamically scoped manner.
ref:
1990, Guy L[ewis] Steele Jr. et al., “Control Structure”, in Common Lisp: The Language, 2nd edition, [Bedford, Mass.]: Digital Press, section 7.11 (Dynamic Non-local Exits), page 187
type:
quotation
text:
Every ZAF program needs to call a routine like this to exit the application. Just put it in your library and be done with it.
ref:
1995, Roland Hughes, “Tricks You Should Already Have”, in Zinc It!: Interfacing Third Party Libraries with Crossplatform GUI’s, Evanston, Ill.: John Gordon Burke Publisher, section 3.5 (exit_program() Function), page 3-6
type:
quotation
text:
At approximately 10:35 a.m. said John Doe exited 110 East 36th Street without the brown paper bag. [...] On four occasions, said John Doe was observed exiting 110 East 36th Street and observed on two occasions entering apartment actually marked 71, but meaning apartment 710 on seventh floor of 150 East 35th Street.
ref:
1970 January 6, Morris Edward Lasker, United States District Judge, United States of America -v- James Armiento and Edward Jernek, Defendants [Opinion of the Court] (no. 36451), [New York, N.Y.]: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; reprinted in Edward Jernek, Petitioner, against United States of America, Respondent: Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (docket no. 34984), South River, N.J., New York, N.Y.: Lutz Appellate Printers, 17 June 1971, appendix B, footnote c, page 20a
type:
quotation
text:
More than one-quarter (26 per cent) poor in 1991 exited poverty in 1992.
ref:
1995 August, Poverty’s Revolving Door (Bureau of the Census Statistical Brief; SB/95-20), [Washington, D.C.]: Bureau of the Census, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, →OCLC, page 1, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Many owners of private businesses will make the decision to exit their businesses because they have reached natural retirement age, or because they are ill, or because they have decided for personal reasons that they have just had enough.
ref:
2002, John Hawkey, “The Importance of Time and Timing”, in Exit Strategy Planning: Grooming Your Business for Sale or Succession, Aldershot, Hampshire, Burlington, Vt.: Gower Publishing, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
[C]ommunity-based programmes for women exiting prison work most effectively when cultural issues are a primary consideration and relationships of trust are already established.
ref:
2011, Dot Goulding, “Breaking the Cycle: Addressing Cultural Difference in Rehabilitation Programmes”, in Rosemary Sheehan, Gill McIvor, Chris Trotter, editors, Working with Women Offenders in the Community, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Willan Publishing, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
These geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) can become a hazard when they flow through conducting infrastructure, usually entering and exiting networks where equipment is grounded to Earth.
ref:
2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
When Walsh exited the "Q" train, he walked three blocks underground on the concourse which took him into the World Trade Center, the twin towers which highlight the skyline of lower Manhattan.
ref:
1994, William F. Roemer, Jr., Mob Power Plays: The Mob Attempts Control of Congress, Casinos and Baseball: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: S.P.I. Books, Shapolsky Publishers, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
West now plays a low club to the J and Q. North exits in a trump.
ref:
2014, D. K. Acharya, Standard Methods of Contract Bridge Complete, page 173
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
To depart from life; to die.
To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
To give up the lead.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
theater
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
bridge
games |
5745 | word:
exit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
exit
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin exit, the third-person singular present active indicative of exeō (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”); see further at etymology 1 above.
senses_examples:
text:
Agnes exit rapidly, and Ravenſburg is partly perſuaded, and partly forced off, by the Prince Palatine. END OF ACT I.
ref:
1810 July, Frederic Reynolds, “The Free Knights; or The Edict of Charlemagne. A Drama, in Three Acts, Interspersed with Music; as Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.”, in The Jersey Magazine; or Monthly Recorder, volume II, number 7, Jersey: Printed and published by J. Stead, →OCLC, act I, scene iii, page 325, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater |
5746 | word:
blew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blew
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of blow
past participle of blow
senses_topics:
|
5747 | word:
blew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blew (countable and uncountable, plural blews)
forms:
form:
blews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of blue.
senses_topics:
|
5748 | word:
blew
word_type:
adj
expansion:
blew (comparative more blew, superlative most blew)
forms:
form:
more blew
tags:
comparative
form:
most blew
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of blue.
senses_topics:
|
5749 | word:
Turk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Turk (plural Turks)
forms:
form:
Turks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Turke, Turk, from Old French Turc, from Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /turk/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥). See Proto-Turkic *tür(ü)k for more.
senses_examples:
text:
It is no good reason for a man's religion that he was born and brought up in it; for then a Turk would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian.
ref:
1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation
type:
quotation
text:
Was neuer any Impe so wicked and barbarous, any Turke so vyle and brutishe.
ref:
1579, John Lyly, Euphues, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
A sort of primitive barbarity distinguishes the whole; no variety of character appears; and to call a man Turk is to say, that he is jealous, haughty, covetous, ignorant, and lascivious; at the same time that a certain dignity of gait, and magnificence of manners, gives him the appearance of generosity and true greatness of soul.
ref:
1760, Tobias George Smollett, editor, The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 9, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
A bad temper does seem often favourable to health. The man who has been a Turk all his life lives long to plague all about him.
ref:
1987, Anne Mozley, Essays from "Blackwood", page 21
type:
quotation
text:
As much as the wilfully or naturally blunted, the intelligently honest have to learn by touch: only, their understandings cannot meanwhile be so wholly obtuse as our society's matron, acting to please the tastes of the civilized man—a creature that is not clean-washed of the Turk in him—barbarously exacts.
ref:
1906, George Meredith, One of our conquerors, page 292
type:
quotation
text:
They regarded the very word Turk as synonymous with ignorance, impoliteness, and idiocy. To call a man 'Turk' was regarded as a great dishonour to him.
ref:
1928, Luṫfī Levonian, Moslem mentality: a discussion of the presentation of Christianity to Moslems, page 85
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A speaker of the various Turkic languages.
A person from Turkey or of Turkish ethnic descent.
A Muslim.
a Christian horse-archer in Crusader army (Turcopole).
A bloodthirsty and savage person; vandal; barbarian.
A member of a Mestee group in South Carolina.
A person from Llanelli, Wales.
A Turkish horse.
The plum curculio.
senses_topics:
|
5750 | word:
Turk
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Turk (comparative more Turk, superlative most Turk)
forms:
form:
more Turk
tags:
comparative
form:
most Turk
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Turke, Turk, from Old French Turc, from Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /turk/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥). See Proto-Turkic *tür(ü)k for more.
senses_examples:
text:
Kazakhstan is officially a bilingual country: Kazakh, a Turk language spoken natively by mainly the Kazakh population, has the status of the 'state' language, [...]
ref:
2017, Karen Malone, Children in the Anthropocene
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Turkic
Synonym of Turkish
senses_topics:
|
5751 | word:
Turk
word_type:
name
expansion:
Turk
forms:
wikipedia:
Turk (surname)
etymology_text:
From Middle English Turke, Turk, from Old French Turc, from Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /turk/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥). See Proto-Turkic *tür(ü)k for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
5752 | word:
lech
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lech (plural leches)
forms:
form:
leches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lech
etymology_text:
Back-formation from lecher.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A strong, lecherous desire or craving.
A lecher.
senses_topics:
|
5753 | word:
lech
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lech (third-person singular simple present leches, present participle leching, simple past and past participle leched)
forms:
form:
leches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
leching
tags:
participle
present
form:
leched
tags:
participle
past
form:
leched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
lech
etymology_text:
Back-formation from lecher.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To behave lecherously.
senses_topics:
|
5754 | word:
lech
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lech (plural lechs)
forms:
form:
lechs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lech
etymology_text:
From Welsh llech (“slate, slab”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capstone of a cromlech.
senses_topics:
|
5755 | word:
flung
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flung
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of fling
senses_topics:
|
5756 | word:
dreamt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dreamt
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dream + -t.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of dream
senses_topics:
|
5757 | word:
dreamt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dreamt (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dream + -t.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Imagined or only extant in a dream or dreams.
senses_topics:
|
5758 | word:
pata
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pata (plural patas)
forms:
form:
patas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Marathi पट्टा (paṭṭā) or a related term in another Indian language. Compare the longer form Marathi दांडपट्टा (dāṇḍpaṭṭā).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Indian sword with an attached gauntlet.
senses_topics:
|
5759 | word:
chose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chose
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I expect you might have chose a somewhat larger fish, but I'll try an' make it do.
ref:
1896, Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs, Houghton Mifflin, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
Since this work is about Vilna's Jewish community, I have chose the familiar spelling Vilna, which closely approximates Jews' preferred name for their city.
ref:
2010, Andrew Noble Koss, World War I and the Remaking of Jewish Vilna, Stanford University Press, page x
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of choose
past participle of choose
simple past of chuse
senses_topics:
|
5760 | word:
chose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chose (plural choses)
forms:
form:
choses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French chose, from
Latin causa (“cause, reason”). Doublet of cause.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thing; personal property.
senses_topics:
law |
5761 | word:
Scotland
word_type:
name
expansion:
Scotland
forms:
wikipedia:
Scotland
etymology_text:
From Middle English Scotland, Scotlond, from Old English Scotland (“Ireland", later also "Scotland”, literally “land of the Scots”), equivalent to Scot + -land. Compare West Frisian Skotlân (“Scotland”), Dutch Schotland (“Scotland”), German Schottland (“Scotland”), Danish Skotland (“Scotland”), Icelandic Skotland (“Scotland”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A constituent country of the United Kingdom, located in northwest Europe to the north of England
A habitational surname referring to someone from Scotland.
senses_topics:
|
5762 | word:
forbade
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forbade
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of forbid
senses_topics:
|
5763 | word:
borne
word_type:
verb
expansion:
borne
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English boren, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, past participle of Old English beran (“to carry, bear”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of bear
senses_topics:
|
5764 | word:
borne
word_type:
adj
expansion:
borne (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English boren, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, past participle of Old English beran (“to carry, bear”).
senses_examples:
text:
In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.
ref:
1901, Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence
type:
quotation
text:
When, bright with purple and with gold,
Come priest and holy cardinal,
And borne above the heads of all
The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.
ref:
1881, Oscar Wilde, “Rome Unvisited”, in Poems, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.
ref:
c. 2000, David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, section II
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
carried, supported.
senses_topics:
|
5765 | word:
eaten
word_type:
verb
expansion:
eaten
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eten, from Old English eten, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etanaz; morphologically eat + -en.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of eat
senses_topics:
|
5766 | word:
eaten
word_type:
adj
expansion:
eaten (comparative more eaten, superlative most eaten)
forms:
form:
more eaten
tags:
comparative
form:
most eaten
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eten, from Old English eten, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etanaz; morphologically eat + -en.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That has been consumed by eating.
senses_topics:
|
5767 | word:
sale
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sale (countable and uncountable, plural sales)
forms:
form:
sales
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sale, from Old English sala (“act of selling, sale”), from Old Norse sala (“sale”), from Proto-Germanic *salō (“delivery”), from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- (“to grab”).
senses_examples:
text:
He celebrated after the sale of company.
type:
example
text:
They are having a clearance sale: 50% off.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
The sale of goods at reduced prices.
The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.
senses_topics:
|
5768 | word:
sale
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sale (plural sales)
forms:
form:
sales
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sale, sal, from Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“home, dwelling, village”). Cognate with West Frisian seal, Dutch zaal, German Saal, Swedish sal, Icelandic salur, Lithuanian sala (“village”). Doublet of sala and salle. Related also to salon, saloon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hall.
senses_topics:
|
5769 | word:
forewent
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forewent
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
fore- + went
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of forego
senses_topics:
|
5770 | word:
foresaw
word_type:
verb
expansion:
foresaw
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of foresee
senses_topics:
|
5771 | word:
drank
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drank (countable and uncountable, plural dranks)
forms:
form:
dranks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Pronunciation spelling of drink.
senses_examples:
text:
You leave your drink around me, believe your drank going to get drunk up.
ref:
2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dextromethorphan.
A drink, usually alcoholic.
senses_topics:
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5772 | word:
drank
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drank
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English drank, from Old English dranc, from Proto-West Germanic *drank.
senses_examples:
text:
He drank a lot last night.
type:
example
text:
He'd drank alcohol prior to driving off the road.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of drink
past participle of drink
senses_topics:
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5773 | word:
foreseen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
foreseen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of foresee
senses_topics:
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5774 | word:
strawberry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
strawberry (countable and uncountable, plural strawberries)
forms:
form:
strawberries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *strow-o-m
Proto-Germanic *strawą
Proto-West Germanic *strau
Old English strēaw
Proto-Germanic *bazją
Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
Old English berġe
Old English strēawberġe
Middle English strawbery
English strawberry
From Middle English strawbery, strauberi, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry.
senses_examples:
text:
They went to pick strawberries today.
type:
example
text:
She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.
type:
example
text:
He told his father, and said it would be just suitable work for him to run about fields and woods amongst the strawberry hills after a flock of hares, and now and then lie down and take a nap on some sunny hill.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
strawberry:
text:
strawberry marks
type:
example
text:
I have stretch marks and strawberry legs [follicles or blocked pores that appear as black dots]; discoloration all over my body.
ref:
2024 February 20, Fiona Vera-Gray, quoting Almina, “‘Everything is hairless’: what 100 women taught me about porn and body confidence”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Come home and see her mouth on the dopeman's dick / Strawberry, just look and you'll see her
ref:
1987, “Dope Man”, in N.W.A. and the Posse, performed by N.W.A
type:
quotation
text:
[…] infamous in Los Angeles through media reports: the crack houses and "strawberries" (women who exchange sex for crack) […]
ref:
1992, Kathleen Boyle, Homeless crack cocaine abusers, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
I'm makin mo' deals than a strawberry might
I'll lick your clit, if you suck my pipe
ref:
1995, B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta (lyrics and music), “Compton Hoe”, in Real Brothas
type:
quotation
text:
The desperate addiction associated with the drug has made "strawberries" — prostitutes who work for crack — fixtures of the […]
ref:
1997, Peter Collier, David Horowitz, The Race Card, page 91
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sweet, usually red, edible fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
A dark pinkish red colour, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
senses_topics:
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5775 | word:
strawberry
word_type:
adj
expansion:
strawberry (comparative strawberrier, superlative strawberriest)
forms:
form:
strawberrier
tags:
comparative
form:
strawberriest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *strow-o-m
Proto-Germanic *strawą
Proto-West Germanic *strau
Old English strēaw
Proto-Germanic *bazją
Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
Old English berġe
Old English strēawberġe
Middle English strawbery
English strawberry
From Middle English strawbery, strauberi, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry.
senses_examples:
text:
I'd like a large strawberry shake.
type:
example
text:
We sing you a song of the strawberriest Strawberry Ice Cream on earth.
ref:
1941 May 8, Chicago Daily Tribune, volume C, number 110, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
At any rate, you will agree with me that this is the “strawberriest tastin’ ” pie that you’ve ever tasted.
ref:
1948 May 5, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 100, number 243, St. Louis, Mo., page 3D
type:
quotation
text:
Sixty seconds of boiling, and you’ll be admiring the strawberriest strawberry jam you ever tasted.
ref:
1961 June, McCall’s, volume LXXXVIII, number 9, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
Fraser Recorded in Scotland in mid-1100s as de Frisselle, de Freseliere, de Fresel, as if from a place in France, and Sir Simon F— (executed 1306) is referred to as Simond Frysel; first element ?‘ash tree’ of, the –er ?to make it ‘strawberrier’ – a pun on the three silver cinquefoils or fraises in their armorials.
ref:
1967, Basil Cottle, The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames, Penguin Books, published 1969, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
With at least 26 berries like these in every jar like this, how must Kraft Pure Strawberry Preserves taste? The strawberriest best!
ref:
1968 March, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume LXXXV, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
And your strawberry ice cream can be the strawberriest and your peach ice cream the peachiest.
ref:
1973, Glenn Andrews, Impromptu Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, page 216
type:
quotation
text:
lessons exist because frozen strawberries in store are easier to pick but wild strawberries taste strawberrier.
ref:
1975 fall, sue ellen farmer, The Student, page thirty-seven, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
My strawberriest of strawberry sauces was simply strawberries, whirred until chunky in the blender, then spooned over vanilla ice cream (or, in this case, low-fat ice milk).
ref:
1978, Barbara [Halloran] Gibbons, The International Slim Gourmet Cookbook, Harper & Row, page 324
type:
quotation
text:
Now Jell-O(BRAND)® Strawberry Flavor Gelatin tastes even Strawberrier.
ref:
1979 June 5, Family Circle, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
When used to sweeten out-of-season California strawberries, the berries are not only sweeter but “strawberrier,” with a flavor more like home-grown or field-ripened fruit.
ref:
1982, Barbara [Halloran] Gibbons, Slim Gourmet Sweets and Treats, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Kiwi, Kiwi, chirping bright / In the forests of the night / Only a Kiwi could be merrier / About shortcake so strawberrier!
ref:
1998, Les Fox, Sue Fox, The Beanie Baby Handbook, West Highland Publishing Company, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
It occurred to me when I was last making the strawberries in dark syrup from How to Eat that there was no reason why I couldn’t use the balsamic vinegar – which provides the darkness and really does seem to make the strawberries strawberrier – when making jam.
ref:
2000, Nigella Lawson, How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking, London: Chatto & Windus, page 347
type:
quotation
text:
It’s the strawberriest shortcake ever.
ref:
2004 May, Sunset, page 127
type:
quotation
text:
Down leaped Ron and milked the frothiest, fruitiest, strawberriest milkshake anybody had ever tasted.
ref:
2005, Rowan Clifford, Rodeo Ron and His Milkshake Cows, Borzoi Books
type:
quotation
text:
“The strawberriest ice cream I have ever tasted!” was the verdict of my daughter Lindsay.
ref:
2009, Annette Yates, Ice Cream Made Easy: Homemade Recipes for Ice Cream Machines, Right Way, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Mind you, I have to admit they were three of the strawberriest looking strawberries I have ever seen.
ref:
2011, Hartley Pool, Stranger in Taiwan, Revenge Ink, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
It was the strawberriest strawberry ever.
ref:
2013, Caroline Green, Hold Your Breath, Piccadilly Press, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
HANNAH SAYS: “Wow, these are incredibly juicy. These are the strawberriest things in the world. They’re more strawberry[-]ish than actual strawberries. They’re incredible!”
ref:
2013 January, Front, number 177, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Right now, strawberries are their strawberriest.
ref:
2022 June 9, Daniel Neman, “Strawberry spectacular”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXXXVI, section 4, page 4, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The strawberry lipstick matched his outfit.
type:
example
text:
They are, at once, beautiful and curious, with their translucent white skin and strawberriest blond hair, looking like a group of Wagner’s Valkyrie lost in a Puccini opera.
ref:
2006, Ida Liberkowski, Cynthia Malizia, Along the Amalfi Drive, Lulu.com, page 282
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.
Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.
Of a colour similar to the colour of strawberry-flavoured products.
senses_topics:
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5776 | word:
strawberry
word_type:
verb
expansion:
strawberry (third-person singular simple present strawberries, present participle strawberrying, simple past and past participle strawberried)
forms:
form:
strawberries
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
strawberrying
tags:
participle
present
form:
strawberried
tags:
participle
past
form:
strawberried
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *strow-o-m
Proto-Germanic *strawą
Proto-West Germanic *strau
Old English strēaw
Proto-Germanic *bazją
Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
Old English berġe
Old English strēawberġe
Middle English strawbery
English strawberry
From Middle English strawbery, strauberi, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry.
senses_examples:
text:
We strawberried in Michigan woods with our fat nanny, and in spring we gathered sand dollars on Daytona, passed smiling into Kodachrome.
ref:
1994, New England Review, volume 16, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
My hips and elbows were strawberrying painfully.
ref:
1986, Les Whitten, Sometimes a Hero, page 352
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To gather strawberries.
To turn a dark pinkish-red.
senses_topics:
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5777 | word:
dimension
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dimension (plural dimensions)
forms:
form:
dimensions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dimension
dimension (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Latin dīmēnsiō, dīmēnsiōnem.
senses_examples:
text:
This film can be enjoyed on many dimensions - the script is great, the acting is realistic, and the special effects will simply take you aback.
type:
example
text:
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
ref:
2012 January 24, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-11-14, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
The dimension of velocity is length divided by time.
type:
example
text:
a machine that lets you travel to a parallel dimension.
type:
example
text:
If a man should wish to be in some other place, it is entirely possible for him to imagine himself in that place and, diving back through the negative dimension, to emerge out of it in that place with instantaneous rapidity. To imagine oneself———
ref:
1938 July, L. Ron Hubbard, “The Dangerous Dimension”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume XXI, number 5, Street & Smith, →OCLC, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
DR. PAUL MANHEIM: I have been on the other side. I have touched another dimension. Part of me is still there.
LAURA MANHEIM: Help him.
DR. CRUSHER: Try to stay calm Dr. Manheim. I don't think it's going to help you're struggling against it.
DR. PAUL MANHEIM: My mind is floating between two places. It is difficult to know which is which. There is no way to explain it.
ref:
1988 May 2, Rod Loomis, Michelle Phillips, Gates McFadden, We'll Always Have Paris (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
He was experimenting with matter transportation through the nth dimension.
ref:
2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A single aspect of a given thing.
A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
The number of independent coordinates needed to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space; also, any of such independent coordinates.
The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.
One of the physical properties that are regarded as fundamental measures of a physical quantity, such as mass, length and time.
Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.
A universe or plane of existence.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction |
5778 | word:
dimension
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dimension (third-person singular simple present dimensions, present participle dimensioning, simple past and past participle dimensioned)
forms:
form:
dimensions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dimensioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
dimensioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
dimensioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dimension
dimension (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Latin dīmēnsiō, dīmēnsiōnem.
senses_examples:
text:
Dimension an array to hold only as much data as you intend to put into it.
ref:
2002, James D. Foxall, Wendy Haro-Chun, SAMS Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours, page 268
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mark, cut or shape something to specified dimensions.
To specify the size of (an array or similar data structure); to allocate.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
5779 | word:
disguise
word_type:
noun
expansion:
disguise (countable and uncountable, plural disguises)
forms:
form:
disguises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English disgisen, disguisen, borrowed from Old French desguiser (modern French déguiser), itself derived from des- (“dis-”) (from Latin dis-) + guise (“guise”) (from a Germanic source).
senses_examples:
text:
A cape and moustache completed his disguise.
type:
example
text:
Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
The appearance of something on the outside which masks what’s beneath.
The act or state of disguising, notably as a ploy.
A change of behaviour resulting from intoxication, drunkenness.
senses_topics:
|
5780 | word:
disguise
word_type:
verb
expansion:
disguise (third-person singular simple present disguises, present participle disguising, simple past and past participle disguised)
forms:
form:
disguises
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
disguising
tags:
participle
present
form:
disguised
tags:
participle
past
form:
disguised
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English disgisen, disguisen, borrowed from Old French desguiser (modern French déguiser), itself derived from des- (“dis-”) (from Latin dis-) + guise (“guise”) (from a Germanic source).
senses_examples:
text:
Spies often disguise themselves.
type:
example
text:
He disguised his true intentions.
type:
example
text:
But my lord was angry, and being disguised with liquor too, he would not let him go till they played more; and play they did, and the luck still went the same way; […]
ref:
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
To transform or disfigure, to change the appearance of in general.
To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
To dress in newfangled or showy clothing, to deck out in new fashions.
To dissemble, to talk or act falsely while concealing one’s thoughts.
To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
senses_topics:
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5781 | word:
think
word_type:
verb
expansion:
think (third-person singular simple present thinks, present participle thinking, simple past and past participle thought)
forms:
form:
thinks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
thinking
tags:
participle
present
form:
thought
tags:
participle
past
form:
thought
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
think
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
think (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þenċan, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”).
Cognate with Scots think, thynk (“to think”), North Frisian teenk, taanke, tanke, tånke (“to think”), Saterland Frisian toanke (“to think”), West Frisian tinke (“to think”), Dutch denken (“to think”), Afrikaans dink (“to think”), Low German denken, dinken (“to think”), German denken (“to think”), Danish tænke (“to think”), Swedish tänka (“to think”), Norwegian Bokmål tenke (“to think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tenkja (“to think”), Icelandic þekkja (“to know, recognise, identify, perceive”), Latin tongeō (“know”).
senses_examples:
text:
Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be.
type:
example
text:
I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.
type:
example
text:
I tend to think of her as rather ugly.
type:
example
text:
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
At the time I thought his adamant refusal to give in right.
type:
example
text:
I hope you won’t think me stupid if I ask you what that means.
type:
example
text:
I think she is pretty, contrary to most people.
type:
example
text:
Boxing is thought to be a dangerous sport.
type:
example
text:
1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 182.
[…] one man showed me a young oak which he had transplanted from behind the town, thinking it an apple-tree.
text:
I think she’ll pass the examination.
type:
example
text:
These plants are dead.
Uh, you think?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ponder, to go over in one's head.
To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
To guess; to reckon.
To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
To presume; to venture.
Ellipsis of think so.
senses_topics:
|
5782 | word:
think
word_type:
noun
expansion:
think (usually uncountable, plural thinks)
forms:
form:
thinks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
think (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þenċan, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”).
Cognate with Scots think, thynk (“to think”), North Frisian teenk, taanke, tanke, tånke (“to think”), Saterland Frisian toanke (“to think”), West Frisian tinke (“to think”), Dutch denken (“to think”), Afrikaans dink (“to think”), Low German denken, dinken (“to think”), German denken (“to think”), Danish tænke (“to think”), Swedish tänka (“to think”), Norwegian Bokmål tenke (“to think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tenkja (“to think”), Icelandic þekkja (“to know, recognise, identify, perceive”), Latin tongeō (“know”).
senses_examples:
text:
I'll have a think about that and let you know.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
senses_topics:
|
5783 | word:
think
word_type:
verb
expansion:
think (third-person singular simple present thinks, present participle thinking, simple past and past participle thought)
forms:
form:
thinks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
thinking
tags:
participle
present
form:
thought
tags:
participle
past
form:
thought
tags:
past
wikipedia:
think (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken (also thinchen, thünchen), from Old English þyncan (“to seem, appear”), from Proto-Germanic *þunkijaną (“to seem”).
Cognate with Dutch dunken (“to seem, appear”), German dünken (“to seem, appear”), Danish tykkes (“to seem”), Swedish tycka (“to seem, think, regard”), Icelandic þykja (“to be regarded, be considered, seem”). More at methinks.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To seem, to appear.
senses_topics:
|
5784 | word:
repository
word_type:
noun
expansion:
repository (plural repositories)
forms:
form:
repositories
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
repository
etymology_text:
From Latin repositōrium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
a storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system.
A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
A burial vault.
A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
A person to whom a secret is entrusted.
A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
A place where things are kept for sale; a shop.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
5785 | word:
whether
word_type:
conj
expansion:
whether
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whether, whather, from Old English hweþer, hwæþer, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaþar, from Proto-Germanic *hwaþeraz, comparative form of *hwaz (“who”). Cognate with German weder (“neither”), Swedish var, Icelandic hvor (“each of two, which of two”).
senses_examples:
text:
He chose the correct answer, but whether by luck or by skill I don't know.
type:
example
text:
The incident immediately revived the debate about goal-line technology, with a final decision on whether it is introduced expected to be taken in Zurich on 5 July.
ref:
2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1–0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless. One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
Do you know whether he's coming?
type:
example
text:
He's coming, whether you like it or not.
type:
example
text:
Whether or not you're successful, you can be sure you did your best.
type:
example
text:
The years have gone by and still we know not whether or no Mallory and Irvine reached the summit. But the will to climb Mount Everest is still alive.
ref:
1931 April, Francis Younghusband, “Preface”, in The Epic of Mount Everest, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Indicates doubt between possibilities (usually with correlative or).
Without a correlative, introduces a simple indirect question.
Introduces a disjunctive adverbial clause qualifying the main clause (with correlative or).
Introduces a direct question between alternatives (often with correlative or).
senses_topics:
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5786 | word:
whether
word_type:
det
expansion:
whether
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whether, whather, from Old English hweþer, hwæþer, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaþar, from Proto-Germanic *hwaþeraz, comparative form of *hwaz (“who”). Cognate with German weder (“neither”), Swedish var, Icelandic hvor (“each of two, which of two”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Which of two.
senses_topics:
|
5787 | word:
whether
word_type:
pron
expansion:
whether
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whether, whather, from Old English hweþer, hwæþer, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaþar, from Proto-Germanic *hwaþeraz, comparative form of *hwaz (“who”). Cognate with German weder (“neither”), Swedish var, Icelandic hvor (“each of two, which of two”).
senses_examples:
text:
"Whether is better, the gift or the donor? / Come to me," / Quoth the pine tree, "I am the giver of honor."
ref:
1847, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodnotes II
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Which of two.
senses_topics:
|
5788 | word:
hungry
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hungry (comparative hungrier, superlative hungriest)
forms:
form:
hungrier
tags:
comparative
form:
hungriest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hungry, from Old English hungriġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hungrug, from Proto-Germanic *hungrugaz (“hungry”); equivalent to hunger + -y. Cognate with West Frisian hongerich (“hungry”), Dutch hongerig (“hungry”), German hungrig (“hungry”), Swedish hungrig (“hungry”), Icelandic hungraður (“hungry”).
senses_examples:
text:
My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven’t got much money for food.
type:
example
text:
I woke up very hungry and made some toast.
type:
example
text:
All this gardening is hungry work.
type:
example
text:
young and hungry
type:
example
text:
the students are hungry to learn
type:
example
text:
It’s an astonishing roll call of future talent from when they were still young and hungry in Manhattan.
ref:
2022 November 23, Hadley Freeman, “Like a cinema virgin: how Madonna went stratospheric making Desperately Seeking Susan”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
a hungry soil
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
Causing hunger.
Eager, having an avid desire (‘appetite’) for something.
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
senses_topics:
|
5789 | word:
chosen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chosen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English chosen, ychosen, ichosen, re-analysed variant of coren, icoren, ȝecoren (“chosen”), from Old English coren, ġecoren (“chosen”), past participle of Old English ċēosan (“to choose”). Morphologically equivalent to choose + -en (past participle ending).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of choose
past participle of chuse
senses_topics:
|
5790 | word:
chosen
word_type:
adj
expansion:
chosen (comparative more chosen, superlative most chosen)
forms:
form:
more chosen
tags:
comparative
form:
most chosen
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English chosen, ychosen, ichosen, re-analysed variant of coren, icoren, ȝecoren (“chosen”), from Old English coren, ġecoren (“chosen”), past participle of Old English ċēosan (“to choose”). Morphologically equivalent to choose + -en (past participle ending).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
picked; selected
elected
senses_topics:
|
5791 | word:
fled
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fled
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of flee
senses_topics:
|
5792 | word:
did
word_type:
verb
expansion:
did
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[…]But I don't care, I mean I don't even care. She shouldn't have did that."
ref:
2008 March 1, Jody Miller, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence, NYU Press, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
We have to take this brutality. We haven't did anything. Why?
ref:
2010 October 10, Jeanette R Davidson, quoting Bea Jenkins, African American Studies, Edinburgh University Press, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
“Spanky—I mean, the exec, Mr. McFaarlane, say the number four gun has did for another cruiser, but they all gonna drown, aft, as much water as the screws is throwin' up!"
ref:
2014 May 6, Taylor Anderson, Deadly Shores, Penguin, page 288
type:
quotation
text:
On my soul, this for my kids and the cold shit I done did
ref:
2022, Nas (lyrics and music), “Legit”, in King's Disease III
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of do
past participle of do; done
senses_topics:
|
5793 | word:
busted
word_type:
adj
expansion:
busted (comparative more busted, superlative most busted)
forms:
form:
more busted
tags:
comparative
form:
most busted
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See bust (Etymology 1)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a certain type of bust (breasts; cleavage).
senses_topics:
|
5794 | word:
busted
word_type:
adj
expansion:
busted (comparative more busted, superlative most busted)
forms:
form:
more busted
tags:
comparative
form:
most busted
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bust + -ed. See bust (Etymology 2).
senses_examples:
text:
I'd like to help you, but I'm busted.
type:
example
text:
I saw you take that cookie from the cookie jar! You're busted!
text:
Plus, to be honest, the look on his face when he realized how very busted they were was worth far more than the fifty dollars I paid for their dinner.
ref:
2009, S. Bear Bergman, “New Year” (essay), in The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, ReadHowYouWant.com (2010), page 66
text:
She was cute, but all her friends were busted.
type:
example
text:
ok this gals bod is hot but her face is busted
ref:
2004 July 30, Ms Pnoopie Pnats, “talking about hot or not...”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
While not all of his matches went well, the streamer insisted aim assist was busted.
ref:
2022 March 25, Jason Parker, “"I'm not even aiming!": xQc says controller aim assist is broken in Fortnite”, in Sportskeeda
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Broke; having no money.
Caught in the act of doing something one shouldn't do.
Extremely ugly.
Tired.
Broken.
Extremely overpowered.
senses_topics:
video-games |
5795 | word:
busted
word_type:
verb
expansion:
busted
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bust + -ed. See bust (Etymology 2).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of bust
senses_topics:
|
5796 | word:
not
word_type:
adv
expansion:
not (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
not
etymology_text:
From Middle English not, nat, variant of noght, naht (“not, nothing”), from Old English *nōht, nāht (“nought, nothing”), short for nōwiht, nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “not anything”), corresponding to ne (“not”) + ōwiht, āwiht (“anything”), corresponding to ā (“ever, always”) + wiht (“thing, creature”).
Cognate with Scots nat, naucht (“not”), Saterland Frisian nit (“not”), West Frisian net (“not”), Dutch niet (“not”), German nicht (“not”). Compare nought, naught and aught. More at no, wight, whit.
senses_examples:
text:
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
ref:
1973 November 17, Richard Milhous Nixon, Orlando press conference
text:
I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
ref:
1998 January 26, William Jefferson Clinton, White House press conference
text:
Oh, Pete. This is not the gym. — That’s right, Anna. This is the mailroom.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.
type:
example
text:
Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
text:
That is not red; it's green.
type:
example
text:
It's not you, it's me.
type:
example
text:
That day was not the best day of my life. (meaning the day was bad or awful)
text:
It was not my favorite movie of all time. (meaning the speaker dislikes or strongly dislikes the movie)
text:
In the not too distant future my view on the matter might be not a million miles away from yours.
text:
Oh god, not that! Anything but that!
type:
example
text:
Not me writing example sentences again! (≈Oh my, there I go writing example sentences again!)
type:
example
text:
[Keke] Palmer tells Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager to “mind y'all's business” when they ask about her relationship with [Darius] Jackson. ¶ “Not y’all trying to get into it! They trying it on the Today show,” Palmer joked when the subject was first brought up on Today With Hoda & Jenna.
ref:
2023 December 9, “Keke Palmer and Darius Jackson: A Complete Relationship Timeline”, in Glamour
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
To no degree.
Used to indicate the opposite or near opposite, often in a form of understatement.
Used before a noun phrase or pronominal phrase to denote an aversion to its presence or occurrence.
Used before a determiner phrase or a non-finite clause (especially a gerund-participial clause) to convey some attitude (such as surprise, criticism, or embarrassment) towards someone or something, without conveying negation.
senses_topics:
|
5797 | word:
not
word_type:
conj
expansion:
not
forms:
wikipedia:
not
etymology_text:
From Middle English not, nat, variant of noght, naht (“not, nothing”), from Old English *nōht, nāht (“nought, nothing”), short for nōwiht, nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “not anything”), corresponding to ne (“not”) + ōwiht, āwiht (“anything”), corresponding to ā (“ever, always”) + wiht (“thing, creature”).
Cognate with Scots nat, naucht (“not”), Saterland Frisian nit (“not”), West Frisian net (“not”), Dutch niet (“not”), German nicht (“not”). Compare nought, naught and aught. More at no, wight, whit.
senses_examples:
text:
I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
type:
example
text:
He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
And not.
senses_topics:
|
5798 | word:
not
word_type:
intj
expansion:
not!
forms:
form:
not!
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
not
etymology_text:
From Middle English not, nat, variant of noght, naht (“not, nothing”), from Old English *nōht, nāht (“nought, nothing”), short for nōwiht, nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “not anything”), corresponding to ne (“not”) + ōwiht, āwiht (“anything”), corresponding to ā (“ever, always”) + wiht (“thing, creature”).
Cognate with Scots nat, naucht (“not”), Saterland Frisian nit (“not”), West Frisian net (“not”), Dutch niet (“not”), German nicht (“not”). Compare nought, naught and aught. More at no, wight, whit.
senses_examples:
text:
I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney … not!
type:
example
text:
Sure, you’re perfect the way you are … not!
type:
example
text:
"See?" "Uh-huh! Clear and lucid to the point of limpidity - 'not."
ref:
1949, E.E 'Doc' Smith, chapter XIV, in Skylark of Valeron, London: Panther, published 1974, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
Because, of course, sympathy is finite -- and if you use it up on the wrong person then you won't have any left. Not.
ref:
2006 May 2, Steve Goldfarb, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
senses_topics:
|
5799 | word:
not
word_type:
noun
expansion:
not (plural nots)
forms:
form:
nots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
not
etymology_text:
From Middle English not, nat, variant of noght, naht (“not, nothing”), from Old English *nōht, nāht (“nought, nothing”), short for nōwiht, nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “not anything”), corresponding to ne (“not”) + ōwiht, āwiht (“anything”), corresponding to ā (“ever, always”) + wiht (“thing, creature”).
Cognate with Scots nat, naucht (“not”), Saterland Frisian nit (“not”), West Frisian net (“not”), Dutch niet (“not”), German nicht (“not”). Compare nought, naught and aught. More at no, wight, whit.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of NOT
senses_topics:
|
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