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5800 | word:
airsick
word_type:
adj
expansion:
airsick (comparative more airsick, superlative most airsick)
forms:
form:
more airsick
tags:
comparative
form:
most airsick
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From air + sick.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nauseated due to the effects of motion of an aircraft; suffering from motion sickness caused by air travel.
senses_topics:
|
5801 | word:
republic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
republic (plural republics)
forms:
form:
republics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
republic
etymology_text:
From Middle French republique (“republic”), from Latin rēspūblicā, from rēs (“thing”) + pūblica (“public”); hence literally “the public thing”.
senses_examples:
text:
The United States is a republic; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a constitutional monarchy.
type:
example
text:
Republicanism is the political principle of the separation of the executive power (the administration) from the legislative; despotism is that of the autonomous execution by the state of laws which it has itself decreed.[…]Therefore, we can say: the smaller the personnel of the government (the smaller the number of rulers), the greater is their representation and the more nearly the constitution approaches to the possibility of republicanism; thus the constitution may be expected by gradual reform finally to raise itself to republicanism[…]. None of the ancient so-called "republics" knew this system, and they all finally and inevitably degenerated into despotism under the sovereignty of one, which is the most bearable of all forms of despotism.
ref:
1795, Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
type:
quotation
text:
The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.
A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.
One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.
One of the subdivisions that made up the former Yugoslavia.
senses_topics:
|
5802 | word:
swan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
swan (plural swans or swan)
forms:
form:
swans
tags:
plural
form:
swan
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
swan
etymology_text:
From Middle English swan, from Old English swan, from Proto-West Germanic *swan, from Proto-Germanic *swanaz (“swan”, literally “the singing bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *swonh₂-/*swenh₂- (“to sing, make sound”).
Cognate with West Frisian swan, Low German Swaan, swan, Dutch zwaan, German Schwan, Danish svane, Norwegian svane, Swedish svan. Related also to Old English ġeswin (“melody, song”), Old English swinsian (“to make melody”).
Further cognates include (possibly) Russian звон (zvon, “ring, chime”); Latin sonus (“sound”), Sanskrit स्वन् (svan, “sound”).
Doublet of sound.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.
One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
5803 | word:
swan
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swan (third-person singular simple present swans, present participle swanning, simple past and past participle swanned)
forms:
form:
swans
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
swanning
tags:
participle
present
form:
swanned
tags:
participle
past
form:
swanned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
swan
etymology_text:
From Middle English swan, from Old English swan, from Proto-West Germanic *swan, from Proto-Germanic *swanaz (“swan”, literally “the singing bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *swonh₂-/*swenh₂- (“to sing, make sound”).
Cognate with West Frisian swan, Low German Swaan, swan, Dutch zwaan, German Schwan, Danish svane, Norwegian svane, Swedish svan. Related also to Old English ġeswin (“melody, song”), Old English swinsian (“to make melody”).
Further cognates include (possibly) Russian звон (zvon, “ring, chime”); Latin sonus (“sound”), Sanskrit स्वन् (svan, “sound”).
Doublet of sound.
senses_examples:
text:
He swans around that stinking office in his expensive clothes that are a little too tight for comfort, he swans around that stinking office without a care in the world.
ref:
2010, Lee Rourke, The Canal, Melville House Publishing, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
One of the few strokes of good luck Emma had had in recent days was the news that Tatiana Flint-Hamilton, her only real rival for top billing as 'most photographable girl' at today's event had decided to swan off to Sardinia instead, leaving the limelight entirely to Emma.
ref:
2013, Tilly Bagshawe, One Summer’s Afternoon, HarperCollin
type:
quotation
text:
On the other side: the rich, beautiful tapestry of WASP culture that constituted Levis's life—friends playing horseshoes at backyard cocktail parties, where girls swanned in chaise longues, clinking their gin and tonics.
ref:
2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
senses_topics:
|
5804 | word:
swan
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swan (third-person singular simple present swans, present participle swanning, simple past and past participle swanned)
forms:
form:
swans
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
swanning
tags:
participle
present
form:
swanned
tags:
participle
past
form:
swanned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
swan
etymology_text:
Probably from dialectal I s’wan, a corruption of I shall warrant; or possibly from a minced form of I swear on.
senses_examples:
text:
Well, I swan, man, I had a better opinion of you than that.
ref:
1907 December, J. D. Archer, “Foiling an eavesdropper”, in Telephony, volume 14, page 345
type:
quotation
text:
‘She slammed the door so hard I figured a window'd break […].’ ‘I swan,’ I said.
ref:
1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 214
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
senses_topics:
|
5805 | word:
ilk
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ilk (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”).
The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very; same.
senses_topics:
|
5806 | word:
ilk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ilk (plural ilks)
forms:
form:
ilks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”).
The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family.
senses_examples:
text:
The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.
ref:
1931, Ogden Nash, The Cow
type:
quotation
text:
On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services. That makes him a servant of the powers-that-be that have no time for Nobby and his scrounging ilk.
ref:
2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
senses_topics:
|
5807 | word:
flaxen
word_type:
adj
expansion:
flaxen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flaxen, flexon, flexin, from Old English fleaxen (“of flax; flaxen”), equivalent to flax + -en (“made of”). Compare Dutch vlassen.
senses_examples:
text:
flaxen:
text:
The couple and their children have flaxen hair.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of or resembling flax fibers.
A pale yellow brown as of dried flax; blonde.
senses_topics:
|
5808 | word:
forego
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forego (third-person singular simple present foregoes, present participle foregoing, simple past forewent, past participle foregone)
forms:
form:
foregoes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
foregoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
forewent
tags:
past
form:
foregone
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English forgan, from Old English foregān, equivalent to fore- + go.
senses_examples:
text:
pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone
ref:
1815, William Wordsworth, Methought I saw
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To precede, to go before.
senses_topics:
|
5809 | word:
forego
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forego (third-person singular simple present foregoes, present participle foregoing, simple past forewent, past participle foregone)
forms:
form:
foregoes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
foregoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
forewent
tags:
past
form:
foregone
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See forgo
senses_examples:
text:
[…] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.
ref:
Febraury 1762, T. Waller, “The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon”, in The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762, volume I, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of forgo; to abandon, to relinquish
senses_topics:
|
5810 | word:
foretold
word_type:
verb
expansion:
foretold
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of foretell
senses_topics:
|
5811 | word:
arise
word_type:
verb
expansion:
arise (third-person singular simple present arises, present participle arising, simple past arose, past participle arisen)
forms:
form:
arises
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
arising
tags:
participle
present
form:
arose
tags:
past
form:
arisen
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English arisen, from Old English ārīsan (“to arise, get up; rise; spring from, originate; spring up, ascend”), from Proto-Germanic *uzrīsaną (“to rise up, arise”), equivalent to a- + rise. Cognate with Scots arise, aryse (“to arise, rise up, come into existence”), Middle Low German errīsen (“to stand up, arise”), Old High German irrīsan (“to rise up, fall”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (urreisan, “to arise”). Eclipsed Middle English sourden, sorden, borrowed from Old French sordre, sourdre (“to arise, originate, fly up”).
senses_examples:
text:
to arise from a kneeling posture
text:
He arose early in the morning.
type:
example
text:
A cloud arose and covered the sun.
type:
example
text:
Because Plato allowed them to co-exist, the meaning and connotations of the one overlap those of the other, and ambiguities arise.
ref:
1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 454
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To come up from a lower to a higher position.
To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.
senses_topics:
|
5812 | word:
arise
word_type:
noun
expansion:
arise (plural arises)
forms:
form:
arises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English arisen, from Old English ārīsan (“to arise, get up; rise; spring from, originate; spring up, ascend”), from Proto-Germanic *uzrīsaną (“to rise up, arise”), equivalent to a- + rise. Cognate with Scots arise, aryse (“to arise, rise up, come into existence”), Middle Low German errīsen (“to stand up, arise”), Old High German irrīsan (“to rise up, fall”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (urreisan, “to arise”). Eclipsed Middle English sourden, sorden, borrowed from Old French sordre, sourdre (“to arise, originate, fly up”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Arising, rising.
senses_topics:
|
5813 | word:
fitted
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fitted
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it...
I agree. Y'know, I think he actually could have fitted on that bit of door.
There was plenty of room on the raft.
I know. I know, I know.
ref:
2016 February 2, Kate Winslet et al., Jimmy Kimmel Live!
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of fit ("to tailor, to change size")
simple past of fit (other senses)
past participle of fit (“to tailor, change size”)
past participle of fit (other senses)
senses_topics:
|
5814 | word:
fitted
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fitted (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Incorporating all of the fittings into connected units.
senses_topics:
|
5815 | word:
fitted
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fitted (plural fitteds)
forms:
form:
fitteds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
For niggas plottin, I might blow it at your fitted
Get your bitch-ass slimed out, it ain't no kiddin
ref:
2023 April 28, “Got Dat Muneh” (track 10, 1:05 from the start), in Summrs (lyrics), GHOST
type:
quotation
roman:
Ain't no kiddin, got that semi
text:
Late night, on a drill, aimin for his fitted
ref:
2022 October 31, “Doomsday” (track 7, 1:35 from the start), in Thunder Bklu & Dougie B (lyrics), F L O C K A
type:
quotation
text:
Fitteds have elastic around the back of the diaper and the legs of the diaper to get a better fit and sometimes they also have snap closures so that you don't have to use a diaper fastener.
ref:
2017, Madi Haire, Crunchy Parenting, HowExpert, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
Pocket diapers are my favorite because they're a little easier to use than fitteds, flats, and prefolds, and they're cheaper than all-in-twos and all-in-ones.
ref:
2019 September 27, Alicia Betz, “Cloth diapers are an eco-friendly alternative to traditional diapers - here's how to use them and what you need to buy”, in Business Insider India
type:
quotation
text:
Many natural fibres wear down with use. This is called edge wear. Depending on the wash routine (detergent strength, agitation, water pH, and more factors) edge wear happens quicker for some people. This happens with fitteds too.
ref:
2021, Bailey Bouwman, Cloth Diapers: The Ultimate Guide to Textiles, Washing & More, Simply Bailey Social Marketing, page 62
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fitted cap.
A fitted diaper.
senses_topics:
|
5816 | word:
rail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rail (plural rails)
forms:
form:
rails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rail
etymology_text:
From Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (“a ruler”)), partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”), from regō (“to rule, to guide, to govern”); see regular.
senses_examples:
text:
A "moving platform" scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
ref:
2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly)
type:
quotation
text:
We travelled to the seaside by rail.
type:
example
text:
a small Scottish village not accessible by rail
type:
example
text:
rail transport
type:
example
text:
ISA devices draw power from the +5 V, −5 V, +12 V, and −12 V rails of the power supply unit.
type:
example
text:
There has been another, fairly gradual change in the ATX specification: Initially a lot of power was supplied on the 5V and 3.3V rails, but over time more and more power shifted to 12V because it's more efficient. Modern (ATX12V 2.x) PSUs supply most of their power on the 12V rail and not a lot on the 5V rail, which means a modern PSU may not be able to supply an old board, unless it's a really beefy PSU—because providing 500W on the 12V rail is of very little use to an AT or early ATX system.
ref:
2019 December 5, Michal Necasek, “Power Trouble”, in OS/2 Museum, archived from the original on 2022-09-25
type:
quotation
text:
Rails alone can only ever have a marginal effect on a board's general turning ability.
ref:
c. 2000, Nick Carroll, surfline.com http://www.surfline.com/community/whoknows/10_21_rails.cfm
text:
We're experimenting with ads in the right-hand rail.
type:
example
text:
Do a couple rails and chase your own tail
ref:
2013, Jason Isbell, Super 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
A vertical section on one side of a web page.
A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
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5817 | word:
rail
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rail (third-person singular simple present rails, present participle railing, simple past and past participle railed)
forms:
form:
rails
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
railing
tags:
participle
present
form:
railed
tags:
participle
past
form:
railed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rail
etymology_text:
From Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (“a ruler”)), partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”), from regō (“to rule, to guide, to govern”); see regular.
senses_examples:
text:
Mottram of the Indian Survey had ridden thirty and railed one hundred miles from his lonely post in the desert […]
ref:
1890, Rudyard Kipling, At the End of the Passage
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To travel by railway.
To place on a track.
To enclose with rails or a railing.
To range in a line.
To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport
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5818 | word:
rail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rail (plural rails)
forms:
form:
rail Wikispecies
tags:
canonical
form:
rails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Rallidae
rail
etymology_text:
From French râle, rale, from Middle French raalle, from Old French rasle. Compare Medieval Latin rallus. Named from its harsh cry, Vulgar Latin *rasculum, from Latin rādere (“to scrape”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
senses_topics:
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5819 | word:
rail
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rail (third-person singular simple present rails, present participle railing, simple past and past participle railed)
forms:
form:
rails
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
railing
tags:
participle
present
form:
railed
tags:
participle
past
form:
railed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rail
etymology_text:
From Middle French railler.
senses_examples:
text:
He always said: “Let them rail on; he laughs best who laughs last.”
ref:
1882, Mark Twain, “The Stolen White Elephant”
type:
quotation
text:
The Major’s fury clothed and reclothed itself in words as frantically as a woman up in town for one day’s shopping tries on a succession of garments. He reviled and railed at fate and the general scheme of things, he pitied himself with a strong, deep pity too poignant for tears, he condemned every one with whom he had ever come in contact to endless and abnormal punishments.
ref:
1910, "Saki", H. H. Munro, The Bag,https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1870/1870-h/1870-h.htm#page75
text:
The Queen may be celebrating her jubilee but the Queen's English Society, which has railed against the misuse and deterioration of the English language, is to fold.
ref:
2012 June 4, Lewis Smith, “Queen’s English Society says enuf is enough, innit?: Society formed 40 years ago to protect language against poor spelling and grammar closes because too few people care”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-03-10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To complain violently (against, about).
senses_topics:
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5820 | word:
rail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rail (plural rails)
forms:
form:
rails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rail
etymology_text:
From Middle English rail, reil, from Old English hræġl (“garment, dress, robe”). Cognate with Old Frisian hreil, reil, Old Saxon hregil, Old High German hregil (“clothing, garment, dress”).
senses_examples:
text:
A course hempen raile about her shoulders.
ref:
1592, Thomas Nashe, Pierce Penniless
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress.
Specifically, a woman's headscarf or neckerchief.
senses_topics:
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5821 | word:
rail
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rail (third-person singular simple present rails, present participle railing, simple past and past participle railed)
forms:
form:
rails
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
railing
tags:
participle
present
form:
railed
tags:
participle
past
form:
railed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rail
etymology_text:
Probably from Anglo-Norman raier, Middle French raier.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To gush; to flow.
To blow.
senses_topics:
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5822 | word:
flew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flew (plural flews)
forms:
form:
flews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown.
senses_examples:
text:
The raging hound's flews were twisted upwards in an angry snarl.
type:
example
text:
He petted the dog. 'These little guys are pretty expensive and this one looks like a good specimen.' He lifted a flew. 'Well cared for, too - these teeth have been scaled pretty recently and his ears are clean - these upright ears can be receptacles for all kinds of stuff […].' anyway, what seems to be your problem with him?'
ref:
1994, Jonathan Kellerman, Bad Love (Alex Delaware; 8)
type:
quotation
text:
During the recitation, Eltie remained on her haunches, as she looked into Ralph's eyes, pulled down an eyelid, flipped up a flew, felt around his ribcage.
ref:
2014, Melanie Forde, “SIX — Goblins”, in Hillwilla: A Novel, Mountain Lake Press
type:
quotation
text:
Gently go over your dog's face with the washcloth until it's clean. Be sure to wash the flews, or the hanging skin around the mouth.
ref:
2010, Dogs All-in-One For Dummies, page 347
type:
quotation
text:
In the case of the Gordon Sette, the flews are not pendulous. The lip line from the nose to the flews shows a sharp, well-defined, square contour.
ref:
2013, Edward M. Gilbert, Jr, Patricia H. Gilbert, “Flews”, in Encyclopedia of K9 Terminology
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip.
senses_topics:
|
5823 | word:
flew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flew
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flew, flow, from Old English flēag, flug-, from Proto-Germanic *flaug, *flug-, past tense forms of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”). Compare Saterland Frisian flooch (“flew”), West Frisian fleach (“flew”), Dutch vloog (“flew”), German flog (“flew”), Danish fløj (“flew”), Swedish flög (“flew”), Icelandic flaug (“flew”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of fly
senses_topics:
|
5824 | word:
flew
word_type:
adj
expansion:
flew (comparative more flew, superlative most flew)
forms:
form:
more flew
tags:
comparative
form:
most flew
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
shallow; flat
senses_topics:
|
5825 | word:
ban
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ban (third-person singular simple present bans, present participle banning, simple past and past participle banned)
forms:
form:
bans
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
banning
tags:
participle
present
form:
banned
tags:
participle
past
form:
banned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bannen (“to summon; to banish; to curse”), partly from Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim, call out”), from Proto-West Germanic *bannan; and partly from Old Norse banna (“to prohibit; to curse”), both from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, to order; to summon; to ban; to curse, forbid”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-new-ti ~ bʰh₂-n̥w-énti, innovative nasal-infixed zero-grade athematic present of *bʰeh₂- (“to say”).
Cognate with Dutch bannen (“to ban, exile, discard”), German bannen (“to exile, to exorcise, captivate, excommunicate”), Swedish banna (“to ban, scold”), Vedic Sanskrit भनति (bhánati), Armenian բան (ban) and perhaps Albanian banoj (“to reside, dwell”). See also banal, abandon.
senses_examples:
text:
They will curse and ban[…]even into the deep pit of hell, all that gainsay their appetite.
ref:
c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, a sermon
type:
quotation
text:
To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned
ref:
1816, Lord Byron, The Prisoner of Chillon
type:
quotation
text:
Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.
ref:
2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
ref:
2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
Bare feet are banned in this establishment.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To summon; to call out.
To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
To curse; to execrate.
To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
senses_topics:
|
5826 | word:
ban
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ban (plural bans)
forms:
form:
bans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bannen (“to summon; to banish; to curse”), partly from Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim, call out”), from Proto-West Germanic *bannan; and partly from Old Norse banna (“to prohibit; to curse”), both from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, to order; to summon; to ban; to curse, forbid”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-new-ti ~ bʰh₂-n̥w-énti, innovative nasal-infixed zero-grade athematic present of *bʰeh₂- (“to say”).
Cognate with Dutch bannen (“to ban, exile, discard”), German bannen (“to exile, to exorcise, captivate, excommunicate”), Swedish banna (“to ban, scold”), Vedic Sanskrit भनति (bhánati), Armenian բան (ban) and perhaps Albanian banoj (“to reside, dwell”). See also banal, abandon.
senses_examples:
text:
Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any publike notice.
ref:
1641, William Rastell (trans.), John Rastell, Termes de la Lay, 37b
text:
[…] he hath sente abroade to assemble his van and arriere van; wherby, and with the reste of his forces, he prepareth him selfe to enter this countrey; […]
ref:
1591, published 1847, Henry Unton, Correspondence of Sir Henry Unton, knt., Ambassador from Queen Elizabeth to Henry IV. King of France, in the years MDXCI. and MDXCII., page 54
text:
[…] all the Ban and the Arrierban, are met arm’d in the field, to choose a King […]
ref:
1671, John Crowne, Juliana, or, The princess of Poland a tragicomedy, as it is acted at His Royal Highness the Duke of York's theatre, Act I, page 8
text:
France was at such a Pinch for Men, […] that they call’d their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long disus’ed, and in a Manner antiquated.
ref:
1683, William Temple, Memoirs of what past in Christendom, from the War begun 1672, to the Peace concluded 1679, chapter I
text:
The ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military service in subsequent ages; but with more of ostentation than real efficiency.
ref:
1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, chapter II, part II
text:
The act of calling together the vassals in armed array, was entitled “convoking the ban”—“convoquer le ban.”
ref:
1874, Charles Boutell, Arms And Armour In Antiquity And The Middle Ages, chapter 7, page 98
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Prohibition.
A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
The gathering of the (French) king’s vassals for war; the whole body of vassals assembled this way, or liable to be summoned; originally the same as arriere-ban, but distinct since the 16th century, following French usage—see arriere-ban.
A curse or anathema.
A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
senses_topics:
|
5827 | word:
ban
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ban (plural bani)
forms:
form:
bani
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Romanian ban of uncertain origin, perhaps from Serbo-Croatian bân.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
senses_topics:
|
5828 | word:
ban
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ban (plural bans)
forms:
form:
bans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Banburismus; coined by Alan Turing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
senses_topics:
|
5829 | word:
ban
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ban (plural bans)
forms:
form:
bans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From South Slavic (compare Serbo-Croatian bȃn), from Proto-Slavic *banъ; see there for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
senses_topics:
|
5830 | word:
forsook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forsook
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of forsake
senses_topics:
|
5831 | word:
kali
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kali (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Kali turgidum
etymology_text:
From Arabic قِلْي (qily). See alkali.
senses_examples:
text:
But the kali is principally regarded, on account of its yielding copiously, when burnt, the fixed alkaline salt called soda[…]
ref:
1765, Temple H. Croker, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clarke, The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Volume 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The prickly glasswort (Kali turgidum, syn. of Salsola kali).
Alkali, particularly soda ash or potash.
senses_topics:
|
5832 | word:
kali
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kali (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Kali turgidum
arnis
arnis#Name
etymology_text:
Uncertain; see arnis#Name at Wikipedia for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Traditional Philippine stick fighting, a martial art.
senses_topics:
|
5833 | word:
kali
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kali (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Kali turgidum
etymology_text:
Uncertain; possibly a reference to the appearance of soda ash produced by burning kali (Etymology 1).
senses_examples:
text:
[M]any women will be glad to know exactly how to start making sweets so that they will be saleable. [...] Lozenges, comfits, kali, bonbons, etc.
ref:
1928, Kenrayne (pseudonym), “Toffees and Twists”, in The Homestead (South Africa), page 27
type:
quotation
text:
The stock is supplied by Sela Traditional Sweet Co., based in Thynne Street, West Bromwich, which has been making a vast range of boiled sweets—sarsaparilla tablets, kali, clove balls, lime juice bricks, rosy apples and the rest—since 1882.
ref:
2005, Christopher Upton, Living Back-to-back, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
A positive shower of sherbets. Include fountains, lemons, dibdabs, flying saucers, even jars of Kali.
ref:
2012 June 6, Nigel Slater (@NigelSlater), Twitter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of British crystalline sweet or candy, similar in appearance to sherbet but made with larger sugar crystals.
senses_topics:
|
5834 | word:
forgiven
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forgiven
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically forgive + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of forgive
senses_topics:
|
5835 | word:
Romanian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Romanian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Romania
Romanian
Romanian language
etymology_text:
From Romania + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
The oldest Romanian period (also known as Common Romanian, Proto-Romanian, Primitive Romanian) is the period prior to the separation of the four Romanian dialects: a north-Danubian dialect (Daco-Romanian) and three south-Danubian dialects (Aromanian / Macedo-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian).
ref:
2013, Gabriela Pană Dindelegan (ed.), Martin Maiden (consultant ed.), The Grammar of Romanian, Oxford University Press, page 4
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Romania, the Romanian people, or the Romanian language.
senses_topics:
|
5836 | word:
Romanian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Romanian (countable and uncountable, plural Romanians)
forms:
form:
Romanians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Romania
Romanian
Romanian language
etymology_text:
From Romania + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
I think there was this one Black guy in there who was practically crying.
I swear I could hear Sir Mixalot in my head whenever I did Romanians.
ref:
2010 March 24, Built, “With the big boyz...”, in IronMag Forums
type:
quotation
text:
I did Romanians for a year and worked up to 250 for sets of 5. I couldn't take the DOMS anymore and dropped them.
ref:
2015 April 15, OZ-USF-UFGator, “diract Back work: Are Deadlifts and chin ups enough”, in Starting Strength Forum
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native of Romania.
The official language of Romania and Moldova.
Romanian deadlift
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting |
5837 | word:
traffic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
traffic (usually uncountable, plural traffics)
forms:
form:
traffics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
traffic
etymology_text:
From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).
The adjective sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to make nouns adjectives.
senses_examples:
text:
The traffic is slow during rush hour.
type:
example
text:
To assume that the recent investigation of the white slave traffic (and, by the way, a very superficial investigation) has discovered anything new, is, to say the least, very foolish
ref:
1910, Emma Goldman, “The Traffic in Women”, in Anarchism and Other Essays
type:
quotation
text:
Its units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.
ref:
2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
They, in turn, had long dominated the drug traffic in the area of north-east Afghanistan that they controlled during the Taliban years.
ref:
2018 January 9, Alfred W. McCoy, “How the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Those fixed locations which are sold to advertisers become preferred according to the expected page traffic.
ref:
1950, Advertising & Selling (volume 43, part 2, page 53)
text:
The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
Internet traffic to legal pornography sites in the UK comprised 8.5% of all "clicks" on web pages in June – exceeding those for shopping, news, business or social networks, according to new data obtained exclusively by the Guardian.
ref:
2013 July 26, Charles Arthur, “Porn sites get more internet traffic in UK than social networks or shopping”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
ref:
1716, John Gay, Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
In CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc. in a publication.
Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
Commodities of the market.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
radio
advertising
business
marketing
|
5838 | word:
traffic
word_type:
verb
expansion:
traffic (third-person singular simple present traffics, present participle trafficking, simple past and past participle trafficked)
forms:
form:
traffics
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
trafficking
tags:
participle
present
form:
trafficked
tags:
participle
past
form:
trafficked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
traffic
etymology_text:
From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).
The adjective sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to make nouns adjectives.
senses_examples:
text:
A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase.
ref:
1912, The World's Wit and Humor, page 176
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
senses_topics:
|
5839 | word:
traffic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
traffic (comparative more traffic, superlative most traffic)
forms:
form:
more traffic
tags:
comparative
form:
most traffic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
traffic
etymology_text:
From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).
The adjective sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to make nouns adjectives.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
congested
senses_topics:
|
5840 | word:
womb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
womb (plural wombs)
forms:
form:
wombs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
uterus
etymology_text:
From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded non-native Middle English mater, matere (“womb”) and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.
senses_examples:
text:
I danced myself right out the womb / Is it strange to dance so soon?
ref:
1971, Marc Bolan (lyrics and music), “Cosmic Dancer”, in Electric Warrior, performed by T. Rex
type:
quotation
text:
The centre spike of gold
Which burns deep in the blue-bell's womb.
ref:
1855, Robert Browning, Popularity
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
The abdomen or stomach.
The stomach of a person or creature.
A place where something is made or formed.
Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
|
5841 | word:
womb
word_type:
verb
expansion:
womb (third-person singular simple present wombs, present participle wombing, simple past and past participle wombed)
forms:
form:
wombs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wombing
tags:
participle
present
form:
wombed
tags:
participle
past
form:
wombed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
uterus
etymology_text:
From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded non-native Middle English mater, matere (“womb”) and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
senses_topics:
|
5842 | word:
flown
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flown
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flowen, floȝen, from Old English flogen, ġeflogen, past participle of Old English flēogan (“to fly”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of fly
senses_topics:
|
5843 | word:
flown
word_type:
adj
expansion:
flown (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flowen, floȝen, from Old English flogen, ġeflogen, past participle of Old English flēogan (“to fly”).
senses_examples:
text:
flown scenery
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Suspended in the flies.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
theater |
5844 | word:
flown
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flown
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flowen (attested in derived verbs such as overflowen), from Old English flōwen, ġeflowen, past participle of Old English flōwan (“to flow”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of flow
senses_topics:
|
5845 | word:
forgot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forgot
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Pryor that will excite to lewdness.
ref:
1816 [1777], James Boswell, quoting Samuel Johnson, The life of Samuel Johnson […], volume 3, T. Cadell and W. Davies, pages 210–211
type:
quotation
text:
“That's so sweet of you! I think everyone has forgot me, sitting here in my box like a doll in a shop and nobody wants her.” “You haven't seen Dr. Wilfred, have you, Elli?” said Nikki. “Our lecturer? He hasn't phoned, by any chance?”
ref:
2012, Michael Frayn, Skios: A Novel, volume 1, Macmillan, page 189
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of forget
past participle of forget
senses_topics:
|
5846 | word:
maid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maid (plural maids)
forms:
form:
maids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of Middle English maiden from Old English mæġden (Old English mǣden). Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“girl, virgin”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.
senses_topics:
|
5847 | word:
driven
word_type:
verb
expansion:
driven
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically drive + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of drive
senses_topics:
|
5848 | word:
driven
word_type:
adj
expansion:
driven (comparative more driven, superlative most driven)
forms:
form:
more driven
tags:
comparative
form:
most driven
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically drive + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.
Formed into snowdrifts by wind. (of snow)
senses_topics:
|
5849 | word:
broke
word_type:
verb
expansion:
broke
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Ablauted form of break.
senses_examples:
text:
Accordingly, he came with a mob the next day; and after they had broke all the windows...
ref:
1853, John Welsey, The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, Volume 7, page 261
type:
quotation
text:
The horse was the grey stallion he aye rode, the very beast he had ridden for many a wager with the wild lads of the Cross Keys. No man but himself durst back it, and it had lamed many a hostler lad and broke two necks in its day.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
1999 October 3, J. Stewart Burns, "Mars University", Futurama, season 2, episode 2, Fox Broadcasting Company
Guenther: I guess the hat must have broke my fall.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of break
past participle of break
senses_topics:
|
5850 | word:
broke
word_type:
adj
expansion:
broke (not generally comparable, comparative broker or more broke, superlative brokest or most broke)
forms:
form:
broker
tags:
comparative
form:
more broke
tags:
comparative
form:
brokest
tags:
superlative
form:
most broke
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Ablauted form of break.
senses_examples:
text:
It seems some of his Creditors have taken notice of it, and he was like to be broke yesterday in his absence.
ref:
1665 July 6, Samuel Pepys, Vol. VI, p. 150
text:
dead broke; flat broke
type:
example
text:
If it ain’t broke, don't fix it.
type:
example
text:
If the farmer is seriously injured by the depressed state of the markets, his spirit is broke, and there must ensue a very general discredit with regard to the farming business;
ref:
1822, William Wolryche Whitmore, A Letter on the Present State and Future Prospects of Agriculture, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
I can't get used to living here / While my heart is broke, my tears I cry for you
ref:
1973, “Photograph”, in Ringo, performed by Ringo Starr
type:
quotation
text:
Watkins notified the shop foreman immediately, whereupon the car was inspected and found to have a broke axle.
ref:
1983, Chicago Transit Authority, CTA Transit News, volume 36, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
A broke horse tries to do anything I want, and that is expected of any horse.
ref:
2011, Mike Major, Fran Devereux Smith, Ranch-Horse Versatility: A Winner's Guide to Successful Rides
type:
quotation
text:
He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Financially ruined, bankrupt.
Without any money, penniless.
Broken.
Demoted, deprived of a commission.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
5851 | word:
broke
word_type:
noun
expansion:
broke (plural brokes)
forms:
form:
brokes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English broce, from Old English gebroc (“fragment”), from brecan (“to break”). Compare broken, past participle of break. Compare also Scots brock (“a scrap of meat or bread”).
senses_examples:
text:
If the broke accumulates, a larger proportion can be used in making coloured papers, otherwise the above quantity is sufiicient.
ref:
1880, James Dunbar, The Practical Papermaker: A Complete Guide to the Manufacture of Paper, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
Presumably, most of the brokes and waste were used up in this manner, and during the manufacture of the coarse stuff little or no attention was paid to either cleanliness or colour.
ref:
1914, The World's Paper Trade Review Volume 62, page 204
type:
quotation
text:
These mills purchase broke from other paper mills through middlemen and use it to make paper.
ref:
2014 September 25, Judge Diane Wood, NCR Corp. v. George A. Whiting Paper Co.
type:
quotation
text:
Why dost though linger, then, / To hear the flatteries of these men of rags? / These bankrupt beggar-men, / Whose riches are the broke meat in their bags?
ref:
1855, January Searle, Poems, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
A fragment, remains, a piece broken off.
senses_topics:
arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
papermaking
|
5852 | word:
broke
word_type:
verb
expansion:
broke (third-person singular simple present brokes, present participle broking, simple past and past participle broked)
forms:
form:
brokes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
broking
tags:
participle
present
form:
broked
tags:
participle
past
form:
broked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from broker.
senses_examples:
text:
Agents broking with various other carriers can offer additional options.
type:
example
text:
The only evidence of bill-broking is, that he has often been a party to bills of exchange
ref:
1837, Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery […]
type:
quotation
text:
[…]because the Spanish equity market was substantially over-broked even at the height of its bull market, with over 50 brokers servicing the market.
ref:
1992, Philippe Moore, The 1992 guide to European equity markets
type:
quotation
text:
But we do want a certain necessary / Woman, to broke between them CUPID said;
ref:
1655 [1572], Luís de Camões, translated by Richard Fanshawe, The Lusiad, translation of original in Portuguese, Canto IX, stanza 44
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act as a broker; to transact business for another; synonym of broker.
To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
senses_topics:
|
5853 | word:
broke
word_type:
adj
expansion:
broke (comparative more broke, superlative most broke)
forms:
form:
more broke
tags:
comparative
form:
most broke
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of broke off.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Broke off, rich, wealthy
senses_topics:
|
5854 | word:
forgo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forgo (third-person singular simple present forgoes, present participle forgoing, simple past forwent, past participle forgone)
forms:
form:
forgoes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
forgoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
forwent
tags:
past
form:
forgone
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English forgon (“to go by, pass up”), from Old English forgān (“to go away, forgo”); equivalent to for- + go.
senses_examples:
text:
Mr. Hoyle, who does not believe many multiple-unit diesel services on secondary routes will resist for ever the road transport challenge, would forgo passenger traffic altogether on a little-used route in order to improve the quality of the freight working and reduce its costs by equating the average speed of all trains on the line concerned.
ref:
1960 February, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
You might think that Americans buy roughly the same number of fitted sheets as flats. Or, considering the market for electric blankets, duvets, and other covers, that consumers buy even more bottom sheets, simply forgoing the tops.
ref:
1986, New York Magazine, volume 19, number 49, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
I wouldn't forgo something, unless I'm convinced that it's detrimental in some way or another.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To let pass, to leave alone, to let go.
To do without, to abandon, to renounce.
To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.
senses_topics:
|
5855 | word:
bled
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bled
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See bleed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of bleed
senses_topics:
|
5856 | word:
bled
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bled (plural bleds)
forms:
form:
bleds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French bled, from Algerian Arabic, from Arabic بِلَاد (bilād).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hinterland, field.
senses_topics:
|
5857 | word:
froze
word_type:
verb
expansion:
froze
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I have froze a whole flask full of Water, by gradually pouring it into a Pan; which confirms what Olearius ſays of making huge heaps of Ice to preſerve Bodies.
ref:
1699, The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Eſq, […], page 176
type:
quotation
text:
Had the water been fresh our clothes would have froze into coverings of ice.
ref:
1891, William Clark Russell, Round the Galley Fire, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
He saw it clear enough, now that the lordling had pointed it out. “They couldn't have froze. Not if the Wall was weeping. It wasn't cold enough."
ref:
1996 August 1, George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire; 1), HarperCollins, →OCLC, page 16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of freeze
past participle of freeze
senses_topics:
|
5858 | word:
forgave
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forgave
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of forgive
senses_topics:
|
5859 | word:
environment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
environment (plural environments)
forms:
form:
environments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
environment
etymology_text:
From Middle French environnement, equivalent to environ + -ment. Compare French environnement.
senses_examples:
text:
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
ref:
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
The natural world or ecosystem.
All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5860 | word:
nationality
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nationality (plural nationalities)
forms:
form:
nationalities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From national + -ity, perhaps after French nationalité; ultimately from Latin nātio (“nation, people”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…]permit me to say that the Harranians were Arabs and that the Arabs in occupying Spain and Andalusia did not lose their nationality; they remained Arabs. […] The fact that they preserved their former religion, Sabaeanism, does not mean they should be considered foreign to the Arab nationality.
ref:
1968, Sayyid Jamāl ad-Dīn, “Answer of Jamāl ad-Dīn to Renan”, in Nikki R. Keddie, translated by Nikki R. Keddie, An Islamic Response to Imperialism, University of California Press, →LCCN, page 185
type:
quotation
text:
‘You are, to be sure, wonderfully free from that nationality: but so it happens, that you employ the only Scotch shoe-black in London.’
ref:
1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 599
type:
quotation
text:
By living in the country for five years, you are entitled to get nationality.
type:
example
text:
Stefi was born in Spain to a Brazilian father and a Chilean mother, so is eligible for three nationalities.
type:
example
text:
Please include your nationality on the form.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.
Nationalism or patriotism.
National origin or identity; legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.
A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.
Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity.
senses_topics:
|
5861 | word:
god
word_type:
noun
expansion:
god (plural gods)
forms:
form:
gods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós
Proto-Germanic *gudą
Proto-West Germanic *god
Old English god
Middle English god
English god
Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą, from *ǵʰutóm, neuter/inanimate of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós (“invoked (one)”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewH- (“to call, to invoke”) or *ǵʰew- (“to pour”). Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”).
Cognates include Russian звать (zvatʹ, “to call”), Sanskrit होत्र (hotra, “calling, oblation, sacrifice”) and Latin fūtilis (“easily pours out, leaky”) (whence English futile). Doublet of futile.
senses_examples:
text:
The most frequently used name for the Islamic god is Allah.
type:
example
text:
When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
ref:
2002, Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
type:
quotation
text:
Leo Messi is my god!
type:
example
text:
In 1951 Stalin was a god and the official tone towards the West was one of total antagonism.
ref:
1959, Percy E. Corbett, Law in Diplomacy, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
He is the god of soccer!
type:
example
text:
Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods.
type:
example
text:
Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts.
ref:
a. 1918, Wilfred Owen, Disabled
type:
quotation
text:
The gods usually have several wizards, or "immortals," to assist them in building the MUD.
ref:
1996, Andy Eddy, Internet after hours
type:
quotation
text:
The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods.
ref:
2003, David Lojek, Emote to the Max, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed.
An idol.
A representation of a deity, especially a statue or statuette.
An idol.
Something or someone particularly revered, worshipped, idealized, admired and/or followed.
A person in a very high position of authority, importance or influence; a powerful ruler or tyrant.
A person who is exceptionally skilled in a particular activity.
An exceedingly handsome man.
The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.
senses_topics:
|
5862 | word:
god
word_type:
name
expansion:
god
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós
Proto-Germanic *gudą
Proto-West Germanic *god
Old English god
Middle English god
English god
Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą, from *ǵʰutóm, neuter/inanimate of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós (“invoked (one)”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewH- (“to call, to invoke”) or *ǵʰew- (“to pour”). Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”).
Cognates include Russian звать (zvatʹ, “to call”), Sanskrit होत्र (hotra, “calling, oblation, sacrifice”) and Latin fūtilis (“easily pours out, leaky”) (whence English futile). Doublet of futile.
senses_examples:
text:
And ſuch is to beare yͤ names of god with croſſes betwene ech name about them.
ref:
1530, William Tyndall, “An aunſwere vnto Syr Thomas Mores Dialogue”, in The whole workes of W. Tyndall […], published 1573, page 271
type:
quotation
text:
I say fuck it. Fuck god and fuck all the religions that praise him.
ref:
2005, Diane L. Gabriel, Angel of My Heart, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
For if the necessity of events is bound up with god’s knowledge, if there is no necessity in events, the divine knowledge is abolished. And whose mind is so distorted by such an impious idea that he would dare to say this of god?
ref:
2010 [6th century], Boethius, translated by Andrew Smith, On Aristotle, On Interpretation 1–3, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
If I ask you if you believe in god, I just want to know if you have an imaginary omnipotent friend who you really believe lives outside of you in the real world.
ref:
2012, Penn Jillette, God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
Perhaps what is needed is just the right attitude: one’s heart should be open to god in order to hear his messages. […] It does not matter: such claims only prove my point about the communicative shortcomings of so-called divine signs.
ref:
2016, Andrew Sneddon, A is for Atheist: An A to Z of the Godfree Life
type:
quotation
text:
This is the formulation of the moral end as ‘assimilation to god’, which would become standard in later Platonism.
ref:
2017, Myrto Hatzimichali, “Stoicism and Platonism in ‘Arius Didymus’”, in Troels Engberg-Pedersen, editor, From Stoicism to Platonism: The Development of Philosophy, 100 BCE–100 CE, page 91
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of God
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
5863 | word:
god
word_type:
verb
expansion:
god (third-person singular simple present gods, present participle godding, simple past and past participle godded)
forms:
form:
gods
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
godding
tags:
participle
present
form:
godded
tags:
participle
past
form:
godded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós
Proto-Germanic *gudą
Proto-West Germanic *god
Old English god
Middle English god
English god
Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą, from *ǵʰutóm, neuter/inanimate of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós (“invoked (one)”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewH- (“to call, to invoke”) or *ǵʰew- (“to pour”). Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”).
Cognates include Russian звать (zvatʹ, “to call”), Sanskrit होत्र (hotra, “calling, oblation, sacrifice”) and Latin fūtilis (“easily pours out, leaky”) (whence English futile). Doublet of futile.
senses_examples:
text:
CORIOLANUS: This last old man, / Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome, / Loved me above the measure of a father; / Nay, godded me, indeed.
ref:
1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, act V, scene III
type:
quotation
text:
a. 1866, Edward Bulwer Lytton, "Death and Sisyphus".
To men the first necessity is gods; / And if the gods were not, / " Man would invent them, tho' they godded stones.
text:
"Godded him up" ... It's the fear of discerning journalists: Does coverage of athletic stars, on field and off, approach beatification of the living?
ref:
2001, Conrad C. Fink, Sportswriting: The Lively Game, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
Then got he bow and shafts of gold and lead, / In which so fell and puissant he grew, / That Jove himselfe his powre began to dread, / And, taking up to heaven, him godded new.
ref:
1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
type:
quotation
text:
The superman marks the end of a road on which we find such figures as the "godded man" of English Reformation mystics
ref:
1951, Eric Voegelin, Dante Germino ed., The New Science of Politics: An Introduction, published 1987, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
"She is so lately godded that she is still a rather poor goddess, Stranger.["]
ref:
1956, C. S. Lewis, Fritz Eichenberg, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, page 241
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To idolize.
To deify.
senses_topics:
|
5864 | word:
entertainer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
entertainer (plural entertainers)
forms:
form:
entertainers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
entertainer
etymology_text:
From entertain + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
During my sickness I was constantly and tenderly cared for by Mrs. Anderson, and at short intervals I received visits from both my children, so that upon the whole, I do not regard this as the least unpleasant portion of my life. I had the fullest sympathy of my entertainer—a blessing which had been denied for me many long years.
ref:
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 26
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who entertains others, esp. as a profession, as a singer, actor, presenter, dancer, musician, magician, comedian, etc.
Someone who puts on a show for the entertainment or enjoyment of others.
One who accommodates guests.
senses_topics:
|
5865 | word:
facet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
facet (plural facets)
forms:
form:
facets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
facet
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French facette.
senses_examples:
text:
This facet of the diamond was masterfully cut to enhance its value.
type:
example
text:
The child's learning disability was only one facet of the problems contributing to his delinquency.
type:
example
text:
We had just about completed the research facet of the project when the order came to cancel it.
text:
the articular facet of a bone
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
A smooth circumscribed surface.
Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet.
A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
architecture
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5866 | word:
facet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
facet (third-person singular simple present facets, present participle faceting or facetting, simple past and past participle faceted or facetted)
forms:
form:
facets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
faceting
tags:
participle
present
form:
facetting
tags:
participle
present
form:
faceted
tags:
participle
past
form:
faceted
tags:
past
form:
facetted
tags:
participle
past
form:
facetted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
facet
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French facette.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut a facet into a gemstone.
senses_topics:
|
5867 | word:
since
word_type:
adv
expansion:
since (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
since
etymology_text:
From Middle English syns, synnes, contraction of earlier sithens, sithence, from sithen (“after, since”) ( + -s, adverbial genitive suffix), from Old English sīþþan, from the phrase sīþ þǣm (“after/since that (time)”), from sīþ (“since, after”) + þǣm dative singular of þæt. Cognate with Dutch sinds (“since”), German seit (“since”), Danish siden (“since”), Icelandic síðan (“since”) Scots syne (“since”).
senses_examples:
text:
I met him last year, but haven't seen him since.
type:
example
text:
A short/long time since
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
From a specified time in the past.
senses_topics:
|
5868 | word:
since
word_type:
prep
expansion:
since
forms:
wikipedia:
since
etymology_text:
From Middle English syns, synnes, contraction of earlier sithens, sithence, from sithen (“after, since”) ( + -s, adverbial genitive suffix), from Old English sīþþan, from the phrase sīþ þǣm (“after/since that (time)”), from sīþ (“since, after”) + þǣm dative singular of þæt. Cognate with Dutch sinds (“since”), German seit (“since”), Danish siden (“since”), Icelandic síðan (“since”) Scots syne (“since”).
senses_examples:
text:
I have known her since last year.
type:
example
text:
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
Since the 1980s, computers have had increasing roles in all aspects of human life—including an involvement in criminal acts.
ref:
2013 September-October, Simson Garfinkel, “Digital Forensics”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
"Mujtahidd" has attracted almost 300,000 followers since the end of last year, when he began posting scandalous claims about the Saudi elite.
ref:
2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred.
Continuously during that period of time.
From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred.
At certain points during that period of time.
senses_topics:
|
5869 | word:
since
word_type:
conj
expansion:
since
forms:
wikipedia:
since
etymology_text:
From Middle English syns, synnes, contraction of earlier sithens, sithence, from sithen (“after, since”) ( + -s, adverbial genitive suffix), from Old English sīþþan, from the phrase sīþ þǣm (“after/since that (time)”), from sīþ (“since, after”) + þǣm dative singular of þæt. Cognate with Dutch sinds (“since”), German seit (“since”), Danish siden (“since”), Icelandic síðan (“since”) Scots syne (“since”).
senses_examples:
text:
I have loved you since I first met you.
type:
example
text:
Since you didn't call, we left without you.
type:
example
text:
Since disbursement is the last step in the process of creating a mortgage instrument, the disbursement date may lag the transaction date by a considerable period.
ref:
1970, Jack M. Guttentag, “New Series on Home Mortgage Yields Since 1951, Volume 92”, in National Bureau of Economic Research, page 132
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
From the time that.
Because.
When or that.
senses_topics:
|
5870 | word:
listen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
listen (third-person singular simple present listens, present participle listening, simple past and past participle listened)
forms:
form:
listens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
listening
tags:
participle
present
form:
listened
tags:
participle
past
form:
listened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
listen
etymology_text:
From Middle English listenen, listnen, alteration (due to Middle English listen (“to listen, give heed to”)) of Old English hlysnan (“to listen”), from Proto-Germanic *hlusnijaną, *hlusnōną (compare Middle High German lüsenen), from Proto-Germanic *hlusēną (compare Old High German hlosēn), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”) (compare Ancient Greek κλαίω (klaíō, “I make known, famous”), Welsh clywed (“to hear”), Latin clueō (“I am famous”), Lithuanian klausýti, Old Church Slavonic слушати (slušati, “to hear”), Sanskrit श्रोषति (śróṣati). Related to loud and German lauschen.
senses_examples:
text:
Please listen carefully as I explain.
type:
example
text:
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XX:
'But, sir, lyars ye have lystened, and that hath caused grete debate betwyxte you and me.'
[with to]
I like to listen to music.
2007, KT Tunstall (lyrics and music), “Saving My Face”, in Drastic Fantastic:
I'm listening to what you say / Even though I look the other way / But you could never understand / The feeling of what I'm needing
[with for]
You should listen for the starting gun.
ref:
(transitive, archaic)
type:
example
text:
Listen, the only reason I yelled at you was because I was upset, OK?
type:
example
text:
Good children listen to their parents.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use one's sense of hearing in an intentional way; to make deliberate use of one's ears; to pay attention to or wait for a specific sound.
To accept advice or obey instruction; to agree or assent.
senses_topics:
|
5871 | word:
listen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
listen (plural listens)
forms:
form:
listens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
listen
etymology_text:
From Middle English listenen, listnen, alteration (due to Middle English listen (“to listen, give heed to”)) of Old English hlysnan (“to listen”), from Proto-Germanic *hlusnijaną, *hlusnōną (compare Middle High German lüsenen), from Proto-Germanic *hlusēną (compare Old High German hlosēn), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”) (compare Ancient Greek κλαίω (klaíō, “I make known, famous”), Welsh clywed (“to hear”), Latin clueō (“I am famous”), Lithuanian klausýti, Old Church Slavonic слушати (slušati, “to hear”), Sanskrit श्रोषति (śróṣati). Related to loud and German lauschen.
senses_examples:
text:
Give the motor a listen and tell me if it sounds off.
type:
example
text:
The diss song, “Back to Back,” now has more than 124 million listens, a sign that the streaming can attract a sizable audience for a single track.
ref:
2016 March 29, Victor Luckerson, “There's a New Way To Listen To All the Remixes You Want”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
I hadn't spoken to her in a year, but she could still see my listens on the music platform we both used.
ref:
2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of listening.
senses_topics:
|
5872 | word:
blonde
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blonde (plural blondes)
forms:
form:
blondes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French blonde f. See blond.
senses_examples:
text:
blonde:
text:
Coordinate term: redhead
text:
Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.
ref:
2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 63
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of blond (person of fair hair). (Used especially of a woman. See the usage notes in the entry blond.)
Alternative form of blond (pale golden brown color).
A kind of 2,000-watt lamp.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater |
5873 | word:
blonde
word_type:
adj
expansion:
blonde (comparative blonder or more blonde, superlative blondest or most blonde)
forms:
form:
blonder
tags:
comparative
form:
more blonde
tags:
comparative
form:
blondest
tags:
superlative
form:
most blonde
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French blonde f. See blond.
senses_examples:
text:
So the great wasteful summer days went by, the glory of the passionate nights of July, the crisper blonde luxuriance of August.
ref:
1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water
type:
quotation
text:
In a bar in Copenhagen, for example, filled with blond men and blonde women who in the end turned out to be more blond men, the Torpedoman got riled because when he copped a feel he found a handful of something he hadn’t expected.
[original: Como en aquel bar de Copenhague lleno de hombres rubios y de mujeres rubias que al final resultaron ser también hombres rubios, donde el Torpedero Tucumán se había enfadado porque al meter mano se encontró quinientos buenos gramos de lo que no esperaba; […]]
ref:
2001, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, “The Lost Ship”, in The Nautical Chart, San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt, Inc., page 78
type:
quotation
text:
The tables are full of blond men and blonde women, the room full of the smells of food and the sound of harsh, clipped Northlander voices.
ref:
2007, Meg Burden, chapter 9, in Northlander (Tales of the Borderlands; 1), Weston, Conn.: Brown Barn Books, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
Emma's already huge green eyes widen and she gives me this look like, “Oh my God, sometimes you are just so blonde!”
ref:
2005, Nancy Bartholomew, Lethally Blonde, Silhouette, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
I was so blonde I honestly had no idea why he got so angry. He cooled on me for a week or so.
ref:
2014, Aviva Drescher, Leggy Blonde: A Memoir, Simon and Schuster
type:
quotation
text:
“She was so blonde, she studied for a blood test, when she went to the airport and saw a sign that said, 'Airport Left,' she turned around and went home, when she heard that 90% of all crimes occur around the home, she moved.
ref:
2003, Bennett Fairorth, The Land Where My American Mother Died--Palermo, Sicily, iUniverse, page 201
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of blond
Stupid, ignorant, naive.
senses_topics:
|
5874 | word:
blonde
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blonde (third-person singular simple present blondes, present participle blonding, simple past and past participle blonded)
forms:
form:
blondes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
blonding
tags:
participle
present
form:
blonded
tags:
participle
past
form:
blonded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French blonde f. See blond.
senses_examples:
text:
Most women who blonde their hair today have been doing it for several years.
ref:
1964, LIFE, volume 56, number 10, page 25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of blond
senses_topics:
|
5875 | word:
Bulgarian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Bulgarian (comparative more Bulgarian, superlative most Bulgarian)
forms:
form:
more Bulgarian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Bulgarian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Bulgarian
Bulgarian language
etymology_text:
From Bulgaria + -an or Bulgar + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to Bulgaria, its people, or the Bulgarian language.
senses_topics:
|
5876 | word:
Bulgarian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Bulgarian (countable and uncountable, plural Bulgarians)
forms:
form:
Bulgarians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bulgarian
Bulgarian language
etymology_text:
From Bulgaria + -an or Bulgar + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native of Bulgaria.
The official language of Bulgaria.
senses_topics:
|
5877 | word:
draw
word_type:
verb
expansion:
draw (third-person singular simple present draws, present participle drawing, simple past drew, past participle drawn or (colloquial and nonstandard) drew)
forms:
form:
draws
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
drawing
tags:
participle
present
form:
drew
tags:
past
form:
drawn
tags:
participle
past
form:
drew
tags:
colloquial
nonstandard
participle
past
wikipedia:
draw
etymology_text:
From Middle English drawen, draȝen, dragen (“to drag, pull, push, draw (out), go to, make, add, etc.”), from Old English dragan, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, pull”). Doublet of drag and draught.
cognates
* Albanian dredh (“to turn, spin”)
* Danish drage
* Dutch dragen
* German tragen (“to carry”)
* Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn”)
* Sanskrit ध्रजस् (dhrájas, “gliding course or motion”)
* West Frisian drage
senses_examples:
text:
He drew a sheaf of papers from his bag.
type:
example
text:
Seals […] throw their bodies forward, drawing their hinder-parts after them.
ref:
1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World
type:
quotation
text:
[…] No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it.[…]
ref:
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
type:
quotation
text:
She settled in the window seat, drawing her leg up beneath her.
type:
example
text:
You should draw the curtains at night.
type:
example
text:
It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day.
ref:
1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324
type:
quotation
text:
She drew the curtains to let in the sunlight.
type:
example
text:
This horse draws well.
type:
example
text:
the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee
ref:
1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People
type:
quotation
text:
A ship draws ten feet of water.
type:
example
text:
He drew himself to his full height and glowered at the interloper.
type:
example
text:
She took a deep breath and drew her corset-strings.
type:
example
text:
The carriage draws easily.
type:
example
text:
[…] the golfer thinks, “Ah! To draw the ball, I must be like the old pros and incorporate hand action through impact, twisting the clubhead to the left.” All you have to do to apply the spin needed to draw the ball left is to create a very small conflict between the clubface aim and the path the clubhead is traveling.
ref:
2013, Nick Bradley, Kinetic Golf
type:
quotation
text:
From the moment she entered the room, all eyes were drawn to her.
type:
example
text:
His mind was drawn back to the events of the preceding morning.
type:
example
text:
Handsignalmen, where needed, ought to wear a conspicuous orange/yellow cape (like many road workmen) to draw attention to them.
ref:
1964 April, “Letters: Rethinking emergency procedures”, in Modern Railways, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
ref:
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court
type:
quotation
text:
I drew a deep breath and wiped my brow.
type:
example
text:
So always look on the bright side of death, / Just before you draw your terminal breath.
ref:
1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
type:
quotation
text:
In a desperately tight opening set, the pace and accuracy of the Serbian's groundstrokes began to draw errors from the usually faultless Nadal and earned him the first break point of the day at 5-4.
ref:
2011 July 3, Piers Newbury, “Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The president's comments have drawn strong criticism from rightwing media outlets.
type:
example
text:
The chimney won't draw properly if it's clogged up with soot.
type:
example
text:
to draw a mass of metal into wire
type:
example
text:
The dough was run through the pasta machine and drawn into a long ribbon.
type:
example
text:
A ship's sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind.
type:
example
text:
She thought she heard a noise in her chamber, and she drew herself within the casement.
ref:
1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
type:
quotation
text:
The runners drew level with each other as they approached the finish line.
type:
example
text:
Draw near to the fire and I will tell you a tale.
type:
example
text:
The end of the world draws near.
type:
example
text:
Heavy clouds drew together above our heads.
type:
example
text:
As it drew towards evening, I packed up and headed for home.
type:
example
text:
As the war drew to its end, it became evident that repairs and rebuilding in the heavily blitzed Greater London area would be so extensive as to afford opportunity for effective large-scale planning.
ref:
1962 October, “The Victoria Line was only part of the plan”, in Modern Railways, page 258
type:
quotation
text:
On one of my expeditions, after a stormy night, at the end of March, the hounds drew all day without finding a fox.
ref:
1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
They drew their swords and fought each other.
type:
example
text:
draw water from a well
type:
example
text:
In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe.
ref:
1709, William King, The Art of Cookery
type:
quotation
text:
Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn.
ref:
1784, Edward Augustus Freeman, An essay on parliamentary representation, and the magistracies of our boroughs royal: […]
type:
quotation
text:
The winning lottery numbers were drawn every Tuesday.
type:
example
text:
In the drawing of lots, my sister drew her own room, and I drew Master B.'s.
ref:
1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
type:
quotation
text:
Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves.
ref:
1705, George Cheyne, Philosophical Principles of Religion Natural and Revealed
type:
quotation
text:
At the start of their turn, each player must draw a card.
type:
example
text:
We drew last time we played. I drew him last time I played him. I drew my last game against him.
type:
example
text:
The game is won when a player places any of his pieces on the same square with his opponent's Princess, or when a Chief takes a Chief. It is drawn when a Chief is taken by any opposing piece other than the opposing Chief;[…]
ref:
1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010
type:
quotation
text:
She made a pot of very strong tea, and while she was waiting for it to draw she opened the kitchen door to inspect her garden.
ref:
1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 119
type:
quotation
text:
Tea is much nicer if you let it draw for more than two minutes before pouring.
type:
example
text:
Jill has four diamonds; she'll try to draw for a flush.
type:
example
text:
The circuit draws three hundred watts.
type:
example
text:
He drew comfort from the thought that he was not the first to suffer this way.
type:
example
text:
She draws her subject matter from the events of her own life.
type:
example
text:
[Chappell] Roan draws from the mega-pop of the 2010s, from Lady Gaga to Taylor Swift – then laces it with sexually frank asides and lavish doses of camp, and performs it with a maximalist, absurd aesthetic indebted to drag, John Waters and Freddie Mercury.
ref:
2024 August 9, Laura Snapes, “It’s a femininomenon! How Chappell Roan slow-burned her way to stardom”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
He tried to draw a conclusion from the facts.
type:
example
text:
to draw money from a bank
type:
example
text:
He refused to be drawn on the subject
type:
example
text:
A crude picture had been drawn on the wall of his poky apartment.
type:
example
text:
Her first novel contained a host of characters who were richly and convincingly drawn.
type:
example
text:
to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange
type:
example
text:
When I came in she was drawing on a big piece of coloured paper.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pull or exert force.
To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
To pull or exert force.
To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
To pull or exert force.
To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
To pull or exert force.
To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
To pull or exert force.
To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
To pull or exert force.
To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
To pull or exert force.
To pull something along; to have force to move anything by pulling.
To pull or exert force.
To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
To pull or exert force.
To construct (a wall, canal etc.) from one point to another.
To pull or exert force.
To require (a depth of water) for floating.
To pull or exert force.
To assume a specific position or attitude.
To pull or exert force.
To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
To pull or exert force.
To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
To pull or exert force.
To be pulled along (in a specified way).
To pull or exert force.
To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
To pull or exert force.
To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
To pull or exert force.
To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
To attract, exert an influence on.
To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
To attract, exert an influence on.
To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
To attract, exert an influence on.
To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
To attract, exert an influence on.
To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
To attract, exert an influence on.
To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
To attract, exert an influence on.
To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
To attract, exert an influence on.
To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
To extend, protract.
To extend the duration of (something); to prolong.
To extend, protract.
To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
To extend, protract.
To stretch or elongate.
To extend, protract.
To become contracted; to shrink.
To extend, protract.
Of a sail, to fill with wind.
To move, travel, approach.
To move in a specific direction.
To move, travel, approach.
To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
To move, travel, approach.
To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
To move, travel, approach.
To search for game; to track a quarry.
To extract, remove, select.
To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
To extract, remove, select.
To take (water) from a well or other source.
To extract, remove, select.
To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
To extract, remove, select.
To extract (pus, humours, etc.) by means of medical treatment.
To extract, remove, select.
To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
To extract, remove, select.
To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
To extract, remove, select.
To extract (a tooth).
To extract, remove, select.
To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
To extract, remove, select.
To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
To extract, remove, select.
To withdraw.
To extract, remove, select.
To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
To extract, remove, select.
To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
To extract, remove, select.
To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
To extract, remove, select.
To run (a bath).
To extract, remove, select.
To consume (power).
To obtain, elicit.
To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
To obtain, elicit.
To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
To obtain, elicit.
To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
To obtain, elicit.
To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
To obtain, elicit.
To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
To represent.
To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
To represent.
To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
To represent.
To draw up, compose (a document).
To represent.
To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
To represent.
To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
senses_topics:
archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
card-games
games
|
5878 | word:
draw
word_type:
intj
expansion:
draw
forms:
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
draw
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
form:
to draw
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
draw
etymology_text:
From Middle English drawen, draȝen, dragen (“to drag, pull, push, draw (out), go to, make, add, etc.”), from Old English dragan, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, pull”). Doublet of drag and draught.
cognates
* Albanian dredh (“to turn, spin”)
* Danish drage
* Dutch dragen
* German tragen (“to carry”)
* Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn”)
* Sanskrit ध्रजस् (dhrájas, “gliding course or motion”)
* West Frisian drage
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
pull back your bowstring in preparation to shoot
senses_topics:
archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
5879 | word:
draw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
draw (countable and uncountable, plural draws)
forms:
form:
draws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
draw
etymology_text:
From Middle English drawen, draȝen, dragen (“to drag, pull, push, draw (out), go to, make, add, etc.”), from Old English dragan, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, pull”). Doublet of drag and draught.
cognates
* Albanian dredh (“to turn, spin”)
* Danish drage
* Dutch dragen
* German tragen (“to carry”)
* Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn”)
* Sanskrit ध्रजस् (dhrájas, “gliding course or motion”)
* West Frisian drage
senses_examples:
text:
At the mountain’s base is the leafy suburb of Kowloon Tong. It has never been a big tourist draw, but in the decade since territorial control returned to China, this quintessentially Hong Kong neighborhood has had many more visitors — and important changes.
ref:
2007 June 24, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “Hong Kong Is Reshaped by Mainlanders”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-06-05, Asia Pacific
type:
quotation
text:
After It, Clara became one of the top box-office draws in Hollywood, but her popularity was short lived.
ref:
2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27
type:
quotation
text:
the Wild West's quick-draw champion
type:
example
text:
The draw is on Saturday.
type:
example
text:
Having spent more than £500,000 on players last summer, Crawley can hardly be classed as minnows but they have still punched way above their weight and this kind of performance means no-one will relish pulling them out of the hat in Sunday's draw.
ref:
2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0 - 1 Crawley Town”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
This configuration offered the capacity for an exceptionally long draw – Manchu archers drew all the way back to the point of the right shoulder[…]
ref:
2016 August 25, Mike Loades, The Composite Bow, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
The game ended in a draw.
type:
example
text:
They're going to take away our draw! (referring to e.g. disability assistance)
text:
She looked in [to the stove] and a tight, dismayed gasp escaped her. She slammed the door shut and adjusted the draw with trembling fingers. For a moment—just a moment—she had seen her old friend Annabelle Frane in the coals.
ref:
1981, Stephen King, Do the Dead Sing?
type:
quotation
text:
The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral.
ref:
1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, paperback edition, Mirado Modern Classics, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
So my friends and I would all chip in money to get a bag of weed or a draw.
ref:
2011, Yvonne Ellis, Daughter, Arise: A Journey from Devastation to Restoration, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
Selling draw to your mates but it's really Oxo cubes.
ref:
2003, “Soap Bar”, in The Manifesto, performed by Goldie Looking Chain
type:
quotation
text:
Mick spoke to Simon, who was more of a drinker. He said that people who smoked draw were boring.
ref:
2017, Michael Coleman, Old Skool Rave, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
The player to your left immediately raises you the minimum by clicking the raise button. This action immediately suggests that he's on a draw
ref:
2007, Ryan Wiseman, Earn $30,000 Per Month Playing Online Poker: A Step-By-Step Guide to Single, page 82
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which draws: that which attracts e.g. a crowd.
The act of drawing:
The act of drawing a gun from a holster, etc.
The act of drawing:
The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
The act of drawing:
The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing; the distance the strings are pulled back.
The result of drawing:
The result of a contest that neither side has won.
The result of drawing:
The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
That which is drawn (e.g. funds from an account).
That which is drawn (e.g. funds from an account).
In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
Draft: flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
A bag of cannabis.
Cannabis.
A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
The stall from which a horse begins the race.
senses_topics:
archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
geography
natural-sciences
card-games
poker
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports |
5880 | word:
gotten
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gotten
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically got + -en.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of get
senses_topics:
|
5881 | word:
gotten
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gotten (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically got + -en.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
obtained, acquired
senses_topics:
|
5882 | word:
were
word_type:
verb
expansion:
were
forms:
wikipedia:
Were (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English were, weren, from Old English wǣre, wǣron, wǣren, from Proto-Germanic *wēzun, *wēzīn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-. More at was.
senses_examples:
text:
John, you were the only person to see him.
type:
example
text:
We were about to leave.
type:
example
text:
Mary and John, you were right.
type:
example
text:
They were a fine group.
type:
example
text:
They were to be the best of friends from that day on.
type:
example
text:
I wish that it were Sunday.
text:
Were it simply that she wore a hat, I would not be upset at all. (= If it were simply...)
Were father a king, we would have war. (= If father were a king,...)
ref:
I wish that I were with you. with “if” omitted, put first in an “if” clause
text:
Maccabi would have been out of contention were it not for Stoke's profligacy, but their fortune eventually ran out as the visitors opened the scoring.
ref:
2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1 - 2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
second-person singular simple past indicative of be
first/second/third-person plural simple past indicative of be
first/second/third-person singular/plural simple present/past subjunctive of be
first/third-person singular simple past indicative of be.
senses_topics:
|
5883 | word:
were
word_type:
noun
expansion:
were (plural weres)
forms:
form:
weres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Were (disambiguation)
were
etymology_text:
From Middle English were, wer, see wer.
senses_examples:
text:
1799-1805, Sharon Turner, History of the Anglo-Saxons
Every man was valued at a certain sum, which was called his were.
text:
If by that he failed to pay or give security for the were, or fine, at which murder was legally rated; he might be put to death by the relatives of the murdered man.
ref:
1867, John Lingard, T. Young, Introduction to English History … arranged … by T. Young, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Written statutes busied themselves only with the amount of the were, or fine, or (for the first century after the Conquest) with the method of procedure.
ref:
1908, Frederic Jesup Stimson, The Law of the Federal and State Constitutions of the United States, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
The consequence of conviction was, the payment to the person injured, of a were, or penalty, proportioned to the offencel but though this was the ordinary course, the recovery of the were was not the only object of the proceedings. "The were," says Reeve, "in cases of homicide, and the fines that were paid in cases of theft of various kinds, were only to redeem the offender from the proper punishment of the law, which was death, and that was reddemable, not only by paying money, but by undergoing some personal pains; hence it is that we hear a great variety of corporal punishments..."...
ref:
2004, James Fitzjames Stephen, A General View of the Criminal Law of England, pages 12–13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of wer (“man; wergeld”)
senses_topics:
|
5884 | word:
were
word_type:
noun
expansion:
were (plural weres)
forms:
form:
weres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Were (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Back-formation from werewolf and other terms in were-, from the same source as English wer, were (“man”) (above).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf.
senses_topics:
lifestyle |
5885 | word:
rata
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rata (usually uncountable, plural ratas)
forms:
form:
ratas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
]
From Maori rātā or cognate Tahitian rātā (tree of genus Metrosideros). Compare Tahitian puarātā (Metrosideros collina).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various New Zealand plants of the genus Metrosideros
The hard dark red wood of such trees.
senses_topics:
|
5886 | word:
rata
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rata (plural ratas)
forms:
form:
ratas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare Sinhalese රට ගොරකා (raṭa gorakā, “Garcinia xanthochymus”), Marathi रातंबी (rātambī, “Garcinia indica”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The yellow mangosteen, Garcinia dulcis, a tree native to Indonesia, the Philippines, and India.
senses_topics:
|
5887 | word:
drove
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drove (plural droves)
forms:
form:
droves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drāf (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draibō (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.
senses_examples:
text:
in droves
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
A large number of people on the move.
A group of hares.
A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or coil be driven; a droveway.
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
senses_topics:
|
5888 | word:
drove
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drove
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English drāf, first and third person singular indicative preterite of drīfan (“to drive”).
senses_examples:
text:
Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.
ref:
1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
We are appealing to any individuals who "have" drove that road who may well have [...]
ref:
2019 April 17, Ch Insp Lee, quotee, BBC News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of drive
past participle of drive
senses_topics:
|
5889 | word:
drove
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drove (third-person singular simple present droves, present participle droving, simple past and past participle droved)
forms:
form:
droves
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
droving
tags:
participle
present
form:
droved
tags:
participle
past
form:
droved
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English drāf, first and third person singular indicative preterite of drīfan (“to drive”).
senses_examples:
text:
He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.
ref:
1890, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Snowy River
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
senses_topics:
|
5890 | word:
foregone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
foregone
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of forego
senses_topics:
|
5891 | word:
foregone
word_type:
adj
expansion:
foregone (comparative more foregone, superlative most foregone)
forms:
form:
more foregone
tags:
comparative
form:
most foregone
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
For with the dream foregone, foregone,
The deed forborne for ever,
The worm, regret, will canker on,
And time will turn him never.
ref:
1874, William Henley, O, Gather Me the Rose
type:
quotation
text:
I know people are still going through the details but it's not a foregone conclusion that it will get confirmation by the Senate.
ref:
2018 October 2, Erik Wasson, quoting John Cornyn, “Senate Approval of New Nafta Not a 'Foregone Conclusion,’ Republican Says”, in Bloomberg
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
previous, former
bygone
inevitable; settled
senses_topics:
|
5892 | word:
lam
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lam (third-person singular simple present lams, present participle lamming, simple past and past participle lammed)
forms:
form:
lams
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lamming
tags:
participle
present
form:
lammed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lammed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną.
senses_examples:
text:
1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102,
An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.
text:
They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […]
ref:
1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998, Chapter
type:
quotation
text:
[Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!
ref:
1947, Bill Finger, World's Finest Comics #30, "The Penny Plunderers!", p. 4
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To beat or thrash.
To flee or run away.
senses_topics:
|
5893 | word:
lam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lam (plural lams)
forms:
form:
lams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną.
senses_examples:
text:
on the lam
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flight or escape.
senses_topics:
|
5894 | word:
lam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lam (plural lams)
forms:
form:
lams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic لَام (lām), the name of the letter ل (l).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).
senses_topics:
|
5895 | word:
cling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cling (countable and uncountable, plural clings)
forms:
form:
clings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English clingen, from Old English clingan (“to adhere”), from Proto-West Germanic *klingan, from Proto-Germanic *klinganą. Cognate with Danish klynge (“to cluster, to crowd”). Compare clump.
senses_examples:
text:
Antelope steaks and fried liver to begin on, and venison cutlets with chili con carne and pineapple fritters, and then some sardines and mixed pickles; and top it off with a can of yellow clings and a bottle of beer.
ref:
1908, O. Henry, Hostages to Momus
type:
quotation
text:
You can make window clings by using thin transparency sheets, school glue, food coloring, and templates.
ref:
2004, Diane M. Hyde, Year-Round Classroom Tips
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.
adherence; attachment; devotion
An ornament that clings to a window so as to be seen from outside.
senses_topics:
|
5896 | word:
cling
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cling (third-person singular simple present clings, present participle clinging, simple past and past participle clung or (nonstandard) clinged or (obsolete) clong)
forms:
form:
clings
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
clinging
tags:
participle
present
form:
clung
tags:
participle
past
form:
clung
tags:
past
form:
clinged
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
clinged
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
clong
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
clong
tags:
obsolete
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English clingen, from Old English clingan (“to adhere”), from Proto-West Germanic *klingan, from Proto-Germanic *klinganą. Cognate with Danish klynge (“to cluster, to crowd”). Compare clump.
senses_examples:
text:
Seaweed clung to the anchor.
type:
example
text:
And what hath life for thee / That thou shouldst cling to it thus?
ref:
1823, Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, The Vespers of Palermo, Act the First
type:
quotation
text:
Third-class carriages are grossly overcrowded, with passengers lying on the luggage racks, standing between the benches, and occasionally even riding on the footboards and clinging to the outsides of the coaches for short distances.
ref:
1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 120
type:
quotation
text:
2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
Cartoonish, wide-eyed infants cling to their mothers or play together low to the ground.
text:
I[…] clung my legs as close to his sides as I could.
ref:
1732, Jonathan Swift, An Examination of Certain Abuses in the City of Dublin
type:
quotation
text:
Wood clings.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.
To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films.
To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
To cause to dry up or wither.
To dry up or wither.
To be fond of, to feel strongly about and dependent on.
senses_topics:
|
5897 | word:
cling
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cling (third-person singular simple present clings, present participle clinging, simple past and past participle clinged)
forms:
form:
clings
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
clinging
tags:
participle
present
form:
clinged
tags:
participle
past
form:
clinged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
Imitative; compare clink, clang.
senses_examples:
text:
The tiny chimes clinged the hours and quarters against his right and Kate's left ear. They counted nine and three-quarters.
ref:
1913, Cleveland Moffett, Oliver Herford, The Bishop's Purse, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
The latter, armed with the most famous tool of their trade — tiny clinging bells — created a small band of untrained orchestra giving their part of the market a festive outlook […]
ref:
2003, Femi Abodunrin, The Dancing Masquerade, page 24
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce a high-pitched ringing sound, like a small bell.
senses_topics:
|
5898 | word:
cling
word_type:
intj
expansion:
cling
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
Imitative; compare clink, clang.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Imitative of a high-pitched ringing sound.
senses_topics:
|
5899 | word:
grew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grew
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English grew, from Old English grēow (first and third person past tense of grōwan), from West Germanic *greu, from Northwest Germanic *grerō, from Proto-Germanic *gegrō (first and third person past tense of *grōaną), reduplication of *grōaną.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of grow
past participle of grow
senses_topics:
|
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