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5900 | word:
grew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grew (third-person singular simple present grews, present participle grewing, simple past and past participle grewed)
forms:
form:
grews
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
grewing
tags:
participle
present
form:
grewed
tags:
participle
past
form:
grewed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
Alternative form of grue (“shudder with fear”)
senses_topics:
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5901 | word:
held
word_type:
verb
expansion:
held
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of hold
senses_topics:
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5902 | word:
went
word_type:
verb
expansion:
went
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originally the simple past and past participle of wend, but now the past of go due to suppletion.
senses_examples:
text:
When they arrived whither they were bent, / He made as if he farther would have went. / But they conſtrain'd him, ſaying, Night is near; / Abide with us; and ſo he tarry'd there.
ref:
1671, Elisha Coles, chapter 7, in ΧΡΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Or, a Metrical Paraphraſe on the Hiſtory of Our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt : Dedicated to His Univerſal Church, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
I went from Filley's to Fitch's house, to talk of oxen; no one went with me; might have went to the mill; don,t remember whether I rode back to Laycock's or not to dinner.
ref:
1851, Abel F. Fitch, Report of the Great Conspiracy Case […], Advertiser and Free Press, page 145
type:
quotation
text:
I just sat around and watched, then decided to go see Safid; we planned to study that day, but first we had a good ride around town. We must have went fifteen miles, and Safid was ready to sit and study; we went to a little park and started working.
ref:
2010 June 14, Douglas Nix, Al-Qaeda Hunter, Xlibris, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of go
past participle of go
simple past and past participle of wend
senses_topics:
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5903 | word:
went
word_type:
noun
expansion:
went (plural wents)
forms:
form:
wents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originally the simple past and past participle of wend, but now the past of go due to suppletion.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A course; a way, a path; a journey.
senses_topics:
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5904 | word:
man
word_type:
noun
expansion:
man (plural men)
forms:
form:
men
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”), from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann- m, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“human being, man”). Doublet of Manu.
senses_examples:
text:
The show is especially popular with middle-aged men.
type:
example
text:
Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.
ref:
2011, Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
every man for himself
type:
example
text:
A man would expect, in so very ancient a town of Italy, to find some considerable antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old Rostrum of a Roman ship, that stands over the door of their arsenal.
ref:
c. 1700, Joseph Addison, Monaco, Genoa, &c., page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Without this help, such a deplorable havoc is made in the minds of men (both sexes) in France, still more than in the external order of things, and the evil is so great and spreading, that a remedy is impossible on any other terms.
ref:
1793 August, Edmund Burke, “The Right Hon. Edmund Burke to the Comte de Mercy”, in Charles William [Wentworth-Fitzwilliam], [5th] Earl Fitzwilliam, Richard Bourke, editors, Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Between the Year 1744, and the Period of His Decease, in 1797, volume IV, London: Francis & John Rivington, […], published 1844, pages 144–145
type:
quotation
text:
Similarly, the next time you learn from your reading that the average man (you hear a good deal about him these days, most of it faintly improbable) brushes his teeth 1.02 times a day—a figure I have just made up, but it may be as good as anyone else's – ask yourself a question. How can anyone have found out such a thing? Is a woman who has read in countless advertisements that non-brushers are social offenders going to confess to a stranger that she does not brush her teeth regularly?
ref:
1991 edition (original: 1953), Darell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics, pages 19–20
text:
How did God create man?
God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
ref:
1647, Westminster Shorter Catechism, question 10
text:
Academics who study Aboriginal languages are […] contributing to Man’s search for knowledge, a search that interests most people even if they are not personally involved in it.
ref:
1991, Barry J. Blake, Australian Aboriginal Languages: A General Introduction, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
We are striving to forge our union with purpose. To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man.
ref:
2021 January 20, Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb
type:
quotation
text:
The evidence suggests that close relatives of early man, in lineages that later became extinct, also were able to use tools.
ref:
1990, The Almanac of Science and Technology, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
For God is holde a ryghtwys man.
ref:
c. 1500, “A Gest of Robyn Hode”, in Child Ballads
type:
quotation
text:
Clearing a space between the tables, the men tested their prowess against one another with feats of wrestling and archery and bouts with quarterstaves. Two of the elves, a man and a woman, demonstrated their skill with swordplay—[…]
ref:
2008, Christopher Paolini, Brisingr: Or The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular - Inheritance Book Three, page 549
type:
quotation
text:
There was a pair of burly dwarves – a woman and a man – bearing the markings of the formidable Thane Guards.
ref:
2014, Oisin McGann, Kings of the Realm: Cruel Salvation, Penguin UK
type:
quotation
text:
I had the opportunity to marry one of them but wasn't mature enough to be a man and marry her and be close to the[…]children and raise them[…].
ref:
2011, Timothy Shephard, Can We Help Us?: Growing Up Bi-Racial in America, page 181
type:
quotation
text:
In the next place, every wife ought to answer for her man.
ref:
1715, Joseph Addison, The Freeholder
type:
quotation
text:
Stay away from my man, Sister!
type:
example
text:
Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I’m a cherry pie man.
type:
example
text:
I wanted to be a guitar man on a road tour, but instead I’m a flag man on a road crew.
type:
example
text:
"She's the man for the job."
ref:
2007, Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night, page 553
type:
quotation
text:
Joanie volunteered, of course — if any dirty job is on offer requiring running, she's your man
ref:
2008, Soccer Dad: A Father, a Son, and a Magic Season, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
He also owns the only backhoe tractor on Elbow Cay, so whenever anyone needs a cistern dug, he's their man.
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2012, The Island Caper: A Jake Lafferty Action Novel, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
When President Roosevelt goes walking in the country about Washington he is always accompanied by two Secret Service men.
ref:
1909, Harper's Weekly, volume 53, page iii
type:
quotation
text:
"And they're very good people, I assure you — he's a Harvard man." It was the first time Milly had met on intimate terms a graduate of a large university.
ref:
1913, Robert Herrick, One Woman's Life, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
Like master, like man.
(old proverb)
type:
example
text:
all the king's men
type:
example
text:
The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honour.
ref:
c. 1700s, William Blackstone
text:
The white men are always put on that side of the board which commences by row I, and the black men are placed opposite.
ref:
1883, Henry Richter, Chess Simplified!, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Come on, man, we've got no time to lose!
type:
example
text:
Hey, man, how's it goin'?
type:
example
text:
2018 Dinny Navaratnam, Andrews will learn from experience: Fagan Brisbane Lions, 30 July 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018.
"It was a brutal return to football for Brisbane Lions defender Harris Andrews as his man Tom Hawkins booted seven goals but Lions Coach Chris Fagan said the team's defensive faults, rather than the backman's, allowed the big Cat to dominate."
text:
The second arrived three minutes later and was all Saka's own work, the Arsenal winger turning away from his man on the edge of the area and curling a superb effort beyond the reach of Anatoliy Trubin and into the top corner.
ref:
2023 March 26, Phil McNulty, “England 2-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The roentgen-equivalent-man (or mammal), (rem), is the estimated amount of energy absorbed in tissue which is biologically equivalent in man to 1 r of gamma- or x-rays.
ref:
1953, Notes, Medical Basic Sciences Course, 1950-1953, volume 2, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, page 695
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An adult male human.
All human males collectively: mankind.
A human, a person regardless of gender or sex, usually an adult. (See usage notes.)
All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.)
A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
A husband.
A male lover; a boyfriend.
A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
An adult male servant.
A vassal; a subject.
A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.
A friendly term of address usually reserved for other adult males.
A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
A clipping of "in man" or equivalent used in the CGS unit roentgen equivalent man.
senses_topics:
anthropology
archaeology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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5905 | word:
man
word_type:
adj
expansion:
man (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”), from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann- m, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“human being, man”). Doublet of Manu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Only used in man enough
senses_topics:
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5906 | word:
man
word_type:
intj
expansion:
man
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”), from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann- m, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“human being, man”). Doublet of Manu.
senses_examples:
text:
Man, that was a great catch!
type:
example
text:
The 19 meandering minutes of Dark Star are attractive enough but, man, they go on, while poor Creedence Clearwater Revival – headliners, with Bad Moon Rising still in the charts – are watching the clock tick in the wings.
ref:
2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:man.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing a man.
senses_topics:
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5907 | word:
man
word_type:
pron
expansion:
man
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”), from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann- m, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“human being, man”). Doublet of Manu.
senses_examples:
text:
man's got some new creps
type:
example
text:
Sully: If it weren’t for that snake […] Man wouldn’t even be in this mess right now.
ref:
2011, Top Boy
type:
quotation
text:
before I got arrested man paid for my own ticket to go Jamaica you know . but I’ve never paid to go on no holiday before this time I paid (Dexter, MLE)
ref:
2013, Jenny Cheshire, “Grammaticalisation in social context: The emergence of a new English pronoun”, in Journal of Sociolinguistics, volume 17, number 5, page 609
type:
quotation
text:
Blood I swear she just gave man extra chicken? Two fat pieces of chicken.
ref:
2017, Joseph Barnes Phillips, Big Foot ...and Tiny Little Heartstrings
type:
quotation
text:
man thinks i was born yesterday
type:
example
text:
Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.
ref:
2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda)
type:
quotation
text:
man don't care
type:
example
text:
He was of all colours Þat man may se of flours Be-twene Mydsomer and May.
ref:
c. 1450, Thomas Chestre, Libeaus Desconus
type:
quotation
text:
I don’t really mind how . how my girl looks if she looks decent yeah and there’s one bit of her face that just looks mashed yeah . I don’t care it’s her personality man’s looking at (Alex, Multicultural London English corpus [MLE])
ref:
2013, Jenny Cheshire, “Grammaticalisation in social context: The emergence of a new English pronoun”, in Journal of Sociolinguistics, volume 17, number 5, page 609
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.
You; construed in the third person.
Any person, one
senses_topics:
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5908 | word:
man
word_type:
verb
expansion:
man (third-person singular simple present mans, present participle manning, simple past and past participle manned)
forms:
form:
mans
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
manning
tags:
participle
present
form:
manned
tags:
participle
past
form:
manned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mannen, from Old English mannian, ġemannian (“to man, supply with men, populate, garrison”), from mann (“human being, man”).
cognates
* Dutch bemannen (“to man”)
* German bemannen (“to man”)
* Danish bemande (“to man”)
* Swedish bemanna (“to man”)
* Icelandic manna (“to supply with men, man”).
senses_examples:
text:
The ship was manned with a small crew.
type:
example
text:
In Britain, nearly 2,500 steam locomotives were built, 999 to new designs. Although the latter were modern, they were still labour-intensive to man and maintain, during a period of full employment when working for poor pay in the dirty railway environment was unattractive.
ref:
2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Man the machine guns!
type:
example
text:
‘Avast!’ roared Ahab, dashing him against the bulwarks — ‘Man the boat! Which way heading?’
ref:
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick
type:
quotation
text:
he manned himself heroically
ref:
1876, Julian Hawthorne, Saxon Studies
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).
To take up position in order to operate (something).
To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)
To wait on, attend to or escort.
To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.
senses_topics:
falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle |
5909 | word:
man
word_type:
name
expansion:
man
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of manual.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5910 | word:
good
word_type:
adj
expansion:
good (comparative better or (nonstandard, humorous) gooder, superlative best or (nonstandard, humorous) goodest)
forms:
form:
better
tags:
comparative
form:
gooder
tags:
comparative
humorous
nonstandard
form:
best
tags:
superlative
form:
goodest
tags:
humorous
nonstandard
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English good, from Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”).
Cognate with Russian го́дный (gódnyj, “fit, well-suited, good for; (coll.) good”), год (god), "year", via "suitable time".
Related to gather and together, but not to god/God.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English bon, bone, boon, boun (“good”) borrowed from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”).
senses_examples:
text:
good intentions
type:
example
text:
c. 1525, The Example of Euyll Tongues, page a3 rectoː
Yf ony man wolde begynne his synnes to reny / Or ony good people that fro vyce dyde refrayne / What so euer he were that to vertue wolde applye / But an yll tonge wyll all ouer throwe agayne
If any man would begin to renounce his sins, / Or any good people who refrained from vice, / Whatsoever he who wished to apply himself to virtue might be, / Still an ill tongue would overthrow it all again.
type:
quotation
text:
a good swimmer
type:
example
text:
Flatter him it may, I confess, (as those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing else,) but in the meantime the poor man is left under the fatal necessity of a needless delusion
ref:
1704, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, On the nature and measure of conscience
type:
quotation
text:
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
And Marsha says I am a good cook!
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Can you lend me fifty dollars? You know I'm good for it.
type:
example
text:
Be good while your mother and I are out.
type:
example
text:
Were you a good boy for the babysitter?
type:
example
text:
Would you like a glass of water? — I'm good.
type:
example
text:
[Are] you good? — Yeah, I'm fine.
type:
example
text:
Gimme another beer! — I think you're good.
type:
example
text:
My mother said she's good with me being alone with my date as long as she's met them first.
type:
example
text:
The soup is rather spicy. Are you good with that, or would you like something else?
type:
example
text:
it’s a good watch; the flashlight batteries are still good
type:
example
text:
1526, Herballː
Against cough and scarceness of breath caused of cold take the drink that it hath been sodden in with Liquorice[,] or that the powder hath been sodden in with dry figs[,] for the same the electuary called dyacalamentum is good[,] and it is made thus.
text:
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation,[…]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
ref:
2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
a good worker
type:
example
text:
in good sooth
type:
example
text:
The food was very good.
type:
example
text:
Eat a good dinner so you will be ready for the big game tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
The bread is still good.
type:
example
text:
This coupon is good for a free doughnut.
type:
example
text:
This theory still holds good even if much higher temperatures are assumed.
type:
example
text:
Twinnia biclavata differs from T. nova by inversion IS-1 and a nucleolar shift. Both are good species.
ref:
1966, K. Rothfels, Margaret Freeman, “The salivary gland chromosomes of three North American species of Twinnia (Diptera: Simuliidae)”, in Canadian Journal of Zoology, volume 44, number 5, →DOI
type:
quotation
text:
Exercise and a varied diet are good for you.
type:
example
text:
We had a good time.
type:
example
text:
a good omen; good weather
type:
example
text:
a person's good name
type:
example
text:
a good job
type:
example
text:
The soup is good and hot.
type:
example
text:
I'm good when you are.
type:
example
text:
The reports are good to go.
type:
example
text:
Good Friday, Good Wednesday, the Good Book
type:
example
text:
all in good time
type:
example
text:
a good while longer
type:
example
text:
a good number of seeds
type:
example
text:
A good part of his day was spent shopping.
type:
example
text:
It will be a good while longer until he's done.
type:
example
text:
He's had a good amount of troubles, he has.
type:
example
text:
This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb. The car was a good ten miles away.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
Competent or talented.
Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
Accepting of, OK with
Of high rank or birth.
Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
Effective.
Real; actual; serious.
Having a particularly pleasant taste.
Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
True, valid, of explanatory strength.
Right, proper, as it should be.
Healthful.
Pleasant; enjoyable.
Favourable.
Unblemished; honourable.
Beneficial; worthwhile.
Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
Very, extremely. See good and.
Ready.
Holy (especially when capitalized) .
Reasonable in amount.
Large in amount or size.
Full; entire; at least as much as.
senses_topics:
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5911 | word:
good
word_type:
intj
expansion:
good
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English good, from Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”).
Cognate with Russian го́дный (gódnyj, “fit, well-suited, good for; (coll.) good”), год (god), "year", via "suitable time".
Related to gather and together, but not to god/God.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English bon, bone, boon, boun (“good”) borrowed from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”).
senses_examples:
text:
Good! I can leave now.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
senses_topics:
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5912 | word:
good
word_type:
adv
expansion:
good (comparative better, superlative best)
forms:
form:
better
tags:
comparative
form:
best
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English goode (“good, well”, adverb), from the adjective. Compare Dutch goed (“good, well”, adverb), German gut (“good, well”, adverb), Danish godt (“good, well”, adverb), Swedish gott (“good, well”, adverb), all from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
The boy done good. (did well)
type:
example
text:
If Silvertip refuses to give you the horse, grab him before he can draw a weapon, and beat him good. You're big enough to do it.
ref:
1906, Zane Grey, The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley
type:
quotation
text:
I kept my eyes peeled for signs of pursuit. There was none, unless I was being fooled very good.
ref:
1970, Troy Conway, The Cunning Linguist, London: Flamingo Books, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
She said, "I don't want to bother you / Consider it's understood / I know I'm not no beauty queen / But I sure can listen good."
ref:
1972, Harry Chapin (lyrics and music), “A Better Place to Be”, in Sniper and Other Love Songs
type:
quotation
text:
Marsellus fucked him up good. Word 'round the campfire is it was on account of Marsellus Wallace's wife.
ref:
1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson)
type:
quotation
text:
The one thing that we can't do...is throw out the baby with the bathwater.... We know our process works pretty darn good and, uh, it’s really sparked this amazing phenomenon of this...high-quality website.
ref:
2007 April 19, Jimmy Wales, “Jimmy Wales on the User-Generated Generation”, Fresh Air, WHYY, Pennsylvania https://web.archive.org/web/20070423020137/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9683874
text:
"They're travellin' good now. We'll leave them be."
ref:
2010, Monte Dwyer, Red in the Centre: Through a Crooked Lens, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Admiral Anderson: You did good, child. You did good. I'm proud of you.
ref:
2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel (Priority: Earth)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
senses_topics:
|
5913 | word:
good
word_type:
noun
expansion:
good (countable and uncountable, plural goods)
forms:
form:
goods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English good, god, from Old English gōd (“a good thing, advantage, benefit, gift; good, goodness, welfare; virtue, ability, doughtiness; goods, property, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdą (“goods, belongings”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-, *gʰodʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”). Compare German Gut (“item of merchandise; estate; property”).
senses_examples:
text:
The best is the enemy of the good.
type:
example
text:
He is an influence for good on those girls.
type:
example
text:
[…]the government must be a weak one indeed, if it should forget that the good of the whole can only be promoted by advancing the good of each of the parts or members which compose the whole.
ref:
1788, John Jay, The Federalist Papers, number 64
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: service
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
An item of merchandise.
senses_topics:
|
5914 | word:
good
word_type:
verb
expansion:
good (third-person singular simple present goods, present participle gooding, simple past and past participle gooded)
forms:
form:
goods
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gooding
tags:
participle
present
form:
gooded
tags:
participle
past
form:
gooded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English goden, godien, from Old English gōdian (“to improve, get better; make better; endow, enrich”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōdōn (“to make better, improve”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz (“good, favourable”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
To make good; turn to good; improve.
To make improvements or repairs.
To benefit; gain.
To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
senses_topics:
|
5915 | word:
good
word_type:
verb
expansion:
good (third-person singular simple present goods, present participle gooding, simple past and past participle gooded)
forms:
form:
goods
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gooding
tags:
participle
present
form:
gooded
tags:
participle
past
form:
gooded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From English dialectal, from Middle English *goden, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish göda (“to fatten, fertilise, battle”), Danish gøde (“to fertilise, battle”), ultimately from the adjective. See above.
senses_examples:
text:
April 5 1628, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Blessings, Sins, and Judgments of God's Vineyard
Nature was like itself , in it , in the world : God hath taken it in from the barren downs , and gooded it : his choice did not find , but make it thus
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
senses_topics:
|
5916 | word:
good
word_type:
adj
expansion:
good (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined in reference to the phrase "the only good nigger is a dead nigger", a popular saying among white supremacists.
senses_examples:
text:
Another evil nigger made good. I love a good news story.
ref:
2008 October 17, Anthony X (Janet Arvizo is a disgusting liar, Tom Sneddon is a disgusting racist http://asb-comm-logic.com, “TNB: 36-year-old African American shot to death”, in alt.true-crime (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Sow Sheeboon Savannah Jeanne Walker of Louisville, KY was made good in a shooting at cRap show called 'A Boogie With The Hoodie' Saturday night at the Tim Faulkner Art Gallery. 5 other niggers were shot and are expected to survive. No suspooks have been captured.
ref:
2017 March 21, Rick Mathers, “6 Shitskin Boogs Shot At 'A Boogie With The Hoodie' Concert”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
The usual nigger nonsense from da fambly. He beez a good daddy to his keeids (I wonder how many more keeids this useless nigger has that the media didn't tell us about.) He wuz juss mindin' his own bidness when da popo got in da way. He din do nuffins. The BLM niggers and their lovers will be chimping out for sure. LEO's already have a tough job as it is, dealing with niggers has to be the worst part of the job. I'm glad that coon was made good.
ref:
2017 November 7, Casa de los peregrinos, “Groid rage motorist chimps out on motorist”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Bolsheviks have got to be in heat over this, a nigger with well over 40 arrests including violent assault is properly made good for threatening people on the subway, will the law abiding law defending hero be thrown under the bus to appease blacks [again]?
ref:
2023 May 4, JeSSe, “White US Marine kills black felon in self defense - BLM/antifa threaten riots if he is not arrested and found guilty”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a black person, dead or killed.
senses_topics:
|
5917 | word:
inferred
word_type:
verb
expansion:
inferred
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of infer
senses_topics:
|
5918 | word:
born
word_type:
verb
expansion:
born
forms:
wikipedia:
born
etymology_text:
From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *gaboran, from Proto-Germanic *buranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to bear + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gebooren (“born”), West Frisian berne (“born”), Dutch geboren (“born”), German geboren (“born”), Swedish boren (“born”).
senses_examples:
text:
Although not born in the country, she qualifies for nationality through her grandparents.
type:
example
text:
In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.
ref:
1784, Thomas Sheridan, Life of Dr. Swift, Section I
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of bear; given birth to.
past participle of bear in other senses.
senses_topics:
|
5919 | word:
born
word_type:
adj
expansion:
born (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
born
etymology_text:
From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *gaboran, from Proto-Germanic *buranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to bear + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gebooren (“born”), West Frisian berne (“born”), Dutch geboren (“born”), German geboren (“born”), Swedish boren (“born”).
senses_examples:
text:
In the United States, information describing the operation of nuclear weapons is born secret.
type:
example
text:
I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a born scoundrel.
ref:
1942, Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major
type:
quotation
text:
“Your desert boots are fitted slip-fashion at the ankles. Who told you to do that?”
"It . . . seemed the right way."
"That it most certainly is."
And Kynes rubbed his cheek, thinking of the legend: "He shall know your ways as though born to them."
ref:
1965, Frank Herbert, Dune (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 118
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
senses_topics:
|
5920 | word:
born
word_type:
noun
expansion:
born (plural borns)
forms:
form:
borns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
born
etymology_text:
Dialectal variant of burn.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)
senses_topics:
|
5921 | word:
born
word_type:
verb
expansion:
born (third-person singular simple present borns, present participle bornin, simple past and past participle bornt)
forms:
form:
borns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bornin
tags:
participle
present
form:
bornt
tags:
participle
past
form:
bornt
tags:
past
wikipedia:
born
etymology_text:
Dialectal variant of burn.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)
senses_topics:
|
5922 | word:
this
word_type:
det
expansion:
this (plural these)
forms:
form:
these
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
this
etymology_text:
From Middle English this, from Old English þis (neuter demonstrative), from North Sea Germanic base *þa- "that", from Proto-Germanic *þat, from Proto-Indo-European *tód, extended form of demonstrative base *to-; + North-West Germanic definitive suffix -s, from Proto-Indo-European *só (“this, that”).
Cognate with Scots this (“this”), Saterland Frisian dusse (“this”), West Frisian dizze (“this”), German dies, dieses (“this”), Old Gutnish þissi (“this”).
senses_examples:
text:
This classroom is where I learned to read and write.
type:
example
text:
Right, boys, as much fun as this night has been, this girl is tired, so I'm gonna hit the hay.
ref:
2017, Samantha Towle, Breaking Hollywood, London: Headline Eternal, page 205
type:
quotation
text:
"As far as I can tell, there's been no journalistic interest in these basic issues of why Wikipedia editors make the decisions they do, and how they give effect to them, despite the fact the announcement of the ban was basically worldwide news," wrote Reddit user ronsmith7. Well, ronsmith7, today is your lucky day because this journalist is interested in those issues.
ref:
2021 July 1, Stephen Harrison, “Wikipedia's War on the Daily Mail”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2023-06-04
type:
quotation
text:
Hey, you know what's got two thumbs and really likes brownies? This guy!
ref:
1999, “Garage Sale”, in That '70s Show, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Michael Kelso (Ashton Kutcher)
type:
quotation
text:
I am no longer your little naïve toy. I am a woman. All woman. And this woman is tired of your crap.
ref:
2005, Anita Foster Lovely, Betrayals, Philadelphia, P.A.: Xlibris, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
"You'll find another way. This girl is done." Hayden let his gun fall to the ground. "You can shoot me if you want. Its your call."
ref:
2010, Stephen Jay Schwartz, Beat, New York, N.Y.: Forge Books, page 333
type:
quotation
text:
They give the appearance of knowing what they're doing. It's this appearance that lets them get away with so much.
type:
example
text:
When asked what he wanted for his birthday, he gave this reply: “[…]”
type:
example
text:
I met this woman the other day who's allergic to wheat. I didn't even know that was possible!
type:
example
text:
There's just this nervous mannerism that Bob has with his hands, and it drives me crazy.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: next
text:
It's cold this morning.
type:
example
text:
I plan to go to London this Friday.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
Referring to oneself.
The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone just mentioned).
The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone about to be mentioned).
A known (thing) (used in first mentioning a person or thing that the speaker does not think is known to the audience). Compare with "a certain ...".
Designates the current or next instance.
senses_topics:
|
5923 | word:
this
word_type:
adv
expansion:
this (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
this
etymology_text:
From Middle English this, from Old English þis (neuter demonstrative), from North Sea Germanic base *þa- "that", from Proto-Germanic *þat, from Proto-Indo-European *tód, extended form of demonstrative base *to-; + North-West Germanic definitive suffix -s, from Proto-Indo-European *só (“this, that”).
Cognate with Scots this (“this”), Saterland Frisian dusse (“this”), West Frisian dizze (“this”), German dies, dieses (“this”), Old Gutnish þissi (“this”).
senses_examples:
text:
I need this much water.
type:
example
text:
Do we need this many recommendations?
type:
example
text:
We've already come this far, we can't turn back now.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To the degree or extent indicated.
senses_topics:
|
5924 | word:
this
word_type:
pron
expansion:
this (plural these)
forms:
form:
these
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
this
etymology_text:
From Middle English this, from Old English þis (neuter demonstrative), from North Sea Germanic base *þa- "that", from Proto-Germanic *þat, from Proto-Indo-European *tód, extended form of demonstrative base *to-; + North-West Germanic definitive suffix -s, from Proto-Indo-European *só (“this, that”).
Cognate with Scots this (“this”), Saterland Frisian dusse (“this”), West Frisian dizze (“this”), German dies, dieses (“this”), Old Gutnish þissi (“this”).
senses_examples:
text:
This isn't the item that I ordered.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The thing, item, etc. being indicated.
senses_topics:
|
5925 | word:
this
word_type:
noun
expansion:
this (plural thises)
forms:
form:
thises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
this
etymology_text:
From Middle English this, from Old English þis (neuter demonstrative), from North Sea Germanic base *þa- "that", from Proto-Germanic *þat, from Proto-Indo-European *tód, extended form of demonstrative base *to-; + North-West Germanic definitive suffix -s, from Proto-Indo-European *só (“this, that”).
Cognate with Scots this (“this”), Saterland Frisian dusse (“this”), West Frisian dizze (“this”), German dies, dieses (“this”), Old Gutnish þissi (“this”).
senses_examples:
text:
Terms like 'house', 'sphere', 'animal', and 'human' do not refer to other thises distinct from these ones here — they refer to the sort of thing these ones here are.
ref:
2001, James G. Lennox, Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology, page 151
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something being indicated that is here; one of these.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
5926 | word:
this
word_type:
intj
expansion:
this
forms:
wikipedia:
this
etymology_text:
From Middle English this, from Old English þis (neuter demonstrative), from North Sea Germanic base *þa- "that", from Proto-Germanic *þat, from Proto-Indo-European *tód, extended form of demonstrative base *to-; + North-West Germanic definitive suffix -s, from Proto-Indo-European *só (“this, that”).
Cognate with Scots this (“this”), Saterland Frisian dusse (“this”), West Frisian dizze (“this”), German dies, dieses (“this”), Old Gutnish þissi (“this”).
senses_examples:
text:
― I wish trolls could be banned from the forum immediately, without any discussion.
― This!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material.
senses_topics:
|
5927 | word:
foresee
word_type:
verb
expansion:
foresee (third-person singular simple present foresees, present participle foreseeing, simple past foresaw, past participle foreseen)
forms:
form:
foresees
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
foreseeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
foresaw
tags:
past
form:
foreseen
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English foreseen, forseen, from Old English foresēon; equivalent to fore- + see. Similar formations in Dutch voorzien, German vorsehen, Latin prōvideō, (whence provide and purvey), Ancient Greek πρόοιδα (próoida), Polish przewidzieć, Russian провидеть (providetʹ).
senses_examples:
text:
"I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
ref:
1838, Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be able to see beforehand: to anticipate; predict.
To provide.
senses_topics:
|
5928 | word:
interbred
word_type:
verb
expansion:
interbred
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
inter- + bred
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of interbreed
senses_topics:
|
5929 | word:
technology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
technology (countable and uncountable, plural technologies)
forms:
form:
technologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología, “systematic treatment (of grammar)”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”). By surface analysis, techno- + -logy.
senses_examples:
text:
Humankind relies on technology to keep average standard of living higher than it would otherwise be.
type:
example
text:
Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
ref:
2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.
type:
example
text:
the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age
type:
example
text:
Comb jellies lack the most impressive 'technology' of jellyfish - the nematocyst stinging apparatus which is one of the most deadly weapons and fastest cellular processes in nature.
ref:
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 317
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
Machines or equipment thus designed.
Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
The study of or a collection of techniques.
A discourse or treatise on the arts.
senses_topics:
|
5930 | word:
larva
word_type:
noun
expansion:
larva (plural larvas or larvae or larvæ)
forms:
form:
larvas
tags:
plural
form:
larvae
tags:
plural
form:
larvæ
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
larva
etymology_text:
From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).
senses_examples:
text:
The habits of the second nymphal stage are likewise similar to those of the larva stage.
ref:
1923, Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Several possible explanations are advanced for a large decrease in numbers between the egg and larva stage, namely, drift of larvae from the sampling station, escape through the meshes of the net, sinking below the surface layers, and loss from mortality. A seasonally erratic egg to larva ratio is pointed out.
ref:
1954, Contribution - Hawaii Marine Laboratory, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
The young larva bores into the tissue of a tobacco leaf, usually near the place where it has emerged from the egg, in cases where the egg was laid on a leaf, and mines into the leaf.
ref:
1920, Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
What does a mountain newt larva eat?
ref:
2020, Anne Sagner, Ichthy, diary of a newt larva, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
In water of 5-6° C, herring hatch in about 22 days, at 11-12° C in 8–10 days. The newly hatched larva is about 6–8 mm long and at first depends on the food reserves of the yolk-sac.
ref:
1968, R. V. Tait, F. A. Dipper, Elements of Marine Ecology, page 344
type:
quotation
text:
Breeding females of both the Lophogastrida and Mysida carry their embryos and larvae in a marsupium, within which their entire embryonic and larval development takes place.
ref:
2014, Joel W. Martin, Jørgen Olesen, Jens T. Høeg, Atlas of Crustacean Larvae, page 199
type:
quotation
text:
In the fourteenth we find, but still in Latin, a quasi-historical drama, in the larva stage of monologue recitation, founded on a subject from the national annals—that of Ezzelino, tyrant-duke of Padua.
ref:
1883, The Edinburgh Review - Volume 158, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
Man's larva stage is first announced by strong pathetic squalls; — Conscious knowledge of his helplessness, — dependency, appalls, — Evokes maternal sympathy,— for him she will provide,— Most proud mother, happy parent, as he nestles by her side.
ref:
1909, Frederick Joseph Duggan, Infinity ; Or, Nature's God, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
The larva stage of the child's mind demands much forage material.
ref:
1910 November, “Teaching Pupils to Study”, in The Louisiana School Review, volume 18, number 3, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
The larva stage possesses a libido of nutrition, if I may so express it, but not yet the libido sexualis.
ref:
1915, Nervous and Mental Disease Monographs - Volumes 19-22 -, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
After they have fairly emerged from what may be termed the larva stage, so that they can make their way about, we see them experimenting with their bodies and exploring their surroundings. Babies handle; they taste, they feel with hands and mouths, they look, and they listen; they creep and walk and climb; later they stride, trot, jump, utilizing everything they can find in their play purpose of activity.
ref:
1930, American Childhood - Volume 16, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
I would call the arrival and settlement of our forefathers in this country which we now call Ghana as the egg stage; the time between the birth of the Fante Confederacy and the time of the first Legislative Council as the larva stage; the time the Positive Action was declared as the pupa stage; and the 3rd of August, 1956, when the historic motion for independence was moved, as the full-grown stage.
ref:
1956, Gold Coast. Legislative Assembly, Debates - Part 1, page 205
type:
quotation
text:
A vision in the larva stage uses our knowledge base to grow. We cannot see this process, but it goes on in the back of our mind, usually without our knowing it.
ref:
2021, Oleg Konovalov, The Vision Code: How to Create and Execute a Compelling Vision for Your Business, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
We also have been in the larva stage of life. And many people will never abandon this stage. A larva is an adult of eighteen years or more. An adult that never grew up and just wakes up, work, pay bills, sleep, breathe, and so on.
ref:
2021, Reynaldo J Garcia, Go to the Next Level
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.
An animal in the aforementioned stage.
A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.
A preliminary stage of someone or something, before it has fully matured, especially a time of growth rather than one of performance.
senses_topics:
|
5931 | word:
interwove
word_type:
verb
expansion:
interwove
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of interweave
senses_topics:
|
5932 | word:
leg
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leg (plural legs)
forms:
form:
legs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”) (see it for more).
Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).
senses_examples:
text:
Insects have six legs.
type:
example
text:
Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches.
type:
example
text:
The left leg of these jeans has a tear.
type:
example
text:
the legs of a chair or table
type:
example
text:
This observation is an important leg of my argument.
type:
example
text:
After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.
type:
example
text:
A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn.
ref:
2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport
type:
quotation
text:
This proposal has no legs. Almost everyone opposes it.
type:
example
text:
I’m trying to go with my head and focus on the first guy, because this could be a relationship with legs.
ref:
2020 February 2, “One is a great guy; the other is good in bed. So who do I choose?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
;
text:
Ponsonby-Smythe hit a thumping drive through the leg fielders.
type:
example
text:
Which was lower than whale shit in the eyes of any paratrooper; it would have been a disgrace to be a leg.
ref:
2019, Elliot Murphy, A Vietnam Story, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
A leg is one column of a story. It has two legs if it is set in two columns and three legs if it is set in three columns. Avoid legs longer than 10 inches and shorter than 1 inch.
ref:
2015, Homer L. Hall, Megan Fromm, Aaron Manfull, Student Journalism & Media Literacy, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
The street was deserted. We acted quickly. Josiah gave me a leg. I threw my jacket over the broken glass […]
ref:
1902, The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 21, page 737
type:
quotation
text:
If one leg from your 2-way parlay pushes and the other wins, your parlay bet wins and is paid off as if it's a straight bet (paying -110 or whatever the odds were).
ref:
2020, Swain Scheps, Sports Betting For Dummies, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 265
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
Something that supports.
A stage of a journey, race etc.
A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
One of the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle.
One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.
A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
Synonym of leg up (“forming a step for a person's feet with one's hands”)
An individual bet in a parlay (a series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward).
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
finance
government
military
politics
war
journalism
media
gambling
games |
5933 | word:
leg
word_type:
verb
expansion:
leg (third-person singular simple present legs, present participle legging, simple past and past participle legged)
forms:
form:
legs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
legging
tags:
participle
present
form:
legged
tags:
participle
past
form:
legged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”) (see it for more).
Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
senses_topics:
|
5934 | word:
leg
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leg (plural not attested)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of leg.
senses_topics:
|
5935 | word:
leg
word_type:
adj
expansion:
leg (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of leg.
senses_topics:
|
5936 | word:
accused
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accused
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* (noun): First attested in the 1590's.
* From accuse (“blame”) + -ed
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of accuse
senses_topics:
|
5937 | word:
accused
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accused (plural accused)
forms:
form:
accused
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* (noun): First attested in the 1590's.
* From accuse (“blame”) + -ed
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
senses_topics:
law |
5938 | word:
accused
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accused (comparative more accused, superlative most accused)
forms:
form:
more accused
tags:
comparative
form:
most accused
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* (noun): First attested in the 1590's.
* From accuse (“blame”) + -ed
senses_examples:
text:
This power chiefly fell to the queen, and she was more accused than ever of too much leaning towards her own country; […]
ref:
1883, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Landmarks of Recent History, 1770-1883, Walter Smith, pages 11–12
type:
quotation
text:
Naples had an almost stronger preference for the interposition of Spain, while the great republic of Venice in the eyes of Italy stood accused of aspiring to bring the whole peninsula under its sway, […]
ref:
1891, Charles Grant Robertson, Caesar Borgia: The Stanhope Essay for 1891, B.H. Blackwell, pages 8–9
text:
If she felt unimportant, you showed her that she was important to you. If she felt accused, you reassured her. If she felt guilty, you helped her feel better.
ref:
2007, Patricia Love, Steven Stosny, How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking about It: Finding Love Beyond Words, Random House, page 188
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having been accused; being the target of accusations.
senses_topics:
|
5939 | word:
interwoven
word_type:
verb
expansion:
interwoven
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of interweave
senses_topics:
|
5940 | word:
tuition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tuition (countable and uncountable, plural tuitions)
forms:
form:
tuitions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tuition
etymology_text:
From Old French [Term?], from Latin tuitiō (“guard, protection, defense”), from tuēri (“to watch, guard, see, observe”). Compare intuition, tutor.
senses_examples:
text:
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]
ref:
2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
tuition classes
type:
example
text:
Tuition in the past was like taking medicine and you sent children for it only if they were doing poorly in a subject.
ref:
2021 August 18, Qiu Guanhua, “Forum: Heavy reliance on tuition to boost performance is not healthy”, in The Straits Times, Singapore, archived from the original on 2022-12-28
type:
quotation
text:
These rosemaling workshops are no place for anyone who wants to pester me or the students with the "white privilege" card, inter alia. Therefore, I reserve the right to refund the tuition of such men and women, kick them out the door, and bar them from at least two of my future events.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)
A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college); tuition fees.
Care, guardianship.
senses_topics:
|
5941 | word:
voice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
voice (plural voices)
forms:
form:
voices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
voice
etymology_text:
From Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs, root noun from *wekʷ- (“to utter, speak”). Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vāc), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), Persian آواز (âvâz). Displaced native Middle English steven (“voice”) (from Old English stefn (see steven)), Old English hlēoþor, and Old English woþ. Broadly overtook Old English reord. Compare advocate, advowson, avouch, convoke, epic, vocal, vouch, vowel. Doublet of vox.
senses_examples:
text:
The human voice is the oldest musical instrument in history.
type:
example
text:
She has a pleasant voice.
type:
example
text:
His low voice allowed him to become a bass in the choir.
type:
example
text:
Villa chief executive Paul Faulkner had backed manager Houllier during the week and asked for the fans to get behind their team as they looked to steer themselves away from the relegation zone.
To that end, the home supporters were in good voice to begin with, but it was Newcastle who started the game in the ascendancy, with Barton putting a diving header over the top from Jose Enrique's cross.
ref:
2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
O Marcus, I am warm’d; my heart Leaps at the trumpet’s voice.
ref:
1712, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy
type:
quotation
text:
to cultivate the voice
type:
example
text:
17th century, John Fell, unknown work
Let us call on God in the voice of his church.
text:
Like many of the 7 million other first time voters, she came of age during half a decade of military rule that has governed the country since former general turned Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha seized power in a 2014 coup. "We have had our voice taken away for five years," she says.
ref:
2019 March 24, Helen Regan, Kocha Olarn, “Thailand's youth demand change ahead of elections”, in CNN, retrieved 2019-03-24
type:
quotation
text:
The inclusion of transgender voices further disrupts the homonormalization of sex and identity evident in popular LGBTQ cinema.
ref:
2016, Sonia Tascon, Tyson Wils, Activist Film Festivals: Towards a Political Subject
type:
quotation
text:
President Biden told the American public in an Oval Office address on Wednesday that he had abandoned his re-election campaign because there is “a time and a place for new voices, fresh voices — yes, younger voices.”
ref:
2024 July 25, Katie Rogers, quoting Joe Biden, “Biden Says It Is Time to Step Aside for a Fresh, Younger Voice”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The verbal system of Latin has two voices, active and passive.
type:
example
text:
There are four tenses of the subjunctive (present, perfect, imperfect, and pluperfect) and three voices (active, passive, and deponent). [...] See 12.8 for the formation of the deponent voice.
ref:
2012, Drew Arlen Mannetter, I Came, I Saw, I Translated, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
The theme of this piece constantly migrates between the three voice parts.
type:
example
text:
True, better clients will remember that a person had a voice before they were opped and will return the + when they are deopped, but that doesn't solve the problem.
ref:
1999 February 20, Cory McWilliams, “IRC oddities”, in alt.irc (Usenet), message-ID <7amrhu$17kg@enews2.newsguy.com>
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character
Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
The tone or sound emitted by an object
The faculty or power of utterance
That which is communicated; message; meaning.
An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered
Command; precept.
One who speaks; a speaker.
A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
literature
media
publishing
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
IRC |
5942 | word:
voice
word_type:
verb
expansion:
voice (third-person singular simple present voices, present participle voicing, simple past and past participle voiced)
forms:
form:
voices
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
voicing
tags:
participle
present
form:
voiced
tags:
participle
past
form:
voiced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
voice
etymology_text:
From Middle English voysen, voicen, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
He voiced the sentiments of the nation.
type:
example
text:
How often he would voice his love of England, his admiration of her Parliament, his pride in her history.
ref:
1893, Annie Wood Besant, An Autobiography
type:
quotation
text:
voice the pipes of an organ
type:
example
text:
If thou wilt give me Davids heart; Ile voyce, / Great God, with David; and make Davids choyce.
ref:
1638, Francis Quarles, Divine Fancies: Digeſted Into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Obſervations, London: Iohn Marriot, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
It is not the gift of every Perſon, nor of every Age, to harangue the multitude, to Voice it high and loud, & Dominari in Concionibus.
ref:
1666, Robert South, A ſermon preached at Lambeth-Chappel on the 25th of November […], London: William Nott
type:
quotation
text:
How wou'd they voice it o're and o're for Tachmas / To come, and blunt the edge of War agen!
ref:
1682, Thomas Southern, The Loyal Brother, Or The Perſian Prince, London: William Cademan, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
I would like this script to allow me to notice not only the ops in a channel, but also those that have been voiced by the ops, at the same time.
ref:
2001 November 22, Thom Peppard, “assistance please”, in alt.irc (Usenet), message-ID <B8225C66.240B%thompeppard@tru.eastlink.ca>
type:
quotation
text:
If you then want others to be able to talk, you can voice them (+v) or if you want everyone able to talk, you can remove the moderation flag on the channel (-m).
ref:
2004 August 1, Remco Rijnders, “moderating an IRC session”, in alt.irc (Usenet), message-ID <opsb1625xn32ljov@news.xs4all.nl>
type:
quotation
text:
The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.
ref:
2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
To vote; to elect; to appoint
To clamor; to cry out
To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
IRC
broadcasting
film
media
television |
5943 | word:
grown
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grown
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English growen.
Morphologically grow + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of grow
senses_topics:
|
5944 | word:
grown
word_type:
adj
expansion:
grown (comparative more grown, superlative most grown)
forms:
form:
more grown
tags:
comparative
form:
most grown
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English growen.
Morphologically grow + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
What once was a farm was grown with trees.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Covered by growth; overgrown.
Of a person: adult.
senses_topics:
|
5945 | word:
kneeled
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kneeled
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of kneel
senses_topics:
|
5946 | word:
fed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fed (plural feds)
forms:
form:
feds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
FED
etymology_text:
Clipping of federal.
senses_examples:
text:
That corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster!
text:
Jasmine York led chants of ‘f*** the f***ing feds’ as a crowd marched on Bristol’s Bridewell police station.
ref:
2022, 15 March, Kill the Bill protester who led ‘f*** the feds’ chant jailed over police car torching (in Metro newspaper)
text:
Salmon were becoming scarce in the river until the feds stepped in.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A federal government officer or official, especially an FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, or DEA agent.
A federal government officer or official, especially an FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, or DEA agent.
A federal police officer; an officer of the AFP.
A police officer.
The Canadian federal government.
senses_topics:
|
5947 | word:
fed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fed (plural feds)
forms:
form:
feds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
FED
etymology_text:
Clipping of federation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A federation in which powerlifters organize to compete.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting |
5948 | word:
fed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fed
forms:
wikipedia:
FED
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of feed
senses_topics:
|
5949 | word:
enterprising
word_type:
adj
expansion:
enterprising (comparative more enterprising, superlative most enterprising)
forms:
form:
more enterprising
tags:
comparative
form:
most enterprising
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Displaying bravery and daring in attempting some task.
Very able and ingenious in business dealings or social advancement.
senses_topics:
|
5950 | word:
enterprising
word_type:
verb
expansion:
enterprising
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of enterprise
senses_topics:
|
5951 | word:
enterprising
word_type:
noun
expansion:
enterprising (plural enterprisings)
forms:
form:
enterprisings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
What gives these enterprisings their political character are the contentions, claims and experiences of the other.
ref:
2010, Melvin Pollner, Mundane Reason: Reality in Everyday and Sociological Discourse
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The undertaking of an enterprise; purposeful activity; doings.
senses_topics:
|
5952 | word:
interbreed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
interbreed (third-person singular simple present interbreeds, present participle interbreeding, simple past and past participle interbred)
forms:
form:
interbreeds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
interbreeding
tags:
participle
present
form:
interbred
tags:
participle
past
form:
interbred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From inter- + breed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To breed or reproduce within an isolated community.
To breed or reproduce within a heterogenous community, the products of which produce hybrids.
senses_topics:
|
5953 | word:
came
word_type:
verb
expansion:
came
forms:
wikipedia:
Came (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
See come.
senses_examples:
text:
With that army the British army, in the course of its operations, must have came in contact; and, if that were likely, (may rather if it was impossible to avoid it.) I will ask, whether, under all the circumstances of Europe[…]
ref:
1812, The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, volume 16, T.C. Hansard, page 335
type:
quotation
text:
Thailand's expansion of access to secondary and tertiary education is unlikely to have came at the expense of quality. International achievement test show Thai students consistently outperforming not just Indonesia, whose per capita national income is less than half of Thailand's[…]
ref:
2006, Kaspar Richter, Thailand's Growth Path: From Recovery to Prosperity, The World Bank, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
I don't know why her ass couldn't have just waited until I had got ready so we could have came together. It's bad enough I even have to be in this mothafucka.
ref:
2011 April 1, Angie Daniels, Careful of the Company You Keep, Kensington Publishing Corp, page 53
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of come
past participle of come
simple past of cum
senses_topics:
|
5954 | word:
came
word_type:
prep
expansion:
came
forms:
wikipedia:
Came (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
See come.
senses_examples:
text:
Came Christmas by which, at the outset, everybody knew it would be over, and it was not over. Came June, 1915, concerning which, at the outset, he had joined with Mr. Fortune, Twyning and Harold in laughter at his own grotesque idea of the war lasting to the dramatic effect of a culminating battle on the centenary of Waterloo, and the war had lasted, and was still lasting.
ref:
1921, Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson, If Winter Comes, page 256
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
senses_topics:
|
5955 | word:
came
word_type:
noun
expansion:
came (plural cames)
forms:
form:
cames
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Came (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Attested from the 17th century, of unknown origin. Possibly from kame (“a ridge”). Compare Scots came (“comb”), Scots kame (“combing; a ridge”), and Middle English camet (“silver”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A grooved strip of metal, traditionally usually lead or brass and today sometimes stainless steel, used to hold panes of glass together in glazing.
senses_topics:
|
5956 | word:
kept
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kept
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English kept, kepte, from Old English cēpte; see -t.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of keep
senses_topics:
|
5957 | word:
knelt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
knelt
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of kneel.
senses_topics:
|
5958 | word:
burnt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
burnt
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From burn + -t.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of burn
senses_topics:
|
5959 | word:
burnt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
burnt (comparative more burnt, superlative most burnt)
forms:
form:
more burnt
tags:
comparative
form:
most burnt
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From burn + -t.
senses_examples:
text:
The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital.
ref:
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
The toast was too burnt to eat.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Damaged or injured by fire or heat.
Carbonised.
Having a sunburn.
Being darker than standard, especially browner.
senses_topics:
|
5960 | word:
forsaken
word_type:
adj
expansion:
forsaken (comparative more forsaken, superlative most forsaken)
forms:
form:
more forsaken
tags:
comparative
form:
most forsaken
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically forsake + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Deserted; abandoned.
Helpless.
senses_topics:
|
5961 | word:
forsaken
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forsaken
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically forsake + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of forsake
senses_topics:
|
5962 | word:
dua
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dua (countable and uncountable, plural duas)
forms:
form:
duas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of du'a'
senses_topics:
|
5963 | word:
twaddler
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twaddler (plural twaddlers)
forms:
form:
twaddlers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From twaddle + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who twaddles.
senses_topics:
|
5964 | word:
airtight
word_type:
adj
expansion:
airtight (comparative more airtight, superlative most airtight)
forms:
form:
more airtight
tags:
comparative
form:
most airtight
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From air + tight.
senses_examples:
text:
She creates an airtight world of her imagining.
ref:
1990 April 28, Patricia Roth Schwartz, “The Odd Couple”, in Gay Community News, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
We have an airtight argument they won’t be able to punch holes in.
type:
example
text:
when Roger asked for $100 to take the preliminary steps to establish his claim, Mike yelled like a Hebrew auctioneer, for he was air-tight and squeezed a dollar until the woman on it yelled.
ref:
1908, The Plumbers Trade Journal, Plumbers’ Trade Journal Publishing Company, volume 44
text:
He was ‘air-tight,’ close-mouthed, and had but few confidants or intimate friends, but numerous acquaintances.
ref:
1915 April, Annals of Iowa, Historical Department of Iowa, series 3, volume 12, page 599
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Impermeable to air or other gases.
Having no weak points or flaws.
Highly reserved in some matter, particularly tight-lipped or tight-fisted.
senses_topics:
|
5965 | word:
knew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
knew
forms:
wikipedia:
knew
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I'll say I've knew this some time and tried to stop it—it was my business to stop it.
ref:
1916, Emerson Hough, The Man Next Door, chapter XXIV
type:
quotation
text:
[…]I've knew people that if they got a rag rug on the floor and a kewpie doll lamp on the phonograph they think they're runnin' a parlor house.'
ref:
1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Covici Friede
type:
quotation
text:
Oh, I figured you would've knew. That's where I met Ham and he got me in the DA's office. That was years ago."
ref:
1999, Steve Lopez, The Sunday Macaroni Club, Plume, page 242
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of know
past participle of know
senses_topics:
|
5966 | word:
leant
word_type:
verb
expansion:
leant
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of lean
senses_topics:
|
5967 | word:
ben
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ben (plural bens)
forms:
form:
bens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ben, bene, from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, favor, compulsory service”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say”). Related to ban. More at boon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A prayer; a petition.
senses_topics:
|
5968 | word:
ben
word_type:
prep
expansion:
ben
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ben, bene, variation of bin, binne (“within”), from Old English binnan (“within, in, inside of, into”), equivalent to be- + in.
senses_examples:
text:
And he was waving to me to creep in, so I just did and then just to skip ben the front and then in the lobby.
ref:
2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In, into.
senses_topics:
|
5969 | word:
ben
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ben (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ben, bene, variation of bin, binne (“within”), from Old English binnan (“within, in, inside of, into”), equivalent to be- + in.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Inside.
senses_topics:
|
5970 | word:
ben
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ben (comparative benner, superlative benmost)
forms:
form:
benner
tags:
comparative
form:
benmost
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ben, bene, variation of bin, binne (“within”), from Old English binnan (“within, in, inside of, into”), equivalent to be- + in.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Inner, interior.
senses_topics:
|
5971 | word:
ben
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ben (plural bens)
forms:
form:
bens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ben, bene, variation of bin, binne (“within”), from Old English binnan (“within, in, inside of, into”), equivalent to be- + in.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but).
senses_topics:
|
5972 | word:
ben
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ben (plural bens)
forms:
form:
bens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English been, from Old French and Medieval Latin, probably from a North African pronunciation of Arabic بَان (bān, “ben tree”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.
The winged seed of the ben tree.
The oil of the ben seed.
senses_topics:
|
5973 | word:
ben
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ben (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic بِن (bin) and Hebrew בן (ben, “son”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames).
senses_topics:
|
5974 | word:
ben
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ben (plural bens)
forms:
form:
bens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Scots ben, benn, from Scottish Gaelic beinn.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Scottish or Irish mountain or high peak.
senses_topics:
|
5975 | word:
ben
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ben (comparative benar, superlative benat)
forms:
form:
benar
tags:
comparative
form:
benat
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
UK C16. Probably from Latin bene or Italian bene.
senses_examples:
text:
A gage of ben Rom-bouse, / In a bousing-ken of Rom-vile, / Is benar than a Caster, / Pecke, pennam, lay, or popler, / Which we mill in deuse a vile.
[paraphrase] A pot of good wine, / In a pub of London, / Is better than a cloak, / Meat, bread, milk, or porridge, / Which we steal in the countryside.
ref:
1611, Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girle
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of bene; good.
senses_topics:
|
5976 | word:
ben
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ben (plural bens)
forms:
form:
bens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening.
senses_examples:
text:
In the Chronicles of the Stage, some curious particulars are given relating to Sir Henry Herbert and the well-known Sir William Davidson, by which we learn, amongst other things, that a “ben” or benefit at Drury Lane, two centuries ago, was worth a hundred pounds.
ref:
year?, The Catholic Literary Circular (page 75)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A benefit (performance to raise funds).
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
theater |
5977 | word:
ribbon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ribbon (countable and uncountable, plural ribbons)
forms:
form:
ribbons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ribbon
etymology_text:
From Middle English riban, ryban, ryband, from Old French riban, ruban ( > modern French ruban), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic compound whose second element is cognate with English band. Compare Middle Dutch ringhband (“necklace”, literally “ring-band”).
senses_examples:
text:
With Monday marking the beginning of October’s annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month observance, supporters will be donning their pink ribbons as a show of support for ongoing research for a cure.
ref:
2018 October 1, Olivia B. Waxman, “Wearing a Pink Ribbon for Breast Cancer Awareness? Here's How Awareness Ribbons Became a Thing”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
They were single-shift, frontstroke, typebar typewriters with four-bank QWERTY keyboards, inked by a ribbon.
ref:
2018, Mark J. P. Wolf, The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence
type:
quotation
text:
a steel or magnesium ribbon
type:
example
text:
sails torn to ribbons
type:
example
text:
"Here, sir, hold the ribbons." This to me, throwing me the reins. Jack got down from his perch, and after a little search in the bush was rewarded by the capture of the poor dazed pigeon, who was consigned to safe custody in the boot.
ref:
1887, James Inglis, Our New Zealand Cousins
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
An awareness ribbon.
An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
A narrow strip or shred.
A narrow strip or shred.
In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
Alternative form of ribband
A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
A watchspring.
A bandsaw.
Reins for a horse.
A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
A sliver.
A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle
business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
nautical
transport
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
hobbies
lifestyle
spinning
sports
journalism
media
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
5978 | word:
ribbon
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ribbon (third-person singular simple present ribbons, present participle ribboning, simple past and past participle ribboned)
forms:
form:
ribbons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ribboning
tags:
participle
present
form:
ribboned
tags:
participle
past
form:
ribboned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ribbon
etymology_text:
From Middle English riban, ryban, ryband, from Old French riban, ruban ( > modern French ruban), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic compound whose second element is cognate with English band. Compare Middle Dutch ringhband (“necklace”, literally “ring-band”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To decorate with ribbon.
To stripe or streak.
senses_topics:
|
5979 | word:
right
word_type:
adj
expansion:
right (comparative further right or more right or righter, superlative furthest right or most right or rightmost or rightest)
forms:
form:
further right
tags:
comparative
form:
more right
tags:
comparative
form:
righter
tags:
comparative
form:
furthest right
tags:
superlative
form:
most right
tags:
superlative
form:
rightmost
tags:
superlative
form:
rightest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
right (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English right, from Old English riht (“right,” also the word for “straight” and “direct”), from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós (“having moved in a straight line”), from *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, direct”). An Indo-European past participle, it became a Germanic adjective which has been used also as a noun since the common Germanic period. Cognate with West Frisian rjocht, Dutch recht, German recht and Recht, Swedish rätt and rät, Danish ret, Norwegian Bokmål rett, Norwegian Nynorsk rett, and Icelandic rétt. The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ὀρεκτός (orektós) and Latin rēctus; Albanian drejt was borrowed from Latin.
senses_examples:
text:
After the accident, her right leg was slightly shorter than her left.
type:
example
text:
That's not the right thing to do.
type:
example
text:
So I was right all along? C'mon. I want to hear you say it.
type:
example
text:
If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is certainly right, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."
ref:
1610, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II
type:
quotation
text:
there are some dispositions blame-worthy in men, which are yet, in a right sense, holily ascribed unto God; as unchangeableness, and irrepentance.
ref:
1808, Bishop Joseph Hall, Devotional works
type:
quotation
text:
What do you send me into London for, giving me only the right to call for my dinner at the Black Lion, which you’re to pay for next time you go, as if I was not to be trusted with a few shillings? Why do you use me like this? It’s not right of you. You can’t expect me to be quiet under it.
ref:
1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 13, in Barnaby Rudge
type:
quotation
text:
Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead.
Gene Hunt: So I'm right.
Sam Tyler: We both are.
Gene Hunt: Right.
Sam Tyler: Right.
Gene Hunt: Just as long as I'm more right than you.
ref:
2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3
type:
quotation
text:
But when that patient requests access to medical care that violates some religious tenet, is it right that he or she either be denied outright or forced to seek an alternative facility?
ref:
2018 January 4, Catherine Ford, “Religious-Based Health Care Raises Ethical Questions”, in Calgary Herald
type:
quotation
text:
Of course, I was not always right. I questioned the value of Crossrail (a scheme revived by Prescott after being scrapped by the Conservatives), suggesting wrongly that it may be "doomed to hit the buffers" […]. A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders. We are all allowed to change our minds.
ref:
2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
Is this the right software for my computer?
type:
example
text:
I'm afraid my father is no longer in his right mind.
type:
example
text:
You've made a right mess of the kitchen!
type:
example
text:
He's got a wicked sense of fun, he can be a right laugh, he's ever so broadminded – ooh, and he's got a lovely broad chest too.
ref:
2016, Sarah Harvey, A Laugh-out-loud Modern Love Story
type:
quotation
text:
[…]in this battle and whole business the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians: no rule, no foresight, no forecast, experience, or estimation
ref:
1670, John Milton, The History of Britain
type:
quotation
text:
The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall.
type:
example
text:
a right triangle a right prism a right cone
type:
example
text:
the right side of a piece of cloth
text:
Kirsty: I suppose you're hungry. Would you like something to eat?
Ken: No. I'm right, thanks.
ref:
1986, David Williamson, “What If You Died Tomorrow”, in Collected plays, volume 1, Currency Press, page 310
type:
quotation
text:
When the sales assistant sees the customer, she asks Are you right, sir? This means Are you all right? She wants to know if he needs any help.
ref:
2001, Catherine Menagé, Access to English, National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, NSW: Sydney, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
'You lost?'
Colin spun round. Looking at him was a nurse, her eyebrows raised. / 'No, I'm right, thanks,' said Colin.'
ref:
2001, Morris Gleitzman, Two weeks with the Queen, Pan Macmillan Australia, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
The lady has been disappointed on the right side.
ref:
c. 1707, “Joseph Addison”, in The Tatler
type:
quotation
text:
a right line
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which the heart is not located in most humans. This arrow points to the reader's right: →
Complying with justice, correctness, or reason; correct, just, true. See also the interjection senses below.
Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
Healthy, sane, competent.
Real; veritable (used emphatically).
Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.
Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's right when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the south bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥴ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the right side of the river.
Designed to be placed or worn outward.
Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
All right; not requiring assistance.
Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
Straight, not bent.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geography
natural-sciences
government
politics
|
5980 | word:
right
word_type:
adv
expansion:
right (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
right (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English right, righte, from Old English rihte, rehte (“right; rightly; due; directly; straight”), from Proto-Germanic *rehta, from *rehtaz (“right; straight”).
senses_examples:
text:
The arrow landed right in the middle of the target.
type:
example
text:
Luckily we arrived right at the start of the film.
type:
example
text:
Can't you see it? It's right beside you!
type:
example
text:
Tom was standing right in front of the TV, blocking everyone's view.
type:
example
text:
I made a right stupid mistake there, didn't I?
type:
example
text:
I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much.
type:
example
text:
a right godly treatise
ref:
1549, John Calvin, Of the life or conuersation of a Christen man, a right godly treatise
type:
quotation
text:
That's long enough for any small town." Lyon leaned forward. "Do you like Lawrenceville, Mr. Hill?" The driver cocked his head. "Aeah. Why not? Born here. It's a right nice town
ref:
1966, Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, page 214
type:
quotation
text:
Well, that would be right neighborly of you, miss.
ref:
2004, Jon Sharpe, Nebraska nightmare
type:
quotation
text:
But it would be right neighborly and Christian of you to put your own wants aside for a spell.
ref:
2008, Luke Cypher, Red Mesa, page 101
type:
quotation
text:
The fog was right hard to see through so I was on Tom Pritchard before I saw him.
ref:
2011, Ann Hite, Ghost on Black Mountain
type:
quotation
text:
Kids nowadays were a right thrillproof bunch. The Armoury Section had, unexpectedly, proved to be a real moodclunker.
ref:
2015, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, page 255
type:
quotation
text:
Do it right or don't do it at all.
type:
example
text:
Sir, I am right glad to meet you …
type:
example
text:
Members of the Queen's Privy Council are styled The Right Honourable for life.
type:
example
text:
The Right Reverend Monsignor Guido Sarducci.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On the right side.
Towards the right side.
Exactly, precisely.
Immediately, directly.
Very, extremely, quite.
According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
In a correct manner.
To a great extent or degree.
senses_topics:
|
5981 | word:
right
word_type:
intj
expansion:
right
forms:
wikipedia:
right (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English right, righte, from Old English rihte, rehte (“right; rightly; due; directly; straight”), from Proto-Germanic *rehta, from *rehtaz (“right; straight”).
senses_examples:
text:
Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead.
Gene Hunt: So I'm right.
Sam Tyler: We both are.
Gene Hunt: Right.
Sam Tyler: Right.
Gene Hunt: Just as long as I'm more right than you.
ref:
2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3
type:
quotation
text:
Tell her you’re here.
Right. Thanks, Pete.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
— United's the best team in the country.
— Right. And they'll go all the way for sure.
— Damn right they will.
type:
example
text:
Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead.
Gene Hunt: So I'm right.
Sam Tyler: We both are.
Gene Hunt: Right.
Sam Tyler: Right.
Gene Hunt: Just as long as I'm more right than you.
ref:
2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3
type:
quotation
text:
— United's the best team in the country, so they'll come up with something.
— Right. And do you think they'll go all the way?
type:
example
text:
— After that interview, I don't think we should hire her.
— Right. Who wants lunch?
type:
example
text:
You're going, right?
type:
example
text:
I went downstairs, right, and I was going to call her, but I found this note, right, so what am I supposed to do now?
type:
example
text:
Withnail: Right […] I'm gonna do the washing up.
ref:
1987, Withnail and I
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Yes, that is correct; I agree.
I have listened to what you just said and I acknowledge your assertion or opinion, regardless of whether I agree with it (opinion) or can verify it (assertion).
Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
Used to check listener engagement and (especially) agreement at the end of an utterance or each segment thereof.
Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
senses_topics:
|
5982 | word:
right
word_type:
noun
expansion:
right (plural rights)
forms:
form:
rights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
right
right (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English right, righte, reght, reghte, riȝt, riȝte, from Old English riht, reht, ġeriht (“that which is right, just, or proper; a right; due; law; canon; rule; direction; justice; equity; standard”), from Proto-West Germanic *reht, from Proto-Germanic *rehtą (“a right”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵt- (“to straighten; direct”). Cognate with Dutch recht (“a right; privilege”), German Recht (“a right”), Danish ret (“a right”).
senses_examples:
text:
We're on the side of right in this contest.
type:
example
text:
Throughout our history, whenever evil forces prevailed, the altruistic and upright people have always shown their great wisdom by adhering to the right against the wrong, renouncing wrongful gain for justice, displaying their great benevolence in national salvation and summoning their great courage to surmount the crisis and turn back the perverse tide.
ref:
1973 July 22 [1973 July 17], Kai-shek Chiang, “President Chiang Kai-shek's message to the mass rally supporting Captive Nations Week”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 28, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
You have no right to go through my personal diary.
type:
example
text:
There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties.
ref:
1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
type:
quotation
text:
"I do not know that you have any right to inquire into reasons for my conduct. I am at least sure that I never gave you any such right," replied Wiley.
"I claim no right but the common right of humanity," said the old gentleman. "If you do not acknowledge that, my interference in this matter can only be viewed as impertinent."
ref:
1850, T. S. Arthur, “Seed Time and Harvest”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 130
type:
quotation
text:
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
ref:
2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.
type:
example
text:
Before he could strike again, however, I got in my right, and he was sprawling on his back on the floor.
ref:
1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
The political right holds too much power.
type:
example
text:
Sunak seems so scared of his party's swivel-eyed right wing that he has been panicked into focusing all new legislation on perceived 'red meat' issues which he hopes the Tory right will support.
ref:
2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Simple cross-stitch, with a space between each stitch, may be worked in two rows, in which case the completed stitch on the wrong sides alternates with that on the right.
ref:
1890, The Woman's World, page 434
type:
quotation
text:
For the large size, two pieces of silk, eighteen inches wide and twenty-seven inches long, are sewed together at three sides, rights together, leaving one end open.
ref:
1913, Woman's Home Companion - Volume 40, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
In case there is a right and wrong side to the tops, put two rights together.
ref:
1918, Pacific Rural Press - Volume 95, page 392
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which complies with justice, law or reason.
A legal, just or moral entitlement.
The right side or direction.
The right hand or fist.
The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright.
The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
senses_topics:
government
politics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing |
5983 | word:
right
word_type:
verb
expansion:
right (third-person singular simple present rights, present participle righting, simple past and past participle righted)
forms:
form:
rights
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
righting
tags:
participle
present
form:
righted
tags:
participle
past
form:
righted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
right (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English righten, reghten, riȝten, from Old English rihtan, ġerihtan (“to straighten, judge, set upright, set right”), from Proto-West Germanic *rihtijan, from Proto-Germanic *rihtijaną (“to straighten; rectify; judge”).
senses_examples:
text:
Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible.
type:
example
text:
The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.
type:
example
text:
When the wind died down, the ship righted.
type:
example
text:
to right the oppressed
type:
example
text:
All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
ref:
1776, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Declaration of Independence
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To correct.
To set upright.
To return to normal upright position.
To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
senses_topics:
|
5984 | word:
leaped
word_type:
verb
expansion:
leaped
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of leap
senses_topics:
|
5985 | word:
leaned
word_type:
verb
expansion:
leaned
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of lean
senses_topics:
|
5986 | word:
become
word_type:
verb
expansion:
become (third-person singular simple present becomes, present participle becoming, simple past became, past participle become or (rare, dialectal) becomen)
forms:
form:
becomes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
becoming
tags:
participle
present
form:
became
tags:
past
form:
become
tags:
participle
past
form:
becomen
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A compound of the sources of be- + come.
From Middle English becomen, bicumen, from Old English becuman (“to come (to), approach, arrive, enter, meet with, fall in with; happen, befall; befit”), from Proto-Germanic *bikwemaną (“to come around, come about, come across, come by”), equivalent to be- (“about, around”) + come. Cognate with Scots becum (“to come, arrive, reach a destination”), North Frisian bekommen, bykommen (“to come by, obtain, receive”), West Frisian bikomme (“to come by, obtain, receive”), Dutch bekomen (“to come by, obtain, receive”), German bekommen (“to get, receive, obtain”), Swedish bekomma (“to receive, concern”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌵𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (biqiman, “to come upon one, befall”). Sense of "befit, suit" due to influence from Middle English cweme, icweme, see queem.
senses_examples:
text:
She became a doctor when she was 25.
type:
example
text:
The weather will become cold after the sun goes down.
type:
example
text:
The sense ‘state or process of bearing fruit’ has become imposed on fruition as the 20c. proceeded.
type:
example
text:
Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.
ref:
2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
ref:
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
type:
quotation
text:
What became of him after he was let go?
type:
example
text:
It hath becomen so that many a man had to sterve.
type:
example
text:
1892, Ambrose Bierce, “The Applicant,” in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), New York: Gordian Press, 1966,
He was hatted, booted, overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity […]
text:
His ordination[…]enabled him to be independent of his parents, and to afford a manner of living which became his rank rather than his calling.
ref:
1930, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
That dress really becomes you.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
begin to be; turn into.
To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
To be proper for; to beseem.
Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).
To arrive, come (to a place).
senses_topics:
|
5987 | word:
leapt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
leapt
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of leap
senses_topics:
|
5988 | word:
jerk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jerk (plural jerks)
forms:
form:
jerks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jerk (physics)
etymology_text:
Probably from Middle English yerk (“sudden motion”) and Middle English yerkid (“tightly pulled”), from Old English ġearc (“ready, active, quick”) and Old English ġearcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”). Cognate with Scots yerk (“to jerk”). Related also to English yare (“ready”).
senses_examples:
text:
1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
The black cloth bestrewn with white beads blew up from time to time, laying bare the coffin. The tired bearers walked more slowly, and it advanced with constant jerks, like a boat that pitches with every wave.
text:
When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!
type:
example
text:
Oh, Raymond―don't be such a jerk. Go and get yourself a drink or a tranquilizer or something.
ref:
1962, George Axelrod, 1:23:39 from the start, in The Manchurian Candidate, spoken by Eleanor Iselin (Angela Lansbury)
type:
quotation
text:
I finally fired him, because he was being a real jerk to his customers, even to some of the staff.
type:
example
text:
You really are a jerk sometimes.
type:
example
text:
Jerk of the Year contender
type:
example
text:
Girls, hey, what's that you're doing
Girl, girl, what's that you're doing
You got to show me the steps to it
Somehow, gonna learn how to do it
Doing the jerk
Hey, do the jerk
Girl, come on and work
Hey, do the jerk.
ref:
1964, “The Jerk”, Don Julian (lyrics), performed by The Larks
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
A quick tug or shake.
A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable; an arsehole.
A stupid person; an idiot or fool.
A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.
An act of male masturbation.
An act of male masturbation.
An act of satirizing behavior that is, to an extent, common in a community, especially in circlejerk subreddits.
A dance, popular in Western culture in the 1960s, in which the head and upper body is thrown forwards regularly to the beat of the music.
The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
A soda jerk.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
5989 | word:
jerk
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jerk (third-person singular simple present jerks, present participle jerking, simple past and past participle jerked)
forms:
form:
jerks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jerking
tags:
participle
present
form:
jerked
tags:
participle
past
form:
jerked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from Middle English yerk (“sudden motion”) and Middle English yerkid (“tightly pulled”), from Old English ġearc (“ready, active, quick”) and Old English ġearcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”). Cognate with Scots yerk (“to jerk”). Related also to English yare (“ready”).
senses_examples:
text:
This is jerking’s 9/11
type:
example
text:
to jerk a stone
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
To masturbate.
To masturbate.
To satirize behavior that is, to an extent, common in a community, especially in circlejerk subreddits.
To beat, to hit.
To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
To lift using a jerk.
To flout with contempt.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
|
5990 | word:
jerk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jerk (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Jerk (cooking)
etymology_text:
From American Spanish charquear, from charqui, from Quechua ch'arki.
senses_examples:
text:
Sunshine ranks high in the island's greates burger debate, while the chicken egg rolls with mango chutney and jerk mayo and fabulous fish tacos elevate pub grub to an art.
ref:
2016, Fodor's Essential Caribbean, Fodor's Travel
type:
quotation
text:
Jerk chicken is a local favorite.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; charqui.
senses_topics:
|
5991 | word:
jerk
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jerk (third-person singular simple present jerks, present participle jerking, simple past and past participle jerked)
forms:
form:
jerks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jerking
tags:
participle
present
form:
jerked
tags:
participle
past
form:
jerked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Jerk (cooking)
etymology_text:
From American Spanish charquear, from charqui, from Quechua ch'arki.
senses_examples:
text:
Snow stalled him in the timber; his food was all but gone when he managed to kill an antelope and jerk a supply of venison.
ref:
1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
The Lemakot in the north strangled widows and threw them into the cremation pyres of their dead husbands. If they defeated potential invaders the New Irish hanged the vanquished from banyan trees, flensed their windpipes, removed their heads, left their intestines to jerk in the sun.
ref:
2011, Dominic Smith, Bright and Distant Shores, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
This longtime West End eatery prepares chicken the way locals like it: curried, fried, jerked, and baked.
ref:
2016, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's Essential Caribbean, Fodor's Travel
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.
senses_topics:
|
5992 | word:
abattis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abattis (plural abattis or abattises)
forms:
form:
abattis
tags:
plural
form:
abattises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
He withdrew Torfrida and his men into the heart of the forest,—no hint of the place is given by the chronicler,—cut down trees, formed an abattis of trunks and branches, and awaited the enemy.
ref:
1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 34, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 469
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of abatis
senses_topics:
|
5993 | word:
behold
word_type:
verb
expansion:
behold (third-person singular simple present beholds, present participle beholding, simple past beheld, past participle beheld or (rare) beholden)
forms:
form:
beholds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beholding
tags:
participle
present
form:
beheld
tags:
past
form:
beheld
tags:
participle
past
form:
beholden
tags:
participle
past
rare
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
behold
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English beholden, from Old English behealdan (“to hold, have, occupy, possess, guard, preserve, contain, belong, keep, observe, consider, behold, look at, gaze on, see, signify, avail, effect, take care, beware, be cautious, restrain, act, behave”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihaldan (“to hold with, keep”), equivalent to be- + hold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian behoolde (“to keep”), Dutch behouden (“to keep, restrain, preserve”), German behalten (“to keep, restrain, remember”), Danish and Norwegian beholde (“to keep”) and Swedish behålla (“to keep”).
senses_examples:
text:
I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster, from his slab, began to rise
And suddenly, to my surprise
He did the Mash
He did the Monster Mash.
ref:
1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon.
To contemplate (someone or something).
To look.
senses_topics:
|
5994 | word:
behold
word_type:
intj
expansion:
behold
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English beholden, from Old English behealdan (“to hold, have, occupy, possess, guard, preserve, contain, belong, keep, observe, consider, behold, look at, gaze on, see, signify, avail, effect, take care, beware, be cautious, restrain, act, behave”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihaldan (“to hold with, keep”), equivalent to be- + hold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian behoolde (“to keep”), Dutch behouden (“to keep, restrain, preserve”), German behalten (“to keep, restrain, remember”), Danish and Norwegian beholde (“to keep”) and Swedish behålla (“to keep”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
look, a call of attention to something
lo!
senses_topics:
|
5995 | word:
graduation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
graduation (countable and uncountable, plural graduations)
forms:
form:
graduations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From graduate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
The graduation ball was the students' chance to say goodbye to each other.
type:
example
text:
After my graduation, I took a year out to travel, then went into an office job.
type:
example
text:
graduation from AKB48
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action or process of graduating and receiving a diploma for completing a course of study (such as from an educational institution).
A commencement ceremony.
The action or process of leaving a group.
A marking (e.g., on a container) indicating a measurement on a scale, usually one of many such markings.
The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
sciences
|
5996 | word:
disgust
word_type:
verb
expansion:
disgust (third-person singular simple present disgusts, present participle disgusting, simple past and past participle disgusted)
forms:
form:
disgusts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
disgusting
tags:
participle
present
form:
disgusted
tags:
participle
past
form:
disgusted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French desgouster, from Old French desgouster (“to put off one's appetite”), from des- (“dis-”) + gouster, goster (“to taste”), from Latin gustus (“a tasting”).
senses_examples:
text:
It disgusts me to see her chew with her mouth open.
type:
example
text:
Mud This is a very specious piece of business; and above my implication—Dear me—dear me—what a thing it is, that one never can disgust one’s meals in peace—but one must be torn piecemeal with defamations—convocations—and other informalities—If I’d any of the fees and requisites of office for my pains—it would be a different thing—but every body knows I’m an ignoramous, and commit justice gratis—I must disperse the complaint.
ref:
1819, William Thomas Moncrieff, Rochester; or, King Charles the Second’s Merry Days: A Burletta, in Three Acts. […], London: Printed for John Lowndes, […], page 24
type:
quotation
text:
1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause an intense dislike for something.
senses_topics:
|
5997 | word:
disgust
word_type:
noun
expansion:
disgust (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
disgust
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French desgouster, from Old French desgouster (“to put off one's appetite”), from des- (“dis-”) + gouster, goster (“to taste”), from Latin gustus (“a tasting”).
senses_examples:
text:
With an air of disgust, she stormed out of the room.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
senses_topics:
|
5998 | word:
advocate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
advocate (plural advocates)
forms:
form:
advocates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Advocate
etymology_text:
From Middle English advocat, advoket, from Old French advocat, from Latin advocātus (past participle of advocāre (“to call for”)), a calque of Ancient Greek παράκλητος (paráklētos) (whence English paraclete). Doublet of advoke, avocat, avouch, and avow.
senses_examples:
text:
He became a tireless advocate for the needs of adults with IMD throughout Britain and internationally.
ref:
2011 October 9, Alix Lee, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Since she started working with her advocate, she has become much more confident.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
A person who speaks in support of something, or someone.
A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
senses_topics:
|
5999 | word:
advocate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
advocate (third-person singular simple present advocates, present participle advocating, simple past and past participle advocated)
forms:
form:
advocates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
advocating
tags:
participle
present
form:
advocated
tags:
participle
past
form:
advocated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Advocate
etymology_text:
From Middle English advocat, advoket, from Old French advocat, from Latin advocātus (past participle of advocāre (“to call for”)), a calque of Ancient Greek παράκλητος (paráklētos) (whence English paraclete). Doublet of advoke, avocat, avouch, and avow.
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7 March, 1624, Robert Sanderson, sermon at the Assizes, at Lincoln
To advocate the cause of thy client.
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16 June, 1784, Edmund Burke, speech on reform of representation in the House of Commons
This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated.
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I like trees, but I do not advocate living in them.
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Those who have advocated the closure of the G.C. have so far failed to say by which alternative route this North-to-West traffic could be carried.
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1960 December, B. Perren, “The role of the Great Central—present and future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 765
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Varys even leans on Jon to assume the Iron Throne, which means he very well knew he wasn’t going to be around much longer, if he’s openly advocating others commit treason as well.
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2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club
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Back in 1963, how could Beeching advocate closure of the electrified Liverpool-Southport commuter route, just because its books didn't balance? The busy North London line between Richmond and Broad Street was also for the axe, as was Leeds to Bradford and Ilkley.
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2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50
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We have been advocating for changes in immigration law.
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And why has no one in the [rail] industry advocated for a universal requirement for face covering (even if it's just a scarf or old tea towel), [...].
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2020 June 3, Christian Wolmar, “Unworkable policies cripple our beleaguered railway”, in Rail, page 51
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senses_glosses:
To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
To encourage support for something.
To engage in advocacy.
To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session.
To call a case before itself for decision.
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