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6200 | word:
vocal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vocal (plural vocals)
forms:
form:
vocals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Late Middle English vocal, borrowed from Latin vōcālis (“uttering a voice, sounding, speaking”), from vōx (“a voice, sound, tone”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of vowel and vocalis. Compare Old French vocal.
senses_examples:
text:
Best cuts: "The Evil Dude," "Kung Fu, Too!" "Mama Love," "New Orleans" (with a punchy vocal by Teresa Brewer).
ref:
1975, Billboard, volume 87, number 24, page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic.
A part of a piece of music that is sung.
A part of a piece of music that is sung.
A musical performance involving singing.
A man in the Roman Catholic Church who has a right to vote in certain elections.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
music
television
theater
Catholicism
Christianity |
6201 | word:
tribe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tribe (plural tribes)
forms:
form:
tribes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tribe
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tréyes
From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus. Doublet of tribus.
senses_examples:
text:
the Twelve Tribes of Israel; Germanic tribes; Celtic tribes
type:
example
text:
The Formation of Kazakh Identity: From Tribe to Nation-state
text:
The thought of spending a year in close company with twitchers chilled me to the core. Not that I have anything against them, I am terribly fond of the members of the tribe, it is just that basically, they are a bunch of obsessive freaks.
ref:
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
In 1968, estimates of the number of active reprint publishers ranged from about 20 to 100 publishers. The fact that almost 300 U.S. reprint publishers have been identified is evidence that the reprint tribe continues to increase.
ref:
1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., page 7
type:
quotation
text:
the Duchess tribe of shorthorns
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may constitute a nation with other tribes). The tribe is often the basis of ethnic identity.
A tribal nation or people.
A nation or people considered culturally primitive, as may be the case in Africa, Australia or Native America.
A socially cohesive group of people within a society.
A class or group of things.
A group of apes who live and work together.
A hierarchical rank between family and genus.
A group of affiliated Mardi Gras Indians.
The collective noun for various animals.
A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
senses_topics:
anthropology
history
human-sciences
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
|
6202 | word:
tribe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tribe (third-person singular simple present tribes, present participle tribing, simple past and past participle tribed)
forms:
form:
tribes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tribing
tags:
participle
present
form:
tribed
tags:
participle
past
form:
tribed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tribe
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tréyes
From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus. Doublet of tribus.
senses_examples:
text:
1696-1699, William Nicolson, English Historical Library
Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
senses_topics:
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6203 | word:
ablen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ablen (plural ablens)
forms:
form:
ablens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of ablet (freshwater fish)
senses_topics:
|
6204 | word:
zas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of za
senses_topics:
|
6205 | word:
chat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chat (third-person singular simple present chats, present participle chatting, simple past and past participle chatted)
forms:
form:
chat Two people chatting.
tags:
canonical
form:
chats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
chatting
tags:
participle
present
form:
chatted
tags:
participle
past
form:
chatted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
chat
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
senses_examples:
text:
She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
type:
example
text:
I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.
type:
example
text:
I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
type:
example
text:
They chatted politics for a while.
type:
example
text:
We would get totally stoned and usually drunk too and chat a load of nonsense into the small hours.
ref:
2014, Lenny Smith, Choices, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.
type:
example
text:
Do you want to chat online later?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be engaged in informal conversation.
To talk more than a few words.
To talk of; to discuss.
To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
To send a text message via Facebook Messenger instead of via SMS.
senses_topics:
|
6206 | word:
chat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chat (countable and uncountable, plural chats)
forms:
form:
chats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chat
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
senses_examples:
text:
It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.
type:
example
text:
Internet Relay Chat
type:
example
text:
The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.
type:
example
text:
Chat, should I pick up this sword before heading out?
type:
example
text:
Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me.
type:
example
text:
While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]
ref:
1997, Meg Booker, The Insider's Guide to America Online, page 256
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Informal conversation.
An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
senses_topics:
video-games
|
6207 | word:
chat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chat
forms:
wikipedia:
chat
etymology_text:
Compare chit (“small piece of paper”), and chad.
senses_examples:
text:
Wheat and potatoes were traditionally cash crops, though they also provided tail corn for the poultry and chats for the pigs
ref:
1978, Joan Thirsk, Edith Holt Whetham, H. P. R. Finberg, The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 8, 1914-1939, Cambridge University Press, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small potato, such as is given to swine.
senses_topics:
|
6208 | word:
chat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chat (plural chats)
forms:
form:
chats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chat
etymology_text:
Unknown.
senses_examples:
text:
Frank had been looking at calcite crystals for a while now [...] among the chats or zinc tailings of the Lake County mines, down here in the silver lodes of the Vita Madre and so forth.
ref:
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 441
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
6209 | word:
chat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chat (plural chats)
forms:
form:
chats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Thieves' cant
chat
etymology_text:
From thieves' cant.
senses_examples:
text:
'Do officers have chats, then, the same as us?'
'Not the same, no. The chats they got is bigger and better, with pips on their shoulders and Sam Browne belts.'
ref:
1977, Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down, page 520
text:
May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.
ref:
2007, How Can I Sleep when the Seagull Calls?, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Trench foot was a nasty and potentially fatal foot disease commonly caused by these conditions, in which chats or body lice were the bane of all.
ref:
2013, Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War, page 149
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A louse (small, parasitic insect).
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
6210 | word:
chat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chat (plural chats)
forms:
form:
chats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chat
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of chaat
senses_topics:
|
6211 | word:
smile
word_type:
noun
expansion:
smile (plural smiles)
forms:
form:
smiles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English smilen (“to smile”), from Middle Low German *smîlen (“to smile”), from Middle High German smielen, from Old High German smielēn, from Proto-West Germanic *smīlēn, from Proto-Germanic *smīlāną (“to smile”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, be glad, wonder”).
Cognate with Danish smile, Swedish smila, Faroese smíla (“to smile”); also Saterland Frisian smielje (“to smile”), Low German smielen (“to smile”), Dutch smuilen (“to smile”), Middle High German smielen (“to smile”). Related also to Old High German smierōn (“to smile”), Old English smerian (“to laugh at”), Old English smercian, smearcian ("to smile"; > English smirk), Latin mīror (“to wonder at”).
senses_examples:
text:
She's got a perfect smile.
type:
example
text:
He has a sinister smile.
type:
example
text:
She had a smile on her face.
type:
example
text:
He always puts a smile on my face.
type:
example
text:
the smile of the gods
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.
Favour; propitious regard.
A drink bought by one person for another.
senses_topics:
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6212 | word:
smile
word_type:
verb
expansion:
smile (third-person singular simple present smiles, present participle smiling, simple past and past participle smiled)
forms:
form:
smiles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
smiling
tags:
participle
present
form:
smiled
tags:
participle
past
form:
smiled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English smilen (“to smile”), from Middle Low German *smîlen (“to smile”), from Middle High German smielen, from Old High German smielēn, from Proto-West Germanic *smīlēn, from Proto-Germanic *smīlāną (“to smile”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, be glad, wonder”).
Cognate with Danish smile, Swedish smila, Faroese smíla (“to smile”); also Saterland Frisian smielje (“to smile”), Low German smielen (“to smile”), Dutch smuilen (“to smile”), Middle High German smielen (“to smile”). Related also to Old High German smierōn (“to smile”), Old English smerian (“to laugh at”), Old English smercian, smearcian ("to smile"; > English smirk), Latin mīror (“to wonder at”).
senses_examples:
text:
When you smile, the whole world smiles with you.
type:
example
text:
I don't know what he's smiling about.
type:
example
text:
She smiles a beautiful smile.
type:
example
text:
Once I was a young man / And all I thought I had to do was smile
ref:
1969, Mike d'Abo (lyrics and music), “Handbags & Gladrags”, performed by Rod Stewart
type:
quotation
text:
If a man smiles all the time he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
ref:
1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
She adds: "We have two mottos at Kingston which we've stuck to the window in the ticket office. One says 'If you can be anything in the world then be kind', while the other reads: 'Smile while you've still got teeth'.
ref:
2019 December 18, Paul Stephen, “This is the best job I've ever had”, in Rail, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
to smile consent, or a welcome
type:
example
text:
The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky.
type:
example
text:
The gods smiled on his labours.
type:
example
text:
The fruit looks a bit like a large pink mango or guava, until it has ripened. Then it “smiles,” bursting open, exposing yellow meat with black seeds.
ref:
2003, Jessica B. Harris, Beyond Gumbo: Creole Fusion Food from the Atlantic Rim, page 20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have (a smile) on one's face.
To express by smiling.
To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.
Of ackee fruit: to open fully, indicating that it is no longer toxic, and ready to be picked.
senses_topics:
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6213 | word:
capital
word_type:
noun
expansion:
capital (countable and uncountable, plural capitals)
forms:
form:
capitals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
capital
etymology_text:
From Middle English capital, borrowed partly from Old French capital and partly from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”), from caput (“head”) (English cap) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction involved trading heads of cattle. The noun is from the adjective.
Compare chattel and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”.
Doublet of cattle and chattel.
senses_examples:
text:
He does not have enough capital to start a business.
type:
example
text:
Lin Hsiang-ju immediately said to the king of Ch’in, “If Ta-wang wants fifteen cities from Chao, the king of Chao should also get something in return. What about giving him Hsien-yang as a gift?’ Hsien-yang was the capital of Ch’in.
ref:
1995, Linda Fang, The Chʻi-lin Purse: A Collection of Ancient Chinese Stories, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
Washington D.C. is the capital of the United States of America.
type:
example
text:
The Welsh government claims that Cardiff is Europe’s youngest capital.
type:
example
text:
Hollywood is the film capital, New York the theater capital, Las Vegas the gambling capital.
ref:
2010 September, Charlie Brennan, "Active Athletes", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 83
text:
Interpreters need a good amount of cultural capital in order to function efficiently in the profession.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
The most important city in the field specified.
An uppercase letter.
Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
The chief or most important thing.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
business
finance
insurance
|
6214 | word:
capital
word_type:
adj
expansion:
capital (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
capital
etymology_text:
From Middle English capital, borrowed partly from Old French capital and partly from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”), from caput (“head”) (English cap) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction involved trading heads of cattle. The noun is from the adjective.
Compare chattel and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”.
Doublet of cattle and chattel.
senses_examples:
text:
a capital article in religion
ref:
1708, Francis Atterbury, Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions, Preface
type:
quotation
text:
whatever is capital and essential in Christianity
ref:
1852, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
type:
quotation
text:
London and Paris are capital cities.
type:
example
text:
That is a capital idea!
type:
example
text:
Sometimes he laughed heartily as if he heard some capital joke; by degrees this lessened, and he spoke rapidly, but in very low tones.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 166
type:
quotation
text:
Some 1,600 priests were deported, for example, while the total number of capital victims of the military commissions down to 1799 was only around 150.
ref:
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 517
type:
quotation
text:
One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
type:
example
text:
You're a genius with a capital G!
type:
example
text:
He's dead with a capital D!
type:
example
text:
In recent years, much has been made of the lack of new heavyweight male star power in mainstream Hollywood. Talented performers may be everywhere, but Movie Stars, capital M, capital S, are something else.
ref:
2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of prime importance.
Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
Excellent.
Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
Uppercase.
Uppercase.
used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness
Of or relating to the head.
senses_topics:
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6215 | word:
capital
word_type:
noun
expansion:
capital (plural capitals)
forms:
form:
capitals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
capital
etymology_text:
From Middle English capitale, partly from Old French capital and partly from Late Latin capitellum (“capital or chapiter of a column”), a form of Latin capitulum (“head-like object or structure; chapter”) (whence English capitulum, chapter, and the synonym chapiter (“uppermost part of a column”)), from caput (“head”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix). Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capitellum, caudillo, and Kadet.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The uppermost part of a column.
senses_topics:
architecture |
6216 | word:
dart
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dart (plural darts)
forms:
form:
darts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *darōþu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”); compare Old High German tart (“javelin, dart”), Old English daroþ, dearod (“javelin, spear, dart”), Swedish dart (“dart, dagger”), Icelandic darraður, darr, dör (“dart, spear”).
senses_examples:
text:
Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
ref:
1769, Oxford Standard Text, “King James Bible”, in 2 Samuel, xviii, 14
type:
quotation
text:
The artful inquiry, whose venom′d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.
ref:
1830, Hannah More, Sensibility: The Works of Hannah More, volume 1, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse
The Tigers will also face Jesse Hogan, still smarting from missing a couple of games but not life inside the AFL bubble, where you can’t even light up a dart at a music festival without someone filming it and sending it to the six o’clock news.
text:
Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.
ref:
1988, Michigan Aviation, volumes 21-25, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
Trucking′s my dart too.
ref:
1947, Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, published 1970, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
Soon as I felt the floor tremor I made a dart for the door of the building.
type:
example
text:
Six minutes later Cueto went over for his second try after the recalled Mike Tindall found him with a perfectly-timed pass, before Ashton went on another dart, this time down his opposite wing, only for his speculative pass inside to be ruled forward.
ref:
2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.
ref:
2013, “Nadia Popova”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.
Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
A cigarette.
A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
A plan or scheme.
A sudden or fast movement.
A fold that is stitched on a garment.
A dace (fish) (Leuciscus leuciscus).
Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
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6217 | word:
dart
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dart (third-person singular simple present darts, present participle darting, simple past and past participle darted)
forms:
form:
darts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
darting
tags:
participle
present
form:
darted
tags:
participle
past
form:
darted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English darten, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
The sun darts forth his beams.
type:
example
text:
They had to dart the animal to get close enough to help
type:
example
text:
The flying man darted eastward.
type:
example
text:
The deer darted from the thicket.
type:
example
text:
By half-time, it was almost a surprise that the away side had restricted themselves to only one more goal. Messi, again, was prominently involved, darting past Fernando and then Zabaleta.
ref:
2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London)
type:
quotation
text:
The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny.
ref:
2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart.
To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.
senses_topics:
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6218 | word:
forgive
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forgive (third-person singular simple present forgives, present participle forgiving, simple past forgave, past participle forgiven)
forms:
form:
forgives
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
forgiving
tags:
participle
present
form:
forgave
tags:
past
form:
forgiven
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration (due to give) of Middle English foryiven, forȝiven, from Old English forġiefan (“to forgive, to give”), from Proto-Germanic *fragebaną (“to give away; give up; release; forgive”), equivalent to for- + give (etymologically for- + yive). Cognate with Scots forgeve, forgif, forgie (“to forgive”), West Frisian ferjaan (“to forgive”), Dutch vergeven (“to forgive”), German vergeben (“to forgive”), Icelandic fyrirgefa (“to forgive”).
senses_examples:
text:
Please forgive me if my phone goes off - I'm expecting an urgent call from my boss.
type:
example
text:
Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
type:
example
text:
Forgive us our trespasses.
type:
example
text:
Forgive a debt, that is, tell a debtor that a repayment of a loan is no longer needed.
type:
example
text:
The brave know only how to forgive […] A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
ref:
a. 1768, Laurence Sterne, Joseph's History considered; - Forgiveness of Injuries (sermon)
text:
The music critic loves the instrumentation of the song so much that he can forgive the confusing lyrics.
type:
example
text:
Okay, a good hook forgives everything.
ref:
2015, Todd in the Shadows, The Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2014
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against.
To pardon for (something); to waive any negative feeling over or retribution for.
To waive or remit (a debt), to absolve from payment or compensation of.
To accord forgiveness.
To look past; to look beyond.
To redeem; to offset the bad effects of something.
senses_topics:
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6219 | word:
cry
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cry (third-person singular simple present cries, present participle crying, simple past and past participle cried)
forms:
form:
cries
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crying
tags:
participle
present
form:
cried
tags:
participle
past
form:
cried
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
cry
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
cry
etymology_text:
The verb is from Middle English crien (13th century), from Old French crier, from Vulgar Latin *crītāre, generally thought to derive from Classical Latin quirītāre (Proto-West Germanic *krītan has also been suggested as a source). The noun corresponds to Middle English cry, crie, from Old French cri, a deverbal of crier.
etymology note
Middle English crien eventually displaced native Middle English galen (“to cry out”) (from Old English galan), Middle English greden (“to cry out”) (from Old English grǣdan), Middle English yermen (“to bellow, mourn, lament”) (from Old English ġierman), Middle English hooen, hoen (“to cry out”) (from Old Norse hóa), Middle English remen (“to cry, shout”) (from Old English hrīeman, compare Old English hrēam (“noise, outcry, lamentation, alarm”)), Middle English greten, graten (“to weep, cry, lament”) (from Old English grǣtan and Old Norse gráta). More at greet, regret.
Already in the 13th century, the meaning was extended to include the sense "to shed tears" (natively weep); cry used in this sense had mostly replaced weep by the 16th century.
senses_examples:
text:
That sad movie always makes me cry.
type:
example
text:
- Emerl: “There’s nothing worse than making a girl cry!” That’s what Sonic said...
ref:
2003, Sonic Team, Sonic Battle, Sega, published 2003, Game Boy Advance, level/area: Cream’s Story
type:
quotation
text:
Tonight I’ll cry myself to sleep.
type:
example
text:
to cry goods
type:
example
text:
Love is lost, and thus she cries him.
ref:
1652, Richard Crashaw, The Beginning of Heliodorus
type:
quotation
text:
Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town / (How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!) / For twenty brave men, all fishermen, who / Would make for him the Antelope's crew.
ref:
1976, Stan Rogers (lyrics and music), “Barrett's Privateers”, in Fogarty's Cove
type:
quotation
text:
I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.
ref:
1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shed tears; to weep.
To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
To shout, scream, yell.
To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.
To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
senses_topics:
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6220 | word:
cry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cry (plural cries)
forms:
form:
cries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cry
etymology_text:
The verb is from Middle English crien (13th century), from Old French crier, from Vulgar Latin *crītāre, generally thought to derive from Classical Latin quirītāre (Proto-West Germanic *krītan has also been suggested as a source). The noun corresponds to Middle English cry, crie, from Old French cri, a deverbal of crier.
etymology note
Middle English crien eventually displaced native Middle English galen (“to cry out”) (from Old English galan), Middle English greden (“to cry out”) (from Old English grǣdan), Middle English yermen (“to bellow, mourn, lament”) (from Old English ġierman), Middle English hooen, hoen (“to cry out”) (from Old Norse hóa), Middle English remen (“to cry, shout”) (from Old English hrīeman, compare Old English hrēam (“noise, outcry, lamentation, alarm”)), Middle English greten, graten (“to weep, cry, lament”) (from Old English grǣtan and Old Norse gráta). More at greet, regret.
Already in the 13th century, the meaning was extended to include the sense "to shed tears" (natively weep); cry used in this sense had mostly replaced weep by the 16th century.
senses_examples:
text:
After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry.
type:
example
text:
I heard a cry from afar.
type:
example
text:
a battle cry
text:
His pupil, Maimonides, that he might not be under the necessity of violating the laws of friendship and gratitude, by joining the general cry against Averroes, left Corduba.
ref:
1812, Alexander Chalmers, The General Biographical Dictionary
type:
quotation
text:
1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, in Edward Hawkins, The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Vol. I, W. Baxter, J. Parker, G. B. Whittaker (publs., 1824) pages 124 to 126, lines 648 to 659.
[…] Before the gates there sat / On either side a formidable shape; / The one seem’d woman to the waste, and fair, / But ended foul in many a scaly fold / Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm’d / With mortal sting: about her middle round / A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark’d / With wide Cerberean mouths full loud and rung / A hideous peal; yet, when they list,would creep, / If ought disturb'd their noise, into her womb, / and kennel there, yet there still bark’d and howl’d, / Within unseen. […]
type:
quotation
text:
"Woof" is the cry of a dog, while "neigh" is the cry of a horse.
type:
example
text:
But the shrill wild cry of the heron overpowered the cries of all the other birds, whom it seemed to terrify; they were silent the moment they heard it, and a silence followed which made the interruption doubly unpleasant.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 86
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
A shout or scream.
Words shouted or screamed.
A clamour or outcry.
A group of hounds.
A pack or company of people.
A typical sound made by the species in question.
A desperate or urgent request.
Common report; gossip.
senses_topics:
|
6221 | word:
bore
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bore (third-person singular simple present bores, present participle boring, simple past and past participle bored)
forms:
form:
bores
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
boring
tags:
participle
present
form:
bored
tags:
participle
past
form:
bored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bore
etymology_text:
From Middle English boren, from Old English borian (“to pierce”), from Proto-West Germanic *borōn, from Proto-Germanic *burōną.
Compare Danish bore, Norwegian Bokmål bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin forō (“to bore, to pierce”), Latin feriō (“strike, cut”) and Albanian birë (“hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; compare German drillen.
senses_examples:
text:
Reading books really bores me; films are much more exciting.
type:
example
text:
to bore someone to death
type:
example
text:
[…] used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
ref:
1881, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences
type:
quotation
text:
On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines.
ref:
1950 September, “Network News: Watford Tunnel, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 641
type:
quotation
text:
to bore for water or oil
type:
example
text:
An insect bores into a tree.
type:
example
text:
to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole
type:
example
text:
short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore […] a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood
ref:
1862, Thaddeus William Harris, A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation
type:
quotation
text:
to bore one’s way through a crowd
type:
example
text:
This timber does not bore well.
type:
example
text:
Their eyes bore into my back.
type:
example
text:
The right hand of Curtis was open too much ; but he nevertheless had the best of the hitting in this round, till Inglis bored him down, out of the ropes.
ref:
1824, Pierce Egan, Boxiana; Or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism, page 600
type:
quotation
text:
Hanlan, it seems, led at about a mile, when Beach's steamer bored him, and to avoid the danger of being swamped, he put on a violent spurt and drew well clear of Beach, getting some lengths lead.
ref:
1885, Tresham Gilbey, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 43, page 107
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To inspire boredom in somebody.
To make a hole through something.
To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes).
To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
To fool; to trick.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
6222 | word:
bore
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bore (plural bores)
forms:
form:
bores
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bore
etymology_text:
From Middle English boren, from Old English borian (“to pierce”), from Proto-West Germanic *borōn, from Proto-Germanic *burōną.
Compare Danish bore, Norwegian Bokmål bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin forō (“to bore, to pierce”), Latin feriō (“strike, cut”) and Albanian birë (“hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; compare German drillen.
senses_examples:
text:
the bore of a cannon
type:
example
text:
My neighbour is such a bore when he talks about his coin collection.
type:
example
text:
What a bore that movie was! There was no action, and the dialogue was totally uncreative.
type:
example
text:
It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
ref:
1871, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
The place where such a well exists.
One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
Something dull or uninteresting.
Calibre; importance.
senses_topics:
|
6223 | word:
bore
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bore (plural bores)
forms:
form:
bores
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bore
etymology_text:
From Middle English *bore, bare, a borrowing from Old Norse bára (“billow, wave”), from Proto-Germanic *bērō (“that which bears or carries”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear”). Cognate with Icelandic bára (“billow, wave”), Faroese bára (“billow, wave”). Doublet of bier.
senses_examples:
text:
In another moment a huge wave, like a muddy tidal bore, but almost scaldingly hot, came sweeping round the bend up-stream.
ref:
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 102
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
senses_topics:
|
6224 | word:
bore
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bore
forms:
wikipedia:
bore
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Q. When the Fireſhip appeared to be going down towards the Real, do you think that the Dorſetſhire could have bore down in Time, to have covered and aſſiſted her?
ref:
1746, Charles Fearne, Minutes of the proceedings of a court-martial, aſſembled […], London, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
[…] by altering their course a very little, and easily have bore down abreast of our settlement, without incurring the smallest risk!
ref:
1834, Augustus Earle, A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 […], pages 345–346
type:
quotation
text:
The end of the 20th century and the start of the new millennium have bore witness to a remarkable revolution in the way parasite/host biological interactions can be conceptually designed and experimentally studied.
ref:
2006 February 10, Karl F. Hoffman, Jennifer M. Fitzpatrick, “The Application of DNA Microarrays in the Functional Study of Schisostome/Host Biology”, in W. Evan Secor, Daniel G. Colley, editors, Schistosomiasis, Springer Science & Business Media, page 101
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of bear
past participle of bear
simple past of bare
senses_topics:
|
6225 | word:
bleed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bleed (third-person singular simple present bleeds, present participle bleeding, simple past and past participle bled)
forms:
form:
bleeds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bleeding
tags:
participle
present
form:
bled
tags:
participle
past
form:
bled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan (“to bleed”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *blōþijaną (“to bleed”), from *blōþą (“blood”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots blede, bleid (“to bleed”), Saterland Frisian bläide (“to bleed”), West Frisian bliede (“to bleed”), Dutch bloeden (“to bleed”), Low German blöden (“to bleed”), German bluten (“to bleed”), Danish bløde (“to bleed”), Swedish blöda (“to bleed”).
senses_examples:
text:
If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.
type:
example
text:
"What did they die of?" I asked.
"Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died."
"He bled and purged babies?"
"They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they ... they died anyway."
ref:
1979, Octavia E. Butler, Kindred, Beacon Press (2024), page 239
type:
quotation
text:
The company was bleeding talent.
type:
example
text:
The ink bled only a little; if one raised the index card to one’s eye, it was possible to see the microscopic wisps and flicks seep out from the intended lines and curves out into the paper’s grain.
ref:
2020, Eley Williams, The Liarʼs Dictionary, William Heinemann, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
Ink traps counteract bleeding.
type:
example
text:
At low engine speeds, valves open to bleed some of the highly-compressed air from the later compressor stages, helping to prevent engine surging.
type:
example
text:
High-pressure air bled from the APU is used to spin up the engines and run the APU generator and hydraulic pump, and can also be used to pressurise the cabin if necessary.
type:
example
text:
He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.
type:
example
text:
A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
type:
example
text:
Labialization bleeds palatalization.
type:
example
text:
Full-page and double-page colour advertisements in the Sunday colour magazines usually bleed off the page' (or are 'bled to the margin'), […]
ref:
1998, Macmillan Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
Too, bleeding beyond margins provides editors with several picas of space for more layout.
ref:
2004, Dorothy A. Bowles, Diane L. Borden, Creative Editing, page 361
type:
quotation
text:
Most of the sectors are bleeding, particularly the resources sector.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
To let or draw blood from.
To take large amounts of money from.
To steadily lose (something vital).
To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
To bleed on; to make bloody.
To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
To lose sap, gum, or juice.
To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
To lose money.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
advertising
business
marketing
media
publishing
business
finance |
6226 | word:
bleed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bleed (countable and uncountable, plural bleeds)
forms:
form:
bleeds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan (“to bleed”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *blōþijaną (“to bleed”), from *blōþą (“blood”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots blede, bleid (“to bleed”), Saterland Frisian bläide (“to bleed”), West Frisian bliede (“to bleed”), Dutch bloeden (“to bleed”), Low German blöden (“to bleed”), German bluten (“to bleed”), Danish bløde (“to bleed”), Swedish blöda (“to bleed”).
senses_examples:
text:
When taking off at high altitude or at near-maximum weight, the bleeds have to be turned off temporarily, as they decrease engine power somewhat.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
media
printing
publishing
|
6227 | word:
had
word_type:
verb
expansion:
had
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hadde (preterite), yhad (past participle), from Old English hæfde (first and third person singular preterite), ġehæfd (past participle), from Proto-Germanic *habdaz, past and past participle stem of *habjaną (“to have”), equivalent to have + -ed. Cognate with Dutch had, German hatte, Swedish hade, Icelandic hafði.
senses_examples:
text:
This morning I had an egg for breakfast.
type:
example
text:
A good time was had by all.
type:
example
text:
I felt sure that I had seen him before.
type:
example
text:
Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?
ref:
2011 April 15, Ben Cooper, The Guardian, London
type:
quotation
text:
To holde myne honde, by God, I had grete payne; / For forthwyth there I had him slayne, / But that I drede mordre wolde come oute[…].
ref:
1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte
type:
quotation
text:
If all was good and fair we met, / This earth had been the Paradise / It never look’d to human eyes / Since our first Sun arose and set.
ref:
1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, section 24
type:
quotation
text:
CAESAR (smiling). Of course I had rather you stayed.
ref:
1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of have
Used to form the past perfect tense, expressing an action that took place prior to a reference point that is itself in the past.
As past subjunctive: would have.
senses_topics:
|
6228 | word:
cork
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cork (countable and uncountable, plural corks)
forms:
form:
corks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Cork (material)
etymology_text:
From Middle English cork (“oak bark, cork”), from Middle Dutch curc (“cork (material or object)”), either from Spanish corcho (“cork (material or object)”) (also corcha or corche) or from Old Spanish alcorque (“cork sole”). Doublet of cortex.
senses_examples:
text:
I confess my confidence was shaken by these actions, though I knew well enough that his leg was no more cork than my own
ref:
1908, Edwin George Pinkham, Fate's a fiddler, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
Because cork is porous, it expands and contracts with changes in humidity.
ref:
1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
The cork oak, Quercus suber.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
|
6229 | word:
cork
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cork (third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)
forms:
form:
corks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
corking
tags:
participle
present
form:
corked
tags:
participle
past
form:
corked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Cork (material)
etymology_text:
From Middle English cork (“oak bark, cork”), from Middle Dutch curc (“cork (material or object)”), either from Spanish corcho (“cork (material or object)”) (also corcha or corche) or from Old Spanish alcorque (“cork sole”). Doublet of cortex.
senses_examples:
text:
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Arms draped on shoulders, kick-stepping in circles, they swing bottles of wine. Purpled thumbs cork the bottles. The wine leaps and jumps behind green glass.
text:
He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.
type:
example
text:
Apparently I used to have some good power even though I was little, but the team we were playing against thought I had corked the bat. I kid you not! They paid $200 to have the bat popped off to prove they were right.
ref:
2012, Kevin Neary, Leigh A. Tobin, Major League Dads
type:
quotation
text:
The vicious tackle corked his leg.
type:
example
text:
Injuries, which seemed to be of an inconsequential nature, were often sustained, such as a sprained ankle, a dislocated phalanx, a twisted foot, a corked leg and so on.
ref:
2006, Joseph N. Santamaria, The Education of Dr Joe, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
As he moved away again, William winced at an ache in his thigh.
‘Must have corked my leg when I got up,’ he thought.
ref:
2007, Shaun A. Saunders, Navigating in the New World, page 202
type:
quotation
text:
I′m okay. I must have corked my thigh when Bruce fell onto me. I′ll be fine.
ref:
2008, Christopher J. Holcroft, Canyon, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
2010, Andrew Stojanovski, Dog Ear Cafe, large print 16pt, page 191,
Much to my relief he had only corked his leg when he had jumped.
text:
I corked my thigh late in the game, which we won, and came off.
ref:
2010, Ben Cousins, Ben Cousins: My Life Story, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
Kate remembered then, the family fish camp a mile or so up Amartuq Creek, the very creek across the mouth of which Yuri Andreev had tried to cork Joe Anahonak not half an hour before.
ref:
1998, Dana Stabenow, Killing Grounds, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
But its soon apparent that there are more boats than fish—at least for the moment. We all drift quietly, keeping an eye out for other boats and other nets. Corking another guy's net is a screaming—bastard offense.
ref:
2003, George Lowe, Fisherman: The Strife and Times of Ronald K. Peterson of Ballard
type:
quotation
text:
You're pissed if someone sets too close to you and especially if he sets his net right along yours, "corking" you and intercepting the fish that seem headed to your own net. I was close to this guy's outside net, but definitely not corking him.
ref:
2008, Bert Bender, Catching the Ebb: Drift-fishing for a Life in Cook Inlet, page 249
type:
quotation
text:
[…] corking the streets is a challenge to capitalist ideologies, like skateboarding in parking lots and walkways […]
ref:
2022, Victoria A. Newsom, Lara Martin Lengel, Embodied Activisms, page 70
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
To fill with cork.
To fill with cork.
To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
|
6230 | word:
cork
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cork (plural corks)
forms:
form:
corks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Cork (material)
etymology_text:
From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports |
6231 | word:
cork
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cork (third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)
forms:
form:
corks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
corking
tags:
participle
present
form:
corked
tags:
participle
past
form:
corked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Cork (material)
etymology_text:
From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perform such a maneuver.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports |
6232 | word:
cork
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cork (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Cork (material)
etymology_text:
From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the property of a head over heels rotation.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports |
6233 | word:
hidden
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hidden
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically hid + -en.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of hide
senses_topics:
|
6234 | word:
hidden
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hidden (comparative more hidden, superlative most hidden)
forms:
form:
more hidden
tags:
comparative
form:
most hidden
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically hid + -en.
senses_examples:
text:
hidden treasure; hidden talents
type:
example
text:
It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood.
ref:
1892, James Yoxall, The Lonely Pyramid, chapter 7
type:
quotation
text:
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
ref:
2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.
Obscure.
senses_topics:
|
6235 | word:
heel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
heel (plural heels)
forms:
form:
heels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Heel
heel (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English hele, from Old English hēla, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō, from Proto-Germanic *hanhilaz, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (“heel, hock”), equivalent to hock + -le. More at hock.
Compare North Frisian haiel, West Frisian hyl, Dutch hiel, German Low German Hiel, Danish and Norwegian hæl, Swedish häl.
senses_examples:
text:
He [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then his speed, / His winged heels and then his armed head.
ref:
1709, John Denham, Coopers-Hill
type:
quotation
text:
He drove the heel of his hand into the man's nose.
type:
example
text:
She'd been wearing heels, and fell backward off her right heel and twisted or broke her ankle.
ref:
2008, Kwame Shauku, Wonderful Williams and the Magnificent Seven, page 257
type:
quotation
text:
Opting to improve her odds of making it up the stairs and into the privacy of her room, she kicked off her left heel, and then her right before leaning down to scoop them up.
ref:
2011, Candace Irvine, A Dangerous Engagement
type:
quotation
text:
Flat shoes. As she pushed off her left heel and pressed the sole of her foot to the cold floor she looked forward to them.
ref:
2015, Alex Blackmore, Killing Eva
type:
quotation
text:
the heel of a mast
type:
example
text:
the heel of a vessel
type:
example
text:
And then again the sportsmen would move at an undertaker's pace, when the fox had traversed and the hounds would be at a loss to know which was the hunt and which was the heel
ref:
1860, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
type:
quotation
text:
Boiled mutton was in one, and the heel of a damper in another.
ref:
1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
The bottom half, or the bun heel is placed in the carton, and the pickle slices spread evenly over the meat or cheese.
ref:
1996, Ester Reiter, Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan Into the Fryer, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
I grinned at him sneeringly. I was the heel to end all heels. Wait until the man is down, then kick him and kick him again. He's weak. He can't resist or kick back.
ref:
1953, Raymond Chandler, chapter 29, in The Long Goodbye
type:
quotation
text:
Douglas steams and stammers, a typical film noir heel, while Stone delivers her dialogue with the devilish gleam of a sly actor having a great time.
ref:
2022 March 20, Jason Bailey, “‘Basic Instinct’ at 30: A Time Capsule That Can Still Offend”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Freedman began his analysis by noting two important facts about professional wrestling: First, that heels triumph considerably more often than do babyfaces[…]
ref:
1992, Bruce Lincoln, Discourse and the Construction of Society, page 158
type:
quotation
text:
Of these there are two Kinds; in the one, that Part which has the greatest Projecture is Concave, and is term'd Doucine, or an Upright Ogee; in the other, the Convex Part has the greatest Projecture; and this is call'd the Heel, or Inverted Ogee.
ref:
1722, Claude Perrault, A Treatise of the Five Orders in Architecture, page vii
type:
quotation
text:
There are two kinds—the upright ogee, in which the concave part projects most, and the heel or inverted ogee, which has the convexity most prominent. This last, with its fillet above, is always the upper moulding of a classical cornice.
ref:
1846, George William Francis, The Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures
type:
quotation
text:
Talon: Heel moulding or ogee
ref:
1891, Vignola, Practical Elementary Treatise on Architecture, page ii
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
The part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.
A woman's high-heeled shoe.
The back, upper part of the stock.
The thickening of the neck of a stringed instrument where it attaches to the body.
The last or lowest part of anything.
A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
A contemptible, unscrupulous, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.
A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits and demonstrates characteristics of a braggart and a bully.
The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
Anything resembling a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
The obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
A cyma reversa.
The short side of an angled cut.
The part of a club head's face nearest the shaft.
The lower end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the toe (upper end).
In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder.
The junction between the keel and the stempost of a vessel; an angular wooden join connecting the two.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
entertainment
lifestyle
music
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
card-games
games
architecture
architecture
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport |
6236 | word:
heel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
heel (third-person singular simple present heels, present participle heeling, simple past and past participle heeled)
forms:
form:
heels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
heeling
tags:
participle
present
form:
heeled
tags:
participle
past
form:
heeled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Heel
heel (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English hele, from Old English hēla, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō, from Proto-Germanic *hanhilaz, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (“heel, hock”), equivalent to hock + -le. More at hock.
Compare North Frisian haiel, West Frisian hyl, Dutch hiel, German Low German Hiel, Danish and Norwegian hæl, Swedish häl.
senses_examples:
text:
She called to her dog to heel.
type:
example
text:
she heeled her horse forward
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
To kick with the heel.
To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.
At Yale University, to work as a heeler or student journalist.
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
6237 | word:
heel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
heel (third-person singular simple present heels, present participle heeling, simple past and past participle heeled)
forms:
form:
heels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
heeling
tags:
participle
present
form:
heeled
tags:
participle
past
form:
heeled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Heel
heel (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Probably inferred from hielded, the past tense of hield, from Middle English helden, heelden, from Old English hyldan, hieldan (“to incline”), cognate with Old Norse hella (“to pour out”) (whence Danish hælde (“lean, pour”)).
senses_examples:
text:
The faster a ship sails, the better she will answer her helm; if she sail very slow, she will scarce steer at all. If she heel much, she won't answer the helm so well.
ref:
1764, John Nourse, Navigation Or, the Art of Sailing Upon the Sea, page 65
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To incline to one side; to tilt.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
6238 | word:
heel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
heel (plural heels)
forms:
form:
heels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Heel
heel (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Probably inferred from hielded, the past tense of hield, from Middle English helden, heelden, from Old English hyldan, hieldan (“to incline”), cognate with Old Norse hella (“to pour out”) (whence Danish hælde (“lean, pour”)).
senses_examples:
text:
[T]he boat, from a sudden gust of wind, taking a deep heel, I tumbled overboard and down I went […] .
ref:
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 14
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
6239 | word:
heel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
heel (third-person singular simple present heels, present participle heeling, simple past and past participle heeled)
forms:
form:
heels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
heeling
tags:
participle
present
form:
heeled
tags:
participle
past
form:
heeled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Heel
heel (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
See hele (“conceal, keep secret, cover”).
senses_examples:
text:
They should be dug up with a sharp mattock or grub hoe, the roots being broken as little as possible, and they should be heeled in a cool place and protected from the sun until ready to plant. When lifted for planting from the trench in which heeled the roots should be kept covered with a wet sack.
ref:
1911, Biennial Report of the State Geologist, North Carolina Geological Survey Section, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
In the late fall the seedlings may be dug and heeled in very closely until all the leaves have dropped.
ref:
1913, Indian School Journal, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
Member: Did you water the trees when you set them out?
Walter Vonnegut: No; I heeled the trees in as soon as they were received.
ref:
1916, Transactions of the Indiana Horticultural Society, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
If trees are received from the nursery in the fall, they should be carefully heeled in until the planting season opens in the spring.
ref:
1937, Robert Wilson, Ernest John George, Planting and care of shelterbelts on the northern Great Plains, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Place seedlings in the trench. Small-stemmed seedlings may be heeled-in in bunches of 25, but large seedlings should be heeled-in loose.
ref:
1976, Keith W. Dorman, The Genetics and Breeding of Southern Pines, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
[I] of my own free will and accord, do hereby, here at and hereon, solemnly swear that I will always heel, conceal and never improperly reveal any of the secrets or mysteries of, or belonging to [the Masons].
ref:
, Brian Kerr, Lodge St Lawrence 144 Ritual, page 34
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of hele (“cover; conceal”).
senses_topics:
|
6240 | word:
knee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
knee (plural knees or (obsolete or dialectal) kneen)
forms:
form:
knees
tags:
plural
form:
kneen
tags:
dialectal
obsolete
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English kne, from Old English cnēow, from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéw-o-m, a thematic derivative of *ǵónu.
See also Low German Knee, Dutch knie, German Knie, Danish knæ, Norwegian kne, Swedish knä; also Hittite 𒄀𒉡 (genu), Latin genū, Tocharian A kanweṃ (dual), Tocharian B kenī, Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”), γωνία (gōnía, “corner, angle”), Welsh glin (“knee”), Old Armenian ծունր (cunr), Avestan 𐬲𐬥𐬎𐬨 (žnum), Sanskrit जानु (jā́nu).
The obsolete plural kneen is from Middle English kneen, knen, kneon, kneuwene.
senses_examples:
text:
Penny was wearing a miniskirt, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell.
type:
example
text:
KORRIS: I have tasted your heart. You have been with them, but you are still "of" us. Do not deny the challenge of your destiny. Get off your knees and soar. Open your eyes and let the dream take flight.
ref:
1988 March 21, Vaughn Armstrong, Heart of Glory (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Deck beams were supported by hanging knees, triangular pieces of wood typically found underneath the timbers they are designed to support, but in this case found above them.
ref:
1980, Richard W. Unger, The Ship in the Medieval Economy 600-1600, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and he made a knee to the Caesar of Patna, giving that man all honour due to him.
ref:
2009, C. E. Murphy, The Pretender's Crown, page 127
type:
quotation
text:
the knee of a graph
type:
example
text:
Tante was groggy but not quite out so Winnie gave him a knee to the jaw that Rose had shown her, and that was enough. He slumped like a rag-doll to the floor.
ref:
2016, Clive Mullis, Scooters Yard
type:
quotation
text:
The duty is, or should be, a thing taught at one's father's knee, and the structure of the family gently enforces it.
ref:
1978, Time, volume 111, numbers 18-26, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
This has significant implications for sacramental theology which it seems Pusey even realised in the way he spoke of his early life and of learning all he knew about the Eucharist and the Catholic faith at his mother's knee, […]
ref:
2015, Brian Douglas, The Eucharistic Theology of Edward Bouverie Pusey, page 113
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
The part of a garment that covers the knee.
A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy.
Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line; an inflection point.
A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.
The presence of a parent etc., where a young child acquires early knowledge.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
|
6241 | word:
knee
word_type:
verb
expansion:
knee (third-person singular simple present knees, present participle kneeing, simple past and past participle kneed)
forms:
form:
knees
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kneeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
kneed
tags:
participle
past
form:
kneed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English kne, from Old English cnēow, from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéw-o-m, a thematic derivative of *ǵónu.
See also Low German Knee, Dutch knie, German Knie, Danish knæ, Norwegian kne, Swedish knä; also Hittite 𒄀𒉡 (genu), Latin genū, Tocharian A kanweṃ (dual), Tocharian B kenī, Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”), γωνία (gōnía, “corner, angle”), Welsh glin (“knee”), Old Armenian ծունր (cunr), Avestan 𐬲𐬥𐬎𐬨 (žnum), Sanskrit जानु (jā́nu).
The obsolete plural kneen is from Middle English kneen, knen, kneon, kneuwene.
senses_examples:
text:
When I blocked her from leaving, she kneed me in the groin.
type:
example
text:
Hassan kneed himself up, over, in, soundlessly, feet on floor, knife out, eyes like blunter knife trying to cut darkness.
ref:
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 489
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To kneel to.
To poke or strike with the knee.
To move on the knees; to use the knees to move.
senses_topics:
|
6242 | word:
hung
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hung
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
They fructify a barren, and render barren a very luxurious Soil; and, if you will believe them, they’ll tell you the Tree whereon Judas hung himſelf, and more than the Natives know themſelves, or ever ſaw in their own Country.
ref:
1731, John Taperell, A New Miscellany: Containing the Art of Conversation, and Several Other Subjects, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
I am purſuaded, that if even Bradford himſelf, that day, had ventured to check the violence of the people, in any way that was not agreeable to them ; and had betrayed the leaſt partiality for the exciſe law ; or perhaps even a remiſſion of his zeal againſt it, he would have ſunk, in an inſtant, from his power, and they would have hung him on the firſt tree.
ref:
1795, Hugh Brackenridge, chapter VIII, in Incidents of the Insurrection in the Weſtern Parts of Pennſylvania In the Year 1794, volume I, Philadelphia: John M‘Culloch, page 55
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of hang (except when referring to the method of execution; there, hanged is used instead)
simple past and past participle of hang (in any sense)
senses_topics:
|
6243 | word:
hung
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hung (not generally comparable, comparative more hung, superlative most hung)
forms:
form:
more hung
tags:
comparative
form:
most hung
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
hung parliament
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Suspended by hanging.
Having hanging additions or appendages.
Of a jury, unable to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial.
Of a legislature, lacking a majority political party.
Of a computer or similar device, receiving power but not functioning as desired; working very slowly or not at all. The condition is often corrected by rebooting the computer.
Having a large penis (often preceded by an adverb, e.g. well hung).
senses_topics:
law
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
6244 | word:
bepaint
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bepaint (third-person singular simple present bepaints, present participle bepainting, simple past and past participle bepainted)
forms:
form:
bepaints
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bepainting
tags:
participle
present
form:
bepainted
tags:
participle
past
form:
bepainted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From be- + paint.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint.
senses_topics:
|
6245 | word:
lain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lain
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inflected forms.
senses_examples:
text:
He had lain there for many hours.
type:
example
text:
The book had lain on the attic floor until it was found decades later.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
senses_topics:
|
6246 | word:
lain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lain (third-person singular simple present lains, present participle laining, simple past and past participle lained)
forms:
form:
lains
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
laining
tags:
participle
present
form:
lained
tags:
participle
past
form:
lained
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lainen, leynen, from Old Norse leyna (“to conceal”) and Old English līeġnan (“to deny; conceal”); both from Proto-Germanic *laugnijaną, from Proto-Germanic *laugnō (“secrecy”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To conceal, keep quiet about.
senses_topics:
|
6247 | word:
forbidden
word_type:
adj
expansion:
forbidden (comparative more forbidden, superlative most forbidden)
forms:
form:
more forbidden
tags:
comparative
form:
most forbidden
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
forbidden
etymology_text:
Past participle of the verb forbid.
senses_examples:
text:
This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.
ref:
1999, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind, page 276
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not allowed; specifically disallowed.
senses_topics:
|
6248 | word:
forbidden
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forbidden
forms:
wikipedia:
forbidden
etymology_text:
Past participle of the verb forbid.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of forbid
senses_topics:
|
6249 | word:
kneel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kneel (third-person singular simple present kneels, present participle kneeling, simple past and past participle knelt or kneeled)
forms:
form:
kneels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kneeling
tags:
participle
present
form:
knelt
tags:
participle
past
form:
knelt
tags:
past
form:
kneeled
tags:
participle
past
form:
kneeled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English knelen, knewlen, from Old English cnēowlian (“to kneel”), equivalent to knee + -le. Cognate with Dutch knielen, Low German knelen, dialectal German knielen, Alemannic German chnüle, Danish knæle, all meaning “to kneel”.
senses_examples:
text:
She knelt the doll to fit it into the box.
type:
example
text:
Raising the girl with unexpected strength, she bore her towards the chapel, the firesparks flickered in her eyes, as she knelt her burden against the altar step.
ref:
1898, K.L. Montgomery, “The Red Rosary”, in The Ludgate Illustrated Magazine, volume 6, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
Kneel him down and stick his head in. No, don't let him up, just hold him there.
ref:
2007, Norman Horrod, On a Different Note, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
He took the wife in his car to the piney woods outside town, and knelt her down.
ref:
2011, Joseph T. Wells, Fraud Fighter: My Fables and Foibles, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
He knelt him down to pray.
type:
example
text:
Just when the damsel kneeled herself to pray.
ref:
1833, Robert Pollok, “The Course of Time”, in The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber, and Pollok, page 33
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.
To sink down so that the entrance is level with the pavement, making it easier for passengers to enter.
To cause to kneel.
To rest on (one's) knees
senses_topics:
|
6250 | word:
polyedron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polyedron (plural polyedrons)
forms:
form:
polyedrons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dated form of polyhedron.
senses_topics:
|
6251 | word:
polyedrous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
polyedrous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of polyhedrous.
senses_topics:
|
6252 | word:
got
word_type:
verb
expansion:
got (third-person singular simple present got or (nonstandard) gots, no present participle, simple past (by suppletion) had, no past participle)
forms:
form:
got
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gots
tags:
nonstandard
present
singular
third-person
form:
had
tags:
past
suppletive
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I can’t go out tonight: I’ve got to study for my exams.
type:
example
text:
I got to go study.
type:
example
text:
We got to ride to clean up the streets / For our wives and our daughters!
ref:
1971, Carole King, Gerry Goffin (lyrics and music), “Smackwater Jack”, in Tapestry, Ode Records
type:
quotation
text:
They got a new car.
type:
example
text:
He got a lot of nerve.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expressing obligation; used with have.
Must; have/has (to).
Have/has.
senses_topics:
|
6253 | word:
got
word_type:
verb
expansion:
got
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
We got the last bus home.
type:
example
text:
By that time we’d got very cold.
type:
example
text:
I’ve got two children.
type:
example
text:
How many children have you got?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of get
past participle of get
senses_topics:
|
6254 | word:
got
word_type:
verb
expansion:
got (indeclinable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Analogous to Chinese 有, such as Hokkien 有 (ū), Cantonese 有 (jau⁵), Mandarin 有 (yǒu). Sense 1 is also comparable to Malay ada.
senses_examples:
text:
Got problem is it?
type:
example
text:
Got ants over here.
type:
example
text:
Got lighter or not?
ref:
1999, Alfian Sa'at, Corridor, Singapore: SNP Editions, →OCLC, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
She sure got a lot of costume change, make-up, wig long long…
ref:
2010, Haresh Sharma, Those Who Can't, Teach, Epigram Books, Act II, scene iv
type:
quotation
text:
You got shower? ― Have you showered?
type:
example
text:
I got ski. ― I went skiing.
type:
example
text:
I got ski before. ― I have skied before.
type:
example
text:
You got send [e-mail] meh? I never receive leh.
ref:
2010 August 22, Fiona Chan, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
I got go Taiwan next year. ― I’m already/actually going to Taiwan next year.
type:
example
text:
I got tell them just now.
type:
example
text:
I got cook meals for them. ― I cook meals for them; I would cook meals for them (now and then or regularly).
type:
example
text:
You got play badminton? ― Do you play badminton?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Have; there is (indicates possession or existence).
Marks the completive or experiential aspect.
Used as a marker of realis modality.
Used to emphasize that an action has been done.
Marks the habitual aspect in the present or past tense.
senses_topics:
|
6255 | word:
polyeidic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
polyeidic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From poly- + Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos, “form”) + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Passing through several distinct larval forms; having several distinct kinds of young.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
6256 | word:
burst
word_type:
verb
expansion:
burst (third-person singular simple present bursts, present participle bursting, simple past burst or (archaic) brast or (nonstandard) bursted, past participle burst or (rare) bursten or (nonstandard) bursted)
forms:
form:
bursts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bursting
tags:
participle
present
form:
burst
tags:
past
form:
brast
tags:
archaic
past
form:
bursted
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
burst
tags:
participle
past
form:
bursten
tags:
participle
past
rare
form:
bursted
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
wikipedia:
burst
etymology_text:
From Middle English bresten, bersten, from Old English berstan, from Proto-West Germanic *brestan, from Proto-Germanic *brestaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break, crack, split, separate”), enlargement of *bʰreHi- (“to snip, split”).
See also West Frisian boarste, Dutch barsten, Swedish brista; also Irish bris (“to break”)). More at brine. Also cognate to debris.
senses_examples:
text:
I blew the balloon up too much, and it burst.
type:
example
text:
I burst the balloon when I blew it up too much.
type:
example
text:
I printed the report on form-feed paper, then burst the sheets.
type:
example
text:
1913, Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
text:
The flowers burst into bloom on the first day of spring.
type:
example
text:
to burst a hole through the wall
type:
example
text:
1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X
He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
text:
The sharp report of a gun burst the silence, and a moment later the gate swung open.
ref:
2001, Jeanette Windle, Cave of the Inca Re, page 115
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To break from internal pressure.
To cause to break from internal pressure.
To cause to break by any means.
To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines.
To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting.
To produce as an effect of bursting.
To interrupt suddenly in a violent or explosive manner; to shatter.
senses_topics:
|
6257 | word:
burst
word_type:
noun
expansion:
burst (plural bursts)
forms:
form:
bursts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
burst
etymology_text:
From Middle English bresten, bersten, from Old English berstan, from Proto-West Germanic *brestan, from Proto-Germanic *brestaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break, crack, split, separate”), enlargement of *bʰreHi- (“to snip, split”).
See also West Frisian boarste, Dutch barsten, Swedish brista; also Irish bris (“to break”)). More at brine. Also cognate to debris.
senses_examples:
text:
The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
type:
example
text:
It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts.
ref:
1961, Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
a ground burst; a surface burst
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act or instance of bursting.
A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.
A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
The explosion of a bomb or missile.
A drinking spree.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
6258 | word:
bite
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bite (third-person singular simple present bites, present participle biting, simple past bit, past participle bitten or bit)
forms:
form:
bites
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
biting
tags:
participle
present
form:
bit
tags:
past
form:
bitten
tags:
participle
past
form:
bit
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English biten, from Old English bītan (“bite”), from Proto-West Germanic *bītan, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną (“bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“split”).
Cognates include Saterland Frisian biete (“bite”), West Frisian bite (“bite”), Dutch bijten (“bite”), German Low German bieten (“bite”), German beißen, beissen (“bite”), Danish bide (“bite”), Swedish bita (“bite”), Norwegian Bokmål bite (“bite”), Norwegian Nynorsk bita (“bite”), Icelandic bíta (“bite”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (beitan, “bite”), Latin findō (“split”), Ancient Greek φείδομαι (pheídomai), Sanskrit भिद् (bhid, “break”).
senses_examples:
text:
As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
type:
example
text:
That dog is about to bite!
type:
example
text:
If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.
type:
example
text:
I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.
type:
example
text:
For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.
type:
example
text:
Are the fish biting today?
type:
example
text:
I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?
type:
example
text:
These mosquitoes are really biting today!
type:
example
text:
It bites like pepper or mustard.
type:
example
text:
Pepper bites the mouth.
type:
example
text:
The anchor bites.
type:
example
text:
The anchor bites the ground.
type:
example
text:
This music really bites.
type:
example
text:
You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.
type:
example
text:
He always be biting my moves.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
To attack with the teeth.
To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
To have significant effect, often negative.
To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
To sting.
To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
To take or keep a firm hold.
To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
To plagiarize, to imitate.
To deceive or defraud; to take in.
senses_topics:
|
6259 | word:
bite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bite (countable and uncountable, plural bites)
forms:
form:
bites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English biten, from Old English bītan (“bite”), from Proto-West Germanic *bītan, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną (“bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“split”).
Cognates include Saterland Frisian biete (“bite”), West Frisian bite (“bite”), Dutch bijten (“bite”), German Low German bieten (“bite”), German beißen, beissen (“bite”), Danish bide (“bite”), Swedish bita (“bite”), Norwegian Bokmål bite (“bite”), Norwegian Nynorsk bita (“bite”), Icelandic bíta (“bite”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (beitan, “bite”), Latin findō (“split”), Ancient Greek φείδομαι (pheídomai), Sanskrit भिद् (bhid, “break”).
senses_examples:
text:
Now trust me when I tell you, young lady, teeth are something you want to take care of. They’re these rare white things that give us pleasure throughout our life. And give us bite. Our inheritance. Our means of survival. Our right to rule. Their enamel is the front line. And that line needs to be won every day.
ref:
2016, Mark Z. Danielewski, The Familiar, Volume 3: Honeysuckle & Pain, Pantheon Books, page 513
type:
quotation
text:
That snake bite really hurts!
type:
example
text:
After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.
type:
example
text:
There were only a few bites left on the plate.
type:
example
text:
Not a soul in Corlaix will dare give us bite, sup, or shelter; and we shall die starved in a ditch, all four of us—that much we are our own, but in all else we are Monseigneur’s; all else, I say, all—all.
ref:
1906, Hamilton Drummond, The Chain of Seven Lives, F. V. White & Co., Ltd., pages 182–183
type:
quotation
text:
In February of this year, 9to5 was forced to lay off four of its paid staff, and began to feel the bite of its high-rent downtown office space.
ref:
1985 December 7, Sib Connor, “9to5: Still Putting In A Day's Work”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 21, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
That song is a bite of my song!
type:
example
text:
a bite to eat... I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner...
type:
example
text:
Wilma, I promise you one thing. Whatever scum is behind this, not a single cop on this police force will have a minute's rest until he's behind bars. Now let's grab a bite to eat.
ref:
1988, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, spoken by Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen)
type:
quotation
text:
Would I take someone here for a first date? No. Would I go here for a cheap bite? Also no...
ref:
2023 July 21, Billie Schwab Dunn, “I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy...”, in Daily Star
type:
quotation
text:
Kathy Santen is full of bite as the bizarrely seduced Lady Anne, although her exaggerated diction is a bit too snappishly Shakespearean.
ref:
1996 April 22, Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
type:
quotation
text:
In Tarabai’s text this exposure is direct, unusually blunt, full of bite and ridicule, and highly polemical.
ref:
1998, Vidyut Bhagwat, “Pandita Ramabai’s Strī-Dharma Nīti and Tarabai Shinde’s Strī-Puruṣ Tulanā: The Inner Unity of the Texts”, in Anne Feldhaus, editor, Images of Women in Maharashtrian Society, State University of New York Press, page 211
type:
quotation
text:
City scored the goals but periods of ball possession were shared - the difference being Villa lacked bite in the opposition final third.
ref:
2011 March 2, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 3 - 0 Aston Villa”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching.
ref:
1725, Thomas Gordon, The Humorist
type:
quotation
text:
So he went home cursing the Yorkshire bites, and swearing there was no living among them […]
ref:
1828, The Newcastle Magazine, volume 7, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
cold open: Starting a TV newscast with video or a bite from the lead story rather than starting with the anchor or the standard show open.
ref:
2015, Robert A. Papper, Broadcast News and Writing Stylebook
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of biting.
The wound left behind after having been bitten.
The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
Something unpleasant.
An act of plagiarism.
A small meal or snack.
incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
Aggression.
The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
A sharper; one who cheats.
A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
Ellipsis of sound bite.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
broadcasting
media
television |
6260 | word:
spelled
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spelled
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of spell
senses_topics:
|
6261 | word:
flee
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flee (third-person singular simple present flees, present participle fleeing, simple past and past participle fled)
forms:
form:
flees
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fleeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
fled
tags:
participle
past
form:
fled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flen, from Old English flēon, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”).
Cognate with Dutch vlieden, German fliehen, Icelandic flýja, Swedish fly, Gothic 𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þliuhan). Within English, related to fly and more distantly to flow.
senses_examples:
text:
The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.
type:
example
text:
As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
When, however, the plant spirits were not strong enough in themselves, then the family called in the Medicine Man. He appeared, a "monster of so frightful mien", with noise making apparatus which produced such a terrifying din that even the hardiest demon was likely to flee.
ref:
1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 254
type:
quotation
text:
Many people fled the country as war loomed.
type:
example
text:
Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought.
type:
example
text:
The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion.
ref:
1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220
type:
quotation
text:
Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To run away; to escape.
To escape from.
To disappear quickly; to vanish.
senses_topics:
|
6262 | word:
tak
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tak (third-person singular simple present taks, present participle takkin, simple past teuk, past participle takken)
forms:
form:
taks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
takkin
tags:
participle
present
form:
teuk
tags:
past
form:
takken
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Dialectal form of take.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take.
senses_topics:
|
6263 | word:
lingo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lingo (countable and uncountable, plural lingos or lingoes)
forms:
form:
lingos
tags:
plural
form:
lingoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin lingua (“language”) + -o (diminutive suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
"You see, ma'am, I can't divest myself of my professional lingo," observed Mr. Banks.
ref:
1846, George W.M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 1, London: George Vickers, page 327
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group, field, or region; jargon or a dialect.
senses_topics:
|
6264 | word:
frozen
word_type:
adj
expansion:
frozen (comparative more frozen, superlative most frozen)
forms:
form:
more frozen
tags:
comparative
form:
most frozen
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English frozen, frosen, ifrozen, variant of froren, ifroren ("frozen"; > see frorn), past participle of Middle English fresen, freosen (“to freeze”). By surface analysis, freeze + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
The mammoth has been frozen for ten thousand years.
type:
example
text:
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters … But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.
ref:
2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
I just stood frozen as the robber pointed at me with his gun.
type:
example
text:
"Dice" is a frozen plural.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.
Immobilized.
In a state such that transactions are not allowed.
Retaining an older, obsolete syntax of an earlier version of a language, which now operates only on a specific word or phrase.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
6265 | word:
frozen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
frozen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English frozen, frosen, ifrozen, variant of froren, ifroren ("frozen"; > see frorn), past participle of Middle English fresen, freosen (“to freeze”). By surface analysis, freeze + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
The mammoth was frozen shortly after death.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of freeze
senses_topics:
|
6266 | word:
intertwine
word_type:
verb
expansion:
intertwine (third-person singular simple present intertwines, present participle intertwining, simple past and past participle intertwined)
forms:
form:
intertwines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
intertwining
tags:
participle
present
form:
intertwined
tags:
participle
past
form:
intertwined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From inter- + twine.
senses_examples:
text:
You see, no doubt, that yet again, thanks to this intertwining, our many-headed sophist has forced us against our will to admit that what is not is in a way.
ref:
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 240c
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To twine something together.
To become twined together; to become mutually involved.
senses_topics:
|
6267 | word:
syntax
word_type:
noun
expansion:
syntax (countable and uncountable, plural syntaxes)
forms:
form:
syntaxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
syntax
etymology_text:
Partly from Late Latin syntaxis and partly from its etymon, Ancient Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis), from σύν (sún, “together”) + τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”), from τάσσω (tássō, “I arrange”). Doublet of syntaxis.
senses_examples:
text:
The incorporation of a rule of V MOVEMENT into our description of English Syntax turns out to have fundamental theoretical implications for our overall Theory of Grammar: it means that we are no longer able to posit that the syntactic structure of a sentence can be described in terms of a single Phrase-marker representing its S-structure. For, the postulation of a rule of V-MOVEMENT means that we must recognise at least two different levels of structure in our Theory of Grammar — namely, a level of D-structure (formerly known as ‘Deep Structureʼ) which serves as input to the rule, and a separate level of S-structure which is formed by application of the rule.
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 8, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 410
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
The study of the structure of phrases, sentences, and language.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
6268 | word:
unvisibly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
unvisibly (comparative more unvisibly, superlative most unvisibly)
forms:
form:
more unvisibly
tags:
comparative
form:
most unvisibly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From unvisible + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
invisibly.
senses_topics:
|
6269 | word:
nose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nose (plural noses)
forms:
form:
noses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
human nose
nose
etymology_text:
From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu, variant of *nasō, old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- ~ *nh₂es- (“nose, nostril”).
See also Saterland Frisian Noose, West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Swedish nos, Norwegian nos (“snout”), German Low German Nees, Nes, Näs, German Nase, Swedish näsa, Norwegian nese, Danish næse (“nose”); also Latin nāris (“nostril”), nāsus (“nose”), Lithuanian nósis, Russian нос (nos), Sanskrit नासा (nā́sā, “nostrils”).
senses_examples:
text:
She had a small nose between two sparkling blue eyes.
type:
example
text:
the nose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane
type:
example
text:
Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.
ref:
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Red Rum only won by a nose.
type:
example
text:
We are not offended with […] a dog for a better nose than his master.
ref:
c. 1700, Jeremy Collier, Of Envy
type:
quotation
text:
It is essential that a winetaster develops a good nose.
type:
example
text:
A successful reporter has a nose for news.
type:
example
text:
[…] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; […]
ref:
1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
A snout, the nose of an animal.
The tip of an object.
The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
A perfumer.
The sense of smell.
Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
The skill in recognising bouquet.
Skill at finding information.
A downward projection from a cornice.
An informer.
senses_topics:
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
architecture
|
6270 | word:
nose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nose (third-person singular simple present noses, present participle nosing, simple past and past participle nosed)
forms:
form:
noses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nosing
tags:
participle
present
form:
nosed
tags:
participle
past
form:
nosed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
human nose
nose
etymology_text:
From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu, variant of *nasō, old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- ~ *nh₂es- (“nose, nostril”).
See also Saterland Frisian Noose, West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Swedish nos, Norwegian nos (“snout”), German Low German Nees, Nes, Näs, German Nase, Swedish näsa, Norwegian nese, Danish næse (“nose”); also Latin nāris (“nostril”), nāsus (“nose”), Lithuanian nósis, Russian нос (nos), Sanskrit नासा (nā́sā, “nostrils”).
senses_examples:
text:
The ship nosed through the minefield.
type:
example
text:
She was nosing around other people’s business.
type:
example
text:
Real connoisseurs know that to nose and taste properly you have to add still water to your tulip-shaped glass so that the alcohol doesn't overwhelm you.
ref:
2002 October 20, Bob Morris, “Connoisseurship Runneth Over”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
to nose a prayer
type:
example
text:
It makes far better musick when you nose Sternold's, or Wisdom's meeter.
ref:
c. 1635, William Cartwright, The Ordinary
type:
quotation
text:
to nose a stair tread
type:
example
text:
The plane is nosing up!
type:
example
text:
We have to get it nosing down.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
To snoop.
To detect by smell or as if by smell.
To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
To furnish with a nose.
To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.
To dive down in a steep angle; to nosedive
To travel with the nose of the plane/ship aimed in a particular direction.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport |
6271 | word:
unvitiated
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unvitiated (comparative more unvitiated, superlative most unvitiated)
forms:
form:
more unvitiated
tags:
comparative
form:
most unvitiated
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + vitiated.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not vitiated; pure.
senses_topics:
|
6272 | word:
input
word_type:
noun
expansion:
input (countable and uncountable, plural inputs)
forms:
form:
inputs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
input
etymology_text:
From Middle English inputten, equivalent to in- + put.
senses_examples:
text:
You can provide input via this form.
type:
example
text:
sound input
type:
example
text:
model with A/V input
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of putting in; infusion.
That which is put in, as in an amount.
Contribution of work or information, as an opinion or advice.
Data fed into a process with the intention of it shaping or affecting the output of that process.
An input jack.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
6273 | word:
input
word_type:
verb
expansion:
input (third-person singular simple present inputs, present participle inputting, simple past and past participle input or inputted)
forms:
form:
inputs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
inputting
tags:
participle
present
form:
input
tags:
participle
past
form:
input
tags:
past
form:
inputted
tags:
participle
past
form:
inputted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
input
etymology_text:
From Middle English inputten, equivalent to in- + put.
senses_examples:
text:
Following the removal of the Golborne Link from the current Bill and, given the direct importance of maintaining the benefits that the Golborne Link would have delivered for Scotland, the Transport Minister has sought and received confirmation from the UK Minister of State for Transport that Scottish Government Officials will input to the consideration being given to the alternative.
ref:
2023 January 25, “Network News: Sturgeon and Burnham in secret talks to boost Scottish high-speed link”, in RAIL, number 975, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
The user inputs his date of birth and the computer displays his age.
type:
example
text:
An artificial-intelligence application called Sudowrite wrote the paragraph above. I inputted the text of the first section of “The Metamorphosis” and then pressed a button called Wormhole. The computer composed the continuation.
ref:
2021 April 30, Stephen Marche, “The Computers Are Getting Better at Writing”, in The New Yorker
type:
quotation
text:
"The timetable is then produced using a desktop publishing package with data inputted manually, and the files then sent to the editor, Chris Woodcock, for proof-reading and conversion to PDF format.
ref:
2021 September 22, John Potter tells Paul Stephen, “Your guide to Europe”, in RAIL, number 940, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
The program inputs a value for the integer variable num and compares it with the constant integer limit.
ref:
2009, J Stanley Warford, Computer Systems
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put in; put on.
To enter data.
To accept data that is entered.
senses_topics:
|
6274 | word:
prattle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
prattle (third-person singular simple present prattles, present participle prattling, simple past and past participle prattled)
forms:
form:
prattles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
prattling
tags:
participle
present
form:
prattled
tags:
participle
past
form:
prattled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”).
senses_examples:
text:
And as E. Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay.
ref:
1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café
type:
quotation
text:
I looked across at Anna, and I noticed that her eyes had grown strangely blank, without expression. I felt instinctively that the subject brought up by Victor was one she would not have chosen. Victor, insensitive to this, went prattling on.
ref:
1952, Daphne Du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble.
senses_topics:
|
6275 | word:
prattle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prattle (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Silly, childish talk; babble.
senses_topics:
|
6276 | word:
unvoluntary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unvoluntary (comparative more unvoluntary, superlative most unvoluntary)
forms:
form:
more unvoluntary
tags:
comparative
form:
most unvoluntary
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + voluntary.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Involuntary.
senses_topics:
|
6277 | word:
dive
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dive (third-person singular simple present dives, present participle diving, simple past dived or (chiefly U.S. and Canada) dove, past participle dived or (chiefly U.S. and Canada, nonstandard) dove or (dialectal) doven)
forms:
form:
dives
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
diving
tags:
participle
present
form:
dived
tags:
past
form:
dove
tags:
Canada
US
past
form:
dived
tags:
participle
past
form:
dove
tags:
Canada
US
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
doven
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
dive
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English diven, duven, from the merger of Old English dȳfan (“to dip, immerse”, transitive weak verb) (from Proto-Germanic *dūbijaną) and dūfan (“to duck, dive, sink, penetrate”, intransitive strong verb) (past participle ġedofen). Cognate with Icelandic dýfa (“to dip, dive”), Low German bedaven (“covered, covered with water”). See also deep, dip.
senses_examples:
text:
It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them.
ref:
1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic
type:
quotation
text:
to dive into home plate
type:
example
text:
[the Hammersmith & City at Paddington]: There it dived underground, eventually enabling its train services to run over, and be entangled with, the easterly extensions of the Metropolitan and the District.
ref:
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
She dove right in and started making improvements.
type:
example
text:
The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of flame.
ref:
1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To swim under water.
To jump into water head-first.
To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
To descend sharply or steeply.
To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
To undertake with enthusiasm.
To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
To explore by diving; to plunge into.
To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
6278 | word:
dive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dive (plural dives)
forms:
form:
dives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English diven, duven, from the merger of Old English dȳfan (“to dip, immerse”, transitive weak verb) (from Proto-Germanic *dūbijaną) and dūfan (“to duck, dive, sink, penetrate”, intransitive strong verb) (past participle ġedofen). Cognate with Icelandic dýfa (“to dip, dive”), Low German bedaven (“covered, covered with water”). See also deep, dip.
senses_examples:
text:
the dive of a hawk after prey
text:
The 24-year-old Brazilian hurdler Joao Vitor de Oliveira progressed to the Rio competition’s semi-finals by executing a Superman-style dive headfirst over the finishing line – beating South Africa’s Antonio Alkana by one hundredth of a second.
ref:
2016 August 16, Kate Samuelson, “Here Are Other Athletes Who Famously Won with a Dive”, in Time
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A jump or plunge into water.
A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
A downward swooping motion.
A swim under water.
A decline.
A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
A deliberate fall after a challenge.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
6279 | word:
dive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dive
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian dive; see diva.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of diva
senses_topics:
|
6280 | word:
dive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dive (plural dives)
forms:
form:
dives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of daeva.
senses_topics:
|
6281 | word:
drivel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drivel (countable and uncountable, plural drivels)
forms:
form:
drivels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English drivelen, drevelen, from Old English dreflian (“to drivel, slobber, slaver”), from Proto-Germanic *drablijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerebʰ- (“cloudy, turbid; yeast”).
senses_examples:
text:
A ray of light amid all this nonsense was Gwyn Topham's piece in the Guardian, which was timely, measured, accurate and of appropriate tone. That this single report stood out so clearly as an exemplar is a scathing comment in itself on the volumes of drivel surrounding it.
ref:
2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nonsense; senseless talk.
Saliva, drool.
A fool; an idiot.
senses_topics:
|
6282 | word:
drivel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drivel (third-person singular simple present drivels, present participle (US) driveling or drivelling, simple past and past participle (US) driveled or drivelled)
forms:
form:
drivels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
driveling
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
drivelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
driveled
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
driveled
tags:
US
past
form:
drivelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
drivelled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English drivelen, drevelen, from Old English dreflian (“to drivel, slobber, slaver”), from Proto-Germanic *drablijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerebʰ- (“cloudy, turbid; yeast”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly; to drool.
To have saliva drip from the mouth.
To be weak or foolish; to dote.
senses_topics:
|
6283 | word:
drivel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drivel (plural drivels)
forms:
form:
drivels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare Old Dutch drevel (“scullion”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A servant; a drudge.
senses_topics:
|
6284 | word:
drivel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drivel (third-person singular simple present drivels, present participle driveling, simple past and past participle driveled)
forms:
form:
drivels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
driveling
tags:
participle
present
form:
driveled
tags:
participle
past
form:
driveled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps a blend of drive and dribble.
senses_examples:
text:
But that is a state of things, which must in time work its own cure. We cannot always go dribbling and drivelling along, government and people alike being the scoff of all onlookers.
ref:
1865 October 7, The Mercury, Hobart, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
There was a good deal of bustle and life at the inn; but three or four inebriates drivelling about the premises were 'suffering a recovery,' from the excitement of the previous night's entertainment.
ref:
1872 October 29, The Newcastle Chronicle, NSW, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Walter was as silly as most men are when in love. He went drivelling off in pursuit of her "dear little work-worn hands"[.]
ref:
1914 May 30, The Darling Downs Gazette, Qld, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
"I am amazed to think we are in the second week of war and this country is still drivelling along with a small volunteer force," he added.
ref:
1939 September 15, The Daily Examiner, Grafton, NSW, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Instead of drivelling away the precious initiative season of life in the vain labour of teaching tuneable voices to sing[.]
ref:
1858 August 17, The Ovens and Murray Advertiser, Beechworth, Vic, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
It is for the country to say whether we are to keep on in this backward course, whether we are to go on getting deeper and deeper into debt, whether we are to have increased taxation year after year. The bone and sinew of the land is drivelling away.
ref:
1872 August 31, The Mercury, Hobart, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move or travel slowly.
To use up or to be used up.
senses_topics:
|
6285 | word:
hello
word_type:
intj
expansion:
hello
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Hello (first attested in 1826), from holla, hollo (attested 1588). This variant of hallo is often credited to Thomas Edison as a coinage for telephone use, but its appearance in print predates the invention of the telephone by several decades.
Ultimately from a variant of Old English ēalā, such as hēlā, which was used colloquially at the time similarly to how hey and (in some dialects) hi are used nowadays. Thus, equivalent to a compound of hey and lo. Used when drawing attention to yourself.
Possibly influenced by Old Saxon halo!, imperative of halōn (“to call, fetch”), used in hailing a ferryman, akin to Old High German hala, hola!, imperative forms of halōn, holōn (“to fetch”). More at hallo.
OED and Merriam-Webster also suggested that it is a variant of holla, a variant of holloo. Further beyond, the origin remains uncertain. OED and Merriam-Webster suggested that it has a connection between hallow (“to shout, to cry out loud”), which came from Old French holloer.
According to Altfranzösisches Wörterbuch, Old French holloer is from Old Saxon halon.
senses_examples:
text:
Hello, everyone.
type:
example
text:
Hello? How may I help you?
type:
example
text:
Hello. This is Marsha. ― Yes, Marsha.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Hello? Is anyone there?
type:
example
text:
You just tried to start your car with your cell phone. Hello?
type:
example
text:
Hello! What’s going on here?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.
A greeting used when answering the telephone.
A call for response if it is not clear if anyone is present or listening, or if a telephone conversation may have been disconnected.
Used sarcastically to imply that the person addressed has done something the speaker considers to be foolish, or missed something that should have been obvious.
An expression of puzzlement or discovery.
senses_topics:
|
6286 | word:
hello
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hello (plural hellos or helloes)
forms:
form:
hellos
tags:
plural
form:
helloes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Hello (first attested in 1826), from holla, hollo (attested 1588). This variant of hallo is often credited to Thomas Edison as a coinage for telephone use, but its appearance in print predates the invention of the telephone by several decades.
Ultimately from a variant of Old English ēalā, such as hēlā, which was used colloquially at the time similarly to how hey and (in some dialects) hi are used nowadays. Thus, equivalent to a compound of hey and lo. Used when drawing attention to yourself.
Possibly influenced by Old Saxon halo!, imperative of halōn (“to call, fetch”), used in hailing a ferryman, akin to Old High German hala, hola!, imperative forms of halōn, holōn (“to fetch”). More at hallo.
OED and Merriam-Webster also suggested that it is a variant of holla, a variant of holloo. Further beyond, the origin remains uncertain. OED and Merriam-Webster suggested that it has a connection between hallow (“to shout, to cry out loud”), which came from Old French holloer.
According to Altfranzösisches Wörterbuch, Old French holloer is from Old Saxon halon.
senses_examples:
text:
In many new buildings, though, neighbors are venturing beyond tight-lipped hellos at the mailbox.
ref:
2007 April 29, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
"Hello!" or an equivalent greeting.
senses_topics:
|
6287 | word:
hello
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hello (third-person singular simple present hellos or helloes, present participle helloing, simple past and past participle helloed)
forms:
form:
hellos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
helloes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
helloing
tags:
participle
present
form:
helloed
tags:
participle
past
form:
helloed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Hello (first attested in 1826), from holla, hollo (attested 1588). This variant of hallo is often credited to Thomas Edison as a coinage for telephone use, but its appearance in print predates the invention of the telephone by several decades.
Ultimately from a variant of Old English ēalā, such as hēlā, which was used colloquially at the time similarly to how hey and (in some dialects) hi are used nowadays. Thus, equivalent to a compound of hey and lo. Used when drawing attention to yourself.
Possibly influenced by Old Saxon halo!, imperative of halōn (“to call, fetch”), used in hailing a ferryman, akin to Old High German hala, hola!, imperative forms of halōn, holōn (“to fetch”). More at hallo.
OED and Merriam-Webster also suggested that it is a variant of holla, a variant of holloo. Further beyond, the origin remains uncertain. OED and Merriam-Webster suggested that it has a connection between hallow (“to shout, to cry out loud”), which came from Old French holloer.
According to Altfranzösisches Wörterbuch, Old French holloer is from Old Saxon halon.
senses_examples:
text:
She is there guarding and looking after the candy and the children generally, and she helloes and renders an exclamation that Maidie is crossing the street.
ref:
1891, Records and Briefs in Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of Minnesota, page 227
type:
quotation
text:
He helloes to my daughter:[…]
ref:
1927, Ohio State Engineer, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
‘Hello Minka! Great to meet you!’ Minka seems nonplussed at what I thought was an uncontroversial opening remark. There’s an awkward pause. She then helloes me back. But that’s all I get.
ref:
2012, Mark Dolan, Do You Mind if I Put My Hand on it?: Journeys into the Worlds of the Weird, HarperCollinsPublishers
type:
quotation
text:
I had to traipse around somewhat, helloing people and being helloed, before I spotted my mother and my father, sharing shade and a spread blanket with Pete and Marie Reese and Toussaint Rennie near the back of the park.
ref:
2013, Ivan Doig, English Creek, page 139
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To greet with "hello".
senses_topics:
|
6288 | word:
sandbox
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sandbox (plural sandboxes)
forms:
form:
sandboxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sandbox
etymology_text:
From sand + box.
senses_examples:
text:
For the most part they were small standard gauge 0-6-0 side tanks of the type illustrated, with long tapered chimneys and an unusual feature for the Continent in the shape of domeless boilers, the protuberance just behind the chimney being a sandbox.
ref:
1941 August, “Notes and News: The Swiss South Eastern Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 376
type:
quotation
text:
Running a program in a sandbox can prevent it from doing any damage to the system.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A children's play area consisting of a box filled with sand.
A box filled with sand that is shaped to form a mould for metal casting.
A container for sand or pounce, used historically before blotting paper.
An animal's litter box.
A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs onto the rails in front of the driving wheels, to prevent slipping.
An isolated area where a program can be executed with a restricted portion of the resources available.
A page on a wiki where users are free to experiment without destroying or damaging any legitimate content.
The Middle East.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
military
politics
war |
6289 | word:
sandbox
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sandbox (third-person singular simple present sandboxes, present participle sandboxing, simple past and past participle sandboxed)
forms:
form:
sandboxes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sandboxing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sandboxed
tags:
participle
past
form:
sandboxed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From sand + box.
senses_examples:
text:
Although you can use standard JavaScript and AJAX in sandboxed iframe pages to your heart's content, the Facebook Platform places restrictions over the amount of scripting capabilities you can add to the more tightly integrated FBML pages.
ref:
2011, Richard Wagner, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies
type:
quotation
text:
Their team has been sandboxing some ideas recently.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To restrict (a program, etc.) by placing it in a sandbox.
To brainstorm; to prototype.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
6290 | word:
benzyl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
benzyl (plural benzyls)
forms:
form:
benzyls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From benz- + -yl.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The univalent radical C₆H₅-CH₂- related to toluene and benzoic acid
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
6291 | word:
inflected
word_type:
adj
expansion:
inflected (comparative more inflected, superlative most inflected)
forms:
form:
more inflected
tags:
comparative
form:
most inflected
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
(An inflected language is one in which words change form when their function changes.)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Deviating from a straight line.
Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word).
Having inflected word forms; fusional.
bent or curved inward or downward
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
6292 | word:
inflected
word_type:
verb
expansion:
inflected
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of inflect
senses_topics:
|
6293 | word:
save
word_type:
verb
expansion:
save (third-person singular simple present saves, present participle saving, simple past and past participle saved)
forms:
form:
saves
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
saving
tags:
participle
present
form:
saved
tags:
participle
past
form:
saved
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sl̥h₂-wós
Proto-Italic *salawos
Latin salvus
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin salvō
Latin salvāre
Old French sauverbor.
Middle English saven
English save
From Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”).
senses_examples:
text:
She was saved from drowning by a passer-by.
type:
example
text:
We were able to save a few of our possessions from the house fire.
type:
example
text:
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
ref:
2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891
type:
quotation
text:
IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE
You often hear a new policy or procedure justified by the specious idea that "If it saves the life of just one (insert here 'child' or 'American soldier'), it will be worth it." Well, maybe not. Maybe a closer look would show that the cost in time, money or inconvenience would be much too high to justify merely saving one life. What's wrong with looking at it like that? Governments and corporations make those calculations all the time.
ref:
2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
Jesus Christ came to save sinners.
type:
example
text:
Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.
ref:
2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves
type:
quotation
text:
Let's save the packaging in case we need to send the product back.
type:
example
text:
Save electricity by turning off the lights when you leave the room.
type:
example
text:
However, we’ve reached the stage where our technological leaps and bounds no longer save us hours, or even minutes – they shave only seconds from our day-to-day tasks.
ref:
2019 May 21, Dylan Curran, “Facial recognition will soon be everywhere. Are we prepared?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Where did I save that document? I can't find it on the desktop.
type:
example
text:
to save a fiver
type:
example
text:
She told me she's saving herself for marriage.
type:
example
text:
Ryder: Come on—you two were intimate, right?
Peebee: Take a wild guess. Why are people so hung up on sex? It's a natural expression of attraction.
Peebee: We were doing exciting, daring, irreverent things. It stirs stuff up. Like shaking up a bottle of champagne, you know?
Peebee: You should know, better than anyone...
Peebee: I'm not the type to "save myself".
ref:
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tempest
type:
quotation
text:
Save your excuses and lies.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To prevent harm or difficulty.
To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
To prevent harm or difficulty.
To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
To prevent harm or difficulty.
To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
To prevent harm or difficulty.
To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
To prevent harm or difficulty.
To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
To prevent harm or difficulty.
To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
To put aside; to avoid.
To store for future use.
To put aside; to avoid.
To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
To put aside; to avoid.
To obviate or make unnecessary.
To put aside; to avoid.
To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
To put aside; to avoid.
To economize or avoid waste.
To put aside; to avoid.
To accumulate money or valuables.
To put aside; to avoid.
To make an agreement to give (some amount of money) to a fellow gambler if one wins, and to receive that amount from them if they win, as a form of hedging.
To put aside; to avoid.
To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
To put aside; to avoid.
To avoid saying something.
senses_topics:
Christianity
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
gambling
games
|
6294 | word:
save
word_type:
noun
expansion:
save (plural saves)
forms:
form:
saves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sl̥h₂-wós
Proto-Italic *salawos
Latin salvus
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin salvō
Latin salvāre
Old French sauverbor.
Middle English saven
English save
From Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”).
senses_examples:
text:
The goaltender made a great save.
type:
example
text:
Wolves defender Ronald Zubar was slightly closer with his shot on the turn as he forced Pepe Reina, on his 200th Premier League appearance, into a low save.
ref:
2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Jones retired seven to earn the save.
type:
example
text:
The giant wrestler continued to beat down his smaller opponent, until several wrestlers ran in for the save.
type:
example
text:
Nice save.
type:
example
text:
As 1942 began, work was now continuing apace on getting the ships back afloat and into dock. The first good news in this regard was West Virginia. Thanks to a combination of Tennessees unintentional save' and the crew's own efforts, she'd settled upright, and so divers estimated that, if the various holes could be patched and pumping done in a sensible order from the top down, she should just rise back up to the surface on an even keel, which, in turn, meant that a lot of the initial work on removing her main battery could now be stopped.
ref:
2020 November 18, Drachinifel, 0:34 from the start, in The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 2 - Up She Rises!, archived from the original on 2022-10-22
type:
quotation
text:
If you're hit by a power cut, you'll lose all of your changes since your last save.
type:
example
text:
The game console can store up to eight saves on a single cartridge.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
A saving throw.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
6295 | word:
save
word_type:
prep
expansion:
save
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sl̥h₂-wós
Proto-Italic *salawos
Latin salvus
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin salvō
Latin salvāre
Old French sauverbor.
Middle English saven
English save
From Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”).
senses_examples:
text:
Under the terms of the Interdict no church services and offices were to be permitted save the baptism of infants and the confession of the dying.
ref:
2004, David Carpenter, The Penguin History of Britain: The Struggle for Mastery, Penguin Books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Except; with the exception of.
senses_topics:
|
6296 | word:
save
word_type:
conj
expansion:
save
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sl̥h₂-wós
Proto-Italic *salawos
Latin salvus
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin salvō
Latin salvāre
Old French sauverbor.
Middle English saven
English save
From Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”).
senses_examples:
text:
Only the parties may institute proceedings, save where the law shall provide otherwise.
ref:
2009, Nicolas Brooke (translator), French Code of Civil Procedure in English 2008, Article 1 of Book One, quoted after: 2016, Laverne Jacobs and Sasha Baglay, The Nature of Inquisitorial Processes in Administrative Regimes: Global Perspectives, published by Routledge (first published in 2013 by Ashgate Publishing), p. 8
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
unless; except
senses_topics:
|
6297 | word:
she
word_type:
pron
expansion:
she (third-person singular, feminine, nominative case, oblique and possessive her, possessive hers, reflexive herself)
forms:
form:
and possessive her
tags:
oblique
form:
hers
tags:
possessive
form:
herself
tags:
reflexive
wikipedia:
She (disambiguation)
She (pronoun)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sche, scho, hyo, ȝho (“she”), whence also Yorkshire dialectal shoo (“she”), Scots she, sho (“she”).
Probably from Old English hēo (whence dialectal English hoo), with an irregular change in stress from hēo to heō /hjoː/, then a development from /hj-/ to /ç/ to /ʃ-/, similar to the derivation of Shetland from Old Norse Hjaltland. In this case, she is from Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”), and is cognate with Saterland Frisian jo, ju, West Frisian hja, North Frisian jü, Danish hun, Swedish hon; more at he.
A derivation from Old English sēo (“the or that", occasionally "she”) is also possible, though less likely. In that case, sēo would have undergone a change in stress from sēo to seō /sjoː/, then a change from /sj-/ to /ʃ-/, similar to the derivation of sure from Old French seur. It would then be cognate to Dutch zij and German sie.
Neither etymology would be expected to yield the modern vocalism in /iː/ (the expected form would be shoo, which is in fact found dialectally). It may be due to influence from he, but both hēo and sēo also have rare variants (hīe and sīe) that may give modern English /iː/.
senses_examples:
text:
I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.
type:
example
text:
After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.
type:
example
text:
The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
ref:
1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
She could do forty knots in good weather.
type:
example
text:
She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
type:
example
text:
She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
type:
example
text:
She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.
type:
example
text:
Prodigal in everything, summer spreads her blessings with lavish unconcern, and waving her magic wand across the landscape of the world, she bids the sons of men to enter in and possess. Summer is the great consummation.
ref:
1928, The Journal of the American Dental Association, page 765
type:
quotation
text:
She is my 57 Chevy / My 57 Chevy runs so fine / No one can beat my 57 Chevy
ref:
1977, “57 Chevy”, in Kansas City Slickers, performed by The Leopards
type:
quotation
text:
Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage.
ref:
1990, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
A ship or boat.
A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
Any machine or thing, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
senses_topics:
|
6298 | word:
she
word_type:
det
expansion:
she
forms:
wikipedia:
She (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sche, scho, hyo, ȝho (“she”), whence also Yorkshire dialectal shoo (“she”), Scots she, sho (“she”).
Probably from Old English hēo (whence dialectal English hoo), with an irregular change in stress from hēo to heō /hjoː/, then a development from /hj-/ to /ç/ to /ʃ-/, similar to the derivation of Shetland from Old Norse Hjaltland. In this case, she is from Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”), and is cognate with Saterland Frisian jo, ju, West Frisian hja, North Frisian jü, Danish hun, Swedish hon; more at he.
A derivation from Old English sēo (“the or that", occasionally "she”) is also possible, though less likely. In that case, sēo would have undergone a change in stress from sēo to seō /sjoː/, then a change from /sj-/ to /ʃ-/, similar to the derivation of sure from Old French seur. It would then be cognate to Dutch zij and German sie.
Neither etymology would be expected to yield the modern vocalism in /iː/ (the expected form would be shoo, which is in fact found dialectally). It may be due to influence from he, but both hēo and sēo also have rare variants (hīe and sīe) that may give modern English /iː/.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of her
senses_topics:
|
6299 | word:
she
word_type:
noun
expansion:
she (plural shes)
forms:
form:
shes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
She (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sche, scho, hyo, ȝho (“she”), whence also Yorkshire dialectal shoo (“she”), Scots she, sho (“she”).
Probably from Old English hēo (whence dialectal English hoo), with an irregular change in stress from hēo to heō /hjoː/, then a development from /hj-/ to /ç/ to /ʃ-/, similar to the derivation of Shetland from Old Norse Hjaltland. In this case, she is from Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”), and is cognate with Saterland Frisian jo, ju, West Frisian hja, North Frisian jü, Danish hun, Swedish hon; more at he.
A derivation from Old English sēo (“the or that", occasionally "she”) is also possible, though less likely. In that case, sēo would have undergone a change in stress from sēo to seō /sjoː/, then a change from /sj-/ to /ʃ-/, similar to the derivation of sure from Old French seur. It would then be cognate to Dutch zij and German sie.
Neither etymology would be expected to yield the modern vocalism in /iː/ (the expected form would be shoo, which is in fact found dialectally). It may be due to influence from he, but both hēo and sēo also have rare variants (hīe and sīe) that may give modern English /iː/.
senses_examples:
text:
Pat is definitely a she.
type:
example
text:
Plucked her eyebrows on the way / Shaved her legs and then he was a she
ref:
1972, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer
type:
quotation
text:
A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.
ref:
2000, Sue V. Rosser, Building inclusive science volume 28, issues 1–2, page 189
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female.
senses_topics:
|
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