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6300 | word:
fallen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fallen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically fall + -en.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of fall
senses_topics:
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6301 | word:
fallen
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fallen (not generally comparable, comparative more fallen, superlative most fallen or (uncommon) fallenest)
forms:
form:
more fallen
tags:
comparative
form:
most fallen
tags:
superlative
form:
fallenest
tags:
superlative
uncommon
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically fall + -en.
senses_examples:
text:
fallen raindrops
text:
a ceremony to honor fallen soldiers
text:
the disposal of fallen livestock
text:
a fallen woman
text:
Madam Julia was the town's ranking prostitute; virtuous female society demanded that they not suffer the unbearable pain of looking at, and being in company with, a fallen woman— one of the happiest, fallenest women in history, by the way.
ref:
1964, Katharine Hillyer, Mark Twain, Young Reporter in Virginia City: The Racy, Rollicking Adventures of a Great Author in the Gamiest, Richest, Mightiest Town in All the Frontier West!
type:
quotation
text:
"You make yourself out to be the fallenest of fallen women." Tilting her head toward Sharon, Debbie grinned. "Let's face it. There can't be winners without losers, and I'm a loser. But look at it this way. I make it possible for some other woman[…]
ref:
1991, Kelly Walsh, Nightshades and Orchids
type:
quotation
text:
a fallen building
text:
That fallenest of our fallen race has left town — said to be near Fontainebleau by some, in Italy by others. More consequent with himself than usual, he is fulfilling, in the only possible way left open to him, his promise […]
ref:
1913, John Bigelow, Retrospections of an Active Life: 1867-1871, page 397
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having dropped by the force of gravity.
Killed, especially in battle.
Having lost one's chastity.
Having collapsed.
Having lost prestige, (Christian) grace, etc.
senses_topics:
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6302 | word:
fallen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fallen (plural fallen)
forms:
form:
fallen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically fall + -en.
senses_examples:
text:
In the Augustinian period, however, sin was held to be a death-inflicting agent, implying that the fallen was dead, and had to be restored to life.
ref:
1873, James Strong with John McClintock, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical literature, volume 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The dead.
Casualties of battle or war.
One who has fallen, as from grace.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
6303 | word:
Grahamite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Grahamite (plural Grahamites)
forms:
form:
Grahamites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Graham + -ite.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who follows the dietetic system of Sylvester Graham
senses_topics:
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6304 | word:
breed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
breed (third-person singular simple present breeds, present participle breeding, simple past and past participle bred)
forms:
form:
breeds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
breeding
tags:
participle
present
form:
bred
tags:
participle
past
form:
bred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, from Proto-Germanic *brōdijaną (“to brood”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“warm”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid, Saterland Frisian briede, West Frisian briede, Dutch broeden, German Low German bröden, German brüten.
senses_examples:
text:
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
ref:
2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
A pond breeds fish.
type:
example
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A northern country breeds stout men.
type:
example
text:
She wanted to breed her cow to the neighbor's registered bull.
type:
example
text:
He tries to breed blue roses.
type:
example
text:
born and bred on the verge of the wilderness
ref:
1859, Edward Everett, An Oration on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Statue of Mr. Webster
type:
quotation
text:
disaster breeds famine
type:
example
text:
familiarity breeds contempt
type:
example
text:
2018, Cassandra Dee, Paying My Boyfriend's Debt: A Billionaire Bad Boy Romance, Cassandra Dee Romance via PublishDrive
“God, I love your ass,” he says, his voice almost a growl. “I'm gonna breed this ass tonight.”
text:
“ Yes,” I said. “You want to fuck me, and I submit to you. My body is yours. Stuff me. Fill me. Breed my ass. Seed me, my love.
ref:
2015, David Holly, The Heart's Eternal Desire, Bold Strokes Books Inc
type:
quotation
text:
Then...you get...bred.
ref:
year unknown, Tymber Dalton, Disorder in the House [Suncoast Society], Siren-BookStrand, page 32
text:
“I can't...can't last, baby.” / “I don't care. Come inside me. Breed me.”
ref:
2017, Casper Graham, Same Script, Different Cast [Scripts & Lyrics Trilogy], Siren-BookStrand, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
"Are you clean?" he asked. / "Yeah, I get tested recently." / "Perfect. Breed me.”
ref:
2017, Casper Graham, Nothing Short of a Miracle [Scripts & Lyrics Trilogy], Siren-BookStrand, page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
To give birth to; to be the native place of.
Of animals, to mate.
To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
To arrange the mating of specific animals.
To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
To yield or result in.
To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.
To educate; to instruct; to bring up
To produce or obtain by any natural process.
To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied.
To ejaculate inside; to attempt to impregnate.
senses_topics:
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6305 | word:
breed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
breed (plural breeds)
forms:
form:
breeds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, from Proto-Germanic *brōdijaną (“to brood”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“warm”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid, Saterland Frisian briede, West Frisian briede, Dutch broeden, German Low German bröden, German brüten.
senses_examples:
text:
a breed of tulip
type:
example
text:
a breed of animal
type:
example
text:
People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
A group of people with shared characteristics.
Ellipsis of half-breed.
senses_topics:
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6306 | word:
Graham biscuit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Graham biscuit (plural Graham biscuits)
forms:
form:
Graham biscuits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Eponymously from Sylvester Graham, a lecturer on dietetics.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bread made of unbolted wheat flour.
senses_topics:
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6307 | word:
bid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bid (third-person singular simple present bids, present participle bidding, simple past bid or bade or bad, past participle bid or bidden)
forms:
form:
bids
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bidding
tags:
participle
present
form:
bid
tags:
past
form:
bade
tags:
past
form:
bad
tags:
past
form:
bid
tags:
participle
past
form:
bidden
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
bid
etymology_text:
From Middle English bidden, from Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”), from Proto-West Germanic *biddjan, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-. Conflated with Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”) (see Etymology 2 below).
Compare West Frisian bidde, Low German bidden, Dutch bidden ("to pray"), German bitten, Danish bede, Norwegian Bokmål be.
senses_examples:
text:
He bade me come in.
type:
example
text:
She was bidden to the wedding.
type:
example
text:
In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster, / Bid me join the parade
ref:
1970, King Crimson (lyrics and music), “Cirkus (including "Entry of the Chameleons")”, in Lizard
type:
quotation
text:
The last train—a three-coach A.E.C. unit—from Belfast to Crumlin and back, was bade farewell with fog signals as it carried a capacity crowd of last-trip travellers.
ref:
1960 November, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 691
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To issue a command; to tell.
To invite; to summon.
To utter a greeting or salutation.
senses_topics:
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6308 | word:
bid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bid (third-person singular simple present bids, present participle bidding, simple past and past participle bid)
forms:
form:
bids
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bidding
tags:
participle
present
form:
bid
tags:
participle
past
form:
bid
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bid
etymology_text:
From Middle English beden, from Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“be awake, aware”). Conflated with Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”) (see Etymology 1 above). Compare Low German beden, Dutch bieden, German bieten, Danish byde, Norwegian Bokmål by. More at bede.
senses_examples:
text:
Have you ever bid in an auction?
type:
example
text:
She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.
type:
example
text:
He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.
type:
example
text:
I can’t believe he bid the Syracuse turn; that can be brutal in the winter!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
To offer as a price.
To make an attempt.
To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
To take a particular route regularly.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
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6309 | word:
bid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bid (plural bids)
forms:
form:
bids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bid
etymology_text:
From Middle English beden, from Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“be awake, aware”). Conflated with Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”) (see Etymology 1 above). Compare Low German beden, Dutch bieden, German bieten, Danish byde, Norwegian Bokmål by. More at bede.
senses_examples:
text:
His bid was $35,000.
type:
example
text:
The company tendered a bid for a lucrative transport contract.
type:
example
text:
Nice bid!
type:
example
text:
Their efforts represented a sincere bid for success.
type:
example
text:
She put in her bid for the presidency.
type:
example
text:
He put in his bid for office.
type:
example
text:
Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.
ref:
2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
[Running,] Doyle had passed up a dozen chances to go underground. He was swinging east again making another bid for Arcade.
ref:
1967 May, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, Bantam Books, published 1976, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
I can’t stand this new bid I’m on, even if the mileage is better.
type:
example
text:
So we ‘lawyered up’. That’s how they say it in the bucket, son, where I did an eight-hour bid.
ref:
2007, Psych (TV series)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
A particular route that a driver regularly takes from their domicile.
A prison sentence.
senses_topics:
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6310 | word:
road
word_type:
noun
expansion:
road (plural roads)
forms:
form:
roads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
road
etymology_text:
From Middle English rode, rade (“ride, journey”), from Old English rād (“riding, hostile incursion”), from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō (“a ride”), from Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”). Doublet of raid, acquired from Scots, and West Frisian reed (paved trail/road, driveway).
The current primary meaning of "street, way for traveling" originated relatively late—Shakespeare seemed to expect his audiences to find it unfamiliar—and probably arose through reinterpretation of roadway "a way for riding on" as saying "way" twice, in other words as a tautological compound.
senses_examples:
text:
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
ref:
1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
And the road doesn't end / It's a long, long road and we follow it again and again / And the road don't pretend
ref:
2018, Bill Wurtz (lyrics and music), “Long Long Long Journey”
type:
quotation
text:
We travelled to the seaside by road.
type:
example
text:
the road to happiness; the road to success.
type:
example
text:
Where, then, is the road to peace?
ref:
1964, Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing
type:
quotation
text:
Hodgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.
ref:
2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The new depot, on which work started in May, 1956, has three reception roads leading to 13 sidings capable of taking 25 trains, a 450 ft.-long car examination shed with nine roads, a lifting shop with two roads and three permanent way sidings.
ref:
1959 November, “L.T. and E.R. developments in East London”, in Trains Illustrated, page 527
type:
quotation
text:
There delivering their fraught, they went to Scandaroone; rather to view what ships was in the Roade, than any thing else […].
ref:
1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
Roads in general as a means of travel, especially by motor vehicle.
A physical way or route.
A path chosen, as in life or career.
An underground tunnel in a mine.
A railway or (UK, rail transport) a single railway track.
The act of riding on horseback.
A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
A journey, or stage of a journey.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport
nautical
transport
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6311 | word:
road
word_type:
adj
expansion:
road (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
road
etymology_text:
From Middle English rode, rade (“ride, journey”), from Old English rād (“riding, hostile incursion”), from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō (“a ride”), from Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”). Doublet of raid, acquired from Scots, and West Frisian reed (paved trail/road, driveway).
The current primary meaning of "street, way for traveling" originated relatively late—Shakespeare seemed to expect his audiences to find it unfamiliar—and probably arose through reinterpretation of roadway "a way for riding on" as saying "way" twice, in other words as a tautological compound.
senses_examples:
text:
road tires
type:
example
text:
road groupset
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At the venue of the opposing team or competitor; on the road.
Of or pertaining to a road bike.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
6312 | word:
bed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bed (plural beds)
forms:
form:
beds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”).
cognates
Cognate with North Frisian baad, beed, Saterland Frisian Bääd, West Frisian bêd, Low German Bedd, Dutch bed, German Bett, Swedish bädd, Icelandic beður, all meaning “bed”.
further possible etymology and cognates
The Proto-Germanic term may in turn be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to dig”) with various theories explaining the development in meaning. If it is, the term is also cognate with Ancient Greek βοθυρος (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd (“grave”), Breton bez (“grave”); and probably also Russian бодать (bodatʹ, “to butt, gore”).
senses_examples:
text:
When camping, he usually makes a bed for the night from hay and a blanket.
type:
example
text:
Go to bed!
type:
example
text:
I had breakfast in bed this morning.
type:
example
text:
He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film.
type:
example
text:
I read until bed.
type:
example
text:
I am quite sure that too much bed, if not too much sleep, is prejudicial, though a certain amount is absolutely necessary.
ref:
1903, Thomas Stretch Dowse, Lectures on Massage and Electricity in the Treatment of Disease, page 276
type:
quotation
text:
Some prisoners, indeed, are always up before the bell rings — such was my practice — they prefer to grope about in the dark to tossing about in the utter weariness of too much bed.
ref:
1907, Jabez Spencer Balfour, My Prison Life, page 181
type:
quotation
text:
This condition is one of the dangers of “too much bed”. The nurse should inspect the legs of each patient daily
ref:
1972, James Verney Cable, Principles of Medicine: An Integrated Textbook for Nurses
type:
quotation
text:
Too much bed, not enough rest.
type:
example
text:
2 beds, 1 bath
type:
example
text:
My cat often sleeps on my bed.
type:
example
text:
I keep a glass of water next to my bed when I sleep.
type:
example
text:
At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them[…].
ref:
1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202
type:
quotation
text:
sea bed
type:
example
text:
river bed
type:
example
text:
There’s a lot of trash on the bed of the river.
type:
example
text:
Oysters are farmed from their beds.
type:
example
text:
I knew that there were kelp beds and reefs which could rip the bottoms from boats down in Skedans Bay.
ref:
1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck
type:
quotation
text:
We added a new bush to our rose bed.
type:
example
text:
A bed of concrete makes a strong subsurface for an asphalt parking lot.
type:
example
text:
The parcels were loaded onto the truck bed before transportation.
type:
example
text:
These 5 judges mark the athlete's staying in the center of the bed, uniformity of bounce heights, and general style.
ref:
2000, Sports: The Complete Visual Reference
type:
quotation
text:
The meats and cheeses lay on a bed of lettuce.
type:
example
text:
the upper and lower beds
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
One's place of sleep or rest.
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
Time spent in a bed.
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
Marriage.
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
Sexual activity.
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
Clipping of bedroom.
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
A garden plot.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
The taut surface of a trampoline.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
A horizontal layer or surface.
A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
A horizontal layer or surface.
The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
A horizontal layer or surface.
The horizontal surface of a building stone.
A horizontal layer or surface.
The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
A horizontal layer or surface.
A course of stone or brick in a wall.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
darts
games
heading
geography
geology
heading
natural-sciences
business
construction
heading
manufacturing
masonry
business
construction
heading
manufacturing
masonry
business
construction
heading
manufacturing
masonry |
6313 | word:
bed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bed (third-person singular simple present beds, present participle bedding, simple past and past participle bedded)
forms:
form:
beds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bedding
tags:
participle
present
form:
bedded
tags:
participle
past
form:
bedded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”).
cognates
Cognate with North Frisian baad, beed, Saterland Frisian Bääd, West Frisian bêd, Low German Bedd, Dutch bed, German Bett, Swedish bädd, Icelandic beður, all meaning “bed”.
further possible etymology and cognates
The Proto-Germanic term may in turn be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to dig”) with various theories explaining the development in meaning. If it is, the term is also cognate with Ancient Greek βοθυρος (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd (“grave”), Breton bez (“grave”); and probably also Russian бодать (bodatʹ, “to butt, gore”).
senses_examples:
text:
I usually listen to music before I bed.
type:
example
text:
And he who lies with another Man's Wife after she is married, even before her Husband had bedded with her, is guilty of Adultery, […]
ref:
1730, William Forbes, The Institutes of the Law of Scotland, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes
Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
text:
But I must warn you that chipboard floors are always likely to squeak. The material is still being used in new-builds, but developers now use adhesive to bed and joint it, rather than screws or nails. I suspect the adhesive will eventually embrittle and crack, resulting in the same squeaking problems as before.
ref:
2014 August 17, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: Repairing and replacing floorboards [print version: Never buy anything from a salesman, 16 August 2014, p. P7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
To place in a bed.
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
To furnish with a bed or bedding.
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
To have sex (with).
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
Of large game animals: to be at rest.
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
To settle, as machinery.
senses_topics:
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
|
6314 | word:
enterprise
word_type:
noun
expansion:
enterprise (countable and uncountable, plural enterprises)
forms:
form:
enterprises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
enterprise
etymology_text:
From Old French via Middle English and Middle French entreprise, feminine past participle of entreprendre (“to undertake”), from entre (“in between”) + prendre (“to take”), from Latin inter + prehendō, see prehensile.
senses_examples:
text:
The government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are a group of financial services corporations which have been created by the United States Congress.
type:
example
text:
A micro-enterprise is defined as a company or business having 5 or fewer employees and a low seed capital.
type:
example
text:
Biosphere 2 was a scientific enterprise aimed at the exploration of the complex web of interactions within life systems.
type:
example
text:
He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career.
type:
example
text:
This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise — / Ah, if the game were poker, yes, / You might discard them, draw a full house! / But it's chess.
ref:
1954, Philip Larkin, Continuing to Live
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
An undertaking, venture, or project, especially a daring and courageous one.
A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.
Active participation in projects.
senses_topics:
|
6315 | word:
enterprise
word_type:
verb
expansion:
enterprise (third-person singular simple present enterprises, present participle enterprising, simple past and past participle enterprised)
forms:
form:
enterprises
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
enterprising
tags:
participle
present
form:
enterprised
tags:
participle
past
form:
enterprised
tags:
past
wikipedia:
enterprise
etymology_text:
From Old French via Middle English and Middle French entreprise, feminine past participle of entreprendre (“to undertake”), from entre (“in between”) + prendre (“to take”), from Latin inter + prehendō, see prehensile.
senses_examples:
text:
The business must be enterprised this night.
ref:
1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada
type:
quotation
text:
c. 1680, Thomas Otway, letter to Elizabeth Barry
What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
To treat with hospitality; to entertain.
senses_topics:
|
6316 | word:
awake
word_type:
adj
expansion:
awake (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).
senses_examples:
text:
By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.
ref:
2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.
type:
example
text:
The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.
ref:
1845, The Sportsman's Magazine of Life in London and the Country, page 355
type:
quotation
text:
And so we see in our own world a revolution of rising expectations. The great challenge facing every individual graduating today is to remain awake through this social revolution.
ref:
1965 June, Martin Luther King, Jr., Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not asleep; conscious.
Alert, aware.
senses_topics:
|
6317 | word:
awake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
awake (third-person singular simple present awakes, present participle awaking, simple past awoke or (rare) awaked, past participle awoken or (rare) awaked or (rare) awoke or (rare) awaken)
forms:
form:
awakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
awaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
awoke
tags:
past
form:
awaked
tags:
past
rare
form:
awoken
tags:
participle
past
form:
awaked
tags:
participle
past
rare
form:
awoke
tags:
participle
past
rare
form:
awaken
tags:
participle
past
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English awaken and awakien, from Old English āwacan and āwacian, equivalent to a- + wake.
senses_examples:
text:
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
ref:
1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1
type:
quotation
roman:
The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
text:
1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England
The national spirit again awoke.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become conscious after having slept.
To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia
1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
[This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...
[This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...
To make aware of something.
To excite or to stir up something latent.
To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
senses_topics:
|
6318 | word:
dish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dish (countable and uncountable, plural dishes)
forms:
form:
dishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dish
etymology_text:
From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”), from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish disk (“dish; counter”), Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”).
senses_examples:
text:
a dish of stew
type:
example
text:
a vegetable dish
type:
example
text:
this dish is filling and easily made
type:
example
text:
It's your turn to wash the dishes.
type:
example
text:
satellite dish
type:
example
text:
radar dish
type:
example
text:
Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish!
ref:
1993, Westwood Studios, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, Virgin Games
type:
quotation
text:
the dish of a wheel
type:
example
text:
He said, "I don't like your chances at the dish [home plate] tonight."
ref:
2008, Paul Byrd, Free Byrd: The Power of a Liberated Life, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
At the plate, Graham pounded the dish three times, just like Bubbles did whenever he was up, […]
ref:
2009, Loren Long, Phil Bildner, Magic in the Outfield, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Also, if you end up getting to the baseball, your pitcher needs to be covering home plate, which pitchers occasionally forget to do. However, if the ball stays near the dish and you have a pitcher on the mound who isn't a space-case, you've got a good shot to get the runner out.
ref:
2014, Conor Kelley, The Catcher's Handbook, page 87
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
The contents of such a vessel.
A specific type of prepared food.
Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
A sexually attractive person.
The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
A hollow place, as in a field.
The home plate.
A trough in which ore is measured.
That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
Gossip.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
mining
business
mining
|
6319 | word:
dish
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dish (third-person singular simple present dishes, present participle dishing, simple past and past participle dished)
forms:
form:
dishes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dishing
tags:
participle
present
form:
dished
tags:
participle
past
form:
dished
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dish
etymology_text:
From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”), from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish disk (“dish; counter”), Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”).
senses_examples:
text:
to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
senses_topics:
|
6320 | word:
upburst
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upburst (plural upbursts)
forms:
form:
upbursts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + burst.
senses_examples:
text:
an upburst of molten matter
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of bursting upwards
senses_topics:
|
6321 | word:
legible
word_type:
adj
expansion:
legible (comparative more legible, superlative most legible)
forms:
form:
more legible
tags:
comparative
form:
most legible
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin legibilis (“that can be read”), from Latin legō.
senses_examples:
text:
Despite hardly having any energy to lift a pen, she left a legible note on the paper.
type:
example
text:
You can make this program code more legible by using meaningful variable names.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clear enough to be read; readable, particularly of handwriting.
Written or phrased so as to be easy to understand.
senses_topics:
|
6322 | word:
invisibly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
invisibly (comparative more invisibly, superlative most invisibly)
forms:
form:
more invisibly
tags:
comparative
form:
most invisibly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From invisible + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a way that can not be seen; in an invisible manner.
senses_topics:
|
6323 | word:
upcaught
word_type:
adj
expansion:
upcaught (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + caught.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Seized or caught up.
senses_topics:
|
6324 | word:
graham cracker
word_type:
noun
expansion:
graham cracker (plural graham crackers)
forms:
form:
graham crackers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
graham cracker
etymology_text:
Eponymously from Sylvester Graham, a lecturer on dietetics.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A specific cracker made of graham flour, developed in the nineteenth century.
A sweet rectangular cracker, usually made of graham flour and sweetened with honey (and often spiced with cinnamon) and perforated down the middle.
senses_topics:
|
6325 | word:
upcheer
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upcheer (third-person singular simple present upcheers, present participle upcheering, simple past and past participle upcheered)
forms:
form:
upcheers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upcheering
tags:
participle
present
form:
upcheered
tags:
participle
past
form:
upcheered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + cheer.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cheer up.
senses_topics:
|
6326 | word:
learned
word_type:
adj
expansion:
learned (comparative more learned, superlative most learned)
forms:
form:
more learned
tags:
comparative
form:
most learned
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lerned, lernd, lernyd, equivalent to learn + -ed, which replaced the earlier lered (“taught”), from Old English (ġe)lǣred, past participle of lǣran (“to teach”). Learn formerly had the meaning “to teach”, which is now found only in nonstandard speech, as well as its standard meaning of “to learn”.
senses_examples:
text:
My learned Brother Cresswell directed the jury to make the calculation […]
ref:
1854, Charles Edward Pollock, Lake v. Plaxton, 156 Eng. Rep. 412 (Exch.) 414; 10 Ex. 199, 200 (Eng.)
text:
The book opens with the Time Traveler dining with learned peers in late 1800s England, where he is trying to convince them that he has invented a time machine.
ref:
2011 Feb, Jess Lourey, “A Pyramid Approach to Novel Writing”, in Writer, volume 124, number 2, pages 30–32
type:
quotation
text:
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW used to be both the best-known poet in the English-speaking world and the most beloved, adored by the learned and the lowly ...
ref:
2011 Spring, Jill Lepore, “How Longfellow Woke the Dead”, in American Scholar, volume 80, number 2, pages 33–46
type:
quotation
text:
But our limits will not permit us to discuss the many important and curious questions respecting the science of government, to which this learned work invites attention.
ref:
1831 March, anonymous author, “The History of the Doric Race”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume LIII, number CV (book review), page 130
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
senses_topics:
law
|
6327 | word:
learned
word_type:
verb
expansion:
learned
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Past participle of learn.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of learn
senses_topics:
|
6328 | word:
learned
word_type:
adj
expansion:
learned (comparative more learned, superlative most learned)
forms:
form:
more learned
tags:
comparative
form:
most learned
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Past participle of learn.
senses_examples:
text:
Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
senses_topics:
|
6329 | word:
vapor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vapor (countable and uncountable, plural vapors)
forms:
form:
vapors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
vapor
etymology_text:
From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”).
senses_examples:
text:
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.
ref:
1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid
type:
quotation
text:
Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
ref:
2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
I am at this present very sick of my little vapour of fame.
ref:
1781, Horace Walpole, " "
type:
quotation
text:
The press operates as a safety-valve for the vapor of popular ebullision.
ref:
1822, Charles Perkins, An Oration, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
The previous question had turned the attention to life as something peculiarly frail, and as of such a nature that no calculation could be based on its permanence. This expression gives a reason for that, to wit, that it is a mere vapor.
ref:
1875, Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the General Epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
Here we can explain only in these broad outlines why the asking of the question of being is in itself through and through historical, and why, accordingly, our question as to whether being will remain a mere vapor for us or become the destiny of the West is anything but an exaggeration and a rhetorical figure.
ref:
1999, Martin Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Sulphurous fumes have also been recommended, as well as diffusing a variety of vapors in the apartment of the patient; on their beneficial or injurious effects we are unable to speak.
ref:
1836, Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis, Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, Charles Cowan, Pathological Researches on Phthisis, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
Hence the vapor, so useful in expanding the compressed tissues and enabling the air to permeate and expand the contracted parenchyma in consumption, causes a sensation of great fatigue in asthma.
ref:
1854 November, Samuel A. Cartwright, “The Case of a Lady in a sugar-house, with Aphonic, Haemorrhagic, Tubercular Phthisis in the Softening State”, in Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 51, number 14, page 275
type:
quotation
text:
Professor Matthews has at length the pleasure, after much unaboidable delay, of respectfully announcin to the Faculty, that he is prepared to fill their prescriptions by any practicable formula, in the use of his new method of applying medicinal vapors to the lungs, air-passages, & c., by means of the Multiform Fumigator .
ref:
1861, Charles Mathews, On fumigation of the lungs, throat, &c, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
The physician can now prescribe medicinal vapors to be dropped on some cotton placed inside the inhaler.
ref:
1944, Quarterly Review of Otorhinolaryngology and Broncho-esophagology, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
Jan 13, 1732, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift
He talks me into a fit of vapours twice or thrice a week.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.
Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.
Wind; flatulence.
senses_topics:
|
6330 | word:
vapor
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vapor (third-person singular simple present vapors, present participle vaporing, simple past and past participle vapored)
forms:
form:
vapors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vaporing
tags:
participle
present
form:
vapored
tags:
participle
past
form:
vapored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”).
senses_examples:
text:
to vapor away a heated fluid
text:
He'd […]laugh to see one throw his heart away, / Another, sighing, vapour forth his soul.
ref:
1617, Ben Jonson, Lovers Made Men
type:
quotation
text:
He vapoured, and fretted, and fumed, and trotted up and down, and tried to make himself pleasing in Miss Hollis's big, quiet, grey eyes, and failed.
ref:
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Bisara of Pooree”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
then the Major gave us a graphic account of a struggle he had with a wounded bear. I privately wished that the bears would win sometimes on these occasions; at least they wouldn't go vapouring about it afterwards.
ref:
1904, “Saki”, ‘Reginald's Christmas Revel’, Reginald
type:
quotation
text:
[…] an amusing character all but extinct now, but occasionally to be encountered […] vaporing in the groggeries along the tow-path.
ref:
1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
type:
quotation
text:
He felt he would start vapouring with devotion if this went on, so he bruptly took his leave with a cold expression on his face which dismayed her for she thought that it was due to distain for her artistic opinions.
ref:
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 513
type:
quotation
text:
“I only mean,” cried she, giddily, “that he might have some place a little more pleasant to live in, for really that old moat and draw-bridge are enough to vapour him to death […].”
ref:
1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
To turn into vapor.
To emit vapor or fumes.
To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore.
senses_topics:
|
6331 | word:
force
word_type:
noun
expansion:
force (countable and uncountable, plural forces)
forms:
form:
forces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Force (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English force, fors, forse, from Old French force, from Late Latin fortia, a noun derived from the neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).
senses_examples:
text:
the force of an appeal, an argument, or a contract
type:
example
text:
A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.
ref:
2012 March 24, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3
type:
quotation
text:
reinforcemented increased the American force in the area to 9,000
type:
example
text:
police force
type:
example
text:
For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.
ref:
2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman
type:
quotation
text:
show of force
type:
example
text:
The law will come into force in January.
type:
example
text:
When the aspectual force of the verbal categories weakens, the 'terminative', punctual or determinative value of the prefix gains in importance,...
ref:
1962, J Gonda, The aspectual function of the R̥gvedic present and aorist, S̓-Gravenhage, Mouton, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
The Europeans tried, my goodness how they tried. But on the day the US proved too strong and too inspired. They were, dammit, just better. And when Leonard's putt dropped they clearly had the force with them as well.
ref:
1999 September 28, Mike Selvey, “Crenshaw vindicated by a chain reaction”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
ref:
2005, George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, spoken by Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), published 2005
type:
quotation
text:
Q. All the time that he was on the force?
A. I cannot say that; but there were men on with me when I was on the force who were very good Republicans.
Q. During all this time you have been on the police force?
ref:
1880, [U.S.] House documents, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
Some of those that work forces / Are the same that burn crosses
ref:
1992, Rage Against the Machine (band), Killing in the Name
text:
Niall was on the force, too, a detective in major crimes.
ref:
2012 February 1, Janice Kay Johnson, Between Love and Duty, Harlequin, page 77
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
Legal validity.
Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
Synonym of police force
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
law
law
human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
semantics
|
6332 | word:
force
word_type:
verb
expansion:
force (third-person singular simple present forces, present participle forcing, simple past and past participle forced)
forms:
form:
forces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
forcing
tags:
participle
present
form:
forced
tags:
participle
past
form:
forced
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
force
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Force (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English forcen, from Old French forcier, from Late Latin *fortiāre, from Latin fortia.
senses_examples:
text:
The second problem is the economy, the shocking state of which has forced the decision to apply to the EU.
ref:
2009 July 23, “All things to Althingi”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
Housebuilders had warned that the higher costs involved would have forced them to build fewer homes and priced many homebuyers out of the market.
ref:
2011 March 23, Tim Webb, Fiona Harvey, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The hourly Southampton to London Victoria service via Horsham has been axed, as has the direct Littlehampton-Bognor Regis service, forcing passengers to change [trains] at Barnham.
ref:
2024 March 6, “Network News: Southern revises Coastway service”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
In a groundbreaking move, the Pentagon is compensating servicemen seriously hurt when an American tank convoy forced them off the road.
ref:
2007 November 4, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The comedian's jokes weren't funny, but I forced a laugh now and then.
type:
example
text:
Janet Tobacman of Woman Organized for Reproductive Choice (WORC) in Chicago and New Jewish Agenda stated, "R2N2 needs omre discussion and action around sexuality in general," forcing a concern that had little discussion throughout the conference.
ref:
1982 December 4, Sharon Page, “R2N2 Conference: Revitalizing the Movement”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
To force a lock.
type:
example
text:
Jones forced the runner at second by stepping on the bag.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To violate (a woman); to rape.
To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
6333 | word:
force
word_type:
noun
expansion:
force (plural forces)
forms:
form:
forces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Force (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English force, forz, fors, from Old Norse fors (“waterfall”), from Proto-Germanic *fursaz (“waterfall”). Cognate with Icelandic foss (“waterfall”), Norwegian foss (“waterfall”), Swedish fors (“waterfall”). Doublet of foss.
senses_examples:
text:
to see the falls or force of the river Kent
ref:
1778, Thomas West, A Guide to the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A waterfall or cascade.
senses_topics:
|
6334 | word:
force
word_type:
verb
expansion:
force (third-person singular simple present forces, present participle forcing, simple past and past participle forced)
forms:
form:
forces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
forcing
tags:
participle
present
form:
forced
tags:
participle
past
form:
forced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Force (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English forcen, forsen, a use of force, with confusion of farce (“to stuff”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stuff; to lard; to farce.
senses_topics:
|
6335 | word:
ba
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ba (plural bas)
forms:
form:
bas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ba
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Egyptian bꜣ, G53-Z1
senses_examples:
text:
Any ordinary person who has ever floated out of his body during a nap knows what a Ba is, but unfortunately the dogmas of our materialistic culture constrain the person to ignore and repress his experience.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 220
type:
quotation
text:
But the Ba, I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.
ref:
1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences |
6336 | word:
ba
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ba (plural bas)
forms:
form:
bas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ba
etymology_text:
The sound is very commonly made by infants, and is interpreted by parents as a reference to themselves.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Father, baba.
senses_topics:
|
6337 | word:
ba
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ba (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Ba game
ba
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The townsmen played ba often and clearly knew what they were doing.
ref:
2011, Alistair Moffat, The Borders
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A medieval football game played in parts of Scotland around Christmas and New Year.
senses_topics:
|
6338 | word:
ba
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ba (plural bas)
forms:
form:
bas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ba
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: br (“bedroom”)
text:
Alternative form: BA
text:
2 beds, 1 ba
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of bathroom.
senses_topics:
|
6339 | word:
Graham bread
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Graham bread (countable and uncountable, plural Graham breads)
forms:
form:
Graham breads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Graham bread
Sylvester Graham
etymology_text:
Eponymously from Sylvester Graham, a lecturer on dietetics.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bread baked from graham flour, a type of unsifted wheat flour.
A Graham cracker.
senses_topics:
|
6340 | word:
abaxile
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abaxile (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of abaxial
senses_topics:
|
6341 | word:
bullshit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bullshit (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bull + shit. In use since 1914.
senses_examples:
text:
Oh, I get it! So it's not a pyramid, it's just pyramid-shaped. You know, like a Dorito, or an Angry Bird, or just a pile of bullshit.
ref:
2016 November 6, “Multilevel Marketing”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 29, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
Don't pay any attention to him. He talks a lot of bullshit.
type:
example
text:
The Illusive Man: Shepard. You're making a habit of costing me more than time and money.
Shepard: I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you. I'm getting a lot of bullshit on this line.
ref:
2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC
type:
quotation
text:
That's total bullshit! I called your office and they said that you didn't come in!
type:
example
text:
Fucking load of bullshit! You smashed his skull and dropped the F-bomb at him, and now you're claiming that he assaulted you?!
type:
example
text:
Respect for the truth and a concern for the truth are among the foundations for civilization. I was for a long time disturbed by the lack of respect for the truth that I observed... bullshit is one of the deformities of these values.
ref:
2005, Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit
type:
quotation
text:
Illusive Man: Shepard, you're making a habit of costing me more than time and money.
Shepard: I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you. I'm getting a lot of bullshit on this line.
ref:
2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: After Collector Base: Final Battle
type:
quotation
text:
These rules cover how to do your laundry, how to fold your shirts, how to shine your shoes... You know, all that bullshit.
type:
example
text:
And when I rolled with the punches I got knocked on the ground
By all this bullshit going down
ref:
1975, “Fight the Power (Part 1 & 2)”, in The Heat Is On, performed by The Isley Brothers
type:
quotation
text:
Anyone want to play a few hands of bullshit?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Feces produced by a bull.
Statements that are false or exaggerated to impress or cheat the listener.
Statements that are transparently or offensively false.
Statements that are intentionally misleading, whether true or not.
Statements made without regard for their truth value.
Synonym of shit (in its sense of any stuff, especially when viewed negatively or with collegial vulgarity).
A card game in which players try to discard their hands first, following rules that encourage bluffing, calling others' bluffs, and penalizing others by tricking them into inaccurate accusations.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
card-games
games |
6342 | word:
bullshit
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bullshit (comparative more bullshit, superlative most bullshit)
forms:
form:
more bullshit
tags:
comparative
form:
most bullshit
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bull + shit. In use since 1914.
senses_examples:
text:
That's the most bullshit excuse I've ever heard.
type:
example
text:
They're bullshit jobs
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
absurd, irrational, or nonsensical (Most often said of speech, information, or content.)
senses_topics:
|
6343 | word:
bullshit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bullshit (third-person singular simple present bullshits, present participle bullshitting, simple past and past participle bullshitted or bullshit or (rare) bullshat)
forms:
form:
bullshits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bullshitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
bullshitted
tags:
participle
past
form:
bullshitted
tags:
past
form:
bullshit
tags:
participle
past
form:
bullshit
tags:
past
form:
bullshat
tags:
participle
past
rare
form:
bullshat
tags:
past
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bull + shit. In use since 1914.
senses_examples:
text:
I think you're bullshitting. Let’s just call your office and see if you even came in.
type:
example
text:
You’re bullshitting me. I called your office and you never even came in.
type:
example
text:
I will probably just go and bullshit with Joe for a while.
type:
example
text:
We just went on stage and bullshitted the whole concert because we didn't know any songs.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To tell lies, exaggerate; to mislead; to deceive.
To have casual conversation with no real point; to shoot the breeze.
To come up with on the spot; to improvise.
senses_topics:
|
6344 | word:
bullshit
word_type:
intj
expansion:
bullshit
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bull + shit. In use since 1914.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of disbelief at what one has just heard.
senses_topics:
|
6345 | word:
read
word_type:
verb
expansion:
read (third-person singular simple present reads, present participle reading, simple past read, past participle read or (archaic, dialectal) readen)
forms:
form:
reads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
reading
tags:
participle
present
form:
read
tags:
past
form:
read
tags:
participle
past
form:
readen
tags:
archaic
dialectal
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
read
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
read
etymology_text:
From Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise, consult; interpret, read”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādan, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaną (“advise, counsel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to arrange”).
Cognate with Scots rede, red (“to advise, counsel, decipher, read”), Saterland Frisian räide (“to advise, counsel”), West Frisian riede (“to advise, counsel”), Dutch raden (“to advise; guess, counsel, rede”), German raten (“to advise; guess”), Danish råde (“to advise”), Swedish råda (“to advise, counsel”), Persian رده (rade, “to order, to arrange, class”). The development from ‘advise’ to ‘interpret, interpret letters, read’ is unique to English among Germanic languages. Compare rede.
senses_examples:
text:
Have you read this book?
type:
example
text:
He doesn’t like to read.
type:
example
text:
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
ref:
1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
type:
quotation
text:
She reads Playgirl magazine, goes to a male-strip joint and then complains about sexual harassment on the job.
ref:
1982, Robert M. Evenson, “"Liberated" Woman"”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer
type:
quotation
text:
On this occasion he was carrying in his right hand a copy of the English-language China News, an odd touch because the President did not read English.
ref:
1983, James C. H. Shen, “A Round of Calls”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., page 112
type:
quotation
text:
He read us a passage from his new book.
type:
example
text:
All right, class, who wants to read next?
type:
example
text:
At the moment I'm reading Milton.
type:
example
text:
She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.
type:
example
text:
I can read his feelings in his face.
type:
example
text:
On the door hung a sign that reads "No admittance".
type:
example
text:
The passage reads differently in the earlier manuscripts.
type:
example
text:
Arabic reads right to left.
type:
example
text:
That sentence reads strangely.
type:
example
text:
Our school focuses primarily on the liberal arts (read "useless degrees").
type:
example
text:
In Livy, it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron.
ref:
1832, John Lemprière et al., Bibliotheca classica, Seventh Edition, W. E. Dean, page 263
text:
Eliminate illogical (read: stupid) answer choices.
ref:
2009, Suzee Vlk et al., The GRE Test for Dummies, 6th edition, Wiley Publishing, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
Do you read me?
type:
example
text:
Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
ref:
1968, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey, spoken by Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea)
type:
quotation
text:
A repeater signal may be used where the track geometry makes the main signal difficult to read from a distance.
type:
example
text:
I am reading theology at university.
type:
example
text:
Crabbe wanted him to go to England, to read for a degree there.
ref:
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
to read a hard disk
type:
example
text:
to read a port
type:
example
text:
to read the keyboard
type:
example
text:
Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.
type:
example
text:
I've seen drags "read" an unattractive transsexual until she was almost in tears.
ref:
1976 August 7, Tommi Avicolli, “The Politics of Camp”, in Gay Community News, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Snapping, we are told, comes from reading, or exposing hidden flaws in a person's life, and out of reading comes shade […]
ref:
1997, Framing Culture: Africanism, Sexuality and Performance, page 186 (also discussing Paris is Burning)
text:
CB [a black gay person being quoted]: "So, one time I read him and we were standing downstairs at the front desk in the dorm and I read him and there was this little bell […]." In the first example, the interviewee [CB] used snapping to read his white friend in a playful way, […].
ref:
2003, Philip Auslander, Performance: Media and technology, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
[One] assumes that such language contests are racially motivated—black folks talking back to white folks. However, the ball world makes it clear that blacks can read each other too.
ref:
2013, Queer Looks, page 114 (discussing Paris is Burning and "the ball world")
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
To read work(s) written by (a named author).
To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
To consist of certain text.
Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
To think, believe; to consider (that).
To advise; to counsel. See rede.
To tell; to declare; to recite.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
rail-transport
railways
transport
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality
|
6346 | word:
read
word_type:
noun
expansion:
read (plural reads)
forms:
form:
reads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
read
etymology_text:
From Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise, consult; interpret, read”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādan, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaną (“advise, counsel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to arrange”).
Cognate with Scots rede, red (“to advise, counsel, decipher, read”), Saterland Frisian räide (“to advise, counsel”), West Frisian riede (“to advise, counsel”), Dutch raden (“to advise; guess, counsel, rede”), German raten (“to advise; guess”), Danish råde (“to advise”), Swedish råda (“to advise, counsel”), Persian رده (rade, “to order, to arrange, class”). The development from ‘advise’ to ‘interpret, interpret letters, read’ is unique to English among Germanic languages. Compare rede.
senses_examples:
text:
One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read.
ref:
1879, Frederick James Furnivall, letter to the editor of "The Spectator"
type:
quotation
text:
And when he finishes supper / Planning to have a read at the evening paper / It's Put a screw in this wall— / He has no time at all[…]
ref:
1958, Philip Larkin, Self's the Man
type:
quotation
text:
In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.
ref:
2006, MySQL administrator's guide and language reference, page 393
type:
quotation
text:
His thrillers are always a gripping read.
type:
example
text:
What's your read of the current political situation?
type:
example
text:
[As] Corey points out, "if you and I are both black queens then we can't call each other black queens because that's not a read. That's a [fact]."
ref:
1997, Framing Culture: Africanism, Sexuality and Performance, page 186 (also discussing Paris is Burning)
text:
Like most African-American women, Pearlie Mae uses snapping in many of the same ways that black gay men use it: to accentuate a read.
ref:
2003, Philip Auslander, Performance: Media and technology, page 185
type:
quotation
text:
I learned that it was acceptable to be witty, especially if you were one of the wearblackallthetime, deconstructivist, radical, feministbitchydiva girls who could give a harsh read (i.e., critique) or throw shade […].
ref:
2013, bell hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
Something to be read; a written work.
A person's interpretation or impression of something.
An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
6347 | word:
read
word_type:
verb
expansion:
read
forms:
wikipedia:
read
etymology_text:
From Middle English redde (simple past), red, rad (past participle), from Old English rǣdde (simple past), (ġe)rǣded (past participle), conjugations of rǣdan (“to read”); see above.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
inflection of read:
simple past tense
inflection of read:
past participle
senses_topics:
|
6348 | word:
Lithuanian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Lithuanian (comparative more Lithuanian, superlative most Lithuanian)
forms:
form:
more Lithuanian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Lithuanian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Lithuania + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Lithuania.
senses_topics:
|
6349 | word:
Lithuanian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Lithuanian (countable and uncountable, plural Lithuanians)
forms:
form:
Lithuanians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Lithuanian language
etymology_text:
From Lithuania + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The main language of Lithuania.
A person living in or coming from Lithuania.
senses_topics:
|
6350 | word:
goiter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
goiter (plural goiters)
forms:
form:
goiters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of goitre
senses_topics:
|
6351 | word:
made
word_type:
noun
expansion:
made (plural mades)
forms:
form:
mades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mathe, from Old English maþu, maþa (“maggot, worm, grub”), from Proto-Germanic *maþô (“maggot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mot- (“worm, grub, caterpillar, moth”). Cognate with Scots mathe, maithe (“maggot”), Dutch made (“maggot”), German Made (“maggot”). More at maggot.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A grub or maggot.
senses_topics:
|
6352 | word:
made
word_type:
verb
expansion:
made
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English made, makede, makode (preterite) and maad, mad, maked (past participle), from Old English macode (first and third person preterite) and macod, gemacode, ġemacod (past participle), from macian (“to make”). More at make.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of make
simple past and past participle of myek
simple past and past participle of mak
senses_topics:
|
6353 | word:
nurse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nurse (plural nurses)
forms:
form:
nurses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
nurse
etymology_text:
From Middle English norice, from Old French norrice, from Late Latin nūtrīcia, noun based on Latin nūtrīcius (“that which nourishes”), from nūtrīx (“wet nurse”), from nūtriō (“to suckle”).
senses_examples:
text:
The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward.
type:
example
text:
Francis Urquhart: Right. Mackenzie. Health. No chance of getting him into a demo at a hospital, I suppose?
Tim Stamper: Doesn't go to hospitals any more. Kept getting beaten up by the nurses... I think he has trouble getting insured now.
ref:
1990, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs, House of Cards, season 1, episode 4
type:
quotation
text:
They hired a nurse to care for their young boy.
type:
example
text:
Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person trained to provide care for the sick.
A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
A wet nurse.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
nautical
transport
|
6354 | word:
nurse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nurse (third-person singular simple present nurses, present participle nursing, simple past and past participle nursed)
forms:
form:
nurses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nursing
tags:
participle
present
form:
nursed
tags:
participle
past
form:
nursed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
nurse
etymology_text:
From Middle English norice, from Old French norrice, from Late Latin nūtrīcia, noun based on Latin nūtrīcius (“that which nourishes”), from nūtrīx (“wet nurse”), from nūtriō (“to suckle”).
senses_examples:
text:
She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
text:
She nursed him back to health.
type:
example
text:
She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
type:
example
text:
Rob was nursing a small beer.
type:
example
text:
If, like me, you have been confined to your home, glued to the news and nursing ever greater anxiety about the state of the world, you have probably become familiar with the sight of the World Health Organization’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and his daily press briefings.
ref:
2020 April 10, Stephen Buranyi, “The WHO v coronavirus: why it can't handle the pandemic”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Would you like to nurse the puppy?
type:
example
text:
It is to our interest to let Lee and Johnston come together, just as a billiard-player would nurse the balls when he has them in a nice place
ref:
1866, United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Supplemental report of the Joint Committee
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
To treat kindly and with extra care.
To manage with care and economy.
To drink slowly, to make it last.
To foster, to nourish.
To hold closely to one's chest
To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
senses_topics:
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
6355 | word:
nurse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nurse (plural nurses)
forms:
form:
nurses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
nurse
etymology_text:
Uncertain; earlier (16th century) nusse, nuse. Perhaps from huss, through metanalysis of "an huss" as "a nuss".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nurse shark or dogfish.
senses_topics:
|
6356 | word:
redhanded
word_type:
adj
expansion:
redhanded (comparative more redhanded, superlative most redhanded)
forms:
form:
more redhanded
tags:
comparative
form:
most redhanded
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Never seen 'im but onct—mought be a redhanded 'sass'n—ur a thief—ur—ur—ur anythin'!
ref:
1913, Edwin Carlile Litsey, A Maid of the Kentucky Hills
type:
quotation
text:
...the prosecuting attorney referred to the defendant as a “murderer” in one instance, and in another as a “redhanded murderer.”
ref:
1936, Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the territory of Arizona, Volume 47, page 239
type:
quotation
text:
No, Yellow Hat had stupidly, I'm sure, jailed me in Fate's main vault!; he'd put a redhanded thief rover adrift but jailed in a warehouse of his main desire.
ref:
1993, Steven Culbert, The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy &, The King of Scarecrows, page 54
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of red-handed
senses_topics:
|
6357 | word:
comical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
comical (comparative more comical, superlative most comical)
forms:
form:
more comical
tags:
comparative
form:
most comical
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English comicalle, from Latin cōmicus + Middle English -alle (modern -al).
senses_examples:
text:
It was a comical performance.
type:
example
text:
The tutor excelled in comical scoldings.
type:
example
text:
He's just put salt in his tea instead of sugar. What a comical error!
type:
example
text:
Mr. Sanders has scored some rhetorical points against Mrs. Clinton for her longstanding ties to Wall Street, but she has responded well, and it would be comical to watch any of the Republican candidates try to make that case, given that they are all virtually tied to, or actually part of, the business establishment.
ref:
2016 January 30, “Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Nomination”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2016-01-30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Originally, relating to comedy.
Funny, whimsically amusing.
Laughable; ridiculous.
senses_topics:
|
6358 | word:
trite
word_type:
adj
expansion:
trite (comparative triter, superlative tritest)
forms:
form:
triter
tags:
comparative
form:
tritest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin trītus "worn out," a form of the verb terō (“I wear away, wear out”).
senses_examples:
text:
It is a trite saying in a young country that anyone starting out in life with the determination to become wealthy will have his wish gratified.
ref:
1897, W. B. Kimberly, History of West Australia : A Narrative of Her Past together with Biographies of Her Leading Men
type:
quotation
text:
It is trite history – and trite law – to say that the law of the sea since that time [World War II] reflects a history of coastal State expansion.
ref:
1994, Anthony Bergin, “The High Seas Regime – Pacific Trends and Developments”, in James Crawford, Donald R. Rothwell, editors, The Law of the Sea in the Asian Pacific Region: Developments and Prospects, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, page 183
type:
quotation
text:
McPedro the cactus: How to woo a woman! On yehr fahrst date, don’t bring her cut flowers! That’s inhumane! And trite!
ref:
2007, Danielle Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots: 267
type:
quotation
text:
It is trite to say that the mere fact that a decision does not favour the applicant or that the applicant disagrees with the decision does not establish that the decision is tainted with bias.
ref:
2017, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Taucar v Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, 2017 ONSC 2604
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed.
So well established as to be beyond debate: trite law.
senses_topics:
law |
6359 | word:
trite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trite (plural trites)
forms:
form:
trites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
senses_topics:
|
6360 | word:
outdid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
outdid
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of outdo
senses_topics:
|
6361 | word:
outdone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
outdone
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of outdo
senses_topics:
|
6362 | word:
outbid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
outbid (third-person singular simple present outbids, present participle outbidding, simple past outbid or outbidded, past participle outbid or outbidden or outbidded)
forms:
form:
outbids
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
outbidding
tags:
participle
present
form:
outbid
tags:
past
form:
outbidded
tags:
past
form:
outbid
tags:
participle
past
form:
outbidden
tags:
participle
past
form:
outbidded
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From out- + bid.
senses_examples:
text:
Bengal outbidded those of Delhi; instead of searching for khalifahs for obtaining recognition, Sultan Sikandar Shah himself took the title .of Imam ul-Azam and Khalifat-ul-Muazzam.
ref:
1985, Abdul Karim, Social History of the Muslims in Bengal: Down to A.D. 1538, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
You must understand that there are people who strive and save their whole lives to acquire something, and when they are simply outbidded or outfoxed by me, it is not taken with a delicate smile.
ref:
2008, Michael Marra, A Host of Suspects, page 139
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bid more than (somebody else) in an auction.
senses_topics:
|
6363 | word:
discombobulation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
discombobulation (countable and uncountable, plural discombobulations)
forms:
form:
discombobulations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From discombobulate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
Prophet of o'er-population, your ingenious calculation,
ref:
1890 September 20, “The Ravenstein”, in Punch; or, The London Charivari, page 138
type:
quotation
roman:
Causeth discombobulation only in the anxious mind
text:
This quality or state of not having your act quite together lacks its own word in the dictionary. It is something short of discombobulation, but the mild, mental chafing is irritating enough to demand a remedy.
ref:
2012 June 8, Ron Lieber, “Planning a Financial Tuneup”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
What has changed since the time of Looney Tunes is the discombobulation of characters' faces. Eyeballs constantly bulge beyond normal proportion to show shock or jubilation; cheeks shrink, sag or even bend in shame, fatigue or anger. Each emotion is heightened, overemphasized with cubist contortions.
ref:
2005 July 8, Ned Martel, “Manically Happy Campers and Rich but Vicious Cats”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An embarrassing feeling that leaves a person confused.
A confused or disorderly state.
senses_topics:
|
6364 | word:
outgrown
word_type:
verb
expansion:
outgrown
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of outgrow
senses_topics:
|
6365 | word:
bring
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bring (third-person singular simple present brings, present participle bringing, simple past brought, past participle brought or (rare, dialectal) broughten)
forms:
form:
brings
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bringing
tags:
participle
present
form:
brought
tags:
past
form:
brought
tags:
participle
past
form:
broughten
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
rare
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
bring
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan, from Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną (“to bring”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-, possibly based on *bʰer-.
Compare West Frisian bringe, Low German bringen, Dutch brengen, German bringen; also Welsh hebrwng (“to bring, lead”), Tocharian B pränk- (“to take away; restrain oneself, hold back”), Latvian brankti (“lying close”), Lithuanian branktas (“whiffletree”).
senses_examples:
text:
Waiter, please bring me a single malt whiskey.
type:
example
text:
Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
ref:
a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time.
ref:
2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The new company director brought a fresh perspective on sales and marketing.
type:
example
text:
The controversial TV broadcast brought a storm of complaints.
type:
example
text:
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
ref:
2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
What does coal bring per ton?
type:
example
text:
The closer Jones can really bring it.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
To supply or contribute.
To occasion or bring about.
To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
6366 | word:
bring
word_type:
intj
expansion:
bring
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sound of a telephone ringing.
senses_topics:
|
6367 | word:
outran
word_type:
verb
expansion:
outran
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of outrun
senses_topics:
|
6368 | word:
outgrew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
outgrew
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of outgrow
senses_topics:
|
6369 | word:
outsold
word_type:
verb
expansion:
outsold
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of outsell
senses_topics:
|
6370 | word:
bust
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bust (third-person singular simple present busts, present participle busting, simple past and past participle busted or bust)
forms:
form:
busts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
busting
tags:
participle
present
form:
busted
tags:
participle
past
form:
busted
tags:
past
form:
bust
tags:
participle
past
form:
bust
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bust
etymology_text:
From Middle English busten, a variant of Middle English bursten, bresten (“to burst”). Compare German Low German basten and barsten (“to burst”). More at burst.
senses_examples:
text:
I busted my cooker while trying to fix it.
type:
example
text:
Aaron got busted by the feds for leaking confidential government documents on Reddit.
type:
example
text:
MythBusters
type:
example
text:
He busted huge air off that jump!
type:
example
text:
He busted him down to patrolman for insubordination.
type:
example
text:
If Steinkamp doesn't take off that hat and stop messing around, I'm gonna bust him into a PFC.
ref:
1962, The Manchurian Candidate, 01:56:35
text:
A few weeks later, Richard was killed accidentally while busting a wild mustang […]
ref:
1997, Charles Oswald, Gone with the Western Wind
type:
quotation
text:
Smith hears Nancy's protests - "Don't ... no, please don't." - when Hicock menaces her with "You ever had a man?" Finding Hicock rubbing her thigh as she whimpers in fear, Smith confronts him about his intentions, and Hicock says, "First, I'm going to bust that little girl." Smith tells him no, but Hicock replies, "What do you care? You can bust her too."
ref:
2014, Tison Pugh, Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies, page 127
type:
quotation
text:
I busted a fat one just wackin' it to the selfie she sent me.
type:
example
text:
After ten times we fucked, I think I bust twice
He was nice, kept my neck filled with ice
ref:
1996, Lil' Kim (lyrics and music), “Not Tonight”
type:
quotation
text:
The temptation to squeeze in a favourite headline that busts by using the flexibility of new technology is often very strong.
ref:
1990, Paul Williams, The Computerized Newspaper: A Practical Guide for Systems Users, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
If your headline busts (breaks the confines of the layout) you will know straightaway. Similarly, the computer will inform you, in terms of the number of lines, how much longer or shorter the copy is in relation to the space allotted.
ref:
2007, Rob Steen, Sports Journalism: A Multimedia Primer, page 167
type:
quotation
text:
So is the King's Gambit really busted?
ref:
2012 April 2, Frederic Friedel, “Rajlich: Busting the King's Gambit, this time for sure”, in ChessBase
type:
quotation
text:
He busted his glock.
type:
example
text:
He's always busting on you.
type:
example
text:
Bust a left turn.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To break.
To arrest (someone) for a crime.
To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
To debunk, dispel (a belief).
An emphatic synonym of do or get.
To reduce in rank.
To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
To lose all of one's chips.
To exceed a score of 21.
To break in (an animal).
To break in (a woman or girl), to deflower
To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
To refute an established opening.
To shoot (a gun).
To attack, hit or insult (someone).
To do or perform; to move quickly.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
business
finance
card-games
poker
blackjack
games
journalism
media
board-games
chess
games
|
6371 | word:
bust
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bust (plural busts)
forms:
form:
busts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bust
etymology_text:
From Middle English busten, a variant of Middle English bursten, bresten (“to burst”). Compare German Low German basten and barsten (“to burst”). More at burst.
senses_examples:
text:
a narcotics bust
type:
example
text:
Paris was a bust. They wouldn't even let us see the Mona Lisa.
ref:
2014 November 2, “Opposites A-Frack”, in The Simpsons, season 26, episode 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
A failed enterprise; a bomb.
A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
A disappointment.
A player who fails to meet expectations.
The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
A spree, unrestrained revel, or wild party.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
economics
sciences
|
6372 | word:
bust
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bust (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
bust
etymology_text:
From Middle English busten, a variant of Middle English bursten, bresten (“to burst”). Compare German Low German basten and barsten (“to burst”). More at burst.
senses_examples:
text:
After months of financial problems, the company finally went bust.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without any money, broke, bankrupt.
senses_topics:
|
6373 | word:
bust
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bust (plural busts)
forms:
form:
busts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bust
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French buste, from Italian busto (“torso, upper body”), from Latin bustum (“funeral monument, tomb," originally "funeral pyre, place where corpses are burned”). Perhaps shortened from Latin ambustum, neuter of ambustus (“scorched”), past participle of ambūrō (“burn all over, scorch”), from ambi- (“around”) + ūrō (“to burn”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
The circumference of a woman's chest around her breasts.
senses_topics:
|
6374 | word:
angel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
angel (plural angels)
forms:
form:
angels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Florence Baptistery
Seven churches of Asia
en:Angel (disambiguation)
en:angel
etymology_text:
Two Baroque angels from southern Germany, from the mid-18th century
From Middle English angel, aungel, ængel, engel, from Old English anġel, ænġel, enġel, enċġel (“angel, messenger”), from Proto-West Germanic *angil, borrowed from Latin angelus, itself from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”); and also in part from Anglo-Norman angele, angle, from the same Latin source. The religious sense of the Greek word first appeared in the Septuagint as a translation of the Hebrew word מַלְאָךְ (malʾāḵ, “messenger”) or יהוה מַלְאָךְ (malʾāḵ YHWH, “messenger of YHWH”).
Use of the term in some churches to refer to a church official derives from interpreting the "angels" of the Seven churches of Asia in Revelation as being bishops or ministers rather than angelic beings.
senses_examples:
text:
The dear good angel of the Spring, / The nightingale.
ref:
1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd
type:
quotation
text:
There seemed to be girls sitting on top of them, or maybe they were meant to be angels. Angels are usually represented as wearing more than that, though.
ref:
1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Thanks for making me breakfast in bed, you little angel.
type:
example
text:
Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life.
ref:
2014 August 25, John Eligon, “Michael Brown Spent Last Weeks Grappling With Problems and Promise”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
An apostle, or angel, or bishop, as he is now called, resided with a college of presbyters about him, in every considerable city of the Roman empire; to that angel or bishop, was committed the pastoral care of all the Christian in the city and its suburbs, extending as far on all sides as the jurisdiction of the civil magistrate extended;
ref:
1817, Thomas Stackhouse, A history of the holy Bible, corrected and improved by G. Gleig, page 504
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the head of that Church, in whose place I stand in my Church, and in whose place no other standeth (the elders and deacons have their place, but this belongeth to the angel or minister of the Church), and the Lord commendeth him for trying […]
ref:
1832, Edward Irving, speech before the Presbytery of London, quoted in 1862, Margaret Oliphant, The Life of Edward Irving, Minister of the National Scotch Church, London: Illustrated by His Journals and Correspondence, page 429
text:
The second or highest grade consists of the Angels or Bishops of Churches. Each Church has its Angel, who has (1) the higher supervision and care of all the flock, (2) the supervision and care of the Priests under him, and (3) the care of the Church itself.
ref:
1878, Edward Miller, The History and Doctrines of Irvingism Or of the So-called Catholic and Apostolic Church, § 9 Pastors, page 50 (discussing the structure of the early Christian church and of the Catholic Apostolic Church)
text:
Climb to angels sixty. ― ascend to 60,000 feet
type:
example
text:
And even now part of me flies over Dresden at angels one five; / Though they’ll never fathom it, behind my sarcasm desperate memories lie.
ref:
1983 March 21, Roger Waters (lyrics and music), “The Hero’s Return”, in The Final Cut, performed by Pink Floyd
type:
quotation
text:
“Latent” angels are defined as those who have not invested capital in the past 12 months, although they likely have invested knowledge in the process of reviewing potential investments.
ref:
2011, OECD, Financing High-Growth Firms: The Role of Angel Investors
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes.
One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues.
A person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness.
Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
An official (a bishop, or sometimes a minister) who heads a Christian church, especially a Catholic Apostolic Church.
An English gold coin, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, circulated between the 15th and 17th centuries, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings.
An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.
An unidentified flying object detected by air traffic control radar.
someone that funds
An angel investor.
someone that funds
The person who funds a show.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
business
finance
entertainment
lifestyle
theater |
6375 | word:
angel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
angel (third-person singular simple present angels, present participle angeling or angelling, simple past and past participle angeled or angelled)
forms:
form:
angels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
angeling
tags:
participle
present
form:
angelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
angeled
tags:
participle
past
form:
angeled
tags:
past
form:
angelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
angelled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Florence Baptistery
Seven churches of Asia
en:Angel (disambiguation)
en:angel
etymology_text:
Two Baroque angels from southern Germany, from the mid-18th century
From Middle English angel, aungel, ængel, engel, from Old English anġel, ænġel, enġel, enċġel (“angel, messenger”), from Proto-West Germanic *angil, borrowed from Latin angelus, itself from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”); and also in part from Anglo-Norman angele, angle, from the same Latin source. The religious sense of the Greek word first appeared in the Septuagint as a translation of the Hebrew word מַלְאָךְ (malʾāḵ, “messenger”) or יהוה מַלְאָךְ (malʾāḵ YHWH, “messenger of YHWH”).
Use of the term in some churches to refer to a church official derives from interpreting the "angels" of the Seven churches of Asia in Revelation as being bishops or ministers rather than angelic beings.
senses_examples:
text:
Six years ago, he lost $20,000 in the first show he angelled, a turkey called Dance Night.
ref:
1944, Maurice Zolotow, Never Whistle in a Dressing Room; Or, Breakfast in Bedlam, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
You've got to come to Chicago to meet Duell, and see Wilson, who's going to angel the show.
ref:
1984, “American Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 118, page 88
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To support by donating money.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
theater |
6376 | word:
angel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
angel (plural angels)
forms:
form:
angels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Angel (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Clipping of Angelman
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who has Angelman syndrome.
senses_topics:
|
6377 | word:
pinnate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pinnate (comparative more pinnate, superlative most pinnate)
forms:
form:
more pinnate
tags:
comparative
form:
most pinnate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
pinnate
etymology_text:
From Latin pinnātus (“feathered”), from pinna (“feather”).
senses_examples:
text:
Mimosa is a tree with pinnate leaves.
text:
The trunk is unbranched, often much shortened, and bears a crown of feathery or pinnate fronds.
text:
the pinnate grouse, or prairie chicken
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Resembling a feather.
Having two rows of branches, lobes, leaflets, or veins arranged on each side of a common axis
Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck.
Having wings or fins.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
6378 | word:
fell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fell (third-person singular simple present fells, present participle felling, simple past and past participle felled)
forms:
form:
fells
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
felling
tags:
participle
present
form:
felled
tags:
participle
past
form:
felled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fellen, from Old English fellan, fiellan (“to cause to fall, strike down, fell, cut down, throw down, defeat, destroy, kill, tumble, cause to stumble”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallijan, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną (“to fell, to cause to fall”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂peh₃lH-.
Cognate with Dutch vellen (“to fell, cut down”), German fällen (“to fell”), Danish fælde (“to fell”), Norwegian felle (“to fell”).
senses_examples:
text:
Sinclair opened Swansea's account from the spot on 8 minutes after a Ryan Shawcross tackle had felled Wayne Routledge.
ref:
2011 October 2, Aled Williams, “Swansea 2 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport Wales
type:
quotation
text:
As southeast Asia's forests were felled, the rhino's habitat shrank and became fragmented.
ref:
2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
This Sunday marks the debut of Weiner, a documentary that follows former congressman Anthony Weiner in his attempt to overcome a sexting scandal and run for mayor of New York City—only to be felled, somewhat inexplicably, by another sexting scandal.
ref:
2016 January 17, “What Weiner Reveals About Huma Abedin”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 2016-01-21
type:
quotation
text:
Gahan, horrified, saw the latter's head topple from its body, saw the body stagger and fall to the ground. ... The creature that had felled its companion was dashing madly in the direction of the hill upon which he was hidden, it dodged one of the workers that sought to seize it. … Then it was that Gahan's eyes chanced to return to the figure of the creature the fugitive had felled.
ref:
1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010
type:
quotation
text:
… could make Ferré the first major fashion label felled by the economic crisis to come out the other end of restructuring.
ref:
2010 September 27, Christina Passariello, “Prodos Capital, Samsung Make Final Cut for Ferré”, in Wall Street Journal, retrieved 2012-08-26
type:
quotation
text:
To fell seam allowances, catch the lining underneath before emerging 1/4" (6mm) ahead, and 1/8" (3mm) to 1/4" (6mm) into the seam allowance.
ref:
2006, Colette Wolff, The Art of Manipulating Fabric, page 296
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
To strike down, kill, destroy.
To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles |
6379 | word:
fell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fell (plural fells)
forms:
form:
fells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fellen, from Old English fellan, fiellan (“to cause to fall, strike down, fell, cut down, throw down, defeat, destroy, kill, tumble, cause to stumble”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallijan, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną (“to fell, to cause to fall”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂peh₃lH-.
Cognate with Dutch vellen (“to fell, cut down”), German fällen (“to fell”), Danish fælde (“to fell”), Norwegian felle (“to fell”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cutting-down of timber.
The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles |
6380 | word:
fell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fell (plural fells)
forms:
form:
fells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fell, fel, vel, from Old English fel, fell (“hide, skin, pelt”), from Proto-West Germanic *fell, from Proto-Germanic *fellą, from Proto-Indo-European *pél-no- (“skin, animal hide”).
See also West Frisian fel, Dutch vel, German Fell, Latin pellis (“skin”), Lithuanian plėnė (“skin”), Russian плена́ (plená, “pelt”), Albanian plah (“to cover”), Ancient Greek πέλλᾱς (péllās, “skin”). Related to film, felt, pell, and pelt.
senses_examples:
text:
For he is fader of feith · fourmed ȝow alle / Bothe with fel and with face.
ref:
c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section I
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An animal skin, hide, pelt.
Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
senses_topics:
|
6381 | word:
fell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fell (plural fells)
forms:
form:
fells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fell, felle (“hill, mountain”), from Old Norse fell, fjall (“rock, mountain”), compare Norwegian Bokmål fjell 'mountain', Danish fjeld 'mountain', from Proto-Germanic *felzą, *fel(e)zaz, *falisaz (compare German Felsen 'boulder, cliff', Middle Low German vels 'hill, mountain'), from Proto-Indo-European *pels-; compare Irish aill (“boulder, cliff”), Ancient Greek πέλλα (pélla, “stone”), Pashto پرښه (parṣ̌a, “rock, rocky ledge”), Sanskrit पाषाण (pāṣāṇa, “stone”). Doublet of fjeld.
senses_examples:
text:
Every now and then the sea calls some farmer or shepherd, and the restless drop in his veins gives him no peace till he has found his way over the hills and fells to the port of Whitehaven, and gone back to the cradling bosom that rocked his ancestors.
ref:
1886, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Squire of Sandal-Side : A Pastoral Romance
type:
quotation
text:
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, / While hammers fell like ringing bells, / In places deep, where dark things sleep, / In hollow halls beneath the fells.
ref:
1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
type:
quotation
text:
I got out and from where I stood, high at the head, I could see all of the strangely formed cleft in the hills, its steep sides grooved and furrowed by countless streams feeding the boisterous Halden Beck which tumbled over its rocky bed far below. Down there, were trees and some cultivated fields, but immediately behind me the wild country came crowding in on the bowl where the farmhouse lay. Halsten Pike, Alstang, Birnside—the huge fells with their barbarous names were very near.
ref:
1970, James Herriot, If Only They Could Talk
type:
quotation
text:
She didn't know at first why she stepped off the road and climbed the bank on to the fells; it wasn't until she found herself skirting a disused quarry that she realised where she was making for, and when she reached the place she stood and gazed at it. It was a hollow within an outcrop of rock, not large enough to call a cave but deep enough to shelter eight people from the rain, and with room to spare.
ref:
1971, Catherine Cookson, The Dwelling Place
type:
quotation
text:
As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell;
ref:
1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 11 p. 174
type:
quotation
text:
The night continued beautifully clear and fine, and as we came into the fell country the outlines of the hills showed up dark against the starlit sky.
ref:
1948 March and April, O. S. Nock, “Scottish Night Mails of the L.M.S.R.—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
And there are few better ways to enjoy the rugged bleakness of the fells than from a nice warm train, especially when the weather's constantly changing as the day slips away.
ref:
2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
An artist dubbed the Borrowdale Banksy has created this slate work on a Lake District fell after past efforts were vandalised.
ref:
2023 June 29, Metro, London, page 15, column 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
A wild field or upland moor.
senses_topics:
|
6382 | word:
fell
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fell (comparative feller, superlative fellest)
forms:
form:
feller
tags:
comparative
form:
fellest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fel, fell (“strong, fierce, terrible, cruel, angry”), either from Old French fel or from Old English *fel, *felo, *fæle (“cruel, savage, fierce”) (only in compounds, wælfel (“bloodthirsty”), ealfelo (“evil, baleful”), ælfæle (“very dire”), etc.), from Proto-West Germanic *fali, *falu, from Proto-Germanic *faluz (“wicked, cruel, terrifying”). Cognate with Old Frisian fal (“cruel”), Middle Dutch fel (“wrathful, cruel, bad, base”), German Low German fell (“rash, swift”), Danish fæl (“disgusting, hideous, ghastly, grim”). Compare also Middle High German vālant (“imp”) and Dutch fel (“fierce, feisty, bitter”). See felon.
senses_examples:
text:
one fell swoop
type:
example
text:
[…] but if it be solitary with the position of an incisor, will it even then bear out Professor Owen's hypothesis, that Thylacoleo, which he infers to have been one of “the fellest and most destructive of predatory beasts, […]
ref:
1862, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
type:
quotation
text:
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
ref:
1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent
Very large; huge.
Eager; earnest; intent.
senses_topics:
|
6383 | word:
fell
word_type:
adv
expansion:
fell (comparative more fell, superlative most fell)
forms:
form:
more fell
tags:
comparative
form:
most fell
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fel, fell (“strong, fierce, terrible, cruel, angry”), either from Old French fel or from Old English *fel, *felo, *fæle (“cruel, savage, fierce”) (only in compounds, wælfel (“bloodthirsty”), ealfelo (“evil, baleful”), ælfæle (“very dire”), etc.), from Proto-West Germanic *fali, *falu, from Proto-Germanic *faluz (“wicked, cruel, terrifying”). Cognate with Old Frisian fal (“cruel”), Middle Dutch fel (“wrathful, cruel, bad, base”), German Low German fell (“rash, swift”), Danish fæl (“disgusting, hideous, ghastly, grim”). Compare also Middle High German vālant (“imp”) and Dutch fel (“fierce, feisty, bitter”). See felon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sharply; fiercely.
senses_topics:
|
6384 | word:
fell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fell (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps from Latin fel (“gall, poison, bitterness”), or more probably from the adjective above.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Anger; gall; melancholy.
senses_topics:
|
6385 | word:
fell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fell
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
6386 | word:
fell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fell
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
For I have heard that my Enemies have fell into that ſnare which they laid for mee. They which would have taken away my life have loſt their own;[…]
ref:
1650, Micheel Sandivogius, translated by J. F., A New Light of Alchymie: Taken Out of the Fountaine of Nature, and Manuall Experience […], London: Richard Cotes, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
I ſhould have fell overboard, or been killed by the enemy ; for having ſo many things to carry along with me, which I knew not how to uſe[…]
ref:
1796, Thomas Bennett, The Life and Remarkable Conversion of T. Bennett, Etc. [Written by Himself.], London, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
And when it got to ten past I said you must have fell in with company, but I was beginning to get worried.' 'You know I never fall in with company,' he protested irritably. 'I always leave the Royal at ten to, never a minute more nor less.'
ref:
2013 October 3, John McGahern, Collected Stories, Faber & Faber, page 147
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of fall
past participle of fall
senses_topics:
|
6387 | word:
rhetorical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rhetorical (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English rethorycal, rethoricalle, rethorycall, from rethorik, rhetoric (noun) or Latin rēthoricus, rhētoricus, from Ancient Greek ῥητορικός (rhētorikós, “concerning public speaking”).
senses_examples:
text:
A rhetorical question is one used merely to make a point, with no response expected.
type:
example
text:
Unfortunately, she has used the attack as a launch pad for a bizarre and undercooked exercise in rhetorical bothsidesism, in which she argues that American Jews should be just as worried about college students who overzealously criticize Israel as they are about the aspiring Einsatzgruppen who shoot up shuls.
ref:
2019 September 6, Jordan Weissman, “How Not to Fight Anti-Semitism”, in Slate
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Part of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.
Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument.
senses_topics:
|
6388 | word:
rhetorical
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rhetorical (plural rhetoricals)
forms:
form:
rhetoricals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English rethorycal, rethoricalle, rethorycall, from rethorik, rhetoric (noun) or Latin rēthoricus, rhētoricus, from Ancient Greek ῥητορικός (rhētorikós, “concerning public speaking”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A study or exercise in rhetoric.
senses_topics:
education |
6389 | word:
outsell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
outsell (third-person singular simple present outsells, present participle outselling, simple past and past participle outsold)
forms:
form:
outsells
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
outselling
tags:
participle
present
form:
outsold
tags:
participle
past
form:
outsold
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From out- + sell.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sell more than; to surpass in sales.
To sell at a higher price (than)
senses_topics:
|
6390 | word:
bound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bound
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ȝebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ġebunden respectively. See bind.
senses_examples:
text:
I bound the splint to my leg.
type:
example
text:
I had bound the splint with duct tape.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of bind
senses_topics:
|
6391 | word:
bound
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bound (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ȝebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ġebunden respectively. See bind.
senses_examples:
text:
You are not legally bound to reply.
type:
example
text:
railbound
type:
example
text:
snowbound
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obliged (to).
That cannot stand alone as a free word.
Constrained by a quantifier.
Constipated; costive.
Confined or restricted to a certain place.
Unable to move in certain conditions.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
|
6392 | word:
bound
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bound (comparative more bound, superlative most bound)
forms:
form:
more bound
tags:
comparative
form:
most bound
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bownde, alternation (with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1 above) of Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).
senses_examples:
text:
This certain,—that a band of war / Has for two days been ready boune, / At prompt command to march from Doune […].
ref:
1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 4.III
type:
quotation
text:
Which way are you bound?
type:
example
text:
Is that message bound for me?
type:
example
text:
They were bound to come into conflict eventually.
type:
example
text:
Don’t go around tonight— / Well, it’s bound to take your life: / There’s a bad moon on the rise.
ref:
1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival (lyrics and music), “Bad Moon Rising”
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ready, prepared.
Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
Very likely (to), certain to
senses_topics:
|
6393 | word:
bound
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bound (plural bounds)
forms:
form:
bounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bounde, from Old French bunne, from Medieval Latin bodina, earlier butina (“a bound, limit”).
senses_examples:
text:
I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath and walked on.
type:
example
text:
Somewhere within these bounds you may find a buried treasure.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
6394 | word:
bound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)
forms:
form:
bounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
bounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
bounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English bounden, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
France, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra bound Spain.
type:
example
text:
Kansas is bounded by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the south and Colorado on the west.
type:
example
text:
Mexico is bounded on the north by the United States of America, whose frontier is marked as follows: from the mouth of the Rio Bravo, or Rio Grande del Norte, following the course of the river to the parallel of 31° 47'; […]
ref:
1884, Alfred Ronald Conkling, Appleton's Guide to Mexico, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
The Scottish Region is issuing a Day Rail-Rover Ticket, available at 12 hours' notice, permitting unlimited travel in an area bounded by Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Dundee, Perth, Comrie, Callander, Stirling and Falkirk for 25s. (children, 12s. 6d.). . . .
ref:
1960 September, “Talking of Trains: News in Brief”, in Trains Illustrated, page 523
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of.
To be the bound of.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
6395 | word:
bound
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bound (plural bounds)
forms:
form:
bounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombitāre, present active infinitive of bombitō (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).
senses_examples:
text:
The deer crossed the stream in a single bound.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sizeable jump, great leap.
A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
A bounce; a rebound.
senses_topics:
|
6396 | word:
bound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)
forms:
form:
bounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
bounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
bounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombitāre, present active infinitive of bombitō (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).
senses_examples:
text:
They make love, he hauls her to the bath, washes her, hauls her out and dries her, and twenty minutes later Mary and Magnus are bounding across the little park on the top of Döbling like the happy couple they nearly are, past the sandpits and the climbing frame that Tom is too big for, past the elephant cage where Tom kicks his football, down the hill towards the Restaurant Teheran which is their improbable pub because Magnus so adores the black and white videos of Arab romances they play for you with the sound down while you eat your couscous and drink your Kalterer.
ref:
1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
type:
quotation
text:
The rabbit bounded down the lane.
type:
example
text:
to bound a horse
type:
example
text:
[…] Or if I might buffet for my Loue, or bound my Horſe for her fauours, I could lay on like a Butcher, and fit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off.
ref:
, Act V, Scene II, page 93
text:
A rubber ball bounds on the floor.
type:
example
text:
to bound a ball on the floor
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To leap, move by jumping.
To cause to leap.
To rebound; to bounce.
To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
senses_topics:
|
6397 | word:
that
word_type:
conj
expansion:
that
forms:
wikipedia:
that
etymology_text:
From Middle English that, from Old English þæt (“the, that”, neuter definite article and relative pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *þat, from Proto-Germanic *þat. Cognate to Saterland Frisian dät, West Frisian dat, Dutch dat, Low German dat, German dass and das, Danish det, Swedish det, Icelandic það, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐍄𐌰 (þata). Further from Proto-Indo-European *tód; compare Ancient Greek τό (tó), Sanskrit तद् (tád), Waigali ta.
senses_examples:
text:
He told me that the book is a good read.
type:
example
text:
I believe that it is true.
type:
example
text:
I can see that the ladder won't reach.
type:
example
text:
It is almost certain that she will come.
type:
example
text:
It amazes me that people still believe this nonsense.
type:
example
text:
That she will come is almost certain.
type:
example
text:
That people still believe this nonsense amazes me.
type:
example
text:
I'm sure that you are right.
type:
example
text:
She is convinced that he is British.
type:
example
text:
Be glad that you have enough to eat.
type:
example
text:
Was John there? — Not that I saw.
type:
example
text:
How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw.
type:
example
text:
I heard a rumour that they got married.
type:
example
text:
Reports that he left the country are circulating.
type:
example
text:
The noise was so loud that she woke up.
type:
example
text:
The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed.
type:
example
text:
He fought that others might have peace.
type:
example
text:
Ellen's mamma was going out to pay a visit, but she left the children a large piece of rich plumcake to divide between them, that they might play at making feasts.
ref:
1833, Parley's Magazine, volume 1, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.
ref:
1837, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume 23, page 222
type:
quotation
text:
Jesus died that we might live "through" Him.
ref:
2009, Dallas R. Burdette, Biblical Preaching and Teaching, page 340
type:
quotation
text:
“She must be wonderfully fascinating,” said Mrs Morel, with scathing satire. “She must be very wonderful, that you should trail eight miles, backward and forward, after eight o’clock at night.”
ref:
c. 1911, D.H. Lawrence, third draft of what became Sons and Lovers, in Helen Baron (editor), Paul Morel, Cambridge University Press (2003), page 234
text:
Oh that spring would come!
type:
example
text:
'Would that my rage and wrath would somehow stir me, / Here as I am, to cut off thy raw flesh / And eat it, […]
ref:
1864, T. S. Norgate's translation of the Iliad, book 10, page 613
text:
That men should behave in such a way!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Introducing a clause that is the object of a verb, especially a reporting verb or verb expressing belief, knowledge, perception, etc.
Introducing a clause that is the subject of a verb, especially the 'be' verb or a verb expressing judgement, opinion, etc.
As delayed subject.
Introducing a clause that is the subject of a verb, especially the 'be' verb or a verb expressing judgement, opinion, etc.
As direct subject.
Introducing a clause that complements an adjective or passive participle.
Introducing a clause that complements an adjective or passive participle.
Expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
Introducing a clause that describes the information content of a preceding reporting noun.
Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence, or effect.
Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose, or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might, or should: so, so that, in order that.
Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.
Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.
senses_topics:
|
6398 | word:
that
word_type:
det
expansion:
that (plural those)
forms:
form:
those
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
that
etymology_text:
From Middle English that, from Old English þæt (“the, that”, neuter definite article and relative pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *þat, from Proto-Germanic *þat. Cognate to Saterland Frisian dät, West Frisian dat, Dutch dat, Low German dat, German dass and das, Danish det, Swedish det, Icelandic það, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐍄𐌰 (þata). Further from Proto-Indo-European *tód; compare Ancient Greek τό (tó), Sanskrit तद् (tád), Waigali ta.
senses_examples:
text:
That book is a good read. This one isn't.
type:
example
text:
That battle was in 1450.
type:
example
text:
That cat of yours is evil.
type:
example
text:
The gym is across from the lounge. It’s next to the mailroom. Go that way. — Thanks, Pete! — No, Anna! Not that way! Go that way!
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
senses_topics:
|
6399 | word:
that
word_type:
pron
expansion:
that (plural those)
forms:
form:
those
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
that
etymology_text:
From Middle English that, from Old English þæt (“the, that”, neuter definite article and relative pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *þat, from Proto-Germanic *þat. Cognate to Saterland Frisian dät, West Frisian dat, Dutch dat, Low German dat, German dass and das, Danish det, Swedish det, Icelandic það, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐍄𐌰 (þata). Further from Proto-Indo-European *tód; compare Ancient Greek τό (tó), Sanskrit तद् (tád), Waigali ta.
senses_examples:
text:
They're getting divorced. What do you think about that?
type:
example
text:
The water is so cold! — That it is.
type:
example
text:
Would you like another piece of cake? — That I would!
type:
example
text:
We think that you stole the tarts. — That I did not!
type:
example
text:
That's my car over there.
type:
example
text:
He went home, and after that I never saw him again.
type:
example
text:
[A] second man—[…]—was qualified and fitted, both intellectually and morally,—and that to an exceptional extent—to be the Head […]
ref:
1888 July, The Original Secession Magazine, page 766
type:
quotation
text:
However[…], the British were unable to do much about it short of going to war with St Petersburg, and that the government was unwilling to do.
ref:
1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 310
type:
quotation
text:
I've never seen someone beaten unconscious before. That’s lesbians for you.
ref:
2005, Joey Comeau, Lockpick Pornography (Loose Teeth Press)
text:
"She is very honourable," said Mrs. Thompson, solemnly. "Yes, one sees she is that, and so simple-minded."
ref:
1910, Helen Granville-Barker, An Apprentice to Truth, page 214
type:
quotation
text:
I didn't see the car that hit me.
type:
example
text:
The CPR course that she took really came in handy.
type:
example
text:
The house that he lived in was old and dilapidated.
type:
example
text:
The poor cat, that had been trapped for three days, was freed this morning. (non-restrictive use; sometimes proscribed; see usage notes)
type:
example
text:
the place that [= where or to which] I went last year
type:
example
text:
the last time that [= when] I went to Europe
type:
example
text:
That's proper funny, that.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action, or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
Used to refer to a statement just made.
The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action, or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
Used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action, or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
In a relative clause, referring to a previously mentioned noun, as subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition; which, who.
Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
Clipping of that is; used to reinforce the preceding assertion or statement.
senses_topics:
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