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6400 | word:
that
word_type:
adv
expansion:
that (not comparable)
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:
Here's the measurement – the ribbon must be that long, no longer and no shorter.
type:
example
text:
She said we waited for three hours, but I'm sure it wasn't that long.
type:
example
text:
It didn't seem like ten miles, but actually it was that far.
type:
example
text:
I was seen quite quickly — I didn't have to wait that long.
type:
example
text:
I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult.
type:
example
text:
Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her.
type:
example
text:
This was carried with that little noise that for a good space the vigilant Bishop was not awak'd with it.
ref:
1693, John Hacket, “Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offered to the great Deservings of John Williams”, in Archbishop Williams
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To a given extent or degree.
Denoting an equal degree.
To a given extent or degree.
Denoting 'as much', 'no less'.
To a great extent or degree; very, particularly.
To such an extent; so.
senses_topics:
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6401 | word:
that
word_type:
noun
expansion:
that (plural thats)
forms:
form:
thats
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:
As such, they do not have the ontological weight of "Being" and "Not-being," but serve simply as an explanatory vocabulary necessary to describe our world of thises and thats.
ref:
1998, David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames, Thinking from the Han, page 247
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
6402 | word:
tenderfoot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tenderfoot (plural tenderfeet or tenderfoots)
forms:
form:
tenderfeet
tags:
plural
form:
tenderfoots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tenderfoot
etymology_text:
From tender + foot. Refers to the delicate feet of newcomers to ranching or mining areas. First attested 1866.
senses_examples:
text:
Watson had risen so hurriedly that he had not been careful about his “tarp” and water had run into his bed. But that wouldn’t disconcert anybody but a tenderfoot.
ref:
1914, Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
"Lavender Cowboy," a pseudo folk song, is a tale of futility. It tells of a tenderfoot "with only two hairs on his chest," whose heroic attempt to prove his manhood results in his death.
ref:
1991 August 31, Rudy Grillo, “Color Me Gay”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 7, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inexperienced person; a novice.
A newcomer or arriviste to the region in the American frontier (Old West and Wild West).
A Boy Scout of the lowest rank.
senses_topics:
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6403 | word:
overcame
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overcame
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Had he been merely Man, he could never have overcame thoſe infinite Afflictions he ſo patiently endured.
ref:
1738, The New Week's Preparation for a Worthy Receiving of the Lord's Supper […], Edward Wicksteed, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
[…]not because his faith has overcame the supreme being, but because it has overcame the sinner's will, and brought him where the Lord promised to pardon.
ref:
1845, Elijah Goodwin, “Justification by Faith No. IV.”, in The Christian Record, volume 3, J.M. Mathes, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
However the latest generation of HIV-1 derived vectors (see below) have overcame the need for the presence of the accessory genes and Tat, and thus the HIV-1 derived vectors are now comparable to the non-primate vectors.
ref:
2008 February 23, Antonia Follenzi, Elza Vigna, “Lentiviral Vectors for Cancer Gene Therapy”, in Kevin J. Harrington, Richard G. Vile, Hardev S. Pandha, editors, Viral Therapy of Cancer, John Wiley & Sons, page 83
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of overcome
past participle of overcome
senses_topics:
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6404 | word:
Dutch auction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Dutch auction (plural Dutch auctions)
forms:
form:
Dutch auctions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Dutch auction
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An auction where many of the same items are sold.
A reverse auction that starts at a high price that is gradually reduced by the auctioneer until someone is willing to buy.
senses_topics:
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6405 | word:
dove
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dove (countable and uncountable, plural doves)
forms:
form:
doves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”).
Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).
senses_topics:
government
politics
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6406 | word:
dove
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dove
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A modern dialectal formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove.
senses_examples:
text:
2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; →ISBN
When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Strong simple past of dive
past participle of dive
senses_topics:
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6407 | word:
felt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
felt (countable and uncountable, plural felts)
forms:
form:
felts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
felt
etymology_text:
From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.
senses_examples:
text:
You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels.
ref:
1989, Anne D. Forester, Margaret Reinhard, The Learners' Way, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
ref:
1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
A hat made of felt.
A felt-tip pen.
A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
senses_topics:
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6408 | word:
felt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted)
forms:
form:
felts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
felting
tags:
participle
present
form:
felted
tags:
participle
past
form:
felted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
felt
etymology_text:
From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.
senses_examples:
text:
to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
To cover with, or as if with, felt.
To cause a player to lose all their chips.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker |
6409 | word:
felt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
felt
forms:
wikipedia:
felt
etymology_text:
From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of feel
senses_topics:
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6410 | word:
felt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
felt (comparative more felt, superlative most felt)
forms:
form:
more felt
tags:
comparative
form:
most felt
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
felt
etymology_text:
From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.
ref:
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 257
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That has been experienced or perceived.
senses_topics:
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6411 | word:
grammar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grammar (countable and uncountable, plural grammars)
forms:
form:
grammars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *grammāria, an alteration of Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatikḗ, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (gráphō, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). Displaced native Old English stæfcræft; a doublet of glamour, glamoury, gramarye, and grimoire.
senses_examples:
text:
Because real lexicons are big and complex, from a software engineering perspective it is best to write simple grammars that have a simple, well-defined way, of pulling out the information they need from vast lexicons. That is, grammars should be thought of as separate entities which can access the information contained in lexicons. We can then use specialised mechanisms for efficiently storing the lexicon and retrieving data from it.
ref:
2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §8.2
text:
We must learn a new grammar of power in a world that is made up more of the common good – or the common bad – than of self-interest or national interest.
ref:
2011, Javier Solana, Daniel Innerarity, Project Syndicate, The New Grammar of Power
type:
quotation
text:
a grammar of geography
type:
example
text:
To turn this sort of mixture of a gossip and a gospel into anything like a grammar of Distributism has been quite impossible.
ref:
1926, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “VI: A Summary”, in The Outline of Sanity, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
2012 January 11, Graeme Paton, “A green light for more grammars?”, in The Daily Telegraph:
type:
quotation
text:
Hickerson has a computer program which found a spaceship with speed c/3. In fact a whole grammar of them.
ref:
1991 April 4, Bill Gosper, “LIFELINE:in search of the newsletter”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Within a few hours of finding the first period 2 ship, Dean had discovered a grammar for constructing an infinite number of different short, wide, period 2 spaceships. A grammar is an "alphabet" of "components", along with rules for the possible sequences of connections between components. Components are simply the identifiable pieces of a ship which reappear over and over in different ships in different combinations.
ref:
1992 August 27, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 2a)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Dean's discovery included a much more plentiful family than just the light, medium, and heavy weight spaceships that have been known since the beginning, which he was able to organize into a series of tiles and a grammar for them.
ref:
1994 January 21, Harold McIntosh, “de Bruijn diagrams”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.
The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).
A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.
A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
A formal system defining a formal language
The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook.
A grammar school.
A set of component patterns, along with the rules for connecting them, which can be combined to form more complex patterns such as large still lifes, oscillators, and spaceships.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
6412 | word:
grammar
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grammar (third-person singular simple present grammars, present participle grammaring, simple past and past participle grammared)
forms:
form:
grammars
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
grammaring
tags:
participle
present
form:
grammared
tags:
participle
past
form:
grammared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *grammāria, an alteration of Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatikḗ, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (gráphō, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). Displaced native Old English stæfcræft; a doublet of glamour, glamoury, gramarye, and grimoire.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
senses_topics:
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6413 | word:
feed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
feed (third-person singular simple present feeds, present participle feeding, simple past and past participle fed)
forms:
form:
feeds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
feeding
tags:
participle
present
form:
fed
tags:
participle
past
form:
fed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
feed
etymology_text:
From Middle English feden, from Old English fēdan (“to feed”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with West Frisian fiede (“to nourish, feed”), Dutch voeden (“to feed”), Danish føde (“to bring forth, feed”), Swedish föda (“to bring forth, feed”), Icelandic fæða (“to feed”), and more distantly with Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb) through Indo-European. More at food, fodder.
senses_examples:
text:
Feed the dog every evening.
type:
example
text:
Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
type:
example
text:
While feeding, the basking shark swims at about two knots per hour, and this enables it to eat and breathe in the same motion.
ref:
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
Feed the fish to the dolphins.
type:
example
text:
DR SIMEON: I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to.
ref:
2012 December 25 (airdate), Steven Moffat, The Snowmen (Doctor Who)
text:
Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.
type:
example
text:
We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data.
type:
example
text:
Springs feed ponds with water.
type:
example
text:
If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
type:
example
text:
Morrison then played a pivotal role in West Brom's equaliser, powering through the middle and feeding Tchoyi, whose low, teasing right-wing cross was poked in by Thomas at the far post
ref:
2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1-3 Blackburn”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Nasalization feeds raising.
type:
example
text:
This orthodox analysis […] leads to the conclusion that […] Subject–Auxiliary Inversion (SAI) is fed by the contraction operation.
ref:
1983, Arnold M. Zwicky, Geoffrey K. Pullum, “Cliticization vs. Inflection: English N'T”, in Language, volume 59, number 3, →JSTOR, page 506
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give (someone or something) food to eat.
To eat (usually of animals).
To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
To give to a machine to be processed.
To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
To supply with something.
To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
To pass to.
To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax |
6414 | word:
feed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
feed (countable and uncountable, plural feeds)
forms:
form:
feeds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
feed
etymology_text:
From Middle English fede, fed, from the verb (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: fodder
text:
They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
type:
example
text:
a satellite feed
type:
example
text:
the paper feed of a printer
type:
example
text:
184?, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
One proposed going to Hungerford-market to do a feed on decayed shrimps or other offal laying about the market; another proposed going to Covent-garden to do a 'tightener' of rotten oranges, to which I was humorously invited; […]
text:
"There won't be any more blessed concerts for a million years or so; there won't be any Royal Academy of Arts, and no nice little feeds at restaurants."
ref:
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 257
type:
quotation
text:
They held a crab feed on the beach.
type:
example
text:
I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.
type:
example
text:
Refresh the top of your various “feeds” — the running column of content on some versions of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — and you will see the latest news at the top. The further back you scroll, the older the material gets.
ref:
2016 March 15, Mike Isaac, “Instagram May Change Your Feed, Personalizing It With an Algorithm”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Despite spending years studying these toxic dynamics and the better part of a month watching them up close in strangers’ feeds, I was still, like so many, surprised to see it all reflected at the ballot box. We shouldn’t have been surprised; our divisions have been in front of our faces and inside our feeds this whole time.
ref:
2020 November 24, Charlie Warzel, “What Facebook Fed the Baby Boomers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Don Ward is often described as a former comic, having some experience in this area as a young man, acting as a feed for the comic actor David Lodge at Parkins Holiday Camp in Jersey […]
ref:
2020, Oliver Double, Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
Something supplied continuously.
The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
A meal.
A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
senses_topics:
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6415 | word:
feed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
feed
forms:
wikipedia:
feed
etymology_text:
From fee + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of fee
senses_topics:
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6416 | word:
shoe polish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shoe polish (countable and uncountable, plural shoe polishes)
forms:
form:
shoe polishes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A product rubbed onto shoes to make them shine.
senses_topics:
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6417 | word:
ber
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ber (plural bers)
forms:
form:
bers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Hindi बेर (ber).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fruit-bearing tree (Ziziphus mauritiana); the jujube.
senses_topics:
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6418 | word:
explorer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
explorer (plural explorers)
forms:
form:
explorers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
explorer
explorer (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From explore + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Though now extinct, the rachni once threatened every species in Citadel space. Over 2000 years ago, explorers foolishly opened a mass relay to a previously-unknown system and encountered something never seen before or since: a species of spacefaring insects guided by a hive-mind intelligence.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Rachni Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
For example, Vista includes a document explorer that shows just the documents in a location without considering all of the other files that might appear there.
ref:
2007, Mark Minasi, John Paul Mueller, Mastering Windows Vista Business: Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who explores something
A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.
Someone who is adventurous and free-thinking.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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6419 | word:
outdo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
outdo (third-person singular simple present outdoes, present participle outdoing, simple past outdid, past participle outdone)
forms:
form:
outdoes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
outdoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
outdid
tags:
past
form:
outdone
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From out- + do.
senses_examples:
text:
You've outdone yourself—another personal best!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.
senses_topics:
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6420 | word:
mislead
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mislead (third-person singular simple present misleads, present participle misleading, simple past and past participle misled)
forms:
form:
misleads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
misleading
tags:
participle
present
form:
misled
tags:
participle
past
form:
misled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English misleden, from Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), from Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”), equivalent to mis- + lead.
senses_examples:
text:
City of the dead / At the end of another lost highway / Signs misleading to nowhere
ref:
2004, Green Day (lyrics and music), “Jesus of Suburbia”, in American Idiot
type:
quotation
text:
The preacher elaborated Satan's ways to mislead us into sin
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lead astray, in a false direction.
To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
To deceptively trick into something wrong.
To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
senses_topics:
|
6421 | word:
mislead
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mislead (countable and uncountable, plural misleads)
forms:
form:
misleads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English misleden, from Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), from Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”), equivalent to mis- + lead.
senses_examples:
text:
If all the misleads (incorrect alternatives) are illogical, absurd, or in any way unattractive as possible answers, the student has no difficulty in choosing the correct answer.
ref:
1951, Improvement of Grading Practices for the Air Training, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
The skinny body, a mislead to make people think that he was captured by someone and tortured. Even the loud gunshot was a mislead to make them ask questions to common citizens. His long untidy hair, also a mislead.
ref:
2021, Aren Bjorgman, Frozen Ashes
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wrong or bad lead; a leading in the wrong direction.
That which is deceptive or untruthful (e.g. a falsehood, deception, untruth, or ruse).
senses_topics:
|
6422 | word:
graduate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
graduate (plural graduates)
forms:
form:
graduates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
graduate
etymology_text:
From Latin graduātus (“graduated”), from gradus (“step”).
senses_examples:
text:
If the government wants graduates to stay in the country they should offer more incentives.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
senses_topics:
|
6423 | word:
graduate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
graduate (comparative more graduate, superlative most graduate)
forms:
form:
more graduate
tags:
comparative
form:
most graduate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
graduate
etymology_text:
From Latin graduātus (“graduated”), from gradus (“step”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
graduated, arranged by degrees
holding an academic degree
relating to an academic degree
senses_topics:
|
6424 | word:
graduate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
graduate (third-person singular simple present graduates, present participle graduating, simple past and past participle graduated)
forms:
form:
graduates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
graduating
tags:
participle
present
form:
graduated
tags:
participle
past
form:
graduated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
graduate
etymology_text:
From Latin graduātus (“graduated”), from gradus (“step”).
senses_examples:
text:
After graduating from Princeton University, he earned a law degree in Canada, then worked as an environmental lawyer in Israel before settling on the south side of Youngstown.
ref:
2019 February 19, Jeremy Pelzer, “Youngstown School Board member Dario Hunter seeks Green Party presidential nomination”, in cleveland.com
type:
quotation
text:
The man graduated in 1967.
type:
example
text:
Trisha graduated from college.
type:
example
text:
Trisha graduated college.
type:
example
text:
Indiana University graduated the student.
type:
example
text:
The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.
type:
example
text:
As the species graduate into each other, both in form and in habits, from the grass-eating Geese to the fish-eating Harelds, it is difficult, […] to divide this large group into sections.
ref:
1852, William Macgillivray, A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory, page 573
type:
quotation
text:
sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz
text:
to graduate the heat of an oven
text:
We have graduated the new machine-learning features and will roll them out tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
Fans speculate that she was forced to graduate due to harassment and doxxing by stalkers and haters.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
To change gradually.
To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
To approve (a feature) for general release.
Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
entertainment
lifestyle |
6425 | word:
ourself
word_type:
pron
expansion:
ourself (first person, singular reflexive of we)
forms:
form:
of we
tags:
reflexive
singular
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English oure-selfe; equivalent to our + -self.
senses_examples:
text:
In the present study, we will limit ourself to the simplest of cases.
type:
example
text:
Without in any way committing ourself upon this point, we have merely to observe, that we are ready to receive sealed offers containing a full specification of age, temper, appearance, and condition[…]
ref:
1838, Charles Dickens, Sketches of Young Gentlemen
type:
quotation
text:
He then offered to guide us down to see for ourself, but one look down that dark hole to the water about 60 feet below completely dampened our speluncean ardor.
ref:
1962, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 63, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
We should love our neighbor as ourself.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The reflexive of the royal or editorial we: myself (as used by a monarch, writer or speaker who is referring to themself as we).
The reflexive of the generic we: oneself.
The reflexive of we: ourselves.
senses_topics:
|
6426 | word:
known
word_type:
adj
expansion:
known (comparative better known, superlative best known)
forms:
form:
better known
tags:
comparative
form:
best known
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwen (past participle).
Morphologically know + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
He was a known pickpocket.
type:
example
text:
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
ref:
2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned.
Accepted, familiar, researched.
senses_topics:
|
6427 | word:
known
word_type:
noun
expansion:
known (plural knowns)
forms:
form:
knowns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwen (past participle).
Morphologically know + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
You have to tell the knowns from the unknowns.
text:
The biological dereplication tool may identify major knowns in a mixture, but it may miss novel minor components.
ref:
2012, Thomas Dougherty, Antibiotic Discovery and Development, volume 1, page 39
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any fact or situation which is known or familiar.
A constant or variable the value of which is already determined.
senses_topics:
algebra
mathematics
sciences |
6428 | word:
known
word_type:
verb
expansion:
known
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwen (past participle).
Morphologically know + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of know
senses_topics:
|
6429 | word:
hamstring
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hamstring (plural hamstrings)
forms:
form:
hamstrings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string.
senses_examples:
text:
Developing muscle around both sides of a joint (think biceps and triceps, abs and low back, quads and hamstrings) should be one of your primary training considerations because strength on each side leads to lower injury rates.
ref:
2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
|
6430 | word:
hamstring
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hamstring (third-person singular simple present hamstrings, present participle hamstringing, simple past and past participle hamstrung or hamstringed)
forms:
form:
hamstrings
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hamstringing
tags:
participle
present
form:
hamstrung
tags:
participle
past
form:
hamstrung
tags:
past
form:
hamstringed
tags:
participle
past
form:
hamstringed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string.
senses_examples:
text:
Its trademark policies of privatization, deregulation, tax cuts and free trade deals: these have liberated corporations to accumulate enormous profits and treat the atmosphere like a sewage dump, and hamstrung our ability, through the instrument of the state, to plan for our collective welfare.
ref:
2017 July 17, Martin Lukacs, “Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough.
To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
senses_topics:
|
6431 | word:
British
word_type:
noun
expansion:
British pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
British
etymology_text:
From Middle English Brittish, from Old English Brettisċ.
The spelling with single -t- appears in the 13th century under the influence of Medieval Latin Britannicus, but spelling with -tt- persists alongside -t- during the 13th to 17th centuries.
In reference to the island of Great Britain from ca. 1400 (Latin natio Anglica sive Britannica, Brittisshe occean 1398, the Britishe nacion 1548).
As a noun, referring to the British people, British soldiers, etc. from ca. 1600.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The residents or inhabitants of Great Britain.
The citizens or inhabitants of the United Kingdom.
The earlier inhabitants of southern Britain, prior to the Anglo-Saxon invasion and subsequent migrations.
senses_topics:
history
human-sciences
sciences |
6432 | word:
British
word_type:
name
expansion:
British
forms:
wikipedia:
British
etymology_text:
From Middle English Brittish, from Old English Brettisċ.
The spelling with single -t- appears in the 13th century under the influence of Medieval Latin Britannicus, but spelling with -tt- persists alongside -t- during the 13th to 17th centuries.
In reference to the island of Great Britain from ca. 1400 (Latin natio Anglica sive Britannica, Brittisshe occean 1398, the Britishe nacion 1548).
As a noun, referring to the British people, British soldiers, etc. from ca. 1600.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Celtic language of the ancient Britons; Common Brittonic.
Synonym of Welsh: the Welsh people.
The British English language.
senses_topics:
|
6433 | word:
British
word_type:
adj
expansion:
British (comparative more British, superlative most British)
forms:
form:
more British
tags:
comparative
form:
most British
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
British
etymology_text:
From Middle English Brittish, from Old English Brettisċ.
The spelling with single -t- appears in the 13th century under the influence of Medieval Latin Britannicus, but spelling with -tt- persists alongside -t- during the 13th to 17th centuries.
In reference to the island of Great Britain from ca. 1400 (Latin natio Anglica sive Britannica, Brittisshe occean 1398, the Britishe nacion 1548).
As a noun, referring to the British people, British soldiers, etc. from ca. 1600.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of Britain.
Of the United Kingdom.
Of the Commonwealth of Nations, or the British Empire.
Of the ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain; Brythonic.
Of the British Isles.
Of British English.
senses_topics:
|
6434 | word:
internal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
internal (comparative more internal, superlative most internal)
forms:
form:
more internal
tags:
comparative
form:
most internal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English internall, internalle, borrowing from New Latin internālis (“of or pertaining to the inner part”), from internus (“inward, internal”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to intern + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
Her bleeding was internal.
type:
example
text:
The nation suffered from internal conflicts.
type:
example
text:
the minister of internal affairs
type:
example
text:
An internal investigation was conducted.
type:
example
text:
an internal stimulus
type:
example
text:
an internal remedy
type:
example
text:
We saw the internal compartments of the machine.
type:
example
text:
internal feelings
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or situated on the inside.
Within the body.
Of or situated on the inside.
Concerned with the domestic affairs of a nation, state or other political community.
Of or situated on the inside.
Concerned with the non-public affairs of a company or other organisation.
Of or situated on the inside.
Present or arising within an organism or one of its parts.
Of or situated on the inside.
Applied or intended for application through the stomach by being swallowed.
Of or situated on the inside.
Experienced in one's mind; inner rather than expressed.
Of the inner nature of a thing.
Attending a university as well as taking its examinations.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
education |
6435 | word:
overdone
word_type:
adj
expansion:
overdone (comparative more overdone, superlative most overdone)
forms:
form:
more overdone
tags:
comparative
form:
most overdone
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overdon, from Old English oferdōn, equivalent to over- + done.
senses_examples:
text:
There are lots of pauses and little detours, hitchings-up of their smocks, inspection of the soles of their feet, some rather overdone limping.
ref:
1997, Lawrence Norfolk, The Pope's Rhinoceros
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cooked too much.
Exaggerated; overwrought.
Repeated too often; hackneyed.
senses_topics:
|
6436 | word:
overdone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overdone
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overdon, from Old English oferdōn, equivalent to over- + done.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of overdo
senses_topics:
|
6437 | word:
i.e.
word_type:
adv
expansion:
i.e.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin i. e., a Latinistic abbreviation of id est (“that is”).
senses_examples:
text:
While the final episode was made, the show itself was immediately cancelled after the penultimate episode i.e. the final episode never aired.
type:
example
text:
[N]o drunkard (i.e.) no Habituall, Impenitent drunkard, ſhall come into Gods Kingdome.
ref:
1658, Thomas Hall, “[Chap. 3.] Verse 2. For men shall be lovers of themselves, Covetous, Boasters, Proud, Blasphemers, disobedient to Parents, unthankfull, unholy, &c.”, in A Practical and Polemical Commentary: Or, Exposition upon the Third and Fourth Chapters of the Latter Epistle of Saint Paul to Timothy. […], London: Printed by E. Tyler, for John Starkey, […], →OCLC, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LvwqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA95 page [95]]
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That is, namely, in other words, that is to say.
senses_topics:
|
6438 | word:
he
word_type:
pron
expansion:
he (third-person singular, masculine, nominative case, oblique him, reflexive himself, possessive his)
forms:
form:
him
tags:
oblique
form:
himself
tags:
reflexive
form:
his
tags:
possessive
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English he, from Old English hē, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱís (“this”).
Cognate with Scots he (“he”), North Frisian he, hi (“he”), Saterland Frisian hie (“he”), West Frisian hy (“he”), Dutch hij, ie (“he”), German Low German he (“he”), Middle High German her (“he”) Central Franconian hä (“he”), Gothic *𐌷𐌹𐍃 (*his, “this”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
ref:
1620, Giovanni Bocaccio, translated by John Florio, The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen, Isaac Iaggard, Nouell 8, The Eighth Day
type:
quotation
text:
It was he we saw the tracks of down by Rausand hill.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
text:
The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?
type:
example
text:
JUPITER is the largest of all the Planets, his Orbit lies between the Orbits of the Earth and Mars, and at the cast Distance of 426 Millions of Miles from the Sun, he goes round him in 11 Years, 314 Days and 12 Hours; […]
ref:
1770, A Mathematical Miscellany in Four Parts, 3rd edition, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
He [= the ship Bismarck] was made to rule the waves across the seven seas […]
ref:
2019, Sabaton, Bismarck
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male person or animal already known or implied.
They; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant).
It; an animal whose gender is unknown.
A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars or planets (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships.
senses_topics:
|
6439 | word:
he
word_type:
det
expansion:
he
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English he, from Old English hē, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱís (“this”).
Cognate with Scots he (“he”), North Frisian he, hi (“he”), Saterland Frisian hie (“he”), West Frisian hy (“he”), Dutch hij, ie (“he”), German Low German he (“he”), Middle High German her (“he”) Central Franconian hä (“he”), Gothic *𐌷𐌹𐍃 (*his, “this”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of his
senses_topics:
|
6440 | word:
he
word_type:
noun
expansion:
he (countable and uncountable, plural hes)
forms:
form:
hes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English he, from Old English hē, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱís (“this”).
Cognate with Scots he (“he”), North Frisian he, hi (“he”), Saterland Frisian hie (“he”), West Frisian hy (“he”), Dutch hij, ie (“he”), German Low German he (“he”), Middle High German her (“he”) Central Franconian hä (“he”), Gothic *𐌷𐌹𐍃 (*his, “this”).
senses_examples:
text:
Is your cat a he or a she?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
The player who chases and attempts to catch the others in this game.
A male.
senses_topics:
|
6441 | word:
he
word_type:
noun
expansion:
he
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration of various Semitic letters, such as Phoenician 𐤄 (h), Hebrew ה (h), Classical Syriac ܗ (h, “hē”), and Old South Arabian 𐩠 (h).
senses_examples:
text:
The same number in the Hebrew mysteries and Cabalistical accounts was the character of Generation; declared by the Letter He, the fifth in their Alphabet.
ref:
1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 210
type:
quotation
text:
This Nehama claimed that in his own hand he recognized the consonant “he” of his Hebrew language, and in the letter “vav” his own male soul.
ref:
1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
The name of the first letter of the Old South Arabian abjad.
senses_topics:
|
6442 | word:
he
word_type:
intj
expansion:
he
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
(more common)
text:
If e'er he went into excess, / 'Twas from a somewhat lively thirst; / But he who would his subjects bless, / Odd's fish!—must wet his whistle first; / And so from every cask they got, / Our king did to himself allot / At least a pot. / Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he! / That's the kind of king for me.
ref:
1897, Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Charles Henry Warner, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z, page 1791
type:
quotation
text:
"Well, what is your next tale?" said Sumner, a little brusquely. "He, he! he, he! . . . he, he!" chuckled the bottle, "the text tale I'm going to tell you in a very funny one. It will make you laugh. There's a lady in it—he, he!—a very comic affair."
ref:
1921, Norman Davey, The Pilgrim of a Smile, page 247
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of laughter.
senses_topics:
|
6443 | word:
outgrow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
outgrow (third-person singular simple present outgrows, present participle outgrowing, simple past outgrew, past participle outgrown)
forms:
form:
outgrows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
outgrowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
outgrew
tags:
past
form:
outgrown
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From out- + grow.
senses_examples:
text:
Poorer children often have to wear whatever an older sibling has outgrown.
type:
example
text:
I used to have allergies but I outgrew all of them.
type:
example
text:
Some people blame God for their troubles, but one must outgrow such notions.
type:
example
text:
[…]Most persons are collectors at some periods of their lives. Some outgrow the habit; with others it becomes a mania; and with still others it is a lasting habit intelligently planned as one aspect of a study of a particular subject.
ref:
1941 January, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
“I think you've outgrown Bonnie,” he said as he drove. […] “Bonnie and I have known each other forever,” I said simply. “Doesn't mean you have to be friends forever.”
ref:
2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
type:
quotation
text:
The best adapted plant varieties tend to outgrow those less adapted.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become too big in size or too mature in age or outlook to continue to want, need, use, experience, or accept some object, practice, condition, belief, etc.
To grow faster or larger than.
senses_topics:
|
6444 | word:
smell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
smell (countable and uncountable, plural smells)
forms:
form:
smells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld-
Proto-West Germanic *smalljan
Old English *smiellan
Middle English smellen
English smell
From Middle English smellen, smillen, smyllen, smullen, from Old English *smyllan, *smiellan (“to smell, emit fumes”), from Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (“to glow, burn, smoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *smel- (“to burn, smoke, smoulder; tar, pitch”). The noun is from Middle English smel, smil, smul (“smell, odour”). Related to Saterland Frisian smeele (“to smoulder”), Middle Dutch smōlen (“to burn, smoulder”) (whence Dutch smeulen (“to smoulder”)), Middle Low German smölen (“to be hazy, be dusty”) (whence Low German smölen (“smoulder”)), Low German smullen (“emit smoke”), West Flemish smoel (“stuffy, muggy, hazy”), Danish smul (“dust, powder”), Lithuanian smilkyti (“to incense, fumigate”), Lithuanian smilkti (“to smudge, smolder, fume, reek”), Lithuanian smalkinti (“to fume”), Middle Irish smál, smól, smúal (“fire, gleed, embers, ashes”), Russian смола́ (smolá, “resin, tar”). Compare smoulder, smother.
senses_examples:
text:
I love the smell of fresh bread.
type:
example
text:
I’m just saying, this has a bad smell to it.
ref:
2018 February 8, Carl Schroers, chapter 8, in Wrestling with Time Lost, Lulu Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
The sense that detects odours.
A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
senses_topics:
medicine
physiology
sciences
|
6445 | word:
smell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
smell (third-person singular simple present smells, present participle smelling, simple past and past participle smelled or smelt)
forms:
form:
smells
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
smelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
smelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
smelled
tags:
past
form:
smelt
tags:
participle
past
form:
smelt
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld-
Proto-West Germanic *smalljan
Old English *smiellan
Middle English smellen
English smell
From Middle English smellen, smillen, smyllen, smullen, from Old English *smyllan, *smiellan (“to smell, emit fumes”), from Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (“to glow, burn, smoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *smel- (“to burn, smoke, smoulder; tar, pitch”). The noun is from Middle English smel, smil, smul (“smell, odour”). Related to Saterland Frisian smeele (“to smoulder”), Middle Dutch smōlen (“to burn, smoulder”) (whence Dutch smeulen (“to smoulder”)), Middle Low German smölen (“to be hazy, be dusty”) (whence Low German smölen (“smoulder”)), Low German smullen (“emit smoke”), West Flemish smoel (“stuffy, muggy, hazy”), Danish smul (“dust, powder”), Lithuanian smilkyti (“to incense, fumigate”), Lithuanian smilkti (“to smudge, smolder, fume, reek”), Lithuanian smalkinti (“to fume”), Middle Irish smál, smól, smúal (“fire, gleed, embers, ashes”), Russian смола́ (smolá, “resin, tar”). Compare smoulder, smother.
senses_examples:
text:
I can smell fresh bread.
type:
example
text:
Smell the milk and tell me whether it's gone off.
type:
example
text:
The roses smell lovely.
type:
example
text:
Her feet smell of cheese.
type:
example
text:
The drunkard smelt like a brewery.
type:
example
text:
Ew, this stuff smells.
type:
example
text:
A report smells of calumny.
type:
example
text:
Este's been losing sleep / Her husband's acting different and it smells like infidelity
ref:
2021, Taylor Swift (lyrics and music), “No Body, No Crime”
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sense a smell or smells.
Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
To smell bad; to stink.
To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
To detect or perceive; often with out.
To give heed to.
To smell of; to have a smell of
senses_topics:
|
6446 | word:
bend
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bend (third-person singular simple present bends, present participle bending, simple past and past participle bent or (archaic) bended)
forms:
form:
bends
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bending
tags:
participle
present
form:
bent
tags:
participle
past
form:
bent
tags:
past
form:
bended
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
bended
tags:
archaic
past
wikipedia:
bend
etymology_text:
From Middle English benden, from Old English bendan (“to bind or bend (a bow), fetter, restrain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bandijan, from Proto-Germanic *bandijaną (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind, tie”). Cognate with Middle High German benden (“to fetter”), Danish bænde (“to bend”), Norwegian bende (“to bend”), Faroese benda (“to bend, inflect”), Icelandic benda (“to bend”). Related to band, bond.
senses_examples:
text:
If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.
type:
example
text:
Don’t bend your knees.
type:
example
text:
Look at the trees bending in the wind.
type:
example
text:
The road bends to the right.
type:
example
text:
He bent down to pick up the pieces.
type:
example
text:
They bent me to their will.
type:
example
text:
Leviathan: You cannot conceive of a galaxy that bends to your will.
Leviathan: Every creature, every nation, every planet we discovered became our tools. We were above the concerns of lesser species.
ref:
2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: Leviathan, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: 2181 Despoina
type:
quotation
text:
I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.
type:
example
text:
He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.
type:
example
text:
He bent to the goal of gaining market share.
type:
example
text:
Palladius did not lie, although he might have bent the facts a bit and even passed over in silence whatever might not have benefited his client's cause.
ref:
2011, Demetrios S. Katos, Palladius of Helenopolis: The Origenist Advocate, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
Bend the sail to the yard.
type:
example
text:
You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
To become curved.
To cause to change direction.
To change direction.
To be inclined; to direct itself.
To stoop.
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
To force to submit.
To submit.
To apply to a task or purpose.
To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
To swing the body when rowing.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
entertainment
lifestyle
music
nautical
transport |
6447 | word:
bend
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bend (plural bends)
forms:
form:
bends
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bend
etymology_text:
From Middle English benden, from Old English bendan (“to bind or bend (a bow), fetter, restrain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bandijan, from Proto-Germanic *bandijaną (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind, tie”). Cognate with Middle High German benden (“to fetter”), Danish bænde (“to bend”), Norwegian bende (“to bend”), Faroese benda (“to bend, inflect”), Icelandic benda (“to bend”). Related to band, bond.
senses_examples:
text:
There's a sharp bend in the road ahead.
type:
example
text:
I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend
ref:
1968, Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues
type:
quotation
text:
A simpler version of the common bend with its ends in the same direction is used to join binder twine in a hay baling machine.
ref:
2012, Percy W. Blandford, Practical Knots and Ropework, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.
type:
example
text:
Perhaps the most celebrated coat of arms is that of Scrope, which is Azure a bend Or. This is the coat over which, from 1385 to 1390, Sir Robert le Grosvenor and Sir Richard le Scrope invoked the High Court of Chivalry to decide which of them had the right to bear these arms. Chaucer gave evidence before the court. In the end the arms were awarded to Scrope, and Grosvenor was ordered to difference with a bordure Argent. This he disdained to do, and being highly dissatisfied with the verdict he appealed to Richard II who altered the decision of the court by refusing to allow the bend to Grosvenor at all! Grosvenor then adopted a garb, or sheaf of corn.
ref:
1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, pages 63–64
type:
quotation
text:
Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend.
ref:
1608, John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, act 1, scene 3
type:
quotation
text:
the midship bends
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A curve.
Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
Hard, indurated clay; bind.
The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
senses_topics:
diving
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
sports
underwater-diving
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
business
mining
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
6448 | word:
et cetera
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
et cetera
forms:
wikipedia:
et cetera
etymology_text:
From Middle English et cetera, from Latin et cētera (“and the other things; and the rest of the things”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The full form of etc.: and so forth, and the rest.
senses_topics:
|
6449 | word:
et cetera
word_type:
noun
expansion:
et cetera (plural et ceteras)
forms:
form:
et ceteras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
et cetera
etymology_text:
From Middle English et cetera, from Latin et cētera (“and the other things; and the rest of the things”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something in addition, which can easily be understood.
senses_topics:
|
6450 | word:
lend
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lend (third-person singular simple present lends, present participle lending, simple past and past participle lent)
forms:
form:
lends
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lending
tags:
participle
present
form:
lent
tags:
participle
past
form:
lent
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier len (with excrescent -d, as in sound, round, etc.), from Middle English lenen, lænen, from Old English lǣnan (“to lend; give, grant, lease”), from Proto-West Germanic *laihnijan, from Proto-Germanic *laihnijaną (“to loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihną (“loan”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave, leave over”).
Cognate with Scots len, lend (“to lend”), West Frisian liene (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Dutch lenen (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Danish låne (“to lend, loan”), Swedish låna (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic lána (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic léna (“to grant”), Latin linquō (“quit, leave, forlet”), Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō, “leave, release”). See also loan.
senses_examples:
text:
I will only lend you my car if you fill up the tank.
type:
example
text:
I lent her 10 euros to pay for the train tickets, and she paid me back the next day.
type:
example
text:
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
ref:
2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
Poems do not lend themselves to translation easily.
type:
example
text:
The long history of the past does not lend itself to a simple black and white interpretation.
type:
example
text:
Can you lend me some assistance?
type:
example
text:
The famous director lent his name to the new film.
type:
example
text:
Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his compositions.
ref:
1886, John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney
type:
quotation
text:
FORSEA absolutely condemns the political manipulation on the part of the junta, General Prayuth, the Thai Senate and the parties that lent their support for General Prayuth that led him to parliamentary victory.
ref:
2019 June 8, “Condemning the return to premiership of General Prayuth Chan-ocha through a manipulative method”, in forsea.co, FORSEA, retrieved 2019-06-09
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
To make a loan.
To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
To borrow.
senses_topics:
|
6451 | word:
lend
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lend
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier len (with excrescent -d, as in sound, round, etc.), from Middle English lenen, lænen, from Old English lǣnan (“to lend; give, grant, lease”), from Proto-West Germanic *laihnijan, from Proto-Germanic *laihnijaną (“to loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihną (“loan”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave, leave over”).
Cognate with Scots len, lend (“to lend”), West Frisian liene (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Dutch lenen (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Danish låne (“to lend, loan”), Swedish låna (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic lána (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic léna (“to grant”), Latin linquō (“quit, leave, forlet”), Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō, “leave, release”). See also loan.
senses_examples:
text:
“But,” says Arthur, “I wouldn't be proud of your clothes, / For you've only the lend of them, as I suppose.”
ref:
c. 1800s, Arthur McBride, version from 2012, Dick Sheridan, Irish Songs for Ukulele (Songbook), Hal Leonard Corporation
text:
Yesterday asked Mr. Aray the lend of 8s. 6d. for a month.
ref:
1866, Walkden, Diary, 6
text:
However, Weldon would soon note his declining potato yield, and his suspicions were confirmed one night when he confronted Joe with a jumper full of spuds. Somehow, Joe managed to talk his way out of trouble. 'I told him I was getting the lend of them,' Joe laughed. It wasn't only vegetables that were targeted, though. For generations of children who grew up on ...
ref:
2008, Ronan Casey, Joe Dolan: The Official Biography, Penguin UK
type:
quotation
text:
Our thanks go to Diran Adebayo for his support, especially his lend of Everything You're Told Is True, to the website. It has been an honour to host […]
ref:
2010, One Million Stories Creative Writing Project 2009 Anthology, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
“Give these to your dad, Betsy, tell him thanks for the lend of them. I'm leaving next week, Betsy.” “Really, where are you going?” Betsy played dumb.
ref:
2016, Mary Peters, Betsy, The Coalminer's Daughter, New Generation Publishing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Loan (permission to borrow (something)).
senses_topics:
|
6452 | word:
lend
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lend (plural lends)
forms:
form:
lends
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lende (usually in plural as lendes, leendes, lyndes), from Old English lendenu, lendinu pl (“loins”), from Proto-Germanic *landijō, *landį̄ (“loin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“loin, kidney”). Cognate with Scots lend, leynd (“the loins, flank, buttocks”), Dutch lendenen (“loins, reins”), German Lenden (“loins”), Swedish länder (“loins”), Icelandic lendar (“loins”), Latin lumbus (“loin”) (whence loin),
Polish lędźwie (“loins”),
Russian ля́двея (ljádveja, “thigh, haunch”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The lumbar region; loin.
The loins; flank; buttocks.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
|
6453 | word:
contraction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
contraction (countable and uncountable, plural contractions)
forms:
form:
contractions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*ḱóm
From Late Middle English contraccioun, contraxion (“spasm, contraction; constriction, shrinking; act of pressing together”), from Old French contraction (modern French contraction), from Latin contractiōnem, the accusative singular of contractiō (“a drawing together, contraction; abridgement, shortening; dejection, despondency”), from contrahō (“to draw things together, assemble, collect, gather; to enter into a contract”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results); contrahō is derived from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of objects) + trahō (“to drag, pull”) (probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”)). The English word is analysable as contract + -ion (suffix denoting actions or processes, or their results).
senses_examples:
text:
Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.
type:
example
text:
the contraction of malaria
type:
example
text:
Railway workers were therefore a perfect subject for research, given the varied roles they undertook. If infection was greatest among the non-public-facing staff, it would suggest – given most worked outside – that contraction was caused by something found in the "atmosphere at large". If affliction was higher among the indoor and public-facing staff, it would suggest that human contact was the cause. And it was the latter point that was proven.
ref:
2020 April 8, David Turner, “How Railway Staff were Conduits and Victims of a Pandemic”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
(abridgement or shortening of writing, etc.):
text:
The country’s economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.
type:
example
text:
In the English words didn’t, that’s, and wanna, the endings -n’t, -’s, and -a arose by contraction.
type:
example
text:
Don’t is a contraction of do not; and ’til is a contraction of until.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.
An act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative).
Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.
An act of entering into a contract or agreement; specifically, a contract of marriage; a contracting; also (obsolete), a betrothal.
Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.
The process of contracting or becoming infected with a disease.
Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
An abridgement or shortening of writing, etc.; an abstract, a summary; also (uncountable), brevity, conciseness.
Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
A period of economic decline or negative growth.
Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are reduced or lost, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
Synonym of syncope (“the elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable”)
Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
The preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
An act of collecting or gathering.
senses_topics:
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
economics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing
|
6454 | word:
involuntary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
involuntary (comparative more involuntary, superlative most involuntary)
forms:
form:
more involuntary
tags:
comparative
form:
most involuntary
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From in- + voluntary, from Late Latin involontarius, from in + volontarius.
senses_examples:
text:
He found himself the involuntary witness in the trial.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without intention; unintentional.
Not voluntary or willing; contrary or opposed to explicit will or desire; unwilling.
senses_topics:
|
6455 | word:
broken
word_type:
verb
expansion:
broken
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English broken, from Old English brocen, ġebrocen, from Proto-Germanic *brukanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”). Cognate with Dutch gebroken (“broken”), German Low German broken (“broken”), German gebrochen (“broken”).
Morphologically broke + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of break
senses_topics:
|
6456 | word:
broken
word_type:
adj
expansion:
broken (comparative more broken, superlative most broken)
forms:
form:
more broken
tags:
comparative
form:
most broken
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English broken, from Old English brocen, ġebrocen, from Proto-Germanic *brukanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”). Cognate with Dutch gebroken (“broken”), German Low German broken (“broken”), German gebrochen (“broken”).
Morphologically broke + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
My arm is broken!
type:
example
text:
The ground was littered with broken bones.
type:
example
text:
A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken.
type:
example
text:
Tomorrow: broken skies.
type:
example
text:
A cuckoo sat on a gate-post singing his broken June tune[.]
ref:
1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill, London: Penguin Books, published 1994, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
One recent morning the team had to replace a broken weather research station.
type:
example
text:
Local people say there were Russian and Chechen forces here.[…]Over here on the wall, one interesting detail- a single word, which someone has written in broken English: "Sori".
ref:
2022 September 15, 2:33 from the start, in President Zelensky visits frontline as Ukraine reclaims more territory - BBC News, BBC News, archived from the original on 2022-09-15
type:
quotation
text:
broken promises of neutrality
type:
example
text:
broken vows
type:
example
text:
the broken covenant
type:
example
text:
This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.
type:
example
text:
Don't say it in Russian / Don't say it in German / Say it in broken English
ref:
1979, “Broken English”, performed by Marianne Faithfull
type:
quotation
text:
Oh man! That is just broken!
type:
example
text:
I think my doorbell is broken.
type:
example
text:
The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken.
type:
example
text:
He said, "Son, when you grow up / Would you be the savior of the broken / The beaten, and the damned?"
ref:
2006, “Welcome to the Black Parade”, in The Black Parade, performed by My Chemical Romance
type:
quotation
text:
And oh, maybe I see a part of me in them / The missing piece, always trying to fit in / The shattered heart, hungry for a home / No, you're not alone / I love the broken ones / I love the broken ones
ref:
2011, Dia Frampton (lyrics and music), “The Broken Ones”, in Red, performed by Dia Frampton
type:
quotation
text:
All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.
ref:
2005, Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
This item is incredibly broken. I win almost every run I get to use it.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
Split or ruptured.
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
Interrupted; not continuous.
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
Breached; violated; not kept.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
Badly designed or implemented.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
Uneven.
Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games |
6457 | word:
inflection
word_type:
noun
expansion:
inflection (countable and uncountable, plural inflections)
forms:
form:
inflections
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From older inflexion, borrowed from Middle French inflexion, itself borrowed from Latin inflexiōnem (“alteration”, literally “bending”). The English spelling with ⟨ct⟩ is due to influence from inflect or related words like correction.
senses_examples:
text:
In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin
type:
example
text:
an inflection for gender, number, or tense
type:
example
text:
English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.
type:
example
text:
Recite every inflection for each of these words.
type:
example
text:
If he's lying, his inflection changes.
type:
example
text:
inflection from the rules
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A change in the form of a word (morphologic change) to express different grammatical categories.
An instance of such change.
An instance of such change.
An affix representing such an instance.
Any form produced by such an instance of a change, such as the principal parts for any given stem: any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
A change in pitch or tone of voice.
A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
A turning away from a straight course.
Diffraction.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
|
6458 | word:
choose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
choose (third-person singular simple present chooses, present participle choosing, simple past chose or (nonstandard) choosed, past participle chosen or (nonstandard) choosed or (now colloquial) chose)
forms:
form:
chooses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
choosing
tags:
participle
present
form:
chose
tags:
past
form:
choosed
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
chosen
tags:
participle
past
form:
choosed
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
chose
tags:
colloquial
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
choose
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cheosen, chesen, from Old English ċēosan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to taste, choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti, from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”).
Cognate with Scots chuise, cheese (“to choose”), North Frisian kese (“to choose”), Saterland Frisian kjoze (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), French choisir (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), German Low German kiesen (“to pick, select”), archaic and partially obsolete German kiesen (“to choose”), Danish kyse (“to frighten (via ‘to charm, allure’ and ‘to enchant’)”), Norwegian kjose (“to choose”), Swedish tjusa (“to charm, allure, enchant”), Icelandic kjósa (“to choose, vote, elect”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan, “to test”), Latin gustō (“I taste, sample”), Ancient Greek γεύω (geúō, “to feed”), Sanskrit जोषति (jóṣati, “to like, enjoy”), Russian кушать (kúšatʹ, “to have a meal, to eat”).
senses_examples:
text:
I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.
type:
example
text:
He was chosen as president in 1990.
type:
example
text:
I chose to walk to work today.
type:
example
text:
Choose truth, and find beauty. Choose love, and embrace change.
ref:
2016, Justin Deschamps, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
To elect.
To decide to act in a certain way.
To prefer; to wish; to desire.
senses_topics:
|
6459 | word:
choose
word_type:
conj
expansion:
choose
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cheosen, chesen, from Old English ċēosan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to taste, choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti, from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”).
Cognate with Scots chuise, cheese (“to choose”), North Frisian kese (“to choose”), Saterland Frisian kjoze (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), French choisir (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), German Low German kiesen (“to pick, select”), archaic and partially obsolete German kiesen (“to choose”), Danish kyse (“to frighten (via ‘to charm, allure’ and ‘to enchant’)”), Norwegian kjose (“to choose”), Swedish tjusa (“to charm, allure, enchant”), Icelandic kjósa (“to choose, vote, elect”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan, “to test”), Latin gustō (“I taste, sample”), Ancient Greek γεύω (geúō, “to feed”), Sanskrit जोषति (jóṣati, “to like, enjoy”), Russian кушать (kúšatʹ, “to have a meal, to eat”).
senses_examples:
text:
The number of distinct subsets of size k from a set of size n is tbinom nk or "n choose k".
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
6460 | word:
choose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
choose (plural chooses)
forms:
form:
chooses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English chose, chos, chooce, a Northern dialectal form of Middle English chois (“choice”). Cognate with Scots chose, choose, chuse (“choosing, choice, selection”). Doublet of choice, which see for more.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of choosing; selection.
The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
senses_topics:
|
6461 | word:
raspberry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
raspberry (plural raspberries)
forms:
form:
raspberries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
raspberry
etymology_text:
From earlier raspis berry, possibly from raspise (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-Latin vinum raspeys, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to rasp (“coarse, rough”), of Germanic origin.
senses_examples:
text:
raspberry:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The plant Rubus idaeus.
Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
senses_topics:
|
6462 | word:
raspberry
word_type:
adj
expansion:
raspberry (comparative raspberrier, superlative raspberriest)
forms:
form:
raspberrier
tags:
comparative
form:
raspberriest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
raspberry
etymology_text:
From earlier raspis berry, possibly from raspise (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-Latin vinum raspeys, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to rasp (“coarse, rough”), of Germanic origin.
senses_examples:
text:
It’s a gorgeous ice cream dream…a generous roll of vanilla shaped like a log…sprinkled with toasted pecan nuts…and filled with an egg-shaped center of the raspberriest raspberry ice cream ever!
ref:
1941 April 10, Elsie, the Borden Cow [pseudonym], “Good Moos”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume C, number 86, Chicago, Ill., page 21
type:
quotation
text:
Raspberry Flavor JELL-O® BRAND Gelatin now tastes even raspberrier.
ref:
1979 June, Jell-O, “Now there’s even more magic in a Jell-O® Gelatin Rainbow Cake”, in Better Homes and Gardens, volume 57, number 6, Des Moines, Ia.: Meredith Corporation, →ISSN, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
Pluck the easiest, tastiest, raspberriest raspberry around.
ref:
1999 June/July, “Contents”, in Garden Design, volume 18, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Meigher Communications, →ISSN, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Apparently, yellow raspberries are no more difficult to grow than red or black, but are deemed a specialty item because only a handful of growers are producing them. […] I have heard, however, that they are sweeter and a little less raspberrier than the red ones, so maybe I might like them.
ref:
2009 July 29, Chris Stevens, “Berry my heart”, in The Daily Item, volume 131, number 198, Lynn, Mass., page B2, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
To get raspberries that taste “raspberrier,” and blueberries that taste “bluer” buy produce that’s locally grown, in season, and hasn’t been sitting on the shelf too long, or visit any of the “you-pick-it-yourself” farms for seasonal produce.
ref:
2011, Ann A. Rosenstein, “Organic, Conventional and Local foods”, in Diet Myths Busted: Food Facts, Not Nutrition Fiction, Enumclaw, Wash.: Idyll Arbor, Inc., page 244
type:
quotation
text:
This was the third morning running she’d relished the warmth and sugary sweet air of the Dunregan Bakehouse. This first “thawing station” on her bicycle ride into work. It had nothing to do with the fact they also made the fluffiest scones she’d ever tasted. And with lashings of the fruitiest, raspberriest jam in the world.
ref:
2017, Annie O’Neil, Her Hot Highland Doc, London: Mills & Boon, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
She wore a raspberry beret / The kind you find in a second hand store
ref:
1985, Prince (lyrics and music), “Raspberry Beret”, in Around the World in a Day, performed by Prince and the Revolution
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
Of a dark pinkish red.
senses_topics:
|
6463 | word:
raspberry
word_type:
verb
expansion:
raspberry (third-person singular simple present raspberries, present participle raspberrying, simple past and past participle raspberried)
forms:
form:
raspberries
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
raspberrying
tags:
participle
present
form:
raspberried
tags:
participle
past
form:
raspberried
tags:
past
wikipedia:
raspberry
etymology_text:
From earlier raspis berry, possibly from raspise (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-Latin vinum raspeys, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to rasp (“coarse, rough”), of Germanic origin.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] she stuck burrs in my bed and lead me through the nettle-patch when we were raspberrying, because she knew I did n't know nettles; […]
ref:
1903, M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich, Little, Brown, and Company, published 1903, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
"Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."
ref:
1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 37, in Anne's House of Dreams
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying, and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.
ref:
1944, Cornelius Weygandt, The Heart of New Hampshire: Things Held Dear by Folks of the Old Stocks, G. P. Putnam's Sons, published 1944, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
My mother told my sister Sally and me that if we were good little girls we might go raspberrying up on the mountains when the raspberries were ripe.
ref:
1976, Emily Ward, The Way Things Were: An Autobiography of Emily Ward, Newport Press (1976), page 4
text:
In strawberry time she had seen individual bears grazing in the meadows along the bluff, and later, while raspberrying, she heard one gobbling fruit and snorting on the other side of the bush.
ref:
1988, Charles McCarry, The Bride of the Wilderness, MysteriousPress.com, published 2011
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To gather or forage for raspberries.
senses_topics:
|
6464 | word:
raspberry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
raspberry (plural raspberries)
forms:
form:
raspberries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
raspberry
etymology_text:
Cockney rhyming slang, from raspberry tart = fart (though "raspberry" is rarely used for a fart, merely a noise which imitates it). Compare raspberry ripple = cripple.
senses_examples:
text:
Of the announcement, Osborne said: "They have spent a hundred billion pounds of public money and they've got a massive raspberry from everyone as far as I can see. As a PR exercise, it's been an object lesson in how not to make a government announcement."
ref:
2021 December 1, “Network News: Integrated Rail Plan: Osborne predicts HS2 eastern leg will return”, in RAIL, number 945, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin (often a form of tickling) used humorously or to express derision.
A physically disabled person.
senses_topics:
|
6465 | word:
raspberry
word_type:
verb
expansion:
raspberry (third-person singular simple present raspberries, present participle raspberrying, simple past and past participle raspberried)
forms:
form:
raspberries
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
raspberrying
tags:
participle
present
form:
raspberried
tags:
participle
past
form:
raspberried
tags:
past
wikipedia:
raspberry
etymology_text:
Cockney rhyming slang, from raspberry tart = fart (though "raspberry" is rarely used for a fart, merely a noise which imitates it). Compare raspberry ripple = cripple.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.
senses_topics:
|
6466 | word:
given
word_type:
verb
expansion:
given
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically give + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of give
senses_topics:
|
6467 | word:
given
word_type:
prep
expansion:
given
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically give + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
Given the current situation, I don't think that's possible.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Considering; taking into account.
senses_topics:
|
6468 | word:
given
word_type:
noun
expansion:
given (plural givens)
forms:
form:
givens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically give + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
When evaluating this math problem, don't forget to read the givens.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A condition that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.
senses_topics:
|
6469 | word:
given
word_type:
adj
expansion:
given (comparative more given, superlative most given)
forms:
form:
more given
tags:
comparative
form:
most given
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically give + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
No more than three people can be in that space at a given time.
type:
example
text:
Given that we will get the resources, what do we want to achieve?
type:
example
text:
He was given to taking a couple of glasses of port at his club.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Already arranged.
Currently discussed.
Particular, specific.
Assumed as fact or hypothesis.
Prone, disposed.
senses_topics:
|
6470 | word:
bind
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bind (third-person singular simple present binds, present participle binding, simple past bound or (nonstandard) binded, past participle bound or (nonstandard) binded or (archaic, rare) bounden or (obsolete) ybound or (obsolete) ybounden)
forms:
form:
binds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
binding
tags:
participle
present
form:
bound
tags:
past
form:
binded
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
bound
tags:
participle
past
form:
binded
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
bounden
tags:
archaic
participle
past
rare
form:
ybound
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
ybounden
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
wikipedia:
bind
etymology_text:
From Middle English binden, from Old English bindan, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną (compare West Frisian bine, Dutch binden, Low German binnen, German binden, Danish binde), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéndʰ-e-ti, from *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”).
Compare Welsh benn (“cart”), Latin offendīx (“knot, band”), Lithuanian beñdras (“partner”), Albanian bind (“to convince, to awe, to spell”), Ancient Greek πεῖσμα (peîsma, “cable, rope”), Persian بستن (bastan, “to bind”), Sanskrit बन्धति (bándhati). Doublet of bandana.
senses_examples:
text:
We’ll throw it in just to make the cheese more binding.
type:
example
text:
I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while.
type:
example
text:
These are the ties that bind.
type:
example
text:
to bind grain in bundles to bind a prisoner
type:
example
text:
Gravity binds the planets to the sun.
type:
example
text:
Frost binds the earth.
type:
example
text:
to bind the conscience to bind by kindness bound by affection commerce binds nations to each other
type:
example
text:
In the concluding whereof Sir Thomas More so worthily handled himself, procuring in our league far more benefits unto this realm, than at that time, by the king or his council was thought possible to be compassed, that for his good service in that voyage, the king, when he after made him Lord Chancellor, caused the Duke of Norfolk openly to declare to the people, as you shall hear hereafter more at large, how much all England was bounden unto him.
ref:
1626, William Roper, S. W. Singer, The Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatnes. Or The Life of Syr Thomas More Knight, sometime Lo. Chancellour of England, new revised and corrected edition, Paris [i.e. Saint-Omer]: [Printed at the English College Press], →OCLC; republished as The Life of Sir Thomas More, by His Son-in-law, William Roper, Esq. […], Chiswick, London: From the press of C[harles] Whittingham, for R. Triphook, […], 1822, →OCLC, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
He'll mind, I reckon, not getting any work out'n me, but I won't be bounden to him any longer. How can he keep me if I ain't bounden to him?
ref:
1963, William A. Owens, chapter 2, in Look to the River, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum; republished as Look to the River (Texas Tradition Series; 8), Fort Worth, Tex.: Texas Christian University Press, 1988, →OCLC, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
to bind an apprentice bound out to service
type:
example
text:
to bind a belt about one to bind a compress upon a wound
type:
example
text:
to bind up a wound
type:
example
text:
Certain drugs bind the bowels.
type:
example
text:
The three novels were bound together.
type:
example
text:
We bind the variable n to the value 2, and xs to "abcd".
ref:
2008, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, Real World Haskell, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
You can bind an identifier to an object of a derived type, as you did earlier when you bound a string to an identifier of type obj[…]
ref:
2009, Robert Pickering, Beginning F#, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
"But it's not much good piling up the pix if I can't sell them."
"Oh do stop binding. Think of something. How will we eat, where will we sleep?"
ref:
1980, Iris Murdoch, Nuns And Soldiers
type:
quotation
text:
I haven't binded since I got my top surgery.
type:
example
text:
I hear binder tech has improved since I last bound.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To tie; to confine by any ligature.
To cohere or stick together in a mass.
To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
To exert a binding or restraining influence.
To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
To couple.
To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
To place under legal obligation to serve.
To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
To cover, as with a bandage.
To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.
To put together in a cover, as of books.
To make two or more elements stick together.
To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
To complain; to whine about something.
To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
senses_topics:
law
law
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality |
6471 | word:
bind
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bind (plural binds)
forms:
form:
binds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bind
etymology_text:
From Middle English binden, from Old English bindan, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną (compare West Frisian bine, Dutch binden, Low German binnen, German binden, Danish binde), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéndʰ-e-ti, from *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”).
Compare Welsh benn (“cart”), Latin offendīx (“knot, band”), Lithuanian beñdras (“partner”), Albanian bind (“to convince, to awe, to spell”), Ancient Greek πεῖσμα (peîsma, “cable, rope”), Persian بستن (bastan, “to bind”), Sanskrit बन्धति (bándhati). Doublet of bandana.
senses_examples:
text:
the Maróczy Bind
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which binds or ties.
A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
The indurated clay of coal mines.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
board-games
chess
games
|
6472 | word:
distend
word_type:
verb
expansion:
distend (third-person singular simple present distends, present participle distending, simple past and past participle distended)
forms:
form:
distends
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
distending
tags:
participle
present
form:
distended
tags:
participle
past
form:
distended
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin distendō.
senses_examples:
text:
Then came the arrowy flight and form of the hurricane itself—its actual bulk—its imbodied power, pressing along through the forest in a gyratory progress, not fifty yards wide, never distending in width, yet capriciously winding from right to left and left to right.
ref:
1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XIV, page 180
type:
quotation
text:
I begin to hate the theater, the feeling wickedly distended by histrionics, all my old gestures, clutchings, tears, and applications. These impure and frail matters are conteined within the angust concave of the Lunar Orb, above which with uninterrupted Series the things Celestial distend themselves.
ref:
1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell
To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.
To cause to swell.
To cause gravidity.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
6473 | word:
industrial output
word_type:
noun
expansion:
industrial output (countable and uncountable, plural industrial outputs)
forms:
form:
industrial outputs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
What an industry produces, as a national total.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
economics
finance
sciences |
6474 | word:
neck
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neck (plural necks)
forms:
form:
necks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
neck
etymology_text:
From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô (“nape, neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (“back of the head, nape, neck”). Cognate with Scots nek (“neck”), North Frisian neek, neeke, Nak (“neck”), Saterland Frisian Näkke (“neck”), West Frisian nekke (“neck”), Dutch nek (“neck”), German Low German Nack (“neck”), German Nacken (“nape of the neck”), Danish nakke (“neck”), Swedish nacke (“nape of the neck”), Icelandic hnakki (“neck”), Tocharian A kñuk (“neck, nape”). Possibly a mutated variant of *kneug/k (compare Old English hnocc (“hook, penis”), Welsh cnwch (“joint, knob”), Latvian knaūķis (“dwarf”). Doublet of nek. More at nook. Displaced halse (“neck, throat”) and swire (“neck”).
senses_examples:
text:
Giraffes have long necks.
type:
example
text:
a neck forming the journal of a shaft
text:
to risk one's neck; to save someone's neck
text:
Shorty throw neck like a geese
She make me speak Portuguese
ref:
2016, “Pimptations”, performed by Smino
type:
quotation
text:
She drop neck for a check and a paystub
ref:
2018, “Florida Thang”, in The South Got Something To Say, performed by Pouya
type:
quotation
text:
The person with 'the neck' stands in the centre, grasping it with both his hands
ref:
1837, R. A. R., The Everyday Book, page 1169
type:
quotation
text:
"The neck" is generally hung up in the farmhouse, where it remains for two or three years.
ref:
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 266
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
The gorgerin of a capital.
A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
A person's life.
A falsehood; a lie.
Fellatio
A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
architecture
geography
geology
natural-sciences
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
|
6475 | word:
neck
word_type:
verb
expansion:
neck (third-person singular simple present necks, present participle necking, simple past and past participle necked)
forms:
form:
necks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
necking
tags:
participle
present
form:
necked
tags:
participle
past
form:
necked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
neck
etymology_text:
From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô (“nape, neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (“back of the head, nape, neck”). Cognate with Scots nek (“neck”), North Frisian neek, neeke, Nak (“neck”), Saterland Frisian Näkke (“neck”), West Frisian nekke (“neck”), Dutch nek (“neck”), German Low German Nack (“neck”), German Nacken (“nape of the neck”), Danish nakke (“neck”), Swedish nacke (“nape of the neck”), Icelandic hnakki (“neck”), Tocharian A kñuk (“neck, nape”). Possibly a mutated variant of *kneug/k (compare Old English hnocc (“hook, penis”), Welsh cnwch (“joint, knob”), Latvian knaūķis (“dwarf”). Doublet of nek. More at nook. Displaced halse (“neck, throat”) and swire (“neck”).
senses_examples:
text:
Go neck yourself.
type:
example
text:
Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.
type:
example
text:
Actually, mostly I swan around in my silver sports car, necking drugs, and feeling sorry for myself.
ref:
2005, Stephen Price, Monkey Man, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer.
ref:
2006, Sarah Johnstone, Tom Masters, London
type:
quotation
text:
The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.
ref:
2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-08
type:
quotation
text:
Since this temperature would place the bolt in its creep range, it will slowly stretch, necking down as it does so. Eventually it will get too thin to support the weight, and the bolt will break.
ref:
2007, John H. Bickford, Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints, page 272
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
To drink or swallow rapidly.
To decrease in diameter.
senses_topics:
|
6476 | word:
neck
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neck (plural necks)
forms:
form:
necks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
neck
etymology_text:
From Danish nøkke, Swedish näck.
senses_examples:
text:
The Neck no more upon the river sings.
And no Mermaid to bleach her linen flings
Upon the waves in the mild solar ray.
ref:
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 234
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.
senses_topics:
arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences |
6477 | word:
one's self
word_type:
pron
expansion:
one's self
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
One can teach one's self to do this.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of oneself
senses_topics:
|
6478 | word:
grow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grow (third-person singular simple present grows, present participle growing, simple past grew or (dialectal) growed, past participle grown or (dialectal) growed)
forms:
form:
grows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
growing
tags:
participle
present
form:
grew
tags:
past
form:
growed
tags:
dialectal
past
form:
grown
tags:
participle
past
form:
growed
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English growen, from Old English grōwan (“to grow, increase, flourish, germinate”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōan, from Proto-Germanic *grōaną (“to grow, grow green”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”).
cognates
Cognate with Scots grow, grew (“to grow”), North Frisian grojen, growen (“to grow”), West Frisian groeie (“to grow”), Dutch groeien (“to grow”), German Low German grojen (“to green; thrive; take hold; flourish”), Middle High German grüejen (“to grow, grow green”), Danish gro (“to grow”), Norwegian gro (“to grow”), Swedish gro (“to germinate, grow, sprout”), Icelandic gróa (“to grow”), Latin herba (“plant, herb, weed”), Swedish gröda (“crop”), North Frisian greyde (“growth, pasture”). Related to growth, grass, green.
senses_examples:
text:
Children grow quickly.
type:
example
text:
[...] but the dangers to trespassers, especially children, are growing, and a vigorous educational programme is urged.
ref:
1960 December, “Talking of trains: B.R. safety in 1959”, in Trains Illustrated, page 708
type:
quotation
text:
Apples now grow all over the world.
type:
example
text:
Leaf buds grew on the trees with the advance of spring.
type:
example
text:
A long tail began to grow from his backside.
type:
example
text:
As I grew throughout adolescence, I came to appreciate many things about human nature.
type:
example
text:
He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.
type:
example
text:
Have you ever grown your hair before?
type:
example
text:
The Bush administration – which sought to grow the number of fisheries managed under a program known as “catch shares”...
ref:
2011 March 1, Peter Roff, “Another Foolish Move By Congress”, in Fox News
type:
quotation
text:
And — again to overgeneralize from my experience — users may not want a second Twitter either. I was a heavy Twitter user for over a decade. I loved it until I didn’t. I made connections, grew a following, floated ideas, had fun. But it also became a second, often angry, voice inside my head. Do I want to replace it with another one?
ref:
2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The boy grew wise as he matured.
type:
example
text:
The town grew smaller and smaller in the distance as we travelled.
type:
example
text:
You have grown strong.
type:
example
text:
In fact she was so bus doing all the things that anyone might, who finds themselves alone in an empty house, that she did not notice at first when it began to turn dusk and the rooms to grow dim.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere)
To appear or sprout.
To develop, to mature.
To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
To assume a condition or quality over time.
To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
senses_topics:
|
6479 | word:
met
word_type:
verb
expansion:
met
forms:
wikipedia:
met
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of meet
senses_topics:
|
6480 | word:
met
word_type:
verb
expansion:
met
forms:
wikipedia:
met
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of mete (to measure)
senses_topics:
|
6481 | word:
met
word_type:
verb
expansion:
met (no third-person singular simple present, no present participle, simple past met, no past participle)
forms:
form:
met
tags:
past
wikipedia:
met
etymology_text:
From Middle English meten (“to dream”), from Old English mætan (“to dream”).
senses_examples:
text:
All night me met eke that I was at Kirke.
ref:
c. 1653, William Cartwright, The Ordinary
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dream; to occur (to one) in a dream.
senses_topics:
|
6482 | word:
reactor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reactor (plural reactors)
forms:
form:
reactors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From react + -or.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who responds to a suggestion, stimulation or other influence.
A structure used to contain chemical or other reactions.
A device which uses atomic energy to produce heat.
A chemical substance which responds to the presence of, or contact with, another substance.
senses_topics:
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
6483 | word:
knit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
knit (third-person singular simple present knits, present participle knitting, simple past and past participle knit or knitted)
forms:
form:
knits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
knitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
knit
tags:
participle
past
form:
knit
tags:
past
form:
knitted
tags:
participle
past
form:
knitted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”).
Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot.
senses_examples:
text:
to knit a stocking
type:
example
text:
The first generation knitted to order; the second still knits for its own use; the next leaves knitting to industrial manufacturers.
type:
example
text:
Stitches that are knitted look like little V’s when seen from the front.
type:
example
text:
The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
type:
example
text:
Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.
ref:
1672, Richard Wiseman, A Treatise of Wounds, London: Richard Royston
type:
quotation
text:
All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
type:
example
text:
The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
type:
example
text:
I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front.
To join closely and firmly together.
To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
To grow together.
To combine from various elements.
To heal following a fracture.
To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
senses_topics:
|
6484 | word:
knit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
knit (plural knits)
forms:
form:
knits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”).
Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot.
senses_examples:
text:
There are grey Grecian tops and a light, sheer, silver cardigan. Stylish dark grey tailored trousers, silver thongs and shiny jet-black stilettos. Black sheer blouses with squared bib fronts, and expensive-looking black and dark grey woollen knits.
ref:
2012, Melanie Calvert, Freycinet, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
It's always time for a bit of a knit.
ref:
2014, Elvira Woodruff, To Knit or Not to Knit
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A knitted garment.
A session of knitting.
senses_topics:
|
6485 | word:
overdo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overdo (third-person singular simple present overdoes, present participle overdoing, simple past overdid, past participle overdone)
forms:
form:
overdoes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overdoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
overdid
tags:
past
form:
overdone
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overdon, from Old English oferdōn, equivalent to over- + do.
senses_examples:
text:
I overdid the sweets during the holidays and put on some weight.
type:
example
text:
Carol had overdone the ventilation and the room was cold.
ref:
1952, Patricia Highsmith, chapter 16, in The Price of Salt, New York: Norton, published 2004, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
to overdo the meat
type:
example
text:
to overdo one’s strength
type:
example
text:
And you’re so weak I’le not pursue you,
For fear lest I should overdo you.
ref:
1680, Matthew Stevenson, “Acontius to Cydippe”, in The Wits Paraphras’d, or, Paraphrase upon Paraphrase in a Burlesque on the Several Late Translations of Ovids Epistles, London: Will. Cademan, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
[…] look abroad and see who are the people that complain of weariness, listlessness, and dejection? You will not find them among such as are overdone with work, but with pleasure.
ref:
1799, Hannah More, chapter 16, in Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education, volume 2, London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, page 156
type:
quotation
text:
“Oh!” said Mrs. Venables, “how tiresome it all is. I’m sure you’ll wear your brains right out with all these problems. You mustn’t overdo yourself. [...]”
ref:
1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, “A Full Peal of Grandsire Triples”, in The Nine Tailors, London: Victor Gollancz, published 1975, Part 5
type:
quotation
text:
In a delicate Garden, where Art hath shewed it’s vtmost, yee shall meet with Roses, Gillyflowers, and Fountaines of Alabaster and Iasper; but thou wilt not so much admire this, as if thou shouldst light on these dainties in a Desert, or in some craggie Mountain, where the hand of nature shall ouerdoe that of art and Industrie.
ref:
1629, Cristóbal de Fonseca, translated by James Mabbe, Deuout Contemplations, London: Adam Islip, Sermon 2, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
[...] it would be their shame for ever to be overdone in mischiefe, nor were they here exceeded.
ref:
1654, John Cleveland, The Idol of the Clownes, London, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
the Turks delight but little in the outward Ornament of Houses, nor aspire in the least to overdo each other in the Europaean Custom of Polite and Solid Architecture, yet do they far more exceed us in the rich Ornaments and Contrivances of their Pavilions,
ref:
1709, Aaron Hill, chapter 4, in A Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire, London: for the author, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to carry too far.
To cook for too long.
To give (someone or something) too much work; to require too much effort or strength of (someone); to use up too much of (something).
To do more than (someone); to do (something) to a greater extent.
senses_topics:
|
6486 | word:
freeze
word_type:
verb
expansion:
freeze (third-person singular simple present freezes, present participle freezing, simple past froze, past participle frozen or (now colloquial) froze)
forms:
form:
freezes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
freezing
tags:
participle
present
form:
froze
tags:
past
form:
frozen
tags:
participle
past
form:
froze
tags:
colloquial
participle
past
wikipedia:
freeze
etymology_text:
From Middle English fresen, from Old English frēosan (“to freeze”), from Proto-West Germanic *freusan, from Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to frost, freeze”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to frost, freeze”).
Cognate with Scots frese (“to freeze”), Saterland Frisian frjoze (“to freeze”), West Frisian frieze (“to freeze”), Dutch vriezen (“to freeze”), Low German freren, freern, fresen (“to freeze”), German frieren (“to freeze”), Danish fryse (“to freeze”), Norwegian fryse, Swedish frysa (“to freeze”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost”), Welsh (Northern) rhew (“frost, ice”), and Sanskrit प्रुष्व (pruṣvá, “water drop, frost”).
senses_examples:
text:
The lake froze solid.
type:
example
text:
1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, Book XX: The Famine,
Ever thicker, thicker, thicker / Froze the ice on lake and river,
text:
He got to Dawson before the river froze, and now I suppose I won't hear any more until spring.
ref:
1913, Willa Cather, “O Pioneers!”, in Winter Memories, section I
type:
quotation
text:
1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, The How and Why Library: Wonders, Section II: Water,
Running water does not freeze as easily as still water.
text:
Don't freeze meat twice.
type:
example
text:
1888, Elias Lönnrot, John Martin Crawford (translator, from German), The Kalevala, Rune XXX: The Frost-fiend,
Freeze the wizard in his vessel, / Freeze to ice the wicked Ahti, ...
text:
It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.
type:
example
text:
It's freezing in here!
type:
example
text:
Don't go outside wearing just a t-shirt; you'll freeze!
type:
example
text:
Since the last update, the program freezes after a few minutes of use.
type:
example
text:
Despite all of the rehearsals, I froze as soon as I got on stage.
type:
example
text:
As Tarzan rose upon the body of his kill to scream forth his hideous victory cry into the face of the moon the wind carried to his nostrils something which froze him to statuesque immobility and silence.
ref:
1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter III, in Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
type:
quotation
text:
They froze on their knees, their faces turned upward with a ghastly blue hue in the sudden glare of a weird light that burst blindingly up near the lofty roof and then burned with a throbbing glow.
ref:
1935, Robert E. Howard, chapter IV, in Jewels of Gwahlur
type:
quotation
text:
Dr Constantine sniggered and Mrs Hubbard immediately froze him with a glance.
ref:
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
Over time, he froze towards her, and ceased to react to her friendly advances.
type:
example
text:
The other side to this sunny gladness of natural love is his pity for their sufferings when their own mother's heart seems to freeze towards them.
ref:
1898, Robert Burns, edited by John George Dow, Selections from the poems of Robert Burns, page lviii
type:
quotation
text:
His friends begin to freeze towards him, the pillars of society cut him publicly, his clients cool off, big business deals no longer come his way, he is increasingly conscious of social ostracism and the puzzled misgivings of his wife.
ref:
1968, Ronald Victor Sampson, The Psychology of Power, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
If you cheat them, they don't say anything but after that they freeze towards you.
ref:
1988, Edward Holland Spicer, Kathleen M. Sands, Rosamond B. Spicer, People of Pascua, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
The court froze the criminal's bank account.
type:
example
text:
The headline promise in the Liberal Democrat manifesto is to freeze rail fares for commuters and season ticket holders for the duration of a Parliament.
ref:
2019 December 4, “Lib Dems promise fares freeze and low-emission technology”, in Rail, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Some websites, such as YouTube, deliberately freeze the view count, intended to deter attempts to game the system.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
To be affected by extreme cold.
(of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
(of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
To cause someone to become motionless.
To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.
To prevent from showing any visible change.
senses_topics:
|
6487 | word:
freeze
word_type:
noun
expansion:
freeze (plural freezes)
forms:
form:
freezes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
freeze
etymology_text:
See the above verb.
senses_examples:
text:
In order to work properly, the cotton stripper required that the plant be brown and brittle, as happened after a freeze, so that the cotton bolls could snap off easily.
ref:
2009, Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy, 2nd edition, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Without a freeze it might be possible to proceed with the production and deployment of such destabilizing systems as the MX, Trident II, cruise missiles and SS-18s, -19s and -20s.
ref:
1982 October, William Epstein, “The freeze: a hot issue at the United Nations”, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
type:
quotation
text:
1983 October 3, Ted Kennedy, speech, Truth and Tolerance in America,
Critics may oppose the nuclear freeze for what they regard as moral reasons.
text:
Many of our opponents in Congress are advocating a freeze in Federal spending and an increase in taxes.
ref:
1985 April 27, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address
type:
quotation
text:
The reason I said the guard wasn't the toughest shot in curling is because, in my book, that's a shot called the freeze. A stone thrown as a freeze comes perfectly to rest directly in front of another stone, without moving it (see Figure 10-5).
ref:
2006, Bob Weeks, Curling for Dummies, page 143
type:
quotation
text:
a hiring freeze; a pay freeze
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A period of intensely cold weather.
A halt of a regular operation.
The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
finance |
6488 | word:
freeze
word_type:
noun
expansion:
freeze (plural freezes)
forms:
form:
freezes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
freeze
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of frieze.
senses_topics:
|
6489 | word:
outrun
word_type:
verb
expansion:
outrun (third-person singular simple present outruns, present participle outrunning, simple past outran, past participle outrun)
forms:
form:
outruns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
outrunning
tags:
participle
present
form:
outran
tags:
past
form:
outrun
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From out- + run.
senses_examples:
text:
Can a tiger outrun a lion?
type:
example
text:
I don't need to outrun the bear; I just need to outrun you.
type:
example
text:
Once it became obvious that Extra 3119 West was out of control, the VAN engineer took matters into his own hands. Hearing the engineer of Extra 3119 West repeatedly report his speed as being 80 mph, the VAN engineer believed the other train had reached maximum speed and that he could outrun it. Had he been instructed to do this earlier by the dispatcher, he might have succeeded in staying ahead of the runaway.
ref:
1981 August 18, National Transportation Safety Board, “Role of Dispatcher”, in Railroad Accident Report: Rear-End Collision of Union Pacific Railroad Company Freight Trains Extra 3119 West and Extra 8044 West, Near Kelso, California, November 17, 1980, archived from the original on 2022-03-29, pages 30–31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To run faster than.
To exceed or overextend.
senses_topics:
|
6490 | word:
outrun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
outrun (plural outruns)
forms:
form:
outruns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From out- + run.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: inrun
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In ski jumping, the flat or uphill area past the landing point, where the skier can slow down.
The sheepdog's initial run towards the sheep, done in a curving motion so as not to startle them.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
dogs
lifestyle
pets
sheepdog-trials |
6491 | word:
goose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
goose (countable and uncountable, plural geese)
forms:
form:
geese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:goose (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
PIE word
*ǵʰh₂éns
From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.
Cognates:
Compare West Frisian goes, North Frisian göis (also Fering-Öömrang dialect North Frisian gus; Sölring dialect North Frisian Guus; Heligoland dialect North Frisian gus), Low German Goos, Low German Gans, Dutch gans, German Gans, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian gås, Icelandic gæs, Irish gé, Latin ānser, Latvian zùoss, Russian гусь (gusʹ), Albanian gatë, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Avestan 𐬰𐬁 (zā), Sanskrit हंस (haṃsá).
* The tailor's iron is so called from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose.
senses_examples:
text:
There is a flock of geese on the pond.
type:
example
text:
Ganders and geese are at their best for stock from two to ten years old. They live to a great age—it is stated to thirty or more years—but after ten years they cannot be reckoned upon as reliable assets on a farm. Two years old is the best age to mate them, making up pens of a gander and two or three geese at the New Year. It is difficult sometimes to distinguish ganders from geese. A practical man is, however, rarely mistaken.
ref:
1902, Lewis Wright, “Geese and Swans”, in The New Book of Poultry […], London, […]: Cassell and Company, Limited, page 560, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.
ref:
1843, Charles Dickens, “Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits”, in A Christmas Carol
type:
quotation
text:
I'm sorry for you, but you're such a goose.
ref:
1906, Langdon Mitchell, “The New York Idea”, in John Gassner, editor, Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911, published 2000, page 430
type:
quotation
text:
Have you stopped to think, you gooses, that Andy might not wish you to give it away?
ref:
1994, Barbara Benedict, Love and Honor, New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
You gooses. I didn’t accept his proposal. Mrs Plackett did. She did because she would. Don’t you see?
ref:
2014, Julie Berry, The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, New York, N.Y.: Roaring Brook Press, Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership
type:
quotation
text:
Surely I needn’t explain to you gooses that none of you, not even you, Caro, have the sort of dowry or connections or the appeal that such a match would require.
ref:
2019, Julia London, The Princess Plan, HQN Books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks.
A female goose.
The flesh of the goose used as food.
A silly person.
A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
A young woman or girlfriend.
An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.
senses_topics:
|
6492 | word:
goose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
goose (third-person singular simple present gooses, present participle goosing, simple past and past participle goosed)
forms:
form:
gooses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
goosing
tags:
participle
present
form:
goosed
tags:
participle
past
form:
goosed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:goose (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
PIE word
*ǵʰh₂éns
From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.
Cognates:
Compare West Frisian goes, North Frisian göis (also Fering-Öömrang dialect North Frisian gus; Sölring dialect North Frisian Guus; Heligoland dialect North Frisian gus), Low German Goos, Low German Gans, Dutch gans, German Gans, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian gås, Icelandic gæs, Irish gé, Latin ānser, Latvian zùoss, Russian гусь (gusʹ), Albanian gatë, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Avestan 𐬰𐬁 (zā), Sanskrit हंस (haṃsá).
* The tailor's iron is so called from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose.
senses_examples:
text:
She greeted Miss Lonelyhearts, then took hold of her husband and shook the breath out of him. When he was quiet, she dragged him into their apartment. Miss Lonelyhearts followed and as he passed her in the dark foyer, she goosed him and laughed.
ref:
1933, Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
type:
quotation
text:
The witness stand. Goldminers giving evidence, sure he's violent didn't I see him with my own peepers chasing those poor kids up on the roof and he goosed my wife last Christmas. Violently. Just a forceful nudge of the knee.
ref:
1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 36
type:
quotation
text:
Here are the three strange men have exposed themselves to me, the two obscene phone callers, the time I was goosed by an employer.
ref:
1991 August 24, Artemis OakGrove, “I Deserve A Medal”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Almost everyone in McKay’s impossibly starry cast feels like they’re jumping into the SNL host role, game for some light comedic lifting while waiting for the pros to show up and goose the laughs.
ref:
2021 December 7, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up”, in AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
The ensuing snarknado also seemed to goose the TV ratings. Hundreds of thousands of viewers switched on the movie after it began, suggesting that they’d gotten wind through Twitter of the bananas spectacle that was unfolding.
ref:
2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks, of (a person).
To stimulate; to spur.
To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
senses_topics:
|
6493 | word:
shrike
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shrike (plural shrikes)
forms:
form:
shrikes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *schrike, *schryke, from Old English sċrīc (“shrike, thrush”), from the same root as shriek and screech, named after the bird's cry. Compare Icelandic skríkja (“shrieker, shrike”), Swedish skrika (“jay”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae which are known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns.
senses_topics:
|
6494 | word:
y'all
word_type:
pron
expansion:
y'all (second-person plural nominative or objective, possessive determiner y'all's, possessive pronoun y'all's, reflexive y'allselves)
forms:
form:
y'all's
tags:
determiner
possessive
form:
y'all's
tags:
possessive
pronoun
without-noun
form:
y'allselves
tags:
reflexive
wikipedia:
y'all
etymology_text:
Contraction of you all, and/or from Scots ye aw. Attested since at least 1631.
Compare Dutch jullie (originally jij lui (literally “you people”)) for a similar development of a new plural pronoun out of Proto-Germanic *jīz that originally was already plural.
senses_examples:
text:
[...] and this y'all know is true, [...]
ref:
1631, William Lisle, The Faire Æthiopian
type:
quotation
text:
Much later, after dozens of the men had come up to me to shake my hand (with both of theirs) and say "Y'all come back soon, hear? ...
ref:
1987, Judson D. Hale, The education of a Yankee: an American memoir, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
People in the South do indeed seem to be addressing a single person as "y'all." For instance, a restaurant patron might ask a waiter, "What y'all got for dessert tonight?" In that case, "y'all" refers collectively to the people who run the restaurant.
ref:
2007, Roy Blount, Long time leaving: dispatches from up South, page 117
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of you
senses_topics:
|
6495 | word:
y'all
word_type:
verb
expansion:
y'all (third-person singular simple present y'alls, present participle y'alling, simple past and past participle y'alled)
forms:
form:
y'alls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
y'alling
tags:
participle
present
form:
y'alled
tags:
participle
past
form:
y'alled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
y'all
etymology_text:
Contraction of you all, and/or from Scots ye aw. Attested since at least 1631.
Compare Dutch jullie (originally jij lui (literally “you people”)) for a similar development of a new plural pronoun out of Proto-Germanic *jīz that originally was already plural.
senses_examples:
text:
She blithely maintained that she could have smiled magnolias and "y'alled" her way out of any tight spots.
ref:
1971, Frank Deford, There she is: the life and times of Miss America
type:
quotation
text:
With his swarthy complexion and jet black, straight hair, Louis was actually quite dashing. He wore his expensively cut clothes and heavy rings well, too. Besides his short stature, his most noticeable peculiarity was that he had a voice like Lytton Strachey's, which moved alarmingly, in the middle of a sentence, or sometimes halfway through a word, from a booming bass to the high-pitched, almost whistling soprano of a boy whose voice has not yet broken. As he y'alled and drawled ...
ref:
1990, Paul Levy, Finger lickin' good: a Kentucky childhood
type:
quotation
text:
Indeed, non-Southerners may feel themselves "y'alled" to death down here, yet even the most stony- faced New Englander will be charmed by the warmth of the Cloister's staff. The tradition of service is simply better and more deeply entrenched in the South than in any other region of the United States.
ref:
1997, Terence Sieg, Golf travel's guide to the world's greatest golf destinations: the ultimate resource for the discriminating golfer
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use the pronoun "y'all" (to).
senses_topics:
|
6496 | word:
y'all
word_type:
det
expansion:
y'all
forms:
wikipedia:
y'all
etymology_text:
Contraction of you all, and/or from Scots ye aw. Attested since at least 1631.
Compare Dutch jullie (originally jij lui (literally “you people”)) for a similar development of a new plural pronoun out of Proto-Germanic *jīz that originally was already plural.
senses_examples:
text:
Have y'all ladies finished eating?
type:
example
text:
I need y'all help for a minute.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The group spoken or written to.
Your pl; y'all's
senses_topics:
|
6497 | word:
figure of speech
word_type:
noun
expansion:
figure of speech (plural figures of speech)
forms:
form:
figures of speech
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
figure of speech
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I hope you didn't take it the wrong way, that was a figure of speech.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word or phrase that intentionally deviates from ordinary language use to produce a rhetorical effect.
A turn of phrase that ought not to be taken literally, but rather as employed for convenience of expression only.
senses_topics:
|
6498 | word:
tear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tear (third-person singular simple present tears, present participle tearing, simple past tore, past participle torn or (now colloquial and nonstandard) tore)
forms:
form:
tears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
tore
tags:
past
form:
torn
tags:
participle
past
form:
tore
tags:
colloquial
nonstandard
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English teren, from Old English teran (“to tear, lacerate”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart, rip”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”).
Cognate with Scots tere, teir, tair (“to rend, lacerate, wound, rip, tear out”), Dutch teren (“to eliminate, efface, live, survive by consumption”), German zehren (“to consume, misuse”), German zerren (“to tug, rip, tear”), Danish tære (“to consume”), Swedish tära (“to fret, consume, deplete, use up”), Icelandic tæra (“to clear, corrode”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Ancient Greek δέρω (dérō, “to skin”), Albanian ther (“to slay, skin, pierce”). Doublet of tire.
senses_examples:
text:
He tore his coat on the nail.
type:
example
text:
1886, Gustave Flaubert, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Madame Bovary, published 1856, Part III Chapter XI:
type:
quotation
text:
He has a torn ligament.
type:
example
text:
He tore some muscles in a weight-lifting accident.
type:
example
text:
He was torn by conflicting emotions.
type:
example
text:
A piece of debris tore a tiny straight channel through the satellite.
type:
example
text:
His boss will tear him a new one when he finds out.
type:
example
text:
The artillery tore a gap in the line.
type:
example
text:
Tear the coupon out of the newspaper.
type:
example
text:
[A] surge of muddy water tore him free from his sandy nook and tumbled him down the gully.
ref:
2012, Max Overton, Horemheb
type:
quotation
text:
The slums were torn down to make way for the new development.
type:
example
text:
My dress has torn.
type:
example
text:
He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
type:
example
text:
The tornado lingered, tearing through town, leaving nothing upright.
type:
example
text:
He tore into the backlog of complaints.
type:
example
text:
I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown. 24/7 Sylvia Plath.
ref:
2019, Lana Del Rey, Hope Is a Dangerous Thing
type:
quotation
text:
The chain shot tore into the approaching line of infantry.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
To injure as if by pulling apart.
To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
To make (an opening) with force or energy.
To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force.
To demolish.
To become torn, especially accidentally.
To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
To smash or enter something with great force.
senses_topics:
|
6499 | word:
tear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tear (plural tears)
forms:
form:
tears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English teren, from Old English teran (“to tear, lacerate”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart, rip”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”).
Cognate with Scots tere, teir, tair (“to rend, lacerate, wound, rip, tear out”), Dutch teren (“to eliminate, efface, live, survive by consumption”), German zehren (“to consume, misuse”), German zerren (“to tug, rip, tear”), Danish tære (“to consume”), Swedish tära (“to fret, consume, deplete, use up”), Icelandic tæra (“to clear, corrode”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Ancient Greek δέρω (dérō, “to skin”), Albanian ther (“to slay, skin, pierce”). Doublet of tire.
senses_examples:
text:
A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.
type:
example
text:
to go on a tear
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hole or break caused by tearing.
A rampage.
senses_topics:
|
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