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6500 | word:
tear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tear (plural tears)
forms:
form:
tears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tear
etymology_text:
From Middle English teer (“tear”), from Old English tēar, from Proto-West Germanic *tahr, from Proto-Germanic *tahrą (“tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru- (“tears”).
Cognates include Old Norse tár (Danish tåre and Norwegian tåre), Old High German zahar (German Zähre), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐍂 (tagr), Irish deoir and Latin lacrima.
senses_examples:
text:
There were big tears rolling down Lisa's cheeks.
type:
example
text:
Ryan wiped the tear from the paper he was crying on.
type:
example
text:
I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am. […] / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme.
ref:
1603, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act V, scene ii, page 338
type:
quotation
text:
Without meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well [...]
ref:
1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, Cambridge: Printed by Thomas Buck, and Roger Daniel, published 1638, page 131
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
senses_topics:
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6501 | word:
tear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tear (third-person singular simple present tears, present participle tearing, simple past and past participle teared)
forms:
form:
tears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
teared
tags:
participle
past
form:
teared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tear
etymology_text:
From Middle English teer (“tear”), from Old English tēar, from Proto-West Germanic *tahr, from Proto-Germanic *tahrą (“tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru- (“tears”).
Cognates include Old Norse tár (Danish tåre and Norwegian tåre), Old High German zahar (German Zähre), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐍂 (tagr), Irish deoir and Latin lacrima.
senses_examples:
text:
Her eyes began to tear in the harsh wind.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce tears.
senses_topics:
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6502 | word:
archaic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
archaic (plural archaics)
forms:
form:
archaics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From archaism (“ancient or obsolete phrase or expression”) or from French archaïque, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀρχαϊκός (arkhaïkós, “old-fashioned”), from ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “from the beginning, antiquated, ancient, old”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “beginning, origin”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “I am first”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “I begin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin, rule, command”).
senses_examples:
text:
… Archaic Stage … the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.
ref:
1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107
text:
[...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.
ref:
2009, The Human Lineage, page 432
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, etc.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
(A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.
senses_topics:
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
anthropology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleoanthropology
paleontology
sciences |
6503 | word:
archaic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
archaic (comparative more archaic, superlative most archaic)
forms:
form:
more archaic
tags:
comparative
form:
most archaic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From archaism (“ancient or obsolete phrase or expression”) or from French archaïque, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀρχαϊκός (arkhaïkós, “old-fashioned”), from ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “from the beginning, antiquated, ancient, old”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “beginning, origin”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “I am first”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “I begin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin, rule, command”).
senses_examples:
text:
A person familiar with the dialect of certain portions of Massachusetts will not fail to recognize, in ordinary discourse, many words now noted in English vocabularies as archaic, the greater part of which were in common use about the time of the King James translation of the Bible. Shakespeare stands less in need of a glossary to most New Englanders than to many a native of the Old Country.
ref:
1848, James Russel Lowell, The Biglow Papers
type:
quotation
text:
There is in the best archaic coin work [of the Greeks] ... a strength and a delicacy which are often wanting in the fully developed art of a later age.
ref:
1887, Barclay V. Head, Historia Numorum A Manual Of Greek Numismatics
type:
quotation
text:
Brann's compass of words, idioms and phrases harks back to the archaic and reaches forward to the futuristic. Volume 1
ref:
1898, William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast
type:
quotation
text:
But now he is reinvented; he is on the way to establishing himself as the official interpreter of an ancient, archaic institution to the generations that are already distant in both time and culture from the world that sustains his grandmother.
ref:
2017 December 27, “The Guardian view on Prince Harry: the monarchy’s best insurance policy”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The language of the Faerie Queene was made archaic Language:— in order to be in keeping with the chivalry of bygone ages that formed its subject.
ref:
1893, Harrington Hugh Melville Percival, “Introduction”, in The faerie queene: Book 1, page lxi
type:
quotation
text:
Almost every writer of power will occasionally use with strong effect an archaic term that he has unearthed from the treasures of the older English vocabulary. This is especially true of poets, who recognize that the unusualness of the archaic word will sometimes heighten the poetic effect.
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1900, Mary Hall Leonard, “The Revival of Old English Words”, in The Writer, volume 13, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
When generations pass and the object or institution referred to by the archaic word is no longer part of present, lived experience, though the word has been retained, its meaning is commonly altered or simply vanishes. African talking drums, as used for example among the Lokele in eastern Zaire, speak in elaborate formulas that preserve certain archaic words which the drummers can vocalize but whose meaning they no longer know.
ref:
1982, Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: the technologizing of the word, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
his resistance to censorship blends nicely with his scorn for the common folk, so a limited edition, in beautiful archaic language incomprehensible to the masses, of rude or blasphemous material such as one can find in the Decameron, would simultaneously satisfy both impulses.
ref:
2005, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, “Editor's Introduction”, in Decameron, page lxvi
type:
quotation
text:
Cabell also uses a kind of stylistic dissonance to reinforce his novel's thematic ironies at the sentence level. An inflated speech in archaic language might end with a modern pinprick: "And so on, and so on!"
ref:
2008, Susan F. Beegel, “Introduction”, in John Steinbeck, Cup of gold: a life of Sir Henry Morgan, buccaneer, page xx
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity and are still likely to be understood by well-educated speakers and are found in historical texts.
Belonging to the archaic period.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences |
6504 | word:
palm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
palm (plural palms)
forms:
form:
palms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Palm
etymology_text:
From Middle English palme, from Old English palm, palma (“palm-tree, palm-branch”), from Latin palma (“palm-tree, palm-branch, palm of the hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, *pl̥h₂emeh₂ (“palm of the hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognate with Dutch palm, German Palme, Danish palme, Icelandic pálmur (“palm”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
Triumph; victory.
Any of 23 awards that can be earned after obtaining the Eagle Scout rank, but generally only before turning 18 years old.
senses_topics:
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6505 | word:
palm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
palm (plural palms)
forms:
form:
palms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Palm
etymology_text:
:Template:Wiktionary:Picture dictionary/en:Fingers
From Middle English palme, paume, from Old French palme, paulme, paume (“palm of the hand, ball, tennis”), from Latin palma (“palm of the hand, hand-breadth”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂(e)meh₂ (“palm of the hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Doublet of palmo, palma, and pam. Cognate with Ancient Greek παλάμη (palámē, “palm of the hand”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”), Old Irish lám (“hand”).
senses_examples:
text:
The open palm of desire wants everything.
ref:
1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Further to Fly”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
type:
quotation
text:
He found it to be ninety-five fathoms wide, and five palms deep at a place of average depth
ref:
1931, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Outpost of Empire: The Story of the Founding of San Francisco
type:
quotation
text:
They watched until the younger bull received a second cut, this one on his flank from a point on the brow palm that would have impaled him if he hadn't jumped out of the way.
ref:
1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, page 168
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
The corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal.
Synonym of hand, any of various units of length notionally derived from the breadth of the palm, formalized in England as 4 inches and now chiefly used for the height of horses
Any of various units of length notionally derived from the length of the palm from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
A metallic disk attached to a strap and worn in the palm of the hand; used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.
The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.
The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
senses_topics:
arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sailmaking
transport
nautical
transport |
6506 | word:
palm
word_type:
verb
expansion:
palm (third-person singular simple present palms, present participle palming, simple past and past participle palmed)
forms:
form:
palms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
palming
tags:
participle
present
form:
palmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
palmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Palm
etymology_text:
:Template:Wiktionary:Picture dictionary/en:Fingers
From Middle English palme, paume, from Old French palme, paulme, paume (“palm of the hand, ball, tennis”), from Latin palma (“palm of the hand, hand-breadth”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂(e)meh₂ (“palm of the hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Doublet of palmo, palma, and pam. Cognate with Ancient Greek παλάμη (palámē, “palm of the hand”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”), Old Irish lám (“hand”).
senses_examples:
text:
John palmed the ball.
type:
example
text:
The home side's goalkeeper Asmir Begovic managed to palm the drive on to the post but the sheer pace of the shot forced the ball into the net.
ref:
2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
I palmed in to work.
type:
example
text:
She palmed the door as she talked to the security guard.
type:
example
text:
He never again appeared in the house where practices of this description are carried on every night, and where officers of the police are palmed (bribed) for their forbearance.
ref:
1845, George Smeeton, Doings in London, page 78
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.
To hold something without bending the fingers significantly.
To move something with the palm of the hand.
To use one's palm as identification to get through a door or security checkpoint.
To bribe.
senses_topics:
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6507 | word:
rainbow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rainbow (plural rainbows)
forms:
form:
rainbows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rainbow
etymology_text:
From Middle English reynbowe, raynbowe, from Old English reġnboga (“rainbow”), from Proto-West Germanic *regnabogō, from Proto-Germanic *regnabugô (“rainbow”), equivalent to rain + bow (“arch”). Cognate with West Frisian reinbôge (“rainbow”), Dutch regenboog (“rainbow”), German Regenbogen (“rainbow”), Danish regnbue (“rainbow”), Swedish regnbåge (“rainbow”), Icelandic regnbogi (“rainbow”).
senses_examples:
text:
Why are there so many songs about rainbows
And what's on the other side?
Rainbows are visions, but only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide.
ref:
1979, Paul Williams, Kenneth Ascher (lyrics and music), “Rainbow Connection”, performed by Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson)
type:
quotation
text:
a rainbow of possibilities
type:
example
text:
Many electoral promises are rainbows, vanishing soon after poll day.
type:
example
text:
Finally, by actual trial, I have found that I can catch more rainbow by using one fly than with a two or three-fly cast.
ref:
1911, Francis R. Steel, “Catching the Rainbow Trout”, in The Outing Magazine, volume 58, page 482
type:
quotation
text:
Oh look, the rainbow came back.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
An illusion; a mirage.
A curveball, particularly a slow one.
In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
Rainbow trout.
A person within the LGBT community.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
card-games
poker
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6508 | word:
rainbow
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rainbow (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
rainbow
etymology_text:
From Middle English reynbowe, raynbowe, from Old English reġnboga (“rainbow”), from Proto-West Germanic *regnabogō, from Proto-Germanic *regnabugô (“rainbow”), equivalent to rain + bow (“arch”). Cognate with West Frisian reinbôge (“rainbow”), Dutch regenboog (“rainbow”), German Regenbogen (“rainbow”), Danish regnbue (“rainbow”), Swedish regnbåge (“rainbow”), Icelandic regnbogi (“rainbow”).
senses_examples:
text:
That Asian-American actor Thomas Ikeda contributes a pleasingly frantic Panthino would not be considered rainbow enough.
ref:
1994, John Simon, Of Dogs, Their Masters, and Others, in New York magazine, September 5 1994, page 51
text:
He went along with them because the Pack was a rainbow group — two Italian-Americans, a black man, a Jew (Bishop), and a sometime Englishman (Lawford) — and they were making a point.
ref:
2006, Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan, Sinatra: The Life, page 246
type:
quotation
text:
The 1999 June elections led to a surprise change in the governing coalition from the long-term ruling Christian Democrats to a rainbow group of Greens, Liberals, and Socialists.
ref:
2007, Melissa Haussman, Birgit Sauer, Gendering the state in the age of globalization, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
[…] it seemed to me to be naive indeed for the Liberal Democrats to believe that they could simply enter into a rainbow alliance against the Labour Government.
ref:
2007, Hooson, in a Letter to the Western Mail, 19 June 2007, published in Crossing the Rubicon: coalition politics Welsh style by John Osmond, page 28
text:
Mayawati has succeeded in building a social coalition that inverts the pyramid of caste/class hierarchy by building a rainbow alliance of social groups, now dominated by that greatest underclass of all, namely Dalits.
ref:
2008, Bidyut Chakrabarty, Indian politics and society since independence, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
Similarly, the question of who belongs in such a rainbow alliance isn't set. It can include gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals. It can include people who are 'questioning' which culture they belong to [...]
ref:
2005, Alan McKee, The public sphere: an introduction, page 167
type:
quotation
text:
rainbow attack
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Multicolored, especially if in rainbow order.
Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
LGBT.
Composed entirely of different suits.
Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker
computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
6509 | word:
rainbow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rainbow (third-person singular simple present rainbows, present participle rainbowing, simple past and past participle rainbowed)
forms:
form:
rainbows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rainbowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
rainbowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
rainbowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rainbow
etymology_text:
From Middle English reynbowe, raynbowe, from Old English reġnboga (“rainbow”), from Proto-West Germanic *regnabogō, from Proto-Germanic *regnabugô (“rainbow”), equivalent to rain + bow (“arch”). Cognate with West Frisian reinbôge (“rainbow”), Dutch regenboog (“rainbow”), German Regenbogen (“rainbow”), Danish regnbue (“rainbow”), Swedish regnbåge (“rainbow”), Icelandic regnbogi (“rainbow”).
senses_examples:
text:
We saw birds and butterflies rainbowing in the sun; lazy lizards crawling in the heat; inguanas blinking on stone wall, with mouth wide open for flies; poisonous snakes, not only carved on walls, but gliding through the grass.
ref:
1917, G[ulian] L[ansing] Morrill, The Devil in Mexico, Minneapolis, MN: [?], page 55
type:
quotation
text:
“She's going to learn to belay while I'm climbing? What if I fall?” “You're not going to fall while rainbowing a 5.8, and besides, she'll catch you.” “I could die.” “That would be tragic,” I said. Kaitlyn crossed her arms.
ref:
2016, Kristin Lenz, Art of Holding On and Letting Go, Elephant Rock Books
type:
quotation
text:
called “rainbowing.” Different routes were color coordinated. ... Using hand-me-down equipment and learning as much as she could, Brittany began climbing outdoors. She found like-minded people and joined organizations such as Brown ...
ref:
2021, Ann McCallum Staats, Thrill Seekers: 15 Remarkable Women in Extreme Sports, Chicago Review Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
To take the appearance of a rainbow.
In climbing gyms where the rocks to climb are colored to indicate suggested climbing routes, to climb rocks of different colors, thereby ignoring such routes.
senses_topics:
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
6510 | word:
ear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ear (plural ears)
forms:
form:
ears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ere, eare, from Old English ēare (“ear”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô (“ear”) (compare Scots ear, West Frisian ear, Dutch oor, German Ohr, Swedish öra, Danish øre), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws (compare Old Irish áu, Latin auris, Lithuanian ausìs, Russian у́хо (úxo), Albanian vesh, Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), Old Armenian ունկն (unkn), and Persian گوش (gôš)).
senses_examples:
text:
No I'm not kidding, and if you don't give it to me I'll let it out that you’re an ear.
ref:
1976, Stirling Silliphant, Dean Riesner, Gail Morgan Hickman, The Enforcer
type:
quotation
text:
a good ear for music
type:
example
text:
They don’t know if they’re going to have a job in a week or a month. They don’t know if they can pay the rising prices. Instead of the paradise they expected July 1, their total existence is unsure. That some foreigners get beaten—nobody has an ear for that now.
ref:
1990 August 19, Uwe Stelbrink, quotee, “Fear and uncertainty breed xenophobia in E. Germany”, in Democrat and Chronicle, volume 158, Rochester, N.Y., page 5A
type:
quotation
text:
the ears of a tub, skillet, or dish; The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow.
type:
example
text:
When they got as far as the little valley north of Oppenhagen - where the land-slip took place - he thought he sat between the ears of a bucket; but shortly this vanished also, and it was only then he really came to himself again.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 291
type:
quotation
text:
In journalism, ears flank the title as boxes in the left and right top corners of a publication (generally a newspaper).
ref:
2006, Richard Weiner, Charles M. Levine, The Skinny about Best Boys, Dollies, Green Rooms, Leads, and Other Media Lingo, page 26
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
A police informant.
The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.
The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; a foot-rest or step of a spade or a similar digging tool.
An acroterium.
A crossette.
A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.
A curled ridge in the crust of a loaf of bread where the dough was slashed before going into the oven and expands during baking.
senses_topics:
architecture
architecture
journalism
media
baking
cooking
food
lifestyle |
6511 | word:
ear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ear (third-person singular simple present ears, present participle earing, simple past and past participle eared)
forms:
form:
ears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
earing
tags:
participle
present
form:
eared
tags:
participle
past
form:
eared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ere, eare, from Old English ēare (“ear”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô (“ear”) (compare Scots ear, West Frisian ear, Dutch oor, German Ohr, Swedish öra, Danish øre), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws (compare Old Irish áu, Latin auris, Lithuanian ausìs, Russian у́хо (úxo), Albanian vesh, Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), Old Armenian ունկն (unkn), and Persian گوش (gôš)).
senses_examples:
text:
Sometimes, the helper eared the horse down; and sometimes he used a blindfold.
ref:
1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
The general technique was to rope the horse around the neck, and, while one or two men eared the horse down (held him by the ears), the rider saddled the animal and stepped above him.
ref:
2013, Fay E. Ward, The Cowboy at Work
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take in with the ears; to hear.
To hold by the ears.
senses_topics:
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6512 | word:
ear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ear (plural ears)
forms:
form:
ears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eere, er, from Old English ēar (Northumbrian dialect æhher), from Proto-West Germanic *ahaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *ahaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).
See also West Frisian ier, Dutch aar, German Ähre; also Latin acus (“needle; husk”), Tocharian B āk (“ear, awn”), Old Church Slavonic ость (ostĭ, “wheat spike, sharp point”). More at edge.
senses_examples:
text:
He is in the fields, harvesting ears of corn.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fruiting body of a grain plant.
senses_topics:
|
6513 | word:
ear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ear (third-person singular simple present ears, present participle earing, simple past and past participle eared)
forms:
form:
ears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
earing
tags:
participle
present
form:
eared
tags:
participle
past
form:
eared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eere, er, from Old English ēar (Northumbrian dialect æhher), from Proto-West Germanic *ahaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *ahaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).
See also West Frisian ier, Dutch aar, German Ähre; also Latin acus (“needle; husk”), Tocharian B āk (“ear, awn”), Old Church Slavonic ость (ostĭ, “wheat spike, sharp point”). More at edge.
senses_examples:
text:
This corn ears well.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.
senses_topics:
|
6514 | word:
ear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ear (third-person singular simple present ears, present participle earing, simple past and past participle eared)
forms:
form:
ears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
earing
tags:
participle
present
form:
eared
tags:
participle
past
form:
eared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eren, from Old English erian, from Proto-West Germanic *arjan, from Proto-Germanic *arjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To plough.
senses_topics:
|
6515 | word:
all
word_type:
det
expansion:
all
forms:
wikipedia:
en:all
etymology_text:
From Middle English all, from Old English eall, from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz, of uncertain origin but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond, other”). Cognate with West Frisian al (“all”), Dutch al (“all”), Scots a' (“all”), German all (“all”), Swedish all (“all”), Norwegian all (“all”), Icelandic allur (“all”), Welsh holl (“all”), Irish uile (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“all, each, every”).
The dialectal sense “all gone” is a calque of German alle. The use in who all, where all etc. also has equivalents in German (see alles).
senses_examples:
text:
All contestants must register at the scorer’s table.
type:
example
text:
All flesh is originally grass.
type:
example
text:
All my friends like classical music.
type:
example
text:
On the one hand, we had a scenario where, effectively, the American admiral just went "You know what, all the destroyers attack", at which point they mowed through the Japanese destroyers like a Grim Reaper through a harvest of very, very dead gorn, especially with the Brooklyns in support.
ref:
2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 2022-07-04
type:
quotation
text:
The store is open all day and all night.
(= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
type:
example
text:
I’ve been working on this all year.
(= from the beginning of the year until now.)
type:
example
text:
He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
Only; alone; nothing but.
Any.
senses_topics:
|
6516 | word:
all
word_type:
pron
expansion:
all
forms:
wikipedia:
en:all
etymology_text:
From Middle English all, from Old English eall, from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz, of uncertain origin but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond, other”). Cognate with West Frisian al (“all”), Dutch al (“all”), Scots a' (“all”), German all (“all”), Swedish all (“all”), Norwegian all (“all”), Icelandic allur (“all”), Welsh holl (“all”), Irish uile (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“all, each, every”).
The dialectal sense “all gone” is a calque of German alle. The use in who all, where all etc. also has equivalents in German (see alles).
senses_examples:
text:
Some gave all they had.
type:
example
text:
She knows all and sees all.
type:
example
text:
Those who think they know it all are annoying to those of us who do.
type:
example
text:
A good time was had by all.
type:
example
text:
We all enjoyed the movie.
type:
example
text:
Hey all, just a quick note as I am trying to do 46 things at once and slow down a touch all at once…
ref:
2012 October 9, Amy Hauser, Tom Hauser, chapter 7, in Marge Thompson, Frankie M. Leisering, editors, In His Grip … a Walk Through Breast Cancer, WestBow Press, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
All that was left was a small pile of ash.
type:
example
text:
We ate potatoes and ziti .... that's all.
type:
example
text:
Q. Now, then, when you started to go to stake the claims, who all went along?
ref:
1904 October 10, Shea v. Nilima, [US] Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in 1905, Reports Containing the Cases Determined in All the Circuits from the Organization of the Courts, page 266
roman:
A. I and Johan Peter Johansen, Otto Greiner, and Thorulf Kjelsberg.
text:
"I mean, you could have called us—collect, o'course—jes' to let us know how-all it's a-goin'."
ref:
1998, Paul D. Staudohar, editor, Football's Best Short Stories, section 107
type:
quotation
text:
"Where all did he go? What exactly was his job?" Gary shrugged and produced a weak laugh. "I reckon the Middle East. Ain't that where all the oil is?"
ref:
2002, Richard Haddock, Arkalalah, iUniverse, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
"Do you ever ask me what I want to see? Or ask me about where all I've gone, who all I've met, what all I've done? Never. Not for one second. And why? Because you don't give two hoops about me."
ref:
2011, Moni Mohsin, Tender Hooks, Random House India
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Everything.
Everyone.
The only thing(s).
Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their meaning, or indicating that one expects that they cover more than one element, e.g. that "Who all attended?" is more than one person. (Some dialects only allow this to follow some words and not others.)
senses_topics:
|
6517 | word:
all
word_type:
adv
expansion:
all (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:all
etymology_text:
From Middle English all, from Old English eall, from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz, of uncertain origin but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond, other”). Cognate with West Frisian al (“all”), Dutch al (“all”), Scots a' (“all”), German all (“all”), Swedish all (“all”), Norwegian all (“all”), Icelandic allur (“all”), Welsh holl (“all”), Irish uile (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“all, each, every”).
The dialectal sense “all gone” is a calque of German alle. The use in who all, where all etc. also has equivalents in German (see alles).
senses_examples:
text:
She was sitting all alone.
It suddenly went all quiet.
I'm all done, Mommy! I did it all by myself.
type:
example
text:
'Tis mystery all: th'Immortal dies
ref:
1738, Charles Wesley, “And can it be that I should gain”, in John Wesley, editor, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, Charlestown: Lewis Timothy, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
type:
example
text:
Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
type:
example
text:
All as his straying flock he fed.
ref:
1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London: Hugh Singleton, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
A damsel lay deploring / All on a rock reclined.
ref:
1715, John Gay, What D’ye Call It?, London: Bernard Lintott, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
She was all, “Whatever.”
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.
Apiece; each.
So much.
Even; just.
A quotative particle, compare like.
senses_topics:
|
6518 | word:
all
word_type:
noun
expansion:
all (countable and uncountable, plural alls)
forms:
form:
alls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:all
etymology_text:
From Middle English all, from Old English eall, from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz, of uncertain origin but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond, other”). Cognate with West Frisian al (“all”), Dutch al (“all”), Scots a' (“all”), German all (“all”), Swedish all (“all”), Norwegian all (“all”), Icelandic allur (“all”), Welsh holl (“all”), Irish uile (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“all, each, every”).
The dialectal sense “all gone” is a calque of German alle. The use in who all, where all etc. also has equivalents in German (see alles).
senses_examples:
text:
She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.
type:
example
text:
she therefore ordered Jenny to pack up her alls and begone, for that she was determined she should not sleep that night within her walls. […] I packed up my little all as well as I could, and went off.
ref:
Folio Society 1973, pp. 37-8
type:
quotation
text:
I will die fighting for my people, because my people are all.
type:
example
text:
All are one and one is all.
ref:
1992, Bruce Coville, My Teacher Flunked the Planet
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Everything that one is capable of.
The totality of one's possessions.
Everything in general; all that matters.
senses_topics:
|
6519 | word:
all
word_type:
conj
expansion:
all
forms:
wikipedia:
en:all
etymology_text:
From Middle English all, from Old English eall, from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz, of uncertain origin but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond, other”). Cognate with West Frisian al (“all”), Dutch al (“all”), Scots a' (“all”), German all (“all”), Swedish all (“all”), Norwegian all (“all”), Icelandic allur (“all”), Welsh holl (“all”), Irish uile (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“all, each, every”).
The dialectal sense “all gone” is a calque of German alle. The use in who all, where all etc. also has equivalents in German (see alles).
senses_examples:
text:
And those two froward sisters, their faire loves, / Came with them eke, all they were wondrous loth.
ref:
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 2, London: Ponsonbie, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Although.
senses_topics:
|
6520 | word:
all
word_type:
adj
expansion:
all
forms:
wikipedia:
en:all
etymology_text:
From Middle English all, from Old English eall, from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz, of uncertain origin but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond, other”). Cognate with West Frisian al (“all”), Dutch al (“all”), Scots a' (“all”), German all (“all”), Swedish all (“all”), Norwegian all (“all”), Icelandic allur (“all”), Welsh holl (“all”), Irish uile (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“all, each, every”).
The dialectal sense “all gone” is a calque of German alle. The use in who all, where all etc. also has equivalents in German (see alles).
senses_examples:
text:
The butter is all.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
All gone; dead.
senses_topics:
|
6521 | word:
whistler
word_type:
noun
expansion:
whistler (plural whistlers)
forms:
form:
whistlers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
whistler
etymology_text:
From Middle English whisteler, whistlar, whystelare, from Old English hwistlere (“a player on a flute; a piper”), equivalent to whistle + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
Any of several passerine birds of the genera Pachycephala and Coracornis, of Australasia and the western Pacific.
Any bird that whistles or is noted for its whistling vocalisations (applied regionally to various specific species).
A goldeneye (any of certain ducks of genus Bucephala).
A whistling marmot (Marmota caligata).
A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
A broken-winded horse.
The keeper of a whistling shop, or shebeen.
senses_topics:
|
6522 | word:
blud
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blud (plural bluds)
forms:
form:
bluds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Created in Multicultural London English, of Jamaican origin. Has since spread around England, and thence Anglosphere and online. Claimed to be, via eye dialect spelling, from Caribbean Creole blood (“family relation, close friend”) (compare blood brother). Possibly derived or reinforced from brother; compare bro, bruh, brudder etc.
senses_examples:
text:
–Yeh, blud, safe, goes Ravi.
ref:
2006, Gautam Malkani, Londonstani, HarperCollins, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Nowadays all of my shows sold out
Headline tour, yeah blud, sold out
ref:
2015, “Shut Up”, performed by Stormzy
type:
quotation
text:
I heard your mixtape, blud it was garbage […] Blud, I don't know why you mentioned my name
ref:
2016, “Punk (Chipmunk Diss)”, performed by Yungen
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Informal address to a man.
senses_topics:
|
6523 | word:
blud
word_type:
pron
expansion:
blud (third-person singular, masculine, nominative or objective case)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Created in Multicultural London English, of Jamaican origin. Has since spread around England, and thence Anglosphere and online. Claimed to be, via eye dialect spelling, from Caribbean Creole blood (“family relation, close friend”) (compare blood brother). Possibly derived or reinforced from brother; compare bro, bruh, brudder etc.
senses_examples:
text:
what is blud waffling about
ref:
2023 February 3, maddy🍋 (@fyridk), Twitter
type:
quotation
text:
who invited blud
ref:
2023 February 11, 🔴 (@TenHag_Szn), Twitter
type:
quotation
text:
Blud was lost
ref:
2023 February 2, Dom2K (@Dom_2k), Twitter
type:
quotation
text:
What is wrong with blud 😂😂🙌🙌
ref:
2023 February 11, Åmplė Cålm (@ample_calm), Twitter
type:
quotation
text:
What’s blud tryna say here
ref:
2023 February 2, MN1F🇬🇧 (@Wuwakia90), Twitter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
he or him
senses_topics:
|
6524 | word:
blud
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blud (usually uncountable, plural bluds)
forms:
form:
bluds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The yronmongers find a Carayge good
how Iesu dyed on yͤ Rode
and shed for vs his precyus blud
the find it in fere
ref:
1539–1540, Late Banns BL Harl 2150, The Records of Early English Drama, Cheshire Including Chester, Volume 1, Lawrence M. Clopper, Elizabeth Baldwin, David Mills: University of Toronto Press, 1 January 2007, page 84, line 33–36
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of blood.
senses_topics:
|
6525 | word:
account
word_type:
noun
expansion:
account (plural accounts)
forms:
form:
accounts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.
ref:
1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3
text:
Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
ref:
2012 January 24, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.
type:
example
text:
Don't trouble yourself on my account.
type:
example
text:
on no account
type:
example
text:
on every account
type:
example
text:
on all accounts
type:
example
text:
An account of a battle.
type:
example
text:
The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results[…]
ref:
1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, page 185
type:
quotation
text:
In a lapidary style, Qiu Dongping clearly and forcefully describes battlefield actions with simple sentences, giving a blow-by-blow account of successive events with neither understatement nor exaggeration.
ref:
2000, Yunzhong Shu, chapter 2, in Buglers on the Home Front: The Wartime Practice of the Qiyue School, State University of New York Press, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
To stand high in your account
ref:
1623, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act 3, scene 2
type:
quotation
text:
In these cases, the agency has to buy through another ad agency that has an account with the media vehicle in question.
ref:
2000, Sean Mooney, 5,110 Days in Tokyo and Everything's Hunky-dory, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
For example, to register an account with Hotmail, you should type www.hotmail.com on the Address bar of your browser to go to the Hotmail e-mail service WEB page.
ref:
2002, Whizkids Data Creation
type:
quotation
text:
While the buyer might have to create an account with the online payment service, this account is free; the account exists only to facilitate future transactions, since the buyer's address and payment information doesn't have to be re-entered for each new transaction.
ref:
2006, Michael Miller, Choosing an Online Payment Service
type:
quotation
text:
Depending on the shipping options you plan to offer to your customers, you'll probably need to open shipping accounts with FedEx, UPS, and perhaps other couriers as well.
ref:
2009, Jason Rich, Design and Launch an Online Web Design Business in a Week, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
Of course, to use iCloud on your iPhone, you need to have an iCloud account.
ref:
2014, Brad Miser, My iPhone (Covers iOS 8 on iPhone 6/6 Plus, 5S/5C/5, and 4S), page 71
type:
quotation
text:
Meronym: username
text:
I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and take part in the project.
type:
example
text:
It seems that this severity weakened his frame, for three years syne come Martinmas he was taken ill with a fever of the bowels, and after a week's sickness he went to his account, where I trust he is accepted.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
A bank account.
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
A record of events; a relation or narrative.
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
Profit; advantage.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance
banking
business
|
6526 | word:
account
word_type:
verb
expansion:
account (third-person singular simple present accounts, present participle accounting, simple past and past participle accounted)
forms:
form:
accounts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accounting
tags:
participle
present
form:
accounted
tags:
participle
past
form:
accounted
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
account
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French acounter, accomptere et al., from a- + conter (“to count”)). Compare count.
senses_examples:
text:
An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
type:
example
text:
We must account for the use of our opportunities.
type:
example
text:
Idleness accounts for poverty.
type:
example
text:
After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.
type:
example
text:
Desperately bold at last, the persecuted animals bolted above-ground—the terrier accounted for one, the keeper for another; Rawdon, from flurry and excitement, missed his rat, but on the other hand he half-murdered a ferret.
ref:
1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 45, in Vanity Fair
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide explanation.
To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
To provide explanation.
To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
To provide explanation.
To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
To provide explanation.
To consider that.
To provide explanation.
To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
To provide explanation.
To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
To provide explanation.
To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
To provide explanation.
To establish the location for someone.
To provide explanation.
To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
To count.
To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).
To count.
To count (up), enumerate.
To count.
To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
senses_topics:
|
6527 | word:
sound
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sound (comparative sounder, superlative soundest)
forms:
form:
sounder
tags:
comparative
form:
soundest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Sound (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ȝesund, from Old English sund, ġesund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-West Germanic *sund, from Proto-Germanic *gasundaz, *sundaz (“healthy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sunt-, *swent- (“vigorous, active, healthy”).
Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound”), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy”), West Frisian sûn (“healthy”), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound”), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy”), German gesund (“healthy, sound”), Danish sund (“healthy”), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy”). Related also to Dutch gezwind (“fast, quick”), German geschwind (“fast, quick”), Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”). See swith.
senses_examples:
text:
He was safe and sound.
type:
example
text:
In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work.
type:
example
text:
on the 29th of September 1840, in consideration that the plaintiff, at the request of the defendant, had bought of the defendant a certain horse, at a certain price, to wit, 30l., the defendant promised plaintiff that the horse did not exceed five years off, and that it was sound in wind and limb, perfect in vision, and free from vice; […]
ref:
1842 May 30, “Roscorla v. Thomas”, in Montagu[e] Chambers, editor, The Law Journal Reports for the Year 1842, volumes XX (New Series – volume XI, part II), London: E. B. Ince, 5 Quality Court, Chancery Lane, →OCLC, pages 214–215
type:
quotation
text:
Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
type:
example
text:
Refurbishing Okehampton station, kept basically sound under ownership by Devon Council, remains a work in progress and scheduled for completion next spring.
ref:
2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “Okehampton: a new dawn for Dartmoor”, in Rail, number 944, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
How are you? —I'm sound.
type:
example
text:
That's a sound track you're playing.
type:
example
text:
See that man over there? He's sound. You should get to know him.
type:
example
text:
Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, and often deeply.
type:
example
text:
Her sleep was sound.
type:
example
text:
a sound beating
type:
example
text:
a sound title to land
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Healthy.
Complete, solid, or secure.
Having the property of soundness.
Good; acceptable; decent.
Quiet and deep.
Heavy; laid on with force.
Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
|
6528 | word:
sound
word_type:
adv
expansion:
sound (comparative more sound, superlative most sound)
forms:
form:
more sound
tags:
comparative
form:
most sound
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Sound (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ȝesund, from Old English sund, ġesund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-West Germanic *sund, from Proto-Germanic *gasundaz, *sundaz (“healthy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sunt-, *swent- (“vigorous, active, healthy”).
Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound”), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy”), West Frisian sûn (“healthy”), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound”), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy”), German gesund (“healthy, sound”), Danish sund (“healthy”), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy”). Related also to Dutch gezwind (“fast, quick”), German geschwind (“fast, quick”), Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”). See swith.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Soundly.
senses_topics:
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6529 | word:
sound
word_type:
intj
expansion:
sound
forms:
wikipedia:
Sound (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ȝesund, from Old English sund, ġesund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-West Germanic *sund, from Proto-Germanic *gasundaz, *sundaz (“healthy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sunt-, *swent- (“vigorous, active, healthy”).
Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound”), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy”), West Frisian sûn (“healthy”), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound”), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy”), German gesund (“healthy, sound”), Danish sund (“healthy”), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy”). Related also to Dutch gezwind (“fast, quick”), German geschwind (“fast, quick”), Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”). See swith.
senses_examples:
text:
I found my jacket. — Sound.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Yes; used to show agreement or understanding.
senses_topics:
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6530 | word:
sound
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sound (countable and uncountable, plural sounds)
forms:
form:
sounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Sound (disambiguation)
sound
etymology_text:
* Noun: from Middle English sownde, alteration of soun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sun, soun, Old French son, from accusative of Latin sonus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (“to sound, resound”).
* Verb: from Middle English sownden, sounen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suner, sounder, Old French soner (modern sonner), from Latin sonō.
* The hypercorrect -d appears in the fifteenth century. (Compare dialectal drownd, gownd for the same development.)
Displaced native Middle English swei, from Old English swēġ, from Proto-Germanic *swōgiz.
senses_examples:
text:
He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him. Nobody made a sound.
type:
example
text:
In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.
ref:
1820, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 6th edition, volume 20, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page 501
type:
quotation
text:
He looks like he's got it, maybe. Listen to those kids!/There's no maybe about it. That's it, that's the sound.
ref:
1954, Valentine Davies et al., The Glenn Miller Story
type:
quotation
text:
Stay within the sound of my voice.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
Noise without meaning; empty noise.
Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences |
6531 | word:
sound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sound (third-person singular simple present sounds, present participle sounding, simple past and past participle sounded)
forms:
form:
sounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
sounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
sounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Sound (disambiguation)
sound
etymology_text:
* Noun: from Middle English sownde, alteration of soun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sun, soun, Old French son, from accusative of Latin sonus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (“to sound, resound”).
* Verb: from Middle English sownden, sounen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suner, sounder, Old French soner (modern sonner), from Latin sonō.
* The hypercorrect -d appears in the fifteenth century. (Compare dialectal drownd, gownd for the same development.)
Displaced native Middle English swei, from Old English swēġ, from Proto-Germanic *swōgiz.
senses_examples:
text:
When the horn sounds, take cover.
type:
example
text:
He sounded good when we last spoke.
type:
example
text:
That story sounds like a pack of lies!
type:
example
text:
In my opinion this claim sounds in damages rather than in an injunction.
type:
example
text:
[…]there can be no doubt that claims brought pursuant to § 1983 sound in tort.
ref:
1999, Supreme Court of the United States, City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Montery, Ltd. et al.
type:
quotation
text:
Sound the alarm!
type:
example
text:
He sounds the instrument.
type:
example
text:
The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce a sound.
To convey an impression by one's sound.
To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
To resound.
To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy.
To cause to produce a sound.
To pronounce.
senses_topics:
law
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences |
6532 | word:
sound
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sound (plural sounds)
forms:
form:
sounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Sound (disambiguation)
Sound (geography)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sound, sund, from Old English sund (“the power, capacity, or act of swimming; swimming; sea; ocean; water; sound; strait; channel”), from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“swimming; sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem- (“swimming; sea”).
Cognate with Dutch zond (“sound; strait”), Danish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Swedish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Icelandic sund (“sound; strait; channel”). Related to swim.
senses_examples:
text:
Puget Sound; Owen Sound; Long Island Sound
type:
example
text:
Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
type:
example
text:
The head was chopped off, the belly opened, the liver set aside--sometimes along with the roe, sounds, throats, and other items.
ref:
1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 118
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
The air bladder of a fish.
senses_topics:
geography
natural-sciences
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6533 | word:
sound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sound (third-person singular simple present sounds, present participle sounding, simple past and past participle sounded)
forms:
form:
sounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
sounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
sounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Sound (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sounden, from Old French sonder, from sonde (“sounding line”) of Germanic origin, compare Old English sundgyrd (“a sounding rod”), sundline (“a sounding line”), Old English sund (“water, sea”). More at Etymology 3 above.
senses_examples:
text:
The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.
type:
example
text:
When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.
type:
example
text:
Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.
type:
example
text:
to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a whale, to dive downwards.
To ascertain, or to try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
To fathom or test; to ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
6534 | word:
sound
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sound (plural sounds)
forms:
form:
sounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Sound (disambiguation)
sound (medical instrument)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sounden, from Old French sonder, from sonde (“sounding line”) of Germanic origin, compare Old English sundgyrd (“a sounding rod”), sundline (“a sounding line”), Old English sund (“water, sea”). More at Etymology 3 above.
senses_examples:
text:
Most mild cases respond very nicely to such relatively simple office procedures as dilatations with sounds of increasing calibre, followed by the instillation of an ounce of 5 per cent argyrol in the bladder.
ref:
1951 January, Gordon W. Reynolds, “The Female Urethra and Chronic Urethritis”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 1, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
6535 | word:
lit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lit
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of earlier light, from Middle English lighte, from Old English līhtte, first and third person singular preterite of līhtan (“to light”)) by analogy with bit. More at light; compare fit (“fought”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] but finally [the bird] came to the tree and, after edging along falteringly, lit on a branch above them.
ref:
1896, Florence Merriam Bailey, A-birding on a Bronco, page 87
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of light (“illuminate; start a fire; etc”)
simple past and past participle of light (“alight: land, come down on”)
senses_topics:
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6536 | word:
lit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lit (third-person singular simple present lits, present participle litting, simple past and past participle litted)
forms:
form:
lits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
litting
tags:
participle
present
form:
litted
tags:
participle
past
form:
litted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of earlier light, from Middle English lighte, from Old English līhtte, first and third person singular preterite of līhtan (“to light”)) by analogy with bit. More at light; compare fit (“fought”).
senses_examples:
text:
With that the kid lits off down the street, and, what do you know!
ref:
1988 April 8, Grant Pick, “Johnny Washington's Life”, in Chicago Reader
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To run or light (alight).
senses_topics:
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6537 | word:
lit
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lit (comparative more lit, superlative most lit)
forms:
form:
more lit
tags:
comparative
form:
most lit
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration of earlier light, from Middle English lighte, from Old English līhtte, first and third person singular preterite of līhtan (“to light”)) by analogy with bit. More at light; compare fit (“fought”).
senses_examples:
text:
He walked down the lit corridor.
type:
example
text:
True to my word last night, I got very lit.
ref:
1932, Hart Crane, letter, 16 February
text:
DJ sets so lit the dance floor's dripping with sweat?
ref:
2017 November, Justin Allec, Adrian Lysenko, Kirsti Salmi, “Sounds of the City: Part VI”, in The Walleye, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
If indie punk, pop-punk, post-punk, and emo happen to be your bag, this early-week show at Paper Tiger is gonna be lit.
ref:
2018 July 4, James Courtney, “Music Picks”, in San Antonio Current, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
New Year's Eve is once a year and it's gonna be lit.
ref:
2018 December 27, Shan Kekahuna, “Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!”, in MauiTime, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
This party is gonna be lit.
type:
example
text:
[…] will keep your feet looking lit this summer thanks to the Trainer Exchange.
ref:
2017 June 8, “Out with the old, in with the new”, in Dundrum Gazette, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
At his Upper East Side office, the talented doctor has a very lit and elegant office, where art canvasses the walls.
ref:
2019, "Top 10 Plastic Surgeons in Manhattan", Art Bodega Magazine, December/January 2019
text:
The fourth article is all about autumnal leaf photography tips to get our Instagram photos looking lit.
ref:
2019 October, Alice Ridley, “Letter from the Editor”, in Connect Magazine, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Those jeans are lit.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Illuminated.
Drunk, intoxicated; under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Sexually aroused, (especially) visibly so.
Exciting, captivating; fun.
Excellent, fantastic; cool.
senses_topics:
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6538 | word:
lit
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lit (comparative litter or more lit, superlative littest or most lit)
forms:
form:
litter
tags:
comparative
form:
more lit
tags:
comparative
form:
littest
tags:
superlative
form:
most lit
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lit, lut, from Old English lȳt (“little, few”), from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (“little, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to cower, hunch over”). Cognate with Old Saxon lut (“little”), Middle High German lützen (“to make small or low, decrease”). More at little.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Little.
senses_topics:
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6539 | word:
lit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lit (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lit, lut, from Old English lȳt (“little, few”), from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (“little, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to cower, hunch over”). Cognate with Old Saxon lut (“little”), Middle High German lützen (“to make small or low, decrease”). More at little.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Little.
senses_topics:
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6540 | word:
lit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lit (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lit, from Old Norse litr (“colour, dye, complexion, face, countenance”), from Proto-Germanic *wlitiz, *wlitaz (“sight, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Icelandic litur (“colour”), Old English wlite (“brightness, appearance, form, aspect, look, countenance, beauty, splendor, adornment”), Old English wlītan (“to gaze, look, observe”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Colour; blee; dye; stain.
senses_topics:
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6541 | word:
lit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lit (third-person singular simple present lits, present participle litting, simple past and past participle litted)
forms:
form:
lits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
litting
tags:
participle
present
form:
litted
tags:
participle
past
form:
litted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English litten, liten, from Old Norse lita (“to colour”), from litr (“colour”). See above.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To colour; dye.
senses_topics:
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6542 | word:
lit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lit (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Short for literature.
senses_examples:
text:
Do we have any lit homework tonight?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of literature.
senses_topics:
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6543 | word:
simile
word_type:
noun
expansion:
simile (countable and uncountable, plural similes or similia)
forms:
form:
similes
tags:
plural
form:
similia
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin simile (“comparison, likeness, parallel”) (first attested 1393), originally from simile, neuter form of similis (“like, similar, resembling”). Compare English similar.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: (when the comparison is implicit) metaphor
text:
He made a simile of George the third to Nebuchadnezzar, and of the prince regent to Belshazzar, and insisted that the prince represented the latter in not paying much attention to what had happened to kings […]
ref:
1826, Thomas Bayly Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours, volume 33
type:
quotation
text:
My father is a quiet man / With sober, steady ways; / For simile, a folded fan; / His nights are like his days.
ref:
1925, Countee Cullen, Fruit of the Flower
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.
senses_topics:
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6544 | word:
build
word_type:
verb
expansion:
build (third-person singular simple present builds, present participle building, simple past and past participle built or (archaic or poetic) builded)
forms:
form:
builds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
building
tags:
participle
present
form:
built
tags:
participle
past
form:
built
tags:
past
form:
builded
tags:
archaic
participle
past
poetic
form:
builded
tags:
archaic
past
poetic
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
build
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bilden, bulden, bylden, from Old English byldan and bytlan, bytlian (“to build”), from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan (“to build”), from Proto-Germanic *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to Old English botl (“building, house”). More at bottle.
senses_examples:
text:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you [...] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref:
2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
This code won’t build any more. Have you made any changes?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
To establish a basis for (something).
To form by combining materials or parts.
To develop in magnitude or extent.
To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
6545 | word:
build
word_type:
noun
expansion:
build (countable and uncountable, plural builds)
forms:
form:
builds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bilden, bulden, bylden, from Old English byldan and bytlan, bytlian (“to build”), from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan (“to build”), from Proto-Germanic *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to Old English botl (“building, house”). More at bottle.
senses_examples:
text:
Rugby players are of sturdy build.
type:
example
text:
The computer company has introduced a new prototype build to beta testers.
type:
example
text:
This new Lego set was a very nice build.
text:
I made a build that looked like the Parthenon in that game.
type:
example
text:
In fact, thousands of D&D players constantly debate the virtues of various character builds (combinations of race, class, feat, and spell choices) and share their efforts with each other in hundreds of message boards and mailing lists.
ref:
2005, Bill Slavicsek, Richard Baker, Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies, page 279
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.
Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
The time spent building something with blocks or plastic bricks.
A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, or a configuration of a character's items or skills, created by the player.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
games
gaming |
6546 | word:
flesh
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flesh (usually uncountable, plural fleshes)
forms:
form:
fleshes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
flesh
etymology_text:
From Middle English flesh, flesch, flæsch, from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”).
senses_examples:
text:
The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.
ref:
1918, Fannie Farmer, Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Chapter XVII: Poultry and Game
text:
1929 January, Bassett Morgan (Grace Jones), Bimini, first published in Weird Tales, reprinted 1949, in Avon Fantasy Reader, Issue 10,
But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh.
text:
The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.
ref:
2003, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
She opened [...] a third that was the peachy white that crayon companies used to call “flesh”.
ref:
2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 243
type:
quotation
text:
flesh:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
The skin of a human or animal.
Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
2018 May 8, Raj Patel, Jason W Moore, “How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era”, in The Guardian
2018 May 8, Raj Patel, Jason W Moore, “How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era”, in The Guardian:
Chicken is already the most popular meat in the US, and is projected to be the planet’s favourite flesh by 2020.
Chicken is already the most popular meat in the US, and is projected to be the planet’s favourite flesh by 2020.
The human body as a physical entity.
The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
Kindred; stock; race.
A yellowish pink color; the color of some Caucasian human skin.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
lifestyle
religion
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6547 | word:
flesh
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flesh (third-person singular simple present fleshes, present participle fleshing, simple past and past participle fleshed)
forms:
form:
fleshes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fleshing
tags:
participle
present
form:
fleshed
tags:
participle
past
form:
fleshed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
flesh
etymology_text:
From Middle English flesh, flesch, flæsch, from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”).
senses_examples:
text:
Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.
ref:
1933, Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.
To glut.
To put flesh on; to fatten.
To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
senses_topics:
|
6548 | word:
overdrew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overdrew
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of overdraw
senses_topics:
|
6549 | word:
ducat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ducat (plural ducats)
forms:
form:
ducats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ducat
etymology_text:
From Middle French ducat, late Old French ducat, from Old Italian ducato, from Medieval Latin ducatus, from oblique stem of dux (“duke; leader”). Doublet of duchy.
senses_examples:
text:
But when the innkeeper saw what kind of goat the lad had, he thought this was a goat worth having, so when the lad had fallen asleep, he took another goat which couldn't make any golden ducats, and put that in its place.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 166
type:
quotation
text:
Ned Beaumont said, "Well, I've got a ducat that reads to there, anyway.
ref:
1972 [1931], Dashiell Hammett, “IV. The Dog House”, in The Glass Key, Vintage Books, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
Customers are usually enticed in with a "ducat", or pass for one free dance.
ref:
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the lines at the box office since ducats went on sale publicly Wednesday […]
ref:
1949 June 11, Billboard
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gold coin minted by various European nations.
A coin of the major denomination (dollar, euro, etc.); money in general.
A ticket.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
theater
transport |
6550 | word:
bad
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bad (comparative worse or (nonstandard) badder or (nonstandard) more bad, superlative worst or (nonstandard) baddest or (nonstandard) most bad)
forms:
form:
worse
tags:
comparative
form:
badder
tags:
comparative
nonstandard
form:
more bad
tags:
comparative
nonstandard
form:
worst
tags:
superlative
form:
baddest
tags:
nonstandard
superlative
form:
most bad
tags:
nonstandard
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”).
Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōną (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”).
senses_examples:
text:
Hiring practice is very bad in this company.
type:
example
text:
The weather looks pretty bad right now.
type:
example
text:
He is in a bad mood.
type:
example
text:
You have very bad grades.
type:
example
text:
Do you think it is a bad idea to confront him directly?
type:
example
text:
It is bad manners to talk with your mouth full.
type:
example
text:
Lard is bad for you. Smoking is bad for you, too. Grapes are bad for dogs but not for humans.
type:
example
text:
Joe's in a bad way; he can't even get out of bed.
type:
example
text:
I went to the hospital to see how my grandfather was doing. Unfortunately, he's in a bad state.
type:
example
text:
I've had a bad back since the accident.
type:
example
text:
Stop being bad, or you will get a spanking!
type:
example
text:
I can tell that new kid at our daycare is trouble […] He's picking out his favorite corner to stand in when he's bad.
ref:
2014 August 28, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic)
type:
quotation
text:
Divorce is usually a bad experience for everybody involved.
type:
example
text:
Be careful. There are bad people in the world.
type:
example
text:
I had a bad headlight.
type:
example
text:
These apples have gone bad.
type:
example
text:
Bad breath is not pleasant for anyone.
type:
example
text:
They were caught trying to pass bad coinage.
type:
example
text:
I'm pretty bad at speaking French.
type:
example
text:
He's a bad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying.
type:
example
text:
I look really bad whenever I get less than seven hours of sleep.
type:
example
text:
I don't look bad in this dress, do I?
type:
example
text:
Man, that new car you bought is bad!
type:
example
text:
You is bad, man!
type:
example
text:
He's the big bad wolf in your neighborhood / not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good
ref:
1986, Darryl McDaniels, Joseph Simmons (lyrics and music), “Peter Piper”, in Raising Hell, performed by Run-DMC
type:
quotation
text:
Man, that bitch was bad—it was the best piece of pussy that I ever had.
ref:
1994, “Best Ever” (track 7), in N2Deep (lyrics), 24-7-365
type:
quotation
text:
He is in bad need of a haircut.
type:
example
text:
Oh let me tell you that it / Hurts so bad / It makes me feel so sad / You make it hurt so bad / To see you again.
ref:
1965, Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Weinstein, Bobby Hart (lyrics and music), “Hurt So Bad”, in Hurt So Bad, performed by The Lettermen
type:
quotation
text:
You leave your girl around me; if she's bad she's gonna get stuck.
ref:
2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG
type:
quotation
text:
Hopefully I can pull some bad bitches tonight.
type:
example
text:
He gave me a bad check.
type:
example
text:
Orange Man bad
type:
example
text:
"don't buy chinese games because china bad!!" folks I have good news about a little country called the United States of America
ref:
2020 October 7, @morkitten, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-03
type:
quotation
text:
fake reddit moment, he's on tiktok and we all know tiktok bad 😤😤😤
ref:
2020 October 11, u/EarthToAccess, “Sad moment right here”, in Reddit, r/redditmoment, archived from the original on 2024-04-03
type:
quotation
text:
These kind of people only hate the Iraq invasion cuz "USA bad". Not because they truly care about Iraqi's.
ref:
2023 January 24, u/ThunderEagle222, “"NATO doesn't win because it has better technology! They only win because their technology is better!"”, in Reddit, r/NonCredibleDefense, archived from the original on 2024-04-03
type:
quotation
text:
-now everyone says it was "never good" because "popular thing bad" and now you're not allowed to like it anymore because it is now against the unspoken social rules thats fucking so great I hate that this happens to everything I like
ref:
2023 March 21, @SpectrVolcarona, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-03
type:
quotation
text:
Ok well since it's been a thing for like 1.5 decades now, do you think you could give us a clue? ¶ FDA. Nope. Vape bad. You figure it out yourself.
ref:
2023 November 28, u/zeptillian, “This super popular disposable vape device is basically just a tampon soaked in nicotine juice that gets zapped by a small battery to produce vapor.”, in Reddit, r/mildlyinteresting, archived from the original on 2024-04-03
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unfavorable; negative; not good.
Not suitable or fitting.
Not appropriate, of manners etc.
Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
Evil; wicked.
Faulty; not functional.
Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
Malodorous; foul.
False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
Of poor physical appearance.
Bold and daring.
Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
Severe, urgent.
Overly promiscuous, licentious.
Very attractive; hot, sexy.
Not covered by funds on account.
Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
senses_topics:
|
6551 | word:
bad
word_type:
adv
expansion:
bad (comparative worse, superlative worst)
forms:
form:
worse
tags:
comparative
form:
worst
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”).
Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōną (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”).
senses_examples:
text:
I didn't do too bad in the last exam.
type:
example
text:
He is quite bad off now that both his parents lost their jobs.
type:
example
text:
I want you / I want you so bad, it's driving me mad
ref:
1969, Lennon–McCartney (lyrics and music), “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”, in Abbey Road, performed by The Beatles
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Badly; poorly.
Badly; severely, extremely, passionately, eagerly.
senses_topics:
|
6552 | word:
bad
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bad (plural bads)
forms:
form:
bads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”).
Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōną (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”).
senses_examples:
text:
We idealize God as supergoodness in order to protect against a bad that we cannot unite with ourselves.
ref:
2001, Ann Belford Ulanov, Finding Space: Winnicott, God, and Psychic Reality, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
"My bad, My bad!” Juwan yelled, scowling
ref:
1993, Mitch Albom, Fab five: basketball, trash talk, the American dream
type:
quotation
text:
“Chico, you're late again.” I turned around and stared him in his beady eyes. “I missed my bus. My bad, Donald.” “Your bad? Your bad? What kind of English is that?
ref:
2003, Zane, Skyscraper, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Teresa broke out in laughter. “Dang, I sound like I'm talking to my man.” “I tried your cell phone, but you didn't answer.” “I left it at home, Friday. My bad.” “Yeah, your bad.” I laughed. “Really, I'm sorry. It won't happen again.
ref:
2008, Camika Spencer, Cubicles, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
Imports are an economic good but exports an economic bad. Exports must be produced but are enjoyed by foreign consumers.
ref:
2011, Henry Thompson, International Economics: Global Markets and Competition, 3rd edition, World Scientific, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
An economic bad is anything that you would pay to get rid of. It is not so hard to think of examples of bads: pollution, garbage, and disease fit the description.
ref:
2011, William J. Boyes, Michael Melvin, Economics, 9th edition, Cengage Learning, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
Error; mistake.
An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences |
6553 | word:
bad
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”).
Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōną (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”).
senses_examples:
text:
Bad! You know you're not allowed in the kitchen after dinner.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to scold a misbehaving child or pet.
senses_topics:
|
6554 | word:
bad
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bad
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bad, from Old English bæd, first and third-person singular indicative past tense of biddan (“to ask”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
alternative past of bid. See bade.
senses_topics:
|
6555 | word:
bad
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bad (third-person singular simple present bads, present participle badding, simple past and past participle badded)
forms:
form:
bads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
badding
tags:
participle
present
form:
badded
tags:
participle
past
form:
badded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown.
senses_examples:
text:
A curious specimen of Gloucestershire dialect came out in an assault case heard by the Gloucester court magistrates on Saturday. One of the witnesses, speaking of what a girl was doing at the time the assault took place, said she was ‘badding’ walnuts in a pigstye. The word is peculiarly provincial: to ‘bad’ walnuts is to strip away the husk. The walnut, too, is often called a ‘bannut,’ and hence the old Gloucestershire phrase, ‘Come an’ bad the bannuts.’
ref:
1876, The Gloucester Journal, Oct. 7, 1876, reported in A. Gregory, “Gloucestershire Dialect,” Notes and Queries, 5th ser., 6, 148 (1876‑10‑28): 346
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shell (a walnut).
senses_topics:
|
6556 | word:
erythrocyte
word_type:
noun
expansion:
erythrocyte (plural erythrocytes)
forms:
form:
erythrocytes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From erythro- (“red”) + -cyte (“cell”), referring to the red color of hemoglobin when oxygen is bound to it.
senses_examples:
text:
The want of success of these names may be attributed to their awkwardness in sound or sense; "erythrocyte" seems the best of them, but is unfortunately four-syllabled.
ref:
1901 March 23, Ch. S. Sherrington, “The name of the red corpuscle: a suggestion”, in British Medical Journal, page 742
type:
quotation
text:
Granular, basic, or punctate degeneration of the erythrocyte is a condition in which this cell presents fine or coarse granules that have an affinity for basic stains.
ref:
1901 September 24, C. Y. White, “Granular degeneration of the erythrocyte”, in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, volume 122, number 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hemoglobin-containing cell, especially as found in humans but more generally present in the blood of most vertebrates, that is involved with the transport of oxygen; such cells are usually anucleate in humans and many other animals.
senses_topics:
biology
cytology
hematology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences |
6557 | word:
lost
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lost
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English loste, losede (preterite) and Middle English lost, ilost, ilosed (past participle), from Old English losode (preterite) and Old English losod, ġelosod, equivalent to lose + -t.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of lose
senses_topics:
|
6558 | word:
lost
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lost (comparative loster or more lost, superlative lostest or most lost)
forms:
form:
loster
tags:
comparative
form:
more lost
tags:
comparative
form:
lostest
tags:
superlative
form:
most lost
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English loste, losede (preterite) and Middle English lost, ilost, ilosed (past participle), from Old English losode (preterite) and Old English losod, ġelosod, equivalent to lose + -t.
senses_examples:
text:
The children were soon lost in the forest.
type:
example
text:
Deep beneath the ocean, the Titanic was lost to the world.
text:
an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd
text:
a lost limb; lost honour
text:
a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit; no time should be lost
text:
a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul
text:
lost to shame; lost to all sense of honour
text:
to be lost in thought
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.
In an unknown location; unable to be found.
Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.
Parted with; no longer held or possessed.
Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.
Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.
Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.
Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things.
senses_topics:
|
6559 | word:
overeaten
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overeaten
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of overeat
senses_topics:
|
6560 | word:
overate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overate
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of overeat
senses_topics:
|
6561 | word:
Arabic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Arabic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Arabic
etymology_text:
From Latin arabicus, from Arabia + -icus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía), ultimately from the Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).
senses_examples:
text:
One day my UN students asked me, "Which is the Arabic country where the best Arabic is spoken?" I quickly replied, "Bosnia." They exclaimed, "But Bosnia is not an Arab country!"
ref:
2008, Abdallah Nacereddine, To Be Oneself: The Tragicomedy of an Unfinished Life History, page 342
type:
quotation
text:
White chalk on the fascia board above the Arabic-food stall reads "Lebanon" and "Lebs rule".
ref:
2012, Deborah Youdell, “Intelligibility, agency and the raced–nationed–religioned subjects of education”, in Intersectionality and "Race" in Education, page 202
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Related to the Arabic language.
Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective).
senses_topics:
|
6562 | word:
Arabic
word_type:
name
expansion:
Arabic
forms:
wikipedia:
Arabic
etymology_text:
From Latin arabicus, from Arabia + -icus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía), ultimately from the Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).
senses_examples:
text:
We’d gone to Arabic school as children and taken lessons in the summer holidays, and I still read the news in Arabic, but it wasn’t like I practised reciting the written language any more, with its complex rhythms and grammatical structures.
ref:
2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 74
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A major Semitic language originating from the Arabian peninsula, and now spoken natively (in various spoken dialects, all sharing a single highly conservative standardized literary form) throughout large sections of the Middle East and North Africa.
The Aramaic-derived alphabet used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others.
senses_topics:
|
6563 | word:
Arabic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Arabic (plural Arabics)
forms:
form:
Arabics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Arabic
etymology_text:
From Latin arabicus, from Arabia + -icus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía), ultimately from the Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).
senses_examples:
text:
Classic Arabic didn't "turn into" the various Arabic vernaculars. There is disagreement over whether the range of spoken Arabics all have a single ancestor (seems unlikely), but Classical Arabic is a somewhat artificial creation based on at least two dialects.
ref:
2004 April 22, Peter T. Daniels, “Taiwanese and their language”, in soc.culture.china (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
That's the majority of working N'Yawkers. Blacks and Hispanics outnumber the arabics.
ref:
2000 July 20, Topprolmc, “OT - I participated in an obscene act today!”, in rec.motorcycles.harley (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A variety of the Arabic language.
An Arab.
senses_topics:
|
6564 | word:
let's
word_type:
verb
expansion:
let’s
forms:
form:
let’s
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Contraction of let us. Compare non-contracted Dutch laat ons, German lass uns (speaker with one other person) / lasst uns (speaker with more other persons) and Swedish låt oss.
senses_examples:
text:
Let’s eat lunch sometime.
type:
example
text:
I say let’s dance.
type:
example
text:
Let’s get coffee!
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Let’s make sure we don’t forget proper punctuation.
type:
example
text:
Hey guys, let’s check to make sure that we proofread.
type:
example
text:
Y’all, let’s stop talking please, y’all are driving me up the wall!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to form the cohortative of verbs, equivalent of the first-person plural imperative in some other languages.
Used to form the hortative of verbs, equivalent of the second-person plural imperative in some other languages, chiefly instructional
senses_topics:
|
6565 | word:
continent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
continent (plural continents)
forms:
form:
continents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
continent
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin continens, noun use of present participle of continēre (“to contain”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the main continuous landmasses, separated by water or geological features, on the surface of a planet, sometimes including its continental shelves and the islands on them.
Each of the traditional main regions into which the Earth’s land surface is divided, including both an extent of mainland and various conventionally associated islands, etc; namely, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia/Oceania, North America, South America, and Antarctica.
A large contiguous landmass as opposed to its islands, peninsulas, and so forth; mainland. Also specifically, the Old World continent of Europe–Asia–Africa: see the Continent.
A large connected expanse of something in general.
Any continuous tract or area of land; country, connected region.
Land (as opposed to the water), dry land.
The body or mass of a celestial body such as the sun or moon.
Container, vessel, something that holds or contains something else.
Space, capacity.
The principal or essential points of something viewed collectively: sum, summary, substance.
senses_topics:
|
6566 | word:
continent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
continent (comparative more continent, superlative most continent)
forms:
form:
more continent
tags:
comparative
form:
most continent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
continent
etymology_text:
From Middle English contynent, from Old French continent, from Latin continentem (“continuous; holding together”), present participle of continēre (“to contain”).
senses_examples:
text:
Their strength was the strength of men geographically beyond temptation: the poverty of Arabia made them simple, continent, enduring.
ref:
1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
A celibate himself, he was of the opinion that marriage was something of a concession to human frailty, to save from fornication those who could not be continent, so it was better to marry than to burn with lust.
ref:
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 119
type:
quotation
text:
a continent fever
type:
example
text:
The northeast part of Asia is, if not continent with the west side of America, yet certainly it is the least disjoined by sea of all that coast.
ref:
1843, John McIntosh, The Origin of the North American Indians
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one’s bodily needs or passions, especially sex.
Having voluntary control over one’s urination or defecation.
Not interrupted; connected; continuous, whether in time or space.
Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
Containing or capable of containing.
senses_topics:
|
6567 | word:
claque
word_type:
noun
expansion:
claque (plural claques)
forms:
form:
claques
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French claque (“group of people hired to applaud or boo, claque”, literally “a slap; a clap”).
senses_examples:
text:
The most popular singers have been obliged to give free tickets and even to donate cash, lest the claque retaliate by frantic applause at the wrong moment.
ref:
1930 February 23, “Theatre claqueurs in Vienna form union; now get two Wienerwursts for simple applause, six with beer for special ovations”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-28, page 4, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The claque isn't paid. In fact, claqueurs pay to get in. The inducement is that they can buy standing room for half price, without waiting in line.
ref:
1957 December 22, John Briggs, “What every young claqueur should know”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-28, page 53, columns 4–7
type:
quotation
text:
The most obvious gay connection to opera is the cult of the diva. Stauncher even than the fans of Garland of Striesand, the claques of Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland (among others) have been fanatical in their devotion. Going beyond the usual "appreciation stage" the fans glorify and deify their stars: Callas was "La Divina," Sutherland "La Stupenda."
ref:
1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo.
A group of fawning admirers.
A group of people who pre-arrange among themselves to express strong support for an idea, so as to give the false impression of a wider consensus.
senses_topics:
|
6568 | word:
yourselves
word_type:
pron
expansion:
yourselves (second person, plural of yourself, plural reflexive of you)
forms:
form:
yourself
tags:
plural-of
form:
of you
tags:
plural
reflexive
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically your + -selves.
senses_examples:
text:
You shouldn't blame yourselves.
type:
example
text:
Talk amongst yourselves.
type:
example
text:
You yourselves won’t eat at that restaurant. Why are you recommending it to us?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Inflection of you (plural) used as the object of a verb or non-locative preposition in a clause whose subject is the same (the people addressed).
You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group addressed.
senses_topics:
|
6569 | word:
overheard
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overheard
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of overhear
senses_topics:
|
6570 | word:
neologism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neologism (countable and uncountable, plural neologisms)
forms:
form:
neologisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
neologism
etymology_text:
From French néologisme, from Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”) + -ism.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase, or an existing one which has gained a new meaning.
The act or instance of coining, or uttering a new word.
The newly coined, meaningless words or phrases of someone with a psychosis, usually schizophrenia.
Synonym of neology.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
lifestyle
religion
theology |
6571 | word:
ourselves
word_type:
pron
expansion:
ourselves (first personal plural pronoun, reflexive case of we)
forms:
form:
case of we
tags:
reflexive
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically our + -selves.
senses_examples:
text:
We should keep this for ourselves.
type:
example
text:
We did it ourselves.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
We; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate.
senses_topics:
|
6572 | word:
zenith
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zenith (plural zeniths)
forms:
form:
zeniths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cenyth, from Medieval Latin cenit, from Arabic سَمْت (samt, “direction, path”), from the fuller form سَمْت اَلرَّأْس (samt ar-raʔs, “direction of the head”). The -ni- for -m- is sometimes thought to be due to a misreading of the three strokes, which is plausible, though it could be a mere phonetic approximation.
senses_examples:
text:
The 12 day wee had the wind high and large ſo that in two dayes ſaile we made the Sunne our Zenith or verticall point[…]
ref:
1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
type:
quotation
text:
In this 10th m. appeared that prodigious Comett the tayl whereof was like the blade of a double edged sword, and reached almost from the horizon to the zenith.
ref:
1671–1693: Rev. Thomas Jolly, private notebook; printed in: 1895, Henry Fishwick (editor), The Note Book of the Rev. Thomas Jolly: A.D. 1671–1693. Extracts from the Church Books of Altham and Wymondhouses, 1649–1725. And an Account of the Jolly Family of Standish, Gorton, and Altham, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
In the east a pillar of cloud reared from horizon to zenith, with a kind of arm outstretched like a threatening colossus.
ref:
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 180
type:
quotation
text:
As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […]. Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […], the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.
ref:
1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter II, in The Understanding Heart
type:
quotation
text:
Winning the continental championship was the zenith of my career.
type:
example
text:
There for a while I enjoyed myself in the zenith of glory and pleasure.
ref:
1900, William Beckford, The History of the Caliph Vathek, page 173
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir.
The highest point in the sky reached by a celestial body.
Highest point or state; peak.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
|
6573 | word:
OK
word_type:
noun
expansion:
OK (plural OKs or OK's)
forms:
form:
OKs
tags:
plural
form:
OK's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
List_of_proposed_etymologies_of_OK
OK
en:List of proposed etymologies of OK
etymology_text:
Origin disputed. Wikipedia lists many possible etymologies, of which the most widely accepted is that it is an abbreviation of oll/orl korrect, a comical spelling of all correct, which first appeared in print in The Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as part of a fad for similar fanciful abbreviations in the United States during the late 1830s. The expression became popular through its use in the presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren in 1840, who was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and then slowly acquired other meanings.
The Choctaw word oke, okeh (“it is so”), common in Choctaw translations of the Bible, could also explain OK's variety of affirmative definitions. Additionally, okeh was the most common etymology of okay in dictionaries until the 1960s, and linguistically predates Boston's O.K.. However, this theory suffers from the fact that the Choctaw language was relatively obscure and generally spoken (sometimes in a pidgin form) mainly with African-American slaves.
senses_examples:
text:
We can start as soon as we get the OK.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.
senses_topics:
|
6574 | word:
OK
word_type:
verb
expansion:
OK (third-person singular simple present OKs or OK's, present participle OKing or OK'ing, simple past and past participle OKed or OK'd)
forms:
form:
OKs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
OK's
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
OKing
tags:
participle
present
form:
OK'ing
tags:
participle
present
form:
OKed
tags:
participle
past
form:
OKed
tags:
past
form:
OK'd
tags:
participle
past
form:
OK'd
tags:
past
wikipedia:
List_of_proposed_etymologies_of_OK
OK
en:List of proposed etymologies of OK
etymology_text:
Origin disputed. Wikipedia lists many possible etymologies, of which the most widely accepted is that it is an abbreviation of oll/orl korrect, a comical spelling of all correct, which first appeared in print in The Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as part of a fad for similar fanciful abbreviations in the United States during the late 1830s. The expression became popular through its use in the presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren in 1840, who was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and then slowly acquired other meanings.
The Choctaw word oke, okeh (“it is so”), common in Choctaw translations of the Bible, could also explain OK's variety of affirmative definitions. Additionally, okeh was the most common etymology of okay in dictionaries until the 1960s, and linguistically predates Boston's O.K.. However, this theory suffers from the fact that the Choctaw language was relatively obscure and generally spoken (sometimes in a pidgin form) mainly with African-American slaves.
senses_examples:
text:
I don't want to OK this amount of money.
type:
example
text:
Type a suitable name for your Marker and OK the dialogue box.
ref:
2001, Mike Collins, Pro Tools: Practical Recording, Editing and Mixing for Music Production
type:
quotation
text:
When you OK the crop, the image size will be adjusted to match the front image resolution.
ref:
2008, Martin Evening, Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To approve; to accept; to acquiesce to.
To confirm by activating a button marked OK.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
6575 | word:
OK
word_type:
adj
expansion:
OK (comparative more OK, superlative most OK)
forms:
form:
more OK
tags:
comparative
form:
most OK
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
List_of_proposed_etymologies_of_OK
OK
en:List of proposed etymologies of OK
etymology_text:
Origin disputed. Wikipedia lists many possible etymologies, of which the most widely accepted is that it is an abbreviation of oll/orl korrect, a comical spelling of all correct, which first appeared in print in The Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as part of a fad for similar fanciful abbreviations in the United States during the late 1830s. The expression became popular through its use in the presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren in 1840, who was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and then slowly acquired other meanings.
The Choctaw word oke, okeh (“it is so”), common in Choctaw translations of the Bible, could also explain OK's variety of affirmative definitions. Additionally, okeh was the most common etymology of okay in dictionaries until the 1960s, and linguistically predates Boston's O.K.. However, this theory suffers from the fact that the Choctaw language was relatively obscure and generally spoken (sometimes in a pidgin form) mainly with African-American slaves.
senses_examples:
text:
Do you think it's OK to stay here for the night?
type:
example
text:
The soup was OK, but the dessert was excellent.
type:
example
text:
If you leave the kids in the creche for one morning on your week's holiday, and they are OK with that, then it's fine.
ref:
2012, Roni Jay, The 10 Most Important Things You Can Do For Your Children
type:
quotation
text:
He's not feeling well now, but he should be OK after some rest.
type:
example
text:
Are you OK?
type:
example
text:
In France, the French postal service La Poste provides a subscription service in which postal workers visit elderly subscribers to make sure they are okay, do not need anything, and provide brief social interaction.
ref:
2022 October 25, L. J. Shrum, Elena Fumagalli, Tina M. Lowrey, “Coping with loneliness through consumption”, in Journal of Consumer Psychology, volume 33, number 2, →DOI, page 452
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
All right, acceptable, permitted.
Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs.
In good health or a good emotional state.
senses_topics:
|
6576 | word:
OK
word_type:
adv
expansion:
OK (comparative more OK, superlative most OK)
forms:
form:
more OK
tags:
comparative
form:
most OK
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
List_of_proposed_etymologies_of_OK
OK
en:List of proposed etymologies of OK
etymology_text:
Origin disputed. Wikipedia lists many possible etymologies, of which the most widely accepted is that it is an abbreviation of oll/orl korrect, a comical spelling of all correct, which first appeared in print in The Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as part of a fad for similar fanciful abbreviations in the United States during the late 1830s. The expression became popular through its use in the presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren in 1840, who was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and then slowly acquired other meanings.
The Choctaw word oke, okeh (“it is so”), common in Choctaw translations of the Bible, could also explain OK's variety of affirmative definitions. Additionally, okeh was the most common etymology of okay in dictionaries until the 1960s, and linguistically predates Boston's O.K.. However, this theory suffers from the fact that the Choctaw language was relatively obscure and generally spoken (sometimes in a pidgin form) mainly with African-American slaves.
senses_examples:
text:
The team did OK in the playoffs.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Satisfactorily, sufficiently well.
senses_topics:
|
6577 | word:
OK
word_type:
intj
expansion:
OK
forms:
wikipedia:
List_of_proposed_etymologies_of_OK
OK
en:List of proposed etymologies of OK
etymology_text:
Origin disputed. Wikipedia lists many possible etymologies, of which the most widely accepted is that it is an abbreviation of oll/orl korrect, a comical spelling of all correct, which first appeared in print in The Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as part of a fad for similar fanciful abbreviations in the United States during the late 1830s. The expression became popular through its use in the presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren in 1840, who was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and then slowly acquired other meanings.
The Choctaw word oke, okeh (“it is so”), common in Choctaw translations of the Bible, could also explain OK's variety of affirmative definitions. Additionally, okeh was the most common etymology of okay in dictionaries until the 1960s, and linguistically predates Boston's O.K.. However, this theory suffers from the fact that the Choctaw language was relatively obscure and generally spoken (sometimes in a pidgin form) mainly with African-American slaves.
senses_examples:
text:
I promise to give it back. – OK.
type:
example
text:
Let's meet again this afternoon. – OK.
type:
example
text:
Shut up! – OK, OK.
type:
example
text:
OK! I get it! Stop nagging me!
type:
example
text:
Come by this afternoon. — Okay.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
OK, I'm thinking of a number…
type:
example
text:
You always do this to me! When we were at your mother’s, you said that… – OK, OK, …
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
Used to dismiss a dialog box or confirm a prompt.
Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said.
Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.
Used to sarcastically or sardonically indicate agreement with the previous statement.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
6578 | word:
OK
word_type:
name
expansion:
OK
forms:
wikipedia:
OK
en:List of proposed etymologies of OK
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
United States postal abbreviation for Oklahoma, a state of the United States of America.
senses_topics:
|
6579 | word:
OK
word_type:
noun
expansion:
OK (plural not attested)
forms:
wikipedia:
OK
en:List of proposed etymologies of OK
etymology_text:
Possibly a shortening of Chinese 卡拉OK.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Karaoke.
senses_topics:
|
6580 | word:
dig
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dig (third-person singular simple present digs, present participle digging, simple past and past participle dug or (archaic) digged)
forms:
form:
digs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
digging
tags:
participle
present
form:
dug
tags:
participle
past
form:
dug
tags:
past
form:
digged
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
digged
tags:
archaic
past
wikipedia:
dig
etymology_text:
From Middle English diggen (“to dig”), alteration of Old English dīcian (“to dig a ditch, to mound up earth”) (compare Old English dīcere (“digger”)) from dīc, dīċ (“dike, ditch”) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz, *dīkiją (“pool, puddle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stab, dig”). Additionally, Middle English diggen may derive from an unrecorded suffixed variant, *dīcgian. Akin to Danish dige (“to dig, raise a dike”), Swedish dika (“to dig ditches”). Related to Middle French diguer (“to dig”), from Old French dikier, itself a borrowing of the same Germanic root (from Middle Dutch dijc). More at ditch, dike.
senses_examples:
text:
They dug an eight-foot ditch along the side of the road.
type:
example
text:
In the wintertime, heavy truck tires dig into the road, forming potholes.
type:
example
text:
If the plane can't pull out of the dive it is in, it'll dig a hole in the ground.
type:
example
text:
My seven-year-old son always digs a hole in the middle of his mashed potatoes and fills it with gravy before he starts to eat them.
type:
example
text:
to dig potatoes
type:
example
text:
to dig up gold
type:
example
text:
Peter dug at his books all the harder.
ref:
1894, Paul Leicester Ford, The Honorable Peter Stirling
type:
quotation
text:
to dig up evidence
type:
example
text:
to dig out the facts
type:
example
text:
Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
ref:
2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
He dug an elbow into my ribs and guffawed at his own joke.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
To thrust; to poke.
To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
senses_topics:
business
mining
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball |
6581 | word:
dig
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dig (plural digs)
forms:
form:
digs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dig
etymology_text:
From Middle English diggen (“to dig”), alteration of Old English dīcian (“to dig a ditch, to mound up earth”) (compare Old English dīcere (“digger”)) from dīc, dīċ (“dike, ditch”) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz, *dīkiją (“pool, puddle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stab, dig”). Additionally, Middle English diggen may derive from an unrecorded suffixed variant, *dīcgian. Akin to Danish dige (“to dig, raise a dike”), Swedish dika (“to dig ditches”). Related to Middle French diguer (“to dig”), from Old French dikier, itself a borrowing of the same Germanic root (from Middle Dutch dijc). More at ditch, dike.
senses_examples:
text:
He guffawed and gave me a dig in the ribs after telling his latest joke.
type:
example
text:
Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date.
ref:
1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593
type:
quotation
text:
Buckram ! that's a dig at my trade.
ref:
1838, John Baldwin Buckstone, The Irish Lion. A Farce, in One Act, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Entitled 'On Several Mistakes of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia', this document is broader, more theoretical and more rambling than the Polish equivalent, identifying deep problems in many spheres. But it does get in a few digs at Slánský, accusing him of having made mistakes in recruitment to the communist party.
ref:
2012, Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56, page ccxcix
type:
quotation
text:
Unfortunately, the man was too busy, although he said hello to the Young Man politely enough and found the time to make a few digs about the postponement of the elections.
ref:
2013, William T. Vollmann, An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World
type:
quotation
text:
In 'Sorted for E's and Whizz', Pulp's Jarvis Cocker wrote about losing an important part of his brain somewhere in a field in Hampshire, and took a dig at the rave scene for being hypocritical – idealistic and friendly when everyone was coming up on their pills, less so when everyone's coming down and you're trying to get a lift home – and essentially meaningless.
ref:
2018, Paul Maunder, The Wind At My Back: A Cycling Life
type:
quotation
text:
She could have made a dig about the size of his rockets.
ref:
2021 December 8, Arwa Mahdawi, “Elon Musk is learning a hard lesson: never date a musician”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Don Quixote told us that Western Australia was the same to him as any other country, except that it possessed the charm of novelty, and he assured us that as soon as he was well enough he would be off on the "dig" once more.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
Between the two extremes of college men the unsocial dig and the flunking swell, lies the majority, who, acknowledging the duty and merit of hard work, see the value in social and recreative line, but are at somewhat of a loss, seemingly, how to proportionize the time given to the different sides of college life, or how far to allow themselves to go on the more attractive side.
ref:
1892, Occident - Volume 22, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
a £1 charity shop dig
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
A thrust; a poke.
A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
An innings.
A cutting, sarcastic remark.
The occupation of digging for gold.
A plodding and laborious student.
A tool for digging.
A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
6582 | word:
dig
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dig (third-person singular simple present digs, present participle digging, simple past and past participle dug)
forms:
form:
digs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
digging
tags:
participle
present
form:
dug
tags:
participle
past
form:
dug
tags:
past
wikipedia:
African American Vernacular English
dig
etymology_text:
From African American Vernacular English; due to lack of writing of slave speech, etymology is difficult to trace, but it has been suggested that it is from Wolof dëgg, dëgga (“to understand, to appreciate”). It has also been suggested that it is from Irish dtuig, thus being a Doublet of twig. Others do not propose a distinct etymology, instead considering this a semantic shift of the existing English term (compare dig in/dig into).
senses_examples:
text:
You dig?
type:
example
text:
McCord has blown. Mitchell has blown. No tap on my telephone / Halderman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, and Dean / It follows a pattern if you dig what I mean
ref:
1974, “H2Ogate Blues”, in Winter in America, performed by Gil Scott-Heron
type:
quotation
text:
Baby, I dig you.
type:
example
text:
Oh, but California / California, I'm coming home / I'm going to see the folks I dig
ref:
1971, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “California”, in Blue
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To understand.
To appreciate, or like.
senses_topics:
|
6583 | word:
dig
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dig (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
dig
etymology_text:
Shortening.
senses_examples:
text:
dig toxicity
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Digoxin.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
6584 | word:
dig
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dig (plural digs)
forms:
form:
digs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dig
etymology_text:
Unknown.
senses_examples:
text:
Powltrey, &c, &c.
Item ten turkeys …
Item three Digs [an old Cheshire word for duck] and a Drake …
Item ffower Capons …
[The word's gloss has been inserted by Earwaker]
ref:
10 March, 1616, excerpt from "A true and perfect Inventory of all the Goods &c. which late were of Philippe Oldfeid," reprinted in 1890, J.P. Earwaker (ed., compiler), "Badwall Township: Berington of Moorsbarrow and Bradwall, Pedigree" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_history_of_the_ancient_parish_of_San/kkMHAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach, Co. Chester. […] ]
text:
dig, or digg, s.—A duck. A gentleman introduced a man to an old lady in America as an inhaitant of Cheshire, her old county. "I'll soon see," said she, "if he is reet Cheshire born. Tell me," said she to the man, "what a dig, a snig, a grig, a peckled poot, and a peannot are?" B. Kennett in his Glossary of the British Museum, has the word "dig." "As fierce as a dig," is a Lancashire and probably a Cheshire proverb, and reminds one of the Cloucestershire name for a sheep, viz.: "A Cotswold lion."
ref:
1877, Lieut.-Col. Egerton Leigh, M.P., A Glossary of Words Used in The Dialect of Cheshire., London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., pages 61–62
type:
quotation
text:
Smith's farm was near to Parrs; new buildings had been built in the Hemp Croft. He carried coals in his cart by an inside chest, and had three hives of bees and several spinning wheels; his poultry comprised four hens, two diggs or ducks, and one drake. His total estate was £66. 10s.
ref:
1953, John Lunn, “Beasts on the Common, 1613”, in A Short History of the Township of Tyldesley […], Longsight, Manchester: Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A duck.
senses_topics:
|
6585 | word:
thy
word_type:
det
expansion:
thy
forms:
wikipedia:
thy
etymology_text:
From Middle English þi, apocopated variant of þin, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *téynos (“thy; thine”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“thou”). See thou.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Possessive form of thou: that which belongs to thee; which belongs to you (singular).
senses_topics:
|
6586 | word:
thy
word_type:
conj
expansion:
thy
forms:
wikipedia:
thy
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
For-thy it round and hollow shaped was, Like to the world itselfe, and seem'd aworld of glass.
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
type:
quotation
text:
Wallace knew well the Englishmen would flee, For thy he thrusted in the thickest to be, Hewing full fast on whomsoever he fought, Against his dint fine steel availed nought.
ref:
1713, Robert Sanders, transl., The Life and Acts of Sir William Wallace
type:
quotation
text:
For thy it bring: us nearer to the Godhead is nonsense, Daya, if not blasphemy.
ref:
1791, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, William TAYLOR (of Norwich.), Nathan the Wise. A dramatic poem, page 24
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Only used in for thy, for-thy, which is an alternative form of forthy (“because, therefore”)
senses_topics:
|
6587 | word:
self-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
self-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English self-, silf-, seolf-, from Old English self-, sylf-, seolf-, from Proto-Germanic *selba-, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz (“self”). Cognate with Dutch zelf- (“self-”), German Low German sülvst- (“self-”), German selbst- (“self-”), Swedish själv- (“self-”), Icelandic sjálf- (“self-”). More at self.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
of, by, in or with oneself or itself
automatic
senses_topics:
|
6588 | word:
overlaid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overlaid
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of overlay
senses_topics:
|
6589 | word:
sic
word_type:
adv
expansion:
sic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin sīc (“thus, so”).
senses_examples:
text:
When it is all over they merge and go in a body to visit [...] the Telegraph Office – with plausible expressions of regret and excuses for the mob ‘which’ they say ‘is deplorably ignorant and will not be restrained when its feelings are strongly moved’ – sic, the fact being that the mob’s feelings will never be ‘moved’ unless it is by one of them.
ref:
1909 January 28, H. E. Wilkie Young, “Notes on the City of Mosul” (despatch No. 4), in Foreign Office, volume 195, number 2308; quoted in Elie Khadouri[e], “Mosul in 1909”, in Middle Eastern Studies, volume 7, number 2, 1971, →JSTOR, page 229
type:
quotation
text:
Bolinger, Dwight (1977) ‘Pronoun and repeated nouns.’ Lingua18:1-34 [Quoted sic in Toolan 1990. Neither in Lingua 18, nor in the 1977 volume of that journal.]
ref:
2003, Monika Fludernik, The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction, Routledge, page 468
type:
quotation
text:
Joseph Wright, his predecessor in the chair, called him ‘a firstrate Scholar and a kind of man who will easily make friends’ at Oxford (quoted, sic, in E.M. Wright, The Life of Joseph Wright (1932), p. 483).
ref:
2006, Christina Scull with Wayne G. Hammond, JRR Tolkien companion & guide, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
type:
quotation
text:
Jim’s Interests: General: Working out, hanging out at the local bars, expanding my mind, eating Tuna Sandwhiches...or so I’m told and poker... Television: ... this show that’s on Thuresday nights at 8 :30pm... I can’t place the name of it but it has this crazy interview style thing...[all sic]
ref:
2010, Paul Booth, Digital Fandom: New Media Studies, Peter Lang, page 127
type:
quotation
text:
whole bussiness: Quoted sic in George F. Willison, Saints and Strangers (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1945)
ref:
2012, Milton J. Bates, The Bark River Chronicles: Stories from a Wisconsin Watershed, Wisconsin Historical Society, page 271
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Thus; as written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source.
senses_topics:
|
6590 | word:
sic
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sic (third-person singular simple present sics, present participle siccing, simple past and past participle sicced)
forms:
form:
sics
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
siccing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sicced
tags:
participle
past
form:
sicced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin sīc (“thus, so”).
senses_examples:
text:
The fact is, of course, that the modern reviewer’s taste is not really shocked by half the things he sics or otherwise castigates, but he must find something to say and above all make a slow of purism.
ref:
1887 May 7, E. Belfort Bax, “On Some Forms of Modern Cant”, in Commonweal
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mark with a bracketed sic.
senses_topics:
|
6591 | word:
sic
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sic (third-person singular simple present sics, present participle siccing, simple past and past participle sicced)
forms:
form:
sics
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
siccing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sicced
tags:
participle
past
form:
sicced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant of seek.
senses_examples:
text:
He sicced his dog on me!
type:
example
text:
Phreaks can max-out 911 systems just by siccing a bunch of computer-modems on them in tandem, dialling them over and over until they clog.
ref:
1992, Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown
type:
quotation
text:
I was interviewing the victims of a harebrained scheme to sic contract killers on an innocent woman
ref:
2019, Brian Merchant, “Click Here to Kill: The dark world of online murder markets”, in Harper’s Magazine, volume 2020, number January
type:
quotation
text:
Sic ’em, Mitzi.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs.
To set upon; to chase; to attack.
senses_topics:
|
6592 | word:
overlain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overlain
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of overlie
senses_topics:
|
6593 | word:
overpaid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overpaid
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of overpay
senses_topics:
|
6594 | word:
leukocyte
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leukocyte (plural leukocytes)
forms:
form:
leukocytes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From leuko- + -cyte.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of a class of blood cells that play various roles in cell-mediated immunity.
senses_topics:
biology
cytology
hematology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences |
6595 | word:
means
word_type:
noun
expansion:
means
forms:
wikipedia:
means
etymology_text:
See mean (“method or course of action used to achieve some result”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of mean
senses_topics:
|
6596 | word:
means
word_type:
noun
expansion:
means (plural means)
forms:
form:
means
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
means
etymology_text:
See mean (“method or course of action used to achieve some result”).
senses_examples:
text:
She treated him as a means to an end.
type:
example
text:
A car is a means of transport.
text:
And by this means also he had them the more at vantage, being tired and harassed with a long march; and more at mercy, being cut off far from their country, and therefore not able by any sudden flight to get to retreat, and to renew their troubles.
ref:
1622, Francis Bacon, History of the reign of King Henry VII
type:
quotation
text:
Our hope in him is dead: let us return,
And strain what other means is left unto us
In our dear peril.
ref:
1623, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act V, scene 1
type:
quotation
text:
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
ref:
2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instrument or condition for attaining a purpose.
senses_topics:
|
6597 | word:
means
word_type:
noun
expansion:
means pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
means
etymology_text:
See mean (“method or course of action used to achieve some result”).
senses_examples:
text:
a person of means; independent means
type:
example
text:
He was living beyond his means.
text:
Where there is much means to be used, and conditions yet to be performed, for the continuation and Consummation of our Justification, there it is not yet continued or consummate.
ref:
1676, Richard Baxter, A Treatise of Justifying Righteousness, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce
ref:
1888, Karl Marx, edited by Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Then the other 12 packers […] were men without much means, who lived in Fresno
ref:
1921, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Authorizing association of producers of agricultural products, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
Some kind of writer. He didn't have to make a living; he had means.
ref:
1955, Rex Stout, “Die Like a Dog”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam Books, published 1994 October 24, page 154
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Resources; riches.
senses_topics:
|
6598 | word:
means
word_type:
verb
expansion:
means
forms:
wikipedia:
means
etymology_text:
See mean (“method or course of action used to achieve some result”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of mean
senses_topics:
|
6599 | word:
overran
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overran
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of overrun
senses_topics:
|
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