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6600 | word:
overrode
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overrode
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of override
past participle of override
senses_topics:
|
6601 | word:
oversaw
word_type:
verb
expansion:
oversaw
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of oversee
senses_topics:
|
6602 | word:
forget
word_type:
verb
expansion:
forget (third-person singular simple present forgets, present participle forgetting, simple past forgot or (obsolete) forgat, past participle forgotten or (archaic or colloquial) forgot)
forms:
form:
forgets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
forgetting
tags:
participle
present
form:
forgot
tags:
past
form:
forgat
tags:
obsolete
past
form:
forgotten
tags:
participle
past
form:
forgot
tags:
colloquial
error-unknown-tag
participle
past
wikipedia:
en:forgetting
etymology_text:
From Middle English forgeten, forgiten, foryeten, forȝiten, from Old English forġietan (“to forget”) [influenced by Old Norse geta ("to get, to guess")], from Proto-West Germanic *fragetan (“to give up, forget”). Equivalent to for- + get.
Cognate with :
* Scots forget, forȝet (“to forget”),
* West Frisian fergette, ferjitte, forjitte (“to forget”),
* Dutch vergeten (“to forget”),
* German vergessen (“to forget”).
senses_examples:
text:
I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school.
type:
example
text:
I forgot to buy flowers for my wife at our 14th wedding anniversary.
type:
example
text:
I forgot my car keys in the living room.
type:
example
text:
Let's just forget about it.
type:
example
text:
He forgot having already visited this city.
type:
example
text:
People forget how much work goes into what we do.
type:
example
text:
Forget you!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lose remembrance of.
To unintentionally not do, neglect.
To unintentionally leave something behind.
To cease remembering.
To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).
Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).
senses_topics:
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6603 | word:
overridden
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overridden
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overridden, from Old English oferriden, past participle of oferrīdan (“to ride over”), equivalent to over- + ridden.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of override
senses_topics:
|
6604 | word:
overlie
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overlie (third-person singular simple present overlies, present participle overlying, simple past overlay, past participle overlain)
forms:
form:
overlies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overlying
tags:
participle
present
form:
overlay
tags:
past
form:
overlain
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overlien, overliggen, equivalent to over- + lie (“to be reclined”). Compare West Frisian oerlizze, German überliegen, Danish overligge, Swedish överligga, Norwegian overligge.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lie over or upon
To suffocate by lying upon
senses_topics:
|
6605 | word:
morphology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
morphology (countable and uncountable, plural morphologies)
forms:
form:
morphologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
morphology
etymology_text:
From morpho- + -logy.
senses_examples:
text:
There are many ways to show that word structure is different from phrase and sentence structure. We will mention two here. First, free constituent order in syntax is common cross-linguistically; many languages lack fixed order of the kind that one finds in English. In morphology, on the other hand, order is always fixed. There is no such thing as free morpheme order. Even languages with wildly free word order, such as the Pama-Nyungan (Australian) language Warlpiri (Simpson 1991), have a fixed order of morphemes within the word. Second, syntactic and morphological patterns can differ within the same language. For example, note the difference in English in the positioning of head and complement between syntax and morphology.
ref:
2001, Yehuda Falk, “Lexical-Functional Grammar”, in CSLI Publications, retrieved 2014-02-25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
Mathematical morphology.
The form and structure of something.
A description of the form and structure of something.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences
mathematics
sciences
|
6606 | word:
overseen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overseen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of oversee
senses_topics:
|
6607 | word:
overslept
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overslept
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of oversleep
senses_topics:
|
6608 | word:
spelt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spelt
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From spell + -t. See spell.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of spell
senses_topics:
|
6609 | word:
spelt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spelt (usually uncountable, plural spelts)
forms:
form:
spelts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English spelt, from Old English spelt (“spelt, corn”), from Old Saxon spelta (“spelt”); or from Late Latin spelta (“spelt”), from Frankish *spelta (“spelt”); all from Proto-Germanic *spiltaz (“spelt”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.
senses_topics:
|
6610 | word:
spelt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spelt (plural spelts)
forms:
form:
spelts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old Norse spald.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.
Spelter.
senses_topics:
arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
6611 | word:
spelt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spelt (third-person singular simple present spelts, present participle spelting, simple past and past participle spelted)
forms:
form:
spelts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
spelting
tags:
participle
present
form:
spelted
tags:
participle
past
form:
spelted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old Norse spald.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To split; to break; to spalt.
senses_topics:
|
6612 | word:
overthrew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overthrew
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of overthrow
senses_topics:
|
6613 | word:
overtook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overtook
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of overtake
senses_topics:
|
6614 | word:
overthrown
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overthrown
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of overthrow
senses_topics:
|
6615 | word:
stem cell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stem cell (plural stem cells)
forms:
form:
stem cells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Stem cells are characterized by their ability to self-renew and to produce numerous differentiated cell types, and are directly responsible for generating and maintaining tissues and organs.
ref:
2002, Haifan Lin, “The stem-cell niche theory: Lessons from flies,”, in Nature Reviews: Genetics, volume 3, page 931
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A primal undifferentiated cell from which a variety of other cells can develop through the process of cellular differentiation.
senses_topics:
biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences |
6616 | word:
oversell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
oversell (third-person singular simple present oversells, present participle overselling, simple past and past participle oversold)
forms:
form:
oversells
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overselling
tags:
participle
present
form:
oversold
tags:
participle
past
form:
oversold
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From over- + sell.
senses_examples:
text:
I don't want to oversell it, but you've got to check out that new restaurant on Third Street.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To agree to sell more of something than one can supply.
To be too eager in attempting to sell something.
To praise something to excess.
To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in sale price.
senses_topics:
|
6617 | word:
overhear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overhear (third-person singular simple present overhears, present participle overhearing, simple past and past participle overheard)
forms:
form:
overhears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overhearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
overheard
tags:
participle
past
form:
overheard
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overheren, from Old English oferhīeran (“to overhear, hear, disobey, disregard, neglect”), equivalent to over- + hear. Cognate with Dutch overhoren (“to hear, hear about”), German überhören (“to not hear, ignore”), Danish overhøre (“to overhear”), Icelandic yfirheyra (“to hear”), Gothic *𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*ufarhausjan, “to disregard, disobey”) (in 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (ufarhauseins)).
senses_examples:
text:
I was hanging clothes in the garden and I overheard the neighbours talking about Sheila's pregnancy.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hear something that was not meant for one's ears.
senses_topics:
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6618 | word:
overhung
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overhung
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of overhang
senses_topics:
|
6619 | word:
overhung
word_type:
adj
expansion:
overhung (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[T]he former, is but a vacant edifice; gilded, it may be, and overhung with old votive gifts, yet useless, nay pestilentially unclean[.]
ref:
1830, Thomas Carlyle, “On History”, in Fraser's Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
an overhung door
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Covered over; ornamented with hangings.
Suspended from above or from the top.
senses_topics:
|
6620 | word:
comb-over
word_type:
noun
expansion:
comb-over (plural comb-overs)
forms:
form:
comb-overs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of combover
senses_topics:
|
6621 | word:
pronominal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pronominal (comparative more pronominal, superlative most pronominal)
forms:
form:
more pronominal
tags:
comparative
form:
most pronominal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin prōnōminālis, from Latin prōnōmen, prōnōminis.
senses_examples:
text:
Neither of these pronominal compounds was found in current sources.
ref:
2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 120
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, pertaining to, resembling, or functioning as a pronoun.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
6622 | word:
pronominal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pronominal (plural pronominals)
forms:
form:
pronominals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin prōnōminālis, from Latin prōnōmen, prōnōminis.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A phrase that acts as a pronoun.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
6623 | word:
face
word_type:
noun
expansion:
face (plural faces)
forms:
form:
faces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English face, from Old French face, from Late Latin facia, from Latin faciēs (“form, appearance”). Doublet of facies. Displaced native Middle English onlete (“face, countenance, appearance”), anleth (“face”), from Old English anwlite, andwlita, compare German Antlitz; Old English ansīen (“face”), Middle English neb (“face, nose”) (from Old English nebb), Middle English ler, leor, leer (“face, cheek, countenance”) (from Old English hlēor), and non-native Middle English vis (“face, appearance, look”) (from Old French vis) and Middle English chere (“face”) from Old French chere.
senses_examples:
text:
That girl has a pretty face.
type:
example
text:
The monkey pressed its face against the railings.
type:
example
text:
Why the sad face?
type:
example
text:
Children! Stop making faces at each other!
type:
example
text:
MAKE Money-wholesale U.S. stamps—buy mint stamps below face. Be a dealer. Send $1.00 for two giant catalogs, refunded first order. Von Stein, Bernardsville, N.J.
ref:
1966 November, “Classified Opportunity Mart: Stamp Collecting [advertisement]”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 189, number 5, page 229
type:
quotation
text:
With certain exceptions for valuable stamps, dealers and many collectors are only willing to offer a percentage of face (80-90%). So instead, Lloyd took the sheets to work and posted a message asking if anyone wanted to buy sheets of old U.S. stamps at face.
ref:
1995 January 18, Ed Jackson, “Re: US sheets -- Sell for how much?”, in rec.collecting.stamps (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Talking about buying below face, I've bought a lot of rolled coins at below face. I'm not going to pay face just to drag them to the bank and deposit them.
ref:
2005 March 16, Cliff, “Re: This sounds like a newbie question....”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
The fans cheered on the face as he made his comeback.
type:
example
text:
Shut your face!
type:
example
text:
He's always stuffing his face with chips.
type:
example
text:
I'll be out in a sec. Just let me put on my face.
type:
example
text:
Our chairman is the face of this company.
type:
example
text:
He managed to show a bold face despite his embarrassment.
type:
example
text:
As the film points out, the actor became known as “the face of Aids”.
ref:
2023 October 6, Ryan Gilbey, “The double life of Rock Hudson: ‘Let’s be frank, he was a horndog!’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
lose face
type:
example
text:
save face
type:
example
text:
You've got some face coming round here after what you've done.
type:
example
text:
a. 1694, John Tillotson, Preface to The Works
This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations.
text:
This is a face of her that we have not seen before.
type:
example
text:
Poverty is the ugly face of capitalism.
type:
example
text:
to fly in the face of danger
type:
example
text:
to speak before the face of God
type:
example
text:
It was just the usual faces at the pub tonight.
type:
example
text:
He better not show his face around here no more.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: ass (see ass § Usage notes)
text:
He owned several local businesses and was a face around town.
type:
example
text:
Vincent was the very best dancer in Bay Ridge—the ultimate Face.
ref:
1976 June 7, Nik Cohn, “Inside the Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night”, in New York Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
The face of the cliff loomed above them.
type:
example
text:
Then, the torpedo bombers arrived, but, unlike those that had dealt Hornet such a heavy blow, these split their attention between Enterprise, South Dakota, Portland, and the rather-bewildered destroyer USS Smith, which got a damaged Kate and its torpedo to the face for its trouble.
ref:
2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 17:16 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-12-04
type:
quotation
text:
They turned the boat into the face of the storm.
type:
example
text:
Put a big sign on each face of the building that can be seen from the road.
type:
example
text:
They climbed the north face of the mountain.
type:
example
text:
She wanted to wipe him off the face of the earth.
type:
example
text:
Captain Anderson: He has the secrets from the beacon. He has an army of geth at his command. And he won't stop until he's wiped humanity from the face of the galaxy!
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1
type:
quotation
text:
A cube has six faces, each of which is a square.
type:
example
text:
When playing aggro decks, hit face whenever you can; it's not worth spending your resources to try to control the board.
type:
example
text:
a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face
type:
example
text:
For the typophiles reading this, the book is attractively designed. It is set in Classic Aldine, a handsome face akin to the more popular Palatino. The designer's work is unfortunately marred by indifferent printing.
ref:
1982 August 28, Mark McHarry, “A Minor Delight”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.
One's facial expression.
A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc.
The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a "good guy", especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned; a baby face.
The mouth.
Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
Public image; outward appearance.
Good reputation; standing, in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige.
Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
An aspect of the character or nature of someone or something.
Presence; sight; front.
A person; the self; (reflexively, objectifying) oneself.
A familiar or well-known person; a member of a particular scene, such as the music or fashion scene.
The frontal aspect of something.
The frontal aspect of something.
The numbered dial of a clock or watch; the clock face.
The directed force of something.
Any surface, especially a front or outer one.
Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
The front surface of a bat.
The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).
The player character, especially as opposed to minions or other entities which might absorb damage instead of the player character.
The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
The exposed surface of the mineral deposit where it is being mined. Also the exposed end surface of a tunnel where digging may still be in progress.
A typeface.
A mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
geometry
mathematics
sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
card-games
games
video-games
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
mining
media
publishing
typography
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6624 | word:
face
word_type:
verb
expansion:
face (third-person singular simple present faces, present participle facing, simple past and past participle faced)
forms:
form:
faces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
facing
tags:
participle
present
form:
faced
tags:
participle
past
form:
faced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English face, from Old French face, from Late Latin facia, from Latin faciēs (“form, appearance”). Doublet of facies. Displaced native Middle English onlete (“face, countenance, appearance”), anleth (“face”), from Old English anwlite, andwlita, compare German Antlitz; Old English ansīen (“face”), Middle English neb (“face, nose”) (from Old English nebb), Middle English ler, leor, leer (“face, cheek, countenance”) (from Old English hlēor), and non-native Middle English vis (“face, appearance, look”) (from Old French vis) and Middle English chere (“face”) from Old French chere.
senses_examples:
text:
Face the sun.
type:
example
text:
Turn the chair so it faces the table.
type:
example
text:
The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost!
ref:
1963, Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
type:
quotation
text:
I've put out the stock and broken down the boxes, it's just facing left to do.
type:
example
text:
In my first job, I learned how to operate a till and to face the store to high standards.
type:
example
text:
We are facing an uncertain future.
type:
example
text:
Ambassador Udina: The other species are scared. They've never faced anything like this before and they don't know what to do.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel
type:
quotation
text:
I'm going to have to face this sooner or later.
type:
example
text:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
ref:
2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
ref:
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
Network Rail doesn't expect the line through Carmont to open for around a month, as it faces the mammoth task of recovering the two power cars and four coaches from ScotRail's wrecked train, repairing bridge 325, stabilising earthworks around the landslip, and replacing the track.
ref:
2020 August 26, “Network News: Mid-September before line reopens, says Network Rail”, in Rail, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
The seats in the carriage faced backwards.
type:
example
text:
Real Madrid face Juventus in the quarter-finals.
type:
example
text:
And a further boost to England's qualification prospects came after the final whistle when Wales recorded a 2-1 home win over group rivals Montenegro, who Capello's men face in their final qualifier.
ref:
2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Willoughby comes in to bowl, and it's Hobson facing.
type:
example
text:
a building faced with marble
type:
example
text:
These upper walls seem mainly to have been formed, not of sun- or fire-baked bricks, as at Gournia or Palaikastro, but of clay or rubble, coated with plaster or faced with gypsum slabs.
ref:
1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
To improve the display of stock by ensuring items aren't upside down or back to front and are pulled forwards.
To be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect.
To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.
To have the front in a certain direction.
To have as an opponent.
To be the batsman on strike.
To confront impudently; to bully.
To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or smooth the flat (transverse) surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical (axial) surface.
senses_topics:
business
commerce
retail
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
6625 | word:
mass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mass (countable and uncountable, plural masses)
forms:
form:
masses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Mass (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
In late Middle English (circa 1400) as masse in the sense of "lump, quantity of matter", from Anglo-Norman masse, in Old French attested from the 11th century, via late Latin massa (“lump, dough”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”). The Greek noun may be derived from the verb μάσσω (mássō, “to knead”), ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *maǵ- (“to oil, knead”), although this is uncertain. Doublet of masa.
The sense of "a large number or quantity" arises circa 1580. The scientific sense is from 1687 (as Latin massa) in the works of Isaac Newton, with the first English use (as mass) occurring in 1704.
senses_examples:
text:
And if it were not for theſe Principles the Bodies of the Earth, Planets, Comets, Sun, and all things in them would grow cold and freeze, and become inactive Maſſes ; […].
ref:
1718 [1704], Isaac Newton, Opticks, 2nd edition
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and because a deep mass of continual sea is slower stirred to rage.
ref:
1821 [1582], George Buchanan, The History of Scotland, from the Earliest Accounts of that Nation, to the Reign of King James VI, volume 1 (in English), translation of Rerum Scoticarum Historia by an unnamed translator, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
Right in the midst the Goddesse selfe did stand / Upon an altar of some costly masse […].
ref:
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10
type:
quotation
text:
After all, muscle maniacs go "ga ga" over mass no matter how it's presented.
ref:
1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, volume 47, number 6, pages 28–34
type:
quotation
text:
Witness this army of such mass and charge / Led by a delicate and tender prince,
ref:
c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 4, scene 4
type:
quotation
text:
Night closed upon the pursuit, and aided the mass of the fugitives in their escape.
ref:
1881, Thucydides, translated by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides translated into English, volume 1, page 310
type:
quotation
text:
Generals gathered in their masses / Just like witches at black masses
ref:
1970, “War Pigs”, in Paranoid, performed by Black Sabbath
type:
quotation
text:
The mass of spectators didn't see the infraction on the field.
type:
example
text:
A mass of ships converged on the beaches of Dunkirk.
type:
example
text:
The masses are revolting.
type:
example
text:
[…]he hath discovered to me the way to five or six of the richest mines which the Spaniard hath, and whence all the mass of gold that comes into Spain in effect is drawn.
ref:
1829, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt, volume VIII
type:
quotation
text:
For though he had spent a huge mass of treasure in transporting his army, […].
ref:
1869, Alexander George Richey, Lectures on the History of Ireland: Down to A. D. 1534, page 204
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Matter, material.
A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size.
Matter, material.
Precious metal, especially gold or silver.
Matter, material.
A measure of the inertia of a mass of matter, one of four fundamental properties of matter. SI unit of mass: kilogram.
Matter, material.
A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.
Matter, material.
A palpable or visible abnormal globular structure; a tumor.
Matter, material.
Excess body mass, especially in the form of muscle hypertrophy.
A large quantity; a sum.
Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
A large quantity; a sum.
The principal part; the main body.
A large quantity; a sum.
A large body of individuals, especially persons.
A large quantity; a sum.
The lower classes of persons.
A large quantity; a sum.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
medicine
sciences
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
6626 | word:
mass
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mass (third-person singular simple present masses, present participle massing, simple past and past participle massed)
forms:
form:
masses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
massing
tags:
participle
present
form:
massed
tags:
participle
past
form:
massed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Mass (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
In late Middle English (circa 1400) as masse in the sense of "lump, quantity of matter", from Anglo-Norman masse, in Old French attested from the 11th century, via late Latin massa (“lump, dough”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”). The Greek noun may be derived from the verb μάσσω (mássō, “to knead”), ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *maǵ- (“to oil, knead”), although this is uncertain. Doublet of masa.
The sense of "a large number or quantity" arises circa 1580. The scientific sense is from 1687 (as Latin massa) in the works of Isaac Newton, with the first English use (as mass) occurring in 1704.
senses_examples:
text:
They would unavoidably mix up the whole of these declarations, and mass them together, although the Judge might direct the Jury not to do so.
ref:
1829, William Burke, John Macnee, Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal: Before the High Court of Judiciary, William Hare
type:
quotation
text:
Every bend on the hill had acted like a funnel to mass them together in this peculiar way.
ref:
1857, Edward Henry Nolan, The Illustrated History of the War against Russia, Parts 93-111, page 432
type:
quotation
text:
Where there is too great a repetition of forms, light and shade will break them up or mass them together.
ref:
1869, H. P. Robinson, Pictorial Effect in Photography: Being Hints on Composition and Chiariscuro for Photographers
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.
To assemble in a mass
senses_topics:
|
6627 | word:
mass
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mass (not generally comparable, comparative masser, superlative massest)
forms:
form:
masser
tags:
comparative
form:
massest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Mass (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
In late Middle English (circa 1400) as masse in the sense of "lump, quantity of matter", from Anglo-Norman masse, in Old French attested from the 11th century, via late Latin massa (“lump, dough”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”). The Greek noun may be derived from the verb μάσσω (mássō, “to knead”), ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *maǵ- (“to oil, knead”), although this is uncertain. Doublet of masa.
The sense of "a large number or quantity" arises circa 1580. The scientific sense is from 1687 (as Latin massa) in the works of Isaac Newton, with the first English use (as mass) occurring in 1704.
senses_examples:
text:
There is evidence of mass extinctions in the distant past.
type:
example
text:
The national liberation movement had not yet developed to a sufficiently mass scale.
ref:
1988, V. V. Zagladin, Vitaly Baskakov, International Working Class and Communist Movement: Historical Record, 1830s to Mid-1940s, page 236
type:
quotation
text:
With perhaps unprecedented magnitude and clarity, Auschwitz brings theologians and philosophers face to face with the facts of suffering on an incredibly mass scale, with issues poignantly raised concerning the absence of divine intervention or the inadequacies of divine power or benevolence; […].
ref:
1989, Creighton Peden, Larry E. Axel (editors), God, Values, and Empiricism: Issues in Philosophical Theology, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
The air arms did more than provide the warring nations with individual heroes, for their individual exploits occurred within the context of an increasingly mass aerial effort in a war of the masses.
ref:
2010, John Horne, A Companion to World War I, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
Mass unemployment resulted from the financial collapse.
type:
example
text:
Every agency is sold on use of mass media today — or at least, it thinks it is — and what can be "masser" than television?
ref:
1958, Child Welfare, volume 37, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
While agreeing with Bell on the unlikelihood that any fully mass — in the sense of atomized and alienated — society has ever existed,⁵ I believe that at any point in time, in any social system, some elements may be characterized as "masses."
ref:
1970, James Wilson White, The Sōkagakkai and Mass Society, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Undoubtedly this is the case; at least it is "masser" than in Pinchot's time.
ref:
1974, Edward Abraham Cohn, The Political Economy of Environmental Enhancement, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
But it also highlights the changes that have taken place in gay and AIDS activism, and the way that a formerly mass movement has been recast.
ref:
1999 December, Sara Miles, “Rebel with a Cause”, in Out, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
The director didn't make the images up; they're there, but in putting that one slice of gay life into the massest of mass media — the amoral promiscuity, the drug and alcohol abuse, the stereotyped flamboyance and campiness, the bitchy queeniness and flimsy values — something very dangerous happens […]
ref:
2000 November 21, Howie Klein, “Queer as role models”, in The Advocate, number 825, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
[…] if only because it promises the ‘massest’ of mass markets.
ref:
2001, Brian Moeran, Asian Media Productions, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Finally, in the past century, secular culture itself has undergone a transition from predominantly folk styles to an overwhelmingly mass culture, […].
ref:
2004, John R. Hall, Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
As a right, we come to expect it, and that happens through the mass media, the massest of which, by far, is television.
ref:
2007, Thomas Peele, Queer popular culture: literature, media, film, and television, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
senses_topics:
|
6628 | word:
mass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mass (plural masses)
forms:
form:
masses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Catholic Church
Mass (disambiguation)
Roman Rite
etymology_text:
From Middle English messe, masse, from Old English mæsse (“the mass, church festival”) and Old French messe, from Vulgar Latin *messa (“Eucharist, dismissal”), from Late Latin missa, noun use of feminine past participle of classical Latin mittere (“to send”), from ite, missa est (“go, (the assembly) is dismissed”), reanalyzed as "go, [that] is the missa", last words of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.
Compare Dutch mis (“mass”), German Messe (“mass”), Danish messe (“mass”), Swedish mässa (“mass; expo”), Icelandic messa (“mass”). More at mission.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
Celebration of the Eucharist.
The sacrament of the Eucharist.
A musical setting of parts of the mass.
senses_topics:
Christianity
Christianity
Christianity
|
6629 | word:
mass
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mass (third-person singular simple present masses, present participle massing, simple past and past participle massed)
forms:
form:
masses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
massing
tags:
participle
present
form:
massed
tags:
participle
past
form:
massed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Catholic Church
Mass (disambiguation)
Roman Rite
etymology_text:
From Middle English messe, masse, from Old English mæsse (“the mass, church festival”) and Old French messe, from Vulgar Latin *messa (“Eucharist, dismissal”), from Late Latin missa, noun use of feminine past participle of classical Latin mittere (“to send”), from ite, missa est (“go, (the assembly) is dismissed”), reanalyzed as "go, [that] is the missa", last words of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.
Compare Dutch mis (“mass”), German Messe (“mass”), Danish messe (“mass”), Swedish mässa (“mass; expo”), Icelandic messa (“mass”). More at mission.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To celebrate mass.
senses_topics:
|
6630 | word:
partaken
word_type:
verb
expansion:
partaken
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of partake
senses_topics:
|
6631 | word:
McJob
word_type:
noun
expansion:
McJob (plural McJobs)
forms:
form:
McJobs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mc- + job, entry-level jobs at McDonald's restaurants being considered to be this sort of job.
senses_examples:
text:
What are you going to do this summer? –I'm going to find a McJob for the evenings and hang out at the beach during the day.
type:
example
text:
Many politicos claim most new jobs are low-pay, dead-enders, “McJobs.”
ref:
1987 March 9, Steve Forbes, “Major problem with the American economy: hypochondria”, in Forbes, 139, p33
type:
quotation
text:
Shortly after the opening of the Latham McDonald’s, the first in the Capital District, Zdunek, then 16, hopped on his Cushman motor scooter, rode from his Halfmoon home and applied for his first Mcjob. The wage was $1.25 an hour.
ref:
1989 October 19, Paul Grondahl, “Managers get behind the grill”, in Albany Times Union, page C1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A typically entry-level job, often part-time or temporary, generally paying low wages and requiring minimal training, such as entry-level positions at fast-food restaurants.
senses_topics:
|
6632 | word:
thyself
word_type:
pron
expansion:
thyself
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thy-selfe, thiself, thi-zelf, from Old English þīnes silfes, þīnre sylfre, etc., equivalent to thy + -self. Compare Middle English thou-self, Old English þē sylfum, þē selfum.
senses_examples:
text:
Thou hast only thyself to blame.
type:
example
text:
Thou thyself art to blame.
type:
example
text:
Physician, heal thyself.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
yourself (as the object of a verb or preposition or as an intensifier); reflexive case of thou
senses_topics:
|
6633 | word:
overtaken
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overtaken
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of overtake
senses_topics:
|
6634 | word:
overtaken
word_type:
adj
expansion:
overtaken (comparative more overtaken, superlative most overtaken)
forms:
form:
more overtaken
tags:
comparative
form:
most overtaken
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I was overtaken by events.
type:
example
text:
Indeed, he was 'dithguthted' at his condition; and if upon the occasion just described he had allowed himself to be somewhat 'intoxicated with liquor,' I must aver that I do not recollect another instance in which this worthy little gentleman suffered himself to be similarly overtaken. Now and then a little 'flashy' he might be, but nothing more serious—and rely upon it, this was no common virtue in those days.
ref:
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
type:
quotation
text:
Once John, being overtaken in drink on the roadside by the cottage, and dreaming that he was burning in hell, awoke and saw the old wife hobbling toward him. Thereupon he fled soberly to the hills, and from that day became a quiet-living, humble-minded Christian.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Taken by surprise; overcome.
drunk; intoxicated
senses_topics:
|
6635 | word:
slept
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slept
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of sleep
senses_topics:
|
6636 | word:
pain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pain (countable and uncountable, plural pains)
forms:
form:
pains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Modern English
Pain
etymology_text:
From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”).
Doublet of peine. Compare Danish pine, Norwegian Bokmål pine, German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native Old English sār (whence Modern English sore).
senses_examples:
text:
The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
type:
example
text:
I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
type:
example
text:
When the pains are every five minutes and quite strong or the cervix is five cm. dilated along with regular and strong pains, the mother is given a block anesthesia of 1 cc. of 1:200 nupercaine, 1 cc. of 10 per cent dextrose with .05 cc. of 1:1000 adrenalin.
ref:
1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
type:
example
text:
The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
type:
example
text:
Your mother is a right pain.
type:
example
text:
Today is match day, Grimsby Town are at home, and the ground is walking distance from New Clee station. So, visiting football supporters coming by train have to change at Grimsby Town [station]. That's a real pain.
ref:
2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
You may not leave this room on pain of death.
type:
example
text:
We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.
ref:
1629, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement Touching a Holy War
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
An annoying person or thing.
Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
senses_topics:
|
6637 | word:
pain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pain (third-person singular simple present pains, present participle paining, simple past and past participle pained)
forms:
form:
pains
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
paining
tags:
participle
present
form:
pained
tags:
participle
past
form:
pained
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Modern English
Pain
etymology_text:
From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”).
Doublet of peine. Compare Danish pine, Norwegian Bokmål pine, German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native Old English sār (whence Modern English sore).
senses_examples:
text:
The wound pained him.
type:
example
text:
It pains me to say that I must let you go.
type:
example
text:
Please help me, I am paining hard.
type:
example
text:
Oh my head is aching, oh Lord Damodara [Visnu], give me "kazhi". The neck is paining, oh Lord Kamadeva give me relief. My chest is paining, oh Lord Madhava, give me relief.
ref:
2001, Sarah Caldwell, quoting C. Choondal, “Waves of Beauty, Rivers of Blood: Constructing the Goddess in Kerala”, in Tracy Pintchman, editor, Seeking Mahādevī: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
A lady visited the doctor, a general physician and complained of a lot of pain.
The doctor asked her where she experienced pain.
The lady touched her right knee and said, 'It is paining here doctor.'
Then she touched her stomach and said, 'It is paining here too doctor.'
ref:
2009, Nithyananda Paramahamsa, Bliss Is the Goal and the Path, page 124
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
To feel pain; to hurt.
senses_topics:
|
6638 | word:
pain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pain (plural pains)
forms:
form:
pains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Pain
etymology_text:
From Middle English payn (“a kind of pie with a soft crust”), from Old French pain (“bread”).
senses_examples:
text:
gammon pain; Spanish pain
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle |
6639 | word:
combover
word_type:
noun
expansion:
combover (plural combovers)
forms:
form:
combovers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From comb + over.
senses_examples:
text:
With his funny comb-over and shy manner he was a strange man but she knew that he was a good man, and it is goodness that counts.
ref:
2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 191
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A manner of combing hair from one side to the other in an attempt to conceal a medial bald patch.
senses_topics:
|
6640 | word:
partook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
partook
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of partake
senses_topics:
|
6641 | word:
pleaded
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pleaded
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of plead
senses_topics:
|
6642 | word:
overdraw
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overdraw (third-person singular simple present overdraws, present participle overdrawing, simple past overdrew, past participle overdrawn)
forms:
form:
overdraws
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overdrawing
tags:
participle
present
form:
overdrew
tags:
past
form:
overdrawn
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From over- + draw.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To withdraw more money from an account than there is credit; to make an overdraft
To use a device for shooting arrows shorter than the draw of the bow.
To exaggerate.
To draw over the top of existing content.
To draw the air in through a harmonica while adjusting the mouth so that the note goes up a half tone.
senses_topics:
archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
6643 | word:
overdraw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
overdraw (countable and uncountable, plural overdraws)
forms:
form:
overdraws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From over- + draw.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process by which, during the rendering of a three-dimensional scene, a pixel is replaced by one that is closer to the viewpoint, as determined by their Z coordinates.
senses_topics:
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
6644 | word:
pre-set
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pre-set (third-person singular simple present pre-sets, present participle pre-setting, simple past and past participle pre-set)
forms:
form:
pre-sets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pre-setting
tags:
participle
present
form:
pre-set
tags:
participle
past
form:
pre-set
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From pre- + set.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of preset
senses_topics:
|
6645 | word:
hard
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hard (comparative harder or more hard, superlative hardest or most hard)
forms:
form:
harder
tags:
comparative
form:
more hard
tags:
comparative
form:
hardest
tags:
superlative
form:
most hard
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hard, from Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz, from Proto-Indo-European *kort-ús, from *kret- (“strong, powerful”). Cognate with German hart, Swedish hård, Ancient Greek κρατύς (kratús), Sanskrit क्रतु (krátu), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬀𐬙𐬎 (xratu).
senses_examples:
text:
This bread is so stale and hard, I can barely cut it.
type:
example
text:
hard cider, hard lemonade, hard seltzer, hard soda
type:
example
text:
Stunned, she deleted his number and went home. Then she cracked a hard seltzer, opened her phone’s camera and filmed a TikTok video recounting the evening […].
ref:
2023 March 1, Rachel Ellison, “Bad Dates Turn Out to Be Excellent on TikTok”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
hard X-rays
type:
example
text:
a hard problem; a hard question; a hard topic
type:
example
text:
Ray found it hard to imagine having accumulated so many mannerisms before the dawn of sex, of the sexual need to please, of the staginess sex encourages or the tightly capped wells of poisoned sexual desire the disappointed must stand guard over.
ref:
1988, Edmund White, An Oracle
type:
quotation
text:
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
ref:
2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
a hard life
type:
example
text:
a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character
type:
example
text:
The senator asked the party chief to put the hard word on his potential rivals.
type:
example
text:
a hard site
type:
example
text:
He thinks he's well hard.
type:
example
text:
This song goes hard.
type:
example
text:
This guy always has the hardest fits.
type:
example
text:
hard evidence; a hard requirement
type:
example
text:
[…]for, unless supported by hard facts, abusive words would recoil on him who used them, and would pass like empty air over the head of an innocent man.
ref:
1796, The History of the Trial of Warren Hastings
type:
quotation
text:
Here are a few techniques to turn a hard "no" into an easy "yes"!
ref:
1962, The Selling Power of a Woman
type:
quotation
text:
Unsurprisingly for a man who went into mourning for three years after the death in 1994 of his own father, the legendary leader Kim Il-sung, and who in the first 30 years of his political career made no public statements, even to his own people, Kim's career is riddled with claims, counter claims, speculation, and contradiction. There are few hard facts about his birth and early years.
ref:
2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left.
type:
example
text:
I got so hard watching two hot girls wrestle each other on the beach.
type:
example
text:
There is a hard c in "clock" and a soft c in "centre".
type:
example
text:
Hard k, t, s, ch, as distinguished from soft, g, d, z, j.
type:
example
text:
The letter ж (ž) in Russian is always hard.
type:
example
text:
a soft or hard copy; a digital or hard archive
type:
example
text:
a hard reboot or reset
type:
example
text:
hard right, hard left
type:
example
text:
Undercapitalized insurers cannot retain more catastrophe risks when the market is hard […]
ref:
2009, J. David Cummins, Olivier Mahul, Catastrophe Risk Financing in Developing Countries, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Solid and firm.
Resistant to pressure; difficult to break, cut, or penetrate.
Solid and firm.
Strong.
Solid and firm.
Containing alcohol.
Solid and firm.
High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
Solid and firm.
Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
Solid and firm.
Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength).
Solid and firm.
Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.
Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
Hardened; having unusually strong defences.
Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
Tough, muscular, badass.
Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
Excellent, impressive.
Unquestionable; unequivocal.
Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
Fortis.
Plosive.
Fortis.
Unvoiced.
Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
In a physical form, not digital.
Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
Far, extreme.
Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
Hardcore.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
government
military
politics
war
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
art
arts
art
arts
government
politics
business
finance
|
6646 | word:
hard
word_type:
adv
expansion:
hard (comparative harder, superlative hardest)
forms:
form:
harder
tags:
comparative
form:
hardest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hard, from Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz, from Proto-Indo-European *kort-ús, from *kret- (“strong, powerful”). Cognate with German hart, Swedish hård, Ancient Greek κρατύς (kratús), Sanskrit क्रतु (krátu), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬀𐬙𐬎 (xratu).
senses_examples:
text:
He hit the puck hard up the ice.
type:
example
text:
They worked hard all week.
type:
example
text:
The recession hit them especially hard.
type:
example
text:
Think hard about your choices.
type:
example
text:
The couple were fucking each other hard.
type:
example
text:
I played hard, I drank hard, I rode hard, and did everything much on the same pattern.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 164
type:
quotation
text:
What, then, of the voluntarist's sense that one often has to think long and hard before making agonizing choices?
ref:
1985, Michael A. Arbib, In search of the person: philosophical explorations in cognitive science, page 119
type:
quotation
text:
His degree was hard earned.
type:
example
text:
The lake had finally frozen hard.
type:
example
text:
At the intersection, bear hard left.
type:
example
text:
It was another long day's march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake.
ref:
1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 418
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
With much force or effort.
With difficulty.
So as to raise difficulties.
Compactly.
Near, close.
senses_topics:
manner
manner
manner
|
6647 | word:
hard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hard (countable and uncountable, plural hards)
forms:
form:
hards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hard, from Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz, from Proto-Indo-European *kort-ús, from *kret- (“strong, powerful”). Cognate with German hart, Swedish hård, Ancient Greek κρατύς (kratús), Sanskrit क्रतु (krátu), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬀𐬙𐬎 (xratu).
senses_examples:
text:
The Monastery's ironworks at Sowley were renowned for centuries but declined with the passing of the 'wooden walls' at Buckler's Hard — a great number of these ships having been built with timber from the Beaulieu Woods […]
ref:
1952, Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu Baron Montagu, Beaulieu, the Abbey, Palace House, and Buckler's Hard, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
The prisoners were sentenced to three years' hard.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.
Crack cocaine.
Hard labor.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
|
6648 | word:
hard
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hard (third-person singular simple present hards, present participle harding, simple past and past participle harded)
forms:
form:
hards
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
harding
tags:
participle
present
form:
harded
tags:
participle
past
form:
harded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English harden, herden, from Old English heardian (“to become hard”) and hierdan (“to make hard”), from Proto-West Germanic *hardēn and *hardijan, from Proto-Germanic *hardijaną.
senses_examples:
text:
He knows vain men: he sees their harts that hard them In Guiles and Wiles, and will not hee regard them?
ref:
1641, original 1618, Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas, Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes and Workes
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make hard, harden.
senses_topics:
|
6649 | word:
cliché
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cliché (plural clichés)
forms:
form:
clichés
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cliché
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French cliché.
senses_examples:
text:
The villain kidnapping the love interest in a film is a bit of a cliché.
type:
example
text:
I know it's a bit of a cliché, but love really does conquer all.
type:
example
text:
Clever got me this far
Then tricky got me in
Eye on what I'm after
I don't need another friend
Smile and drop the cliche
Till you think I'm listening
Take just what I came for
Then I'm out the door again
ref:
2003, “The Package”, performed by A Perfect Circle
type:
quotation
text:
Don’t believe what they’re saying everything’s is gonna change How could it be ever the same? It’s just a cliché fading Till we go our separate ways
ref:
2023, “Remember All The Girls”, performed by The Sherlocks
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude.
A stereotype (printing plate).
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing |
6650 | word:
cliché
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cliché (comparative more cliché, superlative most cliché)
forms:
form:
more cliché
tags:
comparative
form:
most cliché
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French cliché.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
clichéd; having the characteristics of a cliché
senses_topics:
|
6651 | word:
cliché
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cliché (third-person singular simple present clichés, present participle clichéing, simple past and past participle clichéd or (rare) clichéed)
forms:
form:
clichés
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
clichéing
tags:
participle
present
form:
clichéd
tags:
participle
past
form:
clichéd
tags:
past
form:
clichéed
tags:
participle
past
rare
form:
clichéed
tags:
past
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French cliché.
senses_examples:
text:
He clichéd at me. He clichéd at me in a perky, condescending tone.
ref:
2015, Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use a cliché; to make up a word or a name that sounds like a cliché.
senses_topics:
|
6652 | word:
e.g.
word_type:
adv
expansion:
e.g.
forms:
wikipedia:
Bantam Books
etymology_text:
The adverb is a terser form of ex. gr., both abbreviating Latin exemplī grātiā (“for the sake of an example”); e.g. was also used as an abbreviation in Latin.
The noun is derived from the adverb.
senses_examples:
text:
Continents (e.g., Asia) contain many large bodies of water (e.g., lakes and inland seas) and many large flowing streams of water (i.e., rivers).
type:
example
text:
Stated in technical linguistic terms, in this treatise pœcilonymy is avoided; e. g., instead of tænia hippocampi in one place, corpus fimbriatum in another, and fimbria in a third, the last is consistently employed and the others given as synonyms.
ref:
1889 July 18, The Nation; quoted in “Dr. [Joseph] Leidy’s Anatomy”, in William Pepper [et al.], editors, The University Medical Magazine, volume II, number 1, Philadelphia, Pa.: A. L. Hummel, October 1889, →OCLC, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
The social status of the husband devolved on his wife, as implied in Pāṇini’s sūtra (Puṁyogād ākhyāyām, IV. 1. 48), i. e. a designation derived from her husband; e. g. mahāmātrī (ministrix), wife of a mahāmātra, a high government official, and gaṇakī, wife of a gaṇaka (accountant).
ref:
1963, V[asudeva] S[harana] Agrawala, “Social Life”, in India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī, 2nd edition, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh: Prithvi Kumar, Prithivi Prakashan, →OCLC, section 3 (Marriage), page 88
type:
quotation
text:
Cities were not infrequently named after the era name in which they were founded (e.g., Shaoxing 紹興 in Zhejiang, after the Shaoxing era, 1131–62).
ref:
2000, Endymion Wilkinson, “Geography”, in Chinese History: A New Manual (Harvard–Yenching Institute Monograph Series; 52), revised edition, Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard–Yenching Institute, page 135
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An initialism used to introduce an illustrative example or short list of examples: for the sake of an example; for example.
senses_topics:
|
6653 | word:
e.g.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
e.g.
forms:
wikipedia:
Bantam Books
etymology_text:
The adverb is a terser form of ex. gr., both abbreviating Latin exemplī grātiā (“for the sake of an example”); e.g. was also used as an abbreviation in Latin.
The noun is derived from the adverb.
senses_examples:
text:
Lemurs are an e.g. of a non-simian primate.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An example.
senses_topics:
|
6654 | word:
oneself
word_type:
pron
expansion:
oneself (reflexive form of the indefinite personal pronoun one, formerly sometimes two words: one's self)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A contracted form of one's self (Mid-16th century). Equivalent to one + -self.
senses_examples:
text:
Teaching oneself to swim can be dangerous.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person's self: general form of himself, herself, themself or yourself.
senses_topics:
|
6655 | word:
dead president
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dead president (plural dead presidents)
forms:
form:
dead presidents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The presidents whose faces decorate US currency are deceased.
senses_examples:
text:
So I dig into my pocket, all my money is spent
So I dig deeper but still comin' up with lint
So I start my mission, leave my residence
Thinkin' how could I get some dead presidents
ref:
1987, Eric B. & Rakim (lyrics and music), “Paid In Full”, in Paid In Full
type:
quotation
text:
I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?)
I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?)
I'm out for dead presidents to represent me
ref:
1994, Nas (lyrics and music), “The World Is Yours”, in Illmatic
type:
quotation
text:
Finding a new job just meant driving to another office-park campus with dopey street names (Disc Drive, Resistor Road, Infinite Loop) to endure more geeksploitation in exchange for dead presidents, stock options, a flexible schedule, no dress code, and all the junk food I could eat.
ref:
2000, Richard Grayson, The Silicon Valley Diet and Other Stories, Red Hen Press, page 149
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece of US paper currency.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, president.
senses_topics:
|
6656 | word:
overeat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overeat (third-person singular simple present overeats, present participle overeating, simple past overate, past participle overeaten)
forms:
form:
overeats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overeating
tags:
participle
present
form:
overate
tags:
past
form:
overeaten
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From over- + eat.
senses_examples:
text:
Overeat meat and you will not be flipping the genetic switches to grow a new body; instead, you will be opting for an early death even as you tone and strengthen your muscles.
ref:
2019, Alberto Villoldo, Grow a New Body, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Nollekens, when he dined out of late years, always over-ate himself, particularly with the pastry and dessert.
ref:
1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 255
type:
quotation
text:
At breakfast they overate themselves with buttered toast, and "had eaten so much that they could not learn with any pleasure," […]
ref:
1896, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To eat too much.
To eat too much of.
To surfeit with eating.
senses_topics:
|
6657 | word:
proved
word_type:
verb
expansion:
proved
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of prove
senses_topics:
|
6658 | word:
headbanger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
headbanger (plural headbangers)
forms:
form:
headbangers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
headbanging
etymology_text:
From head + banger.
senses_examples:
text:
We would therefore paralyse ourselves for no good reason other than the propagandistic appeasement of the Daily Mail, the Sun, my noble friend Lord Hamilton and a few other headbangers in the Commons on the Conservative side.
ref:
2010, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Lords official report
type:
quotation
text:
Corbyn's lack of ambition would turn out to be one of his great selling points. He was the man at the margin: a headbanger for most and a man of principles for a few.
ref:
2021 March 2, Donald Sassoon, Morbid Symptoms: An Anatomy of a World in Crisis, Verso Books, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
Even the Brexit headbangers of the European Research Group rolled over like pussycats.
ref:
2021 November 2, John Crace, A Farewell to Calm: The New Normal Survival Guide, Faber & Faber
type:
quotation
text:
We also had a heavy crew of home-grown headbangers who were likely to get involved in any IRA - UVF battles. It would not have taken much to tip Scotland into the serial sectarian violence that was rife in Belfast and the surrounding areas.
ref:
2005 November 15, Les Brown, Robert Jeffrey, Glasgow Crimefighter: The Les Brown Story, Black & White Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
John had a nasty side to him – he wanted to see the handiwork, if y'know what I mean. That sorta thing didn't interest me. He had a lot of headbangers around him but that was his style. He wanted to outdo the UDA – he hated them with a passion.
ref:
2011 October 14, Martin Dillon, The Trigger Men: Assassins and Terror Bosses in the Ireland Conflict, Random House
type:
quotation
text:
In the Long Bar, you had 'Chuck' Berry and his mob. You had Lenny Murphy and his mob. And you had them in the Rex Bar, and you had them in the Windsor Bar. All different, separate groups of all headbangers. Now, from time to time, the leaders would have given them instructions to carry out certain murders or given approval for certain murders.
ref:
2023 November 2, Martin Thomas, The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies, Oxford University Press, page 674
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who dances by violently shaking the head in time to the music.
One who enjoys heavy metal (rock) music, to which this sort of dance is usually performed.
A mad or eccentric person.
A mad or eccentric person.
He walks down the street with his trolley. Fuckin' headbanger.
He walks down the street with his trolley. Fuckin' headbanger.
A political hardliner, especially an obstructive one.
A person who engages in street violence, especially in support of a political group.
A kind of chin-up or pull-up exercise where the head is kept in line with the bar.
senses_topics:
|
6659 | word:
cost
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle cost or costed)
forms:
form:
costs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
costing
tags:
participle
present
form:
cost
tags:
participle
past
form:
cost
tags:
past
form:
costed
tags:
participle
past
form:
costed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin cōstō, from Latin cōnstō (“stand together”).
senses_examples:
text:
This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.
type:
example
text:
It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world.
type:
example
text:
Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.
type:
example
text:
the packaging of home-delivered products now accounts for 30% of the solid rubbish the US generates annually, and the cardboard alone costs 1bn trees.
ref:
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
LUKE: "That little droid is going to cost me a lot of trouble."
ref:
1977, Star Wars
type:
quotation
text:
I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.
type:
example
text:
I can give you the names, but it'll cost you.
type:
example
text:
That's going to cost you!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
To calculate or estimate a price.
To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
senses_topics:
|
6660 | word:
cost
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cost (countable and uncountable, plural costs)
forms:
form:
costs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cost
etymology_text:
From Middle English cost, coust, from costen (“to cost”), from the same source as above.
senses_examples:
text:
The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.
type:
example
text:
We have to cut costs if we want to avoid bankruptcy.
type:
example
text:
The average cost of a new house is twice as much as it was 20 years ago.
type:
example
text:
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
ref:
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health.
type:
example
text:
The army won the battle decisively, but at a cost of many lives.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
senses_topics:
|
6661 | word:
cost
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cost (plural costs)
forms:
form:
costs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cost, from Old English cost (“option, choice, possibility, manner, way, condition”), from Old Norse kostr (“choice, opportunity, chance, condition, state, quality”), from Proto-Germanic *kustuz (“choice, trial”) (or Proto-Germanic *kustiz (“choice, trial”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus (“to enjoy, taste”).
Cognate with Icelandic kostur, German dialectal Kust (“taste, flavour”), Dutch kust (“choice, choosing”), North Frisian kest (“choice, estimation, virtue”), West Frisian kêst (“article of law, statute”), Old English cyst (“free-will, choice, election, the best of anything, the choicest, picked host, moral excellence, virtue, goodness, generosity, munificence”), Latin gustus (“taste”). Related to choose. Doublet of gusto.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
senses_topics:
|
6662 | word:
cost
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cost (plural costs)
forms:
form:
costs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English coste, from Old French coste, from Latin costa. Doublet of coast and cuesta.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rib; a side.
A cottise.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
6663 | word:
quitted
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quitted
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Casting my eyes about, I beheld no living object; but was sensible of a very peculiar stirring far below me, amongst the whispering rushes of the pestilential swamp I had lately quitted.
ref:
1941, Chapman Miske, The Thing in the Moonlight
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of quit
senses_topics:
|
6664 | word:
overpay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overpay (third-person singular simple present overpays, present participle overpaying, simple past and past participle overpaid)
forms:
form:
overpays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overpaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
overpaid
tags:
participle
past
form:
overpaid
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From over- + pay.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pay too much.
To be more than an ample reward for.
senses_topics:
|
6665 | word:
redone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
redone
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of redo
senses_topics:
|
6666 | word:
redid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
redid
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of redo
senses_topics:
|
6667 | word:
rebind
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rebind (third-person singular simple present rebinds, present participle rebinding, simple past and past participle rebound)
forms:
form:
rebinds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rebinding
tags:
participle
present
form:
rebound
tags:
participle
past
form:
rebound
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + bind.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bind again.
To associate a command with a different key.
senses_topics:
|
6668 | word:
writing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
writing (countable and uncountable, plural writings)
forms:
form:
writings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
writing
etymology_text:
From Middle English writing, writyng, wryting, wrytyng, from Old English wrīting (“writing”), equivalent to write + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
Early writing appeared in both societies around 3000 B.C.E., mainly for administrative purposes in Egypt and for accounting and trading in Sumer.
ref:
2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
I can't read your writing.
type:
example
text:
a writing table
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.
Something written, such as a document, article or book.
The process of representing a language with symbols or letters.
A work of an author.
The style of writing of a person.
Intended for or used in writing.
senses_topics:
|
6669 | word:
writing
word_type:
verb
expansion:
writing
forms:
wikipedia:
writing
etymology_text:
From Middle English writinge, wrytynge, writende, writand, from Old English wrītende, present participle of Old English wrītan (“to scratch, carve, write”), equivalent to write + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
What are you doing? ― Um, I’m writing. ― You are writing! You are writing a lot!
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of write
senses_topics:
|
6670 | word:
rhetoric
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rhetoric
forms:
wikipedia:
rhetoric
etymology_text:
From Middle English rethorik, from Latin rēthoricus, rhētoricus, from Ancient Greek ῥητορῐκός (rhētorikós).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of rhetorical.
senses_topics:
|
6671 | word:
rhetoric
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rhetoric (countable and uncountable, plural rhetorics)
forms:
form:
rhetorics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rhetoric
etymology_text:
From Middle English rethorik, rhetoric, from Old French rhetorique, from Latin rhētorica, from Ancient Greek ῥητορική (rhētorikḗ), ellipsis of ῥητορικὴ τέχνη (rhētorikḕ tékhnē), from ῥητορικός (rhētorikós, “concerning public speech”), from ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr, “public speaker”).
senses_examples:
text:
Transport Minister Marples, meanwhile, used arrogant rhetoric and showed his personal contempt for railways when confirming in Parliament that a third of the network was to be closed even before the survey results were known.
ref:
2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
It’s only so much rhetoric.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.
senses_topics:
|
6672 | word:
re-laid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
re-laid
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of re-lay
senses_topics:
|
6673 | word:
lead
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lead (countable and uncountable, plural leads)
forms:
form:
lead Electrolytically refined pure lead
tags:
canonical
form:
leads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English led, leed, from Old English lēad (“lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laud (“lead”), borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow”).
Cognate with Scots leid, lede (“lead”), North Frisian lud, luad (“lead”), West Frisian lead (“lead”), Dutch lood (“lead”), German Lot (“solder, plummet, sounding line”), Swedish lod (“lead”), Icelandic lóð (“a plumb, weight”), Irish luaidhe (“lead”) Latin plumbum (“lead”), Finnish luoti (“bullet”). Doublet of loth. More at flow.
* (graphite in a pencil): Graphite was once believed to be a form of lead; see black lead and plumbago.
senses_examples:
text:
This copy has too much lead; I prefer less space between the lines.
type:
example
text:
They pumped him full of lead.
type:
example
text:
All my life I want money and power
Respect my mind or die from lead shower
ref:
2012, “Backseat Freestyle”, performed by Kendrick Lamar
type:
quotation
text:
You must remember to wear your leads.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
bullets; ammunition.
X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
media
publishing
typography
medicine
sciences |
6674 | word:
lead
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lead (third-person singular simple present leads, present participle leading, simple past and past participle leaded)
forms:
form:
leads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
leading
tags:
participle
present
form:
leaded
tags:
participle
past
form:
leaded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English led, leed, from Old English lēad (“lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laud (“lead”), borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow”).
Cognate with Scots leid, lede (“lead”), North Frisian lud, luad (“lead”), West Frisian lead (“lead”), Dutch lood (“lead”), German Lot (“solder, plummet, sounding line”), Swedish lod (“lead”), Icelandic lóð (“a plumb, weight”), Irish luaidhe (“lead”) Latin plumbum (“lead”), Finnish luoti (“bullet”). Doublet of loth. More at flow.
* (graphite in a pencil): Graphite was once believed to be a form of lead; see black lead and plumbago.
senses_examples:
text:
continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
type:
example
text:
to lead a page
type:
example
text:
leaded matter
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
To place leads between the lines of.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing |
6675 | word:
lead
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lead (third-person singular simple present leads, present participle leading, simple past and past participle led)
forms:
form:
leads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
leading
tags:
participle
present
form:
led
tags:
participle
past
form:
led
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Lead off
etymology_text:
From Middle English leden, from Old English lǣdan (“to lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijan, from Proto-Germanic *laidijaną (“to cause one to go, lead”), causative of Proto-Germanic *līþaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to leave, die”).
Cognate with West Frisian liede (“to lead”), Dutch leiden (“to lead”), German leiten (“to lead”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål lede (“to lead”), Norwegian Nynorsk leia (“to lead”), Swedish leda (“to lead”). Related to Old English līþan (“to go, travel”).
senses_examples:
text:
a father leads a child a jockey leads a horse with a halter a dog leads a blind man
type:
example
text:
The guide was able to lead the tourists through the jungle safely.
type:
example
text:
A good teacher should lead their students to the right answer.
type:
example
text:
to lead a political party
type:
example
text:
to lead the search team
type:
example
text:
The evidence leads me to believe he is guilty.
type:
example
text:
the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages
type:
example
text:
1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso
As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way.
text:
And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
ref:
c. 1819, Leigh Hunt, Abou Ben Adhem
type:
quotation
text:
to lead trumps
type:
example
text:
He led the ace of spades.
type:
example
text:
The batter always leads off base.
type:
example
text:
to lead someone to a righteous cause
type:
example
text:
He was driven by the necessities of the times, more than led by his own disposition, to any rigor of actions.
ref:
1649, King Charles I of England, Eikon Basilike
type:
quotation
text:
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
ref:
2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices
type:
example
text:
All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism. That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition. It is therefore dealing with pollution in two ways—suppression and mitigation.
ref:
2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
The shock led to a change in his behaviour.
type:
example
text:
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To guide or conduct.
To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
To guide or conduct.
To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
To guide or conduct.
To direct; to counsel; to instruct
To guide or conduct.
To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
To guide or conduct.
To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
To begin, to be ahead.
To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
To begin, to be ahead.
To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
To begin, to be ahead.
To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
To begin, to be ahead.
To begin a game, round, or trick, with
To begin, to be ahead.
To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
To begin, to be ahead.
To have the highest interim score in a game.
To begin, to be ahead.
To step off base and move towards the next base.
To begin, to be ahead.
To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
To begin, to be ahead.
Lead climb.
To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
To produce (with to).
Misspelling of led.
To live or experience (a particular way of life).
senses_topics:
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
card-games
dominoes
games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
climbing
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
6676 | word:
lead
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lead (countable and uncountable, plural leads)
forms:
form:
leads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Lead off
lead (news)
etymology_text:
From Middle English leden, from Old English lǣdan (“to lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijan, from Proto-Germanic *laidijaną (“to cause one to go, lead”), causative of Proto-Germanic *līþaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to leave, die”).
Cognate with West Frisian liede (“to lead”), Dutch leiden (“to lead”), German leiten (“to lead”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål lede (“to lead”), Norwegian Nynorsk leia (“to lead”), Swedish leda (“to lead”). Related to Old English līþan (“to go, travel”).
senses_examples:
text:
to take the lead
type:
example
text:
to be under the lead of another
type:
example
text:
the white horse had the lead.
type:
example
text:
to be in the lead
type:
example
text:
She lost the lead.
type:
example
text:
Smith managed to extend her lead over the second place to half a second.
type:
example
text:
Blackburn then regained the lead with a simplest of set-piece goals
ref:
2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 – 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The runner took his lead from first.
type:
example
text:
your partner has the lead
type:
example
text:
"You make moving pictures. In jungles and places." "That's me. And I've picked you for the lead in my next picture."
ref:
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
John is the development lead on this software product.
type:
example
text:
Usage note: When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust.
text:
The investigation stalled when all leads turned out to be dead ends.
type:
example
text:
The police have a couple of leads they will follow to solve the case.
type:
example
text:
Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
A channel of open water in an ice field.
A lode.
The course of a rope from end to end.
A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
Hypothesis that has not been pursued
Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
card-games
dominoes
games
acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
business
business
mining
nautical
transport
civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hobbies
horology
lifestyle
business
marketing
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
journalism
media
newspapers
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
6677 | word:
lead
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lead (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Lead off
etymology_text:
From Middle English leden, from Old English lǣdan (“to lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijan, from Proto-Germanic *laidijaną (“to cause one to go, lead”), causative of Proto-Germanic *līþaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to leave, die”).
Cognate with West Frisian liede (“to lead”), Dutch leiden (“to lead”), German leiten (“to lead”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål lede (“to lead”), Norwegian Nynorsk leia (“to lead”), Swedish leda (“to lead”). Related to Old English līþan (“to go, travel”).
senses_examples:
text:
The contestants are all tied; no one has the lead position.
type:
example
text:
For the first time ever, the senior architect and lead developer for a key enterprise system on NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover mission shares the secrets to one of the most difficult technology tasks […]
ref:
2006, Ronald Mak, The Martian Principles for Successful Enterprise Systems
type:
quotation
text:
the lead guitarist in band
type:
example
text:
the lead developer on a software project
type:
example
text:
Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's ex-prime minister, has missed a verdict in a negligence trial that could have seen her jailed, prompting the Supreme Court to say it will issue an arrest warrant fearing she is a flight risk, according to the lead judge in the case.
ref:
2017 August 25, "Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict", in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Foremost.
Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.
senses_topics:
|
6678 | word:
lead
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lead
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of led.
senses_topics:
|
6679 | word:
overshot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overshot
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of overshoot
senses_topics:
|
6680 | word:
overshot
word_type:
adj
expansion:
overshot (comparative more overshot, superlative most overshot)
forms:
form:
more overshot
tags:
comparative
form:
most overshot
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
powered by water that flows over the top from above (of a water wheel)
Having the upper teeth projecting beyond the lower, as in the jaws of some dogs.
senses_topics:
|
6681 | word:
overshot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
overshot (plural overshots)
forms:
form:
overshots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An overshot water wheel.
senses_topics:
|
6682 | word:
re-lay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
re-lay (third-person singular simple present re-lays, present participle re-laying, simple past and past participle re-laid)
forms:
form:
re-lays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
re-laying
tags:
participle
present
form:
re-laid
tags:
participle
past
form:
re-laid
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + lay.
senses_examples:
text:
relay the pitch (football)
type:
example
text:
He had to re-lay the tiles because the cement was too dry.
type:
example
text:
BP re-laid and extended the track to provide two half-length loading roads, two half-length stabling sidings, and a reception siding.
ref:
2019 November 6, Andy Coward, “Fuelling additional rail freight traffic”, in Rail, page 58
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lay (for example, flooring or railroad track) again.
senses_topics:
|
6683 | word:
human
word_type:
adj
expansion:
human (comparative more human, superlative most human)
forms:
form:
more human
tags:
comparative
form:
most human
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, umain, from Latin hūmānus m (“of or belonging to a man, human, humane”, adjective), from homo, with unclear ū. Spelling human has been predominant since the early 18th century. Not etymologically related to man.
senses_examples:
text:
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref:
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
type:
example
text:
2011 August 17, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., The Many Wars of Google: Handset makers will learn to live with their new ‘frenemy’, Business World, Wall Street Journal,
Google wouldn't be human if it didn't want some of this loot, which buying Motorola would enable it to grab.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
Having the nature or attributes of a human being.
senses_topics:
|
6684 | word:
human
word_type:
noun
expansion:
human (plural humans)
forms:
form:
humans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, umain, from Latin hūmānus m (“of or belonging to a man, human, humane”, adjective), from homo, with unclear ū. Spelling human has been predominant since the early 18th century. Not etymologically related to man.
senses_examples:
text:
Greetings. I am Blor-Utar from Zimtok-5. I have come to subjugate the human race. Do not resist. Why humans? Because, in addition to their value as slave labor, they are also delicious and nutritious!
ref:
1994 March 29, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
type:
quotation
text:
Greetings, human! You have stumbled into the dimension of the Snow People.[…]Flesh plows clear the streets to make them safe to drive.[…]Does this shock you, human? Do the ways of our world open your eyes to the truths of your own?
ref:
2011 December 29, Alex Culang, Raynato Castro, Buttersafe (webcomic)
type:
quotation
text:
Humans share common ancestors with other apes.
type:
example
text:
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
If I ever have to choose between a future where killer robots hunt humans or a future where bacon supplies have run out ... Let's just say you better start running.
ref:
2013 April 18, Rock Paper Cynic (webcomic)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The tallest, most abundant and most intelligent of the primates; Homo sapiens.
A human as contrasted from superficially similar but typically more powerful humanoid creatures; a member of the human race.
The tallest, most abundant and most intelligent of the primates; Homo sapiens.
A term of address for any human, often implying the listener's species is their only noteworthy trait.
The tallest, most abundant and most intelligent of the primates; Homo sapiens.
Any hominid of the genus Homo.
senses_topics:
biology
fantasy
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
biology
fantasy
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
biology
natural-sciences
|
6685 | word:
human
word_type:
verb
expansion:
human (third-person singular simple present humans, present participle humaning or humanning, simple past and past participle humaned or humanned)
forms:
form:
humans
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
humaning
tags:
participle
present
form:
humanning
tags:
participle
present
form:
humaned
tags:
participle
past
form:
humaned
tags:
past
form:
humanned
tags:
participle
past
form:
humanned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, umain, from Latin hūmānus m (“of or belonging to a man, human, humane”, adjective), from homo, with unclear ū. Spelling human has been predominant since the early 18th century. Not etymologically related to man.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] he sought to charm a single pair of ears, and those more hairy than critical. Later, as the race went on humaning, there grew complexity of sentiment and varying emotional needs, […]
ref:
1911, Ambrose Bierce, “Music”, in The collected works of Ambrose Bierce, volume 9, page 362
type:
quotation
text:
There are, then, many ways of humaning: these are the ways along which we make ourselves and, collaboratively, one another.
ref:
2013, Biosocial Becomings, page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.
senses_topics:
|
6686 | word:
overshoot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
overshoot (countable and uncountable, plural overshoots)
forms:
form:
overshoots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overshoten, oversheten (“to shoot beyond, shoot past, pour down from above”), perhaps continuing Old English ofersċēotan (“to shoot down”), equivalent to over- + shoot.
senses_examples:
text:
Let's see if we can predict and correct for the overshoot.
type:
example
text:
With appropriate choice and action such uncontrolled decline could be avoided; overshoot could instead be resolved by a conscious effort to reduce humanity's demand on the planet.
ref:
2004, Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows, “Author's preface”, in Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
type:
quotation
text:
Population overshoot is therefore unlikely to yield to management. Rather, the usual suspects will enter the scene and do their thing: starvation, disease, […] violence […] [and] death […].
ref:
2012, James Howard Kunstler, “Where We're at”, in Too Much Magic
type:
quotation
text:
Our core ecological problem is not climate change. It is overshoot, of which global warming is a symptom.
ref:
2017 August 14, Richard Heinberg, “Systemic Change Driven by Moral Awakening Is Our Only Hope”, in Ecowatch
type:
quotation
text:
The portion resting beyond the capline or baseline is called overshoot.
ref:
2019, Reece Patton, Formatting for Print
type:
quotation
text:
The bowl of the D and the O are usually not identical, as most D forms do not have overshoot or undershoot.
ref:
2020, Karen Cheng, Designing Type, 2nd edition, page 88
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The amount by which something goes too far.
When the population of a species exceeds its environment's carrying capacity.
The portion of a letter extending above the capline of other letters of the same font, or the relative degree of such extent.
senses_topics:
biology
ecology
natural-sciences
arts
design
media
publishing
typography |
6687 | word:
overshoot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overshoot (third-person singular simple present overshoots, present participle overshooting, simple past and past participle overshot)
forms:
form:
overshoots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overshooting
tags:
participle
present
form:
overshot
tags:
participle
past
form:
overshot
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overshoten, oversheten (“to shoot beyond, shoot past, pour down from above”), perhaps continuing Old English ofersċēotan (“to shoot down”), equivalent to over- + shoot.
senses_examples:
text:
When you drive, you must remember to not overshoot the parking space and end up with two wheels over the line.
type:
example
text:
As a result of the accident at Southend Airport when a Hermes aircraft overshot the runway and fouled the down Shenfield to Southend Victoria line between Rochford and Prittlewell, the Eastern Region is considering warning arrangements, which have already been provided on some lines running past aerodromes.
ref:
1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Aircraft on rail tracks”, in Trains Illustrated, page 650
type:
quotation
text:
A ScotRail Driver: […] A good friend of mine overshot two stations back-to-back a couple of years ago. He tried to stop at one station and slid by it. Tried to stop at the next station. He slid by that, too.
ref:
2021 December 15, Paul Clifton, “There is nothing you can do”, in RAIL, number 946, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
to overshoot the truth
type:
example
text:
That fire abated that impells rash youth,
Proud of his speed to overshoot the truth,
ref:
1782, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems: by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq., →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Measured this way humanity was last at sustainable levels in the 1980s. Now it has overshot by some 20 percent.
ref:
2004, Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows, “Author's preface”, in Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
type:
quotation
text:
The amount a letter overshoots is based on the design, but your eye shouldn’t notice it.
ref:
2019, Reece Patton, Formatting for Print
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To go past something; to go too far.
To shoot beyond; to shoot too far to hit something.
To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond.
To exceed.
To venture too far; to overreach (oneself).
senses_topics:
|
6688 | word:
science
word_type:
noun
expansion:
science (countable and uncountable, plural sciences)
forms:
form:
sciences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English science, scyence, borrowed from Old French science, escience, from Latin scientia (“knowledge”), from sciens, the present participle stem of scire (“to know”).
senses_examples:
text:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
Of course in my opinion Social Studies is more of a science than an art.
type:
example
text:
My favorite subjects at school are science, mathematics, and history.
type:
example
text:
Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy
ref:
1819, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Hamlet
type:
quotation
text:
That this use should be destructive is no doubt very deplorable, but Science knows no distinctions of the sort, but follows knowledge wherever it may lead.
ref:
1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine
type:
quotation
text:
What is it that has produced this new prodigious speed of man? Science is the cause. Her feeble groping fingers lifted here and there, often trampled underfoot, often frozen in isolation, have now become a vast organized, united, class-conscious army marching forward upon all the fronts toward objectives none may measure or define.
ref:
1931 November 15, Winston Churchill, “Fifty Years Hence”, in Maclean's, archived from the original on 2020-07-18
type:
quotation
text:
I have found no better expression than "religious" for confidence in the rational nature of reality […] Whenever this feeling is absent, science degenerates into uninspired empiricism.
ref:
1951 January 1, Albert Einstein, letter to Maurice Solovine, as published in Letters to Solovine (1993)
text:
In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
ref:
2012 January 24, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
While much good science has come from the Hubble telescope (including the most reliable measure to date for the expansion rate of the universe), you would never know from media accounts that the foundation of our cosmic knowledge continues to flow primarily from the analysis of spectra and not from looking at pretty pictures.
ref:
2001 September, Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Over the rainbow”, in Natural History, volume 110, number 7, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop.
ref:
2008, HMV Hammersmith Apollo, in Dara Ó Briain Talks Funny – Live in London, spoken by stand-up comedian (Dara Ó Briain), United Kingdom, published 2008
type:
quotation
text:
With wildfires raging across the West, climate change took center stage in the race for the White House on Monday as former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called President Trump a “climate arsonist” while the president said that “I don’t think science knows” what is actually happening.
ref:
2020 September 14, “As Trump Again Rejects Science, Biden Calls Him a ‘Climate Arsonist’”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
There are plenty of earnestly respectful vaccine selfies, where the inoculated person bares a shoulder and thanks science for their shot.
ref:
2021 April 27, Amanda Hess, “Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science.
ref:
2021 June 3, Katherine Eban, quoting Robert Redfield, “The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins”, in Vanity Fair
type:
quotation
text:
From a conviction, that the science is universally understood, the strong are taught humility, and the weak confidence. Many have laughed at the idea, that Boxing is of national service, but they have laughed at the expence of truth.
ref:
1816, The art and practice of English boxing, page v
type:
quotation
text:
[…] for not a blow or guard in boxing will repay you more than the cross-counter, which may well be called the sheet-anchor of the science.
ref:
1888, William Edwards, Art of Boxing and Science of Self-Defense
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A particular discipline or branch of knowledge that is natural, measurable or consisting of systematic principles rather than intuition or technical skill.
Specifically the natural sciences.
Knowledge gained through study or practice; mastery of a particular discipline or area.
The fact of knowing something; knowledge or understanding of a truth.
The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline.
Knowledge derived from scientific disciplines, scientific method, or any systematic effort.
The scientific community.
Synonym of sweet science (“the sport of boxing”)
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
theology
|
6689 | word:
science
word_type:
verb
expansion:
science (third-person singular simple present sciences, present participle sciencing, simple past and past participle scienced)
forms:
form:
sciences
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sciencing
tags:
participle
present
form:
scienced
tags:
participle
past
form:
scienced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English science, scyence, borrowed from Old French science, escience, from Latin scientia (“knowledge”), from sciens, the present participle stem of scire (“to know”).
senses_examples:
text:
I mock'd at all religious Fear, Deep-scienced in the mazy Lore Of mad Philosophy
ref:
1742, Philip Francis, Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace in Latin and English
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
To use science to solve a problem.
senses_topics:
|
6690 | word:
science
word_type:
noun
expansion:
science
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See scion.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of scion.
senses_topics:
|
6691 | word:
repaid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
repaid
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of repay
senses_topics:
|
6692 | word:
pula
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pula
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Tswana pula, Northern Sotho pula, and Sotho pula (“rain”), all from Proto-Bantu *mbúdà.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rain, used as an expression of greeting or good luck.
The currency of Botswana, divided into 100 thebe.
senses_topics:
|
6693 | word:
rebuilt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rebuilt
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of rebuild
senses_topics:
|
6694 | word:
rebuilt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rebuilt (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
rebuilt engine
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Which has been rebuilt
senses_topics:
|
6695 | word:
leet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leet (plural leets)
forms:
form:
leets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
leet
etymology_text:
From Scots leet, leit, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French lite, litte, variant of liste (“list”); or from Old Norse leiti, hleyti (“a share, portion”) (compare Old English hlēte (“share, lot”)); or an aphaeretic shortening of French élite.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves.
senses_topics:
|
6696 | word:
leet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
leet
forms:
wikipedia:
leet
etymology_text:
From Old English lēt, past tense of lǣtan (“to let”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of let
senses_topics:
|
6697 | word:
leet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leet (plural leets)
forms:
form:
leets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
leet
etymology_text:
Originated 1400–50 from late Middle English lete (“meeting”), from Anglo-Norman lete and Medieval Latin leta (Anglo-Latin), possibly from Old English ġelǣte (“crossroads”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A regular court, more specifically a court-leet, in which certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction.
senses_topics:
|
6698 | word:
leet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leet (plural leets)
forms:
form:
leets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
leet
etymology_text:
Jamieson mentions the alternative spellings lyth, lythe, laid, and laith, and connects it to a verb lythe (“to shelter”), as it "is frequently caught ... in deep holes among the rocks".
senses_examples:
text:
The whiting pollock sometimes, par excellence is styled pollock only. On the Yorkshire coast it is called a leet, and in Scotland a lythe.
ref:
1854, William Hughes, A Practical Treatise on the Choice and Cookery of Fish, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, page 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The European pollock.
senses_topics:
|
6699 | word:
leet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leet (plural leets)
forms:
form:
leets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
leet
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English lete, from Old English ġelǣt, ġelǣte, from Proto-Germanic *galētą, *lētą. More at leat.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place where roads meet or cross; intersection
Alternative form of leat (“watercourse”)
senses_topics:
|
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