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6700 | word:
leet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leet (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
leet
etymology_text:
An aphetic form of elite, respelled according to leetspeak conventions.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of leetspeak.
senses_topics:
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6701 | word:
leet
word_type:
adj
expansion:
leet (comparative leeter, superlative leetest)
forms:
form:
leeter
tags:
comparative
form:
leetest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
leet
etymology_text:
An aphetic form of elite, respelled according to leetspeak conventions.
senses_examples:
text:
Powered by leetness! You can have the leetest hardware imaginable in your gaming rig, but it won't matter if you run it with a cheap power supply.
ref:
2006, Maximum PC (Autumn, page 26)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to leetspeak.
Possessing outstanding skill in a field; expert, masterful.
Having superior social rank over others; upper class, elite.
Awesome, typically to describe a feat of skill; cool, sweet.
senses_topics:
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6702 | word:
reran
word_type:
verb
expansion:
reran
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of rerun
senses_topics:
|
6703 | word:
pled
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pled
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pladde (preterite) & pladd (past participle) of Middle English pleden (“to plead”).
senses_examples:
text:
When the indictment was read over, and the Jury sworn in, the prisoner pled guilty.
ref:
1802, The Edinburgh Magazine, v. XIX (new series), p. 70
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of plead
senses_topics:
|
6704 | word:
reading
word_type:
verb
expansion:
reading
forms:
wikipedia:
reading
etymology_text:
From Middle English reding, redyng, redand, from Old English rǣdende, present participle of rǣdan (“to read”), equivalent to read + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of read
senses_topics:
|
6705 | word:
reading
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reading (countable and uncountable, plural readings)
forms:
form:
readings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
reading
etymology_text:
From Middle English reding, redynge, redunge, from Old English rǣding (“reading”), equivalent to read + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
The student is behind in his reading by several chapters.
type:
example
text:
He glanced across and took note of the speedometer reading.
type:
example
text:
He noted that fine dust readings have been higher in Seoul than in Beijing recently.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
I attended a poetry reading.
type:
example
text:
That's my reading of the current situation.
type:
example
text:
Some Chinese characters have numerous readings.
type:
example
text:
Recent reports from Taiwan (Formosa), although fragmentary, begin to give a picture of economic conditions following the conclusion of the war. Now officially referred to as Taiwan Province, the island's former Japanese administration is being replaced by Chinese officials with little change, at least as yet, in the administrative pattern. Although there is no indication that ideographs will be changed, Chinese readings rather than Japanese will be followed for place names. Taihoku, for example, will be read in our alphabet as Taipei. This city presumably will continue to be the capital of Taiwan.
ref:
1946 February 16, “China”, in Foreign Commerce Weekly, volume XXII, number 7, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
2014, Jürgen Moltmann, edited by Margaret Kohl, Jürgen Moltmann: Collected Readings, Fortress Press.:
type:
quotation
text:
He's a man of good reading.
type:
example
text:
After the homily there will be two readings from the Bible.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of interpreting written language.
The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
A value indicated by a measuring device.
An event at which written material is read aloud.
An interpretation.
A pronunciation associated with a particular character or word; particularly in East Asian scripts.
Something to read; reading material.
The extent of what one has read.
One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
The content of a reading list.
The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
government
law
politics
education
|
6706 | word:
resold
word_type:
verb
expansion:
resold
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of resell
senses_topics:
|
6707 | word:
chronology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chronology (countable and uncountable, plural chronologies)
forms:
form:
chronologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chronology
etymology_text:
From chrono- (“relating to time”) + -logy (“study of, account of”), after New Latin chronologia from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + λόγος (lógos, “reason, explanation”). Literally "time reason" in Modern Greek.
senses_examples:
text:
The film's chronology is not entirely obvious, but can be worked out by the clothes the characters are wearing in the scenes.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The science of determining the order in which events occurred.
An arrangement of events into chronological order; called a timeline when involving graphical elements.
senses_topics:
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6708 | word:
rethought
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rethought
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of rethink
senses_topics:
|
6709 | word:
overhang
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overhang (third-person singular simple present overhangs, present participle overhanging, simple past and past participle overhung or overhanged)
forms:
form:
overhangs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overhanging
tags:
participle
present
form:
overhung
tags:
participle
past
form:
overhung
tags:
past
form:
overhanged
tags:
participle
past
form:
overhanged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English oferhangan, corresponding to over- + hang.
senses_examples:
text:
At that time, the upper part of the tower overhanged its base by about fourteen feet.
ref:
2012, Edwin Labre, Solly Border, Freedom...At Last!, page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hang over (something).
To impend.
senses_topics:
|
6710 | word:
overhang
word_type:
noun
expansion:
overhang (plural overhangs)
forms:
form:
overhangs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English oferhangan, corresponding to over- + hang.
senses_examples:
text:
These are firstly for products which need a cool room; secondly for products which can be stored on a standard pallet without overhang; and thirdly for products known as "the uglies" which always overhang a standard pallet.
ref:
1983, Australian Transport, page 16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The volume that tips the balance between the demand and the supply toward demand lagging supply.
That portion of the roof structure that extends beyond the exterior walls of a building.
A fatty roll of pubis flab that hangs over one's genitals; a FUPA.
Anything that overhangs or protrudes over its base, such as a wave immediately before breaking, or a protruding cliff or rock wall.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
architecture
|
6711 | word:
rewound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rewound
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of rewind
senses_topics:
|
6712 | word:
pin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pin (plural pins)
forms:
form:
pins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pin
etymology_text:
From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pen (“enclosure”).
Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle.
No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather and pen (Etymology 3).
senses_examples:
text:
Pull the pin out of the grenade before throwing it at the enemy.
type:
example
text:
I'm not so good on my pins these days.
type:
example
text:
The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins.
type:
example
text:
The shot landed right on the pin.
type:
example
text:
Our ground crew were lodged in the main station, but they came to the cottage for a party when operations for the night had been cancelled and we had a new ‘gong’ (decoration) to celebrate. On these occasions we always installed a pin of bitter.
ref:
1978, Hugh Verity, chapter 2, in We landed by moonlight, Manchester: Crécy Publishing, page 22=
type:
quotation
text:
I spent most of my time in the arcade playing pins.
type:
example
text:
Attracted by game operation, many invested heavily in pins and rolldowns prior to last spring.
ref:
1949, Billboard, volume 61, page 82
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
A leg.
Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
A mood, a state of being.
One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
Caligo.
A thing of small value; a trifle.
A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
The tenon of a dovetail joint.
A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
A pinball machine.
A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
An injection of PEDs.
senses_topics:
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
board-games
chess
games
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
medicine
sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
6713 | word:
pin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pin (third-person singular simple present pins, present participle pinning, simple past and past participle pinned)
forms:
form:
pins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pinning
tags:
participle
present
form:
pinned
tags:
participle
past
form:
pinned
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
pin
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
pin
etymology_text:
From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pen (“enclosure”).
Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle.
No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather and pen (Etymology 3).
senses_examples:
text:
He pinned his opponent on the mat.
type:
example
text:
to pin a folder to the taskbar
type:
example
text:
When marshaling data, the interop marshaler can copy or pin the data being marshaled.
type:
example
text:
[…] you can use the GCHandle class mentioned earlier to pin a heap block until you explicitly unpin it.
ref:
2012, Ian Griffiths, Programming C# 5.0, page 244
type:
quotation
text:
Now I need to pin those needles.
ref:
1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
To pin down (someone).
To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
To inject for performance enhancement.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
6714 | word:
pin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pin (third-person singular simple present pins, present participle pinning, simple past and past participle pinned)
forms:
form:
pins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pinning
tags:
participle
present
form:
pinned
tags:
participle
past
form:
pinned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pin
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of peen
senses_topics:
|
6715 | word:
Muslim
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Muslim (plural Muslims, feminine Muslimah or Muslima)
forms:
form:
Muslims
tags:
plural
form:
Muslimah
tags:
feminine
form:
Muslima
tags:
feminine
wikipedia:
Muslim
etymology_text:
Borrowed around 1615 from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”), the active participle of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama, “he submitted”), verb form IV from the triliteral root س ل م (s-l-m), "to be whole, intact". The verbal noun إسْلام (ʔislām) means literally "submission". In a religious sense, الْإِسْلَام (al-ʔislām) translates to "faith, piety", and مُسْلِم (muslim) to "one who has (religious) faith or piety".
senses_examples:
text:
It was gouerned by Macuac, which conditioned with Amrus that euery Egyptian should pay an Egyptian peece of Gold, and to entertaine three dayes euery Muslim which passed that way.
ref:
1626, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World, fourth edition, page 1019: lines 19-21
type:
quotation
text:
Muslims invented the concept of zero, which is a foundation for the numbering system used throughout the world.
ref:
2006, Howard Greenstein, Kendra G. Hotz, John Kaltner, What Do Our Neighbors Believe?
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is a follower and believer of Islam.
senses_topics:
|
6716 | word:
Muslim
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Muslim (comparative more Muslim, superlative most Muslim)
forms:
form:
more Muslim
tags:
comparative
form:
most Muslim
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Muslim
etymology_text:
Borrowed around 1615 from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”), the active participle of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama, “he submitted”), verb form IV from the triliteral root س ل م (s-l-m), "to be whole, intact". The verbal noun إسْلام (ʔislām) means literally "submission". In a religious sense, الْإِسْلَام (al-ʔislām) translates to "faith, piety", and مُسْلِم (muslim) to "one who has (religious) faith or piety".
senses_examples:
text:
The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity.
ref:
2009, Irene Silverblatt, “Foreword”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew D. O'hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page xi
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Being or relating to a believer of Islam.
senses_topics:
|
6717 | word:
rewritten
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rewritten
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of rewrite
senses_topics:
|
6718 | word:
rewrote
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rewrote
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of rewrite
senses_topics:
|
6719 | word:
axe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
axe (plural axes)
forms:
form:
axes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ax, axe, ex, from Old English æx, from Proto-West Germanic *akusi, from Proto-Germanic *akwisī, probably from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷsih₂ (“axe”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Compare German Axt, Dutch aks, Danish økse, Icelandic öxi, and also Latin ascia.
senses_examples:
text:
His girlfriend/boss/schoolmaster gave him the axe.
type:
example
text:
the Beeching axe
type:
example
text:
I had a job in the great North Woods / Workin' as a cook for a spell / But I never did like it all that much/ And one day the axe just fell
ref:
1975, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Tangled Up in Blue”, in Blood on the Tracks
type:
quotation
text:
But P'u-yi was nothing if not soft when it came to family, and he arranged for the young man to live with his uncle Beitzu P'u-hsiu in P'u-yi's old house in T'ien-ching. So Yü-t'ai was well clear of Ch'ang-ch'un when the axe fell in 1945.
ref:
1994, Tony Scotland, The Empty Throne: The Quest for an Imperial Heir in the People's Republic of China, Penguin Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
Back in 1963, how could Beeching advocate closure of the electrified Liverpool-Southport commuter route, just because its books didn't balance? The busy North London line between Richmond and Broad Street was also for the axe, as was Leeds to Bradford and Ilkley.
ref:
2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
A financial dealer has an axe in a stock that his buyers don't know about, giving him an advantage in making the most profit.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
A dismissal or rejection.
A drastic reduction or cutback.
A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
business
finance |
6720 | word:
axe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
axe (third-person singular simple present axes, present participle axing, simple past and past participle axed)
forms:
form:
axes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
axing
tags:
participle
present
form:
axed
tags:
participle
past
form:
axed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ax, axe, ex, from Old English æx, from Proto-West Germanic *akusi, from Proto-Germanic *akwisī, probably from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷsih₂ (“axe”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Compare German Axt, Dutch aks, Danish økse, Icelandic öxi, and also Latin ascia.
senses_examples:
text:
The government announced its plans to axe public spending.
type:
example
text:
The broadcaster axed the series because far fewer people than expected watched it.
type:
example
text:
He got axed in the last round of firings.
type:
example
text:
On Wednesday, GSMA, which organises the congress, was forced to admit it would have to axe this year’s event after more than 40 companies pulled out citing health and safety concerns.
ref:
2020 February 12, Mark Sweney, “Mobile World Congress axed after firms quit over coronavirus fears”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The Department for Transport axed TfL's central grant in 2015, when Boris Johnson was London mayor.
ref:
2020 June 17, Philip Haigh, “Capital for the capital to meet London's transport needs”, in Rail, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fell or chop with an axe.
To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
senses_topics:
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6721 | word:
axe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
axe (plural axes)
forms:
form:
axes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The axle of a wheel.
senses_topics:
|
6722 | word:
axe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
axe (third-person singular simple present axes, present participle axing, simple past and past participle axed)
forms:
form:
axes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
axing
tags:
participle
present
form:
axed
tags:
participle
past
form:
axed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To furnish with an axle.
senses_topics:
|
6723 | word:
axe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
axe (third-person singular simple present axes, present participle axing, simple past and past participle axed)
forms:
form:
axes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
axing
tags:
participle
present
form:
axed
tags:
participle
past
form:
axed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English axian (“ask”); see ax for more.
senses_examples:
text:
I axe you—have I said one word about that little matter to-day?
ref:
1904, Jr. John Fox, “The Army of the Callahan”, in Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories
type:
quotation
text:
I axe him to sit down and drink some of my wine, but he says no thanks, he just come to axe me a question.
ref:
2013 November 18, Loren D. Estleman, Edsel, Stress, and Motown (The Detroit Novels; I), page 140
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of ask
senses_topics:
|
6724 | word:
bone marrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bone marrow (usually uncountable, plural bone marrows)
forms:
form:
bone marrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fatty vascular tissue that fills the cavities of bones, being the place where new blood cells are produced.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
6725 | word:
comic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
comic (comparative more comic, superlative most comic)
forms:
form:
more comic
tags:
comparative
form:
most comic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
comic
etymology_text:
From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”).
senses_examples:
text:
comic genius
type:
example
text:
a comic stereotype
type:
example
text:
As there was something excessively comique in the distress of the landlord and his wife […], I could not forbear staying a little to be amused with it.
ref:
1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 262
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.
Using the techniques of comedy, as a composition, performer etc; amusing, entertaining.
Unintentionally humorous; amusing, ridiculous.
senses_topics:
|
6726 | word:
comic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
comic (plural comics)
forms:
form:
comics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
comic
etymology_text:
From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”).
senses_examples:
text:
She started out as a joke-writer on the radio, and first performed as a comic at the ages of 30.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A comedian.
A story composed of drawn images arranged in a sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
A children's magazine.
senses_topics:
|
6727 | word:
leukemia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leukemia (countable and uncountable, plural leukemias)
forms:
form:
leukemias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German Leukämie, from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, leuk- + -emia.
senses_examples:
text:
The subjects suffered from lymphoblastic and myeloid leukemias.
type:
example
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
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.
senses_topics:
|
6728 | word:
herself
word_type:
pron
expansion:
herself (the third person singular, feminine, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of she, masculine himself, neuter itself, gender-neutral singular themself or themselves, plural themselves)
forms:
form:
she
tags:
reflexive-of
form:
himself
tags:
masculine
form:
itself
tags:
neuter
form:
themself
tags:
gender-neutral
singular
form:
themselves
tags:
gender-neutral
singular
form:
themselves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English. Equivalent to her + -self.
senses_examples:
text:
She injured herself.
type:
example
text:
She was injured herself.
type:
example
text:
What's herself up to this time?
type:
example
text:
Have you seen herself yet this morning?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
She; an intensive repetition of the female subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate.
The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
senses_topics:
|
6729 | word:
remade
word_type:
verb
expansion:
remade
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of remake
senses_topics:
|
6730 | word:
remade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
remade (plural remades)
forms:
form:
remades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
While it is, unfortunately, true that a certain proportion of new balls crack—and a larger percentage of remades, doubtless incidental to the shell of the latter being made somewhat thinner in the remoulding process, […]
ref:
1909, W. J. Travis, Practical Golf, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
George Fernie's nephew, Willie, testified that at least two dozen balls were made in 1893 and sold to players as 'remades' at 8d each.
ref:
2001, Kevin McGimpsey, David Neech, Golf: Implements and Memorabilia, page 76
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A golf ball made from reclaimed materials.
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
6731 | word:
overcome
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overcome (third-person singular simple present overcomes, present participle overcoming, simple past overcame, past participle overcome)
forms:
form:
overcomes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overcoming
tags:
participle
present
form:
overcame
tags:
past
form:
overcome
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overcomen, from Old English ofercuman (“to overcome, subdue, compel, conquer, obtain, attain, reach, overtake”), corresponding to over- + come. Cognate with Dutch overkomen (“to overcome”), German überkommen (“to overcome”), Danish overkomme (“to overcome”), Swedish överkomma (“to overcome”).
senses_examples:
text:
to overcome enemies in battle
type:
example
text:
In the early days troubles were experienced with oscillation from the rod drive and with the transformers, but were overcome later, and these machines performed useful service until superseded by more modern locomotives less costly in maintenance.
ref:
1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743
type:
quotation
text:
We shall overcome because Carlyle is right; "no lie can live forever".
ref:
1968, Martin Luther King Jr., (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
Preacher: Maintain, my brothers and sisters--we have faced adversity, and overcome. This is but a test!
Preacher: Remember the pillars of strength that hold our people high. Show the galaxy our resolve!
ref:
2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel, Docking Bay E24 (Kite's Nest: Pillars of Strength)
type:
quotation
text:
I was overcome with anger.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
To prevail.
To recover from (a difficulty), to get over
To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
To come or pass over; to spread over.
To overflow; to surcharge.
senses_topics:
|
6732 | word:
overcome
word_type:
noun
expansion:
overcome (plural overcomes)
forms:
form:
overcomes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overcomen, from Old English ofercuman (“to overcome, subdue, compel, conquer, obtain, attain, reach, overtake”), corresponding to over- + come. Cognate with Dutch overkomen (“to overcome”), German überkommen (“to overcome”), Danish overkomme (“to overcome”), Swedish överkomma (“to overcome”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The burden or recurring theme in a song.
A surplus.
senses_topics:
|
6733 | word:
resell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
resell (third-person singular simple present resells, present participle reselling, simple past and past participle resold)
forms:
form:
resells
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
reselling
tags:
participle
present
form:
resold
tags:
participle
past
form:
resold
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + sell.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sell again.
senses_topics:
|
6734 | word:
recast
word_type:
verb
expansion:
recast (third-person singular simple present recasts, present participle recasting, simple past and past participle recast)
forms:
form:
recasts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
recasting
tags:
participle
present
form:
recast
tags:
participle
past
form:
recast
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + cast.
senses_examples:
text:
The whole bell had to be recast although it had only one tiny, hardly visible crack.
type:
example
text:
Our conception of the world rises in us as our intellect recasts [translating umgiesst] the impressions it receives from without into the forms of time, space, and causality.
ref:
1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
ScotRail is seeking the views of the public before recasting its Edinburgh/Perth/Dundee passenger timetable in 2025, once the reopened Levenmouth line has bedded in.
ref:
2023 October 4, “Network News: Fife services in line for boost after Levenmouth opening?”, in RAIL, number 993, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
According to As the World Turns producer, Michael Laibson, the decision was made to recast the role, because the producers and writers felt it would annoy the audience to have Betsy discontinued so soon after her long-delayed marriage […]
ref:
2002, Robert C. Allen, To Be Continued...: Soap Operas Around the World, Routledge, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
She was recast as the villain.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cast or throw again.
To mould again.
To reproduce in a new form.
To assign (roles in a play or performance) to different actors.
To assign (actors) to different roles.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater |
6735 | word:
recast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
recast (plural recasts)
forms:
form:
recasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + cast.
senses_examples:
text:
Adults may use recasts to suggest corrections to mistakes in children's speech.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of recasting.
An utterance translated into another grammatical form.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
6736 | word:
keep
word_type:
verb
expansion:
keep (third-person singular simple present keeps, present participle keeping, simple past and past participle kept)
forms:
form:
keeps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
keeping
tags:
participle
present
form:
kept
tags:
participle
past
form:
kept
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:Keep (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English kepen (“to keep, guard, look after, watch”), from Old English cēpan (“to seize, hold, observe”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōpijan, from Proto-Germanic *kōpijaną (“to look, heed, watch, observe”) (compare West Frisian kypje (“to look”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵab-, *ǵāb- (“to look after”) (compare Lithuanian žẽbti (“to eat reluctantly”), Russian забо́та (zabóta, “care, worry”)).
senses_examples:
text:
to keep silence; to keep possession
type:
example
text:
to keep one's word; to keep one's promise
type:
example
text:
I keep a small stock of painkillers for emergencies.
type:
example
text:
I keep my specimens under glass to protect them.
type:
example
text:
The abundance of squirrels kept the dogs running for hours.
type:
example
text:
She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
ref:
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
type:
quotation
text:
I used to keep a diary.
type:
example
text:
The following day she was so ill that she kept her bed; the husband went not once to enquire for her, nor did he send any message: he also kept his apartment, and was heard walking backwards and forwards with a hurried pace the whole of that day.
ref:
1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
I keep my pet gerbil away from my brother.
type:
example
text:
Don't let me keep you; I know you have things to be doing.
type:
example
text:
May the Lord keep you from harm.
type:
example
text:
He kept a mistress for over ten years.
type:
example
text:
He has been keeping orchids since retiring.
type:
example
text:
Of course boys are boys and need watching, but there is little watching necessary when they keep chickens.
ref:
1914, Robert Joos, Success with Hens, Forbes & company, page 217
type:
quotation
text:
Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.
ref:
2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I know that it's a secret / And that I gotta keep it / But I want the lights on / Yeah, I want the lights on
ref:
2012, Anthony Reyes, Melissa Sheppard, “Leave the Lights On”, in The Bright Side, performed by Meiko
type:
quotation
text:
They were honourably accompanied and with great estate brought to London, where euery of them kept house by himselfe.
ref:
1630, John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: John Partridge, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
She kept to her bed while the fever lasted.
type:
example
text:
I keep taking the tablets, but to no avail.
type:
example
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.[…]But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
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:
Potatoes can keep if they are in a root cellar.
type:
example
text:
Latex paint won't keep indefinitely.
type:
example
text:
If the malt be not thoroughly dried, the ale it makes will not keep.
ref:
1707, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry
type:
quotation
text:
The rabbit avoided detection by keeping still.
type:
example
text:
Keep calm! There's no need to panic.
type:
example
text:
Godfrey Evans kept for England for many years.
type:
example
text:
[…] kepe that the lustes choke not the word of God that is sowen in vs,
ref:
c. 1530, William Tyndale, “A Pathway into the holy Scripture”, in The Whole Workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, London: John Day, published 1573, page 384
type:
quotation
text:
School keeps today.
type:
example
text:
[…] 'tis hallowed ground;
No Maid seeks here her strayed Cow, or Sheep,
Fairies, and fawns, and satyrs do it keep:
ref:
c. 1608, John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, Act III, Scene 1
type:
quotation
text:
to keep the Sabbath
type:
example
text:
The feast of St. Stephen is kept on December 26.
type:
example
text:
"Oh, we are from Osthalla," says one of them, "we are going to the Veien dairy to keep the wedding; the one who drives in front is the parson, next are the bride and bridegroom, and I am his father-in-law."
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 288
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
To hold the status of something.
To maintain possession of.
To hold the status of something.
To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
To hold the status of something.
To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
To hold the status of something.
To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
To hold the status of something.
To remain in; to be confined to.
To hold the status of something.
To restrain.
To hold the status of something.
To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
To hold the status of something.
To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
To hold the status of something.
To raise; to care for.
To hold the status of something.
To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
To hold the status of something.
To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
To hold the status of something.
To have habitually in stock for sale.
To hold or be held in a state.
To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
To hold or be held in a state.
To continue.
To hold or be held in a state.
To remain edible or otherwise usable.
To hold or be held in a state.
To remain in a state.
To wait for, keep watch for.
To act as wicket-keeper.
To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
To be in session; to take place.
To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
To observe or celebrate (a holiday).
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
6737 | word:
keep
word_type:
noun
expansion:
keep (countable and uncountable, plural keeps)
forms:
form:
keeps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Keep (disambiguation)
keep
etymology_text:
From Middle English kepe, kep, from the verb (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
He works as a cobbler's apprentice for his keep.
type:
example
text:
to be in good keep
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice.
The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
That which is kept in charge; a charge.
A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
6738 | word:
feel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
feel (third-person singular simple present feels, present participle feeling, simple past and past participle felt)
forms:
form:
feels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
feeling
tags:
participle
present
form:
felt
tags:
participle
past
form:
felt
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
feel
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
feel
etymology_text:
From Middle English felen, from Old English fēlan, from Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan.
senses_examples:
text:
You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast.
type:
example
text:
I felt cold and miserable all night.
type:
example
text:
I felt my way through the darkened room.
type:
example
text:
I felt my way cautiously through the dangerous business maneuver.
type:
example
text:
He felt for the light switch in the dark.
type:
example
text:
I can feel the sadness in his poems.
type:
example
text:
British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
ref:
2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
I feel that we need to try harder.
type:
example
text:
He obviously feels strongly about it.
type:
example
text:
She felt even more upset when she heard the details.
type:
example
text:
I feel for you and your plight.
type:
example
text:
who feel for all mankind
ref:
1738, Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires
type:
quotation
text:
Feel my wrath!
type:
example
text:
It looks like wood, but it feels more like plastic.
type:
example
text:
This is supposed to be a party, but it feels more like a funeral!
type:
example
text:
I don't want you back here, ya feel me?
type:
example
text:
Shoot, errbody have the zipper jacket / And half of these thugs have the glove to match, ya feel me?
ref:
2002, “Work It”, in Under Construction, performed by Missy Elliott
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use or experience the sense of touch.
To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
To use or experience the sense of touch.
To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
To use or experience the sense of touch.
To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
To use or experience the sense of touch.
To search by sense of touch.
To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
To experience an emotion or other mental state.
To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
To be or become aware of.
To experience the consequences of.
To seem (through touch or otherwise).
To understand.
senses_topics:
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
|
6739 | word:
feel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
feel (plural feels)
forms:
form:
feels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
feel
etymology_text:
From Middle English felen, from Old English fēlan, from Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan.
senses_examples:
text:
It begins as a firm elastic swelling, which communicates to the feel the idea that a fluid is contained under a firm fascia […]
ref:
1838, John Burns, The Principles of Surgery, volume 1, page 330
type:
quotation
text:
Bark has a rough feel.
type:
example
text:
And then something in the sound or the feel of the waters made him look down, and he perceived that the ebb had begun and the tide was flowing out to sea.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
The unshanked snaffle bit is good for bending and getting a horse used to the feel of a bit.
ref:
2010, Nathan Bowers, 4-H Guide to Training Horses, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
You should get a feel for the area before moving in.
type:
example
text:
You can arrange camel trips into the desert but to really get a feel for this allow yourself a couple of extra days and be prepared for what at times can be an uncomfortable journey: Xuan Zang tells us that as he left Khotan he was ‘attacked by tornados which bring with them clouds of flying gravel’.
ref:
2010, Paul Wilson, “Khotan (Hetian)”, in The Silk Roads: A Route & Planning Guide, 3rd edition (Travel), Trailblazer Publications, →OCLC, page 379
type:
quotation
text:
She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.
type:
example
text:
I'm getting a feel for what you mean.
type:
example
text:
She has a feel for music.
type:
example
text:
I know that feel.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sense of touch.
A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch.
A vague mental impression.
An act of fondling.
A vague understanding.
An intuitive ability.
A feeling; an emotion.
senses_topics:
|
6740 | word:
feel
word_type:
pron
expansion:
feel
forms:
wikipedia:
feel
etymology_text:
See fele.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of fele
senses_topics:
|
6741 | word:
feel
word_type:
adj
expansion:
feel (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
feel
etymology_text:
See fele.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of fele
senses_topics:
|
6742 | word:
feel
word_type:
adv
expansion:
feel (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
feel
etymology_text:
See fele.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of fele
senses_topics:
|
6743 | word:
we
word_type:
pron
expansion:
we (first-person plural nominative case, objective case us, possessive determiner our, possessive pronoun ours, reflexive ourselves, reflexive singular ourself)
forms:
form:
us
tags:
objective
form:
our
tags:
determiner
possessive
form:
ours
tags:
possessive
pronoun
without-noun
form:
ourselves
tags:
reflexive
form:
ourself
tags:
reflexive
singular
wikipedia:
we (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English we, from Old English wē (“we”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, *wiz (“we”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéy (“we (plural)”). Cognate with Scots wee, we (“we”), North Frisian we (“we”), West Frisian wy (“we”), Low German wi (“we”), Dutch we, wij (“we”), German wir (“we”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian vi (“we”), Icelandic vér, við (“we”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬉𐬨 (vaēm), Sanskrit वयम् (vayám).
senses_examples:
text:
It’s time to overcome queasiness and restraint. We, the liberal and progressive people of the world, are at war with the far right to save the earth.
ref:
2017 February 20, Paul Mason, “Climate scepticism is a far-right badge of honour – even in sweltering Australia”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
In light of the promulgation of the aforementioned laws and decisions, we (the administration) propose to make the following amendments to local legislation to implement the relevant requirements on oath taking by public officers.
ref:
2021, Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau, “Paper No. CMAB C4/9/1”, in Documents of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
How are we all tonight?
type:
example
text:
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
ref:
2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
How are we feeling this morning?
type:
example
text:
Are we ready to go to bed, sweetie?
ref:
2008 May 13, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic)
type:
quotation
text:
Hey guys, how's it going? Today we are going to be playing a new game.
type:
example
text:
All Vice President [Mike] Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president and you are the happiest people.
ref:
2021 January 6, 3:38:03 from the start, in Rally on Electoral College Vote Certification (television broadcast), spoken by Donald Trump, Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN)
type:
quotation
text:
[Today is] not a day to think about fishing so we will get back to working on the shelter. [cut in video] Cool, so I guess the best analogy for this, then, is that we've basically framed the house, and now we get to shingle.
ref:
2021 June 24, “Far from Home” (3:07 from the start), in Alone, season 9, episode 4 (televison production), spoken by Theresa Emmerich Kamper, via HISTORY Channel
type:
quotation
text:
The elephant in the room, you know, we had a stroke back in May.
ref:
2022 October 25, 32:11 from the start, Vote 2022, in Joseph Camp, director, PBS NewsHour (television production), spoken by John Fetterman, via Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), archived from the original on 2022-10-25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.)
The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.)
The institution which the speaker/writer is acting for. (This is the editorial we, used by writers and others when speaking with the authority of their publication or organisation.)
The sovereign alone in their capacity as monarch. (This is the royal we. The reflexive case of this sense of we is ourself.)
The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.
A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care.
The speaker themselves, used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences and a group of listeners. (Compare the plural of modesty.)
Us.
The side which is keeping score.
senses_topics:
bridge
games |
6744 | word:
we
word_type:
det
expansion:
we
forms:
wikipedia:
we (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English we, from Old English wē (“we”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, *wiz (“we”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéy (“we (plural)”). Cognate with Scots wee, we (“we”), North Frisian we (“we”), West Frisian wy (“we”), Low German wi (“we”), Dutch we, wij (“we”), German wir (“we”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian vi (“we”), Icelandic vér, við (“we”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬉𐬨 (vaēm), Sanskrit वयम् (vayám).
senses_examples:
text:
We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
senses_topics:
|
6745 | word:
we
word_type:
pron
expansion:
we
forms:
wikipedia:
we (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
table
senses_examples:
text:
He was a propa gadgie, and always bought we drinks after a long shift.
He was a great guy, and always bought us drinks after a long shift.
type:
example
text:
And what have you done for we since? Nowt!
And what have you done for us since? Nothing!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Us.
senses_topics:
|
6746 | word:
find
word_type:
verb
expansion:
find (third-person singular simple present finds, present participle finding, simple past found or (dialectal) fand, past participle found or (archaic) founden)
forms:
form:
finds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
finding
tags:
participle
present
form:
found
tags:
past
form:
fand
tags:
dialectal
past
form:
found
tags:
participle
past
form:
founden
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
find
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
John William Waterhouse
etymology_text:
From Middle English finden, from Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną (compare West Frisian fine, Low German finden, Dutch vinden, German finden, Danish finde, Norwegian Bokmål finne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish finna), a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path bridge”), whence *póntoh₁s (compare English path, Old Irish étain (“I find”), áitt (“place”), Latin pōns (“bridge”), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos, “sea”), Old Armenian հուն (hun, “ford”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊), Sanskrit पथ (pathá, “path”), Proto-Slavic *pǫtь).
senses_examples:
text:
I found this shell on the beach
type:
example
text:
Among the Woods and Forests thou art found.
ref:
a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, The Request
type:
quotation
text:
I found my car keys. They were under the couch.
type:
example
text:
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field. Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler found evidence of them on their marine plastic, too.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
I found you a new place to live
type:
example
text:
Water is found to be a compound substance.
type:
example
text:
to find leisure; to find means
type:
example
text:
Looks like he found a new vehicle for himself!
type:
example
text:
Among newer procedures, the Robb and Steinberg contrast visualization of cardiac chambers and venous catheterization of the right heart have found the broadest study and application.
ref:
1951 March, J. H. Lehmann, A. D. Johnson, W. C. Bridges, J. Michel, D. M. Green, “Cardiac Catheterization—A Diagnostic Aid in Congenital Heart Disease”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
He kept finding faults with my work.
type:
example
text:
I find your argument unsatisfactory.
type:
example
text:
I went looking for you in the bed we share, but tonight I found you not there.
type:
example
text:
The torrid zone is now found habitable.
ref:
1647, Abraham Cowley, The Request
type:
quotation
text:
to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person
type:
example
text:
to find food for workmen
type:
example
text:
He finds his nephew in money.
type:
example
text:
the pay is good, the musterer receiving ten shillings a day, and all found, all the time he is engaged on the "run," even should he be compelled to remain idle on account of rain or mist.
ref:
1892, W. E. Swanton, Notes on New Zealand
type:
quotation
text:
The jury finds for the defendant.
type:
example
text:
Peters finds Jinkins, who is running down the left wing.
type:
example
text:
Van Persie scored a hat-trick against Wigan on Saturday and should have found the net again after Bendtner found him at the far post but the Dutchman's header rebounded to safety off the crossbar.
ref:
2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1)”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
They found at once, and there was a short sharp run, during which Linda and Tony, both in a somewhat showing-off mood, rode side by side over the stone walls.
ref:
1945, Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, Penguin, published 2010, page 57
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To locate
To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
To locate
To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
To locate
Locate on behalf of another
To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
To meet with; to receive.
To point out.
To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
To supply; to furnish.
To provide for
To determine or judge.
To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
To discover game.
senses_topics:
law
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle |
6747 | word:
find
word_type:
noun
expansion:
find (plural finds)
forms:
form:
finds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English finden, from Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną (compare West Frisian fine, Low German finden, Dutch vinden, German finden, Danish finde, Norwegian Bokmål finne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish finna), a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path bridge”), whence *póntoh₁s (compare English path, Old Irish étain (“I find”), áitt (“place”), Latin pōns (“bridge”), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos, “sea”), Old Armenian հուն (hun, “ford”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊), Sanskrit पथ (pathá, “path”), Proto-Slavic *pǫtь).
senses_examples:
text:
Shepard: How did you get these things to your father?
Tali: Sometimes I left packages at secure drops in civilized areas. Someone on Pilgrimage would see that it was shipped home.
Tali: For very valuable finds, I'd signal home, and Father would send a small ship.
ref:
2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Alarei
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
The act of finding.
senses_topics:
|
6748 | word:
itself
word_type:
pron
expansion:
itself (the third person singular, neuter, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of it, masculine himself, feminine herself, gender-neutral themself, plural themselves)
forms:
form:
it
tags:
reflexive-of
form:
himself
tags:
masculine
form:
herself
tags:
feminine
form:
themself
tags:
gender-neutral
form:
themselves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hit-self, equivalent to it + -self.
senses_examples:
text:
The door closed by itself
text:
The door itself is quite heavy.
type:
example
text:
The oil by degrees gets covered with a curdy mass, which after some time settles to the bottom, while itself becomes limpid and colorless.
ref:
1842, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
it; used to refer back to an earlier subject
senses_topics:
|
6749 | word:
repay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
repay (third-person singular simple present repays, present participle repaying, simple past and past participle repaid)
forms:
form:
repays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
repaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
repaid
tags:
participle
past
form:
repaid
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French repaier (“to pay back”), from re- + paiier (“to pay”), from Latin pācāre (“to settle, to make peaceful”), from pāx (“peace”) + -ō (“forming verbs”). Equivalent to re- + pay. Cognate with repacify and French repayer (“to pay again”).
senses_examples:
text:
I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.
type:
example
text:
But drops of Grief can ne’re repay / The debt of Love I owe, […]
ref:
1707, Isaac Watts, “Godly Sorrow ariſing from the Sufferings of Chriſt”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
On the results of the Kent Coast electrification, which is known to be repaying so far a satisfactory return on the investment in it, a Waterloo-Bournemouth scheme shows reasonable financial promise.
ref:
1962 April, “Talking of Trains: Short-sighted approach to profits?”, in Modern Railways, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
The possible importance of excessive androgen secretion and the ingestion of agents such as the fluorenamines may repay further investigation.
ref:
2013, M. Pavone-MacAluso, Testicular Cancer and Other Tumors of the Genitourinary Tract, page 517
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of pay back in all senses.
To make worthwhile; to yield a result worth the effort; to pay off.
To give in return; requite.
senses_topics:
|
6750 | word:
repay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
repay (third-person singular simple present repays, present participle repaying, simple past and past participle repayed or repaid)
forms:
form:
repays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
repaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
repayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
repayed
tags:
past
form:
repaid
tags:
participle
past
form:
repaid
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pay (cover with tar, pitch, etc.) again.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
6751 | word:
oversleep
word_type:
verb
expansion:
oversleep (third-person singular simple present oversleeps, present participle oversleeping, simple past and past participle overslept)
forms:
form:
oversleeps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
oversleeping
tags:
participle
present
form:
overslept
tags:
participle
past
form:
overslept
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From over- + sleep.
senses_examples:
text:
I overslept and was late for school.
type:
example
text:
Theodore made awkward excuses, and attributed his delay to having overslept himself.
ref:
1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section IV
type:
quotation
text:
'
text:
to oversleep one's usual hour of rising
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sleep for longer than intended.
To sleep for longer than one intended.
To sleep beyond (a given time), to sleep through (an event etc.).
senses_topics:
|
6752 | word:
himself
word_type:
pron
expansion:
himself (the third person singular, masculine, personal pronoun, reflexive form of he, feminine herself, neuter itself, plural themselves, gender-neutral singular himself or themselves or themself)
forms:
form:
herself
tags:
feminine
form:
itself
tags:
neuter
form:
themselves
tags:
plural
form:
himself
tags:
gender-neutral
singular
form:
themselves
tags:
gender-neutral
singular
form:
themself
tags:
gender-neutral
singular
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hymself, from Old English him selfum. Equivalent to him + -self.
senses_examples:
text:
He injured himself.
type:
example
text:
He was injured himself.
type:
example
text:
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
ref:
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892
type:
quotation
text:
With shame remembers, while himself was one / Of the same herd, himself the same had done.
ref:
Sir John Denham (1614-1669)
text:
Dennis: His glass is there and himself is in the toilet.
ref:
1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films
type:
quotation
text:
Has himself come down to breakfast yet?
type:
example
text:
Have you seen himself yet this morning?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate
The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he himself.
The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he (used of upper-class gentlemen, or sarcastically, of men who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
senses_topics:
|
6753 | word:
overlay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overlay (third-person singular simple present overlays, present participle overlaying, simple past and past participle overlaid or overlayed)
forms:
form:
overlays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overlaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
overlaid
tags:
participle
past
form:
overlaid
tags:
past
form:
overlayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
overlayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
overlay
etymology_text:
From Middle English overleyen, from Old English oferleċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *obarlaggjan, from Proto-Germanic *uberlagjaną, equivalent to over- + lay. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurläze, úurlääse, Dutch overleggen, German Low German overleggen, överleggen, German überlegen, Swedish överlägga, Norwegian overlegge. Compare overlie.
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonyms: cover, superimpose, superpose
text:
She will now overlay the crust with fruit.
type:
example
text:
She will now overlay fruit on top of the crust.
type:
example
text:
The hillside at this point is composed of shaly rock overlaid with a peaty loam which carries a growth of heather, and its unstable condition has resulted in two landslides in the course of the railway's history.
ref:
1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
a heap of ashes that o'erlays your fire
ref:
1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
type:
quotation
text:
Prostitutes, thieves, girls who ‘overlaid’ their babies, abortionists who stuck their knitting needles into something vital – did they really need to be here?
ref:
1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 371
type:
quotation
text:
[…] he has 'overlaid' his book, and has not succeeded in 'getting round' by bets against the other horses.
ref:
1890, The Twentieth Century, volume 27, page 934
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
To lie over (someone, especially a child) in order to smother it; to suffocate.
To put an overlay on.
To bet too much money on.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
gambling
games |
6754 | word:
overlay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
overlay (plural overlays)
forms:
form:
overlays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
overlay
etymology_text:
From Middle English overleyen, from Old English oferleċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *obarlaggjan, from Proto-Germanic *uberlagjaną, equivalent to over- + lay. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurläze, úurlääse, Dutch overleggen, German Low German overleggen, överleggen, German überlegen, Swedish överlägga, Norwegian overlegge. Compare overlie.
senses_examples:
text:
The keyboard overlay can be a memory jogger and a great help with spelling. In this way the keyboard makes word processing more accessible to younger as well as special needs children.
ref:
1994, Roger Frost, The IT in Secondary Science Book, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
This concept can be extended further by allowing a primary overlay to call a secondary overlay, and so on. However, we will limit ourselves here to the use of primary overlays. Before proceeding further, you need to understand the memory map of the computer, which is a diagram showing the use to which the memory of the computer is put.
ref:
1986, Noel M. Morris, Computer Graphics and CAD Fundamentals: BBC Micro Version
type:
quotation
text:
The first, on January 1, 1883, was attributed to the overlay becoming surcharged with water, due to insufficient drainage, and causing a slip.
ref:
1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
I really appreciate the clear explication of Dworkin's understanding of male sexuality. In this we see, without the overlay of polemic that infuses her non-fiction, how Dworkin can proceed from basic feminist principles to create an almost seamless, sophistic argument for sexism.
ref:
1980 August 2, George Whitmore, “Dworkin”, in Gay Community News, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
ECDP [East Coast Digital Programme] started with the Northern City Line, where trains are already being signalled over four miles with ETCS as an overlay on conventional signalling. This means that the colour light signals remain in place and are operational, but any Class 717 that runs onto the route with a driver trained in ETCS must run in that mode. Drivers yet to be trained work as usual. […] With ETCS installed as an overlay, drivers can use trackside or cab signalling according to their competence.
ref:
2024 May 29, Philip Haigh, “The digital revolution and the switch to in-cab signalling”, in RAIL, number 1010, pages 29, 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive.
A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
A cravat.
A covering over something else.
senses_topics:
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
media
printing
publishing
gambling
games
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
6755 | word:
overlay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overlay
forms:
wikipedia:
overlay
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of overlie
senses_topics:
|
6756 | word:
sought
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sought
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of seek
senses_topics:
|
6757 | word:
overrun
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overrun (third-person singular simple present overruns, present participle overrunning, simple past overran, past participle overrun)
forms:
form:
overruns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overrunning
tags:
participle
present
form:
overran
tags:
past
form:
overrun
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From over- + run.
senses_examples:
text:
The vine overran its trellis; the field is overrun with weeds.
type:
example
text:
As President Obama turns his attention once again to filling out a cabinet and writing an Inaugural Address, this much is clear: he should not expect to bask in a surge of national unity, or to witness a crowd of millions overrun the Mall just to say they were there.
ref:
2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The athlete overran the finish line and kept going.
type:
example
text:
One line overruns another in length.
type:
example
text:
The collision occurred when an up empty electric train travelling on the up main through line overran the inner home signal and rammed the side of the departing 6.14 p.m. Waterloo-Weymouth steam train, which was leaving platform 12 for the down main through line.
ref:
1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
The aircraft didn't stop in time and overran the runway.
type:
example
text:
The performance overran by ten minutes, which caused some people to miss their bus home.
type:
example
text:
In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.
type:
example
text:
all of these services, including mSpy, function with the same kind of predatory subscription scheme, luring you in with free trials that autorenew as abhorrently expensive monthly or yearly subscriptions. canceling the service requires reaching out to support, so users are typically unable to avoid overrunning the trial.
ref:
2024 June 9, maia arson crimew, “israeli national police found trying to purchase stalkerware”, in maia blog
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
To infest, swarm over, flow over.
To run past; to run beyond.
To run past; to run beyond.
To run past the end of.
To continue for too long.
To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
|
6758 | word:
overrun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
overrun (countable and uncountable, plural overruns)
forms:
form:
overruns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From over- + run.
senses_examples:
text:
Some of the stadiums being built for the World Cup soccer tournament, scheduled for next year, have also been criticized for delays and cost overruns, and have become subjects of derision as protesters question whether they will become white elephants.
ref:
2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Tesla’s first decade was plagued by unmet deadlines, technical snafus and cost overruns.
ref:
December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
At least this year's overrun isn't as unmanageable as last year!
type:
example
text:
The runway has 7,000 feet of paved surface, plus a 2,000-foot grass overrun.
type:
example
text:
If ice cream has too much overrun, it will be airy and foamy and will lack flavor.
ref:
2004, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Baking, page 497
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of overrunning.
The amount by which something overruns.
An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
food
lifestyle |
6759 | word:
oversee
word_type:
verb
expansion:
oversee (third-person singular simple present oversees, present participle overseeing, simple past oversaw, past participle overseen)
forms:
form:
oversees
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overseeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
oversaw
tags:
past
form:
overseen
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overseen, ouverseen, from Old English ofersēon (“to observe, oversee; to overlook, neglect”), equivalent to over- + see.
senses_examples:
text:
It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.
type:
example
text:
Based at BTP's London headquarters, Russell's team of three full-timers in the drone unit are responsible for overseeing the safety of drones in support of police officers.
ref:
2022 February 9, Tom Allett, “The BTP's eyes and ears in the air”, in RAIL, number 950, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
To inspect, examine
To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
To observe secretly or unintentionally.
senses_topics:
|
6760 | word:
thine
word_type:
det
expansion:
thine
forms:
wikipedia:
thine
etymology_text:
From Middle English thyn, þyn, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz. Cognate to German dein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian din, Faroese tín and Icelandic þinn.
senses_examples:
text:
Thine alabaster cities gleam / Undimmed by human tears!
ref:
1895, “America the Beautiful”, Katharine Lee Bates (lyrics), Samuel A. Ward (music)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Singular second person prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).
senses_topics:
|
6761 | word:
thine
word_type:
pron
expansion:
thine
forms:
wikipedia:
thine
etymology_text:
From Middle English thyn, þyn, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz. Cognate to German dein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian din, Faroese tín and Icelandic þinn.
senses_examples:
text:
But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine / Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699
ref:
1996, Weird Al Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Amish Paradise”, in Bad Hair Day
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Singular second person possessive pronoun; yours
senses_topics:
|
6762 | word:
earth
word_type:
name
expansion:
earth
forms:
wikipedia:
earth
etymology_text:
From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”) (compare West Frisian ierde, Low German Eerd, Dutch aarde, Dutch Low Saxon eerde, German Erde, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord), related to *erwô (“earth”) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse jǫrfi), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (compare Ancient Greek *ἔρα, “earth” (*éra, “earth”) in ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground, to earth”), perhaps Tocharian B yare (“gravel”).
Probably unrelated, and of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably not related.
senses_examples:
text:
The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun.
senses_topics:
|
6763 | word:
earth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
earth (countable and uncountable, plural earths)
forms:
form:
earths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
earth
etymology_text:
From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”) (compare West Frisian ierde, Low German Eerd, Dutch aarde, Dutch Low Saxon eerde, German Erde, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord), related to *erwô (“earth”) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse jǫrfi), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (compare Ancient Greek *ἔρα, “earth” (*éra, “earth”) in ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground, to earth”), perhaps Tocharian B yare (“gravel”).
Probably unrelated, and of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably not related.
senses_examples:
text:
This is good earth for growing potatoes.
type:
example
text:
She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.
type:
example
text:
Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.
type:
example
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:
New space telescopes may accelerate the search for other earths that may be out there.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Soil.
Any general rock-based material.
The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
The lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a fox.
A region of the planet; a land or country.
Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
The people on the globe.
Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.
The human body.
The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.
senses_topics:
alchemy
pseudoscience
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
6764 | word:
earth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
earth (third-person singular simple present earths, present participle earthing, simple past and past participle earthed)
forms:
form:
earths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
earthing
tags:
participle
present
form:
earthed
tags:
participle
past
form:
earthed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
earth
etymology_text:
From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”) (compare West Frisian ierde, Low German Eerd, Dutch aarde, Dutch Low Saxon eerde, German Erde, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord), related to *erwô (“earth”) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse jǫrfi), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (compare Ancient Greek *ἔρα, “earth” (*éra, “earth”) in ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground, to earth”), perhaps Tocharian B yare (“gravel”).
Probably unrelated, and of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably not related.
senses_examples:
text:
That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.
type:
example
text:
This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set.
ref:
1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion
type:
quotation
text:
foxes earth'd
ref:
a. 1740, Thomas Tickell, Fragment on Hunting
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To connect electrically to the earth.
To bury.
To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
To burrow.
senses_topics:
|
6765 | word:
partake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
partake (third-person singular simple present partakes, present participle partaking, simple past partook, past participle partaken)
forms:
form:
partakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
partaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
partook
tags:
past
form:
partaken
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from Middle English part-takinge, part-takynge (“a sharing; partaking”), a calque of Latin particeps (“participating”); equivalent to part + take. Compare take part.
senses_examples:
text:
Will you partake of some food?
type:
example
text:
c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
the Attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster , who partakes of both qualities, partly of a judge in the court, and partly of an attorney-general
text:
The people are encouraged to perceive their liberation in historic terms and to trust that new events will partake of past glories.
ref:
2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 1107
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take part in an activity; to participate.
To take a share or portion.
To have something of the properties, character, or office.
senses_topics:
|
6766 | word:
themselves
word_type:
pron
expansion:
themselves (third-person, reflexive of they)
forms:
form:
of they
tags:
reflexive
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically them + -selves.
senses_examples:
text:
They’ve hurt themselves.
ref:
(reflexively)
type:
example
text:
They fought among themselves.
ref:
(after a preposition)
type:
example
text:
They are going to try climbing Mount Everest themselves.
ref:
(for emphasis)
type:
example
text:
Would whoever stole my phone please make themselves known.
ref:
(reflexively)
type:
example
text:
I don't want anyone to fight among themselves.
ref:
(after a preposition)
type:
example
text:
Everyone must do it themselves.
ref:
(for emphasis)
type:
example
text:
In fact she was so busy doing all the things that anyone might, who finds themselves alone in an empty house, that she did not notice at first when it began to turn dusk and the rooms to grow dim.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun. The group of people, animals, or objects previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).
The reflexive case of they, the third-person singular personal pronoun. The single person previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).
senses_topics:
|
6767 | word:
bet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bet (plural bets)
forms:
form:
bets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From 16th-century criminal slang, likely from abet or Old English bætan (“to make better”); or from Old French abeter (“to entice”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“hound on, urge, to bait”); but in either case ultimately from Proto-Germanic. More at abet.
senses_examples:
text:
Dylan owes Fletcher $30 from an unsuccessful bet.
type:
example
text:
It’s a safe bet that it will rain tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
There's a decent bet that we'll be able to reach the top of that hill in an hour.
type:
example
text:
It’s an even bet that Jim will come top of the maths test tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
There's a good bet that Sally will arrive later.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).
A candidate (for elections and pageants) or competitor (in multinational sports).
Indicating a degree of certainty, or that something can be relied upon.
senses_topics:
|
6768 | word:
bet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bet (third-person singular simple present bets, present participle betting, simple past and past participle bet or betted)
forms:
form:
bets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
betting
tags:
participle
present
form:
bet
tags:
participle
past
form:
bet
tags:
past
form:
betted
tags:
participle
past
form:
betted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From 16th-century criminal slang, likely from abet or Old English bætan (“to make better”); or from Old French abeter (“to entice”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“hound on, urge, to bait”); but in either case ultimately from Proto-Germanic. More at abet.
senses_examples:
text:
I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it.
ref:
1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay
type:
quotation
text:
Fancy going for a drink after work?
You bet I do!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.
To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.
To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker |
6769 | word:
bet
word_type:
intj
expansion:
bet
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From 16th-century criminal slang, likely from abet or Old English bætan (“to make better”); or from Old French abeter (“to entice”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“hound on, urge, to bait”); but in either case ultimately from Proto-Germanic. More at abet.
senses_examples:
text:
Let me bust a freestyle then (Alright, bet)
ref:
1988, Dr. Dre, MC Ren (lyrics and music), “If It Ain't Ruff”, in Straight Outta Compton, performed by N.W.A., track 4
type:
quotation
text:
He asked if KRS could come by and meet up with a few of us there on Monday night, as he wanted to show him the church and have me build with him. Aight, bet.
ref:
2008 November 5, S.O.U.LMag, number 13, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
Then I rocked the Kansas show and after Jay said, ‘Look, if you want, you can go on tour with us and open and close the shows, but we can’t pay you, but we’ll make sure you get the exposure.’ So I said bet,
ref:
2013 September 16, Insight News, volume 40, number 38, published 2013 September 12, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
She texted Jimenez and told him it was a nice time, but she wasn’t feeling him and apologized. “Bet,” Jimenez replied, because she kind of pissed him off with that comment.
ref:
2017 November 6, The DePaulia, volume 102, number 8, DePaul University, published 2017 November 4, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
What you may not have stopped to consider is that Big Clit Energy (here referred to as B.C.E.) has been around since... BCE! Eve? She looked sin in the eye and said, “Bet.”
ref:
2018 September 4, The Rice Thresher, volume 103, number 3, Rice University, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
“(Drummer Brenden Accettura) texted me that and was like, ‘Should we name our band The Hot Mess Express?’ and I said, ‘Bet.’ So now that’s our name,” Abbie said, getting words out between laughs.
ref:
2019 April 30, Key Magazine, Bowling Green State University: BG Falcon Media, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
I started making jokes about him feeling like tough sh*t after that presentation haha. Everyone at school geeked his head up [inflated his ego]. He probably got two fruit cups from the lunch lady that day and said, “Bet! I’m gonna keep doing this!”
ref:
2019 May 31, CopyWrite Magazine, number 14, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expression of general agreement or acceptance.
Exclamation indicating acceptance of a challenge or an absurd proposal.
Exclamation of joy at good fortune.
senses_topics:
|
6770 | word:
bet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bet (plural bets)
forms:
form:
bets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hebrew בית (bēt).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of beth (“Semitic letter”)
senses_topics:
|
6771 | word:
bet
word_type:
prep
expansion:
bet
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation.
senses_examples:
text:
insert right-hand needle bet 2 sts just knitted
ref:
1998, Kristin Nicholas, Knitting the New Classics, page 63
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
between
senses_topics:
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles |
6772 | word:
attend
word_type:
verb
expansion:
attend (third-person singular simple present attends, present participle attending, simple past and past participle attended)
forms:
form:
attends
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
attending
tags:
participle
present
form:
attended
tags:
participle
past
form:
attended
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
attend
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₂éd
From Middle English attenden, atenden (“to devote oneself (to a task, etc.); to pay attention to (something), to look after; to consider (something); to expect or look forward to (something); to intend to do (something); to help or serve (someone), attend upon; to take care of (something)”), from Old French atendre (“to await, wait for; to expect; to intend”), from Latin attendere, the present active infinitive of attendō, adtendō (“to pay attention to, attend; to direct or turn toward”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to, towards’”) + tendō (“to direct one’s course; to extend, stretch; to exert, strive”). Doublet of attempt and tend.
senses_examples:
text:
Servants attend the king day and night.
type:
example
text:
Children must attend primary school.
type:
example
text:
The scribe attendeth the meeting of a learned body where the discussions are technical and rapid; yet he must produce a complete and intelligible transcript.
ref:
1897, Tho[ma]s Bengough, “Stenographic Miseries”, in Proceedings of the New York State Stenographers’ Association, […], Albany, N.Y.: Weed-Parsons Printing Company, […], →OCLC, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
a measure attended with ill effects
type:
example
text:
Valets attend to their employers’ wardrobes.
type:
example
text:
'Whither goest thou?' he exclaimed, 'at this hour, were it not better thou attendedst at vespers?'
ref:
1837 May, E. L., “The Castle and the Monastery”, in The New Monthly Belle Assemblée; a Magazine of Literature and Fashion, […], volume VI, London: […] Joseph Rogerson, […], →OCLC, page 244, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Around 12:15 a.m. patrolling officers Tremblay and Mathieu attended at the appellant’s home.
ref:
2011 October 14, Thomas Cromwell, Puisne Justice, Supreme Court of Canada, “R. v. Côté [2011 SCC 46 (CanLII)]”, in Canadian Legal Information Institute, archived from the original on 2022-03-13, paragraph 9
type:
quotation
text:
There were a few errors in the testimony of [a civilian witness] which the trial judge noted – one, that they attended at the Fairhurst residence the day before the robbery, and two, that Wakelin was with them.
ref:
2016 April 18, Michele M. Murphy, Justice, Court of Appeal of Prince Edward Island, “R. v. Yeo [[2016] PEIJ No 14 (QL)]”, in Canadian Legal Information Institute, paragraph 30
type:
quotation
text:
Secretaries attend to correspondence.
type:
example
text:
VVhilſt I vvas haſtening in my flight, I ſaid, "I am rejected from thy favour." Nevertheleſs thou attendedſt to my petition, vvhen I invoked thee.
ref:
1793, William Robert Wake, “Psalm XXXI”, in A Liberal Version of the Psalms into Modern Language, According to the Liturgy Translation; […], volume I, Bath, Somerset: […] R. Cruttwell; and sold by G[eorge] G[eorge] J[ohn] and J. Robinson, […]; and C[harles] Dilly, […], →OCLC, verses 24–25, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
[…] God knocketh at the doore of our hearts, but vvorketh nothing in our hearts, till vve firſt of our ſelues aſſent to let him in. He attendeth till vve open him the gates, and then he vvith his heauenly gifts vvill enter in; […]
ref:
1607, Robert Abbot, “Of Free Will”, in The Second Part of The Defence of the Reformed Catholicke. […], London: […] [Richard Field for] Thomæ Adams, →OCLC, page 147
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
To care for (someone requiring attention); specifically, of a doctor, nurse, etc.: to provide professional care to (someone).
Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
To wait on (someone or their instructions) as an attendant, servant, etc.; also (specifically of a gentleman-in-waiting or lady-in-waiting to a member of royalty), to accompany (someone) in order to assist or wait upon them; to escort.
Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; also, to regularly go to (an event or place).
Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
To take action with respect to (someone, or something such as a concern, problem, or task); to deal with, to handle.
Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
Of a (chiefly immaterial) thing: to be consequent to or present with (someone or something); to accompany.
Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
To look after (someone or something); to tend.
Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
Followed by to: to look after someone or something.
Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
To be ready to wait upon someone or their instructions as an attendant, servant, etc.; also (followed by on or upon), to accompany someone in order to assist or wait upon them.
Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
Followed by at: to go to and be present at a place for some purpose; also (obsolete), followed by on: to be present at and take part in an event.
Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
Followed by to: to take action with respect to someone or something; to deal with.
Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
Followed by on or upon: of a (chiefly immaterial) thing: to be consequent on or present with.
Senses relating to directing one's attention.
To listen to (something or someone).
Senses relating to directing one's attention.
To give consideration to (someone or something); to heed, to pay attention, to regard.
Senses relating to directing one's attention.
Often followed by to, upon, or with: to give consideration; to pay attention.
Senses relating to directing one's attention.
Followed by to or unto: to listen.
Senses relating to waiting for something.
To look out or wait for (someone, or something such as a decision or event); to await.
Senses relating to waiting for something.
To expect or look forward to (someone or something).
Senses relating to waiting for something.
Of a thing: to be in store or lie in wait for (someone or something); to await.
Senses relating to waiting for something.
To remain and wait; to abide.
Senses relating to waiting for something.
Followed by for: to expect or look forward.
Senses relating to waiting for something.
Followed by for: of a thing: to be in store or lie in wait.
To intend (something).
senses_topics:
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6773 | word:
earthquake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
earthquake (plural earthquakes)
forms:
form:
earthquakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English erthequake, corresponding to earth + quake. Displaced Middle English eorð byfung (“earthquake”) from Old English eorþbeofung (literally “earth shaking”).
senses_examples:
text:
Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.
ref:
2006 October 6, Declan Walsh, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Since the response of some man-made structures to the ground motion near the epicenter is highly dependent on frequency, a significant difference in potential damage to the structures is expected between earthquakes and moonquakes.
ref:
1988, Jürgen Oberst, Yosio Nakamura, “A seismic risk for the lunar base”, in The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, volume 1, NASA, pages 231–233
type:
quotation
text:
The wave patterns, too, are strikingly different: The secondary (S) waves and surface waves on lunar seismograms are not generally as clearly defined and distinct as are those of earthquakes.
ref:
2006, Bruce A. Bolt, Earthquakes, Fifth Edition
type:
quotation
text:
As we have seen, economic earthquakes often result in political shockwaves. […] He highlights a correlation between those states with the highest robot density and those states that unexpectedly swung behind Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, namely Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
ref:
2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times
type:
quotation
text:
Leo Varadkar has announced he is standing down as Ireland’s prime minister and also giving up his role as leader of the Fine Gael party in the ruling coalition, in a surprise move described by pundits as a “political earthquake” for the country.
ref:
2024 March 20, Jon Henley, “Leo Varadkar steps down as Irish prime minister in shock move”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies.
A sudden and intense upheaval; a severely disruptive event.
senses_topics:
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6774 | word:
earthquake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
earthquake (third-person singular simple present earthquakes, present participle earthquaking, simple past and past participle earthquaked)
forms:
form:
earthquakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
earthquaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
earthquaked
tags:
participle
past
form:
earthquaked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English erthequake, corresponding to earth + quake. Displaced Middle English eorð byfung (“earthquake”) from Old English eorþbeofung (literally “earth shaking”).
senses_examples:
text:
Watch the Philippines very closely for the next little while. There is rumbling and earthquaking deep within Pinatubo and increased earthquaking within Mayon.
ref:
1993, Gyeorgos C. Hatonn, The Best of Times: The Worst of Times, page 129
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To undergo an earthquake.
senses_topics:
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6775 | word:
sewn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sewn
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically sew + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of sew
senses_topics:
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6776 | word:
blond
word_type:
adj
expansion:
blond (comparative blonder or more blond, superlative blondest or most blond)
forms:
form:
blonder
tags:
comparative
form:
more blond
tags:
comparative
form:
blondest
tags:
superlative
form:
most blond
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
blond
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, blund, (> Medieval Latin blondus), from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Compare Old English blondenfeax (“grey-haired”), Old English blandan (“to mix”). More at blend.
Alternative etymology connects Frankish *blund to Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”). If so, then it would be cognate with Sanskrit ब्रध्न (bradhná, “ruddy, pale red, yellowish”).
senses_examples:
text:
blond hair
type:
example
text:
blond ale
type:
example
text:
blond beer
type:
example
text:
She has a blond complexion, with brown hair and gray eyes.
ref:
1914, “American Anthropologist”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
If you're going one or two shades lighter, don't even touch your brows. But if you're making a big change, soften them by tinting them with home haircolor: a lighter shade of brown for blonder shades, a golden shade if you're dyeing your hair red.
ref:
2011 Feb, “Beauty Confessions”, in Redbook, volume 216, number 2, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
He seemed—somehow—younger than I had ever been, and blonder and more beautiful, and he wore his masculinity as unequivocally as he wore his skin.
ref:
1956, James Baldwin, chapter 2, in Giovanni's Room, Penguin, published 2001, Part 2
type:
quotation
text:
Blonde bombshells have been around since the beginning of time, but lately, stars have really been stepping up their golden-haired game.
ref:
2012 Jan, “The Best Blonde Hair Color in Hollywood”, in Cosmopolitan
type:
quotation
text:
“She was so blond, that where it said 'sign here,' she wrote Gemini.” He had given her only the weakest of smiles.
ref:
2010, Mariah Stewart, Moon Dance, Simon & Schuster
type:
quotation
text:
Katelyn's laugh was nearly uncontrollable. “You are so blond sometimes,” she said with a long laughing sigh, but then calmed herself down.
ref:
2002, Michael Jay, The Altherian Code, iUniverse, page 118
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour.
Having blond hair.
Alternative spelling of blonde (“stupid”)
senses_topics:
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6777 | word:
blond
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blond (plural blonds)
forms:
form:
blonds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
blond
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, blund, (> Medieval Latin blondus), from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Compare Old English blondenfeax (“grey-haired”), Old English blandan (“to mix”). More at blend.
Alternative etymology connects Frankish *blund to Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”). If so, then it would be cognate with Sanskrit ब्रध्न (bradhná, “ruddy, pale red, yellowish”).
senses_examples:
text:
blond:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color.
A person with this hair color.
senses_topics:
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6778 | word:
blond
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blond (third-person singular simple present blonds, present participle blonding, simple past and past participle blonded)
forms:
form:
blonds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
blonding
tags:
participle
present
form:
blonded
tags:
participle
past
form:
blonded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
blond
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, blund, (> Medieval Latin blondus), from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Compare Old English blondenfeax (“grey-haired”), Old English blandan (“to mix”). More at blend.
Alternative etymology connects Frankish *blund to Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”). If so, then it would be cognate with Sanskrit ब्रध्न (bradhná, “ruddy, pale red, yellowish”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To color or dye blond.
senses_topics:
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6779 | word:
sheared
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sheared
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of shear
senses_topics:
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6780 | word:
shined
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shined
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of shine
senses_topics:
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6781 | word:
spelling
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spelling
forms:
wikipedia:
spelling
etymology_text:
1400s, from spell (verb) + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
[p 88] A persuasive theory about the authority of the quarto or Folio texts might shed light on how Shakespeare actually spelt these names in a particular manuscript, but, since Shakespeare seemed capable of spelling his own name differently on different occasions, how reliable a guide would such evidence be?
ref:
2006, Wm. Shakespeare, Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, eds., Hamlet, London: Arden Shakespeare
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of spell
senses_topics:
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6782 | word:
spelling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spelling (countable and uncountable, plural spellings)
forms:
form:
spellings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
spelling
etymology_text:
1400s, from spell (verb) + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
For the practical use of spelling comes in writing.
ref:
1904, Andrew Dickson White, Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Spelling was invented by man and, like other human inventions, is capable of development and improvement by man in the direction of simplicity, economy, and efficiency.
ref:
1920, Henry Gallup Paine, Handbook of Simplified Spelling, New York: Simplified Spelling Board, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
I knew that Kriciak, the inspector who was supervising me for the Marshals Service, was going to go nuts when I told him that I wanted to allow Landon to participate in soccer and spelling.
ref:
2001, w: Stephen White, The Program, New York: Dell, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
Because Elizabethan spelling was fluid, editors feel free to ‘modernize’ (correct) the spelling in the quartos and the Folio. But how is one to spell Rosencratz or Guildenstern, where the spelling varies, not only from text to text, but even within texts?
ref:
2006, William Shakespeare, edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, Hamlet, London: Arden Shakespeare, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
[p 253] *excellent Q2’s ‘extent’ is generally dismissed as an error, probably a mis-reading of ‘exlent’, a common spelling at this time.
[p 269] reverend The spellings ‘reuerent’ (Q2) and ‘Reuerend’ (F) were interchangeable at this time.
[p 466] Guildensterne and Rosincrance are F’s consistent spellings.
ref:
2006, Wm. Shakespeare, Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, eds., Hamlet, London: Arden Shakespeare
text:
The boys were anxious for a spelling in the evening but I said no.
ref:
1860, Oscar Lawrence Jackson, The Colonel's Diary: Journals Kept Before and During the Civil War [1922], Sharon, Penn., p 23
text:
How her face ust to look, in the twilight, / As I tuck her to spellin’; and she / Kep’ a-hummin’ that song ’tel I ast her, / Pine-blank, ef she ever missed me!
ref:
1889, James Whitcomb Riley, “A’ Old Played-Out Song”, in Pipes O' Pan at Zekesbury, Indianapolis, Ind.: Bowen-Merrill, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
So we'd sit with these girls during school hours, and we told them, if they'd slip off, that we'd get away, and we'd go to [the school] to a spelling.
ref:
2004, Carl Lindahl, editor, American Folktales: From the Collections of the Library of Congress, volume 1, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, page 416
type:
quotation
text:
The spelling of a pitch is strongly influenced by its harmonic and melodic context.
ref:
2004, Joshua Stoddard, Christopher Raphael, Paul E. Utgoff, Well-Tempered Spelling: A Key-Invariant Pitch Spelling Algorithm, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.
The manner of spelling of words; correct spelling.
A specific spelling of a word.
A spelling test or spelling bee.
A choice of notation among enharmonic equivalents for the same pitch.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
6783 | word:
paid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
paid
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From pay + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of pay
senses_topics:
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6784 | word:
paid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
paid (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English paid, payd, ipaid, ypayd, past participle of Middle English paien, payen (“to pay”), equivalent to pay + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
paid service
text:
I thought his house would be nicer than this. I thought that motherf*cker was paid.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That is not free of charge; that costs money.
Having money (i.e. rich, wealthy, etc.).
senses_topics:
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6785 | word:
among
word_type:
prep
expansion:
among
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Old English on
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Germanic *ga-
Proto-West Germanic *ga-
Old English ġe-
Old English mang
Old English ġemang
Old English onġemang
Old English amang
Middle English among
English among
From Middle English among, amang, amonge, amange, from Old English amang, onġemang, equivalent to a- + mong (“crowd; group; throng”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian monk, monken (“among”), West Frisian mank (“among”), Dutch mank, maank (“among”), German Low German mank, manken (“among”), dialectal German mang (“among”).
senses_examples:
text:
How can you speak with authority about their customs when you have never lived among them?
type:
example
text:
He is among the few who completely understand the subject.
type:
example
text:
All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.
ref:
2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
Lactose intolerance is common among people of Asian heritage.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst.)
Denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group.
Denotes a sharing of a common feature in a group.
senses_topics:
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6786 | word:
race
word_type:
noun
expansion:
race (countable and uncountable, plural races)
forms:
form:
races
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (“a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset”), from Proto-West Germanic *rās; and partially from Old Norse rás (“a running, race”); both from Proto-Germanic *rēsō (“a course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow, rush”). Cognate with Middle Low German râs (“a strong current”), Dutch ras (“a strong whirling current”), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås.
senses_examples:
text:
Several horses ran in a horse race: the first one to reach the finishing post won.
type:
example
text:
The race to cure cancer
type:
example
text:
The race around the park was won by Johnny, who ran faster than the others.
type:
example
text:
We had a race to see who could finish the book the quickest.
type:
example
text:
"Behold that rival here! / "The race by vigour, not by vaunts is won; / "So take the hindmost, Hell."—He said, and run.
ref:
1743, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, London: M. Cooper, book 2, page 82, lines 58–60
type:
quotation
text:
After days of intensifying pressure from runners, politicians and the general public to call off the New York City Marathon in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, city officials and the event’s organizers decided Friday afternoon to cancel the race.
ref:
2012 November 2, Ken Belson, “After Days of Pressure, Marathon Is Off”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Hence the rapid race / Of light, and lustre from th' effusive sun
ref:
1805, Good, John Mason, transl., The Nature of Things, volume 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, translation of De rerum natura by Titus Lucretius Carus, book 4, page 33, lines 190–191
type:
quotation
text:
And above all, it is an age of activity and enterprise, an age of new discoveries and new deviltries, an age of magnetic telegraphs and Mississippi bonds, and it would be indeed odd if, in the swift race of progress, the rogue did not keep his natural station in the van of the movement.
ref:
1847 December, “The Literature of Humbug”, in The Young American's Magazine, volume 1, page 318
type:
quotation
text:
Many problems of oscillations and races are solved by this arrangement.
ref:
1989, R. Raghuram, Computer Simulation of Electronic Circuits, New Delhi: Wiley Eastern, page 181
type:
quotation
text:
Because a race by definition depends on the timing being just wrong, you could test your program any number of times, never observe any misbehavior, and still have a user run into the problem.¶ This occurrence is not just a theoretical possibility: Real programs have race bugs and real users have encountered them, sometimes with consequences that have literally been fatal.
ref:
1999, Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight, “Java, Applets, and Concurrency”, in Concrete Abstractions, Brooks/Cole Publishing, page 622
type:
quotation
text:
As the name implies, a race condition means that two processes are competing within the same time interval, and the race affects the integrity or correctness of the computing tasks.
ref:
2012, Charles P. Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Analyzing Computer Security, Prentice Hall, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
A race of wicked acts / Shall flow out of my anger, and o’erspread / The world’s wide face[.]
ref:
1603, Ben Jonson, Sejanus His Fall, act 2, scene 2
type:
quotation
text:
An offensive war is made, which is unjust in the aggressor; the prosecution and race of the war carrieth the defendant to invade the ancient patrimony of the first aggressor, who is now turned defendant; shall he sit down, and not put himself in defence?
ref:
1624, Francis Bacon, “Considerations Touching a War with Spain”, in Basil Montagu, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, volume 5, William Pickering, published 1826, page 240
type:
quotation
text:
Here are in these seas two dangerous races, the one called St. Alban's, the other Portland Race.
ref:
1893, “Remarks upon the Way from Abingdon to Southamption, and other Places”, in The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland, volume 2, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, page 288
type:
quotation
text:
The existing analysis and program for the propeller-rudder interaction has been updated incorporating all the improvements concerned with the propeller loading distribution, including that associated with the fact that the rudder is immersed in the race of the propeller.
ref:
1980, Pauline H. Gurewitz, Hydraulic Research in the United States and Canada, 1978, page 120
type:
quotation
text:
This is an area of spectacular tidal races, rips, swirls, boils, whirlpools, overfalls, currents, and countercurrents. Scylla and Charybdis pale by comparison with the great maelstroms where the sea is trapped between Vancouver Island and the Canadian mainland.
ref:
2003 December, Jonathan Raban, “Julia and the Whirlpools”, in Cruising World, volume 29, number 12, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Evidently the future manufacturing development depends upon the hydraulic canal, so far as existing works are concerned, rather than upon the two races, which can never be enlarged to embrace a comprehensive improvement of the river, while the capabilities at th hydraulic basin are unrivaled. So far as can be learned there is no expectation of ever increasing materially the capacity of the races.
ref:
1885, James Leal Greenleaf, “Report on the Water-Powers of the Drainage Basins of Lakes Huron and Erie, in the United States”, in Reports on the Water-Power of the United States, Washington: Department of the Interior, part 1, pages 504–505
type:
quotation
text:
Any miners intending to divert and use water for mining or general purposes, or to cut a race or construct dams or reservoirs in connection therewith, shall give notice in writing thereof to the Warden […]
ref:
1888, “Water Rights”, in Gold Mining Regulations, 1888, Parliament of South Australia, section 48, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Water for irrigation is stored in the high country behind the Upper Manorburn Dam. Two parallel races at different levels run along the west side of the valley and one race flowing along the east side is supplemented by water stored at the Poolburn Dam.
ref:
1957 December 16, A. H. Mouat, R. C. Stuart, G. Mason, “Farming in Ida Valley, Central Otago”, in The New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, volume 95, number 6, page 587
type:
quotation
text:
There were all the marked passages, which had thrilled his soul so often,—words of patriarchs and seers, poets and sages, who from early time had spoken courage to man,—voices from the great cloud of witnesses who ever surround us in the race of life.
ref:
1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, volume 2, Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, page 242
type:
quotation
text:
Don't let fear be a factor for you as the finish line of harvest calls out to you to join the race of eternity. Clear the table of excuses and go!
ref:
2008, Chad Taylor, The Cry of the Harvest, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
I have lately seen a shuttle machine of Messrs. Grover Baker's construction, in which the shuttle worked in a semi-circular race and produced two stitches at each revolution of the wheel.
ref:
1860, Charles Cole, The Sewing Machine, and its Capabilities, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
Meanwhile another lug on the shuttle-band engages another carrier at the other end of the loom, and the belt, continuing to move in the same direction, conveys the carrier across the race in a similar manner as above described.
ref:
1872 November 29, “Improved Loom for Weaving Fabrics of Any Width”, in The English Mechanic and Word of Science, volume 16, number 401, page 259
type:
quotation
text:
These bearings do not employ a loading groove or filling slot but utilize an uninterrupted race groove containing the maximum number of balls that can be introduced by eccentric displacement of the races. Due to the relatively large size of the balls and the fact that the ball curvature is only slightly less than the race curvature, the bearings have comparatively high load carrying capacity in both axial and radial directions.
ref:
1965 August 15, Maintenance of Aeronautical Antifriction Bearings, NAVWEPS 01-1A-503, United States Bureau of Naval Weapons, section 2, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
The chances of picking up an inner race fault are small unless the load direction of the bearing coincides with the location of the accelerometer.
ref:
1999, Steve Goldman, Vibration Spectrum Analysis, 2nd edition, New York: Industrial Press, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
The bearing comprises four mechanical components: an outer race, an inner race, rollers (balls), and a cage that holds the rollers (balls) in place.
ref:
2017, Tian Ran Lin, Kun Yu, Jiwen Tan, “Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis of Roller Element Bearing”, in Pranav H. Darji, editor, Bearing Technology, Rijeka, Croatia: InTech, →DOI, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Your odds are sometimes significantly better with video keno […] But because video keno plays so much faster, you're likely to lose more money over a given period. Live keno races start every 10 minutes, but you can make 100 bets on a video version in the same amount of time.
ref:
2022, Kevin Blackwood, Swain Scheps, “Striking the Mother Lode: Keno and Bingo”, in Casino Gambling For Dummies, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.
Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.
A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal.
A fast-moving current of water.
A water channel, especially one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised, such as that which powers a millwheel.
A path that something or someone moves along.
A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:
A groove on a sewing machine or a loom along which the shuttle moves.
A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:
A ring with a groove in which rolling elements (such as balls) ride, forming part of a rolling-element bearing (for example, a ball bearing).
A keno gambling session.
senses_topics:
business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
weaving
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
gambling
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6787 | word:
race
word_type:
verb
expansion:
race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)
forms:
form:
races
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
racing
tags:
participle
present
form:
raced
tags:
participle
past
form:
raced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (“a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset”), from Proto-West Germanic *rās; and partially from Old Norse rás (“a running, race”); both from Proto-Germanic *rēsō (“a course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow, rush”). Cognate with Middle Low German râs (“a strong current”), Dutch ras (“a strong whirling current”), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås.
senses_examples:
text:
The drivers were racing around the track.
type:
example
text:
Honesty raced up six lengths in front of Wandering Minstrel, turned, then raced past for the second, and lost his place at the hedge; some work followed to the plantation, but Honesty was always the faster in the racing stretches, and won easily.
ref:
1875, “Lichfield Open Meeting”, in John Henry Walsh, editor, Coursing Calendar for the Autumn Season 1874, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
"I cannot wait to race in front of the amazing home crowd," she added.
ref:
2023 May 10, “Athletics: Dina Asher-Smith set to race at London Stadium in July”, in BBC News
type:
quotation
text:
I raced him to the car, but he was there first, so he got to ride shotgun.
type:
example
text:
[…]a fresh fox popped out of a pit, and they raced him to Cherrington, where hounds were stopped at dark[…]
ref:
1871 March, “Our Van”, in Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 21, page 306
type:
quotation
text:
He pulled it down and saw Tech's full-back closing in. Counting on his own fresh condition, Jimmy raced him toward the sidelines, and got around him just in time to prevent being forced out. The goal was waiting for him twenty yards away, and to the accompaniment of a deafening shout from the stands he placed the pigskin across the goal line.
ref:
1928 November, Paschal N. Strong, “Signals”, in Boys' Life, volume 18, number 11, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
As soon as it was time to go home, he raced for the door.
type:
example
text:
Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.
type:
example
text:
There she goes / There she goes again / Racing through my brain / And I just can't contain / This feeling that remains
ref:
1988, Lee Mavers, “There She Goes”, in Sixpence None the Richer, performed by Sixpence None the Richer, published 1997
type:
quotation
text:
Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
ref:
2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Racing on, we parallel the M5 doing 95mph, according to the app on my smartphone.
ref:
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.
ref:
1891 December, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Man with the Twisted Lip”, in The Strand
type:
quotation
text:
He put the transmission into drive and pressed the gas. The engine raced and the motor home rocked, gently, but did not move forward.
ref:
2005 June, James Faucett, “Snowbirds”, in Atlanta Magazine, volume 45, number 2, page 79
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
To compete against in a race (contest).
To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
senses_topics:
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6788 | word:
race
word_type:
noun
expansion:
race (countable and uncountable, plural races)
forms:
form:
races
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Brassica oleracea
etymology_text:
1560s, via Middle French race from Italian razza (early 14th century), of uncertain origin.
theories
* Diez and some other scholars suggest derivation from Proto-Germanic *raitō (whence Old High German reiza (“line”) and Old Norse ríta (“to score, log, outline”)), perhaps via Lombardic *raiza (“line”), which Körting notes is a literal rendering of Latin linea sanguinis (“bloodline of descent”). Anatoly Liberman says "the semantic fit is good" but the chronology falters; he says the Germanic word went out of use before the Italian word arose, and he says the intermediary is not attested.
* Some scholars suggest derivation from Old Spanish raza, rasa, from earlier ras, res (“head of cattle”), from Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”), but Italian razza predates the Spanish word according to Diez and Meyer-Lübke.
* Meyer-Lübke suggested Latin generatio as the root; Körting says "the disappearance of two initial syllables hardly seems credible", but Meyer-Lübke notes the Venetian form narazza and the Old Bellunesian form naraccia, positing that after the first syllable ge- was lost, the remaining (una) narazza came to be reanalysed as una razza.
* Gianfranco Contini suggests the Italian word comes from Old French haraz (“troop of horses”), whence Modern French haras (“breeding farm for horses; stud farm”), from Old Norse hárr (“grey-haired; hoary”). Liberman considers this derivation the most likely.
* Other suggested Latin etyma:
** radius (perhaps via Vulgar Latin *radia) (per Baist).
** radix (“root”) (per Ulrich); Liberman says "the semantic match is excellent", and race (“rhizome of ginger”) (which definitely derives from radix) shows that the phonology is plausible.
** *raptiare (“breed falcons”) (per Körting).
** The nominative of ratio (perhaps via an unattested intermediate form *razzo), as opposed to ragione which derives from the accusative rationem.
* Other implausible suggestions include Slavic raz and Basque arraca, supposedly meaning "stud animal" (Basque arrazza, "race", derives from Spanish).
senses_examples:
text:
The Canadian race is one of the most vigorous on the globe.
type:
example
text:
We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them—they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed race of ancestors.
ref:
1838, Abraham Lincoln, Young Men's Lyceum address
type:
quotation
text:
I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.
ref:
1895 November 11, Joseph Chamberlain, Speech given to the Imperial Institute
type:
quotation
text:
What is to become of the French race and the British race—yes, and the German race—if this thing keeps up?
ref:
1917 February, Will Irwin, “War and the Race”, in The Advocate of Peace, volume 79, number 2, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.
type:
example
text:
The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are considered part of the same Mongoloid race.
type:
example
text:
The race to which most anthropologists refer the native Americans is the Mongoloid of Eastern Asia, who are capable of accommodating themselves to the extremest climates, and who by the form of skull, the light brown skin, straight black hair, and black eyes, show considerable agreement with the American tribes.
ref:
1881 July, Edward Burnett Tylor, “The Races of Mankind”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 19, page 309
type:
quotation
text:
Colonel Lin Nan: Would it offend you to be loved by a man of another race?
ref:
1958, Burgess, Alan, Lennart, Isobel, 1:41:15 from the start, in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, spoken by Curd Jürgens as Colonel Lin Nan and Ingrid Bergman as Gladys Aylward, 20th Century Fox, →OCLC
type:
quotation
roman:
Gladys Aylward: It would honor me.
text:
Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
ref:
2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164
type:
quotation
text:
The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.
type:
example
text:
His opinion is founded on the alleged fact that there are scarely any drunkards in the wine-producing regions, where people drink wine with their food as freely as we do tea or coffee. "Give us what good wine we need," says the professor, "and the temperance crusade will be wellnigh ended when the present race of drunkards have passed away.
ref:
1872 October 5, Prof. G[eorge] C[linton] Swallow, quotee, “Table-Talk”, in Appletons' Journal, volume 8, number 184, page 386
type:
quotation
text:
There's a race of men that don't fit in, / A race that can't stay still; / So they break the hearts of kith and kin, / And they roam the world at will.
ref:
1911, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Men That Don't Fit In”, in The Spell of the Yukon
type:
quotation
text:
Indeed, all of us are called to join the race of faith. Our identity as Christians is not a burden or an obstacle for our lives, but is rather a gift, […]
ref:
2009, Eunjoo M. Kim, edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor, Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, Year C, page 249
type:
quotation
text:
A treaty was concluded between the race of elves and the race of men.
type:
example
text:
There are two distinct races of gods known to Norse mythology[.]
ref:
1898, Herman Isidore Stern, The gods of our fathers: a study of Saxon mythology, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Imagine a race of aliens that develops on a dimly lit world perpetually shrouded in clouds so that vision would be less useful for survival than on Earth.
ref:
1999, Clifford A. Pickover, The Science of Aliens, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
Tali: My father is responsible for the lives of seventeen million people—our entire race is in his hands. And I'm his only child.
(Note: Tali is a Quarian, an extraterrestrial species.)
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1
type:
quotation
text:
Two races are certainly valid. The Atlantic race (P. v. vitulina) is distinguishable from the Pacific race (P. v. richardi Gray, 1864) by skull characters.
ref:
1968 December, Dale W. Rice, Victor B. Scheffer, A List of the Marine Mammals of the World, Special Scientific Report—Fisheries number 579, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Phoca vitulina, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
A population that differs signicatly from other populations belonging to the same species is referred to as a geographic race or subspecies. Subspecies are separated from other subspecies by distance and geographic barriers that prevent the exchange of individuals, as opposed to the genetically based "intrinsic isolating mechanisms" that hold species apart.
ref:
2000, Edward O[sborne] Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, 25th anniversary edition, Harvard University Press, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Nevertheless, as our varieties certainly do occasionally revert in some of their characters to ancestral forms, it seems to me not improbable, that if we could succeed in naturalising, or were to cultivate, during many generations, the several races, for instance, of the cabbage, in very poor soil (in which case, however, some effect would have to be attributed to the direct action of the poor soil), that they would to a large extent, or even wholly, revert to the wild aboriginal stock.
ref:
1859, Charles Darwin, “Variation under Domestication”, in On the Origin of Species
type:
quotation
text:
Tree races develop not only in different latitudes, but also at different altitudes and within mountainous regions. Since climate changes markedly with altitude as well as latitude, both kinds of development are included in the term climatic races. In addition, soil or site races may develop in areas similar climatically but characterized by different soil or site conditions.
ref:
1948 June, “Development of Races”, in Woody-Plant Seed Manual, Miscellaneous Publication no. 654, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Our genetic evaluation suggests that the morphologically distinct race (Dolores River) is more closely related to the type materials than the ecologically distinct, high-elevation race.
ref:
1995 September 11–14, Loreen Allphin, Michael D[ennis] Windham, Kimball T[aylor] Harper, “A Genetic Evaluation of Three Potential Races of the Rare Kachina Daisy”, in Southwestern Rare and Endangered Plants: Proceedings of the Second Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
For do but note a wild and wanton herd, / Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, / Fetching mad bounds.
ref:
c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act 5, scene 1
type:
quotation
text:
They have another breed, called the Dunlop cows, which are allowed to be the best race for yielding milk in Great Britain or Ireland, not only for large quantities, but also for richness in quality.
ref:
1799, Joshua Rowlin, The Complete Cow-Doctor; Or, Farmer's Companion, 2nd edition, London, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Great St. Bernard Dog—This race is nearly allied to the Newfoundland Dog in form, stature, hair, and colors; but the head and ears are like that of a Water Spaniel.
ref:
1875, Augustus C. L. Arnold, The Living World, volume 1, Boston: Samuel Walker & Co, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
Now Mary MacDonald of the Plant Breeding Institute at Maris Lane, Cambridge, has made an interesting study which has duplicated the conditions under which new races arise. And she has produced at least one new fungal race.
ref:
1977 March 24, “Why is cereal fungus so resistant?”, in New Scientist, volume 73, number 1044, page 697
type:
quotation
text:
The type of microorganisms is a very important factor influencing the quality of cider. Yeast of various producers and races result in different taste and flavor.
ref:
2018 December, Anna Kolobaeva, Olga Kotik, “Technological Approaches to Cider Quality”, in Advances in Engineering Research, volume 151, Atlantis Press, →DOI
type:
quotation
text:
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!
ref:
1786, Robert Burns, Address to the Haggis
type:
quotation
text:
Is it [the wine] of the right race?
ref:
c. 1625, Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, act 1, scene 3
type:
quotation
text:
On the day following Elizabeth's interview with Gideon, this innocent relish—the olives which gave zest, or the walnuts which gave race and richness, to Monkshaugh's moderate hebdomadal glass of old claret—was not forgotten.
ref:
1827, Christian Isobel Johnstone, “A Country Sunday Evening”, in Elizabeth de Bruce, volume 1, New York: W. Blackwood, page 130
type:
quotation
text:
So sang the poet in his pride of place, / And Arthur bade the pages plenish well / The cups of all the kings with wine of race, / Osaye or Algarde, Rhenish or Rochell, / Vernage of Venice, Rhodes or Famagust, / Sweet Malvoisie or Cretan Muscadel,
ref:
1875, Sebastian Evans, “The Eve of Morte Arthur”, in In the Studio, London: Macmillan & Co, pages 164–165
type:
quotation
text:
And now I give my sensual race the rein.
ref:
c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 2, scene 4
type:
quotation
text:
[…]some great race of fancy or judgment in the contrivance[…]
ref:
1685, Sir William Temple, Upon the Gardens of Epicurus; or, Of Gardening
type:
quotation
text:
His conversation, too, had a race and flavour peculiarly its own: it was nervous, sententious, and tinctured with genuine wit.
ref:
1807, Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames, volume 1, book 2, chapter 1, Edinburgh: William Creech, page 181
type:
quotation
text:
It behooveth therefore that the Mares appointed for race, be well compacted, of a decent quality, being fair and beautiful to look upon, the belly and loins being great, in age not under three nor above ten years old.
ref:
1658, Edward Topsell, “Of the horse”, in The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents, page 234
type:
quotation
text:
Male he created thee, but thy consort / Femal for Race; then bless’d Mankinde, and said, / Be fruitful, multiplie, and fill the Earth[.]
ref:
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 7
type:
quotation
text:
Yes, madam, believe it, she is a gentlewoman of very absolute behaviour, and of a good race.
ref:
1609, Ben Jonson, Epicœne, or The Silent Woman, act 3, scene 2
type:
quotation
text:
Wars of religion, more sanguinary, cruel, and ruinous than even those of Henry the fifth and Edward the third, rise in succession under the three last princes of the race of Valois.
ref:
1785, Nathaniel William Wraxall, “Henry the Second”, in The History of France Under the Kings of the Race of Valois, 2nd edition, volume 2, London: C. Dilly, pages 52–53
type:
quotation
text:
In ſeveral orders of knighthood, as in that of Malta, &c. the candidates muſt prove a nobility of four races or deſcents.
ref:
1738 [1728], Ephraim Chambers, “Race”, in Cyclopaedia: Or, An Universal Dictionary Of Arts and Sciences, 2nd edition, London: D. Midwinter
type:
quotation
text:
Perhaps this is the reason why it is an article of faith with the servants, handed down from race to race, that the departed Tisher was a hairdresser.
ref:
1870, Charles Dickens, “The Nun's House”, in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
type:
quotation
text:
For the old stock is fast dying out, Jennie, / And a young race is taking their place, / In our grandmothers' day they had sense, Jennie, / No powder or paints on their face.
ref:
1929 December, Johnny Burke, “No Short Skirts To Their Knees”, in Burke's Popular Songs, St. John's, Newfoundland: Long Brothers
type:
quotation
text:
Have I my pillow left unpressed in Rome, / Forborne the getting of a lawful race, / And by a gem of women, to be abused / By one that looks on feeders?
ref:
c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, act 3, scene 13
type:
quotation
text:
The good man besought him. Let the king / Propitious hear a parent. In thy train / I have five sons. Ah! leave my eldest born, / Thy future vassal, to sustain my age!' / The tyrant fell reply'd. 'Presumptuous man, / Who art my slave, in this tremendous war, / Is not my person hazarded, my race, / My consort?[']
ref:
1737, Richard Glover, Leonidas, book 2, Baltimore: Neal, Wills & Cole, published 1814, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
There the passions cramp’d no longer shall have scope and breathing-space; / I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. / Iron-jointed, supple-sinew’d, they shall dive, and they shall run, / Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun[.]
ref:
1842, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”, in Poems, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, page 109
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
A large group of nonhumans distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
A strain of plant with characteristics causing it to differ from other plants of the same species.
A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
A strain of microorganism, fungi, etc.
A category or kind of thing distinguished by common characteristics.
Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.
Characteristic quality or disposition.
The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring.
Ancestry.
A step in a lineage or succession; a generation.
Progeny, offspring, descendants.
senses_topics:
fantasy
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
bacteriology
biology
microbiology
mycology
natural-sciences
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6789 | word:
race
word_type:
verb
expansion:
race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)
forms:
form:
races
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
racing
tags:
participle
present
form:
raced
tags:
participle
past
form:
raced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1560s, via Middle French race from Italian razza (early 14th century), of uncertain origin.
theories
* Diez and some other scholars suggest derivation from Proto-Germanic *raitō (whence Old High German reiza (“line”) and Old Norse ríta (“to score, log, outline”)), perhaps via Lombardic *raiza (“line”), which Körting notes is a literal rendering of Latin linea sanguinis (“bloodline of descent”). Anatoly Liberman says "the semantic fit is good" but the chronology falters; he says the Germanic word went out of use before the Italian word arose, and he says the intermediary is not attested.
* Some scholars suggest derivation from Old Spanish raza, rasa, from earlier ras, res (“head of cattle”), from Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”), but Italian razza predates the Spanish word according to Diez and Meyer-Lübke.
* Meyer-Lübke suggested Latin generatio as the root; Körting says "the disappearance of two initial syllables hardly seems credible", but Meyer-Lübke notes the Venetian form narazza and the Old Bellunesian form naraccia, positing that after the first syllable ge- was lost, the remaining (una) narazza came to be reanalysed as una razza.
* Gianfranco Contini suggests the Italian word comes from Old French haraz (“troop of horses”), whence Modern French haras (“breeding farm for horses; stud farm”), from Old Norse hárr (“grey-haired; hoary”). Liberman considers this derivation the most likely.
* Other suggested Latin etyma:
** radius (perhaps via Vulgar Latin *radia) (per Baist).
** radix (“root”) (per Ulrich); Liberman says "the semantic match is excellent", and race (“rhizome of ginger”) (which definitely derives from radix) shows that the phonology is plausible.
** *raptiare (“breed falcons”) (per Körting).
** The nominative of ratio (perhaps via an unattested intermediate form *razzo), as opposed to ragione which derives from the accusative rationem.
* Other implausible suggestions include Slavic raz and Basque arraca, supposedly meaning "stud animal" (Basque arrazza, "race", derives from Spanish).
senses_examples:
text:
To be raced as black in the U.S. translates symbolically into being considered inferior to whites, lazy, immoral, boisterous, violent, and sexually promiscuous.
ref:
1996, Philosophical Studies in Education, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
From this perspective, the project of progressive blackness entails the edification of black people and the elimination of all forms of domination that limit this edification for all those raced as black.
ref:
2006, Athena D. Mutua, Progressive Black Masculinities?, Routledge, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
By avoiding being raced as white, whites are able to maintain the illusion that they have always been individuals, that they have always accomplished their achievements through merit alone.
ref:
2008, George Yancy, Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race, Rowman & Littlefield, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he private family qua mode of social reproduction still, frankly, sucks. It genders, nationalizes and races us. It norms us for productive work.
ref:
2020 March 24, Sophie Lewis, “The coronavirus crisis shows it's time to abolish the family”, in opendemocracy.net
type:
quotation
text:
D'Hervieux obſerves that it is uſual to put the female canary bird to the male goldfinch, linnet, or the like, to breed; but for his part, he ſhould chuſe to put the male canary-bird to the female goldfinch, linnet, &c. becauſe the male uſually races more than the female, i. e. the young ones take more after the male than after the female.
ref:
1738 [1728], Ephraim Chambers, “Race”, in Cyclopaedia: Or, An Universal Dictionary Of Arts and Sciences, 2nd edition, London: D. Midwinter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
To pass down certain phenotypic traits to offspring.
senses_topics:
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6790 | word:
race
word_type:
noun
expansion:
race (plural races)
forms:
form:
races
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Mid 16th century. From Middle French raïz, raiz, rais (“root”), from Latin radix (“root”), from Proto-Italic *wrādīks, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.
senses_examples:
text:
I must have saffron to color the warden pies; mace; dates, none—that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pounds of prunes, and as many of raisins o' th' sun.
ref:
1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act IV, scene III, line 45
type:
quotation
text:
They have onions and garlick, and some herbs and small roots for sallads; and in the southernmoft parts, ginger growing almost in every place; the large races whereof are there very excellently well preserved, as we may know by our tasting them in England.
ref:
1777, Edward Terry, A Voyage to East-India, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
On the third day after this second boiling, pour all the syrup into a pan, put the races of ginger with it, and boil it up until the syrup adheres to the spoon.
ref:
1842, Gibbons Merle, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual, page 433
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
senses_topics:
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6791 | word:
race
word_type:
verb
expansion:
race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)
forms:
form:
races
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
racing
tags:
participle
present
form:
raced
tags:
participle
past
form:
raced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See raze.
senses_examples:
text:
[…]and after he be-heilde towarde the fier, and saugh the flesshe that the knaue hadde rosted that was tho I-nough, and raced it of with his hondes madly, and rente it a-sonder in peces, and wette it in mylke, and after in the hony, and ete as a wood man that nought ther lefte of the flessh;[…]
ref:
c. 1450, chapter 23, in Henry Benjamin Wheatley, editor, Merlin or the Early History of King Arthur, volume 2, Early English Text Society, published 1899, page 424
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of raze.
senses_topics:
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6792 | word:
myself
word_type:
pron
expansion:
myself (reflexive case of I)
forms:
form:
case of I
tags:
reflexive
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English myself, meself, from Old English mē selfum and similar phrases, equivalent to me + self, later partly reinterpreted as my + self / -self. Cognate with Scots mysel, mysell (“myself”), West Frisian mysels (“myself”), Dutch mijzelf (“myself”), German mich selbst, mir selbst (“myself”), Norwegian Bokmål meg selv (“myself”).
senses_examples:
text:
I taught myself.
type:
example
text:
I feel like myself.
type:
example
text:
Myself am confident that an ointment of it is one of the best remedies for a scabby head that is.
ref:
1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged
type:
quotation
text:
Myself John.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.
Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described.
In my normal state of body or mind.
Me (as the object of a verb or preposition).
I (as the subject of a verb).
my name is...
senses_topics:
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6793 | word:
sewed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sewed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of sew
senses_topics:
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6794 | word:
sewed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sewed (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having been created through the sewing process.
senses_topics:
|
6795 | word:
matelot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
matelot (plural matelots)
forms:
form:
matelots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French matelot (“sailor”). Compare Dutch matroos and German Matrose.
senses_examples:
text:
One day, a stalwart sailor was brought in with a severe fracture below the knee […] A week later the leg had turned septic but the matelot was endearing cheerful. "Never mind, Sister" he assured Anne. "I'll get a piece of whalebone, like Captain Ahab."
ref:
2004, Alan O'Reilly, Sound of Battle, Coral Springs, Florida: Llumina Press, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
[…] a chief petty officer, snarled something under his breath about bloody 'am-fisted matelots […]
ref:
1984, John Harris, A Funny Place to Hold a War, London: Hutchinson
type:
quotation
text:
So far as the average matelot was concerned, there was little romanticism about the preference for frigates, destroyers, frail E-boats that could be blown up with one well-aimed cannon, and submarines, those breeding grounds of TB and madness.
ref:
1997, Tristan Jones, Heart of Oak, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Sheridan House, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
Our matelot took us out to sea in what I believed was not a very seaworthy boat.
ref:
2005, William Atlay, All for a King's Shilling, Ely, Cambridgeshire: Melrose Books, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
There were no signs and no one quite knew how to navigate the museum, including, as it was Fleet Week, gaggles of boyish sailors all in their summer whites. It looked like a Frank Sinatra movie. A bunch of these matelots surrounded a police officer, who said: "You guys are from the USS Cole? Thank you for your service. Want me to take you around?"
ref:
2014 June 7, Vicki Woods, “Sadness, and a surprise, at the 9/11 Museum: The memorial at Ground Zero is filled with objects that shock the tears out of you”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
[…] "Among the Brethren of the Coast—we tykes no wimmen save in passing, as it were, they being bothersome, frail and scatterbrained creatures. Instead we tykes a blood-brother, or matelot ... A matelot, 'e fights along side o' yer, nurses yer if yer falls sick. Wots 'is is yours and whats yours is 'is ... Take Klaas yonder, and young Pedro [described earlier as a slender-hipped boy with deep feminine brown eyes]; they shared the same barbacoa six, seven year and ye'll never come on 'em more than a few yards apart." To this explanation [Harry] Morgan listened in growing amazement and began to comprehend why none of these bestial-appearing boucan makers had so much as addressed Kate.
ref:
1949, Francis van Wyck Mason, Cutlass Empire, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sailor.
A mate; a boon companion.
senses_topics:
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6796 | word:
proven
word_type:
adj
expansion:
proven (comparative more proven, superlative most proven)
forms:
form:
more proven
tags:
comparative
form:
most proven
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Scottish English, as past participle of preve, a Middle English variant of prove – compare woven (from weave) and cloven (from cleave), both of which feature -eve → -oven. Preve died out in England, but survived in Scotland, where proven developed, initially in a legal context, as in “The jury ruled that the charges were not proven.” See usage notes for historical usage patterns.
Earlier, from Late Latin probō (“test, try, examine, approve, show to be good or fit, prove”, verb), from Latin probus (“good, worthy, excellent”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰuH-s (“being in front, prominent”), from *pro-, *per- (“toward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”).
Morphologically prove + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
It's a proven fact that morphine is a more effective painkiller than acetaminophen is.
type:
example
text:
Mass lexical comparison is not a proven method for demonstrating relationships between languages.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having been proved; having proved its value or truth.
senses_topics:
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6797 | word:
proven
word_type:
verb
expansion:
proven
forms:
wikipedia:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
etymology_text:
From Scottish English, as past participle of preve, a Middle English variant of prove – compare woven (from weave) and cloven (from cleave), both of which feature -eve → -oven. Preve died out in England, but survived in Scotland, where proven developed, initially in a legal context, as in “The jury ruled that the charges were not proven.” See usage notes for historical usage patterns.
Earlier, from Late Latin probō (“test, try, examine, approve, show to be good or fit, prove”, verb), from Latin probus (“good, worthy, excellent”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰuH-s (“being in front, prominent”), from *pro-, *per- (“toward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”).
Morphologically prove + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of prove
senses_topics:
|
6798 | word:
override
word_type:
verb
expansion:
override (third-person singular simple present overrides, present participle overriding, simple past overrode, past participle overridden)
forms:
form:
overrides
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overriding
tags:
participle
present
form:
overrode
tags:
past
form:
overridden
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override.
senses_examples:
text:
Around 50 people were evacuated from a rush-hour London Overground service on October 12, after an eight-car train overrode the buffers at Enfield Town station.
ref:
2021 October 20, “Network News: Commuter train crashes into buffers at Enfield Town”, in RAIL, number 942, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Separation of the caboose from the VAN train had caused the train to go into emergency braking and when Extra 3119 West struck the third rack car, the car overrode the locomotive, destroyed the remaining superstructure, and caused the locomotive to overturn the north rail. The near-instantaneous derailment of the rest of the train followed immediately.
ref:
1981 August 18, National Transportation Safety Board, “Collision and Derailment”, in Railroad Accident Report: Rear-End Collision of Union Pacific Railroad Company Freight Trains Extra 3119 West and Extra 8044 West, Near Kelso, California, November 17, 1980, archived from the original on 2022-03-29, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.
type:
example
text:
Manual controls allow the user to override the camera's default settings.
type:
example
text:
How the cat runs is defined in the method run() of the class Cat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass called Mammal.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ride across or beyond something.
To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
To ride a horse too hard.
To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
senses_topics:
|
6799 | word:
override
word_type:
noun
expansion:
override (plural overrides)
forms:
form:
overrides
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
A royalty.
A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
senses_topics:
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