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6800 | word:
plead
word_type:
verb
expansion:
plead (third-person singular simple present pleads, present participle pleading, simple past and past participle pleaded or (chiefly North America, Scotland) pled or plead)
forms:
form:
pleads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pleading
tags:
participle
present
form:
pleaded
tags:
participle
past
form:
pleaded
tags:
past
form:
pled
tags:
North-America
Scotland
participle
past
form:
pled
tags:
North-America
Scotland
past
form:
plead
tags:
participle
past
form:
plead
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pleden, plaiden, from Old French plaider (“to plead, offer a plea”), from plait, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc.", in Classical Latin, "an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of placeō (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleitear (“to litigate, take to court”).
senses_examples:
text:
The defendant has decided to plead not guilty.
type:
example
text:
At the High Court in Aberdeen in September, NR pleaded guilty to a series of failings, including failing to tell the driver that it was unsafe to drive the train at the 75mph line speed.
ref:
2023 October 18, “Network News: Carmont: NR pays nearly £1m in out-of-court settlements”, in RAIL, number 994, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
He pleaded with me not to leave the house.
type:
example
text:
He was pleading for mercy.
type:
example
text:
Not wishing to attend the banquet, I pleaded illness.
type:
example
text:
It is no defence to plead that you were only obeying orders.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.
To beg, beseech, or implore, especially emotionally.
To offer by way of excuse.
To discuss by arguments.
senses_topics:
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6801 | word:
shone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shone
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of shine
senses_topics:
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6802 | word:
shorn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shorn
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of shear
senses_topics:
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6803 | word:
shorn
word_type:
adj
expansion:
shorn (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
This is the Prieſt all ſhaven and ſhorn, that married the man all tattered and torn[.]
ref:
1784, The House that Jack Built, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a sheep, etc., having been shorn.
Of a person, having had a haircut.
senses_topics:
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6804 | word:
South China Sea
word_type:
name
expansion:
the South China Sea
forms:
form:
the South China Sea
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The Philippine Islands are an archipelago southeast of Asia. They extend almost due north and south from Formosa to Borneo, and they separate the South China Sea from the Pacific Ocean.
ref:
1898 May, “The Philippine Islands”, in The Locomotive, volume XIX, number 5, Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, →OCLC, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
Ignoring international law, the Chinese have claimed sovereignty over most of the South China Sea and are embarked upon a massive land reclamation and construction program to bolster these claims.
ref:
2015, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America, Threshold Editions, →OCLC, →OL, page 222
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The western arm of the Pacific Ocean, between the Asian mainland and Taiwan, Borneo and the Philippines.
senses_topics:
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6805 | word:
sold
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sold
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of sell
senses_topics:
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6806 | word:
sold
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sold
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English solde, sould, soud, from Middle French solde, Italian soldo. Compare soldier and Danish sold (via Low German). Doublet of sol, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu.
senses_examples:
text:
Lying in campe under sold and pay, fighting as souldiers.
ref:
1601, William Barlow, A Defense of the Articles of the Protestant Religion in answer to a libell lately cast abroad
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
salary; military pay
senses_topics:
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6807 | word:
wool
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wool (usually uncountable, plural wools)
forms:
form:
wools
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wolle, from Old English wull, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wulle, German Low German Wull, Dutch wol, German Wolle, Norwegian ull; also Welsh gwlân, Latin lāna, Lithuanian vìlna, Russian во́лос (vólos), Slovak vlna, Bulgarian влас (vlas), Albanian lesh (“wool, hair, fleece”). Doublet of lana.
The vowel development u → o → oo is purely graphical. Modern English generally avoids the string ‹wu› in favour of ‹wo›, and the resulting woll was then altered to wool (as supposedly better representing the pronunciation).
senses_examples:
text:
The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.
ref:
2006, Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece, page 692
type:
quotation
text:
Spielvogel said wet cleaning also has limitations; while it is fine for cottons and fabrics worn in warm climates, he said, it can damage heavy wools or structured clothes like suit jackets.
ref:
2009 January 12, Mireya Navarro, “It May Market Organic Alternatives, but Is Your Cleaner Really Greener?”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation[…]
ref:
1975, Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
The object of your affection is the treetop connection / Where basically you love to smoke your wools
ref:
1991 March 29, “Slow Down” (0:25 from the start), in One for All, performed by Brand Nubian
type:
quotation
text:
He rocked Caesar's chains, he pushed Caesar's Range / Smokin' mad wools all day, with Caesar's change
ref:
2003 June 24, “Sabotage” (0:40 from the start), in The Ownerz, performed by Gang Starr
type:
quotation
text:
Lopez said the shooter's name was Lou, known on the street as Wool Lou, because he sold "wools," which were cigarettes rolled up with crack cocaine.
ref:
2012, Chris Berdik, Mind Over Mind: The Surprising Power of Expectations, New York, N.Y.: Current, page 149
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
A cloth or yarn made from such hair.
Anything with a fibrous texture like that of sheep's wool.
A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.
A woolly back; a resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.
A marijuana cigarette or cigar laced with crack cocaine.
senses_topics:
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6808 | word:
eye
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eye (plural eyes or (archaic or dialectal) eyen or (archaic) eyne)
forms:
form:
eyes
tags:
plural
form:
eyen
tags:
archaic
dialectal
plural
form:
eyne
tags:
archaic
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eye, eie, yë, eighe, eyghe, yȝe, eyȝe, from Old English ēage (“eye”), from Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô (“eye”) (compare Scots ee, West Frisian each, Dutch oog, German Auge, Danish øje, Norwegian Bokmål øye, Norwegian Nynorsk auga, Swedish öga), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-, *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”).
Other Indo-European cognates include Latin oculus (whence English oculus), Lithuanian akìs, Old Church Slavonic око (oko), Albanian sy, Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps, “(poetic) eye; face”) and ὄσσε (ósse, “eyes”), Armenian ակն (akn), Avestan 𐬀𐬱𐬌 (aši, “eyes”), Sanskrit अक्षि (ákṣi). Related to ogle.
The uncommon plural form eyen is from Middle English eyen, from Old English ēaġan, nominative and accusative plural of ēaġe (“eye”).
senses_examples:
text:
Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
type:
example
text:
Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime: […]
ref:
1605, The Trial of Chivalry
type:
quotation
text:
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages.
ref:
2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 2013-09-07
type:
quotation
text:
The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
type:
example
text:
Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.
type:
example
text:
Natalie’s brown eyes looked into Jim’s blue eyes, and the girl and boy flirted.
type:
example
text:
That dress caught her eye.
type:
example
text:
He has an eye for talent.
type:
example
text:
She was giving him the eye at the bar.
type:
example
text:
When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.
type:
example
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Far more annoying were the letters from parents of missing daughters and the private detectives who had begun showing up at his door. Independently of each other, the Cigrand and Conner families had hired “eyes” to search for their missing daughters.
ref:
2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, page 199
type:
quotation
text:
[H]e struck the Duffer a sharp blow on the back of the head with the eye of the axe, and left him stunned and senseless on the earth[.]
ref:
1856 October 18, The People’s Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator, Sydney, N.S.W., page 6, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The “e” was a bit over-inked, with a blacked-out eye.
ref:
2022, Hernan Diaz, Trust, Picador (2023)
type:
quotation
text:
This victory will make us great in the eyes of the world.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
The visual sense.
The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
Attention, notice.
The ability to notice what others might miss.
A meaningful look or stare.
Short for private eye.
A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a hook, pin, rope, shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss, through a crank, at the end of a rope, or through a millstone.
A burner on a kitchen stove.
The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
A reproductive bud in a potato.
The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.
That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance.
A shade of colour; a tinge.
One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
The circle in the centre of a volute.
The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.
The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the lower-case letter e.
An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
Opinion, view.
senses_topics:
architecture
nautical
transport
media
publishing
typography
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6809 | word:
eye
word_type:
verb
expansion:
eye (third-person singular simple present eyes, present participle eyeing or eying, simple past and past participle eyed)
forms:
form:
eyes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
eyeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
eying
tags:
participle
present
form:
eyed
tags:
participle
past
form:
eyed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eye, eie, yë, eighe, eyghe, yȝe, eyȝe, from Old English ēage (“eye”), from Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô (“eye”) (compare Scots ee, West Frisian each, Dutch oog, German Auge, Danish øje, Norwegian Bokmål øye, Norwegian Nynorsk auga, Swedish öga), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-, *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”).
Other Indo-European cognates include Latin oculus (whence English oculus), Lithuanian akìs, Old Church Slavonic око (oko), Albanian sy, Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps, “(poetic) eye; face”) and ὄσσε (ósse, “eyes”), Armenian ակն (akn), Avestan 𐬀𐬱𐬌 (aši, “eyes”), Sanskrit अक्षि (ákṣi). Related to ogle.
The uncommon plural form eyen is from Middle English eyen, from Old English ēaġan, nominative and accusative plural of ēaġe (“eye”).
senses_examples:
text:
After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.
type:
example
text:
They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
type:
example
text:
Each downcast monk in silence takes / His place a newmade grave around, / Each one his brother sadly eying.
ref:
1859, Fraser’s Magazine, volume 60, page 671
type:
quotation
text:
Once the potatoes have been rumbled they require 'eyeing' with a turning knife or hand peeler.
ref:
1996, Food Preparation and Cooking, page 418
type:
quotation
text:
My first assignment was eyeing old potatoes. The Siegler brothers would buy potatoes so old they looked like an octopus. My job was to make them look presentable and, of course, sellable.
ref:
2012, Bob Vargovcik, Bayonne Boy, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Eggs were collected from the Taylor Creek, Upper Truckee River, and Blackwood Creek traps and transported to this station to be eyed […]
ref:
1927, Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Forty-Seventh Session of the Legislature of the State of California
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
To appear; to look.
To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).
To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.
senses_topics:
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6810 | word:
eye
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eye (plural eyes)
forms:
form:
eyes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."
ref:
2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo".
ref:
2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), pages 3–5
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Latin-script letter I/i.
senses_topics:
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6811 | word:
eye
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eye (plural eyes)
forms:
form:
eyes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from rebracketing of a nye as an eye.
senses_examples:
text:
an eye of pheasants
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A brood.
senses_topics:
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6812 | word:
-logy
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-logy
forms:
wikipedia:
-logy
etymology_text:
The English -logy suffix originates with loanwords from the Greek, usually via Latin and French, where the suffix -λογία (-logía) is an integral part of the word loaned. E.g. astrology from astrologia, since the 16th century.
The French -logie is a continuation of Latin -logia, ultimately from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía). Within Greek, the suffix is an -ία (-ía) abstract from λόγος (lógos, “account, explanation, narrative”), itself a verbal noun from λέγω (légō, “I say, speak, converse, tell a story”).
Within English, the suffix becomes productive, especially to form names of sciences or departments of study, analogous to names of disciplines loaned from the Latin, such as astrology from astrologia or geology from geologia. Original compositions of terms with no precedent in Greek or Latin become common beginning in the later 18th century, sometimes imitating French or German templates (e.g. insectology, attested 1766, after French insectologie; terminology, attested 1801, after German Terminologie).
In a third stage, from the 19th century, the suffix becomes productive enough to form nonce combinations with English terms with no Greek or Latin origin, such as undergroundology (1820), hatology (1837).
Finally, from the second half of the 19th century, the suffix has also been used as a simplex as ology (plural ologies) and logy (plural logies), in parallel with and often alongside ism (plural isms).
senses_examples:
text:
Examples: biology, geology, genealogy
text:
Examples: haplology, eulogy, trilogy, apology
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A branch of learning; a study of a particular subject.
Speech, or a way of speaking, a narrative, logical discourse.
senses_topics:
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6813 | word:
proofread
word_type:
verb
expansion:
proofread (third-person singular simple present proofreads, present participle proofreading, simple past and past participle proofread)
forms:
form:
proofreads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
proofreading
tags:
participle
present
form:
proofread
tags:
participle
past
form:
proofread
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Proofreading
etymology_text:
From proof + read.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To check a written text for errors in spelling, grammar, syntax, and punctuation.
senses_topics:
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6814 | word:
proofread
word_type:
noun
expansion:
proofread (plural proofreads)
forms:
form:
proofreads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Proofreading
etymology_text:
From proof + read.
senses_examples:
text:
At 3:30 she put the finishing touches on her memo, printed it, gave it a proofread, then handed it to the attorney.
ref:
1999, James Scott Bell, “Part Three: The Fallen”, in Final Witness, Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press, published 2003, chapter four, page 515
type:
quotation
text:
I want to thank Sherri and Dee Humphreys, Mark Randolph and Paul Gonzalez for their proofreads and input.
ref:
2002, Rick Turnbull, “Acknowledgements”, in Gum’s Story: A Novel, Augusta, Ga.: Harbor House
type:
quotation
text:
To Veronique Kaemerer and her eng. 101 students, Michael Horanburg and Brady Meador for their proofreads.
ref:
2013, Ray Ayles, “Acknowledgements”, in Love’s Promise Is Forever, Baltimore, Md.: PublishAmerica, page [3]
type:
quotation
text:
Triple-check spellings, dates, and addresses, and ask someone to give it a proofread before you send your newsletter out.
ref:
2016, Rosalind Davis, Annabel Tilley, “[Communication] Newsletters”, in What They Didn’t Teach You in Art School: What You Need to Know to Survive as an Artist, London: Hachette UK, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
If you send it to me, I’ll copy and paste it into the page. I’ll give it a proofread, too, if you like.
ref:
2017, Donna Alward, chapter 7, in Somebody’s Baby (A Darling, VT Novel), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, page 104
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of proofreading.
senses_topics:
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6815 | word:
assiduous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
assiduous (comparative more assiduous, superlative most assiduous)
forms:
form:
more assiduous
tags:
comparative
form:
most assiduous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin assiduus, from assidere (“to sit down to”), from ad- (“to”) + sedere (“to sit”).
Cognate (via assidere) to assess.
senses_examples:
text:
He was officious in the right time and place, quiet as a lamb when his patron seemed inclined to study or to muse, active and assiduous to assist or divert him whenever it seemed to be wished.
ref:
1831, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 2, in The Surgeon's Daughter
type:
quotation
text:
A good deal of assiduous attention had enabled Henry to win this place in her affections.
ref:
1917, P. G. Wodehouse, “Bill the Bloodhound”, in The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories
type:
quotation
text:
Klein rose to prominence in the 1960s by assiduous application of accounting methods to the music industry.
ref:
2009 July 6, Will Pavia, “Allen Klein, accountant turned manager of the Beatles, dies at 77”, in The Times, UK
type:
quotation
text:
“Asteroid City,” the latest from Wes Anderson, is filled with the assiduous visuals, mythic faces and charming curiosities that you expect from this singular filmmaker.
ref:
2023 June 15, Manohla Dargis, “‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hard-working, diligent or regular (in attendance or work); industrious.
senses_topics:
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6816 | word:
tendency
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tendency (plural tendencies)
forms:
form:
tendencies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin tendentia, from tendō.
senses_examples:
text:
Denim has a tendency to fade.
type:
example
text:
I have a tendency to get bored after the first half an hour of a movie.
type:
example
text:
There's a common tendency among first-game visitors to a casino to bet overcautiously.
type:
example
text:
In some details, Britannia shows the trend towards American practice that was already apparent in later L.M.S.R. designs—for example, in regard to the mounting of the cab—and this tendency has been further developed in the footwalk with deep sideplating, mounted on the boiler, in place of the framing and splashers usual in British practice in the past.
ref:
1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
Mao launched the struggle against the vulgar materialist tendency within the party as early as 1937.
ref:
1974, James Boggs, Grace Lee Boggs, Revolution and Evolution, NYU Press, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
In stark contrast to the Europeanist tendency within the party and the Suez Group, this group had a short history.
ref:
1997, S. Onslow, Backbench Debate within the Conservative Party and its Influence on British Foreign Policy, 1948-57, Springer, page 234
type:
quotation
text:
It reinforced the position of the conformist tendency within the party, since the majority of the candidates were old politicians, many of them members of Papandreou's centre-left CU faction back in the mid-1960s.
ref:
2013, Richard Gillespie, Lourdes Lopez Nieto, Michael Waller, Factional Politics and Democratization, Routledge, page 83
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.
senses_topics:
government
politics |
6817 | word:
deflation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
deflation (countable and uncountable, plural deflations)
forms:
form:
deflations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
deflation
etymology_text:
From deflate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
The loss caused utter deflation and disappointment among the fans.
type:
example
text:
Beyond that, there is the hope that deflation of the US economy which the administration has in mind will, overtime; stem the import flood.
ref:
1969 March 13, “Stans to seek foreign trade”, in Christian Science Monitor
type:
quotation
text:
It also must be acknowledged that Britain's problems won't be solved by an abrupt deflation of the economy.
ref:
1976 October 11, “Unions Hold Key To British Stability”, in Milwaukee Sentinel
type:
quotation
text:
The great deflation of the northern economy occurred with the rupturing of the Mackenzie Valley pipe dream.
ref:
1978 June 3, “Valley Pipe Dream Wrecked Economy”, in Calgary Herald
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act or instance of deflating.
A decrease in the general price level, that is, in the nominal cost of goods and services as well as wages.
An economic contraction.
The removal of soil and other loose material from the ground (or another surface) by wind, leaving it exposed to erosion.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
economics
sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
6818 | word:
exterior
word_type:
adj
expansion:
exterior (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin exterior.
senses_examples:
text:
the exterior part of a sphere
type:
example
text:
the exterior relations of a state or kingdom
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to the outside parts or surface of something.
Being from outside a country; foreign.
Outdoor.
senses_topics:
|
6819 | word:
exterior
word_type:
noun
expansion:
exterior (plural exteriors)
forms:
form:
exteriors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin exterior.
senses_examples:
text:
The sticker was attached to the exterior of the package
type:
example
text:
Before dissecting a shark to see how it manages to function so effectively, let us first examine its exterior.
ref:
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
[I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.
ref:
2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)
type:
quotation
text:
She is our new minister of the exterior
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The outside part, parts or surface of something.
Foreign lands.
senses_topics:
|
6820 | word:
apparatus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
apparatus (plural apparatuses or apparatusses or apparatus or (both rare) apparatûs or apparatūs or (hypercorrect) apparati)
forms:
form:
apparatuses
tags:
plural
form:
apparatusses
tags:
plural
form:
apparatus
tags:
plural
form:
apparatûs
tags:
plural
rare
form:
apparatūs
tags:
plural
rare
form:
apparati
tags:
hypercorrect
plural
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin apparātus. Doublet of apparat.
senses_examples:
text:
These television stations are part of the apparatus and power of Milosevic. This is the apparatus he has used to do the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. It is the apparatus that keeps him in power and we are entirely justified as Nato allies in damaging and taking on those targets.
ref:
1999 April 24, Martin Kettle, Alex Brummer, quoting Tony Blair, “The bombing goes on”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Among the many good points Thomas Piketty makes in Capital in the Twenty First Century – his world-changing but surprisingly mild book – is that extreme inequality can be sustained politically only through an “apparatus of justification”.
ref:
2014 July 29, George Monbiot, “The rich want us to believe their wealth is good for us all”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Many jihadist plots have been foiled and the security apparatus is getting better, overall, at pre-empting those who would do us ill. But, they say, the nature of the threat and the terrorists’ increasing use of low-tech, asymmetrical tactics such as hire vehicles and knives, make it all but impossible to stop every assault.
ref:
2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer
type:
quotation
text:
It describes a “coordinated effort by the CCP’s propaganda apparatus … to discredit the BBC, distract international attention and recapture control of the narrative,” mostly outside Chinese borders.
ref:
2021 March 4, Emma Graham-Harrison, “China's Communist party ran campaign to discredit BBC, thinktank finds”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
An apparatus for exploring the atmosphere of a planet such as Venus, at a specific altitude, was patented this week for a French agency, the Office Nationale d'Etudes et de Recherche Aerospatiales.
ref:
1983 July 30, Stacy V. Jones, “Apparatus For Study Of Planets”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
We immediately threw out all the little things we had with us, ſuch as biſcuits, apples, &c. and after that one of our oars or wings; but ſtill deſcending, we caſt away the other wing, and then the governail ; having likewiſe had the precaution, for fear of accidents, while the Balloon was filling, partly to looſen and make it go eaſy, I now ſucceeded in attempting to reach without the Car, and unſcrewing the moulinet, with all its apparatus; I likewiſe caſt that into the ſea.
ref:
1786, John Jeffries, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, A narrative of the two aerial Voyages of Dr. J. with Mons. Blanchard: with meteorological observations and remarks., page 45
type:
quotation
text:
In English fiction—that is to say British fiction in the English language tradition—it is a subtle question because we dislike thinking abstractly and conceptualisation of government, where it exists, is vague and confused. Take bishops: they sat as legislators and so were part of the governing apparatus.
ref:
2006 April 3, David Walker, “Beyond her imagination”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
A complex machine or instrument.
An assortment of tools and instruments.
A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
A vehicle used for emergency response.
Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
senses_topics:
firefighting
government
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games |
6821 | word:
who
word_type:
pron
expansion:
who (singular or plural, nominative case, objective whom, who, possessive whose)
forms:
form:
whom
tags:
objective
form:
who
tags:
objective
form:
whose
tags:
possessive
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, genitive hwæs), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷis.
The sound change /hw/ > /h/ (without a corresponding change in spelling) was due to wh-cluster reduction after an irregular change of /ɑː/ to /oː/ in Middle English (instead of the expected /ɔː/) and further to /uː/ regularly in Early Modern English. A similar change occurred in two. Compare how, which underwent wh-reduction earlier (in Old English), and thus is spelt with h.
Compare Scots wha, West Frisian wa, Dutch wie, Low German we, German wer, Danish hvem, Norwegian Bokmål hvem, Norwegian Nynorsk kven, Icelandic hver.
senses_examples:
text:
Who is that? (direct question)
text:
I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
text:
That's the man who works at the newsagent. (defining)
text:
My sister, who works in the accounts department, just got promoted to manager. (non-defining)
text:
Chorban: I don't really think my scanning disturbs them, but the authorities might disagree.
Chorban: I'd like to do it more openly, but it's not really worth getting arrested over.
Shepard: I could help you out. I'm not worried about the authorities.
Chorban: I don't even know who you are.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel
type:
quotation
text:
Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
ref:
2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257
type:
quotation
text:
That's the man who I saw earlier. (defining)
type:
example
text:
My brother, who you met the other day, is coming to stay for the weekend. (non-defining)
type:
example
text:
Who insults my mother insults me.
type:
example
text:
Give it to who deserves it. (marginal usage)
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question.
Introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent.
With antecedent as subject.
Introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent.
With antecedent as object: whom.
Whoever, he who, they who.
senses_topics:
|
6822 | word:
who
word_type:
noun
expansion:
who (plural whos)
forms:
form:
whos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, genitive hwæs), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷis.
The sound change /hw/ > /h/ (without a corresponding change in spelling) was due to wh-cluster reduction after an irregular change of /ɑː/ to /oː/ in Middle English (instead of the expected /ɔː/) and further to /uː/ regularly in Early Modern English. A similar change occurred in two. Compare how, which underwent wh-reduction earlier (in Old English), and thus is spelt with h.
Compare Scots wha, West Frisian wa, Dutch wie, Low German we, German wer, Danish hvem, Norwegian Bokmål hvem, Norwegian Nynorsk kven, Icelandic hver.
senses_examples:
text:
A wham-bam caper flick, efficiently directed by Roger Donaldson, that fancifully revisits the mysterious whos and speculative hows of a 1971 London bank heist.
ref:
2008 March 21, The New York Times, “Movie Guide and Film Series”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person under discussion; a question of which person.
senses_topics:
|
6823 | word:
who
word_type:
det
expansion:
who
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, genitive hwæs), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷis.
The sound change /hw/ > /h/ (without a corresponding change in spelling) was due to wh-cluster reduction after an irregular change of /ɑː/ to /oː/ in Middle English (instead of the expected /ɔː/) and further to /uː/ regularly in Early Modern English. A similar change occurred in two. Compare how, which underwent wh-reduction earlier (in Old English), and thus is spelt with h.
Compare Scots wha, West Frisian wa, Dutch wie, Low German we, German wer, Danish hvem, Norwegian Bokmål hvem, Norwegian Nynorsk kven, Icelandic hver.
senses_examples:
text:
Who phone just rang?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
whose
senses_topics:
|
6824 | word:
comparison
word_type:
noun
expansion:
comparison (countable and uncountable, plural comparisons)
forms:
form:
comparisons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
comparison
etymology_text:
From Middle English comparisoun, from Old French comparison, from Latin comparātiō, from comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō.
senses_examples:
text:
to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them
type:
example
text:
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
He made a careful comparison of the available products before buying anything.
type:
example
text:
As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear a comparison with them.
ref:
1841, Thomas Macaulay, Warren Hastings
type:
quotation
text:
The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison.
ref:
1850, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord
type:
quotation
text:
There really is no comparison between the performance of today's computers and those of a decade ago.
type:
example
text:
In English, adjectives and adverbs have three forms when making a comparison: the plain form "hot", the comparative form "hotter", and the superlative form "hottest".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.
That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
A simile.
The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
medicine
phrenology
psychology
sciences |
6825 | word:
ridden
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ridden
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically ride + -en.
See ride (verb).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of ride
senses_topics:
|
6826 | word:
ridden
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ridden (comparative more ridden, superlative most ridden)
forms:
form:
more ridden
tags:
comparative
form:
most ridden
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically ride + -en.
See ride (verb).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Full of.
Oppressed, dominated or plagued by.
senses_topics:
|
6827 | word:
ridden
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ridden
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically rid + -en.
See rid.
senses_examples:
text:
As the New York traders to reach the Miami country passed through that of the Iroquois, the French devised a plan, which, if successful, would soon have ridden them of the English encroachments.
ref:
1752, Journal of Captain William Trent from Logstown to Pickawillany
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of rid
senses_topics:
|
6828 | word:
seen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
seen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically see + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
I seen it with my own eyes.
type:
example
text:
"Tut, tut, Sir Benjimen," said Bill, "stir up your memory, sir; cast your eye over them felons in the dock, and tell the Court how you seen them steal the bag."
ref:
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 156
type:
quotation
text:
Everything irie, seen?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of see
simple past of see; saw.
To understand, to comprehend.
senses_topics:
|
6829 | word:
seen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seen (plural seens)
forms:
form:
seens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic سِين (sīn).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The letter س in the Arabic script.
senses_topics:
|
6830 | word:
sleeping
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sleeping
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of sleep
senses_topics:
|
6831 | word:
sleeping
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sleeping (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref:
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Asleep.
Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
senses_topics:
|
6832 | word:
sleeping
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sleeping (countable and uncountable, plural sleepings)
forms:
form:
sleepings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.
ref:
c. 1380, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, section I
type:
quotation
text:
[…] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.
ref:
1995, Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, page 144
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.
senses_topics:
|
6833 | word:
rebuild
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rebuild (third-person singular simple present rebuilds, present participle rebuilding, simple past and past participle rebuilt)
forms:
form:
rebuilds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rebuilding
tags:
participle
present
form:
rebuilt
tags:
participle
past
form:
rebuilt
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + build.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: overhaul
text:
The economics of rebuilding all the stations covered by the electrification would be prohibitive, but to help bring home to the Glasgow public that their North Clyde suburban service has been transformed, not merely re-equipped with new trains, stations have at least been associated psychologically with the rolling stock by a common colour scheme.
ref:
1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714
type:
quotation
text:
We cannot forget the hurts and pain which have been dealt by the two opposing forces, but we must seek to heal the wounds and go forward. Are we going to allow the wounds to fester until we die, or are we big enough, collectively and individually, to write it off as a bad experience and begin to rebuild?
ref:
1976 August 7, Kathy Guilmette, “Devil's Advocate”, in Gay Community News, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
After missing the playoffs for the seventh straight season in a row, the Detroit Red Wings are trying to rebuild.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To build again or anew.
(said of sports teams) To attempt to improve one's performance during a period of struggling.
senses_topics:
|
6834 | word:
rebuild
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rebuild (plural rebuilds)
forms:
form:
rebuilds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + build.
senses_examples:
text:
Although the new features of the rebuilds were mainly the application of successful standard principles, the retention of the outside admission cylinders with their necessary high-pressure valve rod glands, of which the Southern lacked previous experience with an engine of this size, caused some unexpected teething troubles.
ref:
1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 160
type:
quotation
text:
Doc's spirits lifted at the suggestion that Cochrane was already thinking about painting the finished rebuild.
ref:
2000, John Christgau, Sierra Sue II: The Story of a P-51 Mustang, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
The cost of the rebuild can quickly escalate with significant crankshaft and bearing work, and some folks allow the cost to keep them from doing the work, even when it is warranted.
ref:
2000, Spencer Yost, How to Rebuild and Restore Farm Tractor Engines, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
Torque Fasteners — Illustrates a fastener that must be properly tightened with a torque wrench at this point in the rebuild.
ref:
2009, Tony Huntimer, How to Rebuild the Big-Block Chevrolet, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Lovingly restored and exquisitely maintained, the great frigate is docked at Boston and open to the public. She is still in commission and crewed by members of the U.S. Navy. After a number of rebuilds and modifications, the frigate Constellation is now anchored in Baltimore Harbor as a museum.
ref:
2012, Ronald Utt, Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron: The War of 1812 and the Forging of the American Navy
type:
quotation
text:
Approval has been granted for a £545 million rebuild of Paris Gare du Nord, despite fierce opposition. [...] Initially rejected in June 2019, the rebuild is intended to meet an expected increase in passenger numbers to 800,000 per day by 2023 and 900,000 by 2024.
ref:
2020 August 12, “Network News: £545m rebuild of Gare du Nord”, in Rail, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Since they failed to make it to the playoffs after five consecutive seasons, the team has gone through a lengthy rebuild.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A process or result of rebuilding.
(said of sports teams) A period during which an attempt is made to improve during a period of struggling.
senses_topics:
|
6835 | word:
shaken
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shaken
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically shake + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of shake
senses_topics:
|
6836 | word:
shaken
word_type:
adj
expansion:
shaken (comparative more shaken, superlative most shaken)
forms:
form:
more shaken
tags:
comparative
form:
most shaken
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically shake + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
We were left shaken by the revelations of abuse.
type:
example
text:
The truth left many people shaken. They were shocked to realize that they'd been lied to about so many things. The Soviets began to reflect on what they understood about the history of the Communist Party. Five million out of the 19 million Party members publicly quit the CPSU before its collapse.
ref:
2020 April 1, Renxin, “Reflecting on History: From the Soviet Communist Party to the Chinese Communist Party”, in Minghui
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a state of shock or trauma.
senses_topics:
|
6837 | word:
shaken
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shaken (plural shaken)
forms:
form:
shaken
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese 車剣.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flat shuriken resembling a spiked wheel, as opposed to the longer stick-like kind.
senses_topics:
|
6838 | word:
addition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
addition (countable and uncountable, plural additions)
forms:
form:
additions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
addition
etymology_text:
Sense of “what is added” dates from 14th century, from Middle English addicioun, addition, from Old French adition, from Latin additiōnem, accusative singular of additiō, from addō (“add, put”).
senses_examples:
text:
The addition of five more items to the agenda will make the meeting unbearably long.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of adding anything.
Anything that is added.
The arithmetic operation of adding.
A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely.
Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour.
an organic reaction where two or more molecules combine to form a larger one (the adduct).
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
law
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
6839 | word:
lay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lay (third-person singular simple present lays, present participle laying, simple past and past participle laid)
forms:
form:
lays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
laying
tags:
participle
present
form:
laid
tags:
participle
past
form:
laid
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
lay
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English leyen, leggen, from Old English leċġan (“to lay”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną (“to lay”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *ligjaną (“to lie, recline”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”).
Cognate with West Frisian lizze (“to lay, to lie”), Dutch leggen (“to lay”), German legen (“to lay”), Norwegian Bokmål legge (“to lay”), Norwegian Nynorsk leggja (“to lay”), Swedish lägga (“to lay”), Icelandic leggja (“to lay”), Albanian lag (“troop, band, war encampment”).
senses_examples:
text:
to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave
type:
example
text:
A shower of rain lays the dust.
type:
example
text:
Now I lay me down to sleep, / I pray the Lord my Soul to keep. / If I should die before I ’wake, / I pray the Lord my Soul to take.
ref:
1735, author unknown, The New-England Primer; as reported by Fred R. Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations, Yale University Press, 2006, pages 549–550
type:
quotation
text:
The cloudes, as things affrayd, before him flye; / But all so soone as his outrageous powre / Is layd, they fiercely then begin to shoure […]
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book II, canto viii, verse xlviii
type:
quotation
text:
But how upon the winds being laid, doth the ship cease to move?
ref:
1662, Sir Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems, Dialogue 2
type:
quotation
text:
He faced the spectres of the mind
And laid them: thus he came at length
To find a stronger faith his own;
And Power was with him in the night,
Which makes the darkness and the light,
And dwells not in the light alone,
But in the darkness and the cloud
ref:
1849, Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto XCVI
type:
quotation
text:
Tessie lay among the cushions, her face a gray blot in the gloom, but her hands were clasped in mine and I knew that she knew and read my thoughts as I read hers, for we had understood the mystery of the Hyades and the Phantom of Truth was laid.
ref:
1895, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “The Yellow Sign”, in The King in Yellow
type:
quotation
text:
Even when I lay a long plan, it is never in the expectation that I will live to see it fulfilled.
ref:
2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
lay brick; lay flooring
type:
example
text:
the hen laid an egg
type:
example
text:
Did dinosaurs lay their eggs in a nest?
type:
example
text:
I'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday.
type:
example
text:
He laid a hundred guineas with the laird of Slofferfield that he would drive four horses through the Slofferfield loch, and in the prank he had his bit chariot dung to pieces and a good mare killed.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
to get laid
type:
example
text:
'It's because he's a no-good son of a bitch who thinks it is smart to lay his friends' wives and brag about it.'
ref:
1944, Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake, Penguin, published 2011, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
to lay the venue
type:
example
text:
to lay a gun
type:
example
text:
to lay a cable or rope
type:
example
text:
The news article laid emphasis on the unusually young age of the criminals.
type:
example
text:
to lay a tax on land
type:
example
text:
to lay an indictment in a particular county
type:
example
text:
I have laid the facts of the matter before you.
type:
example
text:
to lay forward; to lay aloft
type:
example
text:
I found him laying on the floor.
type:
example
text:
Lay, lady, lay. / Lay across my big brass bed.
ref:
1969 July, Bob Dylan, “Lay Lady Lay”, in Nashville Skyline, Columbia
type:
quotation
text:
Let me lay down beside you. / Let me always be with you.
ref:
1974, John Denver, “Annie’s Song”, Back Home Again, RCA
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
To cause to subside or abate.
To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
To produce and deposit an egg.
To bet (that something is or is not the case).
To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
To have sex with.
To state; to allege.
To point; to aim.
To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
To place (new type) properly in the cases.
To apply; to put.
To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
To impute; to charge; to allege.
To present or offer.
To take a position; to come or go.
To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
senses_topics:
law
government
military
politics
war
arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
ropemaking
transport
media
printing
publishing
media
printing
publishing
nautical
transport
|
6840 | word:
lay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lay (countable and uncountable, plural lays)
forms:
form:
lays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English leyen, leggen, from Old English leċġan (“to lay”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną (“to lay”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *ligjaną (“to lie, recline”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”).
Cognate with West Frisian lizze (“to lay, to lie”), Dutch leggen (“to lay”), German legen (“to lay”), Norwegian Bokmål legge (“to lay”), Norwegian Nynorsk leggja (“to lay”), Swedish lägga (“to lay”), Icelandic leggja (“to lay”), Albanian lag (“troop, band, war encampment”).
senses_examples:
text:
He spoke of a flower or tree in each of the fifteen poems. A simple shape, a color, the design of a hedge, the lay of a limb inspired him in these songs to and about his loves.
ref:
1977 August 20, Jim Marko, “Building A Gay Culture—An Evening of Poetry and Theatre”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
the lay of the land
type:
example
text:
While the Pequod lay at Nantucket, Peleg put Ishmael down for the three hundredth lay.
type:
example
text:
Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
type:
example
text:
Over the years she'd tried to tell himself that his uptown girl was just another lay.
ref:
1996, JoAnn Ross, Southern Comforts, MIRA, published 1996, page 166
type:
quotation
text:
To find a place like that and be discreet about it, Jones figured he needed help, so he went to see his favorite lay, Juan Carillo's woman, Carmen.
ref:
2000, R. J. Kaiser, Fruitcake, MIRA, published 2000, page 288
type:
quotation
text:
“Because I don't want William to be just another lay. I did the slut thing, T, and it got me into a lot of trouble years ago. […]
ref:
2011, Kelly Meding, Trance, Pocket Books, pages 205–206
type:
quotation
text:
What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
type:
example
text:
Listening to this dismissal of his work, [Tennessee] Williams thought to himself of Wilder, “This character has never had a good lay.”
ref:
1993, David Halberstam, The Fifties, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2012
type:
quotation
text:
Does his make-up in his room
Douse himself with cheap perfume
Eyeholes in a paper bag
Greatest lay I ever had
ref:
1996, Placebo (lyrics and music), “Nancy Boy”
type:
quotation
text:
[…] She didn't become this germ freak until Thomas died. I wonder if she just needs a good lay, you know, an all-nighter?" Toots said thoughtfully.
ref:
2009, Fern Michaels, The Scoop, Kensington Books, pages 212–213
type:
quotation
text:
“What she needs is a good lay. If she had someone to rock her world on a regular basis, she wouldn't be such a raging bit—”
ref:
2011, Pamela Yaye, Promises We Make, Kimani Press, published 2011
type:
quotation
text:
"Well, you see, son," Kitcell had explained to Wilbur, "os-ten-siblee we are after shark-liver oil— and so we are; but also we are on any lay that turns up; ready for any game, from wrecking to barratry.
ref:
1899, Frank Norris, Blix. Moran of the Lady Letty. Essays on authorship, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
The hens are off the lay at present.
type:
example
text:
[…] lay in the bottom of an earthen pot some dried vine leaves, and so make a lay of Pears, and leaves till the pot is filled up, laying betwixt each lay some sliced Ginger […]
ref:
1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the whole Body of the Church is chequer’d with different Lays of White and Black Marble […]
ref:
1718, Joseph Addison, “Sienna, Leghorne, Pisa”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: J. Tonson, page 300
type:
quotation
text:
[…] when we examine the Scarf-Skin with a Microscope, it appears to be made up of several Lays of exceeding small Scales, which cover one another more or less […]
ref:
1724, Thomas Spooner, chapter 2, in A Compendious Treatise of the Diseases of the Skin, London, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
1766, Thomas Amory, The Life of John Buncle, Esq., London: J. Johnson and B. Davenport, Volume 2, Section 1, p. 16, footnote 1,
[…] in one particular it exceeds the fen birds, for it has two tastes; it being brown and white meat: under a lay of brown is a lay of white meat […]
text:
On this lay or ground we should also add the finishing colours.
ref:
1835, Richard architetto Brown, The Principles of Practical Perspective, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
In the first MacColl patent the pattern chain and engaging rod were carried on the swinging lay on which the needle bars are mounted.
ref:
1899, “MacColl v. Crompton Loom works”, in The Federal Reporter, volume 95, page 990
type:
quotation
text:
FIDLAM BENS. Thieves who have no particular lay, whose every finger is a fish-hook; fellows that will steal any thing they can remove.
ref:
1859, George Washington Matsell, Vocabulum: Or, The Rogue's Lexicon. Comp. from the Most Authentic Sources, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
Because I've finished, missus. Finished with the thieving lay now and forever.
ref:
1975, H. R. F. Keating, A Remarkable Case of Burglary
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Arrangement or relationship; layout.
A share of the profits in a business.
The direction a rope is twisted.
A casual sexual partner.
An act of sexual intercourse.
A place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time.
The laying of eggs.
A layer.
A basis or ground.
A pursuit or practice; a dodge.
senses_topics:
|
6841 | word:
lay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lay (plural lays)
forms:
form:
lays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English laie, lawe, from Old English lagu (“sea, flood, water, ocean”), from Proto-West Germanic *lagu (“water, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *laguz (“water, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“water, body of water, lake”). Cognate with Icelandic lögur (“liquid, fluid, lake”), Latin lacus (“lake, hollow, hole”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lake.
senses_topics:
|
6842 | word:
lay
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lay (comparative more lay, superlative most lay)
forms:
form:
more lay
tags:
comparative
form:
most lay
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lay, from Old French lai, from Latin laicus, from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós). Doublet of laic.
senses_examples:
text:
They seemed more lay than clerical.
type:
example
text:
a lay preacher; a lay brother
type:
example
text:
It is true that in adopting the short view many of the younger economists have not merely taken over the lay notions bodily.
ref:
1958, Jacob Viner, The Long View and the Short, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
He hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. […] It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic symplegia, that's it. This cat has traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.
ref:
1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII
type:
quotation
text:
a lay suit
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
Not trumps.
Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
|
6843 | word:
lay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lay
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See lie. This word was influenced by the present tense verb lay.
senses_examples:
text:
The baby lay in its crib and slept silently.
type:
example
text:
But unlike many other tunnels that lay idle and decaying, Catesby has now found a new use as an aerodynamic wind tunnel for the motor industry.
ref:
2023 November 29, Peter Plisner, “The winds of change in Catesby Tunnel”, in RAIL, number 997, page 56
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of lie (etymology 1)
senses_topics:
|
6844 | word:
lay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lay (plural lays)
forms:
form:
lays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lay, from Old French lai (“song, lyric, poem”), from Frankish *laih (“play, melody, song”), from Proto-Germanic *laikaz, *laikiz (“jump, play, dance, hymn”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“to jump, spring, play”). Akin to Old High German leih (“a play, skit, melody, song”), Middle High German leich (“piece of music, epic song played on a harp”), Old English lācan (“to move quickly, fence, sing”). See lake (“to play”).
senses_examples:
text:
I strive, with wakeful melody, to cheer
The sullen gloom, sweet Philomel! like thee,
And call the stars to listen: every star
Is deaf to mine, enamour'd of thy lay.
ref:
1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I
type:
quotation
text:
1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel:
type:
quotation
text:
1925 The Lay of Leithien, poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, Anglo-Saxon Professor.
text:
1945: "The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun" by JRR Tolkien
Sad is the note and sad the lay,
but mirth we meet not every day.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
senses_topics:
|
6845 | word:
lay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lay (plural lays)
forms:
form:
lays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lay, laye, laiȝe, leyȝe, from Old English lǣh, lēh, northern (Anglian) variants of Old English lēah (“lea”). More at lea.
senses_examples:
text:
Having destroyed all old lays, I have no other hay than clover.
ref:
1808, John Curwen, Hints on the Economy of Feeding Stock and Bettering the Condition of the Poor
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A meadow; a lea.
senses_topics:
|
6846 | word:
lay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lay (plural lays)
forms:
form:
lays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English laige, læȝe, variants of Middle English lawe (“law”). More at law.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A law.
An obligation; a vow.
senses_topics:
|
6847 | word:
lay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lay (third-person singular simple present lays, present participle laying, simple past and past participle laid)
forms:
form:
lays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
laying
tags:
participle
present
form:
laid
tags:
participle
past
form:
laid
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Yiddish לייגן (leygn, “to put, lay”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
senses_topics:
|
6848 | word:
rebound
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rebound (plural rebounds)
forms:
form:
rebounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French rebondir.
senses_examples:
text:
I am on the rebound.
type:
example
text:
I get it. Girl caught him on the rebound when he was vulnerable.
ref:
2014 April 4, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Apr 4, 2014
type:
quotation
text:
What if she was a rebound after all and he didn't feel the same way for her anymore?
ref:
2008, Craig Ainsworth, Proceed with Caution: Life's a Journey, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
Nika was dealt a terrible blow in finding she was a rebound and that Steve was still madly in love with his ex and that their love affair was sparked out of retaliation[.]
ref:
2009, Kenny Attaway, Nuthouse Love, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
Sure, he was a rebound, but he was a respectable rebound. Then, the rebound broke up with me.
ref:
2010, Joan Moran, Sixty, Sex, & Tango: Confessions of a Beatnik Boomer, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
The inevitable Baggies onslaught followed as substitute Simon Cox saw his strike excellently parried by keeper Bunn, with Cox heading the rebound down into the ground and agonisingly over the bar.
ref:
2010 December 28, Kevin Darling, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
An effort to recover from a setback.
The period of getting over a recently ended romantic relationship.
A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently ended romantic relationship.
The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player or the crossbar or goalpost.
An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
6849 | word:
rebound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rebound (third-person singular simple present rebounds, present participle rebounding, simple past and past participle rebounded)
forms:
form:
rebounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rebounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
rebounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
rebounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French rebondir.
senses_examples:
text:
Martin Kelly fired in a dangerous cross and the Hearts defender looked on in horror as the ball rebounded off him and into the net.
ref:
2012 August 23, Alasdair Lamont, “Hearts 0-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
each cave and echoing rock rebounds
ref:
a. 1714, Alexander Pope, Autumn
type:
quotation
text:
By the mid-19605, the top small forwards in the game were Rick Barry and Iohn Havlicek, both of whom excelled as defenders and passers, rebounded well, and provided their respective teams with exceptional scoring.
ref:
2013, Robert W. Cohen, Pro Basketball's All-time All-stars: Across the Eras, page xxi
type:
quotation
text:
I knew for sure if Griffin blocked shots and rebounded the basketball my Ravens would become champions.
ref:
2021, Ronald Lee Fleming, Rise of the Ravens, page 2021
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bound or spring back from a force.
To give back an echo.
To jump up or get back up again.
To send back; to reverberate.
To catch the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without scoring a basket for the other team.
senses_topics:
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
6850 | word:
rebound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rebound
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
see rebind
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of rebind
senses_topics:
|
6851 | word:
shook
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shook (plural shooks)
forms:
form:
shooks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare shock (“a bundle of sheaves”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
senses_topics:
|
6852 | word:
shook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shook (third-person singular simple present shooks, present participle shooking, simple past and past participle shooked)
forms:
form:
shooks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shooking
tags:
participle
present
form:
shooked
tags:
participle
past
form:
shooked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare shock (“a bundle of sheaves”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pack (staves, etc.) in a shook.
senses_topics:
|
6853 | word:
shook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shook
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Pray, assure the empress, from me, that, notwithstanding the councils which have shook the throne of her father and mother, I shall remain here, ready to save the sacred persons of the king and queen, and of her brothers and sisters ;[…]
ref:
1806, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson […], volume 1, Stanhope and Tilling, page 377
type:
quotation
text:
Although she could have just held it out and it would have shook by itself. His voice was having the same effect on her that the lead guitar on Chris Isaak's Wicked Game had.
ref:
2010 April 29, “'Now that I'm married...'”, in A Summer Fling, Simon and Schuster, page 211
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of shake.
past participle of shake
senses_topics:
|
6854 | word:
shook
word_type:
adj
expansion:
shook (comparative more shook, superlative most shook)
forms:
form:
more shook
tags:
comparative
form:
most shook
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Upon hearing this I am really feeling the pressure. I am shook.
ref:
2015, Gary L. Heyward, Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard to Perpetrator Inside Rikers Island, page 239
type:
quotation
text:
Immediately, his face flushed: "How could Katy do that to Britney? I'm SHOOK."
ref:
2017 March 21, Danny Madion, “Pop music, sexuality and the gay duckling”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
He wrote this long ass thing about how we're the next up and coming thing! I'm shook, I'm like 'What the hell?" and all the emails started coming in—Interscope, Capitol, Universal, it was this whole spiral.
ref:
2018, Eddington Again, quoted in Senay Kenfe, "Eddington Again", L. A. Record, Summer 2018, page 35
text:
Crystal was shook when Mr. Wu discovered she was shopping online for panties and bras to pass the time in class.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Shaken up; rattled; shocked or surprised.
Emotionally upset or disturbed; scared.
senses_topics:
|
6855 | word:
rethink
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rethink (third-person singular simple present rethinks, present participle rethinking, simple past and past participle rethought)
forms:
form:
rethinks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rethinking
tags:
participle
present
form:
rethought
tags:
participle
past
form:
rethought
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + think.
senses_examples:
text:
There's a myth that incest survivors are an extremely small percentage of the gay male community. But that belief is something that needs to be rethought. One in six men (gay and straight) polled in a 1985 Los Angeles Times survey reported being sexually abused before the age of 18.
ref:
1991 December 8, Liz Galst, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Disability rights advocates are encouraging people to rethink the words "crazy" and "insane" as they stigmatize mental health.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To think again about something, with the intention of changing or replacing it.
senses_topics:
|
6856 | word:
rethink
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rethink (plural rethinks)
forms:
form:
rethinks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + think.
senses_examples:
text:
This business plan of yours looks risky. It needs a rethink.
type:
example
text:
Guardiola needed a rethink and his hand was forced when De Bruyne was forced off in the 58th minute after a check by Rüdiger.
ref:
2021 May 29, David Hytner, “Chelsea win Champions League after Kai Havertz stuns Manchester City”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
There was a complete rethink in 2020, following a review into why costs rose by £100 million in the space of a year.
ref:
2022 September 21, Howard Johnston, “Network News: HS2's Interchange station to create 1,000 extra jobs”, in RAIL, number 966, page 16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of thinking again about something.
senses_topics:
|
6857 | word:
overcast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
overcast (plural overcasts)
forms:
form:
overcasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
overcast (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English overcasten, equivalent to over- + cast. Compare Swedish överkast.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cloud covering all of the sky from horizon to horizon.
An outcast.
senses_topics:
|
6858 | word:
overcast
word_type:
adj
expansion:
overcast (comparative more overcast, superlative most overcast)
forms:
form:
more overcast
tags:
comparative
form:
most overcast
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
overcast (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English overcasten, equivalent to over- + cast. Compare Swedish överkast.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.
senses_topics:
|
6859 | word:
overcast
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overcast (third-person singular simple present overcasts, present participle overcasting, simple past and past participle overcast)
forms:
form:
overcasts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overcasting
tags:
participle
present
form:
overcast
tags:
participle
past
form:
overcast
tags:
past
wikipedia:
overcast (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English overcasten, equivalent to over- + cast. Compare Swedish överkast.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To overthrow.
To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
To make gloomy; to depress.
To be or become cloudy.
To transform.
To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.
senses_topics:
arts
bookbinding
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle |
6860 | word:
risen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
risen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically rise + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of rise
senses_topics:
|
6861 | word:
risen
word_type:
adj
expansion:
risen (comparative more risen, superlative most risen)
forms:
form:
more risen
tags:
comparative
form:
most risen
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Morphologically rise + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be in a state of having recently rised.
senses_topics:
|
6862 | word:
rewind
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rewind (third-person singular simple present rewinds, present participle rewinding, simple past and past participle rewound)
forms:
form:
rewinds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rewinding
tags:
participle
present
form:
rewound
tags:
participle
past
form:
rewound
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + wind.
senses_examples:
text:
A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind.
ref:
2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam, published 2011, page 535
type:
quotation
text:
[…] she was winding and rewinding bandages that were dripping in blood, smiling strangely at her as the plasma spilled from buckets all over the floor.
ref:
2012, Paul Kelly, The Surgeon Was a Lady
type:
quotation
text:
If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.
ref:
2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice
type:
quotation
text:
If I had a time machine / And if life was a movie scene / I'd rewind, and I'd tell me / "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un"
ref:
2014, Ingrid Michaelson, Trent Dabbs, busbee (lyrics and music), “Time Machine”, in Lights Out, performed by Ingrid Michaelson
type:
quotation
text:
To understand Russia, you have to dive deep into its history — boyars and czars, Pushkin and Pasternak, Stalin and Stalingrad. To understand the perils of underestimating Russia, you don't have to go back that far. Just rewind to 2001, when George W. Bush naively sized up Vladimir Putin as a leader he could work with, a conclusion Bush reached when he looked into the Russian leader's eyes and "found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.
ref:
December 12 2016, Editorial Team, “Editorial: Trump, Putin and the risks of a reset”, in Chicago Tribune
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wind (something) again.
To wind (something) back, now especially of a cassette or a video tape, CD, DVD etc.; to go back on a video or audio recording.
To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.
senses_topics:
|
6863 | word:
rewind
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rewind (plural rewinds)
forms:
form:
rewinds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + wind.
senses_examples:
text:
I meant to pause the picture, but hit the rewind by mistake.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of rewinding.
A button or other mechanism for rewinding.
senses_topics:
|
6864 | word:
conductor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
conductor (plural conductors, feminine conductress or conductrix)
forms:
form:
conductors
tags:
plural
form:
conductress
tags:
feminine
form:
conductrix
tags:
feminine
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French conductour, from Old French conduitor, from Latin conductor.
senses_examples:
text:
train conductor
type:
example
text:
tram conductor
type:
example
text:
[…] And one of the things that makes me feel safe is when I see the conductor.
ref:
2022 April 6, “Network News: Booze ban continues as part of move to prioritise women's safety”, in RAIL, number 954, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: semiconductor
text:
Falling conductors may come in contact with grounded objects or puddles of water.
ref:
1952, Safety Maintenance
type:
quotation
text:
The failure of HIF detection leads to potential hazard to human beings and potential fire. HIFS are usually caused by falling conductors coming into contact with a surface having poor conductivity.
ref:
1997, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Fourth International Conference on Advances in Power System Control, Operation & Management, 11-13 November 1997, Institution of Electrical Engineers
type:
quotation
text:
If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.
ref:
1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers.
Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light, or sound.
An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
A leader.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
rail-transport
railways
transport
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
mathematics
sciences
architecture |
6865 | word:
capricious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
capricious (comparative more capricious, superlative most capricious)
forms:
form:
more capricious
tags:
comparative
form:
most capricious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French capricieux, from Italian capriccioso, from capriccio.
senses_examples:
text:
I almost died in a capricious winter storm.
type:
example
text:
Stringent rulers are unlikely to act capriciously.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim.
senses_topics:
|
6866 | word:
rid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rid (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Fusion of Middle English redden (“to deliver from, rid, clear”) (from Old English hreddan (“to deliver, rescue, free from, take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną (“to save, deliver”)) and Middle English ridden (“to clear away, remove obstructions”) (from Old English ġeryddan (“to clear land”), from Proto-Germanic *riudijaną (“to clear”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewdʰ- (“to clear land”).
Akin to Old Frisian hredda (“to save”), Dutch redden (“to save, deliver”), German retten (“to save, deliver”), roden (“to clear”) and reuten (“to clear”), Old Norse ryðja (“to clear, empty”), Old Norse hrōðja (“to clear, strip”). More at redd.
senses_examples:
text:
I’m glad to be rid of that stupid nickname.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Released from an obligation, problem, etc. (usually followed by of).
senses_topics:
|
6867 | word:
rid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rid (third-person singular simple present rids, present participle ridding, simple past rid or ridded, past participle rid or ridded or (rare, nonstandard) ridden)
forms:
form:
rids
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ridding
tags:
participle
present
form:
rid
tags:
past
form:
ridded
tags:
past
form:
rid
tags:
participle
past
form:
ridded
tags:
participle
past
form:
ridden
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Fusion of Middle English redden (“to deliver from, rid, clear”) (from Old English hreddan (“to deliver, rescue, free from, take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną (“to save, deliver”)) and Middle English ridden (“to clear away, remove obstructions”) (from Old English ġeryddan (“to clear land”), from Proto-Germanic *riudijaną (“to clear”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewdʰ- (“to clear land”).
Akin to Old Frisian hredda (“to save”), Dutch redden (“to save, deliver”), German retten (“to save, deliver”), roden (“to clear”) and reuten (“to clear”), Old Norse ryðja (“to clear, empty”), Old Norse hrōðja (“to clear, strip”). More at redd.
senses_examples:
text:
We're trying to rid the world of poverty.
type:
example
text:
Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?
ref:
1170, King Henry II (offhand remark)
text:
If the Government believes that part of the railways' salvation is to be found in ridding them of extraneous concerns, it should have had the courage either to close the railway works down as quickly as possible, or to hive them off as an entirely separate concern, [...].
ref:
1964 May, “News and Comment: Minister hamstrings BR workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 291
type:
quotation
text:
All the billions in the world and Manchester City still cannot rid themselves of the most persistent thorn in their side.
ref:
2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Worst of all were the leeches. The soldiers had managed to rid them from the camp interiors, but once you ventured out on patrol and into the wetlands, they were everywhere.
ref:
2008, John H. Goodwin, The Reluctant Spy, page 293
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance.
To banish.
To kill.
senses_topics:
|
6868 | word:
rid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rid
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"He would have rid that horse, too," pa says, "if I hadn't a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount. A deliberate flouting of her and me."
ref:
1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 67
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of ride
senses_topics:
|
6869 | word:
catch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
catch (countable and uncountable, plural catches)
forms:
form:
catches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cacchen, from Anglo-Norman cachier, variant of Old French chacier, from Late Latin captiāre, from Latin captāre, frequentative of capere. Akin to Modern French chasser (from Old French chacier) and Spanish cazar, and thus a doublet of chase. Compare ketch. Displaced Middle English fangen ("to catch"; > Modern English fang (verb)), from Old English fōn (“to seize, take”); Middle English lacchen ("to catch" and heavily displaced Modern English latch), from Old English læċċan.
The verb became irregular, possibly under the influence of the semantically similar latch (from Old English læċċan), whose past tense was lahte, lauhte, laught (Old English læhte), until becoming regularised in Modern English.
senses_examples:
text:
The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.
type:
example
text:
The player made an impressive catch.
type:
example
text:
Nice catch!
type:
example
text:
Good catch. I never would have remembered that.
type:
example
text:
"In that case," said Jeff, "I just thought of something else we need." He walked over to one of the stations that was selling household goods and bought a can opener.
"Nice catch," said Lucy.
ref:
2008, John I. Carney, Soapstone, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
The kids love to play catch.
type:
example
text:
The fishermen took pictures of their catch.
type:
example
text:
The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish.
type:
example
text:
Did you see his latest catch?
type:
example
text:
He's a good catch.
type:
example
text:
Aaaugh! Just once, I wish I could be considered a catch by men younger than fifty...
ref:
2014 July 10, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 561 - A Catch
type:
quotation
text:
She installed a sturdy catch to keep her cabinets closed tight.
type:
example
text:
There was a catch in his voice when he spoke his father's name.
type:
example
text:
It sounds like a great idea, but what's the catch?
type:
example
text:
Be careful, that's a catch question.
type:
example
text:
I bent over to see under the table and got a catch in my side.
type:
example
text:
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
ref:
1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
"'Fair Enslaver!'" cried Mr. Enderby. "You must know 'Fair Enslaver:' there is not a sweeter catch than that. Come, Miss Ibbotson, begin; your sister will follow, and I—"
But it so happened that Miss Ibbotson had never heard 'Fair Enslaver.'
ref:
1872, Harriet Martineau, Deerbrook, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
You lie at the catch again: this is not for edification.
ref:
1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I Section 3
type:
quotation
text:
There was a good catch of rye and a good fall growth.
ref:
1905, Eighth Biennial Report of the Board of Horticulture of the State of Oregon, page 204
type:
quotation
text:
Fourteene miles Northward from the river Powhatan, is the river Pamaunke, which is navigable 60 or 70 myles, but with Catches and small Barkes 30 or 40 myles farther.
ref:
1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 158
type:
quotation
text:
One night, I remember, we sang a catch, written (words and music) by Orlo Williams, for three voices.
ref:
1966, Allen Tate, T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
The phrase repeated itself like the catch of a song.
ref:
2003, Robert Hugh Benson, Come Rack! Come Rope!, page 268
type:
quotation
text:
It was he who removed Peter Bowler with the help of a good catch at third slip.
ref:
1997 May 10, Henry Blofeld, “Cricket: Rose and Burns revive Somerset”, in The Independent
type:
quotation
text:
[…] in the field he is all activity, covers an immense amount of ground, and is a sure catch.
ref:
1894 September 16, “To Meet Lord Hawke's Team”, in The New York Times, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
They are sitting up straighter, breaking their arms at the catch and getting on a terrific amount of power at the catch with each stroke.
ref:
1935 June 7, Robert F. Kelley, “California Crews Impress at Debut”, in The New York Times, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
The glottal stop or glottal catch is the sound used in English in the informal words uh-huh 'yes' and uh-uh 'no'.
ref:
2006, Mitsugu Sakihara et al., Okinawan-English Wordbook
type:
quotation
text:
, Introduction
the way it has been writ in, by catches, and many long intervals of interruption
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of seizing or capturing.
The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
The game of catching a ball.
Something which is captured or caught.
A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
A fragment of music or poetry.
A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
The first contact of an oar with the water.
A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
A slight remembrance; a trace.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
lifestyle
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
|
6870 | word:
catch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
catch (third-person singular simple present catches, present participle catching, simple past and past participle caught)
forms:
form:
catches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
catching
tags:
participle
present
form:
caught
tags:
participle
past
form:
caught
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
catch
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cacchen, from Anglo-Norman cachier, variant of Old French chacier, from Late Latin captiāre, from Latin captāre, frequentative of capere. Akin to Modern French chasser (from Old French chacier) and Spanish cazar, and thus a doublet of chase. Compare ketch. Displaced Middle English fangen ("to catch"; > Modern English fang (verb)), from Old English fōn (“to seize, take”); Middle English lacchen ("to catch" and heavily displaced Modern English latch), from Old English læċċan.
The verb became irregular, possibly under the influence of the semantically similar latch (from Old English læċċan), whose past tense was lahte, lauhte, laught (Old English læhte), until becoming regularised in Modern English.
senses_examples:
text:
I hope I catch a fish.
type:
example
text:
He ran but we caught him at the exit.
type:
example
text:
The police caught the robber at a nearby casino.
type:
example
text:
The public[…]said that Miss Bogardus was a suffragist because she had never caught a man; that she wanted something, but it wasn't the vote.
ref:
1933, Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
As for Aspasia, concubinage with Pericles brought her as much honor as she could hope to claim in Athens.[…]from the moment she caught her man, this influential, unconventional woman became a lightning rod[…].
ref:
2006, Michael Collier, Georgia Machemer, Medea, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
If he catches you on the chin, you'll be on the mat.
type:
example
text:
The visitors started brightly and had an early chance when Valencia's experienced captain David Albeda gifted the ball to Fernando Torres, but the striker was caught by defender Adil Rami as he threatened to shoot.
ref:
2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
If you leave now you might catch him.
type:
example
text:
I would love to have dinner but I have to catch a plane.
type:
example
text:
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Did anyone catch the Charlie Rose the evening before last. Did you catch it? No, nothing?
ref:
2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
text:
For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream. […] But it was all over in time for my daughter to catch the Nigeria v Argentina World Cup game that evening, during which she seemed to reckon everything was miles offside.
ref:
2014 December 5, Marina Hyde, “Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
He was caught on video robbing the bank.
type:
example
text:
He was caught in the act of stealing a biscuit.
type:
example
text:
Once he caught me gazing lingeringly and eagerly at him. He turned round with that mocking air he assumed when he wanted to hide his feelings.
ref:
1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], page 5
type:
quotation
text:
catch the bus
type:
example
text:
After about a kilometer I caught a taxi to Santa Croce.
ref:
1987, A.J. Quinnell, In the Name of the Father, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
Had Nancy got caught with a child? If so she would destroy her parent's dreams for her.
ref:
2002, Orpha Caton, Shadow on the Creek, pages 102–103
type:
quotation
text:
I caught her by the arm and turned her to face me.
type:
example
text:
I have to stop for a moment and catch my breath
type:
example
text:
I caught some Z's on the train.
type:
example
text:
My leg was caught in a tree-root.
type:
example
text:
Be careful your dress doesn't catch on that knob.
type:
example
text:
His voice caught when he came to his father's name.
type:
example
text:
Push it in until it catches.
type:
example
text:
The engine finally caught and roared to life.
type:
example
text:
I caught my heel on the threshold.
type:
example
text:
He caught at the railing as he fell.
type:
example
text:
The fire spread slowly until it caught the eaves of the barn.
type:
example
text:
Stop gathering, in that gradual fashion, and catch the water sharply and decisively.
ref:
1906, Arthur W. Stevens, Practical Rowing with Scull and Sweep, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
The seeds caught and grew.
type:
example
text:
If you are surfing a wave through the rocks, make sure you have a clear route before catching the wave.
ref:
2001, John Lull, Sea Kayaking Safety & Rescue, page 203
type:
quotation
text:
When the program catches an exception, this is recorded in the log file.
type:
example
text:
I will throw you the ball, and you catch it.
type:
example
text:
Watch me catch this raisin in my mouth.
type:
example
text:
Townsend hit 29 before he was caught by Wilson.
type:
example
text:
He caught the last three innings.
type:
example
text:
You're going to catch a beating if they find out.
type:
example
text:
The sunlight caught the leaves and the trees turned to gold.
type:
example
text:
Her hair was caught by the light breeze.
type:
example
text:
Everyone seems to be catching the flu this week.
type:
example
text:
He accosted Mrs. Browne very civilly, told her his wife was very ill, and said he was sadly troubled to get a white woman to nurse her: "For," said he, "Mrs. Simpson has set it abroad that her fever is catching."
ref:
1817, Mary Martha Sherwood, Stories Explanatory of the Church Catechism
type:
quotation
text:
The bucket catches water from the downspout.
type:
example
text:
The trees caught quickly in the dry wind.
type:
example
text:
the sails caught and filled, and the boat jumped to life beneath us.
ref:
2003, Jerry Dennis, The Living Great Lakes, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
She finally caught the mood of the occasion.
type:
example
text:
And the next thing I knew, I had caught feelings for her.
type:
example
text:
He caught a bullet in the back of the head last year.
type:
example
text:
The nets caught well, and Mr. Deeley reported it the best fishing ground he ever tried.
ref:
1877, Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
Well, if you didn't catch this time, we'll have more fun trying again until you do.
type:
example
text:
Did you catch his name?
type:
example
text:
Did you catch the way she looked at him?
type:
example
text:
I have some free time tonight so I think I'll catch a movie.
type:
example
text:
You've really caught his determination in this sketch.
type:
example
text:
No, a far more natural beauty caught him.
ref:
2004, Catherine Asaro, The Moon's Shadow, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
He managed to catch her attention.
type:
example
text:
The enormous scarf did catch my eye.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To capture, overtake.
To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
To capture, overtake.
To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
To capture, overtake.
To marry or enter into a similar relationship with.
To capture, overtake.
To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
To capture, overtake.
To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
To capture, overtake.
To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
To capture, overtake.
To travel by means of.
To capture, overtake.
To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
To seize hold of.
To grab, seize, take hold of.
To seize hold of.
To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
To seize hold of.
To grip or entangle.
To seize hold of.
To be held back or impeded.
To seize hold of.
To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
To seize hold of.
To have something be held back or impeded.
To seize hold of.
To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
To seize hold of.
To spread or be conveyed to.
To seize hold of.
To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
To seize hold of.
To germinate and set down roots.
To seize hold of.
To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
To seize hold of.
To handle an exception.
To intercept.
To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
To intercept.
To seize (an opportunity) when it occurs.
To intercept.
To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
To intercept.
To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
To receive (by being in the way).
To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
To receive (by being in the way).
To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
To receive (by being in the way).
To become infected by (an illness).
To receive (by being in the way).
To spread by infection or similar means.
To receive (by being in the way).
To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
To receive (by being in the way).
To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
To receive (by being in the way).
To be hit by something.
To receive (by being in the way).
To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
To receive (by being in the way).
To get pregnant.
To take in with one's senses or intellect.
To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
To take in with one's senses or intellect.
To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
To take in with one's senses or intellect.
To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
To seize attention, interest.
To charm or entrance.
To seize attention, interest.
To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
senses_topics:
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
agriculture
business
heading
lifestyle
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
computing
engineering
heading
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
heading
heading
ball-games
cricket
games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading |
6871 | word:
circuitous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
circuitous (comparative more circuitous, superlative most circuitous)
forms:
form:
more circuitous
tags:
comparative
form:
most circuitous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1664. From Latin circuitōsus, from circuitus, from circumeō (“I go around”), from circum (“around”) + eō (“I go”).
senses_examples:
text:
The train service on this circuitous route to the City was withdrawn during the 1914-1918 war, and never restored. The track between Addison Road and Ravenscourt Park was removed, and the site is now occupied by blocks of flats.
ref:
1947 May and June, “Richmond-Ludgate Hill Train, London & South Western Railway, at Addison Road Station About 75 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page unnumbered (frontispiece)
type:
quotation
text:
The advantages of the train ferry in combining through running (without double handling) with speed and relatively large loads are shown in the decision of the Swedish State Railways to build 100 large covered and 50 open wagons for working to Britain by the ferry services, although the route from Sweden to any destination in the U.K. via Zeebrugge/Harwich is comparatively circuitous; the first of the Swedish covered wagons has already run through to London.
ref:
1962 February, “Talking of Trains: British-owned ferry wagons”, in Modern Railways, page 83
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not direct or to the point.
Of a long and winding route.
senses_topics:
|
6872 | word:
rerun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rerun (plural reruns)
forms:
form:
reruns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rerun
rerun (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From re- + run.
senses_examples:
text:
Even some strong supporters of leaving the UK worry that an early re-run would be doomed to failure.
ref:
2017 February 27, Mure Dickie, Henry Mance, “Theresa May’s speech to head off Scottish independence poll”, in Financial Times
type:
quotation
text:
The central concern that runs through The Technology Trap is that, unless we are very careful, our latest technological revolution may well turn out to be a tumultuous rerun of the Industrial Revolution, with dire social and political consequences.
ref:
2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times
type:
quotation
text:
I'm not a fan of the new Simpsons episodes, but the old reruns have me in stitches, although I've seen them countless times.
type:
example
text:
Each rerun of the algorithm takes several minutes.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act or instance of rerunning; a repetition.
A television program shown after its initial presentation, particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a repeat.
Another printing run (impression; batch of copies of a given edition) of a book, cartoon, etc.
A political candidate who holds the same political agenda or doctrine as a past or incumbent holder of a given political office.
A second or subsequent run of a computer program.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
government
politics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
6873 | word:
rerun
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rerun (third-person singular simple present reruns, present participle rerunning, simple past reran, past participle rerun)
forms:
form:
reruns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rerunning
tags:
participle
present
form:
reran
tags:
past
form:
rerun
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
rerun
rerun (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From re- + run.
senses_examples:
text:
Ms. Hill has rerun those questions in her mind. “If the girls told me they want to stay where they are, I would have to leave them,” she said.
ref:
2013 July 6, N. R. Kleinfield, “The Girls Who Haven’t Come Home”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
They're still rerunning The Flintstones on this channel.
type:
example
text:
Earlier Sunday, MTV ran and reran a compilation of Ms. Spears’s previous appearances on the show, including her high-school hottie debut in 1999 and her on-the-lips kiss with Madonna in 2003, glossing over her lethargic dance number last year.
ref:
2008 September 8, Jon Pareles, “At the MTV Video Music Awards, a Big Draw, a Punch Line and, Now, a Winner”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Everyone is talking about Lemonade, Beyoncé's new visual album that immediately became a sensation when it debuted on HBO on Saturday night. For those who missed it (and those without a loved one's HBO Go password), Lemonade even reran just before the Game of Thrones' highly anticipated season six premiere on April 24.
ref:
2016 April 28, Caroline Framke, “Beyoncé's Lemonade is on iTunes and Amazon — but will only stream on Tidal and Pandora”, in Vox
type:
quotation
text:
rerun the election
type:
example
text:
Thursday night, running in Lane 2 on an otherwise empty eight-lane track, at a half-empty Olympic Stadium, the United States women’s 4x100-meter relay team reran a qualifying round all by itself.
ref:
2016 August 18, Jeré Longman, “U.S. Women Drop Baton, but Advance After a Second Chance”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Restart the computer and rerun the installation.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To run again; to repeat.
To broadcast (a television program etc.) again.
To be broadcast again.
To run (a race or other contest) again.
To run (a computer program) again.
senses_topics:
|
6874 | word:
oar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oar (plural oars)
forms:
form:
oars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
oar
etymology_text:
From Middle English ore (“oar”), from Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō (“oar”). Cognate with Old Norse ár.
senses_examples:
text:
The oar snaps in his hand
Before he reaches dry land
But the sound doesn't deafen his smile
Just pokes at wet sand
With an oar in his hand
Floats off down the river Nile
Floats off down the river Nile...
ref:
19 October 1979, Madness (lyrics and music), “Night Boat to Cairo”, Suggs (lyrics)
type:
quotation
text:
He is a good oar.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.
An oarsman; a rower.
An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
6875 | word:
oar
word_type:
verb
expansion:
oar (third-person singular simple present oars, present participle oaring, simple past and past participle oared)
forms:
form:
oars
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
oaring
tags:
participle
present
form:
oared
tags:
participle
past
form:
oared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
oar
etymology_text:
From Middle English ore (“oar”), from Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō (“oar”). Cognate with Old Norse ár.
senses_examples:
text:
The weather was fine, and whilst oaring along I would fain have landed on the islands between; but fearful of a change, and already half worn-out by my previous trail, I let them go by with the comforting resolve of turning them up on some future occasion.
ref:
1866, Thomas S. Muir, Barra Head, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
In Nopsca's theory, flight evolved as a means of running more quickly over the ground: "Birds originated from bipedal, long-tailed cursorial reptiles which during running oared along in the air by flapping their free anterior extremities."
ref:
1996, Peter J. Bowler, Life's Splendid Drama
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.
senses_topics:
|
6876 | word:
rancorous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rancorous (comparative more rancorous, superlative most rancorous)
forms:
form:
more rancorous
tags:
comparative
form:
most rancorous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From rancor + -ous.
senses_examples:
text:
rancorous speech
type:
example
text:
Despite its attempt to provide what it saw as sober current-affairs programming in a sea of often-rancorous cable news channels, and winning some top awards in journalism, Al Jazeera America was unable to build an audience—it reached about 60 million households, compared to 100 million for other cable broadcasters—or draw advertisers.
ref:
2016 January 13, “The End of Al Jazeera America”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2016-01-13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Full of rancor; bitter; unforgiving.
senses_topics:
|
6877 | word:
incontrovertible
word_type:
adj
expansion:
incontrovertible (comparative more incontrovertible, superlative most incontrovertible)
forms:
form:
more incontrovertible
tags:
comparative
form:
most incontrovertible
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From in- + controvertible.
senses_examples:
text:
incontrovertible evidence
type:
example
text:
Her statement that dogs are mammals is incontrovertible.
type:
example
text:
There is incontrovertible evidence that electrification of itself has great publicity value, but this would be greatly enhanced if the public knew in more detail how it would transform their services.
ref:
1960 November, “Talking of Trains: Through a glass darkly”, in Trains Illustrated, page 642
type:
quotation
text:
All said that the incontrovertible evidence that climate change has already arrived—in the form of frighteningly extreme wildfires, drought, storms and floods afflicting every corner of the United States—has helped build political support.
ref:
2022 August 7, Coral Davenport, Lisa Friedman, “Five Decades in the Making: Why It Took Congress So Long to Act on Climate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.
senses_topics:
|
6878 | word:
jubilant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
jubilant (comparative more jubilant, superlative most jubilant)
forms:
form:
more jubilant
tags:
comparative
form:
most jubilant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin iubilans ("shouting for joy").
senses_examples:
text:
be in jubilant mood
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a state of elation.
senses_topics:
|
6879 | word:
grind
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grind (third-person singular simple present grinds, present participle grinding, simple past and past participle ground or grinded)
forms:
form:
grinds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
grinding
tags:
participle
present
form:
ground
tags:
participle
past
form:
ground
tags:
past
form:
grinded
tags:
participle
past
form:
grinded
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
grind
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
grind
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
grind
etymology_text:
From Middle English grynden, from Old English grindan, from Proto-West Germanic *grindan, from Proto-Germanic *grindaną.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian gríende, griene (“to grind, mill”), Dutch grinden (“to grind”, rare) and grind (“gravel, shingle”), Albanian grind (“to brawl, fight”).
senses_examples:
text:
grind a lens; grind an axe
type:
example
text:
This corn grinds well.
type:
example
text:
Steel grinds to a sharp edge.
type:
example
text:
She said, "How'd you like to waste some time?" / And I could not resist when I saw little Nikki grind
ref:
1984, Prince (lyrics and music), “Darling Nikki”, in Purple Rain, performed by Prince and the Revolution
type:
quotation
text:
These enemies give lots of loot when killed, so many players fight them to grind for resources.
type:
example
text:
The first level of the game is the best place to grind extra lives.
type:
example
text:
Similarly, nearly all massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), such as Dungeons & Dragons Online, feature grind: Players repeat tasks, or often “quests”, to gain in-game currency to spend on weapons or other ancillary items.
ref:
2013, Will Luton, Free-to-Play: Making Money From Games You Give Away, New Riders, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
To extend the variety past that, you'll need to unlock new units in each class, meaning you have to grind through the rather lengthy process of using every one of your class’ weapons and skills significantly across several matches.
ref:
2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica
type:
quotation
text:
to grind an organ
type:
example
text:
Eh, brah, let's go grind.
type:
example
text:
Grinding lessons into students' heads does not motivate them to learn.
type:
example
text:
Grinding Leetcode
type:
example
text:
One evening, during evening work, Charlie was trying hard to do the verses which had been set to his form. […] Wilton, whose conduct had been more impertinent than that of any one else, said to Charlie—
“I say, young Evson, how you are grinding.”
“I have these verses to do,” said Charlie simply.
ref:
1862, Frederic W. Farrar, St. Winifred's: or the World of School
type:
quotation
text:
I need to pontificate on something that really grinds me. So here goes. I am sick and tired of lazy thinkers using the defense of “legislated morality.”
ref:
2003, Steven Wunderink, Minding Your Spiritual Business: Life Stories with Life Sense, page 139
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
To shape with the force of friction.
To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
To oppress, hold down or weaken.
To rotate the hips erotically.
To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
To operate by turning a crank.
To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
To automatically format and indent code.
To eat.
To instill through repetitive teaching.
To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
senses_topics:
arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
6880 | word:
grind
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grind (countable and uncountable, plural grinds)
forms:
form:
grinds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
grind
etymology_text:
From Middle English grynden, from Old English grindan, from Proto-West Germanic *grindan, from Proto-Germanic *grindaną.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian gríende, griene (“to grind, mill”), Dutch grinden (“to grind”, rare) and grind (“gravel, shingle”), Albanian grind (“to brawl, fight”).
senses_examples:
text:
This bag contains espresso grind.
type:
example
text:
This homework is a grind.
type:
example
text:
Running again in more open agricultural country, the Harrogate line encounters a short downgrade before the stiff uphill grind to Harrogate begins.
ref:
1961 February, D. Bertram, “The lines to Wetherby and their traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101
type:
quotation
text:
If you are at all bright, don't be a grind. Grinding may make a second-hand genius of you (for all the real things are dead), and if you become a genius you will be sure to smoke dope or swallow laudanum. They all did it.
ref:
1900, “Gifford Arthur Nelson”, in The Naughty-Naughtian, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I suppose I don't know much about books, compared with you—”
“Oh, I was never much of a grind,” the other cut in hastily.
ref:
1911, Sunset, volume 27, page 440
type:
quotation
text:
I pledge allegiance to the grind. I'm up early as hell tryna get mine.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
A tedious and laborious task.
A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
One who studies hard.
Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
Hustle; hard work.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
6881 | word:
grind
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grind (plural grinds)
forms:
form:
grinds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
grind
etymology_text:
From Faroese grind (“pilot-whale meat”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
senses_topics:
|
6882 | word:
redo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
redo (third-person singular simple present redoes, present participle redoing, simple past redid, past participle redone)
forms:
form:
redoes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
redoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
redid
tags:
past
form:
redone
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + do.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To do again.
senses_topics:
|
6883 | word:
redo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
redo (plural redos)
forms:
form:
redos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + do.
senses_examples:
text:
Eight years ago, the apartment cost $292,000, and the three redos totaled $48,000, but though he has no plans to sell, he thinks he could get $600,000 for the place today.
ref:
2008 June 1, C. J. Hughes, “Where Change Is Underfoot, and Overhead”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc.
senses_topics:
|
6884 | word:
tractor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tractor (plural tractors)
forms:
form:
tractors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tractor
etymology_text:
Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.
senses_examples:
text:
On the other hand the EE type 3's have offered in a 1750 hp package, probably the most successful loco BR bought. As any crew will tell you a tractor will pull anything anywhere, and yet at the same time they were nippy enough for use on the Anglian mainlines for 20 years.
ref:
1995 May 23, Andrew Cooke, “Re: British Rail: At Last The 1948 Show”, in misc.transport.rail.europe (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
With a recent email from Mike Tetlow, I found out that there were two other 37s [37252 and 37031] present that day, also shuttling between Cambridge and Kings Lynn. As you correctly observe, the pic of little me shows that I am in a Dutch liveried tractor.
ref:
2000 April 25, Grandpops, “Calling Norfolk tractor bashers with a good brain for numbers! Possible conclusion?”, in uk.railway (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
EWS are also denying any rumours of tractors going to Spain, then again they denyed the rumours of tractors going to France until the contract was signed!
ref:
2000 May 17, Matt, “Re: "Unfixing" Class 37s and Doncaster control (rant!!)”, in uk.railway (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.
A British Rail Class 37 locomotive.
A metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
lifestyle
agriculture
business
lifestyle
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
|
6885 | word:
tractor
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tractor (third-person singular simple present tractors, present participle tractoring, simple past and past participle tractored)
forms:
form:
tractors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tractoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
tractored
tags:
participle
past
form:
tractored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tractor
etymology_text:
Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To prepare (land) with a tractor.
To drive a tractor.
To move with a tractor beam.
To treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
medicine
sciences |
6886 | word:
cogent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cogent (comparative more cogent, superlative most cogent)
forms:
form:
more cogent
tags:
comparative
form:
most cogent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French cogent, from Latin cōgēns, present active participle of cōgō (“drive together, compel”), from cō + agō (“drive”).
senses_examples:
text:
We congratulate our correspondents on some very cogent reasoning, and shall have to watch our step even more carefully in future!
ref:
1944 May and June, “In the Critics' Den”, in Railway Magazine, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
The prosecution presented a cogent argument, convincing the jury of the defendant's guilt.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning.
Forcefully persuasive; relevant, pertinent.
senses_topics:
|
6887 | word:
conscious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
conscious (comparative more conscious, superlative most conscious)
forms:
form:
more conscious
tags:
comparative
form:
most conscious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Late 16th century in the sense of "aware of wrongdoing".https://web.archive.org/web/20220714064352/https://www.lexico.com/definition/conscious From Latin cōnscius (“conscious, conscious of guilt”), itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + scīre (“to know”) + -us.
senses_examples:
text:
The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.
type:
example
text:
The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.
ref:
1999, Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now, Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62
type:
quotation
text:
Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious.
type:
example
text:
Furthermore, the military operator is far less conscious of budgetary constraints than is the civilian consumer.
ref:
1955, Arthur Smithies, The Budgetary Process in the United States, page 290
type:
quotation
text:
I was conscious of a noise behind me. a very class-conscious analysis
type:
example
text:
He candidly confesses that it is an effort to account for Joseph Smith upon some other hypothesis than that he was a conscious fraud, bent on deceiving mankind.
ref:
1907, Brigham Henry Roberts, Defense of the Faith and the Saints, volume 1, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Start fresh, try and learn from past mistakes, make a conscious effort to be a better person.
ref:
2015, Jamie Kornegay, Soil: A Novel, page 214
type:
quotation
text:
conscious guilt
type:
example
text:
c. 1634, John Dryden (translator), Richard Crashaw, Epigrammatum sacrorum liber
The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
Known or felt personally, internally by a person.
Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.
senses_topics:
|
6888 | word:
conscious
word_type:
noun
expansion:
conscious (plural consciouses)
forms:
form:
consciouses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Late 16th century in the sense of "aware of wrongdoing".https://web.archive.org/web/20220714064352/https://www.lexico.com/definition/conscious From Latin cōnscius (“conscious, conscious of guilt”), itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + scīre (“to know”) + -us.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.
senses_topics:
|
6889 | word:
euphoria
word_type:
noun
expansion:
euphoria (countable and uncountable, plural euphorias)
forms:
form:
euphorias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin euphoria, from Ancient Greek εὐφορίᾱ (euphoríā), from εὔφορος (eúphoros, “bearing well”), from εὐ- (eu-, “well”) + φέρω (phérō, “to bear”).
senses_examples:
text:
The runner was in (a state of) absolute euphoria after winning his first marathon.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An excited state of joy; a feeling of intense happiness.
senses_topics:
|
6890 | word:
overtake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overtake (third-person singular simple present overtakes, present participle overtaking, simple past overtook, past participle overtaken)
forms:
form:
overtakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overtaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
overtook
tags:
past
form:
overtaken
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overtaken, likely an replacement alteration (as the Middle English verb taken replaced nimen (“to take”)), of Middle English overnimen (“to overtake”), from Old English oferniman (“to take by surprise, overtake”), equivalent to over- + take.
senses_examples:
text:
The racehorse overtook the lead pack on the last turn.
type:
example
text:
The car was so slow we were overtaken by a bus.
type:
example
text:
The station is planned to include platform loops enabling fast trains to overtake slower ones and is expected to be served by at least four trains per hour towards London.
ref:
2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London service”, in Modern Railways, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Our plans were overtaken by events.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).
To become greater than something else
To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
|
6891 | word:
overtake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
overtake (plural overtakes)
forms:
form:
overtakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overtaken, likely an replacement alteration (as the Middle English verb taken replaced nimen (“to take”)), of Middle English overnimen (“to overtake”), from Old English oferniman (“to take by surprise, overtake”), equivalent to over- + take.
senses_examples:
text:
There wasn't enough distance left before the bend for an overtake, so I had to trundle behind the tractor for another mile.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver.
senses_topics:
|
6892 | word:
statement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
statement (plural statements)
forms:
form:
statements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
statement
etymology_text:
From state + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
make a statement
type:
example
text:
publish a statement
type:
example
text:
utter a statement
type:
example
text:
a bank statement
type:
example
text:
In this section we will examine BASIC's primary statement for repeating a string of statements under program control: the FOR statement. Another statement, the NEXT statement, is always used with a FOR statement.
ref:
1981, Thomas C. Bartee, BASIC computer programming, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
However, it is the responsibility of the programmer to ensure that the control ultimately reaches the last statement of the range.
ref:
1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming, page 174
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A declaration or remark.
A presentation of opinion or position.
A document that summarizes financial activity.
An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.
senses_topics:
business
finance
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
6893 | word:
statement
word_type:
adj
expansion:
statement (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
statement
etymology_text:
From state + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
Gabriel Martinelli scored a dramatic late winner as Arsenal earned a statement victory over defending Premier League champions Manchester City at Emirates Stadium.
ref:
2023 October 8, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1-0 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Decisive.
senses_topics:
|
6894 | word:
statement
word_type:
verb
expansion:
statement (third-person singular simple present statements, present participle statementing, simple past and past participle statemented)
forms:
form:
statements
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
statementing
tags:
participle
present
form:
statemented
tags:
participle
past
form:
statemented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
statement
etymology_text:
Back-formation from statementing or back-formation from statemented.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs.
senses_topics:
|
6895 | word:
wife
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wife (plural wives)
forms:
form:
wives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Wife (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English wyf, wif, from Old English wīf (“woman, wife”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīb, from Proto-Germanic *wībą (“woman, wife”).
Germanic cognates include Scots wife (“wife”), West Frisian wiif (“wife, woman”), Saterland Frisian Wieuw (“woman, lady, female”), North Frisian wüf (“wife, woman”), Dutch wijf (“woman, female”), Low German Wief (“woman, female”), German Weib (“woman, wife, female”), Danish viv (“wife, woman”), Norwegian viv (“wife, woman, girl”), Swedish viv (“woman”), Faroese vív (“wife, woman”), Icelandic víf (“woman”).
The further etymology is unknown, with a number of disputed suggestions. One suggestion connects Tocharian A/B kip/kwīpe (“genitals, female pudenda”), for a hypothetical Indo-European *gʰwíbʰ- (“pudenda”).
Another suggestion connects Old English wǣfan (“wrap, clothe”), Old Norse vífa (“wrap, veil”) for a suggested original motive of "married woman wearing a scarf".
Yet another suggestion connects Old High German weibon (“move to and fro”), Old Norse veifa (“swing, throw”), for a motive of "one who is moving busily; housekeeper, maidservant" (cf. German Weibel (“manservant, usher”)).
senses_examples:
text:
The Fisherman and His Wife
type:
example
text:
And I geue vnto the ſame Elizabeth my wif the ſparuers and hangings of the ſame twoo beddes vſuallye occupied, and hanging ouer and about the ſame twoo beddes[…]
ref:
1558 April 29, Sir William Drurye, Will of Sir William Drurye [of Hawstede, Suffolk], Prerogative Court of Canterbury, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
1952, P. G. Wodehouse, Big Business, in 'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 127-8.
All through Reginald's deeply moving performance she had sat breathless, her mind in a whirl and her soul stirred to her very depths. With each low note that he pulled up from the soles of his shoes she could feel the old affection and esteem surging back into her with a whoosh, and long before he had taken his sixth bow she knew ... that it would be madness to try to seek happiness elsewhere, particularly as the wife of a man with large ears and no chin, who looked as if he were about to start in the two-thirty race at Kempton Park.
text:
Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
ref:
2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257
type:
quotation
text:
A new wife for the gander is introduced into the pen.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
The female of a pair of mated animals.
Synonym of woman.
senses_topics:
|
6896 | word:
wife
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wife (third-person singular simple present wifes, present participle wifing, simple past and past participle wifed)
forms:
form:
wifes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wifing
tags:
participle
present
form:
wifed
tags:
participle
past
form:
wifed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Wife (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English wyf, wif, from Old English wīf (“woman, wife”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīb, from Proto-Germanic *wībą (“woman, wife”).
Germanic cognates include Scots wife (“wife”), West Frisian wiif (“wife, woman”), Saterland Frisian Wieuw (“woman, lady, female”), North Frisian wüf (“wife, woman”), Dutch wijf (“woman, female”), Low German Wief (“woman, female”), German Weib (“woman, wife, female”), Danish viv (“wife, woman”), Norwegian viv (“wife, woman, girl”), Swedish viv (“woman”), Faroese vív (“wife, woman”), Icelandic víf (“woman”).
The further etymology is unknown, with a number of disputed suggestions. One suggestion connects Tocharian A/B kip/kwīpe (“genitals, female pudenda”), for a hypothetical Indo-European *gʰwíbʰ- (“pudenda”).
Another suggestion connects Old English wǣfan (“wrap, clothe”), Old Norse vífa (“wrap, veil”) for a suggested original motive of "married woman wearing a scarf".
Yet another suggestion connects Old High German weibon (“move to and fro”), Old Norse veifa (“swing, throw”), for a motive of "one who is moving busily; housekeeper, maidservant" (cf. German Weibel (“manservant, usher”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Mentally scarred for life, love is war / And some chicks are just too hard to wife
ref:
2004, “Guinnesses”, in Mm..Food, performed by MF Doom ft. Angelika & 4-IZE
type:
quotation
text:
Mecca knew she wasn't lying. She had the type of beauty that made niggas want to wife her.
ref:
2009, Ashley Antoinette Coleman, JaQuavis Coleman, The Cartel, volume 1, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
I thought that I was going to wife her, but because of the new news with my brother I couldn't do it.
ref:
2010, Kenya K. Watkins, The Life You Choose, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
But I told you that you're not a wifeable woman, and I told him so, and he wanted to wife you anyway.
ref:
2016, Gayl Jones, The Healing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To marry (a woman).
senses_topics:
|
6897 | word:
gargantuan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gargantuan (comparative more gargantuan, superlative most gargantuan)
forms:
form:
more gargantuan
tags:
comparative
form:
most gargantuan
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
François Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel
etymology_text:
From French Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. Rabelais derived Gargantua from the Portuguese and Spanish garganta (“throat”).
senses_examples:
text:
Some distant observers of the Scottish football scene reckon that all - all! - Gerrard has to do is beat Celtic to become a legend. Even if that was true - and, demonstrably, it is not - then it would be a gargantuan task all on its own.
ref:
2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Or the twinkling dining rooms: all frilly net curtains, pink walls, kaleidoscope-patterned carpets and tiny tables, crammed with teetering piles of hand-painted ceramic crockery (think plates covered in colorful swirls and cocktail mugs shaped like heaving bosoms or ladies’ faces) that showcase gargantuan portions of Italian fare.
ref:
2019 September 14, Elizabeth Paton, “A Fashion/Food Blowout in the Shadow of Brexit”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Boxy and unrefined, the Hummer embodied an outlandishly masculine aesthetic that seemed to almost revel in its gargantuan fuel consumption.
ref:
2022 April 7, Oliver Milman, “I test-drove the all-electric Hummer. Can it win over America’s EV skeptics?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Huge; immense; tremendous.
Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
senses_topics:
|
6898 | word:
factor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
factor (plural factors)
forms:
form:
factors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
factor
etymology_text:
From Middle French facteur, from Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).
senses_examples:
text:
The factor of the trading post bought the furs.
type:
example
text:
Motor factors — Good factors will stock all of the more important components which wear out relatively quickly.
ref:
1985, Haynes Owners Workshop Manual, BMW
type:
quotation
text:
The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.
type:
example
text:
The economy was a factor in this year's budget figures.
type:
example
text:
1864-1898, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology
the material and dynamical factors of nutrition
type:
quotation
text:
3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.
type:
example
text:
The factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2.
type:
example
text:
The first thousand primes[…]marched in order before him[…]the complete sequence of all those numbers that possessed no factors except themselves and unity.
ref:
1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.
type:
example
text:
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
ref:
2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
ref:
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
An agent or representative.
A commission agent.
A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
A steward or bailiff of an estate.
senses_topics:
law
law
law
mathematics
sciences
economics
sciences
|
6899 | word:
factor
word_type:
verb
expansion:
factor (third-person singular simple present factors, present participle factoring, simple past and past participle factored)
forms:
form:
factors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
factoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
factored
tags:
participle
past
form:
factored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
factor
etymology_text:
From Middle French facteur, from Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
To be a product of other objects.
To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
senses_topics:
business
commerce
commercial |
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