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6900 | word:
decorous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
decorous (comparative more decorous, superlative most decorous)
forms:
form:
more decorous
tags:
comparative
form:
most decorous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin decōrus (“seemly, becoming”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Marked by proper behaviour.
senses_topics:
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6901 | word:
adulation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adulation (countable and uncountable, plural adulations)
forms:
form:
adulations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French adulation, from Latin adulātio (“flattery”).
senses_examples:
text:
He was uncomfortable with the adulation from his fans.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Flattery; fulsome praise.
senses_topics:
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6902 | word:
train
word_type:
noun
expansion:
train (plural trains)
forms:
form:
trains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English trayne (“train”), from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from traïner (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *traginō, from *tragō, from Latin trahō (“to pull, to draw”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to pull, draw, drag”). The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English.
senses_examples:
text:
Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride's train as they were walking down the aisle.
type:
example
text:
He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a lady does her train in bad weather.
ref:
1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle
type:
quotation
text:
Lace sleeves, a demure neckline, a full skirt and a relatively modest train.
ref:
2011 April 20, Imogen Fox, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
[E]mancipation is put into such a train that in a few years there will be no slaves Northward of Maryland.
ref:
1785, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Richard Price
type:
quotation
text:
A party was sent to search, and there they found all the powder ready prepared, and, moreover, a man with a lantern, one Guy Fawkes, who had undertaken to be the one to set fire to the train of gunpowder, hoping to escape before the explosion.
ref:
1873, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for the little ones
type:
quotation
text:
The burning evening sun lighted with mellow gold the coats of the fierce little tiger-kittens — orange silk with stripes of black velvet — the broken amethysts and ruined emeralds of the poor bird's train cruelly scattered over the trampled grass
ref:
1894, Sir Edwin Arnold, Wandering Words, page 260
type:
quotation
text:
Fawn and pearl of the lyre-bird's train, / Sheen of the bronze-wing, blue of the crane; / Cream of the plover, grey of the dove; / These are the hues of the land I love!
ref:
1917, William Henry Fitchett, Australia in the making, page xii
type:
quotation
text:
Before the Spanish Conquest, the long, slender, green plumes of the male bird's train adorned the headgear of Aztec and Mayan kings and chieftains, as one may clearly see in modern restorations of ancient scenes.
ref:
1945, Nature Magazine, page 299
type:
quotation
text:
Finally, all men saw that astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet. Its approach was not, at first, seemingly rapid; nor was its appearance of very unusual character. It was of a dull red, and had little perceptible train.
ref:
1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
type:
quotation
text:
It sometimes happens that the train is directed towards the sun, or makes a certain angle with the line joining the head and the sun; it was then called by the ancient astronomers the beard of the comet.
ref:
1877, Amédée Guillemin, James Glaisher, The World of Comets, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
...the comet expands, its vapours are developed and escape in jets towards the radiant star; then we see them driven back on each side of the head and the caudal train commencing.
ref:
2014, Camille Flammarion, Popular Astronomy, page 515
type:
quotation
text:
The imperial train arrived on November 22 at Te-chou, a city in western Shantung along the border of Chihli.
ref:
1979, Silas H. L. Wu, Passage to Power: Kʻang-hsi and His Heir Apparent, 1661-1722, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
Grace was glad the citizenry did not know Katherine Gordon was in the king’s train, but she was beginning to understand Henry’s motive for including the pretender’s wife.
ref:
2009, Anne Easter Smith, The King's Grace
type:
quotation
text:
Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.
type:
example
text:
A man may be absorbed in the deepest thought, and his brow will remain smooth until he encounters some obstacle in his train of reasoning, or is interrupted by some disturbance, and then a frown passes like a shadow over his brow.
ref:
1872, Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
type:
quotation
text:
Failure to acknowledge an A.T.C. warning or excessive speed starts the same train of events until correction is made.
ref:
1960 November, P. Ransome=Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 679
type:
quotation
text:
"Where was I?" he asked several times during the lunch, losing his train of thought.
ref:
2012 June 18, Rory Carroll, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Thus the development of reason is accompanied by no inner blight or withering. It does not bring in its train loss of faith or weakening of sympathies.
ref:
1907, Margaret McMillan, Labour and Childhood, page 120
type:
quotation
text:
in a fair / better / worse train
type:
example
text:
I took care that my absence should neither be lamented by the poor nor the rich. I put every thing in a fair train of going on smoothly, and actually set out, with my steward, for my estate in Wales at dawning of the day.
ref:
1779, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 7, in Shenstone-Green: or, the New Paradise Lost, volume 1, London: R. Baldwin, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
1787, George Washington, letter to Alexander Hamilton dated 10 July, 1787, in The Writings of George Washington, Boston: American Stationers’ Company, 1837, Volume 9, p. 260,
When I refer you to the state of the counsels, which prevailed at the period you left this city, and add that they are now if possible in a worse train than ever, you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed.
text:
The train will pull in at midday.
type:
example
text:
This winter we thought we'd go to Venice by train, for the adventure.
ref:
2009 January 24, Hanif Kureishi, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
ref:
2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly)
type:
quotation
text:
What steps do development engineers follow when adding new feature code? How do they support different software versions or release trains?
ref:
2008, Michael Bushong, Cathy Gadecki, Aviva Garrett, JUNOS For Dummies, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
You want us to run a train on you?
ref:
2005, Violet Blue, Best Women's Erotica 2006: Volume 2001, link
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Elongated or trailing portion.
The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
Elongated or trailing portion.
A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
Elongated or trailing portion.
The tail of a bird.
Elongated or trailing portion.
The tail of an animal in general.
Elongated or trailing portion.
The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
Elongated or trailing portion.
A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail.
Elongated or trailing portion.
An animal's trail or track.
Elongated or trailing portion.
Something dragged or laid along the ground to form a trail of scent or food along which to lure an animal.
Elongated or trailing portion.
Gait or manner of running of a horse.
Connected sequence of people or things.
A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.
Connected sequence of people or things.
A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
Connected sequence of people or things.
A group or class of people.
Connected sequence of people or things.
The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
Connected sequence of people or things.
A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.
Connected sequence of people or things.
A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.
Connected sequence of people or things.
State of progress, status, situation (in phrases introduced by in a + adjective); also proper order or situation (introduced by in or in a alone).
Connected sequence of people or things.
A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
Connected sequence of people or things.
A series of electrical pulses.
Connected sequence of people or things.
A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together.
Connected sequence of people or things.
A mechanical (traditionally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel.
Connected sequence of people or things.
A service on a railway line.
Connected sequence of people or things.
A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
Connected sequence of people or things.
A software release schedule.
Connected sequence of people or things.
An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
lifestyle
sex
sexuality |
6903 | word:
train
word_type:
verb
expansion:
train (third-person singular simple present trains, present participle training, simple past and past participle trained)
forms:
form:
trains
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
training
tags:
participle
present
form:
trained
tags:
participle
past
form:
trained
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English trayne (“train”), from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from traïner (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *traginō, from *tragō, from Latin trahō (“to pull, to draw”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to pull, draw, drag”). The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English.
senses_examples:
text:
She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics.
type:
example
text:
You can't train a pig to write poetry.
type:
example
text:
The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
ref:
2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
I trained with weights all winter.
type:
example
text:
The assassin had trained his gun on the minister.
type:
example
text:
The vine had been trained over the pergola.
type:
example
text:
He trains the young branches to the right hand or to the left.
ref:
1805, Francis Jeffrey, The Edinburgh Review
type:
quotation
text:
At least 10 lawsuits have been filed this year against A.I. companies, accusing them of training their systems on artists’ creative work without consent.
ref:
2023 July 15, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson, “‘Not for Machines to Harvest’: Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
I got a twix on the 128 version being fixed and trained by Mad Max at M2K BBS 208-587-7636 in Mountain Home Idaho. He fixes many games and puts them on his board. One of my sources for games and utils.
ref:
2000, Sensei David O.E. Mohr - Lord Ronin from Q-Link, “WTB:"The Last V-8" C128 game -name correction”, in comp.sys.cbm (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
In the mid-1980s, demoparties were also copyparties, where the first so called hot releases of cracked and trained games changed hands. However, illegal software copying later disappeared […]
ref:
2021, Mark J. P. Wolf, Encyclopedia of Video Games
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To practice an ability.
To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
To improve one's fitness.
To proceed in sequence.
To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
To feed data into an algorithm, usually based on a neural network, to create a machine learning model that can perform some task.
To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).
To draw (something) along; to trail, to drag (something).
To trail down or along the ground.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
business
mining
video-games
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6904 | word:
train
word_type:
noun
expansion:
train (countable and uncountable, plural trains)
forms:
form:
trains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English trayne (“treachery”), from Anglo-Norman traine, Middle French traïne, from traïr (“to betray”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Treachery; deceit.
A trick or stratagem.
A trap for animals, a snare; (figuratively) a trap in general.
A lure; a decoy.
A live bird, handicapped or disabled in some way, provided for a young hawk to kill as training or enticement.
A clue or trace.
senses_topics:
falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
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6905 | word:
train
word_type:
verb
expansion:
train (third-person singular simple present trains, present participle training, simple past and past participle trained)
forms:
form:
trains
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
training
tags:
participle
present
form:
trained
tags:
participle
past
form:
trained
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English trayne (“treachery”), from Anglo-Norman traine, Middle French traïne, from traïr (“to betray”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
To be on intimate terms with.
senses_topics:
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6906 | word:
train
word_type:
noun
expansion:
train (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Dutch traan (“tear, drop”), from Middle Dutch trâen, from Old Dutch trān, from Proto-Germanic *trahnuz. Compare German Träne (“tear”), Tran (“train oil”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
train oil, whale oil.
senses_topics:
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6907 | word:
mollify
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mollify (third-person singular simple present mollifies, present participle mollifying, simple past and past participle mollified)
forms:
form:
mollifies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mollifying
tags:
participle
present
form:
mollified
tags:
participle
past
form:
mollified
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mollifien, from Late Latin mollificō, from Latin mollis (“soft”).
senses_examples:
text:
All that charity can do where injustice exists is here and there to somewhat mollify the effects of injustice.
ref:
1893, Henry George, The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII,, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
The draft Charter School Handbook issued in November 1994 sought to mollify concerns over teacher quality, if not ATA membership, by requiring teacher certification.
ref:
1997, A Government Reinvented: A Study of Alberta's Deficit Elimination Program,, page 408
type:
quotation
text:
Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.
ref:
1867, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in Oliver Twist
type:
quotation
text:
The angry goat was quite mollified by the respectful tone in which he was addressed.
ref:
1916, L. Frank Baum, chapter 5, in Rinkitink in Oz
type:
quotation
text:
There were no honeyed words from Dr. Beeching to mollify Scottish feeling on rail service closures during his one-day visit in May.
ref:
1964 July, “News and Comment: Dr. B. beards Scots in their lair”, in Modern Railways, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
But these answers did not mollify Grassley. Specifically, he objected to Abedin’s becoming an S.G.E., because he believed she provided no irreplaceable expertise and therefore her designation as one had violated Congress’s intent when it created the program, in 1962.
ref:
2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 2016-01-21
type:
quotation
text:
Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire.
ref:
1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113
text:
By thy kindness thou wilt melt and mollify his spirit towards thee, as hardest metals are melted by coals of fire …
ref:
1724, William Burkitt, Expository Notes, with Practical Observations on the New Testament,, page 102
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort.
To appease (anger), pacify, gain the good will of.
To soften; to make tender
senses_topics:
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6908 | word:
allege
word_type:
verb
expansion:
allege (third-person singular simple present alleges, present participle alleging, simple past and past participle alleged)
forms:
form:
alleges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
alleging
tags:
participle
present
form:
alleged
tags:
participle
past
form:
alleged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English aleggen, perhaps from Old French alleguer, or from Anglo-Norman aleger, the form perhaps from Old French esligier (“to acquit”), from Medieval Latin *exlītigāre (“to clear at law”), from Latin ex (“out”) + lītigō (“sue at law”), but the meaning from Old French alleguer, from Latin allēgāre, present active infinitive of allēgō (“send on a mission, depute; relate, mention, adduce”), from ad (“to”) + lēgō (“send”).
senses_examples:
text:
The agency alleged that my credit history had problems.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To state under oath, to plead.
To cite or quote an author or his work for or against.
To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.
To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
senses_topics:
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6909 | word:
allege
word_type:
verb
expansion:
allege (third-person singular simple present alleges, present participle alleging, simple past and past participle alleged)
forms:
form:
alleges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
alleging
tags:
participle
present
form:
alleged
tags:
participle
past
form:
alleged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English alleggen, from Old French alegier, from Latin alleviāre, present active infinitive of alleviō (“lighten”), from ad + levis (“light”). Doublet of alleviate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lighten, diminish.
senses_topics:
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6910 | word:
pugnacious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pugnacious (comparative more pugnacious, superlative most pugnacious)
forms:
form:
more pugnacious
tags:
comparative
form:
most pugnacious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin, from a derivative of pugnāx, from pugnō (“I fight”), from pugnus (“fist”).
senses_examples:
text:
Not that the doctor was a bully, or even pugnacious, in the usual sense of the word; he had no disposition to provoke a fight, no propense love of quarrelling.
ref:
1858, Anthony Trollope, chapter 3, in Dr Thorne
type:
quotation
text:
In the face of bad news Churchill normally became even more pugnacious, always wanting to respond to defeat by going on the attack.
ref:
2003, Ken Follett, Hornet Flight, pages 249–250
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:
Of course the Johnston swings around to engage the entire flotilla, and, despite taking several more hits, Johnston successfully forces away the first two ships, which leads to the entire squadron taking a detour to avoid the single pugnacious ship.
ref:
2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 29:50 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.
senses_topics:
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6911 | word:
showed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
showed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I showed him the report.
type:
example
text:
Recent polling has showed that 40% are in favour of the candidate.
type:
example
text:
The report had already been showed to him. (proscribed)
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of show
past participle of show (alternative to shown)
senses_topics:
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6912 | word:
shown
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shown
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schauen, schewen (past participle), alternative form of schawid, schewed, past participle of Middle English schewen (“to show”). Morphologically equivalent to show + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
I had shown him the report already.
type:
example
text:
The report had already been shown to him.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of show
senses_topics:
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6913 | word:
law
word_type:
noun
expansion:
law (countable and uncountable, plural laws)
forms:
form:
laws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
law
etymology_text:
From Middle English lawe, laȝe, from Old English lagu (“law”), borrowed from Old Norse lǫg (“law”, literally “things laid down or firmly established”), originally the plural of lag (“layer, stratum, a laying in order, measure, stroke”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą (“that which is laid down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Cognate with Scots law (“law”), Icelandic lög (“things laid down, law”), Faroese lóg (“law”), Norwegian lov (“law”), Swedish lag (“law”), Danish lov (“law”), Finnish laki (“law”). Replaced Old English ǣ and ġesetnes. More at lay.
Not related to legal, nor to French loi, Spanish ley, all of which ultimately derive from Latin lēx, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather”).
senses_examples:
text:
property law
type:
example
text:
commercial hunting and fishing law
type:
example
text:
Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constitutionalism and legality, the belief in "the law" as something above the State and above the individual, something which is cruel and stupid, of course, but at any rate incorruptible. It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not.
ref:
1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I
type:
quotation
text:
The courts interpret the law but should not make it.
type:
example
text:
In theory, entrapment is against the law.
type:
example
text:
There is a law against importing wallabies.
type:
example
text:
A new law forbids driving on that road.
type:
example
text:
The court ruled that the executive order was not law and nullified it.
type:
example
text:
"Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.
type:
example
text:
the law of self-preservation
type:
example
text:
the laws of playwriting and poetry
type:
example
text:
The normal pronoun to use with "spirit" would be "it." But Jesus breaks the law of grammar and says not "when it," but "when he."
ref:
1997, Derek Prince, If you Want God's Best
type:
quotation
text:
Observing pi is easier than studying physical phenomena, because you can prove things in mathematics, whereas you can't prove anything in physics. And, unfortunately, the laws of physics change once every generation.
ref:
1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker
type:
quotation
text:
the laws of thermodynamics
type:
example
text:
Newton's third law of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.
type:
example
text:
This is one of several laws derived from his general theory expounded in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
type:
example
text:
Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.
type:
example
text:
the law of scarcity
type:
example
text:
the law of supply and demand
type:
example
text:
Grimm's law
type:
example
text:
Dahl's law
type:
example
text:
They worked to maintain law and order.
type:
example
text:
It was a territory without law, marked by violence.
type:
example
text:
Here comes the law — run!
type:
example
text:
then the law arrived on the scene
type:
example
text:
That was Joe's first confrontation with "The Law" / Naturally, we were easy on him / One of our friendly counsellors gave him a donut / And told him to stick closer / To church-oriented social activities
ref:
1979, Frank Zappa (lyrics and music), “Joe's Garage”
type:
quotation
text:
He is studying for a career in law.
type:
example
text:
She has practiced law in New York for twenty years.
type:
example
text:
She went to university to study law.
type:
example
text:
They were quick to go to law.
type:
example
text:
After a few minutes' waiting, two well-known runners, chosen for the hares, buckled on the four bags filled with scent, compared their watches with those of young Brooke and Thome, and started off at a long, slinging trot across the fields in the direction of Barby. Then the hounds clustered round Thome, who explained shortly, "They're to have six minutes' law."
ref:
1889, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, page 150
type:
quotation
text:
normal law; alternate law; direct law
type:
example
text:
As to the depriving the defendant of waging his law, it was thought, the practice merited discouragement, as a temptation to perjury.
ref:
1793, Richard Wooddeson, A Systematical View of the Laws of England, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
But, before the defendant takes the oath, the plaintiff is called by the crier thrice; and if he do not appear he becomes nonsuited, and then the defendant goes quit without taking his oath; and if he appear, and the defendant swear that he owes the plaintiff nothing, and the compurgators give it upon oath, that they believe he swears true, the plaintiff is barred for ever; for when a person has waged his law, it is as much as if a verdict had passed against the plaintiff; if the plaintiff do not appear to hear the defendant perform his law, so that he is nonsuit, he is not barred, but may bring a new action.
ref:
1846, Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd, A New Abridgment of the Law with Large Additions and Corrections
type:
quotation
text:
A withdrawal from a wager of law was an admission of the point as to which the law was waged; the defaulter also incurred a fine (i, 297).
ref:
2013, William Paley Baildon, Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield: Volume 2, 1297 to 1309, page ix
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
Common law, as contrasted with equity.
The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
A rule, such as:
Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
A rule, such as:
A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
A rule, such as:
A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
A rule, such as:
A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
A rule, such as:
Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
A rule, such as:
A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
A rule, such as:
One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
fantasy
law |
6914 | word:
law
word_type:
verb
expansion:
law (third-person singular simple present laws, present participle lawing, simple past and past participle lawed)
forms:
form:
laws
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lawing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lawed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lawed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
law
etymology_text:
From Middle English lawe, laȝe, from Old English lagu (“law”), borrowed from Old Norse lǫg (“law”, literally “things laid down or firmly established”), originally the plural of lag (“layer, stratum, a laying in order, measure, stroke”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą (“that which is laid down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Cognate with Scots law (“law”), Icelandic lög (“things laid down, law”), Faroese lóg (“law”), Norwegian lov (“law”), Swedish lag (“law”), Danish lov (“law”), Finnish laki (“law”). Replaced Old English ǣ and ġesetnes. More at lay.
Not related to legal, nor to French loi, Spanish ley, all of which ultimately derive from Latin lēx, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather”).
senses_examples:
text:
That was in 1877 you were lawing with Herdick?
ref:
1889, New York (State). Court of Appeals, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
J. H. Turner is married and lawing in Milwaukee.
ref:
1897, The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta - Volume 21, page 210
type:
quotation
text:
The American Bar Association ruefully admits that the legal profession is overcrowded, especially in large cities. It has a committee studying the situation. Last week an editorial in the New York Law Journal urged a youthful revolt against the city, twanged an idyll of lawing in the country.
ref:
1923, Briton Hadden, Time - Volume 29, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
Your husband's … so given to lawing, they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies.
ref:
1860, George Eliot (Mary Anne Lewes), The Mill on the Floss
text:
"I like folks to be up and down and square," she began saying, as she vigilantly watched the effect of her culinary skill upon the awed little party. "Yes, I've got a regular hotel license; you bet I have. There's been folks lawed in this town for sellin' a meal of victuals and not having one."
ref:
1886, Charles Dudley Warner, Their Pilgrimage, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
“So I said to her, 'Well, no man ever made anything lawing with his wife, so, if your mind is set on having a divorce and the children you will want plenty to raise them with,' so I deed her the farm in Sumner county and everything on it—horses, mules, machinery, everything.”
ref:
2014, Joseph Andrew Orser, The Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America
type:
quotation
text:
At its 1933 session, the Kansas legislature provided for funding outstanding bills and floating debts of those cities which could not make payment by a fixed date. By this stroke of its imagination, the legislature lawed all Kansas cities onto a "cash" basis and admonished them to stay there.
ref:
1939, Henry Green Hodges, City management: theory and practice of municipal administration
type:
quotation
text:
Earth lies in the chorus of the stars' congregation in the lawed line of their movement, in the balanced rotation of their light, bound by that lawed line, conceived in the focus of that turning; a vessel fashioned on the wheel of endless time.
ref:
1969, Aryan Path - Volume 40, page 338
type:
quotation
text:
Nicholas Downton (February 1615) says of the people of Surat: "a mixt people, quiet, peaceable, very subtle; civil, and universally governed under one King, but diversely lawed and customed".
ref:
1979, Gokhale, Surat In The Seventeenth Century, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
So that, when GOD said, “Let there be light:” Behold the first created light burst out unto its glory (here GOD lawed the power of heat, fire, light, melting, cooling, and freezing)
ref:
2007, Henry Grenryk Ledesma, The Little Book: The Sound of the Seventh Trumpet, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Beyond the ocher and yellow-washed buildings, French colonial with a suggestion of Beau Geste from the castellated balconies, it is an arm-grabbing, loosely lawed bazaar of a place.
ref:
2011, Brian Freemantle, The Iron Cage
type:
quotation
text:
De gram jury lawed me all de time an' dat place got too hot.
ref:
1918, Eldred Kurtz Means, E.K. Means, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
The only time I ever got lawed [arrested] was for the union. Happened three times.
ref:
1972, Bill Peterson, Coaltown revisited: an Appalachian notebook, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
So we're on the road with the micks, maybe a mile from the precinct, and Reedy just pulls over, takes them out onto the Commons, takes off the cuffs, and we knock about twenty pounds of shit out of them.” Petey sensed the agent watching him talk and tried to explain it all another way. “What I mean is, lawing used to be pretty damn pure.
ref:
2008, Ron McLarty, Art in America: A Novel
type:
quotation
text:
The sheriff jabbed his thumb at his chest. "I run this shebang. Been doing so for forty-six years. You think you can come in here and preach lawing to me?
ref:
2013, J B Bergstad, Hyde's Corner - Book II - In The Name of Vengeance
type:
quotation
text:
Insurance may fairly be said to head the list of objects of legislative interference. It has been lawed and lawed until it is nearly outlawed, and the cry for more continues to go up unsatisfied
ref:
1895, The Chronicle - Volumes 55-56, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
No man knew what his water rights were until they had been lawed over, and lawed over, and lawed over again.
ref:
1914, California Outlook - Volume 16, page lxx
type:
quotation
text:
It has been truly said that we are lawed into existence and lawed through life and lawed out of it more than any other nation
ref:
1920, Weight and Measure, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
She knows what's tethered underwater. Not Children's bodies, but their toys, their lost, Lawed-against pleasures
ref:
1994, Lisa Lewis, The Unbeliever, page 58
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To work as a lawyer; to practice law.
To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.
To enforce the law.
To subject to legal restrictions.
senses_topics:
|
6915 | word:
law
word_type:
noun
expansion:
law (plural laws)
forms:
form:
laws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
law
etymology_text:
From Middle English lawe, from Old English hlāw (“burial mound”). Also spelled low.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tumulus of stones.
A hill.
senses_topics:
|
6916 | word:
law
word_type:
noun
expansion:
law (plural laws)
forms:
form:
laws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
law
etymology_text:
From Middle English lagh, from Old Norse lag (“that which is lying or laid, position, price, way, sting, blow”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą (“that which is laid”). Cognate with Scots lauch (“one's tavern-reckoning or one's share of the cost, a score; a payment for drink or entertainment”), Middle English lai (“one's share of expenses, one's bill or account”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A score; share of expense; legal charge.
senses_topics:
|
6917 | word:
law
word_type:
intj
expansion:
law
forms:
wikipedia:
law
etymology_text:
Compare la and Lawd.
senses_examples:
text:
‘Do tell me once for all, whether you intend to marry Mr Watts or not?’ ‘Law Mama, how can I tell you what I don't know myself?’
ref:
1791-92, Jane Austen, ‘The Three Sisters’, Juvenilia
text:
[…] and my boots were a leetle 'eavier than they are, law bless my soul! I'd do it myself.
ref:
1870, Arthur William A'Beckett, The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal of Satire, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
Arthur Sketchley. But, law bless my 'art , it's werry orful to be a forriner, as I were a-thinkin', and never be able to make yourself understood, except in that gibberish,
ref:
2024 March 1, Arthur Sketchley, Mrs. Brown on the Skating Rink, BoD – Books on Demand, page 127
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks; in interjections, a minced oath for Lord.
senses_topics:
|
6918 | word:
chemical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
chemical (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From chemic (“alchemy”) + -al (“related to”).
senses_examples:
text:
chemical experiments
type:
example
text:
the chemical properties of iron
type:
example
text:
Pentalene has chemical formula C₈H₆
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to chemistry.
Of or relating to a material or processes not commonly found in nature or in a particular product.
Of or relating to alchemy.
senses_topics:
|
6919 | word:
chemical
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chemical (plural chemicals)
forms:
form:
chemicals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From chemic (“alchemy”) + -al (“related to”).
senses_examples:
text:
Hydrogen and sulphur are both chemicals.
type:
example
text:
I color my hair with henna, not chemicals.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any specific chemical element or chemical compound or alloy.
An artificial chemical compound.
An addictive drug.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
6920 | word:
recuperate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
recuperate (third-person singular simple present recuperates, present participle recuperating, simple past and past participle recuperated)
forms:
form:
recuperates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
recuperating
tags:
participle
present
form:
recuperated
tags:
participle
past
form:
recuperated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre (“get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover. The pronunciation without /j/ may have been influenced by the semantically similar, but etymologically distinct verb recoup.
senses_examples:
text:
[...] of each province in 1842 and 1894 - that is, before the Taiping rebellion, and since China has recuperated her forces.
ref:
1901, Edward Harper Parker, China, Her History, Diplomacy, and Commerce: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, London : Murray, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
[...] one of many female poets who was trivialized and misrepresented for decades. When William Wordsworth recuperated her by praising her “Nocturnal Reverie,” he set what became a limiting factor in Finch's recovery: he treated her as a pre-Romantic ppoet of nature, and she became resituated in literary history as a much flatter or less complicated poet than she was in her lifetime.
ref:
2015 March 9, Gary Day, Jack Lynch, The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789, John Wiley & Sons, page 494
type:
quotation
text:
In LS, July emerges as a survivor and a storyteller with a traumatic past who has recuperated her relationship with her lost son. Her questioning and humorously subversive discourse gives emotional and textual depth to […]
ref:
2015 August 1, Cristina Herrera, Paula Sanmartín, Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text; Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing, Demeter Press
type:
quotation
text:
Mannheim's purpose when elaborating his typology of ideology was, as we have seen above, to recuperate the concept of ideology for scientific politics, after having discarded elements of Manichean egocentricity.
ref:
1991, Joseph Gabel, Karl Mannheim and Hungarian Marxism, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
She sought ultimately to recuperate the classical concept of the public realm against what she described, in negative terms, as the "rise of the social" characteristic of the modern world.
ref:
1999, Jonathan M. Hess, Reconstituting the Body Politic, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
[…] there is also the danger […] that such a critique recuperates gender in terms that quite literally invisiblize the very issues of race and ethnicity […]
ref:
2002, Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, Ben Saunders, Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture
type:
quotation
text:
The fact that even many of the harshest critics of environmental thought have sought to somehow recuperate the concept reflects how deeply it has become embedded in our discourse.
ref:
2020, Etienne S. Benson, Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).
To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.
To recover; to regain.
To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology |
6921 | word:
tooth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tooth (plural teeth)
forms:
form:
teeth
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tothe, toth, tooth, from Old English tōþ (“tooth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Related to tusk. Doublet of dent, dens, tind, and tine.
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots tuth, tuith (“tooth”), North Frisian toth, tos (“tooth”), Dutch tand (“tooth”), German Zahn (“tooth”), Danish tand (“tooth”), Swedish tand (“tooth”), Norwegian tann (“tooth”), Icelandic tönn (“tooth”), Welsh dant (“tooth”), Latin dēns (“tooth”), Lithuanian dantìs (“tooth”), Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús)/ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”), Armenian ատամ (atam), Persian دندان (dandân), Sanskrit दत् (dát), दन्त (danta, “tooth”).
senses_examples:
text:
Jute has more tooth than polypropylene.
type:
example
text:
Species XXXVI. Obliquaria bullata— (Unio bullata) […] Found at the falls of Ohio; rare; breadth almost two inches; cardinal and lamellar teeth like preceding species; apices rounded, decorticated, but not truncated
ref:
1832, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, A monograph of the fluviatile bivalve shells of the river Ohio, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
I have a sweet tooth: I love sugary treats.
type:
example
text:
These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth
ref:
1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food.
A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
Of a rope, the stickiness when in contact with another rope as in a knot.
A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
botany
natural-sciences
algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
6922 | word:
tooth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tooth (third-person singular simple present tooths, present participle toothing, simple past and past participle toothed)
forms:
form:
tooths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
toothing
tags:
participle
present
form:
toothed
tags:
participle
past
form:
toothed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tothe, toth, tooth, from Old English tōþ (“tooth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Related to tusk. Doublet of dent, dens, tind, and tine.
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots tuth, tuith (“tooth”), North Frisian toth, tos (“tooth”), Dutch tand (“tooth”), German Zahn (“tooth”), Danish tand (“tooth”), Swedish tand (“tooth”), Norwegian tann (“tooth”), Icelandic tönn (“tooth”), Welsh dant (“tooth”), Latin dēns (“tooth”), Lithuanian dantìs (“tooth”), Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús)/ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”), Armenian ատամ (atam), Persian دندان (dandân), Sanskrit दत् (dát), दन्त (danta, “tooth”).
senses_examples:
text:
His Wife sate near him, teasing matted wool, / While, from the twin cards toothed with glittering wire / He fed the spindle […]
ref:
1815, William Wordsworth, The Brothers
type:
quotation
text:
to tooth a saw
text:
Whereas if the Header of one side of the wall, toothed as much as the Stretcher on the other side, it would be a stronger Toothing, and the joints of the Header on one side, would be in the middle of the Headers of the course they lie upon of the other side
ref:
1678, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: or the Doctrine of Handy-works, page 260
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide or furnish with teeth.
To indent; to jag.
To lock into each other, like gear wheels.
senses_topics:
|
6923 | word:
procrastination
word_type:
noun
expansion:
procrastination (usually uncountable, plural procrastinations)
forms:
form:
procrastinations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French procrastination, from Latin prōcrāstinātiō, from prōcrāstinō (“procrastinate”), from prō + crāstinus (“of tomorrow”), from crās (“tomorrow”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially habitually or intentionally.
senses_topics:
|
6924 | word:
candor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
candor (usually uncountable, plural candors)
forms:
form:
candors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin candor (“brightness, whiteness”), from candeō (“I shine”).
senses_examples:
text:
Whilst thou didst keep thy Candor undefil'd,
Deerly I lov'd thee; as my first-born child[…]
ref:
1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides, "To his Booke"
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Whiteness; brilliance; purity.
The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression.
Impartiality.
senses_topics:
|
6925 | word:
belief
word_type:
noun
expansion:
belief (countable and uncountable, plural beliefs)
forms:
form:
beliefs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bileve, from Old English lēafa, from Proto-West Germanic *laubu from Proto-Germanic *laubō. Compare German Glaube (“faith, belief”).
The replacement of final /v/ with /f/ is due to the analogy of noun-verb pairs with /f/ in the noun but /v/ in the verb, creating a pair belief : believe on the model of e.g. grief : grieve or proof : prove.
senses_examples:
text:
It's my belief that the thief is somebody known to us.
type:
example
text:
The belief that there is no conflict between [livestock] farming and arable production also seems to be unfounded: by preventing the growth of trees and other deep vegetation in the hills and by compacting the soil, grazing animals cause a cycle of flash floods and drought, sporadically drowning good land downstream and reducing the supply of irrigation water.
ref:
2013 December 6, George Monbiot, “Why I'm eating my words on veganism – again”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 26, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
My belief is that there is a bear in the woods. Bill said he saw one.
type:
example
text:
Based on this data, it is our belief that X does not occur.
type:
example
text:
The ancient people have a belief in many deities.
type:
example
text:
My belief that it will rain tomorrow is strong.
type:
example
text:
She often said it was her belief that carried her through the hard times.
type:
example
text:
I can't do that. It's against my beliefs.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.
Something believed.
The quality or state of believing.
Religious faith.
One's religious or moral convictions.
senses_topics:
|
6926 | word:
slid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slid
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of slide
senses_topics:
|
6927 | word:
slung
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slung
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of sling
senses_topics:
|
6928 | word:
smelled
word_type:
verb
expansion:
smelled
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of smell
senses_topics:
|
6929 | word:
charlatan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
charlatan (plural charlatans)
forms:
form:
charlatans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
charlatan
etymology_text:
From Middle French charlatan, from Old Italian ciarlatano (“quack”), a blend of ciarlatore (“chatterer”) + cerretano (“hawker, quack”, literally “native of Cerreto”) (Cerreto di Spoleto being a village in Umbria, known for its quacks).
senses_examples:
text:
That this disgraceful charlatan holds one of the great offices of state in this country should be a source of constant shame and embarrassment to the Prime Minister.
ref:
2018 June, Ian Murray, The Independent
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs.
A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
senses_topics:
|
6930 | word:
foot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
foot (plural feet or (UK colloquial, unit of measure) foot)
forms:
form:
feet
tags:
plural
form:
foot
tags:
error-unknown-tag
plural
wikipedia:
foot
etymology_text:
From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of pes, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous.
senses_examples:
text:
A spider has eight feet.
type:
example
text:
Southern Italy is shaped like a foot.
type:
example
text:
We went there by foot because we could not afford a taxi.
type:
example
text:
There is a lot of foot traffic on this street.
type:
example
text:
I'll meet you at the foot of the stairs.
type:
example
text:
We came and stood at the foot of the bed.
type:
example
text:
The host should sit at the foot of the table.
type:
example
text:
The feet of the stove hold it a safe distance above the floor.
type:
example
text:
The flag pole at the local high school is about 20 feet high.
type:
example
text:
King John went to battle with ten thousand foot and one thousand horse.
type:
example
text:
To make the mainsail fuller in shape, the outhaul is eased to reduce the tension on the foot of the sail.
type:
example
text:
May 20, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann
As to his being on the foot of a servant.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
Travel by walking.
The base or bottom of anything.
The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
Ellipsis of square foot. A unit of area.
A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
Ellipsis of cubic foot. A unit of volume.
A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
Foot soldiers; infantry.
The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
The bottom edge of a sail.
The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
The globular lower domain of a protein.
The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
Recognized condition; rank; footing.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
government
military
politics
war
cigars
lifestyle
business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
media
printing
publishing
media
printing
publishing
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
nautical
transport
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
malacology
natural-sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
|
6931 | word:
foot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
foot (third-person singular simple present foots, present participle footing, simple past and past participle footed)
forms:
form:
foots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
footing
tags:
participle
present
form:
footed
tags:
participle
past
form:
footed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
foot
etymology_text:
From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of pes, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous.
senses_examples:
text:
There's time enough, I hope, To foot a measure with the bonnie bride,
ref:
1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1 (Dramas 2, p.217)
text:
[…] Or shepherd-boy, they featly foot the green
ref:
1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Gardens
type:
quotation
text:
People who would not have dared to foot the place before crept in and did not come to the house.
ref:
1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
I'll sew nether stocks and mend them and foot them too
ref:
19th century, William Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth Part 1 (modern edited version)
type:
quotation
text:
to foot (or foot up) an account
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
To pay (a bill).
To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
To walk.
To set foot on; to walk on.
To set on foot; to establish; to land.
To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
senses_topics:
|
6932 | word:
ponderous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ponderous (comparative more ponderous, superlative most ponderous)
forms:
form:
more ponderous
tags:
comparative
form:
most ponderous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Ultimately from Latin ponderōsus (“weighty”).
senses_examples:
text:
[H]e saw, at the end of a shallow embrasure, a ponderous door of dark wood, braced with iron.
ref:
1879, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 5, in Archibald Malmaison
type:
quotation
text:
The great elephant, when the cage was being placed, would, at a signal from its keeper, place its ponderous head against one side of the cage and push.
ref:
c. 1920, Edgar B. P. Darlington, chapter 4, in The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings
type:
quotation
text:
It was Dryden's opinion . . . that the drama required an alternation of comick and tragick scenes; and that it is necessary to mitigate, by alleviations of merriment, the pressure of ponderous events, and the fatigue of toilsome passions.
ref:
1781, Samuel Johnson, “Dryden”, in Lives of the Poets
type:
quotation
text:
In its court-yard—worthy of the Castle of Otranto in its ponderous gloom—is a massive staircase.
ref:
1845, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in Pictures From Italy
type:
quotation
text:
For the time, her own body was the source of all the life in the world, which tried to burst forth here—there—and was repressed now by Mr. Bax, now by Evelyn, now by the imposition of ponderous stupidity.
ref:
1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter 19, in The Voyage Out
type:
quotation
text:
Slowly, through an increasing glow that lighted land and water alike, the leviathan of the deep made her ponderous progress to the hill-encircled harbor.
ref:
1915, Samuel Hopkins Adams, chapter 10, in Little Miss Grouch
type:
quotation
text:
Following his steps . . . came two elderly women of the lower middle class, one stout and ponderous, the other rosy cheeked and nimble.
ref:
1919, Virginia Woolf, Kew Gardens
type:
quotation
text:
Over supper the minister did unbend a little into one or two ponderous jokes.
ref:
1863, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis
type:
quotation
text:
[A]s certainly as any one said anything in her presence that she had occasion to repeat, she changed the wording to six-syllabled mouthfuls, delivered with ponderous circumlocution.
ref:
1918, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter 2, in A Daughter Of The Land
type:
quotation
text:
Ponderous thoughts take hold of the heart; musing maketh the fire to burn, and steady sight hath the greatest influence upon us.
ref:
c. 1660, Thomas Manton, “Sermon Upon John III”, in Works of Thomas Manton, 2002 edition, page 464
type:
quotation
text:
The acute and ponderous mind of Dr. Johnson was not always right in its decisions.
ref:
1804, The Literary Magazine and American Register, volume 2, number 7, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
They are the pleasantest of all companions, and perhaps the most affluent in correct opinions of men and things generally, although little addicted to ponderous consideration or deep research.
ref:
1850, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 41, page 242
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Heavy, massive, weighty.
Serious, onerous, oppressive.
Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight.
Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression.
Characterized by or associated with pondering.
Dense.
senses_topics:
|
6933 | word:
theory
word_type:
noun
expansion:
theory (countable and uncountable, plural theories)
forms:
form:
theories
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
theory
etymology_text:
From Middle French théorie, from Late Latin theōria, from Ancient Greek θεωρία (theōría, “contemplation, speculation, a looking at, things looked at”), from θεωρέω (theōréō, “I look at, view, consider, examine”), from θεωρός (theōrós, “spectator”), from θέα (théa, “view”) + ὁράω (horáō, “I see, look”) [i. e. θέαν ὁράω (théan horáō, “see, look at a view; survey + genitive”)].
senses_examples:
text:
As they encrease the hatred of vice in some, so doe they enlarge the theory of wickednesse in all.
ref:
1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, VII.19
type:
quotation
text:
In its most proper acceptation, theory means the completed result of philosophical induction from experience.
ref:
1843, John Stuart Mill, ""A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, ..., Bk V, Ch 7
text:
Does this mean, then, that there can be no such thing as a theory of literature?
ref:
1990, Tony Bennett, Outside Literature, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
It was only when Einstein's theory of relativity was published in 1915 that physicists could show that Mercury's "anomaly" was actually because Newton's gravitational theory was incomplete.
ref:
2002 May 23, Duncan Steel, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The world would need additional decades [...] before the Big Bang would begin to move from interesting idea to established theory.
ref:
2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
Scientists and creationists are understanding the word "theory" in two very different senses. Evolution is a theory in the same sense as the heliocentric theory. In neither case should the word "only" be used, as in "only a theory".
ref:
2009, Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, Bantam, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
ref:
2012 January 24, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2013-04-30, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
Lopukhov wrote a number of books and articles on ballet theory, as well as his memoirs.
ref:
1998, Elizabeth Souritz, The Great History of Russian Ballet
type:
quotation
text:
Knot theory classifies the mappings of a circle into 3-space.
type:
example
text:
It's just a theory I have, and I wonder if women would agree. But don't men say a lot about themselves when a short-skirted woman slides out of a car or chair?
ref:
1999, Wes DeMott, Vapors
type:
quotation
text:
The theory is that by stripping costs to the bone, they are able to offer ludicrously low fares.
ref:
2003 June 21, Sean Coughlan, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
A theory is consistent if it has a model.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate.
A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc.
The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice.
A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
A hypothesis or conjecture.
A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; or, a set of statements which are deductively closed. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems). The statements may be required to all be bound (i.e., to have no free variables).
Mental conception; reflection, consideration.
senses_topics:
sciences
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
|
6934 | word:
legal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
legal (comparative more legal, superlative most legal)
forms:
form:
more legal
tags:
comparative
form:
most legal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin lēgālis (“legal”), from lēx (“law”). Doublet of loyal and leal.
senses_examples:
text:
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
ref:
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
legal profession
type:
example
text:
legal precedent
type:
example
text:
After 50 years, legal segregation is a distant memory, and race in America is not the unbridgeable chasm it once was. The country has a black president. The sort of comity that King evoked, in which the descendants of slaves and of slave owners “sit down together at the table of brotherhood”, can be found in many places, including the Deep South. The rate of marriage between blacks and whites is rising.
ref:
2013 August 23, “Waking life”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850
type:
quotation
text:
legal motion
type:
example
text:
If you have no legal move, but are not in check the game is a draw.
text:
Programming languages are designed so that each legal program has exactly one meaning
ref:
2021, John V. Guttag, Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python, Third Edition, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
"Is she even legal? Shame on you, diddlin' a girl too young to buy beer. You being a church deacon and all." If looks could kill, Dale would be dead.
ref:
2012 September 18, Sandra Brown, Low Pressure, Grand Central Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
"Is she even legal? She looks like a minor." Elias whispers back, "Of course. I checked her passport. She's 20. What do you take me for? Be nice. I like her." I immediately smile at the girl behind Elias,[…]
ref:
2024 April 18, Ayin Quijano, Bottoms Up, Boracay (Season 2 Amihan), Ayin Quijano
type:
quotation
text:
Whether you're interested in opening a retail marijuana store in a legal state or if you're interested in investing in someone or a company, which is operating in a legal state, there are[…]
ref:
2016 January 30, Jasper Stohner, 101 Money Making Methods in the Marijuana Madness Movement of 2016, Lulu.com, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
[Because] marijuana is still a federally illegal drug, using the drug in a child's presence, even in a legal state, could thus be construed as child abuse.
ref:
2019 September 13, Tracy Ferrell, Migrating for Medical Marijuana: Pioneers in a New Frontier of Treatment, McFarland, page 160
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to the law or to lawyers.
Having its basis in the law.
Being established, permitted, required or prescribed by law.
Following the rules or syntax of a system, such as a game or a programming language.
Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
Permitting the use and/or sale of cannabis; in which cannabis is lawful.
(of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm) (also legal-size).
senses_topics:
|
6935 | word:
legal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
legal (countable and uncountable, plural legals)
forms:
form:
legals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin lēgālis (“legal”), from lēx (“law”). Doublet of loyal and leal.
senses_examples:
text:
Legal wants this in writing.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The legal department of a company.
Paper in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm).
A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc.
Somebody who immigrated lawfully.
senses_topics:
|
6936 | word:
anomaly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
anomaly (plural anomalies)
forms:
form:
anomalies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
anomaly
etymology_text:
From Latin anomalia, from Ancient Greek ἀνωμαλία (anōmalía, “irregularity, anomaly”), from ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos, “irregular, uneven”), negating the meaning of ὁμαλός (homalós, “even”), from ὁμός (homós, “same”).
senses_examples:
text:
This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.
ref:
1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.
type:
example
text:
She disregarded some of the anomalies in the experiment, putting them down to miscalculation.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
Any of various angular distances.
A defect or malformation.
A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
An irregularity or disproportion.
senses_topics:
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
|
6937 | word:
led
word_type:
verb
expansion:
led
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of lead
senses_topics:
|
6938 | word:
led
word_type:
adj
expansion:
led (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Under somebody's control or leadership.
Under somebody's control or leadership.
Of a farm, etc.: managed by a deputy instead of the owner or tenant in person.
senses_topics:
|
6939 | word:
remake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
remake (third-person singular simple present remakes, present participle remaking, simple past and past participle remade)
forms:
form:
remakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
remaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
remade
tags:
participle
past
form:
remade
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From re- + make.
senses_examples:
text:
You'll need to remake that cake, as it's completely burned.
type:
example
text:
The director wanted to remake some of his favourite films from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make again.
To make a new, especially updated, version of (a film, video game, etc.).
senses_topics:
|
6940 | word:
remake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
remake (plural remakes)
forms:
form:
remakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
remake
etymology_text:
From re- + make.
senses_examples:
text:
I haven't seen the original film, but the remake was great.
type:
example
text:
The thing I like most about the Total Recall remake is the—I have to presume ironic—name of its production company. The first words that appear on screen are “Original Film”.
ref:
2012 August 24, John Patterson, “Total Recall—a remake to forget”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The family film is the remake of a remake – the 2022 version puts a new spin on the 2003 movie of the same name, which updated the 1950 movie based on the semi-autobiographical novel by siblings Frank Butler Gilbreth Jr and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.
ref:
2022 March 18, Adrian Horton, “Cheaper by the Dozen review – breezy Disney remake of family comedy”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A new version of something.
A new, especially updated, version of a film, video game, etc.
senses_topics:
|
6941 | word:
engender
word_type:
verb
expansion:
engender (third-person singular simple present engenders, present participle engendering, simple past and past participle engendered)
forms:
form:
engenders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
engendering
tags:
participle
present
form:
engendered
tags:
participle
past
form:
engendered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre, from in- + generāre (“to generate”).
senses_examples:
text:
Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him[…].
ref:
1891, Henry James, “James Russell Lowell”, in Essays in London and Elsewhere, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee.
ref:
1928 October 8, “New Plays in Manhattan”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
Manufacturing is not simply about brute or emergency economics. It's also about a sense of involvement and achievement engendered by shaping and crafting useful, interesting, well-designed things.
ref:
2009 December 21, Jonathan Glancey, “The art of industry”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Thick Clouds are ſpread, and Storms engender there,
And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear,
And Winds that on their Wings, cold Winter bear.
ref:
a. 1700, “Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, in John Dryden, transl., Poems on Various Occasions; and Translations from Several Authors, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1701, book I, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
But that the bodies of the Reprobate, who make the Kingdome of Satan, ſhall alſo be glorious, or ſpirituall bodies, or that they ſhall bee as the Angels of God, neither eating, nor, drinking, nor engendering[…], there is no place of Scripture to prove it[…]
ref:
1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Kingdome of Darknesse”, in Leviathan, Or The Matter Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: Andrew Crooke, page 343
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
To copulate, to have sex.
senses_topics:
|
6942 | word:
engender
word_type:
verb
expansion:
engender (third-person singular simple present engenders, present participle engendering, simple past and past participle engendered)
forms:
form:
engenders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
engendering
tags:
participle
present
form:
engendered
tags:
participle
past
form:
engendered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From en- + gender.
senses_examples:
text:
Gender, they emphasize, is socially constructed by our surroundings. We are en-gendered by our families, our teachers, and by the images in our music, films, media and fashions.
ref:
1981 April 11, Group Material Collective Changing Arttistic Definitions, “Philip Shehadi”, in Gay Community News, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
As such they are an important way of understanding both how texts are engendered (how they articulate particular sex or gender role) and how they engender their consumers.
ref:
1992, Anne Cranny-Francis, Engendered Fictions, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
I focus on […] the efforts of feminist critics of science to examine the engendered origins and implications of scientific rationality and modern epistemology.
ref:
1996, Steven C Ward, Reconfiguring Truth, page xviii
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
senses_topics:
|
6943 | word:
metaphor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
metaphor (countable and uncountable, plural metaphors)
forms:
form:
metaphors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
metaphor
etymology_text:
From Middle French métaphore, from Latin metaphora, from Ancient Greek μεταφορά (metaphorá), from μεταφέρω (metaphérō, “I transfer, apply”), from μετά (metá, “with, across, after”) + φέρω (phérō, “I bear, carry”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: simile (when the similarity is made explicit by the words like or as)
text:
The next group of computational approaches to metaphor assume that metaphor is basically a hidden analogy.
ref:
2013, Eileen Cornell Way, Knowledge Representation and Metaphor, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
A Metaphor may be changed into a Simile, and also into plain language, containing neither metaphor nor simile. Thus:
Metaphor. — Idleness is the rust of the soul.
Simile. — As rust is to iron, so is idleness to the soul, taking away its strength and power of resistance.
Plain. — Idleness takes away from the soul its strength and power of resistance.
ref:
1874, John Seely Hart, First Lessons in Composition, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
1979, Daniel Breazeale (translator), Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense [1873, Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn], in Philosophy and Truth, page 84, quoted in 1998, Ian Markham, Truth and the Reality of God: An Essay in Natural Theology, page 103,
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seems to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions; they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins.
text:
desktop metaphor; wastebasket metaphor
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The use of a word or phrase to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word or phrase.
A word or phrase used in such implied comparison.
The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
6944 | word:
metaphor
word_type:
verb
expansion:
metaphor (third-person singular simple present metaphors, present participle metaphoring, simple past and past participle metaphored)
forms:
form:
metaphors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
metaphoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
metaphored
tags:
participle
past
form:
metaphored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
metaphor
etymology_text:
From Middle French métaphore, from Latin metaphora, from Ancient Greek μεταφορά (metaphorá), from μεταφέρω (metaphérō, “I transfer, apply”), from μετά (metá, “with, across, after”) + φέρω (phérō, “I bear, carry”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use a metaphor.
To describe by means of a metaphor.
senses_topics:
|
6945 | word:
fortuitous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fortuitous (comparative more fortuitous, superlative most fortuitous)
forms:
form:
more fortuitous
tags:
comparative
form:
most fortuitous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin fortuītus.
senses_examples:
text:
Admiral Kurita has no identification charts for escort carriers, and, so, assumes that the distant targets are fleet carriers. Commensurately, by scale, their escorts must either be battleships or cruisers. The Japanese forces therefore continue to load armor-piercing rounds, what will turn out to be a very fortuitous mistake for their targets for as long as it lasts.
ref:
2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 12:25 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03
type:
quotation
text:
England were ragged at this point but the response was full of conviction, equalising swiftly then taking control before the tiring Danes and the magnificent Schmeichel were finally overcome with Kane's fortuitous winner.
ref:
2021 July 7, Phil McNulty, “England 2-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Happening by chance; coincidental, accidental.
Happening by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.
Happening independently of human will.
senses_topics:
law |
6946 | word:
arid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
arid (comparative arider or more arid, superlative aridest or most arid)
forms:
form:
arider
tags:
comparative
form:
more arid
tags:
comparative
form:
aridest
tags:
superlative
form:
most arid
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French aride or directly from Latin āridus (“dry, arid, parched”), compare its synonymous contracted form ardus. Originally from the verb āreo (“I am dry, I am parched”), akin to ārdeō (“I am on fire, I burn”).
senses_examples:
text:
The cake was arid.
type:
example
text:
Deserts are known for being arid.
type:
example
text:
And because this part of Utah is arid, the geologic landscape is fully revealed with very little vegetation to hide it, faults and all.
ref:
2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition
type:
quotation
text:
The millionaire viewed his gift as arid.
type:
example
text:
Such occupations might have seemed arid to those who did not possess the intellect to appreciate their subtleties.
ref:
1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very dry.
Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
Devoid of value.
senses_topics:
|
6947 | word:
reset
word_type:
verb
expansion:
reset (third-person singular simple present resets, present participle resetting, simple past and past participle reset)
forms:
form:
resets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
resetting
tags:
participle
present
form:
reset
tags:
participle
past
form:
reset
tags:
past
wikipedia:
reset
etymology_text:
From re- + set.
senses_examples:
text:
The next section explains how to reset the administrator password with the help of this challenge question.
ref:
2008, Bonnie Biafore, QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, page 654
type:
quotation
text:
With the Hormone Reset you'll learn how to reset your weight, nutrition, hormones, and habitual patterns, from cell to soul; […]
ref:
2015, Sara Gottfried, The Hormone Reset Diet […], Harper Collins
type:
quotation
text:
He turned and steered his course toward some lights clustered at the end of the street. They proved farther away than he had anticipated, and after a long quest he came to the conclusion that his eyes had been mysteriously removed from their proper places and had been reset on either side of his head like those of a bird.
ref:
1895, Robert W. Chambers, Rue Barrée
type:
quotation
text:
The advantage of the Monotype machine over the Linotype one was that corrections could be made using precast sorts. This was especially useful for book production. With the Linotype method, the whole line had to be reset and replaced.
ref:
2005, Alan Pipes, Production for Graphic Designers, 4th edition, Laurence King Publishing, page 66
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set back to the initial state.
To set to zero.
To adjust; to set or position differently.
senses_topics:
|
6948 | word:
reset
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reset (plural resets)
forms:
form:
resets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
reset
etymology_text:
From re- + set.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: reboot
text:
A reset halts whatever is taking place on the bus and prepares devices for the beginning of a new communication cycle. A reset begins when the master pulls the bus low for a period greater than 480 μs.
ref:
2003, Dan Eisenreich, Brian DeMuth, Designing Embedded Internet Devices, Newnes, page 350
type:
quotation
text:
That is why I have called for a ‘reset’ in relations between the United States and Russia. This must be more than a fresh start between the Kremlin and the White House, though that is important.
ref:
2009 July 7, Luke Harding, Matthew Weaver, quoting Barack Obama, “Barack Obama calls for 'reset' in US-Russia relations”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
On older PCs, a BIOS reset can set the default video output to the motherboard when your monitor is plugged into a PCIe graphics card.
ref:
2016, Mike Halsey, Windows 10 Troubleshooting, Apress, page 198
type:
quotation
text:
Music streaming needs a “complete reset”, according to a damning parliamentary report that calls on the UK competition watchdog to investigate the commercial power wielded by major record labels.
ref:
2021 July 14, Lanre Bakare, Alex Hern, “MPs call for ‘complete reset’ of music streaming to protect artists”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The planned changes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – CDC leaders call it a “reset” – come amid ongoing criticism of the agency’s response to Covid-19, monkeypox and other public health threats.
ref:
2022 August 17, AP, “CDC director calls for ‘reset’ of agency amid criticism of Covid response”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of resetting to the initial state.
The act of setting to zero.
A device, such as a button or switch, for resetting something.
That which is reset; printed matter set up again.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography |
6949 | word:
reset
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reset (plural resets)
forms:
form:
resets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
reset
etymology_text:
From receipt.
senses_examples:
text:
In early times it was common to charge the reset of property taken by robbery as reset of theft. But in later practice reset of property taken by robbery has been frequently libelled and found relevant (1).
ref:
1867, John H. A. MacDonald, A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law of Scotland, Edinburgh: William Paterson, page 405
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The crime of knowingly and dishonestly receiving stolen goods, or harbouring an outlaw.
senses_topics:
|
6950 | word:
reset
word_type:
verb
expansion:
reset (third-person singular simple present resets, present participle resetting, simple past and past participle resetted)
forms:
form:
resets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
resetting
tags:
participle
present
form:
resetted
tags:
participle
past
form:
resetted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
reset
etymology_text:
From receipt.
senses_examples:
text:
Criminal resetting of property shall not be limited to the receiving of property taken by theft or robbery, but shall extend to the receiving of property appropriated by breach of trust and embezzlement and by falsehood, fraud and wilful imposition.
ref:
1995, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part VI, section 51”, in Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995, page 41
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To receive and hide (stolen goods, or a criminal, etc.)
senses_topics:
|
6951 | word:
though
word_type:
adv
expansion:
though (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thaugh, thagh, from Old English þēah (“though, although, even if, that, however, nevertheless, yet, still; whether”), later superseded in many dialects by Middle English though, thogh, from Old Norse *þóh (later þó); both from Proto-Germanic *þauh (“though”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, suffixed with Proto-Germanic *-hw < Proto-Indo-European *-kʷe (“and”).
Akin to Scots thoch (“though”), Saterland Frisian dach (“though”), West Frisian dôch, dochs (“though”), Dutch doch (“though”), German doch (“though”), Swedish dock (“however, still”), Icelandic þó (“though”). More at that.
senses_examples:
text:
I'm not paid to do all this paperwork for you. I will do it this once, though.
type:
example
text:
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
"Man, it's hot in here." — "Isn't it, though?"
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Despite that; however.
Used to intensify statements or questions; indeed.
senses_topics:
|
6952 | word:
though
word_type:
conj
expansion:
though
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thaugh, thagh, from Old English þēah (“though, although, even if, that, however, nevertheless, yet, still; whether”), later superseded in many dialects by Middle English though, thogh, from Old Norse *þóh (later þó); both from Proto-Germanic *þauh (“though”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, suffixed with Proto-Germanic *-hw < Proto-Indo-European *-kʷe (“and”).
Akin to Scots thoch (“though”), Saterland Frisian dach (“though”), West Frisian dôch, dochs (“though”), Dutch doch (“though”), German doch (“though”), Swedish dock (“however, still”), Icelandic þó (“though”). More at that.
senses_examples:
text:
Though it is risky, it is worth taking the chance.
type:
example
text:
We shall be not sorry though the man die tonight.
type:
example
text:
"Though we called your friend from his bed this night, he could not speak for you, / "For the race is run by one and one and never by two and two."
ref:
1919, Rudyard Kipling, Tomlinson
type:
quotation
text:
Walk on through the wind, / Walk on through the rain, / Though your dreams be tossed and blown.
ref:
1945, Oscar Hammerstein II, “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (song), in Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Carousel (musical)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Despite the fact that; although.
If, that, even if.
senses_topics:
|
6953 | word:
meet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
meet (third-person singular simple present meets, present participle meeting, simple past and past participle met)
forms:
form:
meets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
meeting
tags:
participle
present
form:
met
tags:
participle
past
form:
met
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Meet
etymology_text:
From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, encounter”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to come, meet”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian mete (“to meet”), West Frisian moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”). Related to moot.
senses_examples:
text:
Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
type:
example
text:
Yesterday, upon the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away[…]
ref:
1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish
type:
quotation
text:
Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
type:
example
text:
I'm pleased to meet you! I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine.
type:
example
text:
I met my husband through a mutual friend at a party. It wasn't love at first sight; in fact, we couldn't stand each other at first!
type:
example
text:
I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
type:
example
text:
The dispatches[…] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
ref:
2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
England and Holland will meet in the final.
type:
example
text:
The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
type:
example
text:
The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
type:
example
text:
The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.
type:
example
text:
He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.
text:
This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
type:
example
text:
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
ref:
2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
1967, Northern Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) House of Commons Official Report
In this instance he has chosen an accountant. I suppose that it will be possible for an accountant to make the figures meet.
text:
The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
To get acquainted with someone.
To come together.
To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
To come together.
To come together in conflict.
To come together.
To play a match.
To make physical or perceptual contact.
To converge and finally touch or intersect.
To make physical or perceptual contact.
To touch or hit something while moving.
To make physical or perceptual contact.
To adjoin, be physically touching.
To make physical or perceptual contact.
To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
To satisfy; to comply with.
To balance or come out correct.
To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
6954 | word:
meet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meet (plural meets)
forms:
form:
meets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Meet
etymology_text:
From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, encounter”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to come, meet”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian mete (“to meet”), West Frisian moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”). Related to moot.
senses_examples:
text:
track meet
type:
example
text:
swim meet
type:
example
text:
Everyone has to experience their first swim meet. They have to get through their first race, their first DQ (disqualification), and their first miss/scratch of an event. Like all swimmers, my first swim meet was nerve-wracking.
ref:
2009, Alexandria Mangas, Janet Hommel Mangas, Oxygen for the Swimmer, Xulon Press, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
type:
example
text:
You feel me? You use these phones to set up a meet, go to that meet… and talk face to face, period.
ref:
2002, George Pelecanos, “Cleaning Up”, in The Wire, season 1, episode 12 (television production)
type:
quotation
text:
So what do you wanna do? I wanna be absolutely fucking sure. That's what I wanna do. We arrange a meet. I'll feel him out a little bit.
ref:
2004, Matthew Weiner, “Rat Pack”, in The Sopranos, season 5, episode 2 (television production)
type:
quotation
text:
Rosen assured Cregger that he had left no paper trail in bringing the rock into the States. Pretending to be reassured, Cregger agreed to a location for a meet: Tuna’s, a small restaurant and margarita bar off West Dixie highway in North Miami Beach.
ref:
2012 February 23, Joe Kloc, “The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks”, in Wired, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
A meeting.
The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
rail-transport
railways
transport
algebra
mathematics
sciences |
6955 | word:
meet
word_type:
adj
expansion:
meet (comparative meeter, superlative meetest)
forms:
form:
meeter
tags:
comparative
form:
meetest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Meet
etymology_text:
From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic *gamētijaz, *mētiz (“reasonable; estimable”) (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix *ga- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).
senses_examples:
text:
The mountain birds are sweeter,
But the valley birds are fatter,
And so we deemed it meeter
To carry off the latter.
ref:
1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter VIII, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, book I (The Sword in the Stone)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Suitable; right; proper.
Submissive; passive.
senses_topics:
|
6956 | word:
rewrite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rewrite (plural rewrites)
forms:
form:
rewrites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rewrite
etymology_text:
From re- + write.
senses_examples:
text:
The film script underwent a rewrite for the European market.
type:
example
text:
After a month of writing and another month for rehearsals and re-writes, the three planned a one-night-only performance billed as a work in progress at Josie's Cabaret and Juice Joint in San Francisco.
ref:
1991 August 24, Maridee BonaDea, “Pomo Afro Homos On The Road”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of writing again or anew.
Something that has been written again.
The replacement of subterms of a formula with other terms, according to certain rules, by way of transformation.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
6957 | word:
rewrite
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rewrite (third-person singular simple present rewrites, present participle rewriting, simple past rewrote, past participle rewritten)
forms:
form:
rewrites
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rewriting
tags:
participle
present
form:
rewrote
tags:
past
form:
rewritten
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
rewrite
etymology_text:
From re- + write.
senses_examples:
text:
The editor asked me to rewrite my article for a non-technical audience.
type:
example
text:
If we are going to rewrite all of those diagrams and change the duties of all of those staff, it will take a few weeks.
ref:
2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Timetable cuts as demand falls and staff are protected”, in Rail, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
The conservative establishment will have to ask themselves, what else they can do? […] And even though they rewrite the electoral rules in their favour, their parties still lose the election.
ref:
2023 May 8, Jonathan Head, “Thailand election: The young radicals shaking up politics”, in BBC News (World)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To write again, differently; to modify; to revise.
To write again (without changes).
To replace subterms of a formula with other terms, according to certain rules, by way of transformation.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
6958 | word:
inconsequential
word_type:
adj
expansion:
inconsequential (comparative more inconsequential, superlative most inconsequential)
forms:
form:
more inconsequential
tags:
comparative
form:
most inconsequential
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From in- + consequential.
senses_examples:
text:
You will never know the exact atomic time when you started reading this phrase; of course, that's inconsequential.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having no consequence; not consequential; of little importance.
Not logically following from the premises.
senses_topics:
|
6959 | word:
inconsequential
word_type:
noun
expansion:
inconsequential (plural inconsequentials)
forms:
form:
inconsequentials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From in- + consequential.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something unimportant; something that does not matter.
senses_topics:
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6960 | word:
overthrow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overthrow (third-person singular simple present overthrows, present participle overthrowing, simple past overthrew, past participle overthrown)
forms:
form:
overthrows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overthrowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
overthrew
tags:
past
form:
overthrown
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overthrowen, equivalent to over- + throw. Compare Dutch overdraaien, German überdrehen, Old English oferweorpan (“to overthrow”).
For the noun sense, compare Middle English overthrow, overthrowe (“destruction, downfall”), from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
I hate the current government, but not enough to want to overthrow them.
type:
example
text:
Wickedness often overthrows the health of the sinner. Go to the hospital, and see how many have ruined their health by their course of life. That drunkard. That glutton. That debauchee. Nine-tenths of the suffering from disease originates in the wickedness of the sinner.
ref:
1856, Jabez Burns, “LXVIII. The Ruinous Effects of Sin.”, in Cyclopedia of Sermons: […], New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], →OCLC, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
Violence directed specifically at the regime in power, such as coups d'etat also often fail to attain the threshold of civil wars. While such conflicts often involve the armed forces of the society, coups d'etat are more explicitly extralegal executive transfers aimed at overthrowing the sitting regime's leaders.
ref:
1999, Errol A. Henderson, “Civil Wars”, in Lester Kurtz, editor, Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict, volumes I (A–E), San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, section I (Definition of Civil War), page 279, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Pittacus was a wiſe and valiant man, but his wife overthrew the Table when he had invited his friends: upon which the good man to excuſe her incivility and his own miſfortune, ſaid, That every man had one evil, and he was moſt happy that had but that alone; […]
ref:
1650, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Of Christian Sobriety”, in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], London: Printed [by R. Norton] for Richard Royston […], →OCLC; The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 5th corrected edition, London: Printed for Richard Royston […], 1656, →OCLC, section VI (Of Contentedness in All Estates and Accidents), page 161
type:
quotation
text:
[W]hen they have found the Trees on which they [the elk] lean, they cut and ſaw them, ſo that when the Elk comes, he overthrows the Tree and falls with it; and being unable to riſe, is ſo taken alive.
ref:
[1780?], Nicholas Coxe, “A Short Account of Some Particular Beasts that are Hunted in Foreign Countries”, in The Huntsman. […], London: Printed for J. Dixwell, […], →OCLC, page 118
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force; to usurp.
To throw down to the ground, to overturn.
senses_topics:
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6961 | word:
overthrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
overthrow (countable and uncountable, plural overthrows)
forms:
form:
overthrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English overthrowen, equivalent to over- + throw. Compare Dutch overdraaien, German überdrehen, Old English oferweorpan (“to overthrow”).
For the noun sense, compare Middle English overthrow, overthrowe (“destruction, downfall”), from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
But Judge Livingstone decided that no resistence to law, however extensive or violent, is treason if overthrow of the government is not its object.
ref:
1891, Henry Boynton, “America”, in History of the Nineteenth Century in the United States and Europe, period I (During the Triumphs of Napoleon’s Empire), Augusta, Me.: Press Co., […], page 352
type:
quotation
text:
[Edward B.] Marks believed that [Milton] Cohen had paid spies everywhere to keep him up-to-date about impending political overthrows in the countries where he needed to stop, as he always escaped fine and dandy from every revolution he had to face.
ref:
2004, Carlos G. Groppa, “The Tango’s Influence on Other Popular Music”, in The Tango in the United States: A History, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, pages 59–60
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he narrator's football team has recently returned triumphant from Buenos Aires after winning the Copa Infantil Evita (Evita Youth Cup), part of the Juegos Evita (Evita Games) that were established in 1948 for children across Argentina, and which ran until the overthrow of Juan Perón in 1955
ref:
2017, David Wood, “Argentina beyond El Proceso: Narratives of National Reconstruction”, in Football and Literature in South America (Routledge Research in Sports History), Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 147
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force; usurpation.
An act of throwing something to the ground; an overturning.
senses_topics:
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6962 | word:
overthrow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
overthrow (third-person singular simple present overthrows, present participle overthrowing, simple past overthrew, past participle overthrown)
forms:
form:
overthrows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
overthrowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
overthrew
tags:
past
form:
overthrown
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From over- + throw.
senses_examples:
text:
He overthrew first base, for an error.
type:
example
text:
Unlike the gymnast landing on the firm floor and able to control his balance within fairly wide limits, the diver has little or no control of his position as he enters the water. If he overthrows on entry there is little he can do about it.
ref:
1999, H. C. Dubey, “Rules and Regulations”, in Diving (DPH Sports Series), London: Discovery Publishing House, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
To avoid [arm and shoulder injuries], strengthen muscles by throwing, increasing the repetitions and speed slowly; warm up slowly and thoroughly, stretching in advance; pursue weight training. Avoid overthrowing, especially early in the season.
ref:
1999, Penny Hastings, “Softball”, in Sports for Her: A Reference Guide for Teenage Girls, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
On May 6, 1995, eight-year-old Johnny Lupoli was warming up before a baseball game in Wallingford, Connecticut (Sports Illustrated, 1996). Johnny, a pitcher for the Kovacs Insurance team in the Yalesville Little League overthrew his catcher during the pre-game session and hit a spectator. Carol LaRosa, the injured spectator, who's son was a teammate of Lupoli, sued the young pitcher for $15,000 in damages.
ref:
2000, Thomas Appenzeller, Herb Appenzeller, “Injuries to Spectators”, in Youth Sport and the Law: A Guide to Legal Issues, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
One afternoon the local reverend and Curtis are tossing the football around at the park. When the reverend overthrows the ball, Curtis demands that Jasmine put down her book and throw the ball back. This is the moment where Curtis is handed a glimpse of her potential as a football player and begins his quest to inspire her to play.
ref:
2015, Viridiana Lieberman, “M.V.P.: The Most Vulnerable Player in Children’s Sports Films”, in Sports Heroines on Film: A Critical Study of Cinematic Women Athletes, Coaches and Owners, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, page 73
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To throw (something) so that it goes too far.
senses_topics:
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6963 | word:
overthrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
overthrow (plural overthrows)
forms:
form:
overthrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From over- + throw.
senses_examples:
text:
[A]n energy shift accompanies the onset of emotion. Failure to recognize this can lead to disruptions in performance. A quarterback who fails to acknowledge his excitement in a big game is prone to countless overthrows until the excitement has subsided.
ref:
2002, International Journal of Sport Psychology: Official Journal of the International Society of Sports Psychology, volume 33, Rome: Pozzi, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
The one-man lift is effective in creating enough of a contest in the air to disrupt the opposition or force an overthrow. The defender at the back of the lineout is perfectly positioned to catch an overthrow, and deter the attacking halfback from running around the back of the lineout.
ref:
2013, Marcus Blackburn, “Lesson 5: Defend as a Team”, in Coaching Rugby Sevens, 2nd edition, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
A late-scoring push forced overtime, but even in added time, the team was forced to go for a field goal on their initial drive after a pass rusher forced an overthrow from Purdy. This allowed Mahomes in and the emerging all-time great doesn’t often make mistakes.
ref:
2024 February 12, Ben Morse and Steve Almasy, “Kansas City Chiefs defeat San Francisco 49ers in OT in Super Bowl LVIII, become first back-to-back NFL champions in 19 years”, in CNN.com
type:
quotation
text:
Of all the cricket skills, good throwing is the one most readily appreciated by spectators, whether it be from the outfield or the infield. […] All throws must be "backed-up" by the nearest available fielder to prevent overthrows at both the bowler's and the wicket-keeper's ends. Nothing is more depressing than a fielding side giving away overthrows from bad throwing and backing-up.
ref:
1999, Ashok Kumar, “Fielding”, in Cricket (DPH Sports Series), New Delhi: Discovery Publishing House, published 2006, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
England required 15 from the last over of the regular match. Ben Stokes hit a six and benefited when a throw from the deep hit him and went for four overthrows.
ref:
2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A throw that goes too far.
A throw that goes too far.
A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence it continues to the opposite outfield.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
6964 | word:
slain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slain
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of slay
senses_topics:
|
6965 | word:
slain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slain pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
While the Valkyries were the choosers of the valorous slain, they were also obedient to the call of any in distress who asked their help.
ref:
1906, Mary Elizabeth Lewis, The ethics of Wagner's The ring of the Nibelung, page 41
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Those who have been killed.
senses_topics:
|
6966 | word:
impetuous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
impetuous (comparative more impetuous, superlative most impetuous)
forms:
form:
more impetuous
tags:
comparative
form:
most impetuous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English impetuous, from Old French impetueux, from Late Latin impetuōsus (“violent”), from Latin impetus (“attack, violence”).
senses_examples:
text:
But it was natural, that the impetuous, restless young artist should incline more to excess of strength than of delicacy in his playing.
ref:
1880, John Weeks Moore, “Beethoven, Louis Van”, in Complete Encyclopaedia of Music
type:
quotation
text:
The prime minister thought he could sagely steer his impetuous American friends away from actions they would later regret. It turns out they were just playing him for a patsy[.]
ref:
2003 March 16, Terry Jones, “Poor Tony Blair wakes up”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
How these developments might come about and what they will mean for humanity seems far more important to probe than Isaacson’s preferred focus on explaining Musk’s abusive, erratic, impetuous behavior.
ref:
2023 September 24, Sarah Frier, “We Don’t Need Another Antihero”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
He stands, and views in the faint rays
Far, far below, the torrent's rising surge,
And listens to the wild impetuous roar
ref:
1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, vol. II, chapter I
type:
quotation
text:
Having made a few vain attempts at engrossing my attention in my book, I was obliged to let myself be carried away by the impetuous torrent of the squire's eloquence.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
1917 rev. 1925, Ezra Pound, "Canto I"
Unsheathed the narrow sword,
I sat to keep off the impetuous impotent dead […]
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Making arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive and forceful manner.
Characterized by sudden violence or vehemence.
senses_topics:
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6967 | word:
get
word_type:
verb
expansion:
get (third-person singular simple present gets, present participle getting, simple past got or (archaic) gat, past participle got or (United States, Canada) gotten or (Geordie) getten)
forms:
form:
gets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
getting
tags:
participle
present
form:
got
tags:
past
form:
gat
tags:
archaic
past
form:
got
tags:
participle
past
form:
gotten
tags:
Canada
US
participle
past
form:
getten
tags:
Geordie
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
get
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
get
etymology_text:
From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną. Cognate with Old English ġietan (whence also English yet), Old Saxon getan (“to get, to gain sth.”), Old High German pigezzan (“to uphold”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bigitan, “to find, discover”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to seize”).
senses_examples:
text:
I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.
type:
example
text:
Lance is going to get Mary a ring.
type:
example
text:
I got a computer from my parents for my birthday.
type:
example
text:
He got a severe reprimand for that.
type:
example
text:
I've got a concert ticket for you.
type:
example
text:
Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?
type:
example
text:
I need to get this to the office.
type:
example
text:
I'm getting hungry; how about you?
type:
example
text:
I'm going out to get drunk.
type:
example
text:
November 1, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
text:
That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it.
type:
example
text:
I'll get this finished by lunchtime.
type:
example
text:
I can't get these boots off.
type:
example
text:
Somehow she got him to agree to it.
type:
example
text:
I can't get it to work.
type:
example
text:
Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
ref:
1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings
type:
quotation
text:
I got him to his room.
type:
example
text:
Get thee behind me.
ref:
1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Retro me, Sathana !”, in Ballads and Sonnets, →OCLC, page 252
type:
quotation
text:
The actors are getting into position.
type:
example
text:
When are we going to get to London?
type:
example
text:
I'm getting into a muddle.
type:
example
text:
We got behind the wall.
type:
example
text:
to get a mile
type:
example
text:
We ought to get moving or we'll be late.
type:
example
text:
After lunch we got chatting.
type:
example
text:
I'm getting to like him better now.
type:
example
text:
I normally get the 7:45 train.
type:
example
text:
I'll get the 9 a.m. [flight] to Boston.
type:
example
text:
Can you get that call, please? I'm busy.
type:
example
text:
I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live!
type:
example
text:
The finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure.
type:
example
text:
Great. I get to clean the toilets today.
type:
example
text:
Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny.
type:
example
text:
I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!
type:
example
text:
I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. She gets me.
type:
example
text:
"You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot."
type:
example
text:
Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl.
ref:
2011, “You Probably Get That A Lot (Elegant Too Remix)”, in They Might Be Giants (music), Album Raises New and Troubling Questions
type:
quotation
text:
He got bitten by a dog.
type:
example
text:
Of particular importance is the bureaucratic organization of European judiciaries. The judiciary is a career. You start at the bottom and get assigned and promoted at the pleasure of your superiors.
ref:
2003, Richard A. Posner, Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
You get some very rude people here.
type:
example
text:
It was the kind of shop you used to get in most small towns.
type:
example
text:
He thinks that proper to northern man is the cellular composition, you know, the kind of thing one gets in Celtic ornamentation, for example, which a subject that interests him greatly.
ref:
1964, Lawrence Alloway, “Cobra Group with Lawrence Alloway, 1964”, in Guggenheim Museum Archives Reel-to-Reel collection
type:
quotation
text:
You get non-binary people – you get people who don't identify as a man or a woman.
ref:
2021, 25:30 from the start, in No More Jockeys, season 4, episode 13, spoken by Mark Watson
type:
quotation
text:
It was a terrible place to live. You get places like that. It is just the way it is.
ref:
2023 October 27, Laine Priestley, Mary Williams, “Boarding house destroyed by fire”, in Star News
type:
quotation
text:
I went on holiday and got malaria.
type:
example
text:
He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time.
type:
example
text:
That question's really got me.
type:
example
text:
What did you get for question four?
type:
example
text:
The cops finally got me.
type:
example
text:
I'm gonna get him for that.
type:
example
text:
Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?
type:
example
text:
I put the getter into the container to get the gases.
type:
example
text:
Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.
ref:
2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 310
type:
quotation
text:
to get a lesson; to get out one's Greek lesson
type:
example
text:
it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty
ref:
1662, John Fell, The life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
Get her with her new hairdo.
type:
example
text:
Brother, get her! Draped on a bedspread made from three kinds of fur!
ref:
1966, Dorothy Fields (lyrics and music), “If My Friends Could See Me Now”
type:
quotation
text:
Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.
ref:
2007, Tom Dyckhoff, Let's move to ..., The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Get, now — get! — before I call an officer and lay a charge against ye.
ref:
1991, Theodore Dreiser, T. D. Nostwich, Newspaper Days, University of Pennsylvania Press, page 663
type:
quotation
text:
I had a sneaking suspicion that it wasn't no flashlight and I wasn't too curious, just then, to find out what would happen if he did more than wave it at me, so I got. I went back about twenty feet or so and watched.
ref:
1952, Fredric Brown, Mack Reynolds, Me and Flapjack and the Martians
type:
quotation
text:
'Go on, get. You look a state. We can't let Leo see you like that.'
ref:
2010, Sarah Webb, The Loving Kind, Pan Macmillan
type:
quotation
text:
Now go on, get! Get! Get! (she chases Joanne out the door with the hammer.)
ref:
2012, Paul Zindel, Ladies at the Alamo, Graymalkin Media
type:
quotation
text:
"[…] and then I'll switch over to the police band to know when the bacon's getting ready to stick its nose in. When I tell you to get, you get, understand?" Calamity asks as she retapes the earbud into her ear.
ref:
2016, April Daniels, Dreadnought, Diversion Books
type:
quotation
text:
They’re coming to get you, Barbara.
type:
example
text:
Did you get her temperature?
type:
example
text:
It gets me every time!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To obtain; to acquire.
To receive.
To have. See usage notes.
To fetch, bring, take.
To become, or cause oneself to become.
To cause to become; to bring about.
To cause to do.
To cause to come or go or move.
To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
(with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
(with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
To understand. (compare get it)
To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
To become ill with or catch (a disease).
To catch out, trick successfully.
To perplex, stump.
To find as an answer.
To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
To hear completely; catch.
To getter.
To beget (of a father).
To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
To go, to leave; to scram.
To kill.
To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
To measure.
To cause someone to laugh.
senses_topics:
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6968 | word:
get
word_type:
noun
expansion:
get (plural gets)
forms:
form:
gets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
get
etymology_text:
From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną. Cognate with Old English ġietan (whence also English yet), Old Saxon getan (“to get, to gain sth.”), Old High German pigezzan (“to uphold”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bigitan, “to find, discover”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to seize”).
senses_examples:
text:
At the time when I am making these observations, one of his colts is the first favourite for the Derby; and it will be recollected, that a filly of his get won the Oaks in 1808.
ref:
1810, Thomas Hornby Morland, The genealogy of the English race horse, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
You must admit that the bastard get of Paul Atreides would be no more than juicy morsels for those two [tigers].
ref:
1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
type:
quotation
text:
‘You were a high lord's get. Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’
ref:
1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 755
type:
quotation
text:
I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine.
ref:
2008, Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion, page 73
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Offspring.
Lineage.
A difficult return or block of a shot.
Something gained; an acquisition.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
|
6969 | word:
get
word_type:
noun
expansion:
get (plural gets)
forms:
form:
gets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
get
etymology_text:
Variant of git.
senses_examples:
text:
Kylie: Oi, Bono! You lazy get! Have you finished my song yet?
ref:
1990 January 13, David Quantick, Steven Wells, “Is It Rock Art Or Is It Nart?”, in New Musical Express
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of git (“contemptible person”)
senses_topics:
|
6970 | word:
get
word_type:
noun
expansion:
get (plural gets or gittim or gitten)
forms:
form:
gets
tags:
plural
form:
gittim
tags:
plural
form:
gitten
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
get
etymology_text:
From Hebrew גֵּט (gēṭ).
senses_examples:
text:
In Israel, rabbinic courts can imprison men until they acquiesce and grant gets to their wives.
ref:
2013, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, George D. Chryssides, Dawoud El-Alami, Love, Sex and Marriage, page 143
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Jewish writ of divorce.
senses_topics:
|
6971 | word:
mow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past mowed, past participle mowed or mown)
forms:
form:
mows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
mowed
tags:
past
form:
mowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
mown
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mowen (participle mowen), from Old English māwan (past tense mēow, past participle māwen), from Proto-West Germanic *māan, from Proto-Germanic *mēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- (“to mow, reap”).
See also Dutch maaien, German mähen, Danish meje, Swedish meja; also Hittite [script needed] (ḫamešḫa, “spring/early summer”, literally “mowing time”), Latin metō (“I harvest, mow”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “I mow”).
senses_examples:
text:
He mowed the lawn every few weeks in the summer.
type:
example
text:
In the afternoon they attacked again, in close formation: our artillery mowed them, but they came on and on, […]
ref:
1915, Captain Robert Palmer, Letters from Mesopotamia
type:
quotation
text:
On the one hand, we had a scenario where, effectively, the American admiral just went "You know what, all the destroyers attack", at which point they mowed through the Japanese destroyers like a Grim Reaper through a harvest of very, very dead gorn, especially with the Brooklyns in support.
ref:
2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 2022-07-04
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut down grass or crops.
To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
senses_topics:
|
6972 | word:
mow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mow (plural mows)
forms:
form:
mows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mowen (participle mowen), from Old English māwan (past tense mēow, past participle māwen), from Proto-West Germanic *māan, from Proto-Germanic *mēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- (“to mow, reap”).
See also Dutch maaien, German mähen, Danish meje, Swedish meja; also Hittite [script needed] (ḫamešḫa, “spring/early summer”, literally “mowing time”), Latin metō (“I harvest, mow”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “I mow”).
senses_examples:
text:
The lawn hasn't had a mow for a couple of months, so it's like a jungle out there!
type:
example
text:
I consider it would engender a stiff, tame, cautious mode of play, with only now and then a mow, or a chopping hit.
ref:
1828, Sporting Magazine (volume 21? 71? page 10)
text:
At times, they seemed to be playing an especially orgiastic version of Stick Cricket, all computerised mows over midwicket and 30 off the over.
ref:
2015, Lawrence Booth, The Shorter Wisden 2015
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.).
A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
6973 | word:
mow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mow (plural mows)
forms:
form:
mows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mowe, from Middle French moue (“lip, pout”), from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”), from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“muff, sleeve”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”). Doublet of moue ("pout").
senses_examples:
text:
Those that paint them dying […] delineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.
ref:
, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.212
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A scornful grimace; a wry face.
senses_topics:
|
6974 | word:
mow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)
forms:
form:
mows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
mowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
mowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mowe, from Middle French moue (“lip, pout”), from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”), from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“muff, sleeve”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”). Doublet of moue ("pout").
senses_examples:
text:
Nodding, becking, and mowing.
ref:
1848, William Tyndale, edited by Henry Walter, Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make grimaces, mock.
senses_topics:
|
6975 | word:
mow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mow (plural mows)
forms:
form:
mows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English mūga. Cognate with Norwegian muge (“heap, crowd, flock”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
senses_topics:
|
6976 | word:
mow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)
forms:
form:
mows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
mowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
mowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English mūga. Cognate with Norwegian muge (“heap, crowd, flock”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put into mows.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
lifestyle |
6977 | word:
mow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mow (plural mows)
forms:
form:
mows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of mew (a seagull)
senses_topics:
|
6978 | word:
rung
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rung (plural rungs)
forms:
form:
rungs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English hrung, from Proto-Germanic *hrungō. Compare Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌰 (hrugga, “a staff”).
senses_examples:
text:
One of its arms was a disabled flail which used to be wielded by Goodman Rigby, before his spouse worried him out of this troublesome world; the other, if I mistake not, was composed of the pudding stick and a broken rung of a chair, tied loosely together at the elbow.
ref:
1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Feathertop: a Moralized Legend”, in Mosses from an Old Manse
type:
quotation
text:
the lowest rung of the society
type:
example
text:
“I’m very proud that I’ve worked on every rung of the ladder,” Ashley says. “When you go to college, you don’t want to be a senior right away—you want to be a freshman.”
ref:
2023 June 15, Kat Moon, “Ashley Park’s Main Character Energy From ‘Joy Ride’ Is Here To Stay: ‘I’m Treating Myself Like A Lead Now’”, in Women's Health
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
A crosspiece between legs of a chair.
A position in a hierarchy.
A floor timber in a ship.
One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel.
One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
6979 | word:
rung
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rung
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
senses_examples:
text:
With ecchoing Shouts the vaulted Chamber rung, / Belle Chuck was now the TOAST of ev'ry Tongue.
ref:
1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section VI
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Seibels, in his testimony, said I rung him up to see about labels. He is very much mistaken. I rung him up to see about bottles.
ref:
1906, South Carolina. General Assembly, Report of State Officers, Board and Committees to the General ..., page 229
type:
quotation
text:
So they rung him up, and the next day he came to me and wanted to know where that pitch was.
ref:
1996, Peter Golenbock, Wrigleyville: A Magical History Tour of the Chicago Cubs, page 435
type:
quotation
text:
"I just rung him up, told him I was looking for an apartment and some work and got both of them the same day," Moe said.
ref:
2008, Dean Kuipers, Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke, page 70
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of ring (only in senses related to a bell)
simple past of ring
senses_topics:
|
6980 | word:
rung
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rung (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] he passed by his gate with a decided scowl on his furrowed brow, and grunting and growling like a newly rung pig.
ref:
1842, American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, volume 13, page 335
type:
quotation
text:
A "rung" pig is comfortable as long as he confines his food hunt to the surface of the ground. Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.
ref:
1919, Popular Science, volume 95, number 4, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a pig: having a ring through the nose.
senses_topics:
|
6981 | word:
empirical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
empirical (comparative more empirical, superlative most empirical)
forms:
form:
more empirical
tags:
comparative
form:
most empirical
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From empiric + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
The lengths were calculated according to the empirical rules of the trade.
type:
example
text:
For some presumptive diagnoses, empirical antibiotic therapy begins immediately, whereas specific antibiotic therapy must await the results of the culture and sensitivity test.
type:
example
text:
The village carpenter […] lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship.
ref:
1861, Herbert Spencer, Education
type:
quotation
text:
demonstrable with empirical evidence
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to or based on experience (often, in contrast with having a basis in theoretical explanation).
Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
6982 | word:
sung
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sung
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Lulled by the Syren-song that my own heart sung to me, with eyes shut to all sight, and ears closed to all sound of danger, I drifted nearer and nearer to the fatal rocks.
ref:
1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
type:
quotation
text:
The August Prince's First Officer […] sung a song; although it was unaccompanied by dancing it was very delightful.
ref:
1920, Annie Shepley Omori & Kochi Doi, "The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu" (translated), Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, page 105
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of sing
simple past of sing
senses_topics:
|
6983 | word:
shrunk
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shrunk
forms:
wikipedia:
Germanic strong verb
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of shrink
senses_topics:
|
6984 | word:
shrunk
word_type:
adj
expansion:
shrunk (comparative more shrunk, superlative most shrunk)
forms:
form:
more shrunk
tags:
comparative
form:
most shrunk
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
shrunken
senses_topics:
|
6985 | word:
stood
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stood
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stod, from Old English stōd, from Proto-Germanic *stōþ, *stōd-, past tense of *standaną (“to stand”).
senses_examples:
text:
This morning a bloke stood next to me wearing nothing but sandals.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of stand
senses_topics:
|
6986 | word:
longevity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
longevity (countable and uncountable, plural longevities)
forms:
form:
longevities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin longaevitās, from longaevus (“ancient, aged”) + -itās.
senses_examples:
text:
Grandpa had incredible longevity: he lived to be 105 years old!
type:
example
text:
This 142-year-old tiny ex-LNWR SB [signal box, at Batley] is an amazing survivor, probably owing its longevity to its location alongside a level crossing. Indeed it started life as a gate box with the delightful name of Lady Ann's Crossing.
ref:
2020 July 1, David Allen, “Signalling from Leeds along the S&C”, in Rail, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
A ‘postdating’ is an example of the use of a lexical item at a later date than currently recorded and these are important in establishing the longevity of use of a term and whether or not it has become obsolete.
ref:
2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 255
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being long-lasting, especially of life.
Duration over time; persistence.
senses_topics:
|
6987 | word:
gregarious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gregarious (comparative more gregarious, superlative most gregarious)
forms:
form:
more gregarious
tags:
comparative
form:
most gregarious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin gregārius.
senses_examples:
text:
Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feel gregarious.
ref:
1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Describing one who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
Of animals that travel in herds or packs.
Growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
Pertaining to a flock or crowd.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
botany
natural-sciences
|
6988 | word:
stung
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stung
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of sting
senses_topics:
|
6989 | word:
look
word_type:
verb
expansion:
look (third-person singular simple present looks, present participle looking, simple past and past participle looked)
forms:
form:
looks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
looking
tags:
participle
present
form:
looked
tags:
participle
past
form:
looked
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
look
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
look
etymology_text:
From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken. Likely also related to German lugen (“to peek”), Alemannic German luege (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn). Possibly related to Sanskrit लोक् (lok, “to see, behold”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”) in the sense of "illuminating" (cf. related word रुच् (ruc) "to shine, illuminate")).
senses_examples:
text:
Troponyms: glance; see also Thesaurus:stare
text:
They kept looking at me.
type:
example
text:
Don’t look in the closet.
type:
example
text:
Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no no no, he's outside, looking in.
ref:
1968, Ray Thomas (lyrics and music), “Legend of a Mind”, in In Search of the Lost Chord, performed by The Moody Blues
type:
quotation
text:
Look how they massacred my boy.
ref:
1972, The Godfather
type:
quotation
text:
Look what you did to him!
type:
example
text:
Look who's back!
type:
example
text:
It looks as if it’s going to rain soon.
type:
example
text:
Our new boss looks to be a lot more friendly.
type:
example
text:
THERE is a pleaſure in owning obligations which it is a pleaſure to have received; but ſhould I publiſh any favours done me by your Lordſhip, I am afraid it would look more like vanity, than gratitude.
ref:
c. 1701-03, Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c., Dedication
type:
quotation
text:
Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.
ref:
2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves
type:
quotation
text:
That painting looks nice.
type:
example
text:
Once, slipping the money clandestinely, just in the act of taking leave, he slipt it not into her hand but on the floor, and another had it; whereupon the poor Monk, coming to know it, looked mere despair for some days[…].
ref:
1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, chapter 6, Monk Samson
type:
quotation
text:
The hotel looks over the valleys of the HinduKush.
type:
example
text:
1769, Benjamin Blayney (editor), King James Bible, Oxford standard text, Ezekiel, xi, 1,
Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward:
text:
I look to each hour for my lover’s arrival.
type:
example
text:
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book VI, Canto XI, 1750, The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, page 139,
text:
Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again,
ref:
c. 1815, Lord Byron, Waterloo
type:
quotation
text:
"Look to it yourself, father," answered Telemachus, "for they say you are the wisest counsellor in the world, and that there is no other mortal man who can compare with you.[…]
ref:
1898, Homer, translated by Samuel Butler, The Odyssey
type:
quotation
text:
Look out of the window [i.e. lean out] while I speak to you.
type:
example
text:
c. 1552–1599, Edmund Spenser, unidentified sonnet,
Looking my love, I go from place to place,
Like a young fawn that late hath lost the hind;
And seek each where, where last I saw her face,
Whose image yet I carry fresh in mind.
text:
to look down opposition
type:
example
text:
1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy, Act 3, Scene 1, 1701, The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas Written by John Dryden, Esq, Volume 2, page 464,
A Spirit fit to start into an Empire,
And look the World to Law.
text:
Ovid might have evaded her entreaties by means of an excuse. But her eyes were irresistible: they looked him into submission in an instant.
ref:
1882, Wilkie Collins, Heart and Science
type:
quotation
text:
The fastball caught him looking.
type:
example
text:
Clem Labine struck Mays out looking at his last at bat.
type:
example
text:
It's unusual for Mays to strike out looking. He usually takes a cut at it.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
As an intransitive verb, often with "at".
To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.
To appear, to seem.
To give an appearance of being.
To search for, to try to find.
To face or present a view.
To expect or anticipate.
To express or manifest by a look.
To make sure of, to see to.
To show oneself in looking.
To check, to make sure (of something).
To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
To seek; to search for.
To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
6990 | word:
look
word_type:
intj
expansion:
look
forms:
wikipedia:
look
etymology_text:
From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken. Likely also related to German lugen (“to peek”), Alemannic German luege (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn). Possibly related to Sanskrit लोक् (lok, “to see, behold”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”) in the sense of "illuminating" (cf. related word रुच् (ruc) "to shine, illuminate")).
senses_examples:
text:
Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pay attention.
senses_topics:
|
6991 | word:
look
word_type:
noun
expansion:
look (plural looks)
forms:
form:
looks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
look
etymology_text:
From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken. Likely also related to German lugen (“to peek”), Alemannic German luege (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn). Possibly related to Sanskrit लोक् (lok, “to see, behold”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”) in the sense of "illuminating" (cf. related word रुच् (ruc) "to shine, illuminate")).
senses_examples:
text:
Let’s have a look under the hood of the car.
type:
example
text:
She got her mother’s looks.
type:
example
text:
I don’t like the look of the new design.
type:
example
text:
He gave me a dirty look.
type:
example
text:
If looks could kill ...
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action of looking; an attempt to see.
Physical appearance, visual impression.
A facial expression.
senses_topics:
|
6992 | word:
iconoclast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
iconoclast (plural iconoclasts)
forms:
form:
iconoclasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French iconoclaste, from Byzantine Greek εἰκονοκλάστης (eikonoklástēs, literally “image breaker”). By surface analysis, icon + -clast.
senses_examples:
text:
In the days of the early Christian church, people who opposed the veneration (reverence) of images were called iconoclasts.
ref:
2004, Eugene TeSelle, World Book Encyclopedia, 2004 edition (CD), Iconoclast
type:
quotation
text:
In February 1895 he [William Cowper Brann, 1855-1898 ] revived publication of the Iconoclast. This time it was successful and eventually attained a circulation of 100,000. Brann took obvious relish in directing his stinging attacks upon institutions and persons he considered to be hypocritical or overly sanctimonious.
ref:
2010 The Handbook of Texas Online, William Cowper Brann, Texas State Historical Association, Austin http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbr23
text:
After all, the fact that any discussion of the possibility is greeted with hysterical revulsion guarantees that only two types of people will take the "pro" side in public: fearless iconoclasts who do not care what anyone thinks of them; and racists.
ref:
2007 November 29, Megan McArdle, “Ugly questions”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
Coming so soon after the death of David Bowie, it’s a moment to consider how deeply important iconoclasts are to the evolution of a culture. Do they change the world by trying to change it, or do they change the world through the radical act of simply being themselves?
ref:
2016 April 21, Spencer Kornhaber, “Prince the Immortal”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
Relishing the role of iconoclast, he confounded the scientific establishment by dismissing the consensus about the perils of man-made climate change as “tribal group-thinking.”
ref:
2020 February 28, George Johnson, “Freeman Dyson, Math Genius Turned Technological Visionary, Dies at 96”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who destroys religious images or icons, especially an opponent of the Orthodox Church in the 8th and 9th centuries, or a Puritan during the European Reformation.
One who opposes orthodoxy and religion; one who adheres to the doctrine of iconoclasm.
One who attacks cherished beliefs; a maverick.
senses_topics:
Christianity
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6993 | word:
stunk
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stunk
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of stink
senses_topics:
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6994 | word:
interior
word_type:
adj
expansion:
interior (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).
senses_examples:
text:
the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball
type:
example
text:
the interior parts of a region or country
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
senses_topics:
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6995 | word:
interior
word_type:
noun
expansion:
interior (plural interiors)
forms:
form:
interiors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).
senses_examples:
text:
The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid.
type:
example
text:
Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
The set of all interior points of a set.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
topology |
6996 | word:
speeded
word_type:
verb
expansion:
speeded
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of speed
senses_topics:
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6997 | word:
speeded
word_type:
adj
expansion:
speeded (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
a speeded lexical decision task
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Measured in terms of speed.
senses_topics:
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6998 | word:
strewn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
strewn
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Unwashed dishes and dirty laundry were strewn about the room.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of strew
senses_topics:
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6999 | word:
ambivalent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ambivalent (comparative more ambivalent, superlative most ambivalent)
forms:
form:
more ambivalent
tags:
comparative
form:
most ambivalent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from ambivalence, from German Ambivalenz, from Latin ambi- (“in two ways”) + valeō (“be strong”); equivalent to ambi- + -valent.
senses_examples:
text:
His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
senses_topics:
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