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7000 | word:
congregation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
congregation (countable and uncountable, plural congregations)
forms:
form:
congregations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
New Testament
William Tyndale
etymology_text:
From Middle English congregacioun, from Old French congregacion, from Latin congregātiō, itself from congregō (“to herd into a flock”). Adopted (1520s) by the English Bible translator William Tyndale, to render the Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “those called together, (popular) meeting”) (hence Latin ecclēsia) in his New Testament, and preferred by 16th century Reformers instead of church.
senses_examples:
text:
The critically low level of rainfall in the second half of 2020 – approaching 50% year on year for November – led the religious affairs directorate to instruct imams and their congregations to pray for rain last month.
ref:
2021 January 13, Bethan McKernan, “Turkey drought: Istanbul could run out of water in 45 days”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
During the wedding ( usually held on a Saturday ) , you and your committee sit on " facing benches ” before the rest of the congregation ( your guests ) . Everyone worships silently until you two feel that it's time to say your vows .
ref:
1998, Carley Roney, The Knot's Complete Guide to Weddings in the Real World: The Ultimate Source of Ideas, Advice, and Relief for the Bride and Groom and Those who Love Them, Broadway Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
Oh! I wasted most of my morning crawling to a murmuration of starlings, which I foolishly mistook for congregation of plover.
ref:
1893 September 27, The Bazaar, the Exchange and Mart, London, page 800, column 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of congregating or collecting together.
A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.
A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
Any large gathering of people.
A flock of various birds, such as plovers or eagles.
The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.
senses_topics:
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7001 | word:
cable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cable (plural cables)
forms:
form:
cables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cable
etymology_text:
Recorded since c.1205 as Middle English cable, from Old Northern French cable, from Late Latin capulum (“lasso, rope, halter”), from Latin capiō (“to take, seize”). Use of the term "cable" to refer to the USD/GBP exchange rate originated in the mid-19th century, when the exchange rate began to be transmitted across the Atlantic by a submarine communications cable.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: hawser
text:
I tried to watch the movie last night but my cable was out.
type:
example
text:
If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
ref:
2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long object used to make a physical connection.
A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
A long object used to make a physical connection.
An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
A long object used to make a physical connection.
An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
A long object used to make a physical connection.
A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
communication
communications
broadcasting
communication
communications
media
television
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
business
finance
architecture
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles |
7002 | word:
cable
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cable (third-person singular simple present cables, present participle cabling, simple past and past participle cabled)
forms:
form:
cables
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cabling
tags:
participle
present
form:
cabled
tags:
participle
past
form:
cabled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
cable
etymology_text:
Recorded since c.1205 as Middle English cable, from Old Northern French cable, from Late Latin capulum (“lasso, rope, halter”), from Latin capiō (“to take, seize”). Use of the term "cable" to refer to the USD/GBP exchange rate originated in the mid-19th century, when the exchange rate began to be transmitted across the Atlantic by a submarine communications cable.
senses_examples:
text:
Details of a bottle fight in El Morocco were cabled all over the world.
ref:
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.
ref:
2008, Leisure Arts, I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Cables, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide with cable(s)
To fasten (as if) with cable(s)
To wrap wires to form a cable
To send a telegram, news, etc., by cable
To communicate by cable
To ornament with cabling.
To create cable stitches.
senses_topics:
architecture
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles |
7003 | word:
strewed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
strewed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of strew
past participle of strew
senses_topics:
|
7004 | word:
let
word_type:
verb
expansion:
let (third-person singular simple present lets, present participle letting, simple past let or (obsolete) leet, past participle let or (obsolete) letten)
forms:
form:
lets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
letting
tags:
participle
present
form:
let
tags:
past
form:
leet
tags:
obsolete
past
form:
let
tags:
participle
past
form:
letten
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Derived from Middle English leten, læten, from Old English lǣtan (“to allow, let go, bequeath, leave, rent”), from Proto-West Germanic *lātan, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną (“to leave behind, allow”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (“to let, leave behind”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots lat, lete (“to let, leave”), North Frisian lete (“to let”), West Frisian litte (“to let”), Dutch laten (“to let, leave”), German lassen (“to let, leave, allow”), Swedish låta (“to let, allow, leave”), Icelandic láta (“to let”), Albanian lë (“to allow, let, leave”) and partially related to French laisser (“to let”).
senses_examples:
text:
After he knocked for hours, I decided to let him come in.
type:
example
text:
He could not be let die of thirst there alone in the dark.
ref:
1971, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan
type:
quotation
text:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref:
2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Let me be!
type:
example
text:
The physicians let about a pint of his blood, but to no avail.
type:
example
text:
I decided to let the farmhouse to a couple while I was working abroad.
type:
example
text:
Trailers for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents.
ref:
1965, Roger Miller (lyrics and music), “King Of The Road”
type:
quotation
text:
to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering
type:
example
text:
Let's put on a show!
type:
example
text:
Let us have a moment of silence.
type:
example
text:
Let me just give you the phone number.
type:
example
text:
Let P be the point where AB and OX intersect.
type:
example
text:
Can you let me know what time you'll be arriving?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
To allow to be or do without interference; to not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone.
To allow the release of (a fluid).
To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
Used to introduce a first or third person imperative verb construction.
To cause (+ bare infinitive).
1818, John Keats, To—
1818, John Keats, To—:
Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb, / Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand[…].
Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb, / Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand[…].
senses_topics:
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7005 | word:
let
word_type:
noun
expansion:
let (plural lets)
forms:
form:
lets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Derived from Middle English leten, læten, from Old English lǣtan (“to allow, let go, bequeath, leave, rent”), from Proto-West Germanic *lātan, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną (“to leave behind, allow”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (“to let, leave behind”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots lat, lete (“to let, leave”), North Frisian lete (“to let”), West Frisian litte (“to let”), Dutch laten (“to let, leave”), German lassen (“to let, leave, allow”), Swedish låta (“to let, allow, leave”), Icelandic láta (“to let”), Albanian lë (“to allow, let, leave”) and partially related to French laisser (“to let”).
senses_examples:
text:
Then he says “You would call it a Good Let, Madam?”
“O certainly a Good Let sir.”
ref:
1854, Charles Dickens, Christmas Stories, page 317
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
senses_topics:
|
7006 | word:
let
word_type:
verb
expansion:
let (third-person singular simple present lets, present participle letting, simple past letted, past participle let)
forms:
form:
lets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
letting
tags:
participle
present
form:
letted
tags:
past
form:
let
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Derived from Middle English letten (“to hinder, delay”), from Old English lettan (“to hinder, delay”; literally, “to make late”), from Proto-West Germanic *lattjan, from Proto-Germanic *latjaną. Akin to Old English latian (“to delay”), Dutch letten, Old English læt (“late”). More at late, delay.
senses_examples:
text:
& there was syr Mordred redy awaytynge vpon his londage to lette his owne fader to lāde vp the lande that he was kyng ouer.
"And there was Sir Mordred ready awaiting upon his landing, to let his own father to land upon the land that he was king over."
ref:
1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XXI, Chapter ii, leaf 421r
type:
quotation
text:
And for that strake I would not let, / Another upon him soon I set, […]
ref:
1826, Early Metrical Tales; Including the History of Sir Egeir, Sir Gryme, and Sir Gray-Steill, Edinburgh, The History of Sir Eger, Sir Grahame, And Sir Gray-Steel, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something).
To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening.
To tarry or delay.
senses_topics:
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7007 | word:
let
word_type:
noun
expansion:
let (plural lets)
forms:
form:
lets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Derived from Middle English letten (“to hinder, delay”), from Old English lettan (“to hinder, delay”; literally, “to make late”), from Proto-West Germanic *lattjan, from Proto-Germanic *latjaną. Akin to Old English latian (“to delay”), Dutch letten, Old English læt (“late”). More at late, delay.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An obstacle or hindrance.
The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis |
7008 | word:
ye
word_type:
pron
expansion:
ye (personal pronoun)
forms:
wikipedia:
ye
etymology_text:
From Middle English ye, ȝe, from Old English ġē (“ye”), the nominative case of the second-person plural personal pronoun, from Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jīz, a North-West variant of Proto-Germanic *jūz (“ye”), from Proto-Indo-European *yūs, *yū́ (“ye”), plural of *túh₂. Cognate with Scots ye (“ye”), Saterland Frisian jie, Dutch gij, ge, jij, je (“ye”), Low German ji, jie (“ye”), German ihr (“ye”), Danish and Swedish I (“ye”), Icelandic ér (“ye”). See also you.
senses_examples:
text:
Queſtion me then no more; whate'er ye want, / Ask in my Name, and God ſhall ſurely grant. / You've asked nothing yet for Jesus sake : / Ask and receive, and of my joyes partake.
ref:
1671, Elisha Coles, chapter 6, in ΧΡΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Or, a Metrical Paraphraſe on the Hiſtory of Our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt : Dedicated to His Univerſal Church
type:
quotation
text:
Know Ye that We have declared and by these Presents do declare our Will and Pleasure as follows—[…]
ref:
1995, Elizabeth II, “Legal Notice 247 of 1996”, in Hong Kong Government Gazette, page B1096
type:
quotation
text:
Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; [...]
ref:
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
You (the people being addressed).
You (the singular person being addressed).
senses_topics:
|
7009 | word:
ye
word_type:
article
expansion:
ye
forms:
wikipedia:
ye
etymology_text:
From Middle English þe. Early press typographies lacked the letter þ (“thorn”), for which the letter y was substituted due to their resemblance in blackletter hand (etymological y was for a while distinguished by a dot, ẏ). Short form yͤ continued long after the digraph th had replaced þ elsewhere.
senses_examples:
text:
It being one cheife proiect of yᵉ ould deluder, Satan, to keepe men from the knowledge of Scriptures, as in formʳ times by keeping yᵐ in an unknowne tongue, so in these lattʳ times by perswading from yᵉ use of tongues, yᵗ so at least yᵉ true sence & meaning of yᵉ originall might be clouded by false glosses of saint seeming deceivers, yᵗ learning may not be buried in yᵉ church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting oʳ endeavoʳs,
ref:
1647, The old deluder, Satan, Act. (cited in American Public School Law, K. Alexander, M. Alexander, 1995)
text:
Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe (pseudoarchaic)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The.
senses_topics:
|
7010 | word:
ye
word_type:
intj
expansion:
ye
forms:
wikipedia:
ye
etymology_text:
Shortened from yes or yeah.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Yes, yeah.
senses_topics:
|
7011 | word:
ye
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ye (plural yes)
forms:
form:
yes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ye (Cyrillic)
ye
etymology_text:
From Russian е (je).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Cyrillic letter Е, е, featured in various Slavic and Turkic languages.
senses_topics:
|
7012 | word:
stridden
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stridden
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of stride
senses_topics:
|
7013 | word:
shat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shat
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A late innovation, apparently by analogy with sit → sat; spit → spat, etc. First recorded in the eighteenth century. Compare Old English sċāt.
senses_examples:
text:
Hey Schlossie [=Jeremy Schloss], I just shat in your shoe.
ref:
1999, Julian O'Neill, quoted in Peter Moss, "Let He Without Sin Kick The First Goal", in Workers Online number 12 (1999 May 7)
text:
We all lived in small communities, hunted, and foraged. We shat in the woods.
ref:
2009, Rob Dunn, Every Living Thing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of shit
senses_topics:
|
7014 | word:
shat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shat (plural shats)
forms:
form:
shats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic شَطّ (šaṭṭ); see chott; for the spelling, compare Shatt al-Arab.
senses_examples:
text:
All this region round the shats has been called the “Jerid” from the time of the Arab occupation.
ref:
1902, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tenth Edition; […], page 482
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of chott
senses_topics:
|
7015 | word:
shat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shat (plural shats)
forms:
form:
shats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Sometimes said to be a shortening of an obsolete word (*)shattle (“needle”), but more likely a shortening of the synonymous (pine) shatter.
senses_examples:
text:
Dryden used the car that afternoon to get shats for the hog pen of Ollie Hitchens, who … gave Dryden a dollar for his services in getting the shats … some pine shats for his father.
ref:
1921, Whitelock vs Dennis (decision on appeal), in the Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, page 559
text:
A small, well known, pine shat covered path pushed between two rows of trees.
ref:
2012, Rob Wilgus, Sickle, Trafford Publishing, page 225
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).
senses_topics:
|
7016 | word:
emulate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
emulate (third-person singular simple present emulates, present participle emulating, simple past and past participle emulated)
forms:
form:
emulates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
emulating
tags:
participle
present
form:
emulated
tags:
participle
past
form:
emulated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”).
senses_examples:
text:
People are endlessly fascinating, even if you'd never want to emulate them.
type:
example
text:
The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.
ref:
2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].
ref:
1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 146
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To attempt to equal or be the same as.
To copy or imitate, especially a person.
To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
7017 | word:
emulate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
emulate (comparative more emulate, superlative most emulate)
forms:
form:
more emulate
tags:
comparative
form:
most emulate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.
senses_topics:
|
7018 | word:
ominous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ominous (comparative more ominous, superlative most ominous)
forms:
form:
more ominous
tags:
comparative
form:
most ominous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ōminōsus (“full of foreboding”), from ōmen (“forbidden fruit, omen”), from ōs (“the mouth”) + -men.
senses_examples:
text:
In Cornouaille, Brittany, it is popularly believed that the weather of the last six days of December and the first six of January prognosticates the weather of the twelve months; but in other parts of Brittany it is the first twelve days of January that are supposed to be ominous of the weather for the year.
ref:
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 324
type:
quotation
text:
California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011
text:
The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
ref:
2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
senses_topics:
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7019 | word:
strode
word_type:
verb
expansion:
strode
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
an impeccably poised young woman who had strode out in an evening gown
ref:
2011 The Economist "Obituary: Whitney Houston" 18 February 2012
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of stride
past participle of stride
senses_topics:
|
7020 | word:
capitalism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
capitalism (countable and uncountable, plural capitalisms)
forms:
form:
capitalisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
capitalism
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French capitalisme (“the condition of one who is rich”); equivalent to capital + -ism. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. First used in English by novelist William Thackeray in 1854.
senses_examples:
text:
The peasantry have long since disappeared, the independent shopkeeper is being destroyed, the small business-man is diminishing in numbers. But at the same time modern industry is so complicated that it cannot get along without great numbers of managers, salesmen, engineers, chemists and technicians of all kinds, drawing fairly large salaries. And these in turn call into being a professional class of doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, etc., etc. The tendency of advanced capitalism has therefore been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out as it once seemed likely to do.
ref:
1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I
type:
quotation
text:
After the economic paralysis during the early years of the People's Republic, and after the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, the fresh though sometimes harsh wind of capitalism is blowing across this city's 2,388 square miles (6,185 square kilometers) with a socialist face. The motto of the Chinese national government "Become wealthy together!" has created a hectic atmosphere in Shanghai.
ref:
1999, “Shanghai”, in The Book of the World, 2nd United States edition (Atlas), Macmillan, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 411, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
What this war has demonstrated is that private capitalism—that is, an economic system in which land, factories, mines and transport are owned privately and operated solely for profit—does not work. It cannot deliver the goods. This fact had been known to millions of people for years past, but nothing ever came of it, because there was no real urge from below to alter the system, and those at the top had trained themselves to be impenetrably stupid on just this point. Argument and propaganda got one nowhere. The lords of property simply sat on their bottoms and proclaimed that all was for the best. Hitler's conquest of Europe, however, was a physical debunking of capitalism. War, for all its evil, is at any rate an unanswerable test of strength, like a try-your-grip machine. Great strength returns the penny, and there is no way of faking the result.
ref:
1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. II
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources or capital.
An economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.
An economic system based on the abstraction of resources into the form of privately owned capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.
senses_topics:
government
politics
economics
sciences
economic-liberalism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
economic-liberalism
economics
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences |
7021 | word:
spoon-fed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spoon-fed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of spoon-feed
senses_topics:
|
7022 | word:
spoon-fed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
spoon-fed (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pampered, as a baby too young to feed themselves.
So simplified that one might expect a baby to understand it.
senses_topics:
|
7023 | word:
mistake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mistake (third-person singular simple present mistakes, present participle mistaking, simple past mistook, past participle mistaken)
forms:
form:
mistakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mistaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
mistook
tags:
past
form:
mistaken
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mistaken, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry”); equivalent to mis- + take. Cognate with Icelandic mistaka (“to mistake”), Swedish missta (“to mistake”) (before apocope misstaga).
The noun, which replaced earlier mistaking, is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
type:
example
text:
Don't mistake my kindness for weakness.
type:
example
text:
The reigning error of his life was, that he mistook the love for the practice of virtue, and was indeed not so much a good man, as the friend of goodness.
ref:
1777, Samuel Johnson, “Life of the Author”, in The Works of Richard Savage with an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, volume I, London: T. Evans, page lxi
type:
quotation
text:
Because I don't want to know
I didn't want to know
I just didn't want to know
I just didn't want
Mistook the nods for an approval
Just ignore the smoke and smile
ref:
2003, “Blue”, performed by A Perfect Circle
type:
quotation
text:
1720, Jonathan Swift, “Letter to a Young Clergyman” in The Works of Jonathan Swift, London: Charles Elliot, 1784, Volume 10, pp. 6-7,
No gentleman thinks it is safe or prudent to send a servant with a message, without repeating it more than once, and endeavouring to put it into terms brought down to the capacity of the bearer; yet, after all this care, it is frequent for servants to mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstandings among friends […]
text:
There is also a chancellor, — no, I mistake, — a chandler and green-grocer, with his hands full of warts; […]
ref:
1857, T[héodore] Robertson, “[Charles Saville: […]] Chapter XXV”, in Synthèse de la langue anglaise (Charles Saville) : Texte anglais avec la traduction française en regard [Synthesis of the English Language (Charles Saville): English Text with Opposite French Translation], 2nd edition, Paris: Librairie française et anglaise de [French and English bookshop of] J.-H. Truchy; Ch. Leroy, successeur [successor]; […], page 240
type:
quotation
text:
The Spear with erring Haste mistook its way,
ref:
1716, Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Volume 2, Book 8, lines 151-152, p. 252
type:
quotation
roman:
But plung’d in Eniopeus’ Bosom lay.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
To misunderstand (someone).
To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
To take or choose wrongly.
senses_topics:
|
7024 | word:
mistake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mistake (plural mistakes)
forms:
form:
mistakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mistaken, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry”); equivalent to mis- + take. Cognate with Icelandic mistaka (“to mistake”), Swedish missta (“to mistake”) (before apocope misstaga).
The noun, which replaced earlier mistaking, is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
There were too many mistakes in the test, that unfortunately you failed.
type:
example
text:
1877, Henry Heth, quoting Robert E. Lee, in "Causes of the Defeat of Gen. Lee's Army at the Battle of GettysburgOpinions of Leading Confederate Soldiers.", Southern Historical Society Papers (1877), editor Rev. J. WM. Jones http://books.google.com/books?id=iDIFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA292&dq=lee+%22mistakes+were+made%22&hl=en&ei=fchaTbu4L8L98AaVs4n-DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=lee%20%22mistakes%20were%20made%22&f=false
After it is all over, as stupid a fellow as I am can see that mistakes were made. I notice, however, that my mistakes are never told me until it is too late.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An error.
A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
7025 | word:
strove
word_type:
verb
expansion:
strove
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
They have not been content with the Simplicity of the Goſpel, which is a plain Rule of living wel, but have ſtrove to out-wit one another in finding out hidden Miſterys;[…]
ref:
1687, Andrew Sowle, A Rational Catechiſm, or An inſtructive Conference between a Father and Son, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
[…]while, I fear, there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart, and deceitful speech, they have strove to hinder it.
ref:
1863 August 26, Abraham Lincoln, Letter to James Conkling, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
ref:
2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change, page 319
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of strive
past participle of strive
senses_topics:
|
7026 | word:
spun
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spun
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of spin
senses_topics:
|
7027 | word:
shirt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shirt (plural shirts)
forms:
form:
shirts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
shirt
etymology_text:
From Middle English sherte, shurte, schirte, from Old English sċyrte (“a short garment; skirt; kirtle”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurtijā, from Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ (“a short garment, skirt, apron”), from *skurtaz (“short”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Schoarte (“apron”), Dutch schort (“apron”), German Schürze (“apron”), Danish skjorte (“shirt”), Norwegian skjorte (“shirt”), Swedish skjorta (“shirt”), Faroese skjúrta (“shirt”), Icelandic skyrta (“shirt”).
English skirt is a parallel formation from Old Norse; which is a doublet of short, from the same ultimate source.
senses_examples:
text:
It can take a while to learn how to iron a shirt properly.
type:
example
text:
She had her shertes & gyrdyls of heere.
ref:
1509, John Fisher, A Mornynge Remembraunce […]
type:
quotation
text:
Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled.
ref:
2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
An interior lining in a blast furnace.
A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.
senses_topics:
|
7028 | word:
shirt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shirt (third-person singular simple present shirts, present participle shirting, simple past and past participle shirted)
forms:
form:
shirts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shirting
tags:
participle
present
form:
shirted
tags:
participle
past
form:
shirted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
shirt
etymology_text:
From Middle English sherten, shirten (also shorten), from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
1691, King Arthur, by John Dryden, act II, scene I.
Ah! for so many souls, as but this morn / Were clothed with flesh, and warm’d with vital blood / But naked now, or shirted just with air.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
senses_topics:
|
7029 | word:
strived
word_type:
verb
expansion:
strived
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of strive
senses_topics:
|
7030 | word:
striven
word_type:
verb
expansion:
striven
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of strive
senses_topics:
|
7031 | word:
increment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
increment (plural increments)
forms:
form:
increments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over these figures that this run was to produce.
ref:
1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263
type:
quotation
text:
The others will return at night, [...] pushing their experiments and nudging their projects toward completion in small, painful increments.
ref:
2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 90
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action of increasing or becoming greater.
The amount of increase.
An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, […] think on these things."
The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
7032 | word:
increment
word_type:
verb
expansion:
increment (third-person singular simple present increments, present participle incrementing, simple past and past participle incremented)
forms:
form:
increments
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
incrementing
tags:
participle
present
form:
incremented
tags:
participle
past
form:
incremented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
... any given value just before observing, the actual pressures must as frequently be incremented as decremented, both in the "on" and the "off" series.
ref:
1890, H. E. J. G. Du Bois, “On Magnetic Circuits”, in Philosophical magazine, page 346
type:
quotation
text:
public sector professional services recruitment, has seen a strong seasonal upturn which has incremented year on year since 2002 by an average of 12%.
ref:
2007 January 23, “Busiest two weeks for recruiters”, in Recruiter Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
The first for loop looks at each word in the input line, incrementing the element of array num subscripted by the word.
ref:
1984, Brian W. Kernighan with Rob Pike, The UNIX programming environment, page 124
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
senses_topics:
|
7033 | word:
struck
word_type:
verb
expansion:
struck
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of strike
senses_topics:
|
7034 | word:
anachronistic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
anachronistic (comparative more anachronistic, superlative most anachronistic)
forms:
form:
more anachronistic
tags:
comparative
form:
most anachronistic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From anachronism + -ic.
senses_examples:
text:
If you know where to look in the movie, you can spot an anachronistic wrist watch on one of the Roman soldiers.
type:
example
text:
The impiety of the Ciceronian attitude was probably his major objection to the sect, yet the dialogue is mainly concerned with the more anachronistic and illogical aspects of attempting to write only as Cicero did.
ref:
1975, David O. McNeil, Guillaume Budé and Humanism in the Reign of Francis I, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
What could be more anachronistic than imposing contemporary concern over fragmentation, i.e. diversity, of the present on the past so that no sources of patriarchal power or hierarchy can be held responsible for collective oppression in any time period?
ref:
1996, Joan Hoff, “The Pernicious Effects of Poststructuralism on Women's History”, in Diane Bell, Renate Klein, editors, Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, page 404
type:
quotation
text:
Among them, even the most lucid of 'one-nation' Tories had severe difficulties in seeing the anti-growth nature of some of the most anachronistic of traditional British institutions.
ref:
2001, David E. Hojman, “Economic Growth and Civil Society under Pinochet and Thatcher: A Political Economy Analysis of Free-Market Models in Chile and the United Kingdom”, in Frank H. Columbus, editor, Politics and Economics of Latin America, Volume 1, footnote, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
The 'liberalism' issue that perplexed Catholics in the 1880s was by 1914 increasingly anachronistic, as political liberalism won resoundingly (in France), or lost resoundingly (in Austria), or became fragmented and divided (in Germany).
ref:
2004, John W. Boyer, “1: Catholics, Christians and the Challenges of Democracy: The Heritage of the Nineteenth Century”, in Wolfram Kaiser, Helmut Wohnout, editors, Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-1945, volume 1, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
In their daily practices, journalists often perpetuated ageing and increasingly anachronistic ideologies, but they were rarely, in fact, dominated by them.
ref:
2013, Brian Moeran, Asian Media Productions, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
The coronation of a British ruler is, of course, a political ritual and a religious ceremony. But it is also, as the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 established, a TV show. It’s an anachronistic assertion of divine right retooled to recognize that, in the electronic era, even hereditary rulers have to argue their relevance.
ref:
2023 May 6, James Poniewozik, “Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star?”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time; not applicable to or not appropriate for the time.
Having opinions from the past; preferring things or values of the past; behind the times; overly conservative.
senses_topics:
|
7035 | word:
sent
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sent
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From send + -t. See send.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of send
senses_topics:
|
7036 | word:
sent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sent (plural senti)
forms:
form:
senti
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Estonian sent. Doublet of cent.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Estonian kroon.
senses_topics:
|
7037 | word:
sent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sent (countable and uncountable, plural sents)
forms:
form:
sents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See scent.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of scent.
senses_topics:
|
7038 | word:
pigeon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pigeon (countable and uncountable, plural pigeons)
forms:
form:
pigeons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English pygeoun, borrowed from Old French pyjon, inherited from Late Latin pīpiōnem (“chirping bird”), derived from Latin pīpiāre (“chirp”), of imitative origin.
senses_examples:
text:
Kalb rushed to the airport and found a "pigeon" to take out the film: an American woman headed for London.
ref:
1989, Whitman Bassow, The Moscow Correspondents, page 214
type:
quotation
text:
At this point, all the commercial airports in Pakistan were closed. The only way to get film out was over land. John promptly hired me to be what was then known in the business as a "Pigeon," and installed me in a comfortable room in his hotel. […] I would then hand-carry his film out of the country, via Peshawar, the Khyber Pass, through the Kabul Gorge, and up to Kabul, Afghanistan, where I would meet a BBC courier and transfer the film bag.
ref:
2021, Hilary Brown, War Tourist: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of several birds of the family Columbidae, which consists of more than 300 species.
The meat from this bird.
A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.
A pacifist, appeaser, an isolationist, a dove.
A person hired to transport film footage out of a region where transport options are limited.
A weak or useless person.
senses_topics:
government
politics
government
military
politics
war |
7039 | word:
pigeon
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pigeon (third-person singular simple present pigeons, present participle pigeoning, simple past and past participle pigeoned)
forms:
form:
pigeons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pigeoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
pigeoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
pigeoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English pygeoun, borrowed from Old French pyjon, inherited from Late Latin pīpiōnem (“chirping bird”), derived from Latin pīpiāre (“chirp”), of imitative origin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To deceive with a confidence game.
senses_topics:
|
7040 | word:
pigeon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pigeon (countable and uncountable, plural pigeons)
forms:
form:
pigeons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Far East
etymology_text:
From pidgin English, from a Chinese Pidgin English pronunciation of English business during trade in the Far East. See pidgin.
senses_examples:
text:
It's his/her pigeon.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Concern or responsibility.
senses_topics:
|
7041 | word:
quit
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quit (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus.
Compare Dutch kwijten (“to quit”), German Low German quitten (“to quit”), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte, Swedish qvitta, kvitta (“to quit, leave, set off”), Icelandic kvitta.
senses_examples:
text:
With mounting anger the King denounced the pair, both father and son, and was about to condemn them to death when his strength gave out. Faint and trembling he was unable to walk and the sword fell from his hands as he murmured: 'May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son'.
ref:
1990, Claude de Bèze, translated by E. W. Hutchinson, 1688 revolution in Siam: the memoir of Father de Bèze, s.j, University Press, page 153
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
senses_topics:
|
7042 | word:
quit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quit (third-person singular simple present quits, present participle quitting, simple past and past participle quit or quitted)
forms:
form:
quits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
quit
tags:
participle
past
form:
quit
tags:
past
form:
quitted
tags:
participle
past
form:
quitted
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
quit
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus.
Compare Dutch kwijten (“to quit”), German Low German quitten (“to quit”), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte, Swedish qvitta, kvitta (“to quit, leave, set off”), Icelandic kvitta.
senses_examples:
text:
Enkindle all the sparks of nature
To quit this horrid act.
ref:
1605, William Shakespeare, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
But if that I knewe what his name hight,
For clatering of me I would him ſone quight;
For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never,
I could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […]
ref:
c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
text:
Forgive me, Rogero: 'tis my fate
To love thy friend and quit thy love with hate.
ref:
1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, III.2
type:
quotation
text:
1595-1609, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars
Never worthy prince a day did quit
With greater hazard and with more renown.
text:
To quit you […] of this fear, […]you have already lookt Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?
ref:
1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death
type:
quotation
text:
He quitted the lake on the 23rd of September, and on the 4th of October arrived at Queenstown, on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, having succeded in finding a transitable route.
ref:
1865, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
The lions, if they left not the forest, would capture no prey; and the arrow, if it quitted not the bow, would not strike the mark.
ref:
1912, Edward Stanley Poole, transl., The Thousand and One Nights
type:
quotation
text:
At Malta the chief engineer of the ship, who always had been a good friend of mine, urged me to quit the sea; "otherwise," he said, "if you stay too long, you may, like myself, be condemned to wander about the world all your life and see your home only occasionally."
ref:
1943 January and February, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: IV—H. A. Ivatt”, in Railway Magazine, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
After having to work overtime without being paid, I quit my job.
type:
example
text:
John is planning to quit smoking.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
To repay (someone) for (something).
To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
To carry through; to go through to the end.
To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
To abandon, renounce (a thing).
To leave (a place).
To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
To close (an application).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
7043 | word:
quit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quit (plural quits)
forms:
form:
quits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably of imitative origin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.
senses_topics:
|
7044 | word:
swelled
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swelled
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of swell
senses_topics:
|
7045 | word:
swam
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swam
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of swim
senses_topics:
|
7046 | word:
spurious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
spurious (comparative more spurious, superlative most spurious)
forms:
form:
more spurious
tags:
comparative
form:
most spurious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Late Latin spurius (“illegitimate, bastardly”), possibly related to sperno or from Etruscan.
senses_examples:
text:
His argument was spurious and had no validity.
type:
example
text:
[Ilhan] Omar was left twisting in the wind earlier this year after facing spurious charges of antisemitism, a display of Democratic cowardice co-signed by Chelsea Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and most every other Democrat with a congressional leadership position.
ref:
2019 July 19, Noah Kulwin, “Democrats Fail the Left, Once Again”, in Jewish Currents, archived from the original on 2023-04-26
type:
quotation
text:
I tried to concentrate on the matter in hand, but spurious thoughts kept intruding.
type:
example
text:
Spurious emissions from the wireless mast were causing nearby electrical equipment to go haywire.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
False, not authentic, not genuine.
Extraneous, stray; not relevant or wanted.
Bastardly, illegitimate.
senses_topics:
|
7047 | word:
sped
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sped
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of speed
senses_topics:
|
7048 | word:
sped
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sped (plural speds)
forms:
form:
speds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From SPED.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A special education student.
senses_topics:
|
7049 | word:
swung
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swung
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of swing
senses_topics:
|
7050 | word:
bra
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bra (plural bras)
forms:
form:
bras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of brassiere, borrowed from French brassière, from Old French braciere (originally a lining inside armor to protect the arm, but later a garment), from Old French brace (“arm”), from Latin bracchia, plural of Latin bracchium (“forearm”), from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “forearm”), from Proto-Hellenic *brəkʰús (“short”) (because the forearm is shorter than the upper arm), inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus.
senses_examples:
text:
Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.
ref:
1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An item of clothing, usually underwear worn to support the breasts.
senses_topics:
|
7051 | word:
bra
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bra (plural bras)
forms:
form:
bras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bra-ket notation
Paul Dirac
etymology_text:
From bracket, referring to the notation introduced in 1939 by Paul Dirac.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the row vector; the other (column) vector being its complex conjugate, the ket.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
7052 | word:
bra
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bra (plural bras)
forms:
form:
bras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Representing a different pronunciation of bro (“brother”).
senses_examples:
text:
Take it easy, bra!
type:
example
text:
“Famalam, I ain't even gon lie to ya man, I am super happy to be finally maxing out on parole my real. This violation was definitely a reality check Bra!” Influence replied to his comrade.
ref:
2009, Todd Johnson, Influence
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of bro; friend, mate
senses_topics:
|
7053 | word:
swum
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swum
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of swim
simple past of swim
senses_topics:
|
7054 | word:
strung
word_type:
verb
expansion:
strung
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of string
senses_topics:
|
7055 | word:
swore
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swore
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"[…]I have 'swore off' smoking. But you shall have your pipe (the old tobacco) or cigars among the books. It will be quite a delight."
ref:
1990 [1875], R. H. Super, quoting Anthony Trollope, The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope, page 337
type:
quotation
text:
“Were it not for the fancy French and Latin in it, I'd have swore it was the sort of thing I do not print as a rule, but being as how the order was from one of the members upstairs...”
ref:
2014 January 14, Roberta Rogow, The Problem of the Surly Servant, page 109
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of swear
past participle of swear
senses_topics:
|
7056 | word:
lean
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lean (third-person singular simple present leans, present participle leaning, simple past and past participle leaned or (UK) leant)
forms:
form:
leans
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
leaning
tags:
participle
present
form:
leaned
tags:
participle
past
form:
leaned
tags:
past
form:
leant
tags:
UK
participle
past
form:
leant
tags:
UK
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lenen (“to lean”), from Old English hleonian, hlinian (“to lean, recline, lie down, rest”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlinēn, from Proto-Germanic *hlināną (“to lean, incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-.
Cognate via Proto-Germanic with Middle Dutch leunen (“to lean”), German lehnen (“to lean”); via Proto-Indo-European with climate, cline.
senses_examples:
text:
a leaning column
type:
example
text:
She leaned out of the window.
type:
example
text:
I’m leaning towards voting Conservative in the next election.
type:
example
text:
The Hispanic vote leans Democratic.
type:
example
text:
But you ſay they do not accept of them, but delight rather to lean to their old Cuſtoms and Brehon Laws, though they be more unjuſt and alſo more inconvenient for the common People, as by your late Relation of them I have gathered.
ref:
a. 1600, Edmund Spenser, “A View of the State of Ireland. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser, volume VI, London: Jacob Tonson […], published 1715, →OCLC, page 1518
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.
To hang outwards.
To press against.
senses_topics:
|
7057 | word:
lean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lean (plural leans)
forms:
form:
leans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lenen (“to lean”), from Old English hleonian, hlinian (“to lean, recline, lie down, rest”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlinēn, from Proto-Germanic *hlināną (“to lean, incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-.
Cognate via Proto-Germanic with Middle Dutch leunen (“to lean”), German lehnen (“to lean”); via Proto-Indo-European with climate, cline.
senses_examples:
text:
The trees had various leans toward gaps in the canopy.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inclination away from the vertical.
senses_topics:
|
7058 | word:
lean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lean (comparative leaner, superlative leanest)
forms:
form:
leaner
tags:
comparative
form:
leanest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lene (“lean”), from Old English hlǣne (“lean”), (cognate with Low German leen), perhaps from hlǣnan (“to cause to lean (due to hunger or lack of food)”), from Proto-Germanic *hlainijaną (“to cause to lean”). If so, then related to Old English hlinian, hleonian (“to lean”).
senses_examples:
text:
lean steak cuts
type:
example
text:
a lean budget
type:
example
text:
a lean harvest
type:
example
text:
A lean ore hardly worth mining.
type:
example
text:
Running on too lean a fuel-air mixture will cause, among other problems, your internal combustion engine to heat up too much.
type:
example
text:
lean copy, matter, or type
type:
example
text:
lean management
type:
example
text:
lean manufacturing
type:
example
text:
Alcoa is now a lean and agile enterprise, after having split last year into two entities.
type:
example
text:
Kitting for in-plant handling is unlean. Kitting for transport, on the other hand, is lean; for example, shipping complete sets of parts to make a TV or motorcycle or motor home is lean.
ref:
2007, Richard J. Schonberger, Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement, page 204
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Slim; not fleshy.
Having little fat.
Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
business |
7059 | word:
lean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lean (countable and uncountable, plural leans)
forms:
form:
leans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lene (“lean”), from Old English hlǣne (“lean”), (cognate with Low German leen), perhaps from hlǣnan (“to cause to lean (due to hunger or lack of food)”), from Proto-Germanic *hlainijaną (“to cause to lean”). If so, then related to Old English hlinian, hleonian (“to lean”).
senses_examples:
text:
Jack Sprat would eat no fat, / His wife would eat no lean.
ref:
1639, or earlier, Anon: Jack Sprat
type:
quotation
text:
The intermediates and leans are the predominant morphotypes found at the SE-NHR seamounts […]
ref:
1986, Southwest Fisheries Center (U.S.), Collected Reprints (issue 1)
text:
Obese Zuckers, compared to leans, consumed more food under free-feeding conditions.
ref:
2012, Obesity: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional, page 56
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Meat with no fat on it.
An organism that is lean in stature.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
7060 | word:
lean
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lean (third-person singular simple present leans, present participle leaning, simple past and past participle leaned)
forms:
form:
leans
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
leaning
tags:
participle
present
form:
leaned
tags:
participle
past
form:
leaned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lene (“lean”), from Old English hlǣne (“lean”), (cognate with Low German leen), perhaps from hlǣnan (“to cause to lean (due to hunger or lack of food)”), from Proto-Germanic *hlainijaną (“to cause to lean”). If so, then related to Old English hlinian, hleonian (“to lean”).
senses_examples:
text:
He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose.
ref:
1938 July, Harold Blaine Miller, Dupont Miller, “Weather Hop”, in Boys' Life, Boy Scouts of America, →ISSN, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Even the Pilot's Operating Handbooks (POH) for our training airplanes add to our paranoia with their insistence that we not lean the mixture until we're above 5000 feet density altitude.
ref:
2002 July, Tom Benenson, “Can Your Engine Run Too Lean?”, in Flying, volume 129, number 7, →ISSN, page 73
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
senses_topics:
|
7061 | word:
lean
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lean (third-person singular simple present leans, present participle leaning, simple past and past participle leaned)
forms:
form:
leans
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
leaning
tags:
participle
present
form:
leaned
tags:
participle
past
form:
leaned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Icelandic leyna? Akin to German leugnen (“deny”). Compare lie (“speak falsely”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To conceal.
senses_topics:
|
7062 | word:
lean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lean (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from the verb to lean (see etymology 1 above), supposedly because consumption of the intoxicating beverage causes one to "lean". Alternatively, possibly short for gasoline (“an alcoholic beverage made of vodka and energy drink”).
senses_examples:
text:
Eyes real tight 'cause I'm chokin' the creep; vision messed up 'cause I'm drinkin' the lean.
ref:
2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG
type:
quotation
text:
"What's in the cup, let me see that / Girl, where the rest of that promethazine at?" / She said, "Cool, gotta run out to my Cadillac though / And I'll be like Fat Joe, and bring the lean back"
ref:
2020, “Those Kinda Nights”, in Music to Be Murdered By, performed by Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, especially popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States.
senses_topics:
|
7063 | word:
hair
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hair (countable and uncountable, plural hairs)
forms:
form:
hairs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hair
etymology_text:
From Middle English her, heer, hær, from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hier (“hair”), West Frisian hier (“hair”), Dutch haar (“hair”), German Low German Haar (“hair”), German Haar (“hair”), Swedish, Danish and Norwegian hår (“hair”), Icelandic hár (“hair”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cheveler, chevelere (“hair”), borrowed from Old French chevelëure (“hair, head-hair, coiffure, wig”).
The modern spelling with ai is not a regular representation of the vowel developed from Middle English. Rather, it is from Middle English here (haircloth) influenced by Old French haire.
senses_examples:
text:
In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.
type:
example
text:
Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
type:
example
text:
(uncountable, by extension) The collection or mass of such outgrowths, filaments, or fibers growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
text:
Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.
type:
example
text:
January 2014, Barack Obama, quoted in "Going the Distance" by David Remnick, in The New Yorker
Having said all that, those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea and it solves all these social problems I think are probably overstating the case. There is a lot of hair on that policy.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
botany
natural-sciences
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
|
7064 | word:
hair
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hair (third-person singular simple present hairs, present participle hairing, simple past and past participle haired)
forms:
form:
hairs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hairing
tags:
participle
present
form:
haired
tags:
participle
past
form:
haired
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hair
etymology_text:
From Middle English her, heer, hær, from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hier (“hair”), West Frisian hier (“hair”), Dutch haar (“hair”), German Low German Haar (“hair”), German Haar (“hair”), Swedish, Danish and Norwegian hår (“hair”), Icelandic hár (“hair”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cheveler, chevelere (“hair”), borrowed from Old French chevelëure (“hair, head-hair, coiffure, wig”).
The modern spelling with ai is not a regular representation of the vowel developed from Middle English. Rather, it is from Middle English here (haircloth) influenced by Old French haire.
senses_examples:
text:
Now know ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, we the said John Cant and John Millar do hereby declare that our said invention of a new method of tanning leather is described in the manner following : that our method of preparing hides and skins by liming, hairing, fleshing, and baiting, is the same as that in use by the most experienced tanners; that is to say: All leather that is to be dressed or curried, we use the operation of what tanners call baiting, for this reason; that the leather when curried should carry a sufficient quantity of oil, and dry a good colour.
ref:
1808, The Repertory of Patent Inventions, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
By his method raw hides, after hairing and baiting, are converted into leather in less than thirty hours.
ref:
1825, American Mechanics' Magazine - Volume 2, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
I took 25 hides out of the Lime with Stephens help I haired them and fleshed them
ref:
1971, Reuben King, Virginia S. Wood, Ralph V. Wood, The Reuben King Journal, 1800-1806, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
He has haired up and healed over.
ref:
1863, Yankee-notions - Volume 12, page 312
type:
quotation
text:
It has haired over nicely. There are no bad results from it in any way whatever that I can detect.
ref:
1887, National Stockman and Farmer - Volume 11, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
The bald patch on his hip was hairing over and he no longer limped.
ref:
1992, Hugh Ruppersburg, Georgia Voices: Fiction, page 492
type:
quotation
text:
THE following classes of fiber are employed for hairing dolls : human hair, mohair, cross-bred wool, horsehair, hog-bristle, unspun cotton. Human hair is only used for hairing dolls of an extremely expensive class.
ref:
1937, Dyestuffs - Volume 35, Issue 1, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
So they did three different sculptures and then ran the masks and painted them, haired them, and sent them out to us.
ref:
2014, Lee Karr, Greg Nicotero, The Making of George A. Romero's Day of the Dead
type:
quotation
text:
The winter had haired them like llamas, the sleet had worked no hardship, as a horse paws to the grass, and any concern for the outside saddle stock was needless.
ref:
2017, Andy Adams, Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings
type:
quotation
text:
The bow is now haired, and all that remains to make it ready for use is to rosin it.
ref:
1896, Henry Saint-George, The Bow, Its History, Manufacture & Use, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
The tools used for hairing a bow by various reparimen can be unlimited in their selection. A bowmaker has a different attitude toward hairing than a repairman and this I believe reflects the type of the finished job that is done.
ref:
1969, John Alfred Bolander, Violin bow making, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
To hair a bow, a hank of horse hair (A) is selected and combed so that all hairs are parallel to each other.
ref:
2015, Michael J. Pagliaro, The String Instrument Owner's Handbook, page 108
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove the hair from.
To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
To string the bow for a violin.
senses_topics:
|
7065 | word:
taught
word_type:
verb
expansion:
taught
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English taught(e), tau(h)t(e), from Old English tāhte, tǣhte, from Proto-Germanic *taihtē.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of teach
senses_topics:
|
7066 | word:
weather
word_type:
noun
expansion:
weather (countable and uncountable, plural weathers)
forms:
form:
weathers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English weder, wedir, from Old English weder, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom (=*we-dʰrom), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Weeder, West Frisian waar, Dutch weer, Low German Weder, German Wetter, Danish vejr, Swedish väder, Norwegian Bokmål vær, Norwegian Nynorsk vêr, Icelandic veður; also more distantly related to Russian вёдро (vjódro, “fair weather”) and perhaps Albanian vrëndë (“light rain”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”).
senses_examples:
text:
What's the weather like today?
type:
example
text:
We'll go for a walk when the weather's better.
type:
example
text:
The garden party was called off due to bad weather.
type:
example
text:
Here and there, the weather on the sea allowed two of their friends to hear and see, too.
type:
example
text:
Human beings love to talk about the weather.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 118
type:
quotation
text:
Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
A situation.
A storm; a tempest.
A light shower of rain.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
7067 | word:
weather
word_type:
adj
expansion:
weather (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English weder, wedir, from Old English weder, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom (=*we-dʰrom), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Weeder, West Frisian waar, Dutch weer, Low German Weder, German Wetter, Danish vejr, Swedish väder, Norwegian Bokmål vær, Norwegian Nynorsk vêr, Icelandic veður; also more distantly related to Russian вёдро (vjódro, “fair weather”) and perhaps Albanian vrëndë (“light rain”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”).
senses_examples:
text:
weather side, weather helm
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
nautical
sailing
transport |
7068 | word:
weather
word_type:
verb
expansion:
weather (third-person singular simple present weathers, present participle weathering, simple past and past participle weathered)
forms:
form:
weathers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
weathering
tags:
participle
present
form:
weathered
tags:
participle
past
form:
weathered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English weder, wedir, from Old English weder, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom (=*we-dʰrom), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Weeder, West Frisian waar, Dutch weer, Low German Weder, German Wetter, Danish vejr, Swedish väder, Norwegian Bokmål vær, Norwegian Nynorsk vêr, Icelandic veður; also more distantly related to Russian вёдро (vjódro, “fair weather”) and perhaps Albanian vrëndë (“light rain”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”).
senses_examples:
text:
The organisms […] seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are embedded has weathered from around them.
ref:
1856, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey
type:
quotation
text:
April 18, 1850, Frederick William Robertson, An Address Delivered to the Members of the Working Man's Institute
You will weather the difficulties yet.
text:
Some observers have contrasted China with the US, whose economy has weathered the post-Covid recovery better. Until recently, Americans may have feared the day China would overtake them as the world's largest economy, but now analysts doubt if this will happen.
ref:
2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Lichens' ability to weather makes them a geological force, yet they do more than disolve the physical features of the world.
ref:
2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
to weather a cape to weather another ship
type:
example
text:
Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.
type:
example
text:
If your hawk is bad-weathered, that is, will not fit on your fist when the wind blows, but hales, and beats, and hangs by the jeſſes, ſhe has an ill habit of the worſt kind.
ref:
1773, James Campbell, A Treatise on modern faulconry
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
To cause (rocks) to break down by crushing, grinding, and/or dissolving with acids.
To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle |
7069 | word:
sprung
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sprung
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of spring
senses_topics:
|
7070 | word:
sprung
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sprung (comparative more sprung, superlative most sprung)
forms:
form:
more sprung
tags:
comparative
form:
most sprung
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonym: spring-loaded
text:
a sprung mattress
type:
example
text:
the sprung weight of a vehicle
type:
example
text:
My old money clip was sprung, so I replaced it.
type:
example
text:
I like big butts and I cannot lie. / You other brothers can’t deny / that when a girl walks in / with a itty bitty waist / and a round thing in your face you get sprung.
ref:
1992, “Baby Got Back”, in Sir Mix-a-Lot (music), Mack Daddy
type:
quotation
text:
[…] / ’Cause your love got the best of me, / And baby, you’re making a fool of me. / You got me sprung and I don’t care who sees, / ’Cause baby, you got me so crazy.
ref:
2003, “Crazy In Love”, in Beyoncé et al. (music), Dangerously in Love
type:
quotation
text:
’Cause I’m sprung over you / And ain’t nothin’ I can do / […] / Thoughts of you fill my head / […]
ref:
2005, “Sprung”, in Mariah Carey et al. (music), The Emancipation of Mimi, bonus track in some editions
type:
quotation
text:
My lips like sugar. / This candy got you sprung.
ref:
2009, “Sugar”, in Flo Rida et al. (music), R.O.O.T.S.
type:
quotation
text:
`Sprung!' cried Jeff Basin, the local dubbo.
ref:
1979, Gabrielle Carey, Kathy Lette, Puberty Blues, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fitted or cushioned with springs.
Worn out such that the springiness has dissipated.
Utterly infatuated with someone; completely taken over by romantic interest; originally and literally, having a penile erection.
Caught doing something illegal or against the rules.
drunk.
cracked or strained.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
7071 | word:
sprang
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sprang
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of spring
senses_topics:
|
7072 | word:
took
word_type:
verb
expansion:
took
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Linda: It was being there — if you could have took the work home I would have been alright, but being there, people watching over you, you know, you couldn't do anything wrong.
ref:
2012 November 11 [1981], “'Now that I'm married...'”, in Angela McRobbie, Trisha McCabe, editors, Feminism for Girls: An Adventure Story, Routledge, page 104
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of take
past participle of take
senses_topics:
|
7073 | word:
spoon-feed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spoon-feed (third-person singular simple present spoon-feeds, present participle spoon-feeding, simple past and past participle spoon-fed)
forms:
form:
spoon-feeds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
spoon-feeding
tags:
participle
present
form:
spoon-fed
tags:
participle
past
form:
spoon-fed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From spoon + feed.
senses_examples:
text:
I can help you with your homework, but you must understand the concept, because I will not spoon-feed you.
type:
example
text:
What do you mean "I don't know"? I'm practically spoon-feeding you the answer!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To help somebody (usually a baby or elder) to eat using a spoon; to feed using a spoon.
To overly pamper or indulge (someone), so that they do not (or because they failed to) act or think for themselves.
To give (something) in an overly pampering way, so that the recipients do not (or because they failed to) act or think for themselves.
To explain (something, to someone) in simple words; to explain (it, to them) in words of one syllable; to spell (it) out (for them).
senses_topics:
|
7074 | word:
spent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
spent (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
a spent cartridge
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
Of fish: exhausted as a result of having spawned.
Of legislation or an enactment: no longer in force due to all of its provisions having expired or been completed.
Of a conviction: no longer appearing on a person's criminal record.
senses_topics:
law
law |
7075 | word:
spent
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spent
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of spend
senses_topics:
|
7076 | word:
repeal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
repeal (third-person singular simple present repeals, present participle repealing, simple past and past participle repealed)
forms:
form:
repeals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
repealing
tags:
participle
present
form:
repealed
tags:
participle
past
form:
repealed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman repeler, from Old French rapeler (“to call back, call in, call after, revoke”), from Latin repellō (“drive or thrust back”), from re- and pellō (“push or strike”). Doublet of repel.
senses_examples:
text:
to repeal a law
type:
example
text:
1776, Samuel Johnson, letter to James Boswell, cited in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, p. 8,
As manners make laws, manners likewise repeal them.
text:
Labour says it will repeal the legislation if it wins the next General Election.
ref:
2024 February 7, Mel Holley, “Network News: War of words between Prime Minister and union”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cancel, invalidate, annul.
To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment.
To suppress; to repel.
senses_topics:
|
7077 | word:
repeal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
repeal (countable and uncountable, plural repeals)
forms:
form:
repeals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman repeler, from Old French rapeler (“to call back, call in, call after, revoke”), from Latin repellō (“drive or thrust back”), from re- and pellō (“push or strike”). Doublet of repel.
senses_examples:
text:
Wednesday June 02, 2021, Has the Northern Ireland Protocol undermined the United Kingdom?
When a newer Act of Parliament is incompatible with earlier law, it usually takes precedence, under the doctrine of “implied repeal”.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act or instance of repealing.
senses_topics:
|
7078 | word:
brief
word_type:
adj
expansion:
brief (comparative briefer or more brief, superlative briefest or most brief)
forms:
form:
briefer
tags:
comparative
form:
more brief
tags:
comparative
form:
briefest
tags:
superlative
form:
most brief
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English breef, breve, bref, from Old French brief, bref, from Latin brevis (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short, brief”). Doublet of merry.
senses_examples:
text:
Her reign was brief but spectacular.
type:
example
text:
That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.
ref:
2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
His speech of acceptance was brief but moving.
type:
example
text:
The briefe ſtyle is that which expreſſeth much in little.
ref:
a. 1637, Ben Jonson, “Discoveries”, in The Works of Ben Jonson, volume 2, London: Richard Bishop, published 1641
type:
quotation
text:
If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.
ref:
2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism, Cambridge University Press, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
Her skirt was extremely brief but doubtless cool.
type:
example
text:
On the beach he always wore a straw hat with a red band and a brief pair of leopard print trunks.
ref:
1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of short duration; happening quickly.
Concise; taking few words.
Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short.
Rife; common; prevalent.
senses_topics:
|
7079 | word:
brief
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brief (plural briefs)
forms:
form:
briefs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English breef, breve, bref, from Old French brief, bref, from Latin brevis (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short, brief”). Doublet of merry.
senses_examples:
text:
A written answer or any other brief shall be submitted to the court while allowing a period necessary for the opponent to make preparations with regard to the matters stated therein.
ref:
1996, Japanese Rules of Civil Procedure, Article 79, Section 1
text:
Mrs. Hope was, we believe, a convert to the Roman Catholic Church, and neither she nor her editor conceals the fact that they hold a brief for the Pope and for Catharine against Henry VIII.
ref:
1894 August 18, “The First Divorce of Henry VIII [book review]”, in The Speaker, volume 10, page 192
type:
quotation
text:
We got a news brief.
type:
example
text:
I wear boxers under trousers but for sports I usually wear a brief.
type:
example
text:
[…] euen ſo it fareth with mee, who béeing about to anatomize Abſurditie, am vrged to take a view of ſundry mens vanitie, a ſuruey of their follie, a briefe of their barbariſme […]
ref:
1589, Thomas Nashe, The Anatomie of Absurditie
type:
quotation
text:
EACH woman is a brief of womankind, / And doth in little e’en as much contain, / As in one day and night all life we find ; / Of either more is but the ſame again […]
ref:
a. 1613, Sir Thomas Overbury, “A Wife”, in The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt. with Memoir of his Life, 10th edition, London: W. Owen, published 1756, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A writ summoning one to answer; an official letter or mandate.
An answer to any action.
A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.
A position of interest or advocacy.
An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court.
The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who is counsel for the case.
A barrister who is counsel for a party in a legal action.
A short news story or report.
underwear briefs.
A summary, précis or epitome; an abridgement or abstract.
A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
A ticket of any type.
senses_topics:
law
law
law
law
law
law
|
7080 | word:
brief
word_type:
verb
expansion:
brief (third-person singular simple present briefs, present participle briefing, simple past and past participle briefed)
forms:
form:
briefs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
briefing
tags:
participle
present
form:
briefed
tags:
participle
past
form:
briefed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English breef, breve, bref, from Old French brief, bref, from Latin brevis (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short, brief”). Doublet of merry.
senses_examples:
text:
The U.S. president was briefed on the military coup and its implications on African stability.
type:
example
text:
It is being briefed that Southeastern operations will return to the private sector, and that use of the Operator of Last Resort team will be a temporary arrangement.
ref:
2021 October 20, Industry Insider, “The wheels turn slowly”, in RAIL, number 942, page 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power.
To write a legal argument and submit it to a court.
senses_topics:
law |
7081 | word:
brief
word_type:
adv
expansion:
brief (comparative more brief, superlative most brief)
forms:
form:
more brief
tags:
comparative
form:
most brief
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English breef, breve, bref, from Old French brief, bref, from Latin brevis (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short, brief”). Doublet of merry.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Briefly.
Soon; quickly.
senses_topics:
|
7082 | word:
actor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
actor (plural actors, female actress, or (nonstandard) actoress)
forms:
form:
actors
tags:
plural
form:
actress
tags:
feminine
form:
actoress
tags:
nonstandard
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English actour, from Anglo-Norman actor, Middle French actor, and their source, Latin āctor (“doer”), from agō (“to do”). Equivalent to act + -or. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκτωρ (áktōr, “leader”), from ἄγω (ágō, “lead, carry, convey, bring”).
senses_examples:
text:
Never, my dear Bethel, did the most feverish dreams of fiction produce scenes more painful, or more terrific, than the real events to which I have been an actor, since the date of my last letter.
ref:
1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 373
type:
quotation
text:
Seems like everyone's an actor / Or they're an actor's best friend / I wonder what was wrong to begin with / That they should all have to pretend
ref:
1991, Ani DiFranco (lyrics and music), “Anticipate”, in Not So Soft
type:
quotation
text:
Exactly. Marijuana is something we just all gradually decided is okay, like Mark Wahlberg as a serious actor. “You know what? Sure, I’ve decided I’m fine with that.”
ref:
2017 April 2, “Marijuana”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 7, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
"I'm an actress -- actor, as we have to say these days."
ref:
2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 88
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant.
Someone acting on behalf of someone else; a guardian.
Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent.
A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer.
An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
The subject performing the action of a verb.
The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).
senses_topics:
law
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software |
7083 | word:
substance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
substance (countable and uncountable, plural substances)
forms:
form:
substances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
substance
etymology_text:
From Middle English substance, from Old French substance, from Latin substantia (“substance, essence”), from substāns, present active participle of substō (“exist”, literally “stand under”), from sub + stō (“stand”). Displaced native Old English andweorc.
senses_examples:
text:
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
ref:
1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
type:
quotation
text:
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
This edition is the same in substance with the Latin.
text:
It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming.
ref:
1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace
type:
quotation
text:
Some textile fabrics have little substance.
type:
example
text:
a man of substance
type:
example
text:
substance abuse
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Physical matter; material.
Physical matter; material.
A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
Drugs (illegal narcotics)
Ousia, essence; underlying reality or hypostasis in the philosophical sense.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology |
7084 | word:
substance
word_type:
verb
expansion:
substance (third-person singular simple present substances, present participle substancing, simple past and past participle substanced)
forms:
form:
substances
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
substancing
tags:
participle
present
form:
substanced
tags:
participle
past
form:
substanced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
substance
etymology_text:
From Middle English substance, from Old French substance, from Latin substantia (“substance, essence”), from substāns, present active participle of substō (“exist”, literally “stand under”), from sub + stō (“stand”). Displaced native Old English andweorc.
senses_examples:
text:
If life were nothing but what gets phrased and substanced, the world might as well be rolled up and laid away again in darkness.
ref:
1873, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, The Other Girls, page 335
type:
quotation
text:
The calm ruminating / Reverie, substancing / Intellect into emotion, / Is shelter enough for love / Unhumiliated by faith.
ref:
1982, Dhupaty V. K. Raghavacharyulu, The Song of the Red Rose and Other Poems, page 78
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give substance to; to make real or substantial.
senses_topics:
|
7085 | word:
denigrate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
denigrate (third-person singular simple present denigrates, present participle denigrating, simple past and past participle denigrated)
forms:
form:
denigrates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
denigrating
tags:
participle
present
form:
denigrated
tags:
participle
past
form:
denigrated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin dēnigrātus, the past participle of dēnigrāre (“to blacken”), from dē + nigrare (“to blacken”) (from niger (“black”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Although in public Soviet officials tend to denigrate the French electric locomotives imported recently, there is little doubt that lessons learnt from these engines will be incorporated in new Russian designs.
ref:
1963 January, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.”, in Modern Railways, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
You have no right to denigrate people and things that you have no personal experience with.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
To blacken.
senses_topics:
|
7086 | word:
threw
word_type:
verb
expansion:
threw
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English threw, from Old English þrēaw (first and third person past tense of þrāwan), from West Germanic *þreu, from Northwest Germanic *þrerō, from Proto-Germanic *þeþrō (first and third person past tense of *þrēaną), reduplication of *þrēaną.
senses_examples:
text:
"But I'd have threw lead at him if I'd been scared enough. I wasn't scared enough."
ref:
1967, John McPhee, The Pine Barrens, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
I may have threw it away then, or I may have threw it away after I got the passport and didn't need the various other stuff any long.
ref:
1979, Investigation of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr […], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 606
type:
quotation
text:
I never should have had all them niggas in my bed for all them years. Never should have threw you out.
ref:
2005 June 1, Tracy Brown, Criminal Minded: A Novel, St. Martin's Publishing Group, page 152
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of throw
past participle of throw
senses_topics:
|
7087 | word:
underlain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
underlain
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Phylles was still smirking at him, but there was a degree of uncertainty behind her expression, that had perhaps underlain her earlier hostility as well.
ref:
2011, Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Sea Watch
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of underlie
senses_topics:
|
7088 | word:
sentence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sentence (plural sentences)
forms:
form:
sentences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sentence
etymology_text:
Borrowing from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).
senses_examples:
text:
The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
type:
example
text:
A branch that has played a significant part in the history of its territory is under sentence at the end of the summer timetables, so far as its passenger services are concerned.
ref:
1959 October, Colin G. Maggs, “The Bristol-Frome branch of the W.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 473
type:
quotation
text:
The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous child rapist.
type:
example
text:
The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
type:
example
text:
[I]f it may bee lawfull to iudge or giue any ſentence thereof, it [the author of the book of Ruth] was either Samuell, or ſome other godly Prophet vnder the raigne of Saule, [...]
ref:
1596, Edward Topsell, The Reward of Religion: Deliuered in Sundry Lectures Vpon the Booke of Ruth : Wherein the Godly May See Their Dayly Both Inward and Outward Trials : with the Presence of God to Assist Them, and His Mercies to Recompence Them …, London: John Windet, published 1601, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
A formula with no free variables.
Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
Sense; meaning; significance.
One's opinion; manner of thinking.
A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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7089 | word:
sentence
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sentence (third-person singular simple present sentences, present participle sentencing, simple past and past participle sentenced)
forms:
form:
sentences
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sentencing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sentenced
tags:
participle
past
form:
sentenced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sentence
etymology_text:
Borrowing from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).
senses_examples:
text:
The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
type:
example
text:
1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
text:
Moreover, in 2002 two EPB officials in Yangcheng County, Shanxi Province, were sentenced to jail for failing to stop a chemical plant from discharging toxic waste into the drinking-water system.
ref:
2005, Elizabeth Economy, “Environmental Enforcement in China”, in Kristen A. Day, editor, China's Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
On Thursday, a court in south China's Hunan province sentenced a Chinese journalist, Yang Xiaoqing, to one year in jail for extortion after he wrote articles about official corruption.
ref:
2006 June 16, “China holds closed trial for researcher - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-05, ASIA PACIFIC
type:
quotation
text:
And at that point, we have sentenced a child to motherhood.
ref:
2016 February 21, “Abortion Laws”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 2, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
We are empowered to deliver thee to prison; yea, the law commands us to sentence death upon the abettors of this mischief.[…]
ref:
1874, Ella Taylor Disosway, South Meadows: A Tale of Long Ago, page 235
type:
quotation
text:
So as far as the older generation of German Lutherans were concerned, the abolition of the mother language sentenced death upon the church as they knew it.
ref:
1977, Eugene B. Meier, How was the Acculturation of Children of Alt Lutheraner Descent in Wisconsin 1843 - 1915 Affected by the Relationship of Home and Market?: A Case Study, page 150
type:
quotation
text:
But little did I know, As I cleared away that snow, I'd sentenced death upon that rose, For late that night it simply froze. I'd taken its one chance away, As I stripped it of its quilt that day. I learned a lesson late that night, ...
ref:
1991, Joe Wayman, If You Promise Not to Tell, Pieces of Learning, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
[…] upholding Idaho statute mandating that court "shall" sentence death upon finding an aggravating circumstance "unless" it finds outweighing mitigating circumstances because satisfies individualized sentencing requirement […]
ref:
1996, United States. Court of Appeals (9th Circuit), Annual Report of the Ninth Circuit, page 137
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
To utter sententiously.
senses_topics:
law
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7090 | word:
said
word_type:
verb
expansion:
said
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English seide (preterite) and seid, iseid (past participle), from Old English sǣde, sæġde (preterite) and ġesæġd (past participle), equivalent to say + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of say
senses_topics:
|
7091 | word:
said
word_type:
adj
expansion:
said (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English seide (preterite) and seid, iseid (past participle), from Old English sǣde, sæġde (preterite) and ġesæġd (past participle), equivalent to say + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
The said party has denied the charges.
type:
example
text:
How nicely we could manage without the said railway, now the great hobby of our Teviotdale lairds, if we could by any process of conjuration waft to Abbotsford some of the coal and lime from Lochore...
ref:
1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90, words written by Scott
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.
senses_topics:
|
7092 | word:
said
word_type:
det
expansion:
said
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English seide (preterite) and seid, iseid (past participle), from Old English sǣde, sæġde (preterite) and ġesæġd (past participle), equivalent to say + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
Said party has denied the charges.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.
senses_topics:
|
7093 | word:
undertook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
undertook
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of undertake
senses_topics:
|
7094 | word:
underwrote
word_type:
verb
expansion:
underwrote
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of underwrite
senses_topics:
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7095 | word:
swept
word_type:
adj
expansion:
swept (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Having survived the seemingly-random attacks through the day, and now under the cover of night, the Germans seem to have a clear run to safety. However, back when the route became clear thanks to the Enigma intercepts, Bomber Command had laid more mines in the swept channel. And now, along comes Gneisenau!
ref:
2019 January 9, Drachinifel, 32:48 from the start, in The Channel Dash / Operation Cerberus - How to win through refuge in audacity, archived from the original on 2022-07-24
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cleared of mines (explosive devices).
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
7096 | word:
swept
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swept
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of sweep
senses_topics:
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7097 | word:
blow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blow (third-person singular simple present blows, present participle blowing, simple past blew, past participle blown)
forms:
form:
blows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
blowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
blew
tags:
past
form:
blown
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
Blow
etymology_text:
From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Blow the dust off that book and open it up.
type:
example
text:
The leaves blow through the streets in the fall.
type:
example
text:
to blow bubbles
type:
example
text:
to blow glass
type:
example
text:
Joe puffed on his pipe and blew a couple of smoke rings.
type:
example
text:
to blow the fire
type:
example
text:
to blow an egg
type:
example
text:
to blow one’s nose
type:
example
text:
The submarine blew its main ballast tanks.
type:
example
text:
In the harbor, the ships’ horns blew.
type:
example
text:
There’s nothing more thrilling to the whale watcher than to see a whale surface and blow.
type:
example
text:
There she blows! (i.e. “I see a whale spouting!”)
type:
example
text:
Soon after he [a porpoise] appeared again, blowing very hard, but the next moment he turned over; Rasmus was not slow in putting the boat-hook in him and hauling him into the boat with my assistance.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 184
type:
quotation
text:
Get away from that burning gas tank! It’s about to blow!
type:
example
text:
Hitler is very, very important, and something's going to blow in Europe.
ref:
1971, Herman Wouk, The Winds of War, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
The demolition squad neatly blew the old hotel up.
type:
example
text:
The aerosol can was blown to bits.
type:
example
text:
However, something once happened on the railway there which showed the very best of mankind: heroism, duty, self-sacrifice and calm professionalism under terrible pressure. It is a story which gives us far, far better reasons for remembering this attractive little town, which without these heroes would have been blown to smithereens in a gigantic explosion. (Two railwaymen lost their lives in 1944 when a wagon in an ammunition train caught fire and blew up, an even worse disaster was averted however.)
ref:
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
He blew the tires and the engine.
type:
example
text:
He tried to sprint, but his ligaments blew and he was barely able to walk to the finish line.
type:
example
text:
A common problem for double glazed windows (or doors) is mist or condensation between the panes of glass. This is known as a blown window or failed double glazing. But what does it cost to repair?
ref:
(Can we date this quote?), Checkatrade.com, “Blown windows repair cost guide”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
I managed to blow $1000 at blackjack in under an hour.
type:
example
text:
I blew $35 thou on a car.
type:
example
text:
We blew an opportunity to get benign corporate sponsorship.
type:
example
text:
‘Holy Mackerel, Ann! I’m certainly glad we blew ourselves for that outfit of yours.’
ref:
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
I blew it and forgot to start the spaghetti, so I had plenty of sauce and no pasta.
type:
example
text:
Good luck, and don’t blow it!
type:
example
text:
[…] I put myself on the line for you. I told you I wasn't sure if I was ready for a relationship again and you blew it. You blew it! You call this a fresh start? This doesn't look like a fresh start to me. You're dicking me around just like the rest of them, Drew.
ref:
2006, Allison Rushby, Hating Valentine's Day, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
Hodgson’s team attracted a certain amount of sympathy and understanding after the Italy defeat but it was beyond them to play with the same attacking panache and, if there is to be a feat of escapology, it will need an almost implausible combination of results and handouts in the final games of Group D. More realistically, they have blown it in their first week.
ref:
2014 June 20, Daniel Taylor, “World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark”, in guardian.co.uk
type:
quotation
text:
This blows!
type:
example
text:
Who did you have to blow to get those backstage passes?
type:
example
text:
The mandem all used to go round there and get head off her, the sister blowing the man line by line while her brother shotted downstairs in the stairwell.
ref:
2011, “Chyna”, in How I Escaped a Girl Gang: Rolling in a London Girl Gang
type:
quotation
text:
Let’s blow this joint.
type:
example
text:
I'm a wanted man and I'm blowing town
Don't waste your time trying to hunt me down
ref:
2007, Gus Seyffert, Charlie Wadhams (lyrics and music), “Guilty As Charged”, in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, performed by John C. Reilly
type:
quotation
text:
[…] said the bookseller, “but I cannot risk the expence of your debut - There are critics without as well as within a theatre.” - I know it, said I, interrupting him; “men who, like flies blowing on a piece of wholesome meat, can convert it into carrion - […]
ref:
1807, Thomas Pike Lathy, Gabriel Forrester;or, The deserted son. A novel in four volumes, volume 2, London: Lewis and Hamblin, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
In Cornwall, a singular mode of curing conger, once prevailed, which was, merely to split the conger in halves, and, without any further preparation, to hang them up in a kind of shambles erected for that purpose, when the flies, blowing on the fish, the progeny would devour all the parts liable to decomposition, whilst the residue, being dried in the sun, became in this manner fit for use: and, when perfectly cured, where exported to Spain and Portugal. There they were ground into powder, and with this preparation, the natives of those Countries used to thicken their soups.
ref:
1843, William Hughes(Piscator), Fish, How to Choose and How to Dress, London: Longman, Green, Brown, and Longmans, pages 41–42
type:
quotation
text:
[…]and often after they drop off the punctured skins are the seats of maggots, etc., owing to flies blowing on these injuries.
ref:
1921, “The British Veterinary Journal”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 77, Ballière Tindall, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
I don't want the worst characters in hell to be running after me with friendly messages and little testimonials of admiration for Smythe, and blowing about his talents, and bragging on him, and belching their villainous fire and brimstone all through the atmosphere and making my place smell worse than a menagerie.
ref:
1866 February 6, Mark Twain, “Remarkable Dream”, in Virginia City Territorial Enterprise
type:
quotation
text:
He didn't just set around and try to out sweettalk somebody; he got out and out-fit somebody. He wouldn't be blowing when he told his boys how he fit for the woman he got.
ref:
a. 1940, Mildred Haun, “Shin-Bone Rocks”, in The Hawk's Done Gone, page 218
type:
quotation
text:
At the breaking edge with him and completely fed up with his everlasting bragging and blowing about his personal exploits, and desirous of putting him somewhere, anywhere, so they wouldn't be continuously annoyed by him, […]
ref:
1969, Charles Ambrose McCarthy, The Great Molly Maguire Hoax, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
Audie never liked him because he was further in with old Craig than he was, bragging and blowing about his work and the things he could do, while Audie sat quiet as a mouse listening to his blab.
ref:
1976, David Toulmin, Blown Seed, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
'As for that,' says Will, 'I could tell it well enough, if I had it, but I must not be seen anywhere among my old acquaintances, for I am blown, and they will all betray me.'
ref:
1722, Daniel Defoe, Colonel Jack
type:
quotation
text:
That girl has a wonderful voice; just listen to her blow!
type:
example
text:
Uh, oh! I gotta blow!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce an air current.
To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
To be propelled by an air current.
To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
To create or shape by blowing.
To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
To clear of contents by forcing air through.
To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
To make a sound as the result of being blown.
To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
To blow from a gun.
To cause the sudden destruction of.
To suddenly fail destructively.
To recklessly squander.
To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
To be very undesirable.
To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
(of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
To talk loudly; boast; brag.
To slander, insult, critique or discredit (someone); to reprimand or scold (someone).
To expose, or inform on.
To sing.
To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
To flatulate or defecate.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
Scientology
lifestyle
religion
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7098 | word:
blow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blow (countable and uncountable, plural blows)
forms:
form:
blows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Blow
etymology_text:
From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).
senses_examples:
text:
We’re having a bit of a blow this afternoon.
type:
example
text:
The players were able to get a blow during the last timeout.
type:
example
text:
Hi there, you're a pretty cute chick, want to snort some blow?
ref:
1982, Slava Tsukerman, Anne Carlisle, Nina V. Kerova, Liquid Sky
type:
quotation
text:
Hey man, you wanna cop some blow? / Sure, what you got, dust, flakes or rocks?
ref:
1983, “White Lines (Don't Do It)”, performed by Grandmaster Melle Mel
type:
quotation
text:
Jesus Christ, George, I don't see you for two years and you show up on my doorstep with 110 pounds of blow.
ref:
2001, David McKenna, Blow, spoken by Derek
type:
quotation
text:
I ran out of blow a long time ago / I can't smoke a J or my guts fly away
ref:
2023, “Modern Day Ripoff”, in Every Loser, performed by Iggy Pop
type:
quotation
text:
His girlfriend gave him a blow.
type:
example
text:
The sounding of the alarm was the signal to begin the emergency blow maneuver. At this time, witnesses reported, the guest at the high-pressure air controls operated the levers under close supervision of Navy personnel, and the submarine started to rise at a sharp angle.
ref:
2005 September 29, National Transportation Safety Board, “Emergency Evolutions”, in Marine Accident Brief: Collision between the U.S. Navy Submarine USS Greeneville and Japanese Motor Vessel Ehime Maru near Oahu, Hawaii, 9 February 2001, archived from the original on 2022-03-25, page 24
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A strong wind.
A chance to catch one's breath.
Cocaine.
Cannabis.
Heroin.
A blowjob; fellatio.
An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
7099 | word:
blow
word_type:
intj
expansion:
blow
forms:
wikipedia:
Blow
etymology_text:
From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to express displeasure or frustration.
senses_topics:
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