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7200 | word:
attention
word_type:
intj
expansion:
attention
forms:
wikipedia:
attention
etymology_text:
From Middle English attencioun, borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionis, from attendere, past participle attentus (“to attend, give heed to”); see attend.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.
A call for people to be quiet/stop doing what they are presently doing and pay heed to what they are to be told or shown.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
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7201 | word:
slay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slay (third-person singular simple present slays, present participle slaying, simple past slew or slayed, past participle slain or slayed or (obsolete) yslain)
forms:
form:
slays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
slaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
slew
tags:
past
form:
slayed
tags:
past
form:
slain
tags:
participle
past
form:
slayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
yslain
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sleen, slayn, from Old English slēan (“to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact”), from Proto-West Germanic *slahan, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną (“to fight, strike, kill”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”).
Cognate with Dutch slaan (“to beat, hit, strike”), Low German slaan (“hit, strike”), German schlagen (“to beat, hit, strike”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish slå (“to knock, beat, strike”), Icelandic slá (“to strike”). Related to slaughter, onslaught.
senses_examples:
text:
The knight slew the dragon.
type:
example
text:
Our foes must all be slain.
type:
example
text:
Slay not your children, fearing a fall to poverty, We shall provide for them and for you. Lo! the slaying of them is great sin.
ref:
1930, Marmaduke Pickthall, transl., The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, surah 17, verse 31
type:
quotation
text:
This is a graph of the death rate from infectious disease in this country. The heroes of my field have slain one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. While the heroes of your field gathered in the desert to create a new one.
ref:
2015 May 4, Randall Munroe, xkcd (webcomic), Degree-Off
type:
quotation
text:
You must slay these thoughts.
type:
example
text:
1956 December 31, “Giants Slay Bears in Pro Title Battle”, in Lodi News-Sentinel, page 8:
type:
quotation
text:
1985 November 19, “Redskins slay Giants; Thiesmann shatters leg”, in The Gadsden Times, pages D1-5:
type:
quotation
text:
The Yankees were actually slayed by two former Yankees because Rich Gossage pitched one scoreless inning in relief of Eckersley to notch his first victory.
ref:
1993 April 21, Jack Curry, “Yanks’ Bullpen Falls Short Again”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Ha ha! You slay me!
type:
example
text:
He snapped his fingers contemptuously at the alarm clock. "I fear thee not, thou ticking tyrant." "You slay me," grinned Cedric.
ref:
1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
Your outfit slays!
type:
example
text:
Movie buffs will love this costume from Beetlejuice. And even if you don't have someone to double team this look with, each costume can easily slay on its own.
ref:
2023 September 19, Chaise Sanders, “50 Best Halloween Costumes of All Time, From the Classics to the Truly Unique”, in Cosmopolitan
type:
quotation
text:
2015 Sexual Harassment in Education and Work Settings: Current Research and Best Practices for Prevention
The Online Slang Dictionary offers nearly 200 words referring to sexual intercourse. Many of the terms and phrases connote violence, such as: “bang,” “beat,” “chopped up,” “cut,” “hit,” “hit raw,” “hit that,” “kick it,” “nail,” “pound,” “ram,” “slap and tickle,” “slay,” “smack,” “smash,” and “spank”
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To kill; to murder.
To eradicate or stamp out.
To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest).
To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
To have sex with.
senses_topics:
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7202 | word:
slay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slay (plural slays)
forms:
form:
slays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sleen, slayn, from Old English slēan (“to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact”), from Proto-West Germanic *slahan, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną (“to fight, strike, kill”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”).
Cognate with Dutch slaan (“to beat, hit, strike”), Low German slaan (“hit, strike”), German schlagen (“to beat, hit, strike”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish slå (“to knock, beat, strike”), Icelandic slá (“to strike”). Related to slaughter, onslaught.
senses_examples:
text:
Equally effervescent was EmRata [Emily Ratajkowski] in 2001 Versace; meanwhile Zendaya, clothed in a 1996 John Galliano for Givenchy gown that could rival Queen Victoria’s regal mourning robes, was a slay for the ages.
ref:
2024 May 12, Tish Weinstock, “This Vintage Lover Is Calling Time On The ’90s Fashion Obsession”, in British Vogue
type:
quotation
text:
“Let’s work it out on a remix” can be applied to many situations. It’s a public truce under the guise of a joint slay. A bride is making unreasonable demands of her wedding party and the maid of honor might quit? They should work it out on a remix (establish a budget).
ref:
2024 June 21, Jason P. Frank, “Who Else Needs to Work It Out on a Remix?”, in Vulture
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something excellent, amazing, or fashionable.
senses_topics:
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7203 | word:
slay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slay (plural slays)
forms:
form:
slays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See sley
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of sley
senses_topics:
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7204 | word:
rode
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rode
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
No doubt many a journey you have rode and gone, and many a hard daies labour you have taken, and ſharpened perhaps with care and grief[…]
ref:
1662, John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute […], page 26
type:
quotation
text:
We dined at Martin's, and then came on to father Low's: we have rode but eight miles this day.
ref:
1827 [1780], Francis Asbury, The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury […], volume II
type:
quotation
text:
I have rode with the Kings, man, and I have rode with the best! I know what the truth is, and the truth is that I count and you don't.
ref:
2014 May 5, Eric Bogosian, 100 (monologues), Theatre Communications Group, page 100
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of ride
past participle of ride
senses_topics:
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7205 | word:
rode
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rode (third-person singular simple present rodes, present participle roding, simple past and past participle roded)
forms:
form:
rodes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
roding
tags:
participle
present
form:
roded
tags:
participle
past
form:
roded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
When the sun rises we shall have some splendid play. Only hear the woodcock, how he is roading; he expects fine weather.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology |
7206 | word:
rode
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rode (plural rodes)
forms:
form:
rodes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The line from a vessel to its anchor.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
7207 | word:
rode
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rode (plural rodes)
forms:
form:
rodes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Thomas Carlysle, &c. rode a Forrey to Dunglas, and there seased and brought away 80 Nolt, 200 Shepe, 22 Naggs. A Rode made to a Stede called the Hayrebed, and there they gate 30 Nolt, 3 or 4 Naggs.
ref:
1544 October 23, Lord Evre, Letters
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of road.
senses_topics:
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7208 | word:
stole
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stole
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
senses_examples:
text:
TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.
ref:
2023 December 13, “Network News: £13,000 stolen via car park QR”, in RAIL, number 998, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
[…]when indeed they have ſeen nothing, but have ſtole the word of the Lord from others, and borrowed from their neighbour[…]
ref:
1654, John Webſter, The Judgement Set, and the Bookes Opened, and All Religion brought to Triall […], page 149
type:
quotation
text:
And glory pointed still the goal / THat fired his lay; / But now revolving time has stole / Those dreams away.
ref:
1834, Alexander Smart, Rambling Rhymes, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
[…]He must have stole my gear after he ran off, licking his wounds." Clint spoke loudly and proudly and drew some applause.
ref:
2014 November 19, Domino Finn, The Blood of Brothers (Sycamore Moon; 2), Blood & Treasure, page 146
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of steal
past participle of steal
senses_topics:
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7209 | word:
stole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stole (plural stoles)
forms:
form:
stoles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English stole, from Latin stola, from Ancient Greek στολή (stolḗ, “stole, garment, equipment”); akin to stall. Doublet of stola.
senses_examples:
text:
1994-1998, Encyclopaedia Britannica CD 98, Multimedia Edition
Certain robes indicate a position in the hierarchy; others correspond to function and may be worn by the same individual at different times. The most important vestment among the insignia [of the clergy] is the stole, the emblem of sacerdotal status, the origin of which is the ancient pallium. The stole originally was a draped garment, then a folded one with the appearance of a scarf, and, finally, in the 4th century, a scarf. As a symbol of jurisdictionin the Roman Empire, the supreme pontiff (the pope, or bishop of Rome) conferred it upon archbishops and, later, upon bishops, as emblematic of their sharing in the papal authority.
text:
With sou'-wester under arm, and oilskin open so that God might see the stole and know that there was no deception, he chanted from a prayer-book in a tone exactly like that of a blackfellow devil-dovvening: […]
ref:
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, page 167
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A garment consisting of a decorated band worn on the back of the neck, each end hanging over the chest, worn in ecclesiastical settings or sometimes as a part of graduation dress.
A scarf-like garment, often made of fur.
senses_topics:
|
7210 | word:
stole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stole (plural stoles)
forms:
form:
stoles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin stolō. Doublet of stolon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stolon.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
7211 | word:
oil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oil (countable and uncountable, plural oils)
forms:
form:
oils
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
oil
etymology_text:
From Middle English oyle, oile (“olive oil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman olie, from Latin oleum (“oil, olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”). Compare Proto-Slavic *lojь. More at olive. Doublet of oleum. Supplanted Middle English ele (“oil”), from Old English ele (“oil”), also from Latin.
senses_examples:
text:
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
Yet, in another way, I was unable to put Picasso's oils in the same class as Cezanne's, or even (which will no doubt shock many readers) as Renoir's.
ref:
1973, John Ulric Nef, Search for meaning: the autobiography of a nonconformist, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
I prefer to paint in oil
type:
example
text:
oil barrel; oil pipe
type:
example
text:
Such a vehicle is made by taking any old barrel (usually an oil barrel, but the one selected for our sketch was one that once contained Valentine’s varnish) and through each head of the barrel an inch hole is bored, and an iron bar is driven through, leaving the ends projecting about eight inches.
ref:
1884, Trade News, “A one-wheel Nantucket vehicle”, in The Automotive Manufacturer, page 372
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Liquid fat.
Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
Petroleum.
An oil painting.
Oil paint.
Containing oil, conveying oil; intended for or capable of containing oil.
senses_topics:
|
7212 | word:
oil
word_type:
verb
expansion:
oil (third-person singular simple present oils, present participle oiling, simple past and past participle oiled)
forms:
form:
oils
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
oiling
tags:
participle
present
form:
oiled
tags:
participle
past
form:
oiled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
oil
etymology_text:
From Middle English oilen, oylen, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lubricate with oil.
To grease with oil for cooking.
senses_topics:
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7213 | word:
fight
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fight (third-person singular simple present fights, present participle fighting, simple past fought, past participle fought or (archaic) foughten)
forms:
form:
fights
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fighting
tags:
participle
present
form:
fought
tags:
past
form:
fought
tags:
participle
past
form:
foughten
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
fight
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fighten, from Old English feohtan (“to fight, combat, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to comb, tease, shear, struggle with”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear”).
Cognate with Scots fecht (“to fight”), West Frisian fjochtsje, fjuchte (“to fight”), Dutch vechten (“to fight”), Low German fechten (“to fight”), German fechten (“to fight, fence”), Swedish fäkta (“to fence, to fight (using blade weapons), to wave vigorously (and carelessly) with one's arms”), Latin pectō (“comb, thrash”, verb), Albanian pjek (“to hit, strive, fight”), Ancient Greek πέκω (pékō, “comb or card wool”, verb). Related also to Old English feht (“wool, shaggy pelt, fleece”).
senses_examples:
text:
My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II.
type:
example
text:
Our soldiers fought the battle just over that hill.
type:
example
text:
A wounded animal will fight tooth and nail; relentless, savage and murderous.
type:
example
text:
The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour.
type:
example
text:
to fight cocks; to fight one's ship
type:
example
text:
He fought for the Democrats in the last election.
type:
example
text:
[Edmund] Burke continued to fight for liberty later on in life. He backed Americans in their campaign for freedom from British taxation. He supported Catholic freedoms and freer trade with Ireland, in spite of his constituents’ ire. He wanted more liberal laws on the punishment of debtors.
ref:
2014 July 5, “Freedom fighter”, in The Economist, volume 412, number 8894
type:
quotation
text:
The government pledged to fight corruption.
type:
example
text:
I fought a sneeze as Max took my hand and led me into the chapel.
ref:
2014, Ann Aguirre, The Shape of My Heart, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
The higher the saturation, the more the colors fight, and the more users will be looking at your design instead of your content.
ref:
2013, Ian G. Clifton, Android User Interface Design
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Senses relating to physical conflict:
To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
Senses relating to physical conflict:
To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
Senses relating to physical conflict:
To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
Senses relating to physical conflict:
To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc.
Senses relating to physical conflict:
To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.
To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize.
senses_topics:
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7214 | word:
fight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fight (countable and uncountable, plural fights)
forms:
form:
fights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fight, feyght, fiȝt, fecht, from Old English feoht, ġefeoht, from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtą, *gafehtą (“fight, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to struggle with”). Cognate with Dutch gevecht, German Gefecht.
senses_examples:
text:
One of them got stuck in a chokehold and got stabbed to death during the fight.
type:
example
text:
Watch your language! Are you looking for a fight?
type:
example
text:
I'm going to Nick’s to watch the big fight tomorrow night.
type:
example
text:
I'll put up a fight to save this company.
type:
example
text:
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs.
ref:
2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
That little guy has a bit of fight in him after all. As soon as he saw the size of his opponent, all the fight went out of him.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An occasion of fighting.
A battle between opposing armies.
A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
A boxing or martial arts match.
A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
The will or ability to fight.
A screen for the combatants in ships; an arming.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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7215 | word:
dogmatic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dogmatic (comparative more dogmatic, superlative most dogmatic)
forms:
form:
more dogmatic
tags:
comparative
form:
most dogmatic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French dogmatique, from Late Latin dogmaticus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek δογματικός (dogmatikós, “didactic”), from δόγμα (dógma, “dogma”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.
Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal.
Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
medicine
philosophy
sciences
|
7216 | word:
dogmatic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dogmatic (plural dogmatics)
forms:
form:
dogmatics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French dogmatique, from Late Latin dogmaticus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek δογματικός (dogmatikós, “didactic”), from δόγμα (dógma, “dogma”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; opposed to the empiric.
senses_topics:
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7217 | word:
paint
word_type:
noun
expansion:
paint (countable and uncountable, plural paints)
forms:
form:
paints
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
paint
etymology_text:
From Middle English peynten, from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin pingō (“to paint”) (perfect passive participle pictus). Displaced native Old English tēafor (“paint”) and *tīefran (“to paint”).
senses_examples:
text:
fresh coat of paint
type:
example
text:
René went back into the kitchen and put a pot of coffee on, got out his paints and started on a new painting. He felt inspired.
ref:
2007, Jesse Guthrie, Catherine's Addiction, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.
type:
example
text:
Early on it was the Bulldogs who were clearly the aggressors, playing hard in the paint and getting baskets with muscle more than with their shooting prowess.
ref:
2013 December 12, “JV Dogs suffer first loss, 47-41”, in Martinez (California) News-Gazette
type:
quotation
text:
Isaiah Thomas is very clever, very crafty getting to the paint and finishing in the paint.
ref:
2016 April 20, “Hawks not giving Celtics anything in the paint”, in Comcast SportsNet New England
type:
quotation
text:
In Game 3, they re-focused on protecting the paint and transition defense. The Cavs scored 106 points in the paint in the first two games and just 20 in Game 3.
ref:
2016 May 22, “Renewed defensive strategy has Raptors alive in conference finals”, in USA TODAY
type:
quotation
text:
I am running low on paint for my marker.
type:
example
text:
It combines traditional paint capabilities with photograph enhancement features.
ref:
1993, Emil Ihrig, CorelDRAW! 4 made easy
type:
quotation
text:
Computer paint software operates similarly but adds features that are delightfully familiar and useful to artists trained in traditional graphics materials.
ref:
1998, Kit Laybourne, The animation book: a complete guide to animated filmmaking
type:
quotation
text:
If using a paint package, you must specify the color before you draw the line or shape.
ref:
2001, Maureen Sprankle, Problem Solving for Information Processing
type:
quotation
text:
They were as plain and homely as a table-top dancer when the rains had wiped the paint and powder from her face.
ref:
2012, Caleb Pirtle, Shelly Marshall, Other Voices, Other Towns: The Traveler's Story
type:
quotation
text:
Smaller target paints would also be preferred to those displayed on the existing DFTI.
ref:
1973, International Conference on Radar--Present and Future, 23-25 October, 1973, page 203
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
The free-throw lane, construed with the.
Paintballs.
A face card (king, queen, or jack).
Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
Makeup.
Tattoo work.
Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.
The appearance of an object on a radar screen.
senses_topics:
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
games
paintball
card-games
poker
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
7218 | word:
paint
word_type:
verb
expansion:
paint (third-person singular simple present paints, present participle painting, simple past and past participle painted)
forms:
form:
paints
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
painting
tags:
participle
present
form:
painted
tags:
participle
past
form:
painted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
paint
etymology_text:
From Middle English peynten, from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin pingō (“to paint”) (perfect passive participle pictus). Displaced native Old English tēafor (“paint”) and *tīefran (“to paint”).
senses_examples:
text:
to paint a portrait or a landscape
type:
example
text:
I've been painting since I was a young child.
type:
example
text:
Sent to a minimized window when the icon's background must be filled before it is painted.
ref:
1991, Ernest R Tello, Object-oriented Programming for Windows
type:
quotation
text:
She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.
type:
example
text:
During defense openings, Bankman-Fried’s lawyer painted him as a “nerd” who tried to do the right thing but was overwhelmed with a fast-growing company.
ref:
2023 October 5, Victoria Bekiempis, “FTX co-founder testifies he committed crimes with Sam Bankman-Fried”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
"We'll paint the target for the flyboys," the JTAC said.
type:
example
text:
The Albuquerque radar “painted” just one object whenever the light was on, none when it was off.
ref:
2023, J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience: Evidence Behind Close Encounters, Project Blue Book, and the Search for Answers, Red Wheel/Weiser, page 73
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply paint to.
To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
To create (an image) with paints.
To practise the art of painting pictures.
To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
To depict or portray.
To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
To detect (something) with radar.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war |
7219 | word:
freight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
freight (usually uncountable, plural freights)
forms:
form:
freights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English freight, freght, freyght [and other forms], a variant of fraught, fraght (“transport of goods or people, usually by water; transportation fee; transportation facilities; cargo or passengers of a ship; (figuratively) burden; ballast of a ship; goods; a charge”), from Middle Dutch vracht, vrecht, and Middle Low German vrecht (“cargo, freight; transportation fee”), from Old Saxon frāht, frēht, from Proto-West Germanic *fra- (from Proto-Germanic *fra- (prefix meaning ‘completely, fully’)) + *aihti (from Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“possessions, property”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to come into possession of, obtain; to own, possess”)).
The English word can be analysed as for- + aught, and is a doublet of fraught.
cognates
* French fret (“cargo, freight; transportation fees; rental of a ship”)
* Old English ǣht (“livestock; possession, property; power”)
* Old High German frēht (“earnings”)
* Portuguese frete (“cargo, freight; transportation fees”)
* Spanish flete (“cargo, freight; charter (hire of a vehicle for transporting cargo)”)
* Swedish frakt c (“cargo, freight; transportation fees”)
senses_examples:
text:
The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway.
type:
example
text:
Space for carrying light freight also features in Grand Union's proposal. The company says it is working with partners at Intercity Railfreight on the logistics of this, with refrigerated space to be available for movement of urgent NHS biological materials. Initially freight would be carried in the DVTs of the Class 91/Mk 4 sets, while on the Class 802s the kitchen/buffet would be located towards the centre of the train to make space for freight.
ref:
2019 October, “South Wales Open Access Bid”, in Modern Railways, Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allen Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.
type:
example
text:
Had the ship earned her freight? To earn freight there must, of course, be either a right delivery, or a due and proper offer to deliver the goods to the consignees.
ref:
1881 February 26, [John] Lowell, judge of the Circuit Court, District of Massachusetts, “Taylor and Others v. Insurance Company of North America”, in Peyton Boyle, editor, The Federal Reporter. […] (1st Series), volume 6, St. Paul, Minn: West Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 412
type:
quotation
text:
Ideally, those engaged in contributing to that discourse would have some awareness of the emotional forces which may be called into play by the simple appearance in print or a broadcast clip of a phrase built around the word 'freedom'. This may seem to be a quite unrealistic aim, until we note that some contributors to the emotional public sphere – advertising creatives – are very aware of the emotional freight that simple words may carry, and seek to direct that freight to particular destinations (with particular behavioural consequences).
ref:
2007, Barry Richards, “Poor Emotional Governance”, in Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, part III (The Search for Connection), page 116
type:
quotation
text:
They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.
type:
example
text:
Two westbound freights were in the vicinity and the operator was kept busy passing them radio messages with the latest information on the late running of the streamliners, to allow the enginemen to keep moving until the last possible minute before they had to sidetrack their trains to let the fast trains overtake.
ref:
1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of Railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 423
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.
Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.
Payment for transportation.
A burden, a load.
Cultural or emotional associations.
Short for freight train.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport |
7220 | word:
freight
word_type:
verb
expansion:
freight (third-person singular simple present freights, present participle freighting, simple past and past participle freighted)
forms:
form:
freights
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
freighting
tags:
participle
present
form:
freighted
tags:
participle
past
form:
freighted
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
freight
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Late Middle English freighten, freghten, a variant of fraughten, fraghten (“to load (a ship with cargo or passengers); to hire (a ship) for transporting goods; to provide fully (with goods, money, etc.); to stow away”), and then either:
* from fraught, fraght (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs); or
* from Middle Dutch vrachten, vrechten (“to load (a ship with cargo or passengers); to hire (a ship) for transporting goods, to fraught”), from vracht, vrecht (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs).
The adjective is:
* derived from Middle English freght, freight, freyght, the past participle of fraughten (verb) (see above); and/or
* a contraction of freighted, the past participle of the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
If a Factor do receive a ſum of Mony of the owner of a Ship, in conſideration that he freighteth the ſaid Ship for a Voyage, promiſing to repay the ſaid Mony at the return of the ſaid Voyage; if the ſaid Factor hath freighted this Ship for another mans Account, this Merchant is to have the benefit of this Mony during the time; […]
ref:
1684, Abraham Liset, “Observations Concerning Factors”, in Amphithalami, or, The Accomptants Closet, Being an Abridgment of Merchants-accounts Kept by Debitors and Creditors; […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Robert Horne […], →OCLC, 2nd Part (Litera B), page 27
type:
quotation
text:
[W]hat though it is thou [i.e., sensibility] that rendereſt anguiſh more frequent, that filleſt the eye with the ſympathetic tear! yet is it not thou that ſwelleſt it with the tear of joy, and freighteſt the heart beyond the power of utterance,— […]
ref:
1783 October, Castalic [pseudonym], “The Essayist. Number XVI. Sensibility, a Rhapsody.”, in The Lady’s Magazine; or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex. Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, volume XIV, London: […] G[eorge] Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 546, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Love, that fulfilleth his heart with glee,
Love, that freighteth his breast with sighs,
Love that must madden both you and me:— […]
ref:
1883 December, [Henry] Austin Dobson, “The Ballad of the Judgment of Paris”, in [W. H. Forman], editor, The Manhattan: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume II, number VI, New York, N.Y.: The Manhattan Magazine Company, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 539
type:
quotation
text:
How often, when those hopes are greatest,
The bark that bears them must not be
Trusted with more than what thou freightest
For sun-lit hour and summer sea:
Who, when the waves are high and dark,
Could steer, if freighted deep, such bark?
ref:
1840 March, F[rederick] W[illiam] Thomas, “A Poet to His Sister”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XV, number 3, New York, N.Y.: […] William Osborn, […], →OCLC, stanza 4, page 233
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.
To transport (goods).
To load or store (goods, etc.).
To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.
Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.
senses_topics:
|
7221 | word:
freight
word_type:
adj
expansion:
freight (comparative more freight, superlative most freight)
forms:
form:
more freight
tags:
comparative
form:
most freight
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Late Middle English freighten, freghten, a variant of fraughten, fraghten (“to load (a ship with cargo or passengers); to hire (a ship) for transporting goods; to provide fully (with goods, money, etc.); to stow away”), and then either:
* from fraught, fraght (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs); or
* from Middle Dutch vrachten, vrechten (“to load (a ship with cargo or passengers); to hire (a ship) for transporting goods, to fraught”), from vracht, vrecht (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs).
The adjective is:
* derived from Middle English freght, freight, freyght, the past participle of fraughten (verb) (see above); and/or
* a contraction of freighted, the past participle of the verb.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Freighted; laden.
senses_topics:
|
7222 | word:
gussy up
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gussy up (third-person singular simple present gussies up, present participle gussying up, simple past and past participle gussied up)
forms:
form:
gussies up
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gussying up
tags:
participle
present
form:
gussied up
tags:
participle
past
form:
gussied up
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
You bet she'll gussy up for the party.
type:
example
text:
Not trusting filmgoers to catch the drift, Ms. Coppola underscores the women’s attempts to gussy up with snippets of arch dialogue.
ref:
2017 June 30, Ruth La Ferla, “In ‘The Beguiled,’ Pretty Confections Whipped Up to Seduce”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
You can have plain green beans, or gussie them up with a bit of cheese and onion.
type:
example
text:
WWE and WCW gussied up the ritual with a lot of shock-and-awe pyrotechnics and the most innovative use of video graphics this side of MTV. Not so Extreme Championship Wrestling.
ref:
2006, Thomas Hackett, Slaphappy: Pride, Prejudice, and Professional Wrestling, New York, NY: HarperCollins, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
The trouble arrives when he tries to gussy up his psychologist’s hat with his more elaborate public intellectual’s attire.
ref:
2021 September 29, Jennifer Szalai, “In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason’s Role in Human Progress”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To don fancy clothing; to dress up particularly in flattering or specially altered garments.
To make fancy or attractive, as by artificial or contrived means.
senses_topics:
|
7223 | word:
broadcast
word_type:
adj
expansion:
broadcast (comparative more broadcast, superlative most broadcast)
forms:
form:
more broadcast
tags:
comparative
form:
most broadcast
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
ja:関谷英里子
etymology_text:
From broad + cast.
senses_examples:
text:
The seed was broadcast, not drilled.
type:
example
text:
And ſuch a double Sowing is of the greateſt Importance; for on the thick Growth of a Crop very much depends on the Bigneſs of it at Harveſt, becauſe, by ſuch a thick Growth, the Weeds are overcome and kept down from hurting the Oats; and, likewiſe, the Heats and Droughts kept the better out from parching up the Roots of the Oats, which, in too thin a Crop, often prove fatal to it; for, when Oats are ſown in the random or broadcaſt Way, there is no more Mold allowed their Roots than what the Harrows and Roll give them; which, at beſt, is but a ſuperficial and moſt thin Covering, and, therefore, the more liable to ſuffer by Droughts, which is different from the Way of ſowing Oats in Drills.
ref:
1744, William Ellis, “Of White Oats”, in The Modern Husbandman: Or, The Practice of Farming: As it is Now Carried On by the Most Accurate Farmers in Several Counties of England. For the Month of April. …, Dublin: Printed by and for George Faulkner, →OCLC, pages 48–49
type:
quotation
text:
There must be action on and participation in broadcast methods of public education, face to face, in groups, or by use of the mails. This, however, is of secondary importance to the man-to-man job of education in care with fire in the woods.
ref:
1931 June, M. A. Mattoon, “Application of Methods to Minimize Human Risks and Physical Dangers”, in Fire Handbook: Region Seven: United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: narrowcast
text:
For radio-transmission it has been found that certain passages of a rhythmical nature come out more clearly if wooden-headed sticks are used. The Timpani sometimes tend to sound blurred and even to have a blurring effect on the rest of the orchestral ensemble in broadcast music, when ordinary soft sticks are used in a strongly marked rhythm.
ref:
1946, Ch[arles]-M[arie] Widor, “Percussion Instruments”, in Edward Suddard, transl., The Technique of the Modern Orchestra: A Manual of Practical Instrumentation, rev. and new edition, London: Joseph Wiliams Limited, 29, Enford Street, Marylebone, W.1, →OCLC; reprinted Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2005, page 208
type:
quotation
text:
The new limitations would still prohibit foreigners from wholly or directly owning broadcast licensees, allowing only indirect ownership through a stake in a controlling parent of a broadcast licensee.
ref:
2013 November 14, Alina Selyukh, “U.S. FCC eases foreign investment limit for broadcast stations”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2017-08-16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.
Communicated, signalled, or transmitted to many people, through radio waves or electronic means.
Relating to transmissions of messages or signals to many people through radio waves or electronic means.
senses_topics:
|
7224 | word:
broadcast
word_type:
adv
expansion:
broadcast (comparative more broadcast, superlative most broadcast)
forms:
form:
more broadcast
tags:
comparative
form:
most broadcast
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
ja:関谷英里子
etymology_text:
From broad + cast.
senses_examples:
text:
[O]n reporting to Captain Thrasher he informed me that his orders were to take a detachment of forty men across the French Broad River and turn them loose to wander broadcast over the country as a protection to foraging parties of quartermasters and commissaries, […]
ref:
1864 January 15, J[oseph] B[enjamin] Polley, “Some ‘Escape’ Stories”, in A Soldier’s Letters to Charming Nellie, New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, published 1908, →OCLC, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
The commercial traveller, a personage unknown to antiquity, is one of the striking figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. […] Our century will bind the realm of isolated power, abounding as it does in creative genius, to the realm of universal but levelling might; equalizing all products, spreading them broadcast among the masses, and being itself controlled by the principle of unity,—the final expression of all societies.
ref:
1885, Honoré de Balzac, [Katherine Prescott Wormeley, transl.], “The Illustrious Gaudissart [Scenes from Provincial Life.]”, in The Duchesse de Langeais: With An Episode under the Terror, The Illustrious Gaudissart, A Passion in the Desert, and The Hidden Masterpiece (The Comedy of Human Life), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, 3 Somerset Street, →OCLC, chapter I, page 217
type:
quotation
text:
A special letter of warning against the ravages of the potato-tuber moth in the shape of a press notice has been sent broadcast to newspapers, as well as to others, throughout the country.
ref:
1913, F[rank] H[urlbut] Chittenden, “Protection of the Fall Crop and Seed Potatoes”, in The Potato-tuber Moth (U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin; no. 557), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
When [rape is] grown broadcast the superphosphate may be incorporated with the surface soil by the harrow when preparing the ground for the seed or in covering the same.
ref:
1893, Thomas Shaw, “Fertilizers for Rape”, in The Rape Plant: Its History, Culture, and Uses (U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin; no. 11), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office; published by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Widely in all directions; abroad.
By having its seeds sown over a wide area.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle |
7225 | word:
broadcast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
broadcast (plural broadcasts)
forms:
form:
broadcasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ja:関谷英里子
etymology_text:
From broad + cast.
senses_examples:
text:
No one knows how long it will be until a broadcast from a studio in New York will be viewed in India as well as in Indiana, will be seen in the Congo as it is seen in Chicago. But as surely as we are meeting here today, that day will come; and once again our world will shrink.
ref:
1961 May 9, Newton Minow, Television and the Public Interest
type:
quotation
text:
After nearly 40 years of continuous broadcast in Hong Kong, a 24-hour transmission of the BBC World Service will go silent in the former British colony, replaced with programming from China's state radio channel. The move by Radio Television Hong Kong, owned by the local government, was meant to "enhance the cultural exchange between the mainland and Hong Kong", a spokesman said.
ref:
2017 August 13, Benjamin Haas, “Radio silence: 24-hour broadcast of BBC World Service dropped in Hong Kong: After four decades in the former British colony, BBC World Service is to be mostly replaced with China’s state radio channel”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-08-16
type:
quotation
text:
The DJ was feeling nervous before his first national broadcast.
type:
example
text:
We interrupt this broadcast at the request of the police department to bring you the following special bulletin: The dead body of Miss Paula Canfield, missing student at Westlake University and daughter of the multi-millionaire Harold Canfield, has been found in the Arroyo Seco near the Colorado Street Bridge.
ref:
1943, Wilfrid H. Pettitt, Nine Girls: A Play in Prologue and Two Acts, Chicago, Ill.: The Dramatic Publishing Company, →OCLC; republished Woodstock, Ill.: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1971, act I, scene i, pages 15–16
type:
quotation
text:
Radio Free Europe was established by a group of private citizens in December 1949, for the purpose of conducting a propaganda campaign against six Communist-dominated satellites in central and eastern Europe. […] Its program consisted of daily half-hour broadcasts, first to Czechoslovakia and then to Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Rumania, and Albania.
ref:
1958, Robert T. Holt, “Introduction”, in Radio Free Europe, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →OCLC, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Since my laſt, I went to ſee a piece of Daniel Fitch's, of Pluckley, Kent. He has two acres of broadcaſt, the oldeſt I have ever ſeen, ſown twenty years ago with barley, like clover.
ref:
1785, W. Belcher, “Observations on Lucerne”, in Arthur Young (agriculturist), editor, Annals of Agriculture, and Other Useful Arts, volume III, number 18, London: Printed for the editor, and sold by H. Goldney, No. 15, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, page 433
type:
quotation
text:
It was stated by Mr. Miller, that the common method was, formerly, to sow the barley-seed with a broadcast at two sowings; the first being harrowed in once, but the second not until the seed is buried; […]
ref:
1807, “BARLEY”, in The Complete Farmer; or, General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry: Comprehending the Most Improved Methods of Cultivation; the Different Modes of Raising Timber, Fruit, and Other Trees; and the Modern Management of Live-stock: With Descriptions of the Most Approved Implements, Machinery, and Farm-buildings, 5th wholly re-written and enlarged edition, London: Printed by Rider and Weed, Little Britain, for R. Baldwin [et al.], →OCLC, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.
The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle |
7226 | word:
broadcast
word_type:
verb
expansion:
broadcast (third-person singular simple present broadcasts, present participle broadcasting, simple past and past participle broadcast or broadcasted)
forms:
form:
broadcasts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
broadcasting
tags:
participle
present
form:
broadcast
tags:
participle
past
form:
broadcast
tags:
past
form:
broadcasted
tags:
participle
past
form:
broadcasted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ja:関谷英里子
etymology_text:
From broad + cast.
senses_examples:
text:
When the boys reached the business section of Bayport they found that Jackley's confession had already become known. The local radio station had broadcast it in the afternoon news program and people everywhere were discussing it.
ref:
1927 June 1, Franklin W. Dixon [pseudonym: Leslie McFarlane], “A Surprise”, in The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys; no. 1), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Practicing vocational service to the limit of one's vision makes a difference whether an employer regards his employees as "robots or human beings"; it makes a difference in the kind of advertisements he publishes or broadcasts; it makes a difference how he reacts under pressure from a competitor; it makes a difference in the quality of his service.
ref:
1967 January, “Four Avenues of Service”, in Adventure in Service (Pamphlet [Rotary International]; 52), Evanston, Ill., Zurich: Rotary International, →OCLC, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
The TV is broadcasting a FUZZY PICTURE that shows the weatherman from WVII, the Bango ABC affiliate.
ref:
1999 February, Stephen King, Storm of the Century, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, act 3, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
The state of Rhode Island was the scene, on October 30, 1974, of yet another scare involving an adaptation of The War of the Worlds. Broadcast on radio station WPRO, Providence, the drama frightened listeners across the state. The play began with reporters covering a "meteor crash" near Jamestown, the purported Martian landing site. […] City fire stations and other radio and TV outlets reported being inundated with inquiries from anxious callers, as was WPRO, which received more than a hundred calls.
ref:
2005, Robert E. Bartholomew, “Introduction”, in H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The War of the Worlds, New York, N.Y.: Cosimo Books, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
The Royal Shakespeare Company will today become the first theatre in the UK to broadcast Shakespeare direct into schools. A production of Richard II, starring David Tennant in the title role, is going to be streamed free of charge into classrooms up and down the country.
ref:
2013 November 15, “Shakespeare broadcast direct into schools for first time”, in ITV News, archived from the original on 2017-06-13
type:
quotation
text:
I wanna tell you things and show you all the rest / Broadcast my emotions on the radio and take them off my chest / I hope you're listening / Are you? Are you?
ref:
2020, Ava Max, Sorana, Roland Spreckley, Henri Antero Salonen, Cirkut, Jason Gill (lyrics and music), “OMG What's Happening”, in Heaven & Hell, performed by Ava Max
type:
quotation
text:
The break with imperialism and the liberation of Russia from the predatory war, the publication of the secret treaties and the solemn abrogation of the policy of seizing foreign soil, the proclamation of national freedom and the recognition of the independence of Finland, the declaration of Russia as a "Federation of Soviet National Republics" and the militant battle-cry of a resolute struggle against imperialism broadcast all over the world by the Soviet government in millions of pamphlets, newspapers, and leaflets in the mother tongues of the peoples of the East and West—all this could not fail to have its effect on the enslaved East and the bleeding West.
ref:
[1934], Joseph Stalin, “The October Revolution and the National Question”, in The October Revolution: A Collection of Articles & Speeches (Marxist Library), London: Martin Lawrence, →OCLC, section III (The International Importance of the October Revolution), pages 15–16
type:
quotation
text:
However, truth and lies can usually be confirmed or denied by speaking with eyewitnesses of events in order to verify what took place. The amount of time separating the event in question from when it was broadcasted also makes a difference.
ref:
2014, Greg[ory J.] Monette, The Wrong Jesus: Fact, Belief, Legend, Truth ... Making Sense of What You’ve Heard, Colorado Springs, Colo.: NavPress in alliance with Tyndale House Publishers, page 178
type:
quotation
text:
Urban legend has it that someone is monitoring all those e-mails broadcast from your work address. Hard to imagine a more boring job but the truth is, and I shouldn't have to tell people this, the record of those e-mails is in a server somewhere and it can be monitored.
ref:
2016, Richard A. Moran, “That Permanent Record”, in The Thing about Work: Showing Up and Other Important Matters: A Worker’s Manual, Brookline, Mass.: Bibliomotion
type:
quotation
text:
She [Françoise Dolto] is most well known in France for her broadcasts on France-Inter, Lorsque l'enfant parait; she broadcasted for twelve minutes every day of the week for two years, answering parents' questions.
ref:
2009, Sian Morgan, “Françoise Dolto: A Biography”, in Guy Hall, Francoise Hivernel, Sian Morgan, editors, Theory and Practice in Child Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to the Work of Françoise Dolto, London: Karnac Books, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
I ſhall content myſelf, […] to ſay that the ſeed ſhoud be ſown in the garden, or very good ground, in rows, or broadcaſt, and as ſoon as the plants are of the ſize of a gooſe-quill, to be tranſplanted in rows of eighteen inches diſtance, and eighteen inches apart, one plant from the other: […]
ref:
1789, Thomas Boothby Parkyns, “Some Account of the Racine de Disette, or Root of Scarcity, of Its Utility, and the Mode of Treating It; from a Letter of Thomas Boothby Parkyns, Esq., Addressed to the Secretary of the above-mentioned Society [the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce].—From the Same Work [vol. 5 of the Transactions of the Society].”, in The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature, London: Printed for J[ames] Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, →OCLC, page 80, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
I wanted to grow my own cut flowers for the big day so three months earlier I broadcasted an annual seed mix across a few recently cleared borders.
ref:
2013 November 9, Sarah Price, “Breathing new life into an old garden [print edition: New life, old garden]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), London, archived from the original on 2016-05-15, page G1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.
To transmit a message over a wide area; specifically, to send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.
To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.
To sow seeds over a wide area.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle |
7227 | word:
spoilt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
spoilt (comparative more spoilt, superlative most spoilt)
forms:
form:
more spoilt
tags:
comparative
form:
most spoilt
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having lost its original value
Of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
Having a selfish or greedy character, especially due to pampering
senses_topics:
|
7228 | word:
spoilt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spoilt
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of spoil
senses_topics:
|
7229 | word:
underlay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
underlay
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English underleyen, from Old English underleċġan (“to underlay, prop, support”), equivalent to under- + lay. Cognate with Dutch onderleggen (“to lay or put under”), German unterlegen (“to underlay”), Swedish underlägga (“to underlay”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of underlie
senses_topics:
|
7230 | word:
underlay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
underlay (third-person singular simple present underlays, present participle underlaying, simple past and past participle underlaid)
forms:
form:
underlays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
underlaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
underlaid
tags:
participle
past
form:
underlaid
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English underleyen, from Old English underleċġan (“to underlay, prop, support”), equivalent to under- + lay. Cognate with Dutch onderleggen (“to lay or put under”), German unterlegen (“to underlay”), Swedish underlägga (“to underlay”).
senses_examples:
text:
to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
To put a tap on (a shoe).
To incline from the vertical.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
7231 | word:
underlay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
underlay (plural underlays)
forms:
form:
underlays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English underlay, underlei, equivalent to under- + lay.
senses_examples:
text:
The underlay in bar 3 is unclear in Handel's manuscript.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.
A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet.
Anything that is underlaid.
A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.
Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
7232 | word:
chancel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chancel (plural chancels)
forms:
form:
chancels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French chancel. Doublet of cancellus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The space around the altar in a church, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.
senses_topics:
|
7233 | word:
undone
word_type:
adj
expansion:
undone (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + done.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not done.
senses_topics:
|
7234 | word:
undone
word_type:
adj
expansion:
undone (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English undon, from Old English ondōn, from Proto-Germanic *andadōnaz, past participle of *andadōną (“to undo”), equivalent to undo + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Dutch ontdaan (“stripped, undone, upset”).
senses_examples:
text:
Your flies are undone.
type:
example
text:
Woe is me, for I am utterly undone!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not fastened.
Ruined; brought to nought.
senses_topics:
|
7235 | word:
undone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
undone
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English undon, from Old English ondōn, from Proto-Germanic *andadōnaz, past participle of *andadōną (“to undo”), equivalent to undo + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Dutch ontdaan (“stripped, undone, upset”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of undo
senses_topics:
|
7236 | word:
zucchetto
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zucchetto (plural zucchettos)
forms:
form:
zucchettos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian zucchetto, ultimately a diminutive of zucca (“gourd, squash”), due to the shape. Compare zucchini.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy (the Pope's is white, a cardinal's red, a bishop's purple, and a priest's black), Anglican clergy, and Syriac or Malankara Orthodox clergy
senses_topics:
|
7237 | word:
withdrawn
word_type:
adj
expansion:
withdrawn (comparative more withdrawn, superlative most withdrawn)
forms:
form:
more withdrawn
tags:
comparative
form:
most withdrawn
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
a withdrawn library book
text:
a withdrawn child
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
removed from circulation
introverted; not inclined to interact with other people
senses_topics:
|
7238 | word:
withdrawn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
withdrawn
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of withdraw
senses_topics:
|
7239 | word:
dupe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dupe (plural dupes)
forms:
form:
dupes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French duper, from Middle French duppe, alteration of huppe (“hoopoe”), from Latin, onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
text:
I am responding to Allen Young's letter to the editor concerning two articles I wrote for GCN about my experiences in Cuba. The gist of Mr. Young's letter is that I am a commie dupe and the Cubans who shared there opinions and experiences with me were simply lying.
ref:
1991 August 31, Sonia de Vries, “The Real Enemies Of Humanity Are Here At Home”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 7, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who has been deceived.
senses_topics:
|
7240 | word:
dupe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dupe (third-person singular simple present dupes, present participle duping, simple past and past participle duped)
forms:
form:
dupes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
duping
tags:
participle
present
form:
duped
tags:
participle
past
form:
duped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French duper, from Middle French duppe, alteration of huppe (“hoopoe”), from Latin, onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To swindle, deceive, or trick.
senses_topics:
|
7241 | word:
dupe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dupe (plural dupes)
forms:
form:
dupes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of duplicate.
senses_examples:
text:
TikTok could potentially be liable if lots of users are directing other users to the sales of dupes, she said, and she said if users have an affiliate relationship with the sellers of counterfeit goods, they could also potentially be liable.
ref:
2020 March 1, Megan Graham, “TikTok teens are obsessed with fake luxury products”, in CNBC
type:
quotation
text:
The dupe lived up to expectation in our head-to-head review, where we concluded that Revolution’s affordable formula is a “perfectly worthy alternative that won’t see you digging too deep into your pocket.”
ref:
2023 February 21, Daisy Lester, “Revolution has launched a £10 alternative to Charlotte Tilbury’s £65 magic serum”, in The Independent
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A duplicate of a photographic image.
A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
A duplicate.
A counterfeit; a fake.
A cheap consumer product intended to imitate a more expensive product.
senses_topics:
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
|
7242 | word:
dupe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dupe (third-person singular simple present dupes, present participle duping, simple past and past participle duped)
forms:
form:
dupes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
duping
tags:
participle
present
form:
duped
tags:
participle
past
form:
duped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of duplicate.
senses_examples:
text:
Can you dupe this photo for me?
type:
example
text:
That night, a shaken camera operator dupes the tape and leaks a copy to the press.
ref:
2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 379
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To duplicate.
senses_topics:
|
7243 | word:
stevedore
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stevedore (plural stevedores)
forms:
form:
stevedores
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Lewis Hine
Oxford English Dictionary
etymology_text:
From Spanish estibador (cognate with Portuguese estivador, and compare Medieval Latin stivator), from estivar, estibar (“to load”), from Medieval Latin stivare, stīpāre (compare Italian stivare, stipare), the present active infinitive of stīpō (“to cram, fill, stuff”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *steypos, which is from the root Proto-Indo-European *steyp-. It is cognate with stiff through Proto-Indo-European.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was attested in 1788 in the early form stowadore (see the quotations). It was included in the 1st edition of Webster’s Dictionary (1828) as stevedore.
senses_examples:
text:
Stowadores.
ref:
1788 July 2, The Massachusetts Spy, Boston, Mass.: Zechariah Fowle, Isaiah Thomas, →OCLC, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
The work of discharging and loading cargoes other than coal is undertaken by master stevedores, who are employed by the shipowner.
ref:
1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
The hatch foreman or gang boss supervises the longshore gang and directs their loading and discharge efforts. He assigns each member of the gang to a specific job, usually the same job each day or each shift; discusses operational problems with the stevedore superintendent who is in charge of the entire ship operation; inspects the stowage area; supervises the positioning and rigging of booms, etc. The stevedore superintendent and hatch foreman occupy strategic positions from a safety viewpoint.
ref:
1956, Maritime Cargo Transportation Conference (U.S.), “The Longshore Industry and Its Hazards”, in Longshore Safety Survey: A Survey of Occupational Hazards in the Stevedore Industry: By the Maritime Cargo Transportation Conference. As Part of a Program Undertaken at the Request of the Departments of Defense and of Commerce (National Research Council; publication 459), Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences; National Research Council, →OCLC, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Stevedores differed from most other strategically placed port workers in that they were to some extent mobile. […] A master stevedore would contract to load vessels for shipping-lines whose vessels might be berthed at a number of docks, or even in the river. In following up the work of their employers stevedores might be required to work sometimes at the Victoria Dock, sometimes at the East India Dock, and so on.
ref:
1969, John [Christopher] Lovell, “The Earliest Unions, 1870–89”, in Stevedores and Dockers: A Study of Trade Unionism in the Port of London, 1870–1914, London: Macmillan and Co., →DOI, →OCLC, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
For the past several years the stevedore [footnote: The term "stevedore" commonly refers to the contractor who employs longshoremen, who physically load and unload ships' cargo], one of the newest members of the maritime family, has found himself drifting helplessly onto the rocks of legal peril. […] However, recent developments appear to offer the stevedore new hope that may in time result in judicial deliverance.
ref:
1970 March, R. Layton Mank, “The Stevedore: Hope for Rescue”, in American Bar Association Journal, volume 56, Chicago, Ill.: American Bar Association, →OCLC, page 254
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he stevedore works for the account of he who has requested his services, and he is liable only to this person, who alone can bring an action as against him. Attempts to sidestep this statutory rule have been unsuccessful. For instance, a cargo owner tried to being a direct action as against a stevedore, who had been appointed by the sea carrier's agent in the port of loading and who had damaged the goods during loading. On the grounds that in appointing the stevedore this agent had acted on behalf of the cargo owner, the latter submitted that he had a direct contractual action ex lege as against the stevedore.
ref:
2003, Ralph De Wit, “The Concept of Statutory Rights of Action in Carriage of Goods”, in Eric Van Hooydonk, editor, English and Continental Maritime Law: After 115 Years of Maritime Law Unification: A Search for Differences between Common Law and Civil Law, Antwerp, Belgium, Apeldoorn, Netherlands: Maklu-Uitgevers, page 39
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo, or in supervising such work.
senses_topics:
|
7244 | word:
stevedore
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stevedore (third-person singular simple present stevedores, present participle stevedoring, simple past and past participle stevedored)
forms:
form:
stevedores
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stevedoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
stevedored
tags:
participle
past
form:
stevedored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Lewis Hine
Oxford English Dictionary
etymology_text:
From Spanish estibador (cognate with Portuguese estivador, and compare Medieval Latin stivator), from estivar, estibar (“to load”), from Medieval Latin stivare, stīpāre (compare Italian stivare, stipare), the present active infinitive of stīpō (“to cram, fill, stuff”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *steypos, which is from the root Proto-Indo-European *steyp-. It is cognate with stiff through Proto-Indo-European.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was attested in 1788 in the early form stowadore (see the quotations). It was included in the 1st edition of Webster’s Dictionary (1828) as stevedore.
senses_examples:
text:
During the year 334,242 tons of cargo were stevedored and 933,092 tons were handled and transferred.
ref:
1914, Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Panama Rail Road Company to the Stockholders, New York, N.Y.: Panama Rail Road Company, →OCLC, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
[I]n Barcelona, when he was stevedoring at the docks […]
ref:
1963, Thomas Pynchon, V., a Novel, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
I stevedored [railway] ties, a lot of those devils. In the holds of ships. I was in the bow because I was small to get in there. I loaded a lot of these ties that came out of Navarro and that layout.
ref:
1976, Bruce Levene et al., Mendocino County Remembered: An Oral History, volumes I (A–L), [Ukaih?] Calif.: Mendocino County Historical Society, →OCLC, page 161
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To load or unload a ship's cargo.
senses_topics:
|
7245 | word:
stride
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stride (third-person singular simple present strides, present participle striding, simple past strode, past participle stridden or strode or strid)
forms:
form:
strides
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
striding
tags:
participle
present
form:
strode
tags:
past
form:
stridden
tags:
participle
past
form:
strode
tags:
participle
past
form:
strid
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English striden, from Old English strīdan (“to get by force, pillage, rob; stride”), from Proto-West Germanic *strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Cognate with Low German striden (“to fight, to stride”), Dutch strijden (“to fight”), German streiten (“to fight, to quarrel”).
senses_examples:
text:
For SAC66 is better known as Batty Moss (or Ribblehead) Viaduct - the magnificent, Grade 2-listed, 24-arch structure that strides over the pockmarked ground between Ribblehead station and Blea Moor signal box.
ref:
2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival”, in Rail, page 26
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To walk with long steps.
To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
To pass over at a step; to step over.
To straddle; to bestride.
senses_topics:
|
7246 | word:
stride
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stride (countable and uncountable, plural strides)
forms:
form:
strides
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stride, stryde, from Old English stride (“a stride, pace”), from the verb (see above). Doublet of strid.
senses_examples:
text:
An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight.
ref:
2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph
type:
quotation
text:
Rail technology advanced step by step - albeit electrification was a good stride, rather than a short step.
ref:
2024 January 10, Philip Haigh, “Four decades of Britain's railway evolution - step by step”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
This stride value is generally equal to the pixel width of the bitmap times the number of bytes per pixel, but for performance reasons it might be rounded […]
ref:
2007, Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful Code
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long step in walking.
The distance covered by a long step.
The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
7247 | word:
told
word_type:
verb
expansion:
told
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tolde, talde (first and third person singular preterite), from Old English tealde (first and third person singular preterite), from Proto-Germanic *talid-, preterite stem of Proto-Germanic *taljaną (“to count; tell”), equivalent to tell + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
A tale is but half told, if only one person tells it.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of tell
senses_topics:
|
7248 | word:
camera
word_type:
noun
expansion:
camera (plural cameras or (rare) cameræ or (rare) camerae)
forms:
form:
cameras
tags:
plural
form:
cameræ
tags:
plural
rare
form:
camerae
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of chamber.(device): A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.
senses_examples:
text:
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.
ref:
2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process.
ref:
2003, Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds
type:
quotation
text:
I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before.
ref:
2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
A vaulted room.
A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.
senses_topics:
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
|
7249 | word:
swollen
word_type:
adj
expansion:
swollen (comparative more swollen, superlative most swollen)
forms:
form:
more swollen
tags:
comparative
form:
most swollen
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English swollen, i-swolle, y-swolle, yswolle, ȝeswollen, from Old English swollen, ġeswollen, from Proto-Germanic *swullanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”). Cognate with West Frisian swollen (“swollen”), Dutch gezwollen (“swollen”), German geschwollen (“swollen”), Swedish svullen (“swollen”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).
senses_topics:
|
7250 | word:
swollen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swollen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English swollen, i-swolle, y-swolle, yswolle, ȝeswollen, from Old English swollen, ġeswollen, from Proto-Germanic *swullanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”). Cognate with West Frisian swollen (“swollen”), Dutch gezwollen (“swollen”), German geschwollen (“swollen”), Swedish svullen (“swollen”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of swell
senses_topics:
|
7251 | word:
verbal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
verbal (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
verbal
etymology_text:
From Old French verbal, from Late Latin verbālis (“belonging to a word”). Equivalent to verb + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
We subjoin an engraving […] which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind.
ref:
1864, Henry Mayhew, German Life and Manners as Seen in Saxony at the Present
type:
quotation
text:
It was not a verbal remark, but a proceeding in dumb-show
ref:
1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
type:
quotation
text:
a verbal contract
type:
example
text:
a verbal testimony
type:
example
text:
You can't have verbal communication with a man in New South Wales, you know.
ref:
1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
type:
quotation
text:
I am not speaking of the verbal use of the term 'Fascist'. I am speaking of what I have seen in print.
ref:
1944, George Orwell, “What is Fascism?”, in Tribune
type:
quotation
text:
How do these language problems affect the behaviour of verbal children?
ref:
2005, Avril V. Brereton, Bruce J. Tonge, Pre-schoolers with autism, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
a verbal translation
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to words.
Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
Consisting of words only.
Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
Used to form a verb.
Capable of speech.
Word for word.
Abounding with words; verbose.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
7252 | word:
verbal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
verbal (countable and uncountable, plural verbals)
forms:
form:
verbals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
verbal
etymology_text:
From Old French verbal, from Late Latin verbālis (“belonging to a word”). Equivalent to verb + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
They were convicted on the evidence of an agent provocateur named Richard Seary, backed up by police verbals from three police officers who gave evidence of six verbals in which the three accused were supposed to have admitted their guilt.
ref:
1982, New South Wales. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, page 2496
type:
quotation
text:
We'd give him a bit of verbal, out would come the bouncers, chucking their weight about, and it would all end in a right tear-up.
ref:
2013, Lenny McLean, The Guv'nor
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
A spoken confession given to police.
Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
7253 | word:
verbal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
verbal (third-person singular simple present verbals, present participle verballing, simple past and past participle verballed)
forms:
form:
verbals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
verballing
tags:
participle
present
form:
verballed
tags:
participle
past
form:
verballed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
verbal
etymology_text:
From Old French verbal, from Late Latin verbālis (“belonging to a word”). Equivalent to verb + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
The problem of 'verballing' is unlikely to disappear, whatever the legal status of the person detained.
ref:
1982, John A. Andrews, Human Rights in Criminal Procedure: A Comparative Study, BRILL, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
Condren had always claimed that he was assaulted and verballed by police over the murder he had supposedly confessed to committing. Specifically, Condren claimed that he had been subjected to assault and intimidation prior to making a police record of interview, that the record of interview was largely fabricated by police, and that the oral admissions which police claimed he had made prior to the record of interview were also fabricated.
ref:
2001, Chris Cunneen, Conflict, Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police, Allen & Unwin, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
Moreover, given the risk of verballing, it is by no means apparent that it is in the interests of justice that the prosecution have the benefit of admissions that are made on occasions when recordings are impracticable.
ref:
2004, Jeremy Gans, Andrew Palmer, Australian Principles of Evidence, Routledge Cavendish, page 504
type:
quotation
text:
Kelvin Condren maintained his innocence, claiming that he was 'verballed' in his police record of interview (so they were someone else's words not his).
ref:
2019, Kate Burridge, Tonya N. Stebbins, For the love of language: An Introduction to Linguistics, page 305
type:
quotation
text:
As the necessary ingredient of an intention to commit an offence usually came from the mouth of the suspect himself, it was not difficult to make an arrest if the suspect was 'verballed'. A 'verbal' consisted of an unequivocal oral admission of guilt made to a police officer on the street, which, later on, the police officer transcribed into his notebook. It is called a 'verbal' if the suspect later denies making the incriminating remark.
ref:
2020, Inigo Bing, Populism on Trial: What Happens When Trust in Law Breaks Down
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To allege (usually falsely) that someone has made an oral admission.
senses_topics:
|
7254 | word:
er
word_type:
intj
expansion:
er
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Mimetic (sound of hesitation)
senses_examples:
text:
If he—er—disappears—well, it seems to me that we'd both benefit.
ref:
2012, Linda Miller, Desire and Destiny
type:
quotation
text:
Liquid Samurai: 'FORMLESS AND INFINITE ARE WE, THE LIQUID SAMURAI. I SERVE MY QUEEN, AS WE HAVE FOR COUNTLESS--' / Mona: 'HEY, I DON'T MEAN TO INTERRUPT, BUT YOU SEEM LIKE YOU'RE MADE OF POWERFUL STUFF. CAN I, ER, STUDY YOU?'
ref:
2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Mona), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Said when hesitating in speech.
senses_topics:
|
7255 | word:
er
word_type:
verb
expansion:
er (third-person singular simple present ers, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)
forms:
form:
ers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
erring
tags:
participle
present
form:
erred
tags:
participle
past
form:
erred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Mimetic (sound of hesitation)
senses_examples:
text:
He ummed and erred his way through the presentation.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found in the phrase um and er.
senses_topics:
|
7256 | word:
er
word_type:
noun
expansion:
er (plural ers)
forms:
form:
ers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Cyrillic script letter Р / р.
senses_topics:
|
7257 | word:
coven
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coven (plural covens)
forms:
form:
covens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
coven
etymology_text:
From Middle English covent, from Anglo-Norman covent, cuvent, from Old French covent, from Latin conventum, from conveniō, from cum (“with”) and venio (“I come”). Doublet of convent.
senses_examples:
text:
“This is a very African area”, he said as they maneuvered their way among the covens of menacing children gathered in the halls.
ref:
1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes (paperback), Penguin, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A formal group or assembly of witches.
A family, group or assembly of vampires.
A clique that shares common interests or activities.
senses_topics:
|
7258 | word:
democracy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
democracy (countable and uncountable, plural democracies)
forms:
form:
democracies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
democracy
etymology_text:
From Middle French democratie (French démocratie), from Medieval Latin dēmocratia, from Ancient Greek δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (dēmokratíā).
By surface analysis, demo- (“people”) + -cracy (“rule”).
senses_examples:
text:
And the essential value and power of Democracy consists in this,—that it combines, as far as possible, power and organization ; THE SPIRIT, MANHOOD, is at one with THE BODY, ORGANIZATION. [....] Democracy is Government by the People.
ref:
1866, J. Arthur Partridge, On Democracy, Trübner & Co., page 2
type:
quotation
text:
The period, that is, which marks the transition from absolutism or aristocracy to democracy will mark also the transition from absolutist or autocratic methods of nomination to democratic methods.
ref:
1901, The American Historical Review, American Historical Association, page 260
type:
quotation
text:
A century ago there was in the Old World only one tiny spot in which the working of democracy could be studied. A few of the ancient rural cantons of Switzerland had recovered their freedom after the fall of Napoleon, and were governing themselves as they had done from the earlier Middle Ages[...]. Nowhere else in Europe did the people rule.
ref:
1921, James Bryce Bryce, Modern Democracies, The Macmillan Company, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
On this day in 1977, Taiwan witnessed a watershed moment in its march to democracy: the Chungli Incident. Violence broke out on the night of the largest-yet elections in the country’s history. Some 10,000 people took to the streets in protest following reports of election fraud on the part of the ruling Kuomintang.
ref:
2017 November 19, “Today in History”, in Radio Taiwan International, archived from the original on 2022-09-10
type:
quotation
text:
Of course, the Russians think it is something else because they say the Russians have a democracy and it is plain that their government is not what the Americans regard as a democracy.
ref:
1947 March 16, Edwin L. James, “General Marshall Raises the Ideological Issue”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
In 1900 not a single country had what we would today consider a democracy: a government created by elections in which every adult citizen could vote.
ref:
2003, Fareed Zakaria, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, W. W. Norton & Company, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
The United States was founded as a republic, not a democracy.
ref:
2018 March, Yascha Mounk, “America Is Not a Democracy”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
Israel is not a democracy, as these elections proved once again. Democracy is the rule of the people, not the rule of one people over another.
ref:
2019 April 28, Hagai El-Ad, “What kind of democracy deports human rights workers?”, in Yoni Molad, transl., +972 Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
After almost four decades of authoritarian rule, South Africa became a democracy in April 1994.
ref:
2002, Victor G. Hilliard, “The Role of Human Resource Development in South African Public Service Reform”, in Administrative Reform in Developing Nations, Praeger, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
As states of the human spirit democracy, righteousness, and faith have much in common and may be cultivated by the same means...
ref:
1918, Charles Horton Cooley, “A Primary Culture for Democracy”, in Publications of the American Sociological Society 13, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
It must further be admitted that he provided a successful interpretation of democracy in its philosophic aspects when he conceived democracy as a general outlook on the universe... In Bakunin's conception of democracy as religious in character we trace the influence of French socialism.
ref:
1919, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy, Macmillan, page 446
type:
quotation
text:
The spirit of democracy means, above all, liberty of choice for human beings... democracy, in both its individual and collective forms, is the main engine of the eternal human striving for justice and prosperity.
ref:
1996, Petre Roman, The Spirit of Democracy and the Fabric of NATO - The New European Democracies and NATO Enlargement, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rule by the people, especially as a form of government; either directly or through elected representatives (representative democracy).
A government under the direct or representative rule of the people of its jurisdiction.
A state with a democratic system of government.
Belief in political freedom and equality; the "spirit of democracy".
senses_topics:
government
|
7259 | word:
eat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
eat (third-person singular simple present eats, present participle eating, simple past ate or (dialectal) et or (obsolete) eat, past participle eaten or (dialectal) etten)
forms:
form:
eats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
eating
tags:
participle
present
form:
ate
tags:
past
form:
et
tags:
dialectal
past
form:
eat
tags:
obsolete
past
form:
eaten
tags:
participle
past
form:
etten
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
eat
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English eten, from Old English etan (“to eat”), from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti, from *h₁ed- (“to eat”).
senses_examples:
text:
He's eating an apple. / Don't disturb me now; can't you see that I'm eating?
type:
example
text:
But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
ref:
1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
type:
quotation
text:
Shepard: Everyone on this station is chafing under Anoleis' extortion. You might end up a hero.
Lorik Qui'in: My employers rely on the goodwill of the Executive Board to work here.
Wrex: If these "executives" don't blame Anoleis for provoking this, they're fools. You should eat them.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria
type:
quotation
text:
What time do we eat this evening?
type:
example
text:
I eat in the kitchen.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
It's a soup that eats like a meal.
type:
example
text:
I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.
ref:
1852, The New Monthly Magazine, page 310
type:
quotation
text:
This project is eating up all the money.
type:
example
text:
A bigger problem, however, is that if you catch/eat an exception and do nothing with it, you are very likely introducing subtle bugs in your application that will be next to impossible to track down.
ref:
2005, Wallace B. McClure, Gregory A. Beamer, John J. Croft IV, Professional ADO.NET 2, page 246
type:
quotation
text:
The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out.
type:
example
text:
John is late for the meeting because the photocopier ate his report.
type:
example
text:
No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!
ref:
1991, Shane Black, The Last Boy Scout (movie)
text:
The video game in the corner just ate my quarter.
type:
example
text:
Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.
ref:
1977, Nancy Dowd, Slap Shot (movie)
text:
What's eating you?
type:
example
text:
I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.
ref:
1988, George Gallo, Midnight Run (movie)
text:
The server made an error when taking the order. The bartender prepared two scorpion bowls. When the error was realized the bartender was faced with having to "eat" the extra scorpion bowl […]
ref:
1999, Ronald S. Beitman, Liquor Liability: A Primer for Winning Your Case, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
When they were doing it with the valuation professionals, they were billing the client, but the valuation professional in a lot of those early cases had to eat the cost of showing the auditor how the auditors' test model was incorrect.
ref:
2011, Lorenzo Carver, Venture Capital Valuation
type:
quotation
text:
I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
ref:
1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
text:
And, of course, there was Brian Rusk, who had eaten a bullet at the ripe old age of eleven.
ref:
1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
type:
quotation
text:
Friends are only necessary in the ghastly country, where you have to have them, along with rubber boots and a barometer and secateurs, to put off bucolic idiocy, a wet brain, or eating the 12-bore.
ref:
1997, A. A. Gill, "Diary" (in The Spectator, 1 November 1997)
text:
Mike had been to other calls where someone had eaten a gun. He knew to expect teeth embedded in the ceiling and brains dripping off it.
ref:
2012, Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again: A Novel, St. Martin's Press
type:
quotation
text:
The animal was sweating and scared and MacAdams was surprised when they finished up without either of them eating a kick.
ref:
2017, Edward W. Robertson, Stardust, Edward W. Robertson
type:
quotation
text:
There was a resounding smacking noise and Georgy was sure Philip had just eaten a fist.
ref:
2018, Daniel Tomazic, Of Bullies and Men: Young Adult Fiction, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
The acid rain ate away the statue. The strong acid eats through the metal.
type:
example
text:
Eat me!
type:
example
text:
I ate his ass.
type:
example
text:
Yeah, eat that dick / eat that pussy.
type:
example
text:
You ate that performance!
type:
example
text:
This song eats!
type:
example
text:
Lorde and Charli XCX confronted each other via song like some kind of alt-pop musical-theater number, and it ate. “The girl, so confusing version with lorde,” like all the best pop music, features multiple moments that burrow into your brain and refuse to leave, giving you no other choice but to simply relisten to the track.
ref:
2024 June 21, Jason P. Frank, “Who Else Needs to Work It Out on a Remix?”, in Vulture
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ingest; to be ingested.
To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
To ingest; to be ingested.
To consume a meal.
To ingest; to be ingested.
To be eaten.
To ingest; to be ingested.
To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
To use up.
To destroy, consume, or use up.
To use up.
To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
To use up.
To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
To use up.
To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.
To cause (someone) to worry.
To take the loss in a transaction.
To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
To corrode or erode.
To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
To be very good; to rule; to rock.
To annex.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
business
|
7260 | word:
eat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eat (plural eats)
forms:
form:
eats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ete, ate, æte, from Old English ǣt (“food, eating”), from Proto-West Germanic *āt, from Proto-Germanic *ētą (“food, thing to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”). Cognate with North Frisian ad, it (“food”), German Aas (“carrion”), Norwegian åt, Icelandic át (“food”).
senses_examples:
text:
Eating a Picnic creates a flurry of wafer pieces, flying peanuts and chocolate crumbs. […] As well as being messy, Picnic happens to be a big eat – something of a consumption challenge in fact.
ref:
2011, William Chitty, Nigel Barker, Michael Valos, Integrated Marketing Communications, page 167
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.
senses_topics:
|
7261 | word:
ipso facto
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ipso facto (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin ipsō factō (“by the same fact”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: eo ipso
text:
For [Ludwig von] Mises or [Murray] Rothbard, it is simply confused to posit latent preferences; if two individuals fail to make an exchange, then this ipso facto demonstrates that at that moment at least one of them would not have benefited from the exchange.
ref:
1999 April, Bryan Caplan, “The Austrian Search for Realistic Foundations”, in Southern Economic Journal, volume 65, number 4, page 833
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
By that very fact itself; actually.
senses_topics:
|
7262 | word:
ipso facto
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ipso facto (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin ipsō factō (“by the same fact”).
senses_examples:
text:
Is not the reading of another's diary an ipso facto act of voyeurism?
ref:
1984 April 14, Richard Knisely, “Quintessential Narcissism”, in Gay Community News, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Being such by itself, or by its own definition; inherent.
senses_topics:
|
7263 | word:
wildlife
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wildlife (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
wildlife
etymology_text:
From wild + life.
senses_examples:
text:
This town offers wildlife tours where you can go and watch the bears, deer, wild rabbits and other creatures in their natural habitats.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
undomesticated animals, especially mammals, birds, and fish, which live in the wild.
Living undomesticated organisms of all kinds.
Members of a college fraternity
senses_topics:
|
7264 | word:
unwind
word_type:
verb
expansion:
unwind (third-person singular simple present unwinds, present participle unwinding, simple past and past participle unwound)
forms:
form:
unwinds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
unwinding
tags:
participle
present
form:
unwound
tags:
participle
past
form:
unwound
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English unwinden, from Old English unwindan (“to unwind; unwrap”), from Proto-Germanic *andawindaną (“to unwind”); equivalent to un- + wind (“to coil”). Cognate with Dutch ontwinden (“to unwind”).
senses_examples:
text:
to unwind a ball of yarn
type:
example
text:
Could you unwind about a foot of ribbon so I can finish the package?
type:
example
text:
[…]but being not so skilful as in every point to unwind themselves where the snares of glossing speech do lie to entangle them,[…]
ref:
1836, Richard Hooker, The Works of Richard Hooker, volume 4, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
After work, I like to unwind by smoking a pipe while reading the paper.
type:
example
text:
If the expression is a throw, we unwind the stack seeking a handler expression.
ref:
2006, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Trends in Functional Programming, volume 5, page 62
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To separate (something that is wound up)
To disentangle
To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress
To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
To close out a position, especially a complicated position.
To undo something.
To analyse (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
To unravel or explain.
senses_topics:
business
finance
business
finance
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
7265 | word:
unwind
word_type:
noun
expansion:
unwind (plural unwinds)
forms:
form:
unwinds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English unwinden, from Old English unwindan (“to unwind; unwrap”), from Proto-Germanic *andawindaną (“to unwind”); equivalent to un- + wind (“to coil”). Cognate with Dutch ontwinden (“to unwind”).
senses_examples:
text:
The NEWPC argument specifies the address to which control should be returned after the unwind is complete. If it is omitted, its default is for control to return to the PC saved in the call frame next outermost to the unwound ones.
ref:
1989, Ruth E. Goldenberg, Lawrence J. Kenah, VMS Internals and Data Structures: Version 5 Update
type:
quotation
text:
A primary function of the unwind is to provide a guided web into the slitter rewinder for accuracy in locating the web for slitting or to realign the edge of the web in a straight rewinding operation.
ref:
1998, Tappi Journal, volume 81, page 207
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something.
senses_topics:
|
7266 | word:
diminutive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
diminutive (comparative more diminutive, superlative most diminutive)
forms:
form:
more diminutive
tags:
comparative
form:
most diminutive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French diminutif (1398), from Latin dīminutīvum, from dēminuō (“diminish”).
senses_examples:
text:
Mrs. Washington ("Oh, la, call me Martha, Boys") is a diminutive woman with a cheerful rather than happy air, who seems to bustle even when standing still..
ref:
1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 229
type:
quotation
text:
Roman Sharonov rose unchallenged to head a corner wide, while diminutive winger Gokdeniz Karadeniz ghosted in with a diving header from the edge of the six-yard box that was acrobatically kept out by Gomes.
ref:
2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
1711, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, 1714 edition republished by Gregg International Publishers, 1968, Volume 3, Miscellany 3, Chapter 2, p. 175,
They cou’d, perhaps, even embrace POVERTY contentedly, rather than submit to any thing diminutive either of their inward Freedom or national Liberty.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very small.
Serving to diminish.
Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
7267 | word:
diminutive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
diminutive (plural diminutives)
forms:
form:
diminutives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
diminutive
etymology_text:
From Middle French diminutif (1398), from Latin dīminutīvum, from dēminuō (“diminish”).
senses_examples:
text:
Booklet, the diminutive of book, means ‘small book’.
type:
example
text:
But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.
ref:
1908, G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
type:
quotation
text:
When we come to occupative names, we are again confronted by crowds of diminutives.
ref:
1916, Ernest Weekley, Surnames, page 287
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
7268 | word:
rod
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rod (plural rods)
forms:
form:
rods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English rodde, from Old English *rodd or *rodde (attested in dative plural roddum (“rod, pole”)), of uncertain origin, but probably from Proto-Germanic *rudd- (“stick, club”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewdʰ- (“to clear land”). Compare Old Norse rudda (“club”). For the root, compare English rid. Presumably unrelated to Proto-Germanic *rōdō (“rod, pole”).
senses_examples:
text:
The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod, and then straightening it.
type:
example
text:
When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.
type:
example
text:
The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.
type:
example
text:
I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut.
type:
example
text:
‘And this thicket, so full of a natural art, was in the immediate vicinity, within a few rods, of the dwelling of Madame Deluc, whose boys were in the habit of closely examining the shrubberies about them in search of the bark of the sassafras.’
ref:
1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
type:
quotation
text:
In one of the villages I saw the next summer a cow tethered by a rope six rods long[…].
ref:
1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
type:
quotation
text:
the valley is forty to sixty rods wide
ref:
1924, Edward A. Ross, “Pocketed Americans”, in World Drift, New York, London: The Century Co., published 1928, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.
type:
example
text:
The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.
type:
example
text:
The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.
type:
example
text:
He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.
type:
example
text:
One of them strode to his side and ran experienced fingers through his clothes. "No rod," he reported, "where's the jewelry?"
ref:
1916 August 24, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 249, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
[I'm gonna][…]throw some vaseline right in the crack a your ass, then I'm gonna shove my rod in your open hole and try to pacify your ornery soul.
ref:
2004, Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
type:
quotation
text:
These cylindrical rods fly through the air at incredible speeds and can only be picked up by high-speed cameras.
ref:
2000, Jack Barranger, Paul Tice, Mysteries Explored: The Search for Human Origins, Ufos, and Religious Beginnings, Book Three, p.37
type:
quotation
text:
During one such broadcast in 1997, the esteemed radio host bellowed, “I got a fax earlier today from MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) in Arizona and they said what you think are rods are actually insects!”
ref:
2009, Barry Conrad, An Unknown Encounter: A True Account of the San Pedro Haunting, Dorrance Publishing, pages 129–130
type:
quotation
text:
He tells of a home video showing a rod flying into the open mouth of a girl singing at a wedding.
ref:
2010, Deena West Budd, The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology: Werewolves, Dragons, Skyfish, Lizard Men, and Other Fascinating Creatures Real and Mysterious, Weiser Books, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
In the early days troubles were experienced with oscillation from the rod drive and with the transformers, but were overcome later, and these machines performed useful service until superseded by more modern locomotives less costly in maintenance.
ref:
1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.
A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¹⁄₄ chain, 5+¹⁄₂ yards, 16+¹⁄₂ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5+¹⁄₂ yards.
A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30+¹⁄₄ square yards or ¹⁄₁₆₀ acre.
A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft.
A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and ¹⁄₈ to ¹⁄₄ inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
A pistol; a gun.
The penis.
A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
A Cuisenaire rod.
A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.
senses_topics:
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
mathematics
sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport |
7269 | word:
rod
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rod (third-person singular simple present rods, present participle rodding, simple past and past participle rodded)
forms:
form:
rods
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rodding
tags:
participle
present
form:
rodded
tags:
participle
past
form:
rodded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English rodde, from Old English *rodd or *rodde (attested in dative plural roddum (“rod, pole”)), of uncertain origin, but probably from Proto-Germanic *rudd- (“stick, club”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewdʰ- (“to clear land”). Compare Old Norse rudda (“club”). For the root, compare English rid. Presumably unrelated to Proto-Germanic *rōdō (“rod, pole”).
senses_examples:
text:
On impulse he moved around to the opposite side of the couple, in the direction which Grace's broad buttocks were pointed, for a full view of the big boned woman's back side. Now Grace wouldn't mind one iota if he rodded her from the rear.
ref:
1968, David Lynn, Bull nuts
type:
quotation
text:
There were three clear sets, more than what you might expect at Heartbreak Point, given all the juvies rodding in and out of there with their girlfriends.
ref:
2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, page 45
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.
To penetrate sexually.
To hot rod.
senses_topics:
business
construction
manufacturing
|
7270 | word:
coat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coat (countable and uncountable, plural coats)
forms:
form:
coats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
coat
etymology_text:
From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kuttǭ (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”).
Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Middle Dutch cote (“coat”), Ancient Greek βεῦδος (beûdos, “woman's attire”).
senses_examples:
text:
fresh coat of paint
type:
example
text:
When the dog shed its coat, it left hair all over the furniture and the carpet.
type:
example
text:
Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.
ref:
1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn
type:
quotation
text:
She was sought by spirits of richest coat.
ref:
1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Compaint
type:
quotation
text:
Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.
ref:
1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Philip Massinger, The Old Law
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.ᵂᵖ
A covering of material, such as paint.ᵂᵖ
The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.ᵂᵖ
Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).
A petticoat.
The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
A coat of arms.ᵂᵖ
A coat card.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
7271 | word:
coat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
coat (third-person singular simple present coats, present participle coating, simple past and past participle coated)
forms:
form:
coats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
coating
tags:
participle
present
form:
coated
tags:
participle
past
form:
coated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
coat
etymology_text:
From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kuttǭ (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”).
Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Middle Dutch cote (“coat”), Ancient Greek βεῦδος (beûdos, “woman's attire”).
senses_examples:
text:
The frying pan was coated with a layer of non-stick material, making it easier to wash.
type:
example
text:
Door grab handles have been coated with an anti-microbial finish.
ref:
2021 January 13, “Fleet News: Final Avanti West Coast Super Voyager refurbished”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover with a coating of some material.
To cover like a coat.
To clothe.
senses_topics:
|
7272 | word:
brusque
word_type:
adj
expansion:
brusque (comparative brusquer or more brusque, superlative brusquest or most brusque)
forms:
form:
brusquer
tags:
comparative
form:
more brusque
tags:
comparative
form:
brusquest
tags:
superlative
form:
most brusque
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The adjective is borrowed from French brusque, from Italian brusco (“abrupt, sudden, brusque; brisk; eager; sour, tart; unripe; grim-looking”); further etymology unknown.
The verb is derived from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
Mr. VValler, being probably of opinion that Monſieur Palamede’s arguments vvere too bruſque to be advanc’d in a diſpute vvith a Lady, vvho number’d not fevver than tvventy Kings of her progenitors, vvrote this poem in a more tender and courtly ſtyle; […]
ref:
1730, [Elijah] Fenton, “Observations on Some of Mr. Waller’s Poems. [To Zelinda.]”, in Edmund Waller, edited by [Elijah] Fenton, The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq; in Verse and Prose, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, page cv
type:
quotation
text:
[A]ll the answer Miss Jarron got was a brusque refusal, followed by Mr. Camperton's retreat from the piano.
ref:
1761, “Thorpe Leigh; or, The Heir and the Owner”, in Riddell’s Review and Epitomist: A Literary Miscellany, and Record of Progress, part I, number III (New Series), London: J. H. Riddell, […], chapter XX, page 33, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Father Falkener vvas, at the time of this viſit, 'about ſeventy years of age, active in mind and body, bruſque in his manners,' and very communicative.
ref:
1788 May, “Art. VI. Of the Patagonians, Formed from the Relation of Father Falkener, a Jesuit, who had Resided among Them Thirty-eight Years, and from the Different Voyagers who had Met with this Tall Race. Printed by the Friendship of George Allan, Esq; at His Private Press at Darlington, 1788, 4to. 15 Pages. [book review]”, in [Thomas Christie], editor, The Analytical Review, or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
Where there are reasonably adequate peaceful alternatives, the use of disruptive self-help by either side of a labor dispute in so important an enterprise contributes neither to the public convenience nor to the long-term interest of the participants. For if they are unable to resolve their differences by their own restraints and inventions, other and more impatient forces may provide brusquer machinery.
ref:
1962 November 19, “Publishers’ Association of New York City, et al. and New York Mailers Union No. 6 International Typographical Union, AFL-CIO and Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union”, in Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board (Cases No. 2-CA-7863 and 2-CA-7884), volume 139, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office [for the] National Labor Relations Board, published 1963, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1122
type:
quotation
text:
The brusque New York chef [Ali Yeganeh] who was lampooned on "Seinfeld" as the "Soup Nazi" plans to open a chain of takeout soup stands across North America. But don’t expect the authentically rude New York treatment.
ref:
2005 April 29, “No soup for you? Not so fast”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2022-09-26
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I approached the Commissioner of Deportation with a request to release some Armenians who were employed by Germans. He refused this in the brusquest manner and said to me in an incredibly arrogant tone of voice which I will never forget, ‘Vous ne comprenez pas ce que nous voulons. Nous voulons une Arménie sans Arméniens.’ [You do not understand what we want. We want an Armenia without Armenians.]
ref:
2014, “The People Responsible for the Genocide”, in Wolfgang Gust, editor, The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915–1916, New York, N.Y., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Berghahn Books, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
They admired in each other a brusque self-assurance and artless candor that others often perceived as arrogant.
ref:
2018 June 19, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “Inside the Crypto World’s Biggest Scandal”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-11
type:
quotation
text:
When Dany showed up to throw the Night King off his steed and send him plunging to earth, it was at least a coherent action, which the brusque dragon-grappling prior to it failed to convey.
ref:
2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-05-31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly.
Sour, tart.
senses_topics:
|
7273 | word:
brusque
word_type:
verb
expansion:
brusque (third-person singular simple present brusques, present participle brusquing, simple past and past participle brusqued)
forms:
form:
brusques
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
brusquing
tags:
participle
present
form:
brusqued
tags:
participle
past
form:
brusqued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The adjective is borrowed from French brusque, from Italian brusco (“abrupt, sudden, brusque; brisk; eager; sour, tart; unripe; grim-looking”); further etymology unknown.
The verb is derived from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
Had this been done, Denine had not been bruſqued and carried by Villars at the firſt aſſault, […]
ref:
1740, A[dam] Williamson, “The Disposition of an Army. [General Battles.]”, in Military Memoirs and Maxims of Marshal Turenne. […], Dublin: […] George Faulkner, […], →OCLC, footnote †, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
He was indefatigable while he stayed and took true pains, but he brusqued the ministers too much, and I found after he was gone that he had thereby given more offense than I could have imagined.
ref:
1781 August 24, Benjamin Franklin, “[Benjamin] Franklin to [William] Carmichael”, in Francis Wharton, editor, The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States. […] (50th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives Mis. Doc.; 603, part 4), volume IV, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1889, →OCLC, page 660
type:
quotation
text:
Not that I suspect you of thus brusquing matters. It is rather my own fault where, which is too often the case, I am not too negligent about the spiritual concerns of my friends.
ref:
1803 March 4, William Wilberforce, “W. Wilberforce, Esq. to Thomas Babington, Esq.”, in Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce, editors, The Correspondence of William Wilberforce. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 263
type:
quotation
text:
[H]e [Thomas Pringle] was poor, and from the outset [William] Blackwood domineered over and brusqued him. [James] Cleghorn was also poor, but of a sturdy disposition, and he brusqued every body.
ref:
1839 October, [Egerton Brydges], “Some Recollections of James Hogg. […] No. I.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XX, number CXVIII, London: James Fraser […], →OCLC, page 427, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The scholar may object that Professor Macmurray is a 'judaizer' who not only brusques the authority of the Church.
ref:
1939 August, George [Edward Gordon] Catlin, “Moralism”, in Anglo-Saxony and Its Tradition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, § v, page 272
type:
quotation
text:
Sometimes in bed Cole doesn't allow your hand to stay on his chest, he brusques it away. Sometimes he lets your hand rest there.
ref:
2003, [Nikki Gemmell], “Lesson 5: It is Absolutely Necessary to Wash the Armpits and Hips Every Day”, in The Bride Stripped Bare, London, New York, N.Y.: Fourth Estate, HarperCollins, part I, pages 10–11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act towards (someone or something) in a curt or rudely abrupt manner.
senses_topics:
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7274 | word:
cruel
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cruel (comparative crueler or crueller or more cruel, superlative cruelest or cruellest or most cruel)
forms:
form:
crueler
tags:
comparative
form:
crueller
tags:
comparative
form:
more cruel
tags:
comparative
form:
cruelest
tags:
superlative
form:
cruellest
tags:
superlative
form:
most cruel
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cruel, borrowed from Old French cruel, from Latin crūdēlis (“hard, severe, cruel”), akin to crūdus (“raw, crude”); see crude.
senses_examples:
text:
The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.
type:
example
text:
He was physically the toughest of us and wore five layers of polar clothing, but the cold was cruel and wore us down hour after hour.
ref:
2013, Ranulph Fiennes, Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth
type:
quotation
text:
You may be sure they watched the cliffs on their left eagerly for any sign of a break or any place where they could climb them; but those cliffs remained cruel.
ref:
1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
Harsh; severe.
Cool; awesome; neat.
senses_topics:
|
7275 | word:
cruel
word_type:
adv
expansion:
cruel (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cruel, borrowed from Old French cruel, from Latin crūdēlis (“hard, severe, cruel”), akin to crūdus (“raw, crude”); see crude.
senses_examples:
text:
'I've never got arthritis, though my old dad had it something cruel.'
ref:
2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 219
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To a great degree; terribly.
senses_topics:
|
7276 | word:
cruel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cruel (third-person singular simple present cruels, present participle cruelling, simple past and past participle cruelled)
forms:
form:
cruels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cruelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
cruelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
cruelled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cruel, borrowed from Old French cruel, from Latin crūdēlis (“hard, severe, cruel”), akin to crūdus (“raw, crude”); see crude.
senses_examples:
text:
What cruelled him was that Imperial Hotel contract.
ref:
1937, Vance Palmer, Legend for Sanderson, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, page 226
type:
quotation
text:
He was on the fringes of Test selection last year before a shoulder injury cruelled his chances.
ref:
2014 April 1, The Sydney Morning Herald
type:
quotation
text:
A shortage of berth space for mega container ships will restrict capacity at Melbourne's port, cruelling Labor's attempts to get maximum value from its privatisation, a leading shipping expert has warned.
ref:
2015 September 8, The Age
type:
quotation
text:
Violence is apparently introduced early by the practice of "cruelling": children even in their first months are physically punished and then encouraged to seek retribution by punishing the punisher.
ref:
2007, Stewart Motha, “Reconciliation as Domination”, in Scott Veitch, editor, Law and the Politics of Reconciliation, Routledge, published 2016, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
2009, Mark Colvin, ABC, "Peter Sutton discusses the politics of suffering in Aboriginal communities," 2 July, 2009, http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2615274.htm
[…] I was referring to the area where you were talking about this practice of cruelling; the pinching of babies, sometimes so hard that their skin breaks and may go septic.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.
senses_topics:
|
7277 | word:
cruel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cruel (countable and uncountable, plural cruels)
forms:
form:
cruels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of crewel
senses_topics:
|
7278 | word:
worn
word_type:
adj
expansion:
worn (comparative more worn, superlative most worn)
forms:
form:
more worn
tags:
comparative
form:
most worn
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.
senses_examples:
text:
Upon this, an unhappy-looking woman, in a sort of mourning, neat, but sadly worn, hid her face behind a meagre bundle, and was heard to sob.
ref:
1857, Herman Melville, chapter XVIII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
type:
quotation
text:
Preëminently is the Lake District suited for the jaded and worn, who seek in solitude and amidst scenery unmoiled and unsullied by human artifice, refreshment alike of body and spirit.
ref:
1889, The Wesley Naturalist, volume 2, page 143
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
Worn out; exhausted.
senses_topics:
|
7279 | word:
worn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
worn
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of wear
senses_topics:
|
7280 | word:
ran
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ran
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[…]rather to convince the Underſtanding, than to be eaſily capable of being anſwered ; excuſing your ſelf that you have ran into an Error, ſo foreign as you have declared from your Intention,[…]
ref:
1731, Philippus van Limborch, translated by Samuel Chandler, The History of the Inquisition, volume 1, page 231
type:
quotation
text:
" Heretics and schismatics, because they rebel against her, and only belong to the church, as deserters to an army from which they have ran away ;[…]
ref:
1837, William Keary, Romanism exposed; or, Strictures on two lectures […], Goddard and Brown, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
I’ve ran this event many times but in the year 2000, when we were running over the Bodmin Moor part of the course, it lashed down with large, freezing-cold hailstones.
ref:
2012 March 5, Helen Summer, Running Crazy, John Blake Publishing, page 209
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of run
simple past of rin
past participle of run
senses_topics:
|
7281 | word:
ran
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ran (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
7282 | word:
stolen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stolen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stolen, istolen, from Old English stolen, ġestolen, from Proto-Germanic *stulanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *stelaną (“to steal”), equivalent to stole + -en. Cognate with Scots stellin, stollin (“stolen”), Saterland Frisian stäälen (“stolen”), West Frisian stellen (“stolen”), Dutch gestolen (“stolen”), German Low German stohlen (“stolen”), German gestohlen (“stolen”), Swedish stulen (“stolen”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of steal
senses_topics:
|
7283 | word:
stolen
word_type:
adj
expansion:
stolen (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stolen, istolen, from Old English stolen, ġestolen, from Proto-Germanic *stulanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *stelaną (“to steal”), equivalent to stole + -en. Cognate with Scots stellin, stollin (“stolen”), Saterland Frisian stäälen (“stolen”), West Frisian stellen (“stolen”), Dutch gestolen (“stolen”), German Low German stohlen (“stolen”), German gestohlen (“stolen”), Swedish stulen (“stolen”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That has been stolen.
senses_topics:
|
7284 | word:
stolen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stolen (plural stolens)
forms:
form:
stolens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stolen, istolen, from Old English stolen, ġestolen, from Proto-Germanic *stulanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *stelaną (“to steal”), equivalent to stole + -en. Cognate with Scots stellin, stollin (“stolen”), Saterland Frisian stäälen (“stolen”), West Frisian stellen (“stolen”), Dutch gestolen (“stolen”), German Low German stohlen (“stolen”), German gestohlen (“stolen”), Swedish stulen (“stolen”).
senses_examples:
text:
Oh, a few months back, a detective came by with pictures of identical diamonds. Wanted to know if anybody had come around maybe trying to sell them. I told him I read the pawn sheets regular and I haven't seen them listed. He tells me they don't want the stolens on any sheets.
ref:
2015 July 19, “Other Lives”, in True Detective, season 2, episode 5
type:
quotation
text:
Spinner, shotty, semi
These shots ain't no Henny
If this Glock holds twenty
I make it scream like Dezzie
Dilemma like Kelly
Before I had a bar like Peggy
How many pagans? Many
Ask my probation...
She knows it's many, many
And if I take it there it's edgy
You see my stolens come with petty
ref:
2018 February 17, “Plugged In Freestyle”, Fumez the Engineer (music)performed by Mitch, 3:36
type:
quotation
text:
A island I wanna live somewhere silent
I'm shining I'm bout to flood my neck with diamonds
Yeah I've been spitting facts these niggas lying
I'm driving stolens, foreigns, yeah I'm riding
ref:
2019 August 28, Yb Tak30ver (lyrics and music), “Island”, 1:21
type:
quotation
text:
The young bulls get the green light, suttin's gettin' sabotaged
They’ll get it done in a hoopty on the ped or even on the handlebars
But the main focus is doe bro rest in peace M we're just tryna have it large
Screaming fuck feds get gwop let me see your battle scars
We trap in stolens 24's shag whips and rattle cars
ref:
2020 March 26, Tunde (lyrics and music), “Mob Ties”, 1:53
type:
quotation
text:
Pray for my soldiers that's ridin’ in stolens
ref:
2020 July 17, StaySolidRocky (lyrics and music), “Viola” (track 2, 0:21 from the start), in Fallin'
type:
quotation
text:
Fill that clip with golden worms
Grap that dots and fold it first
(snap!) make sure that the stolen works
ref:
2021 August 24, Booter Bee (lyrics and music), “No Point”, 0:38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something which has been stolen.
senses_topics:
|
7285 | word:
slew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slew (plural slews)
forms:
form:
slews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
In all senses, a mostly British spelling of slue.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act, or process of slewing.
A device used for slewing.
A change of position.
senses_topics:
|
7286 | word:
slew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slew (third-person singular simple present slews, present participle slewing, simple past and past participle slewed)
forms:
form:
slews
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
slewing
tags:
participle
present
form:
slewed
tags:
participle
past
form:
slewed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
In all senses, a mostly British spelling of slue.
senses_examples:
text:
His gunnery officer, Lieutenant Commander William R. D. Nickelson, Jr., preferred to respond with other hardware. At once he shouted into his headset mike: "Fuck that! Open fire!" His assistant, Lloyd Mustin, was recording accurate ranges from the narrowcasting fire-control radar and didn't need help from other wavelengths. "Action port. Illuminating ship is target," he instructed his gun captains. Mustin, controlling the after trio of five-inch mounts, and Nickelson slewed their directors onto the lights and opened fire immediately.
ref:
2011, James D. Hornfischer, “28: Into the Light”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York: Bantam Books, retrieved 2022-11-21, pages 273–274
type:
quotation
text:
As the 5th Battle Squadron comes into the range of the High Seas Fleet, Admiral Evan-Thomas, who, so far, has dutifully followed Beatty's orders (or lack of them), has finally had just about enough. He can see the danger, plain as day, as the High Seas Fleet's leading elements open up a barrage with every gun they possess. He therefore issues his own squadron orders to expect to have to make sudden course changes and to follow his lead, before ordering the wheel hard over and slewing Barham around. Valiant and Warspite move to follow, replicating the "turn in succession" order, whilst the trailing HMS Malaya sees the oncoming danger and prepares to turn as soon as it possibly can without crashing into Warspite.
ref:
2020 July 15, Drachinifel, 1:04:58 from the start, in The Battle of Jutland - Clash of the Titans - Part 1 (Beatty vs Hipper), archived from the original on 2022-10-15
type:
quotation
text:
The single line was slewed onto the disused up formation to make way for the future redoubling.
type:
example
text:
Treforest: The track has been slewed to create space for the new island station platform at Treforest Estate, on the Cardiff-Merthyr line.
ref:
2022 November 16, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Wales”, in RAIL, number 970, page 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rotate or turn something about its axis.
To veer a vehicle.
To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
To pivot.
To skid.
To move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
rail-transport
railways
transport
|
7287 | word:
slew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slew (plural slews)
forms:
form:
slews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare slough.
senses_examples:
text:
The prairie round about is wet, at times almost marshy, especially at the borders of the great reedy slews.
ref:
1885, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wet place; a river inlet.
senses_topics:
|
7288 | word:
slew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slew
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Ablaut of slay, from Middle English slew, sleugh, past of Middle English sleen.
Replaced earlier Middle English slough, slogh, from Old English slōg (past of Old English slēan (“to hit, strike, slay”)), due to the influence of knew, drew, etc. More at slay.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of slay
senses_topics:
|
7289 | word:
slew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slew (plural slews)
forms:
form:
slews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Irish slua (“crowd”), from Old Irish slúag, slóg, from Proto-Celtic *slougos (“troop, army”), from Proto-Indo-European *slowgʰos, *slowgos (“entourage”).
senses_examples:
text:
She has a slew of papers and notebooks strewn all over her desk.
type:
example
text:
There has been a slew of documents about Scottish transport planning in recent weeks.
ref:
2021 February 24, Philip Haigh, “A shift from cars: Scotland's railways are friends of electric!”, in RAIL, number 915, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large amount.
senses_topics:
|
7290 | word:
ephemeral
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ephemeral (plural ephemerals)
forms:
form:
ephemerals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin ephemerus, from Ancient Greek ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros), the more common form of ἐφημέριος (ephēmérios, “of, for, or during the day, living or lasting but for a day, short-lived, temporary”), from ἐπί (epí, “on”) + ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something which lasts for a short period of time.
senses_topics:
|
7291 | word:
ephemeral
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ephemeral (comparative more ephemeral, superlative most ephemeral)
forms:
form:
more ephemeral
tags:
comparative
form:
most ephemeral
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin ephemerus, from Ancient Greek ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros), the more common form of ἐφημέριος (ephēmérios, “of, for, or during the day, living or lasting but for a day, short-lived, temporary”), from ἐπί (epí, “on”) + ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”).
senses_examples:
text:
1821-1822, Vicesimus Knox, Remarks on the tendency of certain Clauses in a Bill now pending in Parliament to degrade Grammar Schools
Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral popularity shall have gradually subsided.
text:
sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy
ref:
1853, James Stephen, Lecture on the right use of Books
type:
quotation
text:
It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows.
ref:
1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 9, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 2012-04-03
type:
quotation
text:
The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.
ref:
1986, W.H. Raymond, "Clinoptilolite Deposit in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.A.", in Yūichi Murakami et al. (editors), New Developments in Zeolite Science and Technology (conference proceedings), Elsevier, page 80
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lasting for a short period of time.
Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
7292 | word:
volatile
word_type:
adj
expansion:
volatile (comparative more volatile, superlative most volatile)
forms:
form:
more volatile
tags:
comparative
form:
most volatile
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
volatile
etymology_text:
From Middle French volatile, from Latin volātilis (“flying; swift; temporary; volatile”), from volō (“I fly”).
senses_examples:
text:
a volatile man
type:
example
text:
This method stores a value into a non-volatile field called result, then stores true in the volatile field finished. The main thread waits for the field finished to be set to true, then reads the field result.
ref:
2010, Jon Jagger, Nigel Perry, Peter Sestoft, Annotated C# Standard, page 467
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
Explosive.
Variable or erratic.
Quick to become angry or violent.
Fickle.
Temporary or ephemeral.
Potentially violent.
Having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
Whose content is lost when the computer is powered down.
Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
7293 | word:
volatile
word_type:
noun
expansion:
volatile (plural volatiles)
forms:
form:
volatiles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
volatile
etymology_text:
From Middle French volatile, from Latin volātilis (“flying; swift; temporary; volatile”), from volō (“I fly”).
senses_examples:
text:
Operations on C++ volatiles do put the compiler on notice that the object may be modified asynchronously, and hence are generally safer to use than ordinary variable accesses.
ref:
2011, Victor Pankratius, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Walter Tichy, Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development, page 74
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chemical or compound that changes into a gas easily.
A variable that is volatile, i.e. has its associated memory immediately updated with any change in value.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
7294 | word:
begum
word_type:
verb
expansion:
begum (third-person singular simple present begums, present participle begumming, simple past and past participle begummed)
forms:
form:
begums
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
begumming
tags:
participle
present
form:
begummed
tags:
participle
past
form:
begummed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
begum
etymology_text:
From be- + gum.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To daub or cover with gum.
senses_topics:
|
7295 | word:
begum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
begum (plural begums)
forms:
form:
begums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
begum
etymology_text:
From Classical Persian بیگم (bēgum), from East Turkic begüm, from beg (a title of nobility in Iran, Central Asia and South Asia) + -um (feminine suffix for titles of nobility). Compare Classical Persian خانم (xānum).
senses_examples:
text:
She was the daughter of an English officer, who having fallen in love with an Indian Begum gave up home, country, and friends, and married her.
ref:
1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009
type:
quotation
text:
toxic politics dominated by the bitter infighting of the “battling begums” (the widow and daughter of former presidents, who lead the two main parties).
ref:
2012, “Bangladesh: Out of the basket”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in South Asia
the form of address for such a woman
senses_topics:
|
7296 | word:
drive
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drive (third-person singular simple present drives, present participle driving, simple past drove or (archaic) drave or (dialectal) driv, past participle driven or (dialectal) druv or (dialectal) drove)
forms:
form:
drives
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
driving
tags:
participle
present
form:
drove
tags:
past
form:
drave
tags:
archaic
past
form:
driv
tags:
dialectal
past
form:
driven
tags:
participle
past
form:
druv
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
form:
drove
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
wikipedia:
drive
etymology_text:
From Middle English driven, from Old English drīfan (“to drive, force, move”), from Proto-West Germanic *drīban, from Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots drive (“to drive”), North Frisian driwe (“to drive”), Saterland Frisian drieuwe (“to drive”), West Frisian driuwe (“to chase, drive, impel”), Dutch drijven (“to drive”), Low German drieven (“to drive, drift, push”), German treiben (“to drive, push, propel”), Norwegian Bokmål drive, Danish drive (“to drive, run, force”), Norwegian Nynorsk driva, Swedish driva (“to drive, power, drift, push, force”), Icelandic drífa (“to drive, hurry, rush”).
senses_examples:
text:
drive a car
type:
example
text:
This SUV drives insanely smoothly—it's like it knows what I want before I do.
type:
example
text:
I drive to work every day.
type:
example
text:
My cousin drove me to the airport.
type:
example
text:
drive a 737
type:
example
text:
to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field
type:
example
text:
The hunting dog drove the birds out of the tall grass.
type:
example
text:
We'll drive the enemy from these lands once and for all.
type:
example
text:
You drive nails into wood with a hammer.
type:
example
text:
The pistons drive the crankshaft.
type:
example
text:
My husband's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.
type:
example
text:
What drives a person to run a marathon?
type:
example
text:
Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.
type:
example
text:
This constant complaining is going to drive me insane.
type:
example
text:
You are driving me crazy!
type:
example
text:
1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Maud, XXV, 1. in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 90,
And then to hear a dead man chatter
Is enough to drive one mad.
text:
Frothing at the mouth and threatening expulsion, Coach relentlessly drove the team to more laps of the pitch.
type:
example
text:
[…] Demosthenes desired them first to put in at Pylos and not to proceed on their voyage until they had done what he wanted. They objected, but it so happened that a storm came on and drove them into Pylos.
ref:
1881, “Thucydides”, in Benjamin Jowett, transl., History of the Peloponnesian War, Oxford: Clarendon, Volume I, Book 4, p. 247
type:
quotation
text:
The negotiations were driven to completion minutes before the final deadline.
type:
example
text:
And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...
ref:
2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Time driveth onward fast,
And in a little while our lips are dumb.
ref:
1833, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
It would seem they were regarding this new antagonist with astonishment. To their intelligence, it may be, the giant was even such another as themselves. The Thunder Child fired no gun, but simply drove full speed towards them. It was probably her not firing that enabled her to get so near the enemy as she did. They did not know what to make of her. One shell, and they would have sent her to the bottom forthwith with the Heat-Ray.
ref:
1898, H.G. Wells, “The "Thunder Child."”, in The War of the Worlds, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, retrieved 2022-11-24, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny.
ref:
2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the Captain […] order’d the Cable to be cut, and let the Ship drive nearer the Land, where she soon beat to pieces:
ref:
1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
You know the Trade of Life can’t be driven without Partners; there is a reciprocal Dependance between the Greatest and the Least.
ref:
1694, Jeremy Collier, “Of General Kindness”, in Miscellanies in Five Essays, London: Sam. Keeble & Jo. Hindmarsh, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
If the miners find no ore, they drive or cut a gallery from the pit a short distance at right angles to the direction of the lodes found
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To operate a vehicle
To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
To operate a vehicle
To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
To operate a vehicle
To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
To operate a vehicle
To operate (an aircraft).
To operate a vehicle
To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
To compel to move
(especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
To compel to move
(especially animals) To cause to flee out of.
To cause to move by the application of physical force
To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
To cause to move by the application of physical force
To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
To cause to move by the application of physical force
To hit the ball with a drive.
To cause to move by the application of physical force
To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
To compel to undergo a non-physical change
To provide an impetus for a change in one's situation or state of mind.
To compel to undergo a non-physical change
To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
To compel to undergo a non-physical change
To compel, exert pressure, coerce (to do something).
To compel to undergo a non-physical change
To cause to become.
To compel to undergo a non-physical change
To motivate through the application or demonstration of force; to coerce, intimidate, or threaten; to impel or urge onward in such a way.
To compel to undergo a non-physical change
To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
To move forcefully.
To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
To distrain for rent.
To be the dominant party in a sex act.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
business
mining
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
7297 | word:
drive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drive (countable and uncountable, plural drives)
forms:
form:
drives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
drive
etymology_text:
From Middle English driven, from Old English drīfan (“to drive, force, move”), from Proto-West Germanic *drīban, from Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots drive (“to drive”), North Frisian driwe (“to drive”), Saterland Frisian drieuwe (“to drive”), West Frisian driuwe (“to chase, drive, impel”), Dutch drijven (“to drive”), Low German drieven (“to drive, drift, push”), German treiben (“to drive, push, propel”), Norwegian Bokmål drive, Danish drive (“to drive, run, force”), Norwegian Nynorsk driva, Swedish driva (“to drive, power, drift, push, force”), Icelandic drífa (“to drive, hurry, rush”).
senses_examples:
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Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
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As we contemplate the half-finished arterial roads and electrification plans of our own age, and the town-planning schemes that gather dust in the public libraries, we can admire the drive and action of the railway pioneers.
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1951 December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, in Railway Magazine, page 800
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I confess that the sight of my minute man ahead, getting closer and closer, gives me a little more drive even when I think I am going as fast as I can.
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1986, Fred Matheny, Solo Cycling: How to Train and Race Bicycle Time Trials, page 136
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quotation
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The Murdstonian drive in business.
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1881, Matthew Arnold, The Incompatibles
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Are you all ready?’ he cried, and set off towards the dead ash where the drive would begin.
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1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 79
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Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
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On the other hand, in Eritrea (once our Forces had recaptured Kassala on January 19) the drive was generally eastward towards the capital, Asmara, and the Red Sea port of Massaua.
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1941 August, Charles E. Lee, “Railways of Italian East Africa—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 340
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a typical steam drive
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a nuclear drive
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chain drive
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example
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front-wheel drive
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Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
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Heat engine-electric hybrid vehicles : The hybrid vehicle on which most development work has been done to date is the one that couples a heat engine with an electric drive system. The objective remains the same as it was in 1900:
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2001, Michael Hereward Westbrook, The Electric Car, IET, page 146
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It was a long drive.
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We merely waited to rouse good Mrs. Vesey from the place which she still occupied at the deserted luncheon-table, before we entered the open carriage for our promised drive.
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1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
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The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.
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Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.
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1995 March 2, John Carman, "Believe It, You Saw It in Sweeps", SFGate http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Believe-It-You-Saw-It-In-Sweeps-3043091.php
On the latter show, former Playboy Playmate Carrie Westcott said she'd never met a man who could match her sexual drive.
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And after Rodallega missed two early opportunities, the first a header, the second a low drive easily held by Lukasz Fabianski, it was N'Zogbia who created the opening goal.
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2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC
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a whist drive
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a beetle drive
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vaccination drive
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Yeah, thanks, drive!You boyz all goin' shoppin'?We are, drive, says Chip.
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2017 March 21, Leonora Brito, Dat's Love and Other Stories, Parthian Books
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The coaches dropped us where we had begun, outside the chapel; each child in turn piping up, 'Thank you, drive!' as we disembarked.
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2017 July 1, Huw Lewis, To Hear the Skylark's Song, Parthian Books
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Soon every stop on every route was once again punctuated by rounds of 'Cheers drive! Cheers drive! Cheers drive!' And with this little nicety reinstated, all was relatively well in Bristol town.
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2018 June 28, Wilf Merttens, Bristol Urban Legends: The Hotwells Crocodile and Other Stories, The History Press
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'Cheers, Drive!' said Dylan as they climbed off the bus.
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2019 May 30, Ed Clarke, The Secret Dragon, Penguin UK
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senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
A driveway.
A type of public roadway.
A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
Desire or interest.
An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
A stroke made with a driver.
A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
A straight level shot or pass.
An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
Friendly term of address for a bus driver.
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7298 | word:
card
word_type:
noun
expansion:
card (countable and uncountable, plural cards)
forms:
form:
cards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
card
etymology_text:
From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of chart.
senses_examples:
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As each card is played in blackjack, it changes the possibilities for both player and dealer by diminishing the number and the variety of cards that may be dealt.
ref:
1963 January 25, “Games: Beating the Dealer”, in Time
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He played cards with his friends.
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The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
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He accused them of playing the race card.
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Having adopted civil union as their goal, proponents of the Civil Union Bill were sensitive to the need not to overplay the human rights card, aware that there was a significant degree of resistance in the New Zealand […]
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2007, Luke McNamara, Human Rights Controversies: The Impact of Legal Form, page 138
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Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all.
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2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 24:24 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04
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As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye […].
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1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii
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"He's a cheery old card," muttered Harry to Jack / As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. / . . . / But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
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1918, Siegfried Sassoon, The General
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MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.
EVE: Oh, Marek, you card.
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2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan
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What's on the card for tonight?
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He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.
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The button will "see" the cursor through a card domain graphic; you can then change button graphics on each card.
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1993, Danny Goodman, The Complete HyperCard 2.2 Handbook, page 198
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quotation
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The interaction model of WAP, originally developed for mobile phones to interact with information services in a web-like way, was based on Apple's HyperCard, and instead of pages, the user interacted with a deck of cards, which were interlinked by a scripting language.
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2008, Johan Hjelm, Why IPTV?: Interactivity, Technologies, Services, page 13
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The basic building blocks of WML applications are cards. Cards are equivalent to HTML pages. Just as Web browser can show only one page at a time (except when using frames), a WAP enabled device can also show only one card at a time.
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2012, Veljko Milutinovic, Frédéric Patricelli, Mastering E-Business Infrastructure, page 329
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She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.
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The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.
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You can make most theory answers without cards, but some cards do exist which specifically criticize kritiks on a theoretical basis.
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2011, N. Andre Cossette, The Art of Debate: 12th Edition, page 123
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text:
to put a card in the newspapers
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example
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This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
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example
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"The Lord possessed me [= Wisdom] in the beginning of his way, even before his works of old was I set up;" that law, which hath been the pattern to make, and is the card to guide the world by
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1594, Richard Hooker, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, 1.2.5, page 153 (Everyman edition, vol. 1)
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senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A playing card.
Any game using playing cards; a card game.
A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
A map or chart.
An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.
A greeting card.
A business card.
A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
A test card.
In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
A printed programme.
An attraction or inducement.
A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
An indicator card.
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ball-games
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|
7299 | word:
card
word_type:
verb
expansion:
card (third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)
forms:
form:
cards
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
carding
tags:
participle
present
form:
carded
tags:
participle
past
form:
carded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
card
etymology_text:
From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of chart.
senses_examples:
text:
They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
type:
example
text:
I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.
type:
example
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Ted (Keanu Reeves): Whoa. He didn't even card us, dude. / Bill (Alex Winter): Yeah, we have to remember this place.
ref:
1989, Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (motion picture)
type:
quotation
text:
McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
To play cards.
To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
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