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7500 | word:
mama
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mama (plural mamas)
forms:
form:
mamas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originally from baby talk. Possibly influenced by Middle English mome (“mother, aunt”), from Old English *mōme, from Proto-West Germanic *mōmā, from Proto-Germanic *mōmǭ (“mother, aunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-méh₂, reduplication of *méh₂- (“mother”), related to German Muhme (“aunt”), Latin mamma (“mother, nurse”), Irish mam (“mother”), Lithuanian mama, moma (“mother”).
senses_examples:
text:
All the flowers that you planted, mama, in the backyard / All died when you went away
ref:
1990, Prince (lyrics and music), “Nothing Compares 2 U”, performed by Sinéad O’Connor
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mother, female parent.
senses_topics:
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7501 | word:
threaten
word_type:
verb
expansion:
threaten (third-person singular simple present threatens, present participle threatening, simple past and past participle threatened)
forms:
form:
threatens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
threatening
tags:
participle
present
form:
threatened
tags:
participle
past
form:
threatened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thretenen, from Old English þrēatnian (“to urge, force, compel”), equivalent to threat + -en.
senses_examples:
text:
"Taiwanese are very enthusiastic and love freedom and democracy, so many good international friends have come to Taiwan to support us. This is a normal and good thing, but China threatens and intimidates Taiwan," she said.
"However, I would like to reassure everyone that both our government and the military are prepared, and I will definitely take care of Taiwan."
ref:
2022 August 13, Sarah Wu, David Kirton, Ben Blanchard, quoting Tsai Ing-wen, “Taiwan thanks U.S. for maintaining security in Taiwan Strait”, in Tom Hogue, Michael Perry, William Mallard, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-13, World
type:
quotation
text:
He threatened me with a knife.
type:
example
text:
The rocks threatened the ship's survival.
type:
example
text:
The black clouds threatened heavy rain.
type:
example
text:
The new information threatened our original hypothesis.
type:
example
text:
2019 January 26, Kevin Seybold, “Does Science Threaten Belief?”, in Cathedral of Hope:
type:
quotation
text:
The player quickly surmised that things weren't kosher and the suddenly wiser ballplayer threatened the world record for the fifty-yard dash as he sought safety. As Reynolds dived into the van, Dietz and the other players rolled with laughter.
ref:
2000, Lew Freedman, Diamonds in the Rough: Baseball Stories from Alaska, page 69
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
To menace, or be dangerous.
To portend, or give a warning of.
To call into question the validity of (a belief, idea, or viewpoint); to challenge.
To be close to equaling or surpassing (a record, etc.)
senses_topics:
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7502 | word:
bitters
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bitters
forms:
wikipedia:
bitters
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of bitter
senses_topics:
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7503 | word:
bitters
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bitters (plural bitters)
forms:
form:
bitters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bitters
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A liquid used in mixed drinks or as a tonic into which bitter herbs have been steeped (it can also be found in powdered form for adding to mixed drinks).
senses_topics:
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7504 | word:
bitters
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bitters
forms:
wikipedia:
bitters
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of bitter
senses_topics:
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7505 | word:
get a move on
word_type:
verb
expansion:
get a move on (third-person singular simple present gets a move on, present participle getting a move on, simple past got a move on, past participle (UK) got a move on or (US) gotten a move on)
forms:
form:
gets a move on
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
getting a move on
tags:
participle
present
form:
got a move on
tags:
past
form:
got a move on
tags:
UK
participle
past
form:
gotten a move on
tags:
US
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I need to get a move on if I'm going to arrive before dark.
type:
example
text:
The train was handed over 21 min. late at Salisbury, so there was every encouragement to Driver Moore, of Salisbury, to "get a move on."
ref:
1951 August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performsnce”, in Railway Magazine, page 554
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hurry up, to get moving.
senses_topics:
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7506 | word:
seek
word_type:
verb
expansion:
seek (third-person singular simple present seeks, present participle seeking, simple past and past participle sought)
forms:
form:
seeks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
seeking
tags:
participle
present
form:
sought
tags:
participle
past
form:
sought
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
seek
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English seken (also sechen, whence dialectal English seech), from Old English sēċan (compare beseech); from Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną (“to seek”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek out”).
Cognate with West Frisian sykje, Dutch zoeken, Low German söken, German suchen, Danish søge, Icelandic sækja, Norwegian Bokmål søke, Norwegian Nynorsk søkja, Swedish söka. The Middle English and later Modern English hard /k/ derives from Old English sēcð, the third person singular; the forms with /k/ were then reinforced by cognate Old Norse sǿkja.
senses_examples:
text:
I seek wisdom.
type:
example
text:
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
ref:
2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
I seek forgiveness through repentance.
type:
example
text:
“My, my! It is indeed a long way yet, look you!” said the pleasant woman of whom I sought directions.
ref:
1960, Lobsang Rampa, The Rampa Story
type:
quotation
text:
I sought my fortune on the goldfields.
type:
example
text:
But persecution sought the lives of men of this character.
ref:
1880, George Q. Cannon, How the Gospel is Preached By the Elders, etc.
type:
quotation
text:
I can no longer seek fame or glory, nor can I help trying to get rid of my riches, which separate me from my fellow-creatures.
ref:
1886, Constantine Popoff, translation of Leo Tolstoy's What I Believe
text:
When the alarm went off I sought the exit in a panic.
type:
example
text:
Our company does not seek to limit its employees from using the internet or engaging in social networking.
type:
example
text:
Most of the changes made to this control are to accommodate the various constraints that playback of streaming media may impose in broadcast streams, such as the inability to seek through the media.
ref:
2009, Jit Ghosh, Rob Cameron, Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 541
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To try to find; to look for; to search for.
To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
To attempt, endeavour, try
To navigate through a stream.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
7507 | word:
seek
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seek (plural seeks)
forms:
form:
seeks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English seken (also sechen, whence dialectal English seech), from Old English sēċan (compare beseech); from Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną (“to seek”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek out”).
Cognate with West Frisian sykje, Dutch zoeken, Low German söken, German suchen, Danish søge, Icelandic sækja, Norwegian Bokmål søke, Norwegian Nynorsk søkja, Swedish söka. The Middle English and later Modern English hard /k/ derives from Old English sēcð, the third person singular; the forms with /k/ were then reinforced by cognate Old Norse sǿkja.
senses_examples:
text:
The number of seeks to retrieve a shot […] depends on the location of those frames on physical blocks.
ref:
2012, Aidong Zhang, Avi Silberschatz, Sharad Mehrotra, Continuous Media Databases, page 120
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The operation of navigating through a stream.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
7508 | word:
ideal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ideal (comparative more ideal, superlative most ideal)
forms:
form:
more ideal
tags:
comparative
form:
most ideal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Ideal
Richard Dedekind
etymology_text:
From French idéal, from Late Latin ideālis (“existing in idea”), by surface analysis, idea + -al, from Latin idea (“idea”); see idea.
In mathematics, the noun ring theory sense was first introduced by German mathematician Richard Dedekind in his 1871 edition of a text on number theory. The concept was quickly expanded to ring theory and later generalised to order theory. The set theory and Lie theory senses can be regarded as applications of the order theory sense.
senses_examples:
text:
The idea of ghosts is ridiculous in the extreme; and if you continue to be swayed by ideal terrors
ref:
1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 256
type:
quotation
text:
1751 April 13, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, Number 112, reprinted in 1825, The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 1, Jones & Company, page 194,
There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence; […] .
text:
the ideal theory or philosophy
type:
example
text:
ideal point
type:
example
text:
An ideal triangle in the hyperbolic disk is one bounded by three geodesics that meet precisely on the circle.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
Optimal; being the best possibility.
Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
7509 | word:
ideal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ideal (plural ideals)
forms:
form:
ideals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ideal
Richard Dedekind
etymology_text:
From French idéal, from Late Latin ideālis (“existing in idea”), by surface analysis, idea + -al, from Latin idea (“idea”); see idea.
In mathematics, the noun ring theory sense was first introduced by German mathematician Richard Dedekind in his 1871 edition of a text on number theory. The concept was quickly expanded to ring theory and later generalised to order theory. The set theory and Lie theory senses can be regarded as applications of the order theory sense.
senses_examples:
text:
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny - Carl Schurz
text:
With great humility, I call upon all Americans to help me keep our nation united in defense of those ideals which have been so eloquently proclaimed by Franklin Roosevelt. I want in turn to assure my fellow Americans and all of those who love peace and liberty throughout the world that I will support and defend those ideals with all my strength and all my heart.
ref:
1945 April 16, Harry S. Truman, 9:21 from the start, in MP72-20 President Roosevelt’s Funeral and Procession; Truman – New President of U.S., Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162
type:
quotation
text:
Let #x5C;mathbb#x7B;Z#x7D; be the ring of integers and let 2#x5C;mathbb#x7B;Z#x7D; be its ideal of even integers. Then the quotient ring #x5C;mathbb#x7B;Z#x7D;#x2F;2#x5C;mathbb#x7B;Z#x7D; is a Boolean ring.
type:
example
text:
The product of two ideals #x5C;mathfrak#x7B;a#x7D; and #x5C;mathfrak#x7B;b#x7D; is an ideal #x5C;mathfrak#x7B;ab#x7D; which is a subset of the intersection of #x5C;mathfrak#x7B;a#x7D; and #x5C;mathfrak#x7B;b#x7D;. This should help to understand why maximal ideals are prime ideals. Likewise, the union of #x5C;mathfrak#x7B;a#x7D; and #x5C;mathfrak#x7B;b#x7D; is a subset of #x5C;mathfrak#x7B;a#x2B;b#x7D;.
type:
example
text:
In trying to understand the ideal theory of a commutative ring, one quickly sees that it is important to first understand the prime ideals.
ref:
2004, K. R. Goodearl, R. B. Warfield, Jr., An Introduction to Noncommutative Noetherian Rings, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
If an ideal I of a ring contains the multiplicative identity 1, then we have seen that I must be the entire ring.
ref:
2009, John J. Watkins, Topics in Commutative Ring Theory, Princeton University Press, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
However, every R has a minimal prime ideal consisting of left zero-divisors and one of right zero-divisors.
ref:
2010, W. D. Burgess, A. Lashgari, A. Mojiri, “Elements of Minimal Prime Ideals in General Rings”, in Sergio R. López-Permouth, Dinh Van Huynh, editors, Advances in Ring Theory, Springer (Birkhäuser), page 69
type:
quotation
text:
1992, Unnamed translator, T. S. Fofanova, General Theory of Lattices, in Ordered Sets and Lattices II, American Mathematical Society, page 119,
An ideal A of L is called complete if it contains all least upper bounds of its subsets that exist in L. Bishop and Schreiner [80] studied conditions under which joins of ideals in the lattices of all ideals and of all complete ideals coincide.
text:
1.35 Find a distributive lattice L with no minimal and no maximal prime ideals.
ref:
2011, George Grätzer, Lattice Theory: Foundation, Springer (Birkhäuser), page 125
type:
quotation
text:
Definition 15.11 (Width Ideal) An ideal Q of a poset P = (X,≤) is a width ideal if maximal(Q) is a width antichain.
ref:
2015, Vijay K. Garg, Introduction to Lattice Theory with Computer Science Applications, Wiley, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
Formally, an ideal I of a given set X is a nonempty subset of the powerset 𝒫(X) such that: (1)∅∈I, (2)A∈I and B⊆A⟹B∈I and (3)A,B∈I⟹A∪B∈I.
text:
If 𝖌 is a Lie algebra, 𝖍 is an ideal and the Lie algebras 𝖍 and 𝖌/𝖍 are solvable, then 𝖌 is solvable.
ref:
1975, Zhe-Xian Wan, translated by Che-Young Lee, Lie Algebras, Pergamon Press, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
What really put primitive ideals in enveloping algebras of semisimple Lie algebras on the map was Duflo's fundamental theorem that any such ideal is the annihilator of a very special kind of simple module, namely a highest weight module.
ref:
2006, W. McGovern, “The work of Anthony Joseph in classical representation theory”, in Anthony Joseph, Joseph Bernstein, Vladimir Hinich, Anna Melnikov, editors, Studies in Lie Theory: Dedicated to A. Joseph on His Sixtieth Birthday, Springer (Birkhäuser), page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Next let L be an arbitrary semisimple Lie algebra. Then L can be written uniquely as a direct sum L#x5F;1#x5C;oplus#x5C;dots#x5C;oplusL#x5F;t of simple ideals (Theorem 5.2).
ref:
2013, J.E. Humphreys, Introduction to Lie Algebras and Representation Theory, Springer, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
The set of natural numbers with multiplication as the monoid operation (instead of addition) has multiplicative ideals, such as, for example, the set {1, 3, 9, 27, 81, ...}. If any member of it is multiplied by a number which is not a power of 3 then the result will not be a power of three.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thing which exists in the mind but not in reality; in ontological terms, a thing which has essence but not existence.
A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.
A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).
A collection of sets, considered small or negligible, such that every subset of each member and the union of any two members are also members of the collection.
A Lie subalgebra (subspace that is closed under the Lie bracket) 𝖍 of a given Lie algebra 𝖌 such that the Lie bracket [𝖌,𝖍] is a subset of 𝖍.
A subsemigroup with the property that if any semigroup element outside of it is added to any one of its members, the result must lie outside of it.
senses_topics:
algebra
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
order-theory
sciences
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
algebra
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences |
7510 | word:
International Phonetic Alphabet
word_type:
name
expansion:
the International Phonetic Alphabet
forms:
form:
the International Phonetic Alphabet
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The International Phonetic Alphabet is commonly used in books about Shanghainese because none of the existing romanizations are very popular.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A standardized set of symbols for representing the sounds of human speech.
senses_topics:
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7511 | word:
altimeter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
altimeter (plural altimeters)
forms:
form:
altimeters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined based on Latin altus (“high”) + -meter.
senses_examples:
text:
For that reason, if you do any mountain climbing, allow a generous margin of error of extra altitude—not only for possible altimeter error, but also for downdrafts that are particularly prevalent if high winds are encountered.
ref:
2000, Paul E. Illman, The Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, McGraw Hill Professional, page 128
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An apparatus for measuring altitude.
senses_topics:
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7512 | word:
thrust
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thrust (countable and uncountable, plural thrusts)
forms:
form:
thrusts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Thrust (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Old Norse þrysta, from Proto-Germanic *þrustijaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *trewd-.
senses_examples:
text:
Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.
type:
example
text:
The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: tractive effort
text:
Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.
type:
example
text:
Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education.
type:
example
text:
“The main thrust of it was that Britain is losing out, that Brexit it not delivering, our economy is in a weak position,” said the source.
ref:
2023 February 11, Toby Helm, “Revealed: secret cross-party summit held to confront failings of Brexit”, in The Observer, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)
The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
The primary effort; the goal.
senses_topics:
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
|
7513 | word:
thrust
word_type:
verb
expansion:
thrust (third-person singular simple present thrusts, present participle thrusting, simple past and past participle thrust or thrusted)
forms:
form:
thrusts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
thrusting
tags:
participle
present
form:
thrust
tags:
participle
past
form:
thrust
tags:
past
form:
thrusted
tags:
participle
past
form:
thrusted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Thrust (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Old Norse þrysta, from Proto-Germanic *þrustijaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *trewd-.
senses_examples:
text:
We thrust at the enemy with our forces.
type:
example
text:
I asked her not to thrust the responsibility on me.
type:
example
text:
It is my earnest hope that the bitter lessons China has learned may prove instructive to countries and governments, and especially those in Asia which now face the same threat of Communism. Often it is not easy for most people to realize the presence of this threat in their midst, and by the time they do, it may already be too late to prevent its thrusting them behind the Iron Curtain at least for a time.
ref:
1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, “Introduction”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
He thrust his arm into the icy stream and grabbed a wriggling fish, astounding the observers.
type:
example
text:
Towers thrusting skyward.
type:
example
text:
to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument
type:
example
text:
And thrust between my father and the god.
ref:
1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make advance with force.
To force something upon someone.
To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
To push or drive with force; to shove.
To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
To stab; to pierce; usually with through.
senses_topics:
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7514 | word:
weight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
weight (countable and uncountable, plural weights)
forms:
form:
weights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
weight
weight (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English weight, weiȝte, weght, wight, from Old English wiht, ġewiht (“weight”), from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz ("weight"; compare *weganą (“to move”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move; pull; draw; drive”). Equivalent to weigh + -th.
Cognate with Scots wecht, weicht (“weight”), Saterland Frisian Wächte (“scale”), Gewicht (“weight”), West Frisian gewicht (“weight”), Dutch gewicht (“weight”), German Low German Wicht, Gewicht (“weight”), German Wucht (“massiveness, force”), Gewicht (“weight”).
senses_examples:
text:
Another knight came to settle on the island, a man of much weight and position, on whom the Adelantados of all the island relied, and who was made a magistrate.
ref:
1907 Alonso de Espinosa, Hakluyt Society & Sir Clements Robert Markham, The Guanches of Tenerife: the holy image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish conquest and settlement, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, p116
text:
"You surely are a man of some weight around here," I said.
ref:
1945, Mikia Pezas, The price of liberty, I. Washburn, Inc., page 11
type:
quotation
text:
He's working out with weights.
type:
example
text:
font weight
type:
example
text:
the weight of care or business
type:
example
text:
He was pushing weight.
type:
example
text:
[I was] doing a weight [1 lb. at that time] a week, sometimes more, sometimes less.
ref:
2002, Nicholas Dorn, Karim Murji, Nigel South, Traffickers: Drug Markets and Law Enforcement, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
The ones the CIB should be looking out for, to her mind, were the officers who raided a flat, found a couple of weights of cannabis and stashed half of it before they made the collar. The cannabis would make its way back on to the street […]
ref:
2009, Martina Cole, The Ladykiller
type:
quotation
text:
No matter how much money he makes, he is still a soldier, but he has the weight.
ref:
1974, Martin R. Haskell, Lewis Yablonsky, Crime and Delinquency, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
“Logits” are the vectors of weights.
ref:
2024, Laura Masbruch, Pasta Land
type:
quotation
text:
Even though it's got its two features of color and hardness, it doesn't know how much importance or, as computer scientists say, weight to place on each of them.
ref:
2017, Up and Atom, Machine Learning Explained in 5 Minutes
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The force an object exerts on the object it is on due to gravitation.
An object used to make something heavier.
A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
Importance or influence.
An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
Viscosity rating.
Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
Synonym of mass (in general circumstances)
Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
The smallest cardinality of a base.
The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
The illusion of mass.
The thickness and opacity of paint.
Pressure; burden.
The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
Money.
Weight class
Emphasis applied to a given criterion.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
engineering
lubricants
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
mathematics
sciences
statistics
mathematics
sciences
topology
media
publishing
typography
arts
visual-art
visual-arts
arts
visual-art
visual-arts
arts
visual-art
visual-arts
|
7515 | word:
weight
word_type:
verb
expansion:
weight (third-person singular simple present weights, present participle weighting, simple past and past participle weighted)
forms:
form:
weights
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
weighting
tags:
participle
present
form:
weighted
tags:
participle
past
form:
weighted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
weight (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English weight, weiȝte, weght, wight, from Old English wiht, ġewiht (“weight”), from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz ("weight"; compare *weganą (“to move”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move; pull; draw; drive”). Equivalent to weigh + -th.
Cognate with Scots wecht, weicht (“weight”), Saterland Frisian Wächte (“scale”), Gewicht (“weight”), West Frisian gewicht (“weight”), Dutch gewicht (“weight”), German Low German Wicht, Gewicht (“weight”), German Wucht (“massiveness, force”), Gewicht (“weight”).
senses_examples:
text:
The U.K. economy is heavily weighted towards the service sector and the coronavirus pandemic could lead to a 10% fall in gross domestic product in the second quarter, according to economists at Jefferies.
ref:
2020 March 19, Marcus Ashworth, “Cheap Sterling Has Reasons to Be Cheaper”, in The Washington Post
type:
quotation
text:
With good peripheral vision he spots his teammate, Ray Evans, lurking in the scoring zone and sweeps a perfectly weighted pass to him.
ref:
2008, Tom Valenta, Remember Me, Mrs V?: Caring for My Wife: Her Alzheimer's and Others' Stories, ReadHowYouWant
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
To load, burden or oppress someone.
To assign weights to individual statistics.
To bias something; to slant.
To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
senses_topics:
business
dyeing
manufacturing
textiles
mathematics
sciences
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
7516 | word:
contemporary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
contemporary (comparative more contemporary, superlative most contemporary)
forms:
form:
more contemporary
tags:
comparative
form:
most contemporary
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin contemporārius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporārius, an adjective derived from tempus (“time”).
senses_examples:
text:
A neighb'ring Wood born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.
ref:
a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Claudian's Old Man of Verona/The_Dangers_of_an_Honest_Man_in_much_Company#Section23)
type:
quotation
text:
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
ref:
2012 January 24, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-11-14, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.
ref:
2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to or occurring in the same time period (whether past, present, or future)
senses_topics:
|
7517 | word:
contemporary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
contemporary (plural contemporaries)
forms:
form:
contemporaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin contemporārius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporārius, an adjective derived from tempus (“time”).
senses_examples:
text:
Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
type:
example
text:
The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries.
type:
example
text:
Life is predicated by the decisions and choices we make – and, earlier this year, the personal fused with the professional again as Mata reached the landmark moment when he knew he had to try to harness football’s power for the benefit of people less fortunate than him and his contemporaries.
ref:
2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Annexation therefore was inevitable; but (as I have said above) it was not necessarily of prime importance in our national policy, and there has been no need to exaggerate—as I fear many of our contemporaries have exaggerated— […]
ref:
1900, The Speaker, the Liberal Review, volume 2, page 621
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone or something belonging to the same time period (as someone or something else)
Something existing at the same time.
Something existing at the same time.
A rival newspaper or magazine.
senses_topics:
|
7518 | word:
bewilder
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bewilder (third-person singular simple present bewilders, present participle bewildering, simple past and past participle bewildered)
forms:
form:
bewilders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bewildering
tags:
participle
present
form:
bewildered
tags:
participle
past
form:
bewildered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From be- (prefix used as an intensifier) + wilder (“to lead astray; to go astray, wander”).
senses_examples:
text:
All the different possible options may bewilder us.
type:
example
text:
Don’t push me into that maze and bewilder me.
type:
example
text:
Thou, Kind Redeemer, toucht to ſee / So ſad a Sight, ſuch moving Miſery, / Didſt ſoon determine to diſpel / Theſe Shades of Death, and Gloom of Hell: / And ſo to reviſit with Thy Heav'nly Light / Loſt Man, bewilder'd in Infernal Night.
ref:
1703, [Richard Blackmore], A Hymn to the Light of the World. With a Short Description of the Cartons of Raphael Urbin, in the Gallery at Hampton-Court, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Such Works, in point of Precepts, are of the Number of thoſe that are call'd ſpecious, in which the Authors, whilſt they endeavour too exactly to explain what they have dogmatically advanc'd, loſe themſelves in imaginary Mazes, and bewilder themſelves more and more.
ref:
1717, Louis Liger, “Of the Flowers that are to be Sown in the Month of March, and of the Manner of Raising Them”, in George London, Henry Wise, transl., The Retir’d Gardener. In Six Parts. […], 2nd revised edition, London: Publish’d […] by Joseph Carpenter; [p]rinted for J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, part the fifth, page 269
type:
quotation
text:
It is that fiend politics, Asem,—that baneful fiend, which bewildereth every brain, and poisons every social feeling; which intrudes itself at the festive banquet, and, like the detestable harpy, pollutes the very viands of the table; [...]
ref:
1807 October 15, “Mustapha Rub-a-Dub Keli Khan” [pseudonym; Washington Irving; William Irving; James Kirke Paulding], “Letter from Mustapha Rub-a-Dub Keli Khan, to Asem Hacchem, Principal Slave-driver to His Highness the Bashaw of Tripoli”, in Salmagundi; or, The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and Others [...] First Series. In Two Volumes, new corrected edition, volume II, number XVI, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
[P]ause therefore, now, and solemnly determine that you will never again degrade your being, by bewildering your brain with strong liquor.
ref:
1821, Plain Directions on Domestic Economy, Showing Particularly What are the Cheapest, and Most Nourishing Articles of Food and Drink, and the Best Modes of Preparation, New York, N.Y.: Published by order of the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism; printed by Samuel Wood & Sons, […], →OCLC, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Thou bewilderest my mind by thy ambiguous words. Tell me, therefore, one only thing for certain, by which I may obtain happiness.
ref:
1874, Hurrychund Chintamon, chapter 3, in A Commentary on the Text of the Bhagavad-Gítá; or, The Discourse between Krishna and Arjuna on Divine Matters. […], London: Trübner and Co., […], →OCLC, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
She preceded me along a strange path, unlike any I have ever seen in other countries. [...] [T]he contours of the gardens these walls confine dispose it to leisure; it curves or doubles back altogether, and right at the start a bend bewilders us; there is no knowing where we have come from or where we are heading.
ref:
1970 April, André Gide, chapter IV, in Richard Howard, transl., The Immoralist: A New Translation (A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC; 1st Vintage International edition, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, February 1996, part I, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Ever more new drugs appeared on the market, bewildering and swamping clinicians who had been accustomed in their pharmaceutical armamentarium to a handful of painkillers, alkaloids with physiological effects, and vaccines.
ref:
2013, Edward [L.] Shorter, “Medicine”, in Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals, Toronto, Ont., Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, page 210
type:
quotation
text:
It was remarkable that Tunisia reached half-time on level terms as they were often bewildered by England's pace and movement before being spared by their generosity in front of goal.
ref:
2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2019-04-21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices.
senses_topics:
|
7519 | word:
bacteria
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bacteria
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Irregular plural of bacterium from New Latin bactēria, from Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion), little rod.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of bacterium
senses_topics:
|
7520 | word:
bacteria
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bacteria (plural bacterias)
forms:
form:
bacterias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Irregular plural of bacterium from New Latin bactēria, from Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion), little rod.
senses_examples:
text:
Anaerobic bacteria function in the absence of oxygen, where as aerobic bacteria require sunlight and also oxygen. Both these bacterias are capable of breaking down the organic matter […]
ref:
2002, A.C. Panchdhari, Water Supply and Sanitary Installations, 2nd edition, page 177
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type, species, or strain of bacterium.
Alternative form of bacterium.
Lowlife, slob (could be treated as plural or singular).
senses_topics:
|
7521 | word:
bacteria
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bacteria (plural bacteriae)
forms:
form:
bacteriae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin bactēria, from Ancient Greek βακτηρίᾱ (baktēríā, “rod, stick”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
7522 | word:
joned
word_type:
verb
expansion:
joned
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of jone
senses_topics:
|
7523 | word:
curve
word_type:
adj
expansion:
curve
forms:
wikipedia:
curve (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Attested since the 1690s, from Latin curvus (“bent, curved”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós. Doublet of curb, shrink, carcer, and cancer.
senses_examples:
text:
a curve line
type:
example
text:
a curve surface
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
senses_topics:
|
7524 | word:
curve
word_type:
noun
expansion:
curve (plural curves)
forms:
form:
curves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
curve
curve (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Attested since the 1690s, from Latin curvus (“bent, curved”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós. Doublet of curb, shrink, carcer, and cancer.
senses_examples:
text:
You should slow down when approaching a curve.
type:
example
text:
She scribbled a curve on the paper.
type:
example
text:
The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gentle bend, such as in a road.
A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
A one-dimensional continuum.
The attractive shape of a woman's body.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
topology
|
7525 | word:
curve
word_type:
verb
expansion:
curve (third-person singular simple present curves, present participle curving, simple past and past participle curved)
forms:
form:
curves
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
curving
tags:
participle
present
form:
curved
tags:
participle
past
form:
curved
tags:
past
wikipedia:
curve (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Attested since the 1690s, from Latin curvus (“bent, curved”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós. Doublet of curb, shrink, carcer, and cancer.
senses_examples:
text:
to curve a line
type:
example
text:
to curve a pipe
type:
example
text:
to curve a ball in pitching it
type:
example
text:
the road curves to the right
type:
example
text:
The teacher will curve the test.
type:
example
text:
I was once curved three times by the same woman.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bend; to crook.
To cause to swerve from a straight course.
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
(slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
senses_topics:
|
7526 | word:
acknowledgement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acknowledgement (countable and uncountable, plural acknowledgements)
forms:
form:
acknowledgements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of acknowledgment
senses_topics:
|
7527 | word:
complex
word_type:
adj
expansion:
complex (comparative complexer or more complex, superlative complexest or most complex)
forms:
form:
complexer
tags:
comparative
form:
more complex
tags:
comparative
form:
complexest
tags:
superlative
form:
most complex
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
complex
complex number
etymology_text:
From French complexe, from Latin complexus, past participle of complector (“I entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), from com- (“together”) and plectere (“to weave, braid”). May be analyzed as com- + -plex. See complect. Doublet of complexus.
senses_examples:
text:
a complex being; a complex idea
type:
example
text:
complex number
type:
example
text:
function of a complex variable
type:
example
text:
complex function
type:
example
text:
complex polynomial
type:
example
text:
complex algebraic variety
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
7528 | word:
complex
word_type:
noun
expansion:
complex (plural complexes)
forms:
form:
complexes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
complex
etymology_text:
From French complexe, from Latin complexus, past participle of complector (“I entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), from com- (“together”) and plectere (“to weave, braid”). May be analyzed as com- + -plex. See complect. Doublet of complexus.
senses_examples:
text:
military-industrial complex
type:
example
text:
The south polar region of Promethei Planum developed a Bermuda Triangle reputation. Satellites detected intermittent mass concentrations and magnetic field shifts. In 2148, prospectors working near Deseado Crater discovered an underground complex: a Prothean observation post. The odd phenomena were generated by the operation and discharge of a mass effect core, struggling to function despite fifty millennia of neglect.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Mars Ruins Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
A man at the complex said he had seen the often heavily made-up girls coming and going in luxury vehicles.
ref:
2021 February 6, The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, page 4, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The fire complex began as two separate fires.
type:
example
text:
As of early Wednesday, there were at least 25 major wildfires and fire complexes, the term given to multiple fires in a single geographic area, burning in California, Christine McMorrow, a Cal Fire information officer, said.
ref:
2020 September 16, “Millions of acres burn in California as weather improves in Northwest.”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2020-09-16
type:
quotation
text:
Since then, a good deal of research has documented and concluded that the nominal species A. fraterculus actually comprises an unresolved complex of cryptic species.
ref:
2015 November 26, Mosè Manni et al., “Relevant genetic differentiation among Brazilian populations of Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera, Tephritidae)”, in ZooKeys, volume 540, →DOI
type:
quotation
text:
Jim has a real complex about working for a woman boss.
type:
example
text:
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
ref:
2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
The interesting aspect here is that U₃ is irreducible, even though all irreps over the complexes are one-dimensional because ℤ₄ is abelian.
ref:
1996, Barry Simon, Representations of Finite and Compact Groups, page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A problem.
A network of interconnected systems.
A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
An assemblage of related things; a collection.
An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
An assemblage of related things; a collection.
A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
An assemblage of related things; a collection.
A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
A collection of ideas caused by repressed emotions that leads to an abnormal mental condition
A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.
A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination complexes in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
A complex number.
A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
7529 | word:
complex
word_type:
verb
expansion:
complex (third-person singular simple present complexes, present participle complexing, simple past and past participle complexed)
forms:
form:
complexes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
complexing
tags:
participle
present
form:
complexed
tags:
participle
past
form:
complexed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
complex
etymology_text:
From French complexe, from Latin complexus, past participle of complector (“I entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), from com- (“together”) and plectere (“to weave, braid”). May be analyzed as com- + -plex. See complect. Doublet of complexus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form a complex with another substance
To complicate.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
7530 | word:
space travel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
space travel (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
travel through or into space
senses_topics:
|
7531 | word:
acotyledon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acotyledon (plural acotyledons)
forms:
form:
acotyledons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- (“not”) + cotyledon (“cup-shaped”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plant that has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
7532 | word:
spacecraft
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spacecraft (plural spacecraft or spacecrafts)
forms:
form:
spacecraft
tags:
plural
form:
spacecrafts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From space + -craft.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vehicle that travels through space.
senses_topics:
aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
7533 | word:
hang
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hang (third-person singular simple present hangs, present participle hanging, simple past and past participle hung or (legal) hanged)
forms:
form:
hangs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hanging
tags:
participle
present
form:
hung
tags:
participle
past
form:
hung
tags:
past
form:
hanged
topics:
legal
law
tags:
participle
past
form:
hanged
topics:
legal
law
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hang
etymology_text:
From Middle English hangen, hongen, from a fusion of Old English hōn (“to hang, be hanging”, intransitive verb) and hangian (“to hang, cause to hang”, transitive verb), from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄han and *hangēn; also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja (“to suspend”) and hanga (“to be suspended”); all from Proto-Germanic *hanhaną, *hangāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱenk- (“to waver, be in suspense”).
See also Dutch hangen, Low German hangen and hängen, German hängen, Norwegian Bokmål henge, Norwegian Nynorsk henga; also Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (hāhan), Hittite 𒂵𒀀𒀭𒂵 (/kānk-/, “to hang”), Sanskrit शङ्कते (śáṅkate, “is in doubt, hesitates”), Latin cūnctārī (“to delay”).
senses_examples:
text:
The lights hung from the ceiling.
type:
example
text:
The smoke hung in the room.
type:
example
text:
It was a couple of days after the crash, with the smell of burning still hanging in the air from the incinerated wreckage of Coach H, where 31 passengers lost their lives, when I visited the West London site.
ref:
2023 September 20, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: And it's goodbye from me...”, in RAIL, number 992, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
The jockey claimed that the horse hung towards the outside
ref:
1979, New South Wales law reports, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
He hung his head in shame.
type:
example
text:
Hang those lights from the ceiling.
type:
example
text:
to hang a door
type:
example
text:
The culprits were hanged from the nearest tree.
type:
example
text:
As things go from bad to worse for Putin in his maniacal, murderous attack on Ukraine, he could end up like Milosevic, or worse. The court could change its rules and hang him, the way the Allies hanged Nazi war criminals at the end of World War II.
ref:
2022 March 10, Peter Lucas, “Lucas: Putin has blood on his hands and The Hague must make him pay”, in Boston Herald, archived from the original on 2022-08-06
type:
quotation
text:
You will hang for this, my friend.
type:
example
text:
[H]e suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said "Bother!" and "Oh blow!" and also "Hang spring-cleaning!" and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.
ref:
1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
I didn't see anything, officer. I was just hanging.
type:
example
text:
He banned spearfishing wherever he could, started the first eco-moorings in the Caribbean, stopped others from coral- and shell-collecting, and had so much fun 24/7 that some unusually powerful people began to hang with him.
ref:
2006, Scuba Diving, numbers 1-6, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Let's hang this cute animal design in the nursery.
type:
example
text:
Let's hang the nursery with some new wallpaper.
type:
example
text:
One obstinate juror can hang a jury.
type:
example
text:
The computer has hung again. Not even pressing <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Del> works.
type:
example
text:
When I push this button the program hangs.
type:
example
text:
The program has a bug that can hang the system.
type:
example
text:
If you move there, you'll hang your rook.
type:
example
text:
In this standard opening position White has to be careful because the pawn on e4 hangs.
type:
example
text:
McDougald then singled, and with a 3-2 count on Ellie Howard who was playing first base, Spahn hung a curve ball and Howard hit it over the wire fence in left field for a 4-4 tie.
ref:
2010, Peter Golenbock, Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964, page 409
type:
quotation
text:
There were no whisperings, even from his opponents, that he was no better than he ought to be. Because, there was nothing wrong on which to hang a charge. As an eloquent orator, he carried with him the firm support of a good name.
ref:
1848, The American Pulpit, volume 3, page 120
type:
quotation
text:
Papa had wanted to call me Beverly Mary; Mary after the Blessed Virgin. Mama said she wouldn't hang a name like Beverly Mary on a pet skunk.
ref:
1989, Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, Penguin, published 1989, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be or remain suspended.
To float, as if suspended.
To veer in one direction.
To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
(used in maledictions) To damn.
To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
To be vulnerable to capture.
To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
law
law
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
board-games
chess
games
board-games
chess
games
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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7534 | word:
hang
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hang (plural hangs)
forms:
form:
hangs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hang
etymology_text:
From Middle English hangen, hongen, from a fusion of Old English hōn (“to hang, be hanging”, intransitive verb) and hangian (“to hang, cause to hang”, transitive verb), from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄han and *hangēn; also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja (“to suspend”) and hanga (“to be suspended”); all from Proto-Germanic *hanhaną, *hangāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱenk- (“to waver, be in suspense”).
See also Dutch hangen, Low German hangen and hängen, German hängen, Norwegian Bokmål henge, Norwegian Nynorsk henga; also Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (hāhan), Hittite 𒂵𒀀𒀭𒂵 (/kānk-/, “to hang”), Sanskrit शङ्कते (śáṅkate, “is in doubt, hesitates”), Latin cūnctārī (“to delay”).
senses_examples:
text:
This skirt has a nice hang.
type:
example
text:
They advanced in a crouch, dropping to their knees every few yards to pass under a hang of rock.
ref:
2014, Matthew Jobin, The Nethergrim, volume 1
type:
quotation
text:
“I don't see the hang of so much talky-talky,” broke in Uncle Sam. “We've heard all that can be said about things, […]
ref:
1911, Alexander MacDonald, The Invisible Island: A Story of the Far North of Queensland, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
We sometimes get system hangs.
type:
example
text:
I don't give a hang.
type:
example
text:
They don't seem to care a hang about the consequences.
type:
example
text:
My first day was a fun hang, but I didn't really do too much. Me and stupid Bob just hung around the casino looking at box and losing money.
ref:
2008, Jim Norton, Happy Endings, Gallery Books, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
So how can you set up a hang within a 90-minute time-frame for yourself? Be clear with your friends about timing from the get-go, so they, too, can decide if it's worth their time to even meet up.
ref:
2021 April 14, Jen Kirsch, “A Good Hang Lasts No More Than 90 Minutes”, in InStyle, archived from the original on 2022-10-21
type:
quotation
text:
He invited us over to his beautiful heritage home in downtown Toronto for a hang.
ref:
2021 October 27, Danielle McTaggart (quoted), Chelsea Brimstin, “Dear Rouge share sentimental video for delicate new single 'Life Goes By And I Can’t Keep Up'”, in Indie88
type:
quotation
text:
She might announce something to everyone that makes no sense or tells a story that rambles on and on and makes no point. But for some reason nobody seems to mind. We all just like to listen to The Airhead. She's a fun hang.
ref:
2004, Relient K, Mark Nichols, The Complex Infrastructure Known as the Female Mind, Thomas Nelson, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
"I couldn't sit down and play a concert for you or really wow you on any instrument," Mr. Blanco said, estimating that "like 75 percent" of his success comes from being a good hang. "What I can do is meet an artist, know what type of song I think we should make and be their therapist, make everyone feel comfortable."
ref:
2018 July 18, Joe Coscarelli, “How Benny Blanco Became the Most Popular Oddball in Pop Music”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
And maaaaaaaybe Superman would be a good hang, though I suspect that'd be a lot like hanging out with a youth pastor.
ref:
2019, Shea Serrano, Arturo Torres, Movies (And Other Things), Grand Central Publishing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The way in which something hangs.
A mass of hanging material.
A slackening of motion.
A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
A grip, understanding.
The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
A hangout.
A person that someone hangs out with.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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7535 | word:
hang
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hang (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
hang
etymology_text:
From hang sangwich, Irish colloquial pronunciation of ham sandwich.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
senses_topics:
|
7536 | word:
hang
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hang
forms:
wikipedia:
Hang (instrument)
hang
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”)
senses_topics:
|
7537 | word:
acoustical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acoustical (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to hearing or acoustics.
senses_topics:
|
7538 | word:
heron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
heron (plural herons)
forms:
form:
herons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English heron, heroun, heiron, from Anglo-Norman heiron, from Medieval Latin hairō, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô (compare Swedish häger), dissimilation of *hraigrô (compare Old English hrāgra, Dutch reiger, German Reiher), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”) (compare Welsh crëyr (“heron”), Ancient Greek κρίζω (krízō, “to creak, screech”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.
senses_topics:
|
7539 | word:
down
word_type:
adv
expansion:
down (not generally comparable, comparative farther down, superlative farthest down)
forms:
form:
farther down
tags:
comparative
form:
farthest down
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
down
etymology_text:
table From Middle English doun, from Old English dūne, aphetic form of adūne, from ofdūne (“off the hill”). For the development from directional phrases to prepositions, compare Middle Low German dāle (“(in/to the) valley”), i.e. "down(wards)".
senses_examples:
text:
The cat jumped down from the table.
type:
example
text:
To her humiliation Jessamy found there were tears trickling down her cheeks.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, year_published edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
Go down to the bottom of the page.
type:
example
text:
As I lay on my back, a pain shot down from my neck to my waist.
type:
example
text:
His place is farther down the road.
type:
example
text:
The company was well down the path to bankruptcy.
type:
example
text:
I went down to Miami for a conference.
type:
example
text:
He went down to Cavan.
type:
example
text:
down on the farm
type:
example
text:
down country
type:
example
text:
1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 12,
But then my Servant who I had intended to take down with me [i.e. from London to Bedfordshire], deceiv’d me;
text:
Coordinate term: over
text:
She lives down by the park.
type:
example
text:
At the first intersection turn left and walk down, then turn right.
type:
example
text:
He's gone back down to Newcastle for Christmas.
type:
example
text:
Smith was sent down to the minors to work on his batting.
type:
example
text:
After the incident, Kelly went down to Second Lieutenant.
type:
example
text:
The charity match, played Sunday afternoon at Cirencester Park Polo Club in Gloucestershire, reached a dramatic climax when Prince Harry tore down the pitch but failed to score what was described as an “open goal”.
ref:
2015 May 25, “Frustrated Prince Harry howls as he misses open goal”, in Daily Telegraph
type:
quotation
text:
By moving further down the pitch, the batsman lengthens the distance between the ball and the stumps.
ref:
2005 September 24, “LBW explained”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
You need to tone down the rhetoric.
type:
example
text:
Please turn the music down!
type:
example
text:
Trim the stick down to a length of about twelve inches.
type:
example
text:
Thanks to my strict diet, I've slimmed down to eleven stone.
type:
example
text:
Boil the mixture down to a syrupy consistency.
type:
example
text:
ſtew it gently till quite tender, then take it up and boil down the gravy in the pan to a quart
ref:
1788, Mary Cole (cook), The Lady's Complete Guide; or, Cookery in all its Branches, London: G. Kearsley, →OCLC, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
At that point I perhaps should have gone back through the interview and changed what I said — slightly re-worded it to better reflect my feelings about the two resolutions. But I did not think to do that. I was caught up in the crunch of trying to get it all ready for publication, and edit it down, not add more explanations to it.
ref:
1981 August 29, Nancy Wechsler, “Pornography and the Lawyers Guild”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 7, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
This spreadsheet lets you drill down to daily or even hourly sales figures.
type:
example
text:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
These traditions have been handed down over generations.
type:
example
text:
Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation.
ref:
1825 June 17, Daniel Webster, An address delivered at the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill monument, Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Co., →OCLC, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
The computer has been shut down.
type:
example
text:
They closed the shop down.
type:
example
text:
We need to nail down this carpet so people don't keep tripping over it.
type:
example
text:
You need to write down what happened while it's still fresh in your mind.
type:
example
text:
We put £100 down on a new sofa.
type:
example
text:
You can have it, no money down.
type:
example
text:
I'm stuck on 11 down.
type:
example
text:
He closed operations. / He closed down operations.
type:
example
text:
He chased answers. / He chased down answers.
type:
example
text:
Down, boy! (such as to direct a dog to stand on four legs from two, or to sit from standing on four legs.)
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
Away from the city (regardless of direction).
At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
Forward, straight ahead.
In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
From less to greater detail.
From a remoter or higher antiquity.
Into a state of non-operation.
So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
On paper (or in a durable record).
As a down payment.
In a downwards direction; vertically.
Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
Get down.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport
academia
scholarly
sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
7540 | word:
down
word_type:
prep
expansion:
down
forms:
wikipedia:
down
etymology_text:
table From Middle English doun, from Old English dūne, aphetic form of adūne, from ofdūne (“off the hill”). For the development from directional phrases to prepositions, compare Middle Low German dāle (“(in/to the) valley”), i.e. "down(wards)".
senses_examples:
text:
The ball rolled down the hill.
type:
example
text:
We sailed down the eastern seaboard.
type:
example
text:
The bus went down the street.
type:
example
text:
They walked down the beach holding hands.
type:
example
text:
I'll see you later down the pub.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
From the higher end to the lower of.
From north to south of.
From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
senses_topics:
|
7541 | word:
down
word_type:
adj
expansion:
down (comparative more down, superlative most down)
forms:
form:
more down
tags:
comparative
form:
most down
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
down
etymology_text:
table From Middle English doun, from Old English dūne, aphetic form of adūne, from ofdūne (“off the hill”). For the development from directional phrases to prepositions, compare Middle Low German dāle (“(in/to the) valley”), i.e. "down(wards)".
senses_examples:
text:
Turn the cloth over so that the patterned side is down.
type:
example
text:
You win a dollar if the down side of the card is different than the up side; otherwise, you lose a dollar.
ref:
1993, Finite Mathematics: Overrun Edition, Calvert, page 251
type:
quotation
text:
Define the event F as the event that the down face of the die is 1 or 4.
ref:
2004, Robert M. Gray, Lee D. Davisson, An Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
Each time the 10 cards are reshuffled, your task is to predict the letter on the down side of the top card.
ref:
2016, Keith E. Stanovich, Richard F. West, Maggie E. Toplak, The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking, page 332
type:
quotation
text:
The stock market is down.
type:
example
text:
Prices are down.
type:
example
text:
Mary seems very down since she split up with her boyfriend.
type:
example
text:
Been down so long it seems like up to me
type:
example
text:
We get down, down, down / We feel sorry for ourselves / We get down, down, down / We all need somebody's help
ref:
2011, Rachel Platten (lyrics and music), “Overwhelmed”, in Be Here
type:
quotation
text:
You say you opened up a bicycle wash and the first six customers drowned [...] Is that what’s got you down, pussy cat?
ref:
2014 March 30, William Yardley, quoting Eddie Lawrence, “Eddie Lawrence Dies at 95; Comedy's ‘Old Philosopher’”, in New York Times, Arts
type:
quotation
text:
He is down with the flu.
type:
example
text:
We have an officer down outside the suspect's house.
type:
example
text:
There are three soldiers down and one walking wounded.
type:
example
text:
a down cow
type:
example
text:
We have a chopper down near the river.
type:
example
text:
The system is down.
type:
example
text:
They are down by 3–0 with just 5 minutes to play.
type:
example
text:
He was down by a bishop and a pawn after 15 moves.
type:
example
text:
At 5–1 down, she produced a great comeback to win the set on a tiebreak.
type:
example
text:
Two down and one to go in the bottom of the ninth.
type:
example
text:
The prisoners here are down on gays (they bring the outside in here with them when they come in). I sometimes think they hate us because they fear to be us.
ref:
1983 August 13, Dennis Stinson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
She's been down on clams since a bad case of food poisoning; she's lost her appetite for them.
type:
example
text:
He's chill enough; he'd probably be totally down with it.
type:
example
text:
Asker: Are you down to hang out at the mall? / Answerer: Yeah, as long as you're down with helping me pick a phone.
type:
example
text:
Asker: You down? Yes or no? / Answerer: You know I'm down for whatever.
type:
example
text:
Then again, with your name being Juanita Perez, I wasn't sure if you were more down with the Latinos or something.
ref:
2001, Omar Tyree, For the Love of Money, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
He said Lunceford's band was smoother and had more musical variety and great show-band novelties, but that there was something about the way we did our things that made us sound more down with it.
ref:
2002, Count Basie, Albert Murray, Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography Of Count Basie, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
And we could then feel more "down" with more unconscious guilt.
ref:
2007, David W. Shave, Small Talk--big Cure!: Talking Your Way to a Better Life, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
I thought, Oh, Sarah must be one of these super gentle, herbal-tea-drinking, crystal-having kind of people. And she was just super down. She belched like a sailor.
ref:
2019 September 30, Jessica Hopper, Sasha Geffen, Jenn Pelly, “Building a Mystery: An Oral History of Lilith Fair”, in Vanity Fair
type:
quotation
text:
What you mean, 'No'? Man, I thought you was down.
type:
example
text:
my homies is down so don't arouse my anger
ref:
1994, “Gangsta's Paradise”, Coolio (lyrics)
type:
quotation
text:
Nigga you ain't down. You heard what Nate said. If you ain't down for the dead homie you sure ain't down for us.
ref:
1995, Colors - Volume 4, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
Cause you're a whiteboy, you know, an' if you get locked up you gotta be down for the Aryans and the Surenos, you know? You gotta be down.
ref:
2009, Mike Flax, L.A. Unified, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
Two down and three to go.
type:
example
text:
Ten minutes down and nothing's happened yet.
type:
example
text:
It's two weeks until opening night and our lines are still not down yet.
type:
example
text:
I stay with Chloe the longest. When she's not hanging out at the beach parties, she lives in a Japanese garden complete with an arched bridge spanning a pond filled with koi of varying sizes and shapes. Reeds shoot out of the water, rustling when the fish swim through them, and river-washed stones are sprinkled in a bed of sand. Chloe has this whole new Japanese thing down.
ref:
2013, P.J. Hoover, Solstice, page 355
type:
quotation
text:
This, he muſt give me leave to tell him, is an abſolute, right down—falſehood.
ref:
1764, Jonathan Mayhew, A Defence of the Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, London: W. Nicoll, →OCLC, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
Left again at 1.05 p.m., and for two miles it was over rolling county with easy grades, but a good deal of down timber.
ref:
1897, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Report of the Commissioner ..., page 72
type:
quotation
text:
The mere fact that there are quantities of trees near by with "loads” of down wood, does not signify that it is desirable camp fuel.
ref:
1920, Boys and Girls Bookshelf: A Practical Plan of Character Building ..., page 309
type:
quotation
text:
Will you please let me get two loads of down wood.
ref:
1935 (printed in 2009), Powell, Shenandoah Letters, 54
text:
The average weight of down logs in seven old-growth stands, from 250 to over 900 years old, was 53 tons per acre (118 tonnes/ha); the range was 38 to 70 tons per acre (85 to 156 tonnes/ha). The largest accumulation of down wood recorded for a stand thus far is in the Carbon River Valley […]
ref:
1981, Ecological Characteristics of Old-growth Douglas-fir Forests, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
The down train leaves at 10:05.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Facing downwards.
At a lower level than before.
Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
Sick, wounded, or damaged:
Sick or ill.
Sick, wounded, or damaged:
Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
Sick, wounded, or damaged:
Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
Sick, wounded, or damaged:
Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
Sick, wounded, or damaged:
Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
Having a lower score than an opponent.
Out.
Negative about; hostile to.
Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
Downright; absolute; positive.
Fallen or felled.
Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
senses_topics:
government
law-enforcement
military
politics
war
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
rail-transport
railways
transport |
7542 | word:
down
word_type:
verb
expansion:
down (third-person singular simple present downs, present participle downing, simple past and past participle downed)
forms:
form:
downs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
downing
tags:
participle
present
form:
downed
tags:
participle
past
form:
downed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
down
etymology_text:
table From Middle English doun, from Old English dūne, aphetic form of adūne, from ofdūne (“off the hill”). For the development from directional phrases to prepositions, compare Middle Low German dāle (“(in/to the) valley”), i.e. "down(wards)".
senses_examples:
text:
The storm downed several old trees along the highway.
type:
example
text:
A single rifle shot downed the mighty beast.
type:
example
text:
The helicopter was downed by a surface-to-air missile.
type:
example
text:
The bell rang for lunch, and the workers downed their tools.
type:
example
text:
To down proud hearts that would not willing die.
ref:
1725, Philip Sidney, The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse, London: W. Innys, →OCLC, page 156
type:
quotation
text:
‘I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the Wits, once at our House, – when they talked of Ghosts.’
ref:
1779, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
Now you have a social worker who downs women who are gay! […] I have met a woman and fell in love with her and I still get humiliated and discriminated against because he (social worker) is against homosexuality and is causing a lot of confusion here.
ref:
1986 April 12, anonymous author, “One Day I'll Write a Book on This”, in Gay Community News, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
...that is, that the trade of the world is too little for us two, therefore one must down.
ref:
1933, Arthur Bryant, quoting Samuel Pepys (1664, February 2nd), Samuel Pepys: The Man in the Making, New York: Macmillan, →OCLC, page 215
type:
quotation
text:
He downed an ale and ordered another.
type:
example
text:
After watching people downing drink on the train, I am in need of slaking my own thirst, so I pop into the station's Centurion Bar.
ref:
2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
He downed it at the seven-yard line.
type:
example
text:
He downed two balls on the break.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
To lower; to put (something) down.
To defeat; to overpower.
To disparage; to put down.
To go or come down; to descend.
To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
senses_topics:
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
games
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
pocket-billiards
sports |
7543 | word:
down
word_type:
noun
expansion:
down (plural downs)
forms:
form:
downs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
down
etymology_text:
table From Middle English doun, from Old English dūne, aphetic form of adūne, from ofdūne (“off the hill”). For the development from directional phrases to prepositions, compare Middle Low German dāle (“(in/to the) valley”), i.e. "down(wards)".
senses_examples:
text:
I love almost everything about my job. The only down is that I can't take Saturdays off.
type:
example
text:
She had a down on me. I don't know what for, I'm sure; because I never said a word.
ref:
1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
I bet after the third down, the kicker will replace the quarterback on the field.
type:
example
text:
I haven't solved 12 or 13 across, but I've got most of the downs.
type:
example
text:
She lives in a two-up two-down.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
A grudge (on someone).
An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
A downstairs room of a two-story house.
Down payment.
The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
senses_topics:
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
7544 | word:
down
word_type:
noun
expansion:
down (countable and uncountable, plural downs)
forms:
form:
downs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
down
etymology_text:
From Middle English doune, from Old English dūn, from Proto-West Germanic *dūn (“sandhill, dune”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz, *dūnǭ (“pile, heap”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, haze, dust”). Alternatively, perhaps borrowed from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“hill; hillfort”) (compare Welsh din (“hill”), Irish dún (“hill, fort”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”). Cognate with West Frisian dún (“dune, sandhill”), Dutch duin (“dune, sandhill”), German Düne (“dune”). More at town; akin to dune. Doublet of Down.
senses_examples:
text:
We went for a walk over the downs.
type:
example
text:
The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England.
type:
example
text:
...as they muſt needs acknowledge who have been on the Downs of Suſſex, and enjoyed that ravishing Proſpect of the Sea on one Hand, and the Country far and wide on the other.
ref:
1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation, London: Pr. for S. Smith, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
She went by dale, and she went by down,
With a single rose in her hair.
ref:
1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Lady Clare”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, →OCLC, page 198
type:
quotation
text:
The amateur nature-lover proceeds over the down, appreciating all this as hard as he can appreciate, and anon gazing up at the grey and white cloud shapes melting slowly from this form to that, and showing lakes, and wide expanses, and serene distances of blue between their gaps.
ref:
1898, H. G. Wells, Certain Personal Matters: A Collection of Material, Mainly Autobiographical, Lawrence & Bullen, →OCLC, page 256
type:
quotation
text:
Seven thousand broad-taild Sheepe gras'd on his Downes;
ref:
1636, George Sandys, “A Paraphrase Vpon Iob”, in Early English Books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
A field, especially one used for horse racing.
A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
senses_topics:
|
7545 | word:
down
word_type:
noun
expansion:
down (countable and uncountable, plural downs)
forms:
form:
downs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
down
etymology_text:
From Middle English doun, from Old Norse dúnn, from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz (“down”), which is related to *dauniz (“(pleasant) smell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowh₂-nis, from the root *dʰewh₂-.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Duune (“fluff, down”), German Daune (“down”) and Danish dun (“down”).
senses_examples:
text:
Down or Cotton-Thiſtle. This hath many large Leaves lying on the Ground, ſomewhat cut in, and as it were crumpled on the Edges, of a green Colour on the upper ſide, but covered with long hairy Wool or Cottony Down, ſet with moſt ſharp and cruel pricks
ref:
1718, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, London: W. Churchill, →OCLC, page 120
type:
quotation
text:
No candle should light it, neither should any flower adorn it, save for several dried stalks of old and withered thistles, their heads pale with silken down, held in a common glass jar.
ref:
1998, Valerie Worth, The Crone's Book of Charms and Spells, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
But love him as he was, when youthful Grace,
ref:
1717, John Dryden, The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq., volume the fourth, London: Jacob Tonson, →OCLC, page 136
type:
quotation
roman:
And the firſt Down began to ſhade his face
text:
Thou boſom Softneſs! Down of all my Cares!
I cou'd recline my thoughts upon this Breaſt
To a forgetfulneſs of all my Griefs,
And yet be happy: but it wonnot be.
ref:
1696, Tho[mas] Southerne, Oroonoko: A Tragedy […], London: […] H[enry] Playford […]; B[enjamin] Tooke […]; [a]nd S. Buckley […], →OCLC, act V, scene the last [iv], pages 76–77
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
|
7546 | word:
down
word_type:
verb
expansion:
down (third-person singular simple present downs, present participle downing, simple past and past participle downed)
forms:
form:
downs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
downing
tags:
participle
present
form:
downed
tags:
participle
past
form:
downed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
down
etymology_text:
From Middle English doun, from Old Norse dúnn, from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz (“down”), which is related to *dauniz (“(pleasant) smell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowh₂-nis, from the root *dʰewh₂-.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Duune (“fluff, down”), German Daune (“down”) and Danish dun (“down”).
senses_examples:
text:
What pain to quit the world, just made their own,
Their nest so deeply downed, and built so high !
ref:
1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: R. Dodsley, →OCLC, page 264
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
senses_topics:
|
7547 | word:
polynya
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polynya (plural polynyas or (rare) polynyi)
forms:
form:
polynyas
tags:
plural
form:
polynyi
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Russian полынья́ (polynʹjá, “polynya”), from по́лый (pólyj, “hollow”). The rare plural form polynyi is borrowed from Russian полыньи́ (polynʹí).
senses_examples:
text:
We immediately ascended a hill, and saw that the supposed land was nothing but hummocks of ice, piled up beyond a large Polynia, or space of open water, which extended from east to west, as far as the eye could reach.
ref:
1844, Ferdinand von Wrangell, chapter V, in Edward Sabine, editor, Narrative of an Expedition to the Polar Sea […], 2nd edition, London: James Madden and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 102–103
type:
quotation
text:
Hoping to reach the starting-place in the early season of navigation, he intends to follow his course of travel nearly upon a meridional line, which would, it is believed, lead him to the Polynya—a mare liberum, or such, comparatively speaking—within its formidable borderings of the thick-ribbed ice.
ref:
1853 June, “The Polar Seas and Sir John Franklin”, in Putnam's Magazine, volume I, number VI, New York, N.Y.: GP Putnam & Co. […]; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., →OCLC, page 635, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Dr. [Ian] Stirling pointed out that colonies of nesting sea-birds were an indicator of permanent polynias and that the productivity studies in such polynias might prove interesting.
ref:
1980, “Summary of the Meeting”, in Polar Bears […], Gland, Switzerland: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, paragraph 9, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Polynas play an important role in heat transfer from the oceans to the atmosphere, ice production, the formation of dense shelf water, spring disintegration of sea ice, phytoplankton and zooplankton production, and the distribution of higher trophic animals such as cephalopods, fish, birds, seals, and cetaceans.
ref:
2006, George A. Knox, “The Southern Ocean”, in Biology of the Southern Ocean (Marine Biology Series), 2nd edition, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, section 1.6, page 11, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Researchers now plan to compare their routes with satellite images and see whether the owls stayed around the polynas, where snowy owls have been seen, picking off eiders swimming in the open water.
ref:
2008 June 20, Jane George, “‘We’ve had the biggest surprises and more questions are coming out.’: The secret life of snowy owls”, in Nunatsiaq News, archived from the original on 2018-12-29
type:
quotation
text:
Below the glacier, within the polynya, two rivers flow, a river of salt and a river of earth.
ref:
2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 237
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A naturally formed transient area of open water surrounded by sea ice, especially in polar or subpolar seas.
senses_topics:
geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
oceanography |
7548 | word:
bog
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bog (plural bogs)
forms:
form:
bogs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English bog, from Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from Old Irish bog (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos (“soft, tender”) + Old Irish -ach, from Proto-Celtic *-ākos.
The frequent use to form compounds regarding the animals and plants in such areas mimics Irish compositions such as bog-luachair (“bulrush, bogrush”).
Its use for toilets is now often derived from the resemblance of latrines and outhouse cesspools to bogholes, but the noun sense appears to be a clipped form of boghouse (“outhouse, privy”), which derived (possibly via boggard) from the verb to bog, still used in Australian English. The derivation and its connection to other senses of "bog" remains uncertain, however, owing to an extreme lack of early citations due to its perceived vulgarity.
senses_examples:
text:
Certaine... places [in Ireland]... which of their softnes are vsually tearmed Boghes.
ref:
1612, John Speed, chapter IV, in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, volume IV, page 143
type:
quotation
text:
You're dancing in quicksand
Why don't you watch where you're wandering?
Why don't you watch where you're stumbling?
You're wading knee deep and going in
And you may never come back again
This bog is thick and easy to get lost in
ref:
1993, “Swamp Song”, performed by Tool
type:
quotation
text:
U-Mos: 'The swamplands of Torvus are treacherous, and can hinder you considerably. Bear this in mind as you move through the bog.'
ref:
2004 November 15, Retro Studios, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Nintendo, level/area: Main Energy Controller (Great Temple)
type:
quotation
text:
...quagmires and bogges of Romish superstition...
ref:
1614, John King, Vitis Palatina, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Last day my mind was in a bog.
ref:
a. 1796, Robert Burns, Poems & Songs, volume I
type:
quotation
text:
He wandered out again, in a perfect bog of uncertainty.
ref:
1841, Charles Dickens, chapter LXXII, in Barnaby Rudge, page 358
type:
quotation
text:
Bog may by draining be made Meadow.
ref:
a. 1687, William Petty, Political Arithmetick
type:
quotation
text:
I'm on the bog ― I'm sitting on/using the toilet
type:
example
text:
I'm in the bog ― I'm in the bathroom
type:
example
text:
Fearing I should catch cold, they out of pity covered me warm in a Bogg-house.
ref:
1665, Richard Head et al., The English Rogue Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, volume I
type:
quotation
text:
...That no dirt... be thrown out of any window, or down the bogs...
ref:
a. 1789, Verses to John Howard F.R.S. on His State of Prisons and Lazarettos, published 1789, page 181
type:
quotation
text:
Bog, or bog-house, a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.
ref:
1864, J.C. Hotten, The Slang Dictionary, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
Our lodger had our upstairs, use of the stove, our tap, and our bog.
ref:
1959, William Golding, chapter I, in Free Fall, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Damon does emphasize that great red rice should always be fluffy and never mushy like a rice bog.
ref:
2013, James Villas, Southern Fried: More Than 150 Recipes for Crab Cakes, Fried Chicken, Hush Puppies, and More, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
I love Chicken Bog because it's one of those very regional recipes that has survived […] Don't skim or otherwise remove the fat from the stock though—it will help flavor the bog. Let the chicken cool and then pick the meat, setting it aside for the bog recipe that follows. The broth will[…]
ref:
2016 October 1, Elliott Moss, Buxton Hall Barbecue's Book of Smoke: Wood-Smoked Meat, Sides, and More, Voyageur Press, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
Chicken and rice bog for their supper so she wouldn't have to cook.
ref:
2018, Ann W Phillips, Lady Of Esterbrooke
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
An act or instance of defecation.
A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
Chicken bog.
senses_topics:
|
7549 | word:
bog
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)
forms:
form:
bogs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bogging
tags:
participle
present
form:
bogged
tags:
participle
past
form:
bogged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English bog, from Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from Old Irish bog (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos (“soft, tender”) + Old Irish -ach, from Proto-Celtic *-ākos.
The frequent use to form compounds regarding the animals and plants in such areas mimics Irish compositions such as bog-luachair (“bulrush, bogrush”).
Its use for toilets is now often derived from the resemblance of latrines and outhouse cesspools to bogholes, but the noun sense appears to be a clipped form of boghouse (“outhouse, privy”), which derived (possibly via boggard) from the verb to bog, still used in Australian English. The derivation and its connection to other senses of "bog" remains uncertain, however, owing to an extreme lack of early citations due to its perceived vulgarity.
senses_examples:
text:
To be 'bogged down' or 'mired down' is to be mired, generally in the 'wet valleys' in the spring.
ref:
1928, American Dialect Society, American Speech, volume IV, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Bogg'd in his filthy Lusts […]
ref:
1605, Ben Jonson, Seianus His Fall, act IV, scene i, line 217
type:
quotation
text:
[…] whose profession to forsake the World... bogs them deeper into the world.
ref:
1641, John Milton, Animadversions, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
Duncan Graham in Gartmore his horse bogged; that the deponent helped some others to take the horse out of the bogg.
ref:
a. 1800, The Trials of James, Duncan, and Robert M'Gregor, Three Sons of the Celebrated Rob Roy, page 120
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
To sink and stick in bogland.
To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
To defecate, to void one's bowels.
To cover or spray with excrement.
To make a mess of something.
senses_topics:
|
7550 | word:
bog
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bog (plural bogs)
forms:
form:
bogs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See bug
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
senses_topics:
|
7551 | word:
bog
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bog (comparative bogger, superlative boggest)
forms:
form:
bogger
tags:
comparative
form:
boggest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".
senses_examples:
text:
The Cuckooe, seeing him so bog, waxt also wondrous wroth.
ref:
1592, William Warner, chapter XXXVII, in Albions England, volume VII, page 167
type:
quotation
text:
Bogge, bold, forward, sawcy. So we say, a very bog Fellow.
ref:
1691, John Ray, South and East Country Words, page 90
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bold; boastful; proud.
senses_topics:
|
7552 | word:
bog
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bog (plural bogs)
forms:
form:
bogs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".
senses_examples:
text:
Their bog it nuver ceases.
ref:
1839, Charles Clark, John Noakes and Mary Styles, l. 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Puffery, boastfulness.
senses_topics:
|
7553 | word:
bog
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)
forms:
form:
bogs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bogging
tags:
participle
present
form:
bogged
tags:
participle
past
form:
bogged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".
senses_examples:
text:
If you had not written to me... we had broke now, the Frenchmen bogged us so often with departing.
ref:
1546, State Papers King Henry the Eighth, volume XI, published 1852, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
A Frencheman: whom he [Manlius Torquatus] slew, being bogged [Latin: provocatus] by hym.
ref:
1556, Nicholas Grimald's translation of Cicero as Marcus Tullius Ciceroes Thre Bokes of Duties to Marcus His Sonne, Vol. III, p. 154
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provoke, to bug.
senses_topics:
|
7554 | word:
bog
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)
forms:
form:
bogs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bogging
tags:
participle
present
form:
bogged
tags:
participle
past
form:
bogged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bug off, a clipping of bugger off, likely under the influence of bog (coarse British slang for "toilet[s]").
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To go away.
senses_topics:
|
7555 | word:
bog
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)
forms:
form:
bogs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bogging
tags:
participle
present
form:
bogged
tags:
participle
past
form:
bogged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff
etymology_text:
From an abbreviation of Bogdanoff, in reference to Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff.
senses_examples:
text:
My nose is already pretty good and I don't want to bog myself.
ref:
2023 August 4, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.
To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.
senses_topics:
|
7556 | word:
diphthong
word_type:
noun
expansion:
diphthong (plural diphthongs)
forms:
form:
diphthongs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From French diphtongue, from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos, “two sounds”), from δίς (dís, “twice”) + φθόγγος (phthóngos, “sound”).
senses_examples:
text:
And he might have written the name, also, with the diphthong æ, as well as the single vowel, in the initial syllable, throughout all the preceding forms.
ref:
1854, Robert Bigsby, Historical and Topographical Description of Repton, in the County of Derby, Woodfall and Kinder, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
An improper diphthong has only one of the vowels sounded; as, ea in heat, oa in coal.
ref:
1860, Joseph E. Worcester, An Elementary Dictionary of the English Language, Swan, Brewer, and Tileston, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
The diphthong ae is sounded like ē (§7); that is, it has the sound of ey in they.
ref:
1874, Theophilus Dwight Hall, A Child’s First Latin Book, John Murray, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable.
A vowel digraph or ligature.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
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7557 | word:
curtain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
curtain (plural curtains)
forms:
form:
curtains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English curtine, from Old French cortine, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), a calque from Ancient Greek.
senses_examples:
text:
It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day.
ref:
1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324
type:
quotation
text:
He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.
type:
example
text:
Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us, […] caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles […].
ref:
, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220
text:
For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.
ref:
1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
Death.
That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
A flag; an ensign.
The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
theater
fortifications
government
military
politics
war
architecture
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7558 | word:
curtain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
curtain (third-person singular simple present curtains, present participle curtaining, simple past and past participle curtained)
forms:
form:
curtains
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
curtaining
tags:
participle
present
form:
curtained
tags:
participle
past
form:
curtained
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English curtine, from Old French cortine, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), a calque from Ancient Greek.
senses_examples:
text:
The window, softly curtained with dotted swiss, became the focus of my desperate hour-by-hour attention.
ref:
1985, Carol Shields, “Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls”, in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, published 2004, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
And, after conflict such as was supposed / The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd, / When with a happy storm they were surprised / And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave, / We may, each wreathed in the other's arms, / Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;
ref:
1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, act II, scene 2
type:
quotation
text:
But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty; whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man.
ref:
1840, Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry
type:
quotation
text:
He saw a rock that pierced the shifting waters / As they stilled, now curtained by the riding / Of the waves, and leaped to safety on it.
ref:
1958, Ovid [Horace Gregory], The Metamorphoses, New York: Viking, Book IV, Perseus, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
But bleakness still curtained the gray horizon.
ref:
2003 [2001], A. B. Yehoshua [Hillel Halkin], The Liberated Bride, Harcourt, Part 2, Chapter 17, page 115
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.
senses_topics:
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7559 | word:
acoustically
word_type:
adv
expansion:
acoustically (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acoustic + -ally or acoustical + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an acoustic manner, or using an acoustic musical instrument.
From the perspective of acoustics.
senses_topics:
manner
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7560 | word:
MoF
word_type:
name
expansion:
MoF
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Ministry of Finance. (in Japan)
senses_topics:
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7561 | word:
fit
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fit (comparative fitter, superlative fittest)
forms:
form:
fitter
tags:
comparative
form:
fittest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly from Middle English fit (“an adversary of equal power”).
senses_examples:
text:
You have nothing to say about it. I'll do exactly as I see fit.
type:
example
text:
He had drunk more than was fit for him, and he was singing some light song, when he saw approaching, as he said, the pale horse mentioned in the Revelation, with Death seated as the rider.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
The rest we'll leave to be examined later, if we think fit;
ref:
2005, Lesley Brown, Sophist, translation of original by Plato, 243d
type:
quotation
text:
Sergeant Schlock has no horse, no armor, and no sword, but even the mightiest Mongol horse-warrior would see in him a fit heir.
ref:
2015 February 1, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 2024-05-14
type:
quotation
text:
survival of the fittest
type:
example
text:
You don't have to be a good climber for Kilimanjaro, but you do have to be fit.
type:
example
text:
I think the girl working in the office is fit.
type:
example
text:
I think you are really fit / You're fit but my gosh don't you know it.
ref:
2004, Mike Skinner (lyrics and music), “Fit but You Know It”, in A Grand Don't Come for Free, performed by The Streets
type:
quotation
text:
I said I'd rather be with your friends, mate, cos they are much fitter.
ref:
2007, “Foundations”, in Kate Nash, Paul Eppworth (lyrics), Made of Bricks, performed by Kate Nash
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Suitable; proper.
Adapted to a purpose or environment.
In good shape; physically well.
Sexually attractive; good-looking; fanciable.
Prepared; ready.
senses_topics:
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7562 | word:
fit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fit (third-person singular simple present fits, present participle fitting, simple past and past participle fitted or fit)
forms:
form:
fits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
fitted
tags:
participle
past
form:
fitted
tags:
past
form:
fit
tags:
participle
past
form:
fit
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly from Middle English fit (“an adversary of equal power”).
senses_examples:
text:
It fits the purpose.
type:
example
text:
The speaker should be certain that his subject fits the occasion.
ref:
1918, Richard Dennis Teall Hollister, Speech-making, publ. George Wahr, pg. 81
text:
Ten clowns fit in the car, but not a hundred.
type:
example
text:
The elevator can fit up to 10 people.
type:
example
text:
The small shirt doesn't fit me, so I'll buy the medium size.
type:
example
text:
If I lose a few kilos, the gorgeous wedding dress might fit me.
type:
example
text:
Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it...
I agree. Y'know, I think he actually could have fitted on that bit of door.
There was plenty of room on the raft.
I know. I know, I know.
ref:
2016 February 2, Kate Winslet et al., Jimmy Kimmel Live!
type:
quotation
text:
I wanted to borrow my little sister's jeans, but they didn't fit.
type:
example
text:
That plug fit into the other socket, but it won't go in this one.
type:
example
text:
I want to fit the drapes to the windows.
type:
example
text:
I had a suit fitted by the tailor.
type:
example
text:
These definitions fit most of the usage.
type:
example
text:
Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear.
ref:
2004 October 14, Don Ringe, “Old English maþelian, mæþlan, mǣlan”, in J. H. W. Penney, editor, Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, Oxford University Press, page 427
type:
quotation
text:
The regression program fit a line to the data.
type:
example
text:
Williams had a problem fitting his left rear tyre and that left Alonso only 3.1secs adrift when he rejoined from his final stop three laps later.
ref:
2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The chandler will fit us with provisions for a month.
type:
example
text:
I'm fitting the ship for a summer sail home.
type:
example
text:
Thirty years ago, if a girl wished for training, there was none to be had. I can truly say there was no training to be had to fit a woman thoroughly for any life whatever.
ref:
1871, Florence Nightingale, Una and the Lion, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
The paint, the fabrics, the rugs all fit.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be suitable for.
To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there.
To conform to in size and shape.
To be of the right size and shape
To make conform in size and shape.
To make conform in size and shape.
To tailor; to change to the appropriate size.
To be in agreement with.
To adjust.
To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
To equip or supply.
To make ready.
To be seemly.
To be proper or becoming.
To be in harmony.
senses_topics:
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7563 | word:
fit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fit (plural fits)
forms:
form:
fits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly from Middle English fit (“an adversary of equal power”).
senses_examples:
text:
This shirt is a bad fit.
type:
example
text:
Since he put on weight, his jeans have been a tight fit.
type:
example
text:
It's hard to get a good fit using second-hand parts.
type:
example
text:
The Wonder Bread advertising research results showed the “White Picket Fence” commercial had strong fit ratings.
type:
example
text:
During the auction, it is often a partnership's goal to find an eight-card major suit fit.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The degree to which something fits.
Conformity of elements one to another.
The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
Goodness of fit.
The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump.
senses_topics:
advertising
business
marketing
mathematics
sciences
statistics
bridge
games |
7564 | word:
fit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fit (plural fits)
forms:
form:
fits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown, possibly from Old English fitt (“song”), or from the sense of fitted to length. Compare Old Saxon *fittea (attested in the borrowed Latin vittea).
senses_examples:
text:
Dr. Percy has written a long ballad in many fits.
ref:
1771, Samuel Johnson, "Letter to Bennet Langton, Esq. (March 20)," in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol 2
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A section of a poem or ballad.
senses_topics:
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7565 | word:
fit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fit (plural fits)
forms:
form:
fits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown, possibly from Old English fitt (“conflict”). Compare Cornish fit (“game match, bout”); or else, probably cognate with Italian fitta (“pain, especially sudden and stabbing pain”).
See more at Latin fīgere.
senses_examples:
text:
My grandfather died after having a fit.
type:
example
text:
He had a laughing fit which lasted more than ten minutes.
type:
example
text:
She had a fit and threw all of his clothes out through the window.
type:
example
text:
He threw a fit when his car broke down.
type:
example
text:
A fit of spring-cleaning led Eric Brooks to a box of old newspaper clips from 1997.
ref:
2007 July 9, Ryan J. Foley, “Wisconsin city^s largest employer threatens to leave over ethanol”, in Associated Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A seizure or convulsion.
A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
A sudden outburst of emotion.
A sudden burst (of an activity).
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
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7566 | word:
fit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fit (third-person singular simple present fits, present participle fitting, simple past and past participle fitted)
forms:
form:
fits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
fitted
tags:
participle
past
form:
fitted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown, possibly from Old English fitt (“conflict”). Compare Cornish fit (“game match, bout”); or else, probably cognate with Italian fitta (“pain, especially sudden and stabbing pain”).
See more at Latin fīgere.
senses_examples:
text:
A spokesman said: "It is believed they (the dogs) got into the lake and drank from it. They came out and started fitting. Shortly after that three of them died and vets are attempting to resuscitate the other one."
ref:
2016 May 18, “Three dogs die and seven more ill after drinking from the same Kent lake amid contamination fears”, in The Telegraph
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To suffer a fit.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
7567 | word:
fit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fit
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Formed from fight on the model of bite:bit and light:lit.
senses_examples:
text:
There wonst was two cats in Kilkenny;
And aich thought there was one cat too many.
So they quarrelled and fit;
And they scratched, and they bit;
Till, excepting their tails
And some scraps of their nails,
Instead of two cats there wan't any.
ref:
1867 November, unknown author, The Galaxy, volume 4, New York: W.C. & F.P. Church, retrieved 2023-10-27, page 883
type:
quotation
text:
c. 19th century, unknown author, Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down
text:
He didn't just set around and try to out sweettalk somebody; he got out and out-fit somebody. He wouldn't be blowing when he told his boys how he fit for the woman he got.
ref:
a. 1940, Mildred Haun, “Shin-Bone Rocks”, in The Hawk's Done Gone, page 218
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of fight; fought.
senses_topics:
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7568 | word:
fit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fit (plural fits)
forms:
form:
fits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of outfit
senses_examples:
text:
How do you like the fit?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An outfit, a set of clothing.
senses_topics:
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7569 | word:
shear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shear (third-person singular simple present shears, present participle shearing, simple past sheared or shore, past participle shorn or sheared)
forms:
form:
shears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sheared
tags:
past
form:
shore
tags:
past
form:
shorn
tags:
participle
past
form:
sheared
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
shear
etymology_text:
From Middle English sheren, scheren, from Old English sċieran (“to shear; to shave”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeraną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian skarre, Low German scheren, Dutch scheren, German scheren, Danish skære, Norwegian Bokmål skjære, Norwegian Nynorsk skjera, Swedish skära, Finnish keritä; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), Latin caro (“flesh”), Albanian shqerr (“to tear, cut”), harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.
senses_examples:
text:
shear the llamas
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: shave
text:
shear the afro off someone's head
type:
example
text:
So trenchant was the Templar’s weapon, that it shore asunder, as it had been a willow twig, the tough and plaited handle of the mace, which the ill-fated Saxon reared to parry the blow, and, descending on his head, levelled him with the earth.
ref:
1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
type:
quotation
text:
The total along-the-runway wind component sheared from an 8-knot headwind to about a 56-knot tailwind over a 44-second period.
ref:
1985 March 21, National Transportation Safety Board, “2.3 Airplane Takeoff Performance”, in Aircraft Accident Report: United Airlines Flight 663, Boeing 727-222, N7647U, Denver, Colorado, May 31, 1984, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
Soon as the bending Scythe,
And Sickle keen, have shear'd the golden Grain,
Array'd in all the Equipage of Death,
Forth the stern Sportsman stalks
ref:
1769, John Aldington, A Poem on the Cruelty of Shooting etc.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove the fleece from (a sheep etc.) by clipping.
To cut the hair of (a person).
To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
To change in direction or speed.
To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
To make a vertical cut in coal.
To reap, as grain.
To deprive of property; to fleece.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
mathematics
sciences
business
mining
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7570 | word:
shear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shear (countable and uncountable, plural shears)
forms:
form:
shears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
shear
etymology_text:
From Middle English sheren, scheren, from Old English sċieran (“to shear; to shave”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeraną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian skarre, Low German scheren, Dutch scheren, German scheren, Danish skære, Norwegian Bokmål skjære, Norwegian Nynorsk skjera, Swedish skära, Finnish keritä; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), Latin caro (“flesh”), Albanian shqerr (“to tear, cut”), harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.
senses_examples:
text:
After the second shearing, he is a two-shear ram; […] at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing.
ref:
1837, William Youatt, Sheep: Their Breeds, Management, and Diseases
type:
quotation
text:
The first effect of a wind shear was detected at 34 to 42 seconds into the takeoff, at a speed of about 115 KIAS with the airplane about 3,800 feet down the runway. An average shear rate of about 2.5 knots per second resulted in an interruption in acceleration at this point with the airspeed remaining at 115 to 120 KIAS for 7 to 10 seconds.
ref:
1985 March 21, National Transportation Safety Board, “2.3 Airplane Takeoff Performance”, in Aircraft Accident Report: United Airlines Flight 663, Boeing 727-222, N7647U, Denver, Colorado, May 31, 1984, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
We hit a nasty shear on approach and had to go around.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
Forces that push in opposite directions.
The phenomenon of wind shear.
A specific instance of wind shear.
A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point's distance from the line.
The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
senses_topics:
arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
mathematics
sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
7571 | word:
shear
word_type:
adj
expansion:
shear
forms:
wikipedia:
shear
etymology_text:
From Middle English sheren, scheren, from Old English sċieran (“to shear; to shave”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeraną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian skarre, Low German scheren, Dutch scheren, German scheren, Danish skære, Norwegian Bokmål skjære, Norwegian Nynorsk skjera, Swedish skära, Finnish keritä; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), Latin caro (“flesh”), Albanian shqerr (“to tear, cut”), harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of sheer.
senses_topics:
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7572 | word:
spaceman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spaceman (plural spacemen)
forms:
form:
spacemen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From space + -man.
senses_examples:
text:
I want to be a spaceman when I grow up.
type:
example
text:
A spaceman from Mars could easily pick out the most civilized nations here. They are the only ones who know how to make atom bombs.
ref:
1972, Prochnow, Herbert V. (Herbert Victor), 1897-1998, 1000 stories and illustrations for all occasions, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
While in Los Angeles he was contacted by a spaceman from Saturn whose name was Ramu[…]
ref:
1977, Ortzen, Len, Strange stories of UFOs, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
He was out UFO-hunting in the Mojave Desert, California, when he was greeted by a tall, blond spaceman from Venus
ref:
2011, Wolfsblume, Jack, Paranormal, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An astronaut, often a male astronaut.
A humanoid extraterrestrial.
senses_topics:
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7573 | word:
criminal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
criminal (comparative more criminal, superlative most criminal)
forms:
form:
more criminal
tags:
comparative
form:
most criminal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cryminal, borrowed from Anglo-Norman criminal, from Late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimen (“crime”).
senses_examples:
text:
The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God.
ref:
a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation
type:
quotation
text:
His long criminal record suggests that he is a dangerous man.
type:
example
text:
Printing such asinine opinions is criminal!
type:
example
text:
[...] I think it represents exceptional value for money and I think it would be criminal not to go ahead and build it."
ref:
2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 54
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Against the law; forbidden by law.
Guilty of breaking the law.
Of or relating to crime or penal law.
Abhorrent or very undesirable.
senses_topics:
|
7574 | word:
criminal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
criminal (plural criminals)
forms:
form:
criminals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cryminal, borrowed from Anglo-Norman criminal, from Late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimen (“crime”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.
senses_topics:
|
7575 | word:
bib
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bib (plural bibs)
forms:
form:
bibs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originally verb sense “drink heartily”, from Middle English bibben, either from Latin bibō (“I drink”) or of imitative origin. Noun sense (clothing) presumably either because worn while drinking, or because the clothing itself “drinks up” spills.
senses_examples:
text:
In summer the whole throat and breast are black, but in winter plumage the throat is white bounded by a horseshoe-shaped black bib.
ref:
1950, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and their Allies
type:
quotation
text:
He don't look anything like the captain. This here cat has got a nice thick black coat of fur with a nice white bib and white feet.
ref:
2011, Arthur Peacock, Gettysburg the Cat, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.
Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem.
A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by entrants in a race.
A colourful polyester or plastic vest worn over one's clothes, usually to mark one's team during group activities.
The upper part of an apron or overalls.
Ellipsis of bib short.
A patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat.
A north Atlantic fish (Trisopterus luscus), allied to the cod.
A bibb (bibcock).
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
7576 | word:
bib
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bib (third-person singular simple present bibs, present participle bibbing, simple past and past participle bibbed)
forms:
form:
bibs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bibbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bibbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bibbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originally verb sense “drink heartily”, from Middle English bibben, either from Latin bibō (“I drink”) or of imitative origin. Noun sense (clothing) presumably either because worn while drinking, or because the clothing itself “drinks up” spills.
senses_examples:
text:
Wise women use them, but new fathers seldom seem to understand that one minute bibbing baby saves who knows how long swabbing, finding clean clothes, changing, and coddling later — not to mention laundry time.
ref:
1990, Don Aslett, Don Aslett's Stain-buster's Bible: The Complete Guide to Spot Removal
type:
quotation
text:
Mel got Daniel into his chair and bibbed him up.
ref:
2011, Dawn Atkins, The Baby Connection, page 101
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dress (somebody) in a bib.
To drink heartily; to tipple.
senses_topics:
|
7577 | word:
bib
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bib (third-person singular simple present bibs, present participle bibbing, simple past and past participle bibbed)
forms:
form:
bibs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bibbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bibbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bibbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To beep (e.g. a car horn).
senses_topics:
|
7578 | word:
drunk
word_type:
adj
expansion:
drunk (comparative drunker, superlative drunkest)
forms:
form:
drunker
tags:
comparative
form:
drunkest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken,
getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.
senses_examples:
text:
"What part of 'you got drunk' did our parents misunderstand?" "I only drank a few shots!"
ref:
2013 May 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Thursday, May 9, 2013
type:
quotation
text:
Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
Elated or emboldened.
Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
senses_topics:
|
7579 | word:
drunk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drunk (plural drunks)
forms:
form:
drunks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken,
getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.
senses_examples:
text:
Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
ref:
1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
ref:
1858 June 8, “A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial”, in New York Times, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Life probably would have continued in blissful ignorance if it had not been for Vito's occasional late-night drunks. Usually he got plastered and misplaced his keys […] and bellowed obscenities into our shared hallway.
ref:
1983 December 10, Veneita Porter, “A Little Help From Mom”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.
ref:
2004, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, spoken by Steve Zissou (Bill Murray)
type:
quotation
text:
Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!
ref:
2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury, published 2007, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
A drunken state.
senses_topics:
|
7580 | word:
drunk
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drunk
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken,
getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of drink
simple past of drink
senses_topics:
|
7581 | word:
microbe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
microbe (plural microbes)
forms:
form:
microbes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French microbe, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) and βίος (bíos, “life”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any microorganism; (loosely, nonscientifically) especially, a harmful bacterium.
senses_topics:
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences |
7582 | word:
WVO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
WVO (countable and uncountable, plural WVOs)
forms:
form:
WVOs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of waste vegetable oil.
senses_topics:
|
7583 | word:
common
word_type:
adj
expansion:
common (comparative commoner or more common, superlative commonest or most common)
forms:
form:
commoner
tags:
comparative
form:
more common
tags:
comparative
form:
commonest
tags:
superlative
form:
most common
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Gallo-Romance languages
common
etymology_text:
From Middle English comun, from Anglo-Norman comun, from Old French comun (rare in the Gallo-Romance languages, but reinforced as a Carolingian calque of Proto-West Germanic *gamainī (“common”) in Old French), from Latin commūnis (“common, public, general”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱom-moy-ni-s (“held in common”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange, change”). Displaced native Middle English imene, ȝemǣne (“common, general, universal”) (from Old English ġemǣne (“common, universal”)), Middle English mene, mǣne (“mean, common”) (also from Old English ġemǣne (“common, universal”)), Middle English samen, somen (“in common, together”) (from Old English samen (“together”)). Doublet of gmina.
senses_examples:
text:
The two competitors have the common aim of winning the championship.
type:
example
text:
Winning the championship is an aim common to the two competitors.
type:
example
text:
common knowledge, common decency, common sense
type:
example
text:
It is common to find sharks off this coast.
type:
example
text:
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
"Commoner" used to be commoner, but "more common" is now more common.
type:
example
text:
Sharks are common in these waters.
type:
example
text:
It differs from the common blackbird in the size of its beak.
type:
example
text:
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
ref:
2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2012-06-14, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
Machine learning was the most common method of AI listed in patent requests.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2019-02-07
type:
quotation
text:
the common folk
type:
example
text:
above the vulgar flight of common souls
ref:
1768, Arthur Murphy, Zenobia
type:
quotation
text:
If it be asked wherein the utility of some modern extensions of mathematics lies, it must be acknowledged that it is at present difficult to see how they are ever to become applicable to questions of common life or physical science.
ref:
1893, Florian Cajori, A History of Mathematics
type:
quotation
text:
the common daisy (Bellis perennis)
type:
example
text:
common name vs. scientific name.
text:
common law
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mutual; shared by more than one.
Of a quality: existing among virtually all people; universal.
Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.
Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
As part of the vernacular name of a species, usually denoting that it is abundant or widely known.
Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal.
Arising from use or tradition, as opposed to being created by a legislative body.
Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.
Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
Profane; polluted.
Given to lewd habits; prostitute.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
law
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
7584 | word:
common
word_type:
noun
expansion:
common (plural commons)
forms:
form:
commons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Gallo-Romance languages
common
etymology_text:
From Middle English comun, from Anglo-Norman comun, from Old French comun (rare in the Gallo-Romance languages, but reinforced as a Carolingian calque of Proto-West Germanic *gamainī (“common”) in Old French), from Latin commūnis (“common, public, general”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱom-moy-ni-s (“held in common”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange, change”). Displaced native Middle English imene, ȝemǣne (“common, general, universal”) (from Old English ġemǣne (“common, universal”)), Middle English mene, mǣne (“mean, common”) (also from Old English ġemǣne (“common, universal”)), Middle English samen, somen (“in common, together”) (from Old English samen (“together”)). Doublet of gmina.
senses_examples:
text:
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
ref:
1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mutual good, shared by more than one.
A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
The people; the community.
The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
senses_topics:
law |
7585 | word:
common
word_type:
verb
expansion:
common (third-person singular simple present commons, present participle commoning, simple past and past participle commoned)
forms:
form:
commons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
commoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
commoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
commoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Gallo-Romance languages
common
etymology_text:
From Middle English comun, from Anglo-Norman comun, from Old French comun (rare in the Gallo-Romance languages, but reinforced as a Carolingian calque of Proto-West Germanic *gamainī (“common”) in Old French), from Latin commūnis (“common, public, general”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱom-moy-ni-s (“held in common”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange, change”). Displaced native Middle English imene, ȝemǣne (“common, general, universal”) (from Old English ġemǣne (“common, universal”)), Middle English mene, mǣne (“mean, common”) (also from Old English ġemǣne (“common, universal”)), Middle English samen, somen (“in common, together”) (from Old English samen (“together”)). Doublet of gmina.
senses_examples:
text:
1568-1569, Richard Grafton, Chronicle
Capitaine generall of Flaunders, which amiably enterteyned the sayd Duke, and after they had secretly commoned of.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To communicate (something).
To converse, talk.
To have sex.
To participate.
To have a joint right with others in common ground.
To board together; to eat at a table in common.
senses_topics:
|
7586 | word:
limo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
limo (plural limos)
forms:
form:
limos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of limousine.
senses_examples:
text:
Limo tinted with the gold plates / Straight from the bottom, this the belly of the beast / From a peasant to a prince to a motherfuckin' king
ref:
2015, “King Kunta”, in To Pimp a Butterfly, performed by Kendrick Lamar
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of limousine.
senses_topics:
|
7587 | word:
rise
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rise (third-person singular simple present rises, present participle rising, simple past rose, past participle risen)
forms:
form:
rises
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rising
tags:
participle
present
form:
rose
tags:
past
form:
risen
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
rise
etymology_text:
From Middle English risen, from Old English rīsan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīsan, from Proto-Germanic *rīsaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”). See also raise.
cognates
Cognate with West Frisian rize, Saterland Frisian riese (“to arise”), Dutch rijzen (“to rise, ascend, lift”), German Low German riesen (“to rise; arise”), German dialectal reisen (“to fall”), Norwegian Nynorsk risa (“to rise”), Icelandic rísa (“to rise”). Related also to German reisen (“to travel, fare”), Dutch reizen (“to travel”), Danish rejse (“to travel”), Swedish resa (“to travel”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rris (“I raise, grow”) and Russian рост (rost, “growth”).
senses_examples:
text:
We watched the balloon rise.
type:
example
text:
This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet.
type:
example
text:
The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill.
type:
example
text:
The sun was rising in the East.
type:
example
text:
to rise from a chair or from a fall
type:
example
text:
Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair,
In the morning, when we rise
ref:
1965, “Colours”, performed by Donovan
type:
quotation
text:
he rose from the grave; he is risen!
type:
example
text:
The committee rose after agreeing to the report.
type:
example
text:
among the rising theologians of Germany
ref:
1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter
type:
quotation
text:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref:
2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
type:
example
text:
to rise a tone or semitone
type:
example
text:
to rise to the occasion
type:
example
text:
Thus far, my intellect has been able to rise sufficiently to meet every academic challenge that I have encountered.
type:
example
text:
As Patrick continued to goad me, I felt my temper rising towards the limits of my self control.
type:
example
text:
Professor Peter Crome, chair of the audit's steering group, said the report "provides further concrete evidence that the care of patients with dementia in hospital is in need of a radical shake-up". While a few hospitals had risen to the challenge of improving patients' experiences, many have not, he said. The report recommends that all staff receive basic dementia awareness training, and staffing levels should be maintained to help such patients.
ref:
2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
As hunger and despondency became more intense, a determination rose within me to find a way of getting off the desert island.
type:
example
text:
Has that dough risen yet?
type:
example
text:
The majestic Marannon, or Amazon River, rises out of the Lake Launcocha, situated in the province of Tarma, in 10° 14ʹ south latitude, and ten leagues to the north of Pasco.
ref:
1802 December 1, “Interesting description of the Montanna Real”, in The Monthly magazine, or, British register, Number 94 (Number 5 of Volume 14), page 396
text:
a noise rose on the air; odour rises from the flower
type:
example
text:
to rise a hill
type:
example
text:
to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water
type:
example
text:
to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it
type:
example
text:
Until we rose the bark we could not pretend to call it a chase.
ref:
1882, William Clark Russell, My Watch Below
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To move upwards.
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To slope upward.
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To become erect; to assume an upright position.
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To leave one's bed; to get up.
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To be resurrected.
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
To increase in value or standing.
To attain a higher status.
To increase in value or standing.
Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
To increase in value or standing.
To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
To increase in value or standing.
To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To develop, to come about or intensify.
To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To have its source (in a particular place).
To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
To go up; to ascend; to climb.
To cause to go up or ascend.
To retire; to give up a siege.
To come; to offer itself.
To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing |
7588 | word:
rise
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rise (plural rises)
forms:
form:
rises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rise
etymology_text:
From Middle English risen, from Old English rīsan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīsan, from Proto-Germanic *rīsaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”). See also raise.
cognates
Cognate with West Frisian rize, Saterland Frisian riese (“to arise”), Dutch rijzen (“to rise, ascend, lift”), German Low German riesen (“to rise; arise”), German dialectal reisen (“to fall”), Norwegian Nynorsk risa (“to rise”), Icelandic rísa (“to rise”). Related also to German reisen (“to travel, fare”), Dutch reizen (“to travel”), Danish rejse (“to travel”), Swedish resa (“to travel”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rris (“I raise, grow”) and Russian рост (rost, “growth”).
senses_examples:
text:
The rise of the tide.
type:
example
text:
There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.
type:
example
text:
Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.
type:
example
text:
The rise of the working class.
type:
example
text:
The rise of the printing press.
type:
example
text:
The rise of the feminists.
type:
example
text:
The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six.
type:
example
text:
The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.
type:
example
text:
the land rolls gently, so that, upon cresting a low rise or passing a copse of wind turbines, you suddenly spot a lot full of lorries or a complex of gigantic sheds.
ref:
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Making fun of their football team is one sure way to get a rise from a crowd.
type:
example
text:
She really got a rise from the audience when she donned a wig and talked like the president.
type:
example
text:
As the rise, i.e. height, of the arch decreases, the outward thrust increases.
type:
example
text:
Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
Ellipsis of pay rise: an increase in wage or salary.
The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
The height of an arch or a step.
senses_topics:
architecture |
7589 | word:
rise
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rise (plural rises)
forms:
form:
rises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rise
etymology_text:
From Middle English ris, rys, from Old English hrīs, from Proto-Germanic *hrīsą (“twig; shoot”). More at rice.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of rice (“twig”)
senses_topics:
|
7590 | word:
torn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
torn
forms:
wikipedia:
torn
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of tear (rip, rend, speed).
senses_topics:
|
7591 | word:
torn
word_type:
adj
expansion:
torn (comparative more torn, superlative most torn)
forms:
form:
more torn
tags:
comparative
form:
most torn
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
torn
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I'm torn between pizza and hamburgers.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unable to decide between multiple options.
senses_topics:
|
7592 | word:
analyst
word_type:
noun
expansion:
analyst (plural analysts)
forms:
form:
analysts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French analyste.
senses_examples:
text:
I had a difficult session with my analyst last evening and the slightest thing is apt to set me off.
ref:
1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 185
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who analyzes.
Someone who is an analytical thinker.
A mathematician who studies real analysis.
A systems analyst.
A practitioner of psychoanalysis.
A financial analyst; a business analyst.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
|
7593 | word:
shut
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shut (third-person singular simple present shuts, present participle shutting, simple past shut, past participle shut or (obsolete, dialectal) shutten)
forms:
form:
shuts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shutting
tags:
participle
present
form:
shut
tags:
past
form:
shut
tags:
participle
past
form:
shutten
tags:
dialectal
obsolete
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English shutten, shetten, from Old English scyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skutjaną, *skuttijaną (“to bar, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skuttą, *skuttjō (“bar, bolt, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to drive, fall upon, rush”).
Cognate with Dutch schutten (“to shut in, lock up”), Low German schütten (“to shut, lock in”), German schützen (“to shut out, dam, protect, guard”).
senses_examples:
text:
Please shut the door.
type:
example
text:
The light was so bright I had to shut my eyes.
type:
example
text:
If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut.
type:
example
text:
The pharmacy is shut on Sunday.
type:
example
text:
I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out.
type:
example
text:
He's just gone and shut his finger in the door!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To close, to stop from being open.
To close, to stop being open.
To close (a business) temporarily.
To confine in an enclosed area.
To isolate, to close off from the world.
To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
To preclude, exclude.
senses_topics:
|
7594 | word:
shut
word_type:
adj
expansion:
shut (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English shutten, shetten, from Old English scyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skutjaną, *skuttijaną (“to bar, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skuttą, *skuttjō (“bar, bolt, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to drive, fall upon, rush”).
Cognate with Dutch schutten (“to shut in, lock up”), Low German schütten (“to shut, lock in”), German schützen (“to shut out, dam, protect, guard”).
senses_examples:
text:
A shut door barred our way into the house.
type:
example
text:
Whenever a syllable is formed with a long, that is an open vowel, they account the syllable long; and whenever formed with a short, that is a shut vowel, they reckon it short.
ref:
1810, Benjamin Humphrey Smart, A practical grammar of English pronunciation, page 344
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Closed; not open.
Synonym of close
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences |
7595 | word:
shut
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shut (plural shuts)
forms:
form:
shuts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English shutten, shetten, from Old English scyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skutjaną, *skuttijaną (“to bar, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skuttą, *skuttjō (“bar, bolt, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to drive, fall upon, rush”).
Cognate with Dutch schutten (“to shut in, lock up”), Low German schütten (“to shut, lock in”), German schützen (“to shut out, dam, protect, guard”).
senses_examples:
text:
the shut of a door
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or time of shutting; close.
A door or cover; a shutter.
The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
senses_topics:
|
7596 | word:
shut
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shut (plural shuts)
forms:
form:
shuts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variation of chute or shute (archaic, related to shoot) from Old English scēotan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
senses_topics:
|
7597 | word:
relaxed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
relaxed (comparative more relaxed, superlative most relaxed)
forms:
form:
more relaxed
tags:
comparative
form:
most relaxed
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From relax + -ed, originally after Latin relaxātus.
senses_examples:
text:
It was a very wet morning. I woke relaxed and melancholy as in the country, and walked about an hour under cover, in the middle of the town […].
ref:
1790, James Boswell, edited by Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
The relaxed rules were greatly tightened after the lawsuit.
type:
example
text:
He's a relaxed kind of guy, he never lets himself get upset.
type:
example
text:
Students and faculty members lunch at the cafeteria and naturally communicate freely with one another in a relaxed and informal setting.
ref:
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Even so, this delightful station is well worth a visit, - either to admire the architecture, sip a coffee from the shop, or just soak up the relaxed atmosphere of the area and watch the birds and other wildlife on the shores right outside the station.
ref:
2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made slack or feeble; weak, soft.
Made more lenient; less strict; lax.
Free from tension or anxiety; at ease; leisurely.
Without physical tension; in a state of equilibrium.
Of a muscle: soft, not tensed.
senses_topics:
medicine
physiology
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
medicine
physiology
sciences |
7598 | word:
relaxed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
relaxed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From relax + -ed, originally after Latin relaxātus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of relax
senses_topics:
|
7599 | word:
spoil
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spoil (third-person singular simple present spoils, present participle spoiling, simple past and past participle spoiled or spoilt)
forms:
form:
spoils
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
spoiling
tags:
participle
present
form:
spoiled
tags:
participle
past
form:
spoiled
tags:
past
form:
spoilt
tags:
participle
past
form:
spoilt
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English spoilen, spuylen, borrowed from Old French espoillier, espollier, espuler, from Latin spoliāre, present active infinitive of spoliō (“pillage, ruin, spoil”).
senses_examples:
text:
They must likewise endeavour to be careful in looking after the rest of the Servants, that every one perform their duty in their several places, that they keep good hours in their up-rising and lying down, and that no Goods be either spoiled or embezelled.
ref:
1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
There is hardly a trace of metal left in the Palace at Knossos. In one corner only, on the north-west, a friendly floor level seems to have sunk just before the plunderers entered it, and hidden from their view five splendid bronze vessels. They are all that remain to us […] to tell us what the gold and silver work was like that was spoiled from Knossos.
ref:
1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
‘This is a great day for us. Let us not spoil it by saying the wrong thing, by promoting a culture of revenge, or by failing to treat the former president with respect.’
ref:
2011 August 5, “What the Arab papers say”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil.
type:
example
text:
Dr Jonathan Grant (Letters, April 22) feels the best way to show his disaffection with political parties over Iraq is to spoil his ballot paper.
ref:
2003, David Nicoll, The Guardian, letter
type:
quotation
text:
These include a brief but showstopping (and trailer-revealed) scene where Vanellope crashes a Disney Princess reunion, packed with gags and references that should send both young and old fans into paroxysms of glee. The princess confab also leads into a scene featuring Vanellope and the cast of Slaughter Race that probably shouldn’t be spoiled.
ref:
2018 November 14, Jesse Hassenger, “Disney Goes Viral with an Ambitious, Overstuffed Wreck-It Ralph Sequel”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-11-21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
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