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7600 | word:
spoil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spoil (plural spoils)
forms:
form:
spoils
tags:
plural
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:
In view of the decline in freight traffic, it was strange to hear from Mr. Lambert that there is "a continuing problem of supplying, particularly for the civil engineer, the number of wagons required for carrying construction materials and spoil for various works."
ref:
1961 December, “Planning the London Midland main-line electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 721
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine.
Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
senses_topics:
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7601 | word:
button
word_type:
noun
expansion:
button (plural buttons)
forms:
form:
buttons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English boton, botoun, from Old French boton (Modern French bouton), from Old French bouter, boter (“to push; thrust”), ultimately from a Germanic language. Doublet of Biden and beat. More at butt.
senses_examples:
text:
April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind.
type:
example
text:
Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.
type:
example
text:
Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.
type:
example
text:
The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.
type:
example
text:
O queen Emilia, / Fresher than May, sweeter / Than her gold buttons on the boughs,
ref:
c. 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, The Two Noble Kinsmen, act 3, scene 1, lines 4–6
type:
quotation
text:
In attempting to touch down on the button of the runway, he misjudged his altitude and struck a pile of rocks short of the runway. The right wheel was torn off and the gear leg bent backwards.
ref:
1984, Synopses of Aircraft Accidents: Civil Aircraft in Canada, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
The second and slightly higher aircraft on the approach showed no reaction to this barrage of pyrotechnics and continued blissfully down toward the button of the runway.
ref:
1999, Les Morrison, Of Luck and War, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test
ref:
1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!
type:
quotation
text:
'She has heard from us this morning,' said Mr. Gamble, grinning on his watch, 'and she knows all by this time, and 'tisn't a button to her.'
ref:
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
type:
quotation
text:
As to that I did not care a button, but I had wanted to hear about Betty, and now her name was barely mentioned.
ref:
1922, Van Tassel Sutphen, In Jeopardy
type:
quotation
text:
One thing you definitely don't want to do is write past the button. For example, a scene's natural button might run something like this:
TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about.
Whereas an example of writing past the button would sound something like this:
TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about.
CARMELLA: Okay. 'Bye.
ref:
2006, David Kukoff, Vault Guide to Television Writing Careers, page 77
type:
quotation
roman:
TONY: Bye.
text:
Scenes usually go out on a laugh line, a stinger or a button. End your script with a twist!
ref:
2002 November 8, Jean Ann Wright, “Animation Comedy and Gag Writing”, in Animation World Network
type:
quotation
text:
With our show, one thing we wanted to do was give our best effort to always put a button on the scene.
ref:
2014 June 18, Daniel Schindel, “3 Comedy Sketches that Changed Key and Peele's Lives”, in Los Angeles Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
Is there a best way to end a comedy sketch? Endings — or outs, or buttons as writers call them — are notoriously difficult to nail. The ideal ending needs to be satisfying and surprising while staying true to the comedic game that preceded it.
ref:
2016 July 12, Jessica Goldstein, “How to best end a comedy sketch? It’s hard to go wrong with gruesome death”, in The Washington Post
type:
quotation
text:
FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch. I remember when he was just a 'button,' when we were kids.
ref:
1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)
text:
Hardly a rattler is ever reported in the newspapers unless it is stated to have had "blank rattles and a button". But here button usually means the terminal lobe of the last rattle, even though the string may not be complete, the true button and additional rattles having been lost.
ref:
1936, Laurence Monroe Klauber, A Statistical Study of the Rattlesnakes, page 26
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
A bud.
The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
The clitoris.
The center (bullseye) of the house.
The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
A person who acts as a decoy.
A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
The end of a runway.
A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
A unit of length equal to ¹⁄₁₂ inch.
The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
Synonym of adjuster.
The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
A button man; a professional assassin.
The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
A clove (of garlic).
Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
card-games
poker
card-games
poker
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
arts
bowmaking
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
broadcasting
media
television
comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
7602 | word:
button
word_type:
verb
expansion:
button (third-person singular simple present buttons, present participle buttoning, simple past and past participle buttoned)
forms:
form:
buttons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
buttoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
buttoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
buttoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English butonen, botonen, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
The coat will not button.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fasten with a button.
To be fastened by a button or buttons.
To stop talking.
senses_topics:
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7603 | word:
sophistication
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sophistication (countable and uncountable, plural sophistications)
forms:
form:
sophistications
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun, from Old French sofisticacion, sophisticacion and Medieval Latin sophisticātio, -iōnis.
senses_examples:
text:
The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.
type:
example
text:
the sophistication of drugs
type:
example
text:
how generally they [drugs] are adulterated by the fraudulent avarice of the feller ; especially when the sophistication is very gainful
ref:
1663-1671, Robert Boyle, Considerations touching the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Enlightenment or education.
Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
Deceptive logic; sophistry.
Falsification or contamination.
Complexity.
Ability to deal with complexity.
The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
senses_topics:
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7604 | word:
Kalaallisut
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kalaallisut
forms:
wikipedia:
Kalaallisut
etymology_text:
From Greenlandic kalaallisut (“Greenlandic”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Greenlandic Inuit language, spoken in Greenland.
The Greenlandic Inuit language, spoken in Greenland.
Specifically the West Greenlandic dialect, spoken by the majority of the inhabitants of Greenland.
senses_topics:
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7605 | word:
space station
word_type:
noun
expansion:
space station (plural space stations)
forms:
form:
space stations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A crewed artificial satellite designed for long-term habitation, research, etc.
senses_topics:
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7606 | word:
twang
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twang (plural twangs)
forms:
form:
twang The deep twang of a loose bow string
tags:
canonical
form:
twangs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic. Compare Middle English twengen (“to pinch, tweak”), from Old English twenġen (“to pinch, twinge”); Middle English twingen (“to afflict, torment, oppress”), from Old Norse þvinga (“to weigh down, oppress”); Old English twingan (“to force, press”).
senses_examples:
text:
Let me give you in rude recitation, with here and there a twang and a caper of the guitar-strings, my vision of the Cid's sally from his besieged castle of Alcocer—the first outburst of that Spanish deluge that never receded till it rose over the dead body of the last Moor.
ref:
1860, [George] Walter Thornbury, “Life in Spain: Past and Present”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, →OCLC, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
Despite having lived in Canada for 20 years, he still has that Eastern-European twang in his voice.
type:
example
text:
A few insinuated that the American was not first-rate in Shakespeare, and one or two snidely detected a twang of the backwoods in his accent; […]
ref:
2007, Nigel Cliff, The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-century America, Random House Incorporated, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
Judging by the new voice over the PA, we've had a crew change in Plymouth - the warning about masks and the apology for lack of catering is made in a chirpy Cockney twang rather than a West Country burr.
ref:
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
Near-synonym: nasality
text:
nasal twang
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: zing
text:
spicy twang
type:
example
text:
Buttermilk also tastes different today. What do people do when they make buttermilk for the public that gives buttermilk that twang taste? Do these people put milk in an aging tank to mature like wine in a place where air and germs can't get to it?
ref:
2011, Marvin Carpenter, The 1929 Depression: Hey! That’s Perry County!, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.
A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
A sharp, pungent taste or flavor; sometimes, a disagreeable one specifically.
An annoying or stupid person; especially, a recalcitrant.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
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7607 | word:
twang
word_type:
verb
expansion:
twang (third-person singular simple present twangs, present participle twanging, simple past and past participle twanged)
forms:
form:
twangs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
twanging
tags:
participle
present
form:
twanged
tags:
participle
past
form:
twanged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic. Compare Middle English twengen (“to pinch, tweak”), from Old English twenġen (“to pinch, twinge”); Middle English twingen (“to afflict, torment, oppress”), from Old Norse þvinga (“to weigh down, oppress”); Old English twingan (“to force, press”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.
To have a nasal sound.
To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.
To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
7608 | word:
withdraw
word_type:
verb
expansion:
withdraw (third-person singular simple present withdraws, present participle withdrawing, simple past withdrew, past participle withdrawn)
forms:
form:
withdraws
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
withdrawing
tags:
participle
present
form:
withdrew
tags:
past
form:
withdrawn
tags:
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
withdraw
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*wi
From Middle English withdrawen, withdrauen (“to depart, leave, move away; (reflexive) to go away; (reflexive) to leave someone’s service; (often reflexive) to draw back or retreat (from a battlefield or dangerous place), withdraw; to abandon, desert; to go, go forth; to move; of the sea, water, etc.: to (cause to) ebb, recede, subside; to disappear; to slacken, wane; (often reflexive) to cease, stop; to desist, refrain; (reflexive) to go back on, recant; to avoid, eschew; to bring under control, contain, suppress; to curb, curtail; to delay, put off; to demur, refuse; to carry or take away, deprive of, remove; to contract, draw away or in, retract; to deny, refuse; to revoke; to withhold; to divert; to separate; to adopt, borrow, imitate”) [and other forms], from with- (prefix meaning ‘away; back’) + drawen, drauen (“to drag, pull, tow, tug, draw [and other senses]”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”)); see further at with- and draw. The English word is analysable as with- + draw.
senses_examples:
text:
VVhy vvithdravveſt thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy boſome.
A quotation from Psalm 74:11 of the Bible.
ref:
1653, David Dickson, “Psal[m] LXXIV. Maschil of Asaph.”, in A Brief Explication of the Other Fifty Psalmes, from Ps. 50. to Ps. 100, London: […] T[homas] R[atcliffe] & E[dward] M[ottershed] for Ralph Smith, […], →OCLC, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
Envy not! for thou wilt wear / In the dark a shroud as fair; / Golden with the sunny ray / Thou withdrawest from my day; […]
ref:
1865, Jean Ingelow, “A Dead Year”, in Poems, author’s edition, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
Hee that vvithdravveth the corne, the people vvill curſe him: but bleſſing ſhall bee on the head of him that ſelleth corne.
A quotation from Proverbs 11:26 in the Bible.
ref:
1580, Michael Cope [i.e., Michel Cop], “The Eleuenth Chapter”, in M[arcelline] O[utred], transl., A Godly and Learned Exposition uppon the Prouerbes of Solomon: […], London: […] Thomas Dawson, […], for George Bishop, →OCLC, folio 191, verso
type:
quotation
text:
The plan is to withdraw the Pacers from service by the end of the year.
ref:
2019 October, Rhodri Clark, “TfW seeks PRM derogation for Class 37 sets”, in Modern Railways, Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allen Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
to withdraw false charges
type:
example
text:
Simon had tried to rob a bank while he was withdrawing, but he had been forced to surrender to the police after they had fired several volleys at him.
ref:
1992, Edward St Aubyn, chapter 5, in Bad News, London: Picador, published 2012, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
Like a fool, I agreed to let him make love to me as long as he withdrew before he ejaculated and he promised he would, but then he didn't.
ref:
2002, Debbie Macomber, “1968 [chapter name]”, in Between Friends, Don Mills, Ont.: Mira Books, page 119
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
To remove (someone or (reflexive, archaic) oneself) from a position or situation; specifically (military), to remove (soldiers) from a battle or position where they are stationed.
To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
To draw or pull (a bolt, curtain, veil, or other object) aside.
To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
To distract or divert (someone) from a course of action, a goal, etc.
To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
Of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to retreat.
Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
senses_topics:
banking
business
finance
government
military
politics
war
|
7609 | word:
withdraw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
withdraw (plural withdraws)
forms:
form:
withdraws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English withdrawe (“act of stopping a judicial proceeding”), from withdrawen, withdrauen (verb): see etymology 1.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of drawing back or removing; a removal, a withdrawal or withdrawing.
Synonym of withdraught (“a dismissal of a lawsuit with prejudice based on a plaintiff's withdrawal of the suit; a retraxit; also, a fine imposed on a plaintiff for such a dismissal”)
senses_topics:
law |
7610 | word:
hold
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hold (third-person singular simple present holds, present participle holding, simple past held, past participle held or (archaic) holden)
forms:
form:
holds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holding
tags:
participle
present
form:
held
tags:
past
form:
held
tags:
participle
past
form:
holden
tags:
archaic
participle
past
wikipedia:
hold
etymology_text:
Derived from Middle English holden, derived from Old English healdan, derived from Proto-West Germanic *haldan, derived from Proto-Germanic *haldaną (“to tend, herd”), maybe derived from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to drive”).
cognates
*West Frisian hâlde
*Low German holden, holen
*Dutch houden
*German halten
*Danish
*Norwegian Bokmål holde
*Norwegian Nynorsk halda.
Compare Latin celer (“quick”), Tocharian B käl- (“to goad, drive”), Ancient Greek κέλλω (kéllō, “to drive”), Sanskrit कलयति (kalayati, “to impel”).
senses_examples:
text:
Hold the pencil like this.
type:
example
text:
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
ref:
2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
This package holds six bottles.
type:
example
text:
Hold my coat for me.
type:
example
text:
The general ordered the colonel to hold his position at all costs.
type:
example
text:
She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.
ref:
2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Hold a table for us at 7:00.
type:
example
text:
Hold the elevator.
type:
example
text:
Hold the suspect in this cell.
type:
example
text:
to hold true
type:
example
text:
The proposition holds.
type:
example
text:
Free speech is a basic human right that holds even during a state of emergency.
ref:
2021 July 20, Masayuki Yuda, “Foodpanda faces backlash after calling Thai protest 'terrorism'”, in Nikkei Asia, Nikkei Inc, retrieved 2021-07-20
type:
quotation
text:
to hold firm
type:
example
text:
We cannot hold mortality's strong hand.
ref:
1623, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John (Act iv, scene 2)
type:
quotation
text:
Death! what do'st? O, hold thy blow.
ref:
1646, Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Death of Mr. Herrys
type:
quotation
text:
He holds himself proudly erect.
type:
example
text:
Hold your head high.
type:
example
text:
Let him hold his fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisby whisper .
ref:
1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
type:
quotation
text:
Lay on, Macduff, and damned him that first cries hold, enough!
ref:
1606, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth
type:
quotation
text:
Our force by land hath nobly held.
ref:
1623, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
type:
quotation
text:
to hold one's bladder
type:
example
text:
to hold one's breath
type:
example
text:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
ref:
1776, Thomas Jefferson et al., United States Declaration of Independence
type:
quotation
text:
It's a terrible thought / To have and hold
ref:
2023, Sufjan Stevens (lyrics and music), “Javelin (To Have and To Hold)”, in Javelin
type:
quotation
text:
He was held responsible for the actions of those under his command.
type:
example
text:
I'll hold him to that promise.
type:
example
text:
Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course.
ref:
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II
type:
quotation
text:
These reasons mov'd her starlike husband's heart, But still he held his purpose to depart:
ref:
1700, Ovid (John Dryden), Ceyx and Alcyone
type:
quotation
text:
His dauntless heart would fain have held / From weeping, but his eyes rebelled.
ref:
1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis: A Funeral Pindaric Poem
type:
quotation
text:
He came into the hall where the wedding-festival had held […].
ref:
1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Elections will be held on the first Sunday of next month.
type:
example
text:
His imagination holds immediately from nature.
ref:
1817, William Hazlitt, The Round Table
type:
quotation
text:
One ham-and-cheese sandwich; hold the mustard.
type:
example
text:
A martini, please, and hold the olive.
type:
example
text:
[…] first thing clients would say to me would be 'Are you holding?' I'd say yes if we had our supply and no if it was dangerous.
ref:
1933, Goat Laven, Rough Stuff: The Life Story of a Gangster, page 122
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To grasp or grip.
To contain or store.
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
To have and keep possession of something.
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
To reserve.
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
To cause to wait or delay.
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
To detain.
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
To keep oneself in a particular state.
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
To bear, carry, or manage.
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
Not to move; to halt; to stop.
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
To maintain, to consider, to opine.
To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.
To win one's own service game.
To take place, to occur.
To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
To derive right or title.
In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
senses_topics:
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
|
7611 | word:
hold
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hold (plural holds)
forms:
form:
holds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hold
etymology_text:
Derived from Middle English holden, derived from Old English healdan, derived from Proto-West Germanic *haldan, derived from Proto-Germanic *haldaną (“to tend, herd”), maybe derived from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to drive”).
cognates
*West Frisian hâlde
*Low German holden, holen
*Dutch houden
*German halten
*Danish
*Norwegian Bokmål holde
*Norwegian Nynorsk halda.
Compare Latin celer (“quick”), Tocharian B käl- (“to goad, drive”), Ancient Greek κέλλω (kéllō, “to drive”), Sanskrit कलयति (kalayati, “to impel”).
senses_examples:
text:
Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
type:
example
text:
Can I have a hold of the baby?
type:
example
text:
Senator X placed a hold on the bill, then went to the library and placed a hold on a book.
type:
example
text:
Because there were no “launch commit criteria” regarding surface booster temperatures that might cause a hold on the launch, the ice team did not report the temperatures to the launch controllers.
ref:
2008, R. Michael Gordon, The Space Shuttle Program: How NASA Lost Its Way, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
We have a hold here for you.
type:
example
text:
The Judge accepts the payment, the law no longer has a hold on you, and therefore you are free to walk out of the court a free man or woman.
ref:
2008, Christopher Clarke-Milton, Dawn of the Messiah - Book 1, page 199
type:
quotation
text:
War has a hold on our cultural imaginations as an inevitable force, it is peace that has no benefactor.
ref:
2013, Wim Wenders, Mary Zournazi, Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
Despite their seemingly strong hold on life, as indicated by the persistence of movement in decapitation tests, rattlers are relatively frail creatures and are easily killed.
ref:
1982, Laurence Monroe Klauber, Karen Harvey McClung, Rattlesnakes, Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
Sculpturing gels provide stiffer hold than styling gels, which provide better hold than mousses.
ref:
2004, Zoe Diana Draelos, Hair Care: An Illustrated Dermatologic Handbook, page 221
type:
quotation
text:
He got him in a tight hold and pinned him to the mat.
type:
example
text:
2002, "Reality", “The Scorecard For Bookmakers”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2015-04-27:
type:
quotation
text:
The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
type:
example
text:
2012, Sarah Fortnum, “Melbourne Cup 2012 From The Bookie’s Perspective”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2012-11-12:
type:
quotation
text:
As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
text:
The beginner will instinctively try to stick his toe straight in in a foot hold, which is very tiring on the calf muscles.
ref:
1995, Turlough Johnston, Madeleine Halldén, Rock Climbing Basics, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
A hold facility is available; H holds, and S restarts.
ref:
1983, New Generation Software, Knot in 3D (video game instruction leaflet)
text:
SCREEN 5 — Perhaps the toughest — going like the clappers sometimes works but generally you'll have to be smarter than that. If things get a little too hectic and you don't even have time to reach the HOLD key, try taking a short rest below the top of the stairs.
ref:
1987?, Imagine Software, Legend of Kage (video game instruction leaflet)
text:
Given that there is an average on-hold time of more than five minutes while enquiries are being dealt with, the telephone hold system provided the best opportunity.
ref:
2003, Daniel Jackson, Paul Fulberg, Sonic Branding: An Essential Guide to the Art and Science of Sonic Branding, Palgrave Macmillan, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Even the "on-hold" messages on Southwest's telephone system are humorous, ensuring anyone inconvenienced by the hold is entertained.
ref:
2005, Lorraine Grubbs-West, Lessons in Loyalty: How Southwest Airlines Does it : an Insider's View, CornerStone Leadership Inst, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
Note. After the device downloads its new configuration file, we can test placing a call on hold and the generic hold music will be heard.
ref:
2012, Tanner Ezell, Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8: Expert Administration Cookbook, Packt Publishing Ltd
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A grasp or grip.
An act or instance of holding.
A place where animals are held for safety
An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
Something reserved or kept.
Power over someone or something.
The ability to persist.
The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
A position or grip used to control the opponent.
An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
The wager amount, the total hold.
An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
A pause facility.
The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
senses_topics:
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
gambling
games
gambling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
video-games
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
7612 | word:
hold
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hold (plural holds)
forms:
form:
holds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hold
etymology_text:
Alteration (due to hold) of hole. Cognate with Dutch hol (“hole, cave, den, cavity, cargo hold”), Dutch holte (“cavity, hollow, den”).
senses_examples:
text:
We watched our luggage being loaded into the hold of the plane.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport |
7613 | word:
hold
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hold (comparative more hold, superlative most hold)
forms:
form:
more hold
tags:
comparative
form:
most hold
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
hold
etymology_text:
From Middle English hold, holde, from Old English hold (“gracious, friendly, kind, favorable, true, faithful, loyal, devout, acceptable, pleasant”), from Proto-Germanic *hulþaz (“favourable, gracious, loyal”), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to tend, incline, bend, tip”).
Cognate with German hold (“gracious, friendly, sympathetic, grateful”), Danish and Swedish huld (“fair, kindly, gracious”), Icelandic hollur (“faithful, dedicated, loyal”), German Huld (“grace, favour”).
senses_examples:
text:
at the proper moment, I stepped forward with a gay heart and a hold one
ref:
1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Passages from a Relinquished Work”, in Mosses from an Old Manse
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
senses_topics:
|
7614 | word:
shake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shake (third-person singular simple present shakes, present participle shaking, simple past shook or (rare) shaked or (slang) shooketh, past participle shaken or (dialectal) shook)
forms:
form:
shakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
shook
tags:
past
form:
shaked
tags:
past
rare
form:
shooketh
tags:
past
slang
form:
shaken
tags:
participle
past
form:
shook
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
wikipedia:
shake
etymology_text:
From Middle English schaken, from Old English sċeacan, sċacan (“to shake”), from Proto-West Germanic *skakan, from Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, swing, escape”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keg-, *(s)kek- (“to jump, move”).
Cognate with Scots schake, schack (“to shake”), West Frisian schaekje (“to shake”), Dutch schaken (“to elope, make clean, shake”), Low German schaken (“to move, shift, push, shake”) and schacken (“to shake, shock”), Old Norse skaka (“to shaka”), Norwegian Nynorsk skaka (“to shake”), Swedish skaka (“to shake”), Danish skage (“to shake”), Dutch schokken (“to shake, shock”), Russian скака́ть (skakátʹ, “to jump”). More at shock.
senses_examples:
text:
The earthquake shook the building.
type:
example
text:
He shook the can of soda for thirty seconds before delivering it to me, so that, when I popped it open, soda went everywhere.
type:
example
text:
Shaking his head, he kept repeating “No, no, no”.
type:
example
text:
to shake fruit down from a tree
type:
example
text:
Her father’s death shook her terribly.
type:
example
text:
He was shaken by what had happened.
type:
example
text:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
I can’t shake the feeling that I forgot something.
type:
example
text:
She shook with grief.
type:
example
text:
OK, let’s shake on it.
type:
example
text:
She was shaking it on the dance floor.
type:
example
text:
to shake a note in music
type:
example
text:
The experience shook my religious belief.
type:
example
text:
The story of Ms. He and her mother began in the early 1960s, shortly before the Cultural Revolution shook China.
ref:
2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-16, Sinosphere
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
To disturb emotionally; to shock.
To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
To move from side to side.
To shake hands.
To dance.
To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
To threaten to overthrow.
To be agitated; to lose firmness.
senses_topics:
|
7615 | word:
shake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shake (plural shakes)
forms:
form:
shakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
shake
etymology_text:
From Middle English schaken, from Old English sċeacan, sċacan (“to shake”), from Proto-West Germanic *skakan, from Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, swing, escape”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keg-, *(s)kek- (“to jump, move”).
Cognate with Scots schake, schack (“to shake”), West Frisian schaekje (“to shake”), Dutch schaken (“to elope, make clean, shake”), Low German schaken (“to move, shift, push, shake”) and schacken (“to shake, shock”), Old Norse skaka (“to shaka”), Norwegian Nynorsk skaka (“to shake”), Swedish skaka (“to shake”), Danish skage (“to shake”), Dutch schokken (“to shake, shock”), Russian скака́ть (skakátʹ, “to jump”). More at shock.
senses_examples:
text:
The cat gave the mouse a shake.
type:
example
text:
She replied in the negative, with a shake of her head.
type:
example
text:
The snake did the frug, the monkey did the shake. The crowd, mostly young couples, tourists and kids, loved it.
ref:
1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
[…] most suppliers will allow up to 120 grams of shake to a kilo, or 12 percent; kilo-level buyers are usually unhappy if they find more.
ref:
1989, Terry Williams, chapter 2, in The Cocaine Kids, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
Empty casks are[…]taken to pieces, and the staves closely packed up in a cylindrical form, constituting what are called shakes or packs
ref:
1820, William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions
type:
quotation
text:
As long as I had seen Mr Holdsworth in the rooms at the little inn at Hensleydale, where I had been accustomed to look upon him as an invalid, I had not been aware of the visible shake his fever had given to his health.
ref:
1864, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
A milkshake.
A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
A thin shingle.
A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
A fissure in rock or earth.
A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
A shook of staves and headings.
The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
A shock or disturbance.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
7616 | word:
make
word_type:
verb
expansion:
make (third-person singular simple present makes, present participle making, simple past and past participle made or (dialectal or obsolete) maked)
forms:
form:
makes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
making
tags:
participle
present
form:
made
tags:
participle
past
form:
made
tags:
past
form:
maked
tags:
dialectal
obsolete
participle
past
form:
maked
tags:
dialectal
obsolete
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
make
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
make
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English maken, from Old English macian (“to make, build, work”), from Proto-West Germanic *makōn (“to make, build, work”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ- (“to knead, mix, make”).
Related to match.
cognates
* Scots mak (“to make”)
* Saterland Frisian moakje (“to make”)
* West Frisian meitsje (“to make”)
* Dutch maken (“to make”)
* Dutch Low Saxon maken (“to make”)
* German Low German maken (“to make”)
* German machen (“to make, do”)
* Danish mage (“to make, arrange (in a certain way)”)
* Latin mācerō, macer
* Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō)
senses_examples:
text:
We made a bird feeder for our yard.
type:
example
text:
I'll make a man out of him yet.
type:
example
text:
He makes deodorants.
type:
example
text:
Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard[…]shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”:[…]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
ref:
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
I made a poem for her wedding.
type:
example
text:
He made a will.
type:
example
text:
make war
type:
example
text:
They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men.
type:
example
text:
God made earth and heaven.
type:
example
text:
I'm making cereal for breakfast. Who wants some?
type:
example
text:
To make like a deer caught in the headlights.
type:
example
text:
They made nice together, as if their fight never happened.
type:
example
text:
He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands.
type:
example
text:
And all Israel's language about this power, except that it makes for righteousness, is approximate language
ref:
1873, Matthew Arnold, Literature and Dogma
type:
quotation
text:
They make a cute couple.
type:
example
text:
This makes the third infraction.
type:
example
text:
One swallow does not a summer make.
type:
example
text:
Style alone does not make a writer.
ref:
1995, Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work, p.46
text:
So if your prospective school is proudly displaying that "We Are Outstanding" banner on its perimeter fence, well, that is wonderful … but do bear in mind that in all likelihood it has been awarded for results in those two subjects, rather than for its delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum which brings out the best in every child. Which is, of course, what makes a great primary school.
ref:
2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Two and four make six.
type:
example
text:
I don’t know what to make of it.
type:
example
text:
They couldn't make anything of the inscription.
type:
example
text:
What time do you make it?
type:
example
text:
This company is what made you.
type:
example
text:
She married into wealth and so has it made.
type:
example
text:
A great expression and amazing eye contact, in particular, can make a photograph, and without them, you can end up with very little.
ref:
2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
The citizens made their objections clear.
type:
example
text:
This might make you a bit woozy.
type:
example
text:
Did I make myself heard?
type:
example
text:
Scotch will make you a man.
type:
example
text:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
Homer makes Aphrodite the daughter of Zeus, unlike Hesiod who depicted her as born from the sea foam.
type:
example
text:
1709–1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning
He is not that goose and Ass that Valla would make him.
text:
You're making her cry.
type:
example
text:
I was made to feel like a criminal.
type:
example
text:
The teacher made the student study.
type:
example
text:
Don’t let them make you suffer.
type:
example
text:
His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.
type:
example
text:
I caught sight of him two or three times and then made him turning north into Laurel Canyon Drive.
ref:
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
Linus Caldwell: Well, she just made Danny and Yen, which means in the next 48 hours the three o' your pictures are gonna be in every police station in Europe.
ref:
2004, George Nolfi et al., Ocean's Twelve, Warner Bros. Pictures, 0:50:30
text:
David Sinclair: (walking) Almost at Seventh; I should have a visual any second now. (rounds a corner, almost collides into Kaleed Asan) Damn, that was close.
Don Eppes: David, he make you?
David Sinclair: No, I don't think so.
ref:
2007 May 4, Andrew Dettmann et al., "Under Pressure", episode 3-22 of Numb3rs, 00:01:16
text:
We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.
type:
example
text:
They made westward over the snowy mountains.
type:
example
text:
Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!
type:
example
text:
They made away from the fire toward the river.
type:
example
text:
As the guard's whistle shrilled the "right away," I made to join my companions in the train, but with a smile the driver, whose name was Abdul, bade me take the fireman's seat.
ref:
1942 July-August, Philip Spencer, “On the Footplate in Egypt”, in Railway Magazine, page 208
type:
quotation
text:
The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas.
type:
example
text:
This baby can make 220 miles an hour.
type:
example
text:
On November 15, 1396,[…]Benedict XIII made him bishop of Noyon;
ref:
1991, Bernard Guenée, Between Church and State: The Lives of Four French Prelates
type:
quotation
text:
Jimmy Conway: They're gonna make him.
Henry Hill: Paulie's gonna make you?
ref:
1990, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas
type:
quotation
text:
When my father comes back with a dark wet spot on his pants, right in front, as if he has made in his pants, he starts eating his food in great shovelfuls.
ref:
1992, Merrill Joan Gerber, The kingdom of Brooklyn, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
"He made in his pants, okay? I hope everybody's satisfied!" She flung her hat on the floor and kicked it. "He'll never come back to school now! Never! And it's all your fault!
ref:
2003, Mary Anne Kelly, The Cordelia Squad, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
They hope to make a bigger profit.
type:
example
text:
He didn't make the choir after his voice changed.
type:
example
text:
She made ten points in that game.
type:
example
text:
Wales' defence had an unfamiliar look with Cardiff youngster Darcy Blake preferred to 44-cap Danny Gabbidon of Queen's Park Rangers, who did not even make the bench.
ref:
2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Bart spies an opportunity to make a quick buck so he channels his inner carny and posits his sinking house as a natural wonder of the world and its inhabitants as freaks, barking to dazzled spectators, “Behold the horrors of the Slanty Shanty! See the twisted creatures that dwell within! Meet Cue-Ball, the man with no hair!”
ref:
2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (classic): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
Whether, […], the construction of additional roads […] would present a case in which the exaction of prohibitory or otherwise onerous rates may be prevented, though it result in an impossibility for some or all of the roads to make expenses, we need not say; no such case is before us.
ref:
1889 May 1, Chief Justice George P. Raney, Pensacola & A. R. Co. v. State of Florida (judicial opinion), reproduced in The Southern Reporter, Volume 5, West Publishing Company, p.843
text:
At first glance, you may be able to make rent and other overhead expenses because the business is doing well, but if sales drop can you still make rent?
ref:
2005, Yuvi Shmul, Ron Peltier, Make It Big with Yuvi: How to Buy Or Start a Small Business, the Best Investment, AuthorHouse, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
So you can’t make payroll. This happens.[…]many business owners who have never confronted it before will be forced to deal with this most difficult matter of not making payroll.
ref:
2011, Donald Todrin, Successfully Navigating the Downturn, Entrepreneur Press, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman
to solace him some time, as I do when I make
text:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
ref:
1791, The First Amendment to the United States Constitution
text:
She'll make a fine president.
type:
example
text:
make plans
type:
example
text:
made a questionable decision
type:
example
text:
make a leap
type:
example
text:
make a pass
type:
example
text:
make a u-turn
type:
example
text:
In the end, my class didn't make, which left me with a bit of free time.
type:
example
text:
Footman. Madam! Mr. Dorimant!
Lov. What makes him here?
ref:
1676, George Etherege, A Man of Mode
type:
quotation
text:
What makes her in the wood so late, / A furlong from the castle gate?
ref:
1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
type:
quotation
text:
I was a young un at 'Oogli,
Shy as a girl to begin;
Aggie de Castrer she made me,
— An' Aggie was clever as sin;
Older than me, but my first un —
More like a mother she were
Showed me the way to promotion an' pay,
An' I learned about women from 'er!
ref:
1896, Rudyard Kipling, The Ladies
type:
quotation
text:
He could see that her face was thin, proud. She looked like she'd be a hard dame to make. He didn't want just that. She'd be a hard dame to win.
ref:
1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 16, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan
type:
quotation
text:
The boys in the lower classes who had already dropped out of school derived much of their prestige among their peers from their skill in “making” girls.
ref:
1959, Vance Packard, The Status Seekers, Pocket Books, published 1971, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
The only thing she wants to make is you!
ref:
1979, Mark Tuttle, “The Loan Shark”, in Three's Company, season 4, episode 10 (television production)
type:
quotation
text:
Monday night, I'm makin' Jen / Tuesday night, I'm makin' Lyn / Wednesday night, I'm makin' Catherine / Oh, why can't I be makin' love come true?
ref:
1996, Rivers Cuomo (lyrics and music), “Tired of Sex”, in Pinkerton, performed by Weezer
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To create.
To build, construct, produce, or originate.
To create.
To write or compose.
To create.
To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
To create.
To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
To create.
To prepare (food); to cook (food).
To behave, to act.
To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
To constitute.
To add up to, have a sum of.
To interpret.
To bring into success.
To cause to be.
To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
To force to do.
To indicate or suggest to be.
To cover neatly with bedclothes.
To recognise, identify, spot.
To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
To proceed (in a direction).
To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
To move at (a speed).
To appoint; to name.
To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
To defecate or urinate.
To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
To enact; to establish.
To develop into; to prove to be.
To form or formulate in the mind.
To perform a feat.
To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.
To increase; to augment; to accrue.
To be engaged or concerned in.
To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
To take the virginity of.
To have sexual intercourse with.
Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
senses_topics:
government
law-enforcement
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7617 | word:
make
word_type:
noun
expansion:
make (plural makes)
forms:
form:
makes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
make
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English maken, from Old English macian (“to make, build, work”), from Proto-West Germanic *makōn (“to make, build, work”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ- (“to knead, mix, make”).
Related to match.
cognates
* Scots mak (“to make”)
* Saterland Frisian moakje (“to make”)
* West Frisian meitsje (“to make”)
* Dutch maken (“to make”)
* Dutch Low Saxon maken (“to make”)
* German Low German maken (“to make”)
* German machen (“to make, do”)
* Danish mage (“to make, arrange (in a certain way)”)
* Latin mācerō, macer
* Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō)
senses_examples:
text:
What make of car do you drive?
type:
example
text:
I can name the tribe every moccasin belongs to by the make of it.
ref:
1907, Mark Twain, A Horse's Tale
type:
quotation
text:
The Royal Typewriter Company is distributing a very attractive eight page folder, announcing the Royal Number 10, the first machine of Royal make which uses levers instead of wires to operate the type-bars.
ref:
1914, Judicious Advertising, page 158
type:
quotation
text:
The camera was of German make.
type:
example
text:
I never feel very much excited about any old thing; it's not my make; but I've got a sort of shiver inside of me, and a watery feeling in the heart region.
ref:
1914, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, Perch of the Devil, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
[…] papers are respectively of second or inferior quality, the last being perhaps torn or broken in the "make" — as the manufacture is technically termed.
ref:
1908, Charles Thomas Jacobi, Printing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Typography as Applied More Particularly to the Printing of Books, page 331
type:
quotation
text:
In 1880 the make of pig iron in all countries was 18,300,000 tons.
ref:
1902 September 16, “German Iron and Steel Production”, in The New York Times, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
However, the unzip and make programs weren't found, so the default was left blank.
ref:
2003, D. Curtis Jamison, Perl Programming for Biologists, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
"They ever get a make on the blood type?" Horn asked, staring at the stained mattress.
ref:
2003, John Lutz, The Night Spider, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
"I'm sure we'll get a make on the suspect's prints by day break, so if you come down town, I'll see you get everything available. Go ahead and process the car, we won't have any need of it."
ref:
2003, Harlan Wygant, The Samurai Conspiracy: A Story of Revenge by the Author of "The Junkyard Dog.", page 36
type:
quotation
text:
He got out his binoculars, trying for a make on the plate, but the plate light was conveniently not working. The windows must have been tinted, because he could not see inside the van, either.
ref:
2007, P. T. Deutermann, Hunting Season: A Novel, St. Martin's Press
type:
quotation
text:
“Okay, if I could understand correctly what Oscar was saying through all the doubletalk, we've got a make on the bigwig occupant of the convoy ahead. Chaim Lieberman, Israeli Ambassador to the United States.” “Shit,” said Gardner.
ref:
2008, H.A. Covington, The Brigade, page 660
type:
quotation
text:
Sent back the list of makes with only Post and Hamilton on it. (Buckner had recommended 10 staff officers and 1 combat soldier!)
ref:
2004, Joseph Stilwell, Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Joseph Stilwell, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
Blue Peter "make"
ref:
1978, Biddy Baxter, Hazel Gill, Margaret Parnell, Rachel Barnes, Kate Pountney, The 'Blue Peter' Make, Cook & Look Book, page i
type:
quotation
text:
It's your make as the cards lie. Take your time.
ref:
1925, Robert William Chambers, The Talkers, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
'Not your make,' said the adjutant sternly and started dealing the cards with his white be-ringed hands as though he was in haste to get rid of them.
ref:
1962 (edition), Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murat: A Tale of the Caucasus
text:
If the interrupter operated every 2 sec., the current would rise to 10 amp. and drop to zero with successive "makes" and "breaks."
ref:
1947, Charles Seymour Siskind, Electricity, page 94
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Brand or kind; model.
Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.
Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
A person's character or disposition.
The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
Quantity produced, especially of materials.
A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
A promotion.
A home-made project.
Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
A made basket.
The closing of an electrical circuit.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
military
politics
war
card-games
games
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
7618 | word:
make
word_type:
noun
expansion:
make (plural makes)
forms:
form:
makes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
make
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English make, imake, ȝemace, from Old English ġemaca (“a mate, an equal, companion, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *gamakō, from Proto-Germanic *gamakô (“companion, comrade”), from Proto-Indo-European *maǵ- (“to knead, oil”). Reinforced by Old Norse maki (“an equal”).
Cognate with Icelandic maki (“spouse”), Swedish make (“spouse, husband”), Danish mage (“companion, fellow, mate”). Doublet of match.
senses_examples:
text:
To me, if I weren't going with someone and was taking pills, it would be like advertising that I'm an easy make.
ref:
2007, Prudence Mors Rains, Becoming an Unwed Mother, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
She's your make, not mine. […] It isn't anything short of difficult to entertain someone else's pregnant fiancee.
ref:
1962, Ralph Moreno, A Man's Estate, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
Where their maids and their makes / At dancing and wakes, / Had their napkins and posies / And the wipers for their noses
ref:
1624, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Owls at Kenilworth
type:
quotation
text:
But then sometimes I thought, it's a black Crake / That never to her-sell can get a Make.
ref:
1684, Meriton, Praise Ale
type:
quotation
text:
Every cake hath its make; but a scrape cake hath two.
ref:
1678 (later reprinted: 1855), John Ray, A Hand-book of Proverbs
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
senses_topics:
|
7619 | word:
make
word_type:
noun
expansion:
make (plural makes)
forms:
form:
makes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
make
etymology_text:
Uncertain.
senses_examples:
text:
the last we shall have, I take it; for a make to a million, but we trine to the nubbing cheat to-morrow.
ref:
1826, Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock; Or, the Cavalier
type:
quotation
text:
Only as he climbed the steps did he mind that he hadn't even a meck upon him, and turned to jump off as the tram with a showd swung grinding down to the Harbour […]
ref:
1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), page 606
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A halfpenny.
senses_topics:
|
7620 | word:
make
word_type:
noun
expansion:
make (plural makes)
forms:
form:
makes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
make
etymology_text:
Origin unclear.
senses_examples:
text:
Harvest.—When left for seed, they are cut and wadded as pease, with a make.
Produce.—From three to six sacks an acre.
ref:
1797, Arthur Young, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Suffolk: Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
Harvest. Taken up by a pease-make, and left in small heaps, and turned as often as the weather may make it necessary.
ref:
1811, William Gooch, General view of the agriculture of the county of Cambridge; drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, page 142, section VI "Pease"
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.
senses_topics:
|
7621 | word:
burn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
burn (countable and uncountable, plural burns)
forms:
form:
burns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
burn
etymology_text:
From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew.
See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”). More at brew.
senses_examples:
text:
She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
type:
example
text:
chili burn from eating hot peppers
type:
example
text:
They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.
type:
example
text:
One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn.
ref:
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
type:
quotation
text:
One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!
type:
example
text:
TOM: I’m serious bruv. Put my burn and lighter and all that in my jeans please and give them here, then press the cell bell.
ref:
2002, Tom Wickham, “A Day In The Wrong Life”, in Julian Broadhead, Laura Kerr, editors, Prison Writing, 16th edition, Waterside Press, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
“Any of you want to borrow some burn,” asked a scarred inmate known as Bull.
ref:
2006, S. Drake, A Cry for Help, Chipmunkapublishing ltd, Chapter 7, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
It was like no one was looking out for me, and the older kids used to take the piss ...they were always threatening me and taking my burn [tobacco][…]
ref:
2006, Peter Squires, editor, Community Safety: Critical Perspectives on Policy and Practice, Policy Press, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
As the prison week ended and the less careful inmates began to run out of burn they went through a peculiar begging ritual that I, never one to husband resources either, was quick to learn.
ref:
2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
type:
quotation
text:
Allow additional burns enables you to create a multisession CD, which can be used again to write more data.
ref:
2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced, page 248
type:
quotation
text:
They have a good burn.
type:
example
text:
On 4 March 1999, the MCO performed its second course correction manoeuvre with a burn involving its four thrusters […]
ref:
2004, David Baker, Jane's Space Directory, page 529
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
A sensation resembling such an injury.
The act of burning something with fire.
An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
Tobacco.
The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
A disease in vegetables; brand.
The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
A kind of watercourse: a brook or creek.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
7622 | word:
burn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
burn (third-person singular simple present burns, present participle burning, simple past and past participle burned or (mostly Commonwealth) burnt or (obsolete) brent)
forms:
form:
burns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
burning
tags:
participle
present
form:
burned
tags:
participle
past
form:
burned
tags:
past
form:
burnt
tags:
Commonwealth
participle
past
form:
burnt
tags:
Commonwealth
past
form:
brent
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
brent
tags:
obsolete
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
burn
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
burn
etymology_text:
From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew.
See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”). More at brew.
senses_examples:
text:
He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.
type:
example
text:
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
He watched the house burn.
type:
example
text:
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.
type:
example
text:
The grill was too hot and the steak burned.
type:
example
text:
to burn a hole; to burn letters into a block
type:
example
text:
I posted myself near a place where they had been burning charcoal, and very soon the hare came running past, close to where I was standing.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.
type:
example
text:
She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.
type:
example
text:
to burn the mouth with pepper
type:
example
text:
You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
ref:
1965, Amplified Bible, James 4:2
type:
quotation
text:
The child's forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame.
type:
example
text:
In ſlumbers oft for fere I quake
For hete & cold I burne & ſhake
For lake of ſlepe my hede dothe ake
What menys thys
ref:
a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, “What menythe thys” in the Devonshire Manuscript, folio 12 verso
text:
A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration. to burn iron in oxygen
type:
example
text:
Copper burns in chlorine.
type:
example
text:
We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.
type:
example
text:
At first they didn’t do anything by design, beyond writing songs and gigging around Sheffield, distributing homemade demo CDs at shows. Their canny friends burned copies to leave on buses, but more importantly, uploaded them to filesharing sites and set up a MySpace page.
ref:
2015 October 22, Laura Snapes, “How Arctic Monkeys’ debut single changed the music industry and ‘killed the NME’”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to burn them in.
type:
example
text:
The informant burned him.
type:
example
text:
I just burned you again.
type:
example
text:
We have an hour to burn.
type:
example
text:
The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.
type:
example
text:
Oh, why don’t you save all the money you earn? / If I didn’t eat, I’d have money to burn.
ref:
c. 1897, anonymous (lyrics and music), “Hallelujah, I’m a Bum”
text:
You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!
type:
example
text:
Not being accustomed to make fine distinctions, or to appreciate magnanimity, they read his letters and speeches as if they read them not. They were not aware when they approached a heroic statement,—they did not know when they burned.
ref:
1860, Henry David Thoreau, The Last Days of John Brown
type:
quotation
text:
He had already burned his cover with Mrs. Phillips, and it was not a mistake he intended to make again.
ref:
2011, Thomas H. Cook, Night Secrets
type:
quotation
text:
Eventually they'd report back to Ryker, and he still didn't know if Ryker had personally burned his cover and sent assassins after him, or if the SSU had a mole. Until he knew for certain, he had to play this safe.
ref:
2013, Vanessa Kier, Vengeance: The SSU Book 1
type:
quotation
text:
"How does Leipzig burn him precisely?" Enderby insisted. "What's the pressure? Dirty pix—well, okay. Karla's a puritan, so's Kirov. But I mean, Christ, this isn't the fifties, is it? […]
ref:
1979, John le Carré, Smiley's People
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to be consumed by fire.
To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
To overheat so as to make unusable.
To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
To cauterize.
To sunburn.
To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
To betray.
To insult or defeat.
To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
To accidentally touch a moving stone.
In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
To discard.
To shoot someone with a firearm.
To compromise (an agent's cover story).
To blackmail.
To desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
surgery
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
card-games
games
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
card-games
gambling
games
espionage
government
military
politics
war
espionage
government
military
politics
war
|
7623 | word:
burn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
burn (plural burns)
forms:
form:
burns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
burn
etymology_text:
From Middle English burn, bourne, from Old English burne, burna (“spring, fountain”), Proto-West Germanic *brunnō, from Proto-Germanic *brunnô, *brunō.
Cognate with West Frisian boarne, Dutch bron, German Brunnen; also Albanian burim (“spring, fountain”), Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well, reservoir”), Old Armenian աղբիւր (ałbiwr, “fount”). Doublet of bourn. More at brew.
senses_examples:
text:
He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn, and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones.
ref:
1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque
type:
quotation
text:
At this place, the clay in the 52 ft. embankment had been under water pressure for some weeks before the water level could be lowered, and the burn diverted through a temporary culvert.
ref:
1950 October, “Completion of Flood-Damage Repairs, East Coast Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, pages 708-709
type:
quotation
text:
When it was too heavy rain the burn ran very high and wide and ye could never jump it.
ref:
2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 105
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large stream.
senses_topics:
|
7624 | word:
swear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swear (third-person singular simple present swears, present participle swearing, simple past swore or (archaic) sware, past participle sworn or (nonstandard) swore)
forms:
form:
swears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
swearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
swore
tags:
past
form:
sware
tags:
archaic
past
form:
sworn
tags:
participle
past
form:
swore
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
wikipedia:
Gospel of Matthew
etymology_text:
From Middle English sweren, swerien, from Old English swerian (“to swear, take an oath of office”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarjan, from Proto-Germanic *swarjaną (“to speak, swear”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to swear”).
Cognate with West Frisian swarre (“to swear”), Saterland Frisian swera (“to swear”), Dutch zweren (“to swear, vow”), Low German swören (“to swear”), sweren, German schwören (“to swear”), Danish sværge, Swedish svära (“to swear”), Icelandic sverja (“to swear”), Russian свара (svara, “quarrel”). Also cognate to Albanian var (“to hang, consider, to depend from”) through Proto-Indo-European.
The original sense in all Germanic languages is “to take an oath”. The sense “to use bad language” developed in Middle English and is based on the Christian prohibition against swearing in general (cf. Matthew 5:33-37) and invoking God’s name in particular (i.e. frequent swearing was considered similar to the use of obscene words).
senses_examples:
text:
The knight swore not to return to the palace until he had found the treasure.
type:
example
text:
The witness swore that the person she had seen running out of the bank was a foot shorter than the accused.
type:
example
text:
I swear I don't know what you're talking about.
type:
example
text:
My little brother is such a pest, I swear.
type:
example
text:
Let the witness be sworn.
type:
example
text:
An Australian was once appointed on contract, but he swore too much.
ref:
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.
To take an oath that an assertion is true.
To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert.
To administer an oath to (a person).
To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
senses_topics:
|
7625 | word:
swear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
swear (plural swears)
forms:
form:
swears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the above verb, or from Middle English sware, from Old English swaru, from Proto-Germanic *swarō.
senses_examples:
text:
You might think it funny to hear this Kanaka girl come out with a big swear. No such thing. There was no swearing in her — no, nor anger; she was beyond anger, and meant the word simple and serious.
ref:
1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá
type:
quotation
text:
[A]ccording to his kind the man would smile cynically, or look sad, or let out a swear or two.
ref:
1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page v. 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A swear word.
senses_topics:
|
7626 | word:
swear
word_type:
adj
expansion:
swear (comparative swearer or more swear, superlative swearest or most swear)
forms:
form:
swearer
tags:
comparative
form:
more swear
tags:
comparative
form:
swearest
tags:
superlative
form:
most swear
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English swere, swer, swar, from Old English swǣr, swār (“heavy, heavy as a burden, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *swār, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).
Cognate with West Frisian swier (“heavy”), Dutch zwaar (“heavy, hard, difficult”), German schwer (“heavy, hard, difficult”), Swedish svår (“heavy, hard, severe”), Latin sērius (“earnest, grave, solemn, serious”) and Albanian varrë (“wound, plague”).
senses_examples:
text:
Rise up gueedewife, an dinna be sweer, / B'soothan, b'soothan, / An deal yir chirity t' the peer, / An awa b'mony a toon.
ref:
1881, Walter Gregor, chapter XXII, in Notes on the Folk-lore of the North-east of Scotland, London: Folk-Lore Society, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
But faith, to glump ye I'd be sweer / I wish ye luck o' this new year
ref:
1805, John Stagg, “A New Year's Epistle”, in Miscellaneous Poems, Workington: W. Borrowdale, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
My father will maybe be a wee sweer to take ye in, but ye maun make your way on him the best gate ye can; he has the best stockit pantry on Teviot head, but a bit of a Laidlaw's fault, complaining aye maist when he has least reason.
ref:
1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man
type:
quotation
text:
For if my Pen shall turn as Sweir's their Purse / I fear this is the last I'll write in Verse
ref:
1714, Robert Smith, Poems of Controversy Betwixt Episcopacy and Presbytery, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: R. Syme & Son, published 1853, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Heavy.
Top-heavy; too high.
Dull; lazy; slow.
Reluctant; unwilling.
Niggardly.
senses_topics:
|
7627 | word:
swear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
swear (plural swears)
forms:
form:
swears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English swere, swer, swar, from Old English swǣr, swār (“heavy, heavy as a burden, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *swār, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).
Cognate with West Frisian swier (“heavy”), Dutch zwaar (“heavy, hard, difficult”), German schwer (“heavy, hard, difficult”), Swedish svår (“heavy, hard, severe”), Latin sērius (“earnest, grave, solemn, serious”) and Albanian varrë (“wound, plague”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
senses_topics:
|
7628 | word:
swear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swear (third-person singular simple present swears, present participle swearing, simple past and past participle sweared)
forms:
form:
swears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
swearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sweared
tags:
participle
past
form:
sweared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English swere, swer, swar, from Old English swǣr, swār (“heavy, heavy as a burden, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *swār, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).
Cognate with West Frisian swier (“heavy”), Dutch zwaar (“heavy, hard, difficult”), German schwer (“heavy, hard, difficult”), Swedish svår (“heavy, hard, severe”), Latin sērius (“earnest, grave, solemn, serious”) and Albanian varrë (“wound, plague”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
senses_topics:
|
7629 | word:
acolyte
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acolyte (plural acolytes)
forms:
form:
acolytes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
acolyte
etymology_text:
Late Middle English, from Old French acolyt and Late Latin acolythus, from Ancient Greek ἀκόλουθος (akólouthos, “follower, attendant”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic Church, being ordained to carry the wine, water and lights at Mass.
An altar server.
An attendant, assistant or follower.
senses_topics:
Christianity
Christianity
|
7630 | word:
committee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
committee (plural committees)
forms:
form:
committees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:committee (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From commit + -ee, or else revival of Anglo-Norman commite, past participle of commettre (“to commit”), from Latin committere, from con- (“with”) + mittere (“to send”). The OED3 prefers the first etymology.
senses_examples:
text:
My uncle is on the committee.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols.
A guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after themselves.
Alternative form of kameti
senses_topics:
business
finance |
7631 | word:
stay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stay (third-person singular simple present stays, present participle staying, simple past and past participle stayed or (obsolete) staid)
forms:
form:
stays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
staying
tags:
participle
present
form:
stayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
stayed
tags:
past
form:
staid
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
staid
tags:
obsolete
past
wikipedia:
stay
etymology_text:
From Middle English steyen, staien, from Old French estayer, estaier (“to fix, prop up, support, stay”), from estaye, estaie (“a prop, stay”), from Middle Dutch staeye (“a prop, stay”), a contracted form of staede, stade (“a prop, stay, help, aid”) (compare Middle Dutch staeyen, staeden (“to make firm, stay, support, hold still, stabilise”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stadi (“a site, place, location, standing”), from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“a standing, place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis (“standing”). Influenced by Old English stæġ ("a stay, rope"; see below). Cognate with Old English stede, stæde (“a place, spot, locality, fixed position, station, site, standing, status, position of a moving body, stopping, standing still, stability, fixity, firmness, steadfastness”), Swedish stödja (“to prop, support, brace, hold up, bolster”), Icelandic stöðug (“continuous, stable”). More at stead, steady.
Sense of "remain, continue" may be due to later influence from Old French ester, esteir (“to stand, be, continue, remain”), from Latin stāre (“stand”), from the same Proto-Indo-European root above; however, derivation from this root is untenable based on linguistic and historical grounds.
An alternative etymology derives Old French estaye, estaie, from Frankish *stakā, *stakō (“stake, post”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake, bar, stick, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“rod, pole, stick”), making it cognate with Old English staca (“pin, stake”), Old English stician (“to stick, be placed, lie, remain fixed”). Cognate with Albanian shtagë (“a long stick, a pole”). More at stake, stick.
senses_examples:
text:
We stayed in Hawaii for a week. I can only stay for an hour.
type:
example
text:
1874 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Three Friends of Mine,” IV, in The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems, Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875, p. 353,
I stay a little longer, as one stays / To cover up the embers that still burn.
text:
Wear gloves so your hands stay warm.
type:
example
text:
The three men in the room stayed motionless, holding their breaths.
ref:
1943, Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear, London: Heinemann, published 1960, Book 3, Chapter 2, p. 210
type:
quotation
text:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref:
2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Draw in your right elbow, turn your hand outward and bear it lightly, gripe not the pen too hard, with your left hand stay the paper.
ref:
1677, Hannah Woolley, “Directions for Writing the most Vsual and Legible Hands for Women”, in The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
Sallows and Reeds, on Banks of Rivers born,
Remain to cut; for Vineyards useful found,
To stay thy Vines and fence thy fruitful Ground.
ref:
1725, John Dryden, transl., Virgil’s Husbandry, or an Essay on the Georgics, London, Book 2, p. 37
type:
quotation
text:
1671, John Evelyn, Diary, entry dated 14 November, 1671, in The Diary of John Evelyn, London: Macmillan, 1906, Volume 2, p. 337,
This business staid me in London almost a week […]
text:
[…] she filled the room she entered, and felt often as she stood hesitating one moment on the threshold of her drawing-room, an exquisite suspense, such as might stay a diver before plunging while the sea darkens and brightens beneath him […]
ref:
1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1985, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
She rose to leave but Libor stayed her.
ref:
2010, Howard Jacobson, chapter 9, in The Finkler Question, New York: Bloomsbury
type:
quotation
text:
1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book 5, in The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker, London: Andrew Crook, 1666, p. ,
[…] all that may but with any the least shew of possibility stay their mindes from thinking that true, which they heartily wish were false, but cannot think it so […]
text:
1852, Charlotte Brontë, letter cited in Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 1857, Volume 2, Chapter 10,
[…] you must follow the impulse of your own inspiration. If THAT commands the slaying of the victim, no bystander has a right to put out his hand to stay the sacrificial knife: but I hold you a stern priestess in these matters.
text:
For flattering planets seemed to say
This child should ills of ages stay,
ref:
1847, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Threnody”, in Poems, Boston: James Munroe, page 242
type:
quotation
text:
The governor stayed the execution until the appeal could be heard.
type:
example
text:
Without one word to deny himself, Yuan let himself be bound, his hands behind his back, and no one could stay the matter.
ref:
1935, Pearl S. Buck, A House Divided, London: Methuen, Part 1, p. 137
type:
quotation
text:
As I curled up like a dying fish beneath his flailing boots, I managed to stay his assault long enough to tell him that I had only ever seen myself as his most loyal servant […]
ref:
2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Leatherjacket”, in Gould’s Book of Fish, New York: Grove, pages 187–188
type:
quotation
text:
Some of the company staid supper, which prevented the embarrassment that must unavoidably have arisen, had the family been by themselves.
ref:
1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Oxford, published 2009, page 177
type:
quotation
text:
That day the storm stayed.
type:
example
text:
Yet not to be wholly silent of all your Charities I must stay a little on one Action, which preferr’d the Relief of Others, to the Consideration of your Self.
ref:
1700, John Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, dedicatory epistle
type:
quotation
text:
That horse stays well.
type:
example
text:
Hey, where do you stay at?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
To continue to have a particular quality.
To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
To stop or delay something.
To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
To stop or delay something.
To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
To stop or delay something.
To cause to cease; to put an end to.
To stop or delay something.
To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
To hold the attention of.
To bear up under; to endure; to hold out against; to resist.
To wait for; await.
To remain for the purpose of; to stay to take part in or be present at (a meal, ceremony etc.).
To rest; depend; rely.
To stop; come to a stand or standstill.
To come to an end; cease.
To dwell; linger; tarry; wait.
To make a stand; to stand firm.
To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
To wait; rest in patience or expectation.
To wait as an attendant; give ceremonious or submissive attendance.
To live; reside
senses_topics:
|
7632 | word:
stay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stay (plural stays)
forms:
form:
stays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stay
etymology_text:
From Middle English steyen, staien, from Old French estayer, estaier (“to fix, prop up, support, stay”), from estaye, estaie (“a prop, stay”), from Middle Dutch staeye (“a prop, stay”), a contracted form of staede, stade (“a prop, stay, help, aid”) (compare Middle Dutch staeyen, staeden (“to make firm, stay, support, hold still, stabilise”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stadi (“a site, place, location, standing”), from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“a standing, place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis (“standing”). Influenced by Old English stæġ ("a stay, rope"; see below). Cognate with Old English stede, stæde (“a place, spot, locality, fixed position, station, site, standing, status, position of a moving body, stopping, standing still, stability, fixity, firmness, steadfastness”), Swedish stödja (“to prop, support, brace, hold up, bolster”), Icelandic stöðug (“continuous, stable”). More at stead, steady.
Sense of "remain, continue" may be due to later influence from Old French ester, esteir (“to stand, be, continue, remain”), from Latin stāre (“stand”), from the same Proto-Indo-European root above; however, derivation from this root is untenable based on linguistic and historical grounds.
An alternative etymology derives Old French estaye, estaie, from Frankish *stakā, *stakō (“stake, post”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake, bar, stick, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“rod, pole, stick”), making it cognate with Old English staca (“pin, stake”), Old English stician (“to stick, be placed, lie, remain fixed”). Cognate with Albanian shtagë (“a long stick, a pole”). More at stake, stick.
senses_examples:
text:
I hope you enjoyed your stay in Hawaii.
type:
example
text:
The governor granted a stay of execution.
type:
example
text:
Later that day, however, Judge O'Kelley signed a stay of execution when Mr. Potts authorized other attorneys to renew his appeals.
ref:
1980 June 25, “A.C.L.U. Seeks to Stay Execution of Georgian”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Just before the deadline Donald Kowalski's attorney, Jack Fena, was able to obtain a stay in order to give him time to file a motion to overturn the testing order.
ref:
1988 August 20, Jennie McKnight, “'Free Sharon Kowalski Day' Events Draw National Attention”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
An appellate judge temporarily stayed the monitor’s work until a three-judge federal appeals panel can decide whether the stay should be kept in place longer while Apple undertakes a full challenge to the appointment of a monitor.
ref:
2014 January 21, Matthew Goldstein, “Apple Wins Temporary Stay on Court Monitor”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
stand at a stay
type:
example
text:
Not grudging that thy lust hath bounds and stays.
ref:
1633, George Herbert, The Church Porch
type:
quotation
text:
With prudent stay he long deferred / The rough contention.
ref:
1705, John Philips, Blenheim
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.
A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
Hindrance; let; check.
senses_topics:
law
nautical
transport
|
7633 | word:
stay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stay (plural stays)
forms:
form:
stays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stay
etymology_text:
From Middle English stay, from Old French estaye, estaie (“a prop, a stay”), from Middle Dutch staeye (“a prop, stay”), a contracted form of staede, stade ("a prop, stay, help, aid"; compare Middle Dutch staeyen, staeden (“to make firm, stay, support, hold still, stabilise”)), from Old Dutch *stad (“a site, place, location, standing”), from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“a standing, place”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”). See above.
senses_examples:
text:
April 27, 1823, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
Lord Liverpool is the single stay of this ministry.
text:
Even when the deceptive mask was torn away, and the broken-hearted parent, beholding the accursed fact, that his darling son, the fancied stay of his declining age, was enlisted against him in his brother's horrible revolt, cursed them both and died, not even then did one compunctuous visiting touch his callous heart.
ref:
1831, Peter Leicester, Arthur of Britanny, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Where are the stays for my collar?
type:
example
text:
Her figure was tall, yet not too tall; comely and well-developed, yet not fat; her head set on her shoulders with an easy, pliant firmness; her waist, perfection in the eyes of a man, for it occupied its natural place, it filled out its natural circle, it was visibly and delightfully undeformed by stays.
ref:
1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A prop; a support.
A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
A corset.
A fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.
senses_topics:
|
7634 | word:
stay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stay (plural stays)
forms:
form:
stays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stay
etymology_text:
From Middle English stay, from Old English stæġ (“stay, a rope supporting a mast”), from Proto-Germanic *stagą (“stay, rope”), from Proto-Indo-European *stek-, *stāk- (“stand, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”). Cognate with Dutch stag (“stay”), German Stag (“stay”), Swedish stag (“stay”), Icelandic stag (“stay”).
senses_examples:
text:
The engineer insisted on using stays for the scaffolding.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
7635 | word:
stay
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stay (third-person singular simple present stays, present participle staying, simple past and past participle stayed)
forms:
form:
stays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
staying
tags:
participle
present
form:
stayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
stayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
stay
etymology_text:
From Middle English stay, from Old English stæġ (“stay, a rope supporting a mast”), from Proto-Germanic *stagą (“stay, rope”), from Proto-Indo-European *stek-, *stāk- (“stand, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”). Cognate with Dutch stag (“stay”), German Stag (“stay”), Swedish stag (“stay”), Icelandic stag (“stay”).
senses_examples:
text:
stay a mast
text:
to stay ship
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To brace or support with a stay or stays
To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
To tack; put on the other tack.
To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport |
7636 | word:
stay
word_type:
adj
expansion:
stay (comparative stayer or more stay, superlative stayest or most stay)
forms:
form:
stayer
tags:
comparative
form:
more stay
tags:
comparative
form:
stayest
tags:
superlative
form:
most stay
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
stay
etymology_text:
From Middle English *steȝe, from Old English *stǣġe, an apocopated variant of stǣġel (“steep, abrupt”), from Proto-West Germanic *staigil (“steep”), see sty.
senses_examples:
text:
The Castle of Edr. is naturally a great strenth situate upon the top of a high Rock perpendicular on all sides, except on the entry from the burgh, which is a stay ascent and is well fortified with strong Walls, three gates each one within another, with Drawbridges, and all necessary fortifications.
ref:
1908, Publications of the Scottish History Society, volume 53, page 121
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Steep; ascending.
(of a roof) Steeply pitched.
Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
senses_topics:
|
7637 | word:
stay
word_type:
adv
expansion:
stay (comparative stayer or more stay, superlative stayest or most stay)
forms:
form:
stayer
tags:
comparative
form:
more stay
tags:
comparative
form:
stayest
tags:
superlative
form:
most stay
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
stay
etymology_text:
From Middle English *steȝe, from Old English *stǣġe, an apocopated variant of stǣġel (“steep, abrupt”), from Proto-West Germanic *staigil (“steep”), see sty.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Steeply.
senses_topics:
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7638 | word:
bubble
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bubble (plural bubbles)
forms:
form:
bubbles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
South Sea Company
bubble
etymology_text:
Partly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch bubbel (“bubble”), Low German bubbel (“bubble”), Danish boble (“bubble”), Swedish bubbla (“bubble”). The word was first used in its economic sense in association with the collapse of the South Sea Company in 1720, based on the metaphor of an inflated soap bubble bursting.
senses_examples:
text:
bubbles in window glass, or in a lens
type:
example
text:
real estate bubble
type:
example
text:
dot-com bubble
type:
example
text:
Thanks to the proliferation of semiconductor chips and cell phones—the number of U.S. cell phones grew from essentially zero in 1983 to nearly two hundred million by the end of 2004, and as of 2003 over one billion cell phones were in use worldwide, so by the time the high-tech bubble approached its bursting point in 2000 and 2001, coltan had become an extremely hot commodity.
ref:
2007, Elizabeth Grossman, High Tech Trash, Island Press, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
Thomas, so often West Brom's most positive attacker down their left side and up against Salgado, twice almost burst the bubble of excitement around the ground but he had two efforts superbly saved by Robinson.
ref:
2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
He’s wrapped up snugly in a cozy bubble of self-regard, talking for his own sake more than anyone else’s.
ref:
2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in The A.V. Club
type:
quotation
text:
Citizens of all political persuasions (not to mention members of the Trump administration) can increasingly live in their own news media bubbles, consuming only views similar to their own.
ref:
2017 March 21, Michiko Kakutani, “‘The Death of Expertise’ Explores How Ignorance Became a Virtue”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Inside the right-wing Facebook bubble, President Trump’s response to Covid-19 has been strong and effective, Joe Biden is barely capable of forming sentences, and Black Lives Matter is a dangerous group of violent looters.
ref:
2020 August 27, Kevin Roose, “What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
"We know we're in a bubble," said one Villager interviewed for the film. "But it's a nice bubble".
ref:
2022 February 6, Benedict Brook, “Dark side of paradise: 'Sinister' cracks show in perfect suburb”, in NZ Herald
type:
quotation
text:
Later that day, the unit was staffed with only one officer, who was required to stay in the bubble.
ref:
1998, District of Columbia Appropriations for 1998: Hearings
type:
quotation
text:
Gany's a cheat, and I'm a bubble.
ref:
1709, Matthew Prior, Cupid and Ganymede
type:
quotation
text:
For no woman, sure, will plead the passion of love for an excuse. This would be to own herself the mere tool and bubble of the man.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1979, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Are you having a bubble?!
type:
example
text:
Many players tend to play timidly (not play many hands) around the bubble, to keep their chips and last longer in the game.
type:
example
text:
bubble watch
type:
example
text:
"There was an empty room and this is my house," Mark Philip told the Herald. "Where am I supposed to go? Whose bubble am I supposed to infect?"
ref:
2020 April 7, “Covid 19 coronavirus: Police called after Mt Eden landlord tries to move into flat during lockdown”, in New Zealand Herald
type:
quotation
text:
A bare lamp (bulb, globe, 'bubble') radiates light in all directions.
ref:
2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film, page 296
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed.
An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
A laugh.
A Greek.
Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
A quarantine environment containing multiple people and/or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
The people who are in this quarantine.
Short for travel bubble.
A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
card-games
poker
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
broadcasting
media
television
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7639 | word:
bubble
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bubble (third-person singular simple present bubbles, present participle bubbling, simple past and past participle bubbled)
forms:
form:
bubbles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bubbling
tags:
participle
present
form:
bubbled
tags:
participle
past
form:
bubbled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
South Sea Company
bubble
etymology_text:
Partly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch bubbel (“bubble”), Low German bubbel (“bubble”), Danish boble (“bubble”), Swedish bubbla (“bubble”). The word was first used in its economic sense in association with the collapse of the South Sea Company in 1720, based on the metaphor of an inflated soap bubble bursting.
senses_examples:
text:
The laminate is bubbling.
type:
example
text:
Rage bubbled inside him.
type:
example
text:
The blood bubbled up to her brain, and made such a sound there, as of boiling waters, that she did not hear the words which Mr. Bradshaw first spoke […]
ref:
1853, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Ruth
type:
quotation
text:
With some technical improvement, I could see how the process of imitating my work would soon become fast and streamlined, and the many dark potentials bubbled to the forefront of my mind.
ref:
2022 December 31, Sarah Andersen, “The Alt-Right Manipulated My Comic. Then A.I. Claimed It.”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The target of this event is the most deeply nested common ancestor of all changes that occurred in the document, and it bubbles up the document tree […]
ref:
2002, David Flanagan, JavaScript: the definitive guide
type:
quotation
text:
No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government […]
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 443
type:
quotation
text:
He tells me with great passion that she has bubbled him out of his youth; that she drilled him on to five and fifty [years old], and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old age, if she can find her account in another.
ref:
1711 June 12, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 89; republished in The Works of Joseph Addison, volume 1, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
I need not tell your Worships, that this was done with so much cunning and artifice, —that the great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here.
ref:
1759, Laurence Sterne, Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
type:
quotation
text:
Groggily her mind went back through the long hours to 10 P.M. She had fed Junior, bubbled him, diped him—according to plan.
ref:
1942, McCall’s, volume 69, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
I walked him, pushed him, pulled him, and “bubbled” him, drawing the line at changing him, and found that the ability to bring actual happiness to another being’s face, even such a small red one, simply by walking into the room, made me feel ten feet tall.
ref:
1957, Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Be My Guest, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
Mother sat up, picked up baby, put him on shoulder, bubbled him.
ref:
1958, David Mordecai Levy, Behavioral analysis: analysis of clinical observations of behavior as applied to mother-newborn relationships, page 358
type:
quotation
text:
It seemed to Adam that he felt the blood in his toes creeping up his legs and body until it reached his brain where, finding it could go no farther, it bubbled him into dumbness: it added to his confusion to know that he looked as if some such accident had befallen his circulation.
ref:
1922, Conal O’Riordan, In London: The Story of Adam and Marriage, page 164
type:
quotation
text:
A few minutes more would give him his first glimpse of the village wherein, many months before, he had left his wife and little ones. Anticipation bubbled him into song, and he broke forth into—A la claire fontaine M’en allant promener.
ref:
1973, Henry Cecil Walsh, Bonhomme: French-Canadian Stories and Sketches, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
The frothing sensation bubbled him all over, a boiling without heat or any sound or light.
ref:
2011, Tim O’Brien, Northern Lights, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
Mrs. Hinds beamed at Ipsie through pince-nez and bubbled her joy through thin lips, but Ipsie made no reply.
ref:
1924, Stella Benson, Pipers and a Dancer, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Delighted with this promenade, little Edith bubbled her joy without cessation.
ref:
1934, Inez Haynes Gillmore, Strange Harvest, page 417
type:
quotation
text:
“She’s a little girl like me,” Beth bubbled. “Her name is Buttons, ’cause she has a small nose. And she has a twin, too, just like me. Only my twin’s name is Carly.”
ref:
1999, Mollie Molay, Daddy by Christmas, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
Rachel bubbled her thanks and brushed past the Reverend, me in tow.
ref:
2008, Douglas Allen Rhodes, Sex and Murder, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
But Ms. Loomat, far from a negative reaction, bubbled her joy at the news even congratulating Ms Lee on her acquisition.
ref:
2012, Andre Paul Goddard, The Blue Basin, page 414
type:
quotation
text:
She bubbled her lips at Junior and wrinkled her eyes.
ref:
1929, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 201, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
She hasn’t bubbled her lips yet, has she?
ref:
1978, Poul Anderson, The Night Face and Other Stories, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
I didn’t see much connection between the Bunnies and Michelle—something bubbled her blouses, and I’d heard her whisper with my sister about training bras, but her body was angular, skinny.
ref:
2005, Tracy Daugherty, Late in the Standoff: Stories and a Novella, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
Her mouth hung slightly open and water droplets bubbled her forehead, like oversized sweat.
ref:
1994, Jonathan Kellerman, Bad Love, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
Tears of thanksgiving bubbled her eyes and blurred her vision.
ref:
2005, Syne Mitchell, End in Fire, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
Oily beads of sweat bubbled his forehead.
ref:
2007, Jason Blacker, Black Dog Bleeding, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Cross out answers as you eliminate them, and practice bubbling your answers on the sheet provided at the very end of the book.
ref:
2011, Allison Amend, Adam Robinson, Cracking the SAT.: Literature Subject Test, page 126
type:
quotation
text:
They bubbled her answers on Scantron tests, changed her sanitary napkins, helped her get in and out of the bathroom with a minimum of fuss.
ref:
2014, Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will
type:
quotation
text:
You don’t want to go back and forth between the test booklet and your answer sheet to bubble your answers.
ref:
2019, Crash Course for the ACT, 6th Edition: Your Last-Minute Guide to Scoring High, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
To cheat, delude.
To cry, weep.
To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
To form into a protruding round shape.
To cover with bubbles.
To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
To join together in a support bubble
To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
7640 | word:
cell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cell (plural cells)
forms:
form:
cells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cell
etymology_text:
From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of cella and hall.
senses_examples:
text:
For three days he and his attendants had wandered in the forest without seeing a human form: but on the evening of the third they came to a cell, in which they found a venerable hermit in the agonies of death.
ref:
1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section IV
type:
quotation
text:
Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.
type:
example
text:
A nunʼs bedroom is properly called a cell and is small, bare, and plain, without comfort.
ref:
2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 315
type:
quotation
text:
The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
type:
example
text:
Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom[…].
ref:
1858, Asa Gray, Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany, fifth edition, p. 282
type:
quotation
text:
[W]e shall feel still more contempt for the order of men, who cultivated their faculties, only to enable them to consolidate their power, by leading the ignorant astray; making the learning they concentrated in their cells, a more polished instrument of oppression.
ref:
1794, Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution
type:
quotation
text:
From cell to cell of his brain crept the one thought; and the wild desire to live, most terrible of all man's appetites, quickened into force each trembling nerve and fibre.
ref:
1890, Oscar Wilde, chapter XVI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
type:
quotation
text:
This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.
type:
example
text:
An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.
ref:
1999 February 15, Paul Brown, Dave King, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
In multicellular organisms, groups of cells form tissues and tissues come together to form organs.
ref:
2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
type:
example
text:
The upper right cell always starts with the color green.
type:
example
text:
Basically, I'm looking for a fast (the fastest?) way of updating grids, where each cell has to look at an arbitrary number of its neighbors.
ref:
1988 January 26, David Hiebeler, “Fast way to update grids”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
It is used for land-use change simulations, where the content of the cells surrounding a central cell defines how this cell is going to evolve (for example, a cell that is "agriculture" but has 3 urban neighbors will likely become urban, while if it is surrounded by forest or other agriculture cells, it will remain agriculture.)
ref:
2010 March 10, Jean H., “What is CA for?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
I've seen this space colloqually referred to as MAP (presumably since it maps a 3x3 neighborhood into a future cell state)
ref:
2022 February 11, Mateon1, “Game of Life with real 8 neighbors”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
type:
example
text:
Salarian intelligence field agents are grouped into an organization called the Special Tasks Group. STG operators work in independent cells, performing dangerous missions such as counter-terrorism, infiltration, reconnaissance, assassination, and sabotage.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Salarians: Special Tasks Group Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.
type:
example
text:
I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
A section or compartment of a larger structure.
Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
A cella.
An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
card-games
games
communication
communications
communication
communications
geometry
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
statistics
architecture
architecture
biology
entomology
natural-sciences |
7641 | word:
cell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cell (third-person singular simple present cells, present participle celling, simple past and past participle celled)
forms:
form:
cells
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
celling
tags:
participle
present
form:
celled
tags:
participle
past
form:
celled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of cella and hall.
senses_examples:
text:
Myself a recluse from the world, And celled under ground, Lest that the gould, the precious stones, And pleasures, here be found
ref:
1586, William Warner, Albion's England
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place or enclose in a cell.
senses_topics:
|
7642 | word:
cell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cell (plural cells)
forms:
form:
cells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Ellipsis of cell phone, itself a clipping of cellular phone, from cellular + phone.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cellular phone.
senses_topics:
|
7643 | word:
shine
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shine (third-person singular simple present shines, present participle shining, simple past and past participle shone or shined)
forms:
form:
shines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shining
tags:
participle
present
form:
shone
tags:
participle
past
form:
shone
tags:
past
form:
shined
tags:
participle
past
form:
shined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
shine
etymology_text:
From Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English scīnan (“to shine, flash; be resplendent”; preterite scān, past participle scinen), from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”).
senses_examples:
text:
My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.
type:
example
text:
[…] I was grateful to you for giving him a year’s schooling—where he shined at it—and for putting him as a clerk in your counting-house, where he shined still more.
ref:
1867, Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend, Harper & Brothers, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
It prompted an exchange of substitutions as Jermain Defoe replaced Palacios and Javier Hernandez came on for Berbatov, who had failed to shine against his former club.
ref:
2011 January 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
ref:
c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
type:
quotation
text:
I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
type:
example
text:
As Jenks shined the large spotlight on the water, he saw a few bubbles and four long wakes leading away from an expanding circle of blood.
ref:
2007, David Lynn Goleman, Legend: An Event Group Thriller, St. Martin’s Press, published 2008, page 318
type:
quotation
text:
in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
To reflect light.
To distinguish oneself; to excel.
To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
To be immediately apparent.
To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
senses_topics:
|
7644 | word:
shine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shine (countable and uncountable, plural shines)
forms:
form:
shines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
shine
etymology_text:
From Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English scīnan (“to shine, flash; be resplendent”; preterite scān, past participle scinen), from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”).
senses_examples:
text:
be fair or foul, or rain or shine
ref:
1685, John Dryden, Sylvae
type:
quotation
text:
She's certainly taken a shine to you.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Brightness from a source of light.
Brightness from reflected light.
Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
Shoeshine.
Sunshine.
Moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
A liking for a person; a fancy.
A caper; an antic; a row.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
7645 | word:
shine
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shine (third-person singular simple present shines, present participle shining, simple past and past participle shined)
forms:
form:
shines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shining
tags:
participle
present
form:
shined
tags:
participle
past
form:
shined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
shine
etymology_text:
From the noun shine, or perhaps continuing Middle English schinen in its causative uses, from Old English scīn (“brightness, shine”), and also Middle English schenen, from Old English scǣnan (“to render brilliant, make shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skainijaną, causative of *skīnaną (“to shine”).
senses_examples:
text:
He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
7646 | word:
altitude
word_type:
noun
expansion:
altitude (countable and uncountable, plural altitudes)
forms:
form:
altitudes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
altitude
etymology_text:
From Middle English, borrowed from Latin altitūdō (“height”), from altus (“high”).
senses_examples:
text:
As the altitude increases, the temperature gets lower, so remember to bring warm clothes to the mountains.
type:
example
text:
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref:
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
The perpendicular height of a triangle is known as its altitude.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
A vertical distance.
The distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the opposite side of the vertex.
The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.
Highest point or degree.
Krull dimension.
Height.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
|
7647 | word:
drawl
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drawl (third-person singular simple present drawls, present participle drawling, simple past and past participle drawled)
forms:
form:
drawls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
drawling
tags:
participle
present
form:
drawled
tags:
participle
past
form:
drawled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a modern frequentative form of draw, equivalent to draw + -le. Compare draggle. Compare also Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), Old Danish dravle (“to linger, loiter”), Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”).
senses_examples:
text:
Tush, tush, Tarleton, Kemp, nor Singer, nor all the litter of Fooles that now come drawling behinde them, neuer plaid the Clownes more naturally then the arrantest Sot of you all, shall, if hee will but boyle my Instructions in his brainepan.
ref:
1609, Thomas Dekker, The guls horne-booke, pages 3-4
type:
quotation
text:
Looke what leysure the old bearded Bawd takes / How softly she goes / How one leg comes drawling after another / Now she has her money, her armes are broken.
ref:
1631, Fernando de Rojas, The Spanish bavvd, represented in Celestina …, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently.
To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
senses_topics:
|
7648 | word:
drawl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drawl (plural drawls)
forms:
form:
drawls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a modern frequentative form of draw, equivalent to draw + -le. Compare draggle. Compare also Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), Old Danish dravle (“to linger, loiter”), Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some Southern US accents, as well as Broad Australian, Broad New Zealand and Scots.
senses_topics:
|
7649 | word:
spend
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spend (third-person singular simple present spends, present participle spending, simple past and past participle spent)
forms:
form:
spends
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
spending
tags:
participle
present
form:
spent
tags:
participle
past
form:
spent
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend.
Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).
senses_examples:
text:
He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.
type:
example
text:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
ref:
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
to spend an estate in gambling
type:
example
text:
The violence of the waves was spent.
type:
example
text:
My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.
type:
example
text:
We spent the winter in the south of France.
type:
example
text:
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
ref:
1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
type:
quotation
text:
The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him.
ref:
1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 251
type:
quotation
text:
Clara's father, a trollish ne'er-do-well who spent most of his time in brothels and saloons, would disappear for days and weeks at a stretch, leaving Clara and her mother to fend for themselves.
ref:
2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 26
type:
quotation
text:
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
ref:
2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.
type:
example
text:
Energy spends in the using of it.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pay out (money).
To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
To squander.
To exhaust, to wear out.
To consume, to use up (time).
To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
To be diffused; to spread.
To break ground; to continue working.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
7650 | word:
spend
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spend (countable and uncountable, plural spends)
forms:
form:
spends
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend.
Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).
senses_examples:
text:
I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
type:
example
text:
Total January spends by year
ref:
2011 February 1, Ami Sedghi, “Record breaking January transfers: find the spends by club”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The spends have been made by our strategic partners […]
ref:
2011, “Council spending over £500”, in Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council, retrieved 2012-01-26
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
Expenditures; money or pocket money.
Discharged semen.
Vaginal discharge.
senses_topics:
|
7651 | word:
demonym
word_type:
noun
expansion:
demonym (plural demonyms)
forms:
form:
demonyms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
demonym
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”); demo- + -onym. Possibly coined or revived in 1997 by Paul Dickson of Merriam-Webster.
senses_examples:
text:
Why is it that people from the United States use American as their demonym?
type:
example
text:
The Logophile has my favourite demonym; I would write under it if he didn't.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A name for an inhabitant or native of a specific place, usually derived from the name of the place.
A pseudonym formed of an adjective.
senses_topics:
|
7652 | word:
boot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boot (plural boots)
forms:
form:
boots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
boot (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Of obscure origin, but probably related to Old French bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”), from Old Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewt-, *bʰewd- (“to strike, push, shock”); if so, a doublet of butt. Compare Old Norse butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), buttuc (“end”). More at buttock and debut.
senses_examples:
text:
Dr. Jayakar was not only one of them but was at places the prime mover in the historic decisions taken by a nation struggling to get free of the British boot.
ref:
1958, Filmindia
type:
quotation
text:
Never in its long history, and one rich with brutal inequities too, had Paris known the disgrace of seeing one section of its community prosper under the boot of an invader
ref:
1989, Gilles Perrault, Pierre Azema, Paris Under the Occupation
type:
quotation
text:
Chronic unrest in Ireland, long under the British boot, was about to culminate in a popular rising.
ref:
2013 October 8, Stanley Weintraub, Young Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and Life, Hachette UK
type:
quotation
text:
The boot, thumbscrews, the shackles, and a contraption called the "warm hose", were only a few of the inflictions being too terrible to mention.
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 221
type:
quotation
text:
He heaved the bag and its contents over the lip of the boot and on to the flagstones. When it was out, no longer in that boot but on the ground, and the bag was still intact, he knew the worst was over.
ref:
1998, Ruth Rendell, A Sight For Sore Eyes, published 2010, page 260
type:
quotation
text:
The body is constructed of welded steel panels, with the bonnet, doors and boot lid in aluminium on steel frames.
ref:
2003, Keith Bluemel, Original Ferrari V-12 1965-1973: The Restorer's Guide, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
Peers leant against the outside of the car a lit up her filter tip and watched as Bauer and Putin placed their compact suitcases in the boot of the BMW and slammed the boot lid down.
ref:
2008, MB Chattelle, Richmond, London: The Peter Hacket Chronicles, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
He was useless so he got the boot.
type:
example
text:
old boot
type:
example
text:
Because of overcrowding, many a CB enthusiast (called an "apple") is strapping an illegal linear amplifier ("boots") on to his transceiver ("ears") […]
ref:
1977, New Scientist, volume 74, page 764
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
A blow with the foot; a kick.
A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
Oppression, an oppressor.
A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
An unattractive person, ugly woman.
A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
A black person.
A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
A bobbled ball.
The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
A tyre.
A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
construction
manufacturing
transport
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
automotive
transport
vehicles
government
law-enforcement
military
politics
war
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biology
botany
natural-sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
|
7653 | word:
boot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
boot (third-person singular simple present boots, present participle booting, simple past and past participle booted)
forms:
form:
boots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
booting
tags:
participle
present
form:
booted
tags:
participle
past
form:
booted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
boot (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Of obscure origin, but probably related to Old French bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”), from Old Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewt-, *bʰewd- (“to strike, push, shock”); if so, a doublet of butt. Compare Old Norse butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), buttuc (“end”). More at buttock and debut.
senses_examples:
text:
I booted the ball toward my teammate.
type:
example
text:
You nearly booted me in the face!
type:
example
text:
The one certainty is that the redrafting will delay by several months the general election that was supposed to be held at the end of this year. Mr Prayuth has implied that elections cannot now be held until after King Vajiralongkorn's coronation, which itself cannot take place until after his father's elaborate cremation, scheduled for October. All this boots the long-promised polls well into 2018.
ref:
2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
The storm is coming fast! Boot it!
type:
example
text:
We had to boot it all the way there to get to our flight on time.
type:
example
text:
We need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possible.
type:
example
text:
The senator was booted from the committee for unethical behavior.
type:
example
text:
As an IRC member with operator status, Swallow was able to manage who was allowed to remain in chat sessions and who got booted off the channel.
ref:
2002, Dan Verton, The Hacker Diaries, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
Even flagrant violators of the TOS are not booted.
ref:
2003, John C. Dvorak, Chris Pirillo, Online!, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
In Electroserver, the kick command disconnects a user totally from the server and gives him a message about why he was booted.
ref:
2002, Jobe Makar, Macromedia Flash Mx Game Design Demystified, page 544
type:
quotation
text:
Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch.
type:
example
text:
C4 run man through the alley
Get a man down with the swammy
Get a man down with the whammy
Boot couple niggas on the road
No face no case with the bally (booting)
ref:
2015 November 1, “Dem Man Know”, C4 (814) (lyrics)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To kick.
To put boots on, especially for riding.
To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
To eject; kick out.
To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
To vomit.
To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
7654 | word:
boot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boot (countable and uncountable, plural boots)
forms:
form:
boots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
boot (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English boote, bote, bot, from Old English bōt (“help, relief, advantage”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“atonement, improvement”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰed- (“good”).
Akin to Old Norse bót (“bettering, remedy”) (Danish bod), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰 (bōta), German Buße. Doublet of bote (a borrowing from Middle English).
senses_examples:
text:
next her Son, our soul's best boot
ref:
1820, William Wordsworth, The Prioress' Tale (from Chaucer)
type:
quotation
text:
If mortgaged property is transferred, the amount of the mortgage is part of the boot. If both parties to the transaction transfer mortgages to each other, the party giving up the larger debt treats the excess as taxable boot.
ref:
2008, Jeffrey H. Rattiner, Financial Planning Answer Book 2009, pages 6–43
type:
quotation
text:
If the target retains the boot and uses it for, say, paying its debt, there is taxation on the boot.
ref:
2021, Eli Amir, Marco Ghitti, Financial Analysis of Mergers and Acquisitions, page 117
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Remedy, amends.
Profit, plunder.
That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
Profit; gain; advantage; use.
Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
A medicinal cure or remedy.
senses_topics:
|
7655 | word:
boot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
boot (third-person singular simple present boots, present participle booting, simple past and past participle booted)
forms:
form:
boots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
booting
tags:
participle
present
form:
booted
tags:
participle
past
form:
booted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
boot (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English boote, bote, bot, from Old English bōt (“help, relief, advantage”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“atonement, improvement”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰed- (“good”).
Akin to Old Norse bót (“bettering, remedy”) (Danish bod), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰 (bōta), German Buße. Doublet of bote (a borrowing from Middle English).
senses_examples:
text:
1678 Richard Hooker, “A Sermon found in the study of Bishop Andrews” in Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln, London: Richard Marriot, p. 262,
What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be beneficial, to help.
To matter; to be relevant.
To enrich.
senses_topics:
|
7656 | word:
boot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boot (plural boots)
forms:
form:
boots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
boot (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Clipping of bootstrap.
senses_examples:
text:
It took three boots, but I finally got the application installed.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
7657 | word:
boot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
boot (third-person singular simple present boots, present participle booting, simple past and past participle booted)
forms:
form:
boots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
booting
tags:
participle
present
form:
booted
tags:
participle
past
form:
booted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
boot (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Clipping of bootstrap.
senses_examples:
text:
When arriving at the office, the first thing I do is boot my machine.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
7658 | word:
boot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boot (plural boots)
forms:
form:
boots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
boot (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From bootleg (“to make or sell illegally”), by shortening.
senses_examples:
text:
I am looking to trade Iron Maiden boots. I have many Iron Maiden bootlegs. I have lots of Metallica. I trade CDR's, tapes and videos.
ref:
1999, Tom Fletcher, “Looking for Iron Maiden boot traders”, in alt.music.bootlegs (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bootleg recording.
senses_topics:
|
7659 | word:
shed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shed (third-person singular simple present sheds, present participle shedding, simple past and past participle shed or (nonstandard) shedded)
forms:
form:
sheds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shedding
tags:
participle
present
form:
shed
tags:
participle
past
form:
shed
tags:
past
form:
shedded
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
shedded
tags:
nonstandard
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English scheden, schede, from Old English scēadan, scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between; remove from association or companionship; distinguish, discriminate, decide, determine, appoint; shatter, shed; expound; decree; write down; differ”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþan, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþaną (compare West Frisian skiede, Dutch and German scheiden), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt- (“to cut, part, divide, separate”), from *skey-.
See also Welsh chwydu (“to break open”), Lithuanian skėsti (“to spread”), skíesti (“to separate”), Old Church Slavonic цѣдити (cěditi, “to filter, strain”), Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”), Old Armenian ցտեմ (cʻtem, “to scratch”), Sanskrit च्यति (cyáti, “he cuts off”)). Related to shoad, shit, sheath.
senses_examples:
text:
To shed something in two.
type:
example
text:
To shed the sheep from the lambs.
type:
example
text:
A metal comb shed her golden hair.
type:
example
text:
We are shed with each other by an enormous distance.
type:
example
text:
c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece
If there be any thing that knitteth himself to the ilk middle point [of a circle], it is constrained into simplicity (that is to say, into unmovablity), and it ceaseth to be shed and to flit diversely.
text:
1460–1500, The Poems of Robert Henryson
The northern wind had shed the misty clouds from the sky;
text:
1635, "Sermon on Philippians III, 7, 8", in Select Practical Writings of David Dickson (1845), Volume 1, page 166 Internet Archive
Lest […] ye shed with God.
text:
You must shed your fear of the unknown before you can proceed.
type:
example
text:
When we found the snake, it was in the process of shedding its skin.
type:
example
text:
She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.
ref:
2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 2012-11-02
type:
quotation
text:
I didn't shed many tears when he left me.
type:
example
text:
A tarpaulin sheds water.
type:
example
text:
The crash occurred in a steep-sided cutting lined with self-seeded deciduous trees that were shedding their leaves, following unusually heavy rain and high winds in the 12 hours beforehand.
ref:
2023 November 1, Paul Clifton, “RAIB recommends actions to tackle leaves on the line”, in RAIL, number 995, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
to shed light on
type:
example
text:
Can you shed any light on this problem?
type:
example
text:
What tho’ the moon—the white moon
Shed all the splendour of her noon,
Her smile is chilly—and her beam,
In that time of dreariness, will seem
(So like you gather in your breath)
A portrait taken after death.
ref:
1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To part, separate or divide.
To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
To pour; to make flow.
To allow to flow or fall.
To radiate, cast, give off (light).
To pour forth, give off, impart.
To fall in drops; to pour.
To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
Alternative form of woodshed
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
7660 | word:
shed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shed (plural sheds)
forms:
form:
sheds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sched, schede, schad, from a combination of Old English scēada (“a parting of the hair, top of the head”) and Old English ġesċēad (“distinction, reason”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
A distinction or dividing-line.
A parting in the hair.
The top of the head.
An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters; used in nuclear physics
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
7661 | word:
shed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shed (plural sheds)
forms:
form:
sheds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Dialectal variant of a specialized use of shade.
senses_examples:
text:
wagon shed
type:
example
text:
wood shed
type:
example
text:
garden shed
type:
example
text:
There are numerous sheds in the now grass-grown yard, most of which now house threshing machines and farm carts instead of locomotives and rolling stock, although [in] the roofs of some are gaping holes.
ref:
1941 June, “Notes and News: The Derelict Glyn Valley Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 279–280
type:
quotation
text:
Never saw that but we did stand and watch a pair of Sheds (156 and 165) speed north on a loaded steel.
ref:
2000 November 12, Bruce Garbutt, “Re: DRS to Cardiff (was Re: Tractor via Eddiestown)”, in uk.railway (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport |
7662 | word:
shed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shed (third-person singular simple present sheds, present participle shedding, simple past and past participle shedded)
forms:
form:
sheds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shedding
tags:
participle
present
form:
shedded
tags:
participle
past
form:
shedded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Dialectal variant of a specialized use of shade.
senses_examples:
text:
On the Dava line, apart from the banking assistance given by the 4-4-0s, the traffic is handled by the standard class "5" 4-6-0s, known among the drivers as "Hikers"; these engines are shedded at Inverness and Perth.
ref:
1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Three 14XX class 0-4-2Ts were allocated to Bath Road for the Clevedon branch and one was sub-shedded at Yatton for a week at a time, during which period it amassed an aggregate mileage of nearly 1,400 miles.
ref:
1961 May, Mark B. Warburton, “Yatton and its branches to Clevedon and Wells”, in Trains Illustrated, page 277
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
To woodshed.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
7663 | word:
buzzard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
buzzard (plural buzzards)
forms:
form:
buzzards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bosart, from Anglo-Norman buisart, from Old French busart, busard, a derivative ( + -ard) of Old French buison, buson (French buse), possibly from Latin būteō (“hawk”).
senses_examples:
text:
Perhaps the crusty old buzzard loved his only child more than anyone had given him credit for all these years — maybe even more than he himself had realized.
ref:
1995, LaRee Bryant, Forever, My Love, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 142,
An old man’s shadow is better than a young buzzard’s sword.
text:
It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard.
ref:
1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Animated Nature, volume 6, Index
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail.
Any scavenging bird, such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus) or the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
In North America, a curmudgeonly or cantankerous man; an old person; a mean, greedy person.
A blockhead; a dunce.
Synonym of double bogey
A fighter plane.
The insignia of a colonel, or a petty officer within the navy.
A military discharge (due to the military discharge certificate).
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war |
7664 | word:
bankruptcy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bankruptcy (countable and uncountable, plural bankruptcies)
forms:
form:
bankruptcies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bankrupt + -cy, replacing earlier bankruptship.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.
senses_topics:
business
finance
law |
7665 | word:
sting
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sting (plural stings)
forms:
form:
sting a sting
tags:
canonical
form:
stings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sting
etymology_text:
From Middle English stynge, sting, stenge, from Old English sting, stinċġ (“a sting, stab, thrust made with a pointed instrument; the wound made by a stab or sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stangiz.
senses_examples:
text:
Look at this nasty hornet sting: it's turned blue!
type:
example
text:
She died from a bee sting.
type:
example
text:
That plant will give a little sting if you touch it.
type:
example
text:
The criminal gang was caught after a successful sting.
type:
example
text:
Shepard: I'm taking you in, Jax.
Turian Bodyguard: It's a sting. Bastard set us up.
Jax: What the hell are you playing at?
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel
type:
quotation
text:
The balance is mounted externally on top of the wind tunnel test section. A sting connects the balance to the model.
ref:
2001, T. J. Mueller, Fixed and Flapping Wing Aerodynamics for Micro Air Vehicle Applications, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air.
ref:
2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.
A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis
A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.
A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of scenic punctuation or to identify the broadcasting station.
A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
The harmful or painful part of something.
A goad; incitement.
The concluding point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
government
law-enforcement
|
7666 | word:
sting
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sting (third-person singular simple present stings, present participle stinging, simple past stung or (rare, dialectal) stang, past participle stung)
forms:
form:
stings
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stinging
tags:
participle
present
form:
stung
tags:
past
form:
stang
tags:
dialectal
past
rare
form:
stung
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
sting
etymology_text:
From Middle English stingen, from Old English stingan, from Proto-Germanic *stinganą. Compare Swedish and Icelandic stinga.
senses_examples:
text:
A mosquito stung me on the arm.
type:
example
text:
My hand stings after knocking on the door so long.
type:
example
text:
Still, it stung when a slightly older acquaintance asked me why I couldn't do any better.
type:
example
text:
But Birmingham were clearly stung by some harsh words from manager Alex McLeish at the break and within 15 minutes of the restart the game had an entirely different complexion.
ref:
2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
I thought I could park in front of the hotel, but they stung me for five pounds!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
To puncture with the stinger.
To hurt, to be in pain (physically or emotionally).
To cause harm or pain to.
senses_topics:
|
7667 | word:
vermouth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vermouth (countable and uncountable, plural vermouths)
forms:
form:
vermouths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French vermout, vermouth, from German Wermut (“wormwood”). Doublet of wormwood.
senses_examples:
text:
He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
ref:
1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind
type:
quotation
text:
Vermouth originated in the 18th century, when wine growers in the foothills of the French and Italian Alps developed a method of enhancing the taste of sour or uncompromising wines with the infusion of a variety of sweeteners, spices, herbs, roots, seeds, flowers, and peel.
ref:
2014, Ray Foley, Bartending For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
Earlier this year while in Madrid, I fell prey to what the Spanish call la hora del vermut, the vermouth hour, a break in the day for a glass, generally before eating.
ref:
2023 July 20, Eric Asimov, “This Summer, Pause for the Vermouth Hour”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dry, or sweet apéritif wine flavored with aromatic herbs, and often used in mixed drinks.
A serving of vermouth.
senses_topics:
|
7668 | word:
jackdaw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jackdaw (plural jackdaws)
forms:
form:
jackdaws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
jackdaw
etymology_text:
Compound of jack + daw. The first element, also present in Low German (North Saxon) Jöker (“jackdaw”), may refer either to its characteristic call, often represented as tchak-tchak, maybe influenced by association with the name Jack. The second element means “jackdaw” in itself, from Old English *dāwe, from Proto-Germanic *dēhǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰēk- (“a daw, starling, thrush, similar birds”). Cognate with Old Prussian doacke (“starling”), Latin faccilāre (“the sound or timbre of the thrush”), and German Dohle (“jackdaw”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A European bird (Coloeus monedula) of the crow family, often nesting in church towers and ruins.
A Daurian jackdaw, a closely related Asian bird (Coloeus dauuricus).
senses_topics:
|
7669 | word:
bell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bell (plural bells)
forms:
form:
bells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bell
en:Bell (school)
etymology_text:
From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel, Dutch bel, Low German Belle, Bel, Danish bjelde, Swedish bjällra, Norwegian bjelle, Icelandic bjalla.
senses_examples:
text:
HEAR the sledges with the bells —
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
ref:
1848, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bells
type:
quotation
text:
Referee Steve Smoger was an almost invisible presence in the ring as both men went at it, although he did have a word with Froch when he landed with a shot after the bell at the end of the eighth.
ref:
2011 December 18, Ben Dirs, “Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
I’ll give you a bell later.
type:
example
text:
He swam to the place where Mary disappeared but there was neither boil nor gurgle on the water, nor even a bell of departing breath, to mark the place where his beloved had sunk.
ref:
1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
The sounding of a bell as a signal.
A telephone call.
A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
The bell character.
Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
A bubble.
Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
nautical
transport
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
architecture
|
7670 | word:
bell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)
forms:
form:
bells
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
belling
tags:
participle
present
form:
belled
tags:
participle
past
form:
belled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bell
en:Bell (school)
etymology_text:
From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel, Dutch bel, Low German Belle, Bel, Danish bjelde, Swedish bjällra, Norwegian bjelle, Icelandic bjalla.
senses_examples:
text:
Who will bell the cat?
type:
example
text:
to bell a tube
text:
"Vinny, you tosser, it's Keith. I thought you were back today. I'm in town. Bell us on the mobile.
ref:
2006, Dominic Lavin, Last Seen in Bangkok
type:
quotation
text:
Hops bell.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To attach a bell to.
To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
To telephone.
To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
senses_topics:
|
7671 | word:
bell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)
forms:
form:
bells
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
belling
tags:
participle
present
form:
belled
tags:
participle
past
form:
belled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bell
en:Bell (school)
etymology_text:
From Middle English bellen, from Old English bellan (“to bellow; make a hollow noise; roar; bark; grunt”), from Proto-Germanic *bellaną (“to sound; roar; bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound; roar; bark”). Cognate with Scots bell (“to shout; speak loudly”), Dutch bellen (“to ring”), German Low German bellen (“to ring”), German bellen (“to bark”), Swedish böla (“to low; bellow; roar”).
senses_examples:
text:
This animal is said to harbour in the place where he resides. When he cries, he is said to bell; the print of his hoof is called the slot; his tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet; his horns are called his head [...].
ref:
1774, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature
type:
quotation
text:
You acted part so well, went alɬ-fours upon earth / The live-long day, brayed, belled.
ref:
1872, Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair
type:
quotation
text:
Then, incredibly, a rutting stag belled by the trunks.
ref:
1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
Their leaders bell their bleating tunes In doleful sound.
ref:
1591, Edmund Spenser, Astrophel
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bellow or roar.
To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
senses_topics:
|
7672 | word:
bell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bell (plural bells)
forms:
form:
bells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bell
en:Bell (school)
etymology_text:
From Middle English bellen, from Old English bellan (“to bellow; make a hollow noise; roar; bark; grunt”), from Proto-Germanic *bellaną (“to sound; roar; bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound; roar; bark”). Cognate with Scots bell (“to shout; speak loudly”), Dutch bellen (“to ring”), German Low German bellen (“to ring”), German bellen (“to bark”), Swedish böla (“to low; bellow; roar”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
senses_topics:
|
7673 | word:
rumour
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rumour (countable and uncountable, plural rumours)
forms:
form:
rumours
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rumour
etymology_text:
From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumour, rumor, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to shout, roar”).
senses_examples:
text:
There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
I myself gave support to the summoning of the Estates General ... as merely mistaken . Similarly it might be held that Paradise originated in a rumour invented in hell to make society the more interesting . ' ' We need a saviour .
ref:
1969, Peter Vansittart, Pastimes of a Red Summer: A Novel, Owen, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 140
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
British, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland spelling of rumor
A prolonged, indistinct noise.
senses_topics:
|
7674 | word:
rumour
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rumour (third-person singular simple present rumours, present participle rumouring, simple past and past participle rumoured)
forms:
form:
rumours
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rumouring
tags:
participle
present
form:
rumoured
tags:
participle
past
form:
rumoured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rumour
etymology_text:
From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumour, rumor, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to shout, roar”).
senses_examples:
text:
Two of the four main routes over the Border were rumoured to be threatened with withdrawal of, or heavy cuts in, passenger services.
ref:
1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Drastic cuts in Scotland?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 644
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Commonwealth standard spelling of rumor.
senses_topics:
|
7675 | word:
Cornish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Cornish (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Corn(wall) + -ish, from Cornish Kernewek, Kernowek.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Cornwall, a county of southwest England.
Native to Cornwall.
Of or pertaining to the Cornish language.
senses_topics:
|
7676 | word:
Cornish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Cornish pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Corn(wall) + -ish, from Cornish Kernewek, Kernowek.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The inhabitants of Cornwall, especially native-born.
senses_topics:
|
7677 | word:
Cornish
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cornish
forms:
wikipedia:
Cornish language
Cornish people
etymology_text:
From Corn(wall) + -ish, from Cornish Kernewek, Kernowek.
senses_examples:
text:
There is a movement to revive Cornish.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Celtic language of Cornwall, related to Welsh and Breton.
The name of a town:
A town in Maine.
The name of a town:
A town in New Hampshire.
The name of a town:
A town in Oklahoma.
The name of a town:
A town in Utah, at the border with Idaho.
A habitational surname from Old English referring to someone from Cornwall.
senses_topics:
|
7678 | word:
speed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
speed (countable and uncountable, plural speeds)
forms:
form:
speeds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
speed (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English spede (“prosperity, good luck, quickness, success”), from Old English spēd (“success”), from Proto-West Germanic *spōdi (“prosperity, success”), from Proto-West Germanic *spōan, from Proto-Germanic *spōaną (“to prosper, succeed, be happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to prosper, turn out well”). Cognate with Scots spede, speid (“success, quickness, speed”), Dutch spoed (“haste; speed”), German Low German Spood (“haste; speed; eagerness; success”), German Sput (“progress, acceleration, haste”). Related also to Old English spōwan (“to be successful, succeed”), Albanian shpejt (“to speed, to hurry”) and Russian спеши́ть (spešítʹ, “to hurry”), Latin spēs (“hope, expectation”), spērō (“hope”, verb), perhaps also to Ancient Greek σπεύδω (speúdō, “to urge on, hasten, press on”).
senses_examples:
text:
How does Usain Bolt run at that speed?
type:
example
text:
Speed limits provide information to the drivers about the safe speed to travel in average conditions.
type:
example
text:
We could go to the shore next week, or somewhere else if that's not your speed.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion.
The rate of motion or action, specifically the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time.
The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open (shutter speed).
The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a stimulant, especially illegally.
Luck, success, prosperity.
Personal preference.
A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
senses_topics:
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
business
finance |
7679 | word:
speed
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
speed (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English spede (“prosperity, good luck, quickness, success”), from Old English spēd (“success”), from Proto-West Germanic *spōdi (“prosperity, success”), from Proto-West Germanic *spōan, from Proto-Germanic *spōaną (“to prosper, succeed, be happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to prosper, turn out well”). Cognate with Scots spede, speid (“success, quickness, speed”), Dutch spoed (“haste; speed”), German Low German Spood (“haste; speed; eagerness; success”), German Sput (“progress, acceleration, haste”). Related also to Old English spōwan (“to be successful, succeed”), Albanian shpejt (“to speed, to hurry”) and Russian спеши́ть (spešítʹ, “to hurry”), Latin spēs (“hope, expectation”), spērō (“hope”, verb), perhaps also to Ancient Greek σπεύδω (speúdō, “to urge on, hasten, press on”).
senses_examples:
text:
“Speed,” Carlos, the soundman, said. […]
“Camera.”
“Rolling,” replied Bryce, the cameraman.
ref:
2000, Brian J. Hayes, A Boy Scout in Hollywood, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the director called, “Roll 'em,” the sound man said, “Speed,” and Norling stepped in and said, […]
ref:
2012, Tom Mascaro, Into the Fray, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Called by the soundman when the recording equipment has reached running speed and is ready to go.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
film
media
television |
7680 | word:
speed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
speed (third-person singular simple present speeds, present participle speeding, simple past and past participle sped or (mostly UK) speeded)
forms:
form:
speeds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
speeding
tags:
participle
present
form:
sped
tags:
participle
past
form:
sped
tags:
past
form:
speeded
tags:
UK
participle
past
form:
speeded
tags:
UK
past
wikipedia:
speed (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English speden, from Old English spēdan (“to speed, prosper, succeed, have success”), from Proto-West Germanic *spōdijan (“to succeed”). Cognate with Scots spede, speid (“to meet with success, assist, promote, accomplish, speed”), Dutch spoeden (“to hurry, rush”), Low German spoden, spöden (“to hasten, speed”), German sputen, spuden (“to speed”).
senses_examples:
text:
18ᵗʰc., Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
At night returning, every labor sped, / He sits him down the monarch of a shed: / Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys, / His children’s looks, that brighten at the blaze;
text:
God speed, until we meet again.
type:
example
text:
The Ferrari was speeding along the road.
type:
example
text:
Why do you speed when the road is so icy?
type:
example
text:
It is possible that the uterine contractions speed the sperm along.
ref:
1982, Carole Offir, Carole Wade, Human sexuality,, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 454
type:
quotation
text:
Such interventions can help to speed the process of reducing CBRs and help countries pass through the demographic transition threshold more quickly[…].
ref:
2004, James M. Cypher, James L. Dietz, The process of economic development, Routledge, page 359
type:
quotation
text:
Jackie is just speeding away / Thought she was James Dean for a day
ref:
1972, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer
type:
quotation
text:
If Hector had not been speeding, it was possible that his next thought would have hurt: he loves his uncle unconditionally, in a way he will never love me.
ref:
2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, Allen and Unwin, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
To go fast.
To exceed the speed limit.
To increase the rate at which something occurs.
To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
To be expedient.
To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.
To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
senses_topics:
|
7681 | word:
sell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sell (third-person singular simple present sells, present participle selling, simple past and past participle sold)
forms:
form:
sells
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
selling
tags:
participle
present
form:
sold
tags:
participle
past
form:
sold
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sellen, from Old English sellan (“give; give up for money”), from Proto-West Germanic *salljan, from Proto-Germanic *saljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁-. Compare Danish sælge, Swedish sälja, Icelandic selja.
senses_examples:
text:
She sold her old car very quickly.
type:
example
text:
I'll sell you three books for a hundred dollars.
type:
example
text:
Sorry, I'm not prepared to sell.
type:
example
text:
No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
ref:
2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
This old stock will never sell.
type:
example
text:
The corn sold for a good price.
type:
example
text:
Howard: You're gonna feel terrible when I'm in a wheelchair. Which, by the way, would fit easily in the back of this award-winning minivan.
Bernadette: Fine, we'll go to the E.R. Just stop selling me on the van.
Howard: You're right. It sells itself.
ref:
2016, “The Fetal Kick Catalyst”, in The Big Bang Theory
type:
quotation
text:
My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.
type:
example
text:
House was jammed again that night, and we sold this crowd the same way.
ref:
1884, Mark Twain, chapter XXIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
type:
quotation
text:
Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.
ref:
2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Blackpool 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
He's selling!
type:
example
text:
He really sold in that match.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
To be sold.
To promote a product or service.
To promote a particular viewpoint.
To betray for money or other things.
To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
To throw under the bus; to let down one's own team in an endeavour, especially in a sport or a game.
senses_topics:
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
|
7682 | word:
sell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sell (plural sells)
forms:
form:
sells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sellen, from Old English sellan (“give; give up for money”), from Proto-West Germanic *salljan, from Proto-Germanic *saljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁-. Compare Danish sælge, Swedish sälja, Icelandic selja.
senses_examples:
text:
Now the easiest sell in traveldom is made even easier.
ref:
1963, American Society of Travel Agents, ASTA Travel News, volume 32, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
This is going to be a tough sell.
type:
example
text:
What a sell for Lena!
ref:
1922, Katherine Mansfield, The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of selling; sale.
The promotion of an idea for acceptance.
An easy task.
An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity.
senses_topics:
|
7683 | word:
sell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sell (plural sells)
forms:
form:
sells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French selle, from Latin sella.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A seat or stool.
A saddle.
senses_topics:
|
7684 | word:
sell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sell (plural sells)
forms:
form:
sells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old Saxon seill or Old Norse seil. Cognate with Dutch zeel (“rope”), German Seil (“rope”).
senses_examples:
text:
He picked up the sell from the straw-strewn barn-floor, snelly sneaked up behind her and sleekly slung it around her swire while scryingː "dee, dee ye fooking quhoreǃ".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).
senses_topics:
|
7685 | word:
RMO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
RMO
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of research management organization; It functions as a combination of a CRO and SMO to manage research from the conception and development of a project to the implementation and completion at Investigative Sites.
senses_topics:
|
7686 | word:
alpine chough
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alpine chough (plural alpine choughs)
forms:
form:
alpine choughs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In a sense these sections form refrains to the two couplets, in which two types of material are used: birdsong, consisting of the calls and cries of the alpine chough and the raven, and passages representing the flight of the alpine chough and the flight of the golden eagle.
ref:
1989, Robert Sherlaw Johnson, Messiaen, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
The alpine chough was seen by Edmund Hillary on his way to the summit of Mount Everest at 28,000 feet, and I believe it is likely that the little cache of biscuits and candy placed on the summit by Tensing Norkay in May, 1953, was visited by alpine choughs on their patrols in search of human debris.
ref:
2000, Lawrence W. Swan, Tales of the Himalaya: Adventures of a Naturalist, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
2002, Chough, entry in Maurice Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Chickaree - crabs, 3rd Edition, page 451,
Red-billed and alpine choughs live in mountainous regions, but while the latter is strictly a montane species, the former also occurs at lower altitudes. In most countries where both species are found the alpine chough is more numerous.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A species of bird in the crow family (Corvidae) (Pyrrhocorax graculus), that breeds locally in the highest mountains of southern Europe, the Alps, across central Asia and India.
senses_topics:
|
7687 | word:
charm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
charm (countable and uncountable, plural charms)
forms:
form:
charms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English charme, from Old French charme (“chant, magic spell”), from Latin carmen (“song, incantation”).
senses_examples:
text:
a charm against evil
type:
example
text:
It works like a charm.
type:
example
text:
He had great personal charm.
type:
example
text:
She tried to win him over with her charms.
type:
example
text:
Her coyneſs was conquered by aſſiduity, and at laſt ſhe conſented to reſign the treaſure of her charms to my paſſion.
ref:
1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 15
type:
quotation
text:
She wears a charm bracelet on her wrist.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: strangeness
text:
In trying to understand the long life of the psi particle, physicists postulated the notion of “charm.” Charm, they say, prevents the “easy” decay of particles and thus prolongs their lifetimes. U particles, Dr. Pert said, may carry the property of charm.
ref:
1975 July 31, Sandra Blakeslee, “Another Particle Believed Discovered”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Mesons which combine the charmed quark with the up or down antiquarks are denoted the D mesons. These mesons carry explicit charm (i.e. have a non-zero charm quantum number), just as the K mesons carry strangeness.
ref:
2020, James E. Dodd, Ben Gripaios, The Ideas of Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
Undoubtedly one of the most important pieces to navigating Windows 8, charms are actually not visible until a command to show them is given.
ref:
2012, J. Peter Bruzzese, Using Windows 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.
A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.
A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.
An icon providing quick access to a command or setting.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
finance
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
7688 | word:
charm
word_type:
verb
expansion:
charm (third-person singular simple present charms, present participle charming, simple past and past participle charmed)
forms:
form:
charms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
charming
tags:
participle
present
form:
charmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
charmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English charme, from Old French charme (“chant, magic spell”), from Latin carmen (“song, incantation”).
senses_examples:
text:
He charmed her with his dashing tales of his days as a sailor.
type:
example
text:
After winning three games while wearing the chain, Dan began to think it had been charmed.
type:
example
text:
She led a charmed life.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to ensorcel or exert a magical effect on.
To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
To make music upon.
To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
senses_topics:
|
7689 | word:
charm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
charm (plural charms)
forms:
form:
charms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
Variant of chirm, from Middle English chirme, from Old English ċierm (“cry, alarm”), from Proto-Germanic *karmiz.
senses_examples:
text:
The laughter rose like the charm of starlings.
ref:
1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
A charm of finches flew overhead, singing into the vivid afternoon sky.
ref:
2018, Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
A flock, group (especially of finches).
senses_topics:
|
7690 | word:
behavior
word_type:
noun
expansion:
behavior (usually uncountable, plural behaviors)
forms:
form:
behaviors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English behavoure, behaver, from behaven (modern behave), with the ending apparently in imitation of havour (see 'havior). Compare Scots havings (“behavior”), from have (“to behave”). Displaced Old English ġebǣru.
senses_examples:
text:
Teachers will probably be on their best behaviour for your visit – but don't be upset if they don't even notice you; they've got enough going on.
ref:
2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
He was on his best behavior when her family visited.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Human conduct relative to social norms.
The way a living creature behaves or acts generally.
A state of probation about one's conduct.
Observable response produced by an organism.
The way a device or system operates.
senses_topics:
biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
psychology
sciences
|
7691 | word:
chance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chance (countable and uncountable, plural chances)
forms:
form:
chances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to happen, occur”). Doublet of cadence and cadenza.
senses_examples:
text:
We had the chance to meet the president last week.
type:
example
text:
It never even occurred to me in my fondest dreams that I might have the chance to help the sons and daughters of those students and to help people like them all over this country.
But now I do have that chance, and I'll let you in on a secret: I mean to use it.
ref:
1965 March 15, Lyndon B. Johnson, 42:30 from the start, in Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise [on the Voting Rights Act], 3/15/65. MP506., Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
type:
quotation
text:
Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?
type:
example
text:
There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
Sometimes the name is changed because it is thought to be unlucky. If "Chua" is ill, the chances are that there are certain spirits who do not like his name, so the parents alter his name to "Mee," or something else, and then he gets well again.
ref:
1908, Ernest Young, “Chapter 4 The children”, in Peeps at Many Lands: Siam, London: Adam and Charles Black, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
Wild-visag'd Wanderer! ah for thy heavy chance!
ref:
1795, Robert Southey, The Soldier's Wife
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An opportunity or possibility.
Random occurrence; luck.
The probability of something happening.
probability; possibility.
What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
senses_topics:
|
7692 | word:
chance
word_type:
adj
expansion:
chance (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to happen, occur”). Doublet of cadence and cadenza.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Happening by chance, casual.
senses_topics:
|
7693 | word:
chance
word_type:
adv
expansion:
chance (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to happen, occur”). Doublet of cadence and cadenza.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Perchance; perhaps.
senses_topics:
|
7694 | word:
chance
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chance (third-person singular simple present chances, present participle chancing, simple past and past participle chanced)
forms:
form:
chances
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
chancing
tags:
participle
present
form:
chanced
tags:
participle
past
form:
chanced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English chancen, chauncen, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.
type:
example
text:
[…] while the King and Godwine sate at the table, accompanied with others of the nobilitie, it chanced the cupbearer (as he brought wine to the bourd) to slip with the one foote, and yet by good strength of his other leg, to recover himselfe without falling […]
ref:
1826, William Lambarde, A Perambulation of Kent
type:
quotation
text:
Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?
type:
example
text:
He does chance it in stocks, but he's always played on the square, if you call stocks gambling.
ref:
1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes
type:
quotation
text:
He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.
type:
example
text:
The car broke down a week after I bought it. I was chanced by that fast-talking salesman.
type:
example
text:
Be prepared to engage in protests of all businesses nationwide who are violating the copyright act and chancing our members.
ref:
2017 March 22, Jules Vasquez, “Shyne Urges Artists To Protest Against Businesses Countrywide”, in 7 News Belize
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To happen by chance, to occur.
To befall; to happen to.
To try or risk.
To discover something by chance.
To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.
senses_topics:
|
7695 | word:
won
word_type:
verb
expansion:
won
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* Past participle of win, from Old English winnan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of win
senses_topics:
|
7696 | word:
won
word_type:
verb
expansion:
won (third-person singular simple present wons, present participle wonning, simple past and past participle wonned)
forms:
form:
wons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wonning
tags:
participle
present
form:
wonned
tags:
participle
past
form:
wonned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English wunian, from Proto-Germanic *wunāną, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”). Cognate with Dutch wonen, German wohnen.
senses_examples:
text:
I long'd to leave this wand'ring pilgrimage, / And in my native soil again to won.
ref:
1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, xxxiii
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To live, remain.
To be accustomed to do something.
senses_topics:
|
7697 | word:
won
word_type:
noun
expansion:
won (plural won)
forms:
form:
won
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Korean 원(圓) (won), from Sinitic 圓／圆 (yuán, “circle” > “round coin”) referring to the piece of eight. Doublet of yuan and yen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.
senses_topics:
|
7698 | word:
break
word_type:
verb
expansion:
break (third-person singular simple present breaks, present participle breaking, simple past broke or (archaic) brake, past participle broken or (nonstandard) broke)
forms:
form:
breaks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
breaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
broke
tags:
past
form:
brake
tags:
archaic
past
form:
broken
tags:
participle
past
form:
broke
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
break
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
break
etymology_text:
From Middle English breken, from Old English brecan (“to break”), from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”). The word is a doublet of bray.
Cognates
Cognates of Germanic origin include Scots brek (“to break”), West Frisian brekke (“to break”), Dutch breken (“to break”), Low German breken (“to break”), German brechen (“to break”), French broyer (“to crush, grind”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (brikan, “to break, destroy”), Norwegian brek (“desire, yearning”).
Also cognate with Albanian brishtë (“fragile”), Latin frangō (“break, break up, shatter”, verb), whence English fracture and other terms – fragile, frail, fraction, and fragment.
senses_examples:
text:
If the vase falls to the floor, it might break.
type:
example
text:
In order to tend to the accident victim, he will break the window of the car.
type:
example
text:
First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
ref:
2012 May 8, Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, Random House, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
His ribs broke under the weight of the rocks piled on his chest.
type:
example
text:
She broke her neck.
type:
example
text:
He slipped on the ice and broke his leg.
type:
example
text:
Can you break a hundred-dollar bill for me?
type:
example
text:
The wholesaler broke the container loads into palettes and boxes for local retailers.
type:
example
text:
Her child’s death broke Angela.
type:
example
text:
Interrogators have used many forms of torture to break prisoners of war.
type:
example
text:
The interrogator hoped to break her to get her testimony against her accomplices.
type:
example
text:
Colonel: See, gentlemen? Any horse could be broken.
ref:
2002, John Fusco, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
type:
quotation
text:
You have to break an elephant before you can use it as an animal of burden.
type:
example
text:
My heart is breaking.
type:
example
text:
I’ve got to break this habit I have of biting my nails.
type:
example
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to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one’s journey
type:
example
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I had won four games in a row, but now you've broken my streak of luck.
type:
example
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In July Alexander broke the run and went on tour, as was his custom. He believed in keeping in touch with provincial audiences and how wise he was!
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1958, Walter Macqueen-Pope, St. James's: Theatre of Distinction, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
After Camberwell he broke the play's season and brought it back in the autumn with a few revisions and a noticeably strengthened cast but without any special success.
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1986, Kurt Gänzl, The British Musical Theatre: 1865-1914, page 610
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text:
The recession broke some small businesses.
type:
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text:
‘I knew he was in some such low way—He broke did not he?’
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1791-92, Jane Austen, ‘A Collection of Letters’, Juvenilia
text:
With a few exceptions, stock prices tend to follow the overall market averages. When you have a market decline, therefore, many stocks share the same overall chart pattern. Prices break and go sideways for a period of time.
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2008, George Angell, Small Stocks for Big Profits
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When you go to Vancouver, promise me you won't break the law.
type:
example
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He broke his vows by cheating on his wife.
type:
example
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to break one’s word
type:
example
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Time travel would break the laws of physics.
type:
example
text:
Susan's fever broke at about 3 AM, and the doctor said the worst was over.
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example
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The forecast says the hot weather will break by midweek.
type:
example
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We ran to find shelter before the storm broke.
type:
example
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Around midday the storm broke, and the afternoon was calm and sunny.
type:
example
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Morning has broken.
type:
example
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The day broke crisp and clear.
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Changing the rules to let white have three extra queens would break chess.
type:
example
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I broke the RPG by training every member of my party to cast fireballs as well as use swords.
type:
example
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On the hottest day of the year the refrigerator broke.
type:
example
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Did you two break the trolley by racing with it?
type:
example
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Adding 64-bit support broke backward compatibility with earlier versions.
type:
example
text:
to break a seal
type:
example
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I'm a riddle so strong, you can't break me
ref:
1992, “Rain When I Die”, performed by Alice in Chains
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quotation
text:
The cavalry were not able to break the British squares.
type:
example
text:
And from the turf a fountain broke, / And gurgled at our feet.
ref:
1800, William Wordsworth, The Fountain
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quotation
text:
Let's break for lunch.
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example
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He survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall.
type:
example
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The newsman wanted to break a big story, something that would make him famous.
type:
example
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I don’t know how to break this to you, but your cat is not coming back.
type:
example
text:
When news of their divorce broke, …
type:
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Herman's Hermits version of 'I'm Into Something Good' topped the UK charts and also broke the band in the States.
ref:
2010, Jon Kutner, Spencer Leigh, 1,000 UK Number One Hits
type:
quotation
text:
“If something breaks during the day, work hours up until the evening, we’ll cut in — if we’re in the middle of, let’s say, a magazine program or a podcast on tape or a re-air of the game,” Radovich said.
ref:
2023 March 8, Jonathan Tannenwald, “CBS is launching a 24/7 soccer channel online”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer
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quotation
text:
Like the crash of thunderbolts…, the sound of musquetry broke over the lawn, ….
ref:
c. 1843, George Lippard, The Battle-Day of Germantown, reprinted in Washington and His Generals "1776", page 45 http://google.com/books?id=EM-qNjWrI9YC&pg=PA45&dq=%22sound+of+musquetry%22
text:
His coughing broke the silence.
type:
example
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His turning on the lights broke the enchantment.
type:
example
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With the mood broken, what we had been doing seemed pretty silly.
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As the last firing of the big guns begins to die down, the German light forces still fighting to the west begin to make their choices. Some break for the open sea; others run for the German-occupied coast; still others stand and die. A small group decide to strike their colors, in imitation of three of the larger German ships.
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2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 26:02 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04
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Things began breaking bad for him when his parents died.
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The arrest was standard, when suddenly the suspect broke ugly.
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His voice breaks when he gets emotional.
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He broke the men’s 100-meter record.
type:
example
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I can’t believe she broke 3 under par!
type:
example
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The policeman broke sixty on a residential street in his hurry to catch the thief.
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He needs to break serve to win the match.
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Yet when play restarted the Czech was a train that kept on running over Nadal. After breaking Nadal in the opening game of the final set, he went 2-0 up and later took the count to 4-2 with yet another emphatic ace – one of his 22 throughout.
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2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian
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Is it your or my turn to break?
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Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner in Egypt, was happy for the success of the work he had advocated for years. I grudged him this happiness; for McMahon, who took the actual risk of starting it, had been broken just before prosperity began.
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1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 167
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And he played no favorites: when his son-in-law sacked a city he had been told to spare, Genghis broke him to private.
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1953 February 9, “Books: First Rulers of Asia”, in Time
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One morning after the budget had failed to balance Finanzminister von Scholz picked up Der Reichsanzeiger and found he had been broken to sergeant.
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1968, William Manchester, The Arms of Krupp, Back Bay, published 2003, page 215
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Not long after this event, Clausen became involved in another disciplinary situation and was broken to private—the only one to win the Medal of Honor in Vietnam.
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2006, Peter Collier, Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty, Second Edition, Artisan Books, page 42
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The referee ordered the boxers to break the clinch.
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The referee broke the boxers’ clinch.
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I couldn’t hear a thing he was saying, so I broke the connection and called him back.
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Conversely, as the emulsion breaks and the system returns to the original state, energy is released.
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2004, J. L. Atwood, Jonathan W. Steed, Encyclopedia of supramolecular chemistry, volume 2, page 1466
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When the droplets hit a solid wall the emulsion breaks instantly forming a bitumen on the wall and thus a layer up to 1 cm thick can be sprayed in one operation without requiring drying in between.
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2006, Johan Sjöblom, Emulsions and emulsion stability, volume 22, page 400
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The Baggies almost hit back instantly when Graham Dorrans broke from midfield and pulled the trigger from 15 yards but Paul Robinson did superbly to tip the Scot's drive around the post.
ref:
2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC
type:
quotation
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See how the dean begins to break; / Poor gentleman he droops apace.
ref:
1731, Verses on His Own Death, Jonathan Swift
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text:
to break flax
type:
example
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when I see a great officer broke.
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January 11, 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner No. 24
text:
to break into a run or gallop
type:
example
text:
c. 1700 Jeremy Collier, On Friendship
To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited.
text:
zero-width non-breaking space
type:
example
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To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
To end the run of (a play).
To ruin financially.
To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt.
Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
To violate; to fail to adhere to.
To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
To end.
To begin or end.
To arrive.
To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
To become audible suddenly.
To change a steady state abruptly.
To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
To suddenly become.
To become deeper at puberty.
To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
To remove one of the two men on (a point).
To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
To end (a connection); to disconnect.
To demulsify.
To counter-attack.
To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
To fall out; to terminate friendship.
To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
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7699 | word:
break
word_type:
noun
expansion:
break (plural breaks)
forms:
form:
breaks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
break
etymology_text:
From Middle English breken, from Old English brecan (“to break”), from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”). The word is a doublet of bray.
Cognates
Cognates of Germanic origin include Scots brek (“to break”), West Frisian brekke (“to break”), Dutch breken (“to break”), Low German breken (“to break”), German brechen (“to break”), French broyer (“to crush, grind”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (brikan, “to break, destroy”), Norwegian brek (“desire, yearning”).
Also cognate with Albanian brishtë (“fragile”), Latin frangō (“break, break up, shatter”, verb), whence English fracture and other terms – fragile, frail, fraction, and fragment.
senses_examples:
text:
The femur has a clean break and so should heal easily.
type:
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The sun came out in a break in the clouds.
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He waited minutes for a break in the traffic to cross the highway.
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But the young activists of Move Forward outmanoeuvred the older party, and beat many of its candidates, with an imaginative, social media-based campaign offering voters a complete break with the past, and a different kind of political leadership.
ref:
2023 May 29, Jonathan Head, “Pita Limjaroenrat: Thai election upstart who vows to be different”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
winter break, spring break
type:
example
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Let’s take a five-minute break.
type:
example
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a weekend break on the Isle of Wight
type:
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I think we need a break.
type:
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But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post.
ref:
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
big break
type:
example
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lucky break, bad break
type:
example
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Following the invasion of France by the Germans in May of 1940, the securities markets experienced a break in prices.
ref:
1947, Reports of the Tax Court of the United States, volume 8, page 459
type:
quotation
text:
daybreak
type:
example
text:
at the break of day
type:
example
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to make a break for it; to make a break for the door
type:
example
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It was a clean break.
type:
example
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prison break
type:
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No matter how much text you add above the break, the text after the break will always appear at the top of a new page.
ref:
2001, Nan Barber, David Reynolds, Office 2001 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
Blackpool were not without their opportunities - thanks to their willingness to commit and leave men forward even when under severe pressure - and they looked very capable of scoring on the break.
ref:
2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
The final break in the Greenmount area is Kirra Point.
type:
example
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Cigar was distracted at the break and let his five opponents get the jump.
ref:
1999, Jay Hovdey, Cigar: America's Horse, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
Perhaps it stumbles to its knees at the break, effectively losing the race at the outset.
ref:
2010, John Alexander, Exotic Wagering the Winning Way, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
Pampered jades […] which need nor break nor bit.
ref:
1576, George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas
type:
quotation
text:
The fiddle break was amazing; it was a pity the singer came back in on the wrong note.
type:
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The effect was weird, because with that intuitive sense possessed by the African, every drummer knew exactly when the “breaks” were coming, and whole banks of bass drums would drop out precisely on the beat.
ref:
1937, Ivan T. Sanderson, Animal Treasure, page 233
type:
quotation
text:
Crossing the break smoothly is one of the first lessons the young clarinettist needs to master.
type:
example
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34. Of the Registers of the Voice - All singers have observed that there are certain parts of the Vocal Scale where a break, as it is called, seldom fails to occur.
ref:
1862, John Winebrenner, The Serephina, Or, Christian Library of Church Music, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
The point of division between the two vocal registers is most frequently referred to as the register’s break.
ref:
2007, S. Anthony Frisella, The Baritone Voice: A Personal Guide to Acquiring a Superior Singing Technique, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Boys should continue in their high voice, across the break to the lower range, and end up with a voice that doesn’t have a break (Leck, 2009).
ref:
2018, Karen Brunssen, The Evolving Singing Voice: Changes Across the Lifespan, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
"Maybe he will some day," says the Missus, and then her and Bessie pretended like they'd made a break and was embarrassed.
ref:
1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
A rest or pause, usually from work.
A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
A rest or pause, usually from work.
A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
A rest or pause, usually from work.
A short holiday.
A temporary split with a romantic partner.
An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
The beginning (of the morning).
An act of escaping.
The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
Short for breakpoint.
A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
A game won by the receiving player(s).
The first shot in a game of billiards.
The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
The counter-attack.
The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
The start of a horse race.
A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
A sharp bit or snaffle.
A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
An error.
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