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7700 | word:
break
word_type:
noun
expansion:
break (plural breaks)
forms:
form:
breaks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
break
etymology_text:
Clipping of breakdown (the percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music) and see also breakdancing.
senses_examples:
text:
The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes
ref:
1994, “N.Y. State of Mind”, in Illmatic, performed by Nas
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
7701 | word:
break
word_type:
verb
expansion:
break (third-person singular simple present breaks, present participle breaking, simple past and past participle breaked)
forms:
form:
breaks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
breaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
breaked
tags:
participle
past
form:
breaked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
break
etymology_text:
Clipping of breakdown (the percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music) and see also breakdancing.
senses_examples:
text:
Let the poppers pop and the breakers break / We're cool, cool cats, it's like that
ref:
1985, “King of Rock”, performed by Run-DMC
type:
quotation
text:
Breaking heavily, now on a 1 in 39 gradient, the train makes as if to cross the Tamar at once, only to swing sharply to the right, […].
ref:
1951 July, R. E. G. Read, “From Bere Alston to Callington”, in Railway Magazine, page 482
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To B-boy; to breakdance.
To brake.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
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7702 | word:
great tit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
great tit (plural great tits)
forms:
form:
great tits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bird in the Paridae family, Parus major.
senses_topics:
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7703 | word:
attack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
attack (plural attacks)
forms:
form:
attacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (“to join, attach”) (used in attaccare battaglia (“to join battle”)), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Doublet of attach. Displaced native Old English on rǣsan (“to attack”) and onrǣs (“an attack”).
senses_examples:
text:
From 1906 to 1960, there were forty-six recorded shark attacks, half of which were fatal.
ref:
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
ref:
2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …
ref:
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
type:
quotation
text:
They claimed the censorship of the article was an attack on free speech.
type:
example
text:
The army timed their attack to coincide with the local celebrations.
type:
example
text:
Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.
type:
example
text:
birthday attack; denial-of-service attack
text:
I've had an attack of the flu.
type:
example
text:
Eric Reed was a curious choice as pianist, since his busy Petersonian attack is the antithesis of Lewis's, but he acquitted himself with panache, […]
ref:
2004, Gary Giddins, Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century, page 322
type:
quotation
text:
Combat in Mimesis Online is nice and simple. You click on your target […] and then keep right-clicking your chosen attack from the drop down menu. Every time you right click on the attack, your character will swing, shoot, etc.
ref:
2002 March, Aaron Butler, “Mimesis Online (PC)”, in GameSpy.com, archived from the original on 2002-12-16
type:
quotation
text:
Kleavor has several attacks that it's worth roughly memorising: a charge attack, where it runs at you quickly; a jump attack, that causes a pillar of rock to spike out from under the ground; and a spin attack that does damage in a circle around it.
ref:
2022 January 28, Chris Tapsell, “Pokémon Legends Arceus Kleavor boss fight: How to beat Kleavor”, in Eurogamer.ner
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
The beginning of active operations on anything.
An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
One of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
ball-games
games
hobbies
lacrosse
lifestyle
sports
medicine
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
games
gaming |
7704 | word:
attack
word_type:
verb
expansion:
attack (third-person singular simple present attacks, present participle attacking, simple past and past participle attacked or (obsolete) attackt or (obsolete, dialectal) attackted)
forms:
form:
attacks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
attacking
tags:
participle
present
form:
attacked
tags:
participle
past
form:
attacked
tags:
past
form:
attackt
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
attackt
tags:
obsolete
past
form:
attackted
tags:
dialectal
obsolete
participle
past
form:
attackted
tags:
dialectal
obsolete
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
attack
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (“to join, attach”) (used in attaccare battaglia (“to join battle”)), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Doublet of attach. Displaced native Old English on rǣsan (“to attack”) and onrǣs (“an attack”).
senses_examples:
text:
This species of snake will only attack humans if it feels threatened.
type:
example
text:
She published an article attacking the recent pay cuts.
type:
example
text:
It was puzzling to read a column that claimed to be attacking me, yet espoused the main ideas in my article.
ref:
1988 December 11, John D'Emilio, “Enemies, Anger, and Militance”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
In its God-like prime, The Simpsons attacked well-worn satirical fodder from unexpected angles, finding fresh laughs in the hoariest of subjects.
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, Fusion Media Group
type:
quotation
text:
Hydrofluoric acid […] attacks the glass.
ref:
1866, Balfour Stewart, An Elementary Treatise on Heat
type:
quotation
text:
We’ll have dinner before we attack the biology homework.
type:
example
text:
I attacked the meal with a hearty appetite.
type:
example
text:
He filled a basin with water, and, with an old brush and piece of sandsoap, attacked the stove.
ref:
1922, Joseph Hergesheimer, Mountain Blood
type:
quotation
text:
Six successive defeats had left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table but, clearly under instructions to attack from the outset, Bolton started far the brighter.
ref:
2011 October 15, Michael Da Silva, “Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply violent force to someone or something.
To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
(Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
7705 | word:
attack
word_type:
adj
expansion:
attack (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (“to join, attach”) (used in attaccare battaglia (“to join battle”)), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Doublet of attach. Displaced native Old English on rǣsan (“to attack”) and onrǣs (“an attack”).
senses_examples:
text:
attack dog, attack ad
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Designed or kept for the purpose of confrontation.
senses_topics:
|
7706 | word:
differ
word_type:
verb
expansion:
differ (third-person singular simple present differs, present participle differing, simple past and past participle differed)
forms:
form:
differs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
differing
tags:
participle
present
form:
differed
tags:
participle
past
form:
differed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English differren, from Old French differer, from Latin differō (“carry apart, put off, defer; differ”), from dis- (“apart”) + ferō (“carry, bear”). Compare Ancient Greek διαφέρω (diaphérō). Doublet of defer (etymology 1).
senses_examples:
text:
These shoes only differ from those ones in having slightly longer laces.
type:
example
text:
May 11, 1827, George Canning, Changes in the Administration
I differ from the honourable baronet on both these subjects
text:
The numbers 3 and 21 differ by 18.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.
To have diverging opinions, disagree.
To be separated in quantity.
senses_topics:
|
7707 | word:
differ
word_type:
noun
expansion:
differ (plural differs)
forms:
form:
differs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From diff + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A program that diffs, a diff.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
7708 | word:
SMO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SMO (plural SMOs)
forms:
form:
SMOs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of site management organization; an organization that provides clinical trial related services.
Initialism of social movement organization.
Initialism of special military operation.
Initialism of social media optimization.
senses_topics:
|
7709 | word:
swell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swell (third-person singular simple present swells, present participle swelling, simple past swelled or swole or swoll, past participle swollen or swelled)
forms:
form:
swells
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
swelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
swelled
tags:
past
form:
swole
tags:
past
form:
swoll
tags:
past
form:
swollen
tags:
participle
past
form:
swelled
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
swell
etymology_text:
From Middle English swellen, from Old English swellan (“to swell”), from Proto-West Germanic *swellan, from Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”), of unknown origin.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian swälle (“to swell”), West Frisian swolle (“to swell”), Dutch zwellen (“to swell”), Low German swellen (“to swell”), German schwellen (“to swell”), Swedish svälla (“to swell”), Icelandic svella. The adjective may derive from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
“If you drinks a drop more, Miss Lucy, you’ll just go like my pore young sister goed, […] Pop she did not. She swole … swole and swole.”
“You mean ‘swelled,’ Cookoo,” corrected Lucille […]
“[…] I say she swole—and what is more she swole clean into a dropsy.”
ref:
1914, P. C. Wren, chapter 5, in Snake and Sword, London: Longmans, Green, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
She had overheard her Mom and Mrs. Thomas from across the street talking about someone who was allergic to stings, and Mrs. Thomas had said, "Ten seconds after it gut im, poor ole Frank was swole up like a balloon. If he hadn't had his little kit with the hyperdermic, I guess he woulda choked to death."
ref:
1999 April 6, Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner; republished New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, May 2017, pages 67–68
type:
quotation
text:
Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.
type:
example
text:
Mildly it [the wind] kist our sailes, and, fresh, and sweet,
As, to a stomack sterv’d, whose insides meete,
Meate comes, it came; and swole our sailes, when wee
So joyd, as Sara’ her swelling joy’d to see.
ref:
1633, John Donne, “The Storme”, in Poems, London: John Marriot, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
’Tis low ebb sure with his Accuser, when such Peccadillos as these are put in to swell the Charge.
ref:
1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation, Oxford, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.
ref:
2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21
type:
quotation
text:
The organ music swelled.
type:
example
text:
It commenced with a slow crescendo, so irresistibly lugubrious that two of our dogs at once raised their heads and swelled their voices into a responsive tremolo, which may have been heard and appreciated by their distant relatives.
ref:
1880, Felix Leopold Oswald, Summerland Sketches, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
to be swelled with pride or haughtiness
type:
example
text:
In all things else above our humble fate
Your equal mind yet swells not into state,
But like some mountain in those happy Isles
Where in perpetual Spring young Nature smiles,
Your greatnesse shows:
ref:
1662, John Dryden, To My Lord Chancellor Presented on New-Years-Day, London: Henry Herringman, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
swelling words a swelling style
type:
example
text:
A cask swells in the middle.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
To cause to become bigger.
To grow gradually in force or loudness.
To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
To be raised to arrogance.
To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
To protuberate; to bulge out.
senses_topics:
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7710 | word:
swell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
swell (countable and uncountable, plural swells)
forms:
form:
swells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
swell
etymology_text:
From Middle English swelle, from the verb swellen (modern swell).
senses_examples:
text:
Concentrated are his arguments, select and distinct and orderly his topics, ready and unfastidious his expressions, popular his allusions, plain his illustrations, easy the swell and subsidence of his periods […]
ref:
1826, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, Volume I, Conversation 6, p. 128
type:
quotation
text:
The Tilbury-Gravesend foot passenger ferry fights its way through a high swell on the river Thames on February 16 2022.
ref:
2023 February 8, Barry Doe, “Birmingham & West Midlands Atlas is a fine production”, in RAIL, number 976, page 63, photo caption
type:
quotation
text:
Off on the crest of a swell a moving figure was seen now and then. "Antelope," said the hunters.
ref:
1909, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 2, in The Last of the Chiefs
type:
quotation
text:
It costs him no more to wear all his ornaments about his distinguished person than to leave them at home. If you can be a swell at a cheap rate, why not?
ref:
c. 1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Kickleburys on the Rhine”, in The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh
type:
quotation
text:
He was dressed in a flashy style, not unlike what is popularly denominated a swell.
ref:
1887, Horatio Alger, chapter 9, in The Cash Boy
type:
quotation
text:
Between the two extremes of college men the unsocial dig and the flunking swell, lies the majority, who, acknowledging the duty and merit of hard work, see the value in social and recreative line, but are at somewhat of a loss, seemingly, how to proportionize the time given to the different sides of college life, or how far to allow themselves to go on the more attractive side.
ref:
1892, Occident - Volume 22, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
"I am not in Mr Crosbie's confidence. He is in the General Committee Office, I know; and, I believe, has pretty nearly the management of the whole of it."
"I'll tell you what he is, Bell; Mr Crosbie is a swell." And Lilian Dale was right; Mr Crosbie was a swell.
ref:
1864, Anthony Trollope, chapter 2, in The Small House at Allington
type:
quotation
text:
The only sensible man I came across was the cabman who drove me about. A broken-down swell he was, I fancy.
ref:
1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 14, in Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, page 176
type:
quotation
text:
You buy a lot of Indian or halfbreed loafers with beaver-skins and rum, go to the Mount of the Burning Arrows, and these fellows dance round you and call you one of the lost race, the Mighty Men of the Kimash Hills. And they'll do that while the rum lasts. Meanwhile you get to think yourself a devil of a swell—you and the gods!
ref:
1906, Gilbert Parker, chapter 8, in The Trespasser
type:
quotation
text:
‘[…] Colleoni’s going to take over this place from you, and he’s got his lawyer. A man in London. A swell.’
ref:
1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, New York: Vintage, published 2002, Part Seven, Chapter 3, p. 209
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of swelling; increase in size.
A bulge or protuberance.
Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
A person of high social standing; an important person.
The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
geography
geology
natural-sciences
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7711 | word:
swell
word_type:
adj
expansion:
swell (not generally comparable, comparative sweller, superlative swellest)
forms:
form:
sweller
tags:
comparative
form:
swellest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
swell
etymology_text:
From the noun "swell" (a person dressed in an elegant manner).
senses_examples:
text:
We pay the express, $5 a day our new agents are making and wearing the swellest clothes besides; old agents after one season make twice as much.
ref:
1912, Popular Mechanics, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
...you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I'd get maudlin about how damned swell you are. My god I'd like to see you... You're a hell of a good guy.
ref:
1927 Mar. 31, Ernest Hemingway, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
text:
Jeff swaggered over to Ned Beaumont, threw his left arm roughly around his shoulders, seized Ned Beaumont’s right hand with his right hand, and addressed the company jovially: “This is the swellest guy I ever skinned a knuckle on and I’ve skinned them on plenty.”
ref:
1931, Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key, page 176
type:
quotation
text:
[…] we’re league champions in basketball and our square-dance team is state runner-up and we have a swell sock hop every Wednesday.
ref:
1958, Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Orgasms are swell, but they are not the remedy to every injustice.
ref:
2012 September 10, Ariel Levy, “The Space In Between”, in The New Yorker
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
Excellent.
senses_topics:
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7712 | word:
swell
word_type:
adv
expansion:
swell (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
swell
etymology_text:
From the noun "swell" (a person dressed in an elegant manner).
senses_examples:
text:
That lousy ring wasn’t worth no grand. I did swell to get two centuries for it.
ref:
1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 12, in Red Harvest
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Last August, when I left The Walls, I figured I had every chance to start new. I got a job in Olathe, lived with my family, and stayed home nights. I was doing swell—
ref:
1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, published 2013, Part 3, p. 251
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very well.
senses_topics:
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7713 | word:
recession
word_type:
noun
expansion:
recession (countable and uncountable, plural recessions)
forms:
form:
recessions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
recession
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin recessiō, from recēdō (“recede, retreat”), from re- (“back”) + cēdō (“to go”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…]that light may break forth from the deepest enclosures of darkness, and mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice, and grace may triumph upon the ruin of sin, and God may be glorified in the miracles of our conversion, and the wonders of our preservation and glories of our being saved.
ref:
a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, “Of Growth in Sin”, in The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, new edition, volume IV, London: Longman et al., published 1850, page 520
type:
quotation
text:
Eastward in Bosnia, while the central European clime prevails, the thermic gradient does not follow the recession in the north latitude, but the elevation of the terrain.
ref:
1955, A History of the Croatian People from Their Arrival on the Shores of the Adriatic to the Present Day, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Had this climate recession not occurred, the settlements might have provided the first real bridgehead into the continent of America, rather than being rediscovered by Columbus and later by Cabot.
ref:
2004, Wayne Kenneth David Davies, Writing Geographical Exploration, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.
ref:
2019, Peter Vincent, The Biogeography of the British Isles: An Introduction, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
Statisticians often define a recession as negative real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.
type:
example
text:
Bilateral medial rectus muscle recession when angle is stable. Controversy exists regarding optimal timing of surgery. If greater than 40 prism diopter esotropia, some recommend bimedial recession with resection of one lateral rectus muscle.
ref:
2011, George L. Spaeth, Helen Danesh-Meyer, Ivan Goldberg, Ophthalmic Surgery: Principles and Practice E-Book, page 467
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
A period of reduced economic activity
The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
The act of ceding something back.
A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
medicine
sciences
surgery |
7714 | word:
peregrine falcon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
peregrine falcon (plural peregrine falcons)
forms:
form:
peregrine falcons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A medium-sized, very swift falcon, of species Falco peregrinus, that hunts small birds.
senses_topics:
|
7715 | word:
jeer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jeer (plural jeers)
forms:
form:
jeers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier gyr, probably from Dutch gieren (“to roar with laughter, laugh loudly”) (related to German gieren (“to gape, snap”)); or from Dutch gekscheren (“to jeer”, literally “to shear the fool”), from gek (“a fool”) (see geck) + scheren (“to shear”) (see shear (verb)). The OED states no verifiable connection to English cheer.
senses_examples:
text:
1711, Jonathan Swift, The Fable of Midas, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol XII, Sir Walter Scott, ed., Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824, pages 302-5,
Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mocking remark or reflection.
senses_topics:
|
7716 | word:
jeer
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jeer (third-person singular simple present jeers, present participle jeering, simple past and past participle jeered)
forms:
form:
jeers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jeering
tags:
participle
present
form:
jeered
tags:
participle
past
form:
jeered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier gyr, probably from Dutch gieren (“to roar with laughter, laugh loudly”) (related to German gieren (“to gape, snap”)); or from Dutch gekscheren (“to jeer”, literally “to shear the fool”), from gek (“a fool”) (see geck) + scheren (“to shear”) (see shear (verb)). The OED states no verifiable connection to English cheer.
senses_examples:
text:
At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.
ref:
2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt.
senses_topics:
|
7717 | word:
jeer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jeer (plural jeers)
forms:
form:
jeers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare gear.
senses_examples:
text:
In the nineteenth century, 1811 to be exact, the jeers were unrove after the yard was slung, the weight of the yard being borne by chain slings. The jeers used then were a treble block lashed to the mast head through a hole in the center of the top
ref:
1984, James Lees, The masting and rigging of English ships of war, 1625-1860, page 65
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gear; a tackle.
An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport |
7718 | word:
circle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
circle (plural circles)
forms:
form:
circles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
circle
etymology_text:
From Middle English circle, cercle, from Old French cercle and Latin circulus, diminutive of Latin circus (“circle, circus”), from Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos, “circle, ring”), related to Old English hring (“ring”). Compare also Old English ċircul (“circle, zodiac”), which came from the same Latin source.
senses_examples:
text:
The set of all points (x, y) such that (x − 1)² + y² = r² is a circle of radius r around the point (1, 0).
type:
example
text:
Cut a circle out of that sheet of metal.
type:
example
text:
The crank moves in a circle.
type:
example
text:
Children, please join hands and form a circle.
text:
inner circle
type:
example
text:
circle of friends
type:
example
text:
literary circle
type:
example
text:
He arrived at the lakefront and drove around the circle where the amusement park and beach used to be when he was a kid[…]
ref:
2011, Charles E. Webb, Downfall and Freedom, page 120
type:
quotation
text:
The ten Circles of the Holy Roman Empire were those principalities or provinces which had seats in the German Diet.
type:
example
text:
After working all night, she had circles under her eyes.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point.
Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.
Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.
A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.
A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
The orbit of an astronomical body.
A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match.
A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the air with a wand or literally with stones or other items used for worship.
A traffic circle or roundabout.
Compass; circuit; enclosure.
An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.
A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
A territorial division or district.
A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Wicca
lifestyle
religion
astronomy
natural-sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
|
7719 | word:
circle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
circle (third-person singular simple present circles, present participle circling, simple past and past participle circled)
forms:
form:
circles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
circling
tags:
participle
present
form:
circled
tags:
participle
past
form:
circled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
circle
etymology_text:
From Middle English circle, cercle, from Old French cercle and Latin circulus, diminutive of Latin circus (“circle, circus”), from Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos, “circle, ring”), related to Old English hring (“ring”). Compare also Old English ċircul (“circle, zodiac”), which came from the same Latin source.
senses_examples:
text:
The wolves circled the herd of deer.
type:
example
text:
A high fence circles the enclosure.
type:
example
text:
Their heads are circled with a short turban.
ref:
1699, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions
type:
quotation
text:
So he lies, circled with evil.
ref:
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Dungeon
type:
quotation
text:
Circle the jobs that you are interested in applying for.
type:
example
text:
Vultures circled overhead.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To travel around along a curved path.
To surround.
To place or mark a circle around.
To travel in circles.
senses_topics:
|
7720 | word:
guinea fowl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
guinea fowl (plural guinea fowls or guinea fowl)
forms:
form:
guinea fowls
tags:
plural
form:
guinea fowl
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
A tiny white head with a small red wattle hanging from its beak was peeking into our tent. It whistled softly. I laughed. A guinea fowl.
ref:
2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 273
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several African birds of the family Numididae (6 species) resembling partridges.
senses_topics:
|
7721 | word:
bull
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bull (countable and uncountable, plural bulls)
forms:
form:
bulls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bull
etymology_text:
From Middle English bole, bul, bule, from a conflation of Old English bula (“bull, steer”) and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô (“bull”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥no-, from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian bolle, Dutch bul, German Low German Bull, German Bulle, Swedish bulla; also Old Irish ball (“limb”), Latin follis (“bellows, leather bag”), Thracian βόλινθος (vólinthos, “wild bull”), Macedonian вол (vol, "ox"), Slovene vol ("ox"), Albanian buall (“buffalo”) or related bolle (“testicles”), Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”).
senses_examples:
text:
This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]
ref:
1821, Bank of England, The Bank - The Stock Exchange - The Bankers ..., page 64
type:
quotation
text:
Bulls are hoping the prosecutions draw a line under the sector's troubled past and will allow it to tap billions of dollars of cash from Wall Street.
ref:
2023 December 9, Scott Chipolina, “Unlikely resurgence for bitcoin as bulls bet on Wall Street adoption”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
You never waited until the train stopped to get off. The railroad bulls were waiting at the stops searching for freeloaders.
ref:
2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grive Press 2022, p. 93
text:
Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.
ref:
1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
type:
quotation
text:
A second good game was to cannon one galloping camel with another, and crash it into a near tree. Either the tree went down (valley trees in the light Hejaz soil were notably unstable things) or the rider was scratched and torn; or, best of all, he was swept quite out of his saddle, and left impaled on a thorny branch, if not dropped violently to the ground. This counted as a bull, and was very popular with everyone but him.
ref:
1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
The Vixen, often known as ‘Hotwife’, has sex with the encouragement of her husband or boyfriend with the Bull (that’s the guy who is servicing her). Another scenario is that the Vixen has sex with a Bull outside of the couple’s shared abode. Then she comes home and recounts all the details in a blow-by-blow description to turn the Stag on.
ref:
2018 June 1, Holly O'Mahony, “‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding”, in The Sun
type:
quotation
text:
Meanwhile the Tommies had discovered several large tins of ham in the captured lorry. 'That,' said the big Nazi, 'is for our tea.' 'No,' said a Tommy sergeant-major. 'That's for our tea. For you, chummy, we've kept a nice bit of bull.'
ref:
1949, Stephen Peter Llewellyn, Journey Towards Christmas, page 142
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
Any bovine of an aggressive or long-horned breed regardless of age and sex.
A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
Any adult male bovine.
An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
A large, strong man.
An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
A policeman; a detective; a railroad security guard.
An elderly lesbian.
A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
Clipping of bullseye.
Clipping of bullseye.
The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)
Clipping of bullshit.
A man who has sex with someone else's partner, with the consent of both.
A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.
Beef.
senses_topics:
business
finance
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
|
7722 | word:
bull
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bull (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
bull
etymology_text:
From Middle English bole, bul, bule, from a conflation of Old English bula (“bull, steer”) and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô (“bull”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥no-, from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian bolle, Dutch bul, German Low German Bull, German Bulle, Swedish bulla; also Old Irish ball (“limb”), Latin follis (“bellows, leather bag”), Thracian βόλινθος (vólinthos, “wild bull”), Macedonian вол (vol, "ox"), Slovene vol ("ox"), Albanian buall (“buffalo”) or related bolle (“testicles”), Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”).
senses_examples:
text:
a bull elephant
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Large and strong, like a bull.
Adult male.
Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).
Stupid.
senses_topics:
business
finance
|
7723 | word:
bull
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bull (third-person singular simple present bulls, present participle bulling, simple past and past participle bulled)
forms:
form:
bulls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bulling
tags:
participle
present
form:
bulled
tags:
participle
past
form:
bulled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bull
etymology_text:
From Middle English bole, bul, bule, from a conflation of Old English bula (“bull, steer”) and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô (“bull”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥no-, from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian bolle, Dutch bul, German Low German Bull, German Bulle, Swedish bulla; also Old Irish ball (“limb”), Latin follis (“bellows, leather bag”), Thracian βόλινθος (vólinthos, “wild bull”), Macedonian вол (vol, "ox"), Slovene vol ("ox"), Albanian buall (“buffalo”) or related bolle (“testicles”), Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”).
senses_examples:
text:
He bulled his way in.
type:
example
text:
to bull railroad bonds
type:
example
text:
to bull the market
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To force oneself (in a particular direction); to move aggressively.
To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
To mate with (a cow or heifer).
To endeavour to raise the market price of.
To endeavour to raise prices in.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
lifestyle
agriculture
business
lifestyle
business
finance
business
finance |
7724 | word:
bull
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bull (plural bulls)
forms:
form:
bulls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bull
etymology_text:
From Middle English bulle, from Old French bulle, from Latin bulla, from Gaulish. Doublet of bull (“bubble”) and bulla.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
senses_topics:
|
7725 | word:
bull
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bull (third-person singular simple present bulls, present participle bulling, simple past and past participle bulled)
forms:
form:
bulls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bulling
tags:
participle
present
form:
bulled
tags:
participle
past
form:
bulled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bull
etymology_text:
From Middle English bulle, from Old French bulle, from Latin bulla, from Gaulish. Doublet of bull (“bubble”) and bulla.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to publish in a Papal bull
senses_topics:
|
7726 | word:
bull
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bull (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
bull
etymology_text:
From Middle English bull, bul, boule (“falsehood, deceit”), probably from Old French boul, boule, bole (“fraud, deceit, cunning”), from Old French bouler, boler (“to deceive, delude, lure, take in”), from Middle Low German bôlen (“to woo, court”), related to German buhlen (“to woo”), English bully. Popularly associated with bullshit.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lie.
Nonsense.
senses_topics:
|
7727 | word:
bull
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bull (third-person singular simple present bulls, present participle bulling, simple past and past participle bulled)
forms:
form:
bulls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bulling
tags:
participle
present
form:
bulled
tags:
participle
past
form:
bulled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bull
etymology_text:
From Middle English bull, bul, boule (“falsehood, deceit”), probably from Old French boul, boule, bole (“fraud, deceit, cunning”), from Old French bouler, boler (“to deceive, delude, lure, take in”), from Middle Low German bôlen (“to woo, court”), related to German buhlen (“to woo”), English bully. Popularly associated with bullshit.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mock; to cheat.
To lie, to tell untruths.
To polish boots to a high shine.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
7728 | word:
bull
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bull (plural bulls)
forms:
form:
bulls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bull
etymology_text:
From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“round swelling”), of Gaulish origin. Doublet of bull (“papal bull”) and bulla.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bubble.
senses_topics:
|
7729 | word:
tawny owl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tawny owl (plural tawny owls)
forms:
form:
tawny owls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of species Strix aluco of strigid owls, of Europe, western Asia, and the Middle East.
senses_topics:
|
7730 | word:
with
word_type:
prep
expansion:
with
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English with, from Old English wiþ (“against, opposite, toward, with”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþi, a shortened form of Proto-Germanic *wiþrą (“against”). In Middle English, the word shifted to denote association rather than opposition, displacing Middle English mid (“with”), from Old English mid (“with”), from Proto-Germanic *midi; an earlier model of this meaning shift exists in cognate Old Norse við; elsewhere, the converse meaning shift is exemplified by Old South Arabian 𐩨𐩺𐩬 (byn, “between, amid”) spawning Old South Arabian 𐩨𐩬 (bn, “against”) and even likewise frequent reverse meaning 𐩨𐩬 (bn, “from”). The adverb sense is probably a semantic loan from various other Germanic languages, such as Norwegian med, Swedish med, and German mit.
senses_examples:
text:
He picked a fight with the class bully.
type:
example
text:
Many hatchets, knives, & pieces of iron, & brass, we see, which they reported to have from the Sasquesahanocks a mighty people, and mortal enemies with the Massawomecks.
ref:
1621, John Smith, The Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia
type:
quotation
text:
He went with his friends.
type:
example
text:
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
type:
example
text:
Jim was listening to Bach with his eyes closed.
type:
example
text:
The match result was 10-5, with John scoring three goals.
type:
example
text:
With a heavy sigh, she looked around the empty room.
type:
example
text:
Four people were injured, with one of them in critical condition.
type:
example
text:
With their reputation on the line, they decided to fire their PR team.
type:
example
text:
With that she told me that though she spake of her father, whom she named Chremes, she would hide no truth from me: […]
ref:
1590, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
type:
quotation
text:
With this he pointed to his face, and show'd
His hand and all his habit smear'd with blood.
ref:
1697, Virgil, “Aeneid”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil
type:
quotation
text:
See where, on earth, the flowery glories lie,
With her they flourish'd, and with her they die.
ref:
1861, Alexander Pope, “The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne”, in The Rev. George Gilfillan, editor, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
type:
quotation
text:
With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
ref:
1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus
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 48
type:
quotation
text:
We are with you all the way.
type:
example
text:
There are a number of problems with your plan.
type:
example
text:
What on Earth is wrong with my keyboard?
type:
example
text:
He was pleased with the outcome.
type:
example
text:
I’m upset with my father.
type:
example
text:
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
ref:
2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3
type:
quotation
text:
slain with robbers
type:
example
text:
He was sick and lame of the scurvy, so as he could but lie in the cabin-door, and give direction, and, it should seem, was badly assisted either with mate or mariners
ref:
1669, Nathaniel Morton, New England’s Memorial
type:
quotation
text:
But several sowing of Wheat at that time, because 'twas the usual time of doing of it, it lay in the Ground till Rain came, which was the latter end of October first, and then but part of it came up neither, because it was mustied and spoiled with lying so long in the Ground […]
ref:
1721, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
cut with a knife
type:
example
text:
I water my plants with this watering can. This is the watering can I water my plants with.
type:
example
text:
Find what you want instantly with our search engine.
type:
example
text:
They dismissed the meeting with a wave of their hand.
type:
example
text:
Speak with a confident voice.
type:
example
text:
They had cut of his head upon the cudy of his boat had not the man reskued him with a sword,
ref:
1620, William Bradford., Of Plymouth Plantation
type:
quotation
text:
And keep each other company in spite, / As rivals in your common mistress, fame, / And with faint praises one another damn;
ref:
1677, William Wycherley, The plain-dealer, Prologue
type:
quotation
text:
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
ref:
2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
It was small and bumpy, with a tinge of orange.
type:
example
text:
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
ref:
2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
Speak with confidence.
type:
example
text:
He spoke with sadness in his voice.
type:
example
text:
The sailors were infected with malaria.
type:
example
text:
overcome with happiness
type:
example
text:
green with envy; flushed with success
type:
example
text:
She was with Acme for twenty years before retiring last fall.
type:
example
text:
With your kind of body size, you shouldn’t be eating pizza at all.
type:
example
text:
That was a lot to explain; are you still with me?
type:
example
text:
Are you still with me? Good. I was worried, because you may not think you need a lightweight rifle.
ref:
1983 May 24, David E. Petzal, “The Lightweight Division”, in Field & Stream
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Against.
In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
In addition to; as an accessory to.
Used to add supplemental information, especially to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
In support of.
In regard to.
To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
Using as an instrument; by means of.
Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
Having, owning.
Affected by (a certain emotion or condition).
Prompted by (a certain emotion).
In the employment of.
Considering; taking into account.
Keeping up with; understanding; following along.
senses_topics:
|
7731 | word:
with
word_type:
adv
expansion:
with (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English with, from Old English wiþ (“against, opposite, toward, with”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþi, a shortened form of Proto-Germanic *wiþrą (“against”). In Middle English, the word shifted to denote association rather than opposition, displacing Middle English mid (“with”), from Old English mid (“with”), from Proto-Germanic *midi; an earlier model of this meaning shift exists in cognate Old Norse við; elsewhere, the converse meaning shift is exemplified by Old South Arabian 𐩨𐩺𐩬 (byn, “between, amid”) spawning Old South Arabian 𐩨𐩬 (bn, “against”) and even likewise frequent reverse meaning 𐩨𐩬 (bn, “from”). The adverb sense is probably a semantic loan from various other Germanic languages, such as Norwegian med, Swedish med, and German mit.
senses_examples:
text:
Do you want to come with?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
senses_topics:
|
7732 | word:
with
word_type:
noun
expansion:
with (plural withs)
forms:
form:
withs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English withe, wiþþe, from Old English wiþþe. More at withe.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of withe
senses_topics:
|
7733 | word:
connection
word_type:
noun
expansion:
connection (countable and uncountable, plural connections)
forms:
form:
connections
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
connection
etymology_text:
From Middle English conneccioun, connexioun, conneccyon, conneccion, from Latin connexionem (nominative connexio (“a conclusion, binding together”)), from connectō, an alternative spelling of cōnectō (“I bind together”), from compound of co- (“together”) and nectō (“I bind”).
In American English mid-18c., spelling shifted from connexion to connection (equivalent to connect + -ion), thus making connexion British dated and connection in international use.
senses_examples:
text:
the connection between overeating and obesity
type:
example
text:
My headache has no connection with me going out last night.
type:
example
text:
A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police said: "We can confirm that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of Jodi Jones. A 45-year-old has also been arrested in connection with allegations of attempting to pervert the course of justice. A report on this has been sent to the procurator fiscal."
ref:
2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman
type:
quotation
text:
As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.
type:
example
text:
computers linked by a network connection
type:
example
text:
I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection.
type:
example
text:
The Route 4 bus will arrive on 5th St. at Robinson Ave at 3:30. The northbound number 14 is scheduled to arrive on Robinson at 3:31. That means you have to run across the street once you arrive, it's a spot connection.
type:
example
text:
The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.
type:
example
text:
It is kept super-clean by helpful staff who still find the time to help customers with tight connections.
ref:
2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
I have some connections in Lancashire.
type:
example
text:
The exact nature of the relations between the boy-wife and his protector are doubtful; they certainly have connection, but the natives repudiate with horror and disgust the idea of sodomy.
ref:
1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of connecting.
The point at which two or more things are connected.
A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
An established communications or transportation link.
A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
A kinship relationship between people.
A person related to oneself, through either family or business.
A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
Sexual intercourse.
A drug dealer.
senses_topics:
transport
mathematics
sciences
lifestyle
religion
|
7734 | word:
sweep
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sweep (third-person singular simple present sweeps, present participle sweeping, simple past and past participle swept)
forms:
form:
sweeps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sweeping
tags:
participle
present
form:
swept
tags:
participle
past
form:
swept
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English swepen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaipijan (unattested in Old English), from Proto-Germanic *swaipijaną. Cognate with Early Modern West Frisian swiepe (“whip, cleanse, sweep”), from Old Frisian swēpa, suepa (“sweep”). See also swoop.
senses_examples:
text:
to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney
type:
example
text:
The wind sweeps across the plain.
type:
example
text:
The offended countess swept out of the ballroom.
type:
example
text:
[H]as the course of the argument so accustomed you to agreeing that you were swept by it into a ready assent?
ref:
2005, Lesley Brown, Sophist, translation of original by Plato, page 236d
type:
quotation
text:
Drifting thus, we made fast time down the bank through Cove Bay, and at 72 m.p.h. came sweeping round the curve past Girdleness light house, and so to the first sight of Aberdeen itself.
ref:
1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Everton took that disputed lead in a moment that caused anger to sweep around the Emirates.
ref:
2011 February 1, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 2-1 Everton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
The channel was swept twice before the battlefleet proceeded through it.
type:
example
text:
She swept the peelings off the table onto the floor.
type:
example
text:
The wind sweeps the snow from the hills.
type:
example
text:
The flooded river swept away the wooden dam.
type:
example
text:
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
ref:
2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
to sweep the bottom of a river with a net
type:
example
text:
to sweep the heavens with a telescope
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
To search (a place) methodically.
To travel quickly.
To play a sweep shot.
To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
To strike with a long stroke.
To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
To draw or drag something over.
To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
To vacuum a carpet or rug.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
military
politics
war
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
nautical
transport
|
7735 | word:
sweep
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sweep (plural sweeps)
forms:
form:
sweeps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English swepen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaipijan (unattested in Old English), from Proto-Germanic *swaipijaną. Cognate with Early Modern West Frisian swiepe (“whip, cleanse, sweep”), from Old Frisian swēpa, suepa (“sweep”). See also swoop.
senses_examples:
text:
Give the front steps a quick sweep to get rid of those fallen leaves.
type:
example
text:
He was, perhaps, the English railwayman's conception of the French mécanicien - short and broad, black as a sweep even before we left Calais (but no blacker than I was on arrival at Paris) and wearing goggles and his uniform cap back to front.
ref:
1961 February, Balmore [pseudonym], “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
Bradman attempted a sweep, but in fact top edged the ball to the wicket keeper
type:
example
text:
Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup.
type:
example
text:
The MiG-17's inner wing has 45 degrees of sweep.
type:
example
text:
the sweep of an epidemic disease
type:
example
text:
the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye
type:
example
text:
I am primarily a sweep rower.
type:
example
text:
Octopus clambered about from hole to hole and startled sweep blurred away as we passed.
ref:
1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
The Himalaya guards the southern rim of the plateau in one continuous sweep of 2250 km, each end marked by a massive mountain, Nanga Parbat on the Indus in the west and Namjagbarwa at the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo in the east.
ref:
1998, George B. Schaller, Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe, University of Chicago Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A single action of sweeping.
The person who steers a dragon boat.
A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
A chimney sweep.
A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
Violent and general destruction.
A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
The almond furnace.
A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
Any of the blades of a windmill.
The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
card-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
|
7736 | word:
concern
word_type:
noun
expansion:
concern (countable and uncountable, plural concerns)
forms:
form:
concerns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
concern
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French concerner, from Medieval Latin concernō, concernere (“I distinguish, have respect to”), from Latin concernō (“I mix, sift, or mingle together, as in a sieve”), combined form of con- + cernō (“distinguish”).
senses_examples:
text:
Mark’s health was of great concern to Connie.
type:
example
text:
Although the encounter was bathed in sunshine, the match failed to reach boiling point but that will be of little concern to Gerard Houllier’s team, who took a huge step forward before they face crucial matches against their relegation rivals.
ref:
2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Most people in Australia have no concern for the recent events in London.
type:
example
text:
Let me know if you have any questions or concerns about the document.
type:
example
text:
Judy's eyes filled with concern as she listened to the news report.
type:
example
text:
The employees’ attitude is really hurting the concern.
type:
example
text:
a going concern
type:
example
text:
Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern, Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC’s insistence on editorial independence.
ref:
2001 November 18, Fouad Ajami, “What the Muslim World Is Watching”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2014-07-26
type:
quotation
text:
At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern.
ref:
2006, Awais Rashid, Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II, page 148
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
7737 | word:
concern
word_type:
verb
expansion:
concern (third-person singular simple present concerns, present participle concerning, simple past and past participle concerned)
forms:
form:
concerns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
concerning
tags:
participle
present
form:
concerned
tags:
participle
past
form:
concerned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
concern
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French concerner, from Medieval Latin concernō, concernere (“I distinguish, have respect to”), from Latin concernō (“I mix, sift, or mingle together, as in a sieve”), combined form of con- + cernō (“distinguish”).
senses_examples:
text:
our wars with France have always affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those we have had with any other nation
ref:
1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
type:
quotation
text:
ignorant, so far as the usual instruction was concerned
ref:
1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy
type:
quotation
text:
A good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.
type:
example
text:
They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.
ref:
a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency adjusted and recommended
type:
quotation
text:
It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me.[…]”
ref:
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court
type:
quotation
text:
I’m concerned that she’s becoming an alcoholic.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
To make somebody worried.
senses_topics:
|
7738 | word:
fricative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fricative (plural fricatives)
forms:
form:
fricatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fricative
etymology_text:
From New Latin fricativus, from Latin fricāre, present active infinitive of fricō (“I rub”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences |
7739 | word:
fricative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fricative (comparative more fricative, superlative most fricative)
forms:
form:
more fricative
tags:
comparative
form:
most fricative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
fricative
etymology_text:
From New Latin fricativus, from Latin fricāre, present active infinitive of fricō (“I rub”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences |
7740 | word:
American bison
word_type:
noun
expansion:
American bison (plural American bison or American bisons)
forms:
form:
American bison
tags:
plural
form:
American bisons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In the year 1521, when Cortez reached Anahuac, the American bison was seen for the first time by civilized Europeans, if we may be permitted to thus characterize the horde of blood thirsty plunder seekers who fought their way to the Aztec capital.
ref:
1889, William T. Hornaday, The Extermination of the American Bison
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bovine mammal, a species of bison, Bison bison.
senses_topics:
|
7741 | word:
stoat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stoat (plural stoats)
forms:
form:
stoats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stote (“the ermine, especially in its brown summer coat”), of uncertain origin. The word bears some resemblance to Old Norse stutr (“bull”), Swedish stut (“bull, steer”) and Danish stud (“steer”) (see also English stot), but the semantic link is difficult unless a common origin is from “(brown?) male mammal”. First attested in the mid 1400s.
senses_examples:
text:
I have never seen Stoats hunt in packs, but it is certain both Weasels and Stoats do so.
ref:
1886, Transactions of the Edinburgh Naturalists' Field Club, volume 1, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
In 1953 it was reported that the stoat had increased to a high population level, but that the weasel introduced at the same time had disappeared (de Vos et al. 1956).
ref:
2003, John Long, Introduced Mammals of the World: Their History, Distribution and Influence, page 272
type:
quotation
text:
European stoats were long ago introduced to New Zealand (along with ferrets and weasels!) in the mistaken belief that they would control the burgeoning populations of introduced rabbits.
ref:
2005, T. C. R. White, Why Does the World Stay Green?: Nutrition and Survival of Plant-eaters, page 91
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mustela erminea, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip.
senses_topics:
|
7742 | word:
proportionate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
proportionate (comparative more proportionate, superlative most proportionate)
forms:
form:
more proportionate
tags:
comparative
form:
most proportionate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin prōportiōnātus.
Morphologically proportion + -ate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In proportion; proportional; commensurable.
Harmonious and symmetrical.
senses_topics:
|
7743 | word:
proportionate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
proportionate (third-person singular simple present proportionates, present participle proportionating, simple past and past participle proportionated)
forms:
form:
proportionates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
proportionating
tags:
participle
present
form:
proportionated
tags:
participle
past
form:
proportionated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin prōportiōnātus.
Morphologically proportion + -ate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make proportionate.
senses_topics:
|
7744 | word:
CRO
word_type:
name
expansion:
CRO
forms:
wikipedia:
CRO
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Croatia.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
7745 | word:
CRO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CRO (plural CROs)
forms:
form:
CROs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
CRO
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
This thesis deals in general with mergers & acquisitions in the CRO industry, and more specifically with reasons for M&A, success factors during the M&A process, and why M&A can fail in the Contract Research Organization industry.
ref:
2013, Jakob Miera, Mergers & Acquisitions in the Contract Research Organization Industry, GRIN Verlag, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
The chief risk officer (CRO) title first appeared in a 1988 Peat Marwick study on global capital markets. The first CRO was James Lam of GE Capital, in 1993.
ref:
2009, John Hampton, Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management […], AMACOM, page 265
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope.
Initialism of Contract research organization.
Initialism of COMSEC responsible officer.
Initialism of conversion rate optimization.
Initialism of chief risk officer.
Initialism of chief research officer.
Initialism of chief revenue officer.
Initialism of chief reputation officer.
Initialism of chief restructuring officer.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
business
marketing
business
business
business
business
business |
7746 | word:
IPA
word_type:
name
expansion:
IPA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
However, beyond lexis, the Macmillan range includes other adaptations, such as IPA encoding which reflects Indian English pronunciation, and etymologies that distinguish between "tatsama" and "tadbhava" terms, based on McGregor (1992).
ref:
2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 297
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of International Phonetic Alphabet.
Initialism of International Phonetic Association.
Initialism of International Police Association.
senses_topics:
|
7747 | word:
IPA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
IPA (countable and uncountable, plural IPAs)
forms:
form:
IPAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Not bad for an amber or pale ale, but India pale ale, I don't think so. So why does Bass put IPA on the label?
ref:
1998, Pete Slosberg, Beer for Pete's Sake: The Wicked Adventures of a Brewing Maverick, page 128
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of isopropyl alcohol.
Initialism of isophthalic acid.
Initialism of isopropyl acetate.
Initialism of India pale ale.
Transcription written in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
An IPA file, or an iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, or tvOS app distributed via IPA files.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
beer
beverages
food
lifestyle
|
7748 | word:
green woodpecker
word_type:
noun
expansion:
green woodpecker (plural green woodpeckers)
forms:
form:
green woodpeckers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of species Picus viridis of European woodpeckers.
senses_topics:
|
7749 | word:
barn owl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
barn owl (plural barn owls)
forms:
form:
barn owls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From barn + owl.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An owl of the species Tyto alba, often having a white face and commonly found in barns and other farm buildings.
senses_topics:
|
7750 | word:
stink
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stink (third-person singular simple present stinks, present participle stinking, simple past stank or stunk, past participle stunk)
forms:
form:
stinks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stinking
tags:
participle
present
form:
stank
tags:
past
form:
stunk
tags:
past
form:
stunk
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).
senses_examples:
text:
That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.
type:
example
text:
My French stinks, Langdon thought, but my zodiac iconography is pretty good. Taurus was always the bull. Astrology was a symbolic constant all over the world.
ref:
2003, Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, Doubleday, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Improve your golf swing by taking your mate to the driving range. If you're good, you can show off and give her some tips. If you stink, play it for laughs.
ref:
2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
Something stinks about the politician's excuses.
type:
example
text:
The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have a strong bad smell.
To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.
To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
senses_topics:
|
7751 | word:
stink
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stink (plural stinks)
forms:
form:
stinks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).
senses_examples:
text:
If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A strong bad smell.
A complaint or objection.
senses_topics:
|
7752 | word:
stink
word_type:
adj
expansion:
stink (comparative more stink, superlative most stink)
forms:
form:
more stink
tags:
comparative
form:
most stink
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).
senses_examples:
text:
The concert was stink. / That was a stink concert.
type:
example
text:
2013, Stabroek News, 19 February 2013, cited by Deborah Jan Osman Backer in a speech delivered in the National Assembly during the Budget Debate, 2013,
Everyone is up in arms but it smells stink because it smells of racism…
text:
Spending hours in a “stink" morgue, being called “Taliban”, thinking of getting shot in the head by officers—memories of Venezuela that have left Hamza Mohammed, imam of the Montrose mosque, still trembling today.
ref:
2014 May 26, Taureef Mohammed, “Imam recounts 55-day Venezuelan horror”, in Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
2016, Kei Miller, Augustown, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 1, p. 5,
[…] what Ma Taffy smells on this early afternoon makes her sit up straight. She smells it high and ripe and stink on the air, like a bright green jackfruit in season being pulled to the rocky ground below.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bad; inferior; worthless.
Bad-smelling, stinky.
senses_topics:
|
7753 | word:
wine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wine (countable and uncountable, plural wines)
forms:
form:
wines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wine
etymology_text:
From Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną, either directly or via Latin vīnum (from Proto-Italic *wīnom) from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“wine”). Doublet of vine and vino.
senses_examples:
text:
And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine
High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!
Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose
That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.
ref:
1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
Wine is usually stronger than beer.
type:
example
text:
"Wine improves with age but I improve with wine," she slurred as she slid gracefully beneath the table.
type:
example
text:
...dandelion wine, rice wine, plum wine...
type:
example
text:
I'd like three beers and two wines, please. My friend will have the same.
type:
example
text:
wine:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.
An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting other substances, producing a similar ABV.
A serving of wine.
The color of red wine, a deep reddish purple.
senses_topics:
|
7754 | word:
wine
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)
forms:
form:
wines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wining
tags:
participle
present
form:
wined
tags:
participle
past
form:
wined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
wine
etymology_text:
From Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną, either directly or via Latin vīnum (from Proto-Italic *wīnom) from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“wine”). Doublet of vine and vino.
senses_examples:
text:
Neither Major Wadhams nor I is accustomed to being wined and dined by perfect strangers who do not even present themselves, but leave servants to do the honors, consequently to both of us our present situation smacks of romance and adventure;
ref:
1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing.
ref:
1839, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To entertain (someone) with wine.
To drink wine.
senses_topics:
|
7755 | word:
wine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wine (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
wine
etymology_text:
A variant of wind with simplification of the final consonant cluster; for the vowel quality, compare find, mind, rind.
senses_examples:
text:
Vor voices rawze upon tha wine
ref:
1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century
type:
quotation
text:
Aw how sholl I tell o’m—vor âll pirty maidens / When I pass’d ’em look’d back—ther smill rawze on tha wine.
ref:
1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Wind.
senses_topics:
|
7756 | word:
wine
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)
forms:
form:
wines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wining
tags:
participle
present
form:
wined
tags:
participle
past
form:
wined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
wine
etymology_text:
From Jamaican Creole [Term?], related to wind (verb).
senses_examples:
text:
Even when there are positive comments, as in the responses to “white boy wines to dancehall,” the origin of the white boy's ability to dance is attributed to skills derived from others: […].
ref:
2010, Andoni Alonso, Pedro Oiarzabal, editors, Diasporas in the New Media Age: Identity, Politics, and Community, University of Nevada Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perform a Jamaican dance, such as the Dutty Wine.
senses_topics:
dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
7757 | word:
capercaillie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
capercaillie (plural capercaillies)
forms:
form:
capercaillies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Scots capercailzie (for the -z-, see Mackenzie and tailzie), a corruption of Scottish Gaelic capall (“horse”) + coille (“of the woods”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large, black grouse of the genus Tetrao in the bird family Phasianidae, especially the western capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus.
senses_topics:
|
7758 | word:
whistle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
whistle (countable and uncountable, plural whistles)
forms:
form:
whistles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whistel, whistil, whistle, from Old English hwistle, from the verb (see below).
senses_examples:
text:
A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
ref:
1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 611
type:
quotation
text:
One thing I took great care to observe was obedience to the "whistle" boards which crop up with great frequency, for failure to sound the whistle, if observed by the gendarmerie, can bring about serious consequences.
ref:
1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
[...] and Temple station, which had to have a very modestly proportioned station building on the insistence of the Duke of Norfolk who owned the land on which it was built, and where the trains under the glass roof of the station were not allowed to blow their whistles, at the insistence of the barristers in the nearby Inns of Court.
ref:
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, pages 61–62
type:
quotation
text:
the whistle of the wind in the trees
text:
We soldiers changed into our No.1 dress uniforms, Sid into his best whistle and we set off for the church.
ref:
2005, Wally Payne, A Minority of One: A Monkey's Tale Continued
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
An act of whistling.
A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
A suit (from whistle and flute).
The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
senses_topics:
|
7759 | word:
whistle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
whistle (third-person singular simple present whistles, present participle whistling, simple past and past participle whistled)
forms:
form:
whistles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
whistling
tags:
participle
present
form:
whistled
tags:
participle
past
form:
whistled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whistlen, from Old English hwistlan, hwistlian (“to whistle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwistlōn, from Proto-Germanic *hwistlōną (“to make a hissing sound”). Cognate with Icelandic hvísla (“to whisper”), Russian свистеть (svistetʹ, “to whistle”).
senses_examples:
text:
Never whistle at a funeral.
type:
example
text:
She was whistling a happy tune.
type:
example
text:
The steam train whistled as it passed by.
type:
example
text:
It requires quite an orchestra to get a train to start; the guard blows his horn, the stationmaster rings a large bell, and the engine whistles.
ref:
1941 February, Voyageur, “The Railways of Greece”, in Railway Magazine, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
A bullet whistled past.
type:
example
text:
Teena had been miserable ever since she whistled.
ref:
2024 March 16, Antonia Cundy, “The Opus Dei diaries”, in FT Weekend, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.
To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.
To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
To request admission to Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization.
senses_topics:
|
7760 | word:
ven
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ven (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of venerable.
senses_topics:
|
7761 | word:
shot
word_type:
adj
expansion:
shot (comparative more shot, superlative most shot)
forms:
form:
more shot
tags:
comparative
form:
most shot
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English sceot, from Proto-Germanic *skutą; compare the doublet scot.
senses_examples:
text:
I have to go to bed now; I’m shot.
type:
example
text:
The rear axle will have to be replaced. It’s shot.
type:
example
text:
... but he finds it hard to resist helping the boss's sister, who also works there and whose body "is more shot than mine."
ref:
2004, Garret Keizer, Help: The Original Human Dilemma, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Thompson girl, I'm stranded at the Unique Motel / Thompson girl, winterfighter's shot on the car as well
ref:
1998, The Tragically Hip, “Thompson Girl”, in Phantom Power
type:
quotation
text:
The cloak was shot through with silver threads.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tired, weary.
Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
Worn out or broken.
Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an iridescent appearance.
senses_topics:
|
7762 | word:
shot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shot (countable and uncountable, plural shots)
forms:
form:
shots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English sceot, from Proto-Germanic *skutą; compare the doublet scot.
senses_examples:
text:
The shot was wide off the mark.
type:
example
text:
They took the lead on a last-minute shot.
type:
example
text:
England's attacking impetus was limited to one shot from Lampard that was comfortably collected by keeper Iker Casillas, but for all Spain's domination of the ball his England counterpart Joe Hart was unemployed.
ref:
2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The shot flew twenty metres, and nearly landed on the judge's foot.
type:
example
text:
For two years Templeton has given individual attention to Krenz. The young man has reciprocated by giving at least two hours each day to practice in the shot and discus.
ref:
1929 July 4, Harry L. Borba, “The Superman of Track”, in The Vernon Daily Record, volume 4, number 209, Vernon, Texas, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
He'd make a bad soldier, since he's a lousy shot.
type:
example
text:
Sir William was a Shot and could not support the idea of losing such a Day, even for such a Cause.
ref:
1788, Jane Austen, ‘Sir William Mountague’, Juvenilia
type:
quotation
text:
"But tell me, was it he who shot that goblin-hare down by Christiania, which you told me about once?" "Oh, that hare! No, that was a professional shot from those parts called Brandte-Lars."
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
As a shot, I will only refer you to my own game-book; and if, after examining the records contained therein, you can show me an equally proficient man in that special line, well — I'll take off my hat to him.
ref:
1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major
type:
quotation
text:
I'd like just one more shot at winning this game.
type:
example
text:
You won't see me buying a round of Jägerbombs for girls half my age because I know when I have no shot.
ref:
2009, David P. Murphy, Phil Torcivia, Rebecca Shockley, Such a Nice Guy
type:
quotation
text:
There are no decent galactic dating services. To have a shot at romance, you need to talk to people.
ref:
2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC
type:
quotation
text:
Spain’s acting prime minister, the socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, has a fresh, if fraught, shot at returning to power after his conservative rival Alberto Núñez Feijóo failed in his attempt to take office in an ill-tempered investiture debate that followed July’s inconclusive general election.
ref:
2023 September 29, Sam Jones, “Alberto Núñez Feijóo fails to win Spanish MPs’ backing to become PM”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Schwarzenegger also is taking nasty shots from his own party, as GOP conservatives bash some of his appointments as Kennedyesque and traitorous to party values.
ref:
2003 November 16, Carla Marinucci, “On inauguration eve, 'Aaaarnold' stands tall”, in San Francisco Chronicle, retrieved 2009-04-18
type:
quotation
text:
I'd like a shot of whisky in my coffee.
type:
example
text:
Yet still while I have got / Enough to pay the shot / Of Boniface, both gruff and greedy O!
ref:
1835, The Fisher's Garland
type:
quotation
text:
We got a good shot of the hummingbirds mating.
type:
example
text:
Even if everyone else is taking close-up shots of the crumpled body of a rock climber who fell to his death, and your photographer did too, maybe you don't feel the need to air that shot.
ref:
2004, Robert Thompson, Cindy Malone, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook: A Television News Survival Guide, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.
ref:
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
I went to the doctor to get a shot for malaria.
type:
example
text:
His solo shot in the seventh inning ended up winning the game.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal.
The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.
The athletics event of shot put.
Small metal balls used as ammunition.
Metal balls (or similar) used as ammunition; not necessarily small.
Someone who shoots (a gun, longbow, etc.); a person reckoned as to their aim.
An opportunity or attempt.
A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting.
A punch or other physical blow.
A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle, equivalent to about 44 milliliters; 1.5 ounces. ("pony shot"= 30 milliliters; 1 fluid ounce)
A single serving of espresso.
A reckoning, a share of a tavern bill, etc.
A single snapshot or an unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent; an unedited sequence of frames.
A vaccination or injection.
A home run that scores one, two, or three runs (a four run home run is usually referred to as a grand slam).
Written documentation of a behavior infraction.
A cast of one or more nets.
A place or spot for setting nets.
A single draft or catch of fish made.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
military
politics
war
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
arts
broadcasting
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
medicine
sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biology
ecology
fisheries
natural-sciences
biology
ecology
fisheries
natural-sciences
biology
ecology
fisheries
natural-sciences |
7763 | word:
shot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shot
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English sceot, from Proto-Germanic *skutą; compare the doublet scot.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of shoot
senses_topics:
|
7764 | word:
shot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shot (third-person singular simple present shots, present participle shotting, simple past and past participle shotted)
forms:
form:
shots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shotting
tags:
participle
present
form:
shotted
tags:
participle
past
form:
shotted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English sceot, from Proto-Germanic *skutą; compare the doublet scot.
senses_examples:
text:
His order to me was, to see the top Chains put upon the Cables, and the Guns shotted.
ref:
1681, Robert Knox, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon
type:
quotation
text:
The mandem all used to go round there and get head off her, the sister blowing the man line by line while her brother shotted downstairs in the stairwell.
ref:
2011, “Chyna”, in How I Escaped a Girl Gang: Rolling in a London Girl Gang
type:
quotation
text:
[Verse 2:Kano]:If you've been shotting in the manor from way back when and you ain't on a kilo ting, I don't wanna hear about cunch and food and tings, man don't do those tings.
ref:
2016 March 4, “3 Wheel-Ups” (track 4), in Made in the Manor, performed by Kano (British musician),Giggs (rapper),Wiley (musician)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To load (a gun) with shot.
To sell illegal drugs; to deal.
To feed small shot to (a horse), as a fraudulent means of disguising broken-windedness.
senses_topics:
|
7765 | word:
shot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shot (plural shots)
forms:
form:
shots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See scot (“a share”).
senses_examples:
text:
Drink up. It's his shot.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.
senses_topics:
|
7766 | word:
shot
word_type:
intj
expansion:
shot
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of gratitude, similar to thank you.
senses_topics:
|
7767 | word:
European bison
word_type:
noun
expansion:
European bison (plural European bison or European bisons)
forms:
form:
European bison
tags:
plural
form:
European bisons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The wisent, species Bison bonasus, Europe's heaviest land animal.
senses_topics:
|
7768 | word:
mouth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mouth (plural mouths)
forms:
form:
mouths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
human mouth
mouth
etymology_text:
From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian müd, müth, müss (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian munn (“mouth”), Danish mund (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs, “mouth”), Latin mentum (“chin”) and mandō (“to chew”), Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and μασάομαι (masáomai, “to chew”), Albanian mjekër (“chin, beard”), Welsh mant (“jawbone”), Hittite [script needed] (mēni, “chin”). The verb is from Middle English mouthen, from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
"Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.
type:
example
text:
The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.
type:
example
text:
But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses.
ref:
1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
type:
quotation
text:
But why give a tunnel mouth any decoration whatsoever?
ref:
2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up.
type:
example
text:
Siobhán, you know Donna's a mouth.
ref:
2012, Stuart Carolan, 40:45 from the start, in Love/Hate, season 3, episode 3, spoken by Tommy Daly (Killian Scott)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
An outlet, aperture or orifice.
A loud or overly talkative person.
A gossip.
The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
Speech; language; testimony.
A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
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7769 | word:
mouth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mouth (third-person singular simple present mouths, present participle mouthing, simple past and past participle mouthed)
forms:
form:
mouths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mouthing
tags:
participle
present
form:
mouthed
tags:
participle
past
form:
mouthed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
human mouth
mouth
etymology_text:
From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian müd, müth, müss (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian munn (“mouth”), Danish mund (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs, “mouth”), Latin mentum (“chin”) and mandō (“to chew”), Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and μασάομαι (masáomai, “to chew”), Albanian mjekër (“chin, beard”), Welsh mant (“jawbone”), Hittite [script needed] (mēni, “chin”). The verb is from Middle English mouthen, from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.
type:
example
text:
One was of a face repeatedly mouthing the vowel sound eee, the other was of a face repeatedly mouthing the vowel sound ahhh.
ref:
2010, Jan Faull, Jennifer McLean Oliver, Amazing Minds
type:
quotation
text:
It should be explained that lip patterns are generally not the same as patterns which would be made by 'mouthing' words.
ref:
2016, Wayne Morris, Theology without Words: Theology in the Deaf Community
type:
quotation
text:
"So very hot,” I mouthed at myself in the mirror.
ref:
2020, Wanitta Praks, Maid to the Mafia
type:
quotation
text:
The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.
type:
example
text:
But words are nothing to the misbelieving -- mere air mouthed into a sound.
ref:
1886, James Hogg, Polmood series, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
There was also a close temporal contiguity between "smiling" or other "emotional" grimaces and mouthing and tonguing movements, so that it was often difficult to distinguish between mouthing and smiling.
ref:
1987, Peter H. Wolff, The Development of Behavioral States and the Expression of Emotions in Early Infancy, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Those who endeavor to become eloquent by mere imitation of some celebrated model—an actor for instance—often attempt to gain this quality by altering their voice in an unnatural manner. Such a process never produces any thing but mouthing.
ref:
1846, Erasmus Darwin North, Practical Speaking: As Taught in Yale College, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
This view of voice cultivation excludes all mouthing and ranting which have been thought to be necessary incidents of voice culture.
ref:
1902, George Andrew Lewis, The Practical treatment of stammering and stuttering, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
In this part of the address the position of the principal hanging-valleys was indicated , and it was pointed out that there were two sets, namely those which mouthed into valleys that had been deepened in softer rocks, and those which mouthed into portions of main valleys that had been deepened along shatter-bolts.
ref:
1906, Philosophical Magazine, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
Suddenly an avalanche of stones turned loose right down a ravine and mouthed out on the road, stones large enough to knock a horse down, or larger, and a plenty of them to do a fair job on a large group.
ref:
1999, T. Walter Middleton, Qualla: Home of the Middle Cherokee Settlement, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
She alighted and mouthed over several within a small space and a short time; and these buds were not at the bottom of the hedge; nor was she searching for a nest-site.
ref:
1887 September, Charles Robson, “Natural History Jottings: On Wasps, chiefly”, in Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor, editors, Hardwicke's Science-gossip, number 273, page 210
type:
quotation
text:
His manner of feeding was curious, any fish he was provided with not being snapped up immediately, but played with and mouthed all over for a quarter of an hour or more, when it suddenly disappeared as if by magic.
ref:
1889, Francis Henry Hill Guillemard, The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
He would not touch any of our food that the bears had pawed and mouthed over, fearing it might be bad medicine for him, so some was got for him from Red Wing Woman.
ref:
1920, James Willard Schultz, The Dreadful River Cave: Chief Black Elk's Story, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Everyone is kind of aroused, Thanatz is sitting up on the bar having his own as yet unsheathed penis mouthed by one of the white-gloved Wends.
ref:
1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
type:
quotation
text:
She found foamy saliva where the coyote had mouthed over the dogs, but no place showed any bite.
ref:
1999, Laura Tice Lage, Sagebrush Homesteads, page 257
type:
quotation
text:
The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.
type:
example
text:
Sometimes I ate food that the rats had already mouthed over; picking away the edges where they had been eating and using the remainder; not with any good grace, not without qualms; but because I had nothing else to eat.
ref:
1938, Jack Common, Seven Shifts, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
Each contained a long, wide, solid oak table around which all who could find a space the width of his body would mouth his brown-bag grub from home.
ref:
1998, Marvin K. Rubin, Word of Mouth: A Manhattan Dentist Tells All-- (well, Almost), page 77
type:
quotation
text:
They were sucking off whatever adhered to the floating stems and leaves of the plants. They went from plant to plant and mouthed over each branch from base to tip until the whole plant had been gone over.
ref:
1915, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries - Volume 33, page 224
type:
quotation
text:
Meanwhile she, and the male, mouthed over the inner surface of pot until it was as clean as could be.
ref:
1937, Aquarium Journal - Volume 10, Issue 5, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Before egg-laying begins, the spawning grounds are mouthed over (cleaned) by both sexes.
ref:
1965, The Aquarist and Pondkeeper - Volumes 30-31, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
Small slobs of things, wet and sticky, which Peggy herself distastefully mouthed out from her cavity, biting the cord which bound them to her, swallowing it, then licking the puppies clean one by one.
ref:
1970, Christine Weston, The Hoopoe, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
This transfer system continues until the young are free-swimming, which may be for another 3 or 4 days. Each time they are moved to a new pit, they are mouthed over and spat into their new crèche.
ref:
1953, Clifford Walter Emmens, Keeping and Breeding Aquarium Fishes, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
He drew the cork from his bottle..and mouthed at his companions even while he bowed to them.
ref:
1827, Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Grey
type:
quotation
text:
Meanwhile, the tyrant, with untimely wit And mouthing face, derides the small one's moan, Who, all lamenting for his loss, doth sit,
ref:
1854, Thomas Hood, “The Irish Schoolmaster”, in Poems of Thomas Hood, volume 2, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
And that other face -- that awful, gibbering, mouthing face she drew away.
ref:
1873, May Agnes Fleming, A Wonderful Woman, page 269
type:
quotation
text:
But active as this old professor of the dance was, he had when a child in Paris, in 1793, seen Marie Antoinette on the way to the scaffold, and described the unfortunate queen, with her gray hair cut short, her hands tied, seated in the cart, still retaining her calm demeanour as the mob shouted and mouthed around her .
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1883, Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, My Reminiscences - Volume 1, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
The man mouthed at the bars. He was half-mad, I think, in that one minute.
ref:
1906, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, At a Winter's Fire, page 240
type:
quotation
text:
What ensues next is a comical soundless argument only true parents will understand. It's all mouthing and miming, facial expression and hand flailing.
ref:
2014, Emma Chase, Tied
type:
quotation
text:
The front end of the barrel has to be mouthed out conically, so that the various centre points may fit it.
ref:
1773, Paul. N. Hasluck, “Lathe-Making For Amateurs”, in Amateur work, illustrated - Volume 1, page 426
type:
quotation
text:
The front collar must be mouthed out as shown, to take the second cone on the mandrel.
ref:
1882, Paul Nooncree Hasluck, The Metal Turner's Handbook, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
The cutting edge of a shaving cutter should be mouthed out slightly with a fine oilstone.
ref:
1956, Mechanical World and Engineering Record - Volume 136, page 471
type:
quotation
text:
Either at the shipping point or as they leave the summer range, the older ewes are “mouthed out.” That is, their mouths are examined to see if their teeth are good for another year.
ref:
1938, Byron Hunter, Harry W. Pearson, Alonzo Frederick Vass, Type of Farming and Ranching Areas in Wyoming, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
No information could be found on the relationship between the productivity of ewes and the states of their mouths. While there is no doubt that the practice of “mouthing" ewes is founded on experience, the traditional standards may require modification since the adoption almost exclusively of grassland farming, particularly in the North Island.
ref:
1957, The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, page 587
type:
quotation
text:
After we got the ewes "mouthed out," we turned them over to the herder that Foncy had hired to drive them to Shaniko.
ref:
1976, Oregon Historical Society, Oregon Historical Quarterly, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Daniels told complainants in substance he would not buy any sheep without mouthing them.
ref:
1977, United States. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Decisions, page 1141
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To speak; to utter.
To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but without producing sound.
To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.
To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
To carry in the mouth.
To make mouths at
To form a mouth or opening in.
To examine the teeth of.
senses_topics:
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7770 | word:
skylark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
skylark (plural skylarks)
forms:
form:
skylarks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
skylark
etymology_text:
From sky + lark.
Verb sense 1809, originally nautical, possibly influenced by northern English dialectal term lake/laik (“to play”) (from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)); see lark for details.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.
senses_topics:
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7771 | word:
skylark
word_type:
verb
expansion:
skylark (third-person singular simple present skylarks, present participle skylarking, simple past and past participle skylarked)
forms:
form:
skylarks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
skylarking
tags:
participle
present
form:
skylarked
tags:
participle
past
form:
skylarked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
skylark
etymology_text:
From sky + lark.
Verb sense 1809, originally nautical, possibly influenced by northern English dialectal term lake/laik (“to play”) (from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)); see lark for details.
senses_examples:
text:
I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.
ref:
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To jump about joyfully, frolic; to play around, play tricks.
senses_topics:
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7772 | word:
tell
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tell (third-person singular simple present tells, present participle telling, simple past and past participle told or (dialectal or nonstandard) telled)
forms:
form:
tells
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
telling
tags:
participle
present
form:
told
tags:
participle
past
form:
told
tags:
past
form:
telled
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
form:
telled
tags:
dialectal
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
tell
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Tell (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Germanic *talą, *talǭ (“number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian tälle (“to say; tell”), West Frisian telle (“to count”), West Frisian fertelle (“to tell, narrate”), Dutch tellen (“to count”) and Dutch vertellen (“to tell”), Low German tellen (“to count”), German zählen, Faroese telja. More at tale.
senses_examples:
text:
All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.
type:
example
text:
Only He who made them can tell the number of the stars, and mark the place of each in the order of the one great dominant spiral.
ref:
1875, Hugh MacMillan, The Sunday Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
I want to tell a story; I want to tell you a story.
type:
example
text:
Finally, someone told him the truth. He seems to like to tell lies.
type:
example
text:
Tell her you’re here.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Please tell me how to do it.
type:
example
text:
Tell him to go away.
type:
example
text:
She said she hoped she had not distressed him by the course she had felt obliged to take, and he told her not to be a fool.
ref:
1909, H. G. Wells, Ann Veronica
type:
quotation
text:
Stability was restored, but once the re-entry propulsion was activated, the crew was told to prepare to come home before the end of their only day in orbit.
ref:
2012 October 25, John Noble Wilford, “Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, Dies at 82”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The driver remained at his post, while telling fireman Jim Nightall to get down on the track and run back to uncouple the burning wagon from the rest.
ref:
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948
type:
quotation
text:
Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance? No, there's no way to tell.
type:
example
text:
I can tell you're upset.
type:
example
text:
An expert can tell an original from a forgery.
type:
example
text:
Time will tell what became of him.
type:
example
text:
Cherry looks old, Mergenthaler told himself. His age is telling. Querulous — that's the word. He's become a whining, querulous old man absorbed with trivialities.
ref:
1990, Stephen Coonts, Under Siege, 1991 Pocket Books edition, p.409
text:
Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.
type:
example
text:
Opinion ought [… to give] merited honour to every one, whatever opinion he may hold[…]keeping nothing back which tells, or can be supposed to tell, in their favour.
ref:
1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
type:
quotation
text:
[...] the 4 miles at 1 in 180 up to Sanquhar were mounted with no greater fall in speed than from 65 to 59 m.p.h., after which, possibly as a result of easing the engine or because the strain on steam supply was beginning to tell, the final 3½ miles up at 1 in 200 up to milepost 59½ were surmounted at a minimum of 49½ m.p.h.
ref:
1960 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 212
type:
quotation
text:
But England's superior fitness told in the second half, with Delon Armitage, Manu Tuilagi and Chris Ashton (two) going over for tries to secure a bonus-point win.
ref:
2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
I saw you steal those sweets! I'm telling!
type:
example
text:
Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To count, reckon, or enumerate.
To narrate, to recount.
To convey by speech; to say.
To instruct or inform.
To order; to direct, to say to someone.
To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
To reveal.
To be revealed.
To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show
senses_topics:
authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing |
7773 | word:
tell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tell (plural tells)
forms:
form:
tells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tell (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Germanic *talą, *talǭ (“number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian tälle (“to say; tell”), West Frisian telle (“to count”), West Frisian fertelle (“to tell, narrate”), Dutch tellen (“to count”) and Dutch vertellen (“to tell”), Low German tellen (“to count”), German zählen, Faroese telja. More at tale.
senses_examples:
text:
Those whose business it is to verify luxury bags insist, at least publicly, that there’s always a “tell” to a superfake.
ref:
2023 May 4, Amy X. Wang, Grant Cornett, “Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Republican Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey said recently that “Israel is the only state in the world whose fundamental right to exist, within any borders at all, is openly denied by other states.” But Israel is the only nation with a “right to exist,” as the phrase is not commonly attached to any other country. And that’s the tell: This is not a legal concept, but a political one, available for broad interpretation and rhetorical weaponization.
ref:
2024 January 3, John Patrick Leary, “Israel's "Right to Exist" Is a Rhetorical Trap”, in The New Republic
type:
quotation
text:
April 4, 1743, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
I am at the end of my tell.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
A giveaway; something that unintentionally reveals or hints at a secret.
That which is told; a tale or account.
A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
senses_topics:
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7774 | word:
tell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tell (plural tells)
forms:
form:
tells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tell (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Arabic تَلّ (tall, “hill, elevation”) or Hebrew תֵּל (tél, “hill”), from Proto-Semitic *tall- (“hill”).
senses_examples:
text:
Succoth is now associated with a large tell situated in the Jordan Valley, Deir Allah.
ref:
2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 205
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
senses_topics:
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences |
7775 | word:
acoustics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acoustics (uncountable)
forms:
form:
acoustics See -ics regarding the treatment of such nouns as singular.
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acoustic + -s.
senses_examples:
text:
"Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very consderable branch of physics, and one which has been cultivated from the earliest ages.
ref:
1831, John Herschel, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green: Paternoster Row, and John Taylor, Upper Gower Street, page 248
type:
quotation
text:
The acoustics in the opera house gave the whole concert a spooky sound.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws.
The properties of a space that affect how sound carries.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
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7776 | word:
acoustics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acoustics
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acoustic + -s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of acoustic
senses_topics:
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7777 | word:
come
word_type:
verb
expansion:
come (third-person singular simple present comes, present participle coming, simple past came or (now nonstandard) come, past participle come or (rare) comen)
forms:
form:
comes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
coming
tags:
participle
present
form:
came
tags:
past
form:
come
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
come
tags:
participle
past
form:
comen
tags:
participle
past
rare
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
come
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
American Buffalo
David Mamet
come
etymology_text:
From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”), from *gʷem- (“to step”).
cognates
Cognate from Proto-Germanic with Scots cum (“to come”), Saterland Frisian kuume (“to come”), West Frisian komme (“to come”), Low German kamen (“to come”), Dutch komen (“to come”), German kommen (“to come”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish komme (“to come”), Swedish komma (“to come”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic koma (“to come”).
Cognate from PIE via Latin veniō (“come, arrive”) with many Romance language terms (e.g., French venir, Portuguese vir, Spanish venir), Lithuanian gimti (“to be born, come into the world, arrive”), with terms in Iranian languages (e.g. Avestan 𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (jamaⁱti, “to go”)), via Sanskrit गच्छति (gácchati, “to go”) with many Indic language terms (e.g., Hindi गति (gati)).
Cognate to English basis, from PIE via Ancient Greek.
senses_examples:
text:
I called the dog, but she wouldn't come.
type:
example
text:
Stop dawdling and come here!
type:
example
text:
Hold on, I'll come in a second.
type:
example
text:
You should ask the doctor to come to your house.
type:
example
text:
No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit.
type:
example
text:
Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year.
type:
example
text:
King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.
type:
example
text:
He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him.
type:
example
text:
The butler should come when called.
type:
example
text:
She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes[…]
type:
example
text:
So I'd have ate when me Dad had ate, sort of thing, I think, you know when he come home from work, I'd have waited for him, I wouldn't have said I wanted mine at four o'clock[…]
ref:
2013 January 11 [1997], David Bell, Gill Valentine, Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat, Routledge, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
The pain in his leg comes and goes.
type:
example
text:
The news came as a shock.
type:
example
text:
We came to believe that he was not so innocent after all.
type:
example
text:
She came to think of that country as her home.
type:
example
text:
Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?
type:
example
text:
Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn.
type:
example
text:
The sheer unimaginableness of coming into her mouth — of coming into anything other than the air or a tissue or a dirty sock — was an allurement too stupendous for a novice to forswear.
ref:
2008, Philip Roth, Indignation
type:
quotation
text:
He came after a few minutes.
type:
example
text:
Come in me!
type:
example
text:
They came very close to leaving on time. His test scores came close to perfect.
type:
example
text:
One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.
type:
example
text:
He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.
type:
example
text:
He was a dream come true.
type:
example
text:
He saw a gnarled old woman vigorously scrubbing a very dirty boy, who squirmed under the rough usage and screwed up his eyes and mouth to keep out the soap. "Drat the boy," cried the old lady, wrathfully. "Stand still, do! Will he ever come clean?"
ref:
1910, The Poster, Poster Advertising Association, Notable Poster Illustrations, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
He's as tough as they come.
type:
example
text:
Our milkshakes come in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavours.
type:
example
text:
A new sports car doesn't come cheap.
type:
example
text:
You can't come any tricks here.
type:
example
text:
This kind of accident comes when you are careless.
type:
example
text:
But out of sight is out of mind. And that[…]means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair. If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous.
ref:
2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891
type:
quotation
text:
While Kate Roberts came from a poor background and, later in life, in the post-Second World War period suffered from severe money shortages, in the early 1930s, she and her husband must have counted themselves relatively well off, particularly in comparison with their neighbours in Tonypandy.
ref:
2011, Kate Gramich, chapter 3, in Kate Roberts, University of Wales Press, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
Where did you come from?
type:
example
text:
She comes from a good family.
type:
example
text:
He comes from a disreputable legal firm.
type:
example
text:
The river comes from Bear Lake.
type:
example
text:
Where does this road come from?
type:
example
text:
Don’t come the innocent victim. We all know who’s to blame here.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move from further away to nearer to.
To move towards the speaker.
To move from further away to nearer to.
To move towards the listener.
To move from further away to nearer to.
To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.
To move from further away to nearer to.
To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.
To move from further away to nearer to.
To move towards an unstated agent.
To move from further away to nearer to.
To arrive.
To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting.
To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
To become butter by being churned.
To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
To become, to turn out to be.
To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
To carry through; to succeed in.
To happen.
To have as an origin, originate.
To have a certain social background.
To have as an origin, originate.
To be or have been a resident or native.
To have as an origin, originate.
To have been brought up by or employed by.
To have as an origin, originate.
To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
To germinate.
To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
senses_topics:
|
7778 | word:
come
word_type:
noun
expansion:
come (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
come
etymology_text:
From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”), from *gʷem- (“to step”).
cognates
Cognate from Proto-Germanic with Scots cum (“to come”), Saterland Frisian kuume (“to come”), West Frisian komme (“to come”), Low German kamen (“to come”), Dutch komen (“to come”), German kommen (“to come”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish komme (“to come”), Swedish komma (“to come”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic koma (“to come”).
Cognate from PIE via Latin veniō (“come, arrive”) with many Romance language terms (e.g., French venir, Portuguese vir, Spanish venir), Lithuanian gimti (“to be born, come into the world, arrive”), with terms in Iranian languages (e.g. Avestan 𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (jamaⁱti, “to go”)), via Sanskrit गच्छति (gácchati, “to go”) with many Indic language terms (e.g., Hindi गति (gati)).
Cognate to English basis, from PIE via Ancient Greek.
senses_examples:
text:
If we count three before the come of thee, thwacked thou art, and must go to the women.
ref:
1869, RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone, section II
type:
quotation
text:
When a man uses a condom during sex, he takes all of his come with him, preventing her from getting pregnant.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Coming, arrival; approach.
Semen
Female ejaculatory discharge.
senses_topics:
|
7779 | word:
come
word_type:
prep
expansion:
come
forms:
wikipedia:
come
etymology_text:
From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”), from *gʷem- (“to step”).
cognates
Cognate from Proto-Germanic with Scots cum (“to come”), Saterland Frisian kuume (“to come”), West Frisian komme (“to come”), Low German kamen (“to come”), Dutch komen (“to come”), German kommen (“to come”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish komme (“to come”), Swedish komma (“to come”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic koma (“to come”).
Cognate from PIE via Latin veniō (“come, arrive”) with many Romance language terms (e.g., French venir, Portuguese vir, Spanish venir), Lithuanian gimti (“to be born, come into the world, arrive”), with terms in Iranian languages (e.g. Avestan 𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (jamaⁱti, “to go”)), via Sanskrit गच्छति (gácchati, “to go”) with many Indic language terms (e.g., Hindi गति (gati)).
Cognate to English basis, from PIE via Ancient Greek.
senses_examples:
text:
Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests.
type:
example
text:
Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.
type:
example
text:
Come summer, we would all head off to the coast.
type:
example
text:
"And a long sea voyage that starts at six o'clock come morning."
ref:
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Come the final whistle, Mikel Arteta lay flabbergasted on the turf.
ref:
2012 November 10, Amy Lawrence, “Fulham's Mark Schwarzer saves late penalty in dramatic draw at Arsenal”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
She announced in April that come 10 February 2023, her songs would be featured in a romantic comedy titled It's All Coming Back To Me […]
ref:
2022 October 5, Beatriz Colon, “Celine Dion ushers in holiday season with exciting music news”, in Hello! Magazine
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.
senses_topics:
|
7780 | word:
come
word_type:
intj
expansion:
come
forms:
wikipedia:
come
etymology_text:
From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”), from *gʷem- (“to step”).
cognates
Cognate from Proto-Germanic with Scots cum (“to come”), Saterland Frisian kuume (“to come”), West Frisian komme (“to come”), Low German kamen (“to come”), Dutch komen (“to come”), German kommen (“to come”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish komme (“to come”), Swedish komma (“to come”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic koma (“to come”).
Cognate from PIE via Latin veniō (“come, arrive”) with many Romance language terms (e.g., French venir, Portuguese vir, Spanish venir), Lithuanian gimti (“to be born, come into the world, arrive”), with terms in Iranian languages (e.g. Avestan 𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (jamaⁱti, “to go”)), via Sanskrit गच्छति (gácchati, “to go”) with many Indic language terms (e.g., Hindi गति (gati)).
Cognate to English basis, from PIE via Ancient Greek.
senses_examples:
text:
Come come! Stop crying.
type:
example
text:
Come now! You must eat it.
type:
example
text:
Come come! You can do it.
type:
example
text:
Come now! It won't bite you.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exclamation to express annoyance.
An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
senses_topics:
|
7781 | word:
come
word_type:
noun
expansion:
come (plural comes)
forms:
form:
comes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
come
etymology_text:
See comma.
senses_examples:
text:
There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative.
ref:
1824, J. Johnson, Typographia
type:
quotation
text:
Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
ref:
1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography |
7782 | word:
black grouse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
black grouse (plural black grouses)
forms:
form:
black grouses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large, black bird with a lyre-shaped tail, Lyrurus tetrix (syn. Tetrao tetrix).
senses_topics:
|
7783 | word:
bestow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bestow (third-person singular simple present bestows, present participle bestowing, simple past and past participle bestowed)
forms:
form:
bestows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bestowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bestowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bestowed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
bestow
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₁epi
The verb is derived from Middle English bestowen, bistouen, bistowen (“to give, bestow; to apply (something to something else); to arrange or have control over (something); to place (someone) in a position; to use (for some purpose); (reflexive) to find (oneself) a place to live or shelter”) [and other forms], from bi- (prefix forming verbs, often with a completive, figurative, or intensive meaning) + stouen, stowen (“to pack (cargo) in a ship, stow; to place (someone) in a certain position; to provide quarters for, lodge; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to place; to stand (up)”)). The English word is analysable as be- (intensifying prefix forming verbs) + stow (“to put (something) away in a suitable place; etc.”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
Richmond, thy purling ſtreams and pleaſing ſhades, / Might claim the chorus of Aonian maids; / VVhere e’en Apollo might his hours beſtovv, / By turns employ his lyre, by turns his bovv, / VVhere all the pleaſures dvvell, vvhich poets feign / On fair Arcadia’s fields or Tempe’s plain.
ref:
1734 September, “From Richmond Park. A Poem.”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer, London: […] F. Jefferies, […], →OCLC, page 505, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Medals were bestowed on the winning team.
type:
example
text:
CERN bestows slush fund on the LHC. Take all pennies from the CERN space.
ref:
2008 September 28, Illiad [pseudonym; J. D. Frazer], “The Large Hadron Collider Game: Or ‘Why Science is Hard and Getting People to Fund It is Harder’”, in User Friendly (webcomic), archived from the original on 2022-02-25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply or make use of (someone or something); to employ, to use.
To apply or make use of (someone or something); to employ, to use.
To apply (money) for some purpose; to expend, to spend.
To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord.
To place or put (someone or something) somewhere or in a certain situation; to dispose of.
To deposit (something) for safekeeping; to lay up (something) in store; to stow.
To provide (someone or oneself) with accommodation; to find quarters for (someone or oneself); to lodge, to quarter.
To behave or conduct (oneself); to acquit.
To give (someone or oneself) in marriage.
senses_topics:
|
7784 | word:
bestow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bestow (plural bestows)
forms:
form:
bestows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₁epi
The verb is derived from Middle English bestowen, bistouen, bistowen (“to give, bestow; to apply (something to something else); to arrange or have control over (something); to place (someone) in a position; to use (for some purpose); (reflexive) to find (oneself) a place to live or shelter”) [and other forms], from bi- (prefix forming verbs, often with a completive, figurative, or intensive meaning) + stouen, stowen (“to pack (cargo) in a ship, stow; to place (someone) in a certain position; to provide quarters for, lodge; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to place; to stand (up)”)). The English word is analysable as be- (intensifying prefix forming verbs) + stow (“to put (something) away in a suitable place; etc.”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of presenting a thing to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; a bestowal.
senses_topics:
|
7785 | word:
wisent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wisent (plural wisents)
forms:
form:
wisents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Wisent. Doublet of bison.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The European bison, Bison bonasus.
senses_topics:
|
7786 | word:
weep
word_type:
verb
expansion:
weep (third-person singular simple present weeps, present participle weeping, simple past and past participle wept or (poetic, otherwise nonstandard) weeped)
forms:
form:
weeps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
weeping
tags:
participle
present
form:
wept
tags:
participle
past
form:
wept
tags:
past
form:
weeped
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
poetic
form:
weeped
tags:
nonstandard
past
poetic
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōpijan, from Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂b- (“to call, cry, complain”).
Cognate with Scots wepe, weip (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”).
senses_examples:
text:
a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
text:
Fair Venus wept the sad disaster
Of having lost her favorite dove.
ref:
1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
To lament; to complain.
To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
To produce secretions.
To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
To weep over; to bewail.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
7787 | word:
weep
word_type:
noun
expansion:
weep (plural weeps)
forms:
form:
weeps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōpijan, from Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂b- (“to call, cry, complain”).
Cognate with Scots wepe, weip (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”).
senses_examples:
text:
Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.
type:
example
text:
He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.]
ref:
1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page v. 62
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A session of crying.
A sob.
senses_topics:
|
7788 | word:
weep
word_type:
noun
expansion:
weep (plural weeps)
forms:
form:
weeps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Imitative of its cry.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
senses_topics:
|
7789 | word:
XHTML
word_type:
name
expansion:
XHTML
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (a reformulation of HTML as an XML application.)
senses_topics:
|
7790 | word:
enforce
word_type:
verb
expansion:
enforce (third-person singular simple present enforces, present participle enforcing, simple past and past participle enforced)
forms:
form:
enforces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
enforcing
tags:
participle
present
form:
enforced
tags:
participle
past
form:
enforced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English enforcen, from Old French enforcier, from Late Latin infortiāre, from in- + fortis (“strong”).
senses_examples:
text:
The police are there to enforce the law.
type:
example
text:
1929, Chiang Kai-shek, quoted in “Nationalist Notes,” Time, 11 February, 1929,
Our task is only half finished. It will be my duty to enforce the decisions of the conference and I hereby pledge myself to that end.
text:
Far from needing to be repealed, the ban on politics in the pulpit ought to be enforced more aggressively.
ref:
2013 September 8, “The pulpit should be free of politics”, in Los Angeles Times
type:
quotation
text:
The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator.
type:
example
text:
In a few minutes I was stealthily groping my way down my own staircase, with a box of matches in my hand, enforced by scientific curiosity, but none the less armed with a stick.
ref:
1899, E. OE. Somerville, Martin Ross, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., Great Uncle McCarthy
type:
quotation
text:
to enforce a passage
type:
example
text:
to enforce arguments or requests
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.
To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
To intensify, make stronger, add force to.
To exert oneself, to try hard.
To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.
To make or gain by force; to force.
To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy.
To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
To prove; to evince.
senses_topics:
|
7791 | word:
politics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
politics (countable and uncountable, plural politics)
forms:
form:
politics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
politics
etymology_text:
From the adjective politic, by analogy with Aristotle’s τά πολῑτῐκᾱ́ (tá polītikā́, “affairs of state”).
senses_examples:
text:
There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics.
ref:
1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, page ix-x
type:
quotation
text:
He made a career out of politics.
type:
example
text:
Their politics are clear from the bumper stickers on their cars.
type:
example
text:
There is no stability; only politics. The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good.
ref:
1999, George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, spoken by Senator Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid)
type:
quotation
text:
We're trying to talk about comic books, don't mention politics.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement.
The profession of conducting political affairs.
One's political stands and opinions.
Political maneuvers or diplomacy between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, standing, influence or conflict.
Real-world beliefs and social issues irrelevant to the topic at hand.
senses_topics:
|
7792 | word:
politics
word_type:
verb
expansion:
politics
forms:
wikipedia:
politics
etymology_text:
From the adjective politic, by analogy with Aristotle’s τά πολῑτῐκᾱ́ (tá polītikā́, “affairs of state”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of politic
senses_topics:
|
7793 | word:
analysis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
analysis (countable and uncountable, plural analyses)
forms:
form:
analyses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
analysis
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “I unravel, investigate”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “thoroughly”) + λύω (lúō, “I loosen”).
senses_examples:
text:
comparative analysis
type:
example
text:
Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
ref:
2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
Beeching is more disparaging about suburban services beyond the capital, and I think here lies one of the most critical shortcomings in his analysis. By not considering the potential for these cities to grow, both on their own merits and in response to London's limitations, he failed to future-proof these types of service, limiting them in favour of long-distance services.
ref:
2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
Thus, in a sequence such as [French English teacher], since English is closer to
the Head Noun teacher, it must be a Complement; and since French is further
away from teacher, it must be an Attribute. Hence, we correctly predict that
the only possible interpretation for [a French English teacher] is ‘a person who
teaches English who is Frenchʼ. So our analysis not only has semantic plausi-
bility; but in addition it has independent syntactic support.
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 214
type:
quotation
text:
2014, Lara Alcock, How to Think about Analysis, Oxford University Press:
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Decomposition into components in order to study (a complex thing, concept, theory etc.).
The result of such a process.
A broad field of study in modern mathematics (often mentioned alongside algebra) which developed out of the calculus, concerned with the behavior of functions, sequences, series, limits, metric spaces, measures and more.
Proof by deduction from known truths.
The process of breaking down a substance into its constituent parts, or the result of this process.
The analytical study of melodies, harmonies, sequences, repetitions, variations, quotations, juxtapositions, and surprises.
Psychoanalysis.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
7794 | word:
competition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
competition (countable and uncountable, plural competitions)
forms:
form:
competitions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
competition
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French compétition, from Late Latin competītiō, competītiōnem, from Latin competō, from con- + petō.
senses_examples:
text:
The competition for this job is strong.
type:
example
text:
The newspaper is featuring a competition to win a car.
type:
example
text:
The new stain remover was ten times more effective than the competition.
type:
example
text:
Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
ref:
2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change, page 319
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action of competing.
A contest for a prize or award.
The competitors in such a contest.
senses_topics:
|
7795 | word:
shoot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shoot (third-person singular simple present shoots, present participle shooting, simple past shot, past participle shot or (rare) shotten)
forms:
form:
shoots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shooting
tags:
participle
present
form:
shot
tags:
past
form:
shot
tags:
participle
past
form:
shotten
tags:
participle
past
rare
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
shoot
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English shoten, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeutan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sjitte, Low German scheten, Dutch schieten, German schießen, Danish skyde, Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Norwegian Nynorsk skyta, Swedish skjuta; and also, through Indo-European, with Russian кида́ть (kidátʹ), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian چست (čost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs.
senses_examples:
text:
to shoot a gun
type:
example
text:
The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and started shooting anyone he could.
type:
example
text:
The hunter shot the deer to harvest its meat.
type:
example
text:
The unfortunate Divisional Director, responsible for the Emperor's safety, shot himself.
ref:
1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 252
type:
quotation
text:
Shepard: She's surrounded by geth and pointing a gun at us. Shoot her!
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria
type:
quotation
text:
They shot at a target.
type:
example
text:
He shoots better than he rides.
type:
example
text:
They're coming to shoot with us on Sunday.
type:
example
text:
Although the estate had been shot previously, there had been no effective keepering and little success with the pheasants released.
ref:
1969, Game Conservancy (Great Britain), Annual Review (issues 1-8, page 16)
text:
Then, when it was his turn to shoot, he reached out with a completely empty hand and caught the dice the stickman threw to him.
ref:
1980, John Scarne, Scarne on Dice, page 275
type:
quotation
text:
After a very short time, he shot his load over the carpet.
type:
example
text:
"Can I ask you a question?" "Shoot."
type:
example
text:
The gun shoots well.
type:
example
text:
His idea was shot on sight.
type:
example
text:
He shot the couple in a variety of poses.
type:
example
text:
He shot seventeen stills.
type:
example
text:
I had the pleasure of shooting Arnold Newman while teaching across the hall from him at a summer photo workshop.
ref:
2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
The film was mostly shot in France.
type:
example
text:
After an initial lag, the experimental group's scores shot past the control group's scores in the fourth week.
type:
example
text:
shoot the rapids
type:
example
text:
It was approaching the time when watermen would not shoot the bridge even without a passenger aboard.
ref:
2005, R. G. Crouch, The Coat: The Origin and Times of Doggett's Famous Wager, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
a shooting pain in my leg
type:
example
text:
1802, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query VII.
The north-east [wind] is loaded with vapor, insomuch, that the salt-makers have found that their crystals would not shoot while that blows.
text:
I'll shoot you an email with all the details
type:
example
text:
In my round of golf yesterday I shot a 76.
type:
example
text:
to shoot up rapidly
type:
example
text:
A plant shoots out a bud.
type:
example
text:
The land shoots into a promontory.
type:
example
text:
There is 432 Park Avenue, a surreal square tube of white concrete that appears to shoot twice as high as anything around it, its endless Cartesian grid of windows framing worlds of solid marble bathtubs and climate-controlled wine cellars within.
ref:
2019 June 1, Oliver Wainwright, “Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-10-05
type:
quotation
text:
two Pieces of Wood are Shot (that is Plained) or else they are Pared [...] with a Pairing-chissel
ref:
1677, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-works
type:
quotation
text:
He tried to shoot the visual approach to runway 12, but the visibility was too low.
type:
example
text:
Once the area is ready to "shoot," the seismic crew places geophones and cables along the line of the profile to be recorded.
ref:
1986, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Moratoria: Hearing, page 438
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To launch a projectile.
To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
To launch a projectile.
To fire (a projectile).
To launch a projectile.
To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
To launch a projectile.
To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
To launch a projectile.
To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
To launch a projectile.
To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
To launch a projectile.
To throw dice.
To launch a projectile.
To ejaculate.
To launch a projectile.
To begin to speak.
To launch a projectile.
To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
To launch a projectile.
To dismiss or do away with.
To launch a projectile.
To photograph.
To launch a projectile.
To film.
To launch a projectile.
To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
To move or act quickly or suddenly.
To move very quickly and suddenly.
To move or act quickly or suddenly.
To go over or pass quickly through.
To move or act quickly or suddenly.
To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
To move or act quickly or suddenly.
To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
To move or act quickly or suddenly.
To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
To move or act quickly or suddenly.
To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
To move or act quickly or suddenly.
To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
To move or act quickly or suddenly.
To send to someone.
To act or achieve.
To lunge.
To act or achieve.
To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
To act or achieve.
To make the stated score.
To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
To develop, move forward.
To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
To develop, move forward.
To grow; to advance.
To develop, move forward.
To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
To develop, move forward.
To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
To develop, move forward.
To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
To plane straight; to fit by planing.
To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
To shoot the moon.
To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
senses_topics:
gambling
games
broadcasting
film
media
television
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
nautical
transport
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
card-games
games
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
7796 | word:
shoot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shoot (plural shoots)
forms:
form:
shoots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English shoten, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeutan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sjitte, Low German scheten, Dutch schieten, German schießen, Danish skyde, Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Norwegian Nynorsk skyta, Swedish skjuta; and also, through Indo-European, with Russian кида́ть (kidátʹ), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian چست (čost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs.
senses_examples:
text:
From the bonfire of last autumn's HS2 decision, there are green shoots pushing through the ashes.
ref:
2024 April 3, Philip Haigh, “Comment: A new, better version of HS2”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist.
ref:
2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
ref:
1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion
type:
quotation
text:
where to find a shoot of ore opposite one they may have taken away on a parallel lode
ref:
1853, Thomas McElrath, William Jewett Tenney, William Phipps Blake, The Mining Magazine and Journal of Geology, Mineralogy, Metallurgy
type:
quotation
text:
1901, Frank Lee Hess, pubs.usgs.gov report. Rare Metals. TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
In the western dike is a shoot about 4 feet in diameter carrying a considerable sprinkling of cassiterite, ore which in quantity would undoubtedly be worth mining. The shoot contains a large amount of muscovite mica with quartz and very little or no feldspar...
text:
That there was no evidence before the jury that at the time of the accident the timber shoot was worked by the defendant company.
ref:
1891, New South Wales. Supreme Court, The New South Wales Law Reports, volume 12, page 238
type:
quotation
text:
Once the last line of cable has been retrieved, there is little evidence that a shoot has been conducted.
ref:
1980, The Williston Basin, 1980, page 159
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
A photography session.
A hunt or shooting competition.
An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
A rush of water; a rapid.
A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
A shoat; a young pig.
A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
senses_topics:
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
business
mining
card-games
games
|
7797 | word:
shoot
word_type:
intj
expansion:
shoot
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Minced oath for shit.
senses_examples:
text:
Didn't you have a concert tonight? —Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready…
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain
senses_topics:
|
7798 | word:
albero
word_type:
noun
expansion:
albero (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish albero.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Densely packed crushed rock covering the ground where a bullfight will take place.
senses_topics:
|
7799 | word:
SGML
word_type:
name
expansion:
SGML
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[…] a navigator pane can be established using either markup from the stylesheet or the hierarchical SGML file structure.
ref:
2012, Peter Flynn, Understanding SGML and XML Tools
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Standard Generalized Markup Language.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software |
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