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7800 | word:
polecat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polecat (plural polecats)
forms:
form:
polecats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English polcat, pulkat, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle English *pole, *poule (“hen”), from Old French poule (“hen”) + Middle English cat. Compare English foulmart.
senses_examples:
text:
For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
ref:
1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, page 237
type:
quotation
text:
By the little garden pergola open to the winds some fluttered peacocks were blotted nervelessly amid the dripping trees, their heads sunk back beneath their wings: while in the pergola itself, like a fallen storm-cloud, lolled a negress, her levelled, polecat eyes semi-veiled by the nebulous alchemy of the rainbow.
ref:
1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 61
text:
This is adjustable telescopic tubing, wedged securely between floor and ceiling (vertical pole) or wall-to-wall (horizontal pole), within corridors, arches, window openings, doorways, etc. It may be held in position by a strong internal spring or end-screws. Designs include polecat, varipole, barricuda, jack tube, Acrow.
ref:
1991, Gerald Millerson, The Technique of Lighting for Television and Film, page 323
type:
quotation
text:
This uses a battery-operated HMI/MSR 200 W rigged on a magic arm fastened to a vertical 'pole-cat'. Check that the car roof is suitable for this application and remember to include a clean card (beer mat) between the top of the pole-cat and the car roof!
ref:
2013, Alan Bermingham, Location Lighting for Television, page 196
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela.
A weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela.
notably, the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
A skunk.
A tubular device used to support lights on a set.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
television |
7801 | word:
fallow deer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fallow deer (plural fallow deer)
forms:
form:
fallow deer
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Derived from the deer's pale brown color, fallow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ruminant mammal (Dama dama) belonging to the family Cervidae.
senses_topics:
|
7802 | word:
common gull
word_type:
noun
expansion:
common gull (plural common gulls)
forms:
form:
common gulls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A medium-sized gull, Larus canus.
A butterfly of southern and eastern Asia (Cepora nerissa).
senses_topics:
|
7803 | word:
GNU
word_type:
name
expansion:
GNU
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined by Richard Stallman in 1983 as a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix”, following convention of naming programs similar to or inspired by existing programs as “(New Name) Is Not (Old Name)”; compare Xinu.
Specifically influenced by lack of English words of form ?nu (“?NU is Not Unix”), that gnu is the alphabetically first (and in fact only) English word of the form ?nu (“?’s Not Unix”), that gnu was perceived as a humorous word, and the existence of the song The Gnu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Free Software Foundation's project to develop a free UNIX-like operating system, including the legal framework, such as the source code and documentation licenses.
senses_topics:
|
7804 | word:
family
word_type:
noun
expansion:
family (countable and uncountable, plural families)
forms:
form:
families
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
family
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia.
senses_examples:
text:
Our family lives in town.
type:
example
text:
America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
ref:
2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
They’re both New Yorkers coasting on their reputations, they’ve both had three marriages, neither of them can shut up when in front of a camera, and perhaps most importantly, they both want to fuck Ivanka, which-which is weird for Trump because Ivanka is in his family, and it’s weird for Giuliani because she isn’t.
ref:
2018 May 6, “Rudy Giuliani”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 5, episode 10, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
1915, William T. Groves, A History and Genealogy of the Groves Family in America:
type:
quotation
text:
The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
type:
example
text:
We must preserve the family unit if we want to save civilisation!
type:
example
text:
I have a lot of family in Australia.
type:
example
text:
He has a sister, but no other family.
type:
example
text:
crime family, Mafia family
type:
example
text:
This is my fraternity family at the university.
type:
example
text:
Our company is one big happy family.
type:
example
text:
[…]This is not your hallmark im Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there . . . no radar like gaydar, I always say.
ref:
1982 July 15, Gloria Godqueen, “What's in a card”, in Bay Area Reporter, volume 12, number 28, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.
type:
example
text:
Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.
type:
example
text:
When creating a font family, first decide whether to use all serif or all sans-serif fonts, then choose two or three fonts of that type […]
ref:
2010, Gary Shelly, Jennifer Campbell, Ollie Rivers, Microsoft Expression Web 3: Complete, page 262
type:
quotation
text:
Let #x5C;mathcalF be a family of subsets over S.
type:
example
text:
the brass family; the violin family
type:
example
text:
the Indo-European family
type:
example
text:
the Afroasiatic family
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
Members of one's family collectively.
A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
The gay community.
Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
senses_topics:
LGBT
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
entertainment
lifestyle
music
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
7805 | word:
family
word_type:
adj
expansion:
family (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
family
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia.
senses_examples:
text:
It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.
type:
example
text:
Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.
type:
example
text:
This is a family restaurant, stop making out!
type:
example
text:
I knew he was family when I first met him.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Suitable for children and adults.
Homosexual.
senses_topics:
LGBT |
7806 | word:
family
word_type:
name
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
|
7807 | word:
robin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
robin (plural robins)
forms:
form:
robins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Short for robin redbreast. Also from Middle English robynet, robynett (“robin (bird)”), from the Middle English name Robynett, a diminutive of the Middle English name Robyn (“Robin”).
]
]
senses_examples:
text:
As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.
A European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.
An American robin, Turdus migratorius.
A trimming in front of a dress.
senses_topics:
|
7808 | word:
robin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
robin (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A toxalbumin obtained from the locust tree.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
7809 | word:
AOL
word_type:
name
expansion:
AOL
forms:
wikipedia:
AOL
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
(Mad Pierre had showered her with his customary praise as well, exclaiming on IRC that she made him behave “like a testosteronal teenager in an AOL chat room”—a line that Shiksaa was quick to appropriate for use in her Usenet signature.)
ref:
2014, Brian S. McWilliams, Spam Kings, page 85
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of America Online.
Initialism of aspect-oriented language.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
7810 | word:
AOL
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
AOL
etymology_text:
From the propensity of America Online users for making unnecessary "me too" posts in Usenet discussions.
senses_examples:
text:
>Now Black Velvet by Alannah Miles has always sent shivers down my spine, something about her voice.
AOL! I've heard that one being karaoke'd, by someone with a pretty good voice, but it really needs Alannah Miles's vocals to do it justice.
ref:
2003 July 8, CCA, “[I] Apropos of Barry White news...”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
me too, I agree
senses_topics:
|
7811 | word:
outcome
word_type:
noun
expansion:
outcome (plural outcomes)
forms:
form:
outcomes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
outcome
etymology_text:
From out + come.
senses_examples:
text:
A quality automobile is the outcome of the work of skilled engineers and thousands of workers.
type:
example
text:
Three is a possible outcome of tossing a six-sided die.
type:
example
text:
The outcomes of this course are outlined in your syllabus.
type:
example
text:
Spain failed to move through the gears despite exerting control for lengthy spells and a measure of perspective must be applied immediately to the outcome.
ref:
2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process.
The result of a random trial. An element of a sample space.
The anticipated or desired results or evidence of a learning experience (often used in the phrase learning outcomes).
The scoreline; the result.
senses_topics:
mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
education
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
7812 | word:
XML
word_type:
name
expansion:
XML
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
'XmL_3rr0R~/?$-HELP.i.am.trapped.in.the.newsbar!.^'
ref:
(Can we date this quote?), Ndemic Creations, Plague Inc., Android, scene: News item
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Extensible Markup Language (a flexible text format for creating structured computer documents in machine-readable form.)
senses_topics:
computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
7813 | word:
understand
word_type:
verb
expansion:
understand (third-person singular simple present understands, present participle understanding, simple past and past participle understood)
forms:
form:
understands
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
understanding
tags:
participle
present
form:
understood
tags:
participle
past
form:
understood
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
understand
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
understand
etymology_text:
From Middle English understanden, from Old English understandan (“to understand”), from Proto-West Germanic *understandan (“to stand between, understand”), from Proto-Germanic *understandaną (“to stand between, understand”), equivalent to Old English under- (“between, inter-”) + standan (“to stand”) (Modern English under- + stand). Cognate with Old Frisian understonda (“to understand, experience, learn”), Old High German understantan (“to understand”), Middle Danish understande (“to understand”). Compare also Saterland Frisian understunda, unnerstounde (“to dare, survey, measure”), Dutch onderstaan (“to undertake, presume”), German unterstehen (“to be subordinate”).
senses_examples:
text:
In reading this book, be very certain you never go past a word you do not fully understand.
ref:
1950, L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics, New Era Publications, published 1999, →OCLC, page ix
type:
quotation
text:
Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.
ref:
2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the Profound Meets the Profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
Can you repeat what you just said? I didn't understand.
type:
example
text:
The students understood the assignment.
type:
example
text:
I understand that company policy says I can't get a refund, but can you make an exception?
type:
example
text:
There's been no formal declaration, but it's understood that a state of war exists between the two countries
type:
example
text:
One day you say you love me, the next you ignore me—I don't understand you!
type:
example
text:
I understand that you have a package for me?
type:
example
text:
In the imperative mood, the word “you” is usually understood.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
(of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
(of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
(generally) To know the meaning of.
(of a skill, task, profession, etc.) To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
(of people) To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
To believe, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
To regard as present when not.
To stand underneath, to support.
To comprehend or grasp (some particular matter); to have comprehension (in general);
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
acrobatics
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
|
7814 | word:
stiff
word_type:
adj
expansion:
stiff (comparative stiffer, superlative stiffest)
forms:
form:
stiffer
tags:
comparative
form:
stiffest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós.
See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore.
The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.
senses_examples:
text:
You have discovered the corpse of Captain Willem of the MSV Majesty. His stiff fingers are wrapped tightly around a small datapad.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Xawin
type:
quotation
text:
He was eventually caught, and given a stiff fine.
type:
example
text:
To fit them for heavy loads on gradients as stiff as 1 in 45 in tropical conditions, these Class 90 diesels embody several unusual features, [...].
ref:
1961 February, “New English Electric diesels for East Africa”, in Trains Illustrated, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
My legs are stiff after climbing that hill yesterday.
type:
example
text:
a stiff drink; a stiff dose; a stiff breeze
type:
example
text:
In the end, perhaps these deflections are easier than confronting the reality and debunking some of the less helpful stories a certain section of England likes to tell about itself. Much easier to just order another stiff one, and raise the old toast: “My country, right or wrong!”
ref:
2023 July 4, Marina Hyde, “Who’s for political Bazball with Rishi? Voters? Tories? Anyone?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Adieu! faint-hearted instrument of lust; / That falselie hath betrayde our equale trust. / Hence-forth no more will I implore thine ayde, / Or thee, or man of cowardize upbrayde. / My little dilldo shall suply their kinde: / A knaue, that moues as light as leaues by winde; / That bendeth not, nor fouldeth anie deale, / But stands as stiff as he were made of steele; / And playes at peacock twixt my leggs right blythe, / And doeth my tickling swage with manie a sighe. / For, by saint Runnion! he'le refresh me well; / And neuer make my tender bellie swell.
ref:
1592/3, Thomas Nashe, The Choise of Valentines (Poetry), published 1899, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2006-02-27
type:
quotation
text:
Adding too much peanut butter to your Peanut Sauce recipe may cause your sauce to turn out too stiff.
type:
example
text:
beat the egg whites until they are stiff
type:
example
text:
I go all out, go for the long ball, the stiff shots to the pin, aim for the back of the cup.
ref:
1968, William Price Fox, Southern Fried Plus Six: Short Works of Fiction, page 219
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
Inflexible; rigid.
Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
Harsh, severe.
Painful or more rigid than usual as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
Potent.
Dead, deceased.
Erect.
Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
Keeping upright.
Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle
mathematics
sciences
nautical
transport
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling |
7815 | word:
stiff
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stiff (countable and uncountable, plural stiffs)
forms:
form:
stiffs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós.
See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore.
The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.
senses_examples:
text:
working stiff
type:
example
text:
The clerk shrugged: “That's the boss's little girl.” “Why, the lucky stiff!” said Keating. “He's been holding out on me.” “You misunderstood me,” the clerk said coldly. “It's his daughter. It's Dominique Francon.”
ref:
1943, Ayn Rand, chapter IX, in The Fountainhead
type:
quotation
text:
She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him.
type:
example
text:
This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!
ref:
1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese)
type:
quotation
text:
If the movie was a stiff it wasn't any of their specific faults. They were all in it together and they were jobbed in and jobbed out for two weeks and gone and they got a pile of money for their efforts.
ref:
1994, Andy Dougan, The actors' director: Richard Attenborough behind the camera, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
They never did sell any records. I don't mean they didn't sell 100,000. I mean they didn't sell 5000. Total. National. Coast-to-coast. The record was a stiff.
ref:
2016, Ralph J. Gleason, Toby Gleason, Music in the Air: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
A cadaver; a dead person.
A flop; a commercial failure.
A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
A customer who does not leave a tip.
Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
senses_topics:
blackjack
games
business
finance
|
7816 | word:
stiff
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stiff (third-person singular simple present stiffs, present participle stiffing, simple past and past participle stiffed)
forms:
form:
stiffs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stiffing
tags:
participle
present
form:
stiffed
tags:
participle
past
form:
stiffed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós.
See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore.
The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.
senses_examples:
text:
Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, he stiffed the taxi driver when the cab stopped for a red light.
type:
example
text:
We asked one girl to explain how she felt when she was "stiffed." She said, You think of all the work you've done and how you've tried to please [them…].
ref:
1946, William Foote Whyte, Industry and Society, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
You see, poor Nonie really was stiffed by Adolph in his will. He really stiffed her, Rose, and I really wanted to right that wrong.
ref:
1992, Stephen Birmingham, Shades of Fortune, page 451
type:
quotation
text:
Then he stiffed the waiter with a cheap tip.
ref:
2007, Mary Higgins Clark, I Heard That Song Before, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
But you know it could be a hassle / Trying to explain myself to a police officer / About how it was your old lady got herself stiffed
ref:
1978, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “Street Hassle”, in Street Hassle
type:
quotation
text:
"Come To Me" moved but a few to buy a copy; "My Queen" stiffed in the stall.
ref:
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
To cheat someone
To tip ungenerously.
To kill.
To be unsuccessful.
senses_topics:
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7817 | word:
stiff
word_type:
adv
expansion:
stiff (comparative more stiff, superlative most stiff)
forms:
form:
more stiff
tags:
comparative
form:
most stiff
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós.
See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore.
The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.
senses_examples:
text:
At Feversham was a very High Tide in the Afternoon, tho' the Wind was Southerly, and blew very stiff, which the Seamen there wondered at.
ref:
1731, John Lowthorp, Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of the Year MDCC, 4th edition, volume II, page 282
type:
quotation
text:
It soon blew stiff, & we scudded before it under double-reefed topsails, & mainsail hauled up.
ref:
1849 October 23, Herman Melville, edited by Howard C. Horsforth and Lynn Horth, The Writings of Herman Melville: Journals, volume 15, published 1989, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
At about 11.30 am it rained tremendously and blew very stiff.
ref:
1871 September 16, W.A. Crowther, Diary
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of the wind, with great force; strongly.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
7818 | word:
interest
word_type:
noun
expansion:
interest (usually uncountable, plural interests)
forms:
form:
interests
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Interest (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English interest, from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.
senses_examples:
text:
Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
type:
example
text:
He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
type:
example
text:
Over the past few years, however, interest has waxed again. A series of epidemiological studies, none big enough to be probative, but all pointing in the same direction, persuaded Emma Wilmot of the University of Leicester, in Britain, to carry out a meta-analysis. This is a technique that combines diverse studies in a statistically meaningful way.
ref:
2013 August 10, “Standing orders”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
ref:
2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy […]”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
When scientists and doctors write articles and when politicians run for office, they are required in many countries to declare any existing conflicts of interest (competing interests).
type:
example
text:
I have business interests in South Africa.
type:
example
text:
She has an interest in the proceedings, and all stakeholders' interests must be protected.
type:
example
text:
Lexicography is one of my interests.
type:
example
text:
Victorian furniture is an interest of mine.
type:
example
text:
The main character's romantic interest will be played by a non-professional actor.
type:
example
text:
The conscience, indeed, is already violated when to moral good or evil we oppose things possessing no moral interest.
ref:
1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend, Essay VIII
type:
quotation
text:
the iron interest; the cotton interest
type:
example
text:
By interest films is meant a variety of subjects which cannot be classified under such recognized headings as fiction, travel, or topical. They include wonderful inventions, little known industries, applied art, feats of engineering, and other events capable of effective illustration.
ref:
1921 Davidson Boughey, The Film Industry (London : Sir Isaac Pitman) p. 76
text:
The arrangements made ensured that the total cost of censorship could be kept down to one-fifth of a penny per foot of film censored (and even one-tenth of a penny per foot in cases of Topical, Travel, Interest and Educational Films).
ref:
1924 March 5, Kevin O'Higgins, “CENSORSHIP OF FILMS ACT, 1923”, in Dáil debates, volume 6, number 22
type:
quotation
text:
At the top of Charing Cross Road is the "Tatler," which has specialised for a long time in a general sort of program, built up of about 15 minutes of news, a cartoon (sometimes two), an interest picture, occasionally a comedy, and nearly always a documentary.
ref:
1939 March-April, J. Neill-Brown, "The Industry's Front Page" The Cine-Technician (London) Vol. 4 no. 20 p. 200
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.
Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
Something which, or someone whom, one is interested in.
Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.
Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
a genre of factual short films, generally more amusing than informative, especially those not covered by a more specific genre label
senses_topics:
business
finance
business
finance
|
7819 | word:
interest
word_type:
verb
expansion:
interest (third-person singular simple present interests, present participle interesting, simple past and past participle interested)
forms:
form:
interests
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
interesting
tags:
participle
present
form:
interested
tags:
participle
past
form:
interested
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Interest (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English interest, from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.
senses_examples:
text:
It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
type:
example
text:
Action films don't really interest me.
type:
example
text:
Or rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory, since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel.
ref:
1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
To cause or permit to share.
senses_topics:
|
7820 | word:
spread
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spread (third-person singular simple present spreads, present participle spreading, simple past and past participle spread)
forms:
form:
spreads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
spreading
tags:
participle
present
form:
spread
tags:
participle
past
form:
spread
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English spreden, from Old English sprǣdan (“to spread, expand”), from Proto-Germanic *spraidijaną (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian spreede (“to spread”), West Frisian spriede (“to spread”), North Frisian spriedjen (“to spread”), Dutch spreiden (“to spread”), Low German spreden (“to spread”), German spreiten (“to spread, spread out”), Norwegian spre, spreie (“to spread, disseminate”), Swedish sprida (“to spread”), Latin spernō, spargō, Ancient Greek σπείρω (speírō), Persian سپردن (sepordan, “to deposit”), English spurn.
senses_examples:
text:
He spread his newspaper on the table.
type:
example
text:
I spread my arms wide and welcomed him home.
type:
example
text:
I spread the rice grains evenly over the floor.
type:
example
text:
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
As the Erzurum affair indicated, the janissaries in the provinces and in the capital city were in close touch, and thus the movements were quick to spread to Istanbul.
ref:
2018, Pál Fodor, The Business of State. Ottoman Finance Administration and Ruling Elites in Transition (1580s–1615) (Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker; 28), Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag × De Gruyter, published 2020, →DOI, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
I placed my hands on his cheeks, and this time, I kissed him. “Don't worry, I'm not going to let anything spoil our day. It's just you and me.” A sad smile spread across his face, and I could tell he wanted to believe me, but didn't.
ref:
2018 June 25, L.P. Dover, Going for the Hole, Books by L.P. Dover, LLC
type:
quotation
text:
The missionaries quickly spread their new message across the country.
type:
example
text:
I dropped my glass; the water spread quickly over the tiled floor.
type:
example
text:
She liked to spread butter on her toast while it was still hot.
type:
example
text:
He always spreads his toast with peanut butter and strawberry jam.
type:
example
text:
to spread a table
type:
example
text:
This often sounds like the rap of a demented DJ: the way she moves has got to be good news, can't get loose till I feel the juice— suck and spread, bitch, yeah bounce for me baby.
ref:
1984, Martin Amis, Money
type:
quotation
text:
Yes I wore a slinky red thing. Does that mean I should spread for you, your friends, your father, Mr Ed?
ref:
1991, Tori Amos, Me and a Gun
type:
quotation
text:
I don't want to move too fast, but / Can't resist your sexy ass / Just spread, spread for me; / (I can't, I can't wait to get you home)
ref:
2003, Outkast, "Spread" (from the album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
senses_topics:
|
7821 | word:
spread
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spread (countable and uncountable, plural spreads)
forms:
form:
spreads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English spreden, from Old English sprǣdan (“to spread, expand”), from Proto-Germanic *spraidijaną (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian spreede (“to spread”), West Frisian spriede (“to spread”), North Frisian spriedjen (“to spread”), Dutch spreiden (“to spread”), Low German spreden (“to spread”), German spreiten (“to spread, spread out”), Norwegian spre, spreie (“to spread, disseminate”), Swedish sprida (“to spread”), Latin spernō, spargō, Ancient Greek σπείρω (speírō), Persian سپردن (sepordan, “to deposit”), English spurn.
senses_examples:
text:
November 29, 1712, Andrew Freeport, a letter to The Spectator
I have got a fine spread of improvable lands.
text:
- Can't wait till I get my own spread and won't have to put up with Joe Aguirre's crap no more.
ref:
2005, Brokeback Mountain (film), 00:11:50
roman:
- I'm savin' for a place myself.
text:
Linen shawls and spreads show up in secondhand clothing stores like those in the row on St. Marks Place in New York City.
ref:
1975, Douglas Matthews, Suzanne Wymelenberg, Susan Cheever Cowley, Secondhand is Better, page 166
type:
quotation
text:
Ferd liked to experiment with sandwich spreads ― the one he liked most was cream-cheese, olives, anchovy and avocado, mashed up with a little mayonnaise ― but Oscar always had the same pink luncheon-meat.
ref:
1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction
type:
quotation
text:
Johnston, meanwhile, has managed to get within five miles of its target, and fires a full spread of ten torpedoes. Minutes later, at least two, possibly three, tear the bow off the hapless cruiser Kumano. First blood, unbelievably, therefore, goes to the Americans.
ref:
2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 18:01 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03
type:
quotation
text:
The spread is usually measured using standard deviation and variance.
type:
example
text:
College basketball games don't lack for gambling propositions—the moneyline, a straightforward wager on which team will win; the over-under gamble on the total number of points scored by both teams—but the most popular wager is the spread. The spread represents the predicted difference between the two teams in the final score of the game.
ref:
2015 April 10, John Paul Rollert, “Vegas Odds”, in Harper's Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Harper's Magazine Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of spreading.
Something that has been spread.
A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
An expanse of land.
A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
A numerical difference.
A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
The difference between bidding and asking price.
The difference between the prices of two similar items.
An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
senses_topics:
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
government
military
politics
war
mathematics
sciences
statistics
business
economics
sciences
business
economics
finance
sciences
trading
business
finance
trading
business
finance
trading
business
finance
trading
business
finance
trading
business
finance
geometry
mathematics
sciences
gambling
games |
7822 | word:
spread
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spread (third-person singular simple present spreads, present participle spreading, simple past and past participle spread)
forms:
form:
spreads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
spreading
tags:
participle
present
form:
spread
tags:
participle
past
form:
spread
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of speed + read.
senses_examples:
text:
You're assuming that if someone spreads they aren't a good orator. That's flawed logic.
ref:
2022 July 8, u/chromantical, “spreading is cringe and should be stopped”, in Reddit, r/Debate, archived from the original on 2023-12-17
type:
quotation
text:
In my first year on the circuit, I learned to spread and did decently well. I won most of my rounds, not that I could tell you how I did it.
ref:
2022 September, Tess McNulty, “Both Sides Now”, in Harper's Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Harper's Magazine Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
senses_topics:
|
7823 | word:
spread
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spread (plural spreads)
forms:
form:
spreads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of speed + read.
senses_examples:
text:
If debate is a game, then the execution of a "spread" is like a well-timed blitz in football. Convincing a judge that your opponents' arguments would cause human extinction is equivalent to a successful Hail Mary pass.
ref:
2017 September 26, Jack McCordick, “The Corrosion of High School Debate—And How It Mirrors American Politics”, in America, New York, N.Y.: America Press Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-21
type:
quotation
text:
It's one L ur chillin just keep practicing read the ballets figure what you did wrong and practice with improvements in mind, get better at spreads and k theory debates.
ref:
2023 February 27, u/Objective-Sugar8720, “Bad tournament, how do I cope?”, in Reddit, r/Debate, archived from the original on 2023-12-17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
senses_topics:
|
7824 | word:
basis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
basis (plural bases or (rare) baseis or (nonstandard) basises)
forms:
form:
bases
tags:
plural
form:
baseis
tags:
plural
rare
form:
basises
tags:
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis, derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (whence also come). Doublet of base.
senses_examples:
text:
1695, William Congreve, To the King, on the taking of Namur, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (biographies), The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 10, page 271,
Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
Mountain on mountain thrown,
With threatening hurl, that shook th' aerial firmament!
text:
We see here the ground-plan of masses of houses, with their upper walls of fire-baked brick on a basis of stone.
ref:
1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Audio (US): (file)
I wonder if the South Korean side has any basis that its smog is from China.
ref:
2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.
ref:
2013 September 7, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
You should brush your teeth on a daily basis at minimum.
type:
example
text:
The flights to Fiji leave on a weekly basis.
type:
example
text:
Cars must be checked on a yearly basis.
type:
example
text:
Included in the basis could be elevation, cleaning, freight by truck and/or rail, government inspection fees, administration fees, interest and storage charges as well as allowance for risk and profit for the grain dealer.https://www.alberta.ca/wheat-basis-levels.aspx
type:
quotation
text:
The collection of all possible unions of basis elements of a basis is said to be the topology generated by that basis.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A physical base or foundation.
A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
An underlying condition or circumstance.
A regular frequency.
The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.
In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
finance
lifestyle
trading
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
accounting
business
finance
mathematics
sciences
topology |
7825 | word:
roe deer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
roe deer (plural roe deer)
forms:
form:
roe deer
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ro der, roadeor, from Old English rāhdēor (“roe deer”), corresponding to roe + deer. Cognate with Icelandic rádýr, Swedish rådjur, Norwegian and Danish rådyr.
senses_examples:
text:
Frightened by the noises approaching them from the rear, and apprehensive of the human silence ahead, the five roe deer were halted, their heads high in nervous alertness.
ref:
1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 84
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small, nimble Eurasian deer with no visible tail, a white rump patch, and a reddish summer coat that turns grey in winter, the male having short three-pointed antlers (Capreolus capreolus and Capreolus pygargus).
senses_topics:
|
7826 | word:
depth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
depth (countable and uncountable, plural depths)
forms:
form:
depths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English depthe, from Old English *dīepþ (“depth”), from Proto-Germanic *diupiþō (“depth”), equivalent to deep + -th. Cognate with Scots deepth (“depth”), Saterland Frisian Djüpte (“depth”), West Frisian djipte (“depth”), Dutch diepte (“depth”), Low German Deepde (“depth”), Danish dybde (“depth”), Icelandic dýpt (“depth”), Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌹𐌸𐌰 (diupiþa, “depth”).
senses_examples:
text:
Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay.
type:
example
text:
The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.
type:
example
text:
The depth of the crisis had been exaggerated.
type:
example
text:
We were impressed by the depth of her knowledge.
type:
example
text:
the depth of a sound
type:
example
text:
The depth of field in this picture is amazing.
type:
example
text:
The burning ship finally sunk into the depths.
type:
example
text:
Into the depths of the jungle...
type:
example
text:
In the depths of the night,
type:
example
text:
in the depth of the crisis
type:
example
text:
in the depths of winter
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
lowness
the total palette of available colors
the property of appearing three-dimensional
the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
a very remote part.
the most severe part
the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
a pair of toothed wheels which work together
the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
A set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key.
An invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
art
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
hobbies
horology
lifestyle
aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
mathematics
sciences
statistics
computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences |
7827 | word:
mouflon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mouflon (plural mouflons)
forms:
form:
mouflons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from French mouflon, from Italian muflone. From 1765–1775.
senses_examples:
text:
One of the most modified domesticates is the sheep, the various breeds of which bear little resemblance to its wild ancestor, the mouflon.
ref:
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 237
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica.
senses_topics:
|
7828 | word:
kek
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
ㅋㅋㅋ (keukeukeu) is the childish Korean equivalent of the English "haha". Since this is often used in StarCraft matches, Blizzard, StarCraft’s developers, decided to reference it in World of Warcraft: when a player of the Horde faction types "lol" using the /say messaging command, members of the opposing faction see it as "kek".
senses_examples:
text:
Now Freakie boy, for a tasty doggie biscuit, can you try saying that again without any grammatical error?
ref:
2007 October 13, The Cynic [username], “Re: Nobel Peace belong to me.”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet)
type:
quotation
roman:
kek kek kek kek kek
text:
Top kek.
I can't believe Apple would derp like THAT, at least the Apple of the mid-1980s.
ref:
2013 December 11, Steve Nickolas, “Re: 1984 Apple IIe Owner's Manual”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
> "an hour or two a day" "chasing old Checkmate posts."
>
>kek
ref:
2014 February 19, Checkmate [username] (quoting [Tor] Friendly Neighborhood Vote> Wrangler Emeritus [username]), “Checkmate's Discount House of Spatulas”, in alt.usenet.kooks (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to indicate laughter or humour.
senses_topics:
video-games |
7829 | word:
kek
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kek (third-person singular simple present keks, present participle kekking or keking, simple past and past participle kekked or keked or kek'd)
forms:
form:
keks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kekking
tags:
participle
present
form:
keking
tags:
participle
present
form:
kekked
tags:
participle
past
form:
kekked
tags:
past
form:
keked
tags:
participle
past
form:
keked
tags:
past
form:
kek'd
tags:
participle
past
form:
kek'd
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
ㅋㅋㅋ (keukeukeu) is the childish Korean equivalent of the English "haha". Since this is often used in StarCraft matches, Blizzard, StarCraft’s developers, decided to reference it in World of Warcraft: when a player of the Horde faction types "lol" using the /say messaging command, members of the opposing faction see it as "kek".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To laugh.
senses_topics:
|
7830 | word:
put
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put (third-person singular simple present puts, present participle putting, simple past put, past participle put or (UK dialectal) putten)
forms:
form:
puts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting
tags:
participle
present
form:
put
tags:
past
form:
put
tags:
participle
past
form:
putten
tags:
UK
dialectal
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
put
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
put
etymology_text:
From Middle English putten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”).
senses_examples:
text:
She put her books on the table.
type:
example
text:
Put your house in order!
type:
example
text:
He is putting all his energy into this one task.
type:
example
text:
She tends to put herself in dangerous situations.
type:
example
text:
He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
type:
example
text:
When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.
type:
example
text:
All this is ingeniously and ably put.
ref:
1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter
type:
quotation
text:
to put a wrong construction on an act or expression
type:
example
text:
to put a question; to put a case
type:
example
text:
1708-1710, George Berkeley, Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book
Put the perceptions and you put the mind.
text:
These wretches put us upon all mischief.
ref:
1722, Jonathan Swift, The Last Speech of Ebenezer Elliston
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place something somewhere.
To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
To exercise a put option.
To express something in a certain manner.
To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
To attach or attribute; to assign.
To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
senses_topics:
business
finance
athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
mining |
7831 | word:
put
word_type:
noun
expansion:
put (countable and uncountable, plural puts)
forms:
form:
puts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
put
etymology_text:
From Middle English putten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”).
senses_examples:
text:
He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
type:
example
text:
c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange
A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
text:
the put of a ball
type:
example
text:
Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage, and put.
ref:
1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
Short for put option.
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
An old card game.
senses_topics:
business
business
finance
|
7832 | word:
put
word_type:
noun
expansion:
put (plural puts)
forms:
form:
puts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
put
etymology_text:
Unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt, itself possibly borrowed from English butt (“stub, thicker end”).
senses_examples:
text:
Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign,
And of lost hospitality complain.
ref:
1733, James Bramston, The Man of Taste
type:
quotation
text:
The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 244
type:
quotation
text:
Any number of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!
ref:
1870, Frederic Harrison, “The Romance of the Peerage: Lothair,”, in Fortnightly Review
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
senses_topics:
|
7833 | word:
put
word_type:
noun
expansion:
put (plural puts)
forms:
form:
puts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
put
etymology_text:
From Old French pute.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A prostitute.
senses_topics:
|
7834 | word:
bet exchange
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bet exchange (plural bet exchanges)
forms:
form:
bet exchanges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A website that acts as a broker between parties that want to place bets with each other, working on similar principles to a stock market.
senses_topics:
|
7835 | word:
JS
word_type:
name
expansion:
JS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of JavaScript.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
7836 | word:
JS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
JS (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: IJN
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Japanese ship. (a ship of Japan from the Maritime Self Defense Force (MSDF/JMSDF)) (a ship prefix)
Alternative letter-case form of js (“just saying”).
senses_topics:
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
|
7837 | word:
teach
word_type:
verb
expansion:
teach (third-person singular simple present teaches, present participle teaching, simple past and past participle taught)
forms:
form:
teaches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
teaching
tags:
participle
present
form:
taught
tags:
participle
past
form:
taught
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj-simple
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
teach
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English techen, from Old English tǣċan (“to show, declare, demonstrate; teach, instruct, train; assign, prescribe, direct; warn; persuade”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan, from Proto-Germanic *taikijaną (“to show”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show”).
Cognate with Scots tech, teich (“to teach”), German zeigen (“to show, point out”), zeihen (“accuse, blame”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gateihan, “to announce, declare, tell, show, display”), Latin dīcō (“speak, say, tell”), Ancient Greek δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “show, point out, explain, teach”), Sanskrit दिशति (diśati, “to point out, show, tell, teach”). More at token.
senses_examples:
text:
Can you teach me to sew? Can you teach sewing to me?
type:
example
text:
She used to teach at university.
type:
example
text:
Deep Blue taught us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov’s mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scratch or even from preexisting components, will be a cell without ancestry, and it, too, will teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life without actually reproducing them.
ref:
2013 September-October, Rob Dorit, “Making Life from Scratch”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
I'll teach you to make fun of me!
type:
example
text:
‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven.
type:
example
text:
c1450, Mandeville's Travelsː
Blessed God of might (the) most.. teach us the right way unto that bliss that lasteth aye.
text:
c1460, Cursor Mundiː
Till thy sweet sun uprose, thou keptest all our lay, how we should keep our belief there taught'st thou us the way.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pass on knowledge to.
To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
senses_topics:
|
7838 | word:
teach
word_type:
noun
expansion:
teach (plural teaches)
forms:
form:
teaches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of teacher.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
teacher
senses_topics:
|
7839 | word:
kanji
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kanji (countable and uncountable, plural kanji or kanjis)
forms:
form:
kanji
tags:
plural
form:
kanjis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kanji
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 漢字(かんじ) (kanji, “Chinese characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (MC xanH, “Han dynasty, China”) + Middle Chinese 字 (MC dziH, “[written] character”) (Compare Korean 한자 (hanja), Mandarin 漢字／汉字 (hànzì), Vietnamese Hán tự, Hokkien 漢字／汉字 (hàn-jī / hàn-lī), Cantonese 漢字／汉字 (hon³ zi⁶)). Doublet of hanja and Hanzi.
senses_examples:
text:
Kana is a syllabic script, and kanji is a logographic or ideographic script. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ip5cAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA226&dq=%22kanji%22
ref:
Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana. These variations cannot be said to be extraordinary in their appearance; Inoue, Sugishima, Ukita, Minagawa, and Kashu (1994) report that variation is common even among high frequency words for which kanji is the typical representation. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eTk6AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA99&dq=%22kanji+is+the+typical+representation%22
type:
example
text:
I know about a thousand kanji.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.
Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.
senses_topics:
|
7840 | word:
kanji
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kanji (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Hindi कांजी (kāñjī).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot, black mustard seeds, carrots etc.
Drink made from sugarcane vinegar.
Rice gruel made by fermentation of rice and tastes sour.
senses_topics:
|
7841 | word:
least weasel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
least weasel (plural least weasels)
forms:
form:
least weasels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From least + weasel, from the fact that it is the smallest member of its genus.
senses_examples:
text:
The range of the Least Weasel extends entirely across the continent on this hemisphere; but its north and south dispersion are less definite, in the present state of our knowledge.
ref:
1877, Elliott Coues, “MUSTELINÆ—Continued: The Weasels. [The Weasel. Putorius (Gale) vulgaris.]”, in Fur-bearing Animals: A Monograph of North American Mustelidæ, […] (United States Geological Survey of the Territories, Department of the Interior, Miscellaneous Publications; no. 8), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
Two other interesting animals may have lived in that tree, the least weasel and his sanguinary cousin the ermine, or large weasel. Both are brown, after the snow finally disappears, and both turn white with the first snow-storm.
ref:
1884, Edward P[ayson] Roe, “An Old Tenement”, in Nature’s Serial Story, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead, and Company, →OCLC, page 342
type:
quotation
text:
The least weasels are also circumpolar in distribution, but are limited to the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and North America. [...] Least weasels are characterized by the same swift alertness and boldness so marked in the larger species. In fact they are, if possible, even quicker in their movements.
ref:
1918 May, Edward W[illiam] Nelson, “Smaller Mammals of North America”, in Gilbert H[ovey] Grosvenor, editor, National Geographic, volume XXXIII, number 5, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 471
type:
quotation
text:
The least weasel is active both summer and winter, and although primarily nocturnal, it frequently hunts in the daytime. It neither hibernates nor migrates, though it may move from area to area to find available food.
ref:
1961, Hartley H. T. Jackson, “Family Mustelidae, Weasels and Allies”, in Mammals of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, page 344, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
[S]he had hoped against hope that he would be a least weasel—smallest of all carnivores. She had never seen one. The least weasel diets almost exclusively on tiny, selected mice.
ref:
1973, John McPhee, “Travels in Georgia”, in Pieces of the Frame, 1st paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 1979, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
Ounce for ounce, few creatures who hunt can match the relentless little least weasel. Driven by hunger and nervous energy, this tiny bundle of muscle and nerves is an efficient killer. [...] The least weasel can't squirt its foul fume like a skunk, but it can raise a pretty good stink. In summer, the male wears a coat which a chocolate brown top and white belly. In winter, the entire coat becomes white to match the snow.
ref:
1978 January, Steve Maslowski, “The Least Weasel”, in Boys’ Life: The Magazine for All Boys, volume LXVIII, number 1, North Brunswick, N.J.: Boy Scouts of America, →OCLC, page 18, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Least weasels kill prey much larger than themselves. [...] Least weasels kill small prey, such as voles, with a bite to the skull's occipital region or neck to disarticulate cervical vertebrae. [...] Least weasels do not dig dens, but nests in abandoned burrows of other species, such as moles or rats, in crevices among tree roots, hollow logs, or stone walls.
ref:
2018 December 20, Yeong-Seok Jo, John T. Baccus, John L. Koprowski, “Carnivora [Mustela nivalis Linnaeus 1766—Least Weasel]”, in Mammals of Korea, Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources, page 209
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The common weasel, little weasel, or simply weasel (Mustela nivalis), the smallest member of the weasel genus Mustela, native to Eurasia, North America, and North Africa.
senses_topics:
|
7842 | word:
EMP
word_type:
adj
expansion:
EMP (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of extremely metal-poor
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences |
7843 | word:
EMP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
EMP (plural EMPs)
forms:
form:
EMPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of electromagnetic pulse.
Initialism of enamel matrix protein.
senses_topics:
|
7844 | word:
wake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wake (third-person singular simple present wakes, present participle waking, simple past woke or waked, past participle woken or waked or (now colloquial) woke)
forms:
form:
wakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
waking
tags:
participle
present
form:
woke
tags:
past
form:
waked
tags:
past
form:
woken
tags:
participle
past
form:
waked
tags:
participle
past
form:
woke
tags:
colloquial
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
wake
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
wake
etymology_text:
A merger of two verbs of similar form and meaning:
* Middle English waken, Old English wacan, from Proto-West Germanic *wakan, from Proto-Germanic *wakaną.
* Middle English wakien, Old English wacian, from Proto-West Germanic *wakēn, from Proto-Germanic *wakāną.
senses_examples:
text:
I woke up at four o'clock this morning.
type:
example
text:
The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.
type:
example
text:
Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.
ref:
1880, John Richard Green, History of the English People
type:
quotation
text:
Dougal said that being alone with the dead on that floor of the tower (for naebody cared to wake Sir Robert Redgauntlet like another corpse) he had never daured to answer the call, but that now his conscience checked him for neglecting his duty; […]
ref:
1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet
type:
quotation
text:
, Book II, Chapter I
I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
text:
Command unto the guards that they diligently wake.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
(often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
(often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
To be alert; to keep watch
To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
senses_topics:
|
7845 | word:
wake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wake (plural wakes)
forms:
form:
wakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wake
etymology_text:
From Middle English wake, from Old English wacu, from Proto-Germanic *wakō, related to the verb *wakjaną.
senses_examples:
text:
After a few weeks of age, longer periods of sleep and wake are seen […]
ref:
2013, William H. Moorcroft, Understanding Sleep and Dreaming, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Where any person has died whilst being, or suspected of being, a case or carrier or contact of an infectious disease, the Director may by order prohibit the conduct of a wake over the body of that person or impose such conditions as he thinks fit on the conduct of such wake […]
ref:
2003, Section 14(1)(a), Infectious Diseases Act (Cap. 137, R. Ed. 2003)
text:
1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles
Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of waking, or state of being awake.
The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
A number of vultures assembled together.
senses_topics:
|
7846 | word:
wake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wake (plural wakes)
forms:
form:
wakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wake
etymology_text:
Probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch wake, from or akin to Old Norse vǫk (“a hole in the ice”) ( > Danish våge, Icelandic vök), from Proto-Germanic *wakwō (“wetness”), from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“moist, wet”).
senses_examples:
text:
This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.
ref:
1826, Thomas De Quincey, “Lessing”, in Blackwood's Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
It was all of a piece. If you believed in capitalism, you had to attack science, because science had revealed the hazards that capitalism had brought in its wake.
ref:
2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt
type:
quotation
text:
Alex Song launched a long ball forward from the back and the winger took it down nicely on his chest. He cut across the penalty area from the right and after one of the three defenders in his wake failed to make a meaningful clearance, the Oxlade-Chamberlain was able to dispatch a low left-footed finish into the far corner.
ref:
2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
The movement of water created when an animal or a person moves through water.
The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
The area behind something, typically a rapidly-moving object.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
7847 | word:
apex
word_type:
noun
expansion:
apex (plural apices or apexes)
forms:
form:
apices
tags:
plural
form:
apexes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
apex
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin apex (“point, tip, summit”).
senses_examples:
text:
B.P. 118/68. Grade I diastolic murmur best heard over apex. Patient well and had no complaints referable to heart. Origin of the diastolic murmur is open to conjecture.
ref:
1951 March, J. H. Lehmann, A. D. Johnson, W. C. Bridges, J. Michel, D. M. Green, “Cardiac Catheterization—A Diagnostic Aid in Congenital Heart Disease”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: vertex
text:
the apex of the building
type:
example
text:
the apex of civilization
type:
example
text:
It would be an intense disgust. The absolute apex of teen angst.
ref:
2002, Jeffrey Rowland, “Day 2 (The Slagathors)”, in Wigu Adventures, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Organic civilizations rise, evolve, advance. And at the apex of their glory, they are extinguished.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Virmire
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
The highest point in a plane or solid figure, relative to a base line or plane.
The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
The pointed fine end of something.
The lowest part of the human heart.
The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
The pointed fine end of something.
The deepest part of a tooth's root.
The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ opposed to the end where it is attached to its support.
The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
The growing point of a shoot.
The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
The point on the celestial sphere toward which the Sun appears to move relative to nearby stars.
The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
The lowest point on a pendant drop of a liquid.
The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.
The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
A diacritic in Classical Latin that resembles and gave rise to the acute.
The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
A diacritic in Middle Vietnamese that indicates /ŋ͡m/.
The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
A sharp upward point formed by two strokes that meet at an acute angle, as in "W", uppercase "A", and closed-top "4", or by a tapered stroke, as in lowercase "t".
The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
The moment of greatest success, expansion, etc.
The top of the food chain.
A conical priest cap.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
mining
media
publishing
typography
media
publishing
typography
media
publishing
typography
biology
ecology
natural-sciences
|
7848 | word:
sovereignty
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sovereignty (countable and uncountable, plural sovereignties)
forms:
form:
sovereignties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*upér
From Late Middle English sovereynte, souvereynte [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman sovereyneté, soverentee, and Old French soveraineté, souveraineté (modern French souveraineté), from soverain + -té (suffix forming nouns, often denoting a property or quality). Soverain is derived from Vulgar Latin *superānus (“chief; sovereign”), from Latin super (“above; on top of”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“above, over”)) + -ānus (“suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, usually denoting a relationship of origin, position, or possession”)). The English word is analysable as sovereign + -ty (suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives).
senses_examples:
text:
The King of Nauarre hath alſo tvvo parliaments which ſerue for the countries which he holdeth in ſoueraigntie.
ref:
1592, [John Eliot?], The Survay or Topographical Description of France: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe, […], →OCLC, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which 'the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power – the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselessly contested, by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'.
ref:
1981, Anouar Abdel-Malek, “Sociology of National Development: Problems of Conceptualisation”, in Nation and Revolution (Social Dialectics; 2), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, part I (The Nation as Crucible), page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Theſe Expences […] vvould not for the preſent, Rebus ſic ſtantibus [with things thus standing], become this King, vvhoſe fame and honour (as all other Sovereignties, ſo his in particular) ſtood more upon Reputation than profit; […]
ref:
1656, William Sanderson, “The Reign and Death of King James, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, the First, &c.”, in A Compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of Her Son and Successor, James the Sixth, King of Scotland; and (after Queen Elizabeth) King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, the First, (of Ever Blessed Memory.) […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, Richard Tomlins, and George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC, page 405
type:
quotation
text:
[T]his Diſunion at length occaſioned the total Ruin of them all; the Chriſtians being thereby enabled alſo to erect diverſe ſmall Sovereignties, vvith Regal Titles.
ref:
[1732], J[oseph] Morgan, “Introduction”, in A Compleat History of the Present Seat of War in Africa, between the Spaniards and Algerines; […], London: […] W[illiam] Mears, […]; and J. Stone, […], →OCLC, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality or state of being sovereign.
Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.
The quality or state of being sovereign.
Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
The quality or state of being sovereign.
Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and thoughts.
The quality or state of being sovereign.
Pre-eminent or superior excellence; also, superior ability to achieve something; mastery.
A territory under the rule of a sovereign; an independent or self-governing nation or other polity.
senses_topics:
|
7849 | word:
slide
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slide (third-person singular simple present slides, present participle sliding, simple past slid, past participle slid or (archaic) slidden)
forms:
form:
slides
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sliding
tags:
participle
present
form:
slid
tags:
past
form:
slid
tags:
participle
past
form:
slidden
tags:
archaic
participle
past
wikipedia:
slide
etymology_text:
From Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan (“to slide”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīdan, from Proto-Germanic *slīdaną (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sléydʰ-e-ti, from *sleydʰ- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old High German slītan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German slīden (“to slide”), Middle Dutch slīden (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit स्रेधति (srédhati, “to err, blunder”).
senses_examples:
text:
He slid the boat across the grass.
type:
example
text:
The safe slid slowly.
type:
example
text:
Snow slides down the side of a mountain.
type:
example
text:
The car slid on the ice.
type:
example
text:
They bathe in summer, and in winter slide.
ref:
c. 1685, Edmund Waller, Of the Invasion and Defeat of the Turks
type:
quotation
text:
Jones slid into second.
type:
example
text:
He slid while going around the corner.
type:
example
text:
to alter the meaning of a question by sliding in a word
type:
example
text:
Schoolchildren sometimes slide each other notes during class.
type:
example
text:
Lachey and Olson have become rather chummy the last couple of years—they slide each other free tickets, they visit each other at practice sessions and games, their wives hang out—and, well, Olson has been filling Lachey’s head with a lot of baseball talk.
ref:
1992 October, Steve Buckley, “Boss Hog: Jim Lachey is the best offensive lineman in football playing on the best team in football”, in Sport, volume 83, number 10, →ISSN, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
He slid me a dirty look.
type:
example
text:
A ship or boat slides through the water.
type:
example
text:
Ages shall slide away without perceiving.
ref:
1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
type:
quotation
text:
The stock market slid yesterday after major stocks released weak quarterly results.
type:
example
text:
Tom and his mates discussed some plan for a few minutes and then Tom sang out: "Who'll go sliding? There's a big bob-sled in the barn and we fixed it up yesterday morning.[…]"
ref:
1913, Alice B. Emerson, Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp, Or, Lost in the Backwoods
type:
quotation
text:
"They're awful mean not to have taken us slidin' with them," declared Sammy, sitting on the front step and making no effort to continue the work of snow man building. "I love to slide," repeated Dot, sadly.
ref:
1919, Grace Brooks Hill, The Corner House Girls Snowbound
type:
quotation
text:
Gotta slide, this is my stop [on the train].
ref:
1999, Paolo Hewitt, Heaven's Promise, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
"Baby what are you doing why are you putting your clothes back on?" "Somebody robbd my nigga I gotta go!" I tell her. With a saddened face, she says, "What do you mean you gotta go, is he okay?" "I don't know I just know I gotta slide, he's pulling up out here any min."
ref:
2021, Virdez Evans, Actions with Consequences, iUniverse
type:
quotation
text:
England captain Harry Kane missed a great chance to give them the lead shortly after the break but it did not prove costly as Raheem Sterling crowned a smooth move involving Declan Rice, Jack Grealish and Mason Mount to slide home his 16th goal in his past 24 international appearance after 55 minutes.
ref:
2021 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Hungary 0-4 England”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
To move on a low-friction surface.
To drop down and skid into a base.
To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).
To pass inadvertently.
To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
To decrease in amount or value.
To smoothly pass from one note to another by bending the pitch upwards or downwards.
To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
To go; to move from one place or to another.
To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
finance
entertainment
lifestyle
music
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports |
7850 | word:
slide
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slide (plural slides)
forms:
form:
slides
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
slide
etymology_text:
From Middle English sliden, from Old English slīdan (“to slide”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīdan, from Proto-Germanic *slīdaną (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sléydʰ-e-ti, from *sleydʰ- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old High German slītan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German slīden (“to slide”), Middle Dutch slīden (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit स्रेधति (srédhati, “to err, blunder”).
senses_examples:
text:
The long, red slide was great fun for the kids.
type:
example
text:
The slide closed the highway.
type:
example
text:
a slide on the ice
type:
example
text:
Conceptually, this cognitive slide from social to biological was facilitated by the rhetoric of eugenics, which acknowledged few distinctions between the two.
ref:
2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
But for West Brom it was further evidence they are struggling to arrest a slide down the table where they are now three points above the relegation zone after their sixth loss in seven league matches.
ref:
2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
I still need to prepare some slides for my presentation tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
with ten dollars in his slide
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
A lever that can be moved in two directions.
Synonym of slider (“movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth”)
A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
A pocket in one's pants (trousers).
A sandal that is backless and open-toed.
A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
A promiscuous woman, slut.
senses_topics:
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
entertainment
guitar
lifestyle
music
dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
geography
geology
natural-sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
medicine
sciences
speech-therapy
|
7851 | word:
spaceship
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spaceship (plural spaceships)
forms:
form:
spaceships
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* space + ship
* (programming operator): From its resemblance to the shape of a flying saucer.
senses_examples:
text:
The spaceships look like a row of threshers harvesting a field of wheat; the thickness in the direction of motion is only about 10 cells.
ref:
1989 October 26, Richard Schroeppel, “Some recent Life results”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
We describe software that searches for spaceships in Conway's Game of Life and related two-dimensional cellular automata.
ref:
2002, Richard Nowakowski, More Games of No Chance, page 433
type:
quotation
text:
Synthesis of spaceship flotillas is even more complicated than synthesis of oscillators, since spaceships are like oscillators that move[…]
ref:
2010, Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata, page 126
type:
quotation
text:
If we reverse the positions of $a and $b, the spaceship will sort in the opposite order[…]
ref:
2012, Randal Schwartz, Brian Foy, Tom Phoenix, Intermediate Perl, page 142
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vehicle that flies through space.
A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
The operator <=> in certain programming languages, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.
senses_topics:
aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
7852 | word:
wear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wear (third-person singular simple present wears, present participle wearing, simple past wore or (obsolete) ware, past participle worn or (now colloquial and nonstandard) wore or (obsolete) worne)
forms:
form:
wears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
wore
tags:
past
form:
ware
tags:
obsolete
past
form:
worn
tags:
participle
past
form:
wore
tags:
colloquial
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
worne
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
wikipedia:
wear (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to clothe, cover over; put on, wear, use; stock (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *wazjaną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to dress, put on (clothes)”).
Cognate to Sanskrit वस्ते (váste), Ancient Greek ἕννυμι (hénnumi, “put on”), Latin vestis (“garment”) (English vest), Albanian vesh (“dress up, wear”), Tocharian B wäs-, Old Armenian զգենում (zgenum), Welsh gwisgo, Hittite 𒉿𒀸- (waš-).
Originally a weak verb (i.e. with a past tense in -ed), it became irregular during the Middle English period by analogy with verbs like beren (whence bear) and teren (whence tear).
senses_examples:
text:
He's wearing some nice pants today. She wore her medals with pride. Please wear your seatbelt. Can you wear makeup and sunscreen at the same time? He was wearing his lunch after tripping and falling into the buffet.
type:
example
text:
He wears eyeglasses. She wears her hair in braids.
type:
example
text:
She wore a smile all day. He walked out of the courtroom wearing an air of satisfaction.
type:
example
text:
Then the bridegroom came slowly up the walk, wearing a very unbridegroomlike aspect, […]
ref:
1870, Marion Harland, Helen Gardner's Wedding-day, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
You're going to wear a hole in the bottom of those shoes. The water has slowly worn a channel into these rocks. Long illness had worn the bloom from her cheeks. Exile had worn the man to a shadow.
type:
example
text:
The tiles were wearing thin due to years of children's feet.
type:
example
text:
His neverending criticism has finally worn my patience. Toil and care soon wear the spirit. Our physical advantage allowed us to wear the other team out and win.
type:
example
text:
Her high pitched voice is really wearing on me lately.
type:
example
text:
I know you don't like working with him, but you'll just have to wear it.
type:
example
text:
Don't worry, this fabric will wear. These pants will last you for years. This color wears so well. I must have washed this sweater a thousand times. I have to say, our friendship has worn pretty well. It's hard to get to know him, but he wears well.
type:
example
text:
wear on, wear away. As the years wore on, we seemed to have less and less in common.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have on:
To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
To have on:
To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
To have on:
To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
To erode:
To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
To erode:
To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
To erode:
To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
To erode:
(in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
To endure:
To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
To endure:
To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
To endure:
To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
7853 | word:
wear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wear (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Wear
wear (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to clothe, cover over; put on, wear, use; stock (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *wazjaną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to dress, put on (clothes)”).
Cognate to Sanskrit वस्ते (váste), Ancient Greek ἕννυμι (hénnumi, “put on”), Latin vestis (“garment”) (English vest), Albanian vesh (“dress up, wear”), Tocharian B wäs-, Old Armenian զգենում (zgenum), Welsh gwisgo, Hittite 𒉿𒀸- (waš-).
Originally a weak verb (i.e. with a past tense in -ed), it became irregular during the Middle English period by analogy with verbs like beren (whence bear) and teren (whence tear).
senses_examples:
text:
footwear; outdoor wear; maternity wear
type:
example
text:
It is obvious, of course, that a cylinder so applied is not for constant wear, and it is not intended in any way to correct any error of refraction, but is used merely as an exercise for a few minutes at a time at repeated intervals. In case of Oblique Astigmatism the wearing of the correction will frequently fail to give satisfaction when complicated by oblique muscular trouble, […]
ref:
1903, Lionel G. Amsden, Principles and Practices of Refraction: An Elementary Treatise on the Science of Refraction as Applied to “Sight Testing”, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
Prolonged wear of the interceptor body armor outer tactical vest (OTV) is frequently blamed for common complaints of neck and shoulder pain. […] Even if patients improved after a period of light duty and shoulder rehabilitation, many complained of pain after returning to OTV wear when their shoulders again became the focal point of weight distribution.
ref:
2008 November, Sarah D. Thomas, “Measures to Prevent Profiles in Combat Support Commands”, in Army Logistician, volume 40, number 6, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
Softer crystals are best reserved for occasional wear, whereas harder crystals can be worn every day.
ref:
2021, Lauren D’Silva, Crystals: The Guide to Principles, Practices and More (Godsfield Companions), Godsfield
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clothing.
Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
Fashion.
Wearing.
senses_topics:
|
7854 | word:
wear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wear (third-person singular simple present wears, present participle wearing, simple past weared or wore, past participle weared or worn or (obsolete) worne)
forms:
form:
wears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
weared
tags:
past
form:
wore
tags:
past
form:
weared
tags:
participle
past
form:
worn
tags:
participle
past
form:
worne
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
wikipedia:
wear (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to guard, keep, defend; ward off, hinder, prevent, forbid; restrain; occupy, inhabit; dam up; discharge obligations on (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, protect, ward off”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”).
Cognate with Scots wer, weir (“to defend, protect”), Dutch weren (“to aver, ward off”), German wehren (“to fight”), Swedish värja (“to defend, ward off”), Icelandic verja (“to defend”).
senses_examples:
text:
to wear the wolf from the sheep
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
To defend; protect.
To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
senses_topics:
|
7855 | word:
wear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wear (plural wears)
forms:
form:
wears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wear (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dated form of weir.
senses_topics:
|
7856 | word:
string
word_type:
noun
expansion:
string (countable and uncountable, plural strings)
forms:
form:
strings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Old English strenġ, from Proto-West Germanic *strangi, from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“rope, cord, strand; to tighten”).
Cognate with Scots string (“string”), Dutch streng (“cord, strand”), Low German strenge (“strand, cord, rope”), German Strang (“strand, cord, rope”), Danish streng (“string”), Swedish sträng (“string, cord, wire”), Icelandic strengur (“string”), Latvian stringt (“to be tight, wither”), Latin stringō (“I tighten”), Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “halter”), Ancient Greek στραγγός (strangós, “tied together, entangled, twisted”).
senses_examples:
text:
Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string.
(countable) A thread
ref:
1700, Matthew Prior, Carmen Seculare. for the Year 1700
text:
a violinstring
type:
example
text:
a bowstring
type:
example
text:
a string of shells or beads
type:
example
text:
a string of sausages
type:
example
text:
The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive
type:
example
text:
In 1933, disgusted and discouraged after a string of commercial failures, Clara quit the film business forever. She was twenty-six.
ref:
2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27
type:
quotation
text:
a string of successes
type:
example
text:
no strings attached
type:
example
text:
But he added: "The RDG offer contains more strings than a harp, including some which have never previously been discussed. It also omits significant points that had previously been negotiated."
ref:
2022 December 14, Mel Holley, “Network News: Strikes go on as RMT rejects RDG's "detrimental" offer”, in RAIL, number 972, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
the strings of beans
type:
example
text:
a single miner is often found pursuing his solitary labours at a string or thin vein of ore
ref:
1833, Thomas Sopwith, An Account of the Mining Districts of Alston Moor, Weardale […]
type:
quotation
text:
They were turning tricks, doing drugs, and generally little better off than they had been before, except that they were keeping more of their money. But they seemed lonely, too, without the company of their pimp and the rest of his string.
ref:
2006, Steve Niles, Jeff Mariotte, 30 Days of Night: Rumors of the Undead, page 307
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
Such a structure considered as a substance.
A thread.
Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.
Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
A series of items or events.
The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
A stringed instrument.
The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
A tiny one-dimensional string-like entity, the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
Cannabis or marijuana.
Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
The points made in a game of billiards.
The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.
A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
A board supporting steps
An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
A stringcourse.
A hoax; a fake story.
Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”)
A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
sports
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
biology
botany
natural-sciences
business
mining
architecture
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
|
7857 | word:
string
word_type:
verb
expansion:
string (third-person singular simple present strings, present participle stringing, simple past strung or (obsolete or nonstandard) strang, past participle strung)
forms:
form:
strings
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stringing
tags:
participle
present
form:
strung
tags:
past
form:
strang
tags:
nonstandard
obsolete
past
form:
strung
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stryngen, strengen, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.
type:
example
text:
It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.
type:
example
text:
To be honest, you'd be better off trying to string a Skylark as a Richard's Pipit rather than as a Pectoral Sandpiper.
ref:
1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
For instance he might see a White-eared Honeyeater, a not uncommon bird in the heathy areas at Bunyip, but in his excitement to call it, something in his brain scrambled and came out as: `White-cheeked Honeyeater!' White-cheeked Honeyeater is an absolute stonking crippler in Victoria, but Stu was not actually trying to string a rarity, he'd just got such a flood of new information swirling around his brain that sometimes it got jumbled up.
ref:
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 67
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put (items) on a string.
To put strings on (something).
To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
senses_topics:
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology |
7858 | word:
URL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
URL (plural URLs)
forms:
form:
URLs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
https://en.wiktionary.org/ is the URL of English Wiktionary.
text:
Google itself has even been accused of profiting from the work of cybersquatters who buy URLs that are near to famous ones, but which often get mistyped–a practice known as typosquatting.
ref:
2010 September 14, Kit Eaton, “From URLs to Apple Apps: A Brief History of Cybersquatting”, in Fast Company
type:
quotation
text:
This illegal activity involves buying a URL that’s a misspelling of a popular kids site, e.g. bobthebiulder.com, and then serving hardcore porn ads.
ref:
2011 June 14, Michael Agger, “Google Kids: The Sequel”, in Slate
type:
quotation
text:
For a few days leading up to Christmas that year, Howe set up a kiosk in a mall that sold domain names to average shoppers. They sold about 50 of them to people who were persuaded to buy a url and a hosting package for a present instead of a traditional gift for families and friends.
ref:
2012 December 31, Alyson Shontell, “Meet Page Howe, A Man Who Made Millions Selling 2 Of The World's Most Expensive Domain Names”, in Business Insider
type:
quotation
text:
Some of them appear to be simple website squatting, buying URLs in hopes that someone else will pay a premium for the real estate later […]
ref:
2013 November 16, Ben Richmond, “Some of the Fraudulent Obamacare Sites Work Better Than the Real Thing”, in Motherboard
type:
quotation
text:
She bought a URL from GoDaddy and Defense of Democracy was born.
ref:
2023 May 30, Sarah Jones, “The Revolt of the Other Mothers”, in Intelligencer
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: LRL
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, FTP site, audio stream or other Internet resource.
Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, FTP site, audio stream or other Internet resource.
a domain name
Initialism of unrestricted line officer.
Initialism of upper reference limit.
senses_topics:
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
mathematics
medicine
sciences
statistics |
7859 | word:
UN
word_type:
name
expansion:
UN
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Meronym: WMO
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of United Nations.
senses_topics:
|
7860 | word:
marmot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
marmot (plural marmots)
forms:
form:
marmots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French marmote, from Old French marmotaine, marmontaine, murmontain, from Old Franco-Provençal marmotan, from Vulgar Latin *mures montani, from Latin mus monti (“mountain rat”); akin to Engadin Romansch murmont, Old High German muremunto (dialectal German Murmentel, standard Murmeltier).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.
senses_topics:
|
7861 | word:
nettle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nettle (plural nettles)
forms:
form:
nettles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
nettle
etymology_text:
From Middle English netle, netel, from Old English netle, netele, netel, from Proto-West Germanic *natilā (cognate with Old Saxon netila, Middle Dutch netele (modern Dutch netel), German Nessel, Middle Danish nædlæ (“nettle”)), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *natǭ (of unknown origin, perhaps from the same source as net).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles:
Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles:
Urtica incisa (Australian nettle);
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis);
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
Bull nettles and spurge nettles (Cnidoscolus spp.):
Cnidoscolus stimulosus, bull nettle, spurge nettle,
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
Bull nettles and spurge nettles (Cnidoscolus spp.):
Cnidoscolus texanus, Texas bull nettle,
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
Bull nettles and spurge nettles (Cnidoscolus spp.):
Cnidoscolus urens, bull nettle,
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
Bull nettles and spurge nettles (Cnidoscolus spp.):
Nettle trees or tree nettles:
Various species of the genus Dendrocnide
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
Bull nettles and spurge nettles (Cnidoscolus spp.):
Nettle trees or tree nettles:
Urera baccifera (scratchbush),
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
Bull nettles and spurge nettles (Cnidoscolus spp.):
Nettle trees or tree nettles:
Urtica ferox (tree nettle);
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
rock nettle (Eucnide spp.);
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
small-leaved nettle (Dendrocnide photinophylla).
Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
ball nettle (Solanum carolinense);
Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
Solanum elaeagnifolium, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle;
Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
Solanum dimidiatum, western horse-nettle, robust horse-nettle;
Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
Solanum rostratum, horse-nettle;
Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
Celtis (hackberry).
Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
dead nettle, dumb nettle (Lamium spp.), particularly Lamium album, white nettle;
Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
false nettle (Boehmeria spp., family Urticaceae);
Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
flame nettle or painted nettle (Coleus spp.);
Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
hedge nettle (Stachys spp.);
Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
hemp nettle (Galeopsis spp.);
Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
horse nettle Agastache urticifolia,
Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
nilgiri nettle, Himalayan giant nettle (Girardinia diversifolia, family Urticaceae).
Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
senses_topics:
|
7862 | word:
nettle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nettle (third-person singular simple present nettles, present participle nettling, simple past and past participle nettled)
forms:
form:
nettles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nettling
tags:
participle
present
form:
nettled
tags:
participle
past
form:
nettled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
nettle
etymology_text:
From Middle English netle, netel, from Old English netle, netele, netel, from Proto-West Germanic *natilā (cognate with Old Saxon netila, Middle Dutch netele (modern Dutch netel), German Nessel, Middle Danish nædlæ (“nettle”)), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *natǭ (of unknown origin, perhaps from the same source as net).
senses_examples:
text:
The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.
type:
example
text:
Liu, whose political writings had nettled the Taiwanese authorities, was assassinated on October 15, last year, in Daly City […]
ref:
1985, United States, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 180-189, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 42
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.
senses_topics:
|
7863 | word:
hierarchy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hierarchy (plural hierarchies)
forms:
form:
hierarchies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ierarchie, jerarchie, from Old French ierarchie, jerarchie, from Late Latin ierarchia, from Latin hierarchia, from Ancient Greek ἱεραρχία (hierarkhía, “rule of a high priest”), from ἱεράρχης (hierárkhēs, “high priest”), from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + ἄρχω (árkhō, “I rule”). The H was re-added c. 1500 due to influence from Classical Latin.
senses_examples:
text:
Gay men and bisexuals were blamed for the [AIDS] epidemic for much the same reason that the church hierarchy in the Middle Ages accused Jewish people of creating bubonic plague by "poisoning the wells."
ref:
2007 May 26, Leslie Feinberg, “Care & prevention, not repression”, in Workers World
type:
quotation
text:
The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.
ref:
2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
Social defeat arises in strict social hierarchies in which the few dominate the many. Overcrowding exacerbates the many ills of social defeat within these social hierarchies based on dominance.
ref:
2023 June 7, Charles Hugh Smith, Look Around and What Do You See? Social Defeat
type:
quotation
text:
... the surviving portions provide enough detail to outline its principal features: the hierarchy of beings to whom his liturgy was to be addressed (we previously considered Plethon's hierarchy of gods in our examination of his Summary[…]
ref:
2017 June 1, Peter Mark Adams, The Game of Saturn: Decoding the Sola-Busca Tarocchi, Scarlet Imprint, page 158
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.
Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
senses_topics:
|
7864 | word:
shoe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shoe (plural shoes or (archaic, dialectal) shoon or (obsolete) shoen)
forms:
form:
shoes
tags:
plural
form:
shoon
tags:
archaic
dialectal
plural
form:
shoen
tags:
obsolete
plural
wikipedia:
shoe
etymology_text:
From Middle English scho, sho, from Old English sċōh (“shoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōh, from Proto-Germanic *skōhaz (“shoe”), of unclear etymology; possibly a derivation from *skehaną (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *skek- (“to move quickly, jump”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English sabatine, sabatoun (“shoe”) from Medieval Latin sabatēnum, sabatum (“shoe, slipper”) (compare Old Occitan sabatō, Spanish zapato (“shoe”), French sabot (“wooden shoe, clog”), Italian ciabatta). The archaic plural shoon is from Middle English shon, from Old English scōn, scōum (“shoes”, dative plural) and scōna (“shoes'”, genitive plural); it is cognate with Scots shuin (“shoes”).
Cognates:
See also Scots shae, West Frisian skoech, Low German Schoh, Dutch schoen, German Schuh, Bavarian Schuach, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish sko, Tocharian B skāk (“balcony”).
.
senses_examples:
text:
Get your shoes on now, or you'll be late for school.
type:
example
text:
Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling (a ringer) or touching the far stake.
type:
example
text:
The finest gold among them is 100 touch, called Sycee, i. e. pure gold without alloy: so that if a shoe of gold touch 93, then it hath 93 parts of fine gold and 7 parts alloy.
ref:
1806, Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel, The Asiatic Annual Register, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
Remember to turn the rotors when replacing the brake shoes, or they will wear out unevenly.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.
A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.
A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; called also slipper and gib.
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
Part of a current collector on electric trains which provides contact either with a live rail or an overhead wire (fitted to a pantograph in the latter case).
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
An ingot of gold or silver shaped somewhat like a traditional Chinese shoe, formerly used in trade in the Far East.
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
A pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
A fake passport.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
architecture
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
7865 | word:
shoe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shoe (third-person singular simple present shoes, present participle shoeing, simple past shod or shoed, past participle (obsolete) shodden or shod or shoed)
forms:
form:
shoes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shoeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
shod
tags:
past
form:
shoed
tags:
past
form:
shodden
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
shod
tags:
participle
past
form:
shoed
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
shoe
etymology_text:
From Middle English scho, sho, from Old English sċōh (“shoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōh, from Proto-Germanic *skōhaz (“shoe”), of unclear etymology; possibly a derivation from *skehaną (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *skek- (“to move quickly, jump”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English sabatine, sabatoun (“shoe”) from Medieval Latin sabatēnum, sabatum (“shoe, slipper”) (compare Old Occitan sabatō, Spanish zapato (“shoe”), French sabot (“wooden shoe, clog”), Italian ciabatta). The archaic plural shoon is from Middle English shon, from Old English scōn, scōum (“shoes”, dative plural) and scōna (“shoes'”, genitive plural); it is cognate with Scots shuin (“shoes”).
Cognates:
See also Scots shae, West Frisian skoech, Low German Schoh, Dutch schoen, German Schuh, Bavarian Schuach, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish sko, Tocharian B skāk (“balcony”).
.
senses_examples:
text:
Men and women clothed and shod for the ascent.
type:
example
text:
1995, Michel Potay, The Gospel Delivered in Arès, 26:6:
type:
quotation
text:
"Old Jimmy Harris only shoed her last week, and I'd swear to his make among ten thousand."
ref:
1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXXII, in Far from the Madding Crowd
type:
quotation
text:
The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.
type:
example
text:
And they had been made by the same brand of tire as that which shod the car I sat in!
ref:
1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page iv. 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put shoes on one's own feet.
To put shoes on someone or something else's feet, especially to put horseshoes on a horse.
To cover an object with a protective layer of material.
senses_topics:
|
7866 | word:
proportion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
proportion (countable and uncountable, plural proportions)
forms:
form:
proportions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English proporcion, from Old French proportion, from Latin prōportiō (“comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy”), from pro (“for, before”) + portio (“share, part”); see portion.
senses_examples:
text:
the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body
type:
example
text:
What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?
ref:
2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
Proper or equal share.
The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
A statement of equality between two ratios.
The "rule of three", in which three terms are given to find a fourth.
Size.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
|
7867 | word:
proportion
word_type:
verb
expansion:
proportion (third-person singular simple present proportions, present participle proportioning, simple past and past participle proportioned)
forms:
form:
proportions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
proportioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
proportioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
proportioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English proporcion, from Old French proportion, from Latin prōportiō (“comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy”), from pro (“for, before”) + portio (“share, part”); see portion.
senses_examples:
text:
In order to proportion the braking force to the weight carried by a wheel - a matter of special importance in the braking of wagons - variable leverage systems are now being introduced in which the end of one axle spring is linked to a control spring in the change-over valve, so automatically varying the leverage exerted by the brake-rod according to whether the wagon is full or empty.
ref:
1960 April, “The braking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 237
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To divide into proper shares; to apportion.
To form symmetrically.
To set or render in proportion.
To correspond to.
senses_topics:
art
arts
|
7868 | word:
vel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vel
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin vel (“or”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ∨ symbol used to represent the inclusive or, which is a logical connective.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences |
7869 | word:
CSS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CSS (countable and uncountable, plural CSSs or CSSes)
forms:
form:
CSSs
tags:
plural
form:
CSSes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The CSS has found its most productive use in DVDs containing motion pictures, and the movie industry invested heavily in the technology employed to produce CSSs in order to avoid the kind of mass copying that became prevalent with regard to music CDs in the late 1990s.
ref:
2008, John W. Hazard, Copyright Law in Business and Practice, West Group, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
One needs only to decide upon a series of rules to define the functionality of a CSS and then to decide how to implement that sheet, either directly within their HTML document, or by using an externally linked file.
ref:
2009, J.D. Applen, Rudy McDaniel, The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
A marked-up document can have a CSS linked to it, but a user may have a CSS on their machine that will override it, which can cause problems sometimes and can need checking where publishers need to be sure the content is accurately presented.
ref:
2013, Frania Hall, The Business of Digital Publishing: An Introduction to the Digital Book and Journal Industries, Routledge, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
Now, the first thing we will do is to alter our listing page to respect the layout of the original Agendatech, importing the CSSs.
ref:
2014, Alberto Souza, Practical Play Framework: Focus on What Is Really Important, Editora Casa do Código
type:
quotation
text:
Create a CSS with the following rules: a. Set the text color for the page to "#ff6600", and the text color for <h1> to "IndianRed".
ref:
2021, Prashant Joshi, Introduction to IT Systems, Khanna Book Publishing Co. (P) Ltd., published 2022, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
Recently, the construction of CSS has been reported for the mapping of a susceptibility locus for testicular cancer on mouse chromosome 19.
ref:
2005, Eugene J. Eisen, editor, The Mouse in Animal Genetics and Breeding Research, Imperial College Press, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
However, the gender of the mice, and, hence, the “direction” of the cross, is important to ensure that the X and Y chromosomes and the mitochondria are derived from the host strain in autosomal CSSs.
ref:
2006, Annie E. Hill, Eric S. Lander, Joseph H. Nadeau, “Chromosome Substitution Strains: A New Way to Study Genetically Complex Traits”, in Qing K. Wang, editor, Cardiovascular Disease: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Medicine), volume I (Genetics), Humana Press, page 160
type:
quotation
text:
CSS models are also advantageous for detecting a given QTL in the presence of many other QTLs. In comparing results of published mapping studies, as many, and usually substantially more, QTLs were detected with CSSs than with F₂ intercrosses of comparable size.
ref:
2008, Wendell W. Weber, Pharmacogenetics, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, page 288
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of change segment status, a GDS code used on older types of airline keyboards.
Initialism of Content Scramble System, a DRM and encryption system for DVDs.
Initialism of Churg-Strauss syndrome.
Initialism of Chinese surface-to-surface (missile), a NATO prefix-code for systems developed by the People's Republic of China.
Initialism of Confederate States Ship (the designation for a commissioned warship operated by the Confederate States Navy).
Initialism of Canadian Survey Ship (the designation for a survey ship operated by the Canadian Hydrographic Service).
Initialism of cascading style sheet.
Initialism of control stick steering, a method of Space Shuttle flight control.
Initialism of critical swim speed.
Initialism of chromosome substitution strain.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
DVD
media
medicine
sciences
government
military
politics
war
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
nautical
transport
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences |
7870 | word:
CSS
word_type:
name
expansion:
CSS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Cascading Style Sheets, a style sheet language.
Initialism of Central Superior Services.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
|
7871 | word:
CSS
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
CSS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
“I don't know. I just don't know. What is it? I suffer from CSS—that's Can't See Shit—but I don't think I could hold a cane in my hand.”
ref:
1998, Stephen Kuusisto, Planet of the Blind, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
Lake Michigan was out there, but invisible. We could see nothing around us but fog.
“A CSS day,” Jeff said.
“What's that?”
“Can't see shit.”
ref:
2014, Jerry Dennis, The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas, Macmillan, page 56
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of can't see shit.
senses_topics:
|
7872 | word:
saw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
saw (plural saws)
forms:
form:
saws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
saw
etymology_text:
The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin secō (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”).
The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth.
A musical saw.
A sawtooth wave.
The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
senses_topics:
|
7873 | word:
saw
word_type:
verb
expansion:
saw (third-person singular simple present saws, present participle sawing, simple past sawed, past participle sawed or sawn)
forms:
form:
saws
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sawing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sawed
tags:
past
form:
sawed
tags:
participle
past
form:
sawn
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
saw
etymology_text:
The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin secō (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”).
The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.
senses_examples:
text:
He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]
ref:
1835, James Hogg, The Story of Euphemia Hewit
type:
quotation
text:
The timber saws smoothly.
type:
example
text:
to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)
type:
example
text:
to saw shingles
type:
example
text:
to saw out a panel
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut (something) with a saw.
To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
To be cut with a saw.
To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
senses_topics:
|
7874 | word:
saw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
saw (plural saws)
forms:
form:
saws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
saw
etymology_text:
From Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu, saga (“story, tale, saying, statement, report, narrative, tradition”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē-, from *sekʷ- (“to say”).
Cognate with Dutch sage (“saga”), German Sage (“legend, saga, tale, fable”), Danish sagn (“legend”), Norwegian soga (“story”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”). More at saga, say. Doublet of saga.
senses_examples:
text:
old saw
type:
example
text:
At his crowning[…] the priest in his honour preached on the saw, 'Vox populi, vox Dei.'
ref:
1902, Charles Robert Ashbee, Masque of the Edwards of England, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
2017, Andrew Marantz, "Becoming Steve Bannon's Bannon", The New Yorker, Feb 13&20 ed.
There’s an old saw about Washington, D.C., that staffers in their twenties know more about the minutiae of government than their bosses do.
text:
by thy saw ― in your opinion
type:
example
text:
commune saw ― common opinion/knowledge
type:
example
text:
on no saw ― by no means
type:
example
text:
c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous
All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something spoken; speech, discourse.
A saying or proverb.
Opinion, idea, belief.
Proposal, suggestion; possibility.
Dictate; command; decree.
senses_topics:
|
7875 | word:
saw
word_type:
verb
expansion:
saw
forms:
wikipedia:
saw
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Mr. Harbaugh. All instances that I have saw.
ref:
1907, Report of the Special Committee of Investigation of the Government Hospital for the Insane, Govrnment Printing Office, page 297
type:
quotation
text:
“I think so. He might have saw him already. Shit dude, I don't know. You run the place.”
ref:
2006, K.C. Carceral, Prison, Inc: A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison, NYU Press, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
“I might have saw something,” I told him. “At least I think I might have saw something. Only I couldn't say what.”
ref:
2014 October 7, Frances O'Roark Dowell, Anybody Shining, Simon & Schuster, page 110
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of see
past participle of see
senses_topics:
|
7876 | word:
do
word_type:
verb
expansion:
do (third-person singular simple present does, present participle doing, simple past did, past participle done)
forms:
form:
does
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
doing
tags:
participle
present
form:
did
tags:
past
form:
done
tags:
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
do
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Brittonicisms in English
Do
Do-support
Early Modern English
etymology_text:
From Middle English don, from Old English dōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do, make”).
For senses 4 and 5, compare Old Norse duga, whence Danish du.
The past tense form is from Middle English didde, dude, from Old English dyde, *diede, an unexpected development from Proto-Germanic *dedǭ/*dedē (the expected reflex would be *ded), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti, an athematic e-reduplicated verb of the same root *dʰeh₁-.
The meaningless use of do in interrogative, negative, and affirmative sentences (e.g. "Do you like painting?" "Yes, I do"), existing in some form in most Germanic languages, is thought by some linguists to be one of the Brittonicisms in English, calqued from Brythonic. It is first recorded in Middle English, where it may have marked the perfective aspect, though in some cases the meaning seems to be imperfective. In Early Modern English, any meaning in such contexts was lost, making it a dummy auxiliary, and soon thereafter its use became mandatory in most questions and negations.
Doublets include deed, deem, -dom, but not deal.
Other cognates include, via Latin, English feast, festival, fair (“celebration”), via Greek, English theo-, theme, thesis, and Sanskrit दधाति (dadhāti, “to put”), धातृ (dhātṛ, “creator”) and धातु (dhātu, “layer, element, root”).
senses_examples:
text:
Do you go there often?
type:
example
text:
I do not go there often.
type:
example
text:
Do not listen to him.
type:
example
text:
But I do go sometimes.
type:
example
text:
Do tell us.
type:
example
text:
"Do stop it," said Susan; "it won't make things any better having a row between you two. Let's go and find Lucy."
ref:
1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
type:
quotation
text:
I play tennis; she does too.
type:
example
text:
They don't think it be like it is, but it do. (nonstandard)
type:
example
text:
Don't be a naughty baby,
Come to papa, come to papa, do!
My sweet embraceable you.
ref:
1930, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Embraceable You
type:
quotation
text:
If you want something done, do it yourself.
type:
example
text:
All you ever do is surf the Internet. What will you do this afternoon?
type:
example
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:
And also my lorde abbot of westmynster ded do shewe to me late, certayn euydences wryton in olde englysshe […]
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
ref:
1490, William Caxton, “Prologue”, in Eneydos (in Middle English); republished as Caxton's Eneydos, London: Early English Text Society, 1890, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do; this will do me, thanks.
type:
example
text:
"Here," she said, "take your old Bunny! He'll do to sleep with you!" And she dragged the Rabbit out by one ear, and put him into the Boy's arms.
ref:
1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
type:
quotation
text:
It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.
type:
example
text:
The fresh air did him some good.
type:
example
text:
Our relationship isn't doing very well; how do you do?
type:
example
text:
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
A big framed beast takes a lot of food — expensive food at that [—] to keep it doing […]
ref:
1908 September 21, “The fattening beast”, in Mark Lane Express Agricultural Journal, page 340
type:
quotation
text:
That farm would go like a rick a-fire. It would do: it would go forward and prosper and make him his money.
ref:
1971, George Ewart Evans, quoting ploughman Charles Last (born 1878), Tools of Their Trades: An Oral History of Men at Work c. 1900, Taplinger Publishing Company, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
What does Bob do? — He's a plumber.
type:
example
text:
Don't forget to do your report!
type:
example
text:
I'll just do some eggs.
type:
example
text:
We went down below, and the galley-slave did some ham and eggs, and the first lieutenant, who was aged 19, told me about Sicily, and time went like a flash.
ref:
1944, “News from the Suburbs”, in Punch
type:
quotation
text:
Next morning, they woke about ten o'clock, Kev, went for a shower while Alice, did some toast, put the kettle on, and when he came out, she went in.
ref:
2005, Alan Tansley, The Grease Monkey, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
After doing Paris and its suburbs, I started for London […]
ref:
1892, James Batchelder, Multum in Parvo: Notes from the Life and Travels of James Batchelder, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
No tourist can get credit for seeing America first without doing New York, the Wonderful Town, the Baghdad-on-Hudson, the dream in the eye of the Kansas hooker […]
ref:
1968 July 22, Ralph Schoenstein, “Nice Place to Visit”, in New York Magazine, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
Let’s do New York also.
type:
example
text:
They did me well, I assure you—uncommon well: Bollinger of '84; green chartreuse fit for a prince; […]
ref:
1894, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 87, page 59, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Upon my word, although he [my host] certainly did me uncommonly well, I began to feel I'd be more at ease among the bushmen.
ref:
1928, Dorothy L[eigh] Sayers, “The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers”, in Lord Peter Views the Body
type:
quotation
text:
"Why you gonna do me like that?" I ask. "Do what?" "Dog me."
ref:
1994, Jervey Tervalon, Understand This, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Christmas, why you gotta do me like this / I always embraced you / Held you close inside my heart
ref:
2023, “Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This”, performed by Eels
type:
quotation
text:
The woman-who-did did not do very well, Juliet thought.
ref:
2018, Kate Atkinson, Transcription, page 291
type:
quotation
text:
I did five years for armed robbery.
type:
example
text:
They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.
type:
example
text:
He did a Henry VIII and got married six times.
type:
example
text:
He was planning to do a 9/11.
type:
example
text:
About a year ago, a boy name Brandon got got here in Baltimore. Stuck and burned before he passed. […] Wasn't no need for y'all to do him the way y'all did.
ref:
2003 August 17, George Pelecanos, “Bad Dreams” (43:27 from the start), in The Wire, season 2, episode 11 (television production), spoken by Omar Little (Michael K. Williams), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
He's gonna do me, Jarvis. I kid you not, this time he's gonna do me proper.
ref:
2004, Patrick Stevens, Politics Is the Greatest Game: A Johannesburg Liberal Lampoon, page 314
type:
quotation
text:
The order came and I did him right there. The bullet went right where it was supposed to go.
ref:
2007, E.J. Churchill, The Lazarus Code, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
Sometimes they lie in wait in these dark streets, and fracture his skull, […] or break his arm, or cut the sinew of his wrist; and that they call doing him.
ref:
1870, Charles Reade, Put Yourself in His Place
type:
quotation
text:
He got done for speeding.
type:
example
text:
Teacher'll do you for that!
type:
example
text:
[…] one day I did her on the kitchen table, and several times on the dining-room table.
ref:
1996, James Russell Kincaid, My Secret Life, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
The uninhibited woman within wanted to do him right there on the countertop, but I remained composed.
ref:
2008, Donna Hill, On the Line, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!
type:
example
text:
He was not to be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent.
ref:
1852, Thomas De Quincey, Sir William Hamilton
type:
quotation
text:
the novel has just been done into English; I'm going to do this play into a movie
type:
example
text:
...An' the dogs do bark, an' the rooks be a-vled to the elems high and dark, an' the water do roar at mill.
ref:
1844, William Barnes, “Evenén in the Village”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
type:
quotation
text:
Do they do haircuts there?
type:
example
text:
Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
type:
example
text:
"Defender Kolo Toure admitted Given will be a loss, but gave his backing to Nielsen. 'I think he's done his shoulder,' said the Ivorian."
ref:
2010 April 24, “Given stretchered off with suspected broken shoulder”, in The Irish Times, retrieved 2015-07-21
type:
quotation
text:
Watto will spend the entire winter stretching and doing Pilates, and do a hamstring after bending down to pick up his petrol cap after dropping it filling his car at Caltex Cronulla.
ref:
2014 April 14, Matt Cleary, “What do Australia's cricketers do on holiday?”, in ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 2015-07-21
type:
quotation
text:
"'I knew straight away I'd done my ACL, I heard the sound - it was very loud and a few of the boys said they heard it as well,' Otten said."
ref:
2014 August 13, Harry Thring, “I knew straight away I'd done my ACL: Otten”, in AFL.com.au, retrieved 2015-07-21
type:
quotation
text:
I do cocaine.
type:
example
text:
What's that car doing in our swimming pool?
type:
example
text:
He was doing 50 [miles per hour] in a school zone.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A syntactic marker.
A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
A syntactic marker.
A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
A syntactic marker.
A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
A syntactic marker.
A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
To perform; to execute.
To cause, make (someone) (do something).
To suffice.
To be reasonable or acceptable.
To have (as an effect).
To fare, perform (well or poorly).
To fare, perform (well or poorly).
To fare well; to thrive; to prosper; (of livestock) to fatten.
To have as one's job.
To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
To cook.
To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
To treat in a certain way.
To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
To impersonate or depict.
To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
To kill.
To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
To punish for a misdemeanor.
To have sex with. (See also do it)
To cheat or swindle.
To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
To finish.
Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
To make or provide.
To injure (one's own body part).
To take drugs.
To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
To drive a vehicle at a certain speed, especially in regard to a speed limit.
senses_topics:
business
finance
stock-exchange
|
7877 | word:
do
word_type:
noun
expansion:
do (plural dos or do's or (uncommon) doos)
forms:
form:
dos
tags:
plural
form:
do's
tags:
plural
form:
doos
tags:
plural
uncommon
wikipedia:
Brittonicisms in English
Do
Do-support
Early Modern English
etymology_text:
From Middle English don, from Old English dōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do, make”).
For senses 4 and 5, compare Old Norse duga, whence Danish du.
The past tense form is from Middle English didde, dude, from Old English dyde, *diede, an unexpected development from Proto-Germanic *dedǭ/*dedē (the expected reflex would be *ded), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti, an athematic e-reduplicated verb of the same root *dʰeh₁-.
The meaningless use of do in interrogative, negative, and affirmative sentences (e.g. "Do you like painting?" "Yes, I do"), existing in some form in most Germanic languages, is thought by some linguists to be one of the Brittonicisms in English, calqued from Brythonic. It is first recorded in Middle English, where it may have marked the perfective aspect, though in some cases the meaning seems to be imperfective. In Early Modern English, any meaning in such contexts was lost, making it a dummy auxiliary, and soon thereafter its use became mandatory in most questions and negations.
Doublets include deed, deem, -dom, but not deal.
Other cognates include, via Latin, English feast, festival, fair (“celebration”), via Greek, English theo-, theme, thesis, and Sanskrit दधाति (dadhāti, “to put”), धातृ (dhātṛ, “creator”) and धातु (dhātu, “layer, element, root”).
senses_examples:
text:
We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
type:
example
text:
She was into French cuisine but I ain't no Cordon Bleu / This was at some do in Palmers Green, I had no luck with her
ref:
1980, Jona Lewie, Keef Trouble (lyrics and music), “You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties”, performed by Jona Lewie
type:
quotation
text:
A gross-gutted, bulb-nosed, bourbon-stanky Boston flatfoot in plain clothes wrinkled white sox, with a race track tip-sheet stuffed in his back pocket trying real hard to mingle unnoticed at an elegant Buddies "do" to glean inside-dope.
ref:
1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
[…]; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do, in an opera house full of folk in tuxes.
ref:
2013 September 13, Russell Brand, “Russell Brand and the GQ awards”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Alternative form: 'do
text:
Nice do!
type:
example
text:
I don't like to spend time on my hairstyle, so I usually just wear a do-rag.
type:
example
text:
I like the new do.
ref:
2012, Hannah Richell, The Secrets of the Tides, page 464
type:
quotation
text:
Don't forget the dos and don'ts.
type:
example
text:
With the coming of Monday arrived a new life for David—a curious life full of "don'ts" and "dos."
ref:
1916, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter VIII, in Just David
type:
quotation
text:
"How come you quit?" "I'm moving to London." "Fair dos."
type:
example
text:
A great deal of do, and a great deal of trouble.
ref:
1689, John Selden, Table Talk
type:
quotation
text:
Get it done, no not properly
Them man thought that they got me
True, I came back like a fucking zombie
Attempted do with the ching
Have an opp boy say “please don’t chong me!”
ref:
2020 December 4, “No fibs” (1:34 from the start), in (Zone 2) Karma × Trizzac (lyrics), Demented
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality.
Clipping of hairdo.
Something that can or should be done.
Something that has been done.
Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
A cheat; a swindler.
An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
A homicide.
senses_topics:
|
7878 | word:
do
word_type:
noun
expansion:
do (plural dos)
forms:
form:
dos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
C (musical note)
Do
etymology_text:
Coined by Italian musicologist Giovanni Battista Doni in 1635 as an easier-to-sing open-syllable revision to the solmization ut of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin Dominus (“The Lᴏʀᴅ”) (speculated by some to be an ulterior abbreviation of Giovanni Battista Doni) on the pattern of other Latinate solfège with the stated justification that God is the tonic and root of the world.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
7879 | word:
do
word_type:
adv
expansion:
do (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Ditto mark
Do
etymology_text:
Short for ditto.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of ditto.
senses_topics:
|
7880 | word:
do
word_type:
num
expansion:
do
forms:
wikipedia:
Do
Dozen
etymology_text:
Shortening of dozen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after el and before do one in a duodecimal system. Written 10, decimal value 12.
senses_topics:
|
7881 | word:
hit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hit (third-person singular simple present hits, present participle hitting, simple past hit or (dialectal, obsolete) hat or (rare, dialectal) het, past participle hit or (archaic, rare, dialectal) hitten)
forms:
form:
hits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
hit
tags:
past
form:
hat
tags:
dialectal
obsolete
past
form:
het
tags:
dialectal
past
rare
form:
hit
tags:
participle
past
form:
hitten
tags:
archaic
dialectal
participle
past
rare
wikipedia:
hit
etymology_text:
From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
Cognate with Icelandic hitta (“to meet”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).
senses_examples:
text:
One boy hit the other.
type:
example
text:
He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.
ref:
1922-1927, Frank Harris, My Life and Loves
type:
quotation
text:
I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.
ref:
1934, Robert E. Howard, The Slugger's Game
type:
quotation
text:
The ball hit the fence.
type:
example
text:
Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.
ref:
1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance
type:
quotation
text:
Hit the Enter key to continue.
type:
example
text:
Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
type:
example
text:
FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch.
ref:
1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)
text:
If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.
type:
example
text:
Their coffee really hits the spot.
type:
example
text:
I used to listen to that song all the time, but it hits different(ly) now.
type:
example
text:
I hit the jackpot.
type:
example
text:
Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!
type:
example
text:
I'd love to hear your band play.
Hit it boys!
type:
example
text:
We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
type:
example
text:
You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.
type:
example
text:
We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.
type:
example
text:
The movie hits theaters in December.
type:
example
text:
The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night.
type:
example
text:
And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.
ref:
2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, “London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal”, in Guardian Unlimited
type:
quotation
text:
The economy was hit by a recession. The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.
type:
example
text:
I have to say this, he hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I’ve never heard of this one. Look at those hands. Are they small hands?
ref:
2016 March 3, Nick Gass, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump on small hands: 'I guarantee you there's no problem'”, in Politico
type:
quotation
text:
Hit me.
type:
example
text:
Jones hit for the pitcher.
type:
example
text:
The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
type:
example
text:
I'd hit that!
type:
example
text:
Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.
ref:
2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG
type:
quotation
text:
This is another great exercise which hits the long head.
type:
example
text:
With that said, the group hitting their legs just once a week still made gains.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strike.
To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
To strike.
To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
To strike.
To strike against something.
To strike.
To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
To strike.
To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
To strike.
To attack, especially amphibiously.
To strike.
To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
To switch on.
To commence playing.
To briefly visit.
To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
To attain, to achieve.
To reach or achieve.
To attain, to achieve.
To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
To attain, to achieve.
To guess; to light upon or discover.
To affect negatively.
To attack.
To make a play.
In blackjack, to deal a card to.
To make a play.
To come up to bat.
To make a play.
To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
To use; to connect to.
To have sex with.
To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
(of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
to work out
senses_topics:
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
government
heading
military
politics
war
heading
entertainment
lifestyle
music
heading
heading
heading
card-games
games
heading
ball-games
baseball
games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
backgammon
games
heading
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
7882 | word:
hit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hit (plural hits)
forms:
form:
hits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hit
etymology_text:
From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
Cognate with Icelandic hitta (“to meet”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).
senses_examples:
text:
The hit was very slight.
type:
example
text:
Marie Taglioni was another hit for Her Majesty's Theatre last season, and will be a hit again this season[…]
ref:
1848, “Her Majesty's Theatre”, in The Musical World, volume 23
type:
quotation
text:
Chico & Rita opens in the modern era, as an aged, weary Chico shines shoes in his native Cuba. Then a song heard on the radio—a hit he wrote and recorded with Rita in their youth—carries him back to 1948 Havana, where they first met.
ref:
2012 February 9, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Chico & Rita”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
His reputation took a hit when the new information came to light.
type:
example
text:
But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
ref:
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
type:
example
text:
The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
type:
example
text:
Where am I going to get my next hit?
type:
example
text:
The questions that have always haunted the family — who ordered the hit, and why, and who in London might have known — remain unanswered.
ref:
2023 August 30, Megan K. Stack, Rob Stothard, “He Was Shot 14 Times at the Dinner Table. His Children Want to Know if Britain Ordered the Hit.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
a happy hit
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
An attack on a location, person or people.
A collision of a projectile with the target.
A collision of a projectile with the target.
In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
An approximately correct answer in a test set.
The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
backgammon
games
backgammon
games |
7883 | word:
hit
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hit (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
hit
etymology_text:
From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
Cognate with Icelandic hitta (“to meet”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).
senses_examples:
text:
The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very successful.
senses_topics:
|
7884 | word:
hit
word_type:
pron
expansion:
hit (subjective and objective hit, reflexive and intensive hitself, possessive adjective and noun hits)
forms:
form:
hit
tags:
objective
subjective
form:
hitself
tags:
emphatic
reflexive
form:
hits
tags:
adjective
noun
possessive
wikipedia:
hit
etymology_text:
From Middle English hit (“it”), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch het (“it”). More at it; also note 'it.
senses_examples:
text:
But how hit was to come about didn't appear.
ref:
1922, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, volume 130
type:
quotation
text:
Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit slide down the hill hits own way.
ref:
1998, Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
It.
senses_topics:
|
7885 | word:
UK
word_type:
name
expansion:
UK or the UK
forms:
form:
UK
tags:
canonical
form:
the UK
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of United Kingdom.
Initialism of University of Kentucky.
senses_topics:
|
7886 | word:
UK
word_type:
name
expansion:
UK
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Uttarakhand.
senses_topics:
|
7887 | word:
ROM
word_type:
name
expansion:
ROM
forms:
wikipedia:
ROM
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Romania.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
7888 | word:
ROM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ROM (countable and uncountable, plural ROMs)
forms:
form:
ROMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ROM
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of read-only memory.
A software image of read-only memory (as of a game cartridge) used in emulation.
Initialism of range of motion.
Acronym of rupture of membranes.
Initialism of return on margin.
Initialism of rough order of magnitude: An informal cost or price estimate provided for planning and budgeting purposes only, typically expected to be only 75% accurate.
Initialism of run of month.
senses_topics:
business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
video-games
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
business
finance
advertising
business
marketing |
7889 | word:
stork
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stork (plural storks)
forms:
form:
storks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stork
etymology_text:
From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae.
The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
The seventeenth Lenormand card.
senses_topics:
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences |
7890 | word:
lark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lark (plural larks)
forms:
form:
larks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English lāwerce, lǣwerce, lāuricæ, from Proto-West Germanic *laiwarikā, from Proto-Germanic *laiwarikǭ, *laiwazikǭ (compare dialectal West Frisian larts, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), from *laiwaz (borrowed into Finnish leivo, Estonian lõo), of unknown ultimate origin with no definitive cognates outside of Germanic.
senses_examples:
text:
Charles Randolph Grean is married to pop lark and multi-hit artist Betty Johnson.
ref:
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 238
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
A jolly or peppy person.
senses_topics:
|
7891 | word:
lark
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lark (third-person singular simple present larks, present participle larking, simple past and past participle larked)
forms:
form:
larks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
larking
tags:
participle
present
form:
larked
tags:
participle
past
form:
larked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English lāwerce, lǣwerce, lāuricæ, from Proto-West Germanic *laiwarikā, from Proto-Germanic *laiwarikǭ, *laiwazikǭ (compare dialectal West Frisian larts, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), from *laiwaz (borrowed into Finnish leivo, Estonian lõo), of unknown ultimate origin with no definitive cognates outside of Germanic.
senses_examples:
text:
to go larking
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To catch larks (type of bird).
senses_topics:
|
7892 | word:
lark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lark (plural larks)
forms:
form:
larks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain, either
* from a northern English dialectal term lake／laik (“to play”) (around 1300, from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)), with an intrusive -r- as is common in southern British dialects; or
* a shortening of skylark (1809), sailors' slang, "play roughly in the rigging of a ship", because the common European larks were proverbial for high-flying; Dutch has a similar idea in speelvogel (“playbird, a person of markedly playful nature”).
senses_examples:
text:
Thanks partly to Tom Wolfe’s raised-eyebrow account, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” that bohemian lark has been retrospectively hailed as the flash point of the emerging hippie counterculture.
ref:
2011 August 4, Stephen Holden, “Stoned Archive: Wild Ride Of the Merry Pranksters”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
What began as a lark has grown into something very, very big, inflating the company’s ambitions.
ref:
2018 November, Alexis C. Madrigal, “The Dangers of YouTube for Young Children”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A frolic or romp, some fun.
A prank.
senses_topics:
|
7893 | word:
lark
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lark (third-person singular simple present larks, present participle larking, simple past and past participle larked)
forms:
form:
larks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
larking
tags:
participle
present
form:
larked
tags:
participle
past
form:
larked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain, either
* from a northern English dialectal term lake／laik (“to play”) (around 1300, from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)), with an intrusive -r- as is common in southern British dialects; or
* a shortening of skylark (1809), sailors' slang, "play roughly in the rigging of a ship", because the common European larks were proverbial for high-flying; Dutch has a similar idea in speelvogel (“playbird, a person of markedly playful nature”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] the porter at the rail-road had seen a scuffle; or when he found it was likely to bring him in as a witness, then it might not have been a scuffle, only a little larking […]
ref:
1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 35, in North and South
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sport, engage in harmless pranking.
To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.
senses_topics:
|
7894 | word:
benefit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
benefit (countable and uncountable, plural benefits)
forms:
form:
benefits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English benefytt, benefett, alteration (due to Latin bene-) of benfet, bienfet, bienfait (“good or noble deed”), from Anglo-Norman benfet (“well-done”), Middle French bienfait, from Old French bienfet, bienfait (“foredeal, favour”), from past participle of bienfaire (“to do good, do well”), from bien (“well”) + faire (“to do”), modelled after Latin benefactum (“good deed”). More at benefactor.
senses_examples:
text:
She can't read, so the voice recording was made for her benefit.
type:
example
text:
Exposure to cutting-edge technologies is one of the benefits of the job.
type:
example
text:
Gore Vidal […] will be sharing his wit and wisdom at the Arlington Street Church on Wednesday, April 5th at 7:00. The appearance is a benefit for the Boston/Boise Committee and the tickets are priced at $5.
ref:
1978 April 8, Eric Rogers, “People, Places and Flings”, in Gay Community News, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
The whole scene was staged for his benefit, and it completely fooled him.
type:
example
text:
Since my wife is Canadian, whenever we have dinner with my family, they keep bringing up anything they've heard about Canada lately for her benefit.
type:
example
text:
So, if Obodzinski is correct in saying that Mrs. Piela actually signed a document in the coffee shop, in front of witnesses, she staged a scene, pretending that it was the alleged Mandate. The other explanation is that none of this ever took place, and the staging was only a fictitious creation for the benefit of the Court.
ref:
2020 April 16, Gary D.D. Morrison, J.S.C., “Succession de Kalimbet Piela c. Obodzinski, 2020 QCCS 1222”, in CanLII, retrieved 2021-05-09
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An advantage; help or aid from something.
A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
beneficence; liberality
Intended audience (as for the benefit of).
senses_topics:
business
insurance
|
7895 | word:
benefit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
benefit (third-person singular simple present benefits, present participle benefiting or benefitting, simple past and past participle benefited or benefitted)
forms:
form:
benefits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
benefiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
benefitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
benefited
tags:
participle
past
form:
benefited
tags:
past
form:
benefitted
tags:
participle
past
form:
benefitted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English benefytt, benefett, alteration (due to Latin bene-) of benfet, bienfet, bienfait (“good or noble deed”), from Anglo-Norman benfet (“well-done”), Middle French bienfait, from Old French bienfet, bienfait (“foredeal, favour”), from past participle of bienfaire (“to do good, do well”), from bien (“well”) + faire (“to do”), modelled after Latin benefactum (“good deed”). More at benefactor.
senses_examples:
text:
Diesel maintenance schedules are benefiting from work done on the magnificent Hilger & Watts electronic spectrograph for oil analysis, which detects minute quantities of metals in samples of used lubricating oil; [...].
ref:
1960 June, “Talking of Trains: New B.R. research laboratory”, in Trains Illustrated, page 329
type:
quotation
text:
Instead, the grime of the steam years which still discoloured many of the best architectural features Betjeman loved has been cleared away, and several of the stations have benefited from major refurbishments which have greatly improved them.
ref:
2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 63
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be or to provide a benefit to.
To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
senses_topics:
|
7896 | word:
US
word_type:
name
expansion:
US
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
ICANN is based in the US.
type:
example
text:
legal residents of the contiguous US
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of United States.
senses_topics:
|
7897 | word:
US
word_type:
noun
expansion:
US (plural USs)
forms:
form:
USs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: CS
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of unconditioned stimulus.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
7898 | word:
US
word_type:
adj
expansion:
US (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The radio is US
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of undersize.
Abbreviation of unserviceable.
senses_topics:
|
7899 | word:
US
word_type:
name
expansion:
US
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Upper Sorbian.
senses_topics:
|
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