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7900 | word:
kestrel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kestrel (plural kestrels)
forms:
form:
kestrels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kestrel
etymology_text:
From Middle English castrel (“staniel, bird of prey”), from Middle French cresserelle, crecerelle (“bird of prey”), usually assumed to be from crecelle (“rattle, wooden reel”) (modern crécelle), of obscure origin.
Cognates possibly include: Medieval Latin clisterella f, French crécerelle f and cristel m, Neapolitan castariello m and crestariello m, all sharing the same meaning.
Derivation from the assumed Vulgar Latin *crepicella, *crepitacillum, a diminutive of crepitāculum, from crepitāre (“to crackle”) is difficult to explain from a morphological point of view.
Instead, possibly from a root *krek-, *krak- (“to crack, rattle, creak, emit a bird cry”), from Middle Dutch crāken (“to creak, crack”), from Old Dutch *krakōn (“to crack, creak, emit a cry”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną (“to emit a cry, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“to shout”). Cognate with Old High German krahhōn (“to make a sound, crash”), Old English cracian (“to resound”), French craquer (“to emit a repeated cry, used of birds”). More at creak, crack.
senses_examples:
text:
When she was musing she was a kestrel, which hangs in the air by an invisible motion of its wings.
ref:
1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, book 3 chapter 6
type:
quotation
text:
Up on the downs the red-eyed kestrels hover,
Eyeing the grass.
The field mouse flits like a shadow into cover
As their shadows pass.
ref:
1917, John Masefield, Up on the Downs
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various small falcons of the genus Falco that hover while hunting.
The common kestrel, Falco tinnunculus.
senses_topics:
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7901 | word:
bol
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bol (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of bolognese
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
bolognese
senses_topics:
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7902 | word:
impose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
impose (third-person singular simple present imposes, present participle imposing, simple past and past participle imposed)
forms:
form:
imposes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
imposing
tags:
participle
present
form:
imposed
tags:
participle
past
form:
imposed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
impose
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Late Middle English imposen (“to place, set; to impose (a duty, etc.)”), borrowed from Middle French imposer, and Old French emposer, enposer (“to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”) (modern French imposer), from im-, em- (variants of en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’)) + poser (“to place, put”), modelled after:
* Latin impōnere, the present active infinitive of impōnō (“to place or set (something) on; (figurative) to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”), from im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘on, upon’)) + pōnō (“to place, put; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó, *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *tḱey- (“to cultivate; to live; to settle”)); and
* Latin impositus (“established; put upon, imposed”), the perfect passive participle of impōnō: see above.
The noun is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
They [pages] are imposed as follows, the illustration showing how the pages appear in the form. […] 18, 24, 32, and 48mo may be imposed in a similar manner, or may be so imposed as to be cut before folding.
ref:
1877, Edward H[enry] Knight, “Imposing”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volume II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC, page 1172, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Congress imposed new tariffs.
type:
example
text:
Sanctions were imposed on the country that had made an unprovoked attack on its neighbour.
type:
example
text:
Thou on the deep impoſeſt Nobler lavvs, / And by that Juſtice haſt remov'd the cauſe / Of thoſe rude tempeſts vvhich for rapine ſent, / Too oft, alas, involv'd the innocent.
ref:
1664, Edmond [i.e., Edmund] Waller, “To the King on His Navy”, in Poems, &c. Written upon Several Occasions, and to Several Persons. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, pages 1–2
type:
quotation
text:
Social relations impose courtesy.
type:
example
text:
[W]e don't want any Communist government in the United States of America. And if the people of other countries don't want communism, we don't want to see it imposed upon them against their will.
ref:
1948 October 27 (date delivered), Harry S. Truman, “Address at Mechanics Hall in Boston”, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President: January 1 to December 31, 1948, Washington, D.C.: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, General Services Administration; United States Government Printing Office, published 1964, →OCLC, page 884, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Detailed records are kept of the strains imposed on the bridge by the violent gales that frequently sweep the firth, and a self-recording wind gauge is fixed on the top of the tower.
ref:
1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 149
type:
quotation
text:
It's foolish for society to impose the restriction of one man to the married woman. I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage. The husband, in turn, should have the same freedoms.
ref:
1975 February 11, Marian Christy, quoting Suzy Chaffee, “Suzy Chaffee‘s choice on nude photos”, in Boston Evening Globe (Living section), final edition, volume 207, number 42, Boston, Mass.: The Globe Newspaper Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, column 5
type:
quotation
text:
Norwich soon began imposing themselves on that patched-up defence with [Grant] Holt having their best early chance, only to see it blocked by [Danny] Simpson.
ref:
2011 December 10, Arindam Rej, “Norwich 4 – 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2023-03-12
type:
quotation
text:
Thou falſely impoſeſt a capital crime upon him [Jesus], namely, that he made himſelf a King, whereas he never uſed any royal ornaments, according to the pomp of this world.
ref:
1804, Thomas of Kempis [i.e., Thomas à Kempis], “For Passion Sunday. [Of Seven Most Remarkable Points to be Thought upon in Christ’s Passion.]”, in [anonymous], transl., Viator Christianus, or, The Christian Traveller. […], Dublin: […] T. Codd, […], →OCLC, paragraph 21, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
I don’t wish to impose upon you.
type:
example
text:
In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.
ref:
2022 January 12, Joseph Brennan, “Castles: Ruined and Redeemed by Rail”, in Rail, number 948, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 57
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To physically lay or place (something) on another thing; to deposit, to put, to set.
To lay or place (one's hands) on someone as a blessing, during rites of confirmation, ordination, etc.
To physically lay or place (something) on another thing; to deposit, to put, to set.
To lay (columns or pages of type, or printing plates) arranged in a proper order on the bed of a press or an imposing stone and secure them in a chase in preparation for printing.
To apply, enforce, or establish (something, often regarded as burdensome as a restriction or tax: see sense 1.2.2) with authority.
To place or put (something chiefly immaterial, especially something regarded as burdensome as a duty, an encumbrance, a penalty, etc.) on another thing or on someone; to inflict, to repose; also, to place or put (on someone a chiefly immaterial thing, especially something regarded as burdensome).
To force or put (a thing) on someone or something by deceit or stealth; to foist, to obtrude.
To subject (a student) to imposition (“a task inflicted as punishment”).
To appoint (someone) to be in authority or command over other people.
To accuse someone of (a crime, or a sin or other wrongdoing); to charge, to impute.
To put (a conclusion or end) to something definitively.
Chiefly followed by on or upon.
To affect authoritatively or forcefully; to influence strongly.
Chiefly followed by on or upon.
To encroach or intrude, especially in a manner regarded as unfair or unwarranted; to presume, to take advantage of; also, to be a burden or inconvenience.
Chiefly followed by on or upon.
To practise deceit or stealth; to cheat, to deceive, to trick.
Chiefly followed by on or upon.
To subject to an impost, levy, tax, etc.
senses_topics:
Christianity
media
printing
publishing
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7903 | word:
impose
word_type:
noun
expansion:
impose (plural imposes)
forms:
form:
imposes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Late Middle English imposen (“to place, set; to impose (a duty, etc.)”), borrowed from Middle French imposer, and Old French emposer, enposer (“to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”) (modern French imposer), from im-, em- (variants of en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’)) + poser (“to place, put”), modelled after:
* Latin impōnere, the present active infinitive of impōnō (“to place or set (something) on; (figurative) to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”), from im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘on, upon’)) + pōnō (“to place, put; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó, *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *tḱey- (“to cultivate; to live; to settle”)); and
* Latin impositus (“established; put upon, imposed”), the perfect passive participle of impōnō: see above.
The noun is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of placing or putting on something chiefly immaterial, especially something regarded as burdensome as a duty, a task, etc.; an imposition.
senses_topics:
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7904 | word:
vertebrate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vertebrate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin vertebra (“joint”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a backbone.
senses_topics:
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7905 | word:
vertebrate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vertebrate (plural vertebrates)
forms:
form:
vertebrates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin vertebra (“joint”).
senses_examples:
text:
Under the white chalk, drawn on the blackboard / Under the x-ray, I'm just a vertebrate
ref:
2005, “Corporeal”, in Tender Buttons, performed by Broadcast
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An animal having a backbone.
senses_topics:
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7906 | word:
applaud
word_type:
noun
expansion:
applaud (plural applauds)
forms:
form:
applauds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English applauden, from Latin applaudere (“to clap the hands together, applaud”), from ad (“to”) + plaudere (“to strike, clap”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Applause; applauding.
Plaudit.
senses_topics:
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7907 | word:
applaud
word_type:
verb
expansion:
applaud (third-person singular simple present applauds, present participle applauding, simple past and past participle applauded)
forms:
form:
applauds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
applauding
tags:
participle
present
form:
applauded
tags:
participle
past
form:
applauded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English applauden, from Latin applaudere (“to clap the hands together, applaud”), from ad (“to”) + plaudere (“to strike, clap”).
senses_examples:
text:
After the performance, the audience applauded for five minutes.
type:
example
text:
Although we don't like your methods, we applaud your motives.
type:
example
text:
It moved him to within one goal of Thierry Henry's 34 in 2004 and Henry - honoured with a statue outside the stadium on Friday - rose from his seat in the stands to applaud Van Persie.
ref:
2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To express approval (of something) by clapping the hands.
To praise, or express approval for something or someone.
senses_topics:
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7908 | word:
swing
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swing (third-person singular simple present swings, present participle swinging, simple past swung or (archaic or dialectal) swang, past participle swung or (archaic) swungen)
forms:
form:
swings
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
swinging
tags:
participle
present
form:
swung
tags:
past
form:
swang
tags:
archaic
dialectal
past
form:
swung
tags:
participle
past
form:
swungen
tags:
archaic
participle
past
wikipedia:
swing
etymology_text:
From Middle English swyngen, from Old English swingan, from Proto-West Germanic *swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swinganą (compare Low German swingen, German schwingen, Dutch zwingen, Swedish svinga), from Proto-Indo-European *swenk-, *sweng- (compare Scottish Gaelic seang (“thin”)). Related to swink.
senses_examples:
text:
The plant swung in the breeze.
type:
example
text:
The starliner swung into orbit around the planet Coruscant, and beyond the observation bubble appeared a glittering expanse of a billion golden lights. Through a thousand centuries of strife, those lights continued to shine.
ref:
2012 February 29, Troy Denning, Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse, Random House, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
The children laughed as they swung.
type:
example
text:
“It's all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!”
Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.
ref:
1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League
type:
quotation
text:
It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability.
type:
example
text:
He swung his sword as hard as he could.
type:
example
text:
If it’s not too expensive, I think we can swing it.
type:
example
text:
"to swing one's partner", or simply "to swing"
type:
example
text:
The lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
type:
example
text:
A ship swings with the tide.
type:
example
text:
Soon after departure, we cross the invisible border into Scotland to enjoy more stunning coastal scenery, before the line finally swings inland at Burnmouth to traverse pine-clad valleys, shadowed by the A1 trunk road until we rejoin the coast at Cove, east of Dunbar.
ref:
2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
To dance.
To ride on a swing.
To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
To move sideways in its trajectory.
(of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
To fluctuate or change.
To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
To move one's arm in a punching motion.
In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
To turn in a different direction.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
music
boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
nautical
transport
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7909 | word:
swing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
swing (countable and uncountable, plural swings)
forms:
form:
swings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
swing
etymology_text:
From Middle English swyngen, from Old English swingan, from Proto-West Germanic *swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swinganą (compare Low German swingen, German schwingen, Dutch zwingen, Swedish svinga), from Proto-Indo-European *swenk-, *sweng- (compare Scottish Gaelic seang (“thin”)). Related to swink.
senses_examples:
text:
He worked tirelessly to improve his golf swing.
type:
example
text:
Door swing indicates direction the door opens.
type:
example
text:
the swing of a pendulum
type:
example
text:
Improve your golf swing by taking your mate to the driving range. If you're good, you can show off and give her some tips. If you stink, play it for laughs.
ref:
2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
It makes no diff'rence / if it's sweet or hot. / Just give that rhythm / ev'rything you've got! / It don't mean a thing / if it ain't got that swing.
ref:
1931, “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)”, Irving Mills (lyrics), Duke Ellington (music), performed by Ivie Anderson with Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra, Brunswick, catalog number 6265
type:
quotation
text:
Miss Pole came round with a swing to as vehement a belief in the sorrowful tale as she had been sceptical before […]
ref:
1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
type:
quotation
text:
The polls showed a wide swing to Labour.
text:
Jesus' finishing has been one of the main concerns - since the start of last season the 23-year-old has underperformed his Premier League expected goals tally by 6.97goals (in short, he has scored seven fewer goals than would be expected from the chances presented to him).
In contrast, Haaland is overperforming by 6.83 goals since joining Dortmund, which is almost a 14-goal swing between the pair.
ref:
2021 February 4, Raj Chohan, “Erling Braut Haaland: Would Man City, Liverpool, Man Utd or Chelsea suit striker best?”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle on the full swing of his genius.
ref:
1788, Edmund Burke, speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The manner in which something is swung.
The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
The genre of music associated with this dance style.
The amount of change towards or away from something.
The amount of change towards or away from something.
In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
Free course; unrestrained liberty.
Influence or power of anything put in motion.
A type of hook with the arm more extended.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
government
politics
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
7910 | word:
wild boar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wild boar (plural wild boars or wild boar)
forms:
form:
wild boars
tags:
plural
form:
wild boar
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
ref:
2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wild swine native to Eurasia and North Africa (Sus scrofa), now widely distributed elsewhere and ancestor of most domestic pig breeds.
senses_topics:
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7911 | word:
cloth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cloth (countable and uncountable, plural cloths or (obsolete) clothes)
forms:
form:
cloths
tags:
plural
form:
clothes
tags:
obsolete
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cloth, clath, from Old English clāþ (“cloth, clothes, covering, sail”), from Proto-Germanic *klaiþą (“garment”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gleyt- (“to cling to, cleave, stick”) (compare Albanian ngjit (“to stick, attach, glue”)), a form of *gleh₁y- (“to smear; to stick”). Cognate with Scots clath (“cloth”), North Frisian klaid (“dress, garment”), Saterland Frisian Klood (“dress, apparel”), West Frisian kleed (“cloth, article of clothing”), Dutch kleed (“robe, dress”), Low German kleed (“dress, garment”), German Kleid (“gown, dress”), Danish klæde (“cloth, dress”), Norwegian klede, Swedish kläde (“cloth”), Icelandic klæði (“cloth, dressing”), Old English clīþan (“to adhere, stick”).
senses_examples:
text:
In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally.
ref:
1820, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 6th edition, volume 20, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page 501
type:
quotation
text:
There were other types of looms for producing various specialised types of cloth, for example fustians and velvets, but there is not space here to discuss these.
ref:
2017, Roger Holden, Manufacturing the Cloth of the World, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
The first room the people enter was formerly the Presence Chamber, which is hung completely with black, and at the r-end a cloth of estate, with a chair of estate standing upon the Haut-place under the state.
ref:
1824, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
type:
quotation
text:
The stole is a long scarf-like cloth that hangs around the neck, over the shoulders and down the front of bishops and priests [generally, two-four inches across].
ref:
2004, Robin D. Gill, Topsy-turvy 1585
type:
quotation
text:
Wipe the surface with a cloth dampened with mineral spirits in order to remove the sanding dust, then brush on a full coat of varnish.
ref:
2009, Albert Jackson, David Day, Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
. If we look beyond the chaos of each moment, we cannot help seeing that we are but one glorious thread in the cloth of life.
ref:
2001, Sang H. Kim, The Art of Harmony: A Guide to Happiness, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
The disparate threads contained are, in the cloth of a religious society, ready to revolutionize the world and bring the Kingdom of Heaven into its full reality on earth.
ref:
2004, Thomas D. Hamm, The Quakers in America, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
. The rhythm of life in rural Asia has followed an unchanging pattern from generation to generation and for the chronically poor it is soaked in the cloth of continued deprivation.
ref:
2009, John Malcolm Dowling, Chin-Fang Yap, Chronic Poverty in Asia: Causes, Consequences and Policies
type:
quotation
text:
A wrinkle in the cloth of time, a cry of soft caress and fragrant dreams to weld the metal fabric souls in blends so held in high regards across the lands and sky.
ref:
2012, R. Tirrell Leonard Jr., In The Murmuring Trees, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
Like all cultural realities, contemporary modernism is packed with its own myths, its own largely unrecognized metaphors, its own poetics literally perceived -- or should we say, "misperceived"? -- its own reifications and idiosyncratic distinctions. And it comes to us decorated in the cloth of emancipation, a new freedom that would seem to liberate us from those restraints and bonds that were the excretions of an older mindset, an alien political and social order, a rigid and stultifying hierarchy now perceived as riddled with superstition, arbitrary premise, and false conjunction — in contrast, of course, to the liberated mindset that bespeaks our own age!
ref:
2002, Patricia L. Munhall, Ed Madden, Virginia Macken Fitzsimons, The Emergence of Man Into the 21st Century, page 407
type:
quotation
text:
Unbelievably, he smiled through his cracked and bleeding lips. A horrible nightmare cloaked in the cloth of good.
ref:
2007, Kathy Steffen, First, There Is a River
type:
quotation
text:
Not until rehabilitation was wrapped in the cloth of wartime patriotism—a program billed as necessary for the welfare of disabled soldiers—did it receive overwhelming congressional support.
ref:
2011, Beth Linker, War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
After being at your beck and call all these years, he wants a woman, not the consummate teen-ager pretending she's a grownup wrapping her flesh in the cloth of her church.
ref:
2014, Shara Russell, In the Shadow of Faith
type:
quotation
text:
But he could not come in the white cloth of celebration to a burial service, and he could hardly come in the cloth of mourning to celebrate his two decades on the stool.
ref:
1993, Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, page 185
type:
quotation
text:
Wearing the cloth of kings would seem to be an appropriate symbol.
ref:
2004, Alison Dundes Renteln, The Cultural Defense, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
Occasionally the most fortunate found a jewel, a golden-encrusted dagger, a ring, or some other precious gem which decorated the cloths of glory the Persian chieftains and satraps wore.
ref:
2013, Paul Doherty, The House of Death
type:
quotation
text:
The Old Testament Ministers of God, Aaron and his sons, who were the priests, wore special 'cloths of service.' They were dressed in 'holy garments' so that they could stand and offer in the Presence of God, being beautified by them and being enabled through them to perform their sacred duties.
ref:
2016, Stephen John Goundry, Hot Coals of Fire: The Sanctity of the Ministry
type:
quotation
text:
He is a respected man of the cloth.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
Appearance; seeming.
A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
Priesthood, clergy.
senses_topics:
|
7912 | word:
kritik
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kritik (plural kritiks)
forms:
form:
kritiks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German Kritik.
senses_examples:
text:
Too much debate theory is based on power rather than reason. Kritiks are used as big sticks to avoid one of the duties closely associated with debating — research.
ref:
2002, Kenneth T. Broda-Bahm, Perspectives in Controversy, page 300
type:
quotation
text:
You can make most theory answers without cards, but some cards do exist which specifically criticize kritiks on a theoretical basis.
ref:
2011, N. Andre Cossette, The Art of Debate: 12th Edition, page 123
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In formal debating, an argument that challenges a certain mindset or assumption made by the opposing team, often from the perspective of critical theory, rather than dealing directly with the topic under debate.
senses_topics:
|
7913 | word:
syllable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
syllable (plural syllables)
forms:
form:
syllables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English syllable, sillable, syllabylle, sylabul, from Anglo-Norman sillable, from Old French sillebe, from Latin syllaba, from Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “I gather together”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
senses_examples:
text:
Meronyms: onset, nucleus, coda, rime
text:
I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth.
ref:
2007, Don DeLillo, Underworld: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner Classics, page 543
type:
quotation
text:
Then let them cast backe their eies unto former generations of men, and marke what was done in the prime of the World, Seth, Enoch, Noah, Sem, Abraham, Job, and the rest that lived before any syllable of the Law of God was written, did they not sinne as much as we doe in every action not commanded?
ref:
1622, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
In none of my travels did I ever meet him or learn a syllable of his whereabouts.
ref:
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of human speech which often forms words corresponding to one opening of the mouth; a vowel and its surrounding consonants.
The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
7914 | word:
syllable
word_type:
verb
expansion:
syllable (third-person singular simple present syllables, present participle syllabling, simple past and past participle syllabled)
forms:
form:
syllables
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
syllabling
tags:
participle
present
form:
syllabled
tags:
participle
past
form:
syllabled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English syllable, sillable, syllabylle, sylabul, from Anglo-Norman sillable, from Old French sillebe, from Latin syllaba, from Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “I gather together”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To utter in syllables.
senses_topics:
|
7915 | word:
upset
word_type:
adj
expansion:
upset (comparative more upset, superlative most upset)
forms:
form:
more upset
tags:
comparative
form:
most upset
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).
senses_examples:
text:
We were shocked when we asked a disruptive man in the front row to move to the back, and when he subsequently left, the producer's helpers were so upset for him they gave him two free tickets to the next 'women's music' production.
ref:
1981 December 5, Jana Runnals, Rosemary Schonfeld, “The Liberalisation of 'Women's Music'”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
He was upset when she refused his friendship.
type:
example
text:
My children often get upset with their classmates.
type:
example
text:
His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
senses_topics:
|
7916 | word:
upset
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upset (countable and uncountable, plural upsets)
forms:
form:
upsets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
aircraft upset
upset
etymology_text:
From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).
senses_examples:
text:
My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.
type:
example
text:
But it is probably the biggest upset for the away side since Ronnie Radford smashed a famous goal as Hereford defeated Newcastle 2-1 in 1972.
ref:
2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Sanders’s win in Michigan was one of the greatest upsets in modern political history.
ref:
2016 March 9, Harry Enten, “What The Stunning Bernie Sanders Win In Michigan Means”, in FiveThirtyEight
type:
quotation
text:
"collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
text:
"Bob, let's cancel the babysitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.
"Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets. And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!"
ref:
1958 May 12, advertisement, Life, volume 44, number 19, page 110 http://books.google.com/books?id=vFMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA110&dq=pepto
text:
The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the unfavorable interaction of severe vertical air drafts and large longitudinal control displacements resulting in a longitudinal upset from which a successful recovery was not made.
ref:
1965 June 1, Civil Aeronautics Board, “Synopsis”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Northwest Airlines, Inc., Boeing 720B, N724US, Near Miami, Florida, February 12, 1963, retrieved 2022-11-25, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Disturbance or disruption.
An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
An overturn.
An upset stomach.
An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
senses_topics:
government
hobbies
lifestyle
politics
sports
automobile
automotive
business
insurance
transport
vehicles
mathematics
sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
7917 | word:
upset
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upset (third-person singular simple present upsets, present participle upsetting, simple past and past participle upset)
forms:
form:
upsets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upsetting
tags:
participle
present
form:
upset
tags:
participle
past
form:
upset
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).
senses_examples:
text:
I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
type:
example
text:
Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
type:
example
text:
The fatty meat upset his stomach.
type:
example
text:
1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.
But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view.
text:
Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
type:
example
text:
The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
type:
example
text:
[T]he locomotive exploded and upset, and was completely wrecked.
ref:
1880 January 1, The Locomotive, volume 1, number 1, Hartford, Conn.: The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection And Insurance Company, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
R. of Brunne
with sail on mast upset
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
To tip or overturn (something).
To defeat unexpectedly.
To be upset or knocked over.
To set up; to put upright.
To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
senses_topics:
|
7918 | word:
goggles
word_type:
noun
expansion:
goggles pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from goggle, from the appearance it gives the wearer.
senses_examples:
text:
Goggles must be worn in the swimming pool.
type:
example
text:
We had to put on our goggles as it was snowing outside.
type:
example
text:
Regretted that I had not provided myself with goggles, as the road is so constantly traveled that the dust became a most serious nuisance.
ref:
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Protective eyewear set in a flexible frame to fit snugly against the face.
Blinds for shying horses.
Glasses; spectacles.
senses_topics:
|
7919 | word:
goggles
word_type:
noun
expansion:
goggles
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of goggle
senses_topics:
|
7920 | word:
goggles
word_type:
verb
expansion:
goggles
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of goggle
senses_topics:
|
7921 | word:
linacs
word_type:
noun
expansion:
linacs
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of linac
senses_topics:
|
7922 | word:
beautiful
word_type:
adj
expansion:
beautiful (comparative more beautiful, superlative most beautiful)
forms:
form:
more beautiful
tags:
comparative
form:
most beautiful
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (“attractive to the eye, beautiful”), equivalent to beauty + -ful. In this sense, largely displaced Old English fæġer (whence fair).
senses_examples:
text:
Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.
type:
example
text:
There's a beautiful lake by the town.
type:
example
text:
It is a beautiful kitchen! — It is beautiful.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
type:
quotation
text:
He was a beautiful person; he would drop everything to help you.
type:
example
text:
You've done a beautiful thing today.
type:
example
text:
It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk.
type:
example
text:
The skater performed a beautiful axel.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Attractive and possessing beauty.
Good, admirable.
Pleasant; clear.
Well executed.
senses_topics:
|
7923 | word:
beautiful
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beautiful (plural beautifuls)
forms:
form:
beautifuls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (“attractive to the eye, beautiful”), equivalent to beauty + -ful. In this sense, largely displaced Old English fæġer (whence fair).
senses_examples:
text:
The man was faithful to his wife, ignoring the many blonde beautifuls who surrounded him wherever he went.
type:
example
text:
Hey, beautiful!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.
senses_topics:
|
7924 | word:
dormouse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dormouse (plural dormice)
forms:
form:
dormice
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dormous, of uncertain origin. Possibly from a dialectal *dor-, from Old Norse dár (“benumbed”) + mous (“mouse”). More at doze, mouse.
The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of Old French dormir (“to sleep”) (as *dormouse (“tending to be dormant”), with second element mistaken for mouse), but no such Anglo-Norman term is known to have existed.
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:
Restoration such as this must work around wildlife habitats, and NR came to discover that almost the entire line was a haven for dormice.
ref:
2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “Okehampton: a new dawn for Dartmoor”, in RAIL, number 944, page 41
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae (syns. Myoxidae, Muscardinidae).
Glis glis (edible dormouse).
Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae (syns. Myoxidae, Muscardinidae).
Muscardinus avellanarius (hazel dormouse).
Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae (syns. Myoxidae, Muscardinidae).
A person who sleeps a great deal, or who falls asleep readily (by analogy with the sound hibernation of the dormouse).
senses_topics:
|
7925 | word:
acoustic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acoustic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Know Your Meme
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin acousticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκουστῐκός (akoustikós, “of or for hearing”), from ἀκούω (akoúō, “to hear”) + -ῐκός (-ikós, adjectival suffix). Sense 4 ("autistic") was popularized on TikTok in late October 2023.
senses_examples:
text:
acoustic guitar, acoustic piano
type:
example
text:
acoustic bike
type:
example
text:
For a lot of people, riding a bike through a crowded city—or even on suburban avenues—might feel daunting. Should you get an electric or acoustic bicycle?
ref:
2022 May 19, “How to Get Started Biking”, in Wired
type:
quotation
text:
Implying mathematicians aren't acoustic. I'm an engineer, and even mathematicians freak me out with their autism.
ref:
2014 November 22, u/Victorboris1, “anon is acoustic”, in Reddit, r/4chan, archived from the original on 2023-12-05
type:
quotation
text:
Spinners are for severely acoustic children
ref:
2017 May 14, “Are ADHD spinners /ourtoy/ ?”, in Reddit, r/4chan, archived from the original on 2023-12-05
type:
quotation
text:
I explained I got a 3 day ban for calling someone acoustic because it's bullying/harassment, hence the use of acoustic.]
ref:
[2023 July 7, “Anon is a little acoustic”, in Reddit, r/4chan, archived from the original on 2023-12-05
type:
quotation
text:
cant stand self diagnosed acoustic people ☠️
ref:
2023 December 2, @ScarletGodzilla, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-05
type:
quotation
text:
the whole "is he acoustic" tiktok comment shit is so fucking annoying and just ableist at this point and i'm so sick of it
ref:
2023 December 4, @yeahabsolutelyy, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-05
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds.
Used for soundproofing or modifying sound.
Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds.
Using sound energy in its operation.
Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds.
Able to be set off by sound waves.
Naturally producing or produced by an instrument without electrical amplification or the need thereof.
Non-electric; mechanical.
Euphemistic form of autistic.
senses_topics:
architecture
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
7926 | word:
acoustic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acoustic (plural acoustics)
forms:
form:
acoustics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Know Your Meme
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin acousticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκουστῐκός (akoustikós, “of or for hearing”), from ἀκούω (akoúō, “to hear”) + -ῐκός (-ikós, adjectival suffix). Sense 4 ("autistic") was popularized on TikTok in late October 2023.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The properties or qualities of a room or building that determine how sound is transmitted in it.
A medicine or other agent to assist hearing.
Clipping of acoustic guitar.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
7927 | word:
starling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
starling (plural starlings)
forms:
form:
starlings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English starling, sterling, sterlinge, from Old English stærling, from stær (“starling”) + -ling (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch sterlinck (“starling”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris, which has dark, iridescent plumage.
An inclosure like a coffer-dam, formed of piles driven closely together, before any work or structure as a protection against the wash of the waves, commonly used to protects the piers of a bridge.
One of the piles used in forming such a breakwater.
A fish, rock trout (Hexagrammos spp.), of the North Pacific, especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus, found in US waters.
senses_topics:
|
7928 | word:
crush
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crush (countable and uncountable, plural crushes)
forms:
form:
crushes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
crush
etymology_text:
From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *crusciō (“to brush”), from Frankish *krustijan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”), from Proto-Germanic *kreustaną (“to crush, grind, strike, smash”).
Akin to Middle Dutch crosen (“to bruise, crush”), Middle Low German krossen, krȫsen (“to break, shatter”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”), Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to gnash”).
senses_examples:
text:
The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock; a crush of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock than a correspondingly severe crush of the foot
ref:
1921, Alexis Thomson, Alexander Miles, Manual of Surgery
type:
quotation
text:
a crush at a reception
type:
example
text:
Then there was another set who called themselves the "Ragged Thirteen"; and the account says "they looked it." And, like most diggers, this "crush," to quote my authority, could handle the cards a bit.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 302
type:
quotation
text:
"Look," said Crabbe, warm orange crush in his hand.
ref:
1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292
type:
quotation
text:
I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.
type:
example
text:
And I needed to get my schoolgirl crush under control. There was no way Brín felt anything anywhere near what I felt for him. He saw me as a friend.
ref:
2019, Emma Lea, A Royal Enticement
type:
quotation
text:
It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
ref:
2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
type:
quotation
text:
black crush; white crush
type:
example
text:
Just as they say that marijuana leads to harder drugs, Gallegly is claiming that crush is a "gateway fetish"—a term I've never heard before. He claims that if someone starts with bugs they'll end up escalating to human babies in no time.
ref:
2000, Katharine Gates, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex, page 137
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
A violent crowding.
A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
A group or gang.
A crowd control barrier.
A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
The human object of such infatuation or affection.
A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
A party or festive function.
The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
television
lifestyle
sexuality |
7929 | word:
crush
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crush (third-person singular simple present crushes, present participle crushing, simple past and past participle crushed)
forms:
form:
crushes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crushing
tags:
participle
present
form:
crushed
tags:
participle
past
form:
crushed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
crush
etymology_text:
From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *crusciō (“to brush”), from Frankish *krustijan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”), from Proto-Germanic *kreustaną (“to crush, grind, strike, smash”).
Akin to Middle Dutch crosen (“to bruise, crush”), Middle Low German krossen, krȫsen (“to break, shatter”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”), Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to gnash”).
senses_examples:
text:
to crush grapes
type:
example
text:
Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut
ref:
1769, Benjamin Blayney, King James Bible, Leviticus 22:24
type:
quotation
text:
to crush quartz
type:
example
text:
After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
type:
example
text:
We believe the invasion has reached its peak. The task remaining is to crush it. Our men are confident, the United Nations command is confident, that it will be crushed.
ref:
1950 September 1, Harry S. Truman, 2:02 from the start, in MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162
type:
quotation
text:
A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn.
ref:
2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport
type:
quotation
text:
They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!
type:
example
text:
The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
type:
example
text:
the prospect of the Duke's speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels
ref:
1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
type:
quotation
text:
an eggshell crushes easily
type:
example
text:
She's crushing on him.
type:
example
text:
Then walked in / The girl I'm crushin' / And the kid spilled juice / On my Mom's new cushion
ref:
2000, “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It)”, performed by Aaron Carter
type:
quotation
text:
... I could just let loose and be myself no holding back you know we just where to young kids in love, lust, crushing whatever you wanted to call it but we where living it up having fun when we where together the rest of the world didn't exist ...
ref:
2011, May'lon Miranda, Love Is Blind, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
And the one subject that I get an A plus in every time, is the ancient art of crushing. I crush, therefore I am. I've decided to share the benefit of my wisdom and after months of hopelessly lusting after Dylan, I've REALISED that there are twelve degrees of crushing from the slightly embarrassing things most girls will do to catch the eye of the heir to their heart, to the verging on ridiculous stunts you pull when you're in the grip of a passion that renders you powerless.
ref:
2013, Sarra Manning, Diary of a Crush: Kiss and Make Up
type:
quotation
text:
"I respect your wiring," he explained, "but I'm crushing on you. And when I crush, I crush hard." He thought it would be better if we stopped seeing each other for a while.
ref:
2013, Shozan Jack Haubner, Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk, page 130
type:
quotation
text:
He frames his subject in distant close-ups (we feel the distance, due mostly to the crushed perspective brought about by the telephoto lens).
ref:
2003, Michel Chion, The Films of Jacques Tati, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
They realise that trajectories, space expansion and crushing are different with different lenses, whether wide angle or telephoto, and that actors' eyelines will be altered.
ref:
2010, Birgit Bräuchler, John Postill, Theorising Media and Practice, page 319
type:
quotation
text:
My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
To oppress or grievously burden.
To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
film
media
television
broadcasting
media
television |
7930 | word:
then
word_type:
adv
expansion:
then (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English then(ne), than(ne), from Old English þonne, þanne, þænne (“then, at that time”), from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that (time), then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”). Cognate with Dutch dan (“then”), German dann (“then”), Icelandic þá (“then”). Doublet of than.
senses_examples:
text:
He was happy then.
type:
example
text:
He fixed it, then left.
type:
example
text:
Turn left, then right, then right again, then keep going until you reach the service station.
type:
example
text:
There are three green ones, then a blue one.
type:
example
text:
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
ref:
2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Another legend says that now and again in the world's history a monarch appears who conquers and rules every nation under the sun. […] Then many of the Siamese believe that the animal is inhabited by the soul of some great man of the past […]
ref:
1908, E Young, “Chapter 17 White elephants”, in Peeps at Many Lands: Siam, London: Adam and Charles Black, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
If it’s locked, then we’ll need the key.
type:
example
text:
Is it 12 o'clock already? Then it's time for me to leave.
type:
example
text:
You don't like potatoes? What do you want me to cook, then?
type:
example
text:
And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before
The Tavern shouted — "Open then the Door!
You know how little while we have to stay,
And, once departed, may return no more."
ref:
1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
That happy minute would elate me, / End all my sorrow, grief, and cares; / Then do not frown, altho' you hate me, / But smile and dissipate my fears: […]
ref:
1749, The Universal Magazine, volume 4, page 321
type:
quotation
text:
That’s a nice shirt, but then, so is the other one.
type:
example
text:
‘She says Indian elephants are tidgy little things.’
‘They're not then.’ Emma was getting heated. ‘They're –’
‘Emma!’ said Jenny sharply. The child subsided.
ref:
2001, Eric Malpass, At the Height of the Moon, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At that time.
Soon afterward.
Next in order of place.
In addition; also; besides.
In that case.
At the same time; on the other hand.
Used to contradict an assertion.
senses_topics:
temporal-location
time
temporal-location
time
|
7931 | word:
then
word_type:
adj
expansion:
then (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English then(ne), than(ne), from Old English þonne, þanne, þænne (“then, at that time”), from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that (time), then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”). Cognate with Dutch dan (“then”), German dann (“then”), Icelandic þá (“then”). Doublet of than.
senses_examples:
text:
He had met his then girlfriend when he had just started university. The relationship ended unhappily when the girlfriend complained that he never wanted to go out.
ref:
2011, Alessandra Lemma, Mary Target, Peter Fonagy, Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy: A Clinician's Guide, page 124
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Being so at that time.
senses_topics:
|
7932 | word:
then
word_type:
noun
expansion:
then
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English then(ne), than(ne), from Old English þonne, þanne, þænne (“then, at that time”), from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that (time), then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”). Cognate with Dutch dan (“then”), German dann (“then”), Icelandic þá (“then”). Doublet of than.
senses_examples:
text:
It will be finished before then.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That time
senses_topics:
|
7933 | word:
then
word_type:
conj
expansion:
then
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English then(ne), than(ne), from Old English þonne, þanne, þænne (“then, at that time”), from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that (time), then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”). Cognate with Dutch dan (“then”), German dann (“then”), Icelandic þá (“then”). Doublet of than.
senses_examples:
text:
And as a Pible caſt into a Spring, / Wee ſee a ſort of trembling cirkles riſe, / One forming other in theyr iſſuing / Till ouer all the Fount they circulize, / So this perpetuall-motion-making kiſſe, / Is propagate through all my faculties, / And makes my breaſt an endleſſe Fount of bliſſe, / Of which, if Gods could drink, theyr matchleſſe fare / Would make them much more bleſſed then they are.
ref:
1595, Ouids Banquet of Sence. A Coronet for his Miſtreſſe Philoſophie, and his amorous Zodiacke. VVith a tranſlation of a Latine coppie, written by a Fryer, Anno Dom. 1400, London: I. R. for Richard Smith
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of than.
Misspelling of than.
senses_topics:
|
7934 | word:
split
word_type:
verb
expansion:
split (third-person singular simple present splits, present participle splitting, simple past and past participle split)
forms:
form:
splits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
splitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
split
tags:
participle
past
form:
split
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Split
etymology_text:
Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Compare Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Old Irish sliss (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).
senses_examples:
text:
He has split his lip.
type:
example
text:
The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom. This system splits water molecules and delivers some of their electrons to other molecules that help build up carbohydrates.
ref:
2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 2013-09-03
type:
quotation
text:
We split the money among three people.
type:
example
text:
Presently the 57-strong Class 378 fleet is split between the East London line and North London line, with 29 units allocated on the east side.
ref:
2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Let's split this scene and see if we can find a real party.
type:
example
text:
Did you hear Dick and Jane split? They'll probably get a divorce.
type:
example
text:
Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.
type:
example
text:
In the first case X²-2, the minimum polynomial of #x5C;sqrt 2, splits completely over #x5C;Q(#x5C;sqrt 2); in the second case we see that X³-2, the minimum polynomial of 3#x5C;sqrt 2, does not split completely over #x5C;Q(3#x5C;sqrt 2).
ref:
2007, John M. Howie, Fields and Galois Theory, Springer, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
Boston split with Philadelphia in a doubleheader, winning the first game 3-1 before losing 2-0 in the nightcap.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
To share; to divide.
To leave.
To separate.
To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
To factor into linear factors.
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
To burst out laughing.
To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
senses_topics:
algebra
mathematics
sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
politics |
7935 | word:
split
word_type:
adj
expansion:
split (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Split
split exact sequence
etymology_text:
Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Compare Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Old Irish sliss (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).
senses_examples:
text:
Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
type:
example
text:
With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever.
ref:
2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
10+³⁄₁₆ is a split quotation.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Divided.
Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
senses_topics:
algebra
mathematics
sciences
business
finance
stock-exchange
business
finance
stock-exchange
business
finance
stock-exchange |
7936 | word:
split
word_type:
noun
expansion:
split (plural splits)
forms:
form:
splits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Split
Split weight training
etymology_text:
Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Compare Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Old Irish sliss (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).
senses_examples:
text:
The kernels split in shelling, known as splits, form a fifth grade of shelled Virginia peanuts.
ref:
1929, United States Tariff Commission, Agricultural products and provisions, page 1334
type:
quotation
text:
He’s got a nasty split.
type:
example
text:
In the 3000 m race, his 800 m split was 1:45.32
text:
[I]t would be a rare split in that it would be unlikely to result in an armchair tick for any birders, living or dead.
ref:
2017 June 24, Australian Birdlife, Carlton, Victoria, page 76, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A crack or longitudinal fissure.
A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
A split-finger fastball.
A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
A split shot or split stroke.
A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single.
The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
senses_topics:
cheerleading
dance
dancing
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
construction
manufacturing
gambling
games
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
7937 | word:
cough
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cough (third-person singular simple present coughs, present participle coughing, simple past and past participle coughed)
forms:
form:
coughs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
coughing
tags:
participle
present
form:
coughed
tags:
participle
past
form:
coughed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
cough
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English coughen, coghen (“to cough; to vomit”) [and other forms], from Old English *cohhian (compare Old English cohhetan (“to bluster; to riot; to cough (?)”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”), ultimately of onomatopoeic origin.
cognates
* Middle Dutch cuchen (“to cough”) (modern Dutch kuchen (“to cough”); German Low German kuchen (“to cough”))
* Middle High German kûchen (“to breathe (on); to exhale”), kîchen (“to breathe with difficulty”) (modern German keichen, keuchen (“to breathe with difficulty; to gasp, pant”))
* Spanish cof (“coughing sound”)
* West Frisian kiche (“to cough”), kochelje (“to cough persistently”)
senses_examples:
text:
Sometimes she coughed up blood.
type:
example
text:
He almost coughed himself into a fit.
type:
example
text:
I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.
type:
example
text:
Yet notwithſtandyng all this geare, / thou cougheſt ſtill, perdy / Ye are a craftie knaue, you cough / to fare deliciouſly.
ref:
1577, Martial, “Epigrammes out of Martial. [To Parthenope.]”, in Timothe Kendall, transl., Flowers of Epigrammes […], [Manchester]: […] [Charles Simms] for the Spenser Society, published 1874, →OCLC, pages 56–57
type:
quotation
text:
But often, when thy face [i.e., that of a horse] is turned from the stable, thou hast an unaccountable desire to place it in the position occupied by thy tail: thou stoppest, coughest, shyest, and erst, with swift detorsion, turnest round, then, with sidelong glance of my magic caduceus, ominously wagging between the horizon and thy ample sides, I incite thee on, but rarely does thy pace more than trot, from home.
ref:
1835 January 23 (date written), Frederic James Post, “A Discourse Touching Rides and Riding”, in Extracts from the Diary and Other Manuscripts of the Late Frederic James Post, of Islington. […], London: […] [James Moyes] for private circulation, published 1838, →OCLC, pages 331–332
type:
quotation
text:
Tossivi / Tu tossais / Thou coughedst]
ref:
[[1840], A[ngelo] Renzi, “Verbi. Verbes. Verbs.”, in Le polyglotte improvisé, ou l’art d’écrire les langues sans les appendre. […] [The Improvised Polyglot, or The Art of Writing Languages without Learning Them. […]], Paris: Chez l‘auteur, […]; Chez Baudry, […], et Chez les Principaux Libraries, →OCLC, page 498
type:
quotation
text:
The engine coughed and sputtered.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the manner described in sense 1.1.
To express (words, etc.) in the manner described in sense 1.1.
To surrender (information); to confess.
Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand over (something); especially, to pay up (money).
To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something blocking or irritating the airway.
To make a noise like a cough.
To surrender information; to confess, to spill the beans.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
|
7938 | word:
cough
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cough (plural coughs)
forms:
form:
coughs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English cough (“a cough; illness causing coughing”) [and other forms], from coughen (verb): see etymology 1.
The interjection is probably derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.
type:
example
text:
(medical condition):
text:
whooping cough
type:
example
text:
Sorry, I can’t come to work today—I’ve got a nasty cough.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
A bout of repeated coughing (verb sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough.
A noise or sound like a cough (sense 1).
senses_topics:
|
7939 | word:
cough
word_type:
intj
expansion:
cough
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English cough (“a cough; illness causing coughing”) [and other forms], from coughen (verb): see etymology 1.
The interjection is probably derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
He was—cough—indisposed.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to represent the sound of a cough (noun sense 1), especially when focusing attention on a following utterance, often an attribution of blame or a euphemism: ahem.
senses_topics:
|
7940 | word:
acorn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acorn (plural acorns)
forms:
form:
acorns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Acorn (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier *akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-Germanic *akraną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égrō (“berry”). Cognate with Scots aicorn, Saterland Frisian Äkkene, Tocharian B oko (“fruit”), Welsh eirin (“plums”), Breton irin (“plum”), Irish airne (“sloe”), Lithuanian úoga, Russian я́года (jágoda, “berry”), etc. Not related to Old English āc (“oak”) or corn (“corn, seed”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Romans, likewise, represented the uncouth Priapus—the god of rustic fertility and sexual assault—as comically well endowed, with his acorn showing.
ref:
2021, A. W. Strouse, Form & Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumsion
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
See acorn-shell.
The glans penis.
A testicle.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
|
7941 | word:
lynx
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lynx (plural lynxes or lynx)
forms:
form:
lynxes
tags:
plural
form:
lynx
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lynx, linx, lenx, lynce, from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”), because of the cat's glowing eyes and ability to see in the dark. Eclipsed English los, loz (“lynx”); Middle English lusk (“lynx”), from Old English lox (“lynx”) as the animal died out in Britain during the Middle Ages.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several medium-sized wild cats, mostly of the genus Lynx.
senses_topics:
|
7942 | word:
muskrat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
muskrat (plural muskrats)
forms:
form:
muskrats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps so called for its musky odour and because it resembles a rat, or perhaps called by an Algonquian name like the Abenaki moskwas, with the spelling altered under the influence of the English words musk and rat.
senses_examples:
text:
1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 187.
He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirrels.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large aquatic rodent of species Ondatra zibethicus.
Any of several shrews in the family Soricidae, especially an Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus).
senses_topics:
|
7943 | word:
turtle dove
word_type:
noun
expansion:
turtle dove (plural turtle doves)
forms:
form:
turtle doves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
turtle dove
etymology_text:
From Middle English turtildove, turteldoufe (cognate with Old High German turtultūba, turtulatūba, turtiltūba, Middle High German turteltūbe, türteltūbe, German Turteltaube; German Low German Turtelduuv, Dutch tortelduif, Faroese turtildúgva, Icelandic turtildúfa), Danish turteldue, Norwegian Bokmål turteldue, Norwegian Nynorsk turteldue, Swedish turturduva. The first element is from Latin turtur (“turtledove”) (compare the archaic synonym turtle (“turtle dove (bird)”); the word is not related to turtle (“reptile with a shell”).
senses_examples:
text:
Out for their evening constitutional. A lovely pair of turtledoves. Around the jolly corner, and off to the park.
ref:
1961, 101 Dalmatians
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several (species of) birds, called by this traditional name, mainly in the genus Streptopelia, of the family Columbidae (doves and pigeons, which also included the extinct passenger pigeon, dodo, and solitaire).
A lover or couple as a pair.
senses_topics:
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7944 | word:
ibex
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ibex (plural ibex or ibexes or ibices)
forms:
form:
ibex
tags:
plural
form:
ibexes
tags:
plural
form:
ibices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ibex
etymology_text:
From Latin ībex (“chamois”), possibly from Iberian or Aquitanian; akin to Old Spanish bezerro (“bull”) (modern becerro (“yearling”)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.
An imaginary creature with serrated horns, somewhat similar to the heraldic antelope.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
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7945 | word:
distribution
word_type:
noun
expansion:
distribution (countable and uncountable, plural distributions)
forms:
form:
distributions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French, from Latin distributio, from distribuere 'to distribute', itself from dis- 'apart' + tribuere 'to' (from tribus).
senses_examples:
text:
December 6, 1709, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the sons of the clergy at their anniversary-meeting in the Church of St. Paul
our charitable distributions
text:
The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000.
type:
example
text:
The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
type:
example
text:
The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution.
type:
example
text:
a Linux distribution
type:
example
text:
It is alſo called a diſtribucion, when we diuide the whole, into ſeuerall partes, and ſaie we haue foure poynctes, whereof we purpoſe to ſpeake, compꝛehendyng our whole talke within compaſſe of theſame.
ref:
1553, Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique (1962), book iii, folio 99, page 209 s.v. “Diſtribucion”
text:
Diſtribution, in Rhetoric, a Kind of Deſcription; or a Figure, whereby an orderly Diviſion, and Enumeration is made of the principal Qualities of a Subject.
ref:
1728, Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopædia I, page 230/2 s.v. “Diſtribution²”
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
Anything distributed; portion; share.
The result of distributing; arrangement.
The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.
A set of bundled software components.
The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
The resolution of a whole into its parts.
The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
senses_topics:
business
marketing
economics
sciences
card-games
games
mathematics
sciences
statistics
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
business
finance
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
media
printing
publishing
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7946 | word:
chin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chin (plural chins)
forms:
form:
chins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English chyn, from Old English ċinn (“chin”), from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz (“chin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus (“chin, jaw”). Compare West Frisian/Dutch kin, Low German/German Kinn, Danish kind, Icelandic kinn, Welsh gen, Latin gena, Tocharian A śanwem, Ancient Greek γένυς (génus, “jaw”), Armenian ծնոտ (cnot), Persian چانه (čâne), Sanskrit हनु (hánu). Doublet of gena.
senses_examples:
text:
In the cleft of the aircraft's chin is a small turret for a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) "eyeball" that will enable MH-47E pilots to see clearly in complete darkness […]
ref:
1990, Army, volume 40
type:
quotation
text:
Lockheed Martin's system is mounted behind a transparent, low-observable window blended into the aircraft's chin.
ref:
2001, Aviation Week & Space Technology
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
Talk.
A lie, a falsehood.
A person of the upper class.
The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.
The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.
The bottom part of a mobile phone, below the screen.
senses_topics:
boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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7947 | word:
chin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chin (third-person singular simple present chins, present participle chinning, simple past and past participle chinned)
forms:
form:
chins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
chinning
tags:
participle
present
form:
chinned
tags:
participle
past
form:
chinned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English chyn, from Old English ċinn (“chin”), from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz (“chin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus (“chin, jaw”). Compare West Frisian/Dutch kin, Low German/German Kinn, Danish kind, Icelandic kinn, Welsh gen, Latin gena, Tocharian A śanwem, Ancient Greek γένυς (génus, “jaw”), Armenian ծնոտ (cnot), Persian چانه (čâne), Sanskrit हनु (hánu). Doublet of gena.
senses_examples:
text:
“I reckon you can explain, Mrs. Peabody.” […] “An’ I reckon that newcomer you’ve been chinning with could explain if he had a mind to.”
ref:
1912, Jack London, chapter 5, in Smoke Bellew, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
This little chore involved getting up at 3 A.M., working about two hours, then sitting around chinning and drinking coffee with the radio operators until too late to go back to sleep.
ref:
1944, Ernie Pyle, chapter 1, in Brave Men, New York: Henry Holt, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Been up chinning your sporting editor, Ragsy Hurd. […]
ref:
1911, Henry Sydnor Harrison, chapter 7, in Queed, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
What do you suppose that Seagreave’s chinning Hughie about[?]
ref:
1912, Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow, chapter 12, in The Black Pearl, New York: Appleton, page 239
type:
quotation
text:
It is worth noting that on the eighth day he was strong enough to “chin” himself six times in succession, though previous to the fasting treatment he had never in his life been able to do this more than once or twice.
ref:
1913, Upton Sinclair, The Fasting Cure, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
A description of the cour would be incomplete without an enumeration of the manifold duties of the planton in charge, which were as follows: to prevent the men from using the horizontal bar, except for chinning, since if you swung yourself upon it you could look over the wall into the women’s cour […]
ref:
1922, E. E. Cummings, chapter 4, in The Enormous Room, New York: Modern Library, published 1949, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
The Englishmen had also been lifting weights and chinning themselves for years. Their bellies were like washboards. The muscles of their calves and upper arms were like cannonballs.
ref:
1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 5, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 119
type:
quotation
text:
You can grunt and curse to your heart’s content but you cannot swing your body when chinning.
ref:
1986, Martin Cohen, The Marine Corps 3X Fitness Program, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 3, p. 75
type:
quotation
text:
He told me once that he used to be scared to death every time he started in a hard game for fear he’d get badly injured. Said it wasn’t until someone had jabbed him in the nose or ‘chinned’ him that he forgot to be scared.
ref:
1915, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 14, in Left Tackle Thayer, New York: Dodd, Mead, pages 183–184
type:
quotation
text:
‘I’m in trouble, I hit a policeman—chinned him. He was messin’ me about, pushin’ me around on the pavement, so I chinned him, didn’t I? […]’
ref:
1966, Nell Dunn, “OUT with the Boys”, in Up the Junction, Philadelphia: Lippincott, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
Conspicuous in the front rank of “the music” was Joe Lippett, chinning his fife […]
ref:
1849 September, Alfred Billings Street, “General Training”, in Graham’s American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volume 35, number 3, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
A comical fellow hopped down from a stump and chinned his fiddle while Prince Chang stared.
ref:
1925, Arthur Bowie Chrisman, “Four Generals”, in Shen of the Sea: Chinese Stories for Children, New York: E.P. Dutton, published 1968, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
Jimmy sat down at the piano, and the scientist tuned, then chinned the violin.
ref:
1951, Gene Fowler, chapter 16, in Schnozzola: The Story of Jimmy Durante, New York: Viking, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
I was too tired to argue; I chinned the valve three or four times, felt a blast blistering my face.
ref:
1958, Robert Heinlein, chapter 8, in Have Space Suit—Will Travel, New York: Del Rey, page 160
type:
quotation
text:
I landed kind of sloppily on hands and knees and chinned the squad frequency. “First squad sound off!”
ref:
1985, Joe Haldeman, “You Can Never Go Back”, in Dealing in Futures, New York: Viking, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
[…] she elbowed the table and chinned her hand.
ref:
1977, Ian Wallace, chapter 26, in The Sign of the Mute Medusa, New York: Popular Library, page 243
type:
quotation
text:
He chinned the alley fence and looked both ways along it.
ref:
1994, Garry Disher, chapter 7, in Crosskill, St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
But you don’t love him, said Madame Sonia with understanding. Do you love this one? Madame Sonia chinned the American.
ref:
2004, Han Ong, The Disinherited, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 239
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To talk.
To talk to or with (someone).
To perform a chin-up (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar).
To punch or hit (someone)'s chin (part of the body).
To put or hold (a musical instrument) up to one's chin.
To turn on or operate (a device) using one's chin; to select (a particular setting) using one's chin.
To put one's chin on (something).
To indicate or point toward (someone or something) with one's chin.
senses_topics:
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7948 | word:
chin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chin (plural chins)
forms:
form:
chins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening of chinchilla.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chinchilla.
senses_topics:
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7949 | word:
straight
word_type:
adj
expansion:
straight (comparative straighter, superlative straightest)
forms:
form:
straighter
tags:
comparative
form:
straightest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
straight
etymology_text:
From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straught.
senses_examples:
text:
The other people, I presume, are supposed to be standing to attention, but they're all smiling at me. The lines are not even straight.
ref:
2011 March 22, Adharanand Finn, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Now, as the world knows, the straightest way to the heart of the honest voter is through the women of the land, and the straightest way to the heart of the women is through the children of the land; and one method of winning both, with rural politicians, is to kiss the babies wide and far.
ref:
1913, John Fox, Jr., The Kentuckians, page 185
type:
quotation
text:
He had no time to set himself, but his throw was straight and true. Pick slid in, spikes high, and Schang tagged him in the ribs a foot or two from the plate.
ref:
2000, Allan Wood, Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox, page 293
type:
quotation
text:
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Coniff: He did not have his hat on straight; that is the one thing, is it?
ref:
1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge
text:
There's nothing more annoying than taking a great picture, only to find that the horizon isn't straight.
ref:
2004, Chris Weston, 500 Digital Photography Hints, Tips, and Techniques
type:
quotation
text:
Steyn continues and it's all a bit more orderly down his end as O'Brien defends the first three balls with a straight bat and a respectful dip of the head.
ref:
2011 March 15, Alan Gardner, Barney Ronay, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Tony Blair issued a direct challenge to the IRA yesterday when he demanded they give straight answers to three simple questions[…].
ref:
2003 April 24, Rosie Cowan, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
What's more, he actually tries to answer a straight question with a straight answer.
ref:
2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
‘It wasn't the proper thing, squoire. It wasn't straight.’
ref:
1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate
type:
quotation
text:
How easy is it to go straight after a life spent in and out of prison?
ref:
2010 August 4, The Guardian, Out of prison and trying to go straight
type:
quotation
text:
Allan Blye, a CBC-TV mainstay in the early Sixties, worked as a singer, writer and straight and comedic actor.
ref:
1988, Ed Gould, Entertaining Canadians: Canada's international stars, 1900-1988, Cappis Pr Pub Ltd
type:
quotation
text:
All of Peter Schickele's music, both straight and comedic are integrated side by side in this chapter.
ref:
2004, Tammy Ravas, Peter Schickele: A Bio-bibliography, Greenwood Publishing Group
type:
quotation
text:
More success followed, both straight and comedic, with hits such as Dead Poets' Society (1989), in which Williams scored another Oscar nomination for skilfully handling a classic "rogue teacher" role that hovers just this side of sentimentality,[…]
ref:
2005, Bob McCabe, The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies, Rough Guides Limited
type:
quotation
text:
Oh, music, how he loved it; it seemed to set everything straight all at once in his head.
ref:
2007, Grant Allen, What's Bred in the Bone, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
"If you wonder why folks can't take the news seriously, here's Exhibit A," said one blogger. "Lord Jesus, how can the reporter file this story with a straight face?"
ref:
2010 August 15, Paul Gallagher, The Observer
type:
quotation
text:
After four straight wins, Mudchester United are top of the league.
type:
example
text:
It moves them from 17th to 12th on seven points, while Bolton are now bottom of the table with five straight defeats.
ref:
2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3-0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
As of October 29th, three-month dollar Libor (the rate at which banks borrow from each other) had fallen for 13 straight days and was nearly one-and-a-half percentage points below its October 10th level.
ref:
2008 October 30, “Bad vibrations”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
Murray started well against Marcos Baghdatis before slumping to defeat in straight sets and the British No1 admitted he may not have been mentally prepared for the rigours of the ATP Tour after a gruelling start to 2011.
ref:
2011 February 10, Press Association
text:
a straight Republican
type:
example
text:
a straight Democrat
type:
example
text:
a straight ballot
type:
example
text:
Although Eyles, the minor celebrity, is respected by his co-workers, he looks out of place among the dozens of short-haired, short-sleeved technocrats who man the Lab. “No doubt about it,” he says, “there are an awful lot of people around here you’d have to call straight.”
ref:
1971 March 18, Timothy Crouse, “Don Eyles: Extra! Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14!”, in Rolling Stone
type:
quotation
text:
I've learned that there are two types of gays—straight gays and kinky gays.
ref:
1983 August 20, Larry Goldsmith, quoting Joanne Prevostt Anzalone, “Pilgrim Theater Closed, 'Kinky Gays' Blamed”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
You say you've got to go home / Well at least there's someone there that you can talk to / And you never have to face up to the night on your own / Jesus, it must be great to be straight
ref:
1994, “Do You Remember the First Time?”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), His ’n’ Hers, performed by Pulp
type:
quotation
text:
‘Her last album was a bit too straight,’ he says, ‘but this one puts her in a more contemporary framework and softens her music.’
ref:
1998 October 17, Eileen Fitzpatrick, Dominic Pride, Billboard
type:
quotation
text:
"When you say he's a straight guy, you mean[…]?" I held up my left hand as if it were a shield and spun my ring around. I told her: "He works on Wall Street.[…]He wouldn't understand my business. He's always had a straight job. His entire life he's been so – so normal that he doesn't even know how normal he is.[…]He doesn't know I'm a hooker. I'm pretending to be a straight chick. And it's working! And that makes him a straight guy. It's ... I feel like Dr. Frankenhooker."
ref:
2007, Tracy Quan, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers
type:
quotation
text:
Ain't nobody straight in L.A. / It seems that everybody is gay
ref:
1975, “Ain't Nobody Straight in L.A.”, in City of Angels, performed by The Miracles
type:
quotation
text:
We only appear straight for the first five seconds. Just walking down the street, in the diner, or at the boardwalk, we hear, "Is she a man? Is she a woman? If she is a straight woman, what is she doing with this gay man?" We check in with each other. "What do you think, is it okay? I think we should go. I think we should cross over to the other side. Danger."
ref:
1997, Laura Harris, Elizabeth Crocker, Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
["][…]He's a straight guy who does drag." At that, the man laughed. "Oh, you're putting me on!" He decided I must have been pulling his leg the whole time. He glanced back at my husband again. "So what's his number?" "The same as mine."
ref:
2003, Helen Boyd, My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser, New York, N.Y.: Thunder's Mouth Press, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
Some of my friends – gay and straight – seem unable to understand the close but platonic nature of my and Gian's relationship, but have been supportive.
ref:
2007 September 17, Layla Kumari, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Angela smiles. ‘I'm straight, Zoe, and I'm happily married.’
ref:
2011, Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home, page 273
type:
quotation
text:
Every other mode of social discourse is "other," whether it be termed gay (or the newly acceptable queer), bisexual, or asexual, or embodied in the concept of the spinster, the confirmed bachelor, the old maid, or the same-sex couple who will never fit into the "straight" world, and doesn't or don't want to. The state of nonstraightness is essentially suspect; it is not seen as "right [or] correct."
ref:
2012, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Why did he have to be straight? It's my tragedy. When we went camping with the school, we shared a tent. I was hoping for a Brokeback Mountain moment. I mean, I know he's straight, but there's always hope.
ref:
2013, Katie Price, He's the One, London: Century, page 233
type:
quotation
text:
straight marriage, sex, relationships
type:
example
text:
However, a "man/woman relationship" with a bisexual person in it, is not a "straight" relationship[…]
ref:
2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Seal Press, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
What was possible family-wise was fairly limited, though many gays, lesbians, and bisexuals had children in straight relationships and then came out.
ref:
2015, Cara Bergstrom-Lynch, Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Becoming Parents or Remaining Childfree: Confronting Social Inequalities, Lexington Books, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: French
text:
For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
ref:
1989, Gus Van Sant, Drugstore Cowboy
type:
quotation
text:
‘Alex's dad used a lot of drugs. He's been straight for years now, but it took a long time for him to be able to deal with his feelings.’
ref:
2001, Ruella Frank, Body of Evidence, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
The shirts only come in straight sizes, not in plus sizes.
type:
example
text:
shopping at a straight-sized store
type:
example
text:
Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow.
ref:
c. 1360, Sir John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
type:
quotation
text:
that the old streets are unfit for the present frequency of Coaches; and that the passage of Ludgate is a throat too straight for the body.
ref:
1814, John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Thomas Hood, The Beauties of England and Wales
type:
quotation
text:
Enter ye into the straight gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth unto destruction, and many go in thereat; because straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
ref:
1893, The Pulpit: A Magazine of Sermons - Volume 8, page 322
type:
quotation
text:
Family or Gentile expansion: “Behold now the place where we dwell with thee is too straight for us.”
ref:
1894, American Anthropologist, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
One is a wide gate and broad way seeker, while the other is the straight gate and narrow way seeker.
ref:
2013, Dr. Apostle Emmanuel Adebiyi, Purposes of the Cross
type:
quotation
text:
A real pimp is a gentleman, but these are pimps in gorilla suits. They hang around pimps, they have hoes on the track working for them, they may even look like pimps, but they are straight simps.
ref:
2012, Pimpin' Ken, PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Real cowboys know how to rope, ride a horse and drink whisky straight.
ref:
2003, Ron Jordan, Considerations
type:
quotation
text:
The Martini is still in belief, if not in fact, the centerpiece of a rite, and people who would not drink straight gin on the rocks will drink straight gin on the rocks if it is called a Martini.
ref:
2003, Lowell Edmunds, Martini, Straight Up, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
“Was it a straight message?” Miss Jenny asked. The other said yes and she added: “Horace must have got rich, like the soldiers say all the Y.M.C.A. did. Well, if it has taught a man like Horace to make money, the war was a pretty good thing, after all.”
ref:
1964 [1929], William Faulkner, Sartoris (The Collected Works of William Faulkner), London: Chatto & Windus, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
"Is something on your mind?" "Nah, I'm straight".
type:
example
text:
Just making sure you're straight
type:
example
text:
We had a bit of a disagreement, but we're straight now.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
Direct, undeviating.
Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
Having all cylinders in a single straight line; in-line.
Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
Serious rather than comedic.
In proper order; as it should be.
In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
Heterosexual.
Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
Related to conventional sexual intercourse.
Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
Not plus size; thin.
Strait; narrow.
Stretched out; fully extended.
Thorough; utter; unqualified.
Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
Sent at a full rate for immediate delivery; being a fast telegram.
Concerning the property allowing the parallel transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
OK, all right, fine; in a good state or situation.
On good terms.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
government
politics
government
politics
fashion
lifestyle
lifestyle
religion
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telegraphy
mathematics
sciences
|
7950 | word:
straight
word_type:
adv
expansion:
straight (comparative more straight, superlative most straight)
forms:
form:
more straight
tags:
comparative
form:
most straight
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
straight
etymology_text:
From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straught.
senses_examples:
text:
The door will be straight ahead of you.
type:
example
text:
Go straight back.
type:
example
text:
On arriving at work, he went straight to his office.
type:
example
text:
He claims he can hold his breath for three minutes straight.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
Continuously; without interruption or pause.
Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
senses_topics:
|
7951 | word:
straight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
straight (plural straights)
forms:
form:
straights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
straight
etymology_text:
From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straught.
senses_examples:
text:
After four grueling laps, the race had come down to a sprint. Into the straight, although my legs were burning, I called on them for more, and they responded. On my inside the maroon singlet came with me, until it was just the two of us heading for the line.
ref:
2009, Robert Newton, Runner, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
Seppi started the engine, then shifted first gear and sped away into second, then third and fourth gear. Frank heard the roar of the Porsche's engine further down the straight and the back short straight. He held a stopwatch in his hand, waiting for him to come up into the straight from the hairpin curve.
ref:
2011, Gene W. Zepp, 24 Heures Du Mans, [S.l.]: Xlibris, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
My friends call straights "heteros".
type:
example
text:
You live with straights who tell you you was king / Jump when your momma tell you anything
ref:
1971, John Lennon (lyrics and music), “How Do You Sleep?”, in Imagine
type:
quotation
text:
Boys! Boys! You're scaring the straights, okay? Is there any way that we could do this tomorrow?
ref:
1989, Ghostbusters II, spoken by Peter Venkman (Bill Murray)
type:
quotation
text:
More importantly, Blows Against the Empire […] more than any other work revealed the split vision towards space exploration among many in the counter-culture: a romantic vision of the freedom offered by space that had been fostered by a lifetime of science fiction consumption, immersion in a technological society, the countercultural yearning for speed and “the road,” and, thanks to LSD and other hallucinogens, a unique preappreciation of space traveling not available to straights, versus the bland, oppressive vision of exploration offered by NASA, itself just one part of a larger destructive system that was devastating Earth and that could only offer further oppression in space, not liberation.
ref:
2014, Matthew D. Tribbe, “Turning a Miracle into a Bummer”, in No Requiem for the Space Age, page 150
type:
quotation
text:
A straight = a straighter = a straight cut, une cigarette en tabac de Virginie.]
ref:
[1923, J[oseph] Manchon, Le slang : lexique de l'anglais familier et vulgaire : précédé d'une étude sur la pronunciation et la grammaire populaires, p. 296
text:
2021, B. J. Deming, 25 More Facts About House Cats
A hopeful sign of compromise is the growing popularity of Scottish Fold "straights" (cats like Maru, without droopy ears).
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
Five cards in sequence.
A heterosexual.
A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
A cat that has straight ears despite belonging to a breed that often has folded ears.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker
|
7952 | word:
straight
word_type:
verb
expansion:
straight (third-person singular simple present straights, present participle straighting, simple past and past participle straighted)
forms:
form:
straights
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
straighting
tags:
participle
present
form:
straighted
tags:
participle
past
form:
straighted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
straight
etymology_text:
From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straught.
senses_examples:
text:
One man draws out the wire , another straights it , a third cuts it , a fourth points it , a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head
ref:
1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To straighten.
senses_topics:
|
7953 | word:
rood
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rood (plural roods)
forms:
form:
roods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English rode, rood (“cross”), from Old English rōd (“cross”), from Proto-Germanic *rōdō, *rōdǭ (“rod, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *rōt-, *reh₁t- (“bar, beam, stem”).
Cognate with German Rute (“rod, cane, pole”), Norwegian roda (“rod”). Largely displaced by cross. More at rod.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] a bumptious fool whose god was property, not property in vast estates such as a true man might worship, but in paltry roods.
ref:
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
Perhaps, however, he could ensure against being completely alone by cultivating the few roods of garden wished upon him.
ref:
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 195
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.
An area of sixty-four square yards.
A measure of five and a half yards in length.
senses_topics:
|
7954 | word:
dromedary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dromedary (plural dromedaries)
forms:
form:
dromedaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dromedari, dromedarie (“dromedary; any camel”) [and other forms], from Old French dromedaire, from Late Latin dromedārius (“kind of camel”), from Latin *dromadārius, from dromas, dromadis (“dromedary”) + -ārius (suffix forming nouns denoting agents of use). Dromas and dromadis are derived from Ancient Greek δρομᾰ́ς (dromás, “running; dromedary”), an ellipsis of δρομὰς κάμηλος (dromàs kámēlos, “running camel”), from δρόμος (drómos, “race, running; race course, track”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *drem- (“to run”).
senses_examples:
text:
The duke in his schelde and dreches no lengere, / Drawes hym a dromedarie, with dredfulle knyghtez; [...]
(please add an English translation of this quotation)]
ref:
[c. 1400, Edmund Brock, editor, Morte Arthure, or The Death of Arthur: Edited from Robert Thornton’s MS. […], new edition (in Middle English), London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1871, page 87, lines 2940–2941
type:
quotation
text:
The Dromedarie, Camell, Horſe, and Aſſe, / For loade and carriage doth a Sheepe ſurpaſſe: [...]
ref:
1630, John Taylor, “Taylors Pastorall, being Both Historicall and Satyricall. […]”, in All the Workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-poet. […], London: […] Iames Boler; […], →OCLC, page 52; republished in The Works of John Taylor the Water Poet […] (Publications of the Spenser Society; no. 2), [Manchester]: […] Spenser Society, 1868, →OCLC, page 536, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he Dromedarie [...] who is marvellous ſwift, and will run an hundred miles in a day; but the Germanes call a dull and ſlow man a Dromedary, [...]
ref:
1650, Edward Leigh, “Δρόμος [Drómos]”, in Critica Sacra in Two Parts: The First Containing Observations on All the Radices, or Primitive Hebrevv Words of the Old Testament, in Order Alphabetical. […] The Second Philologicall and Theologicall Observations upon All the Greek Words of the New Testament, in Order Alphabetical. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Thomas Underhill […], →OCLC, page 74, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Here we alighted, drank ourſelves, and gave our dromedaries to drink as much as they would; then we filled all our veſſels, made on purpoſe for carriage, and took in a much greater proportion of water than we had done proviſions.
ref:
1765, [Simon Berington], The Adventures of Sig. Gaudentio di Lucca. […], Glasgow: […] James Knox, […], →OCLC, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
The untreated cases have been arranged in three groups according to the clinical course. The first group, called the dromedary group, shows the curious phenomenon of two different periods of illness with an interval of well-being. […] Because of the two distinct groups or humps of symptoms, the analogy to the arrangement of the dromedary’s back was taken to express the type figuratively.
ref:
1917 April 21, George Draper, “Acute Poliomyelitis: Early Diagnosis and Serum Therapy”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 68, number 16, Chicago, Ill., →DOI, page 1153
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The single-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius).
Any swift riding camel.
Referring to a biphasic clinical course of poliomyelitis, typically occurring in children, characterized by a minor illness, followed by an asymptomatic period of several days before the onset of a major illness involving the central nervous system.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
7955 | word:
why
word_type:
adv
expansion:
why (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
why
etymology_text:
From Middle English why, from Old English hwȳ (“why”), from Proto-Germanic *hwī (“by what, how”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey, instrumental case of *kʷis (“who”), *kʷid (“what”).
Cognate with Old Saxon hwī (“why”), hwiu (“how; why”), Middle High German wiu (“how, why”), archaic Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hvi (“why”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvi (“why”), Swedish vi (“why”), Faroese and Icelandic hví (“why”), Latin quī (“why”), Doric Greek πεῖ (peî, “where”), Ukrainian чи (čy, “if”), Polish czy, Czech či (“or”), Serbo-Croatian či (“if”). Compare Old English þȳ (“because, since, on that account, therefore, then”, literally “by that, for that”). See thy.
senses_examples:
text:
Why is the sky blue?
type:
example
text:
Why did you do that?
type:
example
text:
I don’t know why he did that
type:
example
text:
Tell me why the moon changes phase.
type:
example
text:
Why do you have a map of the world?
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Why don't you ask her out for dinner?
text:
Why spend money on something you already get for free?
type:
example
text:
Why not tell him how you feel?
type:
example
text:
Why him? Why not someone taller?
type:
example
text:
That's the reason why I did that.
type:
example
text:
That is why the sky is blue.
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
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
For what cause, reason, or purpose.
Introducing a complete question.
For what cause, reason, or purpose.
Introducing a complete question.
With a negative, used rhetorically to make a suggestion.
For what cause, reason, or purpose.
Introducing a verb phrase (bare infinitive clause).
For what cause, reason, or purpose.
Introducing a noun or other phrase.
For which cause, reason, or purpose.
The cause, reason, or purpose for which.
senses_topics:
|
7956 | word:
why
word_type:
noun
expansion:
why (plural whys or why's)
forms:
form:
whys
tags:
plural
form:
why's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
why
etymology_text:
From Middle English why, from Old English hwȳ (“why”), from Proto-Germanic *hwī (“by what, how”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey, instrumental case of *kʷis (“who”), *kʷid (“what”).
Cognate with Old Saxon hwī (“why”), hwiu (“how; why”), Middle High German wiu (“how, why”), archaic Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hvi (“why”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvi (“why”), Swedish vi (“why”), Faroese and Icelandic hví (“why”), Latin quī (“why”), Doric Greek πεῖ (peî, “where”), Ukrainian чи (čy, “if”), Polish czy, Czech či (“or”), Serbo-Croatian či (“if”). Compare Old English þȳ (“because, since, on that account, therefore, then”, literally “by that, for that”). See thy.
senses_examples:
text:
A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
type:
example
text:
Within months of leaving, she became the new owner of Dream Body Recovery in Miami, which has three rooms that can accommodate up to six clients. “Being a part of this journey with other ladies, knowing how it changed my life, that’s my why,” she told me.
ref:
2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Reason.
senses_topics:
|
7957 | word:
why
word_type:
intj
expansion:
why
forms:
wikipedia:
why
etymology_text:
From Middle English why, from Old English hwȳ (“why”), from Proto-Germanic *hwī (“by what, how”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey, instrumental case of *kʷis (“who”), *kʷid (“what”).
Cognate with Old Saxon hwī (“why”), hwiu (“how; why”), Middle High German wiu (“how, why”), archaic Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hvi (“why”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvi (“why”), Swedish vi (“why”), Faroese and Icelandic hví (“why”), Latin quī (“why”), Doric Greek πεῖ (peî, “where”), Ukrainian чи (čy, “if”), Polish czy, Czech či (“or”), Serbo-Croatian či (“if”). Compare Old English þȳ (“because, since, on that account, therefore, then”, literally “by that, for that”). See thy.
senses_examples:
text:
Why, that’s ridiculous! Why, how kind of you!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exclamation used to express pleasant or unpleasant mild surprise, indignation, or impatience.
senses_topics:
|
7958 | word:
why
word_type:
verb
expansion:
why (third-person singular simple present whies, present participle whying, simple past and past participle whied)
forms:
form:
whies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
whying
tags:
participle
present
form:
whied
tags:
participle
past
form:
whied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
why
etymology_text:
From Middle English why, from Old English hwȳ (“why”), from Proto-Germanic *hwī (“by what, how”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey, instrumental case of *kʷis (“who”), *kʷid (“what”).
Cognate with Old Saxon hwī (“why”), hwiu (“how; why”), Middle High German wiu (“how, why”), archaic Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hvi (“why”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvi (“why”), Swedish vi (“why”), Faroese and Icelandic hví (“why”), Latin quī (“why”), Doric Greek πεῖ (peî, “where”), Ukrainian чи (čy, “if”), Polish czy, Czech či (“or”), Serbo-Croatian či (“if”). Compare Old English þȳ (“because, since, on that account, therefore, then”, literally “by that, for that”). See thy.
senses_examples:
text:
Why indeed? But once you start whying, there's no end to it.
ref:
1930, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Assorted Articles, London: Martin Secker, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ask (someone) the question "why?".
senses_topics:
|
7959 | word:
why
word_type:
noun
expansion:
why (plural whies)
forms:
form:
whies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
why
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
At two years old, also, the HEIFERS - provincially, “whies,” are generally put to the bull.
ref:
1796, William Marshall, The Rural Economy of Yorkshire
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A young heifer.
senses_topics:
|
7960 | word:
why
word_type:
noun
expansion:
why
forms:
wikipedia:
why
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
ee, why, ee, ess, eyes
ref:
1881 April, J. B. Rundell, “The Irregularities of English Spelling: what they Cost and what they are Worth”, in The Spelling Reformer, and Journal of the English Spelling Reform Association, volume I, number 10, London, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
eff you see kay why oh you.
ref:
1996, Sycamore Review, volume 8, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
I hear you. But hear me out, all right? Because I mean what I’m about to say. Eff-you-see-kay-why-oh-you. Fuck you.
ref:
2009, Eric Barnes, Shimmer, Denver, Colo.: Unbridled Books, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
Like many folks do when taking medicine past its expiration date, Jerry had questioned its effectiveness. The pill had answered with a resounding why ee ess, and Jerry couldn’t tell between the Custom Costume in his pocket and himself.
ref:
2016, Daniel DiPrinzio, “Come Quickly”, in The Great Stone Robbery or A Parade of Idiots, page 184
type:
quotation
text:
Miss said, “Love your outfit, bee-tee-double-u.” It took me a second to realize she meant “btw.” “Is it vintage?” / I looked down at my school uniform. Fudgsicles. “Tee-why,” said Jahna, for “ty.” “And why-ee-ess yes!”
ref:
2016, Rachel Cohn, David Levithan, The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily, Electric Monkey, page 73
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of wye; the name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.
senses_topics:
|
7961 | word:
nin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nin (plural nins)
forms:
form:
nins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably derived from Welsh nain (“grandmother”), but see also Proto-Celtic *nana (“grandmother”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Affectionate name for a grandmother.
senses_topics:
|
7962 | word:
basket
word_type:
noun
expansion:
basket (countable and uncountable, plural baskets)
forms:
form:
baskets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, of obscure origin.
One theory is that it derives from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Proto-Brythonic (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”). Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”). Doublet of fasces.
senses_examples:
text:
A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.
type:
example
text:
The basket of issues that developing countries had vigorously wanted addressed such as agriculture, SANDD and implementation-related issues were given scant attention by developed countries for most part of the conference.
ref:
2004, Gichinga Ndirangu, Heinrich Böll Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya), An African civil society action toward WTO 2003 (page 16)
text:
The point guard drove toward the basket.
type:
example
text:
The last-second basket sealed the victory.
type:
example
text:
Let's play some basket.
type:
example
text:
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket.
ref:
1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
type:
quotation
text:
Baw! damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other——with baskets.
ref:
1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
type:
quotation
text:
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref:
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
Thus the capital of the Corinthian column always resembles a deep narrow basket covered with a tile, and completely surrounded by foliage
ref:
1832, Edward Hall, Civil Architecture
type:
quotation
text:
Wait till I catch you, you little basket!
type:
example
text:
Don't smoosh the basket.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
A bed for a cat.
A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
A set or collection of intangible things.
A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
The game of basketball.
A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
The penis and region surrounding it.
The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
A singlestick with a basket hilt.
The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
Bastard.
A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
senses_topics:
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality
ballooning
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
architecture
government
military
politics
war |
7963 | word:
basket
word_type:
verb
expansion:
basket (third-person singular simple present baskets, present participle basketing, simple past and past participle basketed)
forms:
form:
baskets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
basketing
tags:
participle
present
form:
basketed
tags:
participle
past
form:
basketed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, of obscure origin.
One theory is that it derives from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Proto-Brythonic (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”). Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”). Doublet of fasces.
senses_examples:
text:
Foreign language paperback, serial and book club would be basketed together in a 50/50 subsidiary rights clause.
ref:
1974, Publishers Weekly, volume 206, numbers 1-14, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
It may very well be that such "basketing" of hardcover, paperback, movie, and other rights within the divisions of […]
ref:
1981, Thomas Whiteside, The Blockbuster Complex
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place in a basket or baskets.
To cross-collateralize the royalty advances for multiple works so that the creator is not paid until all of those works have achieved a certain level of success.
senses_topics:
media
publishing |
7964 | word:
branch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
branch (plural branches)
forms:
form:
branches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
branch
etymology_text:
From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, from Old French branche, branke, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”) (whence Middle High German pranke, German Pranke (“paw”)), of unknown origin.
Perhaps of Celtic origin, from a hypothetical Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂. If so, then Indo-European cognates include Old Norse rá, vró (“angle, corner”), and possibly Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic рѫка (rǫka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”).
The verb is from Middle English braunchen, from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
the branch of an antler, a chandelier, or a railway
type:
example
text:
branch water
type:
example
text:
the branches of a hyperbola
type:
example
text:
Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
type:
example
text:
the English branch of a family
type:
example
text:
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
ref:
2012 January 24, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-11-14, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
A location of an organization with several locations.
A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
An area in business or of knowledge, research.
A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
A branch line.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
nautical
transport
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport |
7965 | word:
branch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
branch (third-person singular simple present branches, present participle branching, simple past and past participle branched)
forms:
form:
branches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
branching
tags:
participle
present
form:
branched
tags:
participle
past
form:
branched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
branch
etymology_text:
From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, from Old French branche, branke, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”) (whence Middle High German pranke, German Pranke (“paw”)), of unknown origin.
Perhaps of Celtic origin, from a hypothetical Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂. If so, then Indo-European cognates include Old Norse rá, vró (“angle, corner”), and possibly Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic рѫка (rǫka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”).
The verb is from Middle English braunchen, from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
The tree throve and branched so heavily that the windows of Lower West and the Doll's Flat were darkened.
ref:
1944, Emily Carr, “Life Loves Living”, in The House of All Sorts
type:
quotation
text:
They cut down a young pear-tree, branch it, and carry it home.
ref:
1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
His staff were 'not journalists, but Communists', he maintained. Nonetheless, in 1948 his vigorous editorship took the paper's circulation to 120,000 a day. The following year, he was 'branched' by the National Union of Journalists for an intemperate attack on Fleet Street.
ref:
2003, Paul Routledge, The Bumper Book of British Lefties, page 199
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
To produce branches.
To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
To strip of branches.
To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
7966 | word:
pheasant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pheasant (countable and uncountable, plural pheasants)
forms:
form:
pheasants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pheasant
etymology_text:
From Middle English fesaunt, fesant, from Old French fesan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φᾱσιανός (phāsianós), meaning “[bird] of the river Φᾶσις (Phâsis)”, from where, it was supposed, the bird spread to the west. Replaced native Old English wōrhana, a variant of mōrhana. More at moorhen.
senses_examples:
text:
The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.
ref:
1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v
type:
quotation
text:
Tables were laid with cold pheasant, watercressy finger foods, sweets sufficient to give the Greater Raleigh Area sugar shock.
ref:
1989, Allan Gurganus, “Black, White, and Lilac”, in Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, book two (Time Does That), page 231
type:
quotation
text:
Célestin Lainé sat on the edge of the bed, a tray on his lap, eating pheasant and roast vegetables with a red wine reduction.
ref:
2013, Stuart Neville, chapter 30, in Ratlines, New York, N.Y.: Soho Crime, page 158
type:
quotation
text:
Bring a dish of berries with cream to me there. Bread, too. And a slice of pheasant.
ref:
2015, Shauna Roberts, chapter 41, in Ice Magic, Fire Magic, Overland Park, Kan.: Hadley Rille Books, page 266
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.
The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
senses_topics:
|
7967 | word:
ride
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ride (third-person singular simple present rides, present participle riding, simple past rode or (obsolete) rade or (obsolete) rid, past participle ridden or (now colloquial and nonstandard) rode)
forms:
form:
rides
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
riding
tags:
participle
present
form:
rode
tags:
past
form:
rade
tags:
obsolete
past
form:
rid
tags:
obsolete
past
form:
ridden
tags:
participle
past
form:
rode
tags:
colloquial
nonstandard
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English riden, from Old English rīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreydʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH-.
Cognates:
From Proto-Germanic: North Frisian ride (“to ride”), Saterland Frisian riede (“to ride”), West Frisian ride (“to ride”), Low German rieden (“to ride”), Dutch rijden (“to ride”), German reiten (“to ride”), Danish ride (“to ride”), Swedish rida (“to ride”).
From Indo-European: Welsh rhwyddhau (“to hurry”).
senses_examples:
text:
I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office.
type:
example
text:
It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes.
ref:
1923 April 28, “Mrs. Rinehart”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.
ref:
2010 October 6, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
ref:
1960 June 20, “Biznelcmd”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
The cab rode him downtown.
type:
example
text:
The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.
type:
example
text:
Early women tobogganists rode the course in the requisite attire of their day: skirts. In spite of this hindrance, some women riders turned in very respectable performances.
ref:
1999, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present
type:
quotation
text:
How many races have you ridden this year?
type:
example
text:
Now the question is: Can Lema ride his present impetus to a third tournament victory in the pressure-loaded Open or will he run out of steam?
ref:
1964 June 16, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 22
type:
quotation
text:
By labeling milk free of the artificial hormone, the dairy industry can ride the popularity of natural foods, without the greater expense and special feeds required to produce milk that can be fully certified as “organic.”
ref:
2006 October 7, Andrew Pollack, “Which Cows Do You Trust?”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
type:
example
text:
She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.
ref:
1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, page 345
type:
quotation
text:
“One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.
ref:
2002, Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation, page 375
type:
quotation
text:
In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.
ref:
2008 July 27, Ann Kessel, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February.
ref:
2006 March 9, “Grappling with deficits”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.
ref:
2001 September 16, Jenny Eliscu, “Oops...she's doing it again”, in The Observer
type:
quotation
text:
The nobility[…] could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, coblers[sic], brewers, and the like.
ref:
1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
type:
quotation
text:
vocal riding
type:
example
text:
The board operator normally watches the meter scale marked for modulation percentage, riding the gain to bring volume peaks into the 85% to 100% range.
ref:
2006, Simran Kohli, Radio Jockey Handbook
type:
quotation
text:
“You don't want them riding the volume knob, so that's why you learn how to do your levels properly to make the whole thing transparent for the listener. […]
ref:
2017, Michael O'Connell, Turn Up the Volume: A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz.
ref:
2000, Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism, page 238
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
To traverse by riding.
To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).
To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
To rely, depend (on).
Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lacrosse
lifestyle
sports
medicine
sciences
surgery
broadcasting
media
radio
television
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
7968 | word:
ride
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ride (plural rides)
forms:
form:
rides
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English riden, from Old English rīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreydʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH-.
Cognates:
From Proto-Germanic: North Frisian ride (“to ride”), Saterland Frisian riede (“to ride”), West Frisian ride (“to ride”), Low German rieden (“to ride”), Dutch rijden (“to ride”), German reiten (“to ride”), Danish ride (“to ride”), Swedish rida (“to ride”).
From Indo-European: Welsh rhwyddhau (“to hurry”).
senses_examples:
text:
Can I have a ride on your bike?
type:
example
text:
We took the horses for an early-morning ride in the woods.
type:
example
text:
go for a quick ride
type:
example
text:
That's a nice ride; what did it cost?
type:
example
text:
pimp my ride
type:
example
text:
the kids went on all the rides
type:
example
text:
Can you give me a ride home?
type:
example
text:
"Could you see the ride that goes down and round the point of the woods...?"
"I could see down it till it went round the corner."...
"...Then Mr Fawcett comes down the ride, rushing his chair along like it was a racing car... He carried on down the ride. Next thing Miss Harmsworth comes down the ride from the field..."
ref:
2015, Roderic Jeffries, Death in the Coverts
type:
quotation
text:
Stella, who in her day was a beautiful ride.
ref:
1904, Country Gentleman
type:
quotation
text:
Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M.
ref:
2007 July 14, Michael O'Neill, “Re: More mouthy ineffectual poseurs...[was Re: Live Earth - One Of The Most Important Events On This Particular Planet - don't let SCI distract you”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
She's playing cheerful music on the ride cymbal!
type:
example
text:
That story was a ride from start to finish.
type:
example
text:
We all started to dance / Without wearing no life vest / We all started to dance / It was quite a ride
ref:
2002, “Manila”, performed by Seelenluft ft. Michael Smith
type:
quotation
text:
I gave my boyfriend a ride before breakfast.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of riding.
A vehicle.
An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
A saddle horse.
A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
A steady rhythmical style.
A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
An act of sexual intercourse.
A district inspected by an excise officer.
A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing |
7969 | word:
spin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spin (third-person singular simple present spins, present participle spinning, simple past spun or (uncommon) span or (nonstandard) spinned, past participle spun or (nonstandard) spinned)
forms:
form:
spins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
spinning
tags:
participle
present
form:
spun
tags:
past
form:
span
tags:
past
uncommon
form:
spinned
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
spun
tags:
participle
past
form:
spinned
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
wikipedia:
en:spin
etymology_text:
From Middle English spinnen, from Old English spinnan, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-. Compare Low German spinnen, Dutch spinnen, German spinnen, Danish spinde, Swedish spinna.
senses_examples:
text:
I spun myself around a few times.
type:
example
text:
Spin the ball on the floor.
type:
example
text:
She spun around and gave him a big smile.
type:
example
text:
Round about him spun the landscape, / Sky and forest reeled together, / And his strong heart leaped within him, / As the sturgeon leaps and struggles / In a net to break its meshes.
ref:
1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Hiawatha’s Fasting”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
They spin the cotton into thread.
type:
example
text:
Along the Sunny Bank, or Wat’ry Mead, / Ten thouſand Stalks their various Bloſſoms ſpread : / Peaceful and lowly in their native Soil, / They neither know to ſpin, nor care to toil ; / Yet with confeſs’d Magnificence deride / Our vile Attire, and Impotence of Pride.
ref:
1718, Matthew Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World”, in Poems on Several Occasions, volume II, Dublin: George Grierson, published 1738, book I, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
But because he is but briefe, and these things of great consequence not to be kept obscure, I shall conceave it nothing above my duty either for the difficulty or the censure that may passe thereon, to communicate such thoughts as I also have had, and do offer them now in this generall labour of reformation, to the candid view both of Church and Magistrate; especially because I see it the hope of good men, that those irregular and unspirituall Courts have spun their utmost date in this Land; and some beter course must now be constituted.
ref:
1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
type:
quotation
text:
In every administration there will be spokesmen and public affairs officers who try to spin the news to make the president look good. But this administration is trying to spin scientific data and muzzle scientists toward that end.
ref:
2006 February 9, “The Politics of Science”, in The Washington Post, page A22
type:
quotation
text:
This past week[…] Republicans completed their journey through the looking-glass, spinning a new counternarrative of that deadly day.
ref:
2021 July 31, Lisa Lerer, Nicholas Fandos, “Already Distorting Jan. 6, G.O.P. Now Concocts Entire Counternarrative”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
type:
example
text:
Blood spins from a vein.
type:
example
text:
However, for the past six years he has been spinning his novel blend of progressive house and trance music and is finally on the brink of becoming the next luminary DJ.
ref:
2002, CMJ New Music Report, volume 70, number 12
type:
quotation
text:
But then again, unless someone struck lucky in those first few hours, there weren't even enough detectives to spin a drum [house].
ref:
2013, Nick Oldham, Psycho Alley
type:
quotation
text:
to spin a yarn
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
To move sideways when bouncing.
To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
To move swiftly.
To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
To search rapidly.
To draw out tediously; prolong.
To fish with a swivel or spoonbait.
To reject at an examination; to fail (a student).
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
cooking
food
lifestyle
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
law-enforcement
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
|
7970 | word:
spin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spin (countable and uncountable, plural spins)
forms:
form:
spins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:spin
etymology_text:
From Middle English spinnen, from Old English spinnan, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-. Compare Low German spinnen, Dutch spinnen, German spinnen, Danish spinde, Swedish spinna.
senses_examples:
text:
The car went into a spin.
text:
The skaters demonstrated their spins.
text:
He put some spin on the cue ball.
text:
My mind was in a spin.
type:
example
text:
The media has been having a field day not only with the usual tired homophobic innuendos (which one has come to expect) but with new spins on queer bashing that might even seem inventive if they were not so hateful.
ref:
1991 August 10, Michael Bronski, “'I Know You Are, But What Am I?'”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 4, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Try to put a positive spin on the disappointing sales figures.
type:
example
text:
The politician was mocked in the press for his reliance on spin rather than facts.
type:
example
text:
He added: "We've always had spin, especially from Government. But this is not spin. This is dishonesty and so it's our rail media's urgent responsibility to call it out because non-specialist journalists across the country will report this and gradually these untruths will be accepted.
ref:
2022 January 26, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Government's IRP claims condemned as "dishonest"”, in RAIL, number 949, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
I'm off out for a spin in my new sports car.
type:
example
text:
Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.
ref:
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
Let's give this classic LP another spin.
type:
example
text:
Although the Loveless title showed the smallest increase in airplay in the top 10, its number of detections outpaced the nearest bulleted title by more than 350 spins.
ref:
1996, Billboard, volume 108, number 12, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
Mr Weedon explains that this is a cell search - known by prisoners as a spin - and for obvious reasons it has to be carried out without any warning.
ref:
2002, Jeffrey Archer, A Prison Diary
type:
quotation
text:
1893, Bithia Mary Croker, "To Let" in "To Let" etc., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906, p. 1, https://archive.org/details/toletcroker00crok
Some years ago, when I was a slim young spin, I came out to India to live with my brother Tom […]
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rapid circular motion.
A state of confusion or disorientation.
A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
A novel, creative variation of an existing thing or type; a twist.
A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.
An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.
A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
A single play of a record; especially, one broadcast by a radio station.
A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
An unmarried woman; a spinster.
The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
7971 | word:
spin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spin (plural spins)
forms:
form:
spins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:spin
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
“Frank!” Joe yelled. “Run the spin halyard to the cabin-top winch and pass me the free end!”
ref:
2021 22 April, “jdale” (username), Course for Catastrophe, chapter 4
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Short for spinnaker.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
7972 | word:
spin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spin (plural spins)
forms:
form:
spins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:spin
etymology_text:
Shortening of special interest.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Special interest of an autistic person.
senses_topics:
|
7973 | word:
authority
word_type:
noun
expansion:
authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)
forms:
form:
authorities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
authority
etymology_text:
From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auctōritās (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.
senses_examples:
text:
I have the authority to penalise the staff in my department, but not the authority to sack them.
type:
example
text:
Vigilantes may have the power to nab criminals, but they lack the authority.
type:
example
text:
She lost all respect and authority after turning up drunk at the meeting.
type:
example
text:
Respect my authority!
type:
example
text:
SIR PETER. Very well! ma'am very well! so a husband is to have no influence, no authority?
LADY TEAZLE. Authority! no, to be sure—if you wanted authority over me, you should have adopted me and not married me[:] I am sure you were old enough.
ref:
1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.i
type:
quotation
text:
Authorities say the suspect fled on foot.
type:
example
text:
The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.
ref:
1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings
type:
quotation
text:
No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
ref:
2013 August 10, “Legal highs: A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
In China, authorities said they might soon shoot down an unidentified flying object over waters near the northern city of Rizhao, The South China Morning Post reported.
ref:
2023 February 12, Daniel E. Slotnik, Amelia Nierenberg, “Your Monday Briefing: U.S. Destroys U.F.O.s”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-13, Briefing
type:
quotation
text:
the world's foremost authority on orangutans
type:
example
text:
My cheap dictionary is not the authority on word derivations.
type:
example
text:
To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
ref:
1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
text:
Some thinkers regard appealing to authority as a logical fallacy; others regard it as a legitimate form of argument.
type:
example
text:
Authority to construct eight carriages, to test the new design in public service, had already been given; but of course complete working drawings had first to be prepared.
ref:
1964 July, “XP64: New Standard Carriage Project”, in Modern Railways, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
New York Port Authority
type:
example
text:
Chicago Transit Authority
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Power or right to make or enforce rules or give orders; or a position having such power or right.
Persons, regarded collectively, who occupy official positions of power; police or law enforcement.
A reliable, definitive source of information on a subject.
Status as a trustworthy source of information, reputation for mastery or expertise; or claim to such status or reputation.
Official permission; authorisation to act in some capacity on behalf of a ruling entity.
A government-owned agency that runs a revenue-generating activity for public benefit.
senses_topics:
|
7974 | word:
expletive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
expletive (comparative more expletive, superlative most expletive)
forms:
form:
more expletive
tags:
comparative
form:
most expletive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin explētīvus (“serving to fill out”), from Latin explētus, the perfect passive participle of expleō (“fill out”), itself from ex (“out, completely”) + *pleō (“fill”).
senses_examples:
text:
No one entered more fully than Shakespeare into the character of this species of poetry, which admits of no expletive imagery, no merely ornamental line.
ref:
1839, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe, volume 3, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 501
type:
quotation
text:
deprecating being taken for ſerious, or to be underſtood that he meaneth any thing by them; but only that he uſeth them as expletive phraſes ... to plump his ſpeech, and fill up ſentences.
ref:
1683, Isaac Barrow, The Works of the Learned Isaac Barrow, London: M. Flesher for B. Aylmer, →OCLC, Against vain and raſh Swearing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).
senses_topics:
|
7975 | word:
expletive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
expletive (plural expletives)
forms:
form:
expletives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin explētīvus (“serving to fill out”), from Latin explētus, the perfect passive participle of expleō (“fill out”), itself from ex (“out, completely”) + *pleō (“fill”).
senses_examples:
text:
If we don't take advantage of any [expletive] in any way, then it's our loss.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
7976 | word:
throw
word_type:
verb
expansion:
throw (third-person singular simple present throws, present participle throwing, simple past threw or (nonstandard) throwed, past participle thrown or (nonstandard) throwed or (nonstandard) threw)
forms:
form:
throws
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
throwing
tags:
participle
present
form:
threw
tags:
past
form:
throwed
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
thrown
tags:
participle
past
form:
throwed
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
threw
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
wikipedia:
throw
etymology_text:
From Middle English throwen, thrawen, from Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”).
Cognate with Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), West Frisian triuwe (“to push”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”). Displaced Middle English werpen.
senses_examples:
text:
throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider
type:
example
text:
throw the switch
type:
example
text:
Through practice, you'll learn how to add the right amount of water as you throw a pot, and your fingers will feel when the pot has reached the proper thickness.
ref:
2009 January 19, Linda Franz, Basic Pottery Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started, Stackpole Books
type:
quotation
text:
If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid-operation exception.
type:
example
text:
The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match.
type:
example
text:
Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw.
ref:
2012 August 1, Peter Walker, Haroon Siddique, Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games', Guardian Unlimited
type:
quotation
text:
The pitcher threw a perfect game.
type:
example
text:
The deliberate red herring threw me at first.
type:
example
text:
"Jann, why does he hate me so much?" That question threw me. I was expecting a lunatic yelling profanities.
ref:
1999, Jan Blackstone-Ford, The Custody Solutions Sourcebook, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle.
type:
example
text:
Stoke threw men forward in numbers as they attempted to find a way back into the game, and Mark Schwarzer was forced into a low save from Huth's close-range effort.
ref:
2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0-2 Fulham”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail.
type:
example
text:
The standard method of dealing with an addict was to arrest him, throw him into a cell, and leave him until the agonizing pangs of withdrawal were over.
ref:
1993, Margaret McKee, Fred Chisenhall, Beale black & blue: life and music on black America's main street, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
She was known for throwing the craziest parties in college.
type:
example
text:
And now, Clevelanders hoping to bring the Rock Roll Hall of Fame to their city are throwing a bash to commemorate the 34th birthday of disc Jockey Alan Freed's "Moondog Coronation Ball".
ref:
1986 March 1, “Bash Planned”, in Evening News
type:
quotation
text:
Should you be interested, for whatever reason, it will tell you how to throw a party for your 40-year-old husband or your 100-year-old great-grandmother. It also describes games that can be played at various kinds of parties[…]
ref:
1979 July, Working Mother, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
The kings came to the agreement between themselves that they would cast lots by the dice to determine who should have this property, and that he who threw the highest should have the district. The Swedish king threw two sixes, and said King Olaf need scarcely throw.
ref:
1844, Snorri Sturluson, translated by Samuel Laing, Heimskringla
type:
quotation
text:
The kings came to the agreement between themselves that they would cast lots by the dice to determine who should have this property, and that he who threw the highest should have the district. The Swedish king threw two sixes, and said King Olaf need scarcely throw.
ref:
1844, Snorri Sturluson, translated by Samuel Laing, Heimskringla
type:
quotation
text:
Declarer threw his queen of spades on the high diamond. He then won the last three tricks with his ace, queen and nine of hearts behind East's jack third.
ref:
1990 January 4, “Sharp coup overcomes trump split”, in The Washington Times
type:
quotation
text:
“Then, when I throw my voice, when I speak as someone who's quite different from me, it starts to feel very authentic.”
ref:
2005 April 13, Leon Neyfakh, “BOOKENDS: Will the Real Jonathan Safran Foer Please Stand Up”, in Harvard Crimson
type:
quotation
text:
Bill runs into the kitchen and tells Dad that Erik is throwing a tantrum. He tells Bill to go back and watch his program and to ignore his brother. Fifteen minutes later, Erik is still screaming[…]
ref:
1991, Janet L. Davies, Ellen Hastings Janosik, Mental health and psychiatric nursing: a caring approach
type:
quotation
text:
In 1975, pregnant with the second of her three children, she threw a hissy fit to get on a trip to Boston for elected officials.
ref:
1996 August 19, “Entertaining Mrs Stone”, in New York Magazine, volume 29, number 32
type:
quotation
text:
Warwick left the undertaker's shop and retraced his steps until he had passed the lawyer's office, toward which he threw an affectionate glance.
ref:
1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars
type:
quotation
text:
In other European cities the president visited this week, people waited for his motorcade to pass to throw insults at him, requiring the police to intervene with batons, water cannons and tear gas.
ref:
2007 June 11, Claude Salhani, “Analysis: Irony of Bush's European tour”, in UPI
type:
quotation
text:
O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw.
ref:
1726, Alexander, transl. Pope, “Book III”, in The Odyssey, translation of original by Homer, line 596; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 543
type:
quotation
text:
A person named Crocket endeavoured to throw silk at Derby in the year 1702 ; but his machinery was imperfect
ref:
1829, Stephen Glover, Thomas Noble, The History of the County of Derby
type:
quotation
text:
I have a minor quibble with Gleason's decision to throw Lefty Williams in Game Eight with the Series in the balance.
ref:
2009, Michael T. Lynch, Jr., It Ain't So: A Might-Have-Been History of the White Sox in 1919 and Beyond, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
1860, Fredrika Bremer (trans. Mary Howitt), Life in the Old World, v. 1, p. 164.
[…] across the rapid smaragdus-green waters, pouring onward into the country, are thrown three bridges ...
text:
a thrown nail
type:
example
text:
···not only did I not want to throw a punch at him, I wanted to give him a solid silver token of thanks···
ref:
1941, Newsweek, volume 18, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
At the end of the normal gestation period the cow threw two calf mummies as large as cats.
ref:
1916, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, volume 49
type:
quotation
text:
They can kid twice a year if things are right, and they often throw twins and triplets.
ref:
2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 200
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one's hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
To eject or cause to fall off.
To move to another position or condition; to displace.
To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
To intentionally lose a game.
(of a game where one's role is throwing something) to perform in a specified way in (a match).
To confuse or mislead.
To send desperately.
To imprison.
To organize an event, especially a party.
To roll (a die or dice).
To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
To discard.
To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
To change (one's voice) in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else, or coming from a different place.
To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
To project or send forth.
To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
To install (a bridge).
To twist or turn.
Synonym of pass
To deliver.
Of animals: to give birth to (young).
senses_topics:
ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
bridge
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology |
7977 | word:
throw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
throw (plural throws)
forms:
form:
throws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
throw
etymology_text:
From Middle English throwen, thrawen, from Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”).
Cognate with Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), West Frisian triuwe (“to push”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”). Displaced Middle English werpen.
senses_examples:
text:
What a great throw by the quarterback!
type:
example
text:
With an accurate throw, he lassoed the cow.
type:
example
text:
The gambler staked everything on one throw of the dice.
type:
example
text:
If the expression is a throw, we unwind the stack seeking a handler expression.
ref:
2006, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Trends in Functional Programming, volume 5, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
He's got a girl's throw.
type:
example
text:
He's always had a pretty decent throw.
type:
example
text:
the throw of the piston
type:
example
text:
The visibility of the screen image is affected by the length of throw of the projector, the type of projector, the intensity of the projector lamp, and the type of the screen.
ref:
1947, James Jerome Gibson, Motion Picture Testing and Research, number 7, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The flight of a thrown object.
The act of throwing something.
One's ability to throw.
A distance travelled; displacement.
A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
senses_topics:
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology |
7978 | word:
throw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
throw (plural throws)
forms:
form:
throws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
throw
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Old English þrāh, þrāg (“space of time, period, while”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þragjan, “to run”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A moment, time, occasion.
A period of time; a while.
senses_topics:
|
7979 | word:
throw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
throw (plural throws)
forms:
form:
throws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
throw
etymology_text:
See throe.
senses_examples:
text:
[W]e never know the full force of parental affection till our children are about to be taken from us. It is then that we discover how strongly they have entwined themselves round our hearts; when we behold the fixed eye, the pale lips, the convulsive throws of death distorting the countenance; or when with aching and throbbing hearts we deposit those who are a part of ourselves in the cold and silent grave.
ref:
1806 October, J. H. K., “Hints on the Manner in which Christian Parents should Improve the Death of Children”, in The Evangelical Magazine, volume XIV, London: […] [G. Auld] for Williams and Smith, […], →OCLC, page 441
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of throe.
senses_topics:
|
7980 | word:
throw
word_type:
verb
expansion:
throw (third-person singular simple present throws, present participle throwing, simple past threw, past participle thrown)
forms:
form:
throws
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
throwing
tags:
participle
present
form:
threw
tags:
past
form:
thrown
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
throw
etymology_text:
See throe.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of throe.
senses_topics:
|
7981 | word:
agreement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)
forms:
form:
agreements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Agreement (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Morphologically agree + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: conspiracy
text:
to enter an agreement
type:
example
text:
The UK and US negotiators were nearing agreement.
type:
example
text:
He nodded his agreement.
type:
example
text:
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.[…]The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref:
2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.
type:
example
text:
There is general agreement that, to the east, Low Saxon should be divided from East Low German (Ostniederdeutsch) approximately though quite coincidentally, along the modern border between the Federal Republic and the GDR, although there is no general agreement as to precisely where the dialect boundary should lie, or as to which isogloss should be crucial to its delineation. … The Low Saxon dialects are sometimes referred to collectively as West Low German (Westniederdeutsch) …
ref:
1990, Stephen Barbour, Patrick Stevenson, Variation in German: A critical approach to German sociolinguistics, Cambridge University Press, p. 86f.
text:
Having clarified what we mean by ‘Personʼ and ‘Numberʼ, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agreeʼ with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 306
type:
quotation
text:
Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].
ref:
1650, John Donne, Elegie XVII
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
An agreeable quality.
senses_topics:
law
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
7982 | word:
certain
word_type:
adj
expansion:
certain (comparative more certain or certainer, superlative most certain or certainest)
forms:
form:
more certain
tags:
comparative
form:
certainer
tags:
comparative
form:
most certain
tags:
superlative
form:
certainest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
certain
etymology_text:
From Middle English certeyn, certein, certain, borrowed from Old French certain, from a Vulgar Latin unattested form *certānus, extended form of Latin certus (“fixed, resolved, certain”), of the same origin as cretus, past participle of cernere (“to separate, perceive, decide”). Displaced native Middle English wis, iwis (“certain, sure”) (from Old English ġewiss (“certain, sure”)) and alternative Middle English spelling sertane (“some, certain”).
senses_examples:
text:
I was certain of my decision.
type:
example
text:
Now that more experiments have been run, the theory is certain and the argument is settled.
type:
example
text:
It is certain that Spain will reach the finals. / Spain is now certain to reach the finals. / Spain is now certain of a place in the finals.
type:
example
text:
Bankruptcy is the certain outcome of your constant gambling and lending.
type:
example
text:
I have often wished, that I knew so certain a remedy in any other disease
ref:
1702, Richard Mead, Mechanical Account of Poisons
type:
quotation
text:
at certain intervals
type:
example
text:
Every wine has a certain distinctive character which sets it apart from all others.
type:
example
text:
Each morning, she would see a certain man rush past her window on his way to work.
type:
example
text:
I would have been here on time, but a certain someone lost the car keys!
type:
example
text:
Looking inside the cover, they learned that the book had once belonged to a certain R. Jones.
type:
example
text:
Since the last British government to make such a proposal was that of a certain Margaret Thatcher, it might not seem unreasonable.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sure in one's mind, positive; absolutely confident in the truth of something.
Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
Sure to happen, inevitable; assured.
Unfailing; infallible.
Fixed; regular; determinate.
Particular and definite, but unspecified or unnamed; used to introduce someone or something without going into further detail.
Used to denote that the speaker is referring to a specific person or thing that they do not want to name directly, implying that the listener should infer the identity of the referent.
Named but not previously mentioned.
Used before the name of someone famous that people are expected to know.
Determined; resolved.
senses_topics:
|
7983 | word:
certain
word_type:
det
expansion:
certain
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English certeyn, certein, certain, borrowed from Old French certain, from a Vulgar Latin unattested form *certānus, extended form of Latin certus (“fixed, resolved, certain”), of the same origin as cretus, past participle of cernere (“to separate, perceive, decide”). Displaced native Middle English wis, iwis (“certain, sure”) (from Old English ġewiss (“certain, sure”)) and alternative Middle English spelling sertane (“some, certain”).
senses_examples:
text:
Certain people are good at running.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having been determined but not specified.
senses_topics:
|
7984 | word:
certain
word_type:
pron
expansion:
certain
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English certeyn, certein, certain, borrowed from Old French certain, from a Vulgar Latin unattested form *certānus, extended form of Latin certus (“fixed, resolved, certain”), of the same origin as cretus, past participle of cernere (“to separate, perceive, decide”). Displaced native Middle English wis, iwis (“certain, sure”) (from Old English ġewiss (“certain, sure”)) and alternative Middle English spelling sertane (“some, certain”).
senses_examples:
text:
She mentioned a series of contracts, of which certain are not cited.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unnamed or undescribed members (of).
senses_topics:
|
7985 | word:
sot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sot (plural sots)
forms:
form:
sots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Nicoline van der Sijs
etymology_text:
From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of obscure origin and relation. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to French zut! (“damn it!”).
Compare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot ("foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch zot (“silly”)), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).
senses_examples:
text:
c. 1670-1680, John Oldham, The Eighth Satire of Monsieur Boileau, imitated
In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down,
And reverence some deified Baboon.
text:
Every sign
That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.
ref:
1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse
type:
quotation
text:
Take a picture by Teniers, of sots quarrelling over their dice; it is an entirely clever picture; so clever that nothing in its kind has ever been done equal to it; but it is also an entirely base and evil picture.
ref:
April 21, 1864, John Ruskin, "Traffic", Unto This Last and Other Writings, New York: Penguin (1997), p. 235
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
stupid person; fool
drunkard
senses_topics:
|
7986 | word:
sot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sot (third-person singular simple present sots, present participle sotting, simple past and past participle sotted)
forms:
form:
sots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sotting
tags:
participle
present
form:
sotted
tags:
participle
past
form:
sotted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Nicoline van der Sijs
etymology_text:
From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of obscure origin and relation. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to French zut! (“damn it!”).
Compare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot ("foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch zot (“silly”)), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To drink until one becomes drunk
To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
senses_topics:
|
7987 | word:
thunder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thunder (countable and uncountable, plural thunders)
forms:
form:
thunders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
thunder
etymology_text:
From Middle English thunder, thonder, thundre, thonre, thunnere, þunre, from Old English þunor (“thunder”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunr, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten-, *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”).
Compare astound, astonish, stun. Germanic cognates include West Frisian tonger, Dutch donder, German Donner, Old Norse Þórr (English Thor), Danish torden, Norwegian Nynorsk tore. Other cognates include Persian تندر (tondar), Latin tonō, detonō, Ancient Greek στένω (sténō), στενάζω (stenázō), στόνος (stónos), Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), Irish torann, Welsh taran, Gaulish Taranis. Doublet of donner, Thunor, and Thor.
senses_examples:
text:
Thunder is preceded by lightning.
type:
example
text:
Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
type:
example
text:
The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
ref:
1847, William H. Prescott, A History of the Conquest of Peru
type:
quotation
text:
Shortly after I announced my pregnancy, he stole my thunder with his news of landing his dream job.
type:
example
text:
Adam's fall and Vico's thunder are embodied in a word of a hundred letters, the first of ten thunders in the Wake.
ref:
1996, William York Tindall, A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
The spotlight.
Synonym of thunder word
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing |
7988 | word:
thunder
word_type:
verb
expansion:
thunder (third-person singular simple present thunders, present participle thundering, simple past and past participle thundered)
forms:
form:
thunders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
thundering
tags:
participle
present
form:
thundered
tags:
participle
past
form:
thundered
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
thunder
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English thunder, thonder, thundre, thonre, thunnere, þunre, from Old English þunor (“thunder”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunr, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten-, *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”).
Compare astound, astonish, stun. Germanic cognates include West Frisian tonger, Dutch donder, German Donner, Old Norse Þórr (English Thor), Danish torden, Norwegian Nynorsk tore. Other cognates include Persian تندر (tondar), Latin tonō, detonō, Ancient Greek στένω (sténō), στενάζω (stenázō), στόνος (stónos), Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), Irish torann, Welsh taran, Gaulish Taranis. Doublet of donner, Thunor, and Thor.
senses_examples:
text:
It thundered continuously.
type:
example
text:
The train thundered along the tracks.
type:
example
text:
Senseless years thunder by / Millions are willing to give their lives for you / Does nothing live on?
ref:
1983, “Forbidden Colours”, in David Sylvian (lyrics), Ryuichi Sakamoto (music), Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, performed by David Sylvian
type:
quotation
text:
"Get back to work at once!", he thundered.
type:
example
text:
Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air.
ref:
2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
To make a noise like thunder.
To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
To produce something with incredible power.
senses_topics:
|
7989 | word:
crisis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crisis (plural crises)
forms:
form:
crises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Crisis (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Latin crisis, from Ancient Greek κρίσις (krísis, “a separating, power of distinguishing, decision, choice, election, judgment, dispute”), from κρίνω (krínō, “pick out, choose, decide, judge”).
senses_examples:
text:
I'm having a major crisis trying to wallpaper the living room.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater |
7990 | word:
shrew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shrew (plural shrews)
forms:
form:
shrews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
The Taming of the Shrew
shrew
etymology_text:
From Middle English *schrewe, from Old English sċrēawa (“shrew”), from Proto-Germanic *skrawwaz (“thin; meagre; frail”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut; shorten; skimp”). Cognates include Old High German scrawaz (“dwarf”), Norwegian skrugg (“dwarf”).
senses_examples:
text:
The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent. 'Rogue,' 'old miser,' 'old sneak,' and a great many worse names, she called him.
ref:
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
type:
quotation
text:
His wife was a shrew with warts on her face and she spoke to him sharply when others were present, but Simcha did not complain.
ref:
1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae (order Soricomorpha).
Certain other small mammals that resemble true shrews.
An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold.
senses_topics:
|
7991 | word:
shrew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shrew (third-person singular simple present shrews, present participle shrewing, simple past and past participle shrewed)
forms:
form:
shrews
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shrewing
tags:
participle
present
form:
shrewed
tags:
participle
past
form:
shrewed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
shrew
etymology_text:
From Middle English schrewen (“to make evil; curse”), from Middle English schrewe, schrowe, screwe (“wicked; evil; an evil person”), from Old English *scrēawa (“wicked person”, literally “biter”). Perhaps ultimately from the same word as Etymology 1 above.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To beshrew; to curse.
senses_topics:
|
7992 | word:
bankrupt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bankrupt (comparative more bankrupt, superlative most bankrupt)
forms:
form:
more bankrupt
tags:
comparative
form:
most bankrupt
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Partial calque of Italian banca rotta, which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken. When a moneylender in Northern Italy became insolvent, they would break the bench they worked from to signify that they were no longer in business. (Vocabolario Etimologico della Lingua Italiano 1907)
senses_examples:
text:
a bankrupt merchant
type:
example
text:
"How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."
ref:
1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
a morally bankrupt politician
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
Having been legally declared insolvent.
Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
senses_topics:
business
finance
|
7993 | word:
bankrupt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bankrupt (third-person singular simple present bankrupts, present participle bankrupting, simple past and past participle bankrupted)
forms:
form:
bankrupts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bankrupting
tags:
participle
present
form:
bankrupted
tags:
participle
past
form:
bankrupted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Partial calque of Italian banca rotta, which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken. When a moneylender in Northern Italy became insolvent, they would break the bench they worked from to signify that they were no longer in business. (Vocabolario Etimologico della Lingua Italiano 1907)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To force into bankruptcy.
senses_topics:
|
7994 | word:
bankrupt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bankrupt (plural bankrupts)
forms:
form:
bankrupts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Partial calque of Italian banca rotta, which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken. When a moneylender in Northern Italy became insolvent, they would break the bench they worked from to signify that they were no longer in business. (Vocabolario Etimologico della Lingua Italiano 1907)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.
A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
senses_topics:
law |
7995 | word:
southern
word_type:
adj
expansion:
southern (comparative more southern, superlative most southern)
forms:
form:
more southern
tags:
comparative
form:
most southern
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English southerne, sothern, sutherne, from Old English sūþerne (“southern, southerly, coming from the south; of southern make”), from Proto-Germanic *sunþrōnijaz (“southern”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂un-, *sh₂wen-, r/n-stem alternation of *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Cognate with Scots southron, sudron (“southern”), Old Frisian sūthern, sūdern (“southern”), Middle Low German sūdern (“southern”), Middle High German sundern (“southern”), Icelandic suðrænn (“southern, tropical”).
Morphologically south + -ern.
senses_examples:
text:
The southern climate.
type:
example
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.
Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe or the southern United States.
Of a wind: blowing from the south; southerly.
senses_topics:
|
7996 | word:
southern
word_type:
noun
expansion:
southern (plural southerns)
forms:
form:
southerns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English southerne, sothern, sutherne, from Old English sūþerne (“southern, southerly, coming from the south; of southern make”), from Proto-Germanic *sunþrōnijaz (“southern”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂un-, *sh₂wen-, r/n-stem alternation of *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Cognate with Scots southron, sudron (“southern”), Old Frisian sūthern, sūdern (“southern”), Middle Low German sūdern (“southern”), Middle High German sundern (“southern”), Icelandic suðrænn (“southern, tropical”).
Morphologically south + -ern.
senses_examples:
text:
Force prevails most with the northerns, reason with the inhabitants of a temperate or middle climate, superstition with the southerns; thus astrology, magic, and all mysterious sciences have come from the Chaldeans and Egyptians.
ref:
1839, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries
type:
quotation
text:
The peace which the French leaguers made soon after with Louis XL, for money and offices, did not satisfy the southerns, whose views in this patriotic war had been wholly different.
ref:
2011, Augustin Thierry, History of the Conquest of England by the Normans
type:
quotation
text:
This last formed a strong contrast, by its simplicity and its austere bearing, with the old army of Italy, enriched in the beautiful plains which it had conquered, and composed of brave, fiery, and intemperate Southerns.
ref:
2011, Adolphe Thiers, Frederick Shoberl, The History of the French Revolution, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
Then in 1835 it (negatively) remarked 'a national tone and feeling [. . .] with which we southerns do not wholly sympathize'.
ref:
2012, Ian Duncan, Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg, page 73
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of southerner
senses_topics:
|
7997 | word:
balance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
balance (countable and uncountable, plural balances)
forms:
form:
balances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
balance
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English balaunce, from Old French balance, from Late Latin *bilancia, from (accusative form of) Latin bilanx (“two-scaled”), from bi- + lanx (“plate, scale”).
senses_examples:
text:
But civilized man is quite a different animal, and when he wipes out an entire city or levels a forest, he is no longer working within the natural balance of things.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 196
type:
quotation
text:
These weights are used as a balance for the overhanging verandah.
type:
example
text:
Blair thought he could provide a useful balance to Bush's policies.
type:
example
text:
The balance of power finally lay with the Royalist forces.
type:
example
text:
I think the balance of opinion is that we should get out while we're ahead.
type:
example
text:
The shift in the balance of power online has allowed anyone to publish to the world, from dispirited teenagers in south London to an anonymous cyber-dissident in a Middle East autocracy.
ref:
2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I just need to nip to a bank and check my balance.
type:
example
text:
The balance of the agreement remains in effect.
type:
example
text:
The invoice said he had only paid $50. The balance was $220.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.
Mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.
Something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium; counterweight.
A pair of scales.
Awareness of both viewpoints or matters; neutrality; rationality; objectivity.
The overall result of conflicting forces, opinions etc.; the influence which ultimately "weighs" more than others.
Apparent harmony in art (between differing colours, sounds, etc.).
A list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.
The result of such a procedure; the difference between credit and debit of an account.
A device used to regulate the speed of a watch, clock etc.
The remainder.
Libra.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance
accounting
business
finance
business
law
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences |
7998 | word:
balance
word_type:
verb
expansion:
balance (third-person singular simple present balances, present participle balancing, simple past and past participle balanced)
forms:
form:
balances
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
balancing
tags:
participle
present
form:
balanced
tags:
participle
past
form:
balanced
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
balance
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
balance
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English balaunce, from Old French balance, from Late Latin *bilancia, from (accusative form of) Latin bilanx (“two-scaled”), from bi- + lanx (“plate, scale”).
senses_examples:
text:
2014, Peter Melville Logan, Olakunle George, Susan Hegeman, The Encyclopedia of the Novel'
the Proteus Principle helps to qualify and balance the concepts of narrators and of narrative situations as previously developed in classical studies by G erard Genette and Franz Stanzel.
text:
I balanced my mug of coffee on my knee.
type:
example
text:
The circus performer balances a plate on the end of a baton.
type:
example
text:
Mr. Morrison's ruling to reopen the station as a shelter was given after he had balanced the relative dangers of flooding and bombing.
ref:
1941 September, Charles E. Lee, “Sheltering in London Tube Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 389
type:
quotation
text:
to balance partners
type:
example
text:
to balance the boom mainsail
type:
example
text:
This final payment, or credit, balances the account.
type:
example
text:
to balance a set of books
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bring (items) to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.
To make (concepts) agree.
To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling.
To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.
To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.
To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.
To be in equilibrium.
To have matching credits and debits.
To weigh in a balance.
To hesitate or fluctuate.
senses_topics:
dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport
|
7999 | word:
decline
word_type:
noun
expansion:
decline (countable and uncountable, plural declines)
forms:
form:
declines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English declinen, and ultimately Latin declīnō (“to bend, turn aside, deflect, inflect, decline”, from de (“down”) + clīnō (“I bend, I incline”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (English lean). The senses arrived from two separate pathways in Middle English:
* The grammatical sense came from Old English declīnian, which was borrowed directly from the Latin etymon.
* All senses except the grammatical sense were derived from those of Old French decliner. Old French itself borrowed the verb from Latin.
senses_examples:
text:
He has experienced a sudden decline in his health.
type:
example
text:
Educational standards are on the decline.
type:
example
text:
The country's global reputation is in decline.
type:
example
text:
In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
ref:
2012 January 24, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-04-04, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
Population decline is a major concern.
type:
example
text:
Town-centre retailers have seen a decline in footfall.
type:
example
text:
"It knows it has to plan for managed decline, but it can't even plan for managed decline if it doesn't know how much decline to manage."
ref:
2022 March 23, Paul Clifton, “Londoners pay the price”, in RAIL, number 953, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
The issuing bank only checks the consumer's credit card number for authorization. […] Soft declines are those declines in which the bank requires further verification.
ref:
2004, David A. Montague, Fraud Prevention Techniques for Credit Card Fraud
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Downward movement, fall.
A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
The act of declining or refusing something.
senses_topics:
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