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8200 | word:
pawn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pawn (third-person singular simple present pawns, present participle pawning, simple past and past participle pawned)
forms:
form:
pawns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pawning
tags:
participle
present
form:
pawned
tags:
participle
past
form:
pawned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Pawn
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of pwn
senses_topics:
video-games |
8201 | word:
brick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brick (countable and uncountable, plural bricks)
forms:
form:
bricks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.
senses_examples:
text:
This wall is made of bricks.
type:
example
text:
This house is made of brick.
type:
example
text:
a plastic explosive brick
type:
example
text:
The handyman considered the question and I knew she had a brick of ground beans in her bag but was considering whether the beds and a hot drink was worth a brick of coffee.
ref:
2011, Seth Kenlon, Revolution Radio, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
He disentangled himself from the safe door and delved inside. He brought out a brick of banknotes.
ref:
2012, Kevin Sampson, Powder, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
A few times, when I got tired of my whisky highs and tobacco fumes, I turned to my new little helper, the tiny brick of cannabis resin I got from Don.
ref:
2021, Stan Erisman, A Sea of Troubles, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
Thanks for helping me wash the car. You’re a brick.
type:
example
text:
“It's easy to see you're a brick!” replied Lady Augusta, and the laugh again became general.
ref:
1863, Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Good Society; Or, Contrasts of Character, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
Theobald's mind worked in this way: "Now, I know Ernest has told this boy what a disagreeable person I am, and I will just show him that I am not disagreeable at all, but a good old fellow, a jolly old boy, in fact a regular old brick, and that it is Ernest who is in fault all through."
ref:
1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 48, in The Way of All Flesh
type:
quotation
text:
‘Somebody had to stay with you,’ said Bobbie.
‘Tell you what, Bobbie,’ said Jim, ‘you’re a brick. Shake.’
ref:
1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
“Well, I’ll do what I can for you,” said the seaman, …“If you were only shorter, I'd lend you some clothes.”
“You're a brick,” said the soldier gratefully.
ref:
1960, W.W. Jacobs, Cargoes, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.
type:
example
text:
I was on deck watching the firing, and looking at the direction in which our guns were pointing, it was obvious that it was not going to be Centurion who was going to receive our bricks.
ref:
2019, Daniel Knowles, HMS Hood: Pride of the Royal Navy
type:
quotation
text:
The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river.
type:
example
text:
brick:
text:
I can sell bricks, I don't need to rap
Buj so peng it makes the fiends collapse
Cook that coca into crack
I was selling Zs while you was in your bed
ref:
2013, Snap Capone (lyrics and music), “Lights Out”, in The Memoir, from 0:16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
Something shaped like a brick.
A helpful and reliable person.
A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
A projectile.
A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
The colour brick red.
A kilogram of cocaine.
senses_topics:
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
card-games
poker
|
8202 | word:
brick
word_type:
adj
expansion:
brick (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.
senses_examples:
text:
And while the tropics are definitely the place to be when it's brick outside, rocking a snorkel on the beach only works when you're snorkeling.
ref:
2005, Vibe, volume 12, number 14, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
He was always hanging tight with me and since he had access to a ride . . . it made traveling easier. I mean it was no biggie brain buster to take the train, but when it's brick outside . . . fuck the A train.
ref:
2014, Ray Mack, Underestimated: A Searcher's Story, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
Read on for tips so you don't freeze your ass off when it's brick outside.
ref:
2017 January 18, Anthony J. Yeung, “Running During Winter Sucks. But It Doesn't Have To.”, in Esquire
type:
quotation
text:
"It's brick cold. Could you imagine stepping on this with your bare foot?" Taylor said.
ref:
2018 January 4, Melissa Hipolit, “HUD: Creighton Court residents without heat being relocated”, in CBS 6 TV
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extremely cold.
senses_topics:
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8203 | word:
brick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
brick (third-person singular simple present bricks, present participle bricking, simple past and past participle bricked)
forms:
form:
bricks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bricking
tags:
participle
present
form:
bricked
tags:
participle
past
form:
bricked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.
senses_examples:
text:
If the ground is strong right up to the surface, a few yards are usually sunk and bricked before the engines and pit top are erected
ref:
1904, Thomas Hansom Cockin, An Elementary Class-Book of Practical Coal-Mining, C. Lockwood and Son, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
The shaft was next bricked between the decks until the top scaffold was supported by the brickwork and [made] to share the weight with the prids.
ref:
1914, The Mining Engineer, Institution of Mining Engineers, page 349
type:
quotation
text:
He came in and we went out to the back area I'd bricked amateurishly years ago.
ref:
2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter.
ref:
1904 September 15, James C. Bennett, Walter Renton Ingalls (editor), Lead Smelting and Refining with Some Notes on Lead Mining (1906), The Engineering and Mining Journal, page 66
text:
My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.
type:
example
text:
My phone bricked halfway through the videoconference.
type:
example
text:
Just need to project against users from deleting NK.BIN and bricking the device.
ref:
2002 October 15, Mike Leeson, “How to write protect nk.bin”, in microsoft.public.windowsce.platbuilder (Usenet), retrieved 2016-02-25, message-ID <OHm5#hLdCHA.2592@tkmsftngp09>
type:
quotation
text:
installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router.
ref:
2007 December 14, Joe Barr, “PacketProtector turns SOHO router into security powerhouse”, in Linux.com
type:
quotation
text:
Google owner Alphabet’s subsidiary Nest is closing a smart-home company it bought less than two years ago, leaving customers’ devices useless as of May. […] The company declined to share how many customers would be left with bricked devices as a result of the shutdown.
ref:
2016, Alex Hern, “Revolv devices bricked as Google's Nest shuts down smart home company”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To build, line, or form with bricks.
To make into bricks.
To hit someone or something with a brick.
To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
To become nonfunctional, especially in a way beyond repair.
To blunder; to screw up.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
8204 | word:
speak
word_type:
verb
expansion:
speak (third-person singular simple present speaks, present participle speaking, simple past spoke or (archaic) spake, past participle spoken or (colloquial, nonstandard) spoke)
forms:
form:
speaks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
speaking
tags:
participle
present
form:
spoke
tags:
past
form:
spake
tags:
archaic
past
form:
or (colloquial, nonstandard) spoke
tags:
colloquial
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
speak
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
speak
etymology_text:
From Middle English speken (“to speak”), from Old English specan (“to speak”). This is usually taken to be an irregular alteration of earlier sprecan (“to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan, from Proto-Germanic *sprekaną (“to speak, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *spreg- (“to make a sound, utter, speak”). Finding this proposed loss of r from the stable cluster spr unparalleled, Hill instead sets up a different root, Proto-West Germanic *spekan (“to negotiate”) from Proto-Indo-European *bʰégʾ-e- (“to distribute”) with *s-mobile, which collapsed in meaning with *sprekan ("to speak" < "to crackle, prattle") and so came to be seen as a free variant thereof.
Cognates:
Cognate with West Frisian sprekke, Low German spreken (“to speak”), Dutch spreken (“to speak”), German sprechen (“to speak”), and also with Albanian shpreh (“to utter, voice, express”) through Indo-European.
senses_examples:
text:
I was so surprised I couldn't speak.
type:
example
text:
You're speaking too fast.
type:
example
text:
It's been ages since we've spoken.
type:
example
text:
He spoke of it in his diary.
type:
example
text:
Speak to me only with your eyes.
type:
example
text:
Actions speak louder than words.
type:
example
text:
This evening I shall speak on the topic of correct English usage.
type:
example
text:
He speaks Mandarin fluently.
type:
example
text:
Even those who did 'speak computer' did so sometimes in a less than fluent way which required a jump to be made from a press-the-right-button stage to having the confidence to experiment.
ref:
1998, Nigel G Fielding, Raymond M Lee, Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
I was so surprised that I couldn't speak a word.
type:
example
text:
Their behaviour to each other speaks the most cordial confidence and happiness.
ref:
1785, Frances Burney, Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay, author of Evelina, Cecilia, &c., link
type:
quotation
text:
Sorry, I don't speak idiot.
type:
example
text:
So you can program in C. But do you speak C++?
type:
example
text:
Miles tremblingly confessed that it had, but to no purpose; a parrot being able to speak better in three weeks than a brazen head.
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 220
type:
quotation
text:
Spoke the ship Union of Newport, without any anchor. The next day ran down to Acra, where the windlass was again capsized and the pawls broken.
ref:
2013, George Francis Dow, Slave Ships and Slaving (quoting an older text)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
To have a conversation.
To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
To be able to communicate in a language.
To be able to communicate in a language.
To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.
To utter.
To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
To understand (as though it were a language).
To produce a sound; to sound.
Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
To address; to accost; to speak to.
senses_topics:
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8205 | word:
speak
word_type:
noun
expansion:
speak (countable and uncountable, plural speaks)
forms:
form:
speaks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
speak
etymology_text:
From Middle English speken (“to speak”), from Old English specan (“to speak”). This is usually taken to be an irregular alteration of earlier sprecan (“to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan, from Proto-Germanic *sprekaną (“to speak, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *spreg- (“to make a sound, utter, speak”). Finding this proposed loss of r from the stable cluster spr unparalleled, Hill instead sets up a different root, Proto-West Germanic *spekan (“to negotiate”) from Proto-Indo-European *bʰégʾ-e- (“to distribute”) with *s-mobile, which collapsed in meaning with *sprekan ("to speak" < "to crackle, prattle") and so came to be seen as a free variant thereof.
Cognates:
Cognate with West Frisian sprekke, Low German spreken (“to speak”), Dutch spreken (“to speak”), German sprechen (“to speak”), and also with Albanian shpreh (“to utter, voice, express”) through Indo-European.
senses_examples:
text:
corporate speak; IT speak
text:
We will deduct speaks for hesitation.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
Speech, conversation.
Short for speaker point.
senses_topics:
|
8206 | word:
speak
word_type:
noun
expansion:
speak (plural speaks)
forms:
form:
speaks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
speak
etymology_text:
From Middle English speken (“to speak”), from Old English specan (“to speak”). This is usually taken to be an irregular alteration of earlier sprecan (“to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan, from Proto-Germanic *sprekaną (“to speak, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *spreg- (“to make a sound, utter, speak”). Finding this proposed loss of r from the stable cluster spr unparalleled, Hill instead sets up a different root, Proto-West Germanic *spekan (“to negotiate”) from Proto-Indo-European *bʰégʾ-e- (“to distribute”) with *s-mobile, which collapsed in meaning with *sprekan ("to speak" < "to crackle, prattle") and so came to be seen as a free variant thereof.
Cognates:
Cognate with West Frisian sprekke, Low German spreken (“to speak”), Dutch spreken (“to speak”), German sprechen (“to speak”), and also with Albanian shpreh (“to utter, voice, express”) through Indo-European.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a low class bar, a speakeasy.
senses_topics:
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8207 | word:
ermine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ermine (countable and uncountable, plural ermines or ermine)
forms:
form:
ermines
tags:
plural
form:
ermine
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ermine
etymology_text:
From Middle English ermine, ermin, ermyn, from Old French ermin, ermine, hermine.
There are two main theories for the origin of Old French ermine. Germanic origin is suggested via Old Dutch *harmino (“stoat skin”), from *harmo (“stoat, weasel”) (compare Dutch hermelijn and dialectal herm), from Proto-Germanic *harmǭ, *harmô (compare Old English hearma, Old High German harmo (harmin (adjective), obsolete German Harm), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱormō (compare Romansch carmun, obsolete Lithuanian šarmuõ). Romance sources identify the animal with the corresponding word for Armenian, possibly from Medieval Latin mūs Armenius (“Armenian mouse”) or a posterior compound.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A weasel found in northern latitudes (Mustela erminea in Eurasia, Alaska, and the Arctic, Mustela haidarum in Haida Gwaii, Mustela richardsonii in the rest of North America); its dark brown fur turns white in winter, apart from the black tip of the tail.
The white fur of this animal, traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and used for judges' robes.
The office of a judge.
The fur of this animal, used as a heraldic tincture: a white field with a repeating pattern of stylized black spots.
Any of various moths, especially in the family Yponomeutidae
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
|
8208 | word:
ermine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ermine (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ermine, ermin, ermyn, from Old French ermin, ermine, hermine.
There are two main theories for the origin of Old French ermine. Germanic origin is suggested via Old Dutch *harmino (“stoat skin”), from *harmo (“stoat, weasel”) (compare Dutch hermelijn and dialectal herm), from Proto-Germanic *harmǭ, *harmô (compare Old English hearma, Old High German harmo (harmin (adjective), obsolete German Harm), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱormō (compare Romansch carmun, obsolete Lithuanian šarmuõ). Romance sources identify the animal with the corresponding word for Armenian, possibly from Medieval Latin mūs Armenius (“Armenian mouse”) or a posterior compound.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In blazon, of the colour ermine (white with black spots).
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
8209 | word:
ermine
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ermine (third-person singular simple present ermines, present participle ermining, simple past and past participle ermined)
forms:
form:
ermines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ermining
tags:
participle
present
form:
ermined
tags:
participle
past
form:
ermined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ermine, ermin, ermyn, from Old French ermin, ermine, hermine.
There are two main theories for the origin of Old French ermine. Germanic origin is suggested via Old Dutch *harmino (“stoat skin”), from *harmo (“stoat, weasel”) (compare Dutch hermelijn and dialectal herm), from Proto-Germanic *harmǭ, *harmô (compare Old English hearma, Old High German harmo (harmin (adjective), obsolete German Harm), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱormō (compare Romansch carmun, obsolete Lithuanian šarmuõ). Romance sources identify the animal with the corresponding word for Armenian, possibly from Medieval Latin mūs Armenius (“Armenian mouse”) or a posterior compound.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To clothe with ermine.
senses_topics:
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8210 | word:
logic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
logic
forms:
wikipedia:
en:logic (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English logike, from Old French and Latin logicus, from Ancient Greek λογῐκός (logikós).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
logical
senses_topics:
|
8211 | word:
logic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
logic (countable and uncountable, plural logics)
forms:
form:
logics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:logic (disambiguation)
logic
etymology_text:
From Middle English logik, from Old French logike, from Latin logica, from Ancient Greek λογική (logikḗ, “logic”), from feminine of λογικός (logikós, “of or pertaining to speech or reason or reasoning, rational, reasonable”), from λόγος (lógos, “speech, reason”). Displaced native Old English flitcræft (literally “art of arguing”).
senses_examples:
text:
An old tradition has it that there are two branches of logic: deductive logic and inductive logic. More recently, the differences between these disciplines have become so marked that most people nowadays use "logic" to mean deductive logic, reserving terms like "confirmation theory" for at least some of what used to be called inductive logic. I shall follow the more recent practice, and shall construe "philosophy of logic" as "philosophy of deductive logic".
ref:
2001, Mark Sainsbury, Logical Forms - An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
It's hard to work out his system of logic.
type:
example
text:
This hypothesis goes by many names, including group resistence, the threshold effect, and the gender paradox. Because the hypothesis holds such wide appeal, it is worth revisiting the logic behind it. The hypothesis is built on the factual observation that fewer females than males act antisocially.
ref:
2001 September 27, Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Michael Rutter, Phil A. Silva, Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour: Conduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, Cambridge University Press, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
"It's not a matter of opinion that she wasn't anywhere near her husband when somebody shoved a needle in him," I said, miffed. "I would have seen her."
"By that logic, nobody did it because you didn't see anybody."
ref:
2020, Dan Andriacco, Murderers' Row
type:
quotation
text:
Fred is designing the logic for the new controller.
type:
example
text:
We identify four logics of empowerment (political, economic, social, and security) and apply these to understanding empowerment’s historical and contemporary meanings-in-use.
ref:
2023, Alba Rosa Boer Cueva et al., Logics of empowerment in the women, peace and security agenda
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
A system of thought or collection of rhetoric, especially one associated with a social practice.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology |
8212 | word:
logic
word_type:
verb
expansion:
logic (third-person singular simple present logics, present participle logicking, simple past and past participle logicked)
forms:
form:
logics
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
logicking
tags:
participle
present
form:
logicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
logicked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:logic (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English logik, from Old French logike, from Latin logica, from Ancient Greek λογική (logikḗ, “logic”), from feminine of λογικός (logikós, “of or pertaining to speech or reason or reasoning, rational, reasonable”), from λόγος (lógos, “speech, reason”). Displaced native Old English flitcræft (literally “art of arguing”).
senses_examples:
text:
Nay, is not the author himself "logicking" against logic, from the beginning of his book to the end ?
ref:
1884, Orestes Augustus Brownson, Controversy, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
He logicked that one out. He snuck into Haiti and scored herbs to rev him and calm him.
ref:
2010, James Ellroy, Blood's a Rover, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
If things had gone as usual this night, if Kit had not logicked her into agreement, then she probably would have opened the door tonight.
ref:
2010, Jade Lee, Wicked Surrender
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To engage in excessive or inappropriate application of logic.
To apply logical reasoning to.
To overcome by logical argument.
senses_topics:
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8213 | word:
pos
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pos (comparative more pos, superlative most pos)
forms:
form:
more pos
tags:
comparative
form:
most pos
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of positive.
Clipping of HIV positive.
Clipping of possessive.
senses_topics:
|
8214 | word:
pos
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of po
senses_topics:
|
8215 | word:
badger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
badger (plural badgers)
forms:
form:
badgers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Badger
etymology_text:
From Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to badge + -ard. Displaced earlier brock, from Old English brocc.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).
A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
A brush made of badger hair.
A gang of robbers who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
senses_topics:
|
8216 | word:
badger
word_type:
verb
expansion:
badger (third-person singular simple present badgers, present participle badgering, simple past and past participle badgered)
forms:
form:
badgers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
badgering
tags:
participle
present
form:
badgered
tags:
participle
past
form:
badgered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Badger
etymology_text:
From Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to badge + -ard. Displaced earlier brock, from Old English brocc.
senses_examples:
text:
He kept badgering her about her bad habits.
type:
example
text:
"Yeah? Cool. Just a warning: people are going to badger you about that. It's practically inevitable for gay trans people."
ref:
2013 September 17, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 426 - Trans AND Gay
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.
senses_topics:
|
8217 | word:
badger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
badger (plural badgers)
forms:
form:
badgers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Badger
etymology_text:
Unknown (Possibly from "bagger". "Baggier" is cited by the OED in 1467-8)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
senses_topics:
|
8218 | word:
act
word_type:
noun
expansion:
act (countable and uncountable, plural acts)
forms:
form:
acts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
act
etymology_text:
From Middle English acte, from Old French acte, from Latin ācta (“register of events”), plural of āctum (“decree, law”), from agere (“to do, to act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti. Compare German Akte (“file”). Partially displaced deed, from Old English dǣd (“act, deed”).
senses_examples:
text:
an act of goodwill
type:
example
text:
That best portion of a good man's life, / His little, nameless, unremembered acts / Of kindness and of love.
ref:
1798, William Wordsworth, Lines
type:
quotation
text:
But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
ref:
2012 March 24, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
He was caught in the act of stealing.
type:
example
text:
The pivotal moment in the play was in the first scene of the second act.
type:
example
text:
Which act did you prefer? The soloist or the band?
type:
example
text:
The minute you let it be known you're planning a sales campaign everybody wants to get into the act.
ref:
1934, Babette Hughes, One egg: a farce in one act, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
to put on an act
type:
example
text:
He said, "I'm just curious, is this for real or just an act? / Can't tell if you love or hate me, never met someone like that"
ref:
2023 September 15, Tate McRae, Amy Allen, Jasper Harris, Ryan Tedder, “Greedy”, in Think Later, performed by Tate McRae
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something done, a deed.
Actuality.
Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
A product of a legislative body, a statute.
The process of doing something.
A formal or official record of something done.
A division of a theatrical performance.
A performer or performers in a show.
Any organized activity.
A display of behaviour.
A display of behaviour.
A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
Ellipsis of act of parliament.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
theology
law
broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
law |
8219 | word:
act
word_type:
verb
expansion:
act (third-person singular simple present acts, present participle acting, simple past and past participle acted)
forms:
form:
acts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
acting
tags:
participle
present
form:
acted
tags:
participle
past
form:
acted
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
act
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
act
etymology_text:
From Middle English acte, from Old French acte, from Latin ācta (“register of events”), plural of āctum (“decree, law”), from agere (“to do, to act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti. Compare German Akte (“file”). Partially displaced deed, from Old English dǣd (“act, deed”).
senses_examples:
text:
If you don’t act soon, you will be in trouble.
type:
example
text:
Uplifted hands that at convenient times / Could act extortion and the worst of crimes.
ref:
1782, William Cowper, Expostulation
type:
quotation
text:
I started acting at the age of eleven in my local theatre.
type:
example
text:
But whatever types he assumes, the need to have a good play which acts delightfully well before the audience, and to their delectation, is the dominant thrust. If the play acts well, the director gets the credits.
ref:
2011, Effiong Johnson, Play Production Processes, page 180
type:
quotation
text:
A dog which acts aggressively is likely to bite.
type:
example
text:
I believe that Bill’s stuck-up because of the way that he acts.
type:
example
text:
He’s acting strangely—I think there’s something wrong with him.
type:
example
text:
He acted unconcerned so the others wouldn’t worry.
type:
example
text:
act on behalf of John
type:
example
text:
High-pressure oxygen acts on the central nervous system and may cause convulsions or death.
type:
example
text:
Gravitational force acts on heavy bodies.
type:
example
text:
He’s been acting Shakespearean leads since he was twelve.
type:
example
text:
He acted the angry parent, but was secretly amused.
type:
example
text:
A lawyer cannot act until they have been formally instructed by their client.
type:
example
text:
This group acts on the circle, so it can't be left-orderable!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To do something.
To do (something); to perform.
To perform a theatrical role.
Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
To convey an appearance of being.
To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
To have an effect (on).
To play (a role).
To feign.
To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
To enact; to decree.
senses_topics:
law
mathematics
sciences
|
8220 | word:
act
word_type:
adv
expansion:
act (comparative more act, superlative most act)
forms:
form:
more act
tags:
comparative
form:
most act
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
act
etymology_text:
Clipping of actually.
senses_examples:
text:
james did u act enjoy that juice? looked like u were gagging icl
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of actually.
senses_topics:
|
8221 | word:
malleable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
malleable (comparative more malleable, superlative most malleable)
forms:
form:
more malleable
tags:
comparative
form:
most malleable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from Latin malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of *melh₂- (“crush, grind”).
senses_examples:
text:
My opinion on the subject is malleable.
type:
example
text:
The psychosocial factors in this study are malleable and provide target areas for enhancing mental health in those with high levels of autistic traits.
ref:
2024 November 5, Lorna Camus, Kirsty Jones, Emily O’Dowd, Bonnie Auyeung, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Mary Elizabeth Stewart, “Autistic Traits and Psychosocial Predictors of Depressive Symptoms”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
Flexible, liable to change.
in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
senses_topics:
computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
8222 | word:
deity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
deity (countable and uncountable, plural deities)
forms:
form:
deities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
deity
etymology_text:
From Middle French deité, from Latin deitās.
senses_examples:
text:
The crux of monotheism is not only belief in a single deity but belief in a deity who is different from everything else.
ref:
2000, Kenneth Seeskin, Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides, Oxford University Press, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.
A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess.
senses_topics:
|
8223 | word:
cut
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cut (third-person singular simple present cuts, present participle cutting, simple past cut or (nonstandard) cutted, past participle cut or (archaic) cutten)
forms:
form:
cuts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cutting
tags:
participle
present
form:
cut
tags:
past
form:
cutted
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
cut
tags:
participle
past
form:
cutten
tags:
archaic
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.
senses_examples:
text:
Would you please cut the cake?
type:
example
text:
First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
ref:
2012 May 8, Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, Random House, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
I have three diamonds to cut today.
type:
example
text:
We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you.
ref:
1990, Stephen Dobyns, The house on Alexandrine
type:
quotation
text:
The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.
type:
example
text:
Sarcasm cuts to the quick.
type:
example
text:
she feared she should laugh to hear an European preach in Tamul , but on the contrary , was cut to the heart by what she heard
ref:
1829, Elijah Hoole, Personal Narrative of a Mission to the South of India, from 1820 to 1828
type:
quotation
text:
to cut a horse
type:
example
text:
The panels of white-wood that cuts like cheese, / But lasts like iron for things like these;
ref:
1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., chapter XI, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The Deacon's Masterpiece
type:
quotation
text:
Travis was cut from the team.
type:
example
text:
They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.
type:
example
text:
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax.
ref:
2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
The principle of prioritising longer-distance trains by cutting services to wayside stations (often leading directly to their closure) is not new.
ref:
2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.
type:
example
text:
An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity.
ref:
1833, Thomas Hamilton, Men and Manners in America
type:
quotation
text:
I gotta cut but I'll see you tomorrow, okay?
type:
example
text:
my friends and i had gone for lunch but i had to cut early and couldn't get dessert (which if you know me it's my top priority) so they got it packed and dropped off at my place without a word "open the lift and take it" ?????????? how is this real i will literally cry
ref:
2023 September 3, @tamashbean, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-25
type:
quotation
text:
After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.
type:
example
text:
At first it had been very painful to him to meet any of his old friends, … but this soon passed; either they cut him, or he cut them; it was not nice being cut for the first time or two, but after that, it became rather pleasant than not … The ordeal is a painful one, but if a man's moral and intellectual constitution are naturally sound, there is nothing which will give him so much strength of character as having been well cut.
ref:
1903, Samuel Barber, The Way of All Flesh chapter 73
text:
The ordinary people greet him (Aaron Burr) warmly while the respectable folk tend to cut him dead.
ref:
1973, Gore Vidal, Burr
text:
The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register for 1798 included an explanation by a reader of how the cut was carried out in his college days in a lengthy letter to the editor, signed by the pseudonym "Ansonius." In his rambling letter, Ansonius noted that when he was at college, " … if a man passed an old acquaintance wittingly, without recognizing him, he was said— ‘To cut him.’" Ansonius then went on to explain the performance of the cut and noted that for a time the term "to spear" was used instead of to cut. However, that term did not remain long in use, and this act was generally known as "the cut" ever after.
ref:
27 September 2013, Kane, Kathryn, The Regency Redingote Blog The Cut: The Ultimate & Final Social Weapon
text:
The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.
type:
example
text:
Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.
type:
example
text:
One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.
type:
example
text:
Excuse me, do you mind if I cut?!
ref:
2010 June 8, guy & rOdd, “Brevity”, in gocomics.com
type:
quotation
text:
This road cuts right through downtown.
type:
example
text:
Neither Joleon Lescott nor Vieira appeared to make any contact with Dyer as he cut between them.
ref:
2011 January 18, Daniel Taylor, “Manchester City 4 Leicester City 2”, in Guardian Online
type:
quotation
text:
Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
ref:
2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.
type:
example
text:
If you cut then I'll deal.
type:
example
text:
I'll cut a check for you.
type:
example
text:
I didn't deserve it, but he cut me a deal.
type:
example
text:
to cut a deal, to cut deals
type:
example
text:
to cut a fantastic deal, to cut a raw deal
type:
example
text:
The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water.
type:
example
text:
The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery.
type:
example
text:
Drug dealers sometimes cut cocaine with lidocaine.
type:
example
text:
Arsenal were starting to work up a head of steam and Tractor Boys boss Paul Jewell cut an increasingly frustrated figure on the touchline.
ref:
2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1)”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
The schoolchildren were told to cut the noise.
type:
example
text:
Cut the engines when the plane comes to a halt!
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: bulk
text:
to cut a caper
text:
'Choke, chicken, there's more a-hatching,' said Miss Mag, in a sort of aside, and cutting a flic-flac with a merry devilish laugh, and a wink to Puddock.
ref:
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
type:
quotation
text:
He cut down the street.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
To form or shape by cutting.
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
To wound with a knife.
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
To castrate or geld.
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
To reduce, especially intentionally.
To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
To leave abruptly.
To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
To enter a queue in the wrong place.
To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
To change direction suddenly.
To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
To make, to negotiate, to conclude.
To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
To stop, disengage, or cease.
To renounce or give up.
To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
To move.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
film
media
television
broadcasting
film
media
television
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
8224 | word:
cut
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cut (comparative more cut, superlative most cut)
forms:
form:
more cut
tags:
comparative
form:
most cut
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.
senses_examples:
text:
The real purpose of building this railway on the part of the Japanese imperialists at that time was to spy on the Mongolian People's Republic and to transport the timber produced in the A-erh-t'ai forest zone.[…]The principal cargo consists of cut timber from the A-erh-t'ai-shan, and the cereal products of Wu-lan-hao-t'e.
ref:
1958 November 7 [1956], Excerpts from "Economic Geography of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region", United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
type:
example
text:
Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
type:
example
text:
Or how 'bout Shane DiMora? Could he possibly get rip-roaring cut this time around?
ref:
1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34
type:
quotation
text:
That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.
ref:
2010, Bill Geiger, “6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks”, in Reps!, 17:106
type:
quotation
text:
‘Here y'are,’ says the happy butcher, dragging out a bucket. ‘Good riddance. But me dogs'll be cut tonight, I tell ya. That's their grub.’
ref:
1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 41
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having been cut.
Reduced.
Carved into a shape; not raw.
Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
8225 | word:
cut
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cut (countable and uncountable, plural cuts)
forms:
form:
cuts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.
senses_examples:
text:
He made a fine cut with his sword.
type:
example
text:
a smooth or clear cut
type:
example
text:
Look at this cut on my finger!
type:
example
text:
a cut for a railroad
type:
example
text:
The bank robbers disbanded after everyone got their cut of the money.
type:
example
text:
Starting today, UE5 is free to download and use, with Epic taking a 5% cut on products created with it only after they earn over $1 million in gross revenue.
ref:
2022 April 6, Andrew R. Chow, “Inside Epic's Unreal Engine 5”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
(used in same contexts); increase
text:
The boss took a 5% pay cut.
type:
example
text:
The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.
type:
example
text:
the director's cut
text:
The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.
type:
example
text:
I like the cut of that suit.
type:
example
text:
That’s our finest cut of meat.
type:
example
text:
Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.
ref:
1819, Washington Irving, (Rip Van Winkle):
type:
quotation
text:
1966-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
We got out & there was a group of boppers, bout 25 of 'm in a group. They started yellin cuts, "queer" seemed to be the favorite they all began chanting it. "Hey, yer not gonna serve those queers, are ya Howie?"
text:
The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
type:
example
text:
Best cuts: "The Evil Dude," "Kung Fu, Too!" "Mama Love," "New Orleans" (with a punchy vocal by Teresa Brewer).
ref:
1975, Billboard, volume 87, number 24, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
That's the TL;DR, anyway. You can find a more detailed version under the cut.
type:
example
text:
The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...].
ref:
1960 June, “Talking of Trains: The new Margam yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323
type:
quotation
text:
a book illustrated with fine cuts
type:
example
text:
Two women for stealing 30 cuttes of linen yarn.
ref:
1632, North Riding Record
type:
quotation
text:
Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.
type:
example
text:
I'm laying in a cut 'bout to shoot me a mutt
ref:
1992 September 22, Da Lench Mob (lyrics and music), “Guerillas in tha Mist” (track 6), in Guerillas in tha Mist
type:
quotation
text:
I see Xzibit in the cut, hey, nigga, roll that weed up.
ref:
2003 January 7, “In da Club” (track 5), in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent
type:
quotation
text:
You don't mind me askin', why you want to sell? I mean, even from inside here, you can take a slice for just layin' in the cut.
ref:
2008 March 9, David Simon, “-30-”, in The Wire, season 5, episode 10 (television production), spoken by Slim Charles (Anwan Glover), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
In the cut, in the cut, rolling doobies up
ref:
2010 April 14, Wiz Khalifa, “In the Cut”, in Kush & Orange Juice
type:
quotation
text:
Bitch I'm out, catch me chillin' in the cut. Me and my homies swag it out in the cut. It's a party going down in the cut.
ref:
2012, Honey Cocaine, In The Cut
type:
quotation
text:
Famous as fuck, but I’m still in the cut when they round up the troops.
ref:
2016, Drake (lyrics and music), “Summer Sixteen"”
type:
quotation
text:
She got me stuck. Like a truck, deep mud, deep ruts, way out in the cut. She got me stuck. Even four-wheel drive won't work this time, yeah.
ref:
2021, Redferrin, "Stuck"
text:
We're off the beaten path from River Street downtown. So, it's, we're back here in the cut.
ref:
2023 January 9th, Santana Hannah, in JOLLY, "Brits try REAL Southern Fried Chicken for the first time!", YouTube, 11:27
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of cutting.
The result of cutting.
An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
An artificial navigation channel as distinguished from a navigable river.
A share or portion of profits.
A decrease.
A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
A particular version or edit of a film.
The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
The card obtained by dividing the pack.
The manner or style in which a garment or an article of clothing is fashioned.
A slab or slice, especially of meat.
An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
An unkind act; a cruelty.
An insult
A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
A haircut.
The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
A common workhorse; a gelding.
The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
A skein of yarn.
That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
broadcasting
film
media
television
card-games
games
card-games
games
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
fashion
lifestyle
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences |
8226 | word:
cut
word_type:
intj
expansion:
cut!
forms:
form:
cut!
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instruction to cease recording.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
film
media
television |
8227 | word:
capture
word_type:
noun
expansion:
capture (countable and uncountable, plural captures)
forms:
form:
captures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
capture
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French capture (noun), from Latin captūra. Displaced native Old English fenġ (noun) and ġefōn (verb).
senses_examples:
text:
the capture of a lover's heart
type:
example
text:
video capture
type:
example
text:
After the match […], the text matched within the named capture is available via the Match object's Groups(name) property.
ref:
2006, Jeffrey Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions, page 409
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
Something that has been captured; a captive.
The recording or storage of something for later playback.
A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
8228 | word:
capture
word_type:
verb
expansion:
capture (third-person singular simple present captures, present participle capturing, simple past and past participle captured)
forms:
form:
captures
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
capturing
tags:
participle
present
form:
captured
tags:
participle
past
form:
captured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
capture
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French capture (noun), from Latin captūra. Displaced native Old English fenġ (noun) and ġefōn (verb).
senses_examples:
text:
to capture an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal
type:
example
text:
Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.
ref:
2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Being so inflexible, the railway was easy prey to road competition, and the arrival of unregulated lorry transport from farm fields to town centres quickly captured all locally generated business.
ref:
2020 November 18, Howard Johnston, “The missing 'Lincs' and the sole survivor”, in Rail, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
The paintings in the gallery really captured my imagination.
type:
example
text:
She captured the sounds of a subway station on tape.
type:
example
text:
She captured the details of the fresco in a series of photographs.
type:
example
text:
Ultimately, whether you want to shoot digital or film, the object is to give the client what they want and to capture the image you want, the way you want it to look.
ref:
2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
His film adaptation captured the spirit of the original work.
type:
example
text:
In her latest masterpiece, she captured the essence of Venice.
type:
example
text:
Winterhalter was gifted at capturing the luxurious fabrics and hairstyles of female royalty and he was commissioned to paint portraits of the continental Empresses Eugénie of France and Elizabeth of Austria.
ref:
2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
My pawn was captured.
type:
example
text:
He captured his opponent’s queen on the 15th move.
type:
example
text:
How deeply ingrained capturing is in the mind of a chess master can be seen from this story.
ref:
1954, Fred Reinfeld, How to Be a Winner at Chess, Garden City, NY: Hanover House, page 63
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
To take hold of.
To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
To reproduce convincingly.
To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
senses_topics:
|
8229 | word:
nobleman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nobleman (plural noblemen)
forms:
form:
noblemen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From noble + man.
senses_examples:
text:
The King [...] sit at the head of the royal table with his elder warriors and advisers, noblemen and noblewomen.
ref:
2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 377
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A peer; an aristocrat; ranks range from baron to king to emperor.
senses_topics:
|
8230 | word:
gull
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gull (plural gulls)
forms:
form:
gulls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gulle, from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Brythonic *gwuɨlann, from Proto-Celtic *wēlannā (“seagull”). Cognate with Welsh gwylan, Cornish goolan, Breton gouelan, Old Irish faílenn, Scottish Gaelic faoileag. Compare French goéland, a borrowing from Breton. Eclipsed Middle English lare (“seabird, gull”), borrowed from Latin lare.
senses_examples:
text:
The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.
ref:
1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
senses_topics:
|
8231 | word:
gull
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gull (plural gulls)
forms:
form:
gulls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps from an obsolete term gull (“to swallow, guzzle”), from Middle English golen (“to make swallowing motions, gape”).
senses_examples:
text:
You'll excuse me, sir, but as you are fresh, take care to avoid the gulls; they fly about here in large flocks, I assure you, and do no little mischief at times." "I never understood that gulls were birds of prey," said I.—"Only in Oxford, sir; and here, I assure you, they bite like hawks, and pick many a poor young gentleman as bare before his three years are expired, as the crows would a dead sheep upon a common. […]"
ref:
1825, Bernard Blackmantle, The English Spy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cheating trick; a fraud.
A stupid animal.
One easily cheated; a dupe.
A swindler or trickster.
senses_topics:
|
8232 | word:
gull
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gull (third-person singular simple present gulls, present participle gulling, simple past and past participle gulled)
forms:
form:
gulls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gulling
tags:
participle
present
form:
gulled
tags:
participle
past
form:
gulled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps from an obsolete term gull (“to swallow, guzzle”), from Middle English golen (“to make swallowing motions, gape”).
senses_examples:
text:
I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.
ref:
c. 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wallenstein
type:
quotation
text:
She has done these things before and remembers now that she is good at them, often steadier than the men. In Berlin when Jack needed a spare girl Mary had kept watch, gulled room keys out of concierges, replaced stolen documents in dangerous desks, driven scared Joes to safe flats.
ref:
1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To deceive or cheat.
To mislead.
To trick and defraud.
To flatter, wheedle.
senses_topics:
|
8233 | word:
gull
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gull (plural gulls)
forms:
form:
gulls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gole (“a whirlpool, narrow inlet of the sea, ditch or stream”), from Middle Low German goel, gȫl, gȫle (“swamp, marshy lowland”), related to Old Dutch gulla (“pool, puddle”), Old French goille (“pool, puddle, pond”), all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *goli, *golljā (“puddle”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *guljaz, *guljǭ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A breach or hole made by the force of a torrent; fissure, chasm.
A channel made by a stream; a natural watercourse; running water.
senses_topics:
|
8234 | word:
gull
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gull (third-person singular simple present gulls, present participle gulling, simple past and past participle gulled)
forms:
form:
gulls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gulling
tags:
participle
present
form:
gulled
tags:
participle
past
form:
gulled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gole (“a whirlpool, narrow inlet of the sea, ditch or stream”), from Middle Low German goel, gȫl, gȫle (“swamp, marshy lowland”), related to Old Dutch gulla (“pool, puddle”), Old French goille (“pool, puddle, pond”), all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *goli, *golljā (“puddle”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *guljaz, *guljǭ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sweep away by the force of running water; to carve or wear into a gully.
senses_topics:
|
8235 | word:
emit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
emit (third-person singular simple present emits, present participle emitting, simple past and past participle emitted)
forms:
form:
emits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
emitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
emitted
tags:
participle
past
form:
emitted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ēmittō.
senses_examples:
text:
Here is a Proclamation for a Prince: that proclaims him in whoſe name it is emitted [James II of England], to be the greateſt Tyrant that ever lived in the world, and their Revolt who have diſowned him to be the juſteſt that ever was.
ref:
1744, Alexander Shiels [i.e., Alexander Shields], “Period VI. Containing the Testimony through the Continued Tract of the Present Deformation, from the Year 1660 to this Day.”, in A Hind Let Loose: Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland, for the Interest of Christ; with the True State thereof in All Its Periods: […], Edinburgh: Reprinted by R. Drummond and Company, and sold by William Gray bookbinder in the Grassmarket, and several others, &c., →OCLC, pages 167–168
type:
quotation
text:
The controls then emit client-side HTML code that is appended to the final page output.
ref:
2014, Imar Spaanjaars, Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1: in C# and VB
type:
quotation
text:
Eruption ceased to emit, and aside from the limited success of "I'll Be Your Friend" (--/#40, 1986), Precious Wilson still hopes to hit the big time.
ref:
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 350
type:
quotation
text:
Said sound producing means generates a sound which is allowed to emit from said casing through said plurality of apertures.
ref:
1997, Emmanuel Saint-Victor, Illuminating and Sound Producing String Activated Rotatable Toy, US Patent 6083076 (PDF version)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To send out or give off.
To come out, to be sent out or given off.
senses_topics:
|
8236 | word:
tit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tit (plural tits)
forms:
form:
tits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tit
etymology_text:
From Middle English tit, titte, tette, from Old English tit, titt, from Proto-West Germanic *titt, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), of expressive origin.
Perhaps related to an original meaning “to suck”; compare Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-y-. Doublet of teat, which was borrowed from Old French.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tit, Dutch tiet, dialectal Dutch tet, German Zitze, Titte, Hunsrik Ditz, Yiddish ציצע (tsitse).
senses_examples:
text:
I have enjoyed taking to my writing bureau and writing about poverty, benefit reform and the coalition government in the manner of a shit Dickens, or Orwell, but with tits.
ref:
2012, Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, Ebury Press, published 2012, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Sanch tossed his head back, threw open his shirt, cupped his beanbag-shaped male breasts and jiggled them at us. Ford and I were laughing but Kat said, "I think they're the most beautiful tits."
ref:
2006, Benjamin Kunkel, Indecision
type:
quotation
text:
Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.
ref:
1987, “A Conflict of Interest”, in Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, directors, Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 4, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds), BBC2
type:
quotation
text:
A large bowl of suckulent raspberries with clotted yellow cream fresh from the goat's tit on the diamond and ruby-studded glass end-table.
ref:
1980 August 16, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!
type:
example
text:
I know a lot of tits, Guv'nor. But I don't know any quite as fucking stupid as these two.
ref:
2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch (motion picture), spoken by Errol (Andy Beckwith)
type:
quotation
text:
“What did you say to the cops?”
“I told them everything about the smuggling ring.”
“Why the fuck did you do that?”
“They were nice to me.”
“They’re always nice to people they want to get information from, you dumb tit.”
ref:
2002, Dick Plamondon, Have You Ever Been Screwed, iUniverse, page 234
type:
quotation
text:
John Watson (to Sherlock Holmes): It's Lestrade. Says they're all coming over here right now. Queuing up to slap on the handcuffs, every single officer you ever made feel like a tit. Which is a lot of people.
ref:
2012 January 15, Stephen Thompson, "The Reichenbach Fall", episode 2-3 of Sherlock, 00:52:46-00:52:55
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person's breast or nipple.
An animal's teat or udder.
An idiot; a fool.
A police officer; a "tithead".
senses_topics:
|
8237 | word:
tit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tit (plural tits)
forms:
form:
tits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tit
etymology_text:
Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat).
senses_topics:
|
8238 | word:
tit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tit (third-person singular simple present tits, present participle titting, simple past and past participle titted)
forms:
form:
tits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
titting
tags:
participle
present
form:
titted
tags:
participle
past
form:
titted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tit
etymology_text:
Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.
senses_examples:
text:
Come tit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me—how is that?
ref:
1897 [1607], John Webster, “Northward Hoe”, in The Dramatic Works of John Webster, page 203
type:
quotation
text:
they would vpbraid me therewith calling me idle Drone; Titting and flouting at me, that I should offer to sit downe at boord with cleane hand.
ref:
1623, James Mabbe, The Rogue: Or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache, translation of Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strike lightly, tap, pat.
To taunt, to reproach.
senses_topics:
|
8239 | word:
tit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tit (plural tits)
forms:
form:
tits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tit (bird)
tit
etymology_text:
Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; found earliest in titling and titmouse; compare Faroese títlingur, dialectal Norwegian titling (“small stockfish”).
Wikispecies
senses_examples:
text:
Bob trotted gently by the side of the carriage. “Not a bad looking tit,” said St. Leger, as they went along.
ref:
1854, Charles James Collins, The life and adventures of Dick Diminy, page 156
type:
quotation
text:
Gossiping, and smoothing the horse's mane down with his hand, "A nice little tit," said the man.
ref:
1862, Robert Kemp Philp, The Family friend, page 362
type:
quotation
text:
I shall keep my eye open, and the first pretty little tit I see that I think will suit you, I shall make the guv'nor buy.
ref:
2019, George Manville Fenn, Cursed by a Fortune
type:
quotation
text:
"What sort of a feringee is this?" said a lively little tit—"eh?"
ref:
1843, Charles James C. Davidson, Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India
type:
quotation
text:
But I don't mind; she's a pretty little tit, and Dick has taught her to call me uncle.
ref:
1887, George Manville Fenn, The Master of the Ceremonies, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
What, I suppose, Mr. Loader, you will be for your old friend the black ey'd girl, from Rosemary Lane. Ha ha! Well, 'tis a merry little tit. A thousand pities she's such a reprobate!
ref:
2013, Vic Gatrell, The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age, page xcix
type:
quotation
text:
Now if you can shew so neat a foot, ( shewing her shoe ) —Parlez moi de ça : —I suppose I was not noble enough for this squire; he must have a bit a blood, a tit of quality — but I shall be a countess soon, and a mighty good sort of countess I shall make.
ref:
1813, James Lawrence, The Englishman at Verdun; Or the Prisoner of Peace, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Being drunk , he remembers not a tit of life before the drink came well home. It is not that he sees the past mistily; he does not see at all. He lives then only in as much of the present as the word of his master for the time being[…]
ref:
1951, Thomas Henry MacDermot, Tom Redcam, Orange Valley, and Other Poems, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
Would we understand woman if we took her whole instead of tit by tit?
ref:
1988, E. C. Curtsinger, Towers, Crosses, page 236
type:
quotation
text:
The one farthest from the river was the largest and tallest; they decreased in size toward the river, until the fourth was little more than a tit of rock jutting up out of the prairie.
ref:
1999, Benjamin Capps, A Woman of the People, page 78
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.
Any of various other small passerine birds.
A small horse; a nag.
A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.
A morsel; a bit.
senses_topics:
|
8240 | word:
MDM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MDM (countable and uncountable, plural MDMs)
forms:
form:
MDMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Next, a comprehensive list of instructions is provided for determining the extent of medical history obtained, the extent of examination performed, and the complexity of MDM involved in each specific patient encounter.
ref:
2006, Stephen R. Levinson, “Features of the E/M Coding System and the Documentation Guidelines”, in Practical E/M: Documentation and Coding Solutions for Quality Patient Care, American Medical Association, page 40
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of master data management.
Initialism of multiplexer-demultiplexer.
Initialism of medical decision making.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
8241 | word:
dialogue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dialogue (countable and uncountable, plural dialogues)
forms:
form:
dialogues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English dialog, from Old French dialoge (French dialogue), from Late Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to converse”), from διά (diá) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).
senses_examples:
text:
Bill and Melinda maintained a dialogue via email over the course of their long-distance relationship.
type:
example
text:
Start up a dialogue
type:
example
text:
The hours of dialogue with Winfrey, which culminated in a choked-up moment on Friday night as he discussed the impact of his cheating on his family, appear to have failed to give Armstrong the redemption that he craves.
ref:
2013 January 19, Paul Harris, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The movie had great special effects, but the dialogue was lackluster.
type:
example
text:
In 1936, Anstey had co-directed Housing Problems, which featured direct dialogue recording - allowing the subjects of the film to speak for themselves. As Anstey said: "At the time nobody had done it, and we gave slum dwellers a chance to make their own films."
ref:
2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
A literary historian, she specialized in the dialogues of ancient Greek philosophers.
type:
example
text:
Once the My Computer dialogue opens, select Local Disk (C:), then right click and scroll down.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.
Nonstandard form of dialog.
senses_topics:
authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
8242 | word:
dialogue
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dialogue (third-person singular simple present dialogues, present participle dialoguing, simple past and past participle dialogued)
forms:
form:
dialogues
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dialoguing
tags:
participle
present
form:
dialogued
tags:
participle
past
form:
dialogued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English dialog, from Old French dialoge (French dialogue), from Late Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to converse”), from διά (diá) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).
senses_examples:
text:
Pearson wanted to dialogue with his overseas counterparts about the new reporting requirements.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.
To put into dialogue form.
To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
senses_topics:
business
|
8243 | word:
barony
word_type:
noun
expansion:
barony (plural baronies)
forms:
form:
baronies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English baronie, baronye, from Old French baronie, equivalent to baron + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
In Ireland... an head constable for each barony or hundred, being 252.
ref:
a. 1687, W. Petty, The Political Anatomy of Ireland, page 326
type:
quotation
text:
The Baronies appear to have been formed successively on the submission of the Irish chiefs... the territory of each constituting a barony.
ref:
1873, General Report on the Census of England, volume IV, page 181
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The domain of a baron or baroness, usually as part of a larger kingdom or empire.
Synonym of hundred, an English administrative division originally reckoned as comprising 100 hides and in various numbers composing counties.
The domain of a baron or baroness, usually as part of a larger kingdom or empire.
Any large manor or estate, regardless of its owner's rank.
The baronage: the body of barons in a realm.
Baronship, the rank or position of a baron.
The legal tenure of a baron's land; military tenure.
senses_topics:
law |
8244 | word:
cake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cake (countable and uncountable, plural cakes)
forms:
form:
cakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Middle English cake
English cake
From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca.
senses_examples:
text:
an oatmeal cake
type:
example
text:
a johnnycake
type:
example
text:
buckwheat cakes
text:
a cake of soap
type:
example
text:
a cake of sand
type:
example
text:
"It looks like the cake [and eat it] philosophy is still alive." Quote attributed to Donald Tusk.
ref:
2018, The Guardian, "UK's aspirations for post-Brexit trade deal an illusion, says Donald Tusk", Daniel Boffey, Peter Walker, Jennifer Rankin, and Heather Stewart, 23 February 2018
text:
Mmm, I'd like to cut me some of that cake!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
A block of any various dense materials.
A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
Money.
Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
senses_topics:
|
8245 | word:
cake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked)
forms:
form:
cakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
caking
tags:
participle
present
form:
caked
tags:
participle
past
form:
caked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Middle English cake
English cake
From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca.
senses_examples:
text:
His shoes are caked with mud.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
To form into a cake, or mass.
Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
senses_topics:
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8246 | word:
octopus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
octopus (countable and uncountable, plural octopuses or octopusses or octopi or octopodes or octopii)
forms:
form:
octopuses
tags:
plural
form:
octopusses
tags:
plural
form:
octopi
tags:
plural
form:
octopodes
tags:
plural
form:
octopii
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Singapore
octopus
southern blue-ringed octopus
etymology_text:
From Latin octōpūs, from Ancient Greek ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous), from ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several marine molluscs of the family Octopodidae, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.
An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.
senses_topics:
|
8247 | word:
octopus
word_type:
verb
expansion:
octopus (third-person singular simple present octopusses or octopuses, present participle octopussing or octopusing, simple past and past participle octopussed or octopused)
forms:
form:
octopusses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
octopuses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
octopussing
tags:
participle
present
form:
octopusing
tags:
participle
present
form:
octopussed
tags:
participle
past
form:
octopussed
tags:
past
form:
octopused
tags:
participle
past
form:
octopused
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Singapore
octopus
southern blue-ringed octopus
etymology_text:
From Latin octōpūs, from Ancient Greek ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous), from ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).
senses_examples:
text:
He rises up on his wasted legs, the healer's hands octopussed on his head.
ref:
1994, Susan Ketchin, The Christ-haunted Landscape
type:
quotation
text:
A skinny, sauced-looking gent in shorts and baseball cap wandered in through the door, his arms octopussing no less than three pre-teen girls.
ref:
2006, Stuart Lloyd, Gone Troppo: Hot Babes, Warm Weather, Cold Beer. Paradise!
type:
quotation
text:
I took off my shirt, standing in swim trunks, embarrassed of my tour body, my hands octopussing around the ashamed drink tickets of my gut.
ref:
2018, Derrick C. Brown, Hello. It Doesn't Matter.
type:
quotation
text:
The bug-eyed press octopussed to their respective word processors.
ref:
1995, Donald A. Weatherby, The Star-Spangled Specter, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
Dirt roads octopussed into the interior, where there were more dried mud and shrivelled crops.
ref:
1997, The Unesco Courier - Volume 50, Issues 1-6, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
He had attached three more on so now there were seven legs octopussing out from underneath the chair.
ref:
2002, Susan Goyette, Lures: A Novel, page 224
type:
quotation
text:
The main house was a sprawling gray two-story structure with breezeways connecting it to the dining hall and another large wing, making it look like it had outgrown itself and octopused to the other spaces.
ref:
2013, Jesse Hayworth, Jessica Andersen, Summer at Mustang Ridge
type:
quotation
text:
If they're all for a single indoor tree, caution against "octopusing" of cords from other cords, and the use of a number of cords in a single receptacle.
ref:
1963, Hardware Age - Volume 203, Issues 7-10, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
By now, the reservation had electricity so THAT had to be octopussed out to the trailers too.
ref:
1985, Ted C. Williams, The Reservation, page 206
type:
quotation
text:
The three electrical outlets I could see—though located six feet above the ground, beyond all their little reaches—were octopussed with what looked like more plugs than the circuits could handle.
ref:
2010, Arthur Nersesian, Mesopotamia, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
It was an eight-channel audio recording snake, a bundled set of cables with eight plugs octopussing out of either end.
ref:
2011, Richard Sanders, Dead Heat, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
The interlocking business organizations have octopussed beyond all imagining in recent years; they are intermingled with citizens' union-smashing committees and women's strikebreaking “patriotic” groups, such as Neutral Thousands and Women of the Pacific.
ref:
1937, Fight Against War and Fascism - Volumes 5-6, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
The busy man will do two things at once in his office; and with a little forethought he can practise what psychologist Freeman calls "brain octopussing" at home, too.
ref:
1953, Dun's Review and Modern Industry, volume 62, August-December 1953, page 256
type:
quotation
text:
The course of study should be rooted in a survey of the needs of the community and not "octopussed" from swivel chair courses of study prepared for other areas.
ref:
1978, William Edward Field, A Review of the Undergraduate Program in Agricultural Education at the University of Minnesota, 1977, page 349
type:
quotation
text:
The performance of it, however, did not improve, being octopussed by centuries-old not-to-move bureaucracy.
ref:
1993, Mohammad Abdul Mannan, Growth and development of small enterprise, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
Judging by the way that Boots was octopussing himself into the world of the stud farm and mastering the intricacies of thoroughbred financing, he was well on his way to raping Sport of Kings.
ref:
2000, Murray Bromberg, The Wagers of Sin, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
The sport could be called octopusing or octopus hunting— and any number may play. Supposing you catch an octopus, what do you have?
ref:
1956, Travel - Volume 105, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
CRABBING AND OCTOPUSSING: Use the same method whether you skindive for crabs and octopi or gather them intertidally.
ref:
1977, Peter Howorth, Foraging Along the California Coast, Capra Press, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
The municipal council assigned food quotas to each section and family contributions within sections. People spent the days before the visit fishing, octopusing, digging taro, cooking, and cleaning public spaces.
ref:
1993, Poyer Lin, NGATIK MASSACRE PB, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
Night fell especially dark and cold for August, inky blackness tendrilling in, octopussing even the street lamps, now dim with vague form.
ref:
1995, Donald A. Weatherby, The Star-Spangled Specter, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
“Strangled in the middle of the night by one of Molly's eight legs.”
“Mo-om!” Molly kicked Robin in the shins.
“Owww!” Robin lunged against the door. “I've been octopused!”
ref:
2009, Becky Citra, Whiteout, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
It was quite a conincidence for a mechanical sea creature and he was speculating whether it could possibly have been done on purpose when Katsu stole his other sock and flopped on to the floor with an unbiological bang, whereupon it octopused out of the open door and slid down the banister.
ref:
2015, Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put (or attempt to put) one's fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time.
To spread out in long arms or legs in many directions.
To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet.
To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.
To hunt and catch octopuses.
To behave like an octopus.
senses_topics:
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8248 | word:
weasel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
weasel (plural weasels)
forms:
form:
weasels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wesele, from Old English weosule, from Proto-West Germanic *wisulā, from Proto-Germanic *wisulǭ.
The verb is from c. 1900, from the supposed cunningness of the weasel.
senses_examples:
text:
Once you've gone beyond the scripted speeches, soundbites and cliches, you'll notice how the debate about leadership is primarily divided between the three governors and two senators, the other two weasels, Donald Trump and Ben Carson notwithstanding.
ref:
2016 February 8, Marwan Bishara, “Why Obama fails the leadership test in the Middle East”, in Al Jazeera English
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A least weasel (Mustela nivalis).
Any of the carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela, having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper coat and light-coloured belly.
Any of certain other species of the family Mustelidae.
A devious or sneaky person or animal.
A type of yarn winder used for counting the yardage of handspun yarn. It most commonly has a wooden peg or dowel that pops up from the gearing mechanism after a certain number of yards have been wound onto the winder.
senses_topics:
|
8249 | word:
weasel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
weasel (third-person singular simple present weasels, present participle weaseling or weaselling, simple past and past participle weaseled or weaselled)
forms:
form:
weasels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
weaseling
tags:
participle
present
form:
weaselling
tags:
participle
present
form:
weaseled
tags:
participle
past
form:
weaseled
tags:
past
form:
weaselled
tags:
participle
past
form:
weaselled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wesele, from Old English weosule, from Proto-West Germanic *wisulā, from Proto-Germanic *wisulǭ.
The verb is from c. 1900, from the supposed cunningness of the weasel.
senses_examples:
text:
Prisoners are notorious for weaseling day passes to get out of lockup […] .
ref:
2010 (publication date), Tony Dajer, "Vital Signs", Discover, ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 10
text:
He's weaseled himself into a position where he can influence the outcome of this election.
ref:
2006, Tony Ruggiero, Alien Deception
type:
quotation
text:
Within just a couple of days, she [a dog] had weaseled her way into our hearts.
ref:
2010, Susie Davis, Uncovered: Revealing the Secrets of a Sexy Marriage, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
Authority figures have a history of weaseling on this topic.
ref:
1996, Stefan Bechtel, Larry Stains, Sex: A Man's Guide, page 151
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To achieve by clever or devious means.
To gain something for oneself by clever or devious means.
To engage in clever or devious behavior.
senses_topics:
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8250 | word:
linchpin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
linchpin (plural linchpins)
forms:
form:
linchpins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lynspin, compound of lins (“axletree”) and pin, from Old English lynis (“lynchpin”), from Proto-West Germanic *lunis, from Proto-Germanic *lunaz – compare German Lünse and Dutch luns – from Proto-Indo-European. Possible further cognates are Welsh olwyn (“wheel”), Old Armenian ողն (ołn, “back; spine, backbone”) and Sanskrit आणि (āṇí, “lynchpin”). Figurative use attested from the mid-20th century.
senses_examples:
text:
In ij camellis ferri vocatis lynspins emptis pro carectis iiijᵈ.
ref:
1376–7, Compotus Roll Hyde Manor (In the manuscript deeds of Westminster Abbey)
text:
Every design that villany could suggest was had recourse to in the hopes of nobbling Wild Dayrell; but never being left for an hour by either his trainer or jockey, he escaped the intended “coopering,” even when the lynchpins of the wheels of his van had been tampered with.
ref:
1864 June 24, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 8, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
The axles were attached to the wooden floors with leather straps, the floor projecting on each side to take the wheels which were secured by linchpins to their outer faces.
ref:
1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
What is difficult to appreciate, however, is the discrepancy between his statement to the 'Manchester Guardian' correspondent and his known abhorance for party politics, which is the lynchpin of modern democracy.
ref:
1958, The Eastern Economist
type:
quotation
text:
Community nurses have been described as the lynchpins of palliative care in the community.
ref:
2013, Dvaid Sines, Community and Public Health Nursing, page 2006
type:
quotation
text:
Second, QAnon, whose adherents have deep ties to countless other large communities, has become a linchpin in that ecosystem, and the absurdity of its claims in no way reduces its political influence.
ref:
2020 October 20, Renée DiResta, “The Right’s Disinformation Machine Is Getting Ready for Trump to Lose”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pin inserted through holes at the end of an axle or shaft, so as to secure a wheel or shaft-mounted device.
A central cohesive source of stability and security; a person or thing that is critical to a system or organisation.
senses_topics:
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8251 | word:
linchpin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
linchpin (third-person singular simple present linchpins, present participle linchpinning, simple past and past participle linchpinned)
forms:
form:
linchpins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
linchpinning
tags:
participle
present
form:
linchpinned
tags:
participle
past
form:
linchpinned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lynspin, compound of lins (“axletree”) and pin, from Old English lynis (“lynchpin”), from Proto-West Germanic *lunis, from Proto-Germanic *lunaz – compare German Lünse and Dutch luns – from Proto-Indo-European. Possible further cognates are Welsh olwyn (“wheel”), Old Armenian ողն (ołn, “back; spine, backbone”) and Sanskrit आणि (āṇí, “lynchpin”). Figurative use attested from the mid-20th century.
senses_examples:
text:
The poems turn fear of individual death into an audit of the costs of an aristocratic status quo which is linchpinned by a monarchy indulging in paradigms of social redress that have become cosmetic, opportunities for self-display rather than genuine justice.
ref:
2013, Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals, page 238
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To adopt as, or serve as, a central cohesive source of stability and security.
senses_topics:
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8252 | word:
castling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
castling (plural castlings)
forms:
form:
castlings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From cast + -ling.
senses_examples:
text:
1646: Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon the urine in a castling’s bladder — Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5
text:
From the Celeste's own image was the first castling molded. A soft, delicate creature of flesh and blood she would call Woman. So that Her castlings may never feel the loneliness she Herself did suffer, she bestowed woman with a mate [...]
ref:
2009, Danielle Devon, Divinity in Chains - Page 6
type:
quotation
text:
[...] shift for themselves, and seek out new habitations; such castlings might in their waudring throughout the South Sea (most of the Oriental Islands being formerly inhabited by by their Off-spring) fall with the coast of Term Primitive Language.
ref:
1678, Claude Saumaise, Funus linguae hellenisticae
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abortion, or a premature birth.
The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.
A miniature cast or mould.
One that is cast.
senses_topics:
|
8253 | word:
castling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
castling (usually uncountable, plural castlings)
forms:
form:
castlings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Castle (shogi)
castling
etymology_text:
From Middle English castellinge, equivalent to castle (verb) + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle.
The act of constructing a defense structure in Japanese chess in which the king (玉) is positioned in a certain way so that it is protected by pawns (歩) and silver general(s) (銀) and/or gold general(s) (金) often with an additional knight (桂) and lance (香車).
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
board-games
games
shogi |
8254 | word:
castling
word_type:
verb
expansion:
castling
forms:
wikipedia:
Castle (shogi)
castling
etymology_text:
From Middle English castellinge, equivalent to castle (verb) + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of castle
senses_topics:
|
8255 | word:
et
word_type:
verb
expansion:
et
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English et, from Old English æt, first and third person singular indicative of Old English etan (“to eat”). Doublet of ate.
senses_examples:
text:
So we got to talking together while he et his breakfast.
ref:
1896, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Tom Sawyer, Detective https://web.archive.org/web/20141009081751/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w
text:
'Boss,' says the cabby, 'I et a steak in that restaurant once. If you're real hungry, I advise you to try the saddle-shops first.'
ref:
1907, O. Henry, Seats of the Haughty
type:
quotation
text:
Well, I don't care if he does! I can remember the time when he et a good old-fashioned supper.
ref:
1919, Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Long-Distance Call From Jim
type:
quotation
text:
Yer can't expect folk to stop here for ever just to be et by you and Bert.
ref:
1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
type:
quotation
text:
It must have been somethin’ I et!
ref:
1946 February 18, Life magazine
text:
They eat to grow, grow to die / Die to be et at the hamburger fry.
ref:
1996, Dana Lyons, Cows with Guns
type:
quotation
text:
Something I et?
ref:
2001, Richard Williams, The Animator's Survival Kit, page 220
type:
quotation
text:
And when the last partridge was et, the last bit of Badajoz goat, I handed the waiter a Visa card.
ref:
2023, John McPhee, Tabula Rasa, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of ate, the simple past and past participle of eat
senses_topics:
|
8256 | word:
important
word_type:
adj
expansion:
important (comparative more important, superlative most important)
forms:
form:
more important
tags:
comparative
form:
most important
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English important, from Medieval Latin important-, importāns.
Displaced native Old English heah and hefig.
senses_examples:
text:
It is very important to give your daughter independence in her life so she learns from experience.
type:
example
text:
For this was the most important thing, that when a person felt strongly about an issue in life, it mustn’t be ignored by others; for if it was, everything subsequent to it would turn out badly, even though there should seem to be no direct connection.
ref:
1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son
text:
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having relevant and crucial value; having import.
Pompous; self-important.
senses_topics:
|
8257 | word:
baroness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
baroness (plural baronesses)
forms:
form:
baronesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English baronesse; equivalent to baron + -ess.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The wife of a baron.
A woman holding a baronial title in her own right; a female ruler of a barony.
senses_topics:
|
8258 | word:
bag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bag (plural bags)
forms:
form:
bags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bag
etymology_text:
From Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰak- (compare Welsh baich (“load, bundle”), Ancient Greek βάσταγμα (bástagma, “load”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
type:
example
text:
And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing.
ref:
1976, Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone, Little, Brown, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
type:
example
text:
He headed back to the bag.
type:
example
text:
A bag of three apples could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Or, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a bag of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}.
type:
example
text:
Meronym: teats
text:
Her bag is coming in nicely now.
type:
example
text:
the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents
type:
example
text:
He had on a suit of Manchester velvet, Lined with white satten, a Bag, lace Ruffles, and a very handsome sword which the King had given to him.
ref:
1774, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 1 December
text:
With gravel stuck to my cheek, I pulled myself back in the car, looked in the rearview mirror, and saw, looking back at me, a young man with a pale face and a purple bag under each eye. I looked pitiful […]
ref:
2013, Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
What about the time you got shot eight times and then played a show the same week? ¶ Oh yeah that was beautiful, I mean it was fucked up that I was shot, but as far as goin' to get that bag I'm always gonna go get that bag.
ref:
2014 August 28, Sam Wilhoit, quoting OJ da Juiceman, “The Life and Times of OJ da Juiceman”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-09-22
type:
quotation
text:
A bag refers to money. So to get a bag or even secure a bag means that you are acquiring money.]
ref:
[2019 February 6, Rasha Ali, “Get hip to all the slang words and phrases your kids are using and what they mean, okurrr”, in USA Today, McLean, V.A.: Gannett, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-16
type:
quotation
text:
Secure the bag, secure the bag
Grab the stash and hit the trap
ref:
2019 April 4, “Secure The Bag”, Skripteh (lyrics), 1:33
type:
quotation
text:
Coulda got a bag last year
But now I get a bag for a verse
ref:
2017 May 2, Figure Flows (lyrics and music), “Money Right”, in Big Figures ft. Purple, from 1:18
type:
quotation
text:
My hoodie cost a bag three, my runners cost a bag two
ref:
2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics), 1:30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
One's preference.
An ugly woman.
The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
First, second, or third base.
A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
The human female breast.
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
A large number or amount.
In certain phrases: money.
A fellow gay man.
A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
The scrotum.
£1000, a grand.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
mathematics
sciences
LGBT
|
8259 | word:
bag
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bag (third-person singular simple present bags, present participle bagging, simple past and past participle bagged)
forms:
form:
bags
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bagging
tags:
participle
present
form:
bagged
tags:
participle
past
form:
bagged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bag
etymology_text:
From Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰak- (compare Welsh baich (“load, bundle”), Ancient Greek βάσταγμα (bástagma, “load”)).
senses_examples:
text:
We bagged three deer yesterday.
type:
example
text:
He was a fine specimen, very large and with a beautiful coat, and I wish I had had the luck to bag him.
ref:
1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
"As a matter of fact my thoughts were flashing between Ronda and that man-eating tiger I'm going to bag tomorrow."
ref:
1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
the two opposition groups have bagged almost 300 of the 500 seats contested in the election.
ref:
2023 May 14, Tan Tam Mei, “Thai election: Early results show opposition parties in the lead”, in The Straits Times
type:
quotation
text:
"I am sure nobody would mind," said Susan. "It isn't as if we wanted to take them out of the house; we shan't take them even out of the wardrobe."
"I never thought of that, Su," said Peter. "Of course, now you put it that way, I see. No one could say you had bagged a coat as long as you leave it in the wardrobe where you found it. And I suppose this whole country is in the wardrobe."
ref:
1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
type:
quotation
text:
When we hit the club to go and hell-raise / Probably end up baggin' the cocktail waitress
ref:
2020, “Those Kinda Nights”, in Music to Be Murdered By, performed by Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran
type:
quotation
text:
Free bro, free bro, we got bagged for a M
ref:
2021 January 29, JS x Jtrapz (lyrics and music), “Straight On Smoke”, 0:54–0:56
type:
quotation
text:
The patient was bagged for a urine analysis and stat electrolytes were drawn.
ref:
1985, Sol S. Zimmerman, Joan Holter Gildea, Critical Care Pediatrics, page 205
type:
quotation
text:
The skin bags from containing morbid matter.
type:
example
text:
The brisk wind bagged the sails.
type:
example
text:
And this uniform did not even fit me so well. But what is a little bagging on the waist and tightness under the arm when you are a gallant member of the British Royal Air Force?
ref:
2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 11, in Small Island, London: Review, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
His trousers bag at the knees.
type:
example
text:
I may just bag that. I think poets have an obligation to boost the magazines they appear in.
ref:
1977, The Publication of Poetry and Fiction, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
Well, even if your VCR is still blinking “12:00," I hope you're smart enough to stay inside when it's that cold and just bag that workout.
ref:
1998, Ed Burke, Precision Heart Rate Training, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
I will just bag that. If not in the trade bill, that people believe should not interfere with the President's ability to negotiate a trade agreement, how would it be dealt with?
ref:
1999, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, 105-1 Hearing: Implementation of Fast Track Trade Authority
type:
quotation
text:
'Oh bag that,' said Nelson. 'Do the Edmund stuff — no, cut, we'll do it later, look, it's knocking midnight.'
ref:
2002, Glyn Maxwell, Time's Fool: A Tale in Verse, page 296
type:
quotation
text:
“Or we can bag that part of it and just go straight inside,” Bolan suggested.
ref:
2007, Don Pendleton, Ripple Effect, page 322
type:
quotation
text:
I'll get the sonofa—” “Listen, just bag that punchout shit for the moment. You've got a problem, and don't forget it.
ref:
2014, Harlan Ellison, Spider Kiss
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put into a bag.
To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
To steal.
To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
To arrest.
To furnish or load with a bag.
To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
To furnish or load with a bag.
To fit with a bag to collect urine.
To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
To hang like an empty bag.
To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
To drop away from the correct course.
To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
To become pregnant.
To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
To laugh uncontrollably.
To criticise sarcastically.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
nautical
transport
|
8260 | word:
duchy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
duchy (plural duchies)
forms:
form:
duchies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English duche, from Anglo-Norman duché, from Old French duc, or from Medieval Latin ducātus, from Latin dux. Doublet of ducat.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dominion or region ruled by a duke or duchess.
senses_topics:
|
8261 | word:
right angle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
right angle (plural right angles)
forms:
form:
right angles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
right angle
etymology_text:
Calque of Latin angulus rectus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Half of the angle formed by a single straight line, equivalent to 90 degrees.
An ∟ character.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences |
8262 | word:
no one
word_type:
pron
expansion:
no one
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
We went to the store but no one was there.
type:
example
text:
Sundrie greate perſonages bothe learned and well acquainted with affaires, haue both learnedly, and wiſely written of Politique matters, [...] howbeit there is no one among them all, that hath once buſied himſelfe about the ruling, or direction of the Publique eſtate, in that point, that apperteineth to the vocation of men, [...]
ref:
1578, [Pierre de la Place], “That the Vocation of Men, hath beene a Thing Vnknown vnto Philosophers, […]”, in Ægremont Ratcliffe [i.e., Egremont Radcliffe], transl., Politiqve Discourses, Treating of the Differences and Inequalities of Vocations, as well Publique, as Priuate: […], London: […] Edward Aggas, →OCLC, book I, folio 8, recto
type:
quotation
text:
Where Love preſumeth into place, / Let no one ſing in Loves diſgrace.
ref:
1684, John Boccacio [i.e., Giovanni Boccaccio], “The Sixth Novel. Sufficiently Declaring, that how Mighty Soever the Power of Love is, yet a Magnanimous and Truly Generous Heart, It Can by No Means Fully Conquer.”, in The Novels and Tales of the Renowned John Boccacio, the First Refiner of Italian Prose: […], 5th edition, London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC, page 437
type:
quotation
text:
Many may boaſt finer eyes, a handſomer mouth, a more commanding figure; but no one can have a better turned ſhape, a fairer complexion, a whiter hand, a more delicate foot, a more benign aſpect, a more bewitching countenance. Without dazzling, ſhe engages, ſhe charms, and no one can tell how.
ref:
1763, J[ean-]J[acques] Rousseau, “Book V”, in [William Kenrick], transl., Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education. […], 2nd edition, volume IV, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt […], →OCLC, pages 90–91
type:
quotation
text:
Receive us. We have wronged noöne, we have corrupted noöne, we have taken advantage of noöne.
ref:
1848, Jonathan Morgan, transl., The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. […], stereotype edition, Portland, Or.: S. H. Colesworthy; […], II Corinthians 7:2, page 222, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
However, the transcendence of 2#x5C;sqrt#x7B;2#x7D; was so difficult a problem that noöne in the audience would live to see its solution. Within a few years, [Carl Ludwig] Siegel had proven this transcendence!
ref:
1991, Craig Smoryński, “Weak Formal Theories of Arithmetic”, in Logical Number Theory I: An Introduction (Universitext), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, page 269
type:
quotation
text:
And why has no one in the [rail] industry advocated for a universal requirement for face covering (even if it's just a scarf or old tea towel), [...]
ref:
2020 June 3, Christian Wolmar, “Unworkable Policies Cripple Our Beleaguered Railway”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
No one athelete could pull off such a stunt!
type:
example
text:
No one solution on its own can generate successful change.
ref:
2017, Bob Doppelt, Leading Change toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society, 2nd edition, Routledge
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used in contrast to anyone, someone or everyone: not one person; nobody.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, one.
senses_topics:
|
8263 | word:
buffalo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
buffalo (plural buffaloes or buffalos or buffalo)
forms:
form:
buffaloes
tags:
plural
form:
buffalos
tags:
plural
form:
buffalo
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:buffalo
etymology_text:
From Portuguese or Spanish búfalo (“buffalo”), from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). Doublet of bubale and buffle.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis.
A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
Ellipsis of buffalo robe.
The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.).
A nickel.
Short for American buffalo (“gold bullion coin”).
senses_topics:
|
8264 | word:
buffalo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
buffalo (third-person singular simple present buffaloes, present participle buffaloing, simple past and past participle buffaloed)
forms:
form:
buffaloes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
buffaloing
tags:
participle
present
form:
buffaloed
tags:
participle
past
form:
buffaloed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:buffalo
etymology_text:
From Portuguese or Spanish búfalo (“buffalo”), from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). Doublet of bubale and buffle.
senses_examples:
text:
I'm just gonna let you have it. Probably in the midst of a kiss. Right when you think everything’s been healed up. Right in the moment when you're sure you've got me buffaloed. That's when you'll die.
ref:
1983, Sam Shepard, Fool for Love, San Francisco: City Lights Books, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
The nontechnical administrator should never be buffaloed by the esoteric vocabulary and the endless jargon of the computer expert.
ref:
1984, J. Victor Baldridge, The Campus and the Microcomputer Revolution, Macmillan, page xi
type:
quotation
text:
He was speaking to an indifferent audience of pale polite faces, in an overheated space on the Northern edge of Europe, a subcontinent whose natives for a few passing centuries had bullied and buffaloed the rest of the world.
ref:
1998, John Updike, Bech At Bay, Random House, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
If nonfiction is where you do your best writing, or your best teaching of writing, don't be buffaloed into the idea that it's an inferior species.
ref:
2006, William Zinsser, On Writing Well
type:
quotation
text:
Whereupon the twelve-inch barrel of the Buntline Special was laid alongside and just underneath the Rachal hatbrim most effectively. The buffaloed cattleman dropped to the walk, unconscious.
ref:
1931, Stuart N. Lake, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, New York: Houghton Mifflin, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
He walked arrogant and scornful among the Texans and cavalrymen whom he hazed and buffaloed with the barrels of his guns when they got out of line.
ref:
1975, Cliff Farrell, The Mighty Land, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, page 111
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hunt buffalo.
To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
To pistol-whip.
senses_topics:
|
8265 | word:
show
word_type:
verb
expansion:
show (third-person singular simple present shows, present participle showing, simple past showed or (archaic) shew, past participle shown or (now rare, US) showed)
forms:
form:
shows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
showing
tags:
participle
present
form:
showed
tags:
past
form:
shew
tags:
archaic
past
form:
shown
tags:
participle
past
form:
showed
tags:
US
archaic
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
show
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schewen, from Old English scēawian (“to look, look at, exhibit, display”), from Proto-West Germanic *skauwōn, from Proto-Germanic *skawwōną (“to look, see”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (“to heed, look, feel, take note of”); see haw, gaum, caveat, caution.
Cognate with Scots shaw (“to show”), Dutch schouwen (“to inspect, view”), German schauen (“to see, behold”), Danish skue (“to behold”). Related to sheen.
Wider cognates include Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos), Latin caveō whence English caution and English caveat, and Sanskrit कवि (kaví, “seer, prophet, bard”).
senses_examples:
text:
The car's dull finish showed years of neglect.
type:
example
text:
All he had to show for four years of attendance at college was a framed piece of paper.
type:
example
text:
to show mercy; to show favour; (dialectal) show me the salt please
text:
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
ref:
2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
A report this year in the Journal of Geophysical Research showed that the glacier has lost 60 percent of its mass.
text:
Could you please show him on his way. He has overstayed his welcome.
type:
example
text:
They showed us in.
type:
example
text:
Your bald patch is starting to show.
type:
example
text:
At length, his gloom showed.
type:
example
text:
We waited for an hour, but they never showed.
type:
example
text:
In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars.
type:
example
text:
He called instantly but was too ashamed to show until the river.
ref:
2017, Nathan Schwiethale, Ace High: Mastering Low Stakes Poker Cash Games, page 70
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To display, to have somebody see (something).
To bestow; to confer.
To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
To guide or escort.
To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
To put in an appearance; show up.
To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
To reveal one's hand of cards.
To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
card-games
games
|
8266 | word:
show
word_type:
noun
expansion:
show (countable and uncountable, plural shows)
forms:
form:
shows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schewen, from Old English scēawian (“to look, look at, exhibit, display”), from Proto-West Germanic *skauwōn, from Proto-Germanic *skawwōną (“to look, see”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (“to heed, look, feel, take note of”); see haw, gaum, caveat, caution.
Cognate with Scots shaw (“to show”), Dutch schouwen (“to inspect, view”), German schauen (“to see, behold”), Danish skue (“to behold”). Related to sheen.
Wider cognates include Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos), Latin caveō whence English caution and English caveat, and Sanskrit कवि (kaví, “seer, prophet, bard”).
senses_examples:
text:
There were a thousand people at the show.
type:
example
text:
art show; dog show
type:
example
text:
radio show; television show
type:
example
text:
They performed in the show.
type:
example
text:
I spotted my neighbour on the morning TV show.
type:
example
text:
Every day I do my morning show.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Let's catch a show.
type:
example
text:
I'm taking the kids to the show on Tuesday.
type:
example
text:
E. C. McEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds
ref:
1924 October 6, The Examiner, Launceston, page 2, column 6
type:
quotation
text:
Let's get on with the show.
type:
example
text:
Let's get this show on the road.
type:
example
text:
They went on an international road show to sell the shares to investors.
type:
example
text:
It was Apple's usual dog and pony show.
type:
example
text:
show of force
type:
example
text:
The dog sounds ferocious but it's all show.
type:
example
text:
He played AA ball for years, but never made it to the show.
type:
example
text:
A subaltern, wearing a glengarry, came out of a house, playing with the nose of a shell. He walked a little way with me.
“Going into the show?”
ref:
1918, Denis Garstin, The Shilling Soldiers, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 116
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A play, dance, or other entertainment.
An exhibition of items.
A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.
A movie.
An agricultural show.
A project or presentation.
A demonstration.
Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
The major leagues.
A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
Pretence.
Sign, token, or indication.
Semblance; likeness; appearance.
Plausibility.
A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
A battle; local conflict.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
mining
medicine
sciences
government
military
politics
war |
8267 | word:
head of state
word_type:
noun
expansion:
head of state (plural heads of state)
forms:
form:
heads of state
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chief public representative of a nation having duties, privileges and responsibilities varying greatly depending on the constitutional rules; a monarch in a monarchy, and often styled president in a republic, but variations such as collegiality exist.
senses_topics:
|
8268 | word:
wakizashi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wakizashi (plural wakizashi or wakizashis)
forms:
form:
wakizashi
tags:
plural
form:
wakizashis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese 脇差(わきざし) (wakizashi).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A traditional Japanese shortsword, traditionally 30cm to 60cm in length, often used as a secondary weapon to a katana.
senses_topics:
|
8269 | word:
daimyo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
daimyo (plural daimyos or daimyoes or daimyo)
forms:
form:
daimyos
tags:
plural
form:
daimyoes
tags:
plural
form:
daimyo
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 大(だい)名(みょう) (daimyō), from Middle Chinese 大名 (dɑiᴴ miᴇŋ, “excellent one”), from 大 (“great”) + 名 (miᴇŋ, “name”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lord during the Japanese feudal period.
senses_topics:
|
8270 | word:
daisho
word_type:
noun
expansion:
daisho (plural daishos)
forms:
form:
daishos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese 大小(だいしょう) (daishō), from 大(だい) (dai, “large”) + 小(しょう) (shō, “small”), in reference to the comparative size of the swords.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A traditional Japanese pair of swords, consisting of the katana and wakizashi.
senses_topics:
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry |
8271 | word:
magpie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
magpie (plural magpies)
forms:
form:
magpies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mag, a nickname for Margaret that was used to denote a chatterer, + archaic pie (“magpie”), from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker, magpie”).
senses_examples:
text:
Not only is Mr. Booker a voracious magpie (who does not always acknowledge the sources of his ideas), but he also turns out to be an annoyingly biased and didactic one.
ref:
2005 April 15, Michiko Kakutani, “The Plot Thins, or Are No Stories New?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen or Cracticus tibicen.
Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects.
A fan or member of Newcastle United F.C.
The third circle on a target, between the inner and outer.
A halfpenny.
senses_topics:
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
|
8272 | word:
magpie
word_type:
verb
expansion:
magpie (third-person singular simple present magpies, present participle magpieing, simple past and past participle magpied)
forms:
form:
magpies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
magpieing
tags:
participle
present
form:
magpied
tags:
participle
past
form:
magpied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mag, a nickname for Margaret that was used to denote a chatterer, + archaic pie (“magpie”), from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker, magpie”).
senses_examples:
text:
The little rail-enclosed plots that lay between the pavements and the hotels were magpied with torn paper […]
ref:
1914, Oliver Onions, Mushroom Town, New York: George H. Doran, Part 4, Chapter 3, pp. 292-293
type:
quotation
text:
[…] she stood at the window and saw the lake blue with spring and a few patches of snow that magpied the hills.
ref:
1952, Michael McLaverty, chapter 15, in Truth in the Night, Dublin: Poolbeg, published 1986, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
[…] they looked down upon Highmost Redmanhey, timber and plaster magpied by the moon, and a lamp in the window of the room where Susan lay.
ref:
1963, Alan Garner, chapter 8, in The Moon of Gomrath, New York: Collins, published 1979, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
[…] young Inspector Cruse arrived at the Dun Cow, entering through a door tricked out as Tudor and set into a façade magpied with white paint and nailed-on beams […]
ref:
1979, Jack S. Scott, chapter 6, in A Clutch of Vipers,, New York: Harper & Row, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
[…] she liked to be able to have a picturesque fact or two with which to support herself when she too, to hold attention, wanted to issue moving statements as to revolutions, anarchies and strife in the offing. And she had noticed that when she magpied Tietjens’ conversations more serious men in responsible positions were apt to argue with her and to pay her more attention than before....
ref:
1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ..., Part 2, Chapter 1
type:
quotation
text:
“I had to borrow those photographs Aunt Nettie was storing in her closet.”
“Isn’t that interesting?” May said. “I have to say, I never did understand why Mrs. Hatch asked me to magpie them out of the library.”
ref:
1999, Peter Straub, chapter 131, in Mr. X, New York: Random House, page 469
type:
quotation
text:
I have magpied from here and there, borrowing influences from Morocco, Greece, Italy and my notebooks to end up with a handful of easy little dishes that complement each other.
ref:
2012, Alice Hart, Friends at My Table, London: Quadrille, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
He knew how people were magpieing with their malicious chatter that she had committed the cardinal sin of believing love was permanent […]
ref:
1978, Jean Rikhoff, Where Were You in ’76?, New York: Richard Marek Publishers, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mark with patches of black and white or light and dark.
To steal or hoard (items) as magpies are believed to do.
To talk idly; to talk about other people's private business.
senses_topics:
|
8273 | word:
lig
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lig (third-person singular simple present ligs, present participle ligging, simple past ligged or lag or lay, past participle ligged or laggen or lain)
forms:
form:
ligs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ligging
tags:
participle
present
form:
ligged
tags:
past
form:
lag
tags:
past
form:
lay
tags:
past
form:
ligged
tags:
participle
past
form:
laggen
tags:
participle
past
form:
lain
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English liggen, from Old English licgan (“to lie, be situated, be at rest, remain”) and Old Norse liggja (“to lie”). More at lie.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.
To lay.
senses_topics:
|
8274 | word:
lig
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lig (plural ligs)
forms:
form:
ligs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English liggen, from Old English licgan (“to lie, be situated, be at rest, remain”) and Old Norse liggja (“to lie”). More at lie.
senses_examples:
text:
And the Muse of Arts that never told a lig, / Whirls in her mid-air flight to sing of Twigg; […]
ref:
1867, James Torrington Spencer Lidstone, The Fourteenth Londoniad, page 85
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lie; an untruth.
senses_topics:
|
8275 | word:
tsuba
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tsuba (plural tsubas or tsuba)
forms:
form:
tsubas
tags:
plural
form:
tsuba
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 鍔 (つば, tsuba).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The guard at the end of the grip of a sword.
senses_topics:
|
8276 | word:
shortsword
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shortsword (plural shortswords)
forms:
form:
shortswords
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From short + sword.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sword of a class generally shorter than one meter, but longer than a dagger.
senses_topics:
|
8277 | word:
bushido
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bushido (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 武(ぶ)士(し)道(どう) (bushidō), from Middle Chinese 武士 (mɨo^X d͡ʒɨ^X, “warrior”) + 道 (dɑu^X, “way”). Cognate with Mandarin 武士 (wǔshì) and Cantonese 武士 (mou⁵ si⁶).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ethical code of the samurai that was prevalent in feudal Japan that advocated unquestioning loyalty to the master at all costs and obedience in all deeds, valuing honor above life.
senses_topics:
|
8278 | word:
effect
word_type:
noun
expansion:
effect (countable and uncountable, plural effects)
forms:
form:
effects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
effect
etymology_text:
Of the noun: from Middle English effect, from Old French effect (modern French effet), from Latin effectus (“an effect, tendency, purpose”), from efficiō (“accomplish, complete, effect”); see effect as a verb. Displaced Old English fremming, fremednes from fremman.
Of the verb: from Middle English effecten, partly from Medieval Latin effectuō, from Latin effectus, perfect passive participle of efficiō (“accomplish, complete, do, effect”), from ex (“out”) + faciō (“do, make”) (see fact and compare affect, infect) and partly from the noun effect.
senses_examples:
text:
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
ref:
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
The effect of the hurricane was a devastated landscape.
type:
example
text:
patchwork […] introduced for oratorical effect
ref:
1832 October 24, unknown author, “The Tears of Parents”, in The Christian Observer, volume 32
type:
quotation
text:
The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.
ref:
1832, Washington Irving, Tales of the Alhambra
type:
quotation
text:
The new law will come into effect on the first day of next year.
type:
example
text:
The effect of flying was most convincing.
type:
example
text:
The colored bands of color that strobe through much of the text and other visual elements are perhaps the most prototypical of all Amiga demoscene effects and, again, are a direct result of the hardware on which Megademo was created to run.
ref:
2018, Jimmy Maher, The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
I use an echo effect here to make the sound more mysterious.
type:
example
text:
I just bought a couple of great effects.
type:
example
text:
Doppler effect
type:
example
text:
The tenant shall pay for the repair of, or replace all such items of the fixtures, fittings, furniture and effects as shall be broken, lost, damaged or destroyed during that time.
type:
example
text:
His Goods, Family, and all his Effects were also ſeiz'd every where, and his Family carried into Priſon.
ref:
1690, “A Relation of the Late Great Revolution in Siam, and the Driving Out of the French”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
no other in effect than what it seems
ref:
1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The result or outcome of a cause.
Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
Execution; performance; realization; operation.
Execution; performance; realization; operation.
The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.
An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.
A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
Belongings, usually as personal effects.
Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
Manifestation; expression; sign.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
cinematography
computer-graphics
computing
demoscene
engineering
film
lifestyle
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
television
human-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
psychology
sciences
|
8279 | word:
effect
word_type:
verb
expansion:
effect (third-person singular simple present effects, present participle effecting, simple past and past participle effected)
forms:
form:
effects
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
effecting
tags:
participle
present
form:
effected
tags:
participle
past
form:
effected
tags:
past
wikipedia:
effect
etymology_text:
Of the noun: from Middle English effect, from Old French effect (modern French effet), from Latin effectus (“an effect, tendency, purpose”), from efficiō (“accomplish, complete, effect”); see effect as a verb. Displaced Old English fremming, fremednes from fremman.
Of the verb: from Middle English effecten, partly from Medieval Latin effectuō, from Latin effectus, perfect passive participle of efficiō (“accomplish, complete, do, effect”), from ex (“out”) + faciō (“do, make”) (see fact and compare affect, infect) and partly from the noun effect.
senses_examples:
text:
The best way to effect change is to work with existing stakeholders.
type:
example
text:
The offence thus given naturally effected an entire conversion in the queen's sentiments, and when Arthur returned from hunting, like Potiphar's wife, she charges Launfal with attempting her honour.
ref:
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
The punishment for sodomy, when completely effected, was death, and it was frequently inflicted.
ref:
1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)
type:
quotation
text:
The transfer by tender of some 1,300 mail bags was effected smartly, and the "Ocean Mails Special" train was ready at 9.19 a.m.
ref:
1944 July and August, Charles E. Lee, “The "City of Truro"”, in Railway Magazine, page 202
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make or bring about; to implement.
Misspelling of affect.
senses_topics:
|
8280 | word:
different
word_type:
adj
expansion:
different (comparative more different, superlative most different)
forms:
form:
more different
tags:
comparative
form:
most different
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
different
etymology_text:
From Middle English different, from Old French different, from Latin differēns, present active participle of differō (“I differ”); see differ.
Broadly ousted the native Old English ungelic.
senses_examples:
text:
At Elizabeth-Jane mentioning how greatly Lucetta had been jeopardized, he exhibited an agitation different in kind no less than in intensity from any she had seen in him before.
ref:
1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
type:
quotation
text:
One interesting feature was remarked by Dr. Peters, viz.: that the instrument used for the longitudes of the original catalogue was graduated differently to that used for the latitudes.
ref:
1915, Edward Knobel, Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars – A Revision of the Almagest, page 14 (showing that "to" was used by an Englishman in 1915)
text:
Enter the American tourist. He thinks of himself as a good guy but when he looks in the mirror to shave this good guy he has to admit that "well, other people are different from me and I don't really like them." This makes him feel guilty toward other people.
ref:
1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref:
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
In any case, poor black respondents living in high-poverty neighborhoods are most likely to view their neighborhood as a single block or block group and to use this definition consistently when asked about different neighborhood characteristics and activities.
ref:
2006, Delbert S. Elliott et al., Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context, Cambridge University Press, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
ref:
2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
Several different scientists all reached this conclusion at about the same time.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
Various, assorted, diverse.
Distinct, separate; used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity.
Unlike most others; unusual.
senses_topics:
|
8281 | word:
different
word_type:
noun
expansion:
different (plural differents)
forms:
form:
differents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
different
etymology_text:
From Middle English different, from Old French different, from Latin differēns, present active participle of differō (“I differ”); see differ.
Broadly ousted the native Old English ungelic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The different ideal.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
8282 | word:
different
word_type:
adv
expansion:
different (comparative more different, superlative most different)
forms:
form:
more different
tags:
comparative
form:
most different
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
different
etymology_text:
From Middle English different, from Old French different, from Latin differēns, present active participle of differō (“I differ”); see differ.
Broadly ousted the native Old English ungelic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Differently.
senses_topics:
|
8283 | word:
fluid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fluid (countable and uncountable, plural fluids)
forms:
form:
fluids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fluid
etymology_text:
From Middle English fluid, from Latin fluidus (“flowing; fluid”), from Latin fluō (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell; surge; overflow; run”). Akin to Ancient Greek φλύειν (phlúein, “to swell; overflow”). Not related to English flow, which is a native, inherited word from *plew-.
senses_examples:
text:
An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
ref:
2013 March 24, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-05-01, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
fluid inclusion Petrology, a tiny fluid- or gas-filled cavity in an igneous rock. 1-100 micrometers in diameter, formed by the entrapment of a fluid, typically that from which the rock crystallized.
ref:
1992, Christopher G. Morris, Academic Press, Christopher W. Morris, Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, Gulf Professional Publishing, page 854
type:
quotation
text:
The Doctor: Get a good night's sleep and drink plenty of fluids. / Kes: Fluids? / The Doctor: Everybody should drink plenty of fluids.
ref:
1995, David Kemper, Michael Piller, “Time and Again”, in Star Trek: Voyager, season 1, episode 4, spoken by The Doctor and Kes (Robert Picardo and Jennifer Lien)
type:
quotation
text:
For studying interfaces between solid and another solid, fluid, or gas, a sample can be oriented with its reflecting surface(s) vertical (and with the scattering plane, as defined by nominal incident and reflected wavevectors, horizontal).
ref:
2006, Jörg Fitter, Thomas Gutberlet, Neutron Scattering in Biology: Techniques and Applications, Springer Science & Business Media, page 236
type:
quotation
text:
Tenderness: is the lump tender?
Composition: is the mass solid, fluid or gas?
ref:
2011, Andrew T Raftery, Michael S. Delbridge, Marcus J. D. Wagstaff, Churchill's Pocketbook of Surgery, International Edition E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
The choke manifold then expels the fluid or gas to the gas buster or a panic line. The panic line will then either send the fluid or gas to the reserve pit or a flare stack or flare tank.
ref:
2012, Will Pettijohn P.E.C., Oil & Gas Handbook: A Roughneck's guide to the Universe, AuthorHouse, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas).
Intravenous fluids.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
8284 | word:
fluid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fluid (comparative more fluid, superlative most fluid)
forms:
form:
more fluid
tags:
comparative
form:
most fluid
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fluid, from Latin fluidus (“flowing; fluid”), from Latin fluō (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell; surge; overflow; run”). Akin to Ancient Greek φλύειν (phlúein, “to swell; overflow”). Not related to English flow, which is a native, inherited word from *plew-.
senses_examples:
text:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
Oh, Loki made sure of that. My mortal parents blamed him for the way I was, for being fluid.
ref:
2017, Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor, page 274 (the genderfluid character Alex Fierro is speaking)
text:
As do renewals in genres such as romcoms and teen movies, which have updated sexist, heteronormative tropes to reflect audiences’ fluid, inclusive, queer realities.
ref:
2021 April 24, Adrian Horton, “‘The uprisings opened up the door’: the TV cop shows confronting a harmful legacy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to fluid.
In a state of flux; subject to change.
Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
Convertible into cash.
Genderfluid.
senses_topics:
|
8285 | word:
principality
word_type:
noun
expansion:
principality (countable and uncountable, plural principalities)
forms:
form:
principalities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English principalte, principalite, from Anglo-Norman principalté, Middle French principalté, from Late Latin prīncipālitās, from Latin prīncipālis (“principal”) + -tās. Equivalent to principal + -ity.
senses_examples:
text:
At this time Russia consisted of a dozen or so principalities, which were frequently at war with one another.
ref:
1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A region or sovereign nation headed by a prince or princess.
A spiritual being, specifically in Christian angelology, the fifth level of angels, ranked above powers and below dominions.
The state of being a prince or ruler; sovereignty, absolute authority.
The state of being principal; pre-eminence.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
theology
|
8286 | word:
boiling
word_type:
verb
expansion:
boiling
forms:
wikipedia:
saltah
etymology_text:
From boil + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of boil
senses_topics:
|
8287 | word:
boiling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boiling (countable and uncountable, plural boilings)
forms:
form:
boilings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
boiling
saltah
etymology_text:
From boil + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.
A turmoil; a disturbance like that of bubbling water.
An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance.
senses_topics:
|
8288 | word:
boiling
word_type:
adj
expansion:
boiling (comparative more boiling, superlative most boiling)
forms:
form:
more boiling
tags:
comparative
form:
most boiling
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
saltah
etymology_text:
From boil + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
boiling kettle boiling oil
type:
example
text:
The radiator is boiling – I’m going to turn it down a bit.
type:
example
text:
As I collected some individuals from a nest, an alarm was sent and a boiling mass of ants issued from the colony.
ref:
2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
I’m boiling – can’t we open a window?
type:
example
text:
It’s boiling out today!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That boils or boil.
Of a thing: extremely hot or active.
Of a person: feeling uncomfortably hot.
Of the weather: very hot.
senses_topics:
|
8289 | word:
boiling
word_type:
adv
expansion:
boiling (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
saltah
etymology_text:
From boil + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
He was boiling mad.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extremely
senses_topics:
|
8290 | word:
bread
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bread (countable and uncountable, plural breads)
forms:
form:
breads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bread
etymology_text:
From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą (“cooked food, leavened bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrew- (“to boil, seethe”) (see brew). Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz (“broken piece, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰera- (“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two. Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brad (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), Danish and Norwegian brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”), Latin frustum (“crumb”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English payn (“bread”), borrowed from Old French pain (“bread”).
senses_examples:
text:
We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.
type:
example
text:
Any leftover bread can be put into the pudding.
type:
example
text:
Maybe somebody would see him and recognize him, maybe one of the guys would lay enough bread on him for a meal or at least subway fare.
ref:
1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published 1963 January, pages 3–4
type:
quotation
text:
[…] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.
ref:
1967, “San Franciscan Nights”, in Winds of Change, performed by Eric Burdon and The Animals
type:
quotation
text:
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar / And say, "Man, what are you doing here?"
ref:
1973, Billy Joel (lyrics and music), “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music), performed by Billy Joel
type:
quotation
text:
Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.
ref:
2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
Any variety of bread.
Money.
senses_topics:
|
8291 | word:
bread
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
forms:
form:
breads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
breading
tags:
participle
present
form:
breaded
tags:
participle
past
form:
breaded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bread
etymology_text:
From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą (“cooked food, leavened bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrew- (“to boil, seethe”) (see brew). Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz (“broken piece, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰera- (“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two. Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brad (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), Danish and Norwegian brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”), Latin frustum (“crumb”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English payn (“bread”), borrowed from Old French pain (“bread”).
senses_examples:
text:
breaded fish
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To coat with breadcrumbs.
senses_topics:
|
8292 | word:
bread
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bread (plural breads)
forms:
form:
breads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bread
etymology_text:
From Middle English brede (“breadth, width, extent”), from Old English brǣdu (“breadth, width, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄ (“breadth”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”), Icelandic breidd (“breadth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Breadth.
senses_topics:
|
8293 | word:
bread
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
forms:
form:
breads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
breading
tags:
participle
present
form:
breaded
tags:
participle
past
form:
breaded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bread
etymology_text:
From Middle English breden (“to spread”), from Old English brǣdan (“to make broad, extend, spread, stretch out; be extended, rise, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *braidijaną (“to make broad, broaden”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make broad; spread.
senses_topics:
|
8294 | word:
bread
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
forms:
form:
breads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
breading
tags:
participle
present
form:
breaded
tags:
participle
past
form:
breaded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bread
etymology_text:
Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan (“to braid”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form in meshes; net.
senses_topics:
|
8295 | word:
bread
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bread (plural breads)
forms:
form:
breads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bread
etymology_text:
Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan (“to braid”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece of embroidery; a braid.
senses_topics:
|
8296 | word:
melt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
melt (third-person singular simple present melts, present participle melting, simple past melted or (rare) molt, past participle melted or molten)
forms:
form:
melts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
melting
tags:
participle
present
form:
melted
tags:
past
form:
molt
tags:
past
rare
form:
melted
tags:
participle
past
form:
molten
tags:
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
melt
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).
senses_examples:
text:
I melted butter to make a cake.
type:
example
text:
When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.
type:
example
text:
His troubles melted away.
type:
example
text:
I gave him a couple of Advil and, after a few minutes, urged him back onto the track. Over the next few laps his pained expression slowly melted, although he still shuffled with a slight limp.
ref:
2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
For pity melts the mind to love.
ref:
1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day
type:
quotation
text:
She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.
type:
example
text:
My heart melted when I first heard the song.
type:
example
text:
I need shade! I'm melting!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
To be discouraged.
To be emotionally softened or touched.
To be very hot and sweat profusely.
senses_topics:
|
8297 | word:
melt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
melt (countable and uncountable, plural melts)
forms:
form:
melts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).
senses_examples:
text:
The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle.
ref:
2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition
type:
quotation
text:
I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish.
ref:
2002, Tod Dimmick, Complete idiot's guide to 20-minute meals
type:
quotation
text:
Numerous samples of breccia and impact melts were recovered by drilling into the floor of the crater.
type:
example
text:
You are from Blackburn you fucking melt...have a bastard word with yourself.
ref:
2003 June 10, Roo, “See the Quality !!!”, in alt.sports.soccer.everton (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Kiss it ya melt!
ref:
2004 September 20, Diablos Rojos, “North South divide??”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.liverpool (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
LOL! you fucking melt. Get a job.
ref:
2006 May 30, Dave G, “England vs Hungary...”, in alt.sports.soccer.everton (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Over the course of this chapter on 'Love Island Essentials' we'll be charting exactly who went with who, showing you around the villa, and equipping you with the vocabulary you'll need to avoid looking like a melt and get grafting like a true Islander.
ref:
2017, Love Island On Paper: The Official Love Island Guide to Grafting, Cracking On and Mugging Off, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
A mass of herring melts, tinged with the streams of claret, had fallen into his hair, and this, added to his temporary stupor, had led to the Doctor's mistake.
ref:
1825, Lochandhu: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Molten material, the product of melting.
The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
A melt sandwich.
Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
An idiot.
Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
|
8298 | word:
cuckoo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cuckoo (countable and uncountable, plural cuckoos)
forms:
form:
cuckoos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cuckoo
etymology_text:
From Middle English cokkou, probably from Old French cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately onomatopoeic of the song of the male Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), perhaps via Latin cucūlus (“cuckoo”). Displaced native Old English ġēac (Middle English ȝek (“cuckoo”)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially a common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), that has a characteristic two-note call.
The sound of that particular bird.
The bird-shaped figure found in cuckoo clocks.
The cuckoo clock itself.
A person who inveigles themselves into a place where they should not be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest).
Someone who is crazy.
Alternative form of coo-coo (Barbadian food)
senses_topics:
|
8299 | word:
cuckoo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cuckoo (third-person singular simple present cuckoos, present participle cuckooing, simple past and past participle cuckooed)
forms:
form:
cuckoos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cuckooing
tags:
participle
present
form:
cuckooed
tags:
participle
past
form:
cuckooed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
cuckoo
etymology_text:
From Middle English cokkou, probably from Old French cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately onomatopoeic of the song of the male Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), perhaps via Latin cucūlus (“cuckoo”). Displaced native Old English ġēac (Middle English ȝek (“cuckoo”)).
senses_examples:
text:
She'll have been cuckooed. That'll be the Knezevics. They can't launder fast enough, so what do you do with it? Where do you put it? You hide it in somebody else's place; somebody who han't got a clue what's going on and couldn't do a fat lot about it if they did.
ref:
2023, Sally Wainwright, 26:06 from the start, in Happy Valley, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make the call of a cuckoo.
To repeat something incessantly.
To take over the home of a vulnerable person for the purposes of carrying out organized crime in a concealed way.
senses_topics:
government
law-enforcement |
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