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8300 | word:
cuckoo
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cuckoo (comparative more cuckoo, superlative most cuckoo)
forms:
form:
more cuckoo
tags:
comparative
form:
most cuckoo
tags:
superlative
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:
I think I'm going cuckoo!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Crazy; not sane.
senses_topics:
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8301 | word:
longsword
word_type:
noun
expansion:
longsword (plural longswords)
forms:
form:
longswords
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
longsword
etymology_text:
From long + sword.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any type of sword that is comparatively long; depending on context, applied to swords of the Bronze Age, Migration period, Viking Age and Renaissance era.
A European sword with a long, straight double-edged blade, a cruciform hilt, and a grip for two-handed use; prevalent from the 14th to 16th centuries.
senses_topics:
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8302 | word:
countess
word_type:
noun
expansion:
countess (plural countesses)
forms:
form:
countesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman cuntesse, Old French contesse, from Latin comitessa; equivalent to count + -ess. Doublet of contessa.
senses_examples:
text:
Elizabeth Millicent Leveson-Gower is 24th Countess of Sutherland; her son will be the 25th Earl.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The wife of a count or earl.
A woman holding the rank of count or earl in her own right; a female holder of an earldom.
senses_topics:
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8303 | word:
rim
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rim (plural rims)
forms:
form:
rims
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rim
etymology_text:
From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim (“plank, wooden cross, trellis”), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”).
senses_examples:
text:
That's... our galaxy. We're beyond the rim.
ref:
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Master Chief (Steve Downes), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark
type:
quotation
text:
About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.
ref:
2010, Rochelle Magee, No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
COPY READER — Journeyman, experienced makeup, now slot man on metropolitan midwest daily. Will travel for good rim job on large paper.
ref:
1953 September 26, Editor & Publisher 1953-09-26: Vol 86 Iss 40
type:
quotation
text:
A copy chief with poor people skills makes life miserable for copy editors on the rim; […]
ref:
2004, John Russial, Strategic Copy Editing, page 130
type:
quotation
text:
On the rim are copy editors who edit stories for accuracy, brevity and clarity.
ref:
2009, Gaylon Eugene Murray, Effective Editing, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An edge around something, especially when circular.
A wheelrim.
A semicircular copydesk.
senses_topics:
automotive
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
transport
vehicles
journalism
media |
8304 | word:
rim
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rim (third-person singular simple present rims, present participle rimming, simple past and past participle rimmed)
forms:
form:
rims
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rimming
tags:
participle
present
form:
rimmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
rimmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rim
etymology_text:
From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim (“plank, wooden cross, trellis”), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”).
senses_examples:
text:
Palm trees rim the beach.
type:
example
text:
A walking path rims the island.
type:
example
text:
The golf ball rimmed the cup.
type:
example
text:
The basketball rimmed in and out.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form a rim on.
To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.
To roll around a rim.
senses_topics:
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8305 | word:
rim
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rim (third-person singular simple present rims, present participle rimming, simple past and past participle rimmed)
forms:
form:
rims
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rimming
tags:
participle
present
form:
rimmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
rimmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rim
etymology_text:
From a variation of ream.
senses_examples:
text:
I had learned to lick their sweaty balls and would know what they wanted if they pulled their pants down and pushed my face in their ass for a rimming out.
ref:
1987 December 24, John W. Dagion, Sex Stop
type:
quotation
text:
When she started thrusting her hips back against his finger, he turned her over and rimmed her asshole as he fingered her clit.
ref:
2008, Lexy Harper, Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (Like Me), page 216
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act; to perform anilingus.
senses_topics:
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8306 | word:
rim
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rim (plural rims)
forms:
form:
rims
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rim
etymology_text:
From Middle English rim, rym, ryme, reme, from Old English rēoma (“membrane, ligament”), from Proto-West Germanic *reumō.
senses_examples:
text:
Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys; / Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat / In drops of crimson blood.
ref:
1599, Shakespeare, King Henry V, act iV, scene IV - Pistol to a captured French soldier from whom he wants a ransom and whom he does not understand
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A membrane.
The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.
senses_topics:
|
8307 | word:
rim
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rim (plural rims)
forms:
form:
rims
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rim
etymology_text:
Unknown.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A step of a ladder; a rung.
senses_topics:
|
8308 | word:
rain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rain (usually uncountable, plural rains)
forms:
form:
rains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pre-Germanic
etymology_text:
From Middle English reyn, rein, from Old English reġn, from Proto-West Germanic *regn, from Proto-Germanic *regną (compare West Frisian rein, Dutch regen, German Regen, Danish and Norwegian regn), of uncertain origin. Possibly from pre-Germanic *Hréǵ-no-, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreǵ- (“to flow”) (compare Latin rigō (“wet, soak”), Lithuanian rõki (“drizzling rain”), Albanian rrjedh (“to flow, drip”)), although the consonant reflexes don't match.
senses_examples:
text:
We've been having a lot of rain lately.
type:
example
text:
The rains came late that year.
type:
example
text:
This process involves cloud seeding – when various substances are put into clouds in an attempt to cause rain.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
A rain of mortar fire fell on our trenches.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Condensed water falling from a cloud.
Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops.
An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.
senses_topics:
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8309 | word:
rain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rain (third-person singular simple present rains, present participle raining, simple past and past participle rained)
forms:
form:
rains
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
raining
tags:
participle
present
form:
rained
tags:
participle
past
form:
rained
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
rain
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
pre-Germanic
etymology_text:
From Middle English reyn, rein, from Old English reġn, from Proto-West Germanic *regn, from Proto-Germanic *regną (compare West Frisian rein, Dutch regen, German Regen, Danish and Norwegian regn), of uncertain origin. Possibly from pre-Germanic *Hréǵ-no-, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreǵ- (“to flow”) (compare Latin rigō (“wet, soak”), Lithuanian rõki (“drizzling rain”), Albanian rrjedh (“to flow, drip”)), although the consonant reflexes don't match.
senses_examples:
text:
Judging by the black cloud, it will rain later today.
type:
example
text:
Tears rained from her eyes.
type:
example
text:
Leaves rained from the tree.
type:
example
text:
Bombs rained from the sky.
type:
example
text:
The boxer rained punches on his opponent's head.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have rain fall from the sky.
To fall as or like rain.
To issue (something) in large quantities.
senses_topics:
|
8310 | word:
rain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rain (third-person singular simple present rains, present participle raining, simple past and past participle rained)
forms:
form:
rains
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
raining
tags:
participle
present
form:
rained
tags:
participle
past
form:
rained
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of reign.
senses_topics:
|
8311 | word:
bible
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bible (plural bibles)
forms:
form:
bibles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bible
etymology_text:
From Middle English bible, from Middle Latin biblia (“book”) (misinterpreted as a feminine from earlier Latin neuter plural biblia (“books”)), from Ancient Greek βιβλία (biblía, “books”), plural of βιβλίον (biblíon, “small book”), originally a diminutive of βίβλος (bíblos, “book”), from βύβλος (búblos, “papyrus”) (from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material).
Old English used biblioþēce (from βιβλιοθήκη) and ġewritu (> English writs) for "the Scriptures".
senses_examples:
text:
The bible was used by Presley throughout his life until his death on 16 August 1977 and contains his handwritten notes, thoughts and annotations.
ref:
2012 September 8, Cass Jones, “Elvis Presley's bible sells for £59,000”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The Buddhist bible tells this story of Buddha’s time of temptation when he was living as a hermit on the Mount of Snow.
ref:
1925, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, A Daughter of the Samurai, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
handyman’s bible
type:
example
text:
Computer Lib was written as a popular primer, but its most profound effect was on computer programmers, who needed little persuasion about the value of computers. […] Having set out to appeal to the general public, Nelson managed to publish an insider's bible and highly intimate guide to hacker culture.
ref:
1995 June, Gary Wolf, “The Curse of Xanadu”, in Wired Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
For example, Wired—the monthly bible of the ‘virtual class’—has uncritically reproduced the views of Newt Gingrich, […]
ref:
1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Could you please add these to the case bible?
type:
example
text:
My friend’s a genius, he will give me problems one through nine. The bible of a sophomore will have the needed lines.
ref:
1965, Matt Fichtenbaum, Dan Murphy, “The Institute Screw”, in The Broadside of Boston, volume III, number 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Bible (“a specific version, edition, translation, or copy of the Christian religious text”)
Alternative letter-case form of Bible (“the analogous holy book of another religion”)
A comprehensive manual that describes something, or a publication with a loyal readership.
A binder containing copies of the most important documents for a particular matter.
Synonym of holystone: a piece of sandstone used for scouring wooden decks on ships.
A compilation of problems and solutions from previous years of a given course, used by some students to cheat on tests or assignments.
Omasum, the third compartment of the stomach of ruminants
The upper part of a pin-tumbler lock, containing the driver pins and springs.
senses_topics:
law
nautical
transport
|
8312 | word:
nit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nit (plural nits)
forms:
form:
nits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Head_louse#Eggs/Nits
etymology_text:
From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutch neet, German Nisse, Norwegian nit), from Proto-Indo-European *-níd- (compare Scottish Gaelic sneadh, Lithuanian glìnda, Polish gnida, Albanian thëri, Ancient Greek κονίς (konís)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The egg of a louse.
A young louse.
A head louse regardless of its age.
A fool, a nitwit.
A nitpicker.
A minor shortcoming.
senses_topics:
|
8313 | word:
nit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nit (third-person singular simple present nits, present participle nitting, simple past and past participle nitted)
forms:
form:
nits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
nitted
tags:
participle
past
form:
nitted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Head_louse#Eggs/Nits
etymology_text:
From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutch neet, German Nisse, Norwegian nit), from Proto-Indo-European *-níd- (compare Scottish Gaelic sneadh, Lithuanian glìnda, Polish gnida, Albanian thëri, Ancient Greek κονίς (konís)).
senses_examples:
text:
Can’t miss no dots
Every shot let caused I’m hittin
Used to bag it up in the toilet
My mumsie thought I was shittin
Ever seen a junky fittin?
Ever stepped in a room full of needles?
ref:
2018, “Rolling Round”, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), performed by Sparko of OMH
type:
quotation
roman:
No I ain’t doin no nittin
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have the modus vivendi of a drug addict, to live the life of a nitty.
senses_topics:
|
8314 | word:
nit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nit (plural nits)
forms:
form:
nits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Head_louse#Eggs/Nits
etymology_text:
From Latin nitēre (“to shine”).
senses_examples:
text:
This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A candela per square metre.
senses_topics:
|
8315 | word:
nit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nit (plural nits)
forms:
form:
nits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Head_louse#Eggs/Nits
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”)
senses_topics:
|
8316 | word:
nit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nit (plural nits)
forms:
form:
nits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Head_louse#Eggs/Nits
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker |
8317 | word:
laser
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laser (countable and uncountable, plural lasers)
forms:
form:
lasers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
laser
etymology_text:
From LASER, acronym of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Coined by American physicist Gordon Gould in 1957. Originally called an optical maser.
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
Latin amplus
Latin -ficō
Latin amplificō
Latin -tiō
Latin amplificātiōlbor.
English amplification
English stimulated
English emission
English radiation
English LASER
English laser
senses_examples:
text:
The bad news is that nearly every color laser is too big to share a desk with comfortably.
ref:
2004 May 18, PC Mag, volume 23, number 9, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
I've still got a few more sessions of laser to get rid of the rest of my facial hair.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light.
A beam of light produced by such a device; a laser beam.
A laser printer.
Ellipsis of laser hair removal.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
8318 | word:
laser
word_type:
verb
expansion:
laser (third-person singular simple present lasers, present participle lasering, simple past and past participle lasered)
forms:
form:
lasers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lasering
tags:
participle
present
form:
lasered
tags:
participle
past
form:
lasered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From LASER, acronym of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Coined by American physicist Gordon Gould in 1957. Originally called an optical maser.
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
Latin amplus
Latin -ficō
Latin amplificō
Latin -tiō
Latin amplificātiōlbor.
English amplification
English stimulated
English emission
English radiation
English LASER
English laser
senses_examples:
text:
I'm having my eyes lasered to correct my astigmatism.
type:
example
text:
None was any more sensational than No.6, a fantastic 27-23 last-gasp win over the Arizona Cardinals, cemented by a brilliant toe-sticking TD catch by Santonio Holmes in the back of the end zone with 35 seconds remaining on a pass lasered by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
ref:
2009 February 2, Dave Perkins, “Steelers tiptoe past Cards”, in Toronto Star
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut, destroy or treat with a laser.
To throw or kick with laser-like precision.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
8319 | word:
laser
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laser (plural lasers)
forms:
form:
lasers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin laser.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gum resin obtained from certain umbelliferous plants.
Such a plant.
senses_topics:
|
8320 | word:
ice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ice (usually uncountable, plural ices)
forms:
form:
ices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English is, from Old English īs (“ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą (“ice”) from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“ice, frost”).
Cognates
See also Saterland Frisian Íes, West Frisian iis, Dutch ijs, German Low German Ies, German Eis, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish is; also Lithuanian ýnis (“glazed frost”), Russian и́ней (ínej, “hoarfrost”), Ossetian их (ix), ех (ex, “ice”), Persian یخ (yax), Northern Kurdish qeş. Superseded non-native Middle English glace (“ice”), borrowed from Old French glace (“ice”).
senses_examples:
text:
1882, Popular Science Monthly (volume 20), "The Freezing of a Salt Lake"
It has always been difficult to explain how ice is formed on the surface of oceans while the temperature of maximum density is lower than that of cogelation, and the observations on this lake were instituted in the hope that they might throw light upon the subject.
text:
Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
ref:
2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
Above the core is the lower-density liquid mantle composed of ice materials under high pressure and temperature. This massive liquid layer would not be separated into layers of traditional ice compounds, but mixtures of radically different compounds originally consisting of water, carbon dioxide, methane, and ammonia […] Since the mass of the planet is dominated by the liquid mantle that itself consists of heated ices under pressure, both Uranus and Neptune are classified as giant ice planets.
ref:
2010 March 15, Lance K. Erickson, Space Flight: History, Technology, and Operations, Government Institutes, page 145
type:
quotation
text:
Uranus and Neptune are […] usually classified separately as ice giants because they contain a much higher proportion of ice-forming substances such as water, ammonia, and methane. […] In the case of Uranus, the ice mantle must make up between 9.3 and 13.4 Earth masses worth of the total mass of the planet, which is 14.5 Earth masses. Similar proportions apply to Neptune. The commonly used term "ice mantle" is someone misleading, since the substance is actually a hot, slushy mixture that would be more aptly described as a water–ammonia ocean.
ref:
2010 December 2, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Principles of Planetary Climate, Cambridge University Press, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
Neptune has one major moon: Triton, which is comparable in size to the Jovian moon Europa and at an average density of 2.061 g/cm³ widely understood to be covered by several hundred km of frozen or liquid ice.
ref:
2022, Geophysical Exploration of the Solar System, Elsevier, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
a heart of ice
type:
example
text:
Her eyes flash with anger, her voice ice. "You afraid of the law? You haven't changed. I want you out of my house now."
ref:
2023 January 27, Gay Degani, “Scablands”, in The Saturday Evening Post, Indianapolis, I.N.: Saturday Evening Post Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-29
type:
quotation
text:
2006, CBC, Finland, Sweden 'the dream final', February 26 2002,
The neighbouring countries have enjoyed many great battles on the ice. They last met for gold at the 1998 world championship, won by Sweden. Three years earlier, Finland bested Sweden for the only world title in its history.
text:
Well weddings, they were just the usual ... my big brother was married in the Masonic and the Co-operative done the party. Steak pie and tatties, and all that sort of stuff. The wee square Albert cake with ice on it, fruit cake. Then the wee dance after that. There was no drinking at oor wedding!
ref:
1990, Jean Faley, quoting John McKee, Up Oor Close: Memories of Domestic Life in Glasgow Tenements, 1910–1945, Wendlebury, Oxon: White Cockade, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
Theater operators, theater party agents, playwrights, and others who have ready access to tickets may get in on the “ice” and sometimes the producer is in on it too.
ref:
1960, United States. Congress, Congressional Record
type:
quotation
text:
This “ice” is bribe money paid to public officials to purchase protection for illegal activities. […] Just consider the “ice” money available to the men involved in the examples just cited.
ref:
1970, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates
type:
quotation
text:
But you can't give cred to anything dude says / Same dude to give you ice and you owe him some head
ref:
2002, “Blueprint²”, performed by Jay-Z
type:
quotation
text:
Ice on the wrist with the ice in the chains.
ref:
2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG
type:
quotation
text:
[She had] eaten a dinner at better than a hundred dollars a bite and she had enough ice on her ring finger to sink the Titanic. Maybe she really didn't have any morals. But she had a chance. And she was taking it.
ref:
2014 August 18, Sarah Ballance, The Marriage Agenda, Entangled: Indulgence
type:
quotation
text:
As she raised her left hand to get the crust out of her eye, she was blinded by the ice on her ring finger. Two bands filled with diamonds sat under and on top of her five-carat princess-cut engagement ring. Instantly, memories of her wedding day flooded her mind.
ref:
2014 September 1, Keisha Ervin, Reckless 2: Nobody's Girl, Urban Books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Water in frozen (solid) form.
Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.
Something having an extreme coldness of manner.
The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
Icing; frosting ("a sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar").
A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
An ice cream.
An individual piece of ice.
Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market.
An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny.
Money paid as a bribe.
The crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.
One or more diamonds.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
astronomy
natural-sciences
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
|
8321 | word:
ice
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ice (third-person singular simple present ices, present participle icing, simple past and past participle iced)
forms:
form:
ices
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
icing
tags:
participle
present
form:
iced
tags:
participle
past
form:
iced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English is, from Old English īs (“ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą (“ice”) from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“ice, frost”).
Cognates
See also Saterland Frisian Íes, West Frisian iis, Dutch ijs, German Low German Ies, German Eis, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish is; also Lithuanian ýnis (“glazed frost”), Russian и́ней (ínej, “hoarfrost”), Ossetian их (ix), ех (ex, “ice”), Persian یخ (yax), Northern Kurdish qeş. Superseded non-native Middle English glace (“ice”), borrowed from Old French glace (“ice”).
senses_examples:
text:
To treat runner's knee, you need to rest from running or any other high-impact activity, ice the knee, and strengthen the quadriceps through weight training.
ref:
2008, Deirdre Pitney, Donna Dourney, Triathlon Training For Dummies, page 240
type:
quotation
text:
Milton Keynes have yet to ice a team this season
type:
example
text:
If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone.
type:
example
text:
Not long afterwards Wolf rings him up. 'I want you to ice someone for £15,000, he says. "No one you know."
ref:
2011, Gavin Knight, Hood Rat, London: Picador, page 158
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become ice; to freeze.
To cool with ice, as a beverage.
To make icy; to freeze.
To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
To put out a team for a match.
To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
To murder.
senses_topics:
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
|
8322 | word:
living
word_type:
verb
expansion:
living
forms:
wikipedia:
living
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of live
senses_topics:
|
8323 | word:
living
word_type:
adj
expansion:
living (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
living
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
a living, breathing child
type:
example
text:
Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.
type:
example
text:
Hunanese is a living language.
type:
example
text:
The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.
ref:
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
type:
quotation
text:
This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
type:
example
text:
HTML is a living standard.
type:
example
text:
He almost beat the living daylights out of me.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having life; alive.
In use or existing.
True to life.
Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.
Continually updated; not static
Used as an intensifier.
senses_topics:
|
8324 | word:
living
word_type:
noun
expansion:
living (countable and uncountable, plural livings)
forms:
form:
livings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
living
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
it's a living
type:
example
text:
What do you do for a living?
type:
example
text:
Career opportunity […] is the one who never knocks — especially not on the doors of women, who are still hooking, housewifing and hairdressing for their livings.
ref:
1983 December 10, Jolanta Benal, “The Second Revolution”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
plain living
type:
example
text:
The National Brewing Company declared that the Chesapeake Bay region was the Land of Pleasant Living.
type:
example
text:
in the land of the living
type:
example
text:
Glad to see you're still among the living! [good-humored greeting]
type:
example
text:
Some say that the spirits of the departed walk among the living, though most of us do not see them.
type:
example
text:
The patron of the living who had the right to nominate a particular priest might make the choice, but the living was actually granted by the local bishop.
ref:
2015, GR Evans, Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being alive.
Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
A style of life.
Those who are alive: living people.
A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.
senses_topics:
|
8325 | word:
blanket
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blanket (plural blankets)
forms:
form:
blankets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Blanket (disambiguation)
blanket
etymology_text:
From Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin, likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old English blanca (“white horse”), Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”).
More at blank. Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).
senses_examples:
text:
The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
type:
example
text:
The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
type:
example
text:
In this case, the excavations were carried down to a depth of 3 ft. 9 in. below rail level, and pre-cast concrete slabs were laid between a 12 in. blanket of quarry waste and the ballast.
ref:
1948 March and April, “Noes and News: Slab Blanketing at Clapham Junction”, in Railway Magazine, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
A layer of anything.
A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
senses_topics:
|
8326 | word:
blanket
word_type:
adj
expansion:
blanket (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Blanket (disambiguation)
blanket
etymology_text:
From Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin, likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old English blanca (“white horse”), Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”).
More at blank. Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Another observer offered a less blanket criticism.
ref:
1994, Deborah Dash Moore, To the Golden Cities
type:
quotation
text:
Some others appear to be adopting a more blanket approach
ref:
2009, Gayle Letherby, Kate Williams, Philip Birch, Sex as Crime, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
Disenchanted with socialism, they unleashed free enterprise (or tried to) and backed it up with a more-or-less blanket endorsement of the old ways.
ref:
2010, Jay Cassell, The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told, page 428
type:
quotation
text:
By contrast, any emotional or motivational explanation of autism would seem to predict too blanket a degree of social disinterest.
ref:
2013, Eric Schopler, Gary B. Mesibov, Learning and Cognition in Autism, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
The second reason offered for blanket nonprosecutions for crimes committed at the megabanks involves the possibility that such prosecutions could harm the economy.
ref:
2017, Mary Kreiner Ramirez, Steven A. Ramirez, The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday wrote to his counterparts in Delhi, Haryana, Odisha and Rajasthan urging them to reconsider the blanket ban on sale of firecrackers in their respective States.
ref:
2021 October 15, “Stalin writes to four States CMs against blanket ban on firecrackers”, in The Hindu
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
General; covering or encompassing everything.
senses_topics:
|
8327 | word:
blanket
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blanket (third-person singular simple present blankets, present participle blanketing or blanketting, simple past and past participle blanketed or blanketted)
forms:
form:
blankets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
blanketing
tags:
participle
present
form:
blanketting
tags:
participle
present
form:
blanketed
tags:
participle
past
form:
blanketed
tags:
past
form:
blanketted
tags:
participle
past
form:
blanketted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Blanket (disambiguation)
blanket
etymology_text:
From Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin, likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old English blanca (“white horse”), Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”).
More at blank. Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).
senses_examples:
text:
A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
type:
example
text:
The whole world was shut away outside in blood-red glory, as he rocked in his cradle on the immaculate sea, where the warm air blanketted him above the water sheets cold below.
ref:
1963, Edwin Samuel, “Sun in My Eyes”, in My Friend Musa and Other Stories, London, New York, N.Y., Toronto, Ont.: Abelard-Schuman, →LCCN, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Leaping lightly on his back he led the grateful horse in an easy canter back to the stable where he waited and watched as the stable girl rubbed him down and blanketted him.
ref:
1992, Ann C. Fallon, Dead Ends: A James Fleming Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, page 127
type:
quotation
text:
The noise of the fire silenced the seabirds. Then snow blanketted the fire. Birds sang in the snow, and I awoke.
ref:
1994, Harold Brodkey, “Changing Room or What a Profane Friendship Is Like”, in Profane Friendship, San Francisco, Calif.: Mercury House, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
To traverse or complete thoroughly.
To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
senses_topics:
|
8328 | word:
cute
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cute (comparative cuter, superlative cutest)
forms:
form:
cuter
tags:
comparative
form:
cutest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Cuteness
etymology_text:
Aphetic form of acute, originally “keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd” (1731). Meaning transferred to “pretty, fetching” by US students (slang) c. 1834. Meaning drifted further to describe the pleasing attraction to features usually possessed by the young.
senses_examples:
text:
Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
type:
example
text:
Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
type:
example
text:
He's got such cute buns.
type:
example
text:
I ordered her to strip for me and made her wiggle her cute little ass as she took off her panties.
ref:
2010, Vernon J. Geberth, Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
type:
example
text:
Don't get cute with me, boy!
type:
example
text:
"This time we aren't interested in anything cute or cryptic. We want the truth."
ref:
1957 May 24, William P. McGivern, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 102, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Then Turpin being so very cute,
He hid his money in his boot.
ref:
ca. 1850. Anonymous, "Turpin Hero" (broadside ballad, probably originally dating to 18th century)
text:
'Filled with old doddering peers, cute financial magnates, clever wirepullers, big brewers with bulbous noses. All the enemies of progress are there — weaklings, sleek, slug, comfortable, self-important individuals.
ref:
1908, Winston Churchill, Letter to his fianceé Clementine
type:
quotation
text:
Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?
type:
example
text:
There's a cute alternative proof of this using lambda calculus.
type:
example
text:
Cute solution to pin one Knight by unpinning the other and so force discovered guard for the Bishop: it took me hours to find that Bishop key.
ref:
1963, The Tablet, volume 217
type:
quotation
text:
We state a cute result that can be derived from our calcuations. It is not applied anywhere later, but shows that graphs with heavy tails and large clustering coefficients have large cores.
ref:
2012, “Vertex neighborhoods, low conductance cuts, and good seeds for local community methods”, in Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
8329 | word:
decrease
word_type:
verb
expansion:
decrease (third-person singular simple present decreases, present participle decreasing, simple past and past participle decreased)
forms:
form:
decreases
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
decreasing
tags:
participle
present
form:
decreased
tags:
participle
past
form:
decreased
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English decresen, alteration of discresen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descreistre (French: décroître), from Latin decrescere.
senses_examples:
text:
The quality of our products has decreased since the main designer left.
type:
example
text:
Let's decrease the volume a little so we can hear each other talking.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a quantity, to become smaller.
To make (a quantity) smaller.
senses_topics:
|
8330 | word:
decrease
word_type:
noun
expansion:
decrease (countable and uncountable, plural decreases)
forms:
form:
decreases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English decresen, alteration of discresen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descreistre (French: décroître), from Latin decrescere.
senses_examples:
text:
After six years of constant growth, the company reported a slight decrease in sales last year.
type:
example
text:
One research team has recorded Baishui’s decrease at about 27 meters per year over the last 10 years.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased.
A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting).
senses_topics:
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles |
8331 | word:
generalissimo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
generalissimo (plural generalissimos or generalissimi)
forms:
form:
generalissimos
tags:
plural
form:
generalissimi
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian generalissimo, superlative of generale.
senses_examples:
text:
Where stands Marshal Chiang Kai-shek in this conflict of opinion concerning the tactics which China should adopt towards the aggressor? Chiang Kai-shek, according to officials who know his mind with whom I have talked, is all for resistance—as soon as he thinks he can win! “It is a fatal mistake for the Japanese to imagine that I will not fight under any circumstances,” he has said. But the Chinese Generalissimo is too well versed in the philosophy of his country not to recollect that it is foolish to fight with the certainty of defeat.
ref:
1936, H. Hessell Tiltman, The Far East Comes Nearer, Jarrolds, page 249
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A supreme commander of the armed forces of a country, especially one who is also a political leader.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
8332 | word:
peacock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
peacock (plural peacocks)
forms:
form:
peacocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
peacock
etymology_text:
From Middle English pecok, pekok, pocok, pacok, equivalent to pea (“peafowl; peacock”) + cock. Compare Old Norse páfugl (“peacock”, literally “pea-fowl”), and English peahen, peachick, etc.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: turkeycock
text:
The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.
ref:
1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male peafowl, especially Pavo cristatus, notable for its brilliant iridescently ocellated tail.
A peafowl (of the genus Pavo or Afropavo), either male or female.
A pompous or vainglorious person [from the 14th c.].
Any of various Asian species of papilionid butterflies of the genus Papilio.
senses_topics:
biology
entomology
natural-sciences |
8333 | word:
peacock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
peacock (third-person singular simple present peacocks, present participle peacocking, simple past and past participle peacocked)
forms:
form:
peacocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
peacocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
peacocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
peacocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
peacock
etymology_text:
From Middle English pecok, pekok, pocok, pacok, equivalent to pea (“peafowl; peacock”) + cock. Compare Old Norse páfugl (“peacock”, literally “pea-fowl”), and English peahen, peachick, etc.
senses_examples:
text:
A routine border-check in upstate New York had turned into a back-room interrogation, and I was worried, because the three friends I was traveling with didn’t respond to authority well. I could almost hear the wry grins cracking their faces as the officers peacocked. “Is U.S. Customs a joke to you?” one officer asked. My friend Alex said, “No law against smiling, sir.”
ref:
2014 May 30, Will Butler, “The Mark of Cane”, in The New York Times Magazine
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strut about proudly or haughtily.
To engage in peacocking, ostentatious dress or behaviour to impress women.
senses_topics:
|
8334 | word:
somebody
word_type:
pron
expansion:
somebody
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From some + body.
senses_examples:
text:
Somebody has to clean this mess up.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Some unspecified person.
senses_topics:
|
8335 | word:
somebody
word_type:
noun
expansion:
somebody (plural somebodys or somebodies)
forms:
form:
somebodys
tags:
plural
form:
somebodies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From some + body.
senses_examples:
text:
So there, I know, was somebody or a combination of somebodys who did not know what the heck they were doing or dealing with.
ref:
1974, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture and the Fuel Crisis: Hearings..., page 88
type:
quotation
text:
I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any person.
A recognised or important person, a celebrity.
senses_topics:
|
8336 | word:
bottle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bottle (plural bottles)
forms:
form:
bottles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). Doublet of botija.
Displaced native Old English ampella and pinne. Broadly overtook Old English flasce.
senses_examples:
text:
Beer is often sold in bottles.
type:
example
text:
I only drank a bottle of beer.
type:
example
text:
The baby wants a bottle.
type:
example
text:
With Marvin getting older ... and walking now ... I thought it was time to start weaning him off of his bottle.
ref:
2004 May 3, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic)
type:
quotation
text:
You don’t have the bottle to do that!
type:
example
text:
He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.
type:
example
text:
Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
type:
example
text:
to drown one’s troubles in the bottle
type:
example
text:
to hit the bottle
type:
example
text:
See, my old man’s got a problem / He live with the bottle, that’s the way it is
ref:
1988 April 5, Tracy Chapman (lyrics and music), “Fast Car”, in Tracy Chapman
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
The contents of such a container.
A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
(originally "bottle and glass" as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
senses_topics:
|
8337 | word:
bottle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bottle (third-person singular simple present bottles, present participle bottling, simple past and past participle bottled)
forms:
form:
bottles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bottling
tags:
participle
present
form:
bottled
tags:
participle
past
form:
bottled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). Doublet of botija.
Displaced native Old English ampella and pinne. Broadly overtook Old English flasce.
senses_examples:
text:
This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
type:
example
text:
The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talent bottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable, but almost entirely blank.
ref:
2014 May 11, Ivan Hewett, “Piano Man: a Life of John Ogdon by Charles Beauclerk, review: A new biography of the great British pianist whose own genius destroyed him [print version: A colossus off-key, 10 May 2014, p. R27]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)
type:
quotation
text:
Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
type:
example
text:
The rider bottled the big jump.
type:
example
text:
Arsenal bottled the Premier League.
type:
example
text:
He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
type:
example
text:
Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.
type:
example
text:
Closely related to creep is the process of bottling. As you may have noticed from your folded sheet of paper, pages don't merely creep when they're folded — they also rotate slightly. This rotation or bottling is caused by the thickness or bulk of the paper.
ref:
2002, Against the Clock, QuarkXPress 5: Advanced Electronic Documents, page 58
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
To feed (an infant) baby formula.
To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
To throw away a leading position.
To strike (someone) with a bottle.
To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
media
printing
publishing |
8338 | word:
bottle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bottle (plural bottles)
forms:
form:
bottles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bottle, botel, buttle, from Old English botl (“building, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōþl, from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (literally “to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).
Cognate with North Frisian budel, bodel, bol, boel (“dwelling, inheritable property”), Dutch boedel, boel (“inheritance, estate”), Danish bol (“farm”), Icelandic ból (“dwelling, abode, farm, lair”). Related to Old English bytlan (“to build”). More at build.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dwelling; habitation.
A building; house.
senses_topics:
|
8339 | word:
bottle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bottle (plural bottles)
forms:
form:
bottles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English botel (“bundle (of hay)”), from Old French botel, ultimately related to modern French botte (“bundle”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
senses_topics:
|
8340 | word:
earl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
earl (plural earls)
forms:
form:
earls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
earl
etymology_text:
From Middle English erl, erle, from Old English eorl, from Proto-West Germanic *erl, from Proto-Germanic *erlaz (compare Old Saxon erl, Old Norse jarl), from Proto-Germanic *erōną, *arōną (compare Old Norse jara (“fight, battle”)). Doublet of jarl.
Unrelated to ealdorman (“alderman”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts.
senses_topics:
government
monarchy
nobility
politics
biology
entomology
natural-sciences |
8341 | word:
-sama
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-sama
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese さま (sama).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Appended to a person's name or nickname to convey honour and respect.
senses_topics:
|
8342 | word:
augment
word_type:
verb
expansion:
augment (third-person singular simple present augments, present participle augmenting, simple past and past participle augmented)
forms:
form:
augments
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
augmenting
tags:
participle
present
form:
augmented
tags:
participle
past
form:
augmented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
augment
etymology_text:
From Middle English augmenten, from Middle French augmenter, from Old French augmenter, from Late Latin augmentare (“to increase”), from Latin augmentum (“an increase, growth”), from augere (“to increase”).
senses_examples:
text:
The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To increase; to make larger or supplement.
To grow; to increase; to become greater.
To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
To add an augment to.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
8343 | word:
augment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
augment (plural augments)
forms:
form:
augments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
augment
etymology_text:
From Middle English augmenten, from Middle French augmenter, from Old French augmenter, from Late Latin augmentare (“to increase”), from Latin augmentum (“an increase, growth”), from augere (“to increase”).
senses_examples:
text:
The augment is found in Greek, Indo-Iranian, Armenian and Phrygian.
type:
example
text:
Fundamentally the augment characterizes a verbal action viewed from a non-contemporary standpoint, either the moment of speaking (or writing) or a further verbal action.
ref:
1987, Kim McCone, chapter IX, in The early Irish verb, 2nd edition, Maynooth: An Sagart, published 1997, section 3.1, page 93
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A grammatical prefix
In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.
A grammatical prefix
Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.
A grammatical prefix
In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
An increase.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
8344 | word:
guts
word_type:
noun
expansion:
guts
forms:
wikipedia:
guts
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of gut
senses_topics:
|
8345 | word:
guts
word_type:
noun
expansion:
guts pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
guts
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
It must have taken some guts to speak in front of that audience.
type:
example
text:
She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone—she's got guts.
type:
example
text:
His speech had no guts in it.
type:
example
text:
He knew all about the guts of the business, how things actually get done.
type:
example
text:
If you need someone to spill your guts out to, I'm here.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
Courage; determination.
Content, substance.
The essential, core parts.
One's innermost feelings.
The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre.
The center of the field.
senses_topics:
|
8346 | word:
guts
word_type:
verb
expansion:
guts
forms:
wikipedia:
guts
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of gut
senses_topics:
|
8347 | word:
guts
word_type:
verb
expansion:
guts (third-person singular simple present gutses, present participle gutsing, simple past and past participle gutsed)
forms:
form:
gutses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gutsing
tags:
participle
present
form:
gutsed
tags:
participle
past
form:
gutsed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
guts
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
He gutsed out a 6-1 win.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To eat greedily.
To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).
senses_topics:
|
8348 | word:
-kun
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-kun
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese くん (kun).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Appended to a young man's name or nickname to indicate familiarity.
senses_topics:
|
8349 | word:
commander in chief
word_type:
noun
expansion:
commander in chief (plural commanders in chief)
forms:
form:
commanders in chief
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
For, [Scipio] being Commaunder in chiefe, ouer an Armie; (Latin original: praeesse autem suo nomine exercitui)
ref:
c. 1600, Clement Edmundes, Observations vpon Caesars Comentaries, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
ref:
1787, Philadelphia Convention, “Article II, Section 2”, in Constitution of the United States of America, Philadelphia
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Supreme commander of the armed forces of an entire country.
senses_topics:
|
8350 | word:
vulture
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vulture (plural vultures)
forms:
form:
vultures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, voutre, from Latin vultur, voltur.
senses_examples:
text:
Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
A person who profits from the suffering of others.
senses_topics:
|
8351 | word:
vulture
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vulture (third-person singular simple present vultures, present participle vulturing, simple past and past participle vultured)
forms:
form:
vultures
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vulturing
tags:
participle
present
form:
vultured
tags:
participle
past
form:
vultured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, voutre, from Latin vultur, voltur.
senses_examples:
text:
Rudy vultured when asking the girl out.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.
senses_topics:
|
8352 | word:
vulture
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vulture
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, voutre, from Latin vultur, voltur.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
ravenous; rapacious
senses_topics:
|
8353 | word:
Oceania
word_type:
name
expansion:
Oceania
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French Océanie, coined circa 1812 by geographer Conrad Malte-Brun, from the Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A geographical region or continent composed of many islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia) plus Australasia. It is located between Asia, Antarctica and the Americas.
senses_topics:
|
8354 | word:
Oceania
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
|
8355 | word:
donkey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
donkey (plural donkeys)
forms:
form:
donkeys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
donkey
etymology_text:
The origin is uncertain. Originally a slang term from the late eighteenth century. Perhaps from Middle English *donekie (“a miniature dun horse”), a double diminutive of Middle English don, dun, dunne (a name for a dun horse), equivalent to modern English dun (“brownish grey colour”) + -ock (diminutive suffix) + -ie (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle English donning (“a dun horse”), English dunnock. Became more common than the original term ass due to the latter's homophony and partial merger with arse (compare similar development between coney and rabbit).
senses_examples:
text:
Lost last Saturday between twenty and thirty shillings they that have found it please to leave it heare there is five shillings reward by Wm. Roberts that goeth with a Donkey with many thanks
ref:
1776 August 24, “[untitled]”, in Ipswich Journal, Ipswich, Suffolk, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
DONKEY, donkey dick, a he, or jack ass, called donkey, perhaps from the Spanish, or don like gravity of that animal, entitled also the king of Spain's trumpeter
ref:
1785, Anonymous [Francis Grose], A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: S. Hooper
type:
quotation
text:
I vow we must be near the place from where
The two converging slides, the avalanches,
On Marshall, look like donkey's ears.
We may as well see that and save the day.”
“Don't donkey's ears suggest we shake our own?
'For God's sake, aren't you fond of viewing nature?[…]
ref:
2013 November 17, Robert Frost, Delphi Collected Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series), Delphi Classics, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
The chest may be found among those who stick to the sailing vessels, but for the steamer, the donkey died its natural death when the Suez Canal—responsible for many changes at sea—became an accomplished fact.
ref:
1903, W. H. Hood, The Blight of Insubordination, page 80
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse.
A stubborn person.
A fool.
A small auxiliary engine.
A box or chest, especially a toolbox.
A bad poker player.
British sea term for a sailor's storage chest.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
card-games
poker
|
8356 | word:
body
word_type:
noun
expansion:
body (countable and uncountable, plural bodies)
forms:
form:
bodies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”)).
senses_examples:
text:
I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
type:
example
text:
The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
type:
example
text:
Her body was found at four o’clock, just two hours after the murder.
type:
example
text:
Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it […]
ref:
Folio Society 1973, page 463
type:
quotation
text:
What’s a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
type:
example
text:
This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries.
ref:
1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
In doing so, Haritaworn also rethinks the marginality of transgender bodies and practices in queer movements and spaces.
ref:
2012, Trystan T. Cotten, Transgender Migrations, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
As the title suggests, this project is particularly interested in how race intersects with reproductive technologies—how brown bodies are deployed in the creation of white babies.
ref:
2016, Laura Harrison, Brown Bodies, White Babies, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
The boxer took a blow to the body.
type:
example
text:
The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
type:
example
text:
Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
type:
example
text:
In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
type:
example
text:
A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
text:
I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
type:
example
text:
The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
type:
example
text:
We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
type:
example
text:
All bodies are held together by internal forces.
type:
example
text:
We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
type:
example
text:
The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
type:
example
text:
"I’d Be Lost Without You" seems somewhat out of place from a vocal viewpoint — Lewis’s slightly reedy middle soprano is very expressive and absolutely true, but doesn’t have enough dark body to fully deal with the torchy melody.
ref:
1989 August 12, Caroline Foty, “Hindsights”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 5, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
type:
example
text:
In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour […]
ref:
1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, “The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America”, in The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km³) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
ref:
2012 March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues, Peter R. Cobbold, “World's largest extrusive body of sand?”, in Geology, volume 40, number 5
type:
quotation
text:
The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole.
ref:
2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
type:
quotation
text:
a nonpareil face on an agate body
type:
example
text:
The stemless notes could have been cast on a body as short as 4 mm but were probably cast on bodies of the standard 14 mm size for ease of composition.
ref:
1992, Mary Kay Duggan, Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type, page 99
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Physical frame.
The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
Physical frame.
The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
Physical frame.
A corpse.
Physical frame.
A person.
Physical frame.
A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
Main section.
The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
Main section.
The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
Main section.
The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
Main section.
The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
Main section.
The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
Main section.
nave.
Main section.
Coherent group.
A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
Coherent group.
An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
Coherent group.
A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
Material entity.
Any physical object or material thing.
Material entity.
Substance; physical presence.
Material entity.
Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
Material entity.
An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
architecture
media
printing
publishing
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
8357 | word:
body
word_type:
verb
expansion:
body (third-person singular simple present bodies, present participle bodying, simple past and past participle bodied)
forms:
form:
bodies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bodying
tags:
participle
present
form:
bodied
tags:
participle
past
form:
bodied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”)).
senses_examples:
text:
[A]s you stand on the steps of the Castle Green in this strange place, you feel quite floaty. This you are told is the scene of the Merthyr riots; and you feel still floatier as you body forth before your eyes a picture like the following— […]
ref:
1851 March 22, “The Foreign Country at Home. IV. Abergavenny to Swansea.”, in Leigh Hunt, editor, Leigh Hunt’s Journal; a Miscellany for the Cultivation of the Memorable, the Progressive, and the Beautiful, volume I, number 16, London: […] Stewart & Murray, […], →OCLC, page 255
type:
quotation
text:
The drama of the storehouse on earth has its counterpart in Heaven, and if we accept the insights of both Jacobsen and von Dechend, we can see that the myth is bodying forth a principle which will later be expressed in the Hermetic axiom, “As above, so below.” In fact, it is precisely this relationship between above and below that the myth explores.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175
type:
quotation
text:
I don’t say, one bodies the other / One’s spiritual truth; / But I do say it’s hard to lose either, / When you have both.
ref:
1955, Philip Larkin, Toads
type:
quotation
text:
I keep getting bodied by kids half my age.
ref:
2023, “Gaming at 24”, in hyperx (comic)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give body or shape to something.
To construct the bodywork of a car.
To embody.
To murder someone.
To murder someone.
To utterly defeat someone.
senses_topics:
|
8358 | word:
join
word_type:
verb
expansion:
join (third-person singular simple present joins, present participle joining, simple past and past participle joined)
forms:
form:
joins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
joining
tags:
participle
present
form:
joined
tags:
participle
past
form:
joined
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
join
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English joinen, joynen, joignen, from Old French joindre, juindre, jungre, from Latin iungō (“join, yoke”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to join, unite”). Cognate with Old English iucian, iugian, ġeocian, ġyċċan (“to join; yoke”). More at yoke.
senses_examples:
text:
The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe.
type:
example
text:
We joined our efforts to get an even better result.
type:
example
text:
Parallel lines never join.
type:
example
text:
These two rivers join in about 80 miles.
type:
example
text:
I will join you watching the football game as soon as I have finished my work.
type:
example
text:
Many children join a sports club.
type:
example
text:
Most politicians have joined a party.
type:
example
text:
By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.
type:
example
text:
to join encounter, battle, or issue
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To connect or combine into one; to put together.
To come together; to meet.
To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
To come into the company of.
To become a member of.
To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
To unite in marriage.
To enjoin upon; to command.
To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
senses_topics:
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
8359 | word:
join
word_type:
noun
expansion:
join (plural joins)
forms:
form:
joins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English joinen, joynen, joignen, from Old French joindre, juindre, jungre, from Latin iungō (“join, yoke”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to join, unite”). Cognate with Old English iucian, iugian, ġeocian, ġyċċan (“to join; yoke”). More at yoke.
senses_examples:
text:
We found 217 putative interchromosomal joins. Only one of these joins (in the paternal assembly of HG02080) was located in a euchromatic, non-acrocentric region and was manually confirmed to be a misassembly.
ref:
2023 May 11, Wen-Wei LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313
type:
quotation
text:
The offline domain join is a three-step process described subsequently: […]
ref:
2010, Dustin Hannifin, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrator's Reference
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
The act of joining something, such as a network.
The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
senses_topics:
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences |
8360 | word:
covenant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
covenant (plural covenants)
forms:
form:
covenants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Covenant (biblical)
Covenant (law)
Covenant (religion)
Covenant marriage
Covenant theology
Covenantal nomism
Mosaic covenant
New Covenant theology
Old Covenant
covenant
etymology_text:
From Middle English covenaunt, borrowed from Old French covenant (“agreement”), from Latin conveniēns, convenientem (“agreeing, agreeable, suitable, convenient”), present participle of conveniō (“to agree”). Cognate with convenient and convene.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An agreement to do or not do a particular thing.
A promise, incidental to a deed or contract, either express or implied.
A pact or binding agreement between two or more parties.
An incidental clause in an agreement.
senses_topics:
law
law
|
8361 | word:
covenant
word_type:
verb
expansion:
covenant (third-person singular simple present covenants, present participle covenanting, simple past and past participle covenanted)
forms:
form:
covenants
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
covenanting
tags:
participle
present
form:
covenanted
tags:
participle
past
form:
covenanted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
covenant
etymology_text:
From Middle English covenaunt, borrowed from Old French covenant (“agreement”), from Latin conveniēns, convenientem (“agreeing, agreeable, suitable, convenient”), present participle of conveniō (“to agree”). Cognate with convenient and convene.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To enter into, or promise something by, a covenant.
To enter a formal agreement.
To bind oneself in contract.
To make a stipulation.
senses_topics:
law
law
law |
8362 | word:
electron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
electron (plural electrons)
forms:
form:
electrons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
electron
etymology_text:
Blend of electric + ion, coined by Anglo-Irish scientist George Stoney in 1891, changed by him multiple times from an earlier electrolion and original electrine (used as early as 1874) as the name for the electric charge associated with a univalent ion. Compare electro-, -on.
The particle ("corpuscule") was discovered in 1896. The name electrion was proposed for the particle in 1906 but curtailed because Hendrik Lorentz preferred electron.
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: atom
text:
Comeronyms: proton, neutron
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The subatomic particle having a negative charge and orbiting the nucleus; the flow of electrons in a conductor constitutes electricity.
Alloys of magnesium and other metals, like aluminum or zinc, that were manufactured by the German company Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
8363 | word:
samurai
word_type:
noun
expansion:
samurai (plural samurai or samurais)
forms:
form:
samurai
tags:
plural
form:
samurais
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 侍 (samurai).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In feudal Japan, a soldier who served a daimyo.
senses_topics:
|
8364 | word:
vacuum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vacuum (plural vacuums or (rare, formal) vacua)
forms:
form:
vacuums
tags:
plural
form:
vacua
tags:
formal
plural
rare
wikipedia:
Vacuum exercise
vacuum
etymology_text:
From Latin vacuum (“an empty space, void”), noun use of neuter of vacuus (“empty”), related to vacare (“be empty”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Wards are open-topped, with skyscrapers rising from the superstructure. Towers are sealed against vacuum, as the breathable atmosphere envelope is only maintained to a height of about seven meters. The atmosphere is contained by the centrifugal force of rotation and a "membrane" of dense, colorless sulphur hexafluoride gas, held in place by carefully managed mass effect fields.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel Station: Wards Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch
type:
example
text:
Abs show up in a most-muscular shot, a vacuum shot, the hands-behind-head compulsory ab shot, twisting poses, and so on.
ref:
1985, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, page 508
type:
quotation
text:
Right I'm off to practice my vacuum - suck in those stomachs now!
ref:
1997 January 6, John, “I'm 14; How do I start bodybuilding?”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
When I do the 'gut vacuum' exercise the abdominal wall seems to return to normal size, as far as I can tell under the flab.
ref:
2010 January 7, Silent Stone, “Want to start, have a few questions for now.”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Blessed with round muscle bellies and a phenomenal structure, he also performed a vacuum pose on stage.
ref:
2022 October 10, Aaromal Maanas, “2022 Tsunami Nutrition Pro Results and Recap”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2022-10-23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A region of space that contains no matter.
The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.
Ellipsis of vacuum cleaner.
A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude.
An emptiness in life created by a loss of a person who was close, or of an occupation.
An exercise in which one draws their abdomen towards the spine.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
8365 | word:
vacuum
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vacuum (third-person singular simple present vacuums, present participle vacuuming, simple past and past participle vacuumed)
forms:
form:
vacuums
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vacuuming
tags:
participle
present
form:
vacuumed
tags:
participle
past
form:
vacuumed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin vacuum (“an empty space, void”), noun use of neuter of vacuus (“empty”), related to vacare (“be empty”).
senses_examples:
text:
“Who in the world cleans an attic? That's like vacuuming a shed.”
ref:
2016, Janice M. Whiteaker, Run
type:
quotation
text:
But the advantage of an auto-vacuumed database is that when B-tree pages are no longer needed, they are moved to the end of the database file and then the database file is truncated, thus returning the unused pages back to the filesystem.
ref:
2010, Ivan Litovski, Richard Maynard, Inside Symbian SQL: A Mobile Developer's Guide to SQLite, John Wiley & Sons, page 337
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.
To use a vacuum cleaner.
To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.
senses_topics:
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
8366 | word:
-chan
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-chan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Japanese honorific ちゃん (-chan).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: -kun
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Appended to a person's name (usually a female, child, a close friend, or an intimate) to add politeness. It is sometimes used to denote cuteness or familiarity.
senses_topics:
|
8367 | word:
-chan
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-chan
forms:
wikipedia:
4chan
Futaba Channel
etymology_text:
In reference to 4chan, in turn from Futaba Channel (cf. its URL, www.2chan.net, or its alternate names ふたばちゃん and 双葉ちゃん found on its homepage); hence, derived from Japanese チャンネル (channeru), from English channel.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used in the names of imageboards, usually ones that try to emulate 4chan.
senses_topics:
|
8368 | word:
-san
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-san
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese さん (san).
senses_examples:
text:
August 1, 1983, Time
Tanaka-San’s Decline and Rise
text:
December 16, 2008 , Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122938932478509075.html
Barack Obama-san
text:
January 31, 2009, WalletPop, https://web.archive.org/web/20090512161949/http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/01/31/obama-san-presidents-book-of-speeches-is-a-huge-hit-in-japan
Obama-san! President's book of speeches is a huge hit in Japan
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Honorific ending used to indicate a person is Japanese or talking with Japanese, or treated like Japanese.
senses_topics:
|
8369 | word:
European Union
word_type:
name
expansion:
the European Union
forms:
form:
the European Union
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Formed as European + Union, in the sense of the resistance group, after the German Europäische Union.
senses_examples:
text:
...IN VIEW of further steps to be taken in order to advance European integration,
HAVE DECIDED to establish a European Union and to this end have designated as their plenipotentiaries...
ref:
1992, Maastricht Treaty
type:
quotation
text:
The issue will now be dealt with on a proper, rational basis, with the timetable for the lifting of the ban dependent on our own efforts. That has enabled the restoration of normal business in the European Union.
ref:
1996, John Major, EU Beef Ban and the Florence European Council
type:
quotation
text:
7:09pm: Putin says he has 'nothing against' Ukraine joining EU
Russia has "nothing against" Ukraine's possible membership of the European Union, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday after the European Commission recommended granting Kyiv candidate status of the 27-member bloc.
ref:
2022 June 17, “Greeted as a 'great friend', Johnson meets Zelensky on second Ukraine trip”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2022-06-18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A supranational organisation, consisting of 27 member states, created in the 1950s to bring the nations of Europe into closer economic and political connection.
An antifascist resistance group active during Germany’s Nazi era.
senses_topics:
|
8370 | word:
stab
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stab (plural stabs)
forms:
form:
stabs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stab
etymology_text:
First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob, stobbe, stabb (“a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon”)), from Middle English stabbe (“a stab”), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (“pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump”), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with Old English stybb. Cognate with Middle Dutch stobbe.
Supposed by some to derive from Scottish Gaelic stob (“to prick, to prod, to push, to thrust”); supposed by others to be from a Scots word.
senses_examples:
text:
A knife was flashing in his hand, and just as he was about to take a stab at me, the smith grabbed his arm from behind.
ref:
1979, Karl May, The Secret Brotherhood: A Novel, Seabury Press, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
“I bet you two have really big plans. And might I say, that is just fab,” he said of Lynn's dress. “I'm glad someone noticed,” she replied, seeming to take a stab at me.
ref:
2001, Van Whitfield, Guys in Suits: A Novel, Doubleday, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
I'll give this thankless task a stab.
type:
example
text:
As yet, we don't know what the comparable figures will be like for the current financial year which ends in March 2022, but we can have a good stab at approximating them.
ref:
2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
a horn stab
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
A wound made by stabbing.
Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
An attempt.
Criticism.
A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
8371 | word:
stab
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stab (third-person singular simple present stabs, present participle stabbing, simple past and past participle stabbed)
forms:
form:
stabs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stabbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
stabbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
stabbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
stab
etymology_text:
First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob, stobbe, stabb (“a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon”)), from Middle English stabbe (“a stab”), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (“pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump”), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with Old English stybb. Cognate with Middle Dutch stobbe.
Supposed by some to derive from Scottish Gaelic stob (“to prick, to prod, to push, to thrust”); supposed by others to be from a Scots word.
senses_examples:
text:
If you stab him in the heart he won't live long enough to retaliate.
type:
example
text:
Hornet blazed away as best she could, but, having to split her attention between high and low attackers, as well as having the aft 5-inch battery temporarily disabled by a young officer who'd accidentally run the guns into their stops, freezing them in position until the issue could be sorted, meant that two 550-pound semi-armor-piercing bombs, and one fractionally-lighter high-explosive bomb, soon crashed down, the first two stabbing deep into the ship and the other one blowing a hole in the flight deck, accompanied by a dive bomber that had been shot down but elected to go out by slamming into the Hornet as opposed to the sea. In some small comfort, that aircraft's bomb didn't go off as well.
ref:
2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 12:32 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-12-04
type:
quotation
text:
to stab a dagger into a person
type:
example
text:
He stabbed at my face with the twig but luckily kept missing my eyes.
type:
example
text:
The snow from the blizzard was stabbing at my face as I skied down the mountain.
type:
example
text:
to stab a person's reputation
type:
example
text:
[O]ne of the derrickman's jobs is to "stab" the pipe.
ref:
2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, page 57
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
To thrust in a stabbing motion.
To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.
senses_topics:
|
8372 | word:
stab
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stab (plural stabs)
forms:
form:
stabs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stab
etymology_text:
Clipping of stabilizer or stabiliser.
senses_examples:
text:
If the pilots used electric pitch trim, it would only pause MCAS for 5s; to deactivate it you have to switch off the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches.
ref:
2020, Chris Brady, “737 MAX - MCAS”, in The Boeing 737 Technical Site, archived from the original on 2021-01-23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
8373 | word:
stab
word_type:
adj
expansion:
stab (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
stab
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Do you know whether any country offices pay their men by the thousand, or whether they are on stab wages? — I do not know. Some are paid stab wages, but I do not know whether there is much piece-work.
ref:
1893, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia, page 313
type:
quotation
text:
The pressmen were granted a stab wage of 36s for a 60 hour week, and the extras for overtime and Sunday work […]
ref:
1967, John Child, Industrial Relations in the British Printing Industry, page 113
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of established.
senses_topics:
|
8374 | word:
stab
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stab (plural not attested)
forms:
wikipedia:
stab
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[…] there were 286 overseers and 210 readers occupied in the 501 offices; 2,691 compositors were paid on the stab […]
ref:
1892, The British Printer, volume 5, page 42
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of establishment.
senses_topics:
|
8375 | word:
dull
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dull (comparative duller, superlative dullest)
forms:
form:
duller
tags:
comparative
form:
dullest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dull, dul (also dyll, dill, dwal), from Old English dol (“dull, foolish, erring, heretical; foolish, silly; presumptuous”), from Proto-West Germanic *dol, from Proto-Germanic *dulaz, from earlier *dwulaz, a variant of *dwalaz (“stunned, mad, foolish, misled”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwel-, *dʰewel- (“to dim, dull, cloud, make obscure, swirl, whirl”).
Cognate with Scots dull, doll (“slow to understand or hear, deaf, dull”), North Frisian dol (“rash, unthinking, giddy, flippant”), Dutch dol (“crazy, mad, insane”), Low German dul, dol (“mad, silly, stupid, fatuous”), German toll (“crazy, mad, wild, fantastic”), Danish dval (“foolish, absurd”), Icelandic dulur (“secretive, silent”), West-Flemish dul (angry, furious).
senses_examples:
text:
All these knives are dull.
type:
example
text:
He sat through the dull lecture and barely stayed awake.
type:
example
text:
"You are very dull this morning, Sheriff," said the youngest daughter of the house, who, being the baby and pretty, had grown pettishly privileged in speech.
ref:
1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water
type:
quotation
text:
Choose a dull finish to hide fingerprints.
type:
example
text:
a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror
text:
It's a dull day.
type:
example
text:
c. 1857', Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Table-Talk
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain.
text:
Pressing on the bruise produces a dull pain.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
Boring; not exciting or interesting.
Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
Sluggish, listless.
Cloudy, overcast.
Insensible; unfeeling.
Heavy; lifeless; inert.
Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
Not clear, muffled. (of a noise or sound)
senses_topics:
|
8376 | word:
dull
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dull (third-person singular simple present dulls, present participle dulling, simple past and past participle dulled)
forms:
form:
dulls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dulling
tags:
participle
present
form:
dulled
tags:
participle
past
form:
dulled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dull, dul (also dyll, dill, dwal), from Old English dol (“dull, foolish, erring, heretical; foolish, silly; presumptuous”), from Proto-West Germanic *dol, from Proto-Germanic *dulaz, from earlier *dwulaz, a variant of *dwalaz (“stunned, mad, foolish, misled”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwel-, *dʰewel- (“to dim, dull, cloud, make obscure, swirl, whirl”).
Cognate with Scots dull, doll (“slow to understand or hear, deaf, dull”), North Frisian dol (“rash, unthinking, giddy, flippant”), Dutch dol (“crazy, mad, insane”), Low German dul, dol (“mad, silly, stupid, fatuous”), German toll (“crazy, mad, wild, fantastic”), Danish dval (“foolish, absurd”), Icelandic dulur (“secretive, silent”), West-Flemish dul (angry, furious).
senses_examples:
text:
Years of misuse have dulled the tools.
type:
example
text:
He drinks to dull the pain.
type:
example
text:
Use and custom have so dulled our eyes.
ref:
1850, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord
type:
quotation
text:
A razor will dull with use.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
senses_topics:
|
8377 | word:
sin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sin (countable and uncountable, plural sins)
forms:
form:
sins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sin
etymology_text:
From Middle English sinne, synne, sunne, zen, from Old English synn (“sin”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnju, from Proto-Germanic *sunjō (“truth, excuse”) and *sundī, *sundijō (“sin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁s-ónt-ih₂, from *h₁sónts ("being, true", implying a verdict of "truly guilty" against an accusation or charge), from *h₁es- (“to be”); compare Old English sōþ ("true"; see sooth). Doublet of suttee.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots syn, sin (“sin”), Saterland Frisian Säände (“sin”), West Frisian sûnde (“sin”), Dutch zonde (“sin”), Low German sunn, sunne (“sin”), German Sünde (“sin”), Danish synd (“sin”), Swedish synd (“sin”), Icelandic synð, synd (“sin”), Latin sont-, sons (“sinful, guilty, criminal”). Doublet of suttee.
senses_examples:
text:
As a Christian, I think this is a sin against God.
type:
example
text:
Slavery, according to them, was a grievous sin against God, and therefore no human Constitution could rightfully shield it from destruction. It was sinful to live in a political confederacy which tolerated slavery in any of the States composing it;[…]
ref:
1866, James Buchanan, Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion, New York: D. Appleton and Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
No movie is without sin.
type:
example
text:
Winger Cheslin Kolbe, sitting with his jersey over his head in the sin after a yellow card at the death, was probably the sight of millions of South Africans around the country who had their hearts in their mouth as they sat through another nail-biting match.
ref:
2023 October 28, Leighton Koopman, “YES!!! The Springboks beat the All Blacks to win another Rugby World Cup title”, in Independent Online
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A violation of divine will or religious law.
Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.
A misdeed or wrong.
A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
A flaw or mistake.
sin bin
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
theology
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
8378 | word:
sin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sin (third-person singular simple present sins, present participle sinning, simple past and past participle sinned)
forms:
form:
sins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sinning
tags:
participle
present
form:
sinned
tags:
participle
past
form:
sinned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sin
etymology_text:
From Middle English sinne, synne, sunne, zen, from Old English synn (“sin”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnju, from Proto-Germanic *sunjō (“truth, excuse”) and *sundī, *sundijō (“sin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁s-ónt-ih₂, from *h₁sónts ("being, true", implying a verdict of "truly guilty" against an accusation or charge), from *h₁es- (“to be”); compare Old English sōþ ("true"; see sooth). Doublet of suttee.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots syn, sin (“sin”), Saterland Frisian Säände (“sin”), West Frisian sûnde (“sin”), Dutch zonde (“sin”), Low German sunn, sunne (“sin”), German Sünde (“sin”), Danish synd (“sin”), Swedish synd (“sin”), Icelandic synð, synd (“sin”), Latin sont-, sons (“sinful, guilty, criminal”). Doublet of suttee.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To commit a sin.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
theology |
8379 | word:
sin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sin (plural sins)
forms:
form:
sins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sin
etymology_text:
Modification of shin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
senses_topics:
|
8380 | word:
sin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sin (plural sins)
forms:
form:
sins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sin
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”)
senses_topics:
|
8381 | word:
South America
word_type:
name
expansion:
South America
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The continent that is the southern part of the Americas. It is east of the Pacific Ocean, west of the Atlantic Ocean, south of North America and north of Antarctica.
senses_topics:
|
8382 | word:
dumbwaiter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dumbwaiter (plural dumbwaiters)
forms:
form:
dumbwaiters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dumb (“unable to speak”) + waiter, originally separate words and describing the portable table's inability to relate gossip after the meal. By the use of the term to describe small service elevators in American homes in the 1840s, it simply meant dumb as “mechanical”, “unable to speak at all”.
senses_examples:
text:
When writing he had a copyin machine: while he was a-writin he wouldn't suffer nobody to come in his room: had a dumb-waiter: when he wanted anything he had nothin to do but turn a crank and the dumb-waiter would bring him water or fruit on a plate or anything he wanted.
ref:
1951, Isaac Jefferson, chapter 9, in Memoirs Of A Monticello Slave, University Of Virginia Press, page 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another.
A table or set of trays on rollers used for serving food.
A lazy Susan.
senses_topics:
|
8383 | word:
penis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
penis (plural penises or penes)
forms:
form:
penises
tags:
plural
form:
penes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
human penis
penis
etymology_text:
From late 17th century. Learned borrowing from Latin pēnis (“tail, penis”), from Proto-Indo-European *pes- (“penis”). Displaced native English pintle, tarse.
senses_examples:
text:
The female clitoris is homologous to the male penis.
text:
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
ref:
Robin Williams
text:
The penis is the perfectly obvious and natural symbol of instantaneous time.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129
type:
quotation
text:
A life is more valuable than a penis.
ref:
1994 January 24, Lisa Kemler, Newsweek, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
1998, Collecting Mark Twain: A History and Three New Paths, Kevin Mac Donnell, Firsts Magazine, Inc.
By early November, the sheets of HUCK FINN were being forwarded for binding, and within a week or two it was discovered that the illustration at page 283 had been altered in the master plate to make it appear as if Uncle Silas was exposing his penis. Twain would be amused to know that this may be the first time the word "penis" has ever been used to describe the alteration to this plate; the euphemisms and delicate phrasings employed by previous bibliographers to avoid stating the obvious are impressive.
text:
Okay, hold on, because “stimulus package of your dreams” sounds like how Paul Krugman describes his penis.
ref:
2016 October 16, “Third Parties”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The male erectile reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse that in the human male and other mammals is also used for urination; the tubular portion of the male genitalia (excluding the scrotum).
A similar erectile sexual organ present in the cloacas of male amniotes.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
8384 | word:
shogun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shogun (plural shoguns or shogun)
forms:
form:
shoguns
tags:
plural
form:
shogun
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun), itself the short form of 征夷大将軍 (seii taishōgun, literally “general who overcomes the barbarians”), ultimately from Middle Chinese.
senses_examples:
text:
The third is the Shogun who reygneth at the preſent, and hath rayſed the perſecution (whereof this booke intreateth) againſt the Chriſtians, and he as it ſeemeth is acknowledged as Lord of all the threeſcore and ſix Kingdomes of Iaponia.
ref:
1619, W. W. Gent, transl., A briefe relation of the persecution lately made against the Catholike christians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia, devided into two books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan.
senses_topics:
|
8385 | word:
empress
word_type:
noun
expansion:
empress (plural empresses)
forms:
form:
empresses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Emperor
etymology_text:
From Middle English emperice, emperesse, from Anglo-Norman and Old French empereriz, from Latin imperatrix, equivalent to emperor + -ess. Doublet of imperatrix. Compare modern French impératrice.
senses_examples:
text:
Empress, imperial regent, and even emperor herself (r. 797–802), Irene was an important and powerful figure at the Byzantine court in the late eighth and early ninth century.
ref:
2008, Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformation, page 211
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
A female chimpanzee.
A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
tarot
|
8386 | word:
empress
word_type:
verb
expansion:
empress (third-person singular simple present empresses, present participle empressing, simple past and past participle empressed)
forms:
form:
empresses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
empressing
tags:
participle
present
form:
empressed
tags:
participle
past
form:
empressed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Emperor
etymology_text:
From Middle English empresse, from Anglo-Norman enpresser (“to press, to imprint”), from Old French empresser. Attested from the 15th or late 14th century.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rare form of impress.
senses_topics:
|
8387 | word:
monarchy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
monarchy (countable and uncountable, plural monarchies)
forms:
form:
monarchies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
monarchy
etymology_text:
From Old French monarchie, from Late Latin monarchia, from Ancient Greek μοναρχία (monarkhía), from μόνος (mónos, “only”) + ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “power, authority”). By surface analysis, mon- (“one, single”) + -archy (“rule, command”).
senses_examples:
text:
An absolute monarchy is a monarchy where the monarch is legally the ultimate authority in all temporal matters.
type:
example
text:
A constitutional monarchy is a monarchy in which the monarch's power is legally constrained, ranging from where minor concessions have been made to appease certain factions to where the monarch is a figurehead with all real power in the hands of a legislative body.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).
The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
A form of government where sovereignty is embodied by a single ruler in a state and his high aristocracy representing their separate divided lands within the state and their low aristocracy representing their separate divided fiefs.
States based on a system of governance headed by a king or a queen.
senses_topics:
|
8388 | word:
wildcat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wildcat (plural wildcats)
forms:
form:
wildcats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
John Audubon
bobcat
wildcat
wildcat (disambiguation)
wildcat cartridge
etymology_text:
From Middle English wyld cat, wylde cat (in the plural as wild cattes, wylde catis, wyle cattes), equivalent to wild + cat. Cognate with Middle Low German wiltkatte, German Wildkatze, Swedish vildkatt.
Its adjectival senses were originally American and derived from the "wildcat banks" of Michigan, following its elevation to statehood in 1837. Two laws—one easing the requirements for establishing a new bank and another occasioned by the Panic of 1837 that removed the need for payment in specie—led to the creation and collapse of around 50 banks within two years. The term is apocryphally derived from a wildcat supposedly featured on the currency printed by one of these banks, but more probably derived from the remote locations "where the wildcats roamed" chosen by these banks to avoid oversight and minimize redemption of notes.
senses_examples:
text:
2003 April 24, CNN
Upon checking it out, we found a total of 13 newborn wildcats: nine newborn tigers and two newborn leopards.
text:
2002 September 26, The Young and the Restless
Anyone who's man enough to have landed a wildcat like you had to be quite a guy.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically
Felis silvestris, a common small Old World wild cat somewhat larger than a house cat.
A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically
A bobcat (Lynx rufus) or other similar New World species of lynx.
A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically
Any feral cat.
A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically
Alternative spelling of wild cat, any undomesticated felid, as tigers or lions.
A person who acts like a wildcat, (usually) a violent and easily-angered person or a sexually vigorous one.
An offensive formation with an unbalanced line and a snap directly to the running back rather than the quarterback.
A wheel that can be adjusted so as to revolve either with or on the shaft of a capstan.
Clipping of wildcat cartridge.
Clipping of wildcat strike, a strike undertaken without authorization from the relevant trade union.
Clipping of wildcat money, notes issued by a wildcat bank.
senses_topics:
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
|
8389 | word:
wildcat
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wildcat (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
John Audubon
bobcat
wildcat
wildcat (disambiguation)
wildcat cartridge
etymology_text:
From Middle English wyld cat, wylde cat (in the plural as wild cattes, wylde catis, wyle cattes), equivalent to wild + cat. Cognate with Middle Low German wiltkatte, German Wildkatze, Swedish vildkatt.
Its adjectival senses were originally American and derived from the "wildcat banks" of Michigan, following its elevation to statehood in 1837. Two laws—one easing the requirements for establishing a new bank and another occasioned by the Panic of 1837 that removed the need for payment in specie—led to the creation and collapse of around 50 banks within two years. The term is apocryphally derived from a wildcat supposedly featured on the currency printed by one of these banks, but more probably derived from the remote locations "where the wildcats roamed" chosen by these banks to avoid oversight and minimize redemption of notes.
senses_examples:
text:
Then the development of the home country was neglected for some wildcat idea of bringing up the backward people of other lands.
ref:
1946, Sigurd Jay Simonsen, The Mongrels
type:
quotation
text:
2003 June 15, CNN
Jewish settlers have also been active putting up five new wildcat outposts on hilltops in the West Bank to try to thwart their Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:
Of or concerning irresponsible banks or banking, (particularly) small, independent operations.
Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:
Of or concerning oil exploration in new areas, (particularly) small, independent operations.
Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:
Of or concerning actions undertaken by workers without approval or in defiance of the formal leadership of their trade unions.
Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially
Of or concerning customized or hand-made cartridges.
Unauthorized by the proper authorities.
senses_topics:
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
|
8390 | word:
wildcat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wildcat (third-person singular simple present wildcats, present participle wildcatting, simple past and past participle wildcatted)
forms:
form:
wildcats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wildcatting
tags:
participle
present
form:
wildcatted
tags:
participle
past
form:
wildcatted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
John Audubon
bobcat
wildcat
wildcat (disambiguation)
wildcat cartridge
etymology_text:
From Middle English wyld cat, wylde cat (in the plural as wild cattes, wylde catis, wyle cattes), equivalent to wild + cat. Cognate with Middle Low German wiltkatte, German Wildkatze, Swedish vildkatt.
Its adjectival senses were originally American and derived from the "wildcat banks" of Michigan, following its elevation to statehood in 1837. Two laws—one easing the requirements for establishing a new bank and another occasioned by the Panic of 1837 that removed the need for payment in specie—led to the creation and collapse of around 50 banks within two years. The term is apocryphally derived from a wildcat supposedly featured on the currency printed by one of these banks, but more probably derived from the remote locations "where the wildcats roamed" chosen by these banks to avoid oversight and minimize redemption of notes.
senses_examples:
text:
You'd have to be very rich or very desperate to go wildcatting that far east.
type:
example
text:
His pitch was that fracking had transformed the production of gas from a hit-or-miss proposition to one that operated with an on and off switch. It was manufacturing, not wildcatting.
ref:
2018 August 30, Bethany McLean, “How America's ‘most reckless’ billionaire created the fracking boom”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.
senses_topics:
|
8391 | word:
blade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blade (plural blades)
forms:
form:
blades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English blade, blad, from Old English blæd (“leaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-o-to-m, from *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”).
See also West Frisian bled, Dutch blad, German Blatt, Danish blad, Irish bláth (“flower”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Tocharian A pält, Tocharian B pilta (“leaf”), Albanian fletë (“leaf”). Similar usage in German Sägeblatt (“saw blade”, literally “saw leaf”). Doublet of blat. More at blow.
senses_examples:
text:
Paul: Give the Harkonnen a blade and let him stand forth.
Shaddam IV: If Feyd wishes, he can meet you with my blade in his hand.
ref:
1984, 2:08:29 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Sword. — The blade is straight, tapers gradually, is 32 9/16 inches long from shoulder to point, and is fullered on both sides, commencing 2 inches from the shoulder, to about 17 inches from the point, to a thickness of ·035 inch.
ref:
1904, Great Britain. War Office, Dress Regulations for the Officers of the Army (including the Militia): 1904, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
ref:
2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
But very often blust'ring blades / Are Jerry Sneaks at home.
ref:
1832, The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
Vice does not thrive here, because the young blades seek it elsewhere.
ref:
1948, Jack Lait, Lee Mortimer, New York: Confidential!, Crown, published 1951, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
Young blades were expected to kick over the traces and skirt disaster, before they graduated to matrimonial housekeeping.
ref:
2009, Amanda Vickery, Behind Closed Doors, Yale University Press, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
Holonym: multivector
text:
Coordinate term: bow
text:
He wasn’t loud, but his voice had lots of blade.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
A sword or knife.
The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
Short for razor blade.
The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
A dashing young man.
A homosexual, usually male.
An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.
Thin plate, foil.
One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
The principal rafters of a roof.
The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
Short for blade server.
Synonym of knifeblade
An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.
The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
nautical
sailing
transport
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
architecture
biology
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
mathematics
sciences
athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
8392 | word:
blade
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blade (third-person singular simple present blades, present participle blading, simple past and past participle bladed)
forms:
form:
blades
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
blading
tags:
participle
present
form:
bladed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bladed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English blade, blad, from Old English blæd (“leaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-o-to-m, from *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”).
See also West Frisian bled, Dutch blad, German Blatt, Danish blad, Irish bláth (“flower”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Tocharian A pält, Tocharian B pilta (“leaf”), Albanian fletë (“leaf”). Similar usage in German Sägeblatt (“saw blade”, literally “saw leaf”). Doublet of blat. More at blow.
senses_examples:
text:
Want to go blading with me later in the park?
type:
example
text:
As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded / As ever in the Muses' garden bladed.
ref:
1633, Phineas Fletcher, “Elisa”, in Piscatorie Eclogues and other Poetical Miscellanies
type:
quotation
text:
The gang member got bladed in a fight.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To skate on rollerblades.
To furnish with a blade.
To put forth or have a blade.
To stab with a blade
To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.
senses_topics:
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling |
8393 | word:
someone
word_type:
pron
expansion:
someone
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sum on, sum one, sum oon, equivalent to some + one.
senses_examples:
text:
Can someone help me, please?
type:
example
text:
Can you get me someone more knowledgeable?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
senses_topics:
|
8394 | word:
someone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
someone (plural someones)
forms:
form:
someones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sum on, sum one, sum oon, equivalent to some + one.
senses_examples:
text:
Do you need a gift for that special someone?
text:
His ultimate concern is with being and beings, with saying something about something and not with the someones who say it and hear it—and not even with the someones whose beings are in conflict about beings in their being.
ref:
2013, James Crosswhite, Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom, University of Chicago Press, page 213
type:
quotation
text:
It had never happened, it wasn't that there hadn't been any 'someones', there had actually been numerous 'someones', but not one that had gotten between him and his work.
ref:
year unknown, T A Smallwood, Reflections Of A Murder, Lulu.com →ISBN, page 2
text:
Or rather, to someone. Many someones, in fact. But which someones? Well, the someones that benefited while wage controls were in place had to be people for whom salary was not the primary form of income.
ref:
2010, Michael E Kanell, Michael E. Kanell, Mike Kimel, Presimetrics: What the Facts Tell Us About How the Presidents Measure Up On the Issues We Care About, Hachette UK
type:
quotation
text:
He thinks he has become someone.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A partially specified but unnamed person.
An important person.
senses_topics:
|
8395 | word:
dictatorship
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dictatorship (plural dictatorships)
forms:
form:
dictatorships
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dictatorship
etymology_text:
From dictator + -ship.
senses_examples:
text:
There were no elections during Franco's dictatorship.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique.
A government which exercises autocratic rule.
Any household, institution, or other organization that is run under such sovereignty or autocracy.
senses_topics:
|
8396 | word:
bridge
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bridge (plural bridges)
forms:
form:
bridges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English brigge, from Old English brycġ (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brugjō, *brugjǭ (“bridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrēw- (“wooden flooring, decking, bridge”).
Cognate with Scots brig, brigg, breeg (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Dutch brug (“bridge”), German Brücke (“bridge”), Danish brygge (“wharf”), Icelandic brygga (“pier”), Gaulish briua (“bridge”).
The verb is from Middle English briggen, from Old English brycġian (“to bridge, make a causeway, pave”), derived from the noun. Cognate with Dutch bruggen (“to bridge”), Middle Low German bruggen (“to bridge”), Old High German bruccōn (“to bridge”) (whence Modern German brücken).
The musical connection sense is a semantic loan from German Steg, from Old High German steg.
senses_examples:
text:
The rope bridge crosses the river.
type:
example
text:
Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
ref:
2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28
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Rugby players often break the bridge of their noses.
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The dentist pulled out the decayed tooth and put in a bridge.
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The first officer is on the bridge.
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ECMO is used as a bridge to surgery to stabilize the patient.
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This chip is the bridge between the front-side bus and the I/O bus.
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The plugin also acts as a bridge with BuddyPress and adds things like the top admin bar, and so on.
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2011, Thord Daniel Hedengren, Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful
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The LAN bridge uses a spanning tree algorithm.
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The lyrics in the song's bridge inverted its meaning.
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In the bridge of his 2011 song "It Will Rain", Bruno Mars begs his lover not to "say goodbye."
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Yes, France is geographically situated in a key position so far as Western Europe is concerned. They are really the bridge between Germany, Spain and Italy. And it was necessary to have a NATO organization that was unified and France was a necessary member of that organization.
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1964, Harry S. Truman, 0:18 from the start, in MP2002-479 Former President Truman Recalls Negotiating With DeGaulle and France after WWII, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162
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A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
The upper bony ridge of the human nose.
A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth.
A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
The gap between the holes on a bowling ball
An arch or superstructure.
An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
An arch or superstructure.
The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board.
An arch or superstructure.
A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.
An arch or superstructure.
A cue modified with a convex arch-shaped notched head attached to the narrow end, used to support a player's (shooter's) cue for extended or tedious shots. Also called a spider.
An arch or superstructure.
Anything supported at the ends and serving to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
An arch or superstructure.
A defensive position in which the wrestler is supported by his feet and head, belly-up, in order to prevent touch-down of the shoulders and eventually to dislodge an opponent who has established a position on top.
An arch or superstructure.
A similar position in gymnastics.
A connection, real or abstract.
A rudimentary procedure before definite solution
A connection, real or abstract.
A device which connects two or more computer buses, typically in a transparent manner.
A connection, real or abstract.
A software component connecting two or more separate systems.
A connection, real or abstract.
A system which connects two or more local area networks at layer 2 of OSI model.
A connection, real or abstract.
An intramolecular valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.
A connection, real or abstract.
An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
A connection, real or abstract.
A contrasting section within a song that prepares for the return of the original material section.
A connection, real or abstract.
An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected.
A connection, real or abstract.
A point in a line where a break in a word unit cannot occur.
A connection, real or abstract.
A statement, such as an offer, that signals a possibility of accord.
A connection, real or abstract.
A day falling between two public holidays and consequently designated as an additional holiday.
A connection, real or abstract.
In turtles, the connection between the plastron and the carapace.
A connection, real or abstract.
Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit
A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; a bridge wall.
The situation where a lone rider or small group of riders closes the space between them and the rider or group in front.
A solid crust of undissolved salt in a water softener.
An elongated chain of teammates, connected to the pack, for improved blocking potential.
A form of cheating by which a card is cut by previously curving it by pressure of the hand.
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8397 | word:
bridge
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bridge (third-person singular simple present bridges, present participle bridging, simple past and past participle bridged)
forms:
form:
bridges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bridging
tags:
participle
present
form:
bridged
tags:
participle
past
form:
bridged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English brigge, from Old English brycġ (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brugjō, *brugjǭ (“bridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrēw- (“wooden flooring, decking, bridge”).
Cognate with Scots brig, brigg, breeg (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Dutch brug (“bridge”), German Brücke (“bridge”), Danish brygge (“wharf”), Icelandic brygga (“pier”), Gaulish briua (“bridge”).
The verb is from Middle English briggen, from Old English brycġian (“to bridge, make a causeway, pave”), derived from the noun. Cognate with Dutch bruggen (“to bridge”), Middle Low German bruggen (“to bridge”), Old High German bruccōn (“to bridge”) (whence Modern German brücken).
The musical connection sense is a semantic loan from German Steg, from Old High German steg.
senses_examples:
text:
With enough cable, we can bridge this gorge.
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text:
On this occasion, the damage was far more serious. The sea wall was breached completely for a distance of over 50 yd., and the gap had to be bridged by a temporary timber viaduct.
ref:
1947 January and February, H. A. Vallance, “The Sea Wall at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
The two groups were able to bridge their differences.
type:
example
text:
The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in the recording industry in the 1950s, as post-Elvis pop singers diverged into two camps and audiences aligned themselves with either the sideburned rebels of rock 'n' roll or the cowboy-hatted twangsters of country music.
ref:
2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 28
type:
quotation
text:
We need to bridge that jam into "The Eleven".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be or make a bridge over something.
To span as if with a bridge.
To transition from one piece or section of music to another without stopping.
To connect two or more computer buses, networks etc. with a bridge.
To go to the bridge position.
To employ the bridge tactic. (See Noun section.)
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8398 | word:
bridge
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bridge (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:Contract bridge
etymology_text:
From the earlier game biritch, probably from Russian бирю́ч (birjúč) or бири́ч (biríč); else from Turkish bir-üç (“one-three”).
senses_examples:
text:
Bidding is an essential element of the game of bridge.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each.
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games |
8399 | word:
hedgehog
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hedgehog (plural hedgehogs)
forms:
form:
hedgehogs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English heyghoge; equivalent to hedge + hog. Eclipsed non-native Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog”), from Old French hirchoun, herichon (“hedgehog”); and Middle English il, from Old English īl, iġil (“hedgehog”).
senses_examples:
text:
Ukrainian civilians have been DIY-ing hedgehogs, welding two bars or beams at an angle to make a cross and then adding a third to ensure it holds its shape even if it's knocked over.
ref:
2022 March 21, Bill Chappell, “SWIFT, hedgehog, MiG: Here's a guide to the terms of war in Ukraine”, in SPECIAL SERIES: Ukraine invasion — explained, NPR, retrieved 2022-03-21
type:
quotation
text:
2005, Paul Mitchell, The Favourite, Frank Moorhouse, The Best Australian Stories 2005, page 145,
There are hedgehogs with sultanas as well as breadcrumbs, carrot cakes and fruitcakes and banana walnut loaves.
text:
I am so flustered that I order a vanilla slice instead of hedgehog.
ref:
2008, Lili Wilkinson, The Not Quite Perfect Boyfriend, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
His wife had made a hedgehog cake and he offered some but Murphy refused – his mouth was so dry with terror he couldn′t swallow.
ref:
2009, Adam Shand, The Skull: Informers, Hit Men and Australia's Toughest Cop, page 199
type:
quotation
text:
The first machines merely loosened, but did not raise the stuff, a scouring being afterwards effected by means of sluices. These machines consisted of large bars or prongs placed vertically in a frame, and being fastened to a barge placed in the line of the sluices, the whole was inpelled forward by the current, thereby scouring the bed. Such a machine, called a hedgehog, is still used in Lincolnshire.
ref:
1868, “Dredging”, in Charles Tomlinson, editor, Cyclopædia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, volume 1, page 520
type:
quotation
text:
Hedgehogs fruit from autumn until late spring. Many consumers are still unfamiliar with hedgehogs, and they have a relatively small commercial trade.
ref:
1998, Randy Molina, David Pilz, Managing Forest Ecosystems to Conserve Fungus Diversity and Sustain Wild Mushroom Harvests
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small mammal, of the family Erinaceidae or subfamily Erinaceinae (spiny hedgehogs, the latter characterized by their spiny back and often by the habit of rolling up into a ball when attacked.)
Any of several spiny mammals, such as the porcupine, that are similar to the hedgehog.
Ellipsis of Czech hedgehog: an antitank obstacle constructed from three steel rails.
A spigot mortar-type of depth charge weapon from World War II that simultaneously fires a number of explosives into the water to create a pattern of underwater explosions intended to attack submerged submarines.
A type of chocolate cake (or slice), somewhat similar to an American brownie.
A form of dredging machine.
Certain flowering plants with parts resembling a member of family Erinaceidae
Medicago intertexta, the pods of which are armed with short spines.
Certain flowering plants with parts resembling a member of family Erinaceidae
Retzia capensis of South Africa.
The edible fungus Hydnum repandum.
A kind of electrical transformer with open magnetic circuit, the ends of the iron wire core being turned outward and presenting a bristling appearance.
A way of serving food at a party, consisting of a half melon or potato etc. with individual cocktail sticks of cheese and pineapple stuck into it.
A type of plane curve; see Hedgehog (geometry).
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government
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