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8400 | word:
hedgehog
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hedgehog (third-person singular simple present hedgehogs, present participle hedgehogging, simple past and past participle hedgehogged)
forms:
form:
hedgehogs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hedgehogging
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participle
present
form:
hedgehogged
tags:
participle
past
form:
hedgehogged
tags:
past
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:
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Hedgehogging means — let us call a spade a spade — that we're were encircled: It's something that has been forced upon us, a predicament from which we ought to try to escape as fast as possible.
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1966, Theodor Plievier, Stalingrad, page 43
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quotation
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Luettwitz hedgehogged his regiment and held his positions until the rest of the division arrived two days later.
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2012, Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Gene Mueller, Hitler's Commanders
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quotation
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During the night of May 27 the 90th Light Division hedgehogged south of El Adem.
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2007, Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Rommel's Desert War: The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps
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All around were styrofoam cups hedgehogged with butts, and the threebar electric heater was encrusted with bits of charcoaled tobacco and frazzled stands of hair where people had stooped down to spark up.
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2008, Antonia Quirke, Choking on Marlon Brando
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The walls were pockmarked with fragments of stone and hedgehogged with jagged daggers of glass, while in the street below there were sickening splodges on the pavement which a workman was covering with sawdust.
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2008, Max Hennessy, Back to Battle, page 300
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I think they're from different faculties,” I reply, taking a step back to peruse the table filled with assorted snacks, my hand hovering over the hedgehogged tray of cheese and pineapple cocktail sticks.
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2014, George Ryder, Last Action Zero, page 39
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quotation
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You try for his head, but he's hedgehogged round now, elbows beside his ears and you can't get him.
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2008, A.L. Kennedy, Day, page 229
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I stayed hedgehogged in my ball, listening for movement and trying to ignore the cramp in my legs, the ache in my gut and — encore — the throbbing in my temples.
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2011, Edwin Thomas, The Blighted Cliffs, page 13
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The dead man was lying on a pile of the blankets, curled up, his hands interlocked behind his head, knees drawn up to his chest. Hedgehogged, just like the others.
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2014, Robert Ryan, The Dead Can Wait, page 287
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quotation
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senses_glosses:
To make use of a hedgehog barricade as a defensive maneuver.
To array with spiky projections like the quills of a hedgehog.
To curl up into a defensive ball.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
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8401 | word:
artery
word_type:
noun
expansion:
artery (plural arteries)
forms:
form:
arteries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
artery
etymology_text:
Late Middle English arterie, borrowing from Old French artaire and Latin artēria (“a windpipe; an artery”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (artēríā, “windpipe; artery”).
senses_examples:
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As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
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2013 July–August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4, →DOI, page 292
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But the importance of the railways as main arteries of the national economy remains undimmed, just as their fascination for the railway enthusiast is surely undiminished.
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1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 232
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Premier Chiang Ching-kuo said October 12 that the North-South Freeway, a 373-kilometer (235-mile) artery along west Taiwan, will have to be completed on schedule by 1978.
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1973 October 21, “Freeway work on schedule”, in Free China Weekly [自由中國週報], volume XIV, number 41, Taipei, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1, column 1
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The 98-mile Edinburgh-Carlisle 'Waverley Route' provided over a century of service as an Anglo-Scottish artery, prior to its closure by British Rail, and its loss provoked anger in the Scottish Borders.
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2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 52
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quotation
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senses_glosses:
Any of the muscular- and elastic-walled blood vessels forming part of the circulation system by which blood is conveyed away from the heart regardless of its oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery.
A major transit corridor in a system of roads, rivers, or railway lines.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
transport |
8402 | word:
digestion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
digestion (countable and uncountable, plural digestions)
forms:
form:
digestions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
digestion
etymology_text:
From Old French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English melting (“melting, digestion”).
senses_examples:
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In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; no digestion, circulation, or nutrition; […]
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1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization, Edinburgh, London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 2
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Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
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2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be used by the body.
The result of this process.
The ability to use this process.
The processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms.
The assimilation and understanding of ideas.
Generation of pus; suppuration.
Dissolution of a sample into a solution by means of adding acid and heat.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
8403 | word:
laissez faire
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laissez faire (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
laissez faire
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French laissez faire (“leave it be”, literally “let do”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A policy of governmental non-interference in economic affairs.
A policy of non-interference by authority in any competitive process.
senses_topics:
economics
government
politics
sciences
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8404 | word:
laissez faire
word_type:
adj
expansion:
laissez faire (comparative more laissez faire, superlative most laissez faire)
forms:
form:
more laissez faire
tags:
comparative
form:
most laissez faire
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
laissez faire
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French laissez faire (“leave it be”, literally “let do”).
senses_examples:
text:
I think the city should take a laissez faire approach to this; getting involved would only make things worse.
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example
text:
The Senator claims to be laissez faire, but he voted in favor of the subsidies.
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example
text:
The price ceiling was well below the laissez faire price that demand would have supported, so there were always shortages.
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example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Practicing or representing governmental noninterference, or minimal interference, especially in economic affairs; pertaining to free-market capitalism.
Advocating such noninterference.
Resulting from such noninterference.
Avoiding interference in other people's affairs; choosing to live and let live.
senses_topics:
economics
government
politics
sciences
economics
government
politics
sciences
economics
sciences
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8405 | word:
danger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
danger (countable and uncountable, plural dangers)
forms:
form:
dangers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *dominārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.
senses_examples:
text:
There's plenty of danger in the desert.
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example
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1st September 1884, William Gladstone, Second Midlothian Speech
Two territorial questions […] unsettled […] each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe.
text:
The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.
type:
example
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They of Coloyne made grete daunger to lete passe the oost thrughe the Cite at brydge.
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1500, Melusine
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quotation
text:
I made daunger of it a while at first, but afterward beyng persuaded by them..I promised to do as they would haue me.
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1570, A. Dalaber, J. Foxe Actes & Monuments
type:
quotation
text:
I shall make danger, sure.
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1652, John Fletcher, The Wild-Goose Chase
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exposure to likely harm; peril.
An instance or cause of likely harm.
Mischief.
The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
Liability.
Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport
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8406 | word:
danger
word_type:
verb
expansion:
danger (third-person singular simple present dangers, present participle dangering, simple past and past participle dangered)
forms:
form:
dangers
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present
singular
third-person
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dangering
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participle
present
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dangered
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participle
past
form:
dangered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *dominārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.
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senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To claim liability.
To imperil; to endanger.
To run the risk.
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8407 | word:
castle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
castle (plural castles)
forms:
form:
castles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
castle
etymology_text:
From Middle English castle, castel, from late Old English castel, castell (“a town, village, castle”), borrowed from Late Latin castellum (“small camp, fort”), diminutive of Latin castrum (“camp, fort, citadel, stronghold”). Doublet of cashel, castell, castellum, and château.
Parallel borrowings (from Late Latin or Old French) are Scots castel, castell (“castle”), West Frisian kastiel (“castle”), Dutch kasteel (“castle”), German Kastell (“castle”), Danish kastel (“citadel”), Swedish kastell (“citadel”), Icelandic kastali (“castle”), Welsh castell.
The Middle English word was reinforced by Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French castel, itself from Late Latin castellum (“small camp, fort”) (compare modern French château from Old French chastel). If Latin castrum (“camp, fort, citadel, stronghold”) is from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“hut, shed”), Latin casa (“cottage, hut”) is related. Possibly related also to Gothic 𐌷𐌴𐌸𐌾𐍉 (hēþjō, “chamber”), Old English heaþor (“restraint, confinement, enclosure, prison”). See also casino, cassock.
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The castle was perhaps a figurative name for a close headpiece deduced from its enclosing and defending the head, as a castle did the whole body; or a corruption from the Old French word casquetel, a small or light helmet.
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1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 12
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Nay, he was quite an adept, and was very effective as a change bowler, for in no time he demolished the castle of any batsman.
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1966, Gurdeep Singh, Cricket in Northern India, page 59
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quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.
An instance of castling.
A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.
A defense structure in shogi formed by defensive pieces surrounding the king.
A close helmet.
Any strong, imposing, and stately palace or mansion.
A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
The wicket.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
board-games
chess
games
board-games
games
shogi
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
8408 | word:
castle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
castle (third-person singular simple present castles, present participle castling, simple past and past participle castled)
forms:
form:
castles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
castling
tags:
participle
present
form:
castled
tags:
participle
past
form:
castled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
castle
etymology_text:
From Middle English castle, castel, from late Old English castel, castell (“a town, village, castle”), borrowed from Late Latin castellum (“small camp, fort”), diminutive of Latin castrum (“camp, fort, citadel, stronghold”). Doublet of cashel, castell, castellum, and château.
Parallel borrowings (from Late Latin or Old French) are Scots castel, castell (“castle”), West Frisian kastiel (“castle”), Dutch kasteel (“castle”), German Kastell (“castle”), Danish kastel (“citadel”), Swedish kastell (“citadel”), Icelandic kastali (“castle”), Welsh castell.
The Middle English word was reinforced by Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French castel, itself from Late Latin castellum (“small camp, fort”) (compare modern French château from Old French chastel). If Latin castrum (“camp, fort, citadel, stronghold”) is from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“hut, shed”), Latin casa (“cottage, hut”) is related. Possibly related also to Gothic 𐌷𐌴𐌸𐌾𐍉 (hēþjō, “chamber”), Old English heaþor (“restraint, confinement, enclosure, prison”). See also casino, cassock.
senses_examples:
text:
...to encastle, to Castle.
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1611, John Florio, Queen Anna's New World of Words, s.v. "Castellare"
text:
...Some fierce tribe, castled on the mountain-peak...
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1871, Robert Browning, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society, section 116
type:
quotation
text:
Castle me in the armes of thy everlasting strength.
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1655, William Gurnall, The Christian in Compleat Armour, 1st Pt., 32
text:
He [i.e., the king] may change (or Castle) with this Rooke, that is, he may goe two draughts at once towards this Rooke... causing the Rooke to stand next to him on either side.
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1656, Gioachino Greco, translated by Francis Beale, The Royall Game of Chesse-Play, Being the Study of Biochimo, page 8
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quotation
text:
No. 24. ¶ If your adversary make a false move, castle improperly, &c., you must take notice of such irregularity before you move, or even touch a piece, or you are no longer allowed to inflict any penalties.
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1835, William Lewis, Chess for Beginners, Ch. 5, p. 24
type:
quotation
text:
And the 23-year-old brought the crowd to their feet when he castled Gayle's stumps, signalling the direction of the pavilion to his friend for good measure.
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2009, “Lightning Bolt Blows Over Gayle”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
He bowled Vinay with a full, straight ball that castled off stump and then dished up a yorker that RP Singh backed away to and sent onto his stumps.
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2011, Firdose Moonda, “A Day for Missed Hat-tricks”, in ESPNcricinfo
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To house or keep in a castle.
To protect or separate in a similar way.
To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or add (real or imitation) battlements to an existing building.
To move the king 2 squares right or left and, in the same turn, the nearest rook to the far side of the king. The move now has special rules: the king cannot be in, go through, or end in check; the squares between the king and rook must be vacant; and neither piece may have been moved before castling.
To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
board-games
games
shogi
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
8409 | word:
belly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
belly (plural bellies)
forms:
form:
bellies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg, Danish bælg, Old Irish bolg, Welsh bol. Doublet of bellows, blague, bulge, and budge. See also bellows.
senses_examples:
text:
You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.
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example
text:
My belly was full of wine.
type:
example
text:
the belly of a flask, muscle, violin, sail, or ship
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The abdomen, especially a fat one.
The stomach.
The womb.
The lower fuselage of an airplane.
The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
The main curved portion of a knife blade.
The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
senses_topics:
architecture
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8410 | word:
belly
word_type:
verb
expansion:
belly (third-person singular simple present bellies, present participle bellying, simple past and past participle bellied)
forms:
form:
bellies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bellying
tags:
participle
present
form:
bellied
tags:
participle
past
form:
bellied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg, Danish bælg, Old Irish bolg, Welsh bol. Doublet of bellows, blague, bulge, and budge. See also bellows.
senses_examples:
text:
The halliards twanged against the tops, the bunting bellied broad,
ref:
1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Rhyme of the Three Captains
type:
quotation
text:
There were trees whose trunks bellied into huge swellings.
ref:
1914, Theodore Roosevelt, chapter 6, in Through the Brazilian Wilderness
type:
quotation
text:
1917 rev. 1925 Ezra Pound, "Canto I"
winds from sternward
Bore us onward with bellying canvas ...
text:
1930, Otis Adelbert Kline, The Prince of Peril, serialized in Argosy, Chapter 1,
The building stood on a circular foundation, and its walls, instead of mounting skyward in a straight line, bellied outward and then curved in again at the top.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.
To cause to swell out; to fill.
senses_topics:
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8411 | word:
energy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
energy (countable and uncountable, plural energies)
forms:
form:
energies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French énergie, from Late Latin energia, from Ancient Greek ἐνέργεια (enérgeia, “activity”), from ἐνεργός (energós, “active”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). The sense in physics was coined by English polymath Thomas Young in 1802 in his lectures on Natural Philosophy.
senses_examples:
text:
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.[…]This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
ref:
2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly)
type:
quotation
text:
McGrath, the manager of Somewhere/Else, told GCN that the long hours she has put in since she has become the bar's manager have left her drained of the energy required to undertake a rebuilding effort.
ref:
1983 December 17, Christine Guilfoy, “Women's Bar, Mens Baths Destroyed By Fire”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 22, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
SI: joule (J), kilowatt-hour (kW·h)
CGS: erg (erg)
Customary: foot-pound-force, calorie, kilocalorie (i.e. dietary calories), BTU, liter-atmosphere, ton of TNT
ref:
Units
text:
Reiki, much like prayer, is a personal exercise that can easily convert negative energy into positive energy.
ref:
2004, Phylameana L. Desy, The Everything Reiki Book, Body, Mind & Spirit, p.130
text:
Negative feelings can be worked through and their energy converted into positive energy[…]. In crisis, normal patterns of self-organization fail, resulting in anxiety (negative energy). Being open systems, people can exchange this energy with the environment and create positive energy for taking action based on a reorganisation of self as necessary to resolve the crisis and emerge at a higher level of consciousness; that is, until the next crisis.
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2009, Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, John Wiley & Sons, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
If you have been badly affected by negative energy a salt bath is wonderful for clearing and cleansing yourself[…]. Salt attracts negative energy and will draw it away from you.
ref:
2011, Anne Jones, Healing Negative Energies, Hachette, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
The three Persons of the Holy Trinity have the same opinion, make the same decision, and put forth the same energy and action.
ref:
2003, Carl S. Tyneh, Orthodox Christianity: Overview and Bibliography, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
We hold, further, that there are two energies in our Lord Jesus Christ. For He possesses on the one hand, as God and being of like essence with the Father, the divine energy, and, likewise, since He became man and of like essence to us, the energy proper to human nature. […] Energy is the efficient and essential activity of nature; the capacity for energy is the nature from which proceeds energy; the product of energy is that which is effected by energy; and the agent of energy is the person or subsistence which uses the energy.
ref:
2017, Stoyan Tanev, Energy in Orthodox Theology and Physics: From Controversy to Encounter, quoting and translating the conclusions of the Fifth Council of Constantinople (1351), page 2
text:
The doctrine of the divine energies states that the divine essence, God-in-himself, is unknowable to any creature, whereas God makes himself known in creation by his divine energies, which are inseparable from the divine essence yet distinct from it. Humans know and experience God through his energies. […] Energies are indeed God, but God is more than his energies.
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2019, Paul Ladouceur, Modern Orthodox Theology: Behold, I Make All Things New, pages 368–369
type:
quotation
text:
big dick energy; divorced guy energy; main character energy
type:
example
text:
A moviegoing subscription relying on VR and decentralized technologies gives the same energy as AMC getting into crypto. Fine, but why?
ref:
2018 September 27, Bijan Stephen, “@Dril is the best chronicler of the internet's last decade”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2023-06-07
type:
quotation
text:
Toronto artist's new song has horror-movie energy and a deliciously evil beat
ref:
2021 February 18, Brenna Ehrlich, “Song You Need to Know: Haviah Mighty, 'Obeah'”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-27
type:
quotation
text:
In recent weeks, the mood on my social-media feeds has indeed been manic, a barrage of parties, picnics, excursions, and other tableaux that resemble stills from summer-themed romantic comedies. The sense of freedom is dizzying. We are all cultivating main-character energy now.
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2021 June 23, Kyle Chayka, “We All Have "Main-Character Energy" Now”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-22
type:
quotation
text:
Given that February has the same energy as stale bread, Tuesdays, and action figures that look nothing like the actors they're modeled after, it's no wonder we went extra hard for some self-care, and found not only comforting accessories for ourselves, but portable Carhartt cozies for our brewskies.
ref:
2022 February 28, “The Best Stuff Our Editors Bought in February 2022”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-05-15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
The capacity to do work.
A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent.
An intangible, modifiable force (usually characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed in some New Age religions to emanate from a person, place or thing and which is (or can be) preserved and transferred in human interactions; shared mood or group habit.
The external actions and influences resulting from an entity’s internal nature (ousia) and by which it is made manifest, as opposed to that internal nature itself; the aspect of an entity that can affect the wider world and be apprehended by other beings.
A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.
An atmosphere, aura, or vibe.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
lifestyle
religion
theology
video-games
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8412 | word:
ether
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ether (countable and uncountable, plural ethers)
forms:
form:
ethers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ēther (“the caelum aetherum of ancient cosmology in which the planets orbit; a shining, fluid substance described as a form of air or fire; air”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman ether and Middle French ether, ethere, aether, from Old French aether (“highest and purest part of the atmosphere; medium supposedly filling the upper regions of space”) (modern French éther), or directly from its etymon Latin aethēr (“highest and purest part of the atmosphere; air; heavens, sky; light of day; ethereal matter surrounding a deity”) (note also New Latin aethēr (“chemical compound analogous to diethyl ether”)), from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “purer upper air of the atmosphere; heaven, sky; theoretical medium supposed to fill unoccupied space and transmit heat and light”), from αἴθω (aíthō, “to burn, ignite; to blaze, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn; fire”).
The English word is cognate with Italian ether, ethera (both obsolete), etere, Middle Dutch ether (modern Dutch aether (obsolete), ether), German Äther, Ether, Portuguese éter, Spanish éter.
senses_examples:
text:
On Wings the Birds through Æther glide, / And Fiſhes cut with Fins the Tide.
ref:
1746 February 28, Criticus [pseudonym], “Dialogue on Women”, in [Mark Akenside], editor, The Museum: Or, The Literary and Historical Register, volume II, number XXV, London: Printed for R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 389
type:
quotation
text:
Take a snapshot of the conflicts around the world: Sunnis vs. Shiites, Israelis vs. Palestinians, Serbs vs. Kosovars, Indians vs. Pakistanis. They seem to be driven by religious hatred. It’s enough to make you wonder if the animosity would melt away if all religions were suddenly, somehow, to vanish into the ether. But James Carse doesn’t see them as religious conflicts at all. To him, they are battles over rival belief systems, which may or may not have religious overtones.
ref:
2008 July 21, Steve Paulson, “Religion is Poetry”, in Salon, archived from the original on 2017-08-30
type:
quotation
text:
In barely the blink of an eye, the perfectly healthy Judy entered a permanent vegetative state. […] What haunted me was the idea that one moment you’re gazing at your 2-year-old in her playroom and the next, you, the mother, have been whisked off into the ether forever.
ref:
2009 December, Sandra Tsing Loh, “On Being a Bad Mother: True Confessions”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2018-07-25
type:
quotation
text:
There’s a very real chance that, rather than crumbling into the dust and floating off into the ether, Thanos’s victims [in the film Avengers: Infinity War] were actually sucked up into the Soul Stone.
ref:
2018 May 7, Meg Downey, “Marvel’s Comic Soul Stone could Explain the Jump from Infinity War’s Ending to Avengers 4: A Brief History of Crazy Multidimensional Power”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 2018-06-24
type:
quotation
text:
I ſuppose this æther pervades all groſs bodies, but yet ſo as to ſtand rarer in their pores than in free ſpaces, and ſo much the rarer, as their pores are leſs. And this I ſuppose (with others) to be the cauſe, why light incident on thoſe bodies is refracted towards the perpendicular; […] I ſuppose the rarer æther within bodies, and then denſer without them, not to be terminated in a mathematical ſuperficies, but to grow gradually into one another; […]
ref:
1679 February 28, Thomas Birch, quoting Isaac Newton, “The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle. [Letter from Isaac Newton to Robert Boyle.]”, in Robert Boyle, The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. In Five Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, volume I, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
Having ſhewn how the Æther cauſes a great part of the Phænomena of Nature, it may be aſked, whence this general material Cauſe has its great Activity and Power? […] This Cauſe muſt be either Matter or Spirit, there being nothing in the Univerſe, which we know if, beſides theſe two. But this Cauſe cannot be Matter: for Matter is in own Nature inert, and has not any Activity in itſelf; and conſequently cannot communicate any Power to the Æther. And therefore the Cauſe, which gives the Æther its Activity and Power, muſt be Spirit. Spirit, which intercedes the Particles of Æther, and gives them a repulſive Power, and ordains and executes the Laws, by which Æther and Bodies act mutually on one another, muſt be preſent in all Parts of Space, where there is Æther.
ref:
1747, Bryan Robinson, A Dissertation on the Æther of Sir Isaac Newton, London: Printed for Charles Hitch […], →OCLC; quoted in “Literary Memoirs. A Dissertation on the Æther of Sir Isaac Newton, by Bryan Robinson, M.D. London, Printed for Charles Hitch, at the Red Lion in Pater-noster-Row, 1747. Containing 140 Pages in Octavo, Exclusive of a Short Preface.”, in The Museum: Or, The Literary and Historical Register, volume III, number XXVIII, London: Printed for R[obert] Dodsley […], 11 April 1747, →OCLC, pages 59–60
type:
quotation
text:
The whole matter of the univerſe may be divided into atoms and æther. […] The latter, æther, is a ſubtile elaſtic fluid, whoſe particles have a continual tendency to ſeparate or fly off every way, unleſs impreſſed by ſome body: This æther ſurrounds each atom like an atmoſphere, and preſſes equally towards the center of each.
ref:
1770 November 1, “Investigator” [pseudonym], “Of the Causes of Attraction and Repulsion”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XL, London: Printed […], for D[avid] Henry; and sold by F[rancis] Newbery […], →OCLC, page 497, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The ether. The earth browses upon a circular path in the fields of space, and as it moves the ether is continually pouring through it and providing its vitality.
ref:
1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed
type:
quotation
text:
H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
He held some friendly chat with Pabodie over the ether, and repeated his praise of the really marvelous drills that had helped him make his discovery.
type:
quotation
text:
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
ref:
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama’s Once Hip Brand is Now Tainted [online version: Obama is Like Apple, Google and Facebook: A Once Hip Brand Tainted by Prism]”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, London, archived from the original on 2018-09-26, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
The luminous æther of his life was not obſcured by any ſhade dark enough to be denominated a defect.
ref:
1793, “[Characters.] An Account of the Late Earl of Mansfield.”, in The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature, volume XXXV, London: Printed, by assignment from the executors of the late Mr. James Dodsley, for W. Otridge and Son; [et al.], →OCLC, page 274, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
But the moſt valuable Qualities of the ÆTHER are it's medicinal ones; it having been found by repeated Experience to be an excellent Remedy in moſt nervous Diſeaſes; particularly in Fits of all ſorts, whether Epileptic, Convulſive, Hyſteric, Hypochondriac, or Paralytic: […]
ref:
1759, M[atthew] Turner, An Account of the Extraordinary Medicinal Fluid, Called Æther, [Liverpool]: Printed by John Sadler, →OCLC, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
ref:
1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, New York: Popular Library, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
M. Malaguti finds that dry chlorine, while acting in the dark upon oxacid æthers, always attacks, and in a uniform manner, the sulphuric æther which is the base of them. […] The action of potash on the compound chloridized æthers is also constant and uniform: the results are always chloride of potassium, acetate of potash, and an organic salt with a base of potash, the acid of which is that which existed in the compound chloridized æther.
ref:
1838 March, “Action of Chlorine on Æthers”, in David Brewster, Richard Taylor, Richard Phillips, editors, The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, volume XII (3rd Series), number 74, London: Printed by R[ichard] and J[ohn] E[dward] Taylor, […], →OCLC, page 297
type:
quotation
text:
When chlorine gas is passed in excess through salicylic ether (salicylae of ethyl) heated over a water-bath, a solid substance is formed which is soluble in hot alcohol, and crystallizes, on cooling, in beautiful colourless tables. This compound is bichloruretted salicylic ether, formed from salicylic ether (C₁₈H₁₀O₆) by the substitution of 2 eq. chlorine for 2 eq. hydrogen: its composition is therefore C₁₈H₈Cl₂O₆.
ref:
1851, A[uguste André Thomas] Cahours, “[Notices of Papers Contained in the Foreign Journals.] On Anisol and Phenetol”, in Henry Watts, editor, The Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London, volume III, London: Hippolyte Bailliere, […]; Paris: J. B. Baillière, […]; Madrid: Bailly Baillière, […], →OCLC, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I allude to the æthers formed by the union of fatty acids with different alcohols. […] With regard to the fatty æthers themselves, I prepared them generally by M. Berthelot's method, by heating the alcohol and the acid for a day at 392°F. in a tube hermetically sealed; the product was mixed with a little æther, and it was digested some time with slaked lime in the water-bath, to separate the free acid from the neutral compound.
ref:
1858 October 15, M. Hanhart, “On Some New Æthers of Stearic and Margaric Acids”, in William Francis, editor, The Chemical Gazette, or, Journal of Practical Chemistry, in All Its Applications to Pharmacy, Arts and Manufactures, volume XVI, number CCCLXXXIV, London: Published by Taylor and Francis, […], page 384
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.
The medium breathed by human beings; the air.
The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.
The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.
Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955).
The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace.
A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.
Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
Starting fluid.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
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8413 | word:
ether
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ether (third-person singular simple present ethers, present participle ethering, simple past and past participle ethered)
forms:
form:
ethers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ethering
tags:
participle
present
form:
ethered
tags:
participle
past
form:
ethered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Jay-Z
Nas
etymology_text:
From “Ether” (2001), a song by the American hip hop recording artist Nas (born 1973). According to Nas, the song, a diss track aimed at fellow artist Jay-Z (born 1969), was thus named because he was once told that ghosts and spirits do not like the fumes from ether (noun, sense 5), and he viewed the song as affecting Jay-Z in a similar way. The song contains the lines “I fuck with your soul like ether” and “That ether, that shit that make your soul burn slow”.
senses_examples:
text:
The battle rapper ethered his opponent and caused him to slink away in shame.
type:
example
text:
HS Coach Gets Ethered By Girlfriend On FB, Resigns Amid Investigation [article title] […] On Monday, a woman living in Bowling Green, Ky., used her Facebook page to unleash one of the coldest, boyfriend-crushingest Dear John letters you'll ever read.
ref:
2014 February 26, Tom Ley, “HS Coach Gets Ethered by Girlfriend on FB, Resigns Amid Investigation”, in Deadspin, archived from the original on 2018-10-22
type:
quotation
text:
Cory Barker: Game of Thrones is the easiest answer for me, but MaryAnn [Sleasman] did a fine job of ethering that overrated hunk of junk, so I'm free to take a few shots at Sherlock.
ref:
2015 August 15, “Pass the Remote: What is a Popular Show Everyone Loves but You Hate?”, in TV.com, archived from the original on 2018-12-20
type:
quotation
text:
Best of all, [Steven] Soderbergh, a shade queen of our time!!!, slyly ethers James Cameron: […]
ref:
2015 September 15, Kirsten Yoonsoo Kim, “Steven Soderbergh Ethers James Cameron to Promote His Brandy”, in Complex, archived from the original on 2015-09-19
type:
quotation
text:
On Wednesday, I found myself nodding along vigorously to the latest Kanye West Twitter screed, as this particular iteration included a call for more inclusion at the Grammys and one extremely polite ethering of Macklemore.
ref:
2016 February 25, Rohan Nadkarni, “How does Kanye West Tweet So Fast?: Some Working Theories—because these Rants are Coming at a Record Speed”, in GQ, archived from the original on 2016-02-28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To viciously humiliate or insult.
senses_topics:
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8414 | word:
ether
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ether (third-person singular simple present ethers, present participle ethering, simple past and past participle ethered)
forms:
form:
ethers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ethering
tags:
participle
present
form:
ethered
tags:
participle
past
form:
ethered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Ether and Ethers (rhyme to whether)—the operation of running a line of hazle or other flexible wands intertwiningly along the top of a hedge, to keep it more firmly within the hedge-stakes. "Mind you ether it right strong." To "bond" a hedge has the same meaning.
ref:
1849, William Raynbird, Hugh Raynbird, On the Agriculture of Suffolk, page 291
type:
quotation
text:
In the edition of 1760 of "The Complete Angler" there is a curious quotation from Bowlker, who was a great authority on fish-ponds, in which he recommends:— "When you intend to stick a pool with carp or tench, make a close ethering hedge across the head of the pool about a yard distance of the dam, and about three foot above the water, which is the best refuge for them I know of, and the only method to preserve pool-fish; […] "
ref:
1886, Gertrude Elizabeth Blood Campbell, A Book of the Running Brook, and of Still Waters, page 122
text:
The labourer still sits under the lew (hleow, or "hleowð," shelter, warmth) of the hedge, which has has been ethering ("eðer," a hedge); […]
ref:
1895, John Richard de Capel Wise, The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and he must first ascertain its [the hedge's] length, which will give him an idea of the number of stakes and ethering rods required.
ref:
1924, Alexander Christison Drummie, Practical Forestry from a Workman's Point of View, page 103
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of edder
senses_topics:
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8415 | word:
ether
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ether (plural ether)
forms:
form:
ether
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Gas is not ether–it's a separate virtual currency with its own exchange rate against ether.
ref:
2018, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood, Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps, O'Reilly Media
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Ether
senses_topics:
business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance |
8416 | word:
monarch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
monarch (plural monarchs)
forms:
form:
monarchs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French monarque, from Late Latin monarcha, from Ancient Greek μονάρχης (monárkhēs), variant of μόναρχος (mónarkhos, “sole ruler”), from μόνος (mónos, “only”) + ἀρχός (arkhós, “leader”), equivalent to mono- + -arch.
* (butterfly): See monarch butterfly.
senses_examples:
text:
But I know the monarchs are close by, their orange-and-black wings folded, dusted, and baked by heat, ready to flee south.
ref:
2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
‘Skippy gets off. An ya know the first thing e says to them monarch? E turns round on em an yelps, “An now ya can just gimme back that bottle.”’
ref:
1961, Nene Gare, The Fringe Dwellers, Text Classics, published 2012, page 41
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.
A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and others of genus Danaus, found primarily in North America.
A police officer.
A stag which has sixteen or more points or tines on its antlers.
The chief or best thing of its kind.
Any bird of the family Monarchidae.
senses_topics:
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8417 | word:
scabbard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scabbard (plural scabbards)
forms:
form:
scabbards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
scabbard
etymology_text:
From Middle English scabard, scauberde, scauberk, scauberke, from Anglo-Norman eschaubert, escalberc, of Germanic origin, perhaps from Frankish *skarberg (“sheath”, literally “blade-protection”), from Proto-Germanic *skēriz (“blade, scissors”) + *bergaz (“shelter, protection, refuge”). See also hauberk.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sheath of a sword.
senses_topics:
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8418 | word:
scabbard
word_type:
verb
expansion:
scabbard (third-person singular simple present scabbards, present participle scabbarding, simple past and past participle scabbarded)
forms:
form:
scabbards
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
scabbarding
tags:
participle
present
form:
scabbarded
tags:
participle
past
form:
scabbarded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
scabbard
etymology_text:
From Middle English scabard, scauberde, scauberk, scauberke, from Anglo-Norman eschaubert, escalberc, of Germanic origin, perhaps from Frankish *skarberg (“sheath”, literally “blade-protection”), from Proto-Germanic *skēriz (“blade, scissors”) + *bergaz (“shelter, protection, refuge”). See also hauberk.
senses_examples:
text:
Suddenly he scabbarded his sabre.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard.
senses_topics:
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8419 | word:
comb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
comb (plural combs)
forms:
form:
combs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
comb
etymology_text:
From Middle English comb, from Old English camb (“comb”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz (“comb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth”), a doublet of cam. The verb is derived from the noun and displaced the older verb kemb.
Cognates
Compare Saterland Frisian Koum, Swedish/Dutch kam, Norwegian kam, German Kamm); also Tocharian B keme, Lithuanian žam̃bas (“sharp edge”), Old Church Slavonic зѫбъ (zǫbŭ), Albanian dhëmb, Ancient Greek γομφίος (gomphíos, “backtooth, molar”), Sanskrit जम्भ (jambha)).
senses_examples:
text:
The head-dress of the Horse Grenadiers consists of a peculiar leather helmet with a comb of bear's skin passing over it from ear to ear and a long scarlet […]
ref:
1888, “Journal of the United Service Institution of India”, in United Service Institution of India, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
The armet has usually a low central cabled comb with parallel flutes on either side, occasionally there are three or five combs.
ref:
1898, John Starkie Gardner, Armour in England from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
The combs or elbow pieces are beautifully made, and over the right armpit is […]
ref:
1909, Albert Frederick Calvert, Madrid: An Historical Description and Handbook of the Spanish Capital, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
Charles I. (Edinburgh Castle) The Pikeman of the time of James I. was accoutred in a morion-shaped helmet with a comb of moderate size and a flat brim, […]
ref:
2021, Charles Henry Ashdown, British and Foreign Arms & Armour, Good Press
type:
quotation
text:
The combs of the wild bees are found on overhanging precipices, and the only means by which they can be reached is to descend from above on narrow cane ladders just wide enough for a man’s foot, and often 300 feet to 400 feet long.
ref:
1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
But the comb or half quarter is very general in the Eastern counties, particularly in Norfolk.
ref:
1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 207
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A toothed implement:
A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
A toothed implement:
A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
A toothed implement:
The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
A toothed implement:
A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
A toothed implement:
The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
A toothed implement:
The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
A toothed implement:
A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
A toothed implement:
A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
A toothed implement:
One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
A crest:
A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
A crest:
A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
A crest:
The top part of a gun’s stock.
A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
A kind of vertical plate in a lode.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
entertainment
lifestyle
music
algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
business
mining |
8420 | word:
comb
word_type:
verb
expansion:
comb (third-person singular simple present combs, present participle combing, simple past and past participle combed)
forms:
form:
combs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
combing
tags:
participle
present
form:
combed
tags:
participle
past
form:
combed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
comb
etymology_text:
From Middle English comb, from Old English camb (“comb”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz (“comb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth”), a doublet of cam. The verb is derived from the noun and displaced the older verb kemb.
Cognates
Compare Saterland Frisian Koum, Swedish/Dutch kam, Norwegian kam, German Kamm); also Tocharian B keme, Lithuanian žam̃bas (“sharp edge”), Old Church Slavonic зѫбъ (zǫbŭ), Albanian dhëmb, Ancient Greek γομφίος (gomphíos, “backtooth, molar”), Sanskrit जम्भ (jambha)).
senses_examples:
text:
I need to comb my hair before we leave the house.
type:
example
text:
Police combed the field for evidence after the assault.
type:
example
text:
The aircraft split up so as to attack from different, preselected bearings, thus confusing the gunners and making it difficult for the ship to comb torpedo tracks.
ref:
2010, Jim Crossley, Bismarck: The Epic Chase
type:
quotation
text:
Sixteen torpedo bombers divided their attention between the two ships. Repulse combed the torpedo wakes and knocked down two of the attackers.
ref:
2013, Steve Backer, British Battlecruisers of the Second World War, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
government
military
naval
navy
politics
war |
8421 | word:
comb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
comb (plural combs)
forms:
form:
combs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
comb
etymology_text:
From combination.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of combination.
senses_topics:
|
8422 | word:
comb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
comb (plural combs)
forms:
form:
combs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
comb
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of combe
senses_topics:
|
8423 | word:
comb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
comb (plural combs)
forms:
form:
combs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
comb
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[Regarding a period of agricultural depression] Even on the good land where the farmer hadn't enough capital to look after it and have it properly drained he couldn't hold on. He'd be getting a yield of eight combs of wheat and ten combs of barley per acre. But that wasn't good enough: it gave him no leeway. This is understandable when you recollect the price of wheat at that time.
ref:
1971, George Ewart Evans, quoting auctioneer Aston Gaze, Tools of Their Trades: An Oral History of Men at Work c. 1900, Taplinger Publishing Company, page 109
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of coomb
senses_topics:
|
8424 | word:
subpoena
word_type:
noun
expansion:
subpoena (plural subpoenas or subpoenae or subpoenæ)
forms:
form:
subpoenas
tags:
plural
form:
subpoenae
tags:
plural
form:
subpoenæ
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
1623
Court of Chancery
subpoena
etymology_text:
First attested with this spelling in 1623 CE, from earlier subpena, from Middle English sub pena, from Medieval Latin: sub (“under”) and poena (“penalty”), the beginning of the original subpoena used in the Court of Chancery.
senses_examples:
text:
Summoned by a stern subpoena Edwin sued by Angelina Shortly will appear.
ref:
1874, W.S. Gilbert, Trial by Jury
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A writ requiring a defendant to appear in court to answer a plaintiff's claim.
A writ requiring someone to appear in court to give testimony.
senses_topics:
law
law |
8425 | word:
subpoena
word_type:
verb
expansion:
subpoena (third-person singular simple present subpoenas, present participle subpoenaing, simple past and past participle subpoenaed)
forms:
form:
subpoenas
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
subpoenaing
tags:
participle
present
form:
subpoenaed
tags:
participle
past
form:
subpoenaed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
1623
Court of Chancery
subpoena
etymology_text:
First attested with this spelling in 1623 CE, from earlier subpena, from Middle English sub pena, from Medieval Latin: sub (“under”) and poena (“penalty”), the beginning of the original subpoena used in the Court of Chancery.
senses_examples:
text:
Why not subpoena as well the clerical proficients?
ref:
1924, Herman Melville, chapter 10, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To summon with a subpoena.
senses_topics:
|
8426 | word:
checkmate
word_type:
intj
expansion:
checkmate
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English chekmat, from Old French eschec mat, from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta), from Classical Persian شاه مات (šāh māt, “the king [is] amazed”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Word called out by the victor when making a move that wins the game.
Said when one has placed a person in a losing situation with no escape.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
|
8427 | word:
checkmate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
checkmate (countable and uncountable, plural checkmates)
forms:
form:
checkmates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
checkmate
etymology_text:
From Middle English chekmat, from Old French eschec mat, from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta), from Classical Persian شاه مات (šāh māt, “the king [is] amazed”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.
Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.
senses_topics:
|
8428 | word:
checkmate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
checkmate (third-person singular simple present checkmates, present participle checkmating, simple past and past participle checkmated)
forms:
form:
checkmates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
checkmating
tags:
participle
present
form:
checkmated
tags:
participle
past
form:
checkmated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English chekmat, from Old French eschec mat, from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta), from Classical Persian شاه مات (šāh māt, “the king [is] amazed”).
senses_examples:
text:
My opponent checkmated me in four moves!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.
To place in a losing situation that has no escape.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
|
8429 | word:
organism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
organism (plural organisms)
forms:
form:
organisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:organism
etymology_text:
From organ + -ism, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “tool, instrument”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“work”). Compare Medieval Latin organismus.
senses_examples:
text:
For the first time, Edith was aware of the hotel as a well populated organism, its attendants merely resting until an appropriate occasion should summon them to present themselves […].
ref:
1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fact of being organic; organicity.
Something with many separate interdependent parts, seen as being like a living thing; an organic system.
A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
8430 | word:
float
word_type:
verb
expansion:
float (third-person singular simple present floats, present participle floating, simple past and past participle floated)
forms:
form:
floats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
floating
tags:
participle
present
form:
floated
tags:
participle
past
form:
floated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
float
etymology_text:
From Middle English floten, from Old English flotian (“to float”), from Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian flotje (“to float”), West Frisian flotsje (“to float”), Dutch vlotten (“to float”), Middle Low German vloten, vlotten (“to float, swim”), German flötzen, flößen (“to float”), Swedish flotta (“to float”), Icelandic fljóta, Old English flēotan (“to float, swim”), Ancient Greek πλέω (pléō), Lithuanian plaukti, Russian пла́вать (plávatʹ). Compare flow, fleet.
senses_examples:
text:
Helium balloons float in air, while air-filled balloons don't.
type:
example
text:
The boat floated on the water.
type:
example
text:
The oil floated on the vinegar.
type:
example
text:
to float a boat
type:
example
text:
That boat doesn't float.
type:
example
text:
Oil floats on vinegar.
type:
example
text:
I’d love to just float downstream.
type:
example
text:
I’m not sure where they went... they're floating around here somewhere.
type:
example
text:
Images from my childhood floated through my mind.
type:
example
text:
The balloon floated off into the distance.
type:
example
text:
Over the tree-tops I float thee a song, / Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the prairies wide, / Over the dense-pack’d cities all and the teeming wharves and ways, / I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee O death.
ref:
1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
type:
quotation
text:
The dancer floated gracefully around the stage.
type:
example
text:
There's a rumour floating around the office that Jan is pregnant.
type:
example
text:
That's a daft idea... it'll never float.
type:
example
text:
I floated the idea of free ice-cream on Fridays, but no one was interested.
type:
example
text:
The yen floats against the dollar.
type:
example
text:
The government floated the pound in January.
type:
example
text:
Increased pressure on Thailand’s currency, the baht, in 1997 led to a crisis that forced the government to float the currency.
type:
example
text:
Could you float me $50 until payday?
type:
example
text:
"Peg out a claim wherever you like and we will float it," was the substance of many a code of instructions sent by unprincipled men in the mining world of the colonies to the gold prospectors in Port Darwin.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 210
type:
quotation
text:
He [Mario Moretti Polegato] floated the company on the Milan Stock Exchange last December and sold 29 per cent of its shares, mostly to American investors.
ref:
2005 June 21, Dewi Cooke, The Age
type:
quotation
text:
2007, Jonathan Reuvid, Floating Your Company: The Essential Guide to Going Public:
type:
quotation
text:
2011, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI Yearbook 2011: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, footnote i, page 269,
As a result of this reverse acquisition, Hurlingham changed its name to Manroy plc and floated shares on the Alternative Investment Market in London.
text:
This wire, nailed over the face of the old plaster will also reinforce any loose lath or plaster after the walls have set. Float the wall to the face of the lath first.
ref:
1932, The Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer, volumes 35-37, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
It is time to float this horse's teeth.
type:
example
text:
To get the footer acting right, you need to float it and clear it on both margins.
ref:
2010, Andy Harris, HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies, page 290
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.
To cause something to be suspended in a fluid of greater density.
To be capable of floating.
To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
To drift or wander aimlessly.
To drift gently through the air.
To cause to drift gently through the air, to waft.
To move in a fluid manner.
To circulate.
To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.
(of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
To propose (an idea) for consideration.
To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
(of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets, as opposed to by central fiat.
To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
To extend a short-term loan to.
To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
To perform a float.
To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
finance
business
finance
business
finance
card-games
poker
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences |
8431 | word:
float
word_type:
noun
expansion:
float (plural floats)
forms:
form:
floats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
float
etymology_text:
From Middle English floten, from Old English flotian (“to float”), from Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian flotje (“to float”), West Frisian flotsje (“to float”), Dutch vlotten (“to float”), Middle Low German vloten, vlotten (“to float, swim”), German flötzen, flößen (“to float”), Swedish flotta (“to float”), Icelandic fljóta, Old English flēotan (“to float, swim”), Ancient Greek πλέω (pléō), Lithuanian plaukti, Russian пла́вать (plávatʹ). Compare flow, fleet.
senses_examples:
text:
Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.
type:
example
text:
'What you need are frogs,' said the veteran. 'Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.'
ref:
1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float.
type:
example
text:
That float covered in roses is very pretty.
type:
example
text:
Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the float so we stay within our reserves limit.
type:
example
text:
You don't actually need a broker to buy shares in a float when a company is about to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
ref:
2006, “Buying shares in a float”, in Australian Securities and Investments Commission financial tips article, archived from the original on 2005-07-16
type:
quotation
text:
No sir, your current float is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished.
type:
example
text:
We make a lot of interest from our nightly float.
type:
example
text:
That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float.
type:
example
text:
If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats.
ref:
2011, Rubin H. Landau, A First Course in Scientific Computing, page 214
type:
quotation
text:
I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice-cream to be a "real" float.
type:
example
text:
The machinery consists of two saws, a polishing table, a float for grinding marble, and a ripping saw for cutting slabs.
ref:
1863 April 24, “Trade News”, in The Building News and Engineering Journal, volume 10, page 324
type:
quotation
text:
Float Machinist— One who squares up, faces, noses or chamfers on a float all marble, slate, or similar stones, and including terrazzo or similar compositions.
ref:
1925, Australia. Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, Commonwealth Arbitration Reports, page 557
type:
quotation
text:
Next , finishers rub a float — a small and smooth, rectangular piece of wood — over the entire surface, carefully avoiding edges and joints.
ref:
1980, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, page 215
type:
quotation
text:
Floated: Obtained by successive passages with a wooden float on the coat's surface until it is flat and uniform
ref:
2015, M. Clara Gonçalves, Fernanda Margarido, Materials for Construction and Civil Engineering, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
Because margin floats don't collapse together, the actual spacing between two floats sitting next to each other will be 6 pixels […]
ref:
2004, Eric A. Meyer, More Eric Meyer on CSS, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
When a float cannot fit next to another float, it moves down below it. A float's position, size, padding, borders, and margins affect the position of adjacent floats and adjacent inline content.
ref:
2007, Michael Bowers, Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns, page 93
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
A float board.
A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
A small sum of money put in a cashier's till, or otherwise secured, at the start of business, to enable change to be made.
A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
A lowboy trailer.
The act of flowing; flux; flow.
A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
A coal cart.
A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within body text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in buoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
senses_topics:
business
finance
business
finance
banking
business
business
insurance
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
card-games
poker
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
automotive
transport
vehicles
transport
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
media
publishing |
8432 | word:
apostrophe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
apostrophe (plural apostrophes)
forms:
form:
apostrophes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French apostrophe, or Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “I turn away”), from ἀπό (apó, “away from”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”).
senses_examples:
text:
Since its inception the apostrophe has been a controversial piece of punctuation.
ref:
2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
senses_topics:
communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing |
8433 | word:
apostrophe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
apostrophe (countable and uncountable, plural apostrophes)
forms:
form:
apostrophes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin apostrophe, from Ancient Greek ἀποστροφή (apostrophḗ), from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “I turn away”), from ἀπό (apó) + στρέφω (stréphō, “I turn”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
senses_topics:
|
8434 | word:
beaver
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beaver (countable and uncountable, plural beavers or (senses 1 and 4) beaver)
forms:
form:
beavers
tags:
plural
form:
beaver
tags:
error-unknown-tag
plural
wikipedia:
beaver
etymology_text:
From Middle English bever, from Old English befer, from Proto-West Germanic *bebru, from Proto-Germanic *bebruz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus (“beaver”).
Cognate with West Frisian bever, Dutch bever, French bièvre, German Biber, dialectal Swedish bjur. Non-Germanic cognates include Welsh befer, Latin fiber, Lithuanian bẽbras, Russian бобр (bobr), Avestan 𐬠𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬭𐬀 (bauura), and Sanskrit बभ्रु (bábhru, “mongoose; ichneumon”).
senses_examples:
text:
Then, for the safeguard of his personage,
He did appoint a warlike equipage
Of foreign beasts, not in the forest bred,
But part by land and part by water fed;
For tyranny is with strange aid supported.
Then unto him all monstrous beasts resorted
Bred of two kinds, as Griffons, Minotaurs,
Crocodiles, Dragons, Beavers, and Centaurs:
With those himself he strengthened mightily,
That fear he need no force of enemy.
ref:
1591, Edmund Spenser, “Prosopopoia; or, Mother Hubberd’s Tale”, in Edmund Spenser, edited by Charles Cowden Clarke, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, published 1868, page 112, lines 1117–1126
type:
quotation
text:
The woman's hair and woman's beaver had both been jerked off, exposing the cropped head of a man...
ref:
1896, Owen Rhoscomyl, For the White Rose of Arno
type:
quotation
text:
beaver:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
The fur of the beaver.
A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
senses_topics:
backgammon
games
|
8435 | word:
beaver
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beaver (third-person singular simple present beavers, present participle beavering, simple past and past participle beavered)
forms:
form:
beavers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beavering
tags:
participle
present
form:
beavered
tags:
participle
past
form:
beavered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
beaver
etymology_text:
From Middle English bever, from Old English befer, from Proto-West Germanic *bebru, from Proto-Germanic *bebruz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus (“beaver”).
Cognate with West Frisian bever, Dutch bever, French bièvre, German Biber, dialectal Swedish bjur. Non-Germanic cognates include Welsh befer, Latin fiber, Lithuanian bẽbras, Russian бобр (bobr), Avestan 𐬠𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬭𐬀 (bauura), and Sanskrit बभ्रु (bábhru, “mongoose; ichneumon”).
senses_examples:
text:
When A. G. Dickens published his English Reformation in 1964 the archival beavering of a generation of graduate students was given its imprimatur in the claim to understand how the English people felt about religious change—largely, according to Dickens, positively.
ref:
2017, Felicity Heal, “Changing Interpretations of the British Reformations”, in Ulinka Rublack, editor, The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 234
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To work hard.
To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
senses_topics:
backgammon
games |
8436 | word:
beaver
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beaver (plural beavers)
forms:
form:
beavers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
beaver
etymology_text:
See bevor.
senses_examples:
text:
With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.
ref:
1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxvii
text:
Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver, or lower part of his helmet, announced that he quaffed it, “To all true English hearts, and to the confusion of foreign tyrants.”
ref:
1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
type:
quotation
text:
1951 Adaptation of the 1885 Ormsby translation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, correcting Ormsby as to the portion of the helmet referred to by Cervantes (see note 11 to chapter II) at the suggestion of Juan Hartzenbusch, a 19th-century director of the National Library of Spain.
They laid a table for him at the door of the inn for the sake of the air, and the host brought him a portion of ill-soaked and worse cooked stockfish, and a piece of bread as black and mouldy as his own armour; but a laughble sight it was to see him eating, for having his helmet on and the beaver up, he could not with his own hands put anything into his mouth unless some one else placed it there, and this service one of the ladies rendered him.
text:
As each one brings a little of himself to what he sees you brought the trappings of your historic preoccupations, so that Monsieur flattered you by presenting himself with beaver up like Hamlet's father's ghost!
ref:
1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 128
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
senses_topics:
|
8437 | word:
beaver
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beaver
forms:
wikipedia:
beaver
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Butter – Beaver.]
ref:
[1754, The Scoundrel’s Dictionary, London, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Butter.
senses_topics:
|
8438 | word:
beaver
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beaver (third-person singular simple present beavers, present participle beavering, simple past and past participle beavered)
forms:
form:
beavers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beavering
tags:
participle
present
form:
beavered
tags:
participle
past
form:
beavered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
beaver
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Without these attentions the woad will not beaver well, a term descriptive of the fineness of the capillary filaments into which it draws out when broken between the finger and thumb.
ref:
1799, Arthur Young, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Lincoln, London, page 155
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
senses_topics:
|
8439 | word:
beaver
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beaver (countable and uncountable, plural beavers)
forms:
form:
beavers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
beaver
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The beards were false ones. I could see the elastic going over their ears. In other words, I had fallen among a band of criminals who were not wilful beavers, but had merely assumed the fungus for purposes of disguise.
ref:
1936, P. G. Wodehouse, Laughing Gas
type:
quotation
text:
Finally it came on. It was a beauty, a beaver flick made in the late 1970s. It was called Big Black Leather Splits.
ref:
1969, Harlan Ellison, “A Boy and His Dog”, in The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, New York: Open Road Media, published 2014
type:
quotation
text:
Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don’t think it's crazy at all and I don’t think you do either.
ref:
1975, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, directed by Miloš Forman, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (motion picture), spoken by Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson)
type:
quotation
text:
Let’s get some of that Saturday night beaver.
ref:
1997, Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights (motion picture), spoken by Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly)
type:
quotation
text:
The store sold beaver books, fuck-suck books, homo books, novels, films, slides, playing cards, dildoes, cock rings, S&M gear, and French ticklers.
ref:
2004, James Ellroy, Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales, New York: Vintage Books, pages 127–128
type:
quotation
text:
[…] once she wore none at all, swears to this day that he saw her beaver that fateful Friday night.
ref:
2010, Dennis McFadden, Hart’s Grove: Stories
type:
quotation
text:
10-4, Beaver [CB talk for a female], we’re all going down to Plains tomorrow after Jimmy Carter wins.
ref:
1977 January 13, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, “Jimmy Carter: New South Burn”, in Rolling Stone, [San Francisco or New York], retrieved 2022-12-01
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Referring to a beard.
A beard or a bearded person.
Referring to a beard.
A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
Referring to the genital area or a woman.
The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
Referring to the genital area or a woman.
A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
senses_topics:
|
8440 | word:
beaver
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beaver (third-person singular simple present beavers, present participle beavering, simple past and past participle beavered)
forms:
form:
beavers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beavering
tags:
participle
present
form:
beavered
tags:
participle
past
form:
beavered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
beaver
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Beavering of foreign visitors does not count. This is a rule, but it is never carried out.
ref:
1922 October 13, Roanoke World-News, Roanoke, Virginia, retrieved 2022-12-02, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
senses_topics:
|
8441 | word:
duchess
word_type:
noun
expansion:
duchess (plural duchesses)
forms:
form:
duchesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English duchesse, from Old French duchesse.
senses_examples:
text:
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended months of intense speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child, but were forced to share their news earlier than hoped because of the Duchess's admission to hospital on Monday.
ref:
2012 December 3, Caroline Davies, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The wife or widow of a duke.
The female ruler of a duchy.
senses_topics:
|
8442 | word:
duchess
word_type:
verb
expansion:
duchess (third-person singular simple present duchesses, present participle duchessing, simple past and past participle duchessed)
forms:
form:
duchesses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
duchessing
tags:
participle
present
form:
duchessed
tags:
participle
past
form:
duchessed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English duchesse, from Old French duchesse.
senses_examples:
text:
On arrival in England he was “duchessed” in a manner that no Australian Prime Minister has ever been “duchessed” before or since. Northcliffe was looking for someone around whom he could build a campaign against Asquith. Hughes filled the bill nicely.
ref:
1956, John Thomas Lang, I Remember, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
‘A word to the wise, Murray. Those wogs you′ve been duchessing at Ethnic Affairs have got nothing on the culture vultures. Tear the flesh right off your bones, they will.’
ref:
1996, Shane Maloney, The Brush-Off, published 2003, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
The traditional version of Hughes′ decision to introduce conscription gives central importance to his visit to London in April 1916 where it is alleged he was duchessed and deceived concerning recruitment figures.
ref:
2004, Humphrey McQueen, A New Britannia, Fourth Edition, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
But by 1914 Grayson had, according to Groves, been thoroughly duchessed, believing that he could enjoy the good things in life and still serve the cause.
ref:
2006, Jacqueline Dickenson, Renegades and Rats: Betrayal and the Remaking of Radical Organisations in Britain and Australia, page 144
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to court or curry favour for political or business advantage; to flatter obsequiously.
senses_topics:
|
8443 | word:
cook
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cook (plural cooks)
forms:
form:
cooks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cook
etymology_text:
From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).
Cognate with Low German kokk, Dutch kok, German Koch, Danish kok, Norwegian kokk, Swedish kock, Icelandic kokkur (“cook”). Also compare Proto-West Germanic *kokōn (“to cook”).
senses_examples:
text:
I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
type:
example
text:
Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
type:
example
text:
By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product.
ref:
2008, Mel Bradshaw, Victim Impact
type:
quotation
text:
Owsley Stanley was a pioneer LSD cook, and the Purple Owsley pill from his now-defunct lab was Dad's prized possession, a rare, potent, druggie collector's item, the alleged inspiration for the Hendrix song “Purple Haze.”
ref:
2011, Mackenzie Phillips, High on Arrival
type:
quotation
text:
Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook.
ref:
2011, Neal Hall, Hell To Pay: Hells Angels vs. The Million-Dollar Rat, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
The original endgame was one file to the right (Kf1, Kb5 etc.). But there is a cook after 1. c6 dxc6 2. d6 cxd6 3. h4 gxh3 e.p. 4. gxh3 Ka4! 5. h4 b5. My version eliminates the cook.
ref:
2003 June, Pal Benko, “Endgame Lab”, in Chess Life, volume 58, number 6, New Windsor, N.Y.: United States Chess Federation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 49
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who prepares food.
The head cook of a manor house.
The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle
cooking
food
lifestyle
cooking
food
lifestyle
board-games
chess
games |
8444 | word:
cook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)
forms:
form:
cooks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cooking
tags:
participle
present
form:
cooked
tags:
participle
past
form:
cooked
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
cook
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Know Your Meme
etymology_text:
From Middle English coken, from the noun cook. In the slang sense of "proceed with some plan", coined by American rapper from California (born 1989) Lil B in 2010 and popularized in viral tweets and TikToks in mid-2022.
senses_examples:
text:
I'm cooking bangers and mash.
type:
example
text:
He's in the kitchen, cooking.
type:
example
text:
You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
ref:
2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, page 192
type:
quotation
text:
The dinner is cooking on the stove.
type:
example
text:
Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
type:
example
text:
You would die from what we might call "extremely acute radiation poisoning" – that is, you would be cooked.
ref:
2014, Randall Munroe, “Periodic Wall of the Elements”, in What If?, New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
"What's coming?" "Dunno yet. Cindy! Active scanning! Pulse hard, but don't cook any friendlies." "We have sensors that can cook people?" "Another reason why warship combat is not an indoor sport."
ref:
2017 July 6, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 2024-01-20
type:
quotation
text:
I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
type:
example
text:
The process of cooking meth can leave residue on surfaces all over the home, exposing all of its occupants to the drug.
ref:
2006, Frank Spalding, Methamphetamine: The Dangers of Crystal Meth, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different, that there is no citizen, who has an eye to the public good, who can leave the coffee-house with peace of mind...
ref:
1880, Joseph Addison with Richard John Green, “The newspaper”, in Essays of Joseph Addison, London: Roger de Coverly Club, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
Watch this band: they cook!
type:
example
text:
Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!
type:
example
text:
This album is called Cookin’ at Miles’ request. He said, “After all, that’s what we did – came in and cooked.”
ref:
1957, Miles Davis quoted by Ira Gitler, liner notes to Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Prestige LP 7094
text:
On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!
type:
example
text:
The tempos were swift. The orchestra cooked, reading [conductor] Kahane's mind and swinging with him as one.
ref:
2012, “Review: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra won't stand still”, in Los Angeles Times
type:
quotation
text:
My bar was built by Frazier, Gary Manson, Robert Feck, Jeff Picoli — that's who built my bar. When I hired those people, that's when my bar started cookin'. 'Cause Frazier gets along with anybody — he has a magnetic personality, and he can make the worst piece of shit feel like king for a day.
ref:
1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Asensio as AMF might just be the truth man. Bro is cooking and now he has added a goal to top it all off.
ref:
2023 April 2, @WolfRMFC, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-10-05
type:
quotation
text:
WAIT YOU'RE ACTUALLY COOKING RN. Emberwake ring. Quick math says that's about 21% more damage than just using tawhoa. Ring also gives fire damage and ignite chance, which is great.
ref:
2023 July 30, u/tokyo__driftwood, “How are we feeling about Earthquake ignite chieftain post-patch?”, in Reddit, r/PathOfExileBuilds, archived from the original on 2023-10-05
type:
quotation
text:
With the shot clock winding down, LA's superstars got accustomed to deferring to [Austin] Reaves and letting him cook for either open jumpers or moves that ultimately led to and-one's and free-throw attempts.
ref:
2023 August 6, Noel Sanchez, “Lakers News: Re-Signed LA Starter Reveals He Was Prioritizing A Free Agency Return”, in Sports Illustrated, New York, N.Y.: Arena Group Holdings, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-05
type:
quotation
text:
The furlough of workers during The Lockdowns left many with a conspiracy bent ample time to cook.
type:
example
text:
Hol' up, let that boy cook!
type:
example
text:
He didn't prepare for the debate at all, so his opponent cooked him hard.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
To be cooked.
To be uncomfortably hot.
To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
To execute by electric chair.
To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
To concoct or prepare.
To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
To play music vigorously.
To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
To proceed with some advantageous course of action; (more generally) to be successful.
To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
To develop insane or fringe ideas.
To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
To defeat or humiliate.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
8445 | word:
cook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)
forms:
form:
cooks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cooking
tags:
participle
present
form:
cooked
tags:
participle
past
form:
cooked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Imitative.
senses_examples:
text:
Constant cuckoos cook on every side.
ref:
1599, Thomas Moffet, The Silkwormes, and their Flies, London: V.S. for Nicholas Ling, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
senses_topics:
|
8446 | word:
cook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)
forms:
form:
cooks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cooking
tags:
participle
present
form:
cooked
tags:
participle
past
form:
cooked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown; possibly related to chuck.
senses_examples:
text:
Cook. To throw. Cook me that ball, throw me that ball. Glou.
ref:
1787, Francis Grose, A Provincial Glossary: With a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions, London: Printed for S. Hooper, →OCLC, page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To throw.
senses_topics:
|
8447 | word:
piano
word_type:
noun
expansion:
piano (plural pianos or (archaic) pianoes)
forms:
form:
pianos
tags:
plural
form:
pianoes
tags:
archaic
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of pianoforte, from Italian pianoforte, from piano (“soft”) + forte (“strong”). So named because it could produce a wide range of varied volumes note-by-note, in contrast to older keyboard instruments, notably the harpsichord. Doublet of llano, plain, and plane.
senses_examples:
text:
The piano in his house takes up a lot of space.
type:
example
text:
She has been taking lessons for many years and now plays piano very well.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
8448 | word:
piano
word_type:
verb
expansion:
piano (third-person singular simple present pianos, present participle pianoing, simple past and past participle pianoed)
forms:
form:
pianos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pianoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pianoed
tags:
participle
past
form:
pianoed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of pianoforte, from Italian pianoforte, from piano (“soft”) + forte (“strong”). So named because it could produce a wide range of varied volumes note-by-note, in contrast to older keyboard instruments, notably the harpsichord. Doublet of llano, plain, and plane.
senses_examples:
text:
Anyhow I pianoed to my own ear, and had no thought at that time for an audience.
ref:
1967, Harry F. Chaplin, A McCrae Miscellany, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
Who comforted me with Madeleines and lime tea, with whipped cream in my cocoa in far off Ann Arbor while others selfishly fiddled, bassooned, pianoed only for their own ugly self-advancement!
ref:
1978, Bertha Harris, Confessions of Cherubino, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Arnold Weinstein, and others came to the house, taping their poems as I pianoed and zithered and drummed away.
ref:
2008, John Gruen, Callas Kissed Me...Lenny Too!, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
We guitared and drummed and head banged and pianoed.
ref:
2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
He just stared at her, leaned back in his chair and pianoed his fingers along the tablecloth.
ref:
2013, Ann Blair Kloman, A Diamond to Die For, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
“Jean, it ain't right how you separated those two,” he said, and pianoed the little coffin with his fingers, tapping out his grievance.
ref:
2017, Kim Michele Richardson, The Sisters of Glass Ferry
type:
quotation
text:
The superintendent pianoed his fingers on the surface of a nearby desk.
ref:
2020, Simon Lelic, The Search Party
type:
quotation
text:
Holly pianoed her fingers over her throat.
ref:
2021, Emilya Naymark, Hide in Place
type:
quotation
text:
Other buildings will also be erected and pianoed by the same architect.
ref:
1889, The Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
A tabernacle has been built, burnt, rebuilt, electric lighted, organed, pianoed, and frequently filled — all during the last two years.
ref:
1892, The Japan Daily Mail - Volume 18, page 772
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play the piano.
To move (the fingers) up and down on, similar to the motions of a pianist playing the piano.
To equip with a piano.
senses_topics:
|
8449 | word:
piano
word_type:
adv
expansion:
piano (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian piano.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
softly, as a musical direction (abbreviated to p. in sheet music)
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
8450 | word:
piano
word_type:
adj
expansion:
piano (comparative more piano, superlative most piano)
forms:
form:
more piano
tags:
comparative
form:
most piano
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian piano.
senses_examples:
text:
‘Tradecraft, Chris,’ Enderby put in, who liked his bit of jargon, and Martindale, still piano, shot him a glance of admiration.
ref:
1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 160
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Soft, quiet.
Gentle, soft, subdued.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
8451 | word:
piano
word_type:
verb
expansion:
piano (third-person singular simple present pianos, present participle pianoing, simple past and past participle pianoed)
forms:
form:
pianos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pianoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pianoed
tags:
participle
past
form:
pianoed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian piano.
senses_examples:
text:
“You know, Mrs. Wrigglechops,” pianoed Miss Drucilla , even more meekly and mildly than before, "the ace is either one or eleven."
ref:
1839, Rosina Doyle Bulwer afterwards Bulwer Lytton (Baroness Lytton.), Cheveley; Or, The Man of Honour, page 385
type:
quotation
text:
His tone pianoed on intimacy.
ref:
2000, David R. Beasley, Aspects of Love: Three novellas, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
A day pianoed, swelled acutest, pianoed.
ref:
2009, David Lau, Virgil and the Mountain Cat, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become softer and less intense.
senses_topics:
|
8452 | word:
paddling
word_type:
verb
expansion:
paddling
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From paddle + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of paddle
senses_topics:
|
8453 | word:
paddling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
paddling (plural paddlings)
forms:
form:
paddlings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English padelynge, equivalent to paddle + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of using a paddle.
An act of corporal punishment consisting of spanking the buttocks with a paddle.
A collective noun for ducks when they are on water.
senses_topics:
|
8454 | word:
none
word_type:
pron
expansion:
none
forms:
wikipedia:
none
etymology_text:
From Middle English none, noon, non (“not one”), from Old English nān (“not one, not any, none”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, nothing”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + one. (Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.)
Cognate with Scots nane (“none”), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), West Frisian neen & gjin (“no, none”), Dutch neen & geen (“no, none”), Low German nēn, neen (“none, no one”), German nein & kein (“no, none”), Latin nōn (“not”).
senses_examples:
text:
None of those people is my father.
type:
example
text:
None of those people are my parents.
type:
example
text:
Alas, none of these people were writing the reviews.
ref:
2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, page 253
type:
quotation
text:
None of those is a good example. None are even acceptable.
type:
example
text:
None of this meat tastes right.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not any of a given number or group.
No one, nobody.
Not any of a given number or group.
No person.
Not any of a given number or group.
senses_topics:
|
8455 | word:
none
word_type:
det
expansion:
none
forms:
wikipedia:
none
etymology_text:
From Middle English none, noon, non (“not one”), from Old English nān (“not one, not any, none”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, nothing”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + one. (Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.)
Cognate with Scots nane (“none”), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), West Frisian neen & gjin (“no, none”), Dutch neen & geen (“no, none”), Low German nēn, neen (“none, no one”), German nein & kein (“no, none”), Latin nōn (“not”).
senses_examples:
text:
Thou shalt have none other gods but me.
type:
example
text:
None lasses were in the dunces' row. If one had been there people would have looked at her and felt sorry but not boys.
ref:
2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 138
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not any; no (usually used only before a vowel or h)
senses_topics:
|
8456 | word:
none
word_type:
adv
expansion:
none (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
none
etymology_text:
From Middle English none, noon, non (“not one”), from Old English nān (“not one, not any, none”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, nothing”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + one. (Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.)
Cognate with Scots nane (“none”), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), West Frisian neen & gjin (“no, none”), Dutch neen & geen (“no, none”), Low German nēn, neen (“none, no one”), German nein & kein (“no, none”), Latin nōn (“not”).
senses_examples:
text:
I felt none the worse for my recent illness.
type:
example
text:
my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
ref:
1973, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “Kodachrome”
type:
quotation
text:
He was none too pleased with the delays in the program that was supposed to be his legacy.
type:
example
text:
We could hear none too well from the back.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To no extent, in no way.
Not at all, not very.
No, not.
senses_topics:
|
8457 | word:
none
word_type:
noun
expansion:
none (plural nones)
forms:
form:
nones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
none
etymology_text:
From the first sense, since they respond “none” when asked about their religion; also a play on words on nun.
senses_examples:
text:
Both the religiously dis-identified ("nones") and the religiously committed report mystical experiences.
ref:
2003, Jacob A. Belzen, Antoon Geels, Mysticism: A Variety of Psychological Perspectives, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Stable nones, that is, people who report in both years that they have no religious affiliation, are, in fact, much less religious
ref:
2010, Robert D. Putnam, David E Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, page 591
type:
quotation
text:
we have grouped people into nones (no religion), Jews, Catholics, mainline Protestants, and evangelical protestants.
ref:
2013, Michael Corbett, Politics and Religion in the United States
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person without religious affiliation.
senses_topics:
|
8458 | word:
none
word_type:
noun
expansion:
none (plural nones)
forms:
form:
nones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
none
etymology_text:
From French none, from Latin nōna (“ninth; ninth hour”).
senses_examples:
text:
None of the day, is the third quarter of the day beginning at Noon and lasting till the Sun be gone half way towards setting.
ref:
1656, T. Blount, Glossographia
type:
quotation
text:
The last, which began at the middle of the Afternoon, i.e. at half the Time between Noon and Sun-setting, was called None, because it began at the Ninth Hour.
ref:
1706, L.E. Dupin, “v, 43”, in D. Cotes, transl., A New Ecclesiastical History of the 16th Century, volume II
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of nones: the ninth hour after dawn; (Christianity) the religious service appointed to this hour.
Synonym of midafternoon: the time around or following noon or nones.
senses_topics:
|
8459 | word:
push
word_type:
verb
expansion:
push (third-person singular simple present pushes, present participle pushing, simple past and past participle pushed)
forms:
form:
pushes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pushing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pushed
tags:
participle
past
form:
pushed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
push
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Modern English
push
etymology_text:
From Middle English pushen, poshen, posson, borrowed from Middle French pousser (Modern French pousser) from Old French poulser, from Latin pulsare, frequentative of pellere (past participle pulsus) "to beat, strike". Doublet of pulsate and pulse (verb). Partly displaced native Old English sċūfan, whence Modern English shove.
senses_examples:
text:
In his anger he pushed me against the wall and threatened me.
type:
example
text:
You need to push quite hard to get this door open.
type:
example
text:
We are pushed for an answer.
ref:
December 7, 1710, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner, Number 18
type:
quotation
text:
December 22, 1711, letter to The Spectator
Ambition […] pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honour and reputation to the actor.
text:
to push an objection too far; to push one's luck
type:
example
text:
Stop pushing the issue — I'm not interested.
type:
example
text:
They're pushing that perfume again.
type:
example
text:
There were two men hanging around the school gates today, pushing drugs.
type:
example
text:
Earlier the premier had rejected outright suggestions, apparently being pushed by up to a third of the government’s 33-member caucus, that the government forget the deficit and launch a major public initiative to stimulate the economy.
ref:
1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6
type:
quotation
text:
Don't think that if you keep pushing harder and harder, it will make you succeed faster or earn more.
ref:
2016, JoAnneh Nagler, How to be an artist without losing your mind, your shirt, or your creative compass, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
My old car is pushing 250,000 miles.
type:
example
text:
He's pushing sixty. ― He's nearly sixty years old.
type:
example
text:
“I'm pushing 40 and on TikTok,” he says. “I feel old every day.”
ref:
2023 October 7, Ajesh Patalay, quoting Jon Kung, “The Naked Chef 2.0”, in FT Weekend, HTSI, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
During childbirth, there are times when the obstetrician advises the woman not to push.
type:
example
text:
When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.
ref:
1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
Because this version of the Windows Installer is aware of the GAC, it has the capability to publish components into it. […] You can manually or programmatically push an assembly into the GAC by using the command-line tool Gacutil.exe.
ref:
2002, Lars Powers, Mike Snell, Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library, page 968
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
To press or urge forward; to drive.
To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal.
To approach; to come close to.
To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to give birth or defecate.
To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
To make a higher bid at an auction.
To make an all-in bet.
To move (a pawn) directly forward.
To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot).
senses_topics:
card-games
poker
board-games
chess
games
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports |
8460 | word:
push
word_type:
noun
expansion:
push (countable and uncountable, plural pushes)
forms:
form:
pushes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Modern English
push
etymology_text:
From Middle English pushen, poshen, posson, borrowed from Middle French pousser (Modern French pousser) from Old French poulser, from Latin pulsare, frequentative of pellere (past participle pulsus) "to beat, strike". Doublet of pulsate and pulse (verb). Partly displaced native Old English sċūfan, whence Modern English shove.
senses_examples:
text:
Give the door a hard push if it sticks.
type:
example
text:
One more push and the baby will be out.
type:
example
text:
Some details got lost in the push to get the project done.
type:
example
text:
Let's give one last push on our advertising campaign.
type:
example
text:
The push to amend the Civil and Commercial Code on marriage is expected to enter parliament on Wednesday. The amendment would allow same-sex marriage […]
ref:
2022 February 9, E. Parpart, N. Patanasophon, “Activists push for new ammendment that would give marital rights for all”, in Thai Enquirer, retrieved 2022-02-09
type:
quotation
text:
I guess it's just
the special curse
of working under
deadline's push
ref:
1984 April 7, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
server push; a push technology
type:
example
text:
Till some wild, excited person
Galloped down the township cursing,
"Sydney push have mobbed Macpherson,
Roll up, Dandaloo!"
ref:
1891, Banjo Paterson, An Evening in Dandaloo
type:
quotation
text:
My father […] was soon as unambiguously Australian as any other member of the rough Rugby pushes that in the years before the Great War made up the mixed and liverly world of South Brisbane.
ref:
1994, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
A bell circuit, fed from the train lighting battery, is connected to a push in each berth and functions in conjunction with a luminous indicator mounted over the door and in association with a cancellation push, for use by the car attendant.
ref:
1952 February, “New Third Class Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 87
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
A great effort (to do something).
An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
A force that impels or pressures one to act.
A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.
A particular crowd or throng or people.
A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same time
An attempt to give momentum to a wrestler's career in the form of victories and/or more screen time.
A push-button, such as a bell push.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
|
8461 | word:
push
word_type:
noun
expansion:
push (plural pushes)
forms:
form:
pushes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
push
etymology_text:
Probably French poche. See pouch.
senses_examples:
text:
a Push rise upon his Nose
ref:
1625, Francis Bacon, Of Praise
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pustule; a pimple.
senses_topics:
|
8462 | word:
wow
word_type:
intj
expansion:
wow
forms:
wikipedia:
wow
etymology_text:
Attested since the 16th century; borrowed from Scots wow; ultimately a natural exclamation.
senses_examples:
text:
Wow, I sure was surprised!
type:
example
text:
Out on thir wanderand spiritis, wow! thow cryis.
ref:
1513, Gavin Douglas, Virgil Æneid (translation) vi. Prol. 19
type:
quotation
text:
Wow! How do they do that?
type:
example
text:
Wow… good job using all of our supplies on the first day.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An indication of excitement, surprise, astonishment, or pleasure.
An expression of amazement, awe, or admiration.
Used sarcastically to express disapproval of something.
senses_topics:
|
8463 | word:
wow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wow (third-person singular simple present wows, present participle wowing, simple past and past participle wowed)
forms:
form:
wows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
wowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
wowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
wow
etymology_text:
Attested since the 16th century; borrowed from Scots wow; ultimately a natural exclamation.
senses_examples:
text:
He really wowed the audience.
type:
example
text:
If all of us can remember how great it felt to be wowed, why don't we make it a habit to do it more often for others? People remember you when you wow them, so to differentiate yourself with your clients and customers, think of doing something that would make them remember you.
ref:
2015, Joe Sweeney, Mike Yorkey, Moving the Needle, John Wiley & Sons, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
We have the worst of both worlds: the royal family gives us nothing, and we in turn legitimise it, give it meaning and audience and pay, through subsidies and tax exemptions, for its ability to wow us.
ref:
2023 May 8, Nesrine Malik, “The coronation pulled a screen across a desperate, failing nation – just as intended”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To amaze or awe.
senses_topics:
|
8464 | word:
wow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wow (plural wows)
forms:
form:
wows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wow
etymology_text:
Attested since the 16th century; borrowed from Scots wow; ultimately a natural exclamation.
senses_examples:
text:
He did? That's a wow!
type:
example
text:
‘And say, Jimmy, wait till you see me in my new outfit...It’s a wow, kid.’
ref:
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 144
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Anything exceptionally surprising, unbelievable, outstanding, etc.
senses_topics:
|
8465 | word:
wow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wow (countable and uncountable, plural wows)
forms:
form:
wows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wow
etymology_text:
Imitative.
senses_examples:
text:
Sound films have to be loaded so that the sound is 5 seconds before the sound drum so a wow does not result when the film is punched up on the air.
ref:
1970, Larry G. Goodwin, Thomas Koehring, Closed-circuit Television Production Techniques, page 80
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders.
senses_topics:
audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
8466 | word:
rin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rin (third-person singular simple present rins, present participle rinning, simple past ran, past participle run)
forms:
form:
rins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rinning
tags:
participle
present
form:
ran
tags:
past
form:
run
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English rinnen, from Old English rinnan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”). More at run.
senses_examples:
text:
"Besides," he continued, "I'm no sure that I'm right in rinning—rinning! I'm no rinning , I'm ganging; weel then I'm no sure that I'm right doing a witch's errand, whether rinning or ganging, sae I'se stand still and consider it.[…]."
ref:
1836, Allan Cunningham, Lord Roldan, volume 1, John Macrone, page 314
type:
quotation
text:
O! gin I were where Gadie rins,
ref:
a. 1846, John Imlah, “Where Gadie rins”, in James Grant Wilson, editor, The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, Volume II, Harper & Brothers, published 1876, page 211
type:
quotation
text:
1879, I. T. Tregellas [John Tabois Tregellas], Peeps Into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall, Netherton & Worth (Truro), Houlston & Sons (London), page 3,
I had a servant who had lived all his life-time within four miles of Plymouth, who told me of a circumstance which occurred to his mother, thus:— "Mawther ben out gatherin' nits, and when she kimbed hum she went to shet the shetters , and then she seed a man rin out of the dewr weth three spewns weth un, what he had stould, and away he rinned, and my mawther rinned arter un. 'Twas as fine a mewnlight night as cud be seed tew (too); an she cud see un stright on afore her; and hallowed tew she ded as lang as ever her wind beered up, and rinned and rinned; at laest she rinned un out of sight, and never goat the spewns she dedn't"
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To run.
senses_topics:
|
8467 | word:
rin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rin (plural rin)
forms:
form:
rin
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 厘(りん) (rin).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of a Japanese yen, no longer in circulation.
senses_topics:
|
8468 | word:
totalitarian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
totalitarian (comparative more totalitarian, superlative most totalitarian)
forms:
form:
more totalitarian
tags:
comparative
form:
most totalitarian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian totalitario (“complete, absolute, totalitarian”) + -an. Equivalent to totality + -arian.
senses_examples:
text:
The divine truth is stronger than totalitarian falsehoods.
type:
example
text:
Only history can tell us where China will go from here. The Chinese leadership's brutal crackdown on students seeking fundamental democratic rights makes it difficult to chart the future. Those brave students who laid down their lives against the tanks of Tiananmen Square confirmed what I'd always believed: that no totalitarian society can bottle up the instinctive drive of men and women to be free, and that once you give a captive people a little freedom, they'll demand still more.
ref:
1990, Ronald Reagan, An American Life, Pocket Books, pages 372–373
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to a system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially, and politically.
senses_topics:
|
8469 | word:
totalitarian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
totalitarian (plural totalitarians)
forms:
form:
totalitarians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian totalitario (“complete, absolute, totalitarian”) + -an. Equivalent to totality + -arian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An advocate of totalitarianism.
senses_topics:
|
8470 | word:
doubt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
doubt (third-person singular simple present doubts, present participle doubting, simple past and past participle doubted)
forms:
form:
doubts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
doubting
tags:
participle
present
form:
doubted
tags:
participle
past
form:
doubted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
The verb is derived from Middle English douten (“to be in doubt, feel unsure; to be afraid or worried; to hesitate; to be confused; to have respect or reverence”) [and other forms], from Old French douter, doter, duter (compare Middle French doubter), from Latin dubitāre (“to hesitate”), the present active infinitive of dubitō (“to be uncertain, doubt; to hesitate, waver in coming to an opinion; to consider, ponder”); the further etymology is uncertain, but one theory is that dubitō may be derived from dubius (“fluctuating, wavering; doubtful, dubious, uncertain”), from duhibius (“held as two”), from duo (“two”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”)) + habeō (“to have, hold”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”)). Although the Middle English form of the word was spelled without a b, this letter was later introduced through the influence of the Latin words dubitāre and dubitō. However, the English word continued to be pronounced without the b sound.
The noun is derived from Middle English dout, doute (“uncertain feeling; questionable point; hesitation; anxiety, fear; reverence, respect; something to be feared, danger;”) [and other forms],
from Old French doute, dote, dute (“uncertain feeling, doubt”), from doter, douter, duter (“to doubt; to be afraid of, fear”) (compare Middle French doubter; modern French douter (“to doubt; to suspect”)); see further etymology above.
Displaced Old English twēo (“doubt”) and twēoġan (“to doubt”).
senses_examples:
text:
He doubted that was really what you meant.
type:
example
text:
I had no wish to go, though I doubt if they would have noticed me even if I had.
type:
example
text:
Ther be but two wayes onely. The one whiche by followyng the affections ledeth to perdicion. The other whyche throughe the mortifyenge of the fleſhe: ledeth to lyfe, why doubteſt thou in thy ſelf: There is no thyrde way.
ref:
[1552?], Erasmus of Roterdame, “The Seconde Rule. Capitulo x.”, in [William Tyndale], transl., Enchiridion Militis Christiani, which maye be Called in Englishe, the Hansome Weapon of a Christian Knight, […], imprinted at London: […] [B]y [J. Day (?) for] Abraham Ueale, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
And as for that faith, vvhich is vvithout vvorkes, and yet ſeemeth to thes men to be ſufficient for their ſaluation; he proteſteth, that it is ſo vnprofitable, as he doubteth not to ſaye of hymſelf; [...]
ref:
1585 September 9, “How a Man may Ivdge or Discerne of Him Self, vvhether He be a True Christian or Not. […]”, in A Christian Directorie Gviding Men to Their Salvation. Devided into Three Bookes. […], [Rouen]: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages 316–317
type:
quotation
text:
Now it is not required nor can be exacted at our hands, that we ſhould yeeld vnto any thing other aſſent, then ſuch as doth anſwer the euidence which is to be had of that wee aſſent to. For which cauſe euen in matters diuine, concerning ſome things we may lawfully doubt and ſuſpend our iudgement, inclining neyther to one ſide or other, [...]
ref:
1594, Richard Hooker, “The Second Booke. Concerning Their First Position who Vrge Reformation in the Church of England: Namely, that Scripture is the Only Rule of All Things which in this Life may be Done by Men.”, in Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, Eight Bookes, London: Printed by William Stansbye, published 1622, →OCLC, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
As to the efficacy of such legislation and taxation a word may be said. No one doubts that it is possible, by the employment of such methods, to make the rich poorer. [...] But the really important question—for all serious-minded inquirers—is whether the employment of these weapons will diminish the poverty or increase the prosperity of the relatively poor.
ref:
1913 June, J[ohn] A[rthur] R[ansome] Marriott, “The Problem of Poverty”, in The Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, volume LXXIII, number CCCCXXXVI, New York, N.Y.: Leonard Scott Publication Co.; London: Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., printers, →OCLC, section III, page 1262
type:
quotation
text:
And thus no longer trusting to His might, / Who saith we "walk by faith and not by sight," / Doubting, and almost yielding to despair, / The thought arose—My cross I cannot bear.
ref:
1915, [Gertrude Antoinette Woodcock Seibert], “The Changed Cross”, in Poems of Dawn, New York, N.Y., London: Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, →OCLC, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
"Your philosophy is very pretty," Tom Douty said slowly, "but I can't help doubting that this is not the right time to start the new business."
ref:
1921 August, Howard P. Rockey, “The Doubting Thomas”, in Orison Swett Marden, editor, The New Success: Marden’s Magazine: A Magazine of Optimism, Self-help and Encouragement, volume V, number 8, New York, N.Y.: Lowrey-Marden Corporation, →OCLC, part I, page 76, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
[B]oth colonisers and colonised lost faith in the colonisers' vision of the future. Europeans doubted whether their aims were attainable; Africans doubted whether they were desirable.
ref:
1979, John Iliffe, “The Crisis of Colonial Society, 1929–45”, in A Modern History of Tanganyika (African Studies Series; 25), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 1994, page 342
type:
quotation
text:
In one study, 60% of Black students believed that their academic abilities were doubted by their White peers, and 60% felt that their White professors doubted them as well.
ref:
2011, Kent Koppelman, “Diversity and Discrimination: The Argument over Affirmative Action”, in The Great Diversity Debate: Embracing Pluralism in School and Society, New York, N.Y.: Teachers College Press, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
We may doubt the just proportion of good to ill.
There is much in nature against us. But we forget:
Take nature altogether since time began,
Including human nature, in peace and war,
And it must be a little more in favor of man,[…]
ref:
2020 May 15, Robert Frost, Delphi Complete Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series), Delphi Classics, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
The rest of his horsemen the Duke sent to his campe, bicause they heard a great noise there, and doubted the enimies sally, and indeede they had issued foorth thrise, but were alwaies repulsed, especially through the valiantns of the English men that the Duke left there behind him [...]
ref:
1596, Philippe de Commynes, The historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton, London: Ar. Hatfield, pages 50-51
type:
quotation
text:
Edmond aþelstones broþer · after him was king · / Godmon & doutede · god þoru alle þing ·
Edmund, Æthelstan's brother · / after him was king · / [He was a] good man and feared · God through all things ·]
ref:
[1297, Robert of Gloucester, “Edmond”, in William Aldis Wright, editor, The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. […] (Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores; no. 86), part I (in Middle English), London: Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, […], published 1887, →OCLC, page 408
type:
quotation
text:
[H]ow many good Christians are there, who consider themselves the beloved of Christ & the invariable followers of his gospel, who with all his precepts in their mind go to Africa, wrest the mother from the infant—the father from the wife—chain them to the whip & lash, they & their posterity for ever, nay hold this scourge in their own hand & inflict it with all the gout of their abominable appetites, & who do not doubt that they are violating the whole doctrine of the author of their religion—To what absurdities may not the human mind bring itself when this can be thought by them less offensive to God, than eating meat on a friday?
ref:
1798 February 27, William Short, “From William Short, 27 February [letter to Thomas Jefferson]”, in Barbara B. Oberg, editor, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, volume 30 (1 January 1798 to 31 January 1799), Princeton, N.J., Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, published 2003, page 152
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.
To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
To fill with fear; to affright.
To dread, to fear.
senses_topics:
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8471 | word:
doubt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
doubt (countable and uncountable, plural doubts)
forms:
form:
doubts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
The verb is derived from Middle English douten (“to be in doubt, feel unsure; to be afraid or worried; to hesitate; to be confused; to have respect or reverence”) [and other forms], from Old French douter, doter, duter (compare Middle French doubter), from Latin dubitāre (“to hesitate”), the present active infinitive of dubitō (“to be uncertain, doubt; to hesitate, waver in coming to an opinion; to consider, ponder”); the further etymology is uncertain, but one theory is that dubitō may be derived from dubius (“fluctuating, wavering; doubtful, dubious, uncertain”), from duhibius (“held as two”), from duo (“two”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”)) + habeō (“to have, hold”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”)). Although the Middle English form of the word was spelled without a b, this letter was later introduced through the influence of the Latin words dubitāre and dubitō. However, the English word continued to be pronounced without the b sound.
The noun is derived from Middle English dout, doute (“uncertain feeling; questionable point; hesitation; anxiety, fear; reverence, respect; something to be feared, danger;”) [and other forms],
from Old French doute, dote, dute (“uncertain feeling, doubt”), from doter, douter, duter (“to doubt; to be afraid of, fear”) (compare Middle French doubter; modern French douter (“to doubt; to suspect”)); see further etymology above.
Displaced Old English twēo (“doubt”) and twēoġan (“to doubt”).
senses_examples:
text:
There was some doubt as to who the child's real father was.
type:
example
text:
I have doubts about how to convert this code to JavaScript.
type:
example
text:
After all, the search for such assurances will itself require us to marshall our cognitive resources. It will itself involve the use of methods about which we can sensibly have doubts, doubts that cannot be addressed without begging the question.
ref:
1990, Richard Foley, “Skepticism and Rationality”, in Michael D. Roth, Glenn Ross, editors, Doubting: Contemporary Perspectives on Skepticism (Philosophical Studies Series; 48), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →DOI, part 1 (Concessions), page 73
type:
quotation
text:
It is entirely normal to hear a statement like "I have just one doubt, miss" or "If you have any doubts before the exam tomorrow, come see me in the staff room". The doubts in the aforementioned sentences are not as much rooted in a lack of faith as in a lack of understanding.
ref:
2006 July 12, Vishy, “Vishy's Indian English Dictionary: doubt”, in Vishy's Indian English Dictionary, archived from the original on 2008-03-09
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
A point of uncertainty; a query.
senses_topics:
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8472 | word:
emperor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
emperor (plural emperors)
forms:
form:
emperors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English emperour, from Anglo-Norman emperour, from Latin imperātorem, derived from imperāre (“to command”). Doublet of imperator.
senses_examples:
text:
In imperial China, it was often a responsibility of the emperor to evaluate his predecessor after the latter's death.
type:
example
text:
They asked Julius Caesar, the valiant Roman emperor, what was the best death. He answered, that which is unexpected, which comes suddenly and unforeseen
ref:
1885, John Ormsby, transl., Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, Volume 2 Chapter XXIV
type:
quotation
text:
In 690 Wu usurped the throne and became Emperor herself, which proved a unique event in the history of China.
ref:
1994, Het Spinhuis, Transactions: Essays in Honor of Jeremy F. Boissevain
type:
quotation
text:
After his death in 683 she ruled for seven years as regent and then, deposing her son, became emperor herself, the only woman in Chinese history to hold the title.
ref:
2002, The Heritage of World Civilizations: To 1700, page 226
type:
quotation
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
text:
Originally the wife of the emperor, she engineered the imperial succession so that she could serve first as regent to a boy emperor and then as emperor herself.
ref:
2013, Voyages in World History, page 213
type:
quotation
text:
Where is Sindbad? I have a summons for him direct from the galactic emperor herself. He is to be brought here immediately to give an explanation for his recent actions.
ref:
2016, Commander Pakydus, Sindbad & the 7 Galaxies
type:
quotation
text:
The Investiture Controversy was a conflict between the Emperor and the Pope.
type:
example
text:
But marbles are not only used to play games: they are also traded. In this market, the value of the different kinds of marbles (oilies, emperors, etc.) is determined by local supply and demand and not by the price of the marbles […]
ref:
2001, Paul Webley, The economic psychology of everyday life, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
We do not know if the emperors are monogamous. I know some of the penguins species mate for life.
ref:
2008, Gloria Clifford, Emperor Penguins: The Lords of Antarctica
type:
quotation
text:
During pairing, mates walk an average of only 90 m per day, and, while incubating, male emperors move an average of 30 m per day.
ref:
2012, Lloyd S. Davis, John T. Darby, Penguin Biology, page 273
type:
quotation
text:
If they were emperors, I wanted a better view. Being told they were emperors was no good; I needed to see them. But as quickly as we had spotted them, they spotted us. Sliding on their bellies, two emperors began to rush over.
ref:
2019, Lindsay McCrae, My Penguin Year: Living with the Emperors
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an emperor.
Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.
The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck.
A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
Any fish of the family Lethrinidae.
Any of various butterflies of the subfamily Charaxinae.
Any of various large dragonflies of the cosmopolitan genus Anax.
An emperor penguin.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
tarot
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
|
8473 | word:
meute
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meute (plural meutes)
forms:
form:
meutes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cage for hawks; a mew.
senses_topics:
|
8474 | word:
katana
word_type:
noun
expansion:
katana (plural katana or katanas)
forms:
form:
katana
tags:
plural
form:
katanas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 刀(かたな) (katana).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of Japanese longsword, having a single edge and slight curvature, historically used by samurai and ninja.
senses_topics:
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry |
8475 | word:
doctor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
doctor (plural doctors)
forms:
form:
doctors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English doctor (“an expert, authority on a subject”), doctour, from Anglo-Norman doctour, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“I teach”). Displaced native Middle English lerare (“doctor, teacher”) (from Middle English leren (“to teach, instruct”) from Old English lǣran, lēran (“to teach, instruct, guide”), compare Old English lārēow (“teacher, master”)). Displaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”), and doublet of docent.
senses_examples:
text:
If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.
type:
example
text:
the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter
text:
the doctor, or auxiliary engine, also called "donkey engine"
text:
The use of a disk doctor may be the only way of recovering valuable data following a disk crash.
ref:
2010, Ramesh Bangia, Dictionary of Information Technology, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
[…] old Scotch Jem the boatswain, tunes his fiddle, and the doctor, (ship's cook,) produces his tambourine; the men dance on deck, […]
ref:
1844, William Robert Wilde, Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and Along the Shores of the Mediterranean, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
His galley is small, and, microscopic as it is, it is shared by his brother in misery, the ship's cook, he whom the crew familiarly know as the “Doctor.”
ref:
1881, The United Service, volume 5, page 212
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK.
A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
A fish, the friar skate.
A ship's cook.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
8476 | word:
doctor
word_type:
verb
expansion:
doctor (third-person singular simple present doctors, present participle doctoring, simple past and past participle doctored)
forms:
form:
doctors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
doctoring
tags:
participle
present
form:
doctored
tags:
participle
past
form:
doctored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English doctor (“an expert, authority on a subject”), doctour, from Anglo-Norman doctour, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“I teach”). Displaced native Middle English lerare (“doctor, teacher”) (from Middle English leren (“to teach, instruct”) from Old English lǣran, lēran (“to teach, instruct, guide”), compare Old English lārēow (“teacher, master”)). Displaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”), and doublet of docent.
senses_examples:
text:
Her children doctored her back to health.
type:
example
text:
2017, "Do No Harm", season 8, episode 2 of Adventure Time
Doctor Princess: Put this on. [gives her lab coat to Finn] OK, you're a doctor now. Good luck.
Finn: Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait! I don't know how to doctor!
text:
They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.
type:
example
text:
We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.
type:
example
text:
Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
type:
example
text:
To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.
type:
example
text:
Catherine, the Princess of Wales, apologized on Monday for doctoring a photo of her with her three children, which was recalled by several news agencies on Sunday after they determined the image had been manipulated.
ref:
2024 March 11, Mark Landler, Lauren Leatherby, “Princess of Wales Apologizes, Saying She Edited Image”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act as a medical doctor to.
To act as a medical doctor.
To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
To genetically alter an extant species.
To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
To take medicine.
senses_topics:
|
8477 | word:
brass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brass (usually uncountable, plural brasses)
forms:
form:
brasses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
brass
etymology_text:
From Middle English bras, bres, from Old English bræs (“brass, bronze”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps representing a backformation from Proto-Germanic *brasnaz (“brazen”), from or related to *brasō (“fire, pyre”). Compare Old Norse and Icelandic bras (“solder”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden in the fire”), Swedish brasa (“a small controlled fire”), Danish brase (“to fry”); French braser ("to solder"; > English braise) from the same Germanic root. Compare also Middle Dutch braspenninc ("a silver coin", literally, "silver-penny"; > Dutch braspenning), Old Frisian bress (“copper”), Middle Low German bras (“metal, ore”).
In the military sense an ellipsis of the brass hats.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: bronze
text:
brass:
text:
I don't want to keep the brass waiting, Chief.
ref:
2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Armory
type:
quotation
text:
The brass are not going to like this.
type:
example
text:
The brass is not going to like this.
type:
example
text:
You've got a lot of brass telling me to do that!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten
A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass
A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; the section of an orchestra that features such instruments
Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired.
The colour of brass.
High-ranking officers.
A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.
Money.
Inferior composition.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
government
military
politics
war
|
8478 | word:
brass
word_type:
adj
expansion:
brass (comparative more brass, superlative most brass)
forms:
form:
more brass
tags:
comparative
form:
most brass
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
brass
etymology_text:
From Middle English bras, bres, from Old English bræs (“brass, bronze”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps representing a backformation from Proto-Germanic *brasnaz (“brazen”), from or related to *brasō (“fire, pyre”). Compare Old Norse and Icelandic bras (“solder”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden in the fire”), Swedish brasa (“a small controlled fire”), Danish brase (“to fry”); French braser ("to solder"; > English braise) from the same Germanic root. Compare also Middle Dutch braspenninc ("a silver coin", literally, "silver-penny"; > Dutch braspenning), Old Frisian bress (“copper”), Middle Low German bras (“metal, ore”).
In the military sense an ellipsis of the brass hats.
senses_examples:
text:
At the Council board, I hope to charge him with that he cannot answer, and yet I know his face is brass enough.
ref:
1869, John Bruce, editor, Calendar of State Papers, domestic series, of the reign of Charles I, 1637-1638, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
[...] he continued in the same insulting strain. "If you were not quite brass, you would know it is not proper to be making promises you dare not tell of."
ref:
1872, Elsie Leigh Whittlesey, Helen Ethinger: or, Not Exactly Right, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
It was a show of very large and very brass cojones, [...]
ref:
2011, Paul Christopher, The Templar Conspiracy
type:
quotation
text:
Maybe (probably so), but it's rare someone is brass enough to post a msg for all to see asking for a software key, that the vast majority have paid for in support of the development effort.
ref:
1996 May 24, 2:00 am, Sherman Simpson, Want license key for AGENT FOR WINDOWS95, alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent
text:
After cornering the dutch auction, the seller was brass enough to send him the whole lot without one.
ref:
2000 Aug 18, 2:00 am, David Ryan, strangest bid retraction /illegal lottery NOT, rec.collecting.coins
text:
Try to keep in mind that not all of his converts are brass enough to challenge the benzo pushers in this group, …
ref:
2000 Aug 19, 3:00 am, n4mwd, for RMB, alt.support.anxiety-panic
text:
Grindoff, the miller, 'and the leader of a very brass band of most unpopular performers, with a thorough base accompaniment of at least fifty vices,' was played by Miss Saunders.
ref:
1888, Mr. & Mrs. Bancroft on and off the stage: written by themselves, volume 1, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
I must confess that to me there is something almost pathetic in the sight of a body of bluejackets improving their muscles on the quarter deck by bar-bell exercise, accompanied by a brass — a very brass — band, [...]
ref:
1900 November 3, “The Training of Seamen”, in The Saturday Review, volume 90, number 2349, page 556
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. REGINALD SMITH, KC, the publisher, followed, but he had hardly begun his very interesting remarks when a procession headed by a very brass band entered Smithfield from the west, and approached the platform.
ref:
1908, The Smith Family, published in Punch, March 4 1908, bound in Punch vol. CXXXIV, page 168
text:
There are soldiers, policemen, priests and friars, as well as a motley mass of women, children, babies and dogs, and upon special occasions a very brass band.
ref:
1937, Blair Niles, A journey in time: Peruvian pageant, page 166
type:
quotation
text:
The padre in my neighborhood — Santa Ana — was having some kind of a fiesta, and had hired a very brass band. This band kept up its martial airs for hours and hours after I got home, with grand finales — or what each time I hoped would be the grand finale, every five minutes.
ref:
1929, Philippine Magazine, volume 6, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
As Honest Plush Brannon then, Mr. Beery is one of San Francisco's fancier con men and hence more brass than plush
ref:
1939, The New York times film reviews, volume 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
Of the colour of brass.
Impertinent, bold: brazen.
Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.
Of inferior composition.
senses_topics:
|
8479 | word:
brass
word_type:
verb
expansion:
brass (third-person singular simple present brasses, present participle brassing, simple past and past participle brassed)
forms:
form:
brasses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
brassing
tags:
participle
present
form:
brassed
tags:
participle
past
form:
brassed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
brass
etymology_text:
From Middle English bras, bres, from Old English bræs (“brass, bronze”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps representing a backformation from Proto-Germanic *brasnaz (“brazen”), from or related to *brasō (“fire, pyre”). Compare Old Norse and Icelandic bras (“solder”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden in the fire”), Swedish brasa (“a small controlled fire”), Danish brase (“to fry”); French braser ("to solder"; > English braise) from the same Germanic root. Compare also Middle Dutch braspenninc ("a silver coin", literally, "silver-penny"; > Dutch braspenning), Old Frisian bress (“copper”), Middle Low German bras (“metal, ore”).
In the military sense an ellipsis of the brass hats.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To coat with brass.
senses_topics:
|
8480 | word:
brass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brass (usually uncountable, plural brasses)
forms:
form:
brasses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
brass
etymology_text:
By ellipsis from brass nail, in turn from "nail[ing]" (fig.) and "brass blonde" (see "brazen"); and also shortened from Cockney Rhyming slang brass flute for "prostitute".
senses_examples:
text:
Richard didn't want the man on the corner to go up and fuck one of the brasses.
ref:
1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury, published 2011, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A prostitute.
senses_topics:
|
8481 | word:
brass
word_type:
adj
expansion:
brass
forms:
wikipedia:
brass
etymology_text:
By ellipsis from brass nail, in turn from "nail[ing]" (fig.) and "brass blonde" (see "brazen"); and also shortened from Cockney Rhyming slang brass flute for "prostitute".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Brass monkey; cold.
senses_topics:
|
8482 | word:
brass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brass (plural brasses)
forms:
form:
brasses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
brass
etymology_text:
From Portuguese braça and Spanish braza, from Old Galician-Portuguese and Old Spanish braça, from Latin brachia, variant of bracchium (“arm, cubit”), from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “upper arm”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of brace, a traditional unit of measure equivalent to a fathom (6 feet) or about 1.6 m, especially as the Spanish braza and Portuguese braça, also French brasse.
senses_topics:
|
8483 | word:
blood type
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blood type (plural blood types)
forms:
form:
blood types
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
blood type
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any classification of human blood by the presence or absence of various antigens in a person’s red blood cells.
Any classification of human blood by the presence or absence of various antigens in a person’s red blood cells.
One of eight possible classifications within the ABO and Rh blood group systems, commonly used to determine a person's compatibility for blood transfusion.
senses_topics:
|
8484 | word:
carburettor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
carburettor (plural carburettors)
forms:
form:
carburettors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Both affect the performance of the machine, especially the carburettors, and both are important to the final appearance of the model.
ref:
2005, Mick Walker, How to Restore Your BMW Twin 1955-1985, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
In a carburettor the pressure drop (or viewed another way, suction) is used to draw fuel out of a reservoir, usually via a jet, and into the venturi to mix with the air flowing through it.
ref:
2008, Daniel Stapleton, David Vizard, John Sprinzel, The MG Midget & Austin Healey Sprite High Performance Manual, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
For a large part of the twentieth century the majority of light vehicles used petrol engines that were equipped with a carburettor.
ref:
2011, Allan Bonnick, A Practical Approach to Motor Vehicle Engineering and Maintenance, page 81
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of carburetor (“device in an internal combustion engine”)
senses_topics:
automotive
transport
vehicles |
8485 | word:
chan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chan (plural chans)
forms:
form:
chans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of channel.
senses_examples:
text:
I tried, but I never get anyone in the chan! I don't know how/where to advertise... maybe we should set up a meeting time or something?
ref:
1997, Dominic Donegan, “Is there a #nethack chan on IRC?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.
ref:
1999, Jonny Durango, “IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!!”, in alt.hackers.malicious (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An IRC channel.
senses_topics:
|
8486 | word:
chan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chan (plural chans)
forms:
form:
chans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
4chan
etymology_text:
From 4chan, a popular imageboard; ultimately from channel.
senses_examples:
text:
more niche chans
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An imageboard.
senses_topics:
|
8487 | word:
dictator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dictator (plural dictators)
forms:
form:
dictators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin dictātor (“a chief magistrate”), from dictō (“dictate, prescribe”), from dīcō (“say, speak”). By surface analysis, dictate + -or, literally “one who dictates”.
senses_examples:
text:
The Dominicans had lived for thirty years under the iron-fisted rule of dictator Leonidas Trujillo. During those years, which ended with Trujillo's assassination in 1961, those who opposed Trujillo had three choices: to go into exile, to go underground, or to remain quiet. Most Dominicans had chosen the third course.
ref:
1971, Lyndon Johnson, “A Time of Testing: Crises in the Caribbean”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 188
type:
quotation
text:
Dictator, noun : someone who doesn't let American CEOs dictate how their country is run
ref:
2019, (Existential Comics), 29 January, 9:27 AM Tweet
type:
quotation
text:
"The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment in it was he didn't know it was there," Biden said.
"That's a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn't know what happened. That wasn't supposed to be going where it was. It was blown off course," Biden said.
ref:
2023 June 21, Trevor Hunnicutt, Ryan Woo, quoting Joe Biden, “China hits back after Biden calls Xi a 'dictator'”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-06-22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government.
A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the Senate, typically to conduct a war.
A tyrannical boss or authority figure.
Misspelling of dictater.
senses_topics:
history
human-sciences
sciences
|
8488 | word:
princess
word_type:
noun
expansion:
princess (plural princesses)
forms:
form:
princesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
princess
etymology_text:
From Middle English princesse, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman princesse, Old French princesse, corresponding to prince + -ess.
senses_examples:
text:
She did not cry long, however, for she was as brave as could be expected of a princess of her age.
ref:
1872, George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
type:
quotation
text:
Michael Jackson was the king of pop. Britney Spears was the pop princess. Until they weren't.
ref:
2014, Blake Masters, Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
type:
quotation
text:
Princess Grace was the Princess of Monaco.
type:
example
text:
Jonathan, if you hear this, you're a beautiful princess, but you're also a big, fat dork.
ref:
2020 September 15, Justmaiko, 2:13 from the start, in Trying Viral TikTok Life Hacks. **They Actually Work!!**
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter of a monarch.
A woman or girl who excels in a given field or class.
A female ruler or monarch; a queen.
The wife of a prince; the female ruler of a principality.
A young girl; used as a term of endearment.
A young girl or woman (or less commonly a man) who is vain, spoiled, or selfish; a prima donna.
A tinted crystal marble used in children's games.
A type of court card in the Tarot pack, coming between the 10 and the prince (Jack).
A female lemur.
A Bulgarian open-faced baked sandwich prepared with ground meat.
senses_topics:
|
8489 | word:
lie
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lie (third-person singular simple present lies, present participle lying, simple past lay or laid, past participle lain or laid or (obsolete) lien)
forms:
form:
lie See usage notes.
tags:
canonical
form:
lies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lying
tags:
participle
present
form:
lay
tags:
past
form:
laid
tags:
past
form:
lain
tags:
participle
past
form:
laid
tags:
participle
past
form:
lien
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
lie
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.
Cognate with West Frisian lizze, Dutch liggen, German liegen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ligge, Swedish ligga, Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk liggja, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan); and with Latin lectus (“bed”), Irish luí, Russian лежа́ть (ležátʹ), Albanian lag (“troop, band, encampment”).
As a noun for position, the noun has the same etymology above as the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
The book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin
type:
example
text:
Our uninquiring corpses lie more low / Than our life's curiosity doth go.
ref:
1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
type:
quotation
text:
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
ref:
1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid
type:
quotation
text:
Ying-yang county lies 70 li southwest of the modern Teng-feng county, Honan.
ref:
1988, Robin D. S. Yates, “Selected Translations”, in Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910), Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hidden; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves
type:
example
text:
The paper does not lie smooth on the wall.
type:
example
text:
Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.
ref:
c. 1690, Jeremy Collier, Of Envy
type:
quotation
text:
While I was now trifling at home, I saw London, […] where I lay one night only.
ref:
1632, John Evelyn, diary, entry 21 October 1632
type:
quotation
text:
An appeal lies in this case from the ordinary to the arches.
ref:
1737, Cart against Marsh (legal case)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
To be placed or situated.
To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
To lodge; to sleep.
To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
senses_topics:
law |
8490 | word:
lie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lie (plural lies)
forms:
form:
lies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.
Cognate with West Frisian lizze, Dutch liggen, German liegen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ligge, Swedish ligga, Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk liggja, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan); and with Latin lectus (“bed”), Irish luí, Russian лежа́ть (ležátʹ), Albanian lag (“troop, band, encampment”).
As a noun for position, the noun has the same etymology above as the verb.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
The position of a fetus in the womb.
A manner of lying; relative position.
An animal's lair.
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
medicine
sciences
|
8491 | word:
lie
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lie (third-person singular simple present lies, present participle lying, simple past and past participle lied)
forms:
form:
lies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lying
tags:
participle
present
form:
lied
tags:
participle
past
form:
lied
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
lie
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lien (“to lie, tell a falsehood”), from Old English lēogan (“to lie”), from Proto-West Germanic *leugan, from Proto-Germanic *leuganą (“to lie”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (“to lie, swear, bemoan”).
Cognate with West Frisian lige (“to lie”), Low German legen, lögen (“to lie”), Dutch liegen (“to lie”), German lügen (“to lie”), Norwegian ljuge/lyge (“to lie”), Danish lyve (“to lie”), Swedish ljuga (“to lie”), and more distantly with Bulgarian лъжа (lǎža, “to lie”), Polish łgać (“to lie”), Russian лгать (lgatʹ, “to lie”), ложь (ložʹ, “falsehood”).
senses_examples:
text:
When Pinocchio lies, his nose grows.
type:
example
text:
If you are found to have lied in court, you could face a penalty.
type:
example
text:
Don't lie to me!
type:
example
text:
Lie to get what I came for
Lie to get just what I need
Lie to get what I crave
Lie and smile to get what's mine
ref:
2003, “The Package”, performed by A Perfect Circle
type:
quotation
text:
Photographs often lie.
type:
example
text:
Sorry, I haven't seen your keys anywhere...wait, I lied! They're right there on the coffee table.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
To convey a false image or impression.
To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
senses_topics:
|
8492 | word:
lie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lie (plural lies)
forms:
form:
lies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lie, from Old English lyġe (“lie, falsehood”), from Proto-Germanic *lugiz (“lie, falsehood”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (“to tell lies, swear, complain”). Cognate with Old Saxon luggi (“a lie”), Old High German lugī, lugin (“a lie”) (German Lüge), Danish løgn (“a lie”), Bulgarian лъжа́ (lǎžá, “а lie”), Russian ложь (ložʹ, “а lie”), Czech lež (“a lie”), Middle Polish łeż (“a lie”), Serbo-Croatian laž (“a lie”).
senses_examples:
text:
I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.
type:
example
text:
Wishing this lie of life was o'er.
ref:
1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, the Story of Justin Martyr
type:
quotation
text:
The cake is a lie.
ref:
2007, Erik Wolpaw, Chet Faliszek, Portal
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
Anything that misleads or disappoints.
senses_topics:
|
8493 | word:
glow plug
word_type:
noun
expansion:
glow plug (plural glow plugs)
forms:
form:
glow plugs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device in a diesel engine that heats the combustion chamber to help ignition.
senses_topics:
|
8494 | word:
end
word_type:
noun
expansion:
end (plural ends)
forms:
form:
ends
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
end
etymology_text:
From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos, from *h₂ent- (“front, forehead”).
See also Dutch einde, German Ende, Norwegian ende, Swedish ände; also Old Irish ét (“end, point”), Latin antiae (“forelock”), Albanian anë (“side”), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antíos, “opposite”), Sanskrit अन्त्य (antya, “last”). More at and and anti-.
The verb is from Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (“to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die”), from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to finish, end”), denominative from *andijaz.
senses_examples:
text:
At the end of the road, turn left.
type:
example
text:
At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love.
type:
example
text:
Is there no end to this madness?
type:
example
text:
He met a terrible end in the jungle.
type:
example
text:
I hope the end comes quickly.
type:
example
text:
A safe companion and an easy friend / Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.
ref:
1732, Alexander Pope, (epitaph) On Mr. Gay, in Westminster Abbey
text:
Hold the string at both ends.
type:
example
text:
My father always sat at the end of the table nearest the kitchen.
type:
example
text:
The end was that he was thought an archfool.
ref:
1876, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (volume 4, issue 3, part 2, page 3154)
text:
For what end should I toil?
type:
example
text:
The end of our club is to advance conversation and friendship.
type:
example
text:
When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.
ref:
1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, Aphorism VI, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.
ref:
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21
type:
quotation
text:
The Pavillion End
type:
example
text:
odds and ends
type:
example
text:
Don't give them your ends. You jack that shit!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The terminal point of something in space or time.
The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
Death.
The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
Result.
A purpose, goal, or aim.
One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
Money.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
mathematics
sciences
|
8495 | word:
end
word_type:
verb
expansion:
end (third-person singular simple present ends, present participle ending, simple past and past participle ended)
forms:
form:
ends
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ending
tags:
participle
present
form:
ended
tags:
participle
past
form:
ended
tags:
past
wikipedia:
end
etymology_text:
From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos, from *h₂ent- (“front, forehead”).
See also Dutch einde, German Ende, Norwegian ende, Swedish ände; also Old Irish ét (“end, point”), Latin antiae (“forelock”), Albanian anë (“side”), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antíos, “opposite”), Sanskrit अन्त्य (antya, “last”). More at and and anti-.
The verb is from Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (“to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die”), from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to finish, end”), denominative from *andijaz.
senses_examples:
text:
Is this movie never going to end?
type:
example
text:
The lesson will end when the bell rings.
type:
example
text:
The orchestra ended with a performance of Dvořák.
type:
example
text:
The referee blew the whistle to end the game.
type:
example
text:
But play the man, stand up and end you, / When your sickness is your soul.
ref:
1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLV, lines 7-8
type:
quotation
text:
Ending civil wars is hard. Hatreds within countries often run far deeper than between them. The fighting rarely sticks to battlefields, as it can do between states. Civilians are rarely spared. And there are no borders to fall back behind.
ref:
2013 November 9, “How to stop the fighting, sometimes”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8861
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To come to an end.
To conclude; to bring something to an end.
To finish, terminate.
senses_topics:
|
8496 | word:
gaggle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gaggle (plural gaggles)
forms:
form:
gaggles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gagelen (“to cackle; cackle like a goose”). Compare Dutch gaggelen (“to cackle”), Icelandic gagl (“small goose; gosling”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Canada geese always flew over the 80 acre lake; it was a landmark on their route and a stopping point for many a gaggle, where many hours were spent after feeding in the farmers' fields.
ref:
2011, Denise A. White, The Goose and the Crone, AuthorHouse, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
There were no signs and no one quite knew how to navigate the museum, including, as it was Fleet Week, gaggles of boyish sailors all in their summer whites. It looked like a Frank Sinatra movie.
ref:
2014 June 7, Vicki Woods, “Sadness, and a surprise, at the 9/11 Museum”, in The Daily Telegraph, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
The crow’s name was Betty. And she was on her way to stardom. A gaggle of Oxford University scientists watched in wonder as she casually picked up a piece of wire in her cage and then used a nearby object to bend it at one end, transforming the wire into a hooked tool.
ref:
2019 December 12, Chris Baraniuk, “Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates”, in BBC Future
type:
quotation
text:
The party level ramps up at Thornaby, where a gaggle of women on a 50th birthday bash join us.
ref:
2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 74
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
Any group or gathering of related things.
senses_topics:
|
8497 | word:
gaggle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gaggle (third-person singular simple present gaggles, present participle gaggling, simple past and past participle gaggled)
forms:
form:
gaggles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gaggling
tags:
participle
present
form:
gaggled
tags:
participle
past
form:
gaggled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gagelen (“to cackle; cackle like a goose”). Compare Dutch gaggelen (“to cackle”), Icelandic gagl (“small goose; gosling”).
senses_examples:
text:
When a friend asked Socrates, how he could bear the scolding of his wife Xantippe? he retorted, and asked him, how he could bear the gaggling of his geese?
ref:
1733, Jonathan Swift, "A New Simile for the Ladies with Useful Annotations by Dr. Sheridan", note 7 (in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
senses_topics:
|
8498 | word:
hilt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hilt (plural hilts)
forms:
form:
hilts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hilt, hilte, from Old English hilt, hilte, from Proto-Germanic *heltą, *heltǭ, *heltō, *hiltijō, (compare Old Norse hjalt, Old High German helza, Old Saxon helta), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to strike, cut”) (see holt).
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: sword
text:
Meronyms: grip, guard, crossguard, quillons, pommel
text:
A partial tang does not extend all the way through the hilt and is normally not more than half the width of the blade. The length of the tang and the width, particularly where it narrows before entering the pommel, vary from sword to sword.
ref:
2009, James Drewe, Tàijí Jiàn 32-Posture Sword Form, Singing Dragon
type:
quotation
text:
Joy saw stars as Malcolm's hard, thick cock pushed to his hilt, the reality shattering every fantasy about him she ever had. She opened her legs wider and bent her knees. As he pulled out, she tilted her pelvis for his next thrust. His cock ran against her clit hood barbell[…]
ref:
2017 December 1, Lexi Post, Temptations of Christmas Future, Lexi Post
type:
quotation
text:
She jerked his hilt steadily as I rocked over the sensitive head of his cock. The more I worked him the more I felt my crotch dampen with lust.
ref:
2023 October 5, Nicki Menage, Milf’s Threesomes 60-Pack : Books 1 - 60 (Milf Erotica Threesome Erotica Anal Sex Erotica Lesbian Erotica), Taboo Ink
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.
The base of the penis.
senses_topics:
|
8499 | word:
hilt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hilt (third-person singular simple present hilts, present participle hilting, simple past and past participle hilted)
forms:
form:
hilts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hilting
tags:
participle
present
form:
hilted
tags:
participle
past
form:
hilted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hilt, hilte, from Old English hilt, hilte, from Proto-Germanic *heltą, *heltǭ, *heltō, *hiltijō, (compare Old Norse hjalt, Old High German helza, Old Saxon helta), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to strike, cut”) (see holt).
senses_examples:
text:
Being lightly hilted, it was very heavy in the point and was useful only as an unscientific chopper, dangerous if it connected with a vital part of an adversary, ideal for cutting at defenceless infantry, but unsuitable for sabre to sabre action, especially against the French equivalent, a beautifully balanced weapon, which was so functional that it was still used by the French cavalry in 1918, while a copy was used by the Prussians in the war of 1870.
ref:
1973, Ugo Pericoli, 1815: the armies at Waterloo, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
She took a ray of light from the moon, the lamp which stands on her adorning table, and fashioned it into a bright dagger. She hilted it with the turquoise of the morning sky, with some of the stars in it for better grip, and gave it to Gulsera, whispering in her ear.
ref:
1978, Martin Louis Alan Gompertz, Adventures in Sakaeland, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
Reconstructions of Type A and Type B swords weigh less than 500g, even when hilted.
ref:
2011, Dan Howard, Bronze Age Military Equipment, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
By 1810 Clark and Rogers were New Orleans silversmiths, but this study has not revealed any products that they hilted.
ref:
2015, Daniel D. Hartzler, American Silver-Hilted, Revolutionary and Early Federal Swords
type:
quotation
text:
his fingers hilted inside
ref:
2015, Kitsune, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
He hilted himself inside her.
ref:
2017, Hot Wife's Secret Sex Life, page 25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide with a hilt.
To insert (a bodily extremity) as far as it can go into a sexual orifice so that it is impeded by the wider base to which it is attached (finger until palm, penis until pelvis).
senses_topics:
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