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8500 | word:
sleep
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sleep (third-person singular simple present sleeps, present participle sleeping, simple past and past participle slept)
forms:
form:
sleeps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sleeping
tags:
participle
present
form:
slept
tags:
participle
past
form:
slept
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sleep
etymology_text:
From Middle English slepen, from Anglian Old English slēpan, a variant of slǣpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną.
senses_examples:
text:
You should sleep eight hours a day.
type:
example
text:
We sleep in the bedroom.
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Last night we slept together for the first time.
type:
example
text:
This caravan can sleep four people comfortably.
type:
example
text:
a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps
type:
example
text:
After a failed connection attempt, the program sleeps for 5 seconds before trying again.
type:
example
text:
Even when you have reasons not to sleep the computer, it's still a good idea to sleep the display after a period of time.
ref:
2009, Mike Lee, Scott Meyers, Learn Mac OS X Snow Leopard, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
When a top is sleeping, it is spinning but not precessing.
type:
example
text:
A top sleeps when it moves with such velocity, and spins so smoothly, that its motion is imperceptible.
ref:
1854, Anne E. Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases
type:
quotation
text:
Yo-yo tricks involving sleeping the yo-yo (like "walking the dog" and "rocking the baby") cannot be performed in space.
ref:
1995, All Aboard for Space: Introducing Space to Youngsters, page 158
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
To accommodate in beds.
To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
To be dead.
To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
To place into a state of hibernation.
To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
8501 | word:
sleep
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sleep (countable and uncountable, plural sleeps)
forms:
form:
sleeps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sleep
etymology_text:
From Middle English slepe, sleep, sleepe, from Old English slǣp (“sleep”), from Proto-West Germanic *slāp, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaz (“sleep”).
senses_examples:
text:
I really need some sleep.
type:
example
text:
We need to conduct an overnight sleep test to diagnose your sleep problem.
type:
example
text:
I’m just going to have a quick sleep.
type:
example
text:
There are only three sleeps till Christmas!
type:
example
text:
When she had rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and wept till she was tired, she set out on her way and walked for many, many a day, till she at last came to a big mountain.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 233
type:
quotation
text:
But it rings
And we rise,
Wipe the sleep out of our eyes[…]
ref:
1980, “Daydream Believer”performed by Anne Murray
type:
quotation
text:
[...] and draw the medial canthus (aka medial commissure) at the medial extreme. Now draw the lacrimal caruncle at the medial corner of the eye, which produces whitish, oily fluid—it produces “sleep in the eye.”
ref:
2017, Adam J. Fisch, Neuroanatomy: Draw It to Know It, Oxford University Press
type:
quotation
text:
The part of the eyelid that is the location of the lacrimal caruncle, which produces rheum or "sleep," the gritty substance often present when awakening.
ref:
2019, Jahangir Moini, Anatomy and Physiology for Health Professionals, Jones & Bartlett Learning, page 780, entry "Medial canthus"
text:
The daily sleep of plants, and their winter sleep, present in this respect exactly similar phenomena[…]
ref:
1843, Joh Müller, John Bell, Elements of Physiology, page 808
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
An act or instance of sleeping.
A night.
Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
The hibernation of animals.
senses_topics:
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8502 | word:
chivalry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chivalry (usually uncountable, plural chivalries)
forms:
form:
chivalries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chivalry
etymology_text:
From Middle English chivalerie, a late 13th century loan from Old French chevalerie (“knighthood, chivalry, nobility, cavalry”) (11th century), the -erie (“-ery”) abstract of chevaler (“knight, horseman”), from Medieval Latin caballarius (“horseman, knight”), from caballus (“horse”). Medieval Latin caballaria (“knighthood, status or fief of a knight”) dates to the 12th century. Doublet of cavalry.
senses_examples:
text:
‘Most of the lords who rode with Lord Renly to Storm's End have gone over banner-and-blade to Stannis, with all their chivalry.’
ref:
1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 529
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cavalry; horsemen armed for battle.
The fact or condition of being a knight; knightly skill, prowess.
The ethical code of the knight prevalent in Medieval Europe, having such primary virtues as mercy towards the poor and oppressed, humility, honour, sacrifice, fear of God, faithfulness, courage and courtesy to ladies.
Courtesy, respect and honourable conduct between opponents in wartime.
Courteous behaviour, especially that of men towards women.
A tenure of lands by knightly service.
senses_topics:
law |
8503 | word:
bitter
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bitter (comparative more bitter or bitterer, superlative most bitter or bitterest)
forms:
form:
more bitter
tags:
comparative
form:
bitterer
tags:
comparative
form:
most bitter
tags:
superlative
form:
bitterest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
bitter
etymology_text:
From Middle English bitter, bittre, from Old English bitter, biter (“bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitr, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz (“bitter”), equivalent to bite + -er (agent noun suffix) used attributively. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bitter, West Frisian bitter, Low German bitter, Dutch bitter, German bitter, Swedish bitter, Icelandic bitur (all meaning “bitter”).
senses_examples:
text:
The coffee tasted bitter.
type:
example
text:
A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.
ref:
2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, “The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel”, in Wired
type:
quotation
text:
It was at the end of February, […] when the world was cold, and a bitter wind howled down the moors […].
ref:
1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, p.31 (Perennial paperback edition)
text:
They're bitter enemies.
type:
example
text:
Tottenham have not won in the Premier League at Emirates Stadium for 12 years, with Arsenal losing just one of their last 29 home league games against their bitter rivals.
ref:
2022 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 3-1 Tottenham: Gunners show identity & direction in outstanding derby win”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
I've been bitter ever since that defeat.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
Harsh, piercing or stinging.
Hateful or hostile.
Cynical and resentful.
senses_topics:
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8504 | word:
bitter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bitter (countable and uncountable, plural bitters)
forms:
form:
bitters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bitter
etymology_text:
From Middle English bitter, bittre, from Old English bitter, biter (“bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitr, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz (“bitter”), equivalent to bite + -er (agent noun suffix) used attributively. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bitter, West Frisian bitter, Low German bitter, Dutch bitter, German bitter, Swedish bitter, Icelandic bitur (all meaning “bitter”).
senses_examples:
text:
Thus I begin: "All is not gold that glitters,
"Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters.
ref:
1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
A turn of a cable about the bitts.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
8505 | word:
bitter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bitter (third-person singular simple present bitters, present participle bittering, simple past and past participle bittered)
forms:
form:
bitters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bittering
tags:
participle
present
form:
bittered
tags:
participle
past
form:
bittered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bitter
etymology_text:
From Middle English bitter, bittre, from Old English bitter, biter (“bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitr, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz (“bitter”), equivalent to bite + -er (agent noun suffix) used attributively. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bitter, West Frisian bitter, Low German bitter, Dutch bitter, German bitter, Swedish bitter, Icelandic bitur (all meaning “bitter”).
senses_examples:
text:
bittered with the hop
ref:
1766, John Wilkinson, Tutamen Nauticum
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make bitter.
senses_topics:
|
8506 | word:
bitter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bitter (plural bitters)
forms:
form:
bitters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bitter
etymology_text:
From bit + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
However, 16-bitters are far more expensive than the 8-bit variety. And, unfortunately, have only a handful of business applications software packages that really take advantage of them.
ref:
1983, Computerworld, volume 17, number 49, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
The company believes that the 32-bit market will almost equal that of 16-bitters by the end of the decade. Chip maker Zilog Inc., not a major player in the 16-bit arena, is even more bullish about 32-bitters as it readies its own version for market.
ref:
1984, Electronic Business, volume 10, page 154
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
8507 | word:
carburator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
carburator
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of carburetor.
senses_topics:
|
8508 | word:
attachment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
attachment (countable and uncountable, plural attachments)
forms:
form:
attachments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
attachment
etymology_text:
From French attachement. By surface analysis, attach + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
The “implantation window” is a short, specific phase during which attachment of the blastocyst occurs.
ref:
2005, Rebecca N. Baergen, Manual of Benirschke and Kaufmann's Pathology of the Human Placenta, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!
type:
example
text:
Through every other kind of drug experience, however, ran his attachment to alcohol.
ref:
2003, Griffith Edwards, Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
Zimchenko's phone had a tape attachment, […]
ref:
1978, Walter H. Wager, Time of reckoning, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
[The umbilical cord is] the attachment connecting the fetus with the placenta.
ref:
2012, Sinikka Elliott, Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their Teenagers, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
attachment of earnings
type:
example
text:
2009, Jakke Mäkelä, Eero Karvinen, Niko Porjo, Antti Mäkelä and Tapio Tuomi, Attachment of Natural Lightning Flashes to Trees: Preliminary Statistical Characteristics, published in the Journal of Lightning Research, volume 1
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
A dependence, especially a strong one.
A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
The means by which something is physically attached.
A file sent along with a message, usually an email.
Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
law
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences |
8509 | word:
venturi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
venturi (plural venturis or venturi)
forms:
form:
venturis
tags:
plural
form:
venturi
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Giovanni Battista Venturi
venturi
etymology_text:
After Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist.
senses_examples:
text:
He’s at the age where mucus is a daily companion, a culture of mucus among the old, mucus in a thousand manifestations, appearing in clots by total surprise on a friend’s tablecloth, rimming his breath-passages at night in hard venturi, enough to darken the outlines of dreams and send him awake, pleading.
ref:
1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A venturi tube.
The throat of a carburetor.
A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences |
8510 | word:
liquid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
liquid (countable and uncountable, plural liquids)
forms:
form:
liquids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liqueō (“to be liquid, be fluid”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“to flow, run”). Doublet of liquidus. As a term for a consonant, it comes from Latin liquida (cōnsōnāns), a calque of Ancient Greek ὑγρὸν (σύμφωνον) (hugròn (súmphōnon), “liquid consonant”).
senses_examples:
text:
A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
type:
example
text:
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
Many female forenames are regarded as euphonyms. What is and is not euphonious is necessarily subjective, but it could be suggested that names containing labials (b, m), sibilants (s, sh) and liquids (l, r) are more likely to be euphonyms than those that do not.
ref:
1996, Adrian Room, An Alphabetical Guide to the Language of Name Studies, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
[…]-able does not attach to verbs ending in a postconsonantal liquid […]
ref:
1999, Ingo Plag, Morphological Productivity, page 86
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences |
8511 | word:
liquid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
liquid (comparative more liquid, superlative most liquid)
forms:
form:
more liquid
tags:
comparative
form:
most liquid
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liqueō (“to be liquid, be fluid”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“to flow, run”). Doublet of liquidus. As a term for a consonant, it comes from Latin liquida (cōnsōnāns), a calque of Ancient Greek ὑγρὸν (σύμφωνον) (hugròn (súmphōnon), “liquid consonant”).
senses_examples:
text:
liquid nitrogen
type:
example
text:
a liquid melody
type:
example
text:
/l/ and /r/ are liquid consonants.
type:
example
text:
the liquid air
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
Belonging to a class of consonants comprised of the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
Fluid and transparent.
senses_topics:
business
finance
business
finance
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
|
8512 | word:
ram
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ram (plural rams)
forms:
form:
rams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ram
etymology_text:
From Middle English ram, rom, ramme, from Old English ramm (“ram”), from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“ram”), possibly from *rammaz (“strong”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rom (“ram”), Dutch ram (“a male sheep”), German Ramm, Ramme (“ram”). Possibly akin also to Danish ram (“sharp; acrid; rank”), Swedish ram (“strong; perfect”), Faroese ramur (“strong; competent”), Icelandic rammur (“strong; sturdy”).
senses_examples:
text:
About a couple of miles out lay an ironclad very low in the water, almost, to my brother's perception, like a water-logged ship. This was the ram Thunder Child.
ref:
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 178
type:
quotation
text:
He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
ref:
1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, page 487
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
An act of ramming.
A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.
senses_topics:
agriculture
biology
business
lifestyle
natural-sciences
zoology
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
|
8513 | word:
ram
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ram (third-person singular simple present rams, present participle ramming, simple past and past participle rammed)
forms:
form:
rams
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ramming
tags:
participle
present
form:
rammed
tags:
participle
past
form:
rammed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ram
etymology_text:
From Middle English rammen, from the noun (see above). Compare Old High German rammen.
senses_examples:
text:
The man, driving an SUV, then rammed the gate, according to police.
type:
example
text:
Two snatch thieves who snatched a woman's bag experienced swift karma when their victim accidentally rammed into their motorcycle.
ref:
2016 December 29, M. Kumar, “Snatch thieves accidentally rammed by victim”, in The Star, Malaysia
type:
quotation
text:
The other ships, either not caring or too badly-damaged to do anything about it, proceed on their mission, with König the last to fall silent, shot to pieces in a last attempt to ram the Bellerophon.
ref:
2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 25:35 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04
type:
quotation
text:
The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it.
ref:
2021 December 29, Drachinifel, 21:03 from the start, in The USN Pacific Submarine Campaign - The Dark Year (Dec'41 - Dec'42), archived from the original on 2022-07-19
type:
quotation
text:
To build a sturdy fence, you have to ram the posts deep into the ground.
type:
example
text:
After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod.
type:
example
text:
Again: great to take lessons in ethics from a guy currently trying to ram through a policy of freighting refugees off to cuddly Rwandan president Paul Kagame.
ref:
2023 July 4, Marina Hyde, “Who’s for political Bazball with Rishi? Voters? Tories? Anyone?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
rammed earth walls
type:
example
text:
1999, Mr.Web, Size Matters review by mr. web review Group: rec.arts.movies.erotica
like feel a soft butt against their pelvis or ram a girl really hard with piston-like speed while she begs and screams for more
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.
To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking.
To force, cram or thrust (someone or something) into or through something.
To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
To thrust during sexual intercourse.
senses_topics:
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8514 | word:
ram
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ram (comparative more ram, superlative most ram)
forms:
form:
more ram
tags:
comparative
form:
most ram
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
ram
etymology_text:
Likely from Old Norse ramr, rammr (“strong, rank, bitter”), from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“strong, overbearing; acrid, rank”), perhaps ultimately related to Etymology 1 above. Compare Scots ram (“a rank odour”). Compare also Middle English rammish (“rank, offensive in smell”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rancid; offensive in smell or taste.
senses_topics:
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8515 | word:
county
word_type:
noun
expansion:
county (countable and uncountable, plural counties)
forms:
form:
counties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Modern English
county
etymology_text:
From Middle English countee, counte, conte, from Anglo-Norman counté, Old French conté (French comté), from Latin comitātus (“jurisdiction of a count”), from comes (“count, earl”). Cognate with Spanish condado (“county”) and Italian contea (“county”). Doublet of comitatus, borrowed directly from Latin. Mostly displaced native Old English sċīr, whence Modern English shire.
senses_examples:
text:
traditional county
type:
example
text:
He can't come; he's up in the county for agg assault.
type:
example
text:
Okay gentlemen, you've both been to county before, I'm sure. Here it comes.
ref:
1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by The Wolf (Harvey Keitel)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An administrative or geographical region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and 48 of the 50 United States (excluding Alaska and Louisiana).
A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions.
A jail operated by a county government.
The land ruled by a count or a countess.
senses_topics:
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8516 | word:
county
word_type:
adj
expansion:
county (comparative more county, superlative most county)
forms:
form:
more county
tags:
comparative
form:
most county
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Modern English
county
etymology_text:
From Middle English countee, counte, conte, from Anglo-Norman counté, Old French conté (French comté), from Latin comitātus (“jurisdiction of a count”), from comes (“count, earl”). Cognate with Spanish condado (“county”) and Italian contea (“county”). Doublet of comitatus, borrowed directly from Latin. Mostly displaced native Old English sċīr, whence Modern English shire.
senses_examples:
text:
Now, in the district around Chipping Carby, the County Families are very County indeed, few more so.
ref:
1886, Andrew Lang, The Mark of Cain
type:
quotation
text:
She was a tall girl and county, with Hilary's walk: she seemed to topple even when she sat.
ref:
1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
The other two, like many of her characters, have fallen on harder times: Joan's family has recently lost her father, a small flour-mill owner -- described by a supporter as more "county" than the upstart newcomers who covet their property ...
ref:
2007, Heather Julien, Gender and Literacy in Britain, 1847--1987
type:
quotation
text:
Susan Dean realises that her secretary, Eleanor Grantly, is much more county than she ever will be, because Eleanor knows all the Barsetshire family connections and is connected herself.
ref:
2015, Kate Macdonald, Novelists Against Social Change: Conservative Popular Fiction, 1920-1960
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characteristic of a ‘county family’; representative of the gentry or aristocracy of a county.
senses_topics:
|
8517 | word:
tall
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tall (comparative taller, superlative tallest)
forms:
form:
taller
tags:
comparative
form:
tallest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tall, talle, tal (“seemly, becoming, handsome, good-looking, excellent, good, valiant, lively in speech, bold, great, large, big”), from Old English *tæl, ġetæl (“swift, ready, having mastery of”), from Proto-Germanic *talaz (“submissive, pliable, obedient”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, reckon”).
Cognate with Scots tal (“high, lofty, tall”), Old Frisian tel (“swift”), Old Saxon gital (“quick”), Old High German gizal (“active, agile”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌰𐌻𐍃 (untals, “indocile, disobedient”).
The Oxford English Dictionary notes: "The sense development [of tall] is remarkable, but is paralleled more or less by that of other adjectives expressing estimation, such as buxom, canny, clean, clever, cunning, deft, elegant, handsome, pretty, proper; German klein, as compared with English clean, presents the antithesis to modern tall as compared to tall in early Middle English. It has been conjectured that in the sense 'high of stature' it is a different word, adopted from the Welsh tal in some sense; but the latter is, according to Professor Rhŷs, merely a 16th-century borrowing of the English word (in Owen Pughe's Dictionary erroneously mixed up with the genuine Welsh word tal (“end, brow, forehead”), with which it has no possible connection.)"
senses_examples:
text:
Being tall is an advantage in basketball.
type:
example
text:
"That's tall talk."
"Not an inch taller than the truth."
ref:
1870, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 21, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall.
Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent.
Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
Smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces (~ 230 ml).
Obsequious; obedient.
Seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome.
Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.
senses_topics:
|
8518 | word:
tall
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tall (plural talls)
forms:
form:
talls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tall, talle, tal (“seemly, becoming, handsome, good-looking, excellent, good, valiant, lively in speech, bold, great, large, big”), from Old English *tæl, ġetæl (“swift, ready, having mastery of”), from Proto-Germanic *talaz (“submissive, pliable, obedient”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, reckon”).
Cognate with Scots tal (“high, lofty, tall”), Old Frisian tel (“swift”), Old Saxon gital (“quick”), Old High German gizal (“active, agile”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌰𐌻𐍃 (untals, “indocile, disobedient”).
The Oxford English Dictionary notes: "The sense development [of tall] is remarkable, but is paralleled more or less by that of other adjectives expressing estimation, such as buxom, canny, clean, clever, cunning, deft, elegant, handsome, pretty, proper; German klein, as compared with English clean, presents the antithesis to modern tall as compared to tall in early Middle English. It has been conjectured that in the sense 'high of stature' it is a different word, adopted from the Welsh tal in some sense; but the latter is, according to Professor Rhŷs, merely a 16th-century borrowing of the English word (in Owen Pughe's Dictionary erroneously mixed up with the genuine Welsh word tal (“end, brow, forehead”), with which it has no possible connection.)"
senses_examples:
text:
But in the second generation of hybrids (from seed of the first) talls and dwarfs were both present, and in the proportion of twelve talls to four dwarfs.
ref:
1912, George Francis Atkinson, Botany for High Schools, Henry Holt and Company
type:
quotation
text:
The industries that best accommodate talls are those that have faced personal injury lawsuits.
ref:
2009, Arianne Cohen, The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
Fremantle remains unsure about the status a pair of key talls ahead of a defining clash with Adelaide at Optus Stadium.
ref:
2018 June 5, Chris Robinson, “Fremantle Dockers defender Alex Pearce faces fitness test on injured ankle”, in The West Australian
type:
quotation
text:
Do you have this in a tall?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone or something that is tall.
A clothing size for taller people.
A tall serving of a drink, especially one from Starbucks, which contains 12 ounces.
senses_topics:
|
8519 | word:
fly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fly (plural flies)
forms:
form:
flies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fly (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English flye, flie, from Old English flȳġe, flēoge (“a fly”), from Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ (“a fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”). Cognate with Scots flee, Saterland Frisian Fljooge, Dutch vlieg, German Low German Fleeg, German Fliege, Danish flue, Norwegian Bokmål flue, Norwegian Nynorsk fluge, Swedish fluga, Icelandic fluga.
senses_examples:
text:
Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
ref:
2012 January 24, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
I went on trying for fish along the western bank down the river, but only small trout rose at my flies, and a score was the total catch.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
The fly that plays too near the flame burns in it.
ref:
1636, Philip Massinger, “The Bashful Lover”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, published 1845, act 1, scene 1, page 470
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
Any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
A witch's familiar.
A parasite.
A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
A butterfly (combination of four options).
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
business
finance |
8520 | word:
fly
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fly (third-person singular simple present flies, present participle flying, simple past flew, past participle flown)
forms:
form:
flies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flying
tags:
participle
present
form:
flew
tags:
past
form:
flown
tags:
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
fly
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
fly (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English flien, from Old English flēogan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (compare Saterland Frisian fljooge, Dutch vliegen, Low German flegen, German fliegen, Danish flyve, Norwegian Nynorsk flyga), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (*plew-k-, “to fly”) (compare Lithuanian plaũkti ‘to swim’), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). More at flee and flow.
senses_examples:
text:
Birds of passage fly to warmer regions as it gets colder in winter.
type:
example
text:
The Concorde flew from Paris to New York faster than any other passenger airplane.
type:
example
text:
It takes about eleven hours to fly from Frankfurt to Hong Kong.
type:
example
text:
The little fairy flew home on the back of her friend, the giant eagle.
type:
example
text:
Flying using only the power of the sun is an enticing prospect. But manned solar-powered aircraft are fragile and slow, […].
ref:
2013 September 7, “On a bright new wing”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852
type:
quotation
text:
Fly, my lord! The enemy are upon us!
type:
example
text:
And boyhood is a summer sun
Whose waning is the dreariest one —
For all we live to know is known
And all we seek to keep hath flown — […]
ref:
1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
type:
quotation
text:
He staggered and fell, grasped vainly at the stone, and slid into the abyss. “Fly, you fools!” he cried, and was gone.
ref:
1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
type:
quotation
text:
Charles Lindbergh flew his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic ocean.
type:
example
text:
Why don’t you go outside and fly kites, kids? The wind is just perfect.
type:
example
text:
Birds fly their prey to their nest to feed it to their young.
type:
example
text:
Each day the postal service flies thousands of letters around the globe.
type:
example
text:
A solar-powered unmanned aerial system (a UAS, more commonly called a drone) could fly long, lonely missions that conventional aircraft would not be capable of.
ref:
2013 September 7, “On a bright new wing”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852
type:
quotation
text:
This area, referred to as the fly loft, should typically be two and a half times taller than the proscenium opening in order to fly the scenery above the vertical sightlines of the first row of the audience.
ref:
2015, Jeromy Hopgood, Dance Production: Design and Technology, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
He flew down the hill on his bicycle.
text:
It's five o'clock already. Doesn't time fly?
text:
Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race.
ref:
1645, John Milton, On Time
type:
quotation
text:
The dark waves murmured as the ship flew on.
ref:
1870, William Cullen Bryant (translator), The Iliad (originally by Homer)
text:
After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili from bang in front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar.
ref:
2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
a door flies open
type:
example
text:
a bomb flies apart
type:
example
text:
His career is really flying at the moment.
type:
example
text:
One moment the company was flying high, the next it was on its knees.
type:
example
text:
Let's see if that idea flies.
type:
example
text:
You know, I just don't think that's going to fly. Why don't you spend your time on something better?
type:
example
text:
We'll fly the partridge, or go rouse the deer.
ref:
c. 1590, Robert Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
type:
quotation
text:
This species flies from late summer until frost.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
To flee, to escape (from).
To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
To proceed with great success.
To be accepted, come about or work out.
To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
To hunt with a hawk.
To be in the winged adult stage.
senses_topics:
biology
entomology
natural-sciences |
8521 | word:
fly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fly (plural flys or flies)
forms:
form:
flys
tags:
plural
form:
flies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fly (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English flye (“flying, flight”), from Old English flyge (“flying, flight”), from Proto-Germanic *flugiz.
senses_examples:
text:
There was a good wind, so I decided to give the kite a fly.
type:
example
text:
[T]he main part of the operation of pitching the tent, consisting of raising the flies, may be performed, and shelter afforded, without the walls, &c., being present.
ref:
1810, Thomas H. Williamson, The East India Vade-Mecum, page 452
type:
quotation
text:
The cavalcade drew up in line, / Pitch'd the marquee, and went to dine. / The bearers and the servants lie / Under the shelter of the fly.
ref:
1816, The Grand Master, or Adventures of Qui Hi, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
After I had changed my riding-habit for my one other gown, I came out to join the general under the tent-fly.
ref:
1885, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Boots and Saddles
type:
quotation
text:
Ha-ha! Your flies are undone!
type:
example
text:
February 2014 Y-Front Fly
Y-Front is a registered trademark for a special front fly turned upside down to form a Y owned by Jockey® International. The first Y-Front® brief was created by Jockey® more than 70 years ago.
text:
June 2014 The Hole In Men’s Underwear: Name And Purpose
Briefs were given an opening in the front. The point of this opening (the ‘fly’) was to make it easier to pee with clothes on
text:
to the fly of the compass, which before was made equal, I was still constrained to put some small piece of wire on the south part there
ref:
a. 1850, Robert Norman, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
Can I get a fly, or a carriage of any kind? Is it too late?
I dismissed the fly a mile distant from the park, and getting my directions from the driver, proceeded by myself to the house.
ref:
1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
type:
quotation
text:
A glass coach, it may be as well to observe, is a carriage and pair hired by the day, and a fly a one-horse carriage hired in a similar manner.
ref:
1861, Henry Mayhew, William Tuckniss, London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopœdia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work, volume 3, page 359
type:
quotation
text:
And, driving back in the fly, Macmaster said to himself that you couldn't call Mrs. Duchemin ordinary, at least.
ref:
1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
Then we read at New Southgate and Colney Hatch, that "Cabs are on stand at station from 9 a.m. to departure of last down train. Private omnibuses, flys and other conveniences can be had at short notice on application to Messrs. Walker & Son." At country stations we are often told, "a fly may be obtained on application to Mrs. Brown of the Black Dog," or some other cheery information.
ref:
1941 December, “Notes and News: Timetable features of the Past”, in Railway Magazine, page 570
type:
quotation
text:
Chepstow is good for excursions, and Bradshaw tells me I can get a fly to Tintern Abbey, although the fare structure seems particularly complicated. Alternatively, I could go for a simpler choice and just opt for "single horse, 1s", although I doubt I'd survive to tell the tale.
ref:
2023 February 22, Stephen Roberts, “Reading... between the lines... to Wales”, in RAIL, number 977, page 59
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action of flying; flight.
An act of flying.
A fly ball.
Short for fly route.
A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
The sloping or roof part of the canvas of a tent.
A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
The free edge of a flag.
The horizontal length of a flag.
An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
Short for flywheel.
A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
Waste cotton.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
nautical
transport
business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
media
printing
publishing
media
printing
publishing
|
8522 | word:
fly
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fly (third-person singular simple present flies, present participle flying, simple past and past participle flied)
forms:
form:
flies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flying
tags:
participle
present
form:
flied
tags:
participle
past
form:
flied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
fly (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
8523 | word:
fly
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fly (comparative flier or flyer, superlative fliest or flyest)
forms:
form:
flier
tags:
comparative
form:
flyer
tags:
comparative
form:
fliest
tags:
superlative
form:
flyest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
fly (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Uncertain; probably from the verb or noun.
senses_examples:
text:
be assured, O man of sin—pilferer of small wares and petty larcener—that there is an eye within keenly glancing from some loophole contrived between accordions and tin breastplates that watches your every movement, and is "fly,"— to use a term peculiarly comprehensible to dishonest minds—to the slightest gesture of illegal conveyancing.
ref:
1854, Charles Dickens, “Household Words”, in Arcadia, volume 7, page 381
type:
quotation
text:
He's pretty fly.
type:
example
text:
when Ortega got fixed up in his fly duds like that, an ord'nary man's overcoat wouldn't make 'im a pair o' socks.
ref:
1888, Frederick Thickstun Clark, A Mexican Girl, page 270
type:
quotation
text:
Give it to me, baby! Uh huh, uh huh! And all the girlies say, I’m pretty fly for a white guy.
ref:
1998, “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)”performed by The Offspring
type:
quotation
text:
Starring the light-skinned Ron O'Neal with his shoulder-length perm and fly threads, Super Fly exudes a sense of black pride as O'Neal bucks the dope game, dismisses his white girlfriend, and beats The Man at his own hustle.
ref:
2001 September 24, “Super Fly”, in Vibe, volume 9, number 9, page 252
type:
quotation
text:
How NOT to Facebook / […] no naked pictures, no deep emotions (awkward), no tagging a bunch of people in a picture of some fly Nikes, no making dinner plans (just use a PHONE).
ref:
2012, Lindy West, Dan Savage, Christopher Frizzelle, How to Be a Person: The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself
type:
quotation
text:
Harry [Styles] and Grimmy had struck up quite a friendship with Rita [Ora] and a few weeks earlier had been seen at G-A-Y for her album launch. She tweeted a picture of the trio saying: ‘Thanks for coming my little fashionistas. Looking flyer than a mofo.’
ref:
2013, Louisa Jepson, “‘At the moment it appears I have, like 7000 girlfriends’”, in Harry Styles: Every Piece of Me, London: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, published 2014, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
I'm so fly, I don't even try / I get so high, I can touch the sky / Dress for myself, I don't dress for hype / I dress for myself, you dress for the likes
ref:
2019, “Balenciaga”, performed by Princess Nokia
type:
quotation
text:
[Rahiem] My name brings peace and tranquility / So all the fly ladies' hearts can run free
ref:
1979, “We Rap More Mellow”, performed by The Younger Generation
type:
quotation
text:
Word is bond she looked divine, she looked as fly as can be
I thought she was different cause she was by herself
She looked real wholesome, and in good physical health
ref:
1991, “Busy Doin Nuthin”, in I Need a Haircut, performed by Biz Markie
type:
quotation
text:
I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners
ref:
1994, “Memory Lane (Sittin’ in da Park)”, in Illmatic, performed by Nas
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.
Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
senses_topics:
|
8524 | word:
fly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fly (plural flies)
forms:
form:
flies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fly (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Related to German Flügel (“a wing”), Dutch vleugel (“a wing”), Swedish flygel (“a wing”).
senses_examples:
text:
The bullet barely grazed the wild fowl's fly.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wing.
senses_topics:
|
8525 | word:
cardoon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cardoon (plural cardoons)
forms:
form:
cardoons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French cardon, from Medieval Latin cardon, singular form of cardō, from Latin carduus (“thistle”). Doublet of chard.
senses_examples:
text:
Means: m. Void, and emptie places between beds in gardens, reserved for speciall hearbes; such are the spaces left for Cardoons betweene rowes of Onyons.
ref:
1611, Randle Cotgrave, A dictionarie of the French and English tongues
type:
quotation
text:
As I have already said, I nowhere saw the cardoon south of the Salado; but it is probable that in proportion as that country becomes inhabited, the cardoon will extend its limits.
ref:
1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
type:
quotation
text:
In the sixteenth century, Ruellius speaks of the cardoon as a food that was appreciated as asparagus is today.
ref:
2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables: A Cook's ABC of Vegetables and Their Preparation
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cynara cardunculus, a prickly perennial plant related to the artichoke which has leaf stalks eaten as a vegetable.
senses_topics:
|
8526 | word:
EBU
word_type:
name
expansion:
EBU
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
When Klein, who was due to perform just before Israel’s contestant, Eden Golan, on Saturday night, was asked if his entry Europapa could live up to the competition’s motto, “United by music”, he said: “I think that’s a good question for the EBU.”
ref:
2024 May 11, Philip Oltermann, “Netherlands’ Eurovision entry disqualified from song contest”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of European Broadcasting Union.
senses_topics:
|
8527 | word:
romaji
word_type:
noun
expansion:
romaji (countable and uncountable, plural romajis)
forms:
form:
romajis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration from Japanese ローマ字(じ) (rōmaji, literally “Roman letters”).
senses_examples:
text:
The romaji of the word ローマ字 is “rōmaji”.
type:
example
text:
The katakana and the hiragana are syllabic forms of writing derived from Chinese characters, while the romaji are the letters used in writing most European languages.
ref:
1977, Anthropology, volume 1, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
For example, in Japanese advertisements sexy and my house often appear in romaji, making the underlying concepts of eroticism and private ownership more exotic.
ref:
2006, Ralph Fasold, Jeffrey Connor-Linton, An Introduction to Language and Linguistics, page 410
type:
quotation
text:
Today people ordinarily use kana-kanji conversion systems for inputting Japanese text. Because many of them can touch-type the romajis for the kanas, the O-code with kana-kanji conversion is more accessible.
ref:
2011, T Okadome, J Nakajima, S Ito, K Kakusho, “An Accessible Coded Input Method for Japanese Extensive Writing”, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Advances in Text Input Methods
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A representation of Japanese in Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
8528 | word:
camel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
camel (plural camels)
forms:
form:
camels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jordan Rift Valley
etymology_text:
From Middle English camel, through Old English camel and Old Northern French camel (Old French chamel, modern French chameau), from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), from a Semitic source, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-; compare Arabic جَمَل (jamal), Hebrew גמל (gamál), Aramaic ܓܡܠܐ (gamlā), Coptic ϭⲁⲙⲟⲩⲗ (camoul).
senses_examples:
text:
As sometimes happens in countries of small civilisation, a leader arose from among the Arabs. None knew from where he sprang, and it was said that he had been a camel driver.
ref:
1907, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter IV, in The Explorer
type:
quotation
text:
camel:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.
A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown).
Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of another vessel, and then emptied to reduce the draught of the ship in the middle.
A person of Middle Eastern origin.
senses_topics:
|
8529 | word:
camel
word_type:
adj
expansion:
camel (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Jordan Rift Valley
etymology_text:
From Middle English camel, through Old English camel and Old Northern French camel (Old French chamel, modern French chameau), from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), from a Semitic source, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-; compare Arabic جَمَل (jamal), Hebrew גמל (gamál), Aramaic ܓܡܠܐ (gamlā), Coptic ϭⲁⲙⲟⲩⲗ (camoul).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] try to select accessories that are in the same color family as your coat," says millinery designer Patricia Underwood. To pick up the weave of a brown tweed jacket, for instance, choose a camel hat and black gloves.
ref:
1999, New Woman, volume 29, page 212
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a light brown color like that of a camel.
senses_topics:
|
8530 | word:
camel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
camel (plural camels)
forms:
form:
camels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jordan Rift Valley
etymology_text:
From Afrikaans kameel.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of giraffe
senses_topics:
|
8531 | word:
rotten
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rotten (comparative rottener or more rotten, superlative rottenest or most rotten)
forms:
form:
rottener
tags:
comparative
form:
more rotten
tags:
comparative
form:
rottenest
tags:
superlative
form:
most rotten
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
rotten
etymology_text:
From Middle English roten, from Old Norse rotinn (“decayed, rotten”), past participle of an unrecorded verb related to Old Norse rotna (“to rot”) and Old English rotian (“to rot”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”). More at rot.
Morphologically rot + -en.
senses_examples:
text:
If you leave a bin unattended for a few weeks, the rubbish inside will turn rotten.
type:
example
text:
The floors were damaged and the walls were rotten.
type:
example
text:
His mouth stank and his teeth were rotten.
type:
example
text:
That man is a rotten father.
type:
example
text:
This rotten policy will create more injustice in this country.
type:
example
text:
Why is the weather always rotten in this city?
type:
example
text:
It was a rotten idea to take the boat out today.
type:
example
text:
She has the flu and feels rotten.
type:
example
text:
The quartz specimens were sometimes blue, hard-looking stone, or rotten quartz largely impregnated with iron, in both cases carrying bright glittering nodules of gold.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 215
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
In a state of decay.
Cruel, mean or immoral.
Bad or terrible.
Of stone or rock, crumbling or friable; in a loose or disintegrated state.
Very drunk, intoxicated.
senses_topics:
|
8532 | word:
rotten
word_type:
adv
expansion:
rotten (comparative more rotten, superlative most rotten)
forms:
form:
more rotten
tags:
comparative
form:
most rotten
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
rotten
etymology_text:
From Middle English roten, from Old Norse rotinn (“decayed, rotten”), past participle of an unrecorded verb related to Old Norse rotna (“to rot”) and Old English rotian (“to rot”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”). More at rot.
Morphologically rot + -en.
senses_examples:
text:
That kid is spoilt rotten.
type:
example
text:
The girls fancy him something rotten.
type:
example
text:
"You're not only crazy," Oscar said bitterly, "you're rotten jealous. You can go to hell." He stomped away.
ref:
1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 53
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To an extreme degree.
senses_topics:
|
8533 | word:
North America
word_type:
name
expansion:
North America
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
B. Wooster: Hm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.
ref:
1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The continent that is the northern part of the Americas; that part east of the Pacific Ocean, west of the Atlantic Ocean, north of South America and south of the Arctic Ocean.
Canada and the United States as a unit to the exclusion of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean nations, and Greenland; roughly equivalent to Northern America. Often used to describe things in a context that includes only the US and Canada.
senses_topics:
|
8534 | word:
North America
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
|
8535 | word:
flow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flow (countable and uncountable, plural flows)
forms:
form:
flows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flowe, from the verb (see below). The psychology sense “state of focus” was coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975.
senses_examples:
text:
The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.
type:
example
text:
The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.
type:
example
text:
Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficient flow.
type:
example
text:
Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.
type:
example
text:
The point about flow is that it is enjoyable. As research has shown "the more often athletes experienced flow, the happier they were." But the second is that entering flow actually improves performance.
ref:
2014 January 14, Alex Lockwood, “How to achieve a state of flow when running”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Tampons can be small or large, slender or thick. From “slender” to “super”, you can pick the size that matches your flow.
type:
example
text:
The production on his new mixtape is mediocre but his flow is on point.
type:
example
text:
Now shawty said she feelin' my style, she feelin' my flow […] / My flow, my show brought me the dough / That bought me all my fancy things
ref:
2003, “In da Club”, in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent
type:
quotation
text:
login flow
type:
example
text:
search flow
type:
example
text:
I'm setting up event tracking for a pretty standard, multi-step signup flow, and I'm wondering [...]
ref:
2015, Dan, “Best practices for tracking progress through a sign up flow”, in snowplow-user mailing list
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
The rising movement of the tide.
Smoothness or continuity.
The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
The emission of blood during menstruation.
The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software |
8536 | word:
flow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flow (third-person singular simple present flows, present participle flowing, simple past and past participle flowed)
forms:
form:
flows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
flowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
flowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flowen, from Old English flōwan (“to flow”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōan, from Proto-Germanic *flōaną (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw-, lengthened o-grade form of *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian flouje (“to flow”), West Frisian floeie (“to flow”), Dutch vloeien (“to flow”), Norwegian flo (“to flow”). Compare also English float. Not cognate with Latin fluō despite similarity.
senses_examples:
text:
Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
type:
example
text:
Tears flow from the eyes.
type:
example
text:
Wrex: I need to get my blood flowing. Find me something to kill!
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC
type:
quotation
text:
Wealth flows from industry and economy.
type:
example
text:
Distressing consequences flowed from my bad decisions.
text:
The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.
type:
example
text:
the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
ref:
1845, John Wilson, The Genius and Character of Robert Burns
type:
quotation
text:
a flowing mantle
type:
example
text:
flowing locks
type:
example
text:
The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
type:
example
text:
come in
come up
type:
example
text:
The action is usually progressive, and as a certain amount of oil is flowed from the tubing it lowers the pressure on the remaining oil and liberates more gas, thus causing additional oil to flow from the tubing.
ref:
1932, Carl Ernest Reistle, Paraffin and Congealing-Oil Problems, volumes 340-349, page 45
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move as a fluid from one position to another.
To proceed; to issue forth; to emanate.
To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
To hang loosely and wave.
To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
To allow (a liquid) to flow.
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
To cover with varnish.
To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
8537 | word:
flow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flow (plural flows)
forms:
form:
flows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse flói (“a large bay, firth”), see floe. Compare Scots flow (“peat-bog, marsh”), Icelandic flói (“marshy ground”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A morass or marsh.
senses_topics:
|
8538 | word:
decorticator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
decorticator (plural decorticators)
forms:
form:
decorticators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From decorticate + -or.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A machine that peels off the fibrous husk, bark or outer layer of some vegetable product; used in the manufacture of animal feed etc.
senses_topics:
|
8539 | word:
de jure
word_type:
adv
expansion:
de jure (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
de jure
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Latin dē jūre (literally “according to law”).
senses_examples:
text:
I used to spend my Sundays playing pinball despite it being de jure illegal under an unenforced bylaw.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
By right; in accordance with or as deemed by the statute of the law; legally, particularly as opposed to actual practice.
senses_topics:
|
8540 | word:
de jure
word_type:
adj
expansion:
de jure (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
de jure
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Latin dē jūre (literally “according to law”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Legal; justified by right or law, especially when in name only.
senses_topics:
|
8541 | word:
gram.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gram. (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of grammar.
senses_topics:
|
8542 | word:
analog
word_type:
adj
expansion:
analog (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Early 19th century; from French analogue, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλογος (análogos, “proportionate”), from ἀνά (aná, “up to”) + λόγος (lógos, “ratio”).
senses_examples:
text:
an analog watch
type:
example
text:
an analog (paper) map
type:
example
text:
But for these digital natives, the stubborn analog wonders of skin, handshakes, hugs, bread and wine, faces, names and spontaneous conversation is part of what intrigued them and kept them going to church.
ref:
2022 January 30, Tish Harrison Warren, “Why Churches Should Drop Their Online Services”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Not that I expect my children’s generation to be shocked by it all. Unlike my analog upbringing, they were born into a digital world.
ref:
2021 November 18, Kara Swisher, “The Prescience of 1970’s ‘Future Shock’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
But what, exactly, is a platform? In the analog world, a platform is where you catch a train or launch a rocket or give a speech — somewhere you go to do something else.
ref:
2021 September 15, Reeves Wiedeman, “Why Does Every Company Now Want to Be a Platform?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuous(ly) variable physical quantity that can be measured (such as the shadow of a sundial).
Not relating to, or pre-dating, digital technology such as computers and the Internet; relating to real life.
senses_topics:
|
8543 | word:
analog
word_type:
noun
expansion:
analog (plural analogs)
forms:
form:
analogs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Early 19th century; from French analogue, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλογος (análogos, “proportionate”), from ἀνά (aná, “up to”) + λόγος (lógos, “ratio”).
senses_examples:
text:
See also: convergent evolution
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that bears an analogy to something else.
An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin.
A structural derivative of a parent compound that differs from it by only one or a few atoms or substituent groups; (usually, especially) such a molecule that retains most of the same chemical properties.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
8544 | word:
seafloor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seafloor (plural seafloors)
forms:
form:
seafloors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From sea + floor.
senses_examples:
text:
The seafloor is often covered with sediment.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The bottom of a sea or ocean.
senses_topics:
|
8545 | word:
broadsword
word_type:
noun
expansion:
broadsword (plural broadswords)
forms:
form:
broadswords
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Basket-hilted sword
etymology_text:
From broad + sword.
senses_examples:
text:
The principal distinction between the broadsword and the rapier is, that the latter is formed only for thrusting, while the former is adapted for cutting also. Indeed, those who use the broadsword are, in my opinion, too apt to neglect the use of the point, and to give their attention almost exclusively to the cuts.
ref:
1861, John George Wood, Athletic Sports and Recreations for Boys, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
One version of the broadsword, the Highland broadsword, was adopted as the national sword of Scotland. Another, the schiavona, was Italy's version of the weapon.
ref:
1995, Nick Evangelista, The Encyclopedia of the Sword, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
The Brythunian's arm drew back; the ancient broadsword with its strange, clawed quillons arcked spinning through the air.
ref:
1990, Robert Jordan, “Conan the Magnificent”, in The Conan Chronicles II, published 1997
type:
quotation
text:
Henry carried a heavy broadsword with a cruciform hilt, and a decorated dagger on his hip known as a misericord because its blade could release souls. The English knights and men-at-arms carried broadswords, maces for smashing skulls and the murderous pole-axe, combining a spear with an axehead about five feet long.
ref:
2013, Colin Brown, “1415 Azincourt”, in Glory and B*llocks: The Truth Behind Ten Defining Events in British History, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
Cherokee "broadswords'" and "dog-heads," or Iroquois wedding breads (paired like dumbbells) might be eaten and described by visitors, but apparently were not adapted by colonial farmers other than a few intermarried pioneers.
ref:
2007 May 1, Andrew F. Smith, The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, Oxford University Press
type:
quotation
text:
These breads were noted by early English explorers of the East Coast and continue to be made as Cherokee broadswords, Navajo kneel-down bread, and other dishes. Tamale pie is one of a group of American foods invented outside the ethnic[…]
ref:
2013 January 31, Andrew Smith, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, page 701
type:
quotation
text:
Then took two broadsword corn dumplings from the basket Mother left out on the porch last night. Ate them as I walked our line of rail fence after letting out the cows from the barn. The dumplings were delicious, and I wished I had[…]
ref:
2014 January 7, Joseph Bruchac, On This Long Journey, the Journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee Boy, the Trail of Tears, 1838, Scholastic Inc.
type:
quotation
text:
Well, after awhile we just sat right down there on the ground by that fire beside the creek, and we ate some of those broadswords, hot and fresh, and I tell you, that was the best bean bread I ever ate.
ref:
2014 October 30, Robert J. Conley, Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, University of Oklahoma Press, page 143
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of early modern sword that has a broad double-edged blade for cutting (as opposed to the more slender thrust-oriented rapier) and typically a basket hilt.
A person armed with such a sword.
Synonym of longsword
A flat, rectangular bread made from corn (maize) and beans by the Cherokee, traditionally by boiling rather than baking it.
senses_topics:
history
human-sciences
sciences
fantasy
|
8546 | word:
broadsword
word_type:
verb
expansion:
broadsword (third-person singular simple present broadswords, present participle broadswording, simple past and past participle broadsworded)
forms:
form:
broadswords
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
broadswording
tags:
participle
present
form:
broadsworded
tags:
participle
past
form:
broadsworded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Basket-hilted sword
etymology_text:
From broad + sword.
senses_examples:
text:
She’d met her first black knight—a pock-faced man in his sixties, wearing an ugly brown hat—and escaped from him without being broadsworded to death.
ref:
1988, Jeffery Deaver, chapter 8, in Manhattan Is My Beat, London: Hodder, published 2016, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
He broadsworded one of his dogs in exuberance and it lay there whimpering till it expired.
ref:
1993, Edward Sanders, “[An East Village Hippie in King Arthur’s Court] Arthur Flips Out”, in Hymn to the Rebel Cafe, Santa Rosa, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, page 190
type:
quotation
text:
He took his steel-edged ruler, screamed and then broadsworded the snake into two equal lengths.
ref:
1993, Greg Child, Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child, Seattle, Wash.: The Mountaineers Books, published 2000, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To attack or kill with a broadsword.
senses_topics:
|
8547 | word:
tissue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tissue (countable and uncountable, plural tissues)
forms:
form:
tissues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tissu, from Old French tissu (“woven”), past participle of tistre (“to weave”), from Latin texō (“to weave”).
senses_examples:
text:
What they lack is outermost brain tissue that, at least in humans, prompts awareness and interpretation.
ref:
2014, Robert K. Bolger, Scott Korb, Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy
type:
quotation
text:
a tissue of forgeries, or of lies
type:
example
text:
unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion
ref:
1888, A. J. Balfour, The Religion of Humanity
type:
quotation
text:
Pricing the first show is a matter of the bookmaker's individual judgment, relying upon advice from all quarters, particularly the tissue; but very soon in the betting exchanges it becomes clear that the sole criterion for the fixing of a horse's price is demand.
ref:
2016, Gerald Hammond, The Language of Horse Racing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
Absorbent paper as material.
A group of cells (along with their extracellular matrix if any) that are similar in origin and function together to do a specific job.
Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
The scratch sheet or racing form.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports |
8548 | word:
tissue
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tissue (third-person singular simple present tissues, present participle tissuing, simple past and past participle tissued)
forms:
form:
tissues
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tissuing
tags:
participle
present
form:
tissued
tags:
participle
past
form:
tissued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tissu, from Old French tissu (“woven”), past participle of tistre (“to weave”), from Latin texō (“to weave”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form tissue of; to interweave.
senses_topics:
|
8549 | word:
stick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stick (countable and uncountable, plural sticks)
forms:
form:
sticks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stick
etymology_text:
From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stikke (“stick”), West Flemish stik (“stick”). Related to stigma.
senses_examples:
text:
The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.
type:
example
text:
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
ref:
2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
I found several good sticks in the brush heap.
type:
example
text:
What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.
type:
example
text:
It is a fine stick, about 70 feet long.
ref:
1887 August 23, “At Work on the Thistle”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.
type:
example
text:
I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.
type:
example
text:
As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.
type:
example
text:
When cutting the door parts, I cut all the copes first, then the sticks.
ref:
1997, Joseph Beals, “Building Interior Doors”, in Doors, Taunton Press, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.
type:
example
text:
It is more than poor Philip is worth, with all his savings and his little sticks of furniture.
ref:
1862, W.M. Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip, printed in Harper's New Monthly Magazine volume XXV edition, page 242
type:
quotation
text:
The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.
type:
example
text:
Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!
type:
example
text:
Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick.
type:
example
text:
Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.
type:
example
text:
My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.
type:
example
text:
Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it[…]
ref:
1611, The Bible, King James Version edition, Ezekiel 37:16
type:
quotation
text:
Scores of transport planes streamed in to drop stick after stick of containers until the entire sky over the coast was polka-dotted with brightly coloured parachutes.
ref:
2001, Raymond Mitchell, Commando Despatch Rider, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
A stick of bombs fell straight across Wotton; blew up half a dozen houses.
ref:
2006, Farley Mowat, Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
James and I were in the same stick of five guys going through free fall school last September.
ref:
2006, Holly Aho, From Here to There, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn't.
type:
example
text:
I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't.
type:
example
text:
For example: in making a turn, should you throw on too much stick and not enough rudder, you'll sideslip.
ref:
1941, Jay D. Blaufox, 33 Lessons in Flying, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
For ultimate presentation portability, a Powerpoint can be saved to a stick as images.
ref:
2007 May 1, Alex Fethiere, “Business Traveler”, in Tech front: Alex Fethiere takes eleven notable portables for a high-tech test-drive
type:
quotation
text:
A stick in the hand, a drop in the eye.
ref:
2007 September 18, “Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya”, in Joseph B. Geoghegan (lyrics), The Meanest of Times, performed by Dropkick Murphys
type:
quotation
text:
You think you’re real now you’ve got a couple sticks? My favourite younger, he got stabbed in my bits. And if he died fam, I promise I’d have quit.
ref:
2013 April 8, “Off the Record”, in Topic of Discussion, performed by Yungen
type:
quotation
text:
Bitch, pig, pull out with the stick / everything I hit like a lick/ We don’t miss
ref:
2018 July 27, “Strip Talk”, Marty Mula (lyrics), 1:52
type:
quotation
text:
[…]although the headings may often be in other type, still, as these are composed in the same stick, they cannot fail to justify;[…]
ref:
1854, Thomas Ford, The Compositor's Handbook, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
Arsene, boy, ain't you worried about your clarinet? Where'd you leave that stick, man?
ref:
1948, Frederic Ramsey, Jr., “Deep Sea Rider”, in Charles Harvey, editor, Jazz Parody: Anthology of Jazz Fiction
type:
quotation
text:
Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules.
type:
example
text:
His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.
type:
example
text:
His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.
type:
example
text:
He shoots a mean stick of pool.
type:
example
text:
Come in, have a good time, drink some beer, shoot some stick, listen to some music.
ref:
2003, Lew Bryson, New York Breweries, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
I doubted that the three iron was enough stick.
ref:
1988, William Hallberg, The Rub of the Green, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
Vaughn has to hit and keep hitting or this will be another year when the Mets don't have enough stick to win.
ref:
2002 May 19, Mike Lupica, “Just Need A Little Mo”, in New York Daily News
type:
quotation
text:
"She's a stick, this one. She lacks your—" he patted her left breast— "equipment."
ref:
1967, Cecelia Holland, Rakóssy, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
The kid was a stick, a plant, a student from UNLV who picked up a few bucks nightly by saying the words "seven of hearts."
ref:
2001, Paul Quarrington, The Spirit Cabinet, page 255
type:
quotation
text:
A shill is also called a stick, and the role of the shill or stick is to make the customer relax and feel at ease.
ref:
2011, Howard Fast, Helen
type:
quotation
text:
Bill Kirk, described by Robin as a "hell of a stick," didn't even attend college until after the Vietnam War.
ref:
2001, John Darrell Sherwood, Fast Movers: America's Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
I remember when we dreaded the rain, as our stick of soldiers walked through the damp, tick-infested long grass of the Zambezi valley,[…]
ref:
2007, Bart Wolffe, Persona Non Grata, page 245
type:
quotation
text:
Your father's a great old stick. He's really been very good to me.
ref:
1967, Maurice Shadbolt, The Presence of Music: Three Novellas, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
[…]He’s a good doctor but an odd stick—odder by far than I am, Emily, and yet nobody ever says he’s not all there. Can you account for that? He doesn’t believe in God—and I am not such a fool as that.
ref:
1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: carrot
text:
What about contempt? Isn't it used by the judiciary as a stick to dissuade people from writing or talking about them?
ref:
1998 January 23, “Judicial activism has ushered in hope”, in Indian Express
type:
quotation
text:
Back in 2009, when Democrats tried but failed to take significant climate action, their policy proposals consisted mainly of sticks—limits on emissions in the form of permits that businesses could buy and sell.
ref:
2023 August 7, Paul Krugman, “Climate Is Now a Culture War Issue”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The child killers got some stick. I saw a woman throw a basin of scalding water over a baby killer.
ref:
1999, Eve McDougall, A Wicked Fist, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
He really gave that digging some stick.
He threw himself into the task of digging.
type:
example
text:
She really gave that bully some stick.
She berated him.
This sense melts into the previous sense, "punishment".
type:
example
text:
Give it some stick!
type:
example
text:
'Choir gave it some stick on "Unto Us a Son is Born."' ¶ Cynthia nodded. ¶ 'It was always one of Russell's favourites. He makes them try hard on that.'
ref:
1979, Don Bannister, Sam Chard, page 185
type:
quotation
text:
Skunk really gave it some stick all the way to Caliban's place, we passed a good few Coppers but they all seemed to turn the blind eye.
ref:
2006, Martyn J. Pass, Dani Pass, Waiting for Red, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
There was another speech in that day's news — a speech which The Times printed on the front page because it was part of a front-page story, and in full — it was only two sticks long; printed in full just after the much longer invocation by the officiating clergyman […]
ref:
1921, Elmer Davis, History of the New York Times, 1851-1921, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
The stick is employed for eels, and contained twenty-five.
ref:
1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
In the same charter, Nigel granted another 10 sticks of eels yielded by the fishery of Polwere to the abbey[…]
ref:
1999, Claire Breay, The Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey, page 62
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
An aircraft’s propeller.
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
A joystick.
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
A memory stick.
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
A handgun.
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
The clarinet.
A stick-like item:
A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
A stick-like item:
The short whip carried by a jockey.
A stick-like item:
A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
A stick-like item:
The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
A stick-like item:
The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
A stick-like item:
The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
Ability; specifically:
The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
Ability; specifically:
The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
Ability; specifically:
General hitting ability.
Ability; specifically:
The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.
A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
An assistant planted in the audience.
A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
A shill or house player.
A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
A stiff, stupidly obstinate person.
A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
A fighter pilot.
A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
A small group of (infantry) soldiers.
A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
Corporal punishment; beatings.
Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
A measure.
An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
A measure.
A quantity of eels, usually 25.
senses_topics:
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
nautical
transport
government
military
politics
war
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
military
politics
war
video-games
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
letterpress-typography
media
publishing
typography
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
gambling
games
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
|
8550 | word:
stick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stick (third-person singular simple present sticks, present participle sticking, simple past and past participle sticked)
forms:
form:
sticks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sticking
tags:
participle
present
form:
sticked
tags:
participle
past
form:
sticked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
stick
etymology_text:
From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stikke (“stick”), West Flemish stik (“stick”). Related to stigma.
senses_examples:
text:
to stick type
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
To furnish or set with sticks.
To hit with a stick.
senses_topics:
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
media
printing
publishing
|
8551 | word:
stick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stick (countable and uncountable, plural sticks)
forms:
form:
sticks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stick
etymology_text:
From Middle English stiken (“to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Old English stician (“to pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Proto-Germanic *stikōną (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tig-, *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”).
See also the related Proto-Germanic *stikaną, whence West Frisian stekke, Low German steken, Dutch steken, German stechen; compare also Danish stikke, Swedish sticka.
Cognate with the first etymology (same PIE root, different paths through Germanic and Old English), to stitch, and to etiquette, via French étiquette – see there for further discussion.
senses_examples:
text:
Problem: A lot of stick and a lack of energy on the forward stroke.
ref:
2004, Simon Gawesworth, Spey Casting, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
What if Veronica Prego was lying about who drew the blood and it was her own carelessness, not Joyce Fogel's, which caused the needle stick?
ref:
1990 April 21, Michael Bronski, “Innocent Victims”, in Gay Community News, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
The traction of tires on the road surface.
That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
|
8552 | word:
stick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stick (third-person singular simple present sticks, present participle sticking, simple past and past participle stuck or (archaic) sticked)
forms:
form:
sticks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sticking
tags:
participle
present
form:
stuck
tags:
participle
past
form:
stuck
tags:
past
form:
sticked
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
sticked
tags:
archaic
past
wikipedia:
stick
etymology_text:
From Middle English stiken (“to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Old English stician (“to pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Proto-Germanic *stikōną (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tig-, *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”).
See also the related Proto-Germanic *stikaną, whence West Frisian stekke, Low German steken, Dutch steken, German stechen; compare also Danish stikke, Swedish sticka.
Cognate with the first etymology (same PIE root, different paths through Germanic and Old English), to stitch, and to etiquette, via French étiquette – see there for further discussion.
senses_examples:
text:
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”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
The tape will not stick if it melts.
type:
example
text:
The lever sticks if you push it too far up.
type:
example
text:
Why do most course organizers stick the job for less than five years?
ref:
1998, Patrick McEvoy, Educating the Future GP: the course organizer's handbook, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
His old nickname stuck.
type:
example
text:
"Our team did brilliantly to be in the game. We stuck at it and did a good job. This is disappointing but we'll think about the next game tomorrow."
ref:
2011 December 10, David Ornstein quoting David Moyes, “Arsenal 1-0 Everton”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
What I get from work makes me a better mother, and what I get from being a mother makes me a better journalist. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
ref:
2007, Amanda Lamb, Smotherhood: Wickedly Funny Confessions from the Early Years
type:
quotation
text:
Just stick to your strategy, and you will win.
type:
example
text:
Some stick not to say, that the Parson and Attorney forg’d a Will, for which they were well Paid […]
ref:
1712, John Arbuthnot, chapter 1, in Law is a Bottomless Pit, London: John Morphew
type:
quotation
text:
, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 12,
Though a cup of cold water from some hand may not be without its reward, yet stick not thou for wine and oil for the wounds of the distressed […]
text:
And so careful were they to put off the Honour of great Actions from themselves, and to centre it upon God, that they stuck not sometimes to depreciate themselves that they might more effectually honour him.
ref:
1740, James Blair, Our Saviour's divine sermon on the mount … explained, volume 3, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
The First-fruits were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in sacrificiing Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the Smoke, and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they stuck not sometimes to regale them with human Sacrifices.
ref:
1743, Thomas Stackhouse, A Compleat Body of Speculative and Practical Divinity, edition 3 (London), page 524
text:
1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church-of-England-Man, with respect to Religion and Government, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, 7th edition, Edinburgh: G. Hamilton et al., 1752, Volume I, Miscellanies in Prose, p. 73,
[…] this is the Difficulty that seemeth chiefly to stick with the most reasonable of those, who, from a mere Scruple of Conscience, refuse to join with us upon the Revolution Principle […] .
text:
Stick the label on the jar.
type:
example
text:
Stick your bag over there and come with me.
type:
example
text:
The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it.
type:
example
text:
to stick a needle into one's finger
type:
example
text:
In certain of their sacrifices they had a lamb, they sticked him, they killed him, and made sacrifice of him: this lamb was Christ the Son of God, he was killed, sticked, and made a sweet-smelling sacrifice for our sins.
ref:
circa 1583, John Jewel, in a sermon republished in 1847 in The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, portion 2, page 969
text:
[…] would haue [=have] sticked him with a dagger […]
ref:
1809, Grafton's chronicle, or history of England, volume 2, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
The defendant said he didn't shoot; "he sticked him with a knife."
ref:
1908, The Northeastern Reporter, volume 85, page 693
type:
quotation
text:
to stick an apple on a fork
type:
example
text:
Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.
type:
example
text:
Stick cuttings from geraniums promptly.
type:
example
text:
to stick somebody with a hard problem
type:
example
text:
Chillin' in a Benz with my amigos / Tryin' to stick a nigga for his pesos
ref:
1996, “No Time”, in Hard Core, performed by Lil' Kim ft. Diddy
type:
quotation
text:
You ain't lickin' this, you ain't stickin' this
ref:
1996, Lil' Kim (lyrics and music), “Not Tonight”
type:
quotation
text:
You leave your girl around me; if she's bad she's gonna get stuck.
ref:
2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become or remain attached; to adhere.
To jam; to stop moving.
To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
To persist.
Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
To remain loyal; to remain firm.
To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
To stab.
To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
To perform (a landing) perfectly.
To propagate plants by cuttings.
To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
senses_topics:
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biology
botany
natural-sciences
blackjack
games |
8553 | word:
stick
word_type:
adj
expansion:
stick (comparative sticker, superlative stickest)
forms:
form:
sticker
tags:
comparative
form:
stickest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
stick
etymology_text:
From Middle English stiken (“to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Old English stician (“to pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Proto-Germanic *stikōną (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tig-, *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”).
See also the related Proto-Germanic *stikaną, whence West Frisian stekke, Low German steken, Dutch steken, German stechen; compare also Danish stikke, Swedish sticka.
Cognate with the first etymology (same PIE root, different paths through Germanic and Old English), to stitch, and to etiquette, via French étiquette – see there for further discussion.
senses_examples:
text:
A non-stick pan. A stick plaster.
text:
A sticker type of glue. The stickest kind of gum.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.
senses_topics:
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8554 | word:
stick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stick (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
stick
etymology_text:
Possibly a metaphorical use of the first etymology ("twig, branch"), possibly derived from the Yiddish schtick.
senses_examples:
text:
I got some stick personally because of my walking attire. I arrived to training fully kitted out in sturdy walking boots.
ref:
2008 May 3, Chris Roberts, “It’s a stroll in the park!”, in Huddersfield Daily Examiner
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Criticism or ridicule.
senses_topics:
|
8555 | word:
chemosynthesis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chemosynthesis (usually uncountable, plural chemosyntheses)
forms:
form:
chemosyntheses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From chemo- + synthesis.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the production of carbohydrates and other compounds from simple compounds such as carbon dioxide, using the oxidation of chemical nutrients as a source of energy rather than sunlight; it is limited to certain bacteria and fungi
senses_topics:
|
8556 | word:
round
word_type:
adj
expansion:
round (comparative rounder or more round, superlative roundest or most round)
forms:
form:
rounder
tags:
comparative
form:
more round
tags:
comparative
form:
roundest
tags:
superlative
form:
most round
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
round
etymology_text:
From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French roünt, rund, Old French ront, runt, reont ( > French rond), from both Late Latin retundus and the original Latin rotundus. The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Doublet of rotund.
senses_examples:
text:
We sat at a round table to make conversation easier.
type:
example
text:
The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat.
type:
example
text:
a round face, a round belly
type:
example
text:
Our child's bed has round corners for safety.
type:
example
text:
He was tall and thin but his wife was short and round.
type:
example
text:
The baker sold us a round dozen.
type:
example
text:
One hundred is a nice round number.
type:
example
text:
"Supposing somebody sees you, with all those flowers too? Supposing somebody writes him a letter? Ooooh!" (a pure round open Tamil O.)
ref:
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 421
type:
quotation
text:
a round answer; a round oath
type:
example
text:
the round assertion
ref:
1867, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature
type:
quotation
text:
In his satires Horace is quick, round, and […] pleasant.
ref:
1622, Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman
type:
quotation
text:
By raising turkeys the farmers were able the more surely to pay their rents. Young girls often acquired a very sufficient dowry, and towns-folk who wished to eat them had to pay round prices for them.
ref:
1854, Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste: Or, Transcendental Gastronomy, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
round trip, round journey, round walk
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of shape:
Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
Of shape:
Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
Of shape:
Loosely or approximately circular.
Of shape:
Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
Of shape:
Plump.
Complete, whole, not lacking.
Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
Large in magnitude.
Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
Vaulted.
Returning to its starting point.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
architecture
|
8557 | word:
round
word_type:
noun
expansion:
round (plural rounds)
forms:
form:
rounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
round
etymology_text:
From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French roünt, rund, Old French ront, runt, reont ( > French rond), from both Late Latin retundus and the original Latin rotundus. The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Doublet of rotund.
senses_examples:
text:
All at once the sun was through, a round of dulled silver, racing slantwise through the clouds yet always staying in the same place.
ref:
1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
hospital rounds
type:
example
text:
The prison guards have started their nightly rounds.
type:
example
text:
The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two.
type:
example
text:
They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes.
type:
example
text:
I said I did impersonations would you like to see
Turned around to buy her one more round
ref:
1978, “Last Summer”, in Blondes Have More Fun, performed by Rod Stewart
type:
quotation
text:
Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs.
ref:
2009 May 26, Patrick Condon, "Boy with cancer, mom return home", Associated Press, printed in Austin American-Statesman, page A4
text:
For breakfast I had two rounds of toast and a mug of tea.
type:
example
text:
And though Fightville, an MMA documentary from the directors of the fine Iraq War doc Gunner Palace, presents it more than fairly, the sight of a makeshift ring getting constructed on a Louisiana rodeo ground does little to shake the label. Nor do the shots of ringside assistants with spray bottles and rags, mopping up the blood between rounds
ref:
2002 April 19, Scott Tobias, “Fightville”, in The A.V. Club
type:
quotation
text:
qualifying rounds of the championship
type:
example
text:
When the player uses one shell to complete a round within 50 seconds, it vanishes forever. At the end of two successful rounds, for instance, the player has only two shells to pick from during docking.
ref:
1981, Tom Hirschfeld, How to Master the Video Games, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices.
type:
example
text:
the round of the seasons a round of pleasures
type:
example
text:
Women to cards may be compar'd: we play
A round or two; when us'd, we throw away.
ref:
c. 1732, George Granville, Women
type:
quotation
text:
a round of politicians
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
A circular or repetitious route.
A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
One slice of bread.
One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
A stage, level, set of events in a game
A stage in a competition.
A stage, level, set of events in a game
In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
A stage, level, set of events in a game
A stage or level of a game.
A stage, level, set of events in a game
The play after each deal.
A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
The hindquarters of a bovine.
A rung, as of a ladder.
A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
A circular dance.
Rotation, as in office; succession.
A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
An assembly; a group; a circle.
A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
A vessel filled, as for drinking.
A round-top.
A round of beef.
senses_topics:
art
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
card-games
games
CAD
computing
drafting
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
nautical
transport
|
8558 | word:
round
word_type:
prep
expansion:
round
forms:
wikipedia:
round
etymology_text:
From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French roünt, rund, Old French ront, runt, reont ( > French rond), from both Late Latin retundus and the original Latin rotundus. The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Doublet of rotund.
senses_examples:
text:
I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat.
type:
example
text:
The serpent Error twines round human hearts.
ref:
1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error
type:
quotation
text:
The farmer fed his cow hay all the year round.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of around
Alternative form of around
senses_topics:
|
8559 | word:
round
word_type:
adv
expansion:
round (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
round
etymology_text:
From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French roünt, rund, Old French ront, runt, reont ( > French rond), from both Late Latin retundus and the original Latin rotundus. The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Doublet of rotund.
senses_examples:
text:
They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful. And the train which had picked them at sunrise out of a waste of glaciers and hotels was waltzing at sunset round the walls of Verona.
ref:
1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 6
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of around
senses_topics:
|
8560 | word:
round
word_type:
verb
expansion:
round (third-person singular simple present rounds, present participle rounding, simple past and past participle rounded)
forms:
form:
rounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
rounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
rounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
round
etymology_text:
From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French roünt, rund, Old French ront, runt, reont ( > French rond), from both Late Latin retundus and the original Latin rotundus. The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Doublet of rotund.
senses_examples:
text:
The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
type:
example
text:
She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.
type:
example
text:
The exact amount was $101.65, but we rounded it to $100.
type:
example
text:
95.9 rounds to 96.
type:
example
text:
Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.
type:
example
text:
As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.
type:
example
text:
And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.
type:
example
text:
Diouf rounded Zaluska near the byeline and crossed but Daniel Majstorovic headed away and Celtic eventually mopped up the danger.
ref:
2011 March 2, Andy Campbell, “Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shape something into a curve.
To become shaped into a curve.
To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up.
To turn past a boundary.
To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
To advance to home plate.
To go round, pass, go past.
To encircle; to encompass.
To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
To do ward rounds.
To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
To go or turn round; to wheel about.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
medicine
sciences
|
8561 | word:
round
word_type:
verb
expansion:
round (third-person singular simple present rounds, present participle rounding, simple past and past participle rounded)
forms:
form:
rounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
rounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
rounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
round
etymology_text:
From Middle English rounen, from Old English rūnian (“to whisper, talk low, talk secrets, consipre, talk secretly”), from Proto-Germanic *rūnōną (“to talk secrets, whisper, decide”), *raunijaną (“to investigate, examine, prove”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)rewə-, *(e)rwō- (“to trace, find out, look out”). Cognate with Scots roun (“to converse with in whispers, speak privately”), Middle Low German rūnen (“to whisper”), Middle Dutch ruinen (“to whisper”), German raunen (“to whisper, murmur”), Old English rūn (“whisper, secret, mystery”), Swedish röna (“to meet with, experience”). More at rune.
senses_examples:
text:
The Bishop of Glasgow rounding in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," […] he rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here?"
ref:
c. 1617, David Calderwood (quoted as saying to King James VI)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.
To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.
senses_topics:
|
8562 | word:
round
word_type:
noun
expansion:
round (plural rounds)
forms:
form:
rounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
round
etymology_text:
From Middle English roun, from Old English rūn (“whisper, secret, mystery”), from Proto-Germanic *rūnō, *raunō (“a whisper, secret, secret sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)rewə-, *(e)rwō- (“to trace, find out, look out”). Cognate with Scots roun, round (“a whisper, secret story”), German raunen (“to whisper, say secretly”), Swedish rön (“findings, observations, experience”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A whisper; whispering.
Discourse; song.
senses_topics:
|
8563 | word:
crankcase
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crankcase (plural crankcases)
forms:
form:
crankcases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From crank + case.
senses_examples:
text:
The crankcase itself is in one piece, in the form of a tunnel into which the crankshaft is introduced from one end.
ref:
1960 January, “The Swindon Type "4" diesel-hydraulic units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 41
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The part of an engine that contains the crankshaft.
senses_topics:
|
8564 | word:
pinyin
word_type:
name
expansion:
pinyin (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Pinyin
senses_topics:
|
8565 | word:
pinyin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pinyin
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:pinyin.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Pinyin
senses_topics:
|
8566 | word:
communism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
communism (countable and uncountable, plural communisms)
forms:
form:
communisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
communism
etymology_text:
A borrowing from French communisme, which was formed from commun (“common”) (from Latin commūnis) and the suffix -isme (“-ism”). By surface analysis, commune + -ism.
senses_examples:
text:
I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.
ref:
1932, D. H. Lawrence, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Edited by A. Huxley, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
A recent survey of 633 South Korean scientists found not only that communism was the Mertonian norm they thought most respected in practice (Kim and Kim 2018, 9), but also that younger scientists’ replies showed evidence of ‘mounting tension between the commercialisation of academic science and the norm of communalism’ (Kim and Kim 2018, 19). Our focus on scientific communism and its relationship to commercial research may thus reflect the concerns of working scientists.
ref:
2022 January 26, Liam Kofi Bright, Remco Heesen, “To Be Scientific Is To Be Communist”, in Social Epistemology, volume 37, number 3, →DOI
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.
Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.
Readiness to share scientific findings (the first of the Mertonian norms).
senses_topics:
|
8567 | word:
duke
word_type:
noun
expansion:
duke (plural dukes)
forms:
form:
dukes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French duc, through Middle English duk, duke, from Latin dux, ducis. Displaced native Old English heretoga. Was present as duc in late Old English, from the same Latin source. Doublet of dux and doge.
The “fist” sense is thought to be Cockney rhyming slang where “Duke(s) of York” = fork. Fork is itself Cockney slang for hand, and thus fist.
senses_examples:
text:
Put up your dukes!
type:
example
text:
Your friend sure knows how to use his dukes. Biff, bang! One, two, and the copʼs on his ass!
ref:
1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 438
type:
quotation
text:
"How did the sport go."
"O sparred a few rounds. Let the instructor have a few on the button."
"You must be tough."
"I can handle my dukes."
ref:
1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
The sovereign of a small state.
A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.
A grand duke.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Bassarona and Dophla.
A fist.
senses_topics:
|
8568 | word:
duke
word_type:
verb
expansion:
duke (third-person singular simple present dukes, present participle duking, simple past and past participle duked)
forms:
form:
dukes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
duking
tags:
participle
present
form:
duked
tags:
participle
past
form:
duked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French duc, through Middle English duk, duke, from Latin dux, ducis. Displaced native Old English heretoga. Was present as duc in late Old English, from the same Latin source. Doublet of dux and doge.
The “fist” sense is thought to be Cockney rhyming slang where “Duke(s) of York” = fork. Fork is itself Cockney slang for hand, and thus fist.
senses_examples:
text:
It seems that PI Rainer was duked by his wife […].
ref:
2003, John A. Dinan, Private Eyes in the Comics, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
I duked him twenty dollars.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hit or beat with the fists.
To give cash to; to give a tip to.
senses_topics:
|
8569 | word:
rabbit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rabbit (countable and uncountable, plural rabbits)
forms:
form:
rabbits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Leporidae
rabbit
etymology_text:
From Middle English rabet, rabette, from Anglo-Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch or West Flemish robbe (“rabbit, seal”), of uncertain origin; possibly some imitative verb, maybe robben, rubben (“to rub”) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub.
Related forms include Middle French rabouillet (“baby rabbit”) and in French rabot (“plane”)), coming via Walloon Old French (reflected nowadays as Walloon robète (“rabbit”)), from Middle Dutch robbe ("rabbit; seal"; whence Modern Dutch rob (“seal", also "rabbit”)); also Middle Low German robbe, rubbe (“rabbit”), and the later Low German Rubbe (“seal”), West Frisian robbe (“seal”), Saterland Frisian Rubbe (“seal”), North Frisian rob (“seal”), borrowed into German Robbe (“seal”).
Meant "young rabbit" until the 19th c., when it came to replace the original general term coney, owing to the latter's resemblance to and use as a euphemism for cunny, "vulva" (compare ass and donkey).
senses_examples:
text:
The pioneers survived by eating the small game they could get: rabbits, squirrels and occasionally a raccoon.
type:
example
text:
The cheese mixture may be served with toast on the side or poured on top of toast and grilled until golden brown and bubbling. Other variations include Buck rabbit, a Welsh rabbit with a poached egg on top, and Yorkshire rabbit with bacon ...
ref:
2018, Helen Saberi, Teatimes: A World Tour, Reaktion Books
type:
quotation
text:
CHEESE TOASTED, OR RABBIT.
ref:
1858, Mrs. N. K. M. Lee, The American Family Cook Book, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
Hannah Glasse offered recipes for Scotch, Welsh, and English rabbit. This is her Scotch rabbit: Toast a piece of bread very nicely […] Cut a slice of cheese, […]
ref:
2019, Mark Kurlansky, Milk: A 10,000-Year History, Bloomsbury Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
This rabbit is constructed such that only that fraction of the beam that passes through the 15g-in. diameter target container reaches the Faraday cup behind the rabbit.
ref:
2012, Joseph Cerny, Nuclear Spectroscopy and Reactions 40-A (part 1, page 249)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.
The meat from this animal.
The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
A runner in a distance race whose goal is mainly to set the pace, either to tire a specific rival so that a teammate can win or to help another break a record; a pacesetter.
A very poor batsman; selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
A large element at the beginning of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to be quickly swapped into its correct position. Compare turtle.
Rarebit; Welsh rabbit or a similar dish: melted cheese served atop toast.
A pneumatically-controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
8570 | word:
rabbit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rabbit (third-person singular simple present rabbits, present participle rabbitting or rabbiting, simple past and past participle rabbitted or rabbited)
forms:
form:
rabbits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rabbitting
tags:
participle
present
form:
rabbiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
rabbitted
tags:
participle
past
form:
rabbitted
tags:
past
form:
rabbited
tags:
participle
past
form:
rabbited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Leporidae
rabbit
etymology_text:
From Middle English rabet, rabette, from Anglo-Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch or West Flemish robbe (“rabbit, seal”), of uncertain origin; possibly some imitative verb, maybe robben, rubben (“to rub”) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub.
Related forms include Middle French rabouillet (“baby rabbit”) and in French rabot (“plane”)), coming via Walloon Old French (reflected nowadays as Walloon robète (“rabbit”)), from Middle Dutch robbe ("rabbit; seal"; whence Modern Dutch rob (“seal", also "rabbit”)); also Middle Low German robbe, rubbe (“rabbit”), and the later Low German Rubbe (“seal”), West Frisian robbe (“seal”), Saterland Frisian Rubbe (“seal”), North Frisian rob (“seal”), borrowed into German Robbe (“seal”).
Meant "young rabbit" until the 19th c., when it came to replace the original general term coney, owing to the latter's resemblance to and use as a euphemism for cunny, "vulva" (compare ass and donkey).
senses_examples:
text:
The informant seemed skittish, as if he was about to rabbit.
type:
example
text:
When the three friends heard someone behind them yell, "police, freeze!" they each rabbited in a different direction.
type:
example
text:
The attacked man stressed to the GCN the importance of confronting someone who is harassing a person in the Fenway. He said the attack on him could have been prevented if another man who was in front of him prior to the attack hadn't "rabbitted out of there."
ref:
1986 December 7, Kim Westheimer, “Gay Bashing Still a Popular Boston Sport”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hunt rabbits.
To flee.
senses_topics:
|
8571 | word:
rabbit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rabbit (third-person singular simple present rabbits, present participle rabbiting, simple past and past participle rabbited)
forms:
form:
rabbits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rabbiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
rabbited
tags:
participle
past
form:
rabbited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Leporidae
rabbit
etymology_text:
From Cockney rhyming slang rabbit and pork, to talk.
senses_examples:
text:
Stop your infernal rabbiting! Use proper words or nobody will listen to you!
text:
1941 They Die with their Boots On, Gerald Kersh, William Heinemann Ltd., London.
To Barker, a row is a Bull-an'-a-Cow, a suit is a Whistle or Whistle-an'-flute, a kid is a Gord-Forbid ; a car is a Jam , or Jam-Jar ; talk is Rabbit , or Rabbit-an'-Pork ; beer is Pig's-Ear … and so on, up and down the language
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
senses_topics:
|
8572 | word:
rabbit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rabbit
forms:
wikipedia:
Leporidae
rabbit
etymology_text:
Perhaps a corruption of rabate.
senses_examples:
text:
LORD D. There, Dick, d'ye hear how the tutorer talks? oh rabbit it! he can ladle you out of latin by the quart;—and grunts greek like a pig.
ref:
1797, George Colman, The Heir at Law
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Confound; damn; drat.
senses_topics:
|
8573 | word:
green-backed firecrown
word_type:
noun
expansion:
green-backed firecrown (plural green-backed firecrowns)
forms:
form:
green-backed firecrowns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A South American hummingbird, Sephanoides sephaniodes.
senses_topics:
|
8574 | word:
upwelling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upwelling (plural upwellings)
forms:
form:
upwellings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
upwelling
etymology_text:
From up- + welling.
senses_examples:
text:
Rather separate from the abolitionist campaign, although likewise led by anglophone Evangelicals, was a sudden upwelling of commitment to worldwide mission.
ref:
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 873
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An upward movement from a lower source.
the oceanographic phenomenon that occurs when strong, usually seasonal, winds push water away from the coast, bringing cold, nutrient-rich deep waters up to the surface
senses_topics:
|
8575 | word:
upwelling
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upwelling
forms:
wikipedia:
upwelling
etymology_text:
From up- + welling.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of upwell
senses_topics:
|
8576 | word:
selenoid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
selenoid (comparative more selenoid, superlative most selenoid)
forms:
form:
more selenoid
tags:
comparative
form:
most selenoid
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From seleno- + -oid.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
crescent-shaped
senses_topics:
|
8577 | word:
selenoid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
selenoid (plural selenoids)
forms:
form:
selenoids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From seleno- + -oid.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
any satellite of the Earth's moon (none of which are known)
senses_topics:
|
8578 | word:
MOR
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MOR (plural MORs)
forms:
form:
MORs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mid-ocean ridge: a submarine volcanic mountain range.
senses_topics:
|
8579 | word:
MOR
word_type:
name
expansion:
MOR
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Morelos., a state of Mexico.
senses_topics:
|
8580 | word:
MOR
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
MOR
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
But MOR as a programming powerhouse began to lose strength as the radio industry evolved during those decades.
ref:
2003, Christopher H. Sterling, Encyclopedia of Radio, page 1575
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of middle of the road.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
radio |
8581 | word:
engine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
engine (plural engines)
forms:
form:
engines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
engine
etymology_text:
From Middle English engyn, from Anglo-Norman engine, Old French engin (“skill, cleverness, war machine”), from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, (in Late Latin) a war-engine, battering-ram”), related to ingignō (“to instil by birth, implant, produce in”). Compare gin, ingenious, engineer.
senses_examples:
text:
Flattery must be the most powerful Argument that cou'd be used to Human Creatures. Making use of this bewitching Engine, they extoll'd the Excellency of our Nature above other Animals [...].
ref:
1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees
type:
quotation
text:
a graphics engine
type:
example
text:
a physics engine
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
A tool; a utensil or implement.
A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for pulling cars along a track.
A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
Natural talent; genius.
Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
8582 | word:
engine
word_type:
verb
expansion:
engine (third-person singular simple present engines, present participle engining, simple past and past participle engined)
forms:
form:
engines
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
engining
tags:
participle
present
form:
engined
tags:
participle
past
form:
engined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
engine
etymology_text:
From Middle English engyn, from Anglo-Norman engine, Old French engin (“skill, cleverness, war machine”), from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, (in Late Latin) a war-engine, battering-ram”), related to ingignō (“to instil by birth, implant, produce in”). Compare gin, ingenious, engineer.
senses_examples:
text:
Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
type:
example
text:
to engine and batter our walls
ref:
1629, Thomas Adams, Plain-Dealing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.
To assault with an engine.
To contrive; to put into action.
senses_topics:
|
8583 | word:
election
word_type:
noun
expansion:
election (countable and uncountable, plural elections)
forms:
form:
elections
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Election
etymology_text:
From Middle English eleccioun, eleccion, from Anglo-Norman eleccioun, from Latin ēlectiōn-, stem of ēlectiō (“choice, selection”), from ēligō (“I pluck out, I choose”). Equivalent to elect + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
The parliamentary election(s) will be held in March.
type:
example
text:
How did you vote in (UK also: at) the last election?
type:
example
text:
That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.
ref:
2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.
type:
example
text:
W-4 election
type:
example
text:
The predestinative force of a free agent's own will in certain absolute acts, determinations, or elections, and in respect of which acts it is one either with the divine or the devilish will; and if the former, the conclusions to be drawn from God's goodness, faithfulness, and spiritual presence; these supply grounds of argument of a very different character […]
ref:
1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.
The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
An option that is selected.
Any conscious choice.
In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
Those who are elected.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
theology
|
8584 | word:
fil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fil (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
fil
etymology_text:
Of North Germanic origin, from Swedish fil. Also related to Finnish viili.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Nordic dairy product, similar to yogurt, but using different bacteria which give a different taste and texture.
senses_topics:
|
8585 | word:
fil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fil (plural fils)
forms:
form:
fils
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fil
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of alfil.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games |
8586 | word:
socialism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
socialism (usually uncountable, plural socialisms)
forms:
form:
socialisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
socialism
etymology_text:
Attested since 1832; either from French socialisme or from social + -ism.
senses_examples:
text:
…Americans as a rule have no faith in the fundamental doctrine of socialism — no private property. To be sure, that fundamental doctrine is not expressly maintained in this program of the British Labor Party ; but all its proposals lead straight to the adoption by the nation of that doctrine…
ref:
1918, National Economic League Quarterly, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Socialism is usually defined as "common ownership of the means of production". Crudely: the State, representing the whole nation, owns everything, and everyone is a State employee. This does not mean that people are stripped of private possessions such as clothes and furniture, but it does mean that all productive goods, such as land, mines, ships and machinery, are the property of the State... One must also add the following: approximate equality of incomes (it need be no more than approximate), political democracy, and abolition of all hereditary privilege, especially in education. These are simply the necessary safeguards against the reappearance of a class-system.
ref:
1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. II
type:
quotation
text:
As Gorbachev understood perestroika, the Soviet Union would retain the principal components of state socialism (state control over the means of production and centralized planning), meaning that state control over the economy and the labor force were to be maintained.
ref:
2005, Louise Shelley, Policing Soviet Society: The Evolution of State Control, Routledge, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
Soil improvement often involves the movement of large quantities of earth, but the Chinese peasants face this task with a high degree of enthusiasm for socialism.
ref:
1976 August, “Land Improvement in China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXV, number 8, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
For me, socialism is not statism, or the collective ownership of the means of production. It is a judgment on the priorities of economic policy…the community takes precedence over the individual in legitimate economic policy. The first lien on the resources of a society therefore should be to establish that "social minimum" which would allow individuals to lead a life of self-respect, to be members of the community.
ref:
1978, Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, Basic Books, page xii
type:
quotation
text:
I have used the term "liberal solidarity". It needs to stake out its ideological territory and to debate not only with socialism and conservatism, but with other varieties of liberalism.
ref:
2019, Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Is Socialism Feasible?: Towards an Alternative Future, Edward Elgar Publishing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
A system of social and economic equality in which there is no private property.
Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
A system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state.
Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
The intermediate phase of social development between capitalism and communism in Marxist theory in which the state has control of the means of production.
Any of a group of later political philosophies such democratic socialism and social democracy which do not envisage the need for full state ownership of the means of production nor transition to full communism, and which are typically based on principles of community decision making, social equality and the avoidance of economic and social exclusion, with economic policy giving first preference to community goals over individual ones.
Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.
senses_topics:
|
8587 | word:
base
word_type:
noun
expansion:
base (countable and uncountable, plural bases)
forms:
form:
bases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basis and bass.
senses_examples:
text:
The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.
type:
example
text:
[…] with flowers of gold, the body lined with velvet, and the bases, or skirts, with satin; also a frock of black satin, lined with sarcenet, having three welts of the same.
ref:
1842, Joseph Strutt, A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, page 246
type:
quotation
text:
The base (skirt), as opposed to the practical skirt of the tonlet armour, is an affectation in imitation of the civilian fabric garment of the period and may well have been inspired by a similar feature on Maximilian's gift armour.
ref:
1977, Armours of Henry VIII
type:
quotation
text:
Both knee-length bases are made from black velvet [...] There was a second type of metal skirt that could be worn with armour: the tonlet. [...] Unlike the base, however, the tonlet did not have a textile counterpart. [...]
ref:
2007, AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies. Conference, Textiles and Text: Re-establishing the Links Between Archival and Object-based Research : Postprints, pages 47–49
type:
quotation
text:
bakers in their linen bases
ref:
1613, John Marston, The Insatiate Countess
type:
quotation
text:
Use the globe he inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets.
ref:
1834, Mary Somerville, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences
type:
quotation
text:
TYLER LENNON(played by Louis Healy): Ten grand a week we were clearing: base, white, meth, weed, anything. I can get you anything to get you high.
ref:
2019 January 20, Ann Cleeves, Paul Matthew Thompson, 1:26:51 from the start, in Lawrence Gough, director, Vera(Cuckoo) (9), episode 2 (TV series), spoken by Tyler Lennon (Louis Healy)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
A basic but essential component or ingredient.
A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
Important areas in games and sports.
A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
Important areas in games and sports.
One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace..)
A number raised to the power of an exponent.
Synonym of radix.
The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
Dated form of bass.
The smallest kind of cannon.
The housing of a horse.
A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
An apron.
A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
Short for base leg.
freebase cocaine
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle
cosmetics
lifestyle
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
architecture
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
geometry
mathematics
sciences
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
topology
mathematics
sciences
topology
group-theory
mathematics
sciences
acrobatics
arts
cheerleading
hobbies
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
government
military
politics
war
government
politics
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
8588 | word:
base
word_type:
verb
expansion:
base (third-person singular simple present bases, present participle basing, simple past and past participle based)
forms:
form:
bases
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
basing
tags:
participle
present
form:
based
tags:
participle
past
form:
based
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basis and bass.
senses_examples:
text:
Take a look at that. This is where we are going to be basing this season.
ref:
2024 February 4, Grian, 23:40 from the start, in Hermitcraft 10: Episode 1 - THE START
type:
quotation
text:
Apart from time taken out during radio- and chemotherapy, Maurs continued to participate in POW. She would base a flyer in a double balance and make the audience laugh with her clowning antics for two more shows.
ref:
2005, John T. Warren, Laura B. Lengel, Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Context, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
You know he started to base at a hell of a pace / And now it's a disgrace, he's got the pipe in his face
ref:
1984, “8 Million Stories”, in Ego Trip, performed by Kurtis Blow ft. Run-DMC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
To be located (at a particular place).
To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
To freebase.
senses_topics:
acrobatics
arts
cheerleading
hobbies
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
|
8589 | word:
base
word_type:
adj
expansion:
base (comparative baser or more base, superlative basest or most base)
forms:
form:
baser
tags:
comparative
form:
more base
tags:
comparative
form:
basest
tags:
superlative
form:
most base
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English base, bas, from Old French bas, from Late Latin bassus (“low”). Cognate with Spanish bajo, Italian basso and base.
senses_examples:
text:
The cedar stoops not to the base shrub's foot.
ref:
1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, line 664
type:
quotation
text:
I see thy glory like a shooting star / Fall to the base earth from the firmament.
ref:
c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act 2, scene 4, lines 19–20
type:
quotation
text:
a peasant and base swain
ref:
1623, Francis Bacon, De Augmentis Scientiarum
type:
quotation
text:
a cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind
ref:
1551, Ralph Robynson, transl., More's Utopia
type:
quotation
text:
base coin
type:
example
text:
base bullion
type:
example
text:
Why bastard? Wherefore base?
ref:
c. 1605–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 1, scene 2, line 6
type:
quotation
text:
the base tone of a violin
type:
example
text:
A base estate is one held by services not honourable, or held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant is a base tenant.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Low in height; short.
Low in place or position.
Of low value or degree.
Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
Not considered precious or noble.
Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
Not classical or correct.
Obsolete form of bass.
Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.
senses_topics:
law |
8590 | word:
base
word_type:
noun
expansion:
base (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably a specific use of Etymology 1, above; perhaps also a development of the plural of bar.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The game of prisoners' bars.
senses_topics:
|
8591 | word:
base
word_type:
noun
expansion:
base
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant forms.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of BASE
senses_topics:
|
8592 | word:
settling
word_type:
verb
expansion:
settling
forms:
wikipedia:
settling
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of settle
senses_topics:
|
8593 | word:
settling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
settling (countable and uncountable, plural settlings)
forms:
form:
settlings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing oneself, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
The reckoning or settlement of accounts; the paying out of gambling winnings.
Dregs; sediment.
senses_topics:
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8594 | word:
vertical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vertical (comparative more vertical, superlative most vertical)
forms:
form:
more vertical
tags:
comparative
form:
most vertical
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French vertical, from Late Latin verticālis.
senses_examples:
text:
vertical lines
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.
In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.
senses_topics:
business
marketing
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
8595 | word:
vertical
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vertical (plural verticals)
forms:
form:
verticals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French vertical, from Late Latin verticālis.
senses_examples:
text:
We offer specialised accounting software targeting various verticals.
type:
example
text:
As Barclay Capital's Douglas Anmuth wrote in a report on Friday morning, Google's "core search growth" is slowing, so there may now be a "greater urgency in pursuing specific verticals". So, what other specialised areas could Google target?
ref:
2010 July 5, Joseph Tartakoff, “What search verticals will Google target next?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Russian opposition outlet Vazhnye Istorii reported on August 19 that Russian President Vladimir Putin's reaction to the "Kursk situation" has exposed certain shifts within the Kremlin's power vertical, many of which have been underway over the last several months ... Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov noted that the FSB has generally shifted its mandate away from controlling Russian oligarchs and towards controlling Russia’s military and Russia’s military-industrial complex as well as countering "saboteurs and terrorists," and Vazhnye Istorii reported that several long-time Russian economic oligarchs are also gradually losing their influence within the Kremlin's wider power vertical ... ISW has reported at length on Putin's efforts to maintain a core cadre of loyal siloviki (Russian strongmen with political influence) within the Russian power vertical, particularly since the risks to Putin's regime first introduced by the Wagner Group's armed rebellion in June 2023.
ref:
2024 August 19, Christina Harward, Nicole Wolkov, Grace Mappes, Davit Gasparyan, Karolina Hird, George Barros, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 19, 2024”, in Ukraine Project, The Institute for the Study of War
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vertex or zenith.
A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
A vertical component of a structure.
A vertical market.
A command structure for exertion of political power.
senses_topics:
business
marketing
government
politics |
8596 | word:
x-axis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
x-axis (plural x-axes)
forms:
form:
x-axes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The axis on a graph that is usually drawn left to right and usually shows the range of values of an independent variable.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
8597 | word:
shallow
word_type:
adj
expansion:
shallow (comparative shallower, superlative shallowest)
forms:
form:
shallower
tags:
comparative
form:
shallowest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.
senses_examples:
text:
This crater is relatively shallow.
type:
example
text:
Sauté the onions in a shallow pan.
type:
example
text:
The water is shallow here.
type:
example
text:
It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
type:
example
text:
The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.
type:
example
text:
shallow learning
type:
example
text:
Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory.
ref:
2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
a shallow climb
type:
example
text:
a shallow descent
type:
example
text:
a shallow bank angle
type:
example
text:
The planes then flew side by side with motors wide open in a very shallow climb[…].
ref:
1922 July 24, Aviation Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
If they [the Apollo astronauts] come in too steeply, they will be crushed in the Earth’s atmosphere. If they come in too shallow, they will skip out and go into Earth orbit and not be able to return.
ref:
1968 December 20, CBS Evening News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
Extending not far downward.
Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional.
Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
Not deep in tone.
Not far forward, close to the net.
Not steep; close to horizontal.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
|
8598 | word:
shallow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shallow (plural shallows)
forms:
form:
shallows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.
senses_examples:
text:
The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
type:
example
text:
It happened that, as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow, one of them was seized with cramp and began drifting downstream.
ref:
1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
type:
quotation
text:
You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow.
ref:
1871, Belgravia, volume 14, page 213
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
A fish, the rudd.
A costermonger's barrow.
senses_topics:
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8599 | word:
shallow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shallow (third-person singular simple present shallows, present participle shallowing, simple past and past participle shallowed)
forms:
form:
shallows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shallowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
shallowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
shallowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.
senses_examples:
text:
The shallowing of Cenozoic age-frequency curves from tropics to poles thus appears to reflect the decreasing probability for genera to reach and remain established in progressively higher latitudes ( 9 ).
ref:
2009 February 6, Andrew Z. Krug et al., “Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 767–771
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make or become less deep.
senses_topics:
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