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8600 | word:
gearbox
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gearbox (plural gearboxes)
forms:
form:
gearboxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gearbox
etymology_text:
From gear + box.
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: transmission (metonymically synonymous)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An enclosed gear train.
That part of a car's transmission containing the train of gears, and to which the gear lever is connected.
senses_topics:
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8601 | word:
horizontal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
horizontal (comparative more horizontal, superlative most horizontal)
forms:
form:
more horizontal
tags:
comparative
form:
most horizontal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French horizontal.
senses_examples:
text:
horizontal lines
type:
example
text:
horizontal tango
type:
example
text:
Comparing a man who inspires you intellectually and makes you laugh with a guy who fulfils all your horizontal desires means you’re not comparing like with like.
ref:
2020 February 2, Mariella Frostrup, “One is a great guy; the other is good in bed. So who do I choose?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Infectious agents may spread by horizontal transmission.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.
Relating to horizontal markets
Pertaining to the horizon.
Involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries.
Having the two notes sound successively.
Relating to sexual intercourse.
Being or relating to the transmission of organisms between biotic and/or abiotic members of an ecosystem that are not in a parent-progeny relationship.
senses_topics:
business
marketing
beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
entertainment
lifestyle
music
lifestyle
sex
sexuality
biology
natural-sciences |
8602 | word:
horizontal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
horizontal (plural horizontals)
forms:
form:
horizontals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French horizontal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A horizontal component of a structure.
Horizon.
A Tasmanian shrub or small tree whose main trunk tends to lean over and grow horizontally, Anodopetalum biglandulosum
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
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8603 | word:
federation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
federation (countable and uncountable, plural federations)
forms:
form:
federations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
federation (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French fédération, from Late Latin foederatio, from Latin foederare; equivalent to federate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
It is 106 years since federation.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Act of joining together into a single political entity.
Array of nations or states that are unified under one central authority which is elected by its members.
Any society or organisation formed from separate groups or bodies.
A collection of network or telecommunication providers that offer interoperability.
senses_topics:
communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications |
8604 | word:
federation
word_type:
adj
expansion:
federation (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Federation architecture
federation (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French fédération, from Late Latin foederatio, from Latin foederare; equivalent to federate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
We live in a federation house.
type:
example
text:
The Federation house claimed a unique place in architecture, even if it offended architects.
ref:
2000, Donald Denoon, Philippa Mein Smith, Marivic Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, page 221
type:
quotation
text:
Five Chimneys, 15 Maria St, T8563 0240. Comfortable accomodation in large federation house, spa, swimming pool.
ref:
2002, Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Australia: Handbook, page 754
type:
quotation
text:
Plaster kookaburras from the 1930s would still look good in a nature-themed Federation house; h27 cm.
ref:
2010, Adrian Franklin, Collecting the 20th Century, page 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of an architectural style popular around the time of federation.
senses_topics:
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8605 | word:
haustorium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
haustorium (plural haustoria)
forms:
form:
haustoria
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
haustorium
etymology_text:
From Latin haustor (“drainer”) + -ium.
senses_examples:
text:
In the substomatal chamber all the signals that regulate the interaction between fungus and host are present along the entire structure of the rust fungus, from the vesicle to the first haustorium which, in the dikaryotic stage, is the first intracellular structure (Mendgen et al., 1988; Heath, 1989, 1995).
ref:
2005, Ming Hao Pei, Alistair R. McCracken, editors, Rust Diseases of Willow and Poplar, CABI, page 170
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A root of a parasitic plant modified to take nourishment from its host.
A cellular structure, growing into or around another structure to absorb water or nutrients, such as a cotyledon.
senses_topics:
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8606 | word:
hazelnut
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hazelnut (plural hazelnuts)
forms:
form:
hazelnuts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Equivalent to hazel + nut; from Middle English haselnote, from Old English hæselhnutu (“hazelnut”). Cognate with West Frisian hazzenút (“hazelnut”), Saterland Frisian Hoaselnuute (“hazelnut”), Dutch hazelnoot, German Haselnuss.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fruit of the hazel, especially Corylus avellana, which is grown commercially.
senses_topics:
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8607 | word:
tracer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tracer (plural tracers)
forms:
form:
tracers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From trace + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
We have a five-man tracer on him now. He's heading for a Vorster cell on Michigan Boulevard, and he's drunk as a lord. Should we intercept him?
ref:
1964, Galaxy Magazine, volume 23, numbers 1-6, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
A surveyor typically conducts a tracer on his or her own and later meets up with the rest of the team to discuss findings.
ref:
2011, Joint Commission Resources, Environment of Care Tracer Workbook, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Ain't never running but I'm a paper chasing
They gon catch up to me, they gon need a pacer
How they over-watching me without a tracer
ref:
2017, “From the Sewers”, CardCaptorXP (lyrics)
type:
quotation
text:
The next morning when she awoke, she told Darcy what had happened, and Darcy agreed that she should go to the police and this time ask them if they could put a tracer on her incoming phone calls, just in case he called again.
ref:
2010, Claire Gilbert, A Runway for a Dream
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A compound, element, or isotope used to track the progress or history of a natural process.
A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark.
The act or state of tracking or investigating something.
A request to trace the movements of a person or an object, such as a shipment.
A person who traces something.
A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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8608 | word:
droplet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
droplet (plural droplets)
forms:
form:
droplets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From drop + -let.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A very small drop.
senses_topics:
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8609 | word:
brain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brain (countable and uncountable, plural brains)
forms:
form:
brains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English brayn, brain, from Old English bræġn (“brain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bragn, from Proto-Germanic *bragną (“brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰnom (“skull, brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰ- (“marrow, sinciput”) + *-mn̥ (“nominal suffix”).
Cognate with Scots braine, brane (“brain”), North Frisian brayen, brein (“brain”), Saterland Frisian Brainge (“brain”), West Frisian brein (“brain”), Dutch brein (“brain”), Low German Brägen, Bregen (“brain”) (whence German Bregen (“animal brain”)), Ancient Greek βρεχμός (brekhmós, “front part of the skull, top of the head”).
senses_examples:
text:
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref:
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
The left brain, or that which supplies and animates the right side of the body, is the most active brain, as a general rule.
ref:
1892, Benjamin Ward Richardson, The Asclepiad, London, page 357
type:
quotation
text:
What is expressed in the lotus, the plumed serpent, or the staff of Osiris is the yogi's knowledge of the three brains of man. The first brain is the reptilian brain of the spinal cord, the brain of instinctive reflexes, the brain of the subconscious.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 113
type:
quotation
text:
She was a total brain.
type:
example
text:
Peebee: The brains and I are comparing Remnant notes and filling in the blanks.
ref:
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nexus
type:
quotation
text:
He is the brains behind the scheme.
type:
example
text:
"We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines.
ref:
2008 Quaker Action (magazine) Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers, Fall 2008, Vol. 89, No. 3, p. 8
text:
She has a lot of brains.
type:
example
text:
Gerald always acts like he doesn't have a brain.
type:
example
text:
The computer's brain is capable of millions of calculations a second.
type:
example
text:
Have you ever popped champagne on a plane, while gettin' some brain?
ref:
2007, “Good Life”, in Graduation, performed by Kanye West ft. T-Pain
type:
quotation
text:
You said I got brain from your dame in the range
In the passing lane
But you really ain't got no proof
ref:
2012, Mack Maine featuring Turk and Mystikal, I'm On It
type:
quotation
text:
She giving brain / She eat the dick up like some M&Ms
ref:
2018, “Squidrific”, performed by SahBabii
type:
quotation
text:
I have too much on my brain today.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
A part of the brain, especially associated with particular mental functions, abilities, etc.
An intelligent person.
An intelligent person.
A person who provides the intelligence required for something.
Intellect.
Intellect.
An intellectual or mental capacity.
By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.
Oral sex.
Mind.
A loose compartment of a backpack that straps on over the top opening.
senses_topics:
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8610 | word:
brain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
brain (third-person singular simple present brains, present participle braining, simple past and past participle brained)
forms:
form:
brains
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
braining
tags:
participle
present
form:
brained
tags:
participle
past
form:
brained
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English brayn, brain, from Old English bræġn (“brain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bragn, from Proto-Germanic *bragną (“brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰnom (“skull, brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰ- (“marrow, sinciput”) + *-mn̥ (“nominal suffix”).
Cognate with Scots braine, brane (“brain”), North Frisian brayen, brein (“brain”), Saterland Frisian Brainge (“brain”), West Frisian brein (“brain”), Dutch brein (“brain”), Low German Brägen, Bregen (“brain”) (whence German Bregen (“animal brain”)), Ancient Greek βρεχμός (brekhmós, “front part of the skull, top of the head”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.
To strike (someone) on the head.
To destroy; to put an end to.
To conceive in the mind; to understand.
senses_topics:
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8611 | word:
baron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
baron (plural barons, feminine baroness)
forms:
form:
barons
tags:
plural
form:
baroness
tags:
feminine
wikipedia:
en:baron
etymology_text:
From Middle English baroun, from Old French baron, from Latin barōnem, from Proto-West Germanic *barō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear”). Cognate with Old High German baro (“human being, man, freeman”), Old English bora (“a man who bears responsibility, one who is in charge, a ruler”), and perhaps to Old English beorn (“man, warrior”). Used in early Germanic law in the sense of "man, human being".
A Celtic origin has also been suggested; see the quote under sense 3 of Latin barō. However, the OED takes the hypothetical Proto-Celtic *bar- (“hero”) to be a figment.
senses_examples:
text:
There were a few exotics among them — some South American boys, sons of Argentine beef barons, one or two Russians, and even a Siamese prince, or someone who was described as a prince.
ref:
c. 1948, George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys
type:
quotation
text:
British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
ref:
2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
The first thing a baron does is to accumulate a supply of tobacco. He spends every penny he can earn on laying it in […]
ref:
1960, Hugh J. Klare, Anatomy of Prison, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
Nevertheless, from my own agonies of the first few months, after which I did not miss smoking at all, I could appreciate the need of others. It was in this atmosphere of craving that the 'barons' thrived. Barons are prisoners who lend tobacco.
ref:
1961, Peter Baker, Time out of life, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
In British prisons tobacco still remains the gold standard which is made to back every transaction and promise. The official allowance is barely sufficient for individual smoking needs, but tobacco may expensively be borrowed or bought from a baron, possibly through his runner.
ref:
1980, Leonard Michaels, Christopher Ricks, The State of the Language, page 525
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: wife
text:
baron and femme ― husband and wife
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The male ruler of a barony.
A male member of the lowest rank of English nobility (the equivalent rank in Scotland is lord).
A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.
A prisoner who gains power and influence by lending or selling goods such as tobacco.
A baron of beef, a cut made up of a double sirloin.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euthalia.
A husband.
senses_topics:
law |
8612 | word:
seep
word_type:
verb
expansion:
seep (third-person singular simple present seeps, present participle seeping, simple past and past participle seeped)
forms:
form:
seeps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
seeping
tags:
participle
present
form:
seeped
tags:
participle
past
form:
seeped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”).
See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.
senses_examples:
text:
Water has seeped through the roof.
type:
example
text:
The water steadily seeped in through the thirl.
type:
example
text:
Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.
type:
example
text:
Fear began to seep into the local community over the contamination of their fishpond.
type:
example
text:
The resistance movement against the invaders had slowly seeped away.
type:
example
text:
The crack is seeping water.
type:
example
text:
If the crack is seeping water, the foam totally stops the leakage.
ref:
2015, Crack repair service, archived from the original on 2020-02-23
type:
quotation
text:
Just when I thought I was done checking it over, I smelled coolant....remove the engine cover and bam! 1 inch crack is seeping coolant!
ref:
2009 April 16, Crownvic forums
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
To diminish or wane away slowly.
(of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
senses_topics:
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8613 | word:
seep
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seep (plural seeps)
forms:
form:
seeps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
seep
etymology_text:
Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”).
See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.
senses_examples:
text:
Another idea was that filamentous bacteria covering the hairs [of the Yeti crab] would either neutralize gases emitted from the vent or serve the crab directly as a food source. And this last idea received support when a second species of Yeti crab was discovered on cold seeps on the deep-sea floor near Costa Rica.
ref:
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 356
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.
Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.
The seeping away of a liquid, etc.
A seafloor vent.
senses_topics:
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8614 | word:
hare
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hare (countable and uncountable, plural hares)
forms:
form:
hares
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hare
etymology_text:
From Middle English hare, from Old English hara (“hare”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasō ~ *haʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *hasô, from *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂s-én-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian hazze, Dutch haas, German Hase, Norwegian and Swedish hare, Icelandic heri), Old English hasu, Middle High German heswe (“pale, dull”); also Welsh cannu (“to whiten”), ceinach (“hare”), Latin cānus (“white”), cascus (“old”), Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”) and Sanskrit शश (śaśa, “hare”).
senses_examples:
text:
Ashe bit absent-mindedly into a piece of hare and swore mildly when he burned his tongue.
ref:
1958, Andre Norton, The Time Traders, Cleveland, Oh., New York, N.Y.: The World Publishing Company, →LCCN, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
Hare is another delicious meat – it’s more ‘steaky’, darker and richer than rabbit.
ref:
2007, Jamie Oliver, Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life, London: Michael Joseph, Penguin Books, page 273
type:
quotation
text:
In Milan, jugged hare is flavoured with grated chocolate, which adds colour and depth to the sauce.
ref:
2013, Anna Del Conte, Gastronomy of Italy, London: Pavilion, page 109
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.
The meat from this animal.
The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.
senses_topics:
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8615 | word:
hare
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hare (third-person singular simple present hares, present participle haring, simple past and past participle hared)
forms:
form:
hares
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
haring
tags:
participle
present
form:
hared
tags:
participle
past
form:
hared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hare
etymology_text:
From Middle English hare, from Old English hara (“hare”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasō ~ *haʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *hasô, from *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂s-én-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian hazze, Dutch haas, German Hase, Norwegian and Swedish hare, Icelandic heri), Old English hasu, Middle High German heswe (“pale, dull”); also Welsh cannu (“to whiten”), ceinach (“hare”), Latin cānus (“white”), cascus (“old”), Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”) and Sanskrit शश (śaśa, “hare”).
senses_examples:
text:
But Wales somehow snaffled possession for fly-half Jones to send half-back partner Mike Phillips haring away with Stoddart in support.
ref:
2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move swiftly.
senses_topics:
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8616 | word:
hare
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hare (third-person singular simple present hares, present participle haring, simple past and past participle hared)
forms:
form:
hares
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
haring
tags:
participle
present
form:
hared
tags:
participle
past
form:
hared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English harren, harien (“to drag by force, ill-treat”), of uncertain origin. Compare harry, harass.
senses_examples:
text:
To hare and rate them thus at every turn, is not to teach them, but to vex, and torment them to no purpoſe.
ref:
1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
senses_topics:
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8617 | word:
hare
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hare
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”).
senses_examples:
text:
a hare old man
type:
example
text:
a hare day
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).
Cold, frosty (of weather).
senses_topics:
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8618 | word:
narrow
word_type:
adj
expansion:
narrow (comparative narrower, superlative narrowest)
forms:
form:
narrower
tags:
comparative
form:
narrowest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English narow, narowe, narewe, narwe, naru, from Old English nearu (“narrow, strait, confined, constricted, not spacious, limited, petty; limited, poor, restricted; oppressive, causing anxiety (of that which restricts free action of body or mind), causing or accompanied by difficulty, hardship, oppressive; oppressed, not having free action; strict, severe”), from Proto-West Germanic *naru, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz (“constricted, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“to turn, bend, twist, constrict”). Cognate with Scots naro, narow, narrow (“narrow”), North Frisian naar, noar, noor (“narrow”), Saterland Frisian noar (“bleak, dismal, meager, ghastly, unwell”), Saterland Frisian Naarwe (“scar”), West Frisian near (“narrow”), Dutch naar (“dismal, bleak, ill, sick”), Low German naar (“dismal, ghastly”), German Nehrung (“spit, narrow peninsula”), Norwegian norve (“a clip, staple”), Icelandic narrow- (“njörva-”, in compounds).
senses_examples:
text:
a narrow hallway
type:
example
text:
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.
ref:
2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.
ref:
1675, John Wilkins, Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion
type:
quotation
text:
a narrow interpretation
type:
example
text:
a narrow mind
type:
example
text:
narrow views
type:
example
text:
a narrow escape
type:
example
text:
The Republicans won by a narrow majority.
type:
example
text:
As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.
ref:
2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
narrow circumstances
type:
example
text:
a very narrow […] and stinted charity
ref:
a. 1719, George Smalridge, The Hopes of a Recompense from Men must not be our chief Aim in doing Good
type:
quotation
text:
a narrow character; a narrow stream
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
Having a small margin or degree.
Limited as to means; straitened
Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
Of or supporting only those text characters that can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
8619 | word:
narrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
narrow (plural narrows)
forms:
form:
narrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English narow, narowe, narewe, narwe, naru, from Old English nearu (“narrow, strait, confined, constricted, not spacious, limited, petty; limited, poor, restricted; oppressive, causing anxiety (of that which restricts free action of body or mind), causing or accompanied by difficulty, hardship, oppressive; oppressed, not having free action; strict, severe”), from Proto-West Germanic *naru, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz (“constricted, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“to turn, bend, twist, constrict”). Cognate with Scots naro, narow, narrow (“narrow”), North Frisian naar, noar, noor (“narrow”), Saterland Frisian noar (“bleak, dismal, meager, ghastly, unwell”), Saterland Frisian Naarwe (“scar”), West Frisian near (“narrow”), Dutch naar (“dismal, bleak, ill, sick”), Low German naar (“dismal, ghastly”), German Nehrung (“spit, narrow peninsula”), Norwegian norve (“a clip, staple”), Icelandic narrow- (“njörva-”, in compounds).
senses_examples:
text:
the narrows of New York harbor
type:
example
text:
Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow.
ref:
1858, William Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
senses_topics:
|
8620 | word:
narrow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
narrow (third-person singular simple present narrows, present participle narrowing, simple past and past participle narrowed)
forms:
form:
narrows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
narrowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
narrowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
narrowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English narwen (“to narrow”); see there for more details, but ultimately derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
We need to narrow the search.
type:
example
text:
The road narrows.
type:
example
text:
He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.
type:
example
text:
She wagged her finger in his face, and her eyes narrowed.
type:
example
text:
to narrow an int variable to a short variable
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
To get narrower.
To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
senses_topics:
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
8621 | word:
mustache
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mustache (plural mustaches)
forms:
form:
mustaches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of moustache.
senses_topics:
|
8622 | word:
orbit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
orbit (countable and uncountable, plural orbits)
forms:
form:
orbits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English orbite, orbita, from Latin orbita (“course, track, impression, mark”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Moon's orbit around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.
type:
example
text:
In the post WWII era, several eastern European countries came into the orbit of the Soviet Union.
type:
example
text:
The convenience store was a heavily travelled point in her daily orbit, as she purchased both cigarettes and lottery tickets there.
type:
example
text:
All right, I'll play one more orbit but then I'm leaving!
type:
example
text:
Dad went into orbit when I told him that I'd crashed the car.
type:
example
text:
Given a veritable Pagan's Paddock by the Cats to work in on Friday night, Danger booted two goals in the first seven minutes to send Geelong fans into orbit.
ref:
2017 September 18, Andrew McGarry, “AFL finals week two: The heroes and villains from the elimination semi-finals”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 2018-10-02
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
An elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or Lagrange point, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
An elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or Lagrange point, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
One complete circuit round an orbited body.
The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
The state of moving in an orbit.
The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
The path of an electron around an atomic nucleus.
The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
A path for the ball on the outer edge of the playfield, usually connected so that the ball entering in one end will come out of the other.
A sphere of influence; an area or extent of activity, interest, or control.
The bony cavity in the skull of a vertebrate containing the eyeball.
The bony cavity in the skull of a vertebrate containing the eyeball.
The area around the eye of a bird or other animal.
A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
The subset of elements of a set X to which a given element can be moved by members of a specified group of transformations that act on X.
The number of hands such that each player at the table has posted the big blind once.
A state of increased excitement, activity, or anger.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
mathematics
sciences
geometry
group-theory
mathematics
sciences
card-games
poker
|
8623 | word:
orbit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
orbit (third-person singular simple present orbits, present participle orbiting, simple past and past participle orbited)
forms:
form:
orbits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
orbiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
orbited
tags:
participle
past
form:
orbited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English orbite, orbita, from Latin orbita (“course, track, impression, mark”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Earth orbits the Sun.
type:
example
text:
The satellite orbits the Lagrange point.
type:
example
text:
A rocket was used to orbit the satellite.
type:
example
text:
The harried mother had a cloud of children orbiting her, begging for sweets.
type:
example
text:
I have orbited my entire life around you, and you know it, okay?
ref:
2013, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (motion picture), spoken by Jesse (Ethan Hawke)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To circle or revolve around another object or position.
To circle or revolve around another object or position.
To place an object (e.g. a satellite) into an orbit around a planet.
To move around the general vicinity of something.
To move in a circle.
To center (around).
To continue to follow and/or engage with someone via social media after breaking up with them.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
|
8624 | word:
solid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
solid (comparative more solid or solider, superlative most solid or solidest)
forms:
form:
more solid
tags:
comparative
form:
solider
tags:
comparative
form:
most solid
tags:
superlative
form:
solidest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
solid (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English solide, borrowed from Old French solide, from Latin solidus (“solid”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-i-dʰ-o-s (“entire”), suffixed form of root *solh₂- (“integrate, whole”). Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solidus, sou, and xu.
senses_examples:
text:
Almost all metals are solid at room temperature.
type:
example
text:
Almost a quarter of a million copies is really a solid number for today's record industry. In fact, that number is more than the last two number one albums
ref:
2015 July 8, “Rapper Meek Mill Charts His First Number One Album”, in Forbes
type:
quotation
text:
Americans increased their borrowing by a solid amount in September. But the gain was less than half the big August surge
ref:
2018 November 7, “Consumer borrowing up solid $10.9 billion in September”, in Journal Record
type:
quotation
text:
On top of that, the speaker is big, so you may have to set aside a solid amount of space for it.
ref:
2018 November 7, Christian de Looper, “The best Google Assistant smart speakers you can buy”, in Business Insider
type:
quotation
text:
solid gold
type:
example
text:
solid chocolate
type:
example
text:
a solid foundation
type:
example
text:
As in the 1-0 win against Norway in Oslo, this was an England performance built on the foundations of solid defence and tactical discipline.
ref:
2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
That's a solid plan.
type:
example
text:
Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid.
type:
example
text:
I don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude.
type:
example
text:
a solid meal
type:
example
text:
1875-1886, J. A. Symonds, Renaissance in Italy: The revival of learning
The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem.
text:
a solid constitution of body
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: hyphenation (noun)
text:
American English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates.
type:
example
text:
The delegation is solid for a candidate.
type:
example
text:
John painted the walls solid white.
type:
example
text:
He wore a solid shirt with floral pants.
type:
example
text:
The solid lines show roads, and the dotted lines footpaths.
type:
example
text:
A solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid, gas or plasma.
Large in size, quantity, or value.
Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
Strong or unyielding.
Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
Hearty; filling.
Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
Financially well off; wealthy.
Sound; not weak.
Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
United; without division; unanimous.
Of a single color throughout.
Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.
Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.
Measured as a single solid, as the volumes of individual pieces added together without any gaps.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography
media
printing
publishing
government
politics
|
8625 | word:
solid
word_type:
adv
expansion:
solid (comparative more solid, superlative most solid)
forms:
form:
more solid
tags:
comparative
form:
most solid
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
solid (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English solide, borrowed from Old French solide, from Latin solidus (“solid”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-i-dʰ-o-s (“entire”), suffixed form of root *solh₂- (“integrate, whole”). Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solidus, sou, and xu.
senses_examples:
text:
Hm-m-—These papers are complete—They make Mortimer and Matilda the legal guardians of Babs—ought to put me in more solid than ever with Miss Effie—and that home is good graft.
ref:
1937 March 7, Marsh, “Dan Dunn-Secret Operative 48”, in Sarasota (FL) Herald-Tribune
type:
quotation
text:
Suppose, then, a whole family got sick with this flu, and no help around, and winter setting in solid and cold three weeks early?
ref:
1943, Wallace Stegner, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, page 246
type:
quotation
text:
set a new high in baseball for the year, not only ending speculation as to when Durocher would be fired but putting him in more solid than ever before.
ref:
1943 July 16, “Dodger Rebellion Is Settled With One Dramatic Flourish”, in Youngstown (OH) Vindicator
type:
quotation
text:
If true, that means he deliberately risked American and French lives, and maybe the battle, in order to get in solid with Lafayette.
ref:
1997, David Ambrose, Superstition, page 239
type:
quotation
text:
Then he drew a long-barreled revolver from under a coat that he had thrown aside and examined it carefully to see that the powder and ball were in solid and that none of the caps was missing
ref:
2008, James Oliver Curwood, The Courage of Captain Plum, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Soichi Yamazaki, chief analyst at Fukoku Capital Management said Nidec Corp's (6594.OS) earnings came in more solid than expected on Friday
ref:
2009 July 26, Rika Otsuka, “Nikkei hits 6-wk high on earnings hopes, Hitachi jumps”, in Reuters.com
type:
quotation
text:
Many long-established compounds are set solid.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Solidly.
Without spaces or hyphens.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography |
8626 | word:
solid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
solid (plural solids)
forms:
form:
solids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
solid
solid (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English solid, from the adjective, Middle French solide, or Latin solidum. Doublet of solidum.
senses_examples:
text:
Please do me a solid: lend me your car for one week.
type:
example
text:
I owe him; he did me a solid last year.
type:
example
text:
Fortunately, the president of our illustrious institution has been after me for a year to get Francis Ford Coppola to speak at next year's commencement, and Francis owes me a solid.
ref:
2010, Loren D. Estleman, Frames, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
You can't make a move till you have about a year in a precinct, but tell you what, stay in touch. Lots a people still owe me a solid or two on the Job.
ref:
2012, Robert Cea, No Lights, No Sirens: The Corruption and Redemption of an Inner City Cop, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
Thomas had seemed ready to spend the night on the couch, and now he couldn't get out of here fast enough. Hopping up, I followed after him. "Thanks again, Thomas," I said, opening the door for him. "I owe you a solid."
ref:
2013, Nicole Williams, Crush
type:
quotation
text:
I prefer solids over paisleys.
type:
example
text:
The doctor said I can't eat any solids four hours before the operation.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas).
A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
A favor.
An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
Food which is not liquid-based.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
|
8627 | word:
sap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sap (countable and uncountable, plural saps)
forms:
form:
saps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sap
sap (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sap, from Old English sæp (“juice, sap”), from Proto-West Germanic *sap (“sap, juice”) (compare Dutch sap, German Saft, Icelandic safi), from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, *sap- (“to taste”) (compare Welsh syb-wydd (“fir”), Latin sapa (“must, new wine”), Russian со́пли (sópli, “snivel”), Old Armenian համ (ham, “taste”), Avestan 𐬬𐬌-𐬱𐬁𐬞𐬀 (vi-šāpa, “having poisonous juices”), Sanskrit सबर् (sabar, “juice, nectar”)). More at sage.
The longstanding practice of sapping trees influenced the sense evolution of the military term as trench warfare receded from public conscience.
senses_examples:
text:
Look at the sap mowing our lawn while we pretend our own lawnmower is broken.
type:
example
text:
She said I'm such a sap, I'm such a jerk / Can't I ever forget the way that we are / Spend all your time with your eyes on the ground / Looking for the stars
ref:
1997, “Don't Look Down”, in Curtains, performed by Tindersticks
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Any juice.
Vitality.
A naive person; a simpleton.
senses_topics:
|
8628 | word:
sap
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)
forms:
form:
saps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sapping
tags:
participle
present
form:
sapped
tags:
participle
past
form:
sapped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sap (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sap, from Old English sæp (“juice, sap”), from Proto-West Germanic *sap (“sap, juice”) (compare Dutch sap, German Saft, Icelandic safi), from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, *sap- (“to taste”) (compare Welsh syb-wydd (“fir”), Latin sapa (“must, new wine”), Russian со́пли (sópli, “snivel”), Old Armenian համ (ham, “taste”), Avestan 𐬬𐬌-𐬱𐬁𐬞𐬀 (vi-šāpa, “having poisonous juices”), Sanskrit सबर् (sabar, “juice, nectar”)). More at sage.
The longstanding practice of sapping trees influenced the sense evolution of the military term as trench warfare receded from public conscience.
senses_examples:
text:
While Tuchel will be delighted with the way his players responded, there will be concern at how much the energy-sapping 120 minutes has taken out of them.
ref:
2022 April 12, Neil Johnston, “Real Madrid 2-3 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
To exhaust the vitality of.
senses_topics:
|
8629 | word:
sap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sap (plural saps)
forms:
form:
saps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sap (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Probably from sapling.
senses_examples:
text:
I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
ref:
1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
senses_topics:
|
8630 | word:
sap
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)
forms:
form:
saps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sapping
tags:
participle
present
form:
sapped
tags:
participle
past
form:
sapped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sap (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Probably from sapling.
senses_examples:
text:
[A]s he passes the mouth of a narrow alley two men step out quickly. One of them saps Marlowe expertly — they drag him out of sight.
ref:
1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
text:
And when he had me up there he would sap me again and I wouldn't remember anything that happened in between the two sappings.
ref:
1964, Raymond Chandler, Killer in the Rain
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
senses_topics:
|
8631 | word:
sap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sap (plural saps)
forms:
form:
saps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sap (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From French saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from sape (“sort of scythe”), from Late Latin sappa (“sort of mattock”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
8632 | word:
sap
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)
forms:
form:
saps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sapping
tags:
participle
present
form:
sapped
tags:
participle
past
form:
sapped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sap (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From French saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from sape (“sort of scythe”), from Late Latin sappa (“sort of mattock”).
senses_examples:
text:
Ring out the grief that saps the mind[…]
ref:
1850, Alfred Tennyson, Ring, Out, Wild Bells
type:
quotation
text:
to sap one’s conscience
type:
example
text:
he saps my energy
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
To pierce with saps.
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
To gradually weaken.
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
8633 | word:
meter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meter (countable and uncountable, plural meters)
forms:
form:
meters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Meter (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Senses 1.1, 2, and 3 were borrowed from French mètre and Latin metrum; see metre for more.
Sense 1.2 is a noun derived from mete, from Old English metan (“to measure, mark off”), possibly influencing the other meanings.
senses_examples:
text:
gas meter
type:
example
text:
a labouring coal-meter
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device that measures things.
A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
A device that measures things.
One who metes or measures.
Alternative form of metre
A poem.
A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
senses_topics:
|
8634 | word:
meter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
meter (third-person singular simple present meters, present participle metering, simple past and past participle metered)
forms:
form:
meters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
metering
tags:
participle
present
form:
metered
tags:
participle
past
form:
metered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Meter (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Senses 1.1, 2, and 3 were borrowed from French mètre and Latin metrum; see metre for more.
Sense 1.2 is a noun derived from mete, from Old English metan (“to measure, mark off”), possibly influencing the other meanings.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To measure with a metering device.
To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).
senses_topics:
|
8635 | word:
cf.
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cf. (imperative verb)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of Latin cōnfer (“compare”), imperative of cōnferō (“I compare”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Compare, compare to, compare with.
See, see also.
senses_topics:
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8636 | word:
skein
word_type:
noun
expansion:
skein (plural skeins)
forms:
form:
skeins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English skayne, from Old French escaigne (Modern French écagne), probably of Proto-Celtic origin, from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to split off”). Compare Irish scáinne (“skein, clew”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: hank
text:
You hold the skein: wind, Thomas, wind / The thread of eternal life and death.
ref:
1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part I
type:
quotation
text:
The practical application of what I have said is very close to the problem which I am investigating. It is a tangled skein, you understand, and I am looking for a loose end.
ref:
1923, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Creeping Man
type:
quotation
text:
But then, science is a complex skein, intricately interknotted across the artificial boundaries we draw only that we may the more easily encompass its parts in our mind. Pick up any thread of that skein and the whole structure will follow.
ref:
1964, Issac Asimov, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
type:
quotation
text:
Then, beginning in 1959, the skein of convention began to unravel.
ref:
2005, Tony Judt, “The Social Democratic Moment”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010
type:
quotation
text:
Ted began to walk, still dazed, until he found himself among a skein of backstreets so narrow they felt dark.
ref:
2010, Jennifer Egan, “Goodbye, My Love”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad
type:
quotation
text:
It was the latest in a skein of legal maneuvers by the prince’s lawyers to defuse Ms. Giuffre’s case.
ref:
2022 January 4, Mark Landler, “Prince Andrew’s Uncertain Legal Fate Casts Shadow on Britain’s Royals”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
One of the free-state settlers went to the blacksmith's shop unarmed, carrying a waggon skein to be repaired.
ref:
1862, T. Hughes, History of the US
type:
quotation
text:
High above the swallows and 2 miles or so out into the Channel was a skein of geese, probably brent geese on the first day of their emigration from the estuaries of the Channel coast towards the high Arctic tundra of Spitsbergen or Russia.
ref:
2018, Laurence Rose, The Long Spring, Bloomsbury, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
All three tele skeins are pitching furiously to snag the super Easter Day tele show to be bankrolled by Frigidaire, […]
ref:
1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 9
type:
quotation
text:
Three comedy shows from the U. S. are in the CTV lineup: CBSTV's Phil Silvers and Danny Thomas skeins and NBC-TV's "Harry's Girls."
ref:
1963, Radio Television Daily, volume 93, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together in an oblong shape, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.
A web, a weave, a tangle.
The membrane of a fish ovary.
A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
A group of wild fowl (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
A winning streak.
A series created by a web (major broadcasting network).
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
wagonmaking
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
broadcasting
media
radio
television |
8637 | word:
skein
word_type:
verb
expansion:
skein (third-person singular simple present skeins, present participle skeining, simple past and past participle skeined)
forms:
form:
skeins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
skeining
tags:
participle
present
form:
skeined
tags:
participle
past
form:
skeined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English skayne, from Old French escaigne (Modern French écagne), probably of Proto-Celtic origin, from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to split off”). Compare Irish scáinne (“skein, clew”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wind or weave into a skein.
senses_topics:
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8638 | word:
gyre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gyre (plural gyres)
forms:
form:
gyres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin gȳrus (“circle; circular motion”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle; ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”). The English word is a doublet of gyro and gyrus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A swirling vortex.
A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn.
Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”)
An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.
senses_topics:
anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
geography
natural-sciences
oceanography |
8639 | word:
gyre
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gyre (third-person singular simple present gyres, present participle gyring, simple past and past participle gyred)
forms:
form:
gyres
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gyring
tags:
participle
present
form:
gyred
tags:
participle
past
form:
gyred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), and directly from its etymon Latin gȳrāre, the present active infinitive of gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”), from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion”) (see etymology 1) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl.
To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl.
senses_topics:
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8640 | word:
volume
word_type:
noun
expansion:
volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)
forms:
form:
volumes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
volume
volume (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).
senses_examples:
text:
The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.
type:
example
text:
The proper products can improve your hair's volume.
type:
example
text:
Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.
ref:
1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
type:
example
text:
Volume can be measured in decibels.
type:
example
text:
I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.
type:
example
text:
The letter "G" was found in volume 4.
type:
example
text:
The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.
type:
example
text:
(key muscle growth stimuli) Coordinate terms: mechanical tension, frequency
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.
Strength of sound; loudness.
The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
A bound book.
A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
A great amount (of meaning) about something.
A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
Quantity.
A rounded mass or convolution.
The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
8641 | word:
volume
word_type:
verb
expansion:
volume (third-person singular simple present volumes, present participle voluming, simple past and past participle volumed)
forms:
form:
volumes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
voluming
tags:
participle
present
form:
volumed
tags:
participle
past
form:
volumed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
volume
volume (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] thumping guns and pattering musket-shots, the long big boom of surgent hosts, and the muffled voluming and crash of storm-bells, proclaimed that the insurrection was hot.
ref:
1867, George Meredith, chapter 30, in Vittoria, volume 2, London: Chapman & Hall, page 258
type:
quotation
text:
We lay leaning over the bows, now looking up at the mist blown in never-ending volumed sheets, now at the sail swelling in the wind before which it fled, and again down at the water through which our boat was ploughing its evanescent furrow.
ref:
1872, George Macdonald, chapter 15, in Wilfrid Cumbermede, volume I, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 243
type:
quotation
text:
The censer, voluming upwards its ash-gray smoke, was now passed from hand to hand three times round the patient, and finally deposited on the floor at his feet.
ref:
1900, Walter William Skeat, chapter 6, in Malay Magic, London: Macmillan, page 420
type:
quotation
text:
The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”
ref:
1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 33, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 219
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be conveyed through the air, waft.
To cause to move through the air, waft.
To swell.
senses_topics:
|
8642 | word:
change
word_type:
verb
expansion:
change (third-person singular simple present changes, present participle changing, simple past and past participle changed)
forms:
form:
changes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
changing
tags:
participle
present
form:
changed
tags:
participle
past
form:
changed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English changen, chaungen, from Old French changier, from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre, present active infinitive of cambiō (“exchange, barter”), from Gaulish cambion, *kambyom (“change”), from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱambos, *(s)kambos (“crooked”).
Cognate with Italian cambiare, Portuguese cambiar, Romanian schimba, Sicilian canciari, Spanish cambiar. Used in English since the 13th century. Displaced native Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (“to turn, change”) (whence English wend).
The noun is from Middle English change, chaunge, from Old French change, from the verb changier. See also exchange. Possibly related from the same source is Old English gombe.
senses_examples:
text:
The tadpole changed into a frog. Stock prices are constantly changing.
type:
example
text:
Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
ref:
2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
ref:
2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
The fairy changed the frog into a prince. I had to change the wording of the ad so it would fit.
type:
example
text:
Ask the janitor to come and change the lightbulb. After a brisk walk, I washed up and changed my shirt.
type:
example
text:
You can't go into the dressing room while she's changing. The clowns changed into their costumes before the circus started.
type:
example
text:
It's your turn to change the baby.
type:
example
text:
After stopping at these stations, my train has become busy. Returning day-trippers make up a goodly number, along with young people heading for a night out in Bristol, which is where I change once again.
ref:
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
I would give any thing to change a word or two with this person.
ref:
1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)
text:
to change a horse
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become something different.
To make something into something else.
To replace.
To replace one's clothing.
To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it).
To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
To exchange.
To change hand while riding (a horse).
senses_topics:
|
8643 | word:
change
word_type:
noun
expansion:
change (countable and uncountable, plural changes)
forms:
form:
changes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English changen, chaungen, from Old French changier, from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre, present active infinitive of cambiō (“exchange, barter”), from Gaulish cambion, *kambyom (“change”), from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱambos, *(s)kambos (“crooked”).
Cognate with Italian cambiare, Portuguese cambiar, Romanian schimba, Sicilian canciari, Spanish cambiar. Used in English since the 13th century. Displaced native Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (“to turn, change”) (whence English wend).
The noun is from Middle English change, chaunge, from Old French change, from the verb changier. See also exchange. Possibly related from the same source is Old English gombe.
senses_examples:
text:
Cause people often talk about being scared of change / But for me I'm more afraid of things staying the same
ref:
2008, Nick Cave (lyrics and music), “Jesus Of The Moon”, in Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
type:
quotation
text:
Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
ref:
2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it.
type:
example
text:
Can I get change for this $100 bill, please?
type:
example
text:
a change of clothes
type:
example
text:
After beating champions Chelsea 3-1 on Boxing Day, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger made eight changes to his starting XI in an effort to freshen things up, with games against Birmingham and Manchester City to come in the next seven days.
ref:
2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change.
type:
example
text:
Do you have any change on you? I need to make a phone call.
type:
example
text:
This bus ride requires exact change.
type:
example
text:
The train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham.
type:
example
text:
It [the Elizabeth Line] will provide a 6tph (trains per hour) service and with a single change at Hayes & Harlington offer services towards Reading.
ref:
2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
1727-1728, Edward Burt, Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London
They call an alehouse a change.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of becoming different.
Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
A replacement.
Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.
A transfer between vehicles.
A change-up pitch.
Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
A public house; an alehouse.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
campanology
history
human-sciences
sciences
|
8644 | word:
dingus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dingus (plural dinguses)
forms:
form:
dinguses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Dutch dinges (“thingamajig, thingy; whatshisname, whatshername”), ding (“thing”). Probably also partly a borrowing from Afrikaans in view of its South African occurrence. The spelling dingus is remodeled to look like a Latin word ending in -us.
senses_examples:
text:
"If anybody should come in, and catch you with your breeches, as it were, down on the floor, all you have to do is to drink the water, wrap the rubber dingus around you, and tell them to “lay on Macduff.”
ref:
1879, George Wilbur Peck, Peck's Fun, Being Extracts from the "La Crosse Sun," and "Peck's Sun," Milwaukee
type:
quotation
text:
WLK. First radio station. On December 31, 1921, local engineer Francis F. Hamilton's radio station, 9ZJ, signed on with an address from Mayor Samuel (Lew) Shank. Broadcasting from Hamilton's garage at 2011 North Alabama Street, Shank made the city's first radio blooper: "Hamilton, do you mean to tell me that people can actually hear me over that damn' dingus?"
ref:
1921 December 31, “WLK”, in David J. Bodenhamer, Robert G[raham] Barrows, David Gordon Vanderstel, editors, The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, Bloominton, Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, published 1994, page 1399, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
He took the this-is-unheard-of-but-not-really-serious-of-course attitude of a street fakir whose mechanical dingus flops during a demonstration.
ref:
1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest
type:
quotation
text:
I wet the rod and measured the stuff into the top and by that time the water was steaming. I filled the lower half of the dingus and set it on the flame.
ref:
1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
‘Say, what’s that dingus you Britishers wear when you’re playing cricket?
ref:
1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin, published 2001, page 241
type:
quotation
text:
Drill #40 the .094 [2.4 mm] holes in the dingus. Dimple the #40 holes.
ref:
c. 2010, Van's Aircraft, RV-12 Plans, p. 5-30
text:
I just lost my keys again. Now I feel like a dingus.
type:
example
text:
"He got mad at me because his dingus wouldn’t come up for him — too drunk, I guess. […]
ref:
1970, Don Tracy, The Last Boat Out of Cincinnati, Trident Press, published 1970, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
And Chester Charles Smithers sucked on that warm black dingus for as long as he could.
ref:
2015, Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight, spoken by Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson)
type:
quotation
text:
How come you can say dink when you're talking about your jobs but I can't say dink when I'm talking about my dingus?
ref:
2018, Tom Gammill, Max Pross, 3 Scenes Plus a Tag From a Marriage, spoken by Bart Simpson (Nancy Cartwright)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor.
A foolish, incompetent, or silly person.
Penis
senses_topics:
|
8645 | word:
rational number
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rational number (plural rational numbers)
forms:
form:
rational numbers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From rational + number, ultimately from Latin rationalis + numerus. Compare analogous logarithm, from Ancient Greek.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A number that can be expressed as the ratio of two integers.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
8646 | word:
cover
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cover (countable and uncountable, plural covers)
forms:
form:
covers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cover
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Old Latin com
Latin cum
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin cooperiō
Old French covrirbor.
Middle English coveren
English cover
From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperiō (“I cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operiō (“I close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wrēon (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again”, the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir (“to cover”).
senses_examples:
text:
The soldiers took cover behind a ruined building.
type:
example
text:
There's a $15 cover tonight.
type:
example
text:
We need to set another cover for the Smith party.
type:
example
text:
The open intervals are a cover for the real numbers.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lid.
Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
The top sheet of a bed.
A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
A cover charge.
A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
A swindler's confederate.
The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
combinatorics
mathematics
sciences
topology
hobbies
lifestyle
philately
government
military
politics
war
law
business
insurance
espionage
government
military
politics
war
business
construction
manufacturing |
8647 | word:
cover
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cover (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
cover
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Old Latin com
Latin cum
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin cooperiō
Old French covrirbor.
Middle English coveren
English cover
From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperiō (“I cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operiō (“I close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wrēon (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again”, the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir (“to cover”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
8648 | word:
cover
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cover (third-person singular simple present covers, present participle covering, simple past and past participle covered)
forms:
form:
covers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
covering
tags:
participle
present
form:
covered
tags:
participle
past
form:
covered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
cover
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Old Latin com
Latin cum
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin cooperiō
Old French covrirbor.
Middle English coveren
English cover
From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperiō (“I cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operiō (“I close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wrēon (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again”, the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir (“to cover”).
senses_examples:
text:
He covered the baby with a blanket.
type:
example
text:
When the pot comes to a boil, cover it and reduce the heat to medium.
type:
example
text:
The blanket covered the baby.
type:
example
text:
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—[…]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
ref:
2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
Regular hexagons can cover the plane.
type:
example
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You can cover the plane with regular hexagons.
type:
example
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All the while he held his hat in his hand; and even until he had given his answer, when he covered and bade us be.
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1904, Rawdon Lubbock Brown, Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts
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quotation
text:
The heroic soldier covered himself with glory.
type:
example
text:
the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland
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1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
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quotation
text:
The magazine covers such diverse topics as politics, news from the world of science, and the economy.
type:
example
text:
Richard Morgan covers science for The Economist, The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired.
ref:
2010 (publication date), "Contributors", Discover, ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 7
text:
We've earned enough to cover most of our costs.
type:
example
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Ten dollars should cover lunch.
type:
example
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Dad, when I get to University, will I be covered?
type:
example
text:
I need to take off Tuesday. Can you cover for me?
type:
example
text:
I wish that popular afternoon show would let us cover some of their commercials – their national stuff can be so annoying.
type:
example
text:
Can you cover the morning shift tomorrow? I'll give you off next Monday instead.
type:
example
text:
He is our salesman covering companies with headquarters in the northern provinces.
type:
example
text:
Does my policy cover accidental loss?
type:
example
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Among animals in a domesticated or confined state it is easy to find evidence of homosexual attraction, due merely to the absence of the other sex. This was known to the ancients; the Egyptians regarded two male partridges as the symbol of homosexuality, and Aristotle noted that two female pigeons would cover each other if no male was at hand.
ref:
1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)
type:
quotation
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I would like to have my bitch covered next spring.
type:
example
text:
The stallion has not covered the mare yet.
type:
example
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In order to checkmate a king on the side of the board, the five squares adjacent to the king must all be covered.
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example
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November 22 — Owing to bad weather all machines flew at a height of 5,000 feet and covered the 90 miles in just 90 minutes . November 23 — During fourth lap ...
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1915, Aerial Age
type:
quotation
text:
It had covered better than 840 miles in just a few hours more than seven days.32 The apparently clumsily managed shuffle through the various railroad nets ...
ref:
1989, Robert K. Krick, Parker's Virginia Battery, C.S.A.
type:
quotation
text:
[…] he told plaintiff he would cover the table, and furnish it the same as the one he was sitting at, and that he should be waited upon and served the same as those on the other side of the room.
ref:
1892, George Chase, Leading Cases Upon the Law of Torts, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
To put on one's hat.
To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
To deal with or include someone or something.
To be enough money for.
To supply with funds; to settle or pay the costs for; to foot the bill for.
To act as a replacement.
To air or run locally originated material in place of network material during an internal spot break in a syndicated program.
To have as an assignment or responsibility.
To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
To provide insurance coverage for.
To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
To protect or control (a piece or square).
To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
To arrange plates, etc. on (a table) in preparation for a meal.
To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
To provide an alibi for (someone); to provide excuses or apologia for (someone); to carry water for someone.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
entertainment
lifestyle
music
government
law-enforcement
military
politics
war
board-games
chess
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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8649 | word:
solenoid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
solenoid (plural solenoids)
forms:
form:
solenoids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French solénoïde, from Ancient Greek σωληνοειδής (sōlēnoeidḗs) (from σωλήν (sōlḗn, “channel, pipe”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs); see -oid).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A coil of wire that acts as a magnet when an electric current flows through it.
An electromechanical device consisting of such a coil containing a metal core, the movement of which is controlled by the current.
An electromechanical switch controlled by a solenoid; solenoid switch, relay.
The region of intersection between isobaric and isopycnal surfaces.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences |
8650 | word:
blower
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blower (plural blowers)
forms:
form:
blowers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English blowere, blower, from Old English blāwere; equivalent to blow + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
The great sources of fire-damp in coal mines are blowers or fissures from which currents of this inflammable gas issue in considerable quantities and for a long series of years
ref:
1843, Humphry Davy, “On the fire-damp of coal mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, number 31 December 1833 volume 2, republished online 1 January 1997
type:
quotation
text:
The locomotive […] was quietly "blowing off" on one Ross "pop" valve, whilst the rhythmic clanging of the fireman's shovel, the black smoke pouring from her chimney, and the harsh sound of the blower told of the proximity of departure time.
ref:
1942 July–August, Philip Spencer, “On the Footplate in Egypt”, in Railway Magazine, page 208
type:
quotation
text:
Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!
text:
There hangs something majestic about a man who has borne his part in battles, especially if he is very quiet regarding it when you desire him to unbosom. I am continually lost at the absence of blowing and blowers among these old-young American militaires.
ref:
1999, John Harmon McElroy, editor, The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman's Experiences in the Civil War, page 29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who blows.
A fissure from which firedamp issues, often in quantity for many years.
Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.
Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.
A ducted fan, usually part of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.
Telephone.
Telephone.
A telephone service providing betting odds and commentary, relayed to customers in a bookmaker's shop via loudspeaker.
A braggart, or loud talker.
The whale; so called from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.
senses_topics:
business
mining
nautical
transport
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8651 | word:
upsidedown
word_type:
adj
expansion:
upsidedown (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of upside down
senses_topics:
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8652 | word:
filly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
filly (plural fillies)
forms:
form:
fillies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, German Fohlen.
senses_examples:
text:
Hey, Homer, get a load of the gams on that filly!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A young female horse.
A young, attractive woman.
senses_topics:
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8653 | word:
homebrewer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
homebrewer (plural homebrewers)
forms:
form:
homebrewers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From homebrew + -er or home + brewer.
senses_examples:
text:
Homebrewer Martin Malý illustrates the slowness of BASIC with the following story: […]
ref:
2018, Jaroslav Svelch, Raiford Guins, Henry Lowood, Gaming the Iron Curtain
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who brews his or her own beer or other alcoholic beverage; one who homebrews.
An amateur who builds radio equipment or develops video games, etc.
senses_topics:
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8654 | word:
nozzle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nozzle (plural nozzles)
forms:
form:
nozzles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English noselle, equivalent to nose + -le (diminutive suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
At length the acme of a typical Mexican scene was reached when the burros unceremoniously raised their nozzles and brayed loud and long.
ref:
1887, Fanny Chambers Gooch, Face to Face with the Mexicans, Chapter XVI, p. 489
type:
quotation
text:
The shape of the nozzle prevents the use of aftermarket eartips.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.
A short outlet or inlet pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.
The nose of an animal; muzzle.
The part of an earbud that accommodates eartips.
senses_topics:
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8655 | word:
flat
word_type:
adj
expansion:
flat (comparative flatter, superlative flattest)
forms:
form:
flatter
tags:
comparative
form:
flattest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Algebraic_geometry_and_analytic_geometry#GAGA
Flat
Jean-Pierre Serre
etymology_text:
From Middle English flat, a borrowing from Old Norse flatr (compare Norwegian and Swedish flat, Danish flad), from Proto-Germanic *flataz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”); akin to Saterland Frisian flot (“smooth”), German Flöz (“a geological layer”), Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), Latvian plats, Sanskrit प्रथस् (prathas, “extension”). Doublet of plat and pleyt.
The noun is from Middle English flat (“level piece of ground, flat edge of a weapon”), from the adjective.
The algebraic sense was coined by Serre in a 1956 paper, originally as French plat.
senses_examples:
text:
a flat roof
type:
example
text:
The surface of the mirror must be completely flat.
type:
example
text:
The carpet isn't properly flat in that corner.
type:
example
text:
She has quite a flat face.
type:
example
text:
That girl is completely flat on both sides.
type:
example
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The land around here is flat.
type:
example
text:
Sales have been flat all year, and we've barely broken even.
type:
example
text:
a flat fee
type:
example
text:
flat rates
type:
example
text:
a flat fare on public transport
type:
example
text:
He delivered the speech in a flat tone.
type:
example
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The walls were painted a flat gray.
type:
example
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The exchange rate has been flat for several weeks.
type:
example
text:
The party was a bit flat.
type:
example
text:
The market is flat today as most traders are on holiday.
type:
example
text:
The dialogue in your screenplay is flat — you need to make it more exciting.
type:
example
text:
February 16, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
A large part of the work is, to me, very flat.
text:
The author added a chapter to flesh out the book's flatter characters.
type:
example
text:
Your A string is flat.
type:
example
text:
His claim was in flat contradiction to experimental results.
type:
example
text:
I'm not going to the party and that's flat.
type:
example
text:
A great Tobacco taker too, thats flat.
ref:
1602, John Marston, Antonio and Mellida, Malone Society Reprint, 1921, Act I, lines 324-326, He is made like a tilting staffe; and lookes For all the world like an ore-rosted pigge
text:
Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English.
type:
example
text:
He finished the race in a flat four minutes.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having no variations in height.
In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
Having no variations in height.
Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
Having no variations in height.
Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
Having no variations in height.
Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
Without variations in pitch.
Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
Lowered by one semitone.
Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
Absolute; downright; peremptory.
Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
Lacking acidity without being sweet.
Unable to emit power; dead.
Without spin; spinless.
Sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
Flattening at the ends.
Exact.
Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequences. See Flat module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
Such that its target, regarded as a module over its source, is flat (as above).
Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).
senses_topics:
business
commerce
entertainment
lifestyle
music
authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
algebra
mathematics
sciences
algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
8656 | word:
flat
word_type:
adv
expansion:
flat (comparative more flat, superlative most flat)
forms:
form:
more flat
tags:
comparative
form:
most flat
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Algebraic_geometry_and_analytic_geometry#GAGA
Flat
Jean-Pierre Serre
etymology_text:
From Middle English flat, a borrowing from Old Norse flatr (compare Norwegian and Swedish flat, Danish flad), from Proto-Germanic *flataz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”); akin to Saterland Frisian flot (“smooth”), German Flöz (“a geological layer”), Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), Latvian plats, Sanskrit प्रथस् (prathas, “extension”). Doublet of plat and pleyt.
The noun is from Middle English flat (“level piece of ground, flat edge of a weapon”), from the adjective.
The algebraic sense was coined by Serre in a 1956 paper, originally as French plat.
senses_examples:
text:
Spread the tablecloth flat over the table.
type:
example
text:
I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he turned me down flat.
type:
example
text:
Dan Patch clocked a scorching 1:55.5 flat.
ref:
1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
I play doctor for five minutes flat
Before I cut my heart open and let the air out
ref:
1997, “Scissors”, performed by Slipknot
type:
quotation
text:
In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.
type:
example
text:
He can run a mile in four minutes flat.
type:
example
text:
Found my coat and grabbed my hat / Made the bus in seconds flat
ref:
1967, Lennon–McCartney (lyrics and music), “A Day in the Life”, in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
type:
quotation
text:
I am flat broke this month.
type:
example
text:
The bonds are trading flat.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
So as to be flat.
Bluntly.
Exactly, precisely.
Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
Completely.
Directly; flatly.
Without allowance for accrued interest.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
8657 | word:
flat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flat (plural flats)
forms:
form:
flats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Algebraic_geometry_and_analytic_geometry#GAGA
Flat
Jean-Pierre Serre
etymology_text:
From Middle English flat, a borrowing from Old Norse flatr (compare Norwegian and Swedish flat, Danish flad), from Proto-Germanic *flataz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”); akin to Saterland Frisian flot (“smooth”), German Flöz (“a geological layer”), Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), Latvian plats, Sanskrit प्रथस् (prathas, “extension”). Doublet of plat and pleyt.
The noun is from Middle English flat (“level piece of ground, flat edge of a weapon”), from the adjective.
The algebraic sense was coined by Serre in a 1956 paper, originally as French plat.
senses_examples:
text:
I can run on the flat but not up hills.
text:
The going will be easier once we're through these mountains and onto the flat.
text:
This horse will do better over the flat.
text:
flat racing, the flat season
text:
In light of Horse Racing Ireland's Covid-19 contingency plan announcement, that whenever racing resumes the Flat will be given priority, Elliott has decided to keep a number of talented jumpers on the go during the summer, with a view towards a dual-purpose campaign.
ref:
2020, Brian Sheerin, Racing Post, "Gordon Elliott maps out summer Flat campaigns for talented jumpers" (article) https://www.racingpost.com/news/gordon-elliott-maps-out-summer-flat-campaigns-for-talented-jumpers/431475
text:
2021 (retrieved), racing365.com, "Flat Racing Explained" https://racing365.com/flat-racing-explained/
In British horse racing, the classics are a series of horse races run over the flat (i.e. without jumps).
text:
As forecast, Joe suspected nothing as he pottered round the flat in the sunshine, absorbed in the task of picking winners.
ref:
1963, George Blaikie, Scandals of Australia's Strange Past, Adelaide: Rigby Limited, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
The hovercraft skimmed across the open flats.
text:
the eastern end of the salt flat; mud flat, tidal flat, flood flat
text:
The key of E♭ has three flats.
type:
example
text:
The next one surrendered his bike, only for that, too, to give him a second flat as he started the descent.
ref:
2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track, Guardian Unlimited
type:
quotation
text:
She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.
type:
example
text:
a flat of strawberries
type:
example
text:
For example, when trailers containing new automobiles were first piggybacked two areas of potential damage became evident: (1) diesel locomotive exhaust left a film of oil on the new autos; and (2) auto windshields could be scarred or cracked by the metal-tipped "tell-tales" which warn men atop trains of oncoming bridges or tunnels. Accordingly, automobiles aboard piggyback flats are usually coupled into the train 15 or more cars behind the locomotive; and telltales have been raised.
ref:
1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 684
type:
quotation
text:
The tender roared along vibrating vigorously; braking had resulted in "flats" on most of its tyres.
ref:
1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 706
type:
quotation
text:
You might think that Americans buy roughly the same number of fitted sheets as flats. Or, considering the market for electric blankets, duvets, and other covers, that consumers buy even more bottom sheets, simply forgoing the tops.
ref:
1986, New York Magazine, volume 19, number 49, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
This same publisher notes pricing is a crucial factor in the mass market field of $1, $1.95 and $2.95 "flats."
ref:
1970, The Publishers Weekly, volume 197, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
Among the many US museums hosting flats, we may mention the Toy Soldier Museum in the Pocono Mountains, supervised by the historian, collector and dealer J. Hillestad.
ref:
2019, Luigi Toiati, The History of Toy Soldiers, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
[…] if you cannot make a speech,
Because you are a flat,
Go very quietly and drop
A button in the hat!
ref:
1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Music-Grinders
type:
quotation
text:
When sampling the aperture of a telescope, using auto-collimating flats (ACFs) is more economical
ref:
2013 April 1, Spechler et al., “Advanced Dispersed Fringe Sensing Algorithm for Coarse Phasing Segmented Mirror Telescopes”, in NASA Tech Briefs, retrieved 2021-12-27
type:
quotation
text:
He would slip in his six-ace flats, shaved dice that were made to bring up sevens. He'd throw them just long enough to get well, and then replace them with legitimate cubes.
ref:
2005, Fred Cicetti, Local Angles: The Big News in Small Towns, page 78
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
Level ground in general.
An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
the area in the centre of a racecourse.
An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
A note played one chromatic semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
A flat tyre/flat tire.
A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
The flat part of something:
The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
The flat part of something:
The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
A wide, shallow container or pallet.
A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
A flat spot on the wheel of a rail vehicle.
A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
A flat sheet for use on a bed.
A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene, and are a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth or backdrop.
Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
A dull fellow; a simpleton.
Short for flat ride (“spinning amusement ride”).
A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
A 24-case of beer.
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hobbies
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horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
music
automotive
transport
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information
mail
rail-transport
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rail-transport
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geometry
mathematics
sciences
media
publishing
business
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engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
gambling
games
|
8658 | word:
flat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flat (third-person singular simple present flats, present participle flatting, simple past and past participle flatted)
forms:
form:
flats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flatting
tags:
participle
present
form:
flatted
tags:
participle
past
form:
flatted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Algebraic_geometry_and_analytic_geometry#GAGA
Flat
Jean-Pierre Serre
etymology_text:
From Middle English flat, a borrowing from Old Norse flatr (compare Norwegian and Swedish flat, Danish flad), from Proto-Germanic *flataz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”); akin to Saterland Frisian flot (“smooth”), German Flöz (“a geological layer”), Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), Latvian plats, Sanskrit प्रथस् (prathas, “extension”). Doublet of plat and pleyt.
The noun is from Middle English flat (“level piece of ground, flat edge of a weapon”), from the adjective.
The algebraic sense was coined by Serre in a 1956 paper, originally as French plat.
senses_examples:
text:
The pods, which seldom contain less than thirty nuts of the size of a flatted olive, grow upon the stem and principal branches.
ref:
1764, James Granger, The Sugar-Cane: a Poem. In Four Books. With Notes., M.D., Book 1, page 44, note to verse 605
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a flat call; to call without raising.
To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
To fall from the pitch.
To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
To make flat; to flatten; to level.
To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
8659 | word:
flat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flat (plural flats)
forms:
form:
flats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Flat
etymology_text:
From 1795, alteration of Scots flet (“inner part of a house”), from Middle English flet (“dwelling”), from Old English flet, flett (“ground floor, dwelling”), from Proto-Germanic *flatją (“floor”), from Proto-Germanic *flataz (“flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”). Akin to Old Frisian flet, flette (“dwelling, house”). More at flet, flat₁.
senses_examples:
text:
The excellence of French flats is so well known in America, that the owner will often refer to his property as "first class French flats."
ref:
1905, Sydney Perks, Residential flats of all classes, including artisans' dwellings: a practical treatise on their planning and arrangement, together with chapters on their history, financial matters, etc.,with numerous illustrations, page 204
type:
quotation
text:
A kiss may be grand but it won’t pay the rental on your humble flat or help you at the automat.
ref:
1953 January 1, “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”, in My Heart Belongs to Daddy, performed by Marilyn Monroe
type:
quotation
text:
[NICELY]When you meet a gent paying all kinds of rent for a flat that could flatten the Taj Mahal. [BOTH]Call it sad, call it funny but it’s better than even money that the guy’s only doing it for some doll.
ref:
1955 November 3, “Guys and Dolls”, in Guys and Dolls (Original Broadway Cast Recording), performed by Stubby Kaye (as Nicely Nicely Johnson) and Johnny Silver (as Benny Southstreet)
type:
quotation
text:
Fifteen percent of this group said that they were not satisfied with the public housing estates and their HDB flats (see Tables 11 and 12 respectively).
ref:
1983, Tai Ching Ling, “Relocation and Population Planning: A Study of the Implications of Public Housing and Family Planning in Singapore”, in Wilfredo F. Arce, Gabriel C. Alvarez, editors, Population Change in Southeast Asia, page 184
type:
quotation
text:
The Greater London Council formed the Estmanco company to manage a block of 60 council-owned flats. The council entered into an agreement with the company to sell off the flats to owner-occupiers.
ref:
2002, MIchael Ottley, Briefcase on Company Law, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
When the Dolphin Square's flats were first offered to the public in 1936, the South Block was still under construction, and the North Block was a building site.
ref:
2014, Terry Gourvish, Dolphin Square: The History of a Unique Building, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
Of course, closure of the West station took away the hotel's raison d'être. In May 2012, the local newspaper reported that this historic hotel, by then rated the town's worst (exemplified by its final review: "Please avoid at all costs"), was to be converted into 31 first-time-buyer one-bedroom flats.
ref:
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
senses_topics:
|
8660 | word:
flat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flat (third-person singular simple present flats, present participle flatting, simple past and past participle flatted)
forms:
form:
flats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flatting
tags:
participle
present
form:
flatted
tags:
participle
past
form:
flatted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Flat
etymology_text:
From Middle English flatten, from Old French flatir (“to knock or strike down, dash”), from Frankish *flattjan (“to move the palm of the hand”), from Proto-Germanic *flatjaną (“to make flat, flatten”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To beat or strike; pound
To dash or throw
To dash, rush
senses_topics:
|
8661 | word:
abundant number
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abundant number (plural abundant numbers)
forms:
form:
abundant numbers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The factors of 30 are 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15 and 30, and 1 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 6 + 10 + 15 = 42, which is greater than 30, so 30 is an abundant number.
text:
It has been shown that the largest odd number which cannot be written as the sum of two abundant numbers is 20161.
ref:
1970, Geometric Transformations III, Random House, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
1992, Stanley Rabinowitz (editor), Index to Mathematical Problems, 1980-1984, MathPro Press, page 185,
(a) Let k be fixed. Do there exist sequences of k consecutive abundant numbers?
text:
We shall not be concerned with abundant numbers in this book, nevertheless it may be helpful to use this historical example as an illustration. We note the property that any multiple of an abundant number is abundant.
ref:
1996, Richard R. Hall, Sets of Multiples, Cambridge University Press, page xi
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A number that is less than the sum of its proper divisors (all divisors except the number itself).
senses_topics:
mathematics
number-theory
sciences |
8662 | word:
unbinilium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
unbinilium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Systematic element name.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 120 (symbol Ubn).
senses_topics:
|
8663 | word:
dagger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dagger (plural daggers)
forms:
form:
daggers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dagger
etymology_text:
From Middle English daggere, daggare, dagard, probably adapted from Old French dague (1229), related to Occitan, Italian, Spanish daga, Dutch dagge, German Degen, Middle Low German dagge (“knife's point”), Old Norse daggarðr, Danish daggert, Faroese daggari, Welsh dager, dagr, Breton dac, Albanian thikë (“a knife, dagger”), thek (“to stab, to pierce with a sharp object”).
In English attested from the 1380s.
The ultimate origin of the word is unclear. Grimm suspects Celtic origin.
Others have suggested derivation from an unattested Vulgar Latin *daca "Dacian [knife]", from the Latin adjective dācus. Chastelain (Dictionaire etymologique, 1750) thought that French dague was a derivation from German dagge, dagen, although not attested until a much later date).
The knightly dagger evolves from the 12th century. Guillaume le Breton (died 1226) uses daca in his Philippide. Other Middle Latin forms include daga, dagga, dagha, dagger, daggerius, daggerium, dagarium, dagarius, diga; the forms with -r- are late 14th century adoptions of the English word).
OED points out that there is also an English verb dag (“to stab”) from which this could be a derivation, but the verb is attested only from about 1400.
Relation to Old Armenian դակու (daku, “adze, axe”) has also been suggested. Alternatively, a connection from Proto-Indo-European *dʰāg-u- and cognate with Ancient Greek θήγω (thḗgō, “to sharpen, whet”).
senses_examples:
text:
The dagger, under the title cultellum and misericorde, has been the constant companion of the sword, at least from the days of Edward I. and is mentioned in the statute of Winchester.
ref:
1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
Curry's last-minute 3-point dagger silenced the criticism for his so-called failure to come up big in big moments.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
The text character †; the obelus.
A point scored near the end of the game (clutch time) to take or increase the scorer's team lead, so that they are likely to win.
senses_topics:
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
media
publishing
typography
American-football
ball-games
basketball
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
8664 | word:
dagger
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dagger (third-person singular simple present daggers, present participle daggering, simple past and past participle daggered)
forms:
form:
daggers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
daggering
tags:
participle
present
form:
daggered
tags:
participle
past
form:
daggered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dagger
etymology_text:
From Middle English daggere, daggare, dagard, probably adapted from Old French dague (1229), related to Occitan, Italian, Spanish daga, Dutch dagge, German Degen, Middle Low German dagge (“knife's point”), Old Norse daggarðr, Danish daggert, Faroese daggari, Welsh dager, dagr, Breton dac, Albanian thikë (“a knife, dagger”), thek (“to stab, to pierce with a sharp object”).
In English attested from the 1380s.
The ultimate origin of the word is unclear. Grimm suspects Celtic origin.
Others have suggested derivation from an unattested Vulgar Latin *daca "Dacian [knife]", from the Latin adjective dācus. Chastelain (Dictionaire etymologique, 1750) thought that French dague was a derivation from German dagge, dagen, although not attested until a much later date).
The knightly dagger evolves from the 12th century. Guillaume le Breton (died 1226) uses daca in his Philippide. Other Middle Latin forms include daga, dagga, dagha, dagger, daggerius, daggerium, dagarium, dagarius, diga; the forms with -r- are late 14th century adoptions of the English word).
OED points out that there is also an English verb dag (“to stab”) from which this could be a derivation, but the verb is attested only from about 1400.
Relation to Old Armenian դակու (daku, “adze, axe”) has also been suggested. Alternatively, a connection from Proto-Indo-European *dʰāg-u- and cognate with Ancient Greek θήγω (thḗgō, “to sharpen, whet”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pierce with a dagger; to stab.
senses_topics:
|
8665 | word:
dagger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dagger (plural daggers)
forms:
form:
daggers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dagger
etymology_text:
Perhaps from diagonal.
senses_examples:
text:
DAGGER. A piece of timber that faces on to the poppets of the bilgeways, and crosses them diagonally , to keep them together
ref:
1812, David Steel, The Elements and Practice of Naval Architecture
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.
senses_topics:
|
8666 | word:
Europe
word_type:
name
expansion:
Europe
forms:
wikipedia:
Europe
etymology_text:
From Middle English Europe, from Latin Europa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē). Doublet of Europa.
senses_examples:
text:
Al Mahlool, Fared (2021 November 13) “1:53 PM · Nov 13, 2021”, in Twitter, Twitter, retrieved 2021-11-13: “French politician Julien Odoul says he would prefer the cold death of migrants stranded behind barbed wire on the Belarus-Poland border, rather than being allowed to enter Europe.”
text:
Manchester City crashed out of Europe on Tuesday as Borussia Dortmund ended their hopes of qualifying for the Europa League.
ref:
“Man City out of Europe as Arsenal lose again”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), ESPN (UK), 2012 December 4, retrieved 2012-12-05
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The portion of Eurasia west of the Urals, traditionally considered a continent in its own right, located north of Africa, west of Asia and east of the Atlantic Ocean.
A political entity; the European Union.
Mainland Europe (continental Europe), especially the western portion, thus excluding the island nations or the larger Mediterranean islands.
International club competitions operated by UEFA, the sport's governing body for Europe.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports |
8667 | word:
Europe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
|
8668 | word:
Antarctica
word_type:
name
expansion:
Antarctica
forms:
wikipedia:
Antarctica
etymology_text:
From New Latin Antarctica, from Ancient Greek ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós), from ἀντι- (anti-, “anti-, against, opposed”) + ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “Arctic”), from ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”).
senses_examples:
text:
The five largest islands or peninsulas in which the crests of the World Ridges break through the uniform covering of the hydrosphere are termed continents, and designated by the names Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, and Australia. They are distinguished from other islands and peninsulas by size alone, Australia being ten times larger than New Guinea, and Africa ten times larger than Arabia, these being the greatest island and peninsula not called continents. The elevated region round the South Pole is crowned by the unexplored and scarcely discovered continent of Antarctica.
ref:
1891, Hugh Robert Mill, “THE CONTINENTAL AREA”, in The Realm of Nature: An Outline of Physiography, London: John Murray, published 1892, →OCLC, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
Dr. Murray believes that Alexander I. Land is a part of the west coast of Graham's Land, and that this landmass, which Biscoe and Larsen proved to widen rapidly toward the south, is only a peninsula of the continent of Antarctica.
ref:
1894 August, Cyrus C. Adams, “Antarctic Exploration”, in The American Naturalist, volume XXVIII, number 332, sourced from New York Sun, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 696
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The southernmost continent, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole.
the Antarctic
senses_topics:
|
8669 | word:
vb. n.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vb. n.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of verbal noun.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
8670 | word:
imp.
word_type:
adj
expansion:
imp. (comparative more imp., superlative most imp.)
forms:
form:
more imp.
tags:
comparative
form:
most imp.
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
notā, sg. imp. form of notō, “I mark”
text:
sate, obs. imp. form of to sit
text:
rain: in imp. constr., “It’s raining.”
text:
1 metric kg ≅ 2·2 imp. ℔
text:
V. imp. — remember!
text:
imp.–dom. ratio is now ~3:1
text:
New 2.16β, much imp. on v.2.1.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of imperative.
Abbreviation of imperfect.
Abbreviation of impersonal.
Abbreviation of imperial.
Abbreviation of important.
Abbreviation of imported.
Abbreviation of improved.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
8671 | word:
imp.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
imp. (countable and uncountable, plural imp. or imps. or impp.)
forms:
form:
imp.
tags:
plural
form:
imps.
tags:
plural
form:
impp.
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
week 31 imp. gross: $20·6M
text:
USA now top imp. of goods
text:
2ⁿᵈ ed., 11 ᵗʰ imp., 1907
text:
imp. non obst.
text:
Inc. imp. on 3ʳᵈ flyl.
text:
forecast sce. shows much imp.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of import.
Abbreviation of importer.
Abbreviation of impression.
Abbreviation of imprimatur.
Abbreviation of imprint.
Abbreviation of improvement.
senses_topics:
|
8672 | word:
imp.
word_type:
verb
expansion:
imp. (usually imperative; not conjugated)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
Imp. new tech at 19:00.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of implement.
senses_topics:
|
8673 | word:
imp.
word_type:
adj
expansion:
imp. (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of French imprimé (“printed”) and imprimeur (“printer”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Printed.
senses_topics:
|
8674 | word:
imp.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
imp. (plural imp.)
forms:
form:
imp.
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of French imprimé (“printed”) and imprimeur (“printer”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Printer.
senses_topics:
|
8675 | word:
muffler
word_type:
noun
expansion:
muffler (plural mufflers)
forms:
form:
mufflers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From muffle + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
He was wearing a maroon cashmere muffler which had hiked up on his neck, giving him next to no protection against the cold. Abruptly, and rather absently, he took his right hand out of his coat pocket and started to adjust the muffler, but before it was adjusted, he changed his mind […]
ref:
1955, J. D. Salinger, “Franny”, in Franny and Zooey, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 1991, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
A silencer or suppressor fitted to a gun.
A type of scarf.
A gasmask.
senses_topics:
automotive
transport
vehicles
government
military
politics
war |
8676 | word:
humongous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
humongous (comparative more humongous, superlative most humongous)
forms:
form:
more humongous
tags:
comparative
form:
most humongous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of huge + monstrous.
senses_examples:
text:
Other students make wide detours to avoid the humiliation and fear of being chased and attacked by the humongous numbers of bees in front of Atkinson.
ref:
1964 May 29, The Colonnade
type:
quotation
text:
Solomon had pulled this humongous fish that was bigger than anything weʼd ever seen.
ref:
2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of an extremely large size.
senses_topics:
|
8677 | word:
crankshaft
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crankshaft (plural crankshafts)
forms:
form:
crankshafts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From crank + shaft.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rotating shaft that drives (or is driven by) a crank.
senses_topics:
|
8678 | word:
crankshaft
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crankshaft (third-person singular simple present crankshafts, present participle crankshafting, simple past and past participle crankshafted)
forms:
form:
crankshafts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crankshafting
tags:
participle
present
form:
crankshafted
tags:
participle
past
form:
crankshafted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From crank + shaft.
senses_examples:
text:
The attachment of the inboard end of the gear beam was damaged but remained intact; the drag strut fuse pin had 'crankshafted' in a direction indicating that a load had been applied in tension but this had also remained intact.
ref:
2010 February 9, Air Accidents Investigation Branch, “1.12.3.3 Landing gear examination”, in Report on the accident to Boeing 777-236ER, G-YMMM, at London Heathrow Airport on 17 January 2008, archived from the original on 2022-06-16, page 44
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To deform in such a manner that part of the rod or bolt is displaced sideways, offset from the longitudinal axis of the part, but remains parallel with the part's main longitudinal axis, with the final shape somewhat resembling a crankshaft.
senses_topics:
|
8679 | word:
pail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pail (plural pails)
forms:
form:
pails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English payle (“bucket, pail, milking pail”), of uncertain origin.
Likely from Old English pæġel (“wine vessel, container for liquids, pail; a liquid measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *pagil, from Proto-Indo-European *bak- (“peg, club”), equivalent to peg + -le. Compare German Pegel (“level of liquid, level”), Middle Dutch pegel (“half-pint”), Danish pægl (“half-pint”).
Alternatively from Old French paielle (“frying pan, warming pan; a liquid measure”), from Latin patella (“small pan, shallow dish, platter”), diminutive of patina (“broad shallow pan, stewpan”). Perhaps a conflation of both.
senses_examples:
text:
The milkmaid carried a pail of milk in each hand.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).
A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.
senses_topics:
|
8680 | word:
rough
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rough (comparative rougher, superlative roughest)
forms:
form:
rougher
tags:
comparative
form:
roughest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
rough
etymology_text:
From Middle English rough, roughe, roȝe, row, rou, ru, ruȝ, ruh, from Old English rūg, rūh, from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz.
Cognate with Scots ruch, rouch (“rough”), Saterland Frisian ruuch, rouch (“rough”), West Frisian rûch (“rough”), Low German ruuch (“rough”), Dutch ruig (“rough”), German rau(h) (“rough”), Danish ru (“uneven on the surface, "rough", "rugged"”).
senses_examples:
text:
rough hands
type:
example
text:
rough stone
type:
example
text:
rough surface
type:
example
text:
a rough copy
type:
example
text:
a rough estimate
type:
example
text:
a rough guess
type:
example
text:
a rough plan
type:
example
text:
a rough sketch of a building
type:
example
text:
rough sea
type:
example
text:
rough water
type:
example
text:
rough weather
type:
example
text:
Being a teenager nowadays can be rough.
type:
example
text:
His manners are a bit rough, but he means well.
type:
example
text:
the rough bit of town
type:
example
text:
rough words
type:
example
text:
This box has been through some rough handling.
type:
example
text:
a rough tone
type:
example
text:
a rough voice
type:
example
text:
a rough diamond
type:
example
text:
rough wine
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not smooth; uneven.
Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
Turbulent.
Difficult; trying.
Crude; unrefined.
Worn; shabby; weather-beaten.
Having socio-economic problems, hence possibly dangerous.
Violent; not careful or subtle.
Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
Not polished; uncut.
Harsh-tasting.
Somewhat ill; sick; in poor condition.
Unwell due to alcohol; hungover.
senses_topics:
|
8681 | word:
rough
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rough (plural roughs)
forms:
form:
roughs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rough
etymology_text:
From Middle English rough, roughe, roȝe, row, rou, ru, ruȝ, ruh, from Old English rūg, rūh, from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz.
Cognate with Scots ruch, rouch (“rough”), Saterland Frisian ruuch, rouch (“rough”), West Frisian rûch (“rough”), Low German ruuch (“rough”), Dutch ruig (“rough”), German rau(h) (“rough”), Danish ru (“uneven on the surface, "rough", "rugged"”).
senses_examples:
text:
In Wellington Street my brother met a couple of sturdy roughs, who had just rushed out of Fleet Street with still wet newspapers and staring placards. "Dreadful catastrophe!" they bawled one to the other down Wellington Street. "Fighting at Weybridge!"
ref:
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
In calms you fish; in roughs use songs and dances.
ref:
1633, Phineas Fletcher, Eclog 1. Amyntas
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The unmowed part of a golf course.
A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
Boisterous weather.
A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
8682 | word:
rough
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rough (third-person singular simple present roughs, present participle roughing, simple past and past participle roughed)
forms:
form:
roughs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
roughing
tags:
participle
present
form:
roughed
tags:
participle
past
form:
roughed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rough
etymology_text:
From Middle English rough, roughe, roȝe, row, rou, ru, ruȝ, ruh, from Old English rūg, rūh, from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz.
Cognate with Scots ruch, rouch (“rough”), Saterland Frisian ruuch, rouch (“rough”), West Frisian rûch (“rough”), Low German ruuch (“rough”), Dutch ruig (“rough”), German rau(h) (“rough”), Danish ru (“uneven on the surface, "rough", "rugged"”).
senses_examples:
text:
On the floor, one beside the other, stood two amphoræ of veined marble-like limestone; one a huge vase 2 feet high and more than 6 feet round, finished and perfect, with two splendid spiral bands; and the other a smaller vase, of the same type, but only just roughed out of the block.
ref:
1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
Rough in the shape first, then polish the details.
type:
example
text:
[…] roughing is not a part of the sport, and will not be tolerated. Referees will not permit unfair practices that may cause injury to a contestant, and are held strictly responsible for enforcing these rules.
ref:
1938, California. State Athletic Commission, Rules, Regulations and Law Regulating Boxing and Wrestling (page 42)
text:
To Rough Horses, a word in familiar use among the dragoons to signify the act of breaking in horses, so as to adapt them to military purposes.
ref:
1802, Charles James, A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary
type:
quotation
text:
to rough it
type:
example
text:
I was able to help Trudy set up camp and everything else, of course there are different ways to camp the usual comfortable way or roughed we of course roughed it and I did my best to keep warm.
ref:
2013, Anne-Marie K. Kittiphanh, If Life Gave Me LEMONS, I Would Turn It into HONEY
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To create in an approximate form.
To break the rules by being excessively violent.
To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
To render rough; to roughen.
To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
To endure primitive conditions.
To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.
senses_topics:
boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
|
8683 | word:
rough
word_type:
adv
expansion:
rough (comparative more rough, superlative most rough)
forms:
form:
more rough
tags:
comparative
form:
most rough
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
rough
etymology_text:
From Middle English rough, roughe, roȝe, row, rou, ru, ruȝ, ruh, from Old English rūg, rūh, from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz.
Cognate with Scots ruch, rouch (“rough”), Saterland Frisian ruuch, rouch (“rough”), West Frisian rûch (“rough”), Low German ruuch (“rough”), Dutch ruig (“rough”), German rau(h) (“rough”), Danish ru (“uneven on the surface, "rough", "rugged"”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
senses_topics:
|
8684 | word:
brewer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brewer (plural brewers)
forms:
form:
brewers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English brewere; cognate with Dutch brouwer, Swedish bryggare.
senses_examples:
text:
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref:
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who brews, or whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
senses_topics:
|
8685 | word:
ductile
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ductile (comparative more ductile, superlative most ductile)
forms:
form:
more ductile
tags:
comparative
form:
most ductile
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French, from Latin ductilis (“easily led”).
senses_examples:
text:
ductile material
type:
example
text:
ductile shape
type:
example
text:
ductile alloy
type:
example
text:
ductile state
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
Molded easily into a new form.
Led easily; prone to follow.
senses_topics:
|
8686 | word:
matter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
matter (countable and uncountable, plural matters)
forms:
form:
matters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English matere, mater, from Anglo-Norman matere, materie, from Old French materie, matiere, from Latin materia (“wood”), from mater (“mother”), in which case cognate with Old Armenian մայր (mayr, “cedar”) and մայրի (mayri, “forest”). More recently, referred to Proto-Indo-European *dem-. Doublet of Madeira and mother.
Displaced Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”), from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”), Old English intinga (“matter, affair, business”).
senses_examples:
text:
vegetable matter
type:
example
text:
He always took some reading matter with him on the plane.
type:
example
text:
Something is the matter with him.
type:
example
text:
The diplomats met to discuss state matters.
type:
example
text:
The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
ref:
2012 July 12, Sam Adams, “Ice Age: Continental Drift”, in AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
I stayed for a matter of months.
type:
example
text:
Please find attached an invoice for three outstanding matters.
type:
example
text:
He is the matter of virtue.
ref:
1611, Ben Jonson, Oberon, the Faery Prince
type:
quotation
text:
What matter if we unrewarded must strive, / If Wall Street and gamblers around it may thrive? / What matter if we doubly pay for our food / To support the monopolist kings of the road?
ref:
1880, Bernard Nulty, The Patriot Chief: And Other Poems, page 211
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Material; substance.
Anything with mass.
Material; substance.
Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
Material; substance.
A kind of substance.
Material; substance.
Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
Material; substance.
Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
An approximate amount or extent.
Legal services provided by a lawyer or firm to their client in relation to a particular issue.
Essence; pith; embodiment.
(The) inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
Pus.
Importance.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
law
medicine
sciences
|
8687 | word:
matter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
matter (third-person singular simple present matters, present participle mattering, simple past and past participle mattered)
forms:
form:
matters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mattering
tags:
participle
present
form:
mattered
tags:
participle
past
form:
mattered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English matere, mater, from Anglo-Norman matere, materie, from Old French materie, matiere, from Latin materia (“wood”), from mater (“mother”), in which case cognate with Old Armenian մայր (mayr, “cedar”) and մայրի (mayri, “forest”). More recently, referred to Proto-Indo-European *dem-. Doublet of Madeira and mother.
Displaced Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”), from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”), Old English intinga (“matter, affair, business”).
senses_examples:
text:
The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich.
type:
example
text:
Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, don't worry, it does not matter.
type:
example
text:
Despite further attempts by Agbonlahor and Young, however, they could not find the goal to reward their endeavour.
It mattered little as Newcastle's challenge faded and Villa began to dominate the game in midfield, and it was only Barton's continued sense of injustice that offered the visitors any spark in a tame contest.
ref:
2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Besides, if it had been out of doors I had not mattered it so much; but with my own servant, in my own house, under my own roof […]
ref:
, Folio Society 1973, p.47
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be important.
To care about, to mind; to find important.
To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
8688 | word:
nanori
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nanori (plural nanori)
forms:
form:
nanori
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese 名乗り (nanori, literally “name + riding”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Japanese reading of a kanji character that is used for names of people or places, but that is otherwise a non-standard reading for that character.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
8689 | word:
random access memory
word_type:
noun
expansion:
random access memory (usually uncountable, plural random access memories)
forms:
form:
random access memories
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Computer memory, usually volatile, that stores program and data values during operation and in which each word of memory may be directly (randomly) accessed.
senses_topics:
business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences |
8690 | word:
Argentinian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Argentinian (plural Argentinians)
forms:
form:
Argentinians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Argentin(a) + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Argentina or of Argentine descent.
senses_topics:
|
8691 | word:
Argentinian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Argentinian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Argentin(a) + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Argentina and the Argentine people.
senses_topics:
|
8692 | word:
homebrewed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
homebrewed (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From home + brewed.
senses_examples:
text:
The girl made a wry little face. "I don't like beer, Mr. Landon," she said. "It's horrid stuff, even when it's homebrewed!
ref:
1914, Marie Corelli, Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact, Library of Alexandria
type:
quotation
text:
Two common questions are, "How long will a homebrewed beer keep?" and "Will it spoil?" The answer is that homebrewed beer has a fairly long storage life.
ref:
2001, John J. Palmer, How to Brew: Ingredients, Methods, Recipes, and Equipment for Brewing Beer at Home, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
She felt dizzy and befuddled, almost like the time she had swiped a drink of her mother's homebrewed mead.
ref:
2015, Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic, Simon and Schuster, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
It is somewhat characteristic of this aircraft's designer that he found a homebrewed solution to the high cost of fabricating this curved boom section.
ref:
1985, Jim Richard Campbell, Flyer's guide to ultralights
type:
quotation
text:
Bob concocts his own homebrewed version of the fuel by mixing old cooking oil, a small amount of gasoline, methanol from an antifreeze called Heet (found at the auto parts store), and a few gallons of Drano (which contains sodium hydroxide).
ref:
2014, Jay Bonansinga, Robert Kirkman, Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Descent, Macmillan
type:
quotation
text:
Her tribal doctor also gave her some homebrewed powdered medicine, which he mixed in water.
ref:
2016, Dr. Richard Evans, My Summers in West Africa: The Account of a Medical Missionary, Xlibris Corporation
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Brewed at home.
Homemade.
senses_topics:
|
8693 | word:
homebrewed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
homebrewed (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From home + brewed.
senses_examples:
text:
They soon made friends again over a pipe and some homebrewed.
ref:
1888, G. Van Hare, Fifty Years of a Showman's Life, Or, The Life and Travels of Van Hare
type:
quotation
text:
And they shook hands on it there and then, and Mr. Lang called for a girl to bring out some homebrewed from the cellar to make a bargain of it.
ref:
1936, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Fiction Parade and Golden Book Magazine - Volume 3, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
Because you actually came inside and sat down and are drinking homebrewed with a smile on your face. Because you brought your hound in with you and he's drinking homebrewed as well.
ref:
2003, Judith Lansdowne, Just in Time, page 131
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Drink brewed at home.
senses_topics:
|
8694 | word:
homebrewed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
homebrewed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From home + brewed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of homebrew
senses_topics:
|
8695 | word:
feminine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
feminine (comparative more feminine, superlative most feminine)
forms:
form:
more feminine
tags:
comparative
form:
most feminine
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
feminine
etymology_text:
From Middle English feminine, femynyne, femynyn, from Old French feminin, feminine, from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-eh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”). Related to fetus, feminism, filial, fellatio.
senses_examples:
text:
Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: masculine
text:
Feminine caesura, feminine catalexis, feminine ending.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
Belonging to females; typically used by females.
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
Being of the feminine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
Being inflected in agreement with a feminine noun.
Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.
Following or ending on an unstressed syllable.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences |
8696 | word:
feminine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
feminine (plural feminines)
forms:
form:
feminines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
feminine
etymology_text:
From Middle English feminine, femynyne, femynyn, from Old French feminin, feminine, from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-eh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”). Related to fetus, feminism, filial, fellatio.
senses_examples:
text:
The different words belong to different systems, and are no more the masculines and feminines of one another
ref:
1860, Robert Gordon Latham, An Elementary English Grammar: For the Use of Schools
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which is feminine.
A woman.
The feminine gender.
A word of the feminine gender.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
8697 | word:
read-only memory
word_type:
noun
expansion:
read-only memory (countable and uncountable, plural read-only memories)
forms:
form:
read-only memories
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A computer memory chip that stores values but does not allow updates, in which the values are nonvolatile in that they are retained even when the computer is unpowered.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
8698 | word:
Klingon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Klingon (plural Klingons)
forms:
form:
Klingons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
In many cases, from German Klingen, via Russian Клинген (Klingen) (many bearers in 1900s US censuses are recorded as being from Russia). Compare the various spellings of the related surname Klingon Smith (more commonly Klingensmith, Klingenschmitt, Klingenschmidt).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
8699 | word:
Klingon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Klingon (plural Klingons)
forms:
form:
Klingons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
[Alt: Photograph of two people in Klingon costume]
c. 1960s, from the Star Trek franchise, purportedly by Gene Roddenberry, named for Lieutenant Wilbur Clingan of the Los Angeles Police Department. In-universe, the name was a transcription of Klingon tlhIngan.
senses_examples:
text:
SPOCK: Captain, we've reached the designated position for scanning the coded directive tape.
KIRK: Good. We've both guessed right. Negotiations with the Klingon Empire are on the verge of breaking down. Starfleet Command anticipates a surprise attack. We are to proceed to Organia and take whatever steps are necessary to prevent the Klingons from using it as a base.
ref:
1967 March 23, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Errand of Mercy (Star Trek: The Original Series), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe with distinctive forehead ridges and a culture based on strict observance of honour, loyalty, and combat.
senses_topics:
|
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