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8700 | word:
Klingon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Klingon
forms:
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.
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An artificial language created by Marc Okrand for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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8701 | word:
chem.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chem. (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of chemistry.
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8702 | word:
chem.
word_type:
adj
expansion:
chem. (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of chemical.
senses_topics:
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8703 | word:
cheval
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cheval (plural chevaux)
forms:
form:
chevaux
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French cheval. See cavalcade. Doublet of caple.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Only in compounds : a horse; hence, a support or frame.
A long mirror.
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8704 | word:
temporarily
word_type:
adv
expansion:
temporarily (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From temporary + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
Necromancers were thought to have the power of restoring activity to the dead, either temporarily or permanently[.]
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
The committee also decided that the remains of President Chiang will be entombed temporarily by Tzu Lake, at Tahsi township of Taoyuan County in northern Taiwan, and will be buried on the mainland after it is recovered.
ref:
1975 April 13, “Late President funeral service set for April 16”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 14, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
For a limited period of time; not permanently.
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8705 | word:
plasma
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plasma (countable and uncountable, plural plasmas or plasmata)
forms:
form:
plasmas
tags:
plural
form:
plasmata
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ancient Greek language
Late Latin language
plasma
etymology_text:
From Late Latin plasma (“mold”), from Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “something formed”).
senses_examples:
text:
Oxygen and hydrogen nuclei are intermixed with free electrons. The whole mix is electrically neutral. This is actually considered a new stage of matter called a plasma. You can see an example of an electrically produced plasma in a fluorescent light bulb or in a plasma television.
ref:
2020, Don Lincoln, The Large Hadron Collider, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 198
type:
quotation
text:
Has anyone here written a plasma demo in C/C++ who would be willing to explain to me exactly how it works?
ref:
1999, Rage Matrix, “Coding plasma demos....HELP!”, in comp.programming (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
However, it displayed some unique copper magic routines and plasma effects.
ref:
2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: The Brief History of the Demoscene, volume 1, page 126
type:
quotation
text:
This creates the classic 'plasma' effect seen in many demoscene videos.
ref:
Jonathan Weinel, Explosions in the Mind (page 139)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state of matter consisting of partially ionized gas and electrons.
A clear component of blood or lymph containing fibrin.
A variety of green quartz, used in ancient times for making engraved ornaments.
A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.
A visual effect in which cycles of changing colours are warped in various ways to give the illusion of liquid organic movement.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hematology
medicine
sciences
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
medicine
sciences
computer-graphics
computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
8706 | word:
plasma
word_type:
verb
expansion:
plasma (third-person singular simple present plasmas, present participle plasmaing, simple past and past participle plasmaed)
forms:
form:
plasmas
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
plasmaing
tags:
participle
present
form:
plasmaed
tags:
participle
past
form:
plasmaed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Ancient Greek language
Late Latin language
plasma
etymology_text:
From Late Latin plasma (“mold”), from Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “something formed”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transform something into plasma.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction |
8707 | word:
doujinshi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
doujinshi (countable and uncountable, plural doujinshi or doujinshis)
forms:
form:
doujinshi
tags:
plural
form:
doujinshis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 同人誌 (dōjinshi, “fan-produced manga or essay booklets”), from 同人 (dōjin, “a group for the same interest”) + 誌 (shi, “a magazine or a pamphlet”).
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senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fan-produced work, especially a manga, anime, or video game.
senses_topics:
anime
broadcasting
comics
film
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
video-games |
8708 | word:
exposé
word_type:
noun
expansion:
exposé (plural exposés)
forms:
form:
exposés
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
exposé
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from French exposé.
senses_examples:
text:
Just as with other recent reports by various bodies on HS2 and the ticket office closures, the National Audit Office's effort on the rail reform process is a devastating exposé of the failings and floundering of a dying administration that has failed to understand the value of having an efficient rail network.
ref:
2024 March 20, Christian Wolmar, “NAO report highlights lack of clarity and purpose”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of exposing somebody or something; a shameful showing up.
A publication of investigative journalism that reveals hidden and often scandalous truths.
A formal recital or exposition.
senses_topics:
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8709 | word:
verbal noun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
verbal noun (plural verbal nouns)
forms:
form:
verbal nouns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A noun that is morphologically related to a verb and similar to it in meaning; in English, it contrasts with the gerund and the deverbal noun.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
8710 | word:
femme
word_type:
noun
expansion:
femme (plural femmes)
forms:
form:
femmes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Butch and femme
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French femme (“woman”). Doublet of feme, femina, and hembra.
senses_examples:
text:
Then I turned to him and said, "O my lord, I have that to propose to thee wherein thou must not cross me; and this it is that, when we reach Baghdad, my native city, I offer thee my life as thy handmaiden in holy matrimony, and thou shalt be to me baron and I will be femme to thee."
ref:
1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 18
type:
quotation
text:
Theodore J. Flicker and George Kirgo have penned a good script in which Elvis is played off against four femmes […].
ref:
1983, Variety's Film Reviews: 1964–1967
type:
quotation
text:
Some of the most political dykes in town had already converted, tossing out their Levi's and Birkenstocks in favor of poodle skirts and heels. It was no longer a question of butch vs. femme, liberations vs. oppression. Clothes did not unmake the woman; clothes were just clothes.
ref:
1986 [1984], Armistead Maupin, Babycakes (Tales of the City), pages 64–65
type:
quotation
text:
Monique whispered something to a butch sitting near her. The butch crossed the room and approached our table. “Hey,” she called to me. I didn't look up. “Hey, femme, you wanna dance with a real butch?”
ref:
1993, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, Los Angeles: Alyson Books, published 2003, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
Given the myth that lesbian femmes will eventually leave their butches for men, there is an understandable unwillingness to acknowledge bisexual femmes, who really might do it — as indeed they have every right to.
ref:
1997, Bi Academic Intervention, Bisexual Imaginary: Representation, Identity, and Desire, A&C Black, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
I love butches, though. I dated a femme once. That was wrong on so many levels.
ref:
2013, Michelle Gibson, Deborah Meem, Femme/Butch, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: masc
text:
The same is true of Goddess Spirituality spaces which are predicated on Radical Feminist rhetorics about Nature and the embodied experience – even those spaces which are open to trans women and nonbinary femmes may still fall back on language about the womb …
ref:
2018, Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries (Lee Harrington, Tai Fenix Kulystin), page 79
text:
[…] there is no story of Black pain deeper than that of Black fat women and femmes. […]
¹ Gender expansive for women, femmes, and nonbinary folks.
ref:
2019, The Lemonade Reader: Beyoncé, Black Feminism and Spirituality (Kinitra D. Brooks, Kameelah L. Martin)
text:
Jordan-Zachery offers two dominant scripts that are often written onto Black women's, femmes', and girls' bodies: The Ass and Strong Black Woman scripts.
ref:
2019, Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag (Julia S. Jordan-Zachery, Duchess Harris), page 21
text:
[...] and any person who might partake in feminine expression (cis and trans women and men, nonbinary femmes...).
ref:
2019, Kristen J. Sollee, Cat Call: Reclaiming the Feral Feminine, page xvii
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A woman, a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl.
A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch.
A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality |
8711 | word:
femme
word_type:
adj
expansion:
femme (comparative more femme, superlative most femme)
forms:
form:
more femme
tags:
comparative
form:
most femme
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
en:Butch and femme
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French femme (“woman”). Doublet of feme, femina, and hembra.
senses_examples:
text:
Admittedly, Kiedis was concerned about the lack of femme rockers on the bill: the only women featured were in British band Lush, who would open each day's festivities before a few hundred curious onlookers.
ref:
2009, Jeff Apter, Fornication: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story
type:
quotation
text:
High heels are something like neckties for women, in that it can be harder to look both formal and femme without them.
ref:
2019 March 20, Summer Brennan, “Sex, power, oppression: why women wear high heels”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Her style was more femme than butch.
type:
example
text:
"We want to base our relationships on who we are now, not who we once were" says radical femme bisexual Linda Moore.
ref:
1992, Deneuve
type:
quotation
text:
In comparison to butch bisexual women, it may be easier for femme bisexual women to locate male and female dating partners […]
ref:
2007, Beth A. Firestein, Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan, Columbia University Press, page 305
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female.
Effeminate (of a man).
Characteristic of a feminine lesbian or queer woman.
senses_topics:
entertainment
journalism
lifestyle
media
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8712 | word:
knowledge
word_type:
noun
expansion:
knowledge (usually uncountable, plural knowledges)
forms:
form:
knowledges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
knowledge
etymology_text:
From Middle English knowleche, knaweleche, cnawlece (“knowledge”), from knowen (“to know, recognise”) + -leche. Related to Middle English knowlechen (“to find out, acknowledge”). For more on the Middle English suffix -leche, compare freelage. Compare also Old English cnāwelǣċ, cnāwelǣċing (“acknowledging, acknowledgement”).
senses_examples:
text:
His knowledge of Iceland was limited to what he'd seen on the Travel Channel.
type:
example
text:
[N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […]
ref:
1604, Jeremy Corderoy, A Short Dialogve, wherein is Proved, that No Man can be Saved without Good VVorkes, 2nd edition, Oxford: Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne, by Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
ref:
2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.
type:
example
text:
Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphs, perchance?
type:
example
text:
A secretary should have a good knowledge of shorthand.
type:
example
text:
Every time that he had knowledge of her he would leave, either in the bed, or in her cushion-cloth, or by her looking-glass, or in some place where she must needs find it, a piece of money[…].
ref:
1573, George Gascoigne, An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction, The Adventures of Master F.J.
type:
quotation
text:
Item, if any ship be in danger[…], every man to bear towards her, answering her with one light for a short time, and so to put it out again; thereby to give knowledge that they have seen her token.
ref:
1580, Edward Hayes, “Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland”, in Charles W Eliot, editor, Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern, Cosimo, published 2005, page 280
type:
quotation
text:
His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans.
type:
example
text:
There is only one sure way to memorise the runs and that is to follow them, either on foot, cycle or motor cycle; hence, the familiar sight of would-be cabbies learning the knowledge during evenings and weekends.
ref:
2002, Malcolm Bobbitt, Taxi! - The Story of the London Cab
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.
Justified true belief
Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).
Information or intelligence about something; notice.
The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.
Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.
Acknowledgement.
Notice, awareness.
The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.
senses_topics:
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8713 | word:
knowledge
word_type:
verb
expansion:
knowledge (third-person singular simple present knowledges, present participle knowledging, simple past and past participle knowledged)
forms:
form:
knowledges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
knowledging
tags:
participle
present
form:
knowledged
tags:
participle
past
form:
knowledged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
knowledge
etymology_text:
From Middle English knowleche, knaweleche, cnawlece (“knowledge”), from knowen (“to know, recognise”) + -leche. Related to Middle English knowlechen (“to find out, acknowledge”). For more on the Middle English suffix -leche, compare freelage. Compare also Old English cnāwelǣċ, cnāwelǣċing (“acknowledging, acknowledgement”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To confess as true; to acknowledge.
senses_topics:
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8714 | word:
vomit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vomit (third-person singular simple present vomits, present participle vomiting, simple past and past participle vomited)
forms:
form:
vomits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vomiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
vomited
tags:
participle
past
form:
vomited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre, present active infinitive of vomitō (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.
senses_examples:
text:
It is the illicit Christmas pudding an incorrigible servant cooks for the little boy one Christmas Day that sparks Oscar's first crisis of belief, for his father, opposed to Christmas pudding on theological grounds, makes the child vomit his helping.
ref:
1988, Angela Carter, “Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 713
type:
quotation
text:
"Hullo!" said the athlete, and vomited with this greeting a cloud of tobacco-smoke. It must have been imprisoned in his mouth some time, for no pipe was visible.
ref:
1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45-46]
text:
After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
ref:
2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
senses_topics:
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8715 | word:
vomit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vomit (usually uncountable, plural vomits)
forms:
form:
vomits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre, present active infinitive of vomitō (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.
senses_examples:
text:
"[Y]ou've spent so much of your life writing romantic vomit for morons that the mushy bit of the brain you did have has gone rancid."
ref:
1936, John Wyndham, Stowaway to Mars, published 1972, page x. 81
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
The act of regurgitating.
The act of vomiting.
Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash.
That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
senses_topics:
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8716 | word:
throttle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
throttle (plural throttles)
forms:
form:
throttles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
throttle (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English *throtel, diminutive of throte (“throat”), equivalent to throat + -le. Compare German Drossel (“throttle”). More at throat.
senses_examples:
text:
To my unpractised eye, the undulations in the track were quite imperceptible, but the engineer's hand on the throttle was never still.
ref:
1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 425
type:
quotation
text:
Nor took a punch nor given a swing, / But just soaked deady round the ring / Until their brains and bloods were foul / Enough to make their throttles howl, […]
ref:
1911, John Masefield, The Everlasting Mercy, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., page 7
type:
quotation
text:
From the cabin came that horrible song: "Here's to the feet wot have walked the plank. Yo ho! for the dead man's throttle."
ref:
1915, Russell Thorndike, chapter XXXVII, in Doctor Syn
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
The windpipe or trachea.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
8717 | word:
throttle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
throttle (third-person singular simple present throttles, present participle throttling, simple past and past participle throttled)
forms:
form:
throttles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
throttling
tags:
participle
present
form:
throttled
tags:
participle
past
form:
throttled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
throttle (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English throtlen (“to choke, strangle, suffocate”), from the noun (see above). Compare German erdrosseln (“to strangle, choke, throttle”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
To strangle or choke someone.
To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
senses_topics:
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8718 | word:
display
word_type:
noun
expansion:
display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)
forms:
form:
displays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
display
etymology_text:
From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.
senses_examples:
text:
The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.
type:
example
text:
Pupils are expected to produce a wall display about a country of their choice.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A show or spectacle.
A piece of work to be presented visually.
A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
8719 | word:
display
word_type:
verb
expansion:
display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)
forms:
form:
displays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
displaying
tags:
participle
present
form:
displayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
displayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
display
etymology_text:
From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.
senses_examples:
text:
Troponyms: brandish, flaunt, show off
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
To discover; to descry.
To spread out, to unfurl.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
media
printing
publishing
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8720 | word:
annotation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
annotation (countable and uncountable, plural annotations)
forms:
form:
annotations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
annotation
etymology_text:
From Latin annotātiōnem, accusative singular of annotātiō (“remark, annotation”), from annotātus, perfect passive participle of annotō (“note down, remark”). Equivalent to annotate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
make an annotation
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.
A comment added to a text.
The process of writing such comment or commentary.
Metadata added to a document or program.
Information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences |
8721 | word:
upside
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upside (plural upsides)
forms:
form:
upsides
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
upside
etymology_text:
From up + side.
senses_examples:
text:
The only upside of being over 35 is that you don't get raped as much.
ref:
2013, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (motion picture), Julie Delpy (actor)
type:
quotation
text:
They said we’d be free of all that tedious European red tape and would take back control of our borders, encouraging anyone agitated by immigration to believe that fewer people would come in. There would be no downside, only upsides.
ref:
2023 June 23, Jonathan Freedland, “With even leavers regretting Brexit, there’s one path back to rejoining the EU”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The highest or uppermost side or portion of something.
A favourable aspect of something that also has an unfavourable aspect.
An upward tendency, especially in a financial market etc.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
8722 | word:
upside
word_type:
prep
expansion:
upside
forms:
wikipedia:
upside
etymology_text:
From up + side.
senses_examples:
text:
Ruth Ann clenched her hand around the hairbrush and felt like smacking Ashley upside the head with it. She knew better than to talk that way.
ref:
2002, Pamela Duncan, Moon Women
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On the top of.
senses_topics:
|
8723 | word:
zilch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zilch (countable and uncountable, plural zilches)
forms:
form:
zilches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from Joe Zilch, a placeholder name (compare John Doe) used by Nunnally Johnson in his column in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1923; in turn from Joe Zilch, an unseen character referenced in comedian Frank Tinney's stage routine. Compare the rare German surname Zilch.
senses_examples:
text:
President Henry P. Zilch. Chairman of the Board Charles D. Zilch. Treasurer Otto Zilch.
ref:
1931 July, Ballyhoo, Vol. I, No. 1, p. 1
text:
Bernarr MacZilch [for Bernarr Macfadden] and His Dynamic-Hooey System... The WEAKLING Who Became 'The World's Most Perfect Ass!'
ref:
1932 February, Ballyhoo, Vol. II, No. 1
text:
Dinglegoofer, Mr. Zilch, indefinite nicknames.
ref:
1940, Lester V. Berrey et al., The American Thesaurus of Slang, §184
type:
quotation
text:
Her search for decent home-made winter clothes came up with zilch, so she had to get imported stuff.
type:
example
text:
"If the homeless wind up with zilch," James retorted, veiling his indignation behind a malevolent smile, "it's because they deserve zilch."
ref:
1991, Judith Arnold, One Good Turn, page 104
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nobody: a person who is worthless in importance or character.
Nothing, zero.
senses_topics:
|
8724 | word:
zilch
word_type:
adj
expansion:
zilch (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from Joe Zilch, a placeholder name (compare John Doe) used by Nunnally Johnson in his column in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1923; in turn from Joe Zilch, an unseen character referenced in comedian Frank Tinney's stage routine. Compare the rare German surname Zilch.
senses_examples:
text:
Zilch, adj. Nothing, zero...
ref:
1966, University of South Dakota, Current Slang
type:
quotation
text:
...gorgeous faces but zilch talent...
ref:
1977 February 3, The Telegraph, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
No, zero, non-existent.
senses_topics:
|
8725 | word:
zilch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
zilch (third-person singular simple present zilches, present participle zilching, simple past and past participle zilched)
forms:
form:
zilches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
zilching
tags:
participle
present
form:
zilched
tags:
participle
past
form:
zilched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from Joe Zilch, a placeholder name (compare John Doe) used by Nunnally Johnson in his column in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1923; in turn from Joe Zilch, an unseen character referenced in comedian Frank Tinney's stage routine. Compare the rare German surname Zilch.
senses_examples:
text:
We zilched them on that rubber.
ref:
1969, University of South Dakota, Current Slang
type:
quotation
text:
My favorite film of 1989 got zilched... That would be Field of Dreams.
ref:
1990 April 2, USA Today, page 20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to score nothing, to thoroughly defeat.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
8726 | word:
connoisseur
word_type:
noun
expansion:
connoisseur (plural connoisseurs)
forms:
form:
connoisseurs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Around 1705–1715, from French connoisseur, from the verb connoître (obsolete pre-1835 spelling of connaître (“to know”)).
senses_examples:
text:
beer connoisseur
type:
example
text:
chocolate connoisseur
type:
example
text:
wine connoisseur
type:
example
text:
Real connoisseurs know that to nose and taste properly you have to add still water to your tulip-shaped glass so that the alcohol doesn't overwhelm you.
ref:
2002 October 20, Bob Morris, “The Age of Dissonance”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A specialist in a given field whose opinion is highly valued, especially in one of the fine arts or in matters of taste.
senses_topics:
|
8727 | word:
courage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
courage (usually uncountable, plural courages)
forms:
form:
courages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Courage (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English corage, from Old French corage (French courage), from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Displaced Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“courage, valor”).
senses_examples:
text:
It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
type:
example
text:
He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
type:
example
text:
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
ref:
1942, C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
type:
quotation
text:
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
ref:
1993, Stanley P. Cornils, The Mourning After: How to Manage Grief Wisely
type:
quotation
text:
2008, Maya Angelou, address for the 2008 Cornell University commencement
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
text:
I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.
ref:
2008, Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal. Moral fortitude.
senses_topics:
|
8728 | word:
courage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
courage (third-person singular simple present courages, present participle couraging, simple past and past participle couraged)
forms:
form:
courages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
couraging
tags:
participle
present
form:
couraged
tags:
participle
past
form:
couraged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Courage (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English corage, from Old French corage (French courage), from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Displaced Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“courage, valor”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To encourage.
1530, William Tyndale, An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue
1530, William Tyndale, An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue:
Paul writeth unto Timothy, to instruct him, to teach him, to exhort, to courage him, to stir him up,
Paul writeth unto Timothy, to instruct him, to teach him, to exhort, to courage him, to stir him up,
senses_topics:
|
8729 | word:
suck
word_type:
noun
expansion:
suck (countable and uncountable, plural sucks)
forms:
form:
sucks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English souken, suken, from Old English sūcan (“to suck”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūkan, from Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck, suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sewk- (“to suck”). Cognate with Scots souke (“to suck”), obsolete Dutch zuiken (“to suck”), Limburgish zuken, zoeken (“to suck”). Akin also to Old English sūgan (“to suck”), West Frisian sûge, sûge (“to suck”), Dutch zuigen (“to suck”), German saugen (“to suck”), Swedish suga (“to suck”), Icelandic sjúga (“to suck”), Latin sūgō (“suck”), Welsh sugno (“suck”). Related to soak.
senses_examples:
text:
Bammer agreed “Probably a good idea,” he agreed with a quick suck on his straw, “won't stop you from picking up any of these chicks, though.”
ref:
2001, D. Martin Doney, Prayer Capsule: A Book of Honesty, page 261
type:
quotation
text:
The infant took suck in an instant, pulling strongly.
ref:
2010, Barbara Tieken, Bull Vaulter: Alena of the Isle of Green, page 202
type:
quotation
text:
On a proper workbench this can often be achieved between the end vice and a dog, though more sophisticated products use either the suck of a vacuum cleaner or just friction.
ref:
2005, Nick Gibbs, Ultimate Woodworking Course, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
Vacuum for the park Mosuc is a street and park vacuum cleaner which its designers, Hollowell Engineering, Dearborn, Michigan, like to claim has more suck than most[.]
ref:
1972, Design, numbers 277-282, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
[D]rop the head for less suck or raise it for more. A plow should not have too much suck or it will run on its nose in hard land and put unnecessary weight.
ref:
2017, Oliver B. Zimmerman, Internal Combustion Engines and Tractors, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
Marvelous stories were told of "the suck" in early times. It was said that the water was so compressed that it would bear an ax.
ref:
1879, Edward Deering Mansfield, Personal Memories, Social, Political, and Literary, page 302
type:
quotation
text:
“Why're you bothering to take her anywhere? I can't stand traveling with her. You're such a suck,” her sister said. Waved her smoke. “No fucking way I'm going.”
ref:
1999, Hiromi Goto, “Drift”, in Ms., volume 9, number 3, pages 82–6
type:
quotation
text:
I used to think she was such a suck! She'd cry when I took to the ice, whether I skated well or badly. She'd cry when I left the house.
ref:
2008, Beth Hitchcock, “Parenting Pair”, in Today's Parent, volume 25, number 5, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
You are McGlade's suck.
ref:
1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Nate exhaled a long, slow breath. What the hell was he thinking? He couldn't cruise the steam room looking for married men looking for a quick suck. He needed to shoot his load, but was he really that desperate?
ref:
2012, Alex Carreras, Cruising with Destiny, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
You don't have to call me on for everything, ok? I'm aware of my suck.
ref:
2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
Milk drawn from the breast.
An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
The ability to suck; suction.
A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
A sycophant, especially a child.
A short drink, especially a dram of spirits.
An act of fellatio.
Badness or mediocrity.
senses_topics:
|
8730 | word:
suck
word_type:
verb
expansion:
suck (third-person singular simple present sucks, present participle sucking, simple past and past participle sucked)
forms:
form:
sucks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sucking
tags:
participle
present
form:
sucked
tags:
participle
past
form:
sucked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English souken, suken, from Old English sūcan (“to suck”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūkan, from Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck, suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sewk- (“to suck”). Cognate with Scots souke (“to suck”), obsolete Dutch zuiken (“to suck”), Limburgish zuken, zoeken (“to suck”). Akin also to Old English sūgan (“to suck”), West Frisian sûge, sûge (“to suck”), Dutch zuigen (“to suck”), German saugen (“to suck”), Swedish suga (“to suck”), Icelandic sjúga (“to suck”), Latin sūgō (“suck”), Welsh sugno (“suck”). Related to soak.
senses_examples:
text:
That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood,
With which she from her childhood had bene fed.
ref:
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i
type:
quotation
text:
Cigarette smoke was sucked out through the cracks in the glass of the glazed panes overhead the side street and the parking lot.
ref:
1976 August 14, Matthew Wolfe, “Cruising a Tea Room or; Does Gertrude Stein Really Drink Coffee”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
the way he arched his back and spread his legs when he wanted me to suck him.
text:
Schumacher recalls Bucher had also written 'Communism sucks' on the underside of his table
ref:
1969 November 2, Sid Moody with Jules Loh and Richard Meyer, “The USS Pueblo: 22: Panmunjom: General Pak Had One Last Trump”, in Charlotte Observer, page H-25
type:
quotation
text:
it has a few very high points . . . but as a novel, it sucks
ref:
1970 January 8, Hunter S. Thompson, “[letter to Steve Geller]”, in Fear and Loathing in America, New York: Simon & Schuster, published 2000, page 251
type:
quotation
text:
Garfield: Well, another year is almost under the belt
And I've had 313 pretty good days
The Mondays sucked.
ref:
1990 December 31, Jim Davis, Garfield Takes Up Space (Garfield) (comic)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
To inhale (air), to draw (breath).
To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
To perform fellatio.
To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
senses_topics:
|
8731 | word:
board of directors
word_type:
noun
expansion:
board of directors (plural boards of directors)
forms:
form:
boards of directors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of people elected by stockholders to establish corporate policies and make management decisions.
senses_topics:
|
8732 | word:
if
word_type:
conj
expansion:
if
forms:
wikipedia:
if
etymology_text:
From Middle English if, yif, yef, from Old English ġif (“if”), from Proto-West Germanic *jabu, *jabē, from Proto-Germanic *jabai (“when, if”). Cognate with Scots gif (“if, whether”), Saterland Frisian af, of (“if, whether”), West Frisian oft (“whether”), Dutch of (“or, whether, but”), Middle Low German ef, if, af, of ("if; whether"; > German Low German of), German ob (“if, whether”), Icelandic ef (“if”).
senses_examples:
text:
If it rains, I shall get wet.
text:
I'll do it next year —if at all.
text:
If A, then B, else C.
type:
example
text:
I would prefer it if you took your shoes off.
type:
example
text:
I would be unhappy if you had not talked with me yesterday.
type:
example
text:
If I were you, I wouldn't go there alone.
type:
example
text:
If that's true, we had better get moving!
type:
example
text:
Both Spear & Davis were indicted in the witchhunt surrounding the sensational (if nonexistent) "Revere sex ring."
ref:
1981 April 11, Mitzel, “Kopacz Acquitted In Barbre Killing”, in Gay Community News, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
He was a great friend, if a little stingy at the bar.
type:
example
text:
She won her team's admiration, if not its award, for her performance.
type:
example
text:
I don't know if I want to go or not.
text:
Quoth Matthew, “ […] / She doubts if two and two make four, / […] ”
ref:
1715–1717, Matthew Prior, Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto III
text:
It is doubtful if the Victorian Londoner needed any warning, for the artful mobsmen, toolers, whizzers and dippers, together with their stickman accomplices, were everywhere in the crowds, in the underground, on railway trains […]
ref:
1976, Michael Harrison, Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Wait a minute!” said the girl: “I wouldn’t hurry by, if it was you that was coming out to be hung, the next time eight o’clock struck, Bill. I’d walk round and round the place till I dropped, if the snow was on the ground, and I hadn’t a shawl to cover me.”
text:
If it’s the last thing I do / If it takes me from Tubilo to Timbuktu / If it’s the last thing I do / I’m gonna dodge every road block, speed trap, county cop / To get my hands on you / If it’s the last thing I do.
ref:
2004, David Lee Murphy and Kim Tribble (writers), Montgomery Gentry (singers), “If It’s The Last Thing I Do” (song), in You Do Your Thing (album)
text:
I have leftover cake if you want some.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that; used to introduce a condition or choice.
In the event that a statement is true (a programming statement that acts in a similar manner).
Supposing that; used with past or past perfect subjunctive indicating that the condition is closed.
Supposing that; given that; supposing it is the case that.
Although; used to introduce a concession.
Whether; used to introduce a noun clause, an indirect question, that functions as the direct object of certain verbs.
Even if; even in the circumstances that.
Introducing a relevance conditional.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
8733 | word:
if
word_type:
noun
expansion:
if (plural ifs)
forms:
form:
ifs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
if
etymology_text:
From Middle English if, yif, yef, from Old English ġif (“if”), from Proto-West Germanic *jabu, *jabē, from Proto-Germanic *jabai (“when, if”). Cognate with Scots gif (“if, whether”), Saterland Frisian af, of (“if, whether”), West Frisian oft (“whether”), Dutch of (“or, whether, but”), Middle Low German ef, if, af, of ("if; whether"; > German Low German of), German ob (“if, whether”), Icelandic ef (“if”).
senses_examples:
text:
1709, Susannah Centlivre, The Busy Body, Act III, in John Bell (ed.), British Theater, J. Bell (1791), page 59,
Sir Fran. Nay, but Chargy, if——— ¶ Miran. Nay, Gardy, no Ifs.——Have I refus'd three northern lords, two British peers, and half a score knights, to have put in your Ifs?
text:
Well might Bergman add, (in his Sciographia,), “if the compariſon that has been made, &c. be juſt.” The preſent writer makes no ifs about the matter, and has ſuperadded a little inaccuracy of his own, […]
ref:
1791 January, “Richardſon’s Chemical Principles of the Metallic Arts”, in The Monthly Review, R. Griffiths, page 176
type:
quotation
text:
Even if they managed to strike Japan, the United States or South Korea with nuclear weapons — a big if, given that they do not have a reliable delivery system — they could not save themselves from ultimate defeat.
ref:
2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An uncertainty, possibility, condition, doubt etc.
senses_topics:
|
8734 | word:
whip
word_type:
noun
expansion:
whip (plural whips)
forms:
form:
whips
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whippen, wippen (“to flap violently”), from Middle Dutch wippen (“to swing, leap, dance, oscillate”) and Middle Low German wippen (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Germanic *wipjaną (“to move back and forth”). Some similarity to Sanskrit root वेप् (vep, “shake, flourish”), Latin vibrō (“I shake”). (See Swedish vippa and Danish vippe (“to shake”)).
The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound of a whip; compare the same development in whisk and onomatopoeias such as whack and whoosh.
The political senses are from whipper-in (“huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering”), 18th century hunting terminology.
senses_examples:
text:
I had to use the whip to get the sheep's attention.
type:
example
text:
Once he ran out of appeals, he knew he would soon feel the sting of the whip.
type:
example
text:
I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself.
ref:
1832, The Atheneum, volume 31, page 493
type:
quotation
text:
From the far side of the wood came the long shrill screech […] which signifies that one of the whips has viewed the fox quitting the covert.
ref:
1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
I was going to vote against the bill, but the party whip came to see me and made it clear I needed to vote for it.
type:
example
text:
The Conservative deputy chief whip has resigned after admitting he had “embarrassed myself and other people” following reports that he drunkenly groped two men at a private club.
ref:
2022 June 30, “Tory deputy chief whip resigns after ‘drunkenly groping two men’”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Therefore, welcome new Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper, a man about whom even my esteemed political journalist friends know little - apart from the fact he was once Chief Whip, a job that requires knowing about every Tory MP's misdemeanours.
ref:
2022 November 16, Christian Wolmar, “Can Merriman use his rail knowledge to make a difference?”, in RAIL, number 970, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
to withdraw the whip
type:
example
text:
As a result, he was stripped of the whip on Tuesday, preventing him from voting in the fourth ballot to narrow down candidates to be the next party leader.
ref:
2022 July 20, Heather Stewart, “Tobias Ellwood temporarily given back Tory whip to vote in leadership contest”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
In the letter, Hancock said he had spoken to the Conservatives’ chief whip, Simon Hart, last week, and been told the whip would be restored in time, “but that is now not necessary” – meaning he will sit as an independent until the next election.
ref:
2022 December 7, Peter Walker, “Row grows over Matt Hancock’s announcement he is quitting as MP”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Did you want to add some whip to your coffee, ma'am?
type:
example
text:
Had four bills and I bought me a car / Little red whip that I bought for my marge
ref:
2015, Stormzy (lyrics and music), “Shut Up” (track 15), in Gang Signs & Prayer, performed by Stormzy
type:
quotation
text:
Big whip I'm underground parking
ref:
2017, Stormzy, Return of the Rucksack
type:
quotation
text:
Come on, let's take my whip so we can get there in time.
type:
example
text:
I was startled by the whip of the rope when it finally snapped.
type:
example
text:
Lord Carington […] led the way with his chestnuts, having a distinguished brother whip, Lord Londesborough, by his side.
ref:
1871, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 20, page 308
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
A blow administered with a whip.
A whipper-in.
A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
The regular status of an MP within a parliamentary party, which can be revoked by the party as a disciplinary measure.
Whipped cream.
A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion
A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion
A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
A coach driver; a coachman.
senses_topics:
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
government
politics
government
politics
government
politics
nautical
transport
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
8735 | word:
whip
word_type:
verb
expansion:
whip (third-person singular simple present whips, present participle whipping, simple past and past participle whipped)
forms:
form:
whips
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
whipping
tags:
participle
present
form:
whipped
tags:
participle
past
form:
whipped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English whippen, wippen (“to flap violently”), from Middle Dutch wippen (“to swing, leap, dance, oscillate”) and Middle Low German wippen (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Germanic *wipjaną (“to move back and forth”). Some similarity to Sanskrit root वेप् (vep, “shake, flourish”), Latin vibrō (“I shake”). (See Swedish vippa and Danish vippe (“to shake”)).
The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound of a whip; compare the same development in whisk and onomatopoeias such as whack and whoosh.
The political senses are from whipper-in (“huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering”), 18th century hunting terminology.
senses_examples:
text:
The rider whipped the horse.
type:
example
text:
I whipped her with a newspaper.
type:
example
text:
She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break.
ref:
2008, Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel
type:
quotation
text:
to whip eggs or cream
type:
example
text:
He whipped the department into shape.
type:
example
text:
1677-1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises
Its string […] is firmly whipt about with small Gut
text:
to whip a ruffle
type:
example
text:
He whipped the ball at me.
type:
example
text:
Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar.
ref:
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
whipping its rough surface for a trout
ref:
1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adirondac
type:
quotation
text:
The pennants whipped in the wind.
type:
example
text:
The wind whipped through the valley.
type:
example
text:
He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.
ref:
1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
type:
quotation
text:
to whip wheat
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hit with a whip.
To hit with any flexible object.
To defeat, as in a contest or game.
To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
To urge into action or obedience.
To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
To snap back and forth like a whip.
To move very fast.
To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
senses_topics:
government
politics
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
|
8736 | word:
communist
word_type:
adj
expansion:
communist (comparative more communist, superlative most communist)
forms:
form:
more communist
tags:
comparative
form:
most communist
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French communiste, from commun (“common, communal”) + -iste (“-ist”). By surface analysis, commune + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, relating to, supporting, or advocating communism.
senses_topics:
|
8737 | word:
communist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
communist (plural communists)
forms:
form:
communists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French communiste, from commun (“common, communal”) + -iste (“-ist”). By surface analysis, commune + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An advocate of a society based on the common ownership of property; a proponent of communism.
Any revolutionary or subversive radical.
senses_topics:
|
8738 | word:
coalesce
word_type:
verb
expansion:
coalesce (third-person singular simple present coalesces, present participle coalescing, simple past and past participle coalesced)
forms:
form:
coalesces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
coalescing
tags:
participle
present
form:
coalesced
tags:
participle
past
form:
coalesced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin coalēscō, from co- + alēscō (“grow up”).
senses_examples:
text:
The droplets coalesced into a puddle.
type:
example
text:
[…] when a thing's own light and the light from something else coalescing into one on bright and smooth surfaces produce a form which yields a perception reversed from the way a thing normally looks.
ref:
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown and 2, Sophist
type:
quotation
text:
The puddle coalesced from the droplets as they ran together.
type:
example
text:
We in the gay male community who are white […] will need to do conscious raising on racism with each other to effectively work with different racial groups. It follows that when attempting to coalesce with women that sexism conscious raising would need to occur.
ref:
1981 August 1, Aurora Corona, “The Dead Line”, in Gay Community News, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
The result is that once again, as in 2016, Trump is likely to prevail because Republicans cannot coalesce around an alternative—even though a candidate who is experienced in government, solidly conservative, and acceptable to most factions of the party is right there in front of them.
ref:
2023 August 16, Jonathan Rauch, “Why Not Pence?”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
You can improve the display by coalescing the ID columns. As I note in Chapter 9, the COALESCE expression takes on the value of the first non-null value in a list of values.
ref:
2018, Allen G. Taylor, SQL For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To join into a single mass or whole.
To form from different pieces or elements.
To bond pieces of metal into a continuous whole by liquefying parts of each piece, bringing the liquids into contact, and allowing the combined liquid to solidify.
To merge, to intermingle freely.
To convert a null value to a defined value.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
8739 | word:
quotation mark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quotation mark (plural quotation marks)
forms:
form:
quotation marks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Either of a pair of quotation marks used to denote a quotation in writing. In North America, South Africa and Australia, they may look “like this” (called inverted commas) or "like this" (straight quotes). In the United Kingdom and Ireland, they usually look ‘like this’ or 'like this'.
senses_topics:
|
8740 | word:
hyperbola
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hyperbola (plural hyperbolas or hyperbolae or hyperbolæ)
forms:
form:
hyperbolas
tags:
plural
form:
hyperbolae
tags:
plural
form:
hyperbolæ
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ). Doublet of hyperbole.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane that intersects the base of the cone and is not tangent to the cone. The function y(x) = 1/x draws a hyperbola.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
8741 | word:
seiyuu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seiyuu (plural seiyuu or seiyuus)
forms:
form:
seiyuu
tags:
plural
form:
seiyuus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
seiyuu
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 声優 (seiyū), from Middle Chinese 聲 (*ɕiɛ̝ŋ, “sound, voice”) + 優 (*ʔɨu, “actor”).
senses_examples:
text:
i was just wondering if any seiyuus did/do any other voice acting for things besides anime, like video games and other such media.
ref:
1998 November 8, jjiz...@forest.drew.edu, “seiyuus in other media?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
I was thinking, have there ever been any seiyuu that are native English speakers but have learned Japanese and won a role as an anime character?
ref:
2001 March 23, Marcus Mas, “[OT] English speaking seiyuu?”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
And the seiyuus all fit very nicely with their characters, especially Takuya, who voices our main man, Hikigaya.
ref:
December 2013, Pax Alquiza in Anime Reign Magazine, Vol. 1, Issue 2
text:
Kasahara might be better-known today to most U.S. fans as an anime seiyuu (voice actor); she played Fuu in Magic Knights Rayearth and Misuki's mother, Hazuki, in Full Moon wo Sagashite.
ref:
2014, p. 189
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A voice actor in a native-language version anime, a video game, a radio broadcast or an advertisement in Japan.
senses_topics:
|
8742 | word:
seiyuu
word_type:
verb
expansion:
seiyuu (third-person singular simple present seiyuus, present participle seiyuuing, simple past and past participle seiyuued)
forms:
form:
seiyuus
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
seiyuuing
tags:
participle
present
form:
seiyuued
tags:
participle
past
form:
seiyuued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
seiyuu
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 声優 (seiyū), from Middle Chinese 聲 (*ɕiɛ̝ŋ, “sound, voice”) + 優 (*ʔɨu, “actor”).
senses_examples:
text:
me, i just want to know all anime that ogata has seiyuued in and who she was the voice actress for.
ref:
1996 June 9, kristyn lier, “Megumi Ogata Roles”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Tomokazu Seki also appears in his theater company "Hero-Hero-Q"'s stage plays when he's not seiyuu-ing.
ref:
2001 July 22, sumire, “Re: Seiyuu as Live Actors.”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
See below, in which she cosplays as Char Aznable and the character she seiyuu'd […]
ref:
2004 May 4, Neo-Era, “Yumiko Shaku Zaku”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take on a role as a voice actor in a Japanese production, or perform a certain character in such a production.
senses_topics:
|
8743 | word:
back
word_type:
adj
expansion:
back (not generally comparable, comparative more back, superlative most back)
forms:
form:
more back
tags:
comparative
form:
most back
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
back
etymology_text:
From Middle English bak, from Old English bæc, from Proto-West Germanic *bak, from Proto-Germanic *baką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to bend”). The adverb represents an aphetic form of aback.
Compare Middle Low German bak (“back”), from Old Saxon bak, and West Frisian bekling (“chair back”), Old High German bah, Swedish and Norwegian bak. Cognate with German Bache (“sow [adult female hog]”).
senses_examples:
text:
Go in the back door of the house.
type:
example
text:
He was on vacation, but now he’s back.
type:
example
text:
The office fell into chaos when you left, but now order is back.
type:
example
text:
I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine.
type:
example
text:
They took a back road.
type:
example
text:
He lives out in the back country.
type:
example
text:
They still owe three months’ back rent.
type:
example
text:
Several of the former Hotel York workers have filed with the California Labor Division to collect what they feel is owed them in the way of back overtime.
ref:
1980 December 20, David Lamble, “Workers, Owners Battle It Out At SF Gay Hotel”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 22, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
back action
type:
example
text:
The vowel of lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At or near the rear.
Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
Not current.
Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
In arrears; overdue.
Moving or operating backward.
Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences |
8744 | word:
back
word_type:
adv
expansion:
back (comparative further back, superlative furthest back)
forms:
form:
further back
tags:
comparative
form:
furthest back
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
back
etymology_text:
From Middle English bak, from Old English bæc, from Proto-West Germanic *bak, from Proto-Germanic *baką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to bend”). The adverb represents an aphetic form of aback.
Compare Middle Low German bak (“back”), from Old Saxon bak, and West Frisian bekling (“chair back”), Old High German bah, Swedish and Norwegian bak. Cognate with German Bache (“sow [adult female hog]”).
senses_examples:
text:
He gave back the money.
type:
example
text:
I left my mobile phone back at the hotel. I’ll have to go back and get it.
type:
example
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
Someone pushed me in the chest and I fell back.
type:
example
text:
The grandfather clock toppled back and crashed to the ground.
type:
example
text:
Her arm was bent back at an odd angle.
type:
example
text:
Wind the film back a few frames.
type:
example
text:
Don’t forget to put the clocks back by one hour tonight!
type:
example
text:
This mishap has set the project back considerably.
type:
example
text:
These records go back years.
type:
example
text:
He built a time machine and travelled back to 1800.
type:
example
text:
Think back to how you felt last year.
type:
example
text:
Everything was simpler back in the old days.
type:
example
text:
Keep back! It could explode at any moment!
type:
example
text:
Sit all the way back in your chair.
type:
example
text:
Step back from the curb.
type:
example
text:
This tree is dying back.
type:
example
text:
Clear back all this vegetation.
type:
example
text:
Draw back the curtains and let in some light.
type:
example
text:
Fear held him back.
type:
example
text:
If you hurt me, I’ll hurt you back.
type:
example
text:
The light bounces back off the mirror.
type:
example
text:
I was at Park Safari Africa in Canada on the Canadian border. This was years ago outside of Plattsburgh, New York. And I had a new car at the time, and I was driving through, going through the monkey area. And they said 'beware of the monkeys.' So about ten of them circled my car. And this one special one, like he was the leader of the pack, jumped up on the hood and came right up to the windshield and looked in. So I was like making faces at him. [garbled] 'don't do that!' And believe it or not, he made like a face back. He jumped off the car. He took his fingernails and he peeled all the chrome on both sides of my car off. Picked it up, jumped on the hood, dropped it and left- looked at me and left.
ref:
2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Pat, 34:52 from the start, in Penn Radio
type:
quotation
text:
We met many years back.
type:
example
text:
I last saw him a day or two back.
type:
example
text:
Our road was chiefly through woods, and part of it lay through the Hurricane-track, that is where a strong wind, some years back, opened a passage through the woods for a mile in breadth...
ref:
1822, John Woods, Two Years' Residence in the Settlement on the English Prairie, in the Illinois Country, United States, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
The meeting has been moved back an hour. It was at 3 o’clock; now it's at 4 o’clock.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To or in a previous condition or place.
In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
Towards, into or in the past.
Away from someone or something; at a distance.
Away from the front or from an edge.
So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
In a manner that impedes.
In a reciprocal manner; in return.
Earlier, ago.
To a later point in time. See also put back.
senses_topics:
|
8745 | word:
back
word_type:
noun
expansion:
back (plural backs)
forms:
form:
backs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
back
etymology_text:
From Middle English bak, from Old English bæc, from Proto-West Germanic *bak, from Proto-Germanic *baką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to bend”). The adverb represents an aphetic form of aback.
Compare Middle Low German bak (“back”), from Old Saxon bak, and West Frisian bekling (“chair back”), Old High German bah, Swedish and Norwegian bak. Cognate with German Bache (“sow [adult female hog]”).
senses_examples:
text:
I hurt my back lifting those crates.
type:
example
text:
Take the average black man and ask him that.
She gotta pack much back.
ref:
1992, “Baby Got Back”, Sir Mix-A-Lot (lyrics)
type:
quotation
text:
He got his hand on her behind and caressed her firm, ample flesh.[…]“You got some back on you, girl.”
ref:
2002, George Pelecanos, Right as Rain: A Novel, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
I still need to finish the back of your dress.
type:
example
text:
Can you fix the back of this chair?
type:
example
text:
Do thou but think / What ’tis to cram a maw or clothe a back / From such a filthy vice
ref:
1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
type:
quotation
text:
Could you please scratch my back?
type:
example
text:
The titles are printed on the backs of the books.
type:
example
text:
Convenience and custom have familiarised us to the printed page being a little higher than the middle of the leaf, and to its having a little more margin at the fore edge than in the back.
ref:
1841, William Savage, A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, Ayer Publishing, published 1965, page 472
type:
quotation
text:
Tap it with the back of your knife.
type:
example
text:
Turn the book over and look at the back.
type:
example
text:
I hung the clothes on the back of the door.
type:
example
text:
We’ll meet out in the back of the library.
type:
example
text:
The car was near the back of the train.
type:
example
text:
The backs were lined up in an I formation.
type:
example
text:
[…]Rovers were also aided by some poor defending from West Brom, whose lapses at the back undid their excellent work on the ball and condemned Roberto di Matteo's Baggies side to a third straight defeat.
ref:
2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1-3 Blackburn”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
He sat in the back of the room.
type:
example
text:
The small boat raced over the backs of the waves.
type:
example
text:
The ship’s back broke in the pounding surf.
type:
example
text:
The stope is kept full of broken ore, sufficient only being drawn to leave a working space between the floor of broken ore and the back of the stope.
ref:
1911, Robert Bruce Brinsmade, Mining Without Timber, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
Put some back into it!
type:
example
text:
Could I get a martini with a water back?
type:
example
text:
[…]as delivered by a tanner the average weight of a back and two strips would be about 42 pounds[…].
ref:
1848, Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Maine Reports, volume 6, page 397
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
The spine and associated tissues.
The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
Large and attractive buttocks.
The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
That which is farthest away from the front.
The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
The edge of a book which is bound.
That which is farthest away from the front.
The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
The inside margin of a page.
That which is farthest away from the front.
The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
That which is farthest away from the front.
The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
That which is farthest away from the front.
The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
That which is farthest away from the front.
Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
That which is farthest away from the front.
The part of something that goes last.
That which is farthest away from the front.
In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
That which is farthest away from the front.
The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
A support or resource in reserve.
The keel and keelson of a ship.
The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
Effort, usually physical.
A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
Clipping of backstroke.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport
business
mining
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming |
8746 | word:
back
word_type:
verb
expansion:
back (third-person singular simple present backs, present participle backing, simple past and past participle backed)
forms:
form:
backs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
backing
tags:
participle
present
form:
backed
tags:
participle
past
form:
backed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
back
etymology_text:
From Middle English bak, from Old English bæc, from Proto-West Germanic *bak, from Proto-Germanic *baką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to bend”). The adverb represents an aphetic form of aback.
Compare Middle Low German bak (“back”), from Old Saxon bak, and West Frisian bekling (“chair back”), Old High German bah, Swedish and Norwegian bak. Cognate with German Bache (“sow [adult female hog]”).
senses_examples:
text:
The train backed into the station.
type:
example
text:
The horse refuses to back.
type:
example
text:
I back you all the way.
type:
example
text:
Which horse are you backing in this race?
type:
example
text:
And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes
ref:
2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee backed the Taiwan Policy Act of 2022 by 17-5, despite concerns about the bill in U.S. President Joe Biden's administration and anger about the measure from Beijing.
ref:
2022 September 15, “China lodges complaint as U.S. Senate panel advances Taiwan bill”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-09-15, Asia Pacific
type:
quotation
text:
to back oxen
type:
example
text:
The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet.
type:
example
text:
The soil seems to be very good; the creek runs through the reserve, and has a dam thrown across it, which backs the water for a very considerable distance, and enables them to irrigate a portion of their cultivation block.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 279
type:
quotation
text:
The horse was the grey stallion he aye rode, the very beast he had ridden for many a wager with the wild lads of the Cross Keys. No man but himself durst back it, and it had lamed many a hostler lad and broke two necks in its day.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
to back books
type:
example
text:
the chalk cliffs which back the beach
ref:
1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, Physiography: An Introduction to the Study of Nature
type:
quotation
text:
So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.
ref:
1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752
type:
quotation
text:
to back a letter; to back a note or legal document
type:
example
text:
to back the oars
type:
example
text:
Sticks and Stones may break my bones
Not when I back this botty
ref:
2017 August 4, “Sticks and Stones”performed by Zone 2 (Kwengface x Trizzac x PS)
type:
quotation
text:
When I back this blade, wallahi
The hearts get beat like they just saw jihadi
ref:
2020 August 13, TwoLzz (lyrics and music), “TwentyTwo”, 1:14–1:18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To go in the reverse direction.
To support.
To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
To push or force backwards.
To get upon the back of; to mount.
To place or seat upon the back.
To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
To row backward with (oars).
To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
To carry an infant on one’s back.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
law
|
8747 | word:
back
word_type:
noun
expansion:
back (plural backs)
forms:
form:
backs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
back
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French bac.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
A ferryboat.
senses_topics:
|
8748 | word:
humanoid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
humanoid (comparative more humanoid, superlative most humanoid)
forms:
form:
more humanoid
tags:
comparative
form:
most humanoid
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
humanoid
etymology_text:
From human + -oid.
senses_examples:
text:
That's how I came to be down there, Captain, pursuing the devil's own spawn, a thing I've chased across the universe. He's humanoid outside, but inside, he's a hideous, murdering monster. I'll get him, Captain. I swear it.
ref:
1967, Star Trek, The Alternative Factor, season 1, episode 27, Robert Brown (actor)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the appearance or characteristics of a human; being anthropomorphic under some criteria (physical, mental, genetical, ethological, ethical etc.).
senses_topics:
|
8749 | word:
humanoid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
humanoid (plural humanoids)
forms:
form:
humanoids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
humanoid
etymology_text:
From human + -oid.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A being having the appearance or characteristics of a human.
senses_topics:
|
8750 | word:
investigate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
investigate (third-person singular simple present investigates, present participle investigating, simple past and past participle investigated)
forms:
form:
investigates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
investigating
tags:
participle
present
form:
investigated
tags:
participle
past
form:
investigated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Recorded since circa 1510, a back-formation from investigation, from Latin investīgātiō (“a searching into”), from investīgātus, the past participle of investigare, equivalent to in- + vestigate. Displaced native Old English undersēċan (literally “to search under or between”).
senses_examples:
text:
to investigate the causes of natural phenomena
type:
example
text:
to investigate an unsolved murder
type:
example
text:
"Why don't you investigate?" he demanded. And investigate I did.
ref:
1903, Jack London, The Shadow and the Flash
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information.
To examine, look into, or scrutinize in order to discover something hidden or secret.
To conduct an inquiry or examination.
senses_topics:
|
8751 | word:
batch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
batch (plural batches)
forms:
form:
batches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.
senses_examples:
text:
We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.
type:
example
text:
We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom.
type:
example
text:
c. 1710-1720, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle to Lord Hervey on the King's Birthday
a new batch of Lords
text:
The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.
type:
example
text:
She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.
type:
example
text:
Except the baker doe his part also in the batch.
ref:
1551, T. Wilson, Logike 42 b
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
A set of data to be processed at one time.
A bread roll.
A graduating class; school class.
The process of baking.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
8752 | word:
batch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
batch (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)
forms:
form:
batches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
batching
tags:
participle
present
form:
batched
tags:
participle
past
form:
batched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.
senses_examples:
text:
The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.
type:
example
text:
The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To aggregate things together into a batch.
To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
8753 | word:
batch
word_type:
adj
expansion:
batch (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.
senses_examples:
text:
The plant had two batch assembly lines for packaging, as well as a continuous feed production line.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
senses_topics:
|
8754 | word:
batch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
batch (plural batches)
forms:
form:
batches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English bache, bæcche, from Old English bæċ, beċe (“brook, stream”). Doublet of beck. More at beach.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bank; a sandbank.
A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
senses_topics:
|
8755 | word:
batch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
batch (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)
forms:
form:
batches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
batching
tags:
participle
present
form:
batched
tags:
participle
past
form:
batched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of bachelor (“unmarried adult male”).
senses_examples:
text:
I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.
senses_topics:
|
8756 | word:
one hundred
word_type:
num
expansion:
one hundred
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Univerbation of one + hundred.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The number 100.
senses_topics:
|
8757 | word:
screwdriver
word_type:
noun
expansion:
screwdriver (plural screwdrivers)
forms:
form:
screwdrivers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
screwdriver
etymology_text:
Compound of screw + driver.
senses_examples:
text:
Celestial asked for a screwdriver and the bartender poured a good four fingers of Smirnoff into a flimsy cup before opening a can of juice.
ref:
2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 154
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hand tool or power tool which engages with the head of a screw and allows torque to be applied to turn the screw, thus driving it in or loosening it.
A cocktail made of vodka and orange juice.
senses_topics:
|
8758 | word:
Africa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Africa (countable and uncountable, plural Africas)
forms:
form:
Africas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Afri
Africa
etymology_text:
From Middle English Affrike, from Old French Affrique, Affrike, from Latin Āfrica, from Āfrī, singular Āfer (inhabitant of the country of Carthage), in turn either from:
* The Punic or Phoenician word 𐤏𐤐𐤓 (ʿpr /ʿafar/, “dust”), which has cognates in other Semitic languages.
* The Berber word ifri (“cave”), plural ifran, in reference to cave dwellers of Tunisia (see Tataouine).
Folk etymologies include:
* Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + φρίκη f (phríkē), meaning "without cold"
* Latin aprica (“sunny”).
senses_examples:
text:
the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa
text:
The Sahara stood as an important marker between the Maghreb and Africa, not only in modern times but in times immemorial.
ref:
2021 June 10, Abdelmajid Hannoum, The Invention of the Maghreb: Between Africa and the Middle East, Cambridge University Press, page 205
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica.
Sub-Saharan Africa, contrasted with the Maghreb.
A province of the Roman Empire containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya.
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
8759 | word:
Africa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
|
8760 | word:
wet
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wet (comparative wetter, superlative wettest)
forms:
form:
wetter
tags:
comparative
form:
wettest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wet (“wet, moistened”), wett, wette, past participle of Middle English weten (“to wet”), from Old English wǣtan (“to wet, moisten, water”), from Proto-Germanic *wētijaną (“to wet, make wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water, wet”) (also the source of water).
Cognate with Scots weit, wete (“to wet”), Saterland Frisian wäitje (“to wet; drench”), Icelandic væta (“to wet”). Compare also Middle English weet (“wet”), from Old English wǣt (“wet, moist, rainy”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāt, from Proto-Germanic *wētaz (“wet, moist”), related to Scots weit, weet, wat (“wet”), North Frisian wiat, weet, wäit (“wet”), Saterland Frisian wäit (“wet”), West Frisian wiet (“wet”), Middle Dutch wet (“wet, damp, watery”), Swedish and Norwegian våt (“wet”), Danish våd (“wet”), Faroese vátur (“wet”), Icelandic votur (“wet”).
senses_examples:
text:
Water is wet.
type:
example
text:
I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.
type:
example
text:
The baby is wet and needs its nappy changed.
type:
example
text:
A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.
ref:
2000, Robert Allen Palmatier, Food: a dictionary of literal and nonliteral terms, page 372
text:
The new item is its first "wet," or sauce-topped, burrito.
ref:
2005, Restaurant business, Volume 104, Issues 1-10
text:
But I'm getting the wet burrito.” Ignacio looked down at some sort of a tomato sauce–covered tortilla tube.
ref:
2011, J. Gabriel Gates, Charlene Keel, Dark Territory, page 13
text:
This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.
type:
example
text:
It’s going to be wet tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 32,
Summer drouth, or singed aire
Never scorch thy tresses faire,
Nor wet Octobers torrent flood
Thy molten crystall fill with mudde,
text:
February 2020 was officially the wettest February on record for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the second wettest (behind 1990) for Scotland.
ref:
2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “NR beats floods to secure tracks to Drax”, in Rail, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
This fighter jet's engine is rated for a maximum wet thrust of 450 kilonewtons, more than twice its max dry thrust, but the afterburner eats up a huge amount of fuel.
type:
example
text:
That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday.
type:
example
text:
He got me all wet.
type:
example
text:
"Wet! What currency that bit of slang has—and what awful power. It took me a long time to find out what the word meant, but after long research I think that I know. A man is wet if he isn't a 'regular guy'; he is wet if he isn't 'smooth'; he is wet if he has intellectual interests and lets the mob discover them; and, strangely enough, he is wet by the same token if he is utterly stupid. He is wet if he doesn't show at least a tendency to dissipate, but he isn't wet if he dissipates to excess. A man will be branded as wet for any of these reasons, and once he is so branded, he might as well leave college … "
ref:
1924, Percy Marks, chapter XVII, in The Plastic Age
type:
quotation
text:
I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stopped this general fight of self-recrimination and wetness.
ref:
2020, Boris Johnson quoted in "Proms row: Johnson calls for end to 'cringing embarrassment' over UK history," by Jim Waterson, The Guardian, Aug. 25, 2020
text:
Don’t be so wet.
type:
example
text:
The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.
ref:
1995, Richard F. Hamm, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment
type:
quotation
text:
c. 1694, Matthew Prior, “Celia to Damon”
[…] When my lost Lover the tall Ship ascends, / With Musick gay, and wet with Iovial Friends […]
text:
the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed
type:
example
text:
a wet affair; a wet job; wet stuff
text:
1811. John Adams, Letter to the Boston Patriot, §25. Reprinted in 1856. Charles Francis Adams (ed.), The Life of John Adams, Second President of The United States. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 661.
The Catholics thought him almost a Catholic. The Church of England claimed him as one of them. The Presbyterians thought him half a Presbyterian, and the Friends believed him a wet Quaker. The dissenting clergymen in England and America were among the most distinguished asserters and propagators of his renown. Indeed, all sects considered him, and I believe justly, a friend to unlimited toleration in matters of religion.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
Of weather or a time period: rainy.
Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
Permitting alcoholic beverages.
Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
Involving assassination or "wet work".
Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
biology
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
card-games
poker
|
8761 | word:
wet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wet (countable and uncountable, plural wets)
forms:
form:
wets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wet (“wet, moistened”), wett, wette, past participle of Middle English weten (“to wet”), from Old English wǣtan (“to wet, moisten, water”), from Proto-Germanic *wētijaną (“to wet, make wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water, wet”) (also the source of water).
Cognate with Scots weit, wete (“to wet”), Saterland Frisian wäitje (“to wet; drench”), Icelandic væta (“to wet”). Compare also Middle English weet (“wet”), from Old English wǣt (“wet, moist, rainy”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāt, from Proto-Germanic *wētaz (“wet, moist”), related to Scots weit, weet, wat (“wet”), North Frisian wiat, weet, wäit (“wet”), Saterland Frisian wäit (“wet”), West Frisian wiet (“wet”), Middle Dutch wet (“wet, damp, watery”), Swedish and Norwegian våt (“wet”), Danish våd (“wet”), Faroese vátur (“wet”), Icelandic votur (“wet”).
senses_examples:
text:
Don't go out in the wet.
type:
example
text:
They'll be in the camp […] before the Wet's out, mark my words.
ref:
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 186–7
type:
quotation
text:
Once the wet kicks in up north, you can be stranded for months waiting for swollen rivers to subside to a crossable depth[.]
ref:
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 289
type:
quotation
text:
He said he wanted to beat the clouds gathering, before the Wet had properly settled itself over the plains again.
ref:
2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 365
type:
quotation
text:
2015, David Andrew, The Complete Guide to Finding the Mammals of Australia, Csiro Publishing, Appendix B, page 380 https://books.google.ca/books?id=XBnyCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Northern Australia is tropical and subject to a prolonged wet season (often called simply 'the Wet') that may last from December to April […] . The Wet features high humidity, heavy rain, flooding that can cut off towns and roads for days on end, and, in most years, violent cyclones that cause high seas, widespread damage and sometimes loss of life.
text:
‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet.’
ref:
1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
ref:
c. 1952-1996, Noah S. Sweat, quoted in 1996
text:
Wets, designed to channel water away from underneath the tyres, maximise grip and minimise the chance of aquaplaning.
ref:
2004, Jonathan Noble, Mark Hughes, Formula One Racing For Dummies, page 303
type:
quotation
text:
Above all, he [Nigel Molesworth] is his own man, resolutely committed to a view of life that divides his fellow pupils into 'sissies', 'wets', 'swots' and 'old lags'.
ref:
1984, British Book News, page 324
type:
quotation
text:
Rimmer had never been terribly good at sports. In fact, he'd been one of the group of 'wets, weirdos and fatties' who stood by the touchline at ball games, worrying about their chapped legs, and fleeing whenever the ball came near them.
ref:
1990, Grant Naylor, Better Than Life
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Liquid or moisture.
Rainy weather.
Rainy season. (often capitalized)
A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
An alcoholic drink.
One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
A tyre for use in wet weather.
A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
senses_topics:
government
politics
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
|
8762 | word:
wet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wet (third-person singular simple present wets, present participle wetting, simple past and past participle wet or wetted)
forms:
form:
wets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wetting
tags:
participle
present
form:
wet
tags:
participle
past
form:
wet
tags:
past
form:
wetted
tags:
participle
past
form:
wetted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wet (“wet, moistened”), wett, wette, past participle of Middle English weten (“to wet”), from Old English wǣtan (“to wet, moisten, water”), from Proto-Germanic *wētijaną (“to wet, make wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water, wet”) (also the source of water).
Cognate with Scots weit, wete (“to wet”), Saterland Frisian wäitje (“to wet; drench”), Icelandic væta (“to wet”). Compare also Middle English weet (“wet”), from Old English wǣt (“wet, moist, rainy”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāt, from Proto-Germanic *wētaz (“wet, moist”), related to Scots weit, weet, wat (“wet”), North Frisian wiat, weet, wäit (“wet”), Saterland Frisian wäit (“wet”), West Frisian wiet (“wet”), Middle Dutch wet (“wet, damp, watery”), Swedish and Norwegian våt (“wet”), Danish våd (“wet”), Faroese vátur (“wet”), Icelandic votur (“wet”).
senses_examples:
text:
There is scanty room for a railway, and in many places the rails are wetted by the spray from the Illecillewaet, which is the Indian word for a raging torrent.
ref:
1941 December, G. H. Soole, “The Mountain Section of the C.P.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 530
type:
quotation
text:
'Mr Kelly's Car Wash' was a toy made by Remco where a toy car could be automatically wetted, scrubbed and dried.
ref:
1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
I try to show emotion, but my eyes won't seem to wet
ref:
2008, “Be Nice To Me”, in I Hate My Friends, performed by The Front Bottoms
type:
quotation
text:
Johnny wets the bed several times a week.
type:
example
text:
She was laughing so hard she wet her pants.
type:
example
text:
to wet the baby’s head
type:
example
text:
[He] invited some officers and other gentlemen to dine with him at the Dolphin tavern in Tower street, June 17, 1706, in order to wet his commission […]
ref:
1826, Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings
type:
quotation
text:
I'm coming to get ya, I'm coming to get ya / Spitting out lyrics, homie, I'll wet ya
ref:
1992 May 5, House of Pain (lyrics and music), “Jump Around” (track 2), in House of Pain
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover or impregnate with liquid.
To make or become wet.
To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
Misspelling of whet.
To kill or seriously injure.
senses_topics:
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8763 | word:
de facto
word_type:
adv
expansion:
de facto (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
de facto
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Latin dē factō (literally “according to fact”), from dē (“according to”) + ablative of factum (“fact, deed, act”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status.
senses_topics:
|
8764 | word:
de facto
word_type:
adj
expansion:
de facto (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
de facto
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Latin dē factō (literally “according to fact”), from dē (“according to”) + ablative of factum (“fact, deed, act”).
senses_examples:
text:
Although the United States currently has no official language, it is largely monolingual with English being the de facto national language.
type:
example
text:
While it is largely agreed that Ukraine holds de jure sovereignty on Crimea, Russia exercises de facto administration on the peninsula.
type:
example
text:
To avoid conflicts (and associated delays and distractions) with other ministries' minions in Vladivostok, Chief Engineer Iugovich moved his headquarters to Harbin in 1898. Within fifteen years, a transportation hub with more than 100,000 inhabitants had sprung up. Its size and importance were commensurate with its de facto role as the provincial capital of Russian Manchuria.
ref:
1995, David Wolff, “Russia Finds Its Limits: Crossing Borders into Manchuria”, in Stephen Kotkin, David Wolff, editors, Rediscovering Russia in Asia : Siberia and the Russian Far East, M.E. Sharpe, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
Taiwan held a ceremony on Thursday to commission the first squadron of its most advanced F-16 fighter, a US-made jet that will strengthen the island's defences against threats by China.
ref:
2021 November 18, “Taiwan deploys first advanced F-16V fighter squadron”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2021-11-18
type:
quotation
roman:
President Tsai Ing-wen oversaw the ceremony at an air base in the southern city of Chiayi alongside Sandra Oudkirk, Washington's de facto ambassador to Taiwan.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In fact or in practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status. (Often opposed to de jure.)
senses_topics:
|
8765 | word:
de facto
word_type:
noun
expansion:
de facto (plural de factos)
forms:
form:
de factos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
de facto
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Latin dē factō (literally “according to fact”), from dē (“according to”) + ablative of factum (“fact, deed, act”).
senses_examples:
text:
One of the vendors was simple and straight; he said that it was his policy not to rent a house to de factos.
ref:
1984, Sotirios Sarantakos, Living Together in Australia, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
An incidental sideline to this little farce, I suppose we can call it, is that the Opposition, in this policy, seems to have reversed its so often stated policy in this place on de factos.
ref:
1984, Australian Senate, Senate Weekly Hansard, volume 105, page 2213
type:
quotation
text:
2008, David de Vaus, Chapter 15: Australian Families: Social and Demographic Patterns, in Charles B. Hennon, Stephan M. Wilson (editors), Families in a Global Context, 2011, page 383,
The parental rights and responsibilities of de factos are the same as for legally married parents but, because property and maintenance of de factos is a state responsibility, there are differences between married and de factos in some states.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A legally undeclared spouse; a partner in a spousal relationship which is not officially declared as a marriage, comparable to a common law husband or wife.
senses_topics:
|
8766 | word:
death
word_type:
noun
expansion:
death (countable and uncountable, plural deaths)
forms:
form:
deaths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Death (disambiguation)
death
etymology_text:
From Middle English deeth, from Old English dēaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz (compare West Frisian dead, Dutch dood, German Tod, Swedish död, Norwegian død), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰówtus. More at die.
senses_examples:
text:
The death of my grandfather saddened the whole family.
type:
example
text:
But foraſmuch as this [the faintneſs of the Heart] is a very bad and heavy diſtemper, and a fore-runner of death, therefore 'tis called a timely death.
ref:
1680, T. K., The Kitchin-Phyſician; Or, a Guide for Good-Housewives in Maintaining Their Families in Health. […], To cure the faintneſs of the Heart, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
"‘Death,’" quoted Warwick, with whose mood the undertaker's remarks were in tune, "‘is the penalty that all must pay for the crime of living.’"
ref:
1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars
type:
quotation
text:
Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, […]
ref:
2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
The serial killer was sentenced to death.
type:
example
text:
Thirty years after Gao Chengyong embarked on a succession of 11 rape-murders of women in northwest China, a court sentenced him to death on Friday, following an investigation that involved sifting through 230,000 fingerprints.
ref:
2018 March 30, Chris Buckley, “‘Vicious’ Killer of 11 Women Gets Death Penalty in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-03-31, Asia Pacific
type:
quotation
text:
When death walked in, a chill spread through the room.
type:
example
text:
O boy! running man is out of death ... Anyway, they say she comes on a pale horse
ref:
1974, Anthony Banks, Michael Rutherford, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Steve Hackett (lyrics and music), “Anyway”, in The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, performed by Genesis
type:
quotation
text:
England scored a goal at the death to even the score at one all.
type:
example
text:
He may even find himself being blamed if the project dies a quick and horrible death at the box office or is unceremoniously axed by the network.
ref:
1983, Robert R. Faulkner, Music on Demand, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
This bake sale is going to be the death of me!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
Execution (in the judicial sense).
The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
The collapse or end of something.
The collapse or end of something.
A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
Spiritual lifelessness.
senses_topics:
|
8767 | word:
freshwater
word_type:
adj
expansion:
freshwater (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English freche watur, fresshe water; equivalent to fresh + water.
senses_examples:
text:
The trout is a freshwater fish.
type:
example
text:
Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume.
type:
example
text:
a freshwater sailor
type:
example
text:
2012, John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, Princeton University Press (expanded paperback ed., 1st ed. from 2010), →ISBN, page 86.
Meanwhile, the freshwater side of the dispute rapidly reverted to arguments from the nineteenth century, which had been debunked by Keynes and Irving Fisher.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Living in fresh water.
Consisting of fresh water.
Unskilled as a seaman.
neoclassical, in reference to U.S. macroeconomics and economics departments near the Great Lakes.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
economics
sciences |
8768 | word:
freshwater
word_type:
noun
expansion:
freshwater (countable and uncountable, plural freshwaters)
forms:
form:
freshwaters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
freshwater
etymology_text:
From Middle English freche watur, fresshe water; equivalent to fresh + water.
senses_examples:
text:
Fossils with low Sr/Ca ratios indicating origin in a freshwater of a type which has a low Sr/Ca ratio: […]
ref:
1953, Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, volumes 3-4, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
Smith (1958) found that N. limnicola in Lake Merced, virtually a freshwater, had no paragnaths or at the most one on section I against the "normal" 1–2.
ref:
1967, Bent J. Muus, The Fauna of Danish Estuaries and Lagoons, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
The chances of long-term preservation of fossils in freshwaters are minimal, for freshwaters are readily disturbed and destroyed by drought on the land masses.
ref:
2013, Brian R. Moss, Ecology of Fresh Waters: A View for the Twenty-First Century
type:
quotation
text:
Freshwaters are portrayed in many artforms, including books such as Kenneth Grahame's childrens' story Wind in the Willows.
ref:
2015, Sophie Lake, Durwyn Liley, Robert Still, Britain's Habitats
type:
quotation
text:
Schematic diagram of the viscosity effect during the injection of freshwater.
ref:
1978, Roger M. Waller, John T. Turk, Robert J. Dingman, “Potential effects of deep-well waste disposal in western New York”, in Geological Survey Professional Paper, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
Above 200m, high-salinity water was being carried southward out of the Arabian Sea. This implies that most of the freshwater was imported into the Arabian Sea in the upper layer.
ref:
2002, Friedrich A. Schott, Physical Oceanography of the Indian Ocean During WOCE, page 1246
type:
quotation
text:
Actual field data of Cl distribution in soil after irrigation with TWW and freshwater were obtained in a field experiment in Israel (Feigin et al., 2005; Fine et al. 2007).
ref:
2011, Guy Levy, P. Fine, A. Bar-Tal, Treated Wastewater in Agriculture
type:
quotation
text:
Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn.
ref:
2014 April 20, Richard Conniff, “An evolutionary family drama”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A body of fresh water
Alternative spelling of fresh water
senses_topics:
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8769 | word:
sand
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sand (usually uncountable, plural sands)
forms:
form:
sands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sand, from Old English sand, from Proto-West Germanic *samd, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂dʰos, from *sem- (“to pour”).
See also West Frisian sân, Dutch zand, German Sand, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sand, Latin sabulum, Ancient Greek ἄμαθος (ámathos), English dialectal samel (“sand bottom”), Old Irish do·essim (“to pour out”), Latin sentina (“bilge water”), Lithuanian sémti (“to scoop”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to gather”), ἄμη (ámē, “water bucket”).
senses_examples:
text:
One sand was that used in cement testing with white well rounded smooth grains, passing through a 20-mesh sieve and retained on a 30-mesh sieve. The other was ordinary brown building sand, passing 40-mesh and retained on 60-mesh.
ref:
1922, Harvey Whipple, Concrete, volumes 20-21, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
The Canadian tar sands are a promising source of oil.
type:
example
text:
From east and south the danger was to be expected. Not from the uninhabited northern desert, not from the desolate sands of the unknown west, would it come.
ref:
1892, James Yoxall, chapter 14, in The Lonely Pyramid
type:
quotation
text:
“We are addicted to sand but don’t know it because we don’t buy it as individuals,” says Aurora Torres, […]
ref:
2018, Neil Tweedie, “Is the world running out of sand? The truth behind stolen beaches and dredged islands”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
China’s hunger for sand is insatiable, its biggest dredging site at Lake Poyang produces 989,000 tonnes per day.
ref:
2018, Neil Tweedie, “Is the world running out of sand? The truth behind stolen beaches and dredged islands”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.
ref:
1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
type:
quotation
text:
He said, “I admire your sand but I believe you will find I am not liable for such claims. Let me say too that your valuation of the horse is high by about two hundred dollars.”
ref:
1968, Charles Portis, True Grit
type:
quotation
text:
There was youngsters all around him, and he stood there lookin’ at me and never turned a hair. He had sand, that Morrell.
ref:
1979, Louis L'Amour, Bendigo Shafter, →OL
type:
quotation
text:
sand:
text:
Cf. sands of time (idiom)
text:
Cf. Sandman, a mythical character in European folklore who puts people to sleep and encourages and inspires beautiful dreams by sprinkling magical sand onto their eyes.
text:
Cf. “Sand in My Eyes”, in TV Tropes, 2023 March 1 (last accessed): “Alternative Title(s): Something In My Eye”
text:
Sleep in your eyes, sleep crust, sand, eye gunk—whatever you call it, we all get it—that crusty stuff in the corners of your eyes when you wake up in the morning. "The medical term is 'rheum,' though you rarely hear it used," […]
ref:
2018 January 3, Moran Eye Center, “Is That Morning 'Eye Gunk' Normal?”, in HealthFeed Blog, University of Utah Hospital, archived from the original on 2020-01-02
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
A specific grade, type, or composition of sand.
Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
A beach or other mass of sand.
Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
Personal courage.
A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
A single grain of sand.
A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
"sand in [someone's] eyes" (idiom)
Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
An excuse for tears.
Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
|
8770 | word:
sand
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sand
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sand, from Old English sand, from Proto-West Germanic *samd, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂dʰos, from *sem- (“to pour”).
See also West Frisian sân, Dutch zand, German Sand, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sand, Latin sabulum, Ancient Greek ἄμαθος (ámathos), English dialectal samel (“sand bottom”), Old Irish do·essim (“to pour out”), Latin sentina (“bilge water”), Lithuanian sémti (“to scoop”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to gather”), ἄμη (ámē, “water bucket”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
senses_topics:
|
8771 | word:
sand
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sand (third-person singular simple present sands, present participle sanding, simple past and past participle sanded)
forms:
form:
sands
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sanding
tags:
participle
present
form:
sanded
tags:
participle
past
form:
sanded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sanden, from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
Sudden stopping, which could be effected easily by sanding the rails and reversing the driving-gear, was dangerous, because the train might telescope and overwhelm the engine.
ref:
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
The golden domes of churches and the freshly sanded paths in the town gardens were a glaring yellow.
ref:
1958, Boris Pasternak, chapter 4, in Max Hayward, Manya Harari, transl., Doctor Zhivago, New York: Pantheon, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
The officer wrote until he had finished, read over to himself what he had written, sanded it, and handed it to Defarge, with the words "In secret."
ref:
1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
To cover with sand.
To blot ink using sand.
senses_topics:
|
8772 | word:
sand
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sand (plural sands)
forms:
form:
sands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of sand(piper).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sandpiper.
senses_topics:
|
8773 | word:
Governator
word_type:
name
expansion:
Governator
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of governor + terminator. In his acting career, Schwarzenegger played a "Terminator" robot in the Terminator film series.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nickname for Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California.
senses_topics:
|
8774 | word:
continuous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
continuous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:Continuity
etymology_text:
From Latin continuus, from contineō (“hold together”). Displaced native Old English singal.
senses_examples:
text:
a continuous current of electricity
type:
example
text:
a continuous line of railroad
type:
example
text:
The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.
ref:
2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
Without intervening space; continued.
Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.
Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
Expressing an ongoing action or state.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
8775 | word:
impersonal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
impersonal (comparative more impersonal, superlative most impersonal)
forms:
form:
more impersonal
tags:
comparative
form:
most impersonal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French impersonnel, from Latin impersōnālis, from im- (“not”) + persōnālis (“personal”), equivalent to im- + personal.
senses_examples:
text:
The great tragedians of Greece reveal to us their people's exquisite sense of beauty, and their faith in an awful, an almighty, but an impersonal power, called Fate
ref:
1853, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading: A Lecture
type:
quotation
text:
She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps.
type:
example
text:
The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.
Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
8776 | word:
impersonal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
impersonal (plural impersonals)
forms:
form:
impersonals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French impersonnel, from Latin impersōnālis, from im- (“not”) + persōnālis (“personal”), equivalent to im- + personal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An impersonal word or construct.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
8777 | word:
wide
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)
forms:
form:
wider
tags:
comparative
form:
widest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate, divide”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).
Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Danish vid (“wide”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin dīvidō (“separate, sunder”), Latin vītō (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.
senses_examples:
text:
We walked down a wide corridor.
type:
example
text:
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
ref:
2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
The inquiry had a wide remit.
type:
example
text:
That team needs a decent wide player.
type:
example
text:
Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide.
type:
example
text:
I was but two bows wide.
ref:
1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Philip Massinger, The Old Law
type:
quotation
text:
The wide, lifeless expanse.
type:
example
text:
a wide character; a wide stream
text:
But the first visitor to penetrate from the outside world proved to be Sergeant Williams; large and pink and scrubbed-looking; and for a little while Grant forgot about battles long ago and considered wide boys alive today.
ref:
1951, Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a large physical extent from side to side.
Large in scope.
Operating at the side of the playing area.
On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
Vast, great in extent, extensive.
Located some distance away; distant, far.
Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
Sharp-witted.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
8778 | word:
wide
word_type:
adv
expansion:
wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)
forms:
form:
wider
tags:
comparative
form:
widest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate, divide”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).
Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Danish vid (“wide”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin dīvidō (“separate, sunder”), Latin vītō (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.
senses_examples:
text:
He travelled far and wide.
type:
example
text:
He was wide awake.
type:
example
text:
The arrow fell wide of the mark.
type:
example
text:
A few shots were fired but they all went wide.
type:
example
text:
The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.
ref:
2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
extensively
completely
away from or to one side of a given goal
So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
senses_topics:
|
8779 | word:
wide
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wide (plural wides)
forms:
form:
wides
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate, divide”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).
Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Danish vid (“wide”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin dīvidō (“separate, sunder”), Latin vītō (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
8780 | word:
artichoke
word_type:
noun
expansion:
artichoke (plural artichokes)
forms:
form:
artichokes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Diccionario de la lengua española
artichoke
etymology_text:
From Lombard articioch (cf. articiocco), from Occitan artichaut, from Old Spanish alcarchofa, from Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ḵaršūf), from Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf), definite form of خُرْشُوف (ḵuršūf).
senses_examples:
text:
artichoke:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.
A dull green colour, like that of an artichoke.
senses_topics:
|
8781 | word:
settle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
settle (third-person singular simple present settles, present participle settling, simple past and past participle settled)
forms:
form:
settles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
settling
tags:
participle
present
form:
settled
tags:
participle
past
form:
settled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a merger of two verbs:
* Middle English setlen, from Old English setlan (“to settle, seat, put to rest”), from Old English setl (“seat”) (compare Dutch zetelen (“to be established, settle”)) and
* Middle English sahtlen, seihtlen (“to reconcile, calm, subside”), from Old English sahtlian, ġesehtlian (“to reconcile”), from Old English saht, seht (“settlement, agreement, reconciliation, peace”) (see saught, -le).
German siedeln (“to settle”) is related to the former of the two verbs, but is not an immediate cognate of either of them.
senses_examples:
text:
His fears were settled
type:
example
text:
She hopes to settle and questions about the plans.
type:
example
text:
The question of the succession to a throne needs to be settled.
type:
example
text:
to settle a quarrel
type:
example
text:
The coffee was only surface wet and looked worse than it actually was and as he returned to the Reception Desk to settle his account and give back his room key, he was met again by the young man who was still wearing his rucksack.
ref:
2012, Paul Kelly, Willie Blair: A Tale of True Loss and Sadness
type:
quotation
text:
to settle a bill
type:
example
text:
He has settled with his creditors.
type:
example
text:
Of course, certainty is a value in all systems of conflict of laws—including those of the United States. Certainty for litigants decreases litigation and transaction costs and increases the chances that cases will settle.
ref:
2010, Clay H. Kaminsky, “The Rome II Regulation: A Comparative Perspective on Federalizing Choice of Law”, in Tulane Law Review, volume 85, number 1, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
She twisted out from under the claim of his palm to settle her feet on the floor.
ref:
2012, Nancy Gideon, Seeker of Shadows
type:
quotation
text:
Pausing only to settle his cloak and set his Regent's circlet on his hair, he strode to the rail and waited.
ref:
2002, Tom Deitz, Warautumn, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
I poured a charge of powder over the nipple so as not tu miss goin' off if possible. Click! went the match,—up jumped the flock, or tried tu. As they bunched up, Peggy blazed intu 'em, settlin’ how many I didn't know, …
ref:
1894-5, Patterson, Man and Nature (in The Primitive Methodist Magazine)
text:
clear weather settles the roads
type:
example
text:
to settle my affairs
type:
example
text:
to settle her estate
type:
example
text:
With Vardy working tirelessly up front, chasing lost causes and generally making a nuisance of himself, Sevilla were never allowed to settle on a night when the atmosphere was electric inside the King Power Stadium.
ref:
2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The weather settled.
type:
example
text:
Wait until the crowd settles before speaking.
type:
example
text:
The roads settled late in the spring.
type:
example
text:
to settle a minister
type:
example
text:
He sighs with most success that settles well.
ref:
1712, Samuel Garth, Epilogue to Cato, a Tragedy, by Joseph Addison
text:
He is settled in the profession of law at Rochester, New York.
ref:
1825, William Buell Sprague, An Historical Discourse Delivered at West Springfield
type:
quotation
text:
Following his avowed aim to settle in his profession of medicine, Sloane arranged to call on Dr Thomas Sydenham, the foremost physician of his day in London, known as 'the English Hippocrates'.
ref:
1994, Arthur MacGregor, Sir Hans Sloane
type:
quotation
text:
The likely explanation for this is the fact that between the two groups one is now settling in the profession while the older group is preparing to retire and are no longer keen to gain new skills.
ref:
2016, J. K. Ng’eno, M. C. Chesimet, “Differences in Mathematics Teachers' Perceived Preparedness to Demonstrate Competence in Secondary School Mathematics Content by Teacher Characteristics”, in Journal of Education and Practice, volume 7, number 18
type:
quotation
text:
Chyle [...] runs through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense red.
ref:
1735, John Arbuthnot, An essay concerning the nature of aliments
type:
quotation
text:
They settled down at an inn.
type:
example
text:
The hawk settled on a branch.
type:
example
text:
the Saxons who settled in Britain
type:
example
text:
the French first settled Canada
type:
example
text:
the Puritans settled New England
type:
example
text:
Plymouth was settled in 1620.
type:
example
text:
Rome began to settle displaced or disenfranchised citizens, veterans, and allies in colonies beyond Italy.
ref:
2001, Eric Nelson, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Roman Empire
type:
quotation
text:
to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee
type:
example
text:
to settle the sediment out of the water
type:
example
text:
to settle the chips in the potato chip bag by shaking it
type:
example
text:
Sometimes a tub will settle at one corner, causing the rim to slope.
ref:
1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
The chips in the bag of potato chips settled during shipping.
type:
example
text:
wine settles by standing
type:
example
text:
Some mares do not show signs of being in heat even when tried ("teased") regularly with a stallion, but they often can be settled either by natural or artificial service, provided the approximate time of ovulation is determined and they are not suffering from either a diseased or abnormal condition of the reproductive system.
ref:
1926, Farmers' Bulletin, numbers 801-825
type:
quotation
text:
During March, 1926, two more mares were bred to him and on February 14, 1927 one of them foaled a perfectly formed bay stud foal. It is not known whether or not the other mare settled for she was never returned for trial.
ref:
1928, The Journal of Heredity, volume 19, page 415
type:
quotation
text:
This older mare created many, many problems for us in terms of trying to get the mare to settle. She came to us in January, and her record shows fairly consistent heats, but she had numerous problems which will be outlined in Example l0.
ref:
1977, Stud Managers’ Handbook, volume 13, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
Those sperm may still be viable, enabling the stallion to settle mares for a while until he runs out of mature sperm and has no more coming on because of the gap in production while he was sick or injured.
ref:
2010, Heather Smith Thomas, Storey’s Guide to Raising Horses, 2nd edition
type:
quotation
text:
However, even a stallion with low volume, poor-quality semen, if properly managed, can adequately settle mares.
ref:
2012, Cherry Hill, Cherry Hill’s Horsekeeping Almanac
type:
quotation
text:
There are several kinds of hormones available that may help your mare to settle properly in case she is difficult to get in foal.
ref:
2017, Jacob (Jack) Moorman, Living Legend
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To conclude or resolve (something):
To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
To conclude or resolve (something):
To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
To conclude or resolve (something):
To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
To conclude or resolve (something):
To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
To conclude or resolve (something):
To pay (a bill).
To conclude or resolve (something):
To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
To conclude or resolve (something):
To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
To silence, especially by force.
To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
To kill.
To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
To establish or become established in a steady position:
To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
To establish or become established in a steady position:
In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
To establish or become established in a steady position:
In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
In particular, to establish in pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish.
To establish or become established in a steady position:
To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
To establish or become established in a steady position:
To make a jointure for a spouse.
To establish or become established in a steady position:
To become married, or a householder.
To establish or become established in a steady position:
To be established in a profession or in employment.
To establish or become established in a steady position:
To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
To sink, or cause (something, or impurities within it) to sink down, especially so as to become clear or compact.
To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
To sink, or cause (something, or impurities within it) to sink down, especially so as to become clear or compact.
To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
To sink, or cause (something, or impurities within it) to sink down, especially so as to become clear or compact.
To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
To sink, or cause (something, or impurities within it) to sink down, especially so as to become clear or compact.
To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
To sink, or cause (something, or impurities within it) to sink down, especially so as to become clear or compact.
To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
To sink, or cause (something, or impurities within it) to sink down, especially so as to become clear or compact.
To become compact due to sinking.
To sink, or cause (something, or impurities within it) to sink down, especially so as to become clear or compact.
To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. Also used figuratively.)
Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
senses_topics:
law
|
8782 | word:
settle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
settle (plural settles)
forms:
form:
settles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English settle, setle, setel, setil, seotel, from Old English setl (“that upon which one sits, a seat, a settle, a place to sit”), from Proto-Germanic *setlaz (“a seat; arm-chair”), representing Proto-Indo-European *sed-lo-, from *sed- (“sit”). Cognate with Dutch zetel, German Sessel, Latin sella.
senses_examples:
text:
sit on a settle of joy with angels
ref:
c. 1348, Richard Rolle, The Form of Living
type:
quotation
text:
If hunger drive the Pagans from their dens,
One, 'gainst a settle breaketh both his shins;
ref:
1608, Joshua Sylvester, “The Law”, in Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes
type:
quotation
text:
[The] Queen or eorl's wife, with a train of maidens, bore ale-bowl or mead-bowl round the hall, from the high settle of king or ealdorman in the midst to the mead benches ranged around its walls, while the gleeman sang the hero-songs
ref:
1878–1880, John Richard Green, A History of the English People
text:
Let us return now to the little girl we left feigning to sleep soundly upon a settle in the kitchen.
ref:
1880, Ellen Murray Beam, English translation of Captain Fracasse by Théophile Gautier
text:
By the fireside, the big arm-chair […] fondly cronied with two venerable settles within the chimney corner.
ref:
1886, John Williamson Palmer, After His Kind
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A seat of any kind.
A long bench with a high back and arms, often with chest or storage space underneath.
A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. (Compare a depression.)
senses_topics:
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8783 | word:
sal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sal (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sal, from Latin sal. Doublet of salt.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Salt.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
8784 | word:
sal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sal (plural sals)
forms:
form:
sals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hindi साल (sāl), from Sanskrit शाल (śāla).
senses_examples:
text:
As the sals were cut in the lower foothill districts the loggers looked towards the mountains in their search for other hardwood timber.
ref:
1989, Thomas Weber, Hugging the trees: the story of the Chipko movement, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree.
senses_topics:
|
8785 | word:
sal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sal (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined by Eduard Suess in 1909, in Das Antlitz der Erde, as a blend of translingual Si (silicon) + Al (aluminum).
senses_examples:
text:
Wegener bases his theory of the drifting continents on the assumption that there are two distinct levels to be taken into account, the surface of the masses of "sal" which form the continents and the surface of the "sima" in which they float.
ref:
1923 March 24, G. Vibert Douglas, A.V. Douglas, “Note on the Interpretation of the Wegener Frequency Curve”, in Geological Magazine, volume 60, number 3, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 108
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of sial
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
8786 | word:
cloud
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cloud (plural clouds)
forms:
form:
clouds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cloud, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”).
Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely replaced Middle English wolken, from Old English wolcn (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic word (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke).
senses_examples:
text:
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.
type:
example
text:
The comic-book character's thoughts appeared in a cloud above his head.
type:
example
text:
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
ref:
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
But when he found that some of his interrogatories were evaded, and others answered undecisively, the look of gentleness which he had assumed, vanished, and his brow wore the cloud of disappointment and of anger.
ref:
1798, Eleanor Sleath, The Orphan of the Rhine
type:
quotation
text:
The only cloud on their night was that injury to Rafael, who was followed off the pitch by his anxious brother Fabio as he was stretchered away down the tunnel.
ref:
2011 January 25, Phil McNulty, “Blackpool 2-3 Man Utd”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rock; boulder; a hill.
A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
Anything unsubstantial.
A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)
The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
Crystal methamphetamine.
A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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8787 | word:
cloud
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cloud (third-person singular simple present clouds, present participle clouding, simple past and past participle clouded)
forms:
form:
clouds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
clouding
tags:
participle
present
form:
clouded
tags:
participle
past
form:
clouded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cloud, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”).
Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely replaced Middle English wolken, from Old English wolcn (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic word (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke).
senses_examples:
text:
The glass clouds when you breathe on it.
type:
example
text:
The sky is clouded.
type:
example
text:
The horses stamping
Their warm breath clouding
In the sharp and frosty morning
Of the day.
ref:
1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull
type:
quotation
text:
All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.
type:
example
text:
Your emotions are clouding your judgement.
type:
example
text:
The tears began to well up and cloud my vision.
type:
example
text:
to cloud yarn
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
To make obscure.
To make less acute or perceptive.
To make gloomy or sullen.
To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
senses_topics:
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8788 | word:
one thousand
word_type:
intj
expansion:
one thousand
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
One one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand, ...
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to be approximately one second in length.
senses_topics:
|
8789 | word:
one thousand
word_type:
num
expansion:
one thousand
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The number 1000.
senses_topics:
|
8790 | word:
judge
word_type:
noun
expansion:
judge (plural judges)
forms:
form:
judges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Judge (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English juge, jugge, from Old French juge, from Latin iūdex. Displaced native Middle English deme (from Old English dēma (“judge”)) and demere (from Old English dēmere (“judge”)), see also deemer, deemster.
senses_examples:
text:
At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.
type:
example
text:
She is a good judge of wine.
type:
example
text:
They say he is a poor judge of character considering all the unreliable friends he has made.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar; referee.
A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
senses_topics:
biblical
lifestyle
religion |
8791 | word:
judge
word_type:
verb
expansion:
judge (third-person singular simple present judges, present participle judging, simple past and past participle judged)
forms:
form:
judges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
judging
tags:
participle
present
form:
judged
tags:
participle
past
form:
judged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Judge (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English jugen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman juger, from Old French jugier, from Latin iūdicāre. Doublet of judicate.
Mostly displaced native deem.
senses_examples:
text:
A higher power will judge you after you are dead.
type:
example
text:
Justices in this country judge without appeal.
type:
example
text:
He was judged to die for his crimes.
type:
example
text:
I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
type:
example
text:
Let us be judged for what we attempted rather than what we achieved.
ref:
c. 1921, Michael Collins, after the Anglo-Irish Treaty
text:
We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.
type:
example
text:
I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
type:
example
text:
I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
type:
example
text:
There's something wrong with the world today; the light bulb's getting dim.
There's meltdown in the sky.
If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin,
Mister, you're a better man than I
ref:
1993, Aerosmith, Livin' on the Edge
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).
To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
To judicially rule or determine.
To sentence to punishment, to judicially condemn.
To award judicially; to adjudge.
To form an opinion on; to appraise.
To constitute a fitting appraisal or criterion of; to provide a basis for forming an opinion on.
To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
To form an opinion; to infer.
To criticize or label another person or thing; to be judgmental toward.
To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
senses_topics:
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8792 | word:
Christian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Christian (plural Christians)
forms:
form:
Christians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Cristien, from Old French chrestien, from Latin Chrīstiānus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστιᾱνός (Khrīstiānós), from Χρῑστός (Khrīstós, “Christ, anointed [one]”) + Latin suffix -ānus. The older form is Christen. Doublet of cretin. By surface analysis, Christ + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
The whole life of a good Christian is nothing else but a state of holy desire (sanctum desiderium).
ref:
1848, James Ford translating St. Augustine in The Gospel of St. Matthew, Illustrated from Ancient and Modern Authors, p. 46
text:
“Mahatma Gandhi, I am very anxious to see Christianity naturalized in India, so that it shall be no longer a foreign thing identified with foreign people and a foreign government, but a part of the national life of India... What would you suggest that we do to make that possible?” He very gravely and thoughtfully replied: “I would suggest, first, that all of you Christians, missionaries and all, must begin to live more like Jesus Christ.”
ref:
1925, E. Stanley Jones, The Christ of the Indian Road, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
[…]thousands of people have been killed in recent years in violence between Muslims and Christians[…]
ref:
2008, Christopher Catherwood, Making War in the Name of God, page 188
type:
quotation
text:
On the contrary, many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Christians and Catholics, including heterosexual allies of lesbians and gay Christians, of them, have voiced their opinions on the complicated issues of religion and sexuality.
ref:
2011, Denise Tse-Shang Tang, Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pages 67–68
type:
quotation
text:
In South Korea, the Mingjung Theology inspired Christians and Catholics to question the legitimacy of the authoritarian regime.
ref:
2012, Cheng-tian Kuo, “Institutional Choices of Church-State Relations in Chinese Societies”, in Baogang Guo, Chung-chian Teng, editors, Taiwan and the Rise of China: Cross-Strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century, Lanham: Lexington Books, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
The point of emphasis here is the fact that many Igbo became Catholics or Christians not because they were convinced of the teachings and practice of Christianity but as a result of many factors.
ref:
2013, Eze Ikechukwu, Being a Christian in Igbo Land: Facts, Fictions and Challenges, Berlin: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
type:
quotation
text:
Catholics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, and any other dogma that you read about were warring, while fully in their deception from the Light of Truth.
ref:
2021, Yahonathan Daweed, Yahweh for Christians: I Am Original Words, Original Truth, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Dorrance Publishing Co, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
Another way Christians and Catholics are perceived as anti-homosexual is via institutional oppression.
ref:
2022, Arthur David Canales, Pastoral Care to and Ministry with LGBTQ Youth and Young Adults, Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
Ye lyfe of euery christian, is as a pilgremage.
ref:
1526, William Bonde, Preface to Pylgrimage of Perfection
text:
The very word ‘Christianity’ is a misunderstanding—at bottom there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
ref:
1976, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Arnold Kaufmann, The Antichrist, §39
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A believer in Christianity.
A believer in Christianity.
An adherent of Christianity who is not a Catholic; a Protestant.
A person who seeks to live his or her life according to the principles and values taught by Jesus Christ.
A European, especially though not necessarily of the Christian religion.
senses_topics:
|
8793 | word:
Christian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Christian (countable and uncountable, plural Christians)
forms:
form:
Christians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Cristien, from Old French chrestien, from Latin Chrīstiānus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστιᾱνός (Khrīstiānós), from Χρῑστός (Khrīstós, “Christ, anointed [one]”) + Latin suffix -ānus. The older form is Christen. Doublet of cretin. By surface analysis, Christ + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from Ancient Greek found in England since the twelfth century.
A female given name from Ancient Greek of medieval usage, rare today.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States.
senses_topics:
|
8794 | word:
Christian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Christian (comparative more Christian, superlative most Christian)
forms:
form:
more Christian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Christian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Cristien, from Old French chrestien, from Latin Chrīstiānus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστιᾱνός (Khrīstiānós), from Χρῑστός (Khrīstós, “Christ, anointed [one]”) + Latin suffix -ānus. The older form is Christen. Doublet of cretin. By surface analysis, Christ + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
While Christian churches allow lay believers in Jesus to do exorcism, Catholics limit the practice to selected priests.
ref:
2000 November 10, “The scourge of evil spirits”, in SCMP
type:
quotation
text:
This is not to say that there is no discord within Christian and Catholic congregations on this issue.
ref:
2011, Denise Tse-Shang Tang, Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
When asked whether they are Christian, some Catholics respond, “No. I am Catholic.” Many Catholics see the Christian question as an attempt to discover whether they have accepted Christ in a way that is more representative of a Protestant or evangelical experience. Saying, “No, I’m not Christian” can also be a way to assert a student’s distinctively Catholic identity, even though they know Catholics are Christian because they believe in Christ.
ref:
2019, Katie Brick, J. Cody Nielsen, Greg Jao, Eric Paul Rogers, John A. Monson, “Understanding Christian Students on Campus”, in Kathleen M. Goodman, Mary Ellen Giess, Eboo Patel, editors, Educating About Religious Diversity and Interfaith Engagement: A Handbook for Student Affairs, Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
That’s very Christian of you.
type:
example
text:
I cannot help thinking there are people in the world who are very tiresome, very impertinent, and very disagreeable; yet, I don’t think it would be a very Christian act were I to tell them so.
ref:
1824, Susan Ferrier, The Inheritance
type:
quotation
text:
I must say I have seen him do a very Christian act at the Fish River. Some Kafir women were there eating; he begged of them; they refused to give him any food. […] I gave him some of the victuals we were enjoying, and he instantly broke the bread, and gave of it to these very Kafir women who had just refused any of theirs.
ref:
1854, Nathaniel James Merriman, The Kafir, the Hottentot, and the frontier farmer, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
“Besides this,” said the trapper, “it is hardly a Christian act to leave these two men to perish by the hands of the savages[…]”
ref:
1859, David W. Belisle, The American family Robinson, page 290
type:
quotation
text:
So, in his esteem, an auto da fé — an “act of faith,” as the words mean — is really an act of faith — an act of such faith as the author of “Ecce Homo” approves — a most Christian act — a most humane act[…]
ref:
1867, Henry Shepheard, Ithuriel’s spear; or, Is this Christianity?, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
I have only been at home two days, and here I am come on the third to see you and Tiny, so it is not Christian of you — as my mother would say — to receive your dutiful grand-nephew in such an unkind manner[…]
ref:
c. 1867, Janet Robertson, Christine; or, Common-Place People
type:
quotation
text:
“Why should I? It’s very Christian of you.” “People here do not think of me as a Christian, Mitti.” “I’d call it Christian charity,” I floundered. “You think Christians have a monopoly on charity?” she asked. “Well, no,” I stammered.
ref:
1981, Mary Leader, Salem’s Children, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
Joyce […] must have found himself likewise in accord with Dante’s view that “The Goal of Mankind is Universal Peace,” a view to which Dante devoted an entire section of his treatise, and a view opposed to the protestant militancy of the more muscularly Christian Milton.
ref:
1995, Patrick Colm Hogan, Joyce, Milton, and the theory of influence, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
I didn’t think it was very Christian of them, not to call back. Just downright Un-Christian.
ref:
1996 Nov-Dec, Richard Blow, “Al Franken”, in Mother Jones Magazine, volume 21, number 6
type:
quotation
text:
Mood and hopes ran high. Onto the stage, into this mélange of black power, military symbolism, and Christian striving, walked Kathryn Johnson.
ref:
2009, Adriane Danette Lentz-Smith, Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
Henry Irving and other Victorian actors easily created empathy for Shylock, even in a muscularly Christian period.
ref:
2010, Linda Woodbridge, English Revenge Drama: Money, Resistance, Equality, page 268
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, like or relating to Christianity or Christians.
Of, like or relating to Christianity or Christians.
Of, like or relating to Protestant Christians.
Of, like or relating to Jesus Christ.
Kind, charitable; moral; a term of approbation.
senses_topics:
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8795 | word:
hanzi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hanzi (plural hanzi)
forms:
form:
hanzi
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Hanzi
senses_topics:
|
8796 | word:
set
word_type:
verb
expansion:
set (third-person singular simple present sets, present participle setting, simple past set, past participle set or (dialectal) setten)
forms:
form:
sets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
setting
tags:
participle
present
form:
set
tags:
past
form:
set
tags:
participle
past
form:
setten
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
wikipedia:
set (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English setten, from Old English settan, from Proto-West Germanic *sattjan, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti, causative of *sed- (“to sit”).
senses_examples:
text:
Set the tray there.
type:
example
text:
I have set my heart on running the marathon.
type:
example
text:
Every incident sets him thinking.
ref:
1827, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hamlet
type:
quotation
text:
to set a coach in the mud
type:
example
text:
to set the rent
type:
example
text:
I set the alarm at 6 a.m.
(i.e. I programmed it at that hour to go off at a later time)
type:
example
text:
I set the alarm for 6 a.m.
(i.e. I programmed it earlier to go off at that hour.)
type:
example
text:
Please set the table for our guests.
type:
example
text:
I’ll tell you what happened, but first let me set the scene.
type:
example
text:
He says he will set his next film in France.
type:
example
text:
Her debut novel is set during the U.S. Civil War.
type:
example
text:
This crossword was set by Araucaria.
type:
example
text:
It was a complex page, but he set it quickly.
type:
example
text:
The teacher set her students the task of drawing a foot.
type:
example
text:
The glue sets in five minutes.
type:
example
text:
to set milk for cheese
type:
example
text:
The moon sets at eight o'clock tonight.
type:
example
text:
to set seed
type:
example
text:
Many fruit trees will only flower and set fruit following a cold winter.
ref:
2012, Daniel Chamovitz, What a Plant Knows, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
In the Annapolis Valley, in spite of an irregular bloom, the fruit has set well and has, as yet, been little affected by scab.
ref:
1906, Canada. Dept. of Agriculture. Fruit Branch, Fruit crop report
type:
quotation
text:
He sets in that chair all day.
type:
example
text:
And if Mrs. Garner didn't need me right there in the kitchen, I could get a chair and you and me could set out there while I did the vegetables.
ref:
1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 227
type:
quotation
text:
Well, we rolled up Interstate 44
Like a rocket-sled on rails.
We tore up all of our swindle sheets
And left 'em settin' on the scales.
ref:
1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall
type:
quotation
text:
The dog sets the bird.
type:
example
text:
Your dog sets well.
type:
example
text:
to set pear trees in an orchard
type:
example
text:
Mr. Forster, from Newcastle, made a purchase here last year. We saw him with eight men setting potatoes within a week of mid-summer.
ref:
1774, John Robinson, Thomas Rispin, A Journey Through Nova-Scotia Containing a Particular Account of the Country and its Inhabitants, York: C. Etherington, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
The current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.
type:
example
text:
Set to partners! was the next instruction from the caller.
type:
example
text:
to set a precious stone in a border of metal
type:
example
text:
to set glass in a sash
type:
example
text:
to set (that is, to hone) a razor
type:
example
text:
to set a saw
type:
example
text:
to set the sails of a ship
type:
example
text:
to set a broken bone
type:
example
text:
pastoral dales thin set with modern farms
ref:
1815, William Wordsworth, Poems of the Imagination
type:
quotation
text:
to set a good example
type:
example
text:
It sets him ill.
type:
example
text:
To set a hen.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put (something) down, to rest.
To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
To start (a fire).
To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
To determine or settle.
To adjust.
To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
To introduce or describe.
To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
To prepare (a stage or film set).
To fit (someone) up in a situation.
To arrange (type).
To devise and assign (work) to.
To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
To solidify.
To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
To defeat a contract.
To begin to move; to go forth.
To produce after pollination.
To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
To sit (be in a seated position).
To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
To fit music to words.
To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
To place or fix in a setting.
To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
To extend and bring into position; to spread.
To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
To wager in gambling; to risk.
To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
To value; to rate; used with at.
To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
To suit; to become.
To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
bridge
games
biology
botany
natural-sciences
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
country-dancing
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
|
8797 | word:
set
word_type:
noun
expansion:
set (plural sets)
forms:
form:
sets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
set
set (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English set, sette, from Old English set (“seat, place of residence, camp, settlement, entrenchment, stable, pen”), from Proto-West Germanic *set (“seat”), from Proto-Germanic *setą (“seat”).
senses_examples:
text:
nail set
type:
example
text:
television set
type:
example
text:
the set of a spring
type:
example
text:
The wings were bent or set permanently 2 to 3 inches upward at the wingtips; however, the set was within the manufacturer's allowable tolerances.
ref:
1986 March 29, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12 Wreckage and Impact Information”, in Aircraft Accident Report: China Airlines Boeing 747-SP, N4522V, 300 Nautical Miles Northwest of San Francisco, California, February 19, 1985, archived from the original on 2022-07-10, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
the set of a coat
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A punch for setting nails in wood.
A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
Alternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”)
Alternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”)
Alternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”)
A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
The width of the body of a type.
A young oyster when first attached.
Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
The pattern of a tartan, etc.
The camber of a curved roofing tile.
The full number of eggs set under a hen.
That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
construction
manufacturing
piledriving
media
printing
publishing
|
8798 | word:
set
word_type:
adj
expansion:
set (comparative more set, superlative most set)
forms:
form:
more set
tags:
comparative
form:
most set
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
set (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sett, from Old English ġesett, past participle of settan.
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:
on your marks, get set, go!; on your marks, set, go!
type:
example
text:
set on getting to his destination
type:
example
text:
a set menu ― a meal that is instituted by a restaurateur for a limited occasion
type:
example
text:
a set book ― a required reading for a course in an educational institution
type:
example
text:
I’m set against the idea of smacking children to punish them.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fixed in position.
Rigid, solidified.
Ready, prepared.
Intent, determined (to do something).
Prearranged.
Fixed in one’s opinion.
Fixed in a certain style.
senses_topics:
|
8799 | word:
set
word_type:
noun
expansion:
set (plural sets)
forms:
form:
sets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
set (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English set, sete, sette (“that which is set, the act of setting, seat”), from Old English set (“setting, seat, a place where people remain, habitation, camp, entrenchment, a place where animals are kept, stall, fold”) and Old English seten (“a set, shoot, slip, branch; a nursery, plantation; that which is planted or set; a cultivated place; planting, cultivation; a setting, putting; a stopping; occupied land”), related to Old English settan (“to set”). Compare Middle Low German gesette (“a set, suite”), Old English gesetl (“assembly”). According to Skeat, in senses denoting a group of things or persons, representing an alteration of sept, from Old French sette (“a religious sect”), from Medieval Latin secta (“retinue”), from Latin secta (“a faction”). See sect. It is quite possible that the modern word is more of a merger between both, however.
senses_examples:
text:
Here and there, amongst individuals alive to the particular evils of the age, and watching the very set of the current, there may have been even a more systematic counteraction applied to the mischief.
ref:
1840, Thomas De Quincey, Style
type:
quotation
text:
He put his eye to the alidade. “I thought so! Zero five four and that's allowing nothing for set and drift along the line of bearing. We're inside the departure point now[…]”
ref:
1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, page 238
type:
quotation
text:
a set of tables
type:
example
text:
a set of tools
type:
example
text:
a set of steps
type:
example
text:
the country set
type:
example
text:
Meronym: reps
text:
This is the fourth set of benchpresses.
ref:
1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
You heard “oh, Jeremy Corbyn” everywhere: at the silent disco, during Radiohead’s Friday night headlining set, midway through the Other stage appearance by rapper Stormzy, who gamely joined in.
ref:
2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
He plays the set on Saturdays.
type:
example
text:
Looking at pupil attainment, the study found that students with the same Key Stage 3 scores could have their GCSE grade raised or lowered by up to half a grade as a result of being placed in a higher or lower set.
ref:
2012 April 26, “Themes: Pupil grouping and organisation of classes”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Department for Education, archived from the original on 2012-06-14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
A rudimentary fruit.
The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
An object made up of several parts.
A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
Set theory.
A group of people, usually meeting socially.
The scenery for a film or play.
the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
The initial or basic formation of dancers.
A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
A drum kit, a drum set.
A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
mathematics
sciences
dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
education
card-games
poker |
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