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8800 | word:
set
word_type:
verb
expansion:
set (third-person singular simple present sets, present participle setting, simple past and past participle setted)
forms:
form:
sets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
setting
tags:
participle
present
form:
setted
tags:
participle
past
form:
setted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
set (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In setted classes, students are brought together because they are believed to be of similar 'ability'. Yet, setted lessons are often conducted as though students are not only similar, but identical—in terms of ability, preferred learning style and pace of working.
ref:
2008, Patricia Murphy, Robert McCormick, Knowledge and Practice: Representations and Identities
type:
quotation
text:
At Amber Hill, setting was a high-profile concept, and the students were frequently reminded of the set to which they belonged.
ref:
2002, Jo Boaler, Experiencing School Mathematics: Traditional and Reform Approaches and Their Impact on Student Learning
type:
quotation
text:
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
ref:
2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
senses_topics:
education |
8801 | word:
stallion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stallion (plural stallions)
forms:
form:
stallions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stalion, from Middle French estalon (whence modern French étalon), of Germanic origin, akin to stall. Displaced native Old English henġest.
senses_examples:
text:
'You stallion.'
Brian patted Tom on the back, but now with mixed feelings. He was pleased for his brother, but slightly jealous that Tom had lost his virginity before him
ref:
2012, Garry Kay, Break Free
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An adult male horse.
Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
An adult male horse.
A male horse kept primarily as a stud.
A very virile and sexually-inclined man or (rarely) woman.
senses_topics:
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8802 | word:
tenno
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tenno (plural tennos)
forms:
form:
tennos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 天皇(てんのう) (tennō), from Middle Chinese 天皇 (tʰen ɦwɑŋ) with the original sense of “heavenly sovereign”.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The emperor of Japan as head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family.
senses_topics:
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8803 | word:
hyperbole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hyperbole (countable and uncountable, plural hyperboles)
forms:
form:
hyperboles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hyperbole
etymology_text:
From Latin hyperbolē, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”). Doublet of hyperbola.
senses_examples:
text:
The great staircase, however, may be termed, without much hyperbole, a feature of grandeur and magnificence.
ref:
1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Legends of the Province House
type:
quotation
text:
c. 1910, Theodore Roosevelt, Productive Scholarship
Of course the hymn has come to us from somewhere else, but I do not know from where; and the average native of our village firmly believes that it is indigenous to our own soil—which it can not be, unless it deals in hyperbole, for the nearest approach to a river in our neighborhood is the village pond.
text:
The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. ..People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion.
ref:
1987, Donald Trump, Tony Schwartz, The Art of the Deal, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
In these circumstances, hyperbole is called for, the rhetorical figure that raises its objects up, excessively, way above their actual merit : it is not to deceive by exaggeration that one overshoots the mark, but to allow the true value, the truth of what is insufficiently valued, to appear.
ref:
1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →OCLC, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
The perennial problem, especially for the BBC, has been to reconcile the hyperbole-driven agenda of newspapers with the requirement of balance, which is crucial to the public service remit.
ref:
2001, Tom Bentley, Daniel Stedman Jones, The Moral Universe
type:
quotation
text:
The honourable gentleman forces us to hear a good deal of this detestable rhetoric; and then he asks why, if the secretaries of the Nizam and the King of Oude use all these tropes and hyperboles, Lord Ellenborough should not indulge in the same sort of eloquence?
ref:
1843, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Gates of Somnauth
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
An instance or example of such overstatement.
A hyperbola.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
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8804 | word:
low
word_type:
adj
expansion:
low (comparative lower, superlative lowest)
forms:
form:
lower
tags:
comparative
form:
lowest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lowe, lohe, lāh, from Old Norse lágr (“low”), from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (“lying, flat, situated near the ground, low”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).
Cognate with Scots laich (“low”), Low German leeg (“low, feeble, bad”), Danish lav (“low”), Icelandic lágur (“low”), West Frisian leech (“low”), North Frisian leeg, liig (“low”), Dutch laag (“low”), obsolete German läg (“low”). More at lie.
senses_examples:
text:
the low countries
type:
example
text:
Low German
type:
example
text:
the pitch (or: the ball) was low
type:
example
text:
standing on low ground
in a low valley, ringed by low hills
a low wall a low shelf
type:
example
text:
Narrative friezes in low relief were characteristic of Ionic architecture.
ref:
2012, Tyler Jo Smith, Dimitris Plantzos, A Companion to Greek Art
type:
quotation
text:
a low bow
a low tide
the Mississippi is unusually low right now
type:
example
text:
It is a little low hearb […]
ref:
1607 (edition of 1967), Edward Topsell, The history of four-footed beasts
text:
The men are well-proportioned, rather low than tall, have a brown complexion, and reserved countenance.
ref:
1795, James Cavanah Murphy, Travels in Portugal, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
"Now you mention her, I do remember the young lady," said Mrs. Grantly; "a dark girl, very low, and without much figure. She seemed to me to keep very much in the background."
ref:
1911(?), Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage, page 13
text:
Again, observe the unmeaningness of the low neck fashion. Our mothers wore low dresses and bare arms all day long; they knew if their shoulders and arms were beautiful they would look as well by daylight as by candlelight; […]
ref:
1878, Mary Eliza Joy Haweis, The Art of Beauty, London: Chatto & Windus, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
Why do girls wear low dresses?
ref:
1917, George Amos Dorsey, Young Low, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
low birth
low rank
the low officials of the bureaucracy
low-quality fabric
playing low tricks on them
a person of low mind
type:
example
text:
Now that was low even for you!
type:
example
text:
Therefore they must have been common in the 16th century also among the folk first of all not as a high festival food but rather as a low festival and Sunday food, if our experience proves accurate.
ref:
1971, Keystone Folklore Quarterly, volume 16, page 208
type:
quotation
text:
Low-Sunday, is the Sunday after Easter, and is so call'd, because it is a low Festival in Comparison of that Day whereon Christ arose from Death to Life again.
ref:
1720, The Delphick oracle, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
God loves an humble soul. It is not our high birth, but our low hearts God delights in.
ref:
1829, Thomas Watson, Discourses on Important and Interesting Subjects
type:
quotation
text:
She had a low opinion of cats. He took a low view of dogs.
type:
example
text:
The humble soul has low thoughts of his own person; as David, 'I am a worm, and no man.'
ref:
1826, Ebenezer Erskine, The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Sermon VII, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
the low point in her career
type:
example
text:
Virginia, for example, reached such a low point in her junior year that she briefly considered suicide [...]
ref:
2012, Faith Hartmann, Only a Fool Would Have Believed It in the First Place
type:
quotation
text:
low spirits
type:
example
text:
As low as I felt, at least I didn't have Hunding's [miserable] job.
ref:
2016, Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
a low pulse
type:
example
text:
made (or: laid) low by sickness
type:
example
text:
And wilt thou weep when I am low?
ref:
1830, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Byron's Poems, page 511
type:
quotation
text:
diets low in vitamin A
type:
example
text:
made from low-carbon steel
type:
example
text:
running low on cash
type:
example
text:
When silica is in low supply other classes of algae dominate the phytoplankton composition.
ref:
2002, V.N. Bashkin, Robert W. Howarth, Modern Biogeochemistry, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
My credit union charges a low interest rate. Jogging during a whiteout, with such low temperatures and low visibility, is dangerous. The store sold bread at low prices, and milk at even lower prices. The contractors gave a low estimate of the costs. low cholesterol a low voltage wire a low number
type:
example
text:
Unfortunately, low winds were the rule over the local waters and this craft was no better, if as good, as ordinary sailboats under such conditions.
ref:
1989, Bernard Smith, Sailloons and Fliptackers: The Limits to High-speed Sailing
type:
quotation
text:
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
ref:
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
low protozoan animals, low cryptogamic plants, and other low organisms
type:
example
text:
In the case of languages spoken by very low races, like the Puris and the Tasmanians, the difficulty of deciding such a point must be very great.
ref:
1870, Edward Burnett Tylor, Researches Into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
Among them there was none more low, more pious, more sincere, or more given to interference. To teach Mr. Worth his duty as a parish clergyman was evidently a necessity to such a bishop.
ref:
1881, Anthony Trollope, Dr. Wortle's School: A Novel, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and give a judgment against not only Denison, but the Church's doctrine; and that, it having once been given, we shall not get it reversed; and that the Church of England will seem to be committed to Low doctrine, which […]
ref:
1889, Reginald Garton Wilberforce, Life of Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford and Winchester, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
the low northern latitudes
type:
example
text:
The note was too low for her to sing.
type:
example
text:
Generally, European men have lower voices than their Indian counterparts.
type:
example
text:
They spoke in low voices so I would not hear what they were saying.
type:
example
text:
Why would you want to play heavy metal at such a low volume?
type:
example
text:
a low card
type:
example
text:
The Physicians ordered a low diet, and cooling ptisans in great abundance.
ref:
1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
low gear
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than other regions.
Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
Below the batter's knees.
Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
Low-cut.
Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)
Humble, meek, not haughty.
Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
Being a nadir, a bottom.
Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.
Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
Having few hit points remaining; damaged.
Dead. (Compare lay low.)
Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply.
Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
Simple in complexity or development.
Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).
Being near the equator.
Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.
Quiet; soft; not loud.
Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.
Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
Not rich or seasoned; offering the minimum of nutritional requirements; plain, simple.
Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
card-games
games
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8805 | word:
low
word_type:
noun
expansion:
low (plural lows)
forms:
form:
lows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lowe, lohe, lāh, from Old Norse lágr (“low”), from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (“lying, flat, situated near the ground, low”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).
Cognate with Scots laich (“low”), Low German leeg (“low, feeble, bad”), Danish lav (“low”), Icelandic lágur (“low”), West Frisian leech (“low”), North Frisian leeg, liig (“low”), Dutch laag (“low”), obsolete German läg (“low”). More at lie.
senses_examples:
text:
You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank.
type:
example
text:
Economic growth has hit a new low.
type:
example
text:
Unemployment has reached a ten-year low.
text:
During the 1960s and 1970s, when both the quality of architecture and the appreciation of historic buildings reached an all-time low, British Railways was notorious for replacing good station buildings and canopies with little more than bus shelters, usually in conjunction with de-staffing.
ref:
2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
He also called for the US and China to rebuild their fractured relationship, which has plunged to new lows this year, but which Guterres said was “crucial” to climate action.
ref:
2022 November 4, Fiona Harvey, “UN chief warns ‘we will be doomed’ without historic climate pact”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Today's low was 32 °F.
text:
He is in a low right now. the highs and lows of bipolar disorder
text:
A deep low is centred over the British Isles.
type:
example
text:
Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour.
type:
example
text:
He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).
A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).
The minimum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.
An area of low pressure; a depression.
The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
card-games
games
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8806 | word:
low
word_type:
adv
expansion:
low (comparative lower, superlative lowest)
forms:
form:
lower
tags:
comparative
form:
lowest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lowe, lohe, lāh, from Old Norse lágr (“low”), from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (“lying, flat, situated near the ground, low”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).
Cognate with Scots laich (“low”), Low German leeg (“low, feeble, bad”), Danish lav (“low”), Icelandic lágur (“low”), West Frisian leech (“low”), North Frisian leeg, liig (“low”), Dutch laag (“low”), obsolete German läg (“low”). More at lie.
senses_examples:
text:
to speak low
type:
example
text:
He sold his wheat low.
type:
example
text:
But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
ref:
2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)
type:
quotation
text:
The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Close to the ground.
Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
In a time approaching our own.
In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences |
8807 | word:
low
word_type:
verb
expansion:
low (third-person singular simple present lows, present participle lowing, simple past and past participle lowed)
forms:
form:
lows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lowe, lohe, lāh, from Old Norse lágr (“low”), from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (“lying, flat, situated near the ground, low”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).
Cognate with Scots laich (“low”), Low German leeg (“low, feeble, bad”), Danish lav (“low”), Icelandic lágur (“low”), West Frisian leech (“low”), North Frisian leeg, liig (“low”), Dutch laag (“low”), obsolete German läg (“low”). More at lie.
senses_examples:
text:
I shall only say this, that all the other graces must low the sail to faith, and so it is faith must carry us through, being that last triumphing grace, […]
ref:
1654 (edition of 1762), Andrew Gray, The Works of … Andrew Gray [Edited by R. Trail and J. Stirling], page 112
text:
Now to use these as Hypotheseis, as himself in his Word, is pleas'd to low himself to our capacities, is allowable:
ref:
1661 (edition of 1885), Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: … Vanity of Dogmatizing, page 85
text:
The merry fowks that were the ben, / By this time 'gan to low their strain
ref:
1790, Andrew Shirrefs, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
She was quite free of bad inventions, / But was a bitch o high pretenfions, / For the grit folk o' a dimensions, / Ran for her breed; / Dog-officers may low their pensions, / Since Venie's dead, 'Twas past the art o'man to cure her, / […]
ref:
1807, James Ruickbie, The Way-side Cottager; … Miscellaneous Poems, page 178
type:
quotation
text:
Dat 'ill be somtin' ta hise an' low wi' a ütterly breeze.
ref:
1899 May 6, Shetland News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lower; to make low.
senses_topics:
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8808 | word:
low
word_type:
verb
expansion:
low
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lough, from Old English hlōh, first and third person singular preterite of hliehhan (“to laugh”). More at laugh.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of laugh.
senses_topics:
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8809 | word:
low
word_type:
verb
expansion:
low (third-person singular simple present lows, present participle lowing, simple past and past participle lowed)
forms:
form:
lows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lowen (“to low”), from Old English hlōwan (“to low, bellow, roar”), from Proto-Germanic *hlōaną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call”).
Cognate with Dutch loeien (“to low”), Middle High German lüejen (“to roar”), dialectal Swedish lumma (“to roar”), Latin calō (“I call”), Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō), Latin clāmō (“I shout, claim”). More at claim.
senses_examples:
text:
The cattle were lowing.
type:
example
text:
In peals of thunder now she roars--and now / She gently whimpers like a lowing cow
ref:
1726, Jonathan Swift, “The Lamentations of Glumdalclitch for the Loss of Grildrig”, in Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Brobdingnag
type:
quotation
text:
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
ref:
1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To moo.
senses_topics:
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8810 | word:
low
word_type:
noun
expansion:
low (plural lows)
forms:
form:
lows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lowe, loghe, from Old Norse logi (“fire, flame, sword”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame, blaze”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”).
Cognate with Icelandic logi (“flame”), Swedish låga (“flame”), Danish lue (“flame”), German Lohe (“blaze, flames”), North Frisian leag (“fire, flame”), Old English līeġ (“fire, flame, lightning”). More at leye, light.
senses_examples:
text:
A boy fell aff his chair a' in a low, for the discharge had set him on fire […]
ref:
1843, John Wilson, The Noctes Ambrosianœ of "Blackwood"., page 478
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flame; fire; blaze.
senses_topics:
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8811 | word:
low
word_type:
verb
expansion:
low (third-person singular simple present lows, present participle lowing, simple past and past participle lowed)
forms:
form:
lows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lowe, loghe, from Old Norse logi (“fire, flame, sword”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame, blaze”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”).
Cognate with Icelandic logi (“flame”), Swedish låga (“flame”), Danish lue (“flame”), German Lohe (“blaze, flames”), North Frisian leag (“fire, flame”), Old English līeġ (“fire, flame, lightning”). More at leye, light.
senses_examples:
text:
Driest wood will eithest low,
ref:
1724 (edition of 1788), Allan Ramsay, The Tea-Table Miscellany, page 23
text:
They scarcely left to co'er their fuds,
To quench their lowan drouth.
ref:
1785, Robert Burns, The Jolly Beggars
type:
quotation
text:
[…] in every crevice; and each individual brick shone and “lowed” with the intense heat. “As I am a Christian man,” thought he, “this is verily the mouth of the pit; and I am lost — lost for ever, for —”
ref:
1870, Edward Peacock, Ralf Skirlaugh, the Lincolnshire Squire: A Novel, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
Sand, striking a light with his flint and steel, and transferring the flame when it lowed up to the bowl of his tiny elf's pipe, so small that it just let in the top of his little finger as he settled the tobacco in it as it began to burn.
ref:
1894, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Raiders, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
The next I saw, James parried a thrust so nearly that I thought him killed; and it lowed up in my mind that this was the girl's father, and in a manner almost my own, and I drew and ran in to sever them.
ref:
1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, Works, page 382
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To burn; to blaze.
senses_topics:
|
8812 | word:
low
word_type:
noun
expansion:
low (plural lows)
forms:
form:
lows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English hlāw, hlǣw (“burial mound”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw. Obsolete by the 19th century, survives in toponymy as -low.
senses_examples:
text:
A barrow or Low, such as were usually cast up over the bodies of eminent Captains.
ref:
1686, Robert Plot, The natural history of Staffordshire
type:
quotation
text:
And some they brought the brown lint-seed, and flung it down from the Low.
ref:
1847, Mary Howitt, Ballads and other poems
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Barrow, mound, tumulus.
A hill.
senses_topics:
|
8813 | word:
low
word_type:
verb
expansion:
low
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Aphetic form of allow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of 'low
senses_topics:
|
8814 | word:
civilize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
civilize (third-person singular simple present civilizes, present participle civilizing, simple past and past participle civilized)
forms:
form:
civilizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
civilizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
civilized
tags:
participle
past
form:
civilized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French civiliser, corresponding to civil + -ize.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
American and Oxford British standard spelling of civilise.
senses_topics:
|
8815 | word:
Jyutping
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jyutping
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Cantonese 粵拼／粤拼 (jyut⁶ ping³).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A romanisation system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK).
senses_topics:
|
8816 | word:
organ
word_type:
noun
expansion:
organ (plural organs)
forms:
form:
organs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
organ
etymology_text:
From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ of sense or apprehension, an organ of the body, also a musical instrument, an organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-. Doublet of organon, organum, and orgue.
senses_examples:
text:
bodily organs
type:
example
text:
vital organ
type:
example
text:
No matter the extraordinary progress that has been made in heart surgery over the past century, the heart remains a vulnerable organ.
ref:
2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
If the Snake has an unmistakeable resemblance to the male organ in its active state, the foliage of the tree or bush is equally remindful of the female.
ref:
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 81
type:
quotation
text:
Lieutenant Roberts was also severely wounded by a missile, or weapon called an Organ, which is composed of about thirty-six gun barrels so joined as to fire at once.
ref:
1790, H. Compton, A particular account of the European military adventurers of Hindustan, from 1784 to 1803, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
Short for organ pipe cactus.
A government organization; agency; authority.
The penis.
An Asian form of mitrailleuse.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
government
military
politics
war |
8817 | word:
organ
word_type:
verb
expansion:
organ (third-person singular simple present organs, present participle organing, simple past and past participle organed)
forms:
form:
organs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
organing
tags:
participle
present
form:
organed
tags:
participle
past
form:
organed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
organ
etymology_text:
From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ of sense or apprehension, an organ of the body, also a musical instrument, an organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-. Doublet of organon, organum, and orgue.
senses_examples:
text:
Thou art elemented and organ'd for other apprehensions.
ref:
1681, Thomas Manningham, Two Discourses
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
senses_topics:
|
8818 | word:
hanja
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hanja (plural hanja)
forms:
form:
hanja
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hanja
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Korean 한자(漢字) (hanja), from Middle Chinese 漢字 (MC xanH dziH, “Chinese character”, literally “Han Chinese + character”).
Compare Cantonese 漢字／汉字 (hon³ zi⁶), Japanese 漢字 (kanji), Mandarin 漢字／汉字 (hànzì), Vietnamese Hán tự. Doublet of kanji and Hanzi.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Han character script used to write Korean, particularly in classical literature.
Any individual Han character as used in the Korean language.
senses_topics:
|
8819 | word:
q
word_type:
character
expansion:
q (lower case, upper case Q, plural qs or q's)
forms:
form:
Q
tags:
uppercase
form:
qs
tags:
plural
form:
q's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
8820 | word:
q
word_type:
num
expansion:
q (lower case, upper case Q)
forms:
form:
Q
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number seventeenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
8821 | word:
q
word_type:
noun
expansion:
q (plural q's)
forms:
form:
q's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: Q (“automatic qualification”)
text:
Alternative form: Q
text:
We can't BELIEVE it's been #9YearsofLittleMix?! Aside from the girls slaying every #BRITs look they've had, what's your fave mem? (we know it's a hard q!) 👀💖
ref:
2020 August 19, @BRITs, Twitter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of non-automatic qualification: indicates an athlete who qualifies to the next round either by time as a fastest loser (in track events) or by position without achieving the qualifying target (in field events).
Abbreviation of question.
senses_topics:
athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
8822 | word:
q
word_type:
det
expansion:
q
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin quaque (“every”).
senses_examples:
text:
175 mg/m² q 3 wks ― 175 mg/m² every three weeks
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Each, every (with a time interval).
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
8823 | word:
lake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lake (plural lakes)
forms:
form:
lakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
etymology_text:
Arose from a conflation of the form of inherited Middle English lake (“small stream of running water, pool, lake”) with Middle English lac (“lake”), from Old French lac (“lake”) or Latin lacus (“lake, basin, tank”), see lac. The former, lake (“stream, pool, lake”), is inherited from Old English lacu (“stream, pool, expanse of water, lake”), from Proto-West Germanic *laku, from Proto-Germanic *lakō (“stream, pool, water aggregation”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to leak, drain”). It is related to Dutch laak (“stream, drainage ditch, pond”), German Low German Lake, Laak (“drainage, marshland”), German Lache (“puddle”), Icelandic lækur (“stream”).
Despite their similarity in form and meaning, Old English lacu is not related to English lay (“lake”), Latin lacus (“hollow, lake, pond”), Scottish Gaelic loch (“lake”), Ancient Greek λάκκος (lákkos, “waterhole, tank, pond, pit”), all from Proto-Indo-European *lókus, *l̥kwés (“lake, pool”).
senses_examples:
text:
So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
ref:
1991, Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
A pit, or ditch.
senses_topics:
|
8824 | word:
lake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lake (plural lakes)
forms:
form:
lakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lác
etymology_text:
table
From Northern Middle English lake, lak, lac (also laik, layke; Southern loke), from Old English lāc (“play, sport, strife, battle, sacrifice, offering, gift, present, booty, message”), from Proto-West Germanic *laik, from Proto-Germanic *laikaz (“game, dance, hymn, sport”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“to bounce, shake, tremble”). Cognate with Old High German leih (“song, melody, music”), Old Norse leikr (whence Danish leg (“game”), Swedish leka (“to play”)), and Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃 (laiks, “dance”); Doublet of lek.
Verb form partly from Middle English laken, from Old English lacan, from Proto-Germanic *laikaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-. More at lay, -lock.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An offering, sacrifice, gift.
Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
senses_topics:
|
8825 | word:
lake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lake (third-person singular simple present lakes, present participle laking, simple past and past participle laked)
forms:
form:
lakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
laking
tags:
participle
present
form:
laked
tags:
participle
past
form:
laked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Northern Middle English lake, lak, lac (also laik, layke; Southern loke), from Old English lāc (“play, sport, strife, battle, sacrifice, offering, gift, present, booty, message”), from Proto-West Germanic *laik, from Proto-Germanic *laikaz (“game, dance, hymn, sport”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“to bounce, shake, tremble”). Cognate with Old High German leih (“song, melody, music”), Old Norse leikr (whence Danish leg (“game”), Swedish leka (“to play”)), and Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃 (laiks, “dance”); Doublet of lek.
Verb form partly from Middle English laken, from Old English lacan, from Proto-Germanic *laikaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-. More at lay, -lock.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To present an offering.
To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
Subject biological cells to repeated cycles of freezing and thawing until lysis.
senses_topics:
|
8826 | word:
lake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lake (plural lakes)
forms:
form:
lakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lake, from Old English *lacen or Middle Dutch laken; both from Proto-Germanic *lakaną (“linen; cloth; sheet”). Cognate with Dutch lake (“linen”), Dutch laken (“linen; bedsheet”), German Laken, Danish lagan, Swedish lakan, Icelandic lak, lakan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kind of fine, white linen.
senses_topics:
|
8827 | word:
lake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lake (plural lakes)
forms:
form:
lakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French laque (“lacquer”), from Persian لاک (lâk), from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lac and lacquer.
senses_examples:
text:
The name of a lake prepared by extending the aluminum salt prepared from FD&C Blue No. 1 upon the substratum would be FD&C Blue No. 1--Aluminum Lake.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermilion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
senses_topics:
|
8828 | word:
lake
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lake (third-person singular simple present lakes, present participle laking, simple past and past participle laked)
forms:
form:
lakes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
laking
tags:
participle
present
form:
laked
tags:
participle
past
form:
laked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French laque (“lacquer”), from Persian لاک (lâk), from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lac and lacquer.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make lake-red.
senses_topics:
|
8829 | word:
animé
word_type:
noun
expansion:
animé (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Hymenaea courbaril
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French animé (“animated”), supposedly from the insects entrapped in it. Doublet of animate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The resin of the courbaril (Hymenaea courbaril), used in varnishes.
senses_topics:
|
8830 | word:
animé
word_type:
noun
expansion:
animé (countable and uncountable, plural animé or animés)
forms:
form:
animé
tags:
plural
form:
animés
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the addition of an accent to anime to denote its pronunciation, or possibly through conflation with the above etymology.
senses_examples:
text:
The popularity of Japanese manga and animé in America raises the question of why these forms of Japanese culture appeal to so many Americans. My quick answer is that the characters featured in manga and animé have a cross-cultural[…]
ref:
2008 October 23, Mark I. West, The Japanification of Children's Popular Culture: From Godzilla to Miyazaki, Scarecrow Press, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
Leiji Matsumoto's Space Battleship Yamato (1974–1975) is considered a monumental work of Japanese science fiction, sustaining a solid fan base since its appearance as an animé and manga in late 1974.
ref:
2017 January 5, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Richard Graham, A Brief History of Comic Book Movies, Springer, page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of anime
senses_topics:
|
8831 | word:
civilisation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
civilisation (countable and uncountable, plural civilisations)
forms:
form:
civilisations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French civilisation.
senses_examples:
text:
From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.
ref:
1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa spelling of civilization
senses_topics:
|
8832 | word:
subjective
word_type:
adj
expansion:
subjective (comparative more subjective, superlative most subjective)
forms:
form:
more subjective
tags:
comparative
form:
most subjective
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From subject + -ive.
senses_examples:
text:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
The general finite stem is the verbal stem which serves as the basis of inflection in the indicative present and past in the subjective conjugation and the objective conjugation with the singular and dual object.
ref:
2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
Lacking in reality or substance.
As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
8833 | word:
light
word_type:
noun
expansion:
light (countable and uncountable, plural lights)
forms:
form:
lights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
From Middle English light, liht, leoht, from Old English lēoht, from Proto-West Germanic *leuht, from Proto-Germanic *leuhtą, from Proto-Indo-European *lewktom, from the root *lewk- (“light”).
cognates
*Scots licht (“light”)
*West Frisian ljocht (“light”)
*Dutch licht (“light”)
*Low German licht (“light”)
*German Licht (“light”)
*Swedish ljus (“light”)
*Icelandic ljós (“light”)
*Latin lūx (“light”)
*Russian луч (luč, “beam of light”)
*Armenian լույս (luys, “light”)
*Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”)
*Persian رُخش (roxš).
senses_examples:
text:
As you can see, this spacious dining-room gets a lot of light in the mornings.
type:
example
text:
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
When the studio light is on, I am recording my evening show.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
black light
type:
example
text:
We turned off all the lights and went to sleep.
type:
example
text:
To get to our house, turn right at the third light.
type:
example
text:
Put that light out!
type:
example
text:
Can you throw any light on this problem?
type:
example
text:
Picasso was one of the leading lights of the cubist movement.
type:
example
text:
I'm really seeing you in a different light today.
type:
example
text:
Magoon's governorship in Cuba was viewed in a negative light by many Cuban historians for years thereafter.
type:
example
text:
, "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected by the Jews"
Frequent consideration of a thing […] shows it in its several lights and various ways of appearance.
text:
Hey, buddy, you got a light?
type:
example
text:
a Bengal light
type:
example
text:
This facade has eight south-facing lights.
type:
example
text:
The average length of a light on a 15×15 grid is 7 or 8.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers); visible light.
Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers); visible light.
Infrared or ultraviolet radiation.
A source of illumination.
A lightbulb or similar light-emitting device, regardless of whether it is lit.
A source of illumination.
A traffic light, or (by extension) an intersection controlled by traffic lights.
A source of illumination.
Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
A flame or something used to create fire.
A flame or something used to create fire.
A cigarette lighter.
A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
A window in architecture, carriage design, or motor car design: either the opening itself or the window pane of glass that fills it, if any.
The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
The power of perception by vision.
The brightness of the eye or eyes.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
8834 | word:
light
word_type:
verb
expansion:
light (third-person singular simple present lights, present participle lighting, simple past and past participle lit or lighted or (obsolete) light)
forms:
form:
lights
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lighting
tags:
participle
present
form:
lit
tags:
participle
past
form:
lit
tags:
past
form:
lighted
tags:
participle
past
form:
lighted
tags:
past
form:
light
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
light
tags:
obsolete
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lighten, lihten, from Old English līehtan (“to light, to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *liuhtijaną, from *leuhtą + *-janą. Cognate with German leuchten (“to shine”).
senses_examples:
text:
We lit the fire to get some heat.
type:
example
text:
She lit her last match.
type:
example
text:
I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.
text:
19th century', Frederic Harrison, The Fortnightly Review
One hundred years ago, to have lit this theatre as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds.
text:
Can I light you down to your cab?
ref:
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
This soggy match will not light.
type:
example
text:
His bishops lead him forth, and light him on.
ref:
1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley
type:
quotation
text:
Light the extra ball by amassing 500 million points in the wizard mode.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To start (a fire).
To set fire to; to set burning.
To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
To become ignited; to take fire.
To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.
senses_topics:
|
8835 | word:
light
word_type:
adj
expansion:
light (comparative lighter, superlative lightest)
forms:
form:
lighter
tags:
comparative
form:
lightest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English light, liht, leoht, from Old English lēoht (“luminous, bright, light, clear, resplendent, renowned, beautiful”), from Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz (“light”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian ljoacht (“light”), Dutch licht, German licht.
senses_examples:
text:
The room is light when the Sun shines through the window.
type:
example
text:
Historic England explained the listing: "The station's unique design employs a high level of sophistication and innovation through its use of conoid shells supported on a cruck-like frame, which not only create a dramatic aesthetic form, but endow the building with a light and spacious interior."
ref:
2023 March 22, Philip Haigh, “Five configuration stages to boost Manchester rail capacity”, in RAIL, number 979, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
She had light skin.
type:
example
text:
I like my coffee light.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
Served with extra milk or cream.
senses_topics:
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8836 | word:
light
word_type:
adj
expansion:
light (comparative lighter, superlative lightest)
forms:
form:
lighter
tags:
comparative
form:
lightest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English lēoht, līht, from Proto-West Germanic *lį̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *linhtaz or *līhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“light”).
Cognate with Dutch licht, German leicht, Swedish lätt, Norwegian lett, Albanian lehtë, Latin levis, Russian лёгкий (ljóxkij), Lithuanian lengvas, Sanskrit लघु (laghu), Persian لاغر (lāghar).
senses_examples:
text:
a light load ; a lighter backpack after having removed the books ; light weapons
type:
example
text:
feathers and cork are light ; oil is lighter than water
type:
example
text:
to issue light coin
type:
example
text:
a light aircraft ; a light tank
type:
example
text:
light infantry; a troop of light horse
type:
example
text:
if a ship is light or partially loaded ; the light draft of a vessel, or its light displacement
type:
example
text:
the light locomotives ; a locomotive may be moved light
type:
example
text:
On that August Thursday afternoon, there was little freight traffic; a large "K3" Mogul went down with a short, fast goods, and a W.D. 2-8-0 proceeded northward light.
ref:
1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
a light bread ; sponge cake is a light cake
type:
example
text:
This light beer still gets you drunk if you have enough of it.
type:
example
text:
a light drizzle; a light rain was falling; a light snow set in
text:
This artist clearly had a light, flowing touch.
type:
example
text:
light duties around the house
text:
I made some light comment, and we moved on.
type:
example
text:
He had drunk more than was fit for him, and he was singing some light song, when he saw approaching, as he said, the pale horse mentioned in the Revelation, with Death seated as the rider.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
a light, vain person; a light mind
text:
There is no greater argument of a light and inconsiderate person than profanely to scoff at religion.
ref:
1633, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
type:
quotation
text:
Ogden Nash was a writer of light verse.
type:
example
text:
specimens of New England humour laboriously light and lamentably mirthful
ref:
1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Old News
type:
quotation
text:
light sleep; light anesthesia
text:
I wish you a good day, and you'll find a way
To make your spirits light & gay
ref:
1980, “ア・グッド・デイ [A Good Day]”, Yoko Narahashi (lyrics), Yukihide Takekawa (music), performed by Godiego
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.
Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.
Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard, or proper amount; clipped or diminished.
Lacking that which burdens or makes heavy.
Free from burden or impediment; unencumbered.
Lacking that which burdens or makes heavy.
Lightly built; typically designed for speed or small loads.
Lacking that which burdens or makes heavy.
Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
Lacking that which burdens or makes heavy.
Riding high because of no cargo; by extension, pertaining to a ship which is light.
Lacking that which burdens or makes heavy.
Without any piece of equipment attached or attached only to a caboose.
Lacking that which burdens or makes heavy.
With low viscosity.
Not heavy or soggy; spongy; well raised.
Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
Slight, not forceful or intense; small in amount or intensity.
Gentle; having little force or momentum.
Easy to endure or perform.
Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
Unchaste, wanton.
Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
Easily interrupted by stimulation.
Cheerful.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
nautical
transport
rail-transport
railways
transport
cooking
food
lifestyle
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8837 | word:
light
word_type:
adv
expansion:
light (comparative lighter, superlative lightest)
forms:
form:
lighter
tags:
comparative
form:
lightest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English lēoht, līht, from Proto-West Germanic *lį̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *linhtaz or *līhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“light”).
Cognate with Dutch licht, German leicht, Swedish lätt, Norwegian lett, Albanian lehtë, Latin levis, Russian лёгкий (ljóxkij), Lithuanian lengvas, Sanskrit लघु (laghu), Persian لاغر (lāghar).
senses_examples:
text:
I prefer to travel light.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Carrying little.
senses_topics:
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8838 | word:
light
word_type:
noun
expansion:
light (plural lights)
forms:
form:
lights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English lēoht, līht, from Proto-West Germanic *lį̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *linhtaz or *līhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“light”).
Cognate with Dutch licht, German leicht, Swedish lätt, Norwegian lett, Albanian lehtë, Latin levis, Russian лёгкий (ljóxkij), Lithuanian lengvas, Sanskrit लघु (laghu), Persian لاغر (lāghar).
senses_examples:
text:
We crossed to the pub on the corner of Carlisle Street and I ordered two schooners of old for him and one of light for me.
ref:
2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 117
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
See lights (“lungs”).
A low-alcohol lager.
A member of the light cavalry.
senses_topics:
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
military
politics
war |
8839 | word:
light
word_type:
verb
expansion:
light (third-person singular simple present lights, present participle lighting, simple past and past participle lighted)
forms:
form:
lights
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lighting
tags:
participle
present
form:
lighted
tags:
participle
past
form:
lighted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English lēoht, līht, from Proto-West Germanic *lį̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *linhtaz or *līhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“light”).
Cognate with Dutch licht, German leicht, Swedish lätt, Norwegian lett, Albanian lehtë, Latin levis, Russian лёгкий (ljóxkij), Lithuanian lengvas, Sanskrit लघु (laghu), Persian لاغر (lāghar).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
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8840 | word:
light
word_type:
verb
expansion:
light (third-person singular simple present lights, present participle lighting, simple past and past participle lit or lighted or (obsolete) light)
forms:
form:
lights
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lighting
tags:
participle
present
form:
lit
tags:
participle
past
form:
lit
tags:
past
form:
lighted
tags:
participle
past
form:
lighted
tags:
past
form:
light
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
light
tags:
obsolete
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lighten, from Old English līhtan (“to relieve”), from Proto-West Germanic *lį̄htijan, from Proto-Germanic *linhtijaną, from *linhtaz (“light”).
senses_examples:
text:
I lit upon a rare book in a second-hand bookseller's.
type:
example
text:
She fell out of the window but luckily lit on her feet.
text:
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
ref:
1769, Benjamin Blayney (Ed.), King James Bible (Genesis 25:64)
text:
Some kinds of ducks in lighting strike the water with their tails first, and skitter along the surface for a few feet before settling down.
ref:
1885, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
type:
quotation
text:
1957, Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel), The Cat in the Hat
And our fish came down, too. He fell into a pot! He said, "Do I like this? Oh, no! I do not. This is not a good game," Said our fish as he lit.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To find by chance.
To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
To alight; to land or come down.
senses_topics:
|
8841 | word:
flame
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flame (countable and uncountable, plural flames)
forms:
form:
flames
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
flame
etymology_text:
From Middle English flawme, blend of Old French flame and flambe, flamble, the first from Latin flamma, the second from Latin flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin *fladma; Proto-Italic *flagmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Displaced native Old English līeġ.
senses_examples:
text:
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
ref:
2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
Flames are, unfortunately, a fact of USENET life. It's a rare USENET regular who hasn't been shaken to the foundations with anger at something some jerk has posted.
ref:
1995, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Usenet Newsgroups, Alpha Books, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
[M]arked by myriad clouds of every sunset-colour - flame, purple, pink, green, violet, and all the tints of gold.
ref:
1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
The cello has a two-piece back with a beautiful narrow flame.
type:
example
text:
Till charming Florio, born to conquer, came
And touch'd the fair one with an equal flame
ref:
1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Julia
type:
quotation
text:
The Gardeners divide it into Five Claſſes, which they diſtinguiſh by the Name of Picketees, Painted Ladies, Beazarts, Flakes, and Flames: […] the Flames have a red Ground always ſtrip’d with black or very dark Colours.
ref:
1718, Richard Bradley, “Part II. Chapter II: Of Perannual Flowers, the talleſt Blowers. Sect IX. Of the Carnation or July-Flower […] ”, in New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philoſophical and Practical […], 2nd edition, London: W. Mears, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
Sic flow’rs o’ sorts ane seldom sees, / Flecks, flames, bussards an’ picketees, / Wi’ strong carnations, like young trees, / To face the entry; […]
ref:
1812, Peter Forbes, “On going to see a nobleman’s gardener in the neighbourhood”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Edinburgh: R. Menzies, page 89
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.
A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.
An aggressively insulting criticism or remark.
A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.
A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.
flame:
flame
The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the curl.
Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.
A variety of carnation.
senses_topics:
arts
crafts
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
music
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
8842 | word:
flame
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flame (third-person singular simple present flames, present participle flaming, simple past and past participle flamed)
forms:
form:
flames
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flaming
tags:
participle
present
form:
flamed
tags:
participle
past
form:
flamed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
flame
etymology_text:
From Middle English flawme, blend of Old French flame and flambe, flamble, the first from Latin flamma, the second from Latin flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin *fladma; Proto-Italic *flagmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Displaced native Old English līeġ.
senses_examples:
text:
I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.
type:
example
text:
I wish you had the nerve to put your own name on that article, rather than logging into a public account to do it. I would have prefered to respond to you personally, rather than burden the net with my flaming, particularly since opinions like yours are best left ignored. But I feel I must respond to this one.
ref:
1983 October 20, Joe Ziegler, net.motss (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
This was one of the highest points of the show for me. Playin' followed, with a nice jam afterwards. After that, Jerry wandered into Crazy Fingers. (I had been hoping for Terrapin...oh well. Crazy Fingers seems to highlight Jerry's ability to come in late and tentative on lyrics. I'm sure I'll get flamed, since lots of folks seem to worship CF.)
ref:
1989 June 29, Neil McAvoy [Wing Attack Plan R], rec.music.gdead (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
If he got flamed for his lies or his ignorance, he simply moved to another chat room.
ref:
2001, w:Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
type:
quotation
text:
Because online communication makes it easy to flame, many of us impetuously fire off messages that we later regret.
ref:
2019, Steven McCornack, Kelly Morrison, Reflect & Relate, 5th edition
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.
To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.
To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).
senses_topics:
|
8843 | word:
flame
word_type:
adj
expansion:
flame (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
flame
etymology_text:
From Middle English flawme, blend of Old French flame and flambe, flamble, the first from Latin flamma, the second from Latin flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin *fladma; Proto-Italic *flagmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Displaced native Old English līeġ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.
senses_topics:
|
8844 | word:
integer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
integer (plural integers)
forms:
form:
integers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin integer (“whole”, literally “untouched”), from in + tangere (“to touch”). Doublet of entire. See tangere, tact. Related to English thack and thwack.
senses_examples:
text:
God made the integers; all else is the work of man
ref:
1886, Leopold Kronecker, speech to the Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A number that is not a fraction; an element of the infinite and numerable set {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
senses_topics:
arithmetic |
8845 | word:
CCCP
word_type:
name
expansion:
CCCP
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Orthographic borrowing from Russian СССР (SSSR), abbreviation of Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (Sojuz Sovetskix Socialističeskix Respublik, “(The) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”).
senses_examples:
text:
Now that the CCCP is history. I wonder if we'll find out who Suvorov really was.
ref:
1992 July 27, Keith Morgan, “NATO/Warsaw Pact forces (was Re: Greatest Prez...)”, in soc.history (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Canada won the 1972 Summit Series against the CCCP, just barely, but lost a lot of face, bragging rights, prestige, sense of self, identity, and propaganda points, even though life in the Soviet Union, judging by the big hockey rink in Moscow, was dismal, at best, and a totalitarian police state nightmare, at worst.
ref:
2008, Martin Avery, Bobby Orr and Me, Lulu.com, page 353
type:
quotation
text:
The CCCP had evil intentions as well[,] no?
ref:
2011 September 21, A Moose in Love, “Re: The Soviet invasion of Poland”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
2013, Tom Hanks, introduction to Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race by Alexei Leonov and David Scott, Open Road Media →ISBN
A common generalisation about people who go into space, particularly those men who were the participants in the great space race between the USA and the CCCP, is that each is an automaton — a throttle jockey with a crew cut, a mind like a slide rule and a vocabulary of 'gee whiz' superlatives and 'A-OK' affirmatives.
text:
One question from Japanese side was: 'What about sex in CCCP?' and 'the illustrious reply' — one soviet woman, very venerable and respectable, deputy and laureate of something, — she answered with dignity: 'There is no sex in CCCP at all!' — it was said with such a great pride, in such a peremptory tone, as if she was insulted in her best feelings, — both sides, both countries split their sides with laughter.
ref:
2014, Larisa Kharakhinova, Heart-to-heart letters: to MrRight from CCCP, Litres, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
Taking the period 1945-1991 as one long war by proxy between the US and its allies and the CCCP and its puppet regimes (and sometimes Red China), the "Korean War" and "the Viet Nam War" can be considered battles or theaters in the larger conflict.
ref:
2015 January 7, Kevrob, “Re: SF influence spreads to real world”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
senses_topics:
|
8846 | word:
CCCP
word_type:
name
expansion:
CCCP
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Central Committee of the Communist Party.
senses_topics:
|
8847 | word:
eidolon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eidolon (plural eidola or eidolons)
forms:
form:
eidola
tags:
plural
form:
eidolons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “figure, representation”), from εἶδος (eîdos, “sight”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”). Doublet of aidoru, idol, and idolum and related to idea.
senses_examples:
text:
As a species it is extinct; as an eidolon it retains its corporeality – but only if maintained in a state of equipoise.
ref:
1936, Henry Miller, Black Spring
type:
quotation
text:
It was not hard to forge her image, her "eidolon", in the grey gloom of the little church.
ref:
1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality.
A phantom, a ghost or elusive entity.
An unsubstantial image, spectre, phantom.
senses_topics:
|
8848 | word:
deep
word_type:
adj
expansion:
deep (comparative deeper, superlative deepest)
forms:
form:
deeper
tags:
comparative
form:
deepest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English depe, deep, dep, deop, from Old English dēop (“deep, profound; awful, mysterious; heinous; serious, solemn, earnest; extreme, great”), from Proto-West Germanic *deup, from Proto-Germanic *deupaz (“deep”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-nós, from *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots depe (“deep”), Saterland Frisian djoop (“deep”), West Frisian djip (“deep”), Low German deep (“deep”), Dutch diep (“deep”), German tief (“deep”), Danish dyb (“deep”), Norwegian Bokmål dyp (“deep”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish djup (“deep”), Icelandic djúpur (“deep”), Lithuanian dubùs (“deep, hollow”), Albanian det (“sea”), Welsh dwfn (“deep”).
senses_examples:
text:
The lake is extremely deep.
type:
example
text:
We hiked into a deep valley between tall mountains.
type:
example
text:
There was a deep layer of dust on the floor; the room had not been disturbed for many years.
type:
example
text:
In the mid-1970s, the economy went into a deep recession.
type:
example
text:
We are in deep trouble.
type:
example
text:
While Britain’s recession has been deep and unforgiving, in London it has been relatively shallow.
ref:
2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-09-28
type:
quotation
text:
Diving down to deep wrecks can be dangerous.
type:
example
text:
I can't get the bullet out – it's too deep.
type:
example
text:
The shelves are 30 centimetres deep. — They are deep shelves.
type:
example
text:
That cyclist's deep chest allows him to draw more air.
type:
example
text:
The water was waist-deep.
type:
example
text:
There is an arm-deep hole in the wall.
type:
example
text:
a crowd three deep along the funeral procession
type:
example
text:
to take a deep breath / sigh / drink
type:
example
text:
He is fielding at deep mid wicket.
type:
example
text:
She hit a ball into deep center field.
type:
example
text:
a deep volley
type:
example
text:
a deep run into the opposition half
type:
example
text:
Our defensive live is too deep. We need to move further up the field.
type:
example
text:
She returns serve from a very deep position.
type:
example
text:
the brachialis is deep to the biceps
type:
example
text:
That is a deep thought!
type:
example
text:
They're in deep discussion.
type:
example
text:
a deep subject or plot
type:
example
text:
Why it was that the ancients had no landscape painting, is a question deep almost as the mystery of life, and harder of solution than all the problems of jurisprudence combined.
ref:
c. 1840, Thomas De Quincey
text:
I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow / My lack of knowledge is vast, and my horizons are narrow
ref:
2009, Jarvis Cocker (lyrics and music), “I Never Said I Was Deep”, in Further Complications.
type:
quotation
text:
She has a very deep contralto voice.
type:
example
text:
That's a very deep shade of blue.
type:
example
text:
The spices impart a deep flavour to the dish.
type:
example
text:
He was in a deep sleep.
type:
example
text:
deep time
type:
example
text:
in the deep past
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
Extending far down from the top, or surface, to the bottom, literally or figuratively.
Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
Positioned far from the surface or other reference point, especially down through something or into something.
Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
Far in extent in another (non-downwards, but generally also non-upwards) direction, especially front-to-back.
Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
Extending to a level or length equivalent to the stated thing.
Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
In a (specified) number of rows or layers.
Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
Thick.
Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
Voluminous.
Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
Far from the center of the playing area, near to the boundary of the playing area, either in absolute terms or relative to a point of reference.
Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
Penetrating a long way, especially a long way forward.
Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
Positioned back, or downfield, towards one's own goal, or towards or behind one's baseline or similar reference point.
Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
Further into the body.
Complex, involved.
Profound, having great meaning or import, but possibly obscure or not obvious.
Complex, involved.
Significant, not superficial, in extent.
Complex, involved.
Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; intricate; obscure.
Complex, involved.
Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
Complex, involved.
Inner, underlying, true; relating to one’s inner or private being rather than what is visible on the surface.
Low in pitch.
Highly saturated; rich.
Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken).
Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.
Distant in the past, ancient.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
anatomy
medicine
sciences
|
8849 | word:
deep
word_type:
adv
expansion:
deep (comparative more deep or deeper, superlative most deep or deepest)
forms:
form:
more deep
tags:
comparative
form:
deeper
tags:
comparative
form:
most deep
tags:
superlative
form:
deepest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English depe, deep, dep, deop, from Old English dēop (“deep, profound; awful, mysterious; heinous; serious, solemn, earnest; extreme, great”), from Proto-West Germanic *deup, from Proto-Germanic *deupaz (“deep”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-nós, from *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots depe (“deep”), Saterland Frisian djoop (“deep”), West Frisian djip (“deep”), Low German deep (“deep”), Dutch diep (“deep”), German tief (“deep”), Danish dyb (“deep”), Norwegian Bokmål dyp (“deep”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish djup (“deep”), Icelandic djúpur (“deep”), Lithuanian dubùs (“deep, hollow”), Albanian det (“sea”), Welsh dwfn (“deep”).
senses_examples:
text:
The ogre lived in a cave deep underground.
type:
example
text:
We ventured deep into the forest.
type:
example
text:
His problems lie deep in the subconscious.
type:
example
text:
I am deep in debt.
type:
example
text:
I thought long and deep.
text:
breathe deep, drink deep
text:
He's normally a midfield player, but today he's playing deep.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Far, especially far down through something or into something, physically or figuratively.
In a profound, not superficial, manner.
In large volume.
Back towards one's own goal, baseline, or similar.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
8850 | word:
deep
word_type:
noun
expansion:
deep (countable and uncountable, plural deeps)
forms:
form:
deeps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English depe, deep, dep, deop, from Old English dēop (“deep, profound; awful, mysterious; heinous; serious, solemn, earnest; extreme, great”), from Proto-West Germanic *deup, from Proto-Germanic *deupaz (“deep”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-nós, from *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots depe (“deep”), Saterland Frisian djoop (“deep”), West Frisian djip (“deep”), Low German deep (“deep”), Dutch diep (“deep”), German tief (“deep”), Danish dyb (“deep”), Norwegian Bokmål dyp (“deep”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish djup (“deep”), Icelandic djúpur (“deep”), Lithuanian dubùs (“deep, hollow”), Albanian det (“sea”), Welsh dwfn (“deep”).
senses_examples:
text:
creatures of the deep
type:
example
text:
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
ref:
Psalm 42 verse 7
type:
quotation
text:
the deep of night
type:
example
text:
For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]
ref:
2014, William H. Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
Russell is a safe pair of hands in the deep.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
The sea, the ocean.
A deep hole or pit, a water well; an abyss.
A deep or innermost part of something in general.
A silent time; quiet isolation.
A deep shade of colour.
The profound part of a problem.
A fielding position near the boundary.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
8851 | word:
colt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
colt (plural colts)
forms:
form:
colts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.
senses_examples:
text:
The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken.
ref:
1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
type:
quotation
text:
The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven.
ref:
1882, The Downside Review, volume 1, page 287
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A young male horse.
A young crane (bird).
A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
A professional cricketer during his first season.
A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
A young camel or donkey.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport
biblical
lifestyle
religion |
8852 | word:
colt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
colt (third-person singular simple present colts, present participle colting, simple past and past participle colted)
forms:
form:
colts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
colting
tags:
participle
present
form:
colted
tags:
participle
past
form:
colted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.
senses_examples:
text:
We watched our opportunity, seized him, and, laying him across a chest, we colted him with a boot-jack until we nearly killed him, he at the time suffering from numerous boils in the nates; and for all this he obtained no redress!
ref:
1849, The Lancet, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
[…] his first appearance the jury duly "colted" him.
ref:
1923, Notes and Queries, page 153
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To horse; to get with young.
To befool.
To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc.
senses_topics:
|
8853 | word:
neutronium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neutronium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
neutronium
etymology_text:
From neutron + -ium. Coined by scientist Andreas von Antropoff in 1926 (before the discovery of the neutron in 1931; neutrons had been predicted to exist in 1920).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A material composed entirely of neutrons.
A hypothetical gravitationally bound system of a neutron and an antineutron (the onium of a neutron), not predicted to exist under normal circumstances.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
8854 | word:
space
word_type:
noun
expansion:
space (countable and uncountable, plural spaces)
forms:
form:
spaces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
space
etymology_text:
From Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, variant of espace, espas et al., and spaze, variant of espace, from Latin spatium, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“to stretch, to pull”).
senses_examples:
text:
Which means that for every car there was 10 years ago, there are now 40. Which means - and this is my own, not totally scientific, calculation - that the space between cars on the roads in 1991 was roughly 39 car lengths, because today there is no space at all.
ref:
2001 November 3, Sam Wollaston, “Russian around”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
They also wanted a larger garden and more space for home working.
ref:
2007 May 12, Dominic Bradbury, “Lost and found - an artist's voyage from city to country”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply.
ref:
1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, section II
type:
quotation
text:
These are not questions which can be decided by reference to our space intuitions, for our intuitions are confined to Euclidean space, and even there are insufficient, approximative.
ref:
1880 August, Popular Science
type:
quotation
text:
The early results from Gravity Probe B, one of Nasa's most complicated satellites, confirmed yesterday 'to a precision of better than 1 per cent' the assertion Einstein made 90 years ago - that an object such as the Earth does indeed distort the fabric of space and time.
ref:
2007 April 15, Anushka Asthana, David Smith, The Observer
type:
quotation
text:
the first man in space
type:
example
text:
The human race must colonise space within the next two centuries or it will become extinct, Stephen Hawking warned today.
ref:
2010 August 9, Stephen Hawking, quotee, “Stephen Hawking: mankind must colonise space or die out”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Around the time of my parents' divorce, I learned that reading could also give me space.
ref:
1996, Linda Brodkey, Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only
type:
quotation
text:
I care about you Billy, whether you believe it or not; but right now I need my space.
ref:
2008, Jimmy Treigle, Walking on Water
type:
quotation
text:
In two days hence / The Judge of life and death aſcends his ſeat. / —This will afford him ſpace to reach the camp[…].
ref:
1793, Henry Boyd, “The Royal Message”, in Poems, Dublin: Graisberry and Campbell, page 408
type:
quotation
text:
I pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child.
ref:
1893, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Giles Corey
type:
quotation
text:
The match was lost, though, in the space of just twenty minutes or so.
ref:
2007 October 20, Andy Bull, “We wozn't robbed!”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
But their lead lasted just 10 minutes before Roman Pavlyuchenko and Jermain Defoe both headed home in the space of two minutes to wrestle back control.
ref:
2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The street door was open, and we entered a narrow space with washing facilities, curtained off from the courtyard.
ref:
2000, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Islam and Gender
type:
quotation
text:
Converted from vast chambers beneath the old Bankside Power Station which once held a million gallons of oil, the new public areas consist of two large circular spaces for performances and film installations, plus a warren of smaller rooms.
ref:
2012 July 16, Charlotte Higgins, “Tate Modern unlocks Tanks – and introduces live art into mainstream”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The note next above Sol is La; La, therefore, stands in the 2nd space; Si, on the 3rd line, &c.
ref:
1849, Guillaume Louis Bocquillon-Wilhem, translated by John Pyke Hullah, Wilhelm's Method of Teaching Singing
type:
quotation
text:
The lines and spaces of the staff are named according to the first seven letters of the alphabet, that is, A B C D E F G.
ref:
1990, Sammy Nzioki, Music Time
type:
quotation
text:
According to experts, a single line of text should rarely exceed about 50 characters (including letters and all the spaces between words).
ref:
1992, Sam H Ham, Environmental Interpretation
type:
quotation
text:
It should be typed a space below the salutation : Dear Sir, Subject : Replacement of defective items.
ref:
2005, Dr BR Kishore, Dynamic Business Letter Writing
type:
quotation
text:
If it be only a Single Letter or two that drops, he thruſts the end of his Bodkin between every Letter of that Word, till he comes to a Space: and then perhaps by forcing thoſe Letters closer, he may have room to put in another Space or a Thin Space; which if he cannot do, and he finds the Space ſtand Looſe in the Form; he with the Point of his Bodkin picks the Space up and bows it a little; which bowing makes the Letters on each ſide of the Space keep their parallel diſtance; for by its Spring it thruſts the Letters that were cloſed with the end of the Bodkin to their adjunct Letters, that needed no cloſing.
ref:
1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., volume 2, pages 240–1
type:
quotation
text:
Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.
ref:
1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.
ref:
2005, Phil Baines, Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd edition, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
Mainstream Hollywood would not cater to the taste for sexual sensation, which left a space for B-movies, including noir.
ref:
2004, Harry M Benshoff, editor, Queer Cinéma
type:
quotation
text:
A horizontal scar filled the space on her chest where her right breast used to be.
ref:
2009, Barbara L. Lev, From Pink to Green
type:
quotation
text:
Functional analysis is best approached through a sound knowledge of Hilbert space theory.
type:
example
text:
innovation in the browser space
type:
example
text:
CNBC has shown a greater commitment to the crypto space than most other mainstream outlets, providing daily updates on bitcoin or other very large cryptocurrencies.
ref:
2019, Ryan Derousseau, The Everything Guide to Investing in Cryptocurrency […], Simon and Schuster, page 269
type:
quotation
text:
[T]hey became responsible for managing aspects of civilian labour in the medical space, and their roles were contrasted with those of the female physiotherapists in the hospital.
ref:
2020, Alexia Moncrieff, Expertise, Authority and Control, Cambridge University Press, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
Communication in Internet chat spaces allows participants to communicate so freely in the relative safety of anonymity that they forget their privacy.
ref:
2007, Jacob van Kokswijk, Digital Ego: Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Identity, page 88
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
Distance between things.
Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
Physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).
Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this.
Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.
Of time.
Free time; leisure, opportunity.
Of time.
A specific (specified) period of time.
Of time.
An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.
A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries.
A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines.
A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap.
A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad).
A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A gap; an empty place.
A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space).
A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A field, area, or sphere of activity or endeavour.
A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
Anything analogous to a physical space in which one can interact, such as an online chat room.
senses_topics:
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
entertainment
heading
lifestyle
music
heading
heading
letterpress-typography
media
publishing
typography
heading
geometry
heading
mathematics
sciences
heading
mathematics
sciences
heading
heading |
8855 | word:
space
word_type:
verb
expansion:
space (third-person singular simple present spaces, present participle spacing, simple past and past participle spaced)
forms:
form:
spaces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
spacing
tags:
participle
present
form:
spaced
tags:
participle
past
form:
spaced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
space
etymology_text:
From Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, variant of espace, espas et al., and spaze, variant of espace, from Latin spatium, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“to stretch, to pull”).
senses_examples:
text:
But she as Fayes are wont, in priuie place / Did spend her dayes, and lov'd in forests wyld to space.
ref:
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii
type:
quotation
text:
Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill.
type:
example
text:
The cities are evenly spaced.
type:
example
text:
This paragraph seems badly spaced.
type:
example
text:
My sprout, like I'm totally spaced over you and besides I like older women (arh-arh). I love you...
ref:
1986 August 16, “Happy Birthday Doo (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 5, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
The captain spaced the traitors.
type:
example
text:
Sound effect of blow with blunt instrument, groan, and the unmistakable cycling of an air lock—Castor: "Sorry, folks. My assistant has just spaced Mr. Rudolf. […]"
ref:
1952, Robert A. Heinlein, The Rolling Stones
type:
quotation
text:
A lot of people make jokes about spacing somebody, about shoving somebody out an airlock. I don't think it's funny. Never will.
ref:
1995, J. Michael Straczynski, And Now for a Word (Babylon 5), season 2, episode 15, spoken by Dr. Stephen Franklin (Richard Biggs)
type:
quotation
text:
He well remembered, when he was a junior officer, how the sight of a well dressed, impeccably neat commanding officer, no matter how long they had been spacing, maintained the enthusiasm, confidence and morale of the officers and men.
ref:
1947 January 24, Bernard I. Kahn, “Command”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 38, number 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To roam, walk, wander.
To set some distance apart.
To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
To space out (become distracted, lose focus).
To kill someone by ejecting them into outer space, usually without a space suit.
To travel into and through outer space.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction |
8856 | word:
gemstone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gemstone (plural gemstones)
forms:
form:
gemstones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gimstone, alteration (due to Middle English gemme) of earlier ȝimston, ȝimstan, from Old English ġimstān, ġymstān (“gem; jewel; precious stone”), equivalent to gem + stone. Compare Icelandic gimsteinn (“jewel; gem”), Faroese gimsteinur (“jewel, precious stone”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gem, usually made of minerals.
senses_topics:
|
8857 | word:
squirrel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
squirrel (plural squirrels)
forms:
form:
squirrels
head_nr:
1
tags:
plural
form:
Wikispecies
head_nr:
2
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
squirrel
etymology_text:
From Middle English squirel, squyrelle, from Anglo-Norman esquirel and Old French escurel (whence French écureuil), from Vulgar Latin *scūriolus, diminutive of *scūrius, variant of Latin sciūrus, from Ancient Greek σκίουρος (skíouros) "shadow-tail", from σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).
Displaced native Middle English acquerne, aquerne, from Old English ācweorna.
senses_examples:
text:
He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirrels.
ref:
1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX, "The Sea and the Desert", page 187
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae distinguished by their large bushy tail.
One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder.
Someone who displays a squirrel-like qualities such as stealing or hoarding objects.
A person, usually a freezoner, who applies L. Ron Hubbard's technology in a heterodox manner.
senses_topics:
Scientology
lifestyle
religion |
8858 | word:
squirrel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
squirrel (third-person singular simple present squirrels, present participle squirreling or (Commonwealth) squirrelling, simple past and past participle squirreled or (Commonwealth) squirrelled)
forms:
form:
squirrels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
squirreling
tags:
participle
present
form:
squirrelling
tags:
Commonwealth
participle
present
form:
squirreled
tags:
participle
past
form:
squirreled
tags:
past
form:
squirrelled
tags:
Commonwealth
participle
past
form:
squirrelled
tags:
Commonwealth
past
wikipedia:
squirrel
etymology_text:
From Middle English squirel, squyrelle, from Anglo-Norman esquirel and Old French escurel (whence French écureuil), from Vulgar Latin *scūriolus, diminutive of *scūrius, variant of Latin sciūrus, from Ancient Greek σκίουρος (skíouros) "shadow-tail", from σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).
Displaced native Middle English acquerne, aquerne, from Old English ācweorna.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To store in a secretive manner, to hide something for future use
senses_topics:
|
8859 | word:
handle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handle (plural handles)
forms:
form:
handles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Handle (grip)
etymology_text:
From Middle English handel, handle, from Old English handle (“a handle”), from handlian (“to handle, feel, deal with, discuss”). See verb below. Cognate with Danish handel (“a handle”).
senses_examples:
text:
Once his fingers strayed to the handle of his hunting-knife, and I should have interfered had I not been conscious that Wickliffe was on his guard.
ref:
1854, John Hovey Robinson, Silver-knife: or, The hunters of the Rocky Mountains, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
By pushing the fork downwards so that its teeth pass the handle of the stopper, and then turning the cover of the desiccator 90°, the handle of the stopper falls into the furrows and rests upon them.
ref:
1902, “Atomic Weight of Lanthanum”, in Journal of the Chemical Society, volume 81, part 2
type:
quotation
text:
By keeping the handle of the bellows fixed in any given position the lung within the chamber could be kept for a short time at any desired degree of distension, and by pressing at intervals upon the bag, air could be forced to and fro between the bad and the lung outside the chamber, without distending the air within it.
ref:
1905, “Origin of the Respiratory Sounds”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, volume 37
type:
quotation
text:
But first they were gonna stop in Las Vegas / It's off to Las Vegas / To check out the lounges / Pull a few handles
ref:
1972, Frank Zappa (lyrics and music), “Billy the Mountain”
type:
quotation
text:
Nothing can be more reprehensible, or wicked, than to make Christian Missions a handle for political expansion.
ref:
1894, Robert Needham Cust, Essay on the prevailing methods of the evangelization of the non-Christian world, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
Many investigators feel that the double requirement for the antigen-recognition by cytotoxic T cells or DTH-reactive T cells may provide a handle for solving the T-cell receptor puzzle, and that anti-Id reagents are to be used in this approach.
ref:
1978, William Hay Taliaferro, John Herbert Humphrey, Advances in immunology, page 224
type:
quotation
text:
Indeed, at the beginning of the session he was careful to make "no declarations of what might hereafter be measures, so as to give anybody a handle for fixing him down to any particular system."
ref:
1997, Allen S. Johnson, A prologue to revolution: the political career of George Grenville, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
The daily handle of a Las Vegas casino is typically millions of dollars.
type:
example
text:
For a casino table game,the handle is difficult to determine, as it consists of all the bets made in every game, whether by chip or by cash play.
ref:
2001, William Norman Thompson, Gambling in America: an encyclopedia of history, issues, and society, page 421
type:
quotation
text:
Note here, however, that the casino's "edge" (its expected value per unit bet, or, in casino jargon, the house p.c.) in table games is expressed as a percentage of the handle and not as a percentage of the drop (even though these might sometimes be the same).
ref:
2001, Harold L. Vogel, Travel industry economics: a guide for financial analysis, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
The results for the dog racing model indicate that increases in lottery sales and decreases in horse racing handle and casino revenues in the state in question statistically increase dog racing handle.
ref:
2007, Douglas M. Walker, The economics of casino gambling, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
We sat together at the restaurant and asked him about his handle (CB name).
ref:
1997, Jack Canfield, Hanoch McCarty, A 4th course of chicken soup for the soul, page 312
type:
quotation
text:
This was so unexpected that Jack came close to gabbling out his real name instead of the one he had used at the Golden Spoon, the name he also used if the people who picked him up asked for his handle.
ref:
2001, Stephen King, Peter Straub, The Talisman
type:
quotation
text:
"I don't actually know his birth name. He just uses his handle."
ref:
2007, Jon Evans, Invisible Armies, page 253
type:
quotation
text:
The successful businessman was knighted and acquired a handle to his name.
type:
example
text:
This article describes how to find the module name from the window handle.
type:
example
text:
A handle for a type instance is similar to an open file descriptor; it is used to reference that type instance when performing operations on it.
ref:
1989, Petrus Maria Gerardus Apers, Gio Wiederhold, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Very Large Data, page 383
type:
quotation
text:
By contrast, when a host function creates a handle for a nested function and returns that handle to a calling program, the host function's workspace is created and remains in existence for as long as the function handle remains in existence.
ref:
2008, Stephen J. Chapman, MATLAB programming for engineers, page 354
type:
quotation
text:
A shudder passes over him and he orders another handle of beer.
ref:
2002, Kate Duignan, Breakwater, Victoria University Press, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
Imagine staring into the heavens on a clear night and seeing a handle of beer floating amongst the stars, or an angel, or the face of a famous celebrity.
ref:
2006, Rod Hylands, Lateral Connection, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
When ordering a beer, you'll get either a handle (mug) or a one-liter jug (pitcher).
ref:
2008, Stephanie E. Butler, Fodor's 2009 New Zealand, page 571
type:
quotation
text:
Josh bought a fifth of Evan Williams for Andrew as a token of gratitude and Ray, because of the financial constraints, purchased the cheapest handle of whiskey he could find: Heaven Hill.
ref:
2014, Ray Stoeser, Josh Cuffe, Bury My Body Down By the Highway Side, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
the Handle of the Sug in Newfoundland
type:
example
text:
Such a 2-handle cancels the 1-handle so the manifold is D⁴.
ref:
2003, Gordana Matić, Clint McCrory, Topology and geometry of manifolds, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
That Nose, which in the infant could annoy, / Was grown a perfect nuisance in the boy. / Whene'er he walk'd, his Handle went before, / Long as the snout of Ferret, or Wild Boar; […]
ref:
1811, Charles Lamb, Prince Dorus
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool, or an opportunity or pretext.
The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments.
The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience, and other qualities perceived by touch.
A name or nickname, especially as an identifier over the radio or Internet.
A title attached to one's name, such as Doctor or Colonel.
A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
A traditional dimpled glass with a handle, for serving a pint of beer.
A 10 fluid ounce (285 mL) glass of beer.
A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol.
A point, an extremity of land.
A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional balls.
The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components in exactly one point.
A person's nose.
senses_topics:
gambling
games
business
manufacturing
textiles
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
geography
natural-sciences
mathematics
sciences
topology
algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
|
8860 | word:
handle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
handle (third-person singular simple present handles, present participle handling, simple past and past participle handled)
forms:
form:
handles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
handling
tags:
participle
present
form:
handled
tags:
participle
past
form:
handled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Handle (grip)
etymology_text:
From Middle English handlen, from Old English handlian (“to handle, feel, deal with, discuss”), from Proto-West Germanic *handulōn, from Proto-Germanic *handulōną (“to take, grip, feel”), equivalent to hand + -le. Cognate with West Frisian handelje, hanneljen, hanljen (“to handle, treat”), Dutch handelen (“to handle, deal, act, negotiate”), German handeln (“to act, trade, negotiate, behave”), Swedish handla (“to buy, trade, deal”), Icelandic höndla (“to handle”).
senses_examples:
text:
Encourage the client to handle her breasts to grow accustomed to touching them, thus enabling milk production in the first few days after birth.
ref:
1995, Adele Pillitteri, Pocket Guide for Maternal & Child Health Nursing, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
Robert Huth handled a Bentley shot, only for the offence to go unnoticed.
ref:
2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
The hardness of the winters forces the breeders to house and handle their colts for at least six months every year.
ref:
1679, William Temple, An essay upon the advancement of trade in Ireland.
type:
quotation
text:
Light on his feet for a big man, he handled the rifle like a pistol.
ref:
1976, Mel Hallin Bolster, Crazy Snake and the Smoked Meat Rebellion, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
The findings emerged from questionnaires filled in by 2,211 staff in 145 wards of 55 hospitals in England and Wales and 105 observations of care of dementia patients. Two-thirds of staff said they had not had enough training to provide proper care, 50% said they had not been trained how to communicate properly with such patients and 54% had not been told how to handle challenging or aggressive behaviour.
ref:
2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
You also handle the accounts for Julie Wojakowski, what about her? Any recent deposits in that amount?
ref:
2015, Nora Quick, Case of the Missing Millionaire
type:
quotation
text:
University station opened in May 1978 and was designed to handle around 500,000 passengers a year, a significantly lower figure than the 3.5 million passengers who now use it.
ref:
2019 October, “Consultation on University Station designs”, in Modern Railways, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
she handled the news with grace
type:
example
text:
the Persians handled the French ambassador shamefully
type:
example
text:
If traditional painting handled the same themes again and again, a truth which people are apt to overlook is that we often get startlingly different compositions of the same theme or episode.
ref:
1976, Krishna Chaitanya, A History of Indian Painting: The modern period, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock
type:
example
text:
I can't handle this hot weather.
type:
example
text:
For example, a program that loads data from a file needs to handle the case where that file is not found.
ref:
2014, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban
type:
quotation
text:
the car handles well
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
To manage, control, or direct.
To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
To use the hands.
To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm; to commit handball.
To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
|
8861 | word:
wedge
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wedge (countable and uncountable, plural wedges)
forms:
form:
wedges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wedge
wedge (mechanical device)
etymology_text:
From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.
senses_examples:
text:
Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.
type:
example
text:
Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?
type:
example
text:
We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza.
type:
example
text:
It is one of the ironies of capital cities that each acts as a symbol of its nation, and yet few are even remotely representative of it. London has always set itself apart from the rest of Britain — but political, economic and social trends are conspiring to drive that wedge deeper.
ref:
2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-09-28
type:
quotation
text:
She was wearing wedges, and I have a horrible suspicion they were her mum's wedges left over from the last century.
ref:
2010, Sue Limb, Girls, Guilty But Somehow Glorious
type:
quotation
text:
He's got some decent wedge. (uncountable)
type:
example
text:
I made a big fat wedge from that job. (countable)
type:
example
text:
I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.
type:
example
text:
She hoped it wasn't a meatball wedge, because there's so much garlic in school meatballs that it might make my breath smell and knock the agent out of his chair.
ref:
1983, Marlene Fanta Shyer, Adorable Sunday, Scholastic
type:
quotation
text:
Most people realize there are a lot of different names for that type of sandwich, so Scalone wondered what was so funny about wedge?
ref:
2019 October 10, Mark Lungariello, “It's called a wedge in Westchester: Not a hoagie, sub or a grinder”, in The Journal News
type:
quotation
text:
The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček.
ref:
1982, Thomas Pyles, John Algeo, The Origins and Development of the English Language, 3rd edition, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
The tilde and the circumflex have a place in the ASCII scheme but the wedge and the umlaut do not.
ref:
1996, Geoffrey Keith Pullum, William A. Ladusaw, Phonetic Symbol Guide, 2nd edition, page xxvi
type:
quotation
text:
The háček or ‘wedge’ ⟨ˇ⟩ is a diacritic commonly used in Slavic orthographies. […] As a tone mark the wedge is used iconically for a falling-rising tone as in Chinese Pinyin.
ref:
1999, Florian Coulmas, “háček”, in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
Turned V is referred to as “Wedge” by some phoneticians, but this seems inadvisable to us, because the haček accent (ˇ) is also called that in names like Wedge C for (č).
ref:
1996, Geoffrey Keith Pullum, William A. Ladusaw, Phonetic Symbol Guide, 2nd edition, page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
An ingot.
Silver or items made of silver collectively.
A quantity of money.
A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
A háček.
Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
A wedge tornado.
A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
architecture
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
media
publishing
typography
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
mathematics
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
business
finance |
8862 | word:
wedge
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wedge (third-person singular simple present wedges, present participle wedging, simple past and past participle wedged)
forms:
form:
wedges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wedging
tags:
participle
present
form:
wedged
tags:
participle
past
form:
wedged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
wedge
etymology_text:
From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.
senses_examples:
text:
I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
type:
example
text:
He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.
type:
example
text:
I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully.
type:
example
text:
During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.
ref:
2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents
type:
quotation
text:
My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To support or secure using a wedge.
To force into a narrow gap.
To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
To cleave with a wedge.
To force or drive with a wedge.
To shape into a wedge.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
8863 | word:
wedge
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wedge (plural wedges)
forms:
form:
wedges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wedge
etymology_text:
From Wedgewood, surname of the person who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
senses_examples:
text:
The last man is called the Wedge, corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics.
ref:
1873, Charles Astor Bristed, Five Years in an English University
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
senses_topics:
|
8864 | word:
spoony
word_type:
adj
expansion:
spoony (comparative spoonier, superlative spooniest)
forms:
form:
spoonier
tags:
comparative
form:
spooniest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From spoon + -y. See notes at spoonie.
senses_examples:
text:
"My dear Guy, the fact is, that I can't—force the girl's—feelings. You shall come with us—to-morrow, and speak to her as you like—but—if she does not like you—au'd'ammee! Why you know I can't make her. She—silly child—is spoony, I think, on that cousin of her's, Dalrymple—he, I believe, is spoony on her."
ref:
1852, Henry Drummond Wolff, Blondelle, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
Of course, it was unlikely to unfold on its own. Romilda was shy and Mr. Reeves was a professional. Even if they were absolutely spoony for each other it was difficult to imagine either of them taking that first scary step toward romance.
ref:
2020, Lorna Locke, Romie's Fantasies (Lakeside Lovers; 3)
type:
quotation
text:
That's a very spoony fork.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Enamored in a silly or sentimental way.
Feebly sentimental; gushy.
Similar to a spoon
senses_topics:
|
8865 | word:
spoony
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spoony (plural spoonies)
forms:
form:
spoonies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From spoon + -y. See notes at spoonie.
senses_examples:
text:
Occasionally, a Fascinating Lady catches a rich spoony whom she can manage and control. In that case, she continues to have all her whims fully gratified until Mr. Spoony's fortune is exhausted, and the creditors carry off the off the nice furniture.
ref:
1861, Marie Louise Hankins, “The Fascinating Lady”, in Women of New York, page 129
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A foolish, simple, or silly person.
A foolishly amorous person.
senses_topics:
|
8866 | word:
kith
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kith (usually uncountable, plural kiths)
forms:
form:
kiths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Mental Floss
Pocket (service)
etymology_text:
From Middle English kith (“kinsmen, relations”), from Old English cȳþþ, cȳþþu (“kinship, kinsfolk, relations”), from Proto-Germanic *kunþiþō (“knowledge, acquaintance”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Cognate with Old High German kundida (“kith”), kundī (“knowledge”), Gothic 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌹 (kunþi, “knowledge”). More at couth, -th.
senses_examples:
text:
The demography-crossing thing that undergirds this election year, I think, is a strong, broad desire to punish Clinton and his kith with a denial of further power.
ref:
2000 August 3, Michael Kelly, “New Hope For Nice Guys”, in Orlando Sentinel, retrieved 2013-04-06
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Friends and acquaintances.
An acquaintance or a friend.
senses_topics:
|
8867 | word:
profile
word_type:
noun
expansion:
profile (countable and uncountable, plural profiles)
forms:
form:
profiles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French profil, from Italian profilo (“a border”), later also proffilo (“a side-face, profile”), from Latin pro (“before”) + filo (“a line, stroke, thread”), from filum (“a thread”); see file. Doublet of purfle.
senses_examples:
text:
His fingers traced the profile of the handle.
type:
example
text:
The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman.
type:
example
text:
Driver's licenses have a photograph of the person on them, which is in full face if the person is above legal drinking age, or in profile if not.
type:
example
text:
Law enforcement assembled a profile of the suspect.
type:
example
text:
I just updated my Facebook profile to show I got engaged.
type:
example
text:
Acting is, by nature, profession in which one must keep a high profile.
type:
example
text:
Choose a handle with a low profile so it does not catch on things.
type:
example
text:
What's the thermal profile on that thing?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
The amount by which something protrudes.
A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
senses_topics:
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
architecture
civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
military
politics
war |
8868 | word:
profile
word_type:
verb
expansion:
profile (third-person singular simple present profiles, present participle profiling, simple past and past participle profiled)
forms:
form:
profiles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
profiling
tags:
participle
present
form:
profiled
tags:
participle
past
form:
profiled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French profil, from Italian profilo (“a border”), later also proffilo (“a side-face, profile”), from Latin pro (“before”) + filo (“a line, stroke, thread”), from filum (“a thread”); see file. Doublet of purfle.
senses_examples:
text:
The book The Men with the Pink Triangles, profiling the lives of gay prisoners in the German concentration camp.
ref:
1984 April 7, Warren Blumenfeld, “Boston's Other Voice”, in Gay Community News, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
A resource that profiles the important language of secondary disciplines by adapting the methods of EAP research could therefore be very useful for such pedagogy.
ref:
2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
[…] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications.
ref:
2006, Dr. Dobb's Journal
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
To draw in profile or outline.
To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
8869 | word:
white hole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
white hole (plural white holes)
forms:
form:
white holes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
white hole
etymology_text:
By analogy with black hole.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A theoretically possible, but physically highly unlikely, singularity from which matter and energy are able to escape but unable to enter; the antithesis of a black hole.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, hole.
senses_topics:
astrophysics
|
8870 | word:
potable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
potable (comparative more potable, superlative most potable)
forms:
form:
more potable
tags:
comparative
form:
most potable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English potable (“drinkable, potable”), from Middle French, Old French potable (modern French potable (“drinkable, potable”)), and from its etymon Late Latin pōtābilis (“drinkable, potable”), from Latin pōtāre (“to drink”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon). Pōtāre is the present active infinitive of pōtō (“to drink”), from Proto-Italic *pōtos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- (“to drink”).
The English word is cognate with Catalan potable, Italian potabile, Spanish potable.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Good for drinking without fear of disease or poisoning.
senses_topics:
|
8871 | word:
potable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
potable (plural potables)
forms:
form:
potables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English potable (“drinkable, potable”), from Middle French, Old French potable (modern French potable (“drinkable, potable”)), and from its etymon Late Latin pōtābilis (“drinkable, potable”), from Latin pōtāre (“to drink”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon). Pōtāre is the present active infinitive of pōtō (“to drink”), from Proto-Italic *pōtos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- (“to drink”).
The English word is cognate with Catalan potable, Italian potabile, Spanish potable.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
Any drinkable liquid; a beverage.
senses_topics:
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8872 | word:
CEO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CEO (countable and uncountable, plural CEOs)
forms:
form:
CEOs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
CEOs who once made 50 times the average worker’s salary made more than 500 times as much in 2001. — Evan Thomas, Why It’s Time to Worry, Newsweek 2010-12-04
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of chief executive officer.
Initialism of civil enforcement officer.
Acronym of current engine option.
senses_topics:
business
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
8873 | word:
CEO
word_type:
verb
expansion:
CEO (third-person singular simple present CEOs, present participle CEOing, simple past and past participle CEOed)
forms:
form:
CEOs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
CEOing
tags:
participle
present
form:
CEOed
tags:
participle
past
form:
CEOed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Daddy-David's answer was CEOing. He'd CEOed at three companies, most recently as head of an electronic sensor manufacturer. “He's completely turned them around in less than a year,” Lise trilled, “and never missed Friday afternoon Bible study.”
ref:
2018, Michael Andreoni, The Window Is a Mirror, Livonia, MI: BHC Press, page unknown
type:
quotation
text:
“We’d like you to be our CEO,” the board would say, and the CEO would say “sounds great but I am also the CEO of another company, is that a problem,” and the board would say “yes of course that’s a problem, we meant you’d quit your other CEO job and work for us, that’s how CEOing works, […]”
ref:
2020 March 2, Matt Levine, “Twitter Owner Wants Full-Time CEO”, in Bloomberg
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To serve as the chief executive officer (CEO) of an organization or company.
senses_topics:
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8874 | word:
correct
word_type:
adj
expansion:
correct (comparative more correct, superlative most correct)
forms:
form:
more correct
tags:
comparative
form:
most correct
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from com- (“together”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).
senses_examples:
text:
Your test was completely correct, you get 10 out of 10
type:
example
text:
We all agreed they'd made the correct decision.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Free from error; true; accurate; astute.
With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
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8875 | word:
correct
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from com- (“together”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
senses_topics:
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8876 | word:
correct
word_type:
noun
expansion:
correct (plural corrects)
forms:
form:
corrects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from com- (“together”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).
senses_examples:
text:
Having each day's rates of corrects and incorrects written next to the graph also makes it easier for you to check the […] If you also have students count problems incorrect, calling them “not yets,” or “learning opportunities,” or […]
ref:
2013, Julie Vargas, Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A correct response.
senses_topics:
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8877 | word:
correct
word_type:
verb
expansion:
correct (third-person singular simple present corrects, present participle correcting, simple past and past participle corrected)
forms:
form:
corrects
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
correcting
tags:
participle
present
form:
corrected
tags:
participle
past
form:
corrected
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.
senses_examples:
text:
You'll need to correct your posture if you're going to be a professional dancer.
type:
example
text:
The navigator corrected the course of the ship.
type:
example
text:
Her millions of adoring fans had yet to hear her speak, and when she finally did, she sounded more like a sailor than a starlet, spewing a profanity-laced, G-dropping Brooklynese that no amount of dialect coaching could correct.
ref:
2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27
type:
quotation
text:
The teacher stayed up all night correcting exams.
type:
example
text:
It's rude to correct your parents.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
To grade (examination papers).
To inform (someone) of their error.
To discipline; to punish.
senses_topics:
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8878 | word:
dojo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dojo (plural dojos or dojo)
forms:
form:
dojos
tags:
plural
form:
dojo
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 道場 (dōjō, literally “place of the ways”). Doublet of dojang.
senses_examples:
text:
I was to be there [Helsinki, Finland] for over two weeks; and because a hotel room affords a rather awkward place of practice, I went looking for a dojo. Finally after hearing rumors of dojos from various citizens I turned to the equivalent of Helsinki's Yellow Pages. There I found listed, under Meido-Kan, the name of one Kare K. Käyhkö.
ref:
1965 October, Dean Nelson, “Finland Welcomes Karateman”, in Norman Fogel, editor, Black Belt: Magazine of the Martial Arts, volume III, number 10, Los Angeles, Calif.: Black Belt, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
When his teacher moved from the area, Mr. Demura was relocated to another dojo which taught both karate and kendo.
ref:
1971, Fumio Demura, “About the Author”, in Nunchaku: Karate Weapon of Self-defense, Los Angeles, Calif.: Black Belt Books, Ohara Publications, published 2005, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Most dojo, unless they maintain a group coverage for their students, will require you to sign a waiver before you begin attending class.
ref:
1974, Tonny Tulleners, “Want to Learn Karate?”, in Beginning Karate, Santa Clarita, Calif.: Ohara Publications, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
The first thing the students had to do when they entered the dojo was to rei (bow) to the floor. This showed respect for the dojo, treating it with humbleness.
ref:
2012 November 26, Reese Rigby, “Proper Dojo Etiquette”, in They Call Me Sensei, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Earlier dojos were known as homebrew clubs. [...] In Silicon Valley, a dojo is defined as a do-ocracy where people come together based on shared interests and passions, such as coding and robotics. [...] David Crawley, a semiconductor physicist and founder of Hacker Dojo Robotics, shared with me that it had been a passion of his to pull robotics hobbyists together with 12 challenges in mind: drive around three cones, deliver a pizza from the front door of the dojo to a predetermined location inside, [...]
ref:
2014, Deborah Perry Piscione, “Improvisational Innovation: Two Words that Will Turn Employee Ideas into Execution”, in The Risk Factor: Why Every Organization Needs Big Bets, Bold Characters, and the Occasional Spectacular Failure, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, part II (The DNA of a Bold Risk-taker), page 117
type:
quotation
text:
By bringing the people across their value streams closer together, physically, and by using the dojo environment to experiment with new ways of working, [Aimee] Bechtle and [John] Schmidt claimed they have achieved a state of "no fear change". [...] Both times they set up the dojo, Schmidt said, "This is going to be messy"; they were creating a psychologically safe environment in which the team could experiment.
ref:
2018 August 23, Helen Beal, “The State of DevOps in Banking – Report from DOES London 2018”, in InfoQ, archived from the original on 2019-05-15
type:
quotation
text:
We first see [Shōji] Segawa as a shy boy good at shogi, which makes him a nerd in the eyes of some [...] Then, at the urging of his kindly father (Jun Kunimura), Segawa tests himself against adult opponents at a shogi dojo – a smoke-filled lair presided over by a grizzled master (Issey Ogata) who recognizes the [boy's] ability and urges them to apply to the Shogi Federation’s training academy for future pros.
ref:
2018 August 29, Mark Schilling, “‘The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan’: It’s never too late to make your move [film review]”, in The Japan Times, Tokyo: News2u Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-08-30
type:
quotation
text:
In this class of truck it’s all about torque, and the Hilux has that in spades. [...] Its traction control stamps the ground with the immovable authority of a sumo wrestler entering the dojo.
ref:
2017 September 3, Martin Love, “Toyota Hilux pick-up review: ‘A work horse, not a fashion pony’”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-10-05
type:
quotation
text:
Women [...] considered "impure", are not allowed on the dojo, circular location of the fight considered a sacred place. The inflexibility of the sumo world on this point had caused a scandal last year when women doctors and nurses had come to the dojo to help an elected official feeling uncomfortable during a speech at a tournament. The sumo association had to present "sincere apologies" for asking them to come down as soon as possible.
ref:
2019 January 16, “Sumo: Kisenosato, only current yokozuna born in Japan, retires”, in Pakistan Today, Lahore: Arif Nizami, →ISSN, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Most stables are off-limits but Hakkaku's allows paying guests accompanied by a guide to watch a morning training session. Because sumo competitions are held just six times a year, it's a great way for visitors to experience this uniquely Japanese phenomenon. [...] Guests silently shuffle into the small dojo to sit or kneel just feet from where the enormous fighters are practising.
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2019 July 27, Declan McVeigh, “Hakkaku stable: How to watch Tokyo’s sumo stars train live”, in The National, Abu Dhabi: International Media Investments, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-29
type:
quotation
text:
Novak Djokovic had fought against other sumo players in a dojo before he started Japan Open, but the tennis champion was clearly out of his league. [...] "I had a slight weight deficit but I was very close to moving the guy an inch. They say they eat at least 10.000 calories a day to be strong and big. Don't know if I can match that to be honest", Nole commented on his poor performance in the dojo.
ref:
2019 October 2, Claudiu Pop, “Djokovic Tried Sumo Wrestling before Japan Open, but Failed to Impress”, in Tennis World, archived from the original on 2019-10-08
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A training facility, usually led by one or more sensei; a hall or room used for such training.
A room or other facility used for other activities, such as meditation or software development.
Synonym of dohyo (“the ring in which a sumo wrestling match is held”)
senses_topics:
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling |
8879 | word:
dojo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dojo
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 泥鰌 (dojō, “pond loach”).
senses_examples:
text:
The head of the dojô is small, the mouth is surrounded by six or eight barbules as is the case with several species of fish which inhabit muddy streams. [...] A microscopic examination showed them [the barbules] to be rich in muscular fibres for movement, and through the centre run a thick bundle of very delicate nerve fibres which spread out on the surface of each barbule's tip. These, I suppose from the manner which the dojô dips its head down, assist in the search for food, [...]
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1878 January 26, H[enry] Faulds, “Remarks on the Dojô”, in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, volume VI, part I, Yokohama: Printed at the “Japan Mail” Office, →OCLC, page 183
type:
quotation
text:
[A] comparative test on susceptibility to E1-43, 064 between the goldfish and ‘Dojo’ fish was made by dipping method. The result has shown that the ‘Dojo’ fish is 5.32 times as susceptible as the goldfish to E1-43, 064.
ref:
1971, Robert M. Howland, editor, Sport Fishery Abstracts, volume 16, number 1, Narragansett, R.I.: Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, →ISSN, →OCLC, abstract 13071, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
All of us kids used to swim in the stream and fish for dojo, funa, and goby.
ref:
2007, John R. K. Clark, “Jizo the Protector”, in Guardian of the Sea: Jizo in Hawaiʻi (Latitude 20 Book), Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, page 51
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The dojo loach, Japanese weather loach, or pond loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus), a freshwater fish native to East Asia.
senses_topics:
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8880 | word:
prince
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prince (plural princes)
forms:
form:
princes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
prince
etymology_text:
From Middle English prince, from Anglo-Norman prince, from Latin prīnceps (“first head”), from prīmus (“first”) + capiō (“seize, take”). Cognate with Old English fruma (“prince, ruler”). Doublet of princeps.
Displaced native Middle English atheling, from Old English æþeling; Middle English kinebarn, from Old English cynebearn; Middle English alder, from Old English ealdor; and Middle English drighten, from Old English dryhten.
senses_examples:
text:
By his last years Erasmus realized that princes like Henry VIII and François I had deceived him in their elaborate negotiations for universal peace, but his belief in the potential of princely power for good remained undimmed.
ref:
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 600
type:
quotation
text:
If Henry does not fully trust him, is it surprising? A prince is alone: in his council chamber, in his bedchamber, and finally in Hell's antechamber, stripped – as Harry Percy said – for Judgment.
ref:
2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 411
type:
quotation
text:
He is a prince among men.
type:
example
text:
He is the prince who never grew up – a one-time playboy and son of the Hollywood star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco.
ref:
2011 June 26, Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Prince Louis de Broglie won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics.
type:
example
text:
Conspiracy theories are always enticing: one I was involved with in the 50s was about Mayerling, the 19th-century Austrian scandal involving a prince’s lover who died in dodgy circumstances in a hunting lodge.
ref:
2011 October 16, Katharine Whitehorn, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch.
A female monarch.
Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person.
The (male) ruler or head of a principality.
A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch.
A non-royal high title of nobility, especially in France and the Holy Roman Empire.
A type of court card used in tarot cards, the equivalent of the jack.
The mushroom Agaricus augustus.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Rohana.
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8881 | word:
prince
word_type:
verb
expansion:
prince (third-person singular simple present princes, present participle princing, simple past and past participle princed)
forms:
form:
princes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
princing
tags:
participle
present
form:
princed
tags:
participle
past
form:
princed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
prince
etymology_text:
From Middle English prince, from Anglo-Norman prince, from Latin prīnceps (“first head”), from prīmus (“first”) + capiō (“seize, take”). Cognate with Old English fruma (“prince, ruler”). Doublet of princeps.
Displaced native Middle English atheling, from Old English æþeling; Middle English kinebarn, from Old English cynebearn; Middle English alder, from Old English ealdor; and Middle English drighten, from Old English dryhten.
senses_examples:
text:
All I could remember is the chorus, and something about pumpkins turning into princesses (???!) and frogs turning into princes. I figured she meant the frog was John before she princed him.
ref:
2005 March 30, abe slaney, “Question re John Lennon's Death”, in rec.music.beatles (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To behave or act like a prince.
To transform (someone) into a prince.
senses_topics:
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8882 | word:
neutron star
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neutron star (plural neutron stars)
forms:
form:
neutron stars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A degenerate star that has been so collapsed by gravity that its electrons and protons have been merged into neutrons by the intense pressure. The solid mass of neutrons is sometimes called neutronium.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences |
8883 | word:
sensei
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sensei (plural sensei or senseis)
forms:
form:
sensei
tags:
plural
form:
senseis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sensei
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 先生(せんせい) (sensei, “teacher; elder”), from Middle Chinese 先生 (MC sen sraeng, “master, elder”), from 先 (MC sen, “earlier, first”) + 生 (MC sraeng, “born”). Compare modern Mandarin 先生 (xiānshēng, “Mr.”). Doublet of sinseh, from Hokkien 先生 (sin-seⁿ).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A martial arts instructor; especially one for a Japanese martial art.
A Japanese (language) teacher (sometimes used as a suffix attached to the name of a teacher, principally in translations from Japanese).
A teacher, guide or mentor, in the context of Japan.
senses_topics:
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8884 | word:
corporation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
corporation (plural corporations)
forms:
form:
corporations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
corporation
etymology_text:
From Middle English corporacion, corporation, from Late Latin corporatio (“assumption of a body”), from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare (“to form into a body”); see corporate.
(protruding belly): Perhaps a play on the word corpulence.
senses_examples:
text:
'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation.'
ref:
1918, Katherine Mansfield, ‘Prelude’, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 91
text:
He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.
ref:
1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 316
type:
quotation
text:
The sergeant was a goner. There was only one way to save him, and he threw himself on top, hurling the man to the ground. He lay covering his corporation with as much as his body and limbs would allow.
ref:
2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, Part 2, Chapter 20, p. 620
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A body corporate, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
A protruding belly.
senses_topics:
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8885 | word:
press out
word_type:
verb
expansion:
press out (third-person singular simple present presses out, present participle pressing out, simple past and past participle pressed out)
forms:
form:
presses out
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pressing out
tags:
participle
present
form:
pressed out
tags:
participle
past
form:
pressed out
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Italians press out coffee rather than filter it.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extinguish by crushing, as a cigar.
Obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action.
Press from plastic, as of records.
Break (a pre-cut piece) out of a larger form, as of die-cut cardboard shapes.
senses_topics:
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8886 | word:
sugar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sugar (countable and uncountable, plural sugars)
forms:
form:
sugars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch
sugar
etymology_text:
From Middle English sugre, sucre, from Middle French sucre, from Old French çucre (circa 13th century), from Old Italian zucchero (or another vernacular of Italy), from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar), from Middle Persian [script needed] (škl), 𐫢𐫞𐫡 (šqr /šakar/), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel”). Akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “pebble”). Doublet of jaggery and sucro-.
senses_examples:
text:
To a pound of gooseberries take a pound and a half of double-refined sugar. Clarify the sugar with water, a pint to a pound of sugar, and when the syrup is cold, put the gooseberries single in your preserving pan, put the syrup to them, and set them on a gentle fire.
ref:
1792, Francis Collingwood, The universal cook: and city and country housekeeper
type:
quotation
text:
There appears to be no prospect of success in attempting to combat the crisis by international arrangement, and any improvement in sugar prices can only be looked for from a diminution of the production, either as a consequence of deficient crops, or of a reduction in manufacture.
ref:
1895 April 1, “The Present Crisis”, in The Sugar Cane, volume 27, number 309, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
Even in extreme cases such as chemical pollution in the Florida Everglades from heavily subsidized sugar farming, strong regulations are routinely blocked by industry.
ref:
2013, Robert Paarlberg, Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know?
type:
quotation
text:
The experience of sugar planters in Louisiana this year in holding their sugars in warehouse for future sales at better prices has revealed again, as it has done heretofore, the fact that the presence of moisture in the sugars is inimical to their maintaining their standard of quality
ref:
1915 September 18, “Drying Sugars Essential to Their Preservation”, in The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, volume 55
type:
quotation
text:
At the end of the second week there were less reducing sugars in the unpruned plants than in the previous week, but those in the pruned plants were the same.
ref:
1942, James E. Kraus, Effects of partial defoliation at transplanting time on subsequent
type:
quotation
text:
Generally speaking, plants have a much greater variety of sugars and linkages than animal tissues have.
ref:
1994, Peter J. Van Soest, Nutritional Ecology of the Ruminant
type:
quotation
text:
The major free sugars in plants are the monosaccharides, glucose and fructose (and the disaccharide sucros), together with traces of xylose, rhamnose and galactose.
ref:
1998, A.J. Harborne, Phytochemical Methods A Guide to Modern Techniques of Plant Analysis
type:
quotation
text:
Although H. bertonii relies on scale insects to prepare its parasitism site on plants, it directly absorbs and utilizes plant sugars.
ref:
2007, Ajit Varma, Plant Surface Microbiology
type:
quotation
text:
He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.
type:
example
text:
“A slice of lemon and two sugars, please.” “You needn't have said that. I know how you like your tea. I know how you like everything.”
ref:
1916, Cosmo Hamilton, “Miss Fanny Goes to Great Lengths”, in The World To-day: A Monthly Record of Human Progress, volume 30
type:
quotation
text:
Skim milk, two sugar.
ref:
1993, 1:13:03 from the start, in Groundhog Day, spoken by Phil (Bill Murray)
type:
quotation
text:
Then there are the coffees, one with two sweeteners and no milk, one with one sweetener and milk, one with three sugars and a dash of milk, one with one sugar and lots of milk and finally her Uncle Samad who says that anything is fine.
ref:
2016, Ameera Patel, Outside the Lines
type:
quotation
text:
I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.
type:
example
text:
Sugar, ah honey honey / You are my candy girl / And you've got me wanting you
ref:
1969, “Sugar, Sugar”, in Everything's Archie, performed by The Archies
type:
quotation
text:
Gimme some sugar, baby.
ref:
1992, Army of Darkness, spoken by Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell)
type:
quotation
text:
I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.
type:
example
text:
There are depths and heights of beauty in him beyond tears - but there is no sugar, not even any honey.
ref:
1998, Lene Østermark-Johansen, Sweetness and Strength
type:
quotation
text:
The crossdresser is showing the desire to be "sugar and spice" through feminine clothing and through the expression of feminine feelings.
ref:
1999, Peggy J. Rudd, My Husband Wears My Clothes
type:
quotation
text:
Because of Patrick's mannerisms, the players teased him by referring to him as “Sweetness” or saying that he had “sugar” in his pants.
ref:
2008, Reuben A. Buford May, Living Through the Hoop
type:
quotation
text:
One respondent said that he had been told by his doctor that he had 'sugar' and diabetes, thus affirming for him the distinctiveness of the two illnesses. The distinction made sense to some of them as the relationship between diabetes and 'sugar' seemed to relate to their experiences of the West Indies, where 'sugar' was believed to be rare and diabetes common.
ref:
2002, Mrs Sheila Hillier, David Kelleher, Researching Cultural Differences in Health, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
The veterinarian said his real problem was that he had sugar, and not to concentrate on the problem with his eyes.
ref:
2003, Tom Lee, Above All We Ask Or Think, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
Don't you love it when you start a new Disease - the pamphlets, the prescriptions, the attention? And the past turning ironic, cloudy, as if you'd added a chemical - my house painter saying he has sugar, reminding me of my mother demanding the sweet drool from every baby.
ref:
2004, Diane M. Parker, Ruth E. Mark, Reflections on a Life with Diabetes: A Memoir in Many Voices, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
The doctor told me I had sugar and would have to take pills.
ref:
2008, De'lois Washington McMillan, Suppose Jesus Had Thrown in the Towel and Given Up on Us
type:
quotation
text:
The memorable event was watching my father test urine, his or that of sundry other folks who had “sugar”, as diabetes was known in the rural hills of Jamaica where I grew up.
ref:
2012, Bert Fraser-Reid, From Sugar to Splenda
type:
quotation
text:
Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste.
type:
example
text:
Mons. Lemery is of Opinion that Sweetness proceeds from a close Mixture of an Acid with a Sulphur, or with an Oyl that temperates and corrects it; he supports his Conjecture by the instance of Sugar of Saturn, so called from its Sweetness, which is Lead, a Metal insipid in its self, but very Sulphureous, dissolved by an Acid.
ref:
1717, M. de Fontenelle, “Upon the Iron of Plants”, in The Lives of the French, Italian and German Philosophers
type:
quotation
text:
The fluor acid, the acid of sugar, of phosphorus, and vitriol, separate magnelia from the acid of arsenic; but the acid of tartar, united with arsenicated magnesia, is generally found to compose a triple salt.
ref:
1788, Torbern Olof Bergman, “Of Magnesia”, in E. Cullen, transl., Physical and chemical essays, volume 1, translation of original in Swedish, page 448
type:
quotation
text:
Sugar of milk is now produced by partly chemical means from milk-whey, the product being about two and a half pounds per hundred pounds of whey.
ref:
1904, “Process of Making Milk Sugar”, in The American Sugar Industry and Beer Sugar Gazette, volume 6, page 392
type:
quotation
text:
However, this bookkeeping is much less local syntax and sugar.
ref:
2005, Bruce Ian Mills, Theoretical Introduction to Programming, page 180
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
A specific variety of sugar.
Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
A term of endearment.
Affection shown by kisses or kissing.
Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
Diabetes.
Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
Heroin.
Money.
Syntactic sugar.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
8887 | word:
sugar
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sugar (third-person singular simple present sugars, present participle sugaring, simple past and past participle sugared)
forms:
form:
sugars
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sugaring
tags:
participle
present
form:
sugared
tags:
participle
past
form:
sugared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch
sugar
etymology_text:
From Middle English sugre, sucre, from Middle French sucre, from Old French çucre (circa 13th century), from Old Italian zucchero (or another vernacular of Italy), from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar), from Middle Persian [script needed] (škl), 𐫢𐫞𐫡 (šqr /šakar/), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel”). Akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “pebble”). Doublet of jaggery and sucro-.
senses_examples:
text:
John heavily sugars his coffee.
type:
example
text:
See, I've put sugar-plums on his coat for fancy buttons, sugared his shirt-frill, and put on a red almond to his hat-front.
ref:
1876, Emilie Foster, Teddy and His Friends
type:
quotation
text:
"There spoke the real British scorn," she said, sugaring her tea, "the fine British contempt for every other nation."
ref:
1905, “The Duke of Castle Blanco”, in The Quiver, page 1007
type:
quotation
text:
Moreover, the residents recalled that the aristocrat's pet canary had become like a personal retainer, waking his master in the morning and sugaring his drink.
ref:
2002, Frank Tallis, Hidden Minds: A History of the Unconscious
type:
quotation
text:
She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
type:
example
text:
He also published the "Weekly Recorder," an indefinite title, which was his way of sugaring what soon became in the region where it was published, Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, a very bitter pill.
ref:
1890, Anson De Puy Van Buren, Michigan in her pioneer politics
type:
quotation
text:
She shook her head sadly at him. "No, it won't do, Arthur. I'm not in a mood to be sugared."
ref:
1917, Mrs. Florence Guertin Tuttle, Give My Love to Maria
type:
quotation
text:
But step by step, aided by Claude Morin's arguments, Lévesque had led the party through the process of sugaring what he saw as the pill of independence.
ref:
2001, Graham Fraser, René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power
type:
quotation
text:
To sugar off, I prefer using a kettle that will hold about half a. barrel; and boil over a brisk, steady fire, till on dropping some of the syrup into cold water it will break like glass, then dip it into wooden trays to cool, and when it is grained stir it briskly.
ref:
1851, J. D. H., “On Making Maple Syrup”, in The Ohio Cultivator, volume 7, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
A long time ago my grandmother and I used to boil maple sap. When she sugared off, I stood there.
ref:
1994, “Sugaring Off”, in Nindinawemaagan Giwitaa'ayeyii, volume 6, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
During the spring in Quebec and Ontario, maple syrup is harvested, or "sugared off," a process which is usually celebrated as a social event.
ref:
2004, Lois Sakany, Canada: A Primary Source Cultural Guide
type:
quotation
text:
Some entomologists assert that it is useless to sugar when ivy is in bloom.
ref:
1876, W. Sandison, “Note on sugaring”, in The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, volume 12, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
The latter are best taken by "sugaring" — painting patches of mixed beer and sugar on a series of tree trunks, and making several rounds at twilight with a lantern and a cyanide bottle.
ref:
1921, Arthur Herbert Savory, Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
type:
quotation
text:
Sugaring attracts some species of moth that do not readily come to light.
ref:
2006, William J. Sutherland, Ecological Census Techniques: A Handbook
type:
quotation
text:
You can sugar the syntax of constants thus: […]
ref:
2002, Jonathan Bromley, “Fixed point arithmetic”, in comp.arch.fpga (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Sure, you could sugar the latter to look like the former (effectively implementing closures as objects), but it seems simpler to just allow the former.
ref:
2006, Neil Madden, “Re: Closures”, in comp.lang.tcl (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.
To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
To compliment (a person).
To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.
senses_topics:
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
8888 | word:
sugar
word_type:
intj
expansion:
sugar
forms:
wikipedia:
Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch
sugar
etymology_text:
From Middle English sugre, sucre, from Middle French sucre, from Old French çucre (circa 13th century), from Old Italian zucchero (or another vernacular of Italy), from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar), from Middle Persian [script needed] (škl), 𐫢𐫞𐫡 (šqr /šakar/), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel”). Akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “pebble”). Doublet of jaggery and sucro-.
senses_examples:
text:
Oh, sugar!
type:
example
text:
"Oh, sugar! I suppose that's so," reflected Tobias, filling his pipe.
ref:
1920, James A. Cooper, Tobias O' the Light: A Story of Cape Cod
type:
quotation
text:
But they do not even hope for such a thing in '08, and fear far worse: Sister Suzanne Thibault, a lifelong Republican so mild she shouts, “Oh, sugar!” when annoyed, posits that if Hillary Clinton were nominated, “She'd get killed, literally assassinated. We have too many right-wing people out there who would do that."
ref:
2007, Melinda Henneberger, If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear
type:
quotation
text:
“Oh, sugar.” His room was empty.
ref:
2012, Macy Beckett, Sultry with a Twist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Shit!
senses_topics:
|
8889 | word:
goat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
goat (countable and uncountable, plural goats)
forms:
form:
goats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
goat
etymology_text:
From Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English gāt, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.
The sense of lecherous man derives from the slang expression "horny as a goat".
senses_examples:
text:
Ugh, we're having goat for dinner again.
type:
example
text:
Fernando Rodney, the goat in Sunday's 10th inning loss to Tampa Bay, threw three nearly perfect innings in relief on Tuesday after being demoted from the closer role.
ref:
2008 August 6, “Tigers already miss Jones”, in Royal Oak Daily Tribune, Michigan
type:
quotation
text:
1997, "1997 World Series", Game 7, bottom 11th inning, TV broadcast on NBC Sports, early morning October 27, 1997; words by Bob Costas
Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series, now cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns.
text:
Samaurez said over his shoulder, “In fact, I missed being the class goat by only three places.” Gwen patted his arm, “But, look H-Two, George Pickett was the goat and see how famous he became.”
ref:
2008, Ned B. Ricks, Trusting Appearances: Things Are Not Always as They Seem, page 259
type:
quotation
text:
...Butch was the goat in that deal and innocent of the trap he was placed in.
ref:
2013, Larry Pointer, In Search of Butch Cassidy
type:
quotation
text:
If Osterman wants to play the goat, why should you help him out?
ref:
2013, Frank Norris, The Octopus
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra.
A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra.
The meat of the aforementioned animal.
A lecherous man.
A scapegoat.
A Pontiac GTO car.
A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.
A fool, loser, or object of ridicule.
A blocker who is isolated behind the opposing team's blockers, so as to slow down the pack.
Alternative letter-case form of GOAT (“Greatest of All Time”)
senses_topics:
|
8890 | word:
goat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
goat (third-person singular simple present goats, present participle goating, simple past and past participle goated)
forms:
form:
goats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
goating
tags:
participle
present
form:
goated
tags:
participle
past
form:
goated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English gāt, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.
The sense of lecherous man derives from the slang expression "horny as a goat".
senses_examples:
text:
Rape and clover has yielded 283 sheep days of pasture, practically dry weather […] For the coming year it is planned to goat this area continuously
ref:
1918, Agricultural Experiment Station, Director's Biennial Report, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
John Rocker, meanwhile, was spared from getting goated because he didn't blow a save
ref:
2001 July 15, “A worthy Rusch to judgment”, in USA Today
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To allow goats to feed on.
To scapegoat.
To isolate (an opposing blocker) behind one's own blockers, so as to slow down the pack.
senses_topics:
|
8891 | word:
vein
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vein (plural veins)
forms:
form:
veins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See vēna for more. Doublet of vena. Displaced native edre, from ǣdre (whence edder).
senses_examples:
text:
in the same vein
type:
example
text:
He[…]is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.
ref:
1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue
type:
quotation
text:
Come ride with me
Through the veins of history,
I'll show you how God
Falls asleep on the job
ref:
2006, Matt Bellamy (lyrics and music), “Knights of Cydonia”, in Black Holes and Revelations, performed by Muse
type:
quotation
text:
The play is in a satirical vein.
type:
example
text:
Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.
ref:
1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
The entrails of a shrimp.
In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
The nervure of an insect’s wing.
A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
A style, tendency, or quality.
A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
geography
geology
natural-sciences
|
8892 | word:
vein
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vein (third-person singular simple present veins, present participle veining, simple past and past participle veined)
forms:
form:
veins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
veining
tags:
participle
present
form:
veined
tags:
participle
past
form:
veined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See vēna for more. Doublet of vena. Displaced native edre, from ǣdre (whence edder).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] as he ceased from that wild imprecation, a faint flash of lightning veined the remote horizon, and a low clap of thunder rumbled afar off, echoing among the hills […]
ref:
1853, Henry William Herbert, chapter 18, in The Roman Traitor, volume II, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, page 204
type:
quotation
text:
We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […]
ref:
1920, Melville Davisson Post, chapter 14, in The Sleuth of St. James’s Square
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
senses_topics:
|
8893 | word:
tangled
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tangled (comparative more tangled, superlative most tangled)
forms:
form:
more tangled
tags:
comparative
form:
most tangled
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
tangled knot
type:
example
text:
That like a mighty river onward streams / In multitudinous channels ruthlessly, / Past tangled isles and barriers of sand
ref:
1919, Henry Head, “Paris. April, 1916”, in Destroyers and Other Verses
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mixed up, interlaced.
Intricate.
senses_topics:
|
8894 | word:
tangled
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tangled
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of tangle
senses_topics:
|
8895 | word:
heaven
word_type:
noun
expansion:
heaven (countable and uncountable, plural heavens)
forms:
form:
heavens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:heaven (disambiguation)
heaven
etymology_text:
From a wide variety of Middle English forms including hevene, heven, hevin, and hewin (“heaven, sky”), from Old English heofon, heofone (“heaven, sky”), from Proto-West Germanic *hebn (“heaven, sky”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate with Scots heiven, hewin (“heaven, sky”), Middle Dutch heven (“sky, heaven”), Low German Heven (“heaven, sky”), Middle High German heben (“sky, heaven”), and possibly the rare Icelandic and Old Norse hifinn (“heaven, sky”), which are all probably dissimilated forms of the Germanic root which appears in Old Norse himinn (“heaven, sky”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (himins, “heaven, sky”), Old Swedish himin, Old Danish himæn and probably also (in another variant form) Old Saxon himil, Old Dutch himil (modern Dutch hemel), and Old High German himil (German Himmel).
Accepting these as cognates, some scholars propose a further derivation from Proto-Germanic *himinaz (“cover, cloud cover, firmament, sky, heaven”).
senses_examples:
text:
All that is vnder the heauen.
ref:
1535, Coverdale Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1
text:
The ordinaunce...made such a great noyse and thunderyng that it seemed the heaven would have fallen.
ref:
1585, Nicholas de Nicolay, translated by Thomas Washington, The nauigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie by Nicholas Nicholay, I vi 4
type:
quotation
text:
In ascending orderly vpwardes...The first is the Spheare of the Moone...The seuenth the Spheare of Saturne, The eight the Spheare of the fixed Starres, commonly called the firmament. The ninth is called the second moueable or Christall heauen, The tenth is called the first moueable, and the eleuenth is called the Emperiall heauen, where God and his Angels are said to dwell.
ref:
1594, Thomas Blundeville, M. Blundeuile his Exercises, act I scene 3
type:
quotation
text:
The Heauens...are carried in 24 houres from East to West.
ref:
1625, Nathanæl Carpenter, chapter 4, in Geography delineated forth in two bookes, volume I, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
The moon's path lies in that belt of the heavens known as the zodiac.
ref:
1930 March, Nature, 179 2
type:
quotation
text:
In an infinite...universe the stars would collectively outshine the Sun and flood the heavens with light far more intense than is observed.
ref:
1981, E.R. Harrison, Cosmology, XII 250
type:
quotation
text:
Above is Heaven, Below are Suzhou and Hangzhou
ref:
2006, Peter Carroll translating a maxim of the Southern Song dynasty in Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895–1937
text:
Everie...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven, and the influence of the starres hath certaine vertues.
ref:
1581, Stefano Guazzo, translated by George Pettie, Ciuile Conuersation, I 26
type:
quotation
text:
Fellow-believers...fed the birds of heaven with the carcases of pious and reverend Church-men.
ref:
1660, George Mackenzie, Religio Stoici, II 44
type:
quotation
text:
Euery man cannot, with Archimedes, make a heauen of brasse.
ref:
1600, Thomas Nashe, Summers Last Will
type:
quotation
text:
And there was a battel in heauen. Michael & his Angels foght againſt the dragon, and the dragon foght & his Angels. But they preuailed not, nether was their place founde anie more in heauen.
ref:
1560, Geneva Bible, Revelation 12:7–8
text:
Conſider firſt that the excommunicated Prelate ſaith... Kings are not immediatly from God, as by any ſpeciall Ordinance ſent from Heaven by the miniſtery of Angels and Prophets, there were but ſome few ſuch, as Moſes, Saul, David, etc.
ref:
1644, Samuel Rutherford, Lex, Rex: The Law and the Prince, V 16
type:
quotation
text:
Christ's coming from the heavens has entered into the life of humanity as the Founder of the world to come.
ref:
1906 July 30, Washington Post, 12 4
type:
quotation
text:
As he [Muhammad] was returning, in the fourth Heaven, Moses advised him to goe back to God.
ref:
1649, Alexander Ross translating the Sieur Du Ryer, The Alcoran Of Mahomet, Translated out of the Arabique into French... newly Englished, 406
text:
Like the Buddhas, they [the Jains] believe that there is a plurality of heavens and hells.
ref:
1832, Charles Coleman, The Mythology of the Hindus, XIII 220
type:
quotation
text:
The heaven of Siva is in the midst of the eternal snows and glaciers of Keilás, one of the highest and deepest groups of the stupendous summits of Hémaláya.
ref:
1841, Mountstuart Elphinstone, The History of India, I ii iv 169
type:
quotation
text:
To grasp the Chinese's notion of Heaven, we must look at the contexts in which tian is used... In the Book of Odes (Shi jing 詩經), which includes poems dated between the eleventh and seventh centuries BCE, tian is a place where the Heavenly Thearch resides.
ref:
2011, Lillian Tseng, Picturing Heaven in Early China, section 2
type:
quotation
text:
Heaven commands thine arm
To lift the sure-destroying sword!
ref:
1793, Henry Boyd, Poems, II iv 270
type:
quotation
text:
...executing the just judgment of offended Heaven upon cattle-houghers, traitors, and assassins.
ref:
1886 May 8, The Pall Mall Gazette, 1 1
type:
quotation
text:
There's nothing we can do but pray to heaven for good luck.
ref:
1992, E. Yoshikawa, translated by W.S. Wilson, Taiko, II 186
type:
quotation
text:
Cosmologists regarded Heaven as a force—composed of qi 氣, which was divided into yin 陰 and yang 陽 aspects—that kept the cosmos moving.
ref:
2011, Lillian Tseng, Picturing Heaven in Early China, section 3
type:
quotation
text:
Teache the people to gett heuen with fastynge.
ref:
1544, Richard Tracy, A supplycacion to our moste soueraigne lorde Kynge henry the eyght Kynge of England of Fraunce and of Irelande, section C
type:
quotation
text:
The belief in ascending to Heaven after death became widespread in the Han dynasty.
ref:
2011, Lillian Tseng, Picturing Heaven in Early China, section 3
type:
quotation
text:
I wonder what your idea of heaven would be—A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably be an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze... To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on 9 different floors...
ref:
1925 July 1, Ernest Hemingway, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
text:
England, that was formerly the heaven, would be now the hell for women.
ref:
1660 November 14, a speech in the House of Commons in W. Cobbett, Parl. Hist. (1808), IV 145
text:
Such a shop as that...would be quite a heaven upon earth to me.
ref:
1782, F. Burney, Cecilia, I iii iv 51
text:
They thought strikes and hunger marches the quintessence of politics and Soviet Russia heaven on earth.
ref:
1940, H.G. Wells, Babes in the Darkling Wood, II iii 198
type:
quotation
text:
While eating my snack I decided to walk around the house and I saw the hallways change into beautiful valleys and oceans. The television screen appeared on the wall. It was so beautiful that I thought I was in heaven.
ref:
2002, Summersill Elementary School, Time Travel, iUniverse, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
Husbandes are in heauen...whose wiues scold not.
ref:
1550, J. Heywood, Dialogue Prov. Eng. Tongue, II vii
text:
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!
ref:
1809 October 26, William Wordsworth, “The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement”, in Friend, No. 11, ll. 4-5
type:
quotation
text:
He would just stare at me and say, “You are beautiful, you are so beautiful.” I was in heaven hearing this.
ref:
2000, Veronica Brooks, It Could Lead to Dancing, iUniverse, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
We're in heaven.
ref:
2002, DJ Sammy, Yanou, Frank Reinert, Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance, Bob Clearmountain (lyrics and music), “Heaven”, in Heaven, performed by Yanou and Do (singer), Title track
type:
quotation
text:
She was in heaven — she'd never seen so many stars gathered in one place. She already had her eye on Charlie Dollar. Oh yes, Charlie Dollar might be ancient, but he was still raging hot in a Jack Nicholson kind of way.
ref:
2007, Jackie Collins, Drop Dead Beautiful: A Novel, St. Martin's Publishing Group, page 452
type:
quotation
text:
“Because she was modest and beautiful and he thought he was in heaven when she was around?” “Yes, that's what he said.”
ref:
2008, Robert Scott, Driven To Murder, Pinnacle Books, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
I'd turn it up to 10 and it sounded all distorted and I remember feeling like I was in heaven!
ref:
2014, Joe Satriani, Jake Brown, Strange Beautiful Music: A Musical Memoir, BenBella Books, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Perhaps it has gone to the dog heaven, and is wagging somewhere in glory.
ref:
1867, J.W. De Forest, Miss Ravenel's Conversion, XXVI 368
type:
quotation
text:
His pet name for Easthampton is ‘Goose-heaven’, and he harps upon the idea eternally.
ref:
1879 February, J. H. Payne, Scribner's Monthly, 470 2
type:
quotation
text:
One gray beard who found the gates closed shinned up the fifteen foot fence...and dropped into the baseball heaven he was seeking.
ref:
1908 October 5, Chicago Tribune, 3 1
type:
quotation
text:
The Dave Clark 5 deserve a place in Rock & Roll Heaven right along there beside Question Mark & The Mysterians, the Standells, Count Five, the Troggs, and the Music Machine.
ref:
1972, M. Sanders, Flash
type:
quotation
text:
The building was once a candy factory, which makes it, Frazier says, mouse heaven.
ref:
1986 February 3, Newsweek, section 70
type:
quotation
text:
Ricky bumps it into the garden, and tells me it is going to ‘the cooker heaven’. ‘Where it will be this size,’ adds his wife, her hands making the size of a brick. She means that it is off to the squasher.
ref:
2003 August 1, Church Times, 28 3
type:
quotation
text:
Goronwy has gone to goldfish heaven where he is swimming in a beautiful clear blue ocean with all the other fishies.
ref:
2004 July 17, Western Mail, Cardiff, section 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sky, specifically:
The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres.
The sky, specifically:
The near sky in which weather, flying animals, etc. appear; (obsolete) the atmosphere; the climate.
The sky, specifically:
A model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery.
The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:
The abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence.
The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:
The abode of the Abrahamic God; similar abodes of the gods in other religions and traditions, such as Mount Olympus.
The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:
Providence, the will of God or the council of the gods; fate.
The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically:
Paradise, the afterlife of the souls who are not sent to a place of punishment or purification such as hell, purgatory, or limbo; the state or condition of being in the presence of God after death.
The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically:
The afterlife of the blessed dead in other religions and traditions, such as the Pure Land or Elysium.
The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically
Any paradise; any blissful place or experience.
A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy.
Similarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects.
senses_topics:
Christianity
lifestyle
religion
lifestyle
religion
lifestyle
religion
Christianity
Islam
lifestyle
religion
lifestyle
religion
lifestyle
religion
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8896 | word:
heaven
word_type:
verb
expansion:
heaven (third-person singular simple present heavens, present participle heavening, simple past and past participle heavened)
forms:
form:
heavens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
heavening
tags:
participle
present
form:
heavened
tags:
participle
past
form:
heavened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:heaven (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From a wide variety of Middle English forms including hevene, heven, hevin, and hewin (“heaven, sky”), from Old English heofon, heofone (“heaven, sky”), from Proto-West Germanic *hebn (“heaven, sky”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate with Scots heiven, hewin (“heaven, sky”), Middle Dutch heven (“sky, heaven”), Low German Heven (“heaven, sky”), Middle High German heben (“sky, heaven”), and possibly the rare Icelandic and Old Norse hifinn (“heaven, sky”), which are all probably dissimilated forms of the Germanic root which appears in Old Norse himinn (“heaven, sky”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (himins, “heaven, sky”), Old Swedish himin, Old Danish himæn and probably also (in another variant form) Old Saxon himil, Old Dutch himil (modern Dutch hemel), and Old High German himil (German Himmel).
Accepting these as cognates, some scholars propose a further derivation from Proto-Germanic *himinaz (“cover, cloud cover, firmament, sky, heaven”).
senses_examples:
text:
He heauens himselfe on earth, & for a litle pelfe cousens himselfe of blisse.
ref:
1614, Thomas Adams, The divells banket described in sixe sermons, II 81
type:
quotation
text:
They [Byron's Tales]...enraptured the public and heavened Murray.
ref:
1924 April 13, Observer, 12 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.
To beatify, enchant, or please greatly.
To beautify, to make into a paradise.
senses_topics:
|
8897 | word:
clear
word_type:
adj
expansion:
clear (comparative clearer, superlative clearest)
forms:
form:
clearer
tags:
comparative
form:
clearest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
clear
etymology_text:
From Middle English clere, from Anglo-Norman cler, from Old French cler (Modern French clair), from Latin clarus. Displaced native Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr (“clear, bright”)), Middle English skere (“clear, sheer”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr (“sheer, clear, pure”)), Middle English smolt (“clear (of mind), serene”) (from Old English smolt (“peaceful, serene”)). Cognate with Danish klar, Dutch klaar, French clair, German klar, Italian chiaro, Norwegian klar, Portuguese claro, Romanian clar, Spanish claro, and Swedish klar.
senses_examples:
text:
as clear as crystal
type:
example
text:
The windshield was clear and clean.
type:
example
text:
Congress passed the President’s Clear Skies legislation.
type:
example
text:
The driver had mistakenly thought the intersection was clear.
type:
example
text:
The coast is clear.
type:
example
text:
[…] On the 18th of October, 1841, a very intense magnetic disturbance was recorded, and amongst other curious facts mentioned is that of the detention of the 10:05pm express train at Exeter for 16 minutes, as from the magnetic disturbance affecting the needles so powerfully, it was impossible to ascertain if the line was clear at Starcross. The superintendent at Exeter reported the next morning that someone was playing tricks with the instruments, and would not let them work.
ref:
2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
clear weather; a clear day
type:
example
text:
He gave clear instructions not to bother him at work.
type:
example
text:
Do I make myself clear?
type:
example
text:
I'm still not quite clear on what some of these words mean.
type:
example
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
NR Chairman Sir Peter Hendy had made it clear that he didn't want anything that smacked of the bus shelters seen at many small, usually unstaffed stations.
ref:
2021 June 30, Anthony Lambert, “A railway station fit for the 21st century”, in RAIL, number 934, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
a clear conscience
type:
example
text:
Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere,
In action faithful, and in honour clear
ref:
1754, Alexander Pope, “Verses occasioned by Mr. Addison's treatise of medals”, in Joseph Addison, Dialogues Upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
clear of texture; clear of odor
type:
example
text:
Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair. She said that you gave it to her that night that you planned to go clear. Did you ever go clear?
ref:
1971, Leonard Cohen, Famous Blue Raincoat
type:
quotation
text:
a clear intellect; a clear head
type:
example
text:
Hark! the numbers, soft and clear
Gently steal upon the ear
ref:
c. 1708, Alexander Pope, Ode On St. Cecilia's Day
type:
quotation
text:
clear sand
type:
example
text:
a clear complexion; clear lumber
type:
example
text:
high school girls with clear-skinned smiles
ref:
1975, Janis Ian (lyrics and music), “At Seventeen”
type:
quotation
text:
a clear profit
type:
example
text:
I often wished that I had clear
For life, six hundred pounds a year
ref:
1728, Jonathan Swift, Horace, Lib. 2, Sat. 6
type:
quotation
text:
The signals were clear to allow the train through Soham, as it steadily approached.
ref:
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Nando's is clear.
type:
example
text:
Spurs are clear of Arsenal.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Transparent in colour.
Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.
Free of obstacles.
Without clouds.
Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
Free of ambiguity or doubt; easily understood.
Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
Free of guilt, or suspicion.
Without a thickening ingredient.
Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).
Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
Unmixed; entirely pure.
Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
Without diminution; in full; net.
Showing a green aspect, allowing a train to proceed past it.
Good, the best.
Better than, superior to.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Scientology
lifestyle
religion
|
8898 | word:
clear
word_type:
adv
expansion:
clear (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
clear
etymology_text:
From Middle English clere, from Anglo-Norman cler, from Old French cler (Modern French clair), from Latin clarus. Displaced native Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr (“clear, bright”)), Middle English skere (“clear, sheer”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr (“sheer, clear, pure”)), Middle English smolt (“clear (of mind), serene”) (from Old English smolt (“peaceful, serene”)). Cognate with Danish klar, Dutch klaar, French clair, German klar, Italian chiaro, Norwegian klar, Portuguese claro, Romanian clar, Spanish claro, and Swedish klar.
senses_examples:
text:
I threw it clear across the river to the other side.
type:
example
text:
Stand clear of the rails, a train is coming.
type:
example
text:
Much soul-searching is going on at the west London club who, just seven weeks ago, were five points clear at the top of the table and playing with the verve with which they won the title last season.
ref:
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
I want you to know how he spoke: he spoke loud, and he spoke clear.
ref:
1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
type:
quotation
text:
Can't they see for themselves? Course not. Looks like dust to them, so they can't see it clear at all
ref:
1992, Orson Scott Card, Cruel Miracles
type:
quotation
text:
I would get very short with people and speak clear of my feelings without consideration of their feelings.
ref:
2005, Sammatha Crosby Scott, There's a War Inside of Me, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
Then I heard clear your mother's voice, crying out in distress!
ref:
2009, Stephen James Shore, Annalea A Princess in Exile, page 160
type:
quotation
text:
Now when God called him, Moses told God immediately that he could not speak clear enough to be this leader.
ref:
2010, Jack Mayatt, A Better Man: An Inspirational Book, page 20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
All the way; entirely.
Not near something or touching it.
Free (or separate) from others.
In a clear manner; plainly.
senses_topics:
|
8899 | word:
clear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
clear (third-person singular simple present clears, present participle clearing, simple past and past participle cleared)
forms:
form:
clears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
clearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
cleared
tags:
participle
past
form:
cleared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
clear
etymology_text:
From Middle English clere, from Anglo-Norman cler, from Old French cler (Modern French clair), from Latin clarus. Displaced native Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr (“clear, bright”)), Middle English skere (“clear, sheer”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr (“sheer, clear, pure”)), Middle English smolt (“clear (of mind), serene”) (from Old English smolt (“peaceful, serene”)). Cognate with Danish klar, Dutch klaar, French clair, German klar, Italian chiaro, Norwegian klar, Portuguese claro, Romanian clar, Spanish claro, and Swedish klar.
senses_examples:
text:
Police took two hours to clear the road.
type:
example
text:
If you clear the table, I'll wash up.
type:
example
text:
Faith, Dick, I muſt confeſs, ’tis true
(But this is only Entre Nous)
That many knotty Points there are,
Which All diſcuſs, but Few can clear.
ref:
1715–8, Matthew Prior, “Alma: or, The Progreſs of the Mind” in Poems on Several Occaſions (1741), canto III, p.297
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:
Please clear all this stuff off the table.
type:
example
text:
The loggers came and cleared the trees.
type:
example
text:
[…] Aristotle has brought to explain his Doctrine of Substantial Forms, when he tells us that a Statue lies hid in a Block of Marble; and that the Art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous Matter, and removes the Rubbish.
ref:
1711 November 6, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 215
type:
quotation
text:
When the road cleared we continued our journey.
type:
example
text:
After a heavy rain, the sky cleared nicely for the evening.
type:
example
text:
Shake the test tube well, and the liquid should slowly clear.
type:
example
text:
We need to clear this issue once and for all.
type:
example
text:
The court cleared the man of murder.
type:
example
text:
[…] yet I appeal to the reader, and am sure he will clear me from Partiality.
ref:
1713, John Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Antient and Modern
type:
quotation
text:
How! Wouldst thou clear rebellion?
ref:
1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, act III, scene v
type:
quotation
text:
The door just barely clears the table as it closes.
type:
example
text:
The leaping horse easily cleared the hurdles.
type:
example
text:
She was the first female high jumper to clear two metres.
type:
example
text:
I cleared the first level in 36 seconds.
type:
example
text:
The check might not clear for a couple of days.
type:
example
text:
He's been clearing seven thousand a week.
type:
example
text:
The profit which she cleared on the cargo […] cannot be estimated at less than a thousand guineas.
ref:
1843, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, chapter V
type:
quotation
text:
Air traffic control cleared the plane to land.
type:
example
text:
The marketing department has cleared the press release for publication.
type:
example
text:
I've cleared the press release with the marketing department, so go ahead and publish it.
type:
example
text:
The steamer cleared for Liverpool today.
type:
example
text:
Beſides, he that cleares at once will relapſe: for finding himſelfe out of ſtraights, he will reuert to his cuſtomes. But hee that cleareth by degrees, induceth an habite of frugality, and gaineth as well vpon his minde, as vpon his Eſtate.
ref:
1613, Francis Bacon, The Eſſaies (second edition), essay 18: “Of Expences”
text:
The goalkeeper rushed forward to clear the ball.
type:
example
text:
A low cross came in, and Smith cleared.
type:
example
text:
Bolton then went even closer when Elmander's cross was met by a bullet header from Holden, which forced a wonderful tip over from Cech before Drogba then cleared the resulting corner off the line.
ref:
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1-0 Bolton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
to clear an array; to clear a single bit (binary digit) in a value
type:
example
text:
To get the footer acting right, you need to float it and clear it on both margins.
ref:
2010, Andy Harris, HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies, page 290
type:
quotation
text:
To prevent any shooting accidents, remember to clear your pistol and stay aware of your surroundings.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.
To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.
To leave abruptly; to clear off or clear out.
To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.
To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up.
To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
To pass without interference; to miss.
To exceed a stated mark.
To finish or complete (a stage, challenge, or game).
Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
To earn a profit of; to net.
To approve or authorise for a particular purpose or action; to give clearance to.
To obtain approval or authorisation in respect of.
To obtain a clearance.
To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
To hit, kick, head, punch etc. (a ball, puck) away in order to defend one's goal.
To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.
To unload a firearm, or undergo an unloading procedure, in order to prevent negligent discharge; for safety reasons, to check whether one's firearm is loaded or unloaded.
senses_topics:
video-games
business
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry |
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