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8900 | word:
clear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clear (plural clears)
forms:
form:
clears
tags:
plural
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:
a room ten feet square in the clear
type:
example
text:
It took me weeks to achieve a one-credit clear (1CC).
type:
example
text:
Today, clear status can be conferred only by high ranking ministers of the church, and clears are not presented for examination by outsiders.
ref:
1985, Rodney Stark, William Sims Bainbridge, The Future of Religion, page 269
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game.
A person who is free from the influence of engrams.
senses_topics:
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
video-games
Scientology
lifestyle
religion |
8901 | word:
abyme
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abyme (plural abymes)
forms:
form:
abymes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of abysm.
senses_topics:
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8902 | word:
mana
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mana (usually uncountable, plural manas)
forms:
form:
manas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Battle of Chunuk Bair
New Zealand Defence Force
Royal New Zealand Navy
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Maori mana, ultimately from Proto-Polynesian *mana, from Proto-Oceanic *mana.
senses_examples:
text:
[page 10] I have the honor to report, for the information of the Government, the result of my visit to Maketu and the Lake District, and the preliminary arrangements made for introducing the new system of Government for the Natives. […] [page 12] They further required that a certain number of the old Chiefs should be liberally pensioned by the Government, and placed upon a footing of equality with European gentlemen of independent means, in consideration of their resigning their "mana" as Chiefs in favor of the new system; […]
ref:
1862 January 25, Thomas H. Smith, “No. 4: Second Report from T. H. Smith, Esq., R.M.”, in Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand. From the Seventh Day of July to the Fifteenth Day of September, 1862 both Days Inclusive. In the Twenty-sixth Day of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Being the Second Session of the Third Parliament of New Zealand, Wellington: Printed by W. C. Wilson for the House of Representatives, at the printing office, Shortland Crescent, Auckland, →OCLC, pages 10 and 12
type:
quotation
text:
The human tribe partakes of the mana or life-force of the animal, and is strengthened[].
ref:
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 61
type:
quotation
text:
But in popular estimation their essential virtue derived from the personal mana of the sovereign.
ref:
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in 16th and 17th Century England, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, OCLC 71368859; republished London: Folio Society, 2012, OCLC 805007047, page 193
text:
It can be seen, therefore, that mana is a nonvisible changing measure; it can remain static, increase, or decrease, depending on the actions or inaction of the recipient, and it can be enhanced or diminished. […] One can speak of the mana of a warrior, the mana of a woman leader, the mana of a child prodigy.
ref:
1999, Pat Hohepa, “My Musket, My Missionary and My Mana”, in Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb, Bridget Orr, editors, Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769–1840, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
Among the Maori sovereignty was the result of mana—power based on hereditary rank and personal achievement. Manas could coexist and overlap, as they did in the medieval times in Europe.
ref:
2001 September, Aldo Matteucci, “Language and Diplomacy – A Practitioner's View”, in Jovan Kurbalija, Hannah Slavik, editors, Language and Diplomacy, Malta: DiploProjects, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, University of Malta, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
On a number of occasions in recent years apologies have been offered to Māori because of past offences to their mana and invasions of their rights as tangata whenua.
ref:
2012, Harold Hill, “Te Ope Whakaora, the Army that Brings Life: The Salvation Army and Māori”, in Hugh [Douglas] Morrison, Lachy Paterson, Brett Knowles, Murray Rae, editors, Mana Māori and Christianity, Wellington: Huia Publishers
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Teleporting from an open room where there were a dozen black orcs firing bows […] landed me, low on mana and hitpoints, in a room full of gnome mages who instantly summoned four umber hulks and a xorn!
ref:
2003 May 20, “Bear”, “Makes Lovely Julienne Ogres …”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet), message-ID <3EC9C629.4DF117C@sonic.net>
type:
quotation
text:
Mana often grows in exponential proportion to population size, so as the population increases the player acquires vastly greater powers—a progression that god games share with spellcaster characters in role-playing games.
ref:
2010, Ernest Adams, “Artifical Life and Puzzle Games”, in Fundamentals of Game Design, 2nd edition, Berkeley, Calif.: New Riders, page 580
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people.
Magical power.
senses_topics:
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8903 | word:
mana
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mana (plural manas)
forms:
form:
manas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Battle of Chunuk Bair
New Zealand Defence Force
Royal New Zealand Navy
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of mina (“ancient unit of weight or currency”).
senses_topics:
|
8904 | word:
mana
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mana (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Battle of Chunuk Bair
New Zealand Defence Force
Royal New Zealand Navy
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of manna.
senses_topics:
|
8905 | word:
free speech
word_type:
noun
expansion:
free speech (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
freedom of speech
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The term free speech, which appears in this book's subtitle as well as in its text, is used more or less interchangeably with freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of expression to refer to all of the expressive rights guaranteed by the forty-five words of the First Amendment, as interpreted by the U.S. courts.
ref:
2003, Mike Godwin, Cyber Rights, The MIT Press, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
I would argue that we must be concerned with free speech but that cyber racism is not free speech, it is racist speech that provides an opportunity to devalue part of humankind ...
ref:
2017, Fernne Brennan, Race Rights Reparations: Institutional Racism and The Law, Routledge
type:
quotation
text:
Saying certain things or posting fliers or writing in student or independent newspapers is not free speech but instead is sexual harassment or racial harassment.
ref:
2007, Wells Earl Draughon, While America Sleeps: How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination Are Destroying America from Within, iUniverse, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
Section 8 (c) of the act has been erroneously referred to since its passage as a free-speech provision. Actually this section permits the employer to intimidate and coerce employees in the exercise of their rights guaranteed by the act. It is not a question of free speech at all. Giving the antiunion employer an unbridled right to condemn and deride the basic rights of employees to self-organization and collective bargaining is not free speech but a license to defeat the exercise of these fundamental rights.
ref:
1953, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Hearings, page 3631
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The right to express an opinion in public without being restrained or censored.
Expressions that are or should be allowed in some moral or legal context.
senses_topics:
|
8906 | word:
compar.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
compar.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of comparative.
senses_topics:
|
8907 | word:
compar.
word_type:
adj
expansion:
compar. (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of comparative.
senses_topics:
|
8908 | word:
simple past
word_type:
noun
expansion:
simple past (plural simple pasts)
forms:
form:
simple pasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of a single word, without any auxiliary verb such as be or have.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
8909 | word:
torque
word_type:
noun
expansion:
torque (countable and uncountable, plural torques)
forms:
form:
torques
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin torqueō (“to twist”).
senses_examples:
text:
The relative strengths of the various torques will depend on both the spacecraft environment and the form and structure of the spacecraft itself.
ref:
1978, James Richard Wertz, Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, Springer, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton metre or Nm; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy)
senses_topics:
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
8910 | word:
torque
word_type:
verb
expansion:
torque (third-person singular simple present torques, present participle torquing or torqueing, simple past and past participle torqued)
forms:
form:
torques
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
torquing
tags:
participle
present
form:
torqueing
tags:
participle
present
form:
torqued
tags:
participle
past
form:
torqued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin torqueō (“to twist”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make something rotate about an axis by imparting torque to it.
senses_topics:
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
8911 | word:
torque
word_type:
noun
expansion:
torque (plural torques)
forms:
form:
torques
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French torque, from Old French, from Latin torquis; or adapted directly from Latin torquēs (cf. earlier English torques).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples.
senses_topics:
|
8912 | word:
iron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
iron (countable and uncountable, plural irons)
forms:
form:
irons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English iren, from Old English īsern, īsærn, īren, īsen, from Proto-West Germanic *īsarn, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną (“iron”), from Proto-Celtic *īsarnom (“iron”), a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”).
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:iron.
text:
wrought iron, ductile iron, cast iron, pig iron, gray iron
type:
example
text:
Ah, throw that old iron over here! We'll pick it up and go on our way.
ref:
1948, John Huston, Treasure of the Sierra Madre
type:
quotation
text:
the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
ref:
1959, Marty Robbins (lyrics and music), “Big Iron”
type:
quotation
text:
The brassey much resembled the driver, but the iron opened out quite a new field of practice; […]
ref:
1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major
type:
quotation
text:
ironman; a will of iron
type:
example
text:
He appeared easygoing, but inside he was pure iron.
type:
example
text:
He lifts iron on the weekends.
type:
example
text:
Irons and stony irons can be much larger than stony meteorites and are much more visually striking, but make up only a few percent of all meteorites.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel: a chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.
Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus.
Shackles.
A firearm, either a long gun or a handgun.
A dark shade of the color silver.
A male homosexual.
A golf club used for middle-distance shots.
Used as a symbol of great strength or toughness, or to signify a very strong or tough material.
Weight used as resistance for the purpose of strength training.
A meteorite consisting primarily of metallic iron (mixed with a small amount of nickel), as opposed to one composed mainly of stony material.
A safety curtain in a theatre.
Dumb bombs, those without guidance systems.
senses_topics:
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
government
military
politics
war |
8913 | word:
iron
word_type:
adj
expansion:
iron (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Iron (metaphor)
etymology_text:
From Middle English iren, from Old English īsern, īsærn, īren, īsen, from Proto-West Germanic *īsarn, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną (“iron”), from Proto-Celtic *īsarnom (“iron”), a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”).
senses_examples:
text:
She had an iron will.
type:
example
text:
He held on with an iron grip.
type:
example
text:
an iron constitution
type:
example
text:
Iron men
type:
example
text:
And it is symptomatic of the many paradoxes of Lederer's life that of all the people in the room, Brotherhood is the one whom he would most wish to serve, if ever he had the opportunity, even though — or perhaps because — his occasional efforts to ingratiate himself with his adopted hero have met with iron rebuff.
ref:
1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
type:
quotation
text:
But in her speech, Truss said she would exert an “iron discipline” over public spending, hinting at possible austerity to come. “I believe in sound money and a lean state,” she said.
ref:
2022 October 5, Rowena Mason, quoting Liz Truss, “Liz Truss promises ‘growth, growth and growth’ in protest-hit speech”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of the metal iron.
Strong (as of will), inflexible.
senses_topics:
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8914 | word:
iron
word_type:
verb
expansion:
iron (third-person singular simple present irons, present participle ironing, simple past and past participle ironed)
forms:
form:
irons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ironing
tags:
participle
present
form:
ironed
tags:
participle
past
form:
ironed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English iren, from Old English īsern, īsærn, īren, īsen, from Proto-West Germanic *īsarn, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną (“iron”), from Proto-Celtic *īsarnom (“iron”), a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”).
senses_examples:
text:
You'd be wise to iron that shirt before you wear it.
type:
example
text:
Out of that tub had come the day before - Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse - the very white frock upon her back which she had so carelessly greened about the skirt on the damping grass - which had been wrung up and ironed by her mother's own hands.
ref:
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30
type:
quotation
text:
They were washing and ironing all morning.
type:
example
text:
[...] is it he who is ironed like a malefactor—who is to be dragged on a hurdle to the common gallows—to die a lingering and cruel death, and to be mangled by the hand of the most outcast of wretches?
ref:
1814, Walter Scott, Waverley
type:
quotation
text:
to iron a wagon
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
To engage in such pressing of clothing.
To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
To furnish, clad, or arm with iron.
senses_topics:
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8915 | word:
bi
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bi (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of bisexual and biceps.
senses_examples:
text:
I'm straight, but my oldest sister is bi.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bisexual.
Bigender.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality |
8916 | word:
bi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bi (plural bis)
forms:
form:
bis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of bisexual and biceps.
senses_examples:
text:
For some reason, I'm feeling _very_ sensitive to bi-discrimination tonight. I'm really not trying to mock the points being made here, it's just that many of the same arguments can be turned around and used to describe the discrimination that bis face.
ref:
1991 October 10, Ken Jones, “Re: Bisexual privilege? (Was Re: Tom Robinson Concert”, in soc.motss (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
You cannot train your back without regard to your tris and bis.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bisexual person.
A biceps muscle.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
8917 | word:
bi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bi (plural bi)
forms:
form:
bi
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mandarin 璧 (bì).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of jade disk produced in ancient China.
senses_topics:
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8918 | word:
teen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
teen (plural teens)
forms:
form:
teens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old.
senses_topics:
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8919 | word:
teen
word_type:
adj
expansion:
teen (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.
senses_examples:
text:
teen fashion
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage
senses_topics:
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8920 | word:
teen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
teen (plural teens)
forms:
form:
teens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tene, from Old English tēona, tēone, *tēon, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.
senses_examples:
text:
The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.
ref:
1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxv
text:
Your soul forgot her joys, forgot / Her times of teen; / Yea, this life likewise will you not / Forget
ref:
1866, Algernon Swinburne, Faustine
type:
quotation
text:
With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.
ref:
1867, Matthew Arnold, A Southern Night
type:
quotation
text:
That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne
ref:
1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Grief; sorrow; trouble.
Vexation; anger; hate.
senses_topics:
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8921 | word:
teen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)
forms:
form:
teens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
teening
tags:
participle
present
form:
teened
tags:
participle
past
form:
teened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tenen, from Old English tēonian, tȳnan (“to vex, annoy, provoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *tiunijan, from Proto-Germanic *tiunijaną.
senses_examples:
text:
Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde
ref:
c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
To become angry or distressed.
senses_topics:
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8922 | word:
teen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)
forms:
form:
teens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
teening
tags:
participle
present
form:
teened
tags:
participle
past
form:
teened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tenen, tinen, from Old English tȳnan (“to fence, inclose, shut, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *tūnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną (“fence, enclosure”). Doublet of tine. Cognate with Dutch tuinen, German zäunen. Related to English town.
senses_examples:
text:
Hie tho' off […] or th' dur may be teen'd.
ref:
1874 (1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 75
text:
It is still heard in Devon , especially by older dialect speakers, in such expressions as “I'an't a-teen'd my eyes all night”; “Teen the door, will ' e?”
ref:
1919, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
She whimpered and whined about it till, in self-defence, I rose up and teened the candle and got into my breeches.
ref:
1924, Eden Phillpotts, Redcliff, page 244
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.
senses_topics:
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8923 | word:
long
word_type:
adj
expansion:
long (comparative longer, superlative longest)
forms:
form:
longer
tags:
comparative
form:
longest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
long
etymology_text:
From Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”).
Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), North Frisian long, lung (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), Norwegian, West Frisian, Dutch and German lang (“long”), Swedish lång (“long”), Icelandic langur (“long”), Portuguese longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”), French long, Latin longus (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj), до́лго (dólgo), Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, “long”).
The word exceptionally retains the Old English darkening of -a- before nasals. Though there are other such examples in Middle and Modern English (e.g. bond, song, throng, wrong), the o-form may have been reinforced by Old French long, from Latin longus, from the same Indo-European word. Doublet of lungo and lunge.
senses_examples:
text:
This table is long but not very high.
type:
example
text:
Smith hoofs a long ball up to Jones.
type:
example
text:
My ex was very strong but not very long.
type:
example
text:
I need a long piece of wood.
type:
example
text:
It’s a long way from the Earth to the Moon.
type:
example
text:
How long was your newborn baby?
type:
example
text:
The plane touched down long and overran the end of the runway.
type:
example
text:
Juneau was making good time with the other surviving U.S. Navy ships, despite her damage, when the I-26 spotted her and sent a salvo of Type 95 torpedoes in her direction. Passing between the Helena and San Francisco, some indication being they had actually been shot at the San Francisco and gone long because San Francisco was travelling significantly slower than expected, they nonetheless hit Juneau and detonated the ship’s magazine.
ref:
2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 28:10 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-11-07
type:
quotation
text:
That forehand was long. It landed two feet beyond the baseline.
type:
example
text:
The pass was long and was gathered by the opposing goalkeeper.
type:
example
text:
His speech was long and dull.
type:
example
text:
The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.
type:
example
text:
I took a long look at the house, knowing it was for the last time.
type:
example
text:
It took us three long weeks to clear the stones from the field.
type:
example
text:
It'll be a long journey home for the travelling supporters after that 5-0 defeat.
type:
example
text:
Bless ’em all, bless ’em all, the long, the short and the tall.
ref:
1940, Fred Godfrey (lyrics and music), “Bless 'Em All”performed by George Formby
type:
quotation
text:
I’m long in DuPont.
type:
example
text:
I have a long position in DuPont.
type:
example
text:
I’m talkin’ ’bout… I’m talkin’ ’bout that long money.
ref:
2011 December 18, “Ballin' Uncontrollably” (track 7), in King Mather's LP, performed by Eminem
type:
quotation
text:
Me and broke niggas, we don’t get along (Nah). Hair long (Long), money long (Yeah).
ref:
2012 November 8, “I'm Different” (track 6), in Based on a T.R.U. Story, performed by 2 Chainz
type:
quotation
text:
Rent-a-cars we road run, money longer than train smoke.
ref:
2013 October 7, “No Regrets” (track 7), in My Name Is My Name, performed by Pusha T
type:
quotation
text:
Money so long, it’s offensive.
ref:
2016 November 24, “Upgrade You”performed by Kash Doll
type:
quotation
text:
I got some rope in the trunk, tape and one shovel
Long money, talkin’ billions, nigga, and I want several
ref:
2021 September 24, “Hell on Earth, Pt. 2”, in Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Side B, performed by Westside Gunn
type:
quotation
text:
BOY: B, this is long for man, you know.
B: Keep complaining.
BOY: Fucking gemming it with these things (he continues collecting empty drinks cans).
ref:
2022 March 18, Ronan Bennett, Gerry Jackson, Tyrone Rashard, Sagirah Gammon, 00:35:44 from the start, in Brady Hood, director, Top Boy (Good Morals) (4), episode 1 (TV), spoken by unnamed boy, girl called B
type:
quotation
text:
INCHEZ: Man this is long! We’ve been in here for time!
ref:
2023 January 15, Layton Williams, 12:51 from the start, in Freddy Syborn, director, Bad Education (Prison) (4), episode 3 (TV), spoken by Inchez (Anthony J. Abraham)
type:
quotation
text:
[Verse 1: Sleeks]: Keep thinking about Ps that I need but it’s long. All these things that I've done in the streets got me on my knees trying to reason with God. B-B beefin’ is long but I might still greeze up a Don.
ref:
2015 September 18, “Brand New” (track 6), in Don't Panic, performed by Smoke Boys
type:
quotation
text:
MOBEEN: I do love nature when it’s on television and David Attenborough’s presenting. I hate nature in real life! Smells like shite around here! Plants and (he waves a fly away) …plants and that. It’s so long!
ref:
2017 December 17, Guz Khan, Andy Milligan, “Upper Room” (00:38 from the start), in Ollie Parsons, director, Man Like Mobeen (1), episode 3 (TV), spoken by Mobeen Deen (Guz Khan)
type:
quotation
text:
DUSHANE: I’m stepping back from the roads now. All of that shit is long! And by next year, I want to be completely legit, then it’s just me, you and Tish.
ref:
2022 March 18, Ronan Bennett, Gerry Jackson, Tyrone Rashard, Sagirah Gammon, 00:15:46 from the start, in Brady Hood, director, Top Boy (Good Morals) (4), episode 1 (TV), spoken by Dushane (Ashley Walters)
type:
quotation
text:
Nah fuck that I don't like mixing my circles like that. Plus if some shit goes bad I gotta be in the middle it's all long
ref:
2023 February 18, Simba-xiv, “Most Guys Know That They're Friends Aren't Shit With Women”, in Reddit (subreddit: BlackPeopleTwitter)
type:
quotation
text:
JAMIE: Yo, if I see you man round here again, it is long for you!
ref:
2022 March 18, Ronan Bennett, Gerry Jackson, Tyrone Rashard, 32:20 from the start, in William Stefan Smith, director, Top Boy (Prove Yourself) (4), episode 8 (TV), spoken by Jamie (Micheal Ward)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
Travelling a great distance.
Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
Having a long penis.
Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.
Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.
Going beyond the intended target.
Having great duration.
Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
Not short; tall.
Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
In great supply; abundant.
Clipping of taking a long time.
stupid; annoying; bullshit
serious; deadly.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
finance
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
gambling
games
|
8924 | word:
long
word_type:
noun
expansion:
long (plural longs)
forms:
form:
longs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
long
etymology_text:
From Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”).
Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), North Frisian long, lung (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), Norwegian, West Frisian, Dutch and German lang (“long”), Swedish lång (“long”), Icelandic langur (“long”), Portuguese longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”), French long, Latin longus (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj), до́лго (dólgo), Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, “long”).
The word exceptionally retains the Old English darkening of -a- before nasals. Though there are other such examples in Middle and Modern English (e.g. bond, song, throng, wrong), the o-form may have been reinforced by Old French long, from Latin longus, from the same Indo-European word. Doublet of lungo and lunge.
senses_examples:
text:
In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.
ref:
1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics, volume 2, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.
type:
example
text:
Every uptick made the longs cheer.
type:
example
text:
Likewise, if borrowers prefer to sell short-maturity issues at the time lenders prefer to invest in longs, as is the case when interest rates are expected to fall, longer maturity issues will tend to yield less than shorter maturity issues.
ref:
1977, Jerome B. Cohen, Edward D. Zinbarg, Arthur Zeikel, Guide to Intelligent Investing, →OCLC, page 203
type:
quotation
text:
"U.S. Treasury Market Structure", https://www.mfaalts.org/issue/u-s-treasury-market-structure/
Hedge funds are constrained in how much leverage they can utilize, in part because the futures contracts they are shorting against their Treasury longs have significant initial margin requirements.
text:
“[…] Did I not forbid all these nicknames and all this Oxfordish, by proclamation, last Long.”
“Last Long?”
“Hem! last protracted vacation.”
ref:
1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long vowel.
A long syllable.
A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
Clipping of long vacation (“summer vacation”).
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
business
finance
business
finance
|
8925 | word:
long
word_type:
verb
expansion:
long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)
forms:
form:
longs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
longing
tags:
participle
present
form:
longed
tags:
participle
past
form:
longed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
long
etymology_text:
From Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”).
Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), North Frisian long, lung (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), Norwegian, West Frisian, Dutch and German lang (“long”), Swedish lång (“long”), Icelandic langur (“long”), Portuguese longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”), French long, Latin longus (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj), до́лго (dólgo), Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, “long”).
The word exceptionally retains the Old English darkening of -a- before nasals. Though there are other such examples in Middle and Modern English (e.g. bond, song, throng, wrong), the o-form may have been reinforced by Old French long, from Latin longus, from the same Indo-European word. Doublet of lungo and lunge.
senses_examples:
text:
The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.
ref:
2004, Thomas S. Y. Ho with Sang Bin Lee and Sang-bin Yi, The Oxford Guide to Financial Modeling, page 84
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take a long position in.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
8926 | word:
long
word_type:
adv
expansion:
long (comparative longer, superlative longest)
forms:
form:
longer
tags:
comparative
form:
longest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
long
etymology_text:
From Middle English longe, lange, from Old English longe, lange, from the adjective (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
Every golfer wants to hit the ball long and straight.
type:
example
text:
She hit her return long and lost the point.
type:
example
text:
How long is it until the next bus arrives?
type:
example
text:
She has known us as long as you.
type:
example
text:
I’ve waited long enough.
type:
example
text:
He slept all day long.
type:
example
text:
I answer by saying that I have worked too long and hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concern.
ref:
1991, James Melvin Washington, editor, A testament of hope: the essential writings and speeches of Martin Luther King, page 636
type:
quotation
text:
Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.
type:
example
text:
By eight o’clock, the food will be long gone.
type:
example
text:
The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
ref:
2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
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:
It’s an earth song,—
And I’ve been waiting long for an earth song.
It’s a spring song,—
And I’ve been waiting long for a spring song.[…]
I have been waiting long for this spring song.
ref:
1925, Langston Hughes, “An Earth Song”, in Alain LeRoy Locke, editor, The New Negro: An Interpretation, New York: Albert and Charles Boni, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
Will this interview take long?
type:
example
text:
I haven’t got long to live.
type:
example
text:
They are in a hurry; they can’t wait for too long.
type:
example
text:
[Verse 1]:[…]Be there in five, man’s taking long. Are you still there? No fam, I’m already gone.
ref:
2021 August 19, “Drake”performed by Most Certi
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Over a great distance in space.
Over a great distance in space.
Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
For a particular duration.
For a long time.
For a long time.
A long time (see usage notes).
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
8927 | word:
long
word_type:
verb
expansion:
long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)
forms:
form:
longs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
longing
tags:
participle
present
form:
longed
tags:
participle
past
form:
longed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
long
etymology_text:
From Middle English longen, from Old English langian (“to long for, yearn after, grieve for, be pained, lengthen, grow longer, summon, belong”), from Proto-West Germanic *langōn, from Proto-Germanic *langōną (“to desire, long for”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“to be easy, be quick, jump, move around, vary”). Cognate with German langen (“to reach, be sufficient”), Swedish langa (“to push, pass by hand”), Icelandic langa (“to want, desire”), Dutch, German verlangen (“to desire, want, long for”).
senses_examples:
text:
She longed for him to come back.
type:
example
text:
The Rabbit sighed. He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad.
ref:
1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
senses_topics:
|
8928 | word:
long
word_type:
adj
expansion:
long (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
long
etymology_text:
From Middle English long, lang, an aphetic form of Middle English ilong, ylong, from Old English ġelong, ġelang (“along, belonging, depending, consequent”); the verb later reinterpreted as an aphetic form of belong.
senses_examples:
text:
I am of opinion, that in regarde of theſe debauches and lewde actions, fathers may, in ſome ſort, be blamed, and that it is onely long of them.
ref:
1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, II.8, page 224
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On account of, because of.
senses_topics:
|
8929 | word:
long
word_type:
verb
expansion:
long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)
forms:
form:
longs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
longing
tags:
participle
present
form:
longed
tags:
participle
past
form:
longed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
long
etymology_text:
From Middle English long, lang, an aphetic form of Middle English ilong, ylong, from Old English ġelong, ġelang (“along, belonging, depending, consequent”); the verb later reinterpreted as an aphetic form of belong.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
senses_topics:
|
8930 | word:
long
word_type:
noun
expansion:
long (plural longs)
forms:
form:
longs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
long
etymology_text:
Shortening of longitude.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: lat
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of longitude.
senses_topics:
|
8931 | word:
long
word_type:
verb
expansion:
long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)
forms:
form:
longs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
longing
tags:
participle
present
form:
longed
tags:
participle
past
form:
longed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
long
etymology_text:
From Middle English longen, from Old English langian (“to belong, pertain”), from Old English *lang, which is of uncertain origin yet related to Old English ġelang (“dependent, attainable, present, belonging, consequent”), Old Saxon gilang (“ready, available”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To belong.
senses_topics:
|
8932 | word:
eloquence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eloquence (countable and uncountable, plural eloquences)
forms:
form:
eloquences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French eloquence, from Latin eloquentia.
senses_examples:
text:
speak with eloquence
type:
example
text:
express oneself with eloquence
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.
An eloquent utterance.
senses_topics:
|
8933 | word:
owl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
owl (plural owls)
forms:
form:
owls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Northern Spotted Owl
Rick Derksen
etymology_text:
From Middle English oule, owle, from Old English ūle, from Proto-West Germanic *uwwilā, from Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ (compare West Frisian ûle, Dutch uil, Danish and Norwegian ugle, German Eule), diminutive of *uwwǭ (“eagle-owl”) (compare German Uhu), of imitative origin or a variant of *ūfaz, *ūfǭ (compare Old English ūf or hūf, Swedish uv (“horned owl”), Bavarian Auf), from Proto-Indo-European *up- (compare Latvian ũpis (“eagle-owl”), Czech úpět (“to wail, howl”), Avestan 𐬎𐬟𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬨𐬌 (ufiieimi, “to call out”). A Germanic variant *uwwilǭ was the source of Old High German ūwila (German Eule).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing.
A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active.
An owl pigeon.
A politician with moderate views that are neither hawkish nor dovish.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies, especially in the genus Caligo, having large eyespots on the wings.
senses_topics:
government
politics
|
8934 | word:
owl
word_type:
verb
expansion:
owl (third-person singular simple present owls, present participle owling, simple past and past participle owled)
forms:
form:
tableowl
tags:
canonical
form:
owls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
owling
tags:
participle
present
form:
owled
tags:
participle
past
form:
owled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Northern Spotted Owl
Rick Derksen
etymology_text:
From Middle English oule, owle, from Old English ūle, from Proto-West Germanic *uwwilā, from Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ (compare West Frisian ûle, Dutch uil, Danish and Norwegian ugle, German Eule), diminutive of *uwwǭ (“eagle-owl”) (compare German Uhu), of imitative origin or a variant of *ūfaz, *ūfǭ (compare Old English ūf or hūf, Swedish uv (“horned owl”), Bavarian Auf), from Proto-Indo-European *up- (compare Latvian ũpis (“eagle-owl”), Czech úpět (“to wail, howl”), Avestan 𐬎𐬟𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬨𐬌 (ufiieimi, “to call out”). A Germanic variant *uwwilǭ was the source of Old High German ūwila (German Eule).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To smuggle contraband goods.
senses_topics:
|
8935 | word:
similarity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
similarity (countable and uncountable, plural similarities)
forms:
form:
similarities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
similarity
etymology_text:
From French similarité.
Morphologically similar + -ity
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Closeness of appearance to something else.
The relation of sharing properties.
A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
The property of two matrices being similar.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences |
8936 | word:
hallucinatory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hallucinatory (comparative more hallucinatory, superlative most hallucinatory)
forms:
form:
more hallucinatory
tags:
comparative
form:
most hallucinatory
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hallucinate + -ory.
senses_examples:
text:
hallucinatory drug
type:
example
text:
hallucinatory image
type:
example
text:
hallucinatory state
type:
example
text:
hallucinatory vision
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination.
senses_topics:
|
8937 | word:
chicken
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chicken (countable and uncountable, plural chickens)
forms:
form:
chickens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chicken
etymology_text:
From Middle English chiken (also as chike > English chick), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *kiukīn (“chicken”), or alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *kukkīn, equivalent to cock + -en.
Compare North Frisian schückling (“chicken”), Saterland Frisian Sjuuken (“chicken”), Dutch kuiken (“chick, chicken”), German Low German Küken (“chick”), whence German Küken (“chick”), (elevated, obsolete) German Küchlein (“chick”) and Old Norse kjúklingr (“chicken”).
senses_examples:
text:
Some chickens lay eggs almost every day. […] Chickens are kept for their meat, too.
ref:
1997, Beverley Randell, Clive Harper, Chickens, Nelson Thornes, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Amongst thee more harmless reptiles to be found were several lizards and iguanas. The natives killed these and used them for food. The flesh was not despised by explorers, and I was told it tasted exactly like chicken; but, however good it might have been, my courage was not suffcient to enable me to overcome my prejudice against tasting it.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
Before cooking chicken, or other poultry, rinse with cold water and pat dry with a paper towel.
ref:
1995, Jean Paré, Chicken, Etc., Company's Coming Publishing Limited, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
There they are – four ugly little chickens, a bit more than half-feathered, and all gaping mouths and bare bellies.
ref:
1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 220
type:
quotation
text:
Usually, I had no problem approaching girls, but this one was different. I went home and berated myself for being such a chicken.
ref:
2008, Lanakila Michael Achong, Haole Boy: The Adoption of Diversity, iUniverse, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
(More commonly used as an adjective with this sense; see below.)
text:
Purſue your trade of ſcandal-picking,
Your hints, that Stella is no chicken:
Your innuendos, when you tell us,
That Stella loves to talk with fellows; […]
ref:
1752, Jonathan Swift, “Stella's Birth-day, 1720”, in The Works of D. Jonathan Swift. In Nine Volumes. The Seventh Edition, to which is Prefixed, the Doctor's Life, with Remarks on His Writings, from the Earl of Orrery and Others, not to be Found in any Former Edition of His Works, 7th edition, volume II (Containing His Poetical Writings), Dublin, Edinburgh: printed; and … reprinted, for G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, & L. Hunter at Edinburgh; and A. Stalker, at Glasgow; and sold by them and other booksellers, →OCLC, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
"This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken."
ref:
1886, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Lauriston Garden Mystery”, in A Study in Scarlet (Beeton's Christmas Annual; 28th season), London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., November 1887, OCLC 15800088; republished as A Study in Scarlet. A Detective Story, new edition, London: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., 1892, OCLC 23246292, page 43
text:
Europe's Favorite Gay Newspaper has something for you! Handsome studs, Tender Chicken, and lots of Male Nudes!
ref:
1976 April 10, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
I am a little white chicken, beautiful as sweet and young as beautiful and soft as young and gay as soft and innocent as gay. I dare you to write.
ref:
1991 December 1, Ronald Smith, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.
type:
example
text:
Up early in the morning trappin' (Trap-trap)
You can get 'em how you askin' (Ask)
How many chickens? You can get 'em whichever way
Nigga, trap turned Zaxby's (Zax)
ref:
2017 January 3, Migos (lyrics and music), “Call Casting”, in Culture, Track 3
type:
quotation
text:
2019 May 20, “15 Chickens”performed by The Norf ft. Rucci, 2Eleven, Ackrite, Nfant, and Lil Deuce:
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: hen
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.
The meat from this bird eaten as food.
The young of any bird; a chick.
A coward.
A young or inexperienced person.
A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
The game of dare.
The game of dare.
A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (that is, the loser).
A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
A kilogram of cocaine.
A small pewter pot used in a tavern.
senses_topics:
|
8938 | word:
chicken
word_type:
adj
expansion:
chicken (comparative more chicken, superlative most chicken)
forms:
form:
more chicken
tags:
comparative
form:
most chicken
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
chicken
etymology_text:
From Middle English chiken (also as chike > English chick), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *kiukīn (“chicken”), or alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *kukkīn, equivalent to cock + -en.
Compare North Frisian schückling (“chicken”), Saterland Frisian Sjuuken (“chicken”), Dutch kuiken (“chick, chicken”), German Low German Küken (“chick”), whence German Küken (“chick”), (elevated, obsolete) German Küchlein (“chick”) and Old Norse kjúklingr (“chicken”).
senses_examples:
text:
Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cowardly.
senses_topics:
|
8939 | word:
chicken
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chicken (third-person singular simple present chickens, present participle chickening, simple past and past participle chickened)
forms:
form:
chickens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
chickening
tags:
participle
present
form:
chickened
tags:
participle
past
form:
chickened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
chicken
etymology_text:
Shortening of chicken out.
senses_examples:
text:
For the umpteenth time, I chickened.
ref:
1964, Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →OCLC, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
ABE: What are you chucking it for, then? You're running, aren't you? Running, cos you chickened.
SLIM: All right, so I chickened.
ref:
1968, Aidan Chambers, The Chicken Run: A Play for Young People, Oxford: Heinemann Educational Publishers, act II, scene v, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
To reach the lower branches of the blackwood one had to swing Tarzan-like across a narrow gully choked with gorse and blackberries. […] [T]he challenge of the rope swing was definitely more in James' line. […] Even if he slipped and failed, or worse, chickened, they would be unlikely to judge too harshly.
ref:
2014, Anne M. Brown, “James Day”, in Belonging: The Story of How James Became a Brown, Acacia Ridge, Qld.: Australian eBook Publisher
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To avoid a situation one is afraid of.
senses_topics:
|
8940 | word:
chicken
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chicken
forms:
wikipedia:
chicken
etymology_text:
From chick + -en (plural ending).
senses_examples:
text:
The 21 or 22 day the Chicken are hatch'd; […]
ref:
1669, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of chick
senses_topics:
|
8941 | word:
corporate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
corporate (comparative more corporate, superlative most corporate)
forms:
form:
more corporate
tags:
comparative
form:
most corporate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Middle English Dictionary
etymology_text:
From Middle English corporat, corporate (a verb in the Middle English Dictionary but “this may be a true adjective” was added as a note), from Latin corporātus, past participle of corporāre (“to make into a body”), which in turn was formed from corpus (“body”). See also corpse.
senses_examples:
text:
The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise.
type:
example
text:
But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
ref:
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion
type:
quotation
text:
Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
ref:
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
the corporate authorship of the working group
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to a corporation.
Formed into a corporation; incorporated.
Unified into one body; collective.
Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from a large corporation.
senses_topics:
|
8942 | word:
corporate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
corporate (countable and uncountable, plural corporates)
forms:
form:
corporates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Middle English Dictionary
etymology_text:
From Middle English corporat, corporate (a verb in the Middle English Dictionary but “this may be a true adjective” was added as a note), from Latin corporātus, past participle of corporāre (“to make into a body”), which in turn was formed from corpus (“body”). See also corpse.
senses_examples:
text:
So-called junk corporates and emerging-market debt remain generally out of favor.
ref:
2009 January 11, Robert D. Hershey Jr., “Look Past 2008 Stars for Gains in Bonds”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Currently there are 19 members, who are all in Spotlight and belong to Equity. Areas of work include theatre, musicals, television, film, commercials, corporates and voiceovers.
ref:
2013, Simon Dunmore, Actors' Yearbook 2014
type:
quotation
text:
McDonald's corporate issued a new policy today.
type:
example
text:
it came down from corporate
type:
example
text:
The work could be rewarding, but corporate is micro-managing everything.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bond issued by a corporation.
A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
A corporation that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.
A corporate company or group.
The higher managerial echelons of a corporation.
senses_topics:
business
finance
business
business
business |
8943 | word:
corporate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
corporate (third-person singular simple present corporates, present participle corporating, simple past and past participle corporated)
forms:
form:
corporates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
corporating
tags:
participle
present
form:
corporated
tags:
participle
past
form:
corporated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Middle English Dictionary
etymology_text:
From Middle English corporat, corporate (a verb in the Middle English Dictionary but “this may be a true adjective” was added as a note), from Latin corporātus, past participle of corporāre (“to make into a body”), which in turn was formed from corpus (“body”). See also corpse.
senses_examples:
text:
This hospital of Savoy was again new founded, erected, corporated , and endowed with lands by Queen Mary
ref:
1598, John Stow, A Survey of London
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To incorporate.
To become incorporated.
senses_topics:
|
8944 | word:
seam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seam (plural seams)
forms:
form:
seams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English seem, seme, from Old English sēam (“seam”), from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”).
senses_examples:
text:
Seams can be made or sealed in a variety of ways, including adhesive bonding, hot-air welding, solvent welding, using adhesive tapes, sealant, etc.
type:
example
text:
Precepts should be so finely wrought together[…]that no coarse seam may discover where they join.
ref:
1697, Joseph Addison, Essay on Virgil's Georgics
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
A suture.
A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
A line of junction; a joint.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
geography
geology
natural-sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
construction
manufacturing
nautical
transport
|
8945 | word:
seam
word_type:
verb
expansion:
seam (third-person singular simple present seams, present participle seaming, simple past and past participle seamed)
forms:
form:
seams
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
seaming
tags:
participle
present
form:
seamed
tags:
participle
past
form:
seamed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the noun seam.
senses_examples:
text:
Thus, seamed with many scars, / Bursting these prison bars, / Up to its native stars / My soul ascended!
ref:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Skeleton in Armor
text:
Later their lips began to parch and seam.
ref:
1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put together with a seam.
To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
To crack open along a seam.
Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
8946 | word:
seam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seam (plural seams)
forms:
form:
seams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old English sēam (“a burden”), from Latin sagma (“saddle”).
senses_examples:
text:
As white glass was 6s. the 'seam', containing 24 'weys' (pise, or pondera) of 5 lb., and 2½ lb. was reckoned sufficient to make one foot of glazing, the cost of glass would be 1½d. leaving 2½d. for labour.
ref:
1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, page 175
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
senses_topics:
|
8947 | word:
seam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seam (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English seym (“grease”), from Old French saim (“fat”). Compare French saindoux (“lard”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Grease; tallow; lard.
senses_topics:
|
8948 | word:
hallux
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hallux (plural halluces or halluxes)
forms:
form:
halluces
tags:
plural
form:
halluxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin hallux, from Latin allus, hallus.
senses_examples:
text:
His left foot winced. The hallux nail, ill-cut, / Assailed its neighbour toe with a shrewd nip.
ref:
1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The big toe.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
8949 | word:
conge
word_type:
noun
expansion:
conge (plural conges)
forms:
form:
conges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French conge, from Latin congius. Only attested in English in the obsolete plural form congys.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of congy, congius, ancient Roman units of liquid measure and mass.
senses_topics:
|
8950 | word:
conge
word_type:
noun
expansion:
conge (plural conges)
forms:
form:
conges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Accentless form of congé.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of congé: an apophyge or cavetto.
Alternative form of congee: a leavetaking, a farewell.
senses_topics:
architecture
|
8951 | word:
conge
word_type:
verb
expansion:
conge (third-person singular simple present conges, present participle conging or congeing, simple past and past participle conged)
forms:
form:
conges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
conging
tags:
participle
present
form:
congeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
conged
tags:
participle
past
form:
conged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Accentless form of congé.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of congee: to take leave, to bid farewell, in various senses; to bow, to curtsey, etc.
senses_topics:
|
8952 | word:
brew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
brew (third-person singular simple present brews, present participle brewing, simple past and past participle brewed)
forms:
form:
brews
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
brewing
tags:
participle
present
form:
brewed
tags:
participle
past
form:
brewed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn.
Cognate with
Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley
senses_examples:
text:
Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]
ref:
1935, Christopher Isherwood, chapter 11, in Mr Norris Changes Trains, Penguin, published 1942, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
Of course, no one knows what kind of flu season is brewing, the perfect storm of a new strain hitting a largely unvaccinated population or a mercifully mild few months.
ref:
2004 October 29, Marco R. Della Cava, “Vaccine shortage pricks tempers”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 2A
type:
quotation
text:
Grant may have considered that only a performance of the very highest quality could keep him in a job - and the way his players started the game gave the 55-year-old shelter from the storm that was brewing.
ref:
2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
She had one day to get up very early in the morning to brew, when the other servants said to her: 'You had better mind you don't get up too early, and you mustn't put any fire under the copper before two o'clock.'
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
To foment or prepare, as by brewing
To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
To boil or seethe; to cook.
senses_topics:
|
8953 | word:
brew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brew (plural brews)
forms:
form:
brews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn.
Cognate with
Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley
senses_examples:
text:
Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew?
Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on.
ref:
2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3
type:
quotation
text:
Six great bottles of one of the Hong Kong brews had been brought to wash down the brandy and the fragments of rice and mee and meat-fibres that clung to the back teeth.
ref:
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 529
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
A serving of beer.
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
A cup of tea.
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
senses_topics:
|
8954 | word:
brew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brew (plural brews)
forms:
form:
brews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English brewe (“eyebrow”), from Old English bru (“eyebrow”). Doublet of brow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An overhanging hill or cliff.
senses_topics:
|
8955 | word:
domain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
domain (plural domains)
forms:
form:
domains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame, and compare demain, danger, dungeon. Doublet of demesne, domino.
senses_examples:
text:
The king ruled his domain harshly.
type:
example
text:
Farmers account for just 1.5% of the British population, but the size of their domain – 71% of the country’s surface area is classified as farmland – has given them power over the public imagination.
ref:
2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
A blinded hermit in oblivion, disgraced
Like Odysseus lost in Poseidon's endless domain
In a realm devoid ov solace, I roam
ref:
2022, Behemoth (lyrics and music), “Ov My Herculean Exile”
type:
quotation
text:
Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain: get in touch with customer services.
type:
example
text:
His domain is English history.
type:
example
text:
Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
ref:
2012 January 24, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2013-04-30, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.
text:
A characteristic of a field. A data domain specifies a data type and applies the minimum and maximum values allowed and other constraints.
ref:
a. 2013, IBM, “IBM Terminology - terms D”, in 'IBM Software|Globalization|Terminology', retrieved 2013-12-29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.
A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
The set A; The subset of A consisting of elements a of A such that there exists an element b in B with (a,b) in R.
A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.
An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.
The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.
The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.
A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome.
An area of more or less uniform mineralization.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
mathematics
sciences
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
topology
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
8956 | word:
abye
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abye
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of aby
senses_topics:
|
8957 | word:
scouring
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scouring (plural scourings)
forms:
form:
scourings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Another for a violent scouring. Take the Entrails of a Pullet, or great Chicken, all but the Gizzard, and mix with tbem of Spikenard one Ounce, ' and make him swallow it, and this will infallibly stay his Scouring, yea, though it be a Bloody-Flux.
ref:
1720, E. R. (Gent.), The Experienc'd Farrier: Or Farring Compleated. Containing Every Thing that Belongs to a Compleat Horseman, page 332
type:
quotation
text:
For that kind of lax and scouring called bloody flux, see the article BLOODY FLUX.
ref:
1766, Thomas Wallis (surgeon), The Farrier's and Horseman's Complete Dictionary: Containing the Art of Farriery in All Its Branches
text:
Thus in 1670 the London bills ascribe 142 deaths to “bloody flux, scouring, and flux,” and 3,690 to “griping in the guts.”
ref:
1840, London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine, page 683
type:
quotation
text:
Flux, bloody flux and scouring feature from the first, but were overtaken in the 1650s by 'plague in the guts', soon renamed 'griping in the guts'. An apparent decline in bloody flux was more than matched by high levels of 'griping in the guts'.
ref:
2011, V. Berridge, M. Gorsky, Environment, Health and History, Springer, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
It was also found that scouring had occurred in the bed of the mill lade, which passes between the first and second piers.
ref:
1950 January, “Re-Opening of the Eyemouth Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush, soap and water.
Diarrhea. (Now used only of livestock, though also sometimes used of humans into the 1600s.)
Erosion by water, especially in watercourses.
senses_topics:
|
8958 | word:
scouring
word_type:
verb
expansion:
scouring
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Scouring the entire area revealed nothing.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of scour
senses_topics:
|
8959 | word:
empire
word_type:
noun
expansion:
empire (plural empires)
forms:
form:
empires
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
empire
etymology_text:
From Middle English empire, from Old French empire, empere, from Latin imperium, inperium (“command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire”), from imperare, inperare (“to command, order”), from in (“in, on”) + parare (“to make ready, order”). Doublet of empery and imperium.
senses_examples:
text:
the Russian empire
type:
example
text:
States and empires fail when they are no longer the solution, they are the problem.
ref:
2022 February 7, Charles Hugh Smith, How Empires Die
type:
quotation
text:
The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived client state of Japan governing Vietnam between March 11 and August 23, 1945.
type:
example
text:
British people [...] continued to believe in empire. It was what gave Britain a unique role in the world, and in return Britain had drawn strength from its empire to enable it to survive two great wars that had wrecked so many of its competitors. Imperial management in the twentieth[…]
ref:
2001 August 2, P. J. Marshall, The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire, Cambridge University Press, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
Since Britain imported mainly foodstuffs from its empire, no preferences could be granted to the colonies without Britain first imposing a tariff on foodstuffs imported from other countries.
ref:
2021 April 13, Daniel Verdier, Democracy and International Trade: Britain, France, and the United States, 1860-1990, Princeton University Press, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
the McDonald's fast food empire
type:
example
text:
“Revenues for Jackson's non-profit empire sky-rocketed from $4 million in 1997, to more than $14 million just two years later.”
ref:
2002, Evelyn L. Damore, The Rattle and Hiss of the Tin Gods, iUniverse, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
The Mafia never forgave Castro but Lansky had already laid the foundations of a mob gambling empire all over the Caribbean […]
ref:
2009, Martin Short, The Rise of the Mafia, Kings Road Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
The brutality, the unthinking, the unreflecting character of the barbarians were so great, that the new faith, the new feelings with which they had been inspired, exercised but a very slight empire over them.
ref:
1881, François Guizot, The History of Civilization from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution..., page 122
type:
quotation
text:
With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.
ref:
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
[…] could gain some political strength for the pope, but in so doing the pope would lose the uniqueness and supremacy of his empire over souls: […]
ref:
2010, Stefania Tutino, Empire of Souls: Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth, Oxford University Press, page 270
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A political state, often a monarchy, that has achieved a much greater current size than its initial size by conquering surrounding territories, cities or nations.
A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.
The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them), when distinguished from the native territory of that power; imperial possessions.
An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.
control, dominion, sway.
senses_topics:
|
8960 | word:
empire
word_type:
adj
expansion:
empire (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
empire
etymology_text:
From Middle English empire, from Old French empire, empere, from Latin imperium, inperium (“command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire”), from imperare, inperare (“to command, order”), from in (“in, on”) + parare (“to make ready, order”). Doublet of empery and imperium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Empire.
senses_topics:
|
8961 | word:
true
word_type:
adj
expansion:
true (comparative truer or more true, superlative truest or most true)
forms:
form:
truer
tags:
comparative
form:
more true
tags:
comparative
form:
truest
tags:
superlative
form:
most true
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
true
etymology_text:
From Middle English trewe, from Old English trīewe, (Mercian) trēowe (“trusty, faithful”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (compare Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Dutch getrouw and trouw, German treu, Norwegian and Swedish trygg (“safe, secure’”), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewh₂- (“steady, firm”) (compare Irish dearbh (“sure”), Old Prussian druwis (“faith”), Ancient Greek δροόν (droón, “firm”)), extension of *dóru (“tree”) (possibly also Proto-Slavic *sъdorvъ (“healthy”) from the same root). More at tree. For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus (“tough”) from robur (“red oak”).
senses_examples:
text:
This is a true story.
type:
example
text:
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
True, I have only read part of the book, but I like it so far.
type:
example
text:
a true copy; a true likeness of the original
type:
example
text:
"A and B" is true if and only if "A" is true and "B" is true.
type:
example
text:
He’s turned out to be a true friend.
type:
example
text:
The true king has returned!
type:
example
text:
This is true Parmesan cheese — it is from the Parma region.
type:
example
text:
The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunyng of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge
ref:
1568, William Cornysh, “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe …”, in John Skelton, edited by J[ohn] S[tow], Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, Imprinted at London: In Fletestreate, neare vnto Saint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 1736, →OCLC, page 290
type:
quotation
text:
The Washington Monument is often described as an obelisk, and sometimes even as a “true obelisk,” even though it is not. A true obelisk is a monolith, a pylon formed out of a single piece of stone.
ref:
2012 January 24, Henry Petroski, “The Washington Monument”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
true sparrows (Passer)
type:
example
text:
true spiders
type:
example
text:
true blusher (Amanita rubescens, as distinguished from the false blusher, Amanita pantherina)
type:
example
text:
The true bugs are those of the order Hemiptera; and, by some lights, most truly those of the suborder Heteroptera.
type:
example
text:
Whate'er the weapon, still his aim was true, Nor e'er in vain the fatal bullet flew.
ref:
1801, Mrs. Cowley, “The siege of Acre”, in The British Critic, volumes 17-18, page 521
type:
quotation
text:
I held my breath and struck the ball. My aim was true, but I didn't give the damn thing enough gas. It died three feet from the cup.
ref:
2008, Carl Hiaasen, The downhill lie: a hacker's return to a ruinous sport, page 188
type:
quotation
text:
Is my bike wheel true? It feels unsteady.
type:
example
text:
Let Z#x5F;t be twice the value of a true die shown on the t-th toss.
ref:
1990, William W. S. Wei, Time Series Analysis, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
In fact, few profit margins can be predicted with such reliability as those provided by a true roulette wheel or other game of chance.
ref:
2006, Judith A. Baer, Leslie Friedman Goldstein, The Constitutional and Legal Rights of Women: Cases in Law and Social Change
type:
quotation
text:
We do not reject, because 9 heads and 3 tails is in a set of reasonably likely results when we toss a true coin.
ref:
2012, Peter Sprent, Applied Nonparametric Statistical Methods, Springer Science & Business Media, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
true crime
true romance
type:
example
text:
[A] skinny blonde of about twenty sitting in an armchair by an electric fire reading a true romance magazine.
ref:
1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 69
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
Loyal, faithful.
Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.
Accurate; following a path toward the target.
Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
based on actual historical events.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
mathematics
probability
sciences
|
8962 | word:
true
word_type:
adv
expansion:
true (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
true
etymology_text:
From Middle English trewe, from Old English trīewe, (Mercian) trēowe (“trusty, faithful”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (compare Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Dutch getrouw and trouw, German treu, Norwegian and Swedish trygg (“safe, secure’”), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewh₂- (“steady, firm”) (compare Irish dearbh (“sure”), Old Prussian druwis (“faith”), Ancient Greek δροόν (droón, “firm”)), extension of *dóru (“tree”) (possibly also Proto-Slavic *sъdorvъ (“healthy”) from the same root). More at tree. For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus (“tough”) from robur (“red oak”).
senses_examples:
text:
This gun shoots true.
type:
example
text:
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
ref:
2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Accurately.
Truthfully.
senses_topics:
|
8963 | word:
true
word_type:
noun
expansion:
true (countable and uncountable, plural trues)
forms:
form:
trues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
true
etymology_text:
From Middle English trewe, from Old English trīewe, (Mercian) trēowe (“trusty, faithful”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (compare Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Dutch getrouw and trouw, German treu, Norwegian and Swedish trygg (“safe, secure’”), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewh₂- (“steady, firm”) (compare Irish dearbh (“sure”), Old Prussian druwis (“faith”), Ancient Greek δροόν (droón, “firm”)), extension of *dóru (“tree”) (possibly also Proto-Slavic *sъdorvъ (“healthy”) from the same root). More at tree. For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus (“tough”) from robur (“red oak”).
senses_examples:
text:
Some toolmakers are very careless when drilling the first hole through work that is to be bored, claiming that if the drilled hole comes out of true somewhat it can be brought true with the boring tool.
ref:
1904, Lester Gray French, Machinery, volume 10
type:
quotation
text:
The crate shifted on its pallet, out of sync now. As the lift withdrew, the crate skidded with it, dragged by friction and gravity, skewing farther and farther from true.
ref:
1988, Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free, Baen Publishing,, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
The strength and number of blows depends on how far out of true the shafts are.
ref:
1994, Bruce Palmer, How to Restore Your Harley-Davidson
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being in alignment.
Truth.
A pledge or truce.
senses_topics:
|
8964 | word:
true
word_type:
verb
expansion:
true (third-person singular simple present trues, present participle trueing or truing, simple past and past participle trued)
forms:
form:
trues
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
trueing
tags:
participle
present
form:
truing
tags:
participle
present
form:
trued
tags:
participle
past
form:
trued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
true
etymology_text:
From Middle English trewe, from Old English trīewe, (Mercian) trēowe (“trusty, faithful”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (compare Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Dutch getrouw and trouw, German treu, Norwegian and Swedish trygg (“safe, secure’”), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewh₂- (“steady, firm”) (compare Irish dearbh (“sure”), Old Prussian druwis (“faith”), Ancient Greek δροόν (droón, “firm”)), extension of *dóru (“tree”) (possibly also Proto-Slavic *sъdorvъ (“healthy”) from the same root). More at tree. For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus (“tough”) from robur (“red oak”).
senses_examples:
text:
He trued the spokes of the bicycle wheel.
type:
example
text:
We spent all night truing up the report.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To straighten (of something that is supposed to be straight).
To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.
senses_topics:
|
8965 | word:
W3C
word_type:
name
expansion:
W3C
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of World Wide Web Consortium.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software |
8966 | word:
pyrena
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pyrena (plural pyrenae)
forms:
form:
pyrenae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin pyrēna, from Ancient Greek πῡρήν (pūrḗn, “fluit-stone”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] pericarp drupaceous, or baccate, 1—4 nuts (pyrena), which are sometimes enclosed in an utricular membrane […]
ref:
1848, Samuel Frederick Gray, Gray's Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pyrene; a nutlet resembling a seed, or the kernel/stone of a drupe.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
8967 | word:
acacine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acacine (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of acacin
senses_topics:
|
8968 | word:
asset
word_type:
noun
expansion:
asset (plural assets)
forms:
form:
assets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
asset
etymology_text:
Back-formation from assets, from Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez (“enough”). Compare Middle English asseth.
senses_examples:
text:
My assets consist of stocks in companies that pay a dividend, and a few apartments that pay me rental income.
type:
example
text:
January 31 2020, Boris Johnson, Brexit Day speech
And when I look at this country’s incredible assets. Our scientists, our engineers, our world-leading universities, our armed forces. When I look at the potential of this country waiting to be unleashed, I know that we can turn this opportunity into a stunning success.
text:
Coordinate term: liability
text:
Coordinate term: liability
text:
Perhaps it is simply common for wives to want their female friends to see their husband nude – especially if he has nice assets. Honestly, I also wanted to see the dick of Brian and Andrew.
ref:
2009, Kaitlynn Maguire, Margaret Tingley, Serendipitous Moments of Female Sensuality, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Slave Alexi has nice assets.
ref:
2009, Cheyenne McCray, The First Sin: A Lexi Steele Novel, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
Muse studied Ida May's breasts for a moment, then reached out and grabbed the left one. “Good size. Firm. Yeah, you got some nice assets.”
ref:
2016, Deanna Chase, Spirits, Rock Stars, and a Midnight Chocolate Bar: Pyper Rayne, Book 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows.
A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows.
Any item recorded on the left-hand side of a balance sheet.
Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.
An intelligence asset.
A woman's breasts or buttocks or a man's genitalia.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
espionage
government
military
politics
war
|
8969 | word:
dark
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dark (comparative darker, superlative darkest)
forms:
form:
darker
tags:
comparative
form:
darkest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
dark
etymology_text:
From Middle English derk, from Old English deorc, from Proto-West Germanic *derk (“dark”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg- (“dim, dull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“dull, dirty”).
senses_examples:
text:
Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.
type:
example
text:
The room was too dark for reading.
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:
my sister's hair is darker than mine
type:
example
text:
her skin grew dark with a suntan
type:
example
text:
the dark problems of existence
ref:
1881, John Shairp, Aspects of Poetry
type:
quotation
text:
dark money
type:
example
text:
Clarence, can you lend me three thousand pounds on good security and keep it dark from Connie?
ref:
1923, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter I, in Leave It to Psmith
type:
quotation
text:
The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.
ref:
1831, Benjamin Disraeli, The Young Duke — a moral tale though gay
text:
a dark villain
type:
example
text:
a dark deed
type:
example
text:
the Great Depression was a dark time
type:
example
text:
the film was a dark psychological thriller
type:
example
text:
The dark ages began after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
type:
example
text:
The Greek Dark Ages began after the Bronze Age collapse.
type:
example
text:
The age wherein he lived was dark, but he
Could not want light who taught the world to see.
ref:
1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning
type:
quotation
text:
September 11, 2001, the day when four terrorist attacks destroyed the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, is often referred to as America's dark day.
type:
example
text:
2014 April 1, “Marathon Mementos Remind of Boston's Dark Day”, in NBC News:
type:
quotation
text:
The ending of this book is rather dark.
type:
example
text:
This show is full of dark humor.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
Extinguished.
Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
Deprived of sight; blind.
Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension: caliginous, darkling, dim, gloomy, lightless, sombre.
Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
Ambiguously or unclearly expressed: enigmatic, esoteric, mysterious, obscure, undefined.
Marked by or conducted with secrecy: hidden, secret; clandestine, surreptitious.
Marked by or conducted with secrecy: hidden, secret; clandestine, surreptitious.
Having racing capability not widely known.
Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
Lacking progress in science or the arts.
Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
With emphasis placed on the unpleasant and macabre aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
Off the air; not transmitting.
senses_topics:
gambling
games
broadcasting
media |
8970 | word:
dark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dark (usually uncountable, plural darks)
forms:
form:
darks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dark
etymology_text:
From Middle English derk, derke, dirke, dyrke, from the adjective (see above), or possibly from an unrecorded Old English *dierce, *diercu (“dark, darkness”).
senses_examples:
text:
Dark surrounds us completely.
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:
We kept him in the dark.
type:
example
text:
The lawyer was left in the dark as to why the jury was dismissed.
type:
example
text:
It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
Ignorance.
Nightfall.
A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
senses_topics:
|
8971 | word:
dark
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dark (third-person singular simple present darks, present participle darking, simple past and past participle darked)
forms:
form:
darks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
darking
tags:
participle
present
form:
darked
tags:
participle
past
form:
darked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dark
etymology_text:
From Middle English derken, from Old English deorcian, from Proto-West Germanic *derkōn.
senses_examples:
text:
To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.
ref:
1873, Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat, “Glossarial Index”, in Specimens of Early English, volumes II: From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298—A.D. 1393, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 490
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To grow or become dark, darken.
To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
To make dark, darken; to obscure.
senses_topics:
|
8972 | word:
pyrenoid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pyrenoid (plural pyrenoids)
forms:
form:
pyrenoids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From pyrene + -oid.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
any of several transparent structures found in the chloroplast of certain algae etc.; they are responsible for the fixation of carbon dioxide and the formation of starch
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
8973 | word:
upcoil
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upcoil (third-person singular simple present upcoils, present participle upcoiling, simple past and past participle upcoiled)
forms:
form:
upcoils
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upcoiling
tags:
participle
present
form:
upcoiled
tags:
participle
past
form:
upcoiled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + coil.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil.
senses_topics:
|
8974 | word:
academicals
word_type:
noun
expansion:
academicals pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From academic + -al + -s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities, typically on special occasions such as graduation.
senses_topics:
|
8975 | word:
upclimb
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upclimb (third-person singular simple present upclimbs, present participle upclimbing, simple past and past participle upclimbed or upclomb)
forms:
form:
upclimbs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upclimbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
upclimbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
upclimbed
tags:
past
form:
upclomb
tags:
participle
past
form:
upclomb
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + climb.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To climb up; to ascend.
senses_topics:
|
8976 | word:
withdrawal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
withdrawal (countable and uncountable, plural withdrawals)
forms:
form:
withdrawals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
alcohol withdrawal syndrome
benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome
withdrawal
etymology_text:
From withdraw + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
In view of the second aspect of its control function, the Federal Reserve Board prohibits, with specified limited exceptions, the wisthdrawal of securities from general accounts where such withdrawals would undermargin such accounts.
ref:
1973, American jurisprudence: a modern comprehensive text statement of American Law, State and Federal, Volume 69, page 852
type:
quotation
text:
heroin withdrawal
text:
nicotine withdrawal
text:
caffeine withdrawal
text:
On withdrawal [from service], it was restored to its Caledonian blue livery, and is now preserved at St. Rollox.
ref:
1950 October, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—4”, in Railway Magazine, page 658
type:
quotation
text:
But in terms of the result, the performance and the management of the players' workloads, the match could not have gone much better for the hosts, save for Wes Burns' first-half withdrawal with what looked like a dislocated shoulder.
ref:
2023 October 11, Dafydd Pritchard, “Wales 4-0 Gibraltar”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.
An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn.
The sum of money taken from a bank account.
senses_topics:
|
8977 | word:
henry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
henry (plural henries or henrys)
forms:
form:
henries
tags:
plural
form:
henrys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Henry (inductance)
etymology_text:
Named after the American scientist Joseph Henry.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical inductance; the inductance induced in a circuit by a rate of change of current of one ampere per second and a resulting electromotive force of one volt. Symbol: H
senses_topics:
|
8978 | word:
henry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
henry (plural henries)
forms:
form:
henries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Rhyming slang, from Henry the Third
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A turd.
senses_topics:
|
8979 | word:
henry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
henry (plural henries)
forms:
form:
henries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Henry the Eighth.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A quantity of marijuana weighing one-eighth of an ounce.
senses_topics:
|
8980 | word:
shock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shock (countable and uncountable, plural shocks)
forms:
form:
shocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
shock
etymology_text:
From Middle Dutch schokken (“to push, jolt, shake, jerk”) or Middle French choquer (“to collide with, clash”), from Old Dutch *skokkan (“to shake up and down, shog”), from Proto-Germanic *skukkaną (“to move, shake, tremble”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to shake, stir”); see shake.
Cognate with Middle Low German schocken (“collide with, deliver a blow to, move back and forth”), Old High German scoc (“a jolt, swing”), Middle High German schocken (“to swing”) (German schaukeln), Old Norse skykkr (“vibration, surging motion”), Icelandic skykkjun (“tremulously”), Middle English schiggen (“to shake”). Doublet of shog.
senses_examples:
text:
A tremendous shock arises when a secret is discovered.
ref:
2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
But as was the case with pacemakers, external defibrillators were unwieldy, and the shocks they delivered—in the rare cases when patients were still conscious—were painful.
ref:
2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
Fans were in shock in the days following the singer's death.
text:
Several reflected shocks enter the bomb core in rapid succession, each helping to compress it to its maximum density.
type:
example
text:
The train hit the buffers with a great shock.
type:
example
text:
If your truck's been riding rough, it might need new shocks.
type:
example
text:
We're bonin' on the dark blocks / Wearin' out the shocks, wettin' up the dashboard clock
ref:
1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J
type:
quotation
text:
At the rear, you'll find a single, centrally mounted shock, the now-familiar single-sided swingarm and BMW's Paralever shaft-drive system, which does away with most of a shafty's chassis-jacking bugaboos.
ref:
1994, Cycle World Magazine, volume 33, number 1, page 49
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sudden, heavy impact.
Something so surprising that it is stunning.
A sudden, heavy impact.
A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
A sudden, heavy impact.
Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
A sudden, heavy impact.
A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance, often caused by news or other stimuli.
A sudden, heavy impact.
Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
A sudden, heavy impact.
A shock wave.
A sudden, heavy impact.
A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
medicine
sciences
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
medicine
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
automotive
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
mathematics
sciences
|
8981 | word:
shock
word_type:
adj
expansion:
shock (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
shock
etymology_text:
From Middle Dutch schokken (“to push, jolt, shake, jerk”) or Middle French choquer (“to collide with, clash”), from Old Dutch *skokkan (“to shake up and down, shog”), from Proto-Germanic *skukkaną (“to move, shake, tremble”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to shake, stir”); see shake.
Cognate with Middle Low German schocken (“collide with, deliver a blow to, move back and forth”), Old High German scoc (“a jolt, swing”), Middle High German schocken (“to swing”) (German schaukeln), Old Norse skykkr (“vibration, surging motion”), Icelandic skykkjun (“tremulously”), Middle English schiggen (“to shake”). Doublet of shog.
senses_examples:
text:
His shock announcement rocked the tennis world.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Causing intense surprise, horror, etc.; unexpected and shocking.
senses_topics:
|
8982 | word:
shock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shock (third-person singular simple present shocks, present participle shocking, simple past and past participle shocked)
forms:
form:
shocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
shocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
shocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
shock
etymology_text:
From Middle Dutch schokken (“to push, jolt, shake, jerk”) or Middle French choquer (“to collide with, clash”), from Old Dutch *skokkan (“to shake up and down, shog”), from Proto-Germanic *skukkaną (“to move, shake, tremble”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to shake, stir”); see shake.
Cognate with Middle Low German schocken (“collide with, deliver a blow to, move back and forth”), Old High German scoc (“a jolt, swing”), Middle High German schocken (“to swing”) (German schaukeln), Old Norse skykkr (“vibration, surging motion”), Icelandic skykkjun (“tremulously”), Middle English schiggen (“to shake”). Doublet of shog.
senses_examples:
text:
The disaster shocked the world.
type:
example
text:
Ammonium nitrate can detonate if severely shocked.
type:
example
text:
It takes more than two gigapascals (two billion pascals) of pressure to shock quartz in this manner (for comparison, the atmosphere at sea level exerts a little over 100,000 pascals of pressure).
ref:
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 44
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.
To give an electric shock to.
To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.
To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
To deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
8983 | word:
shock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shock (plural shocks)
forms:
form:
shocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
shock
etymology_text:
Variant of shag.
senses_examples:
text:
Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.
ref:
1557, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
type:
quotation
text:
His head boasted a shock of sandy hair.
type:
example
text:
Every now and then I’m startled at how good-looking John is, but he glared at me from under the shock of hair that fell across his brow and scared me a little.
ref:
1968 October 12, Paul Zindel, chapter 12, in The Pigman
type:
quotation
text:
On day three I pointed at the edge of an intricate pentagram peeking above her shock of oily black hair.
ref:
2019, Hal Y. Zhang, Hard Mother, Spider Mother, Soft Mother, Brooklyn, NY: Radix Media, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock. (translating the German Spitz)
ref:
1827, Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.
A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
senses_topics:
business
commerce
|
8984 | word:
shock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shock (third-person singular simple present shocks, present participle shocking, simple past and past participle shocked)
forms:
form:
shocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
shocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
shocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
shock
etymology_text:
Variant of shag.
senses_examples:
text:
to shock rye
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
senses_topics:
|
8985 | word:
awakened
word_type:
verb
expansion:
awakened
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of awaken
senses_topics:
|
8986 | word:
awakened
word_type:
adj
expansion:
awakened (comparative more awakened, superlative most awakened)
forms:
form:
more awakened
tags:
comparative
form:
most awakened
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The awakened baby began to cry.
type:
example
text:
an awakened interest in ballet
type:
example
text:
Lined against them are more progressive and populist leaning opposition parties campaigning for democratic reforms that have a history of attracting […] a new generation of politically awakened young people.
ref:
2023 May 14, Heather Chen, Kocha Olarn, “Polls close in Thailand as opposition takes on kingdom’s conservative cliques”, in CNN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having been woken up.
Aroused; alerted; activated; enlightened.
senses_topics:
|
8987 | word:
zymurgy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zymurgy (plural zymurgies)
forms:
form:
zymurgies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From zym- + -urgy.
senses_examples:
text:
This refinement led to [Eduard] Buchner's receipt of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for advancements in zymurgy.
ref:
2010, “Fermentation”, in Rachel Black, editor, Alcohol in Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia, Bloomsbury
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemistry of fermentation with yeasts, especially the science involved in beer and winemaking.
senses_topics:
|
8988 | word:
pl.
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pl.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of plural.
Abbreviation of plates., often used to indicate the number of plate-based illustrations in a book
senses_topics:
|
8989 | word:
American Samoan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
American Samoan (plural American Samoans)
forms:
form:
American Samoans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from American Samoa or of American Samoan descent.
senses_topics:
|
8990 | word:
American Samoan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
American Samoan (comparative more American Samoan, superlative most American Samoan)
forms:
form:
more American Samoan
tags:
comparative
form:
most American Samoan
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to American Samoa or its people.
senses_topics:
|
8991 | word:
meer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meer (plural meers)
forms:
form:
meers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See mere.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A boundary.
Obsolete form of mere (a lake).
senses_topics:
|
8992 | word:
meer
word_type:
adj
expansion:
meer (comparative meerer, superlative meerest)
forms:
form:
meerer
tags:
comparative
form:
meerest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
For, is this more contrary to Scripture […] than 'tis to say, that our blessed Saviour is a meer Man[…]
ref:
1720, John Enty, Truth and Liberty consistent
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of mere.
senses_topics:
|
8993 | word:
meer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meer (plural meers)
forms:
form:
meers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See mayor.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of mayor.
Obsolete form of mair.
senses_topics:
|
8994 | word:
seem
word_type:
verb
expansion:
seem (third-person singular simple present seems, present participle seeming, simple past and past participle seemed)
forms:
form:
seems
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
seeming
tags:
participle
present
form:
seemed
tags:
participle
past
form:
seemed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English semen (“to seem, befit, be becoming”), from Old Norse sœma (“to conform to, beseem, befit”), from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną (“to unite, fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; whole”). Cognate with Scots seme (“to be fitting; beseem”), Danish sømme (“to beseem”), Old Swedish søma, Faroese søma (“to be proper”). Related also to Old Norse sómi (“honour”) ( > archaic Danish somme (“decent comportment”)), Old Norse sœmr (“fitting, seemly”), Old English sēman (“to reconcile, bring an agreement”), Old English sōm (“agreement”).
senses_examples:
text:
He seems to be ill. Her eyes seem blue. It must have seemed to her she was safe. How did she seem to you? He seems not to be at home. It seems like rain.
type:
example
text:
1813 (14ᵗʰc.), Dante Alighieri, The Vision of Hell as translated by The Rev. H. F. Cary.
He, from his face removing the gross air, / Oft his left hand forth stretch'd, and seem'd alone / By that annoyance wearied.
text:
So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
ref:
2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
And all within were pathes and alleies wide,
With footing worne, and leading inward farre:
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
type:
quotation
roman:
Faire harbour that them seemes; so in they entred arre.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
To befit; to beseem.
senses_topics:
|
8995 | word:
pyrene
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pyrene (plural pyrenes)
forms:
form:
pyrenes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pyrene
etymology_text:
From pyr- + -ene.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon containing four fused benzene rings; first isolated from coal tar
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
8996 | word:
pyrene
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pyrene (plural pyrenes)
forms:
form:
pyrenes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pyrene
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek πῡρήν (pūrḗn, “fruit-stone”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pyrena; a nutlet resembling a seed, or the kernel/stone of a drupe.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
8997 | word:
plate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plate (plural plates)
forms:
form:
plates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
plate
etymology_text:
From Middle English plate, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato.
senses_examples:
text:
I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
type:
example
text:
I ate a plate of beans.
type:
example
text:
The meat plate was particularly tasty.
type:
example
text:
With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.
type:
example
text:
The most important and most expensive part of any solar cell is a silicon plate.
type:
example
text:
He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
type:
example
text:
He was confronted by two knights in full plate.
type:
example
text:
The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.
type:
example
text:
If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.
type:
example
text:
The tea was served in the plate.
type:
example
text:
The silver ore of pure Charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good Qualities—whereas the sentimental French Plate I use instead of it makes just as good a shew—and pays no tax.
ref:
1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.i
type:
quotation
text:
We finished making the plates this morning.
type:
example
text:
Sit down and give your plates a rest.
type:
example
text:
There was a close play at the plate.
type:
example
text:
Our planet's crust is split into eight major plates and many minor plates.
ref:
2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition
type:
quotation
text:
Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
type:
example
text:
The SAPI plate in his vest protected him from the bullet's impact.
type:
example
text:
More plates means more dates!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
Such dishes collectively.
The contents of such a dish.
A course at a meal.
An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
A flat object of uniform thickness.
Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
Plate armor.
A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
A material covered with such a layer.
An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
An image or copy.
An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
A foot, from "plates of meat".
Home plate.
A tectonic plate.
Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
The anode of a vacuum tube.
A prize given to the winner in a contest.
Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
A record, usually vinyl.
trauma plate.
Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
media
printing
publishing
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
printing
publishing
media
printing
publishing
dentistry
medicine
sciences
business
construction
manufacturing
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
geography
geology
natural-sciences
biology
herpetology
natural-sciences
zoology
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel-industry
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel-industry
entertainment
lifestyle
music
government
military
politics
war
lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality |
8998 | word:
plate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
plate (third-person singular simple present plates, present participle plating, simple past and past participle plated)
forms:
form:
plates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
plating
tags:
participle
present
form:
plated
tags:
participle
past
form:
plated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
plate
etymology_text:
From Middle English platen, from Old English platian and Old French plater, both ultimately from Latin plata (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.
type:
example
text:
After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.
type:
example
text:
I took her for sushi, she wanted to fuck / So we took it to go, told 'em don't even plate it
ref:
2011, “HYFR”, in Take Care, performed by Drake ft. Lil Wayne
type:
quotation
text:
The single plated the runner from second base.
type:
example
text:
Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
To score a run.
To arm or defend with metal plates.
To beat into thin plates.
To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
To identify the printing plate used.
senses_topics:
arts
cooking
food
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel-industry
hobbies
lifestyle
philately
hobbies
lifestyle
philately |
8999 | word:
plate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plate (usually uncountable, plural plates)
forms:
form:
plates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
plate
etymology_text:
From Middle English, partly from Anglo-Norman plate (“plate, bullion”) and partly from Latin plata (“silver”), from Vulgar Latin *platta (“metal plate”), from feminine of Latin *plattus (“flat”).
senses_examples:
text:
At every meal—and I have heard the meals at Petleighcote were neither abundant nor succulent—enough plate stood upon the table to pay for the feeding of the poor of the whole county for a month
ref:
1864, Andrew Forrester, The Female Detective
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Precious metal, especially silver.
senses_topics:
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