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9000 | word:
plate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plate (plural plates)
forms:
form:
plates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
plate
etymology_text:
From Spanish plata (“silver”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
A roundel of silver or argent.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
9001 | word:
leaves
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leaves
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of leaf
plural of leave
senses_topics:
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9002 | word:
leaves
word_type:
verb
expansion:
leaves
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of leave
senses_topics:
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9003 | word:
upcurl
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upcurl (third-person singular simple present upcurls, present participle upcurling, simple past and past participle upcurled)
forms:
form:
upcurls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upcurling
tags:
participle
present
form:
upcurled
tags:
participle
past
form:
upcurled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + curl.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To curl up.
senses_topics:
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9004 | word:
upcurl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upcurl (plural upcurls)
forms:
form:
upcurls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + curl.
senses_examples:
text:
She notes an upcurl on the bottom stroke of the paraphs by 'a', and the absence of a bottom stroke in those of 'b'; […]
ref:
2016, Susanna Fein, The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives, page 181
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An upward curl.
senses_topics:
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9005 | word:
o-
word_type:
noun
expansion:
o-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A blood type that has no antigens. It lacks the A, B and Rh factors on the blood cells. It is the universal donor for blood and can give blood to any blood type, but can only receive O- blood.
senses_topics:
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9006 | word:
o-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
o-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
ortho-
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
9007 | word:
devising
word_type:
noun
expansion:
devising (countable and uncountable, plural devisings)
forms:
form:
devisings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I take some kind of comfort in the inexhaustibility of the devisings of nature, that it can keep coming up with new things.
ref:
1965, A. R. Ammons, Tape for the Turn of the Year
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the act of creating a plan or some object, especially a will
senses_topics:
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9008 | word:
devising
word_type:
verb
expansion:
devising
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of devise
senses_topics:
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9009 | word:
singularity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
singularity (countable and uncountable, plural singularities)
forms:
form:
singularities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English singularite, from Old French singularité, from Late Latin singulāritās (“singleness”), from Latin singulāris (“single”).
Morphologically singular + -ity
senses_examples:
text:
I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument.
ref:
1718, Joseph Addison, Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703
type:
quotation
text:
Pliny addeth this ſingularity to the Indian ſoil, that it is without weeds, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn.
ref:
a. 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Marrow of Historie, Or, an Epitome of All Historical Passages from the Creation, to the End of the Last Macedonian War, published 1650
type:
quotation
text:
A sub-cultural style or artifact, when adopted by the mainstream, loses its singularity. Once bell-bottoms became fashionable they were no longer a "gay style."
ref:
1980 August 16, Michael Bronski, “Does Life Incriminate Art?”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
At this singularity the laws of science and our ability to predict the future would break down. However, any observer who remained outside the black hole would not be affected by this failure of predictability, because neither light nor any other signal could reach him from the singularity.
ref:
1988, Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Bantam, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
Consequently the interior of a black hole is empty, with a singularity at the centre.
ref:
1992, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Black Holes, Cambridge University Press, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.
ref:
1958, Stan Ulam, “Tribute to John von Neumann”, in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
type:
quotation
text:
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. ... I think it's fair to call this event a singularity ("the Singularity" for the purposes of this paper).
ref:
1993, Vernor Vinge, “The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era”, in Whole Earth Review
type:
quotation
text:
[Vernor] Vinge was among those (along with, notably, Ray Kurzweil) to discuss the transformation of humans by technology, coming in a matter of decades, referred to as "the singularity."]
ref:
[2011 January 5, Rob Walker, “Cyberspace When You're Dead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The notion of the Singularity is predicated on Moore's Law, the 1965 observation by the Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, that the number of transistors that can be etched onto a sliver of silicon doubles at roughly two year intervals.
ref:
2016 April 7, John Markoff, “When Is the Singularity? Probably Not in Your Lifetime”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
St. Gregory, being himself a Bishop of Rome, and writing against the title of Universal Bishop, saith thus, "None of all my predecessors ever consented to use this ungodly title; no bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity."
ref:
1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, book 2
type:
quotation
text:
Catholicism […] must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation.
ref:
1659, Bishop John Pearson, An Exposition of the Creed
type:
quotation
text:
Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves Kingdomes, and fils Cities, and Churches, and Heaven itself: Celibate, like the flie in the heart of an apple, dwels in a perpetuall sweetnesse, but sits alone, and is confin'd, and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house and gathers sweetnesse from every flower, and labours and unites into Societies and Republicks, and sends out colonies, and feeds the world with delicacies, and obeys its king, and keeps order, and exercises many vertues, and promotes the interest of mankind, and is that state of good things to which God hath designed the present constitution of the world.
ref:
1655, Jeremy Taylor, Eniautos: A Covrse of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
Gradually the implication of biblical monotheism created an entailment of singularity and monogamy in sexual relations.
ref:
1995, Joseph Monti, Arguing About Sex: The Rhetoric of Christian Sexual Morality, page 234
type:
quotation
text:
Chapter Twenty - Two Faces of Sexual Integration
Comparisons between marriage and celibacy are dubious. […] In this sense, marriage is the institution of sexual partnering whereas celibacy is an institution of sexual singularity.
ref:
1998, Judith A. Merkle, A Different Touch: A Study of Vows in Religious Life, Liturgical Press, page 248
type:
quotation
text:
David emphasized that being singular in his relationship with God relies on real ties to the community, real friendships and a real work that sustains him. As I write, I am conscious of a singularity that I live and that is supported by close friends, family, clients and religious community. Genuine relationships are crucial and provide a supportive structure of interdependence.
ref:
2015, Susan J. Pollard, Celibacy and Soul: Exploring the Depths of Chastity, Fisher King Press, page 59
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual.
An unusual action or behaviour.
A point where all parallel lines meet.
A point where a measured variable reaches unmeasurable or infinite value.
The value or range of values of a function for which a derivative does not exist.
Ellipsis of gravitational singularity: a point or region in spacetime in which gravitational forces cause matter to have an infinite density; associated with black holes.
Ellipsis of technological singularity: a hypothetical turning point in the future, the culmination ever accelerating technological progress, when human history as we have known it ends, and a strange new era begins. For some writers, the catalyst is superhuman machine intelligence.
Anything singular, rare, or curious.
Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.
Celibacy, singleness (as contrasted with marriage).
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
9010 | word:
san
word_type:
noun
expansion:
san (plural sans)
forms:
form:
sans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek σάν (sán), from Semitic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ) that came after pi and before qoppa.
senses_topics:
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9011 | word:
san
word_type:
noun
expansion:
san (plural sans)
forms:
form:
sans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening of sanatorium.
senses_examples:
text:
"Haven't you heard?" said Belinda. "Joan's ill! She'd got a high temperature, and she's in bed in the San."
ref:
1940, Enid Blyton, The Naughtiest Girl in the School
type:
quotation
text:
‘I was in the san for ten months before the war. I know all the gen about being sick.’
ref:
1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
River Glade Sanatorium, River Glade, June 25, 1931. The "San" at River Glade with the Petitcodiac River in the background.
ref:
2005, Dan Soucoup, Richard Thorne McCully, McCully's New Brunswick, page 137
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sanatorium.
senses_topics:
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9012 | word:
grooming
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grooming
forms:
wikipedia:
Child grooming
Groom (disambiguation)#Grooming
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of groom
senses_topics:
|
9013 | word:
grooming
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grooming (usually uncountable, plural groomings)
forms:
form:
groomings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Child grooming
Groom (disambiguation)#Grooming
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I'm sorry, I believe in good grooming.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Care for one's personal appearance, hygiene, and clothing.
The practice of primates picking through the hair of others, looking for insects etc.
The act of teaching someone, often for advancement at work.
Caring for horses or other animals by brushing and cleaning them.
The act of gaining the trust of a child or vulnerable person in order to take advantage of or exploit them, especially sexually.
In agile software development, the reviewing and prioritization of items in the development backlog. (Now increasingly termed refinement instead.)
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software |
9014 | word:
pull
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pull (third-person singular simple present pulls, present participle pulling, simple past and past participle pulled)
forms:
form:
pulls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pulling
tags:
participle
present
form:
pulled
tags:
participle
past
form:
pulled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Verb from Middle English pullen, from Old English pullian (“to pull, draw, tug, pluck off”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to West Frisian pûlje (“to shell, husk”), Middle Dutch pullen (“to drink”), Middle Dutch polen (“to peel, strip”), Low German pulen (“to pick, pluck, pull, tear, strip off husks”), Icelandic púla (“to work hard, beat”).
Noun from Middle English pul, pull, pulle, from the verb pullen (“to pull”).
senses_examples:
text:
When I give the signal, pull the rope.
type:
example
text:
You're going to have to pull harder to get that cork out of the bottle.
type:
example
text:
to pull fruit from a tree
type:
example
text:
pull flax
type:
example
text:
pull a finch
type:
example
text:
Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies.
ref:
2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
type:
quotation
text:
While the pimp can always pull a ho with his magnetism, he can never pull a nun. The nun is too in touch with her own compassionate and honest spirit to react to a spirit as negative and deceitful as that of the pimp.
ref:
2011, Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow, Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All
type:
quotation
text:
I pulled at the club last night.
type:
example
text:
He's pulled that bird over there.
type:
example
text:
Each day, they pulled the old bread and set out fresh loaves.
type:
example
text:
The book was due to be released today, but it was pulled at the last minute over legal concerns.
type:
example
text:
I'll have to pull a part number for that.
type:
example
text:
This computer file is incorrect. Can we pull the old version from your backups?
type:
example
text:
They'll go through their computer system and pull a report of all your order fulfillment records for the time period you specify.
ref:
2006, Michael Bellomo, Joel Elad, How to Sell Anything on Amazon...and Make a Fortune!
type:
quotation
text:
It's the contractor's responsibility to pull the necessary permits before starting work.
type:
example
text:
He regularly pulls 12-hour days, sometimes 14.
type:
example
text:
You'll be sent home if you pull another stunt like that.
type:
example
text:
What are you trying to pull?
type:
example
text:
What are you trying to pull, anyway? You say you want to sell, but you have nothing to offer?! You've got some nerve, kid!
ref:
1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System
type:
quotation
text:
Faced with an enemy whose largest gun turrets weigh more than the entire ship, Johnston decides that running is boring, and instead pulls a full 180-degree turn and charges straight back at the attacking forces.
ref:
2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 16:22 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03
type:
quotation
text:
He pulled an Elvis and got really fat.
type:
example
text:
They're trying to pull a Watergate on us.
type:
example
text:
It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.
ref:
1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Chapter VI
type:
quotation
text:
I pulled a personal best on the erg yesterday.
type:
example
text:
If you are going to pull or chop the pork butt, take it out of the smoker when the meat is in the higher temperature range, put it in a large pan, and let it rest, covered, for 15 to 20 minutes. Using heavy-duty dinner forks, pull the pork butt to shreds.
ref:
2009, Ardie A. Davis, Chef Paul Kirk, America's Best BBQ, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
…we had to clear a long hallway, run up half way, pull the boss mob to us, and engage.
ref:
2003 April 9, Richard Lawson, “Monual's Willful Ignorance”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Basically buff pet, have it pull lots of mobs, shield pet, chain heal pet, have your aoe casters finish off hurt mobs once pet gets good aggro.
ref:
2004 October 18, Stush, “Re: focus pull”, in alt.games.dark-age-of-camelot (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
This is the only thing that should get you to break off from your position, is to pull something off the healer.
ref:
2005 August 2, Brian, “Re: How to tank Stratholme undead pulls?”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
You could also set a fire trap, pull the mob toward it, then send in your pet….
ref:
2007 April 10, John Salerno, “Re: Managing the Command Buttons”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Shield yourself, pull with Mind Blast if you want, or merely pull with SW:P to save mana, then wand, fear if you need to, but use the lowest rank fear.
ref:
2008 August 18, Mark (newsgroups), “Re: I'm a priest now!”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
How many points did you pull today, Albert?
type:
example
text:
The favourite was pulled.
type:
example
text:
Never pull a straight fast ball to leg.
ref:
1888, Robert Henry Lyttelton, Cricket, Chapter 2
type:
quotation
text:
Let's stop at Finnigan's. The barman pulls a good pint.
type:
example
text:
Danny pulled at his beer and thought for a moment.
ref:
1957, Air Force Magazine, volume 40, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
The state trooper pulled me for going 60 in a 55 zone.
type:
example
text:
'I never liked Bowler, and I had my suspicions when Captain Ferndale persuaded you to put him up in that race. I did not discover until some time after that he pulled the horse.'
ref:
1897, Nat Gould, Not So Bad After All, page 200
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck or pick (flowers, fruit, etc.).
To attract or net; to pull in.
To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
To remove or withdraw (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
To retrieve or look up for use.
To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
To do or perform, especially something seen as negative by the speaker.
To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour associated with the person or thing mentioned.
To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
To row.
To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
To score a certain number of points in a sport.
To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.
To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
To pull over (a driver or vehicle); to detain for a traffic stop.
To repeatedly stretch taffy in order to achieve the desired stretchy texture.
To retrieve source code or other material from a source control repository.
In practice fighting, to reduce the strength of a blow (etymology 3) so as to avoid injuring one's practice partner.
To impede the progress of (a horse) to prevent its winning a race.
senses_topics:
business
construction
manufacturing
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
video-games
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
media
printing
publishing
ball-games
cricket
games
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
law-enforcement
cooking
food
lifestyle
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports |
9015 | word:
pull
word_type:
intj
expansion:
pull
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Verb from Middle English pullen, from Old English pullian (“to pull, draw, tug, pluck off”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to West Frisian pûlje (“to shell, husk”), Middle Dutch pullen (“to drink”), Middle Dutch polen (“to peel, strip”), Low German pulen (“to pick, pluck, pull, tear, strip off husks”), Icelandic púla (“to work hard, beat”).
Noun from Middle English pul, pull, pulle, from the verb pullen (“to pull”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
senses_topics:
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9016 | word:
pull
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pull (countable and uncountable, plural pulls)
forms:
form:
pulls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Verb from Middle English pullen, from Old English pullian (“to pull, draw, tug, pluck off”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to West Frisian pûlje (“to shell, husk”), Middle Dutch pullen (“to drink”), Middle Dutch polen (“to peel, strip”), Low German pulen (“to pick, pluck, pull, tear, strip off husks”), Icelandic púla (“to work hard, beat”).
Noun from Middle English pul, pull, pulle, from the verb pullen (“to pull”).
senses_examples:
text:
He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out.
type:
example
text:
She took several pulls on her cigarette.
type:
example
text:
The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant.
type:
example
text:
iron fillings drawn by the pull of a magnet
type:
example
text:
The hypnotist exerted a pull over his patients.
type:
example
text:
Tresham's up to his eyes in dock business and town business, a regular jobmonger, he has no use for anybody who hasn't a pull.
ref:
1944, Henry Christopher Bailey, The Queen of Spades, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
I don't have a lot of pull within the company.
type:
example
text:
She wants to work in the villages, and she has a lot of pull with some ministers and there she is, like a political supervisor.
ref:
2016, Antoinette Burton, quoting Shukdev Sharma, Africa in the Indian Imagination, Duke University Press
type:
quotation
text:
I have already put Matthew Williams off for a few days. He wants to see her too, but he doesn't have pull with the director.
ref:
2017, Maggie Blake, Her Haunted Past, Book Venture Publishing LLC, page 126
type:
quotation
text:
If Netflix truly cared about those of us sequestered to our homes, with our shelves of beans and bad-news-addled brains, it would release either a new season of Queer Eye or another season of the similarly soothing Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat to help us bide our time. Alas, I have no pull at Netflix, and neither seems to be coming soon.
ref:
2020 March 27, Bettina Makalintal, “Samin Nosrat's 'Home Cooking' Podcast Will Make Your Quarantine Cooking Better”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2022-12-06
type:
quotation
text:
a zipper pull
type:
example
text:
In weights the favourite had the pull.
type:
example
text:
the pull of a movie star
type:
example
text:
server pull
type:
example
text:
pull technology
type:
example
text:
1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
As Blunt had said, the burning ship lay a good twelve miles from the Malabar, and the pull was a long and a weary one. Once fairly away from the protecting sides of the vessel that had borne them thus far on their dismal journey, the adventurers seemed to have come into a new atmosphere.
text:
a wrestling pull
type:
example
text:
They used steroids to build strength but, more importantly, to recover from strains, pulls, dislocations.
ref:
2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
Heah, Sam Johnsing, jis' take a pull at dis bottle, an' it will make yo' feel better.
ref:
1882, H. Elliott McBride, Well Fixed for a Rainy Day
type:
quotation
text:
Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed that trademark laugh of his and said: `Okay. I'll pay that all right.'
ref:
1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 294
type:
quotation
text:
The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket.
ref:
1887, R. A. Proctor, Longman's Magazine
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; advantage.
Appeal or attraction.
The act or process of sending out a request for data from a server by a client.
A journey made by rowing.
A contest; a struggle.
An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; strain; sprain.
Loss, misfortune, or violence suffered.
A drink, especially of an alcoholic beverage; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
A single impression from a handpress.
A proof sheet.
A player's use of a game's gacha mechanic to obtain a random reward.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
media
printing
publishing
media
printing
publishing
|
9017 | word:
convoluted
word_type:
adj
expansion:
convoluted (comparative more convoluted, superlative most convoluted)
forms:
form:
more convoluted
tags:
comparative
form:
most convoluted
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From convolute + -d.
senses_examples:
text:
[B]y the means of theſe hooks, and Spikes it [a tapeworm in the intestines] might faſten it ſelf, and ſo prevent it's too eaſy ejection out of the body. For it being ſo very long, and large too, and it's body in many places winding, and convoluted, the deſcent of the fæces upon all occaſions would be apt to carry it out with them; had it not this hold, [...]
ref:
1683 April 20, Edward Tyson, “Lumbricus Latus, or a Discourse Read before the Royal Society of the Joynted Worm, […]”, in Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume XIII, number 146, Oxford: Printed at the Theater, and are to be sold by Moses Pit […], and Samuel Smith […], →OCLC, page 130
type:
quotation
text:
The figure [of the constellation Anguilla] is that of the common eel in that convoluted ſtate in which it is uſually ſeen when in motion.
ref:
1754, John Hill, “ANGUILLA, the Eel”, in Urania: Or, A Compleat View of the Heavens; Containing the Antient and Modern Astronomy, in the Form of a Dictionary: […], London: Printed for T. Gardner, […], →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Petals five, generally reflected, the three exterior ovate, hollowed; the two interior longer and convoluted.
ref:
1822, William P[aul] C[rillon] Barton, “Listera convallarioides”, in A Flora of North America. […], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea […], →OCLC, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Among the various fossil shells which abound in the secondary beds, and which are not known in a recent state, one of the most remarkable and numerous is the Genus Ammonites, commonly called Cornu Ammonis from its resemblance to the convoluted horn generally represented on the head of Jupiter Ammon in mythological history. [...] This Genus, which consists of discoid, convoluted, chambered shells with contiguous volutions, the margins of whose septa are lobated and sinuous, and whose siphunculus is dorsal, is very nearly related to Nautilus, [...]
ref:
1831 March 31, George Brettingham Sowerby, “Ammonites”, in Number XXXIV. … of the Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells, for the Use of Students in Conchology and Geology, London: G. B. Sowerby, […], →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Closer examination, however, begins to reveal the brain as having a much more intricate structure and sophisticated organization [...]. The large convoluted (and most porridge-like) portion on top is referred to as the cerebrum.
ref:
1989, Roger Penrose, “Real Brains and Model Brains”, in The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press; paperback edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1999, page 483
type:
quotation
text:
Everyone is familiar with the Hollywood cliche of the 'mad scientist' crouching over convoluted glassware in which fuming green liquids bubble away.
ref:
1999, “Make Me a Molecule”, in Nina Hall, editor, The Age of the Molecule, London: Royal Society of Chemistry, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
He gave a convoluted explanation that amounted to little more than a weak excuse for his absence.
type:
example
text:
There is a convoluted cypher which designates the name and titles of the Sultan, contained in a single complicated figure, which is seen on the coins of the empire, and on all public edifices.
ref:
1836, R[obert] Walsh, chapter IV, in A Residence at Constantinople, during a Period Including the Commencement, Progress, and Termination of the Greek and Turkish Revolutions: … Two Volumes, volume II, London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis, […], →OCLC, pages 90–91
type:
quotation
text:
The river Meander [now the Büyük Menderes River] is perhaps the most celebrated of all antiquity, and has been made a generic term, in most languages, to designate a winding stream; [...] It afforded Dædalus the model for his labyrinth, and travellers have discovered in many parts the various accurate outlines of some of the most convoluted letters of the Greek alphabet.
ref:
[1839?], Robert Walsh, “Guzel-Hissar, and the Plain of the Meander. Asia Minor.”, in Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Illustrated. […], volume II, London, Liverpool: Peter Jackson, late Fisher, Son, & Co. […], →OCLC, pages 26–27
type:
quotation
text:
[H]e [Herschel Prins] has a very special talent for making convoluted and tortured topics clear. Clarity rarely enhances one's academic reputation, for there is little left to argue about. Clarity, however, appeals to readers, for they can begin to understand a subject which the experts have begun to claim.
ref:
1999, Keith Soothill, “Foreword”, in Herschel Prins, Will They Do it Again?: Risk Assessment and Management in Criminal Justice and Psychiatry, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page xi
type:
quotation
text:
The plots of Mission: Impossible movies tend to be convoluted but negligible, really only there to provide connective tissue between jaw-dropping set pieces.
ref:
2018 July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-07-31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having numerous overlapping coils or folds; convolute.
Complex, complicated, or intricate.
senses_topics:
anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
|
9018 | word:
convoluted
word_type:
verb
expansion:
convoluted
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From convolute + -d.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of convolute
senses_topics:
|
9019 | word:
valve
word_type:
noun
expansion:
valve (plural valves)
forms:
form:
valves
head_nr:
1
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English valve, from Latin valva (“double door, valve”). Doublet of valva.
senses_examples:
text:
shut off the valve
type:
example
text:
open the valve
type:
example
text:
the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.
A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction
One of the leaves of a folding-door, or a window-sash.
A vacuum tube.
One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, such as in the barberry.
One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences |
9020 | word:
valve
word_type:
verb
expansion:
valve (third-person singular simple present valves, present participle valving, simple past and past participle valved)
forms:
form:
valves
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
valving
tags:
participle
present
form:
valved
tags:
participle
past
form:
valved
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English valve, from Latin valva (“double door, valve”). Doublet of valva.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To control (flow) by means of a valve.
senses_topics:
|
9021 | word:
dissertation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dissertation (plural dissertations)
forms:
form:
dissertations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dissertation
etymology_text:
From Latin dissertātiō, from dissertō.
senses_examples:
text:
write a dissertation
type:
example
text:
write up a dissertation
type:
example
text:
hand in a dissertation
type:
example
text:
complete a dissertation
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A formal exposition of a subject, especially a research paper that students write in order to complete the requirements for a doctoral degree in the US and a non-doctoral degree in the UK; a thesis.
A lengthy lecture on a subject; a treatise; a discourse; a sermon.
senses_topics:
|
9022 | word:
attorney
word_type:
noun
expansion:
attorney (plural attorneys or (obsolete) attornies)
forms:
form:
attorneys
tags:
plural
form:
attornies
tags:
obsolete
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English attourne, from Old French atorné, past participle of atorner, atourner, aturner (“to attorn”), in the sense of "one appointed or constituted".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
One such who practised in the courts of the common law.
A solicitor.
An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf.
An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty.
Clusia spp.
A prosecutor
senses_topics:
|
9023 | word:
attorney
word_type:
verb
expansion:
attorney (third-person singular simple present attorneys, present participle attorneying, simple past and past participle attorneyed)
forms:
form:
attorneys
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
attorneying
tags:
participle
present
form:
attorneyed
tags:
participle
past
form:
attorneyed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English attourne, from Old French atorné, past participle of atorner, atourner, aturner (“to attorn”), in the sense of "one appointed or constituted".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To work as a legal attorney.
To provide with a legal attorney.
senses_topics:
|
9024 | word:
etcetera
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
etcetera
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin et cetera (“etc.: and the other things”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of et cetera
senses_topics:
|
9025 | word:
etcetera
word_type:
noun
expansion:
etcetera (plural etceteras)
forms:
form:
etceteras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin et cetera (“etc.: and the other things”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Toorkmuns keep their money and little valuable etceteras in large purses made of the skins of camels' necks.
ref:
1834, Arthur Conolly, Journey to the North of India, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Now persons who are not clasified among those whom we have alluded to, have their own ideas on social subjects, and realise that billiard and card playing, loafing around pubs., patronising a play (when opportunity offers) with one’s “best girl,” and in the splenditude of Sunday attire, with a high collar and all the etceteras of masherdom, imagining that it is only a case of “look and conquer,” do not sum up the whole happiness in life.
ref:
1895 December 18, “Amusements”, in The Macleay Argus, number 656, Kempsey, N.S.W., page [3]
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of et cetera
senses_topics:
|
9026 | word:
lifting
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lifting (countable and uncountable, plural liftings)
forms:
form:
liftings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
For some moments he stood there contemplating the little fellows as they went about their work in their business-like way, taking no notice of his presence other than the liftings of their heads now and then, as if to ascertain if he were still there.
ref:
1946, Eugene E. Thomas, Brotherhood of Mt. Shasta
type:
quotation
text:
2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
When I started lifting in 1970, I was the skinniest thirteen-year-old I knew.
text:
It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.
ref:
1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 426
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation
weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted
plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance
Theft.
A certain operation on a measure space; see lifting theory.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
medicine
sciences
mathematics
sciences |
9027 | word:
lifting
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lifting
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of lift
senses_topics:
|
9028 | word:
ebb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ebb (plural ebbs)
forms:
form:
ebbs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ebbe, from Old English ebba (“ebb, tide”), from Proto-West Germanic *abbjā, from Proto-Germanic *abjô, *abjǭ, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“off, away”), from Proto-Indo-European *apó.
See also West Frisian ebbe, Dutch eb, German Ebbe, Danish ebbe, Old Norse efja (“countercurrent”), Old English af. More at of, off.
senses_examples:
text:
The boats will go out on the ebb.
type:
example
text:
Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow / Claspest the limits of morality!
ref:
1824, Mary Shelley, Time
type:
quotation
text:
Men come from distant parts to admire the tides of Solway, which race in at flood and retreat at ebb with a greater speed than a horse can follow.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
Thus all the treasure of our flowing years, / Our ebb of life for ever takes away.
ref:
1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse
type:
quotation
text:
Industrialism hasn’t been an abiding set of activities in any particular place but rather a dynamic cycle, of takeoff, peak, and ebb.
ref:
2012, James Howard Kunstler, Too Much Magic, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
2002, Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 22 & 29 April
A "lowest ebb" implies something singular and finite, but for many of us, born in the Depression and raised by parents distrustful of fortune, an "ebb" might easily have lasted for years.
text:
The 1987 book British Piers was written at a time when Britain's seaside resorts were perhaps at their lowest ebb, with a groundswell of support for rejuvenation and conservation just beginning.
ref:
2020 July 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railways that reach out over the waves”, in Rail, page 51
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The receding movement of the tide.
A gradual decline.
A low state; a state of depression.
A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
senses_topics:
|
9029 | word:
ebb
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ebb (comparative ebber, superlative ebbest)
forms:
form:
ebber
tags:
comparative
form:
ebbest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ebbe, from Old English ebba (“ebb, tide”), from Proto-West Germanic *abbjā, from Proto-Germanic *abjô, *abjǭ, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“off, away”), from Proto-Indo-European *apó.
See also West Frisian ebbe, Dutch eb, German Ebbe, Danish ebbe, Old Norse efja (“countercurrent”), Old English af. More at of, off.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
low, shallow
senses_topics:
|
9030 | word:
ebb
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ebb (third-person singular simple present ebbs, present participle ebbing, simple past and past participle ebbed)
forms:
form:
ebbs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ebbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
ebbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
ebbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ebben, from Old English ebbian, from Proto-West Germanic *abbjōn (“to ebb”).
senses_examples:
text:
The tides ebbed at noon.
type:
example
text:
The dying man's strength ebbed away.
type:
example
text:
Parts of this town do not want a big influx of gay people and are trying to ebb it.
ref:
1977 August 20, Robin Nicholson, quotee, “7 Arrested in Undercover Raid on P'town Bar”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to flow back or recede
to fall away or decline
to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
To cause to flow back.
senses_topics:
|
9031 | word:
fire
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fire (countable and uncountable, plural fires)
forms:
form:
fires
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tocharian
etymology_text:
From Middle English fyr, from Old English fȳr (“fire”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuir, from *fuïr, a regularised form of Proto-Germanic *fōr (“fire”) (compare Saterland Frisian Fjuur, West Frisian fjoer, Dutch vuur, Low German Füer, German Feuer, Danish fyr), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥. Also, compare Hittite 𒉺𒄴𒄯 (paḫḫur), Umbrian pir, Tocharian A/B por/puwar, Czech pýř (“hot ashes”), Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), and Armenian հուր (hur, “fire”). This was an inanimate noun whose animate counterpart was Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis (see ignite). Cognate to pyre.
senses_examples:
text:
We sat about the fire singing songs and telling tales.
type:
example
text:
There was a fire at the school last night and the whole place burned down.
type:
example
text:
During hot and dry summers many fires in forests are caused by regardlessly discarded cigarette butts.
type:
example
text:
Efforts to fight the fires in New South Wales and Victoria were hampered as large fires converged and created their own violent weather systems. The fire created dry lightning storms so severe that planes had to be grounded.
ref:
2020 January 1, Bernard Lagan, “Thousands flee to beaches as the flames close in”, in The Times, number 73,044, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
The fire was laid and needed to be lit.
type:
example
text:
The fire from the enemy guns kept us from attacking.
type:
example
text:
We dominated the battlespace with our fires.
type:
example
text:
I used to work at Five Below but now I keep that fire below
ref:
2023 June 23, “Special K” (track 7), in BLP Kosher (lyrics), Bars Mitzva, 2:01
type:
quotation
text:
In the district of Erfurt a very heavy sheaf [...] is called the Great Mother, and is carried on the last waggon to the barn, where all hands lift it down amid a fire of jokes.
ref:
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
static fire
type:
example
text:
You call it hope—that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire: […]
ref:
1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
type:
quotation
text:
Attendance of QN meetings has been dwindling, and the creative fire drained from the organization by the dead hand of wannabe bureaucrats bend on thought control. The action has long since been elsewhere.
ref:
1991 December 15, Michael Halberstadt, “Queer Proposals?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 22, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
The elements necessary to start a fire.
The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
A firearm.
A barrage, volley
An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
Red coloration in a piece of opal.
senses_topics:
alchemy
human-sciences
philosophy
pseudoscience
sciences
aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
9032 | word:
fire
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fire (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Tocharian
etymology_text:
From Middle English fyr, from Old English fȳr (“fire”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuir, from *fuïr, a regularised form of Proto-Germanic *fōr (“fire”) (compare Saterland Frisian Fjuur, West Frisian fjoer, Dutch vuur, Low German Füer, German Feuer, Danish fyr), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥. Also, compare Hittite 𒉺𒄴𒄯 (paḫḫur), Umbrian pir, Tocharian A/B por/puwar, Czech pýř (“hot ashes”), Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), and Armenian հուր (hur, “fire”). This was an inanimate noun whose animate counterpart was Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis (see ignite). Cognate to pyre.
senses_examples:
text:
This is fire, keep up the amazing work!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Amazing; excellent.
senses_topics:
|
9033 | word:
fire
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fire (third-person singular simple present fires, present participle firing, simple past and past participle fired)
forms:
form:
fires
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
firing
tags:
participle
present
form:
fired
tags:
participle
past
form:
fired
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
fire
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English firen, fyren, furen, from Old English fȳrian (“to make a fire”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian fioria (“to light a fire”), Saterland Frisian fjuurje (“to fire”), Middle Dutch vûren, vueren, vieren (“to set fire”), Dutch vuren (“to fire, shoot”), Old High German fiuren (“to ignite, set on fire”), German feuern (“to fire”).
senses_examples:
text:
If you fire the pottery at too high a temperature, it may crack.
type:
example
text:
They fire the wood to make it easier to put a point on the end.
type:
example
text:
The first, obvious choice was hysterical and fantastic Blanche – had there not been her timidity, her fear of being ‘fired’[…].
ref:
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 226
type:
quotation
text:
Don't be hesitant to fire a client - cull out the deadwood. If a client doesn't meet the above criteria, you are better off without him. You don't do your best work for a client you'd rather not have.
ref:
1979, Richard Collins Rea, Operating a Successful Accounting Practice: A Collection of Material from the Journal of Accountancy Practitioners Forum, →OCLC, page 288
type:
quotation
text:
Maintaining a collegial attitude even when doing the more difficult business work, like firing a client, is another part. If you are struggling through the relationship, the client might be struggling as well, so firing them may be mutually beneficial, and you should try and do it on the best of terms.
ref:
2020, Rebecca Migdal, Museum Mercenary: A Handbook for Independent Museum Professionals, →OCLC, page 278
type:
quotation
text:
We will fire our guns at the enemy.
type:
example
text:
The jet fired a salvo of rockets at the truck convoy.
type:
example
text:
He fired his radar gun at passing cars.
type:
example
text:
Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
type:
example
text:
I heard that both yesterday and today, when transports of the central government carrying our soldiers arrived at Hu-lu-tao, bandit troops on the shore fired at them.
ref:
1989, Dolores Zen, transl., Last Chance in Manchuria, Hoover Institution Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
The RCS thrusters fired several times to stabilize the tumbling spacecraft.
type:
example
text:
Andrey Arshavin equalised with a superb volley into the corner before Nicklas Bendtner coolly fired Arsenal in front.
ref:
2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
When a neuron fires, it transmits information.
type:
example
text:
He answered the questions the reporters fired at him.
type:
example
text:
The event handler should only fire after all web page content has finished loading.
type:
example
text:
The queue fires a job whenever the thread pool is ready to handle it.
type:
example
text:
to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge
type:
example
text:
Inexperienced girl as I was, I fired at the idea of becoming his dupe, and fancying, perhaps, that there was more in merely answering his note than it would have amounted to, I said — "That kind of thing may answer very well with button-makers, but ladies don't like it. […]
ref:
1864, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas
type:
quotation
text:
to fire the genius of a young man
type:
example
text:
to fire a boiler
type:
example
text:
We left with the "Blue Train", dead on time. This time I fired all the way. […] The next day took me home again on No. E.16 with Henri Dutertre. I fired from Paris to Calais.
ref:
1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 150, 151
type:
quotation
text:
I fired on that train until August.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set (something, often a building) on fire.
To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
To drive away by setting a fire.
To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct, incompetence, or poor performance).
To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
To set off an explosive in a mine.
To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
To cause an action potential in a cell.
To forcibly direct (something).
To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
To animate; to give life or spirit to.
To feed or serve the fire of.
To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
To cauterize.
To catch fire; to be kindled.
To work as a fireman, one who keeps the fire under a steam boiler on a steam-powered ship or train.
To start (an engine).
senses_topics:
aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
mining
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
medicine
physiology
sciences
computer-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
farriery
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
|
9034 | word:
fire
word_type:
intj
expansion:
fire
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English firen, fyren, furen, from Old English fȳrian (“to make a fire”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian fioria (“to light a fire”), Saterland Frisian fjuurje (“to fire”), Middle Dutch vûren, vueren, vieren (“to set fire”), Dutch vuren (“to fire, shoot”), Old High German fiuren (“to ignite, set on fire”), German feuern (“to fire”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Command to shoot with firearms.
senses_topics:
|
9035 | word:
faction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
faction (countable and uncountable, plural factions)
forms:
form:
factions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
faction
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French faction, from Latin factiō (“a group of people acting together, a political faction”), noun of process from perfect passive participle factus, from faciō (“do, make”). Doublet of fashion.
senses_examples:
text:
Real factions may be divided into those from interest, from principle, and from affection
ref:
1748, David Hume, “Of Parties in General — How factions arise and contend.”, in Essays, Moral and Political
type:
quotation
text:
Publick [sic] affairs soon fell into the utmost confusion, and in this state of faction and perplexity, the island continued, until its re-capture by the French in 1779.
ref:
1805, Johann Georg Cleminius, Englisches Lesebuch für Kaufleute, page 188
type:
quotation
text:
He asks the audience if they believe that they will be more loved by the gods if the city is in a state of faction than if they govern the city with good order and concord.
ref:
2001, Odd Magne Bakke, "Concord and Peace": A Rhetorical Analysis of the First Letter of Clement With an Emphasis on the Language of Unity and Sedition, publ. Mohr Siebeck, page 89
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
Strife; discord.
senses_topics:
|
9036 | word:
faction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
faction (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
faction
etymology_text:
Blend of fact + fiction.
senses_examples:
text:
Blind genius of faction / Obituary of Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer [title]
ref:
1986 June 16, W. J. Weatherby, “Blind genius of faction”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Contemporary reviewers offered different labels in attempts to describe the genre of Schindler's List. Lorna Sage, D.J. Enright and Robert Taubman called it a ‘documentary novel’; Paul Bailey and Gay Firth ‘faction’; […]
ref:
2000, Sue Vice, Holocaust Fiction, Psychology Press, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
[Norman Mailer] was, though, absolutely the daddy of faction, his novels or journalism reporting every conflict from 1939 to Iraq and biographising Americans including John F Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali and Neil Armstrong.
ref:
2007 November 12, Mark Lawson, “The king of faction”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction.
The facts found in fiction.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
film
literature
media
publishing
television
|
9037 | word:
leafs
word_type:
verb
expansion:
leafs
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of leaf
senses_topics:
|
9038 | word:
leafs
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leafs
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of leaf
senses_topics:
|
9039 | word:
breaking and entering
word_type:
noun
expansion:
breaking and entering (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The crime of gaining unauthorized entry into another's property, usually by breaking part of a building (a lock, door, window, etc.)
senses_topics:
law |
9040 | word:
breaking and entering
word_type:
verb
expansion:
breaking and entering
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of break and enter
senses_topics:
|
9041 | word:
celestial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
celestial (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
celestial
etymology_text:
From Middle English celestial, from Old French celestial, from Medieval Latin caelestialis, from Latin caelestis, from caelum (“sky, heaven”).
The meanings related to East Asia come from Celestial Empire, a former name of China.
senses_examples:
text:
We are now living and obeying celestial laws that will make us candidates for celestial glory.
ref:
1974 February, “A Sure Trumpet Sound: Quotations from President Lee”, in Ensign, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
How will you make it through your teenage years spiritually prepared for your celestial future? How will you connect your celestial goals with your everyday life?
ref:
1997 November, Richard J. Maynes, “A Celestial Connection to Your Teenage Years”, in Ensign, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
[Reader:] A really bad coconut is soooo yukky. But a really good coconut is so celestial. [...] If you can hear the milk sloshing inside, odds are you’ve got a celestial coconut rather than a yukky one.
ref:
1974 July 16, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of heavenly: of or related to Heaven and the divine.
Relating to the sky or outer space, regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.
Of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory.
Extremely good, pleasant, or blissful; heavenly.
senses_topics:
|
9042 | word:
celestial
word_type:
noun
expansion:
celestial (plural celestials)
forms:
form:
celestials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
celestial
etymology_text:
From Middle English celestial, from Old French celestial, from Medieval Latin caelestialis, from Latin caelestis, from caelum (“sky, heaven”).
The meanings related to East Asia come from Celestial Empire, a former name of China.
senses_examples:
text:
For the celestials communicate by the psychic dispatch. Scriptures prove that.
ref:
1913, Horace Coffin Stanton, Telepathy of the Celestial World, page x
type:
quotation
text:
Three celestials died during the voyage, and, in accordance with the contract, their remains were embalmed and carried on to China.
ref:
1897, Joseph Llewelyn Thomas, “The North Pacific”, in Journeys Among the Gentle Japs in the Summer of 1895, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant of heaven.
A native of China.
by extension, an East Asian person.
senses_topics:
|
9043 | word:
upcountry
word_type:
adj
expansion:
upcountry (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly a Calque of French Pays d’en Haut a designation from 1610 referring to the area of New France west of Montreal. By surface analysis, up + country.
senses_examples:
text:
an upcountry residence
text:
The fourth company involved in the purchase, the Upper Mississippi Company (formed by Thomas Scott after he had withdrawn the bid of the Virginia Yazoo Company), apparently restricted its largess to a few upcountry Georgians.
ref:
2010 Fall, George R. Lamplugh, “James Gunn”, in Georgia Historical Quarterly, volume 94, number 3, pages 313–341
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Living or situated remote from the seacoast
senses_topics:
|
9044 | word:
upcountry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upcountry (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly a Calque of French Pays d’en Haut a designation from 1610 referring to the area of New France west of Montreal. By surface analysis, up + country.
senses_examples:
text:
To further this end, the speculators also distributed subshares to other prominent Georgians, particularly those whose actions might carry weight in the upcountry.
ref:
2010 Fall, George R. Lamplugh, “James Gunn”, in Georgia Historical Quarterly, volume 94, number 3, pages 313–341
type:
quotation
text:
Within the focus on the colonial South, there are works that detail regional differences in social organization between the backcountry (frontier), upcountry (Appalachia, Piedmont), and lowcountry (plantation).
ref:
2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 153
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The interior of the country.
The part of the country that is at high elevation.
senses_topics:
|
9045 | word:
upcountry
word_type:
adv
expansion:
upcountry (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly a Calque of French Pays d’en Haut a designation from 1610 referring to the area of New France west of Montreal. By surface analysis, up + country.
senses_examples:
text:
According to Dr Christy in 1931, the authorities in Monrovia had deliberately banned all freelance travel upcountry by outsiders, …
ref:
2010 Oct, Tim Butcher, “Our Man in Liberia”, in History Today, volume 60, number 10, pages 10–17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Towards the interior of the country and away from the seacoast.
senses_topics:
|
9046 | word:
observation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
observation (countable and uncountable, plural observations)
forms:
form:
observations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English observacion, borrowed from Middle French observacion. Also a borrowing from French observation and a learned borrowing from Latin observātiō(n-).
Morphologically observe + -ation
senses_examples:
text:
The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
ref:
2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
To observations which ourselves we make / We grow more partial for the observer's sake.
ref:
1734, Alexander Pope, Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men
type:
quotation
text:
This hypothesis goes by many names, including group resistence, the threshold effect, and the gender paradox. Because the hypothesis holds such wide appeal, it is worth revisiting the logic behind it. The hypothesis is built on the factual observation that fewer females than males act antisocially.
ref:
2001 September 27, Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Michael Rutter, Phil A. Silva, Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour: Conduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, Cambridge University Press, page 151
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of observing, and the fact of being observed (see observance)
The act of noting and recording some event; or the record of such noting.
A remark or comment.
A judgement based on observing.
Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
A regime under which a subject is routinely observed.
Philosophically as: the phenomenal presence of human being existence.
A realization of a random variable.
senses_topics:
|
9047 | word:
heavy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
heavy (comparative heavier, superlative heaviest)
forms:
form:
heavier
tags:
comparative
form:
heaviest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
en:heavy
etymology_text:
From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, grasp, hold”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), Middle Low German hēvich (“violent, fierce, intense”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”).
senses_examples:
text:
heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
type:
example
text:
Sent hither by my Husband to impart the heavy news.
ref:
1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion
type:
quotation
text:
This film is heavy.
type:
example
text:
The Moody Blues are, like, heavy.
type:
example
text:
1998, Stanley George Clayton, ""Menstruation" in Encyclopedia Britannica
The ovarian response to gonadotropic hormones may be erratic at first, so that irregular or heavy bleeding sometimes occurs
text:
Come heavy, or not at all.
type:
example
text:
Metal is heavier than rock.
type:
example
text:
He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband.
type:
example
text:
Watch for the signs of fatigue, including yawning, blinking and heavy eyes.
ref:
2021 December 24, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 11, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
Cheese-stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising.
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:
it was a heavy storm; a heavy slumber in bed; a heavy punch
type:
example
text:
his eyes were heavy with sleep; she was heavy with child
type:
example
text:
Seating himselfe within a darkesome cave, / (Such places heavy Saturnists doe crave,) / Where yet the gladsome day was never seene […]
ref:
1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals
type:
quotation
text:
a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.
type:
example
text:
a heavy writer or book
type:
example
text:
The next day we only made some eight miles, as the road was heavy beyond all belief. It lay through a desert region of country which was ancle-deep in soda and alkali dust.
ref:
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
a heavy road; a heavy soil
text:
heavy bread
type:
example
text:
The very low prices of brandy, and the continuance of a heavy market for such a length of time, have begun to attract buyers; […]
ref:
1819, The Scots Magazine, volumes 83-84, page 577
type:
quotation
text:
The oil market is heavy, each day bringing along further supplies of shares from people who have not tired of the long-continued decline in the market.
ref:
1922, The Investor's Monthly Manual: A Newspaper for Investors, page 626
type:
quotation
text:
In a firm voice he said, “World Wide Six heavy is ready for takeoff.”
ref:
1990, Perry Francis Lafferty, The Downing of Flight Six Heavy, page 85
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having great weight.
Serious, somber.
Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
Good.
Profound.
High, great.
Armed.
Loud, distorted, or intense.
Hot and humid.
Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
Not raised or leavened.
Having much body or strength.
With child; pregnant.
Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
Having high viscosity.
Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
Heavily-armed.
Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
energy
natural-sciences
petroleum
physical-sciences
physics
business
finance
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9048 | word:
heavy
word_type:
adv
expansion:
heavy (comparative more heavy, superlative most heavy)
forms:
form:
more heavy
tags:
comparative
form:
most heavy
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
en:heavy
etymology_text:
From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, grasp, hold”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), Middle Low German hēvich (“violent, fierce, intense”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”).
senses_examples:
text:
heavy laden with their sins
text:
Olive: What was it - booze? Barney: Yeh. Been hitting it pretty heavy.
ref:
1957, Ray Lawler, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Sydney: Fontana Books, published 1974, page 35
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.
To a great degree; greatly.
very
senses_topics:
|
9049 | word:
heavy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
heavy (plural heavies or heavys)
forms:
form:
heavies
tags:
plural
form:
heavys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:heavy
etymology_text:
From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, grasp, hold”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), Middle Low German hēvich (“violent, fierce, intense”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”).
senses_examples:
text:
With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.
type:
example
text:
A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.
type:
example
text:
A collection of topical themes and love songs, featuring session work by women's music "heavies" Holly Near, Mary Watkins, Linda Tillery, Robin Flower, and others.
ref:
1985 December 21, Nan Donald, “Flat-picking up a Storm”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
The comment may be offered here that the 'heavies' have been the Design Award's principal scorers, both in the overall bronze plaque days and, since, in the Daily/Sunday Class 1.
ref:
1973, Allen Hutt, The changing newspaper, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
Reviewers in the heavies aim to impress with the depth of their knowledge and appreciation.
ref:
2006, Richard Keeble, The Newspapers Handbook
type:
quotation
text:
I read five heavies, maybe transports or tankers...could be bombers.
ref:
2000, Philip Woods, Shattered Allegiance, page 363
type:
quotation
text:
A 76 Squadron pilot who later completed a second tour on Mosquitoes said that his colleagues on the light bombers “simply could never understand how awful being on heavies was.”
ref:
2012, Jon E. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Heroes
type:
quotation
text:
Payton boasted his range included "leading parts or genteel heavies, character old men, dialect parts, old women and, on occasion, soubrettes and leading ladies"; however, he was most at ease in light comedy roles.
ref:
2008, William L. Slout, Theatre in a Tent, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
Cavalry […] is divided into mediums, heavies, and light cavalry. The mediums consist of 13 regiments; the heavies of 2 regiments; and the light of 13.
ref:
1891, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles, page 153
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
A prominent figure; a "major player".
A newspaper of the quality press.
A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
A serious theatrical role.
A member of the heavy cavalry.
senses_topics:
journalism
media
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
theater
government
military
politics
war |
9050 | word:
heavy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
heavy (third-person singular simple present heavies, present participle heavying, simple past and past participle heavied)
forms:
form:
heavies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
heavying
tags:
participle
present
form:
heavied
tags:
participle
past
form:
heavied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:heavy
etymology_text:
From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, grasp, hold”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), Middle Low German hēvich (“violent, fierce, intense”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”).
senses_examples:
text:
They piled their goods on the donkey's back, heavying up an already backbreaking load.
type:
example
text:
The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.
text:
[…]the Prime Minister sought to evade the simple fact that he heavied Mr Reid to get rid of Dr Armstrong.
ref:
1985, Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives Weekly Hansard, Issue 11, Part 1, page 1570
type:
quotation
text:
2001, Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible, Spinifex Press, Australia, page 557,
But he is on the wrong horse, heavying me. My phone′s tapped. Well, he won′t find anything.
text:
2005, David Clune, Ken Turner (editors), The Premiers of New South Wales, 1856-2005, Volume 3: 1901-2005, page 421,
But the next two days of the Conference also produced some very visible lobbying for the succession and apparent heavying of contenders like Brereton, Anderson and Mulock - much of it caught on television.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make heavier.
To sadden.
To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.
senses_topics:
|
9051 | word:
heavy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
heavy (comparative more heavy, superlative most heavy)
forms:
form:
more heavy
tags:
comparative
form:
most heavy
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
en:heavy
etymology_text:
From heave + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
a heavy horse
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the heaves.
senses_topics:
|
9052 | word:
halma
word_type:
noun
expansion:
halma
forms:
wikipedia:
halma
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἅλμα (hálma, “leap”).
senses_examples:
text:
As a crowning dissipation, they all sat down to play progressive halma, with milk chocolate for prizes.
ref:
1904, ‘Saki’, “Reginald's Christmas Revel”, in Reginald
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A board game invented by George Howard Monks in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares.
In the Greek pentathlon, the long jump with weights in the hands.
senses_topics:
|
9053 | word:
slimy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
slimy (comparative slimier, superlative slimiest)
forms:
form:
slimier
tags:
comparative
form:
slimiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English slymy, slimi, either derived from the noun Old English slīm or an unattested *slīmiġ, replacing Old English slipig (“slippy”). Equivalent to slime + -y. Cognate with Dutch slijmig, slijmerig (“slimy”), German schleimig (“slimy; smarmy”), Swedish slemmig (“slimy”).
senses_examples:
text:
The frog's body was all slimy.
type:
example
text:
Slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
ref:
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere
type:
quotation
text:
I looked at this moon-faced, smooth skinned, slimy fraud, with his patronising smile.
ref:
1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 83
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to slime
resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, or abounding in slime
Friendly in a false, calculating way; underhanded; two-faced; sneaky; slick; smarmy.
senses_topics:
|
9054 | word:
slimy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slimy (plural slimies)
forms:
form:
slimies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English slymy, slimi, either derived from the noun Old English slīm or an unattested *slīmiġ, replacing Old English slipig (“slippy”). Equivalent to slime + -y. Cognate with Dutch slijmig, slijmerig (“slimy”), German schleimig (“slimy; smarmy”), Swedish slemmig (“slimy”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A ponyfish.
senses_topics:
|
9055 | word:
academical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
academical
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acadēmicus + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
This faithfull deputy of his maker and Maſter, entended no prepoſterous courſe againſt you. His breſt like the hart of a good Magiſtrate, is the Ocean whereinto all the cares of our Academicall causes empty themſelues, which hee ever ſendeth forth againe in a wiſe conveyance by the ſtreames of iuſtice
ref:
1610, Daniell Price, The Defence of Truth Against a booke falsely called The Triumph of Truth sent over from Arras A.D. 1609 by Humfrey Leech late Minister. […], Oxford, Lib. 2 Cap. 3, page 234
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to the school of Plato; believing in Plato's philosophy; sceptical .
Pertaining to a university or other form of higher education.
senses_topics:
|
9056 | word:
academical
word_type:
noun
expansion:
academical (plural academicals)
forms:
form:
academicals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acadēmicus + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Academic dress, consisting of a cap and gown.
senses_topics:
|
9057 | word:
j
word_type:
character
expansion:
j (lower case, upper case J, plural js or j's)
forms:
form:
J
tags:
uppercase
form:
js
tags:
plural
form:
j's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The tenth letter of the English alphabet, called jay and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9058 | word:
j
word_type:
noun
expansion:
j (plural js)
forms:
form:
js
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"I went outside to smoke myself a J" — Paul Simon, from the song "Late in the Evening" from the album, "One Trick Pony."
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A term for a marijuana cigarette ('joint').
An alternative version of i, the positive square root of -1; used in the context of electronics.
The second unit vector, after i
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences |
9059 | word:
j
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
j
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a suffix or final syllable /ʃən/ (-tion, -sion, etc.)
senses_topics:
|
9060 | word:
significant other
word_type:
noun
expansion:
significant other (plural significant others)
forms:
form:
significant others
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Almost half of working women who are married or live with a partner are seeing their significant other only in passing because the two work different shifts, an AFL-CIO poll found.
ref:
2000 March 9, “Couples Working Different Shifts, Union Poll Finds”, in Deseret News, retrieved 2013-10-27, page D7
type:
quotation
text:
More than half (57 percent) of consumers think it would be wonderfully romantic if their significant other booked tickets for a surprise international trip.
ref:
2006 February 12, Michelle Singletary, “Love and money go hand in hand”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 2013-10-27
type:
quotation
text:
Dr. Nogueira said it was always preferable to have coaches drawn from a school's staff because a coach "is a significant other" to a student.
ref:
1983 June 21, William E. Geist, “High Schools Struggle with Coach Shortage”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-10-27
type:
quotation
text:
As in the rest of the hospital, a family member or "significant other" such as a lover or close friend, is allowed to spend the night in a patient's room on a cot.
ref:
1985 December 14, Katherine Bishop, “Ward 5B: A Model of Care for AIDS”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-10-27
type:
quotation
text:
If your spouse, children or other significant others are still whining about all those holiday leftovers you made them eat, maybe it's time to spruce up your culinary skills.
ref:
1989 December 26, Graham Vink, “Not At Home On The Range”, in Spokesman-Review, retrieved 2013-10-27, page F1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One's exclusive romantic partner.
A person with whom one has an important bond of some kind.
senses_topics:
|
9061 | word:
moisturize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
moisturize (third-person singular simple present moisturizes, present participle moisturizing, simple past and past participle moisturized)
forms:
form:
moisturizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
moisturizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
moisturized
tags:
participle
past
form:
moisturized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From moisture + -ize.
senses_examples:
text:
moisturize your skin
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make more moist.
To make more humid.
senses_topics:
|
9062 | word:
array
word_type:
noun
expansion:
array (countable and uncountable, plural arrays)
forms:
form:
arrays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
array
etymology_text:
From Middle English arrayen, from Anglo-Norman arraier (compare Old French arraier, areer (“to put in order”)), from Medieval Latin arrēdō (“to put in order, arrange, array”), from *rēdum (“preparation, order”), from Frankish *raid or *raidā (“preparation, order”) or Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “ready, prepared”), from Proto-Germanic *raidaz, *raidiz (“ready”). Compare Old English rād (“condition, stipulation”), Old High German antreitī (“order, rank”). Doublet of ready.
senses_examples:
text:
Sovay, Sovay all on a day, She dressed herself in man's array, With a sword and a pistol all by her side, To meet her true love to meet her true love away did ride.
ref:
2017, anonymous author, “Sovay”, in Roud # 7, Laws N21
type:
quotation
text:
The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
ref:
1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Market Street, published 1808, →OCLC, page 474
type:
quotation
text:
Upon leaving the center, I photographed the colorful array of petunias decorating the square in purple, pink, yellow, white, and magenta.
ref:
2002, David L. Thompson, “River of Memories -An Appalachian Boyhood”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 69
type:
quotation
text:
drawn up in battle array
type:
example
text:
We offer a dazzling array of choices.
type:
example
text:
Mario Balotelli, in the headlines for accidentally setting his house ablaze with fireworks, put City on their way with goals either side of the interval as United struggled to contain the array of attacking talent in front of them.
ref:
2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clothing and ornamentation.
A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
A large collection.
A matrix.
Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
A militia.
A group of hedgehogs.
A microarray.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
law
government
military
politics
war
|
9063 | word:
array
word_type:
verb
expansion:
array (third-person singular simple present arrays, present participle arraying, simple past and past participle arrayed)
forms:
form:
arrays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
arraying
tags:
participle
present
form:
arrayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
arrayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
array
etymology_text:
From Middle English arrayen, from Anglo-Norman arraier (compare Old French arraier, areer (“to put in order”)), from Medieval Latin arrēdō (“to put in order, arrange, array”), from *rēdum (“preparation, order”), from Frankish *raid or *raidā (“preparation, order”) or Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “ready, prepared”), from Proto-Germanic *raidaz, *raidiz (“ready”). Compare Old English rād (“condition, stipulation”), Old High German antreitī (“order, rank”). Doublet of ready.
senses_examples:
text:
He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
senses_topics:
law |
9064 | word:
thermometer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thermometer (plural thermometers)
forms:
form:
thermometers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French thermomètre; equivalent to thermo- + -meter.
senses_examples:
text:
Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
ref:
1835, John Ross, James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pages 284–5
type:
quotation
text:
The brothers had thrust the thermometer between two circuit boards in order to look for hot spots inside m zero. The thermometer’s dial was marked “Beef Rare—Ham—Beef Med—Pork.” “You want to keep the machine below ‘Pork,’” Gregory remarked.
ref:
1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An apparatus used to measure temperature.
senses_topics:
|
9065 | word:
neutron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neutron (plural neutrons)
forms:
form:
neutrons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From neutral + -on. Coined by Scottish-Australian physicist William Sutherland in 1899 in a paper in the Philosophical Magazine. Subsequent usage was sporadic and theoretical, sometimes referring to neutrinos rather than neutrons, and the modern sense was reintroduced alongside proton by Ernest Rutherford in 1920.
senses_examples:
text:
Holonyms: atom, nucleus
text:
Comeronyms: proton, electron
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A subatomic particle forming part of the nucleus of an atom and having no charge; it is a combination of an up quark and two down quarks.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
9066 | word:
demurrer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
demurrer (plural demurrers)
forms:
form:
demurrers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman demurrer, form of Old French demourer (“to demur”), infinitive used as noun.
senses_examples:
text:
In a demurrer filed on 28 February to the Los Angeles county superior court, Franco’s lawyers asked that the lawsuit filed in October by Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal be dismissed, saying none of the alleged events detailed had happened, and the statute of limitations had passed for the accusations.
ref:
2020 March 3, Andrew Pulver, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A motion by a party to an action, for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defense, and hence whether the party resting is bound to answer or proceed further.
senses_topics:
law |
9067 | word:
demurrer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
demurrer (plural demurrers)
forms:
form:
demurrers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From demur + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who demurs.
senses_topics:
|
9068 | word:
ash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ash (countable and uncountable, plural ashes)
forms:
form:
ashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ash
etymology_text:
From Middle English asshe, from Old English æsċe, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ (compare West Frisian jiske, Dutch as, Low German Asch, German Asche, Danish aske, Swedish aska, Norwegian aske), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-; see it for cognates.
The rare plural axen is from Middle English axen, axnen, from Old English axan, asċan (“ashes”) (plural of Old English axe, æsċe (“ash”)).
senses_examples:
text:
The audience was more captivated by the growing ash at the end of his cigarette than by his words.
type:
example
text:
Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.
type:
example
text:
Ashes from the fire floated over the street.
type:
example
text:
Ash from the fire floated over the street.
type:
example
text:
The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet.
type:
example
text:
Napoleon’s ashes are not yet extinguished, and we’re breathing in their sparks.
type:
example
text:
Now, it's Haiti that needs help to rebuild and rise from the ashes [of an earthquake].
ref:
2010 May 6, Jean-Claude Laguerre, “Haiti Will Rise From the Ashes”, in The Epoch Times
type:
quotation
text:
ash:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The solid remains of a fire.
The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
Mortal remains in general.
What remains after a catastrophe.
A gray colour, like that of ash.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
9069 | word:
ash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ash (third-person singular simple present ashes, present participle ashing, simple past and past participle ashed)
forms:
form:
ashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
ashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
ashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ash
etymology_text:
From Middle English asshe, from Old English æsċe, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ (compare West Frisian jiske, Dutch as, Low German Asch, German Asche, Danish aske, Swedish aska, Norwegian aske), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-; see it for cognates.
The rare plural axen is from Middle English axen, axnen, from Old English axan, asċan (“ashes”) (plural of Old English axe, æsċe (“ash”)).
senses_examples:
text:
I dried the extracted leather very slowly on the steam bath […] until the substance was dry enough to ash. […] I think that the discrepancy in the percentages of "total ash" by method No. 2 and No. 6 is due to this excessive heat required to ash the leather […]
ref:
1919, Harry Gordon, Total Soluble and Insoluble Ash in Leather, published in the Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, W. K. Alsop and W. A. Fox, eds, volume XIV, number 1, on page 253
text:
The inorganic material left after ashing lung tissue specimens not only contains inhaled particles but also very large quantities of inorganic residue derived from the tissue itself.
ref:
1981, Hans Weill, Margaret Turner-Warwick, and Claude Lenfant, eds, Occupational Lung Diseases: Research Approaches and Methods, Lung Biology in Health and disease, volume 18, page 203
text:
Ash and silica contents of the plant material were determined by classical gravimetric techniques. Tissue samples were ashed in platinum crucibles at about 500 °C, and the ash was treated repeatedly with 6 N hydrochloric acid to remove other mineral impurities.
ref:
1989?, Annals of Botany, volume 64, issues 4-6, page 397
text:
A 10-g food sample was dried, then ashed, and analyzed for salt (NaCl) content by the Mohr titration method (AgNO₃ + Cl → AgCl). The weight of the dried sample was 2g, and the ashed sample weight was 0.5g.
ref:
2010, S. Suzanne Nielsen, ed, Food Analysis, fourth edition, Chapter 12, "Traditional Methods for Mineral Analysis", page 213
text:
"Nonsense," Mrs. Gardiner challenged, ashing her cigarette.
ref:
1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
He realized that he was standing staring at her and he sat down quickly, making a business of ashing his cigarette.
ref:
1961, Kenneth Cook, Wake in Fright, published 1988, page ii. 52
type:
quotation
text:
Hamilton ashed his cigar, and studied the end of it for some moments without speaking.
ref:
1978, C.J. Koch, The Year of Living Dangerously, published 1986, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
Last spring, after I planted, I took what ashes I have saved during the last year, and put on my corn […] . On harvesting I cut up the two rows which were not ashed (or twenty rods of them,) and set them apart from the others in stouts; and then I cut up two rows of the same length, on each side, which had been ashed, […]
ref:
1847, H., Ashes on Corn.---An Experiment, published in the Genesee Farmer, volume 8, page 281
text:
After the corn was planted, upon acre A, I spread broadcast one hundred bushels of lime, (cost $3) and fifty bushels of ashes, (cost $6.) […] The extra crop of the combination over the limed acre or ashed, was paid by the increased crop, […]
ref:
1849, in a letter to James Higgins, published in 1850 in The American Farmer, volume V, number 7, pages 227-8
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.
To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.
To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette).
To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
9070 | word:
ash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ash (countable and uncountable, plural ashes)
forms:
form:
ashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ash
etymology_text:
From Middle English asshe, from Old English æsċ, from Proto-Germanic *askaz, *askiz (compare West Frisian esk, Dutch es, German Esche, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish ask), from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃s- (compare Welsh onnen, Latin ornus (“wild mountain ash”), Lithuanian úosis, Russian я́сень (jásenʹ), Albanian ah (“beech”), Ancient Greek ὀξύα (oxúa, “beech”), Old Armenian հացի (hacʻi)).
senses_examples:
text:
The ash trees are dying off due to emerald ash borer.
type:
example
text:
The woods planted in ash will see a different mix of species.
type:
example
text:
Alternative forms: æsc, æsh
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.
The wood of this tree.
The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.
senses_topics:
|
9071 | word:
ash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ash (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
ash
etymology_text:
Transliteration of Persian آش; see the main entry.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of aush
senses_topics:
|
9072 | word:
ewe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ewe (plural ewes)
forms:
form:
ewes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ewe, from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).
Cognates
See also Old English ēow (“sheep”), West Frisian ei, Dutch ooi, German Aue); also Old Irish oí, Latin ovis, Tocharian B ā(ᵤ)w, Lithuanian avìs (“ewe”), Russian овца́ (ovcá).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
senses_topics:
|
9073 | word:
byproduct
word_type:
noun
expansion:
byproduct (plural byproducts)
forms:
form:
byproducts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From by- + product.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of by-product
senses_topics:
|
9074 | word:
v
word_type:
character
expansion:
v (lower case, upper case V, plural vs or v's)
forms:
form:
V
tags:
uppercase
form:
vs
tags:
plural
form:
v's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lower case letter v (also written u), from Old English lower case u and respelling of Old English f between vowels and voiced consonants.
* Old English lower case f from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case f of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚠ (f, “feoh”), derived from Etruscan letter 𐌅 (v).
* Old English lower case u from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case v of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚢ (u, “ur”), derived from Raetic letter u.
Before the 1700s, the pointed form v was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form u was used elsewhere, regardless of sound. So whereas valor and excuse appeared as in modern printing, have and upon were printed haue and vpon. Eventually, in the 1700s, to differentiate between the consonant and vowel sounds, the v form was used to represent the consonant, and u the vowel sound. v then preceded u in the alphabet, but the order has since reversed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The twenty-second letter of the English alphabet, called vee and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9075 | word:
v
word_type:
noun
expansion:
v (plural vs or v's)
forms:
form:
vs
tags:
plural
form:
v's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lower case letter v (also written u), from Old English lower case u and respelling of Old English f between vowels and voiced consonants.
* Old English lower case f from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case f of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚠ (f, “feoh”), derived from Etruscan letter 𐌅 (v).
* Old English lower case u from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case v of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚢ (u, “ur”), derived from Raetic letter u.
Before the 1700s, the pointed form v was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form u was used elsewhere, regardless of sound. So whereas valor and excuse appeared as in modern printing, have and upon were printed haue and vpon. Eventually, in the 1700s, to differentiate between the consonant and vowel sounds, the v form was used to represent the consonant, and u the vowel sound. v then preceded u in the alphabet, but the order has since reversed.
senses_examples:
text:
The impact was so strong, it bent the bar into a v.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a shape resembling the letter v
senses_topics:
|
9076 | word:
v
word_type:
prep
expansion:
v
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of versus.
senses_examples:
text:
England v Scotland
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of versus.
senses_topics:
|
9077 | word:
v
word_type:
adv
expansion:
v
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of very.
senses_examples:
text:
You were acting v rude to his boyfriend on New Year's.
type:
example
text:
I'm v tired. I slept v badly, awake from 3–6 a.m., so I've slept all afternoon.
ref:
2006, Cathy Wield, Life After Darkness: A Doctor's Journey Through Severe Depression, Seattle, WA: Radcliffe Publishing, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
I said it wasn't a crush, I just thought he was v attractive.
ref:
2007, Dyan Sheldon, Deep and Meaningful Diaries from Planet Janet, Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, page 253
type:
quotation
text:
Since becoming social media official, Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson have been sashaying around town together and being v cute
ref:
2019 July 23, Matt Galea, “Punters Reckon Ashley Benson's New Tatt Is A Tribute To Girlfriend Cara Delevingne”, in Pedestrian, archived from the original on 2019-07-23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of very.
senses_topics:
|
9078 | word:
halm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
halm (countable and uncountable, plural halms)
forms:
form:
halms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of haulm
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
9079 | word:
tanto
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tanto (plural tanto or tantos)
forms:
form:
tanto
tags:
plural
form:
tantos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 短刀(たんとう) (tantō), from Middle Chinese 短刀 (tuɑn^X tɑu, “dagger”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A traditional Japanese small sword or knife; often used as a secondary weapon to a katana.
A knife blade shape/style comprising well-differentiated front and longitudinal edges, somewhat reminiscent of a chisel but with an angled front allowing for an acute-angle point.
senses_topics:
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
|
9080 | word:
tanto
word_type:
adv
expansion:
tanto (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian tanto.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
So much; too much.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
9081 | word:
far
word_type:
adj
expansion:
far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest or farthermost or furthermost)
forms:
form:
farther
tags:
comparative
form:
further
tags:
comparative
form:
farthest
tags:
superlative
form:
furthest
tags:
superlative
form:
farthermost
tags:
superlative
form:
furthermost
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai.
senses_examples:
text:
He went to a far land.
type:
example
text:
Tsiolkas's Europe, as voraciously predatory as his own undead protagonist, is a far cry from the fount of idealistic humanism dreamed up by generations of both pre- and post-Enlightenment politicians and philosophers, a Europe defined by its durable capacity for civility in an otherwise barbarous world.
ref:
2009, Graham Huggan, Ian Law, Racism Postcolonialism Europe, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
the far future
text:
I have such a long way to go but yet I have come such a far piece already
ref:
2011, Peggy Woods, Ramblings from a Soul, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
See those two mountains? The ogre lives on the far one.
type:
example
text:
He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end.
type:
example
text:
They are on the far right on this issue.
type:
example
text:
He was withdrawn to such a far degree that it required of Piers and Jude a good deal of occasional conferencing between the two of them, in private.
ref:
2010, William Alexander Patterson, 4th, The City Is served Bartholomew! to the American Prison!, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
As sensible maketh a man differ from a stone, in a far difference; for other Species, as Beasts, have the same difference, but reasonable is the nearest, whereby he differeth from a stone, beasts, and all other things.
ref:
1657, Henry Ainsworth, Zachary Coke, The Art of Logick., page 26
type:
quotation
text:
Is there not a far difference between asking it up and urging it, Mr. Secretary ?
ref:
1979, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations, Military situation in the Far East - Volume 3, page 1737
type:
quotation
text:
The pressbook identifies the film as a 'picturization of Jane Austen's widely read novel' and starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier (based on the theatrical adaptation by Helen Jerome), it is a far remove from adaptations that follow.
ref:
2010, Deborah Cartmell, Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
This may not be at such a far remove from the endlessly recursive textual inventions of Kafka, Beckett, and Bernhard as it may seem.
ref:
2014, Henry Sussman, Playful Intelligence: Digitizing Tradition, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
far heap; far memory; far pointer
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Distant; remote in space.
Remote in time.
Long.
More remote of two.
Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
9082 | word:
far
word_type:
adv
expansion:
far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest)
forms:
form:
farther
tags:
comparative
form:
further
tags:
comparative
form:
farthest
tags:
superlative
form:
furthest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai.
senses_examples:
text:
You have all come far and you will go farther.
type:
example
text:
He built a time machine and travelled far into the future.
type:
example
text:
Over time, his views moved far away from mine.
type:
example
text:
He was far richer than we'd thought.
type:
example
text:
The expense far exceeds what I expected.
type:
example
text:
I saw a tiny figure far below me.
type:
example
text:
The Reds were on the back foot early on when a catalogue of defensive errors led to Ramires giving Chelsea the lead. Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.
ref:
2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.
Very much; by a great amount.
senses_topics:
|
9083 | word:
far
word_type:
verb
expansion:
far (third-person singular simple present fars, present participle farring, simple past and past participle farred)
forms:
form:
fars
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
farring
tags:
participle
present
form:
farred
tags:
participle
past
form:
farred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai.
senses_examples:
text:
But I wish he'd been farred before he ever came near this house, with his “Please Betty” this, and “Please Betty” that, and drinking up our new milk as if he'd been a cat. I hate such beguiling ways.
ref:
1864, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis
type:
quotation
text:
[…] so Joe come to me and he uz sore as a boil and said you goddam prevert, I don't want no twenny-two-year-old mechanic who still pulls his pood in the toilet, and farred me.
ref:
1962, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To send far away.
senses_topics:
|
9084 | word:
far
word_type:
noun
expansion:
far (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin far. Doublet of farro.
senses_examples:
text:
A cataplasm made from any meal is heating, whether it be of wheat, or of far, or barley, or bitter vetch, ...
ref:
1756, Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, Medicine: In Eight Books, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
Almost all the rustic writers agree in this, that far is most proper for wet clay land, and triticum for dry land. 'In wet red clays,' says Cato, 'sow far; and in dry, clean, and open lands, sow triticum.'
ref:
1857, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia
type:
quotation
text:
Our wedding-cake is the memorial of a practice, that bore a striking resemblance to, if it was not derived from, confarreatio, the form of marriage that had fallen into general disuse amongst the Romans in the time of Tiberius. Taking its name from the cake of far and mola salsa that was broken over the bride's head, confarreatio was attended with an incident that increases its resemblance to the way in which our ancestors used at their weddings objects symbolical of natural plentifulness.
ref:
1872, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Brides and Bridals, volume 1, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
The early Romans broke a cake of far and mola salsa (salted meal) over the bride's head, — a symbol of plentifulness, […]
ref:
1919, Carl Holliday, Wedding Customs Then and Now, page 32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Emmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
senses_topics:
|
9085 | word:
far
word_type:
noun
expansion:
far (plural fars)
forms:
form:
fars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A litter of piglets; a farrow.
senses_topics:
|
9086 | word:
crowd
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)
forms:
form:
crowds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crowding
tags:
participle
present
form:
crowded
tags:
participle
past
form:
crowded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from Proto-West Germanic *krūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewt- (“to push; press”). Cognate with German Low German kroden (“to push, shove”), Dutch kruien (“to push, shove”).
senses_examples:
text:
The man crowded into the packed room.
type:
example
text:
They crowded through the archway and into the park.
type:
example
text:
He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
type:
example
text:
The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
ref:
1875, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain
type:
quotation
text:
They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
type:
example
text:
Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.
ref:
2006, Lanna Nakone, Every Child Has a Thinking Style, page 73
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
To press together or collect in numbers
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
To fill by pressing or thronging together
To push, to press, to shove.
To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
|
9087 | word:
crowd
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crowd (plural crowds)
forms:
form:
crowds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from Proto-West Germanic *krūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewt- (“to push; press”). Cognate with German Low German kroden (“to push, shove”), Dutch kruien (“to push, shove”).
senses_examples:
text:
After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
type:
example
text:
There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.
type:
example
text:
That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
type:
example
text:
We're concerned that our daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd.
type:
example
text:
Maybe it was time I joined the crowd and bought a few of those for my own office.
ref:
2015, Cameron Bane, Pitfall
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
senses_topics:
|
9088 | word:
crowd
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crowd (plural crowds)
forms:
form:
crowds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of crwth
A fiddle.
senses_topics:
|
9089 | word:
crowd
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)
forms:
form:
crowds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crowding
tags:
participle
present
form:
crowded
tags:
participle
past
form:
crowded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.
senses_examples:
text:
Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on.
ref:
1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Philip Massinger, The Old Law
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
senses_topics:
|
9090 | word:
molding
word_type:
verb
expansion:
molding
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English moldyng; equivalent to mold + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of mold
senses_topics:
|
9091 | word:
molding
word_type:
noun
expansion:
molding (countable and uncountable, plural moldings)
forms:
form:
moldings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English moldyng; equivalent to mold + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.
Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.
A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface and to conceal joints, especially between unlike materials.
A planing machine for making moldings.
A machine to assist in making molds for castings.
A mill for shaping timber.
A kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.
senses_topics:
architecture
|
9092 | word:
ese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ese (plural eses)
forms:
form:
eses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mexican Spanish ése (“dude”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
dude, man. (Usually used vocatively).
senses_topics:
|
9093 | word:
ese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ese (plural eses)
forms:
form:
eses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Cf. ease.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of ease.
senses_topics:
|
9094 | word:
substituent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
substituent (plural substituents)
forms:
form:
substituents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed.
Pro-form.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9095 | word:
upcast
word_type:
adj
expansion:
upcast (comparative more upcast, superlative most upcast)
forms:
form:
more upcast
tags:
comparative
form:
most upcast
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cast up; thrown upward.
senses_topics:
|
9096 | word:
upcast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upcast (plural upcasts)
forms:
form:
upcasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cast; a throw.
The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine.
A current of air passed along such a shaft.
An upset, as from a carriage.
A taunt; a reproach.
A cast from subtype to supertype.
A message transmitted via upcasting.
senses_topics:
bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
mining
business
mining
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
9097 | word:
upcast
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upcast (third-person singular simple present upcasts, present participle upcasting, simple past and past participle upcast or upcasted)
forms:
form:
upcasts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upcasting
tags:
participle
present
form:
upcast
tags:
participle
past
form:
upcast
tags:
past
form:
upcasted
tags:
participle
past
form:
upcasted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
To cast from subtype to supertype.
To broadcast a message or data to aircraft or satellites, especially via radio waves; as opposed to uplinking to a specific satellite or aircraft
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
9098 | word:
r
word_type:
character
expansion:
r (lower case, upper case R, plural rs or r's)
forms:
form:
R
tags:
uppercase
form:
rs
tags:
plural
form:
r's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Old English lower case letter r, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case r of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚱ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9099 | word:
r
word_type:
num
expansion:
r (lower case, upper case R)
forms:
form:
R
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Old English lower case letter r, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case r of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚱ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number eighteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
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