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9100 | word:
r
word_type:
verb
expansion:
r
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From are and our, pronounced like the name of the letter r.
senses_examples:
text:
How r u ― How are you?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of are.
senses_topics:
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9101 | word:
r
word_type:
det
expansion:
r
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From are and our, pronounced like the name of the letter r.
senses_examples:
text:
This was supposed 2 be a SURPRISE, but the girls got it out of me. ☺ I wanted all of us 2 spend Xmas 2gether. By all, I mean r horses 2. Sooo . . . B, C, G, Z, & D, you have guests waiting @ BC. Zane, Valentino, Scout, Nero, & Polo r there! Now we can ride r horses when we r not volunteering & spend Xmas w them. ☺
ref:
2013, Jessica Burkhart, Home for Christmas (Canterwood Crest; Super Special), New York, NY: Aladdin M!X, page 44
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of our.
senses_topics:
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9102 | word:
teek
word_type:
noun
expansion:
teek (countable and uncountable, plural teeks)
forms:
form:
teeks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese teca, from Malayalam തേക്ക് (tēkkŭ) or Tamil தேக்கு (tēkku).
senses_examples:
text:
The Teek forests, from whence the marine yard at Bombay are furnished with that excellent species of ship timber, lie along the western side of the Gaut Mountains, and other contiguous ridges of hills, on the north and north-east of Basseen; the numerous rivulets that descend from thence affording water-carriage for the timber. I cannot close this account, without remarking the unpardonable negligence we are guilty of, in delaying to build Teek ships of war for the use of the Indians seas.
ref:
1794–95, Proceedings Relative to Ships Tendered for the Service of the United East-India Company, from the Twenty-sixth of March, 1794, to the Sixth of January, 1795:, Extract from Major Rennel's Memoir, page 885
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of teak.
senses_topics:
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9103 | word:
teek
word_type:
noun
expansion:
teek (plural teeks)
forms:
form:
teeks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of telekinetic
senses_examples:
text:
She stood there dumbfounded as the door swung open and banged against the inside wall, narrowly missing her.¶ I did that, she thought. I'm a... teek?
ref:
2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, page 140
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A telekinetic person; a person who has telekinetic abilities.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction |
9104 | word:
teek
word_type:
verb
expansion:
teek (third-person singular simple present teeks, present participle teeking, simple past and past participle teeked)
forms:
form:
teeks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
teeking
tags:
participle
present
form:
teeked
tags:
participle
past
form:
teeked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of telekinetic
senses_examples:
text:
Tears of pain came to his eyes—and he didn’t know which hurt more, the pain of the soup on his arm or the real shock he had received when he had forced himself to keep from teeking the falling soup halfway across the room.
ref:
1957 April 24, Robert Silverberg, “Hidden Talent”, in Worlds of If, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
With a brief psionic push, Nova teeked them aside and into the rock, firing her rifle at the soft areas just above the creature's rib cage.
ref:
2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, page 44
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use telekinesis on; to move (something) with the power of one's mind.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction |
9105 | word:
dasypygal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dasypygal (comparative more dasypygal, superlative most dasypygal)
forms:
form:
more dasypygal
tags:
comparative
form:
most dasypygal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “hairy, dense”) + πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”).
senses_examples:
text:
In the Dasypygal division the Orangs (genus Pithecus, Geoffr.) manifest, agreeably with their geographical position, the nearest affinities with the Scleropyga, in the length of the upper limbs and the proportionally small size of the hallux: the Chimpanzees (genus Troglodytes, Geoffr.) show the higher position in the proportions of the upper limbs to the trunk, the large size of the hallux, and other characters set forth in the present and former memoirs on the Anthropoid or Dasypygal Apes.
ref:
1859 January 11, Professor Owen, “On the External Characters of the Gorilla”, in Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, page 276
type:
quotation
text:
Oh you think so, huh, you dasypygal dickhead!
ref:
1993, Steve Abbott, The lizard club, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
The situation is even more of a dasypygal mess when the atoms being considered possess d orbitals (for example, it is not immediately obvious what effect a four-fold rotation about the x axis has on a d_(z²) orbital).
ref:
1997, Gregory A. Landrum, Electronic Structure and Bonding in Molecules, Intermetallic Phases, and Other Extended Systems
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having hairy buttocks.
senses_topics:
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9106 | word:
burglary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
burglary (countable and uncountable, plural burglaries)
forms:
form:
burglaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
burglary
etymology_text:
From New Latin burglaria. Equivalent to burglar + -y. Displaced native Old English hūsbryċe (literally “house-breach”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.
Under the common law, breaking and entering of the dwelling of another at night with the intent to commit a felony.
The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.
Under the Model Penal Code, entering a building or occupied structure with purpose to commit a crime therein, unless the premises are at the time open to the public or the actor is licensed or privileged to enter.
senses_topics:
law
law |
9107 | word:
cylinder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cylinder (plural cylinders)
forms:
form:
cylinders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calender.
senses_examples:
text:
When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a right cylinder. In non-mathematical usage, both right and circular are usually implied.
type:
example
text:
A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder.
ref:
1898, H. G. Wells, chapter 4, in The War of the Worlds
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
automotive
transport
vehicles
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
9108 | word:
cylinder
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cylinder (third-person singular simple present cylinders, present participle cylindering, simple past and past participle cylindered)
forms:
form:
cylinders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cylindering
tags:
participle
present
form:
cylindered
tags:
participle
past
form:
cylindered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calender.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy.
senses_topics:
|
9109 | word:
weer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
weer (plural weers)
forms:
form:
weers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table wee + -er
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who wees, someone who urinates.
senses_topics:
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9110 | word:
weer
word_type:
adj
expansion:
weer
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
comparative form of wee: more wee
senses_topics:
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9111 | word:
vote
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vote (plural votes)
forms:
form:
votes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
2014 Syrian presidential election
etymology_text:
From Latin vōtum, a form of voveō (“I vow”) (cognate with Ancient Greek εὔχομαι (eúkhomai, “to vow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ-. The word is thus a doublet of vow.
senses_examples:
text:
The city council decided the matter should go to public vote.
type:
example
text:
Parliament will hold a vote of confidence regarding the minister.
type:
example
text:
One occasion indicative votes were used was in 2003 when MPs were presented with seven different options on how to reform the House of Lords.
type:
example
text:
The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.
type:
example
text:
There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
ref:
1862 [1836], Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.:: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, pages 7–8
type:
quotation
text:
It is important to ensure that shareholders who engage with an investee company by voting know whether their votes have been correctly taken into account. Confirmation of receipt of votes should be provided in the case of electronic voting. In addition, each shareholder who casts a vote in a general meeting should at least have the possibility to verify after the general meeting whether the vote has been validly recorded and counted by the company.
ref:
Directive (EU) 2017/828 amending Directive 2007/36/EC, recital 10
type:
quotation
text:
If you vote once, you're considered a good citizen. If you vote twice, you face four years in jail.
ref:
2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 158
type:
quotation
text:
Jol[ante]. In you, Sir, / I live; and when, or by the Courſe of Nature, / Or Violence you muſt fall, the End of my / Devotions is, that one and the ſame Hour / May make us fit for Heaven. // Server. I join with you / In my votes that way: […]
ref:
1633, Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, in Three New Playes; viz. The Bashful Lover, The Guardian, The Very Woman. As They have been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friers, by His Late Majesties Servants, with Great Applause, London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, published 1655, OCLC 15553475; republished as “The Guardian. A Comical History. As It hath been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friars, by His Late Majesty's Servants, with Great Applause, 1655.”, in Thomas Coxeter, editor, The Works of Philip Massinger. Volume the Fourth. Containing, The Guardian. A Very Woman. The Old Law. The City Madam. And Poems on Several Occasions, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Davies, in Russel-street, Covent-Garden, 1761, OCLC 6847259, Act V, scene i, page 71
text:
dissenting vote
i.e. in particular the differing opinion published with a judicial judgment considered as a source of information
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.
an act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot
an ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer
a formalized petition or request
any judgment of intellect leading to a formal opinion, a point of view
any judgment of intellect leading not only to a formal opinion but also to a particular choice in a legally relevant measure, a point of view as published
senses_topics:
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9112 | word:
vote
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vote (third-person singular simple present votes, present participle voting, simple past and past participle voted)
forms:
form:
votes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
voting
tags:
participle
present
form:
voted
tags:
participle
past
form:
voted
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
vote
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
2014 Syrian presidential election
etymology_text:
From Latin vōtum, a form of voveō (“I vow”) (cognate with Ancient Greek εὔχομαι (eúkhomai, “to vow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ-. The word is thus a doublet of vow.
senses_examples:
text:
Did you vote last month?
type:
example
text:
To vote on large principles, to vote bravely, requires a great amount of information.
ref:
1848, Frederick William Robertson, An address delivered at the opening of the Working-men's Institute, on Monday, October 23, 1848
type:
quotation
text:
The depository may vote shares on behalf of investors who have not submitted instruction to the bank.
type:
example
text:
Sixteen years after the landing on Plymouth Rock, the general court of Massachusetts voted a sum, equal to a year’s rate ol the whole colony, towards the erection of a college.
ref:
1845 June 7, “Control of Education in France”, in Niles' National Register, volume 68, number 1,758, Baltimore: Jeremiah Hughes, page 217
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election.
To choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent.
senses_topics:
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9113 | word:
outage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
outage (plural outages)
forms:
form:
outages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
outage
etymology_text:
From out + -age, on the model of shortage.
senses_examples:
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
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.
The amount of something lost in storage or transportation.
senses_topics:
|
9114 | word:
Pyrenean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Pyrenean (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Pȳrēnaeus + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
Pierre held his berret in his hand, and the boldness of the Pyrenean hunter was strangely overcome in the absence of all apparent danger: he really knew not what he did or what he said.
ref:
1845, Selina Bunbury, Evenings in the Pyrenées
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain
senses_topics:
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9115 | word:
Pyrenean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Pyrenean (plural Pyreneans)
forms:
form:
Pyreneans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Pȳrēnaeus + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of the Pyrenees.
senses_topics:
|
9116 | word:
sword
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sword (plural swords)
forms:
form:
swords
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“sword”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂w- (“sharp”). Cognate with Scots swuird, swerd, sword (“sword”), North Frisian swird (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), Low German Sweerd, Schwert (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Old East Slavic свьрдьлъ (svĭrdĭlŭ, “drill”).
senses_examples:
text:
Malicious tunges, though they have no bones,
ref:
c. 1515–1516, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c., published 1568
type:
quotation
roman:
Are ſharper then ſwordes, ſturdier then ſtones.
text:
Some swords were also made solely to thrust, and some only to cut; others were equally adapted for both.
ref:
1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 49
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.
A suit in certain playing card decks, particularly those used in Spain and Italy, or those used for divination.
A card of this suit.
One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
senses_topics:
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
card-games
games
card-games
games
business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving |
9117 | word:
sword
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sword (third-person singular simple present swords, present participle swording, simple past and past participle sworded)
forms:
form:
swords
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
swording
tags:
participle
present
form:
sworded
tags:
participle
past
form:
sworded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“sword”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂w- (“sharp”). Cognate with Scots swuird, swerd, sword (“sword”), North Frisian swird (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), Low German Sweerd, Schwert (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Old East Slavic свьрдьлъ (svĭrdĭlŭ, “drill”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stab or cut with a sword
senses_topics:
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9118 | word:
asthenia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
asthenia (countable and uncountable, plural asthenias)
forms:
form:
asthenias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀσθένεια (asthéneia), from ἀσθενής (asthenḗs, “sick, weak”), from ἀ- (a-, “not, un-”) + σθένος (sthénos, “strength”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Weakness; loss of strength.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
9119 | word:
life
word_type:
noun
expansion:
life (usually uncountable, plural lives)
forms:
form:
lives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lyf, from Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą (“life, body”), from *lībaną (“to remain, stay, be left”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”). Cognate with Scots life, leif (“life”), North Frisian liff (“life, limb, person, livelihood”), West Frisian liif (“belly, abdomen”), Dutch lijf (“body”), Low German lif (“body; life, life-force; waist”), German Leib (“body; womb”) and Leben (“life”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish liv (“life; waist”), Icelandic líf (“life”). Related to belive.
senses_examples:
text:
Having experienced both, the vampire decided that he preferred (un)death to life. He gave up on life.
type:
example
text:
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
ref:
1881, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Common Law
type:
quotation
text:
It's life, but not as we know it. She discovered plant life on the planet. The rover discovered signs of life on the alien world.
text:
Many lives were lost during the war. Her quick thinking saved many dogs' lives.
type:
example
text:
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
ref:
2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891
type:
quotation
text:
He gets up early in the morning, works all day long — even on weekends — and hardly sees his family. That's no life! His life was ruined by drugs.
type:
example
text:
He struggled to balance his family life, social life and work life. sex life, political life
text:
Get a life.
type:
example
text:
She's my love, my life. Running the bakery is her life.
text:
Man's life on this planet has been marked by continual conflict. the eternal life of the soul
text:
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
ref:
2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Most things in life, including life itself, seemed to have articulated sections, discrete and separate and straightforward.
ref:
1994, Robert Ferro, Violet Quill
type:
quotation
text:
Life was something you dominated if you were any good. Life yielded easily to intelligence and effort, or to what proportion could be mustered of both.
ref:
1936 Feb., F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up", Esquire
text:
"Life is pain," his mother said. "Anybody that says different is selling something."
ref:
1973, William Goldman, The Princess Bride, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
Even if the bill's life is brief, the member who introduced it can still campaign as its champion.
ref:
2016, Christine Barbour, Gerald C. Wright, Keeping the Republic
type:
quotation
text:
This light bulb is designed to have a life of 2,000 hours.
type:
example
text:
The life of this milk carton may be thousands of years in this landfill.
type:
example
text:
This would require that reproductive cells do not exist early on but rather are produced during the organism's adult life from the gemules sent from the various organs.
ref:
2011, Ehud Lamm, Ron Unger, Biological Computation, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
Typically, an appointed judge is appointed for life.
ref:
2001, Cynthia L. Cates, Wayne V. McIntosh, Law and the Web of Society, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
As a general rule the judges of the administrative courts are appointed for life, i.e., they continue in their office till the completion of sixty-eight years in the Federal Administrative Court[.]
ref:
2013, Mahendra P. Singh, German Administrative Law, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words.
ref:
1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics
type:
quotation
text:
That gives thy gestures grace and life.
ref:
1807, William Wordsworth, To A Highland Girl
type:
quotation
text:
"Don't I know that it is you who is the life of this house. Two delightful children!"
ref:
1970, Mathuram Bhoothalingam, The finger on the lute: the story of Mahakavi Subramania Bharati, National Council of Educational Research and Training, p.87
text:
And he is the life of the party at the Musgroves for precisely this reason: the navy has made him into a great storyteller.
ref:
1998, Monica F. Cohen, Professional domesticity in the Victorian novel: Women, work and home, Cambridge University Press, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
His life of the founder is finished, except for the title.
type:
example
text:
Writers of particular lives[…]are apt to be prejudiced in favour of their subject.
ref:
1741, Conyers Middleton, Life of Cicero
type:
quotation
text:
The experts also agree that the bushmen only painted from life. This belief is borne out by the other Gorozamzi Hills cave paintings, which represent elephants, hippos, deer, and giraffe.
ref:
2010, Brad Steiger, Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside
type:
quotation
text:
Scoring 1000 points is rewarded with an extra life.
type:
example
text:
Spend the time killing things and there's a bonus for each hit - but only for fatalities notched up since the start of your current life.
ref:
1988, David Powell, Rygar (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 25
text:
Borda sent a hot liner to G. Kugler, who made a nifty pick-up, but threw wild at first, giving the batter a life.
ref:
1915 June 24, Philadelphians on the Diamond, in The New York Lumber Trade Journal, volume 59, oage 42
text:
But shortstop Tenney, on what should have been the game's last out, gave a First Team batter a life on first, when he let a ground ball slip between his legs.
ref:
1930 May, Boys' Life, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
The photo book represented my promise to her—a new life—and she desperately clung to that promise.
ref:
2012, Cindy Champnella, The 12 Gifts of Life
type:
quotation
text:
I work in life.
type:
example
text:
He renewed two lives which had dropped.
ref:
1862, Ellen Wood, The Channings
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.
The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.
The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism.
The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc.
Lifeforms, generally or collectively.
A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)
Existence.
A worthwhile existence.
Existence.
A particular aspect of existence.
Existence.
Social life.
Existence.
Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.
Existence.
A period of time during which something has existence.
The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.
A period of time during which something has existence.
The span of time during which an object operates.
A period of time during which something has existence.
The period of time during which an object is recognizable.
A period of time during which something has existence.
A particular phase or period of existence.
A period of time during which something has existence.
A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches retirement age).
A period of time during which something has existence.
A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches retirement age).
A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole).
Animation; spirit; vivacity.
Animation; spirit; vivacity.
The most lively component or participant.
A biography.
Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it.
An opportunity for existence.
One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
An opportunity for existence.
A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of an misplay by a member of the fielding team.
An opportunity for existence.
One of a player's chances to play in various children's playground games, lost when a mistake is made, for example being struck by the ball in dodgeball.
An opportunity for existence.
The life insurance industry.
A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract).
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
video-games
ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
business
insurance
|
9120 | word:
life
word_type:
verb
expansion:
life (third-person singular simple present lifes, present participle lifing, simple past and past participle lifed)
forms:
form:
lifes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lifing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lifed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lifed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lyf, from Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą (“life, body”), from *lībaną (“to remain, stay, be left”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”). Cognate with Scots life, leif (“life”), North Frisian liff (“life, limb, person, livelihood”), West Frisian liif (“belly, abdomen”), Dutch lijf (“body”), Low German lif (“body; life, life-force; waist”), German Leib (“body; womb”) and Leben (“life”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish liv (“life; waist”), Icelandic líf (“life”). Related to belive.
senses_examples:
text:
Now, the aim of the design is to extract more cycles from the component under study, at each new engine generation requirements are driving a reduction in the margin for the error, as parts cannot stand any drop in properties. Thus, the lifing procedures are refined by means of new models or additional specific testing for limiting features to increase the life of the components; […]
ref:
Ignacio Fernandez, ACCENT: Adaptive Control of Manufacturing Processes for a New Generation of Jet Engine Components, in 2012, D. Knörzer, J. Szodruch, Innovation for Sustainable Aviation in a Global Environment (page 302)
text:
A decision was made as a matter of internal policy that all 'lifed' components on the two Royal aircraft would be removed at half-life and fitted to the two support aircraft, where the remaining life would be used prior to overhaul at the normal time.
ref:
2013, Chris Clark, From Hitler's U-Boats to Kruschev's Spyflights, page 180
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To replace components whose operational lifetime has expired.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9121 | word:
life
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lyf, from Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą (“life, body”), from *lībaną (“to remain, stay, be left”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”). Cognate with Scots life, leif (“life”), North Frisian liff (“life, limb, person, livelihood”), West Frisian liif (“belly, abdomen”), Dutch lijf (“body”), Low German lif (“body; life, life-force; waist”), German Leib (“body; womb”) and Leben (“life”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish liv (“life; waist”), Icelandic líf (“life”). Related to belive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of God's life (an oath)
senses_topics:
|
9122 | word:
Milton
word_type:
name
expansion:
Milton
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The English place names are from Old English mylen (“mill”) or middel (“middle”) + tun (“settlement”).
senses_examples:
text:
Herbert, Sydney, Milton, Seymour. You know, all the time I was growing up I thought those were the most ordinary Jewish first names, until someone pointed out that they were British last names. I guess to my great-grandparents those names must have sounded so modern, so sophisticated, so - non-Eastern European. And now they're just Uncle Miltie, Uncle Sy, Uncle Herb. Do other people have Uncle Donne and Uncle Wordsworth?
ref:
1989, David Leavitt, Equal Affections, page 215
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place in England:
A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL4762).
A place in England:
A hamlet in Brampton parish, Carlisle district, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY5560).
A place in England:
A hamlet in Preston Richard parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria (OS grid ref SD5383).
A place in England:
A hamlet in Repton parish, South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK3226).
A place in England:
An area of Portsmouth, Hampshire.
A place in England:
An eastern suburb of Gravesend, Gravesham borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ6574).
A place in England:
A village in West Markham parish, Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK7173).
A place in England:
A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP4535).
A place in England:
A village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SU4892).
A place in England:
A hamlet in Ash parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4621).
A place in England:
A suburb of Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, Somerset (OS grid ref ST3462).
A place in England:
An eastern suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9050).
A place in England:
A hamlet in East Knoyle parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8731).
A place in Scotland:
A village in Easter Ross, Highland council area (OS grid ref NH7674).
A place in Scotland:
A small village in Glen Urquhart, Highland council area, historically in Inverness-shire (OS grid ref NH4930).
A place in Scotland:
A suburban area of Glasgow, Glasgow council area (OS grid ref NS5969).
A place in Scotland:
A hamlet west of Aberfoyle, Stirling council area (OS grid ref NN5001).
A place in Scotland:
A village in West Dunbartonshire council area (OS grid ref NS4274).
A place in Scotland:
A settlement in the Outer Hebrides.
A habitational surname from Old English, from the multiple places in Britain named "Milton".
A male given name transferred from the surname.
John Milton, an English author and poet of the seventeenth century.
John Milton's works or media adaptations of his works.
A place in Australia:
A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland; named for nearby Milton Farm, itself for poet John Milton.
A place in Australia:
A village in the City of Shoalhaven, New South Wales.
A town in Otago, New Zealand.
A place in Canada:
A town in the Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario; named for poet John Milton.
A place in Canada:
A village in Queens County, Nova Scotia.
A place in Canada:
A former logging village in Newfoundland and Labrador; named for poet John Milton.
A place in Canada:
The Rural Municipality of Milton No. 292, a rural municipality in west-central Saskatchewan.
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California; named for railroad engineer Milton Latham.
A place in the United States:
A town in Sussex County, Delaware; named for poet John Milton.
A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Santa Rosa County, Florida; perhaps named for poet John Milton, or for the local lumber mill industry.
A place in the United States:
A city in Fulton County, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta; named for Revolutionary War officer John Milton.
A place in the United States:
A village in Pike County, Illinois.
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Union Township, Ohio County, Indiana; named for the gristmill and sawmill in the area.
A place in the United States:
A town in Washington Township, Wayne County, Indiana; named for the watermills in the area.
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Van Buren County, Iowa; named for the town in Delaware.
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sumner County, Kansas.
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Trimble County, Kentucky.
A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana; named for early resident Dr. Milton R. Cushman and his son, Milton S. Cushman.
A place in the United States:
An unorganized territory in Oxford County, Maine.
A place in the United States:
A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts; named for Milton Abbey in Dorset, England.
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Atchison County, Missouri.
A place in the United States:
A neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri; named for the landowning Milton family.
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Missouri; named for the town in North Carolina.
A place in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Strafford County, New Hampshire; named for either a mill in the area or for the Viscount Milton.
A place in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Saratoga County, New York; named for either poet John Milton or a mill in the area.
A place in the United States:
A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Marlborough, Ulster County, New York; named for poet John Milton.
A place in the United States:
A town in Caswell County, North Carolina; named for a mill in the area.
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Cavalier County, North Dakota.
A place in the United States:
A borough in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas.
A place in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Chittenden County, Vermont, a suburb of Burlington; named for British statesman William Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton.
A place in the United States:
A city in King County and Pierce County, Washington.
A place in the United States:
A town in Cabell County, West Virginia; named for landowner Milton Reece.
A place in the United States:
A town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
A place in the United States:
A town and city therein, in Rock County, Wisconsin; named for poet John Milton.
A place in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Milton Township.
senses_topics:
|
9123 | word:
wind
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wind (countable and uncountable, plural winds)
forms:
form:
winds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wynd, wind, from Old English wind (“wind”), from Proto-West Germanic *wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥tos (“wind”), from earlier *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“wind”), derived from the present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch wind, German Wind, West Frisian wyn, Norwegian and Swedish vind, Icelandic vindur, Latin ventus, Welsh gwynt, Sanskrit वात (vā́ta), Russian ве́тер (véter), perhaps Albanian bundë (“strong damp wind”). Doublet of athlete, vent, weather and nirvana.
senses_examples:
text:
The wind blew through her hair as she stood on the deck of the ship.
type:
example
text:
As they accelerated onto the motorway, the wind tore the plywood off the car's roof-rack.
type:
example
text:
The winds in Chicago are fierce.
type:
example
text:
There was a sudden gust of wind.
type:
example
text:
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
the wind of a cannon ball
type:
example
text:
the wind of a bellows
type:
example
text:
After the second lap he was already out of wind.
type:
example
text:
The fall knocked the wind out of him.
type:
example
text:
to catch wind of something
type:
example
text:
Steve caught wind of Martha's dalliance with his best friend.
type:
example
text:
the wind of change
type:
example
text:
But many of those issues failed to draw Spanish voters, or even scared them, and the country’s election results went contrary to Europe’s political winds.
ref:
2023 July 24, Jason Horowitz, “What the Collapse of Spain’s Far Right Means Going Forward”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
to pass wind
type:
example
text:
Eww. Someone just passed wind.
type:
example
text:
the four winds
type:
example
text:
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
ref:
1946, George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
The ability to breathe easily.
News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip.
A tendency or trend.
One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
Flatus.
Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points.
Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
A bird, the dotterel.
The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
senses_topics:
alchemy
human-sciences
philosophy
pseudoscience
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
9124 | word:
wind
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wind (third-person singular simple present winds, present participle winding, simple past and past participle winded or (proscribed) wound)
forms:
form:
winds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
winding
tags:
participle
present
form:
winded
tags:
participle
past
form:
winded
tags:
past
form:
wound
tags:
participle
past
proscribed
form:
wound
tags:
past
proscribed
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wynd, wind, from Old English wind (“wind”), from Proto-West Germanic *wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥tos (“wind”), from earlier *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“wind”), derived from the present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch wind, German Wind, West Frisian wyn, Norwegian and Swedish vind, Icelandic vindur, Latin ventus, Welsh gwynt, Sanskrit वात (vā́ta), Russian ве́тер (véter), perhaps Albanian bundë (“strong damp wind”). Doublet of athlete, vent, weather and nirvana.
senses_examples:
text:
Something higher must lie at the back of that eager response to pack-music and winded horn — something born of the smell of the good earth
ref:
1913, Edith Constance Holme, Crump Folk Going Home, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
"If your Majesty is ever to use the Horn," said Trufflehunter, "I think the time has now come." Caspian had of course told them of this treasure several days ago./[…]/"Then in the name of Aslan we will wind Queen Susan's Horn," said Caspian.
ref:
1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
type:
quotation
text:
The boxer was winded during round two.
type:
example
text:
The hounds winded the game.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
To perceive or follow by scent.
To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
senses_topics:
|
9125 | word:
wind
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wind (third-person singular simple present winds, present participle winding, simple past and past participle wound or winded)
forms:
form:
winds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
winding
tags:
participle
present
form:
wound
tags:
participle
past
form:
wound
tags:
past
form:
winded
tags:
participle
past
form:
winded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wynden, from Old English windan, from Proto-Germanic *windaną. Compare West Frisian wine, Low German winden, Dutch winden, German winden, Danish vinde, Walloon windea. See also the related term wend.
senses_examples:
text:
to wind thread on a spool or into a ball
type:
example
text:
Please wind that old-fashioned alarm clock.
type:
example
text:
Vines wind round a pole. The river winds through the plain.
type:
example
text:
The long and winding road / That leads to your door / Will never disappear.
ref:
1969, Paul McCartney, The Long and Winding Road
type:
quotation
text:
Were our legislature vested in the person of our prince, he might doubtless wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
ref:
12 October 1710, Joseph Addison, The Examiner No. 5
text:
to wind a rope with twine
type:
example
text:
Quickly she slammed the door shut and panicking wound the window up as fast as her slippery fingers would allow.
ref:
2012, Rural Affairs, Anna Hutton-North, Lulu.com, page 33
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
To travel in a way that is not straight.
To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter at will; to regulate; to govern.
To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
To cover or surround with something coiled about.
To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
9126 | word:
wind
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wind (plural winds)
forms:
form:
winds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wynden, from Old English windan, from Proto-Germanic *windaną. Compare West Frisian wine, Low German winden, Dutch winden, German winden, Danish vinde, Walloon windea. See also the related term wend.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
senses_topics:
|
9127 | word:
humid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
humid (comparative humider, superlative humidest)
forms:
form:
humider
tags:
comparative
form:
humidest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Old French humide, from Latin humidus (“moist”). Via Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet”) related to English weaky.
senses_examples:
text:
humid earth
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery.
senses_topics:
|
9128 | word:
clutch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
clutch (third-person singular simple present clutches, present participle clutching, simple past and past participle clutched)
forms:
form:
clutches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
clutching
tags:
participle
present
form:
clutched
tags:
participle
past
form:
clutched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from Old English clyċċan (“to clutch, clench”), from Proto-Germanic *klukjaną, from Proto-Germanic *klu- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up; lump, mass”).
Cognate with Swedish klyka (“clamp, fork, branch”). The noun is from Middle English cleche, cloche, cloke ("claw, talon, hand"; compare Scots cleuk, cluke, cluik (“claw, talon”)), of uncertain origin, with the form probably assimilated to the verb.
Alternative etymology derives Old English clyċċan from Proto-Germanic *klēk- (“claw, hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *glēk-, *ǵlēḱ- (“claw, hand; to clutch, snatch”). If so, then cognate with Irish glac (“hand”).
senses_examples:
text:
to clutch power
type:
example
text:
A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.
ref:
a. 1700, Jeremy Collier, A Thought
type:
quotation
text:
She clutched her purse tightly and walked nervously into the building.
type:
example
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:clutch.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To seize, as though with claws.
To grip or grasp tightly.
To win despite being the only remaining player on one's team, against several opponents.
To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
senses_topics:
video-games
video-games |
9129 | word:
clutch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clutch (plural clutches)
forms:
form:
clutches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from Old English clyċċan (“to clutch, clench”), from Proto-Germanic *klukjaną, from Proto-Germanic *klu- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up; lump, mass”).
Cognate with Swedish klyka (“clamp, fork, branch”). The noun is from Middle English cleche, cloche, cloke ("claw, talon, hand"; compare Scots cleuk, cluke, cluik (“claw, talon”)), of uncertain origin, with the form probably assimilated to the verb.
Alternative etymology derives Old English clyċċan from Proto-Germanic *klēk- (“claw, hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *glēk-, *ǵlēḱ- (“claw, hand; to clutch, snatch”). If so, then cognate with Irish glac (“hand”).
senses_examples:
text:
to come in clutch
type:
example
text:
And when it came to the clutch, Johnny Mize, who was washed up five years ago, would crack out a pinch double, or Mickey Mantle, who is not yet ready for the big leagues, would slam out a home run.
ref:
1951 October 8, “Baseball: A Great Year”, in LIFE, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
He is the player who has come through so often in the clutch during his days at Camarillo.
ref:
1985 June 1, Johannes Telesaar, “Camarillo Loses in the 4-A Final by a Foot at First”, in Los Angeles Times
type:
quotation
text:
Stempel came through in the clutch again. GM's across-the-board launch of the catalytic converter was a coup that left Ford and Chrysler gaspind in the dust.
ref:
2013 May 14, Paul Ingrassia, Joseph B. White, Comeback: The Fall & Rise of the American Automobile Industry, Simon and Schuster
type:
quotation
text:
But not just strong women: women who don’t turn to a man in the clutch; women whose strength is inseparable from the walls they’ve built around themselves.
ref:
2016 May 1, Frank Bruni, “Jodie Foster Is Still Afraid of Failure”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
An important or critical situation.
A difficult maneuver.
senses_topics:
|
9130 | word:
clutch
word_type:
adj
expansion:
clutch (comparative more clutch, superlative most clutch)
forms:
form:
more clutch
tags:
comparative
form:
most clutch
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from Old English clyċċan (“to clutch, clench”), from Proto-Germanic *klukjaną, from Proto-Germanic *klu- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up; lump, mass”).
Cognate with Swedish klyka (“clamp, fork, branch”). The noun is from Middle English cleche, cloche, cloke ("claw, talon, hand"; compare Scots cleuk, cluke, cluik (“claw, talon”)), of uncertain origin, with the form probably assimilated to the verb.
Alternative etymology derives Old English clyċċan from Proto-Germanic *klēk- (“claw, hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *glēk-, *ǵlēḱ- (“claw, hand; to clutch, snatch”). If so, then cognate with Irish glac (“hand”).
senses_examples:
text:
NC State made the most of their overtime possession scoring a touchdown on some very clutch plays.
ref:
2006, Bryan Hogan, Three Days for Goodbye, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
I start with his most obvious characteristic: he was clutch. He is Mr. Clutch. In the last chapter I mentioned that Bernie Williams was clutch, which was a valid assessment, but nobody on the Yankees was as clutch as Jeter was.
ref:
2009, Scott Trocchia, The 2006 Yankees: The Frustration of a Nation, A Fan's Perspective, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
It doesn't get more clutch than that!
ref:
2009, Mark Stewart, Clutch Performers, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
senses_topics:
|
9131 | word:
clutch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clutch (plural clutches)
forms:
form:
clutches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant form of cletch, from Middle English cleken (“to hatch”), perhaps from Old Norse klekja (“to hatch”).
senses_examples:
text:
For instance, baby chicks influence their mother’s behaviour by giving high piercing cheeps when they are lost or cold. This usually has the immediate effect of summoning the mother, who leads the chick back to the main clutch.
ref:
1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
No longer would Britons routinely blame the national government when things went wrong. Instead they would demand action from a new clutch of elected mayors, police commissioners and the like.
ref:
2012 September 22, “Innovation in Government: Britain's Local Labs”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
And, so, although the Zeros knocked out four dive bombers (two of them permanently and two forced to abort), the other eleven made it to a position above Shōkaku, which pulled a neat evasive turn that sent the first clutch of thousand-pound bombs into the sea.
ref:
2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 15:30 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-12-04
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
A group or bunch (of people or things).
senses_topics:
|
9132 | word:
clutch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
clutch (third-person singular simple present clutches, present participle clutching, simple past and past participle clutched)
forms:
form:
clutches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
clutching
tags:
participle
present
form:
clutched
tags:
participle
past
form:
clutched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant form of cletch, from Middle English cleken (“to hatch”), perhaps from Old Norse klekja (“to hatch”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hatch.
senses_topics:
|
9133 | word:
washer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
washer (plural washers)
forms:
form:
washers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
washer
etymology_text:
From Middle English wasshere, wassher, equivalent to wash + -er. Cognate with Dutch wasser, German Wäscher.
senses_examples:
text:
A £1.2 million carriage washer has opened at Norwich Crown Point, enabling Greater Anglia to clean its 58 Stadler trains. It is one of two new washers (the other is for '720s' at Southend), […]
ref:
2021 January 13, “GA opens new carriage washers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher.
A person who washes (especially clothes) for a living; a washerman or washerwoman.
A person who washes his or her hands compulsively, as a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
A face cloth.
senses_topics:
|
9134 | word:
washer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
washer (plural washers)
forms:
form:
washers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
washer
etymology_text:
Unclear. First recorded in the 14th century.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flat annulus, placed beneath a nut or at some joint, to distribute pressure, alleviate friction, provide directionally differentiated friction (e.g. making the nut turn counter-clockwise only with difficulty), or prevent leakage.
senses_topics:
|
9135 | word:
washer
word_type:
verb
expansion:
washer (third-person singular simple present washers, present participle washering, simple past and past participle washered)
forms:
form:
washers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
washering
tags:
participle
present
form:
washered
tags:
participle
past
form:
washered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
washer
etymology_text:
Unclear. First recorded in the 14th century.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fit (a mechanical device) with a washer.
senses_topics:
|
9136 | word:
hand-held
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hand-held (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand + held.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Held in one or both hands.
Small and light enough to be operated while held in one or both hands.
senses_topics:
|
9137 | word:
hand-held
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hand-held (plural hand-helds)
forms:
form:
hand-helds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Mobile device
etymology_text:
From hand + held.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A personal digital assistant or video game console that is small enough to be held in the hands.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
9138 | word:
cotton
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cotton (usually uncountable, plural cottons)
forms:
form:
cottons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cotton
etymology_text:
From Middle English cotoun, from Anglo-Norman cotun, Old French coton, from (Genoese) Old Italian cotone, from Arabic قُطُن (quṭun).
senses_examples:
text:
K'a-shih has the most extensive cotton-growing area which amounted to 950 000 mou (6.3 million ares) in 1965.
ref:
1976, Chuen-Yan David Lai, “Developments of Cotton Cultivation in Sinkiang”, in Pacific Viewpoint, volume 17, number 2, →DOI, archived from the original on 2020-06-30, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
The little girls appeared, looking fresh and cool in pretty pink cottons, and we two elder ones seized the opportunity of making a more elaborate toilette than usual.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Gossypium, a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.
Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
Any fiber similar in appearance and use to Gossypium fiber.
The textile made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.
An item of clothing made from cotton.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles
|
9139 | word:
cotton
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cotton (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
cotton
etymology_text:
From Middle English cotoun, from Anglo-Norman cotun, Old French coton, from (Genoese) Old Italian cotone, from Arabic قُطُن (quṭun).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of cotton.
senses_topics:
|
9140 | word:
cotton
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cotton (third-person singular simple present cottons, present participle cottoning, simple past and past participle cottoned)
forms:
form:
cottons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cottoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
cottoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
cottoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
cotton
etymology_text:
From Middle English cotoun, from Anglo-Norman cotun, Old French coton, from (Genoese) Old Italian cotone, from Arabic قُطُن (quṭun).
senses_examples:
text:
Supposing a frame, or set of moulds, as represented at B, to have wicks carried through each mould, or regularly cottoned, and each wick to be held accurately in the centre of the mould by means of the series of nippers shown at fig. 8, the moulds are first taken to the position shown at B 1, figs. 2, 3, and 4, where they are supported in a perpendicular position on the small straight edges or railway d, d, as seen at fig. 3.
ref:
1838, William Newton, The London Journal of Arts and Sciences, and Repertory of Patent Inventions, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Each machine has on average 200 moulds, each mould contains 18 bobbins, and each bobbin, when first cottoned, 60 yards of wick, so that supposing all the frames of our seven machines to be fresh cottoned at the same time, we should have above 800 miles of wick in work.
ref:
1852, George Fergusson Wilson, On the stearic candle manufacture, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
The method of using the machine is as follows: — After having made the connection between the hot and cold water pipes and the machine at K, and having connected the outlet pipe with a drain, the machine is ready for cottoning.
ref:
1880, Edward Spon, Francis N. Spon, George Guillaume André, Spons' Encyclopædia of the Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and Commercial products
type:
quotation
text:
First comes bottling, which is done both by machine and by hand. This is followed by cottoning and capping.
ref:
1953, Manufacturing Series - Issues 211-224, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
Although cottoning is performed by hand, the hand-capping operation is assisted by a mechanical friction wheel, driven through a flexible cable.
ref:
1962, Time and Motion Study - Volume 11, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
Features of the CM/CCI (Continuous Motion, Close-Coupled Integrated) packaging line segment include control of containers from the bottle feeder through the filling/ cottoning operations and space savings in packaging line lengths.
ref:
1975, Food Engineering - Volume 47, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
When a tree is to be cottoned the ends from the cops are brought together and tied in a rough knot, which is hitched to a twig. Then, with the tube held upright, the operator walks round the tree as many times as may be necessary to cover it with lines of cotton, raising the metal tube about three feet after each round.
ref:
1937, Chambers's Journal, page 399
type:
quotation
text:
I went round and quietly cottoned all the nine holes, and next moring I found all the cottons intact.
ref:
1953 June 25, F. Howard Lancum, “More Nights at a Badgers' Sett”, in Country Life, volume 113, page 2064
type:
quotation
text:
I planted out over 600 polyanthus plants, and almost without exception the sparrows had the new buds off — after I had both cottoned and sprayed with Jeyes. They also destroyed two rows of brussels sprouts seedlings — again after cottoning and spraying.
ref:
1965, Amateur Gardening - Volume 82, page 199
type:
quotation
text:
The National Fruit Trials at Brogdale will this year be working in conjunction with Worplesden on cottoning cherry orchards as a method of reducing losses, although it can never entirely prevent damage.
ref:
1976, Horticulture Industry, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
The rooms downstairs were cottoned, the doors re-hung, and a counter put in the record office.
ref:
1900, Sessional Papers (British Columbia), page 389
type:
quotation
text:
Robinson, W., Whitehorse: cottoning and papering 10 rooms, hall and staircase, at sergeant's mess, $206;
ref:
1906, Sessional Papers - Volume 40, Issue 1, Part 2, page R-51
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Taylor said he reckoned the cost of cottoning at twelve and one-half cents per yard.
ref:
1912, National Painters Magazine - Volume 39, page 657
type:
quotation
text:
Tar and cotton him," said a student from the college, more facetiously, perhaps, more mercifully inclined. " Think, fellows, what a pretty bird he will be, with cotton for feathers ; — so downy."
ref:
1864, Honor: Or The Slave-dealer's Daughter, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
The Southerners caught him ; and, as a natural consequence of his capture, he was, after a little preliminary cowhiding and railriding, tarred and cottoned; the soft and downy substance growing in the pod of the cotton plant being in the sunny South the substitute for 'the penal plumes' —as Sydney Smith in humorous euphuism called the feathers wwibh, in combination with a coating of pitch, made up the ignominious livery of an offender whom the Americans delight to dishonour.
ref:
1874, Belgravia - Volume 22, page 311
type:
quotation
text:
Tarring and feathering in the Northern States of America, or tarring and cottoning in the South (the last a freak frequently played with Abolitionists prior to the Great Civil War), could have been as nothing, looked upon as a frolic, compared with the racy humours of the Golden House.
ref:
1880, George Augustus Sala, Paris Herself Again in 1878-9 - Volume 1, page 248
type:
quotation
text:
Goddamned fools had cottoned the land, and just worked it to death, destroying the topsoil, so it blew away, and then, when the rains came, gullied it, so that it wasn't worth a damn for anything.
ref:
1986, W. E. B. Griffin, The Majors, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
Eyes closed, ears cottoned, the mind produces its own interior messages.
ref:
1990, Seymour W. Itzkoff, The Making of the Civilized Mind, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
The finishing operations consisted of shearing the nap from the cloth, and frizzing, or cottoning, the surface, by pressing with hot irons.
ref:
1959, Historical Journal - Volume 7, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
When the cloth is thus shorn on one side, it is for the most part cottoned on the other side, which they call the wrong side ; but frizes are cottoned on the " right side", for cottoning makes them such.
ref:
1968, Thomas Birch, The History of the Royal Society of London for Improving of Natural Knowledge from Its First Rise
type:
quotation
text:
The final finishing processes—cottoning and rowing, or raising the nap with teasels and shearing it smooth again—were performed after the Drapers had carried the cloth to Shrewsbury.
ref:
1953, Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, The Shrewsbury drapers and the Welsh wool trade in the XVI and XVII centuries
type:
quotation
text:
Webs made from them had to be frizzed or cottoned.
ref:
1985, Eric Kerridge, Textile Manufactures in Early Modern England, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
The 'cotton' was, in fact, a woollen fabric, one whose nap had been teased upwards or 'cottoned'.
ref:
2015, Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper, Keith McClelland, Emancipation and the Remaking of the British Imperial World
type:
quotation
text:
At this moment he saw the plate cottoning, as he expressed it, to his young friend, Charles Freeland, who sat in the pew at his right. He watched to see what the young merchant would give ; and to his amazement, he saw the young man put in a fifty dollar note!
ref:
1854, The Churchman's Monthly Magazine - Volume 1, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
Used at medium to thin consistency to avoid stringing or cottoning and to assure proper spreading characteristics.
ref:
1971, Modern Packaging Encyclopedia, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
However, this variety exhibited cottoning (breaking down of the central portion of the root) starting on the 14th up to the 20th day of storage.
ref:
2001, Quality Assurance in Marketing of Fresh Horticultural Produce
type:
quotation
text:
A fair piece ahead, in answering signal cottoned the sky in rhythmic puffs.
ref:
1970, Western Writers of America, Spurs West, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
Choppy waves cottoned the bay.
ref:
1998, George P. Morrill, The Blake Streak: A Tale of War, Mutiny and Love, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
And he quickly changed the subject as the first of the afternoon clouds cottoned the sky and laid shadows across Marlin Hardwick's rustling, winding, scuttling and bird-calling yard.
ref:
2000, Elizabeth Stead, The Fishcastle, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
Fog cottoned the steep, wooded slopes on each side of the lake, and the air was chill and penetrating.
ref:
1937, Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, The Improvement Era - Volume 40, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
There was no evidence by Thursday of the snowfall that had thickly cottoned the Taunton area; the town and state plows had scraped the roads clean, and the only sight of snow remaining lay in the drifts and patches on the sheltered, wooded slopes northward.
ref:
1956, Edwin Gilbert, Native Stone, page 316
type:
quotation
text:
Fog cottoned the roads under a sky like rusted tin.
ref:
2009, Brian Ray, Through the Pale Door: A Novel, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
A mist cottoned the hills inland.
ref:
2010, Ali Shaw, The Girl with Glass Feet
type:
quotation
text:
She got out and began to wade through the blanket of powder which cottoned the ground.
ref:
2018, Sara Saint James, Trust the Night
type:
quotation
text:
Jeanne's house, like Usher's, is a void of great silence and immobility and the "somnambulistic gardens" surrounding her house like Usher's tarn "cottoned the sound from the world."
ref:
1971, Under the Sign of Pisces - Volumes 2-4, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
The violins were muted, the hands were gloved, carpets were unrolled forever under the feet, and the gardens cottoned the sound from the world.
ref:
1976, John Tytell, Harold Jaffe, Affinities: A Short Story Anthology
type:
quotation
text:
In the case of the whippingboys, however, the closeness of the relationship was often given a somewhat negative interpretation by the teachers — the parents were over-anxious, 'cottoned' the boy, were overprotective.
ref:
1978, Robert D. Hare, Daisy Schalling, Psychopathic Behaviour: Approaches to Research, page 324
type:
quotation
text:
Indeed, pragmatism and technicism cottoned the American soul from some of the worst pains of an unmysterious world, although they would later be poor guardians against its encroachment.
ref:
1982, Daedalus, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
To oppress one's own workmen, and provide for the workmen of a neighbor — to skin those in charge of one's own interests while cottoning and oiling the residuary product of another's skinnery — that is not very good benevolence, nor very good sense, but it serves in place of both.
ref:
1912, Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, page 267
type:
quotation
text:
It was inclined to be scummy in developing, and the consequent vigorous 'cottoning' or rubbing with a swab of absorbent cotton while in the developing sink, which was necessary to open it up, often caused injury to the image.
ref:
1934, The Penrose Annual: Review of the Graphic Arts
type:
quotation
text:
The solution has been to unplug the dots — open up the shadow areas — by re-etching, cottoning, and other handwork.
ref:
1969, Book Production Industry - Volume 6; Volume 45, page 78
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide with cotton.
To supply with a cotton wick.
To provide with cotton.
To fill with a wad of cotton.
To provide with cotton.
To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.
To provide with cotton.
To cover walls with fabric.
To provide with cotton.
To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )
To provide with cotton.
To make or become cotton-like
To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.
To make or become cotton-like
To develop a porous, cottony texture.
To make or become cotton-like
To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.
To make or become cotton-like
To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.
To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.
To rub or burnish with cotton.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
|
9141 | word:
cotton
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cotton (third-person singular simple present cottons, present participle cottoning, simple past and past participle cottoned)
forms:
form:
cottons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cottoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
cottoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
cottoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
cotton
etymology_text:
1560s, either from Welsh cydun, cytun (“agree, coincide”) (cyduno, cytuno), from cyd, cyt + un (“one”), literally “to be at one with”, or by metaphor with the textile, as cotton blended well with other textiles, notably wool in hat-making.
senses_examples:
text:
I want to tell you the Dukes, both mother and son, are cottoning to her fast enough
ref:
1873, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, “Notes of Gold?”, in All the Year Round, page 286
type:
quotation
text:
The conference — Mr. Allen’s first gathering, and, depending on the economic outlook, maybe his last — brought together entrepreneurs, techies, writers and even some middle managers who’ve cottoned on to his ideas.
ref:
2009 March 21, Farhad Manjoo, “A Conference That Starts on Time and Stays on Schedule”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.
senses_topics:
|
9142 | word:
acalephan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acalephan (plural acalephans)
forms:
form:
acalephans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An acaleph.
senses_topics:
|
9143 | word:
exhaust
word_type:
verb
expansion:
exhaust (third-person singular simple present exhausts, present participle exhausting, simple past and past participle exhausted)
forms:
form:
exhausts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
exhausting
tags:
participle
present
form:
exhausted
tags:
participle
past
form:
exhausted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
exhaust
etymology_text:
From Latin exhaustus, past participle of exhaurīre (“to draw out, drink up, empty, exhaust”), from ex (“out”) + haurīre (“to draw (especially water), drain”).
senses_examples:
text:
The water was exhausted out of the well.
type:
example
text:
Moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
type:
example
text:
to exhaust a well
type:
example
text:
to exhaust a treasury
type:
example
text:
It takes approximately 8 to 9 minutes to exhaust the tank of air and fill it with water.
ref:
1922, Municipal Engineering and the Sanitary Record, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
My grandfather seemingly never exhausts his supply of bad jokes.
type:
example
text:
to exhaust one's resources
type:
example
text:
to exhaust all possibilities
type:
example
text:
You're exhausting my patience.
type:
example
text:
I exhausted my strength walking up the hill.
type:
example
text:
The marathon exhausted me.
type:
example
text:
It is a branch that climbs for 11½ miles into the picturesque Wealden hills until, apparently exhausted by the effort, it terminates a mile short of the village of Hawkhurst.
ref:
1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
That subject has already been fully exhausted.
type:
example
text:
to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether
type:
example
text:
Infections can be reduced further if outside air is exhausted after a single use, rather than re-circulated.
ref:
2013 November 18, Michael Phiri, Bing Chen, Sustainability and Evidence-Based Design in the Healthcare Estate, Springer Science & Business Media, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
They [the doors between two clean rooms] get connected, and then high-pressure air blasts out anything in between: all the outside atmosphere is exhausted by fresh, clean air.
ref:
2023 May 8, Tom Scott, The world's cleanest railway
type:
quotation
text:
Steam from both high pressure cylinders exhausts through the respective receiver pipes into cylinders.
ref:
1910, Walter Mason Camp, The Railway and Engineering Review, page 609
type:
quotation
text:
Figure 7.13e shows a 4/2 valve that normally has the pressure applied to output 4 while output 3 exhausts through the exhaust port. When activated, the pressure switches to output 3 while output 4 exhausts through the exhaust port.
ref:
2022 July 13, Alan Darbyshire, Charles Gibson, Mechanical Engineering, Taylor & Francis, page 16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely.
To empty by drawing or letting out the contents
To use up; to deplete, drain or expend wholly, or until the supply comes to an end
To tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy.
To discuss thoroughly or completely.
To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives.
To expel (as exhaust).
To discharge or escape (as exhaust).
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
9144 | word:
exhaust
word_type:
noun
expansion:
exhaust (plural exhausts)
forms:
form:
exhausts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
exhaust
etymology_text:
From Latin exhaustus, past participle of exhaurīre (“to draw out, drink up, empty, exhaust”), from ex (“out”) + haurīre (“to draw (especially water), drain”).
senses_examples:
text:
A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
ref:
1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 611
type:
quotation
text:
Travellers over the London & North Western main line in bygone days will need no reminder of the pattering of cinders on the carriage roofs, the fountains of sparks from the chimneys at night and the distance from which the exhaust of approaching locomotives could be heard, due to the fierceness of their blast in such conditions.
ref:
1962 June, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 399
type:
quotation
text:
If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the[…]hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.
ref:
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.
The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.
Exhaust gas.
senses_topics:
|
9145 | word:
exhaust
word_type:
adj
expansion:
exhaust (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
exhaust
etymology_text:
From Latin exhaustus, past participle of exhaurīre (“to draw out, drink up, empty, exhaust”), from ex (“out”) + haurīre (“to draw (especially water), drain”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exhausted; used up.
senses_topics:
|
9146 | word:
prefix
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prefix (plural prefixes)
forms:
form:
prefixes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French prefixer (verb) resp. Late Latin praefixum (noun), both from Latin praefixus, past participle of praefīgō (“I (fix, fasten, set up) in front”, “I fix on the (end, extremity)”) (from prae- (“before”) + fīgō (“I fix”, “I fasten”, “I affix”)), equivalent to pre- + -fix.
senses_examples:
text:
in the UK, a number with an 0800 prefix is a toll-free number.
type:
example
text:
Add the prefix +34 to dial a Spanish number from abroad
type:
example
text:
The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something placed before another
A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc.
Something placed before another
A set of digits placed before a telephone number, to indicate where the number is based, what type of phone number it is (landline, mobile, toll-free, premium rate etc.)
Something placed before another
A title added to a person's name, such as Mr. or Dr.
Something placed before another
An initial segment of a string of characters.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
9147 | word:
prefix
word_type:
verb
expansion:
prefix (third-person singular simple present prefixes, present participle prefixing, simple past and past participle prefixed)
forms:
form:
prefixes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
prefixing
tags:
participle
present
form:
prefixed
tags:
participle
past
form:
prefixed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French prefixer (verb) resp. Late Latin praefixum (noun), both from Latin praefixus, past participle of praefīgō (“I (fix, fasten, set up) in front”, “I fix on the (end, extremity)”) (from prae- (“before”) + fīgō (“I fix”, “I fasten”, “I affix”)), equivalent to pre- + -fix.
senses_examples:
text:
It is important to realize that pregivenness or prefixing is a kind of anteriority that does its work in the present; subjects and meanings in part emerge in enuciative co-constitutive moments.
ref:
2002, Thomas R. West, Signs of Struggle, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To determine beforehand; to set in advance.
To put or fix before, or at the beginning of something; to place at the start.
senses_topics:
|
9148 | word:
mountain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mountain (countable and uncountable, plural mountains)
forms:
form:
mountains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:mountain (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English mountayne, mountain, montaigne, from Anglo-Norman muntaine, muntaigne, from Early Medieval Latin montānia, a collective based on Latin montem (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *monti (compare Welsh mynydd (“mountain”), Albanian mat (“bank, shore”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬙𐬌 (mati, “promontory”)), from *men- (“to project, stick out”). Displaced native Old English beorg and dūn, and partially displaced non-native Old English munt, from Latin mōns (whence English mount).
senses_examples:
text:
Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
text:
We spent the weekend hiking in the mountains.
text:
Wherever a geologist directs his attention in the midst of a scene of mountains, traces of ruin and decay always meet his eye; and the lofty prominences of our globe, supposed to be the most permanent of nature's works, every where display unequivocal marks of the lapse and effects of time.
ref:
1807, Joseph Wilson, “Preliminary Observations”, in A History of Mountains, Geographical and Mineralogical, volume 1, London: Nicol, White, Faulders & Asperne, pages xlvi–xlvii
type:
quotation
text:
We walk’d together on the crown
Of a high mountain which look’d down
Afar from its proud natural towers
Of rock and forest, on the hills— […]
ref:
1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
type:
quotation
text:
He was a real mountain of a man, standing seven feet tall.
type:
example
text:
There's still a mountain of work to do.
type:
example
text:
Iraq says the mountain of documentation it has provided to the United Nations shows it is innocent of harbouring weapons of mass destruction. America continues to maintain that it has evidence that this is a pack of lies.
ref:
2002 December 9, “A Mountain of Lies?”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain, partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity.
ref:
2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Called on Courtenay, with whom I walked to Hampstead Heath, and got into excellent spirits, enjoying fine fresh air; then dined with him tête-a-tête on mutton broth and mackerel and drank mountain and old port moderately.
ref:
1785-1789, James Boswell, The English Experiment (diaries)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit.
Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap.
A difficult task or challenge.
Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain.
A woman's large breast.
The twenty-first Lenormand card.
senses_topics:
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences |
9149 | word:
bo
word_type:
intj
expansion:
bo
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Imitative.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
senses_topics:
|
9150 | word:
bo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bo (plural bos)
forms:
form:
bos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably a shortening of boy.
senses_examples:
text:
‘Never heard of him,’ he smiled. ‘On your way, bo.’
ref:
1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 255
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fellow, chap, boy.
senses_topics:
|
9151 | word:
bo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bo (plural bos)
forms:
form:
bos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bo (weapon)
etymology_text:
From Japanese 棒 (bō), from Middle Chinese 棒 (bˠʌŋ^X, “staff, club”) (compare modern Chinese 棒 (bàng)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A quarterstaff, especially in an oriental context.
senses_topics:
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
9152 | word:
stir
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stir (third-person singular simple present stirs, present participle stirring, simple past and past participle stirred)
forms:
form:
stirs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stirring
tags:
participle
present
form:
stirred
tags:
participle
past
form:
stirred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stiren, sturien, steren, from Old English styrian (“to be in motion, move, agitate, stir, disturb, trouble”), from Proto-Germanic *sturiz (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), related to Proto-West Germanic *staurijan (“to destroy, disturb”). Cognate with Old Norse styrr (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), German stören (“to disturb”), Dutch storen (“to disturb”).
senses_examples:
text:
She stirred the pudding with a spoon.
type:
example
text:
He stirred his coffee so the sugar wouldn't stay at the bottom.
type:
example
text:
My minde is troubled, like a Fountaine stir'd, / And I my selfe see not the bottome of it.
ref:
1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act III, scene 3
type:
quotation
text:
Would you please stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?
type:
example
text:
An Ate, stirring him to bloud and strife […]
ref:
c. 1595, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, act I, scene 2
type:
quotation
text:
The Soldiers love her Brother’s Memory; / And for her sake some Mutiny will stir.
ref:
c. 1670, John Dryden, Tyrannick Love, or the Royal Martyr, III.1
type:
quotation
text:
Preserue the rights of thy place, but stirre not questions of Iurisdiction : and rather assume thy right in silence, and de facto, then voice it with claimes, and challenges.
ref:
1613, Francis Bacon, chapter 8, in The Essaies, London
type:
quotation
text:
[…] notwithstanding the swelling of my Foot, so that I had never yet in five days been able to stir it, but as it was lifted.
ref:
1677, Sir William Temple, “An Essay upon the Cure of Gout by Moxa”, in Miscellanea. The First Part, London, published 1705, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
And especially if they happen to have any superior character or possessions in this world, they fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears[…]
ref:
1741, Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind
type:
quotation
text:
I had not strength to stir or strive, / But felt that I was still alive— […]
ref:
1816, Byron, The Prisoner of Chillon
type:
quotation
text:
That night he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst.
ref:
1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
type:
quotation
text:
Though as I said it, glibly, reassuringly, I knew that I lied, and a little snake of guilt stirred and began to uncoil slightly, guilt and its constant companion deceit.
ref:
1993, Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter, published 1999, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
All are not fit with them to stir and toil.
ref:
1818, Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto III, stanza LXIX
type:
quotation
text:
Meanwhile, the friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf.
ref:
1850, Charles Merivale, A History of the Romans under the Empire, volume 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
To emotionally affect; to touch, to move.
To incite to action.
To bring into debate; to agitate.
To disturb, to disrupt.
To change the place of in any manner; to move.
To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
senses_topics:
|
9153 | word:
stir
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)
forms:
form:
stirs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stiren, sturien, steren, from Old English styrian (“to be in motion, move, agitate, stir, disturb, trouble”), from Proto-Germanic *sturiz (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), related to Proto-West Germanic *staurijan (“to destroy, disturb”). Cognate with Old Norse styrr (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), German stören (“to disturb”), Dutch storen (“to disturb”).
senses_examples:
text:
Can you give the soup a little stir?
type:
example
text:
1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).
Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?
text:
Meantime, the train went on to Brighton without further incident. No small stir was caused by its arrival with No. 61 at its head, resplendent with "East London Line Special" head boards, which at once caught the eye of William Stroudley, who was observing the traffic working from his office window.
ref:
1951 May, J. Pelham Maitland, “A Memorable Run by a Brighton "Terrier"”, in Railway Magazine, page 347
type:
quotation
text:
When the long, hot journey drew to its end and the train slowed down for the last time, there was a stir in Jessamy’s carriage. People began to shake crumbs from their laps and tidy themselves up a little.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.
ref:
1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
senses_topics:
|
9154 | word:
stir
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)
forms:
form:
stirs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Romani stariben (“prison”), nominalisation of (a)star (“seize”), causative of ast (“remain”), probably from Sanskrit आतिष्ठति (ātiṣṭhati, “stand or remain by”), from तिष्ठति (tiṣṭhati, “stand”).
senses_examples:
text:
He's going to be spending maybe ten years in stir.
type:
example
text:
Sing Sing was a tough joint in those days, one of the five worst stirs in the United States.
ref:
1928, Jack Callahan, Man's Grim Justice: My Life Outside the Law, page 42
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Jail; prison.
senses_topics:
|
9155 | word:
Sabbath
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Sabbath (plural Sabbaths)
forms:
form:
Sabbaths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sabat, sabbat, sabath, from Old English sabat and Old French sabbat, both from Latin sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát, “Sabbath”), with the spelling ending in -th, probably influenced by the traditional transliteration of the Hebrew as shabbāth, being attested since the 14th century and widespread since the 16th. Doublet of Shabbat. Possibly from the Sumerian sa-bat ("mid-rest")
senses_examples:
text:
Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths. One such ointment was composed of Aconite, Belladonna, Water Parsley, Cinquefoil and Babies' Fat.
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
Around this conception was built up the notion of ritual devil-worship, involving the sabbath or nocturnal meeting at which the witches gathered to worship their master and to copulate with him.
ref:
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 419
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Friday evening to Saturday evening, observed in Judaism and some Christian denominations (such as the Coptic Orthodox Church) as a day of rest and worship.
Sunday, observed in most of Christianity as a day of rest and worship.
A meeting of witches. (Also called a witches' Sabbath, Shabbat, sabbat, or black Sabbath.)
Among the ancient Jews and Hebrews, the seventh year, when the land was left fallow.
uposatha day
senses_topics:
Buddhism
lifestyle
religion |
9156 | word:
organizer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
organizer (plural organizers)
forms:
form:
organizers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
organizer
etymology_text:
From organize + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
I'll add that meeting to my organizer.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who arranges the details of a public event.
A hand-held micro-computer that will perform specific tasks; can be used as an electronic diary, alarm clock, recorder of memos and notes, a portable database etc.
A non-electronic notebook or calendar or something similar, used to organize one's affairs.
A group of cells that, together with the evocator, control differentiation in the embryo; the inductor
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
medicine
sciences |
9157 | word:
therefor
word_type:
adv
expansion:
therefor (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Univerbation of there (“that”) + for
senses_examples:
text:
During the last fiscal year the Secretary purchased ... 54,355,748 ounces of silver and issued in payment therefor $51,106,608 in notes.
ref:
1892, Benjamin Harrison, Fourth State of the Union Address
type:
quotation
text:
Welcoming people from all over the world, Honolulu has the glad heart behind the "glad hand," so to speak, when the welcomees give cause therefor, whether they come to teach, or to learn; to rest, or to work; to earn, or to spend.
ref:
1922, Paradise of the Pacific, volume 35
type:
quotation
text:
If the action is adverse to the applicant law school, the action letter shall contain the Committee's specific reasons therefor.
ref:
1997 August, “Rules of procedure for approval of law schools by the American Bar Association.”, in ABA Journal, volume 83, number 8, pages 117–128
type:
quotation
text:
We emphasize that, contrary to repeated assertions in defendant's briefing, the trial court did not strike the true findings on those three prison term allegations, but struck only the punishment therefor, which was a statutorily permitted method of handling them.
ref:
2016, Elena J. Duarte, People v. Garner, 244 Cal. App. 4th 1113 (Cal. App. 3d Dist. 2016)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
For that; in return for that.
senses_topics:
|
9158 | word:
therefor
word_type:
adv
expansion:
therefor (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See therefore.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of therefore.
senses_topics:
|
9159 | word:
mal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mal (plural mals)
forms:
form:
mals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
French language
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French mal (“illness”). Doublet of malus.
senses_examples:
text:
a grand mal seizure
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
illness, affliction.
senses_topics:
|
9160 | word:
mal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mal (plural mals)
forms:
form:
mals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of malibu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A longboard (type of surfboard).
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing |
9161 | word:
mal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mal (plural mals)
forms:
form:
mals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of malleolus.
senses_examples:
text:
lateral mal
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A malleolus.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
9162 | word:
ripen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ripen (third-person singular simple present ripens, present participle ripening, simple past and past participle ripened)
forms:
form:
ripens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ripening
tags:
participle
present
form:
ripened
tags:
participle
past
form:
ripened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Ripening
etymology_text:
From Middle English *ripenen, extended form of ripen. In the modern form, equivalent to ripe + -en (inchoative and factitive suffix). As in several other verbs, the alteration seems to have occurred during the time when the infinitive and plural ending -en was in the process of being lost (and was thus open to reinterpretation). The earliest attestation is deverbal Middle English ripening (“causing ripeness, ripening”).
senses_examples:
text:
Grapes ripen in the sun.
type:
example
text:
[…] the desert soil of the Great Basin is as rich in the elements that in rainy regions rise and ripen into food as that of any other State in the Union.
ref:
1918, John Muir, chapter XII, in Steep Trails
type:
quotation
text:
The acquaintance soon ripened into a warm attachment.
ref:
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
The warm sun ripened the corn.
type:
example
text:
ripen the judgment
type:
example
text:
When Faith and Love which parted from thee never
Had ripen'd thy just soul to dwell with God
ref:
1673, John Milton, When Faith and Love which parted from thee never
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to grow ripe; to become mature (said of grain, fruit, flowers etc.)
To approach or come to perfection.
To cause (something) to mature; to make ripe
To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection
senses_topics:
|
9163 | word:
metal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
metal (countable and uncountable, plural metals)
forms:
form:
metals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
metal
etymology_text:
From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
senses_examples:
text:
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
ref:
2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884
type:
quotation
text:
Most of the matter in stars is hydrogen and helium, and the metals (including carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and so on) were cooked up inside stars.
ref:
2003, Michael A. Seeds, Astronomy: The Solar System and Beyond, Thomson Brooks/Cole
type:
quotation
text:
2008, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Geochemical Society, Oxygen in the solar system, Mineralogical Society of Amer →ISBN
Thus, for the remaining elements, including oxygen, the solid phase appears to be important. In fact, at a metallicity of Z=0.02, and with a gas-to-dust ratio of 100, about half of the metals — including oxygen — are contained in the solid phase.
text:
Metals include oxygen and carbon which means that water and organic molecules would have been abundant in the early universe, perhaps paving the way for the emergence of life within a couple of billion years of the Big Bang.
ref:
2015, Alan Longstaff, Astrobiology: An Introduction, CRC Press, page 350
type:
quotation
text:
One of the most important tasks was the metalling of the roads, and the dumping of metal beside them in parts where it was impossible to lay it, in order that work might commence with the assault. The surface of the roads was good, but only because the Division had been holding a front so wide, which made the traffic upon them relatively light.
ref:
1922, Falls Cyril, The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division, M'Caw, Stevenson and Orr, Ltd
type:
quotation
text:
We have American Airlines tickets, but it's on British Airways metal.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.
Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity.
Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.
Any material with similar physical properties, such as an alloy.
Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.
An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium.
Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.
Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.
The ore from which a metal is derived.
Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.
A mine from which ores are taken.
A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent (white or silver) and or (gold).
Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.
A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, heavy metal, etc.) characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
The substance that constitutes something or someone; matter; hence, character or temper.
The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
The rails of a railway.
The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.
senses_topics:
heading
heading
astronomy
heading
natural-sciences
heading
business
heading
mining
heading
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
entertainment
lifestyle
music
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel |
9164 | word:
metal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
metal (comparative more metal, superlative most metal)
forms:
form:
more metal
tags:
comparative
form:
most metal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
metal
etymology_text:
From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
senses_examples:
text:
The beast will destroy everything in his path
With this song on the upcoming brawl
It sure is a long one and tough to pronounce but
It's the most metal title of all
ref:
2008, Lich King, “Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast”, in Toxic Zombie Onslaught
type:
quotation
text:
Top tip: Bowling gloves are for sissies, although they look metal as fuck.
ref:
2012 August, “Tested Bowling Balls”, in Front, number 171, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
9165 | word:
metal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
metal (third-person singular simple present metals, present participle metaling or metalling, simple past and past participle metaled or metalled)
forms:
form:
metals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
metaling
tags:
participle
present
form:
metalling
tags:
participle
present
form:
metaled
tags:
participle
past
form:
metaled
tags:
past
form:
metalled
tags:
participle
past
form:
metalled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
metal
etymology_text:
From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.
senses_topics:
|
9166 | word:
l
word_type:
character
expansion:
l (lower case, upper case L, plural ls or l's)
forms:
form:
L
tags:
uppercase
form:
ls
tags:
plural
form:
l's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The twelfth letter of the English alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9167 | word:
l
word_type:
num
expansion:
l (lower case, upper case L)
forms:
form:
L
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number twelfth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9168 | word:
l
word_type:
noun
expansion:
l
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation.
# (stenoscript) the sound sequence /ɛl/.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of will.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of well.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of all.
# (stenoscript) the suffix -ly or word-final syllable /liː/.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: l.
text:
And where a barrister, in summing up the items proved before him as arbitrator, misadded them, and thereby by mistake omitted 23l. in favour of the plaintiff, the Court, even at the instance of the barrister, would not allow an amendment, the defendant's counsel objecting.
ref:
1837, Joseph Chitty, The Practice of the Law in All Its Principal Departments, page 116
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of litre/liter.
Abbreviation of pound (sterling), derived from Latin libra.
Abbreviation of leaf.
Abbreviation of line.
senses_topics:
law |
9169 | word:
l
word_type:
intj
expansion:
l
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of lol.
senses_topics:
|
9170 | word:
funnel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
funnel (plural funnels)
forms:
form:
funnels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
funnel
etymology_text:
From Middle English funell, fonel, probably through Old French *founel (compare Middle French fonel, Old Occitan fonilh, enfounilh), from Latin fundibulum, infundibulum (“funnel”), from infundere (“to pour in”);
in (“in”) + fundere (“to pour”); compare Breton founilh (“funnel”), Welsh ffynel (“air hole, chimney”). See fuse.
senses_examples:
text:
top of (the) funnel marketing ― awareness stage marketing
type:
example
text:
Then there's the funnel. Marketing usually spends most of their time at the top of the funnel with a quantity strategy. On the other hand, Sales spends their time trying to convert, accelerate, or close accounts that are in the middle or bottom of the funnel.
ref:
2019, Chris Golec, Peter Isaacson, Jessica Fewless, Account-Based Marketing: How to Target and Engage the Companies That Will Grow Your Revenue, John Wiley & Sons, page 41
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.
A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.
Ellipsis of purchase funnel: the process of customer acquisition conceptualized as a series of stages, from initial awareness (top) to sale or conversion (bottom).
Ellipsis of funnel cloud.
senses_topics:
business
marketing
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences |
9171 | word:
funnel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
funnel (third-person singular simple present funnels, present participle funnelling or funneling, simple past and past participle funnelled or funneled)
forms:
form:
funnels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
funnelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
funneling
tags:
participle
present
form:
funnelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
funnelled
tags:
past
form:
funneled
tags:
participle
past
form:
funneled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
funnel
etymology_text:
From Middle English funell, fonel, probably through Old French *founel (compare Middle French fonel, Old Occitan fonilh, enfounilh), from Latin fundibulum, infundibulum (“funnel”), from infundere (“to pour in”);
in (“in”) + fundere (“to pour”); compare Breton founilh (“funnel”), Welsh ffynel (“air hole, chimney”). See fuse.
senses_examples:
text:
Expect delays where the traffic funnels down to one lane.
type:
example
text:
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
A line of clocks in our cheap hotel displays the time in Lagos, Bucharest, Kiev: the capitals of pilgrims who come to kneel at the birthplace of Christ. In reality the entire world funnels through the Church of the Nativity.
text:
Our taxes are being funnelled into pointless government initiatives.
type:
example
text:
Like so many others, I was awestruck by the first season, which captured a moment in time and successfully funnelled its rage outwards at a world in which women are indeed silenced, controlled and killed by men.
ref:
2018 June 16, Fiona Sturges, “Cattleprods! Severed tongues! Torture porn! Why I’ve stopped watching the Handmaid’s Tale”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-02-05
type:
quotation
text:
The Soviet Union had a substantially larger land army, considerably larger than NATO and the U.S.,” Sharpless said. […]So, one strategy was to block various access routes and perhaps funnel them into an area where you could use larger weapons against them.
ref:
2019 January 7, Paul Srubas, “His job was to place atomic bombs. Place them, not drop them. Set the timer. Run like hell.”, in Green Bay Press-Gazette
type:
quotation
text:
He was alive to every creak and dunt, the thinness of the walls, as if the tenement block was a kind of aural panopticon that funnelled every sound to the other residents, let everyone eavesdrop on their business.
ref:
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
The first time he did it was to this freshman Kevin Ryers and we all just burst out laughing, watching Kevin try to funnel a beer.
ref:
2013, Jonathan Caren, The Recommendation, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use a funnel.
To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to condense or narrow.
To channel, direct, or focus (emotions, money, resources, etc.).
To consume (beer, etc.) rapidly through a funnel, typically as a stunt at a party.
senses_topics:
|
9172 | word:
funnel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
funnel (plural funnels)
forms:
form:
funnels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
funnel
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of fummel (“hybrid animal”)
senses_topics:
|
9173 | word:
corrigenda
word_type:
noun
expansion:
corrigenda
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of corrigendum
senses_topics:
|
9174 | word:
blood royal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blood royal (plural blood royals)
forms:
form:
blood royals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of a royal house or dynasty who has at least one parent who was born into that particular house or bloodline.
A royal family.
senses_topics:
|
9175 | word:
metrosexual
word_type:
noun
expansion:
metrosexual (plural metrosexuals)
forms:
form:
metrosexuals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
metrosexual
etymology_text:
Blend of metropolitan + heterosexual, equivalent to metro- + sexual. Coined by British writer Mark Simpson in 1994.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A man — typically urban, heterosexual, and affluent — who is concerned with personal appearance, such as personal grooming, fashion, and aesthetics in general.
A heterosexual man who is seen, sociologically, as having attributes common to homosexuals.
senses_topics:
|
9176 | word:
metrosexual
word_type:
adj
expansion:
metrosexual (comparative more metrosexual, superlative most metrosexual)
forms:
form:
more metrosexual
tags:
comparative
form:
most metrosexual
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
metrosexual
etymology_text:
Blend of metropolitan + heterosexual, equivalent to metro- + sexual. Coined by British writer Mark Simpson in 1994.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to a metrosexual or the metrosexual lifestyle.
senses_topics:
|
9177 | word:
synergy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
synergy (countable and uncountable, plural synergies)
forms:
form:
synergies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek συνεργία (sunergía, “cooperation”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”).
senses_examples:
text:
Depending on the initial condition of the system (initial alphabet and number of elements) the co-evolution of nested local and global hierarchies continues until the system reaches a maximum value of complexity. At least for nuclear systems a quantitative variable called "complexity" can be defined, which increases in an irreversible manner during stellar evolution (Winiwarter, 1983). This variable C is composed of an informational measure I describing the variety of the computed formulas and an energetic measure R describing the relative binding energy or "synergy" permitting the coherence of the system.
ref:
1986, John Andrew Dillon (Society for General Systems Research). Proceedings of the International Conference on Mental Images, Values, & Reality. Vol. 1, Intersystems Publications, p. D-7
text:
In short, synergy is the consequence of the energy expended in creating order. It is locked up in the viable system created, be it an organism or a social system. It is at the level of the system. It is not discernible at the level of the system. It is not discernible at the level of the system's components. Whenever the system is dismembered to examine its components, this binding energy dissipates. An ordered library offers systemic possibilities, such as rapid search, selection, and aggregation, that cannot be explained by looking at the books themselves. These possibilities only exist because of the investment made in defining and creating interrelations between the books, their physical arrangement and the catalogues.
ref:
2009, J.-C. Spender, “Organizational Knowledge, Collective Practice and Penrose Rents”, in Michael H. Zack, editor, Knowledge and Strategy, Routledge, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
the digestive synergy
text:
Others argued that the notion of a targeted war on a particular disease inevitably distracted from natural synergies with other areas of research.
ref:
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 187
type:
quotation
text:
Remember the eastern leg of HS2 being lopped back to the East Midlands? To this Yorkshireman, this was a tragedy. It removed the umbilical cord designed to connect and bind together the modern advanced manufacturing corridor of England (West Midlands-East Midlands-the reborn Sheffield-Leeds-Teesside-Tyneside), helping it to be capable of competing internationally through the synergy of skills and skilled people.
ref:
2024 February 7, Andrew McNaughton, “HS2: a truncated route cuts off city lifelines”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A synonym of binding energy.
The cooperation of two or more nerves, muscles, organs, etc.
The combined action of two or more drugs where the effects are stronger than their mere sum.
Benefits resulting from combining different groups, people, objects or processes.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
systems-theory
medicine
physiology
sciences
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
|
9178 | word:
power
word_type:
noun
expansion:
power (countable and uncountable, plural powers)
forms:
form:
powers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
power
etymology_text:
From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald.
senses_examples:
text:
On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines.
ref:
1950 September, “Network News: Watford Tunnel, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 641
type:
quotation
text:
If it is spirits who have power to suffer, it seems they would also have active powers to think and will.
ref:
2018, Marilyn McCord Adams, Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]
ref:
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
type:
quotation
text:
Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present.
ref:
1998, Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
type:
quotation
text:
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. [...] We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
ref:
1949, George Orwell [pseudonym; George Orwell], Nineteen Eighty-Four
type:
quotation
text:
In the face of expanding federal power, California in particular struggled to maintain control over its Chinese population.
ref:
2005 April, Columbia Law Review
type:
quotation
text:
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
ref:
2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
No matter how different we appear, we're all the same in our struggle against the powers of evil and darkness. I hope that this day will always be a day of joy in which we can reconfirm our dedication and our courage and more than anything else, our love for one another. This is the promise of the Tree of Life.
ref:
1978 November 17, 1:30:50 from the start, in The Star Wars Holiday Special (Science Fiction), spoken by Carrie Fisher, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
ref:
2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
The proportion of female colleagues in the Hsinchu County Government and its affiliated units has reached 61%. “Women Power” is the power behind over half of the services provided by the county government.
ref:
2022 March 8, “Magistrate Yang Wen-ke Sends Female Staff in Hsinchu County Government Roses for Their Contributions”, in HsinChu County Government, archived from the original on 2022-07-19
type:
quotation
text:
He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.
type:
example
text:
After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days.
type:
example
text:
My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. […]
ref:
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
type:
quotation
text:
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
We need a microscope with higher power.
type:
example
text:
She's a power shopper; she knows all the best deals.
type:
example
text:
Don't you mind my snuffling a little—becuz we're in a power of trouble.
ref:
1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It
type:
quotation
text:
the mechanical powers
type:
example
text:
The set I'm making right now needs a power on it, but we don't have any tractors left in the yard.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ability to do or undergo something.
The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
The ability to affect or influence.
The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
An influential nation, company, or other such body.
The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
An army, a military force.
The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
Effectiveness.
Physical force or strength.
Effectiveness.
Electricity or a supply of electricity.
Effectiveness.
A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
Effectiveness.
The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
Effectiveness.
A large amount or number.
Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
A tractor.
A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x×x×⋯×x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.
Cardinality.
The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
senses_topics:
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
mathematics
sciences
statistics
biblical
lifestyle
religion |
9179 | word:
power
word_type:
verb
expansion:
power (third-person singular simple present powers, present participle powering, simple past and past participle powered)
forms:
form:
powers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
powering
tags:
participle
present
form:
powered
tags:
participle
past
form:
powered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
power
etymology_text:
From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald.
senses_examples:
text:
This CD player is powered by batteries.
type:
example
text:
United keeper Edwin van der Sar was the unlikely provider as his clearance found Rooney, who had got ahead of last defender Richard Dunne, and the forward brilliantly controlled a ball coming from over his shoulder before powering a shot past Brad Friedel.
ref:
2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Abdul Sattar Edhi came to Karachi as a poor man from an Indian village in 1947. Starting with a small pharmacy tent, his work rapidly expanded, powered by donations from ordinary citizens.
ref:
2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
To hit or kick something forcefully.
To enable or provide the impetus for.
senses_topics:
|
9180 | word:
power
word_type:
adj
expansion:
power (comparative more power, superlative most power)
forms:
form:
more power
tags:
comparative
form:
most power
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
power
etymology_text:
From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald.
senses_examples:
text:
Check out the POWER Mee Rebus & Lontong in this newly established Nasi Padang coffee shop at Market Street Carpark.
ref:
2001, Thian, Makan Time
type:
quotation
text:
Their performance is very the Power!
ref:
2005, Bayya, Bayya Eats ... and Other Stuff
type:
quotation
text:
His hokkien is damn power lah!
ref:
2010, Caihong Lim, Kesheng Lim, Footprints All Over: Love, Happiness,Joy
type:
quotation
text:
Eh his soccer skills damn power one.
ref:
2015, SGMOJI, Your Ultimate Guide to Locally-Grown Emojis, archived from the original on 2016-03-04
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Impressive.
senses_topics:
|
9181 | word:
power
word_type:
intj
expansion:
power
forms:
wikipedia:
power
etymology_text:
From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
cheer used to express support
senses_topics:
|
9182 | word:
Wiktionarian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Wiktionarian (plural Wiktionarians)
forms:
form:
Wiktionarians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Wiktionary + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
An outside project called Omegawiki, started by a handful of Wiktionarians, is working on a grand combination of data from Wiktionary into a single dictionary for all languages.
ref:
2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, No Starch Press, page 430
type:
quotation
text:
Wiktionary contributors are called Wiktionarians.
ref:
2012, Sylviane Granger, Magali Paquot, editors, Electronic Lexicography, Oxford University Press, page 271
type:
quotation
text:
Wiktionary is compiled through a collaborative process by a large community of Web users, in this context called Wiktionarians.
ref:
2013, Robert Lew, “User-generated content (UGC) in online English dictionaries”, in OPAL - Online publizierte Arbeiten zur Linguistik, number § 5.1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who contributes to Wiktionary, especially a regular contributor versed in the ways of the site.
senses_topics:
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9183 | word:
p
word_type:
character
expansion:
p (lower case, upper case P, plural ps or p's)
forms:
form:
P
tags:
uppercase
form:
ps
tags:
plural
form:
p's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9184 | word:
p
word_type:
num
expansion:
p (lower case, upper case P)
forms:
form:
P
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number sixteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9185 | word:
p
word_type:
prep
expansion:
p
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of post, meaning after
Abbreviation of per.
Abbreviation of up.
senses_topics:
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9186 | word:
p
word_type:
noun
expansion:
p
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations
senses_examples:
text:
The 25p stamp shows an ultrasound image, the 35p stamp shows a magnetic resonance image and the 41p stamp shows an X-ray CT image.
ref:
2001, Steve Webb, Intensity-modulated radiation therapy
type:
quotation
text:
HD video may contain 720 or 1080 vertical progressive scan lines (720p or 1080p), 1080 interlaced lines (1080i), and is capable of displaying a 16:9 image and output digital audio.
ref:
2010, Benny Bing, 3D and HD Broadband Video Networking, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
I'll slurp all that p.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of p.; Abbreviation of page (plural pp)
Abbreviation of penny; pence.
proton
Abbreviation of progressive scan.
Methamphetamine
Abbreviation of piss (“urine”).
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
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9187 | word:
p
word_type:
verb
expansion:
p
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations
senses_examples:
text:
Knit 3, p 1, k 2, purl 1, k 2, m 1, k 2 together, k 1.
ref:
1855, Godey's Magazine, volume 51, page 71
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of purl.
senses_topics:
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles |
9188 | word:
p
word_type:
adv
expansion:
p (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations
senses_examples:
text:
I'm doing p good, how are you?
text:
There is no campaign, just a bunch of canned missions that have no relation to each other (and peole think SU27 is p bad!).
ref:
1995 November 8, Scott Morgan <s_morgandelphi.com>, "Re: F-18 Sim", message-ID <hZMk7Re.s_morgan@delphi.com>, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim, Usenet http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim/msg/8ebf7044a96c18e5
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of pretty (as an intensifier)
Alternative spelling of p.m. (“post meridiem”) or pm
senses_topics:
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9189 | word:
zoology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zoology (countable and uncountable, plural zoologies)
forms:
form:
zoologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
zoology
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ζῷον (zôion, “animal”) + λόγος (lógos, “knowledge”). By surface analysis, zoo- + -logy. Piecewise doublet of biology.
senses_examples:
text:
Meronyms: ethology, entomology
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The part of biology relating to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.
A treatise on this science.
senses_topics:
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9190 | word:
Kannada
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Kannada (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Kannada language
etymology_text:
From Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Dravidian language that is the official language of the state of Karnataka, India.
The alphasyllabary used to write the aforementioned language, along with Konkani and Tulu.
senses_topics:
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9191 | word:
yon
word_type:
det
expansion:
yon
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.
senses_examples:
text:
He went to climb yon hill.
type:
example
text:
"[…] Yet first let me close yonder shutters; the slanting rain is beating through the sash. I will bar up." "Are you mad? Know you not that yon iron bar is a swift conductor? Desist."
ref:
1856, Herman Melville, The Lightning Rod Man
type:
quotation
text:
"Do my eyes deceive me, or is yon object a Puddin'?" he cried.
ref:
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 158
type:
quotation
text:
His head... his head... his face... it wisnae there. Nae black curly hair, nae eyes - I've never seen eyes sae blue as Joe's. Irises blue as yon sky. Blown tae smithereens... his gorgeous, bonny head, no there.
ref:
2012 Spring, Gerda Stevenson, “Federer versus Murray”, in Salmagundi
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Distant, but within sight; (that thing) just over there.
senses_topics:
|
9192 | word:
yon
word_type:
adv
expansion:
yon (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
yonder.
senses_topics:
|
9193 | word:
yon
word_type:
pron
expansion:
yon
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.
senses_examples:
text:
As soon as old Andrew came home, his wife and he, as was natural, instantly began to converse on the events of the preceding night; and in the course of their conversation Andrew said, "Gudeness be about us' Jean, was not yon an awfu' speech o' our bairn's to young Jock Allanson last night?"
ref:
1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That one or those over there.
senses_topics:
|
9194 | word:
yon
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
yon
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Buttonhole row: (K1, p1) 3 times, yon, k2tog, (k1,p1) 5 times, yon, k2tog, […]
ref:
2006, Heather Dixon, Not Your Mama's Knitting, page 222
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of yarn over needle.
senses_topics:
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles |
9195 | word:
demur
word_type:
verb
expansion:
demur (third-person singular simple present demurs, present participle demurring, simple past and past participle demurred)
forms:
form:
demurs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
demurring
tags:
participle
present
form:
demurred
tags:
participle
past
form:
demurred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English demuren, from Anglo-Norman demorer (French demeurer), from Vulgar Latin demorō, Latin demoror (“to tarry”), from de- + moror (“to delay”). See alternative etymology in the Anglo-Norman ancestor.
senses_examples:
text:
Vpon this rubbe the English Embassadors thought fit to demurre
ref:
1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixth
type:
quotation
text:
Work with my hands out of doors was the only thing I felt I could bear to-day. It wasn't the first time, I reflected, that peace has been found among cabbages. / Antoine demurred, of course, but did at last consent to let me pick red currants.
ref:
1920, [Elizabeth von Arnim], In the Mountains, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 180
type:
quotation
text:
I demur to that statement.
type:
example
text:
The personnel demurred at the management's new scheme.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To linger; to stay; to tarry
To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair.
To scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk
To interpose a demurrer.
To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about
To cause delay to; to put off
senses_topics:
law
|
9196 | word:
demur
word_type:
noun
expansion:
demur (plural demurs)
forms:
form:
demurs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English demuren, from Anglo-Norman demorer (French demeurer), from Vulgar Latin demorō, Latin demoror (“to tarry”), from de- + moror (“to delay”). See alternative etymology in the Anglo-Norman ancestor.
senses_examples:
text:
Most geologists today would accept such evidence without demur, but it was still ‘fringe’ science when du Toit was publishing.
ref:
2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 132
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of hesitation as to proceeding; a scruple; also, a suspension of action or decision; a pause, a stop.
senses_topics:
|
9197 | word:
waffle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
waffle (plural waffles)
forms:
form:
waffles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is borrowed from Dutch wafel (“waffle; wafer”), from Middle Dutch wafel, wafele, wavel, from Old Dutch *wāvila, from Proto-Germanic *wēbilǭ, *wēbilō, possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”) (whence Dutch weven (“to weave”) and English weave), and possibly reinforced by German Waffel (“waffle; wafer”). The English word is a doublet of wafer and gauffre.
The verb (“to smash”) derives from the manner in which batter is pressed into the shape of a waffle between the two halves of a waffle iron.
senses_examples:
text:
The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.
type:
example
text:
Both joists and slab are cast in place to form a monolithic unit, integral with the supporting beams and columns. The joists form a characteristic waffle pattern on the underside. Structural design of joist construction: one-way or waffle flat slab […]
ref:
1970, Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute, Manual of Standard Practice
type:
quotation
text:
The most widely used type of waffle construction is the waffle flat slab, in which solid portions around column supports are […] These beams may be produced as projections below the waffle, as shown […]
ref:
1993, Harry Parker, James Ambrose, Simplified Engineering for Architects and Builders
type:
quotation
text:
In one-way (pan joist) and two-way (waffle) joist construction, a similar layout is usually adopted.
ref:
2008, Edward G. Nawy, Concrete Construction Engineering Handbook, CRC Press, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
senses_topics:
business
construction
manufacturing
business
manufacturing
textiles |
9198 | word:
waffle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
waffle (third-person singular simple present waffles, present participle waffling, simple past and past participle waffled)
forms:
form:
waffles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
waffling
tags:
participle
present
form:
waffled
tags:
participle
past
form:
waffled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is borrowed from Dutch wafel (“waffle; wafer”), from Middle Dutch wafel, wafele, wavel, from Old Dutch *wāvila, from Proto-Germanic *wēbilǭ, *wēbilō, possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”) (whence Dutch weven (“to weave”) and English weave), and possibly reinforced by German Waffel (“waffle; wafer”). The English word is a doublet of wafer and gauffre.
The verb (“to smash”) derives from the manner in which batter is pressed into the shape of a waffle between the two halves of a waffle iron.
senses_examples:
text:
The cab was waffled in between the two, Marsh never having a prayer or even a full comprehension of what happened to him. He was crushed flat, never even hearing the deafening screech of metal.
ref:
1995, Peter Allen David, The Incredible Hulk: What savage beast
type:
quotation
text:
These were not the Cowboys who were waffled, 45–14, here at mid-season. They came prepared to play a championship football game, with an ultra-conservative game plan suited to the horrendous turf conditions, and came close to pulling it off …
ref:
1997, Bill Conlin, Kevin Kerrane (editor), "Batting cleanup, Bill Conlin", page 121
text:
Then I waffled him and knocked him down. Why I cut myself open with the razor, I'm not completely sure. I was like the idiot in a bar who gets all worked up and smashes a bottle over his head [...]
ref:
2005, Shawn Michaels, with Aaron Feigenbaum, Heartbreak & Triumph: The Shawn Michaels Story, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
Bednarik, however, says the play became legendary only because of the circumstances. "I did it [...] to the top honcho. He just happened to be there and the pass was thrown to him. I waffled him cleanly." [...] "He just cold-cocked Frank," said linebacker Bob Pellegrini, whose injury sent Bednarik into the game to play defense.
ref:
2006, Gordon Forbes, Tales from the Eagles Sideline, updated edition, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To smash (something).
senses_topics:
|
9199 | word:
waffle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
waffle (third-person singular simple present waffles, present participle waffling, simple past and past participle waffled)
forms:
form:
waffles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
waffling
tags:
participle
present
form:
waffled
tags:
participle
past
form:
waffled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Oxford English Dictionary
etymology_text:
The verb is borrowed from Scots waffle (“to waver, flap, flutter”), from waff (“to wag, wave; to flap, flutter”) + -le (diminutive or frequentative suffix). Waff is derived from Early Scots waff (“signal; gust of wind; glimpse; a flapping, waving”), from Northern Middle English wafe, waffe, a variant of waven (“to move to and fro, sway; to stray, wander; (figuratively) to follow a weaving course; (figuratively) to vacillate, waver; to move something to and fro, wave”) (whence wave), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (“to sway; to wander”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”).
Regarding sense 5 (“to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point”), compare Old English wæflian (“to talk foolishly”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *babalōną (“to babble, chatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰā- (“to say”) and/or Proto-Indo-European *baba- (“to talk vaguely; to mumble”). The Oxford English Dictionary does not derive the English word waffle from this Old English word. Compare also Dutch wauwelen (“to linger, waffle, jabber, gab, chat”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
Again the answer was "waffled," for this did not say that no air units had been alerted. Only that none had been "identified." Moreover, the reply concerned air "unit[s]" as opposed to "air craft".
ref:
1970, John Galloway, The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
The geese waffled as they approached the water.
type:
example
text:
I waffled between going to the deposition and going to the doctor's. Wishing Barbara was there, I decided to call the doctor afterward.
ref:
2011, Tony Hefner, Between the Fences
type:
quotation
text:
But as Germany struggles to overcome its post-World War II reluctance to lead on security matters in Europe and set aside its instinct to accommodate rather than confront Russia, Europe’s most pivotal country has waffled in the first crucial test for the new government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
ref:
2022 January 25, Katrin Bennhold, “Where Is Germany in the Ukraine Standoff? Its Allies Wonder.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Brockman to return, but has since waffled — missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to resign.
ref:
2023 November 18, Nilay Patel, “OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO”, in The Verge
type:
quotation
text:
Unless you have a great line in gags or repartee don't waffle on aimlessly to your audience, or make in-jokes among yourselves, the band or the compere/DJ.
ref:
1976, Tony Hatch, So you want to be in the music business, Everest Books, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
Before getting down to the nitty gritty of beekeeping, most contributors to BBJ like to waffle on for a bit about the weather, the state of their garden or something equally inconsequential.
ref:
1984, “Apiary Antics- No.5”, in British bee journal, volumes 112-113, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
She waffled on for ages. Usually I'd say something smart or make it obvious that I wasn't interested and couldn't be bothered listening.
ref:
2005, Bill Condon, No Worries, Univ. of Queensland Press, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
The whole thing ended suddenly when the hotel manager arrived. He waffled on for a bit; this settled everyone down.
ref:
2006, Carl Storm, A Mighty Fine Way to Live and Die, Backstrap Ltd, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
“[…] You get anything useful on the background checks?” / He waffled his hand. “Nothing like what you brought back, but still some interesting notes.[…]”
ref:
2007, Michael Koryta, Sorrow’s Anthem, Macmillan, page 146
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
road
transport
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