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9200 | word:
waffle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
waffle (uncountable)
forms:
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:
This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
(Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
senses_topics:
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9201 | 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:
Possibly from waff (“(dialectal) to bark, woof”) (imitative of a dog’s yelp) + -le (diminutive or frequentative suffix).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
senses_topics:
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9202 | word:
waffle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
waffle (plural waffles)
forms:
form:
waffles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly from waff (“(dialectal) to bark, woof”) (imitative of a dog’s yelp) + -le (diminutive or frequentative suffix).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
senses_topics:
|
9203 | word:
Asia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Asia (countable and uncountable, plural Asias)
forms:
form:
Asias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
67 Asia
Asia
Asia (mythology)
United Nations Statistics Division
etymology_text:
From Middle English Asia, Asie, from Old French Asie and Latin Asia, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Asíā), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 (a-si-wi-ja /aswijaː/), in turn probably from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (aš-šu-wa /Aššuwa/, “northwest Anatolia”) of uncertain origin. Potentially from an Aegean language family substrate or Akkadian. Possibly a doublet of Assuwa.
senses_examples:
text:
And Scott Haskell started going out with this sophomore girl called Asia, who was this rich girl from Weston Heights.
ref:
1994, Blake Nelson, Girl: A Novel, Simon&Schuster, page 81
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A continent located east of Europe (typically delimited by the Urals), west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.
A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan, Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
67 Asia, a main belt asteroid.
A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage.
An ancient province of the Roman Empire, in modern western Turkey.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
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9204 | word:
Asia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
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9205 | word:
cryptography
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cryptography (usually uncountable, plural cryptographies)
forms:
form:
cryptographies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From crypto- + -graphy.
senses_examples:
text:
We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven.
ref:
1658, Sir Thomas Browne (first use in English)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The discipline concerned with communication security (eg, confidentiality of messages, integrity of messages, sender authentication, non-repudiation of messages, and many other related issues), regardless of the used medium such as pencil and paper or computers.
senses_topics:
|
9206 | word:
charade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
charade (plural charades)
forms:
form:
charades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French charade, charrade (“prattle, idle conversation; a kind of riddle”), probably from Occitan charrada (“conversation; chatter”), from charrar (“to chat; to chatter”) + -ada. As a round of the game, originally a clipping of acting charade but now usually understood and formed as a back-formation from charades.
senses_examples:
text:
CHARADE, a trifling species of composition, or quasi-literary form of amusement, which may perhaps be best defined as a punning enigma propounded in a series of descriptions. A word is taken of two or more syllables, each forming a distinct word; each of these is described in verse or prose, as aptly and enigmatically as possible; and the same process is applied to the whole word. The neater and briefer the descriptive parts of the problem, the better the charade will be. In selecting words for charades, special attention should be paid to the absolute quality of the syllables composing them, inaccuracy in trifles of this sort depriving them of what little claim to merit they may possess. The brilliant rhythmic trifles of W. Mackworth Praed are well known. Of representative prose charades, the following specimens are perhaps as good as could be selected:—“My first, with the most rooted antipathy to a Frenchman, prides himself, whenever they meet, upon sticking close to his jacket; my second has many virtues, nor is its least that it gives its name to my first; my whole may I never catch!” “My first is company; my second shuns company; my third collects company; and my whole amuses company.” The solutions are Tar-tar and Co-nun-drum.
ref:
1878, "Charade" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, p. 398
text:
...The most popular form of this amusement is the acted charade, in which the meaning of the different syllables is acted out on the stage, the audience being left to guess each syllable and thus, combining the meaning of all the syllables, the whole word. A brilliant example of the acted charade is described in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.
ref:
1911, "Charade" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., Vol. V, p. 856
text:
This whole charade is absurd.
type:
example
text:
The woman lying dead in the morgue was the woman at the party. Well, Victor, maybe I'm missing something here. You call it fake, a charade… Do you mind telling me what kind of fuckin' charade ends up with somebody turning up dead?
ref:
1999, Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut (motion picture), spoken by Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole.
A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.
A play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting.
A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
|
9207 | word:
charade
word_type:
verb
expansion:
charade (third-person singular simple present charades, present participle charading, simple past and past participle charaded)
forms:
form:
charades
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
charading
tags:
participle
present
form:
charaded
tags:
participle
past
form:
charaded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French charade, charrade (“prattle, idle conversation; a kind of riddle”), probably from Occitan charrada (“conversation; chatter”), from charrar (“to chat; to chatter”) + -ada. As a round of the game, originally a clipping of acting charade but now usually understood and formed as a back-formation from charades.
senses_examples:
text:
I'm not trying to say: let's try to get away from power rituals because power manifestation is a very important part of sex. It is when it takes the form of charading gay punishment, punishing one of our own in order to allow him a gay contact.
ref:
1977 April 30, David Holland, John Rechy, “The Politics of 'The Sexual Outlaw'”, in Gay Community News, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
She flaps her hands and arms, eyes glaring, head shaking – charading Non, non, NON!
ref:
2015, Graeme Fife, Tour de France: The History, The Legend, The Riders
type:
quotation
text:
Private, wholesome family time could no longer charade as being either private or wholly wholesome.
ref:
2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act out a charade (of); to gesture; to pretend.
senses_topics:
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9208 | word:
acalycinous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acalycinous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acalycine.
senses_topics:
|
9209 | word:
smart ass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
smart ass (plural smart asses)
forms:
form:
smart asses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person regarded with an obnoxiously determined advancement of one's own personality, wishes, or views.
senses_topics:
|
9210 | word:
door
word_type:
noun
expansion:
door (plural doors)
forms:
form:
doors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Door (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur, from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“doorway, door, gate”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish and Norwegian dør (“door”), Icelandic dyr (“door”), Latin foris and foras, Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra), Albanian derë pl. dyer, Central Kurdish دەرگە (derge), derî, Persian در (dar), Russian дверь (dverʹ), Hindi द्वार (dvār), Armenian դուռ (duṙ), Irish doras, Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra), Lithuanian durys.
senses_examples:
text:
I knocked on the vice president's door
type:
example
text:
the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
type:
example
text:
Learning is the door to wisdom.
type:
example
text:
to leave the door open
type:
example
text:
all doors are open to somebody
type:
example
text:
Keep a door on your anger.
type:
example
text:
The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold it closed, and a lock that ensures it cannot be opened without a key.
Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
An entry point.
A means of approach or access.
A possibility.
A barrier.
A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
The proceeds from entrance fees and/or ticket sales at a venue such as a bar or nightclub, especially in relation to portion paid to the entertainers.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
9211 | word:
door
word_type:
verb
expansion:
door (third-person singular simple present doors, present participle dooring, simple past and past participle doored)
forms:
form:
doors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dooring
tags:
participle
present
form:
doored
tags:
participle
past
form:
doored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Door (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur, from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“doorway, door, gate”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish and Norwegian dør (“door”), Icelandic dyr (“door”), Latin foris and foras, Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra), Albanian derë pl. dyer, Central Kurdish دەرگە (derge), derî, Persian در (dar), Russian дверь (dverʹ), Hindi द्वार (dvār), Armenian դուռ (duṙ), Irish doras, Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra), Lithuanian durys.
senses_examples:
text:
He [Pete Karageorgos] said cyclists who are doored are entitled to claim accident benefits from the driver's insurer if they aren't covered by a policy of their own.
ref:
2019 December 15, Ben Spurr, “How an Ontario rule stops 'doored' cyclists from getting drivers' insurance info”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-04-27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
senses_topics:
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
9212 | word:
log in
word_type:
verb
expansion:
log in (third-person singular simple present logs in, present participle logging in, simple past and past participle logged in)
forms:
form:
logs in
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
logging in
tags:
participle
present
form:
logged in
tags:
participle
past
form:
logged in
tags:
past
wikipedia:
MIT Computation Center
log in
etymology_text:
By analogy with clock in. First use of the term appears in 1963 in the publication Compatible Time-Sharing System from the MIT Computation Center.
senses_examples:
text:
I would like to log in to check my e-mail, but I can't remember my password.
type:
example
text:
Their cover version of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Turn On Your Love Light" logged in at number 80 in 1968.
ref:
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 209
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.
To be placed at a certain ranking.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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9213 | word:
ring
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ring (plural rings)
forms:
form:
rings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rank and rink.
cognates
* West Frisian ring
* Low German Ring
* Dutch ring
* German Ring
* Swedish ring
* Finnish rengas
senses_examples:
text:
a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood
type:
example
text:
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
ref:
1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick
type:
quotation
text:
onion rings
type:
example
text:
Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites.
ref:
2002, Feroz Khan, Information Society in Global Age, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.
ref:
1707, Edmund Smith, Phaedra and Hippolitus
type:
quotation
text:
a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)
type:
example
text:
the ruling ring at Constantinople
ref:
1877, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England
type:
quotation
text:
It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot.
ref:
1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston
type:
quotation
text:
In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.
ref:
2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
a benzene ring
type:
example
text:
The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties
ref:
1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
Kernel Mode processes run in ring 0, and User Mode processes run in ring 3.
ref:
2007, Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation, page 70
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A solid object in the shape of a circle.
A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
A solid object in the shape of a circle.
A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
A solid object in the shape of a circle.
A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
A solid object in the shape of a circle.
A burner on a kitchen stove.
A solid object in the shape of a circle.
In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
A solid object in the shape of a circle.
An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
A solid object in the shape of a circle.
A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
A group of objects arranged in a circle.
A circular group of people or objects.
A group of objects arranged in a circle.
A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
A group of objects arranged in a circle.
A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
Short for webring.
A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
media
publishing
typography
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences |
9214 | word:
ring
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past and past participle ringed)
forms:
form:
rings
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ringing
tags:
participle
present
form:
ringed
tags:
participle
past
form:
ringed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rank and rink.
cognates
* West Frisian ring
* Low German Ring
* Dutch ring
* German Ring
* Swedish ring
* Finnish rengas
senses_examples:
text:
The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
type:
example
text:
Today, when stepping off the train, you're presented with a bright and airy concourse that's ringed with a variety of facilities.
ref:
2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
type:
example
text:
The ironbark trees are "rung" at a certain height top and bottom, and the bark detached in one sheet; it is then wetted, and laid out flat on the ground, huge stones being placed to keep it from rolling up again.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
type:
example
text:
Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.
ref:
1919, Popular Science, volume 95, number 4, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
to ring a pig’s snout
type:
example
text:
A. Woodley, Trio: 3 short stories
Gabe said that as Derry had only caught part of the conversation, it's possible that they were discussing a film, it was bad enough that they'd unwittingly been brought into ringing cars, adding drugs into it was far more than either of them could ever be comfortable with.
text:
They used two bases in Digbeth to break down luxury motors, some of which were carjacked or stolen after keys were taken in house raids. The parts were then fitted to salvaged cars bought online. […] Jailing the quartet, a judge at Birmingham Crown Court said it was a "car ringing on a commercial and substantial scale".
ref:
2019 (10 December), Ross McCarthy, Digbeth chop shop gang jailed over £2m stolen car racket (in Birmingham Live) https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/digbeth-chop-shop-gang-jailed-17393456
text:
‘I was ringing for your dad out there at Haddon Hill the year you was born. It was a good year for calves.’
ref:
2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 289
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To enclose or surround.
To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
To rise in the air spirally.
To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
To ride around (a group of animals, especially catle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
senses_topics:
falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
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9215 | word:
ring
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ring (plural rings)
forms:
form:
rings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ringen, from Old English hrinġan (“to ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringijaną. Cognate with Dutch ringen, Swedish ringa. Of imitative origin.
senses_examples:
text:
The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
type:
example
text:
The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.
type:
example
text:
The name has a nice ring to it.
type:
example
text:
Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.
type:
example
text:
I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
type:
example
text:
St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
A pleasant or correct sound.
A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
A telephone call.
Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
senses_topics:
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9216 | word:
ring
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past rang or (nonstandard) rung, past participle rung)
forms:
form:
rings
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ringing
tags:
participle
present
form:
rang
tags:
past
form:
rung
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
rung
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ringen, from Old English hrinġan (“to ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringijaną. Cognate with Dutch ringen, Swedish ringa. Of imitative origin.
senses_examples:
text:
The bells were ringing in the town.
type:
example
text:
The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
type:
example
text:
They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.
type:
example
text:
Whose mobile phone is ringing?
type:
example
text:
That does not ring true.
type:
example
text:
I will ring you when we arrive.
type:
example
text:
It is instructive for us to learn as well as to ponder on the fact that "the very men who looked down with delight, when the sand of the arena reddened with human blood, made the arena ring with applause when Terence in his famous line: ‘Homo sum, Nihil humani alienum puto’ proclaimed the brotherhood of man."
ref:
1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress
type:
quotation
text:
The checkout girl rang it into his total, and he paid the bill.
ref:
1983, T.C. Knudsen, John Hempstead, A Man's Guide to Women
type:
quotation
text:
On presentation of the item at the checkout the original price sticker was concealed from the checkout assistant and a sticker of $38.88 exhibited on the item. The checkout operator rang on the lesser sum, a mistake known to Dronjak. He was subsequently charged with theft.
ref:
1990, The New Zealand Law Reports - Volume 3, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
. The new cashier rang something twice and had to call for the manager to fix the register.
ref:
2011, Tracy E Whipple, A Friend's Last Gift, page 88
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
To produce (a sound) by ringing.
To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
To telephone (someone).
to resound, reverberate, echo.
To produce music with bells.
To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
senses_topics:
|
9217 | word:
ring
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ring (plural rings)
forms:
form:
rings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
David Hilbert
Eric Temple Bell
etymology_text:
From a shortening of German Zahlring (“number(s) ring”) (coined by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1892). Apparently first used in English in 1930, E. T. Bell, “Rings whose elements are ideals,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.
senses_examples:
text:
The set of integers, #x5C;mathbb#x7B;Z#x7D;, is the prototypical ring.
type:
example
text:
The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set 2#x5C;mathbb#x7B;Z#x7D; of even integers to be a ring.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
senses_topics:
algebra
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences |
9218 | word:
ring
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ring (plural rings)
forms:
form:
rings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ring of sets
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
senses_topics:
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
measure-theory
sciences
mathematics
order-theory
sciences |
9219 | word:
Webster
word_type:
name
expansion:
Webster (countable and uncountable, plural Websters)
forms:
form:
Websters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Webster
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a weaver.
Any of various dictionaries published under the name Webster.
Nickname for a person who is a walking dictionary.
A placename
A locality in the County of Grande Prairie, No. 1, north-west Alberta, Canada.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of San Diego, California.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Yolo County, California.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Sumter County, Florida.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hancock County, Illinois.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Wayne County, Indiana.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Keokuk County, Iowa.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Madison County, Iowa.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Sabattus, Maine.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Rice County, Minnesota.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Dodge County, Nebraska.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A town and village therein, in Monroe County, New York.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Jackson County, North Carolina.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ramsey County, North Dakota.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Darke County, Ohio.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Putnam County, Ohio.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A small city, the county seat of Day County, South Dakota.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Harris County, Texas.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Taylor County, West Virginia.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Burnett County, Wisconsin.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
A placename
Ellipsis of Webster City.
A placename
Ellipsis of Webster County.
A placename
Ellipsis of Webster Parish.
senses_topics:
|
9220 | word:
where
word_type:
conj
expansion:
where
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wher, from Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (interrogative pronoun).
senses_examples:
text:
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
ref:
2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
I've forgotten where I was in this book, but it was probably around chapter four.
type:
example
text:
I hardly knew where I was going.
type:
example
text:
Stay where you are.
type:
example
text:
Go back where you came from.
type:
example
text:
Let's go where it's warmer.
type:
example
text:
Please sit where you like.
type:
example
text:
Their job is to go where they are called.
type:
example
text:
You cannot be too careful where explosives are involved.
type:
example
text:
Where no provision under this Act is applicable, the case shall be decided in accordance with the customary practices.
type:
example
text:
July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
text:
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
ref:
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Where Susy has trouble coloring inside the lines, Johnny has already mastered shading.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In, at or to which place or situation.
In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).
In, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere.
In a position, case, etc. in which; if.
While on the contrary; although; whereas.
senses_topics:
|
9221 | word:
where
word_type:
adv
expansion:
where (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wher, from Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (interrogative pronoun).
senses_examples:
text:
Where did you come from?
type:
example
text:
Where are you off to?
type:
example
text:
Where are you at? (informal)
type:
example
text:
Where you at?
type:
example
text:
Where you going?
type:
example
text:
Where are you?
type:
example
text:
Where are you going?
type:
example
text:
He asked where I grew up.
type:
example
text:
Where would we be without our parents?
type:
example
text:
This is the place where we first met.
type:
example
text:
He is looking for a house where he can have a complete office.
type:
example
text:
That's the place where we went on holiday.
type:
example
text:
Here's a picture of York, where I was born. (non-defining)
type:
example
text:
He lives within five miles of where he was born.
type:
example
text:
This is a photo of where I went on holiday.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question: in, at or to what place.
What place.
Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question: in, at or to what place.
where are.
Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question: in, at or to what place.
In what situation.
In, at or to which.
The place in, at or to which.
senses_topics:
|
9222 | word:
where
word_type:
noun
expansion:
where (plural wheres)
forms:
form:
wheres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wher, from Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (interrogative pronoun).
senses_examples:
text:
A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The place in which something happens.
senses_topics:
|
9223 | word:
by
word_type:
prep
expansion:
by
forms:
wikipedia:
by
etymology_text:
From Middle English by, bi, from Old English bī (“by; near; around”), from Proto-West Germanic *bī, from Proto-Germanic *bi (“near; by; around; about”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.
Cognate with West Frisian by (“by; near”), Afrikaans by (“at; by; near”), Saterland Frisian bie (“near; by”), Dutch bij (“near; by”), German Low German bi (“by; near; at”), German bei (“by; near; at”).
senses_examples:
text:
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
type:
example
text:
The stream runs by our back door.
type:
example
text:
He ran straight by me.
type:
example
text:
Be back by ten o'clock!.
type:
example
text:
We'll find someone by the end of March.
type:
example
text:
We will send it by the first week of July.
type:
example
text:
The matter was decided by the chairman.
type:
example
text:
The boat was swamped by the water.
type:
example
text:
He was protected by his body armour.
type:
example
text:
Valencia threatened sporadically in the first half with Miguel having a decent effort deflected wide by Ashley Cole, while Jordi Alba's near-post cross was flicked into the sidenetting by Pablo Hernandez.
ref:
2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
There was a call by the unions for a 30% pay rise.
text:
I was aghast by what I saw.
text:
In other directions the fields and sky were so much of one colour by the snow that it was difficult in a hasty glance to tell whereabouts the horizon occurred […].
ref:
1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p.109
text:
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
type:
example
text:
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
type:
example
text:
By Pythagoras' theorem, we can calculate the length of the hypotenuse.
type:
example
text:
We went by bus.
type:
example
text:
I discovered it by chance.
type:
example
text:
By 'maybe' she means 'no'.
type:
example
text:
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
type:
example
text:
Players: Can we get there by candlelight? ¶ Gatekeepers: Yes and back again.
ref:
1945, Neva L. Boyd, Handbook of Recreational Games, Dover, published 1975, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
By the light of the moon, / by the light of a star / they walked all night
ref:
1960, Dr. Seuss, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
type:
quotation
text:
By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
type:
example
text:
By Jove! I think she's got it!
type:
example
text:
By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
type:
example
text:
'By my soul! I believe something bad has happened me,' he muttered, and popped up his window, and looked out, half dreaming over the church-yard on the park beyond […]
ref:
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
type:
quotation
text:
I sorted the items by category.
type:
example
text:
Table 1 shows details of our employees broken down by sex and age.
type:
example
text:
Our stock is up by ten percent.
type:
example
text:
His date of birth was wrong by ten years.
type:
example
text:
We went through the book page by page.
type:
example
text:
We crawled forward by inches.
type:
example
text:
sold by the yard; cheaper if bought by the gross
text:
He drinks brandy by the bucketful!
type:
example
text:
His health was deteriorating by the day.
type:
example
text:
The pickers are paid by the bushel.
type:
example
text:
He cheated by his own admission.
type:
example
text:
By my reckoning, we should be nearly there.
type:
example
text:
Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.
ref:
1722, William Wollaston, “Sect. V. Truths relating to the Deity. Of his exiſtence, perfection, providence, &c.”, in The Religion of Nature Delineated, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix.
type:
example
text:
The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot.
type:
example
text:
The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
type:
example
text:
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Near or next to.
From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.
Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).
Indicates the person or thing that does or causes something: Through the action or presence of.
Following a passive verb.
Indicates the person or thing that does or causes something: Through the action or presence of.
Following a noun.
Indicates the person or thing that does or causes something: Through the action or presence of.
Following an adjective.
Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.
Indicates an authority according to which something is done.
Indicates an authority according to which something is done.
Invokes an authority in an oath.
Indicates a means of classification or organisation.
Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy
In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
Acted on in units of the specified size or measure. (Sometimes hyperbolically)
per; with or in proportion to each.
Indicates a referenced source: According to.
Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
senses_topics:
|
9224 | word:
by
word_type:
adv
expansion:
by (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
by
etymology_text:
From Middle English by, bi, from Old English bī (“by; near; around”), from Proto-West Germanic *bī, from Proto-Germanic *bi (“near; by; around; about”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.
Cognate with West Frisian by (“by; near”), Afrikaans by (“at; by; near”), Saterland Frisian bie (“near; by”), Dutch bij (“near; by”), German Low German bi (“by; near; at”), German bei (“by; near; at”).
senses_examples:
text:
I watched as it passed by.
type:
example
text:
There was a shepherd close by.
type:
example
text:
I'll stop by on my way home from work.
type:
example
text:
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
type:
example
text:
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Along a path which runs past the speaker.
In the vicinity, near.
To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
aside, away
senses_topics:
|
9225 | word:
by
word_type:
adj
expansion:
by (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
by
etymology_text:
From Middle English by, bi, from Old English bī (“by; near; around”), from Proto-West Germanic *bī, from Proto-Germanic *bi (“near; by; around; about”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.
Cognate with West Frisian by (“by; near”), Afrikaans by (“at; by; near”), Saterland Frisian bie (“near; by”), Dutch bij (“near; by”), German Low German bi (“by; near; at”), German bei (“by; near; at”).
senses_examples:
text:
a by path, a by room
text:
by catch, a by issue
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Out of the way, off to one side.
Subsidiary, incidental.
senses_topics:
|
9226 | word:
by
word_type:
noun
expansion:
by (plural bys)
forms:
form:
bys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
by
etymology_text:
From Middle English by, bi, from Old English bī (“by; near; around”), from Proto-West Germanic *bī, from Proto-Germanic *bi (“near; by; around; about”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.
Cognate with West Frisian by (“by; near”), Afrikaans by (“at; by; near”), Saterland Frisian bie (“near; by”), Dutch bij (“near; by”), German Low German bi (“by; near; at”), German bei (“by; near; at”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of bye.
senses_topics:
|
9227 | word:
by
word_type:
intj
expansion:
by
forms:
wikipedia:
by
etymology_text:
From Middle English by, bi, from Old English bī (“by; near; around”), from Proto-West Germanic *bī, from Proto-Germanic *bi (“near; by; around; about”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.
Cognate with West Frisian by (“by; near”), Afrikaans by (“at; by; near”), Saterland Frisian bie (“near; by”), Dutch bij (“near; by”), German Low German bi (“by; near; at”), German bei (“by; near; at”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dated form of bye (“goodbye”).
senses_topics:
|
9228 | word:
chemistry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chemistry (countable and uncountable, plural chemistries)
forms:
form:
chemistries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chemistry
etymology_text:
First coined 1605, from chemist + -ry. From chemist, chymist, from Latin alchimista, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from article اَل (al-) + Ancient Greek χυμεία (khumeía, “art of alloying metals”), from χύμα (khúma, “fluid”), from χυμός (khumós, “juice”), from χέω (khéō, “I pour”).
senses_examples:
text:
The aquatic chemistries of iron and manganese are similar; this “is reflected geologically in their common association in rocks of all kinds” (Bortleson and Lee, 1974).
ref:
1984, North American Lake Management Society, Lake and Reservoir Management: Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
But some microbes manage to move to new organs to get inside tumors. It’s possible that the particular chemistry inside a tumor, such as its level of oxygen, helps determine which microbes will thrive there.
ref:
2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The on-screen chemistry between the lead actors led many viewers to believe they were a couple in real life.
type:
example
text:
The coach attributed their losses to poor team chemistry.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The branch of natural science that deals with the composition and constitution of substances and the changes that they undergo as a consequence of alterations in the constitution of their molecules.
An application of chemical theory and method to a particular substance.
The chemical properties and reactions of a particular organism, environment etc.
The mutual attraction between two people; rapport.
senses_topics:
|
9229 | word:
governor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
governor (plural governors, feminine governess)
forms:
form:
governors
tags:
plural
form:
governess
tags:
feminine
wikipedia:
governor
etymology_text:
From Middle English governour, from Old French gouvreneur, from Latin gubernator, from Ancient Greek κυβερνήτης (kubernḗtēs, “steersman, pilot, guide”), from κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot”), of disputed origin. By surface analysis, govern + -or. Doublet of gubernator. Doublet of cybernetics and Kubernetes.
senses_examples:
text:
Younger voters are more libertarian in political philosophy than older voters and are credited with the success of libertarian governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota.
ref:
1999, Karen O'Connor, The essentials of American government: continuity and change, page 17
text:
Generator excitation is obtained by a combination of the separately-excited and self-excited fields, and the output is controlled by a resistance in the separate field circuit adjusted by the load regulator under the control of the engine governor.
ref:
1961 October, “The first 1,250 h.p. Birmingham/Sulzer Type 2 diesels enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 607
type:
quotation
text:
The turning point came in 1923, says Norton, when 42,000 Cincinnati residents signed a petition for a ballot initiative that would require all cars to have a governor limiting them to 25 miles per hour.
ref:
2015 November 4, Joseph Stromberg, “The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"”, in Vox
type:
quotation
text:
The seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
ref:
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, www.federalreserve.gov (November 6, 2009)
text:
"Say 'father.' We never called him papa; and if one of my brothers had addressed him as 'governor,' as boys do now, I really think he'd have him cut off with a shilling."
ref:
1869, Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: governess
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.
A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
A member of a decision-making body (such as a committee) for a larger organization or entity (including some public agencies), similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
Father.
Boss; employer; gaffer.
Term of address to a man; guv'nor.
A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
A pilot; a steersman.
senses_topics:
government
politics
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
nautical
transport |
9230 | word:
nominatively
word_type:
adv
expansion:
nominatively (comparative more nominatively, superlative most nominatively)
forms:
form:
more nominatively
tags:
comparative
form:
most nominatively
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From nominative + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
senses_topics:
|
9231 | word:
obsolete
word_type:
adj
expansion:
obsolete (comparative more obsolete, superlative most obsolete)
forms:
form:
more obsolete
tags:
comparative
form:
most obsolete
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin obsolētus (“worn out, gone out of use”), past participle of obsolēscere (“to wear out, fall into disuse, grow old, decay”); see obsolesce.
senses_examples:
text:
Speedy, worldwide, accessible delivery of news through the Web has made newspapers obsolete.
type:
example
text:
Horses became obsolete means of transportation in cities in the first half of the twentieth century.
type:
example
text:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
These two birds somewhat closely resemble each other, but the Sedge Warbler is russet-brown above, the feathers with dark centres, the pale buff eyestripe is very clearly defined, and the underparts are buffish white; the Reed Warbler is more olive on the upper parts, the feathers having no dark centres, the underparts are more inclined to buff, and the eyestripe is nearly obsolete.
ref:
1891, Charles Dixon, The Birds of Our Rambles: With a Companion for the Country, page 130
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often in favour of something newer).
Imperfectly developed; not very distinct.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
9232 | word:
obsolete
word_type:
verb
expansion:
obsolete (third-person singular simple present obsoletes, present participle obsoleting, simple past and past participle obsoleted)
forms:
form:
obsoletes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
obsoleting
tags:
participle
present
form:
obsoleted
tags:
participle
past
form:
obsoleted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin obsolētus (“worn out, gone out of use”), past participle of obsolēscere (“to wear out, fall into disuse, grow old, decay”); see obsolesce.
senses_examples:
text:
This software component has been obsoleted.
type:
example
text:
We are in the process of obsoleting this product.
type:
example
text:
Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us?
ref:
2023 March 22, “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter”, in Future of Life Institute
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to become obsolete.
senses_topics:
|
9233 | word:
Netherlander
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Netherlander (plural Netherlanders)
forms:
form:
Netherlanders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Netherlands + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone from the Netherlands
senses_topics:
|
9234 | word:
genitocrural
word_type:
adj
expansion:
genitocrural (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From genito- + crural.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of genitofemoral
senses_topics:
|
9235 | word:
t
word_type:
character
expansion:
t (lower case, upper case T, plural ts or t's)
forms:
form:
T
tags:
uppercase
form:
ts
tags:
plural
form:
t's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9236 | word:
t
word_type:
num
expansion:
t (lower case, upper case T)
forms:
form:
T
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number twentieth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9237 | word:
t
word_type:
noun
expansion:
t (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
t
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of at
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of to and homophone too.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of time.
Alternative letter-case form of T, ton.
Alternative letter-case form of T, tonne.
Abbreviation of tomin.
senses_topics:
|
9238 | word:
foal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
foal (plural foals)
forms:
form:
foals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:foal
etymology_text:
From Middle English fole, from Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *folō, from Proto-Germanic *fulô, from pre-Germanic *pl̥Hon-, from Proto-Indo-European *pōlH- (“animal young”) (cognate with Saterland Frisian Foole, West Frisian fôle, foalle, Dutch veulen, German Low German Fohl, German Fohlen, Fohle, Swedish fåle; compare also Ancient Greek πῶλος (pôlos), Latin pullus, Albanian pelë (“mare”), Old Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, fawn”). Related to filly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
9239 | word:
foal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
foal (third-person singular simple present foals, present participle foaling, simple past and past participle foaled)
forms:
form:
foals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
foaling
tags:
participle
present
form:
foaled
tags:
participle
past
form:
foaled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:foal
etymology_text:
From Middle English fole, from Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *folō, from Proto-Germanic *fulô, from pre-Germanic *pl̥Hon-, from Proto-Indo-European *pōlH- (“animal young”) (cognate with Saterland Frisian Foole, West Frisian fôle, foalle, Dutch veulen, German Low German Fohl, German Fohlen, Fohle, Swedish fåle; compare also Ancient Greek πῶλος (pôlos), Latin pullus, Albanian pelë (“mare”), Old Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, fawn”). Related to filly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.
senses_topics:
|
9240 | word:
escape pod
word_type:
noun
expansion:
escape pod (plural escape pods)
forms:
form:
escape pods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any small, secondary, emergency-use vehicle used to evacuate from the main vehicle during times of danger.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction |
9241 | word:
et al.
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
et al.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin, abbreviation of et aliī (“and others”) (English: et alii) and its forms and derivatives.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
And others; to complete a list, especially of persons, as authors of a published work.
senses_topics:
|
9242 | word:
et al.
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
et al.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin, abbreviation of et alibī (“and other places”) (English: et alibi).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
And elsewhere; to complete a list of places.
senses_topics:
|
9243 | word:
saponaceous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
saponaceous (comparative more saponaceous, superlative most saponaceous)
forms:
form:
more saponaceous
tags:
comparative
form:
most saponaceous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin sāpō (“soap”) + -aceous.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soapy.
Slippery; evasive.
senses_topics:
|
9244 | word:
suspension
word_type:
noun
expansion:
suspension (countable and uncountable, plural suspensions)
forms:
form:
suspensions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin suspensiō, suspensiōnem (“arching, vaulting; suspension”), from suspendēre, from suspendō (“to hang up, to suspend”), from sub- (“prefix meaning ‘under’”) + pendere (from pendō (“to hang, to suspend”), from Proto-Italic *pendō (“to hang, to put in a hanging position”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-e-ti, from *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”)). Compare Anglo-Norman suspensiun, French suspension, Occitan suspensio.
senses_examples:
text:
suspension from a hook
type:
example
text:
Fear of dioxin emissions led to suspension of efforts to establish a waste-to-energy plant at the Brooklyn Navy yard.
ref:
1983 September, “Recycled Materials Program in Response to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act”, in Harvey Yakowitz, editor, The National Bureau of Standards Office of Recycled Materials, 1976–1982 (NBS Special Publication; 662), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
As the solids clump together, they get heavier causing them to fall out of suspension in the water.
ref:
2011 August 8, M. W. Hubbell, “Chemistry”, in The Fundamentals of Nuclear Power Generation: Questions and Answers, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, page 216
type:
quotation
text:
suspension from school as a disciplinary measure
type:
example
text:
[…] Donna Thomas, John Tiedeman, David Jones, and Richard Williams, all students in the Granville Junior-Senior High School, conceived a plan in November 1978 to produce a satirical publication addressed to the school community. […] [Assistant Principal Frederick] Reed summoned Tiedeman and discussed with him the “dangers” of publishing material that might offend or hurt others. Specifically, he told Tiedeman that a similar publication several years before had culminated in the suspension of the students involved.
ref:
1979, Irving R[obert] Kaufman, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, “Thomas v. Board of Education”, in The Federal Reporter. Second Series. Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Courts of Appeals and District Courts of the United States and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, with Key-number Annotations, volume 607, St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 1045; reprinted in Michael Imber; Tyll van Geel, “Student Freedom of Expression”, in Education Law, 4th edition, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, 2010, page 158
text:
As in Sequenza IV, the suspension of the chord creates several different layers of activity, which can be understood by looking at the right hand’s chord in bar two.
ref:
2007, Zoe Browder Doll, “Phantom Rhythms, Hidden Harmonies: The Use of the Sostenuto Pedal in Berio’s Sequenza IV for Piano, Leaf and Sonata”, in Janet K. Halfyard, editor, Berio's Sequenzas: Essays on Performance, Composition and Analysis, Aldershot, Hampshire, Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
To get an intuitive feeling for the characteristics of H'-spaces, it is instructive to consider an important class of such spaces, the suspensions. The suspension of an arbitrary topological space Y is defined to be the quotient space of Y#x5C;timesI where Y#x5C;times 0 is identified to one point and Y#x5C;times 1 is identified to another point. For example, the suspension of a circle is a cylinder with the two ends collapsed into one point each; in other words, a space homeomorphic to a sphere.
ref:
2012, H. Rasmussen, “Strategy-proofness of Continuous Aggregation Maps”, in Geoffrey M. Heal, editor, Topological Social Choice: With 45 Figures (Social Choice and Welfare; vol. 14, no. 2, 1997), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
A model category is called pointed if the initial object and terminal object are the same. The homotopy category of any pointed model category acquires a suspension functor denoted by #x5C;Sigma. It turns out that #x5C;text#x7B;Ho#x7D;(M) is a pre-triangulated category in a natural way[…]. When the suspension is an equivalence, M is called a stable model category, and in this case #x5C;text#x7B;Ho#x7D;(M) becomes a triangulated category[…].
ref:
2010, Paul Arne Østvær, “Preliminaries”, in Homotopy Theory of C*-Algebras (Frontiers in Mathematics), Basel: Birkhäuser, Springer Basel, →DOI, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
If you drive over a speed bump, the left and right tires push the suspension upward at the same time.
ref:
2011, Chuck Edmondson, “Steering and Suspension”, in Fast Car Physics, Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, page 151
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.
The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
education
entertainment
lifestyle
music
mathematics
sciences
topology
mathematics
sciences
topology
transport
vehicles |
9245 | word:
tractor beam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tractor beam (plural tractor beams)
forms:
form:
tractor beams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly a shortening of attractor beam; note however the broader meaning of tractor (“machinery that pulls something”). Coined by American science fiction author E. E. Smith in 1931 in his novel Spacehounds of IPC, first serialized in Amazing Stories.
senses_examples:
text:
Through it Stevens saw with satisfaction that the Forlorn Hope was not being abandoned; in the grip of powerful tractor beams, every fragment of the wreckage was following close behind them in their flight through space.
ref:
1931 August, E. E. “Doc” Smith, “Spacehounds of IPC”, in Amazing Stories, volume 6, number 5, page 549
type:
quotation
text:
By the way they're braced, there are tractor beams and pressor beams and—there are vacuum tubes that have grids but apparently work with cold cathodes.
ref:
1945 June, Murray Leinster, “The Ethical Equations”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 35, number 4, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
We're caught in a tractor beam! It's pulling us in!
ref:
1977, George Lucas, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, spoken by Han Solo (Harrison Ford)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device-generated beam used to attract other objects from a distance.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction |
9246 | word:
nominatival
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nominatival (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From nominative + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the nominative case; nominative
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9247 | word:
proton
word_type:
noun
expansion:
proton (plural protons)
forms:
form:
protons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
William Prout
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek πρῶτον (prôton), neuter of πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”).
(physics): Coined by New Zealand-British scientist Ernest Rutherford in 1920, in analogy with electron (1891), and with an additional intention of honoring English chemist William Prout. Analyzable as proto- + -on
(anatomy): (1893); a translation of German Anlage (“fundamental thing”) based on Aristotle’s phrase he prote ousia to proton.
senses_examples:
text:
Comeronyms: neutron, electron
text:
Holonyms: atom, nucleus
text:
The dance of the electrons about the prota, each electron and each proton consisting of a series of waves occupying the whole of the limited universe and obeying the laws of nature as they pass, is known to all.
ref:
1931, C[harles] G[eorge] Crump, The Red King Dreams, 1946 - 1948, 24 Russell Square: Faber & Faber Limited, page 302
type:
quotation
text:
It is a well authenticated fact that, in the case of section of a peripheral nerve, the nuclei of the sheath of Schwann pass to the centre of the lumen and form the protoplasmic prota of the segments of the new nerve[…]. From studies of the development of the olfactory organs in reptiles, as reported briefly in earlier numbers of this Journal, the writer has been abundantly convinced of the truth of Beard’s statement that the olfactory prota arise from the skin[…].
ref:
1898 July, “Contributed Articles”, in C[larence] L[uther] Herrick, editor, The Journal of Comparative Neurology: A Quarterly Periodical Devoted to the Comparative Study of the Nervous System, volume VIII, number 1; 2, Granville, Oh.: […] C[harles] Judson Herrick; […], pages 27 (C. L. H., […]) and 32–33 (C. L. H.; G[eorge] E[llett] Coghill, […])
type:
quotation
text:
This paper constituted the proton (the primordium, or ‘Anlage,’ if you prefer) of my own subsequent contributions, and likewise, so far as I knew at the time, of the simplified nomenclature in America.
ref:
1898 December 28, Burt G[reen] Wilder, “Some Misapprehensions as to the Simplified Nomenclature of Anatomy”, in Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Session of the Association of American Anatomists, […], Washington, D.C.: Beresford, […], published 1899, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
a, b. Prota of primitive segments (protovertebræ).[…]These soon become partially constricted off from the fore-brain, their narrow pedicles—the optic stalks—being the prota of the optic nerves. The dorsal wall of the fore-brain continues to grow forward and upward from the rest of the vesicle, and soon forms a fourth ventricle or permanent fore-brain, the proton of the cerebral hemispheres.[…]By the sixth week the otocyst has been converted by a fold into two portions—a dorsal part—the utriculus, from which three projections arise, the prota of the semicircular canals (Fig. 91), and a ventral part, the sacculus, from the anterior end of which the cochlea is developed.[…]These are the Müllerian ducts, the prota of the female internal organs of generation.[…]The cords acquire a lumen and become the prota of the seminiferous tubules.
ref:
1899, Walter P[orter] Manton, “Menstruation—Ovulation—Development of the Ovum”, in Charles Jewett, editor, The Practice of Obstetrics, New York, N.Y., Philadelphia, Penn.: Lea Brothers & Co., part II (Physiology of Pregnancy), pages 84, 97, 104, 111, and 112
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A positively charged subatomic particle forming part of the nucleus of an atom and determining the atomic number of an element, composed of two up quarks and a down quark.
A positively charged subatomic particle forming part of the nucleus of an atom and determining the atomic number of an element, composed of two up quarks and a down quark.
The atomic nucleus of protium (hydrogen-1)
Synonym of primordium
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
9248 | word:
flash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flash (third-person singular simple present flashes, present participle flashing, simple past and past participle flashed)
forms:
form:
flashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
flashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
flashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).
senses_examples:
text:
He flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise.
type:
example
text:
The light flashed on and off.
type:
example
text:
The scenery flashed by quickly.
type:
example
text:
A number will be flashed on the screen.
type:
example
text:
The special agents flashed their badges as they entered the building.
type:
example
text:
She flashed me a smile from the car window.
type:
example
text:
Today, people are taking to the street once again. Clad in face masks, and flashing the three-fingered Hunger Games salute to the sound of Thai rap, thousands of protesters have thronged the capital over recent months, demanding political reform of a military-backed government seen as bungling and corrupt.
ref:
2020 September 14, Charlie Campbell, “'Thailand’s Inconvenient Truth.' Why This Billionaire Is Risking It All to Back Reform of the Monarchy”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
She flashed a vocalist at a rock concert.
type:
example
text:
Her skirt was so short that she flashed her underpants as she was getting out of her car.
type:
example
text:
For although party's worn-out moulds have been shivered, and names which have flashed and thundered as the watchwords of unnumbered struggles for power are now fast waning into history, it is too much to hope, perhaps to desire, until the education of mankind shall more nearly approach its completion, that strong differences of opinion and feeling should cease to agitate the scenes on which freemen are called to discharge political duties.
ref:
1845, Thomas [Noon] Talfourd, Report of the Proceedings Connected with the Grant Soirée of the Manchester Athenæum, Held on Thursday, October 23rd, 1845. From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday, October 25th, 1845. Printed for the Directors, Manchester: Cave and Sever, Printers, 18, St. Ann's Street, →OCLC, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
But while he jested thus, / A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act. / Remembering how we three presented Maid, / Or Nymph, or Goddess, at high tide of feast, / In masque or pageant at my father's court.
ref:
1851, Alfred Tennyson, “The Princess: A Medley”, in Poems by Alfred Tennyson. In Two Volumes, new edition, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
The Isabella [Isabella, or the Pot of Basil], then, is a perfect treasure-house of graceful and felicitous words and images: almost in every stanza there occurs one of those vivid and picturesque turns of expression, by which the object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind, and which thrill the reader with a sudden delight.
ref:
1856, Matthew Arnold, “Preface”, in Poems, new and complete edition, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
He flashed a wad of hundred-dollar bills.
type:
example
text:
The news services flashed the news about the end of the war to all corners of the globe.
type:
example
text:
to flash a message along the telephone wires; to flash conviction on the mind
type:
example
text:
Flash forward to the present day.
type:
example
text:
But they survived some real pressure as David Murphy flashed a header inches wide of Rob Green's right-hand post[…].
ref:
2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 – 1 Birmingham”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2016-03-18
type:
quotation
text:
Susan flashed Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.
type:
example
text:
In order to flash a custom ROM to a phone, the boot loader must be unlocked first.
type:
example
text:
Oft have I ſeaſoned ſavory periods / With ſugar'd words, to delude Guſtus' taſte, / And oft embelliſh'd my entreative phraſe, / Limning and flaſhing it with various dyes, / To draw proud Viſus to me by the eyes: […]
ref:
1607, Antony Brewer [attributed; now generally believed to be by Thomas Tomkis], Lingua: Or, The Combat of the Tongue and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Comedy (A Select Collection of Old Plays; V), [London]: [Printed for R[obert] Dodsley], published [1744], →OCLC, act I, scene i, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
The varlet ſaw, when to the flood he came, / How without ſtop or ſtay he fiercely lept, / And deep himſelfe beducked in the ſame, / That in the lake his loftie creſt was ſteept, / Ne of his ſafetie ſeemed care he kept, / But with his raging armes he rudely flaſhd / The waves about, and all his armour ſwept, / That all the bloud and filth away was waſht, / Yet ſtill he bet the water, and the billows daſht.
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed for W[illiam] Ponsonbie, OCLC 18024649, book II, canto VI, stanza XLII; republished as The Faerie Queene. By Edmund Spenser. With an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, Published by Himself at London in Quarto; the Former Containing the First Three Books Printed in 1590, and the Latter the Six Books in 1596. To which are Now Added, a New Life of the Author, and also a Glossary. Adorn'd with Thirty-two Copper-Plates, from the Original Drawings of the late W. Kent, Esq.; Architect and Principal Painter to His Majesty, volume I, London: Printed for J. Brindley, in New Bond-Street, and S. Wright, Clerk of His Majesty's Works, at Hampton-Court, 1751, OCLC 642577152, page 316
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
To be visible briefly.
To make visible briefly.
To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
To communicate quickly.
To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
To send by some startling or sudden means.
To burst out into violence.
To perform a flash.
To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
To trick up in a showy manner.
To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
senses_topics:
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
glassmaking
manufacturing
business
glassmaking
manufacturing
arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
9249 | word:
flash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flash (countable and uncountable, plural flashes)
forms:
form:
flashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).
senses_examples:
text:
[F]or Empire and Greatneſs it importeth moſt, that a Nation do profeſs Arms as their principal Honour, Study and Occupation: […] The Fabrick of the State of Sparta was wholly (though not wiſely) framed and compoſed to that Scope and End. The Perſians and Macedonians had it for a flaſh. The Galls, Germans, Goths, Saxons, Normans, and others had it for a time.
ref:
1680, Francis Bacon, “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates”, in The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St Alban. With a Table of the Colours of Good & Evil. Whereunto is Added The Wisdom of the Antients. Enlarged by the Honourable Author Himself; and Now More Exactly Published, London: Printed by M[ary] Clark, for Samuel Mearne, in Little Britain, John Martyn, in St. Pauls Church-yard, and Henry Herringman, in the New Exchange, →OCLC, pages 111–112
type:
quotation
text:
Quick—something must be done! done in a flash, too! But the very imminence of the emergency paralyzed his invention.
ref:
1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1st American edition, Hartford, Conn., Chicago, Ill., Cincinnati, Oh.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 164
type:
quotation
text:
I reached a flash out of my car pocket and went down-grade and looked at the car.
ref:
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, OCLC 747046957; republished London: Penguin Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-241-95628-1, page 34
text:
[B]reath his faults ſo quaintly, / That they may ſeeme the taints of liberty; / The flaſh and out-breake of a fiery minde, / A ſauagenes in vnreclaim'd bloud of generall aſſault.
ref:
1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act II, scene i, page 259
type:
quotation
text:
I cannot learn that he [Patrick Henry] gave, in his youth, any evidence of that precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius. His companions recollect no instance of premature wit, no striking sentiment, no flash of fancy, no remarkable beauty or strength of expression; and no indication, however slight, either of that impassioned love of liberty, or of that adventurous daring and intrepidity, which marked, so strongly, his future character.
ref:
1817, William Wirt (Attorney General), “section I”, in Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by James Webster, No. 10, S. Eighth Street. William Brown, printer, Prune-street, →OCLC, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Fabio Capello insisted [Wayne] Rooney was in the right frame of mind to play in stormy Podgorica despite his father's arrest on Thursday in a probe into alleged betting irregularities, but his flash of temper – when he kicked out at Miodrag Dzudovic – suggested otherwise.
ref:
2011 October 7, Phil McNulty, “Euro 2012: Montenegro 2 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2016-10-05
type:
quotation
text:
Above all, they hate flash. Just as the English working class has always been, they are fiercely puritanical and abhor all forms of display.
ref:
1970 March 29, Nik Cohn, “England's New Teen Style Is Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The ATF sound was lacking in extended solos, flash, and pomposity, but CBS liked the group's respect for traditional Anglo-rock, their Beatles-like energy, and the splashes of Yes, Genesis, and 10cc that colored their music.
ref:
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 390
type:
quotation
text:
I just got my first commando flash.
type:
example
text:
The hybrid drive has 500 gigabytes of hard disk space for bulk storage and 2 gigabytes of high-speed flash for caching frequently-accessed files.
type:
example
text:
At three-thirty that afternoon Max, Tom, and Sharon placed tabs under their tongues and sat together in the living room to wait for the flash.
ref:
1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem
type:
quotation
text:
A few seconds following the injection, the user experiences a sudden, intense generalized sensation which has both physiological and psychological characteristics. […] pure, commercially produced products do not give a good flash […]
ref:
1973, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, Proper and Improper Use of Drugs by Athletes: Hearings, page 645
type:
quotation
text:
The flash — the odd combination of a cocoon-comfort and an inexplicable physical ascendency to a "high" — provides the major incentive for the new experimenter to move to the next phase of his career.
ref:
1976, Robert H. Coombs, Lincoln J. Fry, Patricia G. Lewis, Socialization in Drug Abuse, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
I'd heard about LSD and wanted to try it early on, but I'd also heard of delayed reactions, called acid flashes, brought on by unexpected stimuli; they could prove fatally disorienting.
ref:
2021, Glenn Petersen, War and the Arc of Human Experience, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
The United Press got the flash "Germans declare martial law in Ruhr" […]
ref:
1931, George Seldes, Can These Things Be!, volume 25, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
I didn't need them anymore. The police badge worked like a dream with both Alice and Kerry. One quick flash of the badge, and they were in the car and out of the rain. No questions asked.
ref:
2015 October 27, Tim O'Rourke, Flashes, Scholastic Inc.
type:
quotation
text:
Gabriel grabbed her wrist and spun her around, stepping forward right in her face, showing a brief flash of fangs this time. “Not good enough. I can haul you over my shoulder if that's the way it has to be.” “I'd almost like to see you[…]
ref:
2017 June 29, Ally Shields, Embers of Fire, Etopia Press
type:
quotation
text:
She ended the question with a flash of a smile that took more energy than she'd ever thought a mere smile could.
ref:
2018 October 3, Blaine Lee Pardoe, BattleTech Legends: Measure of a Hero, Catalyst Game Labs
type:
quotation
text:
panty flash
text:
[…] the answer came to her. Camera flashes. That strobing light had been the flash of a camera. Icy panic poured through her body. She had a vision of Janet Jackson's boob flash at the Super Bowl;[…]
ref:
2005 September 1, Lisa Cach, Have Glass Slippers, Will Travel, Simon and Schuster, page 256
type:
quotation
text:
“Would you like a boob flash?” Hundred token tips began to flow in. “Thanks guys, and she read off the user names. That deserves more than just a flash.” She pulled up the hem of her top and turned left and right giving them a great show[…]
ref:
2021 April 21, Tina Gray, Fantasy Lover, Pink Flamingo Media
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
A very short amount of time.
A flashlight; an electric torch.
A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
A form of military insignia.
Clipping of flash memory.
Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”)
A newsflash.
A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
Short for hook flash.
senses_topics:
arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications |
9250 | word:
flash
word_type:
adj
expansion:
flash (comparative more flash, superlative most flash)
forms:
form:
more flash
tags:
comparative
form:
most flash
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).
senses_examples:
text:
The barber man was small and flash, as barbers mostly are,
He wore a strike-your-fancy sash, he smoked a huge cigar;
ref:
1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark
type:
quotation
text:
Bit of a flash git, don't you think?
ref:
1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1
type:
quotation
text:
the flash language: thieves' cant or slang
type:
example
text:
flash notes: counterfeit banknotes
type:
example
text:
Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?
ref:
1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
Having plenty of ready money.
Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
Relating to thieves and vagabonds.
senses_topics:
|
9251 | word:
flash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flash (plural flashes)
forms:
form:
flashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flasche, flaske; compare Old French flache, French flaque, which is of Germanic origin, akin to Middle Dutch vlacke (“an estuary, flats with stagnant pools”).
senses_examples:
text:
their hearts lie lumpish as a Log that lies in a flash of water seven years together
ref:
a. 1646, Jeremiah Burroughs, The Excellency of Holy Courage in Evil Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pool.
A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9252 | word:
transsexual
word_type:
adj
expansion:
transsexual (comparative more transsexual, superlative most transsexual)
forms:
form:
more transsexual
tags:
comparative
form:
most transsexual
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
David Oliver Cauldwell
Magnus Hirschfeld
etymology_text:
From trans- + sexual. Introduced to English along with transsexualism by David Oliver Cauldwell in 1949, based on the German word Transsexualismus coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1923. Popularized in the mid 1960s, around the same time that transgender was coined; transgender had become an umbrella term and largely but not entirely displaced transsexual by the 1990s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having changed, or being in the process of changing, physical sex (because it does not match desired sex) by undergoing medical treatment such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and optionally sex reassignment surgery (SRS), or rarely only SRS.
senses_topics:
|
9253 | word:
transsexual
word_type:
noun
expansion:
transsexual (plural transsexuals)
forms:
form:
transsexuals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
David Oliver Cauldwell
Magnus Hirschfeld
etymology_text:
From trans- + sexual. Introduced to English along with transsexualism by David Oliver Cauldwell in 1949, based on the German word Transsexualismus coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1923. Popularized in the mid 1960s, around the same time that transgender was coined; transgender had become an umbrella term and largely but not entirely displaced transsexual by the 1990s.
senses_examples:
text:
When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body, and has a little operation, he is a transsexual.
ref:
1995, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar
type:
quotation
text:
He claimed that they had this wonderful and loving relationship in which the transsexual-to-be had felt that his suitor truly loved him the way he was and didn’t want him to have the surgery, […]
ref:
a. 1998, Myra Love, Reality’s Friends, excerpted in Gertrude M. James Gonzalez and Anne J. M. Mamary (editors), Cultural Activisms: Poetic Voices, Political Voices, SUNY Press (1999), page 107
text:
Hundreds of women every year are taken completely by surprise when their husbands announce they want to undergo sex-change surgery — and the news is even more shocking when comes, as it often does, from a burly he-man who’d given no clue to his inner girl. ¶ But the signs are definitely there if your husband is dreaming of becoming a transsexual, says a new study by a top sexologist.
ref:
2003 December 9, Kitty Fine, “How to Tell If Your Fella Wants to Be a Woman!”, in Weekly World News, ISSN 0199-574X, page 14
text:
He was wearing women’s clothes before he had the surgery; then, he actually became a transsexual, and they (amazingly) stayed together.
ref:
a. 2006, anonymous, “My Husband’s Secret”, in Grandma Joy, Grandma Joy's Hope for Hurting Women: Healing the Wounds of the Past and Gaining Hope for the Future, Destiny Image Publishers (2006), page 133
text:
Being a transsexual is not something that can be ignored or suppressed forever. Unlike the fascinations of the cross dresser or the partially altered transgenderist, the absolute compulsion of classical transsexualism is a matter of life and death.
ref:
2012, Patrick Slattery, Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transsexual person.
senses_topics:
|
9254 | word:
accusatorially
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accusatorially (comparative more accusatorially, superlative most accusatorially)
forms:
form:
more accusatorially
tags:
comparative
form:
most accusatorially
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accusatorial + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
By way of accusation; in an accusatorial manner.
senses_topics:
|
9255 | word:
datively
word_type:
adv
expansion:
datively (comparative more datively, superlative most datively)
forms:
form:
more datively
tags:
comparative
form:
most datively
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dative + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
As a gift.
senses_topics:
|
9256 | word:
ventripotent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ventripotent (comparative more ventripotent, superlative most ventripotent)
forms:
form:
more ventripotent
tags:
comparative
form:
most ventripotent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French ventripotent, from Latin venter (“belly”) + potens (“powerful”).
senses_examples:
text:
Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how, and what the Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent [translating ventripotent] god.
ref:
1694, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, Pantagruel, Book LIX, (chapter title)
type:
quotation
text:
The reception committee consisted of Constance and a ventripotent Swiss banker, representing the Red Cross ….
ref:
1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 714
text:
I'm sure your being so ventripotent is useful in county fair competitions, George, but it's driving our bakery into the ground, so we're replacing you.
ref:
2008, A. C. Kemp, The Perfect Insult for Every Occasion, page 198
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a big belly.
Gluttonous.
senses_topics:
|
9257 | word:
accusatival
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accusatival (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Suffixation of the Latin accūsātīvum with the English -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the accusative case.
senses_topics:
|
9258 | word:
datholite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
datholite (plural datholites)
forms:
form:
datholites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of datolite
senses_topics:
|
9259 | word:
geniting
word_type:
noun
expansion:
geniting (plural genitings)
forms:
form:
genitings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from a diminutive of French Jean (“John”), so named as becoming ripe about St. John’s Day, June 24.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A variety of apple that ripens very early
senses_topics:
|
9260 | word:
datiscin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
datiscin (plural datiscins)
forms:
form:
datiscins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Datisca + -in
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A white crystalline glucoside extracted from bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina).
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9261 | word:
creationism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
creationism (usually uncountable, plural creationisms)
forms:
form:
creationisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
creationism
etymology_text:
From creation + -ism.
senses_examples:
text:
the preservation of the race of man is made to grow out of that quickening impulse, which we call the life of humanity. This notion, which was called Traducianism by the schoolmen (the system opposed to it being termed Creatianism )
ref:
1848, Robert Wilberforce, The Doctrine of the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, in its relation to Mankind and to the Church
type:
quotation
text:
2008, Thomas Dixon, Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, link:
type:
quotation
text:
It must be reasonably clear to all who have taken pains to understand the matter that the true issue as regards design is not between Darwinism and direct Creationism, but between design and fortuity, between any intention or intellectual cause and no intention nor predicable first cause.
ref:
1880, Asa Gray, Natural science and religion, 2 lectures, page 89
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Abrahamic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism.
Any creationary belief, especially a belief that the origin of things is due to an event or process of creation brought about by the deliberate act of any divine agency, such as a Creator God.
The belief that a deity created the world, especially as described in a particular religious text, such as the Quran or the Book of Genesis.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
theology
|
9262 | word:
commission
word_type:
noun
expansion:
commission (countable and uncountable, plural commissions)
forms:
form:
commissions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
commission
etymology_text:
From Middle English commissioun, from Old French commission, from Latin commissiō (“sending together; commission”), from prefix com- (“with”) + noun of action missiō (“sending”), from perfect passive participle missus (“sent”), from the verb mittō (“to send”) + noun of action suffix -iō.
senses_examples:
text:
David received his commission after graduating from West Point.
type:
example
text:
I have three commissions for the city.
type:
example
text:
the European Commission
type:
example
text:
the Electoral Commission
type:
example
text:
the Federal Communications Commission
type:
example
text:
The company's sexual harassment commission made sure that every employee completed the on-line course.
type:
example
text:
a reseller's commission
type:
example
text:
The real-estate broker charged a four percent commission for their knowledge on bidding for commercial properties; for their intellectual perspective on making a formal offer and the strategy to obtain a mutually satisfying deal with the seller in favour of the buyer.
type:
example
text:
[T]he scandal was the pretty common one of a corrupt agreement between hotel proprietors and a salesman who took and gave secret commissions, so that his business had a monopoly of all the drink sold in the place.
ref:
1935, G. K. Chesterton, The Scandal of Father Brown
type:
quotation
text:
the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
The thing to be done as agent for another.
A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
The act of committing (e.g. a crime or error).
senses_topics:
|
9263 | word:
commission
word_type:
verb
expansion:
commission (third-person singular simple present commissions, present participle commissioning, simple past and past participle commissioned)
forms:
form:
commissions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
commissioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
commissioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
commissioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
commission
etymology_text:
From Middle English commissioun, from Old French commission, from Latin commissiō (“sending together; commission”), from prefix com- (“with”) + noun of action missiō (“sending”), from perfect passive participle missus (“sent”), from the verb mittō (“to send”) + noun of action suffix -iō.
senses_examples:
text:
James Bond was commissioned with recovering the secret documents.
type:
example
text:
Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first solider to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.
ref:
2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal, Guardian Unlimited
type:
quotation
text:
He commissioned a replica of the Mona Lisa for his living room, but the painter gave up after six months.
type:
example
text:
The aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1944, during WWII.
type:
example
text:
The 1.7 mile-long conveyor system was commissioned in November 2022, and will remove one million lorry movements from the roads around West London.
ref:
2023 March 8, Chris Howe, “Building the platform for Old Oak Common's platforms”, in RAIL, number 978, page 60
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
To place an order for (often a piece of art).
To put into active service.
senses_topics:
|
9264 | word:
rate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rate (plural rates)
forms:
form:
rates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Rate (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English rate, from Old French rate, from Medieval Latin rata, from Latin prō ratā parte (“according to a fixed part”), from ratus (“fixed”), from rērī (“think, deem, judge, estimate", originally "reckon, calculate”).
senses_examples:
text:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
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2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
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At the height of his powers, he was producing pictures at the rate of four a year.
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The car was speeding down here at a hell of a rate.
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The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.
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He asked quite a rate to take me to the airport.
type:
example
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Postal rates here are low.
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We pay an hourly rate of between $10 – $15 per hour depending on qualifications and experience.
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I hardly have enough left every month to pay the rates.
type:
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This textbook is first-rate.
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c. 1610s, George Chapman, Caesar and Pompey
Tis offerd, Sir, 'boue the rate of Caesar
In other men, but in what I approue
Beneath his merits: which I will not faile
T'enforce at full to Pompey, nor forget
In any time the gratitude of my seruice.
text:
daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The worth of something; value.
The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
Speed.
The relative speed of change or progress.
The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.
Order; arrangement.
Ratification; approval.
The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
hobbies
horology
lifestyle |
9265 | word:
rate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rate (third-person singular simple present rates, present participle rating, simple past and past participle rated)
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rates
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rating
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present
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rated
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participle
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rated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Rate (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English rate, from Old French rate, from Medieval Latin rata, from Latin prō ratā parte (“according to a fixed part”), from ratus (“fixed”), from rērī (“think, deem, judge, estimate", originally "reckon, calculate”).
senses_examples:
text:
She is rated fourth in the country.
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They rate his talents highly.
text:
To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible.
ref:
1661, Robert South, False Foundations Removed (sermon)
text:
He rated this book brilliant.
type:
example
text:
The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.
text:
Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn't one of them.
ref:
1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, page 101
text:
A few things DO work in Too Outrageous!, though I am not sure they rate the price of admission.
ref:
1987 December 6, Paul Vincent Leone, “Too, Too Outrageous!”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 21, page 7
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quotation
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The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
type:
example
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The customers don't rate the new burgers.
type:
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She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.
type:
example
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He rates as the best cyclist in the country.
type:
example
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This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
To evaluate or estimate the value of.
To consider or regard.
To deserve; to be worth.
To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
To like; to think highly of.
To have position (in a certain class).
To have value or standing.
To ratify.
To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
senses_topics:
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9266 | word:
rate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rate (third-person singular simple present rates, present participle rating, simple past and past participle rated)
forms:
form:
rates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rating
tags:
participle
present
form:
rated
tags:
participle
past
form:
rated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Rate (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English raten (“to scold, chide”), from Old Norse hrata (“to refuse, reject, slight, find fault with”), from Proto-Germanic *hratōną (“to sway, shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krad- (“to swing”). Cognate with Swedish rata (“to reject, refuse, find fault, slight”), Norwegian rata (“to reject, cast aside”), Old English hratian (“to rush, hasten”).
senses_examples:
text:
Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it.
ref:
a. 1692, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance
type:
quotation
text:
Jyne took the baby, and began to rate the mother mildly for `walkin' seven mile ser soon', but Jyne's mother interposed with a recital of `wot I dun w'en Jun' (John) `wur two days old.'
ref:
1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 71
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To berate, scold.
senses_topics:
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9267 | word:
go
word_type:
verb
expansion:
go (third-person singular simple present goes, present participle going, simple past went or (archaic) yode, past participle gone or (nonstandard) went or (substituted in certain contexts) been)
forms:
form:
goes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
going
tags:
participle
present
form:
went
tags:
past
form:
yode
tags:
archaic
past
form:
gone
tags:
participle
past
form:
went
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
been
tags:
error-unknown-tag
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
go
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
go (verb)
etymology_text:
From Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān (“to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).
The inherited past tense form yode (compare Old English ēode) was replaced through suppletion in the 15th century by went, from Old English wendan (“to go, depart, wend”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots gae (“to go”), West Frisian gean (“to go”), Dutch gaan (“to go”), Low German gahn (“to go”), German gehen (“to go”), Swedish and Danish gå (“to go”), Norwegian gå (“to walk”). Compare also Albanian ngah (“to run, drive, go”), Ancient Greek κιχάνω (kikhánō, “to meet with, arrive at”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬰𐬁𐬨𐬌 (zazāmi), Sanskrit जहाति (jáhāti).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] there was a general sense of panic going through the house; […]
ref:
2005, David Neilson, Standstill, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
Telegrams to London went by wire to Halifax, Nova Scotia, thence by steam mail packet to Liverpool, […]
ref:
2013, Mike Vouri, The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay, page 177
type:
quotation
text:
I have to go now.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
type:
example
text:
Why don’t you go with us?
type:
example
text:
This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago.
type:
example
text:
Chris, where are you going?
type:
example
text:
There's no public transit where I'm going.
type:
example
text:
Wow, look at him go!
type:
example
text:
The rumour went all around town.
type:
example
text:
You have to go all the way back to Herbert Hoover to see a performance in the Standard & Poors 500 equal to what we are experiencing right now.
ref:
2002 September 18, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 107th Congress, second session; Senate, page 17033
type:
quotation
text:
"I don't know how to tell you this, Aubrey, but you can't go back to 1938 […] the program won't accept any date that I input before 1941." […] "Well, I'll go to 1941, then."
ref:
2010, Charlotte Sadler, Time for One More Dance, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
text:
Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library.
text:
For the best definitions, go to wiktionary.org
type:
example
text:
To access Office-related TechNet resources, go to www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office.
ref:
2009, David J. Clark, The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Office Word 2007, page 536
type:
quotation
text:
Go to your earliest memory and to your favorite one, then to one that's difficult to consider.
ref:
2009, Lisa W. Coyne, Amy R. Murrell, The Joy of Parenting
type:
quotation
text:
Go to drive C: through My Computer (or Computer in Windows 7 and Vista) and double-click the c:\data folder.
ref:
2012, Glen E. Clarke, Edward Tetz, CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One For Dummies, page 280
type:
quotation
text:
The car went a short distance, then halted. There was something wrong with the carburetor.
ref:
2003, Harrison E. Salisbury, The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad, page 307
type:
quotation
text:
We've only gone twenty miles today.
type:
example
text:
This car can go circles around that one.
type:
example
text:
The fight went the distance and was decided on points.
type:
example
text:
We went swimming.
type:
example
text:
Let's go shopping.
type:
example
text:
Please go and get me some envelopes.
type:
example
text:
’[R]e you another agoin’ on this crazy voyage?
ref:
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
Please don't go!
type:
example
text:
I really must be going.
type:
example
text:
Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night.
type:
example
text:
I'm repeating it: I wish that you would go this path up to its end, that you shall find salvation!
ref:
1951?, Gunther Olesch et al., Siddhartha, translation of original by Hermann Hesse
type:
quotation
text:
Let's go this way for a while.
type:
example
text:
She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was.
text:
We went the full length of the promenade before we found a place to sit down.
type:
example
text:
His life story goes the gamut, from poverty-stricken upbringing to colossal wealth.
type:
example
text:
‘As for that,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘I may chose othir to ryde othir to go.’
ref:
1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XII
type:
quotation
text:
Master Piercie our new President, was so sicke hee could neither goe nor stand.
ref:
1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
Other brunts I also look for; but this I have resolved on, to wit, to run when I can, to go when I cannot run, and to creep when I cannot go.
ref:
1684, John Bunyan, “Battle with Giant Slay-good”, in The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II Section 3
type:
quotation
text:
The engine just won't go anymore.
type:
example
text:
Don't put your hand inside while the motor's going!
type:
example
text:
'Although the lemon is now black and shrivelled the motor is still going strong. If I can make my small motor run for month after month on a single lemon, just imagine how much "juice" there must be in a whole sackful', Mr Ashill said.
ref:
1997, New Scientist, volume 154, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
[…] though his publisher swears black and blue that Kelder is still going strong and still remains an intensely private person.
ref:
2008, Michael Buckley, Shangri-La: A Practical Guide to the Himalayan Dream, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
You've got thirty seconds to solve the anagram, starting now. Go!
type:
example
text:
Be listening for my voice. Go when you hear my voice say go.
ref:
2001 June 18, a prophecy, quoted in Mary and the Unity of the Church →ISBN, page 49
text:
It’s your turn; go.
type:
example
text:
I've got all vowels. I don't think I can go.
type:
example
text:
I go to school at the schoolhouse.
type:
example
text:
She went to Yale.
type:
example
text:
They only go to church on Christmas.
type:
example
text:
That went well.
type:
example
text:
"How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks."
type:
example
text:
I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough.
ref:
1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations
type:
quotation
text:
I certainly won't mention it to Ben, and will go carefully if he mentions it to me.
ref:
1986, The Opera Quarterly, volume 4, numbers 3-4, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
Why'd you have to go and do that?
type:
example
text:
Why'd you have to go do that?
type:
example
text:
He just went and punched the guy.
type:
example
text:
And even if she had believed the story about a John Smith, she might go telling everyone in town about what she'd seen.
ref:
2011, Debra Glass, Scarlet Widow, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
The fence goes the length of the boundary.
type:
example
text:
A shady promenade went the length of the street and the entrance to the hotel was a few steps back in the darkness, away from the glaring sunshine.
ref:
2010, Luke Dixon, Khartoum, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
This property goes all the way to the state line.
type:
example
text:
The working week goes from Monday to Friday.
type:
example
text:
I think those figures start from 1932 and go to 1941, inclusive, […]
ref:
1946, Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of the United States, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, page 2459
type:
quotation
text:
Even though they can give a basic fact such as 4×4, I don't know that this knowledge goes very deep for them.
ref:
2007, Math for All: Differentiating instruction, grades K-2, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Does this road go to Fort Smith?
type:
example
text:
“Where does this door go?” Bev asked as she pointed to a door painted a darker green than the powder green color of the carpet. Janet answered. “That door goes to the back yard.”
ref:
2013, Without Delusion, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
You'll go blind.
type:
example
text:
The milk went bad.
type:
example
text:
I went crazy.
type:
example
text:
After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight.
type:
example
text:
The video clip went viral.
type:
example
text:
Don't tell my Mum: she'll go ballistic.
type:
example
text:
The local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global.
type:
example
text:
Referring to the American radicals who went Hollywood in the 1930s, Abraham Polonsky argues that "you can't possibly explain the Hollywood communists away […]"
ref:
2001, Saverio Giovacchini, Hollywood Modernism: Film and Politics, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
If we can win on Saturday, we'll go top of the league.
type:
example
text:
They went level with their rivals.
type:
example
text:
They went into debt.
type:
example
text:
She goes to sleep around 10 o'clock.
type:
example
text:
The traffic light went straight from green to red.
type:
example
text:
There is scarcely a business man who is not occasionally asked to go bail for somebody.
ref:
1912, The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer, volume 36, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
Most welfare workers are not allowed to go surety for clients.
ref:
2010, Jane Sanders, Youth Justice: Your Guide to Cops and Courts
type:
quotation
text:
I don't want my children to go hungry.
type:
example
text:
We went barefoot in the summer.
type:
example
text:
The decision went the way we expected.
type:
example
text:
When Wharton had to relinquish his seat in Buckinghamshire on his elevation to the peerage in 1696, he was unable to replace himself with a suitable man, and the by-election went in favour of a local Tory, Lord Cheyne.
ref:
2014, Tim Harris, Politics Under the Later Stuarts, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
Well, that goes to show you.
type:
example
text:
These experiences go to make us stronger.
type:
example
text:
qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter
type:
example
text:
What can we know of any substance or existence, but as made up of all the qualities that go to its composition: extension, solidity, form, colour; take these away, and you know nothing.
ref:
1839, A Challenge to Phrenologists; Or, Phrenology Tested, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
The avoirdupois pound is one of 7,000 grains, and go to the pound.
ref:
1907, Patrick Doyle, Indian Engineering, volume 41, page 181
type:
quotation
text:
The time went slowly.
type:
example
text:
But the days went and went, and she never came; and then I thought I would come here where you were.
ref:
1850, “Sketches of New England Character”, in Holden's Dollar Magazine, volumes 5-6, page 731
type:
quotation
text:
The rest of the morning went quickly and before Su knew it Jean was knocking on the door […]
ref:
2008, Sue Raymond, Hidden Secrets, page 357
type:
quotation
text:
After three days, my headache finally went.
type:
example
text:
His money went on drink.
type:
example
text:
All I have is a sleeping bag right now. All my money goes to keep up the cars.
ref:
2011, Ross Macdonald, Black Money, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
I want to go in my sleep.
type:
example
text:
After two years of swaddled invalidism, Mrs. Morton emitted a final gassy sigh and died, whereas twenty years later Elihu was to go “just like that,” as the neighbors said, from a stroke.
ref:
1978, David Galloway, A Family Album, London: John Calder, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
"Your father's gone." "Okay, okay, the Gaffer's kicked off. What happened?"
ref:
1997, John Wheatcroft, The Education of Malcolm Palmer, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
The third wicket went just before lunch.
type:
example
text:
Smith bowls ... Jones hits it straight up in the air ... and ... caught! Jones has gone!
type:
example
text:
Careful! It looks as if that ceiling could go at any moment!
type:
example
text:
I wonder if I hopped up and down, would the bridge go?
ref:
1998, Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
Sober-eyed commentators safe in their television studios interviewed engineers about the chances that the rest of the dam could go.
ref:
2011, Shaunti Feldhahn, The Lights of Tenth Street
type:
quotation
text:
Jackson shook his head. "The contractor said those panes could go at any moment." / "Right. Just like the wiring could go at any moment, and the roof could go at any moment."
ref:
2012, Carolyn Keene, Mardi Gras Masquerade, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
My mind is going.
type:
example
text:
She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go.
type:
example
text:
The car went for five thousand dollars.
type:
example
text:
The store is closing down so everything must go.
type:
example
text:
This chair has got to go.
type:
example
text:
All this old rubbish can go.
type:
example
text:
The property shall go to my wife.
type:
example
text:
The award went to Steven Spielberg.
type:
example
text:
If my money goes to education, I want a report card.
ref:
2007, David Bouchier, The Song of Suburbia: Scenes from Suburban Life, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Against the Big Green, Princeton went the entire first and third quarters without gaining a first down, […]
ref:
1983, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 84, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
England have now gone four games without a win at Wembley, their longest sequence without a victory in 30 years, and still have much work to do to reach Euro 2012 as they prepare for a testing trip to face Bulgaria in Sofia in September.
ref:
2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2-2 Switzerland”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
'Surely one cannot go for long in this world to-day without at least a thought for St Simon Stylites?'
ref:
2011, H. R. F. Keating, Zen there was Murder →ISBN
text:
How long can you go without water?
type:
example
text:
We've gone without your help for a while now.
type:
example
text:
I've gone ten days now without a cigarette.
type:
example
text:
Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!
type:
example
text:
They've gone one for three in this series.
type:
example
text:
The team is going five in a row.
type:
example
text:
Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?
type:
example
text:
Anything goes around here.
type:
example
text:
The baked beans can go on this shelf, and the same goes for all these other tins.
type:
example
text:
[To job interviews, wear] muted colors. No pink or paisley (that goes for you too, guys!) […]
ref:
2014, Shayna Lance King, If You'd Read This Book: You'd Be Employed By Now, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!"
type:
example
text:
As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid."
type:
example
text:
Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom".
type:
example
text:
At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams[…]' / / She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. / / As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.
ref:
1992 June 24, Edwina Currie, Diary
type:
quotation
text:
I woke up just before the clock went.
type:
example
text:
The tune goes like this.
type:
example
text:
As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.
type:
example
text:
The nylon gears kept breaking, so we went to stainless steel.
type:
example
text:
I'm going to join a sports team.
type:
example
text:
I wish you'd go and get a job.
type:
example
text:
He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach.
type:
example
text:
He's going to leave town tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
Now I didn't go to make that mistake about the record-breaking drought of more than fifty years ago, but, boy, am I glad I made it. Otherwise, I wouldn't have heard from Joe Almand.
ref:
1990, Celestine Sibley, Tokens of myself, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
You didn't have to go to such trouble.
type:
example
text:
I never thought he'd go so far as to call you.
type:
example
text:
She went to great expense to help them win.
type:
example
text:
I've gone over this a hundred times.
type:
example
text:
Let's not go into that right now.
type:
example
text:
Do you think the sofa will go through the door?
type:
example
text:
The belt just barely went around his waist.
type:
example
text:
This shade of red doesn't go with the drapes.
type:
example
text:
White wine goes better with fish than red wine.
type:
example
text:
My shirts go on this side of the wardrobe.
type:
example
text:
This piece of the jigsaw goes on the other side.
type:
example
text:
How long have they been going together?
type:
example
text:
He's been going with her for two weeks.
type:
example
text:
You can date black, you can do white, on a slow night maybe even go for an Asian boy, but most likely you'll go Latino unless the aforementioned guys speak a little Spanish […]
ref:
2005, Frederick Smith, Down For Whatever, Kensington Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 197
type:
quotation
text:
I felt that was an insult to John Lennon, but I married her anyway. Thinking back, I should have gone Asian.
ref:
2010 November 9, Greg Fitzsimmons, Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox, Simon and Schuster, page 166
type:
quotation
text:
“I could give a flying fuck less if Ronnie dated a Martian, but the fact of the matter is that it would not be cool for him to go Asian. He knows it and I know it.” Ronnie did not respond at all. Shit, he wanted to date Tai in the worst way, […]
ref:
2010, Marty Nazzaro, The City of Presidents, FriesenPress, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
In fact, Hispanics and Asians are riding the wave—26 percent of Latino and 31 percent of Asian newlywed couples were mixed race or ethnicity. And, when marrying out, we went white—four in ten Latinos married a white spouse, […]
ref:
2011 May 3, Sandra Guzmán, The New Latina’s Bible: The Modern Latina’s Guide to Love, Spirituality, Family, and La Vida, Basic Books, →LCCN, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
She's gone black now. That's a big change for you, Cassie. So tell me, is it true what they say about black men?
ref:
2012 March 1, Sylvia Lett, All Night Lover, Kensington Publishing Corp., →OCLC, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
“She went black,” he remembers. “She only started dating black guys. Or foreigners.”
ref:
2017 May 16, Judith A. Yates, "She Is Evil!": Madness and Murder in Memphis, WildBlue Press, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
“Your twin is dating a white man,” Lashana interjected. […] “[…]Now, let me get this straight, Eb, you've gone white?”
ref:
2018 November 27, M.J. Kane, A Heart Not Easily Broken (Butterfly Memoirs), Written Musings
type:
quotation
text:
She's hot. Hey, how are your parents about it all? I mean, you're breaking two taboos there—you're dating women, and you've gone white.
ref:
2022 January 4, Radhika Sanghani, 30 Things I Love About Myself, Penguin, →LCCN, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
You wanna go, little man?
ref:
2002, “Objects in Space”, in Firefly, Jayne Cobb (actor)
type:
quotation
text:
I went at him with a knife.
type:
example
text:
You've shown me his weak points, and I'll go him whether you stick by me or not.
ref:
1900, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Tricks: Or True Friends and False
type:
quotation
text:
As big as me. Strong, too. I was itching to go him, And he had clouted Ernie.
ref:
1964, Robert Close, Love Me Sailor, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
Then I′m sure I heard him mutter ‘Why don′t you get fucked,’ under his breath.
It was at that moment that I became a true professional. Instead of going him, I announced the next song.
ref:
2002, James Freud, I am the Voice Left from Drinking, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
Tom stepped back, considered the hill, and taking off down it. She was going to go him for blowing that flamin′ whistle in her ear all day.
ref:
2005, Joy Dettman, One Sunday, page 297
type:
quotation
text:
My cat Fluffy is very timid, as cats go.
type:
example
text:
As far as burgers go, this is one of the best.
type:
example
text:
Booster is not a loud trumpeter as elephants go.
ref:
1975, Private Eye, numbers 340-366, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
They are fairly rough and ready as models go, not often driven to the rigor of an authentic scientific law, and never worried about coming out with some revolutionary mathematical language — but models nonetheless, […]
ref:
1982, Fernand Braudel, On History, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
She was, as girls go, scrawny and muscular, yet her boyish frame had in the last year betrayed her.
ref:
1991, Katherine Paterson, Lyddie
type:
quotation
text:
Let's go halves on this.
type:
example
text:
This'll go three tons to the acre, or I'll eat my shirt.
ref:
1910, Ray Stannard Baker, Adventures in Friendship, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
Those babies go five tons apiece.
type:
example
text:
That's as high as I can go.
type:
example
text:
We could go two fifty.
type:
example
text:
I'll go a ten-spot.
type:
example
text:
I'll go you a shilling.
type:
example
text:
I'll go him one better.
type:
example
text:
I could go a beer right about now.
type:
example
text:
'But I bet you could go a cup of tea? I know I could. Always ready for char.' He looked over my shoulder towards Albert Hicks, who was standing in the doorway. 'Albert, could you rustle up a pot of our best Darjeeling?[…]'
ref:
1996, Jonathan Goodman, The Last Sentence, Chivers North America
type:
quotation
text:
I really need to go.
type:
example
text:
Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?
type:
example
text:
Clarence was just as surprised to see Richard, and he went—right there in the doorway. I had slept through all this mayhem on the other side of the apartment. By the time I got up, these were all semi-comical memories and the urine had been cleaned up.
ref:
2006, Kevin Blue, Practical Justice: Living Off-Center in a Self-Centered World, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
Go, girl! You can do it!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things such as people or cars, or intangible things such as moods or information.)
To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To leave; to move away.
To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To travel or pass along.
To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To walk; to travel on one's feet.
To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
To start; to begin (an action or process).
To take a turn, especially in a game.
To attend.
To proceed:
To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
To proceed:
To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
To extend along.
To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
To lead (to a place); to give access (to).
To become, move to or come to (a state, position, situation)
To become. (The adjective that follows often, but not always, describes a negative state.)
To become, move to or come to (a state, position, situation)
To move to (a position or state).
To become, move to or come to (a state, position, situation)
To come (to a certain condition or state).
To change (from one value to another).
To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
To continuously or habitually be in a state.
To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
To tend (toward a result)
To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
To pass, to be used up:
To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
To pass, to be used up:
To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
To pass, to be used up:
To be spent or used up.
To die.
To be lost or out:
To be lost.
To be lost or out:
To be out.
To break down or apart:
To collapse or give way, to break apart.
To break down or apart:
To break down or decay.
To be sold.
To be discarded or disposed of.
To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
To have a certain record.
To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
Of an opinion or instruction, to have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
To be accepted.
To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
To be valid or applicable.
To say (something), to make a sound:
To say (something, aloud or to oneself).
To say (something), to make a sound:
To make the (specified) sound.
To say (something), to make a sound:
To sound; to make a noise.
To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
To resort (to).
To apply or subject oneself to:
To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
To apply or subject oneself to:
To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
To apply or subject oneself to:
To work (through or over), especially mentally.
To fit (in a place, or together with something):
To fit.
To fit (in a place, or together with something):
To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
To fit (in a place, or together with something):
To belong (somewhere).
To date.
To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
To attack:
To fight or attack.
To attack:
To fight.
To attack:
To attack.
Used to express how some category of things generally is, as a reference for, contrast to, or comparison with, a particular example.
To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
To yield or weigh.
To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
To go to the toilet; to urinate or defecate.
Expressing encouragement or approval.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
9268 | word:
go
word_type:
noun
expansion:
go (countable and uncountable, plural goes)
forms:
form:
goes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
go (verb)
etymology_text:
From Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān (“to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).
The inherited past tense form yode (compare Old English ēode) was replaced through suppletion in the 15th century by went, from Old English wendan (“to go, depart, wend”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots gae (“to go”), West Frisian gean (“to go”), Dutch gaan (“to go”), Low German gahn (“to go”), German gehen (“to go”), Swedish and Danish gå (“to go”), Norwegian gå (“to walk”). Compare also Albanian ngah (“to run, drive, go”), Ancient Greek κιχάνω (kikhánō, “to meet with, arrive at”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬰𐬁𐬨𐬌 (zazāmi), Sanskrit जहाति (jáhāti).
senses_examples:
text:
The Apostles were to be the first of a line. They would multiply successors, and the successors would die and their successors after them, but the line would never fail; and the come and go of men would not matter, since it is the one Christ operating through all of them.
ref:
1993, Francis J. Sheed, Theology and Sanity
type:
quotation
text:
They talk easily together and they hear the come and go of the breeze in the soon to be turning burnt leaves of the high trees.
ref:
2009, Mark Raney, David Midgett, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
You’ve been on that pinball machine long enough—now let your brother have a go.
type:
example
text:
It’s your go.
type:
example
text:
I’ll give it a go.
type:
example
text:
You have to stay and we will have a go at winning the championship next season."
ref:
2012, Alex Montgomery, Martin O'Neill: The Biography, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
ate it all in one go
type:
example
text:
This could mean that the artist traced the illustration in two goes, as it were, or that the Utrecht Psalter slipped while he was tracing, but I do not think that the relative proportions are consistent enough to demonstrate this.
ref:
1995, William Noel, The Harley Psalter, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
Even if she was bigger and more mature, she would have a tough go of it. We have read a lot on this diagnosis and have known from the beginning what she has been up against.” “It's true about this being a tough go,” I said. “Listen, I'm very sorry, but I'm on call here tomorrow and I will[…]"
ref:
2011 May 20, Sue L Hall M D, For the Love of Babies: One Doctor's Stories about Life in the Neonatal ICU, WorldMaker Media, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
"She's had a rough go of things and no one wants to see her hurt.” Jason stared at Kate's slender frame, backlit by a spear of sunlight breaking through the cloud cover. "Then that makes the entire town plus one."
ref:
2013 July 2, Addison Fox, From This Moment On: An Alaskan Nights Novella (A Penguin Special from Signet Eclipse), Penguin
type:
quotation
text:
With public opinion turned more empathetic toward AF with the bombing of their building, Sarah and the Justice Department would have a tough go of it. But if this really was true [that they were behind the bombing themselves], and the media got ahold of it. . .
ref:
2015 May 26, Dr. Kevin Leman, Jeff Nesbit, A Perfect Ambition (The Worthington Destiny Book 1): A Novel, Revell
type:
quotation
text:
1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, in 1868, The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 2: Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, American Notes, page 306,
“Well, this is a pretty go, is this here! An uncommon pretty go!
text:
“Ain't this a rum go? This is a queer sort of dodge for lighting the streets.”
ref:
1869, Punch, volume 57, page 257
type:
quotation
text:
The images of Mrs. Squeers, my daughter, and my son Wackford, all short of vittles, is perpetually before me; every other consideration melts away and vanishes, in front of these; the only number in all arithmetic that I know of, as a husband and a father, is number one, under this here most fatal go!
ref:
1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
type:
quotation
text:
It’s a rum go and no mistake.
ref:
2018 February 11, Colin Dexter, Russell Lewis, 01:02:03 from the start, in Endeavour(Cartouche), season 5, episode 2 (TV series), spoken by DCI Fred Thursday (Roger Allam)
type:
quotation
text:
We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go.
type:
example
text:
"Well, Tom, is it a go? You can trust me, for you'll have the thousand in your pocket before you start.[…]"
ref:
1894, Bret Harte, The Sheriff of Siskyou
type:
quotation
text:
And as soon as we gave them the go to continue, we lost communication.
ref:
2009, Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
type:
quotation
text:
1598, John Marston, Pigmalion, The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image and Certaine Satyres, 1856, J. O. Halliwell (editor), The Works of John Marston: Reprinted from the Original Editions, Volume 3, page 211,
Let this suffice, that that same happy night,
So gracious were the goes of marriage […]
text:
quite the go
type:
example
text:
We are blowing each other out of the market with cheapness; but it is all the go, so we must not be behind the age.
ref:
1852, Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn), The London and Paris ladies' magazine of fashion (page 97)
text:
a high go
type:
example
text:
Gemmen (says he), you all well know
The joy there is whene'er we meet;
It's what I call the primest go,
And rightly named, 'tis—'quite a treat,' […]
ref:
1820, Thomas Moore, W. Simpkin, R. Marshall, Jack Randall's Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius
type:
quotation
text:
Jack Randall then impatient rose, / And said, ‘Tom's speech were just as fine / If he would call that first of goes [i.e. gin] / By that genteeler name—white wine.'
ref:
1820, Thomas Moore, W. Simpkin, R. Marshall, Jack Randall's Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius
type:
quotation
text:
When the cloth was removed, Mr. Thomas Potter ordered the waiter to bring in two goes of his best Scotch whiskey, with warm water and sugar, and a couple of his "very mildest" Havannas,
ref:
1836, Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz
type:
quotation
text:
“Then, if you value it so highly,” I said, “you can hardly object to stand half a go of brandy for its recovery.”
ref:
1868 March, In a City Bus, in the Eclectic Magazine, new series volume VII, number 3
text:
There is no go in him.
type:
example
text:
That TOM, who was the GO among the GOES, in the very centre of fashion in London, should have to encounter the vulgar stare of this village; or, that the dairy-maid should leave off skimming her cream to take a peep at our hero, as he mounted his courser, is not at all surprising: and TOM only smiled at this provincial sort of rudeness.
ref:
1881, Pierce Egan, chapter VII, in Tom and Jerry, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
He's a go among the goes, is Mr. Kestrel. He's only got to sport a new kind of topper, or tie his crumpler a new way, and every gentry-cove in town does just the same.
ref:
2012, Kate Ross, A Broken Vessel
type:
quotation
text:
See Thesaurus:dandy
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of going.
A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
An attempt, a try.
A period of activity.
A time; an experience.
A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected.
An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
An act; the working or operation.
The fashion or mode.
Noisy merriment.
A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
A portion
Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
A dandy; a fashionable person.
senses_topics:
|
9269 | word:
go
word_type:
adj
expansion:
go (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
go (verb)
etymology_text:
From Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān (“to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).
The inherited past tense form yode (compare Old English ēode) was replaced through suppletion in the 15th century by went, from Old English wendan (“to go, depart, wend”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots gae (“to go”), West Frisian gean (“to go”), Dutch gaan (“to go”), Low German gahn (“to go”), German gehen (“to go”), Swedish and Danish gå (“to go”), Norwegian gå (“to walk”). Compare also Albanian ngah (“to run, drive, go”), Ancient Greek κιχάνω (kikhánō, “to meet with, arrive at”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬰𐬁𐬨𐬌 (zazāmi), Sanskrit जहाति (jáhāti).
senses_examples:
text:
John Glenn reports all systems are go.
ref:
1962, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the […] Congress, page 2754
type:
quotation
text:
"Life support system is go," said the earphone.
ref:
1964, Instruments and Control Systems
type:
quotation
text:
Green One has four starts and is go.
ref:
2011, Matthew Stover, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor: Star Wars Legends, Del Rey
type:
quotation
text:
“Weapons ready?” Sam and I pull our loaded BB guns out of the bag and slot them into place in the longholsters on our backs.“ Weapons are go,” Sam replied.
ref:
2016, Tim Brewster, Stuck: It's About to Get Very Weird […], Lulu.com, page 118
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.
senses_topics:
|
9270 | word:
go
word_type:
noun
expansion:
go (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Go (game)
go (verb)
etymology_text:
table From Japanese 碁(ご) (go), one character of the game's more usual Japanese name 囲碁(いご) (igo), from Chinese 圍棋／围棋 (wéiqí).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
senses_topics:
|
9271 | word:
accusatively
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accusatively (comparative more accusatively, superlative most accusatively)
forms:
form:
more accusatively
tags:
comparative
form:
most accusatively
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accusative + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an accusative manner.
In relation to the accusative case in grammar.
senses_topics:
|
9272 | word:
girlfriend
word_type:
noun
expansion:
girlfriend (plural girlfriends)
forms:
form:
girlfriends
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compound of girl + friend.
senses_examples:
text:
Marc went to the park with his girlfriend and watched the sunset with her.
type:
example
text:
Want to pick some flowers, doctor? When a man visits an old girlfriend she usually expects something like that.
ref:
1966, “The Man Trap”, in Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 1 (television production), spoken by Capt. James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Paramount Pictures
type:
quotation
text:
Mary always enjoyed hanging out with her girlfriend Jessica.
type:
example
text:
[…] for the past 45 years, Neri had sat outside with her girlfriends Fotini and Eleni, two school friends who, having grown old in their company, Neri loved dearly.
ref:
2018, Shiv Kotecha, The Switch, United States: Wonder, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
[Tim:] james huh? my lover carlos's best girlfriend is named james.
[James:] yes, i know. i AM your lover carlos's best girlfriend james.
ref:
1994, Eric Orner, The Seven Deadly Sins of Love (reprinted in The Completely Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2015), p. 53)
text:
[Hanque:] girlfriend - how'r we doing?
[Doug:] hi hanque, i'd like a capuccino and some lobster bisque..
[Caption:] (friendliness with the waitstaff is a good sign)
ref:
1994, Eric Orner, The Seven Deadly Sins of Love (reprinted in The Completely Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2015), p. 32)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
A female friend of a woman or girl.
A fellow gay man, especially a friend as opposed to a sexual partner.
A term of address for a female friend or among gay men.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality
|
9273 | word:
vessel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vessel (plural vessels)
forms:
form:
vessels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English vessel, vessell, from Old French vaissel (compare modern French vaisseau and Catalan vaixell), from Late Latin vāscellum, diminutive of vāsculum, diminutive of vās (“vase, vessel”).
senses_examples:
text:
He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.
ref:
1905, H. G. Wells, The Empire of the Ants
type:
quotation
text:
Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
ref:
2012 March 24, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
Driven from their home system by the geth nearly three centuries ago, most quarians now live aboard the Migrant Fleet, a flotilla of fifty thousand vessels ranging in size from passenger shuttles to mobile space stations.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
All his Vessell was of golde and siluer, pottis, basons, ewers, dysshes, flagons, barels, cuppes, and all other thyngis.
ref:
1523, John Bourchier, translated by Jean Froissart, Here begynneth the first volum of sir Iohan Froyssart : of the cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flauders: and other places adioynynge.
type:
quotation
text:
A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.
type:
example
text:
I am a vessel that’s empty and useless / I am a bad seed that fell by the way.
ref:
1975, Dolly Parton, The Seeker lyrics
text:
Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.
A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.
A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
biology
natural-sciences |
9274 | word:
vessel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vessel (third-person singular simple present vessels, present participle vesselling or (US) vesseling, simple past and past participle vesselled or (US) vesseled)
forms:
form:
vessels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vesselling
tags:
participle
present
form:
vesseling
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
vesselled
tags:
participle
past
form:
vesselled
tags:
past
form:
vesseled
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
vesseled
tags:
US
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English vessel, vessell, from Old French vaissel (compare modern French vaisseau and Catalan vaixell), from Late Latin vāscellum, diminutive of vāsculum, diminutive of vās (“vase, vessel”).
senses_examples:
text:
1577, William Harrison, The Description of England in Holinshed’s Chronicles, Volume 1, Book 3, Chapter 12 “Of venemous beastes &c.,”
Our hony alſo is taken and reputed to be the beſt bycauſe it is harder, better wrought & clenlyer veſſelled vp, thẽ that which cõmeth from beyond the ſea, where they ſtampe and ſtraine their combes, Bées, & young Blow|inges altogither into the ſtuffe, as I haue béene informed.
text:
1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie, London: W. Lee, Cent. VI, section 529, p. 137,
The fourth Rule ſhall be, to marke what Herbs, ſome Earths doe put fourth of themſelves; And to take that Earth, and to Pot it, or to Veſſell it; And in that to ſet the Seed you would change […]
text:
Man had at the firſt, and ſo have all ſouls before their entrance into the body, an explicite methodicall knowledge, but they are no ſooner veſſel’d, but that liberty is loſt, and nothing remains but a vaſt confuſed notion of the creature […]
ref:
1662, John Heydon, The Harmony of the World, London: Robert Horn, Epistle Dedicatory
type:
quotation
text:
[Samuel 'Sam' Oliver:] Alright (or: All right), so the Devil didn't say that the winner was the one who vesseled (or: vesselled) him, just the one who sends him back to hell.
ref:
2009, Reaper (TV series), 2nd season, episode known as The Home Stretch
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put into a vessel.
senses_topics:
|
9275 | word:
ROFL
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
ROFL
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of rolling on the floor, laughing; used to indicate great amusement.
Initialism of ran out for lunch.
senses_topics:
|
9276 | word:
ROFL
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ROFL (third-person singular simple present ROFLs, present participle ROFLing, simple past and past participle ROFLed)
forms:
form:
ROFLs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ROFLing
tags:
participle
present
form:
ROFLed
tags:
participle
past
form:
ROFLed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
IF YOU PLAYED Boiling Point and didn’t find yourself outwardly ROFLing at the absurd number of bugs the game was drowning in, then maybe you saw the potential Deep Shadows’ free-roaming Columbian RPG had hidden in its floating-puma infested jungles.
ref:
2007 October, Steve Hogarty, “White Gold”, in PC Zone, number 185, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
My REFs may be ROFLing⁷ while I’m definitely not. My RLFs will know the minute they see me or talk to me on the phone that I need cheering up.
7 ROFL is an Internet acronym for “roll(ing) on the floor laughing.”
ref:
2008, Rhiannon Bury, quoting Callie, “Remotely Embodied Friendships in Female Fan Communities”, in Samantha Holland, editor, Remote Relationships in a Small World, Peter Lang, section 3 (Making Contact), pages 195 and 197
type:
quotation
text:
I’d be ROFLing if it weren’t so sad, so pathetic.
ref:
2015, “Julie Patch”, in Michael Martone, Bryan Furuness, editors, Winesburg, Indiana: A Fork River Anthology, Indiana University Press, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of roll on the floor, laughing; to experience great amusement at something.
senses_topics:
|
9277 | word:
tangle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tangle (third-person singular simple present tangles, present participle tangling, simple past and past participle tangled)
forms:
form:
tangles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tangling
tags:
participle
present
form:
tangled
tags:
participle
past
form:
tangled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tangle
etymology_text:
From Middle English tanglen, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Swedish taggla (“to disorder”), Old Norse þǫngull, þang (“tangle; seaweed”), see Etymology 2 below.
senses_examples:
text:
Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.
type:
example
text:
By the afternoon it seemed as if the storm had passed and that frost was setting in; but in the evening the wind rose to gale force, bringing telegraph poles down like skittles and tangling power and telephone lines.
ref:
1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
Don't tangle with someone three times your size.
type:
example
text:
He tangled with the law.
type:
example
text:
Compared to the last time they'd tangled with the U.S. Navy's carriers, the antiaircraft fire had been much, much more effective, even if the Wildcats hadn't done particularly well in their intercepts. They couldn't know it, of course, but the officer aboard Enterprise who'd recommended recarpeting the ship with 20-mm Oerlikons had, at least partially, been listened to, and the effect on the Japanese Navy's elite aircrews had been devastating.
ref:
2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 19:47 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-12-04
type:
quotation
text:
After a few attempts at counseling, they separated in January 2015. Since then, they have tangled in the courts.
ref:
2021 August 20, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Who Gets the L.L.C.? Inside a Silicon Valley Billionaire’s Divorce.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
When my simple weakness strays, / Tangled in forbidden ways.
ref:
1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple
type:
quotation
text:
This is a book about the potential for the reclamation, reform, and enlightened transformation of the most expansive elements of the liberal tradition— that social and economic justice remain tangled in liberalism's web of pretentious institutions and betrayed promises is the reason for this battle from within.
ref:
2001, Christine A. Kelly, Tangled Up in Red, White, and Blue: New Social Movements in America
type:
quotation
text:
He spent the night at a friend's place unable to sleep and wondering how he got himself tangled in this mess.
ref:
2004, Eve Ikuenobe-Otaigbe, Tangled, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
Why else would she have tangled him in spells of illusion to get him to keep her company?
ref:
2014, Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory, The House of the Four Winds
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mix together or intertwine.
To become mixed together or intertwined.
To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
To catch and hold.
senses_topics:
|
9278 | word:
tangle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tangle (plural tangles)
forms:
form:
tangles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tangle
etymology_text:
From Middle English tanglen, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Swedish taggla (“to disorder”), Old Norse þǫngull, þang (“tangle; seaweed”), see Etymology 2 below.
senses_examples:
text:
I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere.
type:
example
text:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tangled twisted mass.
A complicated or confused state or condition.
An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
medicine
sciences
|
9279 | word:
tangle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tangle (countable and uncountable, plural tangles)
forms:
form:
tangles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tangle
etymology_text:
Of North Germanic origin, such as Danish tang or Swedish tång, from Old Norse þongull, þang. See also Norwegian tongul, Faroese tongul, Icelandic þöngull.
senses_examples:
text:
You've never smelled the tangle o' the Isles.
ref:
1917, “The Road to the Isles”, in Kenneth Macleod, editor, Songs of the Hebrides
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
senses_topics:
|
9280 | word:
datolite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
datolite (plural datolites)
forms:
form:
datolites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek δατέομαι (datéomai, “to divide”) + -lite; in allusion to the granular structure of a massive variety.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A borosilicate of lime commonly occurring in glassy, greenish crystals, with the chemical formula CaBSiO₄(OH).
senses_topics:
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9281 | word:
mole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mole (plural moles)
forms:
form:
moles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mole
mole (skin marking)
etymology_text:
From Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl (“a mole, spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-West Germanic *mail, from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“spot, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *melw- (“dark, dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-, *my- (“to soil, sully”).
Cognate with Scots mail (“spot, stain”), Saterland Frisian Moal (“scar”), German dialectal Meil (“spot, stain, blemish”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻 (mail, “spot, blemish”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.
senses_topics:
|
9282 | word:
mole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mole (plural moles)
forms:
form:
moles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mole
mole (animal)
mole (espionage)
etymology_text:
From Middle English molle (“mole”), molde, mole, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mulaz, *mulhaz (“mole, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *molg-, *molk- (“slug, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)melw- (“to grind, crush, beat”).
Cognate with North Frisian mull (“mole”), Saterland Frisian molle (“mole”), Dutch mol (“mole”), Low German Mol, Mul (“mole”), German Molch (“salamander, newt”), Old Russian смолжь (smolžʹ, “snail”), Czech mlž (“clam”).
Derivation as an abbreviation of Middle English molewarpe, a variation of moldewarpe, moldwerp (“mole”) in Middle English is unexplained and probably unlikely due to the simultaneous occurrence of both words. See mouldwarp.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae; also any of southern African mammals in the family Chrysochloridae (golden moles) and any of several Australian mammals in the family Notoryctidae (marsupial moles), similar to but not closely related to Talpidae moles
Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines
A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
senses_topics:
espionage
government
military
politics
war
|
9283 | word:
mole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mole (plural moles)
forms:
form:
moles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mole
etymology_text:
From moll (from Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary), influenced by the spelling of the word mole (“an internal spy”), and due to /mɒl/ and /məʊl/ merging as [ˈmɔʊɫ] in the Australian accent.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A moll, a bitch, a slut.
senses_topics:
|
9284 | word:
mole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mole (plural moles)
forms:
form:
moles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Mole (architecture)
mole
etymology_text:
From French môle or Latin mōles (“mass, heap, rock”).
senses_examples:
text:
[Alexander the Great] then conceived the stupendous idea of constructing a mole, which should at once connect [Tyre] with the main land; and this was actually accomplished by driving piles and pouring in incalculable quantities of soil and fragments of rock; and it is generally believed, partly on the authority of ancient authors, that the whole ruins of Old Tyre were absorbed in this vast enterprize, and buried in the depths of the sea [...]
ref:
1847, George A. Fisk, A pastor's memorial of the holy land
type:
quotation
text:
Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land.
ref:
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1
type:
quotation
text:
[about Saint-Tropez] Yachts and fishing boats fill the little square of water, which is surrounded on two sides by quays, on the third by a small ship-repairing yard and on the fourth by the mole where the fishing boats moor and the nets are spread out to dry.
ref:
1983, Archibald Lyall, Arthur Norman Brangham, The companion guide to the south of France
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
An Ancient Roman mausoleum.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
9285 | word:
mole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mole (plural moles)
forms:
form:
moles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mole
mole (unit)
etymology_text:
Calqued from German Mol; spelled as if it had come directly from molecule or Latin moles (the ultimate source of Mol and molecule in any event).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains exactly 6.02214076×10²³ elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.). Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
9286 | word:
mole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mole (plural moles)
forms:
form:
moles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hydatidiform mole
mole
etymology_text:
In English since before the 20th century. From French môle f, from Latin mola (“millstone”), because it is a hardened mass.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
senses_topics:
|
9287 | word:
mole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mole (countable and uncountable, plural moles)
forms:
form:
moles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mole
mole (sauce)
etymology_text:
From Spanish mole, from Classical Nahuatl mōlli (“sauce; stew; something ground”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially a sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.
senses_topics:
|
9288 | word:
accusatorial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accusatorial (comparative more accusatorial, superlative most accusatorial)
forms:
form:
more accusatorial
tags:
comparative
form:
most accusatorial
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin accūsātōrius + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing or implying accusation.
Of or pertaining to the system of a public trial in which the facts are ascertained by the judge or jury from evidence presented by the prosecution and the defence.
senses_topics:
law |
9289 | word:
blooming
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blooming
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of bloom
senses_topics:
|
9290 | word:
blooming
word_type:
adj
expansion:
blooming (comparative more blooming, superlative most blooming)
forms:
form:
more blooming
tags:
comparative
form:
most blooming
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
“How'd you like to be shoved in a blooming log?'
ref:
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 54
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Opening in blossoms; flowering.
Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
senses_topics:
|
9291 | word:
blooming
word_type:
adv
expansion:
blooming (comparative more blooming, superlative most blooming)
forms:
form:
more blooming
tags:
comparative
form:
most blooming
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
My train's late again. Blooming typical.
type:
example
text:
“Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”
ref:
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”
ref:
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
senses_topics:
|
9292 | word:
blooming
word_type:
noun
expansion:
blooming (countable and uncountable, plural bloomings)
forms:
form:
bloomings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Such bloomings, Dr. McLaren continued, would require a critical audience, “so that they can be subject to scientific and ethical review, freely available for research and one day, perhaps, for treating diseases.”
ref:
2007 July 23, Jeremy Pearce, “Anne McLaren, 80, Expert on the Embryo, Is Dead”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act by which something blooms.
The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.
senses_topics:
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography |
9293 | word:
vociferance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vociferance (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin vōciferor (“shout”), from vōx (“voice”) + ferō (“carry”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Vociferation; clamour, noise.
senses_topics:
|
9294 | word:
antarctic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
antarctic (comparative more antarctic, superlative most antarctic)
forms:
form:
more antarctic
tags:
comparative
form:
most antarctic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Antarctic
senses_topics:
|
9295 | word:
asteroids
word_type:
noun
expansion:
asteroids
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of asteroid
senses_topics:
|
9296 | word:
Dutchwoman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Dutchwoman (plural Dutchwomen)
forms:
form:
Dutchwomen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Dutch + -woman.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Dutch woman; a woman from the Netherlands.
A woman of Dutch descent.
A female Pennsylvania German.
A woman from Germany.
A female white Afrikaner.
senses_topics:
|
9297 | word:
Abelite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Abelite (plural Abelites)
forms:
form:
Abelites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Abel + -ite.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Abelian.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
9298 | word:
corrigendum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
corrigendum (plural corrigenda)
forms:
form:
corrigenda
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
corrigendum
etymology_text:
From Latin corrigendum, nominative neuter singular of corrigendus, the future passive participle (gerundive) of corrigō (“I correct”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An error that is to be corrected in a printed work after publication.
A list of errors in a printed work as a separate page of corrections.
senses_topics:
|
9299 | word:
revenue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
revenue (countable and uncountable, plural revenues)
forms:
form:
revenues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Early Modern English
Shakespeare
revenue
etymology_text:
Recorded in English from 1433, "income from property or possessions", from Middle French revenue, from Old French [Term?] (“a return”) (modern French revenu), the prop. feminine past participle of revenir (“come back”) (=modern French), from Latin revenire (“to return, come back”), from re- (“back”) + venire (“to come”).
senses_examples:
text:
In the seventh series of The X Factor in the UK, it's estimated the phone votes brought in more than £5.4 million in revenue.
ref:
2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon
What, no revenue of praise for him who is our gracious Lord and King! He doth not exact from us any servile labor, but simply saith, “Who so offereth praise glorifieth me.”
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The income returned by an investment.
The total income received from a given source.
All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
The total sales; turnover.
The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
A return; something paid back.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance
accounting
business
finance
|
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