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9300 | word:
revenue
word_type:
verb
expansion:
revenue (third-person singular simple present revenues, present participle revenuing, simple past and past participle revenued)
forms:
form:
revenues
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
revenuing
tags:
participle
present
form:
revenued
tags:
participle
past
form:
revenued
tags:
past
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:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To generate revenue.
To supply with revenue.
senses_topics:
|
9301 | word:
vociferant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vociferant (comparative more vociferant, superlative most vociferant)
forms:
form:
more vociferant
tags:
comparative
form:
most vociferant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin vōciferāns (present participle).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
noisy; clamorous
senses_topics:
|
9302 | word:
tail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tail (plural tails)
forms:
form:
tails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:tail
etymology_text:
From Middle English tail, tayl, teil, from Old English tæġl (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *tagl, from Proto-Germanic *taglą (“hair, fiber; hair of a tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ- (“hair of the tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to tear, fray, shred”). Cognate with Scots tail (“tail”), Saterland Frisian Tail (“tail, end”), West Frisian teil (“tail”), Dutch teil (“tail, haulm, blade”), Low German Tagel (“twisted scourge, whip of thongs and ropes; end of a rope”), German Zagel (“tail”), dialectal Danish tavl (“hair of the tail”), Swedish tagel (“hair of the tail, horsehair”), Norwegian tagl (“tail”), Icelandic tagl (“tail, horsetail, ponytail”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”). In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.
senses_examples:
text:
Most primates have a tail and fangs.
type:
example
text:
Duretus writes a great praise of the Distill'd waters of those tails that hang on Willow Trees.
ref:
1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus: or the Anatomy of Consumptions, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
It was soon over, and the unmoved magistrate calmly ordained that Deborah Williams, Elizabeth and Faith Wilson, should be tied to a cart's tail, and thus led through the principal streets of the town, receiving during their progress twenty lashes each, well laid on, upon the naked back.
ref:
1862, Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, volume 16, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
A sequence (a#x5F;n) is said to be frequently 0 if every tail of the sequence contains 0.
type:
example
text:
By Goddis sydes, syns I her thyder broughte, / She hath gote me more money with her tayle / Than hath some shyppe that into Bordews sayle.
ref:
1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte
type:
quotation
text:
I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.
type:
example
text:
On the bosom of young Abigail
Was written the price of her tail
And on her behind
For the use of the blind
Was the same information in Braille
ref:
1971, “Abigail”, in Live at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, performed by The Corries
type:
quotation
text:
Ah! if you Saxon Duinhé-wassal (English gentleman) saw but the chief with his tail on. […] that is, with all his usual followers
ref:
1814, Walter Scott, Waverley: Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since, page 238
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
One who surreptitiously follows another.
The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
The buttocks or backside.
The penis of a person or animal.
Sexual intercourse.
The stern; the back of the kayak.
A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
The distal tendon of a muscle.
A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
A tailing.
The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
A tailcoat.
Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”)
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
mathematics
sciences
statistics
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
media
publishing
typography
mathematics
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
medicine
sciences
surgery
nautical
transport
entertainment
lifestyle
music
business
mining
architecture
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
9303 | word:
tail
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tail (third-person singular simple present tails, present participle tailing, simple past and past participle tailed)
forms:
form:
tails
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tailing
tags:
participle
present
form:
tailed
tags:
participle
past
form:
tailed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:tail
etymology_text:
From Middle English tail, tayl, teil, from Old English tæġl (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *tagl, from Proto-Germanic *taglą (“hair, fiber; hair of a tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ- (“hair of the tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to tear, fray, shred”). Cognate with Scots tail (“tail”), Saterland Frisian Tail (“tail, end”), West Frisian teil (“tail”), Dutch teil (“tail, haulm, blade”), Low German Tagel (“twisted scourge, whip of thongs and ropes; end of a rope”), German Zagel (“tail”), dialectal Danish tavl (“hair of the tail”), Swedish tagel (“hair of the tail, horsehair”), Norwegian tagl (“tail”), Icelandic tagl (“tail, horsetail, ponytail”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”). In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.
senses_examples:
text:
Tail that car!
type:
example
text:
This vessel tails downstream.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To follow and observe surreptitiously.
To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
To pull or draw by the tail.
senses_topics:
architecture
nautical
transport
|
9304 | word:
tail
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tail
forms:
wikipedia:
en:tail
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman, probably from a shortened form of entail.
senses_examples:
text:
estate tail
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
senses_topics:
law |
9305 | word:
tail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tail
forms:
wikipedia:
en:tail
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman, probably from a shortened form of entail.
senses_examples:
text:
tail male ― limitation to male heirs
type:
example
text:
in tail ― subject to such a limitation
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
senses_topics:
law |
9306 | word:
boyfriend
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boyfriend (plural boyfriends)
forms:
form:
boyfriends
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From boy + friend.
senses_examples:
text:
If I was your boyfriend, I’d never let you go / I can take you places you ain’t never been before.
ref:
2012, “Boyfriend”, performed by Justin Bieber
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
A male friend.
A style of women's clothing that draws heavily from corresponding men's garments.ᵂⁱᵏⁱᵖᵉᵈⁱᵃ
senses_topics:
|
9307 | word:
hospital
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hospital (countable and uncountable, plural hospitals)
forms:
form:
hospitals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hospital
etymology_text:
From Middle English hospital, hospitall, from Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Doublet of hotel and hostel. Displaced native Middle English lechehous, from Old English lǣċehūs (literally “doctor house”).
senses_examples:
text:
Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital. (UK)
type:
example
text:
Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital. (US)
type:
example
text:
This section of the Act gives the court powers to assess whether treatment is going to be beneficial and hence whether hospital is a suitable disposal option.
ref:
2010, Sameer P. Sarkar, “Mental health law and the mentally disordered offender”, in Annie Bartlett, Gill McGauley, editors, Forensic Mental Health: Concepts, Systems, and Practice, Oxford University Press, section 3 (Law), page 265
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment.
A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
A place of lodging.
senses_topics:
|
9308 | word:
hospital
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hospital (comparative more hospital, superlative most hospital)
forms:
form:
more hospital
tags:
comparative
form:
most hospital
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
hospital
etymology_text:
From Middle English hospital, hospitall, from Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Doublet of hotel and hostel. Displaced native Middle English lechehous, from Old English lǣċehūs (literally “doctor house”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hospitable.
senses_topics:
|
9309 | word:
locellate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
locellate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin locellus (“compartment”), diminutive of locus (“place”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
9310 | word:
translations
word_type:
noun
expansion:
translations
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of translation
senses_topics:
|
9311 | word:
genitival
word_type:
adj
expansion:
genitival (comparative more genitival, superlative most genitival)
forms:
form:
more genitival
tags:
comparative
form:
most genitival
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From genitive + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
genitival adverb
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having genitive form; pertaining to, expressing, or derived from, the genitive case.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9312 | word:
genitival
word_type:
noun
expansion:
genitival (plural genitivals)
forms:
form:
genitivals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From genitive + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A genitive.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9313 | word:
dirty
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dirty (comparative dirtier, superlative dirtiest)
forms:
form:
dirtier
tags:
comparative
form:
dirtiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dirti, alteration of earlier dritti, equivalent to dirt + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German drēterich (“dirty”).
See also drite.
senses_examples:
text:
Despite a walk in the rain, my shoes weren't too dirty.
type:
example
text:
Many persons are more comfortable when they are dirty than when they are clean; but that does not recommend dirt as a national policy.
ref:
1905, George Bernard Shaw, The author's apology from Mrs. Warren's Profession, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
Don't put that in your mouth, dear. It's dirty.
type:
example
text:
At the reception, Uncle Nick got drunk and told dirty jokes to the bridesmaids.
type:
example
text:
We have quite a playful and fun relationship in general, but it’s still surprising how dirty our sex can be in the things we say or do or pretend. We often laugh about it afterwards.
ref:
2023 May 13, Kitty Drake, “This is how we do it: ‘A tired, throwaway midweek shag doesn’t interest me’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
He might have scored, but it was a dirty trick that won him the penalty.
type:
example
text:
The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.
ref:
1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable.[…]Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
ref:
2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
I won't accept your dirty money!
type:
example
text:
You need to tune that guitar: the G string sounds dirty.
type:
example
text:
The old flag was a dirty white.
type:
example
text:
Occasionally it reads the sector into a dirty buffer, which means it needs to sync the dirty buffer first.
type:
example
text:
Notice that an asterisk has been added to the filename in the edit window tabs. This is a simple reminder that the file is “dirty” and needs saving.
ref:
2008, Stephen R. G. Fraser, Real World ASP.NET: Building a Content Management System, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
None of y'all get into my car if you're dirty.
type:
example
text:
He lives in a dirty great mansion.
type:
example
text:
dirty weather
type:
example
text:
Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea.
ref:
1867, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature
type:
quotation
text:
dirty martini
type:
example
text:
The waiter served dirty burgers to the customers.
type:
example
text:
You can call it quick-and-dirty if you like, but there are billions of dollars out there riding on the supposition that fast food is not necessarily dirty food.
ref:
2003, Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, Perl Cookbook, page xix
type:
quotation
text:
Piled high and oozing all the trimmings, the dirty burgers here are decidedly good – spice things up with jalapeños, brie or a seriously sticky BBQ sauce.
ref:
2019, Oliver Berry, Fionn Davenport, Lonely Planet England
type:
quotation
text:
Dirty keto refers to an approach that follows the typical keto macro ratios, but the components include “dirty” foods like fast food, packaged convenience foods, processed meats, artificially sweetened diet sodas and sports drinks, and unhealthy […]
ref:
2020, Mellissa Sevigny, Squeaky Clean Keto: Next Level Keto to Hack Your Health, Victory Belt Publishing, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
a dirty explosion
type:
example
text:
a dirty bomb
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
Out of tune.
Of color, discolored by impurities.
Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.
Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
Sleety; gusty; stormy.
Of an alcoholic beverage, especially a cocktail or mixed drink: served with the juice of olives.
Of food, indulgent in an unhealthy way.
Spreading harmful radiation over a wide area.
Having the undercarriage or flaps in the down position.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9314 | word:
dirty
word_type:
adv
expansion:
dirty (comparative more dirty, superlative most dirty)
forms:
form:
more dirty
tags:
comparative
form:
most dirty
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dirti, alteration of earlier dritti, equivalent to dirt + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German drēterich (“dirty”).
See also drite.
senses_examples:
text:
to play dirty
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a dirty manner.
senses_topics:
|
9315 | word:
dirty
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dirty (third-person singular simple present dirties, present participle dirtying, simple past and past participle dirtied)
forms:
form:
dirties
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dirtying
tags:
participle
present
form:
dirtied
tags:
participle
past
form:
dirtied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dirti, alteration of earlier dritti, equivalent to dirt + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German drēterich (“dirty”).
See also drite.
senses_examples:
text:
The markers for the slow line signals have been arranged at cab level, but for the inner fast lines they have had to be kept low in the "six-foot", with the result that they tend to be badly dirtied by passing traffic.
ref:
1960 March, “Talking of Trains: S.R. signalling innovation”, in Trains Illustrated, page 135
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make (something) dirty.
To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
To become soiled.
senses_topics:
|
9316 | word:
Barbudan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Barbudan (plural Barbudans)
forms:
form:
Barbudans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Barbuda + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Barbuda in Antigua and Barbuda or of Barbudan descent.
senses_topics:
|
9317 | word:
Barbudan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Barbudan (comparative more Barbudan, superlative most Barbudan)
forms:
form:
more Barbudan
tags:
comparative
form:
most Barbudan
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Barbuda + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Barbuda, the Barbudan people.
senses_topics:
|
9318 | word:
Barbudian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Barbudian (plural Barbudians)
forms:
form:
Barbudians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Barbuda + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Barbuda in Antigua and Barbuda, or of Barbudian descent.
senses_topics:
|
9319 | word:
Barbudian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Barbudian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Barbuda + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Barbuda, or the Barbudian people.
senses_topics:
|
9320 | word:
Emirian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Emirian (plural Emirians)
forms:
form:
Emirians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Emirati; a person from the United Arab Emirates or of Emirian descent.
senses_topics:
|
9321 | word:
Emirian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Emirian (comparative more Emirian, superlative most Emirian)
forms:
form:
more Emirian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Emirian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or relating to the United Arab Emirates.
senses_topics:
|
9322 | word:
Lochaber axe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Lochaber axe (plural Lochaber axes)
forms:
form:
Lochaber axes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Lochaber ax
senses_topics:
|
9323 | word:
Lochaber ax
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Lochaber ax (plural Lochaber axes)
forms:
form:
Lochaber axes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
So called from Lochaber, in Scotland.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scottish Highlanders.
senses_topics:
|
9324 | word:
mandarin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mandarin (plural mandarins)
forms:
form:
mandarins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese mandarim, mandarij, from Malay menteri, manteri, and its source, Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), from मन्त्र (mantra, “counsel, maxim, mantra”) + -इन् (-in, an agent suffix). In Chinese folk etymology, the word originates from Mandarin 滿大人／满大人 (Mǎndàrén, literally “Manchu important man”).
senses_examples:
text:
LIKE THE MANDARINS of old, the rulers of China live behind high walls. When they emerge, which they rarely do, they travel in cars with rear windows curtained like sedan chairs.
They live in the Chung Nan Hai, a walled park adjacent to the Forbidden City from where ancient dynasties ruled the Celestial Empire.
ref:
1991, Chris Mullin, The Year of the Fire Monkey (Fiction), London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 252
type:
quotation
text:
Its sting preserved to literature a fierce peculiar genius [Waugh] who, in the 40 years before his death last week at 62, achieved recognition as the grand old mandarin of modern British prose and as a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers’ row (Swift, Pope, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters.
ref:
1966 April 22, “The Beauty of His Malice”, in Time, archived from the original on 2012-11-06
type:
quotation
text:
When mandarins on the court pointed to obscure language in the Constitution to overturn a century of precedent and declare the income tax unconstitutional, Harlan sided with precedent[.]
ref:
2021 June 23, Peter S. Canellos, “Why The ‘Trump Court’ Won’t Be Like Trump”, in Politico
type:
quotation
text:
When institutional mandarins such as this eminent pair set out to undermine the traditional basis for remunerating the products of the mind, you might expect a lowly scribe (such as your reviewer) to take umbrage.
ref:
2024 January 13, Boyd Tonkin, “The culture of copyright creep”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
Ellipsis of mandarin duck.
A senior civil servant.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
|
9325 | word:
mandarin
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mandarin (comparative more mandarin, superlative most mandarin)
forms:
form:
more mandarin
tags:
comparative
form:
most mandarin
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese mandarim, mandarij, from Malay menteri, manteri, and its source, Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), from मन्त्र (mantra, “counsel, maxim, mantra”) + -इन् (-in, an agent suffix). In Chinese folk etymology, the word originates from Mandarin 滿大人／满大人 (Mǎndàrén, literally “Manchu important man”).
senses_examples:
text:
A mandarin impassivity had descended over Smiley's face. The earlier emotion was quite gone.
ref:
1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
[Anatole] Broyard's columns were suffused with both worldliness and high culture. Wry, mandarin, even self-amused at times, he wrote like a man about town, but one who just happened to have all of Western literature at his fingertips.
ref:
1997, Henry Louis Gates Jr., “The Passing of Anatole Broyard”, in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, New York: Random House, pages 180–181
type:
quotation
text:
Though alert to riddles' strong roots in vernacular narrative, Cook's tastes are mandarin, and she gives a loving account of Wallace Stevens's meditations on the life of poetic images and simile […].
ref:
2007, Marina Warner, “Doubly Damned”, in London Review of Books, 29:3, p. 26
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.
senses_topics:
|
9326 | word:
mandarin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mandarin (plural mandarins)
forms:
form:
mandarins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French mandarine, feminine of mandarin, probably formed as Etymology 1, above, from the yellow colour of the mandarins' costume.
senses_examples:
text:
mandarin:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of mandarin orange.:
A small, sweet citrus fruit.
Ellipsis of mandarin orange.:
A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
An orange colour.
senses_topics:
|
9327 | word:
vociferation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vociferation (plural vociferations)
forms:
form:
vociferations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin vōciferātiō, from vōciferor (“shout”), from vōx (“voice”) + ferō (“carry”); compare French vocifération.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of exclaiming; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.
senses_topics:
|
9328 | word:
backlash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
backlash (countable and uncountable, plural backlashes)
forms:
form:
backlashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
backlash (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From back + lash.
senses_examples:
text:
The public backlash to the proposal was quick and insistent.
type:
example
text:
... the word "backlash" is used in the extended sense in which it is understood in Lancashire and Yorkshire , including not only backlash proper , but also break of contact between the working faces of the teeth of the two wheels when the driven wheel overruns the driver without actual backlash . To place rope or belt drums of any considerable size upon shafts driven by spur gearing is nearly always dangerous.
ref:
1896 Mr. Michael Longridge, of Manchester: Breakdowns of Stationary Steam-Engines. Proceedings. Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Page 541
text:
In ...breakages from high speed and irregular pitch, ten out of the eleven wheels had spur segments moulded from patterns, instead of by machinery; and in three of the ten the teeth were cast upon the felks, and were twisted and drawn, as they generally are when cast in this way, by the contraction of the mass of metal of which they form a part. In every instance the speed was high, and in several cases there was more or less backlash or over-running.
ref:
1896 Mr. Michael Longridge, of Manchester: Breakdowns of Stationary Steam-Engines. Proceedings. Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Page 54
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A suddenly reversed or backward motion, such as of a rope or elastic band when it snaps under tension.
A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, such as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
senses_topics:
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9329 | word:
backlash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
backlash (third-person singular simple present backlashes, present participle backlashing, simple past and past participle backlashed)
forms:
form:
backlashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
backlashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
backlashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
backlashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
backlash (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From back + lash.
senses_examples:
text:
1894 William Westall. Tinkler. Ludgate Illustrated Magazine. Vol VIII
Thrutch factory was a queer old concern. It had been built piecemeal-here a bit and there a bit. There were a new end and an old end, the spinning-rooms in the one being light and lofty, in the other low. and gloomy. Looms were shoved in everywhere. There were a "long shop" with three hundred, a "top shop" with a hundred, a "back shop" with fifty-three, and a "little shop" with fifteen. Never was its equal for gearing. Shafts were everywhere inside and out, overground and underground, climbing snake-like up the walls, and boring into the roofs; spurwheels, great and small, whirled, clashed and "backlashed" all over the place.
text:
Just as it began to get dusk and the shadows from the trees deepening the twilight that had already spread over the lake, giving a peculiarly lonesome effect that water always has upon the approach of night, Uncle succeeded in getting out the longest cast he had yet made — about seventy-five feet. Unfortunately, or perhaps I should say fortunately, his reel over-ran and backlashed for him. Patiently he set about untangling his line; I resting the oars and holding the boat stationary.
ref:
1895 W. C. Kepler. Uncle and the Bass The American Angler - Volume 25 - Page 226
text:
1909 La Compagnie Générale Transatlantique v. Hayes. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. March 16, 1909.) No. 205.
There was testimony that but for the orders of these men, or one of them, the case would have been properly backlashed before being lowered into the hold and that the anxiety of the foreman to get the cargo in quickly induced him to order this case sent down without being properly safeguarded.
text:
May 2, 1922, locomotive 2469 , Hornell, N. Y. Screw reverse gear backlashed due to latch spring too weak to hold it in place ; 1 injured
ref:
1922 Interstate Commerce Commission. Fifth Annual Report. Chief Inspector of Locomotive Boilers. Annual Report of the Chief Inspector. Bureau of Locomotive Inspection. To the Interstate Commerce Commission
text:
I have the faculty of getting more backlashed in less casts with more kinds of guaranteed anti-backlash reels than any man who reads this sad confession. I am letter-perfect at it. Yet I do sometimes catch fish.
ref:
1936 Gifford Pinchot. Two's Company. The Rotarian April 1936
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perform a backlash, to lash back in reaction to some cause.
senses_topics:
|
9330 | word:
objective
word_type:
adj
expansion:
objective (comparative more objective, superlative most objective)
forms:
form:
more objective
tags:
comparative
form:
most objective
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Objectivity
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French objectif, from Latin objectivus.
senses_examples:
text:
Engagement of employees in the Public Administration and in the wider Public Sector, ..., shall take place either by competitive entry examination or by selection on the basis of predefined and objective criteria, and shall be subject to the control of an independent authority, as specified by law.
ref:
1975, Constitution of Greece
type:
quotation
text:
The value of pedagogical material informed by objective methodological procedures developed in corpus linguistics is widely recognized.
ref:
2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
The general finite stem is the verbal stem which serves as the basis of inflection in the indicative present and past in the subjective conjugation and the objective conjugation with the singular and dual object.
ref:
2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
Not influenced by the strong emotions or prejudices.
Based on observed facts; without purely subjective assessment.
Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9331 | word:
objective
word_type:
noun
expansion:
objective (plural objectives)
forms:
form:
objectives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Objectivity
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French objectif, from Latin objectivus.
senses_examples:
text:
The Group has recently concentrated on two main objectives, the implementation of a Code of Practice on minor station improvements and the preparation of a stock list of approved items of equipment for railway stations.
ref:
1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 252
type:
quotation
text:
Objectives are the stepping stones which guide you to achieving your goals. They must be verifiable in some way, whether thatʼs statistically – ‘the more I do this, the better I get at itʼ – or by some other achievable concept such as getting the job or relationship that you want. Itʼs crucial that your objectives lead you logically towards your goal and are quantifiable.
ref:
2012, Christine Wilding, chapter 2, in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Croydon, UK: CPI Group (UK) Ltd, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
The new imperative for investment is the Government's objective to secure carbon-neutral transport emissions by 2040.
ref:
2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A material object that physically exists.
A goal that is striven for.
The objective case.
a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
9332 | word:
river
word_type:
noun
expansion:
river (plural rivers)
forms:
form:
rivers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ryver, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Early Medieval Latin rīpāria (“littoral, riverbank”), from Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from Latin rīpa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”). Unrelated to Latin rīvus (“stream”) (whence rival, derive). Doublet of riviera and rivière. Displaced native Old English ēa.
senses_examples:
text:
Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
type:
example
text:
Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
ref:
2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
a river of blood
type:
example
text:
He called instantly but was too ashamed to show until the river.
ref:
2017, Nathan Schwiethale, Ace High: Mastering Low Stakes Poker Cash Games, page 70
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
The last card dealt in a hand.
A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker
media
publishing
typography |
9333 | word:
river
word_type:
verb
expansion:
river (third-person singular simple present rivers, present participle rivering, simple past and past participle rivered)
forms:
form:
rivers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rivering
tags:
participle
present
form:
rivered
tags:
participle
past
form:
rivered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ryver, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Early Medieval Latin rīpāria (“littoral, riverbank”), from Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from Latin rīpa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”). Unrelated to Latin rīvus (“stream”) (whence rival, derive). Doublet of riviera and rivière. Displaced native Old English ēa.
senses_examples:
text:
Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker |
9334 | word:
river
word_type:
noun
expansion:
river (plural rivers)
forms:
form:
rivers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From rive + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who rives or splits.
senses_topics:
|
9335 | word:
workshop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
workshop (plural workshops)
forms:
form:
workshops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From work + shop.
senses_examples:
text:
On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.
ref:
2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.
An academic conference.
senses_topics:
|
9336 | word:
workshop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
workshop (third-person singular simple present workshops, present participle workshopping, simple past and past participle workshopped)
forms:
form:
workshops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
workshopping
tags:
participle
present
form:
workshopped
tags:
participle
past
form:
workshopped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From work + shop.
senses_examples:
text:
Some in-class tutorial time was set aside for workshopping the entries.
ref:
2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.
To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.
To improve through collaboration.
senses_topics:
business |
9337 | word:
b
word_type:
character
expansion:
b (lower case, upper case B, plural bs or b's)
forms:
form:
B
tags:
uppercase
form:
bs
tags:
plural
form:
b's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9338 | word:
b
word_type:
num
expansion:
b (lower case, upper case B)
forms:
form:
B
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number second, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9339 | word:
b
word_type:
adj
expansion:
b (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: b.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of born.
senses_topics:
|
9340 | word:
b
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
b
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
latitude in the galactic coordinate system
barn
bit
bye
big
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
9341 | word:
b
word_type:
verb
expansion:
b
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
ima prolly b at home tn
type:
example
text:
i am looking for any safari i am trying to fill my dex and it would b rly nice :D especially fire,ice, flying, since i don't a lot of those but everyone is welcome to add me :DD
ref:
2020 February 27, u/Sneasel_, “adding everyone!”, in Reddit, r/friendsafari, archived from the original on 2023-11-11
type:
quotation
text:
if u aren't tryna b like this don't hmu
ref:
2021 October 27, @heluvstat, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-11
type:
quotation
text:
I wanna b like those girls who study NON STOP and are basically addicted to studying, any tips?
ref:
2023 October 27, u/electriccitydrive, “How do I become obsessed with studying”, in Reddit, r/GetStudying, archived from the original on 2023-11-11
type:
quotation
text:
school pizza party pizza b like
ref:
2023 November 6, @1tyreece, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of be.
senses_topics:
|
9342 | word:
b
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
b
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a single consonant /b/ in a word, or a dominant /b/ in a cluster.
the sequence /biː/
Abbreviation of be and inflections being, been.
Abbreviation of by and homophones buy, bye.
Abbreviation of but.
senses_topics:
|
9343 | word:
plank
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plank (plural planks)
forms:
form:
planks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English plank, planke, borrowed from Old French planke, Old Northern French planque (compare French planche, from Old French planche), from Vulgar Latin planca, from palanca, from Latin phalanga. The Latin term derives from the Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx), so it is thus a doublet of phalange and phalanx. Compare also the doublets planch and planche, and plancha, borrowed later from Middle French, Modern French, and Spanish, respectively.
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: platform
text:
Germanization was a central plank of German conservative thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries.
type:
example
text:
When Mr. Dole had been asked at the Republican convention about the same immigration amendment—one of the more conservative and sensitive planks—he did not oppose it, but said he would have to think long and hard before supporting it.
ref:
1996 August 24, Frank Bruni, “Dole Rejects a Party Plank”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
In the 1970s, a group of ideologically inspired economists captured the ears and minds of politicians. The central plank of their ‘neo-liberal’ model was that growth and development depended on market competitiveness; […]
ref:
2011, Guy Standing, chapter 1, in The Precariat, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2016
type:
quotation
text:
His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot.
ref:
1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.
Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
A stupid person, idiot.
That which supports or upholds.
senses_topics:
|
9344 | word:
plank
word_type:
verb
expansion:
plank (third-person singular simple present planks, present participle planking, simple past and past participle planked)
forms:
form:
planks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
planking
tags:
participle
present
form:
planked
tags:
participle
past
form:
planked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English plank, planke, borrowed from Old French planke, Old Northern French planque (compare French planche, from Old French planche), from Vulgar Latin planca, from palanca, from Latin phalanga. The Latin term derives from the Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx), so it is thus a doublet of phalange and phalanx. Compare also the doublets planch and planche, and plancha, borrowed later from Middle French, Modern French, and Spanish, respectively.
senses_examples:
text:
to plank a floor or a ship
type:
example
text:
Along the lower river, planked shad dinners (baked and broiled) were highly popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
ref:
1998, Richard Gerstell, American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
to plank money in a wager
type:
example
text:
Joe planked the money down in the officer of a newspaper editor and awaited results. There weren't any.
ref:
1963, George Blaikie, Scandals of Australia's Strange Past, Adelaide: Rigby Limited, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
The woman, known as Claudia, fell from a 2m wall after earlier demonstrating the wrong way to plank on a small stool while holding a bottle of wine. A friend said some guests had not heard of planking and Claudia was demonstrating how ridiculous it was.
ref:
2011 May 23, “Party finishes up in plonking after attempt at planking in Kingsford”, in Herald Sun
type:
quotation
text:
Perth man Simon Carville became an internet sensation after he was photographed planking naked in the arms of famous Perth statue the Eliza.
ref:
2011 May 24, “Tourists snapped planking at iconic landmarks around the world”, in The Australian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover something with planking.
To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber.
To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.
senses_topics:
|
9345 | word:
incorrigible
word_type:
adj
expansion:
incorrigible (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English incorrigible, from Middle French incorrigible (1334), or directly from Latin incorrigibilis (“not to be corrected”), from in- (“not”) + corrigere (“to correct”) + -ibilis (“-able”). Recorded since 1340.
senses_examples:
text:
The construction flaw is incorrigible; any attempt to amend it would cause a complete collapse.
type:
example
text:
His dark soul was too incorrigible to repent, even at his execution.
type:
example
text:
Gordon Brown may have his grumpy, Granita moments, but as a strategist he is an incorrigible optimist.
ref:
2006 December 7, Michael White, “Breaking up is hard to do, even at the Treasury”, in The Guardian, London
type:
quotation
text:
The laws of nature and mathematics are incorrigible.
type:
example
text:
It may appear as an epidemic, as a hereditary complaint, or as an obstinate and incorrigible disease again and again recurring.
ref:
1859, The British Journal of Psychiatry, volume 6, page 312
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
Incurably depraved; not reformable.
Impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
Unmanageable.
Determined, unalterable, hence impossible to improve upon.
Incurable.
senses_topics:
|
9346 | word:
incorrigible
word_type:
noun
expansion:
incorrigible (plural incorrigibles)
forms:
form:
incorrigibles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English incorrigible, from Middle French incorrigible (1334), or directly from Latin incorrigibilis (“not to be corrected”), from in- (“not”) + corrigere (“to correct”) + -ibilis (“-able”). Recorded since 1340.
senses_examples:
text:
The incorrigibles in the prison population are either lifers or habitual reoffenders.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An incorrigibly bad individual.
senses_topics:
|
9347 | word:
smooth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
smooth (comparative smoother, superlative smoothest)
forms:
form:
smoother
tags:
comparative
form:
smoothest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
smooth
etymology_text:
From Middle English smothe, smethe, from Old English smēþe, smōþ, both from Proto-West Germanic *smanþī, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots smuith (“smooth”), Low German smood and smödig (“smooth, malleable, ductile”), Dutch smeuïg (“smooth”) (from earlier smeudig).
senses_examples:
text:
Teaching that’s done by talking seems to have one rough path and another part which is smoother.
ref:
2005, Lesley Brown, Sophist, translation of original by Plato, page 229e
type:
quotation
text:
We hope for a smooth transition to the new system.
type:
example
text:
England's path to Poland and Ukraine next summer looked to be a smooth one as goals from Ashley Young and Darren Bent gave them a comfortable lead after 31 minutes.
ref:
2011, Phil McNulty, “Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
This feeling, grounded on the experience of centuries of oppression, was not to be allayed by smooth explanations on the part of the advocates of the Constitution.
ref:
1912, Gustavus Myers, History of the Supreme Court of the United States, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
the only smooth poet of those times
ref:
1670, John Milton, The History of Britain
type:
quotation
text:
He was so smooth and handsome. He knew just what to say and when to say it.
ref:
2003, T. Lewis Humphrey, The Price of Love, page 279
type:
quotation
text:
In order for a reading to be smooth and effortless, readers must be able to recognize and read words accurately, automatically, and quickly.
ref:
2006, Mary Kay Moskal, Camille Blachowicz, Reading for Fluency, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Demonstrate first by the numbers and then as one smooth movement.
ref:
1927, United States National Guard Bureau, Manual of Basic Training and Standards of Proficiency for the National Guard, page 181
type:
quotation
text:
As we worked to the southward, we picked up fair weather, and enjoyed smooth seas and pleasant skies.
ref:
1898, John Donaldson Ford, An American Cruiser in the East, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
A leaf having a smooth margin, without teeth or indentations of any kind, is called entire.
ref:
1994, Robert E. Swanson, A Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Southern Appalachians, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Out of the handles flipped the smooth blade and the serrated blade, which was dangerously sharp, the flathead screwdrivers, the Phillips screwdriver, the can opener, the awl.
ref:
1997, Christopher Dickey, Innocent Blood: A Novel, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
A compact and stylish design, it produces 1 generous quart of excellent, smooth ice cream in 20 to 25 minutes.
ref:
1997, Lou Seibert Pappas, Sorbets and Ice Creams, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
The coffee was smooth, so smooth she took another sip.
ref:
2002, Candace Irvin, For His Eyes Only, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Any ANALYTIC FUNCTION is smooth. But a smooth function is not necessarily analytic.
ref:
2003, Eric W. Weisstein, CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, page 419
type:
quotation
text:
Οὐ becomes οὐκ before a smooth vowel, and οὐχ before an aspirate.
ref:
1830, Benjamin Franklin Fisk, A Grammar of the Greek Language, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
Bland; glib.
Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.
Suave; sophisticated.
Natural; unconstrained.
Unbroken.
Placid, calm.
Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
Not grainy; having an even texture.
Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.
That factors completely into small prime numbers.
Lacking marked aspiration.
Involuntary and non-striated.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
classical-studies
history
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
medicine
sciences |
9348 | word:
smooth
word_type:
adv
expansion:
smooth (comparative smoother, superlative smoothest)
forms:
form:
smoother
tags:
comparative
form:
smoothest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
smooth
etymology_text:
From Middle English smothe, smethe, from Old English smēþe, smōþ, both from Proto-West Germanic *smanþī, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots smuith (“smooth”), Low German smood and smödig (“smooth, malleable, ductile”), Dutch smeuïg (“smooth”) (from earlier smeudig).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Smoothly.
senses_topics:
|
9349 | word:
smooth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
smooth (plural smooths)
forms:
form:
smooths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
smooth
etymology_text:
From Middle English smothe, smethe, from Old English smēþe, smōþ, both from Proto-West Germanic *smanþī, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots smuith (“smooth”), Low German smood and smödig (“smooth, malleable, ductile”), Dutch smeuïg (“smooth”) (from earlier smeudig).
senses_examples:
text:
Things are often equalized by roughs and smooths being set against one another.
ref:
1860, Anne Manning, The Day of Small Things, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
She brushes down her hair with a little bit of spit and a smooth of her hand and opens the bright green door, walking a few metres, squinting.
ref:
2006, Julienne Van Loon, Road Story, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
In the 4-toe stock there is a wide gap between the lowest rough and the smooths which come from the same parents.
ref:
1916, William Ernest Castle, Sewall Wright, Studies of Inheritance in Guinea-pigs and Rats, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
By the early 1970s, skinhead culture began to mutate into the variant ‘white ethnic’ styles of the suedeheads and smooths.
ref:
1999, Peter Childs, Mike Storry, Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture, page 188
type:
quotation
text:
A smooth of the potato data set has already been given in Figure 1.2.
ref:
1990, Wolfgang Härdle, Applied Nonparametric Regression, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.
A smoothing action.
A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
statistics |
9350 | word:
smooth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
smooth (third-person singular simple present smooths, present participle smoothing, simple past and past participle smoothed)
forms:
form:
smooths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
smoothing
tags:
participle
present
form:
smoothed
tags:
participle
past
form:
smoothed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
smooth
etymology_text:
From Middle English smothe, smethe, from Old English smēþe, smōþ, both from Proto-West Germanic *smanþī, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots smuith (“smooth”), Low German smood and smödig (“smooth, malleable, ductile”), Dutch smeuïg (“smooth”) (from earlier smeudig).
senses_examples:
text:
She smooths her skirt, looking as composed and ladylike as possible.
ref:
1961, William Gibson, The Miracle Worker, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
to smooth cloth with a smoothing iron
type:
example
text:
Caracas can be a tough place but the tremendously good-natured caraqueños smoothed my passage every step of the way.
ref:
2007, Beth Kohn, Lonely Planet Venezuela, page 379
type:
quotation
text:
to smooth a person's temper
text:
[…] the 7-month moving averages provide better smoothing of the data in this case than do the 3-month moving averages.
ref:
1999, Murray R. Spiegel, Larry J. Stephens, Schaum’s Outline of Theory and Problems of Statistics, page 457
type:
quotation
text:
Can I smooth your cat?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make smooth or even.
To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten.
To make straightforward or easy.
To calm or palliate.
To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
statistics
|
9351 | word:
dew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dew (countable and uncountable, plural dews)
forms:
form:
dews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dew
etymology_text:
From Middle English dew, from Old English dēaw (“dew”), from Proto-Germanic *dawwaz, *dawwą (“dew, moisture”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, haze”). Cognate with German Tau, Dutch dauw and Afrikaans dou. Doublet of dag.
senses_examples:
text:
Tree don't care what the little bird sings / We go down with the dew in the morning light / The tree don't know what the little bird brings / We go down with the dew in the morning
ref:
2013, “We No Who U R”, in Warren Ellis, Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
type:
quotation
text:
There was a heavy dew this morning.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.
Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.
An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc.
Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.
senses_topics:
|
9352 | word:
dew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dew (third-person singular simple present dews, present participle dewing, simple past and past participle dewed)
forms:
form:
dews
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dewing
tags:
participle
present
form:
dewed
tags:
participle
past
form:
dewed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
dew
etymology_text:
From Middle English dewe, dewyn, from Old English *dēawian, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwēn, from Proto-Germanic *dawwāną. Cognates include Saterland Frisian daue, German tauen and Dutch dauwen.
senses_examples:
text:
The grasses grew / A little ranker since they dewed them so.
ref:
1887, Andrew B. Saxton, “Sunken Graves”, in The Century
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.
senses_topics:
|
9353 | word:
dater
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dater (plural daters)
forms:
form:
daters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From date + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Strategic presentation is a challenging issue for many online daters, of whom 22% have asked someone else to help them create or review their profile […]
ref:
2016, Michelle F. Wright, Identity, Sexuality, and Relationships among Emerging Adults in the Digital Age
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who dates.
A date-stamping device.
senses_topics:
|
9354 | word:
perch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
perch (plural perches or perch)
forms:
form:
perches
tags:
plural
form:
perch
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin perca, from Ancient Greek πέρκη (pérkē, “perch”), cognate with περκνός (perknós, “dark-spotted”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially:
Acanthopagrus berda
Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially:
Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially:
Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially:
Kyphosus azureus
Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially:
Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
senses_topics:
|
9355 | word:
perch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
perch (plural perches or perch)
forms:
form:
perches
tags:
plural
form:
perch
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin pertica (“staff”, “long pole”, “measuring rod”).
senses_examples:
text:
Last year, Eighth Grade found poignancy and humor in its eponymous time period: that purgatorial perch between childhood and adulthood.
ref:
2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-03-04
type:
quotation
text:
[W]inning Wimbledon at just 19 years, earning her rightful place on the perch as world number one.
ref:
2022 August 1, Off the Leash, Darwin, NT, page 12, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
A linear measure of 5+¹⁄₂ yards, equal to a rod, a pole or ¹⁄₄ chain; the related square measure.
A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
A frame used to examine cloth.
A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles
entertainment
lifestyle
theater |
9356 | word:
perch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
perch (third-person singular simple present perches, present participle perching, simple past and past participle perched)
forms:
form:
perches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
perching
tags:
participle
present
form:
perched
tags:
participle
past
form:
perched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin pertica (“staff”, “long pole”, “measuring rod”).
senses_examples:
text:
The macaw perched on Jim's shoulder.
type:
example
text:
The most obvious beneficiary of the visitors' superiority was Frank Lampard. By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals. No other player has managed more than the Chelsea midfielder's 11 in World Cup qualification ties, with this a display to roll back the years.
ref:
2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
To sit upon the edge of something.
To stay in an elevated position.
To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
To inspect cloth using a perch.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
textiles |
9357 | word:
genitor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
genitor (plural genitors)
forms:
form:
genitors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English genitour, from Old French genitor, geneteur, from Latin genitor, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tōr; the Latin is also equivalent to gignō + -tor.
senses_examples:
text:
The same[…]healeth all paine and swellings of the genitors or stones.
ref:
1579, William Langham, The Garden of Health
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
a generator; an originator
The genitals
senses_topics:
|
9358 | word:
vociferate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vociferate (third-person singular simple present vociferates, present participle vociferating, simple past and past participle vociferated)
forms:
form:
vociferates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vociferating
tags:
participle
present
form:
vociferated
tags:
participle
past
form:
vociferated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin vociferatus, past participle of vociferari (“to vociferate”), from vox, vocis (“voice”) + ferre (“to bear”). See voice, and bear (“to carry”).
senses_examples:
text:
Vociferated logic kills me quite, A noisy man is always in the right,
ref:
1782, William Cowper, Conversation
type:
quotation
text:
Though he may vociferate the word liberty.
ref:
1779, Vicesimus Knox, Essays Moral and Literary
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cry out with vehemence
To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.
senses_topics:
|
9359 | word:
Anguillan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Anguillan (plural Anguillans)
forms:
form:
Anguillans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anguilla + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Anguilla or of Anguillan descent.
senses_topics:
|
9360 | word:
Anguillan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Anguillan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anguilla + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Anguillan or the Anguillan people.
senses_topics:
|
9361 | word:
mock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mock (plural mocks)
forms:
form:
mocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer, moquier (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Proto-West Germanic *mokkijan, *mukkijan (“to low, bellow; mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijaną, *mūhaną (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūg-, *mūk- (“to low, mumble”). Cognate with Dutch mokken (“to sulk; pout; mope; grumble”), Old High German firmucken (“to be stupid”), Modern German mucksen (“to utter a word; mumble; grumble”), West Frisian mokke (“to mope; sulk; grumble”), Swedish mucka (“to murmur”), dialectal Dutch mokkel (“kiss”).
senses_examples:
text:
Is tortured thirst itself too sweet a cup?
Gall, and more bitter mocks, shall make it up.
ref:
a. 1649, Richard Crashaw, The Hymn
type:
quotation
text:
He got a B in his History mock, but improved to an A in the exam.
type:
example
text:
You can, if you must, create a mock that derives from a concrete class. The problem is that the resulting class represents a mix of production and mocked behavior, a beast referred to as a partial mock.
ref:
2013, Jeff Langr, Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development
type:
quotation
text:
Mocks replace the objects with which your methods under test collaborate, thus offering a layer of isolation.
ref:
2020, Cătălin Tudose, JUnit in Action, 3rd edition, Simon and Schuster, page 139
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
Mockery; the act of mocking.
Short for mock examination.
A mockup or prototype; particularly, ellipsis of mock object., as used in unit testing.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software |
9362 | word:
mock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mock (third-person singular simple present mocks, present participle mocking, simple past and past participle mocked)
forms:
form:
mocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
mocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
mocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer, moquier (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Proto-West Germanic *mokkijan, *mukkijan (“to low, bellow; mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijaną, *mūhaną (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūg-, *mūk- (“to low, mumble”). Cognate with Dutch mokken (“to sulk; pout; mope; grumble”), Old High German firmucken (“to be stupid”), Modern German mucksen (“to utter a word; mumble; grumble”), West Frisian mokke (“to mope; sulk; grumble”), Swedish mucka (“to murmur”), dialectal Dutch mokkel (“kiss”).
senses_examples:
text:
The wind is mocking my efforts to light a fire!
text:
‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.
ref:
1765, Benjamin Heath, A revisal of Shakespear's text, page 563 (a commentary on the "mocke the meate" line from Othello)
text:
The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.
ref:
1812, The Critical Review or, Annals of Literature, page 190
type:
quotation
text:
They can also mock other integration points such as backend, database, or any other external resource.
ref:
2016, Murat Yener, Onur Dundar, Expert Android Studio, page 233
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mimic, to simulate.
To create an artistic representation of.
To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
To create a mockup or prototype of.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software |
9363 | word:
mock
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mock (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer, moquier (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Proto-West Germanic *mokkijan, *mukkijan (“to low, bellow; mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijaną, *mūhaną (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūg-, *mūk- (“to low, mumble”). Cognate with Dutch mokken (“to sulk; pout; mope; grumble”), Old High German firmucken (“to be stupid”), Modern German mucksen (“to utter a word; mumble; grumble”), West Frisian mokke (“to mope; sulk; grumble”), Swedish mucka (“to murmur”), dialectal Dutch mokkel (“kiss”).
senses_examples:
text:
mock leather
type:
example
text:
mock trial
type:
example
text:
mock turtle-soup
type:
example
text:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
ref:
1776, United States Declaration of Independence
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Imitation, not genuine; fake.
senses_topics:
|
9364 | word:
moron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
moron (plural morons)
forms:
form:
morons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined by American psychologist Henry H. Goddard in 1910, from μωρόν : mōrón, the neuter form of Ancient Greek μωρός (mōrós, “foolish, dull”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stupid person; an idiot; a fool.
A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
9365 | word:
outlet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
outlet (plural outlets)
forms:
form:
outlets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
outlet
etymology_text:
From Middle English outlete, outeleate, ut-lete, derived from Middle English outleten (“to allow, let out, emit”), equivalent to out- + let. Compare West Frisian útlit (“outlet”), Dutch uitlaat (“outlet”), German Auslass (“outlet”).
senses_examples:
text:
Jamie found doing martial arts was a great outlet for her stress.
type:
example
text:
Song of the bleeding throat, / Death’s outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know, / If thou wast not granted to sing thou would’st surely die.)
ref:
1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
type:
quotation
text:
I had to move the cupboard to get to the power outlet.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something.
Something which allows for the release of one's desires.
A river that runs out of a lake.
A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier.
A wall-mounted socket connected to an electrical power supply, at which current can be taken to run electrical devices.
senses_topics:
|
9366 | word:
clean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
clean (comparative cleaner, superlative cleanest)
forms:
form:
cleaner
tags:
comparative
form:
cleanest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
clean
etymology_text:
From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).
senses_examples:
text:
Are these dishes clean?
Your room is finally clean!
For a baby, happiness is a full bottle and a clean diaper.
type:
example
text:
Put a clean sheet of paper into the printer.
type:
example
text:
The cargo hold is clean.
type:
example
text:
Mister, I want to see a clean dinner plate or there'll be no dessert for you.
type:
example
text:
clean steel
type:
example
text:
Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean.
type:
example
text:
I do not think there is any member in this House who will not agree that that is the clean thing to do. Any member sitting on the Government benches will admit in private that that is the proper course for members who break faith.
ref:
1914, Parliamentary Debates, volume 168, New Zealand, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
I've been clean this time for eight months.
type:
example
text:
Unlike you, I’ve never caused any accidents — my record is still clean!
type:
example
text:
I'm clean, officer. You can go ahead and search me if you want.
type:
example
text:
I'll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.
type:
example
text:
a clean leap over a fence
type:
example
text:
Wow, dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!
type:
example
text:
"Serious as cognitohazard." Lillihammer danced down the corridor towards them, doing little pirouettes and leaping from toe to toe. "Reuben Wirth no longer exists. Gonna have to get Forsythe to do that brain scan to make sure I'm clean, but otherwise yeah. Poof."
ref:
2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-23
type:
quotation
text:
I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
type:
example
text:
clean energy
type:
example
text:
clean coal
type:
example
text:
clean land
type:
example
text:
clean timber
type:
example
text:
clean limbs
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Free of dirt or impurities.
Not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
Free of dirt or impurities.
In an unmarked condition.
Free of dirt or impurities.
Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
Free of dirt or impurities.
Having the undercarriage and flaps in the up position.
Free of dirt or impurities.
Empty.
Free of dirt or impurities.
Having relatively few impurities.
Free of immorality or criminality.
Pure, especially morally or religiously.
Free of immorality or criminality.
Not having used drugs or alcohol.
Free of immorality or criminality.
Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record.
Free of immorality or criminality.
Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
Free of immorality or criminality.
Devoid of profanity.
Smooth, exact, and performed well.
Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
Cool or neat.
Free of infection or disease.
Free of infection or disease.
Devoid of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
That does not damage the environment.
Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
Well-proportioned; shapely.
Ascended without falling.
Of a victory or performance: without any submission holds, disqualification, interference, etc.
senses_topics:
aerodynamics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
health
medicine
sciences
health
medicine
sciences
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling |
9367 | word:
clean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clean (plural cleans)
forms:
form:
cleans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
clean
etymology_text:
From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).
senses_examples:
text:
This place needs a clean.
type:
example
text:
When people complained the songs were too hard, Kyle's clean vocals could bail out the band. Adding cleans would set off a chain reaction though - Kyle's crisp, clear presence could be seen as "betraying" the raw assault that Mike inflicts on the fans with his screams and growls.
ref:
2014, T/James Reagan, Leeds House, Amazon Digital Services LLC, page 314
type:
quotation
text:
Vocalist Kaan is impeccable in his performance engaging with the crowd and soulfully executing both searing screams and hauntingly melodic cleans.
ref:
2016, Jay Shields, “Tech Fest 2016”, in Fraser Mutch, editor, Elite Online Mag, number 78, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
The band's more recent output has seen a small amount of cleans find their way in, but for the most part, the Pennsylvania boys rely on the kind of devastating vocal delivery that can be heard on monumental career highlights such as "Marianas Trench."
ref:
2023 April 17, Jake Richardson, “10 Best Clean Singers in Metalcore”, in Loudwire, archived from the original on 2024-08-17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Removal of dirt.
The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
Clear vocals, contrasted with death growls and screams.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
|
9368 | word:
clean
word_type:
verb
expansion:
clean (third-person singular simple present cleans, present participle cleaning, simple past and past participle cleaned)
forms:
form:
cleans
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cleaning
tags:
participle
present
form:
cleaned
tags:
participle
past
form:
cleaned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
clean
etymology_text:
From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).
senses_examples:
text:
Can you clean the windows today?
type:
example
text:
Clean your room right now!
type:
example
text:
She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove dirt from a place or object.
To tidy up, make a place neat.
To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
To make things clean in general.
To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
Synonym of clean up
To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
senses_topics:
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
manga
video-games
|
9369 | word:
clean
word_type:
adv
expansion:
clean (comparative cleaner, superlative cleanest)
forms:
form:
cleaner
tags:
comparative
form:
cleanest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
clean
etymology_text:
From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).
senses_examples:
text:
He was stabbed clean through.
type:
example
text:
You must be clean mad.
type:
example
text:
So, since all my pains in his direction were clean thrown away, there was nothing left for me but to scurry back to Marjorie, — so I scurried, and I found the house empty, no one there, and Marjorie gone.
ref:
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
type:
quotation
text:
A feat sometimes achieved by outstanding local athletes is to throw a cricket ball clean over the top [of the viaduct].
ref:
1951 October, William B. Stocks, “A Few Miles from Huddersfield”, in Railway Magazine, page 701
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fully and completely.
senses_topics:
|
9370 | word:
pour
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pour (third-person singular simple present pours, present participle pouring, simple past and past participle poured)
forms:
form:
pours
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pouring
tags:
participle
present
form:
poured
tags:
participle
past
form:
poured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pouren (“to pour”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Northern French purer (“to sift (grain), pour out (water)”), from Latin pūrō (“to purify”), from pūrus (“pure”). Compare Middle Dutch afpuren (“to pour off, drain”).
To pour displaced several Middle English verbs:
* schenchen, schenken (“to pour”), from Old English sċenċan (“to pour out”) and Old Norse skenkja, from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Compare dialectal English shink, skink.
* yeten, from Old English ġēotan (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *geutaną.
* birlen (“to pour, serve drink to”), from Old English byrelian (“to pour, serve drink to”).
* hellen (“to pour, pour out”), from Old Norse hella (“to pour out, incline”).
* temen (“to pour out, empty”), from Old Norse tœma (“to pour out, empty”). Compare archaic English teem.
senses_examples:
text:
pour water from a jug
type:
example
text:
pour wine into a decanter
type:
example
text:
to pour oil onto chips
type:
example
text:
to pour out sand or dust.
type:
example
text:
My teacher poured scorn on my attempts at writing.
type:
example
text:
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth / With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?
ref:
1637, John Milton, A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, lines 710-711
type:
quotation
text:
At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.
ref:
2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
the rain poured down.
type:
example
text:
It's pouring outside.
type:
example
text:
The people poured out of the theater.
type:
example
text:
In the rude throng pour on with furious pace.
ref:
1716, John Gay, Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London
type:
quotation
text:
The bluebloods of golf began pouring into the sweltering nation’s capital yesterday for the 64th U.S. Open championship, and the hottest topic was not Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus, but Champagne Tony Lema.
ref:
1964 June 16, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 22
type:
quotation
text:
In a breathless finish Arsenal poured forward looking for a winner but Leeds held out for a deserved replay after Bendtner wastefully fired wide and Schmeichel acrobatically kept out Denilson's rasping effort
ref:
2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1-1 Leeds”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
To flow, pass or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
To rain hard.
Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
To move in a throng, as a crowd.
senses_topics:
|
9371 | word:
pour
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pour (plural pours)
forms:
form:
pours
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pouren (“to pour”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Northern French purer (“to sift (grain), pour out (water)”), from Latin pūrō (“to purify”), from pūrus (“pure”). Compare Middle Dutch afpuren (“to pour off, drain”).
To pour displaced several Middle English verbs:
* schenchen, schenken (“to pour”), from Old English sċenċan (“to pour out”) and Old Norse skenkja, from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Compare dialectal English shink, skink.
* yeten, from Old English ġēotan (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *geutaną.
* birlen (“to pour, serve drink to”), from Old English byrelian (“to pour, serve drink to”).
* hellen (“to pour, pour out”), from Old Norse hella (“to pour out, incline”).
* temen (“to pour out, empty”), from Old Norse tœma (“to pour out, empty”). Compare archaic English teem.
senses_examples:
text:
The bartender's inexpert pour left me with a pint of beer that was half foam.
type:
example
text:
Over this time period, the first concrete pour has not only lost workability but has started to set so that it is no longer affected by the action of a vibrator.
ref:
2003, John Brian Newman, B. S. Choo, Advanced concrete technology: Volume 2
type:
quotation
text:
HS2 Ltd has completed the first base-slab concrete pour at the western end of Old Oak Common station.
ref:
2023 June 14, “Network News: Concrete for Old Oak Common - and consent for Curzon Street viaduct”, in RAIL, number 985, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
Then, as if to give the lie to the offensive insinuation, he mounted his horse, and rode home ten miles in a pour of rain, without a great coat or umbrella.
ref:
1831, Susan Ferrier, Destiny; or, the Chief's Daughter, page 84
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of pouring.
Something, or an amount, poured.
A downpour, or flood of precipitation.
senses_topics:
|
9372 | word:
pour
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pour
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of pore.
senses_topics:
|
9373 | word:
stomach
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stomach (countable and uncountable, plural stomachs)
forms:
form:
stomachs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Modern English
stomach
etymology_text:
From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek στόμαχος (stómakhos), from στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).
Largely displaced native Old English maga, whence Modern English maw.
senses_examples:
text:
Why did you hit me in the stomach?
text:
a good stomach for roast beef
type:
example
text:
I have no stomach for a fight today.
type:
example
text:
At the moment, I don’t know what stomach there would be for stories about societies falling apart, so I’m not working away on one of those.
ref:
2020 May 4, Lauren Morris, quoting Charlie Brooker, “Charlie Brooker gives Black Mirror season 6 update”, in Radio Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
The belly.
Pride, haughtiness.
Appetite.
Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach.
senses_topics:
|
9374 | word:
stomach
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stomach (third-person singular simple present stomachs, present participle stomaching, simple past and past participle stomached)
forms:
form:
stomachs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stomaching
tags:
participle
present
form:
stomached
tags:
participle
past
form:
stomached
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Modern English
stomach
etymology_text:
From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek στόμαχος (stómakhos), from στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).
Largely displaced native Old English maga, whence Modern English maw.
senses_examples:
text:
I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.
type:
example
text:
I can't stomach her cooking.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
To be angry.
To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
To turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel.
senses_topics:
|
9375 | word:
plea
word_type:
noun
expansion:
plea (plural pleas)
forms:
form:
pleas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ple, from Old French plait, plaid, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc., Latin an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of placere (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleito (“lawsuit, suit”). Doublet of placit. See also please, pleasure.
senses_examples:
text:
Even if only one person answers my plea for someone to correspond with it will be a blessing.
ref:
1981 December 1, George D. Johnson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
a plea for mercy
type:
example
text:
make a plea
type:
example
text:
No Plea must serve; ’tis cruelty to spare.
ref:
1668, Sir John Denham, Poems and Translations with The Sophy, “The Sophy”, Actus Primus, Scena Segunda, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
they or any three of them shall be a Court and have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed.
ref:
1782, "An Act establishing a Supreme Judicial Court within the Commonwealth", quoted in The Constitutional History of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Frank Washburn Grinnell, 1917, page 434
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
An excuse; an apology.
That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
senses_topics:
law
law
law
law |
9376 | word:
plea
word_type:
verb
expansion:
plea (third-person singular simple present pleas, present participle pleaing, simple past and past participle pleaed)
forms:
form:
pleas
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pleaing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pleaed
tags:
participle
past
form:
pleaed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ple, from Old French plait, plaid, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc., Latin an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of placere (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleito (“lawsuit, suit”). Doublet of placit. See also please, pleasure.
senses_examples:
text:
With my riches, my unhappiness was increased tenfold; and here, with another great acquisition of property, for which I had pleaed, and which I had gained in a dream, my miseries and difficulties were increasing.
ref:
1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To plead; to argue.
senses_topics:
|
9377 | word:
harem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
harem (countable and uncountable, plural harems)
forms:
form:
harems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
harem
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم (harem) Turkish harem, from Arabic حَرَم (ḥaram, “something prohibited; sanctuary, women”); and later also from حَرِيم (ḥarīm) with same meaning, both from حَرُمَ (ḥaruma, “be forbidden or unlawful”). Doublet of haram.
senses_examples:
text:
In the room next to her own, lived the harem of a merchant who had just arrived from Constantinople with merchandise. It consisted of his wife, children, and two female slaves, who being well off in their circumstances, enjoyed the comforts and conveniences of life, and eat and drank unsparingly every day.
ref:
1841, James Justinian Morier, The Mirza, volume 3, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
2006 Maestripieri, Dario; Mayhew, Jessica; Carlson, Cindy L.; Hoffman, Christy L.; and Radtke, Jennifer M. "One-Male Harems and Female Social Dynamics in Guinea Baboons", published in Folia Primatol 2007; 78:56–68, doi 10.1159/000095686
text:
In the meantime we were hidden in a close juniper thicket on the little knoll, and expected the capercailzie cock every moment; but our old friend tarried a long time in his harem.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 90
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The private section of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers.
A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household.
A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals, sea lions, baboons, and elephant seals.
A group of female birds mated to or associated with a breeding male.
Any significant number of women together as a group; a bevy.
A genre of anime and manga in which a man is the love interest of three or more women.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
|
9378 | word:
fog
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fog (countable and uncountable, plural fogs)
forms:
form:
fogs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fog
etymology_text:
Origin uncertain; but probably of North Germanic origin. Probably either a back-formation from foggy (“covered with tall grass; thick, marshy”), from the earlier-attested fog (“tall grass”) (see below), or from or related to Danish fog (“spray, shower, drift, storm”), related to Icelandic fok (“spray, any light thing tossed by the wind, snowdrift”), Icelandic fjúka (“to blow, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *feukaną (“to whisk, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug- (“billow, bulge, drift”), from *pew-, *pow- (“to blow, drift, billow”), in which case related to German fauchen (“to hiss, spit, spray”).
senses_examples:
text:
a bank of fog
type:
example
text:
Wallis and Curtiz eventually agreed to shoot Howard Koch’s preferred ending, with distraught Ilse, still in love with Rick, going off with Laszlo to America, and Rick and Louis going off together into the fog. (In Morocco? Fog? Never mind.)
ref:
2012 March 19, David Denby, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen”, in The New Yorker
type:
quotation
text:
He did so many drugs, he was still in a fog three months after going through detox.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
A mist or film clouding a surface.
A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
Distance fog.
senses_topics:
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
9379 | word:
fog
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fog (third-person singular simple present fogs, present participle fogging, simple past and past participle fogged)
forms:
form:
fogs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fogging
tags:
participle
present
form:
fogged
tags:
participle
past
form:
fogged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
fog
etymology_text:
Origin uncertain; but probably of North Germanic origin. Probably either a back-formation from foggy (“covered with tall grass; thick, marshy”), from the earlier-attested fog (“tall grass”) (see below), or from or related to Danish fog (“spray, shower, drift, storm”), related to Icelandic fok (“spray, any light thing tossed by the wind, snowdrift”), Icelandic fjúka (“to blow, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *feukaną (“to whisk, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug- (“billow, bulge, drift”), from *pew-, *pow- (“to blow, drift, billow”), in which case related to German fauchen (“to hiss, spit, spray”).
senses_examples:
text:
The mirror fogged every time he showered.
type:
example
text:
Fogging for adult mosquito control began on June 4th in residential areas. Until September 25th, the Metro area was fogged eleven times, using nine truck-mounted foggers, eight hand swing foggers, and two boats.
ref:
1968, Eighth Annual Report, Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Unfortunately, the pendulum has swung way too far to the other end where the saying in the industry is is that if you could fog a mirror, you could get a loan.
ref:
2008, United States Congress, House Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity - Foreclosure, Foreclosure Prevention and Intervention: The Importance of Loss Mitigation, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become covered with or as if with fog.
To become obscured in condensation or water.
To become dim or obscure.
To make dim or obscure.
To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
To cover with or as if with fog.
To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
To obscure in condensation or water.
To make confusing or obscure.
senses_topics:
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
|
9380 | word:
fog
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fog (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
fog
etymology_text:
From Middle English fogge (“tall grass”), probably from Norwegian fogg (“tall, worthless grass”); compare Scots fog (“moss; lichen”).
senses_examples:
text:
The inclosures of fog, or aftergrass, reserved for spring-feed, are now supposed to be shut up, also the burnet, which is never to be fed in autumn ...
ref:
1800, John Lawrenece, The New Farmer's Calendar; Or, Monthly Remembrancer, for All Kinds of Country Business: Comprehending All the Material Improvements in the New Husbandry ... By a Farmer and Breeder [i.e. J. Lawrence]., page 114
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and they generally leave a great deal of Fog to rot on the Ground, which, with the Help of his well turned Dung-hill, dress his Ground […]
ref:
1744, William Agric Ellis, The Modern Husbandman, page 104
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
Moss.
senses_topics:
|
9381 | word:
fog
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fog (third-person singular simple present fogs, present participle fogging, simple past and past participle fogged)
forms:
form:
fogs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fogging
tags:
participle
present
form:
fogged
tags:
participle
past
form:
fogged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
fog
etymology_text:
From Middle English fogge (“tall grass”), probably from Norwegian fogg (“tall, worthless grass”); compare Scots fog (“moss; lichen”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
senses_topics:
|
9382 | word:
fog
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fog (third-person singular simple present fogs, present participle fogging, simple past and past participle fogged)
forms:
form:
fogs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fogging
tags:
participle
present
form:
fogged
tags:
participle
past
form:
fogged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
fog
etymology_text:
Compare Old Dutch focker.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
senses_topics:
|
9383 | word:
reprehensible
word_type:
adj
expansion:
reprehensible (comparative more reprehensible, superlative most reprehensible)
forms:
form:
more reprehensible
tags:
comparative
form:
most reprehensible
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo; equivalent to reprehend + -ible.
senses_examples:
text:
Scarlett O’Hara was the heroine of the novel/movie Gone with the Wind and the reprehensible sequel Scarlett.
ref:
1998, Greg Morrow, Dylan Verheul, “Sandman 14”, in The Sandman Annotations, archived from the original on 2008-07-25
type:
quotation
text:
We, as a society, should in some way be held accountable for how a 15-year-old girl went from watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians to joining a terrorist cult in a war zone. Begum was 15 when she did a reprehensible thing; Javid is 49. What’s his excuse?
ref:
2019, Gary Younge, “Shamima Begum has a right to British citizenship, whether you like it or not”, in Guardian.
type:
quotation
text:
At the inquest, the conduct of guard Austin was described as reprehensible.
ref:
2022 August 24, Bruce Healey, “Wartime tunnel crash: a miraculous escape”, in RAIL, number 964, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
Deserving of reprehension.
senses_topics:
|
9384 | word:
reprehensible
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reprehensible (plural reprehensibles)
forms:
form:
reprehensibles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo; equivalent to reprehend + -ible.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A reprehensible person; a villain.
senses_topics:
|
9385 | word:
hoop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hoop (countable and uncountable, plural hoops)
forms:
form:
hoops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (“mound, raised land; in combination, circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *hōpą (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Saterland Frisian Houp (“hoop”), Dutch hoep (“hoop”), Old Norse hóp (“bay, inlet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kāb- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kabė (“hook”), Old Church Slavonic кѫпъ (kǫpŭ, “hill, island”)). More at camp.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: tyre
text:
the cheese hoop, or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese
type:
example
text:
gymnastic hoop
type:
example
text:
a hoop between trees
type:
example
text:
The door of the room now flew open, and, after pushing in her hoop sideways before her, entered Lady Bellaston, who having first made a very low courtesy to Mrs Fitzpatrick, and as low a one to Mr Jones, was ushered to the upper end of the room.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
type:
quotation
text:
Articles ranging from Chris Johnson's "For Europeans, hoops is the second-most beautiful game" for The Globe and Mail to Adam Minter's "China Is Hoops Country" for Bloomberg Opinion have detailed the rise in basketball in a wide range of countries, including the most populous ones in the world.
ref:
2018 July 30, Bruce Y. Lee, “How This Sport Is Changing Kids' Health Around The World”, in Forbes
type:
quotation
text:
Porto are playing from right to left in blue and white stripes, blue shorts and blue socks. Celtic are in their usual green and white hoops, with white shorts and white socks.
ref:
2003 May 21, Barry Glendenning "Minute-by-minute: Celtic 2 - 3 FC Porto (AET)" The Guardian (London)
text:
Tipperary v Clare: IF ANYTHING can relight the fire of the old Clare hurling passion it’s the sight of the blue jersey with the gold hoop.
ref:
2009 June 20, Ian O'Riordan, “Tipperary look in better shape”, in The Irish Times
type:
quotation
text:
The stewards ordered Des Coleman, the senior hoop (jockey) present, to ride and he got the horse home in a photo-finish.
ref:
2011, James Morton, Susanna Lobez, Kings of Stings: The Greatest Swindles from Down Under
type:
quotation
text:
But if they want to export that, then they do have to go through several hoops that you will impose upon them.
ref:
1997, Security and Freedom Through Encryption (SAFE) Act
type:
quotation
text:
Windows forces you to jump through several hoops before allowing you to delete a partition — and for good reason.
ref:
2000, Ed Bott, Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows, page 252
type:
quotation
text:
Although restrictions like prior authorization and step therapy may be of benefit in protecting people's health or even saving them money, most Medicare beneficiaries regard them as a hassle — just more hoops to go through to get the drugs they need.
ref:
2008, Patricia Barry, Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage For Dummies, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
So it looks certain that I will be returning to Australia, when at the last, I am offered a job by a London school that is willing to jump through the hoops involved to sponsor me for a visa.
ref:
2011, Jason Toll, Moscow Bound
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
Any circular band or ring.
A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
A quart-pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
The rim part of a basketball net.
The game of basketball.
A hoop earring.
A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
A jockey.
An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
Hooping (manipulation of and artistic movement or dancing with a hoop).
senses_topics:
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
9386 | word:
hoop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hoop (third-person singular simple present hoops, present participle hooping, simple past and past participle hooped)
forms:
form:
hoops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hooping
tags:
participle
present
form:
hooped
tags:
participle
past
form:
hooped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (“mound, raised land; in combination, circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *hōpą (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Saterland Frisian Houp (“hoop”), Dutch hoep (“hoop”), Old Norse hóp (“bay, inlet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kāb- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kabė (“hook”), Old Church Slavonic кѫпъ (kǫpŭ, “hill, island”)). More at camp.
senses_examples:
text:
to hoop a barrel or puncheon
type:
example
text:
Instead of hooping, they now played tennis, golf, or both.
ref:
2019, Charley Rosen, Trouthe, Lies, and Basketball
type:
quotation
text:
Wassup bro when you tryna hoop you wasting yo height
ref:
2021 July 10, @vincestaples, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-01
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bind or fasten using a hoop.
To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
To play basketball.
senses_topics:
|
9387 | word:
hoop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hoop (plural hoops)
forms:
form:
hoops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
The hoopoe.
senses_topics:
|
9388 | word:
hoop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hoop (third-person singular simple present hoops, present participle hooping, simple past and past participle hooped)
forms:
form:
hoops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hooping
tags:
participle
present
form:
hooped
tags:
participle
past
form:
hooped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
To whoop, as in whooping cough.
senses_topics:
|
9389 | word:
bass
word_type:
adj
expansion:
bass (comparative basser, superlative bassest)
forms:
form:
basser
tags:
comparative
form:
bassest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Bass (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
A respelling of base under the influence of Italian basso (“low”).
senses_examples:
text:
The giant spoke in a deep, bass, rumbling voice that shook me to my boots.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.
senses_topics:
|
9390 | word:
bass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bass (plural basses)
forms:
form:
bass A bass voice singing a soprano part ]
tags:
canonical
form:
basses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bass (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
A respelling of base under the influence of Italian basso (“low”).
senses_examples:
text:
Peter adjusted the equalizer on his audio equipment to emphasize the bass.
type:
example
text:
The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra.
type:
example
text:
Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass, much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers.
type:
example
text:
The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.
type:
example
text:
The score had been written without the treble and bass, but it was easy to pick out which was which based on the location of the notes on the staff.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A low spectrum of sound tones.
A section of a musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
One who sings in the bass range.
An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
9391 | word:
bass
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bass (third-person singular simple present basses, present participle bassing, simple past and past participle bassed)
forms:
form:
basses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bassing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bassed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bassed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Bass (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
A respelling of base under the influence of Italian basso (“low”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sound in a deep tone.
senses_topics:
|
9392 | word:
bass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bass (countable and uncountable, plural basses or bass)
forms:
form:
basses
tags:
plural
form:
bass
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bass (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English bace, bas, alteration of bars, from Old English bærs (“a fish, perch”), from Proto-West Germanic *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”, literally “prickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰórsos (“prickle, thorn, scale”). Cognate with Dutch baars (“perch, bass”), German Barsch (“perch”). More at barse.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
senses_topics:
|
9393 | word:
bass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bass (countable and uncountable, plural basses)
forms:
form:
basses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bass (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
table
A corruption of bast.
senses_examples:
text:
BASS, 1, a door mat]
ref:
[1865, William Stott Banks, A List of Provincial Words in use at Wakefield in Yorkshire, Wakefield: J.R.Smith, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
I set off half-heartedly, as best I could sheltering my spare clothes (which were in the straw fish-bass) under my coat. […] The rain made a channel from my trilby down my neck and one handle of the fish-bass gave way.
ref:
1982 [1980], J L Carr, A Month in the Country, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books/Harvester Press, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
senses_topics:
|
9394 | word:
lekker
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lekker (comparative more lekker, superlative most lekker)
forms:
form:
more lekker
tags:
comparative
form:
most lekker
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Afrikaans lekker, from Dutch lekker.
senses_examples:
text:
There were 2 000 rounds of ammo to fire between us four loadies. We sat there for hours and took our potshots. It was kiff; the R5 was a lekker thing.
ref:
2010, Cameron Blake, From Soldier to Civvy: Reflections on National Service
type:
quotation
text:
The other men ask why he's crying, when he's got such a lekker car. The guy shakes his head and says, "I just saw my wife, and she was driving a skateboard."
ref:
1998, Leon Schuster, Leon Schuster's lekker, thick South African joke book, page 164
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tasty, nice, fun, great.
Good in a generic sense, worthy, functional.
senses_topics:
|
9395 | word:
lift
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lift (third-person singular simple present lifts, present participle lifting, simple past lifted or (rare, regional, obsolete) lift, past participle lifted or (rare, regional, obsolete) lift or (obsolete) yleft)
forms:
form:
lifts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lifting
tags:
participle
present
form:
lifted
tags:
past
form:
lift
tags:
obsolete
past
rare
regional
form:
lifted
tags:
participle
past
form:
lift
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
rare
regional
form:
yleft
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English liften, lyften, from Old Norse lypta (“to lift, air”, literally “to raise in the air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftijaną (“to raise in the air”), related to *luftuz (“roof, air”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”) or from a root meaning roof (see *luftuz). Cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål løfte (“to lift”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish lyfta (“to lift”), German lüften (“to air, lift”), Old English lyft (“air”). See above. 1851 for the noun sense "a mechanical device for vertical transport".
(To steal): For this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐍆𐍄𐌿𐍃 (hliftus) "thief", cognate with Latin cleptus and Greek κλέπτω (kléptō)).
senses_examples:
text:
The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.
type:
example
text:
You never lift a finger to help me!
type:
example
text:
c. 1490, Of Penance and Confession be master Jhon Yrlandː
Liftand (lifting) thy hands and thy eyen to Heaven.
text:
Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).
ref:
2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8
type:
quotation
text:
Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side,
And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.
ref:
1919, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West
type:
quotation
text:
Based on a similarity across a range of Anglo-Indian entries in these three dictionaries, it appears that (along with other lexis) Barrère and Leland (1898) copied this entry from Hotten (1864), who had in turn lifted it directly from Stocqueler (1848).
ref:
2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 258
type:
quotation
text:
Maybe the police lifted him and he's in Castlereagh [Interrogation Centre] because he'd been lifted three or four times previously and took to Castlereagh. They used to come in and raid the house and take him away.
ref:
2000, Marie Smyth, Marie-Therese Fay, Personal Accounts From Northern Ireland's Troubles
type:
quotation
text:
The Gunners boss has been heavily criticised for his side's poor start to the Premier League season but this result helps lift the pressure.
ref:
2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.
ref:
2011 October 2, Aled Williams, “Swansea 2 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport Wales
type:
quotation
text:
She lifts twice a week at the gym.
type:
example
text:
Finally, we can lift a partial function into a regular (total) function that returns an Option or a Some(value) when the partial function is defined for the input argument or None when it isn't.
ref:
2021, Dean Wampler, chapter 2, in Programming Scala, 3rd edition, O'Reilly
type:
quotation
text:
I lifted the hounds (hoping to catch the leading ones there) to the far side of Hallaton Thorns.
ref:
1885, Lina Chaworth Musters, Book of Hunting Songs and Sport, page 144
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To raise or rise.
To steal.
To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
To arrest (a person).
To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
to cause to move upwards.
To lift weights; to weight-lift.
To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
To bear; to support.
To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; c.f. lift n.18)
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
business
finance
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
9396 | word:
lift
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lift (countable and uncountable, plural lifts)
forms:
form:
lifts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English liften, lyften, from Old Norse lypta (“to lift, air”, literally “to raise in the air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftijaną (“to raise in the air”), related to *luftuz (“roof, air”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”) or from a root meaning roof (see *luftuz). Cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål løfte (“to lift”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish lyfta (“to lift”), German lüften (“to air, lift”), Old English lyft (“air”). See above. 1851 for the noun sense "a mechanical device for vertical transport".
(To steal): For this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐍆𐍄𐌿𐍃 (hliftus) "thief", cognate with Latin cleptus and Greek κλέπτω (kléptō)).
senses_examples:
text:
He gave me a lift to the bus station.
type:
example
text:
Take the lift to the fourth floor.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: liftup
text:
The lift came into the shop dressed like a country gentleman, but was careful not to have a cloak about him, so that the tradesman could see he had no opportunity to conceal any goods about his person.
ref:
1977, Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society, published 2006, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
Just to think he had both a mistress and a wife gave him a lift. He needed a lift, for although he'd had promotion, his wasn't an exciting job.
ref:
2010, Anne Baker, With a Little Luck
type:
quotation
text:
The dismissal of a player who left Arsenal for Manchester City before joining Tottenham gave the home players and fans a noticeable lift.
ref:
2012 November 17, “Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
What's the maximum lift of this crane?
type:
example
text:
the lift of a lock in canals
type:
example
text:
some measure the total lift and others only the lift on one side , a quantity which is not exactly half of the total lift
ref:
1887, Claudius Saunier, A Treatise on Modern Horology in Theory and Practice
type:
quotation
text:
For a covering space p#x3A;#x5C;tildeX#x5C;toX a path #x5C;gamma [i.e. a continuous map #x5B;0,1#x5D;#x5C;toX] in X has a unique lift #x5C;tilde#x5C;gamma starting at a given point of p#x7B;-1#x7D;(#x5C;gamma(0))
ref:
2001, Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, page 69
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of lifting or raising.
The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
A thief.
The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
An improvement in mood.
The amount or weight to be lifted.
The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
A rise; a degree of elevation.
A liftgate.
A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
One of the steps of a cone pulley.
A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g).
senses_topics:
dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hobbies
horology
lifestyle
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
9397 | word:
lift
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lift (usually uncountable, plural lifts)
forms:
form:
lifts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lifte, luft, lefte (“air, sky, heaven”), from Old English lyft (“atmosphere, air”), from Proto-West Germanic *luftu, from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“roof, sky, air”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”).
Cognate with Old High German luft (“air”) (German Luft), Dutch lucht (“air”), Old Norse lopt, loft (“upper room, sky, air”). Doublet of loft and luft.
senses_examples:
text:
No, no, Leddy! the sun maun be up in the lift whan I venture to her den.
ref:
1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 1, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Air.
The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
senses_topics:
|
9398 | word:
locator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
locator (plural locators)
forms:
form:
locators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
locator
etymology_text:
From locate + -or.
senses_examples:
text:
I found the opening times for my local branch using the Web site's store locator.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who, or that which, locates.
One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.
The unique alphanumeric reference given to each travel booking.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel-industry |
9399 | word:
dust
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dust (countable and uncountable, plural dusts)
forms:
form:
dusts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Dust (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English dust, doust, from Old English dūst (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dustą (“dust”) and *dunstą (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”).
Cognate with Scots dust, dist (“dust”), Dutch duist (“pollen, dust”) and dons (“down, fuzz”), German Dust (“dust”) and Dunst (“haze”), Swedish dust (“dust”), Icelandic dust (“dust”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down.
senses_examples:
text:
There is so much dust released during the process of laying ballast that the trackside operator wears a full face mask with respirator.
ref:
2022 September 7, “East-West track laying heads westwards”, in RAIL, number 965, page 37, photo caption
type:
quotation
text:
Astronomers have previously considered that dust produced by the star was obscuring it, causing the steep decline in brightness.
ref:
2020 June 29, Paun Rincon, “Betelgeuse: Nearby ‘supernova’ star’s dimming explained”, in BBC News
type:
quotation
text:
[…]once they start school, I mean you can do a room out one day, the next day it only needs a dust, doesn’t it?
ref:
2010, Joan Busfield, Michael Paddon, Thinking About Children: Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England, page 150
type:
quotation
text:
‘And what do you ask for it?’ ‘Fifteen thousand dollars.’ ‘I’ll take it.’ ‘Then down with the dust.’
ref:
1852, George Colvocoresses, Four Years in a Government Exploring Expedition
type:
quotation
text:
to raise, or kick up, a dust
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fine particles.
Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
Fine particles.
Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
Fine particles.
Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
Fine particles.
Flour.
Fine particles.
A single fine, dry particle of earth or other material; grain of dust.
The act of cleaning by dusting.
The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
The earth as the resting place of the dead.
The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
Something worthless.
A low or mean condition.
Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
A cloud of dust.
A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
A fight or row.
A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
mathematics
sciences
business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance |
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