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9400 | word:
dust
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dust (third-person singular simple present dusts, present participle dusting, simple past and past participle dusted)
forms:
form:
dusts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dusting
tags:
participle
present
form:
dusted
tags:
participle
past
form:
dusted
tags:
past
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:
The cleaning lady needs a stool to dust the cupboard.
type:
example
text:
Dusting always makes me cough.
type:
example
text:
The mother dusted her baby’s bum with talcum powder.
type:
example
text:
He added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can dust. I’d like to talk to you a little, soldier.’
ref:
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
good Powder differs from bad […]in having more Peter and less Coal; and lastly, in the well dusting of it
ref:
1667, Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society of London
type:
quotation
text:
Kyle Reese: You have to be careful because the [Hunter-Killer robots] use infrared. They’re not too bright. John taught us ways to dust them.
ref:
1984, The Terminator, spoken by Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), Los Angeles, Calif.: Orion Pictures; distributed by MGM Home Entertainment, published 1984
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To remove dust from.
To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
To make dusty, to soil with dust.
Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
To leave quickly; to rush off.
To drink up quickly; to toss off.
To reduce to a fine powder; to pulverize, to levigate.
To strike, beat, thrash.
To defeat badly, to thrash.
To kill.
To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance |
9401 | word:
many
word_type:
det
expansion:
many (comparative more, superlative most)
forms:
form:
more
tags:
comparative
form:
most
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
many
etymology_text:
From Middle English many, mani, moni, from Old English maniġ, moniġ, maneġ (“many”), from Proto-West Germanic *manag, from Proto-Germanic *managaz (“some, much, many”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots mony (“many”), North Frisian manag, manig, mäning (“many”), Saterland Frisian monig, moonich (“many”), West Frisian mannich, mennich (“some, many”), Dutch menig (“many”), Low German männig (“many”), German manch, mannig- (“many, some”), Old Norse mangr, Norwegian mang, Swedish mången, Danish mangen, French maint (“many”), Russian мно́гий (mnógij), Serbo-Croatian and Polish mnogi, Czech mnohý, Scottish Gaelic minig
The noun is from Middle English manye, *menye, from Old English manigeo, menigu (“company, multitude, host”), from Proto-West Germanic *managu, *managī, from Proto-Germanic *managō, *managį̄ (“multitude”), from the same root as the determiner. Cognate with Middle Low German menige, menie, menje (“multitude”), Russian много (mnogo), Serbo-Croatian mnogo.
senses_examples:
text:
Not many such people enjoyed playing chess.
type:
example
text:
There are very many different ways to cook a meal.
type:
example
text:
I did it in a moment of conceit and folly—one of my many such moments—one of my many such hours—years.
ref:
1864–65, Charles Dickens, chapter 15, in Our Mutual Friend
type:
quotation
text:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref:
2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
We don't need this many bananas. Put some back.
type:
example
text:
There may be as many as ten million species of insect.
type:
example
text:
I don't have as many friends as my sister does.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An indefinite large number of.
Used to indicate, demonstrate or compare the number of people or things.
senses_topics:
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9402 | word:
many
word_type:
pron
expansion:
many
forms:
wikipedia:
many
etymology_text:
From Middle English many, mani, moni, from Old English maniġ, moniġ, maneġ (“many”), from Proto-West Germanic *manag, from Proto-Germanic *managaz (“some, much, many”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots mony (“many”), North Frisian manag, manig, mäning (“many”), Saterland Frisian monig, moonich (“many”), West Frisian mannich, mennich (“some, many”), Dutch menig (“many”), Low German männig (“many”), German manch, mannig- (“many, some”), Old Norse mangr, Norwegian mang, Swedish mången, Danish mangen, French maint (“many”), Russian мно́гий (mnógij), Serbo-Croatian and Polish mnogi, Czech mnohý, Scottish Gaelic minig
The noun is from Middle English manye, *menye, from Old English manigeo, menigu (“company, multitude, host”), from Proto-West Germanic *managu, *managī, from Proto-Germanic *managō, *managį̄ (“multitude”), from the same root as the determiner. Cognate with Middle Low German menige, menie, menje (“multitude”), Russian много (mnogo), Serbo-Croatian mnogo.
senses_examples:
text:
Many are called, but few are chosen.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An indefinite large number of people or things.
senses_topics:
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9403 | word:
many
word_type:
noun
expansion:
many (plural (rare) manies)
forms:
form:
manies
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
many
etymology_text:
From Middle English many, mani, moni, from Old English maniġ, moniġ, maneġ (“many”), from Proto-West Germanic *manag, from Proto-Germanic *managaz (“some, much, many”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots mony (“many”), North Frisian manag, manig, mäning (“many”), Saterland Frisian monig, moonich (“many”), West Frisian mannich, mennich (“some, many”), Dutch menig (“many”), Low German männig (“many”), German manch, mannig- (“many, some”), Old Norse mangr, Norwegian mang, Swedish mången, Danish mangen, French maint (“many”), Russian мно́гий (mnógij), Serbo-Croatian and Polish mnogi, Czech mnohý, Scottish Gaelic minig
The noun is from Middle English manye, *menye, from Old English manigeo, menigu (“company, multitude, host”), from Proto-West Germanic *managu, *managī, from Proto-Germanic *managō, *managį̄ (“multitude”), from the same root as the determiner. Cognate with Middle Low German menige, menie, menje (“multitude”), Russian много (mnogo), Serbo-Croatian mnogo.
senses_examples:
text:
Democracy must balance the rights of the few against the will of the many.
type:
example
text:
I know that my mother cried a many of times from decisions I made.
ref:
2005, Florence Dyer, A Mother's Cry!: Touches the Very Heart of God, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.
A considerable number.
senses_topics:
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9404 | word:
many
word_type:
adj
expansion:
many (comparative more, superlative most)
forms:
form:
more
tags:
comparative
form:
most
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
many
etymology_text:
From Middle English many, mani, moni, from Old English maniġ, moniġ, maneġ (“many”), from Proto-West Germanic *manag, from Proto-Germanic *managaz (“some, much, many”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots mony (“many”), North Frisian manag, manig, mäning (“many”), Saterland Frisian monig, moonich (“many”), West Frisian mannich, mennich (“some, many”), Dutch menig (“many”), Low German männig (“many”), German manch, mannig- (“many, some”), Old Norse mangr, Norwegian mang, Swedish mången, Danish mangen, French maint (“many”), Russian мно́гий (mnógij), Serbo-Croatian and Polish mnogi, Czech mnohý, Scottish Gaelic minig
The noun is from Middle English manye, *menye, from Old English manigeo, menigu (“company, multitude, host”), from Proto-West Germanic *managu, *managī, from Proto-Germanic *managō, *managį̄ (“multitude”), from the same root as the determiner. Cognate with Middle Low German menige, menie, menje (“multitude”), Russian много (mnogo), Serbo-Croatian mnogo.
senses_examples:
text:
Let’s take these fears about a rich, strong China to their logical extreme. The U.S. and Chinese governments are always disagreeing—about trade, foreign policy, the environment. Someday the disagreement could be severe. Taiwan, Tibet, North Korea, Iran—the possibilities are many, though Taiwan always heads the list.
ref:
2008 January/February, James Fallows, “The $1.4 Trillion Question”, in The Atlantic Monthly
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Existing in large number; numerous.
senses_topics:
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9405 | word:
orient
word_type:
name
expansion:
orient
forms:
wikipedia:
Aci Castello
Willem Blaeu
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English orient, oriente, oryent, oryente, oryentte (“the east direction; eastern horizon or sky; eastern regions of the world, Asia, Orient; eastern edge of the world”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman orient, oriente, and Old French orient (“east direction; Asia, Orient”) (modern French orient), or directly from its etymon Latin oriēns (“the east; daybreak, dawn; sunrise; (participle) rising; appearing; originating”), present active participle of orior (“to get up, rise; to appear, become visible; to be born, come to exist, originate”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”).
The adjective is derived from Middle English orient (“eastern; from Asia or the Orient; brilliant, shining (characteristic of jewels from the Orient)”), from Middle English orient (noun); see above.
senses_examples:
text:
I, from the orient to the drooping weſt, / Making the wind my poſthorſe, ſtill unfold / The acts commenced on this ball of earth: […]
ref:
c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “King Henry IV. Part II.”, in The Plays of William Shakespeare, volume IX, London: Printed for T[homas] Longman [et al.], published 1793, →OCLC, act I, induction [prologue], page 6
type:
quotation
text:
God planted Paradise in Eden, in the orients; and placed there the man whom he had formed.
ref:
1834, “St. Basil’s Homily on Paradise”, in Hugh Stuart Boyd, transl., The Fathers not Papists: Or, Six Discourses by the Most Eloquent Fathers of the Church: […] Translated from the Greek, new edition, London: Samuel Bagster, […]; Sidmouth, Devon: John Harvey, →OCLC, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
I pitch my tent upon the naked sands, / And the tall palm, that plumes the orient lands, / Can with its beauty satisfy my heart.
ref:
1855, Bayard Taylor, “Proem Dedicatory. An Epistle from Mount Tmolus.”, in Poems of the Orient, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, stanza IV, pages 10–11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Usually preceded by the: alternative letter-case form of Orient (“a region or a part of the world to the east of a certain place; countries of Asia, the East (especially East Asia)”)
senses_topics:
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9406 | word:
orient
word_type:
noun
expansion:
orient (plural orients)
forms:
form:
orients
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Aci Castello
Willem Blaeu
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English orient, oriente, oryent, oryente, oryentte (“the east direction; eastern horizon or sky; eastern regions of the world, Asia, Orient; eastern edge of the world”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman orient, oriente, and Old French orient (“east direction; Asia, Orient”) (modern French orient), or directly from its etymon Latin oriēns (“the east; daybreak, dawn; sunrise; (participle) rising; appearing; originating”), present active participle of orior (“to get up, rise; to appear, become visible; to be born, come to exist, originate”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”).
The adjective is derived from Middle English orient (“eastern; from Asia or the Orient; brilliant, shining (characteristic of jewels from the Orient)”), from Middle English orient (noun); see above.
senses_examples:
text:
The chambers of the East are opened in every land, and the sun comes forth to sow the earth with orient pearl.
ref:
1825, James Anthony Froude, quoting Thomas Carlyle, “a.d. 1825. æt. 30.”, in Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795–1835 … Two Volumes in One (Harper’s Franklin Square Library; nos. 245 and 246), volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1882, →OCLC, page 174
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
A pearl originating from the Indian region, reputed to be of great brilliance; (by extension) any pearl of particular beauty and value.
The brilliance or colour of a high-quality pearl.
senses_topics:
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9407 | word:
orient
word_type:
adj
expansion:
orient (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Aci Castello
Willem Blaeu
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English orient, oriente, oryent, oryente, oryentte (“the east direction; eastern horizon or sky; eastern regions of the world, Asia, Orient; eastern edge of the world”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman orient, oriente, and Old French orient (“east direction; Asia, Orient”) (modern French orient), or directly from its etymon Latin oriēns (“the east; daybreak, dawn; sunrise; (participle) rising; appearing; originating”), present active participle of orior (“to get up, rise; to appear, become visible; to be born, come to exist, originate”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”).
The adjective is derived from Middle English orient (“eastern; from Asia or the Orient; brilliant, shining (characteristic of jewels from the Orient)”), from Middle English orient (noun); see above.
senses_examples:
text:
It is neceſſary to ſome men to have garments made of the Calabrian fleece, ſtain'd with the bloud of the murex, and to get money to buy pearls round and orient; [...] well may a ſober man wonder that men ſhould be ſo much in love with Earth and Corruption, the Parent of rottenneſs and a diſeaſe, [...]
ref:
a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, “Sermon XVI. [The House of Feasting: Or The Epicures Measures.] Part III.”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [ENIAUTOS]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 4th enlarged edition, London: Printed by R[oger] Norton for R[ichard] Royston, […], published 1673, →OCLC, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
Her orienteſt colours there,
And eſſences moſt pure,
With ſweeteſt perfumes hoarded were,
ref:
a. 1679, Andrew Marvell, “The Match”, in The Works of Andrew Marvell, Esq.: Poetical, Controversial, and Political, […] In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Printed for the editor, by Henry Baldwin, and sold by [Robert] Dodsley [et al.], published 1776, →OCLC, stanza II, page 269
type:
quotation
roman:
All, as ſhe thought, ſecure.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rising, like the morning sun.
Of the colour of the sky at daybreak; bright in colour, from red to yellow.
Of, facing, or located in the east; eastern, oriental.
Of a pearl or other gem: of great brilliance and value; (by extension) bright, lustrous.
senses_topics:
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9408 | word:
orient
word_type:
verb
expansion:
orient (third-person singular simple present orients, present participle orienting, simple past and past participle oriented)
forms:
form:
orients
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
orienting
tags:
participle
present
form:
oriented
tags:
participle
past
form:
oriented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from French orienter (“to orientate; to guide; to set to north”) from French orient (noun) (see above) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs).
senses_examples:
text:
The first kind of interment was that of leaden coffins, rectangular in shape, covered with a lid, occupying deeper graves than any of the other interments, more or less accurately oriented, sometimes containing coins, as of the Emperor Gratian (ob. 383), and sometimes not. [...] The second type of interment, also of Romans or Romanised Britons, resembled the first in being more or less perfectly oriented, the orientation varying, probably according as it had taken place in summer or in winter, from E.N.E. to E.S.E. over about 45°; [...]
ref:
1868 August 25, George Rolleston, “On the Modes of Sepulture Observable in Late Romano-British and Early Anglo-Saxon Times in This Country”, in International Congress of Prehistoric Archæology: Transactions of the Third Session […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1869, →OCLC, pages 176–177
type:
quotation
text:
Without a compass the table is oriented, when set at one end of a line previously determined, by sighting back on this line, [...]. To orient the table, when at a station unconnected with others, is more difficult.
ref:
1855, W. M. Gillespie, “Part VIII. Plane Table Surveying.”, in A Treatise on Land-surveying: […], New York, N.Y., London: D. Appleton & Co., […], →OCLC, paragraph 456 (To Orient the Table), page 309
type:
quotation
text:
He orients his photo-scale protractor over the intersection of the base line and compass line extended, by means of the bearing of base line AB (S. 32° W.) and reads bearing of compass line RP to 7 (N. 80° W.).
ref:
1963, Karl E. Moessner, Accuracy of Ground Point Location from Aerial Photographs (U.S. Forest Service Research Note; INT-5), Ogden, Ut.: Intermountain Forest & Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
The workers oriented all the signs to face the road.
type:
example
text:
The present methods of manufacture of fiber boards tend to orient the fibers so that they are most effective for insulation.
ref:
1931 December 1, C[harles] G. Weber, F[rederick] T. Carson, L[eo] W[illiam] Snyder, “Properties Studied and Test Methods Used”, in Properties of Fiber Building Boards (Miscellaneous Publication, Bureau of Standards; no. 132), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, section 3 (Insulating Values), page 13
type:
quotation
text:
When a substance is placed in an electric field, the molecules tend to orient themselves in a definite pattern with respect to the direction of the field. The dielectric constant of the material can, for simplicity, be defined as a measure of the degree to which the individual particles are oriented or the material polarized.
ref:
1963 November, M. E. Whitten, L. A. Baumann, “Theory of Dielectric Constant Measurements”, in Evaluation of a Rapid Method of Determining Oil Content of Soybeans (United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin; no. 1296), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
The goal is to draw on reservoirs of strength that defy rational thought, so you can wrench your poor, obsessed spirit away from work and orient it toward stuff that matters.
ref:
2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
Let me just orient myself and we can be on our way.
type:
example
text:
All around your spirit, the universe lies open and free, and you can go where you will. Orient yourself! Orient yourself! [...] [S]tudy and obey the sublime laws on which the frame of nature was constructed; study and obey the sublimer laws on which the soul of man was formed; and the fulness of the power and the wisdom and the blessedness, with which God has filled and lighted up this resplendent universe, shall all be yours!
ref:
1850, Horace Mann, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
The two stars, one at the Pole and the other at the Equator, were essential to both orienting and dating the structure. Hence the conclusion that the Great Pyramid could not have accomplished its design as a monumental witnessing pillar at any other time, and that the only time when the aid indispensable was possible was B.C. 2170.
ref:
1879 March, James French, “The Great Pyramid in Connection with the Pleiades; or, The Last Anniversary of the Great Year of the Pleiades. When, How, and Why Celebrated.”, in Kansas City Review of Science and Industry, a Monthly Record of Progress in Science, Mechanic Arts and Literature, volume II, number 12, Kansas City, Mo.: Journal of Commerce Printing and Publishing House, →OCLC, page 758
type:
quotation
text:
Give him time to orient himself within the new hierarchy.
type:
example
text:
Thus the thought-world is a symbol, or system of symbols, which serves the organic beings of the real world for orienting themselves in the world of actual being, and is the means whereby they translate the proceedings of this world into the language of the soul.
ref:
1913, G[eorge] R[obert] S[towe] Mead, “Vaihinger’s Philosophy of the ‘As If’”, in Quests Old and New, London: G[eorge] Bell & Sons, Ltd., →OCLC, page 257
type:
quotation
text:
Computer Systems Analyst II [...] Determines and resolves data processing problems and coordinates the work with program, users, etc.; orients user personnel on new or changed procedures.
ref:
1991 September, “Appendix B: Occupational Descriptions”, in Area Wage Survey: Charlotte—Gastonia—Rock Hill; North Carolina—South Carolina Metropolitan Area (Bulletin; 3060-27), [Washington, D.C.]: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, →OCLC, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
The first system of attention underlies orienting to and exploration of objects in the environment and is composed of at least two networks involved in orienting to locations in space and object recognition, respectively [...].
ref:
1996, Holly Alliger Ruff, Mary Klevjord Rothbart, Attention in Early Development: Themes and Variations, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
We will orient our campaign to the youth who are often disinterested.
type:
example
text:
Whatever the occasion of the public religious observance, whether it was the holding of a temple fair, praying for rain, or celebrating a popular festival, religion came to serve as a symbol of common devotion in bringing people out of their divergent routines and orienting them toward community activities.
ref:
1961, C. K. Yang [i.e., Ch’ing-k’un Yang], “Communal Aspects of Popular Cults”, in Religion in Chinese Society: A Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
Observation stations were established at vantage points along the coast to monitor gray whale responses to the sounds generated by the air gun array. [...] At 3 miles some whales appeared to orient toward the sound.
ref:
1984 February, “Appendix T: Biological Opinion from National Marine Fisheries Service for Proposed Southern California Lease Offering, February 1984”, in EIS: Environmental Impact Statement: Proposed Southern California Lease Offering, final volume 2, Los Angeles, Calif.: Prepared by the Minerals Management Service, Pacific OCS Region, published April 1984, →OCLC, page 8-239
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To build or place (something) so as to face eastward.
To align or place (a person or object) so that his, her, or its east side, north side, etc., is positioned toward the corresponding points of the compass; (specifically, surveying) to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature.
To direct towards or point at a particular direction.
To determine which direction one is facing.
To familiarize (oneself or someone) with a circumstance or situation.
To set the focus of (something) so as to appeal or relate to a certain group.
To change direction to face a certain way.
senses_topics:
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9409 | word:
scissors
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scissors (plural scissors)
forms:
form:
scissors
tags:
plural
form:
scissor
tags:
attributive
wikipedia:
Scissors
Scissors (aeronautics)
etymology_text:
From Middle English sisours, sisoures (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *cīsōria, plural of Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”) (compare chisel); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears.
* The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindere (“to split”).
senses_examples:
text:
Those scissors are sharp. (indicating singular or plural scissors)
type:
example
text:
That scissors is sharp. (less commonly to indicate singular scissors)
type:
example
text:
Scissors are used to cut the flowers.
type:
example
text:
Use scissors to cut them if you don't have proper shears.
type:
example
text:
Roses will last longer if a knife rather than a scissors is used to cut the blooms.
ref:
1947 June 22, “Around the Garden”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
They executed a perfect scissors.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed.
A type of defensive maneuver in dogfighting, involving repeatedly turning one's aircraft towards that of the attacker in order to force them to overshoot.
An instance of the above dogfighting maneuver.
An attacking move conducted by two players; the player without the ball runs from one side of the ball carrier, behind the ball carrier, and receives a pass from the ball carrier on the other side.
A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.
A scissors hold.
A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
skating
sports
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
games
rock-paper-scissors |
9410 | word:
scissors
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scissors
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sisours, sisoures (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *cīsōria, plural of Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”) (compare chisel); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears.
* The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindere (“to split”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of scissor
senses_topics:
|
9411 | word:
scissors
word_type:
verb
expansion:
scissors (third-person singular simple present scissorses, present participle scissorsing, simple past and past participle scissorsed)
forms:
form:
scissorses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
scissorsing
tags:
participle
present
form:
scissorsed
tags:
participle
past
form:
scissorsed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sisours, sisoures (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *cīsōria, plural of Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”) (compare chisel); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears.
* The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindere (“to split”).
senses_examples:
text:
She found her in the dining-room with Ann Foster, the little dressmaker, who was endeavouring to scissors through the right side of her underlip with her teeth as proof that the compiling of a list of requisites was no tax to her.
ref:
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 175
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rare form of scissor (“To cut using, or as if using, scissors.”).
senses_topics:
|
9412 | word:
scissors
word_type:
verb
expansion:
scissors
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sisours, sisoures (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *cīsōria, plural of Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”) (compare chisel); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears.
* The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindere (“to split”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of scissor
senses_topics:
|
9413 | word:
scissors
word_type:
intj
expansion:
scissors
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sisours, sisoures (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *cīsōria, plural of Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”) (compare chisel); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears.
* The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindere (“to split”).
senses_examples:
text:
Say, wouldn’t it put your eye out to get a letter from one of the kiddies with the thumb‐prints of that crest not doing a thing but snuggling down in the wax on the envelope? Oh, scissors!
ref:
1909, Edward Waterman Townsend, chapter II, in The Climbing Courvatels, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
“Scissors!” he shouted and stuck his finger in his mouth.
ref:
1911, William Caine, chapter XIV, in The Revolt at Roskelly’s, New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 270
type:
quotation
text:
Then sit down—make yourself at home. Ah, scissors.
ref:
1913, Richard Claude Carton, Public Opinion: A Farce in Three Acts, London: Samuel French, Ltd., page 81
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cry of anguish or frustration.
senses_topics:
|
9414 | word:
locative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
locative (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin locātīvus, from locus.
senses_examples:
text:
a locative adjective
type:
example
text:
the locative case of a noun
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9415 | word:
locative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
locative (plural locatives)
forms:
form:
locatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin locātīvus, from locus.
senses_examples:
text:
Brian: Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the… accusative! Accusative! Ah! Domum, sir! Ad domum! Ah! Oooh! Ah!
Centurion: Except that domus takes the…?
Brian: The locative, sir!
Centurion: Which is…?!
ref:
1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The locative case.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9416 | word:
instrumentalness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
instrumentalness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From instrumental + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality
How likely the music contains no spoken word vocals
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
9417 | word:
skyscraper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
skyscraper (plural skyscrapers)
forms:
form:
skyscrapers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compound of sky + scraper.
senses_examples:
text:
As the curve of Sandy Hook blotted from sight the last, low glimpse of the skyscrapers which point Manhattan, Blake touched Annette's arm.
ref:
1910, William Henry Irwin, The House of Mystery
type:
quotation
text:
The solitary attic—if one could thus designate a space of about three square feet—which comprised Hamar's lodging—had the advantage of being situated in the top storey of a skyscraper—at least a skyscraper for that part of the city.
ref:
1912, Elliott O'Donnell, The Sorcery Club
type:
quotation
text:
Then he noticed, as a prosaic business man will notice suddenly, that a skyscraper which he has passed daily for months is out of line with its neighbor, that the seat behind the new little girl was unoccupied and that she stood alone in the aisle during exercises.
ref:
1917, Herman Gastrell Seely, A Son of the City: A Story of Boy Life
type:
quotation
text:
The Wards are open-topped, with skyscrapers rising from the superstructure. Towers are sealed against vacuum, as the breathable atmosphere envelope is only maintained to a height of about seven meters. The atmosphere is contained by the centrifugal force of rotation and a "membrane" of dense, colorless sulphur hexafluoride gas, held in place by carefully managed mass effect fields.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel Station: Wards Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
It was no surprise to see Hanley bat a skyscraper out to left.
ref:
1920, Zane Grey, The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A very tall building with a large number of floors.
A small sail atop a mast of a ship; a triangular skysail.
Anything very tall or high.
senses_topics:
architecture
nautical
transport
|
9418 | word:
deposit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
deposit (plural deposits)
forms:
form:
deposits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
deposit
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Italic *pozinō
Latin pōnō
Latin dēpōnō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin deposituslbor.
English deposit
Learned borrowing from Latin depositus, past participle of depono (“put down”). Doublet of depot.
senses_examples:
text:
a mineral deposit
type:
example
text:
a deposit of seaweed on the shore
type:
example
text:
a deposit of jam on my countertop
type:
example
text:
They put down a deposit on the apartment.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.
Bailment of personal property to be kept gratuitously for the bailor (depositor) and without any benefit to the bailee (depositary), e.g. for storage, carriage, repair, etc.
Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.
Anything left behind on a surface.
A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.
A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
A place of deposit; a depository.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
law
banking
business
business
finance
|
9419 | word:
deposit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
deposit (third-person singular simple present deposits, present participle depositing, simple past and past participle deposited)
forms:
form:
deposits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
depositing
tags:
participle
present
form:
deposited
tags:
participle
past
form:
deposited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
deposit
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Italic *pozinō
Latin pōnō
Latin dēpōnō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin deposituslbor.
English deposit
Learned borrowing from Latin depositus, past participle of depono (“put down”). Doublet of depot.
senses_examples:
text:
A crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand.
type:
example
text:
The waters deposited a rich alluvium.
type:
example
text:
to deposit goods in a warehouse
type:
example
text:
I had to deposit two months' rent into my landlord's account before he gave me the keys.
type:
example
text:
reform and deposit his error
ref:
1654, Henry Hammond, Of Schism: or a Defence of the Church of England
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lay down; to place; to put.
To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.
To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
To put money or funds into an account.
To lay aside; to rid oneself of.
senses_topics:
|
9420 | word:
instrumentally
word_type:
adv
expansion:
instrumentally (comparative more instrumentally, superlative most instrumentally)
forms:
form:
more instrumentally
tags:
comparative
form:
most instrumentally
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From instrumental + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so.
ref:
1760–1765, Edmund Burke, Tracts Relative to the Laws against Popery in Ireland
type:
quotation
text:
Institutionally based, restrictive relationships, such as those among family members or professional colleagues, must thus be contrasted with instrumentally based, nonrestrictive relationships serving the aims of practical pursuits, such as those between freely practicing experts and their clients or between sellers and buyers. In instrumentally structured situations it is not necessary for the participants to curb their needs, because the mere expression of needs in no way compels others to gratify them, as it tends to do in the family.
ref:
1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 8, in The Myth of Mental Illness, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
an instrumentally accompanied song
type:
example
text:
join in instrumentally
type:
example
text:
In a song that has vocals, the intro is often played instrumentally and serves to establish the overall feel of the song.
ref:
2018, Rick Mattingly, Rod Morgenstein, The Drumset Musician
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end
With musical instruments
senses_topics:
|
9421 | word:
instrumentality
word_type:
noun
expansion:
instrumentality (countable and uncountable, plural instrumentalities)
forms:
form:
instrumentalities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From instrumental + -ity.
senses_examples:
text:
He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.
ref:
1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4
type:
quotation
text:
Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities.
ref:
1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Bits About Home Matters
type:
quotation
text:
God works by instrumentalities, and he has wonderfully thus far interposed in keeping evils that I feared in abeyance.
ref:
1914, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals
type:
quotation
text:
Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the Alien Property Custodian and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work.
ref:
1994, Title 17 of the United States Code, §104A(a)(2)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The condition or quality of being instrumental; being useful; serving a purpose.
Something that is instrumental; an instrument.
A governmental organ with a specific purpose.
senses_topics:
law |
9422 | word:
Antillean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Antillean (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Antilles + -ean.
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: Caribbean
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to the Antilles, the Antillean people or the Antillean language.
senses_topics:
|
9423 | word:
Antillean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Antillean (plural Antilleans)
forms:
form:
Antilleans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Antilles + -ean.
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: Caribbean
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from the Antilles or of Antillean descent.
senses_topics:
|
9424 | word:
powder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
powder (countable and uncountable, plural powders)
forms:
form:
powders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English poudre, pouder, pouldre, borrowed from Old French poudre, poldre, puldre, from Latin pulverem, accusative singular of Latin pulvis (“dust, powder”). Doublet of pulver. Compare pollen (“fine flour”), polverine, pulverize.
senses_examples:
text:
Let them stop fretting about vegetables denied by the weather and eat chilli powder. Just explain to them that they really shouldn’t think about spiralising it, because that doesn’t work.
ref:
2017 February 3, Deborah Orr, “Veg crisis, what veg crisis? If we can’t have courgettes, then let us eat kale”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
She was redolent of violet sachet powder, and had warm, soft, white hands, but she danced divinely, moving as smoothly as the tide coming in.
ref:
1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.
A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.
An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
Ellipsis of powder snow.; light, dry, fluffy snow.
Ellipsis of powder blue.; the colour powder blue.
senses_topics:
cosmetics
lifestyle
|
9425 | word:
powder
word_type:
verb
expansion:
powder (third-person singular simple present powders, present participle powdering, simple past and past participle powdered)
forms:
form:
powders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
powdering
tags:
participle
present
form:
powdered
tags:
participle
past
form:
powdered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English poudre, pouder, pouldre, borrowed from Old French poudre, poldre, puldre, from Latin pulverem, accusative singular of Latin pulvis (“dust, powder”). Doublet of pulver. Compare pollen (“fine flour”), polverine, pulverize.
senses_examples:
text:
25 October 2016, Bettina Elias Siegel writing in New York Times, Should the Food Industry Sneak Vegetables Into Food?
In desperation, they dried fruits and vegetables in an old food dehydrator they had, then used their coffee grinder to powder the produce...
text:
to powder one's hair
text:
23 March 2016, Seth Augenstein in Laboratory Equipment, FDA Proposes Ban on Powdered Surgical Gloves, Decades after Documenting Health Dangers
Gloves were powdered for more than a century to allow doctors and surgeons to slip them on more easily.
text:
1778-1787, Frances Burney, The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay
If she is grave, and reads steadily on, she dismisses me, whether I am dressed or not; but at all times she never forgets to send me away while she is powdering, with a consideration not to spoil my clothes
text:
Ample evidence is brought forward to show that the higher incidence of chronic interstitial nephritis in Queensland is due to lead paint on the verandahs and railings of the houses, which powders easily during the long Australian summer.
ref:
1934, Edward Knight, The Clinical Journal, volume 63
type:
quotation
text:
Miss Gibson appeared in the empty hall, her eyes wide and shocked. The little man who had started all the trouble with his singing telegram had powdered.
ref:
1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder.
To use powder on the hair or skin.
To turn into powder; to become powdery.
To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
To depart suddenly; to "take a powder".
senses_topics:
|
9426 | word:
k
word_type:
character
expansion:
k (lower case, upper case K, plural ks or k's)
forms:
form:
K
tags:
uppercase
form:
ks
tags:
plural
form:
k's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The eleventh letter of the English alphabet, called kay and written in the Latin script.
The first letter of callsigns allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations west of the Mississippi river.
senses_topics:
|
9427 | word:
k
word_type:
num
expansion:
k (lower case, upper case K)
forms:
form:
K
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number eleventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called kay and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9428 | word:
k
word_type:
noun
expansion:
k (plural ks or k's)
forms:
form:
ks
tags:
plural
form:
k's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From kilo-.
senses_examples:
text:
We drove 15 ks before we realised Billy wasn't in the back seat.
type:
example
text:
Just about 65 k of Jack's full salary comes from servicing the Baker account.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kilobyte (more formally KB or kB).
A kilobit (more formally kb), especially in measuring Internet connection.
kilometre or kilometres.
thousand or thousands.
The SI measurement value of 1,000
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
9429 | word:
k
word_type:
intj
expansion:
k
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of OK.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
OK
senses_topics:
|
9430 | word:
moisture
word_type:
noun
expansion:
moisture (usually uncountable, plural moistures)
forms:
form:
moistures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
moisture
etymology_text:
From Middle English moisture, from Old French moistour (“moisture, dampness, wetness”). Compare French moiteur.
senses_examples:
text:
drops / beads of moisture
type:
example
text:
The sage—low-growing and shrubby—could hold its place on the mountain slopes and on the plains, and within its small gray leaves it could hold moisture enough to defy the thieving winds.
ref:
1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 6, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
Such was the discord, which did first disperse
Forme, order, beauty through the universe;
While drynesse moisture, coldnesse heat resists,
All that we have, and that we are subsists:
ref:
1643, John Denham, Coopers Hill, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
[The organs of touch are excited] by the unceasing variations of the heat, moisture, and pressure of the atmosphere;
ref:
1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 7, I.1, p. 39
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.
The state of being moist.
Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
9431 | word:
instrumentalist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
instrumentalist (plural instrumentalists)
forms:
form:
instrumentalists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From instrumental + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who plays a musical instrument, as distinguished from a vocalist.
An adherent of instrumentalism.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
9432 | word:
high
word_type:
adj
expansion:
high (comparative higher, superlative highest)
forms:
form:
higher
tags:
comparative
form:
highest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
high
etymology_text:
From Middle English high, heigh, heih, from Old English hēah (“high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to elevate, height”). Cognate with Scots heich (“high”), Saterland Frisian hooch (“high”), West Frisian heech (“high”), Dutch hoog (“high”), Low German hoog (“high”), German hoch (“high”), Swedish hög (“high”), Norwegian høy (“high”), Icelandic hár (“high”), Lithuanian kaukas (“bump, boil, sore”).
senses_examples:
text:
The balloon rose high in the sky. The wall was high. a high mountain
type:
example
text:
The Chitistone River Valley offers a more direct route for travel from McCarthy to the White River and the Shushana gold placers than Skolai Creek, but it involves a high climb over the so-called “goat trail” to avoid the canyon above Chitistone[.]
ref:
1930, Philip Sidney Smith, Mineral Industry of Alaska in 1928 and Administration Report
type:
quotation
text:
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref:
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
A nightgown with a high neck and long sleeves may have the fullness set into a yoke.
ref:
1919, Martha Van Rensselaer, Flora Rose, Helen Canon, A Manual of Home-Making, page 376
type:
quotation
text:
the pitch (or: the ball) was high
type:
example
text:
three feet high three Mount Everests high
type:
example
text:
the high priest, the high officials of the court, the high altar
type:
example
text:
high crimes, the high festival of the sun
type:
example
text:
high (i.e. intense) heat; high (i.e. full or quite) noon; high (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i.e. complete) pleasure; high (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; high (i.e. extensive, thorough) scholarship; high tide; high [tourism] season; the High Middle Ages
type:
example
text:
1709-1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning
High sauces and rich spices are fetch'd from the Indies.
text:
Plain living and high thinking are no more.
ref:
1802, William Wordsworth, England 1802
type:
quotation
text:
The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish.
type:
example
text:
Not a one of them was old enough to know what the high past of Liani separatism had really been like.
ref:
2007, Sheila Finch, Shaper's Legacy, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
high church High Tory
type:
example
text:
Furder, what wil you answeare for your keping a daye, cessation &c to St. Michael & al Angells? how wil you excuse your self of most high idolatrie, advancing your self in thinges you neuer sawe, rashlie puffed vp of your fleshlie minde, and not holding the heade, depriuing others of their Crowne?
ref:
1591, Henry Barrow, A Plaine Refutation of M. G. Giffardes reprochful booke […], page 33
type:
quotation
text:
The letter of a "Pioneer" was sent to the Chronicle office by a very respectable man, of a high conservative family, but whose interests have been injuriously affected by the constant fluctuations in the commercial policy of England.
ref:
1858, Joseph Howe, Speeches and Public Letters, page 346
type:
quotation
text:
His family was ardently royalist, and might be compared to a high Tory family on this side the water; with some change of conditions, their prejudices and disposition of the mind were the same.
ref:
1875, Henry Reeve, “Introductory Notice”, in Alexis de Tocqueville, translated by Henry Reeve, Democracy in America, page xvi
type:
quotation
text:
My father was the youngest son of a High-Church and high Tory family, the politically leftwing and religiously Nonconformist rebel; and antiimperialist who nearly lost his position in the City by refusing to sign his firm's pro–Boer War petition.
ref:
2005, Jesse D. Geller, John C. Norcross, David E. Orlinsky, The Psychotherapist's Own Psychotherapy, Oxford University Press, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
in high spirits
type:
example
text:
1970, Grateful Dead, High Time, on the album Workingman's Dead
I was having a high time, living the good life.
text:
high living, the high life
type:
example
text:
I was living the high lifestyle in famous sex clubs, relaxing on luxurious sofas, in the saunas and whirlpools, enjoying moments of excitement with my male and female companions while sipping champagne from crystal glasses.
ref:
2010, Rose Maria McCarthy Anding., High Heels, Honey Lips, & White Powder
type:
quotation
text:
a high tone
type:
example
text:
Conversely, just because I am not high on positivity, it does not mean I am necessarily high on negativity.
ref:
2016, David Chan, Enabling Positive Attitudes and Experiences in Singapore, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
I'm not that high about the relationship.
ref:
2010, Lena, quoted by S. Rosenbloom, The Multiracial Urban High School: Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends, chapter four
text:
The sea is as high as ever. I shouldn't think any boat could put out today.
ref:
1939, Agatha Christie, chapter 11, in And Then There Were None
type:
quotation
text:
high latitude, fish species in high arctic and antarctic areas
type:
example
text:
But other euphausiids, Euphausia crystallorophias, are found in the pack ice region of the high Antarctic as food of Blue and Minke Whales (Marr, 1956). E. vallentini is very important in the lower Antarctic region, around […]
ref:
1966, Symposium on Antarctic Oceanography: Papers, page 242
type:
quotation
text:
We predict that L. arctica will coincide with the whole reindeer-caribou distribution, probably excepted Svalbard, South Georgia and other high-polar areas.
ref:
1990, International Union of Game Biologists, Transactions, the XIXth IUGB Congress: Population dynamics, Congress, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
[…] petrels, which breed primarily in the high Antarctic, the Rauer Islands are fairly central in their breeding distribution. This study documents the breeding biology of these four species of fulmarine petrels on Hop Island, Rauer Islands during […]
ref:
1999, Peter John Hodum, Foraging Ecology and Reproductive Energetics of Antarctic Fulmarine Petrels, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Except for some lithodid crabs that have recently been found in the Antarctic Bellingshausen Sea (Klages et al., 1995; Arana and Retamal, 2000), reptants are not known from high polar areas, where water temperature at the seafloor drops permanently below about 0°C.
ref:
2004, Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung, volumes 481-483, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
This study also analyzed the sources of variations over an environmental gradient extending from low (subtropical) to high (sub-Antarctic) latitudes.
ref:
2007, Zoological Studies, volume 46, iissues 1-3, page 371
text:
My bank charges me a high interest rate.
type:
example
text:
I was running a high temperature and had high cholesterol.
type:
example
text:
high voltage high prices high winds a high number
type:
example
text:
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
ref:
2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
Ignition voltage needs to be high enough to overcome the high resistance created by the air gap.
ref:
2005, Tracy Martin, How To Diagnose and Repair Automotive Electrical Systems, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
Anyone can determine for himself whether certain wire is high carbon or not. Heat a piece of the wire red hot and while red plunge into water till cold.
ref:
1907, The American Exporter, volume 60, page 101
type:
quotation
text:
Carrots are high in vitamin A. made from a high-copper alloy
type:
example
text:
The note was too high for her to sing.
type:
example
text:
I have KT742 of the same suit. In other words, a K-high flush.
type:
example
text:
9-high straight = 98765 unsuited
type:
example
text:
Royal Flush = AKQJT suited = A-high straight flush
type:
example
text:
North's hand was high. East was in trouble.
type:
example
text:
Cutler pushed forward the two necessary white chips. No one's hand was high, and Loomis made a slight winning.
ref:
1894, Harper's Magazine, volume 88, page 910
type:
quotation
text:
Epicures do not cook game before it is high.
type:
example
text:
The tailor liked his meat high.
type:
example
text:
What he did know was this: something about the situation smelled wrong. Something about it smelled as high as dead fish that have spent three days in the hot sun.
ref:
1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
type:
quotation
text:
Three extremely high people showing up at the animal shelter like WE FOUND A DOG would be really funny, but...
ref:
2018, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 3879: Pointy Boi
type:
quotation
text:
NO NEARER! (arrive! Fr.) the command given by the pilot of quarter-master, to the helmsman, to steer the ship no higher to the direction of the wind than the sails will operate to advance the ship in her course.
ref:
1784, William Falconer, An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation
type:
quotation
text:
Our defensive line is too high.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
Above the batter's shoulders.
Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
Most exalted; foremost.
Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
Extreme, excessive; now specifically very traditionalist and conservative.
Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
Luxurious; rich.
Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
Keen, enthused.
With tall waves.
Remote (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
card-games
games
poker
card-games
games
nautical
transport
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9433 | word:
high
word_type:
adv
expansion:
high (comparative higher, superlative highest)
forms:
form:
higher
tags:
comparative
form:
highest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
high
etymology_text:
From Middle English high, heigh, heih, from Old English hēah (“high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to elevate, height”). Cognate with Scots heich (“high”), Saterland Frisian hooch (“high”), West Frisian heech (“high”), Dutch hoog (“high”), Low German hoog (“high”), German hoch (“high”), Swedish hög (“high”), Norwegian høy (“high”), Icelandic hár (“high”), Lithuanian kaukas (“bump, boil, sore”).
senses_examples:
text:
How high above land did you fly?
type:
example
text:
The desks were piled high with magazines.
type:
example
text:
Costs have grown higher this year again.
type:
example
text:
I certainly can't sing that high.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In or to an elevated position.
In or at a great value.
At a pitch of great frequency.
senses_topics:
|
9434 | word:
high
word_type:
noun
expansion:
high (plural highs)
forms:
form:
highs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
high
etymology_text:
From Middle English high, heigh, heih, from Old English hēah (“high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to elevate, height”). Cognate with Scots heich (“high”), Saterland Frisian hooch (“high”), West Frisian heech (“high”), Dutch hoog (“high”), Low German hoog (“high”), German hoch (“high”), Swedish hög (“high”), Norwegian høy (“high”), Icelandic hár (“high”), Lithuanian kaukas (“bump, boil, sore”).
senses_examples:
text:
It was one of the highs of his career.
type:
example
text:
Inflation reached a ten-year high.
type:
example
text:
South Korea has reached a new high in a kind of air pollution measured in fine dust.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
Today's high was 32 °C.
type:
example
text:
Falling from cloud nine / Crashing from the high / I'm letting go tonight / Yeah, I'm falling from cloud nine
ref:
2012, Katy Perry, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Dr. Luke, Cirkut (lyrics and music), “Wide Awake”, in Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, performed by Katy Perry
type:
quotation
text:
They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.
ref:
2013 May 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
That pill gave me a high for a few hours, before I had a comedown.
type:
example
text:
No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
ref:
2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
A large high is centred on the Azores.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven).or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven).or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
A drug that gives such a high.
A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
The highest card dealt or drawn.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
card-games
games |
9435 | word:
high
word_type:
verb
expansion:
high (third-person singular simple present highs, present participle highing, simple past and past participle highed)
forms:
form:
highs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
highing
tags:
participle
present
form:
highed
tags:
participle
past
form:
highed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
high
etymology_text:
From Middle English high, heigh, heih, from Old English hēah (“high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to elevate, height”). Cognate with Scots heich (“high”), Saterland Frisian hooch (“high”), West Frisian heech (“high”), Dutch hoog (“high”), Low German hoog (“high”), German hoch (“high”), Swedish hög (“high”), Norwegian høy (“high”), Icelandic hár (“high”), Lithuanian kaukas (“bump, boil, sore”).
senses_examples:
text:
The sun higheth.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rise.
senses_topics:
|
9436 | word:
high
word_type:
verb
expansion:
high (third-person singular simple present highs, present participle highing, simple past and past participle highed)
forms:
form:
highs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
highing
tags:
participle
present
form:
highed
tags:
participle
past
form:
highed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
high
etymology_text:
See hie.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of hie (“to hasten”)
senses_topics:
|
9437 | word:
mildew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mildew (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English myldew, from Old English meledēaw, mildēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *milidauw, from *mili (“honey”) + *dauw (“dew”). Compare West Frisian moaldau, Dutch meeldauw, German Mehltau. More at dew.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences |
9438 | word:
mildew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mildew (third-person singular simple present mildews, present participle mildewing, simple past and past participle mildewed)
forms:
form:
mildews
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mildewing
tags:
participle
present
form:
mildewed
tags:
participle
past
form:
mildewed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English myldew, from Old English meledēaw, mildēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *milidauw, from *mili (“honey”) + *dauw (“dew”). Compare West Frisian moaldau, Dutch meeldauw, German Mehltau. More at dew.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To taint with mildew.
To become tainted with mildew.
senses_topics:
|
9439 | word:
when
word_type:
adv
expansion:
when (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
when
etymology_text:
From Middle English when(ne), whanne, from Old English hwonne, from Proto-West Germanic *hwannē, from Proto-West Germanic *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan (“at what time, when”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis (interrogative base).
Cognate with Dutch wanneer (“when”) and wen (“when, if”), Low German wannehr (“when”), wann (“when”) and wenn (“if, when”), German wann (“when”) and wenn (“when, if”), Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐌽 (ƕan, “when, how”), Latin quandō (“when”). More at who.
Interjection sense: a playful misunderstanding of "say when" (i.e. say something / speak up when you want me to stop) as "say [the word] when".
senses_examples:
text:
When will they arrive?
type:
example
text:
Do you know when they arrived?
type:
example
text:
I don't know when they arrived.
type:
example
text:
When they arrived is unknown.
type:
example
text:
What words are used as interrogative pronouns? — Give examples.
When are the words, what, which, and that, called adj. pron.?
ref:
1834, Samuel Kirkham, English Grammar in Familiar Lectures, page 117
type:
quotation
roman:
When are they called interrogative pronominal adjectives?
text:
The site's all bugged. Fix when?
type:
example
text:
Tank class buff when?
type:
example
text:
My fridge even restocks itself these days. Glorious AI overlords when?
type:
example
text:
New patch when??
ref:
2020 December 4, u/Woebn, “Why did Treant fell in love with Aiushtha?”, in Reddit, r/DotA2, archived from the original on 2024-01-22
type:
quotation
text:
Iran EU when? lol
ref:
2023 November 13, u/f4c1r, “Regions of Europe according to a Dutch map”, in Reddit, r/europe, archived from the original on 2024-01-22
type:
quotation
text:
obligatory hl3 when? yea yea i know, likely never.
ref:
2023 November 18, u/waiting4singularity, “Valve marks Half-Life's 25th anniversary with game update and documentary”, in Reddit, r/gamernews, archived from the original on 2024-01-22
type:
quotation
text:
Bard and eve nerf when
ref:
2024 January 17, u/JabberwockyNZ, “14.2 Patch Preview”, in Reddit, r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 2024-01-22
type:
quotation
text:
He's mister high and mighty now, but I remember him when.
type:
example
text:
That was the day when the Twin Towers fell.
type:
example
text:
I recall when they were called the Greys.
type:
example
text:
Next year is when we elect a new mayor.
type:
example
text:
Love is when you can't get enough of someone.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
Used after a noun or noun phrase in isolation to express impatience with an anticipated future event.
At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances.
At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.
The time at, on or during which.
A circumstance or situation in which.
senses_topics:
|
9440 | word:
when
word_type:
conj
expansion:
when
forms:
wikipedia:
when
etymology_text:
From Middle English when(ne), whanne, from Old English hwonne, from Proto-West Germanic *hwannē, from Proto-West Germanic *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan (“at what time, when”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis (interrogative base).
Cognate with Dutch wanneer (“when”) and wen (“when, if”), Low German wannehr (“when”), wann (“when”) and wenn (“if, when”), German wann (“when”) and wenn (“when, if”), Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐌽 (ƕan, “when, how”), Latin quandō (“when”). More at who.
Interjection sense: a playful misunderstanding of "say when" (i.e. say something / speak up when you want me to stop) as "say [the word] when".
senses_examples:
text:
Pavlov's dogs salivate when [i.e. at any and every time that] they hear a bell.
type:
example
text:
When [i.e. at any and every time that] he speaks to her, he is always polite.
type:
example
text:
Put your pencil down when [i.e. as soon as, at the moment that] the timer goes off.
type:
example
text:
A player wins when [as soon as, or at any time that, if] she has four cards of the same suit.
type:
example
text:
A student is disqualified when [as soon as, if] they cheat.
type:
example
text:
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it.
ref:
2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
They dream when [i.e. during the time that] they sleep.
type:
example
text:
I'm happiest when [during the time that, or at any time that] I’m working.
type:
example
text:
It was raining when I came yesterday.
type:
example
text:
The game is over when the referee says it is.
type:
example
text:
Be careful when crossing the street.
type:
example
text:
When (you are) angry, count to ten before speaking or acting.
type:
example
text:
The Baggies had offered little threat until the 28th minute, but when their first chance came it was a clear one.
ref:
2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
I am here till Friday, when [i.e. at which time] I leave for Senegal.
type:
example
text:
I was just walking down the street, when [i.e. at which time] all of a sudden it started to rain.
type:
example
text:
I am at London only to provide for Monday, when I shall use that favour which my Lady Bedford hath afforded me, of giving her name to my daughter; which I mention to you, […]
ref:
1839, John Donne, The Works of John Donne: Sermons, Letters, Poems, page 310
type:
quotation
text:
He sat at the door of his kitchen watching, and seeing there was nothing else for it we buckled to and soon had the job done; when we were admitted to the kitchen and given a really good meal.
ref:
1929, Donald John Munro, The Roaring Forties and After, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
I don't see the point of putting up Christmas decorations when I am the only person who is going to see them.
type:
example
text:
You're picking at your scabs when you should be letting them heal.
type:
example
text:
He keeps changing things when the existing system works perfectly well.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At (or as soon as) that time that; at the (or any and every) time that; if.
During the time that; at the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase.
At what time; at which time.
Since; given the fact that; considering that.
Whereas; although; at the same time as; in spite of the fact that.
senses_topics:
|
9441 | word:
when
word_type:
pron
expansion:
when
forms:
wikipedia:
when
etymology_text:
From Middle English when(ne), whanne, from Old English hwonne, from Proto-West Germanic *hwannē, from Proto-West Germanic *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan (“at what time, when”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis (interrogative base).
Cognate with Dutch wanneer (“when”) and wen (“when, if”), Low German wannehr (“when”), wann (“when”) and wenn (“if, when”), German wann (“when”) and wenn (“when, if”), Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐌽 (ƕan, “when, how”), Latin quandō (“when”). More at who.
Interjection sense: a playful misunderstanding of "say when" (i.e. say something / speak up when you want me to stop) as "say [the word] when".
senses_examples:
text:
Since when do I need your permission?
type:
example
text:
Homer, to whom the Muses did carouse
A great deep cup with heav'nly nectar fill'd,
The greatest, deepest cup in Jove's great house,
(For Jove himself had so expressly will'd)
He drank off all, nor let one drop be spill'd;
Since when, his brain that had before been dry,
Became the well-spring of all poetry.
ref:
1831 (published), John Davies, Orchestra Or, a Poem of Dancing, in Robert Southey, Select Works of the British Poets: From Chaucer to Jonson, with Biographical Sketches, page 706
text:
[This] we imagined might have been owing to some accidental condition of the system, or perhaps idiosyncracy; this led us to a second trial, but we experienced the same inconveniences, since when, we have altogether abandoned their use.
ref:
1833, William Potts Dewees, A Treatise on the Diseases of Females, page 495:
type:
quotation
text:
So we combined the Kocher-Langenbeck and iliofemoral approach until 1965, since when we have combined the ilioinguinal and Kocher-Langenbeck approaches.
ref:
2012, Emile Letournel, Robert Judet, Fractures of the Acetabulum, Springer Science & Business Media, page 385
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
What time; which time.
senses_topics:
|
9442 | word:
when
word_type:
noun
expansion:
when (plural whens)
forms:
form:
whens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
when
etymology_text:
From Middle English when(ne), whanne, from Old English hwonne, from Proto-West Germanic *hwannē, from Proto-West Germanic *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan (“at what time, when”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis (interrogative base).
Cognate with Dutch wanneer (“when”) and wen (“when, if”), Low German wannehr (“when”), wann (“when”) and wenn (“if, when”), German wann (“when”) and wenn (“when, if”), Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐌽 (ƕan, “when, how”), Latin quandō (“when”). More at who.
Interjection sense: a playful misunderstanding of "say when" (i.e. say something / speak up when you want me to stop) as "say [the word] when".
senses_examples:
text:
A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
type:
example
text:
For the moment, suffice it to say that the stories told through the whens and hows of building a scene differentiate individual desires and needs more clearly than shared speech was up to then able to communicate.
ref:
2008, Paolo Aite, Lanscapes of the Psyche, Ipoc Press, page 151
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The time at which something happens.
senses_topics:
|
9443 | word:
when
word_type:
intj
expansion:
when
forms:
wikipedia:
when
etymology_text:
From Middle English when(ne), whanne, from Old English hwonne, from Proto-West Germanic *hwannē, from Proto-West Germanic *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan (“at what time, when”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis (interrogative base).
Cognate with Dutch wanneer (“when”) and wen (“when, if”), Low German wannehr (“when”), wann (“when”) and wenn (“if, when”), German wann (“when”) and wenn (“when, if”), Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐌽 (ƕan, “when, how”), Latin quandō (“when”). More at who.
Interjection sense: a playful misunderstanding of "say when" (i.e. say something / speak up when you want me to stop) as "say [the word] when".
senses_examples:
text:
When we go out to a restaurant, we're the guys who never say "when" when the waiter is grinding fresh pepper on our salads.
ref:
2004, Andy Husbands, Joe Yonan, The Fearless Chef: Innovative Recipes from the Edge of American Cuisine, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
He keeps the bottle in the top bureau drawer; he takes it out, and two glasses, and pours. Say when.
When, please.
ref:
2009, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
Producers have the power to say "when" when the actress involved is too stressed to continue. That's responsible filmmaking.
ref:
2011, Fritz Allhoff, Dave Monroe, Porn - Philosophy for Everyone: How to Think With Kink
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: what
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That's enough: a command asking someone to stop adding something, especially an ingredient or portion of food or drink; used in, or as if in, literal response to 'Say when'.
Expressing impatience.
senses_topics:
|
9444 | word:
constitution
word_type:
noun
expansion:
constitution (plural constitutions)
forms:
form:
constitutions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*ḱóm
From Middle English constitucioun, constitucion (“edict, law, ordinance, regulation, rule, statute; body of laws or rules, or customs; body of fundamental principles; principle or rule (of science); creation”) from Old French constitucion (modern French constitution), a learned borrowing from Latin cōnstitūtiō, cōnstitūtiōnem (“character, constitution, disposition, nature; definition; point in dispute; order, regulation; arrangement, system”), from cōnstituō (“to establish, set up; to confirm; to decide, resolve”). Equivalent to constitute + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
the physical constitution of the sun
ref:
1876, John Herschel, Outlines of Astronomy
type:
quotation
text:
1693, Edmund Bohun, A Geographical Dictionary
They have in their present Constitution a Grand Council of the Nobility, a Senato, a College of Twenty six who give Audience to Ambassadors and report their Demands to the Senate, a Council of Ten; and a Triumvirate (monthly chosen by, and out of, the Ten) of three Inquisitors of State; whose Authority is so absolute, as to extend to the taking away of the Life of the Doge no less than the meanest Artisan, without acquainting the Senate, provided they all three agree in the Sentence.
text:
He has a strong constitution, so he should make a quick recovery from the illness.
type:
example
text:
Our constitutions have never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of the old world.
ref:
1828, Joseph Story, Appeal to the Republic
type:
quotation
text:
But when once his constitution began to decline, he broke very fast, and being attacked bya complication of diseases, he at length gave way to fate, May 10, 1733.
ref:
1766 May, “The Life of Mr. Barton Booth”, in The Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, page 281
type:
quotation
text:
Don Manuel de Casafonda the governor, whose countenance bespoke a constitution far gone in a decliner had thrown himself on a sopha in the last state of despair and given way to an effusion of tears:
ref:
1792 July 18, “History of Nicholas Pedrosa”, in The Phoenix, volume 1, number 3, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
The physician, to gratify the apothecary, himself obliged to order ten times more physic than the patient really wants, by which means he ruins his constitution, and too often his life; otherwise how is it posible an apothecarty's bill in a fever should amount to forty, or fifty, or more pounds?
ref:
1827 July, “On the Mal-organization of the Medical Profession, and of the Necessity of a Medical Reform”, in The Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature, volume 14, number 43, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
In early life his health was infirm, and his education much interrupted in consequence; but by diligent study, as his constitution improved, he made up his lost ground, and became one of the most accomplished classical and general scholars of his time.
ref:
1838, George Godfrey Cunningham, Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act, or process of setting something up, or establishing something; the composition or structure of such a thing; its makeup.
The formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institutions.
A legal document describing such a formal system.
A document issued by a religious authority serving to promulgate some particular church laws or doctrines.
A person's physical makeup or temperament, especially in respect of robustness.
The general health of a person.
senses_topics:
government
law
Catholicism
Christianity
|
9445 | word:
Antiguan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Antiguan (plural Antiguans)
forms:
form:
Antiguans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Antigua + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Antigua in Antigua and Barbuda, or of Antiguan descent.
senses_topics:
|
9446 | word:
Antiguan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Antiguan (comparative more Antiguan, superlative most Antiguan)
forms:
form:
more Antiguan
tags:
comparative
form:
most Antiguan
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Antigua + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Antigua, or the Antiguan people.
senses_topics:
|
9447 | word:
gourmet
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gourmet (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
gourmet
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from groume, grommes (“wine-taster, manservant”), apparently from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from Old English *grōma (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.
senses_examples:
text:
We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.
type:
example
text:
The restaurant offered gourmet coffee and cigars after the meal.
type:
example
text:
[On the coffee] Mmm! God damn, Jimmie! This is some serious gourmet shit!
ref:
1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel Jackson)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fine; of superior quality.
senses_topics:
|
9448 | word:
gourmet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gourmet (plural gourmets)
forms:
form:
gourmets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gourmet
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from groume, grommes (“wine-taster, manservant”), apparently from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from Old English *grōma (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A connoisseur in eating and drinking; someone who takes their food seriously.
senses_topics:
|
9449 | word:
colloquy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
colloquy (countable and uncountable, plural colloquies)
forms:
form:
colloquies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
colloquy
etymology_text:
From Middle English colloquies pl, from Latin colloquium (“conversation”), from com- (“together, with”) (English com-) + form of loquor (“speak”) (from which English locution and other words). Doublet of colloquium.
senses_examples:
text:
And she repeated the free caress into which her colloquies with Maisie almost always broke and which made the child feel that her affection at least was a gage of safety.
ref:
1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
type:
quotation
text:
House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
At the end of the colloquy, Judge Spicer asked Carr whether anyone had "pressured" him into accepting the deal.
ref:
1999, H. L. Pohlman, The Whole Truth?: A Case of Murder on the Appalachian Trail, page 193
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A conversation or dialogue.
A formal conference.
A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
A written discourse.
A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what their rights are.
senses_topics:
Christianity
law |
9450 | word:
colloquy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
colloquy (third-person singular simple present colloquies, present participle colloquying, simple past and past participle colloquied)
forms:
form:
colloquies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
colloquying
tags:
participle
present
form:
colloquied
tags:
participle
past
form:
colloquied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English colloquies pl, from Latin colloquium (“conversation”), from com- (“together, with”) (English com-) + form of loquor (“speak”) (from which English locution and other words). Doublet of colloquium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To converse.
senses_topics:
|
9451 | word:
kin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kin (countable and uncountable, plural kins or kin)
forms:
form:
kins
tags:
plural
form:
kin
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁yom, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”).
Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn (“gender”), Finnish kunnia (“honour, glory”), Ingrian kunnia (“reputation”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).
senses_examples:
text:
c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
You are of kin, and so must be a friend to their persons.
text:
Based on the number of teeth ammonites had—nine—it's believed that their closest living kin are octopuses.
ref:
2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
Among those who derive information related to work from personal contacts, nonkins, rather than kins, constitute the most important sources even for women.
ref:
2016, Saraswati Raju, Santosh Jatrana, Women Workers in Urban India, page 280
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Race; family; breed; kind.
Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
senses_topics:
|
9452 | word:
kin
word_type:
adj
expansion:
kin (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁yom, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”).
Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn (“gender”), Finnish kunnia (“honour, glory”), Ingrian kunnia (“reputation”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).
senses_examples:
text:
It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
senses_topics:
|
9453 | word:
kin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kin (plural kins)
forms:
form:
kins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Mandarin 琴 (qín), from a non-palatal dialect akin to Peking; or less likely, from Japanese 琴 (kin).
senses_examples:
text:
Originally they had only two cither-like instruments, which had flat sound-boxes without fingerboards, over which were strung rather a large number (25) of strings of twisted silk — the kin and tsche.
ref:
1899, Hugo Riemann, Catechism of Musical History: History of musical instruments and history of tone-systems and notation
type:
quotation
text:
If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin.
ref:
1840, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository, page 40
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of qin (“Chinese string instrument”)
senses_topics:
|
9454 | word:
kin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kin (third-person singular simple present kins, present participle kinning, simple past and past participle kinned)
forms:
form:
kins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kinning
tags:
participle
present
form:
kinned
tags:
participle
past
form:
kinned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of fictionkin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.
senses_topics:
lifestyle |
9455 | word:
kin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kin (plural kins or kin)
forms:
form:
kins
tags:
plural
form:
kin
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of fictionkin.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: kinnie
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to.
Someone who identifies with a certain fictional character.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
lifestyle |
9456 | word:
kin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kin (plural kins)
forms:
form:
kins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of k'in
senses_topics:
|
9457 | word:
kin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kin
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[Owl:] Oh I ain't stealin' this dime... I just took it for safe-keepin'.
[Turtle:] Ain't much you kin do with it—'cept make a phone call.
ref:
1959 January 5, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of can.
senses_topics:
|
9458 | word:
kin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kin (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Short for kinesiology.
senses_topics:
|
9459 | word:
gram
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gram (plural grams)
forms:
form:
grams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French gramme, from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, “a small weight, a scruple”). Doublet of gramma.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g.
senses_topics:
|
9460 | word:
gram
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gram (countable and uncountable, plural grams)
forms:
form:
grams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From obsolete Portuguese gram (modern Portuguese grão), from Latin grānum. Doublet of corn, grain, granum, and grao.
senses_examples:
text:
The next class of farinaceous foods are the Pulses, as peas, beans, and lentils of this country, and the dholls and grams of India.
ref:
1870, Henry Letheby, On Food, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea.
The seeds of these plants.
senses_topics:
|
9461 | word:
gram
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gram (plural grams)
forms:
form:
grams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Diminutive of grandmother.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Grandmother.
senses_topics:
|
9462 | word:
gram
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gram (plural grams)
forms:
form:
grams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gramophone recording.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media |
9463 | word:
gram
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gram (plural grams)
forms:
form:
grams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of Instagram.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of 'gram
senses_topics:
|
9464 | word:
gram
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gram
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of graham.
senses_topics:
|
9465 | word:
opinion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
opinion (countable and uncountable, plural opinions)
forms:
form:
opinions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From English opine + -ion, from Middle English opinion, opinioun, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French opinion, from Latin opīniō, from opīnor (“to opine”). Displaced native Old English wēna.
senses_examples:
text:
I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system.
type:
example
text:
In my opinion, white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
type:
example
text:
Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.
type:
example
text:
We invite you to state your opinions about the suggestions.
type:
example
text:
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
ref:
1891, Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
A judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible.
senses_topics:
law |
9466 | word:
opinion
word_type:
verb
expansion:
opinion (third-person singular simple present opinions, present participle opinioning, simple past and past participle opinioned)
forms:
form:
opinions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
opinioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
opinioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
opinioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From English opine + -ion, from Middle English opinion, opinioun, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French opinion, from Latin opīniō, from opīnor (“to opine”). Displaced native Old English wēna.
senses_examples:
text:
But if (as some opinion) King Ahasuerus were Artaxerxes Mnemon [...], our magnified Cyrus was his second Brother
ref:
1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Graden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 166
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have or express as an opinion.
senses_topics:
|
9467 | word:
leader
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leader (plural leaders)
forms:
form:
leaders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
leader (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English leder, ledere, from Old English lǣdere (“leader”), equivalent to lead + -er. Cognate with Scots ledar, leidar (“leader”), West Frisian lieder (“leader”), Dutch leider (“leader”), German Leiter (“leader, conductor, manager”), Danish leder (“leader, manager”), Swedish ledare (“leader, conductor, director”), Icelandic leiðari (“leader, conductor”).
senses_examples:
text:
Follow the leader.
type:
example
text:
We elected her team leader.
type:
example
text:
America needs not only an administrator, but a leader - a pathfinder, a blazer of the trail to the high road that will avoid the bottomless morass of crass materialism that has engulfed so many of the great civilizations of the past.
ref:
1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
On the other hand, I must think of Korea and, particularly, of the three million enslaved Koreans in the North. My obligation as a leader of the Korean people is to achieve unification of our country by peaceful means if possible but by force if necessary.
ref:
1978, Richard Nixon, quoting Syngman Rhee, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127
type:
quotation
text:
The leader is the man who knows the way of the overlords but identifies with the life of the oppressed.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 195
type:
quotation
text:
Leader of the House of Commons
text:
Senate Majority Leader
text:
The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.
type:
example
text:
In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
ref:
2012 January 24, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-04-04, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
The gesture of licking and nipping a leader's muzzle is similar to the food-begging behavior of wolf pups and may be related to it.
ref:
1987, Sylvia A. Johnson with Alice Aamodt, Wolf Pack: Tracking Wolves in the Wild, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
Still there are many passages in his [Donne's] writings, where it is plain that he forgot to pull in his leaders; and they gallop away with him at times over hill and dale, over ploughed land and waste.
ref:
1846, Julius Charles Hare, “On the Comforter's conviction of Righteousness”, in The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons with Notes
type:
quotation
text:
A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a "telephone pole."
ref:
1975, David J. De Laubenfels, Mapping the world's vegetation: regionalization of formations and flora, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool. Do not rewind so much that the leader disappears into the cassette.
ref:
2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice
type:
quotation
text:
The leader only runs three seconds, but it acts like a drop curtain in a theater.
ref:
1913, Epes Winthrop Sargent, The Technique of the Photoplay, New York, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
when two wheels geer together, the one which communicates the motion to the other is called the driver or leader; and the wheel impelled is the follower
ref:
1852, D. Gilbert, “Geering”, in Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering, page 786
type:
quotation
text:
(person that leads or conducts):
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any person who leads or directs.
One who goes first.
Any person who leads or directs.
One having authority to direct.
Any person who leads or directs.
One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
Any person who leads or directs.
A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
Any person who leads or directs.
A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
Any person who leads or directs.
The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
Any person who leads or directs.
An animal that leads.
The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
An animal that leads.
an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs
An animal that leads.
Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
An intertitle.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
biology
botany
natural-sciences
journalism
media
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
broadcasting
film
media
printing
publishing
television
broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
business
marketing
media
printing
publishing
media
printing
publishing
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
business
mining
nautical
transport
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
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9468 | word:
lash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lash (plural lashes)
forms:
form:
lashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lash
etymology_text:
From Middle English lashe, lasshe, lasche (“a stroke; the flexible end of a whip”), from Proto-Germanic *laskô (“flap of fabric, strap”).
Cognate with Dutch lasch, las (“a piece; seal; joint; notch; seam”), German Low German Laske, Lask (“a flap; dag; strap”), German Lasche (“a flap; joint; strap; tongue; scarf”), Swedish lask (“scarf”), Icelandic laski (“the bottom part of a glove”).
senses_examples:
text:
The culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
type:
example
text:
But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
ref:
1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
type:
quotation
text:
I'll have a lash.
type:
example
text:
Much-loved characters living on after their author’s death is not so unusual these days. Every second bloke in possession of a keyboard seems to have had a lash at a James Bond thriller, including Kingsley Amis, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd, Anthony Horowitz, Christopher Wood and Sebastian Faulks.
ref:
2021 August 28, Grant Smithies, “The Dark Remains: Ian Rankin's 'terrifying' return”, in Stuff
type:
quotation
text:
I felt I’d go out and grab the bull by the horns and give it a good lash and I’m very pleased to come away with second in my very first Diamond League final.
ref:
2022 September 9, Cathal Dennehy, “Ciara Mageean shines in Diamond League to claim second”, in Irish Examiner
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
An attempt; a go at something.
senses_topics:
|
9469 | word:
lash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lash (third-person singular simple present lashes, present participle lashing, simple past and past participle lashed)
forms:
form:
lashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
lash
etymology_text:
From Middle English lashe, lasshe, lasche (“a stroke; the flexible end of a whip”), from Proto-Germanic *laskô (“flap of fabric, strap”).
Cognate with Dutch lasch, las (“a piece; seal; joint; notch; seam”), German Low German Laske, Lask (“a flap; dag; strap”), German Lasche (“a flap; joint; strap; tongue; scarf”), Swedish lask (“scarf”), Icelandic laski (“the bottom part of a glove”).
senses_examples:
text:
Carlo Ancelotti's out-of-sorts team struggled to hit the target in the first half as Bolton threatened with Matthew Taylor lashing just wide.
ref:
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
In the final minute of six added on, Colombia would undo their good work, though, Pérez fumbling the ball allowing Hemp to lash into the empty net.
ref:
2023 August 12, Suzanne Wrack, “England hit back to beat Colombia and set up World Cup semi with Australia”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March.
ref:
2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
To ply the whip; to strike.
To strike vigorously; to let fly.
To utter censure or sarcastic language.
To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
senses_topics:
|
9470 | word:
lash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lash (third-person singular simple present lashes, present participle lashing, simple past and past participle lashed)
forms:
form:
lashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
lashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
lash
etymology_text:
From Middle French lachier, from Old French lacier (“to lace”).
senses_examples:
text:
to lash something to a spar
text:
lash a pack on a horse's back
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
senses_topics:
|
9471 | word:
lash
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lash (comparative more lash, superlative most lash)
forms:
form:
more lash
tags:
comparative
form:
most lash
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
lash
etymology_text:
From Old French lasche (French lâche).
senses_examples:
text:
Fruits being unwholesome and lash before the fourth or fifth Yeare.
ref:
1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 211
type:
quotation
text:
We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!
type:
example
text:
That Chinese (food) was lash!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Remiss, lax.
Relaxed.
Soft, watery, wet.
Excellent, wonderful.
Drunk.
senses_topics:
|
9472 | word:
lash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lash (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
lash
etymology_text:
From Old French lasche (French lâche).
senses_examples:
text:
setting the proper valve lash for solid lifters
type:
example
text:
excessive lash in the gear train
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
senses_topics:
engineering
machining
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9473 | word:
welding
word_type:
verb
expansion:
welding
forms:
wikipedia:
welding
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of weld
senses_topics:
|
9474 | word:
welding
word_type:
noun
expansion:
welding (plural weldings)
forms:
form:
weldings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
welding
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action or process of welding:
joining two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination, or
The action or process of welding:
binding together inseparably; uniting closely or intimately.
senses_topics:
|
9475 | word:
heart
word_type:
noun
expansion:
heart (countable and uncountable, plural hearts)
forms:
form:
hearts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
I Love New York
etymology_text:
PIE word
*ḱḗr
From Middle English herte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-West Germanic *hertā, from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱérd (“heart”). Doublet of cardia; see also core.
Most of the modern figurative senses (such as passion or compassion, spirit, inmost feelings, especially love, affection, and courage) were present in Old English. However, the meaning “center” dates from the early 14th century.
The verb sense “to love” is from the 1977 I ❤ NY advertising campaign.
senses_examples:
text:
She has a cold heart.
type:
example
text:
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
ref:
1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page 266
type:
quotation
text:
Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
ref:
1943, Katherine Woods, transl., The Little Prince, translation of original by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
type:
quotation
text:
"Do what the heart commands," Tothero says. "The heart is our only guide."
ref:
1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 47
type:
quotation
text:
a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart
type:
example
text:
The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart.
type:
example
text:
The expelled nations take heart, and when they fled from one country, invaded another.
ref:
c. 1679, William Temple, Essay
type:
quotation
text:
"We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines.
ref:
2008, "Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers," Quaker Action (magazine), vol. 89, no. 3, page 8
text:
The result still leaves Wales bottom of the group but in better heart for Tuesday night's trip to face England at Wembley, who are now outright leaders after their 3-0 win in Bulgaria.
ref:
2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegrof”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
The heart from the home team was immense. Some of them were out on their feet before the end, but they dug in, throwing themselves in front of shots and crosses, surviving.
ref:
2016 September 28, Tom English, “Celtic 3–3 Manchester City”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Listen, dear heart, we must go now.
type:
example
text:
Certain unscrupulous men may call upon you here in your dressing-room. They will lavish you with flowers, with compliments, with phials of Hungary water and methuselahs of the costliest champagne. You must be wary of such men, my hearts, they are not to be trusted.
ref:
1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pages 9–10
type:
quotation
text:
I know almost every Beatles song by heart.
type:
example
text:
"Aw. Thank you." The Cherub kissed the air between them and sent a small cluster of tiny red hearts at her.
ref:
1998, Pat Cadigan, Tea From an Empty Cup, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
at the heart of it all
type:
example
text:
The wood at the heart of a tree is the oldest.
type:
example
text:
Buddhists believe that suffering is right at the heart of all life.
type:
example
text:
At last she spoke in a low voice, hesitating slightly, nevertheless going with incisive directness into the very heart of the problem.
ref:
1899, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in The Strong Arm
type:
quotation
text:
Arcelia Silva Martinez: Watch out!/Arcelia Silva Martinez: We've got geth in the tower./Fai Dan: Protect the heart of the colony!
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Feros
type:
quotation
text:
Norwich's attack centred on a front pair of Steve Morison and Grant Holt, but Younes Kaboul at the heart of the Tottenham defence dominated in the air.
ref:
2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character.
The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.
Emotional strength that allows one to continue in difficult situations; courage; spirit; a will to compete.
Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
Memory.
A wight or being.
A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥.
A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
The centre, essence, or core.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
card-games
games
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
|
9476 | word:
heart
word_type:
verb
expansion:
heart (third-person singular simple present hearts, present participle hearting, simple past and past participle hearted)
forms:
form:
hearts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hearting
tags:
participle
present
form:
hearted
tags:
participle
past
form:
hearted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
I Love New York
etymology_text:
PIE word
*ḱḗr
From Middle English herte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-West Germanic *hertā, from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱérd (“heart”). Doublet of cardia; see also core.
Most of the modern figurative senses (such as passion or compassion, spirit, inmost feelings, especially love, affection, and courage) were present in Old English. However, the meaning “center” dates from the early 14th century.
The verb sense “to love” is from the 1977 I ❤ NY advertising campaign.
senses_examples:
text:
We're but the sum of all our terrors until we heart the dove.
ref:
2001 April 6, Michael Baldwin, “The Heart Has Its Reasons”, in Commonweal
type:
quotation
text:
2006, Susan Reinhardt, Bulldog doesn't have to rely on the kindness of strangers to draw attention, Citizen-Times.com
I guess at this point we were supposed to feel elated she'd come to her senses and decided she hearts dogs after all.
text:
The further we delve into this "story", the more convinced we become of one thing: We heart the Goss.
ref:
2008 January 30, “Cheese in our time: Blur and Oasis to end feud with a Stilton”, in The Guardian, London
type:
quotation
text:
2008 July 25, "The Media Hearts Obama?", On The Media, National Public Radio
text:
Lots of people say they love their hometown, but no one hearts NY quite like Milton Glaser.
ref:
2019 July 4, John Leland, “Why This Famous Graphic Designer, at 90, Still ♥s NY”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
She hearted my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
To mark a comment, post, reply, etc., with the heart symbol (❤).
To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.
senses_topics:
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
agriculture
biology
botany
business
lifestyle
natural-sciences |
9477 | word:
delegate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
delegate (plural delegates)
forms:
form:
delegates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus.
senses_examples:
text:
Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.
ref:
2010, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2010, page xxvi
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
A representative at a conference, etc.
An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
9478 | word:
delegate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
delegate (third-person singular simple present delegates, present participle delegating, simple past and past participle delegated)
forms:
form:
delegates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
delegating
tags:
participle
present
form:
delegated
tags:
participle
past
form:
delegated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus.
senses_examples:
text:
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was perceived to delegate effectively. Wayne Mapp, a minister under Key observed he had 'a different style than the traditional style of New Zealand political management. He delegates in the manner of a chief executive, and lets ministers get on with their jobs' (Mapp 2014).
ref:
2020, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Political Management: The Dance of Government and Politics
type:
quotation
text:
The war on Covid-19 was delegated to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, a paralysed NHS and scientists publicly feuding over dud data.
ref:
2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.
To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.
(of a subdomain) To give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
9479 | word:
gem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gem (countable and uncountable, plural gems)
forms:
form:
gems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gemstone
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English gemme, gimme, yimme, ȝimme, from Old English ġimm, from Proto-West Germanic *gimmu (“gem”) and Old French gemme (“gem”), both from Latin gemma (“a swelling bud; jewel, gem”). Doublet of gemma and Gemma.
senses_examples:
text:
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
ref:
2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2012-06-14, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
She's an absolute gem.
type:
example
text:
Standout “Hidden Knives” is the kind of new wave-leaning punk gem John Hughes would’ve loved, while “So Beneath You” is a teeth-baring, roiling tune.
ref:
2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI sounds refreshed and rejuvenated on its 10th album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
a gem of wit
type:
example
text:
c. 1668, John Denham (translator), Of Old Age by Cato the Elder, Part 3, in Poems and Translations, with The Sophy, London: H. Herringman, 4th edition, 1773, p. 35,
Then from the Joynts of thy prolifick Stemm
A swelling Knot is raised (call’d a Gemm)
text:
1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p. xcii,
In about twelve days the sprouts from the gems of the planted cane are seen […]
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.
Any precious or highly valued thing or person.
Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram.
A gemma or leaf-bud.
A geometrid moth of species Orthonama obstipata.
A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
A size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point), running 222 lines to the foot.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
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9480 | word:
gem
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gem (third-person singular simple present gems, present participle gemming, simple past and past participle gemmed)
forms:
form:
gems
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gemming
tags:
participle
present
form:
gemmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
gemmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
gemstone
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English gemme, gimme, yimme, ȝimme, from Old English ġimm, from Proto-West Germanic *gimmu (“gem”) and Old French gemme (“gem”), both from Latin gemma (“a swelling bud; jewel, gem”). Doublet of gemma and Gemma.
senses_examples:
text:
A few bright and beautiful stars gemmed the wide concave of heaven[…].
ref:
1827, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,
type:
quotation
text:
Above was the firmament, gemmed with worlds, and sublime in immensity.
ref:
1872, J. Fenimore Cooper, The Bravo
type:
quotation
text:
The rain Shook from fruit bushes in new showers again As I brushed past, and gemmed the window pane.
ref:
1920, John Freeman, Poems New and Old
type:
quotation
text:
And those salt tears your lashes gemmed / Were but the breath of flame distilled; / Flame white and pure, and diademmed / With suffering,—pain with joy fulfilled.
ref:
1922 February, Miriam Campbell, “A Dream of Brittany”, in The Educational Times: A Review of Ideas and Methods, volume IV (new series)/LXXIV (old series), page 64, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To adorn with, or as if with, gems.
senses_topics:
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9481 | word:
sake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sake (plural sakes)
forms:
form:
sakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sake (“sake, cause”), from Old English sacu (“cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute”), from Proto-West Germanic *saku, from Proto-Germanic *sakō (“affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to investigate”).
Akin to West Frisian saak (“cause; business”), Low German Saak, Dutch zaak (“matter; cause; business”), German Sache (“thing; matter; cause; legal cause”), Danish sag, Swedish and Norwegian sak, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉 (sakjō, “dispute, argument”), Old English sōcn (“inquiry, prosecution”), Old English sēcan (“to seek”). More at soke, soken, seek.
senses_examples:
text:
For the sake of argument
type:
example
text:
For old times' sake
type:
example
text:
2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b.
But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis, […]
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
cause, interest or account
purpose or end; reason
the benefit or regard of someone or something
contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge
senses_topics:
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9482 | word:
sake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sake (countable and uncountable, plural sakes)
forms:
form:
sakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of saké
senses_topics:
|
9483 | word:
Jew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Jew (plural Jews or (archaic) Jewes)
forms:
form:
Jews
tags:
plural
form:
Jewes
tags:
archaic
plural
wikipedia:
Jew
etymology_text:
From Middle English Jew, Giu, Giw, Ju, from Old French juiu, Giu, gyu, from Latin iūdaeus (“Judean (i.e. Jew)”), from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos), from Ἰουδά (Ioudá), Ἰούδας (Ioúdas, “Judah, Judas, Jude”) + -ιος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá, “male given name, Yehuda; Judah, Judea”). Doublet of Yid. Displaced Old English Iūdēisċ.
senses_examples:
text:
Both Jews and Muslims refrain from eating pork.
type:
example
text:
Many Jews eat bagels.
type:
example
text:
A young Australian Jew engaged on the trip of a lifetime finally arrives in the homeland of his people.
ref:
1996 March 1, The Australian Jewish News, Melbourne, page 33, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The local gazetteers of Xiangfu district, Kaifeng prefecture, and Henan province⁵ mention a surprisingly large number of Kaifeng Jews and their successes in Chinese society with dates.
ref:
1998, Donald Daniel Leslie, “Chinese Native Sources”, in Jews and Judaism in Traditional China: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series), volume XLIV, Nettetal, Germany: Steyler Verlag, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
“Jesus, Williams, you're such a Jew,” Jimmy said in an annoyed, high-pitched tone. “Have you ever just paid a check, or do you always make an ass of yourself?”
ref:
2010, Matthew S. Hiley, Hubris Falls, page 111
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An adherent of Judaism.
A member or descendant of the Jewish people.
A miserly or greedy person; a cheapskate.
A ship's tailor.
senses_topics:
government
military
naval
navy
politics
war |
9484 | word:
Jew
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jew (plural Jews)
forms:
form:
Jews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jew
etymology_text:
From Middle English Jew, Giu, Giw, Ju, from Old French juiu, Giu, gyu, from Latin iūdaeus (“Judean (i.e. Jew)”), from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos), from Ἰουδά (Ioudá), Ἰούδας (Ioúdas, “Judah, Judas, Jude”) + -ιος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá, “male given name, Yehuda; Judah, Judea”). Doublet of Yid. Displaced Old English Iūdēisċ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname.
senses_topics:
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9485 | word:
Jew
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Jew (comparative more Jew, superlative most Jew)
forms:
form:
more Jew
tags:
comparative
form:
most Jew
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Jew
etymology_text:
From Middle English Jew, Giu, Giw, Ju, from Old French juiu, Giu, gyu, from Latin iūdaeus (“Judean (i.e. Jew)”), from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos), from Ἰουδά (Ioudá), Ἰούδας (Ioúdas, “Judah, Judas, Jude”) + -ιος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá, “male given name, Yehuda; Judah, Judea”). Doublet of Yid. Displaced Old English Iūdēisċ.
senses_examples:
text:
Whenever a Jew nose casts its sinister shadow over the register, the hotel-keeper suddenly discovers that his hostelry is full to overflowing, and profoundly, but firmly, regrets his inability to receive any more guests.
ref:
1888, Telemachus Thomas Timayenis, The American Jew: An Exposé of His Career, Minerva Publishing Company, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Started that Jew country on top of everything else, and then all hell broke loose ever since.
ref:
2002, T. A. Baran, Galyat, iUniverse, page 121
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Jewish.
senses_topics:
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9486 | word:
Jew
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Jew (third-person singular simple present Jews, present participle Jewing, simple past and past participle Jewed)
forms:
form:
Jews
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Jewing
tags:
participle
present
form:
Jewed
tags:
participle
past
form:
Jewed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Jew
etymology_text:
From Middle English Jew, Giu, Giw, Ju, from Old French juiu, Giu, gyu, from Latin iūdaeus (“Judean (i.e. Jew)”), from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos), from Ἰουδά (Ioudá), Ἰούδας (Ioúdas, “Judah, Judas, Jude”) + -ιος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá, “male given name, Yehuda; Judah, Judea”). Doublet of Yid. Displaced Old English Iūdēisċ.
senses_examples:
text:
1991, E. Sicher, The Jewing of Skylock: Wesker's The Merchant” (MLS 21 (1991), 57–69)
text:
Portia's “Jewing” of Shylock has long been noticed by many critics. For an early example see, for example, the anonymous essay “shylock the Jew-ed,” Temple Bar 45 (1875): 65–70. 45. These words have potentially “commercial” etymologies,[…]
ref:
2010 August 31, William N. West, Renaissance Drama 38, Northwestern University Press, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
In both cases, the Jews used Blacks as political
weapons to wreck healthy White countries.
ref:
2014 March 15, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Jewing of South Africa”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Queering the Jew and Jewing the Queer [by] Ri J. Turner. Editor's Note: Interlaced with personal narrative, Ri Turner's essay contributes to an ongoing discussion within Jewish gender studies concerning the relationship between Jewishness and queerness and factors the term genderqueer into both sides of the equation.
ref:
2014 August 19, Noach Dzmura, Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community, North Atlantic Books, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
They stops you on the sly in the streets, and tells you to call at their house at sitch a hour of the day, and when you goes there they smuggles you quietly into some room by yourselves, and then sets to work Jewing away as hard as they can, prizing up their own things, and downcrying yourn.
ref:
1864, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
type:
quotation
text:
I just feel like you are Jewing me out of my money. I never asked you to give me anything the entire time that you were not working. Your mom told me that you got a lot of money from the insurance that Warren gave you.
ref:
2009 August 1, Scott Gann, For a Minute, I Lost Myself: The Past and Present of a Schizophrenic, Lulu.com, page 455
type:
quotation
text:
Then that bastard Keith showed up and did something even worse than Jewing me out of my pay: he blew the living freaking crap out of the one and only stereotype I still had to hold on to. He thanked me for my hard work,[…]
ref:
2013 December 13, Frank Meeink, Jody Roy, Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story as Told to Jody M. Roy, Ph.D., Hawthorne Books
type:
quotation
text:
In the neighborhood I grew up in, it was common for haggling over price to include the admonition “stop Jewing me!” Even as children, we would say this. It goes without saying that this was an insensitive term[…]
ref:
2020 March 31, Julius Bailey, Racism, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith: A Moral Challenge to the America I Love, Broadview Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make (more) Jewish.
To haggle or swindle in order to obtain a better deal (from someone).
senses_topics:
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9487 | word:
device
word_type:
noun
expansion:
device (plural devices)
forms:
form:
devices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English devis, devise, devyce, devys, devyse, from Old French devis and devise, from Latin dīvīsus, past participle of dīvidō (“to divide”). Doublet of devise (noun).
senses_examples:
text:
1949. Geneva Convention on Road Traffic Chapter VI. Provisions Applicable to Cycles in International Traffic
Every cycle shall be equipped with: … (b) an audible warning device consisting of a bell …
text:
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
ref:
2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly)
type:
quotation
text:
Their recent device of demanding benevolences.
ref:
1827, Henry Hallam, The English Constitution, Harper
type:
quotation
text:
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref:
2012 March 24, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-02-19, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
Inflammable material is planted in my head / It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead
ref:
1979, Stiff Little Fingers, Suspect Device
type:
quotation
text:
THE ARMY BOMB Disposal Team rendered safe a viable device in Cavan this afternoon.
ref:
2014 September 3, Cliodhna Russell, “A viable device was found in Cavan today, it has now been made safe”, in The Journal
type:
quotation
text:
The army bomb squad carried out two controlled explosions on the device. It was later found that the suspect device was a hoax and not a viable explosive.
ref:
2014 August 3, Louise Kelly, Conor Feehan, “Suspect device found at shopping centre revealed as hoax”, in Irish Independent
type:
quotation
text:
1736. O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. The Documentary History of the State of New York Chapter I, Article III: Enumeration of the Indian Tribes.
The devices of these savages are the serpent, the Deer, and the Small Acorn.
text:
Moreover I must have instruments of mine own device, weighty, and exceeding costly
ref:
1824, Walter Savage Landor, “King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
And she said,
"We are all prisoners here,
Of our own device"
ref:
1976, The Eagles, Hotel California
type:
quotation
text:
Prior to the issuance of the first stamps, letters accepted by postmasters for dispatch were marked "Paid" by means of pen and ink or hand stamps of various designs. … To facilitate the handling of mail matter, some postmasters provided special stamps or devices for use on letters as evidence of the prepayment of postage.
ref:
1943 United States Post Office Department. A Description of United States Postage Stamps / Issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847, to April 1, 1945 [sic], USGPO, Washington, p1
text:
It will be out of faſhion to weare ſwords, / Maſques, and devices welcome, I ſalute you […]
ref:
c. 1634, James Shirley (falsely attributed to John Fletcher), The Coronation
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
A spectacle or show.
Opinion; decision.
senses_topics:
computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
law
media
printing
publishing
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9488 | word:
wherefore
word_type:
adv
expansion:
wherefore (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
William Shakespeare
etymology_text:
From Middle English wherfor, wherfore, hwarfore, equivalent to where- (“what”) + for. Compare Dutch waarvoor (“what for, wherefore”), German wofür (“for what, what for, why”), Danish and Norwegian hvorfor (“wherefore, why”), Swedish varför (“wherefore, why”). More at where, for.
senses_examples:
text:
"Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"
ref:
1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond
type:
quotation
text:
For behold, by the power of his word man came upon the face of the earth, which earth was created by the power of his word. Wherefore, if God being able to speak and the world was, and to speak and man was created, O then, why not able to command the earth, or the workmanship of his hands upon the face of it, according to his will and pleasure?
ref:
1830, Joseph Smith Jr., chapter 4, in The Book of Mormon/Jacob#Chapter_4), Jacob
type:
quotation
text:
Wherefore, Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and should be removed from office.
ref:
2010 March 17, House of the United States, House Resolution 1031
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Why, for what reason, because of what.
Therefore; thus.
senses_topics:
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9489 | word:
wherefore
word_type:
conj
expansion:
wherefore
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wherfor, wherfore, hwarfore, equivalent to where- (“what”) + for. Compare Dutch waarvoor (“what for, wherefore”), German wofür (“for what, what for, why”), Danish and Norwegian hvorfor (“wherefore, why”), Swedish varför (“wherefore, why”). More at where, for.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Because of which.
senses_topics:
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9490 | word:
wherefore
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wherefore (plural wherefores)
forms:
form:
wherefores
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wherfor, wherfore, hwarfore, equivalent to where- (“what”) + for. Compare Dutch waarvoor (“what for, wherefore”), German wofür (“for what, what for, why”), Danish and Norwegian hvorfor (“wherefore, why”), Swedish varför (“wherefore, why”). More at where, for.
senses_examples:
text:
They want their money without reference to the hows and wherefores.
ref:
1996, Richard Bausch, Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea, page 72
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An intent or purpose; a why.
senses_topics:
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9491 | word:
Tibet
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tibet
forms:
wikipedia:
Tibet
etymology_text:
Of unclear origin, but probably from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰯𐰇𐱅 (Töpüt) ('hilly, mountainous place') via Classical Persian تبت (tabbat, tubbat). In one proposed etymology the ultimate origin is Tibetan བོད (Bod), used in the compound name sTod-bod (pronounced Tö-pöt), meaning “Upper Tibet”. In another proposal, the name comes via Mongolian Töpüt from an alteration of Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰯𐰇 (töpü, “height, summit”). Bialek instead derives the name from Old Tibetan དཔོན (dpon, “leader, ruler”), with addition of the Old Turkic plural suffix -𐱅 (-t²) and a epenthetic vowel to break up the non-Turkic initial consonant cluster [tp]; according to her, Middle Chinese 吐蕃 (tʰuo^X pʉɐn) comes from the same source.
senses_examples:
text:
The Province of Xenſi extends to the Kingdom of Preſter John. Caſcar and Thebet, which the Chineſes in a general Name call Sifan it is a large Province, and is divided into eight Counties, having one hundred and eighty Cities: Sigan is the Metropolis of the whole, ſeated on the River Guei, in a moſt pleaſant and delightful place, of a noble Proſpect, and good Trade.]
ref:
[1693, Robert Morden, “Of China”, in Geography Rectified; or a Description of the World, 3rd edition, page 439
type:
quotation
text:
A giant rally on Formosa reflects the worldwide concern for Tibet's heroic rebels. Speaking to sixty-thousand people in Taipei, President Chiang Kai-shek says Tibet's resistance foreshadows a vast anti-communist uprising on the mainland of China.
ref:
1959 February 4, Peter Roberts, 0:00 from the start, in Formosa Rallies In Support Of Tibet Rebels (1959), British Pathé
type:
quotation
text:
The estimated population of the Chinese Empire (exclusive of Tibet) is given, on the basis of this census, as 329,542,000, while the population of Tibet is estimated at 1,500,000.
ref:
1922, Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
Third, we should open up two new international broadcasting stations—Radio Free China and Radio Free Tibet— to provide these nations with independent information and commentary.[...]The people of Tibet represent a separate case. Conquered by the Chinese in 1950, occupied brutally by troops who killed thousands, desecrated local cultural and religious sites, and denied reasonable demands for autonomy, Tibetans have elicited much sympathy but little support from the outside world. The outrage over the brutal killings of peaceful demonstrators in Lhasa in March 1989 quickly faded after the massacres in Beijing in June. While there is a limit to what we can do, we should do more than we have done. In addition to raising the issue of Tibet in bilateral talks, we should establish Radio Free Tibet so that its people, though isolated, will no longer feel abandoned.
ref:
1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 179–180
type:
quotation
text:
I also supported more political freedom in China, and had recently invited the Dalai Lama and Hong Kong human rights activist Martin Lee to the White House to highlight my support for the cultural and religious integrity of Tibet and for maintaining Hong Kong's democracy now that the UK had restored it to China.
ref:
2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →OCLC, page 387
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Tibetan Plateau, a plateau region in Central Asia, where the Tibetan people traditionally live, encompassing what is now Tibet Autonomous Region (also called Xizang), most of Qinghai, the western half of Sichuan, a small part of Yunnan and a small part of Gansu in the People's Republic of China, and also the country of Bhutan, and the Indian regions of Sikkim and Ladakh.
A mountainous country in Central Asia annexed by China.
An autonomous region of China. Official name: Tibet Autonomous Region. Capital: Lhasa.
senses_topics:
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9492 | word:
gain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gain (third-person singular simple present gains, present participle gaining, simple past and past participle gained)
forms:
form:
gains
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gaining
tags:
participle
present
form:
gained
tags:
participle
past
form:
gained
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
gain
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gayn, gain, gein (“profit, advantage”), from Old Norse gagn (“benefit, advantage, use”), from Proto-Germanic *gagną, *gaganą (“gain, profit", literally "return”), from Proto-Germanic *gagana (“back, against, in return”), a reduplication of Proto-Germanic *ga- (“with, together”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).
Cognate with Icelandic gagn (“gain, advantage, use”), Swedish gagn (“benefit, profit”), Danish gavn (“gain, profit, success”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (gageigan, “to gain, profit”), Old Norse gegn (“ready”), dialectal Swedish gen (“useful, noteful”), Latin cum (“with”); see gain-, again, against. Compare also Middle English gaynen, geinen (“to be of use, profit, avail”), Icelandic and Swedish gagna (“to avail, help”), Danish gavne (“to benefit”).
The Middle English word was reinforced by Middle French gain (“gain, profit, advancement, cultivation”), from Old French gaaing, gaaigne, gaigne, a noun derivative of gaaignier, gaigner (“to till, earn, win”), from Frankish *waiþanōn (“to pasture, graze, hunt for food”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waiþiz, *waiþō, *waiþijō (“pasture, field, hunting ground”); compare Old High German weidōn, weidanōn (“to hunt, forage for food”) (Modern German Weide (“pasture”)), Old Norse veiða (“to catch, hunt”), Old English wǣþan (“to hunt, chase, pursue”). Related to wathe, wide.
senses_examples:
text:
Looks like you’ve gained a new friend.
type:
example
text:
The sick man gains daily.
type:
example
text:
to gain a battle; to gain a case at law
type:
example
text:
to gain ground
type:
example
text:
I’m gaining (on you).
type:
example
text:
to gain the top of a mountain
type:
example
text:
I’ve been gaining.
type:
example
text:
Thinspo, bonespo, meanspo, sweetspo, anything that could motivate me not to eat, not to consume, not to gain, not to fail.
ref:
2020, Riley Willman, “Ana”, in Rapids Review (Anoka Ramsey Community College)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To acquire possession of.
To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.
To increase.
To grow more likely to catch or overtake someone.
To reach.
To draw into any interest or party; to win to one’s side; to conciliate.
To put on weight.
To run fast.
senses_topics:
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9493 | word:
gain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gain (countable and uncountable, plural gains)
forms:
form:
gains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gayn, gain, gein (“profit, advantage”), from Old Norse gagn (“benefit, advantage, use”), from Proto-Germanic *gagną, *gaganą (“gain, profit", literally "return”), from Proto-Germanic *gagana (“back, against, in return”), a reduplication of Proto-Germanic *ga- (“with, together”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).
Cognate with Icelandic gagn (“gain, advantage, use”), Swedish gagn (“benefit, profit”), Danish gavn (“gain, profit, success”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (gageigan, “to gain, profit”), Old Norse gegn (“ready”), dialectal Swedish gen (“useful, noteful”), Latin cum (“with”); see gain-, again, against. Compare also Middle English gaynen, geinen (“to be of use, profit, avail”), Icelandic and Swedish gagna (“to avail, help”), Danish gavne (“to benefit”).
The Middle English word was reinforced by Middle French gain (“gain, profit, advancement, cultivation”), from Old French gaaing, gaaigne, gaigne, a noun derivative of gaaignier, gaigner (“to till, earn, win”), from Frankish *waiþanōn (“to pasture, graze, hunt for food”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waiþiz, *waiþō, *waiþijō (“pasture, field, hunting ground”); compare Old High German weidōn, weidanōn (“to hunt, forage for food”) (Modern German Weide (“pasture”)), Old Norse veiða (“to catch, hunt”), Old English wǣþan (“to hunt, chase, pursue”). Related to wathe, wide.
senses_examples:
text:
the lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain
ref:
1855, Alfred Tennyson, Maude
type:
quotation
text:
When power is sought primarily for private gain, the social fabric decays and unravels.
ref:
2023 June 25, Charles Hugh Smith, The Corruption of POTUS, SCOTUS and SCROTUS
type:
quotation
text:
There follows the high and low-frequency replay equalization, which normally involves two adjustments with a further control allowing the replay gain to be set.
ref:
1987, John Borwick, Sound recording practice, page 238
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of gaining; acquisition.
The thing or things gained.
The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
9494 | word:
gain
word_type:
prep
expansion:
gain
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dialectal English gen, gin, short for again, agen (“against”); also Middle English gain, gayn, gein, ȝæn (“against”), from Old English gēan, geġn (“against”). More at against.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Against.
senses_topics:
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9495 | word:
gain
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gain (comparative more gain, superlative most gain)
forms:
form:
more gain
tags:
comparative
form:
most gain
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gayn, gein, geyn (“straight, direct, short, fit, good”), from Old Norse gegn (“straight, direct, short, ready, serviceable, kindly”), from gegn (“opposite, against”, adverb) (whence gagna (“to go against, meet, suit, be meet”)); see below at gain. Adverb from Middle English gayn, gayne (“fitly, quickly”), from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
the gainest way
type:
example
text:
[...] many times his horse and he plunged over the head in deep mires, for he knew not the way, but took the gainest way in that woodness, that many times he was like to perish.
ref:
1485 July 24, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XX, in William Caxton, editor, Le Morte D’Arthur, volume 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Straight, direct; near; short.
Suitable; convenient; ready.
Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
senses_topics:
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9496 | word:
gain
word_type:
adv
expansion:
gain (comparative more gain, superlative most gain)
forms:
form:
more gain
tags:
comparative
form:
most gain
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English gayn, gein, geyn (“straight, direct, short, fit, good”), from Old Norse gegn (“straight, direct, short, ready, serviceable, kindly”), from gegn (“opposite, against”, adverb) (whence gagna (“to go against, meet, suit, be meet”)); see below at gain. Adverb from Middle English gayn, gayne (“fitly, quickly”), from the adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
gain quiet ― fairly/pretty quiet
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.
Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.
Tolerably; fairly.
senses_topics:
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9497 | word:
gain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gain (plural gains)
forms:
form:
gains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare Welsh gan (“a mortise”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
senses_topics:
architecture |
9498 | word:
errata
word_type:
noun
expansion:
errata
forms:
wikipedia:
errata
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin errāta (“mistaken things, mistakes”), neuter plural of errātus (“mistaken”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of erratum
senses_topics:
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9499 | word:
errata
word_type:
noun
expansion:
errata pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
errata
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin errāta (“mistaken things, mistakes”), neuter plural of errātus (“mistaken”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An added page in a printed work where errors which are discovered after printing and their corrections (corrigenda) are listed.
senses_topics:
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