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9500 | word:
thirty-one
word_type:
num
expansion:
thirty-one
forms:
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etymology_text:
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senses_glosses:
The cardinal number immediately following thirty and before thirty-two; thirty plus one.
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9501 | word:
anarchism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
anarchism (usually uncountable, plural anarchisms)
forms:
form:
anarchisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
anarchism
etymology_text:
From anarchy + -ism.
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senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A political and philosophical belief that all forms of involuntary rule or government are undesirable, unnecessary, or unethical, and as such that society would function without a state.
A belief that proposes the abolition of hierarchy and authority in most forms.
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9502 | word:
scrub
word_type:
adj
expansion:
scrub (comparative more scrub, superlative most scrub)
forms:
form:
more scrub
tags:
comparative
form:
most scrub
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
scrub
etymology_text:
Variant of shrub, possibly under Norse influence.
senses_examples:
text:
How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!
ref:
1743, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
type:
quotation
text:
No little scrub joint shall come on my board.
ref:
1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn
type:
quotation
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senses_glosses:
Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
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9503 | word:
scrub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scrub (countable and uncountable, plural scrubs)
forms:
form:
scrubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
scrub
etymology_text:
Variant of shrub, possibly under Norse influence.
senses_examples:
text:
oak scrub
type:
example
text:
A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind.
ref:
1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
type:
quotation
text:
We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
ref:
1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
type:
quotation
text:
A scrub is a guy that thinks he's fly
And is also known as a buster
Always talkin' about what he wants
And just sits on his broke ass […]
ref:
1999, TLC (band), "No Scrubs" (song)
text:
Wow, she really scored 0? What a scrub!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc.; particularly a male animal poorly suited for breeding.
One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
A player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
games
gaming |
9504 | word:
scrub
word_type:
verb
expansion:
scrub (third-person singular simple present scrubs, present participle scrubbing, simple past and past participle scrubbed)
forms:
form:
scrubs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
scrubbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
scrubbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
scrubbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Scrubs (clothing)
scrub
etymology_text:
From Middle English scrobben (“groom a horse with a currycomb”); from Middle Dutch schrobben (“clean by scrubbing”).
senses_examples:
text:
to scrub a floor
type:
example
text:
to scrub your fingernails
type:
example
text:
to scrub hard for a living
type:
example
text:
Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.
type:
example
text:
The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
To be diligent and penurious
To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
senses_topics:
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9505 | word:
scrub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scrub (plural scrubs)
forms:
form:
scrubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Scrubs (clothing)
scrub
etymology_text:
From Middle English scrobben (“groom a horse with a currycomb”); from Middle Dutch schrobben (“clean by scrubbing”).
senses_examples:
text:
Unacceptable winds aloft caused four scrubs and one hold; adverse weather caused a scrub; […]
ref:
1988, AIAA 26th Aerospace Sciences Meeting: January 11-14
type:
quotation
text:
A scrub [broom worn out] Scopa detrita.
ref:
1752, Robert Ainsworth, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Compendiarius
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: scrubber
text:
Coordinate term: scrubber
text:
A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
ref:
2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
The third, which was as homely as its name, and which she reserved for scouring the country and such like rough usage in quite private rural life, was her "Scrub."
ref:
1876, “Hightum, Titum, and Scrub!”, in The Leisure Hour
type:
quotation
text:
For one of Lucia's quaint ideas was to divide dresses into three classes, "Hightum," "Tightum" and "Scrub."
ref:
1920, E. F. Benson, Queen Lucia
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of scrubbing.
A cancellation.
A worn-out brush.
One who scrubs.
That which scrubs.
That which scrubs.
An exfoliant for the body.
Clothing worn while performing surgery.
Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
Informal attire or dress code; morning dress
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
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9506 | word:
aberrancy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aberrancy (countable and uncountable, plural aberrancies)
forms:
form:
aberrancies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From aberrance + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
Thus they commonly affect no man any further than he deserts his reason, or complies with their aberrancies.
ref:
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The condition of being aberrant; an aberrance.
The deviation of a curve from circular form.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
9507 | word:
anime
word_type:
noun
expansion:
anime (countable and uncountable, plural anime or animes)
forms:
form:
anime
tags:
plural
form:
animes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
anime
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), itself borrowed from English animation, from Latin animātiō, from animāre.
senses_examples:
text:
I can draw an anime version of you, if you want.
type:
example
text:
Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon / 'Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes / That make me think the wrong thing
ref:
1998, “One Week”, performed by Barenaked Ladies
type:
quotation
text:
After three months of successful sales in manga form, it was made into an anime for television.
ref:
2005, Peter J. Katzenstein, A World of Regions, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
Usually the manga comes first, though it may be an offshoot of a novel, and an anime may be inspired by a video game.
ref:
2005, Joan D. Vinge, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, page cix
type:
quotation
text:
These anime prepared the way for Otaku no video, a two-part Original Video Animation (OVA).
ref:
2006, Thomas LaMarre, edited by Tomiko Yoda and Harry D. Harootunian, Japan After Japan, page 363
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries.
An animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style.
An animated work, regardless of the country of origin.
senses_topics:
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9508 | word:
anime
word_type:
noun
expansion:
anime (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
anime
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French animé (“animated”) (from the insects that are entrapped in it); or native name.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of animé (“the resin of the courbaril”).
senses_topics:
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9509 | word:
box
word_type:
noun
expansion:
box (plural boxes or (nonstandard, computing, humorous) boxen)
forms:
form:
boxes
tags:
plural
form:
boxen
topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
tags:
humorous
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box (“box, case”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā (“box”) from Late Latin buxis (“box”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”) and Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”). Doublet of piseog, pyx, and pyxis.
Cognate with Middle Dutch bosse, busse (“jar; tin; round box”) (modern Dutch bos (“wood, forest”), bus (“container, box; bushing of a wheel”)), Old High German buhsa (Middle High German buhse, bühse, modern German Büchse (“box; can”)), Swedish hjulbössa (“wheel-box”).
The humorous plural form boxen is from box + -en, by analogy with oxen.
senses_examples:
text:
a box of books
type:
example
text:
post box post office box
type:
example
text:
She'd picked up the high-tech phone from a post office box in Toronto a month ago. The key to that box had been mailed to a post office box in New York City. The Russians loved their cloak-and-dagger, particularly former KGB and Spetsnaz, Soviet special forces who ran the mafia, […]
ref:
2015 March, Cindy Gerard, chapter 10, in Running Blind, 1st Pocket Books paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
Add five words for address if replies are to come to a box number address at any of our offices. These replies are forwarded each day as received, in new envelopes at no extra charge. […] When replying to blind ads be careful to put on your envelope the correct box number and do not enclose original letters of recommendation—send copies.
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1924 December 1, “The Broadcaster: A Department that will Find what You Want: A Central Clearing House for All Your Business Wants”, in C. A. Musselman, editor, Automobile Trade Journal, volume XXIX, number 6, Philadelphia, Pa.: Chilton Company, […], →OCLC, page 618, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
There is yet a better manner of arranging the boxes; and for which invention we are indebted to Andrea Sighizzi, the ſcholar of [Francesco] Brizio and Dentone; […] The plan he followed was, that the boxes, according as they were to be removed from the ſtage towards the bottom of the theatre, ſhould continue gradually riſing by ſome inches one above the other, and gradually receding to the ſides by ſome inches; by which means, every box would have a more commodious view of the ſtage; […]
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1767, [Francesco] Algarotti, “On the Structure of Theatres”, in An Essay on the Opera Written in Italian, London: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, →OCLC, pages 101–102
type:
quotation
text:
One night he proposed a champagne supper, to which, he said he had invited a friend of his. I consented without hesitation, and soon after we proceeded to an eating house and seating ourselves in a private box, ordered supper.
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1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Next in importance to the Dvornik comes the coachman of a Russian household. He is usually chosen for his fatness and the length of his beard. These seem curious reasons for choosing a coachman in a country where coach-boxes are smaller than anywhere else in the world; but whereas the average breadth of a Russian coach-box is scarcely more than twelve inches at the outside, the average breadth of a Russian coachman is a very different affair.
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1868 April 18, “Among Russian Peasantry”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. [...] With which is Incorporated Household Words, volume XIX, number 469, London: Published at No. 26, Wellington Street; and by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 440, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
sentry-box
type:
example
text:
They were capable of climbing most hills in second low but for this exercise we decided to go for the bottom of the box, just to be sure.
ref:
2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 181
type:
quotation
text:
Thinkin' like Roddy, got a stick in the box (Roddy)
Hide in another car, we just blickin' the opps (Bah)
ref:
2023 May 24, “Bounce”, PGF Nuk (lyrics)
type:
quotation
text:
Sparks from the derailed bogie of the train were first noticed by the signalman at Slough West box, who immediately sent to Slough Middle box the "Stop and Examine" signal, followed at once by "Obstruction Danger" when he realised that the coach was derailed.
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1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The Slough derailment”, in Trains Illustrated, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
I’m really in a box now.
type:
example
text:
He was going straight for the jugular. "Joe, this didn't make me afraid. I've done rescues before." / "Then you'll have no problem saying yes." / Her eyes narrowed. He was putting her in a box and doing it deliberately. There were times when his kind of leadership made her cringe.
ref:
2000, Dee Henderson, chapter 5, in True Devotion (Uncommon Heroes; book 1), Sisters, Or.: Palisades; republished Carol Stream, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, 2005, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
I am in what you call 'the box' confined to a 'special' housing unit for punishment because I stabbed some guys who call they self godly and are always beaten up on gays and she males because they hate homosexuals.
ref:
1987 August 15, Alberto Rodriguez, “What's Your Opinion, Brothers & Sisters?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
He is fearless and contemptuous, apparently able to withstand any discipline—including nights “in the box” […]
ref:
2003, Elayne Rapping, Law and Justice as Seen on TV, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
He had been in disciplinary confinement (“the box”)—punishment reserved for serious prison offenses—for 14 months.
ref:
2009, Megan McLemore, Barred from Treatment
type:
quotation
text:
[…] he explained, “you can go to the box. So, I got a ticket for refusing an order and I went to the box in that situation. […]
ref:
2020, Erin Hatton, Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
Prior to the explosion we spoke about what would happen if he [Lance-Corporal James Simpson] died and came back in a box and what music he would want at his funeral.
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2010 March 6, Pauline Rogers (interviewee), “Soldier who lost both legs in Afghanistan wants to return to frontline”, in The Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 2010-05-24
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Wormwood switched on the television. The screen lit up. The programme blared. Mr Wormwood glared at Matilda. She hadn't moved. She had somehow trained herself by now to block her ears to the ghastly sound of the dreaded box. She kept right on reading, and for some reason this infuriated the father.
ref:
1988, Roald Dahl, “The Ghost”, in Matilda, London: Jonathan Cape; republished as “The Ghost”, in Matilda, New York, N.Y.: Puffin Books, 2007
type:
quotation
text:
Without warning, he withdrew his finger and drove his tongue inside her creamy, hot box. She gave a sharp intake of breath.
ref:
2015 March, Allison Hobbs, Karen E. Quinones Miller, “Cheryl”, in Hittin’ It Out the Park: A Novel (Zane Presents), trade paperback edition, Largo, Md.: Strebor Books, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
a UNIX box
type:
example
text:
i can't seem to find any how-to regarding connecting a terminal to a linux boxen via parallel port …
ref:
1996 January 15, Siu Ha Vivian Chu, “DEC vt320 → linux boxen”, in comp.os.linux.networking (Usenet), message-ID <4dceos$gg7@morgoth.sfu.ca>
type:
quotation
text:
Furthermore, it is necessary that all four Linux boxen have the same development environment […]
ref:
2002 September 8, Gregory Seidman, “serving debian to redhat boxen”, in muc.lists.debian.user (Usenet), message-ID <20020908205128.GA19944@cs.brown.edu>
type:
quotation
text:
Joshua Newman, until last month a co-owner of CrossFit NYC, which says it is the world's largest box, recalled a member in the gym's early days who was nicknamed "Welcoming Committee."
ref:
2014 August 8, Courtney Rubin, “CrossFit Flirting: Talk Burpee to Me”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-06-16
type:
quotation
text:
Ter Kuile says people will sometimes bring their kids to their CrossFit "box," which is CrossFit for "gym."
ref:
2017 June 24, Julie Beck, “How CrossFit Acts Like a Religion”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2022-12-25
type:
quotation
text:
Even CrossFitters disagree on how to read the clowns; some box owners join outsider critics in condemning them as dangerous and distance themselves from boxes that still display them.
ref:
2018 June 21, Mark Hay, “Some CrossFit Gyms Feature Pictures of These Puking, Bleeding Clowns”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2022-09-30
type:
quotation
text:
This is really sad, but I'd go to this amazing CrossFit box called Tio with barbells outside on the edge of a park so you can enjoy the sunshine. I'd go with friends, we'd play loud music, lift weights and get tanned.
ref:
2021 August 22, Michael Segalov, quoting Joel Dommett, “Sunday with Joel Dommett: ‘In bed until 10am if I'm feeling fruity'”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2022-11-29
type:
quotation
text:
His [Rory Bremner's] brilliant story about having his box turned inside out by a delivery from Jeff Thomson – he contrasts it with Andrew Flintoff being hit in the box by Cardigan Connor. [David] Lloyd came up to Flintoff, and said, "Cardigan Connor? You consider it an honour to be hit by Cardigan. Do you remember Jeff Thomson? I was hit amidships by him, and it was not a glancing blow. I was wearing one of those old boxes – you know, the pink ones, like a soap dish. It ended up that everything that was supposed to be inside the box had come outside the box – through the air holes!"
ref:
2011, John Duncan, “Rory Bremner”, in Cricket Wonderful Cricket, London: John Blake Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
In common axles, the wheel is prevented from coming off by a pin, called the linch pin, passing through the end of the axletree arm, the name of the part that the wheel turns upon; but as many serious accidents have happened through the linch pin failing and the wheel coming off, an improved method of securing the latter is now practised, by means of a box called the axletree box, which is contrived to answer the double purpose of keeping on the wheel, and to hold oil, grease, or some lubricating substance for lessening the friction.
ref:
1844, Thomas Webster, assisted by the late Mrs. [William] Parkes, “[Book XXIII. Carriages.] Chap. VI. Various Details Respecting the Parts of a Carriage.”, in An Encyclopædia of Domestic Economy: […], London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, paragraph 6684, page 1124
type:
quotation
text:
In electric fencing, foil and saber fencers wear lames, which are thin outer jackets that cover their target areas. Lames are made from fabric that conducts electricity. When a fencer touches an opponent's lame with his or her blade, an electronic signal is sent to the scoring box. A colored light goes on to signal a touch. […] In épée, the whole body is the target, so épée fencers do not need to wear lames. A signal is sent to the scoring box from the épée any time a touch is made.
ref:
2009, Suzanne Slade, “Electric Fencing: Get Hooked Up”, in Fencing for Fun!, Mankato, Minn.: Compass Point Books, pages 30–31
type:
quotation
text:
I dare say the sheriff, or the mayor and corporation, or some of those sort of people, would give him money enough, for the use of it, to run him up a mighty pretty neat little box somewhere near Richmond.
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1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.9
type:
quotation
text:
What can a man know of a country or its people, who, merely passes through the former in a stage coach? […] Such were the arguments by which I induced myself to undertake a pedestrian trip to join my friend at his shooting-box, some hundred and fifty miles from Carlisle, where I had arrived from London; business compelling me to take that route.
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[1840?], [John Mackay] Wilson, “The Runaway”, in Wilson’s Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland: […], volume VI, number 273, Manchester: Published by James Ainsworth, […]; London: E. T. Brain & Co., […]; New York, N.Y.: R. T. Shannon, →OCLC, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
So Tea Cake took the guitar and played himself. He was glad of the chance because he hadn't had his hand on a box since he put his in the pawn shop to get some money to hire a car for Janie soon after he met her.
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1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
Place a tick in the box.
type:
example
text:
This text would stand out better if we put it in a coloured box.
type:
example
text:
[G]raphic novelists must think "inside the box" in some significant ways. Like comic books, each page of a graphic novel usually displays from one to nine outlined boxes with pictures and words that tell a story. Another tradition places the descriptions of events or scenes in smaller rectangles set within panels. These rectangles are called narrative boxes. […] Use narrative boxes with words such as "Far away" or "Meanwhile" to tell readers when you are moving the action somewhere else.
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2009, Natalie M[yra] Rosinsky, “Setting the Scene”, in Write Your Own Graphic Novel, Mankato, Minn.: Compass Point Books, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
As anyone who has ever maintained a baseball or softball diamond would agree, the pitcher's mound and batter's box present a special challenge. […] Batters dig in at the plate, disturbing the soil and making a hole that base runners must slide across when they approach the plate. To withstand the special stresses on these areas, only clay-based soils provide the necessary soil strength. […] [S]ome manufacturers have introduced clay-based soil products for pitcher's mounds and batter's boxes. These products include additives with special binding properties and are specifically designed to resist the stresses applied by the cleats of pitchers and batters.
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2003, Jim Puhalla, Jeff Krans, Mike Goatley, “Soil”, in Baseball and Softball Fields: Design, Construction, Renovation, and Maintenance, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, part I (Design and Construction), section 3.3c, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
Similar considerations apply in the case of tRNA genes, where the internal promoter is split into two functional domains (box A and box B) which must be a minimum distance apart[…]. The first 11 bp of the internal control region in the Xenopus 5S gene are structurally and functionally homologous to the box A element of tRNA gene promoters, […]
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1990, David De Pomerai, “Gene Organisation and Control”, in From Gene to Animal: An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of Animal Development, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, section 1.3 (Transcriptional Control), page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Your hands rest on the bottom plane of the box, relaxed and open; forearms are parallel with the ground and elbows close to your body. Balls thrown from your right hand are aimed at the point to the left of center of the top of the box. When you hit this point the ball will land in your left hand. Balls thrown from your left hand are aimed at the point to the right of center of the top of the box.
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2010 April, Michael J. Gelb, 5 Keys to High Performance: Juggle Your Way to Success, [Prince Frederick, Md.]: Gildan Digital, part III (The Art of Juggling: Expanding Your Influence with Spheres)
type:
quotation
text:
[page 12] Field players wear shoes with short spikes, called cleats, on the soles. Box players wear court shoes, which have grooved rubber soles. […] [page 30] Field goalies have larger nets to protect than goalies in box lacrosse have. Box goalies wear more pads.
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2003, John Crossingham, “The Essentials” and “Goaltending”, in Bobbie Kalman, editor, Lacrosse in Action (Sports in Action), New York, N.Y., St. Catharines, Ont.: Crabtree Publishing Company, pages 12 and 30
type:
quotation
text:
Poised link-up play between [Michael] Essien and [Frank] Lampard set the Ghanaian midfielder free soon after but his left-footed shot from outside the box was too weak.
ref:
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 – 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2017-12-16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A small rectangular shelter.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
Short for horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
Short for gearbox.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
Short for stashbox.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
Short for signal box.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A predicament or trap.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A prison cell.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A prison cell.
A cell used for solitary confinement.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A coffin.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
The television.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
The vagina.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”)
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A small country house.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
The rectangle in which the batter stands.
Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
One of two specific regions in a promoter.
Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
Short for box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
The penalty area.
Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
senses_topics:
automotive
transport
vehicles
automotive
transport
vehicles
rail-transport
railways
transport
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lacrosse
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
9510 | word:
box
word_type:
verb
expansion:
box (third-person singular simple present boxes, present participle boxing, simple past and past participle boxed)
forms:
form:
boxes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
boxing
tags:
participle
present
form:
boxed
tags:
participle
past
form:
boxed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
box
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box (“box, case”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā (“box”) from Late Latin buxis (“box”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”) and Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”). Doublet of piseog, pyx, and pyxis.
Cognate with Middle Dutch bosse, busse (“jar; tin; round box”) (modern Dutch bos (“wood, forest”), bus (“container, box; bushing of a wheel”)), Old High German buhsa (Middle High German buhse, bühse, modern German Büchse (“box; can”)), Swedish hjulbössa (“wheel-box”).
The humorous plural form boxen is from box + -en, by analogy with oxen.
senses_examples:
text:
Scrapbooks that have enduring value in their original form should be individually boxed in custom-fitted boxes.
ref:
1991 August, Karen Motylewski, “Surveying Your Own Institution: What Do You Need to Know?”, in What an Institution Can Do to Survey Its Own Preservation Needs (Technical Leaflet: General Preservation; 508-470-1010), Andover, Mass.: Northeast Document Conservation Center, →OCLC, section V.D.6 (Scrapbooks and Ephemera), page 21; reprinted in Sherry Byrne, Collection Maintenance and Improvement (Preservation Planning Program), Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 1993, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
"I best get busy and box up these bones," she said, suddenly anxious to get moving. […] As she started to step around the grave washed out by last night's rainstorm, the sun caught on something caught in the mud.
ref:
2017, B. J. Daniels, “Gun-shy Bride”, in Cold Justice, 2nd Australian paperback edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Harlequin Mills & Boon, chapter 1
type:
quotation
text:
A large majority of children seem to delight in emotionally boxing in their parents—setting the double-bind trap by giving the parent two choices but determining ahead of time that neither choice will be sufficient for their satisfaction.
ref:
1996, Bill Borcherdt, “The Door Swings Both Ways: When Children Double Bind Their Parents”, in Making Families Work and What to Do when They Don’t: Thirty Guides for Imperfect Parents of Imperfect Children (Haworth Marriage and the Family), New York, N.Y.: The Haworth Press; republished Binghamton, N.Y.: The Haworth Press, 2007, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
Straining eliminates lumps in the paint. If the paint has separated, stir the thick paint up from the bottom of each can to free as many lumps as possible. Then box the paint, pouring it all together through a nylon paint strainer and into the bucket. Paint less than one year old usually doesn't require straining. Older paint might have a thick skin on the top; remove the skin and set it aside. Box the paint, pouring it through a nylon paint strainer into the bucket.
ref:
2004, Brian Santos, “Painting Like a Pro”, in Painting Secrets from Brian Santos, the Wall Wizard, Des Moines, Iowa: Meredith Books, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
The early settlers either boxed the tree or cut large slanting gashes, from the lower end of which a rudely fashioned spout conducted the sap to a bucket. This method was very destructive to the tree, and boring was substituted for it.
ref:
1918 April, F. L. B., “The Maple Sugar Industry”, in Forest Leaves, volume XVI, number 8 (number 184 overall), Philadelphia, Pa.: Pennsylvania Forestry Association, →OCLC, page 115, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
As early as the 1850s, prisons were being made "safer" by boxing in water pipes and enclosing galleries with netting to prevent jumping.
ref:
2013, Ronald V[ictor] Clarke, David Lester, “Introduction to the Transaction Edition”, in Suicide: Closing the Exits, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, page ix
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he death of the said deceased Daniel Docherty, while in the defender's employment as an engineman, […] is alleged to have been owing to the engine house, which contained the engine of which the deceased had charge, being of a dangerous and improper construction, and the fly-wheel not having been boxed in or covered: […]
ref:
1862 February 25, Archibald Alison (judge), “Sarah Hamil, or Docherty, relict of the deceased Daniel Docherty, Agnes Docherty, and Sarah Docherty, residing with her, his daughters and only children, v. James Alexander, Glasgow, Calenderer, defender”, in The Scottish Law Magazine and Sheriff Court Reporter, volume I (New Series), Glasgow: Thomas Murray & Son, […]; Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, published December 1862, →OCLC, page 41, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
lifestyle
architecture
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
arts
graphic-design
media
printing
publishing
|
9511 | word:
box
word_type:
noun
expansion:
box (plural boxes)
forms:
form:
boxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English box (“box tree; boxwood”), from Old English box (“box tree”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhs (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), from Latin buxus (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), buxum (“box tree; boxwood”), possibly from πύξος (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”).
senses_examples:
text:
And no maruell. For, the leaues of Boxe be deletorious, poiſonous, deadlie, and to the bodie of man very noiſome, dangerous and peſtilent[…]
ref:
1587, Leuinus Lemnius, translated by Thomas Newton, An Herball to the Bible […], London: Edmund Bollifant, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
"Box makes a statement without having to do much: just trim twice a year and keep it weeded. It's a bit of a lazy gardener's plant." This, no doubt, is what makes box so popular with show home developers and city dwellers – there is scarce a balcony or front door anywhere that cannot be improved by a box ball in a pot.
ref:
2014 November 19, Ambra Edwards, “Topiary: We're all going bonkers about box [print version: Bonkers about box, 22 November 2014, page G3]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)
type:
quotation
text:
Nevertheless, the application of woods other than box for purposes for which that wood is now used would tend to lessen the demand for box, and thus might have an effect in lowering its price.
ref:
1885 April 10, John R. Jackson, “Boxwood and Its Substitutes”, in Journal of the Society of Arts, volume XXXIII, number 1,690, London: Published for the Society by George Bell and Sons, […], page 567, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Evenin’, folks. Thought y’all might lak uh lil music this evenin’ so Ah brought long mah box.
ref:
1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 11, in Their Eyes were Watching God: A Novel, Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, Philadelphia, Pa., London: J.B. Lippincott Company, →OCLC; Illini Books edition, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1978, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
The name "Black Box" seems to be most generally in use for this species, Eucalyptus boormani; the even better name of "Ironbark Box" (which certainly indicates its affinities) is nearly as frequently in use.
ref:
1909, J. H. Maiden, A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus, Government of the State of New South Wales
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
9512 | word:
box
word_type:
noun
expansion:
box (plural boxes)
forms:
form:
boxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English box (“a blow; a stroke with a weapon”); further origin uncertain, with relation to Proto-Germanic *boki-, whence Danish bask (“a blow; a stripe”), Danish baske (“to flap, move around, beat violently”), Middle Dutch boke (“a blow, a hit”), bōken (“to slap, strike”) (modern Dutch beuken (“to slap”)), West Frisian bûkje, bûtse, bûtsje (“to slap”), West Frisian and Saterland Frisian batsje (“to slap”), Low German betschen (“to slap, beat with a flat hand”), Middle High German buc (“a blow, a stroke”), bochen (“to slap, strike”), and further onomatopoeic shaping.
The verb is from Middle English boxen (“to beat or whip (an animal)”), which is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A blow with the fist.
senses_topics:
|
9513 | word:
box
word_type:
verb
expansion:
box (third-person singular simple present boxes, present participle boxing, simple past and past participle boxed)
forms:
form:
boxes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
boxing
tags:
participle
present
form:
boxed
tags:
participle
past
form:
boxed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English box (“a blow; a stroke with a weapon”); further origin uncertain, with relation to Proto-Germanic *boki-, whence Danish bask (“a blow; a stripe”), Danish baske (“to flap, move around, beat violently”), Middle Dutch boke (“a blow, a hit”), bōken (“to slap, strike”) (modern Dutch beuken (“to slap”)), West Frisian bûkje, bûtse, bûtsje (“to slap”), West Frisian and Saterland Frisian batsje (“to slap”), Low German betschen (“to slap, beat with a flat hand”), Middle High German buc (“a blow, a stroke”), bochen (“to slap, strike”), and further onomatopoeic shaping.
The verb is from Middle English boxen (“to beat or whip (an animal)”), which is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
to box someone’s ears
type:
example
text:
Leave this place before I box you!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strike with the fists; to punch.
To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
senses_topics:
boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
9514 | word:
box
word_type:
noun
expansion:
box (plural boxes)
forms:
form:
boxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin bōx, from Ancient Greek βῶξ (bôx, “box (marine fish)”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye, view”), a reference to the large size of the fish's eyes relative to its body.
senses_examples:
text:
BOX. Box (Boops), […] In both jaws a single anterior series of broad incisors, notched at the cutting margin; no molars.
ref:
1859, Albert Günther, “Fam. 7. SPARIDÆ”, in Catalogue of Acanthopterygian Fishes in the Collection of the British Museum, volume I (Gasterosteidæ, Berycidæ, Percidæ, Aphredoderidæ, Pristipomatidæ, Mullidæ, Sparidæ), London: Printed [by Taylor and Francis] by order of the trustees [of the British Museum], →OCLC, page 418
type:
quotation
text:
The Bogue. […] Box or Boops. Generic Character.—Body elongated, rounded, the dorsal and ventral profiles alike, and the general aspect peculiarly trim.
ref:
1860, William Yarrell, “The Bogue”, in John Richardson, editor, Second Supplement to the First Edition of the History of British Fishes, […], London: John Van Voorst, […], →OCLC, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
BOGUE. BOX. OXEYE. […] In some parts of the European side of the Mediterranean the Bogue is a common fish, and where it frequents it is in great abundance.
ref:
1862, Jonathan Couch, A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, volume I, London: Groombridge and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 225
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.
senses_topics:
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9515 | word:
loan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
loan (plural loans)
forms:
form:
loans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lone, lane, from Old Norse lán, from Proto-Germanic *laihną, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave (over)”).
Cognate with Icelandic lán, Swedish lån, Danish lån, German Lehen (“fief”), Dutch leen (“fief”), West Frisian lien, North Frisian leen (“fief; loan; office”), Scots lane, lain, len, Old English lǣn. More at lend.
senses_examples:
text:
Because of the loan that John made to me, I was able to pay my tuition for the upcoming semester.
type:
example
text:
All loans from the library, whether books or audio material, must be returned within two weeks.
type:
example
text:
He got a loan of five thousand pounds.
type:
example
text:
He made a payment on his loan.
type:
example
text:
Thank you for the loan of your lawn mower.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).
The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
The permission to borrow any item.
senses_topics:
banking
business
finance
law
banking
business
finance
law
|
9516 | word:
loan
word_type:
verb
expansion:
loan (third-person singular simple present loans, present participle loaning, simple past and past participle loaned)
forms:
form:
loans
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
loaning
tags:
participle
present
form:
loaned
tags:
participle
past
form:
loaned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lone, lane, from Old Norse lán, from Proto-Germanic *laihną, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave (over)”).
Cognate with Icelandic lán, Swedish lån, Danish lån, German Lehen (“fief”), Dutch leen (“fief”), West Frisian lien, North Frisian leen (“fief; loan; office”), Scots lane, lain, len, Old English lǣn. More at lend.
senses_examples:
text:
In the course of a correspondence that passed between us at this period, he mentioned, to my utter astonishment, the fact of his having loaned Neilson 81000 to buy my bill on Maryland; and stated that he could not proceed to make the payment until Neilson refunded the money.
ref:
1820 June 1, William King, Letters to James Monroe: President of the United States, from William King
type:
quotation
text:
All the rest—six out of eleven, more than half—were loaned to him.
ref:
1992, Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Upon maturity of the debt, the investment bank returns the loaned shares.
On the date of issuance, the entity should record the loaned shares at their fair value and recognize them as an issuance cost, with an offset to additional paid-in capital.
ref:
2015, Joanne M. Flood, Wiley GAAP 2015: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, page 574
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lend (something) to (someone).
senses_topics:
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9517 | word:
dry
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dry (comparative drier or dryer, superlative driest or dryest)
forms:
form:
drier
tags:
comparative
form:
dryer
tags:
comparative
form:
driest
tags:
superlative
form:
dryest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe (“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgī, *draugī, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (“dry, hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”). The verb derives from Middle English drien, from Old English drȳġan (“to dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgijan, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz (“hard, desiccated, dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“strong, hard, solid”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots dry, drey (“dry”), North Frisian drüg, driig, Saterland Frisian druuch (“dry”), West Frisian droech (“dry”), Dutch droog (“dry”), Low German dröög (“dry”), German dröge (“dull”), Icelandic draugur (“a dry log”). Related also to German trocken (“dry”), West Frisian drege (“long-lasting”), Danish drøj (“tough”), Swedish dryg (“lasting, hard”), Icelandic drjúgur (“ample, long”), Latin firmus (“strong, firm, stable, durable”). See also drought, drain, dree.
senses_examples:
text:
This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
type:
example
text:
This well is as dry as that cow.
type:
example
text:
Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
type:
example
text:
Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.
type:
example
text:
You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.
type:
example
text:
Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.
type:
example
text:
Fatima Blush: Oh, how reckless of me. I made you all wet.
James Bond: Yes, but my martini is still dry. My name is James.
ref:
1983, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Never Say Never Again
type:
quotation
text:
Steven Wright has a deadpan delivery, Norm Macdonald has a dry sense of humor, and Oscar Wilde had a dry wit.
type:
example
text:
A dry lecture may require the professor to bring a water gun in order to keep the students' attention.
type:
example
text:
Mr. Evans naturally does not see things in a dry light. He has the dramatic instinct, and impresses it on all he touches.
ref:
1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
Jake was hoping to make something good out of his suited 7-8 hand, but the flop came out dry: 2-5-10 rainbow, and all of the wrong suit!.
type:
example
text:
This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.
type:
example
text:
never dry fire a bow
type:
example
text:
dry humping her girlfriend
type:
example
text:
making a dry run
type:
example
text:
A loose nocking point is equally dangerous since it may result in what is known as a 'dry release' when the arrow merely falls from a string a few feet away as the bow is shot. This may distort or weaken the bow.
ref:
1958, Gordon Grimley, The Book of the Bow, page 167
type:
quotation
text:
[…] most like "dry firing," or a dry release, wherein the string meets no resistance.
ref:
1992, Pennsylvania Game News, volume 63, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
When you shoot a bow, the arrow absorbs a high percentage of the energy released by the limbs. If you dry fire a bow (shoot it with no arrow on the string), the bow itself absorbs all the energy, […]
ref:
1992, Dwight R. Schuh, Bowhunter's Encyclopedia, Stackpole Books, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
Because some recipes require specific techniques such as high-intensity dry heating (heating while the pot is empty or heating with little or no fluid inside), read the manufacturer's instructions to ensure your vessel can handle such cooking […]
ref:
2015, Naoko Takei Moore, Kyle Connaughton, Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking, Ten Speed Press, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
I would have mee tai mak (short, thick noodles), either in soup or dry, with fishballs, pork balls or yong tau foo at this noodles shop near my house.
ref:
2006 July 30, Teo Pau Lin, quoting Wong Hon Mun, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, page L28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Free from or lacking moisture.
Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
Built without or lacking mortar.
Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
Athirst, eager.
Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
Amusing without showing amusement.
Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
Lacking interest, boring.
Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
senses_topics:
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
law
card-games
poker
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Christianity
|
9518 | word:
dry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dry (plural drys or dries)
forms:
form:
drys
tags:
plural
form:
dries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe (“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgī, *draugī, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (“dry, hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”). The verb derives from Middle English drien, from Old English drȳġan (“to dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgijan, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz (“hard, desiccated, dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“strong, hard, solid”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots dry, drey (“dry”), North Frisian drüg, driig, Saterland Frisian druuch (“dry”), West Frisian droech (“dry”), Dutch droog (“dry”), Low German dröög (“dry”), German dröge (“dull”), Icelandic draugur (“a dry log”). Related also to German trocken (“dry”), West Frisian drege (“long-lasting”), Danish drøj (“tough”), Swedish dryg (“lasting, hard”), Icelandic drjúgur (“ample, long”), Latin firmus (“strong, firm, stable, durable”). See also drought, drain, dree.
senses_examples:
text:
This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.
type:
example
text:
The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
ref:
c. 1952-1996, Noah S. Sweat, quoted in 1996
text:
Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.
type:
example
text:
[…] one was sodden to the bone and mildewed to the marrow and moved to pray […] for that which formerly he had cursed—the Dry! the good old Dry—when the grasses yellowed, browned, dried to tinder, burst into spontaneous flame— […]
ref:
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he spring-fed river systems. Not the useless little tributary jutting off into a mud hole at the end of the Dry.
ref:
2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
All day, all night you feel as if the Earth could fly/Three more all for fine Indian Gin and whiskey dry.
ref:
1968, Bee Gees, “Indian Gin And Whiskey Dry”, in Idea(album)
type:
quotation
text:
Can you buy dry ginger in Croatia? If not what is an alternative?
ref:
2018 May 2, pyatts, Tripadvisor
type:
quotation
text:
Black Douglas Blended Scotch and Dry Case 24 x 375mL Cans (Title).
ref:
2021 July 26, cub_beer, eBay
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process by which something is dried.
A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
The dry season.
An area of waterless country.
Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
senses_topics:
government
politics |
9519 | word:
dry
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dry (third-person singular simple present dries, present participle drying, simple past and past participle dried)
forms:
form:
dries
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
drying
tags:
participle
present
form:
dried
tags:
participle
past
form:
dried
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj-simple
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
dry
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe (“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgī, *draugī, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (“dry, hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”). The verb derives from Middle English drien, from Old English drȳġan (“to dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgijan, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz (“hard, desiccated, dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“strong, hard, solid”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots dry, drey (“dry”), North Frisian drüg, driig, Saterland Frisian druuch (“dry”), West Frisian droech (“dry”), Dutch droog (“dry”), Low German dröög (“dry”), German dröge (“dull”), Icelandic draugur (“a dry log”). Related also to German trocken (“dry”), West Frisian drege (“long-lasting”), Danish drøj (“tough”), Swedish dryg (“lasting, hard”), Icelandic drjúgur (“ample, long”), Latin firmus (“strong, firm, stable, durable”). See also drought, drain, dree.
senses_examples:
text:
The clothes dried on the line.
type:
example
text:
Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
type:
example
text:
An actor never stumbled over his lines, he “fluffed”; he never forgot his dialogue, he “dried.”
ref:
1986, Richard Collier, Make-believe: The Magic of International Theatre, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
In one of the previews I dried (lost my lines) in my opening scene, 1.4, and had to improvise.
ref:
2006, Michael Dobson, Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today, page 126
type:
quotation
text:
Blinded to the astonishment of a thousand spectators by the force of the footlights, [Derek] Jacobi realised he'd dried. Dried completely. It wasn't like he'd forgotten the words. It was like he'd never known them.
ref:
2024 June 1, John Phipps, “The lamentable true history of the Red Hamlet”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lose moisture.
To remove moisture from.
To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
For an actor to forget their lines while performing.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
theater |
9520 | word:
syn
word_type:
adj
expansion:
syn (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Greek συν- (syn-, “with, together”), having the same function as co- (“synthesis, synoptic”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That has a torsion angle between 0° and 90°.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9521 | word:
syn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
syn (plural syns)
forms:
form:
syns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of synonym.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of synonym.
senses_topics:
|
9522 | word:
syn
word_type:
adj
expansion:
syn (comparative more syn, superlative most syn)
forms:
form:
more syn
tags:
comparative
form:
most syn
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of synthetic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of synthetic.
senses_topics:
|
9523 | word:
Hindi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hindi
forms:
wikipedia:
Hindi
Hindi (disambiguation)
Hindi language (Hindi belt)
Hindi languages
etymology_text:
From Classical Persian هِنْدِی (hindī), from هِنْد (hind, “India”), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu) + Persian adjectival suffix ـِی (-ī). Not from Iranian Persian هند (hend).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Modern Standard Hindi, a standardized and Sanskritized version of the Hindustani language, which is based on Khariboli.
The Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages. These are also spoken in Fiji, Guyana and as a second language by Indians in many other countries.
All the lects in the Hindi Belt, which also includes lects that do not belong to the Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages.
A dialect spoken in Delhi, now known as Hindustani.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
9524 | word:
Hindi
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Hindi (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Hindi
Hindi (disambiguation)
Hindi language (Hindi belt)
Hindi languages
etymology_text:
From Classical Persian هِنْدِی (hindī), from هِنْد (hind, “India”), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu) + Persian adjectival suffix ـِی (-ī). Not from Iranian Persian هند (hend).
senses_examples:
text:
‘teġh kī hindī agar talvār hai, fārsī pagḌī kī bhī dastār hai.’
ref:
1988, Kaali Das Gupta Raza, Deewan-e-Ghalib, Sakar Publishers Private Limited, page 460
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In or relating to the Hindi language.
Indian
senses_topics:
|
9525 | word:
count
word_type:
verb
expansion:
count (third-person singular simple present counts, present participle counting, simple past and past participle counted)
forms:
form:
counts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
counting
tags:
participle
present
form:
counted
tags:
participle
past
form:
counted
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
count
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Modern English
count (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute.
senses_examples:
text:
Can you count to a hundred?
The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.
type:
example
text:
Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.
type:
example
text:
The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;
The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President,[…]
ref:
1803, Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution
type:
quotation
text:
Your views don’t count here. It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.
type:
example
text:
This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.
ref:
1886, John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney
type:
quotation
text:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
Apples count as a type of fruit.
type:
example
text:
He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river. I count you as more than a friend.
type:
example
text:
They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.
type:
example
text:
No man counts of her beauty.
ref:
c. 1589–1593, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, line 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To recite numbers in sequence.
To determine the number of (objects in a group).
To amount to, to number in total.
To be of significance; to matter.
To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
To reckon in, to include in consideration.
To take account or note (of), to care (for).
To recount, to tell.
To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
senses_topics:
law |
9526 | word:
count
word_type:
noun
expansion:
count (plural counts)
forms:
form:
counts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Modern English
count (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute.
senses_examples:
text:
Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
type:
example
text:
By the official count, there are something like thirteen hundred species of birds in the Amazon, but Cohn-Haft thinks there are actually a good many more, because people have relied too much on features like size and plumage and not paid enough attention to sound.
ref:
2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, page 177
type:
quotation
text:
He has a 3–2 count with the bases loaded.
type:
example
text:
That count deserves a punishment.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
A countdown.
A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
Cunt (the taboo swear word)
senses_topics:
law
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
9527 | word:
count
word_type:
adj
expansion:
count (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Modern English
count (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute.
senses_examples:
text:
For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.
ref:
2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 118
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Countable.
Used to show the amount of like items in a package.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
business
economics
marketing
sciences
shipping
transport |
9528 | word:
count
word_type:
noun
expansion:
count (plural counts)
forms:
form:
counts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
count
count (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English counte, from Anglo-Norman conte and Old French comte (“count”), from Latin comes (“companion”) (more specifically derived from its accusative form comitem) in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king". Doublet of comes, comte, and conte.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The male ruler of a county.
A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.
senses_topics:
biology
entomology
natural-sciences |
9529 | word:
g
word_type:
character
expansion:
g (lower case, upper case G, plural gs or g's)
forms:
form:
G
tags:
uppercase
form:
gs
tags:
plural
form:
g's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The seventh letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9530 | word:
g
word_type:
num
expansion:
g (lower case, upper case G)
forms:
form:
G
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number seventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9531 | word:
g
word_type:
noun
expansion:
g (countable and uncountable, plural gs)
forms:
form:
gs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: G
text:
pull Gs
type:
example
text:
Alternative form: G
text:
Call me old fashioned, but the cyberdong virtual dildo just didn't do it for me. […] PS= Does that make the cyberdong a dildon't? ... okay I apologize <g>
ref:
2007 May 12, FastWolf, “Re: Re: i like paris hilton (off topic, am i ever on topic?)”, in alt.drugs.hard (Usenet), message-ID <ft2d43t7k9injhqvlhfssg5c8n89eejim3@4ax.com>
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of gravitational acceleration.
Abbreviation of gram.
Abbreviation of grand (“thousand (dollars, pounds etc.)”).
Abbreviation of grin; often enclosed in * * or < > to indicate that the user is grinning.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
9532 | word:
mop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mop (countable and uncountable, plural mops)
forms:
form:
mops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Quintilian
mop
etymology_text:
From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map.
senses_examples:
text:
He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.
type:
example
text:
He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.
type:
example
text:
Mainstream in this ting but I'm fully on opps
Got shot with a mop but that boy never dropped
ref:
2021 July 4, M24 (lyrics and music), “Plugged In”, Fumez the Engineer (music), 2:16–2:19
type:
quotation
text:
Had his thot give me mop in the back of my Bimmer
ref:
2019, “Laneswitch”, in True 2 Myself, performed by Lil Tjay
type:
quotation
text:
Left his pa's farm and is now working at the city water works. Some say he's got to drink 'cause he works with blue vitriol and that kind of stuff. He was a drunken mop always.
ref:
1931, Folk-say, page 183
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.
A dense head of hair.
A fair where servants are hired.
A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
Fellatio.
A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.
An row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.
A drunkard.
senses_topics:
arts
graffiti
visual-arts
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
|
9533 | word:
mop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mop (third-person singular simple present mops, present participle mopping, simple past and past participle mopped)
forms:
form:
mops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mopping
tags:
participle
present
form:
mopped
tags:
participle
past
form:
mopped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Quintilian
etymology_text:
From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map.
senses_examples:
text:
to mop (or scrub) a floor
type:
example
text:
to mop one's face with a handkerchief
type:
example
text:
By “mopping” (stealing) the clothes and accessories necessary to effect their look, or by buying breasts, reconstructed noses, lifted chins, and female genitals, the children turn traditional ideas of labor around: […]
ref:
2013, Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, John Greyson, Queer Looks, page 111
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
To shoplift.
senses_topics:
|
9534 | word:
mop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mop (plural mops)
forms:
form:
mops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English moppe (“fool, simpleton; derisive gesture; child, baby, doll”), of obscure origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“pout, protruding lip”).
Compare Low German mop, mops (“simpleton; pugnosed dog”), Dutch mop, mops (“pugnosed dog”), and the verb mope.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The young of any animal.
A young girl; a moppet.
A made-up face; a grimace.
senses_topics:
|
9535 | word:
mop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mop (third-person singular simple present mops, present participle mopping, simple past and past participle mopped)
forms:
form:
mops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mopping
tags:
participle
present
form:
mopped
tags:
participle
past
form:
mopped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English moppe (“fool, simpleton; derisive gesture; child, baby, doll”), of obscure origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“pout, protruding lip”).
Compare Low German mop, mops (“simpleton; pugnosed dog”), Dutch mop, mops (“pugnosed dog”), and the verb mope.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a wry expression with the mouth.
senses_topics:
|
9536 | word:
worship
word_type:
noun
expansion:
worship (usually uncountable, plural worships)
forms:
form:
worships
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English worschippe, worthschipe, from Old English weorþsċiepe. Cognate with Scots worschip (“worship”).
senses_examples:
text:
Polytheistic theology and worship had to go underground.
type:
example
text:
'Your Worships, I have a submission to put before the court. As Your Worships are aware, it is the duty of the court under Section thirty-nine of the Children and Young Persons Act to protect the identity of minors who are victims of offences […]
ref:
1999, Val McDermid, A Place of Execution, London: HarperCollins, →OCLC, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
In that time, McLachlan’s music has developed from adolescent Kate Bush worship to mature roots-driven folk (like the hits “Building a Mystery” and “Sweet Surrender”) and ballads (“Witness,” “I Love You”) that border on hymnody.
ref:
1998 April 30, Chris Mundy, “Interview: Sarah McLachlan”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-18
type:
quotation
text:
Rather, Lenny's new material covered a lot of ground, from the folk-to-hard rock build of "Fields of Joy," to the technology-accented church hymns of "Stand by My Woman," to the unapologetic Jimi Hendrix worship of "Stop Draggin' Around" to the stylish orchestrated Philly soul of "It Ain't Over 'til It's Over."
ref:
2016 April 2, Eduardo Rivadavia, “How Lenny Kravitz Combined Classic Rock and Soul on ‘Mama Said’”, in Ultimate Classic Rock, archived from the original on 2023-06-23
type:
quotation
text:
Of the songs with actual vocals, it’s much more derivative than anything else they would do. A couple songs are pretty close to My Bloody Valentine worship (which suits me fine). There’s very little of the glacial bowed-guitar and neo-classicism that made them one of the most celebrated bands in the world.
ref:
2020 October 17, Nathaniel FitzGerald, “The Worst Debuts From Great Bands”, in A Year of Vinyl, archived from the original on 2023-03-23
type:
quotation
text:
The pieces are so removed from Godspeed You! Black Emperor worship or [William] Basinski-style concrete constructions that listeners will question Munkus’ intentions – and that’s a shame, because the material’s ambitions soar above the structure of the disc.
ref:
2021 November 22, Justin Vellucci, “Daniel Munkus: The Edge of the High Trace”, in Spectrum Culture, archived from the original on 2021-12-25
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
The adoration (or latria) owed to God alone, as greater than the hyperveneration / hyper-veneration (or hyperdulia) that is given to Saint Mary only and the veneration (or dulia) accorded to all other Roman Catholic saints.
The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.
Voluntary, utter submission; voluntary, utter deference.
Ardent love.
An object of worship.
Used as a title or term of address for various officials, including magistrates
Honour; respect; civil deference.
The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction.
The fact of an artist's music heavily drawing influence from some other artist's work in a way that appears too obvious or unapologetic; a piece of music that does that.
senses_topics:
Catholicism
Christianity
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
9537 | word:
worship
word_type:
verb
expansion:
worship (third-person singular simple present worships, present participle (Commonwealth) worshipping or (US) worshiping, simple past and past participle (Commonwealth) worshipped or (US) worshiped or (obsolete) worshipt)
forms:
form:
worships
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
worshipping
tags:
Commonwealth
participle
present
form:
worshiping
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
worshipped
tags:
Commonwealth
participle
past
form:
worshipped
tags:
Commonwealth
past
form:
worshiped
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
worshiped
tags:
US
past
form:
worshipt
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
worshipt
tags:
obsolete
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English worschippe, worthschipe, from Old English weorþsċiepe. Cognate with Scots worschip (“worship”).
senses_examples:
text:
With bended knees I daily worship her, / Yet she consumes her own Idolater.
ref:
c. 1639, Thomas Carew, The Poems and Masque of Thomas Carew, London: Reeves and Turner, published 1893, →OCLC, A Cruel Mistress, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
[…] And she would sit in the car and pretend to hold the wheel. All the household worshipped her! Even the police came to understand that. Ah, the beautiful little one!
ref:
1934, Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express, New York: Pocket Books, published 1960, →OCLC, page 236
type:
quotation
text:
We worship at the church down the road.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.
To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
To participate in religious ceremonies.
senses_topics:
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9538 | word:
nut
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nut (plural nuts)
forms:
form:
nuts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
nut
etymology_text:
From Middle English nute, note, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin.
See also West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt.
senses_examples:
text:
There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
type:
example
text:
As the bolt tightens into the nut, it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and nut by setting the nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.
ref:
1998, Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
Off one's nut—crazy; mad. S. Nut is a slang term for the head.
ref:
1891, James Main Dixon, Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases, page 226
type:
quotation
text:
Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed.
ref:
1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V
type:
quotation
text:
He was driving his car like a nut.
type:
example
text:
Which one of you nuts has got any guts?
ref:
1975, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (motion picture), spoken by McMurphy (Jack Nicholson)
type:
quotation
text:
a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut
type:
example
text:
‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring ….
ref:
1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323
text:
[...] The Tentigo, head or Nut of the Clitoris, covered by the Nymphes, as by a foreskin and the impaſſable paſſage of it [...]
ref:
1665, Dr. Chamberlain's Midwifes Practice, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
GLANS, in anatomy, the anterior extremity of the penis, called by other different names, as the head of the penis, the nut of the penis, and the balanus of the penis.
ref:
1763, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
type:
quotation
text:
In persons troubled with tight foreskins, the matter from the urethra becomes collected between the foreskin and the nut of the penis.
ref:
1864, Edward Cox, Cox's Companion to the Sea Medicine Chest
type:
quotation
text:
In this work the great Italian anatomist described a linen sheath which he claimed to have invented. Made to fit the glans, or nut of the penis, it was worn for protection against venereal disease.
ref:
1965, Peter Fryer, The Birth Controllers, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
I kicked him in the nuts.
type:
example
text:
As loudmouthed lovermen, these Lil Jon-endorsed ATLiens denigrate women from the window to the wall, generously offering to "make nut come out your nose."
ref:
2005 July, “Breakdown”, in Spin, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
He just needs a good nut to make him feel better.
type:
example
text:
[…] feelin' her pussy grippin' his dick as her nut lubricated him […]
ref:
2020, Dontavious Robinson, Gangster Mission Part One, Page Publishing, Inc
type:
quotation
text:
My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”
ref:
1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial, published 2005, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged.
ref:
2005, Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
nut straight, nut flush, nut full house
type:
example
text:
dough-nut
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
The head.
A crazy person.
An extreme enthusiast.
An extravagantly fashionable young man.
Senses related to male genitalia.
The glans (structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).
Senses related to male genitalia.
A testicle.
Senses related to male genitalia.
Semen, ejaculate.
Senses related to male genitalia.
Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen.
Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
The tumbler of a gunlock.
A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
A small rounded cake or cookie.
senses_topics:
food
lifestyle
biology
botany
food
lifestyle
natural-sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
arts
crafts
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
music
media
publishing
typography
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
card-games
poker
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
nautical
transport
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9539 | word:
nut
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nut (third-person singular simple present nuts, present participle nutting, simple past and past participle nutted or (nonstandard) nut)
forms:
form:
nuts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nutting
tags:
participle
present
form:
nutted
tags:
participle
past
form:
nutted
tags:
past
form:
nut
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
nut
tags:
nonstandard
past
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
nut
etymology_text:
From Middle English nute, note, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin.
See also West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt.
senses_examples:
text:
I will no more a-nutting go ; That journey caused all this woe.
ref:
1575, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Five anonymous plays, Early English Dramatists, volume Fourth Series, London: William How for Richard Ihones, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the huge country fellow […] leapt forth from the underwood, exclaiming "That is not allowed, gentlemen! That is not allowed! Nobody is allowed to nut here; I must take your names to Sir John!"
ref:
1847, Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress
type:
quotation
text:
We are going a-nutting.
ref:
1978, Edwin Way Teale, A walk through the year, Dodd, Mead, page 238
type:
quotation
text:
One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word, nutted me square between the eyes. I went down as though shot...
ref:
1999, Nik Cohn, Yes we have no: adventures in the other England
type:
quotation
text:
I got a bitch that suck my dick 'til I nut
ref:
1996, “Bust a Nut”, performed by Uncle Luke featuring The Notorious B.I.G.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To gather nuts.
To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
To orgasm; to ejaculate.
To hit in the testicles.
To defeat thoroughly.
senses_topics:
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9540 | word:
nut
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nut (plural nuts)
forms:
form:
nuts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”)
senses_topics:
|
9541 | word:
nut
word_type:
intj
expansion:
nut
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant of not.
senses_examples:
text:
Did you like them boys? I goes.
Nut. She shook her hair.
Neither?
Nut. Right townies.
ref:
1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 26
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
No.
senses_topics:
|
9542 | word:
ball
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ball (countable and uncountable, plural balls)
forms:
form:
balls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ball
etymology_text:
From Middle English bal, ball, balle, from an unattested Old English *beall, *bealla (“round object, ball”) or Old Norse bǫllr (“a ball”), both from Proto-Germanic *balluz, *ballô (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰol-n- (“ball, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”). Cognate with Old Saxon ball, Dutch bal, Old High German bal, ballo (German Ball (“ball”); Ballen (“bale”)). Related forms in Romance are borrowings from Germanic. See also balloon, bale.
senses_examples:
text:
a ball of spittle; a fecal ball
type:
example
text:
a ball of wool; a ball of twine
type:
example
text:
[…] the Good Old Cause, which, as they seemed to represent it, smelt of Gunpowder and ball […]
ref:
1659, Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, England’s Confusion, London, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
[…] some headstrong Maroons were using a soldier of Captain Craskell’s ill, and compelling him to write to his commander, that it was too late to do any thing good, and that they wanted nothing, having got plenty of powder and ball […]
ref:
1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 5, p. 148
type:
quotation
text:
the ball of the thumb
type:
example
text:
c. 1712', Joseph Addison, Ode to the Creator of the World
What, though in solemn Silence, all / Move round the dark terrestrial Ball!
text:
Thus, if eternal Justice rules the ball, / Thus shall your wives, and thus your children fall;
ref:
1717, Alexander Pope, Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
type:
quotation
text:
The children were playing ball on the beach.
George played his college ball at Stanford.
type:
example
text:
If you get to a million points, you get another ball.
type:
example
text:
After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno—Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut—nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes.
ref:
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1-0 Bolton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Shetland increased the lead in the 22nd minute when Kirkness shot first time from a ball that was fired into the area from outside the 25-metre line.
ref:
2014 October 21, Jim Tait, “Hockey girls through to next round”, in Shetland Times
type:
quotation
text:
Mark Wright sent a speculative ball for me to chase after and I found myself leaving Tony Adams in my wake, with only Seaman to beat.
ref:
2019, Robbie Fowler, My Life In Football: Goals, Glory & The Lessons I've Learnt, Kings Road Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.
ref:
2011 October 2, Aled Williams, “Swansea 2-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport Wales
type:
quotation
text:
That’s a load of balls, and you know it!
type:
example
text:
I doubt he’s got the balls to tell you off.
type:
example
text:
The laxative alterative has not this advantage, the aloes, of which it is composed, being extremely bitter, and therefore requiring to be given in the form of a ball.
ref:
1842, James White, A compendium of the veterinary art
type:
quotation
text:
I'ma let these niggas have it, go on stage and throw a forty ball
ref:
2022 July 22, “Convict Life (Wanna Be Alone)”, YoungBoy Never Broke Again (lyrics)
type:
quotation
text:
Forty ball all in these leather jeans
Diamonds studs, I make a bum nigga think twice
ref:
2022 September 16, “Hands on the Floor” (track 4, 0:40 from the start), in Su'Lan (lyrics), Forever Da Gang
type:
quotation
text:
Forty ball on my wrist, nigga, I cashed out on it (Damn)
Forty bands on my neck, nigga, I maxed out on it (Damn)
ref:
2022 November 23, “10PM in ATL” (track 2), in GoldenBoy Countup (lyrics), Chill
type:
quotation
text:
Dropped a twenty ball in Gallery Department
ref:
2022 November 25, “Gallery” (track 6), in OhGeesy (lyrics), GEEZYWORLD 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.
In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.
The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.
The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.
A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.
Such bullets collectively.
A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
The globe; the earthly sphere.
An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
a kick (or hit in e.g. field hockey) of the ball towards where one or more teammates is expected to be. (Distinguished from a pass by a longer distance travelled or less specific target point.)
An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
A testicle.
Nonsense.
A testicle.
Courage.
A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
One thousand US dollars.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
ballistics
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
tools
war
weaponry
ballistics
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
tools
war
weaponry
anatomy
medicine
sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
media
printing
publishing
farriery
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
|
9543 | word:
ball
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ball (third-person singular simple present balls, present participle balling, simple past and past participle balled)
forms:
form:
balls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
balling
tags:
participle
present
form:
balled
tags:
participle
past
form:
balled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ball
etymology_text:
From Middle English bal, ball, balle, from an unattested Old English *beall, *bealla (“round object, ball”) or Old Norse bǫllr (“a ball”), both from Proto-Germanic *balluz, *ballô (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰol-n- (“ball, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”). Cognate with Old Saxon ball, Dutch bal, Old High German bal, ballo (German Ball (“ball”); Ballen (“bale”)). Related forms in Romance are borrowings from Germanic. See also balloon, bale.
senses_examples:
text:
to ball cotton
type:
example
text:
Max says it works both ways. “I mean if she comes in and tells me she wants to ball Don, maybe, I say ‘O.K., baby, it's your trip.’”
ref:
1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem
type:
quotation
text:
the horse balls
type:
example
text:
the snow balls
type:
example
text:
This highlights the issue of toxic masculinity in fraternities: a pledge only becomes a man, or a brother, by enduring as much abuse as he can and by proving his competence with girls. If he cannot, he is not only "balled" but seen as a "faggot" (this is a term directly from the work).
ref:
2018 July 12, “'I Thought Frats Were Like Their Movies, and They Totally Are': A Review of 'Alpha Class'”, in College Media Network
type:
quotation
text:
All of these things are done by pledges in hopes of not getting 'balled' or kicked out.
ref:
2019 November 25, Annie Martin, “UCF frat suspended after report of pledges being forced to smoke marijuana, drink 'entire bottles' of alcohol”, in Orlando Sentinel
type:
quotation
text:
fuck it, we ball
(Internet?) slang, used to indicate general perseverance
type:
example
text:
any man refusing to do police duty will be punished by the sergts by balling him the rest of the day.
ref:
1865, Camp Sumpter, Andersonville National Historic Site, Rules and Regulations of the Prison
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form or wind into a ball.
To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To gather balls which cling to the feet or skis, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
To be hip or cool.
To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Short for blackball.)
To play basketball.
To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
Of bees: to kill (a wasp) by surrounding it in large numbers so as to raise its body heat.
senses_topics:
arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
9544 | word:
ball
word_type:
intj
expansion:
ball
forms:
wikipedia:
ball
etymology_text:
From Middle English bal, ball, balle, from an unattested Old English *beall, *bealla (“round object, ball”) or Old Norse bǫllr (“a ball”), both from Proto-Germanic *balluz, *ballô (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰol-n- (“ball, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”). Cognate with Old Saxon ball, Dutch bal, Old High German bal, ballo (German Ball (“ball”); Ballen (“bale”)). Related forms in Romance are borrowings from Germanic. See also balloon, bale.
senses_examples:
text:
A good tackle (and some bad ones) will bring a cry of "Ball!" from the crowd – a plea for a holding the ball free kick.
ref:
2007, “Laws Of The Afl 2007”, in AFL Sydney Swans Rules Zone, archived from the original on 2008-03-22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exclamation to inform players on an adjacent playing area that a loose ball from another game has entered their playing area; typically implies that play should be paused until the ball has been retrieved.
An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
9545 | word:
ball
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ball (plural balls)
forms:
form:
balls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ball
etymology_text:
From Middle French bal, from Middle French baler (“to dance”), from Old French baller, from Late Latin ballō (“to dance”).
senses_examples:
text:
We still have pictures from the ball we had in August 2008.
type:
example
text:
I had a ball at that concert.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A formal dance.
A very enjoyable time.
A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture.
senses_topics:
|
9546 | word:
black hole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
black hole (plural black holes)
forms:
form:
black holes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Black Hole of Calcutta
en:Hong-Yee Chiu
en:John Archibald Wheeler
en:black hole (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
In reference to celestial bodies, physicist Hong-Yee Chiu attributed the term to his colleague Robert H. Dicke, who stated around 1960–1961 that the objects were "like the Black Hole of Calcutta". The first known usage in print was by journalist Ann Ewing in 1964. Widespread popularization of the term is generally credited to a 1967 lecture by physicist John Wheeler.
senses_examples:
text:
‘I will convince you that I do know [my duty] by clapping you for the remainder of the night into the black hole, young gentleman, do you see, and have no doubt but the air of that agreeable apartment will restore your senses.’
ref:
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 282
text:
A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, and ferules, and the black hole.
ref:
1860, Herbert Spencer, Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical
type:
quotation
text:
Astronomers have captured the first image of a black hole, heralding a revolution in our understanding of the universe’s most enigmatic objects.
ref:
2019 April 10, Hannah Devlin, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
you'll have to love U.S. District Court Judge John Kane's decision to keep Denver-based Exactis.com out of an Internet black hole.... MAPS maintains a database of Internet addresses that it believes send or relay spam. It’s called the "Realtime Blackhole List"
ref:
2000 November 26, Linda Seebach, “Unwanted e-mail belongs in an Internet black hole”, in RockyMountainNews.com
type:
quotation
text:
2004 November 16, Jenifer Hanen, “How I fell down an Internet Black Hole....”, Black Phoebe, at www.blackphoebe.com https://web.archive.org/web/20061017203928/http://www.blackphoebe.com/msjen/archives/2004/11/how_i_fell_down.html
I finished some client work and gave myself 30 minutes to fall down one of my favorite internet black holes: genealogical research. Four hours plus some later, my eyes were burning in my head
text:
Julien Pain, head of the Internet desk at Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based group which tracks censorship around the world, put it more bluntly. “It is by far the worst Internet black hole,” he said.
ref:
2006 October 23, Tom Zeller Jr., “The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
In fact, with regards to spoken language, what we were looking at was a rather large black hole in the data, and hence was born the AOT method.
ref:
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
The initial forecast about future demand for main line rail travel that has been made by the DfT is that volume is not expected to grow in the immediate future beyond 80% of the pre COVID-19 level, leaving an annual £2 billion revenue black hole compared to earlier financial forecasts.
ref:
2021 July 28, Industry Insider, “Reject instant decision making”, in RAIL, number 936, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
One way of fighting spam is to use a blackhole list maintained on a blackhole server.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
A gravitationally domineering celestial body with an event horizon from which even light cannot escape; the most dense material in the universe, condensed into a singularity, usually formed by a collapsing massive star.
A void into which things disappear, or from which nothing emerges; an impenetrable area or subject; an area impervious to communication.
A dangerous optical illusion that can occur on a nighttime approach with dark, featureless terrain between the aircraft and a brightly-lit runway, where the aircraft appears to the pilots to be higher up than it actually is, potentially triggering a premature or overly-steep descent and a crash short of the runway.
A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.
A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
9547 | word:
black hole
word_type:
verb
expansion:
black hole (third-person singular simple present black holes, present participle black holing, simple past and past participle black holed)
forms:
form:
black holes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
black holing
tags:
participle
present
form:
black holed
tags:
participle
past
form:
black holed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:Black Hole of Calcutta
en:Hong-Yee Chiu
en:John Archibald Wheeler
en:black hole (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
In reference to celestial bodies, physicist Hong-Yee Chiu attributed the term to his colleague Robert H. Dicke, who stated around 1960–1961 that the objects were "like the Black Hole of Calcutta". The first known usage in print was by journalist Ann Ewing in 1964. Widespread popularization of the term is generally credited to a 1967 lecture by physicist John Wheeler.
senses_examples:
text:
Select a nonglobally routed prefix, such as the Test-Net (RFC 3330) 192.0.2.0/24, to use as the next hop of any attacked prefix to be blackholed.
ref:
2005, Victor Oppleman, Oliver Friedrichs, Brett Watson, Extreme exploits: advanced defenses against hardcore hacks, page 186
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To redirect (network traffic, etc.) nowhere; to discard (incoming traffic).
senses_topics:
|
9548 | word:
womanly
word_type:
adj
expansion:
womanly (comparative womanlier, superlative womanliest)
forms:
form:
womanlier
tags:
comparative
form:
womanliest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English womanly, wommanly, wommanlich, wummonlich, wommanlych, equivalent to woman + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Considered typical of, stereotypical of, or appropriate to women; feminine.
Female.
senses_topics:
|
9549 | word:
womanly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
womanly (comparative more womanly, superlative most womanly)
forms:
form:
more womanly
tags:
comparative
form:
most womanly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English womanly, wommanly, wommanlich, wummonlich, wommanlych, equivalent to woman + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the manner of a woman.
senses_topics:
|
9550 | word:
drill
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)
forms:
form:
drills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
drilling
tags:
participle
present
form:
drilled
tags:
participle
past
form:
drilled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”).
senses_examples:
text:
Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction.
type:
example
text:
They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.
type:
example
text:
On his return the team that faced Hull City had been reconfigured. Moses wasn’t overly drilled, just told he would be playing right wing-back, that Conte had seen enough to know.
ref:
2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The sergeant was up by 6:00 every morning, drilling his troops.
type:
example
text:
He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.
ref:
1859, Thomas Macaulay, Life of Frederick the Great
type:
quotation
text:
The instructor drilled into us the importance of reading the instructions.
type:
example
text:
Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.
type:
example
text:
He drilled down the court and made a three-pointer.
type:
example
text:
He drilled the ball to his teammate.
type:
example
text:
He did get their attention when he drilled the ball dead center into the hole for an opening birdie.
ref:
2006, Joe Coon, The Perfect Game
type:
quotation
text:
Without compromising he drilled the ball home, leaving Dynamos' ill-fated keeper diving for fresh air.
ref:
2007, Craig Cowell, Muddy Sunday
type:
quotation
text:
Bolton were then just inches from taking the lead, but the dangerous-looking Taylor drilled just wide after picking up a loose ball following Jose Bosingwa's poor attempted clearance.
ref:
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
Everytime when I rape your daughter. Your beautiful faces expressing how it hurts. Always while I drill her c*nt. I want to see you dead.
ref:
2010, MasseMord (lyrics and music), “Masshealing Masskilling”
type:
quotation
text:
Guess I'll be drilling her butt
ref:
2012, SwizZz (lyrics and music), “Flu Shot”
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
To shoot; to kill.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
9551 | word:
drill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drill (plural drills)
forms:
form:
drills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”).
senses_examples:
text:
Wear safety glasses when operating an electric drill.
type:
example
text:
Use a drill with a wire brush to remove any rust or buildup.
type:
example
text:
Regular fire drills can ensure that everyone knows how to exit safely in an emergency.
type:
example
text:
At today's practice, the football team performed a variety of goalkeeping drills.
type:
example
text:
Though the young women of Chicago’s drill scene can be as rowdy as their male counterparts, they’re also more diverse in subject matter and point to a possible way forward.
ref:
2012 October 4, Jon Caramanica, “Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
New York City mayor Eric Adams held a summit with a group of drill rappers on Tuesday night and clarified he doesn’t actually want to ban their music, days after he appeared to blame the music scene for the recent shooting deaths of two young New York rappers and suggested drill videos be pulled from the internet.
ref:
2022 February 18, Wilfred Chan, “Eric Adams meets with the drill rappers whose music he said he wanted to ban”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Between ticky off-kilter rhythms and otherworldly digital voice processing, the experimental hip-hop genres trap and drill have delivered radical hymns from alien planets.
ref:
2022, W. David Marx, chapter 10, in Status and Culture, Viking
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
9552 | word:
drill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drill (plural drills)
forms:
form:
drills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps the same as Etymology 3; compare German Rille which can also mean "small furrow".
senses_examples:
text:
I found down at the side of the house the remains of what must have once been a kitchen garden. Everything was choked with weeds and scutch grass, but the outlines of bed and drill were still there.
ref:
1993, John Banville, Ghosts
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
A row of seed sown in a furrow.
senses_topics:
|
9553 | word:
drill
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)
forms:
form:
drills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
drilling
tags:
participle
present
form:
drilled
tags:
participle
past
form:
drilled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps the same as Etymology 3; compare German Rille which can also mean "small furrow".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
senses_topics:
|
9554 | word:
drill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drill (plural drills)
forms:
form:
drills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Compare the same sense of trill, and German trillen, drillen. Attestation predates Etymology 1.
senses_examples:
text:
Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills.
ref:
c. 1635, George Sandys
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small trickling stream; a rill.
senses_topics:
|
9555 | word:
drill
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)
forms:
form:
drills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
drilling
tags:
participle
present
form:
drilled
tags:
participle
past
form:
drilled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Compare the same sense of trill, and German trillen, drillen. Attestation predates Etymology 1.
senses_examples:
text:
waters drilled through a sandy stratum
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
senses_topics:
|
9556 | word:
drill
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)
forms:
form:
drills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
drilling
tags:
participle
present
form:
drilled
tags:
participle
past
form:
drilled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English drillen (“to delay, defer, put off”), of origin unknown.
senses_examples:
text:
Quit purposely drilling out the time hoping that someone else will do your chores.
type:
example
text:
He tells me with great passion that she has bubbled him out of his youth; that she drilled him on to five and fifty [years old], and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old age, if she can find her account in another.
ref:
1711 June 12, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 89; republished in The Works of Joseph Addison, volume 1, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
August 28, 1731, letter by Jonathan Swift to John Gay and Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry
This cursed accident hath drilled away the whole summer.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To protract, lengthen out; fritter away, spend (time) aimlessly.
To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
senses_topics:
|
9557 | word:
drill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drill (plural drills)
forms:
form:
drills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
]
Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
senses_topics:
|
9558 | word:
drill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drill (countable and uncountable, plural drills)
forms:
form:
drills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German Drillich (“denim, canvas, drill”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
senses_topics:
|
9559 | word:
platform
word_type:
noun
expansion:
platform (plural platforms)
forms:
form:
platforms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French plateforme (“a flat form”), from plate (“flat”) (from Old French plat, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”)) + forme (“form”) (from Latin fōrma (“shape; figure; form”)); compare flatscape.
senses_examples:
text:
Always, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, as in private conversation, there is an absolute simplicity about the man and his words; a simplicity, an earnestness, a complete honesty.
ref:
1915, Russell H. Conwell, Robert Shackleton, chapter IV, in Acres of Diamonds, His Life and Achievements
type:
quotation
text:
This new talk show will give a platform to everyday men and women.
type:
example
text:
[LeBron] James did not say which vaccine he had taken or the number of doses he had received. He also said that he would not use his platform to publicly encourage others to be vaccinated.
ref:
2021 September 28, Scott Cacciola, “LeBron James said he was vaccinated, after previously evading the question.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Hidgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.
ref:
2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Now if the earth could be enjoyed in such a manner as every one might have provision, as it may by this platform I have offered, then will the peace of the commonwealth be preserved, and men need not act so hypocritically as the clergy do, and others likewise, to get a living.
ref:
1652, Gerrard Winstanley, chapter 1, in The Law of Freedom in a Platform
type:
quotation
text:
The Communist Party and its candidates stand on the following platform, which expresses the immediate interests of the majority of the population of our country.
ref:
1936, Communist Election Platform 1936, New York City: Workers Library Publishers, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Surely there is nothing strange or new or threatening about such a platform. It will distress only those who have the essentially un-American view that change itself is frightening and should be avoided at all costs.
ref:
1972, Mike Gravel, Citizen Power: A People's Platform, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page xii
type:
quotation
text:
People on the platforms / Waiting for the trains / I can hear their hearts a-beatin’ / Like pendulums swinging on chains
ref:
1997, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Tryin' to Get to Heaven”, in Time Out of Mind
type:
quotation
text:
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. […] Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
ref:
2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly)
type:
quotation
text:
Now open the album cover! How fabulous! The four of them [the Pointer Sisters] in platforms of death, tacky gowns, and "reflections of."
ref:
1973 August 25, Jim Fournier, “Lo♡in' Mu𝄚ic”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 10, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
Walk to Shazzer's from polling station was hideous walk of shame. Also cannot wear platforms now as feet too crippled so will look short.
ref:
2001 [1999], Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, New York: Penguin, page 167
type:
quotation
text:
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
ref:
2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
In fact, wealth and power are shifting to those who control the platforms on which all of us create, consume, and connect.
ref:
2014, Astra Taylor, “Preface”, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company
type:
quotation
text:
The promise of the platform business model is its magical self-reinforcement: Once the platform is in place, money is supposed to flow through the system without much extra effort at all.
ref:
2021 September 15, Reeves Wiedeman, “Why Does Every Company Now Want to Be a Platform?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
That program runs on the X Window System platform.
type:
example
text:
“We used to produce our publication on the Mac, but the Wintel platform is cheaper and there are just as many applications available. So it just seemed to make sense to give up the religious war and get on with the business of doing our job,” said the information systems manager at a New York-based magazine, who asked not to be named.
ref:
1996 September 23, “Intel attacks Mac publishing niche”, in Computerworld, volume 30, number 39, →ISSN, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
A car platform consists of the underbody, suspension, and axles, plus components such as the steering mechanism, engine, and powertrain. Using such a platform, a car company can design several distinct car models to suit different customer groups[…]
ref:
2017, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, Routledge, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
Wave erosion causes a sea cliff to migrate landward, leaving a gently sloping surface, called a wave-cut platform. A wave-built platform originates by deposition at the seaward margin of the wave-cut platform.
ref:
2019, Reed Wicander, James S. Monroe, Geology: Earth in Perspective, Cengage Learning, page 319
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.
A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion.
Something that allows an enterprise to advance.
A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
A raised structure or other area alongside rails or a driveway alongside which vehicles stop to take in and discharge passengers.
Ellipsis of platform shoe: a kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles.
Ellipsis of digital platform: a software system used to provide online services to clients, such as social media, e-commerce, cloud computing etc.
Ellipsis of computing platform: a particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software, and/or a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used to describe a particular environment for running other software.
Ellipsis of car platform: a set of components shared by several vehicle models.
A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.
sidewalk
senses_topics:
government
politics
transport
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
automotive
transport
vehicles
geography
geology
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
|
9560 | word:
platform
word_type:
verb
expansion:
platform (third-person singular simple present platforms, present participle platforming, simple past and past participle platformed)
forms:
form:
platforms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
platforming
tags:
participle
present
form:
platformed
tags:
participle
past
form:
platformed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French plateforme (“a flat form”), from plate (“flat”) (from Old French plat, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”)) + forme (“form”) (from Latin fōrma (“shape; figure; form”)); compare flatscape.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] upon a smiling knoll platformed by Nature […]
ref:
1885, Frances Elliot, The Diary of an Idle Woman in Sicily, page 192
type:
quotation
text:
And this dog was satisfied / If a pale thin hand would glide / Down his dewlaps sloping / Which he pushed his nose within, / After—platforming his chin / On the palm left open.
ref:
1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, To Flush, My Dog
type:
quotation
text:
There he was welcomed onboard Vivarail's new three-car battery-powered train and Porterbrook's HydroFLEX hydrogen-powered train, which had been platformed side-by-side to showcase the potential of these low-carbon alternative technologies.
ref:
2021 December 1, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Battery and hydrogen trains showcased to PM at COP26”, in RAIL, number 945, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Among them I scarcely can plot out one truth / Plain enough to be platformed by some voting sleuth / And paraded before the precinct polling-booth.
ref:
1955, Amy Lowell, Complete Poetical Works, page 408
type:
quotation
text:
We want to platform the larger, unspoken issue of menstrual health and hygiene of women at work, and how we as a society need to start taking cognizance of it and start adopting measures to help our women workforce navigate it with ease.
ref:
2020 May 28, Bhumika Popli, “Menstrual Hygiene Day: Changing mindsets with ‘period leave’”, in The New Indian Express
type:
quotation
text:
If Buckley were still alive today, could a university get away with platforming him in a debate?
ref:
2020 July 29, Conor Friedersdorf, “Purity Politics Makes Nothing Happen”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
Half of the lawsuits against Pina also named Envy (real name: Raashaun Casey), blaming the DJ for platforming Pina on The Breakfast Club and social media.
ref:
2023 December 17, Andrew Lawrence, “It platformed an alleged fraudster. Can hip-hop’s biggest radio show survive the fallout?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
But serious movies are not necessarily good movies. A studio that decides to platform a film had better be sure the film will get the necessary good reviews and audience approval. Otherwise, like United Artists' "A Small Circle of Friends," which was platformed around the same time as "The Elephant Man," the film will fail calamitously.
ref:
1981 September 2, Aljean Harmetz, “Comes Fall, a Chance for Serious Movies?”, in The New York Times, page C21
type:
quotation
text:
Each of these films will be "platformed," the industry term to describe the strategy of opening a movie first in a limited number of theaters to give it an aura of exclusivity, then having its appeal build through word of mouth.
ref:
1993 November 25, Bernard Weinraub, “For Movie Industry, Thanksgiving Means A Box-Office Feast”, in The New York Times, page C11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To furnish with or shape into a platform
To place on, or as if on, a platform.
To place a train alongside a station platform.
To include in a political platform
To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).
To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.
To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport
government
politics
broadcasting
film
media
television
|
9561 | word:
m
word_type:
character
expansion:
m (lower case, upper case M, plural ms or m's)
forms:
form:
M
tags:
uppercase
form:
ms
tags:
plural
form:
m's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9562 | word:
m
word_type:
num
expansion:
m (lower case, upper case M)
forms:
form:
M
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number thirteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9563 | word:
m
word_type:
adj
expansion:
m
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of am.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of him.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of my and mine.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of many.
# (stenoscript) the prefix mis-.
# (stenoscript) the prefix im-.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of masculine.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9564 | word:
m
word_type:
noun
expansion:
m (plural ms)
forms:
form:
ms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of am.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of him.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of my and mine.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of many.
# (stenoscript) the prefix mis-.
# (stenoscript) the prefix im-.
senses_examples:
text:
Another instance: 2ʰ28ᵐ p. m., 10 micra; 3ʰ08ᵐ p. m., 0 micra; irrigated with water: 3ʰ09ᵐ p. m., 4 micra.
ref:
1908, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Physiology of Stomata, Carnegie Institution of Washington, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
The final started with £85m worth of striking talent on the bench as Carroll was a Liverpool substitute and Chelsea's Fernando Torres missed out on a starting place against his former club.
ref:
2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Having made a divorce with politics as I have already mentioned I have only to trouble you on my personal affairs ... —The principle & most pressing is that of the 9. m. dollars
ref:
1798 Letter from William Short (American ambassador) to Thomas Jefferson
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of meter.
Abbreviation of mile.
Abbreviation of month.
Abbreviation of minute.
Abbreviation of million.
Abbreviation of minim (“unit of volume”).
Abbreviation of measure.
thousand
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
9565 | word:
m
word_type:
verb
expansion:
m
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of am.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of him.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of my and mine.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of many.
# (stenoscript) the prefix mis-.
# (stenoscript) the prefix im-.
senses_examples:
text:
Row 1 (RS): Kfb, knit to marker A, slip marker A, knit to marker B (there are no sts to knit between markers A and B in Row 1), m1, slip marker B, k1, slip marker B, m1, […]
ref:
2011, Kristi Porter, Knitting Patterns For Dummies, page 232
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
make
senses_topics:
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles |
9566 | word:
Dutchman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Dutchman (plural Dutchmen)
forms:
form:
Dutchmen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Ducheman; equivalent to Dutch + -man.
senses_examples:
text:
About ten months ago a report reached my ears that a Dutchman had constructed a telescope, by the aid of which visible objects, although at a great distance from the eye of the observer, were seen distinctly as if near; […]
ref:
1880 [1610 March 13], Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, “The Astronomical Messenger”, in Edward Stafford Carlos, transl., The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries: A Translation with Introduction and Notes, London: Rivingtons, translation of Sidereus Nuncius: […], →OCLC, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
[…]There have been at least four legendary Lost Dutchman's gold mines in the American West, including the famed Superstition mine of Jacob Waltz.
ref:
1974, Robert Blair, Tales of the Superstitions: The Origins of the Lost Dutchman's Legend
type:
quotation
text:
[…]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.
ref:
1990, Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams, page 54
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Dutch man; a man from the Netherlands.
A man of Dutch descent.
A male Pennsylvania German.
A male German.
A male white Afrikaner.
Ellipsis of Flying Dutchman.: a ghost ship
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
9567 | word:
Dutchman
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Dutchman
forms:
form:
the Dutchman
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Ducheman; equivalent to Dutch + -man.
senses_examples:
text:
President Roosevelt called a press conference in the Oval Office. [...] when asked where the Billys had originated, the Dutchman smiled broadly [...].
ref:
2003, James Bradley, chapter 8, in Flyboys, New York: Little, Brown and Company
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nickname for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
senses_topics:
|
9568 | word:
yonder
word_type:
adv
expansion:
yonder (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yonder, yondre, ȝondre, ȝendre, from Old English ġeonre (“thither; yonder”, adverb), equivalent to yond (from ġeond, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz) + -er, as in hither, thither.
Cognate with Scots ȝondir (“yonder”), Saterland Frisian tjunder (“over there, yonder”), Dutch ginder (“over there; yonder”), Middle Low German ginder, gender (“over there”), German jenseits (“on the other side, beyond”), Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌴 (jaindrē, “thither”).
senses_examples:
text:
Whose doublewide is that over yonder?
type:
example
text:
As for me and the childe, we wyl go yonder.
ref:
1535, Bible (Coverdale), Genesis, 22
text:
They headed on over yonder.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At or in a distant but indicated place.
Synonym of thither: to a distant but indicated place.
senses_topics:
|
9569 | word:
yonder
word_type:
adj
expansion:
yonder (comparative more yonder, superlative most yonder)
forms:
form:
more yonder
tags:
comparative
form:
most yonder
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yonder, yondre, ȝondre, ȝendre, from Old English ġeonre (“thither; yonder”, adverb), equivalent to yond (from ġeond, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz) + -er, as in hither, thither.
Cognate with Scots ȝondir (“yonder”), Saterland Frisian tjunder (“over there, yonder”), Dutch ginder (“over there; yonder”), Middle Low German ginder, gender (“over there”), German jenseits (“on the other side, beyond”), Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌴 (jaindrē, “thither”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The farther, the more distant of two choices.
senses_topics:
|
9570 | word:
yonder
word_type:
det
expansion:
yonder
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yonder, yondre, ȝondre, ȝendre, from Old English ġeonre (“thither; yonder”, adverb), equivalent to yond (from ġeond, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz) + -er, as in hither, thither.
Cognate with Scots ȝondir (“yonder”), Saterland Frisian tjunder (“over there, yonder”), Dutch ginder (“over there; yonder”), Middle Low German ginder, gender (“over there”), German jenseits (“on the other side, beyond”), Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌴 (jaindrē, “thither”).
senses_examples:
text:
Yonder lass, who be she?
type:
example
text:
I wish I were on yonder hill
and there I’d sit and I’d cry my fill,
and ev’ry tear would turn a mill,
And a blessing walk with you, my love
ref:
2006, Cécile Corbel (lyrics and music), “Siúil a Ruin”, in Songbook 1, performed by Cécile Corbel, Brittany: Keltia Musique
type:
quotation
text:
The yonder is Queen Niobe.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Who or which is over yonder, usually distant but within sight.
One who or which is over yonder, usually distant but within sight.
senses_topics:
|
9571 | word:
yonder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yonder (plural yonders)
forms:
form:
yonders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yonder, yondre, ȝondre, ȝendre, from Old English ġeonre (“thither; yonder”, adverb), equivalent to yond (from ġeond, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz) + -er, as in hither, thither.
Cognate with Scots ȝondir (“yonder”), Saterland Frisian tjunder (“over there, yonder”), Dutch ginder (“over there; yonder”), Middle Low German ginder, gender (“over there”), German jenseits (“on the other side, beyond”), Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌴 (jaindrē, “thither”).
senses_examples:
text:
Off we go in to the wild blue yonder,
Climbing high into the sun...
ref:
1939, Robert MacArthur Crawford, Army Air Corps:
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The vast distance, particularly the sky or trackless forest.
senses_topics:
|
9572 | word:
therefore
word_type:
adv
expansion:
therefore (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English therfore, therfor, tharfore, thorfore; synchronically a univerbation of there (pronominal adverb) + for, literally “for that (reason)”. The spelling has been changed due to a reanalysis as there + fore (literally “forward from that; thence”). See also therefor, ultimately the same formation.
Compare Saterland Frisian deerfoar, Dutch daarvoor, German dafür, Danish and Norwegian derfor, Swedish därför.
senses_examples:
text:
Traditional values will always have a place. Therefore, they will never lose relevance.
type:
example
text:
Je pense, donc je suis (I think, therefore I am)
ref:
1637, René Descartes, Discourse on the Method
type:
quotation
text:
Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
ref:
2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
He blushes; therefore he is innocent.
ref:
1753, The Spectator, number 642
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Consequently, by or in consequence of that or this cause; referring to something previously stated.
for that; for it (in reference to a previous statement)
senses_topics:
|
9573 | word:
dump
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dump (plural dumps)
forms:
form:
dumps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.
senses_examples:
text:
A toxic waste dump.
type:
example
text:
The new XML dump is coming soon.
type:
example
text:
This place looks like a dump.
type:
example
text:
Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.
type:
example
text:
I have to take a dump.
type:
example
text:
Basically, to overcome an acute shortage of money in 1813, Governor Lachlan Macquarie bought silver dollars from Spain and then punched the centres out, thereby producing two coins - the ‘holey dollar’ (worth five shillings) and the ‘dump’ (worth one shilling and threepence). Talk about creating money out of nothing—the original silver dollar only cost five shillings! The holey dollar and the dump have been adopted as the symbol for the Macquarie Bank in Australia.
ref:
2002, Paul Swan, Maths Investigations, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
The back of this display is constructed of a double row of cans which are interlocking. The double row is significant because it provides a source of stock to replenish the dump which will be located in the base of the stand.
ref:
1958, Milton Alexander, Display ideas for super markets, page 211
type:
quotation
text:
Mass displays to move goods in bulk are dotted here and there throughout the store, particularly at the ends of the gondolas, and considerable use is made of dump displays.
ref:
1959, Agenda: Co-operative Management Magazine - Volumes 7-8, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
Although they may have a lot of clutter in promotional cardboard dump displays, that factor is likely to change.
ref:
1985, Product Marketing for Beauty Industry Retailers & Manufacturers
type:
quotation
text:
I remember that Bill made a little cardboard dump, with boots and a whip, for the bookstore displays, and the people in the chain stores were so outraged by this dump they threw it in the trash.
ref:
1996, Anne Rice, Michael Riley, Interview with Anne Rice, page 76
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
An act of dumping, or its result.
A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
A storage place for supplies, especially military.
An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
An act of defecation; a defecating.
A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
Absence of mind; reverie.
A pile of ore or rock.
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
An old kind of dance.
A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
mining
business
marketing |
9574 | word:
dump
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dump (third-person singular simple present dumps, present participle dumping, simple past and past participle dumped)
forms:
form:
dumps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dumping
tags:
participle
present
form:
dumped
tags:
participle
past
form:
dumped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.
senses_examples:
text:
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge
text:
Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her.
type:
example
text:
We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.
type:
example
text:
Blowing like a grampus from every orifice, I leaned on a passing wave which dumped me[.]
ref:
1980, Ian Chappell, Chappelli has the last laugh, page 39
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
To end a romantic relationship with.
To knock heavily; to stump.
To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
9575 | word:
dump
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dump (plural dumps)
forms:
form:
dumps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See dumpling.
senses_examples:
text:
The capons were leaden representations of cocks and hens pitched at by leaden dumps.
ref:
1825, William Hone, The Every Day Book
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thick, ill-shapen piece.
A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
senses_topics:
|
9576 | word:
dump
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dump (plural dumps)
forms:
form:
dumps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Cognate with Scots dump (“hole in the ground”), Norwegian dump (“a depression or hole in the ground”), German Low German dumpen (“to submerge”), Dutch dompen (“to dip, sink, submerge”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
senses_topics:
|
9577 | word:
quote
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quote (plural quotes)
forms:
form:
quotes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quoten, coten (“to mark (a book) with chapter numbers or marginal references”), from Old French coter, from Medieval Latin quotāre (“to distinguish by numbers, number chapters”), itself from Latin quotus (“which, what number (in sequence)”), from quot (“how many”) and related to quis (“who”). The sense developed via “to give as a reference, to cite as an authority” to “to copy out exact words” (since 1680); the business sense “to state the price of a commodity” (1866) revives the etymological meaning. The noun, in the sense of “quotation,” is attested from 1885; see also usage note, below.
senses_examples:
text:
After going over the hefty quotes, the board decided it was cheaper to have the project executed by its own staff.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A quotation; a statement attributed to a person.
A quotation mark.
A summary of work to be done with a set price.
A price set and offered (by the potential seller) for a financial security or commodity.
senses_topics:
|
9578 | word:
quote
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quote (third-person singular simple present quotes, present participle quoting, simple past and past participle quoted)
forms:
form:
quotes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quoting
tags:
participle
present
form:
quoted
tags:
participle
past
form:
quoted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quoten, coten (“to mark (a book) with chapter numbers or marginal references”), from Old French coter, from Medieval Latin quotāre (“to distinguish by numbers, number chapters”), itself from Latin quotus (“which, what number (in sequence)”), from quot (“how many”) and related to quis (“who”). The sense developed via “to give as a reference, to cite as an authority” to “to copy out exact words” (since 1680); the business sense “to state the price of a commodity” (1866) revives the etymological meaning. The noun, in the sense of “quotation,” is attested from 1885; see also usage note, below.
senses_examples:
text:
The writer quoted the president's speech.
type:
example
text:
But must our moderne Critticks envious eye
ref:
1598, John Marston, “Satyre IV”, in The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image, and Certaine Satyres (poem)
type:
quotation
roman:
Seeme thus to quote some grosse deformity?
text:
That hath made him mad.
I am sorry that with better heed and judgment
I had not quoted him. I fear'd he did but trifle …
ref:
1600, Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 2, scene 1
type:
quotation
text:
I prethe doe, twill be a sceane of mirth
For me to quote his passions and his smiles,
His amorous haviour, …
ref:
1606, John Day, The Isle of Gulls
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To repeat (the exact words of a person).
To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price.
To name the current price, notably of a financial security.
To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.
To observe, to take account of.
senses_topics:
business
commerce
|
9579 | word:
French kiss
word_type:
noun
expansion:
French kiss (plural French kisses)
forms:
form:
French kisses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
French kiss
etymology_text:
Originally in reference to a common French greeting. Later, from English and American associations of the French people with sexual boldness (see French), with probable influence from earlier English and continuing European association of the French with oral sex. (See to french.)
senses_examples:
text:
I do not think there would be any harm in sending him a French kiss. It is what no English lawyer can object to, it being only justice to make both sides of the face alike.
ref:
1836, John Scott, letter
text:
She had informed the amused seniors that the custom of greeting people with a kiss on each cheek was known as the French kiss.
ref:
2007, Ronald Johnston, Big Lie, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
Frenchwomen touch cheeks, first one, then the other, and this touching of cheeks is known in England as the French kiss and has been adopted to a considerable extent in London among society women.
ref:
1898 August 31, Bangor Daily Whig, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
She showed me the French kiss where you stick your tongue out, but I didn't like it.
ref:
1922, Elliot Harold Paul, Indelible, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
Simple lip kissing may be extended into a deep kiss (a French kiss or soul kiss, in the college parlance) which may involve more or less extensive tongue contacts.
ref:
1948, Alfred Charles Kinsey et al., Sexual Behavior of the Human Male, page 540
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kiss in the French style, variously understood as
The act or an instance of kissing another person's cheeks in turn as a greeting.
A kiss in the French style, variously understood as
The act or an instance of touching cheeks together in turn as a greeting.
A kiss in the French style, variously understood as
The act or an instance of kissing that involves the use of one's tongue.
senses_topics:
|
9580 | word:
French kiss
word_type:
verb
expansion:
French kiss (third-person singular simple present French kisses, present participle French kissing, simple past and past participle French kissed)
forms:
form:
French kisses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
French kissing
tags:
participle
present
form:
French kissed
tags:
participle
past
form:
French kissed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
French kiss
etymology_text:
Originally in reference to a common French greeting. Later, from English and American associations of the French people with sexual boldness (see French), with probable influence from earlier English and continuing European association of the French with oral sex. (See to french.)
senses_examples:
text:
French kiss, baiser très appuyé.
ref:
1923, Joseph Manchon, Le Slang, page 130
type:
quotation
text:
French kissin' in the USA, French kissin' in the USA, yeah, yeah
ref:
1986, Chuck Lorre (lyrics and music), “French Kissin'”, in Rockbird, performed by Debbie Harry
type:
quotation
text:
That's how she pictured him, her French lover, like the deepest kiss that she had ever felt. She who had never French kissed.
ref:
2007, Nin Andrews, Sleeping with Houdini: Poems, BOA Editions, page 76
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give a French kiss, in its various senses.
senses_topics:
|
9581 | word:
dead
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dead (not generally comparable, comparative deader, superlative deadest)
forms:
form:
deader
tags:
comparative
form:
deadest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Dead (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.
senses_examples:
text:
1968, Ray Thomas, "Legend of a Mind", The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord.
Timothy Leary's dead. / No, no no no, he's outside, looking in.
type:
quotation
text:
All of my grandparents are dead.
type:
example
text:
Have respect for the dead.
type:
example
text:
The villagers are mourning their dead.
type:
example
text:
The dead are always with us, in our hearts.
type:
example
text:
raise the dead
type:
example
text:
wake the dead
type:
example
text:
a dead planet
type:
example
text:
When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
ref:
1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act III, scene 3
type:
quotation
text:
He is dead to me.
type:
example
text:
"You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"
type:
example
text:
You're dead. A million and one thoughts pounded her at once. But one overpowered all the others. This time you're dead.
ref:
2009, Noel Hynd, Midnight in Madrid
type:
quotation
text:
She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
type:
example
text:
the dead load on the floor
type:
example
text:
a dead lift
type:
example
text:
dead air
type:
example
text:
a dead glass of soda.
type:
example
text:
dead time
type:
example
text:
dead fields
type:
example
text:
The auditorium opens and the seats fill. As ever, there's a brief, grey dead time while Wheeler waits for all the machinery of the performance to spin up. The anxious feeling is stronger than usual today. It grips him, an uncharacteristic urge to run away. Sure, he thinks. I could just junk my career, right now. Pack it in and make for the stage door. Maybe the taxi'll still be there.
ref:
2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-29
type:
quotation
text:
For a Friday night, it's really dead in this restaurant.
type:
example
text:
OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire.
type:
example
text:
Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
type:
example
text:
Joker: Everything cuts out after that. No comm traffic at all. Just goes dead. There's nothing.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1
type:
quotation
text:
That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
type:
example
text:
There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.
type:
example
text:
Is this beer glass dead?
type:
example
text:
No mark of any kind should ever be made on a dead manuscript.
ref:
1984, Winston Smock, Technical Writing for Beginners, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
In this paper, we survey the set of techniques found in the wild that are intended to prevent data-scrubbing operations from being removed during dead store elimination.
ref:
2017, Zhaomo Yang, Brian Johannesmeyer, Dead Store Elimination (Still) Considered Harmful
type:
quotation
text:
the dead spindle of a lathe
type:
example
text:
A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating.
type:
example
text:
Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead.
type:
example
text:
dead stop
type:
example
text:
dead sleep
type:
example
text:
dead giveaway
type:
example
text:
dead silence
type:
example
text:
dead center
type:
example
text:
dead aim
type:
example
text:
a dead eye
type:
example
text:
a dead level
type:
example
text:
After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
type:
example
text:
Lmao I’m dead this was me to my fiancé since I found out in the car and my son was in the back seat 😭
ref:
2023 March 3, ihatethis6666666, “I am dead ☠️”, in Reddit, r/vanderpumprules
type:
quotation
text:
2023 May 31, Rod-kun, “Lmao I'm dead 🤣”, in Reddit, r/DrStone:
type:
quotation
text:
2022 December 7, Stealingmemesunlucky, “I'm dead 💀💀”, in Reddit, r/TikTokCringe:
type:
quotation
text:
a dead floor
type:
example
text:
A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead.
type:
example
text:
He was dead to the law. Whatever account others might make of it, yet, for his part, he was dead to it. […] But though he was thus dead to the law, yet he […] was far from thinking himself discharged from his duty to God' on the contrary, he was dead to the law, that he might live unto God.
ref:
1839, William Jenks, The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation, page 361
type:
quotation
text:
But he died to the guilt of sin—to the guilt of his people's sins which he had taken upon him; and they, dying with him, as is above declared, die to sin precisely in the same sense in which he died to it. […] He was not justified from it till his resurrection, but from that moment he was dead to it. When he shall appear the second time, it will be "without sin."
ref:
1849, Robert Haldane, Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, page 255
type:
quotation
text:
[…] syllable is dead, the tone will depend on whether the vowel is short or long.
ref:
2011, Russ Crowley, Learning Thai, Your Great Adventure, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
Devoid of living things; barren.
Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored or ostracized.
Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead (literally or as a hyperbole).
Without emotion; impassive.
Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
Unproductive; fallow.
Past, bygone, vanished.
Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
Broken or inoperable.
No longer used or required.
Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
Not in play.
Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
Tagged out.
Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
Exact; on the dot.
Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die:
Dying of laughter.
Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die:
Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
Bringing death; deadly.
Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
law
lifestyle
religion
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9582 | word:
dead
word_type:
adv
expansion:
dead (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Dead (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.
senses_examples:
text:
dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left
type:
example
text:
He hit the target dead in the centre.
type:
example
text:
Independent tests later confirmed [the figures] to be accurate, with Car & Driver seeing 159mph (254kph), 0.60 in five seconds dead, and an amazingly high 0.97g.
ref:
2003 December 1, Brian Long, RX-7 Mazda’s Rotary Engine Sports Car: Updated & Enlarged Edition, Veloce Publishing Ltd, page 145
type:
quotation
text:
And because the tunnel is dead straight, it's perfect for reaching high speeds.
ref:
2023 November 29, Peter Plisner, “The winds of change in Catesby Tunnel”, in RAIL, number 997, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty
type:
example
text:
He stopped dead.
type:
example
text:
dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exactly.
Very, absolutely, extremely.
Suddenly and completely.
As if dead.
senses_topics:
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9583 | word:
dead
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dead (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Dead (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonym: nadir
text:
the dead of night
type:
example
text:
the dead of winter
type:
example
text:
the quick and the dead
type:
example
text:
Will the dead rise again?
type:
example
text:
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
Those who have died: dead people.
senses_topics:
|
9584 | word:
dead
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dead (plural deads)
forms:
form:
deads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Dead (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
(usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
Clipping of deadlift.
senses_topics:
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
9585 | word:
dead
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dead (third-person singular simple present deads, present participle deading, simple past and past participle deaded)
forms:
form:
deads
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
deading
tags:
participle
present
form:
deaded
tags:
participle
past
form:
deaded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Dead (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.
senses_examples:
text:
1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
“What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
text:
I shoulda deaded it from genesis instead of hittin' the Guinnesses
ref:
2004, “Guinnesses”, in Mm..Food, performed by MF Doom ft. Angelika & 4-IZE
type:
quotation
text:
This dude at the club was trying to kill us so I deaded him, and then I had to collect from Spice.
ref:
2006, Leighanne Boyd, Once Upon A Time In The Bricks, page 178
type:
quotation
text:
“What, you was just gonna dead him because if that's the case then why the fuck we getting the money?” Sha asked annoyed.
ref:
2008, Marvlous Harrison, The Coalition, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
TOMMY:”Honestly, I’d love to help you with that but I’ve got a surplus of motherfuckers that I need to dead right now.”
ref:
2020 January 6, Courtney A. Kemp, Matt K. Turner, 33:48 from the start, in Power, season 6, episode 11, spoken by Tommy Egan (E Joseph Sikora)
type:
quotation
text:
"I thought I told you to shut up," said Jesus. "I don't be laying up with chickenheads, so you need to dead that shit before you piss me the fuck off."
ref:
2005, Black Artemis, Picture Me Rollin', New York, N.Y.: New American Library, page 269
type:
quotation
text:
"This might be kinda beside the point right now," I said carefully, settling into the chair across from him, "but it's probably time to dead all that open-door no-gun shit, huh?"
ref:
2013, Adam Mansbach, Rage Is Back, New York, N.Y.: Viking, page 140
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To prevent by disabling; to stop.
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
To kill.
To discontinue or put an end to (something).
senses_topics:
|
9586 | word:
tuft
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tuft (plural tufts)
forms:
form:
tufts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tuft, toft, tofte, an alteration of earlier *tuffe (> Modern English tuff), from Old French touffe, tuffe, toffe, tofe (“tuft”) (modern French touffe), from Late Latin tufa (“helmet crest”) (near Vegezio). Compare Old English þūf (“tuft”), Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), Swedish tuva (“tussock; grassy hillock”), Swedish tova (“tangled knot”), Swedish tofs (“tuft, tassel”), from Proto-Germanic *þūbǭ (“tube”), *þūbaz; akin to Latin tūber (“hump, swelling”), Ancient Greek τῡ́φη (tū́phē, “cattail (used to stuff beds)”).
senses_examples:
text:
Not far from this place, there is a tuft of about a dozen of tall beeches […].
ref:
1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume One, II.4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
A small clump of trees or bushes.
A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
senses_topics:
|
9587 | word:
tuft
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tuft (third-person singular simple present tufts, present participle tufting, simple past and past participle tufted)
forms:
form:
tufts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tufting
tags:
participle
present
form:
tufted
tags:
participle
past
form:
tufted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tuft, toft, tofte, an alteration of earlier *tuffe (> Modern English tuff), from Old French touffe, tuffe, toffe, tofe (“tuft”) (modern French touffe), from Late Latin tufa (“helmet crest”) (near Vegezio). Compare Old English þūf (“tuft”), Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), Swedish tuva (“tussock; grassy hillock”), Swedish tova (“tangled knot”), Swedish tofs (“tuft, tassel”), from Proto-Germanic *þūbǭ (“tube”), *þūbaz; akin to Latin tūber (“hump, swelling”), Ancient Greek τῡ́φη (tū́phē, “cattail (used to stuff beds)”).
senses_examples:
text:
They're never gonna get that Ottoman tufted in time!
ref:
2017 December 2, “The Impossible Summit of Mt. Neverrest!” (0:13 from the start), in DuckTales, season 1, episode 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
To form into tufts.
To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
To be formed into tufts.
senses_topics:
|
9588 | word:
dragonfly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dragonfly (plural dragonflies)
forms:
form:
dragonflies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dragon + fly.
senses_examples:
text:
There were two dragonflies in the garden today.
type:
example
text:
The delicate coloured Dragon Flies may have likewise some Corrosive quality.
ref:
1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera, having four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body when perched.
senses_topics:
|
9589 | word:
w
word_type:
character
expansion:
w (lower case, upper case W, plural ws or w's)
forms:
form:
W
tags:
uppercase
form:
ws
tags:
plural
form:
w's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, called double-u and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9590 | word:
w
word_type:
noun
expansion:
w
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
w
# (stenoscript) the sound sequence /aʊ̯/.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of we.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of were.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of who and its inflection whom.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
watt
west
witness
work
Abbreviation of win.
senses_topics:
|
9591 | word:
w
word_type:
adj
expansion:
w
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
w
# (stenoscript) the sound sequence /aʊ̯/.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of we.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of were.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of who and its inflection whom.
senses_examples:
text:
W rizz.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
wide
white
successful, admirable, good
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
9592 | word:
w
word_type:
prep
expansion:
w
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
w
# (stenoscript) the sound sequence /aʊ̯/.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of we.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of were.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of who and its inflection whom.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: w/
text:
This was supposed 2 be a SURPRISE, but the girls got it out of me. ☺ I wanted all of us 2 spend Xmas 2gether. By all, I mean r horses 2. Sooo . . . B, C, G, Z, & D, you have guests waiting @ BC. Zane, Valentino, Scout, Nero, & Polo r there! Now we can ride r horses when we r not volunteering & spend Xmas w them. ☺
ref:
2013, Jessica Burkhart, Home for Christmas (Canterwood Crest; Super Special), New York, NY: Aladdin M!X, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
When Sharon took the Enneagram test, she came out as a 3w2.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of with.
with a wing (on the Enneagram)
senses_topics:
|
9593 | word:
run
word_type:
verb
expansion:
run (third-person singular simple present runs, present participle running, simple past ran, past participle run)
forms:
form:
runs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
running
tags:
participle
present
form:
ran
tags:
past
form:
run
tags:
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj-simple
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
run
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Run
etymology_text:
From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,
yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”) (compare also *rannijaną (“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”).
Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), Dutch rennen (“to run, race”), Alemannic German ränne (“to run”), German rennen (“to run, race”), rinnen (“to flow”), Rhein, Danish rende (“to run”), Swedish ränna (“to run”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), Icelandic renna (“to flow”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See random.
senses_examples:
text:
Run, Sarah, run!
type:
example
text:
Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
I have been running all over the building looking for him.
type:
example
text:
Sorry, I've got to run; my house is on fire.
type:
example
text:
Once I ran to you (I ran) / Now I run from you / This tainted love you've given / I give you all a boy could give you
ref:
1965, Ed Cobb, “Tainted Love”, in Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, performed by Soft Cell, published 1981
type:
quotation
text:
Every day I run my dog across the field and back.
type:
example
text:
I'll just run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet.
type:
example
text:
Run your fingers through my hair.
type:
example
text:
The horse will run in the Preakness next year.
type:
example
text:
I'm not ready to run a marathon.
type:
example
text:
Could you run me over to the store?
type:
example
text:
Please run this report upstairs to director's office.
type:
example
text:
the bus (train, plane, ferry boat, etc) runs between Newport and Riverside
text:
Small planes run between Alor and Langkawi. BUS: Express busses leave the bus terminal on the corner of Jl. Langgar and Jl. Stesyen for K. Kedah, […]
ref:
1997, Karl-Heinz Reger, Nelles Verlag Staff, Malaysia - Singapore - Brunei, Hunter Publishing, Inc, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
The first steam ferry or tug, the Little Minnie, ran the river in the 1870s. When vehicles were to cross, a barge was affixed to the Minnie to carry them.
ref:
2013 April 15, Mary Ann Sternberg, Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway, LSU Press, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
To put it frankly, if you people had to hire others to run the river and survey it for you, if, in short, you can't even run it yourself, why do think you can decide who is and who is not competent? River running, as has been[…]
ref:
1979, United States. Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Region, Piedra River: Final Environmental Impact Statement & Wild & Scenic River Study, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
Then, on their second possession, Isaiah Ford ran for 11 yards after abandoning a flea flicker. [...] The Patriots ran the ball just 27 times despite averaging 5 yards per carry.
ref:
2019 December 29, Chad Finn, “24 thoughts on the Patriots’ loss to the Dolphins”, in Boston Globe
type:
quotation
text:
The horse ran a great race.
type:
example
text:
Whenever things get tough, she cuts and runs.
type:
example
text:
When he's broke, he runs to me for money.
type:
example
text:
If you have a collision with a vehicle oncoming from the right, after having run priority to the right, you are at fault.
type:
example
text:
The river runs through the forest.
type:
example
text:
There's blood running down your leg.
type:
example
text:
There's a strange story running around the neighborhood.
type:
example
text:
The flu is running through my daughter's kindergarten.
type:
example
text:
Your nose is running.
type:
example
text:
Why is the hose still running?
type:
example
text:
You'll have to run the water a while before it gets hot.
type:
example
text:
Could you run a bath for me, please?
type:
example
text:
As Wax dissolves, as Ice begins to run,
ref:
1717 [a. 18 CE], Ovid, translated by Joseph Addison, Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books. Translated by the most eminent hands. Adorn'd with sculptures, Book the Third, The Story of Narcissus, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
The Sussex ores run pretty freely in the Fire for Iron-Ores; otherwise they would hardly be worth working.
ref:
1729, John Woodward, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England, Tome I, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
During washing, the red from the rug ran onto the white sheet, staining it pink.
type:
example
text:
to run bullets
type:
example
text:
But, my Lord, the fairest Diamonds are rough till they are polished, and the purest Gold must be run and washed, and sifted in the Oar.
ref:
1718, Henry Felton, A Dissertation on Reading the Classics, and Forming a Just Style, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
My uncle ran a corner store for forty years.
type:
example
text:
She runs the fundraising.
type:
example
text:
My parents think they run my life.
type:
example
text:
He is running the candidate's expensive campaign.
type:
example
text:
A friend of mine who runs an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had liked The Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece.
ref:
1972 December 29, Richard Schickel, “Masterpieces underrated and overlooked”, in Life, volume 73, number 25, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.
ref:
2013 May 11, “What a waste”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
I have decided to run for governor of California.
type:
example
text:
We're trying to find somebody to run against him next year.
type:
example
text:
He ran his best horse in the Derby.
type:
example
text:
The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election.
type:
example
text:
to run through life; to run in a circle
type:
example
text:
The story will run on the 6-o'clock news.
type:
example
text:
The latest Robin Williams movie is running at the Silver City theatre.
type:
example
text:
Her picture ran on the front page of the newspaper.
type:
example
text:
run a story; run an ad
type:
example
text:
to run guns; to run rum
type:
example
text:
[...]whereas in the business of laying heavy impositions two and two never made more than one ; which happens by lessening the import, and the strong temptation of running such goods as paid high duties
ref:
1728, Jonathan Swift, “An answer to a paper, called A memorial of the poor inhabitants, tradesmen, and labourers of the kingdom of Ireland”, in The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, published 1757, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again.
type:
example
text:
The border runs for 3000 miles.
type:
example
text:
The leash runs along a wire.
type:
example
text:
The grain of the wood runs to the right on this table.
type:
example
text:
It ran in quality from excellent to substandard.
type:
example
text:
The sale will run for ten days.
type:
example
text:
The contract runs through 2008.
type:
example
text:
The meeting ran late.
type:
example
text:
The book runs 655 pages.
type:
example
text:
The speech runs as follows: …
type:
example
text:
I need to run this wire along the wall.
type:
example
text:
My car stopped running.
type:
example
text:
That computer runs twenty-four hours a day.
type:
example
text:
Buses don't run here on Sunday.
type:
example
text:
It's full. You can run the dishwasher now.
type:
example
text:
Don't run the engine so fast.
type:
example
text:
They ran twenty blood tests on me and they still don't know what's wrong.
type:
example
text:
Our coach had us running plays for the whole practice.
type:
example
text:
I will run the sample.
type:
example
text:
Don't run that software unless you have permission.
type:
example
text:
My computer is too old to run the new OS.
type:
example
text:
to run from one subject to another
type:
example
text:
Virgil was so well acquainted with this Secret, that to set off his first Georgic, he has run into a set of Precepts, which are almost foreign to his Subject,
ref:
1697, Joseph Addison, “An essay on the Georgics”, in The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneis, by John Dryden
type:
quotation
text:
Our supplies are running low.
type:
example
text:
They frequently overspent and soon ran into debt.
type:
example
text:
Have I not cause to rave, and beat my breast, / To rend my heart with grief and run distracted?
ref:
1712, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, act IV, scene i
type:
quotation
text:
I was no more than a boy / In the company of strangers / In the quiet of the railway station / Running scared.
ref:
1968, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “The Boxer”
type:
quotation
text:
Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.
type:
example
text:
Laptops run about a thousand dollars apiece.
type:
example
text:
My stocking is running.
type:
example
text:
1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He took off the nylons & had runned one. He said "now I really look like a street whore!"
text:
To run the world back to its first original and infancy, and, as it were, to view nature in its cradle,
ref:
1692, Robert South, “Discourse I. The creation of man in God’s image”, in Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions, published 1827, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Methinks, if it might be, I would gladly understand the Formation of a Soul, run it up to its Punctum Saliens, and see it beat the first conscious Pulse.
ref:
1695, Jeremy Collier, “A Thought”, in Miscellanies upon Moral Subjects by Jeremy Collier, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot
type:
example
text:
“You run your head into the lion's mouth,” answered Mac-Ivor.
ref:
1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
type:
quotation
text:
With that he took off his great-coat, and having run his fingers through his hair, thrust one hand gently in the bosom of his waistcoat
ref:
1844, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
type:
quotation
text:
[...]besides all this, a talkative person must needs be impertinent, and speak many idle words, and so render himself burdensome and odious to Company, and may perchance run himself upon great Inconveniences, by blabbing out his own or other’s Secrets;
ref:
1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation
type:
quotation
text:
[...]and others, accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions and the abstract generalities of logic ;
ref:
1706, John Locke, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, Section 24. Partiality
type:
quotation
text:
to run a line
type:
example
text:
to run the risk of losing one's life
type:
example
text:
Every three or four hands he would run the table.
type:
example
text:
Which Sovereignty, with us, ſo undoubtedly reſideth in the Perſon of the King, that his ordinary Style runneth — Our Sovereign Lord the King: […]
ref:
1722 [1647], Robert Sanderson, translated by Thomas Lewis, A Preservative Against Schism and Rebellion, in the Most Trying Times, volume 1, translation of De juramenti promissorii obligatione, page 355
type:
quotation
text:
[...]great captains, and even consular men, who first brought them over, took pride in giving them their own names (by which they run a great while in Rome)
ref:
c. 1685, William Temple, Upon the Gardens of Epicurus, published 1908, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Boys and girls run up rapidly.
type:
example
text:
It hath been observed, that the temperate climates usually run into moderate governments, and the extremes into despotic power.
ref:
1708, Jonathan Swift, “The Sentiments of a Church-of-England Man with respect to Religion and Government”, in The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, published 1757, page 235
type:
quotation
text:
Certain covenants run with the land.
type:
example
text:
Customs run only upon our goods imported or exported, and that but once for all; whereas interest runs as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid.
ref:
c. 1665, Josiah Child, Discourse on Trade
type:
quotation
text:
Jackson got himself run in the top of the sixth for arguing a borderline strike three call.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move swiftly.
To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
To move swiftly.
To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
To move swiftly.
To cause to move quickly or lightly.
To move swiftly.
To compete in a race.
To move swiftly.
To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
To move swiftly.
Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
To move swiftly.
To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
To move swiftly.
Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
To move swiftly.
To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
To move swiftly.
To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
To move swiftly.
To flee from a danger or towards help.
To move swiftly.
To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
To move swiftly.
To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
To flow.
Of a liquid, to flow.
To flow.
To move or spread quickly.
To flow.
Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
To flow.
To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
To flow.
To become liquid; to melt.
To flow.
To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
To flow.
To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
To control or manage; to be in charge of.
To be a candidate in an election.
To make participate in certain kinds of competitions.
To make run in a race.
To make participate in certain kinds of competitions.
To make run in an election.
To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
To be presented in the media.
To print or broadcast in the media.
To smuggle (illegal goods).
To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
To make something extend in space.
To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
To make a machine operate.
To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
To cost an amount of money.
Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
To cause to enter; to thrust.
To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
To control or have precedence in a card game.
To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
To be popularly known; to be generally received.
To have growth or development.
To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
To speedrun.
To eject from a game or match.
senses_topics:
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
chemistry
engineering
fluids
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
engineering
fluids
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
engineering
fluids
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
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fluids
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
engineering
fluids
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
engineering
fluids
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
chemistry
engineering
fluids
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
nautical
transport
agriculture
business
lifestyle
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
9594 | word:
run
word_type:
noun
expansion:
run (plural runs)
forms:
form:
runs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Run
etymology_text:
From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,
yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”) (compare also *rannijaną (“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”).
Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), Dutch rennen (“to run, race”), Alemannic German ränne (“to run”), German rennen (“to run, race”), rinnen (“to flow”), Rhein, Danish rende (“to run”), Swedish ränna (“to run”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), Icelandic renna (“to flow”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See random.
senses_examples:
text:
I just got back from my morning run.
type:
example
text:
Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.
ref:
2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and on the 18th of January this squadron put to sea. The first place of rendezvous was the boy of port St. Julian, upon the coast of Patagonia, and all accidents were provided against with admirable foresight. Their run to port St. Julian was dangerous […]
ref:
1759, N. Tindal, The Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England, volume 21 (continuation volume 9), page 92
text:
Jackson said the white firefighters attempted to make him and other Black firefighters miss runs by not waking them up along with everyone else.
ref:
1987 April 25, Kim Westheimer, “A Black Gay Fireman's Story”, in Gay Community News, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
I need to make a run to the store.
type:
example
text:
Let's go for a run in the car.
type:
example
text:
During his run from the police, he claimed to have a metaphysical experience which can only be described as “having passed through an abyss.”
ref:
2006, Tsirk Susej, The Demonic Bible, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.
type:
example
text:
You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
ref:
1977, Star Wars (film)
text:
Which run did you do today?
type:
example
text:
a good run; a run of fifty miles
type:
example
text:
a run to China
type:
example
text:
The data got lost, so I'll have to perform another run of the experiment.
type:
example
text:
This morning's run of the SHIPS statistical model gave Hurricane Priscilla a 74% chance of gaining at least 30 knots of intensity in 24 hours, reconfirmed by the HMON and GFS dynamical models.
type:
example
text:
This was my first successful run without losing any health.
type:
example
text:
That NPC bugged out and killed my run.
type:
example
text:
He can have the run of the house.
type:
example
text:
He set up a rabbit run.
type:
example
text:
I’m having a run of bad luck.
type:
example
text:
1782 Frances Burney Cecilia
“ […] had had the preceding night an uncommon run of luck”.
text:
He went to Las Vegas and spent all his money over a three-day run.
type:
example
text:
German wildcard Sabine Lisicki conquered her nerves to defeat France's Marion Bartoli and take her amazing Wimbledon run into the semi-finals.
ref:
2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
If our team can keep up their strong defense, expect them to make a run in this tournament.
type:
example
text:
Yesterday we did a run of 12,000 units.
type:
example
text:
The book’s initial press run will be 5,000 copies.
type:
example
text:
The run of the show lasted two weeks, and we sold out every night.
type:
example
text:
It is the last week of our French cinema run.
type:
example
text:
And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same / When I'm rushing on my run.
ref:
1964, The Velvet Underground, Heroin
type:
quotation
text:
Frank Fixwell, a 25 year-old male, has been on a heroin "run" (daily use) for the past two years.
ref:
1975, Lloyd Y. Young, Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, Brian S. Katcher, Applied Therapeutics for Clinical Pharmacists
type:
quotation
text:
1977, Richard P. Rettig, Manual J. Torres, Gerald R. Garrett, Manny: a criminal-addict's story, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) →ISBN
I was hooked on dope, and hooked bad, during this whole period, but I was also hooked behind robbery. When you're on a heroin run, you stay loaded so long as you can score.
text:
This can develop quite quickly (over a matter of hours) during a cocaine run or when cocaine use becomes a daily habit.
ref:
2001, Robin J. Harman, Handbook of Pharmacy Health Education, Pharmaceutical Press, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
DA depletion leads to the crash that characteristically ends a cocaine run.
ref:
2010, Robert DuPont, The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction, Hazelden Publishing, page 158
type:
quotation
text:
The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.
type:
example
text:
a run of must in wine-making
type:
example
text:
the first run of sap in a maple orchard
type:
example
text:
The military campaign near that creek was known as "The battle of Bull Run".
type:
example
text:
He broke into a run.
type:
example
text:
Financial insecurity led to a run on the banks, as customers feared for the security of their savings.
type:
example
text:
There was a run on Christmas presents.
type:
example
text:
He stood out from the usual run of applicants.
type:
example
text:
… one of the greatest runs of all time.
text:
Aaron Roberts added an insurance touchdown on a one-yard run.
ref:
2003, Jack Seibold, Spartan Sports Encyclopedia, page 592
type:
quotation
text:
Well, when you compare the cone type with the cross roller bit, you get a longer run, there is less tendency of the bit to go flat while running in various formations. It cleans itself better.
ref:
1832, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
I have a run in my stocking.
type:
example
text:
A camera pans the cocktail hour / Behind a blind of potted palms / And finds a lady in a Paris dress / With runs in her nylons
ref:
1975, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “The Boho Dance”, in The Hissing of Summer Lawns
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
A pleasure trip.
Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
Migration (of fish).
A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
A (regular) trip or route.
A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
The route taken while running or skiing.
A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
The distance sailed by a ship.
A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
A voyage.
A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
A trial.
A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
The execution of a program or model
A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
State of being current; currency; popularity.
Continuous or sequential
A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
Continuous or sequential
A series of tries in a game that were successful.
Continuous or sequential
A production quantity (such as in a factory).
Continuous or sequential
The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
Continuous or sequential
A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
Continuous or sequential
A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
Continuous or sequential
A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
A flow of liquid; a leak.
A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
A quick pace, faster than a walk.
A quick pace, faster than a walk.
A fast gallop.
A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
Any sudden large demand for something.
Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces
The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces
The horizontal length of a set of stairs
Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces
Horizontal dimension of a slope.
A standard or unexceptional group or category.
In sports
A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
In sports
The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
In sports
A running play.
In sports
The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
In sports
The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
In sports
The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
A pair or set of millstones.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
card-games
games
entertainment
lifestyle
music
banking
business
business
construction
manufacturing
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport
business
mining
|
9595 | word:
run
word_type:
adj
expansion:
run (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Run
etymology_text:
From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,
yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”) (compare also *rannijaną (“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”).
Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), Dutch rennen (“to run, race”), Alemannic German ränne (“to run”), German rennen (“to run, race”), rinnen (“to flow”), Rhein, Danish rende (“to run”), Swedish ränna (“to run”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), Icelandic renna (“to flow”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See random.
senses_examples:
text:
Put some run butter on the vegetables.
type:
example
text:
Samples of the regular run butter were sealed in 1 pound tins and sent to Washington, where the butter was scored and examined.
ref:
1921, L. W. Ferris, H. W. Redfield, W. R. North, “The Volatile Acids and the Volatile Oxidizable Substances of Cream and Experimental Butter”, in Journal of Dairy Science, volume 4, page 522
type:
quotation
text:
[...] the Sides are generally made of Holland's Tiles, or Plates of run Iron, ornamented variously as Fancy dictates, [...]
ref:
1735, Thomas Frankz, A tour through France, Flanders, and Germany: in a letter to Robert Savil, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Vast quantities are cast in sand moulds, with that kind of run steel which is so largely used in the production of common table-knives and forks.
ref:
1833, The Cabinet Cyclopaedia: A treatise on the progressive improvement and present state of the Manufactures in Metal, volume 2, Iron and Steel (printed in London), page 314
text:
For making tea I have a kettle,
Besides a pan made of run metal;
An old arm-chair, in which I sit well —
The back is round.
ref:
c. 1839, (Richard of Raindale, The Plan of my House vindicated, quoted by) T. T. B. in the Dwelling of Richard of Raindale, King of the Moors, published in The Mirror, number 966, 7 September 1839, page 153
text:
The temperature of the water is consequently much higher than in either England or Scotland, and many newly run salmon will be found in early spring in the upper waters of Irish rivers where obstructions exist.
ref:
1889, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Fishing: Salmon and Trout, fifth edition, page 185
type:
quotation
text:
It may be very much a metallic appearance as opposed to the silver freshness of a recently run salmon.
ref:
1986, Arthur Oglesby, Fly fishing for salmon and sea trout, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Thus, on almost any day of the year, a fresh-run salmon may be caught legally somewhere in the British Isles.
ref:
2005, Rod Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
run brandy
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a liquid state; melted or molten.
Cast in a mould.
Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
Smuggled.
senses_topics:
|
9596 | word:
run
word_type:
verb
expansion:
run
forms:
wikipedia:
Run
etymology_text:
From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,
yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”) (compare also *rannijaną (“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”).
Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), Dutch rennen (“to run, race”), Alemannic German ränne (“to run”), German rennen (“to run, race”), rinnen (“to flow”), Rhein, Danish rende (“to run”), Swedish ränna (“to run”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), Icelandic renna (“to flow”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See random.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of rin
senses_topics:
|
9597 | word:
hydrogen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hydrogen (countable and uncountable, plural hydrogens)
forms:
form:
hydrogens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau
etymology_text:
From French hydrogène, coined by Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + γεννάω (gennáō, “I bring forth”). Corresponding to hydro- + -gen.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:hydrogen.
text:
Hydrogen is generally considered to be electronically the same as deuterium. […] In both PdHₓ and PdDₓ […] a resistivity maximum is found near 50 K.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The lightest chemical element (symbol H), with an atomic number of 1 and atomic weight of 1.00794.
The lightest chemical element (symbol H), with an atomic number of 1 and atomic weight of 1.00794.
An atom of the element.
Molecular hydrogen (H₂), a colourless, odourless and flammable gas at room temperature.
Molecular hydrogen (H₂), a colourless, odourless and flammable gas at room temperature.
A molecule of this molecular species
The isotope hydrogen-1 (also symbol H), contrasting with deuterium and tritium
A sample of the element/molecule.
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9598 | word:
preponderatingly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
preponderatingly
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From preponderating + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.
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9599 | word:
preponderation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
preponderation (plural preponderations)
forms:
form:
preponderations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin praepondero (“outweigh, turn the scale”).
senses_examples:
text:
But where the reasons on both sides are very near of equal weight, there suspension or doubt is our duty, unless in cases wherein present determination or practice is required, and there we must act according to the present appearing preponderation of reasons.
ref:
1743, Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or state of preponderating; preponderance.
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