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9600 | word:
hamular
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hamular
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
the hamular process of the sphenoid bone
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hooked; hooklike; hamate.
senses_topics:
|
9601 | word:
hamuli
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hamuli
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of hamulus
senses_topics:
|
9602 | word:
hamulate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hamulate
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hamule + -ate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped
senses_topics:
|
9603 | word:
hamule
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hamule (plural hamules)
forms:
form:
hamules
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin hamulus
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A little hook.
senses_topics:
|
9604 | word:
sorry
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sorry (comparative sorrier, superlative sorriest)
forms:
form:
sorrier
tags:
comparative
form:
sorriest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not related to sorrow. Equivalent to sore + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
I am sorry I stepped on your toes. It was an accident.
type:
example
text:
I am sorry for your loss.
type:
example
text:
The President was sorry to hear that the Ambassador was leaving.
type:
example
text:
The storm left his garden in a sorry state.
type:
example
text:
Bob is a sorry excuse for a football player.
type:
example
text:
The sorry experience did little to suggest that Musk knows how to run a social media platform or that DeSantis is capable of governing a global superpower armed with nuclear weapons.
ref:
2023 May 25, David Smith, “Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.
senses_topics:
|
9605 | word:
sorry
word_type:
intj
expansion:
sorry
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not related to sorrow. Equivalent to sore + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
Sorry! I didn't see that you were on the phone.
type:
example
text:
Sorry about yesterday. — No worries.
type:
example
text:
Sorry? What was that? The phone cut out.
type:
example
text:
There are four– sorry, five branches of the store locally.
type:
example
text:
Sorry! Coming through!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
Used to correct oneself in speech.
Said as a request to pass somebody.
senses_topics:
|
9606 | word:
sorry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sorry (plural sorries or sorrys)
forms:
form:
sorries
tags:
plural
form:
sorrys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not related to sorrow. Equivalent to sore + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
The British would do it standing stock still, Latinos would dance their sorries, and Canadians would find a way to apologize on ice.
ref:
2007, Christopher Levan, Give Us This Day: Lenten Reflections on Baking Bread and Discipleship, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
So learn how to tailor your sorries to the sexes. Women tend to want an acknowledgment of what they're going through...
ref:
2008, Lucy S. Danziger, Self Magazine's 15 Minutes to Your Best Self
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of saying sorry; an apology.
senses_topics:
|
9607 | word:
sorry
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sorry (third-person singular simple present sorries, present participle sorrying, simple past and past participle sorried)
forms:
form:
sorries
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sorrying
tags:
participle
present
form:
sorried
tags:
participle
past
form:
sorried
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not related to sorrow. Equivalent to sore + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
Jus' that once I sorried for her. Souls cross the skies o' time, Abbess'd say, like clouds crossin' skies o' the world.
ref:
2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Toronto, Ont.: Vintage Canada, page 302
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To feel sorry (for someone).
senses_topics:
|
9608 | word:
fact
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fact (countable and uncountable, plural facts)
forms:
form:
facts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fact
etymology_text:
From Old French fact, from Latin factum (“an act, deed, feat, etc.”); also Medieval Latin for “state, condition, circumstance”; neuter of factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Old/Middle French later evolved it into faict and fait. Doublet of feat.
senses_examples:
text:
In this story, the Gettysburg Address is a fact, but the rest is fiction.
type:
example
text:
Gravity is a fact, not a theory.
type:
example
text:
Let's look at the facts of the case before deciding.
type:
example
text:
There is no doubting the fact that the Earth orbits the Sun.
type:
example
text:
The facts about space travel.
type:
example
text:
Addition facts include 2 + 2 = 4 and 3 + 4 = 7.
type:
example
text:
After that Richard, the third of that name, king in fact only, but tyrant both in title and regiment[…]was[…]overthrown and slain at Bosworth Field; there succeeded in the kingdom[…]Henry the Seventh.
ref:
1622, Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Gentlemen of the Jury, I think I need say but little on this matter: They all confess the fact of which they stand indicted. Some of them were old offenders, and all of them were proved to be at the taking of capt. Manwareing's sloop, and all took their shares: so that I think the fact is very fully and clearly proved upon them.
ref:
1819, T. Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors
type:
quotation
text:
He had become an accessory after the fact.
type:
example
text:
When he who most excels in fact of arms,
ref:
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something actual as opposed to invented.
Something which is real.
Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
Action; the realm of action.
A wrongful or criminal deed.
A feat or meritorious deed.
senses_topics:
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
law
|
9609 | word:
fact
word_type:
intj
expansion:
fact
forms:
wikipedia:
fact
etymology_text:
From Old French fact, from Latin factum (“an act, deed, feat, etc.”); also Medieval Latin for “state, condition, circumstance”; neuter of factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Old/Middle French later evolved it into faict and fait. Doublet of feat.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.
senses_topics:
|
9610 | word:
Andorran
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Andorran (plural Andorrans)
forms:
form:
Andorrans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Andorra + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Andorra or of Andorran descent.
senses_topics:
|
9611 | word:
Andorran
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Andorran (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Andorra + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Andorra, the Andorran people.
senses_topics:
|
9612 | word:
hamulus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hamulus (plural hamuli)
forms:
form:
hamuli
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin hamulus (“a little hook”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hook, or hooklike process.
A hooked barbicel of a feather.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
9613 | word:
crown
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crown (plural crowns)
forms:
form:
crowns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English coroune, from Anglo-Norman corone, from Latin corōna (“crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē). Doublet of corona, koruna, krone, krona, and króna. Displaced native Old English corenbēag (“crown”); and Middle English kinehelm, kynehelm, from Old English cynehelm (“crown”).
* (paper size): So called because originally watermarked with a crown.
senses_examples:
text:
Before so many of Europe's crowns came tumbling off the heads of their royal owners, Continental Europe could show a rich variety in the matter of royal trains.
ref:
1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
the martyr’s crown
type:
example
text:
Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.
type:
example
text:
We walk’d together on the crown/Of a high mountain which look’d down/Afar from its proud natural towers/Of rock and forest, on the hills—/The dwindled hills! begirt with bowers/And shouting with a thousand rills.
ref:
1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
type:
quotation
text:
So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.
ref:
1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752
type:
quotation
text:
The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings.
ref:
1941 February, “Bridge demolition by lifting”, in Railway Magazine, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.
ref:
1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
type:
quotation
text:
There is no difficulty getting married in Jamaica, is there? No, it only costs half a crown.
ref:
1866, Jamaica. Report of the Royal Jamaica Commission, 1866. Part II: Minutes of Evidence and Appendix, H.M.Stationery Office, page 558
type:
quotation
text:
Maggie Murphy had some knickers that she bought in Bagenalstown, an interlock of knickers that she got for a half a crown.
ref:
2009, “Maggie Murphy's Knickers” (track 8), in Stay Wut Her Johnny, performed by Richie Kavanagh
type:
quotation
text:
Holonym: canopy
text:
When these TV chefs show you that they can cook a turkey crown in less than two hours; they aren't magicians or have secret turkey suppliers. The twenty minute per pound rule is based on our grandparents' ovens.
ref:
2012, Paul Treyvaud, The Hooker in the Lobby
type:
quotation
text:
"His [Barack Obama's] unofficial slogan 'fired up and ready to go!' was borrowed from an 'old lady in a church crown [Sunday best hat]."
ref:
2013, Adam Boulton, Tony's Ten Years: Memories of the Blair Administration
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
The top part of something:
The topmost part of the head.
The top part of something:
The highest part of a hill.
The top part of something:
The top section of a hat, above the brim.
The top part of something:
The raised centre of a road.
The top part of something:
The highest part of an arch.
The top part of something:
The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
The top part of something:
The dome of a furnace.
The top part of something:
The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
Splendor; culmination; acme.
Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.
A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.
The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
The top of a tree.
The part of a tooth above the gums.
A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
senses_topics:
architecture
biology
botany
natural-sciences
business
forestry
anatomy
dentistry
medicine
sciences
dentistry
medicine
sciences
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
medicine
sciences
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
lifestyle
religion
hobbies
horology
lifestyle |
9614 | word:
crown
word_type:
adj
expansion:
crown (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English coroune, from Anglo-Norman corone, from Latin corōna (“crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē). Doublet of corona, koruna, krone, krona, and króna. Displaced native Old English corenbēag (“crown”); and Middle English kinehelm, kynehelm, from Old English cynehelm (“crown”).
* (paper size): So called because originally watermarked with a crown.
senses_examples:
text:
crown prince
type:
example
text:
a crown fire
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
senses_topics:
|
9615 | word:
crown
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crown (third-person singular simple present crowns, present participle crowning, simple past and past participle crowned)
forms:
form:
crowns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crowning
tags:
participle
present
form:
crowned
tags:
participle
past
form:
crowned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English coroune, from Anglo-Norman corone, from Latin corōna (“crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē). Doublet of corona, koruna, krone, krona, and króna. Displaced native Old English corenbēag (“crown”); and Middle English kinehelm, kynehelm, from Old English cynehelm (“crown”).
* (paper size): So called because originally watermarked with a crown.
senses_examples:
text:
The king of the Huns was crowned with steel, and rode a stallion red,/Saying: “Proud must my father’s spirit feel of me who crowned my head […]”
ref:
2012, Poul Anderson (lyrics), performed by Leslie Fish, “The Ballad of Three Kings” in Avalon is Risen, originally published (in variant form) in Poul Anderson, “Three Kings”, Amra, volume 2, number 64 (1975)
text:
To crown the whole, came a proposition.
ref:
1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic
type:
quotation
text:
New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.
ref:
2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.
type:
example
text:
You will see the baby's head crowning during contractions, at which time you must prepare to assist the mother in the delivery of the baby.
ref:
2007, David Schottke, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, First Responder: Your First Response in Emergency Care, page 385
text:
He's crowning . . . His head's coming through
ref:
2010, Scott Gallagher, Dancing Upon the Shore, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
“Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.
type:
example
text:
Where's the bathroom, I'm crowning here!
ref:
2020, Eddy Keymolen, amerikanischen Umgangssprache, page 148
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place a crown on the head of.
To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
To declare (someone) a winner.
Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
To hit on the head.
To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
Of a forest fire or bushfire, to spread to the crowns of the trees and thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire.
To widen the opening of the barrel.
To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
To be on the point of defecating.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
video-games
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
government
military
politics
war
nautical
transport
|
9616 | word:
crown
word_type:
verb
expansion:
crown
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The cock had crown.
ref:
1823, Byron, Don Juan
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of crow
senses_topics:
|
9617 | word:
d
word_type:
character
expansion:
d (lower case, upper case D, plural ds or d's)
forms:
form:
D
tags:
uppercase
form:
ds
tags:
plural
form:
d's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Old English lower case letter d, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case d of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9618 | word:
d
word_type:
num
expansion:
d (lower case, upper case D)
forms:
form:
D
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Old English lower case letter d, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case d of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number fourth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9619 | word:
d
word_type:
adj
expansion:
d
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
* (British penny; old penny): abbreviation of Latin denarii, the name of the corresponding Roman coin.
* (dice): abbreviation of dice
d
# Abbreviation of died or death.
#: William Shakespeare, d 1616
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of do and inflections doing, did, done and homophone due
#: exception: dz 'does'
# (stenoscript) prefix dis- or des-
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of declared.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
9620 | word:
d
word_type:
adv
expansion:
d
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
* (British penny; old penny): abbreviation of Latin denarii, the name of the corresponding Roman coin.
* (dice): abbreviation of dice
d
# Abbreviation of died or death.
#: William Shakespeare, d 1616
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of do and inflections doing, did, done and homophone due
#: exception: dz 'does'
# (stenoscript) prefix dis- or des-
senses_examples:
text:
Do you have the answer for 23d?
type:
example
text:
Come d.
text:
Done d.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of down.
Abbreviation of already. Used to form the perfect tenses. Used in text messages.
senses_topics:
|
9621 | word:
d
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
d
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
* (British penny; old penny): abbreviation of Latin denarii, the name of the corresponding Roman coin.
* (dice): abbreviation of dice
d
# Abbreviation of died or death.
#: William Shakespeare, d 1616
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of do and inflections doing, did, done and homophone due
#: exception: dz 'does'
# (stenoscript) prefix dis- or des-
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the prefix dis- or des-
senses_topics:
|
9622 | word:
d
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
d
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
* (British penny; old penny): abbreviation of Latin denarii, the name of the corresponding Roman coin.
* (dice): abbreviation of dice
d
# Abbreviation of died or death.
#: William Shakespeare, d 1616
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of do and inflections doing, did, done and homophone due
#: exception: dz 'does'
# (stenoscript) prefix dis- or des-
senses_examples:
text:
£sd — “pounds, shillings and pence”
text:
d20 — a specialized die with twenty sides
text:
2d6 — the sum of the roll of two six-sided dice
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A British penny; an old penny (the modern decimal penny being abbreviated p).
Die or dice.
A penny, a measure of the size of nails.
senses_topics:
dice
games
|
9623 | word:
Angolan
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Angolan (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Angola + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Angola or the Angolan people.
senses_topics:
|
9624 | word:
Angolan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Angolan (plural Angolans)
forms:
form:
Angolans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Angola + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Angola or of Angolan descent.
senses_topics:
|
9625 | word:
prepose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
prepose (third-person singular simple present preposes, present participle preposing, simple past and past participle preposed)
forms:
form:
preposes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
preposing
tags:
participle
present
form:
preposed
tags:
participle
past
form:
preposed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French préposer; prefix pré- (Latin prae before) with poser. See pose.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place or set (something) before; to prefix.
senses_topics:
|
9626 | word:
hamulose
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hamulose (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin hamulus, diminutive of hāmus (“hook”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bearing a small hook at the end
senses_topics:
|
9627 | word:
bly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bly (plural blies)
forms:
form:
blies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from a dialectal variant of blee (“complexion, aspect, colour, hue”).
senses_examples:
text:
I see a bly of your father about you.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Likeness; resemblance; look aspect; species; character.
senses_topics:
|
9628 | word:
password
word_type:
noun
expansion:
password (plural passwords)
forms:
form:
passwords
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
password
etymology_text:
From pass + word; the sentry-passing sense predates the cryptographic sense and was its inspiration.
senses_examples:
text:
Only if a would-be visitor knew the password du jour could he pass; the guards allowed no exceptions.
type:
example
text:
A strong password has a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information.
A string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, and so on; archetypally a word but nowadays often an alphanumeric string or a phrase.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
9629 | word:
password
word_type:
verb
expansion:
password (third-person singular simple present passwords, present participle passwording, simple past and past participle passworded)
forms:
form:
passwords
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
passwording
tags:
participle
present
form:
passworded
tags:
participle
past
form:
passworded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
password
etymology_text:
From pass + word; the sentry-passing sense predates the cryptographic sense and was its inspiration.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To protect with a password.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
9630 | word:
penguin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
penguin (plural penguins)
forms:
form:
penguins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Penguin#Etymology
penguin
etymology_text:
Unknown; first attested in the 16th century in reference to the auk of the Northern hemisphere; the word was later applied to the superficially similar birds of the Southern hemisphere (as was woggin). Possibly from Welsh pen (“head”) and gwyn (“white”), or from Latin pinguis (“fat”). See citations and the Wikipedia article.
(nun): Because of the often black-and-white habit, resembling the bird's colors.
senses_examples:
text:
Here are also birds cal'd Pen-gwins (white-head in Welch) like Pigmies walking upright, their finns or wings hanging very orderly downe like sleeves […]
ref:
1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I
type:
quotation
text:
This last species of penguin, or auk, seems to be the same with the alca cirrhata of Dr. Pallis, Spicileg. Zool. Fasc. v. p. 7. tab. i. & v. fig. 1–3. F.
ref:
1772 March, “Account of the Settlement of the Malouines”, in The Gentleman's and London Magazine, page 166
type:
quotation
text:
More than a hundred years ago, for example, was seen the last of the great wingless penguins or auks, which early writers quaintly called " wobble-birds."
ref:
1885, Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York
type:
quotation
text:
These productive patches, and the houses, were each surrounded by a fence, made of a prickly shrub, called the Pinguin, which propagates itself with great rapidity.
ref:
1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 4, p. 82
type:
quotation
text:
Although it is a permanent R.A.F. station (pre-war, that is), we meander about, even in the Mess, in battle dress and flying boots, sweaters, etc., much to the disgust of some of the more dignified 'penguins' […]
ref:
1942, Hermann Hagedorn, Sunward I've Climbed, page 143
type:
quotation
text:
Notwithstanding his elevated status as the wing’s Senior Intelligence Officer, Monty, too, was a “penguin,” equal in that respect to an armament assistant, airframe mechanic, pigeon loftsman or any of the seventy-odd ground trades listed by the Royal Canadian Air Force at the war’s end.
ref:
1994, Monty Berger, Invasions without tears: the story of Canada's top-scoring Spitfire wing in Europe during the Second World War, →LCCN, page xi
type:
quotation
text:
She may have been a “penguin”—an Air Force service member who didn't fly—but it sure beat being at home, as Brady had pointed out.
ref:
2015 June 1, Kate Christie, In the Company of Women, Bella Books, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
This was to be my home for three months where ground officer cadets, referred to colloquially as ‘penguins’ were trained.
ref:
2019 November 5, Derek Esp, An Adventure in Education: The Autobiography of an Accidental Career in Education, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →OCLC, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.
An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere.
A nun.
A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.
A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, Bromelia pinguin.
A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft.
senses_topics:
arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
government
military
politics
war |
9631 | word:
peer
word_type:
verb
expansion:
peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)
forms:
form:
peers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
peering
tags:
participle
present
form:
peered
tags:
participle
past
form:
peered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
peer
etymology_text:
From Middle English piren (“to peer”), from or related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”), which could all be related to the root of English blear. Or, possibly from a shortening of appear.
senses_examples:
text:
As if thro’ a dungeon grate he peer’d
With broad and burning face.
ref:
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, Part III, p. 17, And strait the Sun was fleck’d with bars (Heaven’s mother send us grace)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
To come in sight; to appear.
senses_topics:
|
9632 | word:
peer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
peer (plural peers)
forms:
form:
peers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
peer
etymology_text:
From Middle English piren (“to peer”), from or related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”), which could all be related to the root of English blear. Or, possibly from a shortening of appear.
senses_examples:
text:
Blessed are those organisers who provide one-and-all with a name tag, for then the participants will chat together. A quick peer at your neighbour's lapel is much the simplest way to become introduced […]
ref:
1970, William Crookes, T. A. Malone, George Shadbolt, The British journal of photography, volume 117, page 58
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A look; a glance.
senses_topics:
|
9633 | word:
peer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
peer (plural peers)
forms:
form:
peers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
peer
etymology_text:
From Middle English pere, per, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par.
senses_examples:
text:
a peer of the realm
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
A comrade; a companion; an associate.
senses_topics:
|
9634 | word:
peer
word_type:
verb
expansion:
peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)
forms:
form:
peers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
peering
tags:
participle
present
form:
peered
tags:
participle
past
form:
peered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
peer
etymology_text:
From Middle English pere, per, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par.
senses_examples:
text:
Being now Peered with the Lord Chancellor, and the Earl of Essex.
ref:
1670, Peter Heylyn, Aerius Redivivus
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make equal in rank.
To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
senses_topics:
|
9635 | word:
peer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
peer (plural peers)
forms:
form:
peers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
peer
etymology_text:
table pee + -er
senses_examples:
text:
As was the caveat about peeing in a pool. Of course, peeing in a pool wasn't dangerous to the person ... If you peed in a pool, and you were carrying the polio virus, presumably *other* people were put at risk, not the peer (pee-er?).
ref:
1999 August 22, “Re: Swimming after eating”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
SOunds like you've already broken him quite well, if he's peeing when disciplined. Pretty sad. He's not a dog, not that treating a dog like this is any better either. You've turned your child into a submissive peer.
ref:
2000 August 29, “Re: 32 month old urinating in his room! HELP!”, in alt.parenting.solutions (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Submissive peeing, on the other hand, IS related to anxiety. But submissive peeing is not marking. A submissive peer is generally a very submissive dog.
ref:
2003 October 11, “Re: do female's "mark" their territory?”, in rec.pets.dogs.behavior (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
senses_topics:
|
9636 | word:
pub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pub (plural pubs)
forms:
form:
pubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pub
etymology_text:
Clipping of public house
senses_examples:
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.
senses_topics:
|
9637 | word:
pub
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pub (third-person singular simple present pubs, present participle pubbing, simple past and past participle pubbed)
forms:
form:
pubs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pubbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pubbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
pubbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of public house
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To go to one or more public houses.
senses_topics:
|
9638 | word:
pub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pub (plural pubs)
forms:
form:
pubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of public server
senses_examples:
text:
Well there's private servers and then there's pubs that do their best to make sure everyone plays fair. The second option will be a lot easier to find.
ref:
2002, Sean C. Cunningham, “if you play on random public servers, you're an tool and have no right to complain about cheaters.”, in alt.games.half-life.counterstrike (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A public server.
senses_topics:
video-games |
9639 | word:
pub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pub (plural pubs)
forms:
form:
pubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of publication.
senses_examples:
text:
registered pubs
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of publication.
senses_topics:
|
9640 | word:
pub
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pub (third-person singular simple present pubs, present participle pubbing, simple past and past participle pubbed)
forms:
form:
pubs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pubbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pubbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
pubbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of publish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to publish
senses_topics:
|
9641 | word:
pub
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pub (plural pubs)
forms:
form:
pubs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of publisher.
senses_examples:
text:
Pubs say it's out of print, but it was supposed to have been reissued.
ref:
1979 April 14, “Barbara G. (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of publisher.
senses_topics:
|
9642 | word:
community
word_type:
noun
expansion:
community (countable and uncountable, plural communities)
forms:
form:
communities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”), from commūnis (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -itās. Morphologically, from commune + -ity. Doublet of communitas.
senses_examples:
text:
[W]e are not borne to our ſelues alone, but the prince, the countrie, the parents, freends, wiues, children and familie, euerie of them doo claime an intereſt in vs, and to euerie of them we muſt be beneficiall: otherwiſe we doo degenerate from that communitie and ſocietie, which by ſuch offices by vs is to be conſtrued, & doo become moſt vnprofitable: […]
ref:
1586, Giraldus Cambrensis [i.e., Gerald of Wales], “[https://books.google.com/books?id=ASFEAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP83 The Irish Historie Composed and Written by Giraldus Cambrensis, […] ]”, in Iohn Hooker alias Vowell [i.e., John Hooker], transl., The Second Volume of Chronicles: […], [s.l.]: [s.n.], →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Nor wanting here, to entertain the thought, / Creatures, that in communities exist, / Less, at might seem, for general guardianship / Or through dependance upon mutual aid, / Than by participation of delight / And a strict love of fellowship, combined.
ref:
1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, being a Portion of The Recluse; a Poem, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, book the fourth (Despondency Corrected), page 161
type:
quotation
text:
Henry VII obtained from his first parliament a grant of tonnage and poundage during life, according to several precedents of former reigns. But when general subsidies were granted, the same people […] twice broke out into dangerous rebellions; and as these, however arising from such immediate discontent, were yet connected a good deal with the opinion of Henry's usurpation, and the claims of a pretender, it was a necessary policy to avoid too frequent imposition of burdens upon the poorer classes of the community.
ref:
1827, Henry Hallam, “On the English Constitution from Henry VII to Mary”, in The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II, volume I, Paris: Printed for L. Baudry, at the English, Italian, German and Spanish Library, No. 9, rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré; Lefèvre, bookseller, No. 8, rue de l'Éperon, →OCLC, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
As one reads history—not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time—one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment, than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
ref:
1891 March 15, Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, in Oscar Wilde, William Morris, W[illiam] C[harles] Owen, The Soul of Man under Socialism, The Socialist Ideal—Art and The Coming Solidarity (The Humboldt Library of Science; no. 147), New York, N.Y.: The Humboldt Publishing Company, 28 Lafayette Place, →OCLC, pages 14–15
type:
quotation
text:
The process of coming to faith and growing in the life of faith is fundamentally a process of participation. […] The Presbyterian Confession of 1967 says that "the new life takes shape in a community in which [human beings] know that God loves and accepts them in spite of what they are." In words that capture an older language, God uses the community of faith as "means of grace."
ref:
2005, Craig Dykstra, “Growing in Faith”, in Growing in the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practices, 2nd edition, Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.
ref:
2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, archived from the original on 2016-11-16, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
The Beguines, an uncloistered religiously inspired woman's movement began about the year 1210 in Liége, Belgium. Generally the Beguines lived in community or in small cottages behind a wall. At times threatened as heretics, they were finally disbanded by the Reformation.
ref:
1999, “Fourteenth Century: Before and After”, in Therese Boos Dykeman, editor, The Neglected Canon: Nine Women Philosophers: First to the Twentieth Century, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
Synecology has for the objects of its study, not individual organisms but biological communities, which are groups of organisms living in a given space, the properties of which space select a certain assemblage of organisms of definite autecological characteristics. Such communities are moreover not merely collections of organisms of restricted autecology, but tend to become organized by the biotic relationships that exist beteen the various individuals comprising the community.
ref:
1949, G[eorge] E[velyn] Hutchinson, E[dward] S[mith] Deevey, Jr., “Ecological Studies on Populations”, in George S. Avery, Jr., editor, Survey of Biological Progress, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, page 325
type:
quotation
text:
Spam texts are encoded but no decryption is possible. There is no plaintext message. I find them wonderful, and read them as poetics, as odd fragments generative of narrtives and scenography. I find the process of their production wonderful as well. The texts are written to elude community standards and means of censorship, and at the same time to enter and impose themselves into the standards and means for the community to read itself.
ref:
2015, Sandy Baldwin, “I Read My Spam”, in The Internet Unconscious: On the Subject of Electronic Literature (International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics; 9), New York, N.Y., London: Bloomsbury Academic, section VI, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
Online gaming communities develop their own language, history, routines, and relationships. The online poker community is no different, developing its own culture distinct from the traditional poker community. One asp[ect that differentiates internet poker from other online gaming communities is the presence of money, creating what [Edward] Castronova et al. (2009) refer to as a virtual economic system complete with its own rules and forces.
ref:
2015, Aaron M. Duncan, “Shifting the Scene to Cyberspace: Internet Poker and the Rise of Tom Dwan”, in Gambling with the Myth of the American Dream (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society), New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge
type:
quotation
text:
We hope to demonstrate that Paul understood the local community to be the sphere in which and the means through which the five components of the maturation process were facilitated, thus concluding that Paul expected believers to be confirmed to Christ in community.
ref:
2006, James G[eorge] Samra, “The Role of the Local Community in the Maturation Process”, in Being Conformed to Christ in Community: A Study of Maturity, Maturation and the Local Church in the Undisputed Pauline Epistles (Library of New Testament Studies; 320), paperback edition, London, New York, N.Y.: T&T Clark, published 2008, section 6.1 (Introduction), page 133
type:
quotation
text:
Writing groups and community writing spaces can provide that vitally important space for writing as well as potential benefits of support and accountability if people have the chance to talk about writing. Even if all that happens, however, is that people have a space to write in community with each other, the result is usually that writing becomes contagious.
ref:
2018, Bronwyn T. Williams, “A Sense of Where You Are: Literacy, Place, and Mobility”, in Literacy Practices and Perceptions of Agency: Composing Identities, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
a community of goods
type:
example
text:
To conclude, this Text is ſo far from proving Adam Sole Proprietor, that on the contrary, it is a Confirmation of the Original Community of all Things amongſt the Sons of Men, which appearing from this Donation of God, as well as other places of Scripture; the Sovraignty of Adam, built upon his Private Dominion, muſt fall, not having any Foundation to ſupport it.
ref:
1689, [John Locke], “Of Adam’s Title to Sovereignty by Donation, Gen[esis] 1.28”, in Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government, London: Printed for Awnsham Churchill, at the Black Swan in Ave-Mary-Lane, by Amen-Corner, published 1690, →OCLC; republished London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1698, →OCLC, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Besides, you are depriving yourself of the comforts of her sympathy; and not merely that, but also endangering the only bond that can keep hearts together—an unreserved community of thought and feeling.
ref:
1819 October 9, [Washington Irving], “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. No. III. The Wife.”, in The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, etc., volume III, number 142, London: Printed by William Pople, No. 67, Chancery Lane; published for the proprietors, at the Literary Gazette office, Strand; sold also by Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; John Cumming, Dublin; and all other booksellers, newsmen, &c., →OCLC, page 649, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
We are now in the ninth year of the anarchy of France. […] A diſpoſition to peace has been diſplayed, without conſideration of the royal family of France. The natural horror at the effuſion of blood cannot be too ſtrong, and might of itſelf perſuade us to any ſort of peace; but it is a great queſtion, whether in this we ſhould loſe our natural horror at crime. Peace with France cannot be friendſhip with France. There can be no community between us and them, unleſs by allying ourſelves with murder, and ſanctioning and ſharing in the pillage of thieves.
ref:
1797, John Wilde, Sequel to an Address to the Lately Formed Society of the Friends of the People, Edinburgh: Printed for Peter Hill; and T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, London, →OCLC, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth, is, however, most clearly seen on observing that they both result in the same way. The segregation of different kinds of detritus from each other, as well as from the water carrying them, and their aggregation into distinct strata, is but an instance of a universl tendency towards the union of like units and the parting of unlike units[…].
ref:
1864, Herbert Spencer, “Growth”, in The Principles of Biology (A System of Synthetic Philosophy; II), volume I, London, Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 14, Henrietta Steet, Covent Garden, London; and 20, South Frederick Street, Edinburgh, →OCLC, part II (The Inductions of Biology), § 43, pages 107–108
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
A residential or religious collective; a commune.
A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
Common character; likeness.
Commonness; frequency.
A local area within a county or county borough which is the lowest tier of local government, usually represented by a community council or town council, which is generally equivalent to a civil parish in England.
senses_topics:
biology
ecology
natural-sciences
|
9643 | word:
civilization
word_type:
noun
expansion:
civilization (countable and uncountable, plural civilizations)
forms:
form:
civilizations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
civilization
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French civilisation.
senses_examples:
text:
the Aztec civilization
type:
example
text:
Western civilization
type:
example
text:
Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization.
type:
example
text:
But civilizations, like the penis, rise and fall, and when the towers and battlements crumble into the earth, they return to the embrace of the Great Mother.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., pages rise and fall
type:
quotation
text:
A hermit doesn't much care for civilization.
type:
example
text:
I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family.
type:
example
text:
Civilisation has imbued man's minds with false ideas of the evil of sex and its fulfilment.
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.
type:
example
text:
He was a man of great civilization.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development.
Human society, particularly civil society.
The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
The state or quality of being civilized.
The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
senses_topics:
|
9644 | word:
civilization
word_type:
name
expansion:
civilization
forms:
wikipedia:
civilization
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French civilisation.
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonym: ecumene (obsolete)
text:
Some of the tourists in the upcountry might have embarrassed themselves if they'd been capable of having any shame, whining that they couldn't wait to get back to civilization.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. (Compare refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World.
senses_topics:
|
9645 | word:
h
word_type:
character
expansion:
h (lower case, upper case H, plural hs or h's)
forms:
form:
H
tags:
uppercase
form:
hs
tags:
plural
form:
h's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The eighth letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9646 | word:
h
word_type:
num
expansion:
h (lower case, upper case H)
forms:
form:
H
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number eighth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9647 | word:
h
word_type:
noun
expansion:
h
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations
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:
If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).
ref:
1989, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers
type:
quotation
text:
The commands assume that the NV memory is addressed beginning at 8000h in external data memory.
ref:
1994, Jan Axelson, The microcontroller idea book, page 47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of hour (particularly when used as a (non-SI) unit of time alongside International System of Units (SI) units)
Abbreviation of hit, the number of hits by a player
Abbreviation of heroin.
Abbreviation of hexadecimal (following a number)
Abbreviation of home phone.
senses_topics:
sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
9648 | word:
h
word_type:
verb
expansion:
h
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations
senses_examples:
text:
exception: hz 'has'
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of have and inflections having, had
senses_topics:
|
9649 | word:
h
word_type:
adj
expansion:
h (comparative more h, superlative most h)
forms:
form:
more h
tags:
comparative
form:
most h
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of H
senses_topics:
|
9650 | word:
fox
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fox (plural foxes or (nonstandard, dialectal) foxen)
forms:
form:
foxes
tags:
plural
form:
foxen
tags:
dialectal
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
en:fox
etymology_text:
From Middle English fox, from Old English fox (“fox”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (“the tailed one”), possibly from *puḱ- (“tail”).
Cognate with Scots fox (“fox”), West Frisian foks (“fox”), Fering-Öömrang North Frisian foos and Sölring and Heligoland fos, Dutch vos (“fox”), Low German vos (“fox”), German Fuchs (“fox”), Icelandic fóa (“fox”), Tocharian B päkā (“tail, chowrie”), Russian пух (pux, “down, fluff”), Sanskrit पुच्छ (púccha) (whence Torwali پوش (pūš, “fox”), Hindi पूंछ (pūñch, “tail”)).
senses_examples:
text:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
type:
example
text:
The fox went out on a chase one night, / he prayed to the Moon to give him light, / for he had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o. / He had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o.
ref:
15ᵗʰ century, The Fox, verse 1
text:
And Jerry was cute, you know, I liked him, but Frank was a total fox. And he was rougher than Jerry, you know, not so cultured.
ref:
1993, Laura Antoniou, The Marketplace, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
It wasn't just that Jayne was a fox – although, fuck, was she ever a fox. That arse, those tits, those lips. They could have a really good time together.
ref:
2012, Adele Parks, Still Thinking of You
type:
quotation
text:
Locating a hidden transmitter (the fox) has been a popular ham activity for many years.
ref:
2006, H. Ward Silver, The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual
type:
quotation
text:
Got a lock! Fox, Fox!
ref:
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.
Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox).
The fur of a fox.
A fox terrier.
The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
A cunning person.
A physically attractive man or woman.
A person with reddish brown hair, usually a woman.
A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
The fourteenth Lenormand card.
A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
Air-to-air weapon launched.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war |
9651 | word:
fox
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fox (third-person singular simple present foxes, present participle foxing, simple past and past participle foxed)
forms:
form:
foxes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
foxing
tags:
participle
present
form:
foxed
tags:
participle
past
form:
foxed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:fox
etymology_text:
From Middle English fox, from Old English fox (“fox”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (“the tailed one”), possibly from *puḱ- (“tail”).
Cognate with Scots fox (“fox”), West Frisian foks (“fox”), Fering-Öömrang North Frisian foos and Sölring and Heligoland fos, Dutch vos (“fox”), Low German vos (“fox”), German Fuchs (“fox”), Icelandic fóa (“fox”), Tocharian B päkā (“tail, chowrie”), Russian пух (pux, “down, fluff”), Sanskrit पुच्छ (púccha) (whence Torwali پوش (pūš, “fox”), Hindi पूंछ (pūñch, “tail”)).
senses_examples:
text:
This crossword puzzle has completely foxed me.
type:
example
text:
The pages of the book show distinct foxing.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
To confuse or baffle (someone).
To act slyly or craftily.
To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
senses_topics:
|
9652 | word:
a cappella
word_type:
noun
expansion:
a cappella (plural a cappellas)
forms:
form:
a cappellas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian a cappella (“in the manner of the [Sistine] chapel”), referring to non-instrumental choirs.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vocal performance with no instrumental accompaniment.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
9653 | word:
a cappella
word_type:
adv
expansion:
a cappella (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian a cappella (“in the manner of the [Sistine] chapel”), referring to non-instrumental choirs.
senses_examples:
text:
Groups of teens singing a cappella on street corners got recording contracts.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a manner of a choir with no instrumental accompaniment; literally, "in the style of the (Sistine) Chapel (in Rome)", such as a musical Mass done a cappella.
In alla breve time.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
9654 | word:
a cappella
word_type:
adj
expansion:
a cappella (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian a cappella (“in the manner of the [Sistine] chapel”), referring to non-instrumental choirs.
senses_examples:
text:
An a cappella group sang during the wedding reception.
type:
example
text:
Socially, a cappella groups tend to be tight-knit ensembles in which close interpersonal relationships are formed.
ref:
2012, Joshua S. Duchan, Powerful Voices, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Singing solely or mainly without instrumental accompaniment.
Related to a form of purely vocal music mostly associated with American college performance groups.
alla breve.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
9655 | word:
manga
word_type:
noun
expansion:
manga (countable and uncountable, plural manga or mangas)
forms:
form:
manga
tags:
plural
form:
mangas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Black Cat (manga)
Hokusai
manga (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga), from Middle Chinese 漫 (MC manH, “free, unrestrained”) + 畫 (MC hweaH|hweak, “drawing”). Compare Mandarin 漫畫／漫画 (mànhuà), Korean 만화 (漫畵／漫畫, manhwa). After an 1814 book by Katsushika Hokusai. Doublet of manhua and manhwa.
senses_examples:
text:
English speakers are quick to notice the at times incorrect use of English in anime and manga. Many English words are customarily used in standard Japanese speech, and sometimes they are pronounced and employed in a manner quite different from their native use.
ref:
2001, Gilles Poitras, “What makes anime unique”, in Anime Essentials: Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
Manga (Japanese comics) are everywhere. Even here in Auckland. One can find various titles in their original versions as well as in Chinese, Korean and English translations.
ref:
2007, Yukako Sunaoshi, “Who reads comics? Manga readership among first-generation Asian immigrants in New Zealand”, in Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
Manga-influenced comics by Western authors are frequently sold alongside manga, although in most bookstores the decision is primarily a matter of format and packaging (i.e., whether the book is printed in the compact manga size or the traditionally larger American comic book format).
ref:
2012, Jason Thompson, “Introduction”, in Manga: The Complete Guide, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
Lately I've been reading a Brazilian manga.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A comic originating in Japan.
An artistic style heavily used in, and associated with, Japanese comics, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of comics from other countries.
Any comic in such a style, regardless of the country of origin.
senses_topics:
comics
literature
media
publishing
|
9656 | word:
manga
word_type:
noun
expansion:
manga (plural mangas)
forms:
form:
mangas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Black Cat (manga)
manga (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Spanish manga (“sleeve”). Doublet of manche.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A covering for a crucifix.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
9657 | word:
manga
word_type:
noun
expansion:
manga (plural mangas)
forms:
form:
mangas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Black Cat (manga)
manga (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of mango (“the fruit”).
senses_topics:
|
9658 | word:
still
word_type:
adj
expansion:
still (comparative stiller or more still, superlative stillest or most still)
forms:
form:
stiller
tags:
comparative
form:
more still
tags:
comparative
form:
stillest
tags:
superlative
form:
most still
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Still (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English stille (“motionless, stationary”), from Old English stille (“still, quiet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stillī, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telH- (“to be silent; to be still”). Cognate with Scots stil (“still”), Saterland Frisian stil (“motionless, calm, quiet”), West Frisian stil (“quiet, still”), Dutch stil (“quiet, silent, still”), Low German still (“quiet, still”), German still (“still, quiet, tranquil, silent”), Swedish stilla (“quiet, silent, peaceful”), Icelandic stilltur (“set, quiet, calm, still”). Related to stall.
(noun: Falkland Islander): Military slang, short for still a Benny, since the military had been instructed not to refer to the islanders by the derogatory term Benny (which see).
senses_examples:
text:
Sit there and stay still!
type:
example
text:
Still waters run deep.
type:
example
text:
still water; still wines
type:
example
text:
The sea that roared at thy command, / At thy command was still.
ref:
c. 1711, Joseph Addison, How are thy Servants blest, O Lord!
type:
quotation
text:
To follow the still President’s marching orders, all that Secretary Ronnie Puno has to do is to follow the road map laid out by Justice Azcuna in his “separate” opinion.
ref:
2007 January 3, Gerry Geronimo, “Unwanted weed starts to sprout from a wayward ponencia”, in Manila Standard, archived from the original on 2011-07-19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not moving; calm.
Not effervescing; not sparkling.
Uttering no sound; silent.
Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
Constant; continual.
senses_topics:
|
9659 | word:
still
word_type:
adv
expansion:
still (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Still (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English stille (“motionless, stationary”), from Old English stille (“still, quiet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stillī, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telH- (“to be silent; to be still”). Cognate with Scots stil (“still”), Saterland Frisian stil (“motionless, calm, quiet”), West Frisian stil (“quiet, still”), Dutch stil (“quiet, silent, still”), Low German still (“quiet, still”), German still (“still, quiet, tranquil, silent”), Swedish stilla (“quiet, silent, peaceful”), Icelandic stilltur (“set, quiet, calm, still”). Related to stall.
(noun: Falkland Islander): Military slang, short for still a Benny, since the military had been instructed not to refer to the islanders by the derogatory term Benny (which see).
senses_examples:
text:
They stood still until the guard was out of sight.
type:
example
text:
Is it still raining? It was still raining five minutes ago.
type:
example
text:
We’ve seen most of the sights, but we are still visiting the museum.
type:
example
text:
I’m still not wise enough to answer that.
type:
example
text:
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
ref:
2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly)
type:
quotation
text:
Tom is tall; Dick is taller; Harry is still taller / Harry is taller still.
type:
example
text:
I’m not hungry, but I’ll still manage to find room for dessert.
type:
example
text:
Yeah, but still...
type:
example
text:
As sunshine, broken in the rill, / Though turned astray, is sunshine still.
ref:
1817, Thomas Moore, Lalla-Rookh
type:
quotation
text:
Given the thorny intelligence of [J. C.] Chandor’s previous films (which also include Margin Call and A Most Violent Year), it's hard to believe that he thought it was a good idea to play Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" over a sequence of Pope telling the others that he can't do this job without them, or to accompany shots of the men running through the jungle with Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Run Through The Jungle." (Okay, they're stealthily walking. But still.)
ref:
2019 July 3, Mike D’Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck Blunder through a Heavy Heist in J. C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-11-21
type:
quotation
text:
Some dogs howl; more yelp; still more bark.
type:
example
text:
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
ref:
2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
'Yeah yeah, I'm good still, Stace,' I said.
ref:
2022, Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends
type:
quotation
text:
HALIL: I can't lie, I didn't expect it from you, man, still!
ref:
2022 June 2, Gabrielle Wood, 16:17 from the start, in Teddy Nygh, director, PRU (1), episode 2 (TV), spoken by Halil (Jay Ersavas)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without motion.
Up to a time, as in the preceding time.
To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs.
Nevertheless.
Always; invariably; constantly; continuously.
Even, yet.
Alternative spelling of styll
senses_topics:
|
9660 | word:
still
word_type:
noun
expansion:
still (plural stills)
forms:
form:
stills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Still (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English stille (“motionless, stationary”), from Old English stille (“still, quiet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stillī, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telH- (“to be silent; to be still”). Cognate with Scots stil (“still”), Saterland Frisian stil (“motionless, calm, quiet”), West Frisian stil (“quiet, still”), Dutch stil (“quiet, silent, still”), Low German still (“quiet, still”), German still (“still, quiet, tranquil, silent”), Swedish stilla (“quiet, silent, peaceful”), Icelandic stilltur (“set, quiet, calm, still”). Related to stall.
(noun: Falkland Islander): Military slang, short for still a Benny, since the military had been instructed not to refer to the islanders by the derogatory term Benny (which see).
senses_examples:
text:
the still of the night
type:
example
text:
Between the roar of the thunder and the blatter of the rain there were intervals of an astounding still, of an ominous suspense […]
ref:
1901, Good Words, volume 42, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
As the ground warms, to the first rays of light, / A birdsong shatters the still.
ref:
1983 May, Adrian Smith, Bruce Dickinson (lyrics and music), “Flight of Icarus”, in Piece of Mind, performed by Iron Maiden
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A period of calm or silence.
A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
A single frame from a film.
A resident of the Falkland Islands.
senses_topics:
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
arts
broadcasting
cinematography
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
|
9661 | word:
still
word_type:
noun
expansion:
still (plural stills)
forms:
form:
stills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Still (disambiguation)
still
etymology_text:
Via Middle English [Term?], ultimately from Latin stilla.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device for distilling liquids.
A large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.
The area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.
A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
senses_topics:
|
9662 | word:
still
word_type:
verb
expansion:
still (third-person singular simple present stills, present participle stilling, simple past and past participle stilled)
forms:
form:
stills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stilling
tags:
participle
present
form:
stilled
tags:
participle
past
form:
stilled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Still (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Old English stillan.
senses_examples:
text:
to still the raging sea
type:
example
text:
They likewise believed that he, having a full Sway and Command over the Water, had Power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it […]
ref:
1695, John Woodward, An essay toward a natural history of the earth and terrestrial bodies, especially minerals, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
Is this the scourge of France? / Is this the Talbot, so much fear'd abroad / That with his name the mothers still their babes?
ref:
c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 1, act 2, scene 3
type:
quotation
text:
[…] withholding myself from toil that would, at least, have stilled an unquiet impulse in me.
ref:
1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To calm down, to quiet.
senses_topics:
|
9663 | word:
still
word_type:
verb
expansion:
still (third-person singular simple present stills, present participle stilling, simple past and past participle stilled)
forms:
form:
stills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stilling
tags:
participle
present
form:
stilled
tags:
participle
past
form:
stilled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Still (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Aphetic form of distil, or from
Latin stillare.
senses_examples:
text:
And if that any drop of slombring rest / Did chaunce to still into her wearie spright,
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto ii, paragraph xxix
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To trickle, drip.
To cause to fall by drops.
To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
senses_topics:
|
9664 | word:
defeat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
defeat (third-person singular simple present defeats, present participle defeating, simple past and past participle defeated)
forms:
form:
defeats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
defeating
tags:
participle
present
form:
defeated
tags:
participle
past
form:
defeated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English defeten, from Middle English defet (“disfigured”, past participle) and defet (“defect”, noun), see Etymology 2 below.
senses_examples:
text:
Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
type:
example
text:
The Japanese defeated the Ming general Tsu Chʻeng-hsün 祖承訓 at Pʻing jang 平壤 in 1592, the first year of Bunroku 文祿 of Japan, and the fighting continued for some years; but at Hideyoshi's death the Japanese troops left Korea.
ref:
1917, Samuel Couling, “Japanese Relations with China”, in The Encyclopaedia Sinica, Literature House, Ltd., published 1964, →OCLC, page 255, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
My personal success or failure is insignificant; the rise or fall of the nation is my responsibility and must not be shirked. Upon introspection, I feel I am firmer than ever in confidence that the Communists will be defeated. These are feelings which will comfort Father's soul in Heaven.
ref:
1980 August 1 [1980 May 1], Ching-kuo Chiang, “President Chiang Ching-kuo continues his period of mourning and finds that visits to countryside and people give him renewed strength”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 2020-05-17
type:
quotation
text:
In one instance he defeated his own purpose.
ref:
1879, Adolphus Ward, “Chaucer”, in English Men of Letters
type:
quotation
text:
The last active L.Y.R. 0-6-0ST (apart from works shunters), No. 51408, has been moved from Bolton to Agecroft for use in New Bailey Yard, Salford, where a sharp 1 in 27 curve is said to have defeated all attempts so far to employ diesel shunters; an ex-L.Y.R. 0-4-0ST also works here.
ref:
1962 January, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region: Central Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 60
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To overcome in battle or contest.
To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
To nullify
To prevent (something) from being achieved.
senses_topics:
|
9665 | word:
defeat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
defeat (countable and uncountable, plural defeats)
forms:
form:
defeats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English defet, from French deffet, desfait, past participle of the verb desfaire (compare modern French défaire), from des- + faire.
senses_examples:
text:
Licking their wounds after a temporary defeat, they planned their next move.
type:
example
text:
Two defeats in five games coming into this contest, and a draw with Everton, ultimately cost Sir Alex Ferguson's side in what became the most extraordinary finale to the league championship since Arsenal beat Liverpool at Anfield in 1989.
ref:
2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The inscription records her defeat of the country's enemies in a costly war.
type:
example
text:
... is subsequently issued to him, in accordance with his perfect equity thus acquired, by a legal fiction which the law creates for the protection, but not for the defeat, of his title.
ref:
1909, The Southern Reporter, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
She could see no justice in being forced into a position that promised to end in further humiliation and defeat of her hopes.
ref:
2008, Gene Porter, A Daughter of the Land, volume 1, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
Destruction, ruin.
senses_topics:
|
9666 | word:
near
word_type:
adj
expansion:
near (comparative nearer, superlative nearest)
forms:
form:
nearer
tags:
comparative
form:
nearest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nere, ner, from Old English nēar (“nearer”, comparative of nēah (“nigh”), the superlative would become next), influenced by Old Norse nær (“near”), both originating from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz (“nearer”), comparative of the adverb *nēhw (“near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz, ultimately from Pre-Proto-Germanic *h₂nḗḱwos, a lengthened-grade adjective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).
Cognate with Old Frisian niār (“nearer”), Dutch naar (“to, towards”), German näher (“nearer”), Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”). See also nigh.
Near appears to be derived from (or at the very least influenced by) the North Germanic languages; compare Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”), as opposed to nigh, which continues the inherited West Germanic adjective, like Dutch na (“close, near”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”). Both, however, are ultimately derived from the same Proto-Germanic root: *nēhw (“near, close”).
senses_examples:
text:
I can't see near objects very clearly without my glasses.
type:
example
text:
Stay near at all times.
type:
example
text:
The end is near.
type:
example
text:
The deceased man had no near relatives.
type:
example
text:
A matter of near consequence to me.
type:
example
text:
a near friend
type:
example
text:
a version near to the original
type:
example
text:
a near escape
type:
example
text:
The two words are near synonyms.
type:
example
text:
The near front wheel came loose.
type:
example
text:
the near ox; the near leg
type:
example
text:
Don't be near with your pocketbook.
type:
example
text:
a near pointer
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Physically close.
Close in time.
Closely connected or related.
Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear.
Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling.
So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow.
Approximate, almost.
On the side nearest to the kerb (the left-hand side if one drives on the left).
Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team.
Immediate; direct; close; short.
Stingy; parsimonious.
Within the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
9667 | word:
near
word_type:
adv
expansion:
near (comparative nearer, superlative nearest)
forms:
form:
nearer
tags:
comparative
form:
nearest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nere, ner, from Old English nēar (“nearer”, comparative of nēah (“nigh”), the superlative would become next), influenced by Old Norse nær (“near”), both originating from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz (“nearer”), comparative of the adverb *nēhw (“near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz, ultimately from Pre-Proto-Germanic *h₂nḗḱwos, a lengthened-grade adjective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).
Cognate with Old Frisian niār (“nearer”), Dutch naar (“to, towards”), German näher (“nearer”), Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”). See also nigh.
Near appears to be derived from (or at the very least influenced by) the North Germanic languages; compare Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”), as opposed to nigh, which continues the inherited West Germanic adjective, like Dutch na (“close, near”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”). Both, however, are ultimately derived from the same Proto-Germanic root: *nēhw (“near, close”).
senses_examples:
text:
He was near unconscious when I found him.
type:
example
text:
I jumped into the near-freezing water.
type:
example
text:
I near ruptured myself trying to move the piano.
type:
example
text:
[…] he hears for certain that the Queen-Mother is about and hath near finished a peace with France […]
ref:
1666, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence, published 1867
type:
quotation
text:
Sir John Friend had very near completed a regiment of horse.
ref:
1825, David Hume, Tobias George Smollett, The History of England, page 263
type:
quotation
text:
Peter ran after them as fast as his legs would carry him, but at last he had only one of the hares left, and when this was gone, he was very near burst with running.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
Thinking about those pounds and pence, I near forgot my wound.
ref:
2003, Owen Parry, Honor's Kingdom, page 365
type:
quotation
text:
"I damn near forgot." He pulled an envelope from his jacket.
ref:
2004, Jimmy Buffett, A Salty Piece of Land, page 315
type:
quotation
text:
The fire was almost dead, the chamber near dark.
ref:
2006, Juliet Marillier, The Dark Mirror, page 377
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At or towards a position close in space or time.
Nearly; almost.
senses_topics:
|
9668 | word:
near
word_type:
prep
expansion:
near
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nere, ner, from Old English nēar (“nearer”, comparative of nēah (“nigh”), the superlative would become next), influenced by Old Norse nær (“near”), both originating from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz (“nearer”), comparative of the adverb *nēhw (“near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz, ultimately from Pre-Proto-Germanic *h₂nḗḱwos, a lengthened-grade adjective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).
Cognate with Old Frisian niār (“nearer”), Dutch naar (“to, towards”), German näher (“nearer”), Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”). See also nigh.
Near appears to be derived from (or at the very least influenced by) the North Germanic languages; compare Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”), as opposed to nigh, which continues the inherited West Germanic adjective, like Dutch na (“close, near”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”). Both, however, are ultimately derived from the same Proto-Germanic root: *nēhw (“near, close”).
senses_examples:
text:
There are habitable planets orbiting many of the stars near our Sun.
type:
example
text:
Ts'ai Ch'ien 蔡乾 was born in 1908 in Changhua near Taichung, Taiwan (Formosa).
ref:
1957, Edgar Snow, Random Notes on Red China, Harvard University Press, published 1968, →OCLC, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
He entered the inn, and asking for dinner, unbuckled his wallet, and sat down to rest himself near the door.
ref:
1820, Mary Shelley, Maurice
type:
quotation
text:
It shied, balked, and whinnied, and in the end he could do nothing but drive it into the yard while the men used their own strength to get the heavy wagon near enough the hayloft for convenient pitching.
ref:
1927, H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space
type:
quotation
text:
Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
ref:
2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
The voyage was near completion.
type:
example
text:
His opinions are near the limit of what is acceptable.
type:
example
text:
There was no way Brín felt anything anywhere near what I felt for him. He saw me as a friend.
ref:
2019, Emma Lea, A Royal Enticement
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Physically close to, in close proximity to.
Close to in time.
Close to in nature or degree.
senses_topics:
|
9669 | word:
near
word_type:
verb
expansion:
near (third-person singular simple present nears, present participle nearing, simple past and past participle neared)
forms:
form:
nears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
neared
tags:
participle
past
form:
neared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nere, ner, from Old English nēar (“nearer”, comparative of nēah (“nigh”), the superlative would become next), influenced by Old Norse nær (“near”), both originating from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz (“nearer”), comparative of the adverb *nēhw (“near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz, ultimately from Pre-Proto-Germanic *h₂nḗḱwos, a lengthened-grade adjective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).
Cognate with Old Frisian niār (“nearer”), Dutch naar (“to, towards”), German näher (“nearer”), Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”). See also nigh.
Near appears to be derived from (or at the very least influenced by) the North Germanic languages; compare Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”), as opposed to nigh, which continues the inherited West Germanic adjective, like Dutch na (“close, near”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”). Both, however, are ultimately derived from the same Proto-Germanic root: *nēhw (“near, close”).
senses_examples:
text:
The ship nears the land.
type:
example
text:
We started back in the same conditions, and for part of the journey ran through semi-darkness, but the sun appeared once again as we neared London.
ref:
1964 May, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, pages 331–332
type:
quotation
text:
As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge.
ref:
2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To come closer to; to approach.
senses_topics:
|
9670 | word:
near
word_type:
noun
expansion:
near (plural nears)
forms:
form:
nears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nere, ner, from Old English nēar (“nearer”, comparative of nēah (“nigh”), the superlative would become next), influenced by Old Norse nær (“near”), both originating from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz (“nearer”), comparative of the adverb *nēhw (“near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz, ultimately from Pre-Proto-Germanic *h₂nḗḱwos, a lengthened-grade adjective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).
Cognate with Old Frisian niār (“nearer”), Dutch naar (“to, towards”), German näher (“nearer”), Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”). See also nigh.
Near appears to be derived from (or at the very least influenced by) the North Germanic languages; compare Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”), as opposed to nigh, which continues the inherited West Germanic adjective, like Dutch na (“close, near”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”). Both, however, are ultimately derived from the same Proto-Germanic root: *nēhw (“near, close”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc.
senses_topics:
|
9671 | word:
party
word_type:
noun
expansion:
party (plural parties)
forms:
form:
parties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Medieval Latin partīta (“a part, party”), from Latin partīta, feminine of partītus, past participle of partior (“to divide”); see part. Doublet of partita.
senses_examples:
text:
The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee.
type:
example
text:
if the Jury had found that the party slain had been of English race and nation, it had been adjudged felony
ref:
1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
type:
quotation
text:
He is a queer party.
type:
example
text:
I can't possibly be a party to that kind of reckless behaviour.
type:
example
text:
The green party took 12% of the vote.
type:
example
text:
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
ref:
1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
In the freer political atmosphere before the 1989 repression, peasant protests against the Party in Henan were sometimes openly discussed. A transcript of a meeting between peasants and cadres in Jili district near Luoyang published in the Peasants’ Daily recorded some vivid complaints.
ref:
1996, John Gittings, “Peasants in Revolt”, in Real China: From Cannibalism to Karaoke, Pocket Books, published 1997, →OCLC, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party.
type:
example
text:
I'm throwing a huge party for my 21st birthday.
type:
example
text:
So-So, tonight, tonight, let’s look at where that time actually goes, and let’s begin with the most obvious form of fundraising: fundraisers. These are usually shitty parties in D.C. bars, restaurants, or townhouses, and there are a lot of them! The Sunlight Foundation estimates that, in the last election cycle, members of Congress held over 28 hundred fundraisers! Washington is like Rod Stewart’s haircut: party in the front, party in the back, frankly too much party and no business anywhere to be found!
ref:
2016 April 3, “Congressional Fundraising”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 7, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
You know I’d leave any party for you / 'Cause no party’s so sweet as a party of two
ref:
2017, “Any Party”, in Pleasure, performed by Feist
type:
quotation
text:
We're expecting a large party from the London office.
type:
example
text:
Do you have a table available for a party of four?
type:
example
text:
Tupperware party
type:
example
text:
lingerie party
type:
example
text:
When the line was being surveyed in 1880, the survey party, proceeding along the course of Stock Creek, reached a natural amphitheatre with a rock wall 200 ft. high, in the face of which there was an arched tunnel entrance, [...] into which the stream passed.
ref:
1944 May and June, “Nature Provides a Railway Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
A party of mynas, consisting of several males and females, once selected the top of a low terraced roof, just below my verandah, as a site for courting and quarrelling.
ref:
1903, D.D. Cunningham, Some Indian Friends and Acquaintances, London: John Murray, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
Small parties and flocks close to breeding sites commonly give shrill, high-pitched, trilling screams.
ref:
2009, Mark Brazil, The Birds of East Asia, London: Christopher Helm, page 272
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
A person.
A person; an individual.
A person.
With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.
A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
Active player characters organized into a single group.
A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
A group of characters controlled by the player.
Political party; political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
A small group of birds or mammals.
A part or division.
senses_topics:
law
games
gaming
video-games
government
politics
government
military
politics
war
|
9672 | word:
party
word_type:
verb
expansion:
party (third-person singular simple present parties, present participle partying, simple past and past participle partied)
forms:
form:
parties
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
partying
tags:
participle
present
form:
partied
tags:
participle
past
form:
partied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Medieval Latin partīta (“a part, party”), from Latin partīta, feminine of partītus, past participle of partior (“to divide”); see part. Doublet of partita.
senses_examples:
text:
We partied until the early hours.
type:
example
text:
“Miss, do you party?” the boy asked. “What?” Jennifer asked back. “Do you smoke? I'll get you some cheap. One American dollar equals forty Jamaican dollars. I'll get you as much of the stuff as you need.”
ref:
2004, Daniel Nicholas Shields, Firewoman
type:
quotation
text:
If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
To take recreational drugs.
To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
To form a party (with).
senses_topics:
games
gaming |
9673 | word:
party
word_type:
adj
expansion:
party (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English party, from Old French parti (“parted”), from Latin partītus (“parted”), past participle of partiri (“to divide”). More at part.
senses_examples:
text:
an escutcheon party per pale
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a fence or wall: shared by two properties and serving to divide them.
Divided; in part.
Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
9674 | word:
sharp
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sharp (comparative sharper, superlative sharpest)
forms:
form:
sharper
tags:
comparative
form:
sharpest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
sharp
etymology_text:
From Middle English scharp, from Old English sċearp, from Proto-West Germanic *skarp, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian skerp, Low German scharp, Dutch scherp, German scharf, Danish skarp. Compare Irish cearb (“keen; cutting”), Latin acerbus (“tart, bitter”), Tocharian B kärpye (“rough”), Latvian skârbs (“sharp, rough”), Russian щерба (ščerba, “notch”), Polish szczerba (“gap, dent, jag, chip, nick, notch”), Albanian harb (“rudeness”). More at shear.
senses_examples:
text:
I keep my knives sharp so that they don't slip unexpectedly while carving.
type:
example
text:
Ernest made the pencil too sharp and accidentally stabbed himself with it.
type:
example
text:
A face with sharp features
type:
example
text:
If a knife which is sharp is incorrectly used it will obviously be dangerous.
ref:
1984, Michael Grater, Paper Mask Making, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
Fifteen children reported handling curvos, five machetes, and one a sharp knife used to cut yellow leaves off the banana plants.
ref:
2002, Carol Pier, Tainted Harvest
type:
quotation
text:
Yet, review of 25 years of English language literature on the subject of sharp force injury adds remarkably little to this topic. Sharp force covers a vast array of injuries produced with sharp objects capable of cutting or stabbing or both.
ref:
2006, Werner U. Spitz, Daniel J. Spitz, Russell S. Fisher, Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death
type:
quotation
text:
My nephew is a sharp lad; he can count to 100 in six languages, and he's only five years old.
type:
example
text:
At school, despite his sharp mind, Malcolm was laughed at by teachers when he said he wanted to be a lawyer.
ref:
2015 February 20, Jesse Jackson, “In the Ferguson era, Malcolm X’s courage in fighting racism inspires more than ever”, in The Guardian (London)
type:
quotation
text:
The orchestra's third violin several times was sharp about an eighth of a tone.
type:
example
text:
Milly couldn't stand sharp cheeses when she was pregnant, because they made her nauseated.
type:
example
text:
This grapefruit is especially sharp.
type:
example
text:
A pregnant woman during labor normally experiences a number of sharp contractions.
type:
example
text:
The man turned and made a sharp movement towards the door.
type:
example
text:
Michael had a number of sharp ventures that he kept off the books.
type:
example
text:
a sharp dealer, a sharp customer, sharp practice
type:
example
text:
But, as they have hitherto stood, a clergyman established in a competent living is not under the necessity of being so sharp, vigilant, and exacting.
ref:
1732, Jonathan Swift, Considerations Upon Two Bills
type:
quotation
text:
You'll need sharp aim to make that shot.
type:
example
text:
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
ref:
2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
sharp criticism
type:
example
text:
When the two rivals met, first there were sharp words, and then a fight broke out.
type:
example
text:
The reviews have ranged from excellent (In Touch, Jan 76, and Gay Literature, Winter 76) to qualified praise (GCN, 6 Mar 76) to sharp attack (Allen Young in the current Gay Liberator; Allen calls it trivial and misogynist.
ref:
1976 August 14, John Mitzel, Richard Hall, “The Whodunit Writer: Why He Dun It”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
You look so sharp in that tuxedo!
type:
example
text:
A sharp dresser partial to snakeskin shoes whose miniature Australian shepherd dog Saatchi is a constant fixture on family outings, [Donald] Tang's next move was to reinvent himself as a dealmaker connecting China with Hollywood amid growing demand for entertainment content in both countries.
ref:
2024 July 13, Laura Onita, Eleanor Olcott, “Shein's master of reinvention treads tricky path to IPO”, in FT Weekend, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Keep a sharp watch on the prisoners. I don't want them to escape!
type:
example
text:
Jones, the centre forward, made a sharp start to the game.
type:
example
text:
a sharp contrast, a sharp distinction
type:
example
text:
Drive down Main for three quarters of a mile, then make a sharp right turn onto Pine.
type:
example
text:
a sharp turn or curve
type:
example
text:
a sharp ascent or descent
type:
example
text:
Sure, any planar graph can be five-colored. But that result is not sharp: in fact, any planar graph can be four-colored. That is sharp: the same can't be said for any lower number.
type:
example
text:
Time and time again, the amateur player has lost the opportunity to make the really best move because he felt bound to follow some chess "rule" he had learned, rather than to make the sharp move which was indicated by the position.
ref:
1963, Max Euwe, Chess Master Vs. Chess Amateur, page xviii
type:
quotation
text:
In such situations most chess players choose the obvious and logical way: they go in for sharp play. However, not everyone is a natural attacking player[…]
ref:
1975, Luděk Pachman, Decisive Games in Chess History, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
a sharp pain; the sharp and frosty winter air
type:
example
text:
The night was Winter in his roughest mood; the morning sharp and clear.
ref:
1785, William Cowper, The Task: The Winter Walk at Noon
type:
quotation
text:
In sharpest perils faithful proved, Let his soul love thee to the end.
ref:
1867, John Keble, “St. Peter's Release”, in J.G.Holland, editor, Christ and the Twelve: Scenes and Events in the Life of Our Saviour and His Apostles, page 424
type:
quotation
text:
a sharp appetite
type:
example
text:
And fear of God, from whom their piety feign'd In sharp contest of battle found no aid Against invaders
ref:
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
type:
quotation
text:
A sharp assault already is begun;
ref:
1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperor: Act III
type:
quotation
text:
Well-burnt good lime and sharp sand, if very sharp, a load of sand (about 36 bushels) to a hundred of lime (being 25 bushels, or a hundred pecks[…]
ref:
1700, Edward Moxon, Mechanical Exercises
type:
quotation
text:
“[W]hy this last week we ha'n't had nothing at all but some dry musty red herrings; so you may think, Miss, we're kept pretty sharp!”
ref:
1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, II.iii.1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
Intelligent.
Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
Higher in pitch than required.
Having a strong acrid or acidic taste.
Sudden, abrupt, intense, rapid.
Illegal or dishonest.
Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd, verging on dishonest.
Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
Offensive, critical, or acrimonious; stern or harsh.
Stylish, smart or attractive.
Observant; alert; acute.
Quick and alert.
Strongly distinguishing or differentiating; acute.
Forming a small or tight angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
Said of as extreme a value as possible.
Tactical; risky.
Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
Hungry.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
mathematics
sciences
board-games
chess
games
human-sciences
linguistics
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phonology
sciences
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9675 | word:
sharp
word_type:
adv
expansion:
sharp (comparative sharper, superlative sharpest)
forms:
form:
sharper
tags:
comparative
form:
sharpest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
sharp
etymology_text:
From Middle English scharp, from Old English sċearp, from Proto-West Germanic *skarp, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian skerp, Low German scharp, Dutch scherp, German scharf, Danish skarp. Compare Irish cearb (“keen; cutting”), Latin acerbus (“tart, bitter”), Tocharian B kärpye (“rough”), Latvian skârbs (“sharp, rough”), Russian щерба (ščerba, “notch”), Polish szczerba (“gap, dent, jag, chip, nick, notch”), Albanian harb (“rudeness”). More at shear.
senses_examples:
text:
The iron plates rang sharp, but turn'd the spear
ref:
1853, Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustum
type:
quotation
text:
South of the city the river turns sharp to the east.
text:
sharp left, sharp right
text:
I'll see you at twelve o'clock sharp.
type:
example
text:
2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “Open at 9am sharp, Frank had waited until 11.30am for his first visitor of the day – and here I came, not with an empty shopping basket, but a reporter’s notebook.”, in The Guardian:
type:
quotation
text:
I didn't enjoy the concert much because the soprano sang sharp on all the high notes.
type:
example
text:
1867, Dutton Cook, Hobson's Choice, Chapter 8, “Music Hath Charms”, p. 72 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Hobson_s_Choice/hwhhEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Matilda+Milner+frequently+sang+sharp%22&pg=PA72&printsec=frontcover
Whereas Matilda Milner frequently sang sharp, in spite of the efforts of Miss Brown, who played the accompaniment, to give her the right note and keep her in tune.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a sharp manner: a less usual alternative to sharply in certain senses.
To a point or edge.
In a sharp manner: a less usual alternative to sharply in certain senses.
Piercingly.
In a sharp manner: a less usual alternative to sharply in certain senses.
Eagerly.
In a sharp manner: a less usual alternative to sharply in certain senses.
So as to make a sharp, or tight, angle.
Exactly.
In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
9676 | word:
sharp
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sharp (plural sharps)
forms:
form:
sharps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sharp
etymology_text:
From Middle English scharp, from Old English sċearp, from Proto-West Germanic *skarp, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian skerp, Low German scharp, Dutch scherp, German scharf, Danish skarp. Compare Irish cearb (“keen; cutting”), Latin acerbus (“tart, bitter”), Tocharian B kärpye (“rough”), Latvian skârbs (“sharp, rough”), Russian щерба (ščerba, “notch”), Polish szczerba (“gap, dent, jag, chip, nick, notch”), Albanian harb (“rudeness”). More at shear.
senses_examples:
text:
The pitch pipe sounded out a perfect F♯ (F sharp).
type:
example
text:
Transposition frequently is harder to read because of all the sharps and flats on the staff.
type:
example
text:
The piece was difficult to read after it had been transposed, since in the new key many notes were sharps.
type:
example
text:
Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is written in C♯ minor (C sharp minor.)
type:
example
text:
Place sharps in the specially marked red container for safe disposal.
type:
example
text:
If butchers had but the manners to go to sharps, gentlemen would be contented with a rubber at cuffs.
ref:
c. 1700, Jeremy Collier, On Duelling
type:
quotation
text:
The casino kept in the break room a set of pictures of known sharps for the bouncers to see.
type:
example
text:
This usage is often classified as variant spelling of shark, and unrelated to the 'pointed' or 'cutting' meanings of sharp.
text:
here are good fish to be picked out of sharps and stop-holes into the water-tables
ref:
1858, Charles Kingsley, “Chalk Stream Studies”, in Fraser's Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
While he worked he talked to his ducks, who were waddling about hopefully, as it was almost time for the red bucket to be filled with sharps and potato-peelings.
ref:
1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy, published 2010, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
The Circle was one of the few dances the older sharps frequented; mostly they were to be found in pubs, pool-halls or at the track.
ref:
2006, Iain McIntyre, Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher.
A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
A note that is sharp in a particular key.
The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
Something that is sharp.
A hypodermic syringe.
Something that is sharp.
A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
Something that is sharp.
A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
Something that is sharp.
A dishonest person; a cheater.
Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
An expert.
A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”)
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
government
healthcare
human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
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9677 | word:
sharp
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sharp (third-person singular simple present sharps, present participle sharping, simple past and past participle sharped)
forms:
form:
sharps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sharping
tags:
participle
present
form:
sharped
tags:
participle
past
form:
sharped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sharp
etymology_text:
From Middle English scharp, from Old English sċearp, from Proto-West Germanic *skarp, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian skerp, Low German scharp, Dutch scherp, German scharf, Danish skarp. Compare Irish cearb (“keen; cutting”), Latin acerbus (“tart, bitter”), Tocharian B kärpye (“rough”), Latvian skârbs (“sharp, rough”), Russian щерба (ščerba, “notch”), Polish szczerba (“gap, dent, jag, chip, nick, notch”), Albanian harb (“rudeness”). More at shear.
senses_examples:
text:
That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
To sharpen.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
9678 | word:
squash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
squash (countable and uncountable, plural squashes)
forms:
form:
squashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).
senses_examples:
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:
Sure. I pour hot squash all over myself and we all have a good chuckle. Everyone except Muggins here.
ref:
2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4
text:
When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
type:
example
text:
It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
type:
example
text:
It was one of the most shocking WWE title matches ever witnessed, and effectively a 20-minute squash match as Brock Lesnar "conquered" his opponent.
ref:
Orr, James (2014 August 18) “WWE SummerSlam 2014: How Twitter reacted to John Cena vs Brock Lesnar”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Independent, retrieved 2015-07-30
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
Something unripe or soft.
A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling |
9679 | word:
squash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
squash (third-person singular simple present squashes, present participle squashing, simple past and past participle squashed)
forms:
form:
squashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
squashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
squashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
squashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).
senses_examples:
text:
Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
type:
example
text:
We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car.
type:
example
text:
A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania and squashed the rebellion.
ref:
2006, Chris Rodda, Liars for Jesus, page 390
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
To suppress; to force into submission.
senses_topics:
|
9680 | word:
squash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
squash (countable and uncountable, plural squash or squashes)
forms:
form:
squash
tags:
plural
form:
squashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening of Narragansett askutasquash (“[a vegetable] eaten green (or raw)”), from askut (“green, raw”) + asquash (“eaten”).
senses_examples:
text:
We ate squash and green beans.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
cooking
food
lifestyle |
9681 | word:
squash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
squash (plural squashes)
forms:
form:
squashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of musquash.
senses_examples:
text:
The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.
ref:
1705, William Dampier, A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Muskrat.
senses_topics:
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9682 | word:
pass
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pass (third-person singular simple present passes, present participle passing, simple past and past participle passed)
forms:
form:
passes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
passing
tags:
participle
present
form:
passed
tags:
participle
past
form:
passed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English passen, from Old French passer (“to step, walk, pass”), from Vulgar Latin *passāre (“step, walk, pass”), derived from Latin passus (“a step”), from pandere (“spread, unfold, stretch”), from Proto-Italic *patnō, from Proto-Indo-European *pth₂noh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm (“armful, fathom”). More at fathom.
Displaced native Old English gengan.
senses_examples:
text:
They passed from room to room.
type:
example
text:
You will pass a house on your right.
type:
example
text:
The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
ref:
1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick
type:
quotation
text:
The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.
type:
example
text:
John passed Suzie a note.
type:
example
text:
The torch was passed from hand to hand.
type:
example
text:
He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.
type:
example
text:
The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.
type:
example
text:
20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth
Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.
text:
Brady passed the ball to nine different receivers and handed it off to seven.
ref:
2017 September 18, Nicole Yang, “What you need to know about the Patriots’ big win — and their next opponent”, in Boston Globe
type:
quotation
text:
The Patriots passed on third and long.
type:
example
text:
pass counterfeit money
type:
example
text:
pass a person into a theater or over a railroad
type:
example
text:
When it's finished cooking, you should pass the sauce to get rid of any lumps.
type:
example
text:
He passed from youth into old age.
type:
example
text:
At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.
type:
example
text:
The crisis passed as she'd prayed it would, but it remained to be seen just how much damage had been done.
ref:
1995, Penny Richards, The Greatest Gift of All
type:
quotation
text:
His grandmother passed yesterday.
type:
example
text:
He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
type:
example
text:
Of the Ancient Wonders, only the pyramids have passed the test of time.
type:
example
text:
Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.
type:
example
text:
The bill passed both houses of Congress.
type:
example
text:
The bill passed the Senate, but did not pass in the House.
type:
example
text:
But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
ref:
2012 March 24, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son.
type:
example
text:
When the old king passed away with only a daughter as an heir, the throne passed to a woman for the first time in centuries.
type:
example
text:
He passed the bill through the committee.
type:
example
text:
And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.
ref:
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X
type:
quotation
text:
And rising out of the fourth stage of deep meditation he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of space is alone present. And passing out of the mere consciousness of the infinity of space he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of though is along present.
ref:
1881, Buddhist Suttas, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
Rather, he argues that 'within the zero-stage, all special affections have passed over into a general undifferentiated affection; all special consciousnesses have passed over into the one, general, persistently available background-consciousness of our past, the consciousness of the completely unarticulated, completely indistinct horizon of the past, which brings to a close the living, moving retentional past.'
ref:
2010, Joaquim Siles i Borràs, The Ethics of Husserl's Phenomenology, page 158
type:
quotation
text:
What we call 'our' minds are events beginning with birth and ending with death, each again broken up into other events or mental states, into and out of which we are perpetually passing.
ref:
2011, Thomas Hill Green, R. L. Nettleship, Works of Thomas Hill Green, page lxxviii
type:
quotation
text:
Their vacation passed pleasantly.
type:
example
text:
What will we do to pass the time?
type:
example
text:
To pass commodiously this life.
ref:
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
type:
quotation
text:
You're late, but I'll let it pass.
type:
example
text:
It will soon come to pass.
type:
example
text:
[…] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.
ref:
1876, The Dilemma, Chapter LIII, republished in Littell's Living Age, series 5, volume 14, page 274
text:
It isn't ideal, but it will pass.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: roleplay (“act out a social role”)
text:
Chinese sometimes pass for Europeans, but Japs more often approach Western types.
ref:
1941 December 22, “How to Tell Japs from the Chinese”, in LIFE, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
[…] a situation where I had to know whether I could pass as a woman, and not tell anyone, and not be asked what I was doing dressed as a woman.
ref:
1999, Irene Preiss, Fixed for Life: The True Saga of How Tom Became Sally, page 249
type:
quotation
text:
Like Olivia's aunts (described above), many Americans passed as white to resist the racially restrictive one-drop rule and the racial status quo of the Jim Crow era (Daniel 2002; Williamson 1980).
ref:
2010 December, Nikki Khanna, Cathryn Johnson, “Passing as Black: Racial Identity Work among Biracial Americans”, in Social Psychology Quarterly, volume 73, number 4, →DOI
type:
quotation
text:
He asked me to go to the cinema with him, but I think I'll pass.
type:
example
text:
Instead, the board voted to suspend the dividend, giving Orton his way at last. They passed the dividend again in June 1870 […]
ref:
2013, Joshua D. Wolff, Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845-1893, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
I haven't any idea of the answer, so I'll have to pass.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To change place.
To move or be moved from one place to another.
To change place.
To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
To change place.
To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
To change place.
To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
To change place.
To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
To change place.
To make various kinds of movement.
To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
To change place.
To make various kinds of movement.
To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
To change place.
To make various kinds of movement.
To make a lunge or swipe.
To change place.
To make various kinds of movement.
To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
To change place.
To go from one person to another.
To change place.
To put in circulation; to give currency to.
To change place.
To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
To change place.
To put through a sieve.
To change in state or status
To progress from one state to another; to advance.
To change in state or status
To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
To change in state or status
To die.
To change in state or status
To achieve a successful outcome from.
To change in state or status
To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
To change in state or status
To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
To change in state or status
To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
To change in state or status
To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
To change in state or status
To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
To change in state or status
To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
To move through time.
To elapse, to be spent.
To move through time.
To spend.
To move through time.
To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
To move through time.
To continue.
To move through time.
To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
To move through time.
To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
To move through time.
To happen.
To be accepted.
To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
To be accepted.
To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
To refrain from doing something.
To decline something that is offered or available.
To refrain from doing something.
To reject; to pass up.
To refrain from doing something.
To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
To refrain from doing something.
In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
To refrain from doing something.
In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
To do or be better.
To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
To do or be better.
To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
To take heed, to have an interest, to care.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
nautical
transport
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
cooking
food
lifestyle
law
law
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
card-games
games
|
9683 | word:
pass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pass (plural passes)
forms:
form:
passes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pas, pase, pace, from passen (“to pass”).
senses_examples:
text:
mountain pass
type:
example
text:
Followed two more weeks of marching,—rougher marching this time,—through the core of the lofty mountains that divide India from Central Asia; across the terrible Depsang Plains, seventeen thousand feet up; and over four passes choked with snow; till they came upon a deserted fort, set in the midst of stark space, and knew that here, indeed, was the limit of human habitation. Next day the work of exploration had begun in earnest.
ref:
1910, Maud Diver, “The Valley of Decision”, in The Great Amulet, New York: John Lane Company, →OCLC, page 368
type:
quotation
text:
the passes of the Mississippi
type:
example
text:
[The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him […]
ref:
1921, John Griffin, "Trailing the Grizzly in Oregon", in Forest and Stream, pages 389-391 and 421-424, republished by Jeanette Prodgers in 1997 in The Only Good Bear is a Dead Bear, page 35
text:
My first pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.
type:
example
text:
I gained three passes at A-level, in mathematics, French, and English literature.
type:
example
text:
The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
type:
example
text:
A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.
ref:
1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law
type:
quotation
text:
a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass
type:
example
text:
Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
type:
example
text:
Albon made hard work of the result. Starting fourth, he dropped back to seventh at the second start and had to fight his way back up, which he did with some excellent passes.
ref:
2020 September 13, Andrew Benson, “Tuscan Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton claims 90th win after incredible race”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The finished dishes are placed on the pass ready to be collected by the waiter.
ref:
2017, Fred Sirieix, Secret Service: Lifting the lid on the restaurant world
type:
quotation
text:
A pass would have seen her win the game, but instead she gave a wrong answer and lost a point, putting her in second place.
type:
example
text:
Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
An attempt.
Success in an examination or similar test.
A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
A thrust; a sally of wit.
A sexual advance.
The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
An intentional walk.
The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
Estimation; character.
The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
senses_topics:
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
rail-transport
railways
transport
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
cooking
food
lifestyle
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
9684 | word:
pass
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pass (plural passes)
forms:
form:
passes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Short for password.
senses_examples:
text:
Anyone want to trade passes?
type:
example
text:
If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.
ref:
1999, Jonny Durango, “IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!!”, in alt.hackers.malicious (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
9685 | word:
mayor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mayor (plural mayors)
forms:
form:
mayors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Circa 1300; from Middle English maire, from Old French maire (“head of a city or town government”) (13th century), from Latin maior (“bigger, greater, superior”), comparative of magnus (“big, great”). Doublet of major.
senses_examples:
text:
The office of mayor has been the tomb of many political ambitions.
ref:
1907 Sept. 12, The Nation, page 222
type:
quotation
text:
When the burdens of the Presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself that it could be worse—I could be a mayor of a city instead.
ref:
1966 Mar. 31, Lyndon B. Johnson, Remarks before the National Legislative Conference of the National League of Cities
type:
quotation
text:
While Buckley would later privately describe Chicago's Mayor Daley as a Fascist, he was not willing to let Vidal use the police to vindicate the demonstrators, who, in Buckley's mind, had provoked much of the violence.
ref:
1988, John B. Judis, William F. Buckley Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives, page p. 291
type:
quotation
text:
Quimby: I propose that I use what's left of the town treasury to move to a more prosperous town and run for mayor and once selected I will send for the rest of you.
ref:
1993 Dec. 16, Bill Oakley et al., “"$pringfield"”, in The Simpsons, season 5, episode 10
type:
quotation
roman:
All: Boo!
text:
Carver: What the hell d'you say to him?
Hauk: I said "Mr Mayor that's a good strong dick you've got there and I see you know how to use it." I didn't say shit!
ref:
2006, Ed Burns et al., “"Soft Eyes"”, in The Wire, season 4, episode 2
type:
quotation
text:
In some parts the burlesque civic official was designated ‘Mayor of the Pig Market’.
ref:
1902 May 22, Westminster Gazette, p. 2
text:
The Mayor of Castro Street, that was Harvey's unofficial title.
ref:
1982, Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, etc., formerly (historical) usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally.
Short for mayor of the palace, the royal stewards of the Frankish Empire.
Synonym of mair, various former officials in the Kingdom of Scotland.
A member of a city council.
A high justice, an important judge.
A largely ceremonial position in some municipal governments that presides over the city council while a contracted city manager holds actual executive power.
A local VIP, a muckamuck or big shot reckoned to lead some local group.
senses_topics:
|
9686 | word:
asteroid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
asteroid (plural asteroids)
forms:
form:
asteroids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
asteroid
en:Asteroid (disambiguation)
en:William Herschel
etymology_text:
From aster + -oid, lit. "star-like". Coined by William Herschel.
senses_examples:
text:
The orbital planes of asteroids, minor bodies that circle the Sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, are often more tilted ...
ref:
2007, Hannu Karttunen et al., editors, Fundamental Astronomy, 5th edition, page 131
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet and a dwarf planet, larger than a meteoroid and not a comet, that orbits a star and often has an irregular shape.
In the Solar system, such a body that orbits within the orbit of Jupiter
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences |
9687 | word:
asteroid
word_type:
noun
expansion:
asteroid (plural asteroids)
forms:
form:
asteroids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Asteroid (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀστεροειδής (asteroeidḗs), from ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “form”). Analyzable as aster- + -oid.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any member of the taxonomic class Asteroidea; a starfish.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
9688 | word:
house
word_type:
noun
expansion:
house (countable and uncountable, plural houses or (dialectal) housen or (chiefly humorous) hice)
forms:
form:
houses
tags:
plural
form:
housen
tags:
dialectal
plural
form:
hice
tags:
humorous
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-?
Proto-Indo-European *-s?
Proto-Germanic *hūsą
Proto-West Germanic *hūs
Old English hūs
Middle English hous
English house
From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, German Haus, German Low German Huus, Danish hus, Faroese hús, Icelandic hús, Norwegian Bokmål hus, Norwegian Nynorsk hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Old French maison (“house”). More at hose.
The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply hūs.)
senses_examples:
text:
This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
type:
example
text:
The purposes of food are to promote growth, to supply force and heat, and to furnish material to repair the waste which is constantly taking place in the body. Every breath, every thought, every motion, wears out some portion of the delicate and wonderful house in which we live.
ref:
1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Foods”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes, Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Those homeowners who bought too much house, or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions.
ref:
2007 November 6, “When Will the Slump End?”, in Newsweek
type:
quotation
text:
A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house.
type:
example
text:
One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid.
type:
example
text:
The house always wins.
type:
example
text:
The farce comedy which followed, When We're Married by Charles Burnham, was heartily praised, with the character man singled out for special extollation. The production filled the house.
ref:
1964, “Northwest Ohio Quarterly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 36, page 185
type:
quotation
text:
Frazier and Gary worked for me for free — for six months — they didn't take any money from the house. They worked for tips.
ref:
1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to the house he would look out for work.
ref:
1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from the Commissioners, volume 29, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house.
type:
example
text:
On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the monkey house.
type:
example
text:
After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
type:
example
text:
The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.
type:
example
text:
A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.
type:
example
text:
I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.
type:
example
text:
Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.
ref:
1971, Sir Keith Vivian Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, The Folio Society, published 2012, page 313
type:
quotation
text:
As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
An apartment building within a public housing estate.
A container; a thing which houses another.
Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
The people who live in a house; a household.
A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
A workhouse.
A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
A place of rest or repose.
A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
The fourth Lenormand card.
A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
Lotto; bingo.
A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
A small stand of trees in a swamp.
A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
senses_topics:
government
politics
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
board-games
chess
games
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
9689 | word:
house
word_type:
verb
expansion:
house (third-person singular simple present houses, present participle housing, simple past and past participle housed)
forms:
form:
houses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
housing
tags:
participle
present
form:
housed
tags:
participle
past
form:
housed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English housen, from Old English hūsian, from Proto-Germanic *hūsōną (“to house, live, dwell”), from the noun (see above). Compare Dutch huizen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German Low German husen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German hausen (“to live, dwell, reside”), Norwegian Nynorsk husa (“to house”), Faroese húsa (“to house”), Icelandic húsa (“to shelter, house”).
senses_examples:
text:
The car is housed in the garage.
type:
example
text:
Now, covered concrete troughs to house the cables are laid parallel with the railway lines, cheapening maintenance because of improved accessibility for inspection and repair.
ref:
1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The North Eastern's new rail-mounted piling unit”, in Trains Illustrated, page 646
type:
quotation
text:
The federation yesterday vowed to occupy Uotsuri, one of the islands, and build a permanent structure to house six members.
ref:
1996 October 5, Robert Whymant, “Tokyo tries to calm islands row”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 15, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The joists were housed into the side walls, rather than being hung from them.
type:
example
text:
to house the upper spars
type:
example
text:
All you wanna do is drink a fifth, house a lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.
ref:
2019, Joe Lawson, Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way")
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To keep within a structure or container.
To admit to residence; to harbor.
To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
To contain or cover mechanical parts.
To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
To drive to a shelter.
To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
To eat; especially, to scarf down.
senses_topics:
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
nautical
transport
|
9690 | word:
house
word_type:
noun
expansion:
house (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is by house and techno pioneers.
ref:
1998, Colin Larkin, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music, London: Virgin Books, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
And while hard, minimal techno has become increasingly influenced by house and Oval-esque "glitch" stylistics, Exos keeps it old school on Strength, infusing his own style with the force of hard techno purists Surgeon and Oliver Ho.
ref:
2001 March, Philip Sherburne, “Exos, Strength [album review]”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 91, Great Neck, N.Y.: College Media, →ISSN, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
The first genre of American dance music to become popular in the United Kingdom was Chicago house. Although music from Detroit was soon imported as well, it was often treated as subcategory of house, and for many years the most common English term for electronic dance music in general was "house" or "acid house". […] During the formative years of techno and house, the musicians involved interacted in various ways.
ref:
2006, Mark Jonathan Butler, Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, page 45
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
House music.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
9691 | word:
ore
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ore (countable and uncountable, plural ores)
forms:
form:
ores
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English or, oor, blend of Old English ōra (“ore, unwrought metal”) and ār (“brass, copper, bronze”), the first a derivate of ear (“earth”), the second from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *aiz, from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h₂éyos.
Compare Old Norse eir (“brass, copper”), German ehern (“of metal, of iron”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌶 (aiz, “ore”); also Dutch oer (“ferrous hardpan; bog iron ore”). Compare Latin aes (“bronze, copper”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬵 (aiiah), Sanskrit अयस् (áyas, “copper, iron”).
senses_examples:
text:
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
ref:
2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.
senses_topics:
|
9692 | word:
n
word_type:
character
expansion:
n (lower case, upper case N, plural ns or n's)
forms:
form:
N
tags:
uppercase
form:
ns
tags:
plural
form:
n's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9693 | word:
n
word_type:
num
expansion:
n (lower case, upper case N)
forms:
form:
N
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number fourteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9694 | word:
n
word_type:
noun
expansion:
n
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative forms: n., N
text:
Alternative form: n.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of north.
Abbreviation of noun.
normal
Neutral
No
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
|
9695 | word:
n
word_type:
adj
expansion:
n
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: n.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of neuter (gender).
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9696 | word:
n
word_type:
conj
expansion:
n
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: 'n'
text:
rock n roll
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contraction of and; chiefly used in set phrases.
senses_topics:
|
9697 | word:
Mediterranean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Mediterranean (comparative more Mediterranean, superlative most Mediterranean)
forms:
form:
more Mediterranean
tags:
comparative
form:
most Mediterranean
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin mediterrāneus, from medius (“middle”) + terra (“earth, land”) + -āneus (adjectival suffix).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and the region around it.
senses_topics:
|
9698 | word:
Mediterranean
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Mediterranean
forms:
form:
the Mediterranean
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin mediterrāneus, from medius (“middle”) + terra (“earth, land”) + -āneus (adjectival suffix).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of Mediterranean Sea; a sea between Europe and Africa, an inland branch of the Atlantic.
A region of Southern Europe and North Africa and Western Asia. The region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
senses_topics:
|
9699 | word:
Mediterranean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Mediterranean (plural Mediterraneans)
forms:
form:
Mediterraneans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin mediterrāneus, from medius (“middle”) + terra (“earth, land”) + -āneus (adjectival suffix).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Mediterranid
senses_topics:
|
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