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9700 | word:
pet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pet (plural pets)
forms:
form:
pets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pet
etymology_text:
Attested since the 1500s in the sense "indulged child" and since the 1530s in the sense "animal companion". From Scots and dialectal Northern English, of unclear origin. Perhaps a back-formation of petty, pety (“little, small”), a term formerly used to describe children and animals (e.g. pet lambs). Alternatively, perhaps a borrowing of Scottish Gaelic peata, from Middle Irish petta, peta (“pet, lap-dog”), of uncertain (possibly pre-Indo-European substrate) origin. Compare peat (“pet, darling, woman”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An animal kept as a companion.
Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.)
One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment.
Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
senses_topics:
|
9701 | word:
pet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pet (third-person singular simple present pets, present participle petting, simple past and past participle petted or (nonstandard) pet)
forms:
form:
pets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
petting
tags:
participle
present
form:
petted
tags:
participle
past
form:
petted
tags:
past
form:
pet
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
pet
tags:
nonstandard
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Attested since the 1500s in the sense "indulged child" and since the 1530s in the sense "animal companion". From Scots and dialectal Northern English, of unclear origin. Perhaps a back-formation of petty, pety (“little, small”), a term formerly used to describe children and animals (e.g. pet lambs). Alternatively, perhaps a borrowing of Scottish Gaelic peata, from Middle Irish petta, peta (“pet, lap-dog”), of uncertain (possibly pre-Indo-European substrate) origin. Compare peat (“pet, darling, woman”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
I really love to pet cute puppies.
type:
example
text:
We started petting each other the moment we were alone.
type:
example
text:
1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
We kissed & petted for about 15 mins & he still wasn't hard, altho he acted like he was enjoying himself.
text:
His daughter was petted and spoiled.
type:
example
text:
[…] the American dramatist has had to waste most of his first act elaborately planting the information that his Mister Quex is rich, petted by Society, and altogether more spectacular than the common run of men.
ref:
1919 August, P. G. Wodehouse, “Prohibition and the Drama”, in Vanity Fair, page 21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stroke or fondle (an animal).
To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.
To be a pet.
To be peevish; to sulk.
senses_topics:
|
9702 | word:
pet
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pet (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Attested since the 1500s in the sense "indulged child" and since the 1530s in the sense "animal companion". From Scots and dialectal Northern English, of unclear origin. Perhaps a back-formation of petty, pety (“little, small”), a term formerly used to describe children and animals (e.g. pet lambs). Alternatively, perhaps a borrowing of Scottish Gaelic peata, from Middle Irish petta, peta (“pet, lap-dog”), of uncertain (possibly pre-Indo-European substrate) origin. Compare peat (“pet, darling, woman”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
a pet child
type:
example
text:
The professor seemed offended by the criticism of her pet theory.
type:
example
text:
Some young lady's pet curate.
ref:
1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books
type:
quotation
text:
Major Butler has a pet grievance and a pet aversion, which he forces on the reader in every chapter, and which becomes at last very wearisome.
ref:
1875, William Conant Church, The Galaxy, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
In an interview with Flying magazine, Heberding commented that her pet annoyance was "the reluctance of people generally to accept a woman whether as a pilot or a preflight inspector."
ref:
1991, Deborah G. Douglas, United States Women in Aviation, 1940-1985, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
pet rock
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Favourite; cherished; the focus of one's (usually positive) attention.
Kept or treated as a pet.
Good; ideal.
senses_topics:
|
9703 | word:
pet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pet (plural pets)
forms:
form:
pets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of petulance.
senses_examples:
text:
There was something ludicrous, even more, unbecoming a gentleman, in leaving a friend's house in a pet, with the host's reproaches sounding in his ears, to be matched only by the bitterness of the guest's sneering retorts.
ref:
1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 105
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
senses_topics:
|
9704 | word:
pet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pet (plural pets)
forms:
form:
pets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of petition.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of petition.
senses_topics:
|
9705 | word:
pet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pet (plural pets)
forms:
form:
pets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of petal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.
senses_topics:
|
9706 | word:
c
word_type:
character
expansion:
c (lower case, upper case C, plural cs or c's)
forms:
form:
C
tags:
uppercase
form:
cs
tags:
plural
form:
c's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Old English lower case letter c, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case c of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚳ (c, “cen”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9707 | word:
c
word_type:
num
expansion:
c (lower case, upper case C)
forms:
form:
C
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Old English lower case letter c, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case c of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚳ (c, “cen”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number third, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9708 | word:
c
word_type:
adv
expansion:
c
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Various abbreviations
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of see and inflections sees, seen, seeing.
#: exception: saw is written s
# (stenoscript) the consonant /tʃ/
# (stenoscript) the sound sequence /siː/
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of c.
senses_topics:
|
9709 | word:
c
word_type:
noun
expansion:
c
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Various abbreviations
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of see and inflections sees, seen, seeing.
#: exception: saw is written s
# (stenoscript) the consonant /tʃ/
# (stenoscript) the sound sequence /siː/
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of c.
senses_topics:
|
9710 | word:
c
word_type:
noun
expansion:
c (plural cs or c's)
forms:
form:
cs
tags:
plural
form:
c's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The middle tone in either one of the sets of seven white keys on a keyboard or a set of seven strings on a stringed instrument.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
9711 | word:
c
word_type:
verb
expansion:
c
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: C
text:
C u 2nite as planned.
ref:
2012, Josephine Angelini, Dreamless, Macmillan Children’s Books
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of see.
senses_topics:
|
9712 | word:
wealth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wealth (countable and uncountable, plural wealths)
forms:
form:
wealths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wealth
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English welth, welthe (“happiness, prosperity”), from Old English *welþ, weleþu, from Proto-West Germanic *waliþu (“wealth”).
Alternatively, possibly an alteration (due to similar words in -th: compare helth (“health”), derth (“dearth”)) of wele (“wealth, well-being, weal”), from Old English wela (“wealth, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *walô (“well-being, prosperity”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“good, best”); equivalent to weal + -th. Cognate with Dutch weelde (“wealth”), Low German weelde (“wealth”), Old High German welida, welitha (“wealth”). Related also to German Wohl (“welfare, well-being, weal”), Danish vel (“weal, welfare”), Swedish väl (“well-being, weal”). More at weal, well.
senses_examples:
text:
She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project.
type:
example
text:
Beyond its aim to bring patients the most effective treatments faster, the service is expected to generate a wealth of data on the interplay between DNA, health and lifestyles, which will become a powerful tool for research into cancer and other diseases.
ref:
2018 July 3, Ian Sample, “Routine DNA tests will put NHS at the 'forefront of medicine'”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
Prosperity; well-being; happiness.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
|
9713 | word:
swallow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swallow (third-person singular simple present swallows, present participle swallowing, simple past and past participle swallowed)
forms:
form:
swallows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
swallowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
swallowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
swallowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
swallow (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English swolowen, swolwen, swolȝen, swelwen, swelȝen, from Old English swelgan, from Proto-West Germanic *swelgan, from Proto-Germanic *swelganą (“to swallow, revel, devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *swelk- (“to gulp”). Cognate with Dutch zwelgen (“to revel, carouse, guzzle”), German schwelgen (“to delight, indulge”), Swedish svälja (“to swallow, gulp”), Icelandic svelgja (“to swallow”), Old English swillan, swilian (“to swill, wash out, gargle”). See also swill.
The noun is from Middle English swelwe, swolwe, from Old English swelh, swelg (“gulf, chasm”) and ġeswelge (“gulf, chasm, abyss, whirlpool”), both from Proto-West Germanic *swelg, *swalgi, from Proto-Germanic *swelgaz, *swalgiz. Cognate with Old English swiliġe (“pit”), Scots swelch, swellie, swallie (“an abyss in the sea, whirpool”), Middle Low German swelch (“whirlpool, eddy”), Dutch zwelg (“gorge, chasm, gullet, throat”), Old Norse svelgr (“whirlpool, current, stream”).
senses_examples:
text:
Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed: they remain trapped in the physical world.
ref:
2011 April 21, Jonathan Jones, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
His body, like so many others swallowed by the ocean's hungry maw, was never found.
ref:
2010 October 28, “What are the wild waves saying”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
Elsewhere still, they'd managed to find the wreck of a Japanese midget submarine, and so, when the battleships were done being swallowed by the seabed, some efforts were being made to haul this up as well.
ref:
2020 November 11, Drachinifel, 25:13 from the start, in The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 1 - The Smoke Clears, archived from the original on 2022-10-22
type:
quotation
text:
My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow.
type:
example
text:
She swallowed nervously then, appearing near sick with what she had to say.
ref:
1979, VC Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
type:
quotation
text:
this humbug was readily swallowed by men who were supposed to be intelligent,
ref:
1920, Romain Rolland, translated by Katherine Miller, Clerambault
type:
quotation
text:
Most newspapers we saw swallowed whole an S.R. estimate that it would cost £20m to equip the Region with point heaters.
ref:
1962 March, “Lessons of the Freeze-up”, in Modern Railways, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
Americans swallowed his tale because they wanted to.
ref:
2011 April 22, Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
to swallow one's opinions
type:
example
text:
to swallow an affront or insult
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
To retract; to recant.
To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
senses_topics:
|
9714 | word:
swallow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
swallow (countable and uncountable, plural swallows)
forms:
form:
swallows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
swallow (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English swolowen, swolwen, swolȝen, swelwen, swelȝen, from Old English swelgan, from Proto-West Germanic *swelgan, from Proto-Germanic *swelganą (“to swallow, revel, devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *swelk- (“to gulp”). Cognate with Dutch zwelgen (“to revel, carouse, guzzle”), German schwelgen (“to delight, indulge”), Swedish svälja (“to swallow, gulp”), Icelandic svelgja (“to swallow”), Old English swillan, swilian (“to swill, wash out, gargle”). See also swill.
The noun is from Middle English swelwe, swolwe, from Old English swelh, swelg (“gulf, chasm”) and ġeswelge (“gulf, chasm, abyss, whirlpool”), both from Proto-West Germanic *swelg, *swalgi, from Proto-Germanic *swelgaz, *swalgiz. Cognate with Old English swiliġe (“pit”), Scots swelch, swellie, swallie (“an abyss in the sea, whirpool”), Middle Low German swelch (“whirlpool, eddy”), Dutch zwelg (“gorge, chasm, gullet, throat”), Old Norse svelgr (“whirlpool, current, stream”).
senses_examples:
text:
The door burst wide open, and he saw nothing but a gaping jaw extending from the threshold up to the lintel. "There is a mouthful for you," said the youngster, and threw the pauper boy into the swallow; "taste that! But let me see now who you are! Perhaps you are an old acquaintance?" And so it was; it was the devil who was about again.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.
type:
example
text:
She took a swallow of milk and made a face. "This milk is blinky."
ref:
1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
type:
quotation
text:
In addition, j-lock shackles can pass through the swallow of a modern genoa track even with a sheet in tension already there, and this is very useful when preparing a sail change on the same tack.
ref:
2008, Danilo Fabbroni, Rigging: Rig Your Boat Right for Racing or Cruising
type:
quotation
text:
Blocks are made in a great variety of patterns. All are designed to be used one way. The rope goes through the swallow.
ref:
2012, Percy W. Blandford, Practical Knots and Ropework, page 350
type:
quotation
text:
When specifying blocks, excessive friction is avoided by ensuring (a) that the diameter of the sheave is at least twice the circumference of the rope or six times its diameter (preferably more), and (b) that the 'swallow' of the block is substantially wider than the diameter of the rope, to avoid rubbing against the inside of the cheeks.
ref:
2012, H.G. Hasler, J.K. McLeod, Practical Junk Rig, page 171
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
The mouth and throat; that which is used for swallowing; the gullet.
The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
9715 | word:
swallow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
swallow (plural swallows)
forms:
form:
swallows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
swallow
swallow (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English swalwe, swalewe, swalowe, from Old English swealwe, from Proto-West Germanic *swalwā, from Proto-Germanic *swalwǭ. Cognate with Danish and Norwegian svale, Dutch zwaluw, German Schwalbe, Swedish svala.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
senses_topics:
|
9716 | word:
mashlin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mashlin (plural mashlins)
forms:
form:
mashlins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of maslin
senses_topics:
|
9717 | word:
knife
word_type:
noun
expansion:
knife (plural knives)
forms:
form:
knives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
knife#Types
etymology_text:
From Middle English knyf, knif, from late Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knífr, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz, from *knīpaną (“to pinch”), Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (compare Lithuanian gnýbti, žnýbti (“to pinch”), gnaibis (“pinching”)). Displaced native Middle English sax (“knife”) from Old English seax; and Middle English coutel, qwetyll (“knife”) from Old French coutel.
The verb knife is attested since the mid 1800s; the variant knive is attested since 1733.
senses_examples:
text:
Jeff was bent low over the backboard, working with the knife, a steady sawing motion, his shirt soaked through with sweat.
ref:
2007, Scott Smith, The Ruins, page 273
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.
A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger.
Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
senses_topics:
|
9718 | word:
knife
word_type:
verb
expansion:
knife (third-person singular simple present knifes, present participle knifing, simple past and past participle knifed)
forms:
form:
knifes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
knifing
tags:
participle
present
form:
knifed
tags:
participle
past
form:
knifed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English knyf, knif, from late Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knífr, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz, from *knīpaną (“to pinch”), Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (compare Lithuanian gnýbti, žnýbti (“to pinch”), gnaibis (“pinching”)). Displaced native Middle English sax (“knife”) from Old English seax; and Middle English coutel, qwetyll (“knife”) from Old French coutel.
The verb knife is attested since the mid 1800s; the variant knive is attested since 1733.
senses_examples:
text:
She was repeatedly knifed in the chest.
type:
example
text:
One day his sergeant began to cane him, on which, seizing his knife, he knifed the sergeant : he knifed the privates : he knifed until he was finally overpowered, and, brought before a court-martial, was condemned to fifteen years at the galleys.
ref:
1843, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 31, Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, page 236
type:
quotation
text:
The plane has been hijacked. They've already knifed a guy.
ref:
2012, Robert Biswas-Diener, The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver, John Wiley & Sons, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
Naw, they found him in the pissery of some gin mill near the Mohawk West terminal—he'd been knifed.
ref:
2015, Ross H. Spencer, The Fedorovich File, Diversion Books, page 211
type:
quotation
text:
The boat knifed through the water.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut with a knife.
To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
To cut through as if with a knife.
To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.
senses_topics:
|
9719 | word:
maskinonge
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maskinonge (plural maskinonge or maskinonges)
forms:
form:
maskinonge
tags:
plural
form:
maskinonges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The muskellunge
senses_topics:
|
9720 | word:
mask shell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mask shell (plural mask shells)
forms:
form:
mask shells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona (now Distorsio), having a curiously twisted aperture.
senses_topics:
|
9721 | word:
maskery
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maskery (plural maskeries)
forms:
form:
maskeries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mask + -ery.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The dress or disguise of a maske; a masquerade.
senses_topics:
|
9722 | word:
pig
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pig (countable and uncountable, plural pigs)
forms:
form:
pigs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pigge (“pig, pigling”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swyn), apparently from Old English *picga (attested only in compounds, such as picgbrēad (“mast, pig-fodder”)), from Proto-West Germanic *piggō, *puggō (“piglet”). Compare Middle Dutch pogge, puggen, pigge, pegsken (“pigling”), Middle Low German pugge, pûke (“piglet”). Pokorny suggests this root might be somehow related to *bū-, *bew- (“to blow; swell”), which could account for the alternation between "pig" and "big".
A connection to early modern Dutch bigge (contemporary big (“piglet”)), West Frisian bigge (“pigling”), and similar terms in Middle Low German is sometimes proposed, "but the phonology is difficult". Some sources say the words are "almost certainly not" related, others consider a relation "probable, but not certain".
The slang sense of "police officer" is attested since at least 1785.
senses_examples:
text:
The man kept a pen with two pigs that he fed everything from carrots to cabbage.
type:
example
text:
Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.
ref:
2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission, page I-9
type:
quotation
text:
Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig.
type:
example
text:
"Miss Chastene, could you fetch me out an extra plate of pig and biscuit. My partner can't do without your marvelous cooking."
ref:
2005, Ross Eddy Osborn, Thorns of a Tainted Rose, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
pig:
text:
So far on the streets there's been a lot of metallic pink (the kind of pink as in the shade of pig you get, and this is exactly the shade of the diary I've been writing in) […]
ref:
2019, Bee Smith, Queen Bee's Party
type:
quotation
text:
You gluttonous pig! Now that you've eaten all the cupcakes, there will be none for the party!
type:
example
text:
She considered him a pig, as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked.
type:
example
text:
He was a pig and his apartment a pigpen; take-away containers and pizza boxes in a long, moldy stream lined his counter tops.
type:
example
text:
The protester shouted, “Don't give in to the pigs!” as he was arrested.
type:
example
text:
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay
ref:
1971, Gil Scott-Heron (lyrics and music), “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
type:
quotation
text:
“...Sounds too easy,” Marvin was saying. “What about the pigs?”
He meant police.
ref:
1989, Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort, page 359
type:
quotation
text:
The bank robberies went on and each raid became more bloody, Meinhof encouraging her followers to “kill the pigs” offering the slightest resistance, referring to policemen.
ref:
1990, Jay Robert Nash, Encyclopedia of World Crime: Volume 1: A-C, page 198
type:
quotation
text:
Backing 300 of the more aggressive protesters was a supporting cast of several thousand more who stared down the small line of police. Those in front resumed their taunts of “Pig, pig, fascist pig,” and “pigs eat shit, pigs eat shit.” The rest of the crowd, however, backed off and sat down on the grass when reinforcements arrived. Police did not retaliate for the name-calling, and within minutes the line of demonstrators broke apart and the incident was over without violence.¹¹³
ref:
2008, Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
But me, I joined the party to fight the pigs. That′s why I joined. Because my experience with the police was always negative.
ref:
2011, T. J. English, The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
Got a mind for the undies
I'm tryna stay far from the pigs
ref:
2017, “All This”, performed by Mayhem (Uptop)
type:
quotation
text:
Hrm... this one's a real pig: I've been banging my head against the wall over it for hours!
type:
example
text:
Chewing-gum is a pig to get out of your hair.
type:
example
text:
The conveyor carried the pigs from the smelter to the freight cars.
type:
example
text:
Standing near the side, he had observed Rex and Fair bring up a great pig of iron, erst used as part of the ballast of the brig, and poise it on the rail.
ref:
1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
The pig was cracked, and molten metal was oozing from the side.
type:
example
text:
Taylor also bought a pig—a radiation-shielding container made of thick lead—to stash the most radioactive materials in.
ref:
2015, Tom Clynes, The Boy Who Played with Fusion, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
Forceps and a lead container (called a pig) that are routinely placed in the room are used to retrieve and contain the source.
ref:
2015, Adrianne Dill Linton, Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, page 394
type:
quotation
text:
Unfortunately, the pig sent to clear the obstruction got lodged in a tight bend, adding to the problem.
type:
example
text:
Unfortunately, the M60 is about twenty-four pounds and is very unbalanced. You try carrying the pig around the jungle and see how you feel.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
A lecherous or sexist man.
A dirty or slovenly person.
An obese person.
A police officer.
A difficult problem.
An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).
The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
A lead container used for radioactive waste.
A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
A sixpence.
A Cadillac car.
A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
government
military
politics
war
|
9723 | word:
pig
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pig (third-person singular simple present pigs, present participle pigging, simple past and past participle pigged)
forms:
form:
pigs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pigging
tags:
participle
present
form:
pigged
tags:
participle
past
form:
pigged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pigge (“pig, pigling”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swyn), apparently from Old English *picga (attested only in compounds, such as picgbrēad (“mast, pig-fodder”)), from Proto-West Germanic *piggō, *puggō (“piglet”). Compare Middle Dutch pogge, puggen, pigge, pegsken (“pigling”), Middle Low German pugge, pûke (“piglet”). Pokorny suggests this root might be somehow related to *bū-, *bew- (“to blow; swell”), which could account for the alternation between "pig" and "big".
A connection to early modern Dutch bigge (contemporary big (“piglet”)), West Frisian bigge (“pigling”), and similar terms in Middle Low German is sometimes proposed, "but the phonology is difficult". Some sources say the words are "almost certainly not" related, others consider a relation "probable, but not certain".
The slang sense of "police officer" is attested since at least 1785.
senses_examples:
text:
The black sow pigged at seven this morning.
type:
example
text:
They were pigging on the free food at the bar.
type:
example
text:
"Wow, Doc. That's heavy." Denis sat there pigging on the joint as usual.
ref:
2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 349
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give birth.
To greedily consume (especially food).
To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9724 | word:
pig
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pig (plural pigs)
forms:
form:
pigs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown. Perhaps from Middle English pig (“a container for wine; the hide of a pig used as a wineskin”), from pigge (“pig”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
earthenware, or an earthenware shard
An earthenware hot-water jar to warm a bed; a stone bed warmer
senses_topics:
|
9725 | word:
s
word_type:
character
expansion:
s (lower case, upper case S, plural ss or s's)
forms:
form:
S
tags:
uppercase
form:
ss
tags:
plural
form:
s's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9726 | word:
s
word_type:
num
expansion:
s (lower case, upper case S)
forms:
form:
S
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number nineteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9727 | word:
s
word_type:
noun
expansion:
s
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
s
# (stenoscript) the sound /s/ in a word.
#: (an orthographic ⟨s⟩ pronounced /z/ is transcribed z)
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of us.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of saw.
# (stenoscript) the prefix or initial syllable sub-
#: (some manuals advise capital S for the prefix sub-)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of scruple. (unit of mass in the apothecaries' system)
Abbreviation of strange quark.
Alternative form of s.
senses_topics:
metrology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
9728 | word:
maslach
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maslach (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Arabic مَسْلُوق (maslūq): compare French masloc.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An excitant containing opium, much used historically by the Turks.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
9729 | word:
Masonic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Masonic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Mason (“Freemason”) + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Freemasons or to their craft or mysteries.
senses_topics:
|
9730 | word:
Masorete
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Masorete (plural Masoretes)
forms:
form:
Masoretes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from Masoretic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the writers of the Masorah.
senses_topics:
|
9731 | word:
masoola boat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masoola boat (plural masoola boats)
forms:
form:
masoola boats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A masula.
senses_topics:
|
9732 | word:
z
word_type:
character
expansion:
z (lower case, upper case Z, plural zs or z's)
forms:
form:
Z
tags:
uppercase
form:
zs
tags:
plural
form:
z's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The twenty-sixth letter of the English alphabet, called zed, zee, or izzard and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9733 | word:
prepositional
word_type:
adj
expansion:
prepositional (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin praepositiō (“a setting before, a preposition”), a calque of Ancient Greek πρόθεσις (próthesis, “a setting before, preposition (grammar)”) + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
Although we have concentrated on Prepositions which take zero Complements, NP Complements, or clausal Complements in our discussion above, there seems no reason in principle to exclude the possibility of Prepositions taking prepositional Complements. And it may well be that items such as those italicised below are Prepositions which subcategorise a PP Complement headed by of:
(80) (a) He stayed at home because [of the strike]
(80) (b) He fell out [of the window]
(80) (c) Few people outside [of the immediate family] know
(80) (d) %It fell off [of the table] (dialectal)
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 364
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.
Of the prepositional case.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9734 | word:
prepositional
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prepositional (plural prepositionals)
forms:
form:
prepositionals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin praepositiō (“a setting before, a preposition”), a calque of Ancient Greek πρόθεσις (próthesis, “a setting before, preposition (grammar)”) + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The prepositional case.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9735 | word:
mashy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mashy (comparative mashier, superlative mashiest)
forms:
form:
mashier
tags:
comparative
form:
mashiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mash + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] the pot of strawberry jam was of the mashiest, stickiest description; […]
ref:
1881, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar, volume 61, page 258
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash.
senses_topics:
|
9736 | word:
mashy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mashy (plural mashies)
forms:
form:
mashies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of mashie (“golf club”)
senses_topics:
|
9737 | word:
Masorah
word_type:
name
expansion:
Masorah
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hebrew מָסוֹרָה (masorá), variant of מסורת / מָסֹרֶת (masóret).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The collection of marginal notes on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the 8th-9th centuries CE.
senses_topics:
|
9738 | word:
Masoretic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Masoretic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hebrew מָסֹרֶת (masóret) + -ic.
senses_examples:
text:
Masoretic points and accents are the vowel points and accents of the Hebrew text of the Bible, of which the first mention is in the Masora.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the Masorah, or to its authors.
senses_topics:
|
9739 | word:
agora
word_type:
noun
expansion:
agora (plural agorae or agorai or agoras)
forms:
form:
agorae
tags:
plural
form:
agorai
tags:
plural
form:
agoras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
agora
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá).
senses_examples:
text:
The custom was to dance its length, moving from partner to masked partner all the way to the agora, the city’s gathering place.
ref:
2011 September 27, Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place for gathering.
A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece.
senses_topics:
|
9740 | word:
agora
word_type:
noun
expansion:
agora (plural agorot or agoroth)
forms:
form:
agorot
tags:
plural
form:
agoroth
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
agora
etymology_text:
From Hebrew אֲגוֹרָה (agorá), from the root א־ג־ר (ʾ-g-r, “forming words relating to hoarding and storing”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Since 1960, a monetary unit and coin of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel / sheqel.
senses_topics:
|
9741 | word:
fear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fear (countable and uncountable, plural fears)
forms:
form:
fears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English feer, fere, fer, from Old English fǣr, ġefǣr (“calamity, sudden danger, peril, sudden attack, terrible sight”), from Proto-Germanic *fērō, *fērą (“danger”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to attempt, try, research, risk”). Cognate with Dutch gevaar (“danger, risk, peril”), German Gefahr (“danger, risk, hazard”), Swedish fara (“danger, risk, peril”), Latin perīculum (“danger, risk, trial”), Albanian frikë (“fear, danger”), Romanian frică. Doublet of peril.
The verb is from Middle English feren, from Old English fǣran (“to frighten, raven”), from the noun. Cognate with the archaic Dutch verb varen (“to fear; to cause fear”).
senses_examples:
text:
He was struck by fear on seeing the snake.
type:
example
text:
Not everybody has the same fears. I have a fear of ants.
type:
example
text:
Her feeling of humiliation had intensified as the day had gone on and her hangover had worsened. She now also had 'the fear' to contend with, […]
ref:
2019, Ruth Kelly, The Little Vineyard in Provence
type:
quotation
text:
He had the fear, that feeling of dread that you've done something really embarrassing. The fear was a hundred times worse than the hangover. No, a thousand times worse.
ref:
2020, Mark Ratcliffe, The Step Down: A Very Scottish Crime
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.
senses_topics:
|
9742 | word:
fear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fear (third-person singular simple present fears, present participle fearing, simple past and past participle feared)
forms:
form:
fears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
feared
tags:
participle
past
form:
feared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English feer, fere, fer, from Old English fǣr, ġefǣr (“calamity, sudden danger, peril, sudden attack, terrible sight”), from Proto-Germanic *fērō, *fērą (“danger”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to attempt, try, research, risk”). Cognate with Dutch gevaar (“danger, risk, peril”), German Gefahr (“danger, risk, hazard”), Swedish fara (“danger, risk, peril”), Latin perīculum (“danger, risk, trial”), Albanian frikë (“fear, danger”), Romanian frică. Doublet of peril.
The verb is from Middle English feren, from Old English fǣran (“to frighten, raven”), from the noun. Cognate with the archaic Dutch verb varen (“to fear; to cause fear”).
senses_examples:
text:
I fear the worst will happen.
type:
example
text:
One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
ref:
2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Never fear; help is always near.
type:
example
text:
She fears for her son’s safety.
type:
example
text:
People who fear God can be found in Christian churches.
type:
example
text:
I fear I have bad news for you: your husband has died.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
To feel fear.
To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for.
To venerate; to feel awe towards.
To regret.
To cause fear to; to frighten.
To be anxious or solicitous for.
To suspect; to doubt.
senses_topics:
|
9743 | word:
fear
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fear (comparative more fear, superlative most fear)
forms:
form:
more fear
tags:
comparative
form:
most fear
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fere, feore, from Old English fēre (“able to go, fit for service”), from Proto-Germanic *fōriz (“passable”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to put across, ferry”). Cognate with Scots fere, feir (“well, active, sound”), Middle High German gevüere (“able, capable, fit, serviceable”), Swedish för (“capable, able, stout”), Icelandic færr (“able”). Related to fare.
senses_examples:
text:
hale and fear
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.
senses_topics:
|
9744 | word:
franc
word_type:
noun
expansion:
franc (plural francs)
forms:
form:
francs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
franc
etymology_text:
From French franc. Doublet of Frank, frank, and farang.
senses_examples:
text:
The last 50 franc note, released in 1993, features Saint-Exupéry and a depiction of The Little Prince.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A former unit of currency of France, Belgium and Luxembourg, replaced by the euro.
Any of several units of currency, some of which are multi-national (West African CFA Franc (XOF), Central African CFA Franc (XAF), the Swiss franc (CHF)) while others are national currencies.
senses_topics:
|
9745 | word:
masoret
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masoret (plural masorets)
forms:
form:
masorets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hebrew מסורת / מָסֹרֶת (masóret).
senses_examples:
text:
The rough correspondence between these concepts and “native” Jewish ideas such as masoret (authoritative tradition) and galut (exile) further helps to explain their enduring status in the field.
ref:
2011, Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, Marina Rustow, Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History
type:
quotation
text:
From the above, it would seem that Rabban Gamliel had a different masoret from R' Yehoshua, one that was a very well-kept secret.
ref:
2014, Richard Fiedler, Sod Ha'ibur, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
“The Sadducees say that there is a tradition (masoret) in the hands of the Pharisees to afflict themselves,” according to 'Abot R. Nat. A (end chap. 12).
ref:
2015, Herbert Basser, Marsha B. Cohen, The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An unwritten tradition orally passed down as law by the Hebrews.
senses_topics:
|
9746 | word:
prostitute
word_type:
verb
expansion:
prostitute (third-person singular simple present prostitutes, present participle prostituting, simple past and past participle prostituted)
forms:
form:
prostitutes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
prostituting
tags:
participle
present
form:
prostituted
tags:
participle
past
form:
prostituted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
prostitute
etymology_text:
From Latin prōstitūtus, past participle of prōstituō, from prō̆ (“for, before”) + statuō (“to set up, to erect”).
senses_examples:
text:
[T]heſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.
ref:
1740, John Dyer, “The Ruins of Rome. A Poem.”, in Poems. … Viz. I. Grongar Hill. II. The Ruins of Rome. III. The Fleece, in Four Books, London: Printed by John Hughs, for Messrs. R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], published 1759, →OCLC, pages 42–43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To offer (oneself or someone else) for sexual activity in exchange for money.
To sacrifice (oneself, one's talents etc.) in return for profit or other advantage; to exploit for base purposes.
senses_topics:
|
9747 | word:
prostitute
word_type:
adj
expansion:
prostitute (comparative more prostitute, superlative most prostitute)
forms:
form:
more prostitute
tags:
comparative
form:
most prostitute
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
prostitute
etymology_text:
From Latin prōstitūtus, past participle of prōstituō, from prō̆ (“for, before”) + statuō (“to set up, to erect”).
senses_examples:
text:
[H]e speaks a languages that merits not reply, and which can only excite contempt for his prostitute principles, or pity for his ignorance.
ref:
1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
type:
quotation
text:
They rightly say that attacks against prostitute women are common and that it's only when five are murdered in one place that it starts to provoke debate.
ref:
2008, Niki Adams, Lisa Longstaff, The Guardian, letters, 23 February
type:
quotation
text:
As a matter of ease, exposed and prostitute to every Mother-wit, and to be attained without any great care or study.
ref:
1651, Thomas Hobbes, Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Debased, corrupt; seeking personal gain by dishonourable means.
Taking part in promiscuous sexual activity, licentious; (later, chiefly as attributive use of noun) that is a prostitute.
Exposed, subjected (to something shameful).
senses_topics:
|
9748 | word:
prostitute
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prostitute (plural prostitutes)
forms:
form:
prostitutes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
prostitute
etymology_text:
From Latin prōstitūtus, past participle of prōstituō, from prō̆ (“for, before”) + statuō (“to set up, to erect”).
senses_examples:
text:
Unfortunately, there is to my knowledge no visual evidence for the dress of the Roman prostitute, but the literary sources present us with a range of prostitute clothing (from rich accoutrements all the way down to nothing), […]
ref:
2012, Kelly Olson, Dress and the Roman Woman: Self-Presentation and Society, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
Madonna would do anything for money, you know, she's a total prostitute. And I've got nothing against prostitutes.
ref:
2019 May 18, Jack Shepherd, quoting Bobby Gillespie, “Primal Scream frontman calls Madonna a 'total prostitute' for performing at Eurovision in Israel”, in The Independent
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
A woman who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
A person who does, or offers to do, a demeaning or dishonourable activity for money or personal gain; someone who acts in a dishonourable way for personal advantage.
senses_topics:
|
9749 | word:
masseterine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
masseterine (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
masseteric
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
9750 | word:
masquerader
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masquerader (plural masqueraders)
forms:
form:
masqueraders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From masquerade + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
The man dressed in red with the white mask and the little house on his head processed through the estate, blowing his conch, and the masqueraders danced, the singing exploded, much rum was taken, and it didn’t end till the sun came up[.]
ref:
2023, Zadie Smith, The Fraud, Hamish Hamilton, page 265
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask or disguise.
senses_topics:
|
9751 | word:
full
word_type:
adj
expansion:
full (comparative fuller or more full, superlative fullest or most full)
forms:
form:
fuller
tags:
comparative
form:
more full
tags:
comparative
form:
fullest
tags:
superlative
form:
most full
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ful, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).
Germanic cognates include West Frisian fol, Low German vull, Dutch vol, German voll, Danish fuld, and Norwegian and Swedish full (the latter three via Old Norse). Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇá).
See also fele and Scots fou. For the "drunk, intoxicated" sense, compare also Swedish full and other Scandinavian languages.
senses_examples:
text:
The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.
type:
example
text:
Anybody can cure a curable disease if he happens to have the right drug at hand, but the treatment of a condition for which there is no positive cure makes much greater demands on the doctor, who has to be practical pharmacologist, human being, psychiatrist, and father confessor—he has, in fact, to be a proper physician in the fullest sense of the word.
ref:
1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763
type:
quotation
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:
Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.
type:
example
text:
She had tattoos the full length of her arms. He was prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
type:
example
text:
full member
type:
example
text:
full officer
type:
example
text:
"I'm full," he said, pushing back from the table.
type:
example
text:
This movie doesn't make sense; it's full of plot holes.
type:
example
text:
I prefer my pizzas full of toppings.
type:
example
text:
Hang on - my hands are full; just let me put these down.
type:
example
text:
full lips; a full face; a full figure
type:
example
text:
For on those evenings, when the moon is full and bright and clear, mothers and fathers in Siam tell their children to look up at the moon and then ask them what they see there.
ref:
1969, Alan S. Feinstein, Folk tales from Siam, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
a full pleated skirt; She needed her full clothing during her pregnancy.
type:
example
text:
a full singing voice
type:
example
text:
She's full of her latest project.
type:
example
text:
The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.
ref:
1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal
type:
quotation
text:
nines full of aces (three nines and two aces)
type:
example
text:
I'll beat him with my kings full! (three kings and two unspecified cards of the same rank)
type:
example
text:
Mr. Coniff: That is the only evidence you gave of his being intoxicated, that his hat was on the side? […] Mr. Coniff: That is the only indication you gave the committee when you were asked if the judge was full, that his hat was on the side of his head; is that right?
ref:
1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
Complete; with nothing omitted.
Surjective as a map of morphisms
Complete; with nothing omitted.
Including all morphisms. Formally: Such that for every pairs of objects (X, Y) in S, the hom-sets operatorname Hom_S(X,Y) and operatorname Hom_C(X,Y) are equal.
Complete; with nothing omitted.
Total, entire.
Completely empowered, authorized or qualified (in some role); not limited.
Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
Replete, abounding with.
Carrying as much as possible.
Plump, round.
Having its entire face illuminated.
Of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
Having depth and body; rich.
Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
Filled with emotions.
Impregnated; made pregnant.
Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
Drunk, intoxicated.
senses_topics:
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
card-games
poker
|
9752 | word:
full
word_type:
adv
expansion:
full (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ful, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).
Germanic cognates include West Frisian fol, Low German vull, Dutch vol, German voll, Danish fuld, and Norwegian and Swedish full (the latter three via Old Norse). Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇá).
See also fele and Scots fou. For the "drunk, intoxicated" sense, compare also Swedish full and other Scandinavian languages.
senses_examples:
text:
You know full well what makes me look so pale.
ref:
1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act IV, scene I, verse 112
type:
quotation
text:
This cupboard[…]
this other one,
His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode
Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,
ref:
1880, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Blake, lines 9–12
type:
quotation
text:
It is full strange to him who hears and feels,
When wandering there in some deserted street,
The booming and the jar of ponderous wheels,[…]
ref:
1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, section IX
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
senses_topics:
|
9753 | word:
full
word_type:
noun
expansion:
full (plural fulls)
forms:
form:
fulls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo (“fullness, fill, plenty”), from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄, *fulnō (“fullness, filling, overflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plūno-, *plno- (“full”), from *pelh₁-, *pleh₁- (“to fill; full”). Cognate with German Fülle (“fullness, fill”), Icelandic fylli (“fulness, fill”). More at fill.
senses_examples:
text:
I was fed to the full.
type:
example
text:
[…] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.
ref:
1911, Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor, The villa on the Rhine
type:
quotation
text:
Early next morning we were over at the elk carcass, and, as we expected, found that the bear had eaten his full at it during the night.
ref:
2008, Jay Cassell, The Gigantic Book Of Hunting Stories
type:
quotation
text:
When he had eaten his full, they set to work again.
ref:
2010, C. E. Morgan, All the Living: A Novel
type:
quotation
text:
It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: …
ref:
a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page 322
text:
a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 page 219,
This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
senses_topics:
|
9754 | word:
full
word_type:
verb
expansion:
full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)
forms:
form:
fulls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fulling
tags:
participle
present
form:
fulled
tags:
participle
past
form:
fulled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo (“fullness, fill, plenty”), from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄, *fulnō (“fullness, filling, overflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plūno-, *plno- (“full”), from *pelh₁-, *pleh₁- (“to fill; full”). Cognate with German Fülle (“fullness, fill”), Icelandic fylli (“fulness, fill”). More at fill.
senses_examples:
text:
The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.
ref:
1888 September 20, “The Harvest Moon”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-04-10
type:
quotation
text:
By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!
ref:
1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 4, in The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation
type:
quotation
text:
"The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"
ref:
1918, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 29, in The Story Of Waitstill Baxter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To become full or wholly illuminated.
senses_topics:
|
9755 | word:
full
word_type:
verb
expansion:
full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)
forms:
form:
fulls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fulling
tags:
participle
present
form:
fulled
tags:
participle
past
form:
fulled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English fullen (“to baptise”), fulwen, from Old English fullian, fulwian (“to baptise”), from full- + *wīhan (later *wēon). Compare Old English fulluht, fulwiht (“baptism”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To baptise.
senses_topics:
|
9756 | word:
full
word_type:
verb
expansion:
full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)
forms:
form:
fulls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fulling
tags:
participle
present
form:
fulled
tags:
participle
past
form:
fulled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English fullen (“to full”), from Middle French fouler, from Old French foler, fouler (“to tread, to stamp, to full”), from Medieval Latin fullare, from Latin fullo (“a fuller”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing; to waulk or walk.
senses_topics:
|
9757 | word:
price
word_type:
noun
expansion:
price (plural prices)
forms:
form:
prices
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.
senses_examples:
text:
I paid a high price for my folly.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cost required to gain possession of something.
The cost of an action or deed.
Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
senses_topics:
|
9758 | word:
price
word_type:
verb
expansion:
price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)
forms:
form:
prices
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pricing
tags:
participle
present
form:
priced
tags:
participle
past
form:
priced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.
senses_examples:
text:
to price eggs
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
To set a price on; to value; to prize.
To ask the price of.
senses_topics:
|
9759 | word:
burden
word_type:
noun
expansion:
burden (plural burdens)
forms:
form:
burdens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
burden
etymology_text:
From Middle English burden, birden, burthen, birthen, byrthen, from Old English byrden, byrþen, from Proto-West Germanic *burþini, from *burþī, from Proto-Germanic *burþį̄, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”).
senses_examples:
text:
c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift, The Dean's Complaint Translated and Answered
Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, / To all my friends a burden grown.
text:
a ship of a hundred tons burden
type:
example
text:
[…] The quay is upwards of 1,000 feet in length, and capable of accommodating more than 100 sail of traders; and there are generally a considerable number of vessels of from 40 to 300 tons burden, from various parts of the world, waiting to receive their cargoes.
ref:
1945 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 142, text published 1848
type:
quotation
text:
A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds.
type:
example
text:
[…] that bore thee at a burden two fair sons.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A heavy load.
A responsibility, onus.
A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
A birth.
The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
The distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)
senses_topics:
business
mining
arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
medicine
sciences
|
9760 | word:
burden
word_type:
verb
expansion:
burden (third-person singular simple present burdens, present participle burdening, simple past and past participle burdened)
forms:
form:
burdens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
burdening
tags:
participle
present
form:
burdened
tags:
participle
past
form:
burdened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
burden
etymology_text:
From Middle English burden, birden, burthen, birthen, byrthen, from Old English byrden, byrþen, from Proto-West Germanic *burþini, from *burþī, from Proto-Germanic *burþį̄, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”).
senses_examples:
text:
to burden a nation with taxes
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
senses_topics:
|
9761 | word:
burden
word_type:
noun
expansion:
burden (plural burdens)
forms:
form:
burdens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
burden
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English burdoun (“accompaniment”), from Old French bordon (“drone”), from Medieval Latin burdō. Doublet of bourdon.
senses_examples:
text:
As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only is limited to lyric verse, but depends for its impression upon the force of monotone - both in sound and thought.
ref:
1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Composition
type:
quotation
text:
BURDEN in some musical instruments, the Drone or Bass , and the pipe or string that plays it
ref:
1740, Sébastien de Brossard, James Grassineau, A Musical Dictionary
type:
quotation
text:
the burden of the argument
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
The drone of a bagpipe.
Theme, core idea.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
9762 | word:
calf
word_type:
noun
expansion:
calf (plural calves or (nonstandard) calfs)
forms:
form:
calves
tags:
plural
form:
calfs
tags:
nonstandard
plural
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English calf, kælf, kelf, from Old English cælf, ċealf;
also cognate with German Kalb (“calf”), Dutch kalf (“calf”) and Danish kalv (“calf”), from Proto-Germanic *kalbaz, further etymology unknown.
senses_examples:
text:
1915 (published), 1848 (first written), Elisha Kent Kane, Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack
Our swell ceases with this wind, and the floes seem disposed to come together again; but the days of winter have passed by, and the interposing calves prevent the apposition of the edges
type:
quotation
text:
the Calf of Man
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A young cow or bull.
Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals).
A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
A small island, near a larger island.
A cabless railroad engine.
An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
senses_topics:
|
9763 | word:
calf
word_type:
noun
expansion:
calf (plural calves)
forms:
form:
calves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English calf, kalf, from Old Norse kalfi, possibly derived from the same Germanic root as English calf (“young cow”) (above). Cognate with Icelandic kálfi (“calf of the leg”).
senses_examples:
text:
Sure, his calves are a little weak, but the rest of his physique is so overwhelming, he should place high.
ref:
1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The back of the leg below the knee.
The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
|
9764 | word:
masseteric
word_type:
adj
expansion:
masseteric (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From masseter + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the masseter.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
9765 | word:
masher
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masher (plural mashers)
forms:
form:
mashers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mash + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who, or that which, mashes.
A machine for making mash.
senses_topics:
beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing |
9766 | word:
masher
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masher (plural mashers)
forms:
form:
mashers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Charles Godfrey Leland
Michael Quinion
etymology_text:
Either by analogy with masher (“one who presses, softens”), or more likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”). Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s.
Either originally borrowed as masher, from masha, or from mash + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
For in this quality of “clubbable,” and the value now put upon it, lies the whole secret of change in our fast men, mashers, and men about town.
ref:
1886, Punch, volume 91, page 249
type:
quotation
text:
"Oh, gee!" remarked the Girl from Sieber-Mason's, glancing up with the most capable coolness. "Ain't there any way to ever get rid of you mashers? I've tried everything from eating onions to using hatpins. Be on your way, Freddie."
ref:
c. 1900, O. Henry, The Ferry of Unfulfilment
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fashionable man.
A man who makes often unwelcome advances to women, as in a subway.
senses_topics:
|
9767 | word:
massiness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
massiness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From massy + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state or quality of being massy; ponderousness
senses_topics:
|
9768 | word:
masculinity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masculinity (usually uncountable, plural masculinities)
forms:
form:
masculinities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French masculinité, from Old French. Earlier in same sense was masculineness.
senses_examples:
text:
Over time, society's ideas of masculinity has greatly broadened.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The degree or property of being masculine or manly; manliness.
senses_topics:
|
9769 | word:
stroke
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stroke (plural strokes)
forms:
form:
strokes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English strok, stroke (“blow from a weapon, cut”), from Old English strāc, from Proto-West Germanic *straik, from Proto-Germanic *straikaz (“stroke”), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike”).
Sense 3.6.2.2 (“the oblique, slash, or virgule (‘/’)”) is a contraction of oblique stroke, a variant of oblique which was originally used in telegraphy.
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* German Streich (“stroke”)
* Middle Low German strēk (“stroke, trick, prank”)
* Scots strak, strake, straik (“blow, stroke”)
senses_examples:
text:
In Singapore, acts of vandalism like graffiti are punishable by 3 to 8 strokes of the cane in addition to imprisonment.
type:
example
text:
on the stroke of midnight
type:
example
text:
Already guarding a 1–0 lead from the first leg, Blackpool inched further ahead when Stephen Dobbie scored from an acute angle on the stroke of half-time. The game appeared to be completely beyond Birmingham's reach three minutes into the second period when Matt Phillips reacted quickly to bundle the ball past Colin Doyle and off a post.
ref:
2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2–3 on agg[regate]): match report”, in Tony Gallagher, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-23
type:
quotation
text:
a stroke on the chin
type:
example
text:
butterfly stroke
type:
example
text:
the stroke of a bird’s wing in flying
type:
example
text:
the stroke of death
type:
example
text:
T'encreaſe this load, ſome ſycophant-report / Deſtroy'd his int'reſt and good grace at court. / At this one ſtroke the man look'd dead in lavv: / His flatt'rers ſcamper, and his friends vvithdravv.
ref:
1767, [Walter Harte], “Eulogius: Or, The Charitable Mason”, in The Amaranth: Or, Religious Poems; […], London: […] Mess. Robinson and Roberts, […]; and W. Frederick, […], →OCLC, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
a stroke of business
type:
example
text:
a stroke of genius
type:
example
text:
Subject: Fire. Dear Sir-stroke-Madam: I am writing to inform you of a fire which has broken out at the premises of … No. That's too formal.
ref:
2006 February 3, Graham Linehan, “Calamity Jen”, in The IT Crowd, season 1, episode 2
type:
quotation
text:
to give some finishing strokes to an essay
type:
example
text:
Just somebody with a low lottery number, not enough stroke to get in the National Guard, and a distaste for tropical climates.
ref:
1993, Dana Stabenow, chapter 5, in A Fatal Thaw (A Kate Shugak Mystery), Hampton Falls, N.H.: Beeler Large Print, Thomas T. Beeler, published 2002, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
To enable any other piece to effect the decisive stroke, a greater number of facilities, arising either from the coöperation of partisans, or the obstruction of the adverse king by his own pieces, must conspire in proportion to the assailant's class.
ref:
1817, François-André Danican Philidor (translated), Studies of Chess, Samuel Bagster, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
Black gives the opponent and opportunity for a beautiful combination stroke. But his game was anyhow very bad already, for in answer to QR—R sq., which was about his only other alternative, White would have replied Kt—R5 with an irresistible attack.
ref:
1889, Wilhelm Steinitz, The Modern Chess Instructor, G. P. Putnam's sons, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
suffer a stroke
type:
example
text:
A flash of lightning may be made up of several strokes. If they are separated by enough time for the eye to distinguish them, the lightning will appear to flicker.
type:
example
text:
Being gay and in prison is a very lonely experience. I would like to get some gay contacts on the outside that could give me some positive strokes.
ref:
1980 April 5, Charles E. Skinner, “Personal Advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Rooks are said to be fattest when food is scarcest, as they "owereat thorsels" when they have too much food. The same is said of lean children who have a good stroke (appetite).
ref:
1893–1894, Oliver Heslop, “OWEREAT”, in Northumberland Words: A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Northumberland and on the Tyneside, volume II, London: For the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, […], →OCLC, page 518
type:
quotation
text:
It distressed him, Joe said, to see them feeding like animals, without delicacy. Joe had a good stroke himself, but naturally not as good an appetite as he would have if he was doing anything.
ref:
a. 1968 (date written), Walter Macken, “The Dreamer”, in The Grass of the People, Dingle, Co. Kerry: Brandon, published 1998, page 212
type:
quotation
text:
It was said of him that he had a good stroke which simply meant in the everyday idiom of the place that he was possessed of a healthy appetite.
ref:
1995, John B[rendan] Keane, “Something Drastic”, in The Voice of an Angel and Other Christmas Stories, Dublin: Mercier Press, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
a stroke of apoplexy
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.
An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
A single movement with a tool; also, an impact of a tool on an object.
An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
An act, or the sound, of the clapper or hammer of a clock hitting a bell or other striking mechanism; hence, the time when such a strike occurs.
An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
An act of hitting or trying to hit a ball; also, the manner in which this is done.
The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
An act of hitting or trying to hit a ball; also, the manner in which this is done.
A single act of striking at the ball with a club; also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.
An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
An act of hitting or trying to hit a ball; also, the manner in which this is done.
A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
An act of hitting or trying to hit a ball; also, the manner in which this is done.
The hitting of a ball with a racket; also, the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
A movement similar to that of hitting.
One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the boat, or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a rowing style.
A movement similar to that of hitting.
One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers; also, the position in the boat occupied by this rower.
A movement similar to that of hitting.
One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
A specific combination of movements of the arms and legs which, when repeated, causes the swimmer to advance through the water; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a swimming style.
A movement similar to that of hitting.
One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
A movement similar to that of hitting.
A beat or throb, as of the heart or pulse.
A movement similar to that of hitting.
A single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; also, the length of this movement.
A movement similar to that of hitting.
A single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; also, the length of this movement.
A thrust of the penis during sexual intercourse.
An act causing hurt or death, especially when seen as divine punishment.
A damaging occurrence, especially if sudden; a blow, a calamity.
An amount of work; specifically, a large amount of business or work.
A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done or produced; also, something accomplished by such an effort; an achievement, a feat.
A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.
A line making up a written character; specifically, a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character.
A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.
In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").
A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.
The oblique, slash, or virgule ("/").
A distinctive expression in a written composition; a touch.
Influence; power.
Influence; power.
Backstage influence.
A masterful or effective action.
The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
An individual discharge of lightning, particularly if causing damage.
An individual social interaction whereby one gives another attention or recognition.
The effect or result of a striking; affliction or injury; a bruise or wound; soreness.
Chiefly in to have a good stroke: appetite.
A sudden attack of any illness, especially if causing loss of consciousness or movement, or when fatal.
A bow or pluck of a string or strings of a stringed instrument; also, the manner in which a musical instrument is played; hence, a melody, a tune.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
squash
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
media
publishing
typography
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
medicine
sciences
sciences
medicine
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
9770 | word:
stroke
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stroke (third-person singular simple present strokes, present participle stroking, simple past and past participle stroked)
forms:
form:
strokes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stroking
tags:
participle
present
form:
stroked
tags:
participle
past
form:
stroked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English strok, stroke (“blow from a weapon, cut”), from Old English strāc, from Proto-West Germanic *straik, from Proto-Germanic *straikaz (“stroke”), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike”).
Sense 3.6.2.2 (“the oblique, slash, or virgule (‘/’)”) is a contraction of oblique stroke, a variant of oblique which was originally used in telegraphy.
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* German Streich (“stroke”)
* Middle Low German strēk (“stroke, trick, prank”)
* Scots strak, strake, straik (“blow, stroke”)
senses_examples:
text:
to stroke a boat
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).
Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
Of a bell or clock: to chime or sound to indicate (the hour, the time, etc.).
To mark (something) with lines or stripes; to stripe.
To hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; also, to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so.
Of a rower or a crew: to row at (a rate of a certain number of strokes (“movements of the oar through water”) per minute).
To act as the stroke (“rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers”) of (a boat or its crew).
To strike (the water) with one's arms and legs when swimming.
To depict (something) with a paintbrush.
Chiefly followed by out: to suffer loss of brain function when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted; to have a stroke (noun sense 4).
To swim by making co-ordinated movements with the arms and legs.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
medicine
sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming |
9771 | word:
stroke
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stroke (third-person singular simple present strokes, present participle stroking, simple past and past participle stroked)
forms:
form:
strokes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stroking
tags:
participle
present
form:
stroked
tags:
participle
past
form:
stroked
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
stroke
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Middle English stroken, straken (“to caress, fondle, pat, rub, smooth, stroke; to pass something over (someone or something); to brush or rub against;”) [and other forms], from Old English strācian (“to stroke”), from Proto-West Germanic *straikōn (“to caress, stroke”), from *straik (“a line, stroke; a dash”) (see further at etymology 1) + *-ōn (suffix forming verbs from nouns).
The noun is derived from the verb.
cognates
* German streicheln (“to stroke, fondle”)
* German Low German straken, strieken, strakeln, striekeln (“to stroke; caress; fondle”)
* Middle Low German strēken, Middle Dutch strēken (modern Dutch streeken)
* Old High German strīhhan, streihhōn, Middle High German strīchen (modern German streichen (“to stroke; to rub; to spread; to apply; to paint; to cancel; to cross out, strike out; to delete; to discard”))
* Saterland Frisian strookje (“to stroke; caress”)
* West Frisian streakje (“to stroke; caress”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom or brush) along (a surface) in one direction, touching it lightly; to caress.
To bring (something) to a certain condition by stroking (sense 1).
To give assurance to (someone) through encouragement.
To influence (someone) by convincing or flattering them.
To milk (a cow or other animal); especially, to squeeze the teat of (a cow, etc.) to extract the last bit of milk from the udder; to strap (dialectal), to strip.
To give a finely fluted surface to (stone) by carving it with a tool.
To sharpen (a knife or other cutting instrument) by honing or rubbing it against a surface.
To soothe (someone); also, to flatter or indulge (someone).
senses_topics:
human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
government
politics
agriculture
business
lifestyle
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
|
9772 | word:
stroke
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stroke (plural strokes)
forms:
form:
strokes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The verb is derived from Middle English stroken, straken (“to caress, fondle, pat, rub, smooth, stroke; to pass something over (someone or something); to brush or rub against;”) [and other forms], from Old English strācian (“to stroke”), from Proto-West Germanic *straikōn (“to caress, stroke”), from *straik (“a line, stroke; a dash”) (see further at etymology 1) + *-ōn (suffix forming verbs from nouns).
The noun is derived from the verb.
cognates
* German streicheln (“to stroke, fondle”)
* German Low German straken, strieken, strakeln, striekeln (“to stroke; caress; fondle”)
* Middle Low German strēken, Middle Dutch strēken (modern Dutch streeken)
* Old High German strīhhan, streihhōn, Middle High German strīchen (modern German streichen (“to stroke; to rub; to spread; to apply; to paint; to cancel; to cross out, strike out; to delete; to discard”))
* Saterland Frisian strookje (“to stroke; caress”)
* West Frisian streakje (“to stroke; caress”)
senses_examples:
text:
She gave the cat a stroke.
type:
example
text:
Not providing a stroke to a client can sometimes facilitate the client in becoming aware of their neediness or desire for approval. By not giving a stroke, the client's need is brought to the surface, where it is amenable to change, […]
ref:
2009, Mark Widdowson, Transactional Analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques, page 246
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of moving one's hand or an object along a surface in one direction, touching it lightly; a caress.
A gesture of assurance given as encouragement; specifically (psychoanalysis) in transactional analysis: a (generally positive) reaction expressed to a person which fulfils their desires or needs.
A flattering or friendly act, comment, etc., done or made to a person to influence them.
senses_topics:
|
9773 | word:
Cypriot
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cypriot
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Κυπριώτης (Kupriṓtēs, “Cypriot”). Equivalent to Cyprus + -iot.
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: Arcado-Cypriot
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The dialect of Greek spoken in Cyprus.
The dialect of Turkish spoken in Cyprus.
senses_topics:
|
9774 | word:
Cypriot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Cypriot (plural Cypriots)
forms:
form:
Cypriots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Κυπριώτης (Kupriṓtēs, “Cypriot”). Equivalent to Cyprus + -iot.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: Eteocypriot
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Cyprus.
senses_topics:
|
9775 | word:
Cypriot
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Cypriot (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Κυπριώτης (Kupriṓtēs, “Cypriot”). Equivalent to Cyprus + -iot.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or relating to Cyprus.
senses_topics:
|
9776 | word:
maslin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maslin (countable and uncountable, plural maslins)
forms:
form:
maslins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English missellane, misceline, miscelin, meslin, from Old English mæstling, mæsling, mæslen. See also miscellane.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mixture composed of different materials; especially:
A mixture of metals resembling brass.
A mixture composed of different materials; especially:
A mixture of different sorts of grain, such as wheat and rye.
senses_topics:
|
9777 | word:
maslin
word_type:
adj
expansion:
maslin (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English missellane, misceline, miscelin, meslin, from Old English mæstling, mæsling, mæslen. See also miscellane.
senses_examples:
text:
Maslin bread is made of rye mixed with a little wheat.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Composed of different sorts.
senses_topics:
|
9778 | word:
loch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
loch (plural lochs)
forms:
form:
lochs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lough, borrowed from Scottish Gaelic loch. Doublet of lough and Looe.
senses_examples:
text:
The greater part of Leuchars Loch belonged to the Inneses of Leuchars, Cotts to the Inneses of Innes; and while thus poſſeſſed, many unſucceſsful attempts to drain both, by canals, to the river Loſſie, ſeem to have been made. […] [A] very ordinary fall of rain raiſes it [the river] far beyond its natural bounds; and the immediate conſequence of ſuch floods, was, the ſpeat-water flowing into thoſe lochs, by the canal, and covering the adjacent meadows.
ref:
1802 November 1, “Account of the Drainage of the Lochs at Leuchars and Cotts, in the County of Moray”, in The Farmer’s Magazine: A Periodical Work, Exclusively Devoted to Agriculture, and Rural Affairs, volume III, number XII, Edinburgh: Printed by D. Willison, for Archibald Constable, [...], →OCLC, pages 453–454
type:
quotation
text:
But, enchanting as are the woodland banks of the quiet stream, there is to me a higher and yet more powerful charm in the solitary wildness or savage grandeur of the Highland loch.
ref:
1840, John Colquhoun, “Loch-fishing”, in The Moor and the Loch: […], Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons; London: T[homas] Cadell, →OCLC, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
This book may possibly fall into the hands of tourists in the Highlands; and if it should induce any one to visit the Isles of Loch Awe, a few words on my part may save him a good deal of trouble. The inns are so badly situated that no visitors but sportsmen and painters ever think of staying long at Loch Awe. The hotel at Dalmally is an old inconvenient house, three miles from the loch, and wants rebuilding. The inn at Cladich is a mile from the loch, and the footpath in wet weather is almost impassable.
ref:
1855, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, “Notes [on the poem The Isles of Loch Awe]”, in The Isles of Loch Awe and Other Poems of My Youth, London: W. E. Painter, […], →OCLC, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. [James M.] Gale's scheme for doubling the [water] supply was carried through both Houses of Parliament, and was at once put into construction. It especially included the raising of the boundaries of the loch, and it brought into assistance and use other lochs in the Loch Katrine area; and Glasgow and its suburbs are now supplied with water as no other community in the kingdom is supplied.
ref:
1903 September 11, “The Late Mr. James M. Gale”, in W[illiam] H[enry] Maw, J[ames] Dredge [Jr.], editors, Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal, volume LXXVI, London: Offices for advertisements and publication—35 & 36, Bedford Street, Strand, W.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 351, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Marmaduke Wetherell was hired by the Daily Mail newspaper to lead a search for the lair of the Loch Ness Monster. […] To everyone's surprise, within a few days of the start of his search, Wetherell came across a huge, four-toed footprint along the shoreline of the loch. This was just the sort of sensational story the newspaper was hoping for.
ref:
2010 January, Rick Emmer, “Into the Limelight”, in Loch Ness Monster: Fact or Fiction? (Creature Science Investigation), New York, N.Y.: Chelsea House Publishers, Infobase Publishing, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
It is well known, for instance, that the superiority of the herrings caught in the inland sea-lochs of Scotland is owing to the fish finding there a better feeding-ground than in the large and exposed open bays. Look, for instance, at Lochfyne: the land runs down to the water's edge, and the surface water or drainage carries with it rich food to fatten the loch, and put flesh on the herring; and what fish is finer, I would ask, than a Lochfyne herring?
ref:
1865, James G[lass] Bertram, “Fish Life and Growth”, in The Harvest of the Sea: A Contribution to the Natural and Economic History of the British Food Fishes, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
Little Loch Broom is a NW trending sea loch situated approximately 10 km west of Ullapool[…]. The flanks of the loch are characterized by rugged headlands backed by mountains such as An Teallach to the south and Beinn Ghobhlach to the north.
ref:
2010, Martyn S. Stoker, Charles R. Wilson, John A. Howe, Tom Bradwell, David Long, “Paraglacial Slope Instability in Scottish Fjords: Examples from Little Loch Broom, NW Scotland”, in J[ohn] A. Howe, W. E. N. Austin, M. Forwick, M. Paetzel, editors, Fjord Systems and Archives (Geological Society Special Publication; no. 344), London: Published by The Geological Society, page 227, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lake.
A bay or arm of the sea.
senses_topics:
|
9779 | word:
loch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
loch (plural lochs)
forms:
form:
lochs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See lohoch.
senses_examples:
text:
We may obtain, then, a just idea of the constitution of this liquid [milk], if we look upon it as a soft, liquid substance, a kind of loch,^* in which caseine, sugar, &c., are dissolved, and in which the fatty or oily substance is distributed in small, rounded atoms. [Footnote *: Loch, or lohoch, is an Arabian name for a medicine of a consistence between an electuary and a sirup, and usually taken by licking.[…]]
ref:
1859, Al[fred François] Donné, “Of Professional Nurses”, in Mothers and Infants, Nurses and Nursing. […], Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, →OCLC, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
[Rembert] Dodoens specifically recommends the preparation of a lohoch or loch – a 'licking medicine', of middle consistency, between a soft electuary and a syrup – for relief of obstruction, shortness of breath and an old, hard cough.
ref:
2011, Graeme Tobyn, Alison Denham, Margaret Whitelegge, “Hyssopus officinalis, Hyssop”, in The Western Herbal Tradition: 2000 Years of Medicinal Plant Knowledge, Edinburgh, London: Churchill Livingstone, page 195, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of lohoch (“medicine taken by licking”)
senses_topics:
|
9780 | word:
forever
word_type:
adv
expansion:
forever (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English for ever, for evere, equivalent to for + ever.
senses_examples:
text:
I shall love you forever.
type:
example
text:
Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.
ref:
1839, Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face &emdash; for ever.
ref:
1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
type:
quotation
text:
We had to wait forever to get inside.
type:
example
text:
That was forever ago.
type:
example
text:
She and Serena had been friends forever. Or nearly forever: forty-two years, beginning with Miss Kimmel's first grade.
ref:
1988, Anne Tyler, chapter 1, in Breathing Lessons
type:
quotation
text:
Anything in the world of transport takes forever to do, and costs far too much.
ref:
2024 February 7, Lee Waters tells Conrad Landin, “A mission to improve transport for Wales”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
You are forever nagging me.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time.
For a very long time, a seeming eternity.
Constantly or frequently.
senses_topics:
duration
time
duration
time
|
9781 | word:
forever
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forever (plural forevers)
forms:
form:
forevers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English for ever, for evere, equivalent to for + ever.
senses_examples:
text:
I haven't seen him in forever!
type:
example
text:
It took me forever to make up my mind.
type:
example
text:
Don't spend forever on the phone!
type:
example
text:
It's been a fortnight of forevers since the Braves could count on a late-game comeback.
ref:
2001 September, Michael Knisley, “The Braves' last stand”, in Sporting News, volume 225, number 36, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
In the airport, holiday lovers kiss, mouth forevers, the usual argot betrays you. Desire makes love dull.
ref:
2007, Ruth O'Callaghan, Where acid has etched
type:
quotation
text:
Sure, I'd be happy to meet with you on the 12th of forever.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An extremely long time.
A mythical time in the infinite future that will never come.
senses_topics:
|
9782 | word:
forever
word_type:
adj
expansion:
forever (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English for ever, for evere, equivalent to for + ever.
senses_examples:
text:
It'd be a peaceful life / With a forever wife / And a kid someday
ref:
1971, Bruce Johnston, "Disney Girls (1957)"
type:
quotation
text:
We'll take care of you and help you find a Forever Home.
ref:
2009, Kathy Kadilak, Tommy Finds His Forever Home, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
He is a forever friend.
ref:
2012, Brad Hicks, For Every Fear a Promise, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
Danner posits that the United States has been trapped in a "forever war" by 9/11, and describes a nation that has been altered in fundamental ways by President Bush's having declared a war of choice and without an exit plan, […]
ref:
2016, Mark Danner, Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Permanent, lasting; constant, perpetual.
senses_topics:
|
9783 | word:
people
word_type:
noun
expansion:
people (countable and uncountable, plural peoples)
forms:
form:
peoples
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English puple, peple, peeple, from Anglo-Norman people, from Old French pueple, peuple, pople, from Latin populus (“a people, nation”), from Old Latin populus, from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos, from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”) of unknown origin. Doublet of pueblo. Gradually ousted native English lede and, partially, folk.
Originally used with singular verbs (e.g. "the people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness" in the King James Version of 2 Samuel 17:29), the plural aspect of people is probably due to influence from Middle English lede, leed, a plural since Old English times; see lēode.
senses_examples:
text:
There were so many people at the restaurant last night.
type:
example
text:
These six people are waiting for the bus.
type:
example
text:
Under dictatorship, people suffered and died.
type:
example
text:
XXII people was in this parrish drownd.
ref:
c. 1607, plaque recording the Bristol Channel floods
text:
What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.
ref:
1813, Jane Austen, chapter 6, in Pride and Prejudice, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
ref:
2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, archived from the original on 2018-10-23, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…], or offering services that let you[…]"share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref:
2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-08-24, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
ref:
2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 2018-11-03, pages 72–3
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: (sometimes synonymous) nation
text:
a people apart
type:
example
text:
an industrious people
type:
example
text:
the indigenous peoples of Europe
type:
example
text:
the native peoples of Borneo
type:
example
text:
Moses said, "Let my people go."
type:
example
text:
his people were weary
type:
example
text:
The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.
ref:
1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Isaiah 1:3
text:
I'll have my people call your people.
type:
example
text:
I have my people working on it.
type:
example
text:
Kennedy looked down at Flood's desk and thought about the possibilities. "Can you locate him?""I already have my people checking on all three. So far I've only been able to confirm the whereabouts of the Jordanian officer."
ref:
2001, Vince Flynn, Transfer of Power (fiction), Simon & Schuster, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
Can I have one of my people get back to your people, Mr. President?" She tried to slam the phone back into the base and failed.
ref:
2008, Fern Michaels, Hokus Pokus (fiction), page 184
type:
quotation
text:
My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War.
type:
example
text:
His people live out west.
type:
example
text:
The people finally stood up against communism.
type:
example
text:
The election is over and the people have spoken.
type:
example
text:
The people won't stand for so much corruption.
type:
example
text:
The people have spoken, the bastards.
ref:
1966, Dick Tuck, Concession Speech
type:
quotation
text:
People don't like it when you tweak their noses.
type:
example
text:
Teachers are people too.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of person: a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
A group of persons regarded as being servants, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler or leader.
One's colleagues or employees.
A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
senses_topics:
|
9784 | word:
people
word_type:
verb
expansion:
people (third-person singular simple present peoples, present participle peopling, simple past and past participle peopled)
forms:
form:
peoples
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
peopling
tags:
participle
present
form:
peopled
tags:
participle
past
form:
peopled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English puple, peple, peeple, from Anglo-Norman people, from Old French pueple, peuple, pople, from Latin populus (“a people, nation”), from Old Latin populus, from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos, from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”) of unknown origin. Doublet of pueblo. Gradually ousted native English lede and, partially, folk.
Originally used with singular verbs (e.g. "the people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness" in the King James Version of 2 Samuel 17:29), the plural aspect of people is probably due to influence from Middle English lede, leed, a plural since Old English times; see lēode.
senses_examples:
text:
He would not be alone, who all things can; / But peopled Heav'n with Angels, Earth with Man.
ref:
1674, John Dryden, The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man, act II, scene I
type:
quotation
text:
[…] / As thick and numberless / As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, / […]
ref:
a. 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso, lines 7–8
text:
I don't people well.” “Not peopling well is a crap excuse,” I retorted, and started to step around him, but a sudden thought occurred to me.
ref:
2018, Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Darkest Star, Tor Teen, page 149
type:
quotation
text:
My head tilted as Calvin said, "Don't worry about him. He just doesn't people well.
The fuck? I people. Sometimes. With people I know.
ref:
2019, Casey Diam, Love
type:
quotation
text:
I don't people well.” He laughed at that. “You do okay,” he assured her.
ref:
2020, Teri Anne Stanley, Lucky Chance Cowboy, Sourcebooks, Inc.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
To become populous or populated.
To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
To interact with people; to socialize.
senses_topics:
|
9785 | word:
massé
word_type:
noun
expansion:
massé (plural massés)
forms:
form:
massés
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French massé.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stroke made with the cue held vertically that causes a billiard ball to move in an arc.
senses_topics:
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports |
9786 | word:
old
word_type:
adj
expansion:
old (comparative older or elder, superlative oldest or eldest or (US, dialectal) oldermost)
forms:
form:
older
tags:
comparative
form:
elder
tags:
comparative
form:
oldest
tags:
superlative
form:
eldest
tags:
superlative
form:
oldermost
tags:
US
dialectal
superlative
wikipedia:
old
etymology_text:
From Middle English olde, ald, from Old English ald, eald (“old, aged, ancient, antique, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown-up”), originally a participle form, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (“grown, tall, big”). Cognate with Scots auld (“old”), North Frisian ool, ual, uul (“old”), Saterland Frisian oold (“old”), West Frisian âld (“old”), Dutch oud (“old”), Low German old (“old”), German alt (“old”), Swedish äldre (“older, elder”), Icelandic eldri (“older, elder”), Latin altus (“high, tall, grown big, lofty”). Related to eld.
senses_examples:
text:
a wrinkled old man
type:
example
text:
an old loaf of bread
type:
example
text:
the ginkgo is one of the oldest living trees
type:
example
text:
Basque is the oldest language in Europe
type:
example
text:
an old abandoned building
type:
example
text:
an old friend
type:
example
text:
I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.
type:
example
text:
How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child.
type:
example
text:
My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old.
type:
example
text:
My new car is not as good as my old one. a school reunion for Old Etonians
type:
example
text:
But over my old life, a new life had formed.
ref:
1994, Michael Grumley, Life Drawing
type:
quotation
text:
The footpath follows the route of an old railway line.
type:
example
text:
That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way.
type:
example
text:
Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’
ref:
1991, Stephen Fry, chapter III, in The Liar, London: William Heinemann, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho.
type:
example
text:
Rik: But even great shtick can get old real fast: the dreaded Saturday Night Live syndrome.
Jim: Randomness can help - many Living Books have characters that do different things each time you click on them.
ref:
1995, MacUser, volume 11, MacUser Publications, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
John and I built a small stone house on the head of “Bonetta” Canyon and had a hog killing time all by ourselves. Hunting was our delight at first, until it became old.
ref:
2000, Charles A. Siringo, A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony, Penguin, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
The songs start to get old real fast, and it's easy to get bored after the third song.
ref:
2008, Homer L. Hall, Logan H. Aimone, High School Journalism, The Rosen Publishing Group, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
It was the same old thing every week, working and drinking, working and drinking. It became old and I got really sick of it.
ref:
2012, Blossom, From Under a Bridge Ii, Xlibris Corporation, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Your constant pestering is getting old.
type:
example
text:
We're having a good old time.
type:
example
text:
My next car will be a big old SUV.
type:
example
text:
My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas.
type:
example
text:
any old
type:
example
text:
Monsieur's story is too old for our Juvenile Magazine.
ref:
1868, Oliver Optic's Magazine: Our Boys and Girls ..., page 431
type:
quotation
text:
The text is too old for toddlers, but the colorful photographs are large enough and appropriate for them.
ref:
1998, Rita Schrank, Science, Math, and Nutrition for Toddlers: Setting the Stage for Serendipity
type:
quotation
text:
Diane Ehrensaft (1997) finds that middle-class parents typically buy "older" toys for their children to encourage accelerated development.
ref:
2006 January 9, Christine L. Williams, Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality, Univ of California Press, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
If you feel you have to leave something out because it's too horrible, then either the story is too old for the child, or you fail to understand the way your child will accept the rough justice and feel inwardly content at the outcome.
ref:
2019 12, Sean David Burke, Lighting the Literacy Fire, Lulu.com, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
Bluey: Oh! It's like checkers!
Bandit: Yeah, but a lot harder than checkers.
Chilli: And so probably a bit old for Bluey, right?
ref:
2021, Joe Brumm, “Chest”, in Bluey, season 3, episode 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
Of a perishable item, having existed for most of, or more than, its shelf life.
Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
Of a species or language, belonging to a lineage that is distantly related others
Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
Having existed or lived for the specified time.
Of an earlier time.
Former, previous.
Of an earlier time.
That is no longer in existence.
Of an earlier time.
Obsolete; out-of-date.
Of an earlier time.
Familiar.
Of an earlier time.
Being a graduate or alumnus of a school, especially a public school.
Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive, and combined with another adjective.
Indicating affection and familiarity.
Designed for a mature audience; unsuitable for children below a certain age.
Excessive, abundant.
senses_topics:
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
|
9787 | word:
old
word_type:
noun
expansion:
old (plural olds)
forms:
form:
olds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
old
etymology_text:
From Middle English olde, ald, from Old English ald, eald (“old, aged, ancient, antique, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown-up”), originally a participle form, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (“grown, tall, big”). Cognate with Scots auld (“old”), North Frisian ool, ual, uul (“old”), Saterland Frisian oold (“old”), West Frisian âld (“old”), Dutch oud (“old”), Low German old (“old”), German alt (“old”), Swedish äldre (“older, elder”), Icelandic eldri (“older, elder”), Latin altus (“high, tall, grown big, lofty”). Related to eld.
senses_examples:
text:
A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.
type:
example
text:
Near-synonyms: geezer, oldie, oldster; see also Thesaurus:old person
text:
I'm not letting an old wreck my good time today.
type:
example
text:
I'm not letting any olds wreck my good time today.
type:
example
text:
I had to sneak out to meet my girlfriend and tell the olds I was going to the library.
type:
example
text:
We crossed to the pub on the corner of Carlisle Street and I ordered two schooners of old for him and one of light for me.
ref:
2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 117
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.
One's parents.
A typically dark-coloured lager brewed by the traditional top-fermentation method.
senses_topics:
|
9788 | word:
Manchu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Manchu (plural Manchus)
forms:
form:
Manchus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Manchu
Manjushri
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ (manju), probably from Sanskrit मञ्जुश्री (mañjuśrī, “Manjushri”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person belonging to or descended from the indigenous people of Manchuria.
A person belonging to the Qing Dynasty (Manchu Dynasty) of China.
senses_topics:
|
9789 | word:
Manchu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Manchu
forms:
wikipedia:
Manchu
Manjushri
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ (manju), probably from Sanskrit मञ्जुश्री (mañjuśrī, “Manjushri”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The indigenous language of the Manchu people, spoken in Manchuria.
The Qing Dynasty (Manchu Dynasty).
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
9790 | word:
Manchu
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Manchu (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Manchu
Manjushri
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ (manju), probably from Sanskrit मञ्जुश्री (mañjuśrī, “Manjushri”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Manchurian, referring to the Manchu(rian) people.
Manchurian, referring to the Manchu language.
senses_topics:
|
9791 | word:
rhinoceros
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rhinoceros (plural rhinoceros or rhinoceroses or (uncommon) rhinocerosses or (nonstandard) rhinoceri or (nonstandard) rhinoceroi or (now rare) rhinocerotes)
forms:
form:
rhinoceros
tags:
plural
form:
rhinoceroses
tags:
plural
form:
rhinocerosses
tags:
plural
uncommon
form:
rhinoceri
tags:
nonstandard
plural
form:
rhinoceroi
tags:
nonstandard
plural
form:
rhinocerotes
tags:
archaic
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin rhīnocerōs, from Ancient Greek ῥῑνόκερως (rhīnókerōs, “nose-horned”), composed of ῥῑ́ς, ῥῑνός (rhī́s, rhīnós, “nose, of (the) nose”) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”).
senses_examples:
text:
Herein therefore to draw up our determinations beside the several pieces of Scripture mentioning this Animal (which some may well contend to be only meant of the Rhinoceros) we are so far from denying there is any Unicorn at all, that we affirme there are many kinds thereof. In the number of Quadrapedes we will concede no less then five; that is the Indian Oxe, Indian Ass, Rhinoceros, the Oryx, and that which is more eminently termed Monoceros, or Unicornis.
ref:
1658, Thomas Brown, “Of Unicorns Horn”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or Enquiries Into Very many Received Tenents And commonly Presumed Truths. The Fourth Edition, page 203
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several large herbivorous ungulates native to Africa and Asia of the five extant species in the three extant genera in the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.
A member of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea, including hornless members of the extinct genus Paraceratherium.
senses_topics:
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences |
9792 | word:
masked
word_type:
verb
expansion:
masked
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of mask
senses_topics:
|
9793 | word:
masked
word_type:
adj
expansion:
masked (comparative more masked, superlative most masked)
forms:
form:
more masked
tags:
comparative
form:
most masked
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
As the Superintendent of Austin, TX, schools I have mandated that our kids must be masked when they start school on Tuesday.
ref:
2021 August 15, Stephanie Elizalde, “Why I'm Mandating That Austin Schools Must Be Masked When Classes Start”, in Time
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Wearing a mask or masks.
Characterized by masks.
Concealed; hidden.
Personate.
Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
9794 | word:
snow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
snow (countable and uncountable, plural snows)
forms:
form:
snows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
snow
etymology_text:
From Middle English snow, snaw, from Old English snāw (“snow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos (“snow”), from the root *sneygʷʰ-.
Cognate with Scots snaw (“snow”), West Frisian snie (“snow”), Dutch sneeuw (“snow”), German Schnee (“snow”), Danish sne (“snow”), Norwegian snø (“snow”), Swedish snö (“snow”), Icelandic snjór (“snow”), Latin nix (“snow”), Russian снег (sneg), Ancient Greek νίφα (nípha), dialectal Albanian nehë (“place where the snow melts”), Sanskrit स्नेह (snéha, “oil, grease”).
The extended senses all trace back to the appearance of the weather phenomenon.
senses_examples:
text:
The wind had dropped, and the snow, tired of rushing around in circles trying to catch itself up, now fluttered gently down until it found a place on which to rest.
ref:
1928, A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
type:
quotation
text:
TRUE FACT: On June 8, 1995, Glacier National Park was closed because of too much snow.
ref:
2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 261
type:
quotation
text:
Clad in a coldsuit Jael trudged through a thin layer of CO₂ snow ...
ref:
2008, Neal Asher, Alien Archaeology
type:
quotation
text:
We have had several heavy snows this year.
type:
example
text:
snow:
text:
Near-synonym: static
text:
Besides, if it wasn't poison, it might be 'snow' or something.
ref:
1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
type:
quotation
text:
Lower down, in the 95 percent of the ocean where light does not penetrate, many living things feed on 'marine snow', the steady drizzle of particles of dead matter, whitish in colour, gradually sinking from the euphotic zone above. Other animals then feed on the 'snow' eaters.
ref:
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 286
type:
quotation
text:
better be wearing your snows next week
type:
example
text:
74 VW dyke mobile, 75K miles. Immac in/out & great to drive. No rust! Includes roofrack, snows, manual.
ref:
1984 April 7, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
A shade of the color white.
The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.
Cocaine.
Marine snow.
Clipping of snow tires.
senses_topics:
|
9795 | word:
snow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
snow (third-person singular simple present snows, present participle snowing, simple past snowed or (dialectal) snew, past participle snowed or (dialectal) snown)
forms:
form:
snows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
snowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
snowed
tags:
past
form:
snew
tags:
dialectal
past
form:
snowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
snown
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
wikipedia:
snow
etymology_text:
From Middle English snow, snaw, from Old English snāw (“snow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos (“snow”), from the root *sneygʷʰ-.
Cognate with Scots snaw (“snow”), West Frisian snie (“snow”), Dutch sneeuw (“snow”), German Schnee (“snow”), Danish sne (“snow”), Norwegian snø (“snow”), Swedish snö (“snow”), Icelandic snjór (“snow”), Latin nix (“snow”), Russian снег (sneg), Ancient Greek νίφα (nípha), dialectal Albanian nehë (“place where the snow melts”), Sanskrit स्नेह (snéha, “oil, grease”).
The extended senses all trace back to the appearance of the weather phenomenon.
senses_examples:
text:
It is snowing.
type:
example
text:
It started to snow.
type:
example
text:
Having passed them in review, I concluded that the best thing would be to try to snow him a little, so I said that I had heard many marvelous reports about the Wariri.
ref:
1958, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have snow fall from the sky.
To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.
senses_topics:
card-games
poker |
9796 | word:
snow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
snow (plural snows)
forms:
form:
snows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
snow
etymology_text:
From Low German Snaue, or Dutch snauw, from Low German Snau (“a snout, a beak”). See snout.
senses_examples:
text:
A Snow of 120 Tons, and 48 Men,[…]Mounting 12 Carriage Guns, besides Swivels.
ref:
1763, Sir Stephen Janssen, 4th Baronet, Smuggling Laid Open
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, trysail-mast stepped immediately abaft the main mast.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
9797 | word:
suit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
suit (plural suits)
forms:
form:
suits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
suit
etymology_text:
From Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite and Old French sieute, siute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from Vulgar Latin *sequita (for secūta), from Latin sequi (“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together. See also the doublet suite. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Related to sue and segue.
senses_examples:
text:
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
type:
example
text:
Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
type:
example
text:
You had an army / Of suits behind you
ref:
1996, Ani DiFranco (lyrics and music), “Napoleon”, in Dilate
type:
quotation
text:
Two smartly dressed suits walked up to the doctor. "Are you alright Dr. La Perouse?"
ref:
2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 29
type:
quotation
text:
Suits didn't wear suits any more—they wore Tibetan prayer beads coiled around their wrists. But they slithered in a suitlike way.
ref:
2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books
type:
quotation
text:
If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.
type:
example
text:
To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
Her mingled suits and sequences.
ref:
1785, William Cowper, The Task
type:
quotation
text:
Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
a dress.
A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
A full set of armour.
The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
Petition, request, entreaty.
The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
The full set of sails required for a ship.
Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
Regular order; succession.
A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
senses_topics:
law
card-games
games
|
9798 | word:
suit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
suit (third-person singular simple present suits, present participle suiting, simple past and past participle suited)
forms:
form:
suits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
suiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
suited
tags:
participle
past
form:
suited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
suit
etymology_text:
From Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite and Old French sieute, siute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from Vulgar Latin *sequita (for secūta), from Latin sequi (“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together. See also the doublet suite. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Related to sue and segue.
senses_examples:
text:
The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.
type:
example
text:
That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?
type:
example
text:
The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.
type:
example
text:
c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock
Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
text:
I'm going where the sun keeps shinin' […] / Going where the weather suits my clothes
ref:
1968, Fred Neil (lyrics and music), “Everybody's Talkin'”, performed by Harry Nilsson
type:
quotation
text:
He is well suited with his place.
type:
example
text:
My new job suits me, as I work fewer hours and don't have to commute so much.
type:
example
text:
This arrangement suited everybody - right up until the moment that it suddenly didn't, when unions were able to point a loaded gun at management's head in any disputes.
ref:
2022 November 16, Nigel Harris, “Endless news... little context”, in RAIL, number 970, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
To be suitable or apt for one's image.
To be appropriate or apt for.
To dress; to clothe.
To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.
To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).
Clipping of fursuit.
senses_topics:
|
9799 | word:
floor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
floor (plural floors)
forms:
form:
floors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flor, flore, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement, ground, bottom”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“flat surface, floor, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).
Cognate with Scots flure, fluir (“floor”), Saterland Frisian Floor (“floor”), West Frisian flier (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Low German Floor (“entry hall”), German Flur (“field, floor, entrance hall”), Swedish flor (“floor of a cow stall”), Irish urlár (“floor”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“floor, ground, earth”), Welsh llawr (“floor, ground”), Latin plānus (“level, flat”).
senses_examples:
text:
The room has a wooden floor.
type:
example
text:
The leaves covering the forest floor provide many hiding-places for small animals.
type:
example
text:
Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
type:
example
text:
The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.
type:
example
text:
The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been.
type:
example
text:
After stepping off the bus, my wallet fell on the floor.
type:
example
text:
Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
type:
example
text:
For years we lived on the third floor.
type:
example
text:
Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?
type:
example
text:
The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
type:
example
text:
The floor of 4.5 is 4.
type:
example
text:
She's a maniac, maniac on the floor / And she's dancing like she never danced before
ref:
1983, "Maniac", Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky
text:
Open the door, get on the floor / Everybody walk the dinosaur
ref:
1987, "Walk the Dinosaur", Was (Not Was)
text:
At each table stood a young, slim, poker-faced croupier serving the punters who anxiously watched the turning of the cards. The next two floors were similar though not quite as spectacular and the stakes were lower.
ref:
2004, Tim Hatton, Tock Tock Birds: A Spider in the Web of International Terrorism, page 284
type:
quotation
text:
The conference started as an impromptu session in the coffee shop this morning when waitresses walked off the floor rather than serve four Negro men and women delegates.
ref:
1947 March 18, U.S. Government Printing Office, Proceedings and Debates of the Congress, Eightieth Congress, First Session, page 2206
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
The ground.
A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
A storey/story of a building.
In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.
A dance floor.
The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
senses_topics:
biology
geography
geology
natural-sciences
architecture
business
construction
manufacturing
architecture
nautical
transport
business
mining
business
mining
mathematics
sciences
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
finance
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