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9800 | word:
floor
word_type:
verb
expansion:
floor (third-person singular simple present floors, present participle flooring, simple past and past participle floored)
forms:
form:
floors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flooring
tags:
participle
present
form:
floored
tags:
participle
past
form:
floored
tags:
past
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:
floor a house with pine boards
type:
example
text:
Sam floored him perpetually, and beat his face to a jelly, without getting a scratch.
ref:
1821, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 8, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
our driver floored the pedal
type:
example
text:
floor an opponent
type:
example
text:
We were floored by his confession.
type:
example
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Some of the attendees were “absolutely floored,” said an official familiar with the proceedings. That someone in the U.S. government could “make an argument that is so nakedly against transparency, in light of the unfolding catastrophe, was…shocking and disturbing.”
ref:
2021 June 3, Katherine Eban, “The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins”, in Vanity Fair
type:
quotation
text:
floor a college examination
type:
example
text:
floored division
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover or furnish with a floor.
To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
To amaze or greatly surprise.
To finish or make an end of.
To set a lower bound.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
9801 | word:
massicot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
massicot (countable and uncountable, plural massicots)
forms:
form:
massicots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French massicot; English masticot is a corruption.
senses_examples:
text:
Besides orpiment, already referred to, one occasionally gets mention of massicot, a yellow lead paint.
ref:
1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 169
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
lead monoxide, PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment; also, lead oxide yellow, as opposed to red lead, which is lead tetroxide Pb₃O₄.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9802 | word:
masonry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masonry (countable and uncountable, plural masonries)
forms:
form:
masonries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
masonry
etymology_text:
From Middle English masonry, masonrie, partly from Old French maçonerie and partly from mason + -ry.
senses_examples:
text:
He studied masonry for five years.
type:
example
text:
The masonry was exquisite.
type:
example
text:
The masonry was cracked.
type:
example
text:
Many houses built between the Civil War and 1940 have masonry walls, usually of brick, with the inside surfaces covered by a layer of plaster.
ref:
1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, page 56
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The art or occupation of a mason.
The work or performance of a mason
That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar.
The craft, institution, or mysteries of Freemasons; Freemasonry.
senses_topics:
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9803 | word:
liver
word_type:
noun
expansion:
liver (countable and uncountable, plural livers)
forms:
form:
livers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Líeuwer, Lieuwer (“liver”), West Frisian lever (“liver”), Dutch lever (“liver”), German Leber (“liver”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish lever (“liver”) (the last three from Old Norse lifr (“liver”)). Related to live.
senses_examples:
text:
Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.
type:
example
text:
I'd like some goose liver pate.
type:
example
text:
You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken liver.
type:
example
text:
"I should think you've rocked the boat enough already by refusing to eat liver."
ref:
1993, Philippa Gregory, Fallen Skies, page 222
type:
quotation
text:
liver:
text:
He gave his horse some liver of antimony.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9804 | word:
liver
word_type:
adj
expansion:
liver (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Líeuwer, Lieuwer (“liver”), West Frisian lever (“liver”), Dutch lever (“liver”), German Leber (“liver”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish lever (“liver”) (the last three from Old Norse lifr (“liver”)). Related to live.
senses_examples:
text:
His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white.
ref:
2006, Rawdon Briggs Lee, A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain & Ireland, page 298
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
senses_topics:
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9805 | word:
liver
word_type:
noun
expansion:
liver (plural livers)
forms:
form:
livers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table From Middle English lyvere, livere, equivalent to live + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
When as the wandring Scots and Picthts King Marius had subdude, He gave the Liuers dwellings.
ref:
1592, Alb. Eng., Warner, VIII, xliii (1612), 206
type:
quotation
text:
Thou king of heaven, which […] Dost see the secret of each livers heart.
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1599, Greene, Alphonsus, Wks. (Rtldg.), page 234
text:
They must instantly have been detected by the present Livers that were upon the place.
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1677, Cary, Chronol., II, ii, III, xiv, 252
text:
One, John Powle, a Liver on Sasquehanna River.
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1747, Col. Rec. Pennsylv., V, 87
type:
quotation
text:
There is no liver in the country so practical.
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1863, D. G. Mitchell, Sev. Stor., My Farm of Edgewood, section 289
type:
quotation
text:
A great lover of the faith, a great defender of the faith, a great lover of life, great liver of life, great defender of life. And yet he plotted and planned over fifty murders, and carried each of one them out—if only on paper, and if only for our pleasure.
ref:
2014, Walter Raubicheck, Anya Morlan, Christianity and the Detective Story, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
Someone who is alive: one of the living.
Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.
Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
senses_topics:
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9806 | word:
liver
word_type:
adj
expansion:
liver
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From live (adjective) + -(e)r.
senses_examples:
text:
Seeing things on a big screen somehow makes them seem liver.
type:
example
text:
[…]manslaughter, liver than camcorder
ref:
2001, Adam F featuring MOP (lyrics and music), “Stand Clear”
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
comparative form of live: more live
senses_topics:
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9807 | word:
masseter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masseter (plural masseters)
forms:
form:
masseters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from New Latin massētēr. Compare French masséter.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The large muscle which runs through the rear part of the cheek from the temporal bone to the lower jaw on each side, raises the lower jaw, and assists in mastication.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
9808 | word:
field
word_type:
noun
expansion:
field (plural fields)
forms:
form:
fields
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English feeld, feld, from Old English feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fjild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German Feld (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”). Related also to Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at fold.
senses_examples:
text:
There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.
type:
example
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Harry shook his head, and wandered away miserable through the fields, and would not in these days even set his foot upon the soil of the park. “He was not going to intrude any farther,” he said to the rector. “You can come to church, at any rate,” his father said, “for he certainly will not be there while you are at the parsonage.” Oh yes, Harry would go to the church. “I have yet to understand that Mr. Prosper is owner of the church, and the path there from the rectory is, at any rate, open to the public;” for at Buston the church stands on one corner of the park.
ref:
1883, Anthony Trollope, Mr. Scarborough's Family, Chap. XXIV
type:
quotation
text:
There were some cows grazing in a field.
type:
example
text:
A crop circle was made in a corn field.
type:
example
text:
The castled crag of Drachenfels
Frowns o’er the wide and winding Rhine
Whose breast of waters broadly swells
Between the banks which bear the vine
And hills all rich with blossomed trees
And fields which promise corn and wine
And scatter’d cities crowning these
Whose far white walls along them shine,
Have strew’d a scene, which I should see
ref:
1816, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third, LV
type:
quotation
roman:
With double joy wert thou with mo.
text:
Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
ref:
1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings
type:
quotation
text:
an oil field; a gold field
type:
example
text:
Tarry, sweet soul, for mine; then fly abreast,
As in this glorious and well-foughten field
We kept together in our chivalry!
ref:
c. 1599, William Shakespeare, King Henry V, act IV, scene VI
type:
quotation
text:
[…] What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; th’ unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield,
And what is else not to be overcome;
That glory never shall his wrath or might!
ref:
1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, Verses 105–110
type:
quotation
text:
soccer field
type:
example
text:
Substitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked.
type:
example
text:
Blake was a thorough gambler, and knew well how to make the most of the numerous chances which the turf afforded him. He had a large stud of horses, to the training and working of which he attended almost as closely as the person whom he paid for doing so. But it was in the betting-ring that he was most formidable. It was said, in Kildare Street, that no one at Tattersall's could beat him at a book. He had latterly been trying a wider field than the Curragh supplied him and had, on one or two occasions, run a horse in England with such success, as had placed him, at any rate, quite at the top of the Irish sporting tree.
ref:
1848, Anthony Trollope, The Kellys and the O’Kellys, Chap. III
type:
quotation
text:
Dr. Finn understood enough of elections for Parliament, and of the nature of boroughs, to be aware that a candidate’s chance of success is very much improved by being early in the field.
ref:
1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn, Chap. XXV
type:
quotation
text:
This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field.
type:
example
text:
magnetic field; gravitational field; scalar field
type:
example
text:
field of view
type:
example
text:
The design needs to be field-tested before we commit to manufacture.
type:
example
text:
Field work traditionally distinguishes true archaeologists from armchair archaeologists.
type:
example
text:
He needs some time in the field before his judgment can be trusted.
type:
example
text:
As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.
ref:
2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
He was an expert in the field of Chinese history.
type:
example
text:
Penn was without doubt a man of eminent virtues. He had a strong sense of religious duty and a fervent desire to promote the happiness of mankind. On one or two points of high importance, he had notions more correct than were, in his day, common even among men of enlarged minds: and as the proprietor and legislator of a province which, being almost uninhabited when it came into his possession, afforded a clear field for moral experiments, he had the rare good fortune of being able to carry his theories into practice without any compromise, and yet without any shock to existing institutions.
ref:
1848, Thomas Macaulay, chapter IV, in The History Of England From the Accession of James II, volume 1
type:
quotation
text:
The set of rational numbers, #x5C;mathbb#x7B;Q#x7D;, is the prototypical field.
type:
example
text:
Whereas a ring has three binary operators: (1) an additive operator, (2) a subtractive operator, and (3) a multiplicative operator, a field has four binary operators: the three ring binary operators and (4) a divisive operator. (N.B.: Only the additive and multiplicative operators are axiomatic. The subtractive operator may be derived by combining the additive and the unary negative operators; the divisive operator may be derived by combining the multiplicative and the unary inversive operators.)
type:
example
text:
The form has fields for each element of the customer's home address and shipping address.
type:
example
text:
PHP 5 Forms Required Fields at W3Schools
From the validation rules table on the previous page, we see that the "Name", "E-mail", and "Gender" fields are required. These fields cannot be empty and must be filled out in the HTML form.
text:
Read-only fields allow you to establish a point of data whose value is not known at compile time, but that should never change once established.
ref:
2007, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# with .NET 3.0, Special Edition, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
The manager should always choose his own Eleven; and, we have already hinted that fielding, rather than batting, is the qualification. A good field is sure to save runs, though the best batsman may not make any.
ref:
1854, James Pycroft, The Cricket Field
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
A region containing a particular mineral.
An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
The outfield.
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
Any of certain structures serving cognition.
The extent of a given perception.
Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
Any of certain structures serving cognition.
A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
Any of certain structures serving cognition.
A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
Any of certain structures serving cognition.
An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
Any of certain structures serving cognition.
A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
The background of the shield.
Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
The background of the flag.
Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
Archaic form of fielder.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
algebra
mathematics
sciences
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
history
human-sciences
sciences
vexillology
hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
broadcasting
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
film
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
television
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
9809 | word:
field
word_type:
verb
expansion:
field (third-person singular simple present fields, present participle fielding, simple past and past participle fielded)
forms:
form:
fields
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fielding
tags:
participle
present
form:
fielded
tags:
participle
past
form:
fielded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English feeld, feld, from Old English feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fjild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German Feld (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”). Related also to Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at fold.
senses_examples:
text:
The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.
type:
example
text:
The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
type:
example
text:
On balance, it was harsh on Hearts, who had given as good as they got against their more-fancied opponents, who, despite not being at full strength, fielded a multi-million pound team.
ref:
2012 August 23, Alasdair Lamont, “Hearts 0-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
She will field questions immediately after her presentation.
type:
example
text:
They fielded a fearsome army.
type:
example
text:
He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.
type:
example
text:
to field a new land-mine detector
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
To answer; to address.
To defeat.
To execute research (in the field).
To deploy in the field.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
government
military
politics
war |
9810 | word:
massacrer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
massacrer (plural massacrers)
forms:
form:
massacrers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From massacre + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who massacres.
senses_topics:
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9811 | word:
smoke
word_type:
noun
expansion:
smoke (countable and uncountable, plural smokes)
forms:
form:
smokes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
smoke
etymology_text:
From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca (“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb (see below). Related to Dutch smook (“smoke”), Middle Low German smôk (“smoke”), dialectal German Schmauch (“smoke”).
senses_examples:
text:
If those were the days, however, when steam was triumphant, they were also the days of smoke. Nowhere was this so apparent as at "Kings Cross (Suburban)" where, one after another, the Great Northern tank engines thumped their way up the incline and emerged from the tunnel, in clouds of steam and smoke, to pound their way up the last few hundred feet of gradient alongside the platform.
ref:
1952 October, C. A. Johns, “One Hundred Years at Kings Cross—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 657
type:
quotation
text:
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
ref:
2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.
I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out
type:
quotation
text:
Can I bum a smoke off you?; I need to go buy some smokes.
type:
example
text:
Hey, you got some smoke?
type:
example
text:
ERCS Guard: Got a smoke? We're all out.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria
type:
quotation
text:
I'm going out for a smoke.
type:
example
text:
The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
type:
example
text:
I fed her a lot of smoke about a sheep station outside Adelaide and a big property in the high street with a glass front and ‘Thomas’ in lights. She didn’t believe me.
ref:
1974, John le Carré, chapter 6, in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, New York: Knopf, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
The smoke of controversy.
type:
example
text:
smoke:
text:
You better not be giving me no smoke.
type:
example
text:
Should the commander of one column desire to communicate with the other, he raises three smokes simultaneously, which, if seen by the other party, should be responded to in the same manner.
ref:
1860, Randolph Barnes Marcy, The Prairie and Overland Traveller, page 203
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and we could not discern any settlement or any people, but we did see two smokes up-river in some thick groves of oak and cork and willows and other high trees, of a good thickness, resembling ash trees.
ref:
1923, California Historical Society Quarterly, volume 2, page 152
type:
quotation
text:
In the evening haze, even the Calton Gaol took on something of the savage grandeur of a Doré drawing, and this was by no means spoilt by the rising smokes of North British engines in the ravine below.
ref:
1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
During the night, a severe lightning storm passed over this area and in the morning the towerman reported two smokes separated by about two miles distance.
ref:
1957, Sylva: The Lands and Forests Review, volumes 13-14, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
The aerial reconnaissance did see active flame on heavy fuels (logs) and fine fuels (duff/understory), and several smokes.
ref:
2021 May 15, “Guadalupe Mountains National Park Temporarily Closes Backcountry Campsites due to Dog Fire”, in Guadalupe Mountains National Park News Releases
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
A cigarette.
Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
Bother; problems; hassle.
A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
A fastball.
A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
9812 | word:
smoke
word_type:
verb
expansion:
smoke (third-person singular simple present smokes, present participle smoking, simple past and past participle smoked)
forms:
form:
smokes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
smoking
tags:
participle
present
form:
smoked
tags:
participle
past
form:
smoked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
smoke
etymology_text:
From Middle English smoken, from Old English smocian (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), from Proto-West Germanic *smokōn, from Proto-Germanic *smukōną (“to smoke”), ablaut derivative of Proto-Germanic *smaukaną (“to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg- (“to smoke”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smookje (“to smoke”), West Frisian smoke (“to smoke”), Dutch smoken (“to smoke”), Low German smöken (“to smoke”), German Low German smoken (“to smoke”). Related also to Old English smēocan (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), Bavarian schmuckelen (“to smell bad, reek”).
senses_examples:
text:
He's smoking his pipe.
Smoking a pipe has gone out of fashion.
Olivia's dad smoked various brands when he was younger.
type:
example
text:
Do you smoke?
type:
example
text:
My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.
type:
example
text:
Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.
ref:
1645, John Milton, L'Allegro
type:
quotation
text:
You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.
type:
example
text:
After opening one of the hives from the back, he smoked the bees to calm them and to drive the queen toward the front of the hive.
ref:
2019, Thomas D. Seeley, The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
Smoke your bits of glass,
Ye loyal Swine, or her transfiguration
Will blind your wondering eyes.
ref:
1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts
type:
quotation
text:
The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.
type:
example
text:
We smoked them at rugby.
type:
example
text:
Super Macho Man: 'I DON'T SMOKE... BUT TONIGHT I'M GONNA SMOKE YOU!'
ref:
1987, Punch-Out!!, Nintendo, published 1990, Nintendo Entertainment System, level/area: Super Macho Man
type:
quotation
text:
"He can weasel out if it." Ibanez massaged her knuckles. "He can say Couch welshed on a deal, and didn't show, and that's why Karen got got. It isn't conclusive. I have another thing I can lay on him, but even the two combined won't do. We need a third smoking gun if we're really gonna smoke this son of a bitch."
ref:
2023 September 28, HarryBlank, “Hooking Up”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-25
type:
quotation
text:
He got smoked by the mob.
type:
example
text:
Ordnancemen stenciled bombs with “greetings” on behalf of friends and loved ones back home or slogans playing on beer and cigarette advertisements, like “To Muammar: For all you do, this bomb's for you” or “I'd fly 10,000 miles to smoke a camel.”
ref:
1993, Joseph T. Stanik, "Swift and Effective Retribution": The U.S. Sixth Fleet and the Confrontation with Qaddafi (The U.S. Navy in the Modern World Series; 3), Naval Historical Center
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
To give off smoke.
To give off smoke.
Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
To dry or medicate by smoke.
To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
To make unclear or blurry.
To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
To beat someone at something.
To kill, especially with a gun.
To thrash; to beat.
To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
To ridicule to the face; to mock.
To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
To suffer severely; to be punished.
To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
9813 | word:
state
word_type:
noun
expansion:
state (plural states)
forms:
form:
states
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
State (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tus
Latin statuslbor.
Old French estatbor.
Middle English stat
English state
From Middle English stat (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin status (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stare (“to stand”). Doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek στέω (stéo), Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar.
senses_examples:
text:
States in which the energy has definite values are called stationary states of a system; they are described by wave functions Ψₙ which are the eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian operator, i.e. which satisfy the equation ĤΨₙ = EₙΨₙ, where Eₙ are the eigenvalues of the energy.
ref:
1977, J. B. Sykes, John Stewart Bell, translating Lev Landau, Evgeny Lifshitz, Course of Theoretical Physics Vol. 3: Quantum Mechanics: Non-relativistic Theory, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
absolute state
type:
example
text:
in a state
type:
example
text:
in a bit of a state
type:
example
text:
An absolute state of a visit: what the Trump and Windsor snapshots tell us [title]
ref:
2019 June 3, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “An absolute state of a visit: what the Trump and Windsor snapshots tell us”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.
type:
example
text:
The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.
type:
example
text:
A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.
type:
example
text:
a state of being
type:
example
text:
a state of emergency
type:
example
text:
Relate what Latium was, her ancient Kings : / Declare the paſt, and preſent State of things, / When firſt the Trojan Fleet Auſonia ſought ; / And how the Rivals lov’d, and how they fought.
ref:
1697, “Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil, volume III, Londo: Jacob Tonson, published 1721, page 713
type:
quotation
text:
in state
type:
example
text:
The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.
type:
example
text:
Firſt, in princely behaviour and geſture, teaching him how he ſhould keep of a kind of ſtate, and yet, with a modeſt ſenſe of his misfortunes.
ref:
1616, Francis Bacon, The History of Henry VII, of England, published 1786, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
Can this imperious lord forget to reign, / Quit all his ſtate, deſcend, and ſerve again ?
ref:
1703, “The Thebais of Statius”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Works of Alexander Pope, volume II, London: H. Lintont et al., published 1751, book I, page 145
type:
quotation
text:
He invented a way of coming into a Room backwards, which he ſaid ſhew’d more Humility, and leſs Affectation ; where other People ſtood, he ſat ; when he went to Court, he us’d to kick away the State, and ſit down by his Prince, Cheek by Choul[…]
ref:
1712, John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift [uncertain], “Jack’s Charms, or the Method by which he gain’d Peg’s Heart”, in John Bull Still In His Senses, London: John Morphew, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech, High Court of Parlament, or wanting ſuch acceſſe in a private condition, write that which they foreſee may advance the publick good ; I ſuppoſe them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter’d and mov’d inwardly in their mindes[…]
ref:
1644, John Milton, Areopagitica, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Their parties great, meanes good, the ſeaſon fit, / Their practice cloſe, their faith ſuſpected not, / Their ſtates far off, and they of wary wit : / Who, with large promiſes, ſo wooe the Scot / To aide their Cauſe, as he conſents to it ; / And glad was to diſturne that furious ſtreame / Of warre, on vs, that elſe had ſwallowed them.
ref:
1595, Samuel Daniel, “The Civile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke”, in Alexander Balloch Grosart, editor, The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Samuel Daniel, volume II, book IV, stanza 20, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
Your ’State, my Lord, again is yours.
ref:
c. 1619, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Fatal Dowry”, in The Works of Philip Massinger, volume II, London: T. Davies, published 1761, [Act V, scene ii], page 271
type:
quotation
text:
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
ref:
a. 1949, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
text:
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
ref:
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
ref:
1789, United States Bill of Rights
type:
quotation
text:
You do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that you will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Connecticut, so long as you continue a citizen thereof; and that you will faithfully discharge, according to law, the duties of the office of […] to the best of your abilities.
ref:
1839, John Beach, Thomas Clap Perkins, The public statute laws of the state of Connecticut, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
As Australia considers whether to allow states greater latitude in the indirect tax field, it must ask what it will do when (not if) it finally decides that the federal government should enact a modern general sales tax.
ref:
1993, Charles E. McLure, Vertical fiscal imbalance and the assignment of taxing powers in Australia
type:
quotation
text:
The Central Lowlands is often referred to as the heart of America — and with good reason: If we look at the names of the eight states with populations of 10 million or more, this region has three of them, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan, more than any one of the other five.
ref:
2001, Angus Macleod Gunn, The Impact of Geology on the United States, page 0313314446
type:
quotation
text:
Well monarchies may own religion’s name, / But ſtates are atheiſts in their very frame.
ref:
1662, John Dryden, “Satire on the Dutch”, in The Works of the English Poets, volume XIII, London: R. Hett, published 1779, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
[…]distinctions among states of affairs are reflected to a striking degree in distinctions among Aktionsart types. That is, situations are expressed by state verbs or predicates, events by achievement verbs or predicates, and actions by activity verbs or predicates.
ref:
1997, Robert van Valin, Randy LaPolla, Syntax, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
The most basic Aktionsart distinction is between states and occurrences.
ref:
2010, Nick Riemer, Introducing Semantics, page 320
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
High social standing or circumstance.
Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
High social standing or circumstance.
Rank; condition; quality.
High social standing or circumstance.
Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
High social standing or circumstance.
A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
High social standing or circumstance.
A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
High social standing or circumstance.
Estate, possession.
A polity.
Any sovereign polity; the government of a country or city-state.
A polity.
A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
A polity.
A form of government other than a monarchy.
A polity.
A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sciences
anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
mathematics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics |
9814 | word:
state
word_type:
verb
expansion:
state (third-person singular simple present states, present participle stating, simple past and past participle stated)
forms:
form:
states
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stating
tags:
participle
present
form:
stated
tags:
participle
past
form:
stated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
State (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tus
Latin statuslbor.
Old French estatbor.
Middle English stat
English state
From Middle English stat (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin status (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stare (“to stand”). Doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek στέω (stéo), Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar.
senses_examples:
text:
He stated that he was willing to help.
type:
example
text:
State your intentions.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To declare to be a fact.
To make known.
senses_topics:
|
9815 | word:
state
word_type:
adj
expansion:
state (comparative more state, superlative most state)
forms:
form:
more state
tags:
comparative
form:
most state
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
State (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tus
Latin statuslbor.
Old French estatbor.
Middle English stat
English state
From Middle English stat (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin status (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stare (“to stand”). Doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek στέω (stéo), Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Stately.
senses_topics:
|
9816 | word:
masque
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masque (plural masques)
forms:
form:
masques
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
masque
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from French masque.
senses_examples:
text:
Over six sections – a prologue, a life-story, a dream-quest, a dirge, a masque and an epilogue – they meditate on their lives, their hopes, their losses, and on the human condition.
ref:
2010 April 9, Glyn Maxwell, “WH Auden's ‘The Age of Anxiety’”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
mud masque; clay masque
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dramatic performance, often performed at court as a royal entertainment, consisting of dancing, dialogue, pantomime and song.
Words and music written for a masque.
A masquerade.
Obsolete form of mask.
A facial mask.
senses_topics:
|
9817 | word:
masque
word_type:
verb
expansion:
masque (third-person singular simple present masques, present participle masquing, simple past and past participle masqued)
forms:
form:
masques
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
masquing
tags:
participle
present
form:
masqued
tags:
participle
past
form:
masqued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
masque
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from French masque.
senses_examples:
text:
It is even masqued by that sort of good-humoured air that at heart he resents his impressment.
ref:
1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of mask.
senses_topics:
|
9818 | word:
masser
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masser (plural massers)
forms:
form:
massers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mass + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A priest who celebrates Mass
senses_topics:
|
9819 | word:
masker
word_type:
verb
expansion:
masker (third-person singular simple present maskers, present participle maskering, simple past and past participle maskered)
forms:
form:
maskers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
maskering
tags:
participle
present
form:
maskered
tags:
participle
past
form:
maskered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *maskeren, malskren (“to bewilder”) (compare Middle English bimalscren (“to bewitch”)), from Old English *malscrian (attested in derivative malscrung (“enchantment, charm”)), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *malskaz (“haughty”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“to beat, crush, grind”). Cognate with Middle Dutch malsch (“headstrong, zealous”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍃𐌺𐍃 (malsks, “foolish”). More at mask.
senses_examples:
text:
He is so, for he is not one that sets forth to the wars with great resolutions and hopes, and returns with maskered fears, and despairs; neither is he like those that take more care, and are more industrious to get gay clothes, and fine feathers, [...]
ref:
2000, Paul Salzman, Early Modern Women's Writing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To render giddy or senseless
To be bewildered.
To choke; stifle.
To decay; rust.
senses_topics:
|
9820 | word:
masker
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masker (plural maskers)
forms:
form:
maskers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mask + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away […].
ref:
1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
type:
quotation
text:
Like the men's society, the corporate consciousness of women and their respected place in the political body is represented by a masked spirit. This sowei (masker), like all the officials of the society, represents the corporate body of women and retains the authority to levy fines and punish women and men or the community as a whole. The ndoli Jowei (dancing sowei) is a masker whose figure is completely covered with black raffia, topped by the sowei mask.
ref:
2012, L. Day, Gender and Power in Sierra Leone: Women Chiefs of the Last Two Centuries
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: maskee
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade or wears a mask in a ritual.
That which masks (noise in a signal, etc.).
senses_topics:
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9821 | word:
list
word_type:
noun
expansion:
list (plural lists)
forms:
form:
lists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English lī̆st, lī̆ste (“band, stripe; hem, selvage; border, edge, rim; list, specification; barriers enclosing area for jousting, etc.”), from Old English līste (“hem, edge, strip”), or Old French liste, listre (“border; band; strip of paper; list”), or Medieval Latin lista, all from Proto-West Germanic *līstā, from Proto-Germanic *līstǭ (“band, strip; hem, selvage; border, edge”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to trace, track”).
cognates
* Saterland Frisian Lieste (“margin, strip, list”)
*Dutch lijst (“picture frame, list”)
* German Low German Liest (“edging, border”)
* German Leiste (“strip, rail, ledge; (heraldry) bar”)
* Swedish lista (“list”)
* Icelandic lista listi (“list”)
* Italian lista (“list; strip”)
* Portuguese lista (“list”)
* Spanish lista (“list, roll; stripe”)
* Galician lista (“band, strip; list”)
* Finnish lista (“(informal) list; batten”).
senses_examples:
text:
Previous to the offering up of prayer, however, the persons chosen for this office [of praying for the people] had divested themselves of their boots and put on list slippers, their hands being washed by "the descendants of Levi" at a basin near the Holy of Holies.
ref:
1871 September 18, “The Jewish New Year”, in The Jewish Herald: A Record of Christian Effort for the Salvation of Israel, London: John Snow & Co., […]; and the British Society [for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Jews], […], published 1 November 1871, →OCLC, page 174
type:
quotation
text:
"How is it, then, that the woman who came into the room about nine left to traces with her muddy boots?" / "I am glad you raise the point. It occurred to me at the time. The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionaire's office, and putting on list slippers."
ref:
1893, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Naval Treaty”, in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt, →OCLC; republished London: John Murray, […], January 1950, →OCLC, page 255
type:
quotation
text:
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. […] Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer to that list.
ref:
2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut: How microbes promote liver cancer in the overweight”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–73
type:
quotation
text:
They ran down to the lists and Peter came outside the ropes to meet them, his face red and sweaty, his chest heaving.
ref:
1951, C. S. Lewis, “Chapter 14. How All Were Very Busy”, in Prince Caspian
type:
quotation
text:
The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
ref:
1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way
text:
Lisp is an applicative language. This means that it is structured around applying functions (operations) to a linked list of arguments that accompany those functions. […] A function call or function definition is only coded in the syntax of a list, which can be of an indefinite length. Thus, the list is the only data structure for a Lisp program.
ref:
1985 March 10, Ed Acly, “A Tale of Three Languages: C, Ada & Lisp”, in Computerworld: The Newsweekly for the Computer Community, volume XIX, number 12, Framingham, Mass.: CW Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page ID/10, columns 1–2
type:
quotation
text:
STRIÆ, in ancient architecture, the liſts, fillets or rays which ſeparate the ſtriges or flutings of columns.
ref:
1788, [John Carter], “STRIÆ”, in The Builder’s Magazine: Or, A Universal Dictionary for Architects, Carpenters, Masons, Bricklayers, &c. […], new edition, London: Printed for E. Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 284
type:
quotation
text:
A volute is a kind of spiral scroll, used in the Ionic and Composite capitals, of which it makes the principal characteristic and ornament. […] There are several diversities practised in the volute. In some, the list or edge, throughout all the circumvolutions, is in the same line or plane. […] [I]n others, the canal or one circumvolution is detached from the list of another by a vacuity or aperture.
ref:
1876, Edward Shaw, Thomas W[illiam] Silloway, George M[ilford] Harding, “Introduction”, in Civil Architecture; being a Complete Theoretical and Practical System of Building, Containing the Fundamental Principles of the Art. […], 11th edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry Carey Baird & Co., […], →OCLC, page 22, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
Material used for cloth selvage.
A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.
A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
A stripe.
A boundary or limit; a border.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
architecture
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
ropemaking
transport
business
manufacturing
tin-plate-manufacture
|
9822 | word:
list
word_type:
verb
expansion:
list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)
forms:
form:
lists
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
listing
tags:
participle
present
form:
listed
tags:
participle
past
form:
listed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English lī̆st, lī̆ste (“band, stripe; hem, selvage; border, edge, rim; list, specification; barriers enclosing area for jousting, etc.”), from Old English līste (“hem, edge, strip”), or Old French liste, listre (“border; band; strip of paper; list”), or Medieval Latin lista, all from Proto-West Germanic *līstā, from Proto-Germanic *līstǭ (“band, strip; hem, selvage; border, edge”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to trace, track”).
cognates
* Saterland Frisian Lieste (“margin, strip, list”)
*Dutch lijst (“picture frame, list”)
* German Low German Liest (“edging, border”)
* German Leiste (“strip, rail, ledge; (heraldry) bar”)
* Swedish lista (“list”)
* Icelandic lista listi (“list”)
* Italian lista (“list; strip”)
* Portuguese lista (“list”)
* Spanish lista (“list, roll; stripe”)
* Galician lista (“band, strip; list”)
* Finnish lista (“(informal) list; batten”).
senses_examples:
text:
As the export market for tropical hardwoods expanded, timber from tropical rain forests very rapidly became the dominant or major forest product, dominant to such an extent that trade figures often do not even list the minor forest products exported, or their value.
ref:
1993, Ooi Jin Bee, “The Tropical Rain Forest: Patterns of Exploitation and Trade”, in Tropical Deforestation: The Tyranny of Time, Singapore: Singapore University Press, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
to list a door
type:
example
text:
to list a board
type:
example
text:
[…] It is therefore ordered that the Maior and Aldermen of Colchester [et al.], shall forthwith procure and raise in the said severall townes, and other pleces adjacent, two thousand horses for dragooners, or as manie as possible they may, for the service as aforesaid, and with all possible speed to send them up to London unto Thomas Browne Grocer, and Maximilian Beard Girdler, by us appointed to list horses for the service aforesaid; […]
ref:
1642 October 28, [Philip Morant], History and Antiquities of the Borough of Colchester, in the County of Essex. […], Colchester, Essex: Printed and sold by I. Marsden, …, published 1810, →OCLC, pages 48–49
type:
quotation
text:
A century later, BR demolished the downside main buildings, so the eastbound and central platforms were promptly listed - which has ensured their survival, albeit increasingly neglected in recent years. This has now been rectified, [...].
ref:
2021 February 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The London Underground Operational Enhancement Award: Hanwell”, in RAIL, number 946, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
Responsible for public affairs, business strategy, corporate development and finance, he [Donald Tang] now faces the task of getting an initial public offering over the line in London after ditching earlier plans to list in New York in the face of US political opposition.
ref:
2024 July 13, Laura Onita, Eleanor Olcott, “Shein's master of reinvention treads tricky path to IPO”, in FT Weekend, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To create or recite a list.
To place in listings.
To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
To plough and plant with a lister.
To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
To trade on a particular stock exchange.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
lifestyle
agriculture
business
lifestyle
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
government
military
politics
war
|
9823 | word:
list
word_type:
noun
expansion:
list (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English list, liste (“ability, cleverness, cunning, skill; adroitness, dexterity; strategem, trick; device, design, token”), from Old English list (“art, craft; cleverness, cunning, experience, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *listi, from Proto-Germanic *listiz (“art, craft”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys-, *leyǝs- (“furrow, trace, track, trail”).
The word is cognate with Dutch list (“artifice, guile, sleight; ruse, strategem”), German List (“cunning, guile; ploy, ruse, trick”), Low German list (“artifice, cunning; prudence, wisdom”), Icelandic list (“art”), Saterland Frisian list (“cunning, knowledge”), Scots list (“art, craft, skill; cunning”), Swedish list (“art; cunning, guile, wile; ruse, trick; stealth”), and possibly Spanish listo (“clever”). It is also related to learn, lore.
senses_examples:
text:
In discussing the Syllabus and the last dogma of 1870, so much must be allowed for Italian list and cunning, or a word-fence. An Englishman, with his matter-of-fact way of putting things, is no match for these gentry.
ref:
1877 November 16, “Vaticanism”, in The Literary World. Choice Readings from the Best New Books, and Critical Reviews, volume XVI, number 420 (New Series), London: James Clarke & Co., […], →OCLC, page 313, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
Sophos, fab[le] 40. "The foxes had heard that the fowls were sick, and went to see them decked in peacock's feathers; said of men who speak friendly, but only with list or cunning within."
ref:
1893, S[olomon] C[aesar] Malan, chapter XXVI, in Original Notes on the Book of Proverbs. Mostly from Eastern Writings, volumes III (Ch. xxi.–xxxi.), London: Williams and Norgate, […], →OCLC, page 349
type:
quotation
text:
For when the guileful monster smiled / Snakes left their holes and hissed,— / And stroking soft his silken beard / Raised creatures full of list.
ref:
1897, Lilian Winser, “Lossenbury Woods”, in Lays and Legends of the Weald of Kent, London: Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
'The general bass, in its fixed lines, is taken by surprise and overwhelmed by List [[Franz] Liszt]' (List = cunning); anonymous lithograph (c 1842).
ref:
1990, Alexander L. Ringer, “The Rise of Urban Musical Life between the Revolutions, 1789–1848”, in Alexander [L.] Ringer, editor, The Early Romantic Era: Between Revolutions: 1789 and 1848 (Man and Music; 6), Basingstoke, Hampshire, London: The Macmillan Press, →DOI, figure 13, caption, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
[Der] Pleier […] provides a 'courtly corrective' to Daniel in the shape of his hero, Garel. The latter wins his fight not by list but through straightforward knightly prowess, […]
ref:
1992, Reading Medieval Studies: Annual Proceedings of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of Reading, [Reading, Berkshire]: Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
It is worth noting that, contrary to Alexios who according to his daughter did not scruple to use any tricks to achieve his goal, Manuel [I Komnenos], as depicted by [John] Kinnamos, preferred "to win by war rather than by list"[…].
ref:
2000, Jakov Ljubarskij, “John Kinnamos as a Writer”, in Cordula Scholz, Georgios Makris, editors, ΠΟΛΥΠΛΕΥΡΟΣ ΝΟΥΣ [POLYPLEUROS NOUS]: Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag [VERSATILE MIND: Miscellanea for Peter Schreiner for His 60th Birthday] (Byzantinisches Archiv [Byzantine Archive]; 19), Munich, Leipzig: K[laus] G[erhard] Saur, footnote 11, page 166
type:
quotation
text:
One man can accomplish with list (magic), that which a thousand could not accomplish, regardless of how strong they were.
ref:
2008, Jon B. Sherman, The Magician in Medieval German Literature (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Urbana, Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Art; craft; cunning; skill.
senses_topics:
|
9824 | word:
list
word_type:
verb
expansion:
list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle list)
forms:
form:
lists
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
listing
tags:
participle
present
form:
list
tags:
participle
past
form:
list
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English listen, from Old English hlystan (“to listen”), from hlyst (“hearing”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlusti, from Proto-Germanic *hlustiz (“hearing”).
senses_examples:
text:
We list to the trumpings that herald the storm, / To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!
ref:
1860–1861, “What of the Night?”, in Frank Moore, editor, The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, etc., volume II, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam, […], published 1862, →OCLC, page 96, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Be of good cheer, and list to what I speak.
ref:
1865, Sophocles, “Philoctetes”, in E[dward] H[ayes] Plumptre, transl., The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, volume II, London, New York, N.Y.: Alexander Strahan, publisher, →OCLC, page 247, line 1267
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To listen.
To listen to.
senses_topics:
|
9825 | word:
list
word_type:
verb
expansion:
list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)
forms:
form:
lists
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
listing
tags:
participle
present
form:
listed
tags:
participle
past
form:
listed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English listen, list, liste, leste, lesten (“to choose, desire, wish (to do something)”), from Old English lystan, from Proto-West Germanic *lustijan, from Proto-Germanic *lustijaną, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (“pleasure”).
The word is cognate with Saterland Frisian läste (“to wish for, desire, crave”), West Frisian lêste (“to like, desire”), Dutch lusten (“to appreciate, like; to lust”), German lüsten, gelüsten (“to desire, want, crave”), Danish lyste (“to desire, feel like, want”), Faroese lysta (“to desire”).
The noun sense is from the verb, or from Middle English list, liste, lest, leste (“desire, wish; craving, longing; enjoyment, joy, pleasure”), which is derived from Middle English listen, list (verb).
senses_examples:
text:
Ye hold me as a woman, weak of will, / And strive to sway me: but my heart is stout, / Nor fears to speak its uttermost to you, / Albeit ye know its message. Praise or blame, / Even as ye list,—I reck not of your words.
ref:
1881, Aeschylus, “Agamemnon”, in E[dmund] D[oidge] A[nderson] Morshead, transl., The House of Atreus: Being The Agamemnon, Libation-bearers, and Furies of Æschylus. Translated into English Verse, London: Simpkin and Marshall, […]; Winchester, Hampshire: Warren and Son, […], →OCLC, pages 65–66
type:
quotation
text:
License consists in doing what one lists; liberty consists in doing in the right manner the good only; and our knowledge of the good must come from a higher principle, from above.
ref:
1959, Leo Strauss, “What is Political Philosophy?”, in What is Political Philosophy?: And Other Studies, Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, →OCLC, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
The spirit seemed to blow where it listed among a historically motley collection of Catholic theologians, Puritan zealots and American squires.
ref:
1994, John [Wyon] Burrow, The Historian: The Magazine for Members of the Historical Association, London: The Historical Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 176, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Might then I depart, and dwell as listeth me, out of all the world?
ref:
2016, Graydon Saunders, chapter 13, in Safely You Deliver
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To desire, like, or wish (to do something).
To be pleasing to.
senses_topics:
|
9826 | word:
list
word_type:
noun
expansion:
list
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English listen, list, liste, leste, lesten (“to choose, desire, wish (to do something)”), from Old English lystan, from Proto-West Germanic *lustijan, from Proto-Germanic *lustijaną, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (“pleasure”).
The word is cognate with Saterland Frisian läste (“to wish for, desire, crave”), West Frisian lêste (“to like, desire”), Dutch lusten (“to appreciate, like; to lust”), German lüsten, gelüsten (“to desire, want, crave”), Danish lyste (“to desire, feel like, want”), Faroese lysta (“to desire”).
The noun sense is from the verb, or from Middle English list, liste, lest, leste (“desire, wish; craving, longing; enjoyment, joy, pleasure”), which is derived from Middle English listen, list (verb).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Desire, inclination.
senses_topics:
|
9827 | word:
list
word_type:
noun
expansion:
list (plural lists)
forms:
form:
lists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain; possibly from tilting on lists in jousts, or from Etymology 4 in the sense of inclining towards what one desires.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tilt to a building.
A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
senses_topics:
architecture
nautical
transport |
9828 | word:
list
word_type:
verb
expansion:
list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)
forms:
form:
lists
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
listing
tags:
participle
present
form:
listed
tags:
participle
past
form:
listed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain; possibly from tilting on lists in jousts, or from Etymology 4 in the sense of inclining towards what one desires.
senses_examples:
text:
the steady wind listed the ship
type:
example
text:
the ship listed to port
type:
example
text:
Even a small camber one way caused the whole outfit to list alarmingly.
ref:
2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 173
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
To tilt to one side.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport |
9829 | word:
wire
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wire (countable and uncountable, plural wires)
forms:
form:
wires
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wire (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wīr (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *wīraz (“wire”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”).
senses_examples:
text:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref:
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.
ref:
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
“Oh, hadn’t I told you?” the other said quickly. “I had a wire yesterday. He landed in New York Wednesday. It was such a mixed-up sort of message, I never could understand what he was trying to tell me, except that he would have to stay in New York for a week or so. It was over fifty words long.”
ref:
1964 [1929], William Faulkner, Sartoris (The Collected Works of William Faulkner), London: Chatto & Windus, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
This election is going to go right to the wire
type:
example
text:
If you don't surrender now, it's gonna go down to the wire
ref:
1988, The Traveling Wilburys (lyrics and music), “Tweeter and the Monkey Man”, in The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1
type:
quotation
text:
to pull the wires for office
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
A finish line of a racetrack.
A telecommunication wire or cable.
An electric telegraph; a telegram.
A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
A deadline or critical endpoint.
A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
A pickpocket, especially one who targets women.
A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
A knitting needle.
The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
9830 | word:
wire
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wire (third-person singular simple present wires, present participle wiring, simple past and past participle wired)
forms:
form:
wires
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wiring
tags:
participle
present
form:
wired
tags:
participle
past
form:
wired
tags:
past
wikipedia:
wire (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wīr (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *wīraz (“wire”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”).
senses_examples:
text:
We need to wire that hole in the fence.
type:
example
text:
I could see him in his plane flying low over the river or a reservoir, dropping the club out with a chunk of lead wired to the shaft.
ref:
1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, page 222
type:
quotation
text:
wire beads
type:
example
text:
Do you know how to wire a plug?
type:
example
text:
Replying on March 20 to a Commons Written Question from Alberto Costa (Conservative, South Leicestershire) about plans to wire to Leicester, Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: "We are currently investing in the biggest upgrade of the Midland Main Line since it was completed in 1870. [...]
ref:
2020 April 8, “Network News: MML still on electrification agenda”, in Rail, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.
type:
example
text:
Assuming that all of the conference rooms are wired into the LAN, the sales representative would have to carry a cable to connect into any conference room that they visit, find the appropriate wall jack, and connect into the network.
ref:
2004, David Wall, Managing and Securing a Cisco Structured Wireless-Aware Network, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
There is an enormous neurological consequence to mechanorecptor dysfunction, which is related to how these cells are wired into the spinal cord.
ref:
2004, Richard Weinstein, The Stress Effect
type:
quotation
text:
The distal tier of cells has a wider acceptance angle than the proximal tier and different neuronal wiring (distal photoreceptors are wired into the lamina, while proximal photoreceptors are wired into the medulla), as well as a different spectral receptor composition.
ref:
2003, Carol L. Boggs, Ward B. Watt, Paul R. Ehrlich, Butterflies: Ecology and Evolution Taking Flight, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
He was the minority leader's political eyes and ears— nicknamed "the Electrician," due to all the intrigue and legislative shenanigans he was wired into.
ref:
1996, H. L. Richardson, Split Ticket, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
Like the fledgling scientist who tried to wire himself into the sisterly circle at Field Place, Prometheus joins the electric circuit formed by his "Fair sister nymphs," Panthea, Asia, ...
ref:
1999, Teddi Chichester Bonca, Teddi Lynn Chichester, Shelley's Mirrors of Love: Narcissism, Sacrifice, and Sorority, SUNY Press, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
... and quite handy indeed that they also saw fit to wire themselves into the social problem that they had a major hand in creating in the first place. This almost blatant orchestration of social conflict is just a ladle in the soup of ...
ref:
2000, Joan D'Arc, Phenomenal World: Remote Viewing, Astral Travel, Apparitions, Extraterrestrials, Lucid Dreams and Other Forms of Intelligent Contact in the Magical Kingdom of Mind-at-Large, Book Tree, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
I am wired into my work on a continuous basis. I think that I can shut it off, but in my heart I know I cannot
ref:
2002, Penny Gurstein, Wired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
RESTON MOVED QUICKLY to parlay his new prominence by wiring himself into high-level Washington sources, and not just Republicans like Vandenberg.
ref:
2006, John F. Stacks, Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism, U of Nebraska Press, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
"When the island was initially green-lighted for casinos, Hu Dzem figured he was first in line, given the way he was wired into the gambling rackets in Hong Kong and on the mainland.
ref:
2006, Don Pendleton, Slaughter House, page 180
type:
quotation
text:
Working together with a highly-respected and well-connected gang leader like Lion reduces the risk of detection. Such men wire themselves into the happenings of the pen; they know who can pay how much, and they have finely tuned instincts for the rackets they control. The Nelsons work as a husband-and-wife team, which makes escaping detection easier.
ref:
2007, Michael G. Santos, Inside: Life Behind Bars in America, St. Martin's Press, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
Dealers saw the potential in him because he was wired into all the right social networks, and asked him to start selling pills for them.
ref:
2009, Natalie Welsh, Sentenced to Hell: The Incredible True Story of a Young Mother's Miraculous Escape from Venezuela's Notorious Prison System, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
The remainder of the Inn Crowd started to wire themselves into the session. Frank, who was almost always the first to get pissed, was practically gone already, delighted with his career and with his life and determined to drink […]
ref:
2010, John Martin Somers, Pick Your Own Strawberries, Lulu.com, page 276
type:
quotation
text:
He is really wired into the world of hockey and connected to all facets of the sport. Jimmy is wired into the media as well.
ref:
2010, Jim Devellano, Roger Lajoie, The Road to Hockeytown: Jimmy Devellano's Forty Years in the NHL, page xi
type:
quotation
text:
Blair brought out the febrile intensity of Stanhope, wiring himself into his ever more circumscribed troglodyte world, speculating moodily on the worm that went down when it thought it was coming up. Robert Philp thought Blair's ...
ref:
2013, John Rentoul, Tony Blair: Prime Minister, Faber & Faber
type:
quotation
text:
A week, and most of it spent inside the compound, but already he's begun to wire himself into the environment, read its codes. The pecking order and the power struggles and the personalities. The fixers and the operators, ...
ref:
2014, Helen Giltrow, The Distance: A Thriller, Anchor
type:
quotation
text:
The same, obviously, cannot be said for Calipari, or Coach Cal as he's known by all those wired into the world of college basketball.
ref:
2015 March 30, Bob Raissman, “Duke's Mike Krzyzewski the darling of Final Four coaches”, in New York Daily News
type:
quotation
text:
"In the changing room I'm not very relaxed, I get wired into it then and psyched up but I think it's important not to build the game up in your mind into something that it's not," he asserts.
ref:
2015 April 18, Daniel McDonnell, “Captain Pearce aims to deliver knockout blow to Arsenal in FA Cup”, in Irish Independent
type:
quotation
text:
Duke fans REALLY showed up in the noise department...The cheers may not have been overly varied, but the noise was consistent, and they were wired into every single play that occurred on the court.
ref:
2015 July 4, John Cassillo, “Neutral Fan at the Final Four: How I Got Through Four Days in Indianapolis Without Syracuse”, in SB Nation
type:
quotation
text:
He has always done this, having a good system for wiring himself in to the daily action and buzz of what's going on with clients and the business in general. He also has a pretty good nose for figuring out who the key influencers are, […]
ref:
2018, Robin Brunet, Let's Get Frank, Douglas & McIntyre
type:
quotation
text:
All that determines the amount that livestock producers receive is the degree to which they wire themselves into the various sources that are available. However, the primary source is still the land-grant-university system.
ref:
2019, Frank H Baker, Mason Miller, Stud Managers' Handbook, CRC Press
type:
quotation
text:
There's no use trying to get Sarah to be less excitable. That's just the way she's wired.
type:
example
text:
PPT hypothesises that grammatical properties which are universal will not have to be learned by the child, since they are wired into the language faculty and hence part of the child's genetic endowment...
ref:
2004, Andrew Radford, English Syntax: An Introduction, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
That voyage will be far more comfortable and may involve some sightseeing if internal marketing is wired into organizational culture and strategy rather than something that is done from time to time depending upon the economic cycle.
ref:
2005, Michael Dunmore, Inside-out Marketing, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
You make decisions innately; doing so is wired into how you behave.
ref:
2011, Jay Pestrichelli, Wayne Ferbert, Buy and Hedge: The 5 Iron Rules for Investing Over the Long Term, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Maternal instinct is wired into the brain.
ref:
2011, Kathryn E. Hood, Carolyn Tucker Halpern, Gary Greenberg, Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior, and Genetics
type:
quotation
text:
If God wired her to be a corporate tycoon, Olympic champion, presidential hopeful, or Academy Award-winning actress, that's awesome. Come alongside her and cheer her on. But just as awesome is the idea that the plan for her life is far [simpler].
ref:
2013 March 1, Jay Payleitner, 52 Things Daughters Need from Their Dads: What Fathers Can Do to Build a Lasting Relationship, Harvest House Publishers, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
It's certainly wired into our language when we talk about, 'C'mon, be a man about it,' or 'Man up.'
ref:
2015 February 18, Orvelin Valle, “This Journalist Nails The Reason Why Young Men Want To Go To War”, in We Are The Mighty
type:
quotation
text:
Urgent: please wire me another 100 pounds sterling.
type:
example
text:
The detective wired ahead, hoping that the fugitive would be caught at the railway station.
type:
example
text:
Coffee late at night wires me good and proper.
type:
example
text:
We wired the suspect's house.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
To string on a wire.
To equip with wires for use with electricity.
To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
To install eavesdropping equipment.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
senses_topics:
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9831 | word:
massasauga
word_type:
noun
expansion:
massasauga (plural massasaugas)
forms:
form:
massasaugas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly from the Mississagi River (Ontario, Canada), from French Mississague, Missisague (also Oumisagai, Michisaguek), from Ojibwe misiza:gi: (“inhabitant of the great river mouth, that is, the Mississagi River”). Doublet of Mississauga.
senses_examples:
text:
I hope in this paper to contribute something to the knowledge of the Prairie Rattlesnake, or Massasauga (Caudisona tergemina).
ref:
1887 March, “The Massasauga and Its Habits”, in The American Naturalist, volume XXI, number 3, Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 212
type:
quotation
text:
The Massasauga is emphatically a species of the prairies and their swamps and marshes.
ref:
1895, Leonhard [Hess] Stejneger, “The Massasauga. Sistrurus catenatus, (Rafinesque).”, in The Poisonous Snakes of North America. … From the Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1893, pages 337–487. With plates 1–19, and figures 1–70, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 414
type:
quotation
text:
According to the zoologist, the massasaugas were found abroad from mid-April to late October, chiefly during the daylight hours and for an average 197 days annually during the study period.
ref:
2010, John E. Werler, James R[ay] Dixon, “Western Massasauga”, in Texas Snakes: Identification, Distribution, and Natural History, Austin, Tx.: University of Texas Press, page 407, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The rattlesnake Sistrurus catenatus (formerly Crotalinus catenatus) in the family Viperidae, found in three subspecies.
senses_topics:
|
9832 | word:
content
word_type:
adj
expansion:
content (comparative more content or contenter, superlative most content)
forms:
form:
more content
tags:
comparative
form:
contenter
tags:
comparative
form:
most content
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
content
etymology_text:
From Middle English contenten (“to satisfy”), from Latin contentus (“contained; satisfied”), past participle of continēre (“to contain”).
senses_examples:
text:
You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You're brave, compassionate, kind: a content man. That is your secret—contentment; I am 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit, and I don't even know what I am chasing.
ref:
1981, Colin Welland, Chariots of Fire, spoken by Harold M. Abrahams
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Satisfied, pleased, contented.
senses_topics:
|
9833 | word:
content
word_type:
noun
expansion:
content (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
content
etymology_text:
From Middle English contenten (“to satisfy”), from Latin contentus (“contained; satisfied”), past participle of continēre (“to contain”).
senses_examples:
text:
They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.
type:
example
text:
‘I understand you—upon every other subject, but the only one, my content requires, you are ready to obey me.’
ref:
1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Penguin, published 2009, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
Like an empress, I feel great content surrounded by the familiar sounds of laughter, bickering, rattling plates, clicking chopsticks, smacking lips, and noisy sipping of the longevity brew.
ref:
2008, Mingmei Yip, Peach Blossom Pavilion
type:
quotation
text:
Kleph moved slowly from the door and sank upon the chaise longue with a little sigh of content.
ref:
1946, C.L. Moore, Vintage Season
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
Acquiescence without examination.
That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
A member who votes in assent.
senses_topics:
|
9834 | word:
content
word_type:
intj
expansion:
content
forms:
wikipedia:
content
etymology_text:
From Middle English contenten (“to satisfy”), from Latin contentus (“contained; satisfied”), past participle of continēre (“to contain”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alright, agreed.
senses_topics:
|
9835 | word:
content
word_type:
verb
expansion:
content (third-person singular simple present contents, present participle contenting, simple past and past participle contented)
forms:
form:
contents
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
contenting
tags:
participle
present
form:
contented
tags:
participle
past
form:
contented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
content
etymology_text:
From Middle English contenten (“to satisfy”), from Latin contentus (“contained; satisfied”), past participle of continēre (“to contain”).
senses_examples:
text:
You can't have any more. You'll have to content yourself with what you already have.
type:
example
text:
Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy recommend rigatoni in the Geometry of Pasta, and Christopher Boswell, the chef behind the Rome Sustainable Food project, prefers wholemeal paccheri or rigatoni in his book Pasta, on the basis that “the flavour of the whole grain is strong enough to stand up to the sharp and salty sheep’s milk cheese” (as I can find neither easily, I have to content myself with brown penne instead).
ref:
2016 November 3, Felicity Cloake, “How to make the perfect cacio e pepe”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.
To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
senses_topics:
|
9836 | word:
content
word_type:
adj
expansion:
content (comparative more content, superlative most content)
forms:
form:
more content
tags:
comparative
form:
most content
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
content
etymology_text:
From Middle English content (plural contentes, contence), from Latin contentus, past participle of continēre (“to hold in, contain”), as Etymology 1, above. English apparently developed a substantive form of the adjective, which is not mirrored in Romance languages.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contained.
senses_topics:
|
9837 | word:
content
word_type:
noun
expansion:
content (countable and uncountable, plural contents)
forms:
form:
contents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
content
etymology_text:
From Middle English content (plural contentes, contence), from Latin contentus, past participle of continēre (“to hold in, contain”), as Etymology 1, above. English apparently developed a substantive form of the adjective, which is not mirrored in Romance languages.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: contents
text:
Although eloquently delivered, the content of the speech was objectionable.
type:
example
text:
Some online video creators upload new content every day.
type:
example
text:
Prolific creators manage their voluminous content with any of various content management systems.
type:
example
text:
In the future, instead of bottles of dead "content," I imagine electronically defined venues, where minds residing in bodies scattered all over the planet are admitted, either by subscription or a ticket at a time, into the real-time presence of the creative act.
ref:
2000 October, John Perry Barlow, “The Next Economy Of Ideas”, in Wired, →ISSN
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 "creating compelling content", or[…]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, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Light beer has a lower alcohol content than regular beer.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which is contained.
Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
The amount of material contained; contents.
Capacity for containing.
The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences |
9838 | word:
mase
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mase (third-person singular simple present mases, present participle masing, simple past and past participle mased)
forms:
form:
mases
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
masing
tags:
participle
present
form:
mased
tags:
participle
past
form:
mased
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from maser as if mase + agentive -er. Compare lase from laser.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act as a maser; to emit or subject to maser radiation.
senses_topics:
|
9839 | word:
mase
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mase (plural mases)
forms:
form:
mases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of maze.
senses_topics:
|
9840 | word:
masseuse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masseuse (plural masseuses, masculine masseur)
forms:
form:
masseuses
tags:
plural
form:
masseur
tags:
masculine
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French masseuse, feminine of masseur.
senses_examples:
text:
Oh! I'm a masseuse. I give people massages and stuff.
ref:
Friends (TV series, episode 3.05)
text:
He was a great masseuse.
ref:
2003, Helena B. Rich., L. C. S. W. Helena B. Rich, The Art of Masturdating: A Guidebook for Single Heterosexuals, iUniverse, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
He was a good masseuse, and could always make Jez relax.
ref:
2012, Penny Dixon, Betrayed, Troubador Publishing Ltd, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
Waited, got up, opened the door and saw the masseuse playing backgammon. Told him I was ready, didn't know what for. He waved me away, and I returned to the slab. By the time he came in, a mustached masseuse was sponging down a German woman on the opposite side of the marble; her husband sat on the perimeter watching (this was not a traditional hamam).
ref:
1998, Bad Subjects Production Team, Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life, NYU Press
type:
quotation
text:
year unknown, Jamie Lake, BOOK 4 - Bad Boy: Naughty at Night: Bad Boy | Gay Romance MM Boyfriend Series, Jamie Lake
Just less than a week ago, he'd said he'd tell Peter's parents, his school, the press, that Peter was an erotic masseuse.
text:
In most massages, both the male masseuse and the female client are naked and the focus is on erogenous zones.
ref:
2011, Mark D West, Lovesick Japan: Sex Marriage, Romance, Law, page 152
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A woman who performs massage; a female masseur.
A masseur; a man who performs massage.
senses_topics:
|
9841 | word:
acarpous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acarpous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Ancient Greek ἄκαρπος (ákarpos, “fruitless”), from privative ἀ- (a-) + καρπός (karpós, “fruit”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not producing fruit; unfruitful; sterile.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
9842 | word:
live
word_type:
verb
expansion:
live (third-person singular simple present lives, present participle living, simple past and past participle lived)
forms:
form:
lives
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
living
tags:
participle
present
form:
lived
tags:
participle
past
form:
lived
tags:
past
wikipedia:
live
etymology_text:
From Middle English lyven, libben, from Old English lifian, libban (“to live; be alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *libbjan, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian líeuwje (“to live”), West Frisian libje (“to live”), Dutch leven (“to live”), German Low German leven, lęven (“to live”), German leben (“to live”), Swedish leva (“to live”), Icelandic lifa (“to live”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (liban, “to live”).
senses_examples:
text:
He's not expected to live for more than a few months.
type:
example
text:
I live at 2a Acacia Avenue. He lives in LA, but he's staying here over the summer.
type:
example
text:
I washed your gravy boat. Where does it live?
type:
example
text:
Her memory lives in that song.
type:
example
text:
He has now overseen three straight victories since taking over from Claudio Ranieri and this latest win, against one of the best teams in Europe, will live long in the memory for every Leicester supporter.
ref:
2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
You'll just have to live with it! I can't live in a world without you.
type:
example
text:
It is difficult to live in poverty. And they lived happily ever after.
type:
example
text:
To live an idle or a useful life.
type:
example
text:
Many people write their romances, others live them; Honore de Balzac did both.
ref:
1921, Juanita Helm Floyd, Women in the Life of Balzac
type:
quotation
text:
By 1980, South Korea had overtaken its northern neighbour, and was well on its way to being one of the Asian tigers – high-performing economies, with democratic movements ultimately winning power in the 1990s. The withdrawal of most Soviet aid in 1991, with the fall of the Soviet empire, pushed North Korea further down. Kim Il-sung had held a genuine place on North Korean people's affections. His son was regarded as a shadowy playboy, with rumours circulating over the years that he imported Russian and Chinese prostitutes, and lived a life of profligacy and excess.
ref:
2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian
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, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Change happens from the inside out and this great resource can show you how to live the habits that build personal and professional effectiveness.
ref:
2006, Laura Cardone, Motivation at Work
type:
quotation
text:
In short, he argues, in the modern era, “The only way to build a brand is to live that brand. You have to live the values and the mission, then let the customer decide.”
ref:
2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
No ship could live in such a storm.
type:
example
text:
It is hard to live on the minimum wage. They lived on stale bread. Man shall not live by bread alone.
type:
example
text:
I'm sick of spending every day studying at home: I want to go out there and live!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be alive; to have life.
To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
(of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
To survive; to persevere; to continue.
To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
To cope.
To pass life in a specified manner.
To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
To live as; to live being.
To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).
To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.
senses_topics:
|
9843 | word:
live
word_type:
adj
expansion:
live (comparative more live, superlative most live)
forms:
form:
more live
tags:
comparative
form:
most live
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
live
etymology_text:
An aphetic form of alive.
senses_examples:
text:
The post office will not ship live animals.
type:
example
text:
He is a live example of the consequences of excessive drinking.
type:
example
text:
Because the vaccinia virus is live, it is important to follow care instructions for the vaccination site.
type:
example
text:
An object in the heap is live if its address is held in a root, or there is a pointer to it held in another live heap node.
ref:
1996, Richard Jones, Rafael Lins, Garbage Collection, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
live feathers
type:
example
text:
the live spindle of a lathe
type:
example
text:
a live, or driving, axle
type:
example
text:
a live ball
type:
example
text:
As a beginner, when you are in a hand, you should practice counting your outs, or those live cards left in the deck that can improve your hand.
ref:
2005, Alison M. Pendergast, Play Winning Poker in No Time, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
The station presented a live news program every evening.
type:
example
text:
Are we live?
type:
example
text:
This nightclub has a live band on weekends.
type:
example
text:
a live album
type:
example
text:
The air force practices dropping live bombs on the uninhabited island.
type:
example
text:
A good experiment is to have a friend stand in a fixed position in a moderately live room and talk in a clear voice.
ref:
2002, John Eargle, Chris Foreman, Audio Engineering for Sound Reinforcement, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
It sounds like the instruments were recorded in a fairly live room with reverb added.
ref:
2016, Jason Corey, Audio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear Training, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
Use caution when working near live wires.
type:
example
text:
Tommy's blind was live, so he was given the option to raise.
type:
example
text:
a live coal; live embers
type:
example
text:
Call it a dead language if you want to—it looks to me like those Latinites were the live boys when it came to putting a whole lot of meaning into just two or three words.
ref:
1916 March 25, Irvin S. Cobb, “"Unaccustomed as I am—"”, in Saturday Evening Post
type:
quotation
text:
a live man, or orator
type:
example
text:
Now then, Bill, I've recommended to the troop that they take you in, and the fellows have all voted in favor of you. These scouts are a live bunch and they all expect you to make good.
ref:
1915, “In the Scout Cave”, in Boys' Life, volume 5, number 3, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
The party was live, and the music was jammin. All over the beach people in colorful swimsuits were moving to the beat.
ref:
1998, Kimberly S. Phillips, Purpose Lies Within, Messenger Publishing, page 119
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having life; that is alive.
Being in existence; actual.
Having active properties; being energized.
Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.
Taken from a living animal.
Imparting power; having motion.
Still in active play.
Of a card: not yet dealt or played.
Being broadcast ("on the air"), as it happens.
In person.
Recorded from a performance in front of an audience.
Able to fire or explode (of firearms or explosives).
Of an environment where sound is recorded: having noticeable reverberation.
Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.
Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
Being in a state of ignition; burning.
Vivid; bright.
Energetic, attentive, active.
Outstanding, top-notch, exhilarating.
Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: resonating, not ending abruptly.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
card-games
games
broadcasting
media
entertainment
lifestyle
card-games
poker
broadcasting
film
media
television
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9844 | word:
live
word_type:
adv
expansion:
live (comparative more live, superlative most live)
forms:
form:
more live
tags:
comparative
form:
most live
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
live
etymology_text:
An aphetic form of alive.
senses_examples:
text:
The concert was broadcast live by radio.
type:
example
text:
He'll be appearing live at the auditorium.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.
Of making a performance or speech, in person.
senses_topics:
|
9845 | word:
acarpellous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acarpellous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
a-("without") + carpel + -ous (“full of”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having no carpels.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
9846 | word:
American
word_type:
noun
expansion:
American (plural Americans)
forms:
form:
Americans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
American
Americans
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *amalaz
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs
Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor.
Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Amalarīksder.
Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos
Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos
Proto-Germanic *haimaz
Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Haimarīksder.?
Italian Amerigoder.
New Latin Americalbor.
English America
Middle English -n
English -n
English American
From America + -n. compare Latin americānus.
senses_examples:
text:
The Americans believe that all creatures have souls.
ref:
1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
Within a few months the ‘slave Alexandre’ had been successfully transformed into what, across the Channel, was called a ‘blackamoor dandy’. Parisians preferred the more politely euphemistic term ‘American’. ]
ref:
[ 2012, Jonathan Keates, ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review, 402
text:
Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation... is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen.
ref:
1852 July 5, Frederick Douglass, speech to the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, Rochester, New York
text:
...the British ruling class obviously could not admit to themselves that their usefulness was at an end. Had they done that they would have had to abdicate. For it was not possible for them to turn themselves into mere bandits, like the American millionaires, consciously clinging to unjust privileges and beating down opposition by bribery and tear-gas bombs. After all, they belonged to a class with a certain tradition, they had been to public schools where the duty of dying for your country, if necessary, is laid down as the first and greatest of the Commandments.
ref:
1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I
type:
quotation
text:
My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
ref:
1984 Aug. 11, Ronald Reagan, soundcheck for a weekly address
text:
Graham Norton: But the people coming up to you now, like the Americans, well, you know, the Americans, they're not shy, the Americans.
Maggie Smith: No. Well, no but I don't go anywhere where really they can get at me. It's usually in museums and art galleries and things, so that limits things. I keep away from there, and Harrod's I don't go near.
ref:
2015 October 30, The Graham Norton Show, season 18, episode 6
type:
quotation
text:
Roughly two-thirds of Americans default to the General American accent, with other dialects like Southern, AAVE, and Chicano usually being considered lower prestige outside of entertainment and politics.
type:
example
text:
-A . Spanish ; my mother and father speak American ; my brothers and sisters speak Spanish ; when he is in the house , we speak American ; we have American prayers at night before we go to bed . Q. Is that usual in the families of the[…]
ref:
1871, United States. Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo, Report, with the Introductory Message of the President, Special Reports Made to the Commission, State Papers Furnished by the Dominican Government, and the Statements of Over Seventy Witnesses, page 268
type:
quotation
text:
1896, The North American Review, volume 163, page 28:
“Do you speak American,” then asked the lady.
“Oh, naow,” he replied with a still stronger emphasis.
“But wouldn't you like to learn American?" persisted the lady.
“Oh, naow, thanks," answered this sturdy little patriot. […]
ref:
Francis E. Clark, in
type:
quotation
text:
The fact that they speak American and don ' t wear German uniforms makes them more dangerous than the Jerries themselves . What does your Springfield Plan do about them ? Here is a fighting challenge . In the light of this challenge the[…]
ref:
1945, Clarence I. Chatto, Alice L. Halligan, The Story of the Springfield Plan
type:
quotation
text:
Donate for Give. Good American, but not good English.
ref:
1909, Ambrose Bierce, Write it Right
type:
quotation
text:
We sat down in the central square and drank coffee and a man came up and spoke to us in American.
ref:
1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 756
type:
quotation
text:
"Where do you keep your cash, bub?" asked Idris hoarsely. His American was better than Hassan's English.
ref:
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 490
type:
quotation
text:
JAMES CARTER: Mr. Rice-a-Roni; don't even speak American.
ref:
1998, Jim Kouf, Ross LaManna, Rush Hour, New Line Cinema
type:
quotation
text:
DON COLLIER: This is an American tank; we talk American.
ref:
2014, David Ayer, Fury, Columbia Pictures
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any inhabitant of the Americas.
A citizen or inhabitant of British America.
Synonym of American Indian or Native American, an indigenous inhabitant of the Americas.
A size of type smaller than German, 1-point type.
A citizen or national of the United States of America.
The dialect of English spoken in and around the contiguous United States of America.
American cheese.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
|
9847 | word:
American
word_type:
adj
expansion:
American (comparative more American, superlative most American)
forms:
form:
more American
tags:
comparative
form:
most American
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
American
Americans
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *amalaz
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs
Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor.
Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Amalarīksder.
Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos
Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos
Proto-Germanic *haimaz
Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Haimarīksder.?
Italian Amerigoder.
New Latin Americalbor.
English America
Middle English -n
English -n
English American
From America + -n. compare Latin americānus.
senses_examples:
text:
He married an American woman in order to get an American passport.
type:
example
text:
Thanksgiving is an American tradition.
type:
example
text:
Each new wave of immigration helped meet the needs of American development and made its distinctive contribution to the American character.
ref:
1964, John F. Kennedy, “Waves of Immigration-the Post-Revolutionary Forces”, in A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
...they cannot see through their current biases to realize that a police vehicle with the American flag is the ultimate American expression...
ref:
2019 April 14, Jennifer Welsh Zeiter, “Putting American Flags on Police Cars Sparks Backlash in Laguna Beach”, in Los Angeles Times:
type:
quotation
text:
This is pure American powder from the foothills of Colombia.
type:
example
text:
All of these trade on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Most of the contracts are European. An exception is the OEX contract on the S&P 100, which is American.
ref:
2009, John C. Hull, Options, Futures, and other Derivatives (Seventh Edition), Pearson Education, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
Multi-dimensional option pricing becomes an important topic in financial markets (Franker et al., 2008). Among which, the American-type derivative (e.g. the Bermudan option) pricing is a challenging problem.
ref:
2009, Shih-Feng Huang, Meihui Guo, Applied Quantitative Finance (Second Edition), Springer, page 295
type:
quotation
text:
Based on the analyses throughout the case study, it is recommended that the use of a model that assumes an ESO is European style when, in fact, the option is American style with the other exotic variables should not be permitted, as this substantially overstates compensation expenses.
ref:
2010, Johnathan Mun, Modeling Risk + DVD: Applying Monte Carlo Risk Simulation, Strategic Real Options, Stochastic Forecasting, and Portfolio Optimization (Second Edition), John Wiley & Sons
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people, or its culture.
Of, from, or pertaining to the Americas.
Of, from, or pertaining to British North America.
Synonym of American Indian and Native American, of, from, or pertaining to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.
Able to be exercised on any date between its issue and expiry.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
9848 | word:
American
word_type:
name
expansion:
American
forms:
wikipedia:
American
American Township, Ohio
Americans
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *amalaz
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs
Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor.
Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Amalarīksder.
Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos
Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos
Proto-Germanic *haimaz
Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Haimarīksder.?
Italian Amerigoder.
New Latin Americalbor.
English America
Middle English -n
English -n
English American
From America + -n. compare Latin americānus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A township in Allen County, Ohio, United States.
senses_topics:
|
9849 | word:
instrumental
word_type:
adj
expansion:
instrumental (comparative more instrumental, superlative most instrumental)
forms:
form:
more instrumental
tags:
comparative
form:
most instrumental
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
instrumental
instrumental (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English instrumental, instrumentale, from Medieval Latin īnstrūmentālis.
senses_examples:
text:
He was instrumental in conducting the business.
type:
example
text:
Few songwriters have been as instrumental in creating the mold for American music.
ref:
2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51
type:
quotation
text:
[...] Prosser was instrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance.
ref:
2020 July 29, Ian Prosser discusses with Paul Stephen, “Rail needs robust and strategic plans”, in Rail, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Maxwell started back to his study, feeling that kind of satisfaction which a man feels when he has been even partly instrumental in finding an unemployed person a remunerative position.
ref:
1896, Charles M. Sheldon, chapter 12, in In His Steps
type:
quotation
text:
instrumental music
type:
example
text:
An instrumental part
type:
example
text:
Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental sounds.
ref:
c. 1700, John Dryden, Cymon and Iphigenia
type:
quotation
text:
the instrumental case
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Essential or central; of great importance or relevance.
Serving as an instrument, medium, means, or agency.
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice).
Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally corresponding to the English use of prepositions such as by, with, through, or by means of with the objective case.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9850 | word:
instrumental
word_type:
noun
expansion:
instrumental (plural instrumentals)
forms:
form:
instrumentals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
instrumental
instrumental (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English instrumental, instrumentale, from Medieval Latin īnstrūmentālis.
senses_examples:
text:
I recommend this album in the face of the fact that five of the eleven songs are the purest filler, dull instrumentals with a harmonica rifling over an indifferent rhythm section. The rest is magnificent […]
ref:
1977, Stereo Review, volume 38, page 70
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The instrumental case.
A composition written or performed without lyrics or singing, using a lead instrument to replace vocals.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
9851 | word:
salt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
salt (countable and uncountable, plural salts)
forms:
form:
salts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:salt
etymology_text:
PIE word
*séh₂ls
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”). Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".
senses_examples:
text:
Take gode almaunde mylke y-draw wyth wyn, an let hem boyle to-gederys, an caste þer-to Safroun an Salt; […]
Take good almond milk made with wine, and let it boil together, and add thereto Saffron and Salt; […]
ref:
1430, Thomas Austin, editor, Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 (Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91), volume 1, London: Routledge; N. Trübner & Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Common salt, chloride of sodium, appears to be essential to the life of the higher animals.
ref:
1880, Arthur Herbert Church, Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses, London: Chapman and Hall, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
Nando was pierced with grief, but he didn't allow himself to cry. Tears, he knew, would cost his body salt. Without salt, you die.
ref:
2013, Bear Grylls, True Grit: the Epic True Stories of Heroism and Survival That Have Shaped My Life, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts.
ref:
1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
type:
quotation
text:
Attic salt
text:
Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.
text:
There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
A sailor (also old salt).
A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.
A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
Flavour; taste; seasoning.
Piquancy; wit; sense.
A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
Skepticism and common sense.
Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
9852 | word:
salt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)
forms:
form:
more salt
tags:
comparative
form:
most salt
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
en:salt
etymology_text:
PIE word
*séh₂ls
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”). Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".
senses_examples:
text:
After a few days of north-west wind, the waters of the Gordon will be found salt for twelve miles up from the bar.
ref:
1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
salt beef
type:
example
text:
a salt marsh
type:
example
text:
salt grass
type:
example
text:
a salt mine
type:
example
text:
The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
type:
example
text:
And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their accesse to her, and every way keeping such a coyle with her, as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
ref:
1653, Thomas Urquhart, transl., The First Book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Book 2, Chapter 22, p. 153
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of water: containing salt, saline.
Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
Bitter; sharp; pungent.
Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
Costly; expensive.
senses_topics:
|
9853 | word:
salt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)
forms:
form:
salts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
salting
tags:
participle
present
form:
salted
tags:
participle
past
form:
salted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:salt
etymology_text:
PIE word
*séh₂ls
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”). Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".
senses_examples:
text:
to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
text:
The brine begins to salt.
type:
example
text:
The composition of the fallout can also be changed by "salting" the weapon to be detonated. This consists in the inclusion of significant quantities of certain elements, possibly enriched in specific isotopes, for the purpose of producing induced radioactivity. There are several reasons why a weapon might be salted.
ref:
1964, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, page 417
type:
quotation
text:
The Libertarians wish we had won the Vietnamese War, they would like to revoke civil rights legislation, they believe (even though they are supposedly anti-state) in a stronger Pentagon. They are salted with Nixonites, Young Americans for Freedom, John Birchers, Reaganites — in other words the old Joe McCarthy gang again. I thought they had left us, or reformed, or taken up knitting.
ref:
1976 December 11, Ronnie Allen, “No Political Eunuch”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
They salted the document with arcane language.
type:
example
text:
These were pamphlets, often written in various Jewish vernaculars, describing the location of the Holy sites and salting the accounts with mythic and homiletical materials.
ref:
1993, The Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To add salt to.
To deposit salt as a saline solution.
To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
To sprinkle throughout.
To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
To render a thing useless.
To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
To render a thing useless.
To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
business
mining
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
military
politics
war
|
9854 | word:
salt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
salt (plural salts)
forms:
form:
salts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:salt
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin saltus.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] he hath the skill to draw
Their nectar forth, with kissing; and could make
More wanton salts from this brave promontory,
Down to this valley, than the nimble roe;
ref:
1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume V page 67
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bounding; a leaping; a prance.
senses_topics:
|
9855 | word:
maser
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maser (plural masers)
forms:
form:
masers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
maser
etymology_text:
From MASER, acronym of microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation..
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation (especially of microwave frequency) by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems
Any celestial object that generates microwaves using the same method
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
astronomy
natural-sciences |
9856 | word:
maser
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maser (countable and uncountable, plural masers)
forms:
form:
masers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
maser
etymology_text:
See mazer.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of mazer.
senses_topics:
|
9857 | word:
sofa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sofa (plural sofas)
forms:
form:
sofas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:sofa
en:sofa (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa), a long seat made of stone or brick, covered with rich carpets and cushions and used for sitting upon. Cognate with Aramaic צפא/ܨܦܬܐ (ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā, “mat, matting”). The word may have entered European languages via Muslim Iberia or through Turkish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
senses_topics:
architecture
furniture
lifestyle |
9858 | word:
sofa
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sofa (third-person singular simple present sofas, present participle sofaing, simple past and past participle sofaed)
forms:
form:
sofas
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sofaing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sofaed
tags:
participle
past
form:
sofaed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:sofa
en:sofa (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa), a long seat made of stone or brick, covered with rich carpets and cushions and used for sitting upon. Cognate with Aramaic צפא/ܨܦܬܐ (ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā, “mat, matting”). The word may have entered European languages via Muslim Iberia or through Turkish.
senses_examples:
text:
The appearance of a student's apartment, though by no means splendid, is decidedly comfortable ; it is well cushioned and sofaed, with a proper proportion of arm chairs, and a general air of respectability — much better on the whole than our student's rooms ever are.
ref:
1852, Charles Astor Bristed, Five years in an English university, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
First, it will surprize you to learn that instead of the venerable simplicity which reigns in St. Stephen's chapel, the H. of Representatives, besides being stoved, carpeted, desked, and sofaed in the most luxurious style, rivals and indeed surpasses the Legislature of Paris in decoration and drapery.
ref:
1890, Stanley Lane-Poole, The Life of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe - Volume 1, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
I and another therefore entirely occupied our stateroom, which was sofaed round, being just large enough for two to lie down and a third to sit with his feet up and his head on his knees.
ref:
1893, Henry Swinglehurst, Silver Mines and Incidents of Travel, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
It was a lavish, fully draped, fully sofaed, fully radiator-covered nineteenth-century deluxe German hotel suite.
ref:
1981, David A. Kaufelt, The Wine and the Music, page 331
type:
quotation
text:
Cliques of three or more are formed, each member of which goes in search of victims, and the first female found complaining of pain in the lower part of her back, is immediately run down, corralled, cornered, so to speak, and sans ceremonie she is at once tabled, sofaed or beded, or in the absence of these relics of refinement she is floored or she may have to submit standing (especially if the doctor is in a hury and meets her at the gate or corner drug store) with an unerring plunge, of a not overly clean index finger, the darksome cavern is penetrated and perhaps, not, a cervix is touched and reveals, of course, a lacerated cervix, just as had been predicted.
ref:
1895, Denver Medical Times - Volume 5, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
A few, feeble words—my first—to tell you I have left my room this morning and am shaven and shorn and dressed and sofaed in my writing room, after a terrible ten days or more.
ref:
1880 October 22, Benjamin Disraeli, chapter XVI, in George Earle Buckle, editor, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, volume VI: 1876–1881, published 1929, Hughenden Manor; To Lady Bradford, page 592
type:
quotation
text:
Many a time back in my boozing days when I was sofaed too.
ref:
2006, Kim Akass, Janet McCabe, Reading 'Desperate Housewives': Beyond the White Picket Fence
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To furnish with one or more sofas.
To seat or lay down on a sofa.
senses_topics:
|
9859 | word:
sofa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sofa (plural sofas)
forms:
form:
sofas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
1884 Sofas conquer northern Sierra Leone. The sofas were soldiers of Mandinka empire builder, Samori Turay. Falaba, capital of Solima Yalunka kingdom, destroyed in the process.
ref:
2006, Magbaily C. Fyle, Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone, page xx
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A slave soldier who served in the army of the Mali Empire.
senses_topics:
|
9860 | word:
play
word_type:
verb
expansion:
play (third-person singular simple present plays, present participle playing, simple past and past participle played)
forms:
form:
plays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
playing
tags:
participle
present
form:
played
tags:
participle
past
form:
played
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pleyen, playen, pleȝen, plæien, also Middle English plaȝen, plawen (compare English plaw), from Old English pleġan, pleoġan, plæġan, and Old English plegian, pleagian, plagian (“to play, exercise, etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *plehan (“to care about, be concerned with”) and Proto-West Germanic *plegōn (“to engage, move”); both perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *blek- (“to move, move about”), from Proto-Indo-European *bal- (compare Ancient Greek βλύω (blúō), βλύζω (blúzō, “I gush out, spring”), Sanskrit बल्बलीति (balbalīti, “it whirls, twirls”)).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots play (“to act or move briskly, cause to move, stir”), Saterland Frisian pleegje (“to look after, care for, maintain”), West Frisian pleegje, pliigje (“to commit, perform, bedrive”), Middle Dutch pleyen ("to dance, leap for joy, rejoice, be glad"; compare Modern Dutch pleien (“to play a particular children's game”)), Dutch plegen (“to commit, bedrive, practice”), German pflegen (“to care for, be concerned with, attend to, tend”). Related also to Old English plēon (“to risk, endanger”). More at plight, pledge.
The noun is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, plega, plæġa (“play, quick motion, movement, exercise; (athletic) sport, game; festivity, drama; battle; gear for games, an implement for a game; clapping with the hands, applause”), deverbative of plegian (“to play”); see above.
senses_examples:
text:
The children played in the park.
type:
example
text:
A youngster[…]listed some of the things his pet did not do:[…]go on vacation, play in the same way that he did with his friends, and so on.
ref:
2001, Annabelle Sabloff, Reordering the Natural World, Univ. of Toronto Press, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
2003, Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont et al. (eds.), Joining Society: Social Interaction and Learning in Adolescence and Youth, Cambridge Univ. Press, p.52:
text:
Don't play with your food!
type:
example
text:
He's just playing with her affections.
type:
example
text:
He plays left back for Mudchester Rovers
type:
example
text:
We're playing one of the top teams in the next round.
type:
example
text:
England will not be catapulted among the favourites for Euro 2012 as a result of this win, but no victory against Spain is earned easily and it is right they take great heart from their efforts as they now prepare to play Sweden at Wembley on Tuesday.
ref:
2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Look at the score now ... 23 plays 8!
type:
example
text:
He plays on three teams.
type:
example
text:
Who's playing now?
type:
example
text:
play football, play sports, play games
type:
example
text:
to play safe, to play fair, to play dirty
type:
example
text:
Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom / Well, who am I to keep you down? / It's only right that you should play the way you feel it / But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness
ref:
1977, “Dreams”, in Stevie Nicks (lyrics), Fleetwood Mac (music), Rumours, performed by Stevie Nicks
type:
quotation
text:
He plays dumb, but actually he's very clever.
type:
example
text:
Playing hard to get is not the same as slamming the door in someone's face.
ref:
1985, Sharon S. Brehm, Intimate Relationships
type:
quotation
text:
Now, surveying his final link, he had the nice advantage of being able to play coy with established port cities that desperately wanted his proven railroad.
ref:
1996, Michael P. Malone, James J Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest
type:
quotation
text:
Instead, they played dumb, remained silent, and did their classwork.
ref:
2003, John U. Ogbu, Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
Stop playing the fool.
type:
example
text:
No part of the brain plays the role of permanent memory.
type:
example
text:
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
Who played Scarlett O'Hara in 'Gone with the Wind'?
type:
example
text:
Mister Friel plays Virgil to the narrator's Dante, finding him an apartment, bringing him to the right parties and offering the last word on gay New York.
ref:
1983 December 3, Michael Wilson, “The Same Story Embellished”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
I'm not a doctor, but I do play one on TV.
ref:
1984, Chris Robinson, commercial for Vicks Formula 44
type:
quotation
text:
An opening sequence, featuring a de-aged Ford playing a younger Indy, is a bold and nostalgic gambit, offering a glimpse of what you've missed.
ref:
2023 June 29, City AM, London, page 18, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
I'll play the piano and you sing.
type:
example
text:
Can you play an instrument?
type:
example
text:
I've practiced the piano off and on, but I still can't play very well.
type:
example
text:
This piano plays out of tune.
type:
example
text:
If your guitar plays well on fretted strings but annoys you on the open ones, the nut's probably worn out.
ref:
2007, Dan Erlewine, Guitar Player Repair Guide, page 220
type:
quotation
text:
You can play the DVD now.
type:
example
text:
Don't play your radio so loud!
type:
example
text:
Play the audio clip to hear how the word is pronounced.
type:
example
text:
Do you know how to play Für Elise on the piano?
type:
example
text:
We especially like to play jazz together.
type:
example
text:
She keeps playing 'Achy Breaky Heart' over and over again on her stereo.
type:
example
text:
The juke box is playing our favourite song.
type:
example
text:
The radio was playing in the background.
type:
example
text:
This DVD is scratched and won't play.
type:
example
text:
Channel 9 is playing that old comedy series again.
type:
example
text:
My cassette player won't play this worn-out old tape.
type:
example
text:
His latest film is playing in the local theatre tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
Some kind of lounge music was playing in the background.
type:
example
text:
The band is playing large arenas nationwide.
type:
example
text:
I got a hold of Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong's agent and I explained to him on the phone that, "I know you're playing London on Wednesday night. Why don't you come and play the Arena in Windsor on Saturday night?"
ref:
2008, My Life: From Normandy to Hockeytown, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
to play a comedy
type:
example
text:
The fountain plays.
type:
example
text:
The leaves played in the wind.
type:
example
text:
The torch beam played around the room.
type:
example
text:
They played the jet of water onto the seat of the fire.
type:
example
text:
to play cannon upon a fortification
type:
example
text:
The Poet and the Painter
Casting shadows on the water
As the sun plays on the infantry
Returning from the sea.
ref:
1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull
type:
quotation
text:
The heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs play.
ref:
1705, George Cheyne, Philosophical Principles of Religion
type:
quotation
text:
That was a great shot he played!
type:
example
text:
He played the blue ball, but the green would have been a better choice.
type:
example
text:
When you're in a team, you have to play your part.
type:
example
text:
to play a trump in a card game, to play tricks, to play a joke
type:
example
text:
The bank robbers have three hostages inside, so we're going to have to play this very carefully.
type:
example
text:
He made a fortune on Wall Street, playing the markets.
type:
example
text:
In this business you have to play the percentages.
type:
example
text:
This policy plays well with younger voters.
type:
example
text:
How will this play in the swing states?
type:
example
text:
“I play, comparatively, very little; I don't drink a fifth part so much as half the people I live with; and I reckon myself, upon the whole, a very orderly, sober fellow.”
ref:
1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 407
type:
quotation
text:
You played me!
type:
example
text:
If this our song, you're the composer
I'm not a game, but you play me anyway
ref:
2020, “Ballad Of You & I”, performed by Hotel Lux
type:
quotation
text:
He grew serious. “Sorry, E.M. Just fucking around.”
“Well, I don’t play like that and you know it.”
ref:
2016, T. Styles, “seventeen”, in Clown Niggas, United States of America: The Cartel Publications, →LCCN, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
They don't play with the rules around here.
type:
example
text:
Cheree, Cheree / Je t'adore, baby / I love you / Oh, come play with me
ref:
1977, “Cheree”, in Suicide, performed by Suicide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
To toy or trifle; to act with levity or thoughtlessness; to be careless.
To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
Specifying a particular sporting role or position.
To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
To compete against, in a game.
To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
To be the opposing score to.
To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
To act or behave in a stated way.
To act or behave in a stated way.
To give a false appearance of being; to pretend to be.
To act as (the indicated role).
To act as (the indicated role).
To portray (a character) in (a film or theatre).
To produce sound (especially music), moving pictures, or theatrical performance.
To produce music using a musical instrument.
To produce sound (especially music), moving pictures, or theatrical performance.
To produce music.
To produce sound (especially music), moving pictures, or theatrical performance.
To operate (a device or media) so as to cause sound (especially music) or moving pictures to be produced.
To produce sound (especially music), moving pictures, or theatrical performance.
To render (a musical title, compositional style, film title, etc.) using a musical instrument or device.
To produce sound (especially music), moving pictures, or theatrical performance.
To emit or relay sound (especially music) or moving pictures; (of a device) to operate media.
To produce sound (especially music), moving pictures, or theatrical performance.
To be performed, reproduced, or shown.
To produce sound (especially music), moving pictures, or theatrical performance.
To perform or give performances in or at (a venue or location).
To produce sound (especially music), moving pictures, or theatrical performance.
To act or perform (a play).
To move briskly, sweepingly, back and forth, in a directed manner, etc.
To move in a light or brisk manner.
To move briskly, sweepingly, back and forth, in a directed manner, etc.
To move so as to fall upon or sweep across something, or to direct or operate (something) in such a manner.
To move briskly, sweepingly, back and forth, in a directed manner, etc.
To move in an alternating or reciprocal manner; to move to and fro.
To bring into action or motion; to exhibit in action; to execute or deploy.
To handle or deal with (a matter or situation) in a stated way.
To handle or deal with (something) in a calculating manner intended to achieve profit or gain.
To be received or accepted (in a given way); to go down.
To gamble.
To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
To manipulate, deceive, or swindle.
To kid; to joke; to say something for amusement; to act, or to treat something, unseriously.
To take part in amorous activity; to make love; see also play around.
For additional senses in various idiomatic phrases, see the individual entries, such as play along, play at, play down, play off, play on, play out, play to, play up, etc.
senses_topics:
media
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
music
television
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9861 | word:
play
word_type:
noun
expansion:
play (countable and uncountable, plural plays)
forms:
form:
plays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pleyen, playen, pleȝen, plæien, also Middle English plaȝen, plawen (compare English plaw), from Old English pleġan, pleoġan, plæġan, and Old English plegian, pleagian, plagian (“to play, exercise, etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *plehan (“to care about, be concerned with”) and Proto-West Germanic *plegōn (“to engage, move”); both perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *blek- (“to move, move about”), from Proto-Indo-European *bal- (compare Ancient Greek βλύω (blúō), βλύζω (blúzō, “I gush out, spring”), Sanskrit बल्बलीति (balbalīti, “it whirls, twirls”)).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots play (“to act or move briskly, cause to move, stir”), Saterland Frisian pleegje (“to look after, care for, maintain”), West Frisian pleegje, pliigje (“to commit, perform, bedrive”), Middle Dutch pleyen ("to dance, leap for joy, rejoice, be glad"; compare Modern Dutch pleien (“to play a particular children's game”)), Dutch plegen (“to commit, bedrive, practice”), German pflegen (“to care for, be concerned with, attend to, tend”). Related also to Old English plēon (“to risk, endanger”). More at plight, pledge.
The noun is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, plega, plæġa (“play, quick motion, movement, exercise; (athletic) sport, game; festivity, drama; battle; gear for games, an implement for a game; clapping with the hands, applause”), deverbative of plegian (“to play”); see above.
senses_examples:
text:
Children learn through play.
type:
example
text:
1964, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
You know, when I was around 7-11 years old, my favorite play would be "boys." One of us, Bridget, Maryellen, or I, would say "Let's play boys." We all had boy names, set up the pretend surroundings, and acted like boys.
text:
This kind of play helps the young lion cubs develop their hunting skills.
type:
example
text:
Play was very slow in the first half.
type:
example
text:
After the rain break, play resumed at 3 o'clock.
type:
example
text:
The game was abandoned after 20 minutes' play
type:
example
text:
His play has improved a lot this season.
type:
example
text:
That was a great play by the Mudchester Rovers forward.
type:
example
text:
AWARD is better than either WARED or WADER. However, there's an even better play! If you have looked at the two-to-make-three letter list, you may have noticed the word AWA.
ref:
2009, Joe Edley, John Williams, Everything Scrabble: Third Edition, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
This book contains all of Shakespeare's plays.
type:
example
text:
We saw a two-act play in the theatre.
type:
example
text:
ABC Widgets makes a play in the bicycle market with its bid to take over Acme Sprockets.
type:
example
text:
Turpin signals the Metric Party's long-term play for housing reform
type:
example
text:
the play of light and shadow across the boy's face
type:
example
text:
the sum of mental and physical phenomena known by the conventional name “person” or “individual” is not at all the mere play of blind chance.
ref:
1956, Nyanatiloka Mahåthera, Fundamentals of Buddhism Four Lectures
type:
quotation
text:
give play to your imagination
text:
No wonder the fanbelt is slipping: there’s too much play in it.
type:
example
text:
Too much play in a steering wheel may be dangerous.
type:
example
text:
Sexy LF novice seeks seasoned top to spice up my play life. Teach me a lesson I won't forget.
ref:
1990 December 9, “Butch In The Streets, Bottom Between The Sheets (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
The rarity of male domination in fantasy play is readily explained.
ref:
1996, Sabrina P Ramet, Gender reversals and gender cultures
type:
quotation
text:
Palm Springs M seeks sane F 4 safe bdsm play
ref:
1996, "toptigger", (on Internet newsgroup alt.personals.spanking.punishment)
text:
There were none of the usual restrictions on public nudity or sexual interaction in the club environment. Still, the night was young, and as he'd made his way to the bar to order Mistress Ramona a gin and tonic, he'd seen little in the way of play.
ref:
2013, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Best Bondage Erotica 2014
type:
quotation
text:
This type of play allows some people to relax and enjoy being given pleasure without having to think about giving pleasure back at the same time.
ref:
2014, Jiri T. Servant, Facts About Bondage - Bondage Guide For Beginners
type:
quotation
text:
That video of my cat falling off the piano has had ten thousand plays.
type:
example
text:
The most-streamed artist of the year was British singer Ed Sheeran, who amassed 860 million plays with hits like “I See Fire.”
ref:
2014 December 3, Victor Luckerson, “These Were Spotify's Most-Streamed Songs This Year”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
Their single got a play on the radio.
type:
example
text:
The song got a lot of play in the clubs.
type:
example
text:
press play
type:
example
text:
play on words
text:
Wiktionary is a play on the words wiki and dictionary.
type:
example
text:
handplay, swordplay
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
The conduct, or course, of a game.
An individual's performance in a sport or game.
A short sequence of action within a game.
A short sequence of action within a game.
An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
A theatrical performance featuring actors.
An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
Freedom to move.
Freedom to move.
The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
An instance of watching or listening to media.
An instance or instances of causing media to be watched or heard, such as by broadcasting.
A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
An instance of wordplay.
Activity relating to martial combat or fighting.
senses_topics:
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9862 | word:
adult
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adult (plural adults)
forms:
form:
adults
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French adulte, from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“I grow up”). Compare adolescent.
senses_examples:
text:
The young not only differs from the adult by the presence of its gills, but its feet are only developed by degrees, and in several genera there are also a deciduous beak and tail, and intestines of a different form
ref:
1840, Georges Cuvier, Edward Blyth, Robert Mudie, George Johnston, J.O. Westwood, “The fourth order of reptiles—The batrachians”, in Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, page 286
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fully grown human or other animal.
A person who has reached the legal age of majority.
senses_topics:
|
9863 | word:
adult
word_type:
adj
expansion:
adult (comparative more adult, superlative most adult)
forms:
form:
more adult
tags:
comparative
form:
most adult
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French adulte, from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“I grow up”). Compare adolescent.
senses_examples:
text:
an adult human, animal, or plant
type:
example
text:
The paws of the adult brown bear, and also their hams, especially when smoked, are considered a great delicacy.
ref:
1837, Michael Donovan, Domestic Economy: Human Food, Animal and Vegetable, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
adult situations; adult discussions
type:
example
text:
an adult drink; an adult root beer float
type:
example
text:
an adult cookie; adult gummy worms
type:
example
text:
an adult movie
type:
example
text:
This program contains adult content. Parental discretion is advised.
type:
example
text:
adult language; an adult cartoon
type:
example
text:
adult clothes; adult cereal; an adult documentary
type:
example
text:
In May 1967 the WGBH Education Division submitted an initial proposal to HUD for a series of four adult television documentaries on conservation in an urban environment.
ref:
1973, Marshall Kaplan, Gans, and Kahn, Children and the urban environment (page 21)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fully grown.
Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.
Containing situations or discussions intended primarily for adults, such as serious crime, illicit drug use, extramarital affairs, etc.
Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.
Containing alcohol, intended for consumption only by adults.
Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.
Containing marijuana, intended for consumption only by adults.
Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.
Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; pornographic.
Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.
Containing excessive vulgar or profane speech, text or images, intended only for adults.
Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.
senses_topics:
|
9864 | word:
adult
word_type:
verb
expansion:
adult (third-person singular simple present adults, present participle adulting, simple past and past participle adulted)
forms:
form:
adults
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
adulting
tags:
participle
present
form:
adulted
tags:
participle
past
form:
adulted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French adulte, from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“I grow up”). Compare adolescent.
senses_examples:
text:
Adulting is hard!
type:
example
text:
Womanhood was achieved at twenty-one, when the female was "adulted"; manhood was fully achieved at twenty-five, […]
ref:
1974, Occasional Papers, numbers 42-46, Syracuse University, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
The process of adulting children[…] overlaps with the process of the uncontrolled infiltration of the media[…] into children’s imagination.
ref:
2013, Ewa Rewers, The Contradictions of Urban Art, page 84
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To behave like an adult.
To (cause to) be or become an adult.
senses_topics:
|
9865 | word:
upfill
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upfill (third-person singular simple present upfills, present participle upfilling, simple past and past participle upfilled)
forms:
form:
upfills
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upfilling
tags:
participle
present
form:
upfilled
tags:
participle
past
form:
upfilled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English upfillen, equivalent to up- + fill.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fill up.
senses_topics:
|
9866 | word:
Ukrainian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Ukrainian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ukraine + -ian (suffix meaning ‘from; like; related to’, forming adjectives; or ‘one belonging to, from, like, or relating to’, forming nouns).
senses_examples:
text:
The Muſcovite, Novogrodian, and Ukrainian dialects, are the moſt uſed in Ruſſia, together with that of Archangel, which greatly reſembles the Siberian.
ref:
1762, George Sale et al., “Sect. III. Language, Learning, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce of Russia.”, in The Modern Part of An Universal History, From the Earliest Account of Time. […], volume XXXV, London: […] T[homas] Osborne, […], →OCLC, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
The ukrainian peaſantry ſovv far more ſummer-grain, becauſe the vvinter-ſovving in their vvet and ſnovvleſs vvinters is apt to rot and ſo to render the harveſt doubtful, vvhich in the northern provinces is exactly the reverſe. Inſtead of the light hook-plough, they uſe the large heavy ukrainian plough, and for the horſe vvhich in Ruſſia is almoſt the only beaſt uſed for ploughing, here oxen are put to, of vvhich ſometimes eight are ſeen harneſſed to one plough.
ref:
1799, William Tooke, “Section IV. Agriculture.”, in View of the Russian Empire During the Reign of Catharine the Second and to the Close of the Present Century. […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […]; and J[ohn] Debrett, […], →OCLC, book X (Social State of the Inhabitants), page 263
type:
quotation
text:
In fact, the publications of the Revolutionists which have been issued during the last three years abroad and from the secret press of St. Petersburg, present a rich source of information respecting the modern Revolutionary movement, but all these materials, being in the Russian or Ukrainian language, have scarcely contributed anything to the works written in other languages, and have remained for the most part unknown to Europe.
ref:
1883, Stepniak [i.e., Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky], “Preface”, in Underground Russia: Revolutionary Profiles and Sketches from Life […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page vii
type:
quotation
text:
The 118-foot tree grew-on the southern Ukrainian island of Khortitsa, which lies in the middle of the Dnipro River and once was home to Ukraine's largest Cossack settlement.
ref:
1995 August 12, “700-year-old oak in Ukraine dies”, in The Times-News, volume 90, number 224, Twin Falls, Ida.: Times-News Pub. Co., →OCLC, page A-7, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
From Moscow on August 1, we flew down to Kiev for a quick visit to Ukraine and a meeting with Leonid Kravchuk, chairman of the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet.
ref:
1998, George [Herbert Walker] Bush, Brent Scowcroft, “A House Divides”, in A World Transformed (A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, page 515
type:
quotation
text:
Everest saw a clutch of records on Thursday including the most summits for a woman and the first all-Black team – and a Ukrainian climber reached the top of the world for her war-torn country. […] The wave of summits also saw the only Ukrainian climber this season, Antonina Samoilova reach the top with her country's flag, her expedition company 14 Peaks Expedition confirmed.
ref:
2022 May 12, “Ukrainian summits Everest ‘for her people’ as records tumble”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2022-05-12
type:
quotation
text:
Ukraine's president on Tuesday urged Washington to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism after a missile strike on a crowded shopping mall in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk killed at least 18 people.
ref:
2022 June 28, “Kyiv asks US to Label Russia State Terror Sponsor as Mall Strike Toll Rises”, in EFE, archived from the original on 2022-06-28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to Ukraine or its people or language.
senses_topics:
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9867 | word:
Ukrainian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Ukrainian (plural Ukrainians)
forms:
form:
Ukrainians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ukraine + -ian (suffix meaning ‘from; like; related to’, forming adjectives; or ‘one belonging to, from, like, or relating to’, forming nouns).
senses_examples:
text:
In general, it is permitted the ſubjects to utter their complaints and to make a repreſentation of them. Thus, the nobility may ſend deputies: this the Ukrainians have long been accuſtomed to do, as also the Livonians and Eſthonians: […]
ref:
1799, William Tooke, “Section IV. The Form of Government.”, in View of the Russian Empire During the Reign of Catharine the Second and to the Close of the Present Century. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […]; and J[ohn] Debrett, […], →OCLC, book V (The Government of the Empire, or the Monarch), page 433
type:
quotation
text:
Zavadoffsky, a young Ukrainian, was favoured in private with the smiles of the empress [Catherine the Great].
ref:
1803, Mary Hays, “Catherine II. (Concluded.)”, in Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries. […], volume III, London: […] Richard Phillips, […] [b]y Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
In western Russia, while an antipathy exists between Ukrainians and Poles, the Russian Government, by its harassing interference in religious, educational, and economical matters, has become antagonistic, not only to the Poles, but also to the Ukrainians; printing in Ukrainian is prohibited, and "Russification" is being carried on among Ukrainians by the same means as those employed in Poland.
ref:
1886, W. R. M., “RUSSIA”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 9th edition, volume XXI, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, →OCLC, page 80, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A citizen of Ukraine or a person of Ukrainian ethnicity.
senses_topics:
|
9868 | word:
Ukrainian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ukrainian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ukraine + -ian (suffix meaning ‘from; like; related to’, forming adjectives; or ‘one belonging to, from, like, or relating to’, forming nouns).
senses_examples:
text:
It [Old Slavonic] is the root of both branches of the living Russian language: of Great Russian, which is the literary and official Russian, as well as of Ukrainian, or Southern Russian. There are, moreover, no popular dialects in our country. The fourteen millions of Ukrainians, settled in the plains of south-west Russia, all speak exactly the same language.
ref:
1888, Stepniak [i.e., Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky], chapter I, in The Russian Peasantry: Their Agrarian Condition, Social Life, and Religion, 2nd edition, volume II, London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co. […], →OCLC, page 573
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The East Slavic language of Ukrainians, and the official language of Ukraine.
senses_topics:
|
9869 | word:
short
word_type:
adj
expansion:
short (comparative shorter, superlative shortest)
forms:
form:
shorter
tags:
comparative
form:
shortest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
short
etymology_text:
From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Cognate with shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”), Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. Doublet of curt. More at shirt.
senses_examples:
text:
Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it’s been at least twenty minutes long.
type:
example
text:
Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
ref:
2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
"Phone" is short for "telephone" and "asap" short for "as soon as possible".
type:
example
text:
I chose to interpret the references to butter and sugar as indicating that a short pastry was required. (Later editions suggest a biscuit-like texture.)
ref:
2013, Heston Blumenthal, Historic Heston, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
He gave a short answer to the question.
type:
example
text:
a short supply of provisions
type:
example
text:
to be short of money
type:
example
text:
I'd lend you the cash but I'm a little short at present.
type:
example
text:
The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift.
type:
example
text:
an account which is short of the truth
type:
example
text:
[…]the people are worn down with taxes, and hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war.
ref:
1829, Walter Savage Landor, “The Emperor Alexander and Capo D'Istria”, in Imaginary Conversations, volume IV
type:
quotation
text:
Delance raised his beer and watched Hoadly throw down another swig of hard stuff. "Take it short if you want to make it over the mountain tonight."
ref:
2003, Linda Chaikin, Desert Rose
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: long
text:
short position
type:
example
text:
I'm short in General Motors because I think their sales are plunging.
type:
example
text:
He pulled a cheque-book from his pocket, and drew for two hundred thousand pounds. “I'll take it short,” he said […]
ref:
1909, James Blyth, The member for Easterby, page 296
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
Of comparatively small height.
Having little duration.
Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
that is relatively close to the batsman.
bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
that falls short of the green or the hole.
Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
Undiluted; neat.
Not distant in time; near at hand.
Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
Doubtful of, skeptical of.
Of money: given in the fewest possible notes, i.e. those of the largest denomination.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
gambling
games
baking
cooking
engineering
food
lifestyle
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
finance
business
finance |
9870 | word:
short
word_type:
adv
expansion:
short (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
short
etymology_text:
From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Cognate with shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”), Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. Doublet of curt. More at shirt.
senses_examples:
text:
They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.
type:
example
text:
He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting.
type:
example
text:
The boss got a message and cut the meeting short.
type:
example
text:
The recent developments at work caught them short.
type:
example
text:
His speech fell short of what was expected.
type:
example
text:
We went short most finance companies in July.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
Unawares.
Without achieving a goal or requirement.
Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
With a negative ownership position.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
finance |
9871 | word:
short
word_type:
noun
expansion:
short (plural shorts)
forms:
form:
shorts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
short
etymology_text:
From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Cognate with shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”), Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. Doublet of curt. More at shirt.
senses_examples:
text:
Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
ref:
2012 July 12, Sam Adams, AV Club, Ice Age: Continental Drift
type:
quotation
text:
38 short suits fit me right off the rack.
type:
example
text:
Do you have that size in a short?
type:
example
text:
Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.
type:
example
text:
The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.
type:
example
text:
He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.
type:
example
text:
If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and longs in English, as in ‘bit’ and ‘beat’, ‘not’ and ‘naught’, we find that the short vowels are generally wide (i, ɔ), the long narrow (i, ɔ), besides being generally diphthongic as well.
ref:
1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.
ref:
1975, Mary Sanches, Ben G. Blount, Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
[…] list of all crimes reported by these 61 daily criminals during their years on the street is: theft (this includes shoplifting; "cracking shorts", burglary and other forms of stealing), dealing, forgery, gambling, confidence games (flim-flam, etc.) […]
ref:
1982, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice, Career Criminal Life Sentence Act of 1981: Hearings, page 87
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short circuit.
A short film.
A short film.
A YouTube video that is less than one minute long.
A short version of a garment in a particular size.
A shortstop.
A short seller.
A short sale or short position.
A summary account.
A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
finance
business
finance
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
9872 | word:
short
word_type:
verb
expansion:
short (third-person singular simple present shorts, present participle shorting, simple past and past participle shorted)
forms:
form:
shorts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shorting
tags:
participle
present
form:
shorted
tags:
participle
past
form:
shorted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
short
etymology_text:
From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Cognate with shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”), Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. Doublet of curt. More at shirt.
senses_examples:
text:
This is the third time I’ve caught them shorting us.
type:
example
text:
It's hard now. The NEA, state and city budgets are messed up and it's the small artists like us that are the ones getting shorted.
ref:
1991 August 24, Maridee BonaDea, quoting Brian Freeman, “Pomo Afro Homos On The Road”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause a short circuit in (something).
To short circuit.
To shortchange
To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
To shorten.
senses_topics:
business
|
9873 | word:
short
word_type:
prep
expansion:
short
forms:
wikipedia:
short
etymology_text:
From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Cognate with shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”), Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. Doublet of curt. More at shirt.
senses_examples:
text:
We are short a few men on the second shift.
type:
example
text:
He's short common sense.
type:
example
text:
I don’t want to be short the market going into the weekend.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Deficient in.
Having a negative position in.
senses_topics:
business
finance |
9874 | word:
updive
word_type:
verb
expansion:
updive (third-person singular simple present updives, present participle updiving, simple past and past participle updived or (chiefly US) updove)
forms:
form:
updives
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
updiving
tags:
participle
present
form:
updived
tags:
participle
past
form:
updived
tags:
past
form:
updove
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
updove
tags:
US
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + dive.
senses_examples:
text:
make thy fame vp-dive
ref:
1603, John Davies of Hereford, Microcosmos
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To spring upward; to rise
senses_topics:
|
9875 | word:
masseur
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masseur (plural masseurs, feminine masseuse)
forms:
form:
masseurs
tags:
plural
form:
masseuse
tags:
feminine
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French masseur.
senses_examples:
text:
You each get a regular massage by a naked masseur.
ref:
1978, Ted Bistroff, Massage Parlor Stud
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person (especially male) who performs massage.
An instrument used in the performance of massage.
senses_topics:
|
9876 | word:
nadir
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nadir (plural nadirs)
forms:
form:
nadirs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin nadir, from Arabic نَظِير السَّمْت (naẓīr as-samt), composed of نَظِير (naẓīr, “counterpart, corresponding to”) and السَّمْت (as-samt, “the zenith”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] when we are Nadyr to the Sunne, we have no ſhadow […]
ref:
1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
type:
quotation
text:
Near-synonym: dead
text:
[…] the seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe […]
ref:
1837, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries
type:
quotation
text:
In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year’s end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets.
ref:
1950, Elizabeth Janeway, edited by Helen Hull, The Writer’s Book
type:
quotation
text:
The myth describes the dangerous moment of the nadir, the dead of winter, the moment when it is not known whether the world will be re-created and another cycle will bring on another spring.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175
type:
quotation
text:
The nadir of the sun is the axis of the shadow projected by the Earth.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.
The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle |
9877 | word:
nadir
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nadir (third-person singular simple present nadirs, present participle nadiring, simple past and past participle nadired)
forms:
form:
nadirs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nadiring
tags:
participle
present
form:
nadired
tags:
participle
past
form:
nadired
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin nadir, from Arabic نَظِير السَّمْت (naẓīr as-samt), composed of نَظِير (naẓīr, “counterpart, corresponding to”) and السَّمْت (as-samt, “the zenith”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.
senses_topics:
agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle |
9878 | word:
upeygan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upeygan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Shona [Term?].
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A borele or two-horned black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis).
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
9879 | word:
updraw
word_type:
verb
expansion:
updraw (third-person singular simple present updraws, present participle updrawing, simple past updrew, past participle updrawn)
forms:
form:
updraws
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
updrawing
tags:
participle
present
form:
updrew
tags:
past
form:
updrawn
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English updrawen, updrauen, equivalent to up- + draw. Compare Dutch opdragen, German auftragen, Swedish uppdraga.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To draw up
senses_topics:
|
9880 | word:
updraw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
updraw (plural updraws)
forms:
form:
updraws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English updrawen, updrauen, equivalent to up- + draw. Compare Dutch opdragen, German auftragen, Swedish uppdraga.
senses_examples:
text:
The porch mood is the condition from which there is an updraw or a downdraw.
ref:
2011, Frederic Will, Time, Accounts, Surplus Meaning: Settings of the Theophanic
type:
quotation
text:
Wow, you're quick on the updraw!
ref:
2013, Douglas Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
type:
quotation
text:
The main risk of this area is the overabstraction of the limited shallow freshwater reserves that will result in the updraw and infiltration of saltwater as well as the salinization, sodification, and alcalinization of soils by excessive irrigation as described above […].
ref:
2016, Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, Manuela Fernández, Ivanna Penna, Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of drawing up; an upward draw, pull, or attraction
senses_topics:
|
9881 | word:
key
word_type:
noun
expansion:
key (plural keys)
forms:
form:
keys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English keye, kaye, keiȝe, from Old English cǣġ (“key, solution, experiment”) (whence also Scots key and kay (“key”)), of uncertain origin. The only sure cognates are Saterland Frisian Koai (“key”), West Frisian kaai (“key”), and North Frisian kay (“key”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *kēgaz, *kēguz (“stake, post, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵogʰ-, *ǵegʰ-, *ǵegʰn- (“branch, stake, bush”), which would make it cognate with Middle Low German kāk (“whipping post, pillory”), and perhaps to Middle Dutch keige (“javelin, spear”) and Middle Low German keie, keige (“spear”). For the semantic development, note that medieval keys were simply long poles (ending in a hook) with which a crossbar obstructing a door from the inside could be removed from the outside, by lifting it through a hole in the door. Liberman has noted, however, "The original meaning of *kaig-jo- was presumably '*pin with a twisted end.' Words with the root *kai- followed by a consonant meaning 'crooked, bent; twisted' are common only in the North Germanic languages."
senses_examples:
text:
The key to solving this problem is persistence.
type:
example
text:
the key to winning a game
type:
example
text:
The key says that A stands for the accounting department.
type:
example
text:
Some students cheated by using the answer key.
type:
example
text:
Press the Escape key.
type:
example
text:
the key of B-flat major
type:
example
text:
A girl, it is true, has always lived in a glass house among reproving relatives, whose word was law; she has been bred up to sacrifice her judgments and take the key submissively from dear papa; and it is wonderful how swiftly she can change her tune into the husband's.
ref:
1881, R.L. Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque
type:
quotation
text:
?, William Cowper, Conversation
You fall at once into a lower key.
text:
Another popular way to key ads and mailings is to use a suite number, room number, department number, desk number, etc. as part of the ordering address. With a classified ad, using such a key may increase your ad cost.
ref:
1998, Mail Order Success Secrets
type:
quotation
text:
if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.
ref:
2000, Robert Erdec, “Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si”, in alt.irc.mirc (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
He shoots from the top of the key.
type:
example
text:
The door panel should be sanded down carefully to provide a good key for the new paint.
type:
example
text:
You can easily create this type of user interface by creating a bitmap with certain portions set to a predefined color you want to use as the transparency key.
ref:
2004, Mark Schmidt, Simon Robinson, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
There are key controls that adjust the “slice level” or the level at which the key kicks-in and starts cutting a hole for the “fill” […] Chroma key is another form of keying, which derives the key cutter or hole from a selected color.
ref:
2016, Jerry C. Whitaker, The SBE Broadcast Engineering Handbook
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An object designed to open and close a lock.
An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
A crucial step or requirement.
A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
A piece of wood used as a wedge.
The last board of a floor when laid down.
A keystone.
That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
A color to be masked or made transparent.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
advertising
business
marketing
biology
botany
natural-sciences
computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biology
natural-sciences
architecture
architecture
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
rail-transport
railways
transport
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
broadcasting
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
television |
9882 | word:
key
word_type:
adj
expansion:
key (comparative more key, superlative most key)
forms:
form:
more key
tags:
comparative
form:
most key
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English keye, kaye, keiȝe, from Old English cǣġ (“key, solution, experiment”) (whence also Scots key and kay (“key”)), of uncertain origin. The only sure cognates are Saterland Frisian Koai (“key”), West Frisian kaai (“key”), and North Frisian kay (“key”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *kēgaz, *kēguz (“stake, post, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵogʰ-, *ǵegʰ-, *ǵegʰn- (“branch, stake, bush”), which would make it cognate with Middle Low German kāk (“whipping post, pillory”), and perhaps to Middle Dutch keige (“javelin, spear”) and Middle Low German keie, keige (“spear”). For the semantic development, note that medieval keys were simply long poles (ending in a hook) with which a crossbar obstructing a door from the inside could be removed from the outside, by lifting it through a hole in the door. Liberman has noted, however, "The original meaning of *kaig-jo- was presumably '*pin with a twisted end.' Words with the root *kai- followed by a consonant meaning 'crooked, bent; twisted' are common only in the North Germanic languages."
senses_examples:
text:
He is the key player on his soccer team.
type:
example
text:
Lukas intimates that one of Disney's key attractions was "Main Street USA,” which "mimicked a downtown business district just as Southdale" had done.
ref:
2007, Mark H. Moss, Shopping as an Entertainment Experience, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).
ref:
2014 October 14, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors, The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG., page 173
type:
quotation
text:
The enemy is moving troops through a key area. Distrupt their activities to open some holes in their defenses.
ref:
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Disrupt Enemy Movements
type:
quotation
text:
She makes several key points.
type:
example
text:
Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
ref:
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
type:
quotation
text:
With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.
ref:
2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Indispensable, supremely important.
Important, salient.
senses_topics:
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9883 | word:
key
word_type:
verb
expansion:
key (third-person singular simple present keys, present participle keying, simple past and past participle keyed)
forms:
form:
keys
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
keying
tags:
participle
present
form:
keyed
tags:
participle
past
form:
keyed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English keye, kaye, keiȝe, from Old English cǣġ (“key, solution, experiment”) (whence also Scots key and kay (“key”)), of uncertain origin. The only sure cognates are Saterland Frisian Koai (“key”), West Frisian kaai (“key”), and North Frisian kay (“key”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *kēgaz, *kēguz (“stake, post, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵogʰ-, *ǵegʰ-, *ǵegʰn- (“branch, stake, bush”), which would make it cognate with Middle Low German kāk (“whipping post, pillory”), and perhaps to Middle Dutch keige (“javelin, spear”) and Middle Low German keie, keige (“spear”). For the semantic development, note that medieval keys were simply long poles (ending in a hook) with which a crossbar obstructing a door from the inside could be removed from the outside, by lifting it through a hole in the door. Liberman has noted, however, "The original meaning of *kaig-jo- was presumably '*pin with a twisted end.' Words with the root *kai- followed by a consonant meaning 'crooked, bent; twisted' are common only in the North Germanic languages."
senses_examples:
text:
So I worked on a tissue-paper copy of the perimeter plan, outlining groupings of plants of the same species and keying them with letters for the species.
ref:
1996 January, Garden Dsign Ideas, second printing, Taunton Press, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
The volume closes with thirty pages of "Notes, critical and explanatory," in which Thomson provides seventy-six longer or shorter notes keyed to specific sections of the synopsis.
ref:
2001, Bruce M. Metzger, The Bible in Translation, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
Talk about similarities between the words and write them below to the left of the anchor, keying them with a plus sign (+). Talk about the characteristics that set the words apart and list them below the box to the right, keying them with a tilde sign (~).
ref:
2002, Karen Bromley, Stretching Students' Vocabulary, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
2007, Stephen Blake Mettee, Michelle Doland, and Doris Hall, compilers, The American Directory of Writer's Guidelines, 6th ("2007–2008") edition, →ISBN, page 757,
Indicate the comparative value of each heading by keying it with a number in pencil, in the left margin, as follows: […]
text:
Our instructor told us to key in our user IDs.
text:
He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot.
type:
example
text:
The American Heart Association has prepared their own guide to classification and, keying it with the Standard Nomenclature of Diseases, have done much to encourage a concise yet complete diagnosis.
ref:
1960, Richard L. Masland, “Classification of the Epilepsies”, in Epilepsia, volume 1, page 516
type:
quotation
text:
The workman's compensation system rests on incentives (premium payments) that are keyed to the immediate and relatively undeniable nature of injuries; […]
ref:
1976, Nicholas Askounes Ashford, Crisis in the Workplace: Occupational Disease and Injury, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
It also features special issues on "Live Longer, Better, Wiser," men's health, women's health, and issues keyed to important "disease weeks."
ref:
2006, Deborah Blum, Mary Knudson, Robin Marantz Henig, A Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
Keying advertisements and counting the number of inquiries received or the number of coupons returned to indicate the "pulling power" of a particular piece of copy or the coverage of a particular advertising medium.
ref:
1936, John Freeman Pyle, Marketing Principles, Organization and Policies, page 711
type:
quotation
text:
Another popular way to key ads and mailings is to use a suite number, room number, department number, desk number, etc. as part of the ordering address. With a classified ad, using such a key may increase your ad cost. Why? Because you're using an extra word or two to key the ad.
ref:
1998, Mail Order Success Secrets
type:
quotation
text:
they Mouldered and keyed the Portico Arches with Pieces of Stone, because Brick was not strong enough
ref:
1744, Roger North, The Life of the Honourable Sir Dudley North
type:
quotation
text:
The last arch in the permanant bridge was keyed on March 26, 1850, and a single track was brought into use for goods trains on July 20.
ref:
1950 September, “Centenary of the Royal Border Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 637
type:
quotation
text:
After keying the background, you’d be left with a transparent background, where you can install anything—from images to videos that blend seamlessly into the main subject of the shot.
ref:
2021 September 11, Anina Ot, “What Is a Green Screen and How Does It Work?”, in MakeUseOf
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fit (a lock) with a key.
To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
To depress (a telegraph key).
To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
(more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
To provide an arch with a keystone.
Clipping of chromakey.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
radio
telecommunications
telegraphy
broadcasting
media
radio
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
advertising
business
marketing
|
9884 | word:
key
word_type:
noun
expansion:
key (plural keys)
forms:
form:
keys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant of cay, from Spanish cayo, from Taíno cayo (“small island”)
senses_examples:
text:
the Florida Keys
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of a string of small islands.
senses_topics:
|
9885 | word:
key
word_type:
noun
expansion:
key (plural keys)
forms:
form:
keys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of kilogram or kilo.
senses_examples:
text:
So starting with ten keys of cocaine and two keys of heroin, Derrick put his plan in motion. Soon every major drug dealer and gang chief from Chicago Avenue to Evanston was in his pocket.
ref:
2010, David J. Silas, Da Block, page 41
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kilogram, especially of a recreational drug.
senses_topics:
|
9886 | word:
key
word_type:
noun
expansion:
key (plural keys)
forms:
form:
keys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of quay
senses_topics:
|
9887 | word:
beard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beard (plural beards)
forms:
form:
beards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
beard
etymology_text:
PIE word
*bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart). Cognate further to Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода́ (borodá): the word may date to Proto-Indo-European as *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂. Doublet of barb.
senses_examples:
text:
At this moment the cock began to play; he stuck out his beard, trailed his wings down by his legs, and made, with great solemnity and wavelike motions of his neck, a few steps forward on the branch, while he stuck up his tail and spread it out like a big wheel.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
the beard of grain
type:
example
text:
While all toms—adult male turkeys—have beards, nearly 10 percent of hens also have one, albeit a much stubbier, wispier version.
ref:
2022, Jenny McKee, “Let's Talk Turkey Beards”, in Audubon
type:
quotation
text:
What are you talking about, I should be the beard? I don't wanna be a beard.
ref:
1984, Woody Allen, Broadway Danny Rose, spoken by Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
type:
quotation
text:
One could also speculate that Linda also served as Cole's shield (or "beard") against his possibly being disinherited by his disapproving (of sissies) millionaire grandfather and doting mom, both of whom wanted him to be a lawyer.
ref:
1991 December 1, Rudy Grillo, “Who's The Top?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Charlotte: Smith is not gay.
Miranda: Of course not.
Charlotte: So this makes you his beard.
ref:
2004 February 1, Aury Wallington, “The Cold War”, in Sex and the City, season 6, episode 17
type:
quotation
text:
In an interview with Net a Porter, Delevingne said that “one of the first things Harvey Weinstein ever said to me was, ‘You will never make it in this industry as a gay woman – get a beard.’”
ref:
2019 September 16, Harvey Weinstein, quotee, “Harvey Weinstein told Cara Delevingne to ‘get a beard’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
To get his way, Roberts employed a bit of developer's cunning: rather than approach Galardi directly, he sent a friend, Alan Meyers, as a “beard”.
ref:
2024 February 3, Joshua Chaffin, “Glossy new neighbourhood rises from a seedy slice of Miami vice”, in FT Weekend, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
The byssus of certain shellfish.
The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
Long, hair-like feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
media
printing
publishing
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality
|
9888 | word:
beard
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beard (third-person singular simple present beards, present participle bearding, simple past and past participle bearded)
forms:
form:
beards
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bearding
tags:
participle
present
form:
bearded
tags:
participle
past
form:
bearded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
beard
etymology_text:
PIE word
*bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart). Cognate further to Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода́ (borodá): the word may date to Proto-Indo-European as *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂. Doublet of barb.
senses_examples:
text:
Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
type:
example
text:
Am I to be bearded in my own castle by an insolent monk?
ref:
1765, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
type:
quotation
text:
We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...
ref:
1943 December 6, Crockett Johnson, Barnaby
type:
quotation
text:
. . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.
ref:
1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
Lesbians and homosexual men bearding one another (i.e. providing each other with the public appearance of being heterosexual); […]
ref:
1993, David Michael Robinson, Mollies are Not the Only Fruit, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Things got weird after I married Jiro. It's like everyone knows I'm a lesbian who is bearding for her gay best friend so we can be rich one day, but they don't want to be reminded of it.
ref:
2017, Hildred Billings, Blown By An Inconvenient Wind
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
senses_topics:
agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality |
9889 | word:
coal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coal (countable and uncountable, plural coals)
forms:
form:
coals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
coal
etymology_text:
From Middle English cole, from Old English col, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą (compare West Frisian koal, Dutch kool, German Kohle, Danish kul), from *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”). Compare Old Irish gúal (“coal”), Lithuanian žvìlti (“to twinkle, glow”), Persian زغال (zoğâl, “live coal”), Sanskrit ज्वल् (jval, “to burn, glow”), Tocharian B śoliye (“hearth”), all from the same root.
senses_examples:
text:
The coal in this region was prized by ironmasters in centuries past, who mined it in the spots where the drainage methods of the day permitted.
type:
example
text:
Coal-eaters they may have been, but a more willing or harder working Atlantic engine was never designed.
ref:
1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, pages 3, 5
type:
quotation
text:
See also: stockpile
text:
Put some coal on the fire.
type:
example
text:
Order some coal from the coalyard.
type:
example
text:
Put some coals on the fire.
type:
example
text:
Just as the campfire died down to just coals, with no flames to burn the marshmallows, someone dumped a whole load of wood on, so I gave up and went to bed.
type:
example
text:
I'm so sick of seeing this left-wing coal online.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.
A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
Charcoal.
Content of low quality.
Bombs emitting black smoke on impact.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
9890 | word:
coal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
coal (third-person singular simple present coals, present participle coaling, simple past and past participle coaled)
forms:
form:
coals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
coaling
tags:
participle
present
form:
coaled
tags:
participle
past
form:
coaled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
coal
etymology_text:
From Middle English cole, from Old English col, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą (compare West Frisian koal, Dutch kool, German Kohle, Danish kul), from *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”). Compare Old Irish gúal (“coal”), Lithuanian žvìlti (“to twinkle, glow”), Persian زغال (zoğâl, “live coal”), Sanskrit ज्वल् (jval, “to burn, glow”), Tocharian B śoliye (“hearth”), all from the same root.
senses_examples:
text:
1863, Colonial Secretary to Commander Baldwin, USN
shortly after that she coaled again at Simon's Bay; and that after remaining in the neighbourhood of our ports for a time, she proceeded to Mauritius, where she coaled again, and then returned to this colony.
text:
Our next stopping-place was Newcastle, and here we coaled in earnest, for the steamer was flying light, and was loaded up in every available place.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
The light shook and splintered in the puddles. A red glare came from an outward-bound steamer that was coaling.
ref:
1890, Oscar Wilde, chapter XVI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
type:
quotation
text:
N.W.R. four-cylinder 4-6-2 class "XS1," No. 761, coaling at Delhi junction. This class is the most powerful passenger engine in India.
ref:
1949 November and December, Railway Magazine, page 371 (photo caption)
type:
quotation
text:
to coal a steamer
type:
example
text:
January 1917, National Geographic Magazine, Volume 31 Number 1, One Hundred British Seaports
Cruisers may be coaled at sea and provided with ammunition openly. The submarine may not
text:
After working the 1.30 p.m. through train from Forres to Aberdeen as far as Elgin, she returns tender first with a local passenger train and is then coaled and watered at Forres shed, and eventually works back to Perth on the 10.20 p.m. through freight.
ref:
1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
The cleaner worked, of course, at nights. He had to coal and light up the engine, as well as clean it, for the next day's work, which commenced with a light run to Barnham to "bring in the goods" from that station at about 6.30 a.m.
ref:
1952 February, J. Pelham Maitland, “Locomotive Working on Sussex Branches Fifty Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
After the initial burn the goal of any good fire should be coaling; that is, creating a bed of solid coals that will sustain the fire.
ref:
2014, Ken Mudge, Steve Gabriel, Farming the Woods
type:
quotation
text:
As a result, particles of wood and twigs insufficiently coaled are frequently found at the bottom of such pits.
ref:
1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Char-coal of roots, coaled into great pieces.
ref:
1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History
type:
quotation
text:
[…] marvailing, he coaled out these rithms upon the wall near to the picture
ref:
1551, William Camden, Remains concerning Britain
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships or locomotives).
To supply with coal.
To be converted to charcoal.
To burn to charcoal; to char.
To mark or delineate with charcoal.
senses_topics:
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9891 | word:
coal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
coal (comparative coalier, superlative coaliest)
forms:
form:
coalier
tags:
comparative
form:
coaliest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
coal
etymology_text:
From Middle English cole, from Old English col, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą (compare West Frisian koal, Dutch kool, German Kohle, Danish kul), from *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”). Compare Old Irish gúal (“coal”), Lithuanian žvìlti (“to twinkle, glow”), Persian زغال (zoğâl, “live coal”), Sanskrit ज्वल् (jval, “to burn, glow”), Tocharian B śoliye (“hearth”), all from the same root.
senses_examples:
text:
These are some really coal threads.
type:
example
text:
... his coal hair / the corners of his warm smile / the blue of his gentle eyes. I wanted to explore him as Sir Francis Drake explored the New World. I wanted to tell my secrets to him as a Roman Catholic does in confession.
ref:
2004, Terence Kingsley-Smith, Terry Kingsley-Smith, Thorp Green: A Tale of the Brontës
type:
quotation
text:
His coal hair streaked through the gushing of freezing air and the base of the silk robe fluttered splendidly. The Lord of Blood, adorned with glossy armor and atop a stalwart steed, appeared to have the opulence of a king. White hills[…]
ref:
2010, Rhett C. Bruno, Isinda: Fallen Dagger, Tate Publishing, page 126
type:
quotation
text:
Just entering the ballroom were a cat and a bird. The cat had black ears nestled in his coal hair and a purple mask over his violet eyes. He had a long ebony tail. 99 9.
ref:
2011, C. C. W. Henderson, Blue Heron and Pizzazz, Lulu.com, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
Nemesis walked out […], his coal hair slicked back followed by a few red highlighted fibers, and his eyes large. “Hey, what are you doing up here?” Nemesis asked, leaning his right elbow on the rail. Skullcrusher couldn't meet his eyes, he just stared off at[…]
ref:
2017 September 27, Jordan Raggio, Finance & Felony, Xlibris Corporation
type:
quotation
text:
He raked his fingers through his coal hair, sighing with frustration. He turned back to me. His fingers gently grazed my cheek." Look at me." At first, I resisted. I couldn't bear looking at his pity. After a moment, I slowly lifted my gaze to him.
ref:
2023 May 31, Jo Wilde, The Angel Series Collection - Books 1-3, Next Chapter
type:
quotation
text:
His coal hair was brushed up, revealing his nice skin even at his time of life. “Wait, are his eyes green?” Her fingers flew to her lips as she now recalled who he looks like. He resembled the man that she encountered in the parking lot[…]
ref:
(Can we date this quote?), AraBella, The CEO's Rebellious Woman, Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Failing to be humorous or of extremely poor quality.
Black like coal; coal-black.
senses_topics:
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9892 | word:
coal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
coal (third-person singular simple present coals, present participle coaling, simple past and past participle coaled)
forms:
form:
coals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
coaling
tags:
participle
present
form:
coaled
tags:
participle
past
form:
coaled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
coal
etymology_text:
From Middle English cole, from Old English col, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą (compare West Frisian koal, Dutch kool, German Kohle, Danish kul), from *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”). Compare Old Irish gúal (“coal”), Lithuanian žvìlti (“to twinkle, glow”), Persian زغال (zoğâl, “live coal”), Sanskrit ज्वल् (jval, “to burn, glow”), Tocharian B śoliye (“hearth”), all from the same root.
senses_examples:
text:
Those troons are really coaling out.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To post low-quality content online.
senses_topics:
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9893 | word:
homosexual
word_type:
adj
expansion:
homosexual (comparative more homosexual, superlative most homosexual)
forms:
form:
more homosexual
tags:
comparative
form:
most homosexual
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Charles Gilbert Chaddock
Karl Maria Kertbeny
Psychopathia Sexualis
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German homosexual, from homo- (“same”) + sexual (“relating to sex or sexuality”), coined by Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1868, and popularized in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (2nd ed. 1887, in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof (compare bisexual), displacing the slightly older term Uranian. Equivalent to homo- + -sexual.
senses_examples:
text:
No, it wouldn't make a difference if the applicant was homosexual.
type:
example
text:
[H]e said he had never noticed anything homosexual in himself.
ref:
1892 [1889], Charles Gilbert Chaddock, transl., Psychopathia Sexualis, Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, translation of Psychopathia Sexualis by R. von Krafft-Ebing, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
Significant results indicate that Swedes would choose a more masculine partner the more homosexual they are, and that Finns would choose a more attractive partner the more homosexual they are.
ref:
1983, Michael W. Ross, Homosexuality and Social Sex Roles
type:
quotation
text:
Most western countries have repealed laws against homosexual activity between consenting adults.
type:
example
text:
Shatner: Have you ever had a homosexual experience?
Maher: No. Why, are you...? But it's early!
ref:
2022 March 20, Bill Maher, William Shatner, 56:37 from the start, in William Shatner, Club Random With Bill Maher, episode 1, Club Random Podcast, archived from the original on 2022-04-05
type:
quotation
text:
No one says "a homosexual bar" anymore; it's a "gay bar" or maybe a "lesbian bar".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sexually and/or romantically attracted to members of the same sex, such as a man who is attracted to men or a woman who is attracted to women; gay. (Typically used in the sense of sole/exclusive attraction.)
Between two people of the same sex; gay.
Intended for or used by homosexuals, as a nightclub, a bar, etc.
senses_topics:
|
9894 | word:
homosexual
word_type:
noun
expansion:
homosexual (plural homosexuals)
forms:
form:
homosexuals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Charles Gilbert Chaddock
Karl Maria Kertbeny
Psychopathia Sexualis
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German homosexual, from homo- (“same”) + sexual (“relating to sex or sexuality”), coined by Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1868, and popularized in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (2nd ed. 1887, in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof (compare bisexual), displacing the slightly older term Uranian. Equivalent to homo- + -sexual.
senses_examples:
text:
It must not be understood that homosexuality is confined to women. Relationships of this type exist also among men, and in taki-taki are to be found words which are specific designations for male homosexuals, who are termed hantimąn, or awɛge.
ref:
1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore, New York: Columbia University Press, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
Soon, we got up, walked around the west side — toward the "meat rack" — the gay part of the park. There, it was as if someone had hung a line of marionettes on the railing: the lonesome young homosexuals, legs dangling, looking, waiting for that one-night's sexual connection...
ref:
1963, John Rechy, City of Night, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
It was unheard-of for those of us who are 30-something or older to have had an openly gay role model when we were young. Homosexuals weren't depicted in the media in a positive light, if at all.
ref:
1997, The Advocate, number 742, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is sexually attracted solely or primarily to others of the same sex.
senses_topics:
|
9895 | word:
butterfly
word_type:
noun
expansion:
butterfly (plural butterflies)
forms:
form:
butterflies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English buterflie, butturflye, boterflye, from Old English buterflēoge, equivalent to butter + fly. Cognate with Dutch botervlieg, German Butterfliege (“butterfly”). The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, and/or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey-thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-shitter”)). Compare also German Schmetterling from Schmetten (“cream”), German Low German Bottervögel (“butterfly”, literally “butter-fowl”). More at butter, fly.
An alternate theory suggests that the first element may have originally been Old English butor- (“beater”), a mutation of bēatan (“to beat”), but this would not explain the cognates in other languages or the other names formed with milk products.
Superseded non-native Middle English papilion (“butterfly”) borrowed from Old French papillon (“butterfly”).
senses_examples:
text:
butterfly tape; butterfly bandage; butterfly strips
type:
example
text:
I get terrible butterflies before an exam.
type:
example
text:
The day came indeed when her breathless auditors learnt from her in bewilderment that what ailed him was that he was, alas, simply not serious. Maisie wept on Mrs. Wix's bosom after hearing that Sir Claude was a butterfly[…].
ref:
1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
type:
quotation
text:
One potential butterfly could be JFK having another son the year after the POD instead of a daughter.
type:
example
text:
What does it mean to be a butterfly in Pattaya? It means, just like a butterfly briefly visits many flowers, you will briefly visit many different girls.
ref:
2022 December 9, Darren C, “Paying For Bar Girls, Sex in Pattaya”, in Pattaya Unlimited
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
The butterfly stroke.
Any of several plane curves that look like a butterfly; see Butterfly curve (transcendental) and Butterfly curve (algebraic).
A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.
Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable.
A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.
A random change in an aspect of the timeline seemingly unrelated to the primary point of divergence, resulting from the butterfly effect.
A type of stretch in which one sits on the ground with the legs folded into a shape like that of a butterfly's wings, slightly rocking them up and down, resembling the wings fluttering.
A person who changes partners frequently.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
business
finance
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
9896 | word:
butterfly
word_type:
verb
expansion:
butterfly (third-person singular simple present butterflies, present participle butterflying, simple past and past participle butterflied)
forms:
form:
butterflies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
butterflying
tags:
participle
present
form:
butterflied
tags:
participle
past
form:
butterflied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English buterflie, butturflye, boterflye, from Old English buterflēoge, equivalent to butter + fly. Cognate with Dutch botervlieg, German Butterfliege (“butterfly”). The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, and/or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey-thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-shitter”)). Compare also German Schmetterling from Schmetten (“cream”), German Low German Bottervögel (“butterfly”, literally “butter-fowl”). More at butter, fly.
An alternate theory suggests that the first element may have originally been Old English butor- (“beater”), a mutation of bēatan (“to beat”), but this would not explain the cognates in other languages or the other names formed with milk products.
Superseded non-native Middle English papilion (“butterfly”) borrowed from Old French papillon (“butterfly”).
senses_examples:
text:
butterflied shrimp
type:
example
text:
Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.
type:
example
text:
After everyone had obeyed his commands, the lieutenant motioned for two medics that now appeared to enter the room and attend to Dr. Carter. They bandaged him up, butterflying some of the deeper gashes and gave him a couple of shots.
ref:
2006, Paul Garber, Newton's Force, page 256
type:
quotation
text:
Pearl Harbor not happening would've butterflied Taylor Swift.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.
senses_topics:
|
9897 | word:
reason
word_type:
noun
expansion:
reason (countable and uncountable, plural reasons)
forms:
form:
reasons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
reason
etymology_text:
From Middle English resoun, reson, from Anglo-Norman raisun (Old French raison), from Latin ratiō, from ratus, past participle of reor (“reckon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁- (“to think”), reanalysed root of *h₂er- (“to put together”). Doublet of ration and ratio.
senses_examples:
text:
The reason this tree fell is that it had rotted.
type:
example
text:
There is a reason why so many should be symmetrical: The selective advantage in a symmetrical complex is enjoyed by all the subunits[…]
ref:
1996, Daniel Clement Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, page 198
type:
quotation
text:
The reason I robbed the bank was that I needed the money.
type:
example
text:
If you don't give me a reason to go with you, I won't.
type:
example
text:
This is the reason why he proposes to offer a libation, to atone for the abuse of the day by their diversions.
ref:
1806, Anonymous, Select Notes to Book XXI, in, Alexander Pope, translator, The Odyssey of Homer, volume 6 (London, F.J. du Roveray), page 37
text:
I have forgotten the reason he gave for not travelling by air. I felt sure that it was not the correct reason, and that he suffered from a heart trouble which he kept to himself.
ref:
1966, Graham Greene, The Comedians, Penguin Classics, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Mankind should develop reason above all other virtues.
type:
example
text:
The tremendous tragedy in which he had been involved - it was evident he was a fugitive from Weybridge - had driven him to the very verge of his reason.
ref:
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
And the specific distinction between man and beast is now, strictly speaking, no longer reason (the lumen naturale of the human animal) but science[…]
ref:
1970, Hannah Arendt, On Violence, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
ref:
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892
type:
quotation
text:
16th century Edmund Spenser, Lines on his Promised Pension
I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cause:
That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
A cause:
A motive for an action or a determination.
A cause:
An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
A cause:
A premise placed after its conclusion.
Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
Ratio; proportion.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
mathematics
sciences |
9898 | word:
reason
word_type:
verb
expansion:
reason (third-person singular simple present reasons, present participle reasoning, simple past and past participle reasoned)
forms:
form:
reasons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
reasoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
reasoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
reasoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
reason
etymology_text:
From Middle English resoun, reson, from Anglo-Norman raisun (Old French raison), from Latin ratiō, from ratus, past participle of reor (“reckon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁- (“to think”), reanalysed root of *h₂er- (“to put together”). Doublet of ration and ratio.
senses_examples:
text:
"I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data. […]"
ref:
1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band
type:
quotation
text:
I reasoned the matter with my friend.
type:
example
text:
The talk was mainly between Aleck and Murdie, the others crowding eagerly about and putting in a word as they could. Murdie was reasoning good-humoredly, Aleck replying fiercely.
ref:
1901, Ralph Connor, chapter 9, in The Man from Glengarry
type:
quotation
text:
to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan
type:
example
text:
to reason down a passion
text:
to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational
To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
To converse; to compare opinions.
To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
To support with reasons, as a request.
To persuade by reasoning or argument.
To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
senses_topics:
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9899 | word:
mason
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mason (plural masons)
forms:
form:
masons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mason
etymology_text:
From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, Old French maçon, from Late Latin maciō (“carpenter, bricklayer”), from Frankish *makjō (“maker, builder”), a derivative of Frankish *makōn (“to work, build, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *metn-, *met- (“to cut”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick
One who prepares stone for building purposes.
A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.
senses_topics:
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