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9900 | word:
mason
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mason (third-person singular simple present masons, present participle masoning, simple past and past participle masoned)
forms:
form:
masons
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
masoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
masoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
masoned
tags:
past
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:
text:
to mason up a well or terrace
text:
to mason in a kettle or boiler
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons
senses_topics:
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9901 | word:
mayonnaise
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mayonnaise (countable and uncountable, plural mayonnaises)
forms:
form:
mayonnaises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Mayenne
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from French mayonnaise, possibly named after the city of Maó (Mahón in Spanish), Minorca, whence the recipe was brought back to France. Compare Spanish mahonesa. Alternative suggested origins include the city of Bayonne (bayonnaise); the French word manier (“to handle”); the Old French moyeu (“egg yolk”); and the Duke of Mayenne.
senses_examples:
text:
There are 250 foods, including mayonnaise, cheese and cocoa, that don't list ingredients at all.
ref:
1985 May, Boys' Life, volume 75, number 5, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
The FDA's original intent for foods included under "standards of identity" ensured that terms like "mayonnaise" or "ice cream” would guarantee the same basic ingredients required in the government-established recipe no matter who manufactured it.
ref:
1975, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Joy of Cooking, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
I grew up thinking that the blue and white Miracle Whip salad dressing jar in the fridge held the same substance the rest of the world knew as mayonnaise. / Now I know that mayonnaise is something entirely different.
ref:
1993, Eve Johnson, Five Star Food
type:
quotation
text:
The oils in store-bought mayonnaise range from olive oil to sunflower oil to safflower oil and some less desirable oils!
ref:
2008, Jan McCracken, The Everything Lactose Free Cookbook
type:
quotation
text:
Most store-bought mayonnaise contains ingredients (vinegar, lemonjuice, and salt) that actually slow bacterial growth
ref:
2012, Marie A. Boyle, Sara Long Roth, Personal Nutrition
type:
quotation
text:
We served a lobster mayonnaise as a starter.
type:
example
text:
hair mayonnaise
type:
example
text:
facial mayonnaise
type:
example
text:
They include cider vinegar, two pre-shampoo products, shampoo, conditioner, hair mayonnaise, oil, leave-in conditioner, end protector, revitalising styling spray and filtered water.
ref:
2016, Emma Tarlo, Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair, Oneworld Publications
type:
quotation
text:
Then I implemented a lighter protein conditioner – such as hair mayonnaise, which I learned about from my cousin Renee – for the off weeks. I used this hidden gem in combination with olive oil (yes, I bought a kitchen bottle of olive oil – the same kind my grandmother used in every single delicious dish she ever cooked – strictly for use in my hair).
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2010, Rhea E. Santangelo, Grow It Girl! How I Took My Hair from Broken to Beautiful, Lulu.com, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
Rancey and our coach, Damien Hardwick, still both joke that "Dimma" tried to off-load him for a sixpack of beers and a bucket of chips in his first few years, but I think they both put some mayonnaise on the story these days.
ref:
2017 March 2, Trent Cotchin, “Alex Rance is one of the most competitive humans that has walked the planet, writes Trent Cotchin”, in Herald Sun, Melbourne, archived from the original on 2024-06-22
type:
quotation
text:
If he had a reputation among supporters of playing for free kicks he wasn't aware of it and no one from the AFL or coaches spoke to him specifically about changing his style. But he admits, he would "put some mayonnaise" on top of what defenders had done to him to ensure the umpires were aware of what was happening.
ref:
2020 August 27, Peter Ryan, “The (football) world is a stage, and players think umpires should police it”, in The Age, Melbourne
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks, vinegar or lemon juice, and seasoning, used on salads, with french fries, in sandwiches etc.
Any cold dish with that dressing as an ingredient.
Any cream, for example for moisturizing the face or conditioning the hair, for which the base is egg yolks and oil.
Exaggeration.
senses_topics:
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9902 | word:
mayonnaise
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mayonnaise (third-person singular simple present mayonnaises, present participle mayonnaising, simple past and past participle mayonnaised)
forms:
form:
mayonnaises
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mayonnaising
tags:
participle
present
form:
mayonnaised
tags:
participle
past
form:
mayonnaised
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Mayenne
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from French mayonnaise, possibly named after the city of Maó (Mahón in Spanish), Minorca, whence the recipe was brought back to France. Compare Spanish mahonesa. Alternative suggested origins include the city of Bayonne (bayonnaise); the French word manier (“to handle”); the Old French moyeu (“egg yolk”); and the Duke of Mayenne.
senses_examples:
text:
Jones himself presided in the kitchen, mincing truffles, mayonnaising lobster, booting waiters out the door with tray after tray of steaming savories and teeth-numbing sweets, […]
ref:
1998, Trace Farrell, The Ruins, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
I thought of mayonnaising her racket handle or substituting it for sunblock, but decided against it.
ref:
2009, David Galef, How to Cope With Suburban Stress
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover or season with mayonnaise.
senses_topics:
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9903 | word:
upend
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upend (third-person singular simple present upends, present participle upending, simple past and past participle upended)
forms:
form:
upends
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upending
tags:
participle
present
form:
upended
tags:
participle
past
form:
upended
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + end.
senses_examples:
text:
When he upended the bottle of water over his sleeping sister, the lid popped off and surprised them both.
type:
example
text:
upend the box and empty the contents
type:
example
text:
Venezuela, who introduced the exciting 17-year-old Samuel Sosa late on, pressed forward and eventually carved out a golden opportunity to level. Jake Clarke-Salter, the Chelsea defender, upended Peñaranda inside the box and after consulting the threesome of video officials inside the Suwon World Cup stadium, the referee, Bjorn Kuipers, pointed to the spot.
ref:
2017 June 11, Ben Fisher, “England seal Under-20 World Cup glory as Dominic Calvert-Lewin strikes”, in the Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The scientific evidence upended the popular myth.
type:
example
text:
What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
ref:
2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
By the middle of March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic upended normal life for virtually all Americans.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To end up; to set on end.
To tip or turn over.
To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat.
To affect or upset drastically.
senses_topics:
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9904 | word:
menu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
menu (plural menus)
forms:
form:
menus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
menu
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of menudo and minute.
senses_examples:
text:
The server handed us the menu.
type:
example
text:
We selected duck pâté and chicken goujons from the menu.
type:
example
text:
They took the chicken sandwich off their menu.
type:
example
text:
We've added a few new dishes to our menu.
type:
example
text:
What's on the menu for today's meeting?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.
A list containing the food and beverages served at a restaurant, café, or bar. Menus may be printed on paper sheets provided to customers, put on a large poster or display board inside the establishment, displayed outside the restaurant, or digital.
The food or drinks that are available in a restaurant, café, or bar.
A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface
A list or agenda.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
games
gaming
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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9905 | word:
menu
word_type:
verb
expansion:
menu (third-person singular simple present menus, present participle menuing, simple past and past participle menued)
forms:
form:
menus
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
menuing
tags:
participle
present
form:
menued
tags:
participle
past
form:
menued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
menu
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of menudo and minute.
senses_examples:
text:
He created this prize-winning dish last December, to serve at a catered dinner that honored benefactors of Nashua Memorial Hospital. At that elaborate holiday repast, Quimby menued the seafood dish as a first course. However, he noted, his dish is substantial enough to serve as a satisfying entree.
ref:
1991, Food Management, volume 26, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
[…] held their own, then that child nutrition program would consider menuing the product in the future. Kater knew he was in trouble when he saw what he was up against that day: pizza and chicken nuggets, two of the most popular school lunches served in today’s schools.
ref:
1991, School Food Service Journal, volume 45, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
“Menuing a bisque allows you to charge another dollar or two for the soup. Instead of $8, I can charge $11,” says Beacon’s chef and an owner, Waldy Malouf.
ref:
2001, Restaurant Business, volume 100, page 90, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
He first menued the chop two years ago, expecting a short run, but has seen surprising customer loyalty: “If I took it off the menu, there would be an uprising.”
ref:
2002, Restaurant Business, volume 101, page 86, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
[…] scale chef who couldn’t resist menuing the classic. But unlike Regis, Gardner’s take has a few unexpected extras.
ref:
2003, Restaurant Business, volume 102, page 66, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
Depending upon your customer base, you may want to menu options that are gluten-free (G-F), vegan, macrobiotic, organic or even create a healthful kids’ menu. In fact, none of these categories are mutually exclusive, so you might consider menuing a dessert like Brownies with Cashew Cream, a popular item fitting all those categories, served at the Cal Dining-sponsored “Raw Food Chef Night” at the University of California, Berkeley ([…]).
ref:
2009, Chef, volume 53, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
Along with the meats, local Gnocchi, Borgotaro malfatti, made from ricotta, herbs, and spinach were menued. The mixture contained eggs and breadcrumbs to bind the ingredients, the chef optioning grated cheese. White truffles, Borgotaro mushrooms and stuffed tortellini bordered the fresh fish catch of the day. The bishop explained, “You’ll find our tastings vary significantly from the cuisine served at your restaurants in New York City– where the Neapolitan and Sicilian sauces are prevalent.[…]”
ref:
2019, Alan Paris, Filament II: Brighten the World, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To include (something) in a menu.
senses_topics:
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9906 | word:
hammer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hammer (plural hammers)
forms:
form:
hammers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hammer
etymology_text:
From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion.
(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.
senses_examples:
text:
Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together
type:
example
text:
The nail is too loose—give it a hammer.
type:
example
text:
The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings
type:
example
text:
St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
type:
example
text:
He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.
ref:
1849, John Henry Newman, Discourses to Mixed Congregations
type:
quotation
text:
Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.
ref:
1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, Edward C. Nicholls, Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town.
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
And I'm about to put the hammer down."
ref:
1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall
type:
quotation
text:
Nonstop hammer cock, violent mannered shots land a lot
ref:
2016, Doseone (lyrics and music), “Enter the Gungeon”, in Enter the Gungeon OST
type:
quotation
text:
In the course of a single month this year, the following news reports emanated from Florida: A gun enthusiast in Tampa built a 55-foot backyard pool shaped like a revolver, with a hot tub in the hammer.
ref:
2023 March 27, Helen Lewis, “How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor?”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
The act of using a hammer to hit something.
The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
The last stone in an end.
A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
Ellipsis of hammer headline.
The accelerator pedal.
A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
A handgun.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
journalism
media
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
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9907 | word:
hammer
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hammer (third-person singular simple present hammers, present participle hammering, simple past and past participle hammered)
forms:
form:
hammers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hammering
tags:
participle
present
form:
hammered
tags:
participle
past
form:
hammered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hammer
etymology_text:
From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion.
(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.
senses_examples:
text:
Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.
type:
example
text:
"He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were."
ref:
2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-23
type:
quotation
text:
This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd.
ref:
2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard.
ref:
2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre.
ref:
2011, Tim Moore, French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
Running at line-speed, well over 100mph, it hammers through Doncaster on its way south to London.
ref:
2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Traction transition: HST to Azuma”, in Rail, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
type:
example
text:
We hammered them 5-0!
type:
example
text:
So we'll be hammering the server in an unrealistic manner, but we'll see how the additional clients affect overall performance. We'll add two, three, four, and then five clients, […]
ref:
1995, Optimizing Windows NT, volume 4, page 226
type:
quotation
text:
Danielle hammered Mary til she came.
type:
example
text:
A short time later I’ve got Lissie in bed. I’m really going after it, really hammering her.
ref:
2012, John Locke, Wish List (Donovan Creed), John Locke Books, page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
To emphasize a point repeatedly.
To hit particularly hard.
To ride very fast.
To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.
To make high demands on (a system or service).
To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
To have hard sex with.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
finance
business
finance
lifestyle
sex
sexuality |
9908 | word:
invariable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
invariable (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From in- + variable.
senses_examples:
text:
Physical laws which are invariable.
ref:
1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilisation
type:
quotation
text:
The French adjective marron ‘brown’ is invariable: it does not take the usual s in the plural.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not variable; unalterable; uniform; always having the same value.
Constant.
That cannot undergo inflection, conjugation or declension.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9909 | word:
invariable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
invariable (plural invariables)
forms:
form:
invariables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From in- + variable.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that does not vary; a constant.
senses_topics:
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9910 | word:
mash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mash (countable and uncountable, plural mashes)
forms:
form:
mashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mash, from Old English mǣsċ-, māsċ-, māx-, from Proto-Germanic *maiskaz, *maiskō (“mixture, mash”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyǵ-, *meyḱ- (“to mix”). Akin to German Meisch, Maische (“mash”), (compare meischen, maischen (“to mash, wash”)), Swedish mäsk (“mash”), and to Old English miscian (“to mix”). See mix.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
Mashed potatoes.
A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
A mess; trouble.
senses_topics:
beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
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9911 | word:
mash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mash (third-person singular simple present mashes, present participle mashing, simple past and past participle mashed)
forms:
form:
mashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
mashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
mashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mashen, maschen, meshen, from Old English *māsċan, *mǣsċan, from Proto-Germanic *maiskijaną. Cognate with German maischen. Compare also Middle Low German meskewert, mēschewert (“beerwort”).
senses_examples:
text:
We had fun mashing apples in a mill.
type:
example
text:
The potatoes need to be mashed.
type:
example
text:
to mash on a bicycle pedal
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
To press down hard (on).
To press.
To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).
To act violently.
To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.
senses_topics:
games
gaming |
9912 | word:
mash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mash (plural mashes)
forms:
form:
mashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See mesh.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mesh.
senses_topics:
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9913 | word:
mash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mash (third-person singular simple present mashes, present participle mashing, simple past and past participle mashed)
forms:
form:
mashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
mashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
mashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Charles Godfrey Leland
etymology_text:
Either by analogy with mash (“to press, to soften”), or more likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”). Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s. Either originally used as mash, or a backformation from masher, from masha. Leland writes of the etymology:
: It was introduced by the well-known gypsy family of actors, C., among whom Romany was habitually spoken. The word “masher” or “mash” means in that tongue to allure, delude, or entice. It was doubtless much aided in its popularity by its quasi-identity with the English word. But there can be no doubt as to the gypsy origin of “mash” as used on the stage. I am indebted for this information to the late well-known impresario [Albert Marshall] Palmer of New York, and I made a note of it years before the term had become at all popular.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
senses_topics:
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9914 | word:
mash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mash (plural mashes)
forms:
form:
mashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Charles Godfrey Leland
etymology_text:
Either by analogy with mash (“to press, to soften”), or more likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”). Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s. Either originally used as mash, or a backformation from masher, from masha. Leland writes of the etymology:
: It was introduced by the well-known gypsy family of actors, C., among whom Romany was habitually spoken. The word “masher” or “mash” means in that tongue to allure, delude, or entice. It was doubtless much aided in its popularity by its quasi-identity with the English word. But there can be no doubt as to the gypsy origin of “mash” as used on the stage. I am indebted for this information to the late well-known impresario [Albert Marshall] Palmer of New York, and I made a note of it years before the term had become at all popular.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
A dandy, a masher.
The object of one’s affections (regardless of sex).
senses_topics:
|
9915 | word:
mash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mash (plural mashes)
forms:
form:
mashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Mostly clipping of machine gun, but also for imitative reasons, compare the gun-names mop and broom; intentionally chosen around 2000 due to its homonymy and obscurity for legal reasons.
senses_examples:
text:
This mash works but I don't know about yours […] Better hope your mash don't jam, bare ping ping like a BB […] I see a boy run with his mash, I see a boy run with his jooka […] Don't talk about mashes, we've lost about ten I know about cookers
ref:
2016, “Skeng Man”, Various performers of 67 (lyrics)
type:
quotation
text:
Rise that heater, tap that mash
They don't come outside their flats
Decamp, decamp, aim this toolie at your hat
They piss us off on Snap, so we rise up and load them straps
ref:
2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, Td of TPL (lyrics)
type:
quotation
text:
Close man’s eyes, make them look Chinese
Or do it like tits when the mash gets squeezed
When we squeeze that mash,
tell your boy don’t dash
Me I just want cash
But if they want war let’s leave it at dat
ref:
2021 October 19, “Exciting Freestyle”, 🇮🇪 #D15 Trigz (lyrics)
type:
quotation
text:
If the mash empty, tell boy reload it
ref:
2023 August 24, “Dri-Fit”, SWiTCH (lyrics)GRM Daily, 0:54
type:
quotation
text:
Shoot my gun like Tommy Shеlby
If I get close ching him out of his LVs
Slimey as fuck, man took that mash
Probably takе that grub that he sell me (Take that)
ref:
2023 September 28, “Block Boy”, #Sinsquad Stewie (lyrics), 0:47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gun.
senses_topics:
|
9916 | word:
mash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mash
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of maash (“mung bean”)
senses_topics:
|
9917 | word:
note
word_type:
noun
expansion:
note (countable and uncountable, plural notes)
forms:
form:
notes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Note (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English note, from Old English not, nōt (“note, mark, sign”) and Old French note (“letter, note”), both from Latin nota (“mark, sign, remark, note”).
senses_examples:
text:
As therefore they that are of the Myſticall Body of Chriſt, haue thoſe inward Graces and Vertues, whereby they differ from all others which are not of the ſame Body ; againe, whoſoeuer appertaine to the Viſible Body of the Church, they haue alſo the notes of externall Profeſſion, whereby the World knoweth what they are.
ref:
1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: William Stansbye, published 1622, book III, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
She [the Anglican church] has the Note of possession, the Note of freedom from party-titles ; the Note of life, a tough life and a vigorous ; she has ancient descent, unbroken continuance, agreement in doctrine with the ancient Church.
ref:
1841, John Henry Newman, A Letter to the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard, Lord Bishop of Oxford, on Occasion of No. 90, in the Series Called The Tracts for the Times, Oxford: John Henry Parker, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all !
ref:
1888, Mary Augusta Ward, Robert Elsmere, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 217
type:
quotation
text:
For the first ten years of nationalisation a further note of overall gloom was added by the depressing policy of unimaginative Regional colour schemes, indifferently applied.
ref:
1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 251
type:
quotation
text:
I left him a note to remind him to take out the trash.
type:
example
text:
Garson: Drop me a note sometime. I'd love to hear how we're doing.
ref:
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Ark Hyperion
type:
quotation
text:
a promissory note
type:
example
text:
a note of hand
type:
example
text:
a negotiable note
type:
example
text:
I didn't have any coins to pay with, so I used a note.
type:
example
text:
As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
We heard the peculiar note of the woodcock, which resembles the repeated croaking of the frog, followed by a sharp hissing sound, somewhat like the noisy chirping of the wagtail[.]
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
So it is true, that ſmall matters win great commendation, becauſe they are continually in uſe, and in note ; whereas the occaſion of any great virtue cometh but on feſtivals.
ref:
1625, Francis Bacon, “Of ceremonies and reſpects”, in The Works of Francis Bacon, volume III, London: J. and J. Knapton et al., published 1730, page 373
type:
quotation
text:
a poet of note
type:
example
text:
Your performance was fantastic! I have just one note: you were a little flat in bars 35 and 36.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A symbol or annotation.
A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
A symbol or annotation.
A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
A symbol or annotation.
A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
A written or printed communication or commitment.
A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
A written or printed communication or commitment.
A short informal letter; a billet.
A written or printed communication or commitment.
An academic treatise (often without regard to length); a treatment; a discussion paper; (loosely) any contribution to an academic discourse.
A written or printed communication or commitment.
A diplomatic missive or written communication.
A written or printed communication or commitment.
A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment
A written or printed communication or commitment.
A list of items or of charges; an account.
A written or printed communication or commitment.
A piece of paper money; a banknote.
A written or printed communication or commitment.
A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.
A sound.
A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
A sound.
A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
A sound.
A key of the piano or organ.
A sound.
A call or song of a bird.
A sound.
An indication which players have to click, type, hit, tap or do other actions if it appears
Observation; notice; heed.
Reputation; distinction.
A critical comment.
Notification; information; intelligence.
Mark of disgrace.
senses_topics:
business
finance
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
9918 | word:
note
word_type:
verb
expansion:
note (third-person singular simple present notes, present participle noting, simple past and past participle noted)
forms:
form:
notes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
noting
tags:
participle
present
form:
noted
tags:
participle
past
form:
noted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Note (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English note, from Old English not, nōt (“note, mark, sign”) and Old French note (“letter, note”), both from Latin nota (“mark, sign, remark, note”).
senses_examples:
text:
If you look to the left, you can note the old cathedral.
type:
example
text:
We noted his speech.
type:
example
text:
The modular multiplicative inverse of x may be noted x⁻¹.
type:
example
text:
By noting the protest, notaries could date certificates when they were received, making it easier to comply with time restrictions associated with protesting.
ref:
2020 October 28, Kimberly Budd for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, case SJC-12769
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
To denote; to designate.
To annotate.
To set down in musical characters.
To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
senses_topics:
law |
9919 | word:
note
word_type:
noun
expansion:
note (usually uncountable, plural notes)
forms:
form:
notes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Note (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English note (“use, usefulness, profit”), from Old English notu (“use, enjoyment, advantage, profit, utility”), from Proto-West Germanic *notu, from Proto-Germanic *nutō (“enjoyment, utilisation”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”). Cognate with West Frisian not (“yield, produce, crop”), Dutch genot (“enjoyment, pleasure”), Dutch nut (“usefulness, utility, behoof”), German Nutzen (“benefit, usefulness, utility”), Icelandic not (“use”, noun). Related also to Old English notian (“to enjoy, make use of, employ”), Old English nēotan (“to use, enjoy”), Old High German niozan (“to use, enjoy”) (Modern German genießen (“to enjoy”)), Modern German benutzen (“to use”). Related to nait.
senses_examples:
text:
And have thou that for thy note !
ref:
1838, William Marriott, “The Deluge”, in A Collection of English Miracle-Plays or Mysteries, Basel: Schweighauser & Co, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Tha'll keep me at this noit all day... Om always at this noit.
ref:
1897 May 27, Halifax Courier, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, volume IV, London: Henry Frowde, page 302
text:
Thou canst do thy note; that have I espied.
ref:
1962, Arthur C. Cawley, Everyman, and Medieval Miracle Plays, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
The supply of horned cattle at this fair was great, but the business done was confined to fleshy barreners of feeding qualities and superior new-calved heifers, and those at early note, with appearance of being useful; [...]
ref:
1843, The Farmer's Magazine, page 384
type:
quotation
text:
For sale, a Kerry cow, five years old, at her note in May.
ref:
1875, Paper, Belfast
type:
quotation
text:
A cow is said to be in note when she is in milk.
ref:
1888, S. O. Addy Gloss, Words Sheffield, page 160
type:
quotation
text:
A man who drank spring water when his one cow was near note.
ref:
1922, P. MacGill, Lanty Hanlon, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Be at her note, be near note, come forward to her note, of a cow or sow, be near the time for calving or farrowing.
ref:
1996, C. I. Macafee Conc., Ulster Dict. at Note
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.
senses_topics:
|
9920 | word:
poor
word_type:
adj
expansion:
poor (comparative poorer, superlative poorest)
forms:
form:
poorer
tags:
comparative
form:
poorest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper.
Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).
senses_examples:
text:
We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.
type:
example
text:
That was a poor performance.
type:
example
text:
Meanwhile, due to a lack of wind, air quality in west Taiwan was poor yesterday, the Environmental Protection Administration said. Air quality could deteriorate early this morning, triggering a “red” alert — which signals unhealthy air quality — in some parts of Yunlin, Chiayi and Tainan counties, it said.
ref:
2021 March 28, “Taiwan News Quick Take”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-03-27, Taiwan News, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!
type:
example
text:
This poor little puppy got a nasty snake bite.
type:
example
text:
Cow's milk is poor in iron.
type:
example
text:
I received a poor reward for all my hard work.
type:
example
text:
That I have wronged no Man, will be a poor plea or apology at the last day.
ref:
a. 1686, Benjamin Calamy, Sermon 1
type:
quotation
text:
The temptation was more than mortal heart could resist. She gave him the promise he sought, stifling the voice of conscience; and as she clung to his neck it seemed to her that heaven was a poor thing compared with a man's love.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
Of low quality.
Worthy of pity.
Deficient in a specified way.
Inadequate, insufficient.
Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
senses_topics:
|
9921 | word:
poor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
poor (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper.
Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Harry Truman used to say that 13 or 14 million Americans had their interests represented in Washington, but that the rest of the people had to depend on the President of the United States. That is how I felt about the 35 million American poor. They had no voice and no champion. Whatever the cost, I was determined to represent them. Through me they would have an advocate and, I believed, new hope.
ref:
1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Then there have not always been proletarians?
No. There have always been poor and working classes; and those who worked were almost always the poor. But there have not always been proletarians, just as competition has not always been free.
ref:
1972, Anonymous translation of Friedrich Engels as "Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith", International Publishers
text:
This is the same Randian bullshit that we've been hearing from people like Brooks for ages and its entire premise is really revolting and insulting—this idea that the way society works is that the productive "rich" feed the needy "poor," and that any attempt by the latter to punish the former for "excesses" might inspire Atlas to Shrug his way out of town and leave the helpless poor on their own to starve. That's basically Brooks's entire argument here. Yes, the rich and powerful do rig the game in their own favor, and yes, they are guilty of "excesses"—but fucking deal with it, if you want to eat.
ref:
2010 Jan. 27, Matt Taibbi, "Populism: Just Like Racism!", True/Slant
text:
The sun shines on the rich and the poor alike but, come the rain, the rich have better umbrellas.
type:
example
text:
The poor are always with us.
type:
example
text:
The rich are often so insulated from reality that they think the poor have extra money they could save for more than a short time.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.
senses_topics:
|
9922 | word:
poor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
poor (plural poors)
forms:
form:
poors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper.
Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).
senses_examples:
text:
The poors are at it again.
type:
example
text:
...me vint of ane king to huam a poure acsede ane peny...
ref:
1340, Laurent du Bois, translated by Dan Michel, Ayenbite of Inwyt, page 195
type:
quotation
text:
He had given somewhat to every poore in the Parish.
ref:
1625, Thomas Jackson, A Treatise Containing the Originall of Vnbeliefe, Pt. v, Ch. xvi, §6
type:
quotation
text:
I don't understand, Simmons! I have all the money in the world, but I'm still unhappy! […] It must be the poors! Those leeches have been stealing my happiness somehow!
ref:
2023, James Sandoval, “Buying Happiness”, in But A Jape (webcomic)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A poor person.
Synonym of poor cod.
senses_topics:
|
9923 | word:
poor
word_type:
verb
expansion:
poor (third-person singular simple present poors, present participle pooring, simple past and past participle poored)
forms:
form:
poors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pooring
tags:
participle
present
form:
poored
tags:
participle
past
form:
poored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper.
Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).
senses_examples:
text:
It is very evident that Americans are being ‘poored down’ to suit the world socialist agenda, and to maximize profits for the international corporations.
ref:
2003 August 10, Dallas News, p. 3
text:
The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn.
ref:
1467, Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, Vol. II, p. 88
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.
To become poor.
To call poor.
senses_topics:
|
9924 | word:
peach
word_type:
noun
expansion:
peach (countable and uncountable, plural peaches)
forms:
form:
peaches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogʒe, from Old English persoc, from the same Latin root above.
senses_examples:
text:
I think it the best way to plant the fifteen sorts, and the hard Peaches I have mentioned, in the same order as they stand in the list.
ref:
1768, M. Combles, A Treatise Upon the Culture of Peach Trees, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Several attempts have been made to class the varieties of Peaches and Nectarines by the leaf and flower, as well as the fruit.
ref:
1840, Thomas Bridgeman, The Young Gardener’s Assistant, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
Scattered plantings of peaches are maintained on the light-textured deep alluvial soils of the Foster, Cajon, Hanford, Hesperia, and Greenfield series west of Porterville, near Woodville, Poplar, Sausalito School, and farther south along the Kern County boundary line north of Delano.
ref:
1942, Raymond Earl Storie, Soil Survey, the Pixley Area, California, volume 1, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
State universities and U.S. Department of Agriculture facilities have largely replaced the private state and national pomological and horticultural organizations as the primary researchers for peach cultivation.
ref:
2014, Melissa Walker, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, volume 11, page 183
type:
quotation
text:
[A]nd that the English should eat peaches in May, and green pease in October, sounds to Italian ears as a miracle; they comfort themselves, however, by saying that they must be very insipid, while we know that fruits forced by strong fire are at least many of them higher in flavour than those produced by sun […]
ref:
1789, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy, and Germany, volume II, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
When dissolved, stir it up well, and put in the peaches, without crowding them, and boil them slowly about twenty minutes.
ref:
1869, The American Housewife and Kitchen Directory, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
Boiling water or steam loosens the peel of very ripe peaches, especially freestone or melting-flesh types, in 10–30 sec.
ref:
2012, Jasper Woodroof, Commercial Fruit Processing, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
To dye one chip bonnet peach colour, put four ounces of cudbear in one gallon of water, make it boil, and put one ounce of soda in the liquor.
ref:
1854, Thomas Love, The Art of Cleaning, Dyeing, Scouring and Finishing, etc, page 242
type:
quotation
text:
If the dye is for a light color such as peach, more dry dye could be used.
ref:
1990, Lila Fretz, Hooking Rugs: Storey’s Country Wisdom Bulletin, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Circle Quilt throw in peach and green
ref:
2013, Kim Eichler-Messmer, Modern Color—An Illustrated Guide to Dyeing Fabric for Modern Quilts, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
peach:
text:
How did the common expressions "She's a peach!" and "He has a peach of a job!" arise if not because the peach of all fruits is a symbol of perfection?
ref:
1922 September, Lucile Brewer, “Fourteen Peach Delicacies”, in The Delineator, volume 101, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
Walking on the beaches / looking at the peaches
ref:
1977, “Peaches”, in Rattus Norvegicus, performed by The Stranglers
type:
quotation
text:
Except for the loss of Uncle Jack's income, his mother's growing disenchantment with her domestic arrangements, and the deepening Depression, it was a peach of a time for Berryman.
ref:
1996, Paul L. Mariani, Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Gia danced around a little, shaking her peaches for show. She shook it hard. Too hard. In the middle of a shimmy, her stomach cramped. A fart slipped out. A loud one. And stinky.
ref:
2011, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, A Shore Thing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
A light yellow-red colour.
A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
buttock or bottom.
senses_topics:
|
9925 | word:
peach
word_type:
adj
expansion:
peach (comparative more peach, superlative most peach)
forms:
form:
more peach
tags:
comparative
form:
most peach
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogʒe, from Old English persoc, from the same Latin root above.
senses_examples:
text:
Looking around her very large and very peach open kitchen and family room, I couldn't believe my eyes, but I knew the color must be there for a reason.
ref:
2006, Anne Bold-Pryor, The Naked Wall
type:
quotation
text:
The dining compartment was very peach.
ref:
2012, Mac Barnett, It Happened on a Train
type:
quotation
text:
Perhaps this is best illustrated in the particularly bizarre Kinkade painting entitled The Good Shepherd's Cottage, where an openarmed (and very peach) Jesus welcomes a herd of sheep—literal sheep—to the threshold of a glowing cottage.
ref:
2014, Kristin G. Congdon, Happy Clouds, Happy Trees: The Bob Ross Phenomenon
type:
quotation
text:
'That'll be just peach with me.'
ref:
2000, Marc Behm, Afraid to Death, page 174
type:
quotation
text:
If I explain that I won't help them maintain systems running proprietary software (I'll make an exception for firmware, sometimes.) they usually shrug their shoulders and ask someone else -- which is just peach with me.
ref:
2011 May 19, Gilbert Sullivan, “SWF (Adobe Flash) support”, in linux.debian.user (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Her words were peach with sincerity, and I could tell she really believed it was a good idea.
ref:
2011, R. J. Anderson, Ultraviolet, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
I am sure I was just peach to deal with.
ref:
2015 November 2, “Resetting, goalsetting, and dreamsetting”, in From Athlete to triathlete
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the color peach.
Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
senses_topics:
|
9926 | word:
peach
word_type:
verb
expansion:
peach (third-person singular simple present peaches, present participle peaching, simple past and past participle peached)
forms:
form:
peaches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
peaching
tags:
participle
present
form:
peached
tags:
participle
past
form:
peached
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“to accuse”) and empechen (“to accuse”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicō (“entangle”). See impeach.
senses_examples:
text:
If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.
ref:
1623, Shakespeare, Henry IV
type:
quotation
text:
And his father had told him if he ever wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow.
ref:
1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, paperback edition, Macmillan Press Ltd, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
"Do you think we want to peach? No, thank you. We may be none too good, but we won't hang a guy up, no matter who he is.[…]"
ref:
1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
Complaining of the conduct of Sir Ralph Robinson, parson of Brede, in Sussex, who took from him a psalter book in English, printed cum privilegio regali, and peached him of heresy, whereupon he was put in the stocks by the King's constable for two days.
ref:
1535, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII, volume 9, published 1886, page 387
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and finding out the residence of his brother Charles, desires him not to peach him, but to lend him a suit of his fine cloaths, that he might see what it was to be a fine gentleman […]
ref:
1774, “The British Theatre”, in London Magazine, volume 43, page 639
type:
quotation
text:
Ay, says Will, I am undone for all that; for the officers are after me; and I am a dead dog if I am taken, for George is in custody, and he has peached me and all the others, to save his life.
ref:
1840, Daniel Defoe, Life of Colonel Jack: And, a True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To inform on someone; turn informer.
To inform against.
senses_topics:
|
9927 | word:
peach
word_type:
noun
expansion:
peach (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Chlorite forms the characterizing ingredient in chlorite slate; it is common in Cornwall with the tin veins, constituting with quartz the rock commonly known there as killas; the ordinary name for chlorite is peach.
ref:
1858, Robert Philips Greg, Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain & Ireland
type:
quotation
text:
Peach, which is a word used by the Cornish miners, in a generic sense, to denote all minerals of the chloritic family—and is consequently a very convenient word—seems to be essentially the "mother" of tin; but the experience of Cornwall goes to show that peach alone does not produce a permanent tin mine: an intermixture of quartz is necessary to give what miners call "strength" to the lode.
ref:
1862, “Illustrated Notes on Prominent Mines”, in The Mining and Smelting Magazine, volume 2, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
A quartz (sparry) vein, unless accompanied by other minerals such as peach, chlorite, &c., is considered valueless as an indication of the presence of ore.
ref:
1908, James Bastian Hill, The Geology of Falmouth and Truro and of the Mining District of Camborne and Redruth
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.
senses_topics:
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9928 | word:
brier
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brier (plural briers)
forms:
form:
briers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of briar
senses_topics:
|
9929 | word:
want
word_type:
verb
expansion:
want (third-person singular simple present wants, present participle wanting, simple past and past participle wanted)
forms:
form:
wants
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wanting
tags:
participle
present
form:
wanted
tags:
participle
past
form:
wanted
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
want
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
want (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English wanten (“to lack”), from Old Norse vanta (“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną (“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô (“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Middle High German wan (“not full, empty”), Middle Dutch wan (“empty, poor”), Old English wana (“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latin vanus (“empty”). See wan, wan-.
senses_examples:
text:
What do you want to eat? I want you to leave. I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.
type:
example
text:
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
ref:
2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
I want to find a supermarket. — Oh, okay. The supermarket is at 1500 Irving Street. It is near the apartment. — Great!
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text:
The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.
type:
example
text:
Depression wants you to feel like the world is dark and that you are not worthy of happiness. The first step to making your life better from this day forward is to stop believing these lies.
type:
example
text:
Ma’am, you are exactly the professional we want for this job.
type:
example
text:
Danish police want him for embezzlement.
type:
example
text:
But now it's different, if the police want him for murder.
ref:
2010, Fred Vargas, The Chalk Circle Man, Vintage Canada, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
You can leave if you want.
type:
example
text:
TYRION: You don't want it?
BRAN: I don't really want anymore.
ref:
2019 May 5, "The Last of the Starks", Game of Thrones season 8 episode 4 (written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss)
text:
You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.
type:
example
text:
The lady, it is said, will inherit a fortune of three hundred pounds a year, with two cool thousands left by an uncle, on her arriving at the age of twenty-one, of which she wants but a few months.
ref:
1741, The Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, 1741-1794, page 559
type:
quotation
text:
Oh Jeanie, it will be hard, after every thing is ready for our happiness, if we should be sundered. It wants but a few days o' Martinmas, and then I maun enter on my new service on Loch Rannoch, where a bonny shieling is ready ...
ref:
1839, Chambers's Journal, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
In this we have just read an address to children in England, Ireland, and Scotland, in behalf of children who want food to keep them from starvation.
ref:
1847, The American Protestant, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
That chair wants fixing.
type:
example
text:
There was something wanting in the play.
type:
example
text:
The paupers desperately want.
type:
example
text:
Not what we wish, but what we want, / Oh, let thy grace supply!
ref:
1765, James Merrick, Psalams
type:
quotation
text:
Pray Mr Marvell, can it be / You think to have persuaded me? / Then let me say: you want the art / To woo, much less to win my heart.
ref:
1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell”, in A Book of Answers
type:
quotation
text:
She wanted anything she needed.
type:
example
text:
1789 Robert Burns: Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary
The Devil got notice that Grose was a-dying
So whip! at the summons, old Satan came flying;
But when he approached where poor Francis lay moaning,
And saw each bed-post with its burthen a-groaning,
Astonish'd, confounded, cries Satan-"By God,
I'll want him, ere I take such a damnable load!"
text:
For Law, Physick and Divinitie, need so the help of tongs and sciences, as thei can not want them, and yet thei require so a hole mans studie, as thei may parte with no tyme to other lerning, ...
ref:
1797, The European Magazine, and London Review, page 226
type:
quotation
text:
1880 Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped
"Are ye sharp-set?" he asked, glancing at about the level of my knee. "Ye can eat that drop parritch."
I said I feared it was his own supper.
"Oh," said he, "I can do fine wanting it, I'll take the ale, though, for it slockens my cough." He drank the cup about half out, still keeping an eye upon me as he drank...
text:
Dang, girl! Your brother is gorgeous! I want him so bad!
type:
example
text:
Don't, don't you want me? / You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me / Don't, don't you want me? / You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
ref:
1981 November 27, Jo Callis, Philip Oakey, Philip Adrian Wright, “Don't You Want Me”, in Dare, performed by The Human League
type:
quotation
text:
Yeah, you're loo- (loo-loo-) lookin' at me like I'm some sweet escape / Obvious that you want me, but I said...
ref:
2023 September 15, Tate McRae, Amy Allen, Jasper Harris, Ryan Tedder, “Greedy”, in Think Later, performed by Tate McRae
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
To be lacking or deficient or absent.
To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
To lack and be without, to not have (something).
To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.
To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.
senses_topics:
|
9930 | word:
want
word_type:
noun
expansion:
want (countable and uncountable, plural wants)
forms:
form:
wants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
poverty
want (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English wanten (“to lack”), from Old Norse vanta (“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną (“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô (“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Middle High German wan (“not full, empty”), Middle Dutch wan (“empty, poor”), Old English wana (“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latin vanus (“empty”). See wan, wan-.
senses_examples:
text:
She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers.
type:
example
text:
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
ref:
1713, Jonathan Swift, A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction
type:
quotation
text:
Habitual superfluities become actual wants.
ref:
1785, William Paley, Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A desire, wish, longing.
Lack, absence, deficiency.
Poverty.
Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
9931 | word:
want
word_type:
noun
expansion:
want (plural wants)
forms:
form:
wants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
want (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English wont (“mole”), from Old English wand, wond, from Proto-Germanic *wanduz.
senses_examples:
text:
Lic. She hath the ears of a want. / Pec. Doth she want ears?
ref:
1592, John Lyly, Midas; republished in Charles Wentworth Dilke, editor, Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers, volume 1, London: Whittingham and Rowland, 1814
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mole (Talpa europea).
senses_topics:
|
9932 | word:
breakfast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
breakfast (countable and uncountable, plural breakfasts)
forms:
form:
breakfasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Singapore
breakfast
etymology_text:
From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break + fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbryċe, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”).
senses_examples:
text:
You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.
type:
example
text:
We serve breakfast all day.
type:
example
text:
c. 1693?, John Dryden, Amaryllis
The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
senses_topics:
|
9933 | word:
breakfast
word_type:
verb
expansion:
breakfast (third-person singular simple present breakfasts, present participle breakfasting, simple past and past participle breakfasted)
forms:
form:
breakfasts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
breakfasting
tags:
participle
present
form:
breakfasted
tags:
participle
past
form:
breakfasted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Singapore
breakfast
etymology_text:
From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break + fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbryċe, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”).
senses_examples:
text:
May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq.
First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
text:
Fifty years ago, the traveller might breakfast well at home in London, and take nothing more than a cup of coffee at King's Cross.
ref:
1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 356
type:
quotation
text:
By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea
ref:
1987, Anne McCaffrey, The Lady: A Tale of Ireland, page 269
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To eat the morning meal.
To serve breakfast to.
senses_topics:
|
9934 | word:
evil
word_type:
adj
expansion:
evil (comparative eviller or eviler or more evil, superlative evillest or evilest or most evil)
forms:
form:
eviller
tags:
comparative
form:
eviler
tags:
comparative
form:
more evil
tags:
comparative
form:
evillest
tags:
superlative
form:
evilest
tags:
superlative
form:
most evil
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
etymology_text:
From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (compare Saterland Frisian eeuwel, Dutch euvel, Low German övel, German übel, Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 (ubils, “bad, evil”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂up(h₁)élos, a deverbal derivative of *h₂wep(h₁)-, *h₂wop(h₁)- (“treat badly”). Compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸelos, and Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣 (huwapp-ⁱ, “to mistreat, harass”), 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒉺𒀸 (huwappa-, “evil, badness”). See -le for the supposed suffix.
Alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h₃ewp- (“down, up, over”).
senses_examples:
text:
an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people
type:
example
text:
He looked at her shapely person with something of the brazen and evil glance that had been so revolting to her in the eyes of those ruffians.
ref:
1916, Zane Grey, chapter 10, in The Border Legion, New York: Harper & Bros., page 147
type:
quotation
text:
2006, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Pantheon, Book Three, Section II, Chapter 3, p. 351,
“Before this, I never had any cause to suspect my wife of any conspiracy.”
“You mean it never crossed your mind that she might have been told to whisper evil thoughts in your ear at night?”
text:
He tells secret dreams to strangers , imagines he can achieve art without discipline , regards all boundaries as evil , ignores ancestors , wants comfort and merging , believes cunning is wrong , and as a scholar or artist doesn't […]
ref:
1989, Pilgrimage, volume 15, Human Sciences Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
If something is evil, it is never mandatory.
type:
example
text:
Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?
type:
example
text:
I had much trouble at first in breaking him of those evil habits his father had taught him to acquire […]
ref:
1848, Anne Brontë, chapter 41, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
type:
quotation
text:
To the rabbis who taught in the Jewish parochial schools, baseball was an evil waste of time […]
ref:
1967, Chaim Potok, chapter 1, in The Chosen, New York: Fawcett Columbine, published 2003, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
1660, John Harding (translator), Paracelsus his Archidoxis, London: W.S., Book 7, “Of an Odoriferous Specifick,” p. 100,
An Odoriferous Specifick […] is a Matter that takes away Diseases from the Sick, no otherwise then as Civet drives away the stinck of Ordure by its Odour; for you are to observe, That the Specifick doth permix it self with this evil Odour of the Dung; and the stink of the Dung cannot hurt, no[r] abide there […]
text:
1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, Part V, “Mazar-i-Sherif,” p. 282,
It was an evil day, sticky and leaden: Oxiana looked as colourless and suburban as India.
text:
He herded them into a small and evil toilet and then through a window.
ref:
1958, Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana, Penguin, published 1979, Part Four, Chapter 1, p. 125
type:
quotation
text:
Everyone in the tiny, crowded, hot, and evil-smelling kitchen […] has been invited to participate in a moment of history.
ref:
1993, Carol Shields, chapter 1, in The Stone Diaries, Toronto: Random House of Canada, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
[…] with bandits and robbers roving over the land in these evil times of famine and war, how can it be said that this one or that stole anything? Hunger makes thief of any man.
ref:
1931, Pearl S. Buck, chapter 15, in The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, published 1944, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop
type:
example
text:
Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Intending to harm; malevolent.
Morally corrupt.
Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
9935 | word:
evil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
evil (countable and uncountable, plural evils)
forms:
form:
evils
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
evil
etymology_text:
From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (compare Saterland Frisian eeuwel, Dutch euvel, Low German övel, German übel, Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 (ubils, “bad, evil”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂up(h₁)élos, a deverbal derivative of *h₂wep(h₁)-, *h₂wop(h₁)- (“treat badly”). Compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸelos, and Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣 (huwapp-ⁱ, “to mistreat, harass”), 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒉺𒀸 (huwappa-, “evil, badness”). See -le for the supposed suffix.
Alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h₃ewp- (“down, up, over”).
senses_examples:
text:
The evils of society include murder and theft.
type:
example
text:
Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.
type:
example
text:
IS ANYTHING more obvious than the presence of evil in the universe? Its nagging, prehensile tentacles project into every level of human existence. We may debate the origin of evil, but only a victim of superficial optimism would debate its reality. Evil is stark, grim, and colossally real.
ref:
1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “The Death of Evil upon the Seashore”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 71
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.
senses_topics:
|
9936 | word:
evil
word_type:
adv
expansion:
evil (comparative more evil, superlative most evil)
forms:
form:
more evil
tags:
comparative
form:
most evil
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfele (“badly, evilly”), a derivative of the adjective yfel (“bad, evil”). Often reinterpreted as the noun in the later language (as in "to speak evil").
senses_examples:
text:
It went evil with him.
type:
example
text:
But (as the Poet ſaith) Malè ſarta gratia, nequicquam coit, & reſcinditur: Friendſhip, that is but euill peeced, will not ioine cloſe, but falleth aſunder againe:
ref:
1570, William Lambard, quoting Horace, A Perambulation of Kent, published 1596, page 341
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
senses_topics:
|
9937 | word:
e
word_type:
character
expansion:
e (lower case, upper case E, plural es or e's)
forms:
form:
E
tags:
uppercase
form:
es
tags:
plural
form:
e's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9938 | word:
e
word_type:
num
expansion:
e (lower case, upper case E)
forms:
form:
E
tags:
uppercase
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal number fifth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9939 | word:
e
word_type:
noun
expansion:
e (plural ees)
forms:
form:
ees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Latin-script letter E/e.
senses_topics:
|
9940 | word:
e
word_type:
pron
expansion:
e (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative em, possessive adjective eir, possessive noun eirs, reflexive emself)
forms:
form:
em
tags:
accusative
form:
eir
tags:
adjective
possessive
form:
eirs
tags:
noun
possessive
form:
emself
tags:
reflexive
wikipedia:
Spivak pronouns
etymology_text:
From a deliberate apheresis of both he and she.
senses_examples:
text:
E invites em to consider how ey represent emselves, and in so doing, e focuses eir attention on the ethics that make human relations possible.
ref:
2000, Jane Love, “Ethics, Plugged and Unplugged: The Pegagogy of Disorderly Conduct”, in James A. Inman, Donna N. Sewell, editors, Taking flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work, Taylor & Francis, →OL, LCC PE1414.T24 1999, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
Empre waded out to help them cross the last stretch. More people, a few hundred, perhaps, had gathered along the shore. One of them came running at Melu with a cry—she threw up her arms in defense. But it was Aeran, only Aeran. E seized Asu and clasped her close, eir eyes closed tightly as e sobbed eir relief.
ref:
2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
senses_topics:
|
9941 | word:
yous
word_type:
pron
expansion:
yous
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From you + -s (plural suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
What are yous up to tonight?
type:
example
text:
‘Dere ain't no use for me dis side, Mr. Chames,’ he said. ‘New York's de spot. Youse don't want none of me, now you're married.’
ref:
1909, PG Wodehouse, The Gem Collector
type:
quotation
text:
‘Yous will meet us here outside this pub,’ Harry Curniskey said.
ref:
1938, Patrick Kavanagh, The Green Fool
type:
quotation
text:
‘But what I also seen is that youse have never had a real man before, datin' all them boys. Youse have never had anyone who'd stand up to youse.’
ref:
1988, Kathy Lette, Girls' Night Out
type:
quotation
text:
You think yous can live wi'oot money! Few months doon this hell, you'll murder for money!
ref:
1992, Edward Bond, In the Company of Men
type:
quotation
text:
He tossed off half of the drink and I gave him a refill. "What can I do for youse?" "First off, information."
ref:
2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 81
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
You (plural).
You (singular).
senses_topics:
|
9942 | word:
yous
word_type:
det
expansion:
yous
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From you + -s (plural suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
What are yous kids doin?
type:
example
text:
“Heh, yous kids want a game?” “Dunno, suppose so.” “Dar and I versus yous; that's fair.” “Short kicks Ern, we hang on to the ball and let them do the chasing.” “You watch me take the marks Dar; them blokes won't know what hit them.”
ref:
2015 June 1, Geoffrey Hope Gibson, Matriarch: An Australian Novel of Love and Wa, Loving Healing Press, page 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The group spoken or written to.
senses_topics:
|
9943 | word:
yous
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yous
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From you + -s (plural suffix).
senses_examples:
text:
Most of your life after babyhood has been played out by the several yous.
ref:
1992, Robert Dubin, Central Life Interests: Creative Individualism in a Complex World, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
There are two yous — the visible you and the real you. The visible you is the you that is known by others.
ref:
2010, Patrick M Morley, The Man in the Mirror: Solving the 24 Problems Men Face, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of you
senses_topics:
|
9944 | word:
yous
word_type:
verb
expansion:
yous
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From you + -s (plural suffix).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of you.
senses_topics:
|
9945 | word:
u
word_type:
character
expansion:
u (lower case, upper case U, plural us or u's)
forms:
form:
U
tags:
uppercase
form:
us
tags:
plural
form:
u's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lower case letter v (also written u), from Old English lower case u, from 7th century replacement by lower case u of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚢ (u, ur), derived from Raetic letter u.
Before the 1700s, the pointed form v was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form u was used elsewhere, regardless of sound. So whereas valor and excuse appeared as in modern printing, have and upon were printed haue and vpon. Eventually, in the 1700s, to differentiate between the consonant and vowel sounds, the v form was used to represent the consonant, and u the vowel sound. v then preceded u in the alphabet, but the order has since reversed.
senses_examples:
text:
I prefer the u in Arial to the one in Times New Roman.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, called u and written in the Latin script.
senses_topics:
|
9946 | word:
u
word_type:
noun
expansion:
u (plural ues)
forms:
form:
ues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English lower case letter v (also written u), from Old English lower case u, from 7th century replacement by lower case u of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚢ (u, ur), derived from Raetic letter u.
Before the 1700s, the pointed form v was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form u was used elsewhere, regardless of sound. So whereas valor and excuse appeared as in modern printing, have and upon were printed haue and vpon. Eventually, in the 1700s, to differentiate between the consonant and vowel sounds, the v form was used to represent the consonant, and u the vowel sound. v then preceded u in the alphabet, but the order has since reversed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Latin-script letter U/u.
A thing in the shape of the letter U
senses_topics:
|
9947 | word:
u
word_type:
pron
expansion:
u (second person, singular or plural, nominative or objective, possessive determiner ur, possessive pronoun urs, singular reflexive urself, plural reflexive urselves)
forms:
form:
ur
tags:
determiner
possessive
form:
urs
tags:
possessive
pronoun
without-noun
form:
urself
tags:
reflexive
singular
form:
urselves
tags:
plural
reflexive
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
t8k me w u
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of you.
senses_topics:
|
9948 | word:
u
word_type:
adj
expansion:
u
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of underwater.
senses_topics:
|
9949 | word:
rodent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rodent (plural rodents)
forms:
form:
rodents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rodent
etymology_text:
From Latin rōdēns, rōdēnt- (“gnawer; one who gnaws”), present participle of rōdō (“I gnaw”).
senses_examples:
text:
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mammal of the order Rodentia, characterized by long incisors that grow continuously and are worn down by gnawing.
A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence; lamer.
senses_topics:
|
9950 | word:
rodent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rodent (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
rodent
etymology_text:
From Latin rōdēns, rōdēnt- (“gnawer; one who gnaws”), present participle of rōdō (“I gnaw”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Gnawing; biting; corroding; applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
senses_topics:
|
9951 | word:
jeffersonite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jeffersonite (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Jefferson + -ite, after Thomas Jefferson.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A zinc-containing variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown.
senses_topics:
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
9952 | word:
Jehovistic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Jehovistic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to, or containing, Jehovah, as a name of God; said of certain parts of the Old Testament, especially of the Pentateuch, in which Jehovah appears as the name of the Deity.
senses_topics:
|
9953 | word:
Armenian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Armenian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Armenians
etymology_text:
From Armenia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Armenia, the Armenian people, the Armenian language, or the Armenian alphabet.
senses_topics:
|
9954 | word:
Armenian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Armenian (plural Armenians)
forms:
form:
Armenians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Armenians
etymology_text:
From Armenia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Armenia or of Armenian descent.
senses_topics:
|
9955 | word:
Armenian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Armenian
forms:
wikipedia:
Armenians
etymology_text:
From Armenia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of Armenia and the Armenian people, whose older stages are Old Armenian and Middle Armenian.
A branch of Indo-European languages, which includes the various stages of the Armenian language.
senses_topics:
|
9956 | word:
Jehovist
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jehovist
forms:
wikipedia:
Jehovist
etymology_text:
From Jehovah + -ist.
senses_examples:
text:
The characteristic manner of the Jehovist differs from that of his predecessor [the Elohist]. He is fuller and freer in his descriptions; more reflective in his assignment of motives and causes; more artificial in mode of narration.
ref:
1862, Samuel Davidson, An Introduction to the Old Testament, Critical, Historical, and Theological
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The writer of the passages of the Old Testament, especially those of the Pentateuch, in which the Supreme Being is styled Jehovah. See Elohist.
senses_topics:
|
9957 | word:
Jehovist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Jehovist (plural Jehovists)
forms:
form:
Jehovists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jehovist
etymology_text:
From Jehovah + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word; opposed to adonist.
A member of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Anyone who uses the word "Jehovah" as the name of God in worship.
senses_topics:
|
9958 | word:
stop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stop (third-person singular simple present stops, present participle stopping, simple past and past participle stopped)
forms:
form:
stops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stopping
tags:
participle
present
form:
stopped
tags:
participle
past
form:
stopped
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
stop
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
stop
etymology_text:
From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn, from Proto-Germanic *stuppōną (“to stop, close”), *stuppijaną (“to push, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb- (“to push; stick”), from *(s)tew- (“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian stopje (“to stop, block”), West Frisian stopje (“to stop”), Dutch stoppen (“to stop”), Low German stoppen (“to stop”), German stopfen (“to be filling, stuff”), German stoppen (“to stop”), Danish stoppe (“to stop”), Swedish stoppa (“to stop”), Icelandic stoppa (“to stop”), Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen (“to pierce”). More at stuff, stump.
Alternative etymology derives Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn from an assumed Vulgar Latin *stūpāre, *stuppāre (“to stop up with tow”), from stūpa, stīpa, stuppa (“tow, flax, oakum”), from Ancient Greek στύπη (stúpē), στύππη (stúppē, “tow, flax, oakum”). This derivation, however, is doubtful, as the earliest instances of the Germanic verb do not carry the meaning of "stuff, stop with tow". Rather, these senses developed later in response to influence from similar sounding words in Latin and Romance.
senses_examples:
text:
I stopped at the traffic lights.
type:
example
text:
The riots stopped when police moved in.
type:
example
text:
Soon the rain will stop.
type:
example
text:
The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
type:
example
text:
This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.
type:
example
text:
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.[…]This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
ref:
2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly)
type:
quotation
text:
One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.
type:
example
text:
Please stop telling me those terrible jokes.
type:
example
text:
The referees stopped the fight.
type:
example
text:
When they have finished the milk they must be patted and squeezed to stop them exploding.
ref:
1988, Jeanne Willis, Tony Ross, Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets
type:
quotation
text:
He stopped the wound with gauze.
type:
example
text:
Rotten leafs and branches have stopped the gutter.
type:
example
text:
I've had the cracks in the wall stopped wiht mortar by the builders.
type:
example
text:
To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
type:
example
text:
to stop with a friend
type:
example
text:
He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
type:
example
text:
He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.
type:
example
text:
by stopping at home till the money was gone
ref:
1887, R. D. Blackmore, Springhaven
type:
quotation
text:
She’s not going away. She’s going to stop here forever.
ref:
1931, E. F. Benson, chapter 7, in Mapp & Lucia
type:
quotation
text:
th-stopping
type:
example
text:
It will be noted that the specialist would have refused to stop the stock for broker X if he (the specialist) had only one order to sell at 85.
ref:
1952, Charles Amos Dice, Wilford John Eiteman, The Stock Market, page 144
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cease moving.
Not to continue.
To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
To cause (something) to come to an end.
To end someone else's activity.
To close or block an opening.
To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
To punctuate.
To make fast; to stopper.
To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
senses_topics:
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
entertainment
lifestyle
music
nautical
transport
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
business
finance |
9959 | word:
stop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stop (plural stops)
forms:
form:
stops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stop
etymology_text:
From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn, from Proto-Germanic *stuppōną (“to stop, close”), *stuppijaną (“to push, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb- (“to push; stick”), from *(s)tew- (“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian stopje (“to stop, block”), West Frisian stopje (“to stop”), Dutch stoppen (“to stop”), Low German stoppen (“to stop”), German stopfen (“to be filling, stuff”), German stoppen (“to stop”), Danish stoppe (“to stop”), Swedish stoppa (“to stop”), Icelandic stoppa (“to stop”), Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen (“to pierce”). More at stuff, stump.
Alternative etymology derives Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn from an assumed Vulgar Latin *stūpāre, *stuppāre (“to stop up with tow”), from stūpa, stīpa, stuppa (“tow, flax, oakum”), from Ancient Greek στύπη (stúpē), στύππη (stúppē, “tow, flax, oakum”). This derivation, however, is doubtful, as the earliest instances of the Germanic verb do not carry the meaning of "stuff, stop with tow". Rather, these senses developed later in response to influence from similar sounding words in Latin and Romance.
senses_examples:
text:
They agreed to meet at the bus stop.
type:
example
text:
That stop was not planned.
type:
example
text:
It is […] doubtful […] whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.
ref:
1722, Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year
type:
quotation
text:
So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.
ref:
a. 1729, John Rogers, The Advantages of conversing with good Men
type:
quotation
text:
door stop
type:
example
text:
The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.
type:
example
text:
The Foxes were indebted to two crucial saves from keeper Kasper Schmeichel, who turned former Leicester defender Ben Chilwell's header on to a post then produced an even better stop to turn Mason Mount's powerful shot wide.
ref:
2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.
type:
example
text:
The American Rabbit Breeders Association holds that the stops of a Dutch rabbit should be white from the toes to one third of the way along the foot.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
A device intended to block the path of a moving object
A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
A device intended to block the path of a moving object
A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
A device intended to block the path of a moving object
A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
An f-stop.
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
Short for full stop.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
architecture
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
9960 | word:
stop
word_type:
punct
expansion:
stop
forms:
wikipedia:
stop
etymology_text:
From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn, from Proto-Germanic *stuppōną (“to stop, close”), *stuppijaną (“to push, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb- (“to push; stick”), from *(s)tew- (“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian stopje (“to stop, block”), West Frisian stopje (“to stop”), Dutch stoppen (“to stop”), Low German stoppen (“to stop”), German stopfen (“to be filling, stuff”), German stoppen (“to stop”), Danish stoppe (“to stop”), Swedish stoppa (“to stop”), Icelandic stoppa (“to stop”), Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen (“to pierce”). More at stuff, stump.
Alternative etymology derives Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn from an assumed Vulgar Latin *stūpāre, *stuppāre (“to stop up with tow”), from stūpa, stīpa, stuppa (“tow, flax, oakum”), from Ancient Greek στύπη (stúpē), στύππη (stúppē, “tow, flax, oakum”). This derivation, however, is doubtful, as the earliest instances of the Germanic verb do not carry the meaning of "stuff, stop with tow". Rather, these senses developed later in response to influence from similar sounding words in Latin and Romance.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
senses_topics:
|
9961 | word:
stop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stop (plural stops)
forms:
form:
stops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stop
etymology_text:
From Middle English stoppe, from Old English stoppa (“bucket, pail, a stop”), from Proto-Germanic *stuppô (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teub- (“to push, hit; stick, stump”). See stoup.
Cognates
Cognate with Norwegian stopp, stoppa (“deep well, recess”), Middle High German stubech, stübich (“barrel, vat, unit of measure”) (German Stübchen). Related also to Middle Low German stōp (“beaker, flask”), Middle High German stouf (“beaker, flask”), Norwegian staupa (“goblet”), Icelandic staupa (“shot-glass”), Old English stēap (“a stoup, beaker, drinking vessel, cup, flagon”). Cognate to Albanian shtambë (“amphora, bucket”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
senses_topics:
|
9962 | word:
stop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stop (plural stops)
forms:
form:
stops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stop
etymology_text:
From s- + top.
senses_examples:
text:
For neutralino masses below approximately 700 GeV, gluino masses of less than 1.78 TeV and 1.76 TeV are excluded at the 95% CL in simplified models of the pair production of gluinos decaying via sbottom and stop, respectively.
ref:
2016, ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for pair production of gluinos decaying via stop and sbottom in events with b-jets and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector”, in arXiv
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
9963 | word:
hem
word_type:
intj
expansion:
hem
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.
senses_topics:
|
9964 | word:
hem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hem (plural hems)
forms:
form:
hems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)
senses_examples:
text:
his morning hems
ref:
January 8, 1712', John Dryden, The Spectator No. 269
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
senses_topics:
|
9965 | word:
hem
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hem (third-person singular simple present hems, present participle hemming, simple past and past participle hemmed)
forms:
form:
hems
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hemming
tags:
participle
present
form:
hemmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
hemmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
senses_topics:
|
9966 | word:
hem
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hem (plural hems)
forms:
form:
hems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from Old English hemm, of West Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *hammjan. Related to Middle High German hemmen (“to hem in”), Old Norse hemja (“to hem in, restrain”); outside of Germanic, to Armenian քամել (kʻamel, “to press, wring”), Russian ком (kom, “lump”).
The verb is from Middle English hemmen, from Old English hemman, from Proto-Germanic *hamjaną, or alternatively derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
A rim or margin of something.
In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
|
9967 | word:
hem
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hem (third-person singular simple present hems, present participle hemming, simple past and past participle hemmed)
forms:
form:
hems
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hemming
tags:
participle
present
form:
hemmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
hemmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from Old English hemm, of West Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *hammjan. Related to Middle High German hemmen (“to hem in”), Old Norse hemja (“to hem in, restrain”); outside of Germanic, to Armenian քամել (kʻamel, “to press, wring”), Russian ком (kom, “lump”).
The verb is from Middle English hemmen, from Old English hemman, from Proto-Germanic *hamjaną, or alternatively derived from the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
A small yard hemmed about by a tall hedge.
type:
example
text:
He’s in the saddle now. Fall in! Steady, the whole brigade! Hill’s at the ford, cut off — we’ll win his way out, ball and blade! What matter if our shoes are worn? What matter if our feet are torn? “Quick step! We’re with him before the morn!” That’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
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
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a hem.
To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
|
9968 | word:
hem
word_type:
pron
expansion:
hem
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hem, from Old English heom (“them”, dative), originally a dative plural form but in Middle English coming to serve as an accusative plural as well. More at 'em.
senses_examples:
text:
And wente to the kinge and to the queene, and said to hem with a glad cheer.
ref:
1481, William Caxton, The Historie of Reynart the Foxe
type:
quotation
text:
For eyther of hem mayntened.
ref:
1485, William Caxton, Paris and Vienne
type:
quotation
text:
‘What thinke you of this English, tel me I pray you.’ ‘It is a language that wyl do you good in England but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing.’ ‘Is it not used then in other countreyes?’ ‘No sir, with whom wyl you that they speake?’ ‘With English marchants.’ ‘English marchantes, when they are out of England, it liketh hem not, and they doo not speake it.
ref:
1591, John Florio, Second Frutes to be gathered of twelve trees, of diverse but delightful tastes to the tongues of Italian and English
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of 'em.
senses_topics:
|
9969 | word:
palpable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
palpable (comparative more palpable, superlative most palpable)
forms:
form:
more palpable
tags:
comparative
form:
most palpable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French palpable and its source, Latin palpābilis, which is from palpō (“to touch softly”) + -bilis.
senses_examples:
text:
I had felt that some palpable although invisible object had passed lightly by my person.
ref:
1838, Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia
type:
quotation
text:
The next morning the fog had given way to a palpable, horizontally driving rain.
ref:
1894, Bret Harte, “The Heir of the McHulishes”, in A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories
type:
quotation
text:
The force of her horror must have been palpable in the air, because Jorge's eyes opened as she raised the bayonet up. "Fina?"
ref:
2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-22
type:
quotation
text:
Her voice, her palpable agitation, prepared us for something extraordinary.
ref:
1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter 24, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
type:
quotation
text:
No use in raging, in reasoning, in arguing. No use in setting forth the facts, the palpable right and wrong.
ref:
1916, Kathleen Norris, chapter 7, in The Heart of Rachael
type:
quotation
text:
By Thursday, there was a palpable sense of frustration with the opposition’s strategy on the streets of Caracas, people in the capital said.
ref:
2019 May 2, Ana Vanessa Herrero, Rick Gladstone, “Maduro Speaks to Troops, Trying to Discredit Guaidó’s Call for Mutiny”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Elena Remigi, of the In Limbo Project, which is documenting the experiences of EU citizens in the UK, said: “The anxiety among EU citizens is palpable. My inbox is full of messages of people asking for reassurance or guidance.[…]”
ref:
2021 June 28, Lisa O'Carroll, Amelia Gentleman, quoting Elena Remigi, “‘The anxiety is palpable’: EU citizens face looming settled status deadline”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.
Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.
That can be detected by palpation.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
9970 | word:
massage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
massage (countable and uncountable, plural massages)
forms:
form:
massages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
massage
etymology_text:
From French massage (noun), from masser (“to massage”) (borrowed around the end of the 18th century from Arabic مَسَّ (massa, “feel, touch”), or from Portuguese amassar) + -age. Cognate to German massieren.
senses_examples:
text:
Having a massage can have many beneficial effects.
type:
example
text:
During the long lapses in work common with on-location productions, Marilyn would silently meditate as Roberts provided a shoulder massage.
ref:
2014, Gary Vitacco-Robles, Icon: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe Volume 2 1956-1962 AND Beyond
type:
quotation
text:
The baker gave the dough one final massage.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches.
The action of rubbing or kneading anything.
senses_topics:
|
9971 | word:
massage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
massage (third-person singular simple present massages, present participle massaging, simple past and past participle massaged)
forms:
form:
massages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
massaging
tags:
participle
present
form:
massaged
tags:
participle
past
form:
massaged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
massage
etymology_text:
From French massage (noun), from masser (“to massage”) (borrowed around the end of the 18th century from Arabic مَسَّ (massa, “feel, touch”), or from Portuguese amassar) + -age. Cognate to German massieren.
senses_examples:
text:
My neck doesn't hurt as much as it did last night since my wife massaged me after I got back from the concert.
type:
example
text:
So after massaging a nude woman while being nude or nearly nude myself, sex is a natural way to end things.
ref:
2010 January 11, Julian Kaye, Massage Therapy
type:
quotation
text:
Massage the kale to soften it before making the salad.
type:
example
text:
News relating to public disturbances was systematically massaged [...].
ref:
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
The Conservatives have massaged expectations down by saying they would be delighted with a majority of 1,000 […]
ref:
2008 May 22, Patrick Wintour, Steven Morris, The Guardian, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody).
To rub or knead anything.
To manipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with.
To falsify (data or accounts).
senses_topics:
|
9972 | word:
massacre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
massacre (countable and uncountable, plural massacres)
forms:
form:
massacres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1580, from Middle French massacre, from Old French macacre, marcacre, macecre, macecle (“slaughterhouse, butchery”), usually thought to be deverbal from Old French macecrer, macecler (“to slaughter”), though the noun seems to be attested somewhat earlier. It is also found in Medieval Latin mazacrium (“massacre, slaughter, killing”, also “the head of a newly killed stag”). Further origin disputed:
* From Latin macellum (“butcher shop”).
* From Vulgar Latin *matteuculāre, from *matteuca (cf. massue), from Late Latin mattea, mattia, from Latin mateola.
* From Middle Low German *matskelen (“to massacre”) (compare German metzeln (“massacre”)), frequentative of matsken, matzgen (“to cut, hew”), from Proto-West Germanic *maitan, from Proto-Germanic *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“small”). Akin to Old High German meizan (“to cut”) among others.
* Note also Arabic مَجْزَرَة (majzara), originally “spot where animals are slaughtered”, now also “massacre”, and in Maghrebi Arabic “slaughterhouse”. Derived from جَزَرَ (jazara, “to cut, slaughter”).
senses_examples:
text:
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
text:
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
text:
Amritsar Massacre
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.
Murder.
Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.
senses_topics:
|
9973 | word:
massacre
word_type:
verb
expansion:
massacre (third-person singular simple present massacres, present participle massacring, simple past and past participle massacred)
forms:
form:
massacres
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
massacring
tags:
participle
present
form:
massacred
tags:
participle
past
form:
massacred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1580, from Middle French massacre, from Old French macacre, marcacre, macecre, macecle (“slaughterhouse, butchery”), usually thought to be deverbal from Old French macecrer, macecler (“to slaughter”), though the noun seems to be attested somewhat earlier. It is also found in Medieval Latin mazacrium (“massacre, slaughter, killing”, also “the head of a newly killed stag”). Further origin disputed:
* From Latin macellum (“butcher shop”).
* From Vulgar Latin *matteuculāre, from *matteuca (cf. massue), from Late Latin mattea, mattia, from Latin mateola.
* From Middle Low German *matskelen (“to massacre”) (compare German metzeln (“massacre”)), frequentative of matsken, matzgen (“to cut, hew”), from Proto-West Germanic *maitan, from Proto-Germanic *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“small”). Akin to Old High German meizan (“to cut”) among others.
* Note also Arabic مَجْزَرَة (majzara), originally “spot where animals are slaughtered”, now also “massacre”, and in Maghrebi Arabic “slaughterhouse”. Derived from جَزَرَ (jazara, “to cut, slaughter”).
senses_examples:
text:
Look how they massacred my boy.
ref:
1972, The Godfather (film)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To kill in considerable numbers where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to civilized norms. (Often limited to the killing of human beings.)
To win against (an opponent) very decisively.
To perform (a work, such as a musical piece or a play) very poorly.
To kill with great force or brutality.
senses_topics:
|
9974 | word:
dank
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dank (comparative danker, superlative dankest)
forms:
form:
danker
tags:
comparative
form:
dankest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
etymology_text:
From Middle English danke (“wet, damp; dampness, moisture”), probably from North Germanic, related to Swedish dank (“marshy spot”), Icelandic dökk (“pool”), Old Norse dǫkk (“pit, depression”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”). However, some trace it to a West Germanic source such as Dutch damp (“vapor”) or Middle High German damph, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dampaz (“smoke, steam, vapor”).
senses_examples:
text:
The dank cave was chilly and spooky.
type:
example
text:
Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground.
ref:
1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, The Story of Justin Martyr
type:
quotation
text:
Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]
ref:
1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXII
type:
quotation
text:
It's a world away from the dank and uninviting St Pancras that British Rail wanted to tear down in the 1960s.
ref:
2022 November 30, Nick Brodrick, “Pride and innovation shine at St Pancras”, in RAIL, number 971, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
That was dank bud.
type:
example
text:
His house organ Breitbart and a host of Trump-right websites and news outlets sang praises to his dank genius.
ref:
2018, January 5, Rick Wilson, “Bannon Banished for Telling Truths About Trump as MAGA Monsters Turn on Each Other”, in The Daily Beast
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dark, damp and humid.
Moist and sticky, (by extension) highly potent.
Great, awesome.
senses_topics:
|
9975 | word:
dank
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dank (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
etymology_text:
From Middle English danke (“wet, damp; dampness, moisture”), probably from North Germanic, related to Swedish dank (“marshy spot”), Icelandic dökk (“pool”), Old Norse dǫkk (“pit, depression”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”). However, some trace it to a West Germanic source such as Dutch damp (“vapor”) or Middle High German damph, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dampaz (“smoke, steam, vapor”).
senses_examples:
text:
Smoking mids will get you about three times higher than shwag, and same for dank—it'll be about six times higher than smoking some mids.
ref:
2015, Scott Jacques, Richard Wright, Code of the Suburb, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Moisture; humidity; water.
Strong, high-quality cannabis.
senses_topics:
|
9976 | word:
dank
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dank (third-person singular simple present danks, present participle danking, simple past and past participle danked)
forms:
form:
danks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
danking
tags:
participle
present
form:
danked
tags:
participle
past
form:
danked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English danken, from the adjective (see above).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.
senses_topics:
|
9977 | word:
dank
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dank (plural danks)
forms:
form:
danks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small silver coin formerly used in Persia.
senses_topics:
|
9978 | word:
gender
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gender (countable and uncountable, plural genders)
forms:
form:
genders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gender
etymology_text:
From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
the gene is activated in both genders
text:
The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.
text:
To say truth, I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex; and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them […] .
ref:
1723, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter, 7 December
text:
Gender does not necessarily have primacy in this respect. Economic class and ethnic differentiation can also be important relational hierarchies, […].
ref:
2004, Wenona Mary Giles, Jennifer Hyndman, Sites of violence: gender and conflict zones, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
Although asari have one gender, they are not asexual. An asari provides two copies of her own genes to her offspring. The second set is altered in a unique process called melding.
During melding, an asari consciously attunes her nervous system to her partner's, sending and receiving electrical impulses directly through the skin. The partner can be another asari, or an alien of either gender. Effectively, the asari and her partner briefly become one unified nervous system.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Asari: Biology Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
I am a cross-dresser by pleasure and inclination, a transgenderal person. To me for human beings to express themselves along gender lines is a wonderful and uniquely human phenomena.
ref:
1979 January 8, Merissa Sherrill Lynn, “Statement”, in Newsletter, number 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Gender is the sociocultural designation of biobehavioral and psychosocial qualities of the sexes; for example, woman (female), man (male), other(s) (e.g., berdaches²). Notions of gender are culturally specific and depend on the ways in which cultures define and differentiate human (and other) potentials and possibilities. While many people in Western society may think first of heterosexual women and men when the word "gender" is mentioned, there are more gender possibilities than just those two.
ref:
1989, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Christine Roberts, “Sex, Sexuality, Gender, and Gender Variance”, in Sandra Morgen, editor, Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching, Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 439
type:
quotation
text:
From simply "adding women" into the analysis of work and seeing "gender" as another word for "sex," we have moved to the understanding that gender is a social process and a social construction of sexual differences. It is as much an independent variable as a dependent variable, shaped by social and historical processes. Beyond bringing women back into analyses of the workplace and the labor process, we now have to analyze how work is gendered and gendering: gender as a means of control and an organizing principle for class relations at the point of production, and workplace as a site for gender construction, formation, and reproduction. In the latest development, seeing gender as a power process also directs our attention toward the politics of identity, or the formation and claiming of collective subjectivities.
ref:
1998, Ching Kwan Lee, Gender and the South China Miracle, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
One wife I met at a conference was in a hurry for her husband to have the genital surgery because she worried about his gender and genitals not matching if he were in a car accident, […]
ref:
2007, Helen Boyd, She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
Thomas Beatie, a transgendered man, announced in an April 2008 issue of the gay and lesbian news magazine, The Advocate, that he was pregnant. […] Moreover, he saw no conflict between his gender and his pregnancy.
ref:
2010, Eve Shapiro, Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age
type:
quotation
text:
Intersex people too challenge the idea that physical sex, not merely gender, is binary – a person must be definitively either one sex or the other.
ref:
2012, Elizabeth Reis, American Sexual Histories, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
The pronominal declension [of English], on which we will focus most of our attention, inflects pronouns for person, number, case, gender, animacy, and reflexivity.
ref:
1990, Edwin L. Battistella, Markedness: The Evaluative Superstructure of Language, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
In Algonquian languages, given the full morphology of a noun, one can predict whether it belongs to the animate or inanimate gender […]
ref:
1991, Greville G. Corbett, Gender, pages 22 and 65
type:
quotation
text:
Pronouns, for instance, are structures that organise information about continuous referents. This information is typically categorised in Romani according to Person, Number, Gender, Animacy, Case, and Discreteness.
ref:
2006, Viktor Elšik, Yaron Matras, Markedness and Language Change: The Romani Sample, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
The common gender might well reflect an IE animate gender.
ref:
2015, Anna Giacalone Ramat, Paolo Ramat, The Indo-European Languages, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
143. […] We have now to speak of the following eight particulars relating to verbs: Gender or Sort, Person, Number, Time, Mode, Participle, Gerund, and Supine. [...]
1st.--Of the Gender.
144. Gender means the same as sort or kind. There are four principal Sorts of Verbs; namely, Active verbs, Passive verbs, Neuter verbs, and Impersonal verbs.
ref:
1835, James Paul Cobbett, A Latin Grammar for the Use of English Boys: Being an Explanation of the Rudiments of the Latin Language, London, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
Many of the words quoted are purely reflexive, others passive or deponent. Such words as óttask, œðrask, dásk, iðrask, reiðask are deponent, though they originally may have been reflexive, but the active gender is here quite obsolete.
ref:
1866, Guðbrandr Vigfusson, “Some remarks upon the Use of the Reflexive Pronoun in Icelandic”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
The general distinction is between three 'genders' out of the five genders of the Latin tradition: active gender, passive gender, neuter gender.
ref:
2007, Bernard Colombat, “Some Problems in Transferring the Latin Model to the First French Grammars: Verbal voice, impersonal verbs and the -rais form”, in Eduardo Guimarães, Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros, editors, Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 110: History of Linguistics 2002, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Connectors are identified by gender. When copper pins are exposed in the connector, its gender is male.
ref:
2015, Ron Carswell, Shen Jiang, Mary Ellen Hardee, Guide to Parallel Operating Systems with Windows 10 and Linux, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Class; kind.
Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.)
A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.
Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”)
The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
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9979 | word:
gender
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gender (third-person singular simple present genders, present participle gendering, simple past and past participle gendered)
forms:
form:
genders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gendering
tags:
participle
present
form:
gendered
tags:
participle
past
form:
gendered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
gender
etymology_text:
From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
In an interview, he even noted that he "dressed, acted and thought like a man" for years, but his coworkers continued to gender him as female (Shaver 1995, 2).
ref:
2011, Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
At the same time, however, the convictions they held about how a woman or man might write led them to interpret their findings in a rather androcentric fashion, and to gender the text accordingly.
ref:
1996, Athalya Brenner, A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
Like every Western culture preceding it, Renaissance society was gendered to the advantage of the adult male, who served as the template for all of humankind, women and children having been misstamped for other uses.
ref:
1997, Cheryl Glenn, Rhetoric Retold, page 120
type:
quotation
text:
Yet because texts by “female authors” are not dependent on the voice to gender the text, the topics that they address and the traditions that they employ seem broader and somewhat less constrained by gender stereotypes.
ref:
2003, “Reading the Anonymous Female Voice”, in The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England, page 244
type:
quotation
text:
“Obedient and obliging machines that pretend to be women are entering our homes, cars and offices,” Saniye Gulser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said in a statement. “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether A.I. technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them.”
ref:
2019 May 22, Megan Specia, “Siri and Alexa Reinforce Gender Bias, U.N. Finds”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology |
9980 | word:
gender
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gender (comparative more gender, superlative most gender)
forms:
form:
more gender
tags:
comparative
form:
most gender
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
gender
etymology_text:
From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
This song is so gender.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Evoking indescribable feelings regarding gender.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality |
9981 | word:
gender
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gender (third-person singular simple present genders, present participle gendering, simple past and past participle gendered)
forms:
form:
genders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gendering
tags:
participle
present
form:
gendered
tags:
participle
past
form:
gendered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
gender
etymology_text:
From Middle English gendren, genderen, from Middle French gendrer, from Latin generāre.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] being a stranger to those restrictions which were afterwards laid on his posterity by the Mosaic law, and which gendered a servile frame of spirit.
ref:
1854, Robert Gordon (D.D., Minister of the Free High Church, Edinburgh.), Christ as Made Known to the Ancient Church: an Exposition of the Revelation of Divine Grace, as Unfolded in the Old Testament Scriptures, page 400
text:
Our whole life was passed in public, which gendered a sympathy and good fellowship that always distinguishes Wykehamists from the rest of mankind.
ref:
1893, The Academy and Literature, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
ref:
Leviticus 19:19 (KJV)
text:
Fear in the witch's heart was gendering with her hate,
Seeing her evil thought grown to an evil deed, […]
ref:
1896, John Todhunter, Three Irish Bardic Tales: Being Metrical Versions of the Three Tales Known as the Three Sorrows of Story-telling, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To engender.
To breed.
senses_topics:
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9982 | word:
gender
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gender (plural genders)
forms:
form:
genders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gender
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Indonesian gender, from Javanese ꦒꦼꦤ꧀ꦢꦺꦂ (gendèr), from Old Javanese gĕnder.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.
senses_topics:
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9983 | word:
neurotomist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neurotomist (plural neurotomists)
forms:
form:
neurotomists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From neurotomy + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who is skilled in or practices neurotomy.
senses_topics:
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9984 | word:
neurotomical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
neurotomical (comparative more neurotomical, superlative most neurotomical)
forms:
form:
more neurotomical
tags:
comparative
form:
most neurotomical
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From neurotomy + -ical.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to neurotomy.
senses_topics:
medicine
neuroscience
sciences |
9985 | word:
neurotome
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neurotome (plural neurotomes)
forms:
form:
neurotomes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From neuro- + -tome.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instrument for cutting or dissecting nerves.
A neuromere.
senses_topics:
medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences |
9986 | word:
neurotomy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neurotomy (plural neurotomies)
forms:
form:
neurotomies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From neuro- + -tomy.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system.
The division of a nerve, for the relief of neuralgia, or for other purposes.
senses_topics:
medicine
neuroscience
sciences
medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences |
9987 | word:
neurula
word_type:
noun
expansion:
neurula (plural neurulas or neurulae)
forms:
form:
neurulas
tags:
plural
form:
neurulae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin neurula, diminutive in -ula of Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “sinew, tendon, cord”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An embryo of vertebrates in the stage when the primitive band is first developed.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
9988 | word:
extremity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
extremity (countable and uncountable, plural extremities or (obsolete) extremitys)
forms:
form:
extremities
tags:
plural
form:
extremitys
tags:
obsolete
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English extremite, from Old French extremité, from Latin extrēmitās (“extremity; border, perimeter; ending”), from extremīs (“furthest, extreme”) + -itās (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (“suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being”); see extreme. Extremīs is derived from exter (“external, outward”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“out”)) + -issimus (“suffix indicating a superlative”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-is- (“suffix indicating a comparative”) + *-(t)m̥mo- (“suffix indicating the absolutive case”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Any ſphere revolving as on an axis, muſt have two points on its ſurface at the extremities of its axis, that do not revolve at all; theſe points, with reſpect to the Earth, are called its poles.
ref:
1780, J[ohn] Robertson, William Wales, “Section II. Of Terrestrial Astronomy.”, in The Elements of Navigation; Containing the Theory and Practice. With the Necessary Tables, and Compendiums for Finding the Latitude and Longitude at Sea. To which is Added, a Treatise of Marine Fortification. Composed for the Use of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ’s Hospital, the Royal Academy at Portsmouth, and the Gentlemen of the Navy. In Two Volumes, 4th edition, London: Printed for J[ohn] Nourse, bookseller to His Majesty, →OCLC, book V (Of Astronomy), paragraph 52, page 206
type:
quotation
text:
Reference was made in the January-February issue to some of the optimistic railway titles of the past, such as the Manchester & Milford, and the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast, neither of which got anywhere near the extremities indicated in their titles during their independent existence.
ref:
1944 November and December, “What's in a Name?”, in Railway Magazine, page 333
type:
quotation
text:
Sitting on the dockside at Oban, watching the to-ing and fro-ing in the harbour on a perfect summer's eve, I reflect on a trip which has taken me through our busiest cities to traverse the country's main lines, as well as explore some of the furthest extremities that were literally out on a limb.
ref:
2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
The Fort on the Mount St. Catherine after a Month's Siege was reduc'd to ſuch Extremitys, that they who defended it were forc'd to treat about a Surrender: and Aug. 29. 'twas agreed between the Engliſh Commiſſioners, Edward Earl of Mortaigne, Thomas Earl of Salisbury, and Fitz-Hugh, and the French Commiſſioners, the Sieur Nobles Lieutenant of Guy de Bouteil, which the Sieurs De Buſſon and de Graville, in the Name of the Gariſon, that they would deliver up the Abby and Fortreſs of St. Catherine on the Thurſday following, on condition of having only their Lives ſpar'd.
ref:
1704, [Thomas Goodwin the younger], The History of the Reign of Henry the Fifth, King of England, &c. In Nine Books, London: Printed by J. D. for S. and J. Sprint, J. Robinson, J. Taylor, Andr[ew] Bell, T. Ballard, and B. Lintott, →OCLC, book V, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
Guillain–Barré syndrome causes one to not be able to move one’s extremities.
type:
example
text:
Resection is preferable to amputation in the greater number of lesions of the upper extremities, as the principal function is that of mobility.—Sedillot. […] Resection of the phalanges, in whole or part, is occasionally required as the result of deep-seated inflammation.
ref:
1862, Stephen Smith, “On Resections”, in Hand-book of Surgical Operations, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: Baillière Brothers, 440 Broadway, →OCLC, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
The danger of wounds of the extremities consists in the injury done to the blood-vessels, nerves, articulations, and bones.
ref:
1878, D[avid] Hayes Agnew, “Wounds of the Extremities”, in The Principles and Practice of Surgery, being a Treatise on Surgical Diseases and Injuries, volume I, Philadelphia, Pa., London: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, page 381
type:
quotation
text:
Congestive Chills.—Give from ten to fifteen drops of spirits of turpentine in a wineglass of toddy. Make a liniment of equal parts of turpentine and camphor. With this rub the spine, chest and extremities well; but not enough to blister. Rub the extremities until reaction takes place. A cloth saturated with the mixture should be applied to the chest.
ref:
1898, A. P. Hill, “Medical Receipts”, in Mrs. Hill’s New Cook-book; or, Housekeeping Made Easy. A Practical System for Private Families, in Town and Country Especially Adapted to the Southern States. With Directions for Carving and Arranging the Table for Dinners, Parties, etc. Together with Many Medical and Miscellaneous Receipts Extremely Useful in Families, new and enlarged edition, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Dilingham Co., publishers, →OCLC, paragraph 986, page 376
type:
quotation
text:
On motor examination, she had normal bulk and tone throughout the upper and lower extremities. Her upper extremity strength appeared symmetric bilaterally and no drift in the left upper extremity was found. In the lower extremities, she had full strength in the right leg. In the left leg, there was some subtle weakness of left hip flexion, with 5/5 strength distally.
ref:
2014, Devin Brown, “Sleep Apnea in the Acute Stroke Setting”, in Ronald D. Chervin, editor, Common Pitfalls in Sleep Medicine: Case-based Learning, Cambridge, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, page 267, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The most extreme or furthest point of something.
An extreme measure.
A hand or foot.
A limb (“major appendage of a human or animal such as an arm, leg, or wing”).
senses_topics:
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9989 | word:
jeg
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jeg (plural jegs)
forms:
form:
jegs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of jig
senses_topics:
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9990 | word:
mark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mark (plural marks)
forms:
form:
marks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mark
etymology_text:
From Middle English mark, merk, merke, from Old English mearc (“mark, sign, line of division; standard; boundary, limit, term, border; defined area, district, province”), from Proto-West Germanic *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”).
Compare march.
cognates
* Dutch mark, merk (“mark, brand”)
* German Mark (“mark; borderland”), Marke (“brand”)
* Swedish mark (“mark, land, territory”)
* Icelandic mark (“mark, sign”)
* Latin margo (“edge, margin”)
* Persian مرز (marz, “limit, boundary”)
* Sanskrit मर्या (maryā, “limit, mark, boundary”), मार्ग (mārga, “mark, section”).
senses_examples:
text:
I do remember a great thron in Yatton field near Bristow-way, against which Sir William Waller's men made a great fire and killed it. I think the stump remains, and was a mark for travellers.
ref:
1859, Henry Bull, A history, military and municipal, of the ancient borough of the Devizes
type:
quotation
text:
There dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan.
ref:
1954, J R R Tolkien, The Two Towers
type:
quotation
text:
A good sense of manners is the mark of a true gentleman.
type:
example
text:
The font wasn't able to render all the diacritical marks properly.
type:
example
text:
With eggs, you need to check for the quality mark before you buy.
type:
example
text:
The mark of the artisan is found upon the most ancient fabrics that have come to light.
ref:
1876, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
type:
quotation
text:
I am proud to present my patented travelator, mark two.
type:
example
text:
What mark did you get in your history test?
type:
example
text:
A skilfull archer ought first to know the marke he aimeth at, and then apply his hand, his bow, his string, his arrow and his motion accordingly.
ref:
, II.1
text:
To give them an accurate eye and strength of arm, none under twenty-four years of age might shoot at any standing mark, except it was for a rover, and then he was to change his mark at every shot; and no person above that age might shoot at any mark whose distance was less than eleven score yards.
ref:
1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
I filled the bottle up to the 500ml mark.
type:
example
text:
Another common form of short con is the shell game. This scam has the advantage of giving the criminal the ability to rip off many marks all at one location.
ref:
2009, Michael Benson, Cons and Frauds, Infobase, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
Dominic Di Grasso (Michael Imperioli): How are you gonna make it in life if you're this big a mark?
Albie Di Grasso (Adam DiMarco): I'm not a mark.
ref:
2022 December 11, Mike White, “Arrivederci”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 7, via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
A mark for tardiness or for absence is considered by most pupils a disgrace, and strenuous efforts are made to avoid such a mark.
ref:
1871, Chicago Board of Education, Annual Report, volume 17, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
Now put the pastry in at 450 degrees, or mark 8.
type:
example
text:
The Mark I system had poor radar, and the Mark II was too expensive; regardless, most antiaircraft direction remained the responsibility of the Mark I Eyeball (as the jocular phrase calls it): that is, the operator's eye.
type:
example
text:
to be within the mark
type:
example
text:
to come up to the mark
type:
example
text:
In the official marks invested, you / Anon do meet the Senate.
ref:
1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus
type:
quotation
text:
patricians of mark
type:
example
text:
a fellow of no mark
type:
example
text:
His last comment is particularly worthy of mark.
type:
example
text:
in the short story of western flavor he was a pioneer of mark, the founder of a genre: probably no other writer is so significant in his field.
ref:
1909, Richard Burton, Masters of the English Novel
type:
quotation
text:
But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, as much in mock as mark
ref:
1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Boundary, land within a boundary.
A boundary; a border or frontier.
Boundary, land within a boundary.
A boundary-post or fence.
Boundary, land within a boundary.
A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
Boundary, land within a boundary.
A type of small region or principality.
Boundary, land within a boundary.
A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
A characteristic feature.
Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
A sign or brand on a person.
Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
A written character or sign.
Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
Resemblance, likeness, image.
Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
A target for shooting at with a projectile.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game; a gullible person.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
The female genitals.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
A score for a sporting achievement.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
The model number of a device; a device model.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
Limit or standard of action or fact.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
Preeminence; high position.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
Indicator of position, objective etc.
One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
Attention.
Attention, notice.
Attention.
Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
Attention.
Regard; respect.
Attention.
Condescending label of a wrestling fan who refuses to believe that pro wrestling is predetermined and/or choreographed.
senses_topics:
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
heading
heading
cooking
food
heading
lifestyle
heading
heading
heading
heading
heading
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
heading
nautical
transport
heading
heading
heading
heading
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling |
9991 | word:
mark
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mark (third-person singular simple present marks, present participle marking, simple past and past participle marked)
forms:
form:
marks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
marking
tags:
participle
present
form:
marked
tags:
participle
past
form:
marked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
mark
etymology_text:
From Middle English mark, merk, merke, from Old English mearc (“mark, sign, line of division; standard; boundary, limit, term, border; defined area, district, province”), from Proto-West Germanic *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”).
Compare march.
cognates
* Dutch mark, merk (“mark, brand”)
* German Mark (“mark; borderland”), Marke (“brand”)
* Swedish mark (“mark, land, territory”)
* Icelandic mark (“mark, sign”)
* Latin margo (“edge, margin”)
* Persian مرز (marz, “limit, boundary”)
* Sanskrit मर्या (maryā, “limit, mark, boundary”), मार्ग (mārga, “mark, section”).
senses_examples:
text:
to mark a box or bale of merchandise
type:
example
text:
to mark clothing with one's name
type:
example
text:
Her son wrote badly, as if fearful of marking the page at all.
ref:
1969, William Trevor, chapter 11, in Mrs. Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel, Penguin, published 1973, page 177
type:
quotation
text:
See where this pencil has marked the paper.
type:
example
text:
The floor was marked with wine and blood.
type:
example
text:
Those Wheels returning ne’er shall mark the Plain;
ref:
1717, Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Volume 3, Book 12, p. 229
type:
quotation
text:
The death of his wife, followed by months of being alone, had marked him with guilt and shame and had left an unbreaking loneliness on him.
ref:
1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 10, in The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, published 1976, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
What Uncle Marc had been through as a slave marked him, I’m sure, but I don’t know how much. How can you know what a man would be like if he had grown up unmarked by horror?
ref:
1998, Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents, New York: Seven Stories Press, page 279
type:
quotation
text:
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
ref:
2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
She folded over the corner of the page to mark where she left off reading.
type:
example
text:
Some animals mark their territory by urinating.
type:
example
text:
This monument marks the spot where Wolfe died.
type:
example
text:
A bell marked the end of visiting hours.
type:
example
text:
And where the jolly Troop [of elves and fairies] had led the round
The Grass unbidden rose, and mark’d the Ground:
ref:
1700, John Dryden, “The Wife of Bath Her Tale”, in Fables Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, page 479
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the lazy circling vultures marked the Hill of Execution, which was littered with human bones and scavenged by hyaenas.
ref:
1973, Jan Morris, Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1980, Part 1, Chapter 3, section 6, p. 61
type:
quotation
text:
Her forehead, lashed deep with lines, marked her fifty-six years.
ref:
2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, New York: Penguin, Part 1, p. 16
type:
quotation
text:
Prices are marked on individual items.
type:
example
text:
In her Bible, the words of Christ were marked in red.
type:
example
text:
“What does the clock mark now?”
“Eight minutes to seven.”
ref:
1875, Benjamin Farjeon, At the Sign of the Silver Flagon, New York: Harper, Part 3, Chapter 2, p. 84
type:
quotation
text:
[…] on opening it [the handkerchief], I saw an S mark’d in one of the corners.
ref:
1768, Laurence Sterne, “Maria”, in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume 2, London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
I mark this cross of blood upon you, as a sign that I do it.
ref:
1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, Book 3, Chapter 10, p. 220
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I was testing a stack of old whitewalls, dunking them in the water and marking a yellow chalk circle around each leak.
ref:
1988, Barbara Kingsolver, chapter 6, in The Bean Trees, New York: HarperCollins, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
The national holiday is marked by fireworks.
type:
example
text:
His courage and energy marked him as a leader.
type:
example
text:
[…] the son approached her with a cheerful eagerness which marked her as his peculiar object,
ref:
1815, Jane Austen, chapter 8, in Emma, volume 2, London: John Murray, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
The black dress, gold cross on the watch-chain, the hairless face, and the soft, black wideawake hat would have marked him as a holy man anywhere in all India.
ref:
1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 5, in Kim, London: Macmillan, published 1902, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
His long thin falling-away cheekbones marked him as a member of either the Xhosa or Zulu tribe.
ref:
1968, Bessie Head, chapter 1, in When Rain Clouds Gather, Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, published 2013, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Enquiring about the movement of trains—even if you were a passenger on one—could mark you as a saboteur.
ref:
2016, Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time, Random House, Prologue
type:
quotation
text:
The new captain would read the fitness report and mark him once and for all as an unreliable fool […]
ref:
1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 113
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I know now that humankind marks certain people for death.
ref:
1970, Saul Bellow, chapter 5, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet, New York: Viking, page 230
type:
quotation
text:
The creek marks the boundary between the two farms.
type:
example
text:
That summer marked the beginning of her obsession with cycling.
type:
example
text:
Although the Second World War marked a turning away from inorganic chemicals as pesticides into the wonder world of the carbon molecule, a few of the old materials persist.
ref:
1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 3, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
My grandfather’s short employ at the Ford Motor Company marked the only time any Stephanides has ever worked in the automobile industry.
ref:
2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Farrar, Straux, Giroux, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
[…] he still retained that simple, unostentatious elegance, that marks the man of real fashion
ref:
1818, Susan Ferrier, chapter 18, in Marriage, volume 3, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 264
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Cyril’s attitude to his mother was marked by a certain benevolent negligence
ref:
1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, New York: Modern Library, published 1911, Book 4, Chapter 1, p. 487
type:
quotation
text:
Despite their obvious differences these poets had a common view of life which marks them from their predecessors […]
ref:
1943, Maurice Bowra, chapter 1, in The Heritage of Symbolism, London: Macmillan, published 1954, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
Each day was so like the day before, and Christmas Day, when it came, would not have anything to mark it from all the others.
ref:
1983, Elizabeth George Speare, chapter 24, in The Sign of the Beaver,, New York: Dell, published 1984, page 127
type:
quotation
text:
Mark my words: that boy’s up to no good.
type:
example
text:
When they had passed out of the wood into the pasture-land beyond, Ruth once more turned to mark him.
ref:
1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 5, in Ruth, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
When Wolsey came down, I said, mark him, he’s a sharp fellow. […]
ref:
2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, New York: Henry Holt, Part 6, Chapter 2, p. 522
type:
quotation
text:
1881, John Bascom, “Improvements in Language” in The Western: A Journal of Literature, Education, and Art, New Series, Volume 7, No. 6, December, 1881, p. 499,
[…] it is to be remembered that a poor speller is a poor pronouncer. The ear does not mark the sound any more exactly than the eye marks the letters.
text:
Helm had a great horn, and soon it was marked that before he sallied forth he would blow a blast upon it that echoed in the Deep;
ref:
1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 1965, Appendix A, pp. 347-348
type:
quotation
text:
I marked my man, standing on the catwalk, and waited to throw [my javelin] till he started to climb inboard before they rammed.
ref:
1956, Mary Renault, chapter 22, in The Last of the Wine, New York: Pantheon, page 268
type:
quotation
text:
The teacher had to spend her weekend marking all the tests.
type:
example
text:
Under the proposals, an assurance is given that GBR (in the words of the plan) will not be marking its own homework.
ref:
2024 May 15, 'Industry Insider', “Labour's plan for the railway”, in RAIL, number 1009, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
to mark a student absent.
type:
example
text:
to mark the points in a game of billiards or a card game
type:
example
text:
Dan was to mark while the doctor and I played [billiards].
ref:
1869, Mark Twain, chapter 12, in The Innocents Abroad, Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, page 116
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
To create an indication of (a location).
To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
To create (a mark) on a surface.
To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
To be typical or characteristic of (something).
To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
To become aware of (something) through the physical senses.
To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
To record that (someone) has a particular status.
To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
9992 | word:
mark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mark (plural marks)
forms:
form:
marks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mark
etymology_text:
From Middle English mark, from Old English marc (“a denomination of weight (usu. half a pound), mark (money of account)”), from Proto-West Germanic *mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with Dutch mark (“mark”), Swedish mark (“a stamped coin”), Icelandic mörk (“a weight, usu. a pound, of silver or gold”). Doublet of markka.
senses_examples:
text:
As a reward for his poetry, Athelstan gave Egil two more gold rings weighing a mark each, along with an expensive cloak that the king himself had worn.
ref:
1997, “Egil's Saga”, in Bernard Scudder, transl., The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
George, on receiving it, instantly rose from the side of one of them, and said, in the hearing of them all, ‘I will bet a hundred merks that is Drummond.’
ref:
1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
He had been made a royal counsellor, drawing a substantial annual salary of a hundred marks.
ref:
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 167
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
senses_topics:
|
9993 | word:
mark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mark (plural mark or marks)
forms:
form:
mark
tags:
plural
form:
marks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mark
etymology_text:
From German Mark, from Middle High German marc, marche, marke, from Old High German marc, from Proto-West Germanic *mark (whence etymology 2 via Old English marc). The identical plural is also from German.
senses_examples:
text:
Aus der Geschichte der menschlichen Dummheit. By Dr. Max Kemmerich. Price 3 mark 50 pfennige. Bavaria: Verlag Albert Langen, Munich.
ref:
1928 November, “Reviews”, in The Occult Review, volume XLVIII, number 5, London: Rider & Co., page 356
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
senses_topics:
|
9994 | word:
mark
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mark
forms:
wikipedia:
mark
etymology_text:
An alternative form supposedly easier to pronounce while giving commands.
senses_examples:
text:
Mark time, mark!
type:
example
text:
Forward, mark!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of march.
senses_topics:
|
9995 | word:
stone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stone (countable and uncountable, plural stones or (as unit of mass) stone)
forms:
form:
stones
tags:
plural
form:
stone
tags:
plural
raw_tags:
as unit of mass
wikipedia:
stone
stone (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).
See also Dutch steen, German Stein, Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein; also Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्त्यायते (styāyate, “it hardens”)). Doublet of stein.
senses_examples:
text:
It is about 2,500 yards in circuit, is built of red stone, and, according to Von Orlich, is now " a bastioned quinquangle ; the ancient walls with semicircular bastions face the two streams ; the land side is quite regular, and consists of two bastions, and a half-bastion with three ravelins," and stands higher than any ground in face of it.
ref:
1858, Edward Thornton, A Gazetteer of the Territories Under the Government of the East India Company and of the Native States on the Continent of India, W. H. Allen & Co., page 22
type:
quotation
text:
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
ref:
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. […] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
ref:
1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia, page 202
type:
quotation
text:
Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones.
ref:
1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume IV, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.
ref:
1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary
type:
quotation
text:
a peach stone
type:
example
text:
The pain of passing a larger stone is often compared to child birth.
ref:
2016 September 26, James Hamblin, “A Health Benefit of Roller Coasters”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
stone:
text:
It seems to me that when I die / These words will be written on my stone[…]
ref:
2013 November 25, Zayn Malik, “Story of My Life”, in Midnight Memories, Columbia Records; Syco Music
type:
quotation
text:
To make Capons […] ſome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done.
ref:
1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion […], London: James Hodges; B. Collins, →OCLC, page 157
type:
quotation
text:
The Chief called the makeup editor to the stone, pointed to the story which had caught his eye, and suggested a fairly simple remake.
ref:
1965, George Murray, The Madhouse on Madison Street, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
A small piece of stone, a pebble.
A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
A hard, stone-like deposit.
A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
A mirror, or its glass.
A testicle.
A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
medicine
sciences
ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
media
printing
publishing |
9996 | word:
stone
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stone (third-person singular simple present stones, present participle stoning, simple past and past participle stoned)
forms:
form:
stones
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stoning
tags:
participle
present
form:
stoned
tags:
participle
past
form:
stoned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
stone
stone (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).
See also Dutch steen, German Stein, Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein; also Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्त्यायते (styāyate, “it hardens”)). Doublet of stein.
senses_examples:
text:
She got stoned to death after they found her.
type:
example
text:
[…] and since it was a rule of the French troops not to be a burden on the people along their route it could be that the advance guard dug and stoned the well for the troop's own special use.
ref:
1974, Mathias Peter Harpin, Prophets in the wilderness: a history of Coventry, Rhode Island
type:
quotation
text:
I was stoning the whole of today.
ref:
2003, Roger, Joy, Vera and Amanda Loh, Facts about Singapore: Differences between Ohio and Singapore
type:
quotation
text:
Resume writing class lesson 2, stoning.
ref:
2011 November 2, Shermaine Ong, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
The Marina Barrage is a reservoir, but everyone goes there because the spacious greenery at the top is the perfect place for stoning, which is Singlish for hanging out and chilling.
ref:
2015 April 8, Becky Osawa, Trekking with Becky: Stoning at the Marina Barrage, Singapore
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
To wall with stones.
To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
senses_topics:
|
9997 | word:
stone
word_type:
adj
expansion:
stone (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
stone
stone (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).
See also Dutch steen, German Stein, Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein; also Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्त्यायते (styāyate, “it hardens”)). Doublet of stein.
senses_examples:
text:
stone walls
type:
example
text:
stone pot
type:
example
text:
She is one stone fox.
type:
example
text:
Yeah, he's a stone fuck–up. But he's stand–up, too, don't forget that.
ref:
1994, Andrew H. Vachss, Born Bad: Stories
type:
quotation
text:
Of course the Torah rejects (*some*) sexual acts between members of the same sex. And of course it doesn't condemn gays and lesbians. Someone who doesn't realize that is a stone bigot to begin with.
ref:
2000 September 9, Lisa Beth, “Rabbi Shmuli Boteach Refuted”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
“And I got the best metal man in the business going for me, too.” “This job's going to be a stone motherfucker,” Flacco said
ref:
2001, Andrew H. Vachss, Pain Management
type:
quotation
text:
He might be a stone killer who simply doesn't care if his victim's alive or dead at the time of disfigurement.
ref:
2009, John Lutz, Night Victims, page 307
type:
quotation
text:
stone butch
type:
example
text:
stone femme
type:
example
text:
Lately I've read these stories by women who are so angry with stone lovers, even mocking their passion when they finally give way to trust, to being touched.
ref:
1993, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, Los Angeles: Alyson Books, published 2003, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
My physical preference tends more to very masculine-bodied non-transitioning stone TG butches.
ref:
c. 2000, Sonya, “Femme Identity: Stone-Butch/Femme Dynamic, FTM/Femme Dynamic”, in Transensual Femme, archived from the original on 2000-05-20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Constructed of stone.
Having the appearance of stone.
Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
Used as an intensifier.
Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
senses_topics:
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality |
9998 | word:
stone
word_type:
adv
expansion:
stone (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
stone
stone (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).
See also Dutch steen, German Stein, Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein; also Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्त्यायते (styāyate, “it hardens”)). Doublet of stein.
senses_examples:
text:
My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
type:
example
text:
I went stone crazy after she left.
type:
example
text:
I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
As a stone (used with following adjective).
Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
senses_topics:
|
9999 | word:
indolent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
indolent (comparative more indolent, superlative most indolent)
forms:
form:
more indolent
tags:
comparative
form:
most indolent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French indolent, from Latin indolens, from in- (“not”) + dolēns (“hurting”), from doleo (“to hurt”).
senses_examples:
text:
The indolent girl resisted doing her homework.
type:
example
text:
Mr. Churchill has pride; but his pride is nothing to his wife’s: his is a quiet, indolent, gentlemanlike sort of pride that would harm nobody, and only make himself a little helpless and tiresome; but her pride is arrogance and insolence!
ref:
1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 18
type:
quotation
text:
indolent comfort
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor
Inducing laziness
Causing little or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.)
Healing slowly
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences |
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