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500 | word:
accrument
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accrument (plural accruments)
forms:
form:
accruments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of accruement
senses_topics:
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501 | word:
accountantship
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accountantship (plural accountantships)
forms:
form:
accountantships
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accountant + -ship.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The office or employment of an accountant.
senses_topics:
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502 | word:
quid pro quo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quid pro quo (plural quae pro quibus or quid pro quibus or quid pro quos)
forms:
form:
quae pro quibus
tags:
plural
form:
quid pro quibus
tags:
plural
form:
quid pro quos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin quid prō quō (literally “something for something”).
senses_examples:
text:
The misunderstanding of the word or the quid pro quo is the unintentional pun, and is related to it exactly as folly is to wit.
ref:
1844, Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by Richard Burdon Haldane, The World as Will and Representation, 2nd edition, first book, translation of original in German, section 13
type:
quotation
text:
Is it simply a wild fantasy, or a mistake on the part of the old man — some impossible quid pro quo?
ref:
1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, translation of original in Russian, part II, book V, chapter 5
type:
quotation
text:
His argument was formulated, not without reason, as a paradox, a quid pro quo of opposing concepts: form is declared to be content, thus its own opposite.
ref:
1982, Carl Dahlhaus, Esthetics of Music, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
a knave Apothecary that administers the Physick, and makes the medicine, may doe infinite harme, by his old obsolete doses, adulterine druggs, bad mixtures, quid pro quo, etc.
ref:
1621-51, Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy
type:
quotation
text:
Nicholas [Praepositus] was also the author of a "Quid pro Quo", that is an alphabetically arranged catalogue of equivalent drugs, capable of replacing each other, when for any reason one or the other drug was wanting
ref:
1889, Johann Hermann Baas, Henry Ebenezer Handerson, Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession, page 263
type:
quotation
text:
Was it not Claudius Galenus (130-200 A. D.), the great Roman physician-pharmacist, who was about the very first to prepare a lengthy list of drugs, quid pro quo, a list which remained in use until about the sixteenth century?
ref:
1917, Otto Raubenheimer, “History of Substitutes and Substitution”, in Druggists Circular, volume 61, page 188
type:
quotation
text:
To him I offered a quid pro quo; and meant to give nothing without getting a full equivalent.
ref:
1819, The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, volume 35, page 1129
type:
quotation
text:
Whie Demanding Great sacrifices from the workforce, Germany's rulers had proved unable by autumn 1916 to offer a quid pro quo in the form of a military victory, more democracy, or even a modest redistribution of income.
ref:
2001, Authority and Upheaval in Leipzig, 1910-1920, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
Britain, which said its crew was in Iraqi waters when seized, insists it never offered a quid pro quo, either, instead relying on quiet diplomacy.
ref:
2007, Associated Press, “Iran to release 15 British sailors”, in China Daily
type:
quotation
text:
the US recently supported the European candidate for the IMF and may receive a quid pro quo
ref:
2012 March 24, Steve Denning, “The World Bank Is Broken: Can The New President Fix It?”, in Forbes
type:
quotation
text:
McLaren did not want Mercedes to buy Brawn so when the German company insisted, they demanded a quid pro quo that, as far as McLaren are concerned, contains all the positives of a Mercedes involvement but none of the negatives.
ref:
2009 November 16, Andrew Benson, “What Mercedes buy-out of Brawn could mean”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
People don't like to talk about it, but inherent to every relationship there's a quid pro quo— something that's exchanged in return for something else. The quid pro quo can be obvious, such as I give you a salary and in return I expect you to do a good job, or more subtly, I give you a recommendation and in turn expect you'll help me get my expense check processed faster. It's an unspoken system of bartering that goes on in relationships. Women aren't very good at capitalizing on the quid pro quo. Instead, they give away favors and expect little or nothing in return.
ref:
2014, Lois P. Frankel, Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office
type:
quotation
text:
More importantly, the Chrysler bailout produced a quid pro quo wherein Congress agreed to pass bank deregulation legislation if banks agreed to convert substantial amounts of Chrysler's debt to equity.
ref:
1997, Davita Silfen Glasberg, Daniel L. Skidmore, Corporate Welfare Policy and the Welfare State, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
The apparent exception at the Temple of Neith at Sais is likely due to an agreement, a quid pro quo, made with Udjahorresnet, not to a failure to enact the command immediately.
ref:
2004, Lisbeth S. Fried, The Priest and the Great King: Temple-palace Relations in the Persian Empire, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
The requisite intent is proved by showing a quid pro quo—an expectation of a favorable official act in return for the bribe.
ref:
2006, John Cibinic, Jr., Ralph C. Nash, James F. Nagle, Administration of Government Contracts, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
I call it quid pro quo while other authors have described it as “the art of reciprocity.”
ref:
2011 December 14, Susan T. Spencer, “Business Networking That Works ... It's Called Quid Pro Quo”, in Forbes
type:
quotation
text:
Neither the envelope nor the entry form indicated whether a donation was enclosed. Because there was no obligation to pay to enter the sweepstakes, payments voluntarily sent were fully deductible. No quid pro quo occurred.
ref:
2012, Jody Blazek, Tax Planning and Compliance for Tax-Exempt Organizations
type:
quotation
text:
All are based on the concept of quid pro quo, or “this for that” – the exchange of one thing for another. […] In McDonnell, the government alleged a quid pro quo sale of “official action” – payments (the quid) made to McDonnell, the former governor of Virginia, in return for a promise or undertaking by McDonnell to perform an official action (the quo). The Court’s decision focused on the quo side of the equation – a side that does not often receive much scrutiny – analyzing the contours of whether the actions taken by McDonnell constituted illegal “official actions.”
ref:
2016 July 13, Robert Anello, “SCOTUS Quid Pro Quo Analysis in McDonnell May Broadly Affect Bribery & Insider Trading Prosecutions”, in Forbes
type:
quotation
text:
Council says the mayor and a former councilman may have engaged in a "quid pro quo." / […] / Council says, according to a handwritten note, Fey offered to support a pay raise for Mayor Ellis if Ellis would support a raise or a job appointment for Fey's wife, Gina.
ref:
2019 March 4, “Phillipsburg council calls for new investigation of alleged quid pro quo”, in 69 News
type:
quotation
text:
All I'm asking for is a little quid pro quo. You know—you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
ref:
2018, Vicki Grant, Quid Pro Quo
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. P. did not consider that branch, strictly and technically speaking, public revenue; at least it did not arise from taxation, because those persons who had paid this money had received a full equivalent for the same; there was a quid pro quo on both sides; and this was not taxation, it was a sale; the parties therefore from whom this money was derived had not been taxed.
ref:
1837, United States. Congress, The Congressional Globe, page 1977
type:
quotation
text:
A quid pro quo complaint typically is lodged by an employee who has been denied opportunities because he or she refused a perpetrator's sexual advances or by an employee who has been denied opportunities because another employee obtained those opportunities by submitting to a perpetrator's sexual advances.
ref:
2008, Ronald W. Scott, Promoting Legal and Ethical Awareness, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
As for a legal remedy to the problem of harassment, the Court found that a proper, well-advertised grievance procedure could be used in a defense where sexual comments and horseplay created a “hostile environment,” but not in the quid pro quo cases that feminist Catharine MacKinnon had dubbed "put out or get out."
ref:
2009, Frank Dobbin, Inventing Equal Opportunity
type:
quotation
text:
American courts have recognized two forms of sexual harassment. In the first, quid pro quo cases, the violation occurs when an employer or supervisor conditions an employment benefit on the employee's providing sexual favors.
ref:
2018, Walter B. Connolly, Jr., Michael J. Connolly, Joshua Feinstein, A Practical Guide to Equal Employment Opportunity, page 161
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something which is understood as something else; an equivocation.
Substitution of one drug for another.
Something which is offered or asked for in exchange for something else.
A usually non-monetary exchange transaction, or series or process of exchange transactions.
A usually non-monetary exchange transaction, or series or process of exchange transactions.
An equal or fair transaction or series of process of exchange transactions; tit for tat.
1988, Industrial R&D and U.S. Technological Leadership
1988, Industrial R&D and U.S. Technological Leadership:
What we should do, however, is insist that there be a quid pro quo — an equal exchange.
What we should do, however, is insist that there be a quid pro quo — an equal exchange.
2014, Zephyr Teachout, Corruption in America, page 239
2014, Zephyr Teachout, Corruption in America, page 239:
Most of those cases were about witness immunity deals (was there a quid pro quo?) or the meaning of quid pro quo in the classic “equality of exchange” sense.
Most of those cases were about witness immunity deals (was there a quid pro quo?) or the meaning of quid pro quo in the classic “equality of exchange” sense.
2013 May 21, Nehginpao Kipgen, “Quid Pro Quo Diplomacy in US-Myanmar Relations”, in Foreign Policy Journal
2013 May 21, Nehginpao Kipgen, “Quid Pro Quo Diplomacy in US-Myanmar Relations”, in Foreign Policy Journal:
US-Myanmar relations in the past few years have been largely based on a quid pro quo or tit for tat strategy. Some analysts also call it action for action or give and take strategy.
US-Myanmar relations in the past few years have been largely based on a quid pro quo or tit for tat strategy. Some analysts also call it action for action or give and take strategy.
Sexual harassment in which a person in a workplace implicitly or explicitly requires sexual favours in exchange for something.
senses_topics:
law |
503 | word:
acajou
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acajou (countable and uncountable, plural acajous)
forms:
form:
acajous
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French acajou (“cashew”), from Portuguese acaju, from Old Tupi acaju or agapú (“mahogany”) or the same root as cashew.
senses_examples:
text:
2020, Betsy Wing (translator), Édouard Glissant, Mahagony, University of Nebraska Press, page 105,
The head man's fury shouted out in the curve of the acajous—he insulted hunters, gendarmes, planters, and the transparent clouds lowering with the sky—before sticking the gun barrel under the chin thrust deep into solitude and a suffering that sees all.
text:
acajou:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cashew tree.
A cashew nut.
The wood from the mahogany tree or other trees from the family Meliaceae.
A moderate reddish brown that is slightly yellower and stronger than mahogany.
senses_topics:
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504 | word:
accrementition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accrementition (countable and uncountable, plural accrementitions)
forms:
form:
accrementitions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See accresce, increment.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.
senses_topics:
medicine
physiology
sciences |
505 | word:
accommodable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accommodable (comparative more accommodable, superlative most accommodable)
forms:
form:
more accommodable
tags:
comparative
form:
most accommodable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French accomodable.
senses_examples:
text:
who besides that, should also bee of a fit and accommodable condition for such a dignitie.
ref:
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., Essayes, page 222
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That may be accommodated; suitable.
senses_topics:
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506 | word:
abuzz
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abuzz (comparative more abuzz, superlative most abuzz)
forms:
form:
more abuzz
tags:
comparative
form:
most abuzz
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- (prefix indicating a condition or manner) + buzz (“feeling or rush of energy or excitement; major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes”) or buzz (“to show a high level of activity and haste; to communicate in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly; to talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice”).
senses_examples:
text:
The long silent halls of sumptuous hotels are all abuzz with excited arrivals.
ref:
1879, T. DeWitt Talmage [i.e., Thomas De Witt Talmage], “The Sins of Summer Watering Places”, in The Masque Torn Off, Chicago, Ill.: J. Fairbanks & Co. [et al.], →OCLC, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
Now what a-devil has set this hornet's nest of theirs abuzz so suddenly?
ref:
1902, Francis Lynde, “How a King’s Trooper Became a Wastrel”, in The Master of Appleby: […], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 289
type:
quotation
text:
The town was abuzz with excitement for an hour, when the news became stale.
ref:
1913 July, Peter B[ernhard] Kyne, “The Long Chance: The Tale of a Hat Ranch”, in Charles K[ellogg] Field, editor, Sunset: The Pacific Monthly, volume 31, number 1, San Francisco, Calif.: Southern Pacific Company, →OCLC, page 131, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
It was coming up on the cusp of July and August, and he remembered boyhood summers on the mountain's slopes abuzz with blackflies and syrupy heat.
ref:
2005 June, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books; 1st trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, 2006
type:
quotation
text:
The ranch was abuzz with activity and had been for hours.
ref:
2015, Lauren Dane, chapter 20, in Back to You, Don Mills, Ont.: HQN Books, page 237
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characterized by a high level of activity or gossip; in a buzz (“feeling or rush of energy or excitement”), buzzing.
senses_topics:
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507 | word:
abhor
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abhor (third-person singular simple present abhors, present participle abhorring, simple past and past participle abhorred)
forms:
form:
abhors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abhorring
tags:
participle
present
form:
abhorred
tags:
participle
past
form:
abhorred
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
abhor
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1449, from Middle English abhorren, borrowed from Middle French abhorrer, from Latin abhorreō (“shrink away from in horror”), from ab- (“from”) + horreō (“stand aghast, bristle with fear”).
senses_examples:
text:
I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams.
type:
example
text:
I have risked alienating some members with criticism of the war, reminding them, for example, that the Lord abhors our worship of the false gods of Western affluence, worldly power and high technology. I agree with Michael J. Easley, the senior pastor-teacher of Immanuel Bible Church in Springfield, when he says, "I think my 'job' is to clearly teach the Scriptures, not be persuaded by what may or may not be our people's views."
ref:
2003 April 20, Henry G. Brinton, “A Congregation Divided”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
To fill with horror or disgust.
To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
To protest against; to reject solemnly.
To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to); construed with from.
Differ entirely from.
senses_topics:
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508 | word:
accruer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accruer (plural accruers)
forms:
form:
accruers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accrue + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
title by accruer
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of accruing; accretion.
senses_topics:
law |
509 | word:
acanthopterygian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acanthopterygian (plural acanthopterygians)
forms:
form:
acanthopterygians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin, from acanthus (“thorn”), (from Ancient Greek ἄκανθος (ákanthos)) + Ancient Greek πτερύγιον (pterúgion) diminutive of πτέρυξ (ptérux, “wing, fin”), from πτερόν (pterón, “feather, wing”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any fish of the superorder Acanthopterygii.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
510 | word:
acanthopterygian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acanthopterygian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin, from acanthus (“thorn”), (from Ancient Greek ἄκανθος (ákanthos)) + Ancient Greek πτερύγιον (pterúgion) diminutive of πτέρυξ (ptérux, “wing, fin”), from πτερόν (pterón, “feather, wing”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Similar to an acanthopterygian.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
511 | word:
acciaccatura
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acciaccatura (plural acciaccaturas or acciaccature)
forms:
form:
acciaccaturas
tags:
plural
form:
acciaccature
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian acciaccatura, from the verb acciaccare (“to crush”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short grace note (theoretically taking no time at all), occurring on the beat occupied by the main note to which it is prefixed, one scale-step higher or lower than that main note. (Sometimes equivalent, therefore, to a short appoggiatura, but in Baroque music interpreted differently and more strictly.) Written as a note lighter in appearance, typically a quaver (eighth note), with an oblique stroke through the stem.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
512 | word:
accommodator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accommodator (plural accommodators)
forms:
form:
accommodators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accommodate + -or.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who accommodates.
senses_topics:
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513 | word:
accloy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accloy (third-person singular simple present accloys, present participle accloying, simple past and past participle accloyed)
forms:
form:
accloys
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accloying
tags:
participle
present
form:
accloyed
tags:
participle
past
form:
accloyed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English acloyen, from Old French encloyer, encloer (“to drive in a nail”), from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin in- + clavus (“nail”).
senses_examples:
text:
At the well head the purest streames arise: / But mucky filth his braunching armes annoyes, / And with vncomely weedes the gentle waue accloyes.
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To drive a nail into a horseshoe; to lame.
To overfill; to fill to satiety; to stuff full.
To clog, clog up; to block.
To be disgusting to.
senses_topics:
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514 | word:
substantive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
substantive (comparative more substantive, superlative most substantive)
forms:
form:
more substantive
tags:
comparative
form:
most substantive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English substantif, from Old French substantif.
senses_examples:
text:
substantive information
type:
example
text:
In one sense the first debate achieved the worst of all worlds: it managed to be technical, even dull, without being substantive or especially honest.
ref:
2012 October 6, “The first presidential debate: Back in the centre, back in the game”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
Substantive editing is never trivial, whereas some aspects of copyediting are trivial.
type:
example
text:
substantive changes made by the lawyers
type:
example
text:
Once more then, strength and magnitude are qualities which impress the imagination in a powerful and substantive manner;
ref:
1836 [1829], William Hazlitt, “Definition of wit”, in Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
substantive law
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
Not needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
Depending on itself; independent.
Of or pertaining to a substantive.
Actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment
senses_topics:
law
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
government
military
politics
war |
515 | word:
substantive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
substantive (plural substantives)
forms:
form:
substantives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English substantif, from Old French substantif.
senses_examples:
text:
The Dutch verb beelden and substantive beelding signify form-giving, creation, and by extension image—as do gestalten and Gestaltung in German, where Neo-Plastic[ism] is translated as Die neue Gestaltung.
ref:
1986, Harry Holtzman, Martin S[amuel] James, “The New Plastic in Painting (1917)”, in The New Art—The New Life: The Collected Writings of Piet Mondrian, Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall & Co., part I (The De Stijl Years: 1917–24), page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: accidental
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of noun substantive or substantive noun; a noun or a group of words (a noun phrase) that act as a noun (in a sentence).
Part of a text that carries the meaning, such as words and their ordering.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
516 | word:
substantive
word_type:
verb
expansion:
substantive (third-person singular simple present substantives, present participle substantiving, simple past and past participle substantived)
forms:
form:
substantives
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
substantiving
tags:
participle
present
form:
substantived
tags:
participle
past
form:
substantived
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English substantif, from Old French substantif.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a word belonging to another part of speech into a substantive (that is, a noun) or use it as a noun.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
517 | word:
accessary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accessary (plural accessaries)
forms:
form:
accessaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who accedes to some act, now especially a crime; one who contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.
senses_topics:
law |
518 | word:
accessary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accessary (comparative more accessary, superlative most accessary)
forms:
form:
more accessary
tags:
comparative
form:
most accessary
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Accompanying as a subordinate; additional; accessory; especially, uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See accessory.
senses_topics:
law |
519 | word:
absorbing
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absorbing (comparative more absorbing, superlative most absorbing)
forms:
form:
more absorbing
tags:
comparative
form:
most absorbing
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absorb + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
An absorbing pursuit.
type:
example
text:
It was a dramatic finish to an absorbing, fast-paced game but Blackburn will be deeply unhappy with referee Anthony Taylor as Nzonzi's handball was harsh.
ref:
2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Engrossing, that sustains someone's interest.
Allowing a process to enter it, but not to leave it.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
statistics |
520 | word:
absorbing
word_type:
verb
expansion:
absorbing
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absorb + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of absorb
senses_topics:
|
521 | word:
accroachment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accroachment (plural accroachments)
forms:
form:
accroachments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare French accrochement.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An encroachment; usurpation.
senses_topics:
|
522 | word:
absent-minded
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absent-minded (comparative more absent-minded, superlative most absent-minded)
forms:
form:
more absent-minded
tags:
comparative
form:
most absent-minded
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absent + minded.
senses_examples:
text:
It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.
type:
example
text:
His figure was bent in apologetic protest. "I ask a thousand pardons, sir," he said; "I am really so very absent-minded."
ref:
1900, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, page 110
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Absent in mind; often preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted.
senses_topics:
|
523 | word:
absenter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absenter (plural absenters)
forms:
form:
absenters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absent + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] if many of them that vse the meanes of saluation, shall not bee saued, where shall wilfull Recusants, obstinate absenters, and carelesse contemners of the Word, appeare?
ref:
1621, Thomas Taylor, The Parable of the Sower and the Seed, London: John Bartlet, page 259
type:
quotation
text:
1966, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Pentland Rising: A Page of History, Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, Chapter 1, p. 4,
It was little to be wondered at, from this account that the country-folk refused to go to the parish church, and chose rather to listen to outed ministers in the fields. But this was not to be allowed, and their persecutors at last fell on the method of calling a roll of the parishioners’ names every Sabbath, and marking a fine of twenty shillings Scots to the name of each absenter.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who stays away; one who absents herself or himself.
senses_topics:
|
524 | word:
absenter
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absenter
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
comparative form of absent: more absent
senses_topics:
|
525 | word:
abaft
word_type:
prep
expansion:
abaft
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English obaft, baft, baften, from Old English beæftan; be (“by”) (modern English by) + æftan (“behind”) (modern English after). See also aft.
senses_examples:
text:
The captain stood abaft the wheelhouse.
text:
[…] two drunken Turkes, that were in the Frigot with twelue others, discharged two Calieuers, with which they killed two Souldiours, that stood abaft our Gally.
ref:
1620, Miguel de Cervantes, chapter 63, in Thomas Shelton, transl., The Second Part of the History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha, London: Edward Blount, page 432
type:
quotation
text:
1773, James Cook, An Account of a Voyage Around the World, Book 3, Chapter 5, in John Hawkesworth (ed.), An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty: for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 3, p. 558,
[…] we could hear the water rush in a little abaft the foremast, about three feet from the keel: this determined me to clear the hold intirely.
text:
[…] Read the sign up there—NO SMOKING ABAFT THE WHEEL!
ref:
1869, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in The Innocents Abroad, Hartford: The American Publishing Company, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
The bulkhead that separates ladies’ country from the rough characters who shave is not necessarily No. 30 but, by tradition, it is called “bulkhead thirty” in any mixed ship. […] Male officers had a lounge called the cardroom just abaft thirty.
ref:
1959, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 13, in Starship Troopers, New York: Ace, published 2010, page 260
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
526 | word:
abaft
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abaft (comparative more abaft, superlative most abaft)
forms:
form:
more abaft
tags:
comparative
form:
most abaft
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English obaft, baft, baften, from Old English beæftan; be (“by”) (modern English by) + æftan (“behind”) (modern English after). See also aft.
senses_examples:
text:
We drifted with the wind abaft.
type:
example
text:
The mate sleeps abaft.
type:
example
text:
The Exchange also being farther from the fire, afterward was more easily cleared, and fell off from abaft.
ref:
1599, Nicholas Downton, “The firing and sinking of the stout and warrelike Carack called Las Cinque Llaguas”, in Richard Hakluyt, editor, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, London, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 200
type:
quotation
text:
By clapping the sails to the mast, and lightening the ship abaft, we swayed her off with little damage.
ref:
1785, John Rickman, Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage, London: E. Newbery, Part 1, p. 103
type:
quotation
text:
We cover our anterior nakedness with some philosophy—Christian, Marxian, Freudo-Physicalist—but abaft we remain uncovered, at the mercy of the winds of circumstance.
ref:
1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, New York: Perennial, published 1970, page 72
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On the aft side; in the stern.
Backwards.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport |
527 | word:
acetary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acetary
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acetaria (“salad plants”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An acid pulp in certain fruits, such as the pear.
senses_topics:
|
528 | word:
absquatulate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
absquatulate (third-person singular simple present absquatulates, present participle absquatulating, simple past and past participle absquatulated)
forms:
form:
absquatulates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
absquatulating
tags:
participle
present
form:
absquatulated
tags:
participle
past
form:
absquatulated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Michael Quinion
etymology_text:
Attested since the 1830s in American English, a jocular mock-Latin word. Blend of abscond + squat + perambulate, as ab- (“away (from)”) (as in abscond) + squat + *-ulate (as in perambulate, properly -ate), hence meaning “get up (from a squat) and depart (quickly)”. The middle portion was perhaps influenced by -le (“(frequentative)”) and the dialectal term squattle (“depart”); compare contemporary skedaddle.
senses_examples:
text:
Even within the past year, several Land Officers and keepers of public monies--the Collector of New Orleans and Plattsburg--the Post Masters of Mobile and Worcester have made serious and prominent additions to the long catalogue of absquatulating defaulters.
ref:
1840 January 9, “The President's Message, No. 2”, in Lincoln Telegraph, volume IV, number 41, Bath, Maine, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Why, I expect in a year or two to see coffins introduced into the parlors of the Fifth Avenue, and to find them, when their owners fail or absquatulate, advertised for sale at auction, with the rest of the household furniture, at a great sacrifice on the original cost.
ref:
1860 September, “A Day with the Dead”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 6, number 35
type:
quotation
text:
"[…]Now I see you again—I’m satisfied. I’m satisfied completely. See? I’m going to absquatulate, see? Hey Presto right away.”
He turned to his tea for a moment, finished his cup noisily, stood up.
ref:
1910, H. G. Wells, The history of Mr. Polly
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To leave quickly or in a hurry; to depart, flee.
To abscond.
senses_topics:
|
529 | word:
accismus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accismus (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Via Latin accismus from Ancient Greek ακκισμός (akkismós, “prudery”)
senses_examples:
text:
On this account, mothers, fathers, men, and even youths, are their best companions; on the contrary, girls connected with other girls of a similar age, as in schools, provoke one another to an exchange of foibles, rather than of excellences, to a love of dress, admiration, and gossip, even to the forgetting of accismus.
ref:
1866, Jean Paul, Levana: Or, The Doctrine of Education, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
The keen eye of the ancient comedians detected this weakness in Athenian demagogues who declined office with a view to making their election surer, and Philippides gave it the name accismus.
ref:
1888 March 8, The Nation, number 1184, page 188
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The feigning of disinterest in something while actually desiring it.
senses_topics:
|
530 | word:
accoy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accoy (third-person singular simple present accoys, present participle accoying, simple past and past participle accoyed)
forms:
form:
accoys
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accoying
tags:
participle
present
form:
accoyed
tags:
participle
past
form:
accoyed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French acoyer, from coy (“quiet, calm”). Equivalent to a- + coy.
senses_examples:
text:
Of faire Pæana I received was,
And oft imbrast, as if that I were hee,
And with kind words accoyd, vowing great love to mee.
ref:
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To soothe, to calm; to assuage, to subdue.
senses_topics:
|
531 | word:
acclive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acclive (comparative more acclive, superlative most acclive)
forms:
form:
more acclive
tags:
comparative
form:
most acclive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin acclīvis.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of acclivous (“sloping upwards”)
senses_topics:
|
532 | word:
accordable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accordable (comparative more accordable, superlative most accordable)
forms:
form:
more accordable
tags:
comparative
form:
most accordable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English acordable, from Anglo-Norman acordable.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Able to be given or dispensed.
Reconcilable; in accordance
senses_topics:
|
533 | word:
accipient
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accipient (plural accipients)
forms:
form:
accipients
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin accipiēns (“receiving”, stem: accipient-), the present active participle of accipiō (“I receive”), whence accept.
senses_examples:
text:
Instances sometimes occur of Species, or Varieties, gaining partial possession of the bodies of one another[…]Such instances, however, are very rare, and probably never take place between Varieties belong to the same Primary Species: for although it is an occurrence that evinces an intimate affinity between the plant that confers its distinctions, and that which is the accipient, yet the existence of the conferent in an entire state, would induce us to conclude that there exists a disparity between them which we cannot reasonably suppose to exist between Varieties that have sprung from the same Species.
ref:
1829, David Bishop, Causal Botany, page 145
type:
quotation
text:
He penned voluminous epistles, to complain of "a trivial oversight in her otherwise irreproachable system of philanthropy," or to convey a "father's acknowledgments for the soul-elevating teachings of which his beloved offspring were accipients;" and when they were unnoticed, his visits were frequent.
ref:
1855, Marion Harland, Alone, page 344
type:
quotation
text:
[…]these grave and not over-eager accipients of the invitation to the festivity[…]
ref:
1880, James F. Hunnewell, “"Peveril of the Peak"”, in The Lands of Scott, page 366
type:
quotation
text:
[…]God is the author of salvation, Free will only is susceptible. None but God is able to give it; none but Free will is able to lay hold of it. Therefore it is given by God alone, and given to Free will alone. On the one hand it cannot exist without the consent of the accipient, and on the other hand not without the grace of the giver.[…]
ref:
1905 October, J. W. Richard, “The Old Lutheran Doctrine of Free-Will”, in The Lutheran Quarterly, volume 35, pages 459–460
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who, or something which, accepts (willingly receives).
senses_topics:
|
534 | word:
accordant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accordant (comparative more accordant, superlative most accordant)
forms:
form:
more accordant
tags:
comparative
form:
most accordant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English acordaunt, equivalent to accord + -ant.
senses_examples:
text:
The breach of this law, even when the breach is known to be strictly accordant with true morality, has caused many a man more agony than a real crime.
ref:
1871, Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
type:
quotation
text:
And now his voice accordant to the string.
ref:
1836, Oliver Goldsmith, The Captivity An Oratorio
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In agreement; agreeing.
senses_topics:
|
535 | word:
accipitrine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accipitrine (plural accipitrines)
forms:
form:
accipitrines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* accipiter + -ine
* Compare French accipitrin
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hawk or a hawk-like bird.
senses_topics:
|
536 | word:
accipitrine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accipitrine (comparative more accipitrine, superlative most accipitrine)
forms:
form:
more accipitrine
tags:
comparative
form:
most accipitrine
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* accipiter + -ine
* Compare French accipitrin
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology |
537 | word:
accite
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accite (third-person singular simple present accites, present participle acciting, simple past and past participle accited)
forms:
form:
accites
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
acciting
tags:
participle
present
form:
accited
tags:
participle
past
form:
accited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin accitō (“summon”), from Classical Latin acciō (“call forth”), formed from ad + cieō (“summon, call”). The sense “excite, induce” is likely from or reinforced by conflation with excite.
senses_examples:
text:
Our heralds now accited all that were
ref:
1598, George Chapman, verse translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 11
roman:
Endamag'd by the Elians ...
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To summon.
To cite, quote.
To excite, to induce.
senses_topics:
|
538 | word:
accresce
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accresce (third-person singular simple present accresces, present participle accrescing, simple past and past participle accresced)
forms:
form:
accresces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accrescing
tags:
participle
present
form:
accresced
tags:
participle
past
form:
accresced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin accrescere. Doublet of accrease. See accrue.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To accrue.
To increase; to grow.
senses_topics:
|
539 | word:
accroach
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accroach (third-person singular simple present accroaches, present participle accroaching, simple past and past participle accroached)
forms:
form:
accroaches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accroaching
tags:
participle
present
form:
accroached
tags:
participle
past
form:
accroached
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English acrochen, from Old French acrochier (“to hook in”), from a + croche (“hook”).
senses_examples:
text:
They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power.
ref:
1874-1878, William Stubbs, Constitutional History of England
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hook, or draw to oneself as with a hook.
To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives.
To encroach.
senses_topics:
|
540 | word:
alphabetical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
alphabetical (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin alphabēticus + -al. By surface analysis, alphabet + -ical.
senses_examples:
text:
Paul, who talks about what the magical papyri do, has in his first letter to the Corinthians described basic aspects of alphabetical language.
ref:
1986, Arthur Hilary Armstrong, A. A. Armstrong, Classical Mediterranean Spirituality: Egyptian, Greek, Roman, page 486
type:
quotation
text:
All names were placed into an alphabetical list.
type:
example
text:
But if an alphabeticall servility must be still urged, it may so fall out,
ref:
1644, John Milton, The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to, furnished with, or expressed by letters of the alphabet.
According to the sequence of the letters of the alphabet.
literal
senses_topics:
|
541 | word:
acclivity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acclivity (plural acclivities)
forms:
form:
acclivities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1614. From Latin acclīvitās, from acclīvis (“ascending”), from ad + clīvus (“slope”).
senses_examples:
text:
how gaily vineyards and olives alternately chequer the acclivities
ref:
1797, Ann Radcliffe, The Italian
type:
quotation
text:
she would walk […] as far as to the point where the acclivity from the valley began its first steep ascent to the outer world.
ref:
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences |
542 | word:
abrogate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abrogate (third-person singular simple present abrogates, present participle abrogating, simple past and past participle abrogated)
forms:
form:
abrogates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abrogating
tags:
participle
present
form:
abrogated
tags:
participle
past
form:
abrogated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1526, from Middle English abrogat (“abolished”), from Latin abrogātus, perfect passive participle of abrogō (“repeal”), formed from ab (“away”) + rogō (“ask, inquire, propose”). See rogation.
senses_examples:
text:
But let us look a little further, and see whether the New Testament abrogates what we see so frequently used in the Old.
ref:
1660, Robert South, “The Scribe instructed, &c.”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume 2, page 252
type:
quotation
text:
Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate.
ref:
1796, Edmund Burke, Letter I. On the Overtures of Peace.
type:
quotation
text:
The rule of law whereby it is a crime for a person to commit suicide is hereby abrogated.
ref:
1961, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1”, in Suicide Act 1961, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
The rule known as the “year and a day rule” […] is abrogated for all purposes.
ref:
2000, Legislative Council of Hong Kong, “Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance 2000”, in Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gazette, page A1059
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
To put an end to; to do away with.
To block a process or function.
senses_topics:
law
|
543 | word:
abrogate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abrogate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1526, from Middle English abrogat (“abolished”), from Latin abrogātus, perfect passive participle of abrogō (“repeal”), formed from ab (“away”) + rogō (“ask, inquire, propose”). See rogation.
senses_examples:
text:
Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parables therein and mindless and pale with a longing that nothing save dark's total restitution could appease.
ref:
1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abrogated; abolished.
senses_topics:
|
544 | word:
Achean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Achean (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Achaean
senses_topics:
|
545 | word:
Achean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Achean (plural Acheans)
forms:
form:
Acheans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Achaean
senses_topics:
|
546 | word:
accidie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accidie (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accidie, from Anglo-Norman accidie, Old French accide, accidie, from Late Latin accīdia, alteration of acēdia (“sloth, torpor”), from Ancient Greek ἀκήδεια (akḗdeia, “indifference”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κῆδος (kêdos, “care”). Doublet of acedia.
senses_examples:
text:
Underneath the surface excitements the demon of accidie had her by the hair.
ref:
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 363
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sloth, slothfulness, especially as inducing general listlessness and apathy.
senses_topics:
|
547 | word:
abominate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abominate (comparative more abominate, superlative most abominate)
forms:
form:
more abominate
tags:
comparative
form:
most abominate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1644. Perhaps a back-formation from abomination. Alternatively, perhaps from Late Latin abōminātus, past participle of abōminarī (“to deprecate as an ill omen”), from ab + ominari (“to forebode, presage”), from omen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abominable; detested.
senses_topics:
|
548 | word:
abominate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abominate (third-person singular simple present abominates, present participle abominating, simple past and past participle abominated)
forms:
form:
abominates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abominating
tags:
participle
present
form:
abominated
tags:
participle
past
form:
abominated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1644. Perhaps a back-formation from abomination. Alternatively, perhaps from Late Latin abōminātus, past participle of abōminarī (“to deprecate as an ill omen”), from ab + ominari (“to forebode, presage”), from omen.
senses_examples:
text:
"Much as I abominate writing, I would not give up Mr. Collins's correspondence for any consideration."
ref:
1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To feel disgust towards; to loathe or detest thoroughly; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread.
To dislike strongly.
senses_topics:
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549 | word:
true name
word_type:
noun
expansion:
true name (plural true names)
forms:
form:
true names
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
He saw that in this dusty and fathomless matter of learning the true name of each place, thing, and being, the power he wanted lay like a jewel at the bottom of a dry well. For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.
ref:
1968, Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
It would be back to the stone floors and getting up when it was still dark and no alcohol under any circumstances and memorising the true names of everything until the brain squeaked.
ref:
1987, Terry Pratchett, Mort, page 229
type:
quotation
text:
They conjured a world of primitive magic in which evil spirits could not be given their true names for fear of increasing their power.
ref:
1991 April 23, Martin Cropper, “In The Native State”, in The Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The unique name of an entity, which can be used to control or manipulate that entity.
senses_topics:
fantasy |
550 | word:
abound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abound (third-person singular simple present abounds, present participle abounding, simple past and past participle abounded)
forms:
form:
abounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
abounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
abounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested around 1325.
* From Middle English abounden, abounde, from Old French abonder, abunder, from Latin abundāre, present active infinitive of abundō (“overflow”), which comes from ab (“from, down from”) + undō (“surge, swell, rise in waves, move in waves”), from unda (“wave”).
senses_examples:
text:
Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.
type:
example
text:
One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].
ref:
1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766
type:
quotation
text:
The wilderness abounds in traps.
type:
example
text:
This pond abounds with fish.
type:
example
text:
1858-1860, George Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World
the wild boar, which abounds both in Azerbijan and in the country about Hamadan
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be full to overflowing.
To be wealthy.
To be highly productive.
To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.
To revel in.
To be copiously supplied.
senses_topics:
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551 | word:
first name
word_type:
noun
expansion:
first name (plural first names)
forms:
form:
first names
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]Children address teachers by their first names. Even 15-year-olds do no more than 30 minutes' homework a night.
ref:
2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of given name, particularly when it forms the first element of a full name.
senses_topics:
|
552 | word:
accompt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accompt (plural accompts)
forms:
form:
accompts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
You muſt make an accompt of balance on the next void leaf or folio of your ledger to your other accompts; but after ſo done, do not venture to draw out the accompt of balance in the ſaid folio, till you have made it exact on a ſheet of paper, ruled and titled for that purpoſe, becauſe of miſtakes or errors that may occur or happen in the courſe of ballancing your ledger; […]
ref:
1778, “Method of Balancing Accounts at the Year’s End”, in Kearsley’s Gentleman and Tradesman’s Pocket Ledger, for the Year 1778: …, London: Printed for G. Kearsley, […], →OCLC, page 184
type:
quotation
text:
This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]
ref:
1821, Bank of England, The Bank - The Stock Exchange - The Bankers ..., page 64
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Account.
senses_topics:
|
553 | word:
accompt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accompt (third-person singular simple present accompts, present participle accompting, simple past and past participle accompted)
forms:
form:
accompts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accompting
tags:
participle
present
form:
accompted
tags:
participle
past
form:
accompted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To account.
senses_topics:
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554 | word:
accidence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accidence (countable and uncountable, plural accidences)
forms:
form:
accidences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in the late 14th century.
* (grammar): First attested in the mid 15th century.
* From Middle English accidence, accidens, from Latin accidentia (“accidental matters”), from accidēns, present participle of accidere (“to happen”)
senses_examples:
text:
To teach Schollars how to bee able to reade well, and write true Orthography, in a short space. 2. To make them ready in all points of Accedence and Grammar, to answere any necessary question therein.
ref:
1627, John Brinsley, Ludus Literarius; or, The Grammar Schoole, London: John Bellamie, page xiii
type:
quotation
text:
1669, John Milton, Accedence Commenc’t Grammar (title of a Latin grammar)
text:
1871, Review of An Elementary Greek Grammar by William W. Goodwin, North American Review, Volume 112, No. 231, 1 April, 1871, p. 427,
Our best schools send every year to college boys who know their accidence reasonably, and in some cases admirably well […]
text:
"Room. Rooms. It same thing." Jalii was above accidence.
ref:
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 607
type:
quotation
text:
When Franklin, playing with his kite in a thunderstorm, brought down sparks from the heavens, he was learning the accidence of that science of Electricity which has given us the Telegraph and Telephone […]
ref:
1904, Edwin Sidney Hartland, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance and Folklore, London: David Nutt, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
And forsomuch as this treateth of blazon of Armes, and of the worthie bearers of them […] I therefore, have named this, the Accedence of Armorie […]
ref:
1562, Gerard Legh, The Accedence of Armorie, published 1597, Preface
type:
quotation
text:
Two years afterwards he got part of an accidence and grammar, and about three fourths of Littleton’s dictionary. He conceived a violent passion for reading […]
ref:
1759, The Annual Register, page 295
type:
quotation
text:
Hugh Jones, a Fellow of William and Mary College, writes of his countrymen that, for the most part, they are only desirous of learning what is absolutely necessary, in the shortest way. To meet this peculiarity Mr. Jones states that he has designed a royal road to learning, consisting of a series of text-books embracing an Accidence to Christianity, an Accidence to the Mathematicks, and an Accidence to the English Tongue.
ref:
1895, Maud Wilder Goodwin, The Colonial Cavalier; or, Southern Life Before the Revolution, Boston: Little Brown & Co., pages 230–231
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The inflection of words.
The rudiments of any subject.
A book containing the first principles of grammar; (by extension) a book containing the rudiments of any subject or art.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
555 | word:
abyssal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abyssal (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in the 1690s. From Medieval Latin abyssalis, from Latin abyssus (“abyss”) + -alis (“-al”). Equivalent to abyss + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.
Of or belonging to the ocean depths, especially below 2000 metres (6500 ft): abyssal zone.
Pertaining to or occurring at excessive depths in the earth's crust; plutonic.
senses_topics:
geography
natural-sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
556 | word:
abba
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abba (plural abbas)
forms:
form:
abbas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Latin, from Ancient Greek, from Aramaic אבא/ܐܒܐ (ʼabbāʼ, “father”); see abbot.
senses_examples:
text:
The abba of the coenobion went to him and told him about the brother who had slipped up.
ref:
2012, The Book of the Elders: Sayings of the Desert Fathers, page 135
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
557 | word:
abba
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abba (plural abbas)
forms:
form:
abbas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant forms.
senses_examples:
text:
The rich turbans and flowing robes of the respectable merchants are finely contrasted with the rude sheepskin covering of the mountaineer, and the dark abba of the wandering Arab.
ref:
1836, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Landscape Illustrations of the Bible
type:
quotation
text:
Around their waist, instead of a shawl, they wear a girdle fastened with monstrous silver clasps which may be ornamented, according to the owner's taste, with jewels and in which they stick not only their Koordish dagger, but a pair of great brass or silver-knobbed pistols; from this, too, hang sundry powder-horns and shot-cases, cartridge-boxes, &c. ; and over all they cast a sort of cloak, or abba, of camel's hair, white or black, or striped white brown and black, clasped on the breast, and floating picturesquely behind.
ref:
1840, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, The Dublin Review - Parts 1-2, page 420
type:
quotation
text:
Conceiving that he had some solid reason for his refusal, which he could not with propriety disclose in presence of Omar Effendi, I did not urge him to accompany me; but laying aside my white burnous, which I had hitherto worn after the fashion of Cairo, put on a black abba of the Capo Verde which was brought me by as black a Hercules, of whom the interpreter remarked that there was only one person in Jerusalem, and that too a fellow-servant, who was piu diavolo che lui, more devil than he.
ref:
2014, Robert Richardson, Travels along the Mediterranean and Parts Adjacent, page 284
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of aba (Middle Eastern garment).
senses_topics:
|
558 | word:
according
word_type:
verb
expansion:
according
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accord + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of accord
senses_topics:
|
559 | word:
according
word_type:
adj
expansion:
according (comparative more according, superlative most according)
forms:
form:
more according
tags:
comparative
form:
most according
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accord + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
This according voice of national wisdom.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious.
senses_topics:
|
560 | word:
according
word_type:
adv
expansion:
according (comparative more according, superlative most according)
forms:
form:
more according
tags:
comparative
form:
most according
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accord + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
That apprehends no further than this world, / And squarest thy life according.
ref:
1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, V.i
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Accordingly; correspondingly.
senses_topics:
|
561 | word:
EBITA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
EBITA (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of earnings before interest, taxes and amortization.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance |
562 | word:
raptor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
raptor (plural raptors)
forms:
form:
raptors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English raptour, from Latin raptor (“kidnapper, thief”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bird of prey.
One who ravishes or plunders.
senses_topics:
|
563 | word:
raptor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
raptor (plural raptors)
forms:
form:
raptors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Michael Crichton
etymology_text:
Popularized (and possibly coined) in 1990 by Michael Crichton in Jurassic Park; clipping of velociraptor, ultimately of the same etymology as above.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the dromaeosaurs, a family of carnivorous dinosaurs having tearing claws on the hind legs.
senses_topics:
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences |
564 | word:
abundantly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abundantly (comparative more abundantly, superlative most abundantly)
forms:
form:
more abundantly
tags:
comparative
form:
most abundantly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abundantly, abundauntli, habundantly, habundauntliche, equivalent to abundant + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
When strata are so unsymmetrically and abundantly folded that it becomes difficult or impossible to trace out the individual flexures and crumplings — the whole forming an irregular complex of folds — they are said to be contorted […]
ref:
1905, James Geikie, Structural and Field Geology: For Students of Pure and Applied Science
type:
quotation
text:
Hodgson also has Wayne Rooney to call on once he has served a two-match suspension at the start of the tournament - and it is abundantly clear England will rely as heavily as ever on his ability to shape the outcome of important games.
ref:
2012 May 26, Phil McNulty, “Norway 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Indian English is today one of the most widespread and abundantly used varieties of English, in extensive use not only throughout South Asia but in virtually every corner of the globe.
ref:
2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 248
type:
quotation
text:
The explosion, in other words, was unexpected, powerful, and politically diffuse; it vented sharp African frustrations with the colonial situation, but had no readily visible leadership or political goals; it made abundantly obvious the need to speed the pace of self-government
ref:
1980, Claude Emerson Welch, Anatomy of Rebellion
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an abundant manner; in a sufficient degree; in large measure.
Extremely.
senses_topics:
|
565 | word:
accostable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accostable (comparative more accostable, superlative most accostable)
forms:
form:
more accostable
tags:
comparative
form:
most accostable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Originally from French accostable, in later usage partly recoined from accost + -able.
senses_examples:
text:
Old soldiers, I know not why, seem to be more accostable than old sailors. One is apt to hear a growl beneath the smoothest courtesy of the latter.
ref:
1876, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home
type:
quotation
text:
Online communities becoming increasingly accostable to their users does not always lead to higher overall activity.
ref:
2019, Patrick Kasper et al., “Modeling User Dynamics in Collaboration Websites”, in Dynamics on and of Complex Networks III: Machine Learning and Statistical Physics Approaches, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
“I always felt that I knew what to do in those circumstances,” she continued. “I didn’t feel … accostable. I never felt that I was being insulted, demeaned. I didn’t recognize it as that.[…]”
ref:
2019 September 3, Jocelyn Silver, “Renée Zellweger Says Those Mean Tweets About Her Face Made Her Stronger Than Ever”, in W
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Approachable; affable; willing to be accosted.
senses_topics:
|
566 | word:
acceptation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acceptation (countable and uncountable, plural acceptations)
forms:
form:
acceptations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English acceptacioun, acceptation, from Middle French acceptacion and Late Latin acceptātiō.
senses_examples:
text:
The term is to be used according to its usual acceptation.
type:
example
text:
My words, in common Acceptation, / Could never give this Provocation
ref:
1731 January 30, John Gay, “Fable: The Dog and the Fox: To a Lawyer”, in Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), editor, The Craftsman, volume 7, page 233
type:
quotation
text:
In its most proper acceptation, theory means the completed result of philosophical induction from experience.
ref:
1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, volume 2, book 5, chapter 7, page 444
type:
quotation
text:
Farce, indeed, is a term which has been used by literary historians in two rather different shades of meaning. In one acceptation, derived from its use as applied to Maître Pathelin and other examples of fiteenth-century French dramatic humour, it does not so much connote something other than comedy, as a variety of comedy itself. It is a matter of temper and milieu.
ref:
1904–1906, E. K. Chambers, "The Comedy of Errors", in Shakespeare: A Survey, Fifth Printing, published 1958, page 27
text:
Sn may in the latter case designate the uncle, the cousin, or the nephew. None of these scholars, however, has dealt extensively with the third and largest acceptation of the word sn, namely its metaphorical one.
ref:
2003, Jean Revez, “The Metaphorical Use of the Kinship Term sn ‘Brother’”, in Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, volume 40, →JSTOR, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
Finally, ſome things although not ſo required of neceſſity, that to leave them undone excludeth from Salvation, are notwithſtanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God, that moſt ample reward in Heaven is laid up for them.
ref:
1676, Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton, “The Second Book of Eccleſiaſtical Polity”, in The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in Eight Books of Eccleſiaſtical Polity, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
1769, Oxford Standard text, King James Bible: 1 Timothy, i, 15,
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
text:
The acceptation of the anti-hegemony clause – President Carter in May 1978 had encouraged the Japanese to agree to it – compelled the Japanese government to confess publicly what everybody knew: omnidirectional diplomacy notwithstanding, Japan was more favourably disposed towards China than the Soviet Union.
ref:
1985, Harish Kapur, The End of an Isolation: China After Mao, pages 31–2
type:
quotation
text:
This does not, however, mean that the habit of created charity may be regarded as the formal cause of divine acceptation, considered from the standpoint of the one who elicits the act of acceptation (i.e., God), as this must be regarded as lying within the divine will itself.
ref:
1998 [1986], Alister E. McGrath, Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification, 2nd edition, page 148
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The meaning (sense) in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received.
Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; the state of being acceptable.
The active divine decision to approve an act or circumstance, held by Scotists to be necessary to render it meritorious.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
theology |
567 | word:
abrasive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abrasive (comparative more abrasive, superlative most abrasive)
forms:
form:
more abrasive
tags:
comparative
form:
most abrasive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abrase + -ive.
senses_examples:
text:
An abrasive person can grate on one's sensibilities.
type:
example
text:
Despite her proper upbringing, we found her manners to be terribly abrasive.
type:
example
text:
The women of the movement, it struck me, were more humorless and more single-minded in their total dedication to the ideology than were the men. In fact, Chiang Ching was unpleasantly abrasive and aggressive. At one point that evening she turned to me and in a challenging voice asked, "Why did you not come to China before now?" Since the ballet was in progress at the time, I did not respond.
ref:
1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 570
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface.
Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; overly aggressive and causing irritation.
senses_topics:
|
568 | word:
abrasive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abrasive (plural abrasives)
forms:
form:
abrasives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abrase + -ive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
569 | word:
acceptant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acceptant (comparative more acceptant, superlative most acceptant)
forms:
form:
more acceptant
tags:
comparative
form:
most acceptant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accept + -ant.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
accepting; receiving.
senses_topics:
|
570 | word:
acceptant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acceptant (plural acceptants)
forms:
form:
acceptants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accept + -ant.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who accepts something.
senses_topics:
|
571 | word:
accumulative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accumulative (comparative more accumulative, superlative most accumulative)
forms:
form:
more accumulative
tags:
comparative
form:
most accumulative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accumulate + -ive.
senses_examples:
text:
At the back of it all was a nebulous, accumulative foreboding; a gathering together in the cumulus sky; a mounting excitement in the heart of secrecy […]
ref:
1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 88, in Titus Alone, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass
Having a propensity to amass; acquisitive.
senses_topics:
|
572 | word:
abuna
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abuna (plural abunas)
forms:
form:
abunas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Amharic አቡነ (ʾäbunä), Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”).
senses_examples:
text:
Around these leaders are still numerous hereditary dynasties of non-monastic clergy who, over the centuries, might swarm in their thousands to seek ordination on the abun’s rare visits to their area.
ref:
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 242
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
573 | word:
acceptability
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acceptability (countable and uncountable, plural acceptabilities)
forms:
form:
acceptabilities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acceptable + -ity.
senses_examples:
text:
Acceptability of repentance
ref:
1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.
Operation plan review criterion. The determination as to whether the contemplated course of action is worth the cost in manpower, materiel, and time involved; is consistent with the law of war; and is militarily and politically supportable. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms)
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
574 | word:
homeworld
word_type:
noun
expansion:
homeworld (plural homeworlds)
forms:
form:
homeworlds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compound of home + world.
senses_examples:
text:
But Woman's heart within itself lives more, / And in her Homeworld she can happy be, / Loving and lov'd: from Nature's founts her Lore / Instinctive flows, she drinks it fresh and free
ref:
1839, Henry Ellison, Madmoments, page 229
type:
quotation
text:
"First the Patrons wipe-out our home world, now you blow any chance of us making any credits," Kane said in his gruff sinking voice.
ref:
2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The world on which someone or something originated; a home planet or moon.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction |
575 | word:
abalone
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abalone (usually uncountable, plural abalones)
forms:
form:
abalones
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From American Spanish abulón, from an indigenous language of the Monterey Bay area such as Rumsen/Southern Ohlone aūlun (“red abalone”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.
The meat of the aforementioned mollusc.
senses_topics:
|
576 | word:
absinthium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absinthium (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English absinthium, from Latin absinthium, from Ancient Greek ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion). Doublet of absinthe.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter herb used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.
The dried leaves and flowering tops of the wormwood plant.
absinthe oil
senses_topics:
|
577 | word:
acclimate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
acclimate (third-person singular simple present acclimates, present participle acclimating, simple past and past participle acclimated)
forms:
form:
acclimates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
acclimating
tags:
participle
present
form:
acclimated
tags:
participle
past
form:
acclimated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1792, from French acclimater.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.
To adjust to a new environment; not necessarily a wild, natural, earthy one.
To become accustomed to a new climate or environment.
senses_topics:
|
578 | word:
abdicate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abdicate (third-person singular simple present abdicates, present participle abdicating, simple past and past participle abdicated)
forms:
form:
abdicates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abdicating
tags:
participle
present
form:
abdicated
tags:
participle
past
form:
abdicated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abdicātus (“renounced”), perfect passive participle of abdicō (“renounce, reject, disclaim”), formed from ab (“away”) + dicō (“proclaim, dedicate, declare”), akin to dīcō (“say”).
senses_examples:
text:
to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy
type:
example
text:
Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.
text:
The understanding abdicates its functions.
ref:
1856, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth
type:
quotation
text:
Although the 1970s ushered in a culture of relative moral freedom, the courts refused to abdicate their role of custodians of public morality.
ref:
2022, Janet Loveless, Mischa Allen, Caroline Derry, chapter 12, in Complete Criminal Law, 8th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 12.2.5, page 649
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
To depose.
To reject; to cast off; to discard.
To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
senses_topics:
|
579 | word:
achroous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
achroous
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἄχροος (ákhroos), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χρώς (khrṓs, “color”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Colorless; achromatic.
senses_topics:
|
580 | word:
abase
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abase (third-person singular simple present abases, present participle abasing, simple past and past participle abased)
forms:
form:
abases
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abasing
tags:
participle
present
form:
abased
tags:
participle
past
form:
abased
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English abaishen, abashen, abaisse, abassen, abesse, abessen (“to be upset; to embarrass; to surprise; to confound; to bend down, stoop; to abase, degrade, disgrace”), from Middle French abaisser, from Old French abaissier, abessier (“to prostrate oneself; to lower, reduce”) (also compare Old French esbahir (“to amaze”), Vulgar Latin abbassiāre (“to lower”)), from a- (“prefix indicating movement towards something”) (from Latin ad (“toward, to”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“at, to”)) + baissier (“to lower”) (from Medieval Latin bassus (“short of stature, low; base”), possibly from Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (básis, “foot; base, foundation”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”)). The spelling of the English word has been influenced by base, thus ostensibly analyzable as a- (“towards”) + base.
There exist verb cognates in galloromance languages such as Catalan abaixar (“lower; abase”) and Occitan abaissar, and similar word construction in other romance languages as Spanish abajo (“down, downstairs; below”).
senses_examples:
text:
Our adverſaries object againe, that by praying that Chriſts merits may be made ours in particular, we greatly abaſe them. As though the Prophet David did abaſe God in making him his in particular, ſaying, the Lord is my rock, my fortreſſe, my God, and my ſtrength, my ſhield, the horne of my ſalvation, and my refuge: […]
ref:
1657, John Ball, “By Faith a True Believer may be Certain and Infallibly Assured of the Remission of His Sins and Eternal Salvation”, in A Treatise of Faith: Divided into Two Parts: The First Shewing the Nature, the Second, the Life of Faith. […], 3rd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for Edward Brewster, […], →OCLC, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
When a large kingdom abases itself to a small principality, it acquires that principality, and when a small state abases itself to a large one, it obtains service (or protection) under the large one. It is for this purpose that the small state submits, and the large kingdom annexes the small states for the purpose of uniting and maintaining the people.
ref:
1868 December, T. W., “Lao-Tzu. 老子: A Study in Chinese Philosophy.”, in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume I, number 8, Foochow: Printed by Rozario, Marçal & Co., →OCLC, chapter VI (Politics), page 158, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
to abase the eye
type:
example
text:
Though in the nature thereof, that with which a purer metal is mixed, be not base; yet, it abases the purer metal. […] [T]hough silver be a precious metal, yet it abases gold. Grace, and peace, and faith, are precious parts of our treasure here; yet, if we mingle them, that is, compare them with the joys, and glory of heaven; […] we abase, and over-alloy these joys, and that glory.
ref:
1629 February 12, John Donne, “Sermon CXXXVI. A Lent Sermon Preached to the King, at Whitehall, February 12, 1629”, in Henry Alford, editor, The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of St. Paul’s, 1621–1631. […] In Six Volumes, volume V, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 450
type:
quotation
text:
[H]er majesty [Elizabeth I of England] let them all to understand, that she never intended (God's grace assisting her) to leese the fruit of so famous an act, by abasing the coin of the realm, which she found to be for the more part copper, and had now recovered it to be as fine, or rather finer, sterling silver, than ever it was in the realm by the space of two hundred years or more; a matter worth marking and memory.
ref:
1840, Rogers Ruding, “Elizabeth”, in Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and Its Dependencies; from the Earliest Period of Authentic History to the Reign of Victoria, 3rd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for John Hearne, […], by Manning and Mason, […], →OCLC, page 341
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
senses_topics:
|
581 | word:
achene
word_type:
noun
expansion:
achene (plural achenes)
forms:
form:
achenes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French achène and its source, New Latin achena, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “a-”) + χαίνω (khaínō, “to gape”).
senses_examples:
text:
The mulberry puts forth its messy clusters of achenes.
ref:
2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
582 | word:
aboard
word_type:
adv
expansion:
aboard (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abord, from a- (“on”) + bord (“board, side of a ship”); equivalent to a- + board.
senses_examples:
text:
We all climbed aboard.
type:
example
text:
As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
ref:
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
to sling a saddle aboard
type:
example
text:
He doubled with two men aboard, scoring them both.
type:
example
text:
The office manager welcomed him aboard.
type:
example
text:
The ships came close aboard to pass messages.
type:
example
text:
The captain laid his ship aboard the enemy's ship.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
On base.
Into a team, group, or company.
Alongside.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport |
583 | word:
aboard
word_type:
prep
expansion:
aboard
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abord, from a- (“on”) + bord (“board, side of a ship”); equivalent to a- + board.
senses_examples:
text:
We all went aboard the ship.
type:
example
text:
Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
ref:
2012 March 24, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast.
ref:
1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
Onto a horse.
Across; athwart; alongside.
senses_topics:
|
584 | word:
achymous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
achymous
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἄχυμος (ákhumos, “tasteless”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χυμός (khumós, “flavour”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without chyme.
senses_topics:
medicine
physiology
sciences |
585 | word:
abridge
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abridge (third-person singular simple present abridges, present participle abridging, simple past and past participle abridged)
forms:
form:
abridges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abridging
tags:
participle
present
form:
abridged
tags:
participle
past
form:
abridged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abreggen, abregge, abrigge (“curtail, lessen”), from Old French abregier, abreger, from Late Latin abbreviō, abberiāre (“make brief”). Doublet of abbreviate.
senses_examples:
text:
She retired her self to Sebaste, and abridged her train from State to necessity.
ref:
1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Book 2, Chapter 31, p. 85
type:
quotation
text:
It was still necessary for the man who had been formerly saluted by the highest authority as dictator of the English language to supply his wants by constant toil. He abridged his Dictionary. He proposed to bring out an edition of Shakespeare by subscription, and many subscribers sent in their names and laid down their money; but he soon found the task so little to his taste that he turned to more attractive employments.
ref:
1911, Samuel Johnson, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
type:
quotation
text:
Such an episode in the Island's grand naval story her naval historians naturally abridge; one of them (G.P.R. James) candidly acknowledging that fain would he pass it over did not "impartiality forbid fastidiousness."
ref:
1891, Henry Melville, chapter 3, in Billy Budd
type:
quotation
text:
He had his rights abridged by the crooked sheriff.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To deprive; to cut off.
To debar from.
To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
Cut short; truncate.
To curtail.
senses_topics:
|
586 | word:
abuser
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abuser (plural abusers)
forms:
form:
abusers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abuse + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
drug abuser
type:
example
text:
cocaine abuser
type:
example
text:
child abuser
type:
example
text:
abuser of my generosity
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who abuses someone or something.
One who uses in an illegal or wrongful use.
senses_topics:
|
587 | word:
abandoned
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abandoned (comparative more abandoned, superlative most abandoned)
forms:
form:
more abandoned
tags:
comparative
form:
most abandoned
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
Such immunity to offenders offered a safe asylum to the vilest and most abandoned scoundrels.
ref:
1876, Alexander Davidson, A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1884, page 232
type:
quotation
text:
[…] your abandoned streams […]
ref:
1735, Thomson, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
ref:
1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 11, in The Moon and Sixpence
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
Free from constraint; uninhibited.
No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
588 | word:
abandoned
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abandoned
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of abandon
senses_topics:
|
589 | word:
achylous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
achylous
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἄχυλος (ákhulos, “without juice”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χυλός (khulós, “juice”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without chyle
senses_topics:
medicine
physiology
sciences |
590 | word:
rag week
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rag week (plural rag weeks)
forms:
form:
rag weeks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From rag (“university students society run for charitable fundraising”) + week, possibly from the verb rag (“tease; torment; banter”).
senses_examples:
text:
This week has been the University College Rag Week. The students are given more or less a free hand all the week. They organize a series of revels culminating in a grand procession and collection this afternoon.
ref:
1949 April 24, The Texas Outlook, volume 33, number 4, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
The only acting that looks like anything but rag week at a bad university is by Billy Hartman as a private detective.
ref:
1982 January 6, B.A. Young, The Financial Times, section 1, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Worse than that, too, during Rag Week when the drink flowed quickly and the privy seemes too far to stagger.
ref:
1987, Terry Pratchett, Mort, page 222
type:
quotation
text:
In truth the gags seldom rise above the level of an undergraduate Rag Week but speed, quickchange wigs and sheer chutzpah from Russell Bentley, pretty blonde Marianne Levy, Joel Brookes and Teddy Lawrence give wicked twists to such as 'Richard and Judaism', a Who Wants to be a Millionaire? contestant whose phone-a-friend is his argumentative Jewish mother, a wondering 'Wandering Jew' and a savage Shylock rehearsal scene.
ref:
2002 December 19, John Thaxter, “Tower of Bagel”, in The Stage, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An annual event in many universities where students engage in unusual activities to raise money for charity.
senses_topics:
|
591 | word:
rag week
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rag week (plural rag weeks)
forms:
form:
rag weeks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From rag (“piece of old cloth”) + week. From the former use, by women, of rags to protect their clothing from menstrual blood.
senses_examples:
text:
I wouldn't bother trying to get off with her – it's rag week.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The days of the month when a woman has her period.
senses_topics:
|
592 | word:
Acadian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Acadian (comparative more Acadian, superlative most Acadian)
forms:
form:
more Acadian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Acadian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1705. From Acadia + -n (“one that is”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Acadia, its people, or their language or culture.
Of or pertaining to the Acadian epoch.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
593 | word:
Acadian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Acadian (plural Acadians)
forms:
form:
Acadians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1705. From Acadia + -n (“one that is”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native of Acadia or their descendants who moved to Louisiana; a Cajun.
A descendant of the settlers of the French colony of Acadia in current eastern Canada. More specifically a speaker of Acadian French.
senses_topics:
|
594 | word:
Acadian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Acadian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1705. From Acadia + -n (“one that is”).
senses_examples:
text:
In many places, Acadian has been supplanted by English and by Standard French.
type:
example
text:
The Burgess Shale contains fossils of very odd organisms that lived during the Acadian.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of Acadian French.: the form of French spoken in Acadia.
The Middle Cambrian epoch, lasting from 497 million years ago to 509 million years ago.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
595 | word:
abbot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abbot (plural abbots)
forms:
form:
abbots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abbot, abbod, abbed, from Old English abbat, abbad, abbod, from Latin abbās (“father”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”). Doublet of abba, abbé, and bwana.
senses_examples:
text:
The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.
The pastor or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.
A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.
A brothel-owner's husband or lover.
A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer.
senses_topics:
|
596 | word:
abusive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abusive (comparative more abusive, superlative most abusive)
forms:
form:
more abusive
tags:
comparative
form:
most abusive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in the 1530s. From French abusif, from Latin abūsīvus, from abusus + -ivus (“-ive”). Equivalent to abuse + -ive.
senses_examples:
text:
All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me and my colleagues.
type:
example
text:
[…] to begin in this vacation the foundation of a trifling subject which might shroud in his leaves the abusive enormities of these our times.
ref:
1589, Thomas Nashe, The Anatomy of Absurdity
type:
quotation
text:
the abusive prerogatives of his see
ref:
1837, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe
type:
quotation
text:
I am […]necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof.
ref:
1662, Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
Catachrestic.
senses_topics:
|
597 | word:
ppl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ppl pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Here's my promised posting of internetwork mailing.. There was a HUGE amount of mail in response to the original posting.. ppl are really interested in this... It took me 3 days to sort out all the mail... 8-)
ref:
1985 November 25, Steve Wall, “internet mailing summary”, in net.general (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of people.
Initialism of parts per litre.
senses_topics:
|
598 | word:
ppl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ppl (plural ppls)
forms:
form:
ppls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of participle.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
599 | word:
domestic debt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
domestic debt (countable and uncountable, plural domestic debts)
forms:
form:
domestic debts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
debt owed to creditors resident in the same country as the debtor
senses_topics:
economics
sciences |