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700 | word:
august
word_type:
verb
expansion:
august (third-person singular simple present augusts, present participle augusting, simple past and past participle augusted)
forms:
form:
augusts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
augusting
tags:
participle
present
form:
augusted
tags:
participle
past
form:
augusted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From August.
senses_examples:
text:
By divine science and cœlestial art / He for the cause of the dear nations toiled, / And augusted man's heavenly hopes that so, / […] / he might, by awful rites / […] / Adhæsion with Divinity achieve.
ref:
1855, Philip James Bailey, The Mystic and Other Poems, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 55
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make ripe; ripen.
To bring to realization.
senses_topics:
|
701 | word:
august
word_type:
noun
expansion:
august (plural augusts)
forms:
form:
augusts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of auguste (“kind of clown”)
senses_topics:
|
702 | word:
dotcom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dotcom (plural dotcoms)
forms:
form:
dotcoms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dot + com, from the DNS suffix .com.
senses_examples:
text:
Even mainstream, primetime narratives in the domestic sphere, for instance, now provide unremarkable reflections on the now naive and overly optimistic promises of cybertech, the high-techs, and dotcoms.
ref:
2003, Anna Everett, John T. Caldwell, New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality
type:
quotation
text:
Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A company whose business is based around a website or primarily via the Internet.
senses_topics:
|
703 | word:
dotcom
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dotcom (third-person singular simple present dotcoms, present participle dotcomming, simple past and past participle dotcommed)
forms:
form:
dotcoms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dotcomming
tags:
participle
present
form:
dotcommed
tags:
participle
past
form:
dotcommed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dot + com, from the DNS suffix .com.
senses_examples:
text:
The fear of being "dotcommed” was a powerful catalyst creating a reactionary environment.
ref:
2001, Rick G. Sherland, E-business & Internet infrastructure software: United States, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
When will your company get dotcommed?
ref:
2001, Mass Media in India, page 185
type:
quotation
text:
Then Yuppies dotcommed the Banks.
ref:
2010, J. S. Graustein, Rose Auslander, On a Narrow Windowsill: Fiction and Poetry Folded Onto Twitter
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To convert to using or being based on e-commerce.
senses_topics:
|
704 | word:
abracadabra
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abracadabra (plural abracadabras)
forms:
form:
abracadabras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abracadabra
etymology_text:
From Late Latin abracadabra, a word used in magical writings, of unknown origin. Relationships have been suggested with Abraxas (a Gnostic deity), and with various Aramaic or Hebrew terms עַבְרָא כְּדַבְרָא (avra kedavra, literally “what was said has come to pass”), עַבְדָא כְּדַבְרָא (avda kedavra, literally “what was said has been done”); אַרְבַּע-אֶחַד-אַרְבַּע (arba-eḥad-arba, literally “four-one-four”), but there is little supporting evidence.
senses_examples:
text:
Where is the necessity of this provision in the Constitution? […] Can anyone believe that we, by any amendments of ours, by any of our scribbling on that parchment, by any amulet, any legerdemain—charm—Abrecadabra—of ours can prevent our sons from doing the same thing—that is, from doing as they please, just as we are doing as we please? It is impossible. Who can bind posterity?
ref:
1851, Hugh A. Garland, quoting John Randolph of Roanoke, “The Virginia Convention—Every Change is Not Reform”, in The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke, volume II, New York: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 329
type:
quotation
text:
With a quiet bank holiday afternoon to fill, the Mill yesterday dug out the old magic kit, brushed the cobwebs off its top hat and practiced a few abracadabras.
ref:
2012 August 28, Georgina Turner, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I don’t know all the theoretical abracadabra about how it works, I’m only its pilot.
type:
example
text:
Astrology was not specifically banned in the statutes against witchcraft, but so long as its technicalities remained abracadabra to the lay public there was always a risk that the practitioner might find himself arrested for sorcery.
ref:
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, page 335
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A use of the mystical term ‘abracadabra’, supposed to work as part of a healing charm or a magical spell; any spell or incantation making use of the word.
Mumbo jumbo; obscure language or technicalities; jargon.
senses_topics:
|
705 | word:
abracadabra
word_type:
intj
expansion:
abracadabra
forms:
wikipedia:
abracadabra
etymology_text:
From Late Latin abracadabra, a word used in magical writings, of unknown origin. Relationships have been suggested with Abraxas (a Gnostic deity), and with various Aramaic or Hebrew terms עַבְרָא כְּדַבְרָא (avra kedavra, literally “what was said has come to pass”), עַבְדָא כְּדַבְרָא (avda kedavra, literally “what was said has been done”); אַרְבַּע-אֶחַד-אַרְבַּע (arba-eḥad-arba, literally “four-one-four”), but there is little supporting evidence.
senses_examples:
text:
Next, the conjuror filled a glass with water from a big jug and then covered the tumbler with a cloth. "Abracadabra," he cried and crumpled the cloth.
ref:
1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 49
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed.
senses_topics:
|
706 | word:
dollarization
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dollarization (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dollarize + -ation.
senses_examples:
text:
Making dollarisation work requires structural reform, something President Noboa has failed to achieve. Ecuador's businesses are struggling against high costs. The public finances face a shortfall. A new agreement with the IMF has proved elusive. Neither candidate says he would scrap the dollar, but neither says much about reform.
ref:
2002 October 26, “New faces of Andean politics”, in The Economist, U.S. edition
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of a country, officially, or its residents, unofficially, adopting the US dollar or other foreign currency in parallel to or instead of the domestic currency.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences |
707 | word:
acceptor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acceptor (plural acceptors)
forms:
form:
acceptors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English acceptour, from Latin acceptor, with the meanings from accept.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who accepts.
One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.
senses_topics:
business
commerce
law
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
medicine
physiology
sciences
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
708 | word:
aberration
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aberration (countable and uncountable, plural aberrations)
forms:
form:
aberrations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
aberration
etymology_text:
A learned borrowing from Latin aberrātiō (“relief, diversion”), first attested in 1594, from aberrō (“wander away, go astray”), from ab (“away”) + errō (“wander”). Compare French aberration. Equivalent to aberrate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
the aberration of youth
type:
example
text:
aberrations from theory
type:
example
text:
aberration of character
type:
example
text:
A derailment which occurred on April 18 last between Laindon and Pitsea on the London Tilbury & Southend Line was caused by a lengthman who in a moment of aberration clipped a set of spring catch points in the derailing position, concludes Col. J. R. H. Robertson in his report [...].
ref:
1961 December, “Talking of Trains: Derailment near Laindon”, in Trains Illustrated, page 717
type:
quotation
text:
Occasional aberrations of intellect
ref:
1819, John Lingard, The History of England, From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII
type:
quotation
text:
We see indeed the aberrations of unruly appetite
ref:
1828, Isaac Taylor, The balance of criminality
type:
quotation
text:
Only by submitting to the aberration could the human traders travel safely through the territory of Zularn.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state.
The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; a defect in a focusing mechanism that prevents the intended focal point.
A small periodical change of the apparent positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer.
A small periodical change of the apparent positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer.
The tendency of light rays to preferentially strike the leading face of a moving object (the effect underlying the above phenomenon).
A partial alienation of reason.
Any creature with supernatural powers not found in the organized classes of beings in a given setting.
A mental disorder, especially one of a minor or temporary character.
Atypical development or structure; deviation from the normal type; an aberrant organ.
A deviation of a tissue, organ or mental functions from what is considered to be within the normal range.
A defect in an image produced by an optical or electrostatic lens system.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
astronomy
natural-sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
fantasy
biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
medicine
sciences
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
709 | word:
accordingly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accordingly (comparative more accordingly, superlative most accordingly)
forms:
form:
more accordingly
tags:
comparative
form:
most accordingly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English acordingli, equivalent to according + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
He was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card.
type:
example
text:
Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
ref:
1895, H. G. Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine
type:
quotation
text:
From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.
ref:
1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Our preparations were all finished. Accordingly, we set sail.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably
In natural sequence; consequently; so.
senses_topics:
manner
|
710 | word:
accidentally
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accidentally (comparative more accidentally, superlative most accidentally)
forms:
form:
more accidentally
tags:
comparative
form:
most accidentally
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accidental + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.
type:
example
text:
He accidentally exposed the bacteria to mold spores.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.
Unintentionally.
senses_topics:
|
711 | word:
abandonment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abandonment (countable and uncountable, plural abandonments)
forms:
form:
abandonments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French abandonnement, from abandonner (“to abandon, relinquish”). abandonner was originally equivalent to mettre à bandon (“to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another”), bandon being from Medieval Latin bandum, bannum (“order, decree, ban”). Equivalent to abandon + -ment. (See also English banns.)
senses_examples:
text:
To what are we reserved? An adequate compensation "for the sacrifice of powers the most nearly connected with us;"— an adequate compensation "for the direct or indirect annexation to France ot all the ports of the continent, from Dunkirk to Hamburgh;"— an adequate compensation "for the abandonment of the independence of Europe!"
ref:
1790-1800, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace
type:
quotation
text:
Since he left her, she's suing him for divorce on grounds of abandonment.
type:
example
text:
High-profile abandonments are harder to infiltrate for urban explorers due to their heightened security.
type:
example
text:
Roger, in terms of the strengths he brought to the band, was wild abandonment. So if Howard was in the pocket, Roger was bouncing off the walls, and Nancy was somewhere in the middle.
ref:
2008, Jake Brown, Heart: In the Studio
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
An abandoned building or structure.
The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
The self-surrender to an outside influence.
Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.
senses_topics:
law
law
|
712 | word:
EBITDA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
EBITDA (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization: revenue after the subtraction of dividends but before the deduction of interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance |
713 | word:
Lemko
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Lemko (plural Lemkos)
forms:
form:
Lemkos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of a Rusyn ethnic subgroup from the Carpathian mountain area.
senses_topics:
|
714 | word:
Lemko
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lemko
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of this group of Carpatho-Rusyns, which is sometimes considered a dialect of Ukrainian or of Rusyn.
senses_topics:
|
715 | word:
LDP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
LDP (plural LDPs)
forms:
form:
LDPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of limited driving privilege.
senses_topics:
automotive
transport
vehicles |
716 | word:
LDP
word_type:
name
expansion:
LDP
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Japan's keiretsu—or families of firms in large scratch-each-other's back networks—supported this or that faction in the LDP, producing a highly successful, structurally corrupt model of economic development that showed remarkable resilience through Japan's high growth economic period.
ref:
2011 August 1, Steve Clemons, “China's Internal Pluralism Is Nothing to Cheer About”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Linux Documentation Project.
Initialism of Liberal Democratic Party.
Initialism of Label Distribution Protocol.
Initialism of Lingwa de planeta, a constructed international auxiliary language.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
politics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
|
717 | word:
acceptable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acceptable (comparative more acceptable, superlative most acceptable)
forms:
form:
more acceptable
tags:
comparative
form:
most acceptable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English acceptable, from Old French acceptable, from Late Latin acceptābilis (“worthy of acceptance”).
Morphologically accept + -able.
senses_examples:
text:
We need to find an acceptable present for Jeff.
type:
example
text:
The designs were acceptable, but they were nothing special either.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
worthy, decent, sure of being accepted or received with at least moderate pleasure
Barely worthy, less than excellent; passable.
senses_topics:
|
718 | word:
abstruse
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abstruse (comparative abstruser or more abstruse, superlative abstrusest or most abstruse)
forms:
form:
abstruser
tags:
comparative
form:
more abstruse
tags:
comparative
form:
abstrusest
tags:
superlative
form:
most abstruse
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₂epó
Learned borrowing from Latin abstrūsus (“concealed, hidden; having been concealed”), an adjective use of the perfect passive participle of abstrūdō (“to conceal, hide; to push or thrust away”), from abs- (from ab- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; away from’)) + trūdō (“to push, shove; to thrust”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to push; to thrust”)).
cognates
* Catalan abstrús
* German abstrus (“abstruse”)
* Italian astruso (“abstruse”)
* Middle French abstruse (modern French abstrus, abstruse (“(derogatory, literary) abstruse”)
* Portuguese abstruso (“abstruse”)
* Spanish abstruso (“abstruse”)
senses_examples:
text:
Some time the good makithe an ile end⸝ ãd the ile a godd. In this opiniõ⸝ and in ſcrutable miſterie be werithe all his wittes⸝ and at the end of his cogitacions⸝ fyndithe more abſtruſe⸝ and doutfull obiections thẽ at the beginning⸝ […]
Sometimes the good maketh an ill end, and the ill a good. In this opinion, and inscrutable mystery be weary all his wits, and at the end of his cogitations, findeth more abstruse, and doubtfull objections than at the beginning, […]
ref:
[1548], Joanne Hopper [i.e., John Hooper], “Curiositie”, in A Declaration of the Ten Holy Cõmaundementes of Allmygthye God […], [Zurich]: [Christoph Froschauer], →OCLC, page CCXVIII
type:
quotation
text:
A second rescript followed, commanding all bishops not merely to subscribe the dominant opinions on these profound and abstruse topics, but to condemn their authors, Pelagius and Cœlestius, as irreclaimable heretics, and this under pain of deprivation and banishment.
ref:
1854, Henry Hart Milman, “Pelagianism”, in History of Latin Christianity; […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, book II, page 127
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Difficult to comprehend or understand; obscure.
Concealed or hidden; secret.
senses_topics:
|
719 | word:
abortive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abortive (comparative more abortive, superlative most abortive)
forms:
form:
more abortive
tags:
comparative
form:
most abortive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1382, with the meaning "causing stillbirth or miscarriage". From Middle English abortif, from Old French abortif, from Latin abortīvus (“causing abortion”), from aborior (“miscarry, disappear”), from ab (“amiss”) + orior (“appear, be born, arise”).
senses_examples:
text:
an abortive child
type:
example
text:
an abortive attempt
type:
example
text:
[…] and with utter loss of being / Threatens him, plung'd in that abortive gulf.
ref:
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, published 1799
type:
quotation
text:
The king in vain excused his hasty retreats and abortive enterprises
ref:
1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella
type:
quotation
text:
an abortive organ
type:
example
text:
an abortive stamen
type:
example
text:
an abortive ovule
type:
example
text:
abortive medicines
ref:
1809, Bartholomew Parr, Medical Dictionary
type:
quotation
text:
Each country may have a different prevalence of infectious abortive agents. The most common agents of abortion in cattle are Brucella spp., Campylobacter spp., Chlamydiaceae, Coxiella burnetii, Leptospira spp., […]
ref:
2018 May, Carla Sebastiania, Ludovica Curcioa, Marcella Ciulloa, Deborah Crucianib, Silvia Crottib, Cristina Pescab, Martina Torricellia, Martina Sebastianellia, Andrea Felicic, Massimo Biagetti, “A multi-screening Fast qPCR approach to the identification of abortive agents in ruminants”, in Journal of Microbiological Methods, volume 148, →DOI, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
abortive treatment of typhoid fever
type:
example
text:
Even with prophylaxis, children often experience episodic breakthrough headaches that require abortive treatment. […] Abortive therapies in the ED include dopamine antagonists and anti-inflammatory agents.
ref:
2016 December, David C. Sheridan, Garth D. Meckler, “Inpatient Pediatric Migraine Treatment: Does Choice of Abortive Therapy Affect Length of Stay?”, in The Journal of Pediatrics, volume 179, →DOI, page 211
type:
quotation
text:
abortive vellum
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Produced by abortion; born prematurely and therefore unnatural.
Coming to nothing; failing in its effect. .
Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile.
Causing abortion; abortifacient.
Cutting short; acting to halt or slow the progress (of a disease).
Having a short and mild progression, without pronounced symptoms.
Made from the skin of a still-born animal.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
|
720 | word:
abortive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abortive (plural abortives)
forms:
form:
abortives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1382, with the meaning "causing stillbirth or miscarriage". From Middle English abortif, from Old French abortif, from Latin abortīvus (“causing abortion”), from aborior (“miscarry, disappear”), from ab (“amiss”) + orior (“appear, be born, arise”).
senses_examples:
text:
Naphthalin was praised by Rosbach as an abortive in typhoid fever; Kraemer in 1886, Wilcox in 1887, Sehwald in 1889 and Wolff of Philadelphia in 1891 confirmed Rosbach's observations.
ref:
1897 August 7, E. Viko, “On the Treatment of Typhoid Fever”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 29, number 6, Chicago, Ill., →DOI, page 274
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone or something born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
A fruitless effort.
A medicine that causes abortion, an abortifacient.
A medicine or treatment acting to halt or slow the progress of a disease.
senses_topics:
|
721 | word:
abortive
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abortive (third-person singular simple present abortives, present participle abortiving, simple past and past participle abortived)
forms:
form:
abortives
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abortiving
tags:
participle
present
form:
abortived
tags:
participle
past
form:
abortived
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1382, with the meaning "causing stillbirth or miscarriage". From Middle English abortif, from Old French abortif, from Latin abortīvus (“causing abortion”), from aborior (“miscarry, disappear”), from ab (“amiss”) + orior (“appear, be born, arise”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause an abortion; to render without fruit.
senses_topics:
|
722 | word:
ablaut
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ablaut (countable and uncountable, plural ablauts)
forms:
form:
ablauts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Indo-European ablaut
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”). Ab is used here in the sense of “deviating, varying” as in Abgott (“god other than the true God”), Abart (“different sort, variety, anomality”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences |
723 | word:
ablaut
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ablaut (third-person singular simple present ablauts, present participle ablauting, simple past and past participle ablauted)
forms:
form:
ablauts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ablauting
tags:
participle
present
form:
ablauted
tags:
participle
past
form:
ablauted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Indo-European ablaut
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”). Ab is used here in the sense of “deviating, varying” as in Abgott (“god other than the true God”), Abart (“different sort, variety, anomality”).
senses_examples:
text:
This root must once have ablauted, given the associated nominal derivatives prthii- 'broad', prthivl- 'earth'. However, it does not ablaut at all in its verbal forms.
ref:
1983, Stephanie W. Jamison, Function and Form in the -áya-formations of the Rig Veda and ..., page 209
type:
quotation
text:
What we find is that one cannot predict which members of V a given member of E will cause to ablaut
ref:
1985, Michael E. Krauss, Yupik Eskimo prosodic systems: descriptive and comparative studies, page 241
type:
quotation
text:
It is these co-opted verbs that tend to ablaut variably in the different Dakotan dialects and that forced morphological restructuring
ref:
2006, Felix K. Ameka, Alan Charles Dench, Nicholas Evans, Catching language: the standing challenge of grammar writing, page 536
type:
quotation
text:
This allomorph also causes the back vowel to ablaut to a low vowel.
ref:
2012, Bernard Comrie, Zarina Estrada Fernández, Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A Typological Overview, page 219
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To undergo a change of vowel.
To cause to change a vowel.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
724 | word:
enterprise union
word_type:
noun
expansion:
enterprise union (plural enterprise unions)
forms:
form:
enterprise unions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A form of trade union where all members work for the same company rather than having the same trade.
senses_topics:
|
725 | word:
thesaurus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thesaurus (plural thesauri or thesauruses)
forms:
form:
thesauri
tags:
plural
form:
thesauruses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
thesaurus
etymology_text:
16th century, from Latin thēsaurus, from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “storehouse, treasure”); its current English usage/meaning was established soon after the publication of Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852. Doublet of treasure.
senses_examples:
text:
"Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.
type:
example
text:
As reference books go, the thesaurus has had a somewhat checkered history, in fact, and has probably occasioned as much bad writing as good.
ref:
2008 April 18, Charles Mcgrath, “The Keeper (See: Steward, Caretaker) of Synonyms”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A publication, traditionally in the form of a printed book and now often online, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.
A dictionary or encyclopedia.
A hierarchy of subject headings: canonical titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
726 | word:
your mileage may vary
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
your mileage may vary
forms:
wikipedia:
Field & Stream
United States Environmental Protection Agency
etymology_text:
The United States Environmental Protection Agency requires all new vehicles to undergo a set of standard emissions tests which simulate city and highway driving. Part of the test measures estimated city and highway gas (petrol) mileage estimates. Since no test can exactly simulate all driving habits and conditions, the actual gas mileage of each vehicle will vary. As a result, when these estimated mileage claims from automobile manufacturers appear in advertisements, they are almost always accompanied with the standard disclaimer “your mileage may vary”.
senses_examples:
text:
The battery lasts a day in my phone, but your mileage may vary.
type:
example
text:
When that definition is executed, the metadata for the temporary table is put into your schema (most likely—your mileage may vary), but no space is allocated to hold data.
ref:
1993, Jim Melton, Alan R. Simon, “Basic Data Definition Language (DDL)”, in Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide, San Francisco, Calif.: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, section 4.3.4 (Temporary Tables), page 74
type:
quotation
text:
In other words, your mileage may vary and my disk-size figures are just estimates provided for your convenience.
ref:
1994, Bob LeVitus, Macintosh System 7.5 for Dummies (For Dummies), San Mateo, Calif.: IDG Books, page 328
type:
quotation
text:
We pause here to emphasize that with animals, there are no absolutes. […] We like to say that with any given wolf or dog, "your mileage may vary."
ref:
2012, Jessica Addams, Andrew Miller, “Modern Wolf Mythology: The Things that ‘Everyone Knows’”, in Between Dog and Wolf: Understanding the Connection and the Confusion, Wenatchee, Wash.: Dogwise Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
Mallory Ortberg: […] The advice game is the ultimate your-mileage-may-vary exercise—do you have a feeling for when someone is looking for (or needs) a gentle smack to return them to their senses, a bit of empathy, a dose of humor? It’s a tricky balance, I think, between writing something entertaining for your many readers and trying to be genuinely helpful to the original writer.
ref:
2015 November 12, Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Emily Yoffe, “Dear Prudie, from Prudie: Emily Yoffe’s advice to her successor, Mallory Ortberg”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2018-02-07
type:
quotation
text:
I think that red dress looks really good on you, but your mileage may vary, of course.
type:
example
text:
Your mileage may vary when it comes to the over-the-top carnage and in-your-face machismo, but it’s impressive just how bonkers Fate [The Fate of the Furious] is, like a litter of kittens hopped up on grade-A catnip.
ref:
2017 April 12, Brian Truitt, “Review: ‘Fate’ is furious enough to excite the faithful”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 2018-09-06
type:
quotation
text:
The privatization of luxury space in planes, trains and automobiles have certainly enhanced our ability to keep to ourselves on the road (see the rise of personal pods at airports for a recent example of the lengths people will go to for solitude). And as those spaces get increasingly automated, human interaction is becoming increasingly limited (although your mileage may vary as to how much you really enjoy that interaction with customs or gate agents).
ref:
2018 August 31, Leslie Wu, “Mobile Hotel Rooms are the New Home away from Home”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 2018-09-01
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
It may work differently in your situation, or be different in your experience.
Used to express a possible difference in taste: this is just my opinion, your opinion may be different.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
727 | word:
YMCA
word_type:
name
expansion:
YMCA
forms:
wikipedia:
YMCA
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Young Men's Christian Association.
senses_topics:
|
728 | word:
YMCA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
YMCA (plural YMCAs)
forms:
form:
YMCAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
YMCA
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hostel or other facility operated by the Young Men's Christian Association.
A particular dance in which the arms and body are used to imitate the letters Y, M, C, and A, in succession, danced to the Village People song Y.M.C.A.
senses_topics:
|
729 | word:
abattoir
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abattoir (plural abattoirs)
forms:
form:
abattoirs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French abattoir, from abattre (“to slaughter”) (cognate to abate) + -oir (“-ory”).
senses_examples:
text:
Once the cows reach maturity, they're sent to the abattoir.
type:
example
text:
The army's raid on the enemy turned into a major abattoir.
type:
example
text:
The corridors where North Korean troops would be advancing [in a hypothetical invasion of South Korea] would almost certainly be turned into human abattoirs.
ref:
2017 April 19, Franz-Stefan Gady, “What Would the Second Korean War Look Like?”, in The Diplomat
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.
senses_topics:
|
730 | word:
accepter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accepter (plural accepters)
forms:
form:
accepters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Trésor de la langue française informatisé
etymology_text:
From accept + -er; in the sense “respecter,” from Middle French accepteur.
senses_examples:
text:
There is no benefyte so perfect, whiche enuy can not nip: nor no benefite so skant, whiche a good accepter may not inlarge.
ref:
1578, Arthur Golding, transl., The Woorke of the Excellent Philosopher Lucius Annæus Seneca Concerning Benefyting that is too say the Dooing, Receyuing, and Requyting of Good Turnes, London: John Day, Book 2, Chapter 28
type:
quotation
text:
Tracey came fraught with gifts rather suited to the spirit of the donor, than that of the accepter, yet, they opened the heart of the Laird of Dornock, who listened to the avowal of Tracey’s love without repugnance; and at length promised him his sister […]
ref:
1785, Sophia Lee, The Recess: or, A Tale of the Times, volume 3, London: T. Cadell, page 145
type:
quotation
text:
It is the man of science who speaks, the unprejudiced observer, the accepter of facts.
ref:
1936, Aldous Huxley, “Crébillon the Younger”, in The Olive Tree And Other Essays, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1947
type:
quotation
text:
1395, John Wycliffe (translator), Bible, Acts 10.34,
And Petre openyde his mouth, and seide, In trewthe Y haue foundun, that God is no acceptor of persoones;
text:
1549, Hugh Latimer, The Seconde Sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer whych he preached before the Kynges maiestie, London: John Day and William Seres, To the Reader,
But nowe the wycked Iudge, whiche corrupteth iustyce for Brybes heer he maye learne also the lesson that Moses taughte long before this tyme, ye magistrates & Iudges in the common wealth of Israell be no accepters of personnes neyther be desyreous of giftes, for they make wyse men blind, and chaunge the mynde of the ryghtuouse.
text:
early 1700s, William Chillingworth, Sermon on Psalm 14.1 in The Works of William Chillingworth, London: Richard Priestley, 1820, Volume 3, p. 92,
[…] God is no accepter of persons, neither riches nor poverty are a means to procure his favour […]
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who accepts; a taker.
A respecter; one who views others with partiality.
An acceptor; one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange.
senses_topics:
law |
731 | word:
OBE
word_type:
name
expansion:
OBE
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Office of Bilingual Education.
Initialism of Office of Business Economics, now BEA.
Initialism of Oregon Board of Education.
Initialism of Ottawa Board Of Education.
senses_topics:
government
politics
|
732 | word:
OBE
word_type:
noun
expansion:
OBE (countable and uncountable, plural OBEs)
forms:
form:
OBEs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
For this government, the OBE for our economic troubles was first Covid, then Ukraine.
ref:
2022 November 27, William Keegan, “Brexit has made Britain the sick man of Europe again”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Initialism of operating-basis earthquake.
Initialism of out-of-body experience.
Initialism of outcome-based education.
Initialism of one big explanation.
Initialism of out-of-buggy experience.
senses_topics:
|
733 | word:
OBE
word_type:
adj
expansion:
OBE (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of overcome / overtaken by events (i.e., now obsolete)
senses_topics:
|
734 | word:
full whack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
full whack (plural full whacks)
forms:
form:
full whacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
We had to pay the full whack.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The entire amount.
senses_topics:
|
735 | word:
full whack
word_type:
adv
expansion:
full whack (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To the maximum extent.
senses_topics:
|
736 | word:
IRC
word_type:
name
expansion:
IRC
forms:
wikipedia:
IRC (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Internet Relay Chat.
Initialism of Internal Revenue Code.
Initialism of International Rescue Committee.
senses_topics:
law
|
737 | word:
IRC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
IRC (plural IRCs or IRC's)
forms:
form:
IRCs
tags:
plural
form:
IRC's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
IRC (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of international reply coupon.
senses_topics:
|
738 | word:
IRC
word_type:
verb
expansion:
IRC (third-person singular simple present IRCs, present participle IRCing, simple past and past participle IRCed)
forms:
form:
IRCs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
IRCing
tags:
participle
present
form:
IRCed
tags:
participle
past
form:
IRCed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
IRC (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
<Xantha> <- irced 2 yrs without aliases […]
ref:
1995, Stuart Harris, The Irc Survival Guide
type:
quotation
text:
[…] IRCing can confirm the observation that work and play appear to constitute a continuum for the digerati.
ref:
2002, James Arnt Aune, Selling the Free Market
type:
quotation
text:
[…] not that this is strange or anything, I do the same thing myself when I'm IRCing — there're some real weirdos out there roaming the Net […]
ref:
2004, Allison Rushby, Friday Night Cocktails
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To participate in Internet Relay Chat.
senses_topics:
|
739 | word:
tables
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tables
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of table
senses_topics:
|
740 | word:
tables
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tables pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Hervor proceeded to the court of King Gudmund, and there one day as she was playing at tables with the king, one of the servants chanced to take up and draw Tirfing, which shone like a sunbeam.
ref:
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 124
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Backgammon.
The halves or quarters of a backgammon board.
Any backgammon-like board game, played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called "points".
senses_topics:
backgammon
games
|
741 | word:
tables
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tables
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of table
senses_topics:
|
742 | word:
archaeastronomy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
archaeastronomy (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From archae- + astronomy.
senses_examples:
text:
Archaeoastronomy is an endeavor to find out something about ancient astronomy and related matters through the use of archeological data and the study of ancient texts.
ref:
1979, John Howland Rowe, “Review: Archaeoastronomy in Meso America and Peru”, in Latin American Research Review, volume 14, number 2, page 227
type:
quotation
text:
The current fashion is to call the subject archaeoastronomy, as if it were more the business of astronomers or historians of astronomy than of archaeologists.
ref:
1989, John Michell, A Little History of Astro-Archaeology, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The historical, especially archeological, study of astronomy; the study of the astronomical systems and methods of ancient cultures often embracing the astrology and cosmology of the past.
senses_topics:
archaeology
astronomy
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences |
743 | word:
transvestite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
transvestite (plural transvestites)
forms:
form:
transvestites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Magnus Hirschfeld
transvestite
etymology_text:
From Latin trans + vestite, form of vestiō (“I clothe, I dress”) (as in English vestment, vest). Literally, a "cross-dresser". From transvestitism, from German Transvestitismus, coined in 1910 by Magnus Hirschfeld (the practice itself is much older).
senses_examples:
text:
Even though Steven used to dress up in his sister's clothes, it still came as a surprise he ended up as a transvestite.
type:
example
text:
"Proper" scorpion fly behavior entails the catching of an edible insect by the male, who then offers it to the female […] If she likes the gift, she mates with the male. Thornhill, however, has observed males approaching other males, assuming the female role until they get a grip on the food. Once they have it, they try to run away with it. The "transvestite" males, according to Thornhill, have an advantage over the other males because they have others do the hunting for them, leaving the "transvestites" more time to reproduce. In additon , the "transvestite" scorpion flies would avoid such hazards of the hunt as spider webs.
ref:
1979 August 18, “Get A Grip On The Food”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who sometimes wears clothes traditionally worn by and associated with the opposite sex; typically a male who cross-dresses occasionally by habit or personal choice.
A person, typically a heterosexual male, who compulsively seeks and derives paraphilic sexual arousal from cross-dressing, especially if the urges and behavior cause the patient distress or social impairment.
An animal that engages in sexual mimicry.
senses_topics:
clinical-psychology
human-sciences
medicine
pathology
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
744 | word:
FAC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
FAC (plural FACs)
forms:
form:
FACs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Forward Air Control.
Initialism of flow-accelerated corrosion.
Initialism of flow-assisted corrosion.
Initialism of Fellow of the Atlantic Council.
Initialism of Fatal accident control.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
|
745 | word:
merchandise
word_type:
noun
expansion:
merchandise (usually uncountable, plural merchandises)
forms:
form:
merchandises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English marchaundise (“commerce, trading; buying, purchasing; business transaction, bargain, deal; agreement; trade, vocation; merchandise, goods, wares; possessions, wealth; reward; ability or right to carry on business; market; communication between God and humans; sale of indulgences; simony; paid advocate or orator (?)”), from Anglo-Norman marchaundise and Old French marcheandise (modern French marchandise), from Old French marcheant (“seller, vendor”) (ultimately from Latin mercātus (“buying and selling, trade, traffic; market; marketplace”), possibly originally Etruscan) + -ise (suffix forming feminine nouns, often denoting a quality or state). The English word is analysable as merchant + -ise.
senses_examples:
text:
Good business depends on having good merchandise.
type:
example
text:
The custom of giving away merchandise for advertising purposes is greatly on the increase in this country. More goods are now distributed in one year as advertising novelties and as premiums than in a decade 10 or 15 years ago.
ref:
1908, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional papers. Inventory control record 1, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
It has been stated that Fred Beers is giving free merchandise to this store and I believe you will find that one of your inspectors obtained a bottle of milk free when he purchased some groceries on Thursday Nov. 23rd [1933].
ref:
1936, Cecil Day Lewis, The Whispering Roots, Jonathan Cape, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
Would we then see in what sence heavenly things may be called a merchandise, and in what sence not; this is easy to him that will understand.
ref:
1622, John Wing (Minister of the English congregation at Flushing.), The Best Merchandise, Or a Cleare Discovery of the Evident Difference, and Admirable Advantage, Between Our Traffike with God for the True Treasure and with Men for Temporall Commodity, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
What security was there that she might not be a very unfit person, one who had made a merchandise of her charms, the child itself being the offspring of some accidental connexion?
ref:
1822 June 18, Great Britain. Parliament, “Marriage Act Amendment Bill”, in The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, published 1823, page 1135
type:
quotation
text:
Who feeds a flock, and makes not a merchandise of the sheep?
ref:
1839, The holy bible containing the old and the new testaments
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)
A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
senses_topics:
|
746 | word:
merchandise
word_type:
verb
expansion:
merchandise (third-person singular simple present merchandises, present participle merchandising, simple past and past participle merchandised)
forms:
form:
merchandises
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
merchandising
tags:
participle
present
form:
merchandised
tags:
participle
past
form:
merchandised
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English marchaundisen (“to engage in commerce, traffic”), from marchaundise (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).
senses_examples:
text:
He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.
type:
example
text:
He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.
type:
example
text:
The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
To engage in the trade of.
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
To promote as if for sale.
senses_topics:
|
747 | word:
abscess
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abscess (plural abscesses)
forms:
form:
abscesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abscess
etymology_text:
From Latin abscessus (“a going away; gathering of humors, abscess”), from abscēdō (“go away, depart”), from abs (“away from”) + cēdō (“go”). See cede.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences |
748 | word:
abscess
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abscess (third-person singular simple present abscesses, present participle abscessing, simple past and past participle abscessed)
forms:
form:
abscesses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abscessing
tags:
participle
present
form:
abscessed
tags:
participle
past
form:
abscessed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
abscess
etymology_text:
From Latin abscessus (“a going away; gathering of humors, abscess”), from abscēdō (“go away, depart”), from abs (“away from”) + cēdō (“go”). See cede.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form a pus-filled cavity, typically from an infection.
senses_topics:
|
749 | word:
futurism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
futurism (countable and uncountable, plural futurisms)
forms:
form:
futurisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
futurism
etymology_text:
From future + -ism.
senses_examples:
text:
Suffice it to say that Futurism has a gratifying dislike both of Liberal politics and Christian morals; I say gratifying because, however unfortunately the cross and the cap of liberty have quarrelled, they are always united in the feeble hatred of such silly megalomaniacs as these. […]
ref:
1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Futurists”, in Alarms and Discursions
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions.
The study and prediction of possible futures.
The Jewish expectation of the messiah in the future rather than recognizing him in the presence of Christ.
Eschatological interpretations associating some Biblical prophecies with future events yet to be fulfilled, including the Second Coming.
senses_topics:
art
arts
Christianity |
750 | word:
ASCII
word_type:
name
expansion:
ASCII
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.
ref:
1989, D. Russell, The Principles of Computer Networking, Cambridge University Press, page 218
type:
quotation
text:
In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) was developed from telegraphic codes.
ref:
2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 127
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
751 | word:
teleport
word_type:
verb
expansion:
teleport (third-person singular simple present teleports, present participle teleporting, simple past and past participle teleported)
forms:
form:
teleports
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
teleporting
tags:
participle
present
form:
teleported
tags:
participle
past
form:
teleported
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:teleport
en:teleportation
etymology_text:
Back-formation from teleportation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To travel, often instantaneously, from one point to another without physically crossing the distance between the two points.
To move (an object) in this fashion, as by telekinesis.
senses_topics:
|
752 | word:
teleport
word_type:
noun
expansion:
teleport (plural teleports)
forms:
form:
teleports
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:teleport
en:teleportation
etymology_text:
Back-formation from teleportation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of teleporter (“science fiction device”)
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction |
753 | word:
teleport
word_type:
noun
expansion:
teleport (plural teleports)
forms:
form:
teleports
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:teleport
etymology_text:
From tele- + port.
senses_examples:
text:
Teleports provide access to multiple satellites and other media as well. Independently owned teleports may also provide competitive access to different satellite systems.
ref:
2004, D. K. Sachdev, Business Strategies For Satellite Systems, page 131
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A satellite ground station.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications |
754 | word:
spacer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spacer (plural spacers)
forms:
form:
spacers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
spacer
etymology_text:
From space + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
It was the futile throwing back in the face of the Spacers their most keenly felt insult: their insistence on considering the natives of Earth as disgustingly diseased.
ref:
1954, Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
type:
quotation
text:
"How do I know I can trust you?" asked BKR.
Grakker hesitated. "Spacer's oath," he said at last.
ref:
2014 [1993], Bruce Coville, Aliens Ate My Homework, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
Shepard: What are you running for?
Charles Saracino: I'm seeking one of the five spacer seats in Parliament. They have certain baroque conditions for a citizen to be able to vote for them.
Charles Saracino: You have to spend more than six months a year in space. But you can't have stayed in any one settled system for more than a month.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel
type:
quotation
text:
He was thankful that he still had his suit on when the ship had a catastrophic decompression, a spacer's worst nightmare.
ref:
2017, A.K. Brown, Humans on the Menu (Champagne Universe Series: Book 2), page 20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who works or lives in space.
An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
A bushing.
A forgetful person; one who spaces out.
A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
medicine
sciences
|
755 | word:
lente
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lente (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An intermediate-acting form of insulin, between isophane and ultralente.
senses_topics:
|
756 | word:
steganography
word_type:
noun
expansion:
steganography (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
steganography
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek στεγανός (steganós, “cover, roof”) + -graphy.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The practice of hiding messages, so that the presence of the message itself is hidden, often by writing them in places where they may not be found until someone finds the secret message in whatever is being used to hide it.
Specifically: the use of small computer files to communicate secret information.
senses_topics:
|
757 | word:
OCR
word_type:
name
expansion:
OCR
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Oxford, Cambridge & RSA (examination board)
Initialism of Office for Civil Rights.
Initialism of Office of the Chief Rabbi.
senses_topics:
education
government
politics
lifestyle
religion |
758 | word:
OCR
word_type:
noun
expansion:
OCR (countable and uncountable, plural OCRs)
forms:
form:
OCRs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of optical character recognition (the technology or principle).
Initialism of optical character reader (the scanning device).
Abbreviation of obstacle course racing.
Abbreviation of obstacle course race.
Initialism of one coat render.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
construction
manufacturing |
759 | word:
OCR
word_type:
verb
expansion:
OCR (third-person singular simple present OCRs, present participle OCRing, simple past and past participle OCRed)
forms:
form:
OCRs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
OCRing
tags:
participle
present
form:
OCRed
tags:
participle
past
form:
OCRed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, OCRs, and stores in its digital database.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perform optical character recognition upon.
senses_topics:
|
760 | word:
vivify
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vivify (third-person singular simple present vivifies, present participle vivifying, simple past and past participle vivified)
forms:
form:
vivifies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vivifying
tags:
participle
present
form:
vivified
tags:
participle
past
form:
vivified
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Late Latin vivificō via Old French vivifier.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bring to life; to enliven.
To impart vitality to.
senses_topics:
|
761 | word:
Achilles tendon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Achilles tendon (plural Achilles tendons)
forms:
form:
Achilles tendons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of New Latin Achillis tendo, a term devised by the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyden in 1693 in reference to the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, and inserted into the bone of the heel.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
762 | word:
Roman numeral
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Roman numeral (plural Roman numerals)
forms:
form:
Roman numerals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Roman numerals
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A numeral represented using a Roman system involving the letters I, V, X, L, C, D, and M.
The system using such letters.
senses_topics:
|
763 | word:
Lethean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Lethean
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Lēthē, from Ancient Greek Λήθη (Lḗthē).
senses_examples:
text:
They ferry over this Lethean sound.
ref:
1667, Milton, Paradise Lost
type:
quotation
text:
The cup which was offered to you when you departed from Elysium was to be the Lethean draught, which would make you forget the joys you had experienced[.]
ref:
1813, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, The Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, London: T. Hookham, jun., and E.T. Hookham, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
Accordingly, she one day took the Lethean crown from off his head: immediately all his old ideas rushed on his mind, and inflamed him with an ardent desire to revisit his country.
ref:
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 80
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the river Lethe, one of the four rivers of Hades. Those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences |
764 | word:
resile
word_type:
verb
expansion:
resile (third-person singular simple present resiles, present participle resiling, simple past and past participle resiled)
forms:
form:
resiles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
resiling
tags:
participle
present
form:
resiled
tags:
participle
past
form:
resiled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French resiler (compare French résilier), from Latin resiliō (“spring back”), from re- (“back”) + saliō (“I jump”).
senses_examples:
text:
I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that.
text:
If a legitimate expectation is established, it must be unfair for the public authority to resile from giving effect to that expectation, unless the wider interests of the public require that the public authority resiles in order properly to protect those wider interests.
ref:
2007, David Pollard et al., Constitutional and Administrative Law: Text with Materials, page 594
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
senses_topics:
|
765 | word:
premature
word_type:
adj
expansion:
premature (comparative more premature, superlative most premature)
forms:
form:
more premature
tags:
comparative
form:
most premature
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
premature
etymology_text:
From Latin praemātūrus, equivalent to pre- + mature. Attested circa 1520.
senses_examples:
text:
a premature birth
type:
example
text:
premature reports of the singer's death
type:
example
text:
I was lost in reveries of death, and the idea of premature burial held continual possession of my brain.
ref:
1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Occurring before a state of readiness or maturity has arrived.
Taking place earlier than anticipated, prepared for, or desired.
Suffering from premature ejaculation.
senses_topics:
|
766 | word:
premature
word_type:
noun
expansion:
premature (plural prematures)
forms:
form:
prematures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
premature
etymology_text:
From Latin praemātūrus, equivalent to pre- + mature. Attested circa 1520.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An infant born prematurely.
senses_topics:
|
767 | word:
swap
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swap (third-person singular simple present swaps, present participle swapping, simple past and past participle swapped)
forms:
form:
swaps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
swapping
tags:
participle
present
form:
swapped
tags:
participle
past
form:
swapped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English swappen (“to swap”), originally meaning "to hurl" or "to strike", the word alludes to striking hands together when making an exchange; probably from Old English *swappian, a secondary form of Old English swāpan (“to swoop”). Cognate with German schwappen (“to slosh, slop”). Compare also Middle English swippen (“to strike, hit”), from Old English swipian (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), Old Norse svipa (“to swoop, flash, whip, look after, look around”). More at swipe.
senses_examples:
text:
In an effort to provide more permanent accommodations, employers may offer employees the opportunity either to swap jobs with a colleague or to transfer to a new position.
ref:
1998, Michael Wolf with Bruce Friedman and Daniel Sutherland, Religion in the workplace, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
Chief watched these goings-on without pleasure, and waved them off in disgust when the smarmiest of the two suggested he might wish to swap that elk's tooth for this jug of fine rye whiskey.
ref:
2007, Lloyd Zimpel, A Season of Fire and Ice
type:
quotation
text:
The Shah wanted to swap oil for more arms.
ref:
2011, Andrew Scott Cooper, The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East, page 253
type:
quotation
text:
And he whipped his sword out of its scabbard, and swapped off the pudding from the black knight's nose. Unfortunately (for him) he swapped off a good bit of the nose, too.
ref:
1954, Edward Eager, Half Magic
type:
quotation
text:
"Maybe Apes will grow honest, Sister," said Edmund. "But, by the Lion, if he breaks it again, it may be in such time and place that any of us could swap off his head in clean battle."
ref:
1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).
To hit, to strike.
To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
To descend or fall; to rush hastily or violently.
senses_topics:
|
768 | word:
swap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
swap (plural swaps)
forms:
form:
swaps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the verb swap. First attested in 1620.
senses_examples:
text:
I e’en changed it, as occasion served, with the skippers o’ Dutch luggers and French vessels, for gin and brandy[…] a gude swap too, between what cheereth the soul of man and that which dingeth it clean out of his body
ref:
1819, Sir Walter Scott, Tales of My Landlord, The Bride of Lammermoor
type:
quotation
text:
How much swap do you need?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exchange of two comparable things.
A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cashflow against another stream.
Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.
A social meal at a restaurant between two university societies, usually involving drinking and banter; commonly associated with fining and pennying; equivalent to a crewdate at Oxford University.
senses_topics:
business
finance
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
769 | word:
swap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
swap (countable and uncountable, plural swaps)
forms:
form:
swaps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English swap, swappe (“a blow, strike, lash from a whip”), from the verb (see Etymology 1 above).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A blow; a stroke.
senses_topics:
|
770 | word:
lightspeed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lightspeed (countable and uncountable, plural lightspeeds)
forms:
form:
lightspeeds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From light + speed.
senses_examples:
text:
If we're going to a world a hundred light-years from here at near lightspeed, we spend according to our own perceptions, only a few minutes doing so and arrive only a few minutes older.
ref:
1994, Ursula K. Le Guin, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Victor Gollancz (UK), published 1996, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
He paused, then finished, “with the drive from the Linz, he can do over 500 lightspeeds to meet us.
ref:
2005, W. Strawn Douglas, Oracle And Other Stories, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
In recent years, other activist terms have followed light-speed trajectories. The term “Latinx” overtook academic institutions and briefly became fashionable in the media, still prevalent in some influential publications, like The New Yorker, even though only 3 percent of Hispanics (or Latinos, if you prefer) use it.
ref:
2022 October 23, Pamela Paul, “Let’s Say Gay”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The speed of light (in vacuum unless another medium is specified).
An extremely fast speed.
senses_topics:
|
771 | word:
Abyssinian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Abyssinian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Abyssinia + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
Our men are frightened of these Abyssinian women.
ref:
2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 335
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Ethiopia or its inhabitants; Ethiopian.
senses_topics:
|
772 | word:
Abyssinian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Abyssinian (plural Abyssinians)
forms:
form:
Abyssinians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Abyssinian (cat)
etymology_text:
From Abyssinia + -n.
senses_examples:
text:
A group of Abyssinians are astride horses in brightly colored saddles at the top of the hill across the valley.
ref:
2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 308
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short-haired domestic cat descended from cats of ancient Egypt making it one of the oldest breeds in the world; Abyssinian cat.
A member of the Abyssinian Church.
A native of Ethiopia.
senses_topics:
|
773 | word:
Abyssinian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Abyssinian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Abyssinia + -n.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Amharic language.
senses_topics:
|
774 | word:
abstain
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abstain (third-person singular simple present abstains, present participle abstaining, simple past and past participle abstained)
forms:
form:
abstains
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abstaining
tags:
participle
present
form:
abstained
tags:
participle
past
form:
abstained
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
abstain
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested around 1380. From Middle English absteynen, absteinen, abstenen, from Old French astenir, abstenir, from Latin abstineō (“to hold oneself back”) from abs- (“from”) + teneō (“I hold”). See also tenable.
senses_examples:
text:
In order to improve his health, Rob decided to abstain from smoking.
type:
example
text:
The Security Council […] calls upon all Governments and authorities, without prejudice to the rights, claims or positions of the parties concerned, to abstain from any hostile military action in Palestine and to that end to issue a cease-fire order to their military and paramilitary forces
ref:
22 May 1948, United Nations, Security Council Resolution 49
text:
Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?
ref:
1597, Shakespeare, Richard II, II-i
type:
quotation
text:
[…]forcing a small portion of the population to abstain from voting
ref:
1913, Thomas Babington Macaulay, A Short History of English Liberalism
type:
quotation
text:
I abstain from this vote, as I have no particular preference.
type:
example
text:
Whether he abstain men from marying [sic].
ref:
1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions on the four chief places in Scripture
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Keep or withhold oneself.
Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence.
Fast (not eat for a period).
Deliberately refrain from casting one's vote at a meeting where one is present.
Hinder; keep back; withhold.
senses_topics:
|
775 | word:
acceptance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acceptance (countable and uncountable, plural acceptances)
forms:
form:
acceptances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in 1574. From Middle French acceptance, from Old French accepter (“accept”). Equivalent to accept + -ance.
senses_examples:
text:
the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
type:
example
text:
But what acts shall amount to such an acceptance is often a question of great nicety and difficulty.
ref:
1876, Herbert Newman Mozley, George Crispe Whiteley, A Concise Law Dictionary, London: Butterworths, […], →OCLC, page 4, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of accepting; the receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction; especially, favourable reception; approval.
An instance of that act.
Belief in something; agreement, assent.
The state of being accepted.
The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance; the bill of exchange itself when accepted.
An agreeing to the action, proposals, or terms of another by some act which results in the conclusion of a legally binding contract; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking of possession of a thing as owner.
The act of an authorized representative of the government by which the government assents to ownership of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.
Synonym of etendue.
senses_topics:
business
finance
law
government
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics |
776 | word:
FTP
word_type:
adj
expansion:
FTP (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
free-to-play
senses_topics:
video-games |
777 | word:
FTP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
FTP (plural FTPs)
forms:
form:
FTPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Future Time Perspective (a scale developed by Carstensen and Frieder Lang)
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
778 | word:
FTP
word_type:
name
expansion:
FTP
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of File Transfer Protocol (a technology for transferring files over the Internet)
senses_topics:
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779 | word:
FTP
word_type:
verb
expansion:
FTP (third-person singular simple present FTPs, present participle FTPing, simple past and past participle FTPed)
forms:
form:
FTPs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
FTPing
tags:
participle
present
form:
FTPed
tags:
participle
past
form:
FTPed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Just as newsgroups have certain rules to live by, there are several courtesies to remember when FTPing and telneting to remote sites […]
ref:
1995, Richard Wagner, Inside CompuServe
type:
quotation
text:
Having saved header.php, I FTPed it back to the Sandbox theme folder, overwriting the old version.
ref:
2008, Paul Thewlis, WordPress for Business Bloggers
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transfer using File Transfer Protocol.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
780 | word:
FTP
word_type:
intj
expansion:
FTP
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"Fuck the police" emerged as the unofficial motto of the 1992 riots in Los Angeles[…]Following the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, street signs and businesses were frequently tagged with FTP.]
ref:
[2018, David Correia, Tyler Wall, Police: A Field Guide, page 263
type:
quotation
text:
As nationwide protests continue to grow, demanding justice for George Floyd and the black community as a whole, YG has shared a new protest song titled "FTP (F--- the Police)."
ref:
2020 June 2, “YG Has a Clear Message in New Protest Song 'FTP'”, in Billboard
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of fuck the police.
senses_topics:
|
781 | word:
outer space
word_type:
noun
expansion:
outer space (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
outer space
etymology_text:
From outer + space.
senses_examples:
text:
outer space (Pantone):
text:
outer space (Crayola):
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Region outside explored space.
Any region of space beyond limits determined with reference to boundaries of a celestial system or body, especially the region of space immediately beyond Earth's atmosphere; sometimes, space beyond Earth's solar system.
A bluish shade of black.
senses_topics:
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782 | word:
accolade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accolade (plural accolades)
forms:
form:
accolades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accolade
etymology_text:
First attested in the 1620s, borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, from Vulgar Latin *accollō (“to hug around the neck”), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”) (English collar).
senses_examples:
text:
This film is likely to pick up major accolades.
type:
example
text:
Rooney led Manchester United up the Wembley steps to collect the FA Cup and add a missing medal to his collection - a richly deserved accolade.
ref:
2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
It was in the queer little Church of Vera Cruz, beneath the castle, that the Knights Templar performed their secret rites of chivalry, standing vigil over their arms all night, in all the mysterious splendour of seneschal, gonfalon, and accolade.
ref:
1964, Jan Morris, “Four Cities”, in Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of approval; praise.
A special acknowledgment; an award.
An embrace of greeting or salutation.
A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.
A brace used to join two or more staves.
Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by military personnel or civilians serving the US armed forces who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954.
An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other.
Synonym of curly bracket
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
architecture
media
publishing
typography |
783 | word:
accolade
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accolade (third-person singular simple present accolades, present participle accolading, simple past and past participle accoladed)
forms:
form:
accolades
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accolading
tags:
participle
present
form:
accoladed
tags:
participle
past
form:
accoladed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
accolade
etymology_text:
First attested in the 1620s, borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, from Vulgar Latin *accollō (“to hug around the neck”), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”) (English collar).
senses_examples:
text:
an accoladed novel
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To embrace or kiss in salutation.
To confer a knighthood on.
To confer praise or awards on.
senses_topics:
|
784 | word:
absolutist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absolutist (plural absolutists)
forms:
form:
absolutists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
absolutist
etymology_text:
From absolute + -ist after French absolutiste.
senses_examples:
text:
When absolutists reject humanism because they feel it to be untrue, that means that the whole habit of their mental needs is wedded already to a different view of reality, in comparison with which the humanistic world seems but the whim of a few irresponsible youths.
ref:
1909, William James, The Meaning of Truth
type:
quotation
text:
The billionaire tech mogul, who has described himself as a free speech absolutist, introduced a new red line this week after he claimed that a car carrying one of his children was accosted by a “crazy stalker.”
ref:
2022 December 16, Bernhard Warner, “Musk Faces Growing Anger Over Twitter Ban of Journalists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.
One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the Absolute.
An uncompromising person; one who maintains certain principles to be absolute.
senses_topics:
|
785 | word:
absolutist
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absolutist (comparative more absolutist, superlative most absolutist)
forms:
form:
more absolutist
tags:
comparative
form:
most absolutist
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
absolutist
etymology_text:
From absolute + -ist after French absolutiste.
senses_examples:
text:
The best and the worst features of the communal regime are illustrated in the resistance of the Lombard cities to Frederic Barbarossa, the first Emperor who formulated and applied to Italy a scheme of absolutist government.
ref:
1911, H. W. Carless Davis, Medieval Europe
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; uncompromising.
senses_topics:
|
786 | word:
gratis
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gratis (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin gratis.
senses_examples:
text:
Really syncophant stuff, but it may help. It's gratis in any case.
ref:
2010 September 27, Ann Charters, Samuel Charters, quoting John Clellon Holmes, Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation, page 162
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Free, without charge.
senses_topics:
|
787 | word:
gratis
word_type:
adv
expansion:
gratis (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin gratis.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Free, without charge.
senses_topics:
|
788 | word:
FAQ
word_type:
noun
expansion:
FAQ (plural FAQs)
forms:
form:
FAQs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
FAQ
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of frequently asked questions.
senses_examples:
text:
This site's FAQ says you should log in to access some pages.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A list of questions said to be frequently asked, and their answers.
senses_topics:
|
789 | word:
FAQ
word_type:
intj
expansion:
FAQ
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a mishearing of fuck you by livestreamer Sakura Miko.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fuck you.
senses_topics:
|
790 | word:
absolutely
word_type:
adv
expansion:
absolutely (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From late Middle English absolutly, equivalent to absolute + -ly.
First attested in 1425.
senses_examples:
text:
Another characteristic of numbers, which does not concern their mutual relations so much as themselves absolutely, is their ability, according to the ideas of Nicomachus, to conform to geometrical arrangements.
ref:
1926, Nicomachus of Gerasa, Frank Egleston Robbins, Louis Charles Karpinski, translated by Martin Luther D'Ooge, Introduction to Arithmetic, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an absolute or unconditional manner; utterly, positively, wholly.
Independently; viewed without relation to other things or factors.
senses_topics:
|
791 | word:
absolutely
word_type:
intj
expansion:
absolutely
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From late Middle English absolutly, equivalent to absolute + -ly.
First attested in 1425.
senses_examples:
text:
Is Bob a good teacher?
Absolutely!
type:
example
text:
Do you want a free cookie with that coffee?
Absolutely!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Yes, certainly; expression indicating strong agreement.
senses_topics:
|
792 | word:
encrypt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
encrypt (third-person singular simple present encrypts, present participle encrypting, simple past and past participle encrypted)
forms:
form:
encrypts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
encrypting
tags:
participle
present
form:
encrypted
tags:
participle
past
form:
encrypted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From en- + -crypt, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, literally “hidden, concealed, private, secret”).
senses_examples:
text:
All messages on this platform are doubly encrypted to increase security.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To conceal information by means of a code or cipher.
senses_topics:
|
793 | word:
decrypt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
decrypt (third-person singular simple present decrypts, present participle decrypting, simple past and past participle decrypted)
forms:
form:
decrypts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
decrypting
tags:
participle
present
form:
decrypted
tags:
participle
past
form:
decrypted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From de- + -crypt, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, literally “hidden, concealed, private, secret”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.
senses_topics:
|
794 | word:
decrypt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
decrypt (plural decrypts)
forms:
form:
decrypts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From de- + -crypt, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, literally “hidden, concealed, private, secret”).
senses_examples:
text:
The decrypts were being obtained from the traffic of 78 German stations by the end of 1941, and of 147 stations by the end of 1942.
ref:
1979, Francis Harry Hinsley, British Intelligence in the Second World War, page 182
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A decoded communication.
senses_topics:
|
795 | word:
kun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kun (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese 訓読み (kun'yomi), literally "meaning reading" (i.e. pronunciation based on meaning).
senses_examples:
text:
Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun".
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the Japanese language, the pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character as a native Japanese word that means what the character represents, contrasted with on.
senses_topics:
|
796 | word:
ASAP
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ASAP (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the 1950's. First known use in the book of captain Annis G Thompson, involved in the Korean War titled The greatest Airlift (1954). Originally used in the meaning "as soon as militarily possible" by military forces.
senses_examples:
text:
Susan, please check those figures ASAP!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of as soon as possible.
senses_topics:
|
797 | word:
fortnight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fortnight (plural fortnights)
forms:
form:
fortnights
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fourtenyght, fourtene nyght, from Old English fēowertīene niht (“fourteen days”, literally “nights”), equivalent to fourteen + night. Compare sennight.
senses_examples:
text:
The “lame duck” Johnson Administration, in its final fortnight in office, grappled last week with a diplomatic hot potato in the form of the latest Soviet proposal for a “just and lasting” Middle East peace settlement.
ref:
1969 January 12, Benjamin Welles, “A Hot Potato for Nixon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A period of 2 weeks.
senses_topics:
|
798 | word:
pseudo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pseudo (plural pseudos)
forms:
form:
pseudos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, derived from prefix pseudo-, itself derived from Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”).
senses_examples:
text:
Issues such as verifiability (for age declared), anonymity (in spite of pseudos and avatars) and traceability are at stake[…]
ref:
2011, Divina Frau-Meigs, Media Matters in the Cultural Contradictions of the "Information Society", page 299
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.
A poseur; one who is fake.
pseudo-city code
A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.
Clipping of pseudoephedrine.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel-industry
|
799 | word:
pseudo
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pseudo (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, derived from prefix pseudo-, itself derived from Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Other than what is apparent; spurious; sham.
Insincere.
senses_topics:
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