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900 | word:
jiffy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jiffy (plural jiffies)
forms:
form:
jiffies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Hanhart
Jiffy (time)
etymology_text:
Origin unknown; said to have been thieves’ cant for “lightning”. Also formerly written "giffy", to which a connection with gliff has been proposed. As a kind of envelope, a genericization of Jiffy bag.
senses_examples:
text:
I’ll be back in a jiffy.
type:
example
text:
Most of the limbs of the law do every thing in a jiffy; but ask what they mean, and they would be as much puzzled, as if you required of them the explanantion of a common act of parliament.
ref:
1780 February, The Town and Country Magazine, volume 12, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
"Who says I filched a vipe?" demanded the indignant thief. "Say it agin', and I'll wisit your wittualling hoffice§ [footnote: § The Mouth.] in two jiffies, my queer von! I'se as 'onest a k'racter as hany, and doesn't know vot conweyancing‖ [footnote: ‖ Picking pockets, stealing.] is: d' ye 'ear that?"
ref:
1836, George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, “Chapter XV”, in The Youthful Impostor. A Novel. … In Two Volumes, volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: E. L. Carey & A. Hart, →OCLC, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
Of course it's kill or be killed, so at it you go, like Carter and his wild beasts, only in right down earnest, two or three more Tigers joining in, clash slash, and the sparks flying as thick as in a smith's forge, or at a Terrific Combat at the Surrey or the Wells. Such a shindy is too hot to last, and, accordingly, if you're alive at the end of two jiffies, the chance is that you find yourself making quite a melodramatic Tableau—namely, your bloody sword in one hand, a Chinese pigtail in the other, and four or five weltering Tartars lying round your feet!
ref:
1842 December, “the Editor” [Thomas Hood], “More News from China”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LXVI, number CCLXIV (Third Part), London: Henry Colburn, Great Marlborough St., →OCLC, page 427
type:
quotation
text:
Here Godfroy nodded pleasantly to Claude, who bowed, and was off— / —In a jiffy* to his men, who greeted him with loud hurrahs. In another jiffy, he was on a barrel, making them an oration. In another jiffy, he had hold of a horse, somehow—for the man had contrived already to make himself so popular in Viot, that he could have anything he liked for the asking. [Footnote: * Jiffy.—Let not the reader scorn the word; it is in Webster. "Jiffy, a moment."—Webster.]
ref:
1864, Ulric De Lazie [pseudonym?; copyright entered by Edmund D. Griffin], Dreams within Dreams; a Plagiarism of the Seventeenth Century; Being, Like Most Visions of the Night, a Medley of Old Things and New, New York, N.Y.: P. O'Shea, 104 Bleecker Street, →OCLC, page 233
type:
quotation
text:
"Plonker!" Harry shouted. Sgt Glum arrived at the double from the newly extended kitchen were the SAS were billeted. / "Sah?" / "Prepare the men, Sergeant, we're on the march in two jiffies." "Yessah! Where to, sah?"
ref:
2012, Nigel Peace, “The Wilderness”, in 5ign5 of 1if3: A Hilarious Novel of Life and Death, Gobowen, Shropshire: Local Legend Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
The FOR...NEXT loop for TIME increments by STEP 2 (every two jiffies) for two reasons: 1) the printing of 60 jiffies a second is too fast to read, and 2) the printing of each jiffy takes longer than its incrementations; this would delay the loop, so the printing of TIME$ is slower than it should be.
ref:
1980, Carroll S. Donahue, Janice K. Enger, PET-CBM Personal Computer Guide, Berkeley, Calif.: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, →OCLC, page 283
type:
quotation
text:
The number of processed packets per round is limited in dependence of the page size. The processed packets are forwarded to a single queue and are processed for the time of two jiffies.
ref:
2015, Johanna Ullrich, Edgar R. Weippl, “Protection through Isolation: Virtues and Pitfalls”, in Ryan Ko, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, editors, The Cloud Security Ecosystem: Technical, Legal, Business and Management Issues (Syngress Advanced Topics in Information Security), Waltham, Mass.: Syngress, page 135
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A very short, unspecified length of time.
A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values.
The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre (approximately 33.3564 picoseconds), but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon.
Short for jiffy bag, a padded envelope.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
901 | word:
woodwind
word_type:
noun
expansion:
woodwind (plural woodwinds)
forms:
form:
woodwinds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From wood + wind.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
902 | word:
achievement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
achievement (countable and uncountable, plural achievements)
forms:
form:
achievements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French achevement (compare Modern French achèvement), from Old French achevement, from the verb achever, achiever (“to finish”); equivalent to achieve + -ment. The heraldic sense may be influenced by hatchment.
senses_examples:
text:
As to the type of seat preferred, the views were so varied that it was considered wisely that the ideal design was beyond achievement!
ref:
1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 397
type:
quotation
text:
Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, […].
ref:
2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2017-04-27, page 171
type:
quotation
text:
[The exploits] of the ancient saints ; they do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes.
ref:
a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, edited by Abraham Hill and James Hamilton, The Works of Isaac Barrow, published 1845, Sermon xxxiv, Of Being Imitators of Christ, page 397
type:
quotation
text:
[…]the English genius was effecting in science a revolution which will, to the end of time, be reckoned among the highest achievements of the human intellect.
ref:
c. 1837, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Minutes on the Education of India
type:
quotation
text:
Meronyms: shield, supporter, crest, motto
text:
The narrow Gothic windows were filled, not with glass that admitted the light, but with glass painted with the achievements of the family […].
ref:
1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 488
type:
quotation
text:
Finishing the game does not give you a 100% score until you have unlocked all of the achievements.
type:
example
text:
[…]distinctions among states of affairs are reflected to a striking degree in distinctions among Aktionsart types. That is, situations are expressed by state verbs or predicates, events by achievement verbs or predicates, and actions by activity verbs or predicates.
ref:
1997, Robert van Valin, Randy LaPolla, Syntax, page 92
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness.
An escutcheon or ensign armorial; a full display or depiction of all the heraldic components to which the bearer of a coat of arms is entitled; (now especially) a funeral shield: the hatchment.
An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.
The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in an instant.
The successful completion of a socially defined goal or task, highlighting individual or group accomplishment.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
video-games
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology |
903 | word:
pond
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pond (plural ponds)
forms:
form:
ponds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pond
etymology_text:
From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.
senses_examples:
text:
I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond.
type:
example
text:
I haven’t been back home across the pond in twenty years.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.
senses_topics:
|
904 | word:
pond
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pond (third-person singular simple present ponds, present participle ponding, simple past and past participle ponded)
forms:
form:
ponds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ponding
tags:
participle
present
form:
ponded
tags:
participle
past
form:
ponded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pond
etymology_text:
From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.
senses_examples:
text:
The rate of fall of the surface of water ponded over the soil within the ring gives a measure of the infiltration rate for the particular enclosed area.
ref:
2004, Calvin W. Rose, An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil, Water and Watersheds, page 201
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
To form a pond; to pool.
senses_topics:
|
905 | word:
pond
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pond (third-person singular simple present ponds, present participle ponding, simple past and past participle ponded)
forms:
form:
ponds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ponding
tags:
participle
present
form:
ponded
tags:
participle
past
form:
ponded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
pond
etymology_text:
Clipping of ponder.
senses_examples:
text:
Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.
ref:
1579, Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ponder.
senses_topics:
|
906 | word:
qualitative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
qualitative (comparative more qualitative, superlative most qualitative)
forms:
form:
more qualitative
tags:
comparative
form:
most qualitative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin (or Medieval Latin) quālitātīvus. Equivalent to quality + -ative.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of descriptions or distinctions based on some quality rather than on some quantity.
Of a form of analysis that yields the identity of a compound.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
907 | word:
qualitative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
qualitative (plural qualitatives)
forms:
form:
qualitatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin (or Medieval Latin) quālitātīvus. Equivalent to quality + -ative.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something qualitative.
senses_topics:
|
908 | word:
accord
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accord (countable and uncountable, plural accords)
forms:
form:
accords
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accorden, acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accordāre, from Latin concordāre via suffix substitution (with Latin ad-), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥d-, and thus distantly related to English heart (via Proto-Germanic *hertô).
senses_examples:
text:
Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
ref:
17th century, Sir John Davies, The Self-Subsistence of the Soul
type:
quotation
text:
the accord of light and shade in painting
type:
example
text:
Oriental fragrances often incorporate an accord referred to as amber. It is a perfumery accord using vanilla, olibanum, balsamic resins, and citrus to varying degrees.
ref:
2010 November 18, Daphna Havkin-Frenkel, Faith C. Belanger, Handbook of Vanilla Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons
type:
quotation
text:
Accord is the perfumer's word for a perfume formulation that can be incorporated into any perfume calling for a particular note.
ref:
2016 October 15, Valerie Ann Worwood, The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, Revised and Expanded: Over 800 Natural, Nontoxic, and Fragrant Recipes to Create Health, Beauty, and Safe Home and Work Environments, New World Library, page 450
type:
quotation
text:
The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
type:
example
text:
Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
Agreement or harmony of things in general.
A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
An international agreement.
Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
senses_topics:
law
|
909 | word:
accord
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accord (third-person singular simple present accords, present participle according, simple past and past participle accorded)
forms:
form:
accords
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
according
tags:
participle
present
form:
accorded
tags:
participle
past
form:
accorded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accorden, acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accordāre, from Latin concordāre via suffix substitution (with Latin ad-), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥d-, and thus distantly related to English heart (via Proto-Germanic *hertô).
senses_examples:
text:
In respect of the protection of industrial property,[…]a refugee shall be accorded in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is accorded to nationals of that country.
ref:
1951, United Nations, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, article 14
type:
quotation
text:
Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.
ref:
1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
In the present case, and contrary to the Government’s submission, the Court considers that there is indeed a consensus amongst a substantial majority of the Contracting States of the Council of Europe towards allowing abortion on broader grounds than accorded under Irish law.
ref:
2010 December 16, European Court of Human Rights, A, B and C v. Ireland, number 25579/05, marginal 235
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
To agree in pitch and tone.
To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
To give consent.
To arrive at an agreement.
senses_topics:
law
|
910 | word:
World Exposition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
World Exposition (plural World Expositions)
forms:
form:
World Expositions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various large international expositions held since the mid 19th century, often called "Expo".
senses_topics:
|
911 | word:
brassière
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brassière (plural brassières)
forms:
form:
brassières
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of brassiere
senses_topics:
|
912 | word:
computer science
word_type:
noun
expansion:
computer science (usually uncountable, plural computer sciences)
forms:
form:
computer sciences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The study of computers and their architecture, languages, and applications, in all aspects, as well as the mathematical structures that relate to computers and computation.
senses_topics:
|
913 | word:
osteo-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
osteo-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Combining form of Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
bone
senses_topics:
|
914 | word:
abroad
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abroad (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad.
senses_examples:
text:
A closer look at North Korean history reveals what Pyongyang’s leaders really want their near-farcical belligerence to achieve — a reminder to the world that North Korea exists, and an impression abroad that its leaders are irrational and unpredictable.
ref:
2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Another prince, deposed by the Revolution, was living abroad.
ref:
1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIV, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume 3
type:
quotation
text:
A tree spreads its branches abroad.
type:
example
text:
Again: The lonely fox roams far abroad, / On ſecret rapine bend and midnight fraud; […]
ref:
1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions
type:
quotation
text:
I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad.
ref:
p. 1650, John Evelyn, edited by William Bray, Diary, Frederic Warne and Company, published 1818, entry for 1650 July 7, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
She spoke to Strickland in a language of her own, and whenever in her walks abroad she saw things calculated to destroy the peace of Her Majesty the Queen Empress, she returned to her master and gave him information.
ref:
1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Return of Imray
type:
quotation
text:
Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
ref:
1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter 1, in The House Behind the Cedars
type:
quotation
text:
There were very few people abroad and the two men standing quietly under a tree on the opposite side of the boulevard looked out of place.
ref:
1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 6, in Casino Royale, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
This Peece, or Schisme of Suicisme, and Selfishnesse, hath spawned most of the Heresies and Schismes, that are abroad in the World.
ref:
1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.
Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.
Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.
Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.
Played elsewhere than one's home grounds.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
915 | word:
abroad
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abroad
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad.
senses_examples:
text:
I hate abroad, abroad’s bloody.
ref:
1929, King George V, widely (and variously) quoted
text:
I am not, however, a xenophobe: obviously, abroad has some good ideas—arranged marriages, violent revolutions and so on.
ref:
c. 1991, New Statesman & Society, volumes 3–4, page 180
type:
quotation
text:
That is not a xenophobic remark. I am a xenophiliac; I love abroad. I love foreigners. I just do not like the way that they are running the European agricultural policy.
ref:
2001 March 13, The Earl of Onslow, speaking in the House of Lords, quoted in Hansard
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Countries or lands abroad.
senses_topics:
|
916 | word:
abroad
word_type:
prep
expansion:
abroad
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Throughout, over.
senses_topics:
|
917 | word:
abroad
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abroad (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad.
senses_examples:
text:
[...] much shorter than an abroad trip at eight nights although the average spending per person night is only slightly less on a US trip than an abroad trip, $37 compared with $41. Around half of Canadian trips to other countries are to Europe.
ref:
1991, Alan Jefferson, Leonard John Lickorish, Marketing Tourism: A Practical Guide
type:
quotation
text:
[...] an abroad trip was going to raise some heat in the town, amongst our relatives. My family has always been the pioneers of middle-classism. My mother has still never owned a diamond.
ref:
2018 January 25, Shalini & Brajesh, My Traditional Dil-E-Maa, Notion Press
type:
quotation
text:
[...] as her father had an abroad trip, he had dropped her mother here.
ref:
2018 April 12, Beena Sunil, Thorns of Love, Notion Press
type:
quotation
text:
Sreeja argued with Lalit to reduce his abroad trip and Lalit did listen to her. [...] Sreeja started to feel lonely even when Lalit was around. At certain point Lalit couldn't take it anymore and left for months to an abroad trip.
ref:
2022 February 19, Deepika Kathiresan, Yuva Janani, Felicible Paradise, Unvoiced Heart, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
He had contracted the disease during an abroad trip to draw up an agreement for the mass production of low-power engines.
ref:
2022 June 24, Alessandro Ferrari, Pietro Pizzo, Injection Technologies and Mixture Formation Strategies For Spark Ignition and Dual-Fuel Engines, SAE International, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
International.
senses_topics:
|
918 | word:
YWHA
word_type:
name
expansion:
YWHA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Young Women's Hebrew Association.
senses_topics:
|
919 | word:
YMHA
word_type:
name
expansion:
YMHA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Young Men's Hebrew Association.
senses_topics:
|
920 | word:
flatulent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
flatulent (comparative more flatulent, superlative most flatulent)
forms:
form:
more flatulent
tags:
comparative
form:
most flatulent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French flatulent.
senses_examples:
text:
Sorry, I'm a bit flatulent at the moment - just eaten some curry.
type:
example
text:
a flatuelent smell
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Affected by gas in the intestine; likely to fart.
Reminiscent of flatulence
Empty; vain.
senses_topics:
|
921 | word:
PVA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PVA (countable and uncountable, plural PVAs)
forms:
form:
PVAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of patterned vertical alignment.
Initialism of polyvinyl acetate.
Initialism of polyvinyl alcohol.
senses_topics:
|
922 | word:
seme
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seme (plural semes or semata)
forms:
form:
semes
tags:
plural
form:
semata
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation, sign, or symbol.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics |
923 | word:
seme
word_type:
verb
expansion:
seme (third-person singular simple present semes, present participle seming, simple past and past participle semed)
forms:
form:
semes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
seming
tags:
participle
present
form:
semed
tags:
participle
past
form:
semed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of seem.
senses_topics:
|
924 | word:
seme
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seme (plural semes)
forms:
form:
semes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of seam.
senses_topics:
|
925 | word:
seme
word_type:
adj
expansion:
seme
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of semé.
senses_topics:
|
926 | word:
seme
word_type:
noun
expansion:
seme (plural semes or seme)
forms:
form:
semes
tags:
plural
form:
seme
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 攻め (seme), derived from the verb 攻める (semeru, “to attack”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] BL manga readers chose intelligence, protectiveness, and beauty/handsomeness as the top three most important traits in a seme […]
ref:
2008, Dru Pagliassotti, “Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company (2008), page 73
type:
quotation
text:
Sebas has always been the seme.
ref:
2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press (2012)
type:
quotation
text:
The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.
ref:
2011, Robin E. Brenner, Snow Wildsmith, “Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers”, in Timothy Perper, Martha Cornog, editors, Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World, Libraries Unlimited (2011), page 97
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
senses_topics:
fiction
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing |
927 | word:
biblical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
biblical (comparative more biblical, superlative most biblical)
forms:
form:
more biblical
tags:
comparative
form:
most biblical
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin biblicus + -al, equivalent to bible + -ical.
senses_examples:
text:
Tithing is both a quranic and biblical virtue.
type:
example
text:
The biblical teaching is that…
type:
example
text:
biblical morality
type:
example
text:
Mike Pompeo, the former US secretary of state, has defended Israel’s decades-long control of the Palestinian territories by claiming that the Jewish state has a biblical claim to the land and is therefore not occupying it.
ref:
2023 February 16, Chris McGreal, quoting Mike Pompeo, “Pompeo says Israel has biblical claim to Palestine and is ‘not an occupying nation’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
of biblical proportions
type:
example
text:
with biblical fury
type:
example
text:
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff.
ref:
1984, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ghostbusters
type:
quotation
text:
Russell Banks's “Cloudsplitter,” a novel of near-biblical proportions about the abolitionist freedom fighter John Brown, is shaped like an explosive with an exceedingly long and winding fuse.
ref:
1998 February 22, Walter Kirn, “The Wages of Righteousness”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
An increase in the pace at which sea levels are rising threatens “a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale”, the UN secretary general has warned.
ref:
2023 February 14, Damian Carrington, quoting António Guterres, “Rising seas threaten ‘mass exodus on a biblical scale’, UN chief warns”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the Bible.
In accordance with the teachings of the Bible (according to some interpretation of it).
Very great; especially, exceeding previous records in scale.
senses_topics:
|
928 | word:
YWCA
word_type:
name
expansion:
YWCA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Letʼs go and see if the YWCA is open.
ref:
2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 158
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Young Women's Christian Association.
senses_topics:
|
929 | word:
transitive verb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
transitive verb (plural transitive verbs)
forms:
form:
transitive verbs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined between 1580 and 1590.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A verb that is accompanied (either clearly or implicitly) by a direct object in the active voice. It links the action taken by the subject with the object upon which that action is taken. Consequently, transitive verbs can also be used in the passive voice when the direct object of the equivalent active-voice sentence becomes the subject.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
930 | word:
odd
word_type:
adj
expansion:
odd (not generally comparable, comparative odder, superlative oddest)
forms:
form:
odder
tags:
comparative
form:
oddest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English odde, od (“odd (not even); leftover after division into pairs”), from Old Norse oddi (“odd, third or additional number; triangle”), from oddr (“point of a weapon”), from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“point”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to stick, prick, pierce, sting”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to set, place”).
Cognate to Icelandic oddi (“triangle, point of land, odd number”), Swedish udda (“odd”), udd (“a point”), Danish od (“point of weapon””) and odde (“a headland, point”), Norwegian Bokmål odde (“a point”, “odd”, “peculiar”); related to Old English ord (“a point”). Doublet of ord ("point").
senses_examples:
text:
She slept in, which was very odd.
type:
example
text:
[One of them would] say, 'Hi, Mother.' This might be Chrissie with the purple hair and black lipstick, or Adam, who usually wore odd leather stuff. Sometimes 'Hi' was all I heard; other times they'd stay and talk for a minute.
ref:
2003, Kenneth Rubin, Andrea Thompson, The Friendship Factor, Penguin
type:
quotation
text:
Optimistically, he had a corner of a drawer for odd socks.
type:
example
text:
My cat Fluffy has odd eyes: one blue and one brown.
text:
Itm , lxij almond rivetts.
Almain rivetts, a sort of light armour having sleeves of mail, or iron plates, rivetted, with braces for the defence of the arms.
Itm, one odd back for an almond rivett.
ref:
1822, John Gage, The History and Antiquities of Hengrave, in Suffolk, page 29
text:
I'm the odd one out.
type:
example
text:
"Here, I have some odd change that should make things easier." As Tish turned and reached for the cigarettes, Eric took some loose coins from his pocket and placed the change from the twenty into his other pocket.
ref:
2009, Sam O'Connor, Tales of Old Las Vegas: Inside are a Few Stories Set in the 60's, where There was More to the Action Than the Games, AuthorHouse, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
Third was my college loan of five thousand dollars and some odd change.
ref:
2010, Chris Thomas, The Rockefeller Fraud, Xulon Press, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
I don't speak Latin well, so in hearing a dissertation in Latin, I would only be able to make out the odd word of it.
type:
example
text:
but for the odd exception
type:
example
text:
There are odd bits of green here and there in patches, but no continuous stretches. The elk, swans and woodgrouse are no more. The old hamlets, farmsteads, hermitages and mills have vanished without trace.
ref:
1998, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley, Five Plays, Oxford University Press, USA, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
He's only worked odd jobs.
type:
example
text:
The odd horse will now be employed in carting couch grass on to pasture land, carting hay, &c, to sheep in the field, carting roots, straw, &c, for feeding cattle in the boxes or dairy cows in the stalls or yards, and in various odd jobs on the farm ...
ref:
1879, Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening, page 262
type:
quotation
text:
At about 14 he rises a step by getting the 'odd' horse and cart, and does all the small carting work about the farm.
ref:
1894, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional papers. Inventory control record 1, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
There is also the “orra man who, like the odd horse, is kept busy on odd jobs.
ref:
1912, John Burleigh, Ednam and Its Indwellers
type:
quotation
text:
The product of two odd numbers is also odd.
type:
example
text:
In their original article, Messrs Christie and Schultz found that in 70 of the 100 most heavily traded stocks, Nasdaq dealers avoided quoting prices in odd eighths of a dollar. Buyers were far more likely to quote shares at 28 1/2 or 28 3/4 than at 28 5/8.
ref:
1998 January 15, “Collusion in the Stockmarket”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
How do I print only the odd pages?
type:
example
text:
There were thirty-odd people in the room.
type:
example
text:
"Well, isn't it a bit unusual to run into an old friend in an odd corner of the world like this?" I asked.
ref:
1958, Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi, New Directions Publishing, page 218
type:
quotation
text:
Plant a clump in your postage stamp garden, or stuff them in an odd corner of a flower bed. (They prefer full sun but will tolerate filtered shade.)
ref:
2015, Karen Newcomb, The Postage Stamp Vegetable Garden: Grow Tons of Organic Vegetables in Tiny Spaces and Containers, Ten Speed Press
type:
quotation
text:
He served from the odd court.
type:
example
text:
He goes to Phrygia, and sees Scamander. "Happy are all," he says, "who are honoured by that odd clerk. Homer." In Macedonia, he finds hie mother.
ref:
1886, Walter William Skeat, The Wars of Alexander: An Alliterative Romance Translated Chiefly from the Historia Alexandri Magni de Preliis, page 120, in (modern English) notes about the Middle English text
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
Not regular or planned.
Used or employed for odd jobs.
Numerically indivisible by two.
Numbered with an odd number.
About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
Out of the way, secluded.
On the left.
Singular in excellence; matchless; peerless; outstanding.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
931 | word:
odd
word_type:
noun
expansion:
odd (plural odds)
forms:
form:
odds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English odde, od (“odd (not even); leftover after division into pairs”), from Old Norse oddi (“odd, third or additional number; triangle”), from oddr (“point of a weapon”), from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“point”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to stick, prick, pierce, sting”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to set, place”).
Cognate to Icelandic oddi (“triangle, point of land, odd number”), Swedish udda (“odd”), udd (“a point”), Danish od (“point of weapon””) and odde (“a headland, point”), Norwegian Bokmål odde (“a point”, “odd”, “peculiar”); related to Old English ord (“a point”). Doublet of ord ("point").
senses_examples:
text:
I’ve got three complete sets of these trading cards for sale, plus a few dozen odds.
type:
example
text:
So let’s see. There are two evens here and three odds.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something left over, not forming part of a set.
An odd number.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
932 | word:
abnormal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abnormal (comparative more abnormal, superlative most abnormal)
forms:
form:
more abnormal
tags:
comparative
form:
most abnormal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
abnormal
etymology_text:
From ab- + normal. First attested in 1835, replacing the earlier anormal and even earlier abnormous, from Latin abnormis (“departing from normal”), from either (ab- (“away from”) + norma (“rule, norm”)), or Ancient Greek ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos).
senses_examples:
text:
And then after an abnormal meal, which was either a very late breakfast or a very early lunch, they drove on to Victoria Station.
ref:
1899, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 6, in A Duet
type:
quotation
text:
Many of the so-called rites of these secret societies were so patently ridiculous, that it is quite obvious that they were merely an excuse for men and women to indulge in sex-play and lustful gratification, frequently of an abnormal kind.
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 161
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.
Of or pertaining to that which is irregular, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health.
senses_topics:
|
933 | word:
abnormal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abnormal (plural abnormals)
forms:
form:
abnormals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abnormal
etymology_text:
From ab- + normal. First attested in 1835, replacing the earlier anormal and even earlier abnormous, from Latin abnormis (“departing from normal”), from either (ab- (“away from”) + norma (“rule, norm”)), or Ancient Greek ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person or object that is not normal.
senses_topics:
|
934 | word:
lol
word_type:
intj
expansion:
lol
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of LOL
senses_topics:
|
935 | word:
lol
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lol (plural lols)
forms:
form:
lols
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of LOL
senses_topics:
|
936 | word:
lol
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lol (third-person singular simple present lols, present participle loling or lolling, simple past and past participle loled or lol'd or lolled or lold)
forms:
form:
lols
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
loling
tags:
participle
present
form:
lolling
tags:
participle
present
form:
loled
tags:
participle
past
form:
loled
tags:
past
form:
lol'd
tags:
participle
past
form:
lol'd
tags:
past
form:
lolled
tags:
participle
past
form:
lolled
tags:
past
form:
lold
tags:
participle
past
form:
lold
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of LOL
senses_topics:
|
937 | word:
lol
word_type:
particle
expansion:
lol
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Are you really that bad lol?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Neutralises the tone of a message; denotes that a message is light-hearted or casual.
senses_topics:
|
938 | word:
lol
word_type:
intj
expansion:
lol
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used in song as a nonsense syllable.
senses_topics:
|
939 | word:
POSSLQ
word_type:
noun
expansion:
POSSLQ (plural POSSLQs)
forms:
form:
POSSLQs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
c. 1981, Charles Osgood
You live with me, and I with you / And you will be my POSSLQ / I’ll be your friend and so much more / That’s what a POSSLQ is for.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of person of the opposite sex sharing living quarters.
senses_topics:
|
940 | word:
poppycock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
poppycock (usually uncountable, plural poppycocks)
forms:
form:
poppycocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch pappekak, from Middle Dutch pappe (“soft food”) + kak (“dung, excrement”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
foolish talk; nonsense.
senses_topics:
|
941 | word:
epizootic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
epizootic (plural epizootics)
forms:
form:
epizootics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
epizootic
etymology_text:
From French épizootique, animal equivalent of epidemic, from épizootie, irregularly formed from Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí) + ζῷον (zôion, “animal”).
By surface analysis, epi- + zo- + -otic. Use of the word in the second sense, "an ailment", was likely originally a reference to a particular epizootic ailment. Both senses are attested since at least the 1800s, and the pronunciation with five syllables is explicitly attested since then as well. Dialectal pronunciation of the second sense with four syllables is attested since at least the 1910s in spellings like "epizudic" and is suggested by 1870s references to a shortened form of the word, "zooty".
senses_examples:
text:
At the same time as an epidemic of the flu broke out among the people, an epizootic of the swine flu broke out among their pigs.
type:
example
text:
[…]but it can be asserted with confidence that Natal will for some years yet be free from the possibility of an invasion of the disease to the same degree as the epizootic of 1896 and 1897.
ref:
1901 July 5, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “The Umvoti Outbreak”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 9, page 247
type:
quotation
text:
A surgeon in the town has also informed me, that a person requested him to prescribe for some lambs affected with the epizootic, and he gave them Epsom salts and opium, with, as he said, very good effect.
ref:
1856, On the epizootic lately affecting lambs, in The Veterinarian; or Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science for 1856, volume XXIX-II, fourth series, edited by Morton and Simonds, page 450
text:
Johnny's not doing so well today, I think he caught the epizootic.
text:
Last fall, when Dad had the Epizootic; no, I don't mean that, tho I did think he had em, but when the Chicargar hosses got the Epizootic, Dad got all fired mad caus that xpressman didn't cum round to move the rest of our traps.
ref:
1873, Jeramiah Juniur Blows His Bugle, in Gem of the West and Soldiers' Friend, seventh year, January 1873, page 378
text:
Never do I have colds — but I got the epizootics(?) and sneezed my head off — twenty three times yesterday.
ref:
1977, Samuel M. Steward, editor, Dear Sammy: Letters from Getrude Stein and Alice Toklas, page 237
type:
quotation
text:
"My Laws, Minnie! She's got spots! I guess you've got the epizootics."
ref:
1986, Geneva Bair Wilson, As the Anvil Rings, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
Then along comes somebody else who says you've got epizootic and he can cure epizootic and he doesn't have to cut out the epi.
ref:
1998, David Pietrusza, Judge and Jury, the life and times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, page 348
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population of non-human animals at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period. Compare epidemic.
A particular epizootic disease.
A disease or ailment (of humans).
senses_topics:
epidemiology
medicine
sciences
|
942 | word:
epizootic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
epizootic (comparative more epizootic, superlative most epizootic)
forms:
form:
more epizootic
tags:
comparative
form:
most epizootic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
epizootic
etymology_text:
From French épizootique, animal equivalent of epidemic, from épizootie, irregularly formed from Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí) + ζῷον (zôion, “animal”).
By surface analysis, epi- + zo- + -otic. Use of the word in the second sense, "an ailment", was likely originally a reference to a particular epizootic ailment. Both senses are attested since at least the 1800s, and the pronunciation with five syllables is explicitly attested since then as well. Dialectal pronunciation of the second sense with four syllables is attested since at least the 1910s in spellings like "epizudic" and is suggested by 1870s references to a shortened form of the word, "zooty".
senses_examples:
text:
Epizootic plague occurred in the mice following introduction of rats from Europe.
text:
As much attention is being drawn to the subject of epizootic abortion in bovines, [...]
ref:
1913 September, J. J. Desmond, “An enzootic of contagious abortion in cattle”, in American Journal of Veterinary Medicine, volume VIII, number 9, page 470
type:
quotation
text:
These are known respectively as the hair lung worm and the thread lung worm. The former of these is probably the more widely diffused, but the latter is more epizootic in flocks than the former.
ref:
1914, Thomas Shaw, Management and Feeding of Sheep, page 398
type:
quotation
text:
1919 March 19, author not named, The Mud Larks, in Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, 2004 Gutenberg edition,
I handed it back to him, explaining that he had come to the wrong shop--unless he were a horse, of course. If he were and could provide his own nosebag, head-stall and Army Form 1640, testifying that he was guiltless of mange, ophthalmia or epizootic lymphangitis, I would do what I could for him.
text:
The parasites important in Britain do, however, by themselves constitute a most serious source of loss to pig breeders — probably at least as serious as that caused by the various more spectacular but more epizootic bacterial diseases.
ref:
1933, British Veterinary Journal, volume 89, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
Hence their primary division is into primeval and secondary or Epizootic. And the epizootic mountains are still farther distinguishable into original and derivative.
ref:
1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays, pages 160–161
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Like or having to do with an epizootic: epidemic among animals.
Containing fossils.
Relating to epizoa; epizoic.
senses_topics:
epidemiology
medicine
sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences
|
943 | word:
Roman numerals
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Roman numerals
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Roman numeral
senses_topics:
|
944 | word:
Roman numerals
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Roman numerals (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Roman numerals is the system used on some clocks.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The system of numerals using Roman numerals.
senses_topics:
|
945 | word:
dls
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dls
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of dl
senses_topics:
|
946 | word:
DOD
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DOD
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of date of death.
Initialism of displacement-on-demand (a type of engine that can shut down cylinders when not needed).
Initialism of drop-on-demand.
Initialism of definition of done.
Initialism of United States Department of Defense.
senses_topics:
automotive
transport
vehicles
media
printing
publishing
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
government
military
politics
war |
947 | word:
NASA
word_type:
name
expansion:
NASA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Acronym of National Auto Sport Association.
senses_topics:
NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sports |
948 | word:
trade union
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trade union (plural trade unions or trades unions)
forms:
form:
trade unions
tags:
plural
form:
trades unions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
When the first wave of postwar immigrants arrived in Britain in the 1950s and ’60s, it was a period of rising wages, full employment, an expanding welfare state and strong trade unions. Today, Britain’s manufacturing base has all but disappeared, working-class communities have disintegrated, unions have been neutered and the welfare state has begun to crumble.
ref:
2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
, labour union (Canada), labor union (Canada, US)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An organization whose members belong to the same trade and that acts collectively to address common issues.
senses_topics:
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949 | word:
arietta
word_type:
noun
expansion:
arietta (plural ariettas)
forms:
form:
ariettas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian arietta (“breeze”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a short aria.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
950 | word:
abacus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abacus (plural abaci or abacuses)
forms:
form:
abaci
tags:
plural
form:
abacuses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Harvard University
Houghton Library
Roman abacus
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English abacus, abagus, agabus (“abacus; art of counting with an abacus”), from Latin abacus, abax (“sideboard or table with a slab at the top; slab at the top of a column; counting board, sand table; board for playing games”) (compare Late Latin abacus (“art of arithmetic”)), from Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax, “counting board; board covered with sand for drawing; plate; dice-board”). Doublet of abaque.
The plural form abaci is reinforced from Latin abacī.
senses_examples:
text:
He [Gerebertus] was þe firste þat took abacus of Sarsyns, and ȝaf rules þerynne, þat mowe unneþe be understonde of þe kunnyngeste men of þe craft, þe whiche craftes men beþ cleped abaciste. Marianus. Abacus is a table wiþ þhe whiche schappes be portrayed and i-peynt in powdre, and abacus is a craft of geometrie.
He [Gerebertus] was the first who took the abacus of the Saracens and gave rules for it, which can be barely understood by the most learned men of the craft, whose craftsmen are called abacists. Marianus. The abacus is a table with which shapes are portrayed and painted in powder, and abacus is [also] a branch of geometry.]
ref:
[a. 1387, Ranulphi Higden [i.e., Ranulf Higden], chapter X, in John Trevisa, transl., edited by Joseph Rawson Lumby, Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English Translations of John Trevisa and of an Unknown Writer of the Fifteenth Century. […] (Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores, or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages), volume VII (in Middle English), London: Longman & Co., […]; Trübner & Co., […], published 1879, →OCLC, book VI, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
[H]e set fondly and furiously to work upon [Thomas] Simpson's Euclid, [...] The smooth grassy sod answered all the purposes of the abacus, and the cows generously supplied him in a substitute for sand. Spreading and smoothing that substitute with his bear foot, he engraved upon it with his finger the mystic lines and letters; and, with book in hand, proceeded to establish the elementary principles of geometry, [...]
ref:
1825, “a modern Greek” [pseudonym; Robert Mudie], “Education of the Athens”, in The Modern Athens: A Dissection and Demonstration of Men and Things in the Scotch Capital, 2nd edition, London: Printed for Knight and Lacey, […], →OCLC, page 269
type:
quotation
text:
I’ve heard merchants still use an abacus for adding things up in China.
type:
example
text:
Before leaving the question of early arithmetic I should mention that for practical purposes the almost universal use of the abacus or swan-pan rendered it easy to add or subtract, or even to multiply and divide, without any knowledge of theoretical mathematics. [...] [I]t will be sufficient here to say that they afford a concrete way of representing a number in the decimal scale, and enable the results of addition and subtraction to be obtained by a merely mechanical process.
ref:
1888, Walter W[illiam] Rouse Ball, “Egyptian and Phœnecian Mathematics”, in A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
The computer is but another vehicle to employ in helping people learn, a cousin of books, films, blackboards, chalk, gerbils, abacuses. Like each of these devices, it can be well used or misused.
ref:
1974, Theodore R[yland] Sizer, “Foreword”, in Allan B. Ellis, The Use & Misuse of Computers in Education, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, page ix
type:
quotation
text:
Take another look at the abacus to see how useful it is. Each row represents a successively higher counting group, or register, by 10 times. Thus, with only 6 rows you can count to one million (actually, up to 999,999, which is 1 short of one million).
ref:
1999, Stan Gibilisco, Norman Crowhurst, “From Counting to Addition”, in Mastering Technical Mathematics, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, part 1 (Arithmetic as an Outgrowth of Learning to Count), page 10
type:
quotation
text:
Before Pythagoras it was necessary to see the thing before counting it, like children who learn on abacuses, with balls sliding along rods: children learn to add and subtract by sliding stones.
ref:
2001, Augusto Boal, “The Impossible Return and the Strangeness of the Familiar”, in Adrian Jackson, Candida Blaker, transl., Hamlet and the Baker’s Son: My Life in Theatre and Politics, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 342
type:
quotation
text:
Each rod in the bottom deck of an abacus has 5 beads. The value of each bead depends on which rod it is on. Each bead on the ones rod in the bottom deck equals 1. Each bead on the tens rod in the bottom deck equals 10. Each bead on the hundreds rod in the bottom deck equals 100.
ref:
2004, Patricia J. Murphy, “The Bottom Deck”, in Counting with an Abacus: Learning the Place Values of Ones, Tens, and Hundreds, New York, N.Y.: The Rosen Publishing Group, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
She was sitting at the parlour table with a small abacus in front of her. [...] Peter still recorded weights of fleeces and pounds of cabbages and bushels of grain by cutting notches in tally sticks, but Liza would translate them into figures on paper and have them totted up on the abacus the very same day.
ref:
2007, Valerie Anand, “Hope and Fear”, in The House of Lanyon (The Exmoor Saga), Richmond, London: Mira, published 2008, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
The only mouldings uſed, both by the Saxon and Norman architects, were the torus, the ſcotia or reverſed torus, the cavetto or hollow moulding, and a kind of chamfered faſcia, which latter was generally uſed for impoſts or abacuſes to their capitals.
ref:
1795 June 11, 18, 25, William Wilkins, “XIV. An Essay towards the History of the Venta Icenorum of the Romans, and of Norwich Castle; with Remarks on the Architecture of the Anglo-Saxons and Normans. [On the Architecture of NORWICH Castle.]”, in Archaeologia: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, volume XII, London: Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London; printed by J[ohn] Nichols, printer to the Society; […], published 1796, →OCLC, page 160
type:
quotation
text:
At Amiens, the square form of the abaci, and the volutes of the capitals, afford a decisive proof that the Norman fashion had not yet been superseded. On the other hand, at Salisbury, the abaci are mostly round, and where foliage is used in the capitals, their graceful and luxurious design clearly shews an advancement in that department of the art.
ref:
1829 June, “Cathedrals of Salisbury and Amiens Compared, by the Late Rev. G. D. Whittington, in the Sixth Chapter of His ‘Survey of the Ecclesiastical Antiquities of France.’ 1811.”, in The Crypt, or Receptacle for Things Past, and West of England Magazine, volume I, part I, number VI (New Series), Winchester, Hampshire: Published by Charles Henry Wheeler, […], →OCLC, page 245
type:
quotation
text:
The shafts carry the usual cubical capitals—surmounted by plain heavy impost stones in place of moulded abaci—the one on the right being the better preserved.
ref:
1942, Theodore Fyfe, Architecture in Cambridge: Examples of English Architectural Styles from Saxon to Modern Times, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: At the University Press, →OCLC, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
The Hathor abaci above the Mammisi capitals were only decorated on the east flank. Perhaps the decoration of the abacus was not regarded as important as the capital and although it is above the capital, its decoration was executed only when time constraints did not prevail.
ref:
1989, Eleni Vassilika, “The Work Methods of the Artisan at Philae”, in Ptolemaic Philae (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 34), Leuven, Belgium: Departement Oriëntalistiek, Uitgeverij Peeters, pages 187–188
type:
quotation
text:
The abacus is moulded in three sections and has four main concave faces corresponding with the tapering volutes below and truncated by a short square face on the diagonal.
ref:
2005, Robert Chitham, “Plates 20 and 21: The Ionic Capital I and II”, in The Classical Orders of Architecture, 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Burlington, Mass.: Architectural Press, Elsevier, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
ABACUS, among the ancients, was a kind of cupboard or buffet. Livy, deſcribing the luxury into which the Romans degenerated after the conqueſt of Aſia, ſays they had their abaci, beds, &c. plated over with gold.
ref:
1817, “ABACUS”, in Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 5th enlarged and improved edition, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed at the Encyclopædia Press, for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: Gale and Fenner; York, Yorkshire: Thomas Wilson and Sons, →OCLC, page 4, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The plate and nicknacks, always found in elegant Roman houses, were displayed on small one or three legged tables (trapezophoron), the slabs of which (abacus, a word which, like trapezophoron, is sometimes used for the whole table) had raised edges round them: several richly ornamented specimens of such tables have been found at Pompeii. Fig. 446 shows a small abacus resting on three marble legs, which has been found in the house of the "Little Mosaic-Fountain" at Pompeii.
ref:
1875, E[rnst Karl] Guhl, W[ilhelm David] Koner, “The Romans”, in F[rancis] Hueffer, transl., The Life of the Greeks and Romans, Described from Antique Monuments: Translated from the Third German Edition, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, § 89 (Tables.—Tripods), pages 446–447
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A table or tray scattered with sand which was used for calculating or drawing.
A device used for performing arithmetical calculations; (rare) a table on which loose counters are placed, or (more commonly) an instrument with beads sliding on rods, or counters in grooves, with one row of beads or counters representing units, the next tens, etc.
The uppermost portion of the capital of a column immediately under the architrave, in some cases a flat oblong or square slab, in others more decorated.
A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments for holding bottles, cups, or the like; a kind of buffet, cupboard, or sideboard.
senses_topics:
architecture
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951 | word:
grok
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grok (third-person singular simple present groks, present participle grokking or groking, simple past and past participle grokked or groked)
forms:
form:
groks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
grokking
tags:
participle
present
form:
groking
tags:
participle
present
form:
grokked
tags:
participle
past
form:
grokked
tags:
past
form:
groked
tags:
participle
past
form:
groked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Venus and the Seven Sexes
William Tenn
etymology_text:
Coined by American author and aeronautical engineer Robert A. Heinlein in 1961 in his novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein invented the word for his fictitious Martian language. It is described as meaning “to drink” and, figuratively, “to drink in all available aspects of reality”, “to become one with the observed”. William Tenn later asked Heinlein if it could have been inspired by the term griggo, which featured in Tenn's 1949 Venus and the Seven Sexes; Heinlein “looked startled, then thought about it for a long time (and) shrugged, (saying) ‘It's possible, very possible.’”
senses_examples:
text:
Troponym: subitize
text:
Grok―and then it's clear, without anybody having to say it.
ref:
1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
type:
quotation
text:
He freely plucks notions and verbiage from science fiction to describe everything from mountain-related undertakings to political subterfuge – like "grok", a term from Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, to denote intuitive understanding.]
ref:
[2008 December, Leslie Anthony, “Running from Babylon”, in Skiing, volume 61, number 4, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
Because what he never managed to grok then was that the company he created was destined to become a template for all of humanity, the digital reflection of masses of people across the globe. Including — and especially — the bad ones.
ref:
2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
I finally grok Perl.
type:
example
text:
I find it exceedingly doubtful that any person groks quantum mechanics.
type:
example
text:
Today we take a few moments to help you grok some of the ways that victims of TU can up their hipness – if we may use that term without being considered old school.
ref:
2008 August, Stanley Bing, “New Help for Hodads”, in Fortune, volume 158, number 3, page 152
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.
To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.
senses_topics:
|
952 | word:
December
word_type:
name
expansion:
December (plural Decembers)
forms:
form:
Decembers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
December
December Murders
December Revolution
Decembrist Revolt
etymology_text:
From Middle English December, Decembre, from Old French decembre, from Latin december (“tenth month”), from Latin decem (“ten”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; December was the tenth month in the Roman calendar.
senses_examples:
text:
But others were less than thrilled with this new gizmo, particularly its addictive qualities. There were reports of breakups threatened and consummated over it. “Our marriage or your Sony,” one woman told her husband, who duly sold the Walkman to a bachelor friend. A young woman named December Cole, a sales executive at a beauty magazine, recalled a trip to Atlantic City with "a basically rude" man who wouldn't stop "bopping around to his own music."
ref:
2017, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Personal Stereo, page 45
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.
A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].
A surname.
senses_topics:
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953 | word:
-ity
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-ity
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English -ite, -itee, from Old French -ite, -ete, -eteit (“-ity”), from Latin -itātem, from -itās, from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (suffix). Cognate with Gothic -𐌹𐌸𐌰 (-iþa, “-th”), Old High German -ida (“-th”), Old English -þo, -þu, -þ (“-th”). More at -th.
senses_examples:
text:
absurd + -ity → absurdity (“the quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment”)
type:
example
text:
anonym(ous) + -ity → anonymity (“the quality or state of being anonymous”)
type:
example
text:
modern + -ity → modernity (“the quality of being modern or contemporary”)
type:
example
text:
precar(ious) + -ity → precarity (“a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare”)
type:
example
text:
absurd + -ity → [an] absurdity (“that which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction”)
type:
example
text:
anonym(ous) + -ity → [an] anonymity (“that which is anonymous”)
type:
example
text:
insipid + -ity → [an] insipidity (“something that is insipid; an insipid utterance, sight, object, etc.”)
type:
example
text:
odd + -ity → [an] oddity (“an odd or strange thing or opinion; a strange person; an oddball”)
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to form an uncountable noun from an adjective; especially, to form the noun referring to the state, property, or quality of conforming to the adjective's description.
Used to form a countable noun from an adjective, referring to someone or something that conforms to the adjective's description.
Used to form other nouns, especially abstract nouns.
senses_topics:
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954 | word:
-ity
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-ity
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant of -ety, likely an alteration of -edy, equivalent to -ed + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
hip + -ity → hippity, hippity-hop
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of -ety
senses_topics:
|
955 | word:
uncountable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
uncountable (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + countable.
senses_examples:
text:
The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
type:
example
text:
Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable.
type:
example
text:
Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.
type:
example
text:
One meaning in law of the usually uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
So many as to be incapable of being counted.
Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
956 | word:
uncountable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
uncountable (plural uncountables)
forms:
form:
uncountables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + countable.
senses_examples:
text:
But inherent uncountables such as 'stuffs' can be conceptualized in two different ways, depending on whether they are viewed in terms of quantity or in terms of quality.
ref:
1988, Anna Wierzbicka, The Semantics of Grammar, page 440
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An uncountable noun.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
957 | word:
pseudo-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
pseudo-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pseudo- (but uncommon before Modern English), from Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
False, not genuine, fake
senses_topics:
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958 | word:
etymology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
etymology (countable and uncountable, plural etymologies)
forms:
form:
etymologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology
etymology_text:
From Middle English ethymologie, from Old French ethimologie, from Latin etymologia, from Ancient Greek ἐτυμολογία (etumología), from ἔτυμον (étumon, “true sense”) and -λογία (-logía, “study or logic of”), from λόγος (lógos, “word; explanation”).
senses_examples:
text:
Although written the same, the words lead (the metal) and lead (the verb) have totally different etymologies.
type:
example
text:
The etymology of the term Japlish is disputed and contentiously so.
ref:
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Where did this name Harlequin (or Arlechin) come from? Most etymologies for the name give the Hellequin theory.
ref:
2023 July 2, Talia Felix, “Homing in on Harlequin”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
type:
quotation
text:
I'm sure you know the etymology of your name, Goodspeed.
ref:
1996, The Rock
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.
The entire catalogue of meanings that a word, morpheme, or sign has carried throughout its history; lit. the logic of the etymon.
An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.
The direct origin of a name, as in who someone was named after.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
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959 | word:
leap
word_type:
verb
expansion:
leap (third-person singular simple present leaps, present participle leaping, simple past leaped or leapt or (archaic) lept or (archaic) lope, past participle leaped or leapt or (archaic) lept or (archaic) lopen)
forms:
form:
leaps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
leaping
tags:
participle
present
form:
leaped
tags:
past
form:
leapt
tags:
past
form:
lept
tags:
archaic
past
form:
lope
tags:
archaic
past
form:
leaped
tags:
participle
past
form:
leapt
tags:
participle
past
form:
lept
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
lopen
tags:
archaic
participle
past
wikipedia:
leap
etymology_text:
From Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope, lowp, elope, gallop, galop, interlope, and loop.
Cognate with West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Danish løbe, Norwegian Bokmål løpe, from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).
senses_examples:
text:
It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep
ref:
c. 1450, anonymous author, Merlin
type:
quotation
text:
I, I defie thee: wert not thou next him when he leapt into the Riuer?
ref:
1600, anonymous author, The wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll, act 4
type:
quotation
text:
Th’ infernal monarch rear’d his horrid head, Leapt from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day.
ref:
1783, Hugh Blair, from the “Iliad” in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, lecture 4, page 65
text:
It is better to leap into the void.
ref:
1999, Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems, page 78
text:
to leap a wall or a ditch
type:
example
text:
to leap a horse across a ditch
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To jump.
To pass over by a leap or jump.
To copulate with (a female beast)
To copulate with (a human)
To cause to leap.
senses_topics:
|
960 | word:
leap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leap (plural leaps)
forms:
form:
leaps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
leap
etymology_text:
From Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope, lowp, elope, gallop, galop, interlope, and loop.
Cognate with West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Danish løbe, Norwegian Bokmål løpe, from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).
senses_examples:
text:
He made a leap across the river.
type:
example
text:
1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics
Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.
text:
Manikanta returned to the palace riding on a royal tiger accompanied by a leap of leopards to the utter surprise of the inhabitants of Pantalam.
ref:
1970, The Calcutta Review, page 373
type:
quotation
text:
I can see it now... a leap of Leopards eating the carcass of a Longhorn out in the Vista....
ref:
2005 July 23, Next Windows to be named "Vista".
type:
quotation
text:
Without the Chop Chop Chop Chop Cowville seems almost normal: no hover of helicopters, no leap of leopards.
ref:
2009, Cooper, The President's Dilemma: A Novel, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
I felt like the only one of my kind, and all around me were the other kids in their groups like herds of wildebeests and prides of lions and crashes of rhinos and unkindnesses of ravens and leaps of leopards and wrecks of sea hawks.
ref:
2017, Sandra Evans, This Is Not a Werewolf Story, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
ref:
1969 July 20, Neil Armstrong, as he became the first man to step on the moon
type:
quotation
text:
Since the arrival of mainstream pornography platforms in the early 2000’s and the rise in smartphone use, online pornography consumption has shown considerable year on year leaps.
ref:
2024 May 30, Germano Vera Cruz, Elias Aboujaoude, Magdalena Liberacka-Dwojak, Monika Wiłkość-Dębczyńska, Lucien Rochat, Riaz Khan, Yasser Khazaal, “How much online pornography is too much? A comparison of two theoretically distinct assessment scales”, in Archives of Public Health, volume 82, →DOI
type:
quotation
text:
It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.
type:
example
text:
Much difference of opinion exists as to the number of bullings a cow should receive. Here, I think, good judgment should be used. If the bull is cool and quiet, and some time has intervened since he had his last cow, one good leap is better than more […]
ref:
1865, British Farmer's Magazine, number 48, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
He unfortunately persevered, and the cot veered round towards the fall of the leap, and was running fast towards the rapids, when Mr. Craven lost his self-possession, and jumped out to gain a rock within a length of him, but did not succe[e]d, and he sunk in a part of the river over the leap called the dancing-hole, from which he was never more seen to rise. The cot was dashed with violence against another rock […]
ref:
1837, The New Sporting Magazine, volume 12, page 358
text:
[…] where the Esk divides it in the middle, and forms a linn or leap, is named the How burn; […]
ref:
1868, John Marius Wilson. The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, page 24
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of leaping or jumping.
The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
A group of leopards.
A significant move forward.
A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
A fault.
Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
senses_topics:
business
mining
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
961 | word:
leap
word_type:
adj
expansion:
leap (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
leap
etymology_text:
From Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope, lowp, elope, gallop, galop, interlope, and loop.
Cognate with West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Danish løbe, Norwegian Bokmål løpe, from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Intercalary, bissextile.
senses_topics:
|
962 | word:
leap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
leap (plural leaps)
forms:
form:
leaps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
leap
etymology_text:
From Middle English lep, from Old English lēap (“basket”), from Proto-West Germanic *laup, from Proto-Germanic *laupaz (“container, basket”). Cognate with Icelandic laupur (“basket”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
Half a bushel.
senses_topics:
|
963 | word:
SpA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SpA (countable and uncountable, plural SpAs)
forms:
form:
SpAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of spondyloarthritis.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
964 | word:
July
word_type:
name
expansion:
July (plural Julies or Julys)
forms:
form:
Julies
tags:
plural
form:
Julys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Julius Caesar
July
etymology_text:
From Middle English Julie, julye, iulius, from Anglo-Norman julie, from Old French jule, juil, from Latin iūlius (Gaius Julius Caesar's month), perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios, "descended from Jove".
senses_examples:
text:
By 1880, in his early to middle twenties, he had married a literate woman named July, who would be his first of three wives. Riley continued to live close to his parents, James and Frances, whose house was just three doors down and who still had four of their own children living with them in addition to a grandson.
ref:
2004, Eric Arnesen, The Human Tradition in American Labor History, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
In Prairie County, Arkansas, in March 1863, a black woman named July, born free in Tennessee but under indenture to a white man until she turned twenty-one, was brought before a circuit court when she was just short of reaching her age of freedom.
ref:
2003, William C. Davis, Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America, page 153
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August. Abbreviation: Jul or Jul.
A female given name from English.
senses_topics:
|
965 | word:
July
word_type:
name
expansion:
July (plural Julys)
forms:
form:
Julys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
July
etymology_text:
A translation of the French surname Juillet.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from French.
senses_topics:
|
966 | word:
quotidian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quotidian (comparative more quotidian, superlative most quotidian)
forms:
form:
more quotidian
tags:
comparative
form:
most quotidian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman cotidian, cotidien, Middle French cotidian, cotidien, and their source, Latin cottīdiānus, quōtīdiānus (“happening every day”), from adverb cottīdiē, quōtīdiē (“every day, daily”), from an unattested adjective derived from quot (“how many”) + locative form of diēs (“day”).
senses_examples:
text:
I know that the government's daily idea to solve the country's law and order problem is not meant to be taken too seriously, but every now and again I am moved to raise an eyebrow at the quotidian suggestion.
ref:
2000 July 10, Marcel Berline, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The story or the painting would serve to connect the part with the whole, the event with the myth, the quotidian with the sacred.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 102
type:
quotation
text:
Tragedy demanded verse, not the quotidian prose of comedy, and verse usually supplied some form of end rhyme.
ref:
2002, Russ McDonald, edited by McEachern, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
Grids are used for such quotidian items as stationery, business cards, mailing labels, hang tags, instruction manuals, etc.
ref:
2010, Steven Heller, Eddie S Glaude, Becoming a Graphic Designer
type:
quotation
text:
They are finding the remains of ovens for smelting copper and preparing food as well as quotidian objects such as mats and storage pots.
ref:
2015, Alexander Stille, “The World’s Oldest Papyrus and What It Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids”, in Smithsonian Magazine, volume October 2015, Smithsonian Institution
type:
quotation
text:
Quotidian periodicity we find in greater or less degree in nearly all fevers, particularly in fevers associated with suppuration.
ref:
1898, Patrick Manson, Tropical Diseases, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
I regret that the effect of these statements is a denial of the observation of initial quotidian paroxysms following artificial inoculation.
ref:
1941, American Journal of Tropical Medicine, volume XXI
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Happening every day; daily.
Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly.
Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc).
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
967 | word:
quotidian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quotidian (plural quotidians)
forms:
form:
quotidians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman cotidian, cotidien, Middle French cotidian, cotidien, and their source, Latin cottīdiānus, quōtīdiānus (“happening every day”), from adverb cottīdiē, quōtīdiē (“every day, daily”), from an unattested adjective derived from quot (“how many”) + locative form of diēs (“day”).
senses_examples:
text:
If I could meet that Fancie-monger, I would giue him some good counsel, for he seemes to haue the Quotidian of Loue vpon him.
ref:
1623, William Shakespeare, As You Like It
type:
quotation
text:
I myself was, about two years since, strangely cured of a violent quotidian, which all the wonted method of physick had not so much abated, by applying to my wrists a mixture of two handfuls of bay-salt, two handfuls of the freshest English hops, and a quarter of a pound of blue currants […]
ref:
1671, Robnert Boyle, Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy, Part II
type:
quotation
text:
More than opposable thumbs and the invention of the flinthead axe, it was our ability to transcend the quotidian by weaving tales of awe and wonder that set us apart from the beasts.
ref:
2005 September 21, Lucy Mangan, “Has Lost lost the plot?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
She does the same thing as any parent worth their salt, and gets rambunctious youngsters engaged in daily drudgeries by refashioning the quotidian as adventure.
ref:
2018 December 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-05-24
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
968 | word:
occultation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
occultation (countable and uncountable, plural occultations)
forms:
form:
occultations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin occultātiōnem, accusative singular of occultātiō (“concealment; insinuation”), from occultāre, present active infinitive of occultō (“to conceal, hide”); analysable as occult + -ation.
senses_examples:
text:
[T]he diſtance of any place within this kingdom from it, will not much vary the manner of their Appearance in any of the Phænomena, except the Eclipſe of the Sun: for, in the Occultations, the Stars will appeare to paſs nearly under the ſame Angles and Spots of the Moon; […]
ref:
1670 January 17, John Flamstead [i.e., John Flamsteed], “An Accompt of such of the More Notable Celestial Phænomena of the Year 1670, as will be Conspicuous in the English Horizon; Written by the Learned and Industrious Mr. John Flamstead Novemb. 4 1669. and by Him Addressed and Recommended for Encouragement, to the Right Honorable, the Lord Viscount Brouncker, as President of the Royal Society”, in Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume IV, number 55, London: Printed for T. N. for John Martyn at the Bell, a little without Temple-Bar, printer to the Royal Society, →OCLC, pages 1101–1102
type:
quotation
text:
The bright star Aldebaran is to be occulted by the moon on December 20th, at about 5 o'clock pm. Aldebaran is said to be eight hundred and eighty times the mass of the sun, with a diameter of over 8,000,000 miles; a distance so great that a meteor traveling at the rate of thirty miles per second, would require over three days to cross the disk of the star. Yet, notwithstanding the immense volume, the accultation will occur in a moment, so great is the distance of the star from us, and will continue for about one hour and eight minutes.
ref:
1904 December, Melville Dozier, “[Transactions for November. III. Meetings of Sections.] 2. Section of Astronomy”, in Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, volume III, number 9, Los Angeles, Calif.: Published for the Association by R. Baumgardt & Co. 231 West First St., Los Angeles, Cal., →OCLC, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
Stellar occultations potentially provide the highest precision data for relating solar system ephemerides to the stellar reference frame. For example, occultations by the Uranian rings can define the position of the occulted star relative to the rings to better than 0.02 mas (equivalent to a few hundred meters at the distance of Uranus). Occultations by atmospheres can be less precise than occultations by symmerical solid bodies, like rings and large asteroids, with a precision on the order of 1.0 mas.
ref:
1994, C. B. Olkin, J[ames] L[udlow] Elliot, “Occultation Astrometry: Predictions and Post-event Results”, in L. V. Morrison, G. F. Gilmore, editors, Galactic and Solar System Optical Astrometry: Proceedings of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Institute of Astronomy workshop held in Cambridge, June 21–24, 1993, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, abstract, page 286
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I was thrilled at the prospect of seeing the waning crescent Moon swing over Venus in the predawn sky on Wednesday morning, April 22, 2009. While the occultation was visible from much of North America, it was only in Arizona and parts of other surrounding states, where Wendee and I live, that the ingress would take place in a completely dark sky. It would be a highlight of the International Year of Astronomy, which reached its peak during 2009.
ref:
2010, David H. Levy, “When the Moon Occults a Star or a Planet”, in David Levy’s Guide to Eclipses, Occultations, and Transits, Cambridge, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
If Mr. [Thomas] Campbell's poetry was of a kind that could be forgotten, his long fits of silence would put him fairly in the way of that misfortune. […] [T]he re-appearance of such an author, after those long periods of occultation, is naturally hailed as a novelty—and he receives the double welcome of a celebrated stranger and a remembered friend.
ref:
1825 January, [Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey], “Art. I. Theodric, a Domestic Tale: With other Poems. By Thomas Campbell. 12mo. pp. 150. London, 1824.”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume XLI, number LXXXII, Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs of D[avid] Willison, for Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
In western Europe, the most celebrated instance of the occultation of a river was that of the Rhone, near Bellegarde, on the confines of France and Savoy, about 18 miles from Geneva; but, alas, on visiting this interesting spot in the autumn of 1855, I found that the Perte du Rhone no longer exists; for the Sardinian Government, in which territory it was, had blown up the rocky roof, beneath which it had been engulfed, in order to facilitate the conveyance of timber on the river.
ref:
1857 July, Thomas M. Traill, “On the Occultation of Rivers”, in Thomas Anderson, William Jardine, John Hutton Balfour, Henry D[arwin] Rogers, editors, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, volume VI, number 1 (New Series), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black; London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, →OCLC, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
We are therefore, constantly hoping for the joy and happiness, personified in Imām al-Mahdi, the Imām who is alive at this very time, and who is himself awaiting the command of Allāh to reappear, so that he may strengthen the weak, and judge the oppressors. He will reappear "without having done Bay'ah to any oppressor". He went into occultation because he did not want [to] submit to any unjust ruler.
ref:
2002, Allamah Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi, Prophecies about Occultation of Imãm Al-Mahdi (A.S.), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Bilal Muslim Mission of Tanzania, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object is hidden by another celestial object that passes between it and the observer when the nearer object appears larger and completely hides the more distant object.
The state of being occult (“hidden, undetected”).
The disappearance of the Twelfth Imam, or Mahdi, who is believed alive and present in this world, but hidden until his reappearance at the end of time.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
Islam
lifestyle
religion |
969 | word:
google
word_type:
verb
expansion:
google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)
forms:
form:
googles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
googling
tags:
participle
present
form:
googled
tags:
participle
past
form:
googled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from googly + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
senses_topics:
|
970 | word:
google
word_type:
noun
expansion:
google (plural googles)
forms:
form:
googles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Google Search
etymology_text:
From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).
senses_examples:
text:
Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.
ref:
2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
senses_topics:
|
971 | word:
google
word_type:
verb
expansion:
google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)
forms:
form:
googles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
googling
tags:
participle
present
form:
googled
tags:
participle
past
form:
googled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Google Search
etymology_text:
From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).
senses_examples:
text:
Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
type:
example
text:
Have fun and keep googling!
This is the first occurrence of the term in print.
ref:
1998 July 8, Larry Page, “New Features”, in eGroups, archived from the original on 1999-10-09
type:
quotation
text:
Willow: Have you googled her yet?
Xander: Willow! She's 17!
Willow: It's a search engine.
ref:
2002 October 15, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, “Help”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 7, episode 4, spoken by Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris (Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon)
type:
quotation
text:
Google it.
ref:
2002 December 13, Kevin Wade, Maid in Manhattan, spoken by Marisa (Jennifer Lopez)
type:
quotation
text:
Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. Kenneth Lay, I came up with a report in the newspaper Oil Daily headlined "Lay apologizes." But tel me if you can find any remorse in his actual words: […]
ref:
2002 December 28, Bill Keller, “Who’s sorry now?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-03-23, page A-19
type:
quotation
text:
I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
type:
example
text:
His name googles.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
senses_topics:
|
972 | word:
google
word_type:
num
expansion:
google
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See googol.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of googol.
senses_topics:
|
973 | word:
DOS
word_type:
name
expansion:
DOS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: CP/M
text:
Next, using your word processor or the DOS text editor, you can edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
ref:
1993, Kris A. Jamsa, DOS: The Complete Reference, McGraw–Hill Osborne Media
text:
One way to do that is to turn the PC off and turn it back on again. Then, the PC performs its self-test and boots DOS.
ref:
1993, Doug Lowe, The Only DOS Book You'll Ever Need, Mike Murach & Associates Incorporated, page 95
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of Disk Operating System, a family of disk-based operating systems.
Initialism of Department of State.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
politics |
974 | word:
DOS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DOS (plural DOSes)
forms:
form:
DOSes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: DoS
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of date of service.
Initialism of date of separation.
Initialism of denial of service.
Initialism of density of states.
Initialism of director of studies.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sciences
education |
975 | word:
accidental
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accidental (comparative more accidental, superlative most accidental)
forms:
form:
more accidental
tags:
comparative
form:
most accidental
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accidental, from Anglo-Norman accidentel, Middle French accidentel, accidental, and their source, Late Latin accidēntālis; corresponding to accident + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
The way to trueth is but one and simple, that of particular profit and benefit of affaires a man hath in charge, double, uneven and accidentall [translating fortuite].
ref:
1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, translation of original in French, III.1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
976 | word:
accidental
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accidental (plural accidentals)
forms:
form:
accidentals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accidental, from Anglo-Norman accidentel, Middle French accidentel, accidental, and their source, Late Latin accidēntālis; corresponding to accident + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
He conceived it just that accidentals ... should sink with the substance of the accusation.
ref:
1662, Fuller, Worthies of England
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: substantive
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
977 | word:
lifetime job
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lifetime job (plural lifetime jobs)
forms:
form:
lifetime jobs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
So, while choice of military service as a lifetime-job preference should be indicative of an orientation to military life, the reverse is not true: many people may be predisposed to service life without expressing it as a job preference.
ref:
1972, Jerome Johnston, Jerald G. Bachman, Young Men and Military Service, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
The lifetime-job program was one of the concessions that the UAW won from Ford, and later from General Motors, in return for labor cost savings during contract negotiations […] Perhaps it is this rethinking of labor’s needs, on the parts of both unions and management, that will surface as the most important gain from the lifetime-job experiment.
ref:
1984, John Diebold, Making the Future Work: Unleashing our Powers of Innovation for the Decades Ahead, Simon and Schuster, pages 300–301
type:
quotation
text:
1994 January 24, Michael Williams, “Toyota Creates Work Contracts Challenging Lifetime-Job System”, in the Wall Street Journal, page A10.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A job in which one remains for one's whole career until one's retirement.
senses_topics:
|
978 | word:
tighten
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tighten (third-person singular simple present tightens, present participle tightening, simple past and past participle tightened)
forms:
form:
tightens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tightening
tags:
participle
present
form:
tightened
tags:
participle
past
form:
tightened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Equivalent to tight + -en. From Middle English tighten, from Old English tyhtan.
senses_examples:
text:
Please tighten that screw a quarter-turn.
type:
example
text:
Just where I please, with tighten;d rein / I'll urge thee round the dusty plain.
ref:
1760, Francis Fawkes, Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musæus translated into English by a gentleman of Cambridge
type:
quotation
text:
That joint is tightening as the wood dries.
type:
example
text:
If the government doesn't tighten the money supply, inflation is certain to be harsh.
type:
example
text:
The Fed is expected to tighten by a quarter-point.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make tighter.
To become tighter.
To make money harder to borrow or obtain.
To raise short-term interest rates.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
economics
sciences |
979 | word:
accordion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accordion (plural accordions)
forms:
form:
accordions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accordion
etymology_text:
First attested in 1831. From German Akkordeon, from Akkord (“harmony”), from French accord, from Old French acorder, based on Italian accordare (“to tune”). See also accord.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: concertina
text:
A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked.
ref:
1869, Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad
type:
quotation
text:
See also: telescoping
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A box-shaped musical instrument with means of keys and buttons, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.
A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.
A set of items (concepts, links, or otherwise) that can be packed and unpacked cognitively, or their representation as a set of virtual objects.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
980 | word:
accordion
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accordion (third-person singular simple present accordions, present participle accordioning, simple past and past participle accordioned)
forms:
form:
accordions
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accordioning
tags:
participle
present
form:
accordioned
tags:
participle
past
form:
accordioned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
accordion
etymology_text:
First attested in 1831. From German Akkordeon, from Akkord (“harmony”), from French accord, from Old French acorder, based on Italian accordare (“to tune”). See also accord.
senses_examples:
text:
Still in reverse, she goosed the gas and accordioned the running board a fraction of an inch more.
ref:
2000 December 29, Charles Dickinson, “Qi”, in Chicago Reader
type:
quotation
text:
It accordioned down and he tugged the shirt around it so that it came free[…].
ref:
2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fold up, in the manner of an accordion
senses_topics:
|
981 | word:
AFAIK
word_type:
adv
expansion:
AFAIK (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of as far as I know.
senses_topics:
|
982 | word:
dialect
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dialect (plural dialects)
forms:
form:
dialects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dialect
etymology_text:
From Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectos, dialectus, from Ancient Greek διάλεκτος (diálektos, “conversation, the language of a country or a place or a nation, the local idiom which derives from a dominant language”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “I participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “inter, through”) + λέγω (légō, “I speak”).
senses_examples:
text:
The question could be put: 'Is there anything inherent in a dialect which gives it a negative stigma or is it that the status of the majority of the speakers is transferred to the dialect?' — something that occurs in many regions in different countries.
ref:
1995, Michael [G.] Clyne, The German language in a changing Europe, Cambridge University Press, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
Bloomfield, for example, noted that “local dialects are spoken by the peasants and the poorest people of the towns” (1933: 50) though he also thought that the lower middle class spoke 'sub-standard' speech.
ref:
2010, Mirjam Fried, Jan-Ola Östman, Jef Verschueren, editors, Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives (Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights; 6), John Benjamins Publishing Company, Dialect, by Ronald Macaulay, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
Among common errors still persisting in the minds of educated people, one error which dies very hard is the theory that a dialect is an arbitrary distortion of the mother tongue, a wilful mispronunciation of the sounds, and disregard of the syntax of a standard language.
ref:
2014, Elizabeth Mary Wright (died 1958), Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore
type:
quotation
text:
And in addition, many dialects of English make no morphological distinction between Adjectives and Adverbs, and thus use Adjectives in contexts where the standard language requires -ly Adverbs
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar: A First Course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 139
type:
quotation
text:
Well, those children don't speak dialect, not in this school. Maybe in the public schools, but not here.
ref:
1975, H. Carl, Linguistic Perspectives on Black English, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
[…] on the second day, Miss Anderson gave the school a lecture on why it was wrong to speak dialect. She had ended by saying "Respectable people don't speak dialect."
ref:
1994, H. Nigel Thomas, Spirits in the Dark, Heinemann, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Many even deny it and say something like this: "No, we don't speak a dialect around here.
ref:
1967, Roger W. Shuy, Discovering American Dialects, National Council of Teachers of English, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.
type:
example
text:
A curious question, which has as yet attracted but little attention, is whether the notes of the same species of Bird are in all countries alike. From my own observation I am inclined to think that they are not, and that there exist "dialects," so to speak, of the song.
ref:
1896, Alfred Newton, A Dictionary of Birds, page 893
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).
A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon.
Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region.
A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology |
983 | word:
lexicographer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lexicographer (plural lexicographers)
forms:
form:
lexicographers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French lexicographe + -er, from Ancient Greek λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”). By surface analysis, lexico- + -grapher.
senses_examples:
text:
Pitt has furnish'd us a word or two / Which lexicographers declined to do.
ref:
1811, George Gordon Byron, Hints from Horace
type:
quotation
text:
The best lexicographer may well be content if his productions are received by the world with cold esteem.
ref:
1860, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Biographies contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who writes or compiles a dictionary.
senses_topics:
|
984 | word:
amoral
word_type:
adj
expansion:
amoral (comparative more amoral, superlative most amoral)
forms:
form:
more amoral
tags:
comparative
form:
most amoral
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- (“not”) + moral.
senses_examples:
text:
If free will is a myth, and our actions are the mere amoral outcome of biological luck for which we are not responsible, why not just run amok?
ref:
2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Done without consideration for morality or immorality.
Not believing in or caring for morality and immorality.
senses_topics:
|
985 | word:
IME
word_type:
noun
expansion:
IME (plural IMEs)
forms:
form:
IMEs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Input method editor
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Japanese IMEs can work with both QWERTY keyboards and Japanese keyboards.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of input method editor.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
986 | word:
IME
word_type:
prep_phrase
expansion:
IME
forms:
wikipedia:
Input method editor
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of in my experience.
senses_topics:
|
987 | word:
feist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
feist (countable and uncountable, plural feists)
forms:
form:
feists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
feist
etymology_text:
Earliest sense is “fart”, and later “stink” as abbreviation for fysting cur “stinking dog” (1520s). From Middle English fysten (mid-15th century), from Old English. Cognate with Middle Dutch veest and Dutch vijst. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *fistiz (“a fart”), presumably from Proto-Indo-European *pesd-, though this is disputed.
One explanation for the association of farting with small dogs is given in an 1811 slang dictionary, which suggests that the dogs were blamed for farting, specifically defining fice as “a small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs.”
Cognate terms include German Fist (“soft fart”), Danish fise (“to blow, to fart”) and Middle English askefise (“bellows”, literally “fire-blower, ash-blower”), from Old Norse; originally “a term of reproach among northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the chimney corner”.
senses_examples:
text:
Sultry Joan Collins says she likes her men feisty and her beau Peter Holm is full of feist.
ref:
1985, Weekly World News, volume 6, number 36
type:
quotation
text:
She looked at him, all eagerness and trust, full of feist and fun, unlike any woman he'd met before. After only a few hours, he felt as if he'd known her forever.
ref:
2009, Cindy Causey, A Different Drum
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small, snappy, belligerent mixed-breed dog; a feist dog.
Feisty behavior.
Silent (but pungent) flatulence.
senses_topics:
|
988 | word:
parole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
parole (usually uncountable, plural paroles)
forms:
form:
paroles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
parole
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French parole (“word, formal promise”), from Old French parole, from Late Latin parabola (“speech”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parabola, parable, and palaver.
senses_examples:
text:
He will be on parole for nearly two more years.
type:
example
text:
He was released on parole.
type:
example
text:
A Minnesota woman who killed her 6-year-old son will now spend the rest of her life in prison without the possibility of parole.
ref:
2023 February 16, WCCO Staff, “Julissa Thaler sentenced to life in prison for murdering 6-year-old son, Eli Hart”, in cbsnews.com
type:
quotation
text:
In hospital he gave his parole, and was enlarged after paying for the torn blanket.
ref:
1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 167
type:
quotation
text:
‘Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.’
ref:
1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 1143
type:
quotation
text:
[…] their parole or watchword, which is orange, distinguishes them from the rebels in any action, to prevent disagreeable mistakes.
ref:
1796, John Stedman, chapter 4, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition,, volume 1, London: J. Johnson, page 80
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Originally, one's oath or word of honour, given as a condition of release from custody; now specifically, describing the release of a former prisoner under certain conditions, especially the promise of good behaviour.
Conditional release of a prisoner (now especially before the end of a custodial sentence), or the term or state of such release; the system governing such releases.
A word of honor, especially given by a prisoner of war, to not engage in combat if released.
A watchword or code phrase; (military) a password given only to officers, distinguished from the countersign, which is given to all guards.
Language in use, as opposed to language as a system.
The permission for a foreigner who does not meet the technical requirements for a visa to be allowed to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds.
Alternative form of parol
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
law |
989 | word:
parole
word_type:
verb
expansion:
parole (third-person singular simple present paroles, present participle paroling, simple past and past participle paroled)
forms:
form:
paroles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
paroling
tags:
participle
present
form:
paroled
tags:
participle
past
form:
paroled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
parole
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French parole (“word, formal promise”), from Old French parole, from Late Latin parabola (“speech”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parabola, parable, and palaver.
senses_examples:
text:
Whitelaw was allowed to continue to San Francisco. There, INS officials assigned Whitelaw a temporary status for "deferred examination," and "paroled" him into the U.S., permitting him to stay for his planned five-week vacation.
ref:
1980 April 12, Lew Lasher, “INS 'Paroles' Australian; Policy Still Unclear”, in Gay Community News, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
I am a gay guy that likes S&M, and am looking for a master out on the streets to write me in here. I would like to parole to NYC some day if I can.
ref:
1983 August 20, Dwain Rasmussen, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To release (a prisoner) on the understanding that s/he checks in regularly and obeys the law.
To be released on parole.
senses_topics:
law
|
990 | word:
gnosis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
gnosis (countable and uncountable, plural gnoses)
forms:
form:
gnoses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
gnosis
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An immanent form of knowledge or transcendent insight, such as sought by the Gnostics.
The act or process of knowing in general.
An altered state of awareness in which the will is magically effective.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
human-sciences
mysticism
occult
philosophy
sciences |
991 | word:
BC
word_type:
adv
expansion:
BC (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Before Christ
etymology_text:
Calque of Latin ante Christum, popularized with the 1627 publication of De doctrina temporum by French theologian Denis Pétau.
senses_examples:
text:
The Han Dynasty ruled China from 206 BC to AD 220.
type:
example
text:
[...]Hi vang, King of Yen and of Corea, was defeated, taken and killed in the Year 259 before the Birth of Chriſt, according to the Chineſe Hiſtory, and Tſin vang was acknowledged for Emperor of all China by the Name of Tſin chi hoang ti.]
ref:
[1739 [1735], P. Du Halde, “Geographical Obſervations on the Kingdom of Corea”, in The General History Of China, 2nd edition, volume IV, →OCLC, page 388
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Before Christ.
senses_topics:
|
992 | word:
BC
word_type:
name
expansion:
BC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Latin ante Christum, popularized with the 1627 publication of De doctrina temporum by French theologian Denis Pétau.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
British Columbia, a Canadian province.
Baja California, a Mexican state.
Initialism of Boston College.
senses_topics:
|
993 | word:
BC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
BC (countable and uncountable, plural BCs)
forms:
form:
BCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Latin ante Christum, popularized with the 1627 publication of De doctrina temporum by French theologian Denis Pétau.
senses_examples:
text:
This would be a BC-breaking change.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of birth control.
Initialism of benzalkonium chloride.
Initialism of battlecruiser.
Initialism of backward compatibility.
Initialism of border collie.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
government
military
navy
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
|
994 | word:
BC
word_type:
adj
expansion:
BC (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Latin ante Christum, popularized with the 1627 publication of De doctrina temporum by French theologian Denis Pétau.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of board-certified.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
995 | word:
abrupt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abrupt (comparative more abrupt or abrupter, superlative most abrupt or abruptest)
forms:
form:
more abrupt
tags:
comparative
form:
abrupter
tags:
comparative
form:
most abrupt
tags:
superlative
form:
abruptest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1583. Borrowed from Latin abruptus (“broken off”), perfect passive participle of abrumpō (“break off”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + rumpō (“to break”).
senses_examples:
text:
The party came to an abrupt end when the parents of our host arrived.
type:
example
text:
The cause of your abrupt departure.
ref:
1592, William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part I, II-iii
type:
quotation
text:
'Is it a slickstone?' she asks, and Maren snorts, an abrupt sound, bringing her hand up to her mouth.
ref:
2020 January 28, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies, page 130
type:
quotation
text:
To the north the towering scree-strewn slopes of Saddleback begin to draw nearer as we start the abrupt descent towards Keswick.
ref:
1961 October, ""Voyageur"", “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601
type:
quotation
text:
Root oblong, blackish, nearly the thickness of the little finger, often growing obliquely; abrupt at the lower end, so as to appear as if bitten off, furnished with long whitish fibres.
ref:
1839, William Baxter, British Phænogamous Botany, →OCLC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Broken away (from restraint).
Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
Curt in manner.
Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
Broken off.
Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
996 | word:
abrupt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abrupt (third-person singular simple present abrupts, present participle abrupting, simple past and past participle abrupted)
forms:
form:
abrupts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abrupting
tags:
participle
present
form:
abrupted
tags:
participle
past
form:
abrupted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1583. Borrowed from Latin abruptus (“broken off”), perfect passive participle of abrumpō (“break off”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + rumpō (“to break”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To tear off or asunder.
To interrupt suddenly.
senses_topics:
|
997 | word:
abrupt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abrupt (plural abrupts)
forms:
form:
abrupts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1583. Borrowed from Latin abruptus (“broken off”), perfect passive participle of abrumpō (“break off”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + rumpō (“to break”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something which is abrupt; an abyss.
senses_topics:
|
998 | word:
dickhead
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dickhead (plural dickheads)
forms:
form:
dickheads
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
glans penis
etymology_text:
From dick + head. Attested since the 1960s, with the jerk sense appearing earliest.
senses_examples:
text:
...down, down, sinking down faster than she's so far moved, the dick head exploding up into all that wet, warm slime...
ref:
1970, Clarence Major, All-night Visitors, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
I don't want them Special Forces guys left out there when some dickhead is afraid to go get them.
ref:
1965, Robin Moore, The Green Berets, page 242
type:
quotation
text:
...they have been exchanging insults in writing: "dickhead," "dillweed," "fuzzbutt," "dorkwad," "asswipe," and so forth.
ref:
1996, Timothy Jay, What to Do When Your Students Talk Dirty, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
She was on your mind with some dickhead guy
That you saw that night
ref:
2022, “Question...?”, performed by Taylor Swift
type:
quotation
text:
"Watch it, dickhead!" "Hey, Stan, that's my shirt you just dropped in the snow!"
ref:
1979, E.M. Corder, The Deer Hunter, page 69
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The glans penis.
A jerk; a mean or rude person.
A stupid or useless person.
senses_topics:
|
999 | word:
September
word_type:
name
expansion:
September (plural Septembers)
forms:
form:
Septembers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
September
September Group
September Massacres
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from late Old English, from Old French septembre, Latin september (“seventh month”), from septem (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; September was the seventh month in the Roman calendar.
senses_examples:
text:
Late September is a beautiful time of year.
type:
example
text:
This was one of the warmest Septembers on record.
type:
example
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:September.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ninth month of the Gregorian calendar, following August and preceding October. Abbreviations: Sep or Sep., Sept or Sept.
A female or male given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].
senses_topics:
|