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600 | word:
accrual
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accrual (plural accruals)
forms:
form:
accruals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
accrual
etymology_text:
From accrue + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
The effect of her alcoholism wasn't over, of course, and our relationship continues well past her death. What did change was that the accrual of new events stopped. I didn't have to worry about her anymore. She would never drink again.
ref:
1984 August 11, Janice Irvine, “Secrets of Fear, Shame, and Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
The finding out of the source accrual or arisal of income is not material as the incidence of charge is dependent on the place of accrual or arisal of income.
ref:
1985, Medury Bhaskara Rao, Foreign Collaboration Agreements: Some Issues: an Intensive Study of Income-tax, Foreign Exchange & Other Related Problems, page 104
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of accruing; accumulation.
An increase; something that accumulates, especially an amount of money that periodically accumulates for a specific purpose
from the creditor's viewpoint, a charge incurred in one accounting period that has not been, but is to be, paid by the end of it.
Recruitment (of participants) to a clinical trial.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance
health
medicine
sciences |
601 | word:
accipiter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accipiter (plural accipiters)
forms:
form:
accipiters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin accipiter (“hawk”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any hawk of the genus Accipiter.
A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
medicine
sciences
surgery |
602 | word:
accommodating
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accommodating (comparative more accommodating, superlative most accommodating)
forms:
form:
more accommodating
tags:
comparative
form:
most accommodating
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accommodate + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
Richard DeLongpre: I have to say, we were surprised that Principal Gottlieb wasn't more accommodating.
Judith Gottlieb: Oh, for God's sake, he's a child. I'm not gonna date him.
ref:
2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; helpful.
Pliable; easily corrupted.
senses_topics:
|
603 | word:
accommodating
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accommodating
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accommodate + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of accommodate
senses_topics:
|
604 | word:
abrasion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abrasion (countable and uncountable, plural abrasions)
forms:
form:
abrasions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1656. From French abrasion (attested since 1611), from Medieval Latin abrasio (“a scraping”), from Latin abrādō (“scrape off”). See also abrade.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
medicine
sciences
dentistry
medicine
sciences |
605 | word:
absolutism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absolutism (countable and uncountable, plural absolutisms)
forms:
form:
absolutisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1753 (in the theological sense); attested in 1830 in the political sense. From absolute + -ism, based after French absolutisme.
senses_examples:
text:
The element of absolutism and prelacy was more controlling in the counsels of the rival corporation.
ref:
1859, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter IV, in History of New England, volume I, page 217
type:
quotation
text:
As absolutism became more consolidated in Europe, and particularly in France, such nonabsolutist states tended to define themselves in opposition to their absolutist rivals: hence, those features of their government which differed from absolutism tended to be given special prominence.
ref:
2019, John Gascoigne, Science and the State, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
It was the absolutism of his ambition to be a perfect writer (and perhaps also the perfect son) that imperiled him.
ref:
2003, Ruth R. Wisse, The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; Synonym of despotism.
Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute.
Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
theology
human-sciences
political-science
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
sociology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
|
606 | word:
achronic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
achronic (comparative more achronic, superlative most achronic)
forms:
form:
more achronic
tags:
comparative
form:
most achronic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + chronic.
senses_examples:
text:
Enlightenment quarrels between pro-Frankish and pro-Gaulish factions were now a political curio, and only ancient Rome and Greece – so far removed in time and space that they seemed both utopian and achronic – provided any sort of positive historical referent.
ref:
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 522
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Timeless.
Happening at sunset (of the rise or fall of a star; opposed to cosmic).
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences |
607 | word:
Trekkie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Trekkie (plural Trekkies)
forms:
form:
Trekkies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Trek + -ie.
From Star Trek, as in groupie. (1970).
senses_examples:
text:
Not all Trekkies go around speaking Klingon and making endless references to the original Star Trek series.
type:
example
text:
1992 StarTrek VI is a fast-moving, vigorous book that will not disappoint the legions of Trekkies who avidly follow the adventure of their heroes. — Review of Star Trek - The Undiscovered Country in Amiga User International, author unknown, December 1992, HHL Publishing (UK), page 90.
text:
2002 I have a major confession to make which will probably incur the wrath of all Trekkies out there. — Trek & Treat, article in The Daily Mirror (UK), Jessica Mellor, Saturday, August 10, 2002, page 44.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A (usually major) fan of the TV science fiction series Star Trek.
senses_topics:
lifestyle |
608 | word:
Fanny
word_type:
name
expansion:
Fanny
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"My name is Frances. Don't call me Fanny!" "Why not?" "Because it's too absurd to be endured! What does the mere sound of Fanny suggest? A flirting dancing creature - plump and fair, and playful and pretty!"
ref:
1883, Wilkie Collins, Heart and Science, Chatto and Windus, page 227
type:
quotation
text:
They listened to the sound of Fanny’s retreating footsteps. ‘Well, well!’ said Marcus. ‘Oh, take no notice Jess. You know what our Frances Maud is like! It’s nothing to cry about!’ To her humiliation Jessamy found there were tears trickling down her cheeks. ‘Always getting worked up about something, Fanny is.’
– page 105:
As she did so Fanny put down her book , stood up and stretched her arms, and at once Jessamy noticed a difference. It was the same Fanny but not the Fanny who climbed trees and tore her frock playing in the garden. It was as though a young lady film had settled over her, neatening her unruly hair, which was tied back with a large black bow, and primly composing her small mouth.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 48
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A diminutive of Frances, also used as a female given name.
senses_topics:
|
609 | word:
aback
word_type:
adv
expansion:
aback (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abak, from Old English onbæc, equivalent to a- (“towards”) + back. Compare West Frisian tebek (“aback”, adverb, literally “to/at back”), Swedish tillbaka (idem.).
senses_examples:
text:
The mild, though licentious reign, of Louis the Sixteenth, threw France far aback, in her ambitious career; but it gave birth to that revolution, wherein, her warlike propensities and territorial resources were unfolded with tenfold efficacy.
ref:
1815, David Laurie, A Treatise on Finance, under which, the General Interests of the British Empire are Illustrated, Glasgow: Chapman, page 322
type:
quotation
text:
Then stopped, and bounded aback, and away as if in fear, / That I saw her no more; then I wondered though sitting close anear / Was a she-wolf great and grisly.
ref:
1889, William Morris, A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark, London: Reeves & Turner, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
There are so many canes upon Reliance that the labourers could not cut those aback, as they prefer cutting those in front. The cane fields aback were in cultivation last year.
ref:
1840, “Proceedings of an Inquiry held at plantation Reliance, in the county of Essequibo”, in Papers Relative to the West Indies, 1841: British Guiana, London: H.M.S.O., published 1841, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
I would rather board a hundred of the enemy's frigates, than steer my boat into a fleet of modest women, for a modest woman never fails to take me aback.
ref:
1808, The Post-Captain: A View of Naval Society and Manners, 3rd edition, London: Thomas Tegg, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
Q. Was not the Trident at that time aback with one or more Top-sails? A. To the best of my Knowledge she had both Top-sails aback.
ref:
1757, Charles Fearne, The Trial of the Honourable Admiral John Byng, at a Court Martial, London: Manby, et al, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
As the anchor fetches her up, she will swing head to wind, bringing the head sails aback.
ref:
1841, Benjamin J. Totten, Naval Text-book, Boston: Little & Brown, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
Then the sails on the mainmast were backing and we started getting stern way. Eagle was caught aback.
ref:
2001, Russell Drumm, The Barque of Saviors, Houghton Mifflin, page 91
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Towards the back or rear; backwards.
In the rear; a distance behind.
By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage)
Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
610 | word:
aback
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aback (plural abacks)
forms:
form:
abacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abacus.
senses_examples:
text:
In the Centre, or midst of the Pegm, there was an Aback, or Square, wherein this Elogy was written.
ref:
1604, Ben Jonson, “Part of the King's Entertainment in Passing to His Coronation”, in The Works of Ben Jonson, London: Printed by Thomas Hodgkin, published 1692, page 306
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inscribed stone square.
senses_topics:
|
611 | word:
tadago-pie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tadago-pie (plural tadago-pies)
forms:
form:
tadago-pies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Cornish?
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A special meat pie from Cornwall, made from aborted miscarried pigs.
senses_topics:
|
612 | word:
semantics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
semantics (countable and uncountable, plural semantics)
forms:
form:
semantics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
semantics
etymology_text:
From French sémantique, displacing earlier semasiology. From Ancient Greek σημαντικός (sēmantikós). By surface analysis, semantic + -ics.
senses_examples:
text:
Semantics is a foundation of lexicography.
type:
example
text:
In fact, nowadays a lot is known about the semantics of natural languages, and it is surprisingly easy to build semantic representations which partially capture the meaning of sentences or even entire discourses.
ref:
2006, Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, archived from the original on 2015-03-28, section 8.1
type:
quotation
text:
The semantics of the terms used are debatable.
type:
example
text:
The semantics of a single preposition is a dissertation in itself.
type:
example
text:
file sharing and locking semantics
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words.
The study of the relationship between words and their meanings.
The individual meanings of words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage.
The meaning of computer language constructs, in contrast to their form or syntax.
Pettiness or triviality.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
|
613 | word:
abomination
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abomination (countable and uncountable, plural abominations)
forms:
form:
abominations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abomination
etymology_text:
From Middle English abominacioun, from Middle French abomination (“horror, disgust”), from Late Latin abōminātiō, abōminātiōnem (“abomination”) Doublet of abominatio.
senses_examples:
text:
Religious sodomy was practised by male prostitutes in the Hebrew temple groves, which was one of the abominations of Israel that Josiah cleared away.
ref:
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 160
type:
quotation
text:
Appalled by a child she found hideous, Philyra begged the gods to free her from having to rear such an abomination.
ref:
2012, Kathleen Jenks, “Cronus”, in edited by Brian Kinsey, Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit.
The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred
A state that excites detestation or abhorrence; pollution.
That which is abominable, shamefully vile; an object that excites disgust and hatred (often with religious undertones).
senses_topics:
|
614 | word:
abolish
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abolish (third-person singular simple present abolishes, present participle abolishing, simple past and past participle abolished or (obsolete) abolisht)
forms:
form:
abolishes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abolishing
tags:
participle
present
form:
abolished
tags:
participle
past
form:
abolished
tags:
past
form:
abolisht
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
abolisht
tags:
obsolete
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From late Middle English abolisshen, from Middle French aboliss-, extended stem of abolir, from Latin abolēre (“to retard, check the growth of, (and by extension) destroy, abolish”), and inchoative abolēscere (“to wither, vanish, cease”).
senses_examples:
text:
Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
type:
example
text:
The abolition of the death penalty in international law
ref:
2002, William Schabas, The abolition of the death penalty in international law, Cambridge University Press, title
type:
quotation
text:
And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
type:
quotation
text:
His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.
ref:
1892, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.
senses_topics:
|
615 | word:
adjectival
word_type:
adj
expansion:
adjectival (comparative more adjectival, superlative most adjectival)
forms:
form:
more adjectival
tags:
comparative
form:
most adjectival
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From adjective + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
adjectival syntax
type:
example
text:
adjectival noun
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective.
Of or relating to procedure, especially to technicalities thereof.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
law |
616 | word:
adjectival
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adjectival (plural adjectivals)
forms:
form:
adjectivals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From adjective + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
Within this line of reasoning, then, Tagalog is classified as a language in which adjectivals are essentially neutral between a nouny and a verby interpretation.
ref:
2013, Harrie Wetzer, The Typology of Adjectival Predication, page 240
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An adjectival phrase or clause.
senses_topics:
|
617 | word:
absurdity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absurdity (countable and uncountable, plural absurdities)
forms:
form:
absurdities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested around 1472. From Middle English absurdite, then from either Middle French absurdité, or from Late Latin absurditas (“dissonance, incongruity”), from Latin absurdus + -itas (“quality, state, degree”). Equivalent to absurd + -ity.
senses_examples:
text:
There's credit too for highlighting the problems of Manchester's Castlefield Corridor, where he showed the absurdity of building Ordsall Chord to feed more trains into the congested corridor without upgrading the corridor itself.
ref:
2023 July 12, Philip Haigh, “Narrow narrative overlooks past and present achievements”, in RAIL, number 987, page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
Dissonance.
senses_topics:
|
618 | word:
accurately
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accurately (comparative more accurately, superlative most accurately)
forms:
form:
more accurately
tags:
comparative
form:
most accurately
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accurate + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
senses_topics:
|
619 | word:
abreast
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abreast (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abrest. By surface analysis, a- (“on, at”) + breast, meaning “breasts (chests) in line, side-by-side and exactly equally advanced”; roughly “breast-by-breast”.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: tandem
text:
On Sunday afternoon it was as dark as night, with barely room for two riders abreast on a gradient that touches 20%.
ref:
2012 July 15, Richard Williams, “Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track”, in Guardian Unlimited
type:
quotation
text:
The only path was narrow and rugged: two men could hardly walk abreast;
ref:
1859, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
type:
quotation
text:
She believes it is important to keep abreast of new scientific developments.
type:
example
text:
The west wind blew a tempest, and, according to the common expression, brought in the water [of the Solway] three foot abreast.
type:
example
text:
Abreast therewith began a convocation.
ref:
1842, Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain, From the birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII., 3rd edition, volume 1, page 412
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Side by side and facing forward.
Alongside; parallel to.
Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted.
Followed by of or with: up to a certain level or line; equally advanced.
Breast high (of an advancing wave).
Side by side; also, opposite; on a line with the vessel's beam.
At the same time; simultaneously.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
620 | word:
abreast
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abreast (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abrest. By surface analysis, a- (“on, at”) + breast, meaning “breasts (chests) in line, side-by-side and exactly equally advanced”; roughly “breast-by-breast”.
senses_examples:
text:
to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science.
text:
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
ref:
c. 1900, Kate Chopin, A Reflection
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Side by side, facing forward.
Alongside; parallel to.
Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted.
Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced
Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
621 | word:
abreast
word_type:
prep
expansion:
abreast
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abrest. By surface analysis, a- (“on, at”) + breast, meaning “breasts (chests) in line, side-by-side and exactly equally advanced”; roughly “breast-by-breast”.
senses_examples:
text:
This ship sank abreast the island.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abreast of; alongside.
senses_topics:
|
622 | word:
bug-eyed monster
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bug-eyed monster (plural bug-eyed monsters)
forms:
form:
bug-eyed monsters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An extraterrestrial.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction |
623 | word:
count noun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
count noun (plural count nouns)
forms:
form:
count nouns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A noun which refers to something that can be counted. Examples: house, car, bush, point.
senses_topics:
|
624 | word:
absolution
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absolution (countable and uncountable, plural absolutions)
forms:
form:
absolutions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English absolucion, absolucioun, from Old French absolution, from Latin absolūtiōnem, accusative singular of absolūtiō (“acquittal”), from absolvō (“absolve”). See also absolve.
senses_examples:
text:
Governments granting absolution to the nation.
type:
example
text:
The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.
ref:
1919 August, H. L. Mencken, The Smart Set, pages 60–1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
The forgiveness of sins, in a general sense.
The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring an accused person innocent.
Delivery, in speech.
senses_topics:
ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
|
625 | word:
abysmal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abysmal (comparative more abysmal, superlative most abysmal)
forms:
form:
more abysmal
tags:
comparative
form:
most abysmal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abysm + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
The latter [geology] gives one the same sort of bewildering view of the abysmal extent of Time that Astronomy does of Space. [First attested in the early 19ᵗʰ century.]
text:
Robben curled an effort against the foot of the post from the edge of the box after being gifted the ball by an abysmal clearance from keeper Stephan Andersen.
ref:
2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to, or resembling an abyss.
extremely bad; terrible.
senses_topics:
|
626 | word:
Tagliacotian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Tagliacotian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Eponymous for the Italian surgeon Gasparo Tagliacozzi (1546–1599) who developed the surgery.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to surgically reconstructed noses.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
627 | word:
slushpile
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slushpile (plural slushpiles)
forms:
form:
slushpiles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From slush + pile.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A collection of rejected or unsolicited manuscripts.
senses_topics:
media
publishing |
628 | word:
abstemious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abstemious (comparative more abstemious, superlative most abstemious)
forms:
form:
more abstemious
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstemious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abstēmius (“abstaining from wine”); from ab, abs (“from”) + tēmus, a root of tēmētum (“intoxicating drink, especially strong mead or wine”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temH- (“dark (referring to the colour of wine)”)) + -ous.
senses_examples:
text:
In too great Repletion either the elaſtick Force of the Tube is totally deſtroy'd; or if it continue proportional to the Degree of Extenſion like a Bow too ſtrongly drawn, it throws the Fluid with too great a projectile Force forward through the Veſſels, and back upon the Heart, and ſubjects the Animal to all the Diſeaſes depending on a Plethory, and may bring it into immediate Danger. […] The Inſtances of Longevity are chiefly among the Abſtemious.
A use of the adjective as a noun.]
ref:
[1731, John Arbuthnot, “Of the Different Intentions to be Pursued in the Choice of Aliment in Different Constitutions”, in An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. In which the Different Effects, Advantages and Disadvantages of Animal and Vegetable Diet are Explain’d, Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for George Risk, at the Shakespear's Head, George Ewing, at the Angel and Bible, and William Smith, at the Hercules, book-sellers in Dame's-Street, →OCLC, proposition VII (To Explain the Symptoms, Causes, and Proper Diet of Constitutions, which Abound with a Spontaneous Alkali), paragraph 20, pages 91–92
type:
quotation
text:
On turning around, I was instantly rivetted by his amazing emaciation; he seemed another "Lazarus, come forth" without his grave-clothes, […] Below the ribs, the trunk so immediately curves in, that the red band of the silk covering, though it is only loosely placed, seems a tourniquet to constrict the bowels within their prison-house, and the hip-bones, being of their natural size, the waist is like a wasp's. By this part of the frame we are reminded of some descriptions of the abstemious and Bedouin Arab of the desert, in whom it is said the abdomen seems to cling to the vertbræ.
A use of the adjective as a noun.]
ref:
[1845, [Robert Malcolm, comp.], “The Living Skeleton”, in Curiosities of Biography, Or Memoirs of Remarkable Men, Glasgow: Printed for Richard Griffin & Company, →OCLC, page 285
type:
quotation
text:
The other duel, which occurred much earlier but was indelible in the town's memory, was the one between Plinio Balmaceda and Dionisiano Barrios. The first was a member of an old and respectable family, an enormous, charming man but also a troublemaker with a wicked temper when he crossed paths with alcohol. […] Dionisiano Barrios was just the opposite: a timid, impaired man, an enemy of brawls and abstemious by nature.
ref:
2003, Gabriel García Márquez, chapter 4, in Edith Grossman, transl., Living to Tell the Tale, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 228
type:
quotation
text:
The Ms had an abstemious sex life; in fourteen years of marriage, they had had sex exactly six times. Mrs. M desired sex and more children, but her husband refused.
ref:
2010, Rebecca L. Davis, “Sacred Partnerships”, in More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss, Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, page 149
type:
quotation
text:
If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.
ref:
1842, John Reitch, “[A Dictionary of Domestic Medicine.] EPILEPSY.”, in Gibbons Merle, John Reitch, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper’s Manual: Comprising Everything Related to Cookery, Diet, Economy and Medicine. By Gibbons Merle. The Medical Portion of the Work by John Reitch, M.D., London: William Strange, 21, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 360, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
an abstemious life
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate.
Sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.
Promotive of abstemiousness.
senses_topics:
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629 | word:
abet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abet (third-person singular simple present abets, present participle abetting, simple past and past participle abetted)
forms:
form:
abets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abetting
tags:
participle
present
form:
abetted
tags:
participle
past
form:
abetted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abetten, abette, from Old French abeter (“to entice”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“hound on, urge, to bait”), either from Middle Dutch bētan (“incite”) or from Old Norse beita (“to cause to bite, bait, incite”), from Proto-Germanic *baitijaną (“to cause to bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”). Cognate with Icelandic beita (“to set dogs on; to feed”).
Alternate etymology traces the Middle English and Old French words through Old English *ābǣtan (“to hound on”), from ā- + bǣtan (“to bait”), from the same source (Proto-Germanic *baitijaną).
See also bait, bet.
senses_examples:
text:
aid and abet
type:
example
text:
Those who would exalt themselves by abetting the strength of the Godless, and the wrength of the oppressors.
ref:
1823, John Galt, Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters
type:
quotation
text:
The Statute provides that whoever has been engaged in aiding, abetting, or assisting, directly or indirectly, is criminal.
ref:
1851, Charles G. Davis, Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
The brief, a motion for summary judgment in a case stemming from Fox’s egregiously false claims of Dominion-abetted election fraud, offers a portrait of extravagant cynicism.
ref:
2023 February 17, Michelle Goldberg, “What Fox News Says When You’re Not Listening”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted.
ref:
a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, edited by George Rust, The whole works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, published 1835
type:
quotation
text:
Later some of these artistic friends[…]abetted this ecclesiastical view in so far as they renounced pre-Raphaelism and learned to love the baroque; but that was an aesthetic fashion also, and corrupt,[…]
ref:
1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
By the early Seventies, Playboy was selling seven million copies a month and Hefner's globe-trotting lifestyle was abetted by his private jet, the Big Bunny, that contained a circular bed, an inside disco and a wet bar.
ref:
2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 2017-09-28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain.
To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
senses_topics:
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630 | word:
abet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abet (plural abets)
forms:
form:
abets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abetten, abette, from Old French abeter (“to entice”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“hound on, urge, to bait”), either from Middle Dutch bētan (“incite”) or from Old Norse beita (“to cause to bite, bait, incite”), from Proto-Germanic *baitijaną (“to cause to bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”). Cognate with Icelandic beita (“to set dogs on; to feed”).
Alternate etymology traces the Middle English and Old French words through Old English *ābǣtan (“to hound on”), from ā- + bǣtan (“to bait”), from the same source (Proto-Germanic *baitijaną).
See also bait, bet.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fraud or cunning.
An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.
senses_topics:
|
631 | word:
bioterror
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bioterror (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bio- + terror.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of bioterrorism.
senses_topics:
|
632 | word:
bbl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bbl (plural bbl or bbls)
forms:
form:
bbl
tags:
plural
form:
bbls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Often thought to be modified from bl for barrel (b⸺l), reflecting a way of abbreviating that was used especially in previous centuries (compare do for ditto), wherein a doubled letter indicated plural count, as also with p.=page but pp.=pages and l.=line but ll.=lines; this method was used not only in English but also in scholarly New Latin and other modern languages heavily affected thereby, such as with Spanish EE. UU. According to this idea, addition of the suffix -s, as sometimes seen (e.g., 5 bbls or 5 bbls.), would seem to have come from writers who left the unit abbreviation itself unanalyzed (unparsed), thus adding a venially redundant marker of plural, somewhat like with MPGs for miles per gallon.
senses_examples:
text:
measured in 1000-bbl units
type:
example
text:
At present prices, cylindrical steel tankage in 55,000-bbl. units costs approximately 73c. per barrel storage.
ref:
1920 May 8, H. T. Carlton, “New design for oil tankage”, in Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 109, number 19, retrieved 2023-03-05, page 1079
type:
quotation
text:
5 bbls. flour
type:
example
text:
[…]5 hhds. rum/ 5 bbls. flour/ 1 bbl. sugar/ 9 do. pork/ 1 do. suett/ 3 do. cocoa/ 6 do. peas/ 2 ullage bbls. vinegar[…]
ref:
1815 Niles Weekly Register volume 8, Supplement, p. 152. From an inventory of the frigate Confiance
text:
4 bbl. vinegar $32.00, 3 bbl. cider part full $6.50
ref:
1881, Ulster County, New York, County Legislature, Minutes of the Board of Supervisors of Ulster County, page 234
type:
quotation
text:
1-bbl carburetor
type:
example
text:
4-bbl carburetor
type:
example
text:
three 2-bbl carbs
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of barrel, as:
Volumes of crude oil pumped, stored, or sold (in bulk).
Abbreviation of barrel, as:
Numbers of barrels (casks) transported or sold, or the volume that they represent.
Abbreviation of barrel, as:
Numbers of venturis in carburetion.
senses_topics:
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633 | word:
bbl
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
bbl
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of BBL
senses_topics:
|
634 | word:
NAFTA
word_type:
name
expansion:
NAFTA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of North American Free Trade Agreement.
senses_topics:
|
635 | word:
holophrastic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
holophrastic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Consisting of a single word, such as "Go." or "Whatever."
Pertaining to the stage of language development where a child produces simple one-word utterances.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
636 | word:
everywhen
word_type:
adv
expansion:
everywhen (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From every + when.
senses_examples:
text:
Everywhere and everywhen a man has to ‘pay with his life;’ to do his work, as a soldier does, at the expense of life.
ref:
1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Always, at all times.
senses_topics:
|
637 | word:
antonym
word_type:
noun
expansion:
antonym (plural antonyms)
forms:
form:
antonyms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
antonym
etymology_text:
From French antonyme (1840s and 1850s), which was modeled on earlier synonyme and influenced by the etymons of Ancient Greek ἀντωνυμία (antōnumía, “pronoun”); credit for popularization of the French loanword's naturalization into English is given principally to Charles John Smith and his 1867 book Synonyms and Antonyms: Or, Kindred Words and Their Opposites. Collected and Contrasted. By surface analysis, ant- + -onym.
senses_examples:
text:
“Rich” is an antonym of “poor”; “full” is an antonym of “empty”.
type:
example
text:
All four lines of the pattern are required to establish that hot and cold are antonyms.
The water is hot entails The water is not cold.
The water is cold entails The water is not hot.
The water is not hot does not entail The water is cold.
The water is not cold does not entail The water is hot.
ref:
2005, Andrew John Merrison, Aileen Bloomer, Patrick Griffiths, Christopher J. Hall, Introducing Language in Use, page 111
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
A word that describes one end of a scale, while its opposite describes the other end, such as large versus small; a gradable antonym.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics |
638 | word:
tachygraphy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tachygraphy (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Derived from Ancient Greek ταχυγράφος (takhugráphos). By surface analysis, tachy- (“fast”) + -graphy (“writing”).
senses_examples:
text:
Tiro, the favourite freedman of Cicero, greatly increased the number, and brought this sort of tachygraphy to its greatest perfection among the Romans.
ref:
1827, John Colin Dunlop, History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age, volume II
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The art and practice of rapid writing.
Stenography or shorthand as done in ancient and medieval times.
senses_topics:
|
639 | word:
barter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
barter (usually uncountable, plural barters)
forms:
form:
barters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
barter
etymology_text:
Late Middle English, from Old French barater.
senses_examples:
text:
We had no money so we had to live by barter.
type:
example
text:
The man used his watch as barter to pay for his tab.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exchange of goods or services without the use of money.
The goods or services used in such an exchange.
senses_topics:
|
640 | word:
barter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
barter (third-person singular simple present barters, present participle bartering, simple past and past participle bartered)
forms:
form:
barters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bartering
tags:
participle
present
form:
bartered
tags:
participle
past
form:
bartered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
barter
etymology_text:
Late Middle English, from Old French barater.
senses_examples:
text:
She bartered a bonsai for one of the rare books in my library.
type:
example
text:
You may be able to barter for some of the items you need at the local market.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To exchange goods or services without involving money.
senses_topics:
|
641 | word:
abomasum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abomasum (plural abomasa or abomasums)
forms:
form:
abomasa
tags:
plural
form:
abomasums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abomasum
etymology_text:
From New Latin abomāsum, from ab- (“away from”) + omāsum (“tripe of a bullock”).
senses_examples:
text:
The abomasa of sheep grazing on natural pastures in the highveld of Zimbabwe were examined at Mt. Hampden abattoir between October 1985 and September 1986 for H. contortus. Of 304 abomasa, 213 (70%) harboured H. contortus.
ref:
1990, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Animal Disease Occurrence, Volumes 11-14, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
1996 [1991, Ellis Horwood Limited], R. K. Robinson, A. Y. Tamime, Feta & Related Cheeses, Woodhead Publishing Limited, page 54,
Traditionally, coagulation of the milk for Feta cheese manufacture was achieved using rennet produced by cheesemakers themselves from the abomasa of lambs and kids slaughtered before weaning.
text:
Digesta, which are compressed inside the omasal body, are forced onwards into the abomasum by a gradually increasing and prolonged contraction of the omasal body (which starts after the first or second contraction of the omasal canal).
ref:
2002, Larry Engelking, Review of Veterinary Physiology, Teton NewMedia, page 328
type:
quotation
text:
In the newborn ruminant the abomasum is about as large as the rumen and remains relatively large as long as only milk is consumed (Brugnone, 1809).
ref:
2013 [1966], Robert E. Hungate, The Rumen and Its Microbes, Elsevier, page 162
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fourth digestive compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant, after the omasum;
The fourth digestive compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant, after the omasum;
the lining of said compartment, considered as a foodstuff.
the lining of said compartment, considered as a foodstuff.
senses_topics:
biology
food
lifestyle
natural-sciences
biology
food
lifestyle
natural-sciences |
642 | word:
contemporisation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
contemporisation (countable and uncountable, plural contemporisations)
forms:
form:
contemporisations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of bringing something up to date.
senses_topics:
|
643 | word:
Frankenstein complex
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Frankenstein complex (plural Frankenstein complexes)
forms:
form:
Frankenstein complexes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1947 in his novelette Little Lost Robot. From Victor Frankenstein, the title character of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.
senses_examples:
text:
I'll admit that this Frankenstein Complex you're exhibiting has a certain justification—hence the First Law in the first place.
ref:
1947 March, Isaac Asimov, “Little Lost Robot”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 39, number 1, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Graf, you're still disturbed. You sure you're not harboring just a little of the old Frankenstein complex about all this? It's all right to admit it to me—in fact, I want you to talk about it.
ref:
1987 December, Lois McMaster Bujold, “Falling Free”, in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, volume 108, number 13, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
The central character of Mary Shelley's novel by the same name 'Frankenstein' is used as an adjective in a variety of biomedical contexts, eg Frankenstein complex The fear that machines via artificial intelligence may replace physicians
ref:
1992, Joseph C. Segen, The Dictionary of Modern Medicine, page 234
type:
quotation
text:
No wonder Gibson introduces the Turing Registry agents in Neuromancer, representatives of cyberpunk's own apparent Frankenstein Complex: “For thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible.[…]”
ref:
2010, Graham J. Murphy, Sherryl Vint, editors, Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives, Routledge, page 197
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fear that an artificial intelligence will turn against humans.
senses_topics:
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644 | word:
abduction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abduction (countable and uncountable, plural abductions)
forms:
form:
abductions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abduction
etymology_text:
From Latin abductiō (“robbing; abduction”), from abdūcō (“take or lead away”), from ab (“away”) + dūcō (“to lead”). Equivalent to abduct + -ion.
* (physiology): From French, from Latin abductus.
* Compare French abduction.
senses_examples:
text:
2013, Jain, MD, MSPH; Wilcox, PT; Katz, MD, MS; Higgins, MD, "Clinical Examination of the Rotator Cuff", PM&R Journal, retrieved from PubMed Central on 21 Jan 2018.
Abduction is performed by asking the patient to raise the arm at the side as high as they can with the examiner stabilizing the scapula by holding it down.
text:
The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction, and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.
ref:
2005, Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction, page 256
type:
quotation
text:
the abduction of a child
type:
example
text:
But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.
ref:
2010, Monte Dwyer, Red in the Centre: Through a Crooked Lens, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 122
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Leading away; a carrying away.
The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
Alien abduction.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
law
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology |
645 | word:
accoucheur
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accoucheur (plural accoucheurs)
forms:
form:
accoucheurs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Attested since 1727. Borrowed from French accoucheur, from accoucher (“to go to childbed, be delivered”), from Old French culcher (“to lie”), from Latin collocō (“I place, put, set in order, assign”), from con- + locō (“I put, place, set”). See accouchement.
senses_examples:
text:
And lastly, obstetrical chairs seemed most natural to the accoucheurs of the middle ages.
ref:
1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
Family story: on the day of his birth the accoucheur approached his father, the baby wrapped in a cloth.
ref:
1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 163
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person, especially a man, who delivers a baby (in childbirth).
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
646 | word:
frankenfood
word_type:
noun
expansion:
frankenfood (countable and uncountable, plural frankenfoods)
forms:
form:
frankenfoods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From franken- + food.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Genetically modified food.
senses_topics:
|
647 | word:
rain dogs and cats
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rain dogs and cats (third-person singular simple present rains dogs and cats, present participle raining dogs and cats, simple past and past participle rained dogs and cats)
forms:
form:
rains dogs and cats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
raining dogs and cats
tags:
participle
present
form:
rained dogs and cats
tags:
participle
past
form:
rained dogs and cats
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The Pedlars of our age have business yet, / And gladly would against the Fayr-day fit / Themselves with such a Roofe, that can secure / Their Wares from Dogs and Cats rain'd in showre.
ref:
1651, Henry Vaughan, Olor Iscanus
type:
quotation
text:
Where e're I went on Land or water / Hee'd make a shift to follow after. / Neither had he flincht a foot, had fates / Made it rain down dogs and cats
ref:
1672, Maurice Atkins, Minor Burlesques and Travesties
type:
quotation
text:
When it rains Dogs and Cats in Hell, / The shelter'd Centaurs roar and yell.
ref:
1678, John Phillips, Maronides
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of rain cats and dogs
senses_topics:
|
648 | word:
pies
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pies
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of pie
senses_topics:
|
649 | word:
pies
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pies
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of pie
third-person singular simple present indicative of pi
senses_topics:
|
650 | word:
acclamation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acclamation (countable and uncountable, plural acclamations)
forms:
form:
acclamations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in 1541.
* Borrowed from Latin acclāmātiō, acclāmātiōnis (“calling, exclamation, shout of approval”), from acclamo (“shout approval or disapproval of, shout out at”), from ad (“toward”) + clamo (“cry out”)
* Compare French acclamation.
senses_examples:
text:
Sometimes a member nominates a chairman and no vote is taken, the assembly signifying their approval by acclamation.
ref:
1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., p. 100, Article IX, Section 46, note
type:
quotation
text:
See also: uncontested, by default
text:
With no one running against her, she won by acclamation.
text:
The medals on which laudatory acclamations are recorded are called by antiquaries acclamation medals.
ref:
1826, James Elmes, A General and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.
The act of winning an election to a post because there were no other candidates.
A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy.
An oral vote taken without formal ballot and with much fanfare; typically an overwhelmingly affirmative vote.
senses_topics:
art
arts
government
politics |
651 | word:
abscissa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abscissa (plural abscissas or abscissae or abscissæ)
forms:
form:
abscissas
tags:
plural
form:
abscissae
tags:
plural
form:
abscissæ
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
By ellipsis from Latin [linea] abscissa, feminine of abscissus, perfect passive participle of abscindō (“cut off”). See abscind.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: ordinate
text:
The point (3,2) has 3 as its abscissa and 2 as its ordinate.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: ordinate
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The first of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.
The horizontal line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the abscissa (sense above) is shown.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences |
652 | word:
abominable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abominable (comparative more abominable, superlative most abominable)
forms:
form:
more abominable
tags:
comparative
form:
most abominable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abhomynable, from Old French abominable, from Late Latin abōminābilis (“deserving abhorrence”), from abōminor (“abhor, deprecate as an ill omen”), from ab (“from, away from”) + ōminor (“forebode, predict, presage”), from ōmen (“sign, token, omen”). Formerly erroneously folk-etymologized as deriving from Latin ab- + homo and therefore spelled abhominable, abhominal; see those entries for more.
senses_examples:
text:
The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable Crime of Buggery, committed either with Mankind or with any Animal, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Ten Years.
ref:
1861, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 61”, in Offences against the Person Act 1861, page 833
type:
quotation
text:
I want to go faster on my bike than a person with a beard. I want to be the first to own whatever’s the next spiraliser. I want it all: a carapace of insouciance over rock-hard triceps.
This is an abominable thing to want, vain in every sense. But I’m going to set out to do whatever it takes not to decay faster than other people, and report it accurately and fairly.
ref:
2017 July 8, Zoe Williams, “Fit in my 40s: 'The brute fact is, something must be done'”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
Excessive, large (used as an intensifier).
Very bad or inferior.
Disagreeable or unpleasant.
senses_topics:
|
653 | word:
abode
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abode (plural abodes)
forms:
form:
abodes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abod, abad, from Old English *ābād, related to ābīdan (“to abide”); see abide. Cognate with Scots abade, abaid (“abode”). For the change of nouns, compare abode, preterite of abide.
senses_examples:
text:
Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode.
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii
type:
quotation
text:
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
ref:
1661, John Fell Summary, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
type:
quotation
text:
You behold, Sir, how he waxeth Wroth at your Abode here.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume 2, London: Millar, →OCLC, page 289
type:
quotation
text:
of no fixed abode
type:
example
text:
Come let me lead you to our poor Abode.
ref:
1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, London: s.n., →OCLC, page 236
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Act of waiting; delay.
Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
A residence, dwelling or habitation.
senses_topics:
|
654 | word:
abode
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abode
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abod, abad, from Old English *ābād, related to ābīdan (“to abide”); see abide. Cognate with Scots abade, abaid (“abode”). For the change of nouns, compare abode, preterite of abide.
senses_examples:
text:
The fine, soundless pulse of this game was in the air for our young woman while they remained in the shop. While they remained? They remained all day; their presence continued and abode with her, was in everything she did till nightfall....
ref:
1898, Henry James, In the Cage
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of abide
senses_topics:
|
655 | word:
abode
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abode (plural abodes)
forms:
form:
abodes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From an alteration (with bode) of Middle English abeden (“to announce”), from Old English ābēodan (“to command, proclaim”), from a- + bēodan (“to command, proclaim”). Superficial analysis is a- + bode (“presage, portend, announce”).
senses_examples:
text:
High-thundering Juno's husband, stirs my spirit with true abodes.
ref:
1865, George Chapman, edited by Richard Hooper, The Iliads of Homer, London: J.R. Smith, →OCLC, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An omen; a foretelling.
senses_topics:
|
656 | word:
abode
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abode (third-person singular simple present abodes, present participle aboding, simple past and past participle aboded)
forms:
form:
abodes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
aboding
tags:
participle
present
form:
aboded
tags:
participle
past
form:
aboded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From an alteration (with bode) of Middle English abeden (“to announce”), from Old English ābēodan (“to command, proclaim”), from a- + bēodan (“to command, proclaim”). Superficial analysis is a- + bode (“presage, portend, announce”).
senses_examples:
text:
The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time
ref:
1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, act 5, scene 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bode; to foreshow; to presage.
To be ominous.
senses_topics:
|
657 | word:
abater
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abater (plural abaters)
forms:
form:
abaters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abatere. Equivalent to abate + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
This is the great Prince of Grecia, called the Knight of the Sunne, restorer of the auncient kingdome of Tinacria, & the abater and breaker of the strength of the most strongest Giants in all the world.
ref:
1583, Pedro de la Sierra, translated by Robert Parry, The Second Part of the Myrror of Knighthood, London: Thomas Este, Book 1, Part 2, Chapter 21
type:
quotation
text:
Anodyne, or Abaters of Pain of the Alimentary Kind. Such things as relax the Tension of the affected nervous Fibres […]
ref:
1732, John Arbuthnot, Practical Rules of Diet in the Various Constitutions and Diseases of Human Bodies, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 1, section 26, p. 281
type:
quotation
text:
1908, John H. Wallace, Preservation of the Game, Fish and Forests of Alabama, address given before the Alabama Press Association, 23 July, 1908, State Printers and Binders, p. 6,
As a fever germ abater in a malarial district, a flock of bull-bats is worth a grove of quinine trees.
text:
[…] research is proving the effectiveness of trees and shrubs as noise abaters—research prompted by the growing awareness that excessive noise is a form of environmental pollution.
ref:
1972, David I. Cook, David F. Van Haverbeke, “Trees and shrubs can curb noise, but with quite a few loud ‘ifs’”, in The Yearbook of Agriculture, 972, Washington, D.C.: US Department of Agriculture, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who, or that which, abates.
senses_topics:
|
658 | word:
e-text
word_type:
noun
expansion:
e-text (plural e-texts)
forms:
form:
e-texts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From e- + text.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An electronic or digital version of a text.
senses_topics:
|
659 | word:
ablaze
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ablaze (comparative more ablaze, superlative most ablaze)
forms:
form:
more ablaze
tags:
comparative
form:
most ablaze
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- (“on, in”) + blaze (“flame”).
senses_examples:
text:
1791, The Bee, Volume 4, Short Chronicle of Events, 27 July, 1791, p. v,
On entering the walls which surround the house, then all ablaze, a most dreadful conflict took place […]
text:
The canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water, / Bearing a torch ablaze at the prow.
ref:
1881, Walt Whitman, “The Torch”, in Leaves of Grass, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 305
type:
quotation
text:
1932, Pearl S. Buck, Sons, Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell, 1992, Chapter 13, pp. 128-129,
So Wang and Tiger’s men rushed into such houses as were not too ablaze and they began to drag out booty of silken pieces and yards of cloth and garments and anything they could carry.
text:
Mario Balotelli, in the headlines for accidentally setting his house ablaze with fireworks, put City on their way with goals either side of the interval as United struggled to contain the array of attacking talent in front of them.
ref:
2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The Heav’ns are all a-blaze, the face of night
Is cover’d with a sanguine dreadful light:
ref:
1716, John Gay, Trivia, 3rd edition, London: Bernard Lintot, published 1730, Book 3, p. 64
type:
quotation
text:
All ablaze with crimson and gold.
ref:
1872, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus: A Mystery
type:
quotation
text:
The day being June the thirtieth, which is the very high-tide time of summer flowers, the immediate neighbourhood of the castle was ablaze with roses, pinks, pansies, carnations, hollyhocks, columbines, larkspurs, London pride, Canterbury bells, and a multitude of other choice blooms.
ref:
1923, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter I, in Leave It to Psmith
type:
quotation
text:
She loved this hour when the lights were coming up in the causeway: white and blue and orange lights and the hotels and coloured adverts ablaze but not yet effective in the pale twilight.
ref:
1961, Cyprian Ekwensi, chapter 3, in Jagua Nana, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, published 1969, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Autumn is a lovely time to visit as the tree cover near the line is ablaze with colour.
ref:
2021 July 28, Paul Bigland, “Calder line captures picturesque Pennines”, in RAIL, number 936, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
c. 1680, uncredited translator, An Essay upon the Action of an Orator by Michel Le Faucheur, London: Nicholas Cox, pp. 184-185,
And this Fire of your Eyes easily strikes those of your Auditors, who have theirs constantly fixt upon yours; and it must needs set them a-blaze too upon the same Resentment and Passion.
text:
The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos.
ref:
1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
type:
quotation
text:
Raoul was ablaze with indignation.
ref:
1880, George Washington Cable, chapter 40, in The Grandissimes, New York: Scribner, page 318
type:
quotation
text:
His indifference to Carmen, who has all the other males in sight quivering with a passion never seen on land or sea, sets her ablaze; in a series of scenes which it is difficult to call erotic without adding that they are also infantile, she goes after him and he falls.
ref:
1955, James Baldwin, “Carmen Jones: The Dark is Light Enough”, in Notes of a Native Son, New York: Dial, published 1963, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Dawit, glorious and fearless, charging at the enemy, […] his eyes ablaze with a hatred so pure that for a moment, the ascaro draws back before he lifts his weapon and aims.
ref:
2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Edinburgh: Canongate
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.
Radiant with bright light and color.
In a state of glowing excitement, ardent desire, or other strong emotion.
senses_topics:
|
660 | word:
ablaze
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ablaze (comparative more ablaze, superlative most ablaze)
forms:
form:
more ablaze
tags:
comparative
form:
most ablaze
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- (“on, in”) + blaze (“flame”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] with the spontaneous combustion the house smouldered ablaze.
ref:
1969, Ray Bradbury, “The Haunting of the New”, in I Sing the Body Electric!, New York: Knopf, page 143
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On fire; in a blaze.
Lit up brightly and with color, gleaming.
In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
senses_topics:
|
661 | word:
abbreviate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abbreviate (third-person singular simple present abbreviates, present participle abbreviating, simple past and past participle abbreviated)
forms:
form:
abbreviates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abbreviating
tags:
participle
present
form:
abbreviated
tags:
participle
past
form:
abbreviated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abbreviaten, from Latin abbreviātus, perfect passive participle of abbreviō (“to shorten”), formed from ad + breviō (“shorten”), from brevis (“short”). Alternatively, a back-formation from abbreviation. Doublet of abridge.
senses_examples:
text:
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is more commonly known by its abbreviated form BSE.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shorten by omitting parts or details.
To speak or write in a brief manner.
To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
662 | word:
abbreviate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abbreviate (comparative more abbreviate, superlative most abbreviate)
forms:
form:
more abbreviate
tags:
comparative
form:
most abbreviate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin abbreviātus, perfect passive participle of abbreviō (“abbreviate”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
663 | word:
abbreviate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abbreviate (plural abbreviates)
forms:
form:
abbreviates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin abbreviātus, perfect passive participle of abbreviō (“abbreviate”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abridgment.
senses_topics:
|
664 | word:
hoed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hoed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of hoe
simple past and past participle of ho
senses_topics:
|
665 | word:
ALPAC
word_type:
name
expansion:
ALPAC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee, a 1964 US government committee who issued a report about automated translation.
senses_topics:
|
666 | word:
craggy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
craggy (comparative craggier, superlative craggiest)
forms:
form:
craggier
tags:
comparative
form:
craggiest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From crag + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
The goat climbed up the craggy rocks.
type:
example
text:
The old man had craggy, uncultured features, but had bright, intelligent eyes.
type:
example
text:
Where Willow was thunderous and craggy, a sort of Makepeace Watermaster without a secret, Murgo writhed inside his habit like a ferret roped into a bag. Where Willow's fearless gaze was unruffled by knowledge, Murgo's signalled the lonely anguish of the cell.
ref:
1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
type:
quotation
text:
Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.
ref:
2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.
senses_topics:
|
667 | word:
livre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
livre (plural livres)
forms:
form:
livres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
livre
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French livre. Doublet of libra and lira.
senses_examples:
text:
They like to see them awarded comfortable pensions. Is it 700,000 livres a year to the Polignac family?
ref:
1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
He never, it should be noted, totally renounced his inheritance: a critic of the court round, he benefited to the tune of a cool two million livres a year from royal largesse […].
ref:
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
An ancient French unit of weight, equal to about 1 avoirdupois pound.
senses_topics:
|
668 | word:
bellgirl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bellgirl (plural bellgirls)
forms:
form:
bellgirls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bell + girl.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female bellhop.
senses_topics:
|
669 | word:
abbey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abbey (plural abbeys)
forms:
form:
abbeys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From A.D. 1250 in Middle English abbey, abbeye (“convent headed by an abbot”) (compare archaic English abbaye), itself borrowed from Old French abaïe, abbaïe, abeïe, abbeïe (Modern French abbaye) from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbātia, from Classical Latin abbās (“abbot”). Doublet of abbacy and Opatija. See abbot.
senses_examples:
text:
From 1199 to 1203 William Punchard was the abbot of the abbey of Rievaulx, which was part of the Cistercian order of monks.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
The church of a monastery.
A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
senses_topics:
|
670 | word:
accessibility
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accessibility (usually uncountable, plural accessibilities)
forms:
form:
accessibilities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accessible + -ity, after Late Latin accessibilitas, from Latin accessibilis.
senses_examples:
text:
He says the company's FLIRT design, in particular its retractable steps, provides greater accessibility, while the technology is highly innovative and reliable.
ref:
2021 May 19, David Clough, “Swiss precision meets UK growth”, in RAIL, number 931, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
The purpose of this study is to measure West Virginia University's website accessibility for students and users who are blind or visually impaired and compare that measurement to the measurement of other websites of […]
ref:
2007, Accessibility of WVU Websites for Individuals with Vision Impairments, ProQuest, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptiveness.
Features that increase software usability for users with certain impairments.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design |
671 | word:
mass noun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mass noun (plural mass nouns)
forms:
form:
mass nouns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A noun that normally cannot be counted.
senses_topics:
|
672 | word:
shapeshift
word_type:
verb
expansion:
shapeshift (third-person singular simple present shapeshifts, present participle shapeshifting, simple past and past participle shapeshifted)
forms:
form:
shapeshifts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
shapeshifting
tags:
participle
present
form:
shapeshifted
tags:
participle
past
form:
shapeshifted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably a back-formation from shapeshifter.
senses_examples:
text:
Journey in exactly the same way as you did to shapeshift into your power animal except, this time, set your intention to shapeshift into a named ancestor.
ref:
2010, Mike Williams, Follow the Shaman's Call: An Ancient Path for Modern Lives, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
I can't shapeshift Zane, I only look like this I always have.
ref:
2019, Emily Rayven, Gateway To Brienka
type:
quotation
text:
But to embed oneself in an irregular and unpredictable food supply as mycelium does, one must be able to shapeshift.
ref:
2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
While Chelsea Wolfe has often shapeshifted in terms of how she presents her music, one thing remains constant: her big mood.
ref:
2019, Adam Turner-Heffer, Chelsea Wolfe: Birth of Violence review, The Skinny, September 2019, page 57
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To change one's shape or form (into another) through often magical means, normally applied only to living beings.
To undergo a noticeable change (in character for example), to metamorphosize.
senses_topics:
biology
fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
|
673 | word:
DBE
word_type:
name
expansion:
DBE
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
senses_topics:
|
674 | word:
DBE
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DBE
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of disadvantaged business enterprise.
senses_topics:
|
675 | word:
abscond
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abscond (third-person singular simple present absconds, present participle absconding, simple past and past participle absconded)
forms:
form:
absconds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
absconding
tags:
participle
present
form:
absconded
tags:
participle
past
form:
absconded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Either borrowed from Middle French abscondre or directly from Latin abscondō (“hide”); formed from abs, ab (“away”) + condō (“put together, store”), from con- (“together”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”).
* Cognate with sconce (“a type of light fixture”).
senses_examples:
text:
I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me.
ref:
1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Captain Renault (Claude Rains)
type:
quotation
text:
Andy did break his bargain, lurked in the neighborhood a few days, and then, being pursued by the sheriff, absconded to parts unknown.
ref:
1969, John Niven, Years of Turmoil: Civil War and Reconstruction, page 229
type:
quotation
text:
A printed leaflet of the Anushilan was dropped here, and at another place a manuscript of swadeshi songs, which has been proved to belong to Lal Mohan De, another member of the Samiti, who lived in Pulin's akhara and is now absconding.
ref:
1995, Amiya K. Samanta, Terrorism in Bengal: Origin, growth and activities of the organizations like […], page 748
type:
quotation
text:
Moirangthem Kalachand Singh, City Inspector, Imphal P.W. 14 searched the house of one Chaoba Singh in village Khagempali in the hope of arresting Boro Singh and Mohendra Singh accused, who were absconding in […]
ref:
1998, N. Lokendra, The Unquiet Valley: Society, Economy, and Politics of Manipur (1891-1050), page 253
type:
quotation
text:
Modern technology accompanies the absconding of the original attitude.
ref:
2006, Richard Rojcewicz, The Gods And Technology: A Reading Of Heidegger
type:
quotation
text:
You cannot abscond from the responsibility both you and your partner owe to this event, and that includes dealing with anger issues and any other emotional issues that come with it.
ref:
2009, Sonia Brill, Relationships Without Anger
type:
quotation
text:
[European honey bees] raise large colonies, hoard large quantities of honey, are more gentle than other species and almost never abscond.
ref:
2003, Randy Carl Lynn, Raising Healthy Honey Bees, Christian Veterinary Mission, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
The thieves absconded with our property.
type:
example
text:
[…] that very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond at the risk of stripes and of death.
ref:
1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 13, in The History of England
type:
quotation
text:
The driver had absconded, but both railway and county police were searching for him. Mitchell was arrested in Carlisle on June 9, 1863.
ref:
1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
the Marmotto, […] which absconds all Winter doth […] live upon its own Fat.
ref:
1691-1735, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation
type:
quotation
text:
The captain absconded his responsibility.
type:
example
text:
If the distress situation is solved successfully, the anonymous shipowner will reap the commercial benefit, if the situation ends in disaster, the shipowner will hide behind an anonymous post box in a foreign country and will abscond responsibility.
ref:
2006, Aldo E. Chircop, Olof Lindén, Places of Refuge for Ships
type:
quotation
text:
The driver snatched a packet of cigarettes out of the glove compartment and absconded the driver's seat without a word
ref:
2008, Somar, The Mystical Harvest, page 431
type:
quotation
text:
Those who evidently did not get invited back to their top choices have already absconded the scene, tripping in their high heels as they ran.
ref:
2007, Vendela Vida, Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-bys, and Other Initiations, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
In 1939 she absconded her bail in Melbourne and went to New Zealand, where she also absconded on a charge of stealing diamonds.
ref:
2011, James Morton, Susanna Lobez, Gangland Melbourne, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
for having applied to the Side of the Head any thin black Body, such as the Brim of a Hat, so as it may abscond the Objects that are upon that Side
ref:
1759, William Porterfield, edited by G. Hamilton and John Balfour, treatise on the eye, the manner and phaenomena of vision, volume 2
type:
quotation
text:
They examined every prisoner by himself (who were in all about two hundred and fifty persons) where they had absconded the rest of their goods
ref:
1684, John Esquemeling, Henry Powell, The Buccaneers of America, published 2010, page 161
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To flee, often secretly; to steal away.
To hide, conceal, or absent oneself clandestinely, with the intent to avoid legal process
To flee, often secretly; to steal away.
To abandon a hive.
To flee, often secretly; to steal away.
To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.
To evade, to hide or flee from.
To conceal; to take away.
senses_topics:
law
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676 | word:
accorder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accorder (plural accorders)
forms:
form:
accorders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accord + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who accords.
senses_topics:
|
677 | word:
polytheistic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
polytheistic (comparative more polytheistic, superlative most polytheistic)
forms:
form:
more polytheistic
tags:
comparative
form:
most polytheistic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From poly- + theistic.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: monotheistic
text:
The mystic is one to whom the unitive, pantheistic, or at least the panentheistic, aspects of the divinity are as congenial as the deistic, polytheistic, and anthropomorphic aspects are to the institutional mind.
ref:
1909, The Quarterly Review, page 124
type:
quotation
text:
The horse stood still till he had finished the hymn, which Jude repeated under the sway of a polytheistic fancy that he would never have thought of humouring in broad daylight.
ref:
1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to polytheism.
senses_topics:
|
678 | word:
acicula
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acicula (plural aciculas or aciculae)
forms:
form:
aciculas
tags:
plural
form:
aciculae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin acicula (“pin for a head-dress”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.
senses_topics:
|
679 | word:
KBE
word_type:
name
expansion:
KBE
forms:
wikipedia:
KBE
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
senses_topics:
|
680 | word:
KBE
word_type:
noun
expansion:
KBE
forms:
wikipedia:
KBE
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of knowledge-based engineering.
Initialism of knowledge-based economy.
senses_topics:
|
681 | word:
deep sleep
word_type:
noun
expansion:
deep sleep (countable and uncountable, plural deep sleeps)
forms:
form:
deep sleeps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Slow-wave sleep
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Donnchadh and Gwalcmai, along with the other fourteen teams selected for planetary infiltration, had been put into deep sleep shortly after liftoff from their planet.
ref:
2004, Robert Doherty, Area 51: Legend
type:
quotation
text:
The Kironian had remained in deep sleep until alerted by a high-pitched squeaky sound. When the Kironian woke, everything seemed as though it had just left Kiron.
ref:
2005, Bob Ticer, Visiting the Strange Planet Called Earth, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
There is also the possibility that our aliens perfected cryogenics and simply went into deep sleep until the environment improved.
ref:
2008, Cavin Wright, The Golden Prize, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see deep, sleep.
stage 3 of non-rapid eye movement sleep
Artificially induced hibernation in humans for the purpose of long distance space travel.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
fiction
literature
media
publishing |
682 | word:
MBE
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MBE (countable and uncountable, plural MBEs)
forms:
form:
MBEs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Taken on by the Guardian (then the Manchester Guardian) after winning the Observer's crossword-setting competition two years running, he was later made an MBE for services to the newspaper industry.
ref:
2013 November 26, John Plunkett, “Rev John Graham, aka crossword setter Araucaria, dies aged 92”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Member of the Order of the British Empire, a British honour originally intended for non-combatants in World War One.
Initialism of molecular-beam epitaxy.
Initialism of Master of Bioscience Enterprise.
Initialism of management by exception.
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
education
business |
683 | word:
abut
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abut (third-person singular simple present abuts, present participle abutting, simple past and past participle abutted)
forms:
form:
abuts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abutting
tags:
participle
present
form:
abutted
tags:
participle
past
form:
abutted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abutten, from Medieval Latin abuttare and Old French abuter, aboter, abouter (“to touch at one end, to come to an end, aim, reach”), from Old French but (“end, aim, purpose”); akin to Old Norse butr (“piece of wood”). Equivalent to a- (“to”) + butt (“boundary mark”).
senses_examples:
text:
It was a time when Germany still abutted upon Russia.
type:
example
text:
His land abuts on the road.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)
To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.
senses_topics:
|
684 | word:
abut
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abut (third-person singular simple present abuts, present participle abutting, simple past and past participle abutted)
forms:
form:
abuts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abutting
tags:
participle
present
form:
abutted
tags:
participle
past
form:
abutted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abutten, from Old French aboter (“to touch at one end, border on”), abouter (“to join end to end”), abuter (“to buttress, to put an end to”), from a- (“towards”) + bout (“end”), boter, bouter (“to strike”), buter (“to strike, finish”). Equivalent to a- (“towards, change to”) + butt (“push”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.
senses_topics:
|
685 | word:
defining vocabulary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
defining vocabulary (plural defining vocabularies)
forms:
form:
defining vocabularies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A restricted set of words used to define all other terms in a dictionary.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences |
686 | word:
alphabetism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alphabetism (plural alphabetisms)
forms:
form:
alphabetisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
alphabetism
etymology_text:
From alphabet + -ism.
senses_examples:
text:
Some alphabetisms are written as if they weren't alphabetisms at all, like deejay for DJ, disc jockey, or emcee for MC, master of ceremonies.
ref:
2002, Gunnel Tottie, An Introduction To American English, Blackwell Publishing, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
Some of the activities involved in ... corvée and military needs stimulated the spread of a certain type of minimal alphabetism for inventorying and most likely encouraged the development of a professional scribalism for record-keeping and book-keeping.
ref:
2001, Ziony Zevit, The Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 639
type:
quotation
text:
The answer, I suggest, is that phonemism is rooted in alphabetism. Indeed, many linguists have suggested that there really is a /g/ phoneme at the end of 'fang' and other [ŋ]-final words in English, except that they are not pronounced!
ref:
2006, Daniel Doron Silverman, A Critical Introduction to Phonology: Of Sound, Mind and Body, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 208
type:
quotation
text:
The injustice of "alphabetism" is, of course, a thorn in the Zitser side, and he playfully promises to assign the problem to "alphabetically neutral" aides.
ref:
1983, George F. Will, The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions, page 134
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An initialism: an abbreviation which is read letter by letter, such as UN.
The ability to read an alphabet, a rudimentary form of literacy.
Excessive reliance upon the alphabet or alphabetic structures.
Discrimination on the basis of the first letter of a name.
senses_topics:
|
687 | word:
Buckley's chance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Buckley's chance (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Candidates are:
* A reference to William Buckley (1780–1856), a white convict who escaped in Victoria in 1803 and lived among the Indigenous Australians there for 30 years (survival of non-indigenous people in the bush was reckoned "no chance"). This is the most popular candidate, but earliest known usages date from the 1890s, some 30 years after his death. Nonetheless, this was soon after Buckley's story was publicised in 1889 by E. W. Cole in his book Savage Life in Australia: The Story of William Buckley the Runaway Convict who Lived Thirty-two Years Among the Blacks of Australia, so this etymology remains plausible.
* From Buckley's and none, presuming that expression derives from a Melbourne department store, Buckley & Nunn.
* A reference to Mr Buckley of the Bombala region of southern New South Wales, who sued the government over title to land, the action seeming to have little prospect of success.
* Again a reference to Mars Buckley, not in connection with Crumpton Nunn (as above, re Buckley's and none), but rather in relation to an 1893 run on banks, when Buckley ensured that the Bank of Australasia would have no chance of using his money to pay other depositors. The bank thus had "Buckley's chance" of getting his money. This etymology is arguably somewhat likely since the phrase was first cited three years after this incident.
senses_examples:
text:
"So he has a chance," said Connie. "Buckley's chance, the way his luck is. Fell out with his girl he did, and lost his job, and now 'e's goin' to lose 'is life. The unluckiest man that ever lived."
ref:
1936, Andrew Barton ("Banjo") Paterson, The Shearer′s Colt
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A very small chance; no chance at all.
senses_topics:
|
688 | word:
absconder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absconder (plural absconders)
forms:
form:
absconders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abscond + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] unless such an Act of Grace do reach insolvent Absconders, who to shun the Cruelty of their severe Creditors confine themselves out of their Reach, ’tis humbly conceived, ’twill be but half an Act of Grace.
ref:
1696, Considerations upon the Bill for the Relief of Poor Prisoners,
type:
quotation
text:
What else could it all mean but that Mr. Robert Weymouth was an absconder—was about to fly with the bank’s remaining funds […]
ref:
1909, O. Henry, “The Guardian of the Accolade”, in Roads of Destiny, Doubleday Page, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
Steve and I sneaked immediately, like beaten curs, like cowards, like absconders from justice.
ref:
1910, Jack London, “That Spot”, in Lost Face, New York: Macmillan, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
He smiled at the view over the hedge, at the other front gardens, at the approaching Rover and then its driver, squinting in a rictus of his own against the evening sun, and making Paul feel again like an intruder, or now perhaps an absconder.
ref:
2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, Knopf Canada, Part Three, Chapter 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who absconds.
senses_topics:
|
689 | word:
pre-Columbian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pre-Columbian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From pre- + Columbian.
senses_examples:
text:
since pre-Columbian times
type:
example
text:
unknown in Europe in pre-Columbian times
type:
example
text:
pre-Columbian cultures
type:
example
text:
pre-Columbian civilizations
type:
example
text:
In fact, the dating of pre-Columbian Andean cultures was largely a matter of guesswork.
ref:
1961, Margaret A. Towle, The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru, Transaction Publishers, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
Boys trained to be warriors, but why did pre-Columbian peoples battle one another?
ref:
2010, Marylou Kjelle, In Pre-Columbian America, Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc., page 41
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Before the voyages of Christopher Columbus of the 1490s which introduced greatly widened contacts between Eurasia and the Americas.
Referring to the cultures of the Americas before the European influence, specifically to the era before the continent was visited by Christopher Columbus.
senses_topics:
|
690 | word:
CBE
word_type:
adj
expansion:
CBE (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
'CBE, Minister,' he replied, unhappily. I wasn't sure what he meant. Could I have been awarded the CBE.? – or could he? He explained. "Can't Be Everywhere'.
ref:
1980 March 10, “Economy Drive”, in Yes Minister, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn (actors)
type:
quotation
text:
My source says: ‘The answer was “CBE” – palace-speak for “Can’t be everywhere.”’
ref:
2015 July 2, Ephraim Hardcastle, The Daily Mail
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
can't be everywhere
senses_topics:
|
691 | word:
CBE
word_type:
name
expansion:
CBE
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Initialism of Christians for Biblical Equality.
senses_topics:
|
692 | word:
CBE
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CBE
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Component Boolean Expression
Calculated Best Estimate
Command Budget Estimate
Common Base Event
Calgary Board of Education
senses_topics:
|
693 | word:
foreign debt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
foreign debt (usually uncountable, plural foreign debts)
forms:
form:
foreign debts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A debt that a country, an organization in a country, or a resident individual in a country owes to those in other countries.
An aggregate amount of such debts.
senses_topics:
business
finance
economics
sciences |
694 | word:
aby
word_type:
verb
expansion:
aby (simple past and past participle abought, no other forms attested in Modern English)
forms:
form:
abought
tags:
participle
past
form:
abought
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abyen, abien, abiggen, from Old English ābyċġan (“to buy; pay for; buy off; requite; recompense; redeem; perform; execute”), from Proto-Germanic *uzbugjaną, equivalent to a- + buy. Cognate with Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usbugjan). Not related to abide.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pay the penalty for (something); to atone for, to make amends.
To pay (something) as a penalty, to atone for; to suffer (something).
To endure or tolerate (something); to experience.
To pay for (something); to buy.
To pay the penalty; to atone.
To endure; to remain.
senses_topics:
|
695 | word:
abductor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abductor (plural abductors)
forms:
form:
abductors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abduct + -or.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who abducts; a kidnapper.
senses_topics:
|
696 | word:
abductor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abductor (plural abductors or abductores)
forms:
form:
abductors
tags:
plural
form:
abductores
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin abductor, from abdūcō + -tor.
senses_examples:
text:
the abductor oculi draws the eye outward.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or from the median line of the body
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
697 | word:
Carpatho-Rusyn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Carpatho-Rusyn (plural Carpatho-Rusyns or Carpatho-Rusyn)
forms:
form:
Carpatho-Rusyns
tags:
plural
form:
Carpatho-Rusyn
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Religion frequently divided East Slavs. By 1924, when the Ukrainians and the Carpatho-Rusyns were given separate Greek Catholic bishops, there were more than 235,000 members of the Ukrainian diocese (headquartered in Philadelphia) and[…]
ref:
2006 November 8, Andrew R. L. Cayton, Richard Sisson, Chris Zacher, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Indiana University Press, page 237
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of an east-Slavic ethnic group of the Carpathian mountains.
senses_topics:
|
698 | word:
Carpatho-Rusyn
word_type:
name
expansion:
Carpatho-Rusyn
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Carpatho-Rusyn language.
senses_topics:
|
699 | word:
august
word_type:
adj
expansion:
august (comparative auguster or more august, superlative augustest or most august)
forms:
form:
auguster
tags:
comparative
form:
more august
tags:
comparative
form:
augustest
tags:
superlative
form:
most august
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French auguste (“noble, stately; august”) or Latin augustus (“majestic, venerable, august; imperial, royal”), from augeō (“to augment, increase; to enlarge, expand, spread”). Doublet of Augustus.
senses_examples:
text:
an august patron of the arts
type:
example
text:
In the book of Pſalms there are many things ſaid of David, which ſeem capable of a much auguſter ſenſe than can be pretended to be anſwered by any thing that befel himſelf.
ref:
1796, Gilbert Bishop of Sarum [i.e., Gilbert Burnet], “Article VII. Of the Old Testament.”, in An Exposition of the XXXIX Articles of the Church of England, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
[W]e shall not, I think, be able to find language which can convey in few words more fully the idea we should always have impressed on our minds of the august character of our Lord, than the expression, "the word of life."
ref:
1837 August 31, William Sollis, A Sermon, Preached in Holsworthy Church on Thursday, August 31, 1837, at the Anniversaries of the Societies for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts. […], Launceston, Cornwall: Penheale-Press, Rev. H. A. Simcoe, →OCLC, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
The commands of the august sovereign are the imperial commands, or the phœnix (the incomparable) mandate.
ref:
1841, E[lijah] C[oleman] Bridgman, “Governmental Affairs”, in A Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect, Macao: S[amuel] Wells Williams, →OCLC, section second (Imperial Titles), page 558
type:
quotation
text:
—Inconsciously to the augustest end / Thou hast arisen: second not in rank / So much as time, to him who first ordained / That Florence, thou art to destroy, should be— […]
ref:
1846, Robert Browning, “Luria”, in Bells and Pomegranates, volumes VIII (Luria; and A Soul’s Tragedy), London: Edward Moxon, →OCLC; republished in Poems … In Two Volumes, new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], 1849, →OCLC, act IV, page 192
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The foolish dog […] flew at the cat, who in her fright and consternation took refuge behind the screen of the breakfast-room where his Majesty then was. The Mikado was greatly shocked and agitated. He took the cat into his august bosom, and summoning the chamberlain Tadataka, gave orders that Okinamaro should have a good thrashing and be banished to Dog Island at once.
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1899, Sei Shōnagon, “Makura Zōshi [The Attack of the Dog Okinamaro upon the Cat Miyōbu no Otodo]”, in W[illiam] G[eorge] Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 111
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For once the story was not about Jamie Vardy, unable to equal Jimmy Dunne's top-flight record of scoring in a dozen consecutive games, but about his august deputy Riyad Mahrez.
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2015 December 5, Alan Smith, “Leicester City back on top as Riyad Mahrez hat-trick downs Swansea City”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-03-29
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Countless proposals flooded in, sent by sources as august as the World Academy of Sciences and as humble as elementary schools.
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2016, Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu, Death's End, Tor, translation of 死神永生, page 280
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an august lineage
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A branch of the house of Lorraine, in comparison with which even the royal race of Capet was mean, the Guises traced back their august lineage through a long line of warrior princes to the Imperial figure of Charlemagne.
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1873, Walter Fitz Patrick, chapter I, in The Great Condé and the Period of the Fronde: A Historical Sketch, volume I, London: T[homas] Cautley Newby, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 7
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Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.
Of noble birth.
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