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800 | word:
GUI
word_type:
noun
expansion:
GUI (plural GUIs)
forms:
form:
GUIs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: TUI
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of graphical user interface.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
801 | word:
comitology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
comitology (countable and uncountable, plural comitologies)
forms:
form:
comitologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From committee + -ology, introduced by Cyril Northcote Parkinson in humorous essays published in The Economist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The system of committees, composed of representatives of the member states, used to oversee European Commission implementing acts made under European Union legislation.
The study of how committees could work, expand, and ramify.
senses_topics:
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802 | word:
oxymoron
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oxymoron (plural oxymorons or oxymora)
forms:
form:
oxymorons
tags:
plural
form:
oxymora
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
William Shakespeare
oxymoron
etymology_text:
First attested in the 17th century, noun use of 5th century Latin oxymōrum (adj), neut. nom. form of oxymōrus (adj), from Ancient Greek ὀξύμωρος (oxúmōros), compound of ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp, keen, pointed”) (English oxy-, as in oxygen) + μωρός (mōrós, “dull, stupid, foolish”) (English moron (“stupid person”)). Literally "sharp-dull", "keen-stupid", or "pointed-foolish" – itself an oxymoron, hence autological; compare sophomore (literally “wise fool”), influenced by similar analysis. The compound form ὀξύμωρον (oxúmōron) is not found in the extant Ancient Greek sources.
senses_examples:
text:
For Theodor Adorno and his colleagues at the Frankfurt School who coined the term, "culture industry" was an oxymoron, intended to set up a critical contrast between the exploitative, repetitive mode of industrial mass production under capitalism and the associations of transformative power and aesthetico-moral transcendence that the concept of culture carried in the 1940s, when it still meant "high" culture.
ref:
1996, John Sinclair, “Culture and Trade: Some Theoretical and Practical Considerations”, in Emile G. McAnany, Kenton T. Wilkinson, editors, Mass Media and Free Trade: NAFTA and the Cultural Industries, University of Texas Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.
A contradiction in terms.
senses_topics:
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803 | word:
millisecond
word_type:
noun
expansion:
millisecond (plural milliseconds)
forms:
form:
milliseconds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From milli- + second.
senses_examples:
text:
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
ref:
2012 January 24, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-11-14, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
The suggestion that pulsars were rotating neutron stars was put forth independently by Thomas Gold and Franco Pacini in 1968, and was soon proven beyond reasonable doubt by the discovery of a pulsar with a very short (33-millisecond) pulse period in the Crab nebula.ᵂ
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻³ seconds. Symbol: ms
senses_topics:
metrology |
804 | word:
abstinent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abstinent (comparative more abstinent, superlative most abstinent)
forms:
form:
more abstinent
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstinent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in the late 14th century as Middle English abstinent, abstynent, from Old French abstinent, from Latin abstinēns, present participle of abstineō. See abstain.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite.
senses_topics:
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805 | word:
abstinent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstinent (plural abstinents)
forms:
form:
abstinents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abstinent (adjective form).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who abstains; a faster.
Alternative letter-case form of Abstinent
senses_topics:
|
806 | word:
white-collar
word_type:
adj
expansion:
white-collar (comparative more white-collar, superlative most white-collar)
forms:
form:
more white-collar
tags:
comparative
form:
most white-collar
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the colour of dress shirts worn by professional and clerical workers, as opposed to the rugged denim and chambray shirts normally worn by manual workers.
senses_examples:
text:
This being a motion picture star is a real business. It's a job, and not always a white collar one, either.
ref:
1929 December, Betty Boone, “The Price of this Stardom”, in Screenland, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to office work and workers; contrasted with blue-collar.
Pertaining to the culture of white-collar workers, as values, politics, etc.; contrasted with blue-collar.
senses_topics:
|
807 | word:
aberrant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aberrant (comparative more aberrant, superlative most aberrant)
forms:
form:
more aberrant
tags:
comparative
form:
most aberrant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin aberrāns, present active participle of aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from”) + errō (“to wander”). See aberr.
senses_examples:
text:
The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.
ref:
1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of the Species
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Differing from the norm.
Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology |
808 | word:
aberrant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aberrant (plural aberrants)
forms:
form:
aberrants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin aberrāns, present active participle of aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from”) + errō (“to wander”). See aberr.
senses_examples:
text:
Also I think other birders realise you are struggling a bit when you start talking about aberrants[.]
ref:
1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 87
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
809 | word:
proportionality
word_type:
noun
expansion:
proportionality (countable and uncountable, plural proportionalities)
forms:
form:
proportionalities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From proportional + -ity, from Latin proportionalitas.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the property of being proportional
the principle that government action ought to be proportional to the ends achieved (e.g. the military should not be deployed to stop petty vandalism)
the degree to which something is in proportion
senses_topics:
|
810 | word:
bureaucrat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bureaucrat (plural bureaucrats)
forms:
form:
bureaucrats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French bureaucrate.
senses_examples:
text:
One of three major processes is generally used: a bureaucrat review, a broader community review, or an approvals group review. As only local bureaucrats or Wikimedia stewards can grant the bot flag necessary to operate an authorized bot, the simplest method is to appeal directly to these individuals.
ref:
2014, Pnina Fichman, Noriko Hara, editors, Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration, Rowman & Littlefield, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An official who is part of a bureaucracy.
A user on a wiki with the right to change user access levels.
senses_topics:
|
811 | word:
CIA
word_type:
name
expansion:
CIA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. .1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care personnel had important roles in enhanced interrogation.
ref:
2010 August 4, Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD, Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, “The Ethics of Enhanced Interrogations and Torture: A Reappraisal of the Argument”, in JAMA, volume 304, number 5, American Medical Association, →DOI, pages 569–570
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Central Intelligence Agency.
Initialism of Cleveland Institute of Art.
Initialism of Culinary Institute of America.
Initialism of Clark International Airport.
senses_topics:
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812 | word:
CIA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CIA (plural CIAs)
forms:
form:
CIAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Circuit Interactive Analyzer.
Initialism of Concept Illustration and Animation.
Initialism of Cultural Impact Assessment.
senses_topics:
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813 | word:
CIA
word_type:
adj
expansion:
CIA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of captured-in-action.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
814 | word:
absolve
word_type:
verb
expansion:
absolve (third-person singular simple present absolves, present participle absolving, simple past and past participle absolved)
forms:
form:
absolves
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
absolving
tags:
participle
present
form:
absolved
tags:
participle
past
form:
absolved
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in the early 15th century. From Middle English absolven, from Latin absolvere, present active infinitive of absolvō (“set free, acquit”), from ab (“away from”) + solvō (“loosen, free, release”). Doublet of assoil.
senses_examples:
text:
You will absolve a subject from his allegiance.
type:
example
text:
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
ref:
1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series
type:
quotation
text:
1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 331-332,
[…] he that can monsters tame, laboures atchive, riddles absolve […]
text:
To make confession and to be absolved.
ref:
1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 3, scene 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).
To resolve; to explain; to solve.
To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.
To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for.
To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to.
To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin.
To finish; to accomplish.
To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.
senses_topics:
law
lifestyle
religion
theology
lifestyle
religion
theology
|
815 | word:
cataphora
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cataphora (countable and uncountable, plural cataphoras)
forms:
form:
cataphoras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek καταφορά (kataphorá, “a downward motion”), from κατά (katá, “downwards”) + φέρω (phérō, “I carry”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The use of a pronoun, or other linguistic unit, before the noun phrase to which it refers, sometimes used for rhetorical effect.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
816 | word:
abide
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abide (third-person singular simple present abides, present participle abiding, simple past abode or abided or abid, past participle abode or abided or (rare) abidden)
forms:
form:
abides
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abiding
tags:
participle
present
form:
abode
tags:
past
form:
abided
tags:
past
form:
abid
tags:
past
form:
abode
tags:
participle
past
form:
abided
tags:
participle
past
form:
abidden
tags:
participle
past
rare
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abyden, from Old English ābīdan (“to abide, wait, remain, delay, remain behind; survive; wait for, await; expect”), from Proto-Germanic *uzbīdaną (“to expect, tolerate”), equivalent to a- + bide. Cognate with Scots abide (“to abide, remain”), Middle High German erbīten (“to await, expect”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽 (usbeidan, “to expect, await, have patience”). The sense of pay for is due to influence from aby.
senses_examples:
text:
The old oak tree abides the wind endlessly.
type:
example
text:
"I never could abide shoemakers," said an old servant,—and it ended in her marrying one.
type:
example
text:
We are vegetarian leaning, dislike smoking and alcohol, cannot abide drugs.
ref:
1978 December 2, “!HELP!! (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 19, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
By God sir. I will not abide another toe.
ref:
1998, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by The Big Lebowski (David Huddleston)
type:
quotation
text:
The new teacher was strict and the students did not want to abide by his rules.
type:
example
text:
The Dude abides.
ref:
1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Narrator (Sam Elliot)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To endure without yielding; to withstand.
To bear patiently.
To pay for; to stand the consequences of.
Used in a phrasal verb: abide by (“to accept and act in accordance with”).
To wait in expectation.
To pause; to delay.
To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
To have one's abode.
To endure; to remain; to last.
To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
senses_topics:
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817 | word:
encyclopedia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
encyclopedia (plural encyclopedias or encyclopediae or encyclopediæ)
forms:
form:
encyclopedias
tags:
plural
form:
encyclopediae
tags:
plural
form:
encyclopediæ
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Diderot
Encyclopédie
etymology_text:
From New Latin encyclopēdīa (“general education”), variant of encyclopaedīa, a univerbated form of Koine Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā, “education in the circle of arts and sciences”), from Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος (enkúklios, “circular”) + παιδείᾱ (paideíā, “childrearing; education”), q.v. Nearly all modern English use of the word influenced by the scope and format of Diderot & al.'s French Encyclopédie.
senses_examples:
text:
I only use the library for the encyclopedia, as we’ve got most other books here.
type:
example
text:
His life's work is a four-volume encyclopedia of aviation topics.
type:
example
text:
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia anyone can edit.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.
Similarly comprehensive works in other formats.
The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge.
senses_topics:
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818 | word:
taghairm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
taghairm (usually uncountable, plural taghairms)
forms:
form:
taghairms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Encyclopædia Britannica
Walter Scott
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic taghairm, from Old Irish togairm, from Proto-Celtic *to-garrman, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂r̥-smn̥, from *ǵeh₂r- (“to call, to shout”); compare Irish toghairm (“an invocation, a summons”), from gairm, gair (“to call; to invoke”), ultimately from the same Proto-Indo-European roots.
The Encyclopædia Britannica (3rd ed., 1797) suggests a derivation from Scottish Gaelic ta (“a ghost, a spirit”) + gairm (“to call, to cry”), while the editor of an 1871 edition of Sir Walter Scott’s The Lady of the Lake suggested tarbh (“a bull”) or targair (“to foretell”). These etymologies are no longer to be taken seriously.
senses_examples:
text:
There were different kinds of taghairm, of which one was very lately practiſed in Sky. The diviner covered himſelf with a cow's hide, and repaired at night to ſome deep-ſounding cave, whither the perſon who conſulted him followed ſoon after without any attendants. At the mouth of the cave he propoſed aloud the queſtions of which he wanted ſolutions; and the man within pronounced the reſponſes in a tone of voice ſimilar to that which the obs, or pretended dæmons of antiquity, gave from beneath the ground their oracular anſwers. That in the latter days of taghairm the Gaelic diviners pretended to evocate ghoſts, and from them to extort ſolutions of difficulties propoſed, we have no poſitive evidence; […]
ref:
1797, “NECROMANCY”, in Encyclopædia Britannica; or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature; [...] In Eighteen Volumes, 3rd greatly enlarged edition, volume XII, Edinburgh: Printed for A[ndrew] Bell and C[olin] Macfarquhar, →OCLC, page 787, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
A country where such traditions could pass current, and in which more unfortunate creatures, perhaps, passed to death through the torturing fire for the imaginary crime of witchcraft under laws framed and administered in the spirit of Moloch himself, then suffered on the same accursed account in any region of similar extent, was a soil well calculated to cherish the Taghairm and Second Sight. […] Those who slept on the skin of the sacrificial lamb at the temple of Amphiaraus, expectant of visions, were, in truth, trying the augury of the Taghairm; […]
ref:
1844 December, Gideon Shaddoe, “Recollections and Reflections of Gideon Shaddoe, Esq. No. VI.”, in [Thomas Hood], editor, Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany, volume II, number XII, London: Published for the proprietors, by H. Renshaw, 356. Strand; and sold by all booksellers, →OCLC, page 603
type:
quotation
text:
In the taghairm the seer was bound in an animal's hide and left by the waters, the spirits of which inspired his dreams[…]. The hide was probably that of a sacrificial animal.
ref:
1911, J[ohn] A[rnott] MacCulloch, “CELTS”, in James Hastings, editor, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, volumes III (Burial–Confessions), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: T. & T. Clark, →OCLC, page 300, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The last time the Taigheirm was performed in the Highlands, was in the island of Mull, in the beginning of the seventeenth century, and the place is still well known to the inhabitants. […] The institution was no doubt of pagan origin, and was a sacrifice offered to the Evil Spirit, in return for which the votaries were entitled to demand two boons. […] The sacrifice consisted of living cats roasted on a spit while life remained, and when the animal expired, another was put on in its place.
ref:
1824 March 13, “Traditions of the Western Highlands. No. II. The Taigheirm.”, in The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., number 373, London: Printed by B. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; published for the proprietors, at the Literary Gazette Office, Strand, →OCLC, page 172
type:
quotation
text:
According to Horst's Deuteroscopy, black cats were indispensable to the incantation ceremony of the Taigheirm, and these were dedicated to the subterranean gods, or, later, to the demons of Christianity. […] When the Taigheirm was complete, the sacrificer demanded of the spirits the reward of his offering, which consisted of various things; as riches, children, food, and clothing. The gift of second-sight, which they had not had before, was, however, the usual recompense; and they retained it to the day of their death.
ref:
1854, Joseph Ennemoser, “The Magic of the Ancient Germans and of the Northern Nations”, in William Howitt, transl., edited by Mary Howitt, The History of Magic. … To which is Added an Appendix of the Most Remarkable and Best Authenticated Stories of Apparitions, Dreams, Second Sight, Somnambulism, Predictions, Divination, Witchcraft, Vampires, Fairies, Table-turning, and Spirit-rapping. … In Two Volumes (Bohn's Scientific Library), volume II, London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, →OCLC, pages 104 and 105
type:
quotation
text:
Anthropology and National Psychology can tell us something about such things; we have heard of those horrible Taigheirms, when for days together Highland shepherds roasted living cats in front of a fire uninterruptedly, in order that, intoxicated with their frightful wailings, they might obtain the magic gift of 'second sight;' […]
ref:
1891, The Zoophilist and Animals' Defender, volume X, London: National Anti-Vivisection Society, →OCLC, page 93, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ancient divination method of the Highland Scots involving animal sacrifice.
A method of divination involving wrapping a person in the hide of a freshly-killed ox which was then placed beside a waterfall or other desolate place, to enable the person to foresee the outcome of an impending battle; the oracle of the hide.
An ancient divination method of the Highland Scots involving animal sacrifice.
A method of divination in which cats were roasted alive to call up the spirit of the demon cat who would grant the wishes of the torturers.
senses_topics:
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819 | word:
ability
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ability (countable and uncountable, plural abilities)
forms:
form:
abilities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in the 1300s. From Middle English abilite (“suitability, aptitude, ability”), from Old French ableté, from Latin habilitās (“aptness, ability”), from habilis (“apt, fit, skillful, able”); equivalent to able + -ity.
senses_examples:
text:
This phone has the ability to have its software upgraded wirelessly.
type:
example
text:
This wood has the ability to fight off insects, fungus, and mold for a considerable time.
type:
example
text:
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
ref:
2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
ref:
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
a mixed-ability class
type:
example
text:
They are persons of ability, who will go far in life.
type:
example
text:
She has an uncanny ability to defuse conflict.
type:
example
text:
The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability
ref:
1848, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II
type:
quotation
text:
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study -
ref:
1884, Francis Bacon, Of Studies
type:
quotation
text:
The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.
ref:
2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Suitableness.
The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power.
The legal wherewithal to act.
Physical power.
Financial ability.
A unique power of the mind; a faculty.
A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude.
senses_topics:
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820 | word:
comity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
comity (countable and uncountable, plural comities)
forms:
form:
comities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English comite (“association”), from Latin cōmitās.
senses_examples:
text:
There, I saw not only flare-ups of ethnic animosity, but the comity that was also possible among men of different backgrounds.
ref:
1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
Democrats took control of the House and Senate after 12 years of nearly unbroken Republican rule, with resolute calls for bipartisan comity and a pledge to move quickly on an agenda of health care, homeland security, education and energy proposals.
ref:
2007 January 5, Jonathan Weisman, “Democrats Take Control on Hill”, in The Washington Post
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Courtesy and considerate behaviour towards others; social harmony.
Friendly understanding and mutual recognition between two entities, especially nations.
senses_topics:
|
821 | word:
ttyl
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
ttyl
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of TTYL.
senses_topics:
|
822 | word:
abject
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abject (comparative abjecter or more abject, superlative abjectest or most abject)
forms:
form:
abjecter
tags:
comparative
form:
more abject
tags:
comparative
form:
abjectest
tags:
superlative
form:
most abject
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₂epó
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English abiect, abject (“expelled, outcast, rejected, wretched”, adjective) [and other forms], from Middle French abject (“worthy of utmost contempt or disgust, despicable, vile; of a person: brought low, cast down; of low social position”) (modern French abject, abjet (obsolete)), and from its etymon Latin abiectus (“abandoned; cast or thrown aside; dejected, downcast; ordinary, undistinguished, unimportant; (by extension) base, sordid; despicable, vile; humble, low; subservient”), an adjective use of the perfect passive participle of abiciō (“to discard, throw away or down; to cast or push away or aside; to abandon, give up; to belittle, degrade, humble; to lower, reduce; to overthrow, vanquish; to undervalue; to waste”), from ab- (prefix meaning ‘away; away from; from’) + iaciō (“to cast, hurl, throw, throw away”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw”)).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
cognates
* Italian abiecto (obsolete), abietto
* Late Latin abiectus (“humble or poor person”, noun)
* Spanish abjecto (obsolete), abyecto
senses_examples:
text:
Meanwhile, nearly fifty million dollars were also funnelled through mirror trades to the Khanani network, whose clients include associates of Hezbollah and the Taliban. Deutsche Bank’s reputation was abject even before the mirror-trades scandal broke.
ref:
2020 September 23, Ed Caesar, “The FinCEN Files Shed New Light on a Scandalous Episode at Deutsche Bank”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: New Yorker Magazine Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-03-16
type:
quotation
text:
abject failure abject nonsense abject terror
type:
example
text:
We shall not always plant while others reap / The golden increment of bursting fruit, / Not always countenance, abject and mute / That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; […]
ref:
1927, Countee Cullen, “From the Dark Tower”, in Copper Sun, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, part 1 (Color); republished in James Weldon Johnson, editor, The Book of American Negro Poetry […], revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931, →OCLC, page 228
type:
quotation
text:
The abject can easily be grafted onto the immigrant body, which is often conceived as something to be excluded in order to preserve a coherent yet racist national imaginary.
ref:
2007, Sean Brayton, “MTV's Jackass: Transgression, Abjection and the Economy of White Masculinity”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume 16, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
The disclosure of tolerance's hidden phobic lining fits in well with queer theory's embrace of the abject.
ref:
2009, W. C. Harris, Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture, SUNY Press, page 98
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.
Complete; downright; utter.
Lower than nearby areas; low-lying.
Of a person: cast down in hope or spirit; showing utter helplessness, hopelessness, or resignation; also, grovelling; ingratiating; servile.
Marginalized as deviant.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology |
823 | word:
abject
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abject (plural abjects)
forms:
form:
abjects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₂epó
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English abiect, abject (“expelled, outcast, rejected, wretched”, adjective) [and other forms], from Middle French abject (“worthy of utmost contempt or disgust, despicable, vile; of a person: brought low, cast down; of low social position”) (modern French abject, abjet (obsolete)), and from its etymon Latin abiectus (“abandoned; cast or thrown aside; dejected, downcast; ordinary, undistinguished, unimportant; (by extension) base, sordid; despicable, vile; humble, low; subservient”), an adjective use of the perfect passive participle of abiciō (“to discard, throw away or down; to cast or push away or aside; to abandon, give up; to belittle, degrade, humble; to lower, reduce; to overthrow, vanquish; to undervalue; to waste”), from ab- (prefix meaning ‘away; away from; from’) + iaciō (“to cast, hurl, throw, throw away”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw”)).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
cognates
* Italian abiecto (obsolete), abietto
* Late Latin abiectus (“humble or poor person”, noun)
* Spanish abjecto (obsolete), abyecto
senses_examples:
text:
Let us look then to the widely-severed ranks of an Asiatic empire.—There is first its wretched and vilified class, upon which the superincumbent structure of the social system presses so heavily as almost to crush existence; […] Shall these abjects—these victims—these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure?
ref:
1832, [Isaac Taylor], “The Third Heavens”, in Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC, page 414
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class.
senses_topics:
|
824 | word:
abject
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abject (third-person singular simple present abjects, present participle abjecting, simple past and past participle abjected)
forms:
form:
abjects
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abjecting
tags:
participle
present
form:
abjected
tags:
participle
past
form:
abjected
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English abjecten (“to cast out, expel”) [and other forms], from abiect, abject (adjective) (see etymology 1).
Sense 3 (“of a fungus: to give off (spores or sporidia)”) is modelled after German abschleudern (“to give off forcefully”).
senses_examples:
text:
Rather than abjecting her own fat body, the Ipecac-taking fat girl is abjecting diet culture.
ref:
2001, Le’a Kent, “Fighting Abjection: Representing Fat Women”, in Jana Evans Braziel, Kathleen LeBesco, editors, Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif., London: University of California Press, part I (Revaluing Corpulence, Redefining Fat Subjectivities), page 141
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cast off or out (someone or something); to reject, especially as contemptible or inferior.
To cast down (someone or something); to abase; to debase; to degrade; to lower; also, to forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon (someone); to subjugate.
Of a fungus: to (forcibly) give off (spores or sporidia).
senses_topics:
biology
mycology
natural-sciences |
825 | word:
subjectivism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
subjectivism (countable and uncountable, plural subjectivisms)
forms:
form:
subjectivisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
subjectivism
etymology_text:
From subjective + -ism.
senses_examples:
text:
Subjectivism takes as its allies the emotions, intuitive insight, imagination, humaneness, art, and a “higher” truth.
ref:
1980, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, chapter 25, in Metaphors We Live By
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The doctrine that reality is created or shaped by the mind.
The doctrine that knowledge is based in feelings or intuition.
The doctrine that values and moral principles come from attitudes, convention, whim, or preference.
senses_topics:
epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences |
826 | word:
subsidiarity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
subsidiarity (usually uncountable, plural subsidiarities)
forms:
form:
subsidiarities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin subsidiarius. By surface analysis, subsidiary + -ity.
senses_examples:
text:
According to the principle of subsidiarity, government should be as habitative as possible. Government functions must therefore be exercised at the most habitative level, as close as possible to those affected by the exercise of such functions.
ref:
2012, Koos Malan, Politocracy: An Assessment of the Coercive Logic of the Territorial State and Ideas Around a Response to it, page 282
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The principle that initiative (whether in government, business or religion) ought to reside at the lowest feasible level (i.e. at the local or regional level, instead of the national or supranational level, unless the latter presents clear advantages)
senses_topics:
|
827 | word:
transfinite
word_type:
adj
expansion:
transfinite (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Georg Cantor
etymology_text:
From German transfinit, coined by Georg Cantor, equivalent to trans- + finite.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Beyond finite.
Relating to transfinite numbers.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
828 | word:
transfinite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
transfinite (plural transfinites)
forms:
form:
transfinites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Georg Cantor
etymology_text:
From German transfinit, coined by Georg Cantor, equivalent to trans- + finite.
senses_examples:
text:
An interesting and perhaps essential formal model of this quality is to be found in Cantor's concepts of infinite sets and transfinite cardinals. The laws of ordinary, inductive mathematics do not apply to these, for the 'least part' of such transfinites are equal to the whole, and convey their infinite (i.e. world-like) quality.
ref:
1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transfinite number.
senses_topics:
|
829 | word:
PM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PM (countable and uncountable, plural PMs)
forms:
form:
PMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
‘We ought to have a P.M. report by ten o'clock, preliminary anyway.’
ref:
1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 321
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of post mortem.
Initialism of prime minister.
Initialism of private message.
Initialism of personal message.
Initialism of price match.
Initialism of project management.
Initialism of project manager.
Initialism of performance management.
Initialism of perfect match.
Initialism of product manager.
Initialism of place marker.
Initialism of permanent magnet.
Initialism of particulate matter.
Initialism of push money.
Initialism of portfolio manager.
Initialism of precious metal.
senses_topics:
business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
830 | word:
PM
word_type:
verb
expansion:
PM (third-person singular simple present PMs, present participle PMing, simple past and past participle PMed)
forms:
form:
PMs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
PMing
tags:
participle
present
form:
PMed
tags:
participle
past
form:
PMed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
PM me if you want more information.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To project manage.
To send a private message to (a participant in a chat room, etc.).
senses_topics:
|
831 | word:
PM
word_type:
adv
expansion:
PM (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Today the sun sets at 8:25 PM
type:
example
text:
The shops are open from 9AM to 5PM
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of p.m. (“after noon”)
senses_topics:
|
832 | word:
PM
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
PM
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of partially meet.
senses_topics:
|
833 | word:
abdominal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abdominal (comparative more abdominal, superlative most abdominal)
forms:
form:
more abdominal
tags:
comparative
form:
most abdominal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1746. From New Latin abdōminālis, from Latin abdōmen. Equivalent to abdomin- + -al. Compare French abdominal.
senses_examples:
text:
abdominal muscles
type:
example
text:
abdominal cavity
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral.
Having the ventral fins under the abdomen and behind the pectoral fins.
Ventral, in describing a fin.
Belonging to the order Abdominales of fish.
senses_topics:
biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
834 | word:
abdominal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abdominal (plural abdominals)
forms:
form:
abdominals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1746. From New Latin abdōminālis, from Latin abdōmen. Equivalent to abdomin- + -al. Compare French abdominal.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fish of the order Abdominales.
An abdominal muscle.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
|
835 | word:
absolver
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absolver (plural absolvers)
forms:
form:
absolvers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absolve + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] few men dislike the Lay-Excommunicators and Absolvers more than I do […]
ref:
1684, Richard Baxter, Whether Parish Congregations Be True Christian Churches, London: Thomas Parkhurst, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Agent noun of absolve; one who absolves.
senses_topics:
|
836 | word:
accessible
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accessible (comparative more accessible, superlative most accessible)
forms:
form:
more accessible
tags:
comparative
form:
most accessible
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1400, from French, from Late Latin accessibilis, from accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach”), equivalent to access + -ible.
senses_examples:
text:
an accessible town or mountain
type:
example
text:
At first sight it would seem that the deep interior of the sun and stars is less accessible to scientific investigation than any other region of the universe.
ref:
1926, A[rthur] [S]tanley Eddington, “Survey of the Problem”, in The Internal Constitution of the Stars, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
an accessible website
type:
example
text:
accessible public transport
type:
example
text:
As well as the boom in off-peak leisure numbers, "there has been a big spike in passenger assistance - that's really taken off as well", he continues. "We're probably victims of our own success because we promote this more than we ever used to. We promote how accessible the railways are. I think that this area has more than doubled from pre-COVID levels.
ref:
2023 November 1, Nick Brodrick talks to Jason Cocker, “A station that "oozes" customer service...”, in RAIL, number 995, pages 52-53
type:
quotation
text:
Minds accessible to reason.
ref:
1890, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of Herodotus
type:
quotation
text:
But something new was rippling through a million MySpace profiles. The sound was electro, and bass-laced synthetic dance pop would soon start streaming in from producers in Paris, dizzying the twenteens of Britain with its accessible, anthemic funk.
ref:
2015, Rose Bretécher, Pure
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Easy of access or approach.
Built or designed as to be usable by people with disabilities.
Easy to get along with.
Open to the influence of.
Obtainable; to be got at.
Easily understood or appreciated.
Capable of being used or seen.
senses_topics:
art
arts
literature
media
publishing
|
837 | word:
accurate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accurate (comparative more accurate, superlative most accurate)
forms:
form:
more accurate
tags:
comparative
form:
most accurate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in the 1610's with the obsolete sense "done with care", and from the 1650's with the sense "precise, exact".
* From Latin accūrātus (“done with care”), perfect past participle of accūrō (“take care of”); from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + cūrō (“take care”), from cūra (“care”).
* Compare cure.
senses_examples:
text:
an accurate calculator
type:
example
text:
an accurate measure
type:
example
text:
accurate knowledge
type:
example
text:
My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate.
type:
example
text:
for that is the fume of those, that conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below, than indeed they have
ref:
1625, Bacon, Of the Vicissitude of Things
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty
Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
senses_topics:
|
838 | word:
JUL
word_type:
name
expansion:
JUL
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Jul.; Abbreviation of July.
senses_topics:
|
839 | word:
craft
word_type:
noun
expansion:
craft (countable and uncountable, plural craft or crafts)
forms:
form:
craft
tags:
plural
form:
crafts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
craft (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure.
Cognate with German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”).
senses_examples:
text:
By the craft of nature.
ref:
1526, William Bonde, Pylgrimage of Perfection
type:
quotation
text:
The Cyclôpes were Brontês, Steropês, and Argês,—formidable persons, equally distinguished for strength and for manual craft […]
ref:
1846, George Grote, A history of Greece
type:
quotation
text:
England should have had enough against a very ordinary Russia to complete the job but Rooney's removal robbed them of his craft and guidance and now increases the pressure on Thursday's meeting with Wales in Lens.
ref:
2016 June 11, Phil McNulty, “England 1-1 Russia”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
[Canton] has a large export trade in hand-made crafts, ivory and furniture.
ref:
1911 January 24, Timberman
type:
quotation
text:
For your entente I shall a craft devise […] That ye shall haue your purpose euery dele.
ref:
c. 1440, Generydes. A royal historie of the excellent knight Generides
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Þe seuen craftes all he can […]
ref:
a. 1325, Cursor Mundi, page 272
type:
quotation
text:
A poem […] is the work of the poet; the end and fruit of his labour and study. Poesy is his skill or craft of making; the very fiction itself, the reason or form of the work.
ref:
1640, Ben Jonson, Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter, page 213
type:
quotation
text:
It is counted […] good workmanship in a Joyner, to have the craft of bearing his hand so curiously even, the whole length of a long Board.
ref:
1678, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises, or The doctrine of handy-works
type:
quotation
text:
The craft of writing plays.
type:
example
text:
[…] For since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, / Has the craft of the smith been held in repute by the people.
ref:
1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, page 281
type:
quotation
text:
Fond as William was of the craft of the woods, he was the least likely of all men to let his sport stand in the way of his interest.
ref:
1871, Edward Augustus Freeman, The history of the Norman conquest, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
The great preachers were masters of their craft.
ref:
1991, James Munson, The Nonconformists: In Search of a Lost Culture, page 113
type:
quotation
text:
This was billed as the battle between Kane and his Poland opposite number Lewandowski but this was a game where it was possible to simply enjoy two masters of their craft at work.
ref:
2021 September 8, Phil McNulty, “Poland 1-1 England”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The carpenter's craft.
type:
example
text:
He learned his craft as an apprentice.
type:
example
text:
She represented the craft of brewers.
type:
example
text:
Quite near could also be seen several ancient wooden warships, and always a variety of craft slipping up and down the tideway.
ref:
1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 705
type:
quotation
text:
And whereas the continual Interruption of the Courſe and Paſſage of the Fiſh up the Rivers, by the daily drawing of Seins and other Fiſh-Craft, tends to prevent their Increaſe,[…]
ref:
a. 1784, T. Green, “An Act for encouraging and regulating Fiſheries”, in Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut, in America, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
The whaling craft consists of harpoons, lances, lines, and sealskin buoys, all of their own workmanship.
ref:
1869 April 27, C. M. Scammon, “On the Cetaceans of the Western Coast of North America”, in Edward D. Cope, editor, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, volume 21, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
From the mate’s boat they removed, at his direction, all whaling gear and craft except the oars and a single lance.
ref:
a. 1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, “A Boy Who Went Whaling”, in The Highest Hit: and Other Selections by Newbery Authors, Gareth Stevens Publishing, published 2001, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
[…]Temple, a negro of New Bedford, who made ‘whalecraft’, that is, was a blacksmith engaged in working from iron the special utensils or ‘craft’ of the whaling trade.
ref:
1950, Discovery Reports, volume 26, Cambridge University Press, page 318
type:
quotation
text:
The men raced about decks collecting the whaling craft and gear and putting them into the boats, while all the time the lookouts hollered from above.
ref:
1991, Joan Druett, Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820–1920, University Press of New England, published 2001, page 55
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Strength; power; might; force .
Intellectual power; skill; art.
Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .
Intellectual power; skill; art.
Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .
Intellectual power; skill; art.
Occult art, magic .
A work or product of art .
A work or product of art .
Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts .
A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .
Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .
Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .
A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .
A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges.
A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
A woman.
Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .
senses_topics:
arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle |
840 | word:
craft
word_type:
verb
expansion:
craft (third-person singular simple present crafts, present participle crafting, simple past and past participle crafted)
forms:
form:
crafts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
crafting
tags:
participle
present
form:
crafted
tags:
participle
past
form:
crafted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure.
Cognate with German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”).
senses_examples:
text:
state crafting; the process of crafting global policing
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make by hand and with much skill.
To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).
To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.
senses_topics:
video-games |
841 | word:
FBI
word_type:
name
expansion:
FBI
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Federation of British Industry (1916–1965), forerunner of CBI (Confederation of British Industry).
fire behaviour index
senses_topics:
climatology
firefighting
government
meteorology
natural-sciences
weather |
842 | word:
FBI
word_type:
noun
expansion:
FBI
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Groups of Heterosexuals gather in Daytona Beach to tan their normally pale skin, eat fried shrimp, and buy novelty T-shirts that say things like Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee! and FBI: Female Body Inspector.
ref:
2013, Jeffery Self, Straight People: A Spotter's Guide to the Fascinating World of Heterosexuals, Running Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fixed-bit index.
Female body inspector.
senses_topics:
|
843 | word:
sub rosa
word_type:
adv
expansion:
sub rosa (comparative more sub rosa, superlative most sub rosa)
forms:
form:
more sub rosa
tags:
comparative
form:
most sub rosa
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Aphrodite
Eros
Harpocrates
Louis-Philippe Mouchy
etymology_text:
PIE word
*upó
The adverb and adjective are an unadapted borrowing from Late Latin sub rosā (literally “under the rose”), from Latin sub (“beneath, under”) + rosa (“rose”) (possibly from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *wardah (“flower; rose”) and Proto-Indo-European *Hwerdʰ-, possibly a metathesis of *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow; to rise”)). The reason for the reference to a rose is uncertain, though it has been suggested that it derives from the Ancient Greek myth that Aphrodite (the goddess of love) gave a rose to her son Eros (the god of love and sex), who in turn gave it to Harpocrates (the god of silence, confidentiality, and secrets) to ensure that Aphrodite’s sexual indiscretions were not revealed. Roses thus became a symbol of secrecy—they were, for example, used at meetings to pledge the participants not to disclose what had been discussed. Compare under the rose which is attested earlier.
The noun is derived from the adverb and adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
They held the meeting sub rosa.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Covertly or in secret; confidentially, privately, secretly.
senses_topics:
|
844 | word:
sub rosa
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sub rosa (comparative more sub rosa, superlative most sub rosa)
forms:
form:
more sub rosa
tags:
comparative
form:
most sub rosa
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Aphrodite
Eros
Harpocrates
Louis-Philippe Mouchy
etymology_text:
PIE word
*upó
The adverb and adjective are an unadapted borrowing from Late Latin sub rosā (literally “under the rose”), from Latin sub (“beneath, under”) + rosa (“rose”) (possibly from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *wardah (“flower; rose”) and Proto-Indo-European *Hwerdʰ-, possibly a metathesis of *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow; to rise”)). The reason for the reference to a rose is uncertain, though it has been suggested that it derives from the Ancient Greek myth that Aphrodite (the goddess of love) gave a rose to her son Eros (the god of love and sex), who in turn gave it to Harpocrates (the god of silence, confidentiality, and secrets) to ensure that Aphrodite’s sexual indiscretions were not revealed. Roses thus became a symbol of secrecy—they were, for example, used at meetings to pledge the participants not to disclose what had been discussed. Compare under the rose which is attested earlier.
The noun is derived from the adverb and adjective.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Carried out confidentially or secretly.
Not formally stated; implicit, tacit, unspoken.
senses_topics:
|
845 | word:
sub rosa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sub rosa (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Aphrodite
Eros
Harpocrates
Louis-Philippe Mouchy
etymology_text:
PIE word
*upó
The adverb and adjective are an unadapted borrowing from Late Latin sub rosā (literally “under the rose”), from Latin sub (“beneath, under”) + rosa (“rose”) (possibly from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *wardah (“flower; rose”) and Proto-Indo-European *Hwerdʰ-, possibly a metathesis of *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow; to rise”)). The reason for the reference to a rose is uncertain, though it has been suggested that it derives from the Ancient Greek myth that Aphrodite (the goddess of love) gave a rose to her son Eros (the god of love and sex), who in turn gave it to Harpocrates (the god of silence, confidentiality, and secrets) to ensure that Aphrodite’s sexual indiscretions were not revealed. Roses thus became a symbol of secrecy—they were, for example, used at meetings to pledge the participants not to disclose what had been discussed. Compare under the rose which is attested earlier.
The noun is derived from the adverb and adjective.
senses_examples:
text:
Questions about Esparza's surveillance practices were exacerbated by an incident in December 2003, in which another subject of a sub-rosa complained of being followed by Esparza wielding a video camera.
ref:
2006 March 23, Daniel Blackburn, “Fraud Busters”, in New Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Covert surveillance video used as evidence against applicants for workers' compensation to show they are not in fact (seriously) injured.
senses_topics:
law |
846 | word:
KGB
word_type:
name
expansion:
the KGB
forms:
form:
the KGB
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Russian КГБ (KGB), acronym of Комите́т госуда́рственной безопа́сности (Komitét gosudárstvennoj bezopásnosti, “State Security Committee”).
senses_examples:
text:
President Putin's KGB roots have sadly informed a style of governance that is neither reformist nor particularly democratic. The common thread throughout his domestic and foreign policies is his effort to trade on fear -- the fears of Russians that their country is under attack from hostile external forces (Chechens, NATO or free marketeers); and the fears of Westerners that if not for a strong, pragmatic leader, Russia will again become unruly, unstable and potentially aggressive.
ref:
2001 January 4, Garry Kasparov, “The Russian President Trades on Fear”, in The Wall Street Journal, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-01-09, International
type:
quotation
text:
But in 1967 Treholt's trenchant opposition to the Vietnam War attracted the attention of the KGB.
ref:
2019 [2018], Ben Macintyre, chapter 4, in The Spy and the Traitor, Penguin Books, page 75
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union (the Soviet security service).
The security service of Belarus.
senses_topics:
|
847 | word:
KGB
word_type:
noun
expansion:
KGB (plural KGBs)
forms:
form:
KGBs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of known good board.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
848 | word:
EFTA
word_type:
name
expansion:
EFTA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of European Free Trade Association.
senses_topics:
|
849 | word:
peccaminous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
peccaminous (comparative more peccaminous, superlative most peccaminous)
forms:
form:
more peccaminous
tags:
comparative
form:
most peccaminous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin peccāmen (“sin”), from Latin peccō (“to sin”), from Proto-Indo-European root *pik- (“to be angry”).
senses_examples:
text:
a volume of peccaminous pornographical tendency entitled Sweets of Sin.
ref:
1918, James Joyce, Ulysses
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sinful
senses_topics:
|
850 | word:
BCE
word_type:
adv
expansion:
BCE (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Socrates was tried and executed in the year 399 BCE.
type:
example
text:
We now know that circa 1600 BCE, the angara were created and seeded across Heleus by the Jardaan. Records of this process are less substantial than ancient angaran history, but it was apparently in service of a grand experiment.
ref:
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara: History Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
The earliest reliable accounts of Chinese eclipses come from Spring and Autumn Annals (Ch’un-ch’iu), recording eclipses from 772 to 481 BCE, including a total solar eclipse in 709 BCE.
ref:
2017, Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak, “Ancient Efforts to Understand”, in Totality: The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024, Oxford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Before Common Era (Before the Common Era, before Common Era, before the Common Era), Before Current Era (Before the Current Era, before current era, before the current era), or before Christian Era.
senses_topics:
chronology
hobbies
horology
lifestyle |
851 | word:
fable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fable (plural fables)
forms:
form:
fables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fable
etymology_text:
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin fābula, from fārī (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. Doublet of fabula.
senses_examples:
text:
For the moral (as Bossu observes,) is the first business of the poet, as being the groundwork of his instruction. This being formed, he contrives such a design, or fable, as may be most suitable to the moral;
ref:
1695, John Dryden, A Parallel betwixt Painting and Poetry
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
senses_topics:
|
852 | word:
fable
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fable (third-person singular simple present fables, present participle fabling, simple past and past participle fabled)
forms:
form:
fables
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fabling
tags:
participle
present
form:
fabled
tags:
participle
past
form:
fabled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
fable
etymology_text:
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin fābula, from fārī (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. Doublet of fabula.
senses_examples:
text:
1852, Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, Act II, in Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, p. 50,
He fables, yet speaks truth.
text:
THE Poets Fable, That Apollo being enamoured of Caſſandra, was by her many ſhifts and cunning ſlights ſtill deluded in his Deſire […]
ref:
1691, “Cassandra, or, Divination”, in Arthur Gorges, transl., The Wisdom of the Ancients, London, translation of [De Sapientia Veterum] by Francis Bacon, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
senses_topics:
|
853 | word:
RTFM
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
RTFM
forms:
wikipedia:
RTFM
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of read the fucking manual.
Initialism of read the fucking man page.
senses_topics:
|
854 | word:
mondegreen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mondegreen (plural mondegreens)
forms:
form:
mondegreens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Harper's Magazine
etymology_text:
Coined by American journalist and editor Sylvia Wright in 1954 in Harper's Magazine from mishearing a line in the Scottish ballad The Bonnie Earl o' Moray: “They have slain the Earl o' Moray, / And laid him on the green”, the second line being misheard as, “And Lady Mondegreen”.
senses_examples:
text:
The title lyric ["Bei Mir Bistu Shein"], the only part of the original Yiddish preserved by Cahn, was a mondegreen waiting to happen—“My Mere Bits of Shame” and “My Beer, Mr. Shane” were among the earliest recorded mishearings—but the language barrier didn't […]
ref:
2012, Gary Rosen, Unfair to Genius: The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein, Oxford University Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A form of (possibly intentional) error arising from mishearing a spoken or sung phrase, possibly in a different language.
A misunderstanding of a written or spoken phrase as a result of multiple definitions.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
855 | word:
CE
word_type:
name
expansion:
CE
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
1066 CE.
text:
Elasar ben Kalir's birthplace is unknown, and the dates given for his birth range from 800 to 1000 C.E.
ref:
1901, Nina Davis, Songs of Exile, by Hebrew Poets, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Common Era, Current Era or Christian Era. Equivalent of AD. Like other era initialisms, often written in small caps.
Initialism of Church of England.. More commonly, C of E. Used in the names of church schools in England.
Initialism of Canadian English. (also sometimes colloquially called "Canadian" or even "Canajan")
Abbreviation of Ceará (“a state of Brazil”).
Initialism of Common Entrance.
senses_topics:
education |
856 | word:
CE
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CE (plural CEs)
forms:
form:
CEs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of civil engineer.
Initialism of computer engineer.
Initialism of close encounter.
Initialism of capillary electrophoresis.
senses_topics:
|
857 | word:
millennium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
millennium (plural millennia or millenniums)
forms:
form:
millennia
tags:
plural
form:
millenniums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin mīllennium, from Latin mīllennis (“1000-year”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”).
senses_examples:
text:
But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.
ref:
1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
The first known man-made tools, including spear points and axes, were associated with a hunting and gathering pattern that lasted, according to anthropologists, almost 200 millennia.
ref:
2013, Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
Magnolias are some of the most primitive of our flowering trees, and fossils dating back millennia prove that they have had little need to evolve.
ref:
2013 March 24, Dan Pearson, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
After the purifying judgments which attended the personal return of Christ to the Earth, He will reign over restored Israel and over the earth for one thousand years. This is the period commonly called the Millennium. The seat of His power will be Jerusalem, and the saints, including the saved of the Dispensation of Grace, viz., the Church, will be associated with Him in His glory.
ref:
1888, C. I. Scofield, “The Seven Dispensations”, in Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth (2 Tim. 2:15): Ten Outline Studies of The More Important Divisions of Scripture, Second edition (Religion), Philadelphia, Penn.: Philadelphia School of the Bible, published 1923, →OCLC, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
An archangel ecstatically proclaiming the Millennium, and then finding that it clashed unpardonably with Henley and would have to be indefinitely postponed, could hardly have felt more crestfallen than Cornelius Appin at the reception of his wonderful achievement.
ref:
1911, Saki, “Tobermory”, in The Chronicles of Clovis
type:
quotation
text:
the end of the world would be heralded by a series of spectacular and symbolic events […]. According to most commentators, this millennium had already begun.
ref:
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
Conrad's later years unfolded in the shadow of the coming Millennium, when the end of the world was forecast.
ref:
2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
A huge fireworks display was put on in Sydney to celebrate the millennium.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.
senses_topics:
Christianity
|
858 | word:
obfuscate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
obfuscate (third-person singular simple present obfuscates, present participle obfuscating, simple past and past participle obfuscated)
forms:
form:
obfuscates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
obfuscating
tags:
participle
present
form:
obfuscated
tags:
participle
past
form:
obfuscated
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
obfuscate
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French obfusquer, from Old French offusquer, and the participle stem of Late Latin obfuscō, from Latin ob- + fuscō (“to darken”).
senses_examples:
text:
obfuscate facts
type:
example
text:
Can weakness be really obfuscated?
type:
example
text:
Before leaving the scene, the murderer set a fire in order to obfuscate any evidence of his identity.
type:
example
text:
When asked if Kelly could have been more transparent or truthful, that official wrote: “In this White House, it’s simply not in our DNA. Truthful and transparent is great, but we don’t even have a coherent strategy to obfuscate.”
ref:
2018 February 13, Anonymous White House Official, “White House reels as FBI director contradicts official claims about alleged abuser”, in Washington Post
type:
quotation
text:
We need to obfuscate these classes before we ship the final release.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make dark; to overshadow.
To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth.
To alter code while preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
859 | word:
obfuscate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
obfuscate (comparative more obfuscate, superlative most obfuscate)
forms:
form:
more obfuscate
tags:
comparative
form:
most obfuscate
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French obfusquer, from Old French offusquer, and the participle stem of Late Latin obfuscō, from Latin ob- + fuscō (“to darken”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.
senses_topics:
|
860 | word:
Carborundum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Carborundum (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of carborundum
senses_topics:
|
861 | word:
polytheism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polytheism (countable and uncountable, plural polytheisms)
forms:
form:
polytheisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French polythéisme, from Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”) and θεός (theós, “god”), corresponding to poly- + theism.
senses_examples:
text:
And remember when Lokmân said unto his son, as he admonished him, Oh my son, give not a partner unto GOD; for polytheism is a great impiety.
ref:
1734, George Sale, transl., Alcoran of Mohammed
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The belief in the existence of multiple gods.
senses_topics:
|
862 | word:
accordionist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accordionist (plural accordionists)
forms:
form:
accordionists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accordion + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who plays the accordion.
senses_topics:
|
863 | word:
noli illegitimi carborundum
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
noli illegitimi carborundum
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Humorous pseudo-Latinism, from noli (“do not permit”) [singular] and illegitimi (“bastards”) [in the wrong grammatical case] and from the Latinate brand name Carborundum for a silicon carbide abrasive.
The phrase is similar to the real Latin phrase nil desperandum (“do not despair”, literally “nothing to be despaired of”), which would be known to many English speakers. The -rundum ending of carborundum recalls the word desperandum, although such a gerundive suffix makes no sense for this phrase.
This form of the saying was popularized in English by the US general "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell during World War II, reputed to have been taught it by British army intelligence. It later became the motto for the 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater, who displayed it as a sign in his senatorial office. The plural form nolite te bastardes carborundum was popularized by Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale and its subsequent TV adaptation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Don't let the bastards grind you down
senses_topics:
|
864 | word:
absorber
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absorber (plural absorbers)
forms:
form:
absorbers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
absorber
etymology_text:
From absorb + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] these Symptoms are only curred, by such Medicines as correct the Acidity and Acrimony of the Blood, viz. When it most partakes of Acrimony by sweet diaphoretick Decoctions, or some sort of Acids, which dull and take off their corroding Edges, or when they are more Acid, by volatile Salts that carry them off by Sweat or Urine; or by Acid Absorbers, which by correcting the Acidities of the Pancreatick Juice, leave the Ferment of the Liver more predominant […]
ref:
1698, Richard Boulton, A Treatise Concerning the Heat of the Blood and Also of the Use of the Lungs, London: A. & J. Churchill, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
1756, Thomas Amory, The Life of John Buncle, Esq., London: J. Noon, Chapter 36 “Remarks on the delluge,” p. ,
The swallows especially must do great work in the case, if we take into their number not only very many open gulphs or chasms, the depth of which no line or sound can reach; but likewise the communications of very many parts of the sea, and of many great unfathomable lochs, with the abyss. These absorbers could easily receive what had before come out of them.
text:
Which can be ignited the more easily with a burning-glass, black or white paper?
Black paper, since it is a much better absorber of heat.
ref:
c. 1869, Joel Dorman Steele, Answers to the Practical Questions and Problems contained in the Fourteen Weeks Courses in Physiology, Philosophy, Astronomy, and Chemistry, New York: A.S. Barnes, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
Old Lady Dacier’s bluntness in speaking of her grandson would have shocked Lady Wathin as much as it astonished, had she been less of an ardent absorber of aristocratic manners.
ref:
1885, George Meredith, chapter 12, in Diana of the Crossways, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, pages 272–273
type:
quotation
text:
[…] since few wanted mosaics any more he had turned to fresco, becoming the greatest absorber and eclectic in Italy. He had learned everything that the earlier fresco painters, from the time of Cimabue, had to teach.
ref:
1958, Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book One, Chapter 5, p. 23
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Walter D. (“Walt”) DeLasandro Jr. had been able to bill her parents $130 an hour plus expenses for being put in the middle and playing the role of mediator and absorber of shit from both sides while she (i.e., the depressed person, as a child) had had to perform essentially the same coprophagous services on a more or less daily basis for free […]
ref:
1999, David Foster Wallace, “The Depressed Person”, in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, New York: Back Bay Books, page 47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that absorbs.
A device which causes gas or vapor to be absorbed by a liquid.
Something that absorbs.
A material that absorbs neutrons in a reactor.
Something that absorbs.
A person who absorbs.
senses_topics:
|
865 | word:
hundo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hundo (plural hundos)
forms:
form:
hundos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hundred + -o.
senses_examples:
text:
“Can you hit a hundo?” Dad said, grinning. ¶ “I don't know,” Eddie said. “Seems like a bad idea.”
ref:
2013, Eric Stevens, The Classic: ’69 Chevy Camaro, Minneapolis: Darby Creek Publishing, page 51
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hundred.
senses_topics:
|
866 | word:
prolix
word_type:
adj
expansion:
prolix (comparative more prolix, superlative most prolix)
forms:
form:
more prolix
tags:
comparative
form:
most prolix
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French prolixe, from Latin prōlixus (“stretched out; courteous, favorable”).
senses_examples:
text:
People who have blamed [Jean Charles Léonard de] Sismondi as unnecessarily prolix cannot have considered the crowd of details presented by the history of Italy.
ref:
1843, G. C. Leonardo Sismondi., “Bossi—Necrologia”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 72, number 144, page 333
type:
quotation
text:
Traditional narratives he found too prolix and discursive. "There's always 14 pages describing a lawn that you skip over," he says.
ref:
1992 September 13, William Grimes, “The Ridiculous Vision of Mark Leyner”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Prolix! Prolix! / Nothing a pair of scissors can't fix!
ref:
2008, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis (lyrics and music), “We Call Upon The Author”, in Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tediously lengthy; dwelling on trivial details.
Long; having great length.
senses_topics:
|
867 | word:
able
word_type:
adj
expansion:
able (comparative abler, superlative ablest)
forms:
form:
abler
tags:
comparative
form:
ablest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
able
etymology_text:
From Middle English able, from Old Northern French able, variant of Old French abile, habile, from Latin habilis (“easily managed, held, or handled; apt; skillful”), from habeō (“have, possess”) + -ibilis.
Broadly ousted the native Old English magan.
senses_examples:
text:
I’ll see you as soon as I’m able.
type:
example
text:
With that obstacle removed, I am now able to proceed with my plan.
type:
example
text:
I’m only able to visit you when I have other work here.
type:
example
text:
That cliff is able to be climbed.
type:
example
text:
The chairman was also an able sailor.
type:
example
text:
He is able to practice law in six states.
type:
example
text:
After the past week of forced marches, only half the men are fully able.
type:
example
text:
As the hands are the most habil parts of the body...
ref:
1710, Thomas Betterton, The life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the late eminent tragedian.
type:
quotation
text:
[…] and for every able man servant that he or she shall carry or send armed and provided as aforesaid, ninety acres of land of like measure.
ref:
2006, Jon L. Wakelyn, America's Founding Charters: Primary Documents of Colonial and Revolutionary Era Governance, volume 1, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 212
type:
quotation
text:
He was born to an able family.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.
Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.
Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.
Legally qualified or competent.
Capable of performing all the requisite duties; as an able seaman.
Having the physical strength; robust; healthy.
Easy to use.
Suitable; competent.
Liable to.
Rich; well-to-do.
senses_topics:
law
nautical
transport
|
868 | word:
able
word_type:
verb
expansion:
able (third-person singular simple present ables, present participle abling, simple past and past participle abled)
forms:
form:
ables
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abling
tags:
participle
present
form:
abled
tags:
participle
past
form:
abled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
able
etymology_text:
From Middle English ablen, from Middle English able (adjective).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make ready.
To make capable; to enable.
To dress.
To give power to; to reinforce; to confirm.
To vouch for; to guarantee.
senses_topics:
|
869 | word:
able
word_type:
noun
expansion:
able (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
able
etymology_text:
From the first letter of the word. Suggested in the 1916 United States Army Signal Book to distinguish the letter when communicating via telephone, and later adopted in other radio and telephone signal standards.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The letter "A" in Navy Phonetic Alphabet.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
870 | word:
dies
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dies
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of die
senses_topics:
|
871 | word:
dies
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dies
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of die (when used in the sense of a pattern / of obsolete spelling of dye)
senses_topics:
|
872 | word:
synonym
word_type:
noun
expansion:
synonym (plural synonyms)
forms:
form:
synonyms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
synonym
etymology_text:
From Middle English sinonyme, from Latin synōnymum, from Ancient Greek συνώνυμον (sunṓnumon), neuter singular form of συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos, “synonymous”), from σύν (sún, “with”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”). By surface analysis, syn- + -onym.
senses_examples:
text:
“Happy” is a synonym of “glad”.
type:
example
text:
The proportion of English words that have an exact synonym is small.
ref:
1991, William T. Parry, Edward A. Hacker, Aristotelian Logic
type:
quotation
text:
Synonyms are part of the SQL standard and are used frequently by Oracle DBAs. Note that Oracle includes both private and public synonyms.
ref:
2011, Paul Nielsen, Uttam Parui, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Bible
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word or term whose meaning is the same as that of another.
A word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase.
Any of the formal names for a taxon, including the valid name (i.e. the senior synonym).
Any name for a taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.
An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
botany
natural-sciences
taxonomy
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
873 | word:
Thanatos
word_type:
name
expansion:
Thanatos
forms:
wikipedia:
Thanatos
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Θάνατος (Thánatos).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The god of death (specifically of a peaceful death), and twin brother of Hypnos (god of sleep); the Greek counterpart of Mors.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences |
874 | word:
Thanatos
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Thanatos (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Civilization and Its Discontents
Paul Federn
Sigmund Freud
Thanatos
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Θάνατος (Thánatos).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences |
875 | word:
tetrachromat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tetrachromat (plural tetrachromats)
forms:
form:
tetrachromats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From tetra- + chromatic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who is capable of identifying four primary colors; one whose vision exhibits tetrachromacy.
senses_topics:
|
876 | word:
interwiki
word_type:
adj
expansion:
interwiki (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From inter- + wiki.
senses_examples:
text:
interwiki link ― a link from one wiki to a page on another wiki
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Between wikis.
senses_topics:
|
877 | word:
interwiki
word_type:
noun
expansion:
interwiki (plural interwikis)
forms:
form:
interwikis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From inter- + wiki.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An interwiki link.
senses_topics:
|
878 | word:
interwiki
word_type:
verb
expansion:
interwiki (third-person singular simple present interwikis, present participle interwikiing, simple past and past participle interwikied)
forms:
form:
interwikis
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
interwikiing
tags:
participle
present
form:
interwikied
tags:
participle
past
form:
interwikied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From inter- + wiki.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: transwiki
text:
Any page, not just articles, can be interwikied.
ref:
2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, page 415
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To create interwiki links (hyperlinks between wikis).
senses_topics:
|
879 | word:
BTW
word_type:
prep_phrase
expansion:
BTW
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Last I heard, the books could not be copied in any part nor seen by non-licensees. BTW – Irma Biren has been promoted (she deserved it) and the new contact would be Francine Glick.
ref:
1981 June 14, harpo!ber, “Lion's Book”, in fa.unix-wizards (Usenet), retrieved 2016-07-02, message-ID <anews.Aharpo.261>
type:
quotation
text:
BTW – By The Way
ref:
1989 May 8, Vince Perriello (Editor in Chief), “Volume 6, Number 19”, in FidoNews, archived from the original on 2005-01-18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of by the way.
senses_topics:
|
880 | word:
abbreviation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abbreviation (countable and uncountable, plural abbreviations)
forms:
form:
abbreviation
tags:
canonical
form:
of
tags:
canonical
form:
abbreviations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abbreviation
etymology_text:
First attested 1400–50. From Middle English abbreviacioun, from Middle French abreviation, from Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātiō, from Latin ad + breviō (“shorten”), from brevis (“short”). By surface analysis, abbreviate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
Hants is an abbreviation of Hampshire.
type:
example
text:
1946-1947, President Truman's committee on Civil Rights
The phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
The process of abbreviating.
A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
biology
natural-sciences
mathematics
sciences |
881 | word:
yo-ho-ho
word_type:
intj
expansion:
yo-ho-ho
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The term was popularized by a (fictional) pirate shanty in the novel Treasure Island (1883) by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) – see the quotation – but appears in earlier songs of sailors. The term is possibly a variant of yo-he-ho, apparently a short form of yo-heave-ho (“a repetitive call made to synchronize workers performing some collective physical labour, such as hauling on a rope”).
senses_examples:
text:
How happy, my comrades, how happy are we, / While drawing fish from the dark rolling sea, / While drawing fish from the dark rolling sea. / Yo ho, yo ho, yo ho, ho, ho!]
ref:
[1852, William B[atchelder] Bradbury, “The Fisherman”, in The Alpine Glee Singer: A Complete Collection of Secular and Social Music, […], New York, N.Y.: Newman & Ivison, […], →OCLC, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
We're rolling along, rolling along, / As over the sea we go, / As over the sea we go, / And our anchor we heave, while we're singing our song. / Sing yo! ho! cheery men, ho! / Sing yo! cheery men, ho!]
ref:
[1876, W. O. Perkins, “Sailor’s Chorus”, in The Male Voice Glee Book, for Colleges, Men’s Vocal Clubs, and the Social Circle; […], Boston, Mass.: Oliver Ditson & Company, […], →OCLC, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
Where the Ships sail down / To the Western Sun / Alone in the Ocean Blue, / Yo ho ho! Yo ho ho! / Yo ho ho! Yo ho ho!
ref:
1914, Werner Mathews, “Sailor’s Song. (Invitation to the Sea).”, in Adolescence: Being Selections from Occasional Poems and Meditations Illustrating that of the Author, Cambridge: At the press of the Cambridge Review; Fabb & Tyler, Limited, →OCLC, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
'With a yo ho ho and we'll raise the flag, / We've lots of cake in a paper bag. / We've six watermelons and pizza too. / It's a pirate's life for me and you!' / The sound of singing—well, something like singing, anyway—floated up from the creek.
ref:
2004, Jackie French, “My Mum the Pirate”, in One Big Wacky Family, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson
type:
quotation
text:
When Asha threw the hair clip, the pirates jumped like flying fish to grab it. Pirate Joe leaped the highest and caught it. "Yo ho ho! It's mine!" he said.
ref:
2016, Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain, edited by Catherine Coe, Yo Ho Ho! (Rising Stars Reading Planet), London: Rising Stars UK, Hodder Education Group, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cry associated with pirates and seafaring, originally a repetitive chant intended to synchronize workers performing some collective physical labour, such as hauling on a rope.
senses_topics:
|
882 | word:
ISBN
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ISBN (plural ISBNs)
forms:
form:
ISBNs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of International Standard Book Number.
senses_topics:
|
883 | word:
queef
word_type:
noun
expansion:
queef (plural queefs)
forms:
form:
queefs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
vaginal flatulence
etymology_text:
A variant of Scottish and northern English quiff (“a puff of wind”), of onomatopoeic origin.
senses_examples:
text:
Finally, I have only heard about it, but what about the queef? This is the vagina-fart. Is it truly possible?
ref:
2004, Michael Ryan, The Dirtiest Toilet Humor Book Ever, iUniverse, published 2004, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
We are the queef after a porn star breaks the gang bang record.
ref:
2005, “Pennsylvania”, The Bloodhound Gang (music)
type:
quotation
text:
A queef is not, of course, flatulence, so technically it is not a fart either. It is air, not waste gases produced by digestion, so often there is no attendant odor.
ref:
2010 October 16, Bill Casselman, Where a Dobdob Meets a Dikdik: A Word Lover's Guide to the Weirdest, Wackiest, and Wonkiest Lexical Gems, Original edition, Avon: Adams Media, →OL, page 192
type:
quotation
text:
Tough Guy: Oh yeah? Well, you look like a bunch of queefs to me, huh?
ref:
2000 January 12, “World Wide Recorder Concert”, in South Park, season 3, episode 17
type:
quotation
text:
When you dumb-fucks repeat some right-wing loon's lie it only makes you look like a queef.
ref:
2000 September 12, D. G. Porter, “Re: OT: Bush Fucks Up with Mike On”, in alt.tv.southpark (Usenet), message-ID <39BE65CF.567C@pacbell.net>
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An emission of air from the vagina, especially when audible; vaginal flatulence.
A contemptible person.
senses_topics:
|
884 | word:
queef
word_type:
verb
expansion:
queef (third-person singular simple present queefs, present participle queefing, simple past and past participle queefed)
forms:
form:
queefs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
queefing
tags:
participle
present
form:
queefed
tags:
participle
past
form:
queefed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
vaginal flatulence
etymology_text:
A variant of Scottish and northern English quiff (“a puff of wind”), of onomatopoeic origin.
senses_examples:
text:
All my Westside bitches throw it up / Put a balloon inside your pussy, queef, and blow it up
ref:
2009, “Medicine Ball”, in Relapse, performed by Eminem
type:
quotation
text:
back to the movie where we find Kim, back at the gallery, so catatonic and sex-obsessed she'd sell Michaelangelo's David for $5 and queef the theme from Close Encounters for no extra charge.
ref:
2002, Dennis Hensley, Screening Party, Alyson Publishing, published 2002, page 74
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce an emission of air from the vagina.
To make the noise of (a thing) by means of queefs.
senses_topics:
|
885 | word:
quiz
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quiz (plural quizzes)
forms:
form:
quizzes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quiz
etymology_text:
Attested since the 1780s, of unknown origin.
* The Century Dictionary suggests it was originally applied to a popular toy, from a dialectal variant of whiz.
* The Random House Dictionary suggests the original sense was "odd person" (circa 1780).
* Others suggest the meaning "hoax" was original (1796), shifting to the meaning "interrogate" (1847) under the influence of question and inquisitive.
* Some say without evidence it was invented by a late-18th-century Dublin theatre proprietor who bet he could add a new nonsense word to the English language; he had the word painted on walls all over the city, and the morning after, everyone was talking about it (The Pre-Victorian Drama in Dublin).
* Others suggest it was originally quies (1847), Latin qui es? (who are you?), traditionally the first question in oral Latin exams. They suggest that it was first used as a noun from 1867, and the spelling quiz first recorded in 1886, but this is demonstrably incorrect.
* A further derivation, assuming that the original sense is "good, ingenuous, harmless man, overly conventional, pedantic, rule-bound man, square; nerd; oddball, eccentric", is based on a column from 1785 which claims that the origin is a jocular translation of the Horace quotation vir bonus est quis as "the good man is a quiz" at Cambridge.
senses_examples:
text:
I've always heard he was a quiz, says another, or a quoz, or some such word ; but I did not know he was such a book-worm.
ref:
1796, Fanny Burney, Camilla: or, A picture of youth, by the author of Evelina, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
I tell you I am going to the music shop. I trust to your honour. Lord Rawson, I know, will call me a fool for trusting to the honour of a quiz.
ref:
1833, Maria Edgeworth, Moral Tales, volume 1, page 204
type:
quotation
text:
Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch.
ref:
1803, Jane Austen, chapter 7, in Northanger Abbey, published 1816
type:
quotation
text:
“I’m afraid you’re a sad quiz,” said Mrs. Bungay. ¶ “Quiz! never made a joke in my—hullo! who’s here? How d’ye do, Pendennis?
ref:
1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis
type:
quotation
text:
We came second in the pub quiz.
type:
example
text:
Once all six friends are clear that the topic of Janet's story is a pub quiz, we launch into talk around this topic, combining factual information about quizzes we have participated in with fantasies about becoming a team ourselves.
ref:
1997, Jennifer Coates, “The construction of a collaborative floor in women’s friendly talk”, in Talmy Givón, editor, Conversation: Cognitive, Communicative and Social Perspectives, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
For many it is hard to envision a scenario where a student completes an online quiz (or test) without using their smartphone, tablet, or other device to look up the answers, or ‘share’ those answers with other students.
ref:
2015 May 18, Matt Farrell, Shannon Maheu, “Why open-book tests deserve a place in your courses”, in Faculty Focus
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.
One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.
A competition in the answering of questions.
A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
senses_topics:
education |
886 | word:
quiz
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quiz (third-person singular simple present quizzes, present participle quizzing, simple past and past participle quizzed)
forms:
form:
quizzes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quizzing
tags:
participle
present
form:
quizzed
tags:
participle
past
form:
quizzed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
quiz
etymology_text:
Attested since the 1780s, of unknown origin.
* The Century Dictionary suggests it was originally applied to a popular toy, from a dialectal variant of whiz.
* The Random House Dictionary suggests the original sense was "odd person" (circa 1780).
* Others suggest the meaning "hoax" was original (1796), shifting to the meaning "interrogate" (1847) under the influence of question and inquisitive.
* Some say without evidence it was invented by a late-18th-century Dublin theatre proprietor who bet he could add a new nonsense word to the English language; he had the word painted on walls all over the city, and the morning after, everyone was talking about it (The Pre-Victorian Drama in Dublin).
* Others suggest it was originally quies (1847), Latin qui es? (who are you?), traditionally the first question in oral Latin exams. They suggest that it was first used as a noun from 1867, and the spelling quiz first recorded in 1886, but this is demonstrably incorrect.
* A further derivation, assuming that the original sense is "good, ingenuous, harmless man, overly conventional, pedantic, rule-bound man, square; nerd; oddball, eccentric", is based on a column from 1785 which claims that the origin is a jocular translation of the Horace quotation vir bonus est quis as "the good man is a quiz" at Cambridge.
senses_examples:
text:
he quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room
ref:
1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis
type:
quotation
text:
'Now, Puddock, back him up—encourage your man,' said Devereux, who took a perverse pleasure in joking; 'tell him to flay the lump, splat him, divide him, and cut him in two pieces—'
It was a custom of the corps to quiz Puddock about his cookery […]
ref:
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
type:
quotation
text:
This week members return to the chamber to quiz the government on the Zimbabwe election, teacher shortages, backlog of asylum applications and improving the system for dementia diagnosis.
ref:
2023 August 31, “What's on in the Lords 4-7 September”, in UK Parliament
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.
To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.
To play with a quiz.
senses_topics:
|
887 | word:
fnord
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fnord (plural fnords)
forms:
form:
fnords
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fnord
etymology_text:
A neologism from the Principia Discordia popularized in the Illuminatus! trilogy.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
888 | word:
fnord
word_type:
intj
expansion:
fnord
forms:
wikipedia:
fnord
etymology_text:
A neologism from the Principia Discordia popularized in the Illuminatus! trilogy.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word (which may or may not be "fnord" itself) commonly held to be invisible to the conscious mind, but subliminally causing a sense of unease or sudden anger when encountered. So used in the Illuminatus! trilogy.
A word defined as having no definition.
senses_topics:
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889 | word:
ananke
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ananke (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀνάγκη (anánkē, “necessity”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Necessity beyond all supplications or sway. Conceived as the ultimate dictator of all fate and circumstances, to which even the gods must ultimately pay homage and deference.
senses_topics:
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890 | word:
OS
word_type:
name
expansion:
OS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Owen Sound.
The Ordnance Survey, official mapping agency in Great Britain (see also the noun below).
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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891 | word:
OS
word_type:
adj
expansion:
OS (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of outsize (clothes for large people)
Abbreviation of oversize.
Abbreviation of Old Style; a term used in English language historical studies to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian calendar instead of the modern Gregorian calendar
Abbreviation of offscreen; indicates a line of dialogue is spoken by someone not visible onscreen
senses_topics:
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892 | word:
OS
word_type:
adv
expansion:
OS (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
You did the overseas trip. You went OS.
ref:
2015, Mick Houghton, I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny
type:
quotation
text:
I kind of expanded my circle a bit more when I went OS [overseas].
ref:
2022, The Betoota Advocate, The Australian Dream: Sell everything and move to Betoota, page 33
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of overseas.
senses_topics:
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893 | word:
OS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
OS (plural OSes or OSs)
forms:
form:
OSes
tags:
plural
form:
OSs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area.
type:
example
text:
Calton Hill in Edinburgh is located at OS grid ref NT262741.
type:
example
text:
I've decided to install two different OSes on my new laptop.
type:
example
text:
Some vendors do now have a variant of the per-unit royalty (usually termed a “shared risk,” or similar approach), but it is not strictly the same as for those proprietary embedded OSes mentioned before […]
ref:
2008, Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Building Embedded Linux Systems
type:
quotation
text:
A policy-created scheduled task will be accepted by computers running client OSes as old as Windows 2000 […]
ref:
2010, Jorge Orchilles, Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference
type:
quotation
text:
In a dual-boot configuration, you install two OSs on the computer (Windows XP and Windows 2000, for example).
ref:
2009, Emmett Dulaney, CompTIA A+ Complete Review Guide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
an Ordnance Survey map.
Initialism of operating system.
Abbreviation of ordinary seaman.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
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894 | word:
bumf
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bumf (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of bumfodder.
senses_examples:
text:
And as for the limited warnings on documents and signs – we are so used to reading this bumf we fail to realise when they mean business.
ref:
2006: Quest, Richard, A Sour Taste in the Mouth, CNN.com, October 28, 2006
text:
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
ref:
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc.
Toilet paper.
senses_topics:
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895 | word:
monotheism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
monotheism (countable and uncountable, plural monotheisms)
forms:
form:
monotheisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A learned 17th-century coinage, mono- + theism, from (μονός (monós, “one”)) and (θεός (theós, “god, deity”) + -ισμός (-ismós)) The term parallels the earlier polytheism, atheism (the simplex theism being slightly later).
The term was coined by Henry More, ca. 1660, in explicit juxtaposition with both atheism and polytheism. It was redefined through etymological fallacy by Daniel Webster ca. 1828.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belief in the One True God, defined by More as personal, immaterial and trinitarian.
The belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion.
The belief that God is one person (Judaism, Unitarian Christianity, Islam), not three persons (Trinitarian Christianity, Hinduism)
senses_topics:
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896 | word:
pissed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pissed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pissed, pissede, pyssyd, pisside, equivalent to piss + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of piss
senses_topics:
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897 | word:
pissed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pissed (comparative more pissed, superlative most pissed)
forms:
form:
more pissed
tags:
comparative
form:
most pissed
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English pissed, pissede, pyssyd, pisside, equivalent to piss + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
The waiters would send us up beer onstage as well as food, so now and again we'd end up getting pissed while we were playing.
ref:
1996, Hunter Davies, The Beatles, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
We finished the bottle off and I was more pissed than ever, I was a fucking mess, and Johnny carried me to bed.
ref:
2006, Dean Riley, The Reveller: Every Lie Has Eighty Percent Truth, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
We drank, getting more and more pissed, and as we did, these four birds were growing more and more attractive, so we all sat down with them, but none of them wanted to know us, just Peter, dirty fucking bastard he was.
ref:
2008, Terry Beresford, Shiner, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
That one looks pissed, Ms. Gennero...
ref:
1987, Jeb Stuart, Steven E. DeSouza, Die Hard, scene 287
type:
quotation
text:
Some women were physically incapable, and the guys would say, “See, I told you women can′t hack it.” The more I saw of that, the more pissed I got, and the more determined I got to stick it out.
ref:
1989, Judith Stiehm, Arms And The Enlisted Woman, page 255
type:
quotation
text:
So I was already pissed at Bill to begin with, for what happened with the O′Donnell disaster the year before, and now I was even more pissed at the fuckin′ guy.
ref:
2009, Steve Serby, No Substitute for Sundays: Brett Favre and His Year in the Huddle with the New York Jets, page xv
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Drunk.
Annoyed, angry.
senses_topics:
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898 | word:
brassiere
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brassiere (plural brassieres)
forms:
form:
brassieres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French brassière. Doublet of brachiaria.
senses_examples:
text:
She started to strap her brassiere over her breasts.
ref:
2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Dated form of bra (“item of underwear”).
senses_topics:
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899 | word:
proper noun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
proper noun (plural proper nouns)
forms:
form:
proper nouns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word or phrase that is a noun denoting a particular person, place, organization, ship, animal, event, or other individual entity.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |