dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/nis_MW.json

{
  "nisus":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a mental or physical effort to attain an end : a perfective urge or endeavor":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8n\u012b-s\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, from niti to lean, rely, strive; akin to Latin nictare to wink \u2014 more at connive":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1699, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-141542"
  },
  "NIST":{
    "type":[
      "abbreviation"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "National Institute of Standards and Technology":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-201723"
  },
  "nisi":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": taking effect at a specified time unless previously modified or avoided by cause shown, further proceedings, or a condition fulfilled":[
        "a decree nisi"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8n\u012b-\u02ccs\u012b, \u02c8n\u0113-s\u0113",
      "\u02c8n\u012b-\u02ccs\u012b"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, unless, from ne- not + si if":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1738, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000356"
  },
  "Nishinomiya":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "city in western Honshu, Japan, on Osaka Bay east of Kobe population 482,640":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccni-sh\u0113-\u02c8n\u014d-m\u0113-\u02ccy\u00e4"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-034047"
  },
  "Niska":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a Tsimshian people or group of peoples of the Nass river valley and contiguous Pacific coast, British Columbia, Canada":[],
      ": a member of any of such peoples":[],
      ": the language of the Niska people":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8nisk\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071738"
  },
  "Nissen hut":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a prefabricated shelter with a semicircular arching roof of corrugated iron sheeting and a concrete floor":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ni-s\u1d4an-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Peter N. Nissen \u20201930 British mining engineer":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1917, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-075352"
  },
  "Nishada":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a member of a low caste in India : the offspring of a Brahman and a Sudra":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "ni\u02c8sh\u00e4d\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Sanskrit ni\u1e63\u0101da , from Ni\u1e63\u0101da , name of a wild non-Aryan tribe":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-075729"
  },
  "nisei":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a son or daughter of Japanese immigrants who is born and educated in America and especially in the U.S.":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "n\u0113-\u02c8s\u0101",
      "\u02c8n\u0113-\u02cc"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But growing up near downtown L.A. in the \u201930s and \u201940s exposed her to the customs of her many nisei Japanese friends, too. \u2014 Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Magazine , 29 Jan. 2018",
      "By then the Army was enlisting nisei soldiers to fight in Africa and Europe. \u2014 Smithsonian , 29 Jan. 2017",
      "Kashiwagi said that many of the seniors were nisei \u2014 second-generation Japanese Americans born in the U.S. \u2014 who had spent their youth detained in World War II incarceration camps. \u2014 NBC News , 6 Oct. 2017",
      "The miniature spelling master has become an Internet celebrity, impressing people with her ability to crack words that would stump most adults, such as Panglossian, Baedeker, nisei , and Croesus. \u2014 The Washington Post, Twin Cities , 8 Mar. 2017",
      "By then the Army was enlisting nisei soldiers to fight in Africa and Europe. \u2014 Smithsonian , 2 May 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Japanese, literally, second generation, from ni second + sei generation":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1929, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180845"
  },
  "nisnas":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a guenon ( Cercopithecus griseoviridis ) of northeastern Africa or a monkey of a related species":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8nisn\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Arabic nisn\u0101s":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203018"
  }
}