dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/sie_MW.json

{
  "siege":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a military blockade of a city or fortified place to compel it to surrender":[],
      ": a persistent or serious attack (as of illness)":[],
      ": a seat of distinction : throne":[],
      ": to besiege militarily":[],
      ": to lay siege to : to attack militarily : besiege":[
        "Insurgents rampaged through the countryside, sacked haciendas and mills, occupied small towns, and sieged the largest cities, Cusco and La Paz.",
        "\u2014 Sergio Serulnikov"
      ],
      ": to pursue diligently or persistently":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "The castle was built to withstand a siege .",
      "The city is in a state of siege .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The siege occurred on the night of September 11, when 20 men armed with grenade launchers and machine guns stormed the American compound and set it on fire. \u2014 Tim Stelloh, NBC News , 30 Oct. 2017",
      "The breach is expected to end a nightmare siege for tens of thousands of people trapped in a handful of neighborhoods controlled by the government and a nearby airport. \u2014 Bassem Mroue, chicagotribune.com , 5 Sep. 2017",
      "Though Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s, the conquistador charged with taking over what is now Mexico, initially entered the city of Tenochtitlan without resistance, before long, violence broke out and the Spanish staged a nearly three-month-long siege of the city. \u2014 Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian , 6 July 2017",
      "Weinstein and his reputation appeared to still be under siege Tuesday. \u2014 James Rainey, NBC News , 9 Oct. 2017",
      "To have access to Dave, who is one of the nine survivors of the final siege , was huge to have. \u2014 Kara Warner, PEOPLE.com , 25 Sep. 2017",
      "Branch Davidians The Branch Davidians broke off from the Davidian Seventh-Day Aventists in 1955 but didn\u2019t make headlines till the infamous Waco siege of 1993. \u2014 Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan , 14 July 2017",
      "The school has been under siege since September, when a social media post showed nine St. Teresa\u2019s students posed with beer pong cups arranged as a swastika. \u2014 Mar\u00e1 Rose Williams, kansascity , 23 Oct. 2017",
      "Anne Applebaum\u2019s Red Famine (Doubleday) uncovers a 20th-century Ukraine under siege . \u2014 Sloane Crosley, Vanities , 22 Oct. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English sege , from Anglo-French, seat, blockade, from Old French *siegier to seat, settle, from Vulgar Latin *sedicare , from Latin sed\u0113re to sit \u2014 more at sit":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "also \u02c8s\u0113zh",
      "\u02c8s\u0113j"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "access",
      "attack",
      "bout",
      "case",
      "fit",
      "seizure",
      "spell",
      "turn"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203835",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "siesta":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an afternoon nap or rest":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Most of the shops were closed after lunch for a two-hour siesta .",
      "The shops are closed during siesta .",
      "He's taking a little siesta out there on the patio.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Pundits had been declaring the death of the siesta for more than 20 years. \u2014 Jason Wilson, Washington Post , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "User u/hunterhaus, a general contractor, encourages his subcontractors to enjoy a siesta after their one-hour lunch break. \u2014 Jamie Valentino, Chron , 24 Dec. 2021",
      "Hayek\u2019s message, as always, was not about goals, but about being grateful and appreciating the small things in life \u2013 whether that\u2019s a moment of serenity by water or having a siesta in a hammock. \u2014 Alice Newbold, Vogue , 9 Jan. 2022",
      "Spend a few hours here before returning, invigorated and exhausted, to your room at Hotel Puerta Calakmul for a siesta . \u2014 Michael Snyder, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 14 Sep. 2021",
      "These brief bursts might just be a welcome relief to the heat and humidity and offer a nice time for a siesta . \u2014 Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure , 12 Sep. 2021",
      "The seasonal siesta looks a bit different in Arkansas versus Andalucia, Mali versus Mumbai. \u2014 Vogue , 6 Sep. 2021",
      "Many stores close for lunchtime siesta (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.), as well as on Sundays and public holidays. \u2014 Ellie Nan Storck, Travel + Leisure , 30 June 2021",
      "The Pillow Cube is how to take your afternoon siesta to the next level. \u2014 Anthony Karcz, Forbes , 8 June 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1655, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Spanish, from Latin sexta ( hora ) noon, literally, sixth hour \u2014 more at sext":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0113-\u02c8e-st\u0259"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "catnap",
      "doze",
      "drowse",
      "forty winks",
      "kip",
      "nap",
      "snooze",
      "wink"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041802",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "Sierra Nevada":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "mountain range in eastern California extending into western Nevada \u2014 see whitney, mount \u2014 see also sierran":[],
      "mountain range in southern Spain; highest peak is Mulhac\u00e9n at about 11,410 feet (3478 meters) high":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "n\u0259-\u02c8va-d\u0259",
      "-\u02c8v\u00e4-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-030337"
  },
  "Sierran":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of or relating to a sierra":[
        "sierran foothills"
      ],
      ": of or relating to the Sierra Nevada Mountains of the western U.S.":[],
      ": a native or inhabitant of the region around the Sierra Nevada Mountains":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0113-\u02c8er-\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1873, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
      "1906, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-072646"
  },
  "Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "mountain range in northern Colombia on the Caribbean Sea coast":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "d\u0101-\u02ccsan-t\u0259-\u02c8m\u00e4r-t\u0259",
      "t\u035fh\u0101-\u02ccs\u00e4n-t\u00e4-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-125115"
  },
  "sieve":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a device with meshes or perforations through which finer particles of a mixture (as of ashes, flour, or sand) of various sizes may be passed to separate them from coarser ones, through which the liquid may be drained from liquid-containing material, or through which soft materials may be forced for reduction to fine particles":[],
      ": sift":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8siv"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Using a chinoise or a fine-mesh sieve , strain out the bones and vegetables. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 17 May 2022",
      "Place a food mill ($52, Bed Bath & Beyond) or fine-mesh sieve ($13, Target) over a large bowl. \u2014 Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens , 13 Sep. 2021",
      "Baltimore\u2019s secondary was a sieve last season, very unlike the Ravens. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "But the system, which also lets the FSB security service spy on Russian citizens, is a relative sieve compared to China\u2019s Great Firewall. \u2014 Frank Bajak And Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "If the cream is not smooth, pass it through a sieve and simmer at 100 F (40 C). \u2014 CNN , 8 May 2022",
      "My clue, of course\u2014Addy\u2019s sieve \u2014is just a sneaky way of saying adhesive. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "It will also be used without other mitigation layers that health officials say worked as a layered sieve , slowing the virus\u2019 spread before people knew they are infected. \u2014 Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "Wet 4 layers of cheesecloth with water and line the sieve or colander with the cheesecloth. \u2014 Beth Segal, cleveland , 15 Jan. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Strain mixture through fine mesh sieve to remove seeds. \u2014 Krissa Rossbund, Better Homes & Gardens , 5 May 2022",
      "Sponges filter so much water that, for example, the community at Karasik can sieve almost the entire 600 meters of ocean above it every year. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "To bridge to the state of technology in the advanced world in the 1970s, China had begun to build machines that could handle mass-scale calculations, sieve through huge amounts of information, and coordinate complex operations. \u2014 Jing Tsu, Wired , 23 Jan. 2022",
      "As if responding to those concerns \u2014 the only valid criticisms following two excellent performances \u2014 the Wolverines blended run and pass with aplomb against the sieve -like Northern Illinois defense. \u2014 Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press , 18 Sep. 2021",
      "Set sieve over boiling water, cover (lid will not fit tightly, and that\u2019s okay), and steam 15 minutes. \u2014 Leela Punyaratabandhu, Bon App\u00e9tit , 3 Aug. 2021",
      "The developers building the tunnel, Pearson said, will be allowed to sieve as little as one percent of the topsoil. \u2014 Roff Smith, National Geographic , 12 Nov. 2020",
      "Shoveling aside nearly half a meter of old goat droppings and sieving through sediment, the team unearthed the nearly complete skull of an enigmatic human ancestor, the oldest member of the genus that eventually led to our own. \u2014 Michael Price, Science | AAAS , 28 Aug. 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English sive , from Old English sife ; akin to Old High German sib sieve":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-133327"
  },
  "sierra plum":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a shrub or small tree ( Prunus subcordata ) of the Pacific coast of the U.S. with somewhat spinescent branches and small red insipid fruit":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-135226"
  },
  "sieve plate":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a perforated wall or part of a wall at the end of one of the individual cells making up a sieve tube":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1875, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-143620"
  },
  "sieva bean":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a plant ( Phaseolus lunatus ) that bears sieva beans":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u0113-v\u0259-",
      "\u02c8si-v\u0113-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1888, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-161449"
  },
  "sieve analysis":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a grading by size of particles of powdered or granulated material done with a sieve":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181722"
  },
  "siever":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one that makes sieves":[],
      ": one that sieves : sifter":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8siv\u0259(r)"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "sieve entry 1 + -er":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-194201"
  },
  "sieve and shears":{
    "type":[
      "noun plural but singular in construction"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": divination (as for guilt or a marriage partner) by observation of the motion of a sieve suspended from the points of an open pair of shears : coscinomancy":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-195649"
  },
  "sierra":{
    "type":[
      "communications code word",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a range of mountains especially with a serrated or irregular outline":[],
      ": the country about a sierra":[],
      ": any of several large scombroid fishes (genus Scomberomorus ) related to the mackerel":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0113-\u02c8er-\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range in California.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley\u2019s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com , 17 Sep. 2020",
      "Newell Convers Wyeth, better known as N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), was in later life a mountain of a man\u2014over 300 pounds\u2014and was also a sierra of talent and personal troubles. \u2014 Peter Plagens, WSJ , 6 Mar. 2020",
      "South of Lake Tahoe on the Carson Pass Trail, the month of July unfolds a colorful landscape of cheerful blue flax, Indian paintbrush, showy clusters of scarlet gilia, and the waxy, orange and spotted faces of the sierra lilies. \u2014 Matt Ritter, Sunset Magazine , 6 Mar. 2020",
      "Numb to greatness, a humdrum appreciation comes with his sierra of staggering statistics. \u2014 Paul Coro, latimes.com , 17 Mar. 2018",
      "Image Before Maria, the mountainside here would have been in shade, a canopy of sierra palm fronds and leafy branches of yagrumo trees and others blocking much of the sunlight. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Mar. 2018",
      "Ingredients such as smoked sierra , cochayuyo algae and breads baked rescoldo, a Mapuche method for cooking in ash and embers, all find their way into the sandwiches at Capic\u00faa, also in Providencia. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Nov. 2017",
      "Then a couple of years later, in 1984, two American anthropologists\u2014including Stephen Athens, a rising star in the archaeology of Ecuador\u2019s northern sierra \u2014showed up. \u2014 Naomi Renee Cohen, Slate Magazine , 15 May 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Spanish, literally, saw, from Latin serra":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
      "1952, in the meaning defined above":"Communications code word"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-210741"
  },
  "Sierra Morena":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "mountain range in southwestern Spain between the Guadiana and Guadalquivir rivers; highest peak is Estrella at 4339 feet (1322 meters) high":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "m\u014d-\u02c8r\u0101-n\u00e4"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002255"
  },
  "sierozem":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of a group of zonal soils that are brownish gray at the surface and lighter colored below, based in a carbonate layer or a hardpan layer, and characteristic of temperate to cool arid regions with mixed shrub vegetation":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0113\u00a6er\u0259\u00a6zem"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Russian serozem , from sery\u012d gray + zemlya earth; akin to Lithuanian \u017eem\u0117 earth, Latin humus":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-013343"
  },
  "sieve area":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an area in the wall of a sieve-tube element, sieve cell, or parenchyma cell in which are clustered pores through which cytoplasmic connections pass to adjoining cells and which in sieve-tube elements are typically most highly developed on the end walls between adjacent elements where they constitute sieve plates":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-013911"
  },
  "Siegfried line":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a line of German defensive fortifications facing the Maginot Line":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "after Siegfried":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1938, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-014600"
  },
  "sieve of Eratosthenes":{
    "type":[
      "noun phrase"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a procedure for finding prime numbers that involves writing down the odd numbers from 2 up in succession and crossing out every third number after 3, every fifth after 5 including those already crossed out, every seventh after 7, and so on with the numbers that are never crossed out being prime":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02ccer-\u0259-\u02c8t\u00e4s-th\u0259-\u02ccn\u0113z"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1803, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-023139"
  }
}