dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/tad_MW.json

{
  "tad":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a small or insignificant amount or degree : bit":[
        "might give him some water and a tad to eat",
        "\u2014 C. T. Walker"
      ],
      ": somewhat , rather":[
        "looked a tad bigger than me",
        "\u2014 Larry Hodgson"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "there's more than just a tad of hyperbole in the critics' praise for the promising young pianist",
      "grandfather never tires of telling us about the days when he was just a tad",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Fannie May\u2019s traditional Buckeye \u2013 Ohio\u2019s legendary candy with peanut butter cream center and milk chocolate - is a tad unique. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 28 June 2022",
      "An apple tart with vanilla ice cream ($14) was, one evening, a tad soggy. \u2014 John Mariani, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
      "Though this projection seems a tad fantastic, even phantasmic, in leaving material chains as so much dreamland, Shelley knew that words could awaken political spirit. \u2014 Susan J. Wolfson, The Atlantic , 18 June 2022",
      "Martin looks and sounds more than a little ridiculous, but behaves as though his is a perfectly rational (albeit a tad extreme) approach to reaffirming his masculinity. \u2014 Joe Leydon, Variety , 17 June 2022",
      "No season has fully cohered, including the third outing that debuted Friday, which feels a tad too earnest for its own good. \u2014 Inkoo Kang, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
      "This book makes going through the growing pains a tad smoother to navigate, adding in some laughter along the way. \u2014 Abby Dupes, Seventeen , 2 June 2022",
      "From opens on an unnamed small town that looks ordinary enough at first glance, if a tad old-fashioned. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "After a decade of movies, watching a hero fight their double can get a tad boring. \u2014 Eliana Dockterman, Time , 16 July 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1877, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably from English dialect, toad, from Middle English tode \u2014 more at toad":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8tad"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "ace",
      "bit",
      "crumb",
      "dab",
      "dram",
      "driblet",
      "glimmer",
      "hint",
      "lick",
      "little",
      "mite",
      "nip",
      "ounce",
      "particle",
      "peanuts",
      "ray",
      "scintilla",
      "scruple",
      "shade",
      "shadow",
      "shred",
      "skosh",
      "smack",
      "smell",
      "smidgen",
      "smidgeon",
      "smidgin",
      "smidge",
      "snap",
      "soup\u00e7on",
      "spark",
      "spatter",
      "speck",
      "splash",
      "spot",
      "sprinkling",
      "strain",
      "streak",
      "suspicion",
      "touch",
      "trace"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101702",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "tadpole":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8tad-\u02ccp\u014dl"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The federal agencies worked with her and the Arizona Game and Fish Department to use her stock ponds for tadpole introduction. \u2014 Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "The larvacean resembles a tiny tadpole and lives inside a palatial bubble of mucus that can reach up to a meter long. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Apr. 2022",
      "As water floods into the whale\u2019s mouth, its throat pouch expands, leaving the whale looking like a bloated tadpole . \u2014 New York Times , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "This showed that the Australian cane toads had become aggressive cannibals, as eggs placed in with them were over 2.5 times more likely to be cannibalized before producing a tadpole . \u2014 John Timmer, Wired , 29 Aug. 2021",
      "By the time the hatchlings reach the tadpole stage and are too large to eat, their fellow tadpoles lose interest. \u2014 John Timmer, Wired , 29 Aug. 2021",
      "To become a frog, a tadpole has to rearrange its face; the genome was thought to hard-wire a set of cell movements for every facial feature. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 31 Mar. 2021",
      "Tadpole Tales is about a tadpole cleaning rivers while fighting pollution and other bugs. \u2014 Zane Pickett, Forbes , 21 May 2021",
      "And yet from this abstract rearrangement of tadpole features, normal frogs emerged. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 31 Mar. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English taddepol , from tode toad + polle head":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174929"
  }
}