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"The O\u2019Brien Kids Platform Trainer Waterski is an ideal trainer for smaller children just learning to water ski. \u2014 Chris Meehan, Popular Mechanics , 12 June 2022",
"Waitstaff can help you with a lot of things, like fixing a wobbly table, finding the perfect seat, or selecting the ideal meal. \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure , 12 June 2022",
"Lucas and others said that would be the ideal solution. \u2014 Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News , 11 June 2022",
"Prior to when the couple started dating, Jensen previously told PEOPLE in 2006 that his ideal partner was someone with a sense of humor. \u2014 Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"There was no job ( ideal or otherwise) that would get the back into the office for 40 hours a week. \u2014 Michael Gale, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"This pretty girl would love to go to a quiet home and would make an ideal pet for senior cat lovers. \u2014 The Arizona Republic , 10 June 2022",
"That was an ideal moment for the Justice Department to prosecute OPEC. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 10 June 2022",
"Biggers\u2019 piece is the ideal sculpture to mark the terrace\u2019s debut, Zuckerman says. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
"With a bay window overlooking the ocean and a site ideal for stargazing, Sunset Vista has become a hit with Hong Kong bloggers and influencers. \u2014 Ziyu Zhang, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"The show is a romanticization of a kind of eminently British working class ideal profane but honorable, hard-living but heroic. \u2014 Taylor Antrim, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
"Articulating a common purpose may seem a lofty ideal , but is really a statement of those core values that are a part of the family\u2019s everyday life. \u2014 Halsey Schreier, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"At 104 Sq ft, here's a small glass pod ideal as a home office or as seen in the photo, a recording studio. \u2014 Isis Briones, House Beautiful , 25 May 2022",
"Ekobo, based in France, uses the vegetal waste produced by manufacturing chopsticks to create gorgeous, colorful, shatter-proof dishware ideal for outdoor entertaining. \u2014 Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine , 23 May 2022",
"Borno admired Mussolini and aspired to a Fascist ideal of Haiti\u2019s rapid development under American control, historians say. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"An ideal , yes, but requiring asset managers to pass voting power back to investors would bring it closer to reality. \u2014 C. Boyden Gray And Jonathan Berry, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"Camping trips and horse riding formed students into a Thacher ideal gritty, self-reliant, adventurous and curious, with a dash of bravado. \u2014 Kathy Cichon, Chicago Tribune , 19 May 2022"
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"Noun",
"an idealist sees the best in everyone, regardless of how they behave",
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"an idealist attempt to make a go of a mom-and-pop hardware store on Main Street",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Hilson plays Naomi Josef, a fresh-faced, smart and enthusiastic idealist who leads with her heart and radiates warmth. \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 12 May 2022",
"That the unravelling happens to the high idealist automatically sets up the misdirection. \u2014 Willing Davidson, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
"Speaking to the crowd, Musk slipped into the comfortable role as the billionaire idealist who dreams of saving the planet by ending humanity\u2019s dependence on fossil fuels. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 22 Mar. 2022",
"The fictional story of a young idealist entering the Senate was met with positive reviews from viewers and is even featured in the Senate's history. \u2014 Yaa Bofah, Good Housekeeping , 6 May 2022",
"The move hardened their view of Gasc\u00f3n as an idealist with a limited grasp of how to run the office on a practical basis. \u2014 James Queally, Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
"In 1969 a young idealist , on her first trip to Hawaii, checked into the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, a sublime pink confection of a place in Waikiki Beach, on the island of Oahu. \u2014 Horacio Silva, Town & Country , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Like many of his college chums, Nick used to be an idealist . \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 13 Mar. 2022",
"But all the while there was a hypervigilant, nitpicky idealist inside me, crouched and ready to spring out and torment everyone with her punishing intensity. \u2014 Heather Havrilesky, The Atlantic , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The story follows Mickey Haller (Garcia-Rulfo), an iconoclastic idealist criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles who runs his practice out of the back seat of his Lincoln. \u2014 Dana Feldman, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"The appeal of far-left ideology, with its idealist cast, is, to the French, particularly to French youth, a cultural constant. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 25 Apr. 2022",
"But Nakagin truly fit the bill: a building that became a symbol of architecture\u2019s most idealist tendencies and of Tokyo itself. \u2014 Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 16 Apr. 2022",
"The company that has a bit of an idealist quality to it. \u2014 Karen Walker, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
"The shift happened alongside the realization that the tech industry was no longer the niche realm of idealist computer geeks. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Jane is an idealist , convinced that her love of the crowd and the quality of her music will attract fans. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2021",
"Consider both the idealist and realist cases for stepping into this global leadership role. \u2014 Ben Sasse, WSJ , 17 May 2021",
"Hawks make both idealist and realist arguments for staying in Afghanistan. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 16 Apr. 2021"
"idealistic pacifists who thought that tyranny could be toppled by rational argument and mutual understanding",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As an idealistic child of the 1960s, Zia had moved from Boston to Detroit in the 1970s to be part of the labor movement in a place known nationally known for its strong unions. \u2014 Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press , 16 June 2022",
"And that means translating idealistic post-deal visions into operating models that refocus your enterprise on new types of value for customers. \u2014 Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Soo-jae also proves to be a charismatic teacher, impressing her students and in particular the idealistic young Gong Chan, played by Hwang In-yeop. \u2014 Joan Macdonald, Forbes , 4 June 2022",
"Taylor\u2019s case upends the idealistic notion that injustices, and particularly those that seem more obvious, will be quickly corrected. \u2014 Steve Mills, ProPublica , 30 May 2022",
"Microlending used to be a trendy topic in idealistic tech circles, and a constant trope at TED and Davos conferences. \u2014 Jaron Lanier, The Atlantic , 26 May 2022",
"Kris Kristofferson would star in it, as an idealistic federal marshal who attempts, in vain, to protect the poor farmers from the ruthless grandees. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 22 May 2022",
"Who Fell to Earth, created by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, is a sequel to the 1976 Nicolas Roeg film of the same name, which stars David Bowie as an idealistic alien corrupted by human vices. \u2014 Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED , 20 May 2022",
"One is a Soviet diplomat, the other an idealistic American negotiator. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 18 May 2022"
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"\u02c8\u012b-d\u0113-\u0259-\u02ccl\u022fg",
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"as long as there are ideologues controlling both sides of the aisle, legislative compromise is out of the question",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While Price posthumously carves out her place in the repertoire, Wagner, an ideologue who wrote unsparingly about his own antisemitism, has remained a fraught cornerstone. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"The race now is a clash of visions: the progressive ideologue vs. the liberal pragmatist. \u2014 Allysia Finley, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"In the Sumter County courtroom, Calhoun \u2014 his graying hair pulled back in a ponytail and his long beard finely combed \u2014 hardly came across as a fire-eating ideologue or wild-eyed conspiracy theorist. \u2014 Chris Joyner, ajc , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Ebrahim Raisi, a rigid ideologue and the head of the judiciary, was elected. \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 27 Dec. 2021",
"The judge upending California\u2019s gun laws: \u2018Blessed\u2019 jurist or \u2018stone-cold ideologue \u2019? \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Dec. 2021",
"But in the state Democratic primary, which Mr. Stevenson won easily, his ticket was hamstrung when two supporters of the far-right ideologue Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. won the party\u2019s nominations for lieutenant governor and secretary of state. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Sep. 2021",
"But that would require a journalist to ask hard questions, not merely to be satisfied with having given an ideologue equal time. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 15 Nov. 2021",
"In early October, the Austin Firefighters Association came out against Proposition A. AFA President Bob Nicks is no anti-police ideologue . \u2014 Matt Wall, Fox News , 31 Oct. 2021"
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"the psychotic would repeatedly ideate the act of committing murder, and eventually he came to believe his own delusions",
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"Then, give participants 10 minutes to ideate as many Impossibles related to that topic. \u2014 Lisa Bodell, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Gather a task force to ideate innovative ways to improve customer relationships, operational processes or wellness programs. \u2014 Michael Kurland, Forbes , 21 Dec. 2021",
"The caffeine seems to pull the two control centers together to innovate and ideate . \u2014 Ira Gostin, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"The Levan Center is based on four principles: ideate , incubate, accelerate and post-accelerate. \u2014 Scott Luxor, sun-sentinel.com , 21 Oct. 2021",
"Working remotely, raising a family, and maintaining our inherent social nature leaves little time to ideate , design, plan, organize, cook, pour, serve, and ultimately - host. \u2014 Brad Japhe, Forbes , 8 May 2021",
"Everyone comes together to ideate in the POD, and the PODs bring together all the marketing functions. \u2014 Kimberly A. Whitler, Forbes , 8 May 2021",
"This creates space for people to think and do, ideate and find their inspiration. \u2014 Shannon Brooks, Forbes , 5 Apr. 2021",
"Gift your foodie a fun way to ideate new meals with these foodie dice. \u2014 Cnn Underscored Staff, CNN Underscored , 9 Dec. 2020"
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"Police were later able to identify the man and theft charges were pending at the time of the report. \u2014 Brian Lisik, cleveland , 17 June 2022",
"Police have not been able to identify the second driver, who also left the scene. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 June 2022",
"More complex issues are automatically routed to the company\u2019s agents, with Webio\u2019s technology able to identify such cases through analysis of the chatbot conversation. \u2014 David Prosser, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Authorities were quickly able to identify Bass as a suspect through surveillance footage and witness statements, according to Almon. \u2014 Caroline Silva, ajc , 16 June 2022",
"Police followed the suspect's directions to human remains in the jungle, but forensic analysis to identify them has not yet been completed. \u2014 Rodrigo Pedroso And Camilo Rocha, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"The Sheriff\u2019s Office told reporters investigators have not yet been able to identify the body or cause of death. \u2014 Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"Despite only uncovering one bone, researchers were able to identify it as an abelisaurid by projections, called epipophyses, sticking out of either side, Live Science reports. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 June 2022",
"The research was also able to identify specific genetic risk regions for each subtype, as well as for migraine as a whole. \u2014 Madeleine Streets, SELF , 13 June 2022"
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"as long as there are ideologues controlling both sides of the aisle, legislative compromise is out of the question",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While Price posthumously carves out her place in the repertoire, Wagner, an ideologue who wrote unsparingly about his own antisemitism, has remained a fraught cornerstone. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"The race now is a clash of visions: the progressive ideologue vs. the liberal pragmatist. \u2014 Allysia Finley, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"In the Sumter County courtroom, Calhoun \u2014 his graying hair pulled back in a ponytail and his long beard finely combed \u2014 hardly came across as a fire-eating ideologue or wild-eyed conspiracy theorist. \u2014 Chris Joyner, ajc , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Ebrahim Raisi, a rigid ideologue and the head of the judiciary, was elected. \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 27 Dec. 2021",
"The judge upending California\u2019s gun laws: \u2018Blessed\u2019 jurist or \u2018stone-cold ideologue \u2019? \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Dec. 2021",
"But in the state Democratic primary, which Mr. Stevenson won easily, his ticket was hamstrung when two supporters of the far-right ideologue Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. won the party\u2019s nominations for lieutenant governor and secretary of state. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Sep. 2021",
"But that would require a journalist to ask hard questions, not merely to be satisfied with having given an ideologue equal time. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 15 Nov. 2021",
"In early October, the Austin Firefighters Association came out against Proposition A. AFA President Bob Nicks is no anti-police ideologue . \u2014 Matt Wall, Fox News , 31 Oct. 2021"
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"the new teacher's idiomatic approach to dealing with special-needs students is already showing signs of success",
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"Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022",
"What matters is that they be kept inside recognizably idiomatic speech. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Out of obscure British usage a term became idiomatic in America: stagflation. \u2014 Brian Domitrovic, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing. \u2014 Anh Dostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 17 Apr. 2022"
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"only an idiot would invest in a company just because a casual acquaintance recommended it"
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"noun",
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": to worship as a god",
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"\u02c8\u012b-d\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz",
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"adore",
"adulate",
"canonize",
"deify",
"dote (on)",
"hero-worship",
"worship"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an actor who is idolized by millions",
"she blindly idolized her older sister, refusing to acknowledge her considerable faults",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lawrence is correct: Bauer isn\u2019t a kindergarten teacher \u2014 his sphere of influence as a pro ballplayer extends far beyond one classroom to millions of fans \u2014 including impressionable children who idolize pro athletes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
"More politics Jackson and Kamala Harris idolize civil rights lawyers like Constance Baker Motley. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"These recent television moments depart from typical Hollywood storylines that celebrate and idolize youth and physical fitness. \u2014 Ai-jen Poo, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Dave Attell, one of those comedians that other comedians idolize , is at Foxwoods Resort Casino\u2019s Great Cedar Showroom, 350 Trolley Line Blvd., Mashantucket. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Treat church leaders at all levels as respected persons, but do not idolize them. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Jan. 2022",
"Despite the popularity of Manchester United in Norway, the young B\u00f8e Risa was not one to follow soccer on television or idolize any of the players. \u2014 Asif Burhan, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
"In July, analysts with the country\u2019s intelligence services warned that a decade after the 2011 attack, there are young men and boys who idolize the gunman. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
"In an industry obsessed with physical appearances and beauty standards that idolize able-bodiedness, prejudice -- though not always as blatant as that recounted by Snell -- has always been part of the casting process. \u2014 Lottie Jackson, CNN , 29 Sep. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1598, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-194112"
},
"idyl":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment",
": a narrative poem (such as Tennyson's Idylls of the King ) treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme",
": a lighthearted carefree episode that is a fit subject for an idyll",
": a romantic interlude"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al",
"British usually"
],
"synonyms":[
"binge",
"fling",
"frisk",
"frolic",
"gambol",
"lark",
"ploy",
"revel",
"rollick",
"romp",
"spree"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her year as a vineyard worker in the south of France was not the idyll that she had expected it to be",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After months of next to no infections, omicron shattered Hong Kong\u2019s virus-free idyll and caught authorities unprepared. \u2014 Shirley Zhao, Bloomberg.com , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The utopia of Dickens\u2019s fiction, also impossibly outdated today, maybe even outdated in 1850, is the domestic idyll . \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
"The Budapest of von Neumann\u2019s childhood, the fin of a buoyant si\u00e8cle, was a cosmopolitan idyll in which Jews were able to prosper, and the von Neumanns could afford tutors, country homes, and private libraries. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, The New Republic , 8 Mar. 2022",
"After an idyll punctuated by shoplifting, drunken nights and Nick\u2019s promiscuity, the twins return home, maintaining their estrangement from their mother. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Jan. 2022",
"The Kaufmann House, a Palm Springs idyll that Neutra built for the department-store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann\u2014who also commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s Fallingwater\u2014is on the market for $16.95 million. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 20 Sep. 2021",
"But there is disaster here, too, even in this suburban idyll : One girl confronts violence at home, another betrays her best friend, another grievously injures a teammate. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Nov. 2021",
"The part of the gun industry that Busse entered was, in his own telling, a kind of idyll . \u2014 Benjamin Wallace-wells, The New Yorker , 16 Nov. 2021",
"The arrival of professor Simon Lewis and his colleagues in Ikenge just months later would indeed upend this calm idyll tucked away in one of the world\u2019s remaining rainforests. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin idyllium , from Greek eidyllion , from diminutive of eidos form; akin to Greek idein to see \u2014 more at wit ",
"first_known_use":[
"1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-183123"
},
"idle":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": not occupied or employed: such as",
": having no employment : inactive",
": not turned to normal or appropriate use",
": not scheduled to compete",
": lacking worth or basis : vain",
": shiftless , lazy",
": having no evident lawful means of support",
": to run at low power and often disconnected usually so that power is not used for useful work",
": to spend time in idleness",
": to move idly",
": to pass in idleness",
": to cause to idle",
": to make idle",
": not working or in use",
": lazy sense 1",
": not based on anything real or serious",
": to spend time doing nothing",
": to run without being connected for doing useful work"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al",
"\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al"
],
"synonyms":[
"dead",
"dormant",
"fallow",
"free",
"inactive",
"inert",
"inoperative",
"latent",
"off",
"unused",
"vacant"
],
"antonyms":[
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drone",
"footle",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around ",
"hang about",
"kick around",
"kick back",
"laze",
"lazy",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"veg out"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Due to low water levels, a line of sailboats sits idle in the parking lot \u2014 but the Great Salt Lake Rowing Club is far from giving up their favorite spot. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"After losing several planes in quick succession, the squadron appeared to go idle : for weeks, there was no visual evidence of Ukrainian Su-24s in action. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 7 May 2022",
"The Oregon baseball team moved up in two of the six major national polls, remained idle in one, dropped in another and are still unranked in two other polls after taking three of four games against Ball State. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Then again, an upset against the Nets Tuesday night would have Cleveland idle until the weekend, paving the way for Allen\u2019s return at some point in the first-round series. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Although idle , the 52-28 Heat were assured of the top seed in the East by virtue of the Milwaukee Bucks defeating the visiting Boston Celtics, and the visiting Philadelphia 76ers losing to the Toronto Raptors. \u2014 Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"And yet instead of roaring by, cars idle beside us at the light. \u2014 Alison Van Houten, Outside Online , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Fred VanVleet scored 12 points and Thad Young had 10 as Toronto matched idle Chicago for the fifth-best record in the conference. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The Miami Heat, idle Tuesday night, leads at 48-28. \u2014 Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The company has told drivers not to idle when possible, but turning trucks on and off also uses more fuel. \u2014 Sean Mcdonnell, cleveland , 14 June 2022",
"Auto manufacturers worldwide have had to idle factories and slash output as a result, causing shortages of new and used cars. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Auto manufacturers worldwide have had to idle factories and slash output as a result, causing shortages of new and used cars. \u2014 Jeanne Whalen, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Jan. 2022",
"An AvtoVAZ spokesman said the company planned to idle its plants until at least March 11 due to the global chip shortage that has affected car makers world-wide. \u2014 Nick Kostov And Evan Gershkovich, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Many Western nations have instituted sanctions against Russia, prompting many companies to idle operations there. \u2014 Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Next year, the Bay Area Toll Authority, which operates the seven toll bridges owned by Caltrans, plans to start ripping out tollbooths and narrowing the multi-lane plazas where cars idle , waiting to pay tolls. \u2014 Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Protesters objecting to Covid safety measures continue to idle trucks and camp out in downtown Ottawa, though blockades at the Canadian-U.S. border are standing down. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 19 Feb. 2022",
"The chip drought has led to widespread disruptions, including forcing car makers lacking chips to idle plants and driving up prices for some electronic goods. \u2014 Meghan Bobrowsky, WSJ , 26 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2",
"Verb",
"1592, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 2a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-124302"
},
"ideational":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": of, relating to, or produced by ideation",
": of or relating to ideas",
": of, relating to, or produced by ideation",
": consisting of or referring to ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u012b-d\u0113-\u02c8\u0101-shn\u0259l",
"-sh\u0259-n\u1d4al",
"-shn\u0259l, -sh\u0259n-\u1d4al"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstract",
"conceptual",
"ideal",
"metaphysical",
"notional",
"theoretical",
"theoretic"
],
"antonyms":[
"concrete",
"nonabstract"
],
"examples":[
"ideograms are ideational \u2014they are meant to suggest some general idea and not a particular word or phrase"
"she blindly idolized her older sister, refusing to acknowledge her considerable faults",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lawrence is correct: Bauer isn\u2019t a kindergarten teacher \u2014 his sphere of influence as a pro ballplayer extends far beyond one classroom to millions of fans \u2014 including impressionable children who idolize pro athletes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
"More politics Jackson and Kamala Harris idolize civil rights lawyers like Constance Baker Motley. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"These recent television moments depart from typical Hollywood storylines that celebrate and idolize youth and physical fitness. \u2014 Ai-jen Poo, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Dave Attell, one of those comedians that other comedians idolize , is at Foxwoods Resort Casino\u2019s Great Cedar Showroom, 350 Trolley Line Blvd., Mashantucket. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Treat church leaders at all levels as respected persons, but do not idolize them. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Jan. 2022",
"Despite the popularity of Manchester United in Norway, the young B\u00f8e Risa was not one to follow soccer on television or idolize any of the players. \u2014 Asif Burhan, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
"In July, analysts with the country\u2019s intelligence services warned that a decade after the 2011 attack, there are young men and boys who idolize the gunman. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
"In an industry obsessed with physical appearances and beauty standards that idolize able-bodiedness, prejudice -- though not always as blatant as that recounted by Snell -- has always been part of the casting process. \u2014 Lottie Jackson, CNN , 29 Sep. 2021"
"He says that the election is not about ideology .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Gidwitz echoes an establishment lament over the years \u2014 the desire among some on the far right to prefer purity of ideology over electability, satisfied in the end to portray themselves as political martyrs for a greater cause. \u2014 Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"Official attitudes toward emigration, once seen as a betrayal of socialist ideology during the early years of the People\u2019s Republic of China, have loosened over the years. \u2014 Lyric Li, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"There's always some kind of clash of culture, of ideology , of background, of loyalty, of legacy, that each person in the couple brings into the room. \u2014 Kovie Biakolo, ELLE , 11 June 2022",
"Tired of ideology taking precedence over real, nuts-and-bolts progress. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 June 2022",
"Tucker and similar proponents of this evil ideology continue to poison the minds of millions. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 7 June 2022",
"Elements of these individuals' ideology may expose themselves online. \u2014 Byjohn Cohen, ABC News , 21 May 2022",
"For proponents of this ideology , gaining control of the government goes beyond elections. \u2014 Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker , 21 May 2022",
"To his critics, the arrangement has made Kirill far more than another apparatchik, oligarch or enabler of Mr. Putin, but an essential part of the nationalist ideology at the heart of the Kremlin\u2019s expansionist designs. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French id\u00e9ologie , from id\u00e9o- ideo- + -logie -logy",
"first_known_use":[
"1813, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-004648"
},
"idyll":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment",
": a narrative poem (such as Tennyson's Idylls of the King ) treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme",
": a lighthearted carefree episode that is a fit subject for an idyll",
": a romantic interlude"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al",
"British usually"
],
"synonyms":[
"binge",
"fling",
"frisk",
"frolic",
"gambol",
"lark",
"ploy",
"revel",
"rollick",
"romp",
"spree"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her year as a vineyard worker in the south of France was not the idyll that she had expected it to be",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After months of next to no infections, omicron shattered Hong Kong\u2019s virus-free idyll and caught authorities unprepared. \u2014 Shirley Zhao, Bloomberg.com , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The utopia of Dickens\u2019s fiction, also impossibly outdated today, maybe even outdated in 1850, is the domestic idyll . \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
"The Budapest of von Neumann\u2019s childhood, the fin of a buoyant si\u00e8cle, was a cosmopolitan idyll in which Jews were able to prosper, and the von Neumanns could afford tutors, country homes, and private libraries. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, The New Republic , 8 Mar. 2022",
"After an idyll punctuated by shoplifting, drunken nights and Nick\u2019s promiscuity, the twins return home, maintaining their estrangement from their mother. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Jan. 2022",
"The Kaufmann House, a Palm Springs idyll that Neutra built for the department-store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann\u2014who also commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s Fallingwater\u2014is on the market for $16.95 million. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 20 Sep. 2021",
"But there is disaster here, too, even in this suburban idyll : One girl confronts violence at home, another betrays her best friend, another grievously injures a teammate. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Nov. 2021",
"The part of the gun industry that Busse entered was, in his own telling, a kind of idyll . \u2014 Benjamin Wallace-wells, The New Yorker , 16 Nov. 2021",
"The arrival of professor Simon Lewis and his colleagues in Ikenge just months later would indeed upend this calm idyll tucked away in one of the world\u2019s remaining rainforests. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin idyllium , from Greek eidyllion , from diminutive of eidos form; akin to Greek idein to see \u2014 more at wit ",
"by and large the American colonists were not particularly tolerant of those who were regarded as idolaters",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The personification of those enthusiasms was the composer John Cage\u2014a student of Schoenberg, a devotee of Eastern thought, and an idolater of Duchamp. \u2014 Louis Menand, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Carpenter, like Valenti, was an idolater , but the journalists had the same feeling. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 4 Aug. 2021",
"His Wagner book, which placed its subject in the larger intellectual context of his times, infuriated idolaters , for whom the master could do no wrong. \u2014 Margalit Fox, New York Times , 18 May 2016"
": an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for \"undecided\") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way )",
": the language peculiar to a people or to a district, community, or class : dialect",
": the syntactical , grammatical , or structural form peculiar to a language",
": a style or form of artistic expression that is characteristic of an individual, a period or movement, or a medium or instrument",
": manner , style",
": an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8i-d\u0113-\u0259m",
"\u02c8i-d\u0113-\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[
"expression",
"phrase"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This idiom dates back 200 years to when people hunted with packs of dogs. \u2014 Marylou Tousignant, Washington Post , 30 May 2022",
"The new album from a singer known for constant reinvention is a subtle departure from her earlier work, dipping back into her intense, intimate idiom . \u2014 Mark Richardson, WSJ , 28 May 2022",
"The 250-room, gargoyle-sprouting ch\u00e2teau, designed in a French Renaissance idiom for George Washington Vanderbilt (1862-1914), was an otherworldly addition to the hardscrabble North Carolina upcountry of the 1890s. \u2014 Catesby Leigh, WSJ , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Subtlety is the shared idiom across WurlD\u2019s fusionist experiments. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 16 Mar. 2022",
"One size does not fit all with automobiles, and the same idiom applies to EV charging infrastructure. \u2014 Jordan Ramer, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"There\u2019s also an idiom that is attributed to printers\u2019 lingo: out of sorts. \u2014 Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor , 28 Feb. 2022",
"While in office, Trump had deployed an apocalyptic idiom that clashed dramatically with the libertarians' characteristic optimism. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 2 Feb. 2022",
"The Rams will put the age-old idiom about the third time being the charm to the test against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. \u2014 Adam Burke Vsin, Los Angeles Times , 28 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French idiome , from Late Latin idioma individual peculiarity of language, from Greek idi\u014dmat-, idi\u014dma , from idiousthai to appropriate, from idios ",
"first_known_use":[
"1575, in the meaning defined at sense 2a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-174814"
},
"identical":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": being the same : selfsame",
": having such close resemblance as to be essentially the same",
": having the same cause or origin",
": monozygotic",
": being one and the same",
": being exactly alike or equal",
": monozygotic"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u012b-\u02c8den-ti-k\u0259l",
"\u0259-",
"\u012b-\u02c8den-ti-k\u0259l",
"\u012b-\u02c8dent-i-k\u0259l, \u0259-"
],
"synonyms":[
"same",
"selfsame",
"very"
],
"antonyms":[
"another",
"different",
"other"
],
"examples":[
"We visited the identical place we stopped at last year.",
"They were wearing identical coats.",
"The boxes were identical in shape.",
"They drove virtually identical cars.",
"The results were identical to those of the first test.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The breakdown is nearly identical among Republicans or Republican-leaning individuals and Democrats or Democratic leaners. \u2014 Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"Twenty-two years on from the O.G. ensemble, J.Lo looked almost identical for her GMA appearance, only her hair\u2019s a little longer. \u2014 Elle Turner, Glamour , 10 June 2022",
"In 2019, 26 retired and 65 resigned, preceded by nearly identical numbers in 2018, according to district figures. \u2014 Lydia Morrell, Journal Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
"In 2018, Wiener introduced a nearly identical bill, SB 905, which managed to pass through both the Assembly and Senate but was vetoed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown. \u2014 Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times , 4 June 2022",
"While the iPhone 14 phones will look identical to the iPhone 13, feature the same notch, the same generation of chipset and the same rear cameras, the iPhone 14 Pro will have a new design, next-gen chipsets and massively upgraded cameras. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Kaardal also filed four nearly identical lawsuits challenging the grant money being awarded in four other heavily Democratic cities: Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha and Green Bay. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"It\u2019s also easy to find nearly identical photos of Backstreet Boys fans and Justin Bieber fans and One Direction fans and BTS fans\u2014but placing them side by side to highlight their similarity does not feel satisfying to me. \u2014 Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic , 30 May 2022",
"Those have exactly the same mutation as delta, while BA.2.12.1 has one that\u2019s nearly identical . \u2014 Laura Ungar, Anchorage Daily News , 27 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"probably from Medieval Latin identicus , from Late Latin identitas ",
"first_known_use":[
"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-095204"
},
"identifying":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to perceive or state the identity of (someone or something)",
": to ascertain the identity of (someone or something that is unfamiliar or unknown)",
": to determine the taxonomic position or category of (a biological specimen)",
": to conceive as united (as in spirit, outlook, or principle)",
": to cause to be or become identical",
": to feel a sense of unity (as of interests, purpose, or effect) and close emotional association : to engage in psychological identification",
": to have or assert an identity of a specified kind",
": to be or become the same",
": to find out or show the identity of",
": to feel empathy for",
": to think of as joined or associated with",
": to determine the taxonomic position of (a biological specimen)",
": to undergo or experience psychological identification",
": to consider as united or associated (as in interests or principles)",
": to establish the identity of",
": to specify or designate (goods) as the object of a contract"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u012b-\u02c8den-t\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b",
"\u0259-",
"\u012b-\u02c8den-t\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b",
"\u012b-\u02c8dent-\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b, \u0259-"
],
"synonyms":[
"distinguish",
"finger",
"ID",
"pinpoint",
"single (out)"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Police were later able to identify the man and theft charges were pending at the time of the report. \u2014 Brian Lisik, cleveland , 17 June 2022",
"Police have not been able to identify the second driver, who also left the scene. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 June 2022",
"More complex issues are automatically routed to the company\u2019s agents, with Webio\u2019s technology able to identify such cases through analysis of the chatbot conversation. \u2014 David Prosser, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Authorities were quickly able to identify Bass as a suspect through surveillance footage and witness statements, according to Almon. \u2014 Caroline Silva, ajc , 16 June 2022",
"Police followed the suspect's directions to human remains in the jungle, but forensic analysis to identify them has not yet been completed. \u2014 Rodrigo Pedroso And Camilo Rocha, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"The Sheriff\u2019s Office told reporters investigators have not yet been able to identify the body or cause of death. \u2014 Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"Despite only uncovering one bone, researchers were able to identify it as an abelisaurid by projections, called epipophyses, sticking out of either side, Live Science reports. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 June 2022",
"The research was also able to identify specific genetic risk regions for each subtype, as well as for migraine as a whole. \u2014 Madeleine Streets, SELF , 13 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1746, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-101718"
},
"idolatry":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the worship of a physical object as a god",
": immoderate attachment or devotion to something"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u012b-\u02c8d\u00e4-l\u0259-tr\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulation",
"deification",
"hero worship",
"idolization",
"worship",
"worshipping",
"worshiping"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her idolatry of her favorite rock star is one step removed from stalking",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"However, such idolatry might be inappropriate for a man who, as his son tells it, was less invested in his own celebrity than in organizing races, and participating in them into his mid 80s. \u2014 Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online , 6 Mar. 2021",
"There\u2019s nothing in this hellzapoppin lampoon to prevent one from remembering its Hollywood idolatry as The Unbearable Weight of Nicolas Cage. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Ultimately this phenomenon is a kind of idolatry , an attempt to be as God is. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 25 Mar. 2022",
"TikTok accounts \u2014 create an illusory sense of intimacy that fans would not necessarily experience with the objects of their idolatry a century, or even a decade, ago. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"There is plenty of important work to be done in diagnosing and correcting what ails portions of the Evangelical right \u2014 extreme polarization, political idolatry , susceptibility to demagoguery, etc. \u2014 Brian G. Mattson, National Review , 20 Feb. 2022",
"This is idolatry , this willingness to blame God for the morally wrong choices of humans. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 Feb. 2022",
"There is a temptation when discussing culturally significant and exalted figures like poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka to speak with an air of unfettered worship \u2014 to move past humanity and instead towards idolatry . \u2014 Sarah-tai Black, Los Angeles Times , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Spencer itself is only a half-bad movie, promoting idolatry for a public that has lost respect for tradition and that has no sense of duty or sense of occasion. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 10 Nov. 2021"
],
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"\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al"
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"an actor who is the idol of millions",
"a movie idol whose reprehensible offscreen behavior caused him to experience a spectacular fall from grace",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Drea uses her Knowledge Is Power advantage to try and take Mike\u2019s immunity idol . \u2014 Mike Rose, cleveland , 18 May 2022",
"Disney Miguel is an aspiring young musician who wants to play like Ernesto de La Cruz, Miguel\u2019s idol . \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
"Willy, whose golfing idol is Jordan Spieth, is also considered the team\u2019s best putter. \u2014 Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 May 2022",
"That cascaded into a wild tribal vote: One player tried to steal a second player\u2019s immunity idol only to have the power play backfire because of a doublecross executed by a third player. \u2014 al , 11 May 2022",
"Friday: Alcaraz powered past countryman/ idol Nadal in three sets, 6-2, 1-6, 6-3, outmuscling the 35-year-old lefty on his preferred surface. \u2014 Jason Gay, WSJ , 9 May 2022",
"ByteDance has invested in a couple of digital human and virtual idol startups over the past two years. \u2014 Nina Xiang, Forbes , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Not only that, but Brady has pocketed only $333 million overall during an NFL career that has pushed him past his idol named Joe Montana as the league\u2019s all-time greatest quarterback. \u2014 Terence Moore, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"This doc is centered on Grammy-winner Brandi Carlile, a longtime Tucker fan, who takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her idol about Tucker's raucous and rebel life. \u2014 Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY , 5 May 2022"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
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": an entity (such as a thought, concept, sensation, or image) actually or potentially present to consciousness",
": an indefinite or unformed conception",
": an image recalled by memory",
": an image in Mind",
": a visible representation of a conception : a replica of a pattern",
": a thought or plan about what to do",
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": a formulated thought or opinion"
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"-\u02c8d\u0113\u0259",
"also",
"or",
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"\u012b-\u02c8d\u0113-\u0259",
"\u02c8\u012bd-(\u02cc)\u0113-\u0259"
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"cogitation",
"concept",
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"mind's eye",
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"picture",
"thought"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Still, several said lowering property taxes could be a good idea \u2014 with some caveats. \u2014 Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun , 21 June 2022",
"Like that other famous city, Los Angeles is always a good idea . \u2014 Vogue , 21 June 2022",
"Replacing the Stadium Freeway with a road which connects to surrounding properties \u2014 including American Family Field's parking lots \u2014 is a good idea worth studying, a Milwaukee Brewers executive says. \u2014 Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel , 21 June 2022",
"But yes \u2013 removing them from the album would be a good idea . \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 21 June 2022",
"But yes \u2013 removing them from the album would be a good idea . \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 21 June 2022",
"Here are 5 reasons why student loan forgiveness is a bad idea , according to a top Republican U.S. senator. \u2014 Zack Friedman, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"Here's a pro tip: Having two different signatures is a good idea . \u2014 Kim Komando, USA TODAY , 19 June 2022",
"Created in 1872 as the United States was recovering from the Civil War, Yellowstone was the first of the national parks that came to be referred to as America\u2019s best idea . \u2014 Lindsay Whitehurst, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4c"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-194957"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
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": a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality",
": individual hypersensitiveness (as to a drug or food)",
": characteristic peculiarity (as of temperament)",
": eccentricity",
": an unusual way of behaving or thinking that is characteristic of a person",
": a peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament",
": individual hypersensitiveness (as to a drug or food)"
"Her habit of using \u201clike\u201d in every sentence was just one of her idiosyncrasies .",
"The current system has a few idiosyncracies .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But as the broader culture becomes less tolerant of public displays of anger, and with an increasing number of close calls on the court, racket smashing suddenly no longer seems like an entertaining idiosyncrasy . \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The performance-art aspect of the project is matched by the idiosyncrasy of the inventory. \u2014 Naomi Fry, The New Yorker , 5 Feb. 2022",
"On its stage vanishes \u2026 An idiosyncrasy of the book is Gorman\u2019s fondness for didactic digressions. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Of course, the candid conversations reveal some of the artists' idiosyncrasies . \u2014 Amir Vera, CNN , 23 May 2020",
"What would the idiosyncrasies of my park date\u2019s body be? \u2014 Alexandra Jones, refinery29.com , 19 May 2020",
"The for-profit world can\u2019t afford idiosyncrasies like these. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 11 Apr. 2020",
"According to Reich, who directs one of the FluSight Network\u2019s four participating teams, the ensemble approaches make optimal use of the component models\u2019 idiosyncrasies . \u2014 Charles Schmidt, Scientific American , 18 Sep. 2019",
"The lack of a sea change in court partly has to do with the idiosyncrasies of musical copyright. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 13 June 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Greek idiosynkrasia , from idio- + synkerannynai to blend, from syn- + kerannynai to mingle, mix \u2014 more at crater ",
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"1604, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-104851"
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"adverb"
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": conformably to or in respect to an ideal : perfectly",
": for best results",
": in accordance with an ideal or typical standard : classically",
": in relation to an exemplar",
": in idea or imagination : mentally"
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"\u012b-\u02c8d\u0113-\u0259-l\u0113",
"-\u02c8d\u0113(-\u0259)l-l\u0113"
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"faultlessly",
"flawlessly",
"immaculately",
"impeccably",
"pat",
"perfectly"
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"badly",
"defectively",
"faultily",
"imperfectly"
],
"examples":[
"His skills made him ideally suited for the job.",
"They were ideally suited to one another.",
"The ski slope was situated ideally .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Legal experts say companies should notify users when a court or government agency asks them for data, ideally before complying with the request. \u2014 Nicole Nguyen, WSJ , 19 June 2022",
"The goal of the Jan. 6 committee hearings is to impart information and tell the whole story of what really happened that day, and ideally , to reach as many in the American electorate as possible. \u2014 Jessica Maddox, The Conversation , 17 June 2022",
"The solution would ideally dispose of the Styrofoam or digest it in a way that allows new plastic products to be created, thereby reducing the need for new plastic materials, Rinke said. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Partnerships like this are essential when trying to bring new technology like autonomous driving to market\u2014cooperation in the development phase ideally helps to ensure all the different pieces ultimately play well together. \u2014 Patrick Moorhead, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"The next running drill should ideally be done on a track or a half-mile stretch of road. \u2014 Ali Nolan, SELF , 16 June 2022",
"With Saudi Arabia as the world's top exporter of oil, Mr. Biden could use the visit to ask the kingdom to help stabilize oil markets, ideally lowering prices back in the U.S. \u2014 Melissa Quinn, CBS News , 14 June 2022",
"The Aggies hope their Omaha venture pushes into days \u2014 ideally 10 for them in angling for the program\u2019s first national title. \u2014 Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News , 14 June 2022",
"Yet another assault on the supply side \u2014 the increase in the regulatory burden imposed on corporations since Joe Biden took office \u2014 should be halted (and, ideally , put into reverse). \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 13 June 2022"
],
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"1598, in the meaning defined at sense 3"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-131839"
},
"id\u00e9e fixe":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a usually delusional idea that dominates the whole mental life during a prolonged period (as in certain mental disorders)"
],
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"(\u02cc)\u0113-\u02ccd\u0101-\u02c8f\u0113ks",
"(\u02cc)\u0113-\u02ccd\u0101-\u02c8f\u0113ks"
],
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"fetish",
"fetich",
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"mania",
"obsession",
"preoccupation",
"prepossession"
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"examples":[
"had this bizarre id\u00e9e fixe that people were spying on her with electromagnetic waves"
": to give ideal form or value to : attribute ideal characteristics of excellence to"
],
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],
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"glamourize",
"glamour (up)",
"glorify",
"romanticize"
],
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"deglamorize"
],
"examples":[
"She tends to idealize her job.",
"he had a tendency to idealize his heroes and believe they could do no wrong",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This process encourages people, especially women, to idealize certain kinds of body types and to try to achieve them. \u2014 Mark Travers, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"And so we both sort of fetishize and idealize really excellent musicians from abroad and kind of have our own kind of, Oh, but what about our homegrown soloists? \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Letting go of a lost cause has two difficult and complicated steps, oversimplified as follows: Fill up your life meaningfully without this person, and resist the temptation to idealize what isn\u2019t there. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Krasner, with his frank, no-nonsense rhetoric and his indifference to tradition, is easy to idealize . \u2014 Anna Boots, The New Yorker , 6 Aug. 2021",
"But in her willingness to confront these authoritarian experiments, Colley refuses to idealize constitutions. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 May 2021",
"Procrastinators often idealize their future selves, just like Eoin did. \u2014 Eoin O'carroll, The Christian Science Monitor , 12 Apr. 2021",
"Americans often idealize scientists as unbiased, objective observers. \u2014 Popular Science , 28 Sep. 2020",
"Make no mistake, Ray said: the goal is to not to idealize Comey. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Sep. 2020"
],
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"1786, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-145620"
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"noun"
],
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": an idea considered as a real factor in the behavior of an individual or social group and thus in the course of events"
],
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"-\u02c8f\u014d(\u0259)rs"
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"history_and_etymology":"French, from id\u00e9e idea + force ",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-154137"
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"noun"
],
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": the quality or state of being ideal",
": existence only in idea",
": something imaginary or idealized"
],
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"\u02cc\u012b-d\u0113-\u02c8a-l\u0259-t\u0113"
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"1701, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-155436"
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"1798, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-164615"
},
"ideal point":{
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"noun"
],
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": a point added to the plane or to space to eliminate special cases",
": the point at infinity added in projective geometry as the assumed intersection of two parallel lines"
],
"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That\u2019s why new ESG reporting activities represent an ideal point of engagement for the internal audit group. \u2014 Jim Deloach, Forbes , 21 Sep. 2021",
"Now is an ideal point in time for self-reflection and improved understanding. \u2014 Michael J. Francis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 Apr. 2020",
"This new collection, which ranges from post-World War I Germany to the New Jersey Pine Barrens, serves as an ideal point of entry to that world. \u2014 Bill Sheehan, Washington Post , 29 Oct. 2019",
"Wyant believes Puerto Rico's coaching staff is getting the ideal point guard. \u2014 Shelby Dermer, Cincinnati.com , 6 June 2018",
"The defending back-to-back state softball champions have turned the corner at the most ideal point in the season. \u2014 J.c. Carnahan, OrlandoSentinel.com , 25 Apr. 2018",
"But good and bad coaches are separated by more than just the ability to recognize something from a less-than- ideal point of view. \u2014 Steven Ruiz, For The Win , 3 Apr. 2018",
"That\u2019s part of why Moore saw Yost as an ideal point of stability with so much else fluid. \u2014 Vahe Gregorian, kansascity , 22 Mar. 2018",
"Since the plant takes seven to eight years to reach full maturity, the ideal point at which agave farmers harvest them for tequila, some farmers have resorted to pulling their plants early, before the agave is fully mature. \u2014 Arianna Auber, ajc , 8 Feb. 2018"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1879, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-165400"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one who spends time idly : an idle, inactive, or lazy person",
": idler pulley",
": idler wheel"
],
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"\u02c8\u012bd-l\u0259r",
"\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al-\u0259r"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-172901"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a man of substance who does not need to work for a living"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-m\u0259n"
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"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-181832"
},
"idler gear":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a gear placed between a driving and a driven gear to transfer motion without change of direction or gear ratio",
": a gear for support or guidance instead of power transmission"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-192258"
},
"Idiosepiidae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a family of squids that includes a single tiny squid ( Idiosepius pygmaeus or Idiosepion pygmaeum ) of the Indian ocean which lacks an internal shell and is considerably less than an inch in length"
"He says that the election is not about ideology .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Gidwitz echoes an establishment lament over the years \u2014 the desire among some on the far right to prefer purity of ideology over electability, satisfied in the end to portray themselves as political martyrs for a greater cause. \u2014 Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"Official attitudes toward emigration, once seen as a betrayal of socialist ideology during the early years of the People\u2019s Republic of China, have loosened over the years. \u2014 Lyric Li, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"There's always some kind of clash of culture, of ideology , of background, of loyalty, of legacy, that each person in the couple brings into the room. \u2014 Kovie Biakolo, ELLE , 11 June 2022",
"Tired of ideology taking precedence over real, nuts-and-bolts progress. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 June 2022",
"Tucker and similar proponents of this evil ideology continue to poison the minds of millions. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 7 June 2022",
"Elements of these individuals' ideology may expose themselves online. \u2014 Byjohn Cohen, ABC News , 21 May 2022",
"For proponents of this ideology , gaining control of the government goes beyond elections. \u2014 Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker , 21 May 2022",
"To his critics, the arrangement has made Kirill far more than another apparatchik, oligarch or enabler of Mr. Putin, but an essential part of the nationalist ideology at the heart of the Kremlin\u2019s expansionist designs. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French id\u00e9ologie , from id\u00e9o- ideo- + -logie -logy",
"first_known_use":[
"1813, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-003658"
},
"idealize":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to attribute ideal characteristics to",
": to give an ideal form or value to",
": to treat idealistically",
": to form ideals",
": to work idealistically",
": to give ideal form or value to : attribute ideal characteristics of excellence to"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u012b-\u02c8d\u0113-(\u0259-)\u02ccl\u012bz"
],
"synonyms":[
"glamorize",
"glamourize",
"glamour (up)",
"glorify",
"romanticize"
],
"antonyms":[
"deglamorize"
],
"examples":[
"She tends to idealize her job.",
"he had a tendency to idealize his heroes and believe they could do no wrong",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This process encourages people, especially women, to idealize certain kinds of body types and to try to achieve them. \u2014 Mark Travers, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"And so we both sort of fetishize and idealize really excellent musicians from abroad and kind of have our own kind of, Oh, but what about our homegrown soloists? \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Letting go of a lost cause has two difficult and complicated steps, oversimplified as follows: Fill up your life meaningfully without this person, and resist the temptation to idealize what isn\u2019t there. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Krasner, with his frank, no-nonsense rhetoric and his indifference to tradition, is easy to idealize . \u2014 Anna Boots, The New Yorker , 6 Aug. 2021",
"But in her willingness to confront these authoritarian experiments, Colley refuses to idealize constitutions. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 May 2021",
"Procrastinators often idealize their future selves, just like Eoin did. \u2014 Eoin O'carroll, The Christian Science Monitor , 12 Apr. 2021",
"Americans often idealize scientists as unbiased, objective observers. \u2014 Popular Science , 28 Sep. 2020",
"Make no mistake, Ray said: the goal is to not to idealize Comey. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Sep. 2020"
],
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"abbreviation",
"noun suffix"
],
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": chemical compound derived from or related to another (usually specified) compound"
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"history_and_etymology":"Noun suffix",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-051523"
},
"idlehood":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": idleness"
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"noun"
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],
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"noun"
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"1817, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-134612"
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],
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-173645"
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"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": self-regulating"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Late Greek idiorrhythm os (from Greek idio- + rhythmos measured motion, measure, proportion) + English -ic"
],
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"1862, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-192839"
},
"ideatum":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea"
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"New Latin, from Latin idea + -atum , neuter of -atus -ate"
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"circa 1708, in the meaning defined above"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a solution in which the interaction between molecules of the components does not differ from the interactions between the molecules of each component",
": a solution that conforms exactly to Raoult's law \u2014 compare activity sense 6b , activity coefficient , fugacity sense 2b"
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"1908, in the meaning defined above"
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"adjective",
"noun"
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": any of a class of musical instruments (such as a bell or gong) whose sound is generated by striking, rubbing, plucking, or blowing the material of the instrument itself not under any special tension \u2014 compare aerophone , chordophone , electrophone , lamellophone , membranophone"
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"\u02c8id\u0113\u0259\u02ccf\u014dn"
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"German idiophon , from idio- + -phon -phone"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1940, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-055531"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":[
": foolish , stupid , silly",
": out of one's head : delirious , crazy"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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": not reflex but motivated by an idea",
": not reflex but motivated by an idea",
": of, relating to, or concerned with ideomotor activity"
": exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6id\u0113\u00a6\u00e4f\u0259n\u0259s"
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"idio- + phan- (from Greek phainein to show) + -ous"
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"1892, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-175623"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a wheel, gear, or roller used to transfer motion or to guide or support something",
": idler pulley"
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"first_known_use":[
"1929, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-175657"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": idler"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"idle entry 1 + -by (as in the name Crosby )"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-180739"
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"ideaistic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": relating to, concerned with, or based on ideas especially as abstract or symbolic matters of mind"
],
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"(\u00a6)\u012b\u00a6d\u0113\u0259\u00a6istik",
"\u00a6\u012bd\u0113\u00a6i-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-202224"
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"idiopathic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
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"definitions":[
": arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause : primary",
": peculiar to the individual",
": arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause : primary"
],
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"\u02cci-d\u0113-\u0259-\u02c8pa-thik",
"\u02ccid-\u0113-\u0259-\u02c8path-ik"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its candidate drug to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis was the first to be both discovered and designed using AI, and is currently in Phase 1 trials. \u2014 Calum Chace, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Insilico already has one A.I.-designed drug in initial human clinical trials, a compound designed to treat the chronic lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. \u2014 Jeremy Kahn, Fortune , 27 May 2022",
"Her friends have not adjusted to the fact of her illness \u2014 idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis deteriorates her lung capacity \u2014 and that manifests in a humiliating skittishness and avoidance. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 May 2022",
"In one example, a 6-year-old girl who had started developing breasts was given an MRI scan and an abdominal ultrasound to check for tumors before being declared a case of idiopathic early puberty. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Systematic surveys of that information, analysis of idiopathic respiratory cases that appeared at hospitals, not only in Wuhan, but in the surrounding communities ... \u2014 A. Chris Gajilan, CNN , 19 Sep. 2021",
"Biotech startup, launched in 2021, is pursuing a pipeline of precision medicines in oncology and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Feb. 2022",
"In 1986, then 20 years old, the single mother of two was diagnosed with idiopathic cardiomyopathy. \u2014 Michael Roppolo, CBS News , 17 Sep. 2021",
"At the time of the surgery, Ms. Baisey, a single mother of two who lived in Washington\u2019s Anacostia neighborhood, was dying of idiopathic cardiomyopathy; her heart was swollen and failing for undiagnosed reasons. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Sep. 2021"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1669, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-205956"
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"ideal truth":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": normative truth"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-082047"
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"id\u00e9es re\u00e7ues":{
"type":[
"French noun"
],
"definitions":[
": accepted ideas : conventional opinions"
],
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"\u0113-d\u0101r-(\u0259-)s\u1d6b"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-185719"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
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": not occupied or employed: such as",
": having no employment : inactive",
": not turned to normal or appropriate use",
": not scheduled to compete",
": lacking worth or basis : vain",
": shiftless , lazy",
": having no evident lawful means of support",
": to run at low power and often disconnected usually so that power is not used for useful work",
": to spend time in idleness",
": to move idly",
": to pass in idleness",
": to cause to idle",
": to make idle",
": not working or in use",
": lazy sense 1",
": not based on anything real or serious",
": to spend time doing nothing",
": to run without being connected for doing useful work"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al",
"\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al"
],
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"dead",
"dormant",
"fallow",
"free",
"inactive",
"inert",
"inoperative",
"latent",
"off",
"unused",
"vacant"
],
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"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drone",
"footle",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around ",
"hang about",
"kick around",
"kick back",
"laze",
"lazy",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"veg out"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Delays and cancellations can push up fuel consumption and costs as aircraft idle on the tarmac waiting for a spot to open up for either takeoff or deplaning. \u2014 Tom Stalnaker, CNN , 22 June 2022",
"Vice was Monaco\u2019s true draw, no longer just a sport of the idle rich, but an aspirational avocation for the middle class. \u2014 Lauren Groff, The Atlantic , 21 June 2022",
"CMPs offer enterprises a variety of savings strategies\u2014suggesting steps such as terminating unused or idle instances or rightsizing cloud capacity per need. \u2014 David Drai, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Buses, trains, airports, government offices and public companies came to a halt as hundreds of thousands of workers went idle , called off the job by the powerful Tunisian General Labor Union, which represents more than a million workers. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"Though most wells have been capped, dozens owned by companies such as Southern California Gas Co., Chevron and Sentinel Peak Resources remain either idle or active. \u2014 Jonah Valdezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"Should the Fed be encouraging financial institutions to keep money idle in depository accounts? \u2014 Judy Shelton, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"This is idle music, meant to insulate an active mind\u2014to help the listener focus, sleep, and live better. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 2 June 2022",
"Due to low water levels, a line of sailboats sits idle in the parking lot \u2014 but the Great Salt Lake Rowing Club is far from giving up their favorite spot. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The company has told drivers not to idle when possible, but turning trucks on and off also uses more fuel. \u2014 Sean Mcdonnell, cleveland , 14 June 2022",
"Auto manufacturers worldwide have had to idle factories and slash output as a result, causing shortages of new and used cars. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Auto manufacturers worldwide have had to idle factories and slash output as a result, causing shortages of new and used cars. \u2014 Jeanne Whalen, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Jan. 2022",
"An AvtoVAZ spokesman said the company planned to idle its plants until at least March 11 due to the global chip shortage that has affected car makers world-wide. \u2014 Nick Kostov And Evan Gershkovich, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Many Western nations have instituted sanctions against Russia, prompting many companies to idle operations there. \u2014 Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Next year, the Bay Area Toll Authority, which operates the seven toll bridges owned by Caltrans, plans to start ripping out tollbooths and narrowing the multi-lane plazas where cars idle , waiting to pay tolls. \u2014 Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Protesters objecting to Covid safety measures continue to idle trucks and camp out in downtown Ottawa, though blockades at the Canadian-U.S. border are standing down. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 19 Feb. 2022",
"The chip drought has led to widespread disruptions, including forcing car makers lacking chips to idle plants and driving up prices for some electronic goods. \u2014 Meghan Bobrowsky, WSJ , 26 Jan. 2022"
],
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"Adjective",
"Middle English idel , from Old English \u012bdel ; akin to Old High German \u012btal worthless"
],
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2",
"Verb",
"1592, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 2a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-024747"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an onomatopoeic element functioning as part of distinct word class especially in African languages"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8id\u0113\u0259\u02ccf\u014dn"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"ideo- + -phone"
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"first_known_use":[
"1935, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-071956"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": ideational"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u012b\u02c8d\u0113\u0259tiv",
"\u02c8\u012bd\u0113\u02cc\u0101t-"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"ideate entry 1 + -ive"
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"first_known_use":[
"1852, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-072731"
},
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"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of idein variant spelling of idaein"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-084735"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to worship as a god",
": to love or admire to excess",
": to practice idolatry",
": to love or admire greatly : make an idol of"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u012b-d\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz",
"\u02c8\u012b-d\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
],
"synonyms":[
"adore",
"adulate",
"canonize",
"deify",
"dote (on)",
"hero-worship",
"worship"
],
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"examples":[
"an actor who is idolized by millions",
"she blindly idolized her older sister, refusing to acknowledge her considerable faults",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lawrence is correct: Bauer isn\u2019t a kindergarten teacher \u2014 his sphere of influence as a pro ballplayer extends far beyond one classroom to millions of fans \u2014 including impressionable children who idolize pro athletes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
"More politics Jackson and Kamala Harris idolize civil rights lawyers like Constance Baker Motley. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"These recent television moments depart from typical Hollywood storylines that celebrate and idolize youth and physical fitness. \u2014 Ai-jen Poo, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Dave Attell, one of those comedians that other comedians idolize , is at Foxwoods Resort Casino\u2019s Great Cedar Showroom, 350 Trolley Line Blvd., Mashantucket. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Treat church leaders at all levels as respected persons, but do not idolize them. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Jan. 2022",
"Despite the popularity of Manchester United in Norway, the young B\u00f8e Risa was not one to follow soccer on television or idolize any of the players. \u2014 Asif Burhan, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
"In July, analysts with the country\u2019s intelligence services warned that a decade after the 2011 attack, there are young men and boys who idolize the gunman. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
"In an industry obsessed with physical appearances and beauty standards that idolize able-bodiedness, prejudice -- though not always as blatant as that recounted by Snell -- has always been part of the casting process. \u2014 Lottie Jackson, CNN , 29 Sep. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1598, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-092631"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the capacity for or the act of forming or entertaining ideas",
": the capacity for or the act of forming or entertaining ideas"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u012b-d\u0113-\u02c8\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"\u02cc\u012bd-\u0113-\u02c8\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[
"contrivance",
"creativity",
"fancy",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"imagination",
"imaginativeness",
"invention",
"inventiveness",
"originality"
],
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"examples":[
"caregivers are trained to watch for signs of depression and suicidal ideation \u2014some patients are likely to put their fantasies to action",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As the event\u2019s creative director, Bivins will oversee ideation and strategy initiatives to build the brand long-term. \u2014 Gail Mitchell, Billboard , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Better still, by including their employees in the ideation and innovation process, the company has kept its workforce engaged and learning. \u2014 Alex Salkever, Fortune , 18 Mar. 2022",
"David Deloso will be a newsroom engineer on the DevHub, focused on front-end design and development projects, product ideation and storytelling experiences. \u2014 Sfchronicle Pr, San Francisco Chronicle , 18 Feb. 2022",
"This includes knowledge sharing, networking, ideation and problem solving. \u2014 Keahn Gary, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Many fans felt the phrasing rang true, given Naomi's openness about her struggles with depression and suicidal ideation . \u2014 Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY , 3 May 2022",
"On Brun's battle with depression and suicidal ideation is one that an increasing number of kids and teens have been facing. \u2014 Bydr. Jennifer Ashton,glenn Ruppel,ivan Pereira, ABC News , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Beyond the threat of Covid-19, health workers, and nurses especially, have suffered from overwork, intense burnout, and rates of depression and suicidal ideation far greater than in the general population. \u2014 Lev Facher, STAT , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Indeed, leading suicide theories and most empirical studies have largely focussed on adults, even though rates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts are high during late childhood and escalate dramatically in adolescence. \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1818, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-093643"
},
"IDK":{
"type":[
"abbreviation"
],
"definitions":[
"I don't know"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-102816"
},
"idleset":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": idleness"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"idle entry 1 + set (setting)"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-113325"
},
"idolist":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": idolater sense 1":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u0259\u0307st"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105113"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)\u012b\u00a6d\u0113\u0259\u0307st",
"\u02c8\u012bd\u0113\u0259\u0307-"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"idea + -ist":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1697, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105548"
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"idlesse":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the quality or state of being idle : idleness":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u012bd-l\u0259s",
"\u012bd-\u02c8les"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from idle + -esse (as in richesse wealth) \u2014 more at riches":""
