"political organization which came into being in 1951 to defend and strengthen cooperation among its members (now Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba [in name only], Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela)"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
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": of, relating to, or being the period between the Cambrian and the Silurian or the corresponding system of rocks \u2014 see Geologic Time Table"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u022fr-d\u0259-\u02c8vi-sh\u0259n"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin Ordovices , ancient people in northern Wales"
],
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"1879, in the meaning defined above"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a slender short-haired domestic cat of a breed resembling the Siamese in conformation but having a solid-colored coat in a wide range of colors"
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"1974, in the meaning defined above"
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"geographical name"
],
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"organization established in 1960 to coordinate petroleum policies among its members (now Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-122457"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a genus (the type of the family Orchestiidae) of semiterrestrial amphipod cructaceans comprising the widely distributed beach fleas of sandy seacoasts"
],
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"\u022f(r)\u02c8kest\u0113\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, from Greek orch\u0113st\u0113s dancer (from orcheisthai to dance, leap) + New Latin -ia"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-183451"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": feast of orthodoxy"
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"geographical name"
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"definitions":[
"city in Transylvania in northwestern Romania near the border with Hungary population 196,367"
],
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"\u022f-\u02c8r\u00e4-d\u0113-\u0259"
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"Orthodox Judaism":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": Judaism that adheres to the Torah and Talmud as interpreted in an authoritative rabbinic law code and applies their principles and regulations to modern living \u2014 compare conservative judaism , reform judaism"
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"1904, in the meaning defined above"
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"Oriental rug":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a handwoven or hand-knotted one-piece rug or carpet made in a country of central or southern Asia"
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"1878, in the meaning defined above"
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"noun"
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": to speak in an elevated and often pompous manner"
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"\u022f-\u02c8r\u0101t",
"\u02c8\u022fr-\u02cc\u0101t"
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"declaim",
"discourse",
"harangue",
"mouth (off)",
"perorate"
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"examples":[
"given the opportunity, many politicians will orate at considerable length on just about any subject",
"the respected anthropologist is expected to orate about her latest research findings before a packed auditorium",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Marsha, Nate, and Jacob stand on the balcony as Cal begins to orate . \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 31 Jan. 2022",
"The surest way to get yanked off the stage \u2014 any stage \u2014 is to clear one\u2019s throat and begin to orate . \u2014 Washington Post , 9 July 2021",
"My cousin, a single mom, had moved back in with my aunt and uncle, and everyone was helping her raise Jiajia \u2014 a precocious three-year-old who orated rather than babbled, and loved instructions, dogs, and Fruit-by-the-Foot. \u2014 Connie Wang, refinery29.com , 10 Feb. 2020",
"The earliest evidence of it in American written English stems from about the same period that the constitutional framers Collins was referencing were orating , in a 1795 newspaper account from the Charleston City Gazette. \u2014 Ephrat Livni, Quartz , 19 Dec. 2019",
"Your professor holds forth in class, lecturing, orating , gesturing, bantering \u2014 equal parts pedagogue and performer. \u2014 Alfred Lubrano, Philly.com , 11 July 2018",
"Nobody has a right to snatch his 52-million-follower soapbox and begin orating , right? \u2014 Garrett Epps, The Atlantic , 24 May 2018",
"Indeed, Duncan, at times, has angrily orated from the bench, especially after reading an article written by a KJZZ reporter suggesting that Corizon and ADC were possibly gaming the system. \u2014 Michael Kiefer, azcentral , 27 Mar. 2018",
"The others, including Carey Mulligan\u2019s Detective Inspector Kip Glaspie and John Simm\u2019s Labor politician David Mars, either apologize or orate furiously about moral duty, soapbox-style. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 10 Mar. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"back-formation from oration ",
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"1864, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-210542"
},
"oration":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an elaborate discourse (see discourse entry 1 sense 2 ) delivered in a formal and dignified manner",
": an important speech given on a special occasion"
],
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"\u0259-\u02c8r\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"\u022f-",
"\u0259-\u02c8r\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
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"address",
"declamation",
"harangue",
"peroration",
"speech",
"talk"
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"examples":[
"She made an oration on the value of art in society.",
"the celebrated orations of Daniel Webster in unwavering support of the federal union",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With jokes, sly smiles and a gift for oration , this version of Mickey can win over any jury. \u2014 Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY , 13 May 2022",
"The second half of the concert was given over to Shostakovich\u2019s Tenth Symphony, a monumental oration by the living titan of Soviet composers. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The ship\u2019s owner, the Bangladesh Shipping Corp oration , instructed Capt. \u2014 Benoit Faucon And Joe Parkinson, WSJ , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Even Pericles\u2019 funeral oration , that masterful defense of ancient Athenian democracy, was in some sense propaganda. \u2014 Dan Mclaughlin, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022",
"In between his oration , Douglas pauses to perform some of his songs, often in unexpected settings. \u2014 Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone , 21 Feb. 2022",
"In 1832, on his 100th birthday, Chief Justice John Marshall was invited by a Henry Clay\u2013led congressional delegation to give an oration on Capitol Hill. \u2014 Dan Mclaughlin, National Review , 21 Feb. 2022",
"Scott is clearly drawn to monologue and poetic oration , but his greatest gifts lie in scripting complex interactions. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 13 Oct. 2021",
"His body language delivers an oration of smiles, smirks, scowls, and snarls. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 6 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin oration-, oratio speech, oration, from orare to plead, speak, pray; akin to Hittite ariya- to consult an oracle and perhaps to Greek ara prayer",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1504, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-201402"
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"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"of, relating to, or characteristic of an orator or oratory"
"a speech that was an oratorical endorsement of the value of education but one that refused to call for greater spending on education",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Vice presidents are rarely celebrated for their oratorical style, or for anything else. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 31 Mar. 2022",
"M\u00e9lenchon has an undeniable oratorical gift, even if his eloquence often reads like the antiquated anti-capitalist sermon of a nineteenth-century Marxist magically transplanted to the twenty-first century. \u2014 Arthur Goldhammer, The New Republic , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Biden could combine the political talents of FDR and Reagan, the oratorical skills of Lincoln and JFK, and the common touch of Jackson and Truman, and this sense of falling behind would still be eating away at the foundations of his presidency. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The measure prohibits discourses, lectures, songs, and other public demonstrations of an oratorical or musical nature and so includes the Salvation army and the campaign stumper, as well as the Socialists and the Industrial Workers of the World. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Still, his oratorical skills, unflagging enthusiasm and abiding sense of faith made him for many an irresistible figure. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Dec. 2021",
"But Tutu\u2019s oratorical skills and powerful intellect were undeniable. \u2014 Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times , 26 Dec. 2021",
"His prose has an oratorical flair, like a vinous soliloquy summoning us to enjoy the pleasures of the grape. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Nov. 2021",
"These sermons had only a few hundred more words than those from within the evangelical tradition, a detail that suggests oratorical style or musical interludes might be contributing to their length. \u2014 Casey Cep, The New Yorker , 7 Oct. 2021"
],
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"1589, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-162558"
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()"
],
"definitions":[
": a place of prayer",
": a private or institutional chapel",
": an Oratorian congregation, house, or church",
": the art of speaking in public eloquently or effectively",
": public speaking that employs oratory",
": public speaking that is characterized by the use of stock phrases and that appeals chiefly to the emotions",
": the art of making speeches",
": the style of language used in important speeches"
],
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"\u02c8\u022fr-\u0259-\u02cct\u022fr-\u0113",
"\u02c8\u00e4r-",
"\u02c8\u022fr-\u0259-\u02cct\u022fr-\u0113"
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"history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
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"Noun (1)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (2)",
"circa 1522, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-173442"
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"orb":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": any of the concentric spheres in old astronomy surrounding the earth and carrying the celestial bodies in their revolutions",
": something circular : circle , orbit",
": a spherical body",
": a spherical celestial object",
": eye",
": a sphere surmounted by a cross symbolizing kingly power and justice",
": to form into a disk or circle",
": encircle , surround , enclose",
": to move in an orbit",
": something in the shape of a ball (as a planet or the eye)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u022frb",
"\u02c8\u022frb"
],
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"ball",
"globe",
"sphere"
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"Noun",
"The moon was a silvery orb .",
"out of the countless celestial orbs twirling in space, the planet Earth remains the only one we can call home, so perhaps we should take care of it",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"To learn how spiders build webs, the researchers used A.I. to track the legs and see exactly how the orb weavers interacted with their webs over time. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 9 Apr. 2022",
"The garden variety orb weavers build a new web each night to avoid being dinner for birds during the day. \u2014 Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 31 Oct. 2021",
"While the widows and the orb -weavers both use webs to catch snakes, the tarantulas actually stalk their prey on the ground, eventually pouncing and hanging onto the thrashing snake for dear life until their venom takes effect. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 Aug. 2021",
"A month ago, a group of activists, historians and mourners gathered at Ravensbr\u00fcck to dedicate an orb of remembrance for lesbian victims of the Holocaust. \u2014 Samuel Huneke, CNN , 2 June 2022",
"Picking up an orb while in max power will now give it suppression. \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Of all the recent bagel pop-ups, Midnite\u2019s bagels are the most unusual, like an artisanal sourdough bread shaped into an orb . \u2014 Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The general population goes into a panic every time Emmerich cranks up the volume and cuts to an orb lurking ominously in the background like a slasher-film killer. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 3 Feb. 2022",
"All by itself the tiny bit of shading under the outside corner of his left eye conveys an impression of the muscles keeping the orb alert, missing nothing. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Despite it being named the Pink Moon, don't expect to see the giant orb in that exact shade. \u2014 Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
"To create a small foyer of sorts, Eckley hung silver orb planters that catch the light but don\u2019t completely wall off the space from the rest of the garden. \u2014 Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine , 14 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
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"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1600, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-221811"
},
"ordain":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to invest (see invest entry 2 sense 1 ) officially (as by the laying on of hands) with ministerial or priestly authority",
": to establish or order by appointment, decree, or law : enact",
": destine , foreordain",
": to issue an order",
": decree entry 2",
": to make a person a Christian minister or priest by a special ceremony"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u022fr-\u02c8d\u0101n",
"\u022fr-\u02c8d\u0101n"
],
"synonyms":[
"destine",
"doom",
"fate",
"foredoom",
"foreordain",
"predestine",
"predetermine",
"preordain"
],
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"examples":[
"She is an ordained minister.",
"The process was ordained by law.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some 35 years later, Kate Kelly, a Washington, D.C., activist also was excommunicated \u2014 at the same Virginia meetinghouse as Johnson \u2014 for her advocacy in pushing to ordain women to the faith\u2019s all-male priesthood. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 6 Apr. 2022",
"The church did not routinely ordain Black men into the priesthood until 1978. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Jan. 2022",
"The leaders of the Anglican Episcopal Church meet in London to discuss the Episcopal Church USA\u2019s vote to ordain an openly homosexual bishop. \u2014 CNN , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Recent Timeline August 5, 2003 - The Episcopal Church USA, at its meeting for its General Convention in Minneapolis, votes to ordain Gene Robinson, who is openly gay, as bishop of New Hampshire. \u2014 CNN , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Last month, the Vatican released a new penal code that specified automatic excommunication for any attempt to ordain a woman. \u2014 Francis X. Rocca, WSJ , 16 July 2021",
"Shaloh House is planning to ordain eight additional rabbis this year, one for each stab wound Noginski suffered. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 6 July 2021",
"Council members, during a June 21 Council finance committee hearing, raised concerns that such a costly upfront investment might pre- ordain the old juvenile facility as the final choice for the diversion center. \u2014 Courtney Astolfi, cleveland , 28 June 2021",
"Will the Catholic Church ever ordain women as priests? \u2014 Fortune , 22 June 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English ordeinen , from Anglo-French ordener, ordeiner , from Late Latin ordinare , from Latin, to put in order, appoint, from ordin-, ordo order",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185625"
},
"order":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to put in order : arrange",
": to give an order to : command",
": destine , ordain",
": to command to go or come to a specified place",
": to give an order for",
": to bring about order : regulate",
": to issue orders : command",
": to give or place an order",
": a group of people united in a formal way: such as",
": a fraternal society",
": a community under a religious rule",
": one requiring members to take solemn vows",
": a badge or medal of such a society",
": a military decoration",
": any of the several grades of the Christian ministry",
": the office of a person in the Christian ministry",
": ordination",
": a rank, class, or special group in a community or society",
": a class of persons or things grouped according to quality, value, or natural characteristics: such as",
": a category of taxonomic classification ranking above the family and below the class",
": the broadest category in soil classification",
": rank , level",
": category , class",
": the arrangement or sequence of objects or of events in time",
": a sequential arrangement of mathematical elements",
": degree sense 12a",
": the number of times differentiation is applied successively",
": the order of the derivative of highest order",
": the number of columns or rows or columns and rows in a magic square, determinant, or matrix",
": the number of elements in a finite mathematical group",
": a sociopolitical system",
": a particular sphere or aspect of a sociopolitical system",
": a regular or harmonious arrangement",
": a prescribed form of a religious service : rite",
": the customary mode of procedure especially in debate",
": the state of peace, freedom from confused or unruly behavior, and respect for law or proper authority",
"\u2014 see also law and order",
": a specific rule, regulation, or authoritative direction : command",
": a style of building",
": a type of column and entablature forming the unit of a style",
": state or condition especially with regard to functioning or repair",
": a proper, orderly , or functioning condition",
": a written direction to pay money to someone",
": a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods or to perform work",
": goods or items bought or sold",
": an assigned or requested undertaking",
": order of the day",
": appropriate , desirable",
": for the purpose of",
": in the process of being ordered",
": after the fashion of : like",
": about , approximately",
": according to the specifications of an order",
": to put into a particular grouping or sequence : arrange",
": to give a command to or for",
": a certain rule or regulation : command",
": the arrangement of objects or events in space or time",
": the way something should be",
": the state of things when law or authority is obeyed",
": good working condition",
": a statement of what a person wants to buy",
": goods or items bought or sold",
": a group of people united (as by living under the same religious rules or by loyalty to common needs or duties)",
": the office of a person in the Christian ministry",
": a group of related living things (as plants or animals) that ranks above the family and below the class in scientific classification",
": a written direction to pay a sum of money",
": so that",
": for the purpose of",
": to give a prescription for : prescribe",
": a category of taxonomic classification ranking above the family and below the class",
": a state of peace, freedom from unruly behavior, and respect for law and proper authority",
": an established mode or state of procedure",
": a mandate from a superior authority \u2014 see also executive order",
": a ruling or command made by a competent administrative authority",
": one resulting from administrative adjudication and subject to judicial review and enforcement",
": an authoritative command issued by the court",
": an order from a court or quasi-judicial tribunal to stop engaging in a particular activity or practice (as an unfair labor practice) \u2014 compare injunction , mandamus , stay",
": an agreement of litigating parties that by consent takes the form of a court order",
": an order of a court or quasi-judicial tribunal which leaves nothing further to be determined or accomplished in that forum except execution of the judgment and from which an appeal will lie",
": an order barring public disclosure or discussion (as by the involved parties or the press) of information relating to a case",
": an order requiring the prospective object of a legal action to show cause why that action should not take place",
": a court order setting out the rulings, stipulations, and other actions taken at a pretrial conference",
": restraining order in this entry",
": an order issued for the protection of a particular party: as",
": an order that limits, denies, or defers discovery by a party in order to prevent undue embarrassment, expense, oppression, or disclosure of trade secrets",
": restraining order in this entry",
": an order, decree, or judgment that satisfies the criteria set out in section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code for the payment of all or part of individual pension, profit sharing, or retirement benefits usually to a divorcing spouse (as for alimony or child support)",
": temporary restraining order in this entry",
": an order of a specified duration issued after a hearing attended by all parties that is intended to protect one individual from violence, abuse, harassment, or stalking by another especially by prohibiting or restricting access or proximity to the protected party",
": order to show cause in this entry",
": an order of brief duration that is issued ex parte to protect the plaintiff's rights from immediate and irreparable injury by preserving a situation or preventing an act until a hearing for a preliminary injunction can be held",
": a protective order issued ex parte for a brief period prior to a hearing on a restraining order attended by both parties and intended to provide immediate protection from violence or threatened violence",
": an order commanding one party to turn over property to another",
": an order commanding a judgment debtor to turn over assets to a judgment creditor",
": a command issued by a military superior",
": a direction regarding the party to whom a negotiable instrument shall be paid",
"\u2014 see also money order , negotiable instrument",
": an instruction or authorization especially to buy or sell goods or securities or to perform work",
": an order to a broker in which alternative methods of carrying out the order (as by buying or selling) are set forth",
": an order to buy securities or commodity futures that remains effective until filled or canceled",
": an order for merchandise expressed in very general terms so that the seller has considerable latitude in selecting the articles actually provided",
": an order to a broker to buy or sell a security when the price advances or declines to a designated level",
": goods or items bought or sold",
": according to the specifications of an order especially of a bearer or endorsee",
": payable to a named person or to an individual that person names by an endorsement",
"\u2014 compare bearer"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u022fr-d\u0259r",
"\u02c8\u022fr-d\u0259r",
"\u02c8\u022frd-\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrange",
"array",
"classify",
"codify",
"dispose",
"draw up",
"lay out",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"organize",
"range",
"systematize"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrangement",
"array",
"disposal",
"disposition",
"distribution",
"ordering",
"sequence",
"setup"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"However, Vestager and her team took a massive reputational hit in 2020, when the General Court slapped down their 2016 decision to order Apple to pay $15 billion in Irish back taxes. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 15 June 2022",
"Be sure to order a steakburger, cooked the old-fashioned way on a grill. \u2014 Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star , 15 June 2022",
"The disruption caused Senate President Dominick Ruggerio to order security to clear the gallery, according to the report. \u2014 Lawrence Richard, Fox News , 15 June 2022",
"Maybe Brandon Choi will be gathering paying clients to his London door to order a slice of his spontaneously beautiful raw romanticism. \u2014 Sarah Mower, Vogue , 15 June 2022",
"Red-flag laws, now in place in 19 states and the District of Columbia, allow authorities to ask judges to order the temporary seizure of guns from people threatening violence. \u2014 Natalie Andrews, WSJ , 13 June 2022",
"For larger crowds, there's even an option to order as many as 36 towels. \u2014 Brittany Vanderbill, PEOPLE.com , 12 June 2022",
"Steven McGraw previously said our Arredondo made the wrong decision to not order officers to breach the classroom more quickly. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
"To know how much to order this quarter, a company must know, or at least be able to estimate reasonably, how much its customers will buy next quarter. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, Quartz , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"On Wednesday, Ukrainian forces holed up in a chemical factory there with hundreds of civilians ignored a Russian order to surrender. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 16 June 2022",
"Stacks of Nike boxes line the walls of his attic in what appears to be a random order . \u2014 The New Yorker , 16 June 2022",
"The announcement came a few days after Alaska\u2019s health commissioner said that on July 1, the state will end a public health emergency order that\u2019s been in place in response to the pandemic. \u2014 Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"Individual servers can teem with tens, hundreds or thousands of people, making round-the-clock moderation a nauseatingly tall order . \u2014 Nathan Grayson, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Following the novels, the films have been released in a chronological order so there\u2019s no confusion there. \u2014 Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"The data was collected under a NHTSA order last year requiring automakers to report crashes involving cars with advanced driver-assistance systems. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2022",
"The party needs four seats in the Senate and three in the lower house\u2014a tall order in a year like this one. \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 15 June 2022",
"In order to give developers even more guidance, Apple recently published a new page on its developer site about filing bug reports. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 12 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"So, orderliness in the human body was proof of that person\u2019s innate, divine harmony; to be beautiful was to have one\u2019s parts function together in perfect relation to a whole, just as parts of nature function together. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Yangban\u2019s baseline deli format \u2014 with a menu that also reaches far beyond the class parameters of the deli experience \u2014 has more in common with the ecstatic chaos of Gjusta than with the comforting orderliness of Langer\u2019s. \u2014 Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Their drama was countered by the cool orderliness of winter whites, which are perhaps the maximal expression of minimalism; the equivalent of a blank page. \u2014 Vogue , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Before omicron, before the injuries that altered the balance of the rotation, there was an orderliness to the equation. \u2014 Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com , 12 Jan. 2022",
"That face-to-face confrontation is a reminder that the collection \u2014 radically democratic in its wide-open accessibility and its agglomeration of the high and low \u2014 has discomfited sticklers for regulation and orderliness from the outset. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Aug. 2021",
"Because the Woleys\u2019 split had some ostensibly seamy aspects that contrasted with Bryan\u2019s general orderliness , factions of the public\u2014comedians, social media\u2014delighted in mocking the situation. \u2014 Curtis Sittenfeld, The Atlantic , 16 July 2021",
"In fact, while some Virgos are the picture of orderliness and service, most are naturally drawn to a holy mess. \u2014 Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com , 12 June 2021",
"The orderliness , which relies on a mutual assumption of good faith, benefits all sides, Shortland told me. \u2014 Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker , 31 May 2021"
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": a soldier assigned to perform various services (such as carrying messages) for a superior officer",
": a hospital attendant who does routine or heavy work (such as cleaning, carrying supplies, or moving patients)",
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"an orderly arrangement of pictures",
"She sorted the information into orderly categories.",
"Outside the theater, an orderly line of people waited to buy tickets.",
"an orderly crowd of protesters",
"Please exit the building in an orderly fashion .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Chapman took over the reins of IonQ quantum computing and quickly organized and developed a multi-generational roadmap to ensure an orderly development of the company\u2019s capabilities. \u2014 Paul Smith-goodson, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"But lawmakers have balked for more than a decade at making most of the fundamental economic and policy changes that experts widely agree are crucial to an orderly and accelerated energy transition. \u2014 Evan Halper, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"There are peaked-roof buildings dotting the grounds, orderly rows of sprouting crops stretching up the hillside, and sheep and cows ambling about. \u2014 Jacob Gallagher, WSJ , 13 June 2022",
"One showed a colorful, orderly city full of trees, tended by peaceful figures holding rakes or guitars, beneath a deep-blue sky. \u2014 Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Before calling the jury in, Baker admonished the courtroom to remain orderly while the verdicts were read. \u2014 Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online , 10 June 2022",
"Biden campaigned for office promising to reverse many of the Trump administration\u2019s border-control measures and establish a system that would be orderly and humane. \u2014 Nick Miroff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"The Russian retreat, by all accounts, was relatively orderly . \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
"Even Tuesday, when U.S. stock indexes tumbled, investors said trading was orderly . \u2014 Caitlin Mccabe And Charley Grant, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The first person in the county to get vaccinated was an elderly orderly in the hospital\u2019s emergency department, based on his front-line job and age. \u2014 Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com , 1 Jan. 2021",
"Black workers are also overrepresented in high-contact essential services, making up 33% of nursing assistants and 39% of hospital orderlies . \u2014 Jeff Green, Bloomberg.com , 7 May 2020",
"And now, so do UPS drivers, and postal workers, and agricultural field hands, and hospital orderlies , and a whole range of people whose jobs require them to continue to work with others despite the dangers and lockdowns. \u2014 Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor , 28 Apr. 2020",
"The ships can each accommodate up to 1,3000 doctors, nurses, orderlies and ship\u2019s crew, with medical personnel assigned from existing naval hospitals and medical facilities ashore. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 27 Mar. 2020",
"Just as the medical system depends on the lowest paid of the health workers\u2014the orderlies and custodians\u2014the food system, now that restaurants have been limited to takeout and delivery, depends on a whole cadre of men pedalling bicycles. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 23 Mar. 2020",
"The doctors\u2014and nurses, orderlies , pharmacists, administrative staff, and others\u2014are also trying to understand how the disease works and what distinguishes it from other illnesses with similar symptoms. \u2014 Erik Sherman, Fortune , 24 Feb. 2020",
"The trio are some combination of orderlies and couriers, riding motorcycles through lethal terrain\u2014marked with stakes to show where the bombs lie\u2014to ferry patients or secure supplies. \u2014 Rumaan Alam, The New Republic , 29 Jan. 2020",
"Most direct patient care at UTH is provided not by nurses or orderlies , but family members. \u2014 Oliver Staley, Quartz Africa , 30 Dec. 2019"
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": of a kind to be expected in the normal order of events : routine , usual",
": of common quality, rank, or ability",
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": having or constituting immediate or original jurisdiction",
": belonging to such jurisdiction",
": the regular or customary condition or course of things",
": a prelate exercising original jurisdiction over a specified territory or group",
": a clergyman appointed formerly in England to attend condemned criminals",
": a judge of probate in some states of the U.S.",
": the parts of the Mass that do not vary from day to day",
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": a tavern or eating house serving regular meals",
": a common heraldic charge (such as the bend) of simple form (see charge entry 2 sense 7a )",
": to be expected : normal , usual",
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"average",
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"Adjective",
"They've had the ordinary problems associated with starting a new business.",
"My wife thought our guide was strange, but he seemed perfectly ordinary to me.",
"The meal was ordinary and uninspired.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Just eat them like any ordinary gummy treat \u2013 but be sure not to consume too many! \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 17 June 2022",
"Tucked around the side of a small building in Southern California is a mural \u2014 a splash of bright yellow and blue in an otherwise ordinary alley \u2014 that speaks to a city\u2019s legacy of raising world-class fighters. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"The outcome has been a deadlock that has enriched and enabled domestic and foreign actors to be indifferent to the suffering of ordinary Libyans. \u2014 Mohammed El-senussi, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"At the time, however, the diamond industry was seen as untouchable and unreachable for both ordinary buyers and small jewelry designers; and only big names, such as De Beers and Tiffany & Co., got the business and the notoriety. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 June 2022",
"When pulled fresh and slightly puffy from a griddle, the tortilla is a workaday object, an ordinary beauty forged from little more than corn, water and salt. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Thanks to Elros' blood in their veins, the kings of N\u00famenor lived much longer than ordinary humans. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 14 June 2022",
"Another 13 defendants were ordinary party supporters whom the court ordered to serve more than three years. \u2014 Sopheng Cheang, ajc , 14 June 2022",
"On a night when Curry was ordinary , Wiggins was extraordinary. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Since October 2020, Ruffing said a group of about 25 individuals that make up the celebration\u2019s planning committee have had monthly meetings to organize events for the centennial. \u2014 Abby Miller, The Enquirer , 6 June 2022",
"The app will be map-based, with users able to see which other users are in a local area, message them, share content and organize events. \u2014 Andrew R. Chow, Time , 24 May 2022",
"The Metropolitan Opera was among the first performance arts groups to organize charity events for Ukraine. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The village also gets about \u20ac70,000 a year in public money to organize cultural events such as calligraphy classes, theater performances and conferences. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Or make requests of your organization to organize in-office events like pet shelter adoption events, BBQs or company activity fairs\u2014or events outside of work like volunteer days or meet-and-greets. \u2014 Tracy Brower, Forbes , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Ukraine refugees was not on Ward\u2019s usual list of things to organize leading up to St. Patrick\u2019s Day. \u2014 Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The report concluded that a transition to more renewable, resilient and reliable energy systems is both highly feasible and one of our most promising adaptation options, if local and national governments could ever organize to pull it off. \u2014 Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Many state parties employ year-round communications and digital staffers to pitch stories about GOP malfeasance, organize press events about Democratic achievements, and capitalize on news stories to recruit volunteers and donors. \u2014 Ben Wikler, The New Republic , 28 Feb. 2022"
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"having a formal organization to coordinate and carry out activities",
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"The Amazon\u2019s homicide rate is about 30 per 100,000 people, higher than the 24 per 100,000 in the rest of the country, according to the nonprofit, which attributed the rise in violence to the growth of organized crime and deforestation. \u2014 Luciana Magalhaes, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"On Sunday, Tangshan authorities launched a two-week campaign to crack down on organized crime. \u2014 Nectar Gan, CNN , 13 June 2022",
"Rather than languish in Tapachula, some migrants either pay human traffickers, many of whom have links to organized crime, or bribe immigration officials to speed up the process, Mr. Garc\u00eda said in a phone interview. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"The first to capture a broad swath of Americans\u2019 attention took place in 1951, when the Kefauver Committee investigated organized crime. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 June 2022",
"Liston was also notorious for his organized crime connections. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 5 June 2022",
"But \u00c1vila hopes the summit\u2019s other participants will pressure the Biden administration to sanction Guatemalan officials who have links to organized crime and have looted the national treasury. \u2014 Soudi Jim\u00e9nez, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a law based on the more famous federal RICO statute that\u2019s been used to target the mafia, drug cartels and other forms of organized crime. \u2014 Bill Donahue, Billboard , 2 June 2022",
"Racing commissioners in other states had suspected the company of being involved in organized crime. \u2014 Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic , 1 June 2022"
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"adjective",
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": an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass",
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"\u02c8\u022fr-\u0259-f\u0259s",
"\u02c8\u00e4r-",
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"examples":[
"the mouth is a bodily orifice",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bad idea: Inviting schoolchildren to visit your orifice . \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Oct. 2021",
"So, whatever got in every single orifice of my body was organic. \u2014 Derek Lawrence, EW.com , 30 Nov. 2021",
"In another version of the story, Athena just walked out of Zeus\u2019 head through some orifice or other. \u2014 Rebecca Coffey, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"While surface transmission of covid is rare, Nelson noted that a child who touches their germy mask and then touches an orifice in their face could increase their risk of getting sick. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Aug. 2021",
"As yet unfamiliar with the facts of birth, the idea that something so substantial could pop out of a clearly diminutive orifice seemed preposterous. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Aug. 2021",
"Both sexes have cloacas, the anal orifice , an all-purpose vent. \u2014 Jim Williams, Star Tribune , 27 July 2021",
"What if our bodies \u2014 and those of other mammals like pigs and rodents \u2014 were capable of breathing through a different, but also familiar orifice ? \u2014 Mike Wehner, BGR , 15 May 2021",
"The report also found that when inmates reported abuse, the response could be retaliatory, with inmates being subjected to body orifice scanners and then being placed into solitary confinement. \u2014 Mike Catalini, Star Tribune , 8 Apr. 2021"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
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": ancestry , parentage",
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": the point at which something begins or rises or from which it derives",
": something that creates, causes, or gives rise to another",
": the more fixed, central, or larger attachment of a muscle",
": the intersection of coordinate axes",
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": a person's ancestry",
": the rise or beginning from a source",
": the point where the reference axes meet in a graph or coordinate plane",
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"\u02c8\u022fr-\u0259-j\u0259n",
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"font",
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"well",
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"examples":[
"Her ethnic origins are French.",
"the origins of human language remain a matter of considerable debate",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Chris Evans lends his voice to the animated origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the legendary space ranger who inspired the toy. \u2014 Andrew Torgan, CNN , 12 June 2022",
"Ironically enough, their own origin story sounds like the stuff movies are made of. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 10 June 2022",
"Created for television by head writer Bisha K. Ali, the six-episode series is an origin story that sees Kamala, a Pakistani American teen living in Jersey City, New Jersey, acquire superpowers from a mysterious family artifact. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 10 June 2022",
"The original Joker, which told the origin story of the iconic Batman villain, was a surprisingly huge hit for DC. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 9 June 2022",
"This serves as the origin story that eventually led to Toomes becoming the Vulture, and giving him some pretty damn good motivation to become one of the MCU's greatest villains. \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 8 June 2022",
"Created for television by head writer Bisha K. Ali, the six-episode series is an origin story that sees Kamala, a Pakistani American teen living in Jersey City, N.J., acquire superpowers from a mysterious family artifact. \u2014 Tracy Brownstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
"Kamala\u2019s fandom of Captain Marvel and the other superheroes is an integral part of her origin story \u2014 her character arc suggests a transformation from an admirer to an active participant. \u2014 Inkoo Kang, Washington Post , 8 June 2022",
"But this undercuts WoodSpoon\u2019s true appeal, as well as the company\u2019s compelling origin story. \u2014 Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker , 3 June 2022"
],
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},
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": of, relating to, or constituting an origin or beginning : initial",
": not secondary, derivative, or imitative",
": being the first instance or source from which a copy, reproduction, or translation is or can be made",
": independent and creative in thought or action : inventive",
": that from which a copy, reproduction, or translation is made",
": a work composed firsthand",
": a person of fresh initiative or inventive capacity",
": a unique or eccentric person",
": the source or cause from which something arises",
": originator",
": of or relating to the source or beginning : first",
": not copied from anything else : not translated : new",
": able to think up new things : creative",
": something that is produced by an artist or writer and from which a copy or translation can be made",
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"\u2014 compare duplicate",
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"\u0259-\u02c8ri-j\u0259-n\u1d4al",
"-\u02c8rij-n\u0259l",
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"earliest",
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"headmost",
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"initial",
"leadoff",
"maiden",
"pioneer",
"premier",
"virgin"
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"archetype",
"prototype"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Per The Hollywood Reporter, this would be the first original Netflix film with that rating, though the streamer has hosted other NC-17 films on its platform before. \u2014 Erica Gonzales, ELLE , 17 June 2022",
"Per The Hollywood Reporter, Blonde is the first original Netflix film ever to receive an NC-17. \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Town & Country , 16 June 2022",
"Patridge, 37, recently expressed disbelief at MTV's decision to reboot the show without the original cast just months after the network canceled The Hills: New Beginnings. \u2014 Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com , 14 June 2022",
"Also due to take the stage is the original Broadway cast of Spring Awakening, 15 years after the show\u2019s premiere. \u2014 Vogue , 12 June 2022",
"Actress Bernadette Peters, Cinderella\u2019s Billy Porter, the New York City Gay Men\u2019s Chorus, and the original 2006 cast of Spring Awakening will also perform throughout the event. \u2014 oregonlive , 12 June 2022",
"Athie was likewise thrilled to appear in the new movie alongside the original cast. \u2014 Angelique Jackson, Variety , 10 June 2022",
"In the video below, Snodgrass dives into his extensive knowledge of the fighter jets portrayed in the original film, along with how technology has evolved military aircraft since its release. \u2014 Taylor Vasilik, Popular Mechanics , 10 June 2022",
"The original Jurassic Park film is streaming on Hulu, Prime Video, HBO Max. \u2014 John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Threats and intense drama await in the season finale of Mayans M.C., where EZ is tying up loose ends, and Alvarez is trying to make peace with a Redwood original . \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 14 June 2022",
"The version at Rainbow Kitchen \u2014 where owner Bill Chiang and chef Yung Tse, who both grew up in Hong Kong, are quick to cite the luxe inspiration \u2014 rivals the original . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"The Jurassic Park franchise has been one of the most popular brands in Hollywood since the 1993 original , notching roughly $5 billion at the global box office. \u2014 Frank Pallotta, CNN , 8 June 2022",
"Many duplicates of Blue Cura\u00e7ao exist, since the name could not be trademarked, but the original comes in a distinctive round, rough bottle. \u2014 Ali Wunderman, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"Harrison has since made several copies of the photograph, one of which is hanging in her home, and returned the original to a safe spot. \u2014 Caroline Silva, ajc , 7 June 2022",
"The film\u2019s dark side reflects some of the book\u2019s outlandish cruelty, but in many other ways Disney transformed the original . \u2014 Joan Acocella, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"The film reunites Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, who all starred in Steven Spielberg\u2019s 1993 original . \u2014 J. Kim Murphy, Variety , 6 June 2022",
"There hasn\u2019t been an Americas summit on U.S. soil since the original was held in Miami in 1994. \u2014 Mary Anastasia O\u2019grady, WSJ , 5 June 2022"
],
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"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-181347"
},
"originality":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the quality or state of being original",
": freshness of aspect, design, or style",
": the power of independent thought or constructive imagination",
": the quality or state of being creative or new and different",
": the quality or fact of being the product of individual creation that warrants copyright protection for a particular work regardless of novelty"
"Critics have praised the movie's startling originality .",
"I was amazed by the originality of her ideas.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With her focus on trademarks, Ms. Glaum-Lathbury follows a long line of designers whose work has challenged prevailing ideas about originality , brand value and desire. \u2014 New York Times , 24 May 2022",
"In this strange, dreamlike world the two solitary souls gradually start to develop feelings for one another\u2026 A melancholic love story with a mesmeric atmosphere and striking visuals that proves Greek cinema has lost nothing of its originality . \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 31 May 2022",
"Any of the Easter eggs above would have made Moon Knight an even better MCU show without stealing anything from its originality . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 11 May 2022",
"Given to artists, musicians, songwriters and producers whose originality and influence creating music have had a dramatic impact on music. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 4 May 2022",
"Their originality , as much as their technical skill, is what conferred on them the right, in the eyes of their contemporaries, to stand among the giants of the past. \u2014 Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Considering Cleveland art strictly from an art-historical perspective inevitably raises questions about the quality, originality , and impact of local work beyond Cleveland. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 12 Dec. 2021",
"Four judges rated students on their dishes\u2019 taste, texture, originality , difficulty, plating and visual appeal. \u2014 Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 May 2022",
"The Rock Hall describes its induction categories this way: Performers: Artists who have created music whose originality , impact, and influence has changed the course of rock and roll. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 4 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Employees are encouraged to offer suggestions, which is where most of our ideas originate . \u2014 Jeff Fromm, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"In Nicaragua, where I was born and where my ancestors originate , land was forcefully taken away from people who refused to deny their Indigeneity. \u2014 Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodr\u00edguez, refinery29.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
"And these are the regions where a lot of Russia\u2019s oil and natural-gas exports originate . \u2014 Jim Geraghty, National Review , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Fair Trade certification shows where products originate from, whether that\u2019s a garment factory in Thailand or coffee farm in Peru. \u2014 Ebony Roberts, Outside Online , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Locations like the city's Jewelry District and the Melrose Avenue, which has seen a series of brazen robberies, have been places where many of the crimes originate . \u2014 Fox News , 26 Dec. 2021",
"Rubio's amendment could not be added to the Senate version of the defense legislation, because of a procedural issue where bills that involve raising revenue must originate in the House. \u2014 Ellie Kaufman, CNN , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Your core, in particular, is the power source where a lot of movements originate \u2014from holding a plank to sweeping the floor to picking up a heavy box, says DeRienzo. \u2014 Jenny Mccoy, SELF , 6 Nov. 2021",
"The supply chain ends at Bob Jones\u2019s door in Tinley Park, Ill., more than 7,700 miles from the Chinese port of Ningbo, where many of his products originate . \u2014 David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News , 3 Oct. 2021"
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"She wore a hair ornament .",
"The columns are there purely as ornament \u2014they have no structural function.",
"Verb",
"flower patterns used to ornament boxes",
"delicate crystal figurines ornament the mantel over the fireplace",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The complex\u2019s visual smorgasbord of ornament was designed by nine sculptors and produced by the Federal Seaboard Terra Cotta Company, which also made the cladding for the McGraw-Hill Building, including its celebrated crown. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"The newest version of the iconic hood ornament will sit on the nose of the brand\u2019s first EV, the Spectre. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 7 Feb. 2022",
"With a meticulously landscaped median, the Manhattan boulevard is a two-mile gauntlet of elegant brick apartment buildings in shades from buff to earthen, with liveried doormen and Renaissance Revival and neo-Gothic exterior ornament . \u2014 Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor , 1 June 2022",
"Each exotic gun and armor ornament can only be used on a specific piece of equipment. \u2014 Boone Ashworth, Wired , 21 Feb. 2022",
"Last year's ornament featured a pensive portrait of John F. Kennedy painted posthumously by the artist Aaron Shikler, who was chosen by widow Jackie Kennedy to honor the former leader's unfinished presidency. \u2014 CNN , 22 Dec. 2021",
"After all, the very Christmas ball itself \u2014 that ubiquitous ornament found on trees all over the planet \u2014 traces its origins to a glassworks in the Vosges. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Dec. 2021",
"One item that instantly takes me back to my childhood during the holidays is a metal ornament tree. \u2014 Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Rolls-Royce\u2019s now iconic hood ornament , The Spirit of Ecstasy, debuted in 1911. \u2014 Sean Evans, Robb Report , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Then, a few weeks later, Middleton stunned in another Jane Taylor design\u2014this time a striking white and black piece to ornament her look for Anzac Day services. \u2014 Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country , 20 May 2022",
"Dancing flames cast an orange glow on the side of the boy\u2019s face; silhouettes of bare trees ornament the distance. \u2014 Clint Smith, The Atlantic , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The key turned out to be feathers, which have long been known to ornament many cavity-loving species\u2019 nests. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 16 Nov. 2021",
"The Baroque H\u00f4tel d\u2019Ecquevilly, built in 1638 as a private residence for a Parisian aristocrat, was later the home of Louis XV\u2019s master of the hunt, who commissioned the elaborate bas-reliefs of boars and dogs that still ornament its exterior. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Sep. 2021",
"The picture that has emerged is of an aging emperor, surrounded by a harem of nubile women paid to ornament his dinner table, boost his ego, and dance around in their underpants. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 12 Aug. 2021",
"The second-floor master suite incorporates a bedroom with new oak floors, a bow window and a walk-in closet with mirrored doors ornamented with etched glass. \u2014 Julie Lasky, New York Times , 13 May 2020",
"In the 1920s, Cleveland\u2019s wealthy lined Shaker Boulevard in Shaker Heights and Fairmount Boulevard in Cleveland Heights with richly ornamented , neo-Tudor or neoclassical mansions that openly flaunt the wealth of their owners. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 3 May 2020",
"This is the basic three-color version of the bread plate, but there was also a six-color variant and a version ornamented with opaque maiolica glazes. \u2014 Catherine Bindman, The New York Review of Books , 17 Apr. 2020"
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"a decorative object",
"a plant cultivated for its beauty rather than for use",
"the trim on Victorian houses is sometimes elaborately ornamental",
"Noun",
"The garden has many beautiful ornamentals .",
"a collection of fragile ornamentals kept in a glass cabinet",
"Recent Examples on the Web Adjective",
"Alternatives to lawns include ornamental grasses, native plants and trees, various hardscapes such as pathways or gravel, and ground cover, such as clover, that doesn't require frequent mowing and watering. \u2014 Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens , 1 June 2022",
"Fortune is best known for sending about 250 new ornamental plants \u2014 mainly from China, but also Japan \u2014 to the Royal Horticultural Society in London. \u2014 Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"Thereafter keep fertilizer applications to only what is applied to nearby lawns and ornamental plantings. \u2014 Tom Maccubbin, Orlando Sentinel , 21 May 2022",
"For some eight decades, the building\u2019s eastern corner was home to a companion firefighter, the pair serving as ornamental sentries at Parkchester\u2019s southern gateway. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"These range from ornamental uses in Dubai to straightforward waterfront fills. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 18 May 2022",
"Lots of plants, both edible and ornamental , can get powdery mildew. \u2014 Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens , 16 May 2022",
"There are sweet basils, Thai basils, holy basil and ornamental basils. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 May 2022",
"As part of the celebration marking the return of the Preakness, the colors of the race\u2019s winner were painted onto the ornamental weather vane at Pimlico Racecourse for the first time. \u2014 Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
"Twelve years later, Bennett and her team have designed around 200 gardens, all of which integrate the ornamental with the edible. \u2014 Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor , 13 June 2022",
"There are lots of varieties, some ornamental and others edible. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News , 26 May 2022",
"The only species that was unmolested was Japanese maple, an exotic ornamental that came to represent one-quarter of the forest\u2019s inventory. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 July 2021",
"An unnamed elephant ear is most likely to be Colocasia esculenta, the food plant taro, which also makes an impressive ornamental . \u2014 Adrian Higgins, Washington Post , 17 May 2021",
"This looks like Parney cotoneaster (Cotoneaster lacteus), a native of China used as an ornamental . \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Dec. 2020",
"Deep green, textured foliage makes this variety an excellent ornamental for arbors or training against a wall. \u2014 Earl Nickel, SFChronicle.com , 7 Aug. 2020",
"Fruit pruning doesn\u2019t follow the rules for ornamentals . \u2014 Margaret Roach, New York Times , 5 May 2020",
"Forsythia shrubs are beginning to provide a golden display in Northern Ohio, Pieras is in full flower and other ornamentals seem prepared to bloom at the first sign of warm weather. \u2014 cleveland , 27 Mar. 2020"
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"Noun",
"She wore a hair ornament .",
"The columns are there purely as ornament \u2014they have no structural function.",
"Verb",
"flower patterns used to ornament boxes",
"delicate crystal figurines ornament the mantel over the fireplace",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The complex\u2019s visual smorgasbord of ornament was designed by nine sculptors and produced by the Federal Seaboard Terra Cotta Company, which also made the cladding for the McGraw-Hill Building, including its celebrated crown. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"The newest version of the iconic hood ornament will sit on the nose of the brand\u2019s first EV, the Spectre. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 7 Feb. 2022",
"With a meticulously landscaped median, the Manhattan boulevard is a two-mile gauntlet of elegant brick apartment buildings in shades from buff to earthen, with liveried doormen and Renaissance Revival and neo-Gothic exterior ornament . \u2014 Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor , 1 June 2022",
"Each exotic gun and armor ornament can only be used on a specific piece of equipment. \u2014 Boone Ashworth, Wired , 21 Feb. 2022",
"Last year's ornament featured a pensive portrait of John F. Kennedy painted posthumously by the artist Aaron Shikler, who was chosen by widow Jackie Kennedy to honor the former leader's unfinished presidency. \u2014 CNN , 22 Dec. 2021",
"After all, the very Christmas ball itself \u2014 that ubiquitous ornament found on trees all over the planet \u2014 traces its origins to a glassworks in the Vosges. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Dec. 2021",
"One item that instantly takes me back to my childhood during the holidays is a metal ornament tree. \u2014 Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Rolls-Royce\u2019s now iconic hood ornament , The Spirit of Ecstasy, debuted in 1911. \u2014 Sean Evans, Robb Report , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Then, a few weeks later, Middleton stunned in another Jane Taylor design\u2014this time a striking white and black piece to ornament her look for Anzac Day services. \u2014 Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country , 20 May 2022",
"Dancing flames cast an orange glow on the side of the boy\u2019s face; silhouettes of bare trees ornament the distance. \u2014 Clint Smith, The Atlantic , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The key turned out to be feathers, which have long been known to ornament many cavity-loving species\u2019 nests. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 16 Nov. 2021",
"The Baroque H\u00f4tel d\u2019Ecquevilly, built in 1638 as a private residence for a Parisian aristocrat, was later the home of Louis XV\u2019s master of the hunt, who commissioned the elaborate bas-reliefs of boars and dogs that still ornament its exterior. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Sep. 2021",
"The picture that has emerged is of an aging emperor, surrounded by a harem of nubile women paid to ornament his dinner table, boost his ego, and dance around in their underpants. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 12 Aug. 2021",
"The second-floor master suite incorporates a bedroom with new oak floors, a bow window and a walk-in closet with mirrored doors ornamented with etched glass. \u2014 Julie Lasky, New York Times , 13 May 2020",
"In the 1920s, Cleveland\u2019s wealthy lined Shaker Boulevard in Shaker Heights and Fairmount Boulevard in Cleveland Heights with richly ornamented , neo-Tudor or neoclassical mansions that openly flaunt the wealth of their owners. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 3 May 2020",
"This is the basic three-color version of the bread plate, but there was also a six-color variant and a version ornamented with opaque maiolica glazes. \u2014 Catherine Bindman, The New York Review of Books , 17 Apr. 2020"
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"She doesn't like ornate jewelry.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ironically, the equivalent decks from companies in a land known for zen are usually more reminiscent of the Baroque period: highly ornate and florid in design. \u2014 Greg Story, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"What did raise a few eyebrows, though\u2014not to mention light up the Twitterverse\u2014was the entire Klan's unfettered embrace of Catholic motifs and cross jewelry, namely of the oversized, ornate , Gothic costume variety. \u2014 Leena Kim, Town & Country , 3 June 2022",
"Kim was wearing ornate accessories made of green stones and gold settings in a choker around her neck, emphasizing her d\u00e9colletage visible beneath the sheer lace. \u2014 Aim\u00e9e Lutkin, ELLE , 29 May 2022",
"In the middle of the room is a table, on top of which sit two ornate bottles that look from a distance like they might be made out of gold, along with about two dozen glasses for sampling. \u2014 Matt Koesters, The Enquirer , 27 May 2022",
"Ferguson wore all black and was covered in piercings and tattoos, including an ornate pentagram on his head. \u2014 New York Times , 26 May 2022",
"The bride wore a white Dolce and Gabbana mini dress with an ornate vail depicting the Virgin Mary \u2013 a theme for her attire throughout the weekend. \u2014 Caitlin O'kane, CBS News , 23 May 2022",
"First and foremost, there\u2019s the home theater, which isn\u2019t dark and moody like many other cinemas, but instead features cozy blue sofas and walls with colorful, ornate details. \u2014 Helena Madden, Robb Report , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Any bibliophile who appreciates ornate Baroque interior design will thoroughly enjoy visiting the Johannine Library (and university campus) in Central Portugal, contends Mitchell. \u2014 Ann Abel, Forbes , 5 Mar. 2021"
],
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": difficult to deal with or control",
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": becoming angry or annoyed easily"
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"Based on the best-selling book by Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit tells the true story of an ornery , undersize, beaten-up Thoroughbred who becomes a champion in the 1930s. \u2014 Lev Grossman , Time , 21 July 2003",
"Critics have compared his work to Faulkner's. And like Faulkner, McCarthy is an acquired taste as well as a palate cleanser. He's a stubborn, ornery writer, known for his ornate sentences, arcane vocabulary, casual disregard for standard punctuation and untranslated bits of foreign dialogue that offer little in the way of a narrative compass to guide readers along. \u2014 Sara Mosle , New York Times Book Review , 17 May 1998",
"I'm getting more and more ornery in my old age.",
"an ornery old man who always yells at the neighborhood kids to keep off his lawn",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ares could be very ornery at times but was a very affectionate pet. \u2014 cleveland , 24 May 2022",
"Usually, that was enough to vex the sometimes- ornery geese into scattering with little to no serious repercussions for Widman or the pair of helpers who abetted him in collecting eggs. \u2014 Marion Renault, The Atlantic , 19 May 2022",
"Photos posted on the Charlotte County Sheriff\u2019s Office Facebook page on Tuesday showed police and wildlife officials safely removing the ornery gator. \u2014 Brett Clarkson, Sun Sentinel , 18 May 2022",
"Moose Pass on the Kenai Peninsula is named after the incident when a mail carrier struggled to pass an ornery moose. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Ample acid, bales of wacky weed, coltish young men and hot, ornery women turned this crossroads into a cradle of hippie, stoner creativity. \u2014 Steve Ditlea, SPIN , 14 Mar. 2022",
"But Earthgang is also a distinctly post-millennial group that blurs together inspirations with open-minded passion, and without the ornery defensiveness that defined so much early Dirty South rap. \u2014 Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone , 25 Feb. 2022",
"Several of these narratives offer assurance that Ms. Kaplan\u2019s ornery outsiders find a place for themselves in the world. \u2014 Heller Mcalpin, WSJ , 11 Feb. 2022",
"All that stands in the way is a stable of ornery bulls and the luck of the draw. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 Feb. 2022"
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"adjective",
"noun"
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": pompous , bombastic"
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"a master of the orotund prose that is favored by academic journals of literary criticism"
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"noun"
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": conventional",
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": eastern orthodox",
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": one that is orthodox",
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"casual",
"freewheeling",
"informal",
"irregular",
"unceremonious",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox"
],
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"He took an orthodox approach to the problem.",
"She believes in the benefits of both orthodox medicine and alternative medicine.",
"He is a very orthodox Muslim.",
"I attend an Eastern Orthodox church.",
"My grandmother is Russian Orthodox .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"For Documenta, which, after all, is a relatively orthodox German bureaucracy, ruangrupa\u2019s tactics weren\u2019t always easy to absorb. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
"The liberal wing will remain in a predominantly U.S.-based successor denomination while conservatives remain in connection with the growing, mostly orthodox African church. \u2014 W. James Antle Iii, The Week , 5 May 2022",
"Even orthodox economists understand this, along with the fact that only the federal government is \u2018big\u2019 enough to do this kind of smoothing. \u2014 Robert Hockett, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Putin\u2019s has built his regime ideology on the idea of Russia as a righteous, orthodox state, besieged by a hostile and decadent West, fostering a sense of resentful victimhood. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
"A year ago, a prominent economist used the orthodox quantity theory of money to predict what the Fed and almost all of his peers missed: That an inflationary explosion was close at hand. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"That spate of attacks included five people killed just east of Tel Aviv, in the ultra- orthodox city of Bnei Brak. \u2014 Amir Tal, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The unanimous ruling in the case rejected the zealous attempts by the Finnish prosecutor to punish, shame, and censor anyone who might state opinions that blaspheme against orthodox secularism. \u2014 Sean Nelson, National Review , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The orthodox position held by most scientific experts and some professional associations \u2014 and endorsed by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u2014 is that Lyme disease is an acute infectious disease. \u2014 Zhen Wang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Just as pragmatic liberals pursue piecemeal reforms and orthodox Marxists hold out for the proletarian revolution, the lodestar of the PowerPoint left is ideological realignment. \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 24 May 2021",
"This is true for the left and the right: The trans community can get ads addressing their concerns just as easily as the religiously orthodox can addressing theirs. \u2014 Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner , 10 Jan. 2020",
"That had the effect of enforcing a very bland neutrality in radio and television, one that really favored well-established, orthodox , left-of-center views and conservatives hated that. \u2014 Andrew Marino, The Verge , 13 Aug. 2019",
"The decision was seen by many as supportive of central-bank autonomy while bringing an orthodox although sometimes critical voice to the bank\u2019s policy-setting board. \u2014 Juan Montes, WSJ , 8 Oct. 2018",
"Also in the region Mr. Heath, who specializes in econometrics and monetary policy, is widely seen as an orthodox economist. \u2014 Juan Montes, WSJ , 26 Sep. 2018",
"Just imagine: an encased farce of brined and smoked brisket dragged through the garden of the orthodox Chicago condiments. \u2014 Mike Sula, Chicago Reader , 12 July 2018",
"The once ultra- orthodox are loosening their ideologies, facilitated by Facebook groups, podcasts, websites, and meet-ups. \u2014 Sarah Scoles, Longreads , 8 June 2018",
"The fascinating modern historic events there now were instigated by an unorthodox president who may be about to accomplish what orthodox leaders never could. \u2014 Andrew Malcolm, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 May 2018"
],
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"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun",
"1587, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-191230"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": having ability to originate : creative"
],
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"\u0259-\u02c8ri-j\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101-tiv",
"-n\u0259-"
],
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"clever",
"creative",
"imaginative",
"ingenious",
"innovational",
"innovative",
"innovatory",
"inventive",
"original",
"Promethean"
],
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"uncreative",
"unimaginative",
"uninventive",
"unoriginal"
],
"examples":[
"an originative genius whose mark on postmodern architecture can be seen all over the globe"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1811, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-011455"
},
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"type":[
"combining form",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a differentiated structure (such as a heart, kidney, leaf, or stem) consisting of cells and tissues and performing some specific function in an organism",
": bodily parts performing a function or cooperating in an activity",
": a keyboard instrument in which sets of pipes are sounded by compressed air and produce a variety of timbres",
": an electronic keyboard instrument that approximates the sounds and resources of the pipe organ",
": reed organ",
": any of various similar cruder instruments",
": any of various musical instruments",
": wind instrument",
": a subordinate group or organization that performs specialized functions",
": periodical",
": organ",
": organic",
": a musical instrument played by means of one or more keyboards and having pipes sounded by compressed air",
": a part of a person, plant, or animal that is specialized to perform a particular function",
": a way of getting something done",
": a differentiated structure (as a heart or kidney) consisting of cells and tissues and performing some specific function in an organism"
],
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"\u02c8\u022fr-g\u0259n",
"\u02c8\u022fr-g\u0259n",
"\u02c8\u022fr-g\u0259n"
],
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"book",
"bulletin",
"diurnal",
"gazette",
"journal",
"mag",
"magazine",
"newspaper",
"paper",
"periodical",
"rag",
"review",
"serial",
"zine"
],
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"the legislative organ of our government",
"that newspaper is intended as an organ for the whole university community",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Every day, 17 people die waiting for an organ transplant, according to the Health Resources & Services Administration. \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"There are 109,000 people waiting for an organ transplant nationally, according to LifeLink of Georgia, and more than 4,700 of those are Georgians. \u2014 Brittany Mcgee, ajc , 7 May 2022",
"Peter\u2019s only chance of survival was an organ transplant. \u2014 Hadley Chittum, Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
"An unvaccinated 61-year-old with an organ transplant, Dr. Byerley estimated, is three times as likely to die after an infection as someone is to die within five years of receiving a diagnosis of stage one breast cancer. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Apr. 2022",
"An immunosuppressed organ -transplant recipient dies of COVID after their child brings it home from school. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Although this doesn\u2019t pose a threat for most healthy adults, those undergoing chemotherapy, organ transplant, or with underlying conditions such as chronic heart and lung disease are at a greater risk for serious health effects. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The categories of immunocompromised people eligible for a second booster include those who have undergone solid organ transplant and those with equivalent levels of immunodeficiency. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Studies have shown that patients who do not follow doctors' orders do not do well with an organ transplant and only a very limited number of human hearts are available for transplant. \u2014 Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY , 9 Mar. 2022"
],
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"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2b"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-191011"
},
"ordering":{
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"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
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": to put in order : arrange",
": to give an order to : command",
": destine , ordain",
": to command to go or come to a specified place",
": to give an order for",
": to bring about order : regulate",
": to issue orders : command",
": to give or place an order",
": a group of people united in a formal way: such as",
": a fraternal society",
": a community under a religious rule",
": one requiring members to take solemn vows",
": a badge or medal of such a society",
": a military decoration",
": any of the several grades of the Christian ministry",
": the office of a person in the Christian ministry",
": ordination",
": a rank, class, or special group in a community or society",
": a class of persons or things grouped according to quality, value, or natural characteristics: such as",
": a category of taxonomic classification ranking above the family and below the class",
": the broadest category in soil classification",
": rank , level",
": category , class",
": the arrangement or sequence of objects or of events in time",
": a sequential arrangement of mathematical elements",
": degree sense 12a",
": the number of times differentiation is applied successively",
": the order of the derivative of highest order",
": the number of columns or rows or columns and rows in a magic square, determinant, or matrix",
": the number of elements in a finite mathematical group",
": a sociopolitical system",
": a particular sphere or aspect of a sociopolitical system",
": a regular or harmonious arrangement",
": a prescribed form of a religious service : rite",
": the customary mode of procedure especially in debate",
": the state of peace, freedom from confused or unruly behavior, and respect for law or proper authority",
"\u2014 see also law and order",
": a specific rule, regulation, or authoritative direction : command",
": a style of building",
": a type of column and entablature forming the unit of a style",
": state or condition especially with regard to functioning or repair",
": a proper, orderly , or functioning condition",
": a written direction to pay money to someone",
": a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods or to perform work",
": goods or items bought or sold",
": an assigned or requested undertaking",
": order of the day",
": appropriate , desirable",
": for the purpose of",
": in the process of being ordered",
": after the fashion of : like",
": about , approximately",
": according to the specifications of an order",
": to put into a particular grouping or sequence : arrange",
": to give a command to or for",
": a certain rule or regulation : command",
": the arrangement of objects or events in space or time",
": the way something should be",
": the state of things when law or authority is obeyed",
": good working condition",
": a statement of what a person wants to buy",
": goods or items bought or sold",
": a group of people united (as by living under the same religious rules or by loyalty to common needs or duties)",
": the office of a person in the Christian ministry",
": a group of related living things (as plants or animals) that ranks above the family and below the class in scientific classification",
": a written direction to pay a sum of money",
": so that",
": for the purpose of",
": to give a prescription for : prescribe",
": a category of taxonomic classification ranking above the family and below the class",
": a state of peace, freedom from unruly behavior, and respect for law and proper authority",
": an established mode or state of procedure",
": a mandate from a superior authority \u2014 see also executive order",
": a ruling or command made by a competent administrative authority",
": one resulting from administrative adjudication and subject to judicial review and enforcement",
": an authoritative command issued by the court",
": an order from a court or quasi-judicial tribunal to stop engaging in a particular activity or practice (as an unfair labor practice) \u2014 compare injunction , mandamus , stay",
": an agreement of litigating parties that by consent takes the form of a court order",
": an order of a court or quasi-judicial tribunal which leaves nothing further to be determined or accomplished in that forum except execution of the judgment and from which an appeal will lie",
": an order barring public disclosure or discussion (as by the involved parties or the press) of information relating to a case",
": an order requiring the prospective object of a legal action to show cause why that action should not take place",
": a court order setting out the rulings, stipulations, and other actions taken at a pretrial conference",
": restraining order in this entry",
": an order issued for the protection of a particular party: as",
": an order that limits, denies, or defers discovery by a party in order to prevent undue embarrassment, expense, oppression, or disclosure of trade secrets",
": restraining order in this entry",
": an order, decree, or judgment that satisfies the criteria set out in section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code for the payment of all or part of individual pension, profit sharing, or retirement benefits usually to a divorcing spouse (as for alimony or child support)",
": temporary restraining order in this entry",
": an order of a specified duration issued after a hearing attended by all parties that is intended to protect one individual from violence, abuse, harassment, or stalking by another especially by prohibiting or restricting access or proximity to the protected party",
": order to show cause in this entry",
": an order of brief duration that is issued ex parte to protect the plaintiff's rights from immediate and irreparable injury by preserving a situation or preventing an act until a hearing for a preliminary injunction can be held",
": a protective order issued ex parte for a brief period prior to a hearing on a restraining order attended by both parties and intended to provide immediate protection from violence or threatened violence",
": an order commanding one party to turn over property to another",
": an order commanding a judgment debtor to turn over assets to a judgment creditor",
": a command issued by a military superior",
": a direction regarding the party to whom a negotiable instrument shall be paid",
"\u2014 see also money order , negotiable instrument",
": an instruction or authorization especially to buy or sell goods or securities or to perform work",
": an order to a broker in which alternative methods of carrying out the order (as by buying or selling) are set forth",
": an order to buy securities or commodity futures that remains effective until filled or canceled",
": an order for merchandise expressed in very general terms so that the seller has considerable latitude in selecting the articles actually provided",
": an order to a broker to buy or sell a security when the price advances or declines to a designated level",
": goods or items bought or sold",
": according to the specifications of an order especially of a bearer or endorsee",
": payable to a named person or to an individual that person names by an endorsement",
"\u2014 compare bearer"
],
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"\u02c8\u022fr-d\u0259r",
"\u02c8\u022fr-d\u0259r",
"\u02c8\u022frd-\u0259r"
],
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"arrange",
"array",
"classify",
"codify",
"dispose",
"draw up",
"lay out",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"organize",
"range",
"systematize"
],
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"arrangement",
"array",
"disposal",
"disposition",
"distribution",
"ordering",
"sequence",
"setup"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"However, Vestager and her team took a massive reputational hit in 2020, when the General Court slapped down their 2016 decision to order Apple to pay $15 billion in Irish back taxes. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 15 June 2022",
"Be sure to order a steakburger, cooked the old-fashioned way on a grill. \u2014 Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star , 15 June 2022",
"The disruption caused Senate President Dominick Ruggerio to order security to clear the gallery, according to the report. \u2014 Lawrence Richard, Fox News , 15 June 2022",
"Maybe Brandon Choi will be gathering paying clients to his London door to order a slice of his spontaneously beautiful raw romanticism. \u2014 Sarah Mower, Vogue , 15 June 2022",
"Red-flag laws, now in place in 19 states and the District of Columbia, allow authorities to ask judges to order the temporary seizure of guns from people threatening violence. \u2014 Natalie Andrews, WSJ , 13 June 2022",
"For larger crowds, there's even an option to order as many as 36 towels. \u2014 Brittany Vanderbill, PEOPLE.com , 12 June 2022",
"Steven McGraw previously said our Arredondo made the wrong decision to not order officers to breach the classroom more quickly. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
"To know how much to order this quarter, a company must know, or at least be able to estimate reasonably, how much its customers will buy next quarter. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, Quartz , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"On Wednesday, Ukrainian forces holed up in a chemical factory there with hundreds of civilians ignored a Russian order to surrender. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 16 June 2022",
"Stacks of Nike boxes line the walls of his attic in what appears to be a random order . \u2014 The New Yorker , 16 June 2022",
"The announcement came a few days after Alaska\u2019s health commissioner said that on July 1, the state will end a public health emergency order that\u2019s been in place in response to the pandemic. \u2014 Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"Individual servers can teem with tens, hundreds or thousands of people, making round-the-clock moderation a nauseatingly tall order . \u2014 Nathan Grayson, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Following the novels, the films have been released in a chronological order so there\u2019s no confusion there. \u2014 Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"The data was collected under a NHTSA order last year requiring automakers to report crashes involving cars with advanced driver-assistance systems. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2022",
"The party needs four seats in the Senate and three in the lower house\u2014a tall order in a year like this one. \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 15 June 2022",
"In order to give developers even more guidance, Apple recently published a new page on its developer site about filing bug reports. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 12 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-200705"
},
"orchestration":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the arrangement of a musical composition for performance by an orchestra",
": orchestral treatment of a musical composition",
": harmonious organization"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u022fr-k\u0259-\u02c8str\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
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"balance",
"coherence",
"concinnity",
"consonance",
"consonancy",
"harmony",
"proportion",
"symmetry",
"symphony",
"unity"
],
"antonyms":[
"asymmetry",
"discordance",
"disproportion",
"disunity",
"imbalance",
"incoherence",
"violence"
],
"examples":[
"the trade respresentatives are working towards an orchestration of the two countries' often competing economic interests",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hybrid cloud connects both public and private cloud environments to provide orchestration , management and application portability\u2014empowering organizations to create a flexible, customizable and controlled infrastructure. \u2014 Mike Fuhrman, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"This inevitably raised the question of just how suited her pop hits are for pure orchestration . \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 4 June 2022",
"Through imitation, counterpoint and attentive orchestration , Leontovych brought the sounds of the Ukrainian nation to a broader public. \u2014 New York Times , 13 May 2022",
"Skills surrounding successful container orchestration are essential for maintaining monotonicity in this area. \u2014 Amandeep Midha, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"The orchestration lets up on its assault for a breath, and the intimate moment carries. \u2014 Heidi Waleson, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
"The orchestration is more vivid than anything that had come before it, and Mahler uses his big orchestra in ever-changing and ever-surprising chamber settings. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Eva Majercsik is the Chief People Officer for Genesys, a global leader in customer experience orchestration . \u2014 Eva Majercsik, Forbes , 9 Nov. 2021",
"And Price\u2019s sumptuous but strong-boned orchestration spotlighted every section in the orchestra. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune , 6 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1849, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-204749"
},
"ornamentation":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": something that ornaments : embellishment",
": the act or process of ornamenting : the state of being ornamented",
": the act or process of decorating : the state of being decorated",
"The soaring, vaulted interiors feature gold-leaf ornamentation , a Casavant Fr\u00e8res pipe organ and stained-glass windows that depict the history of the city. \u2014 Siobhan Reid, Washington Post , 1 June 2022",
"Longman designed the lettering of Lincoln\u2019s speeches that are engraved inside the monument, along with the ornamentation of wreaths and eagles that surround them. \u2014 Haben Kelati, Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
"From a gorgeous ornate sideboard to a simple hand mirror, our items this month show the attention to detail and love of ornamentation that often draw collectors to pieces with age. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 May 2022",
"Built in 1926 for the businessman James Daniel Derby and his family, the Glendale, Calif. home is best known for its distinctive fa\u00e7ade, designed with concrete ornamentation inspired by Mayan architecture. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 28 Apr. 2022",
"As the Prairie School of architecture illustrates, horizontal lines, free of excess ornamentation , offer visual relief, unlike so many new houses that seem to take design cues from the Rockies. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Shaker furniture\u2014highly functional, beautiful without ornamentation \u2014has been having a long moment. \u2014 Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker , 8 Apr. 2022",
"No degree of ornamentation was too absurd, and Nudie suits became de rigueur for country stars. \u2014 Amanda Petrusich, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The extra bit of ornamentation adds character to the living room. \u2014 Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens , 9 Feb. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1706, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-211851"
},
"ordinance":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an authoritative decree or direction : order",
": a law set forth by a governmental authority",
": a municipal regulation",
": something ordained or decreed by fate or a deity",
": a prescribed usage, practice, or ceremony",
": a law or regulation especially of a city or town",
": an authoritative decree or law",
": a municipal regulation"
],
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"\u02c8\u022frd-n\u0259n(t)s",
"\u02c8\u022fr-d\u0259-n\u0259n(t)s",
"\u02c8\u022fr-d\u0259-n\u0259ns",
"\u02c8\u022frd-\u1d4an-\u0259ns"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"bill",
"constitution",
"enactment",
"law",
"statute"
],
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"examples":[
"The town has passed a zoning ordinance limiting construction.",
"a local ordinance forbids all street parking during snowstorms",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The council voted unanimously in favor of the ordinance . \u2014 Steve Smith, Hartford Courant , 23 June 2022",
"All members except for Metro Councilwoman Cassie Chambers Armstrong, D-8th, whose district includes Cherokee Park, and George voted in favor of the ordinance . \u2014 Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal , 10 June 2022",
"Critics of the ordinance sued May 11 in federal court in Cincinnati, saying the law was overly broad. \u2014 cleveland , 27 May 2022",
"Supervisor Catherine Stefani, another co-sponsor of the ordinance , opposed the amendments. \u2014 J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle , 12 May 2022",
"Discussion of the ordinance reflected cultural unease with changing laws surrounding LGBTQ rights. \u2014 Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 May 2022",
"Several people, including tenants and leaders of nonprofit legal aid groups, spoke during public comment in support of the ordinance . \u2014 Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press , 10 May 2022",
"The language of the ordinance said funds from the sales tax increase can only be used for streets, sidewalks, drainage, public safety and parks and recreation. \u2014 Neal Earley, Arkansas Online , 4 May 2022",
"This was a first reading of the ordinance but the motion to vote on the repeal included waiving a second reading. \u2014 Drew Dawson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French ordenance order, disposition, from Medieval Latin ordinantia , from Latin ordinant-, ordinans , present participle of ordinare to put in order \u2014 more at ordain ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-135720"
},
"orbit":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": the bony socket of the eye",
": a path described by one body in its revolution about another (as by the earth about the sun or by an electron about an atomic nucleus)",
": one complete revolution of a body describing such a path",
": a circular path",
": a range or sphere of activity or influence",
": to revolve in an orbit around : circle",
": to send up and make revolve in an orbit",
": to travel in circles",
": the path taken by one body circling around another body",
": to move in an orbit around : circle",
": to send up so as to move in an orbit",
": the bony cavity perforated for the passage of nerves and blood vessels that occupies the lateral front of the skull immediately beneath the frontal bone on each side and encloses and protects the eye and its appendages"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u022fr-b\u0259t",
"\u02c8\u022fr-b\u0259t",
"\u02c8\u022fr-b\u0259t"
],
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"circle",
"circuit",
"circumnavigate",
"circumvent",
"compass",
"encircle",
"girdle",
"ring",
"round"
],
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"examples":[
"Verb",
"The Moon orbits the Earth.",
"The satellites orbit at different heights.",
"The Moon orbits around the Earth."
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun (1)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun (2)",
"1696, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb",
"1943, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-175210"
},
"originally":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": by origin or derivation : inherently",
": in the beginning : in the first place : initially",
": in a fresh or original manner"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8ri-j\u0259-n\u1d4al-\u0113",
"-\u02c8rij-n\u0259-l\u0113",
"-\u02c8ri-j\u0259n-"
],
"synonyms":[
"firstly",
"initially",
"primarily"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Garima Jain is an international student originally from India, working toward her Doctorate from the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. \u2014 Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic , 17 June 2022",
"Harp is originally from Arkansas and moved to Alaska with her husband in 2001. \u2014 Julia O'malley, Anchorage Daily News , 17 June 2022",
"And sometimes, guests may notice Filipino ingredients like calamansi and coconut vinegar, an in initiative by Collantes to inflect parts of his Filipino heritage (his parents were originally from Bulacan and Manila) at his restaurant. \u2014 Cheryl Tiu, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Matthews is originally from California and played one year with the Los Angeles Rams after his 10-season career with the Packers ended in 2019. \u2014 Kendra Meinert, USA TODAY , 16 June 2022",
"The couple is originally from Gary and said a church should be giving back to the community in a tangible way. \u2014 Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"Huynh is originally from Orange County, California, but had recently been living in the Alabama community of Hartselle and was engaged to be married, his fianc\u00e9e's brother, Zachary Polk, said. \u2014 Elliot Lewis, NBC News , 16 June 2022",
"Blizzard later renamed a popular Overwatch hero McCree because the character\u2019s name was originally a nod to a game designer, Jesse McCree, who left the company in the wake of the lawsuit. \u2014 Teddy Amenabar, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Some Malden residents have defended her, saying it\u2019s xenophobic and sexist to question the credentials of the new chief, who is originally from Guatemala and speaks accented English. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022"
": the act or process of organizing or of being organized",
": the condition or manner of being organized",
": association , society",
": an administrative and functional structure (such as a business or a political party)",
": the personnel of such a structure",
": characterized by complete conformity to the standards and requirements of an organization",
": the act or process of arranging",
": the state or way of being arranged",
": a group of people united for a common purpose",
": the act or process of organizing or of being organized",
": the condition of being organized",
": the formation of fibrous tissue from a clot or exudate by invasion of connective tissue cells and capillaries from adjoining tissues accompanied by phagocytosis of superfluous material and multiplication of connective tissue cells",
": a body (as a corporation or union) that has a membership acting or united for a common purpose"
"She is the leader of an international organization devoted to the protection of natural resources.",
"He has been working on the organization of his notes into an outline.",
"She is responsible for the organization of the party.",
"The new president plans to make changes to the company's organization .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Outfielder Trayce Thompson is in Triple-A with the Tigers, his ninth organization . \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 June 2022",
"Why did your organization leave that national network? \u2014 Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"Creating a culture that nurtures healthy relationships throughout your organization , for instance, can not only help create happier, more engaged employees but can also lead to better collaboration among them. \u2014 Bilal Aijazi, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Gottlieb, of the Second Amendment Foundation, says his organization would challenge such an age restriction in court. \u2014 Abby Vesoulis, Time , 3 June 2022",
"Thomas said from what her organization observed, this was not accidental. \u2014 Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"At their second meeting, those whom Amy brought together would name themselves Families for Safe Streets, positioning their fledgling organization against an epidemic that most Americans don\u2019t see. \u2014 Danyoung Kim, The New Yorker , 2 June 2022",
"His organization plans to hold an anti-monarchy conference over the weekend that will draw republican activists from the world\u2019s remaining monarchies, including in Europe and Thailand. \u2014 Claire Parker, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
"Michele Corigliano, executive director of Salt Lake Area Restaurant Association, said at The Gateway event that the members of her organization have seen a vast improvement in the agency. \u2014 Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 June 2022"
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"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Adjective",
"1949, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-220242"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control",
": a severe trial or experience",
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"\u022fr-\u02c8d\u0113(-\u0259)l",
"\u02c8\u022fr-\u02ccd\u0113(-\u0259)l",
"\u022fr-\u02c8d\u0113l"
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"cross",
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"fire",
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"the hikers were finally rescued after a three-day ordeal in the wilderness",
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"The Gouttierres\u2019 ordeal made headlines this month as the art of bee removal has received increasing attention, thanks to an entire genre of mesmerizing TikTok videos and, perhaps, humanity\u2019s age-old fascination with bees. \u2014 Julian Mark, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"Vasily's hellish ordeal of succumbing to the skin-peeling horrors of acute radiation. \u2014 Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"Many office workers opted to avoid the ordeal entirely. \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
"Ironically, like the Velveteen Rabbit, Megan has faced her own difficult ordeal and journey. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"Most likened themselves to jurors or judges who must give a fair hearing in an ordeal that has fractured the state\u2019s Republican Party and galvanized public opinion. \u2014 Stephen Groves, ajc , 16 June 2022",
"Cinematographer Raoul Coutard and editor Fran\u00e7oise Bonnot deepen the visual approach and sharply arrange vivid, unsettlingly humanizing details of G\u00e9rard/London\u2019s physical and intellectual ordeal . \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 15 June 2022",
"Dean eventually testified about the cover-up before Congress, and the ordeal ultimately strengthened their bond. \u2014 Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"Boua DeChhat, 29, of Lowell, was recovered from the water by rescuers Thursday night along with her 7-year-old daughter, who survived the ordeal . \u2014 John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022"
],
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"adjective",
"adverb"
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": of or relating to an organization : involving organization",
"Evanston native Anna Wittcoff, an incoming junior majoring in learning and organizational change at Northwestern, was part of the program that helped give the pantry new life. \u2014 Alex Hulvalchick, Chicago Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"The foundation of organizational change is gaining support from the C-suite and board of directors to align security and business goals. \u2014 James Carder, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Ford noted that Waldo, who has worked in Michigan and Ohio prior to landing in Silicon Valley, has extensive experience leading organizational change. \u2014 Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press , 22 Mar. 2022",
"The first organizational meeting will take place in March. \u2014 cleveland , 18 Feb. 2022",
"As with any organizational change, success starts at the top. \u2014 Aman Kidwai, Fortune , 26 Jan. 2022",
"The Carlsbad Unified School District board will hold its annual organizational meeting at 5 p.m. Wednesday. \u2014 Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Dec. 2021",
"Here are 15 ways to be a community builder as a leader at an individual, team and organizational level. \u2014 Vince Molinaro, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"In a memo to staff Thursday, Licht updated employees on hiring and organizational structure, and discussed some new editorial priorities and tweaks. \u2014 Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022"
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"noun"
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": excrement",
": something that is morally degrading"
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"\u02c8\u022fr-j\u0259r"
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"dirt",
"doo-doo",
"dropping",
"dung",
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"scat",
"slops",
"soil",
"waste"
],
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"examples":[
"polite people do not discuss ordure in public",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"My group first watched a video, which explained that the plant\u2019s effluent would be released into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a thirty-mile-long waterway built in the late nineteenth century to rid the city of its ordure . \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Poking at the ordure with a stick, Cipollone pointed out the beech mast and berries on which the bear had fed. \u2014 Christopher Preston, The Atlantic , 9 Apr. 2020",
"President Nicol\u00e1s Manuro: Creating ordure out of chaos. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Aug. 2019",
"In gardens, the scent of frangipani carries on the damp breeze; in cities, that unmistakably Indian blend of ordure , asphalt and spice. \u2014 The Economist , 27 June 2019",
"At the bottom of the tube sat a half-inch of what looked like frozen mud, but was, in fact, orca ordure . \u2014 Kate Brooks, Smithsonian , 30 Sep. 2017",
"At the bottom of the tube sat a half-inch of what looked like frozen mud, but was, in fact, orca ordure . \u2014 Kate Brooks, Smithsonian , 2 May 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from ord dirty, foul, from Latin horridus horrid",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-134436"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
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": characterized by order : such as",
": marked by regularity or discipline",
": marked by regular or harmonious arrangement or disposition",
": having elements arranged or identified according to a rule: such as",
": having the property that every pair of different elements is related by a transitive relationship that is not symmetric",
": having elements labeled by ordinal numbers"
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"\u02c8\u022fr-d\u0259rd"
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"an ordered sequence of events",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The alternative to an ordered world, and to countries shouldering the cost of its defense, is the law of the jungle, where big countries can take territory, impose their rule and spread chaos at will. \u2014 Richard Fontaine, WSJ , 11 Mar. 2022",
"The grammatical description of the sentence was the whole ordered sequence of layers. \u2014 Geoffrey K. Pullum, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
"The province has been transformed \u2014 not yet into a state but a place settling into ordered routines. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Jan. 2022",
"Together, Number One and Number Three created an ordered list of arrivals that was maintained throughout the wait. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 14 Nov. 2021",
"Gravity in particular is the cosmic force that brings matter together into more compact, more ordered structures. \u2014 Natalie Hamilton, Smithsonian Magazine , 20 Aug. 2021",
"Learning new ways to cope with her illness and the pressures related to having the world\u2019s heaviest monkey wrench thrown into her ordered life will have a positive impact on her emotional health. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 13 Aug. 2021",
"While cities like San Francisco kept clearing sidewalks, Gov. Gavin Newsom preached hotel rooms for the most vulnerable and ordered state workers not to sweep many tents that sprung up along highways. \u2014 Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 May 2021",
"Your occasionally casual attitude toward possessions or money can be frustrating to more ordered people. \u2014 Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive , 11 Mar. 2021"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-161907"
},
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"definitions":[
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-170254"
},
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"type":[
"verb"
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"definitions":[
": to face or turn to the east",
": orient"
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"\u02c8\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259n-\u02cct\u0101t",
"-\u02ccen-"
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"accustom",
"acquaint",
"familiarize",
"initiate",
"introduce",
"orient"
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"a program that helps to orientate new students",
"She needs to orientate herself to her new job.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The first thing to look for is what\u2019s called the square of Pegasus, although this time of year the square is orientated diagonally in the sky, so look for a giant diamond of four stars about halfway up in the east-southeastern sky. \u2014 Mike Lynch, Twin Cities , 20 Oct. 2019",
"To many, the discussion was long overdue in male orientated South Korea, which ranks well below the global average on the 2018 Global Gender Gap report, with major disparities in terms of wage equality and earned income for women. \u2014 Jake Kwon, CNN , 21 Sep. 2019",
"Tumblr has been noted for having a permissive attitude towards NSFW and adult- orientated content on its service, which has previously caused it to be briefly banned in Indonesia. \u2014 Jon Porter, The Verge , 20 Nov. 2018",
"For once, Cardiff were the butt of most jokes from football fans everywhere and surprisingly the jokes weren't all sheep orientated . \u2014 SI.com , 8 July 2018",
"The videos will be vertically- orientated , full-screen, up to 4K resolution, and as long as 60 minutes (instead of the current limit of 60 seconds). \u2014 James Vincent, The Verge , 20 June 2018",
"Speaking to the Inquirer and Daily News, Harris said his role with NBC Sports Philadelphia changed back in September, leading him to do more digitally- orientated work involving podcasts and Facebook Live segments. \u2014 Rob Tornoe, Philly.com , 9 Apr. 2018",
"This alignment, according to Tim Pauketat, professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, is tied to the summer solstice sunrise and the southern maximum moonrise, orientating Cahokia to the movement of both the sun and the moon. \u2014 Sarah E. Baires, Smithsonian , 23 Feb. 2018",
"Paul, 22, is one of YouTube's top content creators, regularly drawing millions of views from his mainly youth- orientated audience. \u2014 NBC News , 11 Jan. 2018"
],
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"1848, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
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": the state of being oriented",
": arrangement , alignment",
": a usually general or lasting direction of thought, inclination, or interest",
": a person's sexual identity or self-identification as bisexual, straight, gay, lesbian, pansexual, etc. : the state of being bisexual, straight, gay, lesbian, pansexual, etc. : sexual orientation",
": change of position by organs, organelles , or organisms in response to external stimulus",
": the act or process of orienting or of being oriented",
": the state of being oriented",
": a usually general or lasting direction of thought, inclination, or interest \u2014 see sexual orientation",
": change of position by organs, organelles, or organisms in response to external stimulus",
": awareness of the existing situation with reference to time, place, and identity of persons"
"These materials are used for the orientation of new employees.",
"They identified as bisexual in orientation .",
"The organization has a decidedly conservative orientation .",
"Her later works were more introspective in orientation .",
"New students need to go through a short orientation before they begin classes.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even after rebooting, the spacecraft\u2019s computer was unable to determine its orientation . \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 2 June 2022",
"His newfound conservative orientation carries both risks and a potential upside for Tesla, says auto-industry analyst Ed Kim. \u2014 Alan Ohnsman, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Gradually, the spacecraft will raise its orientation to study the sun's polar regions more directly than ever before. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 18 May 2022",
"Some of these services dig deep into consumers\u2019 profiles, collecting details like race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, political orientation and shopping preferences. \u2014 Lucia Milic\u0103, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"More than 10 percent of messages contained sensitive information, such as a health condition, political orientation , or drug and alcohol consumption. \u2014 Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics , 16 May 2022",
"But there are few cases of a Democratic challenger winning a primary by running to the right, particularly against someone like Ms. Hochul, who shares Mr. Suozzi\u2019s general political orientation as a Catholic, suburban moderate. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
"His retirement won\u2019t reverse either the destructive partisanship that has undermined the court or the court\u2019s increasingly conservative political orientation . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Ukraine\u2019s pro-Western political orientation touches the core of Russia\u2019s identity\u2014posing a greater challenge than its potential membership in NATO and a possible deployment of Western troops in the country. \u2014 Michael R. Gordon, WSJ , 20 Jan. 2022"
],
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"1839, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-200856"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the poisonous bark of a West African tree ( Erythrophloeum guineense ) of the family Leguminosae : sassy bark"
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"history_and_etymology":"so called from its use as an ordeal poison",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-020927"
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"order buyer":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a buyer who purchases (as produce or livestock) for another's account"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-024524"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": calabar bean"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-045140"
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"noun"
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": to set right by adjusting to facts or principles",
": to acquaint with the existing situation or environment",
": to set or arrange in any determinate position especially in relation to the points of the compass",
": to ascertain the bearings of",
": to cause to face or point toward the east",
": to build (a church or temple) with the longitudinal axis pointing eastward and the chief altar at the eastern end",
": to cause the axes of the molecules of (a fiber or material) to assume the same direction",
": regions or countries lying to the east of a specified or implied point : the eastern regions or countries of the world : east sense 2",
": a pearl of great luster",
": the luster of a pearl",
": east sense 1b",
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": radiant , glowing",
": oriental sense 1",
": rising in the sky",
": to set or arrange in a position especially so as to be lined up with certain points of the compass",
": to make familiar with an existing situation or environment",
": to direct toward the interests of a particular group",
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"\u02c8\u022fr-\u0113-\u02ccent",
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"\u02c8\u014dr-\u0113-\u02ccent",
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"Verb",
"The program is intended to orient students toward a career in medicine.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"These circuits orient bodily sensors in the optimal direction for in-depth investigation of the source of an input and enhance the brain's ability to identify the nature and location of initially ambiguous incoming signals from the senses. \u2014 Gy\u00f6rgy Buzs\u00e1ki, Scientific American , 14 May 2022",
"But the more traditional elements are scrambled by his modernist disregard for the conventions of chronology, introduction, and explanation, his lack of interest in the helpful signposts and directions that orient readers in time and space. \u2014 Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The book is extremely easy to follow, guiding readers through everything from reading symbols and contours on topo maps, to the difference between true north and magnetic north, to using the night sky or flora and fauna to orient yourself. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Though cultural anthropology now often espouses social justice aims, there are no guarantees that an anthropologist (85% of whom are white in the US) would orient or deploy algorithms in a less biased way than, say, a computer scientist. \u2014 Elena Maris, Wired , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Still, the authors, publishing houses, and publication dates are all listed and will help to orient the reader who cares to track the history of each edition discussed. \u2014 Adam Rowe, Forbes , 1 Jan. 2022",
"Realizing the importance of journaling as a way for people to orient themselves, Sive imbues the pages with her decades of experience as a community organizer and social justice advocate. \u2014 Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com , 25 Dec. 2021",
"Compasses orient themselves to the Earth's magnetic field lines. \u2014 Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Teachers started with the basics: how to orient and hold a book, and where the names of the author and illustrator could be found. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"At online conferences, saying your name before starting your talk helps orient participants who might be listening to the call without video. \u2014 Anne Quito, Quartz , 25 Mar. 2022",
"At Pompeii, the soft robotic hands will need to grasp, move and orient fragments of varying sizes and weights with extreme care\u2014and gather information about them in the process. \u2014 Jen Pinkowski, Scientific American , 6 Dec. 2021",
"In another sense, our values orient and order our desires. \u2014 Kathy Caprino, Forbes , 4 June 2021",
"Teach people to step back and observe, orient , decide, then act. \u2014 Andrew Olsen, Forbes , 5 May 2021",
"The nature tours orient kids and adults to flora and fauna of the Lowcountry while educating them about conservation. \u2014 Sucheta Rawal, Travel + Leisure , 26 Feb. 2021",
"Day-to-day politics is of intrinsic interest for us political animals, and the issues of the day orient much or most of our political reflection. \u2014 Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review , 28 Dec. 2020",
"The woman, Janie Marshall, grabbed onto another patient\u2019s IV pole to regain her balance and orient herself, the police said. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Apr. 2020",
"The way our brain orients to making music on a guitar is just different to a keyboard layout. \u2014 Dan Kopf, Quartz , 30 Jan. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"This is still an important aspect, but the newer focus is now on taking additional steps to not only observe or orient , but being able to track and predict the trajectory of any phenomenon. \u2014 Kathleen Walch, Forbes , 16 Oct. 2021",
"It\u2019s time we re- orient goals or OKRs to align with this new thinking around best people practices and to create an aligned sense of purpose across the entire organization. \u2014 Beth Thornton, Forbes , 21 June 2021",
"Across the country, and in many parts of the globe, those who did not have to be on-site somewhere used their extra time without the commute and travel to re- orient , re-engage, and re-focus on themselves. \u2014 David Rock, Forbes , 2 June 2021",
"In 1943, the US Coast Guard established a long-range navigation (Loran) site on the southwestern coast of the island, part of a network that helped fighter planes and warships orient on the Pacific with the help of regular pulses of radio waves. \u2014 Sarah Gilman, Smithsonian Magazine , 7 Oct. 2020",
"The idea was to re- orient research toward local priorities\u2014sea ice high among them. \u2014 Matthew Halliday/undark, Popular Science , 29 May 2020",
"Vertically orient the lens inside the phone, and use a periscope-like prism to let in light. \u2014 Popular Science , 3 Dec. 2019",
"The city, once the pearl of the orient , was totally destroyed \u2013 shelling and street-to-street fighting left little standing. \u2014 Fox News , 5 Mar. 2020",
"If fuel can't power the thrusters that make sure both probes orient their antennae toward Earth, engineers wouldn't be able to receive data or communicate with the probes. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 29 Jan. 2020"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
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"type":[
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": a set or suite of short pieces for harpsichord or ensemble in 18th-century France"
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": being on or relating to the same surface as the mouth",
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": of, relating to, or characterized by personality traits of passive dependency and aggressiveness",
": an oral examination",
": spoken entry 2 sense 1",
": of, involving, or given by the mouth",
": of, relating to, or involving the mouth : buccal",
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": emphasizing lipreading and the development of vocal expression in teaching the deaf \u2014 compare manual sense 2",
": of, relating to, or characterized by the first stage of psychosexual development in psychoanalytic theory during which libidinal gratification is derived from intake (as of food), by sucking, and later by biting",
": of, relating to, or characterized by personality traits of passive dependence and aggressiveness \u2014 compare anal sense 2 , genital sense 3 , phallic sense 2",
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"As part of her oral examination, she had to recite the names of all the presidents.",
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"Howard Haft, executive director of the Maryland Primary Care Program, which coordinates physicians, said that use of oral antivirals that were once hard to find has been rapidly on the rise. \u2014 Erin Cox, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"Children under 2 are too young to mask; some treatments, including oral antivirals such as Paxlovid, aren\u2019t authorized for use in kids under 12. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 7 June 2022",
"In March, the Biden administration launched a nationwide initiative to provide quick access to Paxlovid and other oral antivirals. \u2014 Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 21 May 2022",
"That means the government is out of money to purchase more vaccines, oral antivirals, and therapeutics, not to mention next-generation vaccines and therapies tailored to particular variants. \u2014 Rachel Cohrs, STAT , 19 May 2022",
"The Biden Administration will nearly double the number of locations where oral antivirals are available in the coming weeks by allowing tens of thousands of pharmacies to order the drugs from the federal government. \u2014 Robert Hart, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"At least $5 billion would be spent on purchasing therapeutics, such as oral antivirals. \u2014 Katie Lobosco And Tami Luhby, CNN , 4 Apr. 2022",
"It is intended to prepare for future variants or spikes in cases, by allowing the government to purchase supplies of monoclonal antibodies, oral antivirals and vaccines before shortages arise. \u2014 Natalie Andrews, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"That new treatment policy allows for race to be one among other considerations when dispensing oral antivirals to people at the most risk of severe disease from the coronavirus. \u2014 Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"However, it can also be transmitted via oral -to-genital contact. \u2014 Ella Lee, USA TODAY , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Both in Britain and the United States, cabotegravir and rilpivirine can be prescribed and used after an initial oral (tablet) lead-in period. \u2014 Somayeh Malekian, ABC News , 20 Nov. 2021",
"The Ohio Supreme Court\u2019s certification exam has two parts, one written and one oral . \u2014 Cameron Fields, cleveland , 29 Sep. 2021",
"Due to its remoteness, Svan culture evolved over the centuries in isolation from the rest of Georgian lands, developing a unique oral -only language and traditions such as ritual beard cutting and blood feuds. \u2014 Melissa Findley, National Geographic , 20 Nov. 2020",
"Astrid agrees, setting a few ground rules: no eye contact, no kissing after oral . \u2014 Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com , 24 June 2020"
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"Adjective",
"Latin or-, os mouth; akin to Old Norse \u014dss mouth of a river, Sanskrit \u0101s mouth"
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"1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
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"type":[
"noun"
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": the administrative division of a particular Roman Catholic diocese or archdiocese",
": a group of members of an Eastern rite in communion with the Pope who are subject to the personal jurisdiction of an appointed prelate (as a titular bishop) of the same rite \u2014 see military ordinariate"
": the crystal lattice of a substitutional alloy in which the substituted atoms occur in a regular order of spacing"
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"noun"
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": australian walnut"
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"\""
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"Adjective",
"Latin ordinant-, ordinans , present participle",
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"noun"
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": the circular space used by the chorus in front of the proscenium in an ancient Greek theater",
": a corresponding semicircular space in a Roman theater used for seating important persons",
": the space in front of the stage in a modern theater that is used by an orchestra",
": the forward section of seats on the main floor of a theater",
": the main floor of a theater",
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"-\u02ccke-",
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"symphony",
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"examples":[
"He plays violin in the school orchestra .",
"the orchestra will be performing a selection of Beethoven pieces tomorrow night",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The event, which was broadcast on all CNN platforms, made history as the first time an all-Black orchestra performed on stage in the Bowl\u2019s 100-year history. \u2014 Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 June 2022",
"The Met has worked to rally support for Ukraine, hosting a benefit concert and helping form an orchestra of Ukrainians, to be led by Gelb\u2019s wife, the Canadian Ukrainian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"Tamara Paige makes her Moonlight debut as conductor and musical director, overseeing an 18-piece orchestra that sounded great on Wednesday night. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"Killer Mike, Lucky Daye, Mary Mary, Michelle Williams and the Debbie Allen Dance Academy further round out a program that will also feature the first time an all-Black orchestra has performed on the Hollywood Bowl stage in its 101 years. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 2 June 2022",
"And none can wrap itself so seamlessly around an orchestra . \u2014 Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com , 6 May 2022",
"Although essential, culture can't be created through standalone values or organizational structure but rather like an orchestra in which all the pieces fit and are brought together by a conductor\u2014or technology in this case. \u2014 Uday Birajdar, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"The Benedictus begins with four rapture-seeking vocal soloists (sopranos Brenda Rae and Miah Persson, tenor Attilio Glaser and bass Michael Sumuel) and an accommodating orchestra in excited anticipation. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Beyonc\u00e9 stands on a tennis court in Compton, California, dressed in stunning bright yellow and surrounded by background singers, dancers and an orchestra . \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 30 Mar. 2022"
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"Latin, from Greek orch\u0113stra , from orcheisthai to dance; perhaps akin to Sanskrit \u1e5bgh\u0101yati he trembles, he rages"
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"1606, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
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": a poisonous Madagascan tree ( Tanghinia venenifera ) having fruit resembling plums and poisonous seeds",
": ordeal bark",
": a southern African tree ( Acocanthera venenata )",
": a poisonous central African shrub ( Strychnos densiflora )"
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"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a grayish blue that is redder and paler than electric, greener than copenhagen, and redder, lighter, and stronger than Gobelin \u2014 compare oriental blue",
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a yellow corundum used as a gem"
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": a candidate for ordination"
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"circa 1842, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-015937"
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"adjective",
"noun"
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": of or relating to the genus Orchestia or the family Orchestiidae",
": an orchestiid crustacean"
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"Adjective",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-031421"
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"noun"
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"definitions":[
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"definitions":[
": a large medieval hurdy-gurdy played by two musicians"
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": a naturally occurring mineral containing a valuable constituent (such as metal) for which it is mined and worked",
": a source from which valuable matter is extracted",
"a monetary subunit of the krona (Sweden) and krone \u2014 see krona, krone at Money Table",
"Oregon",
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": a coin representing one Danish \u00f8re",
": a Norwegian monetary unit equal to \u00b9/\u2081\u2080\u2080 krone \u2014 see krone at Money Table",
": a coin representing one Norwegian \u00f8re",
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"Noun (2)",
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"definitions":[
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"Middle English, porch, oriel, from Anglo-French oriol"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
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"definitions":[
": glockenspiel sense 2a(2)"
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": an evergreen tree ( Picea orientalis ) of the Caucasus and Asia Minor that is used as an ornamental and has pendulous branchlets with brown pubescence"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": the quality or state of being orthodox",
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": Eastern Orthodox Christianity",
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"I was surprised by the orthodoxy of her political views.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Both had little regard for deterrence orthodoxy , and both were abolitionists at heart. \u2014 Michael Krepon, Forbes , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Trump has lost some primary races but his views and his aggressiveness are practically Republican orthodoxy . \u2014 David Jackson, USA TODAY , 26 May 2022",
"In SuperNature, the standup returns to fire a few jokes at trans orthodoxy , with predictable results. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 25 May 2022",
"In that heroic era, the book maintains, the label was essentially anti-commercial, guided not by genre orthodoxy or profitability but by a lifestyle that rejected prevailing social wisdom. \u2014 Michael Friedrich, The New Republic , 3 May 2022",
"That German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, leader of the fiscally conservative Free Democratic Party, is spearheading the spending boost underlines how much war has reordered German fiscal orthodoxy . \u2014 Greg Ip, WSJ , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Estimates vary, but thousands of native Nigerians have taken up the faith in the past few decades, drifting first to messianic Christianity and then to full Old-Testament sidelocks-and-prayer-shawl orthodoxy . \u2014 Longreads , 4 Mar. 2022",
"But what about those using tech platforms and American capitalism itself to impose a new woke orthodoxy on the American people? \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 14 Dec. 2021",
"But instead of facing this and working together, McLaren takes aim at another orthodoxy which drives us to continue polluting the world. \u2014 Alison Escalante, Forbes , 1 Oct. 2021"
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"1630, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-180122"
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": a form that customers can use to order products from a company"
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"noun"
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"definitions":[
": orichalc"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-084229"
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": orthodromy"
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"French orthodromique , from orthodromie orthodromy + -ique -ic"
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"the promulgation of orders-in-council both in pursuance of royal prerogative and under authority of statute",
": an ester RC(OR\u2032) 3 (as orthoformic ester) of an ortho-carboxylic acid"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-133442"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a mineral FeSiO 3 consisting of iron silicate in the orthorhombic form \u2014 compare clinoferrosilite , ferrosilite"
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"\u00a6\u022f(r)(\u02cc)th\u014d+"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-140303"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a list of offices and feasts of the Roman Catholic Church for each day of the year"
],
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"Medieval Latin, from Latin, order"
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"1849, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-161525"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":[
": suitable for performance on an organ",
": organismic sense 2"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a person who plays the organ",
": a person who plays an organ"
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"\u02c8\u022fr-g\u0259-nist"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Mendelssohn insisted the tune should never be used for religious purposes, Gant said, but 15 years later, William Cummings, a British organist , took the melody and added words from a Methodist hymn. \u2014 Alex Marshall, New York Times , 23 Dec. 2021",
"In its nascency, entrance music was produced live by the house organist . \u2014 David M. Zimmer, USA TODAY , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Other figures come to equally vivid life, such as former Sox manager Chuck Tanner; Nancy Faust, the team\u2019s inventive organist ; owner Bill Veeck, of course; and executive Roland Hemond. \u2014 Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com , 15 Mar. 2022",
"You might be treated to live music from Earl, who was the longtime organist at First Christian Church and now plays during church services in Medina. \u2014 Sam Boyer, cleveland , 12 Mar. 2022",
"That\u2019s how Josh Kantor, a talented musician who is the organist for the Boston Red Sox but also plays with Wilco and other bands, ended up hauling his accordion onto the Pearl. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Whelchel, a piano teacher and church organist from Tennessee, won her fourth game of Jeopardy! \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Concert organist Alan Morrison presents a children\u2019s concert at 11 a.m. from Spivey Hall in Georgia. \u2014 Gary Graff, cleveland , 2 Mar. 2022",
"The piano teacher and church organist from Spring Hill, Tennessee, is the current Jeopardy! \u2014 Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com , 1 Mar. 2022"
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"1548, in the meaning defined above"
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": of, relating to, or situated in the Orient : eastern",
": of, relating to, or coming from Asia and especially eastern Asia",
": of, relating to, or constituting the biogeographic region that includes Asia south and southeast of the Himalayas and the Malay Archipelago west of Wallace's line",
": of superior grade, luster, or value",
": being corundum or sapphire but simulating another gem in color",
": asian",
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": oriental rug",
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": asian entry 1",
": relating to or from the region that includes the countries of eastern Asia (as China, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea)"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":[
": intellectually, emotionally, or functionally directed",
": having psychological orientation"
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],
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"examples":[
"The audience was academically oriented .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some are more oriented toward improving the optics of the business prior to sale. \u2014 David W. Mccombie Iii, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Trevion Williams' final half as a Purdue Boilermaker exemplifies his unique talents while exposing the flaws in Matt Painter's post- oriented offense. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Make sure the camera is steady and oriented horizontally. Performer(s) should be shown clearly in the center of the shot. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Toward the center of town, enforcement became more oriented toward traffic safety issues such as speeding and reckless driving. \u2014 Tom Condon, courant.com , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Twitter might be viewing Agrawal in the mode of Sundar Pichai of Google: a technically oriented , low key leader who can guide producers and engineering while pleasing Wall Street. \u2014 Steven Levy, Wired , 29 Nov. 2021",
"The thin, vertically oriented headlamps and bar lights across the front and back provide plenty of illumination. \u2014 Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics , 29 Sep. 2021",
"At the center of the lawsuit is the Japanese patent for non- oriented electrical steel sheets, an indispensable component in electric motors used in EVs, power plants and mobile phones, according to Nippon Steel. \u2014 Yuri Kageyama, ajc , 15 Oct. 2021",
"Mutual ownership does not mean everyone has a say in each other\u2019s decisions, approach to execution or any other micro- oriented view of how the results get achieved. \u2014 Mark Samuel, Forbes , 5 May 2021"
],
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"1925, in the meaning defined above"
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"order arms":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a command to return the rifle to order arms from present arms or to drop the hand from a hand salute",
": a position in the manual of arms in which the rifle is held vertically beside the right leg with the butt resting on the ground"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"from the command order arms !"
],
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"1847, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-082431"
},
"organismic psychology":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": the study of man as a psychosomatic unity"
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"Latin orichalcum , from Greek oreichalkos , literally, mountain copper, from oros mountain + chalkos copper":""
"Crawford became a regular marathoner and competitive orienteer . \u2014 Shauna Farnell, New York Times , 5 Feb. 2020",
"In the women\u2019s middle distance competition at the Games, Chinese orienteers had come close to sweeping the winners podium, with competitors in first, second, and fourth place. \u2014 Jasmine Aguilera, Time , 25 Oct. 2019",
"There have been octogenarian ramblers, naked hikers and nocturnal orienteers bouncing past with their head torches at two in the morning. \u2014 The Economist , 4 Dec. 2019"
"French orch\u00e9sographie , from Middle French orchesographie , from Greek orch\u0113sis dancing + Middle French -o- + -graphie -graphy":""
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"\u02c8\u022frd-nu\u0307\u014b"
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": a complex structure of interdependent and subordinate elements whose relations and properties are largely determined by their function in the whole":[
"the nation is not merely the sum of individual citizens at any given time, but it is a living organism , a mystical body \u2026 of which the individual is an ephemeral part",
"\u2014 Joseph Rossi"
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": an individual constituted to carry on the activities of life by means of parts or organs more or less separate in function but mutually dependent : a living being":[
"Only later genetic analysis revealed the organism to be a single bacterial cell. \u2014 Christina Larson, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"He is fascinated by the flexibility and ferocity of the human organism , the myriad ways in which the body and its desires can betray us. \u2014 Adam Nayman, The New Yorker , 3 June 2022",
"Altogether, the ancient organism stretches almost 200 square kilometers. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 2 June 2022",
"Although fungi may not seem very talkative either, a new study shows electric signals traveling through their mycelium network could help the organism communicate. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 12 Apr. 2022",
"But within their optimal levels, neuromodulators are like secret puppeteers holding the strings of the brain, endlessly shaping circuits and shifting activity patterns into whatever may be most adaptive for the organism , moment by moment. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 22 Mar. 2022",
"The lake is over 40km long as is home to stromatolites \u2013 the oldest living organism dating back some three billion years. \u2014 Angelina Villa-clarke, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"The recognition of commonality strengthens the larger organism that is the camp. \u2014 Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture , 22 Dec. 2021",
"The activities of the organism responsible creates chemical changes in the leaf tissue, redirecting tissue formation to suit its needs. \u2014 Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun , 26 May 2022"
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"circa 1774, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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": proficiency in oral expression and comprehension":[]
