dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/ral_MW.json

{
  "rally":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a mass meeting intended to arouse group enthusiasm":[],
      ": a mustering of scattered forces to renew an effort":[],
      ": a recovery of price after a decline":[],
      ": a renewed offensive":[],
      ": a series of shots interchanged between players (as in tennis) before a point is won":[],
      ": a summoning up of strength or courage after weakness or dejection":[],
      ": an automobile competition using public roads and ordinary traffic rules with the object of maintaining a specified average speed between checkpoints over a route unknown to the participants until the start of the event":[],
      ": recover , rebound":[
        "rallied briefly from his illness"
      ],
      ": to arouse for action":[],
      ": to attack with raillery : banter":[],
      ": to come together again to renew an effort":[],
      ": to engage in a rally":[],
      ": to join in a common cause":[],
      ": to muster for a common purpose":[],
      ": to recall to order":[],
      ": to rouse from depression or weakness":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "Supporters held a rally for the candidate.",
      "Protesters staged an antiwar rally .",
      "Stock prices are up after the dollar's rally yesterday.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "With this year\u2019s legislative session in its final days, opponents planned to rally outside the State House on Tuesday. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2022",
      "Novogratz accurately predicted in the interview that the central bank would lift rates by 75 points and that the market would rally on the news. \u2014 Sophie Mellor, Fortune , 16 June 2022",
      "Tyler Hill hit a grand slam in the seventh inning to rally the Hartford Yard Goats past the Sea Dogs 6-3 on Sunday afternoon in Portland, Maine, extending their winning streak to nine games. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 12 June 2022",
      "Salem area activists are planning to rally at 4 p.m. Sunday on the Oregon Capitol Mall, the Statesman Journal reported. \u2014 oregonlive , 11 June 2022",
      "The Women\u2019s March organization has also asked supporters nationwide to rally outside local federal courthouses, buildings, and town halls on Tuesday, May 3. \u2014 Leah Campano, Seventeen , 3 May 2022",
      "Moreover, Biden\u2019s ability to rally his party on the issue ahead of the midterms is no sure thing. \u2014 Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
      "In 2019, the SMMA denied a permit to white supremacists who wanted to rally on Super Bowl weekend in Atlanta. \u2014 al , 1 May 2022",
      "People like Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist who denied the Sandy Hook massacre, and Mr. Trump, who used Twitter to rally his followers to march on the Capitol on Jan. 6, have been banned. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Hutchinson also told the committee the White House deputy chief of staff for operations, Anthony Ornato, described Trump demanding to head toward the Capitol as his security detail drove him back to the White House after his rally Jan. 6, 2021. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 29 June 2022",
      "Trump staffer Cassidy Hutchinson testified under oath that Trump was unstable in his limo after his rally on January 6th. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 29 June 2022",
      "Among Hutchinson's extraordinary revelations was that Trump was told that the crowd at his rally at the Ellipse ahead of the Capitol riot had guns and other weapons. \u2014 CBS News , 29 June 2022",
      "Trump was furious the Secret Service was screening people at his rally for weapons. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
      "The former president endorsed Bailey on Saturday, days before the primary, at his rally in the state. \u2014 Ben Kamisar, NBC News , 27 June 2022",
      "The Reds had eight consecutive batters reach base with two outs, sparking their biggest two-out rally in more than a decade. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 27 June 2022",
      "In the weeks after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Ginni Thomas apologized to those on the email list for a rift that developed among them after her pro-Trump advocacy and endorsement of his Jan. 6 rally . \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 21 June 2022",
      "Organizers hoped the second March for Our Lives rally would draw as many as 50,000 people to the Washington Monument, though the crowd seemed closer to 30,000. \u2014 The Christian Science Monitor , 13 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The teams met again on Nov. 13, 2019, with Koby McEwen helping the Golden Eagles rally from an 18-point deficit for a 65-55 win. \u2014 Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel , 1 July 2022",
      "Money managers are selling the South African rand and Brazilian real, reversing a trend earlier in the year when the sharpest commodities rally in modern trading history supported emerging-markets currencies despite a strong dollar. \u2014 Julia-ambra Verlaine, WSJ , 28 June 2022",
      "At least 50 people gathered for a women\u2019s rights rally in front of the Federal Courthouse Building in downtown Tuscaloosa Monday to protest the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 27 June 2022",
      "Parkland survivor and activist David Hogg speaks to the crowd during in the second March for Our Lives rally in support of gun control in front on Saturday in Washington. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
      "Four years after the first March for Our Lives rally in support of gun control, thousands of people attended rallies nationwide Saturday in the aftermath of mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York. \u2014 Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone , 11 June 2022",
      "Geiersbach\u2019s heroics \u2014 which included two assists for a game-high seven points \u2014 helped the Tar Heels rally from a 13-5 deficit with 32.3 seconds left in the third quarter. \u2014 Edward Lee, Chicago Tribune , 28 May 2022",
      "Geiersbach\u2019s heroics \u2013 which included two assists for a game-high seven points \u2013 helped the Tar Heels rally from a 13-5 deficit with 32.3 seconds left in the third quarter. \u2014 Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun , 28 May 2022",
      "Monday night the White Sox\u2019s defense helped Josh Naylor and the Guardians rally from a six-run deficit to a victory in 11 innings by committing four errors. \u2014 Paul Hoynes, cleveland , 10 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1599, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
      "1646, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
      "1668, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French railler to mock, rally \u2014 more at rail":"Verb",
      "French rallier , from Old French ralier , from re- + alier to unite \u2014 more at ally":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ra-l\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "marshaling",
      "marshalling",
      "mobilization",
      "rallying"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105953",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "rallying":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the sport of driving in automobile rallies":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the rallying of students to support our petition for better bus service was made a lot easier by this morning's subzero temperatures",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren put out a statement that doubled as a rallying call. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
      "In fact, the groups used Lewis\u2019 retreat as a rallying call. \u2014 Nicole Carr, ProPublica , 16 June 2022",
      "The fact that Vaught, 38, faced any criminal penalties at all has become a rallying point for many nurses who were already fed up with poor working conditions exacerbated by the pandemic. \u2014 Sarah Rumpf, Fox News , 14 May 2022",
      "One of its provisions would seek to provide more clarity around which cryptocurrencies meet the legal definition of securities that the SEC should regulate, a rallying point for the industry. \u2014 Paul Kiernan, WSJ , 14 June 2022",
      "The fact that Vaught, 38, faced any criminal penalties at all has become a rallying point for many nurses who were already fed up with poor working conditions exacerbated by the pandemic. \u2014 Sarah Rumpf, Fox News , 14 May 2022",
      "The fact that Vaught, 38, faced any criminal penalties at all has become a rallying point for many nurses who were already fed up with poor working conditions exacerbated by the pandemic. \u2014 Sarah Rumpf, Fox News , 14 May 2022",
      "The fact that Vaught, 38, faced any criminal penalties at all has become a rallying point for many nurses who were already fed up with poor working conditions exacerbated by the pandemic. \u2014 CBS News , 13 May 2022",
      "The forum, also due to be attended by leading European officials and US lawmakers, is turning into a rallying point for the US and its allies as the NATO alliance faces its most serious test since the fall of the Soviet Union. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 17 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1957, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ra-l\u0113-i\u014b"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "marshaling",
      "marshalling",
      "mobilization",
      "rally"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111109",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "Rallidae":{
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a family of gruiform birds consisting of the rails, crakes, wekas, coots, gallinules, and related forms":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ral\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Rallus , type genus + -idae":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173654"
  }
}