dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/vag_MW.json

{
  "vag-":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": vagus nerve":[
        "vag al",
        "vago tomy"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary, from New Latin vagus":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172322",
    "type":[
      "combining form"
    ]
  },
  "vagabond":{
    "antonyms":[
      "ambulant",
      "ambulatory",
      "errant",
      "fugitive",
      "gallivanting",
      "galavanting",
      "itinerant",
      "nomad",
      "nomadic",
      "perambulatory",
      "peregrine",
      "peripatetic",
      "ranging",
      "roaming",
      "roving",
      "vagrant",
      "wandering",
      "wayfaring"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": leading an unsettled, irresponsible, or disreputable life":[],
      ": moving from place to place without a fixed home : wandering":[],
      ": of, relating to, or characteristic of a wanderer":[],
      ": to wander in the manner of a vagabond : roam about":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "be wary of the vagabonds in that corner of the city",
      "after they retired, the couple bought an RV and became footloose vagabonds",
      "Adjective",
      "a vagabond group of entertainers that performed in rough-and-tumble mining towns",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Few, however, remain today, as so many in period succumbed to rust or maltreatment, being passed from one vagabond owner to the next, each toking his or her way from campground to campground. \u2014 Robert Ross, Robb Report , 13 June 2022",
      "Since season 1, fans have been wondering what the deal is with the mysterious, seemingly all-knowing vagabond Horse (Brendan Sexton III). \u2014 Lauren Huff, EW.com , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "If ever there was a good time be a vagabond , this stretch of the Lakers\u2019 schedule might be as good as any. \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "Our surrogate, Kay, is a young woman who ran away from her southern Louisiana home to live as a vagabond . \u2014 Todd Martensgame Critic, Los Angeles Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "Alexia is a vagabond , moving from place to place\u2014Siberia, Alaska\u2014apparently in search of her mother, who has somehow been lost to her. \u2014 Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "All-Pro and three-time Pro Bowl selection during his time with the Pittsburgh Steelers (2013-17), has had a vagabond existence since sitting out the 2018 season while in a contract dispute with the Steelers. \u2014 Jim Reineking, USA TODAY , 21 Dec. 2021",
      "The fair has become a vagabond in recent years, hopscotching from Hallandale Beach to Pembroke Pines and back. \u2014 Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com , 16 Nov. 2021",
      "That guiso rojo was a cornerstone for the Generala Plate ($12), a fortifying combo that also included costilla, refried beans, chopped nopales and fresh corn tortillas for scooping like a trainyard vagabond (or just a hungry dad at a picnic). \u2014 Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News , 8 Oct. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "There are records of albatrosses spending decades living as vagabond singletons in the wrong hemisphere, Lees said. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 7 Nov. 2021",
      "By modern standards, Wray's story feels like rock and roll lore that edges on pulp: As a child, he was raised in poverty in Dunn, North Carolina, and learned to play guitar from a vagabond bluesman named Hambone. \u2014 Colin Stutz, Billboard , 10 Oct. 2017",
      "Hill\u2019s book teems with sloppy and obvious devices (to the point of cliche), including a vagabond narrator (Steve Pacek) preempting for us the obvious songs that require no explanation. \u2014 Jim Rutter, Philly.com , 24 Sep. 2017",
      "The vagabond fair has set up in a half-dozen different locations over the past 41 years, but it was forced to cancel its plans in recent years because of the problems securing city permits. \u2014 Larry Barszewski, Sun-Sentinel.com , 22 Sep. 2017",
      "Spoiler alert: The Glass Castle, in theaters now and based on journalist Jeannette Walls\u2019 2005 best-selling memoir about her vagabond childhood, boasts one of the most unexpected, triumphant, hide-under-your-couch scenes in recent film history. \u2014 Justine Harman, Glamour , 16 Aug. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
      "circa 1586, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English vacabounde, vagabounde , borrowed from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French vacabunde , borrowed from Late Latin vag\u0101bundus , from Latin vag\u0101r\u012b \"to wander, roam\" (verbal derivative of vagus \"moving freely, wandering\") + -bundus , deverbal adjective suffix (akin to Latin fu\u012b \"I was,\" Old English b\u0113on \"to be\") \u2014 more at vague , be":"Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8va-g\u0259-\u02ccb\u00e4nd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bindle stiff",
      "bum",
      "bummer",
      "hobo",
      "sundowner",
      "swaggie",
      "swagman",
      "tramp",
      "vagrant"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185351",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "vagabondia":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the life of a vagabond : vagabondage":[
        "his departure from Leyden on the road to vagabondia",
        "\u2014 North American Review"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "vagabond + -ia (as in bohemia )":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211123",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vagabondize":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": vagabond":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02ccd\u012bz"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071329",
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "vagal":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, mediated by, or being the vagus nerve":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "More than 100,000 patients have received vagal nerve implants to treat intractable epilepsy, treatment-resistant depression, cluster headaches and migraine. \u2014 Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ , 13 Aug. 2021",
      "Most recently, Liberles\u2019s team discovered cells in the brainstem, connected to vagal neurons, that trigger nausea. \u2014 Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS , 10 June 2021",
      "In 2018, neuroscientist Diego Boh\u00f3rquez at Duke University discovered a direct vagal connection between nutrient-sensing cells in the mouse gut called neuropods and the brain. \u2014 Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS , 10 June 2021",
      "According to a study, Loving-Kindness-Meditation created a healthy vagal tone in participants. \u2014 Womensmedia, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2021",
      "The vagal response is an automatic response that occurs when the vagus nerve is stimulated by triggers like stress, fear and pain. \u2014 Camille Caldera, USA TODAY , 21 Dec. 2020",
      "Most vagal nerve stimulators, including SetPoint\u2019s devices and those already in use for treating epilepsy and depression, are implants. \u2014 Scientific American , 14 Sep. 2018",
      "The researchers are also using their approach to examine metabolic changes, injecting mice with insulin or glucose and looking for vagal responses. \u2014 Tim Hornyak, Scientific American , 10 May 2018",
      "In an alternative approach to weight loss, Dr. David Prologo, an interventional radiologist from Emory University School of Medicine, and his colleagues froze a nerve called the posterior vagal trunk in 10 people who were significantly overweight. \u2014 Alexandra Sifferlin, Time , 21 Mar. 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1854, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "vagus (nerve) + -al entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0101-g\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014931",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "vagarious":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": marked by vagaries : capricious , whimsical":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1798, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "vagary + -ous":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259-",
      "v\u0101-\u02c8ger-\u0113-\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080558",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "vagary":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the vagaries of a rather eccentric, elderly lady",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "At times, its operators seemed confounded by the vagaries of Toronto politics. \u2014 Aarian Marshall, Wired , 7 May 2020",
      "Ford has a gift for nimble interior monologues and a superb ear for the varieties and vagaries of human speech. \u2014 Rand Richards Cooper, New York Times , 12 May 2020",
      "New York has long prided itself on being a sort of cultural and political city-state, able to hold its own against any vagaries emanating from the White House. \u2014 David Remnick, The New Yorker , 12 Apr. 2020",
      "Making the situation worse are the increasing vagaries of climate change. \u2014 S. Gopikrishna Warrier, Quartz India , 20 Jan. 2020",
      "Was this a nod to the vagaries of supply and demand",
      "The vagaries of ancestry are especially acute for many African Americans, largely because the slave trade severed familial links both within American life and to African origins. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Apr. 2020",
      "Ordinarily, the absence of genetic diversity makes a population exceedingly vulnerable to the vagaries of its environment. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 23 Mar. 2020",
      "The postseason is a marathon, 10-team tournament subject to the vagaries of short series. \u2014 John Shea, SFChronicle.com , 4 Mar. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1579, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "perhaps borrowed from Latin vag\u0101r\u012b \"to wander, roam\" \u2014 more at vagabond entry 2":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0101-g\u0259-r\u0113",
      "v\u0259-\u02c8ger-\u0113",
      "also \u02c8va-g\u0259-r\u0113",
      "v\u0101-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vagary caprice , whim , vagary , crotchet mean an irrational or unpredictable idea or desire. caprice stresses lack of apparent motivation and suggests willfulness. by sheer caprice she quit her job whim implies a fantastic, capricious turn of mind or inclination. an odd antique that was bought on a whim vagary stresses the erratic, irresponsible character of the notion or desire. he had been prone to strange vagaries crotchet implies an eccentric opinion or preference. a serious scientist equally known for his bizarre crotchets",
    "synonyms":[
      "bee",
      "caprice",
      "crank",
      "fancy",
      "freak",
      "humor",
      "kink",
      "maggot",
      "megrim",
      "notion",
      "vagrancy",
      "whim",
      "whimsy",
      "whimsey"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053951",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vagation":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an act or instance of departing from an expected or regular course":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English vagacion , from Middle French vagation , from Latin vagation-, vagatio action of wandering, from vagatus (past participle of vagari ) + -ion-, -io -ion":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131909",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vagile":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": free to move about":[
        "vagile organisms"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1890, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from German vagil , from Latin vagus \"wandering, roaming\" + German -il (in sessil sessile ) \u2014 more at vague":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8va-j\u0259l",
      "-\u02ccj\u012b(-\u0259)l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115248",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vagina":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a canal in a female mammal that leads from the uterus to the external orifice of the genital canal":[],
      ": a canal that is similar in function or location to the vagina and occurs in various animals other than mammals":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1612, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin, going back to Latin v\u0101g\u012bna \"scabbard, sheath,\" of uncertain origin":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259-\u02c8j\u012b-n\u0259"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105804",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vaginal":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of or relating to a theca":[],
      ": of, relating to, or affecting the genital vagina":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "While many things can cause painful intercourse (formally called dyspareunia), including vaginismus and low vaginal estrogen, there\u2019s usually a remedy for those problems, says Dr. King. \u2014 Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping , 24 June 2022",
      "Some brands also add an antimicrobial layer to keep vaginal odors at bay. \u2014 Sarah Madaus, SELF , 23 June 2022",
      "Birth control pills and other hormonal contraceptives\u2014including patches, injections and vaginal rings\u2014have been fully covered by almost all health insurance plans since the Affordable Care Act designated them as preventive health care. \u2014 Mariana Lenharo, Scientific American , 20 June 2022",
      "At the same border crossing two days later, authorities said a 47-year-old woman attempted to smuggle 0.07 pounds of the drug in her vaginal cavity. \u2014 Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News , 16 June 2022",
      "Contraceptives like intrauterine devices, oral pills, vaginal rings, and implants work by releasing small amounts of progesterone for several months to years. \u2014 Anuradha Varanasi, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
      "The space between the rectum and urinary tract is dissected, and the peritoneal tissue is then pulled down into the space between the rectum and the urethra to serve as the vaginal lining. \u2014 Mailee Osten-tan, Longreads , 8 June 2022",
      "This dietary supplement helps with urinary and vaginal health. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 May 2022",
      "Whether the virus also spreads through semen or vaginal fluids, however, is unknown. \u2014 Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic , 3 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1653, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin vaginalis , from vagina \"sheath, vagina \" + Latin -\u0101lis -al entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8vaj-\u0259n-\u1d4al, sometimes v\u0259-\u02c8j\u012b-n\u1d4al",
      "\u02c8va-j\u0259-n\u1d4al"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104228",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vagous":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": wandering , unsettled":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin vagus":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125947",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "vagrance":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": vagrancy":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0101gr\u0259n(t)s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004417",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vagrancy":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the offense of being a vagrant":[],
      ": the state or action of being vagrant":[],
      ": vagary":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a frequent victim to the vagrancies of the heart, she had a succession of passionate but short-lived romances",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Most residents consider crime and vagrancy bigger public threats than billionaires. \u2014 Allysia Finley, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
      "The stabbings are part of a general increase in subway crime that preceded, but has continued in the days since, Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a new crackdown on crime and vagrancy on the subway system. \u2014 NBC News , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "It\u2019s the oldest park in Utah\u2019s capital, with 175 years of history and a reputation in recent decades of being run-down and prone to crime and vagrancy . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "An itinerant worker who had slept in a barn the night before, Randolph thought the men were attempting to arrest him for trespassing or vagrancy . \u2014 Clint Smith, The Atlantic , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "The 100-player league has been practicing and playing for years on rundown ballfields ravaged by age, neglect, disrepair, vandalism and vagrancy . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Jan. 2022",
      "Hill has an extensive history of misdemeanor cases involving trespassing, obstruction, battery, vagrancy , larceny and theft allegations. \u2014 Ken Ritter And Terry Tang, Star Tribune , 13 July 2021",
      "Austin incentivized vagrancy as a lifestyle choice and did nothing to prepare for the consequences of the policy shift. \u2014 Matt Mackowiak, National Review , 23 May 2021",
      "Levels of vagrancy in progressive redoubts like New York City and San Francisco have reached levels that are too high to ignore. \u2014 Jason L. Riley, WSJ , 18 May 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1641, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "vagr(ant) entry 1 or vagr(ant) entry 2 + -ancy":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0101-gr\u0259n(t)-s\u0113",
      "\u02c8v\u0101-gr\u0259n-s\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bee",
      "caprice",
      "crank",
      "fancy",
      "freak",
      "humor",
      "kink",
      "maggot",
      "megrim",
      "notion",
      "vagary",
      "whim",
      "whimsy",
      "whimsey"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013428",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vagrant":{
    "antonyms":[
      "ambulant",
      "ambulatory",
      "errant",
      "fugitive",
      "gallivanting",
      "galavanting",
      "itinerant",
      "nomad",
      "nomadic",
      "perambulatory",
      "peregrine",
      "peripatetic",
      "ranging",
      "roaming",
      "roving",
      "vagabond",
      "wandering",
      "wayfaring"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": having a fleeting, wayward, or inconstant quality":[
        "a vagrant impulse"
      ],
      ": having no fixed course : random":[
        "a vagrant breeze"
      ],
      ": one (such as a prostitute or drunkard) whose conduct constitutes statutory vagrancy":[],
      ": one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support":[],
      ": wanderer , rover":[],
      ": wandering about from place to place usually with no means of support":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "a part of the city that attracts many vagrants",
      "vagrants sleeping in cardboard boxes on the sidewalk",
      "Adjective",
      "bands of vagrant children in the streets of the impoverished city",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Please don\u2019t glorify a homeless vagrant who has nowhere to go. \u2014 Dan Koeppel, Outside Online , 5 Sep. 2019",
      "Research has demonstrated that the long-term impact of a single avian vagrant can in fact, be ecologically profound. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Citizen Ruth is about a paint-huffing vagrant who has been arrested 16 times and given birth to four children, all of whom were seized by the state. \u2014 Matthew Jacobs, Vulture , 2 Dec. 2021",
      "Coronavirus seems to pounce on these attributes, like a famished vagrant at a free all-you-can-eat buffet. \u2014 Sam Adams, The Denver Post , 17 July 2020",
      "The 35-year-old vagrant then grabbed the child, picked him up and threw him to the concrete, slamming his face on the ground, police said. \u2014 Fox News , 11 Oct. 2019",
      "Neighboring what passes for a metro area out here, Hawkeye is no secret\u2014not from other hunters nor birders nor a cast of more nefarious characters ranging from mere vagrants to meth dealers. \u2014 Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream , 12 Mar. 2020",
      "In 2019, the number of homeless citizens living in cars, vans and RVs increased, along with the number of vagrants living in tents or makeshift setups. \u2014 Nick Givas, Fox News , 15 Feb. 2020",
      "Joshua Bright for The New York Times Dean Feldman spends so much time in the lobby of Schwab House, a co-op with some 600 units on the Upper West Side, that the uninitiated might easily mistake him for a doorman \u2014 or a vagrant . \u2014 Joanne Kaufman, New York Times , 14 Feb. 2020",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Some reports described him as a vagrant ; others labeled him a drug dealer. \u2014 James E. Causey, jsonline.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "English roads teemed with men turned vagrant by penury; Spain was on the cusp of war. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Dec. 2021",
      "The commissioner had heard screaming, looked outside and saw a father pushing a baby in a stroller accompanied by another toddler moving away from a person the witness described as a vagrant , who was following them with a brick, Krepp said. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Dec. 2021",
      "North of Boston, a vagrant wood stork continued to be sighted in the vicinity of the Green Landing Marsh in Gloucester, a little blue heron at the Ross Field Mill Pond elsewhere in Gloucester. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 Nov. 2021",
      "The group aged each bird by their appearance and found that vagrant , or birds that fly outside of their range, were always adolescents, per Science News. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "Birders dream of vagrant sightings, said Nick Lund, who works for Maine Audubon and counts himself lucky to have seen a great black hawk, native to Central and South America, in his home state in 2018. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 7 Nov. 2021",
      "Synonyms for beggar include hobo, pauper, tramp, vagrant , derelict, mendicant, bum, supplicant, deadbeat, borrower. \u2014 Stephen Miller, WSJ , 11 Oct. 2021",
      "Dreamlike and deliberate, pedestrian and theatrical, bland and strangely beautiful, \u2018About Endlessness\u2019 takes in the suffering, struggle and moments of vagrant joy in life and propels them into the cosmos. \u2014 Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 30 Apr. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English vagaraunt \"inclined to wander, lacking a livelihood,\" borrowed from Anglo-French vageraunt, waucrant , present participle of vagrer \"to wander about\" \u2014 more at vagrant entry 1":"Adjective",
      "Middle English vageraunt, vagraunt , borrowed from Anglo-French vageraunt , from present participle of vagrer \"to wander about,\" probably blend of vaguer \"to be unoccupied, wander about\" (borrowed from Late Latin vag\u0101re , Latin vag\u0101r\u012b \"to wander, roam\") and waucrer, wakrer \"to wander about,\" perhaps going back to Old Low Franconian (Frankish substratum of French) *walkaran- , frequentative derivative of Germanic *walkan- \"to roll, toss\" \u2014 more at vagabond entry 2 , walk entry 1":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0101-gr\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bindle stiff",
      "bum",
      "bummer",
      "hobo",
      "sundowner",
      "swaggie",
      "swagman",
      "tramp",
      "vagabond"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205206",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vagrom":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": vagrant":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1599, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "apparently by dissimilation and reduction from vagrant entry 2 (parallel to ingram from ingrant , ignorant )":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0101-gr\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192036",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "vags":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":[
      "Definition of vags plural of vag present tense third person singular of vag"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-170313",
    "type":[]
  },
  "vague":{
    "antonyms":[
      "clear",
      "definite",
      "explicit",
      "specific"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": lacking expression : vacant":[
        "vague eyes",
        "a vague stare"
      ],
      ": not clearly expressed : stated in indefinite terms":[
        "vague accusations"
      ],
      ": not clearly felt or sensed : somewhat subconscious":[
        "a vague longing"
      ],
      ": not having a precise meaning":[
        "a vague term of abuse"
      ],
      ": not sharply outlined : hazy":[
        "met by vague figures with shaded torchlights",
        "\u2014 Earle Birney"
      ],
      ": not thinking or expressing one's thoughts clearly or precisely":[
        "vague about dates and places"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "When my three years of military service ended, I looked around for some way to get to spend time in rural Vietnam as a civilian. The driving force was still primarily intellectual curiosity, along with a desire to improve my language ability in a non-Western language and some vague idea of doing folkloristic or literary studies in the future. \u2014 Neil L. Jamieson , Understanding Vietnam , (1993) 1995",
      "There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood. \u2014 Arthur Conan Doyle , A Study in Scarlet , 1887",
      "At the end of half an hour Tom had a vague general idea of his lesson, but no more, for his mind was traversing the whole field of human thought, and his hands were busy with distracting recreations. \u2014 Mark Twain , Tom Sawyer , 1876",
      "It thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to know that behind the dusky shroud, there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him, while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a spectral hand and one great heap of black. \u2014 Charles Dickens , A Christmas Carol , 1843",
      "The instructions she left were vague and difficult to follow.",
      "He gave only a vague answer.",
      "The judges determined that the law was too vague to be fairly enforced.",
      "She has been vague about her plans for college.",
      "We had only a vague idea of where we were.",
      "I think I have a vague understanding of how it works.",
      "He longed in some vague way for something different.",
      "She felt a vague sense of uneasiness when she was around him.",
      "I had the vague impression that they were withholding information.",
      "We could just barely make out the vague outline of a plane in the sky.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Unhelpful critique, on the other hand, is often vague and general. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
      "As the organization\u2019s revenue grew by hundreds of thousands of dollars each year, the tax filings remain vague and repetitive, providing no specifics on who provided contributions or to what charities revenue was donated. \u2014 Henri Hollis, ajc , 22 June 2022",
      "The public housing developments were torn down, but plans for replacing them were often vague or simply abandoned. \u2014 Nick Blumberg, ProPublica , 14 June 2022",
      "That question is left intentionally fuzzy, with the film offering vague and contradictory hints about the antagonist that don\u2019t quite add up. \u2014 Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
      "However, some doctors have said that exception is vague and unclear. \u2014 Carmen Forman, USA TODAY , 26 May 2022",
      "Trump is promoting vague and baseless claims of election fraud in that race, in an awkward replay of post-2020 messaging. \u2014 Rick Klein, ABC News , 23 May 2022",
      "For those who believe in the explicit White supremacist takes, the options are vague or distant, like dividing America into regions for different ethnicities. \u2014 Elle Reeve, CNN , 20 May 2022",
      "The legislation was drafted in very broad and deliberately vague terms. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1661, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from French, going back to Middle French, going back to Old French, \"wandering, vagabond,\" borrowed from Latin vagus \"moving freely, wandering,\" perhaps akin to Old High German wank\u014dn \"to totter, stagger,\" winkan \"to waver, stagger, wink,\" Old English wincian \"to close the eyes\" \u2014 more at wink entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0101g"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vague obscure , dark , vague , enigmatic , cryptic , ambiguous , equivocal mean not clearly understandable. obscure implies a hiding or veiling of meaning through some inadequacy of expression or withholding of full knowledge. obscure poems dark implies an imperfect or clouded revelation often with ominous or sinister suggestion. muttered dark hints of revenge vague implies a lack of clear formulation due to inadequate conception or consideration. a vague sense of obligation enigmatic stresses a puzzling, mystifying quality. enigmatic occult writings cryptic implies a purposely concealed meaning. cryptic hints of hidden treasure ambiguous applies to language capable of more than one interpretation. an ambiguous directive equivocal applies to language left open to differing interpretations with the intention of deceiving or evading. moral precepts with equivocal phrasing",
    "synonyms":[
      "fuzzy",
      "indefinite",
      "inexplicit",
      "muzzy",
      "unclear"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234128",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vaginant":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": sheathing":[
        "vaginant culm of grass"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8vaj\u0259n\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin vaginant-, vaginans , present participle of vaginare \u201cto ensheathe,\u201d verbal derivative of Latin v\u0101g\u012bna \u201csheath, scabbard\u201d":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171231"
  },
  "vagina synovialis":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": vagina tendinis":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8\u0101l-",
      "-s\u0259\u0307\u02ccn\u014dv\u0113\u02c8al\u0259\u0307s",
      "-\u02c8\u00e4l-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin, \u201csynovial sheath\u201d":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-224344"
  },
  "vagus nerve":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": either of the 10th pair of cranial nerves that arise from the medulla oblongata and supply chiefly the viscera especially with autonomic sensory and motor fibers":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0101-g\u0259s-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "When you are stressed, your body inhibits the signals that travel through the vagus nerve and slows down the digestive process. \u2014 The Conversation, oregonlive , 3 Apr. 2021",
      "When you are stressed, your body inhibits the signals that travel through the vagus nerve and slows down the digestive process. \u2014 The Conversation, oregonlive , 3 Apr. 2021",
      "When you are stressed, your body inhibits the signals that travel through the vagus nerve and slows down the digestive process. \u2014 The Conversation, oregonlive , 3 Apr. 2021",
      "The brain needs calories to operate, and chemical messengers travel back and forth between your gut and brain via the vagus nerve triggering all sorts of functions, from hormone production to cognition. \u2014 Christine Byrne, Outside Online , 21 Oct. 2021",
      "That forceful suction activates swallowing muscles and our good friend, the vagus nerve . \u2014 Madeline Holcombe, CNN , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "When you are stressed, your body inhibits the signals that travel through the vagus nerve and slows down the digestive process. \u2014 The Conversation, oregonlive , 3 Apr. 2021",
      "Swallowing also triggers the vagus nerve , which is connected to hiccups. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe, CNN , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "One of the primary features of the vagus nerve is to help regulate heart rate and heart rate variability. \u2014 Justin Ross, Outside Online , 13 May 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin vagus nervus , literally, \"wandering nerve,\"; so called from its multiplicity of connecting points in the neck, thorax, and abdomen \u2014 more at vague":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1856, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103442"
  }
}