dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/vas_MW.json

{
  "Vasa Murrhina":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a late 19th century American glassware of variegated color and often with metallic flecking":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, literally, murrhine dish":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-m\u0259\u02c8r\u012bn\u0259",
      "-r\u0113n\u0259"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232237",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "Vasai-Virar":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "dual city north of Mumbai on the coast of the Arabian Sea in western Maharashtra, India population 1,222,390":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u00e4-\u02ccs\u012b-\u02c8vir-\u02cc\u00e4r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065407",
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ]
  },
  "vas":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an anatomical vessel : duct":[],
      ": blood vessel":[
        "vaso motor"
      ],
      ": vas deferens":[
        "vas ectomy"
      ],
      ": vascular and":[
        "vaso vagal"
      ],
      ": vasomotor":[
        "vaso active"
      ],
      ": vessel: such as":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Before long the eggs were sharing space with cups, bowls, and vases . \u2014 William Grimes, BostonGlobe.com , 19 Apr. 2020",
      "People are able to participate by delivering and leaving clean, medium sized vases in a box with their name on it at 150 N Galt Ave in Crescent Hill on the front porch. \u2014 Dominique Yates, The Courier-Journal , 29 Apr. 2020",
      "They're often grown for cutting and display in vases , says Gragnani. \u2014 Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful , 31 Mar. 2020",
      "Very heavy things like vases and very heavy coffee mugs. \u2014 Peter Van Sant, CBS News , 4 Apr. 2020",
      "Musgrove said this could include lighter blankets, more colorful throw pillows, or things tucked away in cabinets like pitchers and vases . \u2014 Dallas News , 28 Mar. 2020",
      "Its great heroes\u2019 aspirations to dominance are the seeds of the idea of perfection that appears in the figures on Greek vases and in sculpture long after Homer died. \u2014 Seth Cropsey, National Review , 28 Feb. 2020",
      "Chestnuts feel very seasonal, and all nuts are nice strewn about, or piled into clear glasses or vases . \u2014 Katie Workman, NBC News , 27 Nov. 2019",
      "Someone broke into a locked storage pod near the alley behind a real estate business and stole two Dell computers, two computer monitors, 48 flower vases and a box of promotional notepads. \u2014 La Ca\u00f1ada Valley Sun , 2 Oct. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1651, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Latin vas":"Combining form",
      "borrowed from New Latin v\u0101s, v\u0101sus , going back to Latin, \"container, vessel,\" going back to Italic *w\u0101ss- of obscure origin":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8vas"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012733",
    "type":[
      "abbreviation",
      "adjective",
      "combining form",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vas aberrans":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a blind tube that is occasionally present parallel to the first part of the vas deferens with which or with the epididymis it may communicate":[],
      ": slender arteries that are only occasionally present and that connect the axillary or brachial artery and the radial or other artery of the forearm or the subclavian artery and the thoracic aorta":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, literally, deviating vessel":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8va\u02c8sab\u0259\u02ccranz"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-084412",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vas-":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an anatomical vessel : duct":[],
      ": blood vessel":[
        "vaso motor"
      ],
      ": vas deferens":[
        "vas ectomy"
      ],
      ": vascular and":[
        "vaso vagal"
      ],
      ": vasomotor":[
        "vaso active"
      ],
      ": vessel: such as":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Before long the eggs were sharing space with cups, bowls, and vases . \u2014 William Grimes, BostonGlobe.com , 19 Apr. 2020",
      "People are able to participate by delivering and leaving clean, medium sized vases in a box with their name on it at 150 N Galt Ave in Crescent Hill on the front porch. \u2014 Dominique Yates, The Courier-Journal , 29 Apr. 2020",
      "They're often grown for cutting and display in vases , says Gragnani. \u2014 Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful , 31 Mar. 2020",
      "Very heavy things like vases and very heavy coffee mugs. \u2014 Peter Van Sant, CBS News , 4 Apr. 2020",
      "Musgrove said this could include lighter blankets, more colorful throw pillows, or things tucked away in cabinets like pitchers and vases . \u2014 Dallas News , 28 Mar. 2020",
      "Its great heroes\u2019 aspirations to dominance are the seeds of the idea of perfection that appears in the figures on Greek vases and in sculpture long after Homer died. \u2014 Seth Cropsey, National Review , 28 Feb. 2020",
      "Chestnuts feel very seasonal, and all nuts are nice strewn about, or piled into clear glasses or vases . \u2014 Katie Workman, NBC News , 27 Nov. 2019",
      "Someone broke into a locked storage pod near the alley behind a real estate business and stole two Dell computers, two computer monitors, 48 flower vases and a box of promotional notepads. \u2014 La Ca\u00f1ada Valley Sun , 2 Oct. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1651, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Latin vas":"Combining form",
      "borrowed from New Latin v\u0101s, v\u0101sus , going back to Latin, \"container, vessel,\" going back to Italic *w\u0101ss- of obscure origin":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8vas"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074942",
    "type":[
      "abbreviation",
      "adjective",
      "combining form",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vasa parrot":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of several blackish brown Madagascan parrots of the genus Coracopsis (especially C. vasa )":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Malagasy v\u00e0za vasa parrot, literally, loud-voiced":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6v\u00e4s\u0259-",
      "-\u00e4z\u0259-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135453",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vast":{
    "antonyms":[
      "bantam",
      "bitty",
      "diminutive",
      "infinitesimal",
      "Lilliputian",
      "little bitty",
      "micro",
      "microminiature",
      "microscopic",
      "microscopical",
      "midget",
      "miniature",
      "minuscule",
      "minute",
      "pocket",
      "pygmy",
      "teensy",
      "teensy-weensy",
      "teeny",
      "teeny-weeny",
      "tiny",
      "wee"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a boundless space":[
        "the vast of heaven",
        "\u2014 John Milton"
      ],
      ": very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially in extent or range":[
        "vast knowledge",
        "a vast expanse"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "She has a vast amount of knowledge on this subject.",
      "The policy is supported by the vast majority of citizens.",
      "a vast expanse of land",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "With its vast supply of artillery, armor and troops, Russia now has an edge, experts say. \u2014 John Bacon, USA TODAY , 24 June 2022",
      "The Commonwealth\u2019s member states range from vast India to tiny Tuvalu. \u2014 Ignatius Ssuuna, ajc , 24 June 2022",
      "With a vast number of sizes, forms, and colors, annuals often bloom from spring to frost for a season-long show. \u2014 Arricca Sansone, Country Living , 24 June 2022",
      "Judd was inspired by the landscape \u2014 the vast openness of the nearly mile-high plain in the Chihuahuan Desert \u2014 and was able to manifest his idea to create public large-scale permanent art installations. \u2014 Anna Mazurek, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
      "The relatively sudden elimination of the dinosaurs created a vast ecological niche, and that niche was filled by tiny, furry creatures who\u2019d fled and hidden from their saurian overlords. \u2014 Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor , 23 June 2022",
      "Since last month, the German government has been rapidly pumping fuel into the vast underground site in Rehden, hoping to fill it in time for the winter, when demand for gas surges to heat homes and businesses. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022",
      "Motorists would cruise the mall\u2019s vast parking lots searching for a rare empty spot during the busy holiday seasons. \u2014 Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
      "Though Congress clarified the law in 2018 to allow for research funding, there remains a vast gap of data never collected. \u2014 Asheley Van Ness, Scientific American , 23 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "These technologies will make the resulting image-continuum vast . \u2014 Rashed Haq, Wired , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "Furthermore, it could be easily scaled up, thereby opening vasts swaths of the universe to observation without the hefty price tag associated with building large, solid telescopes. \u2014 Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED , 11 June 2019",
      "That is a more ticklish argument: the obstruction laws are complicated and the ambit of presidential power vast . \u2014 The Economist , 7 June 2018",
      "As a Cold War-era child who did drop-and-cover nuclear-attack drills under my desk, I\u2019d been ingrained with ominous, gray images of Soviet military tanks rolling through the vast cobbled landmark. \u2014 Norma Meyer, sandiegouniontribune.com , 20 Sep. 2017",
      "Near Potsdam, and a stone\u2019s throw from the breathtaking gardens of Sanssouci Palace, lies Templiner See: Vast and choppy, there\u2019s a seaside holiday vibe in the air. \u2014 Alexandra Pereira, CNT , 9 Aug. 2017",
      "A clatter of gunshots suggested the worst The Brillante was built like two rectangles joined at a right angle: one vast , flat, hollow shape that held the liquid cargo, and one smaller, upright stack that contained mechanical systems and crew spaces. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 27 July 2017",
      "Vast and growing databases compiled for commerce and policing are also for sale to politicians and their strategists, who can now know more about you than your spouse or parents. \u2014 Nina Burleigh, Newsweek , 8 June 2017",
      "Vast sums must be invested to build refineries and smelters to turn that ore into metal. \u2014 James R. Hagerty, WSJ , 10 Mar. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1585, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "1604, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin v\u0101stus or vastus \"devoid of habitation, desolate, dreary,\" also, \"of great size, immense,\" probably in part continuing Indo-European *h 1 u\u032feh 2 -sto- (whence Old High German wuosti \"empty, deserted,\" Old English w\u0113ste , Old Irish f\u00e1s ), in part conflated with another base *wast- of uncertain origin":"Adjective",
      "noun derivative of vast entry 1 , perhaps by analogy with deep entry 1 , deep entry 3":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8vast"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vast Adjective enormous , immense , huge , vast , gigantic , colossal , mammoth mean exceedingly large. enormous and immense both suggest an exceeding of all ordinary bounds in size or amount or degree, but enormous often adds an implication of abnormality or monstrousness. an enormous expense an immense shopping mall huge commonly suggests an immensity of bulk or amount. incurred a huge debt vast usually suggests immensity of extent. the vast Russian steppes gigantic stresses the contrast with the size of others of the same kind. a gigantic sports stadium colossal applies especially to a human creation of stupendous or incredible dimensions. a colossal statue of Lincoln mammoth suggests both hugeness and ponderousness of bulk. a mammoth boulder",
    "synonyms":[
      "astronomical",
      "astronomic",
      "Brobdingnagian",
      "bumper",
      "colossal",
      "cosmic",
      "cosmical",
      "cyclopean",
      "elephantine",
      "enormous",
      "galactic",
      "gargantuan",
      "giant",
      "gigantesque",
      "gigantic",
      "grand",
      "herculean",
      "heroic",
      "heroical",
      "Himalayan",
      "huge",
      "humongous",
      "humungous",
      "immense",
      "jumbo",
      "king-size",
      "king-sized",
      "leviathan",
      "mammoth",
      "massive",
      "mega",
      "mighty",
      "monster",
      "monstrous",
      "monumental",
      "mountainous",
      "oceanic",
      "pharaonic",
      "planetary",
      "prodigious",
      "super",
      "super-duper",
      "supersize",
      "supersized",
      "titanic",
      "tremendous",
      "vasty",
      "walloping",
      "whacking",
      "whopping"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071728",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vastly":{
    "antonyms":[
      "little",
      "negligibly",
      "nominally",
      "slightly",
      "somewhat"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to a very great or vast degree or extent : exceedingly":[
        "two people with vastly different tastes",
        "a vastly more powerful bomb",
        "But bluff and bravado \u2026 won against potential enemies who vastly outnumbered him.",
        "\u2014 David Gilmour",
        "It was the most eclectic\u2014yet also vastly entertaining\u2014evening of dance I have seen in a long time.",
        "\u2014 Rita Felciano"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Analysts have said a call-up of reservists by Russia could vastly alter the balance in the war but could also come with political consequences for President Vladimir Putin\u2019s government. \u2014 Yuras Karmanau, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
      "When Tesla awarded Elon Musk a multibillion-dollar pay package in 2018, the landmark deal helped to vastly increase the potential compensation of the chief executives at many of America\u2019s biggest public companies. \u2014 New York Times , 25 June 2022",
      "The jobless rate is historically low and the number of job openings is vastly higher than the number of people searching for work. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 23 June 2022",
      "Three floors below at the hospital, 15-year-old Anastasia Pryhoda describes a vastly different experience, and a precocious ability to cope. \u2014 Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 June 2022",
      "The vastly different experiences illustrate the unintended consequences of a $178 billion bailout that Congress dumped into the national health-care system at the start of the pandemic in an urgent attempt to keep hospitals and doctors afloat. \u2014 Christopher Rowland, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
      "The once over-the-top criticisms over the prequels have vastly subsided, and the films are now largely enjoyed by fans. \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
      "And Tesla EVs are vastly more expensive on average. \u2014 Jon Markman, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
      "These Avs are vastly superior to the 2020 Dallas Stars and the 2021 Canadiens, the teams the Lightning beat to win their last two Stanley Cups. \u2014 Michael Arace, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1598, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8vast-l\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "achingly",
      "almighty",
      "archly",
      "awful",
      "awfully",
      "badly",
      "beastly",
      "blisteringly",
      "bone",
      "colossally",
      "corking",
      "cracking",
      "damn",
      "damned",
      "dang",
      "deadly",
      "desperately",
      "eminently",
      "enormously",
      "especially",
      "ever",
      "exceedingly",
      "exceeding",
      "extra",
      "extremely",
      "fabulously",
      "fantastically",
      "far",
      "fiercely",
      "filthy",
      "frightfully",
      "full",
      "greatly",
      "heavily",
      "highly",
      "hugely",
      "immensely",
      "incredibly",
      "intensely",
      "jolly",
      "majorly",
      "mightily",
      "mighty",
      "monstrous",
      "mortally",
      "most",
      "much",
      "particularly",
      "passing",
      "rattling",
      "real",
      "really",
      "right",
      "roaring",
      "roaringly",
      "seriously",
      "severely",
      "so",
      "sore",
      "sorely",
      "spanking",
      "specially",
      "stinking",
      "such",
      "super",
      "supremely",
      "surpassingly",
      "terribly",
      "that",
      "thumping",
      "too",
      "unco",
      "uncommonly",
      "very",
      "vitally",
      "way",
      "whacking",
      "wicked",
      "wildly"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172217",
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "vasty":{
    "antonyms":[
      "bantam",
      "bitty",
      "diminutive",
      "infinitesimal",
      "Lilliputian",
      "little bitty",
      "micro",
      "microminiature",
      "microscopic",
      "microscopical",
      "midget",
      "miniature",
      "minuscule",
      "minute",
      "pocket",
      "pygmy",
      "teensy",
      "teensy-weensy",
      "teeny",
      "teeny-weeny",
      "tiny",
      "wee"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": vast":[
        "call spirits from the vasty deep",
        "\u2014 William Shakespeare"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the days when intrepid explorers sailed the vasty deep in small vessels",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But in room after room, the vasty majority of the objects were mute and meaningless, and only those that somehow referenced other periods of crisis spoke with clarity. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Oct. 2020",
      "The Globe reports that Breggin spent most of Monday morning painting a vasty different picture of Carter than the one presented by prosecutors last week. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 12 June 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1596, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "vast entry 1 + -y entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8va-st\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "astronomical",
      "astronomic",
      "Brobdingnagian",
      "bumper",
      "colossal",
      "cosmic",
      "cosmical",
      "cyclopean",
      "elephantine",
      "enormous",
      "galactic",
      "gargantuan",
      "giant",
      "gigantesque",
      "gigantic",
      "grand",
      "herculean",
      "heroic",
      "heroical",
      "Himalayan",
      "huge",
      "humongous",
      "humungous",
      "immense",
      "jumbo",
      "king-size",
      "king-sized",
      "leviathan",
      "mammoth",
      "massive",
      "mega",
      "mighty",
      "monster",
      "monstrous",
      "monumental",
      "mountainous",
      "oceanic",
      "pharaonic",
      "planetary",
      "prodigious",
      "super",
      "super-duper",
      "supersize",
      "supersized",
      "titanic",
      "tremendous",
      "vast",
      "walloping",
      "whacking",
      "whopping"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204853",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "vastitude":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": immensity , vastness":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8va-st\u0259-\u02cct\u00fcd",
      "-\u02ccty\u00fcd"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "enormity",
      "enormousness",
      "giantism",
      "gigantism",
      "hugeness",
      "immenseness",
      "immensity",
      "magnitude",
      "massiveness",
      "prodigiousness",
      "vastness"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "diminutiveness",
      "minuteness",
      "tininess"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "the vastitude of the ocean, especially when contemplated from the deck of a small boat"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin v\u0101stit\u016bd\u014d \"ravaged or neglected condition, immense size\" from v\u0101stus or vastus \"devoid of habitation, desolate, dreary,\" also, \"of great size, immense\" + -t\u016bd\u014d , abstract noun suffix \u2014 more at vast entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1623, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-024347"
  },
  "vastidity":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": vastness":[
        "through all the world's vastidity",
        "\u2014 Shakespeare"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "va\u02c8stid\u0259t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "alteration of vastity":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-064250"
  },
  "vasopressin":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a polypeptide hormone secreted by the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland or obtained synthetically that increases blood pressure and decreases urine flow":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccv\u0101-z\u014d-\u02c8pres-\u1d4an",
      "\u02ccv\u0101-z\u014d-\u02c8pre-s\u1d4an"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Simply put, the FDA handed one manufacturer a complete monopoly on the intravenous- vasopressin market, and prices shot through the roof. \u2014 Casey B. Mulligan, National Review , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Take intravenous vasopressin , which is used to support blood pressure in patients with septic shock (often a dangerous consequence of infections) and other conditions. \u2014 Casey B. Mulligan, National Review , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Your doctor may also prescribe tolvaptan, a type of drug known as a vasopressin receptor antagonist that slows down the rate of the disease, per the US Food and Drug Administration. \u2014 Hallie Levine, Health.com , 27 Oct. 2021",
      "First, your child needs to develop increased levels of the hormone vasopressin , which concentrates his urine. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Apr. 2020",
      "And while researchers aren\u2019t clear on what might put postpartum women at higher risk, a fluctuation in hormones \u2014 such as oxytocin, prolactin and vasopressin \u2014 may be partially to blame, as might a lack of quality sleep. \u2014 Leigh Ann Henion, New York Times , 16 Apr. 2020",
      "One of the most interesting things is the finding that the vasopressin in the CSF correlates with sociality in the macaques and in autism with children. \u2014 Andrew Joseph, STAT , 2 May 2018",
      "Although the relationship here isn\u2019t fully understood, a lot of this seems to come down to the fact that alcohol suppresses a hormone in your body called vasopressin (also known as antidiuretic hormone). \u2014 Kimberly Truong, SELF , 16 Mar. 2019",
      "UK HealthCare, the University of Kentucky\u2019s hospitals and clinics, last month began buying the blood-pressure drug vasopressin compounded by Athenex. \u2014 Melanie Evans, WSJ , 9 Sep. 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "from Vasopressin , a trademark":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1927, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-091546"
  },
  "vassal":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant":[],
      ": one in a subservient or subordinate position":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8va-s\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This time round, the only ones on the Russian side are the Russian Federation itself, and Belarus, which has effectively become a Russian vassal state in the last couple years and served as a launchpad for this year's Ukraine invasion. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 1 July 2022",
      "Basically, this would turn Russia into a colony of China and Putin into Xi\u2019s vassal . \u2014 Wal Van Lierop, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "The answer is to be seen in Belarus, now largely a Russian vassal state. \u2014 Jason Fields, The Week , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Western analysts have warned that, despite tougher-than-expected resistance from Ukrainian forces and sanctions by the U.S. and its allies, Putin appears determined to prosecute the war until Ukraine is conquered and turned into a vassal state. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "Russia is now again promising humanitarian corridors\u2026leading to Russia and its vassal Belarus. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "Because Moscow retains a close partner in this effort to geld Ukraine\u2014a vassal state that presents the model for what Putin would like to accomplish in Ukraine: Belarus. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 1 Mar. 2022",
      "No major population centers have yet fallen to Russian forces, which has raised fears that Russian President Vladimir Putin will soon order an all-out blitz to overrun Ukraine, depose its government and turn it into a vassal state. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "His ally/ vassal Belarus has also decided to host Russian nuclear missiles. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 28 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Medieval Latin vassallus \"serf of the manor house, household servant, lord's man who has received a fief,\" borrowed from Gaulish *wassall- , derivative of *wass- \"servant\" (whence Medieval Latin vassus \"serf, servant, holder of a fief\"), going back to Celtic *wosto- , whence Welsh gwas \"boy, servant,\" Middle Breton goas , Old Irish foss \"servant, attendant\"":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-094137"
  },
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    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": devastation":[],
      ": a renewal or purification through the burning away or destruction of evil attributes":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "va\u02c8st\u0101sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin vastation-, vastatio , from vastatus (past participle of vastare to lay waste, from vastus empty, waste) + -ion-, -io -ion":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-115142"
  },
  "vastness":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially in extent or range":[
        "vast knowledge",
        "a vast expanse"
      ],
      ": a boundless space":[
        "the vast of heaven",
        "\u2014 John Milton"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8vast"
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      "astronomical",
      "astronomic",
      "Brobdingnagian",
      "bumper",
      "colossal",
      "cosmic",
      "cosmical",
      "cyclopean",
      "elephantine",
      "enormous",
      "galactic",
      "gargantuan",
      "giant",
      "gigantesque",
      "gigantic",
      "grand",
      "herculean",
      "heroic",
      "heroical",
      "Himalayan",
      "huge",
      "humongous",
      "humungous",
      "immense",
      "jumbo",
      "king-size",
      "king-sized",
      "leviathan",
      "mammoth",
      "massive",
      "mega",
      "mighty",
      "monster",
      "monstrous",
      "monumental",
      "mountainous",
      "oceanic",
      "pharaonic",
      "planetary",
      "prodigious",
      "super",
      "super-duper",
      "supersize",
      "supersized",
      "titanic",
      "tremendous",
      "vasty",
      "walloping",
      "whacking",
      "whopping"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bantam",
      "bitty",
      "diminutive",
      "infinitesimal",
      "Lilliputian",
      "little bitty",
      "micro",
      "microminiature",
      "microscopic",
      "microscopical",
      "midget",
      "miniature",
      "minuscule",
      "minute",
      "pocket",
      "pygmy",
      "teensy",
      "teensy-weensy",
      "teeny",
      "teeny-weeny",
      "tiny",
      "wee"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vast Adjective enormous , immense , huge , vast , gigantic , colossal , mammoth mean exceedingly large. enormous and immense both suggest an exceeding of all ordinary bounds in size or amount or degree, but enormous often adds an implication of abnormality or monstrousness. an enormous expense an immense shopping mall huge commonly suggests an immensity of bulk or amount. incurred a huge debt vast usually suggests immensity of extent. the vast Russian steppes gigantic stresses the contrast with the size of others of the same kind. a gigantic sports stadium colossal applies especially to a human creation of stupendous or incredible dimensions. a colossal statue of Lincoln mammoth suggests both hugeness and ponderousness of bulk. a mammoth boulder",
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "She has a vast amount of knowledge on this subject.",
      "The policy is supported by the vast majority of citizens.",
      "a vast expanse of land",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "On the Ukrainian side, the vast majority have fled. \u2014 New York Times , 5 July 2022",
      "Mesa has a slew of big-name employers from Meta and Google to Boeing and Gulfstream, yet the vast majority of residents still commute outside the city for work. \u2014 Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic , 5 July 2022",
      "And while tourists flock to the lake from around the U.S., the vast majority of visitors (80%) come from Utah and Idaho. \u2014 Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 July 2022",
      "The vast majority of people in America are good, hardworking humans from various walks of life. \u2014 Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer , 4 July 2022",
      "Just 73 films opened in the city\u2019s cinemas during the first half of 2022, the vast majority of which were foreign imports. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 4 July 2022",
      "This dramatic shift represents a rare moment of racial progress that's equally embraced by a vast majority of White and Black Americans. \u2014 John Blake, CNN , 3 July 2022",
      "But critics claim fairness is an ironic word to use since the credit is not available to the vast majority of workers. \u2014 Patrick Gleason, Forbes , 6 July 2022",
      "The benefits will not extend to non-Emirati families and individuals, which make up the vast majority of the country\u2019s population but have very little power in this autocratic nation of nearly 10 million. \u2014 Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post , 6 July 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "These technologies will make the resulting image-continuum vast . \u2014 Rashed Haq, Wired , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "Furthermore, it could be easily scaled up, thereby opening vasts swaths of the universe to observation without the hefty price tag associated with building large, solid telescopes. \u2014 Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED , 11 June 2019",
      "That is a more ticklish argument: the obstruction laws are complicated and the ambit of presidential power vast . \u2014 The Economist , 7 June 2018",
      "As a Cold War-era child who did drop-and-cover nuclear-attack drills under my desk, I\u2019d been ingrained with ominous, gray images of Soviet military tanks rolling through the vast cobbled landmark. \u2014 Norma Meyer, sandiegouniontribune.com , 20 Sep. 2017",
      "Near Potsdam, and a stone\u2019s throw from the breathtaking gardens of Sanssouci Palace, lies Templiner See: Vast and choppy, there\u2019s a seaside holiday vibe in the air. \u2014 Alexandra Pereira, CNT , 9 Aug. 2017",
      "A clatter of gunshots suggested the worst The Brillante was built like two rectangles joined at a right angle: one vast , flat, hollow shape that held the liquid cargo, and one smaller, upright stack that contained mechanical systems and crew spaces. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 27 July 2017",
      "Vast and growing databases compiled for commerce and policing are also for sale to politicians and their strategists, who can now know more about you than your spouse or parents. \u2014 Nina Burleigh, Newsweek , 8 June 2017",
      "Vast sums must be invested to build refineries and smelters to turn that ore into metal. \u2014 James R. Hagerty, WSJ , 10 Mar. 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin v\u0101stus or vastus \"devoid of habitation, desolate, dreary,\" also, \"of great size, immense,\" probably in part continuing Indo-European *h 1 u\u032feh 2 -sto- (whence Old High German wuosti \"empty, deserted,\" Old English w\u0113ste , Old Irish f\u00e1s ), in part conflated with another base *wast- of uncertain origin":"Adjective",
      "noun derivative of vast entry 1 , perhaps by analogy with deep entry 1 , deep entry 3":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1585, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "1604, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-151926"
  },
  "vascular plant":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a plant having a specialized conducting system that includes xylem and phloem : tracheophyte":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The Loreto Bay National Marine Park is home to 891 species of fish, a third of the world\u2019s whale and dolphin species, and 695 vascular plant species. \u2014 Lea Lane, Forbes , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "Within a year, an Arctic sea rocket, Surtsey\u2019s first vascular plant , sprouted. \u2014 Barry Estabrook, WSJ , 9 Oct. 2020",
      "Almost 500 vascular plant species, flowering plants, have been named in the southeastern United States over the last 50 years. \u2014 John R. Platt, Scientific American , 11 July 2020",
      "Researchers from the University of Glasgow and the University of Innsbruck recovered at least 75 species of bryophytes, non- vascular plants such as mosses and liverworts, that had been preserved in ice with Otzi. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 31 Oct. 2019",
      "Now, a new study suggests that if present global habitat-degradation trends continue, vascular plants and invertebrates living in wildlands\u2014from wildflowers to bees\u2014are twice as likely to survive as their cousins dwelling in nonwilderness areas. \u2014 Richard A. Lovett, Science | AAAS , 18 Sep. 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1861, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-153850"
  },
  "vasovagal":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": relating to, involving, or caused by action of the vagus nerve on blood vessel dilation and heart rate":[
        "vasovagal syncope"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccv\u0101-z\u014d-\u02c8v\u0101-g\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Increasing intravascular volume by hydrating can help prevent a vasovagal syncope event that can lead to fainting. \u2014 Korin Miller, Health.com , 15 Nov. 2021",
      "Applied tension combats the vasovagal response by flexing large muscle groups to raise the blood pressure and pulse. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2021",
      "Remember that an occasional episode of vasovagal syncope is likely not of concern, as long as you haven\u2019t been injured in the process. \u2014 Anne R. Crecelius, The Conversation , 20 June 2019",
      "Remember that an occasional episode of vasovagal syncope is likely not of concern, as long as you haven\u2019t been injured in the process. \u2014 Anne R. Crecelius, The Conversation , 20 June 2019",
      "What\u2019s going on there that can lead to this overactive vasovagal response",
      "By far the most common trigger for fainting is a drop in blood pressure due to a strong vasovagal response. \u2014 Anne R. Crecelius, The Conversation , 20 June 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "vaso- + vagal":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1907, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-164700"
  },
  "vascular ray":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a band of usually parenchymatous cells extending from the cambium into both the xylem and phloem of a plant root or stem that conducts fluids radially and appears in a cross section like a spoke of a wheel":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1673, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-192051"
  },
  "vastity":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a waste or desolate condition":[
        "his nature inclining to peace, by which his country might enjoy plenty, hating war and discord, as the causes of vastity and penury",
        "\u2014 J. B. Planch\u00e9"
      ],
      ": vastitude":[
        "the dreadful vastity of the stars",
        "\u2014 Rose Macaulay"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-i",
      "\"",
      "-st\u0259t\u0113",
      "-\u0259t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French vastit\u00e9 , from Latin vastitat-, vastitas , from vastus empty, waste + -itat-, -itas -ity":"Noun",
      "Latin vastitas , from vastus vast + -itas -ity":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-220556"
  },
  "vascularly":{
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": in a vascular manner : by vessels":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-225001"
  },
  "vascular system":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the part of the body of a vascular plant that is made up of vascular tissue":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-225624"
  }
}