": a Lutheran extremist opposed to the moderation of Melanchthon":[]
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"Greek gn\u0113sios genuine, born in wedlock + English lutheran ; akin to Greek genos race, kin":""
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"\u00a6n\u0113z\u0113(\u02cc)\u014d +"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": to strike or grind (the teeth) together":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Despite that increase, there\u2019s bad news for those poor souls who wring their hands and gnash their teeth over trade deficits. \u2014 Ken Roberts, Forbes , 4 May 2021",
"The research, published in Communications Biology, notes that Ferromirum oukherbouchi, a bizarre-looking shark with large eyes and a short snout, had a jaw that actually rotated to allow for the shark's newer teeth to gnash at its prey's flesh. \u2014 Chris Ciaccia, Fox News , 26 Nov. 2020",
"Parents, while gnashing their teeth trying to balance work and home schooling, have also remarked at the small joys that come with no commuting and a chance to knock off early. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Apr. 2020",
"Austin, 51,now has become the sole hope for local Republicans who have gnashed their teeth for the past two years while Brehm has subjected the party to one embarrassment after another. \u2014 Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com , 11 Mar. 2020",
"National television commentators gnashed their teeth in frustration, their digital maps unmoving. \u2014 The Economist , 4 Feb. 2020",
"The week-to-week reactionary nature of the NFL will lend itself to some heavy teeth- gnashing if the Browns are, say, 3-4 heading to Denver. \u2014 Dan Labbe, cleveland.com , 2 July 2019",
"People gnashed their teeth and complained, but Valve\u2019s vision won in the end. \u2014 Hayden Dingman, PCWorld , 21 Nov. 2019",
"Despite the agreement, analysts say the economic fallout from the war has begun to gnaw at European unity against Moscow. \u2014 Paul Hannon, WSJ , 31 May 2022",
"Those numbers gnaw at swimming instructor Beverly Iseghohi as summer approaches and people flock to pools, beaches and lakes to cool down and have fun. \u2014 Ernie Suggs, ajc , 25 May 2022",
"Voles go for grass, but also gnaw on shrubs and stems nearest their holes and runways. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 May 2022",
"As the creepy events around Harper grow more malevolent, easy explanations are scarce, but the film is littered with symbolism beyond its central casting, giving viewers plenty to gnaw on during repeat viewings. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 14 May 2022",
"While Jack is supportive and excited, the question of paternity continues to gnaw at him. \u2014 Katie Bowlby, Country Living , 11 May 2022",
"But some of the recent early round misses (Cyrus Jones 2016, Derek Rivers 2017, N\u2019Keal Harry 2019) gnaw at team owner Robert Kraft. \u2014 Kyle Hightower, Hartford Courant , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Occasionally, the animals will gnaw on old carcasses and bones to get calcium and to wear down their teeth. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Young as the pageant contestant gets to gnaw most of the scenery, and in the context of this farce some gnawing is permitted. \u2014 David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Apr. 2022"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
"Despite the agreement, analysts say the economic fallout from the war has begun to gnaw at European unity against Moscow. \u2014 Paul Hannon, WSJ , 31 May 2022",
"Those numbers gnaw at swimming instructor Beverly Iseghohi as summer approaches and people flock to pools, beaches and lakes to cool down and have fun. \u2014 Ernie Suggs, ajc , 25 May 2022",
"Voles go for grass, but also gnaw on shrubs and stems nearest their holes and runways. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 May 2022",
"As the creepy events around Harper grow more malevolent, easy explanations are scarce, but the film is littered with symbolism beyond its central casting, giving viewers plenty to gnaw on during repeat viewings. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 14 May 2022",
"While Jack is supportive and excited, the question of paternity continues to gnaw at him. \u2014 Katie Bowlby, Country Living , 11 May 2022",
"But some of the recent early round misses (Cyrus Jones 2016, Derek Rivers 2017, N\u2019Keal Harry 2019) gnaw at team owner Robert Kraft. \u2014 Kyle Hightower, Hartford Courant , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Occasionally, the animals will gnaw on old carcasses and bones to get calcium and to wear down their teeth. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Young as the pageant contestant gets to gnaw most of the scenery, and in the context of this farce some gnawing is permitted. \u2014 David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Apr. 2022"
": a foliated metamorphic rock corresponding in composition to a feldspathic plutonic rock (such as granite)":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Black Canyon is a park of extremes, both fertile springtime folly and menacing gash of gneiss and schist. \u2014 Emily Pennington, Outside Online , 28 Aug. 2020",
"The bones of this place\u2014Lewisian gneiss rock, the oldest in Europe\u2014protruded like ribs through a thin skin of heather and gorse. \u2014 Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure , 22 Mar. 2021",
"In the fall, brothers Chris and Dominic Leong fashioned a trio of gneiss stone vessels \u2014 cubelike with curved edges and, crucially, airtight lids. \u2014 Kate Guadagnino, New York Times , 11 Feb. 2020",
"Buried in the earth were remnants of fragments of the same type of rock that makes up the Callanish stones\u2014called Lewisian gneiss \u2014which, unlike the peat and clays that stud the island\u2019s dirt, are poor conductors of electricity. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 31 Dec. 2019",
"The near-seamless local bedrock, a type of rock called gneiss , is geologically stable and keeps water out. \u2014 Andrew Curry, The Atlantic , 11 Sep. 2017",
"The gneiss was also used to create the low stone walls that bring definition to the estate\u2019s exterior walkways. \u2014 USA TODAY , 11 Aug. 2017",
"The falls are a 62-foot-high double-plunge along a granitic gneiss ledge. \u2014 Peter Marteka, courant.com , 17 May 2017"
"The protesters might instead have been using signs with a kangaroo or an elephant or a gnu . \u2014 Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz , 6 Oct. 2021",
"Then cruise the Rufiji River to watch for elephants, hippos, lions, leopards, and brindled gnu . \u2014 Kitson Jazynka, National Geographic , 14 June 2019",
"In short, no gnus is bad news\u2014and gnu populations are on the decline. \u2014 Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian , 11 July 2018",
"Finally, after nearly 80 years, the Detroit Zoo has gotten some gnu animals. \u2014 Bryce Airgood, Detroit Free Press , 7 June 2018",
"Last Tuesday, the 8-by-12-foot glass fronts came down from dioramas of lowland gorillas and takin (a gnu goat from mountainous western China), and the sweet smell of old preservative filled the air. \u2014 Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com , 19 Feb. 2018"
": an object that by the position or length of its shadow serves as an indicator especially of the hour of the day: such as":[],
": the pin of a sundial":[],
": a column or shaft erected perpendicular to the horizon":[],
": the remainder of a parallelogram after the removal of a similar parallelogram containing one of its corners":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u014d-m\u0259n",
"-\u02ccm\u00e4n"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The gnomon , or the shadow-casting protrusion, is 35 feet tall with a shadow twice that length. \u2014 Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure , 15 Nov. 2021",
"But the most original marketing device was a giant sundial, its vertical monument (called a gnomon ) 28 feet long and 17 feet high and standing in a circle 34 feet in diameter. \u2014 Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 July 2021",
"The pole serves as a gnomon , the part of a sundial that casts a shadow to denote time. \u2014 Jeanne Huber, Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2020",
"There are many types of sundials, but in general each consists of a gnomon , a thin rod that casts a shadow onto a dial, and a flat plate or platform. \u2014 Megan Arnett, Scientific American , 15 Mar. 2018",
"The original clock is missing its gnomon , the part of a sundial that casts a shadow, but an 18th-century museum curator described it having one in the shape of a pig\u2019s tail, so Parslow re-created that, too. \u2014 National Geographic , 19 Jan. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin gn\u014dm\u014dn \"pointer of a sundial,\" borrowed from Greek gn\u1e53m\u014dn \"examiner, interpreter, carpenter's square, pointer of a sundial,\" from gn\u014d-, base of gign\u1e53skein \"to perceive, know\" + -mon-, -m\u014dn, agent suffix \u2014 more at know entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1546, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183914"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus (the type of the family Gnomoniaceae) of ascomycetous fungi having rostrate perithecia and hyaline 2-celled to 4-celled ascospores":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"n\u014d\u02c8m\u014dn\u0113\u0259"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek gn\u014dm\u014dn carpenter's square + New Latin -ia ; from the shape of the ostiole":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184044"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to the gnomon of a sundial or its use in telling time":[],
": gnomic":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)n\u014d\u00a6m\u00e4nik"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"gnomonic from Latin gnomonicus , from Greek gn\u014dmonikos , from gn\u014dmon-, gn\u014dm\u014dn pointer on a sundial + -ikos -ic; gnomonical from Latin gnomonic us + English -al":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000209"
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"gnomology":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an anthology of gnomes":[],
": gnomic writing":[]
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"n\u014d\u02c8m\u00e4l\u0259j\u0113"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek gn\u014dmologia anthology of gnomes, sententious style, from gn\u014dmo- (from gn\u014dm\u0113 maxim) + -logia -logy":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-014948"
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"gnomic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": characterized by aphorism":[
"gnomic utterances"
],
": given to the composition of gnomic writing":[
"a gnomic poet"
]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u014d-mik"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"He made gnomic utterances concerning death.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Pop Smoke was a gnomic figure with a rich, booming voice; Fivio is less enigmatic but more entertaining, a charismatic and sometimes witty host who wants to keep everyone happy. \u2014 Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Samuel Greenberg, the doomed, gnomic poet-naif Crane describes, was already six years dead at the time of the letter\u2019s writing, having succumbed to tuberculosis in 1917, at the age of twenty-three, in the Manhattan State Hospital on Wards Island. \u2014 Dustin Illingworth, The New York Review of Books , 14 May 2020",
"Samuel Greenberg, the doomed, gnomic poet-naif Crane describes, was already six years dead at the time of the letter\u2019s writing, having succumbed to tuberculosis in 1917, at the age of twenty-three, in the Manhattan State Hospital on Wards Island. \u2014 Dustin Illingworth, The New York Review of Books , 14 May 2020",
"Like Fitzgerald, Levy has a gift for the pithy, annihilating moment of gnomic insight. \u2014 Kirsten Denker, The New Republic , 31 Aug. 2021",
"The style is Delphic: cautious; obfuscatory; verbose (or the opposite, gnomic ); vague; artfully ambiguous; subtle; fascinating. \u2014 George Calhoun, Forbes , 10 May 2021",
"There\u2019s Duncan\u2019s assistant, Jimmy Jellico, who is mentally challenged but who comes out with astonishing gnomic splinters of wisdom. \u2014 Joanne Kaufman, WSJ , 23 Apr. 2021",
"Some of the passages closely echo Oyler\u2019s riffs on contemporary foibles, except written in gnomic fragments. \u2014 Kate Knibbs, Wired , 1 Feb. 2021",
"Coleman had a gnomic way with words himself, however. \u2014 Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic , 5 June 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Greek gn\u014dmik\u00f3s \"dealing in maxims, didactic,\" from gn\u1e53m\u0113 \"maxim\" + -ikos -ic entry 1 \u2014 more at gnome entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1784, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-022121"
},
"gnomologic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": characterized by or consisting of gnomes or precepts : gnomic":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6n\u014dm\u0259\u00a6l\u00e4jik"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"gnomologic from Greek gn\u014dmologikos , from gn\u014dmologia + -ikos -ic; gnomological from gnomologic + -al":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-043501"
},
"gnomonic chart":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a chart on the gnomonic projection":[]
},
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-150842"
},
"gnothi seauton":{
"type":[
"Greek phrase"
],
"definitions":{
": know yourself \u2014 compare nosce te ipsum":[]
": an azimuthal projection of a part of a hemisphere showing the earth's grid as projected by radials from a point at the center of the sphere onto a tangent plane so that all straight lines represent arcs of great circles thereby making this projection valuable for navigation when used in conjunction with the Mercator projection":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174330"
},
"gnosticize":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to embrace or propound Gnostic views":[],
": to make Gnostic : give Gnostic color or quality to":[
"threatened for a time to gnosticize Christianity"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-t\u0259\u02ccs\u012bz"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Gnostic + -ize":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-214413"
},
"gnosticism":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the thought and practice especially of various cults of late pre-Christian and early Christian centuries distinguished by the conviction that matter is evil and that emancipation comes through gnosis":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u00e4-st\u0259-\u02ccsi-z\u0259m"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In this sense, the woke dialect is a new kind of gnosticism , separating the elite from the great unwashed. \u2014 Nate Hochman, National Review , 12 Feb. 2022",
"In effect, as Del Noce argued throughout his career, Marxism was and is a new form of an old heresy, gnosticism . \u2014 Francis X. Maier, WSJ , 6 Jan. 2022"
