dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/tym_MW.json

{
  "tympanic membrane":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a thin membrane that closes externally the cavity of the middle ear and functions in the mechanical reception of sound waves and in their transmission to the site of sensory reception":[
        "\u2014 see ear illustration"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Garlic oil could seep past a perforated tympanic membrane into the inner ear, causing additional damage. \u2014 Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 28 Oct. 2021",
      "Your eardrum, also known as your tympanic membrane , is where your middle ear begins. \u2014 Amber Brenza, SELF , 4 Feb. 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1855, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142710"
  },
  "tympanic bone":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a bone of the skull of a mammal that encloses a part of the middle ear, supports the tympanic membrane, and is often fused with the temporal bone":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144502"
  },
  "tympanic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or being a tympanum":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "tim-\u02c8pan-ik",
      "tim-\u02c8pa-nik"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "These typically have a tympanic effect going over uneven pavement. \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
      "Borgmeyer\u2019s eldest daughter has sensory processing issues, which can make taking oral or tympanic (in-ear) temperatures challenging. \u2014 Connie Chang, Washington Post , 30 Mar. 2021",
      "Instead, there are now five different types of thermometers: rectal, oral, axillary (armpit), temporal (forehead) and tympanic (remote ear) that can display a reading in seconds on a digital display. \u2014 Jennifer Yellin, CNN Underscored , 17 Mar. 2021",
      "The inconstant, tympanic thrumming of the fabric is an intonation underlying one shrieking run after another of banshee notes, some of them single tones within the squalling wind that sustain themselves for several seconds before dropping an octave. \u2014 Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine , 10 Jan. 2019",
      "This included the tympanic bone, one of the tiny ear bones. \u2014 Smithsonian , 8 May 2018",
      "The eardrum, which is also called the tympanic membrane, is a thin membrane inside the ear canal. \u2014 Fox News , 16 May 2017",
      "Of those visits, tears in the tissue that separates the ear canal from the middle ear, called the tympanic membrane or simply the eardrum, were the most common. \u2014 Robert Jimison, CNN , 11 May 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin & New Latin tympanum":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1808, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152444"
  },
  "tympanic notch":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a notch in the tympanic plate filled by Shrapnell's membrane":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153823"
  },
  "tympanum":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": tympanic membrane":[],
      ": middle ear":[],
      ": a thin tense membrane covering an organ of hearing of an insect \u2014 see insect illustration":[],
      ": a membranous resonator in a sound-producing organ":[],
      ": the recessed usually triangular face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices":[],
      ": the space within an arch and above a lintel or a subordinate arch":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8tim-p\u0259-n\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Over the door is a stone tympanum adorned with the image of an open book, hinting at the building\u2019s former life. \u2014 Mike Scott, NOLA.com , 12 Aug. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin, eardrum, from Latin, drum, architectural panel, from Greek tympanon drum, kettledrum; perhaps akin to Greek typtein to beat":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1619, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155500"
  },
  "Tympanuchus":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a genus of American grouse consisting of the prairie chickens":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cctimp\u0259\u02c8n(y)\u00fck\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Greek tympanon drum + -ochos (from echein to have, hold)":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171811"
  },
  "tympani":{
    "type":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a set of two or more kettledrums played by one performer in an orchestra or band":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172755"
  },
  "tympanal":{
    "type":[
      "adjective or noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": tympanic":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8timp\u0259n\u1d4al"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin tympan um + English -al":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-181452"
  },
  "tympan":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": drum entry 1 sense 1":[],
      ": a sheet (as of paper or cloth) placed between the impression surface of a press and the paper to be printed":[],
      ": tympanum sense 2":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8tim-p\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "in sense 1, from Middle English, from Old English timpana , from Latin tympanum ; in other senses, from Medieval Latin & Latin tympanum":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-201527"
  },
  "tympaniform":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": resembling a tympanum":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02c8)tim\u00a6pan-",
      "\u02c8timp\u0259n\u0259\u02ccf\u022frm"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "tympan- + -iform":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-025349"
  },
  "tymp":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the stone or the water-cooled iron casting protecting the top of the opening through which molten slag and iron continually pass into the forehearth in an old type open-front iron blast furnace":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8timp"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "short for tympan":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-040411"
  },
  "tymbalon":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": timbal":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8timb\u0259\u02ccl\u00e4n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "by alteration":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-040650"
  },
  "tympany":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": tympanites":[],
      ": bombast , turgidity":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-n\u0113",
      "\u02c8tim-p\u0259-n\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Medieval Latin tympanias , from Greek, from tympanon":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1528, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-050848"
  },
  "tympanites":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a distension of the abdomen caused by accumulation of gas in the intestinal tract or peritoneal cavity":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cctim-p\u0259-\u02c8n\u012b-t\u0113z",
      "\u02cctim-p\u0259-\u02c8n\u012bt-\u0113z"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Late Latin, from Greek tympanit\u0113s , from tympanon":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-061330"
  },
  "tymbal":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the vibrating membrane in the shrilling organ of a cicada":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8tim-b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Males vibrate a special drum-like organ in their bodies called a tymbal to attract females. \u2014 Lauren Cox, Popular Mechanics , 14 June 2020",
      "The bug was making quite a commotion, beating its wings rapidly while emitting a loud, buzzing noise with its tymbals . \u2014 Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post , 30 May 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "alteration of timbal":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1929, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-074749"
  },
  "tympaning":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": material used in making a tympan for a printing press":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8timp\u0259ni\u014b"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "tympan + -ing":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-075727"
  },
  "tympanitis":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": otitis media":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cctimp\u0259\u02c8n\u012bt\u0259\u0307s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from tympan- + -itis":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-135718"
  },
  "tympanohyal":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the proximal segment in the hyoid arch becoming the base of the styloid process of the temporal bone":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6timp\u0259n\u014d\u00a6h\u012b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "tympan- + hy- + -al":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-144804"
  },
  "tympan paper":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a hard paper treated with oil or glycerin and used as a tympan on printing presses":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-154745"
  },
  "tympanism":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": tympanites":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8timp\u0259\u02ccniz\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary tympany + -ism":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172925"
  }
}