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{
"Onthophagus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a widely distributed genus of scarabaeid beetles":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4n\u02c8th\u00e4f\u0259g\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek onthos dung + New Latin -phagus (from Greek -phagos -phagous)":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-195711"
},
"ontic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or having real being":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4n-tik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Software creates us, our ontic exhaust powering the megacorporate machinery. \u2014 Wired , 19 Aug. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1907, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213517"
},
"onto":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"preposition"
],
"definitions":{
": to a position on":[
"We climbed onto the roof.",
"Turn left onto Fifth Avenue."
],
": in or into a state of awareness about":[
"put me onto your methods",
"was onto something that should have been pursued further",
"\u2014 Bosley Crowther"
],
": mapping elements in such a way that every element in one set is the image of at least one element in another set":[
"a function that is one-to-one and onto"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4n-",
"\u02c8\u022fn-(\u02cc)t\u00fc"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Preposition",
"We climbed onto the building's roof.",
"The book fell onto the floor.",
"The water spilled onto the floor.",
"The cowboy leaped onto his horse.",
"Transfer the data onto a disk.",
"Turn left onto Third Street at the traffic light.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Preposition",
"The girl poked the shark in the eyes and punched it before her brother, who is a firefighter, managed to fight the shark off and pull the girl onto a stranger's boat. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 3 July 2022",
"The victim was thrown onto the shoulder of the road near the 1400 block of Austell Road, according to the release. \u2014 Rosana Hughes, ajc , 3 July 2022",
"After the crash, but while cars were still on the track, protesters from an environmental group called Just Stop Oil ran onto the track and sat down. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 July 2022",
"The Grad, a Soviet-era mobile rocket launcher, can launch a salvo of up to 40 122-mm projectiles, then speed away before the Russians can lock onto the location and return fire. \u2014 Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post , 3 July 2022",
"Do each exercise for 10 reps, then move onto the next exercise without resting. \u2014 Jenny Mccoy, SELF , 2 July 2022",
"People held a rope on the perimeter of the blanket to help bounce it while children and adults alike climbed onto the blanket to jump. \u2014 Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News , 2 July 2022",
"Chan previously sought unsuccessfully to let cars back onto part of JFK Drive. \u2014 J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 July 2022",
"Before cutting into any melon, wash it with water to remove any dirt and bacteria that could spread onto the fruit or cutting board. \u2014 Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press , 2 July 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Preposition",
"1942, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-224412"
},
"ontogenesis":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": ontogeny":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u00e4n-t\u0259-\u02c8je-n\u0259-s\u0259s",
"\u02cc\u00e4nt-\u0259-\u02c8jen-\u0259-s\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1875, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010611"
},
"ontogeny":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the development or course of development especially of an individual organism":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4n-\u02c8t\u00e4j-\u0259-n\u0113",
"\u00e4n-\u02c8t\u00e4-j\u0259-n\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Having a big nose: structure, ontogeny , and function of the elephant seal proboscis. \u2014 Darren Naish, Scientific American Blog Network , 3 June 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1872, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-104909"
},
"onto something":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":{
": having done or discovered something important, special, etc.":[
"When the crowd responded to the show so positively, we realized we were onto something ."
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-114248"
},
"ontogenist":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a student of ontogeny":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4n\u2027\u02c8t\u00e4j\u0259n\u0259\u0307st"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-124205"
},
"ontogenetic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or appearing in the course of ontogeny":[],
": based on visible morphological characters":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-j\u0259-\u02c8net-ik",
"\u02cc\u00e4n-t\u0259-j\u0259-\u02c8ne-tik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1869, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-185134"
},
"ontario violet":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a pale purplish blue that is redder and paler than hydrangea blue and redder and deeper than starlight blue":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205610"
},
"ontological":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to ontology":[
"an ontological principle"
],
": relating to or based upon being or existence":[
"to lift the modern male out of gender confusion and into ontological certainty",
"\u2014 R. A. Shweder"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u00e4n-t\u0259-\u02c8l\u00e4-ji-k\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Cinema is another side to his ontological vision of fashion. \u2014 Fabiana Giacomotti, Vogue , 16 Jan. 2022",
"Knowledge graphs built upon ontological concepts developed as part of the Semantic Web but allowed for a more expressive hierarchical system, with a greater emphasis on scale and relationships. \u2014 Bryon Jacob, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Plus: The infamous 2016 Macbook Pro, G\u00f6del\u2019s ontological proof, and a mascot\u2019s moment of weakness. \u2014 Steven Levy, Wired , 22 Oct. 2021",
"While breathtakingly sophisticated in their content, their tone recalls the best and most beloved children's books: playful but gentle, earnest without being naive, reverberant with ontological wonder. \u2014 Amy Brady, Scientific American , 9 Sep. 2021",
"Alongside the moral issues, there is an ontological muddle. \u2014 Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2021",
"Perhaps sensing that Waffles is teetering on the edge of an ontological abyss, MagiCart next ferries the friends to see the chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s, who explains, in a kid-friendly way, that sometimes categories are entirely meaningless. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 16 Mar. 2021",
"Unlike blogs, which link to other blogs almost as an ontological condition, most newsletters are impossible to find without an external referral or recommendation. \u2014 Anna Wiener, The New Yorker , 28 Dec. 2020",
"Each, apparently, is the real Santa, which adds to the mind-bending ontological aspects of the whole business. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Dec. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1705, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-214214"
},
"ontological argument":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an argument for the existence of God based upon the meaning of the term God":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That kind of ontological argument might be a hard sell for some Americans. \u2014 David Marchesephotograph By Christopher Anderson/magnum, For The New York Times, New York Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
"April 27, 2020 There will surely be many disagreements about which titles are and are not included, some of which may lead us into tortured ontological arguments about what constitutes a summer movie in the first place. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Apr. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1877, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-224805"
},
"Ontario, Lake":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"lake between New York and Ontario, Canada area about 7600 square miles (19,684 square kilometers)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-023146"
},
"ont-":{
"type":[
"abbreviation",
"combining form",
"noun combining form"
],
"definitions":{
": being : existence":[
"onto logy"
],
": organism":[
"onto geny"
],
": cell : organism":[
"dipl ont"
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Late Greek, from Greek ont-, \u014dn , present participle of einai to be \u2014 more at is":"Combining form",
"Greek ont-, \u014dn , present participle":"Noun combining form"
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024901"
2022-07-10 05:08:12 +00:00
},
"ontologism":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a philosophical method that analyzes reality on ontological principles (as from a consideration of the categories)":[],
": a theory in philosophy: the order of intellectual apprehension follows the order of real being and knowledge of God is immediate and intuitive":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4n\u2027\u02c8t\u00e4l\u0259\u02ccjiz\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary ontology + -ism":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-050504"
}
}