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{
"picayune":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a Spanish half real piece formerly current in the South",
": half dime",
": something trivial",
": of little value : paltry",
": petty , small-minded"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccpi-k\u0113-\u02c8y\u00fcn"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagatelle",
"child's play",
"frippery",
"nonproblem",
"nothing",
"shuck(s)",
"small beer",
"small change",
"trifle",
"triviality"
],
"antonyms":[
"illiberal",
"insular",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"narrow",
"narrow-minded",
"parochial",
"petty",
"provincial",
"sectarian",
"small",
"small-minded"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"our lives don't amount to a picayune in the great scheme of things",
"Adjective",
"They argued over the most picayune details.",
"the picayune ponderings of a commentator who steadfastly believes other cultures are inferior to our own",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Challenging ballot designations has become something of a sport in California politics \u2014 squabbles over the occasionally picayune rules return each cycle like the swallows to Capistrano. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Mar. 2022",
"What would normally be regarded as an investigation that has reached the level of pursuing such picayune matters that it should be concluded, may to him or her be an investigation that ought to go on for another year. \u2014 Dan Mclaughlin, National Review , 13 Mar. 2022",
"There are at least two explanations: One is that the violations are so picayune as to expose a petty scheme to dump the executive. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Feb. 2022",
"This was the Britain\u2014still very imperial yet so very picayune \u2014to which Mr. Sen, who would go on to win the Nobel Prize in economics, had come to study. \u2014 Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Vance\u2019s investigation, which appears to be focussed largely on business practices that Trump engaged in before taking office, may seem picayune in comparison with the outrageous offenses to democratic norms that Trump committed as President. \u2014 Jane Mayer, The New Yorker , 12 Mar. 2021",
"But after months of family quarantine, combined with the confusion and exasperation of school-Zoom days, more of our wind-down reading sessions have involved the sureness of facts \u2014 picayune details about dogs and skyscrapers and coral reefs. \u2014 Mark Athitakis, Washington Post , 24 Nov. 2020",
"If the last few months should have taught us anything, it\u2019s the realization that who stands at proper attention for a flag and who chooses not to is a rather picayune thing to worry about given our current circumstances as a country. \u2014 Dan Wolken, USA TODAY , 1 Aug. 2020",
"However picayune and pitifully old-fashioned the bereavement may seem to most people, for me the erosion of style, clarity, and precision in everyday speech and prose is a loss. \u2014 Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine , 22 July 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"1804, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Adjective",
"1836, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185043"
},
"pick":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb",
"verb ()"
],
"definitions":[
": to pierce, penetrate, or break up with a pointed instrument",
": to remove bit by bit",
": to remove covering or adhering matter from",
": to gather by plucking",
": choose , select",
": to make (one's way) slowly and carefully",
": pilfer , rob",
": to obtain useful information from by questioning",
": provoke",
": to dig into : probe",
": to pluck (a stringed instrument, such as a guitar) with a pick or with the fingers",
": to loosen or pull apart with a sharp point",
": to unlock with a device (such as a wire) other than the key",
": to use or work with a pick",
": to gather or harvest something by plucking",
": pilfer",
": to eat sparingly or mincingly",
": to select with care and deliberation",
": to criticize repeatedly especially for minor faults : nag",
": to single out for criticism, teasing, or bullying",
": to single out for a particular purpose or for special attention",
": a blow or stroke with a pointed instrument",
": the act or privilege of choosing or selecting : choice",
": the best or choicest one",
": one that is picked",
": the portion of a crop gathered at one time",
": a screen in basketball",
": an intercepted forward pass : interception",
": a heavy, usually long-handled iron or steel tool pointed at one or both ends \u2014 compare mattock",
": toothpick",
": picklock",
": a small thin piece (as of plastic or metal) used to pluck the strings of a stringed instrument",
": one of the points on the forepart of the blade of a skate used in figure skating",
": a comb with long widely spaced teeth used to give height to a hairstyle",
": to throw or thrust with effort : hurl",
": to throw (a shuttle) across the loom",
": the act of pitching or throwing",
": something thrown",
": a throw of the shuttle",
": a filling thread",
": to gather one by one",
": to remove bit by bit",
": to remove unwanted material from between or inside",
": choose sense 1 , select",
": to walk along slowly and carefully",
": to eat sparingly or in a finicky manner",
": to steal from",
": to start (a fight) with someone deliberately",
": to pluck with the fingers or with a pick",
": to unlock without a key",
": to single out for mean treatment",
": to take hold of and lift",
": to clean up : tidy",
": to stop for and take along",
": learn sense 1",
": to get without great effort or by chance",
": to get by buying",
": to begin again after a temporary stop",
": to bring within range of hearing",
": to gain or get back speed or strength",
": a heavy tool with a wooden handle and a blade pointed at one or both ends for loosening or breaking up soil or rock",
": a slender pointed instrument",
": a thin piece of metal or plastic used to pluck the strings of a musical instrument",
": the act or opportunity of choosing",
": choice entry 1 sense 3",
": the best ones"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pik",
"\u02c8pik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb (1)",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb (1)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
"Noun (1)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (2)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb (2)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (3)",
"1627, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-032442"
},
"pick up":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
"one that is picked up such as",
"a hitchhiker who is given a ride",
"a temporary chance acquaintance",
"a player acquired from another team",
"the act or process of picking up such as",
"a revival of business activity",
"acceleration",
"the act or technique of making the acquaintance of a previously unknown person especially for amorous purposes",
"the act of collecting someone or something to be carried or transported away",
"the conversion of mechanical movements into electrical impulses in the reproduction of sound",
"a device (as on an electric guitar) for making such conversion",
"the reception of sound or an image into a radio or television transmitting apparatus for conversion into electrical signals",
"a device (such as a microphone or a television camera) for converting sound or the image of a scene into electrical signals",
"a light truck having an enclosed cab and an open body with low sides and tailgate",
"a pickup game",
"utilizing or comprising local or available personnel especially without formal organization",
"to take hold of and lift up",
"to gather together collect",
"to clean up tidy",
"to take (passengers or freight) into a vehicle",
"to acquire casually or by chance",
"to acquire by study or experience learn",
"to obtain especially by payment buy",
"to acquire (a player) especially from another team through a trade or by financial recompense",
"to accept for the purpose of paying",
"to come down with catch",
"gain , earn",
"to enter informally into conversation or companionship with (a previously unknown person)",
"to take into custody",
"to catch sight of perceive",
"to come to and follow",
"to bring within range of sight or hearing",
"understand , catch",
"revive",
"increase",
"to resume after a break continue",
"to assume responsibility for guarding (an opponent) in an athletic contest",
"to provide needed support or assistance to (someone who has faltered or failed, such as a teammate who has made an error) in a collaborative effort",
"to recover or increase speed, vigor, or activity improve",
"to put things in order",
"to pack up one's belongings",
"understand , appreciate",
"to become aware of notice",
"to adopt as one's own take up",
"a light truck with an open body and low sides"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pik-\u02cc\u0259p",
"\u02c8pik-\u02cc\u0259p"
],
"synonyms":[
"get",
"learn",
"master"
],
"antonyms":[
"unlearn"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
"Witnesses reported that the driver of a pickup sat behind the stop sign at the plaza and waited before accelerating as Timothy walked by, according to court records. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 June 2022",
"Pundits downgraded Republicans\u2019 chances of a pickup after Mr. Mastriano\u2019s victory. \u2014 Karl Rove, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"The film\u2019s biggest set-piece is a dual chase through the ancient streets of the Maltese capital Valetta, with Claire in the back of a pickup and Owen on a motorcycle. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 June 2022",
"Deputies arrived and were told Mia Worthy, 20, of Elkins, was a passenger in the front seat of the pickup . \u2014 Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online , 1 June 2022",
"The driver of a pickup struck and seriously injured a pedestrian Thursday morning in Bay Park near Clairemont, leaving the woman with life-threatening injuries, San Diego police said. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"Alaska State Troopers confirmed Hackney\u2019s death, identifying him as the driver of a pickup that collided with another vehicle Wednesday afternoon in Fairbanks. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 22 May 2022",
"The driver of the pickup was not wearing his seatbelt. \u2014 Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic , 11 May 2022",
"The female driver of the Dodge pickup was severely injured and taken to the hospital, police said. \u2014 Bradford Betz, Fox News , 10 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web Adjective",
"Preston turned heads during pickup games in September only to injure a foot on the eve of camp. \u2014 Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Through a cousin, Njie reached out to Wadda, who was able to offer a recommendation to Taal because of friends back in D.C. who had already seen Njie excelling in pickup games. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 24 Mar. 2022",
"While 66 percent of non-luxury-vehicle shoppers considered an SUV and 35 percent looked into pickup trucks in the first three months of this year, only five percent considered a minivan. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 30 May 2022",
"Cousins, aunts and uncles pulled up in pickup trucks. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
"This extra-large shade boasts 65.7 by 36.4 inches of coverage for use in pickup trucks and SUVs. \u2014 Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics , 23 May 2022",
"Based in Ketchum, Idaho, with production facilities and manufacturing in Defiance, Ohio, and St. George, Utah, DECKED designs, engineers, and manufacturers storage and organization products for pickup trucks and cargo vans. \u2014 Outside Online , 23 May 2022",
"The city is expecting significant delays in pickup times throughout the week. \u2014 Anna Caplan, Dallas News , 15 Feb. 2021",
"The morning after the parade, Andrew Giuliani drove to the Bellmore train station on Long Island, where hundreds gathered to meet and greet Republican candidates in a parking lot jammed with pickup trucks and festooned with Trump flags. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web Verb",
"The player on the receiving end that Sunday afternoon couldn\u2019t pick up . \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"The human resources professional, hiring managers and other interviewers will pick up on your vibe. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"As for showers, Thursday thunderstorm chances pick up by lunchtime and into the afternoon with a 30% chance. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
"That night, Erin didn\u2019t pick up on Allison\u2019s flirtatious advances. \u2014 Patty Hodapp, Outside Online , 8 June 2022",
"And, of course, Sudeikis would pick up the whistle once again. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 8 June 2022",
"If players can pick up his emotion and bring it to the court, that will be progress. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"The winds will pick up during a period of very low humidity, raising the risk of wildfires. \u2014 Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"Over the course of the next week, the Bengals will pick up the pace of their practices. \u2014 Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer , 7 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"1848, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Adjective",
"1898, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-164629"
},
"pick-and-shovel":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": done with or as if with a pick and shovel : laborious"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[
"arduous",
"Augean",
"backbreaking",
"challenging",
"demanding",
"difficult",
"effortful",
"exacting",
"formidable",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"hard",
"heavy",
"hellacious",
"herculean",
"killer",
"laborious",
"moiling",
"murderous",
"rigorous",
"rough",
"rugged",
"severe",
"stiff",
"strenuous",
"sweaty",
"tall",
"testing",
"toilsome",
"tough",
"uphill"
],
"antonyms":[
"cheap",
"easy",
"effortless",
"facile",
"light",
"mindless",
"simple",
"soft",
"undemanding"
],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1858, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195536"
},
"picked up":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": one that is picked up : such as",
": a hitchhiker who is given a ride",
": a temporary chance acquaintance",
": a player acquired from another team",
": the act or process of picking up: such as",
": a revival of business activity",
": acceleration",
": the act or technique of making the acquaintance of a previously unknown person especially for amorous purposes",
": the act of collecting someone or something to be carried or transported away",
": the conversion of mechanical movements into electrical impulses in the reproduction of sound",
": a device (as on an electric guitar) for making such conversion",
": the reception of sound or an image into a radio or television transmitting apparatus for conversion into electrical signals",
": a device (such as a microphone or a television camera) for converting sound or the image of a scene into electrical signals",
": a light truck having an enclosed cab and an open body with low sides and tailgate",
": a pickup game",
": utilizing or comprising local or available personnel especially without formal organization",
": to take hold of and lift up",
": to gather together : collect",
": to clean up : tidy",
": to take (passengers or freight) into a vehicle",
": to acquire casually or by chance",
": to acquire by study or experience : learn",
": to obtain especially by payment : buy",
": to acquire (a player) especially from another team through a trade or by financial recompense",
": to accept for the purpose of paying",
": to come down with : catch",
": gain , earn",
": to enter informally into conversation or companionship with (a previously unknown person)",
": to take into custody",
": to catch sight of : perceive",
": to come to and follow",
": to bring within range of sight or hearing",
": understand , catch",
": revive",
": increase",
": to resume after a break : continue",
": to assume responsibility for guarding (an opponent) in an athletic contest",
": to provide needed support or assistance to (someone who has faltered or failed, such as a teammate who has made an error) in a collaborative effort",
": to recover or increase speed, vigor, or activity : improve",
": to put things in order",
": to pack up one's belongings",
": understand , appreciate",
": to become aware of : notice",
": to adopt as one's own : take up",
": a light truck with an open body and low sides"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pik-\u02cc\u0259p",
"\u02c8pik-\u02cc\u0259p"
],
"synonyms":[
"get",
"learn",
"master"
],
"antonyms":[
"unlearn"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Witnesses reported that the driver of a pickup sat behind the stop sign at the plaza and waited before accelerating as Timothy walked by, according to court records. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 June 2022",
"Pundits downgraded Republicans\u2019 chances of a pickup after Mr. Mastriano\u2019s victory. \u2014 Karl Rove, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"The film\u2019s biggest set-piece is a dual chase through the ancient streets of the Maltese capital Valetta, with Claire in the back of a pickup and Owen on a motorcycle. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 June 2022",
"Deputies arrived and were told Mia Worthy, 20, of Elkins, was a passenger in the front seat of the pickup . \u2014 Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online , 1 June 2022",
"The driver of a pickup struck and seriously injured a pedestrian Thursday morning in Bay Park near Clairemont, leaving the woman with life-threatening injuries, San Diego police said. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"Alaska State Troopers confirmed Hackney\u2019s death, identifying him as the driver of a pickup that collided with another vehicle Wednesday afternoon in Fairbanks. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 22 May 2022",
"The driver of the pickup was not wearing his seatbelt. \u2014 Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic , 11 May 2022",
"The female driver of the Dodge pickup was severely injured and taken to the hospital, police said. \u2014 Bradford Betz, Fox News , 10 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Preston turned heads during pickup games in September only to injure a foot on the eve of camp. \u2014 Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Through a cousin, Njie reached out to Wadda, who was able to offer a recommendation to Taal because of friends back in D.C. who had already seen Njie excelling in pickup games. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 24 Mar. 2022",
"While 66 percent of non-luxury-vehicle shoppers considered an SUV and 35 percent looked into pickup trucks in the first three months of this year, only five percent considered a minivan. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 30 May 2022",
"Cousins, aunts and uncles pulled up in pickup trucks. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
"This extra-large shade boasts 65.7 by 36.4 inches of coverage for use in pickup trucks and SUVs. \u2014 Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics , 23 May 2022",
"Based in Ketchum, Idaho, with production facilities and manufacturing in Defiance, Ohio, and St. George, Utah, DECKED designs, engineers, and manufacturers storage and organization products for pickup trucks and cargo vans. \u2014 Outside Online , 23 May 2022",
"The city is expecting significant delays in pickup times throughout the week. \u2014 Anna Caplan, Dallas News , 15 Feb. 2021",
"The morning after the parade, Andrew Giuliani drove to the Bellmore train station on Long Island, where hundreds gathered to meet and greet Republican candidates in a parking lot jammed with pickup trucks and festooned with Trump flags. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The player on the receiving end that Sunday afternoon couldn\u2019t pick up . \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"The human resources professional, hiring managers and other interviewers will pick up on your vibe. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"As for showers, Thursday thunderstorm chances pick up by lunchtime and into the afternoon with a 30% chance. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
"That night, Erin didn\u2019t pick up on Allison\u2019s flirtatious advances. \u2014 Patty Hodapp, Outside Online , 8 June 2022",
"And, of course, Sudeikis would pick up the whistle once again. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 8 June 2022",
"If players can pick up his emotion and bring it to the court, that will be progress. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"The winds will pick up during a period of very low humidity, raising the risk of wildfires. \u2014 Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"Over the course of the next week, the Bengals will pick up the pace of their practices. \u2014 Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer , 7 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"1848, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Adjective",
"1898, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-190016"
},
"picket":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a pointed or sharpened stake, post, or pale",
": a detached body of soldiers serving to guard an army from surprise",
": a detachment kept ready in camp for such duty",
": sentry",
": a person posted by a labor organization at a place of work affected by a strike",
": a person posted for a demonstration or protest",
": a protest or strike involving pickets",
": to enclose, fence, or fortify with pickets",
": to guard with a picket",
": to post as a picket",
": tether",
": to post pickets at",
": to walk or stand in front of as a picket",
": to serve as a picket",
": a pointed stake or slender post (as for making a fence)",
": a soldier or a group of soldiers assigned to stand guard",
": a person standing or marching near a place (as a factory or store) as part of a strike or protest",
": to stand or march near a place as part of a strike or protest",
": a person posted by a labor organization at a place of employment affected by a labor dispute",
": a person posted for a demonstration or protest",
": to post pickets in front of : walk or stand in front of as a picket",
": to demonstrate by use of pickets",
": to serve as a picket \u2014 see also informational picketing , organizational picketing , secondary picketing \u2014 compare strike"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-k\u0259t",
"\u02c8pi-k\u0259t"
],
"synonyms":[
"custodian",
"guard",
"guardian",
"keeper",
"lookout",
"minder",
"sentinel",
"sentry",
"warden",
"warder",
"watch",
"watcher",
"watchman"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"These protests the suffragists pioneered were really the first examples in American social movements of this massive, visual rhetoric, of literal choreography and music and pageantry and color and formation and parades, picket lines. \u2014 Madison Feller, ELLE , 27 May 2022",
"Nurses at those facilities express similar grievances, and nurses at Providence Willamette Falls plan a march and picket next week in Oregon City. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 May 2022",
"Pilots planned to hold a rally and picket in all those cities on Friday, according to a union website. \u2014 Gillian Flaccus, USA TODAY , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The fence is cedar gothic picket , four feet tall, available in panels of eight-foot lengths. \u2014 Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics , 24 Oct. 2020",
"Thousands of teachers, students and parents were expected to walk picket lines at Oakland\u2019s public schools Friday in a one-day strike over controversial school closures to save money. \u2014 Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Over the last few days, other organizations and groups joined the protests, with some regions closing schools and resorting to online teaching as a consequence of roadblocks and picket lines. \u2014 Stefano Pozzebon And Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN , 6 Apr. 2022",
"That strike did not disrupt film and TV production as ACTRA signed continuation agreements with all producers shooting film and TV projects in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to avoid picket lines and a work stoppage. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 4 Apr. 2022",
"In June, union members reported at least three instances of violence along picket lines. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Even after news broke of the foiled assassination attempt, protesters gathered Wednesday evening to picket outside his home. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 9 June 2022",
"But nobody thought\u2014or dared\u2014to picket the justices\u2019 homes. \u2014 Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ , 21 May 2022",
"Jack publicly threatened to picket the arena if Udoka didn\u2019t make the final cut. \u2014 Ben Cohen, WSJ , 4 May 2022",
"According to a 2015 report, Viking\u2019s Tongass old-growth trees go into products ranging from Steinway grand pianos to picket fences and gazebos. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 29 Apr. 2022",
"As teachers picket behind him, the young boy responds to the reporter\u2019s question with support for the striking educators. \u2014 Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Union members threatened a one-day strike that was to take place Wednesday, with members planning to picket outside the hospital\u2019s main entrance, but that threat ended when members and administrators ratified a new contract. \u2014 Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The experience led her to picket other fast food restaurants and speak out about her treatment and demonstrate in favor of AB 257. \u2014 Alex Park, The New Republic , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Members are planning to picket the Manhattan offices of BlackRock at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 4 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"1687, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1729, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 3"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-200557"
},
"picky":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": very careful or too careful about choosing or accepting things : fussy , choosy",
": hard to please"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-k\u0113",
"\u02c8pi-k\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"choosy",
"choosey",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"demanding",
"exacting",
"fastidious",
"finical",
"finicking",
"finicky",
"fussbudgety",
"fussy",
"nice",
"old-maidish",
"particular",
"pernickety",
"persnickety"
],
"antonyms":[
"undemanding",
"unfastidious",
"unfussy"
],
"examples":[
"a picky cat who would only eat one particular kind of food, and only if it was served in his special dish",
"she's picky , but she always finds the best quality in fresh meat and fish",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Be picky , but also sample what is available in your neighborhood. \u2014 Blake Caldwell, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"However, with more varieties to choose from, Wideman warned that drinkers have the benefit of being picky . \u2014 Jordan Valinsky, CNN , 28 May 2022",
"Supply-chain skills are in such high demand these days that job seekers can afford to be picky , said Emily Prendergast, an executive director at DSJ. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
"And that\u2019s why players are picky about who\u2019s allowed to vote on awards. \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Nintendo has been extremely picky about adapting its characters following the disastrous Super Mario Bros. film in 1993. \u2014 Pamela Mcclintock, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Finding the perfect gift is easier said than done, especially for the picky parent. \u2014 Malia Griggs, SELF , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Even picky teenagers are sure to appreciate this handy find that's earned 79,000 five-star ratings. \u2014 Jessica Leigh Mattern, PEOPLE.com , 9 Apr. 2022",
"The taste is familiar\u2014your picky kid just might eat it\u2014but with unexpected depth, sweetness, and color. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 7 Mar. 2022"
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"His account of the season and tensions between him and Kirkconnell after her antebellum picture resurfaced is a small fraction of the 256-page book. \u2014 Greg Braxtonsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Analyze your full financial picture : Assets and liabilities, income and expenses. \u2014 Leon Labrecque, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
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"An historic portrait for an historic occasion: Queen Elizabeth II poses for her Platinum Jubilee picture . \u2014 Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
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"For a time, her Facebook profile picture was the Fort Apache logo. \u2014 The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
"Dyer posts her first picture of Heaton to her Instagram account. \u2014 Starr Bowenbank, ELLE , 29 May 2022",
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"Then picture the relief of having your debt eliminated faster. \u2014 Veronica Dagher, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
"So picture me, with an unexpectedly large amount of car to my left, trying to balance on the clutch as cars nip and tuck down a street not wide enough for two to drive abreast, with a two-foot-thick medieval wall just beyond my rearview mirror. \u2014 Mike Mcshane, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Close your eyes and picture the perfect shampoo; a shampoo that smells amazing and intensely cleanses your hair. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 May 2022",
"Down on the field, the team performs an intricate warmup \u2014 picture the Globetrotters\u2019 passing circle with mitts \u2014 then gathers at home plate. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 May 2022",
"Try to picture Chairman Jerome Powell driving the monetary-policy bus down a curvy road at excess speed. \u2014 WSJ , 1 May 2022"
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"The Hamilton actor and Waitress star have written their first picture book together, PEOPLE can exclusively announce. \u2014 Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com , 7 June 2022",
"Ahead of the book\u2019s release, Torres chatted with THR about writing his debut picture book and teased finishing the second season of Los Espookys. \u2014 Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 May 2022",
"At his first campaign-style rallies of 2022, in Arizona and Texas, giant television screens paid for by Mr. Trump\u2019s PAC advertised his $75 picture book . \u2014 New York Times , 12 Feb. 2022",
"Released by Random House, the picture book for readers ages 4-8 builds on the mindset the celebrity couple was raised with and that led them to be superstars on the field and on the stage. \u2014 Brande Victorian, Essence , 2 Mar. 2022",
"The children\u2019s picture book is a tribute to White\u2019s late grandfather and the accomplishments of the Tuskegee Airmen. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 22 Feb. 2022",
"This picture book will resonate for any family with distant loved ones. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Newman\u2019s 1989 picture book broke ground by depicting exactly what its title says. \u2014 Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic , 1 Feb. 2022",
"The title alone sells this picture book , especially to parents of children who like to ask questions. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 18 May 2022"
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"Summer Stock was both Garland's last film for MGM and her final picture with Gene Kelly. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 10 June 2022",
"His account of the season and tensions between him and Kirkconnell after her antebellum picture resurfaced is a small fraction of the 256-page book. \u2014 Greg Braxtonsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Analyze your full financial picture : Assets and liabilities, income and expenses. \u2014 Leon Labrecque, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Its massive picture windows allow guests to take in the epic views from every single seat. \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure , 2 June 2022",
"An historic portrait for an historic occasion: Queen Elizabeth II poses for her Platinum Jubilee picture . \u2014 Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"The first person to purchase an item on opening day gets their picture on the wall and a free sundae every month. \u2014 Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 31 May 2022",
"For a time, her Facebook profile picture was the Fort Apache logo. \u2014 The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
"Dyer posts her first picture of Heaton to her Instagram account. \u2014 Starr Bowenbank, ELLE , 29 May 2022",
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"Just picture him at the grill, killing the burger game in this canvas number. \u2014 Hannah Oh, Seventeen , 18 May 2022",
"To understand the coastal grandmother, picture its opposite: the grimy style of Euphoria, with its tight fabrics, facial embellishments, hamster-sized purses, and sheen of sweat, cum, sebum, and gasoline. \u2014 Glamour , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Then picture her at 12, meeting her manager-to-be for the first time: the same actor, with little pretense to obscuring the fact that this is a goofy adult play-acting as a preternaturally gifted kid. \u2014 K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Then picture the relief of having your debt eliminated faster. \u2014 Veronica Dagher, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
"So picture me, with an unexpectedly large amount of car to my left, trying to balance on the clutch as cars nip and tuck down a street not wide enough for two to drive abreast, with a two-foot-thick medieval wall just beyond my rearview mirror. \u2014 Mike Mcshane, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Close your eyes and picture the perfect shampoo; a shampoo that smells amazing and intensely cleanses your hair. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 May 2022",
"Down on the field, the team performs an intricate warmup \u2014 picture the Globetrotters\u2019 passing circle with mitts \u2014 then gathers at home plate. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 May 2022",
"Try to picture Chairman Jerome Powell driving the monetary-policy bus down a curvy road at excess speed. \u2014 WSJ , 1 May 2022"
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"Then, the pandemic reduced the schedule to 60 games and Eddie got a piddling 37%. \u2014 Star Tribune , 3 Dec. 2020",
"Millions of additional claims are expected to stream in from around the country over the coming weeks, while hiring remains piddling . \u2014 Patricia Cohen, New York Times , 23 Apr. 2020",
"What\u2019s particularly baffling is that Syria now produces a piddling amount of oil\u2014about as much as Utah. \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 30 Oct. 2019",
"That will make the current economic uncertainty look piddling . \u2014 Daniel W. Drezner, Twin Cities , 15 Aug. 2019",
"In the battle for mind share, in the Trumpian quest to be part of every conversation, the Pixel far outweighs its piddling sales. \u2014 Vlad Savov, The Verge , 16 Oct. 2018",
"Of those, only four rather piddling victories went the liberals\u2019 way. \u2014 The Economist , 30 June 2018",
"Learning about other runners' struggles and triumphs helps put my piddling run into a bigger narrative, often allowing me to see myself differently within another story. \u2014 Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News , 21 June 2018",
"How to: Improve the Wi-Fi reception in your home The most-improved was Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, which went from a piddling 2.68 Mbps download speed in 2017 to 59.62 Mbps this year. \u2014 Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle , 12 June 2018"
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"The piebald genetic abnormality can create defects \u2014 three of this family\u2019s deer becoming deaf. \u2014 Brian Whipkey, USA TODAY , 7 Jan. 2022",
"Rare ' piebald ' deer known for unusual markings find home with Pennsylvania family as pets. \u2014 Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Still, the current piebald has managed to survive and thrive. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 16 Nov. 2021",
"On this episode, a rare piebald squirrel has been spotted in Alabama at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. \u2014 al , 17 Nov. 2021",
"There\u2019s also Aurelio, a bachelor whose piebald soul mate, Birba, with her renowned nose for truffles, is his greatest joy. \u2014 Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor , 4 Mar. 2021",
"To commemorate Napoleon\u2019s victory over Austria at the Battle of Marengo, David painted him charging up a mountain on a piebald steed, right arm pointing skyward, trademark bicorne on his head, cool and cocksure as his horse bucks its front heels. \u2014 Jason Farago, New York Times , 12 Feb. 2020",
"Dear Readers: Meet Melania and dachshund Duke. Cheryl G. in San Antonio just adopted Melania, a 4-month-old, five-pound half piebald dachshund and half Chihuahua, from a dachshund rescue group after Melania\u2019s previous owner passed. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Sep. 2019",
"His foxes also showed physical changes, like piebald coats and floppy ears \u2014 characteristics shared by dogs, cows and other domesticated animals. \u2014 James Gorman, New York Times , 3 Dec. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Mazzoli created a lush score that was alternately sweeping or intimate, sensuous or mystical, yet with a distinctive sound that was her own weaving a thread through the piece . \u2014 Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com , 19 July 2017",
"This is why the war stories of Tom Clancy are such convincing and moving pieces of fiction. \u2014 Janine Barchas, Washington Post , 18 July 2017",
"Saturday evening, the British Broadcasting Corporation posted a piece about the ancient cypress forest discovered sixty feet underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, attracting the international attention. \u2014 Ben Raines, AL.com , 17 July 2017",
"After cutting your lemon (or lime) in half, cut a small piece of skin off of the other side. \u2014 Carly Breit, Country Living , 14 July 2017",
"The public offers a piece of its mind Mic's Celeste Katz discloses that Trump's controversial voter fraud panel won't let the public speak at its first meeting on July 19 but did solicit emails. \u2014 The Hive , 14 July 2017",
"Alan Jacobs, a professor at Baylor University, has written eloquently about that last piece . \u2014 Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic , 14 July 2017",
"For those not in the know, Polar Pizza involves a double fudge brownie crust and mint chocolate chip ice cream topped with Oreo cookie pieces . \u2014 Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine , 14 July 2017",
"His beautiful portrait of Ken Moody, one of an edition of ten, was on sale for \u00a325,000 ($31,650), about five times the price of one of Ms Yass\u2019s pieces . \u2014 The Economist , 13 July 2017",
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"The European Union's executive arm, the European Commission, is trying to piece together its sixth sanctions package against Russia, in response to the invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 11 May 2022",
"The game features a story that\u2019s enticingly cryptic, demanding players piece it together. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"In recent days, residents have slowly started to piece together what transpired in their enclave, emerging from their basement shelters between artillery strikes. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Investigators will try to piece together the plane\u2019s final moments from images reviewing trajectory, altitude, the force of impact and air-traffic data. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
"In Take Out, food becomes the conduit for bigger conversations about history, immigration, identity, and how to piece all of those things together. \u2014 Bettina Makalintal, Bon App\u00e9tit , 28 Jan. 2022",
"And from there, anyone can sort of piece it together as to what this is. \u2014 Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
"The homeowner instantly recognized a photo of Casey White and helped authorities piece together what had happened. \u2014 CBS News , 12 May 2022",
"The homeowner instantly recognized a photo of Casey White and helped authorities piece together what had happened. \u2014 Michael Balsamo, Anchorage Daily News , 11 May 2022"
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"She got another ear piercing .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"What follows is a piercing shriek to seal this lively break-up jam, fueled by a St. Vincent-like sense of playful assuredness. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 3 June 2022",
"The words had a piercing clarity in the silence dictated by tennis custom. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Mar. 2022",
"But an even more piercing moment came during a much quieter song. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Among the film\u2019s most piercing scenes are a couple of doozies set in the local watering hole, where Leslie gravitates to slake her thirst and to escape the judgment of her grudging hosts. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Buarque\u2019s eyes are more piercing , his chin slightly more pinched. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Apr. 2022",
"After all, only those on the highest level, able to navigate the most piercing pain, are singled out by God. \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Sumy Sadurni, a prolific photojournalist who documented human rights struggles, political resistance and gender issues in East Africa through a piercing and intimate lens, died on March 7 in Kampala, Uganda. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Few filmmakers have cast an eye back over childhood joys and growing pains with more piercing intimacy and resonant emotional connection than Richard Linklater in his sui generis masterwork, Boyhood. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This dramatic piercing on the white continent oozes five stories high at the end of Taylor Glacier, where an ancient saltwater reservoir trapped beneath the glacier flows to the surface and into Lake Bonney. \u2014 Kathleen Rellihan, Outside Online , 14 May 2022",
"Black Flag\u2019s piercing hardcore and Sabbathy sludge shared little with the Minutemen\u2019s springy, spiky punk-jazz fusion, the Meat Puppets\u2019 Dead-like excursions or H\u00fcsker D\u00fc\u2019s blend of pop savvy and stun guitar. \u2014 Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Like any piercing , there's always a possibility of infection or rejection. \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Temperatures in mid-January fluctuated dramatically: down to the 40s at night, and into the 80s in the piercing midday sun. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Feb. 2022",
"And his nose-chain piercing gave him a unique look amid a rock era known for visual flair. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 3 May 2022",
"There are a few things to expect immediately after your piercing . \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 25 Apr. 2022",
"An Edmontosaurus is a cozy home for a louse and its prolific, extended family\u2014foot after foot of supple dinosaur flesh just waiting for tiny piercing mouthparts. \u2014 Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Doing something spontaneous \u2014 like getting a new piercing \u2014 is the perfect way to commemorate the era of you. \u2014 Julissa James, Los Angeles Times , 16 Dec. 2021"
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"1977, in the meaning defined above"
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"adjective"
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"\u02c8pi-fl\u0259n",
"-f(\u0259-)li\u014b"
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"chicken",
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"footling",
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"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
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"Mickey Mouse",
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"negligible",
"niggling",
"no-account",
"nominal",
"paltry",
"peanut",
"petty",
"picayune",
"piddling",
"piddly",
"pimping",
"slight",
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],
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"noun ()"
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": a member of any of numerous varieties of the rock dove that exist in domestication and in the feral state in cities and towns throughout most of the world",
": a young woman",
": an easy mark : dupe",
": clay pigeon",
": an object of special concern : accepted business or interest",
": a bird with a plump body, short legs, and smooth feathers and especially one that is a variety of the rock dove and is found in cities throughout the world"
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"swinish",
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"a piggish demand for more money",
"He has a piggish attitude toward women.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Surrounded by a dysfunctional family and a piggish boss (Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd), Justine is lonely, exasperated, and seething. \u2014 Matthew Jacobs, Vulture , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Her nemesis, piggish ex-husband and former club owner Rupert (Anthony Head), is out of the picture. \u2014 Lorraine Ali Television Critic, Los Angeles Times , 20 Aug. 2021",
"His vocal presence keeps you attentive and improbably charmed, even when the leading men of his plays\u2014the writer-actor often portrays them himself\u2014are at their piggish and sociopathic worst. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 19 July 2021",
"In short, the tax break is symbolic of winner-takes-all capitalism at its most piggish , and helps explain the rising number of Americans who hold a positive view of socialism. \u2014 Lila Maclellan, Quartz , 21 Dec. 2020",
"Her Hollywood d\u00e9but, in 1980, had her sharing the screen with two notorious women, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, and involved a revenge fantasy against a piggish male boss. \u2014 Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker , 12 Oct. 2020",
"In Moore\u2019s telling, that gaze is inseparable from the piggish entitlement of catcallers and casting-couch creeps. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 19 June 2019",
"The most famous figure to fall has been Mr. Batali, the celebrity chef who was the subject of several published reports in December alleging behavior that ran the gamut from piggish to coercive. \u2014 Kim Severson, New York Times , 18 Jan. 2018"
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"a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials",
"a powdered substance that is mixed with a liquid in which it is relatively insoluble and used especially to impart color to coating materials (such as paints) or to inks, plastics, and rubber",
"a coloring matter in animals and plants especially in a cell or tissue",
"any of various related colorless substances",
"to color with or as if with pigment",
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"Noun",
"Chlorophyll is a group of green pigments .",
"Melanin is a pigment that gives color to skin and fur.",
"Albinos lack normal skin pigment .",
"Pigments are used to give color to paint, ink, and plastic.",
"Red pigment is mixed into the ink.",
"Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
"While painting, Wong would allow glimmers of a landscape or figuration to emerge\u2014mirages in pigment . \u2014 Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
"On top are landscape details added in pigment thickened with gel, so the chunkiness contrasts the flush figures. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that develops from the melanocytes, the skin\u2019s pigment -producing cells. \u2014 Serena Coady, SELF , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The brand's Nude Eyeshadows palette contains 9 pigment -rich hues that can be mixed and matched to create a range of looks. \u2014 Jaimie Potters, Good Housekeeping , 16 Apr. 2022",
"It's also packed with nourishing shea butter and hydrating avocado oil, which means a pigment -rich, dewy effect is yours for the taking. \u2014 Jennifer Chan, PEOPLE.com , 29 Mar. 2022",
"And while most rock art in Africa is undated and badly weathered, an increase in ochre pigment at archaeological sites hints at an explosion of art. \u2014 Mary Prendergast, Quartz , 24 Feb. 2022",
"The soft neutral will support any aesthetic, with just enough pigment to hide outdoor dirt and debris. \u2014 Allison Duncan, WSJ , 4 May 2022",
"The striking designs are traditional, although painted with acrylic pigment by artists who are mostly women, a relatively new force in Aboriginal art. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web Verb",
"Those extra pathways can pigment terms, weaponize musical notes, or even ruin a first date with a rather putrid-tasting name. \u2014 Marion Renault, Popular Science , 27 Dec. 2020",
"Last year, UOMA Beauty came out the gate with inclusive foundation shades, literal Badass lipsticks, highly pigmented eyeshadows for darker skin tones, game-changing concealers, and more. \u2014 Asia Milia Ware, Teen Vogue , 27 Feb. 2020",
"This under eye treatment is actually pigmented to act as a light concealer for those who may want extra coverage or who want to go makeup-free. \u2014 Popular Science , 3 Nov. 2019",
"Good Dye Young Poser Paste ($18) is a waxy styling pomade that's incredibly pigmented and has a pleasant citrus smell. \u2014 Louryn Strampe, Wired , 2 May 2020",
"It's highly pigmented and covers both spots and under eyes equally well. \u2014 Glamour , 20 Mar. 2019",
"On top of that, the lipstick is also surprisingly pigmented . \u2014 Devon Abelman, Allure , 1 Nov. 2019",
"Upon application to the cheeks, it was highly pigmented and a bit unnatural, but after a few moments, the color seemingly seeped into my skin, blending perfectly under a layer of powdered foundation. \u2014 Teen Vogue , 17 May 2019",
"Judging by the very first pictures of the collection, the lipsticks, which have been in the pipeline for two years, look brilliantly pigmented . \u2014 Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com , 21 Jan. 2020"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
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": a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials",
": a powdered substance that is mixed with a liquid in which it is relatively insoluble and used especially to impart color to coating materials (such as paints) or to inks, plastics, and rubber",
": a coloring matter in animals and plants especially in a cell or tissue",
": any of various related colorless substances",
": to color with or as if with pigment",
": a substance that gives color to other materials",
": natural coloring matter in animals and plants",
": a coloring matter in animals and plants especially in a cell or tissue",
": any of various related colorless substances"
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"\u02c8pig-\u02ccment",
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"stain",
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"tinge",
"tint"
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"Noun",
"Chlorophyll is a group of green pigments .",
"Melanin is a pigment that gives color to skin and fur.",
"Albinos lack normal skin pigment .",
"Pigments are used to give color to paint, ink, and plastic.",
"Red pigment is mixed into the ink.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"While painting, Wong would allow glimmers of a landscape or figuration to emerge\u2014mirages in pigment . \u2014 Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
"On top are landscape details added in pigment thickened with gel, so the chunkiness contrasts the flush figures. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that develops from the melanocytes, the skin\u2019s pigment -producing cells. \u2014 Serena Coady, SELF , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The brand's Nude Eyeshadows palette contains 9 pigment -rich hues that can be mixed and matched to create a range of looks. \u2014 Jaimie Potters, Good Housekeeping , 16 Apr. 2022",
"It's also packed with nourishing shea butter and hydrating avocado oil, which means a pigment -rich, dewy effect is yours for the taking. \u2014 Jennifer Chan, PEOPLE.com , 29 Mar. 2022",
"And while most rock art in Africa is undated and badly weathered, an increase in ochre pigment at archaeological sites hints at an explosion of art. \u2014 Mary Prendergast, Quartz , 24 Feb. 2022",
"The soft neutral will support any aesthetic, with just enough pigment to hide outdoor dirt and debris. \u2014 Allison Duncan, WSJ , 4 May 2022",
"The striking designs are traditional, although painted with acrylic pigment by artists who are mostly women, a relatively new force in Aboriginal art. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Those extra pathways can pigment terms, weaponize musical notes, or even ruin a first date with a rather putrid-tasting name. \u2014 Marion Renault, Popular Science , 27 Dec. 2020",
"Last year, UOMA Beauty came out the gate with inclusive foundation shades, literal Badass lipsticks, highly pigmented eyeshadows for darker skin tones, game-changing concealers, and more. \u2014 Asia Milia Ware, Teen Vogue , 27 Feb. 2020",
"This under eye treatment is actually pigmented to act as a light concealer for those who may want extra coverage or who want to go makeup-free. \u2014 Popular Science , 3 Nov. 2019",
"Good Dye Young Poser Paste ($18) is a waxy styling pomade that's incredibly pigmented and has a pleasant citrus smell. \u2014 Louryn Strampe, Wired , 2 May 2020",
"It's highly pigmented and covers both spots and under eyes equally well. \u2014 Glamour , 20 Mar. 2019",
"On top of that, the lipstick is also surprisingly pigmented . \u2014 Devon Abelman, Allure , 1 Nov. 2019",
"Upon application to the cheeks, it was highly pigmented and a bit unnatural, but after a few moments, the color seemingly seeped into my skin, blending perfectly under a layer of powdered foundation. \u2014 Teen Vogue , 17 May 2019",
"Judging by the very first pictures of the collection, the lipsticks, which have been in the pipeline for two years, look brilliantly pigmented . \u2014 Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com , 21 Jan. 2020"
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"a sharp point or spike",
"the tip of a spear",
"a mountain or hill having a peaked summit",
"a large elongate long-snouted freshwater bony fish ( Esox lucius ) valued for food and sport and widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere",
"any of various fishes (family Esocidae) related to the pike such as",
"muskellunge",
"pickerel",
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"to pierce, kill, or wound with a pike",
"to leave abruptly",
"to make one's way",
"turnpike",
"a railroad or railroad line or system",
"in the course of events",
"in the future",
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (2)",
"13th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun (3)",
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"Noun (4)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above",
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"1812, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (6)",
"1928, in the meaning defined above"
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"noun"
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": a jammed tangled mass or pile (as of motor vehicles or people) resulting from collision or accumulation",
": accumulation"
],
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"\u02c8p\u012b(-\u0259)l-\u02cc\u0259p"
],
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"accretion",
"accumulation",
"assemblage",
"collection",
"cumulation",
"cumulus",
"gathering",
"lodgment",
"lodgement"
],
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"examples":[
"A five-car pileup slowed traffic.",
"a pileup of e-mail messages that needed to be dealt with",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The death toll in the massive Monday pileup on a snowy Pennsylvania highway has risen to six people, the Pennsylvania State Police said Wednesday. \u2014 Victoria Albert, CBS News , 30 Mar. 2022",
"That particular primary was a eight-person pileup in which all the candidates struggled to get out a message, producing a highly fractured vote. \u2014 Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"Monday's multi-car collision is the second pileup in Schuylkill County in just over a month, according to the outlet. \u2014 Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The derailment came two days after an ascending escalator malfunctioned at the Back Bay Station and suddenly plummeted in reverse, causing a bloody pileup of people at the bottom. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
"The pileup of drugs was typical; people hearing voices or having other hallucinations rarely wind up on just one medication. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
"Photos and video of the slide showed a pileup of trees, dirt and debris that broke away from the steep slope above the road and crossed into the water below. \u2014 Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News , 8 May 2022",
"In 2011, two-time Indianapolis 500 champ Dan Wheldon was involved in a horrific 15-car pileup , which ultimately claimed his life. \u2014 Jim Clash, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The road was already covered with snow prior to the squall and the pileup , making driving conditions even worse. \u2014 Cady Stanton, USA TODAY , 30 Mar. 2022"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": a journey of a pilgrim",
": one to a shrine or a sacred place",
": the course of life on earth",
": to go on a pilgrimage",
": a journey made by a pilgrim"
],
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"\u02c8pil-gr\u0259-mij"
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"trek",
"trip",
"voyage"
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"He made a pilgrimage to Mecca.",
"The family went on a pilgrimage to historical battlefields.",
"The tradition of pilgrimage is important in Islam.",
"The poet's grave site has become a place of pilgrimage .",
"Verb",
"tourists pilgrimaging to all of the traditional destinations across Europe",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"During these days, the Hajj pilgrimage takes place in the sanctuary of Mecca and its nearby holy land. \u2014 Manal Aman, Woman's Day , 9 June 2022",
"The landscape around the village is dotted with abbeys, monasteries and pilgrimage sites famous for apparitions of the Virgin Mary. \u2014 Silvia Marchetti, CNN , 8 June 2022",
"Among the familiar faces were plenty of fest first-timers, including out-of-towners making a Detroit pilgrimage to bask in the birthplace of techno music. \u2014 Brian Mccollum, Detroit Free Press , 28 May 2022",
"The site had become a kind of pilgrimage spot, too, for many others from far beyond. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
"Not worth the pilgrimage , best left for people who live much, much closer. \u2014 Tom Sietsema, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
"Niantic\u2019s technology allows users to add their own JR-style portraits or voice messages to specific public locations, adding to those of everyone else who have made the same pilgrimage . \u2014 Andrew R. Chow, Time , 24 May 2022",
"For luxury travelers, a pilgrimage to the Mediterranean is a summer right. \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Robb Report , 24 May 2022",
"Fresh off his baptism into the Catholic Church, he and his soon-to-be forever family were invited to join the pilgrimage of members of the charitable organization that responds to the pope\u2019s desires for meeting urgent needs in the world. \u2014 Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review , 2 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The two men frequently appear in public together: at Easter services, visiting monasteries and traveling to pilgrimage sites. \u2014 Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Typically, Biden, other top Democrats and civil rights leaders would pilgrimage to Selma for the anniversary, but there is no in-person gathering amid the COVID-19 pandemic. \u2014 Joey Garrison, USA TODAY , 7 Mar. 2021",
"The offerings were possibly linked to a cult of Inca ancestors, and to pilgrimage ceremonies that took place on the Island of the Sun. \u2014 National Geographic , 4 Aug. 2020",
"An international ad campaign persuaded young people to pilgrimage across countries and continents to attend. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 6 Aug. 2019"
],
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],
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"type":"verb (1)",
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"to come off in flakes or scales peel",
"to subject to depredation or extortion",
"to peel or strip off",
"a usually medicinal or dietary preparation in a small rounded mass to be swallowed whole",
"birth control pill",
"something repugnant or unpleasant that must be accepted or endured",
"something resembling a pill in size or shape",
"a disagreeable or tiresome person",
"to dose with pills",
"blackball",
"to become rough with or mat into little balls",
"medicine or a food supplement in the form of a small rounded mass to be swallowed whole",
"a usually medicinal or dietary preparation in a small rounded mass to be swallowed whole",
"birth control pill"
],
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"cap",
"capsule",
"lozenge",
"tablet"
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"Noun",
"She took a pill for her headache.",
"The drug is available as a pill or a liquid."
],
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"Verb (1)",
"12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense",
"Noun",
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"Verb (2)",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": the act of looting or plundering especially in war",
": something taken as booty",
": to plunder ruthlessly : loot",
": to take booty",
": the act of robbing by force especially during a war",
": to rob by force especially during a war",
": to loot or plunder especially in war",
": to take booty"
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"\u02c8pi-lij",
"\u02c8pi-lij"
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"booty",
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"plunder",
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"swag"
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"ransack",
"sack"
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"Noun",
"the pirate ship was laden with the pillage of merchant ships from across the Spanish Main",
"Verb",
"The enemy pillaged the town.",
"The town was pillaged and burned.",
"barbarians known for looting and pillaging",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In retaliation, British forces began a brutal occupation of the city that led to many casualties and widespread destruction and pillage . \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Reckless human enterprise is killing Earth\u2019s wild songmakers at alarming rates, using poisons, bulldozers, forest-clearing fires and industrial-scale pillage of prey species. \u2014 Amy Brady, Scientific American , 23 Feb. 2022",
"What about the actual diabolical activity\u2014the violence, the rape, the pillage , the sheer wastage of lives? \u2014 James Wood, The New Yorker , 24 Jan. 2022",
"But writing a history of empire, pillage , bloodthirstiness and dogma cannot be done in a vacuum, ignoring the dark side of their appeal. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Dec. 2021",
"The idea of a paradise lost \u2014 or, more accurately, stolen and desecrated, the M.O. of centuries of colonial pillage \u2014 looms large here, and its fallout is all around. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 Nov. 2021",
"Murder, rape, pillage , and enslavement were common. \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine , 26 Oct. 2021",
"The Republican Party, including members who had denounced Trump during the 2016 primaries, followed him zombie-like on his pillage -and-burn mission. \u2014 Mark Lilla, The New York Review of Books , 5 Nov. 2020",
"The Genghis Khans who come to rape and pillage are never good for the Bristol Bay fishery. \u2014 John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News , 31 July 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"These days, mead maniacs are less apt to pillage villages than lead campaigns on behalf of their essential, yet unpaid, workers: the bees who visit flowers and other plants to collect the nectar that becomes honey. \u2014 Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Gaming for adults, players will create their characters together at the first session before joining the crew of Pirates of Palm Beach to plunder and pillage the lands of fantasy. \u2014 Cindy Kent, sun-sentinel.com , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Before the skeptics and cancel-culture warriors object a wittle too loudly, though, keep in mind that EPPE early adopters will be able to build a new society and pillage the belongings of the dead. \u2014 Zach Zimmerman, The New Yorker , 1 Mar. 2022",
"This should never be an excuse to rape and pillage our environment. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Nov. 2021",
"Or showed up as a band of pirates, here to pillage and plunder. \u2014 John Canzano, oregonlive , 31 Oct. 2021",
"Yes, the Beatles wanted to hold your hand, but the Stones wanted to pillage your village, make off with its women, and salt the earth on the way out of town. \u2014 Chris Nashawaty, EW.com , 24 Aug. 2021",
"The only disaster scenario for the Pac-12 is that the Big Ten decides to pillage in response to the SEC, and the Pac-12 has the most attractive properties. \u2014 J. Brady Mccollough, Los Angeles Times , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Wild hogs pillage cornfields, forests, and cemeteries, leaving behind messes that look like the work of angry asteroids. \u2014 Stephen Ornes, The Atlantic , 15 May 2021"
],
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"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"circa 1593, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-200203"
},
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"type":"noun",
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"one employed to steer a ship helmsman",
"a person who is qualified and usually licensed to conduct a ship into and out of a port or in specified waters",
"a person who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft",
"guide , leader",
"cowcatcher",
"a piece that guides a tool or machine part",
"a television show produced and filmed or taped as a sample of a proposed series",
"pilot light sense 1",
"to act as a guide to lead or conduct over a usually difficult course",
"to set and conn the course of",
"to act as pilot of",
"serving as a guiding or tracing device, an activating or auxiliary unit, or a trial apparatus or operation",
"a person who flies an aircraft",
"a person who steers a ship",
"a person especially qualified to guide ships into and out of a port or in dangerous waters",
"to fly (an airplane)",
"to steer or guide (a boat)"
],
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"airman",
"aviator",
"birdman",
"flier",
"flyer"
],
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"counsel",
"guide",
"lead",
"mentor",
"shepherd",
"show",
"tutor"
],
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"Noun",
"the airline is seeking experienced pilots to fly the new airplane",
"Verb",
"He is learning how to pilot a helicopter.",
"He skillfully piloted the ship into port during the storm.",
"Adjective",
"The group conducted a pilot program.",
"a new pilot program to train inner-city residents for jobs in the tech sector",
"Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
"On June 3, a Navy pilot , Lt. Richard Bullock, was killed when when his F/A-18E Super Hornet jet crashed in the desert, in the general area of Trona in San Bernardino County, during a training mission. \u2014 Teresa Watanabestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 11 June 2022",
"The Navitimer was a pilot \u2019s watch, not designed for diving, and it was irreparably damaged. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 25 May 2022",
"Announcing the death on Facebook, Comox mayor Russ Arnott, citing the pilot \u2019s family, gave no cause, although Mr. Edwards had had heart problems in recent years. \u2014 Phil Davison, Washington Post , 21 May 2022",
"Miramir sat back, her slight form dwarfed by the pilot \u2019s seat. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
"Johnson will soon join a pilot and emergency manager in flights over the Yukon River as part of the River Watch Program team. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 7 May 2022",
"Among several other provisions outlined across the massive bill\u2019s 73 sections, House Bill 5001 would create a pilot intensive outpatient program for adolescents in Waterbury, which lawmakers identified as an area with high need. \u2014 Seamus Mcavoy, Hartford Courant , 6 May 2022",
"Lewis plays pilot -in-training Bob in Top Gun Maverick, the upcoming sequel to the 1986 hit. \u2014 Julia Moore, PEOPLE.com , 6 May 2022",
"Shahidi said investigators also will want to know the communications between the pilot and air traffic control in the minutes leading up to the crash. \u2014 NBC News , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web Verb",
"If the flying scenes here blow your mind, it\u2019s because a great many of them are the real deal, putting audiences right there in the cockpit alongside a cast who learned to pilot for their parts. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 12 May 2022",
"Everyone loves bikes, from youngsters with baseball cards clipped on, fluttering in their spokes \u2014 you old-timers remember doing that \u2014 to adult enthusiasts who pilot their $15,000-plus rides as often as possible. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 May 2022",
"In addition to carrying hides and goods around the bay on his boat, Richardson helped pilot ships entering the Golden Gate. \u2014 Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 May 2022",
"Whiteman caters to pilot hobbyists, commuters and flight students. \u2014 Rachel Urangastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 16 May 2022",
"Roys hopes to pilot the PNNL battery in a remote part of his state. \u2014 Anna Blaustein, Scientific American , 6 May 2022",
"By using shared resources to pilot new, innovative programs within an organization at a small scale, companies can gain critical insights before committing to any core business model shifts. \u2014 Adam Bryant, Forbes , 27 Apr. 2022",
"To pilot the project, Sen and Co-Director Chrissy Widmayer will help train staff in humanities and digital media skills in four communities around the state Appleton, Racine, Spooner, and the Forest County Potawatomi nation. \u2014 Douglas Haynes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 19 Apr. 2022",
"With his new license, Travolta will be able to pilot a Boeing 737. \u2014 Shafiq Najib, PEOPLE.com , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web Adjective",
"Each county will have a pilot program to serve the swim lesson needs of those individual communities. \u2014 Liliana Webb, Detroit Free Press , 13 June 2022",
"Out&Back, a one-stop shop to buy or sell new and used outdoor and adventure gear, recently announced a pilot program to buy back hard goods in-store at select Dick's Sporting Goods and Public Lands in Pittsburgh and Denver. \u2014 Brin Snelling, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"The campus tried to roll out a pilot program to provide free menstrual products, but the products ran out within a couple of weeks. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 May 2022",
"In his native Ghana, Dr. Ohene-Frempong established a pilot program to provide screening for sickle cell disease among newborns in the southern city of Kumasi. \u2014 Gina Kolata, New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"The Federal Finance Housing Agency has also committed to work with lenders to begin a pilot program to offer financing for the construction and renovation of accessory dwelling limits, which are typically cheaper than traditional homes. \u2014 Joey Garrison, USA TODAY , 16 May 2022",
"In 2020, the Bureau of Prisons started a pilot program to convert mail to electronic scans at some facilities, to combat drug smuggling through official correspondence, according to the two lawmakers. \u2014 Byluke Barr, ABC News , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Today Mars is announcing a pilot program to double the income of 14,000 farmers in its cocoa supply chain by 2030. \u2014 Shayna Harris, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Build Institute also has a pilot program at 1620 Michigan Ave. \u2014 Chanel Stitt, Detroit Free Press , 28 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
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"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb",
"1649, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Adjective",
"1915, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
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"type":[
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": a criminal who is associated with, usually exerts control over, and lives off the earnings of one or more prostitutes",
": to make use of often dishonorably for one's own gain or benefit",
": to customize and adorn (something, such as a car or apartment) in an ostentatious or lavish way",
": to work as a pimp",
": one who derives income from the earnings of a prostitute usually by soliciting business \u2014 compare panderer",
": to work as a pimp \u2014 compare pandering"
],
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"\u02c8pimp",
"\u02c8pimp"
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"cadet",
"fancy man",
"pander",
"procurer"
],
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"abuse",
"capitalize (on)",
"cash in (on)",
"exploit",
"impose (on ",
"leverage",
"milk",
"play (on ",
"use",
"work"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"the sting operation nabbed 15 prostitutes and two pimps",
"Verb",
"a movie actress who pimped everybody she ever met as she clawed her way to the top",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Sopranos star Joe Pantoliano showing up as a rather menacing pimp who's on Cruise's character's tail. \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Prosecutors alleged King was the victim\u2019s pimp , though a motive for the attack was not disclosed. \u2014 City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Zola is based on a viral Twitter thread about an exotic dancer\u2019s long weekend with a new friend and her homicidal pimp . \u2014 Katherine Schaffstall, The Hollywood Reporter , 6 Mar. 2022",
"When a guy hooks up with many girls, he's called a pimp in a good way. \u2014 Audra Heinrichs, ELLE , 19 Feb. 2022",
"The infamous 1953 mansion of the late Indiana pimp -turned-magnate, Jerry Hostetler, is once again on the market and this time, the long-suffering, long-unwanted monstrosity might finally be sold. \u2014 Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Burrell told me that the film\u2019s title came from portrayals of hustler and pimp culture in Blaxploitation movies. \u2014 Adrian L. Burrell, The New Yorker , 2 Feb. 2022",
"The woman became her pimp , and sold her during the 2010 Winter Olympics. \u2014 Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline brought workers, along with a pimp and two young women. \u2014 David James, Anchorage Daily News , 15 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The two women join forces against the king\u2019s desire to pimp his daughter out to a rich aristocrat, and the royal physician\u2019s plan to separate the mermaid from whatever internal organs contain her magical power. \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Prosecutors charged him under the Mann Act, a 100-year-old federal law intended today to prosecute the human traffickers who cross state lines to pimp out women. \u2014 Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com , 27 Sep. 2021",
"The golden rules of baseball -- don't have fun, don't pimp home runs, don't play with character. \u2014 Scottie Andrew And Jillian Martin, CNN , 30 June 2020",
"On the show, Henry Willson (Jim Parsons) brings Rock Hudson (Jake Picking) to one of Cukor's famous Sunday parties, in essence seeking to pimp him out to Hollywood producers to get his new client an audition. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 5 May 2020",
"Since when did the Kentucky House of Representatives start pimping for Hallmark? \u2014 Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal , 14 Feb. 2020",
"On December 16, detectives in South Florida arrested G4S guard Sebastien Noel and charged him with pimping an underaged girl out of the hotel he was supposed to be guarding. \u2014 USA TODAY , 20 Feb. 2020",
"In January 2017, Gartley was arrested in California and subsequently convicted in San Diego Superior Court of human trafficking of minors and pimping for prostitution. \u2014 oregonlive , 21 Jan. 2020",
"Defense attorneys also suggested during Stoddard\u2019s cross-examination that Hernandez was involved in adult entertainment, not pimping , a possibility the officer conceded had not been investigated. \u2014 Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News , 17 Aug. 2019"
],
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"circa 1640, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-220923"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
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": petty , insignificant",
": puny , sickly"
],
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"\u02c8pim-p\u0259n",
"-pi\u014b"
],
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"chicken",
"de minimis",
"footling",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"measly",
"Mickey Mouse",
"minute",
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"niggling",
"no-account",
"nominal",
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"peanut",
"petty",
"picayune",
"piddling",
"piddly",
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"slight",
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],
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"material",
"significant"
],
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"got paid only a pimping amount of money as a reporter for a small newspaper"
],
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"1640, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-210632"
},
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"transitive verb",
"verb"
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": to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument",
": to prune the tip of (a plant or shoot) usually to induce branching",
": to squeeze or compress painfully",
": to cause physical or mental pain to",
": to cause to appear thin, haggard, or shrunken",
": to cause to shrivel or wither",
": to subject to strict economy or want : straiten",
": to restrain or limit narrowly : constrict",
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": arrest",
": to sail too close to the wind",
": compress , squeeze",
": to be miserly or closefisted",
": to press painfully",
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": pressure , stress",
": hardship , privation",
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": as much as may be taken between the finger and thumb",
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": a marked thinning of a vein or bed",
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": a police raid",
": arrest",
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": hit by a pinch hitter",
": to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument",
": to squeeze painfully",
": to break off by squeezing with the thumb and fingers",
": to cause to look thin or shrunken",
": to be thrifty or stingy",
": a time of emergency",
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": as much as may be picked up between the finger and the thumb : a very small amount",
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],
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"\u02c8pinch",
"\u02c8pinch"
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"heist",
"rip-off",
"snatching",
"swiping",
"theft"
],
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"As a child of the Depression, I was brought up to pinch pennies. \u2014 Fran\u00e7oise Mouly, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Small-ball elements of the game, such as bunts and pinch hitters, are declining and on a path to extinction. \u2014 Neil Greenberg, Anchorage Daily News , 4 June 2022",
"The Beavers struck first, as Kristalyn Romulo, pinch running for Frankie Hammoude, scored on Madison Simon\u2019s sacrifice fly. \u2014 oregonlive , 3 June 2022",
"Buds puffing out from my ribs, present enough to pinch but not to hold. \u2014 Madeleine Watts, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"Kliethermes threw away the first pitch, which scored Kildow, who pinch ran for Ellsworth. \u2014 Matt Jones, Arkansas Online , 22 May 2022",
"Gerry Toranzo, a nurse and a Republican in Chicago, blames Biden for being forced to pinch pennies by taking steps like driving slower to conserve gas after prices have skyrocketed during his administration. \u2014 Nicholas Riccardi, ajc , 20 May 2022",
"Gerry Toranzo, a nurse and a Republican in Chicago, blames Biden for being forced to pinch pennies by taking steps like driving slower to conserve gas after prices have skyrocketed during his administration. \u2014 Nicholas Riccardi, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
"Wheat is one of the most popular food staples in the country, and rising prices pinch consumers across the board. \u2014 Niha Masih, Washington Post , 14 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"After a lead-off walk, Jake Hanley missed the tag on Spencer Stoll's sacrifice bunt putting pinch -runner Braylon Boggs at third. \u2014 Scott Springer, The Enquirer , 10 June 2022",
"Josh Naylor kept the inning going with a walk and was replaced by pinch -runner Oscar Mercardo. \u2014 Paul Hoynes, cleveland , 10 June 2022",
"The ball was caught, but pinch runner Emma Quint tagged up and sped around to score from second. \u2014 Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant , 7 June 2022",
"Danny Wuestenfeld delivered a single through the hole between short and third base to bring home pinch -runner Zach Lechnir from third, as the Chips recovered from Friday\u2019s 7-3 loss to 13-seed Florida. \u2014 Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press , 5 June 2022",
"Izzy Pachos drew a leadoff walk, and was replaced by Toven as a pinch runner. \u2014 oregonlive , 3 June 2022",
"He was replaced by a pinch -runner after taking a hard turn around first base on a single before stopping and returning gingerly to the bag. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 1 June 2022",
"The speedy freshman has played 31 games, but is being used mostly as a pinch -runner. \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 1 June 2022",
"Ryan McKenna has reserved a role as the fourth outfielder, featuring mainly as a defensive replacement or pinch runner. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 28 May 2022"
],
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"Verb",
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-220900"
},
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"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
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": to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument",
": to prune the tip of (a plant or shoot) usually to induce branching",
": to squeeze or compress painfully",
": to cause physical or mental pain to",
": to cause to appear thin, haggard, or shrunken",
": to cause to shrivel or wither",
": to subject to strict economy or want : straiten",
": to restrain or limit narrowly : constrict",
": steal",
": arrest",
": to sail too close to the wind",
": compress , squeeze",
": to be miserly or closefisted",
": to press painfully",
": narrow , taper",
": to practice strict economy",
": a critical juncture : emergency",
": pressure , stress",
": hardship , privation",
": deficit",
": an act of pinching : squeeze",
": as much as may be taken between the finger and thumb",
": a very small amount",
": a marked thinning of a vein or bed",
": theft",
": a police raid",
": arrest",
": substitute",
": hit by a pinch hitter",
": to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument",
": to squeeze painfully",
": to break off by squeezing with the thumb and fingers",
": to cause to look thin or shrunken",
": to be thrifty or stingy",
": a time of emergency",
": an act of squeezing skin between the thumb and fingers",
": as much as may be picked up between the finger and the thumb : a very small amount",
": to squeeze or compress (a part of the body) usually in a painful or discomforting way"
],
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"\u02c8pinch",
"\u02c8pinch",
"\u02c8pinch"
],
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"nip"
],
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"grab",
"heist",
"rip-off",
"snatching",
"swiping",
"theft"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"As a child of the Depression, I was brought up to pinch pennies. \u2014 Fran\u00e7oise Mouly, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Small-ball elements of the game, such as bunts and pinch hitters, are declining and on a path to extinction. \u2014 Neil Greenberg, Anchorage Daily News , 4 June 2022",
"The Beavers struck first, as Kristalyn Romulo, pinch running for Frankie Hammoude, scored on Madison Simon\u2019s sacrifice fly. \u2014 oregonlive , 3 June 2022",
"Buds puffing out from my ribs, present enough to pinch but not to hold. \u2014 Madeleine Watts, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"Kliethermes threw away the first pitch, which scored Kildow, who pinch ran for Ellsworth. \u2014 Matt Jones, Arkansas Online , 22 May 2022",
"Gerry Toranzo, a nurse and a Republican in Chicago, blames Biden for being forced to pinch pennies by taking steps like driving slower to conserve gas after prices have skyrocketed during his administration. \u2014 Nicholas Riccardi, ajc , 20 May 2022",
"Gerry Toranzo, a nurse and a Republican in Chicago, blames Biden for being forced to pinch pennies by taking steps like driving slower to conserve gas after prices have skyrocketed during his administration. \u2014 Nicholas Riccardi, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
"Wheat is one of the most popular food staples in the country, and rising prices pinch consumers across the board. \u2014 Niha Masih, Washington Post , 14 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"After a lead-off walk, Jake Hanley missed the tag on Spencer Stoll's sacrifice bunt putting pinch -runner Braylon Boggs at third. \u2014 Scott Springer, The Enquirer , 10 June 2022",
"Josh Naylor kept the inning going with a walk and was replaced by pinch -runner Oscar Mercardo. \u2014 Paul Hoynes, cleveland , 10 June 2022",
"The ball was caught, but pinch runner Emma Quint tagged up and sped around to score from second. \u2014 Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant , 7 June 2022",
"Danny Wuestenfeld delivered a single through the hole between short and third base to bring home pinch -runner Zach Lechnir from third, as the Chips recovered from Friday\u2019s 7-3 loss to 13-seed Florida. \u2014 Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press , 5 June 2022",
"Izzy Pachos drew a leadoff walk, and was replaced by Toven as a pinch runner. \u2014 oregonlive , 3 June 2022",
"He was replaced by a pinch -runner after taking a hard turn around first base on a single before stopping and returning gingerly to the bag. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 1 June 2022",
"The speedy freshman has played 31 games, but is being used mostly as a pinch -runner. \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 1 June 2022",
"Ryan McKenna has reserved a role as the fourth outfielder, featuring mainly as a defensive replacement or pinch runner. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 28 May 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a",
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"Adjective",
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-190515"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": stingy , niggardly"
],
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"\u02c8pinch-\u02ccpe-n\u0113"
],
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"cheap",
"chintzy",
"close",
"closefisted",
"mean",
"mingy",
"miserly",
"niggard",
"niggardly",
"parsimonious",
"penny-pinching",
"penurious",
"pinching",
"spare",
"sparing",
"stingy",
"stinting",
"tight",
"tightfisted",
"uncharitable",
"ungenerous"
],
"antonyms":[
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"liberal",
"munificent",
"openhanded",
"unsparing",
"unstinting"
],
"examples":[
"her pinchpenny parents aren't likely to loan her the money she needs for the down payment"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1582, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-191123"
},
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"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to feel very sad because one wants (something) or because one is not with (someone)"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-191829"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the head of a pin",
": something very small or insignificant",
": a very dull or stupid person : fool"
],
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"\u02c8pin-\u02cched"
],
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"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
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"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cretin",
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"cuddie",
"deadhead",
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"dodo",
"dolt",
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"doofus",
"dope",
"dork",
"dullard",
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"dumbhead",
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"dummy",
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"dunderhead",
"fathead",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
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"jackass",
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"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"loon",
"lump",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"moron",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
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"numbskull",
"oaf",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
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"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
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"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
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"brain",
"genius"
],
"examples":[
"The insect is the size of a pinhead .",
"Her boss is a real pinhead .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Among their squashes: Grumpkin, who looks grumpy, and Drunkin, whose long pinhead looks tipsy. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"Perfect punctuality is a pinhead , a notional point on the continuum, kind of a Zeno\u2019s paradox. \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 11 Feb. 2022",
"These small cherry-red bumps can range from the size of a pinhead to a pencil eraser. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Dec. 2021",
"The tissue, about the size of a pinhead , had been preserved, stained with heavy metals, cut into 5,000 slices and imaged under an electron microscope. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Plasma pens leave pinhead -size markings on the skin. \u2014 Dianna Mazzone, Allure , 17 Nov. 2021",
"These six-legged insects are smaller than a pinhead . \u2014 oregonlive , 16 Oct. 2021",
"In the aftermath of oil spills, several features make kelp and kelp spores the size of a pinhead perfect for scientific study. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 Oct. 2021",
"The only blood that is on an article of clothing \u2026 was a 1/16 inch-size pinhead spot of blood on an underdress underneath an outer dress. \u2014 Erin Moriarty, CBS News , 31 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1593, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-200500"
},
"pinhole":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a small hole made by, for, or as if by a pin"
],
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"\u02c8pin-\u02cch\u014dl"
],
"synonyms":[
"perforation",
"pinprick",
"prick",
"punch",
"puncture",
"stab"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The water was leaking through a pinhole in the pipe.",
"pinholes in a bedsheet will look like stars if you shine a light from behind it",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The lone camera on the back looked like a bargain-basement pinhole camera, and the back might even be plastic. \u2014 Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica , 23 May 2022",
"When the eclipse begins, put your eye up to the second hole, while holding the box so that the sun is shining into the pinhole in the aluminum foil. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2021",
"Next, cover that hole with a piece of aluminum foil, and then poke a small pinhole in the middle of it. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2021",
"There's so many pinhole cameras out there nowadays. \u2014 Michael Ruiz, Fox News , 19 Feb. 2021",
"Rudimentary devices often made out of household objects like shoeboxes and aluminum foil, pinhole cameras consist of film and a light-proof box with a very small hole. \u2014 Isis Davis-marks, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 Dec. 2020",
"But city and state health officials have gleaned a pinhole of light in the enveloping gloom: Daily admissions to intensive care units are down. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Dec. 2020",
"The pinhole in the front, what Samsung calls the Infinity-O hole, contains a 32-megapixel front facing camera. \u2014 Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored , 23 Sep. 2020",
"In a corkscrew of purple smoke there is a flickering light, no bigger than a pinhole . \u2014 Dave Eggers, The New Yorker , 11 Oct. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1612, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-174705"
},
"pinion":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun (1)",
"noun (2)",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges",
": wing",
": feather , quill",
": flight feathers",
": to disable or restrain by binding the arms",
": to bind fast : shackle",
": to restrain (a bird) from flight especially by cutting off the pinion of one wing",
": a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack",
": the smaller of a pair or the smallest of a train of gear wheels",
": to restrain by tying the arms to the body",
": to tie up or hold tightly",
": to prevent a bird from flying especially by cutting off the end of one wing"
],
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"\u02c8pin-y\u0259n",
"\u02c8pin-y\u0259n"
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"bind",
"chain",
"enchain",
"enfetter",
"fetter",
"gyve",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel"
],
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"unbind",
"unfetter",
"unshackle"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"They pinioned his arms behind his back.",
"Joan of Arc was pinioned to a stake and burned as a heretic."
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
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"Noun (1)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1558, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun (2)",
"1659, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-170146"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a ship with a narrow overhanging stern",
": any of a genus ( Dianthus of the family Caryophyllaceae, the pink family) of chiefly Eurasian herbs having usually pink, red, or white flowers",
": the very embodiment : paragon",
": one dressed in the height of fashion",
": elite",
": highest degree possible : height",
": in the best of health or condition",
": any of a group of colors bluish red to red in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation",
": the scarlet color of a fox hunter's coat",
": a fox hunter's coat of this color",
": pink-colored clothing",
": light-colored trousers formerly worn by army officers",
": pinko",
": of the color pink",
": holding moderately radical and usually socialistic political or economic views",
": emotionally moved : excited",
": to perforate in an ornamental pattern",
": to cut a saw-toothed edge on",
": pierce , stab",
": to wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule",
": a plant with narrow leaves that is grown for its showy pink, red, or white flowers",
": a pale red color",
": colored a pale red"
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"\u02c8pi\u014bk",
"\u02c8pi\u014bk"
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"gore",
"harpoon",
"impale",
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"lance",
"peck",
"pick",
"pierce",
"puncture",
"run through",
"skewer",
"spear",
"spike",
"spit",
"stab",
"stick",
"transfix",
"transpierce"
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"examples":[
"Adjective",
"Her dress is pale pink .",
"Verb",
"accidentally pinked my shoulder with his fencing sword"
],
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"Noun (1)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun (2)",
"1566, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (3)",
"circa 1669, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Adjective",
"1607, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1503, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
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"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a notice from an employer that a recipient's employment is being terminated"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hired as an assistant coach in Providence by then-GM Peter Chiarelli in 2008, Cassidy was employed by the Bruins for nearly 14 years prior to Monday\u2019s pink slip . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 8 June 2022",
"But a pink slip from WEA ultimately led Price to rosier days with Barden Cablevision, which also reconnected him with sports, including his beloved Tigers. \u2014 Scott Talley, Freep.com , 8 Apr. 2022",
"State law requires districts to send a preliminary pink slip by Mar. 15 to any teachers and other staff who could be laid off and then follow up with an actual layoff notice by May 15. \u2014 Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle , 5 Feb. 2022",
"Bella Hadid wears a sheer pink slip dress and teal gloves. \u2014 Jenny Hartman, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The mayor delivered the pink slip to Brian Hunzeker despite a recommendation by Chief Chuck Lovell that the longtime Portland police officer instead receive a 12-week suspension, records show. \u2014 oregonlive , 1 Mar. 2022",
"On that day, both the head coach and GM of the Minnesota Vikings (Mike Zimmer, Rick Spielman) and Chicago Bears (Matt Nagy, Ryan Pace), along with Miami Dolphins\u2019 coach Brian Flores, got the pink slip . \u2014 Gene Frenette, USA TODAY , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Get them to sign that pink slip on their death bed! \u2014 John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver , 17 Dec. 2021",
"His pink slip showing, Jayce Tingler will be replaced by which anonymous Ranger? \u2014 Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1904, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-230510"
},
"pinnacle":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress",
": a structure or formation suggesting a pinnacle",
": a lofty peak",
": the highest point of development or achievement : acme",
": to surmount with a pinnacle",
": to raise or rear on a pinnacle",
": the peak of a mountain",
": the highest point of development or achievement",
": a slender tower generally coming to a narrow point at the top"
],
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"\u02c8pi-ni-k\u0259l",
"\u02c8pi-n\u0259-k\u0259l"
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"acme",
"apex",
"apogee",
"capstone",
"climax",
"crescendo",
"crest",
"crown",
"culmination",
"head",
"height",
"high noon",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"ne plus ultra",
"noon",
"noontime",
"peak",
"sum",
"summit",
"tip-top",
"top",
"zenith"
],
"antonyms":[
"bottom",
"nadir",
"rock bottom"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"a singer who has reached the pinnacle of success",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Alcarez fell short of that pinnacle this year, but whipped the Roland-Garros crowd into a frenzy, pushing Zverev to a fourth-set tiebreaker. \u2014 Sean Gregory, Time , 1 June 2022",
"Tesla delivered 936,000 vehicles in 2021, an 87% increase that puts the company at the pinnacle of the global EV industry, with a 14% market share. \u2014 Scott Decarlo, Fortune , 28 May 2022",
"The Foos were playing mostly clubs and theaters at this point, and Morissette was at the pinnacle of her success. \u2014 Andy Greene, Rolling Stone , 16 May 2022",
"It\u2019s also something that stands as a bit of a pinnacle for our band. \u2014 Jonathan Cohen, SPIN , 12 May 2022",
"This ability to indicate a preference for subversive rebellion will continue to come with serious pricing, of course, as the Phantom sits at the pinnacle of the Rolls-Royce range. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 12 May 2022",
"Facebook was once at the pinnacle of social media, taking over from MySpace as the cool place to be. \u2014 Maren Estrada, BGR , 4 May 2022",
"Only 11 songs have debuted on Hot Country Songs at the pinnacle since its inception. \u2014 Jim Asker, Billboard , 25 Apr. 2022",
"But The New Yorker represented the kind of career pinnacle that any good son would want to share with his father \u2014 especially a Jewish father who never regarded art as a viable career. \u2014 Andrew Silow-carroll, sun-sentinel.com , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"One father, two sons, all coaching their teams to pinnacle moments of their seasons. \u2014 Matt Goul, cleveland , 19 Mar. 2021",
"At the start of 2015, Hollar's weight pinnacled at 678. \u2014 Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star , 4 Feb. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-225730"
},
"pinpoint":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": something that is extremely small or insignificant",
": the point of a pin",
": an extremely small or sharp point",
": extremely fine or precise",
": located, fixed, or directed with extreme precision",
": small as a pinpoint",
": to locate or aim with great precision or accuracy",
": to fix, determine, or identify with precision",
": to cause to stand out conspicuously : highlight",
": to locate or find out exactly"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pin-\u02ccp\u022fint",
"\u02c8pin-\u02ccp\u022fint"
],
"synonyms":[
"accurate",
"close",
"delicate",
"exact",
"fine",
"hairline",
"mathematical",
"precise",
"refined",
"rigorous",
"spot-on"
],
"antonyms":[
"distinguish",
"finger",
"ID",
"identify",
"single (out)"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But in the third quarter, Smith set up a touchdown with pinpoint passes to Travis Koontz for 39 yards and Jerand Bradley for 52 yards. \u2014 Don Williams, USA TODAY , 30 Dec. 2021",
"Particularly with larger musical forces, the church\u2019s booming acoustics can make the articulation of real sonic detail and the maintenance of pinpoint ensemble precision particularly challenging, as appeared to be the case here. \u2014 Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"To avoid surprises, businesses need a comprehensive analysis of all of their data to envision the full picture and pinpoint challenges and optimization opportunities. \u2014 Quora, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"And yet the 27-year-old Cortes continues to dominate with a mix of deception and pinpoint command that has left opposing batters flummoxed. \u2014 Jared Diamond, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"These innovative ZitSticka patches, infused with a laundry list of brightening ingredients like niacinamide, vitamin C, arbutin, licorice root extract and kojic acid, pinpoint and tackle dark marks from acne. \u2014 Nicole Saporita, Good Housekeeping , 10 May 2022",
"Swift passing and pinpoint shooting helped the Generals jump out to an 11-1 lead in the first half with two goals each from Mary Clare Heubeck, Brigid Vaikness and Finlay Harmon and two assists each from Vaikness and Avery Briggs. \u2014 Craig Clary, Baltimore Sun , 10 May 2022",
"Especially for the man in the building who spent most of his career on the receiving end of Manning\u2019s pinpoint throws. \u2014 Joel A. Erickson, USA TODAY , 5 May 2022",
"The assists keep flowing from his pinpoint crosses and passes. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 4 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Saturday\u2019s maneuver required pinpoint hand-eye coordination, body control and a flourish of power. \u2014 Phil Thompson, SFChronicle.com , 16 Feb. 2020",
"Those partnerships would be able to collect more detailed data that could more finely pinpoint actual demand by neighborhoods. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 5 Nov. 2019",
"Ice pick acne scars are small, narrow, pinpoint acne scars that penetrate deep into the skin, according to Gross. \u2014 Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR , 21 Jan. 2019",
"In some cities, like Houston and Dallas, utilities have already undertaken to upgrade their systems with new, digital equipment, allowing repair crews to more precisely pinpoint damage during storms. \u2014 James Osborne, Houston Chronicle , 8 Feb. 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Though difficult to pinpoint what's led to the increase in milk sharing since those seeking breast milk don't always share the reason, Luttrell said the increase has coincided with the formula shortage. \u2014 Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic , 13 May 2022",
"The appeal of watching a high school theater director slowly reveal which show her students will stage is difficult to pinpoint . \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 24 Apr. 2022",
"That could translate to around 50,000 to 60,000 troops, based on what the Pentagon said at the start of the war was the typical unit strength of 700 to 800 soldiers, but the numbers are difficult to pinpoint at this stage in the fighting. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 19 Apr. 2022",
"That could translate to around 50,000 to 60,000 troops, based on what the Pentagon said at the start of the war was the typical unit strength of 700 to 800 soldiers, but the numbers are difficult to pinpoint at this stage in the fighting. \u2014 Yuras Karmanau, The Christian Science Monitor , 18 Apr. 2022",
"While the exact cause of the increase in crime, including the incidents on subways, is difficult to pinpoint , Cornegy said the pandemic created hopelessness and trauma that contributed to the crime wave. \u2014 NBC News , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Authenticity is difficult to pinpoint , yet easy to spot when something is actually authentic. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021",
"How much of this is due to Amazon\u2019s influence is difficult to pinpoint , due to limited data and the unique influence of the pandemic. \u2014 Sebastian Herrera, WSJ , 7 Dec. 2021",
"But the growth of the industry in Illinois can be difficult to pinpoint . \u2014 Karen Ann Cullotta, chicagotribune.com , 28 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"1670, in the meaning defined at sense 2",
"Adjective",
"1897, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1917, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195726"
},
"pinprick":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a small puncture made by or as if by a pin",
": a petty irritation or annoyance",
": to administer pinpricks to",
": to administer pinpricks"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pin-\u02ccprik"
],
"synonyms":[
"perforation",
"pinhole",
"prick",
"punch",
"puncture",
"stab"
],
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"He felt a pinprick in his leg.",
"the nurse kindly put a decorated bandage over the pinprick from the injection",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Craigie focuses on the filament, creating latticework songs with precise details that strike the listener like a pinprick . \u2014 Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News , 1 June 2022",
"Set among 700,000 acres of land on the red flanks of the Cockburn Ranges, El Questro Homestead is a pinprick of green, an improbable clifftop retreat for 20 guests perched on the edge of the Chamberlain River. \u2014 Anabel Dean, CNN , 18 May 2022",
"The dishes were a wan pink, with pinpricks in them; each pinprick was a colony of minimal cells\u2014a version called JCVI-syn3A. Cook gestured to a nearby microscope. \u2014 James Somers, The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
"The area separates Belarus from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, a pinprick of territory that remained part of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Feb. 2022",
"Her idea that a pinprick of blood could be used to run dozens of tests, helping people detect life-threatening conditions earlier, was revolutionary and fit the bill of Silicon Valley's love affair with high-risk, high-reward investments. \u2014 Celina Tebor, USA TODAY , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Torres counted each pinprick softly to himself, then did some quick calculations. \u2014 Max G. Levy, Wired , 30 Nov. 2021",
"The next day, Megan noticed a small pinprick on her arm, surrounded by a bruise and paired with an ache that bothered her for a few days. \u2014 Matilda Martin, refinery29.com , 21 Oct. 2021",
"The vaccination felt like most others \u2014 a slight pinprick in M.'s upper arm, followed by the application of a Band-Aid and advice to monitor the injection site for any unusual reactions. \u2014 NBC News , 1 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"At this height, the real thing looks fake, a composite of toy skyscrapers, tinfoil rivers, pinprick traffic lights, Central Park the size of a welcome mat, and some sort of nature in the hazy distance. \u2014 Justin Davidson, Curbed , 21 Oct. 2021",
"The teeny pinpricks force the skin to heal and build up stronger than before, while the device also deposits serum deeper into the skin. \u2014 Leah Prinzivalli, Allure , 9 Nov. 2018",
"Device testing was conducted at a refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya, where pinprick blood samples were examined for antibodies to measles and rubella. \u2014 Helen Branswell, STAT , 25 Apr. 2018",
"Distorting drops of water pinpricked my face in the basin\u2019s mirror. \u2014 Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker , 20 Mar. 2017",
"Bonobo played an aquatically chill set of slow-moving dance music, followed by Four Tet, who kept his tempo but shifted to pinprick -precise, bucolic house. \u2014 Jon Caramanica, New York Times , 16 May 2016",
"Distorting drops of water pinpricked my face in the basin\u2019s mirror. \u2014 Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker , 20 Mar. 2017"
],
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"Noun",
"1755, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1871, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-210350"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": small"
],
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"\u02c8p\u012bnt-\u02ccs\u012bz"
],
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"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1921, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-225324"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a member of a military unit usually of construction engineers",
": a person or group that originates or helps open up a new line of thought or activity or a new method or technical development",
": one of the first to settle in a territory",
": a plant or animal capable of establishing itself in a bare, barren, or open area and initiating an ecological cycle",
": to act as a pioneer",
": to open or prepare for others to follow",
": settle",
": to originate or take part in the development of",
": original , earliest",
": relating to or being a pioneer",
": of, relating to, or characteristic of early settlers or their time",
": a person who is one of the first to settle in an area",
": a person who begins or helps develop something new and prepares the way for others to follow",
": to explore or open up ways or regions for others to follow",
": to begin something new or take part in the early development of something"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccp\u012b-\u0259-\u02c8nir",
"\u02ccp\u012b-\u0259-\u02c8nir"
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"synonyms":[
"colonial",
"colonist",
"colonizer",
"frontiersman",
"homesteader",
"settler"
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"begin",
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"establish",
"found",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
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"institute",
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"launch",
"plant",
"set up",
"start"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Steven McIntyre is also an early pioneer and the McIntyre estate vineyard has some of the oldest Chardonnay and Pinot Noir vines going back to 1973. \u2014 Cathrine Todd, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"The renaming unlocked a new focus in their art that also closely coincided with their discovery of the speculative fiction of the Afrofuturism pioneer Octavia E. Butler. Dystopia. \u2014 Tananarive Due, Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022",
"In 1978, the Cahoon House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the home of the first pioneer in the area and as one of the area\u2019s earliest buildings in any architectural style. \u2014 cleveland , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Mercy housing, under Murphy\u2019s leadership, was something of a pioneer in the Mission Bay neighborhood. \u2014 J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Apr. 2022",
"North is something of a webcomic pioneer , having started Dinosaur Comics (aka Qwantz) way back in 2003. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Miguel Torres was established in Chile in 1979, and they are considered the pioneer of the modern wine industry and have a focus on Fair Trade practices and the social impact of Pa\u00eds. \u2014 Cathrine Todd, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Clinton was finally persuaded to ask Ginsburg, a former women's rights pioneer then serving as a federal appellate judge, to come to the White House. \u2014 Joan Biskupic, CNN , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Mike Magpayo, racial pioneer . Has a nice ring to it. \u2014 Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Issaoun, an observational astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard & Smithsonian and a member of the black hole-imaging Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, helped pioneer new technology to discover what happens near a black hole. \u2014 Curtis Silver, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"The dinner had other serious moments, with tributes to pioneer journalists of color, aspiring student reporters as well as a dedication to the journalists detained, injured or killed during the coverage of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Farnoush Amiri And Will Weissert, Chron , 2 May 2022",
"In 2020, the group teamed up with Mercer University to bring back Capricorn Sound Studios, where artists can use original analog equipment while channeling Duane Allman, or pioneer something new, amid the shag carpeting and groovy, psychedelic art. \u2014 Candice Dyer, ajc , 2 May 2022",
"The dinner had other serious moments, with tributes to pioneer journalists of color, aspiring student reporters as well as a dedication to the journalists detained, injured or killed during the coverage of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Will Weissert, Fortune , 1 May 2022",
"The dinner had other serious moments, with tributes to pioneer journalists of color, aspiring student reporters as well as a dedication to the journalists detained, injured or killed during the coverage of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 CBS News , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Vanguard helped pioneer the rise of passive investing through low-cost index funds. \u2014 Dawn Lim, WSJ , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Robert Dooling of the University of Maryland helped to pioneer the study of fine structure in birdsong. \u2014 Adam Fishbein, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
"And it\u2019s a gender-norm-flouting movement that Fleetwood and his peers helped pioneer in the late \u201960s and \u201970s. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"1523, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1780, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense",
"Adjective",
"1836, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-181525"
},
"piousness":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship",
": marked by conspicuous religiosity",
": sacred or devotional as distinct from the profane or secular : religious",
": showing loyal reverence for a person or thing : dutiful",
": marked by sham or hypocrisy",
": marked by self-conscious virtue : virtuous",
": deserving commendation : worthy",
": showing devotion to God"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012b-\u0259s",
"\u02c8p\u012b-\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"constant",
"dedicated",
"devoted",
"devout",
"down-the-line",
"faithful",
"fast",
"good",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue"
],
"antonyms":[
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"An earnest and pious honors graduate of New England\u2019s prestigious Dartmouth College, the 18-year-old cut a fine figure. \u2014 Peter Cozzens, WSJ , 18 Feb. 2022",
"The air of pious condemnation that suddenly fills the air is both shocking and sadly familiar. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Under the Banner of Heaven (which will stream on Hulu) asks some very hard questions of its own, starting as a gripping murder mystery set in a seemingly pious , quiet Mormon community. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Even the most pious victims\u2014ministers, priests\u2014were screaming profanities as the end neared. \u2014 Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The pious in shantytowns and those of more questionable faith in the well-to-do neighborhoods have found common cause in their rejection of theocracy. \u2014 Reuel Marc Gerecht, National Review , 31 Mar. 2022",
"In Asch's drama, a Polish Jewish father who makes a living from the brothel in his basement wants to marry his virgin daughter to a pious Jewish groom. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Davis also foreshadows that Claire\u2019s good intentions to continue to work with modern medicine may put a mark on her by Tom Christie and his uber pious and superstitious group. \u2014 Sharareh Drury, Variety , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Historian Leanda de Lisle announced the discovery on her website late last year, identifying the statuette as a likeness of the pious \u2014and infamously incompetent\u201415th-century king Henry VI. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Latin pius ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-212857"
},
"pip-squeak":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one that is small or insignificant"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pip-\u02ccskw\u0113k"
],
"synonyms":[
"cipher",
"dwarf",
"half-pint",
"insect",
"insignificancy",
"lightweight",
"morsel",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"nullity",
"number",
"pygmy",
"pigmy",
"shrimp",
"snippersnapper",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch"
],
"antonyms":[
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"bigwig",
"eminence",
"figure",
"kahuna",
"kingpin",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"personage",
"somebody",
"VIP"
],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1910, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-210832"
},
"pipe":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a tubular wind instrument",
": a small fipple flute held in and played by the left hand",
": one of the tubes of a pipe organ:",
": flue pipe",
": reed pipe",
": bagpipe",
": voice , vocal cord",
": piping sense 1",
": a long tube or hollow body for conducting a liquid, gas, or finely divided solid or for structural purposes",
": a means of transmission (as of television signals or computer data)",
": a tubular or cylindrical object, part, or passage",
": a roughly cylindrical and vertical geologic formation",
": the eruptive channel opening into the crater of a volcano",
": a large cask of varying capacity used especially for wine and oil",
": any of various units of liquid capacity based on the size of a pipe",
": a unit equal to two hogsheads",
": a device for smoking usually consisting of a tube having a bowl at one end and a mouthpiece at the other",
": snap sense 2c , cinch",
": to play on a pipe",
": to convey orders by signals on a boatswain's pipe",
": to speak in a high or shrill voice",
": to emit a shrill sound",
": to play (a tune) on a pipe",
": to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe",
": to lead or cause to go with pipe music",
": to call or direct by the boatswain's pipe",
": to receive aboard or attend the departure of by sounding a boatswain's pipe",
": to trim with piping",
": to place (batter, frosting, etc.) on a surface by pressing or squeezing through a bag or tube fitted with a special nozzle",
": to create (a decoration or pattern) by this method",
": to furnish or equip with pipes",
": to convey by or as if by pipes",
": to transmit by wire or coaxial cable",
": notice",
": a long tube or hollow body for carrying a substance (as water, steam, or gas)",
": a musical instrument or part of a musical instrument consisting of a tube (as of wood or metal) played by blowing or having air passed through it",
": bagpipe",
": a tube with a small bowl at one end for smoking tobacco or for blowing bubbles",
": to move by means of pipes",
": to play on a pipe",
": to stop talking or making noise",
": to start talking : say something"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012bp",
"\u02c8p\u012bp"
],
"synonyms":[
"channel",
"conduit",
"duct",
"leader",
"line",
"penstock",
"trough",
"tube"
],
"antonyms":[
"canalize",
"channel",
"channelize",
"conduct",
"direct",
"funnel",
"siphon",
"syphon"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"He has the pipes to sing on Broadway.",
"a singer with a fine set of pipes",
"Verb",
"The pipers piped while the drummers drummed.",
"The musician piped a tune.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Tempe officials called the burst particularly unusual because the pipe was only 50 years old at the time of its rupture. \u2014 Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic , 21 May 2022",
"Tesia Britt said the pipe was in a bag next to a container of pineapple juice, according to Fox 31 in Denver. \u2014 Fox News , 18 May 2022",
"The Yamal-Europe pipe is one of three main routes for Russian gas heading to Europe, alongside the subsea Nord Stream 1 pipeline and Ukrainian transit pipelines. \u2014 Joe Wallace, WSJ , 12 May 2022",
"The underground pipe is 30 inches in diameter and has been in operation since 1953.The reroute of the line is expected to cost about $450 million. \u2014 Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Besides being too small, the current pipe is also rusty. \u2014 Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The pipe and cup of alcohol were in plain view inside the car. \u2014 Bob Sandrick, cleveland , 9 Dec. 2021",
"The pipe was above ground one minute, and deep in Minnesota soil the next. \u2014 Audrey Gray, The New Republic , 27 Sep. 2021",
"The broken pipe is in relatively shallow water, at about 34 feet (10 meters) of depth. \u2014 Michael Biesecker, Chron , 5 Sep. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Hold this position for five seconds, then slowly lower the handle or pipe back down for one repetition. \u2014 Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online , 30 Aug. 2019",
"Builders have a plan to pipe water to the development's first homes, but a long-term water solution has yet to be found if the vacant land is to one day grow into a massive community of up to 900,000 people. \u2014 AZCentral.com , 24 May 2022",
"Spoon yolk mixture into a piping bag or plastic zipper bag with one corner cut off and pipe into the middle of each egg white. \u2014 Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press , 16 Apr. 2022",
"This operating system allows users to remotely pipe commands that use the SSH, or secure shell, protocol. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 17 Mar. 2022",
"If using a plastic bag, cut off one small corner to create a tiny tip opening with which to pipe your decorations. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Nov. 2021",
"About a minute in, over a lurching three-quarter dance rhythm, piccolos and oboe pipe out the D-S-C-H motto. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Floating ocean platforms equipped with direct air capture machines, like one operating now in Iceland, would pipe the CO2 gas into basalt formations that lie 350 feet below the seafloor. \u2014 Eric Niiler, WSJ , 6 Mar. 2022",
"For an elevated version of this nostalgic classic, pipe your choux dough into a circle, bake until extra-crisp, fold, and then fill with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. \u2014 Tanya Bush, Bon App\u00e9tit , 10 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-175009"
},
"pipe down":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to stop talking or making noise"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"chill out",
"cool",
"hush",
"quiet",
"settle (down)"
],
"antonyms":[
"act up",
"carry on",
"cut up"
],
"examples":[
"if you don't pipe down , we're turning this car around and going straight home!",
"\u201c Pipe down or I'll cancel recess!\u201d the teacher commanded"
],
"history_and_etymology":" pipe entry 2 ",
"first_known_use":[
"1876, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185037"
},
"pipe up":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": speak up"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[
"shoot",
"sound off",
"speak out",
"speak up",
"spout (off)",
"talk up"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"don't worry, he'll pipe up if he feels he's being overlooked"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1853, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-202705"
},
"piping":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a sound, note, or call like that of a pipe",
": the music of a pipe",
": a quantity or system of pipes",
": trimming stitched in seams or along edges (as of clothing, slipcovers, or curtains)",
": shrill",
": tranquil",
": a quantity or system of pipes",
": the music of a pipe",
": a high-pitched sound or call",
": a narrow fold of material used to decorate edges or seams"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012b-pi\u014b",
"\u02c8p\u012b-pi\u014b"
],
"synonyms":[
"high-pitched",
"screeching",
"shrieking",
"shrill",
"squeaking",
"squeaky",
"treble",
"whistling"
],
"antonyms":[
"bass",
"deep",
"grave",
"low",
"throaty"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"There's a problem with the piping in the building.",
"a sofa trimmed with blue piping",
"a uniform with yellow piping down the pants",
"Adjective",
"the piping voices of small children",
"the piping sound of the teakettle caught my attention",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In a kindergarten classroom, primary colored tables were divided with homemade barriers of clear vinyl fabric and PVC piping crafted by Opitz and other staff at the school. \u2014 Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News , 3 Nov. 2020",
"Holding a flimsy piping bag can be difficult for little hands, but this frosting tube gives children much more control when decorating their baked creations. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 16 May 2022",
"Spoon yolk mixture into a piping bag or plastic zipper bag with one corner cut off and pipe into the middle of each egg white. \u2014 Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Use a piping bag with a star tip to create a classic swirl, or just scoop right into bowls. \u2014 USA TODAY , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Fill a piping bag with a star tip with 1 cup buttercream and set aside. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Flour, butter, water, milk, and a bit of sugar and salt are cooked on the stove; eggs are streamed in, acting as a natural leavening agent; and then the glossy mixture is piled into a piping bag and baked or fried. \u2014 Tanya Bush, Bon App\u00e9tit , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The set includes a bottom cushion that\u2019s nearly 6 inches deep and a large back pillow finished with piping . \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 16 May 2022",
"To avoid the dreaded scenario of accidentally wearing the swimsuit as multiple people on the beach, try a unique style like this ruched one-piece with black piping . \u2014 Hannah Oh, Seventeen , 13 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Churchill helps install water heaters, re- piping houses, etc., for Gregory J. Ostroski Heating and Plumbing in Billerica. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-220053"
},
"piping hot":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": very hot"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[
"ardent",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"hot",
"red",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sultry",
"superheated",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"white-hot"
],
"antonyms":[
"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"cold",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frozen",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"iced",
"icy"
],
"examples":[
"The coffee was served piping hot .",
"the appeal of piping hot cocoa after an afternoon of shoveling snow",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Now that the show is headed into its 18th season, hopefully that clears up some piping hot questions that fans had about Trisha's kitchen! \u2014 Chaise Sanders, Country Living , 5 June 2022",
"If your favorite biker isn\u2019t as hardcore as that, consider the 64 oz Oasis ($95), which will keep their preferred post-ride beverage piping hot or icy cold, and holds plenty to share with friends. \u2014 Outside Online , 11 Nov. 2020",
"Atlanta\u2019s piping hot housing market was supposed to cool when mortgage rates rose. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 6 May 2022",
"When the gas encounters the piping hot surface of the white dwarf, the hydrogen atoms fuse into helium, triggering an explosion. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Soup dumplings are often delivered to the table in a piping hot steamer basket. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 20 Apr. 2022",
"One loaf has multiple lives: first, fresh out of the oven, sliced piping hot and eaten straight over the sink. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Mar. 2022",
"My coffee tasted like gin and my gin tasted like coffee, but that felt like a fair trade-off since the mug kept the drinks either icy cold or piping hot . \u2014 Joe Jackson, Outside Online , 3 July 2014",
"The couple spilled some piping hot tea about what the future looks like for them, including plans for kids down the line. \u2014 Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence , 3 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195748"
},
"pique":{
"type":[
"noun ()",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff",
": pride",
": to arouse anger or resentment in : irritate",
": a transient feeling of wounded vanity : resentment",
": a durable ribbed clothing fabric of cotton, rayon, or silk",
": decoration of a tortoiseshell or ivory object with inlaid fragments of gold or silver",
": to stir up : excite",
": to make annoyed or angry"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u0113k",
"\u02c8p\u0113k",
"pi-\u02c8k\u0101",
"\u02c8p\u0113-\u02cck\u0101",
"\u02c8p\u0113k"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"eat",
"exasperate",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nark",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"persecute",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"ruffle",
"spite",
"vex"
],
"antonyms":[
"dudgeon",
"huff",
"miff",
"offense",
"offence",
"peeve",
"resentment",
"umbrage"
],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb and Noun (1)",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"1669, in the meaning defined at sense 2",
"Noun (1)",
"1551, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun (2)",
"1852, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-223222"
},
"pirate":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": one who commits or practices piracy",
": to commit piracy on",
": to take or appropriate by piracy: such as",
": to reproduce without authorization especially in infringement of copyright",
": to lure away from another employer by offers of betterment",
": to commit or practice piracy",
": a robber of ships at sea : a person who commits piracy",
": a person who commits piracy",
": to take or appropriate by piracy",
": to copy, distribute, or use without authorization especially in infringement of copyright",
": to commit piracy \u2014 compare bootleg"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012b-r\u0259t",
"\u02c8p\u012b-r\u0259t",
"\u02c8p\u012b-r\u0259t"
],
"synonyms":[
"buccaneer",
"corsair",
"freebooter",
"rover"
],
"antonyms":[
"appropriate",
"arrogate",
"commandeer",
"convert",
"expropriate",
"preempt",
"press",
"seize",
"take over",
"usurp"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"the famous pirate Jean Lafitte",
"A software pirate made bootleg copies of the computer program.",
"Verb",
"He was accused of pirating their invention.",
"using pirated software that was subject to copyright",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This movie shows what teens and pre-teens are like when adults aren't watching \u2014 including all the rudeness and profanity that goes with it \u2014 and then sets that energy on an adventure to find a lost pirate 's treasure. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
"There's no doubt that being a pirate might pay off in some industries. \u2014 Sam Shawki, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"The show even dips into polyandry, with comic Leslie Jones playing a pirate named Spanish Jackie who has 19 husbands. \u2014 Sara Stewart, CNN , 3 May 2022",
"The most popular costumes for pets seem the same year to year: pumpkin, hot dog, superhero, cat, bumble bee, ghost, bat, lion, dog, witch, devil, pirate and batman. \u2014 Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Russian cinemas have responded to international sanctions over the war in Ukraine by going pirate . \u2014 Nick Holdsworth, Variety , 6 June 2022",
"Paddle around the harbor in search of pirate \u2019s treasure, see a stand-up comedy routine, listen to musical tribute, walk among dinosaurs and watch an 1980s TV show return. \u2014 John Coffren, Baltimore Sun , 2 June 2022",
"Greg McCandless, 51, a retired private detective from Reston, Virginia, stood outside the courthouse wearing a pirate hat and red head scarf, a nod to Depp\u2019s famous role as Capt. \u2014 Denise Lavoie, Anchorage Daily News , 2 June 2022",
"The first season was loosely based on 18th century would-be pirate Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby). \u2014 James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter , 1 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"By all accounts, Mr. Wilson was erudite about the recondite, a prolific author of some 60 books on topics ranging from angels to pirate utopias and all manner of renegade religions. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"In other cases, pirate screenings have simply been organized by companies or private individuals who rented theaters, with owners apparently turning a blind eye. \u2014 Nick Holdsworth, Variety , 6 June 2022",
"But honestly, the third-act sequence, the boat battle, was actually even more challenging than the [airplane] sequence, just because those pirate ships and all the action that takes place was very involved and really difficult to execute. \u2014 Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 Feb. 2022",
"When hackers pirate their way past corporate firewalls and publicize the private lives of consumers, the betrayal of consumer trust and the aura of corporate incompetence should sink a company\u2019s reputation. \u2014 Zenger News, Forbes , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Thousands of people did pirate -y things, snagged beads from the parade route, and generally ate, drank and were merry. \u2014 Curt Anderson, ajc , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Locast exploited a copyright loophole for nonprofits to pirate content. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 28 Jan. 2022",
"New Hampshire's Isles of Shoals is primarily known for its ties to pirate lore. \u2014 Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY , 17 Oct. 2021",
"There\u2019s a ton of junk out there, and many of these sites pirate content (which can land you in hot water). \u2014 Kim Komando, USA TODAY , 11 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"1577, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-213228"
},
"pirouette":{
"type":[
"intransitive verb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a rapid whirling about of the body",
": a full turn on the toe or ball of one foot in ballet"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccpir-\u0259-\u02c8wet"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyration",
"reel",
"revolution",
"roll",
"rotation",
"spin",
"twirl",
"wheel",
"whirl"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the elegant pirouettes of the prima ballerina",
"the ballerina's perfectly executed pirouette",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the ballet\u2019s finale, the audience will witness grande jet\u00e9s, or leaps with splits in the air, and more than two dozen fouett\u00e9 turns, a kind of pirouette on one leg. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 May 2022",
"Terrence Hackett II shows off a pirouette -style move and falls on the hardwood floor at Skateland Roller Skating. \u2014 Rashika Jaipuriar, The Indianapolis Star , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Morant showcased his singular style in the second quarter, launching skyward to pirouette midair and dish a backhanded layup off the backboard. \u2014 Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Beth watches from the wings of the stage as Stacey performs \u2026 and falls during a pirouette . \u2014 Amanda Ostuni, EW.com , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Take that, Joe Morgan\u2019s homer and Will Clark\u2019s laugh and Barry Bonds\u2019 pirouette . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Oct. 2021",
"Bellinger jumped, spun, did a pirouette , and danced around the bases as the crowd of 51,307 had the stadium shaking. \u2014 Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY , 20 Oct. 2021",
"In a deadly pirouette , the DB5 and Bond spray the goons\u2014and poor Matera\u2014back to the Stone Age. \u2014 Eric Adams, Popular Mechanics , 8 Oct. 2021",
"Even granting that Villalobos is a part written as all pirouette , Debrez throws in pli\u00e9 and jet\u00e9, too. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 12 Aug. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French, literally, teetotum",
"first_known_use":[
"1706, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182945"
},
"pistol":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a handgun whose chamber is integral with the barrel",
": handgun",
": a notably sharp, spirited, or energetic person",
": a small gun made to be aimed and fired with one hand"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-st\u1d4al",
"\u02c8pi-st\u1d4al"
],
"synonyms":[
"dynamo",
"fireball",
"live wire"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a real pistol , she dances rings around the other performers",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Days later, Yuronza Streeter, a tall man in a polo shirt and sunglasses, walked up to Emmanuel Baptist Church, in Brooklyn\u2019s Clinton Hill neighborhood, carrying a revolver and a semi-automatic pistol . \u2014 Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Harper called for backup and was joined by Foerster, who found an ammunition magazine for an automatic pistol on Acoli, according to news reports of the trial and Acoli\u2019s appeals. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022",
"Troopers found a loaded 9mm pistol inside the vehicle, the release said. \u2014 Adam Terro, The Arizona Republic , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Mark McCloskey emerged from his home with an AR-15-style rifle, and Patricia McCloskey waved a semi-automatic pistol . \u2014 NBC News , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Mark McCloskey emerged from his home with an AR-15-style rifle, and Patricia McCloskey waved a semi-automatic pistol . \u2014 orlandosentinel.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Mark McCloskey emerged from his home with an AR-15-style rifle, and Patricia McCloskey waved a semi-automatic pistol . \u2014 CBS News , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Witnesses told Metlakatla police that Isaac shot Tyler with a .40-caliber semi-automatic Steyr pistol during an argument at their mother\u2019s trailer, according to a statement of probable cause filed with the initial complaint. \u2014 Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News , 11 Dec. 2021",
"According to Chisholm's report, Shelton took a semi-automatic pistol from a gas station patron and was pointing it at people. \u2014 Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle French pistole , from German, from Middle High German pischulle , from Czech p\u00ed\u0161t'ala , literally, pipe, fife; akin to Czech pi\u0161t\u011bt to squeak",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1560, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-212044"
},
"pit":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"geographical name",
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb",
"verb ()"
],
"definitions":[
": a hole, shaft, or cavity in the ground",
": mine",
": a scooped-out place used for burning something (such as charcoal)",
": an area often sunken or depressed below the adjacent floor area: such as",
": an enclosure in which animals are made to fight each other",
": a space at the front of a theater for the orchestra",
": an area in a securities or commodities exchange in which members trade (such as stocks)",
": hell sense 1a",
": a place or situation of futility, misery, or degradation",
": worst",
": a hollow or indentation especially in the surface of an organism: such as",
": a natural hollow in the surface of the body",
": one of the indented scars left in the skin by a pustular disease : pockmark",
": a minute depression in the secondary wall of a plant cell functioning in the intercellular movement of water and dissolved material",
": any of the areas alongside an auto racecourse used for refueling and repairing the cars during a race",
": to place, cast, bury, or store in a pit",
": to make pits in",
": to scar or mark with pits",
": to set (fighting birds, such as gamecocks) into or as if into a pit to fight",
": to set into opposition or rivalry",
": to become marked with pits",
": to preserve for a time an indentation made by pressure",
": to make a pit stop",
": the stone of a drupaceous fruit",
": to remove the pit from (a fruit)",
": a cavity or hole in the ground usually made by digging",
": an area set off from and often sunken below surrounding areas",
": a small hole or dent on a surface",
": something very bad",
": to make small holes or dents in",
": to set against another in a fight or contest",
": a hard seed or stone of a fruit (as a peach or cherry)",
": to remove the pit from",
": a hollow or indentation especially in a surface of an organism: as",
": a natural hollow in the surface of the body",
": one of the indented scars left in the skin by a pustular disease : pockmark",
": a usually developmental imperfection in the enamel of a tooth that takes the form of a small pointed depression",
": to make pits in",
": to scar or mark with pits",
": to become marked with pits",
": to preserve for a time an indentation made by pressure",
"river in northern California flowing southwest into the Sacramento River"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pit",
"\u02c8pit",
"\u02c8pit",
"\u02c8pit"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun (1)",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)",
"Verb (1)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a",
"Noun (2)",
"1803, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb (2)",
"1879, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-223558"
},
"pitch":{
"type":"noun (1)",
"definitions":[
"a black or dark viscous substance obtained as a residue in the distillation of organic materials and especially tars",
"any of various bituminous substances",
"resin obtained from various conifers and often used medicinally",
"any of various artificial mixtures resembling resinous or bituminous pitches",
"to cover, smear, or treat with or as if with pitch",
"to erect and fix firmly in place",
"to throw usually with a particular objective or toward a particular point",
"such as",
"to throw (a baseball) to a batter",
"to toss (something, such as coins) so as to fall at or near a mark",
"to put aside or discard by or as if by throwing",
"to present or advertise especially in a high-pressure way plug , promote",
"to attempt to persuade especially with a sales pitch",
"to present (a movie or program idea) for consideration (as by a TV producer)",
"to cause to be at a particular level or of a particular quality",
"to set in a particular musical key",
"to cause to be set at a particular angle slope",
"to utter glibly and insincerely",
"to use as a starting pitcher",
"to play as pitcher",
"to hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with backspin so that it rolls very little after striking the green",
"throw sense 6",
"to fall precipitately or headlong",
"to have the bow alternately plunge precipitately and rise abruptly",
"to turn about a lateral axis so that the forward end rises or falls in relation to the after end",
"buck entry 2 sense 1",
"encamp",
"to hit upon or happen upon something",
"to incline downward slope",
"to throw a ball to a batter",
"to play ball as a pitcher",
"to pitch a golf ball",
"to make a sales pitch",
"attack , assail",
"to set to work on energetically",
"slope",
"degree of slope rake",
"the distance between any of various things such as",
"distance between one point on a gear tooth and the corresponding point on the next tooth",
"distance from any point on the thread of a screw to the corresponding point on an adjacent thread measured parallel to the axis",
"the theoretical distance a propeller would advance longitudinally in one revolution",
"the number of teeth or of threads per inch",
"a unit of width of type based on the number of times a letter can be set in a linear inch",
"the action or a manner of pitching",
"an up-and-down movement \u2014 compare yaw",
"top , zenith",
"the relative level, intensity, or extent of some quality or state",
"the property of a sound and especially a musical tone that is determined by the frequency of the waves producing it highness or lowness of sound",
"a standard frequency for tuning instruments",
"the difference in the relative vibration frequency of the human voice that contributes to the total meaning of speech",
"a definite relative pitch that is a significant phenomenon in speech",
"a steep place declivity",
"the portion of a route (as in mountain climbing or caving) between belay points",
"an outdoor site (as for camping or doing business)",
"playing field sense 1",
"an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump",
"an often high-pressure sales presentation",
"advertisement",
"recommendation , plug",
"the delivery of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter",
"a baseball so thrown",
"pitchout sense 2",
"to set up and fix firmly in place",
"to throw usually toward a certain point",
"to throw a baseball or softball to a batter",
"to plunge or fall forward",
"slope entry 2 , slant",
"to fix or set at a certain highness or lowness",
"to move in such a way that one end falls while the other end rises",
"to contribute to a common task or goal",
"highness or lowness of sound",
"amount of slope",
"an up-and-down movement",
"the throw of a baseball or softball to a batter",
"the amount or level of something (as a feeling)",
"a dark sticky substance left over from distilling tar and used in making roofing paper, in waterproofing seams, and in paving",
"resin from various evergreen trees (as the pine)",
"a black or dark viscous substance obtained as a residue in the distillation of organic materials and especially tars",
"resin obtained from various conifers and often used medicinally",
"the property of a sound and especially a musical tone that is determined by the frequency of the waves producing it highness or lowness of sound"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8pich",
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun (1)",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb (1)",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb (2)",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
"Noun (2)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"pitch in":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to begin to work",
": to contribute to a common endeavor"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[
"chip in",
"contribute",
"kick in"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"everyone at the office pitched in to buy a gift for the soon-to-be-wed couple"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1835, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-220106"
},
"pitch-black":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": extremely dark or black",
": extremely dark or black"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pich-\u02c8blak",
"\u02c8pich-\u02c8blak"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1598, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-211933"
},
"pitched":{
"type":"noun (1)",
"definitions":[
"a black or dark viscous substance obtained as a residue in the distillation of organic materials and especially tars",
"any of various bituminous substances",
"resin obtained from various conifers and often used medicinally",
"any of various artificial mixtures resembling resinous or bituminous pitches",
"to cover, smear, or treat with or as if with pitch",
"to erect and fix firmly in place",
"to throw usually with a particular objective or toward a particular point",
"such as",
"to throw (a baseball) to a batter",
"to toss (something, such as coins) so as to fall at or near a mark",
"to put aside or discard by or as if by throwing",
"to present or advertise especially in a high-pressure way plug , promote",
"to attempt to persuade especially with a sales pitch",
"to present (a movie or program idea) for consideration (as by a TV producer)",
"to cause to be at a particular level or of a particular quality",
"to set in a particular musical key",
"to cause to be set at a particular angle slope",
"to utter glibly and insincerely",
"to use as a starting pitcher",
"to play as pitcher",
"to hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with backspin so that it rolls very little after striking the green",
"throw sense 6",
"to fall precipitately or headlong",
"to have the bow alternately plunge precipitately and rise abruptly",
"to turn about a lateral axis so that the forward end rises or falls in relation to the after end",
"buck entry 2 sense 1",
"encamp",
"to hit upon or happen upon something",
"to incline downward slope",
"to throw a ball to a batter",
"to play ball as a pitcher",
"to pitch a golf ball",
"to make a sales pitch",
"attack , assail",
"to set to work on energetically",
"slope",
"degree of slope rake",
"the distance between any of various things such as",
"distance between one point on a gear tooth and the corresponding point on the next tooth",
"distance from any point on the thread of a screw to the corresponding point on an adjacent thread measured parallel to the axis",
"the theoretical distance a propeller would advance longitudinally in one revolution",
"the number of teeth or of threads per inch",
"a unit of width of type based on the number of times a letter can be set in a linear inch",
"the action or a manner of pitching",
"an up-and-down movement \u2014 compare yaw",
"top , zenith",
"the relative level, intensity, or extent of some quality or state",
"the property of a sound and especially a musical tone that is determined by the frequency of the waves producing it highness or lowness of sound",
"a standard frequency for tuning instruments",
"the difference in the relative vibration frequency of the human voice that contributes to the total meaning of speech",
"a definite relative pitch that is a significant phenomenon in speech",
"a steep place declivity",
"the portion of a route (as in mountain climbing or caving) between belay points",
"an outdoor site (as for camping or doing business)",
"playing field sense 1",
"an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump",
"an often high-pressure sales presentation",
"advertisement",
"recommendation , plug",
"the delivery of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter",
"a baseball so thrown",
"pitchout sense 2",
"to set up and fix firmly in place",
"to throw usually toward a certain point",
"to throw a baseball or softball to a batter",
"to plunge or fall forward",
"slope entry 2 , slant",
"to fix or set at a certain highness or lowness",
"to move in such a way that one end falls while the other end rises",
"to contribute to a common task or goal",
"highness or lowness of sound",
"amount of slope",
"an up-and-down movement",
"the throw of a baseball or softball to a batter",
"the amount or level of something (as a feeling)",
"a dark sticky substance left over from distilling tar and used in making roofing paper, in waterproofing seams, and in paving",
"resin from various evergreen trees (as the pine)",
"a black or dark viscous substance obtained as a residue in the distillation of organic materials and especially tars",
"resin obtained from various conifers and often used medicinally",
"the property of a sound and especially a musical tone that is determined by the frequency of the waves producing it highness or lowness of sound"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8pich",
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun (1)",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb (1)",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb (2)",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
"Noun (2)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"pitchy":{
"type":[
"adjective ()"
],
"definitions":[
": full of pitch : tarry",
": of, relating to, or having the qualities of pitch",
": pitch-black",
": slightly off pitch : slightly too high or too low",
": unpleasantly high or piercing : shrill"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-ch\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
],
"examples":[
"Adjective (1)",
"we stood staring into the pitchy dark forest, trying to determine what had made the strange cry",
"the trigger-happy soldiers couldn't see a thing in the pitchy darkness",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Kelly was worried because there were a lot of pitchy moments. \u2014 Maggie Fremont, EW.com , 5 Oct. 2021",
"The pitchy treatment can really backfire on the wrong structure. \u2014 Yelena Moroz Alpert, WSJ , 10 June 2021",
"Mindy fears performing after her viral, pitchy moment, but theatre fans know that Park would never shy away from the stage. \u2014 Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com , 4 Oct. 2020",
"Hammock hasn\u2019t shown off any tricks all season, sometimes slipping into pitchy territory. \u2014 Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Billboard , 9 Dec. 2019",
"The pitchy rendition kicked off a night dedicated to celebrating the team ahead of the upcoming NBA season. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 Oct. 2019",
"At times the vocals felt a bit pitchy for both Cruz and Umoh, but the emotional portrayal Cruz gives to Eliza's character after tragedy repeatedly befalls her family in Act II redeems any misgivings about her vocal prowess from Act I. \u2014 Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal , 6 June 2019",
"Although the program got off to a pitchy start, things eventually seemed to smooth out. \u2014 Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living , 15 Nov. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective (1)",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective (1)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Adjective (2)",
"1997, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-214916"
},
"pithily":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": consisting of or abounding in pith",
": having substance and point : tersely cogent"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-th\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"aphoristic",
"apothegmatic",
"brief",
"capsule",
"compact",
"compendious",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"epigrammatic",
"laconic",
"monosyllabic",
"sententious",
"succinct",
"summary",
"telegraphic",
"terse",
"thumbnail"
],
"antonyms":[
"circuitous",
"circumlocutory",
"diffuse",
"long-winded",
"prolix",
"rambling",
"verbose",
"windy",
"wordy"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The pithy name of the brand came from something her friends and family would say to one another in an effort to lift spirits. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 27 May 2022",
"But ask Hollywood directors who have hired her to please describe the magic behind those pipes, and any pithy description only scratches the surface. \u2014 Michael Cavna, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"Tropical mango and guava layer under red cherry, berry, and orange peel flavors, with a minerally salinity emerging with pithy , puckery lime zest on a beautifully long and intense finish. \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 13 May 2022",
"Some of our more reserved teammates revealed themselves to be quick with a pithy observation or wry remark. \u2014 Robin Wadsworth, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Rigsby has more than a million followers on Instagram, has appeared as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, and his pithy lines\u2014including that one about Britney\u2014have spawned a cottage industry of Etsy stores hawking mugs featuring his quotes. \u2014 Greg Presto, Men's Health , 18 May 2022",
"The goal was to craft a form that embodies the qualities encouraged by the content: pithy nuggets demanding careful thought, mental experimentation, and wide-ranging curiosity about morality and psychology. \u2014 Nate Anderson, Ars Technica , 11 May 2022",
"Some fans are drawn to the solidarity found in songs about screwing up and the pithy reactions to one\u2019s mess. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 May 2022",
"Chad Brown, the trainer of Zandon, was pithy in his reaction. \u2014 John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"see pith entry 1 ",
"first_known_use":[
"1529, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-225633"
},
"pithy":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": consisting of or abounding in pith",
": having substance and point : tersely cogent"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-th\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"aphoristic",
"apothegmatic",
"brief",
"capsule",
"compact",
"compendious",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"epigrammatic",
"laconic",
"monosyllabic",
"sententious",
"succinct",
"summary",
"telegraphic",
"terse",
"thumbnail"
],
"antonyms":[
"circuitous",
"circumlocutory",
"diffuse",
"long-winded",
"prolix",
"rambling",
"verbose",
"windy",
"wordy"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The pithy name of the brand came from something her friends and family would say to one another in an effort to lift spirits. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 27 May 2022",
"But ask Hollywood directors who have hired her to please describe the magic behind those pipes, and any pithy description only scratches the surface. \u2014 Michael Cavna, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"Tropical mango and guava layer under red cherry, berry, and orange peel flavors, with a minerally salinity emerging with pithy , puckery lime zest on a beautifully long and intense finish. \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 13 May 2022",
"Some of our more reserved teammates revealed themselves to be quick with a pithy observation or wry remark. \u2014 Robin Wadsworth, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Rigsby has more than a million followers on Instagram, has appeared as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, and his pithy lines\u2014including that one about Britney\u2014have spawned a cottage industry of Etsy stores hawking mugs featuring his quotes. \u2014 Greg Presto, Men's Health , 18 May 2022",
"The goal was to craft a form that embodies the qualities encouraged by the content: pithy nuggets demanding careful thought, mental experimentation, and wide-ranging curiosity about morality and psychology. \u2014 Nate Anderson, Ars Technica , 11 May 2022",
"Some fans are drawn to the solidarity found in songs about screwing up and the pithy reactions to one\u2019s mess. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 May 2022",
"Chad Brown, the trainer of Zandon, was pithy in his reaction. \u2014 John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"see pith entry 1 ",
"first_known_use":[
"1529, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-202420"
},
"pitiful":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": full of pity : compassionate",
": deserving or arousing pity or commiseration",
": exciting pitying contempt (as by meanness or inadequacy)",
": deserving or causing feelings of pity",
": deserving or causing a feeling of dislike or disgust by not being sufficient or good enough"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-ti-f\u0259l",
"\u02c8pi-ti-f\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"miserable",
"pathetic",
"pitiable",
"sad",
"sorry",
"wretched"
],
"antonyms":[
"decent",
"presentable",
"respectable"
],
"examples":[
"She made a pitiful attempt to complete her work.",
"that piece of junk is a pitiful excuse for a car",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The state of music journalism in 2022 is pitiful and depressing. \u2014 Steve Baltin, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"But, as anyone who has run the gauntlet of fertility treatment knows, that coverage is often pitiful and hard-won. \u2014 Kate Willsky, ELLE , 30 Apr. 2022",
"The women, meanwhile, are reduced to modish caricature: Gertrude, sung by Sarah Connolly, assumes arch poses, while Ophelia, played by Brenda Rae, lurches from pitiful fretting to orgasmic writhing. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
"Most everybody dismissed the poor, pitiful Miami Heat as mere cannon fodder for the Celts after Boston dominated the Heat in Games 4 and 5 of their Eastern Conference final. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 May 2022",
"Patti Aaron, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Reclamation, told CNN that this is because of several factors \u2014 and last winter\u2019s pitiful precipitation played a large role. \u2014 Angela Fritz, CNN , 26 May 2022",
"With the stock market continuing its slide downward and banks paying pitiful rates on checking, savings and money market accounts, people are fleeing to Series I bonds, which were created to keep pace with inflation. \u2014 Michelle Singletary, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"Society needs to stop viewing singles as pitiful loners who need to find someone. \u2014 Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Not only have results and performances on the pitch been pitiful for a number of months, there are widespread suggestions of disgruntlement within the Old Trafford dressing room. \u2014 Graham Ruthven, Forbes , 14 May 2022"
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"The number of casualties is not yet known \u2014 and the Kremlin denies targeting civilians \u2014 but experts say the incident is an indication that Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned to a familiar and pitiless playbook. \u2014 Alexander Smith, NBC News , 18 Mar. 2022",
"One\u2019s eye is at first dazzled, then sated, and eventually tired by this pitiless inflation of scale. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Nabokov started to seem less like a lovable, bumbling Professor Pnin and more like a pitiless White Russian with a monocle and an ebony cigarette holder. \u2014 Ian Frazier, The New Yorker , 7 Dec. 2020",
"Soon friends chimed in with their own artifacts, surviving examples of Washington\u2019s pitiless retail ecosystem. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Sep. 2020",
"No one wants to think about this now, but eventually our old friend Adam Smith will come calling to collect his inevitable and pitiless fee. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 2 Sep. 2020",
"The Snowtown Murders, his pitiless debut, depicted the murders committed by notorious serial killer John Bunting with a nightmarish inexorability, heightened by an overcast color palette that could be described as gunmetal. \u2014 Isaac Feldberg, Fortune , 23 Apr. 2020",
"Prices dropped to less than $10 a barrel, triggering a pitiless industry shakeout. \u2014 Jack Farchy, Bloomberg.com , 5 May 2020",
"That dream is quickly dying, and our government has been particularly pitiless during this crisis. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 Apr. 2020"
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"The number of casualties is not yet known \u2014 and the Kremlin denies targeting civilians \u2014 but experts say the incident is an indication that Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned to a familiar and pitiless playbook. \u2014 Alexander Smith, NBC News , 18 Mar. 2022",
"One\u2019s eye is at first dazzled, then sated, and eventually tired by this pitiless inflation of scale. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Nabokov started to seem less like a lovable, bumbling Professor Pnin and more like a pitiless White Russian with a monocle and an ebony cigarette holder. \u2014 Ian Frazier, The New Yorker , 7 Dec. 2020",
"Soon friends chimed in with their own artifacts, surviving examples of Washington\u2019s pitiless retail ecosystem. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Sep. 2020",
"No one wants to think about this now, but eventually our old friend Adam Smith will come calling to collect his inevitable and pitiless fee. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 2 Sep. 2020",
"The Snowtown Murders, his pitiless debut, depicted the murders committed by notorious serial killer John Bunting with a nightmarish inexorability, heightened by an overcast color palette that could be described as gunmetal. \u2014 Isaac Feldberg, Fortune , 23 Apr. 2020",
"Prices dropped to less than $10 a barrel, triggering a pitiless industry shakeout. \u2014 Jack Farchy, Bloomberg.com , 5 May 2020",
"That dream is quickly dying, and our government has been particularly pitiless during this crisis. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 Apr. 2020"
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"Available jobs paid a pittance \u2014 about 30,000 pounds a day, or slightly more than a dollar at the current black market rate, most of which went to public transportation to get to and from work. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
"The technology has received a pittance from investors compared to renewable energy or electric vehicles. \u2014 Nicol\u00e1s Rivero, Quartz , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The Federation of American Scientists estimates that China has 350 nuclear warheads, a pittance compared with Russia\u2019s 6,257 and America\u2019s 5,600. \u2014 Michael Schuman, The Atlantic , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Aisha has to navigate the anxieties and casual cruelties of a wealthy New York couple (played with wincing realism by Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Spector), all while sending a pittance home to her son in Senegal. \u2014 Taylor Antrim, Vogue , 4 Feb. 2022",
"But Bandcamp is the most direct way to point your streaming dollars to artists who make a pittance from Spotify. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Compared to today's notorious cons, the loss associated with this scam in 1920 might seem a pittance . \u2014 Breeanna Hare And Marika Gerken, CNN , 24 Apr. 2021",
"The only price to pay is a fair amount of clouds and a stray shower, a pittance . \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2022",
"At the same time, 27 votes out of nearly 6 million cast is an absolute pittance -- and not evidence of any sort of broad (or coordinated) attempts at voter fraud. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 2 Feb. 2022"
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"The journey was long and difficult, but the women told their story with no self- pity . \u2014 The New Yorker , 2 Mar. 2022",
"In several letters, Gunn apologizes for talking about himself at all, and often equates self-expression with self- pity . \u2014 Matthew Bevis, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022",
"There, the movie\u2019s villains are revealed to be more worthy of pity than terror. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 25 May 2022",
"There\u2019s the crux of Mohamed\u2019s artistry: Her clear-eyed acknowledgment of this man\u2019s self- pity runs parallel to her piercing exposure of his society\u2019s relentless, enervating prejudice. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Patty sees a cash cow from the sympathy viewership, SVN star Jackie (Molly Shannon) sees a young woman who needs nurturing, and the rest of network sees someone to pity . \u2014 Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Taking pity on the poor man, the Kennedy presidential library gave it instead this week to Liz Cheney, Volodymyr Zelensky, and three other suckers. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Since Vladimir Putin loosed Russian troops on Ukraine, there hasn\u2019t been much pity for Russian oligarchs, who have seen their funds seized with alacrity. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Apr. 2022",
"But the pictures in Salih\u2019s series continually disrupt expectations of young refugees as benighted figures or objects of pity . \u2014 Eren Orbey, The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2022",
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"So my grandmother knew that if we weren\u2019t circumcised, people would pity us. \u2014 Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor , 30 Aug. 2021",
"When things don\u2019t go well, the audience is meant to pity her as just another victim of Leighton Meester\u2019s queen bee, Blair Waldorf. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 29 July 2021",
"Because our parents made a choice\u2014the choice to migrate\u2014few people pity them, or wonder whether restitution should be made for decades of exploitation. \u2014 Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The New Yorker , 18 Jan. 2021",
"And pity the fool who goes out too hard, which is a bad idea in any kind of racing but can result in severe oxygen debt at altitude in snowshoes. \u2014 John Meyer, The Know , 18 Feb. 2020",
"Cut off from his language, culture, profession and passions, stripped of his fancy degrees, bitter and self- pitying and at least said to be suicidal, Mengele always knew how history would judge him. \u2014 David Margolick, WSJ , 24 Jan. 2020",
"Is that a way to get us to almost pity him for his professed inadequacies as a husband and father? \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 Apr. 2020",
"For this reason everybody pitied them no less than the sufferers. \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 30 Mar. 2020",
"But whether Cardinals fans were mocking or pitying Cubs fans, the feeling of superiority was widespread. \u2014 Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com , 30 July 2019"
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"With her pixie hairdo, reserves of strength and sweet, soft-spoken voice evoking classic Mia Farrow, VanderWaal is once again a magnetic presence. \u2014 Courtney Howard, Variety , 1 June 2022",
"Williams looked gamine with her signature pixie cut, single necklace, and natural makeup. \u2014 Sarah Spellings, Vogue , 30 May 2022",
"From Dame Helen Mirren debuting a bubblegum-pink pixie crop in 2019 to Bella Hadid's sculptural necklace and couture ball gown by Schiaparelli in 2021, scroll for a definitive look back at the festival's most memorable fashion moments. \u2014 Leah Dolan, CNN , 13 May 2022",
"Her signature pixie cut is parted on the side with her hairs short on either side of her head and a bit longer on top. \u2014 Addison Aloian, Allure , 10 May 2022",
"Jules, a transgender girl and a recent East Highland transplant, has the spirit of a capricious pixie : spontaneous and sweet but inconsistent and somewhat manipulative. \u2014 Caroline Downey, National Review , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Just a few weeks after chopping off all of her hair into a pixie cut, JoJo Siwa is already an expert at styling her new hair. \u2014 Addison Aloian, Allure , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The third and final wig (not pictured) is a pixie cut that appears at the end of the season, before Michelle goes to jail, which was also based entirely on pictures at the sentencing. \u2014 Lauren Huff, EW.com , 19 Apr. 2022",
"RiRi kept up with the short hairstyles in 2008, going for a pixie cut with sweeping bangs. \u2014 Janae Mckenzie, Glamour , 2 Apr. 2022",
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"Atop the pile, Tinker Bell sat waving, like a pixie Jackie Onassis. \u2014 Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"For all its sprinklings of pixie dust \u2014 a wiggly scorpion samba, a cyclone of flying pastries \u2014 the movie is often disconcertingly adult, and at the same time, largely unconcerned with welcoming in viewers not already steeped in the mythology. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Revel, a kombucha brewery and tasting room, will release a pixie tangerine kombucha. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Maurice is a genially bearish man, with curly brown hair, who looks like a brainier John Laroquette; Katia, with short hair and glasses and a vivacious grin, suggests a pixie version of Terry Gross. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Goofy costumes, silly songs, colorful sets and a sprinkling of pixie dust never hurt anyone, and the ABC reality series has gone overboard this year with not just one, but two, Disney Nights. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Again a roof will greatly cut down the natural air circulation and ventilation, assuming that the roof is made out of solid material and not pixie dust. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Add some extra pixie dust to your stay by reserving a shaded cabana that includes couch seating; two lounge chairs; a flat-screen TV; a safe; a fridge with free, non-alcoholic drinks; and a complimentary fruit platter and lemon water tower. \u2014 Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com , 15 July 2021",
"So not what lots and lots and lots of fans were dying to hear, but coaches and managers usually stick with logic, not hunches, not Tinkerbell, a sprinkle of catchy music and a fistful of pixie dust. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2021"
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"With a voice cast that also includes Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Jessica Williams, and Ty Dolla Sign, the five-part special reimagines modern New York living with that extra bit of pizzazz only animation can offer. \u2014 Ben Croll, Variety , 15 June 2022",
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"And then when Magic came on the team, the flash, the pizzazz , all of that stuff. \u2014 Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times , 10 Apr. 2022",
"There's even a metallic rose gold option for wearers looking to add a little pizzazz to their vacation outfits. \u2014 Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure , 19 Apr. 2022",
"For weeks leading up to the show, Packer had vowed to inject more entertainment and populist pizzazz into the Oscars. \u2014 Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times , 28 Mar. 2022",
"With its red-carpet pizzazz and dinner-party atmosphere, the SAG Awards honor the best acting in film and television. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Now that was a grand opening with some extra pizzazz ! \u2014 Sam Boyer, cleveland , 18 Dec. 2021",
"While the Aichi targets tended to be a little vague, these post-2020 targets add some numerical pizzazz . \u2014 Matt Reynolds, Wired , 17 Dec. 2021"
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"repulsiveness"
],
"examples":[
"The young actress has a lot of pizzazz .",
"The song has plenty of pizzazz .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With a voice cast that also includes Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Jessica Williams, and Ty Dolla Sign, the five-part special reimagines modern New York living with that extra bit of pizzazz only animation can offer. \u2014 Ben Croll, Variety , 15 June 2022",
"While the Vision AMG\u2019s body looks like a polished stone, the graphical elements add plenty of pizzazz . \u2014 Caleb Miller, Car and Driver , 19 May 2022",
"And then when Magic came on the team, the flash, the pizzazz , all of that stuff. \u2014 Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times , 10 Apr. 2022",
"There's even a metallic rose gold option for wearers looking to add a little pizzazz to their vacation outfits. \u2014 Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure , 19 Apr. 2022",
"For weeks leading up to the show, Packer had vowed to inject more entertainment and populist pizzazz into the Oscars. \u2014 Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times , 28 Mar. 2022",
"With its red-carpet pizzazz and dinner-party atmosphere, the SAG Awards honor the best acting in film and television. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Now that was a grand opening with some extra pizzazz ! \u2014 Sam Boyer, cleveland , 18 Dec. 2021",
"While the Aichi targets tended to be a little vague, these post-2020 targets add some numerical pizzazz . \u2014 Matt Reynolds, Wired , 17 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"origin unknown",
"first_known_use":[
"1937, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-202930"
},
"pinwheel":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a fireworks device in the form of a revolving wheel of colored fire",
": a toy consisting of lightweight vanes that revolve at the end of a stick",
": something (such as a galaxy) shaped like a pinwheel",
": to move like a pinwheel",
": a toy with fanlike blades at the end of a stick that spin in the wind"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pin-\u02cc(h)w\u0113l",
"\u02c8pin-\u02cchw\u0113l",
"-\u02ccw\u0113l"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrate",
"pirouette",
"revolve",
"roll",
"rotate",
"spin",
"turn",
"twirl",
"wheel",
"whirl"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"the kayaker had got sucked into the whirlpool, and his kayak was pinwheeling helplessly",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"On Wednesday afternoon, the frontyard was decorated with a small American flag and a red, white and blue pinwheel , which spun in the breeze. \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
"Their semi-cubicle workstations are are arranged in a pinwheel formation in the middle of a large, otherwise empty room, devoid of decoration. \u2014 Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times , 17 Feb. 2022",
"At the center of this clever pinwheel of a story\u2014Moore co-wrote the script with Johnathan McClain\u2014is Rylance, whose economy of motion and emotion is a marvel. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The tonkotsu ingredients were expertly layered together atop the broth in the oversized popcorn tub of a bowl with an egg in the center of the colorful pinwheel . \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 18 Feb. 2022",
"The idea for this Christmas pinwheel cookie came to me in a dream in which I was invited to a cookie exchange and had forgotten to bake any cookies but was meaning to bake these. \u2014 Julia O'malley, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Dec. 2021",
"The image combines a pinwheel fashioned out of sharp, triangular wedges and square blocks that seem to push forward and back in the picture plane. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 2 Feb. 2022",
"There are a thousand iterations of the holiday pinwheel . \u2014 Julia O'malley, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Place avocado pieces on top of pie in a pinwheel or poinsettia design. \u2014 Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Some of the outer rain bands and a few storms from Beta will pinwheel into the area from the east and southeast. \u2014 Dallas News , 20 Sep. 2020",
"Observations of pinwheeling galaxies suggested that scaffolds of invisible matter held their stars together, while a repulsive form of energy drove galaxies apart. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 28 Jan. 2020",
"The man in the white vest pinwheeled his arms, ushering volunteers through the pick-up line outside the Salvation Army Community Center on Fourth Street with military precision. \u2014 Lizzie Johnson, SFChronicle.com , 25 Dec. 2019",
"Some upper-level energy may move through the region, pinwheeling from the New England storm. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Oct. 2019",
"According to the space agency, IC 2051 is a spiral galaxy, noticeable in its whirling, pinwheeling arms and a bar of stars cutting through its center. \u2014 Fox News , 23 Dec. 2019",
"The result is a vertiginous nausea that sends me pinwheeling toward the bathroom, though the men still breathe at a decibel level loud enough to permeate its heavy chestnut door. \u2014 Barrett Swanson, Harper's magazine , 28 Oct. 2019",
"Neo-Romantic melodies in the strings danced opposite pinwheeling exclamations in the woodwinds, and sharp ice replaced all the usual subtle sweetness of Elizabeth Rowe\u2019s flute. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 12 Oct. 2019",
"Behind them was a coal black foal, who pinwheeled his legs under the water, swimming like a seal after his mother. \u2014 Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times , 8 July 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"1765, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1907, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-115418"
},
"piety":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the quality or state of being pious: such as",
": fidelity to natural obligations (as to parents)",
": dutifulness in religion : devoutness",
": an act inspired by piety",
": a conventional belief or standard : orthodoxy",
": devotion to God : the state or fact of being pious"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012b-\u0259-t\u0113",
"\u02c8p\u012b-\u0259-t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"devotion",
"faith",
"religion"
],
"antonyms":[
"atheism",
"godlessness"
],
"examples":[
"He was admired for his extreme piety .",
"her piety is quiet but profound",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On this week\u2019s show, Park discusses the late senator, his influence, his politics, his piety and his place in history. \u2014 David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"Paying one\u2019s respects to the past, through memorialization of some kind, is an act of piety . \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Mar. 2022",
"On Monday, members of the Taliban vice and virtue ministry stood outside government ministries, ordering male employees without traditional turbans and beards \u2014 seen as a symbol of piety \u2014 to go home. \u2014 Kathy Gannon, chicagotribune.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"It\u2019s also something of an encyclopedia, providing reflections on Middle Eastern history, the nature and appeal of fanatical piety , the sociology of Bedouin life and, sadly, the Western Allies\u2019s political duplicity. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The Mahdi himself was, in many ways, like his peculiar Victorian foes, melding priggishness with charisma, bigotry with piety , violence with learning. \u2014 Maxwell Carter, WSJ , 1 Oct. 2021",
"Folly, pride and malevolence are constants of our species, but so are reason, piety and benevolence\u2014and the rise of the nation-state is thanks to its relative success in managing the former and making space for the latter. \u2014 Christopher Demuth, WSJ , 4 Feb. 2022",
"While many studies, stories and surveys highlight these landmark departures from denominations, implicit and often unspoken in these numbers is the fact that many Americans are persisting in their piety . \u2014 Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune , 6 Mar. 2022",
"At times scathing and hilarious, the rollicking tale considers the thorny themes of assimilation, identity, pride, filial piety , transracial adoption, and interracial relationships. \u2014 Chloe Schama, Vogue , 20 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French piet\u00e9 piety, pity, from Old French, from Latin pietat-, pietas , from pius dutiful, pious",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1500, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-142352"
},
"pinch-hit":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to act or serve in place of another",
": to bat in the place of another player especially when a hit is particularly needed",
": a hit made by a pinch hitter"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pinch-\u02c8hit",
"\u02ccpinch-"
],
"synonyms":[
"cover",
"fill in",
"stand in",
"step in",
"sub",
"substitute",
"take over"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Drake was slotted to pinch hit for Alabama signee Alton Davis and brought home the walk-off run on a full-count sacrifice fly. \u2014 Evan Dudley, al , 30 Apr. 2022",
"The right fielder pinch hit in the ninth inning Tuesday but did not play Wednesday. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune , 13 May 2022",
"Zach Freeman walked it off with a pinch hit two-run homer against reliever Conner Thurman to hand the Toreros a 3-2 loss. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 Apr. 2022",
"The bench guys joined in in the latter stages, with Wade leading off the seventh with a pinch hit single (then stealing second) and Steven Duggar adding a two-run double with two outs. \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 29 May 2021",
"Vallery Wong hit a pinch hit two-run home run to get Oregon on the board and Rachel Cid added a solo home run as the Ducks (24-9, 4-6) avoided being run-ruled. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Kapler had Austin Slater pinch hit for Wade, and Slater drove in the Giants\u2019 first run with a base hit. \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 Sep. 2021",
"The Sox loaded the bases again in the bottom of the ninth on a pinch hit single by Travis Shaw, and walks to Devers and J.D. Martinez with two out. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 Sep. 2021",
"Gustavo Nunez got hurt on a swing in the seventh and was pinch hit for by Perez. \u2014 Ronald Blum, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 Aug. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"1911, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"1927, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-181454"
},
"pin money":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": money given by a man to a woman in his family (such as his wife or daughter) for her own use",
": money set aside for the purchase of incidentals",
": a trivial amount of money"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[
"chicken feed",
"chump change",
"dime",
"hay",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"shoestring",
"song",
"two cents"
],
"antonyms":[
"big buck(s)",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabuck(s)",
"mint",
"wad"
],
"examples":[
"She had a babysitting job to earn pin money .",
"the summer intern made only pin money but gained valuable work experience"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1674, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-193810"
},
"pierce":{
"type":[
"biographical name",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to run into or through as a pointed weapon does : stab",
": to enter or thrust into sharply or painfully",
": to make a hole through : perforate",
": to force or make a way into or through",
": to penetrate with the eye or mind : discern",
": to penetrate so as to move or touch the emotions of",
": to force a way into or through something",
": to make a hole in or through or as if in or through",
": to force or make a way into or through",
": to see through the usually misleading or false appearance of",
": to disregard the corporate entity and reach the personal assets of the corporation's controlling parties : hold the controlling parties (as officers or shareholders) of a corporation personally liable for wrongful acts or debts of the corporation",
"\u2014 compare corporate immunity at immunity",
"Franklin 1804\u20131869 14th president of the U.S. (1853\u201357)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pirs",
"\u02c8pirs",
"\u02c8pirs"
],
"synonyms":[
"access",
"enter",
"penetrate"
],
"antonyms":[
"depart",
"exit",
"leave"
],
"examples":[
"The needle pierced her skin.",
"The bullet pierced his lung.",
"The needle pierced into her skin.",
"The bullet pierced through his lung.",
"A scream pierced the silence.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To uncover what lay beneath the forest canopy, Sieczkowska and scientists at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland and Peru\u2019s Ministry of Culture used drones outfitted with special lasers to pierce the foliage. \u2014 NBC News , 21 Jan. 2022",
"In most of his videos, the internet chef starts off by throwing a knife down to pierce the counter. \u2014 Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Outsiders are finding creative ways to pierce Russia's veil of propaganda on war in Ukraine. \u2014 Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Anton Shirikov, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who studies Russian state propaganda, said trying to pierce the propaganda bubble can feel impossible. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Mar. 2022",
"The two camera lenses seem to pierce through the bump\u2019s material. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Sometimes shafts of divine light pierce the ceiling; other times, blazing hellfire flashes up through the floor. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Residents posted footage on social media showing streaks of light from missile defenses pierce the dark sky. \u2014 Isabel Debre, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Residents posted footage on social media showing streaks of light from missile defenses pierce the dark sky. \u2014 Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor , 20 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English percen , from Anglo-French percer , from Vulgar Latin *pertusiare , from Latin pertusus , past participle of pertundere to perforate, from per- through + tundere to beat \u2014 more at per- , contusion ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-003706"
},
"pint-sized":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": small"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012bnt-\u02ccs\u012bz"
],
"synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1921, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-010232"
},
"pinch hitter":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one that pinch-hits",
": a baseball player who is sent in to bat for another",
": a person who does another's work in an emergency"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[
"backup",
"cover",
"designated hitter",
"fill-in",
"locum tenens",
"relief",
"replacement",
"reserve",
"stand-in",
"sub",
"substitute"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the business owners brought in a pinch hitter until a permanent manager could be hired",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Michael Fulmer entered in the eighth and worked around a one-out walk to get a strikeout of pinch hitter Sam Huff and a weak flyout from Semien to get out of the inning. \u2014 Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press , 17 June 2022",
"Madej scored on a groundout by pinch hitter Eric Grintz, which moved Frick to third base. \u2014 Bob Holt, Arkansas Online , 13 June 2022",
"Sophomore Toran Smith entered as a pinch hitter for freshman Landen Argabright and was promptly hit by a pitch, scoring a run. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 4 June 2022",
"Then head coach Billy O'Conner called for a pinch hitter . \u2014 Adam Baum, The Enquirer , 31 May 2022",
"He was removed for a pinch hitter when his spot in the order came up in the fifth inning. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 27 May 2022",
"Suga is leaving only a year after taking office as a pinch hitter for Abe, who suddenly resigned over health problems, ending his nearly eight-year leadership, the longest in Japan\u2019s constitutional history. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 Sep. 2021",
"Decker, a pinch hitter , singled to drive in LIndsey, moving Kistler to third. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 June 2022",
"Palacios is also the 17th player in franchise history -- and first since Ryan Garko in 2006 -- with multiple RBI as a pinch hitter his first five career games. \u2014 Joe Noga, cleveland , 1 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1899, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-143146"
},
"pivot":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a shaft or pin on which something turns",
": a person, thing, or factor having a major or central role, function, or effect",
": a key player or position",
": an offensive position of a basketball player standing usually with back to the basket to relay passes, shoot, or provide a screen for teammates",
": the action of pivoting",
": the action in basketball of stepping with one foot while keeping the other foot at its point of contact with the floor",
": a usually marked change",
": an adjustment or modification made (as to a product, service, or strategy) in order to adapt or improve",
": turning on or as if on a pivot",
": pivotal",
": to turn on or as if on a pivot",
": to adapt or improve by adjusting or modifying something (such as a product, service, or strategy)",
": to provide with, mount on, or attach by a pivot",
": to cause to pivot",
": to adapt or improve by adjusting or modifying (something, such as a product, service, or strategy)",
": a shaft or pin with a pointed end on which something turns",
": the action or an instance of turning around on a point",
": to turn on or as if on a pivot : turn around on a central point",
": a usually metallic pin holding an artificial crown to the root of a tooth"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-v\u0259t",
"\u02c8pi-v\u0259t",
"\u02c8piv-\u0259t"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom line",
"bull's-eye",
"centerpiece",
"core",
"crux",
"essence",
"gist",
"heart",
"kernel",
"keynote",
"meat",
"meat and potatoes",
"net",
"nub",
"nubbin",
"nucleus",
"pith",
"point",
"root",
"sum"
],
"antonyms":[
"revolve",
"roll",
"rotate",
"spin",
"swing",
"swirl",
"swivel",
"turn",
"twirl",
"twist",
"wheel",
"whirl"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"an issue that is the real pivot of the controversy",
"Verb",
"The dancers pivoted on their toes and changed direction.",
"The door hinge pivots around the pin.",
"The quarterback pivoted and threw the ball to the running back.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Pentagon\u2019s pivot to Asia thus is likely to be diluted, even if the rhetoric coming out Washington suggests otherwise. \u2014 Loren Thompson, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Yet the marchers intuited that a dramatic pivot in their nearly 50-year struggle was at hand. \u2014 David Montgomery, Washington Post , 14 May 2022",
"Kurlantzick says any hard pivot to Beijing will also be difficult for Marcos domestically. \u2014 Time , 13 May 2022",
"Pentagon officials have been quick to point out that Russia\u2019s pivot to Donbas and away from capturing Kyiv, the capital, might be a necessity for Moscow after Russian forces stalled out in the central part of the country. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The pivot , after five weeks of intense fighting, was a gauge of the intensity and effectiveness of Ukrainian resistance and signaled a decision by the Kremlin to pursue what is likely to become a prolonged war of attrition. \u2014 Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Is Russia's pivot to Donbas just a 'face-saving move'? \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 26 Mar. 2022",
"The pivot to spending money on cryptoart, Silje explains, isn\u2019t a dramatic one. \u2014 Lydia Wang, refinery29.com , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Silicon Valley skeptics suggest that Facebook\u2019s big pivot may be a PR stunt. \u2014 Kristen Bateman, Town & Country , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"For her and Ukraine\u2019s other young people, February 24, 2022, marks a pivot point\u2014life will always be divided into a period before that day, when Vladimir Putin\u2019s forces crossed into Ukraine, and after. \u2014 Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic , 10 June 2022",
"The one-year milepost, historically, is a pivot point for presidents, the natural transition from fighting to enact their agenda to selling it to voters ahead of the November midterm elections. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Outbreaks of infectious disease \u2014 the bubonic plague, smallpox, cholera, the Spanish flu, AIDS \u2014 have been pivot points in human history. \u2014 William Falk, The Week , 23 Oct. 2021",
"In midfield, captain Sergio Busquets provides pivot support to Gavi and Frenkie de Jong while a front line is former by Ferran Torres, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Adama Traore. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 13 Mar. 2022",
"What happened in the fifties with the Actors Studio with Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams is a pivot point in the history of performance. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Rhetoric around poverty and the ability to afford access to abortions represent a pivot point between American attitudes on the issue and one other part of the world \u2013 Europe. \u2014 Monika R\u0119ba\u0142a, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Other area school districts have also had their schools pivot to virtual learning. \u2014 Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Flea, born Michael Balzary in Australia 43 years ago, is truly the pivot point of the Chili Peppers. \u2014 Alan Light, SPIN , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Many struggled to pivot , and some shuttered entirely. \u2014 Giuliana Corbo, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"How will the NAMM Show \u2014 the world\u2019s largest and oldest annual music instrument, equipment and technology show \u2014 pivot back to being a live event this weekend after canceling last year\u2019s edition because of the COVID-19 pandemic? \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 June 2022",
"As the storm moves inland over the Southeast into Saturday, the showers will pivot and start coming in from the south. \u2014 Ian Livingston, Washington Post , 13 May 2022",
"Teams must also apply the Agile ethos to their choice of tools and processes, which empowers them to pivot quickly when needed and incrementally deliver high-performing content. \u2014 Caroline Petersen, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"But with warm weather approaching, Cho is already planning to pivot again, rolling out a charcoal grill at the end of June and turning Han Oak into a Korean barbecue. \u2014 oregonlive , 26 May 2022",
"That was as Firstman decided to pivot during the industry\u2019s pandemic lockdown to producing popular impressions for Instagram. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 May 2022",
"If Bergeron walks, that leaves Erik Haula and Charlie Coyle as the best immediate candidates to pivot the top six, knocking heads night to night with the 60 or so best centers across the league. \u2014 Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com , 21 May 2022",
"More recently policy shifted to undersea warfare, forcing Electric Boat and other Navy suppliers to pivot quickly. \u2014 Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant , 18 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Adjective",
"1796, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1841, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-183103"
},
"picking":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb",
"verb ()"
],
"definitions":[
": to pierce, penetrate, or break up with a pointed instrument",
": to remove bit by bit",
": to remove covering or adhering matter from",
": to gather by plucking",
": choose , select",
": to make (one's way) slowly and carefully",
": pilfer , rob",
": to obtain useful information from by questioning",
": provoke",
": to dig into : probe",
": to pluck (a stringed instrument, such as a guitar) with a pick or with the fingers",
": to loosen or pull apart with a sharp point",
": to unlock with a device (such as a wire) other than the key",
": to use or work with a pick",
": to gather or harvest something by plucking",
": pilfer",
": to eat sparingly or mincingly",
": to select with care and deliberation",
": to criticize repeatedly especially for minor faults : nag",
": to single out for criticism, teasing, or bullying",
": to single out for a particular purpose or for special attention",
": a blow or stroke with a pointed instrument",
": the act or privilege of choosing or selecting : choice",
": the best or choicest one",
": one that is picked",
": the portion of a crop gathered at one time",
": a screen in basketball",
": an intercepted forward pass : interception",
": a heavy, usually long-handled iron or steel tool pointed at one or both ends \u2014 compare mattock",
": toothpick",
": picklock",
": a small thin piece (as of plastic or metal) used to pluck the strings of a stringed instrument",
": one of the points on the forepart of the blade of a skate used in figure skating",
": a comb with long widely spaced teeth used to give height to a hairstyle",
": to throw or thrust with effort : hurl",
": to throw (a shuttle) across the loom",
": the act of pitching or throwing",
": something thrown",
": a throw of the shuttle",
": a filling thread",
": to gather one by one",
": to remove bit by bit",
": to remove unwanted material from between or inside",
": choose sense 1 , select",
": to walk along slowly and carefully",
": to eat sparingly or in a finicky manner",
": to steal from",
": to start (a fight) with someone deliberately",
": to pluck with the fingers or with a pick",
": to unlock without a key",
": to single out for mean treatment",
": to take hold of and lift",
": to clean up : tidy",
": to stop for and take along",
": learn sense 1",
": to get without great effort or by chance",
": to get by buying",
": to begin again after a temporary stop",
": to bring within range of hearing",
": to gain or get back speed or strength",
": a heavy tool with a wooden handle and a blade pointed at one or both ends for loosening or breaking up soil or rock",
": a slender pointed instrument",
": a thin piece of metal or plastic used to pluck the strings of a musical instrument",
": the act or opportunity of choosing",
": choice entry 1 sense 3",
": the best ones"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pik",
"\u02c8pik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb (1)",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb (1)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
"Noun (1)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (2)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb (2)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (3)",
"1627, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-183616"
},
"pith":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage",
": any of various loose spongy plant tissues that resemble true pith",
": the soft or spongy interior of a part of the body",
": the essential part : core",
": substantial quality (as of meaning)",
": importance",
": to kill (an animal) by piercing or severing the spinal cord",
": to destroy the spinal cord or central nervous system of (an animal, such as a frog) usually by passing a wire or needle up and down the spinal canal",
": to remove the pith from (a plant stem)",
": the loose spongy tissue forming the center of the stem in most plants",
": the important part",
": to kill (as cattle) by piercing or severing the spinal cord",
": to destroy the spinal cord or central nervous system of (as a frog) usually by passing a wire or needle up and down the spinal canal"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pith",
"\u02c8pith",
"\u02c8pith"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom line",
"bull's-eye",
"centerpiece",
"core",
"crux",
"essence",
"gist",
"heart",
"kernel",
"keynote",
"meat",
"meat and potatoes",
"net",
"nub",
"nubbin",
"nucleus",
"pivot",
"point",
"root",
"sum"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"finally got to the pith of the discussion",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Their fans applauded the quips in the comments and replies sections of their posts, and the pith didn\u2019t stop there. \u2014 Nardine Saadstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
"Or, slice peeled orange into rounds, discarding seeds and trimming any remaining pith . \u2014 Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ , 20 Jan. 2022",
"But some, including me, prefer a thicker piece of peel that includes the pith . \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The nose transports you to an orchard full of green apples with hints of lemon pith , fresh cut green pineapple, and chamomile. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Brown coloration indicates a dead or dying cane and may require pruning to a bud eye lower to the crown to find live pith . \u2014 oregonlive , 8 Mar. 2022",
"The animals chew plant pith and swallow whole leaves to kill intestinal parasites. \u2014 Aylin Woodward, WSJ , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Trim the tops and bottoms off each orange, then place an orange onto one of its cut ends and use a knife to slice down along the curve of the fruit to remove the remaining peel and pith . \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Set fruit on end and cut away peel and pith , slicing top to bottom following curve of fruit. \u2014 Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Neither was Trey Wingenter, who warmed up multiple times before pithing an inning Tuesday and three innings in the four-game series in Colorado. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 June 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb",
"1805, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-191819"
},
"pippin":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a crisp tart apple having usually yellow or greenish-yellow skin strongly flushed with red and used especially for cooking",
": a highly admired or very admirable person or thing"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-p\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaut",
"beauty",
"bee's knees",
"cat's meow",
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"daisy",
"dandy",
"dilly",
"doozy",
"doozie",
"doozer",
"dream",
"honey",
"hot stuff",
"humdinger",
"hummer",
"jim-dandy",
"knockout",
"lollapalooza",
"lulu",
"nifty",
"peach",
"pip",
"ripper",
"ripsnorter",
"snorter",
"sockdolager",
"sockdologer",
"standout",
"sweetheart"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"gave a pippin of a commencement speech that earned a standing ovation"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English pepin , from Anglo-French",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-194338"
},
"picturesque":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": resembling a picture : suggesting a painted scene",
": charming or quaint in appearance",
": evoking mental images : vivid",
": suggesting a painted scene in being very pretty or charming"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccpik-ch\u0259-\u02c8resk",
"\u02ccpik-ch\u0259-\u02c8resk"
],
"synonyms":[
"delineated",
"graphic",
"graphical",
"pictorial",
"visual",
"vivid"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The view of the mountains was very picturesque .",
"wrote a picturesque tale of their journey across the country",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lake Tahoe, known for its picturesque views, is also home to a major garbage problem: A team of scuba divers this week collected more than 25,000 pounds of trash from its deep-blue waters. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
"With two times available, both early birds and late sleepers can indulge in the holiday fun \u2014 which includes picturesque views and live music. \u2014 Sara Butler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 Apr. 2022",
"French Island was a perfect community with picturesque views until residents found out about the chemicals leaching into their private drinking wells. \u2014 Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 18 Feb. 2022",
"After scaling the preserve\u2019s fire tower and soaking in picturesque views of the surrounding countryside, nearby Drayton Grant Park at Burger Hill offers a second perspective on the landscape in a truly pastoral setting. \u2014 Jared Ranahan, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Surrounded by verdant orchards and grapevines, Istalif is known for its picturesque views and turquoise pottery. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Aug. 2021",
"Wooden observation towers dot Wisconsin, provide unobstructed, picturesque views and have been the settings for more than a few family photos. \u2014 Barry Adams, Star Tribune , 17 July 2021",
"According to a new policy that went into effect on Monday, those who are fully vaccinated are now free to move about the Caribbean island, which is known for its picturesque views, gorgeous beaches, and sprawling rain forests. \u2014 Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure , 2 June 2021",
"After enjoying your meal, walk around from the ground level outdoors as well as the balconies above to take in more picturesque views. \u2014 Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com , 23 May 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French & Italian; French pittoresque , from Italian pittoresco , from pittore painter, from Latin pictor , from pingere ",
"first_known_use":[
"1703, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-194454"
},
"pinheaded":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": dull , stupid"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pin-\u02cche-d\u0259d"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"bonehead",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"oafish",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thick-witted",
"thickheaded",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
],
"antonyms":[
"apt",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
],
"examples":[
"pinheaded leadership that got us into this mess"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1776, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-200329"
},
"pip":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb ()"
],
"definitions":[
": a disorder of a bird marked by formation of a scale or crust on the tongue",
": the scale or crust of this disorder",
": any of various human ailments",
": a slight nonspecific disorder",
": a feeling of irritation or annoyance",
": peep entry 1 sense 1",
": to break through the shell of the egg",
": to break open (the shell of an egg) in hatching",
": one of the dots used on dice and dominoes to indicate numerical value",
": spot sense 2c",
": spot , speck",
": spike entry 1 sense 6a",
": blip",
": an individual rootstock of the lily of the valley",
": a diamond-shaped insignia of rank worn by a second lieutenant, lieutenant, or captain in the British army",
": a small fruit seed",
": one of a several-seeded fleshy fruit",
": one extraordinary of its kind",
": to beat by a narrow margin",
": a short high-pitched tone",
": the formation of a scale or crust on the tip and dorsal surface of the tongue of a bird often associated with respiratory diseases",
": the scale or crust itself"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pip",
"\u02c8pip"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun (1)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb (1)",
"1598, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1",
"Noun (2)",
"1604, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun (3)",
"1797, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb (2)",
"1880, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun (4)",
"1907, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-201820"
},
"pitch-dark":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": extremely dark : pitch-black",
": extremely dark"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pich-\u02c8d\u00e4rk",
"\u02c8pich-\u02c8d\u00e4rk"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1704, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-220150"
},
"pile (up)":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a collision involving usually several motor vehicles",
": a jammed tangled mass or pile (as of motor vehicles or people) resulting from collision or accumulation",
": accumulation"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012b(-\u0259)l-\u02cc\u0259p"
],
"synonyms":[
"accretion",
"accumulation",
"assemblage",
"collection",
"cumulation",
"cumulus",
"gathering",
"lodgment",
"lodgement"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"A five-car pileup slowed traffic.",
"a pileup of e-mail messages that needed to be dealt with",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The death toll in the massive Monday pileup on a snowy Pennsylvania highway has risen to six people, the Pennsylvania State Police said Wednesday. \u2014 Victoria Albert, CBS News , 30 Mar. 2022",
"That particular primary was a eight-person pileup in which all the candidates struggled to get out a message, producing a highly fractured vote. \u2014 Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"Monday's multi-car collision is the second pileup in Schuylkill County in just over a month, according to the outlet. \u2014 Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The derailment came two days after an ascending escalator malfunctioned at the Back Bay Station and suddenly plummeted in reverse, causing a bloody pileup of people at the bottom. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
"The pileup of drugs was typical; people hearing voices or having other hallucinations rarely wind up on just one medication. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
"Photos and video of the slide showed a pileup of trees, dirt and debris that broke away from the steep slope above the road and crossed into the water below. \u2014 Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News , 8 May 2022",
"In 2011, two-time Indianapolis 500 champ Dan Wheldon was involved in a horrific 15-car pileup , which ultimately claimed his life. \u2014 Jim Clash, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The road was already covered with snow prior to the squall and the pileup , making driving conditions even worse. \u2014 Cady Stanton, USA TODAY , 30 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1900, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-071356"
},
"pixillated":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": somewhat unbalanced mentally",
": bemused",
": whimsical"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pik-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101-t\u0259d"
],
"synonyms":[
"addle",
"addled",
"addlepated",
"bedeviled",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"bushed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"dazed",
"distracted",
"dizzy",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"fogged",
"mixed-up",
"muddleheaded",
"muzzy",
"punch-drunk",
"punchy",
"raddled",
"shell-shocked",
"silly",
"slaphappy",
"spaced-out",
"spaced",
"spacey",
"spacy",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"zonked",
"zonked-out"
],
"antonyms":[
"clearheaded"
],
"examples":[
"a pixilated waitress who couldn't seem to get anything straight"
],
"history_and_etymology":"irregular from pixie ",
"first_known_use":[
"1848, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-162056"
},
"pious":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship",
": marked by conspicuous religiosity",
": sacred or devotional as distinct from the profane or secular : religious",
": showing loyal reverence for a person or thing : dutiful",
": marked by sham or hypocrisy",
": marked by self-conscious virtue : virtuous",
": deserving commendation : worthy",
": showing devotion to God"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012b-\u0259s",
"\u02c8p\u012b-\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"constant",
"dedicated",
"devoted",
"devout",
"down-the-line",
"faithful",
"fast",
"good",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue"
],
"antonyms":[
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"An earnest and pious honors graduate of New England\u2019s prestigious Dartmouth College, the 18-year-old cut a fine figure. \u2014 Peter Cozzens, WSJ , 18 Feb. 2022",
"The air of pious condemnation that suddenly fills the air is both shocking and sadly familiar. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Under the Banner of Heaven (which will stream on Hulu) asks some very hard questions of its own, starting as a gripping murder mystery set in a seemingly pious , quiet Mormon community. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Even the most pious victims\u2014ministers, priests\u2014were screaming profanities as the end neared. \u2014 Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The pious in shantytowns and those of more questionable faith in the well-to-do neighborhoods have found common cause in their rejection of theocracy. \u2014 Reuel Marc Gerecht, National Review , 31 Mar. 2022",
"In Asch's drama, a Polish Jewish father who makes a living from the brothel in his basement wants to marry his virgin daughter to a pious Jewish groom. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Davis also foreshadows that Claire\u2019s good intentions to continue to work with modern medicine may put a mark on her by Tom Christie and his uber pious and superstitious group. \u2014 Sharareh Drury, Variety , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Historian Leanda de Lisle announced the discovery on her website late last year, identifying the statuette as a likeness of the pious \u2014and infamously incompetent\u201415th-century king Henry VI. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Latin pius ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-073546"
},
"picnic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": an excursion or outing with food usually provided by members of the group and eaten in the open",
": the food provided for a picnic",
": a pleasant or amusingly carefree experience",
": an easy task or feat",
": a shoulder of pork with much of the butt removed",
": to go on a picnic : eat in picnic fashion",
": an outdoor party with food taken along and eaten in the open",
": a pleasant or carefree experience",
": to go on a picnic"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pik-(\u02cc)nik",
"\u02c8pik-\u02ccnik"
],
"synonyms":[
"beer and skittles",
"easy street",
"fun and games",
"hog heaven"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"We decided to have a picnic on the beach.",
"We ate our picnic by the lake.",
"The annual school picnic is this weekend.",
"This winter is a picnic compared with last year's.",
"Verb",
"We picnicked in the park.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The rushing sound of water and canopy of over 100 live oak trees make this park an excellent location for a picnic or some simple relaxation. \u2014 Gabi De La Rosa, Chron , 8 June 2022",
"Carry these delicious sandwiches to the back porch or patio, or pack them to go for a picnic in the park. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"The McPolin barn offers restroom facilities, a historic homestead and a great lawn for a picnic . \u2014 Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune , 20 May 2022",
"Chintzy prints, ruffled hems, and all-over florals fit for a picnic may be used throughout the collection, but don't call it cottagecore. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 16 May 2022",
"Possible activities include fishing, hiking, cycling or just settling in for a picnic . \u2014 Ana Roc\u00edo \u00c1lvarez Br\u00ed\u00f1ez, The Courier-Journal , 10 May 2022",
"The family-friendly attraction has a gift shop and concession stand, and visitors are welcome to bring their own food for a picnic as well. \u2014 Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 May 2022",
"Particularly in the summer when the rain tends to lighten up, the 350-acre royal park is perfect for a picnic or a stroll with a to-go tea. \u2014 Claire Stern, ELLE , 5 May 2022",
"Talk about a fun way to work up an appetite for a delicious picnic ! \u2014 Erin Cavoto, Country Living , 4 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"This beach boasts all the amenities, including restrooms, showers, concessions, and a boardwalk along the jetty with overlook platforms and picnic tables. \u2014 Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"The brewery's charming outdoor space\u2014emulating a grassy backyard complete with vegetable patches, picnic tables and Adirondack chairs\u2014was a huge draw. \u2014 Emma Balter, Chron , 22 June 2022",
"Both beaches have concession stands, bathrooms, changing areas, showers, grills, and picnic tables. \u2014 Sam Dangremond, Town & Country , 18 June 2022",
"The park also has a playground, ramada, picnic area and grills. \u2014 Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic , 26 May 2022",
"The day-use area had pit toilets and picnic tables. \u2014 Bob Robinson, Arkansas Online , 23 May 2022",
"Pre-pandemic, the first level was a large room with high ceilings and picnic tables scattered about that could be moved to create a dance floor. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 17 May 2022",
"There are lots of trees, lots of shade and plenty of patio furniture and picnic tables. \u2014 Matt Koesters, The Enquirer , 22 Apr. 2022",
"There\u2019s an out-of-the-way shady spot filled with cedars and picnic tables that\u2019s less crowded \u2014 and inaccessible by car. \u2014 Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times , 21 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"1826, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1815, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-105232"
},
"pixie":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": fairy",
": a cheerful mischievous sprite",
": a usually petite vivacious woman or girl",
": a haircut worn by women and children that is very short all over the head or especially short only at the sides and back of the head",
": playfully mischievous",
": a mischievous elf or fairy"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pik-s\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"brownie",
"dwarf",
"elf",
"faerie",
"faery",
"fairy",
"fay",
"gnome",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"hobgoblin",
"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll"
],
"antonyms":[
"arch",
"devilish",
"elvish",
"espi\u00e8gle",
"impish",
"knavish",
"leprechaunish",
"mischievous",
"pixieish",
"prankish",
"puckish",
"rascally",
"roguish",
"scampish",
"sly",
"tricksy",
"waggish",
"wicked"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"leave a dish of milk and some bread out for the pixies",
"Adjective",
"resorted to some pixie high jinks to liven up the office party",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"With her pixie hairdo, reserves of strength and sweet, soft-spoken voice evoking classic Mia Farrow, VanderWaal is once again a magnetic presence. \u2014 Courtney Howard, Variety , 1 June 2022",
"Williams looked gamine with her signature pixie cut, single necklace, and natural makeup. \u2014 Sarah Spellings, Vogue , 30 May 2022",
"From Dame Helen Mirren debuting a bubblegum-pink pixie crop in 2019 to Bella Hadid's sculptural necklace and couture ball gown by Schiaparelli in 2021, scroll for a definitive look back at the festival's most memorable fashion moments. \u2014 Leah Dolan, CNN , 13 May 2022",
"Her signature pixie cut is parted on the side with her hairs short on either side of her head and a bit longer on top. \u2014 Addison Aloian, Allure , 10 May 2022",
"Jules, a transgender girl and a recent East Highland transplant, has the spirit of a capricious pixie : spontaneous and sweet but inconsistent and somewhat manipulative. \u2014 Caroline Downey, National Review , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Just a few weeks after chopping off all of her hair into a pixie cut, JoJo Siwa is already an expert at styling her new hair. \u2014 Addison Aloian, Allure , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The third and final wig (not pictured) is a pixie cut that appears at the end of the season, before Michelle goes to jail, which was also based entirely on pictures at the sentencing. \u2014 Lauren Huff, EW.com , 19 Apr. 2022",
"RiRi kept up with the short hairstyles in 2008, going for a pixie cut with sweeping bangs. \u2014 Janae Mckenzie, Glamour , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Atop the pile, Tinker Bell sat waving, like a pixie Jackie Onassis. \u2014 Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"For all its sprinklings of pixie dust \u2014 a wiggly scorpion samba, a cyclone of flying pastries \u2014 the movie is often disconcertingly adult, and at the same time, largely unconcerned with welcoming in viewers not already steeped in the mythology. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Revel, a kombucha brewery and tasting room, will release a pixie tangerine kombucha. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Maurice is a genially bearish man, with curly brown hair, who looks like a brainier John Laroquette; Katia, with short hair and glasses and a vivacious grin, suggests a pixie version of Terry Gross. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Goofy costumes, silly songs, colorful sets and a sprinkling of pixie dust never hurt anyone, and the ABC reality series has gone overboard this year with not just one, but two, Disney Nights. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Again a roof will greatly cut down the natural air circulation and ventilation, assuming that the roof is made out of solid material and not pixie dust. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Add some extra pixie dust to your stay by reserving a shaded cabana that includes couch seating; two lounge chairs; a flat-screen TV; a safe; a fridge with free, non-alcoholic drinks; and a complimentary fruit platter and lemon water tower. \u2014 Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com , 15 July 2021",
"So not what lots and lots and lots of fans were dying to hear, but coaches and managers usually stick with logic, not hunches, not Tinkerbell, a sprinkle of catchy music and a fistful of pixie dust. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2021"
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"Noun",
"circa 1636, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Adjective",
"1943, in the meaning defined above"
],
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to eat greedily : gorge"
],
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"gorge",
"gormandize",
"overeat",
"swill"
],
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"examples":[
"one holiday when you're expected to pig out on junk food",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Senator Joni Ernst and Tom Schatz warned about the return of earmarks: Congress isn\u2019t even waiting to lift the decade-long moratorium on earmarking before starting to pig out . \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 6 Mar. 2021",
"Congress isn\u2019t even waiting to lift the decade-long moratorium on earmarking before starting to pig out . \u2014 Zachary Evans, National Review , 1 Mar. 2021",
"The Wolf House begins with a grandfatherly voice-over telling us that, once upon a time, a little German girl named Maria let two pigs out of the colony, then ran out into the woods to chase after them. \u2014 Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic , 20 May 2020",
"Meanwhile, in town, revelers dance in the street to live music and pig out on traditional Cajun and Creole cuisine. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Jan. 2020",
"That, and the chance to take the pig out of Iowa for the first time in 20 years, will be more than enough to avoid any sort of hangover. \u2014 Andy Greder, Twin Cities , 15 Nov. 2019",
"Your best bet might have been to leave early, take the spouse and the kid to McDonald\u2019s, sit on the hood of your car pigging out in the sunshine, and make a memory. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 July 2019",
"Vacationing means chilling out\u2014and for a lot of us, pigging out . \u2014 Blake Bakkila, Health.com , 27 June 2018",
"Witnesses said the teen tried to drag the squealing pig out of a barn using a rope, according to court records. \u2014 Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle , 4 Feb. 2018"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1977, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-114333"
},
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"adjective",
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": steal",
": to steal stealthily in small amounts and often again and again",
": steal",
": to steal in small quantities",
": to steal small amounts or articles of small value",
": to steal especially in small amounts and often again and again",
": to steal or steal from especially in small quantities"
],
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"\u02c8pil-f\u0259r",
"\u02c8pil-f\u0259r",
"\u02c8pil-f\u0259r"
],
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"appropriate",
"boost",
"filch",
"heist",
"hook",
"lift",
"misappropriate",
"nick",
"nip",
"pinch",
"pocket",
"purloin",
"rip off",
"snitch",
"steal",
"swipe",
"thieve"
],
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"examples":[
"She pilfered stamps and paper from work.",
"what sort of person would pilfer lunches from the office refrigerator?",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On the other hand, one of the great benefits of Strava is the ability to pilfer workout ideas from other runners, including some top professionals. \u2014 Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Sasha had been a f---up all the way into her thirties: a kleptomaniac who'd managed to pilfer countless items from countless people over countless years. \u2014 Seija Rankin, EW.com , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Mashing crisp, addictively seasoned Cajun fries into a shining puddle of garlic butter when there are no potatoes left to pilfer from the bag is not precisely a replacement for the genuinely healthy boon my occasional trips to Sweet Tomatoes were. \u2014 Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 4 Nov. 2021",
"Large webs of silk are no good against larger animals, especially birds that pilfer the silk to adorn their own nests. \u2014 Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 Oct. 2021",
"And Trace Adkins periodically pops up to effortlessly pilfer scenes while wrapping his honey-dripping drawl around Lee\u2019s dialogue. \u2014 Joe Leydon, Variety , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Exploiting the weaknesses to pilfer information from a user\u2019s phone or tablet would also require that another rogue app was installed on the device. \u2014 Thomas Brewster, Forbes , 17 June 2021",
"The request may be coming from someone looking to worm into your professional network to pilfer trade secrets, disrupt your systems, steal your identity or just harm your public reputation or brand. \u2014 Heidi Mitchell, WSJ , 8 June 2021",
"Thus far the hackers have only been seen abusing the flaw to take screenshots, but the same exploit could be abused to pilfer files, record audio over the microphone or take images via the Mac\u2019s camera, Jamf said. \u2014 Thomas Brewster, Forbes , 24 May 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle French pelfrer , from pelfre booty",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1548, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-145902"
},
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"type":[
"adverb or adjective",
"intransitive verb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": pitter-patter"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccpit-i-\u02c8pat"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"imitative",
"first_known_use":[
"1582, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-093227"
},
"pitfall":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": trap , snare",
": a pit flimsily covered or camouflaged and used to capture and hold animals or men",
": a hidden or not easily recognized danger or difficulty",
": a covered or camouflaged pit used to capture animals or people",
": a danger or difficulty that is hidden or is not easily recognized"
],
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"\u02c8pit-\u02ccf\u022fl",
"\u02c8pit-\u02ccf\u022fl"
],
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"booby trap",
"catch",
"catch-22",
"gimmick",
"gotcha",
"hitch",
"joker",
"land mine",
"snag"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"buying a house can be full of pitfalls for the unwary",
"one of the pitfalls of ignorance is that people will also assume you're stupid",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Perfectionism can be a professional and personal pitfall . \u2014 Nuala Walsh, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"The mix of plaintiffs in Jones v. Bonta is engineered to avoid that pitfall . \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 26 May 2022",
"That could erode the current economic expansion, but if the U.S. weathers the storm without too much upheaval, then that potential pitfall may not be a factor. \u2014 Megan Leonhardt, Fortune , 19 May 2022",
"Creator partnerships can be structured to sidestep this all-too-common pitfall : Instead of a script of stale sales pitches, provide influencers with content prompts that allow for flexible brand storytelling. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"The most obvious pitfall : Tracking breeds a lack of trust, especially when it's used to police kids' behavior. \u2014 Amy Paturel, Wired , 29 Mar. 2022",
"In a way, the series is a consideration of a pitfall that entrepreneurs face every day, especially when big money is involved. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Panic avoids this pitfall with a few crucial design-language tricks, including thinness (9 mm), lightness (3.03 oz / 86 g), and adequate width. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 18 Apr. 2022",
"One way to avoid this pitfall is to allocate health care funds in part based on community needs like transportation, housing, and employment, but implement payment arrangements with the same standards and rules in all communities. \u2014 Amol Navathe, STAT , 30 Mar. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-101150"
},
"pickle":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a solution or bath for preserving or cleaning: such as",
": a brine or vinegar solution in which foods are preserved",
": any of various baths used in industrial cleaning or processing",
": a difficult situation : plight",
": an article of food that has been preserved in brine or in vinegar",
": a cucumber that has been so preserved",
": to treat, preserve, or clean in or with a pickle",
": to give a light finish to (something, such as furniture) by bleaching or painting and wiping",
": grain , kernel",
": a small quantity",
": a piece of food and especially a cucumber that has been preserved in a solution of salt water or vinegar",
": a mixture of salt and water or vinegar for keeping foods : brine",
": a difficult or very unpleasant situation",
": to soak or keep in a solution of salt water or vinegar"
],
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"\u02c8pi-k\u0259l",
"\u02c8pi-k\u0259l"
],
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"examples":[],
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"Noun (1)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1526, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (2)",
"1552, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-102341"
},
"pictorial":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": of or relating to a painter, a painting, or the painting or drawing of pictures",
": of, relating to, or consisting of pictures",
": illustrated by pictures",
": consisting of or displaying the characteristics of pictographs",
": suggesting or conveying visual images",
": a periodical having much pictorial matter",
": of or relating to pictures",
": having or using pictures"
],
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"pik-\u02c8t\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259l",
"pik-\u02c8t\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259l"
],
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"graphic",
"graphical",
"imaginal",
"visual"
],
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"examples":[
"Adjective",
"a pictorial record of the trip",
"that photojournalist is planning to do a primarily pictorial report on the famine in Africa",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Many bands of Plains tribes, like the Lakota, kept what are known as winter counts, pictorial histories drawn onto animal hides. \u2014 Graham Lee Brewer, NBC News , 3 June 2022",
"While prior decks were less pictorial in nature, Smith's is filled with lush imagery that makes their interpretation easier for the reader. \u2014 CNN , 12 May 2022",
"There\u2019s a beautiful pictorial graphic sense to a lot of his work, but a lot of his writing is vaguely repellent. \u2014 Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue , 10 Mar. 2022",
"But while magazines like Outside publish in-depth profiles about serious topics, their appeal for many is largely pictorial . \u2014 Robert Isenberg, Longreads , 26 Apr. 2022",
"In his late work, Guston developed a kind of pictorial alphabet of images that kept repeating, including books, cigars, windows with green shades, and shoes. \u2014 Peter Saenger, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The history of Wingdings, that silly pictorial font on your computer, is actually fascinating. \u2014 Aj Willingham, CNN , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Their physical bodies \u2014 and your own \u2014 get entangled with those pictorial references to bodily experience, bringing a ghostly, incorporeal picture home. \u2014 Christopher Knightart Critic, Los Angeles Times , 21 Mar. 2022",
"An idealistic and pictorial adventure film with a serious agenda. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Scrolling through Sisson's Instagram is now a loving pictorial of Arizona running, from the Valley canals up to Flagstaff and places in between. \u2014 Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic , 7 Aug. 2021",
"His direction emphasizes the pictorial over the physical. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 9 June 2021",
"Probert was not particularly fond of cats, but this pictorial appealed to him as an advertising logo. \u2014 Brenda Yenke, cleveland , 9 Jan. 2020",
"The Wall preened for magazine pictorials and played the heavy in spy novels. \u2014 Time , 8 Nov. 2019",
"As EW\u2019s Marc Snetiker analyzed, the four pictorials probably represent either the four classical elements (water, earth, fire, air) or the four Gregorian seasons (spring, summer, fall, winter). \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 10 June 2019",
"Playboy temporarily stopped featuring nude pictorials in 2015. \u2014 Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News , 2 May 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"1646, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"1844, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-134126"
},
"pigheadedness":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": willfully or perversely unyielding : obstinate",
": very stubborn"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pig-\u02cche-d\u0259d",
"\u02c8pig-\u02c8he-d\u0259d"
],
"synonyms":[
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"bullheaded",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hard-nosed",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inconvincible",
"inflexible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
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"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
],
"examples":[
"He was too pigheaded to listen to my suggestion.",
"the kind of pigheaded person who seems to believe that facts only confuse an issue"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1637, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-144825"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb",
"verb ()"
],
"definitions":[
": a long slender column usually of timber, steel, or reinforced concrete driven into the ground to carry a vertical load",
": a wedge-shaped heraldic charge usually placed vertically with the broad end up",
": a target-shooting arrowhead without cutting edges",
": an ancient Roman foot soldier's heavy javelin",
": to drive piles into",
": to lay or place in a pile : stack",
": to heap in abundance : load",
": to collect little by little into a mass",
": to form a pile or accumulation",
": to move or press forward in or as if in a mass : crowd",
": a quantity of things heaped together",
": a heap of wood for burning a corpse or a sacrifice",
": any great number or quantity : lot",
": a large building or group of buildings",
": a great amount of money : fortune",
": reactor sense 3b",
": a coat or surface of usually short close fine furry hairs",
": a velvety surface produced by an extra set of filling yarns that form raised loops which are cut and sheared",
": a single hemorrhoid",
": hemorrhoids",
": a large stake or pointed post (as of wood or steel) driven into the ground to support a foundation",
": a large number of things that are put one on top of another",
": a great amount",
": reactor",
": to lay or place one on top of another : stack",
": to heap in large amounts",
": to move or push forward in a crowd or group",
": a soft surface of fine short raised threads or fibers",
": a single hemorrhoid",
": hemorrhoids",
": the condition of one affected with hemorrhoids",
"[Latin pilum ]"
],
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"\u02c8p\u012b(-\u0259)l",
"\u02c8p\u012bl",
"\u02c8p\u012b(\u0259)l"
],
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"Noun (1)",
"12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb (1)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb (2)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
"Noun (2)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)",
"Noun (3)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (4)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-171922"
},
"pixy":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": fairy",
": a cheerful mischievous sprite",
": a usually petite vivacious woman or girl",
": a haircut worn by women and children that is very short all over the head or especially short only at the sides and back of the head",
": playfully mischievous",
": a mischievous elf or fairy"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pik-s\u0113"
],
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"brownie",
"dwarf",
"elf",
"faerie",
"faery",
"fairy",
"fay",
"gnome",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"hobgoblin",
"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll"
],
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"arch",
"devilish",
"elvish",
"espi\u00e8gle",
"impish",
"knavish",
"leprechaunish",
"mischievous",
"pixieish",
"prankish",
"puckish",
"rascally",
"roguish",
"scampish",
"sly",
"tricksy",
"waggish",
"wicked"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"leave a dish of milk and some bread out for the pixies",
"Adjective",
"resorted to some pixie high jinks to liven up the office party",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"With her pixie hairdo, reserves of strength and sweet, soft-spoken voice evoking classic Mia Farrow, VanderWaal is once again a magnetic presence. \u2014 Courtney Howard, Variety , 1 June 2022",
"Williams looked gamine with her signature pixie cut, single necklace, and natural makeup. \u2014 Sarah Spellings, Vogue , 30 May 2022",
"From Dame Helen Mirren debuting a bubblegum-pink pixie crop in 2019 to Bella Hadid's sculptural necklace and couture ball gown by Schiaparelli in 2021, scroll for a definitive look back at the festival's most memorable fashion moments. \u2014 Leah Dolan, CNN , 13 May 2022",
"Her signature pixie cut is parted on the side with her hairs short on either side of her head and a bit longer on top. \u2014 Addison Aloian, Allure , 10 May 2022",
"Jules, a transgender girl and a recent East Highland transplant, has the spirit of a capricious pixie : spontaneous and sweet but inconsistent and somewhat manipulative. \u2014 Caroline Downey, National Review , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Just a few weeks after chopping off all of her hair into a pixie cut, JoJo Siwa is already an expert at styling her new hair. \u2014 Addison Aloian, Allure , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The third and final wig (not pictured) is a pixie cut that appears at the end of the season, before Michelle goes to jail, which was also based entirely on pictures at the sentencing. \u2014 Lauren Huff, EW.com , 19 Apr. 2022",
"RiRi kept up with the short hairstyles in 2008, going for a pixie cut with sweeping bangs. \u2014 Janae Mckenzie, Glamour , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Atop the pile, Tinker Bell sat waving, like a pixie Jackie Onassis. \u2014 Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"For all its sprinklings of pixie dust \u2014 a wiggly scorpion samba, a cyclone of flying pastries \u2014 the movie is often disconcertingly adult, and at the same time, largely unconcerned with welcoming in viewers not already steeped in the mythology. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Revel, a kombucha brewery and tasting room, will release a pixie tangerine kombucha. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Maurice is a genially bearish man, with curly brown hair, who looks like a brainier John Laroquette; Katia, with short hair and glasses and a vivacious grin, suggests a pixie version of Terry Gross. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Goofy costumes, silly songs, colorful sets and a sprinkling of pixie dust never hurt anyone, and the ABC reality series has gone overboard this year with not just one, but two, Disney Nights. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Again a roof will greatly cut down the natural air circulation and ventilation, assuming that the roof is made out of solid material and not pixie dust. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Add some extra pixie dust to your stay by reserving a shaded cabana that includes couch seating; two lounge chairs; a flat-screen TV; a safe; a fridge with free, non-alcoholic drinks; and a complimentary fruit platter and lemon water tower. \u2014 Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com , 15 July 2021",
"So not what lots and lots and lots of fans were dying to hear, but coaches and managers usually stick with logic, not hunches, not Tinkerbell, a sprinkle of catchy music and a fistful of pixie dust. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2021"
],
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"Noun",
"circa 1636, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Adjective",
"1943, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-181028"
},
"pipe dream":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an illusory or fantastic plan, hope, or story"
],
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"synonyms":[
"chimera",
"conceit",
"daydream",
"delusion",
"dream",
"fancy",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"figment",
"hallucination",
"illusion",
"nonentity",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"unreality",
"vision"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"His plan for starting his own business was just a pipe dream .",
"opening our own restaurant has long been a pipe dream",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For pitchers, the 300-win plateau feels like a pipe dream these days, and even strikeout milestones are no sure thing, since the top starters don\u2019t throw as many innings as in the past. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 Apr. 2022",
"It is built to carry nine passengers as far as 500 miles on a charge \u2014 a range that could connect San Francisco to San Diego, or Boston to Washington, D.C. \u2014 with what once seemed like a pipe dream : carbon-free flight. \u2014 Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Nevertheless, achieving zero emissions this decade is shaping out to be a pipe dream at this point, considering global emissions are still climbing, and set to continue for the next several years. \u2014 Rachel Ramirez, CNN , 6 June 2022",
"In today\u2019s climate of endless content being scattered across countless platforms, the idea of pro wrestling becoming mainstream might be a pipe dream . \u2014 Alfred Konuwa, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"However, that appears to be more of a pipe dream than a realistic possibility for now. \u2014 Bryan Toporek, Forbes , 13 Oct. 2021",
"All this might sound like a pipe dream , but the momentum behind the ESG movement shows it can be done. \u2014 Patricia Geli, Fortune , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Putin won't relinquish Russian claims on those territories, and any idea of retaking them by force is a pipe dream . \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 8 Mar. 2022",
"With barely any rest, being at his best often felt like a pipe dream . \u2014 Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times , 28 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"from the fantasies brought about by the smoking of opium",
"first_known_use":[
"1890, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-181439"
},
"pimple":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a small inflamed elevation of the skin : papule",
": pustule",
": a swelling or protuberance like a pimple",
": a small red swelling of the skin often containing pus",
": a small inflamed elevation of the skin : papule",
": pustule",
": a swelling or protuberance like a pimple"
],
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"\u02c8pim-p\u0259l",
"\u02c8pim-p\u0259l",
"\u02c8pim-p\u0259l"
],
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"boil",
"fester",
"hickey",
"papule",
"pock",
"pustule",
"whelk",
"zit"
],
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"examples":[
"a painful pimple on his back",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The researchers also discovered that retinoids, a powerful and commonly used class of pimple -fighting drug, work partially by blocking fibroblasts' transformation and release of irritating proteins. \u2014 Maddie Bender, Scientific American , 1 June 2022",
"Have a red, angry pimple that might be a candidate for hydrocolloid patch or Band-Aid? \u2014 Editors Of Men's Health, Men's Health , 24 May 2022",
"Treating acne can be a frustrating process, especially when you're left with discoloration and scarring after the pimple is gone. \u2014 Talia Gutierrez, Allure , 19 May 2022",
"What\u2019s so great about Starface\u2019s pimple -shrinking protectors? \u2014 Jake Smith, Glamour , 26 Apr. 2022",
"But having a pimple on your face does not mean that you are looked at any differently. \u2014 Bella Cacciatore, Glamour , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Popping a pimple at home can leave you with an infection, swelling, or a scar. \u2014 Julie Ricevuto, Allure , 29 Oct. 2020",
"People can confuse a cold sore for a canker sore, an angry noncontagious lesion that isn\u2019t linked with herpes, or an exceptionally painful pimple , at least in the beginning before the blister opens up. \u2014 Zahra Barnes, SELF , 3 Jan. 2022",
"Sure enough, the day after my second trial, a pimple popped up on my chin. \u2014 Molly Longman, refinery29.com , 21 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English pymple ; akin to Old English piplian to break out in pimples, and probably to English pimp \u2014 more at pimp ",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-181906"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": willfully or perversely unyielding : obstinate",
": very stubborn"
],
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"\u02c8pig-\u02cche-d\u0259d",
"\u02c8pig-\u02c8he-d\u0259d"
],
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"adamant",
"adamantine",
"bullheaded",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hard-nosed",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inconvincible",
"inflexible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
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"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
],
"examples":[
"He was too pigheaded to listen to my suggestion.",
"the kind of pigheaded person who seems to believe that facts only confuse an issue"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1637, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-182030"
},
"piffle":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to talk or act in a trivial, inept, or ineffective way",
": trivial nonsense"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-f\u0259l"
],
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"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"His story is complete piffle .",
"the belief that soda is made out of acid is just piffle",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The Ritz, a smart London hotel where Margaret Thatcher spent her last days, is in fine fettle, turning a neat annual profit and valued in the region of \u00a3800m\u2014not bad for a property bought for a piffling \u00a375m in 1995. \u2014 The Economist , 31 Oct. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The whole story now seems like so much piffle , except for the sons who lost their mother and a princess who lost her life. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 7 Oct. 2021",
"It\u2019s a not-quite-living imitation of a movie, a self-parody that lacks even a touch of humor\u2014because, at the slightest sting of wit, its entire membrane of fakery would burst and leave hardly a piffle of vapor behind. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 18 Mar. 2021",
"The fact that all those involved in discussing this question have heads full of tosh and piffle does not make for productive debates. \u2014 Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker , 16 Nov. 2020",
"Though often dismissed as superstitious piffle , ghosts have proved surprisingly durable. \u2014 The Economist , 28 Oct. 2017",
"This is music for thinking adults, a welcome antidote to the puerile piffle that currently dominates the airwaves. \u2014 Randy Lewis, latimes.com , 4 Aug. 2017",
"And how much nicer a sentence that is than all that life-ruining piffle about the atopic character of literary space, an indigestible confection that deserves to be tossed from one of Loving\u2019s trains, to languish by the wayside forever. \u2014 Simon Winchester, New York Times , 1 June 2016",
"Rihanna\u2019s involvement in this piece of joyful piffle is a sign of a few important trends in pop. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 5 July 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
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"Verb",
"1847, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun",
"1890, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-190101"
},
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"type":[
"adverb or adjective",
"intransitive verb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a rapid succession of light sounds or beats : patter"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-t\u0259r-\u02ccpa-t\u0259r",
"\u02c8pi-t\u0113-\u02ccpa-"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"reduplication of patter entry 4 ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-194209"
},
"pickled":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": preserved in or cured with pickle",
": drunk sense 1a"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-k\u0259ld"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"lit up",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
],
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
],
"examples":[
"He got pickled at the office party.",
"I must have been rather pickled when I agreed to your stupid scheme.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That could mean a seared chicken breast over a salad of greens, or even braised short ribs served with a pickled or crunchy side salad. \u2014 Hannah Selinger, Outside Online , 14 May 2021",
"Fried Tokyo chicken translates as piping hot nuggets of thigh meat made flavorful with soy sauce, ginger and garlic and partnered with snappy pickled cucumbers \u2014 a pause that refreshes between bites of chicken. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Jan. 2022",
"That\u2019s why water bath canning is used for higher-acid foods such as jams, and pressure canning for lower-acid foods such as non- pickled vegetables. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Aug. 2021",
"The tom kha cauliflower comes in the G.T.P. (Gettin That Paper), with sweet potato glass noodles, pickled cucumbers, truffled tomatoes, herbs and toasted coconut. \u2014 oregonlive , 20 May 2021",
"Etsitty also makes his own pickled cucumber, jalape\u00f1o and red onion. \u2014 Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic , 12 Oct. 2020",
"The tangy, crunchy and colorful pickled relish \u2014 it\u2019s the house giardiniera \u2014 is an inspired touch, and the housemade pickles contribute another cleansing vinegar punch. \u2014 Rick Nelson, Star Tribune , 28 Aug. 2020",
"Order the crispy fish with pickled veggies and a side of curry sauce. \u2014 Essence , 11 June 2020",
"Pops of crunch from quick- pickled cucumber add a refreshing note. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 28 May 2020"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"circa 1552, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-200239"
},
"pileata":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": stopped"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6p\u012bl\u0113\u00a6\u0101t\u0259",
"\u00a6pil-"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"New Latin, from Latin, feminine of pileatus, pilleatus ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-204639"
},
"pimple metal":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": matte containing 77\u201379 percent copper"
],
"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"so called from the appearance of its surface",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-220613"
},
"pickled brood":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a disease of honeybees caused by a fungus ( Aspergillus pollinis )"
],
"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"probably so called from the fact that the dead brood develops a sour smell",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-223028"
},
"pillar":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a firm upright support for a superstructure : post entry 1",
": a usually ornamental column or shaft",
": one standing alone for a monument",
": a supporting, integral, or upstanding member or part",
": a fundamental precept",
": a solid mass of coal, rock, or ore left standing to support a mine roof",
": a body part that resembles a column",
": from one place or one predicament to another",
": to provide or strengthen with or as if with pillars",
": a large post that supports something (as a roof)",
": a single column built as a monument",
": a supporting or important member or part",
": something that resembles a column in shape",
": a body part likened to a pillar or column (as the margin of the external inguinal ring)",
": pillar of the fauces"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-l\u0259r",
"\u02c8pi-l\u0259r",
"\u02c8pil-\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"column",
"pier",
"pilaster",
"post",
"stanchion"
],
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"the ancient Greek temple boasted graceful marble pillars with richly ornamented tops",
"my father has been my pillar throughout this crisis",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Economic sovereignty in particular has always been a pillar of Kirchnerism, exemplified (if not mythologized) by Nestor Kirchner\u2019s payment of billions of dollars\u2019 worth of debt to the IMF in 2005. \u2014 Federico Perelmuter, The New Republic , 21 June 2022",
"Now, there's been an interesting development on pillar 2 recently. \u2014 Tax Notes Staff, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"In one photo, a man is lying next to puddles of blood, just inches from another man who is leaning on a pillar with what appears to be a large bloodstain on his leg. \u2014 NBC News , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The monument is a simple concrete marker set on a sandstone-colored pillar just outside his family\u2019s home. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 Mar. 2022",
"According to research by Morgan Stanley, the U.S. proposal on the first pillar could also make significant changes to effective tax rates, particularly for manufacturers of technology hardware and pharmaceutical companies. \u2014 William Horobin, Bloomberg.com , 21 May 2021",
"In case the Pope\u2019s presence wasn\u2019t clear enough, the Vatican\u2019s insignia is also emblazoned on the D- pillar . \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 21 May 2021",
"The Carnival\u2019s d\u00e9cor includes a chic bow of metal cabin trim embossed with a diamond pattern, same as the trim on the rearward roof pillar . \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 23 Apr. 2021",
"Countries also need to reach an agreement on the other main pillar of tax talks, which aims to address where companies book their profits. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 7 Apr. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The tall windows, pillared facade, rooftop balustrade, and 90-foot-high rotunda of the main building give it the look of a chateau. \u2014 Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic , 15 Dec. 2019",
"The recovery initiative is pillared by a breeding program and habitat safeguards. \u2014 Helena Amante, Smithsonian , 8 Oct. 2019",
"The team started working on the research which initially began in 2014 with the Staghorn coral, but then the focus shifted to pillar coral because of a disease that has been devastating to the Florida Reef Tract. \u2014 Lauren M. Johnson, CNN , 21 Aug. 2019",
"All six of the new Yuletide scents start at just $2 and come in various sizes from tiny tea lights and votive lights to pillar candles and large jars. \u2014 Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living , 5 Oct. 2018",
"The former governor of California took the oak in the marble pillared chambers of the Supreme Court. \u2014 Sacbee, sacbee.com , 19 May 2017"
],
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"Noun",
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"Verb",
"1787, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-112131"
},
"pikestaff":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a spiked staff for use on slippery ground",
": the staff of a foot soldier's pike"
],
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"\u02c8p\u012bk-\u02ccstaf"
],
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"javelin",
"lance",
"pike",
"shaft",
"spear"
],
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"pikestaffs were in use from the Middle Ages to the 18th century"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-113417"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": any of a genus ( Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals",
": the straight-grained white or yellow usually durable and resinous wood of a pine varying from extreme softness in the white pine to hardness in the longleaf pine",
": any of various Australian coniferous trees (as of the genera Callitris or Araucaria )",
": pineapple",
": bench sense 1c",
": to lose vigor, health, or flesh (as through grief) : languish",
": to yearn intensely and persistently especially for something unattainable",
": an evergreen tree that has cones, narrow needles for leaves, and a wood that ranges from very soft to hard",
": to become thin and weak because of sadness or worry",
": to long for very much",
": any tree of the genus Pinus",
": a dietary deficiency disease of sheep or cattle marked by anemia, malnutrition, and general debility",
": such a disease due to cobalt deficiency \u2014 compare morton mains disease"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012bn",
"\u02c8p\u012bn",
"\u02c8p\u012bn"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Nature preserve featuring pine flatwoods and wetlands. \u2014 Cindy Kent, Sun Sentinel , 7 June 2022",
"The result is a shimmering glow that sits nicely next to natural elements like pine -board flooring and the sisal stair runner. \u2014 Helena Madden, ELLE Decor , 6 June 2022",
"Colorful pine cone wreaths are fashioned by Lisa Nussbaum, a quadriplegic who has enough use of her hands to be able to paint. \u2014 cleveland , 6 June 2022",
"Use empty aluminum soda cans or pine cones to fill the bottom of these planter boxes without adding a lot of weight. \u2014 Tierney Mcafee, Country Living , 23 May 2022",
"Two Heston Round Side Tables in light pine and a 16-inch round light gray concrete table comprise other living room furniture. \u2014 Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 May 2022",
"In recent years, the property was reforested with pine , as well as 3,000 olive trees which produce the varieties of arbequina and koroneiki oil that are bottled in their own mill. \u2014 John Oseid, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"The aim of all this burning is to maintain the state\u2019s diverse ecosystems, including prairies, savannas, and pine flatwoods, but also to prevent more dangerous wildfires. \u2014 Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 May 2022",
"The towering trees rustled in greeting, unloosening a familiar pine scent. \u2014 Ling Ma, The Atlantic , 16 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Everyone\u2019s favorite 8-year-old existentialists pine over life\u2019s meanings to a bouncy, smooth jazz, often-quite-funky score. \u2014 oregonlive , 8 June 2022",
"Stories of a couple who makes it against all odds, of a woman who leaves her controlling boyfriend in the nick of time, of would-be lovers who pine for each other in silence, of a priest who falls in love with his choir director. \u2014 Leila Cobo, Billboard , 27 May 2022",
"The Prince Edward-Gallion parkland, home to pine and hardwood trees, is Virginia's first state forest. \u2014 Joe Studley, NBC News , 23 May 2022",
"Hardcore Isbell fans pine for his Drive-By Truckers classics. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 16 May 2022",
"For instance, both characters pine for Layla El-Fahouly (May Calamawy), Marc\u2019s wife, but in a distinctly unique way. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 6 May 2022",
"Urban residents still pine for mountain escapes, perhaps now more than before. \u2014 Devon O\u2019neil, Outside Online , 4 June 2020",
"Sometimes just one hop variety is used in a beer, but more often several are working together\u2014a chorus of little green cones in your pint glass, offering the sipper hints of anything from grass to pine to mango to tangerine. \u2014 Christopher Solomon, Outside Online , 7 Oct. 2020",
"But liberals also pine for the postwar U.S., specifically its foreign relations. \u2014 Dexter Fergie, The New Republic , 24 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-135026"
},
"pixilated":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": somewhat unbalanced mentally",
": bemused",
": whimsical"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pik-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101-t\u0259d"
],
"synonyms":[
"addle",
"addled",
"addlepated",
"bedeviled",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"bushed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"dazed",
"distracted",
"dizzy",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"fogged",
"mixed-up",
"muddleheaded",
"muzzy",
"punch-drunk",
"punchy",
"raddled",
"shell-shocked",
"silly",
"slaphappy",
"spaced-out",
"spaced",
"spacey",
"spacy",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"zonked",
"zonked-out"
],
"antonyms":[
"clearheaded"
],
"examples":[
"a pixilated waitress who couldn't seem to get anything straight"
],
"history_and_etymology":"irregular from pixie ",
"first_known_use":[
"1848, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-141629"
},
"pike (out":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
"to leave a place often for another early next morning the aloof guest just piked out without saying a word"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-143918"
},
"piehole":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": mouth sense 1a"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012b-\u02cch\u014dl"
],
"synonyms":[
"chops",
"gob",
"kisser",
"mouth",
"mug",
"trap",
"yap"
],
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"examples":[
"\u201cShut your piehole or I'll shut it for you,\u201d the bully threatened"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1983, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-145338"
},
"Piegan":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an Indian people of the Blackfoot confederacy",
": a member of the Piegan people",
": the language of the Piegan people"
],
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0113\u02c8gan"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-155125"
},
"pixelated":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": displayed in such a manner that individual pixels are discernible"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pik-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101-t\u0259d"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Deepak Thapliyal, the chief executive of the cryptocurrency company Chain, who purchased a rare NFT of a pixelated alien in February for $23.7 million, isn\u2019t afraid. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
"Since the late \u201990s, Invader\u2019s pixelated pieces inspired by popular 8-bit Atari arcade games have been plastered on the streets of more than 65 cities across 33 countries. \u2014 Spencer Elliott, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"Though the decision to include pixelated drawings of naked humans in the mix may seem odd at first blush, researchers have good reason to include them, reasoning that aliens would, naturally, want to know what humans look like. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 May 2022",
"Has the market for rudimentary pixelated cartoon heads already peaked? \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 9 May 2022",
"The collectibles market\u2014such as memes, avatars, graphics, sports moments, and pixelated creatures\u2014has also been growing, accounting for 38% of transactions since July 2020. \u2014 Lucy Sherriff, Fortune , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Cyber mannequins stood poised in pixelated versions of the looks shown on-screen. \u2014 Leah Dolan, CNN , 30 Mar. 2022",
"For example, the CryptoPunks artwork, though simple, was the first of its kind and became a template for more successful projects like Weird Whales because of its unique pixelated style and \u2018meme-ability\u2019. \u2014 Mahnoor Khan, Fortune , 18 Feb. 2022",
"When digital artworks started selling for millions of dollars last year, the shock of pixelated punks and computerized graphics turned some traditional collectors into crypto skeptics. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Apr. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1982, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-160427"
},
"pilaster":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an upright architectural member that is rectangular in plan and is structurally a pier but architecturally treated as a column and that usually projects a third of its width or less from the wall",
": an elongated hardened ridge",
": a longitudinal bony ridge on the back of the femur"
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"pi-\u02c8la-st\u0259r",
"\u02c8p\u012b-\u02ccla-",
"pi-\u02c8las-t\u0259r"
],
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"column",
"pier",
"pillar",
"post",
"stanchion"
],
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"examples":[
"the rectangular pilasters spaced along the building's facade lend an air of classical grandeur",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Owners\u2019 bath Fluted pilasters with gold capitals frame the tub under foot-thick crown molding. \u2014 Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press , 11 Apr. 2020",
"The blueprints showed that these rooftop decorations, known as antefixes, were in fact baseballs, ornaments that echoed the baseball-adorned terra-cotta spandrels above the pilasters . \u2014 John Freeman Gill, New York Times , 27 Mar. 2020",
"The two surviving levels of iron were an elaborate assemblage of around 1,000 individual castings representing some 30 distinct architectural elements \u2014 everything from 2,500-pound pilaster sections to individual flowers on column capitals. \u2014 John Freeman Gill, New York Times , 22 Nov. 2019",
"Characteristics of its Georgian Colonial style include its long, rectangular shape with an orderly symmetrical fa\u00e7ade, and the paneled door with pediment, transom lights, and pilasters \u2014 all reflecting an interest in classicism. \u2014 Nico Amarca, Marie Claire , 21 Oct. 2019",
"The entire home has chateau quality finishes \u2014 mass walls, pilasters and lots of cherry. \u2014 Mark Samuelson, The Denver Post , 18 Oct. 2019",
"The structure is notable for its exterior Corinthian columns and pilasters . \u2014 Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press , 6 Feb. 2018",
"The structure is notable for its exterior Corinthian columns and pilasters . \u2014 Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press , 6 Feb. 2018",
"Africa\u2019s future is the new station a short drive away, a yellow-and-white edifice with grand pilasters , arched windows and a broad flagstone square. \u2014 Jonathan Kaiman, latimes.com , 4 Aug. 2017"
],
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"1573, in the meaning defined above"
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},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": deserving or exciting pity : lamentable",
": of a kind to evoke mingled pity and contempt especially because of inadequacy",
": pitiful"
],
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"\u02c8pi-t\u0113-\u0259-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8pi-t\u0113-\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
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"cheap",
"contemptible",
"cruddy",
"deplorable",
"despicable",
"dirty",
"grubby",
"lame",
"lousy",
"mean",
"nasty",
"paltry",
"pitiful",
"ratty",
"scabby",
"scummy",
"scurvy",
"sneaking",
"sorry",
"wretched"
],
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"admirable",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"laudable",
"meritorious",
"praiseworthy"
],
"examples":[
"the sales presentation was a pitiable display of ineptitude and disorganization",
"a pitiable attempt at singing that generated snickers",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even now, nostalgia remains a pitiable condition in the popular imagination\u2014not dangerous or life-threatening, but sentimental and backward-looking. \u2014 Eula Biss, The New Yorker , 8 June 2022",
"Ukrainians are perfectly capable of writing Russian correctly, but during the war some internet commentators have spelled the occasional Russian word using the Ukrainian writing system, leaving it looking unmoored and pitiable . \u2014 New York Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The third week of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine shows, like its predecessors, gallant resistance, pitiable suffering, and slow Russian progress. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The dogs will walk back and forth along the circumference of their pitiable circle, compulsively, like death-row inmates pacing their cells. \u2014 Gene Weingarten, Washington Post , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Remember that Nike spoof, Eris running shoes, about a pitiable boy who works in a sweatshop and accidentally sews his hands together? \u2014 Ade D. Adeniji, Wired , 27 Oct. 2021",
"But as with most of Binoche\u2019s vulnerable characters, Tereza is never pitiable . \u2014 Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O\u2019grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas And Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Shane Vogel: The characters are almost pitiable in their effort to create some kind of routine or rhythm to occupy themselves and avoid thinking about the absurdity of their situation. \u2014 Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic , 12 Sep. 2021",
"In those places as elsewhere, Internet connections are pitiable , roads beyond the highways often are tortuous, and the refugees to brighter prospects out of state tend to be younger, better educated and better trained. \u2014 David M. Shribman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 15 July 2021"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-162525"
},
"pilasterlike":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": resembling a pilaster"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-171847"
},
"pieing":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of pieing present participle of pi or of pie"
],
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},
"pilcrow":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a paragraph mark \u00b6"
],
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"\u02c8pil\u02cckr\u014d"
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"history_and_etymology":"probably alteration of Middle English pylcrafte , modification of Late Latin paragraphus ",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-183828"
},
"pitticite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a brown massive mineral consisting of a hydrous ferric arsenate and sulfate"
],
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"\u02c8pit\u0259\u02ccs\u012bt"
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"history_and_etymology":"German pittizit , irregular from Greek pitta, pissa pitch + German -it -ite",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-183908"
},
"pie in the sky":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun phrase"
],
"definitions":[
": an unrealistic enterprise or prospect of prosperity"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1911, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-185228"
},
"pickle grass":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": glasswort sense 1"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-192121"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a common and widespread genus of ichneumon wasps"
],
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"\u02c8pimpl\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":"New Latin, perhaps from Latin Pimplea , fountain in Macedonia, from Greek Pimpleia ",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-194232"
},
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"type":[
"noun phrase"
],
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": someone who is brought into an argument between two people or groups"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-195853"
},
"pindy":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": gone bad"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pindi"
],
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"history_and_etymology":"origin unknown",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-202352"
},
"pilaster mass":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a pier projecting from but usually built with a wall and differing from the anta and parastas in that it does not form the termination of the projecting wall but usually stiffens it (as between two windows)"
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},
"pier":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an intermediate support for the adjacent ends of two bridge spans",
": a structure (such as a breakwater) extending into navigable water for use as a landing place or promenade or to protect or form a harbor",
": a vertical structural support: such as",
": the wall between two openings",
": pillar , pilaster",
": a vertical member that supports the end of an arch or lintel",
": an auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall",
": a structural mount (as for a telescope) usually of stonework, concrete, or steel",
": a support for a bridge",
": a structure built out into the water as a place for boats to dock or for people to walk or to protect or form a harbor"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pir",
"\u02c8pir"
],
"synonyms":[
"dock",
"float",
"jetty",
"landing",
"levee",
"quai",
"quay",
"wharf"
],
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"examples":[
"tied the boat up at the pier",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On a sunny Friday morning in late May, instructor Gabby Bejarano talked about kettle ponds and oxbow lakes as a group of 10- to 14-year-olds ate lunch on the pier at Beach Lake in Chugiak. \u2014 Loren Holmes, Anchorage Daily News , 2 June 2022",
"Surfers from up and down the East Coast compete in one of the best breaks Virginia Beach has to offer, but is normally off limits\u2014 The southside of the fishing pier . \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 21 May 2022",
"Two recent grants totaling more than $1.2 million will pay to build a new dock for visiting boaters and to plan the replacement and enlargement of the dilapidated fishing pier at the Oceanside Harbor. \u2014 Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 Dec. 2021",
"Louisiana Doyline: Authorities have condemned and will remove a section of a Louisiana bridge used for nearly two decades as a fishing pier , officials said. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 21 Oct. 2021",
"In Mobile County, Alabama, someone reported storm damage to a fishing pier on Dauphin Island, Alabama, said Glen Brannan of the county Emergency Management Agency. \u2014 Time , 19 June 2021",
"Early Monday morning, Cyril Derreumaux will climb into his kayak and push off the wooden fishing pier at Fort Baker, cross the Golden Gate before sunrise and embark on a two-month wrestling match with the mighty Pacific. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 May 2021",
"The adjacent commercial fishing pier is mostly quiet, many of the local boat captains having accepted buyouts from the port builders or cash incentives to move elsewhere. \u2014 Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor , 3 June 2022",
"The pier had been family owned and operated since it was originally built in the 1950s. \u2014 al , 11 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English per , from Old English, from Medieval Latin pera ",
"first_known_use":[
"12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-220751"
},
"pilaster strip":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a pilaster mass of slight projection or of slender proportions"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-223214"
},
"Pilcomayo":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"river 1000 miles (1609 kilometers) long in south central South America rising in Bolivia and flowing southeast on the Argentina\u2013Paraguay boundary into the Paraguay River"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccp\u0113l-k\u014d-\u02c8m\u00e4-y\u014d"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-223706"
},
"pike (out ":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
"to leave a place often for another early next morning the aloof guest just piked out without saying a word"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-233523"
},
"piffero":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one of various old Italian wind instruments used by shepherds (as the bagpipe or oboe)",
": fife"
],
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"history_and_etymology":"Italian piffero, piffaro , from Middle High German pf\u012bfer piper, from pf\u012bfe pipe, fife (from Old High German pf\u012bfa ) + -er ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-000312"
},
"pi electron":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an electron involved in a pi bond"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1950, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-000931"
},
"pig hickory":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": pignut sense 2"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-004858"
},
"pillar-and-breast":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": bord-and-pillar"
],
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"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-011635"
},
"piggy bank":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a coin bank often in the shape of a pig",
": a container for keeping coins that is often in the shape of a pig"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-g\u0113-"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This happened more than two decades after a federal judge rendered the other end of the freeway DOA, sealing up the piggy bank on buying property to extend the 710 through El Sereno, South Pasadena and Pasadena to join up with the Foothill Freeway. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"Many economists have long equated this money to savings in a piggy bank , which in turn correspond to investments made abroad in the real economy. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 4 Mar. 2022",
"But Caruso has been dipping into a piggy bank the size of Crypto.com Arena. \u2014 Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 28 May 2022",
"The upcoming fourth season of Netflix hit Stranger Things apparently sent the company piggy bank straight to the Upside Down. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Many economists have long equated this money to savings in a piggy bank , which in turn correspond to investments made abroad in the real economy. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 4 Mar. 2022",
"New Hampshire fifth grader Jackson Gilchrist felt the call to give back to his community by donating his entire piggy bank funds to his local fire department. \u2014 Fox News , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Many economists have long equated this money to savings in a piggy bank , which in turn correspond to investments made abroad in the real economy. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Many economists have long equated this money to savings in a piggy bank , which in turn correspond to investments made abroad in the real economy. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 4 Mar. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1917, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-032401"
},
"pine after":{
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to want or desire (someone or something) very much"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-041554"
},
"pickle-herring":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a pickled herring",
": buffoon",
"[Dutch pekelharing , from German pickelhering , from Pickelhering , droll comic character of the 17th century German stage]"
],
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"history_and_etymology":"obsolete Dutch pekel-haerinck (now pekelharing ), from Dutch pekel pickle + obsolete Dutch haerinck herring (from Middle Dutch harinc, herinc )",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-044233"
},
"pickleman":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one who makes or deals in pickles",
": one who prepares pickling solution"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pik\u0259lm\u0259n"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-063716"
},
"piteous":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": of a kind to move to pity or compassion",
": pitiful"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-t\u0113-\u0259s",
"\u02c8pi-t\u0113-\u0259s"
],
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"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"miserable",
"pathetic",
"pitiable",
"pitiful",
"poor",
"rueful",
"sorry",
"wretched"
],
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"examples":[
"The child cried out in a piteous voice.",
"a piteous beggar huddled in the doorway of an abandoned building"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-080544"
},
"piggyback ride":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a ride on someone's back"
],
"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-093010"
},
"Pindus Mountains":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"mountains in northern Greece between the regions of Epirus and Thessaly"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pin-d\u0259s"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-095704"
},
"piggyback plant":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of piggyback plant variant of pickaback plant"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-100529"
},
"pilcher":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()"
],
"definitions":[
": scabbard",
": a contemptible person"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pilch\u0259(r)",
"\""
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-113155"
},
"pitier":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one that pities"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-t\u0113-\u0259r"
],
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"1589, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-122031"
},
"pileate":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": having a pileus",
": having a crest covering the pileum"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012bl\u0113\u0259\u0307t",
"\u02c8pil-",
"-\u0113\u02cc\u0101t"
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"history_and_etymology":"Latin pilleatus, pileatus , from pilleus, pileus felt cap + -atus -ate (hair)",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1728, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-125129"
},
"pike whale":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": piked whale"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"pike entry 1"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-142242"
},
"piker":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one who gambles or speculates with small amounts of money",
": one who does things in a small way",
": tightwad , cheapskate"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012b-k\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheapskate",
"churl",
"hunks",
"miser",
"niggard",
"penny-pincher",
"scrooge",
"skinflint",
"tightwad"
],
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"examples":[
"don't be such a piker \u2014live it up a little while you're on vacation!",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"So far, this pullback has taken 15% off gold\u2019s peak price \u2014 a piker by historical standards \u2014 and has lasted just 13 months, well within norms for mid-cycle corrections. \u2014 Moneyshow, Forbes , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Congress\u2019s decision will ultimately determine whether this massive federal check-writing operation will be cemented in Joe Biden\u2019s legacy \u2014 an initiative that\u2019s already made FDR look like a government-check-writing piker by comparison. \u2014 Matt Weidinger, National Review , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Compared to more established coins, SafeMoon is a piker . \u2014 Danielle Abril, Fortune , 17 May 2021",
"The end result could make the architect of the Great Society look like a piker . \u2014 W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner , 16 Mar. 2021",
"If lording such exclusivity over your piker friends who drive 500SLs and 850is is worth the price of a decent house to you, well fine. \u2014 Larry Griffin, Car and Driver , 27 May 2020",
"But talk about Ticket Masters, jocks are pikers compared to diplomats. \u2014 David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com , 28 Sep. 2017",
"After complaining for seven years (in many ways incorrectly), that Democrats had abused the legislative process in the passage of the Obama health law, Senate Republicans made the Democrats look like pikers . \u2014 Ajc Homepage, ajc , 28 July 2017",
"Embarrass that piker Mark Zuckerberg by going 60 percent better than the Facebook founder\u2019s charitable contribution to the Newark, New Jersey, school system. \u2014 John C Abell, WIRED , 3 Nov. 2010"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"pike to play cautiously, of unknown origin"
],
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"1859, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-145411"
},
"pig":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a young domesticated swine usually weighing less than 120 pounds (50 kilograms) \u2014 compare hog sense 1a",
": a wild or domesticated swine regardless of age or weight",
": pork",
": pigskin",
": a dirty, gluttonous, or repulsive person",
": a crude casting of metal (such as iron)",
": an immoral woman",
": police officer",
": farrow",
": to live like a pig",
": farrow",
": a hoofed stout-bodied animal with a short tail and legs, thick bristly skin, and a long flattened snout",
": a domestic pig developed from the wild boar and raised for meat",
": a person who has a disagreeable or offensive habit or behavior (as being dirty, rude, or greedy)",
": a metal cast (as of iron) poured directly from the smelting furnace into a mold"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pig",
"\u02c8pig"
],
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"cormorant",
"glutton",
"gorger",
"gormandizer",
"gourmand",
"hog",
"overeater",
"stuffer",
"swiller"
],
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"Noun",
"Don't be a pig . Say \u201cexcuse me\u201d after you burp.",
"all-you-can-eat buffets seem to encourage some people to become shameless pigs",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The races happen daily and feature pigs and wiener dogs dressed like hot dogs. \u2014 Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com , 20 July 2017",
"The league has rescued monkeys, pigs , ponies, even a drug dealer's cougar, and thousands of dogs and cats every year. \u2014 John Kass, chicagotribune.com , 19 July 2017",
"Even the cabbage showcases bits of pickled pig \u2019s skin. \u2014 Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine , 18 July 2017",
"Almost 60 million pigs are slaughtered annually in Germany, mainly in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, according to the government statistical office. \u2014 Agnieszka De Sousa, Bloomberg.com , 11 July 2017",
"Miley's a long-time animal lover, with many dogs, cats, and even pigs of her own. \u2014 Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue , 9 July 2017",
"Most attempts at cloning other animal species\u2014to date cloning has succeeded with sheep, mice, cattle, goats, cats, and pigs \u2014have not fared much better. \u2014 Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic , 5 July 2017",
"The owner of the briefly emancipated pigs showed up shortly after and escorted the mother home. \u2014 CBS News , 1 July 2017",
"Babybacks wouldn\u2019t survive this process, but the ribs Armbrect orders\u2014which appear to come from elephant-sized pigs \u2014 \u2014 Andy Staples, SI.com , 30 June 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Javelinas are pig -like animals that are native to desert environments. \u2014 CBS News , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Pig bones: Construction workers uncovered what turned out to be pig bones Tuesday at the site of the new Sherwin-Williams headquarters in downtown Cleveland, reports Olivia Mitchell. \u2014 cleveland , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Animal: Han Solo, 4-month-old, 23-pound, male Vietnamese potbelly pig #674433. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 Aug. 2020",
"Economic planning authorities promised land permits, loans and subsidies to pig farmers to stoke production. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Dec. 2019",
"Andrae said the devastation to pig herds across Asia had created export opportunities for Australian pig farmers in markets including the Philippines and Singapore. \u2014 Rod Mcguirk, San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 Oct. 2019",
"Andrae said the devastation to pig herds across Australia had created export opportunities for Australian pig farmers in markets including the Philippines and Singapore. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Oct. 2019",
"Still, dog owners who opt to resume treating their pets to pig ears should take the following precautions, according to the CDC: Wash your hands. \u2014 Kate Gibson, CBS News , 30 Oct. 2019",
"USA TODAY Consumers are being advised to not feed their dogs pig ear pet treats amid a growing salmonella outbreak. \u2014 Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY , 31 July 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Noun",
"Middle English pigge"
],
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1"
],
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},
"pickle-cured":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": preserved in pickle"
],
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"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-160418"
},
"pixel":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": any of the small discrete elements that together constitute an image (as on a television or digital screen)",
": any of the detecting elements of a solid-state optical sensor (such as a CCD or CMOS device)",
": any of the small parts that make up an image (as on a computer or television screen)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pik-s\u0259l",
"-\u02ccsel",
"\u02c8pik-s\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Rather than assigning the entire photo one color to categorize it, the satellite dissects each pixel of the photo and assigns each one its most appropriate color on the spectrum. \u2014 Danya Gainor, CNN , 15 Apr. 2022",
"This headache is familiar to anyone who has tapped around a touch-unfriendly app on a Windows touchscreen\u2014but even in those cases, a tap of the finger usually touches something larger than a single pixel at a time. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 25 Feb. 2022",
"To see this, again imagine a curve in the plane, where the x-coordinate represents the color of a single pixel , and the y-coordinate represents an image label. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 Feb. 2022",
"The software estimates whether the target exists in any pixel in an image. \u2014 Rachel Berkowitz, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
"On a pixel -count level, that's on par with the blurry Switch ports of Doom (2016) or The Witcher 3. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Each watch has five physical buttons for navigation and a color memory-in- pixel display for clear daylight visibility. \u2014 Mark Knapp, PCMAG , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Blacks are truly black because the pixel is completely turned off. \u2014 Parker Hall, Wired , 30 Mar. 2022",
"These 77 and 88-inch beasts combine their immense pixel counts with all the processing goodies of the new Alpha 9 Gen 5 processor and the latest WebOS system. \u2014 John Archer, Forbes , 3 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"pix + el ement"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1965, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-175905"
},
"pimpliness":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the condition of being pimply"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pimp(\u0259)l\u0113n\u0259\u0307s",
"-lin-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-175914"
},
"pif paf":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a card game played like rummy and bet on like poker"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pif\u02ccpaf",
"\u02c8p\u0113f\u02ccp\u00e4f"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Portuguese"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-181744"
},
"pieprint":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an Indian mallow ( Abutilon theophrasti )"
],
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"synonyms":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"so called from the use of its pods for stamping pie crust"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-193135"
},
"Pikes Peak":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"mountain 14,110 feet (4301 meters) high at the southern end of the Front Range in east central Colorado"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012bks"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-200722"
},
"pin drill":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a drill with a central pin or projection to fit into a hole to act as a guide while the hole is being enlarged or countersunk"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-205931"
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"pitter":{
"type":[
"intransitive verb",
"noun ()"
],
"definitions":[
": chirr , stridulate",
": pitter-patter",
": one that pits",
": one that removes pits",
": one that takes care of gamecocks at a fight \u2014 compare handler"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pit\u0259(r)",
"-it\u0259-",
"\"",
"\""
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Intransitive verb",
"imitative",
"Noun (1)",
"pit entry 4 + -er",
"Noun (2)",
"pit entry 1 + -er"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-233932"
},
"pilchard oil":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a pale yellow drying oil obtained from pilchards (as Sardinops caerulea ) \u2014 compare sardine oil"
],
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-001053"
},
"pilar":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": of or relating to the hair or a hair : hairy"
],
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"\u02c8p\u012bl\u0259(r)"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin pilaris , from Latin pilus hair + -aris -ar"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-004453"
},
"piggyback":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"adverb or adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": up on the back and shoulders",
": on or as if on the back of another",
": on a railroad flatcar",
": the act of carrying piggyback",
": the movement of loaded truck trailers on railroad flatcars",
": marked by being up on the shoulders and back",
": carried or transported piggyback: such as",
": of or relating to the hauling of truck trailers on railroad flatcars",
": being or relating to something carried into space as an extra load by a vehicle (such as a spacecraft)",
": to carry up on the shoulders and back",
": to haul (something, such as a truck trailer) by railroad car",
": to set up or cause to function in conjunction with something larger, more important, or already in existence or operation",
": to function or be carried on or as if on the back of another",
": on the back or shoulders"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-g\u0113-\u02ccbak",
"\u02c8pi-g\u0113-\u02ccbak"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The piggyback pitcher in his first few starts, designated to follow him, was Alexis D\u00edaz. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 4 June 2022",
"Right-hander Cristian Javier, the Astros' piggyback reliever, tossed three scoreless frames on one walk and five strikeouts. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 8 May 2022",
"On the pitching side, the rotation will be Cole Winn, Yerry Rodriguez, Tim Brennan, AJ Alexy and a piggyback of Hans Crouse and Tyler Phillips. \u2014 Dallas News , 28 Apr. 2021",
"Left-hander Drew Smyly, expected to be used in the rotation or in a long relief/ piggyback setup, made his spring debut Saturday with two scoreless innings. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com , 26 Mar. 2022",
"The royal cousins enjoy ice cream, give each other piggyback rides or play with their family dogs. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Small shareholders have been piling into Tesla in droves, with tens of thousands opening Robinhood accounts in the pandemic year of 2020 during lockdowns just to buy the EV manufacturer's stock and piggyback on its bull market run. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 28 Mar. 2022",
"That institutional support means the firm could access AEM\u2019s installations to do research, for example, or piggyback on its partnerships with other space agencies. \u2014 Ana Campoy, Quartz , 20 Jan. 2022",
"The Cubs might want to take more pitchers who are capable of pitching multiple innings and use a piggyback setup to bridge from the starter to the back end of the bullpen. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"But Padres starter Mike Clevinger, who went only three innings in a return start from the injury list, and relievers Martinez, who ate four innings in a piggyback role, Tim Hill and Taylor Rogers were in total command the rest of the way. \u2014 Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel , 5 June 2022",
"Mark Hamill also celebrated his Star Wars costar's birthday on Sunday by re-posting their infamous piggyback picture. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Pitching coach Tommy Hottovy previously mentioned the possibility using a piggyback approach for starters as pitchers continue to ramp up. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
"He is scheduled to start, followed by lefty Tyler Alexander out of the bullpen in a piggyback role. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 28 Aug. 2021",
"Zimmermann could be used in a piggyback role following a starter with a limited pitch count, much like how left-hander Daniel Norris enters after right-hander Michael Fulmer is done, though Gardenhire didn't commit to it Saturday. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 13 Sep. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The ARK Innovation exchange traded fund, through which retail investors could piggyback on Wood\u2019s picks, peaked at $132.50 on June 30. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Tyler Anderson can piggyback off short starts, capable of going around four innings. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Manager Brandon Hyde tried to piggyback four scoreless innings from right-hander Tyler Wells with a lengthy relief outing from right-hander Mike Baumann. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Male Santa Marta harlequin toads will piggyback on their mate for months before egg meets sperm. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 14 Mar. 2022",
"That opening will piggyback on the success Searcy has already experienced by selling his creations on game days at First Energy Stadium, home of the Cleveland Browns, and at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse during Cleveland Cavaliers games. \u2014 cleveland , 24 Feb. 2022",
"As last Sunday\u2019s runner-up during Busch Light Clash exhibition race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Kyle Busch had hoped to piggyback his son\u2019s dirt-track victory the previous night in South Carolina. \u2014 Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 12 Feb. 2022",
"Candidates for governor or Senate don\u2019t benefit from being able to piggyback on the energy and activity at the local level. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Feb. 2022",
"This seemingly gave developers license to be even more brazen in their attempts to piggyback off the success of the original. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 12 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Adverb",
"alteration of earlier a pick pack , of unknown origin"
],
"first_known_use":[
"Adverb",
"1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"circa 1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Adjective",
"1784, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1895, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-064311"
},
"pimply gut":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": nodular disease"
],
"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-073243"
},
"pierage":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": wharfage"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pirij"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"pier + -age"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-073609"
},
"Pilag\u00e1":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a Guaicuruan people of the Gran Chaco, Argentina",
": a member of such people",
": the language of the Pilag\u00e1 people"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccp\u0113l\u0259\u02c8g\u00e4"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-081444"
},
"pillar and scroll":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an early American shelf clock designed with slender pillars and scrolled cresting and ornamented with turned wood finials"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-084846"
},
"picked":{
"type":[
"adjective ()"
],
"definitions":[
": pointed , peaked",
": choice , prime"
],
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"\u02c8pi-k\u0259d",
"\u02c8pikt"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Adjective (1)",
"Middle English, from pick entry 3",
"Adjective (2)",
"pick entry 1"
],
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"Adjective (1)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Adjective (2)",
"circa 1548, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-093458"
},
"pine":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": any of a genus ( Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals",
": the straight-grained white or yellow usually durable and resinous wood of a pine varying from extreme softness in the white pine to hardness in the longleaf pine",
": any of various Australian coniferous trees (as of the genera Callitris or Araucaria )",
": pineapple",
": bench sense 1c",
": to lose vigor, health, or flesh (as through grief) : languish",
": to yearn intensely and persistently especially for something unattainable",
": an evergreen tree that has cones, narrow needles for leaves, and a wood that ranges from very soft to hard",
": to become thin and weak because of sadness or worry",
": to long for very much",
": any tree of the genus Pinus",
": a dietary deficiency disease of sheep or cattle marked by anemia, malnutrition, and general debility",
": such a disease due to cobalt deficiency \u2014 compare morton mains disease"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012bn",
"\u02c8p\u012bn",
"\u02c8p\u012bn"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Nature preserve featuring pine flatwoods and wetlands. \u2014 Cindy Kent, Sun Sentinel , 7 June 2022",
"The result is a shimmering glow that sits nicely next to natural elements like pine -board flooring and the sisal stair runner. \u2014 Helena Madden, ELLE Decor , 6 June 2022",
"Colorful pine cone wreaths are fashioned by Lisa Nussbaum, a quadriplegic who has enough use of her hands to be able to paint. \u2014 cleveland , 6 June 2022",
"Use empty aluminum soda cans or pine cones to fill the bottom of these planter boxes without adding a lot of weight. \u2014 Tierney Mcafee, Country Living , 23 May 2022",
"Two Heston Round Side Tables in light pine and a 16-inch round light gray concrete table comprise other living room furniture. \u2014 Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 May 2022",
"In recent years, the property was reforested with pine , as well as 3,000 olive trees which produce the varieties of arbequina and koroneiki oil that are bottled in their own mill. \u2014 John Oseid, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"The aim of all this burning is to maintain the state\u2019s diverse ecosystems, including prairies, savannas, and pine flatwoods, but also to prevent more dangerous wildfires. \u2014 Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 May 2022",
"The towering trees rustled in greeting, unloosening a familiar pine scent. \u2014 Ling Ma, The Atlantic , 16 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Everyone\u2019s favorite 8-year-old existentialists pine over life\u2019s meanings to a bouncy, smooth jazz, often-quite-funky score. \u2014 oregonlive , 8 June 2022",
"Stories of a couple who makes it against all odds, of a woman who leaves her controlling boyfriend in the nick of time, of would-be lovers who pine for each other in silence, of a priest who falls in love with his choir director. \u2014 Leila Cobo, Billboard , 27 May 2022",
"The Prince Edward-Gallion parkland, home to pine and hardwood trees, is Virginia's first state forest. \u2014 Joe Studley, NBC News , 23 May 2022",
"Hardcore Isbell fans pine for his Drive-By Truckers classics. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 16 May 2022",
"For instance, both characters pine for Layla El-Fahouly (May Calamawy), Marc\u2019s wife, but in a distinctly unique way. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 6 May 2022",
"Urban residents still pine for mountain escapes, perhaps now more than before. \u2014 Devon O\u2019neil, Outside Online , 4 June 2020",
"Sometimes just one hop variety is used in a beer, but more often several are working together\u2014a chorus of little green cones in your pint glass, offering the sipper hints of anything from grass to pine to mango to tangerine. \u2014 Christopher Solomon, Outside Online , 7 Oct. 2020",
"But liberals also pine for the postwar U.S., specifically its foreign relations. \u2014 Dexter Fergie, The New Republic , 24 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English p\u012bn , from Latin pinus ; probably akin to Greek pitys pine",
"Verb",
"Middle English, from Old English p\u012bnian to suffer, from *p\u012bn punishment, from Latin poena \u2014 more at pain entry 1"
],
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-112321"
},
"pilaf":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a dish made of seasoned rice and often meat"
],
"pronounciation":[
"pi-\u02c8l\u00e4f",
"-\u02c8l\u022ff",
"\u02c8p\u0113-\u02ccl\u00e4f",
"-\u02ccl\u022ff"
],
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"examples":[
"a serving of rice pilaf",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This set earned a perfect score for its nonstick coating which successfully prevented the rice pilaf from sticking to the sides of the pan, and allowed the omelette to slide off onto a plate seamlessly. \u2014 Madison Yauger, PEOPLE.com , 23 June 2022",
"Pair with duck a l\u2019orange or a lentil and red pepper pilaf . \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"As Copeland worked fastidiously to set out utensils and condiments at COTS, women and children slowly trickled in, filling plates to the brim with roasted chicken, candied yams, rice pilaf and Jones' signature Accra banana cake. \u2014 Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press , 8 May 2022",
"Today Marinela made chicken soup, pilaf with sausage, and chicken with polenta. \u2014 Kate Gibson, CBS News , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Fried breaded cod, smoked salmon, coleslaw, hush puppies, rice pilaf , green beans, cheddar biscuit, and homemade cakes for desserts. \u2014 Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Make a warm sweet-and-savory pilaf with chickpeas, olives and dates, or a side-dish option with pearl couscous, cranberries and almonds. \u2014 Casey Barber, CNN , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Serve it with a grain or rice pilaf , crusty bread or over polenta. \u2014 Christopher Kimball, sun-sentinel.com , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Tender lamb shanks melt into an Egyptian gravy, soaking the accompanying fluffy rice pilaf . \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 28 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Turkish & Persian; Turkish pilav , from Persian pil\u0101v"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1609, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-115251"
},
"pixy stool":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": toadstool",
": mushroom"
],
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"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-121223"
},
"pitten":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of pitten Scottish past participle of put"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pit\u1d4an"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-122243"
},
"piped rot":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a decay of oak and chestnut caused by a fungus ( Stereum hirsutum ) and characterized by the appearance of yellow or white stripes in the wood"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-124911"
},
"pight":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of pight archaic past tense of pitch"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English pihte , past of pichen to pitch"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-131525"
},
"pillar bolt":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a projecting stud bolt intended to support a part near its outer end"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-135035"
},
"piggy":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": piggish"
],
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"\u02c8pi-g\u0113"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Fed\u2019s latest spending report noted that the savings rate has declined, suggesting that consumers are keeping the party going by robbing their piggy banks. \u2014 Greg Petro, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Their houses are piggy banks, their retirement accounts are up and their bosses are eager to please. \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2022",
"Prior to the current coloring book program, First Federal Lakewood gave away piggy banks. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Banks also started begging customers to break out their piggy banks to pump more coins into circulation. \u2014 Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The Eugene Emeralds minor league baseball team held a fundraiser, kids emptied their piggy banks, and florists and area artists donated items to sell. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Dec. 2021",
"Start looking in piggy banks and drawers or even under the couch cushions, consumers, and get that money moving. \u2014 Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune , 25 July 2021",
"The Chamelin siblings are financially responsible for everything, Jennie said, and all their money goes right into their accounts \u2014 their, quite literally, piggy banks. \u2014 Clara Longo De Freitas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 23 July 2021",
"Vendors also are selling piggy banks in the shape of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, as well as raspados, elotes, diablitos and tejuino. \u2014 Julissa James, Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2021"
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"first_known_use":[
"1839, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-150307"
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"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()"
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"definitions":[
": a communal fountain",
": the type genus of the family Pilidae comprising apple snails with dextral shells"
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"\u02c8p\u0113l\u0259",
"\u02c8p\u012bl\u0259"
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"American Spanish, from Spanish, basin, font, from Latin, pillar",
"Noun",
"New Latin, from Latin pila ball (hair)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-174115"
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"Late Hebrew piyy\u016b\u1e6d poem, poetry, from piyy\u0113\u1e6d to write poetry, from Greek poi\u0113t\u0113s poet"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-175359"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": any of a race of dwarfs described by ancient Greek authors",
": any of a small people of equatorial Africa ranging under five feet (1.5 meters) in height",
": an unusually small person",
": an insignificant or unimpressive person",
": something very small of its kind"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-185245"
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"pike pole":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a pole usually 12 to 20 feet long with a pike in one end used in directing floating logs or to hold utility poles upright while they are being raised or removed",
": a fire hook having a head with a sharp point at the tip"
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"pike entry 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-220915"
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"Definition of piefort variant spelling of piedfort"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-231451"
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"piffler":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one that piffles"
],
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"\u02c8pif(\u0259)l\u0259(r)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-002620"
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"noun"
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"definitions":[
": pigface"
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"pig entry 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-012802"
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"adjective",
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a row or series of pilasters"
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"Italian pilastrata , from pilastro"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-025857"
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": consisting of or abounding in pith",
": having substance and point : tersely cogent"
],
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"\u02c8pi-th\u0113"
],
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"aphoristic",
"apothegmatic",
"brief",
"capsule",
"compact",
"compendious",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"epigrammatic",
"laconic",
"monosyllabic",
"sententious",
"succinct",
"summary",
"telegraphic",
"terse",
"thumbnail"
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"circuitous",
"circumlocutory",
"diffuse",
"long-winded",
"prolix",
"rambling",
"verbose",
"windy",
"wordy"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The pithy name of the brand came from something her friends and family would say to one another in an effort to lift spirits. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 27 May 2022",
"But ask Hollywood directors who have hired her to please describe the magic behind those pipes, and any pithy description only scratches the surface. \u2014 Michael Cavna, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"Tropical mango and guava layer under red cherry, berry, and orange peel flavors, with a minerally salinity emerging with pithy , puckery lime zest on a beautifully long and intense finish. \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 13 May 2022",
"Some of our more reserved teammates revealed themselves to be quick with a pithy observation or wry remark. \u2014 Robin Wadsworth, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Rigsby has more than a million followers on Instagram, has appeared as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, and his pithy lines\u2014including that one about Britney\u2014have spawned a cottage industry of Etsy stores hawking mugs featuring his quotes. \u2014 Greg Presto, Men's Health , 18 May 2022",
"The goal was to craft a form that embodies the qualities encouraged by the content: pithy nuggets demanding careful thought, mental experimentation, and wide-ranging curiosity about morality and psychology. \u2014 Nate Anderson, Ars Technica , 11 May 2022",
"Some fans are drawn to the solidarity found in songs about screwing up and the pithy reactions to one\u2019s mess. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 May 2022",
"Chad Brown, the trainer of Zandon, was pithy in his reaction. \u2014 John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"see pith entry 1"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1529, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-033901"
},
"pilastric":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": characterized by or like pilasters"
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"p\u0259\u0307\u02c8lastrik"
],
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"pilaster + -ic"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-050640"
},
"pimply gut worm":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": nodular worm"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-071021"
},
"pineal":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": of, relating to, or secreted by the pineal gland",
": of, relating to, or being the pineal gland",
": pineal gland"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012b-n\u0113-\u0259l",
"p\u012b-\u02c8n\u0113-",
"\u02c8p\u012b-n\u0113-\u0259l",
"p\u012b-\u02c8"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"French pin\u00e9al , from Middle French, from Latin pinea pine cone, from feminine of pineus of pine, from pinus"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1681, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-100212"
},
"pigmy blue":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": any of the several small butterflies of the lycaenid genus Brephidium"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-111449"
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"pickleball":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun,"
],
"definitions":[
": an indoor or outdoor game that is played on a level court with short-handled paddles and a perforated plastic ball volleyed over a low net by two players or pairs of players",
": the ball used in this game"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-k\u0259l-\u02ccb\u022fl"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"pickle entry 1 + ball entry 1",
"Note: The game was invented in the summer of 1965 by a group of neighbors on Bainbridge Island, Washington, including then state representative Joel Prichard (1925-97), Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum. According to one account, pickle was suggested by pickle boat, a boat in crew rowing made up of rowers not chosen by other teams (as pickleball was amalgamated from features of other paddle sports). Another account claims that pickle was inspired by a dog named Pickles owned by one of the neighbors (though it is also claimed that this dog was named after the sport). (See, among other sources, the website of the USA Pickleball Association, and www.pickleballportal.com.)"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1975, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-133934"
},
"Piffer":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a member of the Punjab Irregular Frontier Force or of a successor regiment"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pif\u0259(r)"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"P unjab I rregular F rontier F orce + -er"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-150231"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a vegetable (as a cucumber or onion) of a suitable size or quality for pickling",
": one that prepares or uses pickling solution for the preservation of food or hides or the cleaning of metal"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pik(\u0259)l\u0259(r)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-181552"
},
"pig's-wash":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": swill sense 1a"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"pig entry 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-204736"
},
"piepoudre":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": traveler , wayfarer",
": an itinerant merchant \u2014 see court of piepoudre \u2014 compare dustyfoot"
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"pronounciation":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English pipoudre itinerant trader"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-223426"
},
"piki":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": bread made especially from blue cornmeal and baked in thin sheets by the Indians of the southwestern U.S."
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u0113-k\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Hopi p\u00edki"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1859, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-022745"
},
"pigmy deer":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": key deer"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-181843"
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"pignoli":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": pine nut"
],
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"p\u0113n-\u02c8y\u014d-l\u0113"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"pignoli from Italian, plural of pignolo, pinolo , from pigna, pina pine cone, from Latin pinea; pignolia perhaps modification of pignoli \u2014 more at pineal"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1893, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-182344"
},
"Pilate":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"died after a.d. 36 Roman procurator of Judea (26\u2013 circa 36)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012b-l\u0259t"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-183118"
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"pileated":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": having a crest covering the pileum"
],
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"\u02c8p\u012b-l\u0113-\u02cc\u0101-t\u0259d",
"\u02c8pi-"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin pille\u0101tus, p\u012ble\u0101tus \"wearing a pileus\" (from pilleus, p\u012bleus \"pileus\" + -\u0101tus -ate entry 3 ) + -ed entry 1"
],
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"circa 1728, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-183328"
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"pix":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of pix plural of pic"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-193537"
},
"pithy gall":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a large rough furrowed oblong gall formed on blackberry canes by a small cynipid gall wasp ( Diastrophus turgidus )"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-194419"
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"Pikine":{
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"geographical name"
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"definitions":[
"commune in the capital region just east of Dakar, Senegal population 865,000"
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"pronounciation":[
"p\u0113-\u02c8k\u0113-n\u0101"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-202219"
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"pipefish":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": any of various fishes (family Syngnathidae) that are related to the seahorses and have a tube-shaped snout and a long slender body covered with bony plates"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012bp-\u02ccfish"
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"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Mustard had always wanted to capture the image of a colourful juvenile ghost pipefish but usually only found darker adults on matching feather stars. \u2014 Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Male pipefish are always looking for bigger females. \u2014 National Geographic , 14 June 2019",
"The pipefish is painted attention-getting yellow, blue and orange. \u2014 Jane Margolies, New York Times , 20 June 2018",
"In August, work will begin at Pier 26, at North Moore Street in TriBeCa, and will include the creation of an environmentally themed playground centered on two large-scale sturgeon from the same company that made the Chelsea playground\u2019s pipefish . \u2014 Jane Margolies, New York Times , 20 June 2018",
"Fish Feeding Time: Get close to crabs and see flounder, perch and pipefish . \u2014 Kathy Bennett, The Mercury News , 14 June 2017",
"Feeding Time: Get close to crabs and see flounder, perch and pipefish . \u2014 Kathy Bennett, The Mercury News , 22 Mar. 2017"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1769, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-205728"
},
"pier arch":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an arch supported by piers",
": a side arch of the nave of a basilican church"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-084504"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an exercise regimen that is typically performed on a floor mat or with the use of specialized apparatus and aims to improve flexibility and stability by strengthening the muscles and especially the torso-stabilizing muscles of the abdomen and lower back",
": an exercise regimen typically performed with the use of specialized apparatus and designed to improve the overall condition of the body"
],
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259-\u02c8l\u00e4-t\u0113z",
"p\u0259-\u02c8l\u00e4-t\u0113z"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Joseph H. Pilates \u20201967 U.S. (German-born) fitness instructor"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1934, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-091054"
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"pikle":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of pikle variant of pightle"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012bk\u0259l"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-123950"
},
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"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of pig-a-back variant of piggyback"
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-131355"
},
"pileated woodpecker":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a large red-crested North American woodpecker ( Dryocopus pileatus ) that is black with white on the face, neck, and undersides of the wings"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"first_known_use":[
"1782, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-135545"
},
"pignon":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the nutlike seed of any of several pines (as the European stone pine)",
": physic nut"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u0113n\u02ccy\u00e4n"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"French, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin pineon-, pineo , from Latin pineus of the pine"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-141045"
},
"pie-faced":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": having a round, smooth, or blank face"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012b-\u02ccf\u0101st"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1891, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-143020"
},
"pimpmobile":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an ostentatious luxury car of a kind characteristically used by a pimp"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pimp-m\u014d-\u02ccb\u0113l",
"-m\u0259-"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1971, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-143516"
},
"Pilatus":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"mountain 6983 feet (2128 meters) high in Unterwalden , central Switzerland, southwest of Lucerne"
],
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0113-\u02c8l\u00e4-tu\u0307s"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-145021"
},
"pier buttress":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the pier that receives the thrust of a flying buttress"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-154722"
},
"pike perch":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a fish (such as the walleye) of the perch family that resembles the pike"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"first_known_use":[
"1834, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-161400"
},
"Pi\u0142sudski":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"J\u00f3zef Klemens 1867\u20131935 Polish general and statesman"
],
"pronounciation":[
"pil-\u02c8s\u00fct-sk\u0113",
"-\u02c8z\u00fct-"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-171516"
},
"pipe fitter":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a worker who installs and repairs piping"
],
"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As a young man, Bruce Nukapigak had worked at the Alpine facility as an apprentice electrician and pipe fitter and felt familiar with the risks inherent in oil drilling. \u2014 Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News , 27 June 2022",
"Hern\u00e1ndez, who's lived in Carbon for roughly 25 years and now works as a pipe fitter , attempted to go back, but the roads had been closed as a thick, black smoke overtook the area. \u2014 Christina Maxouris, CNN , 27 Mar. 2022",
"His father, Chris, who worked for a time as a pipe fitter and then at a family printing business, was more of a wallflower but had an adventurous spirit. \u2014 Ted Alcorn, Washington Post , 30 Nov. 2021",
"Students who complete the two-year program can earn dual credits and certificates, giving them a jump start toward a high-paying career as a pipe fitter , ironworker or other industrial jobs. \u2014 Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com , 26 Nov. 2021",
"L\u0151rinc M\u00e9sz\u00e1ros, a former pipe fitter from Felcs\u00fat who connected with Orb\u00e1n on the soccer field, in 1999, won a slew of state construction contracts. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Beckett, a retired pipe fitter , owns 25 firearms and staunchly opposes the president's call for restrictions on high-capacity magazines. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 July 2021",
"San Antonio pipe fitter Kirby Whitehead let Hunt and Whitten use his shop to build the dinosaur\u2019s frame. \u2014 Ren\u00e9 A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News , 2 Feb. 2021",
"John Arthur Palladino was born in Boston on July 9, 1944, the son of a pipe fitter . \u2014 CBS News , 2 Feb. 2021"
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"p\u0113-\u02c8tesht",
"-\u02c8tesh-t\u0113"
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"adjective"
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"definitions":[
": marked with pits"
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"the pitted surface of the bowl",
"a man with pitted and scarred cheeks",
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"Eventually the lesions turn to scabs, which can fall off and leave pitted scars. \u2014 Maggie O'neill, SELF , 25 May 2022",
"Garnish with a long straw and baby corn, large pitted black olive and cherry pepper, all on a stick. \u2014 Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Garnish with a long straw and baby corn, large pitted black olive and cherry pepper, all on a stick. \u2014 Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Victims suffered scorching fever and body aches, followed by spots and blisters that would leave survivors with pitted scars. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Victims suffered scorching fever and body aches, and then spots and blisters that would leave survivors with pitted scars. \u2014 CBS News , 19 Nov. 2021",
"The game not only pitted area rivals against each other, but also Trinity Is coached by Sarah Dubberley and Montgomery Catholic by her husband, Sellers Dubberley. \u2014 Bill Lumpkin Iii, al , 27 Oct. 2021",
"The pitted and marred shape feels closer to the inherent beauty of nature. \u2014 Matthew Bourbon, Dallas News , 28 Apr. 2021",
"Phantom and intermittent flushing can also be caused by a pitted valve seat. \u2014 Fran Aliwalas, Popular Mechanics , 15 Apr. 2021"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above"
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"noun"
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": wireworm"
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"noun"
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": piezoelectric oscillator"
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": an artificial crown attached to the root of a tooth by a usually metallic pin"
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": a light child's saddle",
": an infant's wrapper covering the diaper"
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"Middle English pilche , from Old English pylce, pylece , from Medieval Latin pellicea , feminine of Late Latin pelliceus, pellicius made of skin, from Latin pellis skin"
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"noun"
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"definitions":[
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": a pillar-shaped mailbox"
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"1855, in the meaning defined above"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a baker or cook who specializes in making pies",
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"noun"
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": any of several succulent plants having leaves often reduced to scales or sheaths: such as",
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": a shrub ( Allenrolfea occidentalis) of the goosefoot family growing in moist saline soils of the southwestern U.S.",
": saltwort sense 2"
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"circa 1925, in the meaning defined above"
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"noun"
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"Definition of pikol variant of picul"
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"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()"
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"definitions":[
": a communal fountain",
": the type genus of the family Pilidae comprising apple snails with dextral shells"
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"\u02c8p\u0113l\u0259",
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"Noun (1)",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-055138"
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"noun"
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"definitions":[
": metal cast in pigs"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-081535"
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"type":[
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"transitive verb"
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"definitions":[
": surgical removal of the pineal gland",
": surgical removal of the pineal gland"
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"\u02ccp\u012b-n\u0113-\u0259-\u02c8lek-t\u0259-m\u0113",
"p\u012b-\u02ccn\u0113-",
"\u02ccp\u012b-n\u0113-\u0259-\u02c8lek-t\u0259-m\u0113, p\u012b-\u02ccn\u0113-, \u02ccpin-\u0113-"
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"1915, in the meaning defined above"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a machine used in yarn manufacturing for combining and drafting silver or top"
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"type":[],
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"Definition of piks plural of pik"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-094434"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"noun"
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": kingbolt"
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"Definition of pittara variant spelling of pitarah"
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},
"pignorate":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": given or taken in pledge : pledged",
": of or relating to something pledged or to a contract of pignus : pignoratitious",
": to give over (as a pledge) : pawn",
": to take in pawn"
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"\u02c8pign\u0259r\u0259\u0307t",
"-\u02ccr\u0101t"
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"Latin pigneratus, pignoratus , past participle of pignerare, pignorare to pledge",
"Transitive verb",
"Latin pigneratus, pignoratus"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-123256"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a fish ( Sardina pilchardus ) of the herring family that occurs in great schools along the coasts of Europe \u2014 compare sardine sense 1",
": any of several sardines related to the European pilchard"
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"\u02c8pil-ch\u0259rd"
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"origin unknown"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"type":[
"noun phrase"
],
"definitions":{
": a frankfurter served in a wrapper of baked dough":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The event \u2014 where pigs in a blanket were the signature hors d\u2019oeuvre \u2014 was always packed with Schwartz\u2019s publishing and magazine business pals alongside CBS executives and on-air talent. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2020",
"Try mixing up a classic cocktail to serve with this homemade pigs in a blanket recipe. \u2014 The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping , 10 Jan. 2020",
"For the kids, there will be a Little Buckaroos buffet including pig in a blanket , barbecue chicken drumsticks, and macaroni and cheese. \u2014 Gabrielle Copeland Schoeffield, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 13 Nov. 2019",
"While the company town classics include pigs in a blanket at Craig's or chicken Parmesan from Dan Tana's, the tastes of young Hollywood are different. \u2014 Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 Nov. 2019",
"Mummy Dogs These adorable pigs in a blanket from Step Away From The Carbs are perfect for keto dieters AND their kids. \u2014 Christina Oehler, Health.com , 7 Oct. 2019",
"Offer to replenish the platter of pigs in a blanket or put flowers in vases. \u2014 Samantha Boardman, Marie Claire , 19 Mar. 2019",
"Hoyt Dogs in a Blanket at Mile End Deli This iteration of pigs in a blanket takes the party staple to the next level. \u2014 Birmingham Magazine, al , 5 Aug. 2019",
"For children, there\u2019s the Court Jester\u2019s Surprise ($21.95) with kid-friendly savories like PB&J, pigs in a blanket and macaroni and cheese, plus a mini-scone and choice of beverage (milk, juice, cocoa, lemonade or tea). \u2014 Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News , 5 Aug. 2019"
],
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"1926, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105101"
},
"piteira":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": giant cabuya":[],
": mauritius hemp":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259\u0307\u02c8ter\u0259",
"-t\u0101r\u0259"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Portuguese, from pita + -eira -ary (from Latin -aria )":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105633"
}
}
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