dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/abs_MW.json

{
  "abscond":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to depart secretly and hide oneself":[
        "He absconded with the stolen money."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The suspect absconded to Canada.",
      "Several prisoners absconded from the jail.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Our Reviews of the 10 Best-Picture Oscar Nominees Before that, but after the Oscars, Buckley plans to abscond to her 500-year-old house in rural England. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Even fraudsters holding billions in crypto won\u2019t blush at the chance to abscond with a little more fiat. \u2014 Ben Mckenzie, The New Republic , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "After his many years of romantic hijinks, none of us should be surprised if Mr. Big actually faked his death to abscond with his Peloton instructor, yet again leaving Carrie to pick up the pieces on her own. \u2014 Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF , 13 Dec. 2021",
      "Everyone knows full well that Michael has left their kids with the nanny to abscond to whatever King Street haunt tickles his fancy. \u2014 Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture , 24 Oct. 2021",
      "The rest of the family, whose yacht vacation is unfortunately truncated, tries to decide how to respond, and which country without an extradition treaty to abscond to. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 15 Oct. 2021",
      "He had been implicated in a criminal affair and had to abscond , sort of betraying his closest friend. \u2014 Nick Vivarelli, Variety , 9 Sep. 2021",
      "DeFi projects are frequently run by anonymous teams that sometimes abscond with investors\u2019 funds in scams known as rug pulls. \u2014 Alexander Osipovich, WSJ , 17 July 2021",
      "South Africa is the world\u2019s sixth-largest avocado exporter, and farmers like Mr. Alcock are entangled in a cat-and-mouse game with fruit thieves who abscond with thousands of pounds at a time. \u2014 Alexandra Wexler, WSJ , 17 June 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1652, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin abscondere \"to conceal, hide,\" from abs- (variant of ab- ab- before c- and t- ) + condere \"to put, store up, put away, conceal\" \u2014 more at recondite":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "ab-\u02c8sk\u00e4nd",
      "\u0259b-",
      "ab-\u02c8sk\u00e4nd, \u0259b-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "break out (of)",
      "clear out",
      "escape",
      "flee",
      "fly",
      "get out",
      "lam",
      "run away",
      "run off"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013710",
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "absence":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a failure to be present at a usual or expected place : the state of being absent":[
        "an unexplained absence from work",
        "His absence was noted by the teacher.",
        "The meeting continued in his absence . [=without him being present]",
        "They were conspicuous by their absence . [=it was very noticeable that they were not present]"
      ],
      ": a state or condition in which something expected, wanted, or looked for is not present or does not exist : a state or condition in which something is absent":[
        "an absence [=lack] of detail",
        "In the absence of reform [=without reform] , progress will be slow."
      ],
      ": inattention to present surroundings or occurrences":[
        "\u2014 usually used in the phrase absence of mind blamed the error on absence of mind"
      ],
      ": the period of time that one is absent":[
        "She recently returned to work after a long absence ."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Moreover, he has this field pretty much to himself, for while there are many popular writers on science, there are few on engineering, an absence that is all the more remarkable since without engineering our technological world could not function. \u2014 Witold Rybczynski , New York Review of Books , 9 June 2005",
      "The 1990 census revealed that 21 percent of 25-year-olds were living with one or both parents, up from 15 percent in 1970. Some young people are not moving out at all before their mid-20s, but many more are doing an extra rotation through the family home after a temporary or lengthy absence . \u2014 Paul McFedries , Word Spy , 2004",
      "Called the Gal\u00e1pagos of the East, the Seychelles Islands, in the Indian Ocean, have been inhabited for only the past 200 years. In humanity's absence , nature ran wild: Tens of thousands of giant tortoises still lumber along the beaches, and a palm forest shelters \u2026 rare black parrots. \u2014 Audubon , September-October 1998",
      "Only five to six inches long and weighing less than two ounces, the elf owl is the smallest bird of prey in the world. Its bobbed tail, white \"eyebrows,\" and absence of ear tufts give this tiny mothlike predator its impish appearance. \u2014 Ken Lamerton , Bird Watcher's Digest , May/June 1996",
      "The products showed a remarkable absence of defects.",
      "He had many absences from work.",
      "I expected to see her and was surprised by her absence .",
      "She returned to the company after a long absence .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "During Gronkowski\u2019s injury absence last season, Brate failed to impress. \u2014 Dj Siddiqi, Forbes , 26 June 2022",
      "At 10:30 Sunday morning 200 motorcycles will start up and roar in unison to announce that Pride is back after a two-year, too-quiet absence . \u2014 Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 June 2022",
      "That\u2019s why Apple\u2019s absence from the Forum should surprise nobody. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 24 June 2022",
      "Distraught by Sloane\u2019s absence , Luther attempts to squeeze\u2014literally\u2014answers out of Five, so Five tries to teleport out of his brother\u2019s grasp. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 23 June 2022",
      "This was a visceral, textural portrayal of a profound puzzle: how to reconcile physical absence with the lingering sensations of presence. \u2014 Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
      "This was not yet apparent in the most recent collective grosses, with all shows grossing a more muted $29.5 million last week, albeit with two show closings and Jackman\u2019s absence . \u2014 Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
      "Naturally, their critique of institutions like The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with its all-male priesthood, is built on women\u2019s lack of decision-making power and absence from the hierarchy. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 June 2022",
      "Young\u2019s absence at the tribute was felt by many, including him. \u2014 Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone , 21 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin absentia , noun derivative of absent-, absens absent entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ab-s\u0259ns",
      "\u02c8ab-s\u0259n(t)s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "lack",
      "need",
      "needfulness",
      "want"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231320",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absence of blade":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": absence sense 5":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1892, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225743",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absent":{
    "antonyms":[
      "minus",
      "sans",
      "wanting",
      "without"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": in the absence of (something) : without":[
        "Absent any objections, the plan will proceed."
      ],
      ": not existing : lacking":[
        "\u2026 danger in a situation where power is absent \u2026",
        "\u2014 M. H. Trytten",
        "a gene that occurs in mammals but is absent in birds"
      ],
      ": not present at a usual or expected place : missing":[
        "was absent from class today",
        "sharing memories of absent friends",
        "She was conspicuously absent [=her absence was very noticeable] at the meeting."
      ],
      ": showing a lack of attention to what is happening or being said : not attentive":[
        "had an absent look on her face",
        "an absent reply"
      ],
      ": to keep (oneself) away":[
        "He absented himself from the meeting."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "an absent father who is not home most of the time",
      "a gene that occurs in mammals but that is absent in birds",
      "a landscape in which vegetation is almost entirely absent",
      "He made an absent reply to her question as he continued to watch the TV.",
      "Preposition",
      "Absent any objections, the plan will proceed.",
      "Absent such an agreement we can go no further.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The Maphead author has been absent on the show since early May when Mayim took over hosting duties. \u2014 Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping , 28 June 2022",
      "Playerwise, the tournament lacks anyone from Russia and Belarus, following its decision to ban contestants from those countries because of Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, meaning that men\u2019s No. 1 Daniil Medvedev, among others, is absent . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
      "Another big change: the CW shows, such as Flash, Superman & Lois, or the upcoming Supernatural prequel, will be absent as that broadcast network is facing a possible sale and had cancelled many of its shows. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 June 2022",
      "And a bill in Texas to prohibit abortions based on fetal abnormality was brought up for a committee vote after the House had recessed and Democrats were absent . \u2014 New York Times , 25 June 2022",
      "Eleven voted at the meeting, but two commissioners \u2014 Mai Xiong, D-Warren, and Antoinette Wallace, D-Mount Clemens \u2014 were absent and did not vote. \u2014 Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press , 23 June 2022",
      "Our film is very clearly about what happens when terrorism seeps in and when humanity is absent . \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 21 June 2022",
      "Board member Nikki Angel, proxy for Clerk Lorenzo Arredondo, abstained from the vote, and board member John Reed was absent . \u2014 Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune , 21 June 2022",
      "The team discovered that babbling baby parrots articulated a collection of quiet sounds, usually without opening their beaks and often when their siblings were asleep and their parents were absent . \u2014 Grrlscientist, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "But absent the intelligence from the United States, Ukraine would have struggled to target the warship with the confidence necessary to expend two valuable Neptune missiles, which were in short supply, according to people familiar with the strike. \u2014 Dan Lamothe, Washington Post , 11 May 2022",
      "The complaint listed particular bruises and the broken collarbone and concludes such conditions do not occur in nonmobile infants absent some abuse. \u2014 Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 May 2022",
      "But even absent those trends, the factors that have pushed up prices may be hard to unwind. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "The Electro looks and flies like an ordinary light aircraft, but absent the roar of internal combustion, its single propeller makes a sound like beating wings. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Apr. 2022",
      "Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, its oldest members, are just 73 and 72, respectively; absent a health issue, that means this majority couldo remain the ultimate arbiter of the nation's laws for as much as another decade. \u2014 Ronald Brownstein, CNN , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "The war will not create a global recession \u2014 absent an escalation. \u2014 Ken Silverstein, Forbes , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "Journal Editorial Report: But do the federal agencies have this power absent a specific grant of authority from Congress",
      "The tranche of records will be turned over by March 3, absent a court order, officials said. \u2014 Benjamin Siegel, ABC News , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Preposition",
      "Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018",
      "Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018",
      "Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018",
      "Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018",
      "Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018",
      "Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018",
      "Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018",
      "Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
      "1944, in the meaning defined above":"Preposition"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English absenten , borrowed from Anglo-French absenter , borrowed from Late Latin absent\u0101re , verbal derivative of Latin absent-, absens absent entry 1":"Verb",
      "Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin absent-, absens , present participle of abesse \"to be away, be absent,\" from ab- ab- + -sens , present participle (attested only with prefixes) of esse \"to be\" \u2014 more at is entry 1":"Adjective",
      "derivative of absent entry 1":"Preposition"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ab-\u02ccsent",
      "ab-\u02c8sent",
      "\u02c8ab-s\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for absent Adjective abstracted , preoccupied , absent , absentminded , distracted mean inattentive to what claims or demands consideration. abstracted implies absorption of the mind in something other than one's surroundings, and often suggests reflection on weighty matters. walking about with an abstracted air preoccupied often implies having one's attention so taken up by thoughts as to neglect others. too preoccupied with her debts to enjoy the meal absent stresses inability to fix the mind on present concerns due more to mental wandering than to concentration on other matters. an absent stare absentminded implies that the mind is fixed elsewhere and often refers to a habit of abstractedness. so absentminded , he's been known to wear mismatched shoes distracted may suggest an inability to concentrate caused by worry, sorrow, or anxiety. was too distracted by grief to continue working",
    "synonyms":[
      "away",
      "missing",
      "out"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073243",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "preposition",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "absentation":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an absenting of oneself":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1800, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Medieval Latin absentation-, absentatio , from Late Latin absentatus (past participle of absentare to be absent) + Latin -ion-, -io -ion":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccabs\u0259n\u2027\u02c8t\u0101sh\u0259n",
      "-\u02ccsen\u2027-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102024",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absentee":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a proprietor that lives away from his or her estate or business":[],
      ": one missing from work or school":[],
      ": one that is absent : such as":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "There were 10 sick absentees that day.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The return process for absentee ballots varies by mail, online or in person with different deadlines than casting ballots in person. \u2014 Julia Mueller, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
      "According to its website, Vote.org helped more than 4.2 million people register to vote, and more than 3.4 million people to request absentee ballots, in 2020. \u2014 Essence , 27 June 2022",
      "Herrell claimed absentee ballots, which overrode her lead, were irregular. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
      "The claim spurred months of misinformation about absentee ballots in the state. \u2014 Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press , 17 June 2022",
      "Elections workers in Ohio have begun mailing absentee ballots to military members and other overseas voters for the state\u2019s upcoming Aug. 2 special primary election. \u2014 Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland , 17 June 2022",
      "The suit disputes the counting of absentee ballots in Crawford County. \u2014 Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online , 14 June 2022",
      "Now that Juneteenth is a state holiday, voters who intend to hand deliver their absentee ballots to election officials must do so by June 17 at 5 p.m., according to Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis. \u2014 Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al , 3 June 2022",
      "Clerks will begin sending out absentee ballots to military and overseas voters on Jun. 18. \u2014 Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press , 2 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1537, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Anglo-French abscent\u00e9 \"person holding property in Ireland but illegally resident in England,\" from past participle of absenter \"to be absent,\" verbal derivative of absent absent entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccab-s\u0259n-\u02c8t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220959",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absentee ballot":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a ballot submitted (as by mail) in advance of an election by a voter who is unable to be present at the polls":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Last Wednesday \u2014 more than a week after the primary \u2014 her absentee ballot finally showed up at her home. \u2014 Paul J. Weber And Acacia Coronado, Chron , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "Gaskin, a League of Women Voters member and an active voter for years, did ultimately get her absentee ballot on the third try and after nearly a month of effort. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "Actually getting people to turn in their absentee ballot or go vote on Election Day. \u2014 cleveland , 24 July 2021",
      "The lawsuit seeks to prevent voters from having someone else return their absentee ballot for them. \u2014 Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 July 2021",
      "During the 2020 presidential election, Tootle struggled to fill out his own absentee ballot . \u2014 Sanya Mansoor, Time , 14 Apr. 2021",
      "But the difference in when voters can apply for their absentee ballot in Georgia under the new rule isn\u2019t all that significant compared to some blue states. \u2014 Sarah Westwood, Washington Examiner , 9 Apr. 2021",
      "The man had gotten his absentee ballot , but didn\u2019t know where to deliver it. \u2014 Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times , 24 Dec. 2020",
      "That legislation would also bar election officials from sending voters unsolicited absentee ballot applications. \u2014 Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1889, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112422",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absentee landlord":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": someone who owns and rents property but does not live on or near the property and rarely visits it":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135555",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absenteeism":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": prolonged absence of an owner from his or her property":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccab-s\u0259n-\u02c8t\u0113-\u02cci-z\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Estimates show that untreated mental illness may cost companies up to $300 billion annually, largely due to impacts on productivity, absenteeism , and increases in medical and disability expenses, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. \u2014 Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune , 9 May 2022",
      "Kids in low-income areas are especially vulnerable to chronic absenteeism for a variety of reasons \u2014 from lack of access to healthcare to family situations. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Feb. 2022",
      "Half of the achievement gap can be traced to absenteeism , Smith said. \u2014 Geri Stengel, Forbes , 23 June 2021",
      "Most school districts continue to see significant declines in student enrollment and high rates of chronic absenteeism . \u2014 Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 May 2022",
      "In addition, the school district is tackling the issue of chronic absenteeism , which was a problem before COVID-19 and further exacerbated by the pandemic, Torres-Rodriguez said. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 1 June 2022",
      "Estimates show that untreated mental illness may cost companies up to $300 billion annually, largely due to impacts on productivity, absenteeism , and increases in medical and disability expenses, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. \u2014 Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune , 9 May 2022",
      "Estimates show that untreated mental illness may cost companies up to $300 billion annually, largely due to impacts on productivity, absenteeism , and increases in medical and disability expenses, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. \u2014 Anne D'innocenzio, Anchorage Daily News , 8 May 2022",
      "Chronic absenteeism , defined as students who miss 18 or more days at a single school, or 10% of the school year, also increased after the pandemic, the study showed. \u2014 AZCentral.com , 28 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "absentee + -ism":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1829, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172745"
  },
  "absentminded":{
    "antonyms":[
      "alert"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": indicative of or resulting from preoccupation or absence of mind":[
        "gave an absentminded reply"
      ],
      ": lost in thought and unaware of one's surroundings or actions : preoccupied":[
        "was too absentminded to notice what time it was"
      ],
      ": tending to forget or fail to notice things : given to absence of mind (see absence sense 3 )":[
        "Her absentminded husband forgot their anniversary."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Her absentminded husband forgot their anniversary.",
      "She did the chores in an absentminded way.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But as happens to absentminded professors worldwide (at least according to my dear wife), my mind started to wander from the task at hand to something related to plants. \u2014 Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal , 6 Mar. 2020",
      "In their own seemingly innocent, absentminded way, slow drivers pose just as much of a threat to society as fast ones. \u2014 Joe Queenan, WSJ , 12 Apr. 2018",
      "Megyn Kelly\u2019s dog took a brief sojourn in a total stranger\u2019s lavish Montana villa after her absentminded caretakers unintentionally abandoned her there during their vacation in the Big Sky Country. \u2014 Amanda Arnold, The Cut , 26 Mar. 2018",
      "Over on the side, two men played an absentminded game of pool, more interested in the discussion than the 6 in the side pocket. \u2014 The Root , 16 June 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1824, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccab-s\u0259nt-\u02c8m\u012bn-d\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for absentminded abstracted , preoccupied , absent , absentminded , distracted mean inattentive to what claims or demands consideration. abstracted implies absorption of the mind in something other than one's surroundings, and often suggests reflection on weighty matters. walking about with an abstracted air preoccupied often implies having one's attention so taken up by thoughts as to neglect others. too preoccupied with her debts to enjoy the meal absent stresses inability to fix the mind on present concerns due more to mental wandering than to concentration on other matters. an absent stare absentminded implies that the mind is fixed elsewhere and often refers to a habit of abstractedness. so absentminded , he's been known to wear mismatched shoes distracted may suggest an inability to concentrate caused by worry, sorrow, or anxiety. was too distracted by grief to continue working",
    "synonyms":[
      "absent",
      "abstracted",
      "distracted",
      "preoccupied"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220626",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absolute":{
    "antonyms":[
      "limited"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": being self-sufficient and free of external references or relationships":[
        "an absolute term in logic",
        "absolute music"
      ],
      ": being the true distance from an aircraft to the earth's surface":[
        "absolute altitude"
      ],
      ": being, governed by, or characteristic of a ruler or authority completely free from constitutional or other restraint":[
        "absolute power"
      ],
      ": free from imperfection : perfect":[
        "\u2026 it is a most absolute and excellent horse.",
        "\u2014 William Shakespeare"
      ],
      ": free or relatively free from mixture : pure":[
        "absolute alcohol"
      ],
      ": fundamental , ultimate":[
        "absolute knowledge"
      ],
      ": having no object in the particular construction under consideration though normally transitive":[
        "Kill in \"if looks could kill\" is an absolute verb."
      ],
      ": having no restriction, exception, or qualification":[
        "an absolute requirement",
        "absolute freedom"
      ],
      ": independent of arbitrary standards of measurement":[],
      ": outright , unmitigated":[
        "an absolute lie"
      ],
      ": perfectly embodying the nature of a thing":[
        "absolute justice"
      ],
      ": positive , unquestionable":[
        "absolute proof"
      ],
      ": relating to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of length, mass, and time":[
        "absolute electric units"
      ],
      ": standing alone without a modified substantive":[
        "Blind in \"help the blind\" and ours in \"your work and ours\" are absolute ."
      ],
      ": standing apart from a normal or usual syntactical relation with other words or sentence elements":[
        "the absolute construction this being the case in the sentence \"this being the case, let us go\""
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "You can't predict the future with absolute certainty.",
      "I have absolute faith in her ability to get the job done.",
      "He swore an oath of absolute secrecy.",
      "When it comes to using computers, I'm an absolute beginner.",
      "The country is ruled by an absolute dictator.",
      "The country is an absolute monarchy.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Coming from a company that has spoiled shareholders with automotive gross margins north of 30% for three straight quarters\u2014among the absolute best in the industry\u2014those words are bound to cause investors to worry. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
      "Which of the wide range of chest exercises work the absolute best",
      "Just as toxic, just as absolute , and just as deadly. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 31 May 2022",
      "Despite the absolute necessity of diapers, in 33 states they're taxed like a luxury good. \u2014 Gwyneth Paltrow, CBS News , 8 May 2022",
      "North Korea is extremely sensitive about any outside attempt to undermine Kim Jong Un\u2019s leadership and weaken his absolute control over the country\u2019s 26 million people, most of whom have little access to foreign news. \u2014 NBC News , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "Adding Matt Olson was an absolute necessity with Freeman leaving. \u2014 Daniel Kohn, SPIN , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "Enhanced communication is a pillar of my platform and an absolute necessity for the city. \u2014 Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "The best-selling scent refreshes and entices with an amber foug\u00e9re blend of zesty bergamot and mandarin atop robust base and heart notes of Virginian cedar, Sri Lankan sandalwood, and Papuan vanilla absolute . \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English absolut , borrowed from Latin absol\u016btus , from past participle of absolvere \"to set free, acquit, finish, complete\" \u2014 more at absolve":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ab-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u00fct",
      "\u02ccab-s\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fct"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "arbitrary",
      "autocratic",
      "autocratical",
      "czarist",
      "tsarist",
      "tzarist",
      "despotic",
      "dictatorial",
      "monocratic",
      "tyrannical",
      "tyrannic",
      "tyrannous"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105205",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absolute altimeter":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an aircraft altimeter that determines distance to the earth by radio measuring the time needed for an emitted wave to reach the earth and reflect back to the aircraft":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1930, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110225",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absolute altitude":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the vertical distance between an aircraft and the surface over which it is flying":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1916, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124648",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absolute blocking":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": block system":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1891, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125649",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absolute magnitude":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a measure of the intrinsic luminosity of a celestial body (such as a star) expressed as the apparent magnitude the body would have if viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The really amazing thing about Katy Perry\u2019s 110 million Twitter followers is not its absolute magnitude as much as the fact that the site\u2019s entire monthly active user base is only about three times that size. \u2014 Felix Salmon, WIRED , 5 June 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1885, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-194225",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absolute majority":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": majority sense 3a":[],
      ": more than half of the number of qualified voters":[],
      ": more than half of the votes actually cast":[],
      ": more than half of the votes: such as":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1782, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202908",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absolute time":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": empty time apart from the events that occupy it":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1805, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-200813",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absolute value":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a nonnegative number equal in numerical value to a given real number":[],
      ": the positive square root of the sum of the squares of the real and imaginary parts of a complex number":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Mental accounting is a term that describes how people think in terms of relative value rather than absolute value . \u2014 Brian Boswell, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "Its rolling sound off the tongue",
      "One way to evaluate an asset\u2019s absolute value -creation potential is by focusing on profitability per joule unit of energy (USD/J) instead of cost per barrel. \u2014 Muqsit Ashraf, Forbes , 11 Oct. 2021",
      "The number of extra cars on the more crowded road is simply the absolute value of the difference between these numbers: |j \u2013 (200 \u2013 j)|. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 25 Sep. 2015",
      "This correlates with a higher absolute value of the second number in the pair (\u201315 versus \u201311). \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 30 Oct. 2015",
      "DoorDash also surpassed Grubhub in market share as measured among the online food delivery companies that Second Measure tracks using anonymized credit transaction data, though the absolute value of those sales has grown for both companies. \u2014 Alison Griswold, Quartz , 23 June 2019",
      "China also beat the United States in absolute value of national power in 2016. \u2014 Simon Saradzhyan, Washington Post , 20 June 2018",
      "If safety were an absolute value in transportation policy, the national highway speed limit would be fifteen miles an hour. \u2014 William Finnegan, The New Yorker , 2 July 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1803, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184229",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absolutely":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": completely or totally":[
        "absolutely certain",
        "an absolutely clear explanation",
        "\u2014 often used as an intensive an absolutely brilliant performance an absolutely awful experience You're absolutely right."
      ],
      ": in an absolute manner: such as":[],
      ": with respect to absolute values":[
        "an absolutely convergent series"
      ],
      ": with unlimited power":[
        "ruling absolutely"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "He is absolutely certain who will win.",
      "Let me make one thing absolutely clear.",
      "Keep absolutely quiet during the movie.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Safety Safety gear, like a first aid kit and headlamp, may not be fun to think about but should absolutely be in your car camping kit. \u2014 Hannah Singleton, SELF , 28 June 2022",
      "To suggest that this study shows any kind of systematic genetic difference between white and Black Americans that makes the former innately more intelligent than the latter is absolutely a misreading that was not intended by the study\u2019s authors. \u2014 Emily Klancher Merchant, STAT , 23 June 2022",
      "But Weltman sees no reason to decide anything before it\u2019s absolutely necessary, especially given the opportunity that Orlando has by holding this No. 1 pick. \u2014 Tim Reynolds, ajc , 20 June 2022",
      "Moving in is absolutely the wrong thing to do and will make an already difficult situation far worse. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022",
      "Arguably the most nerve-wracking movie of all in a list full of contenders, Buried is absolutely not a good choice for the claustrophobic. \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Town & Country , 17 June 2022",
      "Sammi Jefcoate is absolutely a luxury fashion girl. \u2014 Jihan Forbes, Allure , 16 June 2022",
      "The wedding of Britney Spears and Sam Asghari was absolutely star-studded, and those stars aligned to create a beautiful moment during the reception between Spears and her good friend, Madonna. \u2014 Aim\u00e9e Lutkin, ELLE , 12 June 2022",
      "As a mere practical and logistical matter, the answer is absolutely yes. \u2014 Patrick Rishe, Forbes , 9 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from absolut absolute + -ly -ly entry 2":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccab-s\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fct-",
      "\u02c8ab-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u00fct-l\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184025",
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "absolutely convergent":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": remaining convergent even if the signs of negative terms are changed":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1882, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184717",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "absolution":{
    "antonyms":[
      "penalty",
      "punishment",
      "retribution"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "He asked the priest to give him absolution for his sins.",
      "the jury's verdict of \u201cnot guilty\u201d was absolution in the eyes of the law, but the verdict would always be \u201cguilty\u201d in the court of public opinion",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "National Historical Park, where ruling chiefs would grant absolution to Hawaiian lawbreakers and vanquished warriors. \u2014 Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "Ruth\u2019s defense and absolution of the priest becomes a personal crusade. \u2014 Emilio Mayorga, Variety , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "Buckley and Wilkins spent many years brooding over their respective roles in the Smith saga\u2014seeking comfort, if not absolution , from each other. \u2014 Sam Adler-bell, The New Republic , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "In making its announcement, the Spanish prosecutor stressed its decision did not mean absolution . \u2014 Peter Mikelbank And Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "There can be no soft-pedaling what happened and no absolution for those who planned, encouraged and aided the attempt to overthrow our democracy. \u2014 WSJ , 11 Jan. 2022",
      "There can be no soft-pedaling what happened and no absolution for those who planned, encouraged and aided the attempt to overthrow our democracy. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 8 Jan. 2022",
      "Rather than feeling a sense of moral absolution by dint of her role as a prosecutor, Coates fully accepts the moral consequences of her decisions. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Feb. 2022",
      "Was religious absolution even possible with the geopolitical recriminations involved"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English absoluciun , borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin absol\u016bti\u014dn-, absol\u016bti\u014d \"completion, acquittal, release,\" from absol\u016b- (stem, before consonants, of absolvere \"to set free, acquit, finish\") + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d suffix of action nouns \u2014 more at absolve":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccab-s\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fc-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "amnesty",
      "forgiveness",
      "pardon",
      "remission",
      "remittal"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193137",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absolutism":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers":[],
      ": advocacy of a rule by absolute standards or principles":[],
      ": an absolute standard or principle":[],
      ": government by an absolute ruler or authority : despotism":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "concerning absolutism Lord Acton famously observed that \u201cabsolute power corrupts absolutely\u201d",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Those victories have come amid the Republican Party\u2019s embrace of Second Amendment absolutism and guns as central to its identity, a fervor that gun control proponents have not been able to match, said Mr. Miller of the Duke firearms law center. \u2014 New York Times , 18 June 2022",
      "That might sound like good news to gun reform advocates, who have for decades seen the NRA as the primary driver of gun absolutism in the United States. \u2014 Nicole Hemmer, CNN , 30 May 2022",
      "The Democrats' democratic absolutism is largely opportunistic. \u2014 W. James Antle Iii, The Week , 13 May 2022",
      "Musk's free speech absolutism , Daniyal says, doesn't make much sense in India because there have not been many curbs on speech on the platform to begin with. \u2014 Barbara Ortutay, ajc , 14 May 2022",
      "Musk\u2019s free speech absolutism , Daniyal says, doesn\u2019t make much sense in India because there have not been many curbs on speech on the platform to begin with. \u2014 Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News , 14 May 2022",
      "Then there\u2019s the question of Musk\u2019s alleged free-speech absolutism . \u2014 Russ Mitchellstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "Over several decades, National Review devoted countless pages and pixels to the profound witness of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to the spiritual darkness of communist absolutism and its inevitable gulag. \u2014 Peter J. Travers, National Review , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "In a still-free country, such unfettered absolutism was never sustainable. \u2014 Daniel Henninger, WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1823, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "absolute + -ism (in political sense after French absolutisme )":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ab-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u00fc-\u02ccti-z\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "autarchy",
      "authoritarianism",
      "autocracy",
      "Caesarism",
      "czarism",
      "tsarism",
      "tzarism",
      "despotism",
      "dictatorship",
      "totalism",
      "totalitarianism",
      "tyranny"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164142",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "noun or adjective"
    ]
  },
  "absolutive":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or being an inflectional morpheme that typically marks the subject of an intransitive verb or the direct object of a transitive verb in an ergative language":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1874, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "absolute + -ive":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccab-s\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fc-tiv"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-081951",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "absolutization":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1863, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082418",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absolutize":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to make absolute : convert into an absolute":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1865, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "absolute + -ize":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ab-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u00fc-\u02cct\u012bz"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111950",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "absolve":{
    "antonyms":[
      "criminate",
      "incriminate"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to pardon or forgive (a sin) : to remit (a sin) by absolution":[
        "asked the priest to absolve his sins"
      ],
      ": to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt":[
        "The jury absolved the defendants of their crimes.",
        "Her youth does not absolve her of responsibility for her actions."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "no amount of remorse will absolve shoplifters who are caught, and all cases will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Acting on orders does not absolve individual soldiers of responsibility for war crimes, according to experts. \u2014 Claire Parker, Washington Post , 19 May 2022",
      "Acting on orders does not absolve individual soldiers of responsibility for war crimes, according to experts. \u2014 Steve Hendrix And Claire Parker, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
      "Percy farmed out the work to consultants and contracted with a search firm (Collegiate Sports Associates) and will undoubtedly try to absolve himself of what happens next. \u2014 John Canzano, oregonlive , 1 Mar. 2022",
      "Kyiv considers these authorities to be Russian proxies and says that agreeing to negotiate with them would absolve Moscow of its responsibility for the eight-year conflict. \u2014 Matthew Dalton, WSJ , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "Madison\u2019s countersuit, a request for declaratory judgment that would absolve him of harm in the matter, will continue nevertheless. \u2014 Frederick Reimers, Outside Online , 11 Oct. 2020",
      "As the quartet bonds, their secret games emerge from the wood and take on adult dimensions\u2014but their growing psychic capacities do not absolve them of the petty resentments, tantrums, and retributions of adolescence. \u2014 Erik Morse, Vogue , 9 May 2022",
      "Smith has received his punishment, but that doesn\u2019t absolve the Academy nor Rock\u2019s responsibility and their need to make amends to more than one party. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 10 Apr. 2022",
      "The lack of criminal charges does not absolve the officers from any wrongdoing, but indicates that prosecutors do not believe that a jury would be able to find the officers guilty beyond a reasonable doubt given the available evidence and testimony. \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English absolven , borrowed from Latin absolvere \"to release, acquit, finish, complete,\" from ab- ab- + solvere \"to loosen, release\" \u2014 more at solve":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8z\u022flv",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8z\u00e4lv, -\u02c8s\u00e4lv",
      "-\u02c8s\u00e4lv",
      "-\u02c8s\u022flv",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8z\u00e4lv",
      "also without l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for absolve exculpate , absolve , exonerate , acquit , vindicate mean to free from a charge. exculpate implies a clearing from blame or fault often in a matter of small importance. exculpating himself from the charge of overenthusiasm absolve implies a release either from an obligation that binds the conscience or from the consequences of disobeying the law or committing a sin. cannot be absolved of blame exonerate implies a complete clearance from an accusation or charge and from any attendant suspicion of blame or guilt. exonerated by the investigation acquit implies a formal decision in one's favor with respect to a definite charge. voted to acquit the defendant vindicate may refer to things as well as persons that have been subjected to critical attack or imputation of guilt, weakness, or folly, and implies a clearing effected by proving the unfairness of such criticism or blame. her judgment was vindicated",
    "synonyms":[
      "acquit",
      "clear",
      "exculpate",
      "exonerate",
      "vindicate"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035719",
    "type":[
      "noun,",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "absorb":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": assume , bear":[
        "The expenses were absorbed by the company."
      ],
      ": endure , sustain":[
        "absorbing hardships"
      ],
      ": to engage or engross wholly":[
        "an interest that absorbs her completely",
        "absorbed in thought"
      ],
      ": to receive without recoil or echo":[
        "provided with a sound- absorbing surface"
      ],
      ": to take in (knowledge, attitudes, etc.) : acquire , learn":[
        "\u2026 convictions absorbed in youth \u2026",
        "\u2014 M. R. Cohen"
      ],
      ": to take in (something, such as water) in a natural or gradual way":[
        "a sponge absorbs water",
        "charcoal absorbs gas",
        "plant roots absorb water"
      ],
      ": to take in and make part of an existent whole":[
        "the capacity of a country to absorb new immigrants"
      ],
      ": to transform (radiant energy) into a different form especially with a resulting rise in temperature":[
        "The earth absorbs the sun's rays."
      ],
      ": use up , consume":[
        "The fever absorbed her strength.",
        "His work absorbs all his time and attention."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a fabric that absorbs sweat",
      "The walls are made of a material that absorbs sound.",
      "absorbing heat from the sun",
      "She is good at absorbing information.",
      "He has retained the values that he absorbed as a young man.",
      "a country that has absorbed many immigrants",
      "smaller countries invaded and absorbed by bigger ones",
      "His interest in photography absorbs him completely.",
      "I was so absorbed by her story that I lost track of time.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "People are going to be able to absorb this over time. \u2014 ABC News , 26 June 2022",
      "For a while, Capstone was able to absorb the costs, but low testing volume in recent weeks eventually made operations financially unsustainable, Jones said this week. \u2014 Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
      "And adidas in its history has been able to absorb innumerable transformations. \u2014 Tiziana Cardini, Vogue , 7 June 2022",
      "During tests, the water harvesting gel was able to absorb 13 liters (3.4 gallons) of water per day in an area with a humidity of 30 percent. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 25 May 2022",
      "The goal, the company\u2019s founders say, is a market better able to absorb big spikes in trading volume and loan demand. \u2014 David Benoit, WSJ , 23 May 2022",
      "Owners able to absorb additional deductions can look at other methods to maximize deductions. \u2014 David Mcguire, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
      "Hall sees the project, however, as a way to cram as many homes as possible on land that is not able to absorb septic effluents without endangering public health or the Provo River, a crucial water source for Utah and Salt Lake counties. \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 May 2022",
      "While surging prices have historically come amid sputtering economic growth, many economists see the U.S.'s current financial picture as one that has been able to largely absorb recent leaps in the cost of goods. \u2014 Rob Wile, NBC News , 4 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Middle French assorber, absorber, asorbir, absorbir , going back to Old French, borrowed (with conjugation changes) from Latin absorb\u0113re , from ab- ab- + sorb\u0113re \"to suck up, draw in, engulf,\" going back to Indo-European *s\u1e5bb h -eii\u032f\u032fe- , probably re-formed from *srob h -eii\u032f\u032fe- , iterative derivative from the verb base *sreb h - \"suck up, drink noisily\"; akin to Greek roph\u00e9\u014d, rophe\u00een \"to drink in gulps,\" Armenian arbi \"drank,\" Lithuanian srebi\u00f9, sr\u0117\u0303bti \"to gulp,\" Old Russian sereblyu, serebati":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8z\u022frb",
      "-\u02c8z\u022f(\u0259)rb",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022f(\u0259)rb",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022frb"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "drink",
      "imbibe",
      "soak (up)",
      "sponge",
      "suck (up)",
      "take up"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062606",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "absorbed":{
    "antonyms":[
      "absent",
      "absentminded",
      "abstracted",
      "distracted",
      "inattentive",
      "inobservant",
      "unabsorbed",
      "unfocused",
      "unfocussed"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": having one's attention wholly engaged or occupied":[
        "\u2026 was so absorbed in the business of his journey that he never turned his head \u2026",
        "\u2014 Thomas Hardy",
        "I was too absorbed in my own problems and too uninterested in politics to remember that it was also a momentous day in Washington.",
        "\u2014 Russell Baker"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "As the refrigerant expands, a pump takes it away, and a radiator dumps its absorbed heat. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 18 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1722, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022frbd",
      "-\u02c8z\u022frbd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "attentive",
      "deep",
      "engrossed",
      "enthralled",
      "focused",
      "focussed",
      "immersed",
      "intent",
      "observant",
      "rapt"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014453",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "absorbing":{
    "antonyms":[
      "boring",
      "drab",
      "dry",
      "dull",
      "heavy",
      "monotonous",
      "tedious",
      "uninteresting"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": fully taking one's attention : engrossing":[
        "an absorbing novel"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "shell collecting can be so absorbing that you don't notice the tide coming in",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "And some of the most absorbing contributions are abstract. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022",
      "Sequences like these are the best parts of the Hulu show\u2014the funniest, the most absorbing and surprising. \u2014 Lidija Haas, The New Republic , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "Al Qadiri is a Kuwaiti American who\u2019s made some of the most absorbing and transportive electronic music of the last decade. \u2014 Carrie Battan, The New Yorker , 15 Dec. 2021",
      "But the most absorbing composition is Number 196T (2019). \u2014 Benjamin Lima, Dallas News , 21 Oct. 2020",
      "Below are the essentials for more absorbing gameplay. \u2014 Popular Science , 22 Apr. 2020",
      "All this is absorbing enough without generating much in the way of real terror, tension or surprise. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Apr. 2020",
      "Whereas some Infiniti vehicles\u2014including the previous generation of this one\u2014have been overly flinty, the ride quality here is relaxed but not lazy, absorbing road imperfections while maintaining secure and stable body control. \u2014 Jared Gall, Car and Driver , 10 Mar. 2020",
      "Python [the high-level, general-purpose programming language] is so absorbing . \u2014 Gab Ginsberg, Billboard , 1 Mar. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1806, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "from present participle of absorb":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8z\u022fr-",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022fr-bi\u014b"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "arresting",
      "consuming",
      "engaging",
      "engrossing",
      "enthralling",
      "fascinating",
      "gripping",
      "immersing",
      "interesting",
      "intriguing",
      "involving",
      "riveting"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200010",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "absorption":{
    "antonyms":[
      "inattention"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": entire occupation of the mind":[
        "his absorption in his work"
      ],
      ": interception of radiant energy or sound waves":[],
      ": the process of absorbing something or of being absorbed":[
        "absorption of water"
      ],
      "\u2014 compare adsorption":[
        "absorption of water"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "forgot to return the phone call due to his absorption in setting up the new computer system",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Each extremely thin layer has a lattice structure that binds hydrogen and prevents other elements from interfering with its absorption . \u2014 Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "Until the Russian invasion, the main threat posed by this contamination was its absorption into mosses and trees that can burn in wildfires, disseminating the poisons in smoke, or through birds that eat radioactive, ground-dwelling insects. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "Traditional diapers often contain chemicals, and the moisture and heat inside a diaper after urination can maximize their absorption into skin. \u2014 Angela Yang, BostonGlobe.com , 11 Feb. 2022",
      "Sweden has in recent years accepted an influx of refugees, then dealt with challenges related to their absorption and a rise in far-right political activity aimed at rejecting immigrants. \u2014 Katarzyna Andersz, sun-sentinel.com , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "This recipe from Alison Ladman incorporates all the stuffing essentials: Sage, thyme, rosemary, and plenty of stale bread (which is a good thing -- the drier the bread, the better its absorption of flavorful liquids). \u2014 oregonlive , 16 Nov. 2021",
      "Other ingredients to avoid include hydroquinine and alpha arbutin, chemical sunscreens due to their absorption into the bloodstream and concerns about hormone disruption, and products containing CBD. \u2014 Angela Lei, Forbes , 17 Sep. 2021",
      "One knew that one was in the presence of extreme seriousness, absorption , and force of intellect. . . . \u2014 Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
      "Bump absorption is fairly good, without the excess ride motions that comes with ride compliance. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 13 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from French & Late Latin; French, borrowed from Late Latin absorpti\u014dn-, absorpti\u014d , from absorb\u0113re \"to absorb \" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022frp-sh\u0259n, -\u02c8z\u022frp-",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022frp-sh\u0259n",
      "-\u02c8z\u022frp-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "attention",
      "concentration",
      "engrossment",
      "enthrallment",
      "immersion"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053403",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absque impetitione vasti":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": without impeachment of waste":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1767, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8abzkw\u0113\u02ccimp\u0259\u02cctish\u0113\u02c8\u014dn\u0113\u02c8va\u02ccst\u012b"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-111533",
    "type":[]
  },
  "abstain":{
    "antonyms":[
      "bow (to)",
      "give in (to)",
      "submit (to)",
      "succumb (to)",
      "surrender (to)",
      "yield (to)"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice":[
        "abstain from drinking"
      ],
      ": to choose not to vote":[
        "Ten members voted for the proposal, six members voted against it, and two abstained ."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Ten members voted for the proposal, six members voted against it, and two abstained .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Hinz released Ryan on his own recognizance on Tuesday, and ordered him to not possess any weapons, abstain from drugs and alcohol, and to not have any contact with witnesses or investigating officers connected to his case. \u2014 Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic , 28 June 2022",
      "The possibility remains that NFL officials opt to abstain from handing down a suspension before the completion of the legal process. \u2014 Mike Jones, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
      "Whether China and Russia will use their veto power to block the measure or abstain remains to be seen. \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 26 May 2022",
      "The rules should change so that we, as fund shareholders, are either allowed to vote our own shares in any company held by the ETF or fund, or abstain by default. \u2014 WSJ , 11 Feb. 2022",
      "There are also women who abstain for religious, cultural or health reasons; women who don\u2019t particularly like to drink; women who are allergic; and drinkers who enjoy the clarity and sincerity of alcohol-free socializing. \u2014 Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "The walkability is crucial for religious Jews, who abstain from work and technology from sundown Friday to after dark on Saturday, the Jewish day of rest called Shabbat. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 June 2021",
      "Most recently, India was among the 58 countries to abstain from a vote to remove Russia from the UN Human Rights Council. \u2014 Manavi Kapur, Quartz , 11 Apr. 2022",
      "All were undecided, ready to change their minds, or planning to abstain . \u2014 John Irish And Noemie Olive, The Christian Science Monitor , 6 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English absteinen, abstenen , borrowed from Anglo-French asteign-, absteign- , stem of astenir, abstenir , borrowed (with conjugation change, conformed to tenir ) from Latin abstin\u0113re \"to keep from, hold back, refrain, withhold oneself from,\" from abs- (variant of ab- ab- before c- and t- ) + ten\u0113re \"to hold, occupy, possess\" \u2014 more at tenant entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259b-\u02c8st\u0101n, ab-",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8st\u0101n",
      "ab-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "abjure",
      "forbear",
      "forgo",
      "forego",
      "keep (from)",
      "refrain (from)",
      "withhold (from)"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171613",
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":[
      "to resist the temptation of had to abstain from solid food before her surgery"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-144252",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "abstemious":{
    "antonyms":[
      "self-indulgent"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "She is known as an abstemious eater and drinker.",
      "being abstemious diners, they avoid restaurants with all-you-can-eat buffets",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Carter was consistently ethical, abstemious , frugal and ascetic in the White House. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 June 2021",
      "This woman, Margaret Bolden Wilson, was a Seventh-day Adventist who would have been considered abstemious even by the most devout. \u2014 Colin Asher, The New Republic , 19 Apr. 2021",
      "People grow more risk-averse, abstemious , religious. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 15 Apr. 2021",
      "In a nation with an abstemious Protestant cultural heritage, self-indulgence\u2014and comfort for its own sake\u2014will always find hackles to raise. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 8 Dec. 2020",
      "Gay, bow-tied, effusive, charismatic, and possessed of a lavish appetite, Beard had the misfortune to live in an era at once bigoted, repressed, paranoid, abstemious , and uninterestingly dressed. \u2014 Aaron Timms, The New Republic , 4 Dec. 2020",
      "Glenn is abstemious , churchgoing, devoted to his childhood sweetheart wife; Shepard lives the rock star life away from his wife, Louise (Shannon Lucio), drinking and philandering and cruising Florida\u2019s Cocoa Beach in a Corvette convertible. \u2014 cleveland , 9 Oct. 2020",
      "Freddy was an awkward fit in a proud, humorless, abstemious family. \u2014 Anne Diebel, The New York Review of Books , 8 Sep. 2020",
      "This year\u2019s exercise, which runs from August 17th to 31st, will be a more abstemious affair. \u2014 The Economist , 16 Aug. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1609, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin abst\u0113mius \"refraining from wine, careful with one's means,\" from abs- (variant of ab- ab- before c- and t- ) + -t\u0113mius , from a base t\u0113m- \"intoxicating\" (also in t\u0113m\u0113tum \"intoxicating beverage,\" t\u0113mulentus \"drunken\"); if going back to an Indo-European root *temH- , akin to Sanskrit t\u0101myati \"(he/she) is stunned, loses consciousness, is exhausted,\" tamayati \"(he/she) chokes (someone),\" Armenian t\u02bfmrim \"(he/she) is stunned\" (perhaps going back to *t\u0113miro- )":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "ab-\u02c8st\u0113-m\u0113-\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "abstentious",
      "abstinent",
      "continent",
      "self-abnegating",
      "self-denying",
      "sober",
      "temperate"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055804",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "abstemiousness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "self-indulgent"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "She is known as an abstemious eater and drinker.",
      "being abstemious diners, they avoid restaurants with all-you-can-eat buffets",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Carter was consistently ethical, abstemious , frugal and ascetic in the White House. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 June 2021",
      "This woman, Margaret Bolden Wilson, was a Seventh-day Adventist who would have been considered abstemious even by the most devout. \u2014 Colin Asher, The New Republic , 19 Apr. 2021",
      "People grow more risk-averse, abstemious , religious. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 15 Apr. 2021",
      "In a nation with an abstemious Protestant cultural heritage, self-indulgence\u2014and comfort for its own sake\u2014will always find hackles to raise. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 8 Dec. 2020",
      "Gay, bow-tied, effusive, charismatic, and possessed of a lavish appetite, Beard had the misfortune to live in an era at once bigoted, repressed, paranoid, abstemious , and uninterestingly dressed. \u2014 Aaron Timms, The New Republic , 4 Dec. 2020",
      "Glenn is abstemious , churchgoing, devoted to his childhood sweetheart wife; Shepard lives the rock star life away from his wife, Louise (Shannon Lucio), drinking and philandering and cruising Florida\u2019s Cocoa Beach in a Corvette convertible. \u2014 cleveland , 9 Oct. 2020",
      "Freddy was an awkward fit in a proud, humorless, abstemious family. \u2014 Anne Diebel, The New York Review of Books , 8 Sep. 2020",
      "This year\u2019s exercise, which runs from August 17th to 31st, will be a more abstemious affair. \u2014 The Economist , 16 Aug. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1609, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin abst\u0113mius \"refraining from wine, careful with one's means,\" from abs- (variant of ab- ab- before c- and t- ) + -t\u0113mius , from a base t\u0113m- \"intoxicating\" (also in t\u0113m\u0113tum \"intoxicating beverage,\" t\u0113mulentus \"drunken\"); if going back to an Indo-European root *temH- , akin to Sanskrit t\u0101myati \"(he/she) is stunned, loses consciousness, is exhausted,\" tamayati \"(he/she) chokes (someone),\" Armenian t\u02bfmrim \"(he/she) is stunned\" (perhaps going back to *t\u0113miro- )":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "ab-\u02c8st\u0113-m\u0113-\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "abstentious",
      "abstinent",
      "continent",
      "self-abnegating",
      "self-denying",
      "sober",
      "temperate"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-011502",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "abstention":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a formal refusal to vote on something":[
        "There were 10 ayes, 6 nays, and 2 abstentions ."
      ],
      ": the act or practice of abstaining : such as":[],
      ": the act or practice of choosing not to do or have something":[
        "abstention from drugs and alcohol",
        "a long period of abstention [=abstinence]"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "There were 10 ayes, 6 nays, and 2 abstentions when the vote was taken.",
      "a high rate of voter abstention",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "At the end of a five-hour board meeting, during which dozens of Bay Area residents voiced their opinions on the subject, the seven-member board voted 4-2 (with one abstention ) to uphold its ban on ebikes on the majority of its trails. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 June 2022",
      "The vote was 11-1, with one abstention , that the CDC should make its strongest recommendation. \u2014 Matthew Herper, STAT , 24 May 2022",
      "Her hopes now largely rest on the potential for high abstention rates among voters who lean toward Macron. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "France\u2019s estimated six million Muslims account for 10 percent of the population, but their political influence has long been undermined by high abstention rates and divisions based on class and ancestry. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "The Board of State Canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, confirmed the results on a 3-0 vote with one GOP abstention . \u2014 Zeke Miller, Star Tribune , 24 Nov. 2020",
      "The Board of State Canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, confirmed the results on a 3-0 vote with one GOP abstention . \u2014 Arkansas Online , 24 Nov. 2020",
      "Referring to China\u2019s behavior so far since the conflict began, Psaki pointed to the country\u2019s abstention in United Nations Security Council votes on the war and its echoing of unsubstantiated claims of American biochemical labs, in Ukraine. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "Referring to China\u2019s behavior since the conflict began, Psaki pointed to the country\u2019s abstention in United Nations Security Council votes on the war and its echoing of unsubstantiated claims of American biochemical labs in Ukraine. \u2014 Ellen Nakashima, Adela Suliman, Lily Kuo, Anchorage Daily News , 18 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1521, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Late Latin abstenti\u014dn-, abstenti\u014d , from Latin absten- , variant stem of abstin\u0113re \"to abstain \" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259b-\u02c8sten-ch\u0259n",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8sten(t)-sh\u0259n",
      "ab-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040947",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "abstentious":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a formal refusal to vote on something":[
        "There were 10 ayes, 6 nays, and 2 abstentions ."
      ],
      ": the act or practice of abstaining : such as":[],
      ": the act or practice of choosing not to do or have something":[
        "abstention from drugs and alcohol",
        "a long period of abstention [=abstinence]"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "There were 10 ayes, 6 nays, and 2 abstentions when the vote was taken.",
      "a high rate of voter abstention",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "At the end of a five-hour board meeting, during which dozens of Bay Area residents voiced their opinions on the subject, the seven-member board voted 4-2 (with one abstention ) to uphold its ban on ebikes on the majority of its trails. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 June 2022",
      "The vote was 11-1, with one abstention , that the CDC should make its strongest recommendation. \u2014 Matthew Herper, STAT , 24 May 2022",
      "Her hopes now largely rest on the potential for high abstention rates among voters who lean toward Macron. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "France\u2019s estimated six million Muslims account for 10 percent of the population, but their political influence has long been undermined by high abstention rates and divisions based on class and ancestry. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "The Board of State Canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, confirmed the results on a 3-0 vote with one GOP abstention . \u2014 Zeke Miller, Star Tribune , 24 Nov. 2020",
      "The Board of State Canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, confirmed the results on a 3-0 vote with one GOP abstention . \u2014 Arkansas Online , 24 Nov. 2020",
      "Referring to China\u2019s behavior so far since the conflict began, Psaki pointed to the country\u2019s abstention in United Nations Security Council votes on the war and its echoing of unsubstantiated claims of American biochemical labs, in Ukraine. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "Referring to China\u2019s behavior since the conflict began, Psaki pointed to the country\u2019s abstention in United Nations Security Council votes on the war and its echoing of unsubstantiated claims of American biochemical labs in Ukraine. \u2014 Ellen Nakashima, Adela Suliman, Lily Kuo, Anchorage Daily News , 18 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1521, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Late Latin abstenti\u014dn-, abstenti\u014d , from Latin absten- , variant stem of abstin\u0113re \"to abstain \" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259b-\u02c8sten-ch\u0259n",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8sten(t)-sh\u0259n",
      "ab-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192541",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absterge":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to cleanse especially by wiping : purge":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1526, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French or Latin; Middle French absterger , from Latin absterg\u0113re , from abs- (variant of ab- ab- entry 1 ) + terg\u0113re to wipe off":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259b-",
      "abz\u02c8t\u0259rj",
      "-b\u02c8st-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223039",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "abstersion":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the action or process of cleansing":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French, from Latin abstersus (past participle of absterg\u0113re ) + Middle French -ion":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-rzh\u0259n",
      "-rsh-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060000",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "abstersive":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": abstergent":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French abstersif , from Latin abstersus + Middle French -if -ive":"Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-rz-",
      "-rsiv"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041933",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "abstinence":{
    "antonyms":[
      "self-indulgence"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": abstention from sexual intercourse":[],
      ": habitual abstaining from intoxicating beverages":[],
      ": the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable":[
        "\u2026 ate with a haste and an apparent relish, that seemed to betoken long abstinence from food.",
        "\u2014 Walter Scott"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The program promoted sexual abstinence for young people.",
      "a cleric vainly preaching abstinence in a world where self-indulgence is regarded as almost a virtue",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "If the findings are concerning for myocarditis, the ACC recommends abstinence from exercise for three to six months. \u2014 Dr. Nicholas P. Kondoleon, ABC News , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "Instead of pushing abstinence , the approach aims to lower the risk of dying or acquiring infectious diseases by offering sterile equipment \u2014 through needle exchanges, for example \u2014 or tools to check drugs for the presence of fentanyl. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 May 2022",
      "Instead of pushing abstinence , the approach aims to lower the risk of dying or acquiring infectious diseases by offering sterile equipment \u2014 through needle exchanges, for example \u2014 or tools to check drugs for the presence of fentanyl. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
      "In 1988, the litmus tests included abstinence and prayer in school. \u2014 M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "Varakin has three rules for his snipers: abstinence from alcohol, dedication to service above all else and a willingness to do anything to achieve high performance. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "Gaudenzia began offering outpatient treatment and started programs for patients being treated with medications such as methadone and buprenorphine, while reducing the use of live-in, abstinence -only programs. \u2014 Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com , 20 Sep. 2021",
      "Some proponents of temperance required that churchgoers keep pledges of abstinence , on pain of damnation. \u2014 Virginia Heffernan, Wired , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "According to USA Today, fasting \u2014 which includes abstinence from liquids, food and more \u2014 helps Muslims practice self-restraint and is a pillar of Islam. \u2014 Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com , 13 Apr. 2022"
    ],
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      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin abstinentia , noun derivative of abstinent-, abstinens , present participle of abstin\u0113re \"to abstain \"":""
    },
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      "\u02c8ab-st\u0259-n\u0259n(t)s",
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      "self-denial",
      "sobriety",
      "temperance"
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      ": the physical effects that result from depriving an addict of the drug to which he or she is habituated":[]
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      "1931, in the meaning defined above":""
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      ": habitual abstaining from intoxicating beverages":[],
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        "\u2026 ate with a haste and an apparent relish, that seemed to betoken long abstinence from food.",
        "\u2014 Walter Scott"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The program promoted sexual abstinence for young people.",
      "a cleric vainly preaching abstinence in a world where self-indulgence is regarded as almost a virtue",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "If the findings are concerning for myocarditis, the ACC recommends abstinence from exercise for three to six months. \u2014 Dr. Nicholas P. Kondoleon, ABC News , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "Instead of pushing abstinence , the approach aims to lower the risk of dying or acquiring infectious diseases by offering sterile equipment \u2014 through needle exchanges, for example \u2014 or tools to check drugs for the presence of fentanyl. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 May 2022",
      "Instead of pushing abstinence , the approach aims to lower the risk of dying or acquiring infectious diseases by offering sterile equipment \u2014 through needle exchanges, for example \u2014 or tools to check drugs for the presence of fentanyl. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
      "In 1988, the litmus tests included abstinence and prayer in school. \u2014 M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "Varakin has three rules for his snipers: abstinence from alcohol, dedication to service above all else and a willingness to do anything to achieve high performance. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "Gaudenzia began offering outpatient treatment and started programs for patients being treated with medications such as methadone and buprenorphine, while reducing the use of live-in, abstinence -only programs. \u2014 Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com , 20 Sep. 2021",
      "Some proponents of temperance required that churchgoers keep pledges of abstinence , on pain of damnation. \u2014 Virginia Heffernan, Wired , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "According to USA Today, fasting \u2014 which includes abstinence from liquids, food and more \u2014 helps Muslims practice self-restraint and is a pillar of Islam. \u2014 Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com , 13 Apr. 2022"
    ],
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      "Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin abstinentia , noun derivative of abstinent-, abstinens , present participle of abstin\u0113re \"to abstain \"":""
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      "\u02c8ab-st\u0259-n\u0259n(t)s",
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      ": difficult to understand : abstruse":[
        "abstract problems"
      ],
      ": disassociated from any specific instance":[
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      ": expressing a quality apart from an object":[
        "the word poem is concrete, poetry is abstract"
      ],
      ": having only intrinsic form with little or no attempt at pictorial representation or narrative content":[
        "abstract painting"
      ],
      ": impersonal , detached":[
        "the abstract compassion of a surgeon",
        "\u2014 Time"
      ],
      ": insufficiently factual : formal":[
        "possessed only an abstract right"
      ],
      ": remove , separate":[],
      ": steal , purloin":[
        "She abstracted important documents from the safe."
      ],
      ": to consider apart from application to or association with a particular instance":[],
      ": to draw away the attention of":[
        "His imagination had so abstracted him that his name was called twice before he answered.",
        "\u2014 James Joyce"
      ],
      ": to make a summary or abstract of : summarize":[
        "abstract an academic paper"
      ],
      ": to make an abstraction":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "It is true that the atrocities that were known remained abstract and remote, rarely acquiring the status of knee-buckling knowledge among ordinary Americans. Because the savagery of genocide so defies our everyday experience, many of us failed to wrap our minds around it. \u2014 Samantha Power , New York Times Book Review , 14 Mar. 2002",
      "A glance into the classrooms of the Los Angeles public school system \u2026 fleshes out the abstract debates with the faces of children. \u2014 Jared Diamond , Guns, Germs, and Steel , 1997",
      "I take my photographs and print them on a laser copying machine in the \"photo\" mode; the resulting image is more stark and abstract than a traditional photographic print, which tends to dominate the page regardless of the text. \u2014 Leslie Marmon Silko , Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit , 1996",
      "abstract ideas such as love and hate",
      "\u201cHonesty\u201d is an abstract word.",
      "The word \u201cpoem\u201d is concrete, the word \u201cpoetry\u201d is abstract .",
      "Noun",
      "an artist admired for his abstracts",
      "the scientist wrote a bare-bones abstract of his research and conclusions",
      "Verb",
      "\u2026 artists in the group put the emphasis on geometric abstraction rather than images abstracted from nature. \u2014 Robert Atkins , Art Spoke , 1993",
      "\u2026 the Romantic project was to abstract from religion its essential \"feeling\" and leave contemptuously behind its traditional formulations. \u2014 Theodore Roszak , The Making of a Counter Culture , 1969",
      "\u2026 conscientiously and with great purity made the uncompromising effort to abstract his view of life into an art work \u2026 \u2014 Norman Mailer , Advertisements for Myself , 1959",
      "\u2026 basic esthetic criteria and standards he has abstracted from long intimacy with time-tested masterpieces. \u2014 Aline B. Saarinen , New York Times Book Review , 7 Nov. 1954",
      "Data for the study was abstracted from hospital records.",
      "personal problems abstracted him so persistently that he struggled to keep his mind on his work",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "In the twentieth century, the quest for objectivity became more rarefied and abstract . \u2014 Hari Kunzru, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
      "However, these goals are difficult to achieve with multicloud and hybrid distributed, cloud-native applications and platforms that are complex and abstract . \u2014 Shailesh Manjrekar, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
      "Brutalism began to be criticized for seeming too severe, grim, and abstract , while brutalist structures fell into disrepair as dirty, graffitied eyesores. \u2014 Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful , 13 June 2022",
      "And this could be particularly good for climate politics\u2014because while the climate crisis can feel abstract and theoretical at the global level, its local effects are concrete, perceivable, and urgent. \u2014 Liza Featherstone, The New Republic , 9 June 2022",
      "The worst-case scenario for the Great Salt Lake is neither hypothetical nor abstract . \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
      "Aviv \u2014 whose legal name is Gavin Mays \u2014 glides on the track with ease, even when its sonics float between abstract and industrial. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 3 June 2022",
      "Describing a complicated issue in an abstract or impersonal way can lead to confusion. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 30 May 2022",
      "Unlike most solid-color duvet covers, Mildly offers a ton of floral, abstract and modern designs to match any style preference. \u2014 Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Opening a store seems like a solid enough plan in the abstract , although these characters \u2014 impulsive, immature and all-around irresponsible \u2014 could almost certainly be counted on to screw it up. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 25 May 2022",
      "The conceptual drawings of what would eventually become $5-billion SoFi Stadium impressed players in the abstract . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 Feb. 2022",
      "Resolving to change course sounds appealing in the abstract . \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 1 Feb. 2022",
      "Such statistics have become hard to fathom in the abstract . \u2014 Tim Carman, Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "In the video abstract , Brennan says this seems to be the case for dolphins as well. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 Jan. 2022",
      "In the study\u2019s abstract and conclusions, the researchers noted that the environment of the time may have supported multiple creatures the same size. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 2 Jan. 2022",
      "From the Indonesian American heritage to the Canadian Midwest, Paris in the pandemic and the human body, these new books travel across worlds and into the abstract . \u2014 New York Times , 22 Dec. 2021",
      "Her expressions of creativity with a focus on the abstract are a part of her life that contributes to her bold outlook on the world. \u2014 Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News , 10 Dec. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "From there, determine the context analytics must abstract for each of those sub-domains. \u2014 Amandeep Midha, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
      "Cloud platforms continually move up the infrastructure stack to simplify and abstract extraordinarily complex concepts like pub-sub, container orchestration, queueing and more. \u2014 Jack Naglieri, Forbes , 15 Sep. 2021",
      "In order to transform this pain point into a competitive advantage in 2022, businesses will seek new tools such as API gateways and microservices management tools that abstract away complexity and align with existing IT and DevOps processes. \u2014 Augusto Marietti, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
      "For four years, Dot Benedict and Kathryn Riley teamed up to abstract the minutes of the Carroll County Orphan\u2019s Court from 1837 through 1885. \u2014 Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 14 Nov. 2021",
      "Patch\u2019s platform seeks to abstract away the complexity of managing carbon offsets, making offset projects accessible via an API and a few lines of code. \u2014 Rob Toews, Forbes , 31 Oct. 2021",
      "The data layer would then be able to consume and utilize RAN data in an accessible, open and aligned manner, abstract it and then normalize it. \u2014 Ofir Zemer, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "Humans, on the other hand, are often able to abstract away from existing examples in order to recognize new never-before-seen items. \u2014 Ryan Khurana, Scientific American , 2 Jan. 2021",
      "In essence, such mathematical descriptions abstract away unnecessary details about the biological implementation. \u2014 Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes , 27 May 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 4":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English abstracten \"to draw away, remove,\" derivative of abstract abstract entry 1 (or borrowed directly from Latin abstractus )":"Verb",
      "Middle English, \"withdrawn, removed, abstruse, extracted from a longer work, (of nouns in grammar) not concrete,\" borrowed from Medieval Latin abstractus \"removed, secluded, incorporeal, universal, extracted from a larger work, summarized,\" going back to Latin, past participle of abstrahere \"to remove forcibly, turn aside, divert,\" from abs- (variant of ab- ab- before c- and t- ) + trahere \"to drag, draw, take along\" \u2014 more at draw entry 1":"Adjective",
      "Middle English, derivative of abstract abstract entry 1 (or borrowed directly from Medieval Latin abstractus )":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in sense 3 usually \u02c8ab-\u02ccstrakt",
      "in sense 2 also ab-\u02c8strakt",
      "ab-\u02c8strakt",
      "ab-\u02c8",
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    "synonyms":[
      "conceptual",
      "ideal",
      "ideational",
      "metaphysical",
      "notional",
      "theoretical",
      "theoretic"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-042238",
    "type":[
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      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "abstract algebra":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a branch of mathematics in which algebraic concepts are generalized by using symbols to represent basic arithmetical operations":[
        "Abstract algebra courses introduce students to advanced mathematical concepts such as group theory and lattices."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Getting the most popular programs to work may approach abstract algebra . \u2014 Sonja Sharp Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2021",
      "Until Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and others revolutionized literary studies, specialist writing was reserved for specialized disciplines\u2014 abstract algebra , for example. \u2014 James Campbell, WSJ , 19 Mar. 2021",
      "The mathematician who follows the ice queen often dislikes concrete applications or specific cases \u2014 Alexander Grothendieck, one of the high priests of abstract algebra , once famously picked 57 as an example of a prime number. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 16 June 2020",
      "Five of them will be taking college courses in differential equations, abstract algebra and discrete mathematics as 10th-graders at Pasadena High School this fall. \u2014 Jay Mathews, Washington Post , 6 July 2019",
      "Complete high school math, including calculus, in middle school and devote high school to more complex subjects: multivariable calculus, abstract algebra , probability, game theory and other college subjects. \u2014 Jay Mathews, Washington Post , 17 Sep. 2017",
      "At the height of her mathematical powers, doing new work on abstract algebra , Noether died after an operation on an ovarian cyst. \u2014 Kat Eschner, Smithsonian , 23 Mar. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1859, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105201",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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  "abstract expressionism":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an artistic movement of the mid-20th century comprising diverse styles and techniques and emphasizing especially an artist's liberty to convey attitudes and emotions through nontraditional and usually nonrepresentational means":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Works from the museum\u2019s collection that test the boundaries between 1950s-60s abstract expressionism and figurative painting are on view through Aug. 22. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
      "His art, primarily abstract expressionism , encompasses the North American continent and beyond. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
      "Works from the museum\u2019s collection that test the boundaries between 1950s-60s abstract expressionism and figurative painting are on view through Aug. 22. \u2014 Matt Cooperlistings Coordinator, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
      "Works from the museum\u2019s collection that test the boundaries between 1950s-60s abstract expressionism and figurative painting are on view May 13 through Aug. 22. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "The Second World War had irrevocably changed the American art world, fomenting the form-meets-function of modern design and the abstract expressionism of painters like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Dec. 2021",
      "So often, abstract expressionism is treated as deadly serious: angry young men attacking their canvases and slaying art shibboleths in the process. \u2014 Max Holleran, The New Republic , 14 Dec. 2021",
      "Unlike American novelist Tom Wolfe\u2019s claim in The Painted Word that abstract expressionism only makes sense with copious accompanying explanations, Schloss attests to its ability to move viewers even when the subject matter is unclear. \u2014 Max Holleran, The New Republic , 14 Dec. 2021",
      "The free-flowing compositions of abstract expressionism now represent a planet that\u2019s burning and melting. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1922, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-100444",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "noun or adjective,"
    ]
  },
  "abstract plant":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a comprehensive record maintained by a title-insurance company indicating liens, encumbrances, and defects affecting the title to properties located in the community where the company operates as insurer":[
        "\u2014 not often in formal use"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1890, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113713",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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  "abstract universal":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": universal entry 2 sense 2a(1)":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1865, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-115947",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":[
      "Definition of abstracta plural of abstractum"
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    "first_known_use":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-081848",
    "type":[]
  },
  "abstracted":{
    "antonyms":[
      "alert"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": abstract sense 4":[
        "abstracted geometric shapes"
      ],
      ": withdrawn in mind : inattentive to one's surroundings":[
        "said hello but seemed abstracted"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "She said hello but she seemed a bit abstracted .",
      "the man on the train seemed somewhat abstracted , and he did indeed forget to get off at his stop",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The works are lightly abstracted landscapes, along with a few figure studies, rendered in either watercolor or oil paint. \u2014 James Tarmy, Bloomberg.com , 21 May 2020",
      "The new format won\u2019t really illuminate how oral arguments go normally because certain rules have been instituted to ensure order in this abstracted courtroom. \u2014 Ephrat Livni, Quartz , 4 May 2020",
      "As one scrolls through her river of photos and videos, more than a thousand in all, the hands become alien and abstracted things, creatures that exist independently of the bodies that bear them. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2020",
      "After all, what is social media but an abstracted world, facilitated conversations and social performances that have been exfiltrated from a real, existing social context",
      "Even the abstracted spaces that obscure most of the board fit the overall aesthetic. \u2014 Charlie Theel, Ars Technica , 14 Dec. 2019",
      "The piece, produced as part of the gallery\u2019s Box Blur initiative that is sponsored by Dance Film SF, is set in an abstracted re-creation of a 1950s Korean shoji room and features instructional video and audio pieces. \u2014 Tony Bravo, SFChronicle.com , 3 Nov. 2019",
      "Lucy is also conducting an affair of her own, living with the gentle, abstracted Bob while sleeping with the jolly and itinerant Laff. \u2014 Ben Lerner, The New Yorker , 30 Sep. 2019",
      "The handful of action scenes, for all their mortal dangers, come and go with an expository brevity and an elusive, abstracted physicality to match. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 8 Aug. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1643, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "from past participle of abstract entry 3":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "ab-\u02c8strak-t\u0259d",
      "\u02c8ab-\u02ccstrak-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abstracted abstracted , preoccupied , absent , absentminded , distracted mean inattentive to what claims or demands consideration. abstracted implies absorption of the mind in something other than one's surroundings, and often suggests reflection on weighty matters. walking about with an abstracted air preoccupied often implies having one's attention so taken up by thoughts as to neglect others. too preoccupied with her debts to enjoy the meal absent stresses inability to fix the mind on present concerns due more to mental wandering than to concentration on other matters. an absent stare absentminded implies that the mind is fixed elsewhere and often refers to a habit of abstractedness. so absentminded , he's been known to wear mismatched shoes distracted may suggest an inability to concentrate caused by worry, sorrow, or anxiety. was too distracted by grief to continue working",
    "synonyms":[
      "absent",
      "absentminded",
      "distracted",
      "preoccupied"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203131",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
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  "abstraction":{
    "antonyms":[],
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      ": absence of mind or preoccupation":[],
      ": abstract quality or character":[],
      ": abstractionism":[],
      ": an abstract composition or creation in art":[],
      ": an abstract idea or term":[],
      ": the act or process of abstracting : the state of being abstracted":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "abstraction of data from hospital records",
      "\u201cBeauty\u201d and \u201ctruth\u201d are abstractions .",
      "She gazed out the window in abstraction .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Death is an abstraction to most kids, especially to one who\u2019s this defiantly optimistic about life. \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
      "But the misery low-earning Britons are experiencing now is not an abstraction . \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
      "Nordin says the progressives reminded voters that LGBTQ students exist in the Eau Claire district and aren\u2019t an abstraction , and some of them don\u2019t live in homes where they\u2019re accepted, which makes the role of school pretty important in their lives. \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "But while C\u00e9zanne\u2019s flirtation with and flights into abstraction are ever present \u2014 and with them the invitation to pareidolia \u2014 the show also reminds us how grounded the painter was in actual things. \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
      "Several younger painters today play at hybridizing representation and abstraction . \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
      "Large scale, pastel colored oil paintings, in the German artist\u2019s trademark style that blends abstraction and figuration, are a startling contrast to the heritage building. \u2014 Joanne Shurvell, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Where each of those painters walked right up to the line between figuration and abstraction , often combining the two, Weaver\u2019s own style was highly mannered. \u2014 Marley Marius, Vogue , 27 Jan. 2022",
      "Money provides an asset abstraction layer for decentralized applications. \u2014 Benjamin Laker, Forbes , 27 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French, \"abduction (of a woman), removal, extraction (of a foreign body from a wound), (in philosophy) process by which the mind is able to form universal representations of the properties of distinct objects,\" borrowed from Late Latin abstracti\u014dn-, abstracti\u014d , from Latin abstrac- (variant stem of abstrahere \"to remove forcibly\") + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns \u2014 more at abstract entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "ab-\u02c8strak-sh\u0259n",
      "\u0259b-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "cogitation",
      "concept",
      "conception",
      "idea",
      "image",
      "impression",
      "intellection",
      "mind's eye",
      "notion",
      "picture",
      "thought"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172440",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "abstractionism":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the principles or practice of creating abstract art":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The song is a departure from Khruangbin\u2019s usual abstractionism , as their own catalogue largely sticks to psychedelia. \u2014 Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "In 1958, at the recommendation of Philip Johnson, the Bronfman family, owners of Joseph Seagram, Ltd, offered a commission to Rothko, then a rising star of abstractionism , to paint a series of murals for The Four Seasons. \u2014 Kevin Conley, Town & Country , 25 Feb. 2014",
      "Werner Drewes An exhibition of paintings and prints by the German artist (1899-1985), a member of the Bauhaus school who later brought abstractionism to the United States. \u2014 Carrie Donovan, Washington Post , 24 May 2017",
      "Khrushchev, who had simple tastes and was facing serious political challenges, flew into a rage against abstractionism and made threats of coercion. \u2014 Raymond H. Anderson, New York Times , 1 Apr. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1921, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "abstraction + -ism":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "ab-\u02c8strak-sh\u0259-\u02ccni-z\u0259m",
      "\u0259b-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131445",
    "type":[
      "adjective or noun",
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": an abstract entity (such as a universal, a relation, a class name)":[
        "whiteness and virtue are abstracta",
        "\u2014 contrasted with concretum"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1728, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Medieval Latin, neuter of abstractus abstract entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111343",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "abstrict":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": abjoint":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1877, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "ab- entry 1 + Latin strictus , past participle of stringere to draw tight":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259b-",
      "abz\u02c8trikt",
      "ab\u02c8st-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181452",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "abstricted":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": cut off by abstriction":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1877, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175414",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
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  "abstriction":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the formation of spores by the cutting off of usually successive terminal portions of the sporophore through the growth of septa \u2014 see conidium":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1879, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "ab- entry 1 + Late Latin striction-, strictio act of pressing together, from Latin strictus + -ion-, -io -ion":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013140",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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  "abstruse":{
    "antonyms":[
      "shallow",
      "superficial"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": difficult to comprehend : recondite":[
        "the abstruse calculations of mathematicians",
        "abstruse concepts/ideas/theories"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Her subject matter is abstruse .",
      "you're not the only one who finds Einstein's theory of relativity abstruse",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1549, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin abstr\u016bsus \"concealed, recondite,\" from past participle of abstr\u016bdere \"to conceal,\" from abs- (variant of ab- ab- before c- and t- ) + tr\u016bdere \"to push, thrust\" \u2014 more at threat entry 1":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259b-\u02c8str\u00fcs",
      "ab-"
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    "synonyms":[
      "arcane",
      "deep",
      "esoteric",
      "hermetic",
      "hermetical",
      "profound",
      "recondite"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063153",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": something that is abstruse":[],
      ": the quality or state of being abstruse : abstruseness":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1646, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "abstruse + -ity":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "ab-",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8str\u00fc-s\u0259-t\u0113"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-173631",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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  "absume":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to consume gradually":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1566, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin absumere , from ab- ab- entry 1 + sumere to take":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202909",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
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    "antonyms":[
      "realistic",
      "reasonable"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": dealing with the absurd (see absurd entry 2 ) or with absurdism":[
        "absurd theater"
      ],
      ": extremely silly or ridiculous":[
        "an absurd argument",
        "absurd humor"
      ],
      ": ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous":[
        "an absurd argument",
        "absurd humor"
      ],
      ": the state or condition in which human beings exist in an irrational and meaningless universe and in which human life has no ultimate meaning":[
        "\u2014 usually used with the the theater of the absurd"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "In an era when federal judges issue rulings that in their impact often rival the lawmaking of any legislature in the land, it is increasingly absurd that their proceedings should remain off-limits to the same wider public scrutiny that news cameras have brought to courts in 48 states. \u2014 Editor & Publisher , 14 July 2003",
      "By the time Showalter was fired one day after the end of last season, the stories of how he carried his attention to detail to absurd lengths\u2014including his insistence that the A on the players' socks be completely visible\u2014had been well circulated. \u2014 Phil Taylor , Sports Illustrated , 30 July 2001",
      "This criticism, patently absurd to anyone who has read even a handful of Updike's more than 40 books, nevertheless has been made so often that it is worth Pritchard's long rebuttal. \u2014 Jonathan Wilson , New York Times Book Review , 24 Sept. 2000",
      "Yet from time to time, virtually every parent falls back on threats, often absurd ones that leave Mom and Dad feeling foolish and the problem unresolved. \u2014 Dorothy Foltz-Gray , Parenting , December/January 1996",
      "The charges against him are obviously absurd .",
      "absurd claims of having been abducted by UFO's",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Skewing toward the absurd , the grotesque, sometimes the scatological, her books often center on drug- or alcohol-addicted protagonists mired in their own misery. \u2014 Annabel Graham, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
      "This can be an absurd question to someone deep in mourning. \u2014 Heather Landy, Quartz , 15 Nov. 2021",
      "The payouts here are absurd , and these guys have jets to redecorate like anyone else. \u2014 Jason Gay, WSJ , 13 June 2022",
      "For so finicky an operation to take place in 2022 is, from one point of view, absurd . \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
      "The notion that Jewish prayer must be silenced in order to keep violent rioters at bay is absurd . \u2014 Erielle Davidson, National Review , 20 May 2022",
      "The experience of war is always absurd , but Ukrainians were aware of a singular absurdity in this war. \u2014 James Verini, New York Times , 19 May 2022",
      "Other times recommending exercise is simply absurd , says Andre Pascal Kengne, an internist and researcher at the South African Medical Research Council. \u2014 Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American , 19 May 2022",
      "This propaganda is absurd , especially regarding its history. \u2014 Carrie Hagen, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
      "1946, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from French (l')absurde , derivative of absurde absurd entry 1":"Noun",
      "borrowed from Middle French absurde , going back to Old French absorde , borrowed from Latin absurdus \"out of tune, uncouth, inappropriate, ridiculous,\" from ab- ab- + surdus \"unhearing, deaf, muffled, dull\" \u2014 more at surd entry 1":"Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8z\u0259rd",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8s\u0259rd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bizarre",
      "crazy",
      "fanciful",
      "fantastic",
      "fantastical",
      "foolish",
      "insane",
      "nonsensical",
      "preposterous",
      "unreal",
      "wild"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200514",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absurdity":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": something that is absurd":[
        "the absurdities of life"
      ],
      ": the quality or state of being absurd : absurdness":[
        "They laughed at the absurdity of the situation."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "to say men can't cook as well as women is of course an absurdity",
      "the absurdity of expecting a 98-year-old woman to adequately supervise four six-year-olds",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The moment was a mild inconvenience but nonetheless illustrative of the absurdity of the night. \u2014 Timothy Mclaughlin, The Atlantic , 22 June 2022",
      "Hall\u2019s take-no-prisoners delivery lent the perfect sense of absurdity to the situation. \u2014 Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
      "Now, the phantom menace known as the Democratic supermajority in Sacramento has counter-attacked with a dose of absurdity that\u2019s hard to comprehend. \u2014 Andrew Deangelo, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
      "Kravis lean into the relatability of their endeavor, while also adding their trademark touch of absurdity . \u2014 Vogue , 5 May 2022",
      "One side definitely likes to be happy, and the other side is definitely full of absurdity . \u2014 Joe Lynch, Billboard , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Daily training to face a non-existent enemy creates a sense of absurdity , captured by Gregoris Rentis\u02bc camera with great inspiration and precision. \u2014 Lise Pedersen, Variety , 15 Mar. 2022",
      "The accumulation of dire news, one catastrophe after another, was cruel to the point of absurdity . \u2014 Daniel Alarc\u00f3n, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "Still, any more serious themes and ideas are overshadowed not just by the size of the supporting characters, but the absurdity necessary to eventually assemble everyone in the same place. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 8 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1525, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English absurditee \"dissonance, unjust practice,\" borrowed from Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French absurdit\u00e9 , borrowed from Late Latin absurdit\u0101t-, absurdit\u0101s , from Latin absurdus absurd entry 1 + -it\u0101t-, -it\u0101s -ity":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8z\u0259r-",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8s\u0259r-d\u0259-t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "asininity",
      "b\u00eatise",
      "fatuity",
      "folly",
      "foolery",
      "foppery",
      "idiocy",
      "imbecility",
      "inanity",
      "insanity",
      "lunacy",
      "stupidity"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-042744",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "absolute ceiling":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the maximum height above sea level at which a particular airplane can maintain horizontal flight under standard air conditions":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Luckey goes on to estimate that current VR technology could attract an absolute ceiling of 50 million active users worldwide\u2014and that number only with significant industry effort. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 1 Nov. 2018",
      "Luckey goes on to estimate that current VR technology could attract an absolute ceiling of 50 million active users worldwide\u2014and that number only with significant industry effort. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 1 Nov. 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1918, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-141710"
  },
  "absolute space":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": space sense 4b":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1704, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142115"
  },
  "absolute convergence":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": convergence of a mathematical series when the absolute values of the terms are taken":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1888, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143043"
  },
  "absolute zero":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a theoretical temperature characterized by complete absence of heat and motion and equivalent to exactly \u2212273.15\u00b0C or \u2212459.67\u00b0F":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In some materials, at temperatures close to absolute zero , magnetic fields shut down to short range, and electrical resistance disappears. \u2014 Andrew Crumey, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
      "Next, multiple lasers bombard the strontium atoms with photons and magnetic fields that slow atom momentum to a near motionless state, lowering the atom\u2019s temperatures to about one-millionth of a degree above absolute zero . \u2014 Paul Smith-goodson, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
      "One cools loops of wire to near \u2013273.15 degrees Celsius, or absolute zero , turning them into superconductors where current flows with virtually no resistance. \u2014 Neil Savage, Scientific American , 5 July 2017",
      "In the distant future, the universe will approach absolute zero at the end of everything (see below). \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "Even at absolute zero , spins continue to fluctuate, analogous to how atoms slosh in a liquid. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 2 Dec. 2021",
      "The OpenSuperQ project at Sweden\u2019s Chalmers University of Technology moved the ball forward in June with a new thermometer capable of accurately measuring the extremely low temperatures (close to absolute zero ) required during quantum calculations. \u2014 John Sullivan, Forbes , 4 Nov. 2021",
      "Fahrenheit, which is barely warmer than absolute zero . \u2014 Ramin Skibba, Wired , 23 Dec. 2021",
      "Our qubits operate in a dilution refrigerator that\u2019s about the size of a 55-gallon drum, and uses a special isotope of helium to cool them a fraction of a degree above absolute zero (roughly \u2013273 degrees Celsius). \u2014 Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American , 30 May 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1798, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143048"
  },
  "absolute constant":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a constant (as \u03c0) that has the same value wherever it occurs in mathematics":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1820, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144137"
  },
  "absolute ego":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the Fichtean ego that posits its own existence and through the opposition of subject and object thus created dialectically evolves the universe":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1832, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151355"
  },
  "abscess":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ab-\u02ccses"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Watching Harriet searching for a euphemistic way to identify the physical affliction (an anal abscess ) that is holding up POTUS\u2019s public appearances is heaven on steroids. \u2014 Marilyn Stasio, Variety , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "For really painful cysts, a dermatologist may recommend injecting the abscess with a steroid to rapidly decrease the pain and swelling. \u2014 Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "The facilities veterinarians also treated a deep abscess found on one of Margoi's flippers and a mass found on a different flipper. \u2014 Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "The procedure\u2019s eight-week recovery period was slightly elongated when an abscess appeared at the surgical site and needed to be drained. \u2014 Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Another concern is that the infection will result in pocket of pus called an abscess . \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
      "Sometimes a procedure to drain an abscess of pus and fluid is performed prior to surgery. \u2014 Karen Pallarito, Health.com , 29 Nov. 2021",
      "Untreated for the infection, the samples taken from an abscess on the mouse had yielded billions of superbugs, or antibiotic-resistant bacteria. \u2014 Max G. Levy, Wired , 30 Nov. 2021",
      "An Anglo Eastern chief officer with a severe tooth abscess couldn\u2019t get off his vessel for treatment. \u2014 Jack Wittels, Fortune , 25 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin abscessus \"departure, withdrawal, congestion, abscess,\" from absc\u0113dere \"to go away, withdraw, form an abscess\" (from abs- , variant of ab- ab- before c- and t- + c\u0113dere \"to go, withdraw, move away\") + -tus , suffix of verbal nouns \u2014 more at cede":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1574, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-161937"
  },
  "absolute configuration":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the orientation (see orientation sense 6a ) of the components of a chiral chemical compound":[
        "A third naming system, also based on absolute configuration , uses the letters D and L, but is now rarely used.",
        "\u2014 Geoffrey T Tucker , Lancet , 25 Mar. 2000"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1901, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-162851"
  },
  "absolute brightness":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": absolute magnitude":[
        "\u2026 a white supergiant 200 times wider and at least 160,000 times more luminous in absolute brightness than the sun \u2026",
        "\u2014 Daniel H. Zantzinge , Daily Camera , 4 Sept. 2008"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1800, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-170919"
  },
  "absolute weight":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the weight of a definite number of seeds used in calculating the average weight of a single seed":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1877, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171610"
  },
  "absolute state":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the form that is characteristic of a noun when it is not linked in a grammatical construction with another noun (as Hebrew b\u0113n \"son\") \u2014 compare construct state , emphatic state":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1752, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171717"
  },
  "absit omen":{
    "type":[
      "interjection"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "\u2014 compare God forbid at god entry 2":[
        "\u2014 used as a mild invocation if he should fail, absit omen , all will be lost"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccabs\u0259\u0307t\u02c8\u014dm\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, may (evil) omen be absent, i.e., may what is said not come true":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1594, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-190201"
  },
  "Absaroka Range":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "mountain range in southern Montana and northwestern Wyoming east of Yellowstone National Park \u2014 see franks peak":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8s\u022fr-k\u0113",
      "-\u02c8z\u022fr-",
      "ab-\u02c8s\u00e4r-\u0259-k\u0259"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-195407"
  },
  "absolute scale":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a temperature scale that is based on absolute zero and that uses units of measurement equivalent to centigrade degrees on the Kelvin scale or to Fahrenheit degrees on the Rankine scale":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1848, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212051"
  },
  "abscessroot":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a perennial herb ( Polemonium reptans ) of the eastern U.S. with compound leaves and blue flowers":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1851, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214431"
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  "absolute system":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a system of physical units (as cgs units) based on a unit of force independent of the value of acceleration of gravity":[]
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1874, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215451"
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  "absolute pitch":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
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      ": the position of a tone in a standard scale independently determined by its rate of vibration":[],
      ": the ability to recognize or sing a given isolated note":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Joybubbles also had absolute pitch , and could whistle these tones into the phone to fool the computer into thinking the money had been paid for the call. \u2014 Wired , 21 Nov. 2019",
      "This had its limitations, and a few keen-eared researchers felt there was an advantage to Robert Hooke\u2019s auditory approach \u2013 especially Olavi Sotavalta, an entomologist from Finland who had the rare gift of absolute pitch . \u2014 Daniel A. Gross, Smithsonian , 25 Apr. 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1721, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-221416"
  },
  "absolute endorsement":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an endorsement that binds the endorser to pay only on failure of the prior parties to do so and on due notice thereof to the endorser":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1837, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-225832"
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  "abscind":{
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
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      ": to cut off":[]
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      "ab\u02c8sind"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin abscindere \"to tear off or away,\" from ab- ab- entry 1 + scindere \"to split, separate, tear apart,\" going back to Indo-European *sk\u0301hi-n-d- , nasal present formation from the base *sk\u0301hei\u032f\u032fd- \"split, separate\"":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1610, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-232621"
  },
  "absorption dynamometer":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of several dynamometers in which the energy measured is absorbed by frictional or electrical resistances \u2014 see prony brake":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1870, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-233247"
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  "absolute temperature":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": temperature measured on the absolute scale":[
        "\u2014 symbol T"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1849, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-234409"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
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      ": the horizontal coordinate of a point in a plane Cartesian coordinate system obtained by measuring parallel to the x-axis \u2014 compare ordinate":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "ab-\u02c8si-s\u0259"
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    "examples":[],
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      "borrowed from New Latin (short for linea abscissa , literally, \"cut-off line\"), going back to Latin, feminine of abscissus , past participle of abscindere \"to tear off or away,\" from ab- ab- + scindere \"to split, separate, tear apart,\" going back to Indo-European *sk\u0301hi-n-d- , nasal present formation from the base *sk\u0301hei\u032f\u032fd- \"split, separate\" \u2014 more at shed entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1694, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010721"
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  "absolute error":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the absolute value of the difference between an observed value of a quantity and the true value":[
        "The difference between true length and measured length is called the error of measurement or absolute error .",
        "\u2014 Edwina Deans et al. , Extending Mathematics , 1968"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1775, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010904"
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    "type":[
      "verb"
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    "definitions":{
      ": to separate (something, such as a flower from a stem) by abscission":[],
      ": to separate by abscission":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "ab-\u02c8s\u012bz"
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English abscisen \"to cut away,\" borrowed from Latin absc\u012bsus , past participle of absc\u012bdere \"to cut off or away, remove,\" from abs- (variant of ab- ab- before c- and t- ) + caedere \"to strike, cut through, fell\"; in later use back-formation from abscision , taken as synonym of abscission \u2014 more at concise":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1612, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-014339"
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  "absolute fee simple":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": fee simple absolute":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1790, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-021951"
  },
  "abscisic acid":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a plant hormone C 15 H 20 O 4 that is a sesquiterpene widespread in nature and that typically promotes leaf abscission and dormancy and has an inhibitory effect on cell elongation":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccab-\u02c8si-zik-",
      "-sik-"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The researchers compared how different plants within this family responded to the release of abscisic acid . \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 2 May 2022",
      "The older trees had lower levels of a growth hormone called indole-3-acetic acid and higher levels of a growth-inhibiting hormone called abscisic acid . \u2014 Erin Malsbury, Science | AAAS , 13 Jan. 2020",
      "The seed has two hormones: abscisic acid (ABA), which sends the signal to stay dormant, and gibberellin (GA), which initiates germination. \u2014 Jason Daley, Smithsonian , 9 June 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "abscis ion (variant of abscission ) + -ic entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1968, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-023711"
  },
  "absolute personal equation":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the deviation between a value obtained by an observer and a standard value assumed as true \u2014 compare relative personal equation":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1845, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-051130"
  },
  "absolute of enfleurage":{
    "type":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": absolute entry 2 sense 3b":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1952, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-060255"
  },
  "absoluteness":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": free from imperfection : perfect":[
        "\u2026 it is a most absolute and excellent horse.",
        "\u2014 William Shakespeare"
      ],
      ": free or relatively free from mixture : pure":[
        "absolute alcohol"
      ],
      ": outright , unmitigated":[
        "an absolute lie"
      ],
      ": being, governed by, or characteristic of a ruler or authority completely free from constitutional or other restraint":[
        "absolute power"
      ],
      ": having no restriction, exception, or qualification":[
        "an absolute requirement",
        "absolute freedom"
      ],
      ": positive , unquestionable":[
        "absolute proof"
      ],
      ": independent of arbitrary standards of measurement":[],
      ": relating to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of length, mass, and time":[
        "absolute electric units"
      ],
      ": fundamental , ultimate":[
        "absolute knowledge"
      ],
      ": perfectly embodying the nature of a thing":[
        "absolute justice"
      ],
      ": standing apart from a normal or usual syntactical relation with other words or sentence elements":[
        "the absolute construction this being the case in the sentence \"this being the case, let us go\""
      ],
      ": standing alone without a modified substantive":[
        "Blind in \"help the blind\" and ours in \"your work and ours\" are absolute ."
      ],
      ": having no object in the particular construction under consideration though normally transitive":[
        "Kill in \"if looks could kill\" is an absolute verb."
      ],
      ": being self-sufficient and free of external references or relationships":[
        "an absolute term in logic",
        "absolute music"
      ],
      ": being the true distance from an aircraft to the earth's surface":[
        "absolute altitude"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccab-s\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fct",
      "\u02c8ab-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u00fct"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "arbitrary",
      "autocratic",
      "autocratical",
      "czarist",
      "tsarist",
      "tzarist",
      "despotic",
      "dictatorial",
      "monocratic",
      "tyrannical",
      "tyrannic",
      "tyrannous"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "limited"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "You can't predict the future with absolute certainty.",
      "I have absolute faith in her ability to get the job done.",
      "He swore an oath of absolute secrecy.",
      "When it comes to using computers, I'm an absolute beginner.",
      "The country is ruled by an absolute dictator.",
      "The country is an absolute monarchy.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Coming from a company that has spoiled shareholders with automotive gross margins north of 30% for three straight quarters\u2014among the absolute best in the industry\u2014those words are bound to cause investors to worry. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
      "Which of the wide range of chest exercises work the absolute best",
      "Just as toxic, just as absolute , and just as deadly. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 31 May 2022",
      "Despite the absolute necessity of diapers, in 33 states they're taxed like a luxury good. \u2014 Gwyneth Paltrow, CBS News , 8 May 2022",
      "North Korea is extremely sensitive about any outside attempt to undermine Kim Jong Un\u2019s leadership and weaken his absolute control over the country\u2019s 26 million people, most of whom have little access to foreign news. \u2014 NBC News , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "Adding Matt Olson was an absolute necessity with Freeman leaving. \u2014 Daniel Kohn, SPIN , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "Enhanced communication is a pillar of my platform and an absolute necessity for the city. \u2014 Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "The best-selling scent refreshes and entices with an amber foug\u00e9re blend of zesty bergamot and mandarin atop robust base and heart notes of Virginian cedar, Sri Lankan sandalwood, and Papuan vanilla absolute . \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English absolut , borrowed from Latin absol\u016btus , from past participle of absolvere \"to set free, acquit, finish, complete\" \u2014 more at absolve":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-065915"
  },
  "absorbant":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": able to absorb":[
        "as absorbent as a sponge"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8z\u022fr-",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022fr-b\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bibulous",
      "spongy",
      "thirsty"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "nonabsorbent"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "highly absorbent material that is really good for wiping off automobiles",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "No matter which coast you\u2019re swimming on, Brooklinen\u2019s ultra- absorbent beach towel brings a colorful taste of the Big Apple to your coastal hangout. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 May 2022",
      "Made with super- absorbent microfiber, these hair towels offer a healthy way to get your mom's hair dry in no time (with no heat or tools required). \u2014 Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "Knix's period underwear are ultra- absorbent and made with a regenerative cotton modal for a second-skin feel. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 26 May 2022",
      "The volcanic ash has super tiny, but highly absorbent , particles. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 31 May 2022",
      "More beach towels are now being made with polyester microfiber which has a smoother surface but is a little less absorbent than cotton. \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
      "Each towel is extra absorbent and durable, so you're left feeling totally dry every time. \u2014 Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com , 6 May 2022",
      "Made from velour and terry cloth, this towel is extremely absorbent and feels super soft to the touch. \u2014 Angela Trakoshis, Allure , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "It\u2019s naturally breathable, moisture-wicking, thermo-regulating, highly absorbent and durable. \u2014 Lois Alter Mark, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin absorbent-, absorbens , present participle of absorb\u0113re \"to absorb \"":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1694, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-084507"
  },
  "abscisin":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": abscisic acid":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ab-s\u0259-s\u0259n",
      "ab-\u02c8si-s\u1d4an"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "abscis ion (variant of abscission ) + -in entry 1 abscis ion + -in":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1961, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-094842"
  },
  "absorption cell":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a transparent container in which liquids are placed for the study of their optical absorption":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1885, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-122410"
  },
  "absit invidia":{
    "type":[
      "Latin phrase"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": let envy be absent : let there be no ill will : no offense intended":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u00e4b-\u02ccsit-in-\u02c8wi-d\u0113-\u02cc\u00e4"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-131833"
  },
  "absorbent paper":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a soft unsized paper used for absorbing water or other fluids":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1799, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-132118"
  },
  "absolute music":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": instrumental music independent of the objective suggestion of title, text, or program and dependent on structure alone for its subjective comprehension":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1856, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-133900"
  },
  "absorbency":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the quality or state of being absorbent":[],
      ": absorbance":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022fr-b\u0259n-s\u0113",
      "-\u02c8z\u022fr-",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022fr-b\u0259n(t)-s\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The high- absorbency boyshorts from Bambody, Thinx, and Saalt are great for heavy days. \u2014 Sarah Madaus, SELF , 23 June 2022",
      "Launched in 2019, Reign Pads touts their triple absorbency is like nothing customers have seen before. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 21 June 2022",
      "The polyester gives the material its trademark softness, and the polyamide lends absorbency . \u2014 Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics , 27 May 2022",
      "Its absorbency held up both before and after washing, plus the colors remained bright. \u2014 Barbara Bellesi Zito, PEOPLE.com , 16 May 2022",
      "Our testers didn't note any shrinkage, stains, or change in its absorbency . \u2014 Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Here are leakproof briefs with a mid-rise and moderate absorbency , made in a blend including the softest Pima cotton. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 26 May 2022",
      "Other assessments including dry time, absorbency and laundering tests provide us with information regarding a towel's performance. \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
      "Because of its absorbency , volcanic ash is naturally effective at relieving clogged pores and extracting impurities from your skin. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "absorb(ent) + -ency":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1703, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-141434"
  },
  "absolute reality":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": ultimate reality as it is in itself unaffected by the perception or knowledge of any finite being":[],
      ": reality in relation to the divine mind":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1833, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-153110"
  },
  "absent without leave":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": absent without authority from one's place of duty in the armed forces":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The only judge to be convicted by the Senate was one impeached for being absent without leave . \u2014 Haley Bemiller, USA TODAY , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "All were judges in the early 1800s, and all were acquitted, meaning the Senate didn\u2019t vote to finalize their removal, except for one judge who was absent without leave . \u2014 Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "Leaving without sanction or quitting is considered AWOL or absent without leave . \u2014 Sylvia Goodman, The Courier-Journal , 6 July 2021",
      "For failing to report for duty, after more than 24 hours he normally would have been listed as absent without leave , or AWOL. \u2014 Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News , 4 July 2021",
      "Beagle said the Army may also take disciplinary action of its own, including charges of being absent without leave and theft of a weapon from the base. \u2014 Meg Kinnard, USA TODAY , 6 May 2021",
      "Beagle said the Army may also take disciplinary action of its own, including charges of being absent without leave and theft of a weapon from the base. \u2014 Meg Kinnard, Star Tribune , 6 May 2021",
      "The panel found there were no detailed procedures for what commanders of small units should do if a soldier is missing, but not necessarily AWOL, or absent without leave . \u2014 Arkansas Online , 9 Dec. 2020",
      "The panel found there were no detailed procedures for what commanders of small units should do if a soldier is missing, but not necessarily AWOL, or absent without leave . \u2014 Arkansas Online , 9 Dec. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1743, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-161841"
  },
  "absolute pressure":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": total pressure at a point in a fluid equaling the sum of the gauge and the atmospheric pressures":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1768, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180603"
  },
  "abscissio infiniti":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a logical process using successive exclusions of the inapplicable for the purpose of determining a true conclusion or the classification of a subject \u2014 compare method of exclusion":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "ab\u02c8sis\u0113\u02cc\u014d\u02ccinf\u0259\u02c8n\u012b\u02cct\u012b"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin, \"abscission of that which is infinite\"":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1811, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-184151"
  },
  "absent voter":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a qualified voter who is legally permitted to vote by mail because of illness or unavoidable and necessary absence from the voting district":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1863, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-184956"
  },
  "Absaroka":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": crow":[
        "\u2014 used as a self-designation"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "ab-\u02c8s\u00e4r-\u0259-k\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Crow aps\u00e2\u02d1ro\u02d1ke, a self-designation":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1812, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-191452"
  },
  "absent treatment":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": treatment of a disease or condition provided (as through prayer) by one who is not present":[
        "The fever went down, and the boy rested well all night. Next morning it went up again, so I called the practitioner on the telephone, and she gave him an absent treatment .",
        "\u2014 Minnie Collins , Christian Science Journal , April 1919",
        "But those absent treatments , they fascinated me. Weige treated patients that he never saw. Did it with what he called a concentrated thought force. Give him a description of an ailing person, and the person's symptoms, and he'd treat the person simply by thinking about him, even if he were miles away.",
        "\u2014 Leon Hale , Houston Chronicle , 4 July 2010"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1886, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-201813"
  },
  "abscission":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the act or process of cutting off : removal":[],
      ": the natural separation of flowers, fruit, or leaves from plants at a special separation layer":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "ab-\u02c8sizh-\u0259n",
      "ab-\u02c8si-zh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "It\u2019s a process called abscission , Tauscher said, where the trees retrench those chemicals and release the leaf. \u2014 Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star , 5 Oct. 2021",
      "Day length triggers the trees to lay down an abscission layer, which in turn shuts down the chlorophyll generation. \u2014 John Meyer, The Know , 24 Sep. 2019",
      "Eventually, as the veins in the leaf close down, a layer of cells called the abscission layer forms at the base of the leaf stem before falling off. \u2014 Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland.com , 3 Nov. 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English abscisioun , borrowed from Medieval Latin absc\u012bsi\u014dn-, absc\u012bsi\u014d \"cutting off, felling, amputation,\" going back to Latin, \"aposiopesis,\" from absc\u012bdere \"to cut off or away, remove\" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns; spelling abscission (in Late and Medieval Latin as abscissi\u014dn-, abscissi\u014d ) by construing the noun as a derivative of Latin abscindere \"to tear off or away\" \u2014 more at abscise , abscissa":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203748"
  },
  "absorption edge":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a clear-cut long-wavelength boundary of an absorption band in an X-ray spectrum":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1909, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-215616"
  },
  "absorbent":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": able to absorb":[
        "as absorbent as a sponge"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8z\u022fr-",
      "\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022fr-b\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bibulous",
      "spongy",
      "thirsty"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "nonabsorbent"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "highly absorbent material that is really good for wiping off automobiles",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "No matter which coast you\u2019re swimming on, Brooklinen\u2019s ultra- absorbent beach towel brings a colorful taste of the Big Apple to your coastal hangout. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 May 2022",
      "Made with super- absorbent microfiber, these hair towels offer a healthy way to get your mom's hair dry in no time (with no heat or tools required). \u2014 Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "Knix's period underwear are ultra- absorbent and made with a regenerative cotton modal for a second-skin feel. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 26 May 2022",
      "The volcanic ash has super tiny, but highly absorbent , particles. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 31 May 2022",
      "More beach towels are now being made with polyester microfiber which has a smoother surface but is a little less absorbent than cotton. \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
      "Each towel is extra absorbent and durable, so you're left feeling totally dry every time. \u2014 Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com , 6 May 2022",
      "Made from velour and terry cloth, this towel is extremely absorbent and feels super soft to the touch. \u2014 Angela Trakoshis, Allure , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "It\u2019s naturally breathable, moisture-wicking, thermo-regulating, highly absorbent and durable. \u2014 Lois Alter Mark, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin absorbent-, absorbens , present participle of absorb\u0113re \"to absorb \"":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1694, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-230349"
  },
  "ABS":{
    "type":[
      "abbreviation",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "absolute":[],
      "abstract":[],
      ": a tough rigid plastic used especially for automobile parts and building materials":[],
      "American Bible Society":[],
      "antilock braking system":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cc\u0101-(\u02cc)b\u0113-\u02c8es",
      "\u02c8abz"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "a crylonitrile- b utadiene- s tyrene":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1957, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-233100"
  },
  "absent over leave":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": having failed to return from liberty or leave on time":[
        "\u2014 abbreviation AOL"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1877, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-234510"
  },
  "absent oneself":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to go or stay away from something":[
        "He absented himself from the meeting."
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-235016"
  },
  "absorption factor":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": absorptivity":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1922, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-235711"
  },
  "absolute humidity":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the amount of water vapor present in a unit volume of air \u2014 compare relative humidity":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "If absolute humidity is also getting lower, as McKinnon found, that means the gap will expand even more. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2021",
      "The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity , high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 20 Mar. 2021",
      "The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity , high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 20 Mar. 2021",
      "The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity , high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 20 Mar. 2021",
      "The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity , high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 20 Mar. 2021",
      "The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity , high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 20 Mar. 2021",
      "The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity , high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 20 Mar. 2021",
      "The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity , high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 20 Mar. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1813, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-013745"
  }
}