dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/dac_MW.json
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{
"Dacus":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a genus of trypetid fruit flies of warm regions including several important pests of cultivated plants (as the melon fly, the oriental fruit fly, and the olive fly)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek dakos noxious animal, from daknein to bite":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8d\u0101k\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033721",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dactylozooid":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a tentacular mouthless zooid in certain hydrozoans that performs tactile and protective functions for the colony":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary dactyl- + zooid":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-t\u0259l\u0259+",
"\u00a6dakt\u0259(\u02cc)l\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220713",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dactylus":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": dactylopodite":[],
": the part consisting of one or more joints of the tarsus of certain insects following the enlarged and modified first joint":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek daktylos finger, toe":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8dakt\u0259l\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190454",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dachshund":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a breed of long-bodied, short-legged dogs of German origin that occur in short-haired, long-haired, and wirehaired varieties":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8d\u00e4k-s\u0259nt",
"-\u02cchu\u0307nd",
"especially British \u02c8dak-s\u0259nd",
"\u02c8d\u00e4ks-\u02cchu\u0307nt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The content of the post, the white dachshund with a glass of red wine, originates from a June 2019 Instagram image of a dog named Whitney Chewston. \u2014 Ana Faguy, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
"According to the British tabloids, the queen currently has two corgis named Muick and Sandy, a dorgi (corgi- dachshund mix) named Candy and, in a break from tradition, a cocker spaniel named Lissy. \u2014 Karla Adam, Washington Post , 31 May 2022",
"For dog fans, there\u2019s plenty to dig into (like a dachshund , #10) and point out (like a pointer, #120). \u2014 NBC News , 16 Mar. 2022",
"In Thom Browne\u2019s new childrenswear campaign, photographed by Cass Bird, a pair of youths exaggeratedly cower in mock fear as an enormous dachshund is poised to leap in their direction. \u2014 Vogue , 7 Apr. 2022",
"In a turn from last season, Lexie and Lacie Hull have seen their parents a lot more than their pets, Maggie the beagle and Lily the dachshund , whose cardboard images accompanied the Cardinal for much of the pandemic bubble. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Her dog Candy, a dorgi (corgi- dachshund mix), was also standing by. \u2014 Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Kasey Dungan sat in her wheelchair on the corner of 12th Avenue and Madison Street, in the middle of the state's largest homeless encampment, her 10-year-old dachshund Sandy cowering underneath her. \u2014 Jessica Boehm, The Arizona Republic , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Animal: Bruno, 7-year-old wire-haired dachshund ; No. 414918. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"German, from Dachs badger + Hund dog":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1878, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-003757"
},
"dactyl":{
"type":[
"adjective or noun",
"combining form",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a metrical foot consisting of one long and two short syllables or of one stressed and two unstressed syllables (as in tenderly )":[],
": finger : toe : digit":[
"dactylo logy"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8dak-t\u1d4al",
"-\u02cctil"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This week: Write a poem of no longer than eight lines (plus an optional title) about someone who died in 2021, as in the double dactyl above by Lover of Baseball, Double Dactyls and Bad Language Gene Weingarten. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Dec. 2021",
"This was the tack taken by Gene Weingarten in today\u2019s example, a double dactyl about the famously profane Tommy Lasorda. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English dactile , from Latin dactylus , from Greek daktylos , literally, finger; from the fact that the first of three syllables is the longest, like the joints of the finger":"Noun",
"Greek daktyl-, daktylo- , from daktylos":"Combining form"
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-030413"
},
"dachs":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": dachshund":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8d\u00e4ks",
"\u02c8d\u0227ks also \u02c8daks"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"by shortening":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-035343"
},
"dactyl-":{
"type":[
"adjective or noun",
"combining form",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a metrical foot consisting of one long and two short syllables or of one stressed and two unstressed syllables (as in tenderly )":[],
": finger : toe : digit":[
"dactylo logy"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8dak-t\u1d4al",
"-\u02cctil"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This week: Write a poem of no longer than eight lines (plus an optional title) about someone who died in 2021, as in the double dactyl above by Lover of Baseball, Double Dactyls and Bad Language Gene Weingarten. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Dec. 2021",
"This was the tack taken by Gene Weingarten in today\u2019s example, a double dactyl about the famously profane Tommy Lasorda. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English dactile , from Latin dactylus , from Greek daktylos , literally, finger; from the fact that the first of three syllables is the longest, like the joints of the finger":"Noun",
"Greek daktyl-, daktylo- , from daktylos":"Combining form"
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-090517"
},
"dachsie":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": dachshund":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-ks\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-104159"
},
"Dacia":{
"type":[
"adjective or noun",
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"ancient country and Roman province in southeastern Europe roughly equivalent to Romania and Bessarabia":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8d\u0101-sh(\u0113-)\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-112727"
},
"dachiardite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a mineral (Ca, K 2 , Na 2 ) 3 Al 4 Si 18 O 45 .14H 2 O belonging probably to the zeolite group":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccd\u00e4k\u0113\u02c8\u00e4r\u02ccd\u012bt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian, from Antonio d'Achiardi \u20201902 Italian mineralogist + Italian -ite":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-113638"
},
"Dacrymycetales":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an order of basidiomycetous fungi coextensive with the family Dacrymycetaceae":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8t\u0101(\u02cc)l\u0113z"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Dacrymycet-, Dacrymyces + -ales":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-145859"
},
"dacha":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a Russian country cottage used especially in the summer":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8d\u00e4-ch\u0259",
"also \u02c8da-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Stalin was encouraging but noncommittal, parking Mao in a dacha outside Moscow while hard bargaining dragged on for weeks. \u2014 Michael Schuman, The Atlantic , 9 Mar. 2022",
"At my family\u2019s dacha on the outskirts of Moscow, much of our summer abundance from the garden is canned, pickled, frozen, or somehow preserved for the long winter ahead. \u2014 Irina Groushevaia, Bon App\u00e9tit , 24 Feb. 2022",
"But there are quite a few takers, most of whom are thinking of building a dacha , or country house. \u2014 Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor , 27 Sep. 2021",
"For example, in Gooseberries, two men come upon a dacha (a cottage) in the woods. \u2014 Jeff Bradford, Forbes , 16 Sep. 2021",
"That same trip, Whelan went with Yatsenko to his family\u2019s dacha , in Sergiev Posad, a town about fifty miles from Moscow, known for its fourteenth-century Orthodox monastery. \u2014 Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker , 4 Sep. 2020",
"Those who still go to work can get a special unlimited pass, but for personal matters -- such as driving to a store or a dacha (a country house) -- residents can only get two passes a week, each valid for one day. \u2014 Mary Ilyushina, CNN , 14 Apr. 2020",
"On the last day of shooting, Dec. 21, 1991, the actors and crew broke out champagne after filming a scene that involved a dinner Stalin hosted at his dacha with other Soviet leaders. \u2014 Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com , 15 Jan. 2020",
"On the last day of shooting, Dec. 21, 1991, the actors and crew broke out champagne after filming a scene that involved a dinner for Soviet leaders hosted by Stalin at his dacha . \u2014 Neil Genzlinger, New York Times , 14 Jan. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Russian, from Old Russian, land allotted by a prince; akin to Latin dos dowry \u2014 more at date":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1896, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-162410"
},
"Dacrymycetaceae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a family of basidiomycetous fungi (order Tremellales) all of which have basidia similar to those of the type genus Dacrymyces \u2014 see dacrymycetales":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccdakr\u0259\u02ccm\u012bs\u0259\u02c8t\u0101s\u0113\u02cc\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Dacrymycet-, Dacrymyces , type genus + -aceae":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-210343"
},
"Dacrymyces":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the type genus of Dacrymycetaceae comprising basidiomycetous fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccdakr\u0259\u02c8m\u012b\u02ccs\u0113z"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from dacry- + -myces":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005312"
},
"Dachau":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"city in the southern Germany state of Bavaria population 35,892":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02cc\u1e35au\u0307",
"\u02c8d\u00e4-\u02cckau\u0307"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-020906"
}
}