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"ANSI":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"American National Standards Institute":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"\u02c8an(t)-s\u0113"
],
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"abbreviation"
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"definitions":{
"city in south central Iraq west of the Euphrates River population 242,603":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
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"\u00e4n-\u02c8n\u00e4-\u02ccj\u00e4f"
],
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"An Najaf?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=a&file=annaj01g":{
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"definitions":{
"city in south central Iraq west of the Euphrates River population 242,603":[]
},
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"\u00e4n-\u02c8n\u00e4-\u02ccj\u00e4f"
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"type":[
"geographical name"
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"An Nhon":{
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"definitions":{
"city in central Vietnam in southern Annam":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4n-\u02c8n\u014dn"
],
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"geographical name"
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"definitions":[
"Definition of Animalivora taxonomic synonym of microchiroptera"
],
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"history_and_etymology":"New Latin, from Latin animal + New Latin -i- + -vora ",
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"\u02ccan\u0259m\u0259\u02c8liv(\u0259)r\u0259"
],
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"type":[]
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"Anna Ivanovna":{
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"definitions":{
"1693\u20131740 empress of Russia (1730\u201340)":[]
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u0113-\u02c8v\u00e4-n\u0259v-n\u0259"
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"definitions":{
"region and former kingdom in eastern Indochina (now central Vietnam); capital Hue area about 57,000 square miles (148,200 square kilometers)":[]
},
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a-\u02ccnam",
"a-\u02c8nam",
"\u0259-"
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"Annam-Muong":{
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"definitions":{
": a language group comprising Vietnamese and Muong that was formerly thought to be of uncertain relation to other Southeast Asian languages and is now considered part of the Vietic branch of the Mon-Khmer family":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1856, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Annam , Indochina + muong":""
},
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"\u0259\u02c8n-",
"(\u02c8)a\u00a6nam\u02c8w\u022f\u014b"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
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"Annamese":{
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"definitions":{
": a native or inhabitant of Annam":[],
": vietnamese sense 2":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1825, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8m\u0113z",
"-\u02c8m\u0113s"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003103",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"Annie Oakley":{
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"definitions":{
": a free ticket":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1910, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Annie Oakley \u20201926 American markswoman; from the resemblance of a punched pass to a playing card with bullet holes through the spots":""
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"\u02cca-n\u0113-\u02c8\u014d-kl\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020824",
"type":[
"noun"
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"Anniellidae":{
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"definitions":{
": a family of degenerate wormlike California lizards apparently closely related to the Anguidae":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1883, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Anniella , type genus (irregular from Spanish aniello, anillo ring, from Latin anellus small ring) + -idae":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan\u0113\u02c8el\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084410",
"type":[
"plural noun"
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"Annulosa":{
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"definitions":{
": a subkingdom of animals including forms with articulate bodies and a double ventral chain of ganglia and comprising the annelid worms and the arthropods":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1821, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin annulus ring + -osa (neuter plural of -osus ) -ose":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u014dz\u0259",
"\u02ccany\u0259\u02c8l\u014ds\u0259"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113730",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun,",
"plural noun"
]
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"Anomalurus":{
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"definitions":{
": a genus (the type of the family Anomaluridae) of sciuromorph rodents comprising the scaletails and resembling flying squirrels but having scaly tails used in climbing":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1843, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from anomal- + -urus":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u02ccn\u00e4m\u0259\u02c8lu\u0307r\u0259s"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110626",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"Anseriformes":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an order of birds comprising the ducks, geese, swans, and mergansers and the screamers \u2014 see anseres":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1873, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Anser + -iformes":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082325",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"Anshan":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"city in east central Liaoning, northeastern China, south-southwest of Shenyang population 1,203,986":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4n-\u02c8sh\u00e4n"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164536",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
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"Antaimerina":{
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"definitions":[
"Definition of Antaimerina variant of antimerina"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-073035",
"type":[]
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"Antakya":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"city on the Orontes River in southern Turkey population 123,871":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u00e4n-t\u00e4-\u02c8ky\u00e4"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-230310",
"type":[
"geographical name"
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"Antalya":{
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"definitions":{
"city and port on the Gulf of Antalya in southwestern Turkey population 378,208":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u00e4n-t\u00e4l-\u02c8y\u00e4"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004046",
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"Antares":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a giant red star of very low density that is the brightest star in Scorpius":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1588, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek Antar\u0113s":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8ter-(\u02cc)\u0113z",
"-\u02c8t\u00e4r-"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104925",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Anthyllis":{
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"definitions":{
": a genus of Old World plants (family Leguminosae) with often yellowish red flowers and a pod enclosed in the calyx \u2014 see kidney vetch":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin, a plant, from Greek":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"an\u02c8thil\u0259\u0307s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125138",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Antlia":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a southern constellation that is visible west of the constellation Centaurus and south of the constellation Hydra and that is represented by the figure of a pump":[
"NGC 2997 is a spiral galaxy roughly 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Antlia (the Air Pump).",
"\u2014 io9 , 28 Oct. 2010"
]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1852, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from New Latin Antlia ( Pneumatica ), literally, \"(air) pump,\" going back to Latin, \"means of drawing water, treadmill,\" borrowed from Greek antl\u00eda \"hold of a ship, bilgewater, reservoir,\" derivative of \u00e1ntlos with same sense, perhaps derivative (with an instrumental suffix -tlos dissimilated from *-thlos ) of an Indo-European verbal base *h 2 en- \"draw (water),\" whence Hittite han- \"draw (water)\"":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ant-l\u0113-\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103528",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Anyang":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"city in northwestern South Korea population 361,577":[],
"city in the province of Henan, eastern China population 480,668":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4n-\u02c8y\u00e4\u014b"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171344",
"type":[
"geographical name"
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"Anyathian":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of or belonging to a lower Paleolithic culture of Burma and Thailand characterized by distinctive chopping tools":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Burmese \u0259\u0272\u00e0 \u00f0\u00e1 \"person from upriver, inhabitant of Upper Burma\" (from \u0259\u0272\u00e0 \"upriver, upcountry\" + \u00f0\u00e1 \"person, member\") + -ian":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)\u00e4n\u00a6yath\u0113\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015537",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"an ace up one's sleeve":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a powerful and often secret weapon, advantage, etc., that can be used if it is needed":[
"The mayor's popularity among elderly voters gives him an ace up his sleeve for the coming election."
]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202323",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"anal":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, characterized by, or being personality traits (such as parsimony , meticulousness, and ill humor) considered typical of fixation at the anal stage of development : anal-retentive":[
"an anal disposition",
"\u2014 often used in nontechnical contexts to describe someone as extremely or excessively neat, careful, or precise I have a mania for neatness in some matters that is almost anal . \u2014 Joseph Heller"
],
": of, relating to, characterized by, or being the stage of psychosexual development which follows the oral stage (see oral entry 1 sense 3 ) and during which the child is concerned especially with his or her feces":[],
": of, relating to, situated near, or involving the anus":[
"an anal fin"
],
"analogy":[],
"analysis ; analytic":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"He can be pretty anal about keeping his office neat.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"More cheerfully, younger Chinese are not as superstitious, and so are less likely to believe that a baby born without an anal opening, for example, must be cursed and fit only for abandonment. \u2014 The Economist , 6 June 2020",
"Since the attack, India has amended its rape laws, widening the definition to include anal and oral penetration. \u2014 Vedika Sud, CNN , 19 Mar. 2020",
"EcoHealth Alliance researchers have long collected blood, urine, feces, and oral and anal swabs from wild bats in China and elsewhere in an effort to solve such puzzles. \u2014 Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS , 30 Apr. 2020",
"Anderson assaulted and abused the wrestler on at least 35 occasions, or 70 total acts of nonconsensual anal penetration and genital fondling, between 1984 and 1989 when the wrestler was between the ages of 17 and 22, the suit alleges. \u2014 David Jesse, Detroit Free Press , 5 Mar. 2020",
"Aside from skipping the necessary prep work, forgetting to use lube is one of the main reasons why anal can be unpleasant for some people. \u2014 Sophie Saint Thomas, refinery29.com , 8 Apr. 2020",
"In 2018, inspectors at one of Mr. Scheiner\u2019s nursing homes in Balch Springs, Texas, spotted a staff member who failed to wash or sanitize her hands before cleaning a resident\u2019s anal area. \u2014 Jesse Drucker, New York Times , 14 Mar. 2020",
"Current tests for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, look for genetic material of the virus, for instance in saliva or nasal, oral, or anal swabs, using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). \u2014 Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS , 27 Feb. 2020",
"At one visit, in the spring of 2017, Rannestad could not complete a pelvic exam because of the extreme swelling around Addimando\u2019s vaginal and anal areas. \u2014 Rachel Louise Snyder, The New Yorker , 20 Dec. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1769, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from New Latin \u0101n\u0101lis, from Latin \u0101nus anus + -\u0101lis -al entry 1":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u0101n-\u1d4al",
"\u02c8\u0101-n\u1d4al"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085818",
"type":[
"abbreviation",
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"analgesic":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia":[
"opioid analgesics",
"a topical analgesic",
"Aspirin and acetaminophen are the oral analgesics of first choice in the treatment of mild to moderate pain caused by cancer.",
"\u2014 William T. McGivney et al."
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"the doctor prescribed an analgesic and rest for my injured knee",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Intended to be rolled directly onto achy areas, the formula combines 17 essential oils, including geranium and chamomile, which are thought to stimulate circulation, and capsaicin (the active compound in the chili pepper) for an analgesic effect. \u2014 Laura Regensdorf, Vogue , 1 Nov. 2017",
"Meperidine \u2013 Meperidine is another narcotic analgesic , similar to morphine. \u2014 Cnn Library, CNN , 18 Sep. 2017",
"Social connection Pain research confirms that love is analgesic . \u2014 Beth Darnall, Washington Post , 12 Sep. 2017",
"In these complaints\u2014and in additional posts to its members\u2014PETA alleged that Lattin had killed around 250 birds and performed painful experiments without analgesics , and that her work had no relevance to conservation or other species. \u2014 David Grimm, Science | AAAS , 8 Sep. 2017",
"Many of the drug\u2019s victims are addicts, but others are unaware as traffickers have begun lacing other drugs, including marijuana, with fentanyl which is the synthetic opiate analgesic , Espinosa said. \u2014 Krista Torralva, OrlandoSentinel.com , 11 Aug. 2017",
"The decline documented in the analysis also coincided with the federal government\u2019s tightening of prescribing rules in 2014 for one of the most common painkillers: hydrocodone combined with a second analgesic , such as acetaminophen. \u2014 Abby Goodnough, The Seattle Times , 6 July 2017",
"The decline documented in the analysis also coincided with the federal government's tightening of prescribing rules in 2014 for one of the most common painkillers: hydrocodone combined with a second analgesic , like acetaminophen. \u2014 The New York Times, cleveland.com , 6 July 2017",
"Meperidine \u2013 Meperidine is another narcotic analgesic , similar to morphine. \u2014 Steve Almasy, CNN , 6 July 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1852, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1860, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"analgesia + -ic entry 1":"Adjective",
"noun derivative of analgesic entry 2":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cca-n\u1d4al-\u02c8j\u0113-zik",
"-\u02c8j\u0113-zik",
"-sik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"anesthetic",
"anodyne",
"painkiller"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223938",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"analog computer":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a computer that operates with numbers represented by directly measurable quantities (such as voltages or rotations) \u2014 compare digital computer , hybrid computer":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the 1940s, the analog computer MONIAC had to use actual tanks and pipes of colored water to model the UK economy. \u2014 Amanda Rees, Wired , 27 Dec. 2021",
"The video features electronic effects created by director Hays using an analog computer system. \u2014 Billboard , 29 July 2021",
"And although there were basic analog computers for computing firing solutions, tracking ships and calculating their headings was manual work, done by men with paper and slide rules. \u2014 Haomiao Huang, Ars Technica , 25 Mar. 2020",
"Applied Dynamics Ann Arbor plant: Supplied analog computers . \u2014 Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press , 18 July 2019",
"His voting machine\u2014essentially an analog computer \u2014recognized if the voter was a man or a woman and allowed them to vote accordingly. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian , 26 June 2019",
"The award will fund research that examines how computationally intensive engineering and physics problems can be solved more quickly using new types of analog computers for electromagnetic, magnetohydrodynamic and fluid mechanic applications. \u2014 Megan Becka, cleveland.com , 11 June 2017",
"Memory as an analog computer Phase change memory is based on materials that can take two different forms as a solid. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 26 Oct. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1948, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-182848",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"analogate":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a thing, term, or concept analogized : analogue":[
"the First Being is the prime analogate"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1874, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"analog ue + -ate":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u02c8nal\u0259\u02ccg\u0101t",
"-g\u0259\u0307t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032613",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"analogical":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": expressing or implying analogy":[],
": of, relating to, or based on analogy":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It was intended to paint the EU\u2019s role in this diplomatic dispute as that of the anti-colonial insurgent, a role that chimes well with the limited, analogical way that American liberals have of understanding Ireland. \u2014 Cameron Hilditch, National Review , 18 June 2021",
"Leveraging the power of analogical and computational thinking. \u2014 Heide Abelli, Forbes , 6 May 2021",
"In short, the key to prepare for the future is analogical reasoning. \u2014 Christian Stadler, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2021",
"Teddy Roosevelt\u2019s crusade against the robber barons has a lot of analogical appeal for people who agree with Miller about the coercive nature of private corporations. \u2014 Cameron Hilditch, National Review , 28 Feb. 2021",
"So George Dyson argues in this brilliant, idiosyncratic meta-meditation on analogical analogs throughout history. \u2014 Wired Staff, Wired , 16 Dec. 2020",
"Similar habits of analogical inference guide scientists in their speculations about features of the cosmos. \u2014 Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books , 7 Jan. 2020",
"The signatories of the open letter to the USHMM were entirely right to say that analogical reasoning is indispensable to the human sciences. \u2014 Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books , 7 Jan. 2020",
"Yet unless McEwan really means to suggest that his countrymen on the Brexiting right are evil, the gesture simply lacks analogical power. \u2014 Graham Hillard, National Review , 24 Oct. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1609, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin analogicus \"of grammatical analogy\" (borrowed from Greek analogik\u00f3s \"based on mathematical ratios, of analogy in grammar,\" from analog\u00eda \"proportion, analogy \" + -ikos -ic entry 1 ) + -al entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8l\u00e4-ji-k\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232450",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"analogion":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a stand on which choir singers in the Eastern Church keep their books":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1850, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek analogeion reading desk, from analegesthai to read through, from ana- + legein to gather, speak":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u0259\u02c8l\u022f\u02ccy\u022fn",
"\u02cc\u00e4n\u0259\u02ccl\u022f\u02c8y\u0113\u02cc\u022fn"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001327",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"analogism":{
"antonyms":[],
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": reasoning by analogy":[
"investigates the philosophy of Aristotle and \u2026 rejects it as analogism",
"\u2014 L. A. Foley"
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"1706, in the meaning defined above":""
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"1788, in the meaning defined above":""
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"analogized the White House scandal to a cancer that was spreading to every internal organ of the body",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some might incorrectly analogize the pandemic to a natural disaster, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 or Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when presidents have sent in military troops to assist in mitigation and relief. \u2014 John Yoo, National Review , 20 Mar. 2020",
"Nonetheless, analogizing energy to digital tech remains a go-to for policymakers and pundits. \u2014 Mark P. Mills, National Review , 5 Mar. 2020",
"Our tendency to analogize senators to jurors, and the Senate to a court, is not accidental. \u2014 Adam White, National Review , 19 Dec. 2019",
"To analogize to calculus, if human reasoning is a Riemann sum, machine learning may be the integral that results as the Riemann calculation approaches infinity. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 11 Nov. 2019",
"In private and online, each side says the other slate is a pack of liars and both sides analogize the other to Donald Trump and the toxic state of national politics. \u2014 Jonathan Handel, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 Aug. 2019",
"Warren, for instance, analogizes her own plan, which includes a $1.5 trillion federal procurement commitment, to the industrial policy America previously undertook for the space race and our mobilization against Nazi aggression. \u2014 Catherine Rampell, The Denver Post , 9 June 2019",
"Ditto their love for each other and their city, analogized to an Antarctica that\u2019s breaking apart and must be put back together. \u2014 Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 Apr. 2018",
"So is there enough previous case law for courts to analogize to this situation? \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com , 3 Apr. 2018"
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"1655, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":""
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"1797, in the meaning defined above":""
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"-g\u0259n",
"-\u02ccg\u00e4n"
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"noun"
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"diverse",
"unakin",
"unlike"
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"Timbre in music is analogous to color in painting.",
"\u2014 Aaron Copland",
"An airplane's joystick is somewhat analogous to the reins on a horse.",
"a town council and a government body that serves an analogous function"
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": similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail":[
"Timbre in music is analogous to color in painting.",
"\u2014 Aaron Copland",
"An airplane's joystick is somewhat analogous to the reins on a horse.",
"a town council and a government body that serves an analogous function"
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"examples":[
"\u2026 gluons, force particles analogous to the photons of electromagnetism. \u2014 Andrew Watson , Science , 22 Jan. 1999",
"\u2026 great stretches of algae, analogous to terrestrial woodlands, in which kelp fills the role of trees. \u2014 William K. Stevens , New York Times , 5 Jan. 1999",
"\u2026 not by means superior to, though analogous with, human reason \u2026 \u2014 Charles Darwin , On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection , 1859",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Higgs boson and the Higgs field are analogous to photons and the electromagnetic field. \u2014 Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American , 24 June 2022",
"Such questions, of course, are analogous to those currently faced by the Jan. 6 committee. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"One researcher suggests to Yong that this mode of perception, known as active electrolocation, is analogous to sensing hot and cold. \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"The effect of this ruling on reconsideration is thus analogous to reducing the Goodyear Blimp to a child's birthday balloon. \u2014 Jay Adkisson, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Other tree species may have similarly specialized shoots; pines, for example, have two types that might be analogous to those on redwoods, Chin says. \u2014 Ula Chrobak, Scientific American , 1 June 2022",
"Not only is this bad policy, but it is based on the faulty premise that advertising markets are analogous to securities markets. \u2014 M. Todd Henderson, WSJ , 16 May 2022",
"If the neurons in DeGray\u2019s skull were like notes on a piano, then his distinct intentions were analogous to unique musical compositions. \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
"Their solutions are analogous to putting a Band-Aid on a cancer. \u2014 WSJ , 3 May 2022"
],
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"1646, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Latin analogus \"proportionate\" (Medieval Latin, \"conforming to analogy\") + -ous ; analogus borrowed from Greek an\u00e1logos \"proportionate, conformable,\" parasynthetic derivative from an\u00e0 l\u00f3gon \"proportionately,\" from an\u00e1 \"up, throughout\" + l\u00f3gon, accusative of l\u00f3gos \"word, speech, relation, correspondence, proportion\" \u2014 more at ana- , legend":""
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"\u0259-\u02c8na-l\u0259-g\u0259s"
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"such",
"suchlike"
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"diverse",
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"unlike"
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"Timbre in music is analogous to color in painting.",
"\u2014 Aaron Copland",
"An airplane's joystick is somewhat analogous to the reins on a horse.",
"a town council and a government body that serves an analogous function"
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": similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail":[
"Timbre in music is analogous to color in painting.",
"\u2014 Aaron Copland",
"An airplane's joystick is somewhat analogous to the reins on a horse.",
"a town council and a government body that serves an analogous function"
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"\u2026 gluons, force particles analogous to the photons of electromagnetism. \u2014 Andrew Watson , Science , 22 Jan. 1999",
"\u2026 great stretches of algae, analogous to terrestrial woodlands, in which kelp fills the role of trees. \u2014 William K. Stevens , New York Times , 5 Jan. 1999",
"\u2026 not by means superior to, though analogous with, human reason \u2026 \u2014 Charles Darwin , On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection , 1859",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Higgs boson and the Higgs field are analogous to photons and the electromagnetic field. \u2014 Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American , 24 June 2022",
"Such questions, of course, are analogous to those currently faced by the Jan. 6 committee. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"One researcher suggests to Yong that this mode of perception, known as active electrolocation, is analogous to sensing hot and cold. \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"The effect of this ruling on reconsideration is thus analogous to reducing the Goodyear Blimp to a child's birthday balloon. \u2014 Jay Adkisson, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Other tree species may have similarly specialized shoots; pines, for example, have two types that might be analogous to those on redwoods, Chin says. \u2014 Ula Chrobak, Scientific American , 1 June 2022",
"Not only is this bad policy, but it is based on the faulty premise that advertising markets are analogous to securities markets. \u2014 M. Todd Henderson, WSJ , 16 May 2022",
"If the neurons in DeGray\u2019s skull were like notes on a piano, then his distinct intentions were analogous to unique musical compositions. \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
"Their solutions are analogous to putting a Band-Aid on a cancer. \u2014 WSJ , 3 May 2022"
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"1646, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Latin analogus \"proportionate\" (Medieval Latin, \"conforming to analogy\") + -ous ; analogus borrowed from Greek an\u00e1logos \"proportionate, conformable,\" parasynthetic derivative from an\u00e0 l\u00f3gon \"proportionately,\" from an\u00e1 \"up, throughout\" + l\u00f3gon, accusative of l\u00f3gos \"word, speech, relation, correspondence, proportion\" \u2014 more at ana- , legend":""
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": correspondence between the members of pairs or sets of linguistic forms that serves as a basis for the creation of another form":[],
": correspondence or similarity in form or function between parts (such as the wings of birds and insects) of unrelated or distantly related species that is the result of convergent evolution \u2014 compare homology , homoplasy":[],
": inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others":[],
": resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike : similarity":[]
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"examples":[
"He does, though, suffer from the occupational deformation of international relations specialists: an enthusiasm for ransacking the past in search of precedents, analogies , patterns, and cycles that might explain the present and forecast the future. \u2014 Tony Judt , New York Book Review , 10 Apr. 2003",
"People who do this call themselves \"white-hat\" hackers\u2014good people who show other people their vulnerabilities. Take the following analogy : I've designed a great new lock pick, and I'm going to give this great new gadget away to show everyone that the typical door lock is ineffective against my new pick. \u2014 John C. Dvorak , PC Magazine , 4 Apr. 2000",
"It has often been said that movie stars are the royalty of America. (The better analogy , really, is that the royals are the movie stars of Britain.) \u2014 Neal Gabler , Life: The Movie , 1998",
"Parts of the far-infrared sky look like colonies of spiders gone mad. The fine structure seen there is called cirrus, by analogy with filamentary clouds on Earth. \u2014 Virginia Trimble et al. , Sky & Telescope , January 1995",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Malik uses the analogy of a stem-plus-branching approach to studying a phenomenon using multidisciplinary lenses. \u2014 Benjamin Laker, Forbes , 18 Oct. 2021",
"Huggins uses a sports analogy to describe his advice to Da\u2019Vinchi, who portrays Southwest T, and Demetrius (Lil Meech) Flenory Jr., who was chosen and mentored by 50 Cent to play the role of his father, Big Meech. \u2014 Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press , 1 Oct. 2021",
"Nelsy Ni\u00f1o, a researcher at the Instituto Humboldt who designs outreach for the expeditions, uses the analogy of a public library when talking to communities or groups of young people. \u2014 Federico Rios, New York Times , 31 Aug. 2021",
"While poetry often uses analogy and plays with language, the obituary poems seem very different, plainspoken. \u2014 Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times , 6 Apr. 2021",
"Scott Fraser, a cell biologist at U.C. San Diego, uses the analogy of watching a football game: a technique like Bessel beam illumination is like a wide-view of the whole field, whereas super-resolution techniques are like binoculars. \u2014 Jen Christiansen, Scientific American , 21 May 2013",
"To the far right, the historical analogy is the Boston Tea Party, with liberals, Democrats, and the Washington establishment as the redcoats. \u2014 Calvin Woodward, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"To use an analogy from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ohanian says that in the past, a startup picking a top tier firm would be like signing a partnership with the Avengers. \u2014 Kenrick Cai, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"To use an analogy , each film is like playing an NBA basketball game. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 May 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
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"Middle English analogie, borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, borrowed from Latin analogia \"ratio, proportion, correspondence in the inflection and derivation of words, the use of this correspondence in word derivation,\" borrowed from Greek analog\u00eda \"proportion, relation, correspondence in the inflection and derivation of words,\" from an\u00e1logos \"proportionate, conformable, analogous \" + -ia -y entry 2":""
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for analogy likeness , similarity , resemblance , similitude , analogy mean agreement or correspondence in details. likeness implies a closer correspondence than similarity which often implies that things are merely somewhat alike. a remarkable likeness to his late father some similarity between the two cases resemblance implies similarity chiefly in appearance or external qualities. statements that bear little resemblance to the truth similitude applies chiefly to correspondence between abstractions. two schools of social thought showing points of similitude analogy implies likeness or parallelism in relations rather than in appearance or qualities. pointed out analogies to past wars",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091825",
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": a person who cannot read : illiterate":[]
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"1881, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from New Latin analphab\u0113tus, derivative of analphab\u0113tus, adjective, \"illiterate,\" borrowed from Greek analph\u00e1b\u0113tos, from an- an- + -alphab\u0113tos, derivative of alph\u00e1b\u0113tos alphabet":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003905",
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": proof of a mathematical proposition by assuming the result and deducing a valid statement by a series of reversible steps":[],
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": the identification or separation of ingredients of a substance":[
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": the use of function words instead of inflectional forms as a characteristic device of a language":[]
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"examples":[
"His analyses expose hidden fractures with the clarity of an X-ray, and his rhetorical skill, though modulated in a journalistic style, owes much to the give and take of Euripides' crisp dialogue. \u2014 G. W. Bowersock , New York Review of Books , 6 Nov. 2008",
"In order to depict economic decisions mathematically, economists needed to assume that human behavior is both rational and predictable. They imagined a representative human, Homo economicus, endowed with consistent preferences, stable moods, and an enviable ability to make only rational decisions. This sleight of hand yielded some theories that had genuine predictive value, but economists were obliged to exclude from their analyses many phenomena that didn't fit the \u2026 framework, such as stock-market bubbles, drug addiction, and compulsive shopping. \u2014 John Cassidy , New Yorker , 18 Sept. 2006",
"Thus little more than a month before the convention was due to assemble in Philadelphia, James Madison fashioned a powerful and comprehensive analysis of the problems of federalism and republicanism. \u2014 Jack N. Rakove , Original Meanings , 1996",
"Thanks to some pioneering studies, and an increasing body of editions, translations, and detailed analyses , we now have a good general picture of the spiritual culture of late-medieval women on the Continent, especially in the Low Countries and Germany. \u2014 Nicholas Watsons , Speculum , July 1993",
"a scientific analysis of the data",
"make a chemical analysis of the soil",
"a detailed analysis of the bone structure of horses",
"performing chemical analysis of the soil",
"The newspaper printed an analysis of each candidate's positions.",
"That's not a bad analysis of the situation.",
"It's a problem that requires careful analysis .",
"He has been in analysis for many years.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Before beginning its analysis , the court noted that the defendants did not oppose the plaintiff\u2019s motion to proceed under a pseudonym at the time of the motion, but sought the right to revisit the issue later on in the litigation process. \u2014 Jack Greiner, The Enquirer , 30 June 2022",
"But our analysis does not suggest a mass exodus from the labor force. \u2014 Mike Gousha And John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
"The study, which for this year evaluated 2,650 U.S. hospitals, relies on publicly available Medicare data for its analysis . \u2014 Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"Now University of Missouri professor Keith Herman has repeated his analysis of the impact of the intervention, but this time looking at the results before and after the shooting of Michael Brown. \u2014 Nick Morrison, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Our analysis with CBS News also discovered a difference by race. \u2014 Andy Sheehan, CBS News , 29 June 2022",
"Our analysis of the articles show that the public started to associate fine dust with China during that event. \u2014 Dongwook Kim, Scientific American , 27 June 2022",
"Though the department said its analysis was based in science, bay foundation scientists question whether that can be true. \u2014 Scott Dance, Baltimore Sun , 24 June 2022",
"The bulk of their analysis drew on the administrative records of over 120,000 individuals working at 77 higher education institutions between 2013 and 2016. \u2014 Elissa Welle, STAT , 23 June 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
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"borrowed from Medieval Latin, borrowed from Greek an\u00e1lysis \"loosing, releasing, breaking something down into its elements, solution of a problem,\" from anal\u00fdein \"to loosen, undo, dissolve, resolve into constituent elements,\" from ana- ana- + l\u00fdein \"to loosen, undo\" \u2014 more at lose":""
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"\u0259-\u02c8nal-\u0259-s\u0259s",
"\u0259-\u02c8na-l\u0259-s\u0259s"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-161707",
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"presented a very analytical argument for the defendant's guilt",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Josh Greenstein, president of Sony Motion Pictures Group, says at Sony, movie campaign strategies are informed by parsing 500 proprietary analytic inputs. \u2014 Robert Marich, Variety , 23 May 2022",
"Back on the boat, the scientists put the samples on ice before sending them to the lab of Gertrud Morlock, an analytic chemist at Germany\u2019s Justus Liebig University Giessen and lead author on the new study. \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American , 19 May 2022",
"But he has not been afforded the cloak of impersonality that shrouds most analytic philosophers. \u2014 Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
"In terms of human resources and talent management, this means the use of robotic process automation (RPA) and data analytic tools and technology, as well as artificial intelligence and machine learning are critical enablers. \u2014 Ron Schmelzer, Forbes , 23 Apr. 2022",
"As his father pursued his academic studies in analytic chemistry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, the family moved to Tennessee. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Cogastro\u2019s annual license fees, providing access to data monitoring and analytic platform, depend on the size and the needs of each insect farm. \u2014 Jackie Abramian, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Startup delivers data and analytic tools to CFOs of fast-growing companies to help bring financial planning into the modern era. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Apr. 2022",
"The Giants ranked second in the majors in payroll in 2018, in the $200 million neighborhood, trailing only the Red Sox, but have slipped dramatically since moving to a more analytic approach under executive Farhan Zaidi. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 22 Mar. 2022"
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"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"analytic borrowed from Late Latin analyticus, borrowed from Greek analytik\u00f3s, from anal\u00fdein \"to loosen, dissolve, resolve into constitutent elements\" + -t-, verbal adjective formative + -ikos -ic entry 1 ; analytical from Late Latin analyticus + -al entry 1 \u2014 more at analysis":""
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"presented a very analytical argument for the defendant's guilt",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Josh Greenstein, president of Sony Motion Pictures Group, says at Sony, movie campaign strategies are informed by parsing 500 proprietary analytic inputs. \u2014 Robert Marich, Variety , 23 May 2022",
"Back on the boat, the scientists put the samples on ice before sending them to the lab of Gertrud Morlock, an analytic chemist at Germany\u2019s Justus Liebig University Giessen and lead author on the new study. \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American , 19 May 2022",
"But he has not been afforded the cloak of impersonality that shrouds most analytic philosophers. \u2014 Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
"In terms of human resources and talent management, this means the use of robotic process automation (RPA) and data analytic tools and technology, as well as artificial intelligence and machine learning are critical enablers. \u2014 Ron Schmelzer, Forbes , 23 Apr. 2022",
"As his father pursued his academic studies in analytic chemistry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, the family moved to Tennessee. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Cogastro\u2019s annual license fees, providing access to data monitoring and analytic platform, depend on the size and the needs of each insect farm. \u2014 Jackie Abramian, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Startup delivers data and analytic tools to CFOs of fast-growing companies to help bring financial planning into the modern era. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Apr. 2022",
"The Giants ranked second in the majors in payroll in 2018, in the $200 million neighborhood, trailing only the Red Sox, but have slipped dramatically since moving to a more analytic approach under executive Farhan Zaidi. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 22 Mar. 2022"
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"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"analytic borrowed from Late Latin analyticus, borrowed from Greek analytik\u00f3s, from anal\u00fdein \"to loosen, dissolve, resolve into constitutent elements\" + -t-, verbal adjective formative + -ikos -ic entry 1 ; analytical from Late Latin analyticus + -al entry 1 \u2014 more at analysis":""
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"\u2014 Gyles Brandreth",
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"\u2014 Jeffrey Mullins"
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"While Wroe offers some basic biographical information and quotes copiously from Shelley's writings, she does not tell a chronological story or analyze individual poems. \u2014 Adam Kirsch , New Yorker , 27 Aug. 2007",
"They are not doing the math. Doing the math would mean demonstrating that the voters' intuitive judgments are roughly what they would get if they analyzed the likely effects of candidates' policies, and this is a difficult calculation to perform. \u2014 Louis Menand , New Yorker , 30 Aug. 2004",
"Ms. Magazine 's online daily weblog, written by Christine Cupaiuolo, analyzes the representation of women in media and popular culture. Here are excerpts from recent postings. \u2014 Ms. , Fall 2003",
"The data was recorded and analyzed by computer.",
"We took the sample to be chemically analyzed by a lab.",
"Researchers are busy analyzing the results of the study.",
"The bacteria were analyzed under a powerful microscope.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Artificial intelligence can be used to gather and analyze public data sets to detect new regulations for travel, severe weather and an area\u2019s overall safety. \u2014 Dustin Radtke, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Each of the 56 FBI field offices has assigned an agent to collect and analyze threat reports, and federal prosecutors have been trained in assessing and investigating threats. \u2014 Michael Wines, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"Despite these awe-inspiring possibilities, a more likely scenario is that our first inklings of life in outer space will arrive via tools that can analyze electromagnetic properties, such as the gas composition surrounding a planet. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 20 June 2022",
"Suicide is the leading case of death among male residents, according to a recent study that did not analyze the numbers by race or ethnicity. \u2014 Usha Lee Mcfarling, STAT , 20 June 2022",
"Guralnik\u2019s sessions with a peer advisory group, who analyze the couples\u2019 progress and her technique. \u2014 Lidija Haas, The New Republic , 10 June 2022",
"The technology underpinning Meta\u2019s success\u2014the ability to collect and analyze massive amounts of data, then translate that information into micro-targeted ads\u2014is under attack. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
"In wider use now are algorithms using a form of AI known as machine learning that crunches statistical data from sensors and can analyze changes in body position or movement that could indicate fatigue, weaknesses or a potential injury. \u2014 Eric Niiler, WSJ , 4 June 2022",
"In November, the Defense Department announced the creation of an investigative body to track and analyze UAPs. \u2014 N'dea Yancey-bragg, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022"
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"The white horse and classic car tricked out with chandeliers are obviously fantastic; more coded are the homages to the 2000s, which the twenty-somethings involved seem to have anamnesis for. \u2014 Vogue , 8 Apr. 2022"
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"the citywide blackouts caused anarchic looting and rioting",
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"Rigid hierarchies are replaced by a more democratic, borderline- anarchic practice. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"In Jerusalem, as in Shakespeare, to go into the woods is to embrace anarchic lawlessness and surreal adventure. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
"Mischief has often been a creative, anarchic weapon of defense among the marginalized: free, adaptable, difficult to control. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"His camera is a character of its own, with shots that lurch, zoom across rooms, and crash into actors\u2019 faces with anarchic impunity. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 3 May 2022",
"But this sloppy attempt to harness the anarchic improvisational energy of a Christopher Guest movie ends up more of an irritant, especially after the gentle charms of The King of Staten Island. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The pavilion\u2019s anarchic din feels as generous and resilient, in its way, as Leigh\u2019s serene and silent sculptures in the U.S. Pavilion. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"In Allen\u2019s convincingly reptilian performance, Mooney is an anarchic force, deliberately jangling everyone\u2019s nerves with non sequiturs and contradictions that invite an effort to pin him down. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Acid is Steve Jobs-approved, and Burning Man \u2014 in the 1990s, an expression of anarchic freedom \u2014 has basically become a glamping retreat for corporate C.E.O.s. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022"
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"the citywide blackouts caused anarchic looting and rioting",
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"Rigid hierarchies are replaced by a more democratic, borderline- anarchic practice. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"In Jerusalem, as in Shakespeare, to go into the woods is to embrace anarchic lawlessness and surreal adventure. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
"Mischief has often been a creative, anarchic weapon of defense among the marginalized: free, adaptable, difficult to control. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"His camera is a character of its own, with shots that lurch, zoom across rooms, and crash into actors\u2019 faces with anarchic impunity. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 3 May 2022",
"But this sloppy attempt to harness the anarchic improvisational energy of a Christopher Guest movie ends up more of an irritant, especially after the gentle charms of The King of Staten Island. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The pavilion\u2019s anarchic din feels as generous and resilient, in its way, as Leigh\u2019s serene and silent sculptures in the U.S. Pavilion. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"In Allen\u2019s convincingly reptilian performance, Mooney is an anarchic force, deliberately jangling everyone\u2019s nerves with non sequiturs and contradictions that invite an effort to pin him down. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Acid is Steve Jobs-approved, and Burning Man \u2014 in the 1990s, an expression of anarchic freedom \u2014 has basically become a glamping retreat for corporate C.E.O.s. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022"
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"Maugham was not only prolific but also a best-seller, though snobs dismissed his work as middlebrow (a category that few people worry about in our day but that once was anathema ). \u2014 Edmund White , New York Review of Books , 12 Feb. 2009",
"While everything pointed to an immense flood, Bretz knew such a notion would be anathema to his fellow geologists. In part that was because the quantity of water needed for such a flood would exceed the flow of all the world's modern rivers combined. \u2014 Richard Lovett , New Scientist , 21-27 Apr. 2007",
"Big Jeff was devoted to Purcell. He haunted his room and patiently endured his abuse just to sit in the corner and watch him shave or do push-ups or dress for dinner, and listen to him pronounce his opinions and anathemas . \u2014 Tobias Wolff , Old School , 2003",
"For all the artistic wonders it has preserved, the Holy Mountain is not a museum, and the idea of playing host to sightseers is anathema to the monks. Male visitors of all faiths are welcome, but they come as pilgrims, not tourists, and only 110 \"residence permits\" are issued each day by patristic officials in Ouranoupolis. \u2014 Nicholas Basbanes , Smithsonian , August 1999",
"a politician who is anathema to conservatives",
"ideas that are an anathema to me",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Once in a while, a couture collection goes viral\u2014a state anathema to couture, perhaps, and all the more titillating for it. \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Unfortunately, the current environment makes the question all too easy to answer: In the summer of George Floyd, certain opinions about the state of America that would have been considered normal only a few months earlier suddenly became anathema . \u2014 Joshua Katz, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"And recently the same work \u2014 specifically the paintings of Klansmen \u2014 has been the source of another, different controversy, one that has brought anathema down on the art establishment itself. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Some critics may consider electronic screens to be anathema to learning, but digitization can be seen as the latest step in making the library\u2019s longstanding democratic ideals a reality. \u2014 Maris Kreizman, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 May 2022",
"Along with high taxes, regulations were viewed by Trump as an anathema to corporate growth and profits. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
"But in California, whose $40 billion wine industry is largely modeled on France, hybrid grapevines are widely regarded as anathema \u2014 derided by the industry's mainstream as producing nasty-tasting wines and, as a result, scarcely planted. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 Dec. 2021",
"That might seem like anathema to hip-hop artists, who don\u2019t always care about a vinyl release and like the immediacy of working up to the last minute (or after it, like Kanye West). \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 3 Nov. 2021",
"One of the precipitating factors that led to the Civil War was the election of a president perceived by the South as anathema . \u2014 Kimberl\u00e9 Williams Crenshaw, The New Republic , 21 Dec. 2020"
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"1582, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In a democracy, the question of what to do about climate change and for that matter the decision to anathematize entire sectors of the economy ought to be matters for voters not moneymen. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 9 Dec. 2020",
"Still, some people now reflexively anathematize this brilliant novel because its self-justifying, unreliable narrator is a pedophile. \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 1 Jan. 2020",
"The most serious native challenge to liberalism, made by the slaveholding oligarchy of the Old South, was crushed on the battlefield, and, despite the efforts of an ever-dwindling number of apologists, morally anathematized . \u2014 Park Macdougald, Daily Intelligencer , 27 Feb. 2018",
"In some ways, the grotesqueries of his persona, rather than anathematizing him to voters, only enhanced his appeal among those wishing for something different. \u2014 Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine , 24 Jan. 2017",
"BuzzFeed was so anathematized that by presser\u2019s end, fellow journalists were picking up their lunch trays and moving to the other side of the cafeteria. \u2014 Will Oremus, Slate Magazine , 12 Jan. 2017",
"But 33 members of the law faculty published a letter anathematizing her. \u2014 Mona Charen, National Review , 8 Sep. 2017",
"And if anyone shall be led by his cupidity or arrogance to break this truce, by the authority of God and with the sanction of this Council he shall be anathematized . \u2014 James Carroll, The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2017"
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"if you anatomize the problem, you'll see it stems from a combination of her bad behavior and your unwillingness to speak to her about it",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And some of it was a compulsive need to re-define and re- anatomize what Carmichael and Hamilton had already defined and anatomized so well. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, Quartz , 1 Apr. 2021",
"Kundera, meanwhile, made his career on novels that anatomized kitsch and subsequently became kitsch, thanks to a generation of earnest high schoolers. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 9 Oct. 2019",
"This is just one of many intergenerational failings that Kafka anatomizes . \u2014 Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2018",
"Maybe gay shame is itself being appropriated, or merging with the common human shame that writers have been anatomizing since Adam and Eve. \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 26 Feb. 2018",
"This is just one of many intergenerational failings that Kafka anatomizes . \u2014 Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2018",
"Maybe gay shame is itself being appropriated, or merging with the common human shame that writers have been anatomizing since Adam and Eve. \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 26 Feb. 2018",
"In part, Zettelmaier\u2019s story anatomizes the jealousy that arises when an artist like Virginie has to step aside (or stay in the shadows) while someone else grabs the glory. \u2014 Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com , 10 Oct. 2017",
"Jeremy Stahl anatomizes a shameless act of exploitation. \u2014 Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine , 10 Aug. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And some of it was a compulsive need to re-define and re- anatomize what Carmichael and Hamilton had already defined and anatomized so well. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, Quartz , 1 Apr. 2021",
"Kundera, meanwhile, made his career on novels that anatomized kitsch and subsequently became kitsch, thanks to a generation of earnest high schoolers. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 9 Oct. 2019",
"This is just one of many intergenerational failings that Kafka anatomizes . \u2014 Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2018",
"Maybe gay shame is itself being appropriated, or merging with the common human shame that writers have been anatomizing since Adam and Eve. \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 26 Feb. 2018",
"This is just one of many intergenerational failings that Kafka anatomizes . \u2014 Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2018",
"Maybe gay shame is itself being appropriated, or merging with the common human shame that writers have been anatomizing since Adam and Eve. \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 26 Feb. 2018",
"In part, Zettelmaier\u2019s story anatomizes the jealousy that arises when an artist like Virginie has to step aside (or stay in the shadows) while someone else grabs the glory. \u2014 Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com , 10 Oct. 2017",
"Jeremy Stahl anatomizes a shameless act of exploitation. \u2014 Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine , 10 Aug. 2017"
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"We had to take a class on anatomy .",
"learning about the anatomies of different types of birds",
"learning about the anatomy of an earthquake",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That the pumpkin toadlet has shrunk some of its anatomy out of the realm of utility makes a weird sort of sense. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
"However, every patient is evaluated as an individual and the treatment plan is customized to their specific anatomy . \u2014 Micaela English, Town & Country , 14 June 2022",
"In hyena society, females outrank males, resembling them so closely that their genital anatomy confuses the human observer. \u2014 David P. Barash, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"Plevris added that Greece also plans to ban surgeries on intersex infants and babies born with atypical chromosomes that affect their reproductive anatomy in a way that does not fit with the normative definition of male or female. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 12 May 2022",
"But in the years since, scientists have amassed more than 20 specimens and seen more of its anatomy , including its pelvis, hind fin and the joints of its skull. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
"That software basically gives surgeons a 3d x-ray that shows the inside of a patient and their internal anatomy to a surgeon. \u2014 Leila Atassi, cleveland , 22 Apr. 2022",
"In the controlled setting of a laboratory, Katija might have reconstructed its anatomy by taking a high-speed video of particles flowing through and around the creature. \u2014 The New Yorker , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Because of your anatomy of the clot and the hormonal treatment, treatment with anticoagulation is a very reasonable option. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 12 Apr. 2022"
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"My ancestors came to America during the 1800s.",
"Her ancestors were great sea captains.",
"an ancient animal that was the ancestor of the modern horse",
"The museum included an exhibit showing ancestors of the modern computer.",
"several languages that are derived from a common ancestor",
"Latin is the ancestor of Italian and French.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There's also a celestial feel to her line, and this influence comes from her ancestor , the astronomer Tycho Brahe who discovered the constellation Cassiopeia, and so her collection is where diamonds collide with pearls. \u2014 Felicity Carter, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Chickens may be the most populous bird on the planet while their ancestor , the red jungle fowl, persists only in a few limited habitats. \u2014 Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 May 2022",
"Picard, which is still releasing season 2 weekly on Paramount+, previously featured Spiner as Data, Data's human relative Altan Inigo Soong, and their ancestor , Dr. Adam Soong. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 5 Apr. 2022",
"What\u2019s interesting to note is that over a hundred years from this moment, James' ancestor , John Dutton III, will go to great lengths to prevent the Broken Rock Reservation from taking back any of this territory (like, not even a small part). \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Jonathan Burgess treasures the historic legacy of his 19th Century ancestor , Rufus Burgess, who gained freedom from slavery after coming to California in the late 1840s and built a prosperous life for his family in gold rush country. \u2014 Bill Keveney, USA TODAY , 21 Feb. 2022",
"Marina Picasso and her son, Florian Picasso, who live in Geneva, hope to introduce their ancestor \u2014 one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and a pioneer of cubism \u2014 to the crypto trend sweeping the art world. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Jan. 2022",
"The sculpture depicts four Black American figures \u2014 a slave ancestor , a lynched Union soldier martyr, a struggling mother activist and a baby \u2014 stacked atop one another. \u2014 NBC News , 13 July 2021",
"There are around 13 other species of Galapagos Island tortoise \u2014 all of which descended from the same ancestor . \u2014 Sammy Westfall, Washington Post , 15 June 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"They claim to be of noble ancestry .",
"a person of unknown ancestry",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The findings suggest that using less lethal strategies to manage coyote populations will enable the red wolf genetic ancestry to persist, even though the species no longer exists in the wild, according to the study. \u2014 Julia Jacobo, ABC News , 29 June 2022",
"An Eastern Gray Wolf is a mix of Siberian ancestry and coyote DNA. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 29 June 2022",
"The category of hate crime incidents where a victim was targeted because of their race, ethnicity or ancestry increased substantially between 2019 and 2020, with 8,052 single-bias incidents in 2020 compared to 3,954 the previous year. \u2014 Natasha Chen And Aya Elamroussi, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"The direct-to-consumer DNA testing company enables consumers to test for ancestry and health risks through genetic information obtained from saliva samples. \u2014 Marcus Crowder, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 June 2022",
"My Haitian family\u2019s ancestry is deeply rooted in fruit\u2014growing it, eating it, selling it\u2014and our story is one of agriculture. \u2014 Joseph Lamour, Bon App\u00e9tit , 22 June 2022",
"The controversy around Latimer\u2019s indigenous ancestry sparked criticism from the Canadian film industry, where generous subsidies are increasingly on offer to First Nations filmmakers amid an industry reckoning. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
"Larry Fisher, chief sachem of the Mattakeeset Massachuset tribe leads a traditional song honoring the tribal land and ancestry at Titicut Indian Reservation in Bridgewater, Mass, Nov. 27, 2020. \u2014 WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Here, dancing feels not only freeing and joyful but deeply rooted in ancestry . \u2014 Julissa Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"strain"
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"noun"
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"set"
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"\u2014 Gray D. Boone",
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"Verb",
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"The ship anchored in the bay.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Tartine was a particularly appealing anchor tenant. \u2014 Anna Wiener, The New Yorker , 16 June 2022",
"Grandview Medical Center has signed a long-term lease to be the anchor tenant for a significant portion of the building for physician offices and hospital services. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 15 June 2022",
"The railroad is working on an agreement with Royal Caribbean for that cruise company to serve as the new dock\u2019s long-term anchor tenant, O\u2019Leary said. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 30 May 2022",
"Coincidentally, Jupiter's last day at morning news anchor at his current station, WSTM-TV in Syracuse, New York, also was Friday. \u2014 Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 27 May 2022",
"The facility will be owned and operated by Great Point Studios; Lionsgate, as the long-term anchor tenant, will receive naming rights to the studio. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 26 May 2022",
"Last October, over 100 ships, including 70 container ships, were waiting at anchor or in drift zones to unload at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. \u2014 Steve Banker, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"The Hollywood studio is set to become the anchor tenant in a $125 million studio complex in Newark, New Jersey. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 May 2022",
"The salon also has a large overhead panel that opens to let fresh air in when the 65\u2019s at anchor . \u2014 Michael Verdon, Robb Report , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Huddleston will also anchor and produce a livestream-only show that will air weekdays. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 14 June 2022",
"With the seas churning with synergy after the Warner Bros./Discovery merger, Impractical Jokers stars Brian Quinn, James Murray, and Sal Vulcano will anchor a dare-ing shark education special. \u2014 Dan Snierson, EW.com , 14 June 2022",
"Interviews with actors \u2014 like Rose McGowan and Jane Fonda \u2014 and several directors and screenwriters anchor these scholarly bits in more contemporary anecdotes. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 14 June 2022",
"Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace and Joy Reid will anchor the coverage on MSNBC. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"On Thursday, however, all three will anchor special primetime reports built around the Committee\u2019s presentation. \u2014 Brian Steinberg, Variety , 6 June 2022",
"Layered light and dark routines anchor the second half, including a monologue about decades of degradation and distrust, told in a stand-up comedy style, and a family melodrama that ends with smoldering bodies. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 21 May 2022",
"Following this month\u2019s celebration of Jackson Square, the village centers of Columbian Square, Bicknell Square, and Weymouth Landing will anchor monthly events from June through August. \u2014 Robert Knox, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
"Two large touchscreen displays\u2014one front and center and another for the digital instrument cluster\u2014 anchor almost all of the car\u2019s controls. \u2014 Mike Richard, Men's Health , 18 May 2022"
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},
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": a point on an archer's face (such as the chin) against which the drawing hand is placed in order to stabilize the archer's aim before release of the arrow":[]
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"1940, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"an area of safe anchorage",
"A heavy metal ring provides anchorage for the cable.",
"The ring serves as a secure anchorage .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The 65-foot-long and 65-foot-wide generator floats above the anchorage point, roughly 160 feet below the surface of the ocean. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 8 June 2022",
"At the foot of the hill were a dock and an anchorage where his extended clan moored their boats. \u2014 Charles Mcgrath, The New Yorker , 27 May 2022",
"The child seat anchorage fitting sleeves are incorrectly marked with a different symbol than the one described in the owner's manual. \u2014 USA TODAY , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Ever Forward container ship is being taken to an anchorage south of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge after it was freed from mud outside the shipping channel off Pasadena, Maryland, where is has spent the past month aground. \u2014 Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The decision came amid an intensifying battle to relocate people living on the nearly 70 boats moored illegally in the waterway, which is technically a temporary anchorage , though many mariners have lived there for decades. \u2014 Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Once refloated, the Ever Forward was weighed down again by water tanks to ensure safe passage under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on its way to an anchorage off Annapolis, The Baltimore Sun reported. \u2014 NBC News , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Once refloated, the Ever Forward was weighed down again by water tanks to ensure safe passage under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on its way to an anchorage off Annapolis, The Baltimore Sun reports. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Once refloated, the Ever Forward was weighed down again by water tanks to ensure safe passage under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on its way to an anchorage off Annapolis, The Baltimore Sun reported. \u2014 CBS News , 17 Apr. 2022"
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"\u02c8a\u014b-k\u0259-rij",
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": a person who lives in seclusion usually for religious reasons":[]
},
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"many Christian saints were anchorites who removed themselves from the world to focus on their spirituality",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Perhaps our lives now more closely resemble ancient anchorites , religious recluses who lived alone in rooms adjoining churches, said Cathleen Kaveny, a Catholic theologian at Boston College. \u2014 Daniel Burke, CNN , 5 Apr. 2020",
"In other instances, anchorites became wise people to visit and from whom to seek council. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Sep. 2019",
"But there are certainly similarities between the anchorite and the handmaid. \u2014 Annie Sutherland, Quartzy , 13 June 2019"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Middle English, from Medieval Latin anchorita , alteration of Late Latin anachoreta , from Late Greek anach\u014dr\u0113t\u0113s , from Greek anach\u014drein to withdraw, from ana- + ch\u014drein to make room, from ch\u014dros place":""
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"1655, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hills, who previously worked as a reporter, anchorman and speechwriter, is a lecturer in public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. \u2014 Rusty Hills, CNN , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Tom, his glib wanna-be anchorman (a temptation to Holly Hunter's hardheaded producer), is both a perfect piece of casting, and a key into something essential about his art. \u2014 Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com , 14 Mar. 2022",
"In a 2021 lawsuit against Disney/ABC and Michael Corn, Crawford argues that in 2017, several prominent employees (including ABC anchorman George Stephanopoulos) learned of her allegations and failed to take proper action. \u2014 Robert Zafft, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021",
"Nestel\u2019s friend and former KENS-TV anchorman Jeff Goldblatt has helped promote Gotcha Covered since 2017. \u2014 Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News , 20 Dec. 2021",
"Friend will play Guru Bob, a local ex- anchorman , who, after a trauma, rebrands himself as a mystic desert personality. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Letters postmarked Trenton, N.J., that later tested positive for anthrax were sent to the New York Post and NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 Sep. 2021",
"Pick your analogy: The Yankees were flattened in the ring, fell from a skyscraper, booted from the anchorman chair. \u2014 Tyler Kepner, New York Times , 27 June 2021",
"In the scene, Mr. Beatty\u2019s character summons Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the unstable anchorman who has just had an on-air meltdown, into the corporate boardroom and draws the curtains. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2021"
],
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"1907, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8a\u014b-k\u0259r-\u02ccman"
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},
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"1973, in the meaning defined above":""
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"plural noun"
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": a broadcaster (as on a new program) who introduces reports by other broadcasters and usually reads the news : an anchorman or anchorwoman":[]
},
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"the new anchorperson did an admirable job of dealing with the late-breaking news story",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But the hurdles used to prolong her rise grow tedious and predictable, as if some unseen producer was prodding the anchorperson to fill dead air. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 22 Oct. 2020",
"The sunny blonde GNN anchorperson would tell you about how someone was the recipient of a random act of kindness. \u2014 Rita Wilson, Harper's BAZAAR , 14 Feb. 2010"
],
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"1971, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8a\u014b-k\u0259r-\u02ccp\u0259r-s\u1d4an"
],
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"anchor",
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"noun"
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"elder",
"geriatric",
"golden-ager",
"old-timer",
"oldster",
"senior",
"senior citizen"
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": one of the classical authors":[
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": the bearer of an ensign":[],
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},
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"Adjective",
"The people in the village still observe the ancient customs of their ancestors.",
"a grove of ancient oak trees",
"The practice was more common in ancient times than it is now.",
"the gods of the ancient Romans",
"She studied both ancient and modern history."
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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"Middle English ancien , from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *anteanus , from Latin ante before \u2014 more at ante-":"Adjective and Noun",
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"\u02c8\u0101n(t)-sh\u0259nt",
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"\u02c8\u0101n-sh\u0259nt"
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},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In several of the poesie paintings, Titian cast the faces of his protagonists in shadow, obscuring our sense of their inner lives, making them at once more anciently remote and more humanly familiar. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Aug. 2021"
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"\u02c8\u0101n(t)-sh\u0259nt-l\u0113",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071801",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"androgyneity":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": androgyny":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1875, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"androgyne + -ity":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccj\u012b\u02c8-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125153",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"androgynous":{
"antonyms":[
"gendered"
],
"definitions":{
": having the characteristics or nature of both male and female":[
"androgynous heroines"
],
": having traditional male and female roles obscured or reversed":[
"an androgynous marriage"
],
": neither specifically feminine nor masculine":[
"the androgynous pronoun them"
],
": suitable to or for either sex":[
"androgynous clothing"
]
},
"examples":[
"the androgynous hairdos favored by the hip",
"an actor whose androgynous looks are at the heart of his appeal",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"TomboyX offers swimwear in androgynous athleisure cuts, with an impressive size range that\u2019s actually been tested on plus-size bodies. \u2014 Maren Larsen, Outside Online , 21 June 2022",
"Bowie, ever a man of theatrics, designed his alter ego in his own image: androgynous , bisexual, and hell-bent on being a rock star. \u2014 Allaire Nuss, EW.com , 17 June 2022",
"Donatello\u2019s earlier, smaller David, in bronze, is adolescent, almost androgynous . \u2014 Sebastian Smee, Washington Post , 13 May 2022",
"The main character, Lou, is always being noticed\u2014this tall, androgynous teen. \u2014 Rebecca Sacks, ELLE , 16 June 2022",
"His latest subjects are composites caught between identities: a Black man in a cowboy hat sprouting extra white limbs, an androgynous figure in a bold red suit prodding their chest into cleavage, John F. Kennedy in football pads. \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"The actor was easily the coolest mom in La Jolla in her relaxed gold tweed trousers from Louis Vuitton\u2019s androgynous fall 2022 collection, styled with a simple white shirt and a red lip. \u2014 Kerry Mcdermott, Vogue , 13 May 2022",
"That\u2019s before mentioning his pioneering love of the Canadian tuxedo, androgynous jumpsuits, Hawaiian prints, and naval-bearing shirts\u2014influencing everyone from Tupac to Harry Styles through the years. \u2014 Hayley Maitland, Vogue , 10 May 2022",
"In these poems and others, Millay, like Shakespeare, plays with gender, assuming an androgynous voice and extolling male beauty without identifying it as such. \u2014 Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1651, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin androgynus hermaphrodite, from Greek androgynos , from andr- + gyn\u0113 woman \u2014 more at queen":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8dr\u00e4-j\u0259-n\u0259s",
"an-\u02c8dr\u00e4j-\u0259-n\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"genderless",
"unisex",
"unisexual"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-122632",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun,"
]
},
"anesthetic":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a substance that produces anesthesia":[],
": lacking awareness or sensitivity":[
"was anesthetic to their feelings"
],
": of, relating to, or capable of producing anesthesia":[],
": something that brings relief : palliative":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The doctor gave him the stitches without an anesthetic .",
"the dentist waited until the anesthetic took effect",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Media coverage highlighted the plight of patients and physicians faced with shortages for cancer drugs, anesthetic agents, and critical care medications. \u2014 Peter J. Pitts, STAT , 3 June 2022",
"The suspect, 33, was arrested last week after an anesthetic drug was found in tissue samples of her 9-year-old, who died in January. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Ketamine, meanwhile, was first used in clinical practice in the 1960s as a safer alternative to the anesthetic phencyclidine (PCP), which has been discontinued in the U.S. due to the high incidence of postoperative delirium with hallucinations. \u2014 Raleigh Mcelvery, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 May 2022",
"Wider skin tags typically get a topical anesthetic , like lidocaine, to minimize pain, Dr. Evans says. \u2014 Jessica Chia, SELF , 20 Apr. 2022",
"At its worst, it has been described as comparable to second-stage labor or the equivalent of cutting off your finger without anesthetic by OB/GYN and pain medicine physician Dr. Jen Gunter. \u2014 Brijana Prooker, Good Housekeeping , 15 Apr. 2022",
"This includes maintaining adequate medical records and providing complete diagnostic, pharmacy, anesthetic , surgical, nursing, dental and emergency service facilities. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Surviving doctors and nurses tried to save their colleagues with emergency surgery in the kitchen, without anesthetic . \u2014 Jessica Donati, WSJ , 6 Aug. 2021",
"And anesthetic gases work by a quantum interaction. \u2014 Andrea Morris, Forbes , 4 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Ketamine is an injectable anesthetic that has traditionally been used for short-term sedation and anesthesia. \u2014 Nikesha Elise Williams, SELF , 25 May 2022",
"While ketamine, which is an anesthetic , rose to prominence as a recreational and party drug, research has shown that certain doses can help treat mental health issues like depression and anxiety. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Propofol, also called Diprivan, is a short acting intravenous anesthetic used to put patients to sleep during hospital procedures. \u2014 CNN , 6 Feb. 2022",
"Ketamine is used legitimately as an anesthetic , but its non-medical use and clandestine manufacture was concerning to the U.N. agency. \u2014 Grant Peck, Anchorage Daily News , 30 May 2022",
"Stamos-Buesig has found that a drug believed to be ketamine \u2014 an anesthetic sometimes used recreationally\u2014 instead contained meth and cocaine. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 May 2022",
"Getting its start in mainstream medicine beginning in the 1960s as an anesthetic for wounded soldiers in Viet Nam, the drug\u2019s usage eventually evolved into one administered by first responders to calm erratic patients in the ambulance. \u2014 Ronit Molko, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Ketamine is also used as an anesthetic and is listed on the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines. \u2014 Alaina Demopoulos, Allure , 19 May 2022",
"Your doctor can prescribe a cream with lidocaine or another anesthetic to relieve the pain until the tiny tear heals. \u2014 Rozalynn S. Frazier, SELF , 10 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1823, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1845, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cca-n\u0259s-\u02c8the-tik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"analgesic",
"anodyne",
"painkiller"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004912",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"anew":{
"antonyms":[
"nevermore"
],
"definitions":{
": for an additional time : again":[
"begin anew"
],
": in a new or different form":[
"a story told anew on film"
]
},
"examples":[
"He demonstrated anew that he's not a good leader.",
"These problems must be dealt with anew .",
"The process begins anew each spring.",
"The poem has been translated anew for this new book.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On Monday, several board members said the preferred to begin the superintendent search anew , and this time hire a search firm or headhunter. \u2014 Laura Hancock, cleveland , 14 June 2022",
"Charles Jones on Friday was appointed by Baker as acting president of the community college and begin a presidential search anew . \u2014 al , 6 June 2022",
"Members of the panel appeared on Sunday news programs to make that case anew . \u2014 Jacqueline Alemany, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"For Auburn, that starts anew this weekend against No. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 12 Oct. 2021",
"The good news is that the qualification scores are now erased, and the team competition starts anew on July 27, with three gymnasts from each of the top eight qualifying countries competing on each of the four apparatus. \u2014 Alice Park/tokyo, Time , 26 July 2021",
"The cycle will begin anew when the next word is read. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"The other foot loosely traces the boundaries of ominous lore that\u2019s woven through the narrative like fine thread, ever-beneath the surface of scenes dealing with young love, strong feminine bonds, and the urge to escape it all and begin anew . \u2014 Holly Jones, Variety , 19 May 2022",
"But when that supply starts to run out, the difficult search to find more will begin anew . \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English of newe , from Old English of n\u012bwe , from of + n\u012bwe new":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8ny\u00fc",
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u00fc"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"afresh",
"again",
"de novo",
"over"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095450",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"angel":{
"antonyms":[
"wolf"
],
"definitions":{
": a person who is like an angel (as in looks or behavior)":[
"Your toddler is such an angel .",
"Be an angel and get me a cup of tea, would you?",
"Childs is no angel either, and that gives his book its drama.",
"\u2014 George Johnson"
],
": a usually white-robed winged figure of human form in fine art \u2014 see also snow angel":[],
": an attendant usually benevolent spirit or guardian":[
"\u2014 often used without implication of belief in its supernatural character \"A putting angel must have come to me during the night because I felt great today and every putt I hit was a great putt,\" he [Paul McGinley] said. \u2014 Nelson Clare"
],
": an order of angels \u2014 see celestial hierarchy":[],
": angelfish":[],
": inspiration from God":[],
": messenger , harbinger":[
"an angel of death",
"The dear good angel of the Spring, / The nightingale.",
"\u2014 Ben Jonson"
],
": one who aids or supports with money or influence":[
"Angels are considered one of the oldest sources of capital for start-up entrepreneurs; the term itself, by most accounts, comes from the affluent patrons who used to finance Broadway plays in the early twentieth century.",
"\u2014 Colleen Debaise",
"Typically, angel investors put up anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000 to back a young start-up, and can fund as many as 10 companies at any given time.",
"\u2014 Michael B. Farrell"
],
": the part of a person's character or nature that is said to guide the person's thoughts and behavior":[
"\u2026 here was [Lyndon] Johnson charging straight at a problem, telling his fellow citizens an ugly truth about themselves while trying to invoke the better angels of their nature.",
"\u2014 Kevin Baker",
"[Lamar] Alexander concluded: \"In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln appealed to the better angels of our nature. If there are better angels of our nature, I guess that means there must be worse angels in us as well. \u2026\"",
"\u2014 Congressional Documents and Publications"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Every time Los Angeles' Shohei Ohtani grounds out into short right field, an angel loses its wings. \u2014 Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star , 27 June 2022",
"Out of the 226 investments in African AI analyzed, 55% were made up of seed, pre-seed and angel funding compared to 27% of non-equity assistance and grants. \u2014 Faustine Ngila, Quartz , 23 June 2022",
"In one version of the photo, an angel \u2019s wings had been digitally added to the boy\u2019s small frame. \u2014 Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"Additionally, healthcare continues to attract high levels of funding from angel and institutional investors. \u2014 Dr. Eric George, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, the top seller in the company\u2019s online offering was a 1950s gold Cartier ring with an angel that dates to the Hellenistic era, 323\u201333 B.C. \u2014 Rima Suqi, ELLE Decor , 13 June 2022",
"When read literally, and taken purely in context, an angel of the lord as seen in the Book of Revelations can be a hauntingly terrifying vampire. \u2014 Jennifer Maas, Variety , 31 May 2022",
"Shesterkin snagged the puck between his legs flailing, as if trying to make a snow angel late in the first period. \u2014 Aaron Beard, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 May 2022",
"After his deathbed repentance, he will, apparently, be absolved of all his sins and return as sort of a benevolent angel . \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English engel & Anglo-French angele ; both from Late Latin angelus , from Greek angelos , literally, messenger":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u0101n-j\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"dove",
"innocent",
"lamb",
"sheep"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130051",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"angel food cake":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a usually white sponge cake made of flour, sugar, and whites of eggs":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Other fail-safe options include pound cake, coffee cake, banana bread, angel food cake , even supermarket cake layers. \u2014 Kyle Beechey, Bon App\u00e9tit , 17 May 2022",
"Best Used For: Sponge cake, pound cake, layer cakes, angel food cake , and muffins. \u2014 Carmen Collins, Country Living , 19 Apr. 2022",
"This delicate, cloudlike cake is an adaptation of the classic angel food cake , using rice flour for regular flour so the cake is gluten-free, with a little crunch. \u2014 Ashley Dunne, Sunset Magazine , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The loads of sugar in an angel food cake give it a chewy and sponge-like texture. \u2014 Charlyne Mattox, Country Living , 21 Apr. 2022",
"But pound cake, angel food cake , cake baked at home or from box mix will all do. \u2014 Felicia Campbell, The Arizona Republic , 22 Dec. 2021",
"For the cake part, try poundcake, brownies, ladyfingers, angel food cake , or your favorite type of cake (just crumble or cube it first). \u2014 Alysha Witwicki, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 Dec. 2021",
"The strawberries and cream version ($12) features pickled berries, angel food cake and condensed milk. \u2014 Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Flavors of the Past: Naper Settlement will offer a tutorial on how to make a chocolate angel food cake at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 24, on its Facebook page. \u2014 Michelle Mullins, chicagotribune.com , 17 July 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1878, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-131026",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"angelic":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to angels":[
"angelic forms",
"For even they, the very devils, when they sinned, sinned by such a sin as alone was compatible with such angelical natures \u2026",
"\u2014 James Joyce",
"a sweet, angelic child",
"an angelic voice/smile",
"When women are brooding over their children, or busied in a sick-room, who has not seen in their faces those sweet angelic beams of love and pity?",
"\u2014 William Makepeace Thackeray",
"At 12, Westenra was busking on the streets of Christchurch, singing arias and Bee Gees tunes in an angelic soprano \u2026",
"\u2014 Joan Anderman"
],
": resembling, or suggestive of, an angel (as in purity, holiness, innocence, or beauty)":[
"angelic forms",
"For even they, the very devils, when they sinned, sinned by such a sin as alone was compatible with such angelical natures \u2026",
"\u2014 James Joyce",
"a sweet, angelic child",
"an angelic voice/smile",
"When women are brooding over their children, or busied in a sick-room, who has not seen in their faces those sweet angelic beams of love and pity?",
"\u2014 William Makepeace Thackeray",
"At 12, Westenra was busking on the streets of Christchurch, singing arias and Bee Gees tunes in an angelic soprano \u2026",
"\u2014 Joan Anderman"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8je-lik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041016",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"angelical":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to angels":[
"angelic forms",
"For even they, the very devils, when they sinned, sinned by such a sin as alone was compatible with such angelical natures \u2026",
"\u2014 James Joyce",
"a sweet, angelic child",
"an angelic voice/smile",
"When women are brooding over their children, or busied in a sick-room, who has not seen in their faces those sweet angelic beams of love and pity?",
"\u2014 William Makepeace Thackeray",
"At 12, Westenra was busking on the streets of Christchurch, singing arias and Bee Gees tunes in an angelic soprano \u2026",
"\u2014 Joan Anderman"
],
": resembling, or suggestive of, an angel (as in purity, holiness, innocence, or beauty)":[
"angelic forms",
"For even they, the very devils, when they sinned, sinned by such a sin as alone was compatible with such angelical natures \u2026",
"\u2014 James Joyce",
"a sweet, angelic child",
"an angelic voice/smile",
"When women are brooding over their children, or busied in a sick-room, who has not seen in their faces those sweet angelic beams of love and pity?",
"\u2014 William Makepeace Thackeray",
"At 12, Westenra was busking on the streets of Christchurch, singing arias and Bee Gees tunes in an angelic soprano \u2026",
"\u2014 Joan Anderman"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8je-lik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201429",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"anger":{
"antonyms":[
"enrage",
"incense",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"infuriate",
"ire",
"mad",
"madden",
"outrage",
"rankle",
"rile",
"roil",
"steam up",
"tick off"
],
"definitions":{
": a strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism (see antagonism sense 1b )":[
"You could hear the anger in his voice.",
"She found it hard to control her anger .",
"His mind had teemed with a hundred hurts and angers .",
"\u2014 Irving Wallace"
],
": a threatening or violent appearance or state : rage sense 2":[
"the sea's anger",
"Suddenly it was swept by a strong gust of wind \u2026 . New thunder, new anger came rolling over their heads.",
"\u2014 Rita Madocs"
],
": to become angry":[
"a man who angers easily"
],
": to make (someone) angry":[
"He was angered by the decision."
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"He couldn't hide his anger with us.",
"You could hear the anger in his voice.",
"The group expressed its anger over the company's arrogance.",
"He said that he had no anger towards the person who shot him.",
"He never raised his voice in anger .",
"She was shaking in anger .",
"Verb",
"They were shocked and angered by the company's arrogance.",
"He was angered to learn that he had been fired.",
"It angered me that she would say something like that.",
"He's a gentle man who's not easily angered .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"On the steps of the Utah Capitol, hundreds of protesters held signs to express their anger and fears Sunday evening. \u2014 Aaron Falk, The Salt Lake Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"Winker, during Sunday\u2019s scrum, later got in the face of Nevin, voicing his anger over the situation, then made an obscene gesture to the Angel Stadium crowd on his way off the field after getting ejected. \u2014 Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"Thousands marched in streets and gathered in squares to voice their anger and to urge lawmakers to take actions to support a woman\u2019s freedom of choice. \u2014 Alan Taylor, The Atlantic , 26 June 2022",
"Can Democrats channel their anger and frustration to win elections and pull even with Republicans for this November? \u2014 NBC News , 26 June 2022",
"Several candidates cite their anger over district mask mandates, which were banned by the Legislature in November, as a motivation for entering the race. \u2014 Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel , 24 June 2022",
"With Hitler marching on Europe, Joe and Sam channel their anger , fear and helplessness into developing the comic book superhero the Escapist. \u2014 Alice Mcdermott, New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"My anger is not at Alex & Celsius but at the short sellers. \u2014 Rachel Lerman, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"But too many of them have let their anger get the better of them. \u2014 Robert H. Bork Jr., National Review , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The decision, Trump has told friends and advisers, will anger suburban women, a group who helped tilt the 2020 presidential race to Joe Biden, and will lead to a backlash against Republicans in the November midterm elections. \u2014 Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"For example, Hollywood is careful not to anger China due to the huge market the country represents, willingly censoring its movies to maintain access to the Chinese box office. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Singleton said employees in his department have experienced a range of emotions from concern for Vicky's well-being to anger over her alleged actions. \u2014 Lorraine Taylor, Fox News , 10 May 2022",
"The charges of illegality leveled at Mr. Putin for the invasion of a sovereign country are certain to anger the Russian president. \u2014 New York Times , 8 May 2022",
"Doing their damnedest not only to be increasingly irrelevant and invisible but to actually anger their most loyal fans. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Breaking with the past will anger powerful constituencies in Mr. Biden\u2019s administration. \u2014 Robert B. Zoellick, WSJ , 22 May 2022",
"While Paul coasts by for a while under the mistaken assurance that his mother Esther (Hathaway) has authority over Turkey in her role as PTA president, his smart mouth and openly defiant attitudes frequently anger both of his parents. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"The summit, which is held every three or four years, is being convened in the United States for the first time since its 1994 inaugural session, and the Biden administration\u2019s decision is likely to anger several other countries. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English anger, angre \"distress, affliction, hostile attitude, strong displeasure,\" borrowed from Old Norse angr \"grief, vexation,\" going back to Germanic *angaza-, from an Indo-European s-stem *h 2 em\u01f5 h -es-/*h 2 em\u01f5 h -os- (whence Latin angor \"suffocation, anguish,\" Sanskrit \u00e1\u1e41ha\u1e25 \"anxiety, trouble,\" Avestan \u0105zah- ), derivatives of a verbal base *h 2 em\u01f5 h - \"constrict, narrow,\" whence Latin ang\u014d, angere \"to choke, cause pain to, afflict, vex,\" Greek \u00e1nch\u014d, \u00e1nchein \"to squeeze, strangle,\" Hittite \u1e2bamanki \"(s/he) ties, binds\"; also from the base *h 2 em\u01f5 h - an adjective derivative *h 2 em\u01f5 h -u- \"narrow,\" whence Germanic *angu- (> *angwu-, angwja-, whence Old English enge \"narrow,\" ange \"distressing,\" Old Saxon & Old High German engi \"narrow,\" Old High German ango \"anxious,\" Old Norse \u01ebngr, \u00f8ngr, Gothic aggwus ), Old Irish cum ung \"narrow,\" Welsh cyf yng, Old Church Slavic \u01ebz\u016dk\u016d, Polish w\u0105zki, Armenian anjuk (Slavic & Armenian with a velar suffix), Sanskrit a\u1e41h\u00fa\u1e25":"Noun",
"Middle English angren \"to be anxious, grieve, be vexed, irritate, afflict,\" probably in part derivative of anger, angre anger entry 1 , in part borrowed from Old Norse angra \"to grieve, vex,\" derivative of angr \"grief, vexation\"":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a\u014b-g\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for anger Noun anger , ire , rage , fury , indignation , wrath mean an intense emotional state induced by displeasure. anger , the most general term, names the reaction but by itself does not convey cause or intensity. tried to hide his anger ire , more frequent in literary contexts, suggests an intense anger, often with an evident display of feeling. cheeks flushed with ire rage and fury suggest loss of self-control from violence of emotion. shook with rage could not contain his fury indignation stresses righteous anger at what one considers unfair, mean, or shameful. a comment that caused general indignation wrath is likely to suggest a desire or intent to punish or get revenge. I feared her wrath if I was discovered",
"synonyms":[
"angriness",
"birse",
"choler",
"furor",
"fury",
"indignation",
"irateness",
"ire",
"lividity",
"lividness",
"mad",
"madness",
"mood",
"outrage",
"rage",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"wrathfulness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190736",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"angered":{
"antonyms":[
"enrage",
"incense",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"infuriate",
"ire",
"mad",
"madden",
"outrage",
"rankle",
"rile",
"roil",
"steam up",
"tick off"
],
"definitions":{
": a strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism (see antagonism sense 1b )":[
"You could hear the anger in his voice.",
"She found it hard to control her anger .",
"His mind had teemed with a hundred hurts and angers .",
"\u2014 Irving Wallace"
],
": a threatening or violent appearance or state : rage sense 2":[
"the sea's anger",
"Suddenly it was swept by a strong gust of wind \u2026 . New thunder, new anger came rolling over their heads.",
"\u2014 Rita Madocs"
],
": to become angry":[
"a man who angers easily"
],
": to make (someone) angry":[
"He was angered by the decision."
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"He couldn't hide his anger with us.",
"You could hear the anger in his voice.",
"The group expressed its anger over the company's arrogance.",
"He said that he had no anger towards the person who shot him.",
"He never raised his voice in anger .",
"She was shaking in anger .",
"Verb",
"They were shocked and angered by the company's arrogance.",
"He was angered to learn that he had been fired.",
"It angered me that she would say something like that.",
"He's a gentle man who's not easily angered .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"On the steps of the Utah Capitol, hundreds of protesters held signs to express their anger and fears Sunday evening. \u2014 Aaron Falk, The Salt Lake Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"Winker, during Sunday\u2019s scrum, later got in the face of Nevin, voicing his anger over the situation, then made an obscene gesture to the Angel Stadium crowd on his way off the field after getting ejected. \u2014 Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"Thousands marched in streets and gathered in squares to voice their anger and to urge lawmakers to take actions to support a woman\u2019s freedom of choice. \u2014 Alan Taylor, The Atlantic , 26 June 2022",
"Can Democrats channel their anger and frustration to win elections and pull even with Republicans for this November? \u2014 NBC News , 26 June 2022",
"Several candidates cite their anger over district mask mandates, which were banned by the Legislature in November, as a motivation for entering the race. \u2014 Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel , 24 June 2022",
"With Hitler marching on Europe, Joe and Sam channel their anger , fear and helplessness into developing the comic book superhero the Escapist. \u2014 Alice Mcdermott, New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"My anger is not at Alex & Celsius but at the short sellers. \u2014 Rachel Lerman, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"But too many of them have let their anger get the better of them. \u2014 Robert H. Bork Jr., National Review , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The decision, Trump has told friends and advisers, will anger suburban women, a group who helped tilt the 2020 presidential race to Joe Biden, and will lead to a backlash against Republicans in the November midterm elections. \u2014 Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"For example, Hollywood is careful not to anger China due to the huge market the country represents, willingly censoring its movies to maintain access to the Chinese box office. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Singleton said employees in his department have experienced a range of emotions from concern for Vicky's well-being to anger over her alleged actions. \u2014 Lorraine Taylor, Fox News , 10 May 2022",
"The charges of illegality leveled at Mr. Putin for the invasion of a sovereign country are certain to anger the Russian president. \u2014 New York Times , 8 May 2022",
"Doing their damnedest not only to be increasingly irrelevant and invisible but to actually anger their most loyal fans. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Breaking with the past will anger powerful constituencies in Mr. Biden\u2019s administration. \u2014 Robert B. Zoellick, WSJ , 22 May 2022",
"While Paul coasts by for a while under the mistaken assurance that his mother Esther (Hathaway) has authority over Turkey in her role as PTA president, his smart mouth and openly defiant attitudes frequently anger both of his parents. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"The summit, which is held every three or four years, is being convened in the United States for the first time since its 1994 inaugural session, and the Biden administration\u2019s decision is likely to anger several other countries. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English anger, angre \"distress, affliction, hostile attitude, strong displeasure,\" borrowed from Old Norse angr \"grief, vexation,\" going back to Germanic *angaza-, from an Indo-European s-stem *h 2 em\u01f5 h -es-/*h 2 em\u01f5 h -os- (whence Latin angor \"suffocation, anguish,\" Sanskrit \u00e1\u1e41ha\u1e25 \"anxiety, trouble,\" Avestan \u0105zah- ), derivatives of a verbal base *h 2 em\u01f5 h - \"constrict, narrow,\" whence Latin ang\u014d, angere \"to choke, cause pain to, afflict, vex,\" Greek \u00e1nch\u014d, \u00e1nchein \"to squeeze, strangle,\" Hittite \u1e2bamanki \"(s/he) ties, binds\"; also from the base *h 2 em\u01f5 h - an adjective derivative *h 2 em\u01f5 h -u- \"narrow,\" whence Germanic *angu- (> *angwu-, angwja-, whence Old English enge \"narrow,\" ange \"distressing,\" Old Saxon & Old High German engi \"narrow,\" Old High German ango \"anxious,\" Old Norse \u01ebngr, \u00f8ngr, Gothic aggwus ), Old Irish cum ung \"narrow,\" Welsh cyf yng, Old Church Slavic \u01ebz\u016dk\u016d, Polish w\u0105zki, Armenian anjuk (Slavic & Armenian with a velar suffix), Sanskrit a\u1e41h\u00fa\u1e25":"Noun",
"Middle English angren \"to be anxious, grieve, be vexed, irritate, afflict,\" probably in part derivative of anger, angre anger entry 1 , in part borrowed from Old Norse angra \"to grieve, vex,\" derivative of angr \"grief, vexation\"":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a\u014b-g\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for anger Noun anger , ire , rage , fury , indignation , wrath mean an intense emotional state induced by displeasure. anger , the most general term, names the reaction but by itself does not convey cause or intensity. tried to hide his anger ire , more frequent in literary contexts, suggests an intense anger, often with an evident display of feeling. cheeks flushed with ire rage and fury suggest loss of self-control from violence of emotion. shook with rage could not contain his fury indignation stresses righteous anger at what one considers unfair, mean, or shameful. a comment that caused general indignation wrath is likely to suggest a desire or intent to punish or get revenge. I feared her wrath if I was discovered",
"synonyms":[
"angriness",
"birse",
"choler",
"furor",
"fury",
"indignation",
"irateness",
"ire",
"lividity",
"lividness",
"mad",
"madness",
"mood",
"outrage",
"rage",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"wrathfulness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-100623",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"angerless":{
"antonyms":[
"enrage",
"incense",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"infuriate",
"ire",
"mad",
"madden",
"outrage",
"rankle",
"rile",
"roil",
"steam up",
"tick off"
],
"definitions":{
": a strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism (see antagonism sense 1b )":[
"You could hear the anger in his voice.",
"She found it hard to control her anger .",
"His mind had teemed with a hundred hurts and angers .",
"\u2014 Irving Wallace"
],
": a threatening or violent appearance or state : rage sense 2":[
"the sea's anger",
"Suddenly it was swept by a strong gust of wind \u2026 . New thunder, new anger came rolling over their heads.",
"\u2014 Rita Madocs"
],
": to become angry":[
"a man who angers easily"
],
": to make (someone) angry":[
"He was angered by the decision."
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"He couldn't hide his anger with us.",
"You could hear the anger in his voice.",
"The group expressed its anger over the company's arrogance.",
"He said that he had no anger towards the person who shot him.",
"He never raised his voice in anger .",
"She was shaking in anger .",
"Verb",
"They were shocked and angered by the company's arrogance.",
"He was angered to learn that he had been fired.",
"It angered me that she would say something like that.",
"He's a gentle man who's not easily angered .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"On the steps of the Utah Capitol, hundreds of protesters held signs to express their anger and fears Sunday evening. \u2014 Aaron Falk, The Salt Lake Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"Winker, during Sunday\u2019s scrum, later got in the face of Nevin, voicing his anger over the situation, then made an obscene gesture to the Angel Stadium crowd on his way off the field after getting ejected. \u2014 Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"Thousands marched in streets and gathered in squares to voice their anger and to urge lawmakers to take actions to support a woman\u2019s freedom of choice. \u2014 Alan Taylor, The Atlantic , 26 June 2022",
"Can Democrats channel their anger and frustration to win elections and pull even with Republicans for this November? \u2014 NBC News , 26 June 2022",
"Several candidates cite their anger over district mask mandates, which were banned by the Legislature in November, as a motivation for entering the race. \u2014 Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel , 24 June 2022",
"With Hitler marching on Europe, Joe and Sam channel their anger , fear and helplessness into developing the comic book superhero the Escapist. \u2014 Alice Mcdermott, New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"My anger is not at Alex & Celsius but at the short sellers. \u2014 Rachel Lerman, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"But too many of them have let their anger get the better of them. \u2014 Robert H. Bork Jr., National Review , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The decision, Trump has told friends and advisers, will anger suburban women, a group who helped tilt the 2020 presidential race to Joe Biden, and will lead to a backlash against Republicans in the November midterm elections. \u2014 Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"For example, Hollywood is careful not to anger China due to the huge market the country represents, willingly censoring its movies to maintain access to the Chinese box office. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Singleton said employees in his department have experienced a range of emotions from concern for Vicky's well-being to anger over her alleged actions. \u2014 Lorraine Taylor, Fox News , 10 May 2022",
"The charges of illegality leveled at Mr. Putin for the invasion of a sovereign country are certain to anger the Russian president. \u2014 New York Times , 8 May 2022",
"Doing their damnedest not only to be increasingly irrelevant and invisible but to actually anger their most loyal fans. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Breaking with the past will anger powerful constituencies in Mr. Biden\u2019s administration. \u2014 Robert B. Zoellick, WSJ , 22 May 2022",
"While Paul coasts by for a while under the mistaken assurance that his mother Esther (Hathaway) has authority over Turkey in her role as PTA president, his smart mouth and openly defiant attitudes frequently anger both of his parents. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"The summit, which is held every three or four years, is being convened in the United States for the first time since its 1994 inaugural session, and the Biden administration\u2019s decision is likely to anger several other countries. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English anger, angre \"distress, affliction, hostile attitude, strong displeasure,\" borrowed from Old Norse angr \"grief, vexation,\" going back to Germanic *angaza-, from an Indo-European s-stem *h 2 em\u01f5 h -es-/*h 2 em\u01f5 h -os- (whence Latin angor \"suffocation, anguish,\" Sanskrit \u00e1\u1e41ha\u1e25 \"anxiety, trouble,\" Avestan \u0105zah- ), derivatives of a verbal base *h 2 em\u01f5 h - \"constrict, narrow,\" whence Latin ang\u014d, angere \"to choke, cause pain to, afflict, vex,\" Greek \u00e1nch\u014d, \u00e1nchein \"to squeeze, strangle,\" Hittite \u1e2bamanki \"(s/he) ties, binds\"; also from the base *h 2 em\u01f5 h - an adjective derivative *h 2 em\u01f5 h -u- \"narrow,\" whence Germanic *angu- (> *angwu-, angwja-, whence Old English enge \"narrow,\" ange \"distressing,\" Old Saxon & Old High German engi \"narrow,\" Old High German ango \"anxious,\" Old Norse \u01ebngr, \u00f8ngr, Gothic aggwus ), Old Irish cum ung \"narrow,\" Welsh cyf yng, Old Church Slavic \u01ebz\u016dk\u016d, Polish w\u0105zki, Armenian anjuk (Slavic & Armenian with a velar suffix), Sanskrit a\u1e41h\u00fa\u1e25":"Noun",
"Middle English angren \"to be anxious, grieve, be vexed, irritate, afflict,\" probably in part derivative of anger, angre anger entry 1 , in part borrowed from Old Norse angra \"to grieve, vex,\" derivative of angr \"grief, vexation\"":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a\u014b-g\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for anger Noun anger , ire , rage , fury , indignation , wrath mean an intense emotional state induced by displeasure. anger , the most general term, names the reaction but by itself does not convey cause or intensity. tried to hide his anger ire , more frequent in literary contexts, suggests an intense anger, often with an evident display of feeling. cheeks flushed with ire rage and fury suggest loss of self-control from violence of emotion. shook with rage could not contain his fury indignation stresses righteous anger at what one considers unfair, mean, or shameful. a comment that caused general indignation wrath is likely to suggest a desire or intent to punish or get revenge. I feared her wrath if I was discovered",
"synonyms":[
"angriness",
"birse",
"choler",
"furor",
"fury",
"indignation",
"irateness",
"ire",
"lividity",
"lividness",
"mad",
"madness",
"mood",
"outrage",
"rage",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"wrathfulness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094549",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"angle":{
"antonyms":[
"cant",
"cock",
"heel",
"incline",
"lean",
"list",
"pitch",
"slant",
"slope",
"tilt",
"tip"
],
"definitions":{
": a corner whether constituting a projecting part or a partially enclosed space":[
"They sheltered in an angle of the building."
],
": a measure of an angle or of the amount of turning necessary to bring one line or plane into coincidence with or parallel to another":[],
": a member of a Germanic people that invaded England along with the Saxons and Jutes in the fifth century a.d. and merged with them to form the Anglo-Saxon peoples":[],
": a sharply divergent course":[
"The road went off at an angle ."
],
": a special approach, point of attack, or technique for accomplishing an objective":[
"try a new angle"
],
": an often improper or illicit method of obtaining advantage":[
"a salesman always looking for an angle"
],
": the direction from which someone or something is approached":[
"soldiers being attacked from every angle",
"a football player trying to get an angle on an opponent [=approach an opponent from an effective angle]"
],
": to fish with a hook":[],
": to present (something, such as a news story) from a particular or prejudiced point of view : slant":[
"angled stories toward the newspaper's political preferences"
],
": to turn or proceed at an angle":[
"The road angles up the hill."
],
": to turn, move, or direct at an angle":[
"slipped the key in and angled it to one side"
],
": to use artful means to attain an objective":[
"angled for an invitation"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun (1)",
"The lines are at sharp angles to each other.",
"Critics love the clever camera angles the director used in the film.",
"She took pictures of the same scene from several different angles .",
"The soldiers were being attacked from every angle .",
"We need to approach the problem from a new angle .",
"They considered the question from all angles .",
"The reporter tried to work that angle into his story.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Republicans are pushing a bigger point: As financial technology start-ups angle to compete with traditional banks, the Fed needs to explain its standards for doling out access to its payment rails. \u2014 Tory Newmyer, Washington Post , 3 July 2022",
"Mars enters your relationship angle for the rest of July on the 5th and this means that others are likely to be a bit more feisty, testing your ability not to overreact. \u2014 Katharine Merlin, Town & Country , 1 July 2022",
"Your upper arm angle should now hit about 90 degrees. \u2014 Jeff Tomko, Men's Health , 23 June 2022",
"Nowadays, most serious golfers are heavily dialed into data, fixating over their launch angle , club speed, spin rate and other key metrics launch monitors spit out. \u2014 Mike Dojc, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"That is your angle for foul balls from right-handed batters. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 10 May 2022",
"So my angle was more the names and also making fun of myself. \u2014 Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter , 6 May 2022",
"Last season, Sanmartin lowered his arm angle , developed his changeup and saw his strikeout rate spike. \u2014 Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer , 28 Mar. 2022",
"But the former Defensive Player of the Year slides his feet and cuts off his angle to the rim. \u2014 C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Meta faces stiff competition in the AR/VR hardware race, as Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and others angle to pioneer the market. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
"At that point, photographers had no choice but to teach their classmates how to take a selfie worthy of a yearbook portrait, directing them over Zoom how to angle their bodies and perfectly capture the light with their phones. \u2014 Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times , 22 May 2021",
"From inspiration research to lighting diagrams, to clothing boards, to angle preferences, to toning, to image selection, to retouching and arriving at that final product. \u2014 Malik Peay, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Aaron Dominguez as Oscar, Gomez\u2019s love interest, was submitted for supporting actor, and Amy Ryan as Jan, Martin\u2019s love, will angle for supporting actress. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 16 May 2022",
"Many flared designs angle the brake/shift levers into a position they weren\u2019t designed for, negating their ergonomic benefits and occasionally creating pressure points on the rider\u2019s palms. \u2014 Josh Patterson, Outside Online , 28 Sep. 2020",
"April 1\u2014April 15: The good news is that Venus\u2014the most harmonious planet of all\u2014will be entering your partnership angle on the 5th, sweetening your relationships. \u2014 Katharine Merlin, Town & Country , 1 Apr. 2022",
"At the same time, Patricia Arquette, John Turturro, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman and Jen Tullock will angle for supporting drama attention. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 11 Apr. 2022",
"The barrier would be offset behind the existing walls by 4 to 8 inches and angle outward slightly. \u2014 John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Meta faces stiff competition in the AR/VR hardware race, as Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and others angle to pioneer the market. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
"Many flared designs angle the brake/shift levers into a position they weren\u2019t designed for, negating their ergonomic benefits and occasionally creating pressure points on the rider\u2019s palms. \u2014 Josh Patterson, Outside Online , 28 Sep. 2020",
"Layered on top of each other, these sprints angle the organization towards long-term change and transformation. \u2014 Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"April 1\u2014April 15: The good news is that Venus\u2014the most harmonious planet of all\u2014will be entering your partnership angle on the 5th, sweetening your relationships. \u2014 Katharine Merlin, Town & Country , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Aaron Dominguez as Oscar, Gomez\u2019s love interest, was submitted for supporting actor, and Amy Ryan as Jan, Martin\u2019s love, will angle for supporting actress. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 16 May 2022",
"At the same time, Patricia Arquette, John Turturro, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman and Jen Tullock will angle for supporting drama attention. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 11 Apr. 2022",
"From inspiration research to lighting diagrams, to clothing boards, to angle preferences, to toning, to image selection, to retouching and arriving at that final product. \u2014 Malik Peay, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The barrier would be offset behind the existing walls by 4 to 8 inches and angle outward slightly. \u2014 John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin Angli , plural, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English Engle Angles":"Noun",
"Middle English anglen \"to meet at an angle,\" derivative of angle angle entry 1":"Verb",
"Middle English anglen, derivative of angel \"fishhook,\" going back to Old English angel, ongel, going back to Germanic *angula- \"hook, barb\" (whence also Old Saxon angul \"fishhook,\" Old High German, \"hook, barb,\" Old Norse \u01ebngull \"fishhook\"), going back to Indo-European *h 2 enk-ul-\u00f3-, derivative, perhaps diminutive, of a base *h 2 enk- seen also in the n-stem noun *h 2 enk-\u00f3n- (whence Old English anga \"prick, goad,\" Old High German ango \"sting, barb, door hinge,\" Greek ank\u1e53n \"bend, elbow\"), suffixed in Greek ank\u00fdlos \"bent, crooked, curved,\" and as an o-grade derivative in Greek \u00f3nkos \"barb of an arrow,\" Latin uncus \"curved at the extremities, hooked, a hook,\" and probably Sanskrit a\u1e45k\u00e1\u1e25 \"curve, hook\"; *h 2 enk- perhaps attested as a primary verb in Sanskrit \u00e1\u00f1cati, \u00e1cati \"(it) bends, curves\"":"Verb",
"Middle English, \"corner, recess, two lines extending from the same point,\" borrowed from Anglo-French angle, aungle, going back to Latin angulus \"two lines extending from the same point, corner, nook,\" going back to Indo-European *h 2 eng-lo-, *h 2 eng-elo-, whence also Old Church Slavic \u01ebg\u016dl\u016d \"corner, angle,\" Russian \u00fagol, genitive ugl\u00e1, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian \u0215gao, \u0215gla, Armenian ankiwn, and perhaps Germanic *ankula-, *ankila- ankle":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a\u014b-g\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"aspect",
"facet",
"hand",
"phase",
"side"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064839",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"angriness":{
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
],
"definitions":{
": feeling or showing anger":[
"an angry crowd"
],
": indicative of or proceeding from anger":[
"angry words"
],
": painfully inflamed":[
"an angry rash"
],
": seeming to show anger or to threaten in an angry manner":[
"an angry sky"
]
},
"examples":[
"I've never seen her look so angry .",
"An angry crowd gathered outside the courthouse.",
"I was angry that he had forgotten my birthday.",
"What made you so angry ?",
"He got angry when he found out about their plans.",
"He sent an angry letter to the company president.",
"They had an argument and exchanged some angry words.",
"She gave me an angry look.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hungry people can be angry people, and the rising price of food or fuel have led to coups throughout history. \u2014 Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"Ugenti-Rita, who was armed with scissors during the attack, claims the angry rioters were trying to kick in the doors of the building, but ultimately, law enforcement was able to quell the mob with tear gas. \u2014 Fox News , 27 June 2022",
"In a major incident last year, a cyberattack on Iran's fuel distribution paralyzed gas stations across the country, leading to long lines of angry motorists. \u2014 Isabel Debre, ajc , 27 June 2022",
"The mayor\u2019s comments drew an angry rebuke from controversial FOP president John Catanzara, who said in a statement that the city\u2019s policy of canceling days off is unsustainable and harming officers\u2019 well-being. \u2014 Gregory Pratt, Chicago Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"In the ensuing weeks, several sweeps at the site devolved into angry standoffs between city workers, residents, and community activists. \u2014 Eric Lach, The New Yorker , 23 June 2022",
"But Donoghue said Rosen got angry when Clark requested a classified briefing about allegations the Chinese had internet access to U.S. voting machines through smart thermostats. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"Fake electors, angry bees, naked pictures of Mary Todd Lincoln. \u2014 Isaac Yu, Journal Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
"But as the war grinds on, what makes some Ukrainians especially angry is the lack of basic military equipment for those on the front lines. \u2014 Lauren Egan, NBC News , 23 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, \"ill-tempered, resentful, incensed, vexing,\" from anger, angre \"distress, affliction, hostile attitude, strong displeasure\" + -y -y entry 1 \u2014 more at anger entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a\u014b-gr\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriate",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-233351",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"angry":{
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
],
"definitions":{
": feeling or showing anger":[
"an angry crowd"
],
": indicative of or proceeding from anger":[
"angry words"
],
": painfully inflamed":[
"an angry rash"
],
": seeming to show anger or to threaten in an angry manner":[
"an angry sky"
]
},
"examples":[
"I've never seen her look so angry .",
"An angry crowd gathered outside the courthouse.",
"I was angry that he had forgotten my birthday.",
"What made you so angry ?",
"He got angry when he found out about their plans.",
"He sent an angry letter to the company president.",
"They had an argument and exchanged some angry words.",
"She gave me an angry look.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hungry people can be angry people, and the rising price of food or fuel have led to coups throughout history. \u2014 Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"Ugenti-Rita, who was armed with scissors during the attack, claims the angry rioters were trying to kick in the doors of the building, but ultimately, law enforcement was able to quell the mob with tear gas. \u2014 Fox News , 27 June 2022",
"In a major incident last year, a cyberattack on Iran's fuel distribution paralyzed gas stations across the country, leading to long lines of angry motorists. \u2014 Isabel Debre, ajc , 27 June 2022",
"The mayor\u2019s comments drew an angry rebuke from controversial FOP president John Catanzara, who said in a statement that the city\u2019s policy of canceling days off is unsustainable and harming officers\u2019 well-being. \u2014 Gregory Pratt, Chicago Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"In the ensuing weeks, several sweeps at the site devolved into angry standoffs between city workers, residents, and community activists. \u2014 Eric Lach, The New Yorker , 23 June 2022",
"But Donoghue said Rosen got angry when Clark requested a classified briefing about allegations the Chinese had internet access to U.S. voting machines through smart thermostats. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"Fake electors, angry bees, naked pictures of Mary Todd Lincoln. \u2014 Isaac Yu, Journal Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
"But as the war grinds on, what makes some Ukrainians especially angry is the lack of basic military equipment for those on the front lines. \u2014 Lauren Egan, NBC News , 23 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, \"ill-tempered, resentful, incensed, vexing,\" from anger, angre \"distress, affliction, hostile attitude, strong displeasure\" + -y -y entry 1 \u2014 more at anger entry 1":""
},
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"\u02c8a\u014b-gr\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriate",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth"
],
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"anguish":{
"antonyms":[
"afflict",
"agonize",
"bedevil",
"beset",
"besiege",
"curse",
"excruciate",
"harrow",
"persecute",
"plague",
"rack",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"definitions":{
": extreme pain, distress, or anxiety":[
"cries of anguish",
"mental anguish"
],
": to cause to suffer anguish":[
"a heart that had been anguished with sorrow"
],
": to suffer anguish":[
"He anguished over his failure."
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"He experienced the anguish of divorce after 10 years of marriage.",
"They watched in anguish as fire spread through the house.",
"Verb",
"she was anguished by the fear that her sons would die in the war",
"I anguished over the loss of my father for years afterwards.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That all changes on October 1, 1989, when Sissy dies in the hospital \u2014 Harlan lets out a wild energy wave in anguish , making everything around him explode. \u2014 Maggie Fremont, EW.com , 22 June 2022",
"As fellow members spoke, Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., stood alongside colleagues in solidarity, her face a study in anguish . \u2014 Donna M. Owens, NBC News , 8 June 2022",
"The deadly mass shooting at a Texas elementary school yesterday left the nation grieving and in anguish -- once again -- about gun violence in the US. \u2014 Alexandra Meeks, CNN , 25 May 2022",
"On Wednesday, their deaths united Uvalde in anguish as families began to grapple with the toll of the deadliest school massacre since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., 10 years ago. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
"After all, how does one reconcile supporting a nation in anguish with the knowledge that the same nation exacts harm against you? \u2014 Nicole Phillip, The Week , 6 Mar. 2022",
"But separated by more than 5,000 miles, many ethnic Ukrainians have watched in anguish as their friends and relatives suffer under wartime conditions. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 Mar. 2022",
"For the past week, fans of Stepan, a 13-year-old, black and brown striped rescue cat based in Kharkiv, Ukraine, have been in anguish . \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Relatives of the Lorenzos, including Crowder, are in anguish . \u2014 Jared Kofsky, ABC News , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Many of you expressed sorrow and anguish over the needless death and the sheer number of mass shootings, more than 200 so far this year alone. \u2014 Christina Prignano, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"The characters are nearly unrecognizable, anguish on their faces, the hostility of the attack quite palpable. \u2014 Holly Jones, Variety , 9 May 2022",
"The new disclosures prompted outrage in other world capitals as well \u2013 and anguish among the Uyghur diaspora. \u2014 Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY , 24 May 2022",
"Californians and all Americans join the Sacramento community in horror and anguish over this morning\u2019s mass shooting. \u2014 Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 Apr. 2022",
"One decision the AMPAS board of 1953 did not have to anguish over was the selection of the host: the availability of stand-up comedian and radio and film superstar Bob Hope made life easy. \u2014 Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 Mar. 2022",
"The case has generated protests, questions about police tactics, and anguish for family and friends. \u2014 Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Once the family\u2019s home from the outing, joviality quickly gives way to anguish as it is determined that Aunt Patrizia, a victim of physical abuse, must be institutionalized. \u2014 Bob Verini, Variety , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Overcome with guilt about the fight with Kenji that preceded his death and anguish about her troubled son, Annabelle gains a great deal of weight, and her collecting and hoarding tendencies become major problems. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 Sep. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English angoise, angwissche, borrowed from Anglo-French anguisse, angoisse, going back to Latin angustia (usually in plural angustiae ) \"narrowness, narrow passage, limitations, straits\" (Late Latin, \"suffering, distress\"), noun derivative (with -ia -y entry 2 ), of angustus \"narrow, confined, straitened,\" probably from *angos- (whence ang\u014dr-, angor \"suffocation, anguish\") + *-to-, adjective suffix \u2014 more at anger entry 1":"Noun",
"Middle English anguisen, anguischen \"to grieve, be distressed,\" borrowed from Anglo-French anguisser, angoisser \"to distress, cause pain to, (as reflexive verb) suffer, be tormented,\" going back to Late Latin angusti\u0101re \"to compress, afflict, be in difficult circumstances,\" derivative of Latin angustia \"narrowness, straits\" \u2014 more at anguish entry 1":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a\u014b-gwish"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for anguish Noun sorrow , grief , anguish , woe , regret mean distress of mind. sorrow implies a sense of loss or a sense of guilt and remorse. a family united in sorrow upon the patriarch's death grief implies poignant sorrow for an immediate cause. the inexpressible grief of the bereaved parents anguish suggests torturing grief or dread. the anguish felt by the parents of the kidnapped child woe is deep or inconsolable grief or misery. cries of woe echoed throughout the bombed city regret implies pain caused by deep disappointment, fruitless longing, or unavailing remorse. nagging regret for missed opportunities",
"synonyms":[
"affliction",
"agony",
"distress",
"excruciation",
"hurt",
"misery",
"pain",
"rack",
"strait(s)",
"torment",
"torture",
"travail",
"tribulation",
"woe"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095229",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"anguished":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": expressing anguish : agonized":[
"anguished cries"
],
": suffering anguish : tormented":[
"the anguished martyrs"
]
},
"examples":[
"the military's explanation of the accident did nothing to console the anguished widow",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Visiting Uvalde on Sunday, Biden mourned privately for three-plus hours with anguished families. \u2014 Will Weissert, Zeke Miller, Anchorage Daily News , 3 June 2022",
"Visiting Uvalde on Sunday, Biden mourned privately for three-plus hours with anguished families. \u2014 Will Weissert And Zeke Miller, Chron , 2 June 2022",
"Visiting Uvalde on Sunday, Biden mourned privately for three-plus hours with anguished families. \u2014 Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune , 2 June 2022",
"Visiting Uvalde on Sunday, Biden mourned privately for three-plus hours with anguished families. \u2014 Will Weissert, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"An anguished soul-searching over Texas\u2019 gun culture and permissive gun laws is unfolding across the latest community to be shattered by a shooter\u2019s rampage. \u2014 New York Times , 29 May 2022",
"An anguished soul-searching over Texas\u2019 gun culture and permissive gun laws is unfolding across the latest community to be shattered by a shooter\u2019s rampage. \u2014 New York Times , 28 May 2022",
"By The Associated Press Lamenting a uniquely American tragedy, an anguished and angry President Joe Biden delivered an urgent call for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman shot and killed at least 19 children at a Texas elementary school. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 May 2022",
"From one day to the next, the advice to remain sensible and not panic sounds more and more anguished . \u2014 Emmanuel Carr\u00e8re, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1570, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English anguysched, from past participle of anguischen \"to anguish entry 2 \"":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a\u014b-gwisht"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"aching",
"agonized",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"bitter",
"deploring",
"doleful",
"dolesome",
"dolorous",
"funeral",
"grieving",
"heartbroken",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"plangent",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"woeful"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232828",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"angular acceleration":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the rate of change per unit time of angular velocity":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There are two more things to think about: torque and angular acceleration . \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 16 Nov. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1745, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112644",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"angwantibo":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a small lemur ( Arctocebus calabarensis ) of western Africa having a rather long snout and a rudimentary tail":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1862, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably borrowed from Efik (exact form unknown)":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"a\u014b\u02c8(g)w\u00e4nt\u0259\u02ccb\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103205",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anh":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"anhydrous":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104825",
"type":[
"abbreviation"
]
},
"animal":{
"antonyms":[
"bodily",
"carnal",
"corporal",
"corporeal",
"fleshly",
"material",
"physical",
"somatic"
],
"definitions":{
": a person with a particular interest or aptitude":[
"a political animal",
"He's a party animal ."
],
": any of a kingdom (Animalia) of living things including many-celled organisms and often many of the single-celled ones (such as protozoans ) that typically differ from plants in having cells without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for photosynthesis , in requiring more complex food materials (such as proteins ), in being organized to a greater degree of complexity, and in having the capacity for spontaneous movement and rapid motor responses to stimulation":[],
": of or relating to the animal pole of an egg or to the part from which ectoderm normally develops":[],
": of or relating to the physical or sentient as contrasted with the intellectual or rational":[],
": of, relating to, resembling, or derived from animals":[
"animal instincts",
"animal behavior"
],
": one of the lower animals (see lower entry 3 sense 3 ) as distinguished from human beings":[],
": sensual , fleshly":[
"indulged his animal appetites"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"the animals in the zoo",
"the plants and animals of the forest",
"She loves all kinds of animals .",
"Fish, birds, insects, reptiles, mammals, and human beings are all animals .",
"You're all behaving like a bunch of animals .",
"Adjective",
"several different plant and animal species",
"milk, meat, and other animal products",
"People were shocked by the animal brutality of the attack.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Ba subverts heteronormative constructs of beauty, femininity, and sexuality, depicted her human and animal subjects is sometimes surreal settings that challenge traditional notions of nature. \u2014 Natasha Gural, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Plant and animal species that live in and along the river have adapted to the ecological conditions of this flood pulse and thrive because of it. \u2014 Jim Robbins, Wired , 25 June 2022",
"That this animal , nicknamed Fred, might have had his own biography is betrayed only by the ominous hole on the underside of his skull. \u2014 Peter Brannen, The Atlantic , 22 June 2022",
"Beach samples are analyzed for three fecal-indicator bacteria that show pollution from numerous sources, including human and animal waste. \u2014 Rosanna Xiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
"Djinn can also take on human or animal form and can possess inanimate objects. \u2014 Milan Polk, Men's Health , 22 June 2022",
"The larger of the current outbreaks began in early May, apparently triggered by a U.K. traveler\u2019s exposure to an infected person or animal in Nigeria. \u2014 David Axe, Rolling Stone , 12 June 2022",
"In Gaydos\u2019s soft and honest delivery, the struggles and joys of life \u2014 plant, human, animal \u2014 come across as neither graphic nor gratuitous, but simply real. \u2014 Sebastian Modak, New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"Paleoclimatologists can learn about past climates by looking at tree rings, ice cores, and mineral and element compositions in sediment core samples as well analyzing plant and animal remains. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Eggs made from peas, burgers made from kelp, milk made with non- animal whey protein. \u2014 Larissa Zimberoff, Bon App\u00e9tit , 16 June 2022",
"Sponsor company volunteering opportunities to a homeless or animal shelter and notify local press and post on social media. \u2014 Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The efforts, though experimental right now, could also appease those who want non- animal sources of the colorants in their foods, these scientists say. \u2014 Brittany J. Miller, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Mar. 2022",
"True to its hippie roots, it will be aimed at tree-huggers with an interior full of sustainable materials like non- animal leather and organic paint. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 19 Mar. 2022",
"And that poses a threat to human and animal health around the world. \u2014 Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Her reason to stop breeding corgis could also be due to the fact that none of the Queen's children took to corgis the way their mother did, though the Windsors are famously animal \u2014and even dog!\u2014lovers. \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Stella, who uses sustainable materials [and] non- animal materials. \u2014 Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"In part because of that growing demand, Angama added a mobile four-bedroom safari camp in 2020 that follows animal migration patterns. \u2014 Jacqueline Gifford, Travel + Leisure , 27 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from animale , neuter of animalis animate, from anima soul \u2014 more at animate":"Noun and Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259l",
"\u02c8an-\u0259-m\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for animal Adjective carnal , fleshly , sensual , animal mean having a relation to the body. carnal may mean only this but more often connotes derogatorily an action or manifestation of a person's lower nature. gave in to carnal desires fleshly is less derogatory than carnal . a saint who had experienced fleshly temptations sensual may apply to any gratification of a bodily desire or pleasure but commonly implies sexual appetite with absence of the spiritual or intellectual. fleshpots providing sensual delights animal stresses the physical as distinguished from the rational nature of a person. led a mindless animal existence",
"synonyms":[
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"creature",
"critter"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-230528",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"animal hypnosis":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": cataplexy":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1899, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115321",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animal magnetism":{
"antonyms":[
"repulsion",
"repulsiveness"
],
"definitions":{
": a mysterious force claimed by Mesmer to enable him to hypnotize patients":[]
},
"examples":[
"a photograph that captures the athlete's animal magnetism",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Based on the widely popular theory of animal magnetism proposed by Franz Mesmer at the end of the 18th century, Allix claimed that snails are particularly well suited to communicate by a magnetism-like force through the ambient medium. \u2014 Justin E. H. Smith, Wired , 3 Mar. 2022",
"In the eighteenth century, Franz Mesmer introduced his concept of mesmerism, or animal magnetism , involving a universal vital fluid that passes in and out through our pores. \u2014 Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 1 Nov. 2021",
"Your animal magnetism could be a big turn-on for a special someone this evening. \u2014 Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive , 15 May 2021",
"The student need not believe that Noah existed, or that his animal magnetism was as great as is said, or how long-lived his children were. \u2014 Luther Ray Abel, National Review , 17 Sep. 2020",
"The charismatic Sun moves into your sign today, enhancing your animal magnetism . \u2014 Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com , 22 Aug. 2020",
"Health could be restored through contact with a conductor of animal magnetism . \u2014 National Geographic , 5 Mar. 2019",
"Penelope Cruz makes a sensational film debut, and Javier Bardem bursts with animal magnetism . \u2014 Chris Ball, cleveland.com , 4 Feb. 2018",
"Franklin used an early version of the placebo trial to prove that animal magnetism wasn\u2019t a real biological force. \u2014 Gregory Reid, Smithsonian , 29 May 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1781, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"allure",
"appeal",
"attractiveness",
"captivation",
"charisma",
"charm",
"duende",
"enchantment",
"fascination",
"force field",
"glamour",
"glamor",
"magic",
"magnetism",
"oomph",
"pizzazz",
"pizazz",
"seductiveness",
"witchery"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013307",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animal pole":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the point on the surface of an egg that is diametrically opposite to the vegetal pole and usually marks the most active part of the protoplasm or the part containing least yolk \u2014 see blastula illustration":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1876, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114934",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animalia":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": that one of the basic groups of living things that comprises either all the animals or all the multicellular animals \u2014 compare animal kingdom , plantae , protista":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1902, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin, plural of animal":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan\u0259\u02c8m\u0101ly\u0259",
"-l\u0113\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012753",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"animalic":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to animals or animalism":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1677, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6an\u0259\u00a6malik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040335",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"animalier":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a sculptor or painter of animal subjects":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1875, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from animal animal, from Latin":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cca-n\u0259-m\u0259-\u02c8lir"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094048",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animalism":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": animality":[]
},
"examples":[
"without law and order, society would quickly devolve into a state of animalism",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Seven Commandments (Revised) of Orwellian Animalism : This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be missing content or contain faulty links. \u2014 John Brownlee, WIRED , 15 Jan. 2007"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1814, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"animality",
"beastliness",
"bestiality",
"brutality",
"brutishness",
"swinishness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103017",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"animalist":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a painter, sculptor, or writer that deals with animal subjects \u2014 compare animalier":[],
": one that accepts the theory of animalism":[],
": one that follows animalism (see animalism sense 1b ) as a mode of living : sensualist":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1813, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u0259\u0307st"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235457",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animalistic":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": animality":[]
},
"examples":[
"without law and order, society would quickly devolve into a state of animalism",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Seven Commandments (Revised) of Orwellian Animalism : This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be missing content or contain faulty links. \u2014 John Brownlee, WIRED , 15 Jan. 2007"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1814, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"animality",
"beastliness",
"bestiality",
"brutality",
"brutishness",
"swinishness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033834",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"animalitarianism":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the view that animals are more natural, happier, and admirable than human beings":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1936, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"animal entry 1 + -itarianism (as in humanitarianism )":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan\u0259\u02ccmal\u0259\u02c8ter\u0113\u0259\u02ccniz\u0259m"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110508",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animality":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a natural unrestrained unreasoned response to physical drives or stimuli":[],
": a quality or nature associated with animals :":[],
": the animal nature of human beings":[],
": vitality":[]
},
"examples":[
"in his portrayal the actor emphasizes the working-class hunk's fundamental animality",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It\u2019s the thought of not being able to keep alive her two pets, whose fragile animality animates the stakes from the outset. \u2014 Naveen Kumar, Variety , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Linking women with animality and monstrosity is common in pop culture, and there are a number of female werewolf precedents. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 July 2021",
"The latter fragrance, in a smooth-contoured bottle, was a blend of pure musk and animality , primal as the fossilized DNA of our species preserved in amber. \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2021",
"Orientals were once celebrated for harnessing a kind of raw, sensuous animality . \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2021",
"And Hrabal knows better than anyone that our animality is what makes us human. \u2014 Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker , 19 Nov. 2019"
],
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"1615, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8ma-l\u0259-t\u0113"
],
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"animalism",
"beastliness",
"bestiality",
"brutality",
"brutishness",
"swinishness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015712",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animalivore":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": microchiropteran":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1957, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Animalivora":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan\u0259\u02c8mal\u0259\u02ccv\u014d(\u0259)r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000826",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"animalize":{
"antonyms":[],
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": to cause to be or act like an animal":[],
": to represent in animal form":[]
},
"examples":[
"six months of solitary living in the jungle would animalize anyone",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sociologist Anthony Cortese found that in popular culture black women are often othered, animalized and exoticized, associating women of color with primitivity or wild sexuality. \u2014 Katie Edwards, Washington Post , 14 July 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1741, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bestialize",
"brutalize",
"dehumanize"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-052036",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"animate":{
"antonyms":[
"amp (up)",
"brace",
"energize",
"enliven",
"fillip",
"fire",
"ginger (up)",
"invigorate",
"jazz (up)",
"juice up",
"jump-start",
"liven (up)",
"pep (up)",
"quicken",
"spike",
"stimulate",
"vitalize",
"vivify",
"zip (up)"
],
"definitions":{
": full of life : animated":[],
": of or relating to animal life as opposed to plant life":[],
": possessing or characterized by life : alive":[],
": referring to a living thing":[
"an animate noun"
],
": to give life to":[],
": to give spirit and support to : encourage":[],
": to give vigor and zest to":[],
": to make or design in such a way as to create apparently spontaneous lifelike movement":[
"animate a cartoon"
],
": to move to action":[
"a criminal animated by greed"
],
": to produce in the form of an animated cartoon":[
"animate a story"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"The lecture was about ancient worship of animate and inanimate objects.",
"an animate dance routine that will really get the blood pumping",
"Verb",
"The writer's humor animates the novel.",
"The film's very realistic dinosaurs were animated on computers.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"As such, they should be treated as \u2018 animate tools,\u2019 instruments rather than ends. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Science is a process, not an animate object that speaks. \u2014 Michael Lynch, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Creativity, making, and imagining animate Black self-determination with that which only culture can provide. \u2014 ELLE , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Drawing animate objects was forbidden, as on the day of judgment, God would ask me to put life in them. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 28 Mar. 2022",
"At one point, Atung abruptly drops out of the show, eliminating its only source of interpersonal intrigue and allowing Afong to complete her transformation into an animate textbook. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
"This time the town is not empty but crowded with animate memories. \u2014 Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books , 19 Nov. 2020",
"Ethics begins by recognizing that entities of this Earth are both material and animate . \u2014 Kathleen Dean Moore, The Conversation , 20 Oct. 2021",
"This time the town is not empty but crowded with animate memories. \u2014 Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books , 19 Nov. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"An Intricate shutter design, a cozy pile of purple floral pillows, and a golden damask-print coverlet animate this bedroom designed by Kristin Hein and Philip Cozi. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 23 June 2022",
"With Trump exiting the White House, Fox needed a dominating personality to animate its news and talk shows. \u2014 Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022",
"The company recently abandoned its use of facial recognition on its Facebook app, but metaverse gadgetry relies on new forms of tracking people\u2019s gaits, body movements and expressions to animate their avatars with real-world emotions. \u2014 Matt O'brien And Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Moments like that one animate what have, for this viewer, become tiresome back-and-forth games of inside baseball, lending them verve and life. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 2 June 2022",
"His crisp, correct likenesses, electric palette, and attention to textiles and jewelry animate the Tudors and their circle. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Some NFTs feature popular artists like Pusha T. Johnson also bolstered his skill set by learning to animate with Adobe After Effects. \u2014 Amiah Taylor, Fortune , 12 Feb. 2022",
"The company recently abandoned its use of facial recognition on its Facebook app, but metaverse gadgetry relies on new forms of tracking people\u2019s gaits, body movements and expressions to animate their avatars with real-world emotions. \u2014 Matt O'brien And Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News , 8 Nov. 2021",
"The company recently abandoned its use of facial recognition on its Facebook app, but metaverse gadgetry relies on new forms of tracking people\u2019s gaits, body movements and expressions to animate their avatars with real-world emotions. \u2014 Barbara Ortutay, chicagotribune.com , 7 Nov. 2021"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English, from Latin animatus , past participle of animare to give life to, from anima breath, soul; akin to Old English \u014dthian to breathe, Latin animus spirit, Greek anemos wind, Sanskrit aniti he breathes":"Adjective and Verb"
},
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"\u02c8an-\u0259-m\u0259t",
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259t",
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccm\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for animate Verb quicken , animate , enliven , vivify mean to make alive or lively. quicken stresses a sudden renewal of life or activity especially in something inert. the arrival of spring quickens the earth animate emphasizes the imparting of motion or vitality to what is or might be mechanical or artificial. happiness animated his conversation enliven suggests a stimulus that arouses from dullness or torpidity. enlivened her lectures with humorous anecdotes vivify implies a freshening or energizing through renewal of vitality. new blood needed to vivify the dying club",
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"active",
"airy",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"brisk",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"gay",
"jaunty",
"jazzy",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"mettlesome",
"peppy",
"perky",
"pert",
"pizzazzy",
"pizazzy",
"racy",
"snappy",
"spanking",
"sparky",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205353",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"animated":{
"antonyms":[
"dead",
"inactive",
"inanimate",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languishing",
"languorous",
"leaden",
"lifeless",
"limp",
"listless",
"spiritless",
"vapid"
],
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": endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive":[
"animated creatures"
],
": full of movement and activity":[
"an animated crowd"
],
": full of vigor and spirit : lively":[
"an animated discussion"
],
": having the appearance of something alive":[
"an unusually animated piece of sculpture"
],
": made in the form of an animated cartoon":[
"an animated film"
]
},
"examples":[
"She gave an animated description of the project.",
"After dinner, the discussion got more animated .",
"Many movies for kids are animated rather than live-action.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There are nine Spider-Man movies, eight of which are live-action and one an animated film. \u2014 Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"In total, the trilogy of animated features have grossed over $1.8 billion at the global box office. \u2014 J. Kim Murphy, Variety , 16 June 2022",
"The Brad Bird film also notched the biggest ever opening for an animated film, debuting to $182 million in 2018. \u2014 Frank Pallotta, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"Non- animated features include Stand and Deliver, Once Upon a Time in America, Out to Sea, and Odd Couple 2. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Which brings us to perhaps the most insulting diss the academy delivered this week: short-subject narratives, animated features and documentaries. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Feb. 2022",
"The presence of female directors was higher for documentary films, where women accounted for 29 percent of helmers, compared to a mere 19 percent for live-action fiction films and 16 percent for animated features. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 Jan. 2022",
"This is one of the all-time great animated features, period. \u2014 Josh Spiegel, Vulture , 11 Jan. 2021",
"Both Perifel and Desmarchelier are French, the animated action comedy Perifel\u2019s first feature, which has garnered not only robust B.O. but critical acclaim. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 14 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see animate entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccm\u0101t-\u0259d",
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccm\u0101-t\u0259d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for animated lively , animated , vivacious , sprightly , gay mean keenly alive and spirited. lively suggests briskness, alertness, or energy. a lively debate on the issues animated applies to what is spirited and active. an animated discussion of current events vivacious suggests an activeness of gesture and wit, often playful or alluring. a vivacious party host sprightly suggests lightness and spirited vigor of manner or wit. a tuneful, sprightly musical gay stresses complete freedom from care and overflowing spirits. the gay spirit of Paris in the 1920s",
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"active",
"airy",
"animate",
"bouncing",
"brisk",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"gay",
"jaunty",
"jazzy",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"mettlesome",
"peppy",
"perky",
"pert",
"pizzazzy",
"pizazzy",
"racy",
"snappy",
"spanking",
"sparky",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044017",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"animation":{
"antonyms":[
"inactivity",
"lifelessness"
],
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": animated cartoon":[],
": the act of animating : the state of being animate or animated":[],
": the preparation of animated cartoons":[]
},
"examples":[
"The animation for the film took over two years to complete.",
"The studio used computer animation for some of the special effects.",
"The website has hundreds of animations you can download.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Matou\u0161 Valch\u00e1\u0159 graduated from the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen with a bachelor\u2019s degree in animation and interactive production. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 25 June 2022",
"Upcoming Paramount Animation titles include a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature, a Paw Patrol sequel, an untitled Transformers animation and a Smurfs musical. \u2014 Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 June 2022",
"All of this was backed up by some truly lovely animation and excellent acting, with the voice cast being nothing short of superb. \u2014 Ollie Barder, Forbes , 12 June 2022",
"Featuring documentaries, animation and live-action short films. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 6 Mar. 2022",
"First of all, the show switches between animation and live-action, which takes some getting used to. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Horrors abound in this dark and twisted 2022 tale from stop-motion animation wizard Phil Tippett. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 12 June 2022",
"Horrors abound in this dark and twisted 2022 tale from stop-motion animation wizard Phil Tippett. \u2014 Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"For anyone who loves stop-motion animation , the first 40 minutes of this bleak adventure will scratch your trippy itch and then some. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 10 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan-\u0259-\u02c8m\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8m\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"briskness",
"exuberance",
"jazziness",
"liveliness",
"lustiness",
"peppiness",
"robustness",
"sprightliness",
"vibrance",
"vibrancy",
"vigorousness",
"vitality"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-100526",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animosity":{
"antonyms":[
"amity"
],
"definitions":{
": a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude":[]
},
"examples":[
"Few rivalries can match that of the Cards and Cubs in terms of history, color and animosity . Things are tense in an off year, but in 2003 the teams are at the top of the National League Central division (along with the Houston Astros), separated by a half-game. \u2014 John Grisham , New York Times Book Review , 1 May 2005",
"As I get older, I have noticed the troubles many of my friends have with their fathers: the animosities and disappointments, held so long in the arrears of late adolescence, suddenly coming up due on both ends. But my father and I, if anything, have gotten closer, even as I understand him less and less. \u2014 Tom Bissell , Harper's , December 2004",
"What I did not anticipate, however, was the depth of animosity that had been simmering among the teachers beneath the pleasantries that characterized our public, formal encounters. I discovered that my enthusiastic advocacy for whole language was received by traditional teachers as demeaning, insulting attacks. \u2014 Elaine Garan , Language Arts , September 1998",
"We put aside our personal animosities so that we could work together.",
"his open animosity towards us made our meeting very uncomfortable",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yet another point of contention was the fact that many residents harbor deep animosity toward Central Maine Power and Avangrid. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
"Heard has faced a wave of vitriol for years online, but the animosity toward her has recently reached a new high, especially during Depp\u2019s appearance on the stand last month for more than seven hours of testimony. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
"Despite Trump's animosity toward his former VP, the former president endorsed Greg Pence on Friday. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 3 May 2022",
"Have fans moved on, or is there still animosity toward big clubs? \u2014 Andy Frye, Forbes , 3 Nov. 2021",
"That is, this was not just a generalized hatred or animosity toward any type of government. \u2014 CBS News , 29 Sep. 2021",
"One problem, experts say, is that the ETS was overtaken by vaccine availability, evolving Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, and animosity toward federal mandates. \u2014 Julia Zorthian, Time , 27 Sep. 2021",
"Oliver\u2019s animosity toward Mabel indicates he has been deceived before \u2014 and in an impactful way. \u2014 Carrie Wittmer, Vulture , 15 Sep. 2021",
"Park\u2019s distaste for his colleague\u2019s use of brutal torture in his interrogation methods only feeds the initially unspoken animosity between them. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1568, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English animosite , from Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French animosit\u00e9 , from Late Latin animositat-, animositas , from Latin animosus spirited, from animus \u2014 see animus":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8m\u00e4-s\u0259-t\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for animosity enmity , hostility , antipathy , antagonism , animosity , rancor , animus mean deep-seated dislike or ill will. enmity suggests positive hatred which may be open or concealed. an unspoken enmity hostility suggests an enmity showing itself in attacks or aggression. hostility between the two nations antipathy and antagonism imply a natural or logical basis for one's hatred or dislike, antipathy suggesting repugnance, a desire to avoid or reject, and antagonism suggesting a clash of temperaments leading readily to hostility. a natural antipathy for self-seekers antagonism between the brothers animosity suggests intense ill will and vindictiveness that threaten to kindle hostility. animosity that led to revenge rancor is especially applied to bitter brooding over a wrong. rancor filled every line of his letters animus adds to animosity the implication of strong prejudice. objections devoid of personal animus",
"synonyms":[
"animus",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bad blood",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jaundice",
"rancor"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073344",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animus":{
"antonyms":[
"amity"
],
"definitions":{
": a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will":[
"harbored an animus toward them",
"\u2026 the sixties mentality, with its strong animus against what it defines as \"elitism\" \u2026",
"\u2014 Daniel J. Singal"
],
": an inner masculine part of the female personality in the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung \u2014 compare anima":[],
": basic attitude or governing spirit : disposition , intention":[]
},
"examples":[
"She felt an animus against them.",
"feeling no animus toward those who had wronged her",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Tarrio also told investigators that the animus between him and Rhodes can be traced back to a falling out in 2019, following an incident in Portland, Oregon. \u2014 Scott Macfarlane, CBS News , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The last of which was the animus behind two new bills signed into law this fall allowing for denser construction in California\u2019s cities and suburbs. \u2014 Ray Levy Uyeda, The New Republic , 9 Dec. 2021",
"While James\u2019s statements could reflect political or personal animus toward Trump, the judge said, her comments were not enough to prove that the attorney general had infringed upon Trump\u2019s rights. \u2014 Ben Protess, BostonGlobe.com , 27 May 2022",
"In recent years, those issues have galvanized greater animus toward China among Democratic and Republican politicians and policymakers. \u2014 New York Times , 26 May 2022",
"All the while playing without animus toward Stevens or his former Celtics preseason teammates. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 19 May 2022",
"Now the Fraternal Order of Police has come out against her because of her seeming animus to cops. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 9 May 2022",
"Miller has a federal civil suit pending against the county, arguing that the investigation of Woofin Palooza was motivated by a county animus toward the owners and that the business owners had committed no crimes. \u2014 oregonlive , 6 May 2022",
"The White House on Saturday tried unsuccessfully to contain the controversy, saying Biden's remarks were about the global impact of Putin's animus , not a call for Putin's immediate removal. \u2014 NBC News , 29 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1795, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, spirit, mind, courage, anger":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8an-\u0259-m\u0259s",
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for animus enmity , hostility , antipathy , antagonism , animosity , rancor , animus mean deep-seated dislike or ill will. enmity suggests positive hatred which may be open or concealed. an unspoken enmity hostility suggests an enmity showing itself in attacks or aggression. hostility between the two nations antipathy and antagonism imply a natural or logical basis for one's hatred or dislike, antipathy suggesting repugnance, a desire to avoid or reject, and antagonism suggesting a clash of temperaments leading readily to hostility. a natural antipathy for self-seekers antagonism between the brothers animosity suggests intense ill will and vindictiveness that threaten to kindle hostility. animosity that led to revenge rancor is especially applied to bitter brooding over a wrong. rancor filled every line of his letters animus adds to animosity the implication of strong prejudice. objections devoid of personal animus",
"synonyms":[
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bad blood",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jaundice",
"rancor"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182857",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annal":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1647, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"back-formation from annals":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-191207",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annalist":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a writer of annals : chronicler":[]
},
"examples":[
"a new book by America's best-known annalist of the Civil War"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1611, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-list"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"chronicler",
"historian"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164457",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"annals":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a record of events arranged in yearly sequence":[
"the annals of the twentieth century"
],
": historical records : chronicles":[
"the annals of Tacitus",
"in the annals of sports"
],
": records of the activities of an organization":[
"quoted from the Annals of the Association of American Geographers"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Why Gail Fisher is not more widely celebrated in the annals of Hollywood history is a mystery not even Joe Mannix could solve. \u2014 Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 June 2022",
"The events themselves took a matter of minutes to unfold in a paroxysm of one-sided gunfire that snuffed out more than a dozen lives, each one of them a new martyr in Northern Ireland\u2019s somber annals of loss. \u2014 Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com , 29 Jan. 2022",
"The events themselves took a matter of minutes to unfold in a paroxysm of one-sided gunfire that snuffed out more than a dozen lives, each one of them a new martyr in Northern Ireland\u2019s somber annals of loss. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Jan. 2022",
"So began one of the most heroic episodes in the annals of the American military and an exercise of excruciating complexity pulled off with stunning competence\u2014the Berlin Airlift, a turning point in the Cold War. \u2014 Edward Kosner, WSJ , 9 July 2021",
"Aurangzeb Alamgir remained buried deep in the annals of India\u2019s complex history. \u2014 Sheikh Saaliq, The Christian Science Monitor , 6 June 2022",
"But the off-putting image and the bad press surrounding it eventually got lost in the annals of the internet. \u2014 Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
"While there\u2019s no shortage of yelling or violent lyrics in the annals of popular music, particularly heavy metal and hip-hop, that kind of deeply upsetting screaming and crying has few precedents in major songs. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 17 May 2022",
"There\u2019s a legend in the annals of tennis that\u2019s nearly too crazy to be true. \u2014 Zach Baylin, Los Angeles Times , 27 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1542, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin annales , from plural of annalis yearly \u2014 more at annual":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a-n\u1d4alz"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"chronicle",
"history",
"record"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025236",
"type":[
"noun plural",
"plural noun"
]
},
"annex":{
"antonyms":[
"addition",
"extension",
"penthouse"
],
"definitions":{
": a building that is attached to or near a larger building and usually used as part of it : wing":[
"Historical photographs were on view in the library's annex ."
],
": an added stipulation or statement : appendix":[
"approved the annex in the treaty"
],
": something annexed as an expansion or supplement: such as":[],
": to add to something earlier, larger, or more important":[
"annexed a bibliography to the thesis"
],
": to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition":[
"Many privileges were annexed exclusively to royalty."
],
": to incorporate (a country or other territory) within the domain of a state":[
"The U.S. annexed Texas in 1845."
],
": to join together materially : unite":[],
": to obtain or take for oneself":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The United States annexed Texas in 1845.",
"The government planned to annex the islands.",
"Noun",
"The addition will be used as an annex to the library.",
"We store our old files in the annex .",
"an annexe to the document",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Russia will also try to annex the eastern Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk in mid-May, according to U.S. officials. \u2014 Katya Soldak, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
"Chamberlain\u2019s signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938 allowed Hitler to annex the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia. \u2014 David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Feb. 2022",
"The United States said last month that Moscow was preparing to annex the regions, along with the southern city of Kherson. \u2014 Claire Parker, Washington Post , 4 June 2022",
"Russia plans to annex the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk plus the southern city of Kherson, in a bid to solidify gains despite continuing battlefield setbacks, U.S. officials said Monday. \u2014 Harold Maass, The Week , 3 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, a senior U.S. official warned that Russia is planning to annex large portions of eastern Ukraine this month and recognize the southern city of Kherson as an independent republic. \u2014 Cara Anna And Inna Varenytsia, Anchorage Daily News , 3 May 2022",
"Voters soundly rejected the city\u2019s efforts to annex nearly 900 acres of land encompassing five primary subdivisions along its border, with more than 80 percent of the early voting total against annexation. \u2014 San Antonio Express-News , 1 May 2021",
"In a 4-1 vote, the Hideout Town Council repealed a contentious amendment Friday related to the town\u2019s efforts to annex a large swath of land near Park City. \u2014 Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 Aug. 2020",
"Victory for Russia then could be to annex the Donbas, slicing off a significant part of Ukraine and depriving the country of access to the resources that make the region so valuable. \u2014 Phil Mccausland, NBC News , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The annex was only accessible via a door on the landing that was kept hidden by a bookcase. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 1 Feb. 2022",
"But if the annex were just gutted and updated, its size couldn\u2019t be expanded from 345,000 square feet to about 500,000. \u2014 George Skelton, Los Angeles Times , 6 Dec. 2021",
"The Euclid jail annex \u2019s maximum capacity was 32 inmates, according to the state corrections department. \u2014 Cory Shaffer, cleveland , 1 Sep. 2021",
"Price said election officials will count ballots at the annex building next to the Washington County Sheriff's Office on Clydesdale Drive, about 3 miles south of the courthouse. \u2014 Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online , 24 May 2022",
"This finds the Beck Center now targeting its annex building. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The commitment to break ground on an annex comes after a fraught year for the Department of Corrections. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Feb. 2022",
"The resettlement office, in the annex of Peace Lutheran Church in Alexandria, is one of 12 new sites in a network of 51 resettlement offices the nonprofit agency operates across the country, spokesman Timothy Young said. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Dec. 2021",
"As the Nazi persecution of the Dutch Jews intensified in early 1942, Otto Frank had decided to create a hiding place for himself, his wife, Edith, and their two daughters, Margot and Anne, in the unused annex of his own office building. \u2014 Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books , 11 May 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"1501, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French annexer , from annexe attached, from Latin annexus , past participle of annectere to bind to, from ad- + nectere to bind":"Verb and Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a-\u02ccneks",
"-niks",
"\u0259-\u02c8neks",
"\u0259-\u02c8neks, \u02c8a-\u02ccneks"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"add",
"adjoin",
"append",
"subjoin",
"tack (on)"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091328",
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"annicut":{
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"definitions":[
"Definition of annicut variant spelling of anicut"
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"pronounciation":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-120553",
"type":[]
},
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"definitions":[
"Definition of annie over variant of antony over"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-212207",
"type":[]
},
"annihilable":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": capable of being annihilated":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1677, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"annihil ate + -able":""
},
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"\u0259\u02c8n\u012b\u0259l\u0259b\u0259l sometimes -\u012bh\u0259-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175749",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"annihilate":{
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": to cause (something, such as a particle and its antiparticle) to vanish or cease to exist by coming together and changing into other forms of energy (such as photons)":[
"matter and antimatter annihilate each other"
],
": to cause to be of no effect : nullify":[
"a right to freedom that cannot be annihilated"
],
": to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains":[],
": to defeat overwhelmingly : rout":[
"annihilated the visitors 56\u20130"
],
": to destroy a considerable part of":[
"Bombs annihilated the city.",
"The enemy troops were annihilated ."
],
": to destroy the substance or force of":[
"Fear can annihilate one's confidence."
],
": to regard as of no consequence":[],
": to vanish or cease to exist by coming together and changing into other forms of energy (such as photons)":[]
},
"examples":[
"The enemy troops were annihilated .",
"He annihilated his opponent in the last election.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"So\u2026did anyone else see Dame Helen Mirren casually annihilate the red carpet at Cannes over the weekend? \u2014 Elle Turner, Glamour , 31 May 2022",
"Hathaway might be the celebrity who bears the greatest burden of the internet\u2019s capriciousness and moblike quickness to annihilate a person\u2019s reputation based on vibes. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 24 May 2022",
"Doing these measurements presented a significant challenge, however, and not just because of the tendency of matter and antimatter to annihilate each other. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Much of the Azov Battalion, including Mamont\u2019s former platoon, was currently defending Mariupol against a Russian onslaught that threatened to annihilate it. \u2014 Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"During a congressional hearing last July, Fed Chair Jerome Powell, in effect, said a digital dollar would annihilate private cryptocurrencies, especially stablecoins. \u2014 Dan Runkevicius, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Fears that Volkswagen would annihilate the entire Golf lineup are all but forsaken, with the 2022 Golf GTI set to begin an all-new generation of the sporty hatchback. \u2014 Car and Driver , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Bear in mind, this is still a sport tourer, and numbers like these were, until very recently, reserved for bikes with slick tires and track apexes to annihilate . \u2014 Peter Jackson, Robb Report , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Everything was done to annihilate our culture and people. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Nov. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1525, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin annihilatus , past participle of annihilare to reduce to nothing, from Latin ad- + nihil nothing \u2014 more at nil":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u012b-\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
],
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"synonyms":[
"abolish",
"black out",
"blot out",
"cancel",
"clean (up)",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"root (out)",
"rub out",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"sweep (away)",
"wipe out"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-081802",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"annihilation":{
"antonyms":[
"building",
"construction",
"erection",
"raising"
],
"definitions":{
": the combination of a particle and its antiparticle (such as an electron and a positron) that results in the subsequent total conversion of the particles into energy":[
"Both the creation and annihilation of antimatter have been observed in nuclear accelerators (atom-smashers).",
"\u2014 Harding E. Smith",
"The annihilation reactions are the most efficient sources of energy known, for in them the entire mass of both particles is converted into pure energy.",
"\u2014 George Greenstein"
],
": the state or fact of being completely destroyed or obliterated : the act of annihilating something or the state of being annihilated":[
"The late 1940s and '50s were so pervaded by a general fear of nuclear annihilation that the era was known as the Age of Anxiety.",
"\u2014 Charles Krauthammer",
"For a literary culture that fears it is on the brink of total annihilation , we are awfully cavalier about the Great Male Novelists of the last century.",
"\u2014 Katie Roiphe",
"\u2026 few experts believe that either regime would risk annihilation by actually launching a nuke in anger.",
"\u2014 Michael Elliott",
"The Cretaceous Extinction, whatever its cause, was one of the two most awesome annihilations of life in the history of the world.",
"\u2014 John McPhee"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1585, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02ccn\u012b-\u0259-\u02c8l\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"decimation",
"demolishment",
"demolition",
"desolation",
"destruction",
"devastation",
"extermination",
"extinction",
"havoc",
"loss",
"mincemeat",
"obliteration",
"ruin",
"ruination",
"wastage",
"wreckage"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094743",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annihilatory":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to cause (something, such as a particle and its antiparticle) to vanish or cease to exist by coming together and changing into other forms of energy (such as photons)":[
"matter and antimatter annihilate each other"
],
": to cause to be of no effect : nullify":[
"a right to freedom that cannot be annihilated"
],
": to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains":[],
": to defeat overwhelmingly : rout":[
"annihilated the visitors 56\u20130"
],
": to destroy a considerable part of":[
"Bombs annihilated the city.",
"The enemy troops were annihilated ."
],
": to destroy the substance or force of":[
"Fear can annihilate one's confidence."
],
": to regard as of no consequence":[],
": to vanish or cease to exist by coming together and changing into other forms of energy (such as photons)":[]
},
"examples":[
"The enemy troops were annihilated .",
"He annihilated his opponent in the last election.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"So\u2026did anyone else see Dame Helen Mirren casually annihilate the red carpet at Cannes over the weekend? \u2014 Elle Turner, Glamour , 31 May 2022",
"Hathaway might be the celebrity who bears the greatest burden of the internet\u2019s capriciousness and moblike quickness to annihilate a person\u2019s reputation based on vibes. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 24 May 2022",
"Doing these measurements presented a significant challenge, however, and not just because of the tendency of matter and antimatter to annihilate each other. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Much of the Azov Battalion, including Mamont\u2019s former platoon, was currently defending Mariupol against a Russian onslaught that threatened to annihilate it. \u2014 Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"During a congressional hearing last July, Fed Chair Jerome Powell, in effect, said a digital dollar would annihilate private cryptocurrencies, especially stablecoins. \u2014 Dan Runkevicius, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Fears that Volkswagen would annihilate the entire Golf lineup are all but forsaken, with the 2022 Golf GTI set to begin an all-new generation of the sporty hatchback. \u2014 Car and Driver , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Bear in mind, this is still a sport tourer, and numbers like these were, until very recently, reserved for bikes with slick tires and track apexes to annihilate . \u2014 Peter Jackson, Robb Report , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Everything was done to annihilate our culture and people. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Nov. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1525, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin annihilatus , past participle of annihilare to reduce to nothing, from Latin ad- + nihil nothing \u2014 more at nil":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u012b-\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"abolish",
"black out",
"blot out",
"cancel",
"clean (up)",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"root (out)",
"rub out",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"sweep (away)",
"wipe out"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194257",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"anno urbis conditae":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": in the year of the founded city : in the year that Rome was founded (753 b.c. )":[
"\u2014 abbreviation AUC"
],
"\u2014 compare ab urbe condita":[
"\u2014 abbreviation AUC"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u00e4-n\u014d-\u02ccu\u0307r-bis-\u02c8k\u022fn-di-\u02cct\u012b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075232",
"type":[
"Latin phrase"
]
},
"announce":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to declare one's candidacy":[
"announce for president"
],
": to declare oneself politically":[
"announce against a nominee"
],
": to give notice of the arrival, presence, or readiness of (something)":[
"announce dinner"
],
": to indicate beforehand : foretell":[
"an invention that announced a new era"
],
": to make known publicly : proclaim":[
"announce a deal"
],
": to serve as an announcer":[],
": to serve as an announcer of":[
"announce a football game"
]
},
"examples":[
"The government announced a cut in taxes.",
"They announced plans to move the company out of the state.",
"The company president has announced her retirement.",
"Their engagement was formally announced in the newspaper.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The leaders will announce the joint pledge at their summit in Germany, which runs Sunday through Tuesday, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of an announcement. \u2014 Jordan Fabian, Fortune , 25 June 2022",
"While Biden could announce a decision within weeks, temporary student loan relief ends on August 31, 2022. \u2014 Zack Friedman, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"In 2019, at age 18, Qureiris was convicted and sentenced to prison, though the Saudi government did not announce the charge or charges on which he was convicted. \u2014 Tamara Qiblawi, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"In their reporting, the Journal cited unnamed people familiar with the matter, who also said the FDA could announce its denial as early as today, Wednesday, June 22. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 23 June 2022",
"When the company can announce that choice, this project should look a little closer to becoming a commercial reality. \u2014 Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG , 23 June 2022",
"The Spurs will announce a new jersey patch sponsor Tuesday, sources said Monday. \u2014 Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News , 20 June 2022",
"Traughber is now a finalist for the Gatorade National Boys Soccer Player of the Year award, which will announce a winner later this month. \u2014 Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal , 16 June 2022",
"When The Lumineers announce a tour, set an immediate calendar reminder and go about your day. \u2014 Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star , 15 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French annuncier , from Latin annuntiare , from ad- + nuntiare to report, from nuntius messenger":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8nau\u0307ns",
"\u0259-\u02c8nau\u0307n(t)s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for announce declare , announce , proclaim , promulgate mean to make known publicly. declare implies explicitness and usually formality in making known. the referee declared the contest a draw announce implies the declaration of something for the first time. announced their engagement at a party proclaim implies declaring clearly, forcefully, and authoritatively. the president proclaimed a national day of mourning promulgate implies the proclaiming of a dogma, doctrine, or law. promulgated an edict of religious toleration",
"synonyms":[
"advertise",
"annunciate",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"enunciate",
"flash",
"give out",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"release",
"sound",
"trumpet"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103434",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"announcement":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a piece of formal stationery designed for a social or business announcement":[],
": a public notification or declaration":[],
": the act of announcing something or of being announced":[]
},
"examples":[
"Many people were surprised by the government's announcement that there will be a cut in taxes.",
"I heard an announcement on the loudspeaker saying that the store was closing in 10 minutes.",
"The company president made an announcement about the merger.",
"He asked us to pay attention because he had an important announcement to make .",
"I saw their wedding announcement in the newspaper.",
"They have been very busy since the announcement of their wedding.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Zero-Covid policy after Shanghai\u2019s announcement to end lockdowns, may help demand to a certain extent if China\u2019s industrial output picks up. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"The announcement sparked a backlash from residents who fear southwest Atlanta will be left behind as wealthier parts of the city get rail. \u2014 David Wickert, ajc , 27 June 2022",
"On Monday, following McCaffrey\u2019s announcement , the progressive group issued a statement, calling for the Democratic Party to endorse Rourke. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"The official announcement will come Tuesday, according to administration officials, and the U.S. Treasury Department will make a formal determination to prohibit new imports of gold. \u2014 Ashley Parker, Washington Post , 26 June 2022",
"The announcement sparked fierce protests across the country, including in Arizona where police had to use tear gas to break up a crowd outside the state\u2019s Senate building. \u2014 Fox News , 26 June 2022",
"Sunday\u2019s announcement closes the book on Alabama\u2019s extensive transfer portal movement since its season ended with a first-round NCAA tournament loss to Notre Dame. \u2014 Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al , 26 June 2022",
"In his Sunday announcement video with The Field of 68, Khayat said his commitment to U-M was strongly influenced by getting the chance to play for coach Juwan Howard. \u2014 Chandler Engelbrecht, Detroit Free Press , 26 June 2022",
"Per the announcement on Weverse, the solo project, titled Jack in the Box, will be arriving July 15, with the first single arriving two weeks earlier on July 1. \u2014 Anna Chan, Billboard , 25 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1781, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8nau\u0307n(t)-sm\u0259nt",
"\u0259-\u02c8nau\u0307n-sm\u0259nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"ad",
"advert",
"advertisement",
"bulletin",
"communiqu\u00e9",
"notice",
"notification",
"posting",
"release"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193234",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"announcer":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a person who describes and comments on the action in a broadcast sports event":[],
": a person who introduces television or radio programs, makes commercial announcements , or gives station identification":[],
": one who announces : such as":[]
},
"examples":[
"He works part-time as an announcer for a local radio station.",
"The racetrack announcer said that the next race was about to start.",
"The announcer said that the catcher had injured his shoulder.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Great Lakes won four times including recognition for Cavaliers announcer John Michael as the best play-by-play talent in the region. \u2014 cleveland , 27 June 2022",
"So will Daniel Kaluuya, who won an Oscar for best supporting actor two years ago for playing Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah. MC Lyte returns as the ceremony\u2019s announcer . \u2014 Paul Grein, Billboard , 23 June 2022",
"Dynamic ad insertion is available for both host-read and announcer -read ads. \u2014 Heather Osgood, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"Florida State has named broadcasting veteran Jeff Culhane as the new voice of the Seminoles, replacing longtime announcer Gene Deckerhoff, who retired this spring after an illustrious 43-year career with the school. \u2014 Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel , 20 June 2022",
"The teen charged in the crash that killed Auburn announcer Rod Bramblett and his wife, Paula, is back behind bars. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 16 June 2022",
"The tradition of one announcer or a few voices being synonymous with a team is going, going, gone, perhaps to be ushered out when splendid Hall of Famer Jaime Jarr\u00edn retires from the Dodgers\u2019 Spanish-language broadcasts after this season, his 64th. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
"They\u2019ll be joined by podcast announcer Gala Avary, who is Roger\u2019s daughter. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 2 June 2022",
"Masters champion and CBS Sports Golf team announcer Trevor Immelman and CBS golf reporter Amanda Renner joins the group. \u2014 Christopher Kuhagen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 1 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1611, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8nau\u0307n(t)-s\u0259r",
"\u0259-\u02c8nau\u0307n-s\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"emcee",
"host",
"MC"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072235",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annoy":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to cause annoyance":[],
": to disturb or irritate especially by repeated acts":[
"annoyed the neighbors with their loud arguments"
],
": to harass especially by quick brief attacks":[]
},
"examples":[
"deliberately annoyed the elderly neighbor by walking across his lawn",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For years, government and industry officials have known that a small group of relatively obscure telecom providers act as a conduit for millions of scam calls that annoy \u2014and sometimes defraud\u2014Americans. \u2014 Ryan Tracy, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"Or Musk could just be aiming to make money off of his existing Twitter shares, or simply trying to annoy those users who vowed to quit Twitter entirely if Musk started calling the shots. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 14 Apr. 2022",
"In this case, the Supreme Court is cynically trying to put Biden into a political bind by forcing him into actions that will annoy the Democratic base and start a quarrel with Mexico. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 26 Aug. 2021",
"To annoy everyone behind you by meandering down the sidewalk while checking your phone. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Apr. 2022",
"But the good doctor isn't repeating this advice just to annoy you. \u2014 Sonya Collins, Fortune , 27 Apr. 2022",
"And there are new ways for users to misbehave or annoy others on Discord, like spamming loud and inappropriate audio. \u2014 Brianna Dym, The Conversation , 15 Mar. 2022",
"His intent was to annoy and harass until his demands were met, charging documents state. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Which explains a lot about why teenagers who twirl their hair or squirm in their seats at the movies annoy the rest of us. \u2014 Alison Escalante, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English anoien , from Anglo-French anuier, ennoier , from Late Latin inodiare to make loathsome, from Latin in + odium hatred \u2014 more at odium":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u022fi"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for annoy annoy , vex , irk , bother mean to upset a person's composure. annoy implies a wearing on the nerves by persistent petty unpleasantness. their constant complaining annoys us vex implies greater provocation and stronger disturbance and usually connotes anger but sometimes perplexity or anxiety. vexed by her son's failure to clean his room irk stresses difficulty in enduring and the resulting weariness or impatience of spirit. careless waste irks the boss bother suggests interference with comfort or peace of mind. don't bother me while I'm reading synonyms see in addition worry",
"synonyms":[
"aggravate",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"eat",
"exasperate",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nark",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"persecute",
"pique",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"ruffle",
"spite",
"vex"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221231",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"annoyance":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a source of vexation or irritation : nuisance":[
"The delay was a minor annoyance ."
],
": the act of annoying someone or of being annoyed":[],
": the state or feeling of being annoyed : vexation":[
"She couldn't hide her annoyance ."
]
},
"examples":[
"She expressed annoyance at the slow service.",
"they have an unlisted number in the hopes that it will reduce the constant annoyance by telemarketers",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This is similar to the annoyance of trying to get family members or a group of friends to all agree on a movie to watch or where to go for dinner. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"There are all kinds of reasons that might explain the subscriber losses, including everything from people feeling like their favorite shows keep getting canceled to the annoyance of price increases. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 10 May 2022",
"The board members refused, to the annoyance of Geragos, a transcript shows. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The Jazz guard expressed annoyance at the time with the public flogging, and reiterated to Haynes that, in his view, a private airing of grievances would have been more constructive. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Theater here has also long existed in the shadow of Hollywood, to the annoyance of those involved in what is by any measure a vibrant theater community. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Mathieu follows closely behind, poorly masking his annoyance . \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 May 2022",
"Some commenters have taken to aesthetic videos to share their annoyance . \u2014 Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY , 4 May 2022",
"In reality, the paper only confirms, in formal terms, the widespread annoyance that streamers and other players feel when they\u2019re constantly pitted against opponents who are an even match. \u2014 Ethan Davison, Washington Post , 27 May 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"\u0259-\u02c8n\u022fi-\u0259n(t)s",
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u022fi-\u0259ns"
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"aggravation",
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"botheration",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"disturbance",
"harassment",
"harrying",
"importunity",
"pestering",
"teasing",
"vexation"
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"noun"
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": to cause annoyance":[],
": to disturb or irritate especially by repeated acts":[
"annoyed the neighbors with their loud arguments"
],
": to harass especially by quick brief attacks":[]
},
"examples":[
"deliberately annoyed the elderly neighbor by walking across his lawn",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For years, government and industry officials have known that a small group of relatively obscure telecom providers act as a conduit for millions of scam calls that annoy \u2014and sometimes defraud\u2014Americans. \u2014 Ryan Tracy, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"Or Musk could just be aiming to make money off of his existing Twitter shares, or simply trying to annoy those users who vowed to quit Twitter entirely if Musk started calling the shots. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 14 Apr. 2022",
"In this case, the Supreme Court is cynically trying to put Biden into a political bind by forcing him into actions that will annoy the Democratic base and start a quarrel with Mexico. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 26 Aug. 2021",
"To annoy everyone behind you by meandering down the sidewalk while checking your phone. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Apr. 2022",
"But the good doctor isn't repeating this advice just to annoy you. \u2014 Sonya Collins, Fortune , 27 Apr. 2022",
"And there are new ways for users to misbehave or annoy others on Discord, like spamming loud and inappropriate audio. \u2014 Brianna Dym, The Conversation , 15 Mar. 2022",
"His intent was to annoy and harass until his demands were met, charging documents state. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Which explains a lot about why teenagers who twirl their hair or squirm in their seats at the movies annoy the rest of us. \u2014 Alison Escalante, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
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"Middle English anoien , from Anglo-French anuier, ennoier , from Late Latin inodiare to make loathsome, from Latin in + odium hatred \u2014 more at odium":""
},
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"\u0259-\u02c8n\u022fi"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for annoy annoy , vex , irk , bother mean to upset a person's composure. annoy implies a wearing on the nerves by persistent petty unpleasantness. their constant complaining annoys us vex implies greater provocation and stronger disturbance and usually connotes anger but sometimes perplexity or anxiety. vexed by her son's failure to clean his room irk stresses difficulty in enduring and the resulting weariness or impatience of spirit. careless waste irks the boss bother suggests interference with comfort or peace of mind. don't bother me while I'm reading synonyms see in addition worry",
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"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
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"exasperate",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nark",
"nettle",
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"pique",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"ruffle",
"spite",
"vex"
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"verb"
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"an annoying habit",
"annoying questions"
]
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"examples":[
"my partner has the annoying habit of eating all the pickles and leaving a jar full of pickle juice in the refrigerator",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While certainly safer than driving too fast, slow drivers can be particularly annoying to some people. \u2014 Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day , 8 June 2022",
"Many people with allergies experience mild symptoms, like itchy eyes, that are annoying but generally harmless. \u2014 Julie Marks, SELF , 11 June 2022",
"Lerner, a former debate champion, portrays its participants as hostile, bullying, mendacious, glib, annoying , and practiced in a dark art. \u2014 Bo Seo, The Atlantic , 1 June 2022",
"Secondly, there\u2019s the admission that ads are annoying , and a real problem. \u2014 Gary Drenik, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"Even at their dimmest settings, the light pollution is annoying at best, distracting at worst. \u2014 Derek Powell, Car and Driver , 21 Apr. 2022",
"That plastic noise sometimes got annoying , especially when clicking repeatedly and rapidly while gaming. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Yes, the way the show whistles past the radical inequalities of urban life can be annoying . \u2014 New York Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Having your opinions challenged might be particularly annoying at the moment. \u2014 Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com , 20 Feb. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see annoy":""
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"\u0259-\u02c8n\u022fi-i\u014b"
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"abrasive",
"aggravating",
"bothersome",
"carking",
"chafing",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nettlesome",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pesky",
"pestiferous",
"pestilent",
"pestilential",
"pesty",
"plaguey",
"plaguy",
"rankling",
"rebarbative",
"riling",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
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"adjective",
"adverb"
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"annual":{
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"the high-school annual"
],
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"annual plants"
],
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"annual rainfall",
"annual income"
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"an annual reunion",
"an annual physical checkup"
]
},
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"Adjective",
"The annual meeting is in July.",
"The company's earnings for last year are published in the annual report.",
"We had more snow this year than the average annual amount.",
"The company charges an annual fee of $45.",
"Noun",
"We planted some annuals in front of the house.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Walt Disney World has released the list of performers set for this year\u2019s Eat to the Beat concert series, the musical component of the annual Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, which begins in mid-July. \u2014 Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
"What began was more than a quarter-century of service to Montgomery from Harbison, including supervising the city\u2019s annual Fourth of July festival for 25 years. \u2014 Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer , 30 June 2022",
"Musical Vive Latino is an annual music festival held in Mexico City that celebrates every Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking country in the Western Hemisphere. \u2014 Dave Brooks, Billboard , 28 June 2022",
"After being canceled twice due to COVID-19, the annual Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts was once again held at Worthy Farm, near Somerset, England. \u2014 Alan Taylor, The Atlantic , 27 June 2022",
"Take, for example, the attendees of Burning Man, an annual festival in Black Rock Desert in Nevada. \u2014 Dimitris Xygalatas, The Conversation , 23 June 2022",
"According to the fourth annual Optum Survey on AI in Health Care, 98% of healthcare organizations have or planning to implement an AI strategy, including 48% who have implemented already. \u2014 Gil Press, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Germany ranked fifth in the world for per-capita beer consumption in 2020, according to an annual survey by Kirin, the Japanese brewer. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
"As the winner, Lo receives $250,000 in prize money, a feature in Food & Wine magazine, and an appearance at the annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 3 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This upcoming fall, the 8th annual Through Her Lens Program will return to New York City. \u2014 Elise\u00e9 Browchuk, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
"Live entertainment for the fourth annual , Carnival-style party will feature rapper Lil Wayne, DJs Zedd and Diplo and a special performance by a 7-1 man who\u2019s likely the tallest DJ on the planet. \u2014 Josh Peter, USA TODAY , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Besides its good looks, 'Royal Velvet' is a fragrant annual with a distinct scent that's especially strong in late afternoon and early evening. \u2014 Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens , 19 May 2021",
"Area garden centers can help residents choose from a wide variety of deer-resistant annuals and perennials. \u2014 cleveland , 4 June 2020",
"John Cooley, an entomologist at the University of Connecticut, says their relatively long life cycles aren\u2019t what distinguish periodical cicadas from annuals . \u2014 Amy Mckeever, National Geographic , 3 June 2020",
"Plant single species or mixes of warm-season annuals about one inch deep. \u2014 Gerald Almy, Field & Stream , 28 May 2020",
"At Bigelow Nurseries in Northborough, Mass., workers stayed hours after closing on Friday, pulling in annuals like begonias and petunias. \u2014 Maria Cramer, New York Times , 9 May 2020",
"Choose drought-tolerant plants and/or native vegetation, and perennials instead of annuals . \u2014 Susan Jin Davis, NBC News , 22 Apr. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French annuel , from Late Latin annualis , blend of Latin annuus yearly (from annus year) and Latin annalis yearly (from annus year); probably akin to Goth athnam (dative plural) years, Sanskrit atati he walks, goes":"Adjective and Noun"
},
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"\u02c8an-y\u0259-w\u0259l",
"-y\u00fc-\u0259l",
"\u02c8an-y\u0259(-w\u0259)l"
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"type":[
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]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": a provision in a labor contract calling for an annual increase in the hourly wage rates of the workers so as to provide a constantly rising standard of living":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1948, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125416",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annual increment":{
"antonyms":[],
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": an annual salary increase":[
"Employees receive an annual increment of three percent."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114036",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
"annual percentage yield":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a measurement of an account's interest rate based upon the interest that accrues on the account balance after a period of one year":[
"Bankrate, which surveyed 211 banks and credit unions nationwide, found that 58 of the financial institutions offer such accounts with an average annual percentage yield of 3.3 percent.",
"\u2014 Jennifer Saranow Schultz, NYTimes.com , 1 Apr. 2010",
"\u2014 abbreviation APY"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1969, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111002",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annual phlox":{
"antonyms":[],
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": any of various phloxes derived from an herb ( Phlox drummondii ) with erect stems usually less than 18 inches high, leaves 1 to 3 inches long, the upper ones alternate, and flowers in close clusters \u2014 compare perennial phlox":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1835, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120558",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annuit coeptis":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": He (God) has approved our undertakings":[
"\u2014 motto on the reverse of the Great Seal of the U.S."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u00e4-n\u00fc-\u02ccit-\u02c8k\u022fip-\u02cct\u0113s"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124722",
"type":[
"Latin phrase"
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},
"annuitize":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to convert an amount of money (such as an accumulation of retirement savings) to an annuity":[
"\u2026 the standard advice is to annuitize the portion of your nest egg you'll need to cover living expenses \u2026",
"\u2014 Scott Woolley"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Higher discount rates, typically long-term corporate bond yields, lead to lower liabilities, thus reducing the amount of money companies would pay to insurers to annuitize . \u2014 Mark Maurer, WSJ , 22 Aug. 2021",
"Most people don\u2019t annuitize their retirement savings, even if reduces risk and means more income. \u2014 Allison Schrager, Quartz , 3 June 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1786, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
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"\u0259-\u02c8n(y)\u00fc-\u0259-\u02cct\u012bz"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120314",
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"noun",
"verb"
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"annuity":{
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": a sum of money payable yearly or at other regular intervals":[],
": the right to receive an annuity":[]
},
"examples":[
"Part of her retirement income will come from an annuity .",
"his grandfather's will provided him with an annuity of $5,000 a year to be used for school expenses",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In using these grantor retained annuity trusts, or GRATs, Yass joins dozens of other billionaires, as ProPublica has reported. \u2014 Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica , 21 June 2022",
"The beneficiary includes in income only a small portion of the annuity proceeds and treats the remainder as a tax-free return on investment (see IRC sections 72 and 664). \u2014 Carrie Brandon Elliott, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"The woman recently claimed her prize and opted to receive a one-time lump sum payment of about $2.5 million instead of annuity payments for the full amount. \u2014 Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press , 3 June 2022",
"Brown, whose winning numbers were 15, 33, 34, 40, 42, and 47, decided to take the 30-year annuity that will provide him with some $200,000 per year after taxes. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Currently, only about 10% of 401(k) plans across the country offer annuity options according to the Plan Sponsor Council of America. \u2014 Amy Wagner And Steve Sprovach, The Enquirer , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Smith was collecting $6,897 per month and also had already received $116,134 in an annuity cash payout from the retirement system. \u2014 Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Easy-to-find online annuity calculators show payout annuities today providing more in annual income from $1 million than either a 4% withdrawal strategy or a 3.3% withdrawal plan in early retirement years. \u2014 WSJ , 19 Nov. 2021",
"As for the annuity option, this removes that potential risk of temptation since your money is being spread out over incremental payments. \u2014 Amy Wagner And Steve Sprovach, The Enquirer , 5 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English annuite , from Anglo-French annuit\u00e9 , from Medieval Latin annuitat-, annuitas , from Latin annuus yearly":""
},
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"\u0259-\u02c8n\u00fc-\u0259-t\u0113",
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u00fc-\u0259-t\u0113, -\u02c8ny\u00fc-",
"-\u02c8ny\u00fc-"
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"allocation",
"allotment",
"appropriation",
"entitlement",
"grant",
"subsidy",
"subvention"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110740",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annul":{
"antonyms":[],
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": to declare or make legally invalid or void":[
"wants the marriage annulled",
"His title to the estate was annulled ."
],
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"annul a drug's effect"
],
": to reduce to nothing : obliterate":[]
},
"examples":[
"unfortunately, his arrogant attitude annuls the many generous favors he does for people",
"plans to annul their short-lived, ill-advised marriage",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Biberaj has filed a petition with the Virginia Supreme Court asking it to annul the order disqualifying all 23 lawyers in her office from the Valle case. \u2014 Tom Jackman, Washington Post , 26 June 2022",
"The high court decided not to annul the appeals court decision, noting that because the case had become moot, secretaries of state would not be bound to follow the Court of Appeals ruling. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 Feb. 2022",
"His execution of Brexit, after three years in which members of Parliament had attempted to annul the referendum to leave the European Union, was a master class in sheer political willpower. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 7 Feb. 2022",
"The home team appeared to have scored the go-ahead goal in the 40th minute when a shot from Mukhtar was saved by Gallese but quickly fumbled before Anibal Godoy slotted the rebound into the net, but was flagged offside to annul the goal. \u2014 Mike Gramajo, orlandosentinel.com , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Jesse Law, who ran the Trump campaign\u2019s Election Day operations in Nevada, sued the Democratic electors, seeking to declare Trump the winner or annul the results. \u2014 Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica , 2 Sep. 2021",
"An official result won\u2019t be announced until the election board chooses to accept or decline Ms. Fujimori\u2019s appeals, which seek to annul votes from regions dominated by Mr. Castillo. \u2014 Ryan Dube, WSJ , 15 June 2021",
"Multiple companies, notably in the financial sector, have in the past year voluntarily acquired carbon credits in order to annul their carbon footprint in the past year \u2013 even in the absence of such a framework. \u2014 Control Risks, Forbes , 19 May 2021",
"Countries that fail to strike affordable licensing deals with global pharmaceutical companies can essentially annul their patents, in a process known as compulsory licensing, so that local generic drugmakers can produce their own versions. \u2014 David Fickling, Star Tribune , 20 Apr. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English annullen , from Anglo-French annuller , from Late Latin annullare , from Latin ad- + nullus not any \u2014 more at null":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u0259l"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for annul nullify , negate , annul , abrogate , invalidate mean to deprive of effective or continued existence. nullify implies counteracting completely the force, effectiveness, or value of something. a penalty nullified the touchdown negate implies the destruction or canceling out of each of two things by the other. the arguments negate each other annul suggests making ineffective or nonexistent often by legal or official action. the treaty annuls all previous agreements abrogate is like annul but more definitely implies a legal or official act. a law to abrogate trading privileges invalidate implies making something powerless or unacceptable by declaration of its logical or moral or legal unsoundness. the court invalidated the statute",
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"cancel (out)",
"compensate (for)",
"correct",
"counteract",
"counterbalance",
"counterpoise",
"make up (for)",
"negative",
"neutralize",
"offset"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044605",
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
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},
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"antonyms":[],
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"wants the marriage annulled",
"His title to the estate was annulled ."
],
": to make ineffective or inoperative : neutralize":[
"annul a drug's effect"
],
": to reduce to nothing : obliterate":[]
},
"examples":[
"unfortunately, his arrogant attitude annuls the many generous favors he does for people",
"plans to annul their short-lived, ill-advised marriage",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Biberaj has filed a petition with the Virginia Supreme Court asking it to annul the order disqualifying all 23 lawyers in her office from the Valle case. \u2014 Tom Jackman, Washington Post , 26 June 2022",
"The high court decided not to annul the appeals court decision, noting that because the case had become moot, secretaries of state would not be bound to follow the Court of Appeals ruling. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 Feb. 2022",
"His execution of Brexit, after three years in which members of Parliament had attempted to annul the referendum to leave the European Union, was a master class in sheer political willpower. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 7 Feb. 2022",
"The home team appeared to have scored the go-ahead goal in the 40th minute when a shot from Mukhtar was saved by Gallese but quickly fumbled before Anibal Godoy slotted the rebound into the net, but was flagged offside to annul the goal. \u2014 Mike Gramajo, orlandosentinel.com , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Jesse Law, who ran the Trump campaign\u2019s Election Day operations in Nevada, sued the Democratic electors, seeking to declare Trump the winner or annul the results. \u2014 Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica , 2 Sep. 2021",
"An official result won\u2019t be announced until the election board chooses to accept or decline Ms. Fujimori\u2019s appeals, which seek to annul votes from regions dominated by Mr. Castillo. \u2014 Ryan Dube, WSJ , 15 June 2021",
"Multiple companies, notably in the financial sector, have in the past year voluntarily acquired carbon credits in order to annul their carbon footprint in the past year \u2013 even in the absence of such a framework. \u2014 Control Risks, Forbes , 19 May 2021",
"Countries that fail to strike affordable licensing deals with global pharmaceutical companies can essentially annul their patents, in a process known as compulsory licensing, so that local generic drugmakers can produce their own versions. \u2014 David Fickling, Star Tribune , 20 Apr. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
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"Middle English annullen , from Anglo-French annuller , from Late Latin annullare , from Latin ad- + nullus not any \u2014 more at null":""
},
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"\u0259-\u02c8n\u0259l"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for annul nullify , negate , annul , abrogate , invalidate mean to deprive of effective or continued existence. nullify implies counteracting completely the force, effectiveness, or value of something. a penalty nullified the touchdown negate implies the destruction or canceling out of each of two things by the other. the arguments negate each other annul suggests making ineffective or nonexistent often by legal or official action. the treaty annuls all previous agreements abrogate is like annul but more definitely implies a legal or official act. a law to abrogate trading privileges invalidate implies making something powerless or unacceptable by declaration of its logical or moral or legal unsoundness. the court invalidated the statute",
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"compensate (for)",
"correct",
"counteract",
"counterbalance",
"counterpoise",
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"negative",
"neutralize",
"offset"
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"type":[
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"transitive verb",
"verb"
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": to declare or make legally invalid or void":[
"wants the marriage annulled",
"His title to the estate was annulled ."
],
": to make ineffective or inoperative : neutralize":[
"annul a drug's effect"
],
": to reduce to nothing : obliterate":[]
},
"examples":[
"unfortunately, his arrogant attitude annuls the many generous favors he does for people",
"plans to annul their short-lived, ill-advised marriage",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Biberaj has filed a petition with the Virginia Supreme Court asking it to annul the order disqualifying all 23 lawyers in her office from the Valle case. \u2014 Tom Jackman, Washington Post , 26 June 2022",
"The high court decided not to annul the appeals court decision, noting that because the case had become moot, secretaries of state would not be bound to follow the Court of Appeals ruling. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 Feb. 2022",
"His execution of Brexit, after three years in which members of Parliament had attempted to annul the referendum to leave the European Union, was a master class in sheer political willpower. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 7 Feb. 2022",
"The home team appeared to have scored the go-ahead goal in the 40th minute when a shot from Mukhtar was saved by Gallese but quickly fumbled before Anibal Godoy slotted the rebound into the net, but was flagged offside to annul the goal. \u2014 Mike Gramajo, orlandosentinel.com , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Jesse Law, who ran the Trump campaign\u2019s Election Day operations in Nevada, sued the Democratic electors, seeking to declare Trump the winner or annul the results. \u2014 Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica , 2 Sep. 2021",
"An official result won\u2019t be announced until the election board chooses to accept or decline Ms. Fujimori\u2019s appeals, which seek to annul votes from regions dominated by Mr. Castillo. \u2014 Ryan Dube, WSJ , 15 June 2021",
"Multiple companies, notably in the financial sector, have in the past year voluntarily acquired carbon credits in order to annul their carbon footprint in the past year \u2013 even in the absence of such a framework. \u2014 Control Risks, Forbes , 19 May 2021",
"Countries that fail to strike affordable licensing deals with global pharmaceutical companies can essentially annul their patents, in a process known as compulsory licensing, so that local generic drugmakers can produce their own versions. \u2014 David Fickling, Star Tribune , 20 Apr. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English annullen , from Anglo-French annuller , from Late Latin annullare , from Latin ad- + nullus not any \u2014 more at null":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for annul nullify , negate , annul , abrogate , invalidate mean to deprive of effective or continued existence. nullify implies counteracting completely the force, effectiveness, or value of something. a penalty nullified the touchdown negate implies the destruction or canceling out of each of two things by the other. the arguments negate each other annul suggests making ineffective or nonexistent often by legal or official action. the treaty annuls all previous agreements abrogate is like annul but more definitely implies a legal or official act. a law to abrogate trading privileges invalidate implies making something powerless or unacceptable by declaration of its logical or moral or legal unsoundness. the court invalidated the statute",
"synonyms":[
"cancel (out)",
"compensate (for)",
"correct",
"counteract",
"counterbalance",
"counterpoise",
"make up (for)",
"negative",
"neutralize",
"offset"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110943",
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"annulment":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a judicial or ecclesiastical pronouncement declaring a marriage invalid":[],
": the act of annulling something : the state of being annulled":[]
},
"examples":[
"an annulment of that hastily conceived marriage can't come too soon",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"What does the Catholic Church teach about annulment ? \u2014 Clare Ansberry, WSJ , 20 June 2022",
"The two were married for less than three days in 2004 before an annulment . \u2014 Andrew Dalton And Jeff Turner, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
"In August, the court decided that there was no legal basis for annulment and also denied Johnson\u2019s request for spousal support. \u2014 The Arizona Republic , 5 Mar. 2022",
"The divorce, which became finalized in 1978, was the first official split in the immediate family of a reigning monarch since King Henry's VIII's annulment . \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Grounds for Catholic annulment were much more strict before reforms introduced in the U.S. in 1968. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Nov. 2021",
"Bharti explains that people turn to jati panchayats not knowing the difference between an annulment and a divorce and expecting divorces to be expensive, laborious processes. \u2014 Esha Mitra, CNN , 20 Nov. 2021",
"German lawmakers in 2017 approved the annulment of thousands of convictions under the Paragraph 175 law, which remained in force in West Germany in its Nazi-era form until homosexuality was decriminalized in 1969. \u2014 NBC News , 14 Sep. 2021",
"The Anglican Church originated when King Henry VIII split from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534, when the pope refused to grant the king an annulment . \u2014 CNN , 19 Aug. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u0259l-m\u0259nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"abatement",
"abolishment",
"abolition",
"abrogation",
"avoidance",
"cancellation",
"cancelation",
"defeasance",
"dissolution",
"invalidation",
"negation",
"nullification",
"quashing",
"repeal",
"rescindment",
"voiding"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110805",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annunciate":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": announce":[]
},
"examples":[
"a politician is wise to annunciate past minor transgressions before the media make something major of them",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Visiting a place again and again, year after year, annunciates the slow progress of human growth. \u2014 Nathan Heller, The New Yorker , 15 Jan. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1536, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u0259n(t)-s\u0113-\u02cc\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"advertise",
"announce",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"enunciate",
"flash",
"give out",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"release",
"sound",
"trumpet"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035320",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anodyne":{
"antonyms":[
"analgesic",
"anesthetic",
"painkiller"
],
"definitions":{
": a drug that allays pain":[],
": not likely to offend or arouse tensions : innocuous":[
"\u2026 his speech contained a single anodyne reference to the man who preceded him.",
"\u2014 John F. Burns"
],
": serving to alleviate pain":[
"the anodyne properties of certain drugs"
],
": something that soothes, calms, or comforts":[
"The sweetness of sojourn there \u2026 was an anodyne for the sorrows the pilgrims had endured \u2026",
"\u2014 Amy Kelly"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"the otherwise anodyne comments sounded quite inflammatory when taken out of context",
"Noun",
"the dentist prescribed an anodyne after the root canal",
"as an anodyne for the stress and superficiality of the modern world, there's nothing better than reading a literary classic of substance and insight",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Since the start of the Covid-19 crisis, Zoom has evolved from being anodyne conference call software to a household name symbolizing much of remote-work life. \u2014 Marty Swant, Forbes , 29 Sep. 2021",
"But that seems to be an anodyne way of saying that the exact nature, cause, and solution to burnout aren't entirely clear. \u2014 Whizy Kim, refinery29.com , 28 Sep. 2021",
"When skeptics question tenets of critical race theory that are far more radical than this anodyne description suggests, these same activists perform one of two rhetorical maneuvers. \u2014 Cameron Hilditch, National Review , 11 July 2021",
"For Eastman, an anodyne new music culture that prided itself on functioning outside of personal identity is what needed changing. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2021",
"For officials of both the U.S. Armed Forces Radio and the Chinese Communist Party, Denver offered an anodyne simplicity fit for programming, and in this simplicity, millions of Asian listeners found resonance. \u2014 Jason Jeong, The Atlantic , 4 May 2021",
"Whether this shift toward a more anodyne , algorithmic ethos is a good thing, of course, depends on your vantage point. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Feb. 2021",
"Despite massive public investment, Victory Park is only just emerging from its status as an anodyne , corporate non-place into an area that bears a semblance of humanity. \u2014 Mark Lamster, Dallas News , 18 Dec. 2020",
"Another patient leaves an anodyne message requesting medication refills. \u2014 Danielle Ofri, The New Yorker , 1 Oct. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Peterson pauses, running his hand along the blue aluminum- anodyne actuator machined to match the length of Daniel\u2019s right thigh. \u2014 John Brant, Popular Mechanics , 27 Apr. 2020",
"This is the confluence that defines the spectacle: statistics, like photographs, have a kind of moral authority, one whose meaning may repel us but one that nevertheless encourages certainty, and thus anodyne . \u2014 Shannon Pufahl, The New York Review of Books , 21 Apr. 2020",
"Ten years ago, lazy auto writers used the Toyota Camry as shorthand for anodyne transportation, a car for people who think of cars as appliances. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver , 13 Mar. 2020",
"The result of all that rulemaking and political sensitivity is the anodyne Covid-19. \u2014 Adam Rogers, Wired , 11 Feb. 2020",
"To yield to the soft tyranny of transgender pronouns is to pretend that gender dysphoria is an anodyne lifestyle on which societal legitimacy should be conferred, not a psychological malady requiring compassion and psychological treatment. \u2014 Josh Hammer, National Review , 27 Jan. 2020",
"As head of state, the British monarch is expected to remain publicly neutral on political matters, and the queen\u2019s addresses tend to be broad, anodyne and even a little opaque. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Dec. 2019",
"Santa Clausification\u2019\u2014the softening of a public figure\u2019s profile into something more anodyne and broadly acceptable. \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 25 Sep. 2019",
"Even gluttony can be spun as anodyne , a form of self-care. \u2014 Carrie Battan, The New Yorker , 2 Dec. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1543, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"circa 1550, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin an\u014ddynum \"something allaying pain,\" borrowed from Greek an\u1e53dynon \"freedom from pain,\" noun derivative of an\u1e53dynos \"free from pain, causing no pain, harmless, allaying pain\" \u2014 more at anodyne entry 1":"Noun",
"borrowed from Latin an\u014ddynus \"allaying pain,\" borrowed from Greek an\u1e53dynos \"free from pain, causing no pain, harmless, allaying pain,\" from an- an- + -\u014ddynos, adjective derivative (with compositional lengthening) of od\u00fdn\u0113 \"pain,\" of uncertain origin":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccd\u012bn",
"\u02c8an-\u0259-\u02ccd\u012bn"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"benign",
"harmless",
"hurtless",
"innocent",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive",
"safe",
"white"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192626",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"anoint":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to apply oil to as part of a religious ceremony":[
"The priest anointed the sick."
],
": to smear or rub with oil or an oily substance":[]
},
"examples":[
"The magazine anointed her the most popular actress of the year.",
"anoint the wound with antiseptic to prevent infection",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Moscow Patriarchate has sought to anoint itself the true seat of Orthodoxy ever since Constantinople, now Istanbul, fell to Islamic invaders in 1453. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Apr. 2022",
"That elite defensive performance has led Las Vegas odds-makers to anoint Georgia a 21.5-point favorite versus the first Kentucky team to win its first six games of the season since 1950. \u2014 Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal , 15 Oct. 2021",
"Burmese people also believe that washing their hair with tayaw kinbun will get rid of bad luck and anoint them with dignified blessings. \u2014 Jada Jackson, Allure , 5 Apr. 2022",
"If Purdue wins the primary and then bests Abrams next November, expect Georgia to join the camp of states angling to anoint a Republican president in 2024 no matter what the voters decide. \u2014 David Faris, The Week , 1 Jan. 2022",
"Thankfully, on his fifth album, Dawn FM, the Weeknd focuses those interstellar ambitions to anoint us with the most enchanting music to the portal through purgatory. \u2014 Will Dukes, Rolling Stone , 7 Jan. 2022",
"One of the great achievements of the American world order, crafted in the wake of World War II, was to anoint democracy as the ultimate form of political organization, the standard by which every country is judged. \u2014 Michael Schuman, The Atlantic , 14 Dec. 2021",
"For the January issue -- the magazine's first global issue -- AD editors from around the world sat down together virtually to anoint the most important architectural leaders and projects of the year. \u2014 CNN , 30 Nov. 2021",
"The changes to the nominating process came in response to the 1968 campaign and its upheavals, in particular the move by party leaders to anoint Democratic Vice President Hubert Humphrey despite fierce opposition from Vietnam War opponents. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Nov. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French enoint , past participle of enoindre , from Latin inunguere , from in- + unguere to smear \u2014 more at ointment":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u022fint"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bedaub",
"besmear",
"daub",
"smear"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171939",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"anomalous":{
"antonyms":[
"common",
"customary",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"unextraordinary",
"usual"
],
"definitions":{
": inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected : irregular , unusual":[
"Researchers could not explain the anomalous test results."
],
": marked by incongruity or contradiction : paradoxical":[],
": of uncertain nature or classification":[
"an anomalous figure in the world of politics"
]
},
"examples":[
"Researchers could not explain the anomalous test results.",
"that was an anomalous year for the housing industry, so the number of starts is anything but typical",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For its part, Roblox appears to view both the COVID-era spike and its subsequent fade as anomalous moments on an overall growth path. \u2014 Rob Walker, Fortune , 3 June 2022",
"The anomalous heat in the Arctic can form rising air from the surface, and that can strengthen the low pressure system, which is one of the the spinning vortex. \u2014 Emily Schwing, Scientific American , 19 May 2022",
"In each case, a major catastrophe, the Great Depression and the 9-11 terror attacks, probably explained the anomalous outcome. \u2014 Maya Wiley, The New Republic , 13 May 2022",
"The forces that drive inflation tend to move slowly, so the almost unprecedented surge since early 2021 means something anomalous is going on. \u2014 Greg Ip, WSJ , 12 May 2022",
"The shooting in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, that left 10 grocery shoppers dead wasn't anomalous . \u2014 Brandon Tensley, CNN , 19 May 2022",
"In the quick-service restaurant business, 34% year-over-year sales are stunningly anomalous , but that\u2019s exactly what Popeyes generated in the quarter following its late-2019 chicken sandwich launch. \u2014 Alicia Kelso, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
"That was enough to elevate the researchers\u2019 anomalous result to remarkable heights of statistical significance: nearly seven sigma, in the parlance of statistics. \u2014 Daniel Garisto, Scientific American , 7 Apr. 2022",
"However initially demoralizing and anomalous , these reductive ideas were developed into a comprehensive worldview. \u2014 M. D. Aeschliman, National Review , 27 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1655, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin anomalus , from Greek an\u014dmalos , literally, uneven, from a- + homalos even, from homos same \u2014 more at same":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u00e4-m\u0259-l\u0259s",
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u00e4m-\u0259-l\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for anomalous irregular , anomalous , unnatural mean not conforming to rule, law, or custom. irregular implies not conforming to a law or regulation imposed for the sake of uniformity in method, practice, or conduct. concerned about his irregular behavior anomalous implies not conforming to what might be expected because of the class or type to which it belongs or the laws that govern its existence. her drive made her an anomalous figure in a sleepy organization unnatural suggests what is contrary to nature or to principles or standards felt to be essential to the well-being of civilized society. prisoners treated with unnatural cruelty",
"synonyms":[
"aberrant",
"aberrated",
"abnormal",
"atypical",
"especial",
"exceeding",
"exceptional",
"extraordinaire",
"extraordinary",
"freak",
"odd",
"peculiar",
"phenomenal",
"preternatural",
"rare",
"singular",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111014",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"anomalous dispersion":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": dispersion of light in some refraction spectra in which the normal order of the separation of components is reversed in the vicinity of certain wavelengths":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1871, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114749",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anomaly":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": deviation from the common rule : irregularity":[],
": something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous":[
"They regarded the test results as an anomaly ."
],
": the angular distance of a planet from its perihelion as seen from the sun":[]
},
"examples":[
"In approximately 10% of patients, autism can be explained by genetic syndromes and known chromosomal anomalies (most of which have recognizable features in addition to autism) \u2026 \u2014 Lauren A. Weiss et al. , New England Journal of Medicine , 14 Feb. 2008",
"Eleven minutes may not sound like much when you're waiting for a table at your favorite restaurant, but in the course of centuries, eleven minutes and change become a formidable chunk of time. By the 1300s, those superfluous minutes had added up to hours, then days, then more than a week. The calendar was losing time, irrevocably, to the \"real\" year, slipping further and further behind in its measurement of the earth's orbit. Anomalies began to creep into what had been the certainties of life. The spring equinox\u2014one of two moments in the year when day and night are of equal length all over the earth, and which occurs on or about March 21\u2014began to fall on March 16, then 15, then 14. \u2014 Michelle Stacey , Harper's , December 2006",
"Californians aren't the only ones vexed by rolling brownouts and other power-supply anomalies . Everyday power spikes, surges, sags, and line noise cause computers, stereo equipment, televisions, telephones, and other delicate electronic equipment to go psychotic or have complete nervous breakdowns. \u2014 Fortune , 25 June 2001",
"This policy may well have made sense back when steroid use was an anomaly . Now that bulking up with chemical help seems to be more popular than ever, it's incumbent on baseball to take action. \u2014 Steve Kettman , New York Times , 20 Aug. 2000",
"We couldn't explain the anomalies in the test results.",
"her C grade is an anomaly , as she's never made anything except A's and B's before",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The map featured in the post shows a 0.1 degree Celsius temperature anomaly for May 9, 2022. \u2014 Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY , 31 May 2022",
"The festival\u2019s opening day last year was delayed by heavy rains \u2014 an anomaly in Southern California in September \u2014 that also led to a brief evacuation of the festival site. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"The rubbery clogs are certainly one of fashion\u2019s most polarizing shoes, but Lipa is an anomaly among her peers. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 2 June 2022",
"That film brought playful wit and tender observation to a spiky relationship between Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, playing a famous mother and daughter, their starry double-act an anomaly in Kore-eda\u2019s filmography. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 May 2022",
"But as more information came in, the bump in the data turned out to be a statistical anomaly , not a new particle. \u2014 Daniel Garisto, Scientific American , 27 Apr. 2022",
"But an anomaly just under the soil may cement its legacy in the annals of Chicago-area history. \u2014 Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com , 19 Dec. 2021",
"Grocery shopping is not typically a daily activity, but Miele is not an anomaly among Erewhon\u2019s extremely devoted and spendy customer base. \u2014 Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Gaspery Roberts travels through time, hunting for answers to a mysterious anomaly . \u2014 Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor , 13 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1603, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see anomalous":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u00e4-m\u0259-l\u0113",
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u00e4m-\u0259-l\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"aberration",
"abnormality",
"exception",
"oddity",
"oddment",
"rarity"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110047",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anon":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": after a while : later":[
"more of that anon"
],
": at once : immediately":[],
": soon , presently":[
"\u2026 tomorrow will be here anon .",
"\u2014 Nathaniel Hawthorne"
],
"anonymous ; anonymously":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adverb",
"I will answer his letter anon .",
"be ready\u2014we will begin our Yuletide Boar's Head Feast anon",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Look Alive\u2019 The Drake comeback continues anon with this appealingly greasy collaboration with the rising Memphis rapper BlocBoy JB. \u2014 Jon Pareles, New York Times , 9 Feb. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Adverb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English on \u0101n , from on in + \u0101n one \u2014 more at on , one":"Adverb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u00e4n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"before long",
"by and by",
"directly",
"momentarily",
"presently",
"shortly",
"soon"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071159",
"type":[
"abbreviation",
"adverb"
]
},
"anonang":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1859, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Tagalog":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u02c8n\u014d\u02ccn\u00e4\u014b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165938",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anoncillo":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the fiber yielded by the bark of various Venezuelan trees on the genus Annona":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1920, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"American Spanish, diminutive of Spanish an\u00f3n":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u00e4(\u02cc)n\u014dn\u02c8s\u0113l\u02ccy\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082404",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anonym":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an anonymous person":[],
": pseudonym":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1793, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccnim"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014650",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anonymity":{
"antonyms":[
"celebrity",
"fame",
"notoriety",
"renown"
],
"definitions":{
": one that is anonymous":[
"a crowd of faceless anonymities"
],
": the quality or state of being anonymous":[
"enjoyed the anonymity of life in a large city"
]
},
"examples":[
"They are trying to protect their child's anonymity .",
"She enjoyed the anonymity of life in a large city.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Both people spoke on condition of anonymity because the hearing isn\u2019t public. \u2014 Rob Maaddi, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the situation. \u2014 Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY , 29 June 2022",
"In all, 48 people were dead at the scene and two died later at hospitals, said a federal law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity . \u2014 Nicole Chavez, CNN , 29 June 2022",
"And some employees are getting frustrated, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. \u2014 Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"McLaurin agreed to terms on a three-year contract, according to two people with knowledge of the move who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the deal had not been announced. \u2014 Stephen Whyno, Baltimore Sun , 28 June 2022",
"The person familiar with the committee\u2019s plans to call Hutchinson could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity . \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2022",
"The person familiar with the committee's plans to call Hutchinson could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity . \u2014 Mary Clare Jalonick, Farnoush Amiri, Chron , 28 June 2022",
"The hearing will continue Wednesday, and Watson is scheduled to be there for the duration, according to one person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the hearing isn\u2019t public. \u2014 Rob Maaddi, Chicago Tribune , 28 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1820, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see anonymous":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8ni-m\u0259-t\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"facelessness",
"namelessness",
"nowhere",
"nowheresville",
"obscurity",
"silence"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180513",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anonymize":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to remove identifying information from (something, such as computer data) so that the original source cannot be known : to make (something) anonymous":[
"There's an incredible amount of data in your travel profile. So they improved security and created a sophisticated way to anonymize data.",
"\u2014 Dana Hawkins"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Look out for loopholes the app may be using, such as claiming to de-identify or anonymize personal data. \u2014 Heather Kelly, Washington Post , 7 June 2022",
"The committee has agreed to anonymize accounts from those who have expressed fear or discomfort with publicly coming forward, according to people involved with the investigation. \u2014 Jacqueline Alemany, Josh Dawsey And Amy Gardner, Anchorage Daily News , 6 June 2022",
"Once the full network of hundreds of cameras is built, QuayChain will have an ongoing contract to manage and anonymize the data. \u2014 Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 June 2022",
"Given that history, the question of how much to anonymize a patient in these tales is well-trod territory for medical ethicists. \u2014 Rose Eveleth, Wired , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Essentially, Unity says, PeopleSansPeople will help anonymize data collected about humans going about their lives, and the software\u2019s operators can modulate those virtual people\u2019s appearances to create more customizable datasets. \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 18 Jan. 2022",
"The report will anonymize the information to get around restrictions on releasing discipline information for individual officers, Briggs said. \u2014 Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times , 13 Jan. 2022",
"One way is to anonymize data and share it across different industries to aid in the development of predictive models that help manage legal risk more effectively. \u2014 Mark A. Cohen, Forbes , 4 Oct. 2021",
"While Big Tech outfits can afford to hire specialized privacy engineers to anonymize sensitive data, developers at smaller companies typically wait weeks or months for compliance approvals to access similar data. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 Oct. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1858, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"anonym(ous) + -ize":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u00e4-n\u0259-\u02ccm\u012bz"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093447",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"anonymous":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": lacking individuality, distinction, or recognizability":[
"the anonymous faces in the crowd",
"\u2026 the gray anonymous streets \u2026",
"\u2014 William Styron"
],
": not named or identified":[
"an anonymous author",
"They wish to remain anonymous ."
],
": of unknown authorship or origin":[
"an anonymous tip"
]
},
"examples":[
"The donor wishes to remain anonymous .",
"An anonymous buyer purchased the painting.",
"The college received an anonymous gift.",
"He made an anonymous phone call to the police.",
"The reporter got an anonymous tip.",
"His was just another anonymous face in the crowd.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Tipsters to Crime Stoppers can remain anonymous and are eligible for a cash reward. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 30 June 2022",
"To remain anonymous , contact Milwaukee Crime Stoppers at 414-224-Tips or use the P3 Tips app. \u2014 Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
"Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact IMPD by dialing 317-327-3475 or CrimeStoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477 to remain anonymous . Contact Jake Allen at jake.allen@indystar.com. \u2014 Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star , 30 June 2022",
"But The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed with possible bidders on the controlling interest, who wished to remain anonymous , that an informal sales process is underway. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 30 June 2022",
"The teenager, who asked to remain anonymous due to not being completely out, uses the gender-neutral or gender-inclusive pronouns zie/zem/zeir. \u2014 Rachel Fadem, CNN , 29 June 2022",
"Police asked anyone with information about the second individual or the investigation \u2014 including surveillance footage \u2014 to call 911, or contact Crime Stoppers at anchoragecrimestoppers.com or 907-561-STOP to remain anonymous . \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 27 June 2022",
"Another Dalit tech worker, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, said the stakes of coming forward are extremely high. \u2014 Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News , 23 June 2022",
"The 61-year-old player, who wants to remain anonymous , bought the Cashword Times 10 ticket at the BP gas station at 3592 East Apple Avenue in Muskegon. \u2014 Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press , 22 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1563, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin anonymus , from Greek an\u014dnymos , from a- + onyma name \u2014 more at name":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u00e4-n\u0259-m\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"certain",
"given",
"one",
"some",
"unidentified",
"unnamed",
"unspecified"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-002446",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"another":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an additional one of the same kind : one more":[
"one copy to send out, another for the files"
],
": being one more in addition to one or more of the same kind":[
"have another piece of pie"
],
": different or distinct from the one first considered":[
"the same scene viewed from another angle"
],
": one of a group of unspecified or indefinite things":[
"in one way or another"
],
": one that is different from the first or present one":[
"Complaining about problems is one thing, but finding solutions to them is another ."
],
": some other":[
"do it another time"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"Should we open another bottle of wine?",
"That's another way of saying the same thing.",
"We had dinner at another one of the city's many Italian restaurants.",
"This is yet another example of government waste.",
"We'll discuss this again on another occasion.",
"The view is very different when it is seen from another angle.",
"Please bring me another cup. This one is chipped.",
"The city advertises itself as another Las Vegas.",
"Pronoun",
"I've had one drink, but I think I'll have another .",
"One copy of the letter was sent out, and another was placed in the files.",
"This cup is chipped. Could you please bring me another ?",
"We had dinner at another of the city's many Italian restaurants.",
"The family seems to move from one city to another .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Chief Randal Taylor, in an another car behind Adams, aided the pursuit, the police said. \u2014 Justin L. Mack, Indianapolis Star , 7 May 2020",
"This desire to preserve tradition, however, is likely to be met with a growing desire to preserve an another value: openness. \u2014 Jeff John Roberts, Fortune , 22 Mar. 2020",
"As the Gophers kept winning in a historic season, stakes surrounding their season-ending rivalry game with Wisconsin kept ratcheting up \u2014 outgrowing even the another annual Battle for Paul Bunyan\u2019s Axe. \u2014 Andy Greder, Twin Cities , 30 Nov. 2019",
"The bones are from two sites, one about 200 years old and another about 100 years old, left by ancestors of today's Kenai Peninsula-area Sugpiaq people. \u2014 Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News , 4 Aug. 2017",
"Upstairs on the roof is an another buzzworthy amenity: An under-construction roof deck, built atop a combination of steel and lightweight foam. \u2014 Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com , 17 Oct. 2019",
"Bradley was not so successful in an another foray into international flights. \u2014 Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com , 2 July 2018",
"By abandoning agreements America had made, Trump may have also inadvertently cleared an another path forward for his North Korean counterpart. \u2014 Brett Bruen, Time , 12 June 2018",
"Products from their stores in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin purchased between Sept. 27 through Oct. 20, are also affected, according to an another FDA release. \u2014 Thomas Novelly, The Courier-Journal , 23 Oct. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Pronoun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see other entry 1":"Pronoun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"or \u0101-",
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u0259-t\u035fh\u0259r",
"also a-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"added",
"additional",
"else",
"farther",
"fresh",
"further",
"more",
"other"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095906",
"type":[
"adjective",
"pronoun"
]
},
"another thing/matter/story":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": something that does not automatically follow from the previous stated fact":[
"I'm willing to help you, but if you're asking for money, that's another thing/matter/story ."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113744",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anseriform":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of or belonging to the Anseriformes":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1897, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Anseriformes":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-r\u0259\u02ccf\u022frm"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-111706",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anserine":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a crystalline base C 10 H 16 N 4 O 3 found in the muscles of birds; methyl-carnosine":[],
": of or belonging to the Anseres":[
"the anserine birds"
],
": of, relating to, or resembling a goose":[
"anserine characteristics"
],
": stupid , silly":[
"ridiculous anserine behavior"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1719, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1936, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin anserinus , from anser goose + -inus -ine":"Adjective",
"borrowed from German Anserin , from Latin anser \"goose\" + German -in -in entry 1 , -ine entry 2":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"-r\u0259\u0307n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-183034",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"anserine skin":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": goose flesh":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1840, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184841",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anserous":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": like a goose : stupid , silly \u2014 compare anserine entry 1":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1826, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin anser goose + English -ous":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-175540",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ansu":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an apricot ( Prunus armeniaca ansu ) that is native to Korea but is cultivated also in Japan":[],
": apricot sense 1":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1927, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Japanese anzu":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-z\u00fc",
"\u02c8\u00e4n\u02ccs\u00fc"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032206",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"answer":{
"antonyms":[
"come back",
"rejoin",
"reply",
"respond",
"retort",
"return",
"riposte"
],
"definitions":{
": a correct response":[
"knows the answer"
],
": a solution of a problem":[
"More money is not the answer ."
],
": one that imitates, matches, or corresponds to another":[
"The show is television's answer to the newsmagazines."
],
": something done in response or reaction":[
"His only answer was to walk out."
],
": something spoken or written in reply to a question":[
"His answer surprised us."
],
": to act in response to":[
"answered the call to arms"
],
": to act in response to an action performed elsewhere or by another":[
"The home team scored first but the visitors answered quickly."
],
": to atone for":[],
": to be adequate : serve":[
"an old bucket answered for a sink",
"The school had to answer for a town hall."
],
": to be adequate or usable for : fulfill":[
"answer a need"
],
": to be in conformity or correspondence":[
"She answered to the description."
],
": to be or make oneself responsible or accountable":[
"answer for a debt"
],
": to correspond to":[
"answers the description"
],
": to make amends : atone":[
"He must answer for his crimes."
],
": to reply to in rebuttal, justification, or explanation":[
"answer an accusation"
],
": to say or write by way of reply":[
"answer yes or no"
],
": to speak or write in reply":[
"think carefully before answering"
],
": to speak or write in reply to":[
"answer a question",
"answer me"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"I asked him a simple question and he gave me a long and confusing answer .",
"I didn't believe her answer .",
"They wouldn't give me a straight answer to my question.",
"I didn't know the right answer .",
"That is the wrong answer .",
"Do you know the answer to this question?",
"He knew the answers to only 3 of the 10 questions.",
"The answers are listed in the back of the book.",
"Verb",
"She answered all my questions.",
"He answered only three of the test questions correctly.",
"When the police asked him his name, he refused to answer .",
"When I ask you a question I expect you to answer me!",
"Answer me this: where have you put my money?",
"I sent her a letter asking for her help, but she never answered .",
"The phone rang repeatedly, but no one answered .",
"Would somebody please answer the phone?",
"I knocked on the door but no one answered .",
"No one answered the door.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"For answers, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and- answer tool from Oregon State University\u2019s Extension Service. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 June 2022",
"The answer , perhaps surprisingly, was birth control. \u2014 Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune , 25 June 2022",
"In a question-and- answer session, committee members pressed the New Hampshire officials about how the state would respond if the committee decides to move it later in the process. \u2014 Brianne Pfannenstiel, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"Sorvig said many of the screened films' architects will be present throughout the festival for post-screening question-and- answer sessions as well as after-hours events. \u2014 Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star , 23 June 2022",
"In fact, Musk repeatedly contradicted himself throughout the question-and- answer session. \u2014 Scott Nover, Quartz , 16 June 2022",
"The plans of the always unpredictable Mr. Musk could still change and the question-and- answer format could prompt him to expand on these and other topics. \u2014 Cara Lombardo, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"Cleveland\u2019s public-relations headache intensified on Tuesday when the team \u2014 apparently coincidentally \u2014 invited fans on Twitter to participate in a question-and- answer session just minutes after The Times published its investigation. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
"Her sister, Officer Andrea Galbraith of the South Euclid Police Department, set up a tour and a question-and- answer session with K9 Kaos for Will and members of his day program. \u2014 cleveland , 7 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The spokesperson did not respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s recent request for an interview regarding the case and did not answer questions about when the office\u2019s investigation began or whether there are any updates in the case. \u2014 Fox News , 24 June 2022",
"Quinn would have to answer for why the Rangers fell flat at the end of his tenure. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"That includes my teammates in this locker room that have to answer to these questions. \u2014 Rob Maaddi, ajc , 16 June 2022",
"But the controversy over Wilcox\u2019s result raises questions that the bikepacking community at large will have to answer . \u2014 Abigail Barronian, Outside Online , 3 June 2022",
"In a highly informative explainer that was published on Monday, Emily Stewart, a writer at Vox, points out that crypto enthusiasts have yet to answer this question persuasively. \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 17 May 2022",
"These kinds of firms have played a key role in promulgating the antisocial libertarianism that often reflects the views of owners who have to answer to no one but themselves. \u2014 Kim Phillips-fein, The New Republic , 11 May 2022",
"This brings us to the obvious question that Marvel has to answer at some point in the future. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Regardless of whether or not a recession emerges or another tech bubble bursts, there are questions that every startup should ask and answer prior to approaching any VC firm as fundraising kicks off. \u2014 Mike Ghaffary, Fortune , 15 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English andswaru (akin to Old Norse andsvar answer); akin to Old English and- against, swerian to swear \u2014 more at ante-":"Noun and Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8an(t)-s\u0259r",
"\u02c8an-s\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for answer Noun answer , response , reply , rejoinder , retort mean something spoken, written, or done in return. answer implies the satisfying of a question, demand, call, or need. had answers to all their questions response may imply a quick or spontaneous reaction to a person or thing that serves as a stimulus. a response to the call for recruits reply often suggests a thorough response to all issues, points, or questions raised. a point-by-point reply to the accusation rejoinder can be a response to a reply or to an objection. a salesman with a quick rejoinder to every argument retort implies a reaction to an implicit or explicit charge, criticism, or attack which contains a countercharge or counterattack. she made a cutting retort to her critics",
"synonyms":[
"comeback",
"rejoinder",
"replication",
"reply",
"response",
"retort",
"return"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091932",
"type":[
"adjective",
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"answer to (something)":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to be the same as or match (something)":[
"The suspect answers to the description perfectly."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110520",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"answerable":{
"antonyms":[
"irresponsible",
"nonaccountable",
"unaccountable"
],
"definitions":{
": capable of being answered or refuted":[
"There has been a controversy on the question of whether the species was genetically closer to the horse or to the zebra. This question may possibly be answerable now that DNA from the three species is available for comparison.",
"\u2014 Harold M. Schmeck Jr.",
"an answerable assertion"
],
": corresponding , similar":[],
": liable to be called to account : responsible":[
"The specialists who design the programs work for and are answerable to distant development agencies.",
"\u2014 Samia Altaf",
"The Fed's prestige is back up, and meanwhile we have a Congress that is elected and is answerable to the people \u2026",
"\u2014 Adam Smith"
],
": suitable , adequate":[]
},
"examples":[
"a powerful businesswoman who seems to think that she's answerable to no one",
"you are answerable for your own conduct at all times",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The usual conceit was simple: the questions were ones answerable by Black people, and the third contestant was often a white person hopelessly fumbling and failing through the categories. \u2014 Mary Margaret, EW.com , 23 Apr. 2022",
"In 2014, as Xi moved to consolidate his power over the internet, the CAC was made answerable to a central cybersecurity and technology leadership group in the Communist Party under his command. \u2014 Jane Li, Quartz , 23 Aug. 2021",
"Public-school teachers and administrators are public employees and as such are answerable to the public that employs them, and school-board elections are not the only instruments of accountability. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Not everyone would prefer to trust the anonymous servers of the cryptocurrency world with their finances, rather than large financial institutions that are answerable to shareholders and, yes, government regulators. \u2014 Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Those questions are, in the case of musicians asking to pull their music from Spotify to protest vaccine misinformation, answerable . \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 29 Jan. 2022",
"So here are very easily answerable questions for you Steve Case. \u2014 Fortune Editors, Fortune , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Members of the Providence School Board are mayor-appointed and not answerable to the general public. \u2014 Bradly J. Vanderstad, BostonGlobe.com , 7 Jan. 2022",
"Veterans have completed their military service and are no longer answerable to the government. \u2014 Mark Cancian, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8an(t)-s(\u0259-)r\u0259-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8an-s\u0259-r\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for answerable responsible , answerable , accountable , amenable , liable mean subject to being held to account. responsible implies holding a specific office, duty, or trust. the bureau responsible for revenue collection answerable suggests a relation between one having a moral or legal obligation and a court or other authority charged with oversight of its observance. an intelligence agency answerable to Congress accountable suggests imminence of retribution for unfulfilled trust or violated obligation. elected officials are accountable to the voters amenable and liable stress the fact of subjection to review, censure, or control by a designated authority under certain conditions. laws are amenable to judicial review not liable for the debts of the former spouse",
"synonyms":[
"accountable",
"amenable",
"liable",
"responsible"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001320",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"ant":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": any of a family (Formicidae) of colonial hymenopterous insects with a complex social organization and various castes performing special duties":[],
": impatience for action or activity : restlessness":[],
": one connected with":[
"annuit ant"
],
": one that performs (a specified action) : personal or impersonal agent":[
"claim ant",
"cool ant"
],
": performing (a specified action) or being (in a specified condition)":[
"somnambul ant"
],
": promoting (a specified action or process)":[
"expector ant"
],
": thing acted upon (in a specified manner)":[
"inhal ant"
],
": thing that promotes (a specified action or process)":[
"expector ant"
],
"Antarctica":[],
"antenna":[],
"antonym":[],
"\u2014 see anti-":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"For the fighters dug into an ant farm of muddy trenches on both sides of the conflict in Ukraine, talk of a new war might seem puzzling. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Which is to say: The best grudges are small, persistent and powerful, like an ant hauling a twig. \u2014 Alex Mcelroy, New York Times , 18 Jan. 2022",
"The eager ants abandon their usually foraging work and begin reproducing and laying eggs like a queen ant . \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 Nov. 2021",
"An ant has to go and find food or building materials and bring it back to the nest. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 3 June 2022",
"Enlarge / Microspordian spores collected from a tawny crazy ant at Pace Bend Park in central Texas. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 28 Mar. 2022",
"These ant baits from Raid use two types of bait to kill ants. \u2014 Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Missouri\u2019s ant -CRT bill includes the diversity training clause, this time for all public school students. \u2014 Peter Greene, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Before dropping the call, Cera shows an ant infestation in his house, and how he's been able to catch them all in a bowl. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 14 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English ante, emete , from Old English \u00e6mette ; akin to Old High German \u0101meiza ant":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from -ant , present participle suffix, from Latin -ant-, -ans , present participle suffix of first conjugation, from -a- (stem vowel of first conjugation) + -nt-, -ns , present participle suffix; akin to Old English -nde , present participle suffix, Greek -nt-, -n , participle suffix":"Noun suffix"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259nt",
"\u02c8ant"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-195612",
"type":[
"abbreviation",
"adjective suffix",
"noun",
"noun suffix",
"prefix"
]
},
"ant cattle":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of their honeydew":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1892, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104617",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"ant cow":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an aphid from which ants obtain honeydew":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1843, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084858",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ant lion":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": any of various neuropterous insects (as of the genus Myrmeleon ) having long-jawed larvae that feed on insects (such as ants) and including some that dig conical pits to capture prey":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The brave Lasiochalcidia wasps of Europe and Africa throw themselves into the nightmarish jaws of an ant lion , pry them apart and insert their eggs into its throat. \u2014 Christie Wilcox, Scientific American , 1 May 2017"
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"antonyms":[
"amity"
],
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": actively expressed opposition or hostility":[
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"personal antagonism"
],
": opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle":[
"the antagonism of democracy to dictatorship"
]
},
"examples":[
"The region has a long history of ethnic antagonisms .",
"the antagonism between them was so bad they couldn't even sit near each other",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"So, their sense of their relationship to a piece of legislation like the Homestead Act is one of antagonism . \u2014 Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant , 4 June 2022",
"Over the past year Ankara has embarked on a diplomatic push to reset relations with countries such as Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia after years of antagonism following the 2011 Arab Spring. \u2014 Andrew Wilks, ajc , 28 Apr. 2022",
"All that antagonism may explain why the term is so backloaded. \u2014 Greg Stohr, Anchorage Daily News , 2 June 2022",
"All that antagonism may explain why the term is so backloaded. \u2014 Greg Stohr, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"Against this backdrop, a corrosive vision of primate life grew more vivid: Front and center was a portrait of male tyranny, aggression, antagonism . \u2014 Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic , 6 May 2022",
"But as China\u2019s diplomatic antagonism with liberal democracies intensified, so has fear in Western capitals that governments may have rushed too quickly into law enforcement cooperation with Beijing. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
"By this reasoning, the sanctions merely reflect the West\u2019s continuing antagonism against Russia dating back centuries. \u2014 Gregory Carleton, The Conversation , 18 Apr. 2022",
"While there have been some successes, the approach has often bred resentment, as methods like stop-and-frisk policing generated antagonism between the police and the communities they were meant to help. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 29 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1716, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
},
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"see antagonize":""
},
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"an-\u02c8tag-\u0259-\u02ccniz-\u0259m",
"an-\u02c8ta-g\u0259-\u02ccni-z\u0259m"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for antagonism enmity , hostility , antipathy , antagonism , animosity , rancor , animus mean deep-seated dislike or ill will. enmity suggests positive hatred which may be open or concealed. an unspoken enmity hostility suggests an enmity showing itself in attacks or aggression. hostility between the two nations antipathy and antagonism imply a natural or logical basis for one's hatred or dislike, antipathy suggesting repugnance, a desire to avoid or reject, and antagonism suggesting a clash of temperaments leading readily to hostility. a natural antipathy for self-seekers antagonism between the brothers animosity suggests intense ill will and vindictiveness that threaten to kindle hostility. animosity that led to revenge rancor is especially applied to bitter brooding over a wrong. rancor filled every line of his letters animus adds to animosity the implication of strong prejudice. objections devoid of personal animus",
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"animus",
"antipathy",
"bad blood",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jaundice",
"rancor"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"antonyms":[
"amigo",
"friend"
],
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": a muscle that contracts with and limits the action of an agonist with which it is paired":[],
": an agent of physiological antagonism : such as":[],
": one that contends with or opposes another : adversary , opponent":[
"political antagonists"
]
},
"examples":[
"They are interested in character first, and in Don, a foul-mouthed psychopath with a hair-trigger temper and buried longings for Gal's wife, they have created a truly scary antagonist . \u2014 David Ansen , Newsweek , 18 June 2001",
"In the 1970s researchers discovered that the actions of estrogen and other hormones can be blocked chemically by drugs called hormone antagonists \u2026 \u2014 David Plotkin , Atlantic , June 1996",
"If the new comptroller is a true antagonist of the seamy bond market practices he decried in the campaign, why has he installed as his first deputy the public finance director from the Dinkins administration who was Holtzman's accomplice in each of those deals. \u2014 Wayne Barrett , Village Voice , March 1994",
"As in that film, Kopple not only draws an intimate portrait of the protagonists and antagonists in the strike, but also deftly locates the workers' struggle within a broad context of economic and political forces. \u2014 Frank Thompson , Film Comment , January/February 1991",
"please name the novel's hero and his antagonist",
"his antagonist in the boxing match",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Thompson mentioned Stan Lee\u2019s explanation of heroes and villains while addressing the Love and Thunder antagonist . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 15 June 2022",
"Kujala will be playing the flute, which represents antagonist Killmonger, played by Michael B. Jordan in the film. \u2014 Alex Hulvalchick, Chicago Tribune , 14 June 2022",
"But the two later became friends and collaborators to fight against the antagonist . \u2014 Vivienne Chow, Variety , 8 June 2022",
"That question is left intentionally fuzzy, with the film offering vague and contradictory hints about the antagonist that don\u2019t quite add up. \u2014 Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"Where did the idea come that the main character was to be a plunger and the antagonist a vacuum? \u2014 Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 May 2022",
"By creating an antagonist with a philosophy, Stranger Things has created a villain not only that is realistic but that challenges the show\u2019s very premise. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 27 May 2022",
"We're first introduced to the Mind Flayer (originally referred to as the Shadow Monster) in Season 2, as the main antagonist /monster. \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 25 May 2022",
"Richard is a king with a bad reputation and irresistible allure, the protagonist and antagonist at the same time. \u2014 Chloe Schama, Vogue , 23 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1555, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see antagonize":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8ta-g\u0259-n\u0259st",
"-n\u0259st",
"an-\u02c8ta-g\u0259-nist"
],
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"adversary",
"enemy",
"foe",
"hostile",
"opponent"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201457",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"friendly",
"hospitable",
"nonantagonistic",
"nonhostile",
"sympathetic"
],
"definitions":{
": showing dislike or opposition : marked by or resulting from antagonism":[
"an antagonistic relationship",
"factions antagonistic to one another"
]
},
"examples":[
"They found it impossible to deal with such antagonistic groups.",
"countries that have been antagonistic towards each other for centuries",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Here, Sorvino's Marilyn navigates dreamlike sequences opposite herself before her stardom, being an often antagonistic Norma Jean (Ashley Judd). \u2014 Allaire Nuss, EW.com , 22 June 2022",
"This would strengthen a leftist bloc whose pro-Russia and China sentiment and decidedly antagonistic views against the United States, should be a concern for the Biden and future U.S. administrations. \u2014 Fox News , 20 June 2022",
"Allison\u2019s turn into an aggressive, antagonistic version of herself (a byproduct of the new timeline erasing her love and their daughter together) is handled both repetitively and poorly. \u2014 Jeff Ewing, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"The most antagonistic issues between Beroukhai and Talasazan highlight the contrasts between his life and the lives of residents at Pavilion Place. \u2014 Alan Judd, ajc , 13 June 2022",
"Throughout the course of the case, Aubrey allegedly grew increasingly antagonistic toward Tobolowsky. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Apr. 2022",
"After the moose was euthanized, some photographers were antagonistic toward rangers. \u2014 Erin Berger, Outside Online , 25 Sep. 2014",
"Gustaf Lundberg Toresson: Your alter ego has developed over time into two antagonistic characters. \u2014 Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"To some degree, the increasingly antagonistic tone is due to more civil members of Congress being replaced by less civil ones, the study says. \u2014 Melanie Masonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 28 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1637, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see antagonize":""
},
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"an-\u02ccta-g\u0259-\u02c8ni-stik",
"(\u02cc)an-\u02cctag-\u0259-\u02c8nis-tik",
"(\u02cc)an-\u02ccta-g\u0259-\u02c8ni-stik"
],
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"adversarial",
"adversary",
"antipathetic",
"hostile",
"inhospitable",
"inimical",
"jaundiced",
"mortal",
"negative",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101946",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
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": the suppression of minor differences by two or more persons or groups to achieve a major common interest":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1897, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"type":[
"noun"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1888, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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": to act in opposition to : counteract":[
"The drug is antagonized by methylxanthines , such as caffeine and theophylline \u2026",
"\u2014 Scientific American Medicine"
],
": to incur or provoke the hostility of":[
"His criticism antagonized his friends."
]
},
"examples":[
"He didn't mean to antagonize you.",
"Her comments antagonized many people.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Trying to play the two sides against one another will likely antagonize both parties' vocal activists and leave business with no friends to defend it when the chips are down. \u2014 Richard Galant, CNN , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Since last year, Iran has carefully cultivated a policy that did not officially recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government but engaged in diplomatic relations, in order not to antagonize it. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The United States has attempted to keep its intelligence-sharing operations with Ukraine under wraps so as not to antagonize Russia into more aggressive action, the Times reported. \u2014 Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"At the time, critics cautioned that NATO enlargement would antagonize a post-Soviet Russia and could end up worsening the European security order. \u2014 Peter Harris, The Conversation , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The Soviets and Chinese were ideological allies at the time, and Khrushchev clearly did not want to antagonize Mao by helping India. \u2014 WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Finland shares the European Union\u2019s longest border with Russia, a key factor in its decision not to antagonize Moscow by joining NATO. \u2014 Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Commentators have noted that the pope and the Vatican have been careful about publicly criticizing and naming Russia, some say, so as not to antagonize the Russian Orthodox Church. \u2014 Phoebe Natanson, ABC News , 25 Feb. 2022",
"The Biden administration has been warning for weeks that Russia could invade Ukraine soon, but U.S. officials had previously said the Kremlin would likely wait until after the Winter Games ended so as not to antagonize China. \u2014 Jim Heintz And Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News , 12 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1742, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek antag\u014dnizesthai , from anti- + ag\u014dnizesthai to struggle, from ag\u014dn contest \u2014 more at agony":""
},
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"an-\u02c8ta-g\u0259-\u02ccn\u012bz"
],
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"embitter",
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"envenom"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201340",
"type":[
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
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": to act in opposition to : counteract":[
"The drug is antagonized by methylxanthines , such as caffeine and theophylline \u2026",
"\u2014 Scientific American Medicine"
],
": to incur or provoke the hostility of":[
"His criticism antagonized his friends."
]
},
"examples":[
"He didn't mean to antagonize you.",
"Her comments antagonized many people.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Trying to play the two sides against one another will likely antagonize both parties' vocal activists and leave business with no friends to defend it when the chips are down. \u2014 Richard Galant, CNN , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Since last year, Iran has carefully cultivated a policy that did not officially recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government but engaged in diplomatic relations, in order not to antagonize it. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The United States has attempted to keep its intelligence-sharing operations with Ukraine under wraps so as not to antagonize Russia into more aggressive action, the Times reported. \u2014 Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"At the time, critics cautioned that NATO enlargement would antagonize a post-Soviet Russia and could end up worsening the European security order. \u2014 Peter Harris, The Conversation , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The Soviets and Chinese were ideological allies at the time, and Khrushchev clearly did not want to antagonize Mao by helping India. \u2014 WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Finland shares the European Union\u2019s longest border with Russia, a key factor in its decision not to antagonize Moscow by joining NATO. \u2014 Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Commentators have noted that the pope and the Vatican have been careful about publicly criticizing and naming Russia, some say, so as not to antagonize the Russian Orthodox Church. \u2014 Phoebe Natanson, ABC News , 25 Feb. 2022",
"The Biden administration has been warning for weeks that Russia could invade Ukraine soon, but U.S. officials had previously said the Kremlin would likely wait until after the Winter Games ended so as not to antagonize China. \u2014 Jim Heintz And Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News , 12 Feb. 2022"
],
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"circa 1742, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
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"Greek antag\u014dnizesthai , from anti- + ag\u014dnizesthai to struggle, from ag\u014dn contest \u2014 more at agony":""
},
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"an-\u02c8ta-g\u0259-\u02ccn\u012bz"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105552",
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": contronym":[
"\u2026 I think you've discovered a new antagonym \u2026 \u2014a word with two opposite meanings. More familiar examples of antagonyms are cleave , which can mean either \"cut apart\" or \"stick together\"; and fast , as in \"run fast\" versus \"hold fast.\"",
"\u2014 Barbara Wallraff, Times Union (Albany, New York) , 18 Nov. 2007"
]
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"first_known_use":{
"1999, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8ta-g\u0259-\u02ccnim"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192352",
"type":[
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]
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": situated away from the ambulacral region":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1854, in the meaning defined above":""
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"anti- entry 1 + ambulacral":""
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"\u00a6ant\u2027",
"\u00a6aant\u2027 +"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203129",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"definitions":{
": the repetition of a word within a phrase or sentence in which the second occurrence utilizes a different and sometimes contrary meaning from the first":[
"\u2026 believes the \"Word\" \u2026 in John 1:1 represents the figure antanaclasis \u2026 and changes its meaning each time it is repeated in a manner similar to Ben Franklin's quip, \"We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.\"",
"\u2014 Ventura County Star , 6 Sept. 1997"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1656, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin (cited in Greek form in Quintilian), borrowed from Greek antan\u00e1klasis \"reflection, echo,\" from ant- anti- entry 1 + an\u00e1klasis \"bending back, reflection\"":""
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"type":[
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},
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1796, in the meaning defined above":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1858, in the meaning defined above":""
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],
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": risk , stakes":[
"The new law ups the ante on tax cheats."
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"the base price is $500, but any additional repairs will up the ante",
"Verb",
"Did everyone at the table ante ?",
"Everyone anted up a dollar.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"And when talks broke down last week, the state upped the ante by recommending Boston receive more oversight and be labeled underperforming, an embarrassing designation that can take years to reverse. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"The United States last week upped the ante with its largest pledge of aid for Ukrainian forces yet: an additional $1 billion in military assistance to help repel or reverse Russian advances. \u2014 Andrea Rosa And Jamey Keaten, Anchorage Daily News , 21 June 2022",
"The United States last week upped the ante with its largest pledge of aid for Ukrainian forces yet: an additional $1 billion in military assistance to help repel or reverse Russian advances. \u2014 John Leicester And David Keyton, Chicago Tribune , 20 June 2022",
"This month much smaller provider ForUsAll, which announced a crypto 401(k) last year, upped the ante by suing the Labor Department over the issue. \u2014 Spencer Jakab, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"But Biden's policy has so far failed to resurrect the deal, and Iran has steadily upped the ante in violating its end of the agreement. \u2014 Tamara Qiblawi, CNN , 12 June 2022",
"But this year the company upped the ante with their new ITC (Intelligent Temperature Control) lineup, which add a lot of things. \u2014 Larry Olmsted, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Wednesday\u2019s testimony upped the ante in an already dramatic trial that has laid bare scandalous behavior by both parties. \u2014 Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone , 4 May 2022",
"Just one day after photos were released of the couple walking hand in hand, Styles upped the ante on their PDA, wrapping his arm around Wilde while talking with friends in a parking lot. \u2014 Nicole Briese, PEOPLE.com , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But the banks don\u2019t just ante up that kind of money without a big safety cushion. \u2014 Anne Sraders, Fortune , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Thus, instead of risking over $546 to win $280 with LA normally, new DK players need simply ante up $5. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 13 Feb. 2022",
"If just a few companies have full control over the market, manufacturers may be forced to ante up more funds \u2014 a tactical decision that will raise prices for the consumer. \u2014 Kayla Matthews, The Week , 29 Mar. 2018",
"Melvin deserves to be in San Diego, where there\u2019s a gorgeous stadium, an ownership group willing to ante up and a team that could reach the playoffs right away with the right guy in charge. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Tickets cost $30,000-plus, but that doesn't mean the stars ante up. \u2014 Leanne Italie, ajc , 13 Sep. 2021",
"Tannenbaum acknowledged that a team runs the risk of damaging its relationship with a star player if a team doesn\u2019t ante up to his satisfaction. \u2014 cleveland , 17 Aug. 2021",
"The government employers that support PSPRS are more willing to ante up money lately. \u2014 Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic , 9 July 2021",
"The matter of standards explains why Simon & Schuster was willing to ante -up for Vice President Mike Pence, who has shown some respect for the truth, but likely won't consider putting out Trump's presidential memoir. \u2014 Michael D'antonio, CNN , 22 June 2021"
],
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"1821, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1831, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English, from Latin, from ante before, in front of; akin to Old English and- against, Greek anti before, against \u2014 more at end":"Prefix",
"borrowed from Latin ante \"before, preceding\" \u2014 more at ante-":"Noun",
"verbal derivative of ante entry 1":"Verb"
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"\u02c8an-ti",
"\u02c8an-t\u0113"
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"type":[
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},
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"definitions":{
": being before noon":[
"\u2014 abbreviation AM , a.m. , or (British) am"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1563, in the meaning defined above":""
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"-d\u0113-\u02ccem",
"\u02ccan-ti-m\u0259-\u02c8ri-d\u0113-\u0259m"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111249",
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": risk , stakes":[
"The new law ups the ante on tax cheats."
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},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"the base price is $500, but any additional repairs will up the ante",
"Verb",
"Did everyone at the table ante ?",
"Everyone anted up a dollar.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"And when talks broke down last week, the state upped the ante by recommending Boston receive more oversight and be labeled underperforming, an embarrassing designation that can take years to reverse. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"The United States last week upped the ante with its largest pledge of aid for Ukrainian forces yet: an additional $1 billion in military assistance to help repel or reverse Russian advances. \u2014 Andrea Rosa And Jamey Keaten, Anchorage Daily News , 21 June 2022",
"The United States last week upped the ante with its largest pledge of aid for Ukrainian forces yet: an additional $1 billion in military assistance to help repel or reverse Russian advances. \u2014 John Leicester And David Keyton, Chicago Tribune , 20 June 2022",
"This month much smaller provider ForUsAll, which announced a crypto 401(k) last year, upped the ante by suing the Labor Department over the issue. \u2014 Spencer Jakab, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"But Biden's policy has so far failed to resurrect the deal, and Iran has steadily upped the ante in violating its end of the agreement. \u2014 Tamara Qiblawi, CNN , 12 June 2022",
"But this year the company upped the ante with their new ITC (Intelligent Temperature Control) lineup, which add a lot of things. \u2014 Larry Olmsted, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Wednesday\u2019s testimony upped the ante in an already dramatic trial that has laid bare scandalous behavior by both parties. \u2014 Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone , 4 May 2022",
"Just one day after photos were released of the couple walking hand in hand, Styles upped the ante on their PDA, wrapping his arm around Wilde while talking with friends in a parking lot. \u2014 Nicole Briese, PEOPLE.com , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic, who captained Colorado\u2019s first two title-winning teams in 1996 and 2001, was not afraid to ante up in March to acquire Lehkonen, defenseman Josh Manson and forward Andrew Cogliano. \u2014 Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 June 2022",
"But the banks don\u2019t just ante up that kind of money without a big safety cushion. \u2014 Anne Sraders, Fortune , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Thus, instead of risking over $546 to win $280 with LA normally, new DK players need simply ante up $5. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 13 Feb. 2022",
"If just a few companies have full control over the market, manufacturers may be forced to ante up more funds \u2014 a tactical decision that will raise prices for the consumer. \u2014 Kayla Matthews, The Week , 29 Mar. 2018",
"Melvin deserves to be in San Diego, where there\u2019s a gorgeous stadium, an ownership group willing to ante up and a team that could reach the playoffs right away with the right guy in charge. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Tickets cost $30,000-plus, but that doesn't mean the stars ante up. \u2014 Leanne Italie, ajc , 13 Sep. 2021",
"Tannenbaum acknowledged that a team runs the risk of damaging its relationship with a star player if a team doesn\u2019t ante up to his satisfaction. \u2014 cleveland , 17 Aug. 2021",
"The government employers that support PSPRS are more willing to ante up money lately. \u2014 Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic , 9 July 2021"
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"1831, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb"
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"Middle English, from Latin, from ante before, in front of; akin to Old English and- against, Greek anti before, against \u2014 more at end":"Prefix",
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"\u02c8an-ti",
"\u02c8an-t\u0113"
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"postdate",
"succeed"
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"the 19th-century Pre-Raphaelites claimed to base their principles and practices on the Italian art that anteceded Raphael and other masters of the High Renaissance"
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"1628, in the meaning defined above":""
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]
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"circa 1626, in the meaning defined above":""
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],
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"\u201cJohn\u201d is the antecedent of the pronoun \u201chim\u201d in \u201cMary saw John and thanked him.\u201d",
"what are the antecedents of the American Revolutionary War?",
"Adjective",
"I'd like to follow up on an antecedent question from another reporter.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Stadler was a master of the clarinet and basset horn \u2014 an early antecedent of the modern clarinet \u2014 and was a co-inventor of the basset clarinet, the instrument for which Mozart originally wrote his concerto. \u2014 Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"Such a censure would be an extraordinary measure against a religious leader, its closest antecedent perhaps being the sanctions the United States leveled against Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2022",
"The sequel is a more explicit k\u00fcnstlerroman than its antecedent . \u2014 Jennifer Wilson, The Atlantic , 19 Apr. 2022",
"But these campaign videos actually have a different, more prosaically political antecedent : Tucker Carlson\u2019s monologues. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Wide swaths of Scott\u2019s plan\u2014including bolstering police funding, waging war on career politicians, demanding that parents receive a greater say in school curriculum\u2014find their antecedent in Newt Gingrich\u2019s original. \u2014 Jason Linkins, The New Republic , 26 Feb. 2022",
"Such properties might be derived from the ancient origins of exosomes\u2019 antecedent vesicles in noxious primordial seas near the beginning of biological evolution\u2014even before the development of bacteria. \u2014 Philip W. Askenase, Scientific American , 17 June 2020",
"Kozmo, which raised over $200 million of funding in 2000 to deliver ice cream, DVDs and other convenience items in an hour, is a notable antecedent to the current rush of instant-delivery startups. \u2014 Eliot Brown, WSJ , 30 Jan. 2022",
"This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi\u2019s insight meaningful or satisfying. \u2014 Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"\u02ccan-t\u0259-\u02c8s\u0113-d\u1d4ant",
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"reason"
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"noun"
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"1793, in the meaning defined above":""
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"preceding",
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"prior"
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],
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"He was proud of his Scottish antecedents ."
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"Noun",
"\u201cJohn\u201d is the antecedent of the pronoun \u201chim\u201d in \u201cMary saw John and thanked him.\u201d",
"what are the antecedents of the American Revolutionary War?",
"Adjective",
"I'd like to follow up on an antecedent question from another reporter.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Stadler was a master of the clarinet and basset horn \u2014 an early antecedent of the modern clarinet \u2014 and was a co-inventor of the basset clarinet, the instrument for which Mozart originally wrote his concerto. \u2014 Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"Such a censure would be an extraordinary measure against a religious leader, its closest antecedent perhaps being the sanctions the United States leveled against Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2022",
"The sequel is a more explicit k\u00fcnstlerroman than its antecedent . \u2014 Jennifer Wilson, The Atlantic , 19 Apr. 2022",
"But these campaign videos actually have a different, more prosaically political antecedent : Tucker Carlson\u2019s monologues. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Wide swaths of Scott\u2019s plan\u2014including bolstering police funding, waging war on career politicians, demanding that parents receive a greater say in school curriculum\u2014find their antecedent in Newt Gingrich\u2019s original. \u2014 Jason Linkins, The New Republic , 26 Feb. 2022",
"Such properties might be derived from the ancient origins of exosomes\u2019 antecedent vesicles in noxious primordial seas near the beginning of biological evolution\u2014even before the development of bacteria. \u2014 Philip W. Askenase, Scientific American , 17 June 2020",
"Kozmo, which raised over $200 million of funding in 2000 to deliver ice cream, DVDs and other convenience items in an hour, is a notable antecedent to the current rush of instant-delivery startups. \u2014 Eliot Brown, WSJ , 30 Jan. 2022",
"This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi\u2019s insight meaningful or satisfying. \u2014 Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"\u02ccan-t\u0259-\u02c8s\u0113d-\u1d4ant",
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"reason"
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"noun"
]
},
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": one that goes before : predecessor":[]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The physical features of H. antecessor have left anthropologists puzzling over its relationships with other early humans. \u2014 Michael Price, Science | AAAS , 1 Apr. 2020",
"The EVAs are both primal antecessors and evolved descendants of humans; occasionally, the two beings are one and the same. \u2014 Maya Phillips, The New Yorker , 21 June 2019",
"In addition to marks showing flesh was stripped from the bone, evidence suggests the Gran Dolina residents\u2014an ancient human relative called Homo antecessor \u2014ate their victims\u2019 brains. \u2014 Kevin Webb, National Geographic , 6 Apr. 2017"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Middle English antecessour , from Latin antecessor \u2014 more at ancestor":""
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"\u02ccan-ti-\u02c8se-s\u0259r"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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": anteroom":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Americans With Disabilities Act-compliant shower room contained a seat and small shelf for items in the antechamber , and a small shelf and seat within the shower, which had a handheld shower affixed to the wall. \u2014 Erika Mailman, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"The paintings on display beyond the antechamber play on themes of spectacle, public perception and sleight of hand. \u2014 Leigh-ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Today, a somber sculpture of figures lying across one another, a symbolic rail carriage and a museum mark the site of what was then an antechamber to Auschwitz concentration camp. \u2014 Saphora Smith, NBC News , 1 Dec. 2021",
"At Tehran\u2019s insistence, the U.S. delegation won\u2019t have a seat at the table\u2014its members must wait in an antechamber to be briefed by the Europeans. \u2014 Reuel Marc Gerecht And Ray Takeyh, WSJ , 28 Nov. 2021",
"Dak Prescott strode through the double doors of the concrete antechamber , waiting patiently in the corner with his luggage. \u2014 Jori Epstein, USA TODAY , 10 Sep. 2021",
"Oregon State Police Captain Tim Fox said law enforcement is looking into how protesters were able breach the door to the capitol's northwest antechamber . \u2014 Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner , 29 Dec. 2020",
"Two Trump supporters were able to breach the building's northwest antechamber and were arrested after refusing to leave. \u2014 Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner , 8 Jan. 2021",
"Oregon State Police reported arresting two more men\u2014Ronald Vanvlack and Jerry Dyerson\u2014with criminal trespass and disorderly conduct for breaching the building's northwest antechamber and refusing to leave. \u2014 Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner , 29 Dec. 2020"
],
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"1587, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"French antichambre , from Middle French, from Italian anti- (from Latin ante- ) + Middle French chambre room":""
},
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]
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": anticipate":[],
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": to precede in time":[]
},
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"Verb",
"The church antedates the village itself.",
"dinosaurs antedate cavemen by millions of years",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In truth, however, Italy\u2019s migration policies antedate Salvini by at least two years, and represent an ugly consensus generally if more quietly shared by many powers in the EU. \u2014 Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic , 17 Oct. 2019",
"His theatrically posed male nudes were antedated by George Platt Lynes\u2019s. \u2014 Arthur Lubow, New York Times , 25 July 2019"
],
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"1568, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":"Verb",
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"\u02c8an-ti-\u02ccd\u0101t",
"\u02ccan-ti-\u02c8d\u0101t"
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"verb"
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"new",
"recent"
],
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],
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": of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible":[]
},
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"He has antediluvian notions about the role of women in the workplace.",
"found evidence in the Middle East of an antediluvian people previously unknown to history",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995, the antediluvian era of web surfing dominated by the first widely popular browser, Netscape Navigator. \u2014 Richard Jacobsen, Anchorage Daily News , 15 June 2022",
"Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995, the antediluvian era of web surfing dominated by the first widely popular browser, Netscape Navigator. \u2014 CBS News , 15 June 2022",
"Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995, the antediluvian era of web surfing dominated by the first widely popular browser, Netscape Navigator. \u2014 Richard Jacobsen, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"In the antediluvian times of 2016, Los Angeles\u2019s new stadium had been picked to host last year\u2019s Super Bowl. \u2014 Andrew Beaton, WSJ , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Their complicated and antediluvian fruitcake recipe was handwritten on a document that was battered by time and annual refolding. \u2014 Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com , 25 Dec. 2021",
"After all, the arrangement Nagel has with his baby mamas is arguably not just regressive but antediluvian . \u2014 Stephanie H. Murray, The Week , 23 Dec. 2021",
"He was signed for 2021 to add some life to a rushing attack led by antediluvian Frank Gore's 653 yards in 2020. \u2014 Nate Davis, USA TODAY , 4 May 2021",
"Why then risk reputational damage by seeking the top position of an organization marked by decades of endemic corruption and antediluvian thinking? \u2014 Samindra Kunti, Forbes , 25 Feb. 2021"
],
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"1646, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"ante- + Latin diluvium flood \u2014 more at deluge":""
},
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"-(\u02cc)d\u012b-",
"\u02ccan-ti-d\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fc-v\u0113-\u0259n"
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"aged",
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"antique",
"dateless",
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"hoary",
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"old",
"venerable"
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"noun"
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"aft",
"after",
"hind",
"hinder",
"hindmost",
"posterior",
"rear",
"rearward"
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],
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],
": situated near or toward the head or part most nearly corresponding to a head":[]
},
"examples":[
"the anterior part of the brain",
"the anterior chamber of the eye is bounded in front by the cornea",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Then drop it down and then reach over and up with the same arm, creating the stretch for the anterior aspect of the hips. \u2014 Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health , 17 June 2022",
"Full hip extension is required in this move, but as Cavaliere explains, what frequently happens is that people go into an anterior tilt, where their hip bones are dropped and tilting forward. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 2 May 2022",
"After tearing her anterior cruciate knee ligament in the first away match during the Challenge Cup, Marta is out for the season. \u2014 Austin David, Orlando Sentinel , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Bueckers had suffered an anterior tibial plateau fracture and a lateral meniscus tear. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Friday had torn an anterior cruciate knee ligament and did not play a single snap last season. \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 27 Mar. 2022",
"The 5-foot-10 sophomore guard underwent surgery on Dec. 13 to repair anterior tibial plateau fracture and lateral meniscus tear. \u2014 Dom Amore, courant.com , 8 Mar. 2022",
"In runners this most often shows up in the lower limb tendons: patellar, Achilles, hamstring, peroneal, and anterior tibialis tendons. \u2014 Laura Peill, Outside Online , 2 Apr. 2020",
"Markelle Fultz, who\u2019s in the first year of a 3-year, $50 million extension, has been practicing with the hopes of returning this season after tearing his anterior cruciate knee ligament January 2021. \u2014 Khobi Price, orlandosentinel.com , 10 Feb. 2022"
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"1541, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"front",
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"frontward",
"frontwards"
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"hind",
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"the anterior part of the brain",
"the anterior chamber of the eye is bounded in front by the cornea",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Then drop it down and then reach over and up with the same arm, creating the stretch for the anterior aspect of the hips. \u2014 Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health , 17 June 2022",
"Full hip extension is required in this move, but as Cavaliere explains, what frequently happens is that people go into an anterior tilt, where their hip bones are dropped and tilting forward. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 2 May 2022",
"After tearing her anterior cruciate knee ligament in the first away match during the Challenge Cup, Marta is out for the season. \u2014 Austin David, Orlando Sentinel , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Bueckers had suffered an anterior tibial plateau fracture and a lateral meniscus tear. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Friday had torn an anterior cruciate knee ligament and did not play a single snap last season. \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 27 Mar. 2022",
"The 5-foot-10 sophomore guard underwent surgery on Dec. 13 to repair anterior tibial plateau fracture and lateral meniscus tear. \u2014 Dom Amore, courant.com , 8 Mar. 2022",
"In runners this most often shows up in the lower limb tendons: patellar, Achilles, hamstring, peroneal, and anterior tibialis tendons. \u2014 Laura Peill, Outside Online , 2 Apr. 2020",
"Markelle Fultz, who\u2019s in the first year of a 3-year, $50 million extension, has been practicing with the hopes of returning this season after tearing his anterior cruciate knee ligament January 2021. \u2014 Khobi Price, orlandosentinel.com , 10 Feb. 2022"
],
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"1541, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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},
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"frontward",
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"The performance on Friday in the magnificent Opera Theater, opened in 1810 on the plateau above the now shuttered Black Sea port, began with an impassioned rendering of the Ukrainian national anthem . \u2014 New York Times , 18 June 2022",
"The playing of the national anthem \u2014which blared through the public address system at the start of each day\u2019s shift change\u2014would stop. \u2014 Drew Hinshaw, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"The ceremony will include a flag-raising, the singing of the national anthem and remarks from various speakers. \u2014 Katie V. Jones, Baltimore Sun , 10 June 2022",
"After the parade, there'll be ice cream at 9:45 a.m. and a flag-raising ceremony with the singing of the national anthem at 9:50 a.m. \u2014 Bob Dohr, Journal Sentinel , 8 June 2022",
"Miranda Rae\u2019s father has been a fixture at her performances ever since her rendition of the national anthem at a New England Revolution game moved him to tears. \u2014 Brendan Mcguirk, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
"The song became a sort of anthem to her after Cordero's death. \u2014 David Begnaud, CBS News , 19 May 2022",
"Back in 2018, as a senior at Arundel High School in Gambrills, Maryland, Dean offered up a moody, acoustic rendition of the national anthem during a football game and footage of the performance went viral. \u2014 Jessica Nicholson, Billboard , 17 May 2022",
"The song \u2014 a fusion of of rap and traditional folk in a tribute to the mother of the band\u2019s frontman, Oleh Psyuk \u2014 has become a kind of anthem for many Ukrainians. \u2014 Patrick J. Mcdonnell, Los Angeles Times , 15 May 2022"
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"Though not a household name, Adams has been widely anthologized alongside the greats of the short story, such as John Cheever, Raymond Carver (Sklenicka\u2019s previous subject), Joyce Carol Oates, and Lorrie Moore. \u2014 Rumaan Alam, The New Republic , 9 Jan. 2020",
"Secrets soon to be anthologized in the Best Teen Writing of 2010. \u2014 Emi Nietfeld, Longreads , 13 Dec. 2019",
"Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. \u2014 Longreads , 7 June 2018",
"His work has been anthologized by the Best American Science and Nature Writing series. \u2014 Ferris Jabr, Harper's magazine , 10 Mar. 2019",
"The hymnbooks\u2019 most popular items were anthologized in school readers and spellers, and missionaries and preachers distributed hymnbooks to the poor for the purpose of encouraging literacy. \u2014 Barton Swaim, WSJ , 23 Dec. 2018",
"They weren\u2019t just anthologized once or twice in prestigious mainstream publications, but rather won a more lasting name among fiction lovers. \u2014 Jeet Heer, The New Republic , 2 July 2018",
"Rao, who won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction and was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2015, is clearly a writer of great ambition. \u2014 Ann Levin, USA TODAY , 13 Mar. 2018",
"But although an anthology of his Catholic Eye columns, Pins in the Liberal Balloon, was published in 1990, Canavan continued writing columns for nearly 20 years after that book was published, and none of those later columns were anthologized . \u2014 Nr Interview, National Review , 12 Jan. 2018"
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"The new anthology , which is also out on June 10, follows the 2020 full length album Be, which marked BTS\u2019 fifth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 16 May 2022",
"An anthology of verse celebrating the pleasures of domesticity, from apartments to farmhouses to lost homelands, from John Donne\u2019s bed to Joy Harjo\u2019s kitchen table to Billy Collins\u2019s favorite armchair. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Amid the uncertainty of that summer came the opportunity to portray Mamie Till-Mobley in the ABC anthology series Women of the Movement. \u2014 Naveen Kumar, The Hollywood Reporter , 6 June 2022",
"The producer and composer spoke at a post-screening Q&A for the documentary Listening to Kenny G, part of HBO\u2019s Music Box anthology series. \u2014 Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Sikora is almost unrecognizable in season 1 of the HBO anthology series as Ginger, a member of a meth-running biker gang. \u2014 Derek Lawrence, EW.com , 21 Jan. 2022",
"He will next be seen in the horror anthology TV series Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 22 Dec. 2021",
"Owens sees this anthology as a tool to help ease the strain on pressured parents, mothers in particular, mid-pandemic and beyond. \u2014 Jessica Dulong, CNN , 28 Dec. 2021",
"This carefully curated anthology attains what Edim sets out to accomplish, and more. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Dec. 2021"
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"\u02ccan-t\u0113-\u02c8k\u022fr-p(\u0259-)r\u0259t",
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"first_known_use":{
"1874, in the meaning defined above":""
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"1913, in the meaning defined above":""
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"1873, in the meaning defined above":""
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"-\u02cc\u0113-v\u0259-",
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"\u2014 Alan Henry"
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"1865, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccan-t\u012b-",
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"-\u02c8lek-shw\u0259l",
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"first_known_use":{
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"first_known_use":{
"1931, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccan-t\u012b-",
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"first_known_use":{
"1949, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccan-t\u012b-",
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"first_known_use":{
"1813, in the meaning defined above":""
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan-t\u0113-\u02c8y\u00fcn-y\u0259n",
"\u02ccan-t\u012b-"
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"adjective"
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"first_known_use":{
"1859, in the meaning defined above":""
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan-t\u012b-",
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"first_known_use":{
"1910, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02ccan-\u02cct\u012b-",
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"type":[
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"But state health officials and vaccine proponents have argued that unvaccinated children pose a health risk to others. They point to the recent measles outbreak in Johnson County and elsewhere, a disease that has reappeared since the anti-vaccination movement has grown.",
"\u2014 Sarah Ritter",
"Anti-vaccination parents have slammed a new law that bans unimmunised children from kindergartens.",
"\u2014 Thomas Duff"
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"1849, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02ccan-\u02cct\u012b-",
"\u02ccan-t\u0113-\u02ccvak-s\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
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"adjective"
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": opposed to the use of vaccines":[
"A handful of parents and anti-vaccine activists told lawmakers on the House Health and Human Services Committee that they believe vaccines are responsible for countless cases of autism, learning disabilities and death.",
"\u2014 Jim Hughes , Denver Post , 24 Mar. 2005"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1806, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"anti- entry 1 + vaccine entry 2":""
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"\u02ccan-t\u0113-",
"\u02ccan-\u02cct\u012b-(\u02c8)vak-\u00a6s\u0113n"
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"adjective"
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": anti-vaccination":[
"Aggressive anti-vax campaigns claiming that vaccines are unsafe and can lead to autism\u2014a theory long disproven\u2014drive much of the vaccine hesitancy worldwide.",
"\u2014 Lily Hyde"
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"first_known_use":{
"1898, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan-t\u0113-\u02c8vaks",
"\u02ccan-\u02cct\u012b-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163729",
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"adjective"
]
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"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"2001, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"anti-vax + -er entry 2":""
},
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"\u02ccan-\u02cct\u012b-",
"\u02ccan-t\u0113-\u02c8vak-s\u0259r"
],
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053542",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"definitions":{
": designed to destroy military vehicles":[
"Anti-vehicle mines \u2026 can be bigger than a volleyball and are triggered by heavy pressure, such as a truck or tank rolling over them.",
"\u2014 Whitney Woodward , Chicago Daily Herald , 5 June 2006"
],
": intended to prevent vehicles from entering an area":[
"In a sad parody of the paranoia that has encased Capitol Hill in bollards, jersey barriers and checkpoints, the Park Service now wants to permanently close a parking lot at the Jefferson Memorial and erect more anti-vehicle barriers east of the Lincoln Memorial.",
"\u2014 Washington Post , 4 Jan. 2005"
]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1944, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
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"anti- entry 1 + vehicle":""
},
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"\u02ccan-t\u0113-",
"\u02ccan-\u02cct\u012b-\u02c8v\u0113-\u02cc(h)i-k\u0259l",
"-\u02c8v\u0113-\u0259-k\u0259l"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014408",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"antic":{
"antonyms":[
"chucklesome",
"comedic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"humoristic",
"humorous",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"killing",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious"
],
"definitions":{
": a performer of a grotesque or ludicrous part : buffoon":[],
": an attention-drawing, often wildly playful or funny act or action : caper":[
"\u2014 usually plural childish antics"
],
": characterized by clownish extravagance or absurdity":[
"an antic farce"
],
": grotesque , bizarre":[],
": whimsically lighthearted : frolicsome":[
"Gelbart's intelligence is antic and playful.",
"\u2014 Lloyd Rose"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"we'll have no more of your antics , so just settle down",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That\u2019s prime territory for Sandler these days, who has over the years calmed his antic \u2018SNL\u2019 blare into thoughtful world-weariness. \u2014 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"None of us relish being the butt of an unethical antic that does a proverbial pulling of the wool over our eyes. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The adult ought to have more common sense than to tell a teen to do this perilous antic . \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Like Moulton\u2019s previous antics, the latest antic may just be met with eyerolls and, yes, television time. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 25 Aug. 2021",
"From Moulton\u2019s perspective, the risk-reward dynamic of this latest antic was more favorable than not. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 25 Aug. 2021",
"On an app that often privileges the antic , Mr. Boutilier\u2019s anti-takes became a wry course correction. \u2014 New York Times , 8 July 2021",
"Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool star and resident dad-joke machine, just pulled another antic on his family, this time for Father's Day. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 23 June 2020",
"Barbara\u2019s antics lead her to be stung by a nasty horde of bees and then, horror of horrors, to endure the unsightly welts that blossom on her face, rendering her physically unbecoming, at least temporarily. \u2014 Longreads , 27 Mar. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Herzog has written a clipped, economical account that sometimes explodes into lyricism, turning their waiting into a thing of numb, antic beauty. \u2014 Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker , 16 June 2022",
"But in this satire, the Lexington native\u2019s transformation is something to behold, fully mining Dratch\u2019s knack for antic , slapstick comedy and penchant for playing beleaguered misfits. \u2014 Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
"DeGeneres has always straddled the line between light and dark, between antic fun and snappish charisma. \u2014 Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 May 2022",
"Without losing the character\u2019s desperation, Clayton now makes Hamlet more persuasively antic and wry \u2014 more real. \u2014 New York Times , 15 May 2022",
"The Harmonists\u2019 unusual melding of precise harmonies and antic humor vaulted them to fame. \u2014 Julia M. Klein, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Thornton Wilder\u2019s antic play, from 1942, packs in an ice age, a deluge and midcentury d\u00e9cor. \u2014 New York Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"For much of the way, The Bad Guys is antic fun, aided immeasurably by the terrific vocal performances. \u2014 Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Blaschke, who is an antic presence on set\u2014fussing with lights, checking angles\u2014filmed almost the entire sequence in a straight line, with a camera mounted on top of a car. \u2014 Sam Knight, The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1529, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1548, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian antico ancient thing or person, from antico ancient, from Latin antiquus \u2014 more at antique":"Noun and Adjective"
},
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"\u02c8an-tik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"caper",
"capriccio",
"dido",
"escapade",
"frolic",
"gag",
"jest",
"knavery",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"rag",
"roguery",
"shavie",
"shine(s)",
"trick",
"waggery"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023455",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"anticipant":{
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"definitions":{
": expectant , anticipating":[
"\u2014 usually used with of"
]
},
"examples":[
"anticipant of receiving a holiday bonus, she had mentally spent the money by Thanksgiving"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1626, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"an-\u02c8ti-s\u0259-p\u0259nt"
],
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"agape",
"agog",
"anticipatory",
"expectant"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185553",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": to act before (another) often so as to check or counter":[],
": to foresee and deal with in advance : forestall":[],
": to give advance thought, discussion, or treatment to":[],
": to look forward to as certain : expect":[
"We don't anticipate any problems during the construction."
],
": to meet (an obligation) before a due date":[],
": to speak or write in knowledge or expectation of later matter":[],
": to use or expend in advance of actual possession":[]
},
"examples":[
"The cost turned out to be higher than anticipated .",
"The author anticipated objections to his theory.",
"The organizers of the fair anticipate a large crowd.",
"I did not anticipate having to pay for your ticket.",
"He eagerly anticipated her arrival.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Political partisans not only choose which news sources to consume but also anticipate when following the news at all will be congenial to their beliefs. \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"These more-detailed insights will help retailers better anticipate shopper preferences. \u2014 Bryan Pearson, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers renewed his criticism of Federal Reserve economic forecasts, saying that the U.S. unemployment rate would need to increase by much more than policy makers anticipate in order to quell inflation. \u2014 Christopher Anstey, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
"Reviews can also be influenced by other factors, such as whether customers anticipate being asked for their feedback and their understanding of how negative ratings could harm a person\u2019s livelihood. \u2014 Louise Matsakis, NBC News , 28 May 2022",
"Read said the entire project probably would cost $8 million to $10 million \u2014 a number that will become clearer with the planning and design work \u2014 and officials anticipate asking for more Community Preservation money at the May 2023 Town Meeting. \u2014 Johanna Seltz, BostonGlobe.com , 25 May 2022",
"Reservations can be made for stays starting Nov. 1, although state park officials anticipate that the lodge may be ready for guests as early as September. \u2014 Susan Glaser, cleveland , 24 May 2022",
"Long term, the company\u2019s nascent data-science team will help build predictive models that anticipate supply-chain issues and model and evaluate mitigation options, said Ms. Agusti. \u2014 Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ , 23 May 2022",
"Variety grabbed Sorogoyen for a few minutes at Cannes to ask what audiences could anticipate from such an anticipated film. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 21 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1532, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin anticipatus , past participle of anticipare , from ante- + -cipare (from capere to take) \u2014 more at heave entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8tis-\u0259-\u02ccp\u0101t",
"an-\u02c8ti-s\u0259-\u02ccp\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for anticipate foresee , foreknow , divine , anticipate mean to know beforehand. foresee implies nothing about how the knowledge is derived and may apply to ordinary reasoning and experience. economists should have foreseen the recession foreknow usually implies supernatural assistance, as through revelation. if only we could foreknow our own destinies divine adds to foresee the suggestion of exceptional wisdom or discernment. was able to divine Europe's rapid recovery from the war anticipate implies taking action about or responding emotionally to something before it happens. the waiter anticipated our every need prevent , anticipate , forestall mean to deal with beforehand. prevent implies taking advance measures against something possible or probable. measures taken to prevent leaks anticipate may imply merely getting ahead of another by being a precursor or forerunner or it may imply checking another's intention by acting first. anticipated the question by making a statement forestall implies a getting ahead so as to stop or interrupt something in its course. hoped to forestall the sale",
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"await",
"expect",
"hope (for)",
"watch (for)"
],
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"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
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": expected or looked-forward to":[
"A large crowd gathered for his (eagerly) anticipated arrival.",
"making plans for the anticipated budget cuts",
"Thanks to the generosity and hard work of countless talented designers, these highly anticipated events raise funds to benefit valuable, important causes \u2026",
"\u2014 Traditional Home"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Cooney timed the exhibition to coincide with the anticipated publication of the Supreme Court\u2019s official opinion on Roe v. Wade. \u2014 Julius Constantine Motal, NBC News , 23 June 2022",
"With the Fed raising rates at a faster than anticipated pace to fight surging inflation, investors are moving out of risky, non-yielding assets such as cryptocurrency. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"One of the most anticipated online shopping days of the year is around the corner, Amazon Prime Day. \u2014 Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer , 22 June 2022",
"Baackes said health plans will need time to send renewal notices to consumers of anticipated rates for the 2023 coverage year, which are mailed in October. \u2014 Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"Golden State started the season 24-5 and elevated itself to championship contender before Christmas and before the anticipated return of Klay Thompson from an injury that sidelined him for 2\u00bd seasons. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"The county's task force broke down its anticipated spending decisions into four categories: $115.7 million to revenue loss recovery to provide government services. \u2014 Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel , 17 June 2022",
"Of the most anticipated savings to uncover during Amazon Prime Day\u2014luxury sneakers, summer dresses, beauty essentials\u2014deals on home decor and furniture are near the top of the list. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 16 June 2022",
"Funny Girl was one of the most anticipated revivals of the spring season, marking its first return to Broadway since its debut in the 1960s. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 15 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1814, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8ti-s\u0259-\u02ccp\u0101-t\u0259d"
],
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"synonyms":[
"awaited",
"due",
"expected",
"scheduled",
"slated"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235959",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"antonyms":[],
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": a prior action that takes into account or forestalls a later action":[
"hired more security guards in anticipation of a large crowd"
],
": an object or form that anticipates a later type":[],
": the early sounding of one or more tones of a succeeding chord to form a temporary dissonance \u2014 compare suspension":[],
": the use of money before it is available":[],
": visualization of a future event or state":[]
},
"examples":[
"She had a feeling of great anticipation before her graduation ceremony.",
"He looked forward to the party with anticipation .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Much like waiting for, awaiting suggests anticipation \u2014perhaps the return of something. \u2014 Oliver Munday, The Atlantic , 17 June 2022",
"The Whole Earth Catalog can be seen as a sluggish, analog anticipation of the internet. \u2014 Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic , 14 June 2022",
"And now from being on season one, and the anticipation [of what\u2019s to come] \u2026 it\u2019s a blessed space. \u2014 Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
"The anticipation of potentially getting a Birkin bag radiates hopeful happiness. \u2014 Soon Yu, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"It\u2019s filled with anticipation , hope and, hopefully, delicious food for many people. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"Yet every Bad Bunny project now comes with increasingly gigantic hopes and expectations, the anticipation often boiling on high, like a pressure cooker. \u2014 Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone , 9 May 2022",
"And these creatures are not small, so the heady cocktail of anticipation , adventure and danger was intoxicating. \u2014 Paul Croughton, Robb Report , 1 May 2022",
"After much fan anticipation \u2014 and speculation \u2014 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7 has revealed which past winners will return for its all-winners season. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 14 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see anticipate":""
},
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"an-\u02ccti-s\u0259-\u02c8p\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"(\u02cc)an-\u02cctis-\u0259-\u02c8p\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"(\u02cc)an-\u02ccti-s\u0259-\u02c8p\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for anticipation prospect , outlook , anticipation , foretaste mean an advance realization of something to come. prospect implies expectation of a particular event, condition, or development of definite interest or concern. the prospect of a quiet weekend outlook suggests a forecasting of the future. a favorable outlook for the economy anticipation implies a prospect or outlook that involves advance suffering or enjoyment of what is foreseen. the anticipation of her arrival foretaste implies an actual though brief or partial experience of something forthcoming. the frost was a foretaste of winter",
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"contemplation",
"expectance",
"expectancy",
"expectation",
"prospect"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124026",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": characterized by anticipation : anticipating":[
"took anticipatory measures to prevent floods"
]
},
"examples":[
"couldn't control his anticipatory excitement on Christmas morning",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The violent defensive tackle has some really impressive anticipatory skills against the run and a knack for pushing his way into the backfield. \u2014 Scott Patsko, cleveland , 1 May 2022",
"The riverside community could also take a more deliberate and anticipatory approach to transformation. \u2014 Elisabeth Gilmore, The Conversation , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Soon after, the main accused in the case, a nun, moved an anticipatory bail application in the Vadodara sessions court. \u2014 Aarefa Johari, Quartz , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The scientific name for this pacing mechanism is anticipatory regulation. \u2014 Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online , 19 Jan. 2021",
"No trailer this year has filled me with as much anticipatory glee as this one. \u2014 Sandra Gonzalez, CNN , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Between the ongoing pandemic and daylight savings time, the thought of spending another long winter stuck inside might be causing anticipatory restlessness. \u2014 Louryn Strampe, Wired , 26 Nov. 2021",
"An initial outburst of chords quickly gave way to anticipatory thoughts and suggestions. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Bhramar Mukherjee, a biostatistician at the University of Michigan who has been tracking India's pandemic, said India failed to learn from surges elsewhere and take anticipatory measures. \u2014 Star Tribune , 20 Apr. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1669, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8ti-s\u0259-p\u0259-\u02cct\u014dr-\u0113",
"an-\u02c8ti-s\u0259-p\u0259-\u02cct\u022fr-\u0113"
],
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"agog",
"anticipant",
"expectant"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094855",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"anticor":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an inflammatory swelling in the front of the chest of a horse caused by pressure or friction of the harness":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from anti- entry 1 + Latin cor heart":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105104",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anticorrelation":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an inverse correlation":[
"In 1801, the Astronomer Royal, William Herschel, effectively launched the field of solar variability influences on weather by noticing an anticorrelation between the price of wheat and the number of visible sunspots.",
"\u2014 K. S. Carslaw et al. , Science , 29 Nov. 2002"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1916, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"anti- entry 1 + correlation":""
},
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"\u00a6an-\u02cct\u012b-\u02cck\u022fr-\u0259-\u00a6l\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"-\u02cck\u00e4r-",
"\u00a6an-t\u0113-"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121829",
"type":[
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"verb, transitive + intransitive"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a system of winds that rotates about a center of high atmospheric pressure clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern, that usually advances at 20 to 30 miles (about 30 to 50 kilometers) per hour, and that usually has a diameter of 1500 to 2500 miles (2400 to 4000 kilometers)":[],
": high sense 2":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Local authorities recorded a high of 119.85 degrees Wednesday afternoon as the country experiences a heat wave and an anticyclone , a high wind system that circulates clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. \u2014 Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY , 12 Aug. 2021",
"An anticyclone is a high-pressure system, where atmospheric pressure is relatively higher than the air surrounding it. \u2014 Lauren Fox, CNN , 11 Aug. 2021",
"Jacob Stern at the Atlantic reports that since the late 1800s, astronomers have noticed the spot, an anticyclone storm about three times wider than Earth locked into place by opposing jet streams, has been shrinking. \u2014 Jason Daley, Smithsonian , 26 Nov. 2019",
"Instead, the smaller anticyclone appears like a lump traveling around the outer band of the larger one. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 25 Nov. 2019",
"At the same time, the Great Red Spot seems to have gobbled up a smaller anticyclone and merged to form a bigger storm. \u2014 Jason Daley, Smithsonian , 26 Nov. 2019",
"Ideal location Mist accumulates in coastal areas where a cold sea current, an anticyclone and a land obstacle, such as a mountain range, combine. \u2014 The Christian Science Monitor , 17 May 2018",
"The first reliable drawings of the anticyclone were created in the mid 19th-century, and astronomers began photographing the planet-sized storm in the 1880s. \u2014 Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics , 22 Feb. 2018",
"Ideal location Mist accumulates in coastal areas where a cold sea current, an anticyclone and a land obstacle, such as a mountain range, combine. \u2014 The Christian Science Monitor , 17 May 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1862, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"\u02ccan-ti-\u02c8s\u012b-\u02cckl\u014dn"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114234",
"type":[
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"noun"
]
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": reversed dactyl : anapest":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin antidactylus , from Greek antidaktylos , from anti- anti- entry 1 + daktylos dactyl":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114029",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antidemocratic":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": opposed or hostile to the theories or policies of democracy":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Many legal experts have called those arguments unpersuasive and antidemocratic , and no state legislature complied. \u2014 Emma Brown, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
"Whatever his efforts on these issues, however, Lee\u2019s overarching vision is unquestionably antidemocratic , and subservient to his ultimate masters\u2014not Hong Kong\u2019s people, but Beijing\u2019s leaders. \u2014 Timothy Mclaughlin, The Atlantic , 25 May 2022",
"The trouble began when the administration decided initially to exclude antidemocratic leaders from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, drawing the ire of Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 May 2022",
"The burgeoning alliance with Orban has led some US commentators to warn of American conservatives allegedly embracing antidemocratic tactics. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
"So which side of the Roe argument is really antidemocratic ? \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 6 May 2022",
"She\u2019s one of the many people for whom Facebook groups provide an incomparable social experience, but who are also struggling to reconcile that with the platform\u2019s antidemocratic practices. \u2014 Mansee Khurana, The Atlantic , 28 Apr. 2022",
"In Europe, there are early glimmers that the wave of antidemocratic populism may have crested. \u2014 Frida Ghitis, CNN , 28 Apr. 2022",
"There was something so antidemocratic , something so crude about that, that truly frightened me. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1791, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan-t\u0113-\u02ccde-m\u0259-\u02c8kra-tik",
"\u02ccan-\u02cct\u012b-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084107",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"More than 70 years after the initial observations, patients diagnosed with PTSD today still have few treatment options; most likely they will be prescribed a combination of therapy and antidepressant drugs. \u2014 Emma Yasinski, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 May 2022",
"Nonstimulant medications used to treat ADHD in adults include atomoxetine, which increases the brain neurotransmitter norepinephrine, and bupropion, an antidepressant drug sometimes used to treat ADHD that increases both dopamine and norepinephrine. \u2014 Laura E. Knouse, The Conversation , 9 May 2022",
"But research on ketamine\u2019s antidepressant effects has only taken off in the last couple decades. \u2014 Raleigh Mcelvery, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 May 2022",
"Unfortunately, about a third of patients with psychiatric conditions do not have an adequate response to first-line antidepressant treatment and develop treatment-resistant conditions. \u2014 Kathleen Frazier, Variety , 20 May 2022",
"The research on ketamine, primarily used in the past as a horse tranquilizer, is the furthest along, and has been proven as an antidepressant treatment. \u2014 Ronit Molko, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"For women who are not good candidates for hormone therapy, there are a few non-hormonal treatments as well, says Dr. Streicher, including a low-dose form of the antidepressant paroxetine, which has been FDA-approved to treat hot flashes. \u2014 Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping , 5 May 2022",
"The study also explained that even minimal treatment would involve 60 days or more of antidepressant prescriptions filled, four or more mental health specialty visits, or three or more psychotherapy visits. \u2014 Caroline Chirichella, Health.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
"During the five-days that police were searching for Scott, a law enforcement bulletin said Scott was known to take antipsychotic and antidepressant medications and known to experience hallucinations. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Gil was taking the antidepressant trazodone, medical records show. \u2014 Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Fluvoxamine, an antidepressant pill that is approved in the U.S. for obsessive-compulsive disorder, can tame inflammatory responses, which typically arise in severe COVID-19. \u2014 Esther Landhuis, Scientific American , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Her mix of psychotropic pills shifted, expanded: antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, an antidepressant , a benzodiazepine for anxiety, a stimulant for attention deficit. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
"Long gone are the days when health plans and PBMs had to worry about the launch of a new cholesterol pill or prescription antidepressant that would cost $4 each and be taken by millions of Americans. \u2014 Bruce Japsen, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"Topline The Food and Drug Administration on Monday declined to authorize a cheap and widely available antidepressant as a treatment for Covid-19, finding that a study indicating the drug was effective against the disease was severely limited. \u2014 Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Wellbutrin is a brand name of bupropion, a prescription antidepressant approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1985 that is sometimes used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
"In the first trial, everyone received psilocybin, and in the second one, some received psilocybin and others took a different kind of antidepressant . \u2014 Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY , 12 Apr. 2022",
"For prevention, your doctor might prescribe a beta-blocker, antidepressant , or anticonvulsant. \u2014 Eleesha Lockett, SELF , 8 Feb. 2022"
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"1961, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1962, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"\u02ccan-t\u0113-di-\u02c8pre-s\u1d4ant",
"\u02ccant-i-di-\u02c8pres-\u1d4ant, \u02ccan-\u02cct\u012b-",
"\u02ccan-\u02cct\u012b-"
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"1904, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccan-t\u012b-",
"\u02ccan-t\u0113-di-\u02c8pre-sh\u0259n",
"-d\u0113-"
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": indefinite integral":[]
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"1887, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccan-t\u0113-di-\u02c8ri-v\u0259-tiv",
"\u02ccan-\u02cct\u012b-"
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": a remedy to counteract the effects of poison":[
"needed the antidote for the snake's venom"
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"an antidote to boredom"
]
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"examples":[
"There is no antidote to this poison.",
"For him, racing motorcycles is a great antidote to boredom.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"So these items may be the perfect antidote to winter later this year. \u2014 Scott Kramer, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"An important final step in the antidote mix against impossible masculinity is to stop conflating human beings with their genitalia. \u2014 Emily Willingham, Scientific American , 24 Aug. 2020",
"Exuberantly eclectic, The Clamor of Ornament is a welcome antidote to provincial claims of exceptionalism and domineering hierarchies of style. \u2014 Jonathon Keats, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Shortened, yet frequent, time off is the antidote to burnout taking hold and gaining momentum. \u2014 J. Gerald Suarez, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"Today, in the fearsome world of a relentless pandemic, climate disaster and the undermining of democracy around the world, the humor and stoicism of Pym\u2019s people are a welcome antidote . \u2014 Sara Paretsky, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"The antidote to sprawl is called smart growth, or responsible growth. \u2014 Tom Condon, Hartford Courant , 11 June 2022",
"The thick meat sauce was delicious and the perfect antidote to the mist coming off the Providence River. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"Working remotely and four days a week forces you to be devoted to work for a certain period of time; a good antidote that mitigates the potential for work to spill over into your personal life at home. \u2014 Fortune , 30 May 2022"
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"\u02c8an-ti-\u02ccd\u014dt",
"\u02c8ant-i-\u02ccd\u014dt"
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"therapy"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Following the five-day course of Paxlovid, Fauci did test negative on a rapid antigen test for three consecutive days. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"That Covid test needs to be taken within 72 hours of travel and can be either an RT-PCR test or a rapid antigen test that is certified by a health professional. \u2014 Johanna Read, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden, tested positive for COVID-19 on a rapid antigen test. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 15 June 2022",
"Fauci, 81, who has received two doses of the Moderna vaccine and two booster shots, diagnosed himself after taking a rapid antigen test. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Becerra tested positive on an antigen test Monday and is experiencing mild symptoms. \u2014 Kathryn Watson, CBS News , 13 June 2022",
"All visitors to the Bahamas must produce a negative rapid antigen test (for vaccinated travelers) or negative RT-PCR test (for unvaccinated travelers or optional for vaccinated travelers) within three days prior to arrival to the country. \u2014 Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal , 2 June 2022",
"Most travelers from the United States with proof of full Covid-19 vaccination can enter Turkey and don't need a PCR or antigen test, according to Turkish Airlines. \u2014 Christopher Elliott, Forbes , 7 May 2022",
"But despite the fall in transmissions, Shanghai will launch a new round of citywide PCR and antigen tests from Sunday until May 7. \u2014 NBC News , 30 Apr. 2022"
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"1908, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8ant-i-j\u0259n",
"\u02c8an-ti-j\u0259n",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Following the five-day course of Paxlovid, Fauci did test negative on a rapid antigen test for three consecutive days. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"That Covid test needs to be taken within 72 hours of travel and can be either an RT-PCR test or a rapid antigen test that is certified by a health professional. \u2014 Johanna Read, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden, tested positive for COVID-19 on a rapid antigen test. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 15 June 2022",
"Fauci, 81, who has received two doses of the Moderna vaccine and two booster shots, diagnosed himself after taking a rapid antigen test. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Becerra tested positive on an antigen test Monday and is experiencing mild symptoms. \u2014 Kathryn Watson, CBS News , 13 June 2022",
"All visitors to the Bahamas must produce a negative rapid antigen test (for vaccinated travelers) or negative RT-PCR test (for unvaccinated travelers or optional for vaccinated travelers) within three days prior to arrival to the country. \u2014 Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal , 2 June 2022",
"Most travelers from the United States with proof of full Covid-19 vaccination can enter Turkey and don't need a PCR or antigen test, according to Turkish Airlines. \u2014 Christopher Elliott, Forbes , 7 May 2022",
"But despite the fall in transmissions, Shanghai will launch a new round of citywide PCR and antigen tests from Sunday until May 7. \u2014 NBC News , 30 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Someone to do jobs that are probably fatal, like clean out the antimatter chamber, or explore a totally unknown environment. \u2014 Tom Shippey, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"Antiprotons are the antimatter version of protons, with exactly the same mass but opposite charge. \u2014 John Conway, The Conversation , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Doing these measurements presented a significant challenge, however, and not just because of the tendency of matter and antimatter to annihilate each other. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Both of these types of antimatter likely form during the collision of cosmic rays. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 7 Oct. 2021",
"And the decay of heavy neutrinos moments after the Big Bang has been suggested as the possible reason why there\u2019s so much more matter than antimatter in the universe. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 28 Oct. 2021",
"That question is exactly what drives so much research into antimatter . \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 21 Sep. 2021",
"The Blakes\u2019 house and Faden\u2019s workshop are matter and antimatter , absolute contraries. \u2014 Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine , 12 Oct. 2021",
"So how did the researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf figure out how to generate antimatter ? \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 21 Sep. 2021"
],
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"1934, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8an-t\u0113-\u02ccma-t\u0259r",
"\u02c8an-\u02cct\u012b-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114255",
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"-t\u0113-",
"\u02ccant\u0259\u0307\u02c8mens\u0113\u02cc\u00e4n",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124756",
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"circa 1660, in the meaning defined above":""
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"-l\u0259l",
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]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Many have touted false cures such as ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug. \u2014 Hannah Zeavin, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"But few dubious solutions have had the staying power of ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug used to treat large farmyard animals. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The antiparasitic drug ivermectin did not reduce the risk of being hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a large study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine. \u2014 Bysony Salzman, ABC News , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Researchers testing repurposed drugs against Covid-19 found that ivermectin did not reduce hospital admissions, in the largest trial yet of the effect of the antiparasitic on the disease driving the pandemic, The Wall Street Journal reports. \u2014 Ed Silverman, STAT , 20 Mar. 2022",
"The antiparasitic drug ivermectin failed to treat COVID-19 in yet another randomized clinical trial, but the drug remains popular amid the pandemic thanks to Republican politics. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 21 Feb. 2022",
"The Kansas medical board is facing attacks from state lawmakers for investigating doctors who have prescribed the antiparasitic drug ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Rogan previously promoted off-label use of antiparasitic drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19 (regardless of FDA warnings). \u2014 Amiah Taylor, Fortune , 13 Jan. 2022",
"Following a judge\u2019s order, a Virginia hospital late Monday allowed a covid-19 patient in its care to receive ivermectin, a drug normally used as an antiparasitic , which health officials say should not be used to treat the coronavirus. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Dec. 2021"
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"1857, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccan-t\u0113-\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02c8si-tik",
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The first and most well-known parameter, charge-parity (CP) violation, dictates whether neutrinos and their antiparticle counterparts oscillate in the same way, and could help explain why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe. \u2014 Thomas Lewton, Scientific American , 13 Apr. 2022",
"This leaves behind the second square\u2019s opposite side, also consisting of a particle and an antiparticle . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 26 July 2021",
"This leaves behind the second square\u2019s opposite side, also consisting of a particle and an antiparticle . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 26 July 2021",
"This leaves behind the second square\u2019s opposite side, also consisting of a particle and an antiparticle . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 26 July 2021",
"In the first step of this fusion process, two protons inside the sun fuse into a deuteron while giving off a neutrino and a positron\u2014the antiparticle of the electron. \u2014 Scientific American , 1 Feb. 2022",
"The antiparticle version of an electron, for instance, is a positron. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 21 Sep. 2021",
"The resultant movement is that of a particle- antiparticle pair moving sideways in a straight line. \u2014 Thomas Lewton, Wired , 1 Aug. 2021",
"This self-annihilation is like that of a particle and antiparticle pair, except that here both members of the pair are identical. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 29 Sep. 2021"
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"\u02c8an-t\u0113-\u02ccp\u00e4r-ti-k\u0259l",
"\u02c8an-\u02cct\u012b-"
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": arousing antipathy":[]
},
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"a series of adventure books that turned boys who had been antipathetic to reading into avid readers",
"the mayor has always had an openly antipathetic relationship with the local press",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Given the number of moving parts, not least exactly how much a president antipathetic to fracking could actually do, this seems a minimal risk for now. \u2014 Liam Denning | Bloomberg, Washington Post , 7 Nov. 2019",
"Pakistan is a nuclear state, an antipathetic but important U.S. ally and one of the largest Muslim-majority countries in the world. \u2014 Russell Goldman, The Seattle Times , 24 July 2018",
"Even in this antipathetic context, Aldrich manages to find room for his characteristic intimations of breakdown and approaching chaos. \u2014 Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader , 26 June 2018",
"Mainstream Peronists seem more antipathetic toward Mrs. Kirchner than Mr. Macri. \u2014 Mary Anastasia O\u2019grady, WSJ , 22 Oct. 2017"
],
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"1640, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02ccan-ti-p\u0259-\u02c8the-tik",
"\u02ccant-i-p\u0259-\u02c8thet-ik",
"(\u02cc)an-\u02ccti-p\u0259-"
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"\u2026 perhaps his greatest antipathies were cabs, old women, doors that would not shut \u2026",
"\u2014 Charles Dickens"
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},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Apple hardware and Google services have increasingly managed to play nice together over the years, in spite of the occasional sparks and antipathy directed at each other from their respective top executives. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 20 June 2022",
"At the same time, his recent unwillingness to go along with Trump has provoked massive and sustained antipathy toward Pence among the former President\u2019s most loyal voters. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 7 Mar. 2022",
"LiveJournal posts from his mid-20s occasionally expressed antipathy toward police and Republicans, but his politics had drastically shifted recently, his roommate previously told The Oregonian/OregonLive. \u2014 Maxine Bernstein, Anchorage Daily News , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Alice\u2019s chief emotional involvement of late, besides her antipathy toward Louis, is with a stranger, Lucia (Cosmina Stratan), a fan who approaches her outside the theater one night, declaring her profound admiration. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 May 2022",
"Jim Showalter also thinks my antipathy may be misplaced. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
"When quarterly tax payments became part of my life as an entrepreneur, my antipathy to big government grew. \u2014 WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Chris Hegemann of Falls Church often feels unreasonable antipathy while playing Yahtzee. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 May 2022",
"Value investor Warren Buffett took his antipathy toward crypto to new heights over the weekend. \u2014 Walter Frick, Quartz , 2 May 2022"
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"1592, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
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"Latin antipathia , from Greek antipatheia , from antipath\u0113s of opposite feelings, from anti- + pathos experience \u2014 more at pathos":""
},
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"an-\u02c8tip-\u0259-th\u0113",
"an-\u02c8ti-p\u0259-th\u0113"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for antipathy enmity , hostility , antipathy , antagonism , animosity , rancor , animus mean deep-seated dislike or ill will. enmity suggests positive hatred which may be open or concealed. an unspoken enmity hostility suggests an enmity showing itself in attacks or aggression. hostility between the two nations antipathy and antagonism imply a natural or logical basis for one's hatred or dislike, antipathy suggesting repugnance, a desire to avoid or reject, and antagonism suggesting a clash of temperaments leading readily to hostility. a natural antipathy for self-seekers antagonism between the brothers animosity suggests intense ill will and vindictiveness that threaten to kindle hostility. animosity that led to revenge rancor is especially applied to bitter brooding over a wrong. rancor filled every line of his letters animus adds to animosity the implication of strong prejudice. objections devoid of personal animus",
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"noncontradictory"
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": diametrically opposite":[
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],
": entirely opposed":[
"a system antipodal to democracy"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"love is antipodal to hate",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Check where the bear is and move straight to its antipodal point. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 25 Aug. 2021",
"Yet perhaps the only animal wholly protected by the treaty is the continent\u2019s single native insect, a flightless midge that can survive partial freezing\u2014an antipodal analogue of the Arctic\u2019s woolly bear moth. \u2014 Lucy Jakub, Harper's magazine , 2 Mar. 2020",
"There would seem to be a lot of room for middle ground, between the antipodal prospects of a peacemaking summit or a catastrophic war. \u2014 Evan Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com , 24 May 2018",
"That's right, the Pacific is so vast that some parts of it are antipodal to itself! \u2014 Ken Jennings, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 23 Jan. 2017",
"After a long night of sleep in the underbelly of the earth, the armored sun rose and charged the horizon, pressing against the dark with long arms until night fell back, wounded and floundering, to earth\u2019s antipodal edge. \u2014 Dwight Garner, New York Times , 17 May 2016",
"In a kind of middle ground for me stood Prada and Dolce & Gabbana ( antipodal houses if ever two existed). \u2014 Vogue , 20 June 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"More antipodal bookends expressing the pinnacle of Audi performance would be hard to imagine. \u2014 Robert Ross, Robb Report , 3 June 2022",
"In addition to flying high and fast, an antipodal bomber was maneuverable. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021",
"For The New Yorker, journalist Brooke Jarvis spends time in Tasmania, examining the debate about whether this uniquely antipodal carnivore is extinct or alive, eking out its existence while avoiding scientific efforts to document it. \u2014 Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads , 28 June 2018",
"And there are no direct commercial flights between antipodal locations. \u2014 Don Sweeney, sacbee , 7 Aug. 2017"
],
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"1646, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1880, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
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"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8ti-p\u0259-d\u1d4al"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"antipodean",
"antithetical",
"contradictory",
"contrary",
"diametric",
"diametrical",
"opposite",
"polar"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021223",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"antipode":{
"antonyms":[],
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": the exact opposite or contrary":[],
": the parts of the earth diametrically opposite":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural \u2014 often used of Australia and New Zealand"
],
"as contrasted to the western hemisphere":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural \u2014 often used of Australia and New Zealand"
]
},
"examples":[
"my jock brother is an antipode to my bookworm sister",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"President Joe Biden could be the antipode to the Trump/Greene type of outrage politics. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 12 Apr. 2021",
"But that's usually antipode to how a business\u2014which is how Congress characterizes the USPS\u2014is run. \u2014 Jonathan Vanian, Fortune , 15 Aug. 2020",
"Jonathan\u2019s message was clear: When the going gets tough, the tough go to the antipodes . \u2014 The New Yorker , 6 Apr. 2020",
"After Leonard Bernstein left the job in 1969, the orchestra chose as his successor an antipode , the cerebral Pierre Boulez. \u2014 David Mermelstein, WSJ , 1 Oct. 2018",
"But the antipode of the hospital where I was born, in central China, is a place in northern Argentina. \u2014 Angela Chen, The Verge , 17 June 2018",
"Especially when your predecessor is in so many respects your antipode . \u2014 Mike Sielski, Philly.com , 31 May 2018",
"But the antipodes offer singular rewards in recompense. \u2014 Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic , 4 May 2018",
"That relates to the title of the exhibition; antipodes are places on opposite sides of the earth. \u2014 Thomas Hine, Philly.com , 25 Apr. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1549, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English antipodes , plural, persons dwelling at opposite points on the globe, from Latin, from Greek, from plural of antipod-, antipous with feet opposite, from anti- + pod-, pous foot \u2014 more at foot":""
},
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"\u02c8an-t\u0259-\u02ccp\u014dd",
"\u02c8ant-\u0259-\u02ccp\u014dd"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"antithesis",
"contrary",
"counter",
"negative",
"obverse",
"opposite",
"reverse"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031300",
"type":[
"adjective or noun",
"noun"
]
},
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": the parts of the earth diametrically opposite":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural \u2014 often used of Australia and New Zealand"
],
"as contrasted to the western hemisphere":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural \u2014 often used of Australia and New Zealand"
]
},
"examples":[
"my jock brother is an antipode to my bookworm sister",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"President Joe Biden could be the antipode to the Trump/Greene type of outrage politics. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 12 Apr. 2021",
"But that's usually antipode to how a business\u2014which is how Congress characterizes the USPS\u2014is run. \u2014 Jonathan Vanian, Fortune , 15 Aug. 2020",
"Jonathan\u2019s message was clear: When the going gets tough, the tough go to the antipodes . \u2014 The New Yorker , 6 Apr. 2020",
"After Leonard Bernstein left the job in 1969, the orchestra chose as his successor an antipode , the cerebral Pierre Boulez. \u2014 David Mermelstein, WSJ , 1 Oct. 2018",
"But the antipode of the hospital where I was born, in central China, is a place in northern Argentina. \u2014 Angela Chen, The Verge , 17 June 2018",
"Especially when your predecessor is in so many respects your antipode . \u2014 Mike Sielski, Philly.com , 31 May 2018",
"But the antipodes offer singular rewards in recompense. \u2014 Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic , 4 May 2018",
"That relates to the title of the exhibition; antipodes are places on opposite sides of the earth. \u2014 Thomas Hine, Philly.com , 25 Apr. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1549, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English antipodes , plural, persons dwelling at opposite points on the globe, from Latin, from Greek, from plural of antipod-, antipous with feet opposite, from anti- + pod-, pous foot \u2014 more at foot":""
},
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"\u02c8an-t\u0259-\u02ccp\u014dd",
"\u02c8ant-\u0259-\u02ccp\u014dd"
],
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"contrary",
"counter",
"negative",
"obverse",
"opposite",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035443",
"type":[
"adjective or noun",
"noun"
]
},
"antiquated":{
"antonyms":[],
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": advanced in age":[],
": obsolete":[
"an antiquated calendar"
],
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"antiquated ideas",
"antiquated methods of farming",
"antiquated machinery",
"antiquated slang"
]
},
"examples":[
"He has some pretty antiquated opinions about politics.",
"saw an antiquated hand-cranked rope-making machine at the textiles museum",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The agriculture industry is one of the many sectors in California that are suffering from an antiquated water sector, experts say. \u2014 Julia Jacobo, ABC News , 30 June 2022",
"While that may be true in certain cases, there are also a lot of generalizations about our community based on antiquated views. \u2014 Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
"But Karen McDonald, the Oakland County prosecuting attorney, said the law was useless and antiquated , comparing it to old statutes banning cows running at large. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
"State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Katie Dykes has said spending $300 million on an antiquated plant would not have solved the state\u2019s trash crisis. \u2014 Alison Cross, Hartford Courant , 27 June 2022",
"So many tragedies have evolved into what might be called an antiquated normal, a hallmark for which the U.S. has become infamous worldwide. \u2014 Christopher Colwell, Scientific American , 22 June 2022",
"Word #1 Hint: A somewhat antiquated word for chest. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"The outdated and antiquated playground equipment located at East River Park is about to get replaced. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 15 June 2022",
"Such antiquated language and behavior actively hurts the team. \u2014 Olivia Jakiel, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1587, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see antiquate":""
},
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"\u02c8an-t\u0259-\u02cckw\u0101-t\u0259d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for antiquated old , ancient , venerable , antique , antiquated , archaic , obsolete mean having come into existence or use in the more or less distant past. old may apply to either actual or merely relative length of existence. old houses an old sweater of mine ancient applies to occurrence, existence, or use in or survival from the distant past. ancient accounts of dragons venerable stresses the impressiveness and dignity of great age. the family's venerable patriarch antique applies to what has come down from a former or ancient time. collected antique Chippendale furniture antiquated implies being discredited or outmoded or otherwise inappropriate to the present time. antiquated teaching methods archaic implies having the character or characteristics of a much earlier time. the play used archaic language to convey a sense of period obsolete may apply to something regarded as no longer acceptable or useful even though it is still in existence. a computer that makes earlier models obsolete",
"synonyms":[
"archaic",
"dated",
"d\u00e9mod\u00e9",
"demoded",
"fossilized",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"medieval",
"mediaeval",
"moribund",
"mossy",
"moth-eaten",
"neolithic",
"Noachian",
"obsolete",
"out-of-date",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"prehistoric",
"prehistorical",
"rusty",
"Stone Age",
"superannuated"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200531",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"antique":{
"antonyms":[
"museum piece",
"relic"
],
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": a relic or object of ancient times":[],
": a work of art, piece of furniture, or decorative object made at an earlier period and according to various customs laws at least 100 years ago":[],
": being in the style or fashion of former times":[
"antique manners and graces"
],
": existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient":[
"antique trade routes to India"
],
": selling or exhibiting antiques":[
"an antique show"
],
": to finish or refinish in antique style : give an appearance of age to":[
"antique a table"
],
": to shop around for antiques":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"studied shards from antique pots made by the Pueblos of the Southwest",
"loved to collect antique sugar tongs",
"Noun",
"That car is an antique .",
"their house is filled with rare antiques , including a collection of 19th-century African masks",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Franz, who owns one of the oldest antique shops in Old Ellicott City, knows the damage a flood can cause. \u2014 Steve Thompson, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"The city\u2019s historic downtown is wonderfully pedestrian-friendly, and filled with charming small businesses from antique shops to craft breweries. \u2014 Katie Chang, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
"The building housed antique shops and other stores. \u2014 Christine Dempsey, Hartford Courant , 22 Apr. 2022",
"There were surfers, a great bookstore, a playhouse, antique shops. \u2014 Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Getting started involved a steep learning curve and led him to scour antique shops and eBay for old photo equipment. \u2014 Pat Mcdonogh, The Courier-Journal , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Once in the city of 83,000, cars wind through a picturesque downtown of antique shops, galleries, and red-brick Victorian buildings. \u2014 Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Additional planned amenities and attractions that have leaked out to the world, so far, include antique shops modeled after those in Whisper of the Heart, substantial exhibition space and a theater. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Most antique stores or art galleries are able to give you a quick assessment \u2014 even taking the work apart and putting it together for confirmation. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Its antique and estate jewelry department continues to occupy a location on the store\u2019s seventh floor next to BG Restaurant. \u2014 Anthony Demarco, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Visitors learned about the painting's daring heist from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in 1985 and surprising recovery three decades later in a New Mexico antique store. \u2014 Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic , 7 June 2022",
"An antique and collectibles appraiser will be on site noon to 3 p.m. to appraise heirlooms and collectibles. \u2014 Carol Kovach, cleveland , 31 May 2022",
"The entrance to The Mall at Echo Bridge showing the outside of Echo Deco, an antique and jewelry shop. \u2014 Taylor Brokesh, BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
"Save up to 60% off designer, antique , vintage, and contemporary furniture and decor pieces, in addition to art, fashion, and jewelry. \u2014 Julie Tong, Vogue , 26 May 2022",
"Behind the instrument hangs a painting of a woman playing a piano, which Foster and Ostrow picked up at a London antique mall. \u2014 Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com , 13 May 2022",
"Set your beautiful antique finds on display will show off your personality. \u2014 Medgina Saint-elien, House Beautiful , 3 May 2022",
"Kentshire Galleries has been one of the foremost dealers of fine antique and period jewelry, furniture, and objets d\u2019art. \u2014 Anthony Demarco, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Plan your Lakeside Chautauqua day of antiquing for Saturday, Aug. 24, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Lakeside Antique Show celebrates its 59th year of offering a scenic lake view, along with fabulous dealers and outstanding heirlooms. \u2014 Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com , 22 Aug. 2019",
"Meanwhile, the designers incorporated another element of American history with the wheat-motif dining chairs, rare models Rush and Klaus found while antiquing in the southeast. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 7 Aug. 2019",
"Matte, polished, antiqued and brushed give home decorators many options to provide interest and depth. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Aug. 2019",
"For instance, instead of a basic mirror and hook, add a fanciful detail like these antiqued mirrored hooks for jewelry and your room key. \u2014 Ap Mcclatchy, The Mercury News , 29 July 2019",
"There are now hundreds of affinity cruises appealing to any number of interests, from antiquing to stargazing to photography to mystery novels. \u2014 Peter Jon Lindberg, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 18 July 2019",
"The new look is pale and cool, with floor tiles in faded green pattern, antiqued green chairs and pretty layered white hanging lamp fixtures. \u2014 Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com , 20 June 2018",
"On trend right now are satin or brushed nickels and warmer antiqued brass. \u2014 Diane Cowen, Houston Chronicle , 6 Apr. 2018",
"Matte, polished, antiqued and brushed give home decorators many options to provide interest and depth. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Aug. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1786, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle French, from Latin antiquus , from ante before \u2014 more at ante-":"Adjective, Noun, and Verb"
},
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"an-\u02c8t\u0113k",
"in verse often \u02c8an-tik",
"(\u02cc)an-\u02c8t\u0113k"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for antique Adjective old , ancient , venerable , antique , antiquated , archaic , obsolete mean having come into existence or use in the more or less distant past. old may apply to either actual or merely relative length of existence. old houses an old sweater of mine ancient applies to occurrence, existence, or use in or survival from the distant past. ancient accounts of dragons venerable stresses the impressiveness and dignity of great age. the family's venerable patriarch antique applies to what has come down from a former or ancient time. collected antique Chippendale furniture antiquated implies being discredited or outmoded or otherwise inappropriate to the present time. antiquated teaching methods archaic implies having the character or characteristics of a much earlier time. the play used archaic language to convey a sense of period obsolete may apply to something regarded as no longer acceptable or useful even though it is still in existence. a computer that makes earlier models obsolete",
"synonyms":[
"age-old",
"aged",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"dateless",
"hoar",
"hoary",
"immemorial",
"old",
"venerable"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063350",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"antireligious":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": opposing or hostile to religion or to the power and influence of organized religion":[
"an anti-religious bias",
"\u2026 an unfinished forum for religious, anti-religious and political orators \u2026",
"\u2014 George Bernard Shaw"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1831, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan-t\u0113-ri-\u02c8li-j\u0259s",
"\u02ccan-t\u012b-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014103",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"antiseptic":{
"antonyms":[
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"disorderly",
"messy",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy"
],
"definitions":{
": an antiseptic substance : a substance (such as isopropyl alcohol or chlorhexidine ) that destroys or inhibits the growth or action of microorganisms (such as bacteria) especially in or on living tissue (such as the skin or mucous membranes)":[
"clean the wound with an antiseptic"
],
": coldly impersonal":[
"an antiseptic greeting"
],
": free from what is held to be contaminating":[
"an antiseptic version of rustic life"
],
": having a cleansing or purifying quality or effect":[
"\u2026 the antiseptic effect of sturdy criticism.",
"\u2014 New Republic"
],
": of, relating to, or being warfare conducted with cold precision from a safe distance with few or no casualties on one's side":[
"antiseptic bombings"
],
": relating to or characterized by the use of antiseptic substances":[
"antiseptic treatment"
],
": scrupulously clean : aseptic":[
"antiseptic surgical instruments"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"known for keeping a strenuously antiseptic kitchen, the floor of which does indeed seem fit for eating off of",
"for such an expensive, elegant Sunday brunch, one would expect the attendants at the buffet tables to be professionally attired in starched, antiseptic white jackets",
"Noun",
"Clean the affected area with an antiseptic .",
"He applied antiseptic to the wound.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Abundant in antioxidants, antiseptic compounds, and aromatherapeutic benefits, the raw ingredients deliver exhilarating freshness that lasts. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"Using the Freedom of Information Act, The New York Times has obtained from the National Archives less antiseptic photographs of the first prisoners who were brought from Afghanistan to the wartime prison in Cuba. \u2014 New York Times , 12 June 2022",
"The following month, he was splashed with an antiseptic green dye, damaging his vision in one eye. \u2014 Paul Leblanc, CNN , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Every month, concerned parents pack the school district\u2019s ruthlessly antiseptic boardroom for the local school board meeting. \u2014 Laura Jedeed, The New Republic , 31 May 2022",
"Straight from nature, this antiseptic and essential oil kills bacteria naturally. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"Mohammed also plans to install tables and chairs in the spotless, somewhat antiseptic space, which should make D.C. officials happy. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 June 2021",
"Essential oil of oregano has anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and antiseptic properties. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 May 2022",
"Despite the dirtiness of the content, Thyberg infuses \u2018Pleasure\u2019 with an antiseptic quality that counters all of the bodily fluids. \u2014 Sonaiya Kelleystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Coconut oil is a natural antiseptic and moisturizer. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"This unique and vintage-feeling 3.5 oz block is almost like soap, but is made from 100% potassium alum, a material that provides natural antiseptic and astringent properties that stop bleeding, close pores, and tone skin. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 May 2022",
"Online and brick-and-mortar grocery stores have sold out of fresh food, kitchen staples and other basics like masks and antiseptic . \u2014 Time , 25 Apr. 2022",
"If you\u2019ve been bitten, simply clean the wound with soap and water, and if available, apply a mild antiseptic such as rubbing alcohol to disinfect the bite wound. \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The right side of her face was scabbed and covered in green antiseptic , her body peppered with shrapnel. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Kendrick and Eldering\u2019s vaccine consisted of whole-cell Bordetella bacteria killed with a common antiseptic , purified, sterilized and suspended in a saline solution. \u2014 Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Hydrogen peroxide has been used as an antiseptic since the 1920s. \u2014 Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 24 Feb. 2022",
"The typical bottle of antiseptic sold for skin cleaning is a 10% solution. \u2014 Judy Stone, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1639, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1745, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from New Latin antiseptica, antisepticum, noun derivatives of antisepticus antiseptic entry 1":"Noun",
"borrowed from New Latin antisepticus, from anti- anti- + Latin s\u0113pticus \"putrefactive, septic \"":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccant-\u0259-\u02c8sep-tik",
"\u02ccan-t\u0259-\u02c8sep-tik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"bandbox",
"crisp",
"groomed",
"kempt",
"neat",
"orderly",
"picked up",
"prim",
"shipshape",
"smug",
"snug",
"tidied",
"tidy",
"trig",
"trim",
"uncluttered",
"well-groomed"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073429",
"type":[
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"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"antisocial":{
"antonyms":[
"cordial",
"friendly",
"sociable",
"social",
"warm"
],
"definitions":{
": averse to the society of others : unsociable":[],
": of, relating to, or characteristic of antisocial personality disorder":[
"Although community placement before discharge reduces subsequent antisocial behavior, most have apparently required outpatient mental health services indefinitely \u2026",
"\u2014 Nathaniel S. Lehrman"
]
},
"examples":[
"She's not being antisocial ; she's just shy at parties.",
"she's not antisocial , just extremely shy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Based in South Jamaica, Queens, the organization develops young leaders and provides youth and families with positive alternatives to violence, bullying, and other forms of antisocial behavior. \u2014 Vogue , 18 June 2022",
"The government seems unlikely to present quite as much evidence of Schulte\u2019s antisocial behavior this time. \u2014 Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Research has shown that people who are more inclined toward risk-taking activities exhibit more of what\u2019s called antisocial behavior. \u2014 Heather Hansman, Outside Online , 25 Mar. 2020",
"Massaro also frequently told a story to his acolytes about having tortured a kitten by repeatedly throwing her into a thorn bush in his backyard, which would later be cited by his detractors as evidence of antisocial tendencies. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Another fan favorite is Eloise, whose antisocial tendencies struck a huge chord with viewers. \u2014 Elizabeth Logan, Glamour , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Bullying is not murder, but the mindset that motivated Raskolnikov often undergirds other forms of antisocial behavior, and surveys show this kind of personal abuse in science is widespread. \u2014 Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American , 22 Apr. 2022",
"This was the very definition of antisocial behavior in the era when, as President Calvin Coolidge is famously misquoted as saying, the business of America was business. \u2014 oregonlive , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Today, the political left continues to ignore the role that antisocial behavior plays in perpetuating racial inequality. \u2014 Jason L. Riley, WSJ , 11 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1790, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan-ti-\u02c8s\u014d-sh\u0259l",
"-\u02c8s\u014d-sh\u0259l",
"\u02ccan-\u02cct\u012b-",
"\u02ccan-t\u0113-\u02c8s\u014d-sh\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"aloof",
"asocial",
"buttoned-up",
"cold",
"cold-eyed",
"cool",
"detached",
"distant",
"dry",
"frosty",
"offish",
"remote",
"standoff",
"standoffish",
"unbending",
"unclubbable",
"unsociable"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032719",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"antithesis":{
"antonyms":[],
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": opposition , contrast":[
"the antithesis of prose and verse"
],
": the direct opposite":[
"Her temperament is the very antithesis of mine."
],
": the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences (as in \"action, not words\" or \"they promised freedom and provided slavery\")":[],
": the second of two opposing words, clauses, or sentences that are being rhetorically contrasted":[],
": the second stage of a dialectical process":[]
},
"examples":[
"In urban areas, middle schools often became the antithesis of what reformers had intended. Instead of warm incubators of independence and judgment, they became impersonal, oppressive institutions. \u2014 Claudia Wallis , Time , 8 Aug. 2005",
"Yet the newest residential rage in Dallas is the antithesis of the traditional neighborhood: the gated community. Depending on your income and level of anxiety, these private enclaves may contain golf courses, health clubs and equestrian centers \u2026 \u2014 Paul McFedries , Word Spy , 2004",
"Cato, who dosed his family on cabbage soup, derided Greek physicians as the antithesis of Roman virtue: they were frauds who cheated patients and 'have sworn to kill all barbarians with their drugs'. \u2014 Roy Porter , The Greatest Benefit to Mankind , 1997",
"true love for another is the antithesis of the desire to control that person's life",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In each case, the Court recognized, allowing private citizens to choose their own religious faith in the public square is the antithesis of requiring conformity to a state church. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 1 July 2022",
"Bateman pointed out that Cooper is now the antithesis of his former self: warm, thoughtful, and generous. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 14 June 2022",
"Doubling up on colorful sweaters is the perfect antithesis to the winter blues, and also makes the prim outfit less stuffy. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 30 Jan. 2022",
"DeFi, by definition, is the antithesis to the way in which the world\u2019s financial system currently operates. \u2014 Jeff Gapusan, Forbes , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Ceferin\u2019s immediate task was to stop the 12 wealthiest clubs splitting to a closed competition that is the antithesis to European football norms. \u2014 Rob Harris, ajc , 24 Apr. 2021",
"Ceferin's immediate task was to stop the 12 wealthiest clubs splitting to a closed competition that is the antithesis to European football norms. \u2014 Rob Harris, Star Tribune , 24 Apr. 2021",
"The group has also heard from many donors who plan to withhold funds because the decision was antithesis to Stanford values. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 Apr. 2021",
"Which is why, according to the auto retailer, Elon\u2019s recent stance on remote work is the antithesis of their approach to its own workforce. \u2014 Kimberly Wilson, Essence , 4 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1529, in the meaning defined at sense 1b(1)":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin, from Greek, literally, opposition, from antitithenai to oppose, from anti- + tithenai to set \u2014 more at do":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8ti-th\u0259-s\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"antipode",
"contrary",
"counter",
"negative",
"obverse",
"opposite",
"reverse"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211926",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antithetical":{
"antonyms":[
"noncontradictory"
],
"definitions":{
": being in direct and unequivocal opposition : directly opposite or opposed":[
"\u2026 some see the idea of a museum for rock & roll as antithetical to the music's rebellious ethic \u2026",
"\u2014 Al Weisel"
],
": constituting or marked by antithesis":[
"antithetical conflict"
]
},
"examples":[
"the antithetical forces of good and evil",
"spiritual concerns and ideals that are antithetical to the materialism embraced by modern society",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Court\u2019s decision is antithetical to the University of California\u2019s mission and values. \u2014 Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"Liberals should hate the bill because most of its gun-control provisions are antithetical to their criminal-justice reform agenda. \u2014 Robert Leider, WSJ , 23 June 2022",
"In truth, his pitch is antithetical to how the Constitution has been understood from the founding era on. \u2014 Simon Lazarus, The New Republic , 20 June 2022",
"There are so many constructs out there that are antithetical to our Black truth. \u2014 Veronica Wells, Essence , 7 June 2022",
"The effortlessly spontaneous O\u2019Hara and the infinitely calculating Gunn would not have agreed on much, but from their antithetical aesthetic positions, both were committed to a poetry of hedonism. \u2014 Mark Ford, The New York Review of Books , 25 May 2022",
"That felt antithetical to the approachability and affordability of Button Mash, Weiss said. \u2014 Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"To hold otherwise, as the Court does, is irrational and antithetical to the very nature of the SSI program and the equal protection of citizens guaranteed by the Constitution. \u2014 Mark Sherman, ajc , 21 Apr. 2022",
"To hold otherwise, as the Court does, is irrational and antithetical to the very nature of the SSI program and the equal protection of citizens guaranteed by the Constitution. \u2014 Mark Sherman, Chicago Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1583, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see antithesis":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan-t\u0259-\u02c8the-ti-k\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for antithetical opposite , contradictory , contrary , antithetical mean being so far apart as to be or seem irreconcilable. opposite applies to things in sharp contrast or in conflict. opposite views on foreign aid contradictory applies to two things that completely negate each other so that if one is true or valid the other must be untrue or invalid. made contradictory predictions about whether the market would rise or fall contrary implies extreme divergence or diametrical opposition. contrary assessments of the war situation antithetical stresses clear and unequivocal diametrical opposition. a law that is antithetical to the very idea of democracy",
"synonyms":[
"antipodal",
"antipodean",
"contradictory",
"contrary",
"diametric",
"diametrical",
"opposite",
"polar"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090537",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"antivenin":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The law says the owner must have an escape plan if the animal escapes, including the location of a suitable antivenin . \u2014 Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY , 7 July 2021",
"The law states the owner must also have an escape plan on what to do if the animal is to escape and a specific location for suitable antivenin . \u2014 Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY , 29 June 2021",
"One reason for these large numbers is that every venom needs a specific antivenin to treat it. \u2014 The Economist , 30 Dec. 2020",
"As a rule, says Voegeli, treatment with antivenin is required in only the most serious cases. \u2014 Tom Davis, Field & Stream , 18 June 2020",
"All poisonous and venomous animals are prohibited, with the exception of live scorpions, provided those scorpions are intended for use in medical research or the production of antivenin . \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Aug. 2020",
"When a test came back positive for rattlesnake venom, the vet gave her antivenin , then placed her in a crate to rest. \u2014 Tom Davis, Field & Stream , 18 June 2020",
"Doctors at Chickasaw gave me six vials of antivenin before deciding to transfer me again\u2014this time to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City, which was a two-hour drive. \u2014 Keith Mccafferty, Field & Stream , 23 July 2014",
"Most bites are fatal unless Polyvalent, an antivenin medication, is injected in the first six hours. \u2014 Sameer Yasir, New York Times , 7 Oct. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1895, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan-t\u0113-\u02c8ve-n\u0259n",
"-\u02c8ven-\u0259n",
"\u02ccan-\u02cct\u012b-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165522",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antivenom":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": antivenin":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Almost all hospitals in Alabama stock antivenom to treat snakebites, according to UAB. \u2014 al , 5 June 2022",
"Rushton said one of the major goals of the program is to monitor patients for dangerous rebound blood thinning that can require readmission to the hospital and additional doses of antivenom . \u2014 al , 5 June 2022",
"Currently, different types of snakebites have different antivenom . \u2014 New York Times , 3 May 2022",
"Any patients who receive antivenom will be admitted to the ICU. \u2014 Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Since the reptile park started its program in the 1950s, officials say its antivenom is estimated to have saved roughly 25,000 Australians lives, and hundreds more each year. \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Keepers milk spiders\u2019 fangs weekly and send the venom to a pharmaceutical company in Melbourne, where it's made into antivenom . \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Nov. 2021",
"That antivenom can be administered to people who have been bitten by those types of spiders. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 12 Nov. 2021",
"Zander received antivenom and spent several days in CHOA\u2019s pediatric intensive care unit. \u2014 Avery Newmark, ajc , 19 Nov. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1904, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan-t\u0113-\u02c8ve-n\u0259m",
"\u02ccan-\u02cct\u012b-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112214",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antler moth":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a brownish white-marked European moth ( Charaeas graminis ) whose larva devastates grasslands":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104448",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antler sponge":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": any of several branching erect calcareous sponges suggesting an antler in form":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104012",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antre":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": cave sense 1":[]
},
"examples":[
"a fantasy in which an intrepid band of adventurers enter a vast antre and discover a hidden world filled with monsters and wonders"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1585, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Latin antrum":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8an-t\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"cave",
"cavern",
"delve",
"grot",
"grotto"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030426",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antsy":{
"antonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"cool",
"easy",
"happy-go-lucky",
"nerveless",
"relaxed"
],
"definitions":{
": nervous , apprehensive":[
"antsy investors"
]
},
"examples":[
"he was feeling understandably antsy about the tax audit",
"after a few minutes in the formal restaurant, the kids got antsy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lots of employers are starting to get antsy about employees returning to the workplace, and have begun nudging them back. \u2014 NBC News , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Some judges are getting antsy about how slow the cases are moving. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Then again, that survey took place before consumers were so antsy about inflation driving up the costs of day-to-day living. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Mark Gurman also points out that early adopters of the AirPods Pro are likely getting especially antsy as batteries begin to degrade. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 9 May 2022",
"Vanessa is appalled and immediately antsy to somehow take a stand. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 14 Mar. 2022",
"The family of four, with two antsy teenage sons, felt a little trapped in their Spanish-style house in the center of L.A., confined by pandemic restrictions and staring into the void of Zoom all day. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 11 Mar. 2022",
"At a minimum, the new year figures to bring big changes to the tech world, with the pandemic, manufacturing challenges, looming business battles, and antsy domestic and foreign policymakers. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 3 Jan. 2022",
"His defensive presence matched the antsy activity of Ball and Caruso, and the trio aggressively fought through screens to disrupt the Magic\u2019s pick and roll action. \u2014 Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com , 27 Nov. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1950, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see ant entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ant-s\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"aflutter",
"anxious",
"atwitter",
"dithery",
"edgy",
"goosey",
"het up",
"hinky",
"hung up",
"ill at ease",
"insecure",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"nervy",
"perturbed",
"queasy",
"queazy",
"tense",
"troubled",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"upset",
"uptight",
"worried"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034056",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anusvara":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a Sanskrit postvocalic nasal sound or group of sounds occurring in the interior of a morpheme only before \u015b, \u1e63, s , or h and at the end of a morpheme only before an initial consonant of a following morpheme":[],
": a sign used in writing Sanskrit to represent the anusvara sound or sounds and in some manuscripts and editions certain other postvocalic nasal sounds":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1820, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Sanskrit anusv\u0101ra- , from anu- \"after, along\" + sv\u0101ra- \"sound, accent,\" lengthened-grade noun derivative of svarati \"(s/he) sounds, sings\"":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan\u0259s\u02c8v\u00e4r\u0259",
"\u02cc\u00e4n-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130436",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anvil":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering)":[],
": incus":[],
": the anvil\u2013shaped top of a cumulonimbus":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Telling the board of directors about my mental health and hearing their compassionate response lifted an anvil of anxiety off my chest and loosened the noose of shame around my neck. \u2014 Andy Dunn As Told To Marty Munson, Men's Health , 10 May 2022",
"The news of 2022 is like an anvil weighing down on our collective psyche. \u2014 Longreads , 13 Mar. 2020",
"That parks the anvil of responsibility squarely on the shoulders of those with the most money in the game who tossed locks on the gates. \u2014 Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 Mar. 2022",
"That anvil of debt often weighs borrowers down for years, forcing them to postpone plans to buy a home, start a business or even have children, King said. \u2014 Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News , 22 Mar. 2022",
"But starting in elementary school Gorman began to teach herself to grasp, form and wield words just as a blacksmith brings heat, an anvil , and a hammer to iron. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Night falls like an anvil at Castle Hot Springs, which limits guests to about 50. \u2014 Lauren Mechling, Vogue , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Besides the whole potential hospitalization and death thing, there\u2019s also the risk of long Covid, which can be about as fun as trying to shove an anvil up your nose. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Gliding along, singing its song, the R1T feels strangely light and heavy, like an aluminum anvil . \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 9 Dec. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English anfeld, anefelt, anvelt, anvyll, going back to Old English anfealt and anefilt, anelfilte, going back to Germanic *ana-falta- and *ana-feltja- (whence also, from the first, Old High German anafalz \"anvil\" and from the second, Middle Dutch aenvilte, anevilte ), from *ana- \"on\" and *-falta-, *-feltja-, nominal derivatives from *faltan-, taken to mean \"to strike, beat\" \u2014 more at felt entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8an-v\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124158",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anxiety":{
"antonyms":[
"unconcern"
],
"definitions":{
": a cause of anxiety":[
"\u2026 citizens stressed by gnawing economic and social anxieties .",
"\u2014 Michael Pertschuk"
],
": a strong desire sometimes mixed with doubt, fear, or uneasiness":[
"\u2026 his anxiety to succeed and his continued nervousness over the possible bankruptcy of his shoe company caused her to lecture him about relaxing and caring for his health.",
"\u2014 William Drake",
"\u2026 present a gamble that consumers, in their anxiety to make an affordable deal, do not always appreciate.",
"\u2014 Stephen Koepp"
],
": an abnormal and overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear often marked by physical signs (such as tension, sweating, and increased pulse rate), by doubt concerning the reality and nature of the threat, and by self-doubt about one's capacity to cope with it":[],
": apprehensive uneasiness or nervousness usually over an impending or anticipated ill : a state of being anxious":[
"More Buddhist uprisings in South Vietnam in the spring of 1966 intensified my anxiety .",
"\u2014 Robert S. McNamara",
"I felt my anxiety rise as we pressed deeper underground.",
"\u2014 Jon Krakauer"
],
": mentally distressing concern or interest":[
"Yet the pace of a child's progress can also be a source of anxiety for mothers and fathers.",
"\u2014 Susan Ochshorn"
]
},
"examples":[
"feelings of anger and anxiety",
"She suffers from chronic anxiety .",
"He's been feeling a lot of anxiety about his new job.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But the wide range of emotions that LGBTQ individuals have expressed this past June \u2014 the fear, the defiance, the anxiety , the anticipation, the sadness, the joy \u2014 have always been baked into Pride, Caraballo added. \u2014 Samantha Chery, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
"Psychedelic experiences and psychedelic therapy have shown early promise in the treatment of otherwise intractable conditions such as major depression, existential anxiety , addiction, and PTSD. \u2014 Mark Travers, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"So that area of the brain is really our ability to regulate our emotions, particularly fear and anxiety . \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 1 July 2022",
"They're said to alleviate anxiety \u2014 who couldn't use that? \u2014 Shanon Maglente, Good Housekeeping , 1 July 2022",
"In other words, your body starts sweating without any explicable reason (like feelings of anxiety , hot temperatures, or exercise). \u2014 Rebecca Dancer, Allure , 29 June 2022",
"Research has linked economic recessions \u2014 a shrinking of economic output that lasts at least several months \u2014 with a rise in mental health issues, such as anxiety , depression and even suicide, experts told ABC News. \u2014 Max Zahn, ABC News , 29 June 2022",
"At a government news conference in May, Chen Jun, the chief physician at the Shanghai Mental Health Center, said anxiety , fear and depression were inevitable under an extended lockdown. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
"More than 10 people, ages ranging from 11 to 27, speak movingly about their struggles with depression, anxiety , eating disorders, and more. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English anxiete, borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French anxiet\u00e9, borrowed from Latin anxiet\u0101t-, anxiet\u0101s \"apprehensive uneasiness, worry, solicitude,\" from anxius \"worried, disturbed, anxious \" + -et\u0101t-, -et\u0101s, variant of -it\u0101t-, -t\u0101s -ity":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"a\u014b-\u02c8z\u012b-\u0259-t\u0113",
"a\u014b-\u02c8z\u012b-\u0259t-\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for anxiety care , concern , solicitude , anxiety , worry mean a troubled or engrossed state of mind or the thing that causes this. care implies oppression of the mind weighed down by responsibility or disquieted by apprehension. a face worn by years of care concern implies a troubled state of mind because of personal interest, relation, or affection. crimes caused concern in the neighborhood solicitude implies great concern and connotes either thoughtful or hovering attentiveness toward another. acted with typical maternal solicitude anxiety stresses anguished uncertainty or fear of misfortune or failure. plagued by anxiety and self-doubt worry suggests fretting over matters that may or may not be real cause for anxiety. financial worries",
"synonyms":[
"agita",
"agitation",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"concernment",
"disquiet",
"disquietude",
"fear",
"nervosity",
"nervousness",
"perturbation",
"solicitude",
"sweat",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"worry"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080834",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anxiolytic":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a drug that relieves anxiety":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"What are benzodiazepines? Benzodiazepines are a class of anti-anxiety medications, or anxiolytics , that increase the activity of the gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors in the brain. \u2014 Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation , 18 Oct. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1963, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from French anxiolytique, adjective, from anxi \u00e9t\u00e9 anxiety + -o- -o- + -lytique -lytic":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cca\u014b(k)-s\u0113-",
"\u02cca\u014b-z\u0113-\u014d-\u02c8li-tik",
"\u02cca\u014b-z\u0113-\u014d-\u02c8lit-ik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-123916",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"anxious":{
"antonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"cool",
"easy",
"happy-go-lucky",
"nerveless",
"relaxed"
],
"definitions":{
": ardently or earnestly wishing":[
"She was anxious to learn more."
],
": characterized by extreme uneasiness of mind or brooding fear about some contingency : worried":[
"anxious parents"
],
": characterized by, resulting from, or causing anxiety : worrying":[
"They spent an anxious night."
]
},
"examples":[
"\u2026 to the eye anxious for reform in the city and forgetful of conditions in the countryside \u2026 \u2014 Joseph A. Amato , Dust , 2000",
"He was exhausted yet exhilarated, anxious \u2026 about getting on the ice with a team that had a chance to win. \u2014 Michael Farber , Sports Illustrated , 20 Mar. 2000",
"The individual states\u2014fearful of losing industry and richer residents to lower-tax rivals and anxious to minimize their burden of needy citizens \u2026 \u2014 Atlantic , May 1997",
"He was so anxious to get a fly into the water that he had to reproach himself for haste. \u2014 John Cheever , The Wapshot Chronicle , 1957",
"She feels anxious and depressed.",
"People are anxious about the future.",
"He was anxious that the weather would not improve in time for the party.",
"We experienced a few anxious moments as we waited to hear the results of the test.",
"It was an anxious night as she waited for her children to come home.",
"He was waiting at the door with an anxious expression on his face.",
"He was anxious for more news.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Inflation has touched record highs and interest rates are rising, so people are anxious about their household finances. \u2014 Michelle Singletary, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"At the time, the public was anxious about the spread of venereal disease in public facilities. \u2014 Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN , 4 June 2022",
"In addition, mental health is taking a toll like never before\u2014around 75% of teens and young adults are anxious about the future, leading to deeper feelings of despair and hopelessness that deter them from taking vital action. \u2014 Jono Anzalone, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Another April study by U.S. News & World Report found that over two-thirds of Americans are now anxious about their finances and worried about their financial future. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 2 June 2022",
"But France, Italy and Germany, the biggest and richest countries of the bloc, are anxious about a long war or one that ends frozen in a stalemate, and nervous of the possible damage to their own economies. \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"Pete's then-girlfriend, Becky, was also anxious about the meeting. \u2014 Sarah Scanlan, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022",
"While some administrators are anxious about the reading improvement plans that the bill requires for struggling students, Burgess said, the legislation doesn\u2019t mandate any level of depth or complexity. \u2014 Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News , 25 May 2022",
"TaNiccia Henry, a Detroit resident, remains anxious about Covid and says family members have avoided basic medical care because of the virus. \u2014 Suzy Khimm, NBC News , 11 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1548, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin anxius \"worried, disturbed, uneasy, marked by or inducing anxiety or distress\" (adjective derivative from the base of angere \"to choke, cause pain to, afflict, vex\") + -ous \u2014 more at anger entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a\u014bk-sh\u0259s",
"\u02c8a\u014b(k)-sh\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for anxious eager , avid , keen , anxious , athirst mean moved by a strong and urgent desire or interest. eager implies ardor and enthusiasm and sometimes impatience at delay or restraint. eager to get started avid adds to eager the implication of insatiability or greed. avid for new thrills keen suggests intensity of interest and quick responsiveness in action. keen on the latest fashions anxious emphasizes fear of frustration or failure or disappointment. anxious not to make a social blunder athirst stresses yearning but not necessarily readiness for action. athirst for adventure",
"synonyms":[
"aflutter",
"antsy",
"atwitter",
"dithery",
"edgy",
"goosey",
"het up",
"hinky",
"hung up",
"ill at ease",
"insecure",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"nervy",
"perturbed",
"queasy",
"queazy",
"tense",
"troubled",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"upset",
"uptight",
"worried"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120117",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"anxious bench":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a seat near the pulpit reserved at some revival meetings for persons especially concerned about their spiritual condition":[],
": a state of worry or anxiety caused by uncertainty":[
"everybody was kept on the anxious seat by this system of perpetual probation",
"\u2014 Alva Johnston"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
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": ardently or earnestly wishing":[
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],
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": characterized by, resulting from, or causing anxiety : worrying":[
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]
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"\u2026 to the eye anxious for reform in the city and forgetful of conditions in the countryside \u2026 \u2014 Joseph A. Amato , Dust , 2000",
"He was exhausted yet exhilarated, anxious \u2026 about getting on the ice with a team that had a chance to win. \u2014 Michael Farber , Sports Illustrated , 20 Mar. 2000",
"The individual states\u2014fearful of losing industry and richer residents to lower-tax rivals and anxious to minimize their burden of needy citizens \u2026 \u2014 Atlantic , May 1997",
"He was so anxious to get a fly into the water that he had to reproach himself for haste. \u2014 John Cheever , The Wapshot Chronicle , 1957",
"She feels anxious and depressed.",
"People are anxious about the future.",
"He was anxious that the weather would not improve in time for the party.",
"We experienced a few anxious moments as we waited to hear the results of the test.",
"It was an anxious night as she waited for her children to come home.",
"He was waiting at the door with an anxious expression on his face.",
"He was anxious for more news.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Inflation has touched record highs and interest rates are rising, so people are anxious about their household finances. \u2014 Michelle Singletary, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"At the time, the public was anxious about the spread of venereal disease in public facilities. \u2014 Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN , 4 June 2022",
"In addition, mental health is taking a toll like never before\u2014around 75% of teens and young adults are anxious about the future, leading to deeper feelings of despair and hopelessness that deter them from taking vital action. \u2014 Jono Anzalone, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Another April study by U.S. News & World Report found that over two-thirds of Americans are now anxious about their finances and worried about their financial future. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 2 June 2022",
"But France, Italy and Germany, the biggest and richest countries of the bloc, are anxious about a long war or one that ends frozen in a stalemate, and nervous of the possible damage to their own economies. \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"Pete's then-girlfriend, Becky, was also anxious about the meeting. \u2014 Sarah Scanlan, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022",
"While some administrators are anxious about the reading improvement plans that the bill requires for struggling students, Burgess said, the legislation doesn\u2019t mandate any level of depth or complexity. \u2014 Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News , 25 May 2022",
"TaNiccia Henry, a Detroit resident, remains anxious about Covid and says family members have avoided basic medical care because of the virus. \u2014 Suzy Khimm, NBC News , 11 May 2022"
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"1548, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Latin anxius \"worried, disturbed, uneasy, marked by or inducing anxiety or distress\" (adjective derivative from the base of angere \"to choke, cause pain to, afflict, vex\") + -ous \u2014 more at anger entry 1":""
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"\u02c8a\u014b(k)-sh\u0259s",
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"hinky",
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],
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"You haven't eaten any of your salad."
],
": any person or persons : anyone":[
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],
": any thing or things":[
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],
": appreciably large or extended":[
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],
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": one, some, or all indiscriminately of whatever quantity:":[],
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"was never any good",
"No, it doesn't help me any ."
],
": unmeasured or unlimited in amount, number, or extent":[
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]
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"Adjective",
"any person who comes in the store today is eligible for the discount",
"Adverb",
"The food there is never any good.",
"He won't be any happier there than he was here.",
"I could not walk any farther.",
"I can't eat any more pizza.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"No one, after all, would be any the wiser: Hillary would coast to victory, so Democrats would continue running the government; FISA materials are highly classified, so they\u2019d be kept under wraps. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 23 Dec. 2017",
"In another Tuesday morning tweet, the president denied even knowing any the women who have spoken out. \u2014 Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer , 12 Dec. 2017",
"The first thing to do is remove any the things that attract the skunk. \u2014 Joan Morris, The Mercury News , 20 Feb. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Was the training process any different this time around? \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 23 June 2022",
"The president asking if this time will be any different. BIDEN: For God\u2019s sake, do something. \u2014 ABC News , 5 June 2022",
"Meat of an animal that raised $1 million for charity is not any different because of it. \u2014 Emma Balter, Chron , 2 June 2022",
"Why would Hyundai Motor Group\u2019s EV plan be any different? \u2014 Karl Brauer, Forbes , 23 May 2022",
"Most of the show is about what happens amongst a group of people in between the public events and that\u2019s not gonna be any different. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 5 May 2022",
"Every playoff series needs heroes and villains, and this one was not going to be any different. \u2014 Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune , 22 Apr. 2022",
"And as of now, the Warriors have little reason to think this year will be any different. \u2014 Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The story of this year\u2019s tournament has been upsets, shockers, letdowns, unpredictable officiating and unpredictability, period \u2014 why should the next two days be any different? \u2014 Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY , 26 Mar. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Pronoun, singular or plural in construction"
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"Middle English, from Old English \u01e3nig ; akin to Old High German einag any, Old English \u0101n one \u2014 more at one":"Adjective"
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"\u02c8e-n\u0113"
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"each",
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]
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"any day now":{
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": within the next few days : in the near future : soon":[
"We're expecting a phone call from him any day now .",
"Any day now , the decision could be made."
]
},
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"idiom"
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"I expect her back any second now ."
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113438",
"type":[
"idiom"
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": any person : anyone":[
"We don't just hand out jobs to every Tom, Dick, and Harry who walks in here."
]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110307",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"anybody":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": any person : anyone":[]
},
"examples":[
"I don't know how anybody can believe that.",
"An accident like that could happen to anybody .",
"You have to be a member to go there. They won't let just anybody in."
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccb\u00e4-",
"\u02c8e-n\u0113-(\u02cc)b\u0259-d\u0113",
"\u02c8e-n\u0113-\u02ccb\u00e4-d\u0113",
"-b\u0259-d\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033912",
"type":[
"pronoun"
]
},
"anybody else":{
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": any other person":[
"She arrived 10 minutes before anybody else ."
]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-183916",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"anybody's/anyone's guess":{
"antonyms":[],
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": something that is very uncertain or that no one knows":[
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"It's anyone's guess what his next book will be about."
]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103110",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
"examples":[
"It's OK if we don't go to the movie. I'm not that interested in seeing it anyhow .",
"What exactly did she mean by that anyhow ?",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Germany has dithered about sending heavy weapons (i.e., tanks and howitzers) to Ukraine, claiming that its own arsenal is too depleted and that Ukrainians will need extensive training before using the equipment anyhow . \u2014 Wal Van Lierop, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Ben Wright is the Founder and CEO of Velocity Global, which offers a global work platform to employ anyone, anywhere, anyhow . \u2014 Ben Wright, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Raising the passing score will make things worse for a group of students who, due to lack of English proficiency, shouldn\u2019t be required to take the MCAS in English anyhow . \u2014 John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
"Taxes might be paid more gradually, but that may occur with increasing longevity anyhow . \u2014 WSJ , 16 May 2022",
"The answer \u2013 according to Swiss politicians, anyhow \u2013 is regulation. \u2014 Martin Leo Rivers, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The struggle is what Popovich always enjoyed the most anyhow . \u2014 Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News , 14 Apr. 2022",
"But officers took Gil to the Vista jail anyhow and charged him with driving under the influence of an illicit substance. \u2014 Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Beginning today, JPMorgan Chase will relax\u2014for now, anyhow \u2014a number of its COVID safety workplace measures, including rules on masks at the office and testing for the unvaccinated. \u2014 Alan Murray, Fortune , 4 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1678, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"\u02c8e-n\u0113-\u02cchau\u0307"
],
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"anyway",
"anyways",
"regardless",
"whatever"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212029",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"anymore":{
"antonyms":[
"before",
"formerly",
"long",
"once",
"then"
],
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": any longer":[
"I was not moving anymore with my feet",
"\u2014 Ana\u00efs Nin"
],
": at the present time : now , nowadays":[
"Hardly a day passes without rain anymore ."
]
},
"examples":[
"I never see them anymore .",
"they don't sell that kind of sandwich anymore",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Holleran was part of a new wave in American literature that said the gay character didn\u2019t have to die at the end of the book anymore . \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
"This serum foundation is so sought after that most drugstores never have it in stock anymore . \u2014 ELLE , 22 June 2022",
"In contrast, most capital-intensive conventional LNG developments, many of which have delivered modest through-cycle returns in the past and have lengthy paybacks, just don\u2019t do it for Big Oil anymore . \u2014 Wood Mackenzie, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"That\u2019s the kind of conversation Kathy Mortensen can\u2019t bring herself to have anymore . \u2014 Andrea Eger Canfield, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Most women would agree with her, so take responsibility for bad judgment and don\u2019t do it anymore . \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 7 June 2022",
"Certainly, Twitter doesn't have Trump on there anymore , right? \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"Applebee's doesn't want to take those calls anymore . \u2014 Danielle Wiener-bronner, CNN , 21 May 2022",
"It\u2019s a coming-out project for me, where people don\u2019t have to guess about me anymore . \u2014 Brenton Blanchet, Billboard , 18 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02cce-n\u0113-\u02c8m\u022fr"
],
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"currently",
"now",
"nowadays",
"presently",
"right now",
"today"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234117",
"type":[
"adverb"
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": as an additional consideration or thought":[
"We don't need a new car, and anyway , we can't afford one."
],
": in any case : without regard to other considerations : anyhow":[
"She knew it was dangerous, but she did it anyway ."
],
": in any way whatever : anywise":[]
},
"examples":[
"The road got worse, but they kept going anyway .",
"I didn't expect her to say \u201cyes,\u201d but I asked her anyway .",
"It makes no difference what we say. She's going to do what she wants anyway .",
"He's far from perfect, but she loves him anyway .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ford of Europe is moving to a pure electric future and large job losses were expected from the 4600 workers at Saarlouis and the 6000 people at Valencia in the transition to EVs anyway . \u2014 Michael Taylor, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"Trump aside, though, Brooks\u2019 campaign was struggling anyway . \u2014 Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al , 21 June 2022",
"But their Las Vegas summer league roster is expected to include plenty of familiar names anyway . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2022",
"Adding such household names (in the fight world, anyway ) as Jose Aldo, Merab Dvalishvili, Paulo Costa, and Luke Rockhold to the card just elevates it all the more. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"Additionally, the panel will underscore how Trump knew his unrelenting pressure campaign could potentially cause violence against state and local officials and their families but pursued it anyway , according to a select committee aide. \u2014 Farnoush Amiri, Anchorage Daily News , 21 June 2022",
"What's a little heat and some noise to a team that has played through blizzard-like conditions and had a game delayed by a bomb threat, anyway ? \u2014 Brooks Holton, The Courier-Journal , 10 June 2022",
"Everyone else bailed on drinks, but Robin and Vernon ended up going for post-ride beers anyway . \u2014 Patty Hodapp, Outside Online , 8 June 2022",
"Bell\u2019s number may have changed, but at this point, Anderson\u2019s memory, influence, and impact are too big to be contained in a single numeral, anyway . \u2014 Ashley Bastock, cleveland , 6 June 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"\u02c8e-n\u0113-\u02ccw\u0101"
],
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"anyways",
"regardless",
"whatever"
],
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"adverb"
]
},
"anyways":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": anyhow , anyway":[],
": anywise":[],
": to any degree at all":[]
},
"examples":[
"Who does that guy think he is anyways ?",
"You're late. Anyways , at least you showed up.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And trust me, this carrot cake will be perfectly light and tender anyways . \u2014 Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic , 16 Apr. 2022",
"When that trip was delayed, Purja tackled Everest anyways on his own. \u2014 Alexandra Svokos, ABC News , 14 Feb. 2022",
"No one's teaching critical race theory in elementary schools anyways , that's a very academic theory... \u2014 Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Retail business is historically high turnover anyways . \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 5 Jan. 2022",
"The evil fire mage, Rience (Chris Fulton) tortures Jaskier to get information on where Geralt is but despite not getting said intel manages to make his way to the secret Witcher stronghold Kaer Morhen anyways . \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 29 Dec. 2021",
"The people who are here today, well most of them anyways , get that. \u2014 Kyle Morris, Fox News , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Health and fashion haven\u2019t always been girlfriends anyways ; in fact, there have been times when some of the hottest trends were woeful. \u2014 Brooklyn White, Essence , 6 Dec. 2021",
"And then if a company gets it, the tribe gets it anyways . \u2014 Dara Kam, sun-sentinel.com , 4 Dec. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
},
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"\u02c8e-n\u0113-\u02ccw\u0101z"
],
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"anyway",
"regardless",
"whatever"
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"adverb"
]
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"anywise":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": in any way whatever : at all":[]
},
"examples":[
"nor is it anywise important what you wear to the party",
"just stuffed his newly cleaned clothes anywise back into the drawers"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8e-n\u0113-\u02ccw\u012bz"
],
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"at all",
"ever",
"half"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171258",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"Anouilh":{
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"biographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"Jean 1910\u20131987 French dramatist":[]
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"a-\u02c8n\u00fc-\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-141911"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
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": opposed to a particular political party or to political parties in general":[
"anti-party rhetoric",
"He was expelled from Moscow University for antiparty tendencies \u2026",
"\u2014 Robert Little",
"\u2026 in the anti-party media age of the 1990's \u2026",
"\u2014 Norman J. Ornstein"
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},
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"\u02ccan-t\u012b-",
"\u02ccan-t\u0113-\u02c8p\u00e4r-t\u0113"
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"first_known_use":{
"1845, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142028"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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": opposed to or hostile toward political progressivism":[
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},
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"\u02ccan-t\u0113-pr\u0259-\u02c8gre-siv",
"\u02ccan-t\u012b-"
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"first_known_use":{
"1847, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun",
"plural noun"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Pork producers, buyers and animal rights activists have long been at odds over the proper way to house pregnant sows, which many hog farmers currently hold in enclosures called gestation crates. \u2014 Heather Haddon, WSJ , 26 May 2022",
"The girl is both caretaker and best friend, but she and the mule are soon torn apart when animal rights activists protest the circus and EO is shipped off to a nearby horse farm. \u2014 Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"Ringling Brothers retired elephants from its shows in 2016 after years of complaints from animal rights activists, but ticket sales continued to decline, and the once iconic circus put on a final show the following year. \u2014 Kate Gibson, CBS News , 18 May 2022",
"Instead, animal rights activists who want to ban thoroughbred racing stood shoulder to shoulder with horse lovers who have devoted their lives to the sport. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
"The animal rights group that backed Mr. Icahn\u2019s efforts has mounted similar campaigns at a number of other food companies. \u2014 Heather Haddon, WSJ , 26 May 2022",
"The animal rights group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, filed a citizen\u2019s complaint on Tuesday with the U.S Federal Trade Commission. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"The animal rights group said its campaign against Starbucks also included a letter from Paul McCartney to former Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson, as well as daily sit-ins at Starbucks' headquarters in Seattle. \u2014 Caitlin O'kane, CBS News , 11 May 2022",
"The heat could add to ethical concerns from animal rights groups about the dangers of horse racing. \u2014 Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun , 20 May 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1845, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142419"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": the quality or state of being neither specifically feminine or masculine : the combination of feminine and masculine characteristics : the quality or state of being androgynous":[
"For this brand, wearing unisex clothing perpetuates androgyny that pervades runways and our own culture.",
"\u2014 Dylan Leavitt",
"And though he was singing to women, he reveled in androgyny , appearing onstage in high heels, frilly shirts and revealing chaps.",
"\u2014 Jack Riedy",
"\u2026 I felt like someone else was seeing what I had seen in myself: that my inner sense of androgyny was reflected in ways I carried myself like a man.",
"\u2014 Delacey Skinner",
"The natural androgyny of old age has acquired no appeal. The tendency of male and female bodies to resemble each other in late maturity is still conventionally ridiculous and deplorable \u2026",
"\u2014 Anne Hollander"
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"first_known_use":{
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],
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": intended to prevent or reduce desertification":[
"Somalia has launched a vigorous antidesertification drive that includes a ban on cutting firewood.",
"\u2014 Philip Elmer-Dewitt"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan-t\u012b-",
"\u02ccan-t\u0113-di-\u02ccz\u0259r-t\u0259-f\u0259-\u02c8k\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1977, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142504"
},
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"idiom"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142940"
},
"annoyed":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": feeling or showing angry irritation":[
"was clearly annoyed by their repeated questions",
"were very annoyed to be kept waiting",
"an annoyed expression"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8n\u022fid"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"bothered",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"irked",
"irritated",
"narked",
"peeved",
"put out",
"scunnered",
"teed off",
"vexed"
],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Red Sox have been hit by pitches 11 times in their last 13 games and are getting annoyed about it. \u2014 Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"On the ride to Santa Teresa, Laura mainly sat in silence, staring at the Snapchat feed on her phone and feeling annoyed at her younger sisters for gulping their drinks and lengthening the trip with their constant need for bathroom stops. \u2014 Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Heard, however, seemed annoyed that Depp wasn\u2019t paying attention to her, Knight said. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 May 2022",
"Night, though, said Heard seemed annoyed throughout the evening. \u2014 Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
"Some people say the current framework leaves them feeling helpless or annoyed . \u2014 David Ingram, NBC News , 18 May 2022",
"Griesa became annoyed at Schurtman\u2019s Two Virgins questions, explaining the album cover didn\u2019t have anything to do with the question of whether Levy and John had entered into a contract. \u2014 Jay Bergen, Rolling Stone , 20 Apr. 2022",
"But as the number of NFT announcements from game studios piled up, players became increasingly annoyed . \u2014 New York Times , 15 Jan. 2022",
"But the move is causing a mixed reaction among workers: some are happier and more productive with their furry animals by their side, while others are annoyed or have quit their jobs due to allergies or a phobia. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Sep. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143020"
},
"anticonvulsant":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": used or tending to control or to prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan-t\u0113-k\u0259n-\u02c8v\u0259l-s\u0259nt",
"-k\u0259n-\u02c8v\u0259l-s\u0259nt",
"\u02ccan-t\u012b-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Goal: Determine which of three anticonvulsant drugs most effectively treats seizures lasting more than 5 minutes. \u2014 Charles Piller, Science | AAAS , 12 Aug. 2021",
"But despite that spinoff, the company still endured some ugly investigations into its work with anticonvulsant drug Depakote and other products. \u2014 Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY , 13 Apr. 2020",
"Specifically, the pediatrician alerted the administration several times over the years that Awaad was using EEG\u2019s excessively and prescribing anticonvulsant drugs to children who did not need them. \u2014 Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press , 23 Oct. 2019",
"The Food and Drug Administration has approved one purified form of CBD as a prescription anticonvulsant medication, Epidiolex. \u2014 Joe Graedonteresa Graedon, The Seattle Times , 28 Nov. 2018",
"That might mean taking antihypertensive medications to lower your blood pressure, corticosteroids to temporarily improve your liver and platelet function, or anticonvulsant medication to try to help prevent a seizure, the Mayo Clinic says. \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 6 Aug. 2018",
"Lamotrigine is an anticonvulsant drug that is often used with other medications to help with symptoms of depression. \u2014 Heather Finn, Good Housekeeping , 10 May 2017",
"Dravet is difficult to treat, even with anticonvulsant medicines, and can sometimes be fatal. \u2014 Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com , 16 May 2018",
"Some also had depression, anxiety or neurological disorders, and were being treated with antidepressant, antipsychotic or anticonvulsant medications. \u2014 Amanda Macmillan, Time , 24 Jan. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1733, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143219"
},
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"idiom"
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143408"
}
}
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