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{
"Quaker bonnet":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": bluet sense 1c(1)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-192516",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Quakerdom":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": quakerism":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kw\u0101k\u0259(r)d\u0259m"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130424",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Quamasia":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of Quamasia taxonomic synonym of camassia"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[
"kw\u0259\u02c8m\u0101zh\u0113\u0259",
"-\u0101s\u0113\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-101030",
"type":[]
},
"Quashqai":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of Quashqai variant spelling of qashqai"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-172229",
"type":[]
},
"Que":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Quebec":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234048",
"type":[
"abbreviation"
]
},
"Quebec":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"city that is a port on the Saint Lawrence River and is the capital of the province of Quebec population 516,622":[],
"province of eastern Canada extending from Hudson Bay to the Gasp\u00e9 Peninsula and bordering the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York area 523,763 square miles (1,356,547 square kilometers), population 7,903,001":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1952, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"ki-",
"also ki-",
"kwi-\u02c8bek"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112538",
"type":[
"communications code word",
"geographical name",
"noun"
]
},
"Queen's Counsel":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a barrister selected to serve as counsel to the British crown":[
"\u2014 used during the reign of a queen"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1850, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105826",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Quezon y Molina":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Manuel Luis 1878\u20131944 president of the Philippine Commonwealth (1935\u201344)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8k\u0101-\u02ccs\u022fn-\u02cc\u0113-m\u0259-\u02c8l\u0113-n\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-134757",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Quichoid":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a linguistic subdivision of the Mayan of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Quiche + -oid":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8k\u0113\u02ccch\u022fid"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075845",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Quichua":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of Quichua variant of quechua"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-153833",
"type":[]
},
"Quichuan":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of Quichuan variant of quechuan"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-030945",
"type":[]
},
"Quintero":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Seraf\u00edn and Joaqu\u00edn \u2014 see alvarez quintero":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130128",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Quito":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"city and capital of Ecuador, located on a fertile plateau just south of the Equator population 1,607,734":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8k\u0113-(\u02cc)t\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133329",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"quadrate":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a quadrate bone":[],
": an approximately square or cubical area, space, or body":[],
": being square or approximately square":[],
": expanded into a square at the junction of the arms \u2014 see cross illustration":[],
": of, relating to, or constituting a bony or cartilaginous element of each side of the skull to which the lower jaw is articulated in most vertebrates below mammals":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"the four museum buildings surround a quadrate courtyard that is formally landscaped"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Latin quadratus , past participle of quadrare to make square, fit, from quadrum square; akin to Latin quattuor four":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"-dr\u0259t",
"\u02c8kw\u00e4-\u02ccdr\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"foursquare",
"square"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012204",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"quadrature of the circle":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a problem in mathematics that consists of finding the side of a square exactly equal in area to a given circular area and that has been shown to be impossible of solution by geometric methods limited to the use of ruler and compass alone":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-203920",
"type":[]
},
"quaff":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a hearty draft or gulp":[
"\u2026 a single sensuous quaff \u2026",
"\u2014 James Villas",
"He lifted his glass, took a large quaff of the wine, swallowed quickly in his urgency to keep talking.",
"\u2014 The Virginia Quarterly Review"
],
": an enjoyable beverage : a beverage (such as wine) that is quaffed or suitable for quaffing":[
"This pleasant quaff offers ripe peach and vanilla flavors and a good balance of bright acidity and moderate sweetness.",
"\u2014 Wine Spectator",
"\u2026 there is no better quaff with fried chicken than Champagne.",
"\u2014 Florence Fabricant"
],
": to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously":[
"At Fort William, goods were exchanged, bills were tallied, brandy was quaffed , songs were sung.",
"\u2014 Will Ferguson",
"Young Cheltenham ladies and gentlemen in striped shirts and Barbours quaffed their drinks and guffawed loudly.",
"\u2014 John Ayto",
"\u2026 quaff a flagon of nut-brown ale \u2026",
"\u2014 William Thackeray",
"\u2026 curled up on her couch, wearing lounge pants, quaffing her third glass of wine \u2026",
"\u2014 Nathan Heller",
"\u2026 and in the chimney-corner, they all four quaffed , and smoked, and prosed, and dozed, as they had done of old.",
"\u2014 Charles Dickens",
"\u2026 quaffing from massive steins of German beer while chatting it up with new friends.",
"\u2014 Jeanne Potter"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"We stopped at a bar and quaffed a few beers.",
"after digging our car out of the snowdrift, we were ready to quaff some hot chocolate",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"That means folks will be donning the green, going to church, lining the route, and maybe sauntering to a neighborhood watering hole to hear music or quaff a pint. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Anxious Americans, or at least the ones who regularly quaff Coke Zero, will be the judge. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 14 July 2021",
"Atlanta Braves backers quaff four drinks a game and spend $32. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 23 Mar. 2021",
"Visitors can also take a seat near one of the heaters and try a mystery shot served in an ice glass, or quaff a tap beer. \u2014 Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 14 Jan. 2021",
"The food-shaming phenomenon isn\u2019t unique to U.S. politics: The French have their gauche caviar (the caviar left) and the Brits their champagne socialists, or as they\u2019re sometimes called, Bollinger Bolsheviks, a reference to a pricey, bubbly quaff . \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Nov. 2019",
"Characters who are dead in one episode turn up in the next, cheerfully quaffing , wenching, or otherwise being very much not dead. \u2014 Helen Lewis, The Atlantic , 1 Jan. 2020",
"The last prime rib has been roasted, the last potato pancake fried up, the last eggnog quaffed . \u2014 Katie Workman, NBC News , 9 Jan. 2020",
"All these folk could have quaffed their Frappuccino\u00ae Blended Beverage or their iced teas directly from the plastic cup, of course. \u2014 The Economist , 31 Dec. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1534, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1579, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kw\u00e4f",
"\u02c8kwaf"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"belt (down)",
"drink",
"gulp",
"guzzle",
"hoist",
"imbibe",
"knock back",
"pound (down)",
"sip",
"slug (down)",
"slurp",
"sup",
"swig",
"swill",
"toss (down "
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215329",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quagmire":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position : predicament":[],
": soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot":[]
},
"examples":[
"A Girl of the Limberlost is a Cinderella story whose wicked stepmother, in an interesting twist, is the heroine's real mother. She is a crazy person, deranged by grief for a husband who was sucked into a quagmire before her eyes when she was pregnant with Elnora. \u2014 Janet Malcolm , New York Review of Books , 15 Jan. 2009",
"That was six months ago, when the Defense secretary laughingly dismissed the idea that Iraq was, or could turn into, a quagmire . But as Rumsfeld sat down last Friday morning to face Sen. John McCain, who spent six years in a Vietnamese prison, no one was laughing. \u2014 Michael Hirsh et al. , Newsweek , 17 Nov. 2003",
"State involvement will create a vast bioethical quagmire . Even if everyone magically agrees that improving a child's memory is as valid as avoiding dyslexia, there will still be things taxpayers aren't ready to pay for\u2014genes of unproven benefit, say, or alterations whose downsides may exceed the upside. \u2014 Robert Wright , Time , 11 Jan.1999",
"the party was once again facing its quadrennial quagmire : the candidate sufficiently liberal to win the nomination would be too liberal for the general election",
"a protracted custody dispute that became a judicial quagmire",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The legal quagmire is certainly apparent to Charles Michel, the president of the European Council\u2014a group of EU national leaders, who set the bloc\u2019s political direction. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 9 May 2022",
"Boeing is moving its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Va., according to two people familiar with the deal, a sign the aerospace giant is leaning into its military wing and better positioning itself to navigate the political quagmire . \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
"Besides the political quagmire , there are logistical challenges with sending fighter jets to Ukraine for the US and NATO allies to still work out. \u2014 Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Russia's invasion of Ukraine appears not to be going according to plan, and President Vladimir Putin seems intent on blaming his old colleagues at the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) \u2013 the intelligence agency successor to the KGB \u2013 for the quagmire . \u2014 Jack Durschlag, Fox News , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Older Russians will remember the way that rampant military spending and the quagmire in Afghanistan during the 1980s contributed to the Soviet Union collapsing under its own weight. \u2014 CNN , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Initial paralysis by the international community and by Clinton, who feared getting stuck in a Vietnam-like quagmire , infuriated Dr. Albright. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Who will intervene to stop it? \u2014 were being asked as Vietnam turned into a quagmire , and they are being asked again now about Ukraine. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
"That, along with his nuclear threats, have caused concern about how far a desperate Russian leader, who has effectively made his own political survival contingent on a war that is turning into a quagmire , might go. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 7 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1580, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kw\u00e4g-",
"\u02c8kwag-\u02ccm\u012b(-\u0259)r",
"\u02c8kwag-\u02ccm\u012br"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bind",
"box",
"catch-22",
"corner",
"dilemma",
"fix",
"hole",
"impasse",
"jackpot",
"jam",
"mire",
"pickle",
"predicament",
"rabbit hole",
"rattrap",
"spot",
"sticky wicket",
"swamp"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012948",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quai":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": quay":[]
},
"examples":[
"the tour boat pulled up to the quai on the left bank of the Seine",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The quai there was badly lit, the curb stacked with boards left over from a construction project. \u2014 Bill Buford, The New Yorker , 6 Apr. 2020",
"Farther up the quai was a former monastery courtyard, overgrown but graceful. \u2014 Bill Buford, The New Yorker , 6 Apr. 2020",
"Despite her resolve to give up, however, a blue-eyed, homeless Frenchman rescues her onto the quai and initiates her inward awakening. \u2014 Kate Betts, New York Times , 18 Aug. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1862, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from French, going back to Middle French kay \u2014 more at quay":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8k\u0101"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"dock",
"float",
"jetty",
"landing",
"levee",
"pier",
"quay",
"wharf"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083247",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quail":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an Old World migratory game bird ( Coturnix coturnix )":[],
": any of numerous small gallinaceous birds: such as":[],
": bobwhite":[],
": to give way : falter":[
"his courage never quailed"
],
": to make fearful":[],
": to recoil in dread or terror : cower":[
"the strongest quail before financial ruin",
"\u2014 Samuel Butler \u20201902"
],
": wither , decline":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"We had quail for dinner.",
"Verb",
"Other politicians quailed before him.",
"He quailed at the thought of seeing her again.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Otherwise, the poached calamari (sliced into ribbons, formed into a turban and topped with seaweed matchsticks and a quail egg) is as compelling as ever. \u2014 Tom Sietsema, Washington Post , 20 June 2022",
"Appetizers include Rocky Mountain Oysters and the restaurant\u2019s take on the Scotch egg, fashioned from bison sausage and quail eggs. \u2014 David Bloom, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"There was no sound except the grind of tires on gravel, the gush of a May breeze and the occasional call of sentinel quail . \u2014 Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY , 30 May 2022",
"Banchan include tomato-basil kimchi, mussel-seaweed soup, kimchi oysters, quail eggs and cucumber salad. \u2014 Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy in Tallahassee, established on an old quail plantation in 1960, is a national leader in the research and promotion of prescribed fire. \u2014 Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 May 2022",
"Popular starters include the Cuscuz Paulista with corn polenta, quail eggs and Santa Barbara sea urchin; Casquinha de siri with crab meat; and the Steak tartare Angus with black tucupi mayo and cured yolks. \u2014 Chelsea Davis, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Keep an eye out for a wide variety of bird species, including starlings, goldfinches and the California quail . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Put down the ketchup and mustard in favor of more fun toppings, such as lemon aioli and quail eggs. \u2014 Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But turkey is too holidayish, quail too fussy, goose too oceanically fatty, cornish hens too self-consciously twee. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The book features exurban mega mansions, the elite Piedmont Driving Club, Freaknik, burgeoning immigrant neighborhood Chamblee, South Georgia quail plantations and Greek philosopher Epictetus. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 7 Nov. 2021",
"Like Trigger, Goose is training to assist on dove, duck, and quail hunts. \u2014 Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com , 6 Oct. 2021",
"Experts say the studies will help identify limiting factors to quail population growth and refine the management needed to correct them. \u2014 Dallas News , 18 Sep. 2021",
"The idea is to build quail a suitable home spacious enough to support a population large and healthy enough to bounce back in the wake of tough years. \u2014 Dallas News , 18 Sep. 2021",
"Other poultry is well-suited to feed fewer servings, whether that\u2019s a roast chicken, Cornish hens, duck or even quail . \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Nov. 2020",
"Visitors can reserve a two-hour session on one of 20 different upland fields to hunt for pheasant, chucker, partridge and quail that club managers stock daily \u2014 at least until the end of April (when hunting season ends in October). \u2014 Matt Villano, SFChronicle.com , 14 Oct. 2020",
"Brister, who started his shotgunning career hunting doves, quail and waterfowl in Texas, was one of the best wingshooters in the world. \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 13 June 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English quaile , from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin quaccula , of imitative origin":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Middle Dutch quelen":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kw\u0101l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for quail Verb recoil , shrink , flinch , wince , blench , quail mean to draw back in fear or distaste. recoil implies a start or movement away through shock, fear, or disgust. recoiled at the suggestion of stealing shrink suggests an instinctive recoil through sensitiveness, scrupulousness, or cowardice. shrank from the unpleasant truth flinch implies a failure to endure pain or face something dangerous or frightening with resolution. faced her accusers without flinching wince suggests a slight involuntary physical reaction (such as a start or recoiling). winced in pain blench implies fainthearted flinching. stood their ground without blenching quail suggests shrinking and cowering in fear. quailed before the apparition",
"synonyms":[
"blench",
"cringe",
"flinch",
"recoil",
"shrink",
"squinch",
"wince"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211052",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quaint":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": expert , skilled":[],
": marked by beauty or elegance":[],
": marked by skillful design":[
"quaint with many a device in India ink",
"\u2014 Herman Melville"
],
": pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar":[
"a quaint phrase"
],
": unusual or different in character or appearance : odd":[]
},
"examples":[
"A lot can change in 25 years, and Yountville has gone from an also-ran on the Napa food-and-wine tourism scene to the focus of activity. The quaint bed and breakfasts of yesterday have been replaced by upscale hotels and inns, and the village has become a mecca for top chefs. \u2014 Tim Fish , Wine Spectator , 15 June 2008",
"Therefore, when the federal Constitutional Convention decided in 1787 that U.S. senators would be appointed by state legislatures rather than elected by the people at large, the drafters were actually placing the choice of U.S. senators in the control of state leaders who had met their states' highest qualifications for property and religion. Today, these property and religious qualifications are likely to strike us as quaint historical oddities. \u2014 Richard N. Rosenfeld , Harper's , May 2004",
"Five minutes by ferry from the bustling concrete depths of Wall Street sits what could be a quaint New England town: stately, collegiate buildings framed by tree-lined walkways where the wind rustles through aging oak trees. \u2014 Andrea Elliott , New York Times , 25 July 2003",
"The fishing village was very quaint .",
"The writer talks about the quaint customs of the natives.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"CBS Television City, the quaint Original Farmer\u2019s Market and the luxury of the Grove are among sights. \u2014 Stefanie Dazio, Time , 31 May 2020",
"The quaint normalcy of that simple exchange nearly brought me to tears. \u2014 Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press , 26 May 2020",
"No more elbow-to-elbow shopping in the quaint store or noshing on barbecue in a rocking chair under the pavilion \u2015 at least for now. \u2014 Kim Pierce, Dallas News , 13 May 2020",
"On April 27, Martinez and Gonzalez decided to get married in a quaint courthouse ceremony. \u2014 Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com , 10 May 2020",
"Plus, Palacios offers quaint local shops and restaurants. \u2014 Houston Chronicle , 9 May 2020",
"Sultan, a pita bread factory and quaint pastry shop on an otherwise bare stretch of Stockton Avenue, is known for its variety of Middle Eastern sweets. \u2014 Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com , 27 Feb. 2020",
"The story centers Cassie, a med school dropout who lives with her parents and works at a quaint coffee shop. \u2014 Joi Childs, Teen Vogue , 30 Jan. 2020",
"Fiona, a New York City real estate broker retreats to her family\u2019s quaint Vermont inn after being dumped by her boyfriend, Nate When Nate shows up at the inn with a new girlfriend, Fiona devises a plan to win him back. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Oct. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English queinte, cointe , from Anglo-French, clever, expert, from Latin cognitus , past participle of cognoscere to know \u2014 more at cognition":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kw\u0101nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for quaint strange , singular , unique , peculiar , eccentric , erratic , odd , quaint , outlandish mean departing from what is ordinary, usual, or to be expected. strange stresses unfamiliarity and may apply to the foreign, the unnatural, the unaccountable. a journey filled with strange sights singular suggests individuality or puzzling strangeness. a singular feeling of impending disaster unique implies singularity and the fact of being without a known parallel. a career unique in the annals of science peculiar implies a marked distinctiveness. the peculiar status of America's First Lady eccentric suggests a wide divergence from the usual or normal especially in behavior. the eccentric eating habits of preschoolers erratic stresses a capricious and unpredictable wandering or deviating. a friend's suddenly erratic behavior odd applies to a departure from the regular or expected. an odd sense of humor quaint suggests an old-fashioned but pleasant oddness. a quaint fishing village outlandish applies to what is uncouth, bizarre, or barbaric. outlandish fashions of the time",
"synonyms":[
"bizarre",
"bizarro",
"cranky",
"crazy",
"curious",
"eccentric",
"erratic",
"far-out",
"funky",
"funny",
"kinky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"odd",
"off-kilter",
"off-the-wall",
"offbeat",
"out-of-the-way",
"outlandish",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"remarkable",
"rum",
"screwy",
"spaced-out",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"weirdo",
"wild"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044652",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"quaintish":{
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"Verb",
"She was quaking with rage.",
"The explosion made the whole house quake .",
"Noun",
"the quake registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, causing widespread damage",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Paintings are broken down into bits and pieces, which then quake , or dissolve, or morph into one thing or another. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 Feb. 2022",
"The slow pace of emergency aid distribution has flustered international charities, which partly attribute delays to quake damage and the effects of Tropical Storm Grace. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 22 Aug. 2021",
"Bailey doesn\u2019t bow and quake before each of Roth\u2019s dozens of works. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2021",
"Generally in Utah, earthquakes greater than magnitude 5 happen once every 10 years, and quakes greater than magnitude 6 happen once every 50 years, the USGS says. \u2014 Jason Hanna And Konstantin Toropin, CNN , 18 Mar. 2020",
"The East Bay and San Benito County quakes were not related and are not part of the same fault system. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Oct. 2019",
"The Sox, accused of using their video replay room to steal signs under Cora in 2018, should be quaking in their cleats. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 13 Jan. 2020",
"The book, which is slim and focussed, quakes with a nervous energy that often erupts into euphoria. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 2 Dec. 2019",
"Who dropped his Doritos with quaking hands and a quivering lip when Lady Edith Crawley (Laura Carmichael) was left at the altar? \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 20 Sep. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"So far, no significant damage or injuries have been reported following Saturday's quake . \u2014 Nicole Acevedo, NBC News , 18 June 2022",
"At first, the USGS categorized the quake as being at a 4.5 magnitude. \u2014 Ben Brasch, ajc , 18 June 2022",
"That system was used after the 7.1 magnitude quake centered in Ridgecrest that shook Southern California on Fourth of July weekend in 2019. \u2014 Jonah Valdezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
"The temblor appears to have occurred on the Earthquake Valley fault, the same system that produced a 3.5 quake on May 9, said San Diego State University geologist Tom Rockwell. \u2014 Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 June 2022",
"The quake was detected northwest of Bay Point and Pittsburg, and appeared to be most acutely felt by East Bay residents. \u2014 Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 June 2022",
"More than 4,000 people reported feeling the quake as of 7:30 a.m. PST. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"Courtney McLeod does not fear a yellow wall or quake at the sight of an orange sofa. \u2014 The Editors Of Elle Decor, ELLE Decor , 1 June 2022",
"The quake struck at around 11:36 p.m. local time and was centered off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, the agency said. \u2014 Peter Landers, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022"
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"\u02c8kw\u0101k"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The new documentary follows the story of Westtown School, a small quaker school in Pennsylvania that also happens to be home to arguably the greatest starting five in history. \u2014 Charlotte Carroll, SI.com , 8 Mar. 2018",
"When Quakers Charles and Rhoda Coffin ministered in prisons and workhouses across the United States in the 1860s, the couple witnessed the deplorable conditions that inmates, in particular, women faced. \u2014 Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star , 21 June 2017",
"Quakers weren\u2019t welcome at Harvard in the 1660s, and vaccination was a medical and theological no-no at Yale over a century later. \u2014 WSJ , 3 Apr. 2017",
"Not all of us are bent on changing people\u2019s beliefs; in fact, atheist Quakers attend services with theists regularly and happily. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Jan. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8kw\u0101-k\u0259r"
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"type":[
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": sooty albatross":[]
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"shake",
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"Verb",
"She was quaking with rage.",
"The explosion made the whole house quake .",
"Noun",
"the quake registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, causing widespread damage",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Paintings are broken down into bits and pieces, which then quake , or dissolve, or morph into one thing or another. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 Feb. 2022",
"The slow pace of emergency aid distribution has flustered international charities, which partly attribute delays to quake damage and the effects of Tropical Storm Grace. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 22 Aug. 2021",
"Bailey doesn\u2019t bow and quake before each of Roth\u2019s dozens of works. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2021",
"Generally in Utah, earthquakes greater than magnitude 5 happen once every 10 years, and quakes greater than magnitude 6 happen once every 50 years, the USGS says. \u2014 Jason Hanna And Konstantin Toropin, CNN , 18 Mar. 2020",
"The East Bay and San Benito County quakes were not related and are not part of the same fault system. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Oct. 2019",
"The Sox, accused of using their video replay room to steal signs under Cora in 2018, should be quaking in their cleats. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 13 Jan. 2020",
"The book, which is slim and focussed, quakes with a nervous energy that often erupts into euphoria. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 2 Dec. 2019",
"Who dropped his Doritos with quaking hands and a quivering lip when Lady Edith Crawley (Laura Carmichael) was left at the altar? \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 20 Sep. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"So far, no significant damage or injuries have been reported following Saturday's quake . \u2014 Nicole Acevedo, NBC News , 18 June 2022",
"At first, the USGS categorized the quake as being at a 4.5 magnitude. \u2014 Ben Brasch, ajc , 18 June 2022",
"That system was used after the 7.1 magnitude quake centered in Ridgecrest that shook Southern California on Fourth of July weekend in 2019. \u2014 Jonah Valdezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
"The temblor appears to have occurred on the Earthquake Valley fault, the same system that produced a 3.5 quake on May 9, said San Diego State University geologist Tom Rockwell. \u2014 Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 June 2022",
"The quake was detected northwest of Bay Point and Pittsburg, and appeared to be most acutely felt by East Bay residents. \u2014 Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 June 2022",
"More than 4,000 people reported feeling the quake as of 7:30 a.m. PST. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"Courtney McLeod does not fear a yellow wall or quake at the sight of an orange sofa. \u2014 The Editors Of Elle Decor, ELLE Decor , 1 June 2022",
"The quake struck at around 11:36 p.m. local time and was centered off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, the agency said. \u2014 Peter Landers, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
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"Middle English, from Old English cwacian":"Verb"
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"\u02c8kw\u0101k"
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"agitate",
"bucket",
"convulse",
"jerk",
"jiggle",
"joggle",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"judder",
"quiver",
"shake",
"shudder",
"vibrate",
"wobble",
"wabble"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"antonyms":[],
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": a condition or standard that must be complied with (as for the attainment of a privilege)":[
"a qualification for membership"
],
": a quality or skill that fits a person (as for an office)":[
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],
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},
"examples":[
"She is finishing up her qualification in marketing.",
"He is studying for his teaching qualification .",
"Students working towards their qualifications .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This sales process and cost must include everything from lead generation to prospect qualification , to meetings, to negotiation and close. \u2014 Pradeep Aradhya, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"The Alabama Board of Education may begin accepting a below-passing score on the Praxis teacher qualification test, as part of an ongoing effort to get more teachers into classrooms. \u2014 al , 13 June 2022",
"Chile would have risen to fourth in the standings and claimed the last automatic qualification place. \u2014 Graham Dunbar, ajc , 10 June 2022",
"Recognizes excellence in score soundtrack albums comprised predominately of original scores and created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current video game or other interactive media released within the qualification period. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 9 June 2022",
"Recognizes excellence in score soundtrack albums comprised predominantly of original scores and created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current video game or other interactive media released within the qualification period. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"The process leading up to World Cup qualification was rarely smooth. \u2014 Joshua Robinson, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
"When the competition was first established in the 1960s a lengthy qualification campaign over many years was settled in a four-team tournament every four years, just like UEFA\u2019s second string competition. \u2014 Zak Garner-purkis, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Hicks was set to box in the 2020 Olympic Games for Team USA before they were postponed to 2021 and the International Boxing Association changed its qualification formula for last summer's competition. \u2014 Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press , 21 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1538, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02cckw\u00e4-l\u0259-f\u0259-\u02c8k\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
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"synonyms":[
"capability",
"credentials",
"goods",
"stuff"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an officer whose business it is to examine and prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts of the Roman Catholic Church":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"Medieval Latin, from qualificatus (past participle of qualificare ) + Latin -or":""
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"-t\u0259(r)"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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": qualifying , limiting":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Medieval Latin qualificat us (past participle of qualificare ) + English -ory":""
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"\u02c8kw\u00e4l\u0259f\u0259\u0307k\u0259\u02cct\u014dr\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073950",
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"adjective"
]
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"antonyms":[
"incompetent",
"inept",
"poor",
"unfit",
"unfitted",
"unqualified"
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},
"examples":[
"She is highly qualified for the job.",
"I'm not qualified to give you advice about what you should do.",
"She gave a qualified yes to the question.",
"The plan was given qualified approval.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The result was 600,000 fewer qualified lifeguards nationwide compared with 2019. \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
"This can help qualified candidates have the confidence to apply for different positions in your company down the road. \u2014 Charles Hipps, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"An investigation found that Ladapo was made a tenured professor without a full tenure evaluation or a search for other qualified candidates\u2014all in violation of university rules. \u2014 Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022",
"While many consumers are concerned about filling up their gas tanks in the short term, the state\u2019s top business lobby says the key to the economy is making sure the state has enough qualified candidates for jobs. \u2014 Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant , 19 June 2022",
"Peterson said that releasing the names of finalists used to be common in police executive searches, but since George Floyd\u2019s murder in 2020, cities have set higher standards that have sharply narrowed the list of qualified candidates. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2022",
"Several deeply qualified candidates would have been runaway front-runners in recent cycles, when Democratic victories were all but assured. \u2014 Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post , 5 June 2022",
"Korn Ferry, known for identifying board members and C-suite executives for global corporations, has been reaching out to a number of qualified candidates of late. \u2014 Matt Donnelly, Variety , 2 May 2022",
"First, businesses can and should be open to hiring qualified candidates who are eager to work but are being held back by a prior criminal conviction. \u2014 Andy Hale, Rolling Stone , 14 Apr. 2022"
],
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"1558, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"\u02c8kw\u00e4-l\u0259-\u02ccf\u012bd"
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"capable",
"competent",
"equal",
"fit",
"good",
"suitable"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061854",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
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"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112053",
"type":[
"noun"
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"antonyms":[],
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": to acquire legal or competent power or capacity":[
"has just qualified as a lawyer"
],
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"\u2014 T. S. Eliot"
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],
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],
": to make less harsh or strict : moderate":[],
": to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify":[],
": to shoot well enough to earn a marksmanship badge":[]
},
"examples":[
"His experience qualifies him for the job.",
"The training will qualify you to sell insurance.",
"They both qualify for the job.",
"Did she qualify to receive financial aid?",
"Financial assistance is available for those who qualify .",
"The win qualifies her to compete in the final race.",
"The certification qualifies you to teach only in this state.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Most employees\u2013aside from union employees and part-time workers\u2013could qualify with the shares vesting after three years of employment. \u2014 Jemima Mcevoy, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Much attention was rightly focused on the Ukrainian national team during its ultimately unsuccessful attempt to qualify for this fall\u2019s World Cup. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
"Only two golfers in the field who played in last week\u2019s inaugural LIV Golf event made the cut to qualify for this weekend\u2019s final two rounds. \u2014 Bill Pennington, New York Times , 18 June 2022",
"In order to qualify for this $200 bonus, bettors must make a $10+ deposit and wager $10 on the Boston Celtics or Golden State Warriors to win. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 16 June 2022",
"Residents do not need to have had COVID-19 in order to qualify for financial assistance. \u2014 Vanessa Swales, Journal Sentinel , 13 June 2022",
"Pool admission will be free for Marion County residents, though adults will have to show proof of residency in order to qualify for the free pass. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 13 June 2022",
"Part-time Starbucks employees must work a minimum of 20 hours per week in order to qualify for insurance and the Starbucks College Achievement plan, according to the company website. \u2014 Alison Cross, Hartford Courant , 9 June 2022",
"Brandenburg was one of five GOP gubernatorial candidates whose nominating petitions to qualify for the ballot were riddled with fraudulent signatures, according to a review by the Bureau of Elections. \u2014 Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press , 7 June 2022"
],
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"1533, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
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"Middle French qualifier , from Medieval Latin qualificare , from Latin qualis":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164407",
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"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"A-OK",
"A1",
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"bang-up",
"banner",
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"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
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"divine",
"dope",
"down",
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"fab",
"fabulous",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
"fantastic",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
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"gilt-edge",
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"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
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"hot",
"hype",
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"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"lovely",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
"par excellence",
"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
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"definitions":{
": a distinguishing attribute : characteristic":[
"possesses many fine qualities"
],
": an acquired skill : accomplishment":[],
": an inherent feature : property":[
"had a quality of stridence, dissonance",
"\u2014 Roald Dahl"
],
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": being of high quality":[],
": capacity , role":[
"in the quality of reader and companion",
"\u2014 Joseph Conrad"
],
": degree of excellence : grade":[
"the quality of competing air service",
"\u2014 Current Biography"
],
": peculiar and essential character : nature":[
"her ethereal quality",
"\u2014 Gay Talese"
],
": social status : rank":[],
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": the attribute of an elementary sensation that makes it fundamentally unlike any other sensation":[],
": the character in a logical proposition of being affirmative or negative":[],
": the identifying character of a vowel sound determined chiefly by the resonance of the vocal chambers in uttering it":[],
": timbre":[],
": vividness of hue":[]
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"Honesty is a desirable quality .",
"Stubbornness is one of his bad qualities .",
"She has strong leadership qualities .",
"The house has many fine qualities .",
"His music has a primitive quality .",
"They offer quality at a reasonable price.",
"Adjective",
"The restaurant offers quality service.",
"The store sells quality furniture at reasonable prices.",
"It can be difficult to find quality childcare.",
"He had a quality education.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Some people believe that AI can help improve the quality and accuracy of content, while others are more cautious about its potential implications for human creativity and expression. \u2014 Shane Barker, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"Additional factors that have been hypothesized to play a role include sleep quality and hormones. \u2014 Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"Better Homes & Gardens is committed to the quality and trustworthiness of our content and editorial processes. \u2014 Better Homes & Gardens , 23 June 2022",
"Our testers started by looking at the overall design of the set, observing the materials, quantity and quality of cookware pieces, storage capabilities, shapes, and any extra features. \u2014 Madison Yauger, PEOPLE.com , 23 June 2022",
"But a quake\u2019s death toll more often comes down to geography, building quality and population density. \u2014 Fazel Rahman Faizi, Chicago Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"But a quake\u2019s death toll more often comes down to geography, building quality and population density. \u2014 Fazel Rahman Faizi, Anchorage Daily News , 22 June 2022",
"But a quake\u2019s death toll more often comes down to geography, building quality , and population density. \u2014 Fazel Rahman Faizi, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 June 2022",
"What to Consider: Spending more on headphones would be an investment in better sound quality and comfort. \u2014 Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure , 21 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The Australian guard has great size at 6-foot-6 and projects to be a quality two-way prospect at the next level. \u2014 Nick Crain, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"What the company does: Works to improve the lives of older adults through innovative, quality senior living communities and community services to older adults. \u2014 The Enquirer , 8 June 2022",
"Our recommendations are vetted from quality inflatable pool brands and real reviews. \u2014 Shanon Maglente, Good Housekeeping , 6 June 2022",
"Formerly known as the Medina Health Ministry, in 2018 the facility changed its name to more accurately reflect its mission of providing quality medical care for every eligible person between the ages of 18 and 64 who lives or works in Medina County. \u2014 Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland , 23 Mar. 2022",
"As disappointing as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is, there is a quality floor to any Marvel product as long as the key ingredients are present. \u2014 Rob Salkowitz, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"In the southwestern district of Minhang, two local government officials were fired earlier this week over sub- quality pork delivered to communities. \u2014 Fortune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Although three young starters \u2014 Manning, Casey Mize, Tarik Skubal \u2014 are expected to take breakout-caliber leaps forward, Mize and Skubal have already proven themselves as quality big leaguers. \u2014 Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Isaac also was taken before quality big men such as Bam Adebayo, John Collins, Jarrett Allen, and OG Anunoby. \u2014 Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com , 26 Mar. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1936, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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"Middle English qualite , from Anglo-French qualit\u00e9 , from Latin qualitat-, qualitas , from qualis of what kind; akin to Latin qui who \u2014 more at who":"Noun"
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"\u02c8kw\u00e4l-\u0259t-\u0113",
"\u02c8kw\u00e4-l\u0259-t\u0113"
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"1948, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For this honor, students must have full-time status and attain a 4.0 quality point average on 12 or more credits during a single semester with no continuing or incomplete grades. \u2014 cleveland , 21 June 2021",
"Ikeria and Layla won based on a calculation of quality point average or Q.P.A., a system of calculating grades that gave extra weight to advanced placement and dual credit courses. \u2014 Stephanie Saul, New York Times , 11 June 2021",
"In order to attain this status, students must maintain a quality point average of 3.4 or higher, complete a minimum of 12 semester hours of credit and receive no grade lower than a C in any course. \u2014 Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland , 17 Aug. 2020",
"Students must take at least 12 credit hours and earn a 3.6 quality point average to make the list. \u2014 Michelle Mullins, Naperville Sun , 11 June 2019",
"To be recognized, a full-time student must take at least 12 credit hours and earn a 3.6 quality point average during the semester. \u2014 Michelle Mullins, Naperville Sun , 8 June 2018"
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"Dad and I spent some quality time together."
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"noun"
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": a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety":[
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"It was about an enduring secular world where people did unspeakable things, seemingly without qualm and without any grave consequences to themselves.",
"\u2014 Jim Holt"
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": a sudden attack of illness, faintness, or nausea":[
"The doctor seemed seized with a qualm of faintness.",
"\u2014 Robert Louis Stevenson"
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"I had a qualm of absolute horror, and shuddered; and then the emotion was immediately repressed or suppressed.",
"\u2014 Oliver Sacks"
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"examples":[
"He accepted their offer without a qualm .",
"she has no qualms about downloading pirated music files from the Internet",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"My only qualm is that the pockets, which are very stretchy with large openings, are not very secure\u2014my phone once fell dangerously close to a pee puddle. \u2014 Outside Online , 24 June 2021",
"His main qualm is with the $7,500 student loan cap workers can get to earn credentials in fields like logistics, construction and IT. \u2014 Casey Smith, chicagotribune.com , 28 Dec. 2021",
"Another qualm relates to the number of miles of driving on your neighborhood streets. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 10 Oct. 2021",
"One qualm is that this can lead to RVs packed together like sardines. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Most folk, out-take Nack, reckoned the qualm was a tale the priests wrought up to wring out our silver. \u2014 Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books , 16 Jan. 2020",
"Yet another qualm is that people might misbehave while traveling inside a self-driving car. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 26 May 2021",
"Our biggest qualm is with their design, which is, summed up in a word, noticeable. \u2014 Michael Andronico, CNN Underscored , 19 Mar. 2021",
"Stephen Colbert has a major qualm with Zack Snyder's Justice League, a.k.a. the Snyder Cut. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 23 Mar. 2021"
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"circa 1530, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
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"origin unknown":""
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"\u02c8kw\u00e4lm",
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for qualm qualm , scruple , compunction , demur mean a misgiving about what one is doing or going to do. qualm implies an uneasy fear that one is not following one's conscience or better judgment. no qualms about plagiarizing scruple implies doubt of the rightness of an act on grounds of principle. no scruples against buying stolen goods compunction implies a spontaneous feeling of responsibility or compassion for a potential victim. had compunctions about lying demur implies hesitation caused by objection to an outside suggestion or influence. accepted her decision without demur",
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"some passengers felt a little qualmish after the bumpy landing on the airstrip"
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"1548, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"\u02c8kw\u00e4-mish",
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"queer",
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"sickish",
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"1548, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"quam diu":{
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, so long as":""
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"quamash":{
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": any of a genus ( Camassia and especially C. quamash ) of plants of the lily family chiefly of the western U.S. with edible bulbs \u2014 compare death camas":[]
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": a small genus of twining vines (family Convolvulaceae) of warm regions distinguished from Ipomoea by the salverform corolla and exserted stamens and style \u2014 see star ipomoea":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, perhaps alteration of Nahuatl cuauh-mochitl camachile":""
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"\u02c8kwam\u0259\u02ccklit"
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"quandary":{
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": a state of perplexity or doubt":[]
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"Williams's quandary is not unlike that faced by other urban executives who have had to wrestle with a deeply rooted power structure. The problem is especially acute for African American mayors. They are expected to serve as sentries, protecting their cities' black communities and staving off so-called white encroachment. \u2014 Jonetta Rose Barras , Washington Post , 15 June 2003",
"For a sticky philosophical quandary , the questions are pretty simple: am I a clerk charged with selling college degrees or am I involved in a more meaningful experience? Part of me says that no argument is more worthy of my attention. \u2014 Lynne Drury Lerych , Newsweek , 9 Apr. 2001",
"\u2026 the inevitable economic quandary that faces a people in the transition from slavery to freedom, and especially those who make that change amid hate and prejudice, lawlessness and ruthless competition. \u2014 W. E. B. Du Bois , The Souls of Black Folk , 1903",
"The unexpected results of the test have created a quandary for researchers.",
"I'm in a quandary about whether I should try to repair my stereo or buy a new one, even though I don't have the money to do either.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"McCarthy understands the philosophical quandary \u2014while also encouraging Diggs to channel the instincts that fueled his 2021 success. \u2014 Jori Epstein, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
"The moral quandary recalls that faced by a scientist a century ago, Lewis Fry Richardson. \u2014 Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker , 7 June 2022",
"For weeks, Fairbanks mathematician Leah Berman Williams was in a quandary over which candidate to vote for in the special primary for U.S. House. \u2014 Liz Ruskin, Anchorage Daily News , 18 May 2022",
"The adenovirus infection created a quandary for Baelyn\u2019s doctors. \u2014 Brenda Goodman, CNN , 13 May 2022",
"The portrayal of the Jack McKinney-Paul Westhead-Pat Riley coaching quandary during the 1979-80 season is absolutely compelling. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2022",
"Nevertheless, Apple still faces a moral and reputational quandary : are the everyday conveniences and relatively modest revenues generated by AirTags worth the injury to women? \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The McMullin quandary is already carving a deep divide in the state\u2019s minority party. \u2014 Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 Mar. 2022",
"As the pressure to act mounts from both sides of the aisle, Biden faces a political quandary . \u2014 Ben Gittleson, ABC News , 7 Mar. 2022"
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"1579, in the meaning defined above":""
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"origin unknown":""
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"\u02c8kw\u00e4n-d(\u0259-)r\u0113",
"\u02c8kw\u00e4n-d\u0259-r\u0113",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162150",
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"quantitative analysis":{
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": chemical analysis designed to determine the amounts or proportions of the components of a substance":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The company has a quantitative analysis of how well that person might fit in. \u2014 Nick Davidson, Outside Online , 1 Oct. 2014",
"Page and his colleagues wanted to do a quantitative analysis of political inequality. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Boehmig started his career as a bond trader for Lehman Brothers, where he was exposed to the growing use of code to do quantitative analysis on financial data. \u2014 Kenrick Cai, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"After asking Nordicity to generate the report, the REMC were told there was not enough data to compile a quantitative analysis of the industry because of inadequate reporting practices within the organizations. \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 25 Nov. 2021",
"The availability of plentiful data generated by the financial industry make these systems amenable to quantitative analysis . \u2014 Standish Fleming, Forbes , 30 Sep. 2021",
"TrueBridge will run a quantitative analysis of all companies based on the information in the nominations, and Forbes reporters will be in touch with all finalists. \u2014 Amy Feldman, Forbes , 15 June 2021",
"Decisions must be made based on a thorough quantitative analysis . \u2014 Steve Banker, Forbes , 3 Mar. 2021",
"The machine was birthed during the height of America\u2019s struggle for global ascendancy, amid a surge of interest from the political class in quantitative analysis . \u2014 J.c. Pan, The New Republic , 8 Sep. 2020"
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1847, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105309",
"type":[
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"quantitative easing":{
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": a set of government policies that may be implemented by a central bank to increase the money supply in the economy":[
"The Fed has already done plenty with its unique stimulus program of quantitative easing , or QE, the $85 billion-a-month purchase of bonds and mortgage-backed assets that started pumping cash into the system in 2008.",
"\u2014 Rana Foroohar",
"Speculation is increasing that in an effort to stimulate the sluggish economy, the central bank will soon announce additional quantitative easing , the strategy of buying long-term assets like Treasury bonds to lower long-term interest rates.",
"\u2014 Christine Hauser",
"Since 2000, the Bank of Japan has progressively increased the intensity of its quantitative easing programs in response to stagnant growth and failures in its banking system.",
"\u2014 Blaine Luetkemeyer",
"\u2014 abbreviation QE"
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"first_known_use":{
"1966, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091511",
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"quantitative inheritance":{
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"definitions":{
": genetic inheritance of a character (such as human skin color) controlled by polygenes":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1929, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-173928",
"type":[
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]
},
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": quantitative":[]
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"scruple",
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"smidgen",
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"smidgin",
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"spot",
"sprinkle",
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"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
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": an individual considered with respect to a given situation":[
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"\u2014 Tom Wicker"
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": the character of a logical proposition as being universal, particular, or singular":[],
": the relative duration or time length of a speech sound or sound sequence":[],
": the subject of a mathematical operation":[],
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},
"examples":[
"The wine is made in small quantities .",
"The boss is worried about quantity as well as quality.",
"The family buys food in quantity .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The seduction of quantity over quality is not a viably lean method of selling and processing lead generation. \u2014 John Hayes, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Major League Baseball easily leads the way in terms of the sheer quantity of games on the docket. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 14 June 2022",
"In math, the positiveness or negativeness of a quantity . \u2014 Celia Storey, Arkansas Online , 13 June 2022",
"Offense: Importation of a quantity of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine (Southern District of Texas). \u2014 al , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Still, Moen described this time as that of quantity over quality. \u2014 Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com , 9 Apr. 2022",
"He was charged with distribution of a quantity of cocaine, and possession of a firearm in a drug trafficking crime. \u2014 Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com , 25 Feb. 2022",
"Hawaii, West Virginia, and Alabama took the bottom three places in terms of sleep quantity , with only 63% to 64% of their residents able to attain seven hours or more of sleep each night. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Researchers warn that, for now, many studies don\u2019t use data of adequate quantity or quality to properly test AI applications. \u2014 Tom Simonite, Wired , 16 Jan. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"Middle English quantite , from Anglo-French quantit\u00e9 , from Latin quantitat-, quantitas , from quantus how much, how large; akin to Latin quam how, as, quando when, qui who \u2014 more at who":""
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"type":[
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": luminous energy that is the product of mean luminous flux by time":[
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": a theory in economics: changes in the price level tend to vary directly with the amount of money in circulation and the rate of its circulation":[]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On the other hand, the Keynesians said that quantity theory of money didn\u2019t work because the Fed\u2019s balance sheet expanded enormously, but the U.S. didn\u2019t experience much inflation. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 13 Apr. 2022",
"A year ago, a prominent economist used the orthodox quantity theory of money to predict what the Fed and almost all of his peers missed: That an inflationary explosion was close at hand. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"On the other hand, the Keynesians said that quantity theory of money didn\u2019t work because the Fed\u2019s balance sheet expanded enormously, but the U.S. didn\u2019t experience much inflation. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 13 Apr. 2022",
"On the other hand, the Keynesians said that quantity theory of money didn\u2019t work because the Fed\u2019s balance sheet expanded enormously, but the U.S. didn\u2019t experience much inflation. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The starting point for any analysis of inflation is the quantity theory of money. \u2014 WSJ , 20 Apr. 2022",
"On the other hand, the Keynesians said that quantity theory of money didn\u2019t work because the Fed\u2019s balance sheet expanded enormously, but the U.S. didn\u2019t experience much inflation. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 13 Apr. 2022",
"On the other hand, the Keynesians said that quantity theory of money didn\u2019t work because the Fed\u2019s balance sheet expanded enormously, but the U.S. didn\u2019t experience much inflation. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 13 Apr. 2022",
"On the other hand, the Keynesians said that quantity theory of money didn\u2019t work because the Fed\u2019s balance sheet expanded enormously, but the U.S. didn\u2019t experience much inflation. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 14 Feb. 2022"
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": to calculate or express in terms of quantum mechanics":[],
": to subdivide (something, such as energy) into small but measurable increments":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In fact, this assumption was so powerful that all attempts to quantize Hall conductance up to that point had used it. \u2014 Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American , 1 Aug. 2020",
"This work suggested that theorists might need another, more radical, approach to quantum gravity\u2014rather than simply quantizing general relativity, a new way to understand the nature of space-time at a microscopic level might be needed. \u2014 Conor Purcell, Ars Technica , 20 Apr. 2020",
"This spawned approaches to quantum gravity that were developed by taking general relativity and using different methods to quantize it. \u2014 Conor Purcell, Ars Technica , 20 Apr. 2020",
"That means musical qualities were quantized on a scale of 0 to 127. \u2014 Dan Kopf, Quartz , 30 Jan. 2020",
"The usual approach to quantizing something is to identify its independent parts \u2014 particles, say \u2014 and then apply quantum mechanics to them. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 6 Mar. 2018",
"But by quantizing gameplay into distinct turns, Civ provides the illusion that the player isn't that far away from nailing down all the loose ends standing between them and victory. \u2014 Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica , 23 Sep. 2019",
"General relativity paints a continuous picture of space-time while in quantum mechanics everything is quantized in discrete chunks. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 14 Nov. 2018",
"But not only does asymptotic safety provide a link between testable low energies and inaccessible high energies \u2014 as the above examples demonstrate \u2014 the approach is also not necessarily in conflict with other ways of quantizing gravity. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 8 Jan. 2018"
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"Noun",
"the sum of human knowledge is now so immense that even a highly educated person can hope to absorb only a tiny quantum of it",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The future of quantum computing could be paved with a novel form of matter: the time crystal. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 22 June 2022",
"This can be said to be true about quantum computing, too. \u2014 Nitin Rakesh, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"Norwich University has received a $4 million federal grant to establish a new research lab focusing on machine learning and quantum computing. \u2014 Jonathan Vanian, Fortune , 24 May 2022",
"The measure will generate a fair degree of progressivity in the water tariff policy for domestic consumers along with sensitising them on their consumption quantum . \u2014 Niyati Seth, Quartz , 8 June 2022",
"These are things like artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, quantum computing. \u2014 CBS News , 8 June 2022",
"Researchers are particularly keen to examine one idea about how quantum becomes classical. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 18 Aug. 2021",
"That is what short coherence feels like with a deep quantum circuit. \u2014 Paul Smith-goodson, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Whereas other particle masses must simply be measured and accepted as facts of nature, the W mass can be predicted by combining a handful of other measurable quantum properties in the Standard Model equations. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The quantum supremacy movement is definitely one of those. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022",
"The company develops quantum processors for a range of supercomputing data centers and research labs, and employs around 160 people across Europe. \u2014 Adi Gaskell, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Testing these solutions is also a priority for Escol\u00e1stico S\u00e1nchez, quantum discipline leader at BBVA. \u2014 Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ , 10 June 2022",
"The informational perspective on the second law is now being recast as a quantum problem. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 26 May 2022",
"In new research, a device helps to correct data lost at the quantum level. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Countless experiments have confirmed it, as do computer chips, lasers and other technologies that exploit quantum effects. \u2014 John Horgan, Scientific American , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Bandyopadhyay\u2019s research also shows the presence of quantum effects in microtubules. \u2014 Andrea Morris, Forbes , 4 Nov. 2021",
"This provides strong evidence for the result being due to quantum effects. \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 7 Dec. 2020"
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"\u2014 I. Peterson"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Gradually, though, a deeper theory known as quantum chromodynamics (QCD) emerged. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 27 Sep. 2021",
"The theory of quarks and the strong nuclear force that binds them, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), is so unwieldy that theorists cannot calculate the effects through the usual series of ever smaller approximations. \u2014 Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS , 14 Apr. 2021",
"Then came the connection to the best current description of the strong nuclear force with the development of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). \u2014 Priyamvada Natarajan, WSJ , 9 Apr. 2021",
"One way is via lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD), a technique that relies on massive computational power to numerically solve the effects of the virtual particles on muons. \u2014 Daniel Garisto, Scientific American , 7 Apr. 2021",
"The results began to make more sense as physicists worked out the true theory that the quark model only approximates: quantum chromodynamics , or QCD. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 24 Feb. 2021",
"In 2004 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, with two other scientists, for his contribution to quantum chromodynamics \u2014a theory about the strong interaction between certain subatomic particles. \u2014 Christopher Levenick, WSJ , 20 Jan. 2021",
"If the muon and electron don't behave equivalently, then quantum chromodynamics , a major theory in physics, is irretrievably broken in some way. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 2 Dec. 2020",
"So, the work is an important landmark in terms of finding ways to up the precision of the results, and the outcome suggests that quantum chromodynamics is probably fine. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 2 Dec. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Electromagnetic force was well explained by quantum field theory , which pictured attraction or repulsion as an exchange of massless particles\u2014photons\u2014able to travel across unlimited distances. \u2014 Andrew Crumey, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"Adami sees the new research as an elegant synthesis of several different disciplines, including classical physics, atomic physics and quantum field theory . \u2014 Joanna Thompson, Scientific American , 20 May 2022",
"In quantum field theory , the universe\u2019s truly elementary entities are fields that fill all space. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 26 Jan. 2022",
"To solve a quantum field theory is to be able to use the field to predict observations. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 17 June 2021",
"Elliott notes that viewing quantum field theory from a mathematical perspective can help glean new information about the structures that are foundational to it. \u2014 Rachel Crowell, Scientific American , 21 Mar. 2022",
"In the late 1920s physicists began to develop a powerful mathematical framework known as quantum field theory that remains the language of particle physics to this day. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 26 Jan. 2022",
"If the interaction is governed by any of the three forces other than gravity, physicists can in principle calculate the results of these scattering problems using quantum field theory . \u2014 Katie Mccormick, Quanta Magazine , 12 Jan. 2022",
"This summer, Quanta covered the growing need for a mathematical understanding of quantum field theory , one of the most successful concepts in physics. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 23 Dec. 2021"
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"Prices have taken a quantum leap upward.",
"The new drug is a quantum leap in the fight against cancer.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"What could be the bold, big-idea, try-it-and-see, quantum leap approach that gathers science, policy, and the private and civil sectors and incentivizes them to pull together toward finding rapid solutions and implementing them ASAP? \u2014 John Sabo, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"But what came with those two records was a quantum leap . \u2014 Andy Greene, Rolling Stone , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The vehicle first aims to make the quantum leap from a low-stakes race on a quarter-mile track in glitzy L.A. to running on the 2.5-mile oval at iconic Daytona International Speedway for the sport\u2019s biggest prize. \u2014 Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Florida believes Napier is prepared to make the quantum leap from the Sun Belt to the SEC. \u2014 Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 28 Nov. 2021",
"These are all especially true after COVID-19 drove a quantum leap in the acceptance of remote work and made this labor market even more competitive. \u2014 Aman Kidwai, Fortune , 18 Jan. 2022",
"In 1989, the science of bird tracking took a quantum leap when albatrosses became the first birds to be fixed with satellite tracking telemetry devices. \u2014 Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022",
"My impression is that in Arab TV there has been a quantum leap in terms of fresh, innovative narratives. \u2014 Nick Vivarelli, Variety , 4 Dec. 2021",
"Woods, who limped noticeably, was quick to note such baby steps are nothing compared with the quantum leap needed to play a Tour event. \u2014 Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 6 Jan. 2022"
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"\u2014 Johns Hopkins Magazine"
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"Verb",
"The children quarrel all the time.",
"She and her husband are always quarreling about money.",
"I don't want to quarrel with you."
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, square block of stone, bolt, from Vulgar Latin *quadrellum , diminutive of Latin quadrum square \u2014 more at quadrate":"Noun"
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"a quarrelsome student who was always being sent to the principal's office for starting fights in the halls",
"you're so quarrelsome : you can never do anything without a fuss",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"So, there was no number 6 on the reasons gold hasn\u2019t rallied hard with inflation, but gold is a classic haven and the world is very quarrelsome at present, with the usual suspects stirring away. \u2014 Clem Chambers, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Even Jefferson soon had enough of the quarrelsome envoy. \u2014 Shaun Assael, Smithsonian Magazine , 22 June 2021",
"How to mold a lasting and resilient nation out of this quarrelsome collection of commonwealths? \u2014 Kevin Duchschere, Star Tribune , 14 May 2021",
"The group\u2019s board included Morton Irvine Smith, scion of a quarrelsome California family that once owned much of the land on which Orange County was built. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Apr. 2021",
"If people become quarrelsome or negative, don\u2019t take it personally. \u2014 Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive , 23 Mar. 2021",
"There are so many things going on that someone could become quarrelsome . \u2014 Magi Helena, oregonlive , 7 Dec. 2019",
"Anthony set sail for New Amsterdam in 1629, and before long acquired a large farm just north of the city stockade at Wall Street, along with a reputation as one of the most quarrelsome characters in a town full of them. \u2014 Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times , 3 Dec. 2019",
"That\u2019s the unwritten code of civility and compromise Virginia\u2019s lawmakers have long said sets them apart from the quarrelsome mob in Congress. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Aug. 2019"
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"uncombative",
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"a quarrelsome student who was always being sent to the principal's office for starting fights in the halls",
"you're so quarrelsome : you can never do anything without a fuss",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"So, there was no number 6 on the reasons gold hasn\u2019t rallied hard with inflation, but gold is a classic haven and the world is very quarrelsome at present, with the usual suspects stirring away. \u2014 Clem Chambers, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Even Jefferson soon had enough of the quarrelsome envoy. \u2014 Shaun Assael, Smithsonian Magazine , 22 June 2021",
"How to mold a lasting and resilient nation out of this quarrelsome collection of commonwealths? \u2014 Kevin Duchschere, Star Tribune , 14 May 2021",
"The group\u2019s board included Morton Irvine Smith, scion of a quarrelsome California family that once owned much of the land on which Orange County was built. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Apr. 2021",
"If people become quarrelsome or negative, don\u2019t take it personally. \u2014 Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive , 23 Mar. 2021",
"There are so many things going on that someone could become quarrelsome . \u2014 Magi Helena, oregonlive , 7 Dec. 2019",
"Anthony set sail for New Amsterdam in 1629, and before long acquired a large farm just north of the city stockade at Wall Street, along with a reputation as one of the most quarrelsome characters in a town full of them. \u2014 Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times , 3 Dec. 2019",
"That\u2019s the unwritten code of civility and compromise Virginia\u2019s lawmakers have long said sets them apart from the quarrelsome mob in Congress. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Aug. 2019"
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"1596, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8kw\u022fr(-\u0259)l-s\u0259m",
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"argumentative",
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"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"brawly",
"chippy",
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"confrontational",
"contentious",
"discordant",
"disputatious",
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"scrappy",
"truculent",
"warlike"
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": one that is sought or pursued : prey":[],
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"an area where workers are quarrying for limestone"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Noun",
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"Middle English quirre, querre entrails of game given to the hounds, from Anglo-French cureie, quereie , from quir, cuir skin, hide (on which the entrails were placed), from Latin corium \u2014 more at cuirass":"Noun",
"alteration of quarrel entry 1":"Noun"
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"\u2014 Consumer Reports",
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"\u2014 Henry David Thoreau"
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"\u2014 Current Biography"
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],
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": one side of the upper of a shoe or boot from heel to vamp":[],
": quarter hour":[
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": the inhabitants of such a quarter":[],
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": the side of a horse's hoof between the toe and the heel \u2014 see hoof illustration":[],
": the stern area of a ship's side":[],
": the sum of 25 cents":[],
": to add (a coat of arms) to others on one escutcheon":[],
": to arrange or bear (different coats of arms) quarterly on one escutcheon":[],
": to change from one quarter to another":[
"the moon quarters"
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": to crisscross (an area) in many directions":[],
": to crisscross a district":[],
": to cut or divide into four equal or nearly equal parts":[
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": to strike on a ship's quarter":[
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]
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"Noun",
"Cut the pie into quarters .",
"an inch and a quarter",
"a quarter of a cup of sugar",
"He was three quarters of an hour early.",
"Verb",
"The hunters quartered the deer.",
"We were quartered in log cabins at the camp.",
"Adjective",
"a quarter acre of land",
"They live less than a quarter mile from us.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In Norway, Sweden and Finland, WBDS\u2019 free-to-air channels will also broadcast the quarter -finals, semi-finals and both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s singles finals. \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 21 June 2022",
"Financial help for children displaced by the war in Ukraine was due to come from an unlikely quarter later Monday, when Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov looked to auction off his Nobel Peace Prize medal in New York. \u2014 David Keyton, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
"If stocks continue to fall over the next two weeks, the three-month period that ends June 30 could ultimately be the index\u2019s worst quarter since 2008, when the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off the global financial crisis. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"Nearby, the old quarter of Panama City, Casco Viejo, dates back to 1673 and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. \u2014 Jane Levere, CNN , 29 May 2022",
"While most Detroiters say their financial situation is steady or improving, nearly a quarter report that it's actually gotten worse in the past 12 months, particularly low-income residents. \u2014 Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press , 28 May 2022",
"Set in the world of elite tennis, the drama portrays Justine Pearce as a one-time rising star whose sudden success at 17 took her and her coach Glenn Lapthorn to the quarter -finals of the French Open. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"This ultra-stretch quarter -zip pullover leaves room to move, volley, and slice. \u2014 Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue , 8 June 2022",
"The Wilma Mankiller quarter will begin making its way into circulation, U.S. Mint announced, as the Native American activist is featured on the third quarter released this year, part of the American Women Quarters Program. \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 6 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"To start, quarter the whole apples, then toss into a large saucepan and cover with 1 inch of cold water. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Before unleashing the herbivores, the Carr\u2019s will survey a client\u2019s land, ensuring no imminent hazard, and quarter it off into four different sections. \u2014 Camille Sauers, Chron , 30 Sep. 2021",
"Ochoa responded to my question with an adage\u2014the only way to eat an elephant is to quarter it into pieces. \u2014 Patrick Moorhead, Forbes , 7 May 2021",
"Use a sharp paring knife to cut the citrus in half lengthwise and then quarter each half to create four wedges. \u2014 Rebekah Peppler, Los Angeles Times , 2 Apr. 2021",
"If using white mushrooms, halve the small ones and quarter the bigger ones. \u2014 Dallas News , 28 Dec. 2020",
"Loomer cosponsored legislation to draw and quarter Jack Dorsey or replace John Roberts with QAnon on the Supreme Court. \u2014 Isaac Schorr, National Review , 20 Aug. 2020",
"As the pasta cooks, quarter the sausages lengthwise, then slice 1/2-inch thick. \u2014 The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post , 11 Mar. 2020",
"According to McDonald, all the elk were quartered out. \u2014 Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life , 10 Feb. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"There was the fourth-quarter cross- quarter bounce pass to Keldon Johnson for a 3-pointer. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Antonio Express-News , 21 Dec. 2021",
"First quarter earnings season is slated to kick off next week with the release of results from several banks. \u2014 Jessica Menton, USA TODAY , 8 Apr. 2020",
"Details could be revealed when the company releases first quarter earnings Tuesday. \u2014 Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press , 27 Apr. 2020",
"First quarter earnings season is also still a few weeks out, and investors have to fly blind in terms of the financial impact on businesses. \u2014 Anneken Tappe, CNN , 14 Mar. 2020",
"Davidson jumped out of his car, moved to the front quarter panel of the car and drew his Taser. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 Feb. 2020",
"Day time rain totals of up to a tenth or quarter inch are possible. \u2014 Matt Rogers, Washington Post , 31 Oct. 2019",
"The Street didn't get too much of a high from Aurora Cannabis' 4th quarter earnings late Wednesday, but the cannabis company is still reporting strong growth. \u2014 Anne Sraders, Fortune , 12 Sep. 2019",
"The longtime justice spoke with Katherine Baicker, dean of the Harris School of Public Policy, before about 400 people, reflecting on her career as an attorney battling for women\u2019s rights and her quarter century on the nation\u2019s highest court. \u2014 Jessica Villagomez, chicagotribune.com , 9 Sep. 2019"
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"\u02c8kw\u022f(r)t-\u0259r",
"\u02c8kw\u022f(r)-t\u0259r",
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"\u2014 Time"
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"He quarterbacked his high school team.",
"She quarterbacked the company's latest ad campaign.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Heaps hopped on a plane to get to the greater Denver area for the first of what will be many Russell Wilson Passing Academy camps, having worked with Wilson, the Broncos\u2019 new star quarterback , for the past five years. \u2014 Parker Gabriel, USA TODAY , 18 June 2022",
"The Tigers hired former quarterback and Troy star Jerrel Jernigan this week. \u2014 Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al , 17 June 2022",
"Irish offensive coordinator Tommy Rees helped develop DeShone Kizer, a second-round pick in 2017, and Marcus Freeman is a defensive-minded first-time head coach who hasn\u2019t played a role in any quarterback \u2019s development at his previous stops. \u2014 Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press , 14 June 2022",
"Last week, Burrow met former Bengals quarterback and Ring of Honor inductee Ken Anderson. \u2014 Dave Clark, The Enquirer , 14 June 2022",
"At this point of the offseason, the Browns have not yet altered Watson or backup quarterback Jacoby Brissett\u2019s practice snaps in anticipation of Watson being suspended by the NFL for possible personal-conduct policy violations. \u2014 Ashley Bastock, cleveland , 14 June 2022",
"Lee, a former Dollarway High School quarterback and coach, had hired Anderson during this offseason at Mills. \u2014 I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online , 13 June 2022",
"Among those 80 names are the former Utes quarterback and defensive back. \u2014 Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"Oregon State secured a big piece to its 2023 recruiting class when Downey (Calif.) quarterback Aidan Chiles made a verbal commitment Thursday to the Beavers. \u2014 oregonlive , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow addressed gun reform during his minicamp media availability on Tuesday. \u2014 Dave Clark, The Enquirer , 14 June 2022",
"Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray completed 7-of-17 passes for 28 yards and was sacked twice and intercepted twice in the first half. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Both quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo and Williams were injured after the 49ers had dealt with several key injuries the first three games of the season. \u2014 Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 Oct. 2021",
"Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and actress Shailene Woodley called off their nearly year-long engagement Wednesday, according to a report from In Touch Weekly. \u2014 Ridah Syed, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Brett Favre, more than most, can appreciate the position that Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is in. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Over the last year, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has not shied away from public comments about life after the NFL. \u2014 Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY , 5 Jan. 2022",
"With one week left in the NFL\u2019s regular season, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is the consensus favorite to capture his fourth MVP award. \u2014 Rob Reischel, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the reigning NFL most valuable player, leads a team attempting to earn the No. 1 seed for the second consecutive season. \u2014 Gary Klein Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 22 Nov. 2021"
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"\u2014 Consumer Reports",
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"\u2014 Henry David Thoreau"
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"\u2014 Current Biography"
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": the side of a horse's hoof between the toe and the heel \u2014 see hoof illustration":[],
": the stern area of a ship's side":[],
": the sum of 25 cents":[],
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": to crisscross a district":[],
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"Noun",
"Cut the pie into quarters .",
"an inch and a quarter",
"a quarter of a cup of sugar",
"He was three quarters of an hour early.",
"Verb",
"The hunters quartered the deer.",
"We were quartered in log cabins at the camp.",
"Adjective",
"a quarter acre of land",
"They live less than a quarter mile from us.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In Norway, Sweden and Finland, WBDS\u2019 free-to-air channels will also broadcast the quarter -finals, semi-finals and both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s singles finals. \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 21 June 2022",
"Financial help for children displaced by the war in Ukraine was due to come from an unlikely quarter later Monday, when Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov looked to auction off his Nobel Peace Prize medal in New York. \u2014 David Keyton, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
"If stocks continue to fall over the next two weeks, the three-month period that ends June 30 could ultimately be the index\u2019s worst quarter since 2008, when the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off the global financial crisis. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"Nearby, the old quarter of Panama City, Casco Viejo, dates back to 1673 and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. \u2014 Jane Levere, CNN , 29 May 2022",
"While most Detroiters say their financial situation is steady or improving, nearly a quarter report that it's actually gotten worse in the past 12 months, particularly low-income residents. \u2014 Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press , 28 May 2022",
"Set in the world of elite tennis, the drama portrays Justine Pearce as a one-time rising star whose sudden success at 17 took her and her coach Glenn Lapthorn to the quarter -finals of the French Open. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"This ultra-stretch quarter -zip pullover leaves room to move, volley, and slice. \u2014 Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue , 8 June 2022",
"The Wilma Mankiller quarter will begin making its way into circulation, U.S. Mint announced, as the Native American activist is featured on the third quarter released this year, part of the American Women Quarters Program. \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 6 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"To start, quarter the whole apples, then toss into a large saucepan and cover with 1 inch of cold water. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Before unleashing the herbivores, the Carr\u2019s will survey a client\u2019s land, ensuring no imminent hazard, and quarter it off into four different sections. \u2014 Camille Sauers, Chron , 30 Sep. 2021",
"Ochoa responded to my question with an adage\u2014the only way to eat an elephant is to quarter it into pieces. \u2014 Patrick Moorhead, Forbes , 7 May 2021",
"Use a sharp paring knife to cut the citrus in half lengthwise and then quarter each half to create four wedges. \u2014 Rebekah Peppler, Los Angeles Times , 2 Apr. 2021",
"If using white mushrooms, halve the small ones and quarter the bigger ones. \u2014 Dallas News , 28 Dec. 2020",
"Loomer cosponsored legislation to draw and quarter Jack Dorsey or replace John Roberts with QAnon on the Supreme Court. \u2014 Isaac Schorr, National Review , 20 Aug. 2020",
"As the pasta cooks, quarter the sausages lengthwise, then slice 1/2-inch thick. \u2014 The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post , 11 Mar. 2020",
"According to McDonald, all the elk were quartered out. \u2014 Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life , 10 Feb. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"There was the fourth-quarter cross- quarter bounce pass to Keldon Johnson for a 3-pointer. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Antonio Express-News , 21 Dec. 2021",
"First quarter earnings season is slated to kick off next week with the release of results from several banks. \u2014 Jessica Menton, USA TODAY , 8 Apr. 2020",
"Details could be revealed when the company releases first quarter earnings Tuesday. \u2014 Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press , 27 Apr. 2020",
"First quarter earnings season is also still a few weeks out, and investors have to fly blind in terms of the financial impact on businesses. \u2014 Anneken Tappe, CNN , 14 Mar. 2020",
"Davidson jumped out of his car, moved to the front quarter panel of the car and drew his Taser. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 Feb. 2020",
"Day time rain totals of up to a tenth or quarter inch are possible. \u2014 Matt Rogers, Washington Post , 31 Oct. 2019",
"The Street didn't get too much of a high from Aurora Cannabis' 4th quarter earnings late Wednesday, but the cannabis company is still reporting strong growth. \u2014 Anne Sraders, Fortune , 12 Sep. 2019",
"The longtime justice spoke with Katherine Baicker, dean of the Harris School of Public Policy, before about 400 people, reflecting on her career as an attorney battling for women\u2019s rights and her quarter century on the nation\u2019s highest court. \u2014 Jessica Villagomez, chicagotribune.com , 9 Sep. 2019"
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},
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"\u02c8kw\u022f(r)t-\u0259r",
"\u02c8kw\u022f(r)-t\u0259r",
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": any of several trees of the genus Vochysia":[]
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": a region at the center of a galaxy that produces an extremely large amount of radiation":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The discovery happened after scientists spotted an extremely bright quasar . \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 16 June 2022",
"That jet of particles is called a quasar ; quasars with particle jets aimed directly at the Earth are extremely bright and are called blazars. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 5 Mar. 2022",
"From the very beginning, the Compton quasar supplied L.A. with a distinct musical DNA. \u2014 Abdi Ibrahim, Los Angeles Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
"That led them to look at the quasar 's activity captured over decades from other radio telescopes across the world and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space satellite. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Nadathur\u2019s work suggested that the cosmological principle has plenty of room for the quasar group, the Giant Arc and others of their ilk. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 13 Dec. 2021",
"The farthest galaxy \u2014 a special type of very bright galaxy with a gigantic black hole at its center, known as a quasar \u2014 is about 15 billion light-years from Earth. \u2014 NBC News , 25 Aug. 2021",
"The supermassive black hole feeding this quasar is 300 million times more massive than our sun. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 8 Mar. 2021",
"Liu and her collaborators calculated that the quasar \u2019s light fluctuates over a regular period of about 542 days, meaning that forthcoming data should soon either confirm or reject the pattern. \u2014 Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American , 22 May 2015"
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"1964, in the meaning defined above":""
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"quash an indictment"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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"Middle English quashen to smash, from Anglo-French quasser, casser , from Latin quassare to shake violently, shatter, frequentative of quatere to shake":"Verb",
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"\u02c8kw\u00e4sh, \u02c8kw\u022fsh",
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"\u02c8kw\u00e4sh",
"\u02c8kw\u00e4sh, \u02c8kw\u022fsh",
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"verb"
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": marshy , swampy , wet":[
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": having a legal status only by operation or construction of law and without reference to intent":[
"a quasi contract"
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": having some resemblance usually by possession of certain attributes":[
"a quasi corporation"
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": in some sense or degree":[
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"quasi- judicial"
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"Adjective",
"And as more people adopt these teachings as quasi religions, some adherents say their belief systems are no less valid than those based on that older collection of maxims, the Ten Commandments. \u2014 Daniel McGinn , Newsweek , 10 Jan. 2000",
"But also, bachelors, more than married people, blended the two spheres by making their public, non-familial peer group and other associations into quasi families and by carrying on their personal affairs in mostly public or semipublic places such as boardinghouses, saloons, the streets, clubhouses, and the like. \u2014 Howard P. Chudacoff , The Age of the Bachelor , 1999",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The same holds true for community and quasi -community property. \u2014 Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com , 1 July 2022",
"Cheney and Hageman both have been campaigning around the state, but Cheney's recent appearances on live TV as vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee have been quasi -campaign events, too, on a national level. \u2014 CBS News , 30 June 2022",
"Bochner drolly translated these semi-arbitrary patterns into quasi -abstract compositions. \u2014 Jonathon Keats, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"The project was financed by the sale of bonds by the Connecticut Airport Authority, the quasi -public agency that operates Bradley. \u2014 Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant , 30 June 2022",
"Because of the quasi -judicial nature of the committee's investigation, witnesses will be examined behind closed doors in executive session. \u2014 Rebekah Riess And Holly Yan, CNN , 29 June 2022",
"Ahead of Gossip Girl returning this fall, it was confirmed via the show's Instagram account that quasi -villian Georgina Sparks (played by Michelle Trachtenberg) from the original series would reprise her role. \u2014 Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR , 29 June 2022",
"Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom has an abundance of quasi -interesting midlevel prospects to make such a deal possible. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"These false pro-Trump electors were intended to give Mr. Pence a quasi -legal rationale for delaying or blocking the Electoral College certification on Jan. 6, or even trying to throw the election to the House of Representatives. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022"
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"\u02c8kw\u00e4-z\u0113",
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"-s\u0113",
"\u02c8kw\u0101-\u02ccz\u012b, -\u02ccs\u012b; \u02c8kw\u00e4-z\u0113, -s\u0113",
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"Verb",
"Her voice quavered during the speech.",
"He spoke in quavering tones.",
"Noun",
"There was a quaver in his voice.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Occasionally his voice quavered but mostly Affleck spoke earnestly and straightforwardly. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Feb. 2020",
"Most earthquakes, including those that quavered under southern California this week, stem from cracks in the earth\u2019s crust, known as faults. \u2014 Anya Van Wagtendonk, Vox , 4 July 2019",
"Cracked, punched, slathered, and slabbed, Zhang\u2019s works are visceral embodiments of quavering humanity. \u2014 Julia Couzens, sacbee , 4 May 2018",
"Prada clothing, meanwhile, looks backward and forward at the same time, quavering between retro and 21st-century originality. \u2014 Brad Dunning, GQ , 28 Mar. 2018",
"Elizabeth Drumm, the head of the programme, made some introductory remarks, her voice quavering . \u2014 The Economist , 7 Sep. 2017",
"Mrs. Obama said in a 25-minute speech here during which her voice at times quavered with emotion. \u2014 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, New York Times , 13 Oct. 2016",
"Like O\u2019Toole, David\u2019s voice is quavering cut glass but his body seems ravaged by time and exposure. \u2014 Josephine Livingstone, New Republic , 23 May 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Recently, the mayor has had a tickle in her throat that sometimes swells to a quaver in her voice, cutting her off prematurely in conversations and news conferences. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 Jan. 2022",
"There was a quaver in his voice, which defined the depth of his emotion. \u2014 Katie Hafner, Scientific American , 23 Dec. 2021",
"From there, the song plays like an elegy for a persona that no longer fits, Rodrigo singing with a quaver over a steady but reluctant acoustic guitar. \u2014 Jon Caramanica, New York Times , 21 May 2021",
"Chasen\u2019s, Trader Vic\u2019s, the damn Derby; the mere mention of even department stores like Bullock\u2019s and the Broadway could bring a tear and a quaver . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2021",
"There\u2019s also something oddly comforting about the playful oh-well quaver of his voice. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 23 Oct. 2020",
"Hadreas\u2019s voice quavers , sliding from a falsetto to a low, fifties croon. \u2014 Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker , 12 May 2020",
"Big Thief Big Thief\u2019s main vocalist, Adrianne Lenker, has a voice that\u2019s always a kind of biting quaver . \u2014 Raisa Bruner, Time , 11 Oct. 2019",
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"Occasionally his voice quavered but mostly Affleck spoke earnestly and straightforwardly. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Feb. 2020",
"Most earthquakes, including those that quavered under southern California this week, stem from cracks in the earth\u2019s crust, known as faults. \u2014 Anya Van Wagtendonk, Vox , 4 July 2019",
"Cracked, punched, slathered, and slabbed, Zhang\u2019s works are visceral embodiments of quavering humanity. \u2014 Julia Couzens, sacbee , 4 May 2018",
"Prada clothing, meanwhile, looks backward and forward at the same time, quavering between retro and 21st-century originality. \u2014 Brad Dunning, GQ , 28 Mar. 2018",
"Elizabeth Drumm, the head of the programme, made some introductory remarks, her voice quavering . \u2014 The Economist , 7 Sep. 2017",
"Mrs. Obama said in a 25-minute speech here during which her voice at times quavered with emotion. \u2014 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, New York Times , 13 Oct. 2016",
"Like O\u2019Toole, David\u2019s voice is quavering cut glass but his body seems ravaged by time and exposure. \u2014 Josephine Livingstone, New Republic , 23 May 2017",
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"There was a quaver in his voice, which defined the depth of his emotion. \u2014 Katie Hafner, Scientific American , 23 Dec. 2021",
"From there, the song plays like an elegy for a persona that no longer fits, Rodrigo singing with a quaver over a steady but reluctant acoustic guitar. \u2014 Jon Caramanica, New York Times , 21 May 2021",
"Chasen\u2019s, Trader Vic\u2019s, the damn Derby; the mere mention of even department stores like Bullock\u2019s and the Broadway could bring a tear and a quaver . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2021",
"There\u2019s also something oddly comforting about the playful oh-well quaver of his voice. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 23 Oct. 2020",
"Hadreas\u2019s voice quavers , sliding from a falsetto to a low, fifties croon. \u2014 Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker , 12 May 2020",
"Big Thief Big Thief\u2019s main vocalist, Adrianne Lenker, has a voice that\u2019s always a kind of biting quaver . \u2014 Raisa Bruner, Time , 11 Oct. 2019",
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"On the crowded waterside quay of Dublin\u2019s Silicon Docks neighborhood, Google\u2019s European headquarters tower above the skyline. \u2014 New York Times , 8 July 2021",
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"The market's location, a quay in a town 25 miles from the G7 Summit's location, was earmarked by local police as a location for protests. \u2014 Sophie Mellor, Fortune , 12 June 2021",
"The memorial is being built at the quay from which ferries leave to Ut\u00f8ya. \u2014 David Nikel, Forbes , 9 Mar. 2021"
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"The streaming giant's stock has plummeted roughly 70% this year, investors are queasy about its business and the one-time darling of the entertainment industry now looks to have a murky future. \u2014 Frank Pallotta, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"Directed by genre alchemist Bong Joon Ho, who would revisit similar themes a few years later with the Academy Award-winning Parasite, the film melds action with horror, humor, and a healthy dose of queasy drama. \u2014 Randall Colburn, EW.com , 16 May 2022",
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"The 32-year-old actor had been to Cannes twice before and had experienced its queasy jitters, spurred by drinking too much, sleeping too little and feeling eyeballs scan his face to gauge his importance. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
"None of these ho-hum scare tactics has half the queasy charge of a roomful of fratty white guys leaping around Jasmine braying the N-word along to a rap song. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Too often, there's a queasy note of apology running through these true-life adaptations. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"But people shouldn't feel queasy about taking a stool sample at home and mailing it into a lab for testing, Couric insists. \u2014 Marissa Charles, PEOPLE.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"This questionable, queasy -as-hell notion is give way too much credence for comfort circa 2022, even in a movie in which the central premise involves military officials somberly discussing the best possible options for blowing up the moon. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 3 Feb. 2022"
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"The streaming giant's stock has plummeted roughly 70% this year, investors are queasy about its business and the one-time darling of the entertainment industry now looks to have a murky future. \u2014 Frank Pallotta, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"Directed by genre alchemist Bong Joon Ho, who would revisit similar themes a few years later with the Academy Award-winning Parasite, the film melds action with horror, humor, and a healthy dose of queasy drama. \u2014 Randall Colburn, EW.com , 16 May 2022",
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"Too often, there's a queasy note of apology running through these true-life adaptations. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"But people shouldn't feel queasy about taking a stool sample at home and mailing it into a lab for testing, Couric insists. \u2014 Marissa Charles, PEOPLE.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"This questionable, queasy -as-hell notion is give way too much credence for comfort circa 2022, even in a movie in which the central premise involves military officials somberly discussing the best possible options for blowing up the moon. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 3 Feb. 2022"
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"The streaming giant's stock has plummeted roughly 70% this year, investors are queasy about its business and the one-time darling of the entertainment industry now looks to have a murky future. \u2014 Frank Pallotta, CNN , 23 June 2022",
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"None of these ho-hum scare tactics has half the queasy charge of a roomful of fratty white guys leaping around Jasmine braying the N-word along to a rap song. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"But people shouldn't feel queasy about taking a stool sample at home and mailing it into a lab for testing, Couric insists. \u2014 Marissa Charles, PEOPLE.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"This questionable, queasy -as-hell notion is give way too much credence for comfort circa 2022, even in a movie in which the central premise involves military officials somberly discussing the best possible options for blowing up the moon. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 3 Feb. 2022"
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"While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 14 July 2017",
"THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA. \u2014 Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine , 14 July 2017",
"One archetypal medieval gown in deep ultramarine velvet had structured straps diagonally across the bust, leading the eye down to floor length slit sleeves \u2014 styles worn by queens in court. \u2014 Thomas Adamson, The Seattle Times , 5 July 2017",
"And then there's a forthcoming new album with his band The Good, The Band & The Queen that features the Clash's Paul Simonon, Simon Tong and Tony Allen. \u2014 Dan Hyman, chicagotribune.com , 5 July 2017",
"Kings, queens and governments from around the world contributed bulbs, plants and statuary representing their country's culture, such as a Chinese bridge, and woodcarvings from Norway. \u2014 Joan Dittmann, Post-Tribune , 5 July 2017",
"Leanne is running out of money to pay for her dream of making her 11-year-old daughter, Patty (Ursula Parker), a pageant queen . \u2014 Rick Bentley, kansascity.com , 5 July 2017",
"Shawl: Tru Blue silk queen kimono, $242, Planet Blue. \u2014 star-telegram.com , 5 July 2017",
"Imagine one person tells you that his ideal form of government would be to get rid of the Constitution and make Kim Kardashian queen . \u2014 Jonah Goldberg, National Review , 5 July 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"People even flocked to Twitter to show the country queen some love. \u2014 Chaise Sanders, Country Living , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The award show's account even wished the country queen a happy birthday with some throwback photos of Dolly's iconic looks throughout the years. \u2014 Chaise Sanders, Country Living , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Legend has it that Tzul celebrated his victory by crowning himself king with the crown of St. Joseph and his wife, Felipa Soc, queen with the crown of St.Cec\u00edlia, according to Ram\u00edrez-Figueroa. \u2014 Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News , 19 Nov. 2021",
"Style up your leggings like the Skims queen herself and be a Kardashian for a night. \u2014 Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY , 13 Oct. 2021",
"The last dance, last chance, to skate, as disco queen Donna Summer would put it, is on May 8. \u2014 Richard Chin, Star Tribune , 22 Apr. 2021",
"Giving either queen the victory or the loss would have been warranted. \u2014 Brian Moylan, Vulture , 4 Mar. 2021",
"There would have been no Elton John, queening in front of millions, or David Bowie, who freely credited Little Richard\u2019s inspiration. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2020",
"As expected, fans were thrilled to see the country queen grace their television screens looking as fierce as ever. \u2014 Erin Cavoto, Country Living , 27 Jan. 2020"
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"O\u2019Connell \u2014 Didi, to her intimates \u2014 is petite and nimble, with a queenly nimbus of red hair and a default expression, offstage anyway, of intent curiosity. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"Half this spring\u2019s university graduates are likely to live to a queenly 100-years-old. \u2014 Avivah Wittenberg-cox, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"Her death also allows the narrator to emerge and to reveal her queenly rank. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Dec. 2021",
"In long-limbed, willowy Maria Kowroski as the Sugar Plum Fairy, dressed in shimmering, pale hues of tulle and satin, the ballet has an especially queenly ballerina. \u2014 Robert Greskovic, WSJ , 16 Dec. 2020",
"Friday's queenly haul of $41.8 million includes $8.5 million in Thursday night previews. \u2014 Pamela Mcclintock, Billboard , 23 Nov. 2019",
"This fear stands in contrast to Ellmann\u2019s mountain lion, with her single-minded focus, her stark and queenly solitude. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 6 Sep. 2019",
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"The White House has increasingly tried to direct the blame for the rising prices toward Russia, a strategy that has done little to quell anxiety among Americans. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"The White House has increasingly tried to direct the blame for the rising prices toward Russia, a strategy that has done little to quell anxiety among Americans. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 June 2022",
"But to those outside the Andretti camp, DeFrancesco has done little, if anything, to quell the questions around his ability to be competitive in one of the best cars on the grid. \u2014 Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star , 12 Apr. 2022",
"That's done little to quell the concerns of immigration attorneys, advocates and public health experts. \u2014 Priscilla Alvarez, CNN , 19 Jan. 2022",
"The current delta variant outbreak has forced New Zealand\u2019s largest city, Auckland, to remain under lockdown for nearly two months and the stringent outbreak has done very little to quell the spread of the highly infectious delta variant. \u2014 Siladitya Ray, Forbes , 11 Oct. 2021",
"The absence of high-quality data showing that ivermectin can treat COVID has done little to quell the demand. \u2014 Allyson Chiu, Anchorage Daily News , 10 Sep. 2021",
"But even a $250 million infusion from the U.S. government has done little to quell an epic family feud. \u2014 Aaron Pressman, Fortune , 26 Mar. 2021",
"But that\u2019s done little to quell the stream of domestic media reports on struggling cities. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 22 Dec. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Rushing waters can\u2019t quench love; rivers can\u2019t wash it away. \u2014 Alexa Tucker, Woman's Day , 1 June 2022",
"This innovative watch runs on H20 and will quench your quirky bro\u2019s fascination with unique gadgets and science-centric mechanisms. \u2014 Karla Pope, Woman's Day , 4 May 2022",
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"This product is here to quench your thirsty curls and leave them detangled and hydrated. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"For others, training by mileage offers is a quantitative element necessary to quench their thirst for data. \u2014 Jeff Gaudette, Outside Online , 13 Feb. 2014",
"Spectators looking to quench their thirst with a beer at the Tulsa, Oklahoma, golf course will pay $18 for a 25-ounce can of Michelob Ultra and $19 for a 25-ounce can of Stella Artois, according to Golfweek. \u2014 Brooks Holton, The Courier-Journal , 17 May 2022",
"Between the kitschy tours and boardwalk fun, Galveston has the finest restaurants and bars to quench those cravings for seafood and other beach eats. \u2014 Adrianne Reece, Chron , 12 May 2022",
"Along with Spanish colonizers looking for riches, priests looking for souls to save, many Indigenous people came as well \u2014 some as servants, others forcibly to quench the lust of men, some as wives, and many more for endless other reasons. \u2014 Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022"
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"Rushing waters can\u2019t quench love; rivers can\u2019t wash it away. \u2014 Alexa Tucker, Woman's Day , 1 June 2022",
"This innovative watch runs on H20 and will quench your quirky bro\u2019s fascination with unique gadgets and science-centric mechanisms. \u2014 Karla Pope, Woman's Day , 4 May 2022",
"It is best known as the focal point of a historic feud that began in the early 1900s, when Los Angeles city agents quietly bought up ranch lands and water rights for an aqueduct to quench the thirst of the growing metropolis 200 miles to the south. \u2014 Louis Sahag\u00fanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 23 Apr. 2022",
"This product is here to quench your thirsty curls and leave them detangled and hydrated. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"For others, training by mileage offers is a quantitative element necessary to quench their thirst for data. \u2014 Jeff Gaudette, Outside Online , 13 Feb. 2014",
"Spectators looking to quench their thirst with a beer at the Tulsa, Oklahoma, golf course will pay $18 for a 25-ounce can of Michelob Ultra and $19 for a 25-ounce can of Stella Artois, according to Golfweek. \u2014 Brooks Holton, The Courier-Journal , 17 May 2022",
"Between the kitschy tours and boardwalk fun, Galveston has the finest restaurants and bars to quench those cravings for seafood and other beach eats. \u2014 Adrianne Reece, Chron , 12 May 2022",
"Along with Spanish colonizers looking for riches, priests looking for souls to save, many Indigenous people came as well \u2014 some as servants, others forcibly to quench the lust of men, some as wives, and many more for endless other reasons. \u2014 Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022"
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"\u2014 Lucius Garvin",
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"\u2014 T. S. Eliot"
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"\u2014 Margery Bailey",
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"we thoroughly quenched the campfire before we headed to bed",
"this lemonade really quenches my thirst",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Rushing waters can\u2019t quench love; rivers can\u2019t wash it away. \u2014 Alexa Tucker, Woman's Day , 1 June 2022",
"This innovative watch runs on H20 and will quench your quirky bro\u2019s fascination with unique gadgets and science-centric mechanisms. \u2014 Karla Pope, Woman's Day , 4 May 2022",
"It is best known as the focal point of a historic feud that began in the early 1900s, when Los Angeles city agents quietly bought up ranch lands and water rights for an aqueduct to quench the thirst of the growing metropolis 200 miles to the south. \u2014 Louis Sahag\u00fanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 23 Apr. 2022",
"This product is here to quench your thirsty curls and leave them detangled and hydrated. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"For others, training by mileage offers is a quantitative element necessary to quench their thirst for data. \u2014 Jeff Gaudette, Outside Online , 13 Feb. 2014",
"Spectators looking to quench their thirst with a beer at the Tulsa, Oklahoma, golf course will pay $18 for a 25-ounce can of Michelob Ultra and $19 for a 25-ounce can of Stella Artois, according to Golfweek. \u2014 Brooks Holton, The Courier-Journal , 17 May 2022",
"Between the kitschy tours and boardwalk fun, Galveston has the finest restaurants and bars to quench those cravings for seafood and other beach eats. \u2014 Adrianne Reece, Chron , 12 May 2022",
"Along with Spanish colonizers looking for riches, priests looking for souls to save, many Indigenous people came as well \u2014 some as servants, others forcibly to quench the lust of men, some as wives, and many more for endless other reasons. \u2014 Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022"
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"car trips that were frequently spoiled by a couple of querulous passengers in the back",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But were senior party figures to try this, Mr. Johnson might threaten to call a snap general election, preferring his chances of winning a contest among voters to one among his querulous lawmakers. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"Today those late, querulous paintings are counted among the most influential American artworks of the twentieth century. \u2014 Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books , 14 Jan. 2021",
"But with her voice querulous rather than grounded, Adams appears weightless. \u2014 David Benedict, Variety , 1 June 2022",
"Today those late, querulous paintings are counted among the most influential American artworks of the twentieth century. \u2014 Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books , 14 Jan. 2021",
"Pendleton plays a querulous council member named Mr. Oldfield. \u2014 Henry Alford, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Today those late, querulous paintings are counted among the most influential American artworks of the twentieth century. \u2014 Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books , 14 Jan. 2021",
"Today those late, querulous paintings are counted among the most influential American artworks of the twentieth century. \u2014 Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books , 14 Jan. 2021",
"Today those late, querulous paintings are counted among the most influential American artworks of the twentieth century. \u2014 Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books , 14 Jan. 2021"
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"also \u02c8kwir-",
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"grouchy",
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"Noun",
"I have a query about my order.",
"The librarian responded to my query .",
"Verb",
"They conducted a survey in which several hundred people were queried about their dietary habits.",
"it seems odd that someone would want two stoves, so you'd better query that order",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Most prominently, overlaid query engines that can access multiple databases at the same time have been marketed aggressively. \u2014 Mike Waas, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"Before, getting this information required a time-consuming, multi-step process involving several different commands and, in the case of screening searches for stocks or bonds, filling in fields in a database query interface. \u2014 Jeremy Kahn, Fortune , 7 June 2022",
"With the recent commemoration of Beethoven\u2019s 250th birthday on Dec. 16, 2020, Gruenbaum sent query letters to 230 literary agents and publishers. \u2014 Cindy Cantrell, BostonGlobe.com , 25 May 2022",
"Answers to that query change as the students deepen their understanding of their craft and its costs. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2022",
"Elliott and Brookfield did not respond to a query seeking comment. \u2014 Brian Steinberg, Variety , 14 May 2022",
"Those include a requirement that all searches involving 100 or more query terms get additional approvals and that analysts actively opt in to search Section 702 data, rather than passively allowing it. \u2014 Dustin Volz, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
"After sifting through responses from local food columnists, San Francisco natives and Twitter users, the outlet posted a query in a San Francisco Remembered Facebook group. \u2014 Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The nonprofit agency receives about half its funding from the Irish government\u2019s Immigrant Support Program, and this unexpected query fit right in, says Cathy Ward, the center\u2019s executive director. \u2014 Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Development teams can query , transform, or create views across one or more collections, MongoDB clusters and storage buckets. \u2014 Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"Over the course of several weeks, The Republic attempted to query all Republican candidates for attorney general on Trump's endorsement and whether each believed that Biden had legitimately won Arizona in 2020. \u2014 Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic , 11 May 2022",
"Analysts are expected to query MetLife for more detail about Covid-19 trends on Thursday, during the company\u2019s earnings call. \u2014 Leslie Scism, WSJ , 4 May 2022",
"Then, in its infinite processing power, it can\u2019t be bothered even to query Wikipedia about West Virginia\u2019s political trends. \u2014 Virginia Heffernan, Wired , 15 Feb. 2022",
"These reports are usually created by experts within the company who query its supply chain and run the data through sophisticated models. \u2014 Tim De Chant, Ars Technica , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Guiraudie\u2019s oblique, opaque script likewise aims to keep the audience guessing, inviting us to identify and query our own prejudices and preconceptions in the same way M\u00e9d\u00e9ric does. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Tabs or windows that run in the background can continually query the IndexedDB API for available databases. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Acura fans may query why the brand is planning to relaunch a sporty hatchback in an era when SUVs and crossovers are taking over the market, and the answer to that is simply that the Integra helped to put Honda and Acura on the map from the 1990s. \u2014 Peter Lyon, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021"
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"1614, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Verb",
"1620, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"alteration of earlier quere , from Latin quaere , imperative of quaerere to ask":"Noun"
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"\u02c8kwir-\u0113",
"\u02c8kwer-",
"\u02c8kwer-\u0113"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for query Verb ask , question , interrogate , query , inquire mean to address a person in order to gain information. ask implies no more than the putting of a question. ask for directions question usually suggests the asking of series of questions. questioned them about every detail of the trip interrogate suggests formal or official systematic questioning. the prosecutor interrogated the witness all day query implies a desire for authoritative information or confirmation. queried a librarian about the book inquire implies a searching for facts or for truth often specifically by asking questions. began to inquire of friends and teachers what career she should pursue",
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},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Kate Sears Take your kids down South with their new favorite quesadilla recipe. \u2014 Katelyn Lunders, Woman's Day , 24 June 2022",
"The exceptions are the chicken quesadilla and the crab rangoon. \u2014 Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant , 4 June 2022",
"Whalen\u2019s latest cookbook jacket touts his popular quesadilla bun burger video, which has 47 million views on Facebook and is basically a big flat burger sandwiched between two melty quesadillas and cut into wedges. \u2014 Ann Maloney, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
"All menus begin with a choice of a quesadilla stuffed with huitlacoche and goat cheese topped with chipotle tomato sauce or sopes stuffed with refried beans, chipotle tomatillo sauce and carnitas. \u2014 Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic , 16 May 2022",
"On a typical day, Lygdback's first meal of the day is a breakfast quesadilla made with 4 eggs, flour tortillas, cheese, and pickled jalape\u00f1os. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 12 May 2022",
"Using tortilla pieces, pinch some of the cheese to make a bite-sized quesadilla and eat. \u2014 Bythe View, ABC News , 5 May 2022",
"Tofu scramble and broccoli for me, and a quesadilla and guacamole for him. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Brunch highlights include an omelet station, breakfast quesadilla station, salad bar, buttermilk pancakes, bacon and sausage, carved Easter ham, cherry wood smoked ribs, cedar roasted salmon and citrus, garlic and rosemary chicken. \u2014 Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic , 9 Apr. 2022"
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"\u02cck\u0101-s\u0259-\u02c8d\u0113-\u0259",
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"Noun",
"They went on a quest for gold.",
"The team's quest to win a championship finally came to an end.",
"He refuses to give up his quest to discover the truth.",
"Verb",
"They were questing for gold.",
"I respectfully quest your assistance in this matter.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Then the pleasure of abandoning their quest and submitting to the ecstasy of not knowing, of pure physical sensation. \u2014 Merve Emre, The New Yorker , 4 July 2022",
"Norse god of thunder in his fourth solo outing in the MCU, which sees him reunite onscreen with Natalie Portman's Jane Foster, who has taken on Thor's powers in their latest quest against Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale). \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 3 July 2022",
"As for his own personal quest in understanding the Sun? \u2014 Bruce Dorminey, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
"Kevin Durant may be taking his quest for more titles elsewhere. \u2014 Tim Reynolds, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 June 2022",
"Instead of their usual quixotic quest , Utah Democrats declined to send a nominee to the ballot this year, clearing the way for a one-on-one contest between the Republican nominee and independent candidate Evan McMullin. \u2014 Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"His quest to pay the family bills never totally materialized on the tennis courts. \u2014 Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"And as his quest to discover Blue\u2019s identity continues, another classmate threatens to out Simon to the entire school. \u2014 Leah Campano, Seventeen , 25 June 2022",
"The native San Diego musician continues his quest to perform the complete piano works of the German composer. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Collins could both step in right away and help Lillard\u2019s quest to contend now, yet still be in his prime after the Blazers\u2019 six-time All-Star exits his. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 June 2022",
"Inside Vikings\u2019 quest for \u2018less predictable\u2019 offense, starting with new coach's 'why' Since the first edition hit stores June 1, 1988, the franchise has sold more than 130 million copies and generated more than $4 billion, according to EA. \u2014 Scooby Axson, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"The loss ended the No. 3 Comets\u2019 (16-3) quest for their second straight state title. \u2014 Craig Clary, Baltimore Sun , 26 May 2022",
"The team was larger than life, an embodiment of owner Jerry Buss\u2019 quest to marry sport with glitzy entertainment. \u2014 David Wharton, Los Angeles Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The route, which includes an optional 8-mile side quest out to the picturesque Powell Point, then winds its way toward a series of high meadows before arriving at the next hut at Clayton Springs. \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
"At least four teachers have been turned in by students or parents for antiwar speech, in some of the starkest examples of the government\u2019s quest to identify and punish individuals who criticize the invasion. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Consider that quest the patrons\u2019 version of trying to read a Masters green. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Aided by Anthony Edwards\u2019 quest to score 50, the Spurs pulled within four points with eight seconds left before falling 127-121. \u2014 Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News , 7 Apr. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French queste , Vulgar Latin *quaesta , from Latin, feminine of quaestus , past participle of quaerere":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8kwest"
],
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],
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": a house for holding the inquests in a ward or parish":[]
},
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"Can I ask you a personal question ?",
"I don't understand the question .",
"Are there any more questions ?",
"In answer to your question , our next meeting will be on Friday.",
"The essay questions on the test were easy.",
"There are 10 multiple-choice questions on the exam.",
"The exam included several questions on current events.",
"The question arose as to who would be responsible for caring for our grandmother.",
"I expected him to ask where I worked, but the question never came up.",
"The key question in solving the mystery is, how did the murderer enter the house?",
"Verb",
"The reporter questioned her at length on her life as the First Lady.",
"The witness was questioned by the defense.",
"I could tell that she was questioning my decision.",
"He began to question his ability to do the job.",
"I trusted him and I never questioned what he told me.",
"The lawyer questioned the truth of the witness's statement.",
"He began to question whether the things she had said were really true.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"As to the question of whether Walsh was gay, Doran collected a great deal of hearsay but no proof. \u2014 James Kirchick, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Palin responded to a question about her approach to ranked choice voting in a statement that made no mention of Begich or other opponents. \u2014 Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News , 14 June 2022",
"Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe also weighed in on North Korea's recent missile launches in response to a question following his own address at the forum on Sunday. \u2014 Simone Mccarthy And Heather Chen, CNN , 12 June 2022",
"The atrocity in Uvalde, Texas, has shifted Congress\u2019s focus to the question of gun control. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 9 June 2022",
"James appears to be responding to a question about his future in a conversation with news anchor Don Lemon, rapper Fat Joe and comedian Amy Schumer. \u2014 Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY , 9 June 2022",
"McDowell admitted as much in his meandering answer to a question this week. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
"There is no sensible answer to the question of why anyone \u2014 let alone 18-year-olds \u2014 should have unfettered access to weaponry designed to inflict massive carnage in seconds, but some Republicans are trying anyway. \u2014 Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 8 June 2022",
"In response to a question from City Director Kathy Webb of Ward 3 during last week's meeting, Scott indicated that the cost for such a center can vary depending on its scope. \u2014 Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online , 8 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The Eastern Cape Premier\u2019s office tells CNN that the four remain under observation in hospital and authorities are waiting to question them. \u2014 Larry Madowo, CNN , 27 June 2022",
"The plaintiffs wanted to question him about some emails uncovered through discovery. \u2014 Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel , 16 June 2022",
"After a month, Richard Vandervelde, the son of Frens, allegedly lied to Missouri authorities when he was pulled over on June 5, 2018, and officials from the Grand Junction Police Department went to question him about the disappearance of his mother. \u2014 Adam Sabes, Fox News , 10 June 2022",
"That\u2019s human nature to kind of question yourself and things like that. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"From that moment on, Ukraine became the place where Yemchuk could question herself: a space where childhood memories and hopes for the future would meet resulting in multiple crossroads of different times of existence. \u2014 Rica Cerbarano, Vogue , 10 May 2022",
"Lawyers on both sides wanted the opportunity to question him further. \u2014 Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel , 9 May 2022",
"When detectives continued to question him and relatives around the farm, the GOP candidate eventually asked to speak to an attorney, WTHR reported. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
"In January 2021, Spencer was in the custody of the Milwaukee County Sheriff\u2019s Office when detectives tried to question him. \u2014 Sarah Volpenhein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 Apr. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin quaestion-, quaestio , from quaerere to seek, ask":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8kwesh-",
"\u02c8kwes-ch\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for question Verb ask , question , interrogate , query , inquire mean to address a person in order to gain information. ask implies no more than the putting of a question. ask for directions question usually suggests the asking of series of questions. questioned them about every detail of the trip interrogate suggests formal or official systematic questioning. the prosecutor interrogated the witness all day query implies a desire for authoritative information or confirmation. queried a librarian about the book inquire implies a searching for facts or for truth often specifically by asking questions. began to inquire of friends and teachers what career she should pursue",
"synonyms":[
"interrogative",
"problem"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022547",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"question and answer session":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a period of time when people can have their questions answered":[
"After the speech there will be a question and answer session ."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083849",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"question-begging":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": something that involves an assumption whose truth may be questioned":[
"most of us may think this question-begging",
"\u2014 Manchester Guardian Weekly"
],
": that involves the fallacy of petitio principii : that involves an assumption of something whose truth may be questioned":[
"question-begging arguments",
"question-begging epithets"
],
"\u2014 compare beg the question at beg":[
"question-begging arguments",
"question-begging epithets"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\""
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214215",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"questionable":{
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"hands-down",
"incontestable",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"questionless",
"sure",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unproblematic",
"unquestionable"
],
"definitions":{
": affording reason for being doubted, questioned , or challenged : not certain or exact : problematic":[
"milk of questionable purity",
"a questionable decision"
],
": attended by well-grounded suspicions of being immoral, crude, false, or unsound : dubious":[
"questionable motives"
],
": inviting inquiry":[],
": liable to judicial inquiry or action":[]
},
"examples":[
"The truth of the statements was highly questionable .",
"The water available in the village is of questionable quality.",
"a man of questionable character",
"They acquired the money through questionable means.",
"The company is facing a questionable future.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Broadway Bank, which came under scrutiny when it was revealed that the institution had issued questionable loans to crime figures. \u2014 Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"Music fans no longer need to spend hours searching for a song and downloading it through questionable websites. \u2014 Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
"Many industry watchers have deemed it a ticking time bomb with questionable collateral whose failure would almost certainly be an existential threat to the entire cryptocurrency market. \u2014 Steven Ehrlich, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"John Adams and Thomas Jefferson declined to invalidate questionable electoral votes. \u2014 WSJ , 28 June 2022",
"Earwax is made by glands in the outer part of the ear canal to help protect your ears from dust, germs, excessive water, and other questionable substances, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 24 June 2022",
"State and local officials have spent weeks trying to reconcile incomplete and, at times, conflicting reports on the shooting and the questionable police response. \u2014 Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News , 24 June 2022",
"However, his road to a nom won\u2019t be easy, with a total miscast of his co-star Tom Hanks, who\u2019s thrown into a fat suit with a questionable accent, and an overbaked runtime. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 23 June 2022",
"With regular starter Antonio Carlos slowly coming back from a hamstring injury and questionable for Friday\u2019s game, outside back Kyle Smith has filled that void in the defense. \u2014 Mike Gramajo, Orlando Sentinel , 23 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwesh-",
"in rapid speech \u02c8kwesh-n\u0259-",
"\u02c8kwes-ch\u0259-n\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for questionable doubtful , dubious , problematic , questionable mean not affording assurance of the worth, soundness, or certainty of something. doubtful implies little more than a lack of conviction or certainty. doubtful about whether I said the right thing dubious stresses suspicion, mistrust, or hesitation. dubious about the practicality of the scheme problematic applies especially to things whose existence, meaning, fulfillment, or realization is highly uncertain. whether the project will ever be finished is problematic questionable may imply no more than the existence of doubt but usually suggests that the suspicions are well-grounded. a man of questionable honesty",
"synonyms":[
"debatable",
"disputable",
"dodgy",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"equivocal",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"queer",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"suspicious"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201636",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"questionary":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": questionnaire":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1879, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwesh-",
"\u02c8kwes-ch\u0259-\u02ccner-\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020424",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"questionee":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one that is questioned":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-073709",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"questioner":{
"antonyms":[
"challenge",
"contest",
"dispute",
"impeach",
"oppugn",
"query"
],
"definitions":{
": a subject or point of debate or a proposition to be voted on in a meeting":[],
": an act or instance of asking : inquiry":[],
": an interrogative expression often used to test knowledge":[],
": an interrogative sentence or clause":[],
": chance , possibility":[
"no question of escape"
],
": doubt , dispute":[],
": objection , dispute":[
"true beyond question"
],
": room for doubt or objection":[
"little question of his skill"
],
": the bringing of such to a vote":[],
": the specific point at issue":[],
": to ask a question of or about":[],
": to ask questions : inquire":[],
": to interrogate intensively : cross-examine":[],
": to subject to analysis : examine":[],
": torture as part of an examination":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"Can I ask you a personal question ?",
"I don't understand the question .",
"Are there any more questions ?",
"In answer to your question , our next meeting will be on Friday.",
"The essay questions on the test were easy.",
"There are 10 multiple-choice questions on the exam.",
"The exam included several questions on current events.",
"The question arose as to who would be responsible for caring for our grandmother.",
"I expected him to ask where I worked, but the question never came up.",
"The key question in solving the mystery is, how did the murderer enter the house?",
"Verb",
"The reporter questioned her at length on her life as the First Lady.",
"The witness was questioned by the defense.",
"I could tell that she was questioning my decision.",
"He began to question his ability to do the job.",
"I trusted him and I never questioned what he told me.",
"The lawyer questioned the truth of the witness's statement.",
"He began to question whether the things she had said were really true.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"As to the question of whether Walsh was gay, Doran collected a great deal of hearsay but no proof. \u2014 James Kirchick, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Palin responded to a question about her approach to ranked choice voting in a statement that made no mention of Begich or other opponents. \u2014 Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News , 14 June 2022",
"Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe also weighed in on North Korea's recent missile launches in response to a question following his own address at the forum on Sunday. \u2014 Simone Mccarthy And Heather Chen, CNN , 12 June 2022",
"The atrocity in Uvalde, Texas, has shifted Congress\u2019s focus to the question of gun control. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 9 June 2022",
"James appears to be responding to a question about his future in a conversation with news anchor Don Lemon, rapper Fat Joe and comedian Amy Schumer. \u2014 Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY , 9 June 2022",
"McDowell admitted as much in his meandering answer to a question this week. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
"There is no sensible answer to the question of why anyone \u2014 let alone 18-year-olds \u2014 should have unfettered access to weaponry designed to inflict massive carnage in seconds, but some Republicans are trying anyway. \u2014 Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 8 June 2022",
"In response to a question from City Director Kathy Webb of Ward 3 during last week's meeting, Scott indicated that the cost for such a center can vary depending on its scope. \u2014 Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online , 8 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The Eastern Cape Premier\u2019s office tells CNN that the four remain under observation in hospital and authorities are waiting to question them. \u2014 Larry Madowo, CNN , 27 June 2022",
"The plaintiffs wanted to question him about some emails uncovered through discovery. \u2014 Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel , 16 June 2022",
"After a month, Richard Vandervelde, the son of Frens, allegedly lied to Missouri authorities when he was pulled over on June 5, 2018, and officials from the Grand Junction Police Department went to question him about the disappearance of his mother. \u2014 Adam Sabes, Fox News , 10 June 2022",
"That\u2019s human nature to kind of question yourself and things like that. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"From that moment on, Ukraine became the place where Yemchuk could question herself: a space where childhood memories and hopes for the future would meet resulting in multiple crossroads of different times of existence. \u2014 Rica Cerbarano, Vogue , 10 May 2022",
"Lawyers on both sides wanted the opportunity to question him further. \u2014 Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel , 9 May 2022",
"When detectives continued to question him and relatives around the farm, the GOP candidate eventually asked to speak to an attorney, WTHR reported. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
"In January 2021, Spencer was in the custody of the Milwaukee County Sheriff\u2019s Office when detectives tried to question him. \u2014 Sarah Volpenhein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin quaestion-, quaestio , from quaerere to seek, ask":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwesh-",
"\u02c8kwes-ch\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for question Verb ask , question , interrogate , query , inquire mean to address a person in order to gain information. ask implies no more than the putting of a question. ask for directions question usually suggests the asking of series of questions. questioned them about every detail of the trip interrogate suggests formal or official systematic questioning. the prosecutor interrogated the witness all day query implies a desire for authoritative information or confirmation. queried a librarian about the book inquire implies a searching for facts or for truth often specifically by asking questions. began to inquire of friends and teachers what career she should pursue",
"synonyms":[
"interrogative",
"problem"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223628",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"questioning":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": expressing or implying a question":[
"a questioning look",
"\u2026 looking at her with a questioning and rather startled gaze.",
"\u2014 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"
],
": inclined to ask questions or seek information : inquisitive":[
"The changes of direction are partly explained by this questioning attitude, and partly by his having written the book over twenty years.",
"\u2014 Sarah Bakewell",
"For a man with as questioning a mind as Charles Darwin's there was no danger of mental vegetation.",
"\u2014 Ronald W. Clark"
],
": uncertain about or engaged in exploring one's own sexual or gender identity":[
"Suburban Connecticut's first support group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning youths had just begun, and Alex was proving how desperately it was needed.",
"\u2014 Dan Woog",
"Facebook provides more than 50 options beyond \"male\" and \"female\" for users to describe their gender identity, from \"gender questioning \" and \"neither\" to \"androgynous.\"",
"\u2014 Chicago Tribune"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwes-ch\u0259-ni\u014b",
"\u02c8kwesh-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083725",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"questionless":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": indubitable , unquestionable":[],
": unquestioning":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1532, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwesh-",
"\u02c8kwes-ch\u0259n-l\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201628",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"queue":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head":[],
": a data structure that consists of a list of records such that records are added at one end and removed from the other":[],
": a sequence of messages or jobs held in temporary storage awaiting transmission or processing":[],
": a waiting line especially of persons or vehicles":[],
": to arrange or form in a queue (see queue entry 1 )":[],
": to line up or wait in a queue":[
"\u2014 often used with up"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The Tiong Bahru hawker center in Singapore might well be my favorite place in the world to start the day. I remember vividly my first visit: I arrived jetlagged and hungry at seven in the morning to find vendors stir-frying greens in gigantic woks, sending up whooshes of smoke fragrant with garlic. Long queues of businessmen and construction workers and families who likely lived in the nearby housing projects snaked from the cash register of each stall. \u2014 James Oseland , Saveur , October 2008",
"Around the time the Soviet Union ceased to exist, I was waiting in the entry queue at Fiumicino Airport in Rome when I noticed a party of several dozen young Russian girls being fast-tracked past a freshly opened control window. \u2014 Peter Robb , New York Times Book Review , 25 May 2008",
"But many more people deserve the Nobel than get it. Krauss should've gotten it years ago. Though by now so many other discoveries have been made that he's farther down in an ever increasing queue . \u2014 Carl Djerassi , Cantor's Dilemma , 1989",
"We were forced to stand in a queue .",
"Three jobs remain in the printer queue .",
"Verb",
"The World's Food Fair, Boston. October 1896. Admission: 25 cents. Huge crowds throng the Mechanics Hall convention center. Women queue up for free samples from 200 different vendors: cereals, gelatins, extracts, candy, and custards. \u2014 Christopher Kimball , Cook's Illustrated , January & February 2008",
"Nothing hacks off a national lawmaker more than a person who will not wait in line, unless that line is in front of an elevator at the U.S. Capitol, where Senators and Representatives use private elevators, lest they have to queue with their constituents. \u2014 Steve Rushin , Time , 10 Sept. 2007",
"The crowd was queuing at the snack bar.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But the mass denials under Ms. DeVos remained, as well as a queue of tens of thousands of pending relief applications, many of them years old. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022",
"The idea of accelerating projects that otherwise might stand in a queue for years started shortly after Los Angeles was awarded the Olympic bid. \u2014 Rachel Urangastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"Insults, bad sportsmanship, and even racist slurs go to the back of the moderation queue in this unnamed game. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Sometimes the deterioration is minor enough that the bridge will be put in the queue for repair and the frequency of inspections will increase, said Jerome Hajjar, professor and department chair at Northeastern University\u2019s College of Engineering. \u2014 Claudia Lauer, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Jan. 2022",
"Sometimes the deterioration is minor enough that the bridge will be put in the queue for repair and the frequency of inspections will increase, said Jerome Hajjar, professor and department chair at Northeastern University's College of Engineering. \u2014 Claudia Lauer, The Christian Science Monitor , 29 Jan. 2022",
"Enlarge / Members of the public queue outside a pharmacy to receive COVID-19 antigen tests in Paris on January 6, 2022. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 13 June 2022",
"This brings those applications to the top of the review queue . \u2014 Bridget Arsenault, Forbes , 11 June 2022",
"Calls that come into call centers without appropriate staffing are put into a queue and routed elsewhere, often to the National Suicide Hotline or to other states. \u2014 Erika Edwards, NBC News , 7 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Travelers queue up move through the north security checkpoint in the main terminal of Denver International Airport, Thursday, May 26, 2022, in Denver. \u2014 CBS News , 31 May 2022",
"People queue for bread at a bakery in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2022. \u2014 Time , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Until then, Bridgerton fans can queue up seasons 1 and 2 on the streaming service to rewatch all the best Kanthony moments and catch some surprising details. \u2014 Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Travelers queue up move through the north security checkpoint in the main terminal of Denver International Airport, Thursday, May 26, 2022, in Denver. \u2014 CBS News , 28 May 2022",
"Finish the evening by reminiscing over old photo albums\u2014 queue up these Mother's Day songs for background music. \u2014 Erin Cavoto, Country Living , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Soldiers are stationed at fuel stations to calm customers, who queue for hours in the searing heat to fill their tanks. \u2014 Rukshana Rizwie, Sophie Jeong And Alex Stambaugh, CNN , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Should Big Thief carry you through a blustery February, queue up British diva Charli XCX to propel you into spring. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 20 Jan. 2022",
"The small, drab courtroom on the fifth floor has only 34 seats, for which media members and public attendees have to queue . \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Dec. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1748, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1777, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, literally, tail, from Old French cue, coe , from Latin cauda, coda":"Noun and Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ky\u00fc"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"column",
"cue",
"file",
"line",
"range",
"string",
"train"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215316",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"qui transtulit sustinet":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": He who transplanted (us) sustains (us)":[
"\u2014 motto of Connecticut"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"kw\u0113-\u02c8tr\u00e4ns-tu\u0307-\u02cclit-\u02c8su\u0307s-ti-\u02ccnet"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112213",
"type":[
"Latin phrase"
]
},
"qui va l\u00e0?":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": who goes there?":[
"\u2014 used by sentries to demand identification from an unknown person"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"k\u0113-v\u00e4-l\u00e4"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022907",
"type":[
"French phrase"
]
},
"quiaquia":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": round scad":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"American Spanish qu\u00edaqu\u00eda , probably from qu\u00edaqu\u00eda , a kind of rattle made from a tortoise shell, of imitative origin":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6k\u0113\u0259\u00a6k\u0113\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082949",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quibble":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a minor objection or criticism":[],
": an evasion of or shift from the point":[],
": bicker":[],
": cavil , carp":[],
": to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words":[],
": to subject to quibbles":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"he spent the entire evening quibbling about the historical inaccuracies in the television series on World War II",
"don't quibble over who gets to sit in front",
"Noun",
"Our only quibble about the trip was that it rained a lot.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"And there's room to quibble about micro-level decisions along the way. \u2014 Rahat Huq, Chron , 7 Mar. 2022",
"His tone was indicative of his expectations, even on a day when the results left little with which to quibble . \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 8 May 2022",
"Agree or disagree, quibble over facts or impact, but there is a powerful narrative to be told. \u2014 John Zogby, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Crypto advocates often quibble with these statistics. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Jan. 2022",
"But there is no more to quibble over here than there is in any academic text. \u2014 Julian Baggini, WSJ , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Seems to me that, if the scientists don\u2019t want film critics to quibble with the science, the scientists should stop meddling with the art. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 6 Jan. 2022",
"To say that his downward spiral feels inevitable, even circumscribed, is to quibble less with the character than the fatalistic rules of the genre to which the movie belongs. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Hochman would quibble with this characterization of his compatriots. \u2014 Sam Adler-bell, The New Republic , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But the main quibble has to do with Ivory\u2019s memories of the prurient kind. \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"One minor quibble : the distinctive green outer cover was quick to smudge in our tests, so don't count on the hose looking new for long. \u2014 Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Our only minor quibble is that the power button is a bit too easy to access, making accidental presses a real possibility when stashed in a backpack. \u2014 Mike Richard, Men's Health , 13 May 2022",
"Our only quibble : the vest has lots of excess stretchy loops and ties for adjusting fit, carrying poles, and securing flasks that take a while to figure out. \u2014 Peter Koch, Outside Online , 10 May 2020",
"Our only real quibble is that instructions for some meals are unclear or non-existent, which required a bit of trial-and-error on our part to prepare. \u2014 Mike Richard, Men's Health , 29 Apr. 2022",
"My only quibble is the smell, which is initially pretty strong and distinct but subsides after it\u2019s rubbed in. \u2014 Bella Cacciatore, Glamour , 8 Apr. 2022",
"That\u2019s a small quibble to make of a novel that is pure pleasure to read. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Though there was nary a quibble with any of the performances, here are some highlights. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 12 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1650, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1665, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably diminutive of obsolete quib quibble":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwi-b\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"carp",
"cavil",
"fuss",
"niggle",
"nitpick"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201118",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quica":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": four-eyed opossum":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Portuguese cu\u00edca , from Tupi":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8k\u0113k\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-113517",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quiche":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an unsweetened custard pie usually having a savory filling (such as spinach, mushrooms, or ham)":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Admission is $50 per person and includes your choice of chicken piccata or vegetarian quiche . \u2014 Sam Boyer, cleveland , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Technically, the difference between a tart and a quiche is a matter of depth: Tarts are baked in shallow pans, while quiches are of the deep-dish variety. \u2014 Casey Barber, CNN , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Lightly oil a 10-inch quiche pan with a removable bottom. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Dec. 2021",
"This gratin can cook in an oval gratin dish, a 7-by-11-inch Pyrex baking dish, a porcelain quiche dish or even in six individual gratin dishes. \u2014 Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Rub the thyme sprigs with the remaining 1 teaspoon oil, then pick the tips and leaves over the quiche . \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Dec. 2021",
"The afternoon would be dedicated to learning how to make quiche , cream pies, brioche, pate a choux, pastry cream and danish. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 13 Oct. 2021",
"The end result is reminiscent of the lightest quiche or a fancy gratin. \u2014 Kim Sun\u00e9e, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Aug. 2021",
"Menus change daily based on seasonal ingredients from area farms and fishermen, but for brasserie brunch, choose any of the fancy toasts, the creamy quiche with local mushrooms, and dessert-like bread pudding french toast. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 July 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1933, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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},
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"\u02c8k\u0113sh"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105620",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quiche lorraine":{
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"definitions":{
": a quiche containing cheese and bacon bits":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Our recipe for an old-school quiche Lorraine features bacon and Gruy\u00e8re with a hint of cayenne and chives for garnish. \u2014 Saveur , 15 May 2020",
"For breakfast, try your hand at baking these buttery croissants; for a more filling weekend brunch, a traditional quiche Lorraine is sure to please. \u2014 Saveur Editors, Saveur , 8 May 2020",
"Highlights include quiche lorraine with bacon, take-and-bake strawberry and blueberry scones, Faroe Island salmon with pea puree and leeks and cheesecake with Murray Family Farms\u2019 cherry sauce. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2020",
"The book\u2019s 524 recipes include beef bourguignon, quiche Lorraine , french onion soup, and cassoulet. \u2014 Alex Erdekian, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 15 Apr. 2020",
"French 101 \u2014 This demonstration by Staci Joerrs will show how to make classics: bouillabaisse, quiche lorraine , crepes with spinach and roquefort, bouef Bourguignon. \u2014 Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 10 Dec. 2019",
"Options include mussels, Burgundy snails, quiche Lorraine , salmon and spinach eggs benedict, croque monsieur and a creamy mushroom and turkey stew. \u2014 Georgann Yara, azcentral , 15 Nov. 2019",
"Attorneys dined on quiche Lorraine and enjoyed the stunning view of Miami from the 44th story window of the Greenberg Traurig law firm\u2019s conference room. \u2014 Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com , 22 Nov. 2019",
"Specialties included ham and cheese croissant, shrimp etouffee, quiche Lorraine , macarons and beignets. \u2014 Jennifer Mcclellan, azcentral , 5 July 2018"
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"1926, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, quiche of Lorraine":""
},
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"-l\u022f-",
"-l\u0259-\u02c8r\u0101n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-051904",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quick":{
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"briskly",
"chop-chop",
"double-quick",
"fast",
"fleetly",
"full tilt",
"hastily",
"hell-for-leather",
"hot",
"lickety-split",
"posthaste",
"presto",
"pronto",
"quickly",
"rapidly",
"snappily",
"soon",
"speedily",
"swift",
"swiftly"
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": acting or capable of acting with speed: such as":[],
": aroused immediately and intensely":[
"quick tempers"
],
": capable of being easily and speedily prepared":[
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],
": caustic":[],
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"gave them a quick look"
],
": fast in development or occurrence":[
"a quick succession of events"
],
": fast in understanding, thinking, or learning : mentally agile":[
"a quick wit",
"quick thinking"
],
": fiery , glowing":[],
": having a sharp angle":[
"a quick turn in the road"
],
": in a quick manner":[],
": inclined to hastiness (as in action or response)":[
"quick to criticize"
],
": life sense 11":[],
": living beings":[],
": marked by speed, readiness, or promptness of physical movement":[
"walked with quick steps"
],
": moving , shifting":[
"quick mud"
],
": not dead : living , alive":[],
": not stagnant : running , flowing":[],
": pregnant":[],
": pungent":[],
": reacting to stimuli with speed and keen sensitivity":[],
": the inmost sensibilities":[
"hurt to the quick by the remark"
],
": the very center of something : heart":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"They had a quick drink at the bar.",
"She took a quick shower.",
"She gave him a quick kiss.",
"You're back already? That was quick !",
"We made a quick decision, but it turned out to be a good one.",
"He got a quick reply to his inquiry.",
"His quick thinking allowed him to escape trouble.",
"Her friends admired her quick wit .",
"He walked with quick steps.",
"She has quick , agile hands.",
"Adverb",
"a scheme to get rich quick",
"I got used to living with a roommate pretty quick .",
"I can't run any quicker .",
"Noun",
"that nasty comment cut me to the quick",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The Kona N is quick , agile, and fun to drive, but so are the Elantra N and the Volkswagen Golf GTI. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver , 2 July 2022",
"After the deaths of Kim and Bolea at Gray Whale Cove in quick succession in 2020, concerned residents began advocating more fiercely for additional safety measures. \u2014 Vanessa Arredondo, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 June 2022",
"The Lyriq is quick , maneuverable and easy to drive. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 28 June 2022",
"Now, after three promotions in quick succession, the name Maccabi Bnei Reineh is on everyone\u2019s lips in Israeli soccer. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"Air fryers are quick , easy to use and relatively cheap, ranging from $36 to $200 on Target.com, to purchase. \u2014 Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY , 26 June 2022",
"The 30-year-old Black combat veteran had grown increasingly depressed after the recent deaths of his sister, father and uncle in quick succession. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"Don\u2019t take things too seriously, and just relax and make it as quick , easy, and tasty as possible. \u2014 Aly Walansky, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"This mission will be the first of three NASA science launches flown in quick succession from Down Under. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"The National Weather Service said the quick -moving weather system could drop as much as an inch of snow down to the valley floor through the morning. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Feb. 2022",
"More than 20 million people are under winter alerts today from Georgia to New England as strong but quick -moving storm impacts the regions. \u2014 Melissa Macaya, CNN , 3 Jan. 2022",
"Tragedy struck early Christmas morning when a quick -moving fire tore through an eastern Pennsylvania home, leaving a father and his two sons dead. \u2014 Danielle Camilli, USA TODAY , 27 Dec. 2021",
"This partnership illustrates Wendy\u2019s digital approach\u2013unlike some of its peers, the company does not plan on acquiring technology companies to keep pace in the quick -moving space. \u2014 Alicia Kelso, Forbes , 21 Dec. 2021",
"According to the weather service, a system moving onto the Northern California coast Thursday afternoon could produce some showers and quick -moving thunderstorms in parts of the state. \u2014 Omar Shaikh Rashad, San Francisco Chronicle , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Dozens of people were forced to evacuate their homes near Laguna Beach after a quick -moving wildfire broke out on Wednesday, according to officials. \u2014 Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com , 12 May 2022",
"The bill has no other committee assignments in the Senate, traditionally a sign of quick -moving legislation. \u2014 James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Order online and pick it up from the quick -moving drive-thru. \u2014 Brooke Viggiano, Chron , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Down by 7 with 4:30 to go in the third quarter, Brady delivered a quick out to Edelman, who then connected with Danny Amendola for the 51-yard touchdown pass. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Hall\u2019s adaptation cuts to the quick of the novel and transfers the shifting, unsettling quality of Larsen\u2019s text back onto the viewer\u2019s shoulders. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Jones took the snap and fired a quick out to Henry for 6 yards and the first down. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 14 Sep. 2021",
"While doing that quick of a workout might not seem worth the effort to pull on a sports bra and lace up your sneakers, there are actually a ton of compelling reasons to squeeze in a super-short session. \u2014 Jenny Mccoy, SELF , 11 July 2021",
"Strict border control, and a public quick to wear masks and take precautions after the experience of the 2003 SARS epidemic, have meant that Taiwan recorded a little more than 2,000 cases and 14 deaths. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 May 2021",
"Speed out Once again, Washington targeted a Browns linebacker (B.J. Goodson) by throwing a quick out to running back J.D. McKissic. \u2014 Ellis L. Williams, cleveland , 2 Oct. 2020",
"Cutting to our cultural quick is the show\u2019s spin on a typical U.S. response to a nationwide problem: anger, paranoia and plenty of ulterior motives looking to make use of each. \u2014 Jacob Oller, chicagotribune.com , 25 Sep. 2020",
"Nothing this quick comes any cheaper-except GMC's Syclone pickup. \u2014 Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver , 19 May 2020"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English quik , from Old English cwic ; akin to Old Norse kvikr living, Latin vivus living, vivere to live, Greek bios, z\u014d\u0113 life":"Adjective"
},
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"\u02c8kwik"
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"alert",
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"willing"
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"adverb",
"noun"
]
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"quick and dirty":{
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": expedient and effective but not without flaws or unwanted side effects":[
"a quick and dirty solution"
]
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041840",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"quick as a flash":{
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": very quickly":[
"The waitress brought our order (as) quick as a flash ."
]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022259",
"type":[
"idiom"
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"quick assets":{
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"definitions":{
": cash, accounts receivable, and other current assets excluding inventories":[]
},
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"1891, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-200256",
"type":[
"plural noun"
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"quick bead":{
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": a bead that is flush with the surface of a molding \u2014 compare cock bead":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-193547",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quick fix":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an expedient usually temporary or inadequate solution to a problem":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Emmert said adopting such a payment structure won\u2019t be a quick fix and will require approval from several NCAA committees. \u2014 Doug Feinberg, courant.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Unfortunately, there\u2019s no quick fix through artful Treasury Department regulations. \u2014 Abraham Sutherland, WSJ , 17 Jan. 2022",
"After all, there\u2019s no quick fix or perk powerful enough to fundamentally change the way everyone feels about working for you. \u2014 Robynne Sisco, Fortune , 28 Oct. 2021",
"There isn\u2019t a quick fix , shortcut or one-size-fits-all solution for combating ransomware. \u2014 Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes , 11 June 2021",
"Somin suggests that Russian defectors could utilize the U.S.\u2019s humanitarian parole program, which offers temporary protections from deportation for people on humanitarian grounds\u2014a quick fix considering the state of the U.S.\u2019s refugee system. \u2014 Jasmine Aguilera, Time , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Julia Raifman, an assistant professor and health policy researcher at Boston University, said there's no quick fix to the pandemic. \u2014 NBC News , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Still, supply chain issues linger, and the steps taken by the administration have shown that there is no quick fix to the problems that have been hurting smaller businesses and causing consumers to face higher prices. \u2014 Hope Yen, Chron , 23 Dec. 2021",
"The humanitarian crisis was effectively curbed, but there was no quick fix for the social crisis. \u2014 Rachel Lu, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1966, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-122815",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": easily angered : irascible":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1830, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwik-\u02c8tem-p\u0259rd"
],
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"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"cross",
"crotchety",
"fiery",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perverse",
"pettish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"raspy",
"ratty",
"short-tempered",
"snappish",
"snappy",
"snarky",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"stuffy",
"testy",
"waspish"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234207",
"type":[
"adjective"
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},
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"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unbrilliant",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
],
"definitions":{
": quick in perception and understanding : mentally alert":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1530, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02c8kwik-\u02c8wi-t\u0259d"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for quick-witted intelligent , clever , alert , quick-witted mean mentally keen or quick. intelligent stresses success in coping with new situations and solving problems. an intelligent person could assemble it fast clever implies native ability or aptness and sometimes suggests a lack of more substantial qualities. clever with words alert stresses quickness in perceiving and understanding. alert to new technology quick-witted implies promptness in finding answers in debate or in devising expedients in moments of danger or challenge. no match for his quick-witted opponent",
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"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"exceptional",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-120725",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"quick-wittedness":{
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"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unbrilliant",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
],
"definitions":{
": quick in perception and understanding : mentally alert":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1530, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwik-\u02c8wi-t\u0259d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for quick-witted intelligent , clever , alert , quick-witted mean mentally keen or quick. intelligent stresses success in coping with new situations and solving problems. an intelligent person could assemble it fast clever implies native ability or aptness and sometimes suggests a lack of more substantial qualities. clever with words alert stresses quickness in perceiving and understanding. alert to new technology quick-witted implies promptness in finding answers in debate or in devising expedients in moments of danger or challenge. no match for his quick-witted opponent",
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"alert",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"exceptional",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021859",
"type":[
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"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"quick/slow off the mark":{
"antonyms":[],
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": quick or slow to act or to understand something":[
"As soon as the opportunity arose, he was quick off the mark in exploiting it.",
"I was slow off the mark and missed my chance."
]
},
"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113106",
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"idiom"
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},
"quicken":{
"antonyms":[
"brake",
"decelerate",
"retard",
"slow (down)"
],
"definitions":{
": kindle":[],
": to become more rapid":[
"her pulse quickened at the sight"
],
": to cause to be enlivened : stimulate":[],
": to cause to burn more intensely":[],
": to make (a curve) sharper":[],
": to make (a slope) steeper":[],
": to make alive : revive":[],
": to make more rapid : hasten , accelerate":[
"quickened her steps"
],
": to quicken something":[],
": to reach the stage of gestation at which fetal motion is felt":[],
": to shine more brightly":[
"watched the dawn quickening in the east"
]
},
"examples":[
"Stimulants can quicken the heart rate.",
"His pulse quickened at the thought of seeing her again.",
"The approach of the deadline quickened our sense of urgency.",
"The drama quickened when police arrived at the scene.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Inflation can rise, grow, increase, accelerate, quicken , fall, slow, decelerate or ease. \u2014 WSJ , 6 May 2022",
"These twins rust in the rain and quicken with lubricant. \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Chick-fil-A is instituting a change throughout the country in which runners will take food out to cars to try and quicken the wait in line. \u2014 cleveland , 15 Feb. 2022",
"But the White House faces mounting pressure from various groups and lawmakers, who in recent days have called on the U.S. to take in more refugees from Ukraine and quicken the process. \u2014 Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Butler is more proficient at a ponderous pace than Marquette, and the press allowed the pace to quicken . \u2014 David Woods, The Indianapolis Star , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Simmons said Husel's lawyers will be careful not to suggest that the ordering of large doses of fentanyl for comfort care was meant to quicken patients' deaths. \u2014 NBC News , 12 Feb. 2022",
"Two fast-moving dynamics are likely to quicken the adoption of the broader changes. \u2014 Brian Steinberg, Variety , 11 Feb. 2022",
"As security experts realize that hardware could provide a far thicker level of protection, this change to hardware could quicken in the coming months, though that does not mean companies should stop investing in upgraded software. \u2014 Gopi Sirineni, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwi-k\u0259n",
"\u02c8kwik-\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for quicken 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 synonyms see in addition provoke",
"synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"bundle",
"fast-track",
"hasten",
"hurry",
"rush",
"speed (up)",
"whisk"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072117",
"type":[
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quickening":{
"antonyms":[
"brake",
"decelerate",
"retard",
"slow (down)"
],
"definitions":{
": kindle":[],
": to become more rapid":[
"her pulse quickened at the sight"
],
": to cause to be enlivened : stimulate":[],
": to cause to burn more intensely":[],
": to make (a curve) sharper":[],
": to make (a slope) steeper":[],
": to make alive : revive":[],
": to make more rapid : hasten , accelerate":[
"quickened her steps"
],
": to quicken something":[],
": to reach the stage of gestation at which fetal motion is felt":[],
": to shine more brightly":[
"watched the dawn quickening in the east"
]
},
"examples":[
"Stimulants can quicken the heart rate.",
"His pulse quickened at the thought of seeing her again.",
"The approach of the deadline quickened our sense of urgency.",
"The drama quickened when police arrived at the scene.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Inflation can rise, grow, increase, accelerate, quicken , fall, slow, decelerate or ease. \u2014 WSJ , 6 May 2022",
"These twins rust in the rain and quicken with lubricant. \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Chick-fil-A is instituting a change throughout the country in which runners will take food out to cars to try and quicken the wait in line. \u2014 cleveland , 15 Feb. 2022",
"But the White House faces mounting pressure from various groups and lawmakers, who in recent days have called on the U.S. to take in more refugees from Ukraine and quicken the process. \u2014 Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Butler is more proficient at a ponderous pace than Marquette, and the press allowed the pace to quicken . \u2014 David Woods, The Indianapolis Star , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Simmons said Husel's lawyers will be careful not to suggest that the ordering of large doses of fentanyl for comfort care was meant to quicken patients' deaths. \u2014 NBC News , 12 Feb. 2022",
"Two fast-moving dynamics are likely to quicken the adoption of the broader changes. \u2014 Brian Steinberg, Variety , 11 Feb. 2022",
"As security experts realize that hardware could provide a far thicker level of protection, this change to hardware could quicken in the coming months, though that does not mean companies should stop investing in upgraded software. \u2014 Gopi Sirineni, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
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"\u02c8kwi-k\u0259n",
"\u02c8kwik-\u0259n"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for quicken 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 synonyms see in addition provoke",
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"bundle",
"fast-track",
"hasten",
"hurry",
"rush",
"speed (up)",
"whisk"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005433",
"type":[
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"apace",
"briskly",
"chop-chop",
"double-quick",
"fast",
"fleetly",
"full tilt",
"hastily",
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"She took a quick shower.",
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"He got a quick reply to his inquiry.",
"His quick thinking allowed him to escape trouble.",
"Her friends admired her quick wit .",
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"She has quick , agile hands.",
"Adverb",
"a scheme to get rich quick",
"I got used to living with a roommate pretty quick .",
"I can't run any quicker .",
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"that nasty comment cut me to the quick",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The Kona N is quick , agile, and fun to drive, but so are the Elantra N and the Volkswagen Golf GTI. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver , 2 July 2022",
"After the deaths of Kim and Bolea at Gray Whale Cove in quick succession in 2020, concerned residents began advocating more fiercely for additional safety measures. \u2014 Vanessa Arredondo, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 June 2022",
"The Lyriq is quick , maneuverable and easy to drive. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 28 June 2022",
"Now, after three promotions in quick succession, the name Maccabi Bnei Reineh is on everyone\u2019s lips in Israeli soccer. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"Air fryers are quick , easy to use and relatively cheap, ranging from $36 to $200 on Target.com, to purchase. \u2014 Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY , 26 June 2022",
"The 30-year-old Black combat veteran had grown increasingly depressed after the recent deaths of his sister, father and uncle in quick succession. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"Don\u2019t take things too seriously, and just relax and make it as quick , easy, and tasty as possible. \u2014 Aly Walansky, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"This mission will be the first of three NASA science launches flown in quick succession from Down Under. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"The National Weather Service said the quick -moving weather system could drop as much as an inch of snow down to the valley floor through the morning. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Feb. 2022",
"More than 20 million people are under winter alerts today from Georgia to New England as strong but quick -moving storm impacts the regions. \u2014 Melissa Macaya, CNN , 3 Jan. 2022",
"Tragedy struck early Christmas morning when a quick -moving fire tore through an eastern Pennsylvania home, leaving a father and his two sons dead. \u2014 Danielle Camilli, USA TODAY , 27 Dec. 2021",
"This partnership illustrates Wendy\u2019s digital approach\u2013unlike some of its peers, the company does not plan on acquiring technology companies to keep pace in the quick -moving space. \u2014 Alicia Kelso, Forbes , 21 Dec. 2021",
"According to the weather service, a system moving onto the Northern California coast Thursday afternoon could produce some showers and quick -moving thunderstorms in parts of the state. \u2014 Omar Shaikh Rashad, San Francisco Chronicle , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Dozens of people were forced to evacuate their homes near Laguna Beach after a quick -moving wildfire broke out on Wednesday, according to officials. \u2014 Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com , 12 May 2022",
"The bill has no other committee assignments in the Senate, traditionally a sign of quick -moving legislation. \u2014 James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Order online and pick it up from the quick -moving drive-thru. \u2014 Brooke Viggiano, Chron , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Down by 7 with 4:30 to go in the third quarter, Brady delivered a quick out to Edelman, who then connected with Danny Amendola for the 51-yard touchdown pass. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Hall\u2019s adaptation cuts to the quick of the novel and transfers the shifting, unsettling quality of Larsen\u2019s text back onto the viewer\u2019s shoulders. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Jones took the snap and fired a quick out to Henry for 6 yards and the first down. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 14 Sep. 2021",
"While doing that quick of a workout might not seem worth the effort to pull on a sports bra and lace up your sneakers, there are actually a ton of compelling reasons to squeeze in a super-short session. \u2014 Jenny Mccoy, SELF , 11 July 2021",
"Strict border control, and a public quick to wear masks and take precautions after the experience of the 2003 SARS epidemic, have meant that Taiwan recorded a little more than 2,000 cases and 14 deaths. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 May 2021",
"Speed out Once again, Washington targeted a Browns linebacker (B.J. Goodson) by throwing a quick out to running back J.D. McKissic. \u2014 Ellis L. Williams, cleveland , 2 Oct. 2020",
"Cutting to our cultural quick is the show\u2019s spin on a typical U.S. response to a nationwide problem: anger, paranoia and plenty of ulterior motives looking to make use of each. \u2014 Jacob Oller, chicagotribune.com , 25 Sep. 2020",
"Nothing this quick comes any cheaper-except GMC's Syclone pickup. \u2014 Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver , 19 May 2020"
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"She took a quick shower.",
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"You're back already? That was quick !",
"We made a quick decision, but it turned out to be a good one.",
"He got a quick reply to his inquiry.",
"His quick thinking allowed him to escape trouble.",
"Her friends admired her quick wit .",
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"Adverb",
"a scheme to get rich quick",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The Kona N is quick , agile, and fun to drive, but so are the Elantra N and the Volkswagen Golf GTI. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver , 2 July 2022",
"After the deaths of Kim and Bolea at Gray Whale Cove in quick succession in 2020, concerned residents began advocating more fiercely for additional safety measures. \u2014 Vanessa Arredondo, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 June 2022",
"The Lyriq is quick , maneuverable and easy to drive. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 28 June 2022",
"Now, after three promotions in quick succession, the name Maccabi Bnei Reineh is on everyone\u2019s lips in Israeli soccer. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"Air fryers are quick , easy to use and relatively cheap, ranging from $36 to $200 on Target.com, to purchase. \u2014 Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY , 26 June 2022",
"The 30-year-old Black combat veteran had grown increasingly depressed after the recent deaths of his sister, father and uncle in quick succession. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"Don\u2019t take things too seriously, and just relax and make it as quick , easy, and tasty as possible. \u2014 Aly Walansky, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"This mission will be the first of three NASA science launches flown in quick succession from Down Under. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"The National Weather Service said the quick -moving weather system could drop as much as an inch of snow down to the valley floor through the morning. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Feb. 2022",
"More than 20 million people are under winter alerts today from Georgia to New England as strong but quick -moving storm impacts the regions. \u2014 Melissa Macaya, CNN , 3 Jan. 2022",
"Tragedy struck early Christmas morning when a quick -moving fire tore through an eastern Pennsylvania home, leaving a father and his two sons dead. \u2014 Danielle Camilli, USA TODAY , 27 Dec. 2021",
"This partnership illustrates Wendy\u2019s digital approach\u2013unlike some of its peers, the company does not plan on acquiring technology companies to keep pace in the quick -moving space. \u2014 Alicia Kelso, Forbes , 21 Dec. 2021",
"According to the weather service, a system moving onto the Northern California coast Thursday afternoon could produce some showers and quick -moving thunderstorms in parts of the state. \u2014 Omar Shaikh Rashad, San Francisco Chronicle , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Dozens of people were forced to evacuate their homes near Laguna Beach after a quick -moving wildfire broke out on Wednesday, according to officials. \u2014 Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com , 12 May 2022",
"The bill has no other committee assignments in the Senate, traditionally a sign of quick -moving legislation. \u2014 James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Order online and pick it up from the quick -moving drive-thru. \u2014 Brooke Viggiano, Chron , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Down by 7 with 4:30 to go in the third quarter, Brady delivered a quick out to Edelman, who then connected with Danny Amendola for the 51-yard touchdown pass. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Hall\u2019s adaptation cuts to the quick of the novel and transfers the shifting, unsettling quality of Larsen\u2019s text back onto the viewer\u2019s shoulders. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Jones took the snap and fired a quick out to Henry for 6 yards and the first down. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 14 Sep. 2021",
"While doing that quick of a workout might not seem worth the effort to pull on a sports bra and lace up your sneakers, there are actually a ton of compelling reasons to squeeze in a super-short session. \u2014 Jenny Mccoy, SELF , 11 July 2021",
"Strict border control, and a public quick to wear masks and take precautions after the experience of the 2003 SARS epidemic, have meant that Taiwan recorded a little more than 2,000 cases and 14 deaths. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 May 2021",
"Speed out Once again, Washington targeted a Browns linebacker (B.J. Goodson) by throwing a quick out to running back J.D. McKissic. \u2014 Ellis L. Williams, cleveland , 2 Oct. 2020",
"Cutting to our cultural quick is the show\u2019s spin on a typical U.S. response to a nationwide problem: anger, paranoia and plenty of ulterior motives looking to make use of each. \u2014 Jacob Oller, chicagotribune.com , 25 Sep. 2020",
"Nothing this quick comes any cheaper-except GMC's Syclone pickup. \u2014 Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver , 19 May 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It was assumed that the AI would never fall into that kind of shameful quicksand . \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Scares and moments of peril include falling, quicksand , getting chased by giant rolling wheels, shrinking rooms with spiked walls and more. \u2014 Common Sense Media, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"The financial quicksand created a situation that significantly shaped Taylor\u2019s path. \u2014 Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 June 2022",
"Political reporters seize on all the dire indicators for November, especially President Biden\u2019s approval ratings, mired in low-40s quicksand . \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 11 Apr. 2022",
"As an example, Lindsey cites the sculpture of a Columbian mammoth sinking into the Lake Pit outside the La Brea Tar Pits Museum\u2014a portrayal that could perpetuate the misconception that asphalt pools were like quicksand . \u2014 Sam Jones, Scientific American , 10 Mar. 2022",
"In 2021 Citizens Advice warned that BNPL borrowing can be like quicksand \u2013 easy to slip into and difficult to get out of. \u2014 Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Quite unique, the theta variant spreads via quicksand . \u2014 Nate Odenkirk, The New Yorker , 10 Jan. 2022",
"While the drama triangle operates like quicksand in the workplace, miring even uninvolved bystander employees into drama, there is an antidote. \u2014 Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace, Anchorage Daily News , 11 Jan. 2022"
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"in politics nobody does something for nothing: there's always a quid pro quo involved",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The policy has three pillars: deals cannot serve as inducements to attend universities; boosters cannot contact recruits; and there must be some sort of quid pro quo to prevent deals from becoming a mechanism for pay-for-play. \u2014 Laine Higgins, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"Financial arrangements must have some type of quid pro quo agreement in which the athlete was being paid for services provided, such as a social media post or an appearance. \u2014 Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune , 10 May 2022",
"Financial arrangements must have some type quid pro quo agreement in which the athlete was being paid for services provided, like a social media post or appearance. \u2014 Ralph D. Russo, oregonlive , 9 May 2022",
"But critics of the president and political analysts are asking, with good reason, whether there is a quid pro quo . \u2014 Mary Anastasia O\u2019grady, WSJ , 9 Jan. 2022",
"The panel, which included one judge nominated by a Democratic president and two nominated by a Republican, said the government failed to demonstrate that the prohibitions prevented quid pro quo corruption. \u2014 John Fritze, USA TODAY , 16 May 2022",
"But Citizens United also acknowledged that direct donations to candidates still do risk quid pro quo corruption, and allowed limits on them to remain. \u2014 Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Jan. 2022",
"The panel, which included one judge nominated by a Democratic president and two nominated by a Republican, ruled the government failed to demonstrate that the prohibitions prevented quid pro quo corruption. \u2014 John Fritze, USA TODAY , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Gildea said there was no quid pro quo involved in the tribe\u2019s support of Derby\u2019s application to the state. \u2014 Pat Eaton-robb, courant.com , 31 Mar. 2022"
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"for all of her quiddities , she is a very wise and generous lady",
"Rembrandt's genius was his unparalleled ability to render a person's quiddity in a single portrait.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Teffi bids us to accept the mystery of this strange business of life in all its delightful quiddity . \u2014 Sara Wheeler, WSJ , 23 Apr. 2021",
"None of these quiddities has much to do with efficient military training. \u2014 Steele Brand, Time , 20 Sep. 2019",
"Our skulls are like space helmets; we are trapped in our heads, unable to convey the quiddity of our sensations. \u2014 Jason Pontin, WIRED , 16 Apr. 2018",
"But not even there, Lawrence thought, could C\u00e9zanne entirely overcome convention\u2014Hortense still being somewhat of an image as opposed to sheer quiddity . \u2014 Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker , 21 Feb. 2011"
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"the resort community's social scene is lively during the summer but undergoes a deep quiescence during the long winter",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"McCarthy\u2019s cowardly quiescence to Trump \u2014 rightly blaming him for the events of Jan. 6, then tucking tail and scurrying to Mar-a-Lago to beg forgiveness \u2014 has been thoroughly documented. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"Back in the 1970s and \u201980s, Yeats and others attributed the CSZ\u2019s quiescence to a kind of hyper-lubrication. \u2014 Bruce Barcott, Outside Online , 25 Aug. 2011",
"There are undoubtedly hard and dangerous choices to be made, but total military quiescence also imposes costs, strategic and humanitarian, which are now unfolding. \u2014 John Bolton, Time , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Regardless of their type, the oligarchs have helped Putin stay in power through their political quiescence and economic support of the Kremlin\u2019s domestic initiatives. \u2014 Stanislav Markus, The Conversation , 4 Mar. 2022",
"In countering his co-religionists\u2019 political quiescence , Falwell flew something of a false flag. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 Feb. 2022",
"There\u2019s no word yet on whether the period of seismological quiescence observed in 2020 revealed insight into Earth\u2019s mysterious 26-second chirp. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 21 Feb. 2022",
"The short clip is well worth a watch, if only to get a sense of how vast and powerful volcanoes like Nyiragongo are, even during periods of relative quiescence . \u2014 Robin Andrews, Forbes , 31 May 2021",
"Most volcanoes spend much of their lifetime in a state of quiescence , but Stromboli bucks that trend. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Mar. 2021"
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"a group of quiescent loungers recovering from the Thanksgiving feast",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The system typically begins in a relatively quiescent state. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 2 May 2022",
"But too many appear quiescent , perhaps unaware of the true nature of the war in Ukraine being fought in their name. \u2014 Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ , 25 Mar. 2022",
"This is the first time many adults have experienced meaningful inflation: Price gains had been largely quiescent since the late 1980s. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Jan. 2022",
"In other words, an economic meltdown is a potential threat to the implicit social compact in China between authoritarian rulers and a quiescent population. \u2014 Thomas J. Duesterberg, WSJ , 20 Dec. 2021",
"He was inspired, in part, by the work of 19th-century Scottish botanist Robert Brown, who in 1827 reported the bizarre dance of pollen grains in a quiescent water droplet viewed through a microscope. \u2014 Daniel Garisto, Scientific American , 7 Oct. 2021",
"Other than that, though, Mormon culture is a quiescent subtext, lurking in the background but largely unexplored. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 Sep. 2021",
"In the absence of a threat, immune cells are quiescent . \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 3 Sep. 2021",
"The juxtaposition of a hawkish leaning Fed and worsening Covid situation is hardly a recipe for quiescent markets. \u2014 Justin Lahart, WSJ , 19 Aug. 2021"
],
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"1605, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin qui\u0113scent-, qui\u0113scens, present participle of qui\u0113scere \"to repose, fall asleep, rest, be quiet,\" inchoative derivative of a base qui\u0113-, going back to Indo-European *k w i\u032feh 1 - \"have a rest\" \u2014 more at quiet entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"kw\u0113-",
"kw\u012b-\u02c8e-s\u1d4ant",
"-\u1d4ant"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for quiescent latent , dormant , quiescent , potential mean not now showing signs of activity or existence. latent applies to a power or quality that has not yet come forth but may emerge and develop. a latent desire for success dormant suggests the inactivity of something (such as a feeling or power) as though sleeping. their passion had lain dormant quiescent suggests a usually temporary cessation of activity. the disease was quiescent potential applies to what does not yet have existence or effect but is likely soon to have. a potential disaster",
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"dull",
"inactive",
"inert",
"lethargic",
"sleepy",
"sluggish",
"torpid"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055032",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
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"arcadian",
"calm",
"hushed",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"restful",
"serene",
"still",
"stilly",
"tranquil"
],
"definitions":{
": carried out secretly or discreetly":[
"quiet diplomacy",
"worked with quiet determination",
"She had a quiet confidence about her.",
"He took a quiet satisfaction in a job well done."
],
": enjoyed in peace and relaxation":[
"quiet reading",
"a moment of quiet contemplation",
"a quiet cup of tea"
],
": free from noise or uproar : still":[
"a quiet room",
"The lights went down and the theater became quiet ."
],
": gentle , easygoing":[
"a quiet temperament"
],
": in a quiet manner":[
"an engine that runs quiet"
],
": in a secretive manner : in secret":[],
": making or involving no noise or very little noise":[
"a quiet motor",
"a quiet conversation",
"Everyone suddenly went quiet .",
"Please be quiet \u2014people are trying to study."
],
": marked by little or no motion or activity : calm":[
"a quiet sea",
"At such an early hour, the streets seemed strangely quiet ."
],
": not disturbed by noise or activity":[
"quiet reading",
"a moment of quiet contemplation",
"a quiet cup of tea"
],
": not made known openly or publicly":[
"quiet diplomacy",
"worked with quiet determination",
"She had a quiet confidence about her.",
"He took a quiet satisfaction in a job well done."
],
": secluded":[
"a quiet nook"
],
": tending to speak very little : not loquacious":[
"He was a quiet , reserved person."
],
": the quality or state of being quiet (see quiet entry 2 ) : tranquility":[],
": to become quiet":[
"\u2014 usually used with down"
],
": to cause to be quiet : calm":[],
": to make secure by freeing from dispute or question":[
"quiet title to a property"
],
": unobtrusive , conservative":[
"quiet clothes/colors"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"My hostess told me she had some records I might like to hear and she called for quiet in the room. People sat down on the floor in groups, sharing bottles of wine and slivovitz. The host put the record on a windup record player and Lester Young's saxophone yowled out of the silence. \u2014 Maya Angelou , Gourmet , November 2002",
"When my parents needed peace and quiet , they didn't put me in front of the television to watch a \"Baby Einstein\" video; they plopped me in a chair to watch my mom do housework or cook. \u2014 Robb Moretti , Newsweek , 5 Aug. 2002",
"the quiet of a wooded trail",
"Can I have some quiet here? I'm trying to study.",
"I need a little peace and quiet .",
"Adjective",
"Breakfast at the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, a members-only institution founded in the city now called Mumbai in 1846 by British colonial officers, is a meal of quiet elegance. The second-story veranda looks out over a small garden and, beyond that, the Gateway of India and the Taj Mahal Hotel. Outside is the tumult of horse-drawn carriages, touts, and taxis. Inside is peaceful stillness, broken only by the sounds of crunched-on toast and rustling newspapers. \u2014 Lyla Bavadam , Saveur , October 2008",
"One change I notice is that I get sleepy earlier than I used to, sometimes by 8:30 or 9 if I am having a quiet evening at home. \u2014 Andrew Weil , Time , 17 Oct. 2005",
"I interviewed Virginia, who is totally blind, in a small local library. Walking with her guide dog, this young-looking woman arrived soon after I came in. We found a quiet corner to sit and talk while her dog settled beside her chair. At forty-three, Virginia was used to telling her story and found time for our interview in her busy travel schedule. She had just returned from San Francisco where she had spoken at the California Academy of Sciences and was about to leave for Montreal, Canada, to conduct workshops in diversity awareness. \u2014 Mary Grimley Mason , Working Against Odds , 2004",
"Attributing their behaviors to their personal dispositions, we decide Julie is shy and Jack is outgoing. Because people do have enduring personality traits, such attributions are sometimes valid. However, we often overestimate the influence of personality and underestimate the influence of situations. In class, Jack may be as quiet as Julie. Catch Julie at a party and you may hardly recognize your quiet classmate. \u2014 David G. Myers , Psychology , 2001",
"the quiet hum of the refrigerator",
"He spoke in a very quiet voice.",
"Surprisingly, the class was quiet .",
"He's a very quiet person.",
"She has a quiet disposition.",
"During the morning, business was quiet .",
"Some days at the store are quieter than others.",
"a quiet stretch of road",
"He led a quiet life.",
"Adverb",
"lie quiet and no one will guess you're hiding under the bed",
"Verb",
"Clemens had few questions to answer about Piazza. The beanball and broken bat from 2000, and the Mets' tepid retaliation last season, were memories. And since Clemens recorded his 300th victory on June 13, the buzz around him has quieted . \u2014 Tyler Kepner , New York Times , 29 June 2003",
"When she walked down the hall past his classroom, the sounds of chaos came over the frosted-glass pane above the door. She had taken to making random visits; the sight of her in the doorway quieted the kids. \u2014 Mary Gordon , Atlantic , May 1999",
"Even with that, Presser was so scared that he fled to Florida and moved from hotel to hotel till the gang war quieted down, with his side on top. \u2014 A. H. Raskin , New York Times Book Review , 10 Dec. 1989",
"the museum docent told the rowdy youngsters to quiet down for the tour",
"quiet a crying toddler with candy",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"For those seeking an escape from the bustle of urban living, the most coveted vacation includes total immersion in the peace and quiet of the outdoors. \u2014 Kimberly Lyn, Travel + Leisure , 19 June 2022",
"Many of the people filling up Midtown\u2019s public spaces these days are not tourists but New Yorkers who rediscovered its charms during the quiet of the pandemic. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"That could mean ghostly Newton issuing warnings between slugs of gin and tornado gusts, or Farraday gulping gallons of water for dear life, or Justin trying to keep herself together in the eerie quiet of the Floods\u2019 ancestral home. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The launches set off air-raid sirens across parts of southern Israel, disrupting the quiet of the Passover holiday week. \u2014 Tia Goldenberg, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The launches set off air-raid sirens across parts of southern Israel, disrupting the quiet of the Passover holiday week. \u2014 Tia Goldenberg, ajc , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The most incredible trick of all was that Teller, the quiet of the two, performed vocal duties on the number. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 7 Apr. 2022",
"But the relative quiet is deceptive: Policy is moving at a breakneck pace. \u2014 Ezra Klein New York Times, Star Tribune , 5 Mar. 2021",
"In the town of Lyman, where fighting has raged in recent weeks, civilians used the relative quiet to make frantic dashes to the armored evacuation buses organized by the regional government. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Early Saturday morning before festivities began, a few tourists were meandering around Bisbee's quiet and quaint streets. \u2014 Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic , 18 June 2022",
"Even as his drives have picked up layers of explosiveness, the 27-year-old from Suffield, England, is quiet and reserved. \u2014 Jim Mccabe, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"Most people don\u2019t think to go to the second floor \u2013 sometimes referred to as a mezzanine \u2013 to find plenty of seating, quiet , and AC plugs, too. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"At first, my Class experiences were quiet and tame. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 14 June 2022",
"Dear Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 14 June 2022",
"Dear Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 14 June 2022",
"Magnuson is comfortable in his rancher\u2019s skin, with an amiable smile, rugged good looks, and a quiet and shy demeanor that nevertheless seeks to accommodate a small group of media firing questions at him on a recent May morning in Castle Dale, Utah. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Some of the same companies staying quiet now have spoken up on human-rights issues in other parts of the world. \u2014 Georgi Kantchev, WSJ , 23 Jan. 2022",
"This quiet -running progressive resistance bike trainer that offers a road-like feel is once again our top choice for the best model. \u2014 Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com , 25 Sep. 2020",
"The Stadio San Paolo, Napoli's famed crumbling colosseum, erupted as Mertens headed home from Adrian's save, only to fall quiet after seeing the linesman's flag raised for an obvious offside. \u2014 Matias Grez, CNN , 17 Sep. 2019",
"Then, at some random moment, the atom goes quiet , signaling that the atom has entered the dark state. \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 5 June 2019",
"When the sun is up, the city center is crowded, but the streets empty as night falls, quiet except for the occasional sound of gunfire and rockets exploding on the outskirts of town. \u2014 Najim Rahim, David Jolly And Ahmad Shakib, New York Times , 6 Feb. 2016",
"The boat goes quiet except for the occasional flap of the sail. \u2014 Chris Jones, Esquire , 15 Sep. 2010",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The Marcos family can quiet detractors by actively engaging in reform, Mendoza said. \u2014 Regine Cabato, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Hiding away these books will quiet diverse voices, diminish our education system, and sanitize American history for the comfort of white folks. \u2014 Michael Arceneaux, The Week , 1 Feb. 2022",
"UConn hit four home runs to quiet a sellout crowd and stun top-seeded Maryland, 10-5, in the NCAA baseball regional Saturday night at College Park, Md. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 4 June 2022",
"Musk has been none to quiet about his criticism for Agrawal and current-state Twitter. \u2014 Abram Brown, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Mosby repeatedly had to hammer a gavel to quiet the unrest. \u2014 Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The email obtained by The Post shows the campaign went to considerable lengths to keep the effort quiet in advance. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
"The couple were spotted a few times through the office's windows, playfully entertaining various young royals \u2014 and also holding a finger over their mouth to encourage them to quiet down at points. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 3 June 2022",
"But both men itch to turn this peace and quiet into blood and bone. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2b":"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1573, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English quiet, quiete, borrowed from Anglo-French quiete, borrowed from Latin qui\u0113t-, qui\u0113s \"repose, sleep, rest, peaceful conditions,\" going back to Indo-European *k w i\u032feh 1 -ti-, noun derivative of a verbal base *k w i\u032feh 1 - \"have a rest,\" whence Avestan \u0161\u0301ii\u0101- \"be glad,\" Old Church Slavic po\u010dij\u01eb, po\u010diti \"to have a rest\" (causative pokoj\u01eb, pokoiti \"to calm, quiet\"), Armenian han geaw \"has rested,\" and (from deverbal *k w i\u032feh 1 -to- ) Avestan \u0161\u0301ii\u0101ta- \"peaceful, happy,\" Old Persian \u0161iy\u0101ta-, Latin qui\u0113tus \"at rest, quiet entry 2 \"":"Noun",
"Middle English quieten, borrowed from Late Latin qui\u0113t\u0101re \"to become quiet, make quiet, put to rest,\" derivative of Latin qui\u0113tus \"at rest, quiet entry 2 \"":"Verb",
"Middle English quyet, quyete, quiete, borrowed from Anglo-French & Middle French quiete, borrowed from Latin qui\u0113tus \"at rest, inactive, peaceful\" \u2014 more at quiet entry 1":"Adjective",
"derivative of quiet entry 2":"Adverb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kw\u012b-\u0259t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"hush",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"quietness",
"quietude",
"repose",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"still",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214332",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"quiet (down)":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to become quiet or quieter : to become calmer or less noisy":[
"The children started to quiet down after dinner.",
"He told the crowd to quiet down .",
"Things are quieting down in town."
]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005127",
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
]
},
"quiet day":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a day set apart in the Anglican church for special devotions, meditations, and instructions":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181448",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quiet down":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to become quiet or quieter : to become calmer or less noisy":[
"The children started to quiet down after dinner.",
"He told the crowd to quiet down .",
"Things are quieting down in town."
]
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"pronounciation":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063535",
"type":[
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]
},
"quieted":{
"antonyms":[
"arcadian",
"calm",
"hushed",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"restful",
"serene",
"still",
"stilly",
"tranquil"
],
"definitions":{
": carried out secretly or discreetly":[
"quiet diplomacy",
"worked with quiet determination",
"She had a quiet confidence about her.",
"He took a quiet satisfaction in a job well done."
],
": enjoyed in peace and relaxation":[
"quiet reading",
"a moment of quiet contemplation",
"a quiet cup of tea"
],
": free from noise or uproar : still":[
"a quiet room",
"The lights went down and the theater became quiet ."
],
": gentle , easygoing":[
"a quiet temperament"
],
": in a quiet manner":[
"an engine that runs quiet"
],
": in a secretive manner : in secret":[],
": making or involving no noise or very little noise":[
"a quiet motor",
"a quiet conversation",
"Everyone suddenly went quiet .",
"Please be quiet \u2014people are trying to study."
],
": marked by little or no motion or activity : calm":[
"a quiet sea",
"At such an early hour, the streets seemed strangely quiet ."
],
": not disturbed by noise or activity":[
"quiet reading",
"a moment of quiet contemplation",
"a quiet cup of tea"
],
": not made known openly or publicly":[
"quiet diplomacy",
"worked with quiet determination",
"She had a quiet confidence about her.",
"He took a quiet satisfaction in a job well done."
],
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],
": tending to speak very little : not loquacious":[
"He was a quiet , reserved person."
],
": the quality or state of being quiet (see quiet entry 2 ) : tranquility":[],
": to become quiet":[
"\u2014 usually used with down"
],
": to cause to be quiet : calm":[],
": to make secure by freeing from dispute or question":[
"quiet title to a property"
],
": unobtrusive , conservative":[
"quiet clothes/colors"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"My hostess told me she had some records I might like to hear and she called for quiet in the room. People sat down on the floor in groups, sharing bottles of wine and slivovitz. The host put the record on a windup record player and Lester Young's saxophone yowled out of the silence. \u2014 Maya Angelou , Gourmet , November 2002",
"When my parents needed peace and quiet , they didn't put me in front of the television to watch a \"Baby Einstein\" video; they plopped me in a chair to watch my mom do housework or cook. \u2014 Robb Moretti , Newsweek , 5 Aug. 2002",
"the quiet of a wooded trail",
"Can I have some quiet here? I'm trying to study.",
"I need a little peace and quiet .",
"Adjective",
"Breakfast at the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, a members-only institution founded in the city now called Mumbai in 1846 by British colonial officers, is a meal of quiet elegance. The second-story veranda looks out over a small garden and, beyond that, the Gateway of India and the Taj Mahal Hotel. Outside is the tumult of horse-drawn carriages, touts, and taxis. Inside is peaceful stillness, broken only by the sounds of crunched-on toast and rustling newspapers. \u2014 Lyla Bavadam , Saveur , October 2008",
"One change I notice is that I get sleepy earlier than I used to, sometimes by 8:30 or 9 if I am having a quiet evening at home. \u2014 Andrew Weil , Time , 17 Oct. 2005",
"I interviewed Virginia, who is totally blind, in a small local library. Walking with her guide dog, this young-looking woman arrived soon after I came in. We found a quiet corner to sit and talk while her dog settled beside her chair. At forty-three, Virginia was used to telling her story and found time for our interview in her busy travel schedule. She had just returned from San Francisco where she had spoken at the California Academy of Sciences and was about to leave for Montreal, Canada, to conduct workshops in diversity awareness. \u2014 Mary Grimley Mason , Working Against Odds , 2004",
"Attributing their behaviors to their personal dispositions, we decide Julie is shy and Jack is outgoing. Because people do have enduring personality traits, such attributions are sometimes valid. However, we often overestimate the influence of personality and underestimate the influence of situations. In class, Jack may be as quiet as Julie. Catch Julie at a party and you may hardly recognize your quiet classmate. \u2014 David G. Myers , Psychology , 2001",
"the quiet hum of the refrigerator",
"He spoke in a very quiet voice.",
"Surprisingly, the class was quiet .",
"He's a very quiet person.",
"She has a quiet disposition.",
"During the morning, business was quiet .",
"Some days at the store are quieter than others.",
"a quiet stretch of road",
"He led a quiet life.",
"Adverb",
"lie quiet and no one will guess you're hiding under the bed",
"Verb",
"Clemens had few questions to answer about Piazza. The beanball and broken bat from 2000, and the Mets' tepid retaliation last season, were memories. And since Clemens recorded his 300th victory on June 13, the buzz around him has quieted . \u2014 Tyler Kepner , New York Times , 29 June 2003",
"When she walked down the hall past his classroom, the sounds of chaos came over the frosted-glass pane above the door. She had taken to making random visits; the sight of her in the doorway quieted the kids. \u2014 Mary Gordon , Atlantic , May 1999",
"Even with that, Presser was so scared that he fled to Florida and moved from hotel to hotel till the gang war quieted down, with his side on top. \u2014 A. H. Raskin , New York Times Book Review , 10 Dec. 1989",
"the museum docent told the rowdy youngsters to quiet down for the tour",
"quiet a crying toddler with candy",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"For those seeking an escape from the bustle of urban living, the most coveted vacation includes total immersion in the peace and quiet of the outdoors. \u2014 Kimberly Lyn, Travel + Leisure , 19 June 2022",
"Many of the people filling up Midtown\u2019s public spaces these days are not tourists but New Yorkers who rediscovered its charms during the quiet of the pandemic. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"That could mean ghostly Newton issuing warnings between slugs of gin and tornado gusts, or Farraday gulping gallons of water for dear life, or Justin trying to keep herself together in the eerie quiet of the Floods\u2019 ancestral home. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The launches set off air-raid sirens across parts of southern Israel, disrupting the quiet of the Passover holiday week. \u2014 Tia Goldenberg, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The launches set off air-raid sirens across parts of southern Israel, disrupting the quiet of the Passover holiday week. \u2014 Tia Goldenberg, ajc , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The most incredible trick of all was that Teller, the quiet of the two, performed vocal duties on the number. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 7 Apr. 2022",
"But the relative quiet is deceptive: Policy is moving at a breakneck pace. \u2014 Ezra Klein New York Times, Star Tribune , 5 Mar. 2021",
"In the town of Lyman, where fighting has raged in recent weeks, civilians used the relative quiet to make frantic dashes to the armored evacuation buses organized by the regional government. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Early Saturday morning before festivities began, a few tourists were meandering around Bisbee's quiet and quaint streets. \u2014 Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic , 18 June 2022",
"Even as his drives have picked up layers of explosiveness, the 27-year-old from Suffield, England, is quiet and reserved. \u2014 Jim Mccabe, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"Most people don\u2019t think to go to the second floor \u2013 sometimes referred to as a mezzanine \u2013 to find plenty of seating, quiet , and AC plugs, too. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"At first, my Class experiences were quiet and tame. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 14 June 2022",
"Dear Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 14 June 2022",
"Dear Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 14 June 2022",
"Magnuson is comfortable in his rancher\u2019s skin, with an amiable smile, rugged good looks, and a quiet and shy demeanor that nevertheless seeks to accommodate a small group of media firing questions at him on a recent May morning in Castle Dale, Utah. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Some of the same companies staying quiet now have spoken up on human-rights issues in other parts of the world. \u2014 Georgi Kantchev, WSJ , 23 Jan. 2022",
"This quiet -running progressive resistance bike trainer that offers a road-like feel is once again our top choice for the best model. \u2014 Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com , 25 Sep. 2020",
"The Stadio San Paolo, Napoli's famed crumbling colosseum, erupted as Mertens headed home from Adrian's save, only to fall quiet after seeing the linesman's flag raised for an obvious offside. \u2014 Matias Grez, CNN , 17 Sep. 2019",
"Then, at some random moment, the atom goes quiet , signaling that the atom has entered the dark state. \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 5 June 2019",
"When the sun is up, the city center is crowded, but the streets empty as night falls, quiet except for the occasional sound of gunfire and rockets exploding on the outskirts of town. \u2014 Najim Rahim, David Jolly And Ahmad Shakib, New York Times , 6 Feb. 2016",
"The boat goes quiet except for the occasional flap of the sail. \u2014 Chris Jones, Esquire , 15 Sep. 2010",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The Marcos family can quiet detractors by actively engaging in reform, Mendoza said. \u2014 Regine Cabato, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Hiding away these books will quiet diverse voices, diminish our education system, and sanitize American history for the comfort of white folks. \u2014 Michael Arceneaux, The Week , 1 Feb. 2022",
"UConn hit four home runs to quiet a sellout crowd and stun top-seeded Maryland, 10-5, in the NCAA baseball regional Saturday night at College Park, Md. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 4 June 2022",
"Musk has been none to quiet about his criticism for Agrawal and current-state Twitter. \u2014 Abram Brown, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Mosby repeatedly had to hammer a gavel to quiet the unrest. \u2014 Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The email obtained by The Post shows the campaign went to considerable lengths to keep the effort quiet in advance. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
"The couple were spotted a few times through the office's windows, playfully entertaining various young royals \u2014 and also holding a finger over their mouth to encourage them to quiet down at points. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 3 June 2022",
"But both men itch to turn this peace and quiet into blood and bone. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 2 June 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2b":"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1573, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English quiet, quiete, borrowed from Anglo-French quiete, borrowed from Latin qui\u0113t-, qui\u0113s \"repose, sleep, rest, peaceful conditions,\" going back to Indo-European *k w i\u032feh 1 -ti-, noun derivative of a verbal base *k w i\u032feh 1 - \"have a rest,\" whence Avestan \u0161\u0301ii\u0101- \"be glad,\" Old Church Slavic po\u010dij\u01eb, po\u010diti \"to have a rest\" (causative pokoj\u01eb, pokoiti \"to calm, quiet\"), Armenian han geaw \"has rested,\" and (from deverbal *k w i\u032feh 1 -to- ) Avestan \u0161\u0301ii\u0101ta- \"peaceful, happy,\" Old Persian \u0161iy\u0101ta-, Latin qui\u0113tus \"at rest, quiet entry 2 \"":"Noun",
"Middle English quieten, borrowed from Late Latin qui\u0113t\u0101re \"to become quiet, make quiet, put to rest,\" derivative of Latin qui\u0113tus \"at rest, quiet entry 2 \"":"Verb",
"Middle English quyet, quyete, quiete, borrowed from Anglo-French & Middle French quiete, borrowed from Latin qui\u0113tus \"at rest, inactive, peaceful\" \u2014 more at quiet entry 1":"Adjective",
"derivative of quiet entry 2":"Adverb"
},
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"\u02c8kw\u012b-\u0259t"
],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Spain's striker-free formation initially flummoxed the Azzurri to quieten its loud, colourful, flag-waving fans behind one of the goals. \u2014 Steve Douglas, Star Tribune , 6 July 2021",
"He is still thought to be a key target of Tottenham's, but after signing Tanguy Ndombele from Lyon, talk of a move has begun to quieten - even though Betis appear to be more willing to sell after signing Nabil Fekir from Lyon. \u2014 SI.com , 30 July 2019",
"The Manchester club were heavily linked with a move for the Serbian prior to the 2018 World Cup, but talks of a deal quietened following his underwhelming performances in the tournament. \u2014 SI.com , 9 July 2019",
"Tocilizumab is approved to quieten the chatter of immune molecules in rheumatoid arthritis and in some types of cancer. \u2014 Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times , 1 Apr. 2020",
"Talk of that move has since quietened , but Griezmann's latest comments could add fuel to the fire once again. \u2014 SI.com , 23 July 2019",
"Eight months later, Fleabag isn't old news, but the furore has quietened . \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 18 Nov. 2019",
"But in an Arthur Ashe stadium full to the brim with vociferous Argentine supporters, Nadal hit 35 winners and broke serve eight times to quieten the crowd and overcome the combative Schwartzman in just under three hours. \u2014 Ben Morse, CNN , 5 Sep. 2019",
"The riots which convulsed Hong Kong in 1967, which were inspired by the Cultural Revolution in China, took eight months to quieten down. \u2014 The Economist , 20 Aug. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The pop, crackle and whiz of fireworks this July 4 may be a little quieter than normal as supply-chain issues have caused shortages of the dazzle devices and caused cities to cancel several public displays. \u2014 Rebekah L. Sanders, The Arizona Republic , 2 July 2022",
"For starters, the ear-piercing shrieks of fans lining up to meet their favorite creators were just a little quieter . \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 29 June 2022",
"Being nearly a month in with only one named Atlantic storm -- Alex -- seems a little quieter , at least compared to the last several years. \u2014 Jennifer Gray, CNN , 27 June 2022",
"Clubs, theaters and arenas that tend to be quieter during the warm-weather months have plenty of action \u2014 and some stand-out bookings. \u2014 Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 25 May 2022",
"Restaurants, bars and gyms that were once packed are now noticeably quieter . \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
"Because La Nina has a different effect in the Pacific and conditions usually are opposite, earlier this month NOAA predicted a quieter than normal Pacific storm season. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, Chicago Tribune , 24 May 2022",
"Because La Nina has a different effect in the Pacific and conditions usually are opposite, earlier this month NOAA predicted a quieter than normal Pacific storm season. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, BostonGlobe.com , 24 May 2022",
"Imagine a quieter , more civically minded social media. \u2014 Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic , 17 May 2022"
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"Noun",
"My hostess told me she had some records I might like to hear and she called for quiet in the room. People sat down on the floor in groups, sharing bottles of wine and slivovitz. The host put the record on a windup record player and Lester Young's saxophone yowled out of the silence. \u2014 Maya Angelou , Gourmet , November 2002",
"When my parents needed peace and quiet , they didn't put me in front of the television to watch a \"Baby Einstein\" video; they plopped me in a chair to watch my mom do housework or cook. \u2014 Robb Moretti , Newsweek , 5 Aug. 2002",
"the quiet of a wooded trail",
"Can I have some quiet here? I'm trying to study.",
"I need a little peace and quiet .",
"Adjective",
"Breakfast at the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, a members-only institution founded in the city now called Mumbai in 1846 by British colonial officers, is a meal of quiet elegance. The second-story veranda looks out over a small garden and, beyond that, the Gateway of India and the Taj Mahal Hotel. Outside is the tumult of horse-drawn carriages, touts, and taxis. Inside is peaceful stillness, broken only by the sounds of crunched-on toast and rustling newspapers. \u2014 Lyla Bavadam , Saveur , October 2008",
"One change I notice is that I get sleepy earlier than I used to, sometimes by 8:30 or 9 if I am having a quiet evening at home. \u2014 Andrew Weil , Time , 17 Oct. 2005",
"I interviewed Virginia, who is totally blind, in a small local library. Walking with her guide dog, this young-looking woman arrived soon after I came in. We found a quiet corner to sit and talk while her dog settled beside her chair. At forty-three, Virginia was used to telling her story and found time for our interview in her busy travel schedule. She had just returned from San Francisco where she had spoken at the California Academy of Sciences and was about to leave for Montreal, Canada, to conduct workshops in diversity awareness. \u2014 Mary Grimley Mason , Working Against Odds , 2004",
"Attributing their behaviors to their personal dispositions, we decide Julie is shy and Jack is outgoing. Because people do have enduring personality traits, such attributions are sometimes valid. However, we often overestimate the influence of personality and underestimate the influence of situations. In class, Jack may be as quiet as Julie. Catch Julie at a party and you may hardly recognize your quiet classmate. \u2014 David G. Myers , Psychology , 2001",
"the quiet hum of the refrigerator",
"He spoke in a very quiet voice.",
"Surprisingly, the class was quiet .",
"He's a very quiet person.",
"She has a quiet disposition.",
"During the morning, business was quiet .",
"Some days at the store are quieter than others.",
"a quiet stretch of road",
"He led a quiet life.",
"Adverb",
"lie quiet and no one will guess you're hiding under the bed",
"Verb",
"Clemens had few questions to answer about Piazza. The beanball and broken bat from 2000, and the Mets' tepid retaliation last season, were memories. And since Clemens recorded his 300th victory on June 13, the buzz around him has quieted . \u2014 Tyler Kepner , New York Times , 29 June 2003",
"When she walked down the hall past his classroom, the sounds of chaos came over the frosted-glass pane above the door. She had taken to making random visits; the sight of her in the doorway quieted the kids. \u2014 Mary Gordon , Atlantic , May 1999",
"Even with that, Presser was so scared that he fled to Florida and moved from hotel to hotel till the gang war quieted down, with his side on top. \u2014 A. H. Raskin , New York Times Book Review , 10 Dec. 1989",
"the museum docent told the rowdy youngsters to quiet down for the tour",
"quiet a crying toddler with candy",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"For those seeking an escape from the bustle of urban living, the most coveted vacation includes total immersion in the peace and quiet of the outdoors. \u2014 Kimberly Lyn, Travel + Leisure , 19 June 2022",
"Many of the people filling up Midtown\u2019s public spaces these days are not tourists but New Yorkers who rediscovered its charms during the quiet of the pandemic. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"That could mean ghostly Newton issuing warnings between slugs of gin and tornado gusts, or Farraday gulping gallons of water for dear life, or Justin trying to keep herself together in the eerie quiet of the Floods\u2019 ancestral home. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The launches set off air-raid sirens across parts of southern Israel, disrupting the quiet of the Passover holiday week. \u2014 Tia Goldenberg, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The launches set off air-raid sirens across parts of southern Israel, disrupting the quiet of the Passover holiday week. \u2014 Tia Goldenberg, ajc , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The most incredible trick of all was that Teller, the quiet of the two, performed vocal duties on the number. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 7 Apr. 2022",
"But the relative quiet is deceptive: Policy is moving at a breakneck pace. \u2014 Ezra Klein New York Times, Star Tribune , 5 Mar. 2021",
"In the town of Lyman, where fighting has raged in recent weeks, civilians used the relative quiet to make frantic dashes to the armored evacuation buses organized by the regional government. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Early Saturday morning before festivities began, a few tourists were meandering around Bisbee's quiet and quaint streets. \u2014 Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic , 18 June 2022",
"Even as his drives have picked up layers of explosiveness, the 27-year-old from Suffield, England, is quiet and reserved. \u2014 Jim Mccabe, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"Most people don\u2019t think to go to the second floor \u2013 sometimes referred to as a mezzanine \u2013 to find plenty of seating, quiet , and AC plugs, too. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"At first, my Class experiences were quiet and tame. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 14 June 2022",
"Dear Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 14 June 2022",
"Dear Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 14 June 2022",
"Magnuson is comfortable in his rancher\u2019s skin, with an amiable smile, rugged good looks, and a quiet and shy demeanor that nevertheless seeks to accommodate a small group of media firing questions at him on a recent May morning in Castle Dale, Utah. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Some of the same companies staying quiet now have spoken up on human-rights issues in other parts of the world. \u2014 Georgi Kantchev, WSJ , 23 Jan. 2022",
"This quiet -running progressive resistance bike trainer that offers a road-like feel is once again our top choice for the best model. \u2014 Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com , 25 Sep. 2020",
"The Stadio San Paolo, Napoli's famed crumbling colosseum, erupted as Mertens headed home from Adrian's save, only to fall quiet after seeing the linesman's flag raised for an obvious offside. \u2014 Matias Grez, CNN , 17 Sep. 2019",
"Then, at some random moment, the atom goes quiet , signaling that the atom has entered the dark state. \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 5 June 2019",
"When the sun is up, the city center is crowded, but the streets empty as night falls, quiet except for the occasional sound of gunfire and rockets exploding on the outskirts of town. \u2014 Najim Rahim, David Jolly And Ahmad Shakib, New York Times , 6 Feb. 2016",
"The boat goes quiet except for the occasional flap of the sail. \u2014 Chris Jones, Esquire , 15 Sep. 2010",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The Marcos family can quiet detractors by actively engaging in reform, Mendoza said. \u2014 Regine Cabato, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Hiding away these books will quiet diverse voices, diminish our education system, and sanitize American history for the comfort of white folks. \u2014 Michael Arceneaux, The Week , 1 Feb. 2022",
"UConn hit four home runs to quiet a sellout crowd and stun top-seeded Maryland, 10-5, in the NCAA baseball regional Saturday night at College Park, Md. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 4 June 2022",
"Musk has been none to quiet about his criticism for Agrawal and current-state Twitter. \u2014 Abram Brown, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Mosby repeatedly had to hammer a gavel to quiet the unrest. \u2014 Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The email obtained by The Post shows the campaign went to considerable lengths to keep the effort quiet in advance. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
"The couple were spotted a few times through the office's windows, playfully entertaining various young royals \u2014 and also holding a finger over their mouth to encourage them to quiet down at points. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 3 June 2022",
"But both men itch to turn this peace and quiet into blood and bone. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 2 June 2022"
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"Middle English quyet, quyete, quiete, borrowed from Anglo-French & Middle French quiete, borrowed from Latin qui\u0113tus \"at rest, inactive, peaceful\" \u2014 more at quiet entry 1":"Adjective",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Prayer is often seen as quietism , a plea to be rescued instead of a call to action. \u2014 David S. Wallace, The New Yorker , 15 Sep. 2021",
"To their children, this position seems like unforgivable quietism and complacency. \u2014 Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker , 9 Dec. 2019",
"What was an ultimately unsuccessful effort to draw the monkhood out of its political quietism swiftly mutated into an anti-progressive force, and continued to endure as a dark cloud over the region\u2019s politics in subsequent decades. \u2014 Amar Diwakar, The New Republic , 23 Mar. 2018",
"What was an ultimately unsuccessful effort to draw the monkhood out of its political quietism swiftly mutated into an anti-progressive force, and continued to endure as a dark cloud over the region\u2019s politics in subsequent decades. \u2014 Amar Diwakar, The New Republic , 23 Mar. 2018",
"To acknowledge this fact is not to call for quietism . \u2014 Jacob Brogan, Slate Magazine , 27 Mar. 2017",
"The piece predicts that political quietism , wars, pandemics, and fossil-fuel stubbornness will lead to civilizational collapse and a long dark age. \u2014 Joey Eschrich, Slate Magazine , 20 Sep. 2017",
"Diana was more aggressive, the clamorous defender of quietism . \u2014 Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker , 29 May 2017"
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"Noun",
"My hostess told me she had some records I might like to hear and she called for quiet in the room. People sat down on the floor in groups, sharing bottles of wine and slivovitz. The host put the record on a windup record player and Lester Young's saxophone yowled out of the silence. \u2014 Maya Angelou , Gourmet , November 2002",
"When my parents needed peace and quiet , they didn't put me in front of the television to watch a \"Baby Einstein\" video; they plopped me in a chair to watch my mom do housework or cook. \u2014 Robb Moretti , Newsweek , 5 Aug. 2002",
"the quiet of a wooded trail",
"Can I have some quiet here? I'm trying to study.",
"I need a little peace and quiet .",
"Adjective",
"Breakfast at the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, a members-only institution founded in the city now called Mumbai in 1846 by British colonial officers, is a meal of quiet elegance. The second-story veranda looks out over a small garden and, beyond that, the Gateway of India and the Taj Mahal Hotel. Outside is the tumult of horse-drawn carriages, touts, and taxis. Inside is peaceful stillness, broken only by the sounds of crunched-on toast and rustling newspapers. \u2014 Lyla Bavadam , Saveur , October 2008",
"One change I notice is that I get sleepy earlier than I used to, sometimes by 8:30 or 9 if I am having a quiet evening at home. \u2014 Andrew Weil , Time , 17 Oct. 2005",
"I interviewed Virginia, who is totally blind, in a small local library. Walking with her guide dog, this young-looking woman arrived soon after I came in. We found a quiet corner to sit and talk while her dog settled beside her chair. At forty-three, Virginia was used to telling her story and found time for our interview in her busy travel schedule. She had just returned from San Francisco where she had spoken at the California Academy of Sciences and was about to leave for Montreal, Canada, to conduct workshops in diversity awareness. \u2014 Mary Grimley Mason , Working Against Odds , 2004",
"Attributing their behaviors to their personal dispositions, we decide Julie is shy and Jack is outgoing. Because people do have enduring personality traits, such attributions are sometimes valid. However, we often overestimate the influence of personality and underestimate the influence of situations. In class, Jack may be as quiet as Julie. Catch Julie at a party and you may hardly recognize your quiet classmate. \u2014 David G. Myers , Psychology , 2001",
"the quiet hum of the refrigerator",
"He spoke in a very quiet voice.",
"Surprisingly, the class was quiet .",
"He's a very quiet person.",
"She has a quiet disposition.",
"During the morning, business was quiet .",
"Some days at the store are quieter than others.",
"a quiet stretch of road",
"He led a quiet life.",
"Adverb",
"lie quiet and no one will guess you're hiding under the bed",
"Verb",
"Clemens had few questions to answer about Piazza. The beanball and broken bat from 2000, and the Mets' tepid retaliation last season, were memories. And since Clemens recorded his 300th victory on June 13, the buzz around him has quieted . \u2014 Tyler Kepner , New York Times , 29 June 2003",
"When she walked down the hall past his classroom, the sounds of chaos came over the frosted-glass pane above the door. She had taken to making random visits; the sight of her in the doorway quieted the kids. \u2014 Mary Gordon , Atlantic , May 1999",
"Even with that, Presser was so scared that he fled to Florida and moved from hotel to hotel till the gang war quieted down, with his side on top. \u2014 A. H. Raskin , New York Times Book Review , 10 Dec. 1989",
"the museum docent told the rowdy youngsters to quiet down for the tour",
"quiet a crying toddler with candy",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"For those seeking an escape from the bustle of urban living, the most coveted vacation includes total immersion in the peace and quiet of the outdoors. \u2014 Kimberly Lyn, Travel + Leisure , 19 June 2022",
"Many of the people filling up Midtown\u2019s public spaces these days are not tourists but New Yorkers who rediscovered its charms during the quiet of the pandemic. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"That could mean ghostly Newton issuing warnings between slugs of gin and tornado gusts, or Farraday gulping gallons of water for dear life, or Justin trying to keep herself together in the eerie quiet of the Floods\u2019 ancestral home. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The launches set off air-raid sirens across parts of southern Israel, disrupting the quiet of the Passover holiday week. \u2014 Tia Goldenberg, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The launches set off air-raid sirens across parts of southern Israel, disrupting the quiet of the Passover holiday week. \u2014 Tia Goldenberg, ajc , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The most incredible trick of all was that Teller, the quiet of the two, performed vocal duties on the number. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 7 Apr. 2022",
"But the relative quiet is deceptive: Policy is moving at a breakneck pace. \u2014 Ezra Klein New York Times, Star Tribune , 5 Mar. 2021",
"In the town of Lyman, where fighting has raged in recent weeks, civilians used the relative quiet to make frantic dashes to the armored evacuation buses organized by the regional government. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Early Saturday morning before festivities began, a few tourists were meandering around Bisbee's quiet and quaint streets. \u2014 Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic , 18 June 2022",
"Even as his drives have picked up layers of explosiveness, the 27-year-old from Suffield, England, is quiet and reserved. \u2014 Jim Mccabe, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"Most people don\u2019t think to go to the second floor \u2013 sometimes referred to as a mezzanine \u2013 to find plenty of seating, quiet , and AC plugs, too. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"At first, my Class experiences were quiet and tame. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 14 June 2022",
"Dear Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 14 June 2022",
"Dear Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 14 June 2022",
"Magnuson is comfortable in his rancher\u2019s skin, with an amiable smile, rugged good looks, and a quiet and shy demeanor that nevertheless seeks to accommodate a small group of media firing questions at him on a recent May morning in Castle Dale, Utah. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Some of the same companies staying quiet now have spoken up on human-rights issues in other parts of the world. \u2014 Georgi Kantchev, WSJ , 23 Jan. 2022",
"This quiet -running progressive resistance bike trainer that offers a road-like feel is once again our top choice for the best model. \u2014 Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com , 25 Sep. 2020",
"The Stadio San Paolo, Napoli's famed crumbling colosseum, erupted as Mertens headed home from Adrian's save, only to fall quiet after seeing the linesman's flag raised for an obvious offside. \u2014 Matias Grez, CNN , 17 Sep. 2019",
"Then, at some random moment, the atom goes quiet , signaling that the atom has entered the dark state. \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 5 June 2019",
"When the sun is up, the city center is crowded, but the streets empty as night falls, quiet except for the occasional sound of gunfire and rockets exploding on the outskirts of town. \u2014 Najim Rahim, David Jolly And Ahmad Shakib, New York Times , 6 Feb. 2016",
"The boat goes quiet except for the occasional flap of the sail. \u2014 Chris Jones, Esquire , 15 Sep. 2010",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The Marcos family can quiet detractors by actively engaging in reform, Mendoza said. \u2014 Regine Cabato, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Hiding away these books will quiet diverse voices, diminish our education system, and sanitize American history for the comfort of white folks. \u2014 Michael Arceneaux, The Week , 1 Feb. 2022",
"UConn hit four home runs to quiet a sellout crowd and stun top-seeded Maryland, 10-5, in the NCAA baseball regional Saturday night at College Park, Md. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 4 June 2022",
"Musk has been none to quiet about his criticism for Agrawal and current-state Twitter. \u2014 Abram Brown, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Mosby repeatedly had to hammer a gavel to quiet the unrest. \u2014 Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The email obtained by The Post shows the campaign went to considerable lengths to keep the effort quiet in advance. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
"The couple were spotted a few times through the office's windows, playfully entertaining various young royals \u2014 and also holding a finger over their mouth to encourage them to quiet down at points. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 3 June 2022",
"But both men itch to turn this peace and quiet into blood and bone. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 2 June 2022"
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"Middle English quieten, borrowed from Late Latin qui\u0113t\u0101re \"to become quiet, make quiet, put to rest,\" derivative of Latin qui\u0113tus \"at rest, quiet entry 2 \"":"Verb",
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"worked with quiet determination",
"She had a quiet confidence about her.",
"He took a quiet satisfaction in a job well done."
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"a quiet cup of tea"
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"The lights went down and the theater became quiet ."
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"a quiet conversation",
"Everyone suddenly went quiet .",
"Please be quiet \u2014people are trying to study."
],
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"a quiet sea",
"At such an early hour, the streets seemed strangely quiet ."
],
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"quiet reading",
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"a quiet cup of tea"
],
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"quiet diplomacy",
"worked with quiet determination",
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"He took a quiet satisfaction in a job well done."
],
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"He was a quiet , reserved person."
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"\u2014 usually used with down"
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": to make secure by freeing from dispute or question":[
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"Noun",
"My hostess told me she had some records I might like to hear and she called for quiet in the room. People sat down on the floor in groups, sharing bottles of wine and slivovitz. The host put the record on a windup record player and Lester Young's saxophone yowled out of the silence. \u2014 Maya Angelou , Gourmet , November 2002",
"When my parents needed peace and quiet , they didn't put me in front of the television to watch a \"Baby Einstein\" video; they plopped me in a chair to watch my mom do housework or cook. \u2014 Robb Moretti , Newsweek , 5 Aug. 2002",
"the quiet of a wooded trail",
"Can I have some quiet here? I'm trying to study.",
"I need a little peace and quiet .",
"Adjective",
"Breakfast at the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, a members-only institution founded in the city now called Mumbai in 1846 by British colonial officers, is a meal of quiet elegance. The second-story veranda looks out over a small garden and, beyond that, the Gateway of India and the Taj Mahal Hotel. Outside is the tumult of horse-drawn carriages, touts, and taxis. Inside is peaceful stillness, broken only by the sounds of crunched-on toast and rustling newspapers. \u2014 Lyla Bavadam , Saveur , October 2008",
"One change I notice is that I get sleepy earlier than I used to, sometimes by 8:30 or 9 if I am having a quiet evening at home. \u2014 Andrew Weil , Time , 17 Oct. 2005",
"I interviewed Virginia, who is totally blind, in a small local library. Walking with her guide dog, this young-looking woman arrived soon after I came in. We found a quiet corner to sit and talk while her dog settled beside her chair. At forty-three, Virginia was used to telling her story and found time for our interview in her busy travel schedule. She had just returned from San Francisco where she had spoken at the California Academy of Sciences and was about to leave for Montreal, Canada, to conduct workshops in diversity awareness. \u2014 Mary Grimley Mason , Working Against Odds , 2004",
"Attributing their behaviors to their personal dispositions, we decide Julie is shy and Jack is outgoing. Because people do have enduring personality traits, such attributions are sometimes valid. However, we often overestimate the influence of personality and underestimate the influence of situations. In class, Jack may be as quiet as Julie. Catch Julie at a party and you may hardly recognize your quiet classmate. \u2014 David G. Myers , Psychology , 2001",
"the quiet hum of the refrigerator",
"He spoke in a very quiet voice.",
"Surprisingly, the class was quiet .",
"He's a very quiet person.",
"She has a quiet disposition.",
"During the morning, business was quiet .",
"Some days at the store are quieter than others.",
"a quiet stretch of road",
"He led a quiet life.",
"Adverb",
"lie quiet and no one will guess you're hiding under the bed",
"Verb",
"Clemens had few questions to answer about Piazza. The beanball and broken bat from 2000, and the Mets' tepid retaliation last season, were memories. And since Clemens recorded his 300th victory on June 13, the buzz around him has quieted . \u2014 Tyler Kepner , New York Times , 29 June 2003",
"When she walked down the hall past his classroom, the sounds of chaos came over the frosted-glass pane above the door. She had taken to making random visits; the sight of her in the doorway quieted the kids. \u2014 Mary Gordon , Atlantic , May 1999",
"Even with that, Presser was so scared that he fled to Florida and moved from hotel to hotel till the gang war quieted down, with his side on top. \u2014 A. H. Raskin , New York Times Book Review , 10 Dec. 1989",
"the museum docent told the rowdy youngsters to quiet down for the tour",
"quiet a crying toddler with candy",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"For those seeking an escape from the bustle of urban living, the most coveted vacation includes total immersion in the peace and quiet of the outdoors. \u2014 Kimberly Lyn, Travel + Leisure , 19 June 2022",
"Many of the people filling up Midtown\u2019s public spaces these days are not tourists but New Yorkers who rediscovered its charms during the quiet of the pandemic. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"That could mean ghostly Newton issuing warnings between slugs of gin and tornado gusts, or Farraday gulping gallons of water for dear life, or Justin trying to keep herself together in the eerie quiet of the Floods\u2019 ancestral home. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The launches set off air-raid sirens across parts of southern Israel, disrupting the quiet of the Passover holiday week. \u2014 Tia Goldenberg, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The launches set off air-raid sirens across parts of southern Israel, disrupting the quiet of the Passover holiday week. \u2014 Tia Goldenberg, ajc , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The most incredible trick of all was that Teller, the quiet of the two, performed vocal duties on the number. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 7 Apr. 2022",
"But the relative quiet is deceptive: Policy is moving at a breakneck pace. \u2014 Ezra Klein New York Times, Star Tribune , 5 Mar. 2021",
"In the town of Lyman, where fighting has raged in recent weeks, civilians used the relative quiet to make frantic dashes to the armored evacuation buses organized by the regional government. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Early Saturday morning before festivities began, a few tourists were meandering around Bisbee's quiet and quaint streets. \u2014 Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic , 18 June 2022",
"Even as his drives have picked up layers of explosiveness, the 27-year-old from Suffield, England, is quiet and reserved. \u2014 Jim Mccabe, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"Most people don\u2019t think to go to the second floor \u2013 sometimes referred to as a mezzanine \u2013 to find plenty of seating, quiet , and AC plugs, too. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"At first, my Class experiences were quiet and tame. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 14 June 2022",
"Dear Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 14 June 2022",
"Dear Attentive: Speaking for a child is a habit that many parents have; for some, this may start when their child is very young, quiet or shy. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 14 June 2022",
"Magnuson is comfortable in his rancher\u2019s skin, with an amiable smile, rugged good looks, and a quiet and shy demeanor that nevertheless seeks to accommodate a small group of media firing questions at him on a recent May morning in Castle Dale, Utah. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Some of the same companies staying quiet now have spoken up on human-rights issues in other parts of the world. \u2014 Georgi Kantchev, WSJ , 23 Jan. 2022",
"This quiet -running progressive resistance bike trainer that offers a road-like feel is once again our top choice for the best model. \u2014 Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com , 25 Sep. 2020",
"The Stadio San Paolo, Napoli's famed crumbling colosseum, erupted as Mertens headed home from Adrian's save, only to fall quiet after seeing the linesman's flag raised for an obvious offside. \u2014 Matias Grez, CNN , 17 Sep. 2019",
"Then, at some random moment, the atom goes quiet , signaling that the atom has entered the dark state. \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 5 June 2019",
"When the sun is up, the city center is crowded, but the streets empty as night falls, quiet except for the occasional sound of gunfire and rockets exploding on the outskirts of town. \u2014 Najim Rahim, David Jolly And Ahmad Shakib, New York Times , 6 Feb. 2016",
"The boat goes quiet except for the occasional flap of the sail. \u2014 Chris Jones, Esquire , 15 Sep. 2010",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The Marcos family can quiet detractors by actively engaging in reform, Mendoza said. \u2014 Regine Cabato, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Hiding away these books will quiet diverse voices, diminish our education system, and sanitize American history for the comfort of white folks. \u2014 Michael Arceneaux, The Week , 1 Feb. 2022",
"UConn hit four home runs to quiet a sellout crowd and stun top-seeded Maryland, 10-5, in the NCAA baseball regional Saturday night at College Park, Md. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 4 June 2022",
"Musk has been none to quiet about his criticism for Agrawal and current-state Twitter. \u2014 Abram Brown, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Mosby repeatedly had to hammer a gavel to quiet the unrest. \u2014 Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The email obtained by The Post shows the campaign went to considerable lengths to keep the effort quiet in advance. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
"The couple were spotted a few times through the office's windows, playfully entertaining various young royals \u2014 and also holding a finger over their mouth to encourage them to quiet down at points. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 3 June 2022",
"But both men itch to turn this peace and quiet into blood and bone. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 2 June 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2b":"Adjective",
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"Middle English quieten, borrowed from Late Latin qui\u0113t\u0101re \"to become quiet, make quiet, put to rest,\" derivative of Latin qui\u0113tus \"at rest, quiet entry 2 \"":"Verb",
"Middle English quyet, quyete, quiete, borrowed from Anglo-French & Middle French quiete, borrowed from Latin qui\u0113tus \"at rest, inactive, peaceful\" \u2014 more at quiet entry 1":"Adjective",
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},
"examples":[
"after his tantrum, the toddler lapsed into an exhausted quietude and fell asleep",
"the quietude of the early morning was broken only by the occasional chirping of birds",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Despite the wind generated by a huge 26-foot-diameter main fan, powered by a 6,700-hp (5-megawatt) electric motor, the quietude inside allows for more precise sonic measurement of cars or other objects placed therein. \u2014 Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics , 23 June 2022",
"But now try to imagine your child sitting through it with gentle quietude . Enter Anne Tourni\u00e9. \u2014 A.d. Amorosi, Variety , 11 Apr. 2022",
"William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, have gone for full domestic quietude : shopping for their own groceries, sharing their weekends with other reliably discreet, titled types in Norfolk, wearing affordable clothes. \u2014 Sam Knight, The New Yorker , 29 Apr. 2022",
"In fact, the EV era could renew Mercedes's reputation for bank-vault solidity\u2014what made the biggest impression was the vacuum-of-space quietude . \u2014 Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The quietude is going to give them a lot of time with their thoughts. \u2014 Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The bossa nova pattern and strings return, but the general tranquility is interrupted by a trenchant guitar solo about halfway through, only to restore its former quietude a little while later. \u2014 Grant Sharples, SPIN , 6 Apr. 2022",
"That sense of vast quietude that opened out during the lockdown period created a space for dreaming in. \u2014 Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker , 4 Apr. 2022",
"And Owen Teague, as James, makes his owlish quietude felt. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 25 Mar. 2022"
],
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"put the quietus on their celebration"
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"examples":[
"was granted a quietus on the remainder of the debt in the old man's will",
"her unshakable belief in a blissful afterlife allowed her to meet her quietus without the slightest tinge of fear or regret",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On the supply side, climate experts give him credit for suspending drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and for giving the final quietus to Keystone. \u2014 Bill Mckibben, The New Yorker , 9 June 2021",
"If Berryman is playing Cassandra to himself, crying out the details of his own quietus , how did the cry begin? \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 12 Oct. 2020"
],
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},
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},
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},
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"the Parthenon in Greece was considered the quintessence of the perfectly proportioned building",
"a selfless desire to help others is the quintessence of the virtue of charity",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Her volume is the quintessence of the young Los Angeles poet, who strode to a lectern at the U.S. Capitol on Inauguration Day 2021 and reminded us, for a glorious moment, what the other side of sorrow felt like. \u2014 Lynell George, Los Angeles Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"These two ancient codgers are the quintessence of creepy. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Material quality throughout is first rate, heightening the interior\u2019s visual simplicity that is the very quintessence of luxury. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 11 Dec. 2021",
"For Dole, extending a hand to a political opponent had become the quintessence of patriotism. \u2014 Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY , 5 Dec. 2021",
"Myers lives, of course, being the very quintessence of evil. \u2014 Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com , 13 Oct. 2021",
"The quintessence of California\u2019s shoreline is its stark variety, from the gentle beaches of Coronado to the sea stacks of the North Coast. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Oct. 2021",
"For me, the Velvet Underground has always been the quintessence of Downtown, that shadowland between the financial district and 14th Street in lower Manhattan. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 6 Oct. 2021",
"But when Tesla bought IPO SolarCity in late 2016, Schuster grabbed the opportunity to jump back into a name that\u2019s the quintessence of Big Momentum. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 8 July 2021"
],
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"kwin-\u02c8te-s\u1d4an(t)s"
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"beau ideal",
"byword",
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"ideal",
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"\u2014 usually plural The quintessentials \u2014ketchup, brown sugar, vinegar, and mustard\u2014that characterize classic American barbecue sauce can be found in this dish. \u2014 Betty Rosbottom The quintessentials of a culture become all the more noticeable and absorbing if they are perceived as in danger of disappearing or as an obstacle to progress that must disappear. \u2014 Steve J. Stern"
],
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"Jerry's your quintessential streetwise New Yorker \u2026",
"\u2014 Kai Wright",
"This is the quintessential Los Angeles restaurant, casual but never frumpy, lively but not overheated \u2026",
"\u2014 Harvey Steiman",
"Marx was the quintessential intellectual, remarkably detached from the real world.",
"\u2014 John Steele Gordon",
"His very faults were middling \u2026 It was not in his nature to be superlative in anything; unless, indeed, he was superlatively middling, the quintessential extract of mediocrity.",
"\u2014 George Eliot"
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"Jerry's your quintessential streetwise New Yorker \u2026",
"\u2014 Kai Wright",
"This is the quintessential Los Angeles restaurant, casual but never frumpy, lively but not overheated \u2026",
"\u2014 Harvey Steiman",
"Marx was the quintessential intellectual, remarkably detached from the real world.",
"\u2014 John Steele Gordon",
"His very faults were middling \u2026 It was not in his nature to be superlative in anything; unless, indeed, he was superlatively middling, the quintessential extract of mediocrity.",
"\u2014 George Eliot"
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"1551, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1853, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"\u02cckwin-t\u0259-\u02c8sen(t)-sh\u0259l"
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"archetypal",
"archetypical",
"classic",
"definitive",
"exemplary",
"imitable",
"model",
"paradigmatic",
"textbook"
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"noun"
]
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"banter",
"chaff",
"fool",
"fun",
"gag",
"jape",
"jest",
"jive",
"joke",
"jolly",
"josh",
"kid",
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": something strange, droll, curious, or eccentric : oddity":[],
": to jest or gibe at":[],
": to make quips : gibe":[]
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"Noun",
"They traded quips over a beer.",
"has his share of the quips that seem to come with a title of nobility",
"Verb",
"she rolled her eyes at her brother's bragging and quipped , \u201cYou're a legend in your own mind, all right\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Trump made a similar quip last month about Dingell, who died in February, at a rally in Dingell's home state of Michigan. \u2014 William Cummings, USA TODAY , 18 June 2019",
"In response to the quip , anchor Bret Baier equated Democrats accepting Biden despite the verbal slip-ups to about how Republicans feel toward Trump. \u2014 Mike Brest, Washington Examiner , 9 Mar. 2020",
"And the second Victoria and Peter uttered those regrettable quips , Twitter was all over it. \u2014 Martha Sorren, refinery29.com , 3 Feb. 2020",
"The Prince has been loaded with charming quips lately. \u2014 Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR , 21 June 2018",
"Viewers laughed with the choir\u2019s self-deprecating quips , not at LGBTQ people. \u2014 Judy Berman, Time , 10 Feb. 2020",
"Rosenstein\u2019s quip brought the prosecutorial team up short. \u2014 James Bandler, ProPublica , 25 Mar. 2020",
"Teigen suffered no fools, however, responding to the comment with a quip of her own. \u2014 Cady Lang, Time , 2 Jan. 2020",
"Ivey typically responded with a quip that perhaps age brings wisdom. \u2014 Kim Chandler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 Sep. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Throwaway characters give Batman a hard time for being so intense (the way a moviegoing friend might quip between bites of popcorn). \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Spotify reported a 69 percent increase in podcast uploads during March; last month, the comedian Hanna Dickinson quipped on Twitter about Amazon being sold out of the requisite mics. \u2014 New York Times , 7 May 2020",
"During the White House coronavirus briefing on Friday, Trump quipped that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, should move back to New York to run against the first-term liberal star. \u2014 Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner , 10 Apr. 2020",
"Bloomberg quipped during a discussion on economic policy. \u2014 John Verhovek And, ABC News , 19 Feb. 2020",
"Morgan quipped during his exit announcement, reported by Reuters. \u2014 Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE.com , 6 Dec. 2019",
"Chappelle quipped during his 2004 stand-up special. \u2014 Elahe Izadi, Washington Post , 23 Oct. 2019",
"This is another half-thunk thought from my book of just-for-fun cartoons and quips , Half-thunk Thoughts and Half-fast Drawings. \u2014 J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al , 5 May 2020",
"Shanahan is eager to tell us, with funny and insightful little stories and quips , how great his guys are. \u2014 Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com , 15 Jan. 2020"
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"1532, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1579, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"earlier quippy , perhaps from Latin quippe indeed, to be sure (often ironic), from quid what \u2014 more at quiddity":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8kwip"
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"crotchet",
"curiosity",
"eccentricity",
"erraticism",
"idiosyncrasy",
"individualism",
"kink",
"mannerism",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quiddity",
"quirk",
"singularity",
"tic",
"trick",
"twist"
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"quirk":{
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": a groove separating a bead or other molding from adjoining members":[],
": a peculiar trait : idiosyncrasy":[],
": accident , vagary":[
"a quirk of fate"
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": an abrupt twist or curve":[],
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"quirked his eyebrows"
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"Everyone has their little quirks .",
"wearing red shoes every day is just one of her quirks",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Thanks to a scheduling quirk , this year\u2019s Cambridge Jazz Festival falls on the same weekend as the famed Newport Jazz Festival. \u2014 Noah Schaffer, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
"And waited, learning another quirk in parts of Los Angeles, the lack of people on the street. \u2014 Liam Dillonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022",
"Done sees in Sales and Plunkett a similar willingness to embrace inspiration in one\u2019s own backyard and not subscribe to a sense of cultural inferiority, a lingering quirk of Australians. \u2014 Vogue , 17 May 2022",
"This is far from the first eyebrow-raising quirk of their relationship. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Whatever its provenance, the semantic entanglement with fire has taken on a self-fulfilling air, a quirk of history that provides an expressive frame for the island\u2019s reputation as a paradise that is also an inferno. \u2014 Jack Parlett, The New Yorker , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Anwar was particularly moved by the revelation that a major study, one on which many of the anti-flavor ban arguments hinge, might be fraught due to a quirk in data collection. \u2014 Seamus Mcavoy, courant.com , 15 Mar. 2022",
"The amount of gas shipped through the pipelines has surged since the invasion because of a quirk in the structure of Europe\u2019s gas market. \u2014 Joe Wallace, WSJ , 8 Mar. 2022",
"For white men, intoxication has long been a kind of social currency, an interesting quirk of the mind, whereas women and minorities who enjoy themselves too much are breaking one of our last remaining cultural taboos. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Working from home: The fun quirks couples learn about each other Look and sound more professional Mind your manners in online meetings by following these tips For video meetings, the eyes have it. \u2014 Brett Molina, USA TODAY , 4 June 2020",
"But many other smaller outfits were unable to access the loan program, even as some larger firms took advantage of the program\u2019s quirks to get approval for high-dollar relief. \u2014 Tom Benning, Dallas News , 23 Apr. 2020"
],
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"1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1878, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":"Noun"
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"\u02c8kw\u0259rk"
],
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"crotchet",
"curiosity",
"eccentricity",
"erraticism",
"idiosyncrasy",
"individualism",
"kink",
"mannerism",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quiddity",
"quip",
"singularity",
"tic",
"trick",
"twist"
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"verb"
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": having many quirks : unusual in especially an interesting or appealing way":[
"a quirky sense of humor",
"quirky ideas/behavior",
"a quirky and creative artist",
"\u2026 the SoHo store known for its modern, often quirky home accessories \u2026",
"\u2014 Marianne Rohrlich",
"The result is an extraordinarily fine film, a quieter, more centered vision of Garp's world that loses little of the quirky humor of the original \u2026",
"\u2014 Molly Haskell"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1873, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8kw\u0259r-k\u0113"
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"bizarre",
"bizarro",
"cranky",
"crazy",
"curious",
"eccentric",
"erratic",
"far-out",
"funky",
"funny",
"kinky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"odd",
"off-kilter",
"off-the-wall",
"offbeat",
"out-of-the-way",
"outlandish",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"remarkable",
"rum",
"screwy",
"spaced-out",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"weirdo",
"wild"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075213",
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"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"quisling":{
"antonyms":[],
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": traitor sense 2 , collaborator":[]
},
"examples":[
"warned that all quislings would be punished without mercy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This may sound like a technical squabble among quislings . \u2014 David Z. Morris, Slate Magazine , 6 June 2017",
"The Republican rank and file, or at least the more aware ones\u2014that\u2019s excluding quislings like Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan\u2014are already eyeing the exits. \u2014 vanityfair.com , 18 May 2017",
"The Republican rank and file, or at least the more aware ones\u2014that\u2019s excluding quislings like Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan\u2014are already eyeing the exits. \u2014 Graydon Carter, The Hive , 18 May 2017",
"The Republican rank and file, or at least the more aware ones\u2014that\u2019s excluding quislings like Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan\u2014are already eyeing the exits. \u2014 vanityfair.com , 18 May 2017",
"The Republican rank and file, or at least the more aware ones\u2014that\u2019s excluding quislings like Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan\u2014are already eyeing the exits. \u2014 Graydon Carter, The Hive , 18 May 2017",
"The Republican rank and file, or at least the more aware ones\u2014that\u2019s excluding quislings like Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan\u2014are already eyeing the exits. \u2014 vanityfair.com , 18 May 2017",
"The Republican rank and file, or at least the more aware ones\u2014that\u2019s excluding quislings like Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan\u2014are already eyeing the exits. \u2014 vanityfair.com , 18 May 2017",
"The Republican rank and file, or at least the more aware ones\u2014that\u2019s excluding quislings like Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan\u2014are already eyeing the exits. \u2014 Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com , 18 May 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1940, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Vidkun Quisling \u20201945 Norwegian politician who collaborated with the Nazis":""
},
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"\u02c8kwiz-li\u014b"
],
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"synonyms":[
"apostate",
"backstabber",
"betrayer",
"double-crosser",
"double-dealer",
"Judas",
"recreant",
"serpent",
"snake",
"traitor",
"turncoat"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"quit":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": give up sense 1":[
"quit a job"
],
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"quit smoking"
],
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": to leave the company of":[],
": to make full payment of : pay up":[
"quit a debt"
],
": to set free : relieve , release":[
"quit oneself of fear"
],
": conduct , acquit":[
"the youths quit themselves like men"
],
": to give up employment":[],
": to cease normal, expected, or necessary action":[
"the engine quit"
],
": to admit defeat : give up":[],
": the act or an instance of quitting a job":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwit"
],
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"bag",
"chuck",
"leave",
"resign (from)",
"retire (from)",
"step aside (from)",
"step down (from)"
],
"antonyms":[
"disencumbered",
"free",
"shut (of)",
"unburdened"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for quit Verb stop , cease , quit , discontinue , desist mean to suspend or cause to suspend activity. stop applies to action or progress or to what is operating or progressing and may imply suddenness or definiteness. stopped at the red light cease applies to states, conditions, or existence and may add a suggestion of gradualness and a degree of finality. by nightfall the fighting had ceased quit may stress either finality or abruptness in stopping or ceasing. the engine faltered, sputtered, then quit altogether discontinue applies to the stopping of an accustomed activity or practice. we have discontinued the manufacture of that item desist implies forbearance or restraint as a motive for stopping or ceasing. desisted from further efforts to persuade them",
"examples":[
"Verb",
"She quit college after one semester.",
"She decided to quit show business.",
"He quit teaching after five years.",
"Many workers are quitting because of poor pay.",
"She hates her job and she's thinking about quitting .",
"She quit smoking years ago.",
"I wish you would quit bothering her.",
"We're going to quit for the day. It's too hot to keep working.",
"Adjective",
"I am finally quit of that terrible task.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Two days later, having found his calling, Corey Laub quit school. \u2014 Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun , 30 June 2022",
"On April 25, two days after Ferrer's termination, the bartender quit his job. \u2014 Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press , 29 June 2022",
"Some of those new hires had already quit their previous jobs, or were relying on Coinbase to maintain their work visas. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
"As this burnout crisis grows more acute, even more healthcare professionals will quit their jobs. \u2014 Sally Pipes, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"Already, Litrell said, members of his organizing committee have quit out of concern that Amazon will learn of their involvement and fire them. \u2014 Caroline O'donovan, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"Amid Trump\u2019s drive to overturn election results in Georgia, Pak \u2014 a federal prosecutor based in Atlanta \u2014 suddenly quit . \u2014 John Wagner, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"Or in ending Apartheid, once golfers quit taking exorbitant sums to play in segregationist Pretoria. \u2014 Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News , 11 June 2022",
"Arguably the biggest challenge with a rescinded offer is that most workers, like Wolf, have already quit their old job\u2014or even made relocation plans. \u2014 Jane Thier, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That marks the highest rate on record since the BLS began tracking the quit numbers December 2000. \u2014 Michelle Cheng, Quartz , 13 Oct. 2021",
"If Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has learned one thing about his young team this season, it\u2019s that there is absolutely no quit in them. \u2014 Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Getting a handle on burnout early is all the more important when serving a high-turnover industry like hospitality, which consistently has the highest quit rate of any industry, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. \u2014 Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Even during a season that has gone completely off the rails, there is no quit in the coaching staff. \u2014 Broderick Turner Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Although a number of crew members have described the set as unsafe, and several quit shortly before the fatal shooting, the filing said that Mr. Baldwin had not heard about or observed any safety problems on the set. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Second, the quit line has been trending upwards since a low of 1.2% in post-financial-crisis September 2009, as the economy has strengthened. \u2014 Cassie Werber, Quartz , 21 Feb. 2022",
"And industry hiring rates exceeded industry quit rates. \u2014 Richard Mcgahey, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Trials showed people who received a placebo quit smoking at the same rate as those who received a vaccine. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 6 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English quiten, quitten , from Anglo-French quiter , from quite free of, released, from Latin quietus quiet, at rest":"Verb",
"Middle English quite, quit , from Anglo-French":"Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2":"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"circa 1923, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-141824"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204921",
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},
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"definitions":{
": quack grass":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English *quicche , from Old English cwice ; akin to Old High German quecca couch grass":""
},
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"\u02c8kwich"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024701",
"type":[
"noun"
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"quitclaim":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02c8kwit-\u02cckl\u0101m"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205635",
"type":[
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"transitive verb",
"verb"
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},
"quitclaim deed":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a legal instrument used to release one person's right, title, or interest to another without providing a guarantee or warranty of title":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The seller of a building can give a quitclaim deed to the buyer and the seller\u2019s entire interest has been transferred once that deed is signed. \u2014 orlandosentinel.com , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Once the lease expired, the district was to deliver a quitclaim deed , effectively transferring all of its rights back to the city, the order decreed. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Oct. 2021",
"Elliott says that before Pollack died, the director helped his efforts to secure a quitclaim deed from WB and never made any rights claim himself. \u2014 Eriq Gardner, Billboard , 5 May 2021",
"Warner signed away his property on Bakertown Road in Antioch the day before Thanksgiving to a woman in Los Angeles for $0, property records of a quitclaim deed show. \u2014 NBC News , 28 Dec. 2020",
"Last month, court records show a quitclaim deed transfer of the residence from Warner to an individual with a Los Angeles address on Nov. 25 for $0. \u2014 Mariah Timms, USA TODAY , 28 Dec. 2020",
"Under the agreement, the city will hand over the property through a quitclaim deed within the next 30 days. \u2014 Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com , 18 Dec. 2020",
"The most likely technique to steal involves a fake quitclaim deed and deed of transfer, along with a fake notary seal. \u2014 Dave Lieber, Dallas News , 16 Oct. 2020",
"By July 2016, the Root-Thalmans had filed a quitclaim deed purporting to transfer the victim's house to them. \u2014 Keith Schubert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 25 July 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1755, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103830",
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"noun"
]
},
"quite":{
"antonyms":[
"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly"
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"definitions":{
": a considerable amount":[],
": many":[],
": to a considerable extent : rather":[
"quite near"
],
": to an extreme : positively":[
"quite sure",
"\u2014 often used as an intensifier with a quite a swell guy quite a beauty"
],
": wholly , completely":[
"not quite finished"
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},
"examples":[
"He felt that the world he had loved had quite gone. \u2014 Edmund Wilson , New York Times Book Review , 20 July 1986",
"The men who made love to the left-wing college girls were either medical students, who had contempt for them and forgot them, or jocks, who bragged falsely of having made conquests of quite other girls. \u2014 Renata Adler , Pitch Dark , 1983",
"In my opinion, my work \u2026 ain't quite good enough \u2026 \u2014 William Faulkner , in Faulkner in the University , (1959) 1977",
"Irene Franey, a little older than I, was quite a beauty \u2014 John O'Hara , letter , 30 Dec. 1963",
"\u201cAre you quite finished?\u201d \u201cNot quite .\u201d",
"I am quite capable of doing it myself, thank you.",
"They assured me that I was quite mistaken.",
"We hadn't quite made up our minds.",
"She's quite right, you know.",
"I quite forgot your birthday.",
"No one realized quite what was happening.",
"Quite why he left is unclear.",
"That is not quite what I said.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Williams\u2019s music, which feels hard-wired in my DNA, enmeshed in multiple dimensions of my memory and experience (and quite likely yours). \u2014 Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"My everyday outfit is quite casual actually, mainly all white or all black. \u2014 Vogue , 24 June 2022",
"Johnson in turn said he was asked to do so by the office of Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa. Kinzinger made clear one big reason for naming names was quite political. \u2014 Rick Klein, ABC News , 24 June 2022",
"It\u2019s probably quite emotional and lengthy despite your revisions. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"According to BirdNote Podcast, their eyes have adapted to spot reds and yellows, but these tiny birds are also quite intelligent and will change their color preferences to favor the most nectar-rich source. \u2014 Terri Robertson, Country Living , 24 June 2022",
"Perhaps the biggest competition in this price range comes from the BMW X7, which is a little more fuel-efficient, though not quite as spacious on the back row. \u2014 Christian De Looper, BGR , 23 June 2022",
"The reunion isn\u2019t quite coincidental as 3 Body Problem is from Thrones showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss, who co-created the series along with True Blood veteran Alexander Woo. \u2014 James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 June 2022",
"Hublot\u2019s latest wristwatch is quite literally at your fingertips. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 23 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from quite , adjective, quit":""
},
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"\u02c8kw\u012bt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"all",
"all of",
"all over",
"altogether",
"clean",
"completely",
"dead",
"enough",
"entire",
"entirely",
"even",
"exactly",
"fast",
"flat",
"full",
"fully",
"heartily",
"out",
"perfectly",
"plumb",
"soundly",
"thoroughly",
"through and through",
"totally",
"utterly",
"well",
"wholly",
"wide"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091548",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"quite a while":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a long time":[
"It has been quite a while since I last saw her."
]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-161853",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": without even taking into consideration":[
"The work has value in itself, quite apart from the good effects it produces."
]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164352",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071106",
"type":[
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]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a long period of time":[
"I haven't seen her for quite some time ."
]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095144",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"It was quite something for a small-town boy to be interviewed for the national news."
]
},
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"type":[
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},
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"antonyms":[],
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": entirely , quite":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from quit, quite , adjective, free + -ly":""
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022041",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwit-\u02ccrent"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-011242",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quits":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": being on even terms by repayment or requital":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1663, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, quit, probably from Medieval Latin quittus , alteration of Latin quietus at rest":""
},
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"\u02c8kwits"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201220",
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"adjective"
]
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"quit entry 2 + -al":""
},
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063348",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quittance":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a document evidencing quittance":[],
": discharge from a debt or an obligation":[],
": recompense , requital":[]
},
"examples":[
"the indentured servant obtained a quittance from his master stating he was free to leave and was no longer required to work",
"the court awarded the plaintiff a substantial quittance for bodily injury and emotional distress"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
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"\u02c8kwi-t\u1d4an(t)s"
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"delivery",
"discharge",
"quietus",
"release"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030333",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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": a trick in card games after all of the cards composing it have been irrevocably played and it has been stacked with the cards in it facedown":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102157",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quitter":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"Don't be a quitter . I know you can do it.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This era is most certainly a quitter \u2019s market, where talent is in high demand and workplaces are rife with burnout. \u2014 Michael Held, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"For employers, replacing just one quitter is a straightforward task. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Parker was concerned that she would be viewed as a quitter by leaving Los Angeles despite being named the AP award winner her rookie year with the Sparks in 2008, when she was honored as the WNBA\u2019s MVP and top rookie. \u2014 Doug Feinberg, chicagotribune.com , 30 Dec. 2021",
"After Biles quit the competition, some uninformed people online called her a quitter . \u2014 Carrie Wittmer, Glamour , 21 Oct. 2021",
"When Australian rower Sally Robbins cited anxiety as her reason for withdrawing from the Olympic finals in 2004, she was painted as a quitter and a national disgrace. \u2014 Nicole Dunn, Forbes , 15 Sep. 2021",
"Online bullies called Biles a quitter and a disgrace. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Aug. 2021",
"In the past week, some conservative pundits have tried to cast Biles as a quitter , a loser, a selfish snowflake. \u2014 Eren Orbey, The New Yorker , 3 Aug. 2021",
"Social media has been harsher; strangers have accused Biles of being weak, a quitter , and said her decisions in Tokyo have tarnished her legacy. \u2014 Star Tribune , 29 July 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1611, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwi-t\u0259r"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000758",
"type":[
"noun"
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"quitting":{
"antonyms":[
"disencumbered",
"free",
"shut (of)",
"unburdened"
],
"definitions":{
": conduct , acquit":[
"the youths quit themselves like men"
],
": give up sense 1":[
"quit a job"
],
": give up sense 2":[
"quit smoking"
],
": the act or an instance of quitting a job":[],
": to admit defeat : give up":[],
": to cease normal, expected, or necessary action":[
"the engine quit"
],
": to depart from or out of":[],
": to give up employment":[],
": to leave the company of":[],
": to make full payment of : pay up":[
"quit a debt"
],
": to set free : relieve , release":[
"quit oneself of fear"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"She quit college after one semester.",
"She decided to quit show business.",
"He quit teaching after five years.",
"Many workers are quitting because of poor pay.",
"She hates her job and she's thinking about quitting .",
"She quit smoking years ago.",
"I wish you would quit bothering her.",
"We're going to quit for the day. It's too hot to keep working.",
"Adjective",
"I am finally quit of that terrible task.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Two days later, having found his calling, Corey Laub quit school. \u2014 Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun , 30 June 2022",
"On April 25, two days after Ferrer's termination, the bartender quit his job. \u2014 Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press , 29 June 2022",
"Some of those new hires had already quit their previous jobs, or were relying on Coinbase to maintain their work visas. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
"As this burnout crisis grows more acute, even more healthcare professionals will quit their jobs. \u2014 Sally Pipes, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"Already, Litrell said, members of his organizing committee have quit out of concern that Amazon will learn of their involvement and fire them. \u2014 Caroline O'donovan, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"Amid Trump\u2019s drive to overturn election results in Georgia, Pak \u2014 a federal prosecutor based in Atlanta \u2014 suddenly quit . \u2014 John Wagner, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"Or in ending Apartheid, once golfers quit taking exorbitant sums to play in segregationist Pretoria. \u2014 Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News , 11 June 2022",
"Arguably the biggest challenge with a rescinded offer is that most workers, like Wolf, have already quit their old job\u2014or even made relocation plans. \u2014 Jane Thier, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That marks the highest rate on record since the BLS began tracking the quit numbers December 2000. \u2014 Michelle Cheng, Quartz , 13 Oct. 2021",
"If Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has learned one thing about his young team this season, it\u2019s that there is absolutely no quit in them. \u2014 Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Getting a handle on burnout early is all the more important when serving a high-turnover industry like hospitality, which consistently has the highest quit rate of any industry, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. \u2014 Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Even during a season that has gone completely off the rails, there is no quit in the coaching staff. \u2014 Broderick Turner Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Although a number of crew members have described the set as unsafe, and several quit shortly before the fatal shooting, the filing said that Mr. Baldwin had not heard about or observed any safety problems on the set. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Second, the quit line has been trending upwards since a low of 1.2% in post-financial-crisis September 2009, as the economy has strengthened. \u2014 Cassie Werber, Quartz , 21 Feb. 2022",
"And industry hiring rates exceeded industry quit rates. \u2014 Richard Mcgahey, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Trials showed people who received a placebo quit smoking at the same rate as those who received a vaccine. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 6 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2":"Verb",
"circa 1923, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English quite, quit , from Anglo-French":"Adjective",
"Middle English quiten, quitten , from Anglo-French quiter , from quite free of, released, from Latin quietus quiet, at rest":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwit"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for quit Verb stop , cease , quit , discontinue , desist mean to suspend or cause to suspend activity. stop applies to action or progress or to what is operating or progressing and may imply suddenness or definiteness. stopped at the red light cease applies to states, conditions, or existence and may add a suggestion of gradualness and a degree of finality. by nightfall the fighting had ceased quit may stress either finality or abruptness in stopping or ceasing. the engine faltered, sputtered, then quit altogether discontinue applies to the stopping of an accustomed activity or practice. we have discontinued the manufacture of that item desist implies forbearance or restraint as a motive for stopping or ceasing. desisted from further efforts to persuade them",
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"bag",
"chuck",
"leave",
"resign (from)",
"retire (from)",
"step aside (from)",
"step down (from)"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061606",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
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},
"quittor":{
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"definitions":{
": a purulent inflammation of the feet especially of horses and donkeys":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1703, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English quiture pus, discharge, from Anglo-French":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwit-\u0259r",
"\u02c8kwi-t\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202414",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quiver":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a case for carrying or holding arrows":[],
": the act or action of quivering : tremor":[],
": the arrows in a quiver":[],
": to shake or move with a slight trembling motion":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"Her lips quivered when she heard the bad news.",
"aspen leaves quivering in the breeze"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1786, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French quivre , of Germanic origin; akin to Old English cocer quiver, Old High German kohhari":"Noun",
"Middle English, probably from quiver agile, quick; akin to Old English cwiferlice zealously":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwi-v\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"agitate",
"bucket",
"convulse",
"jerk",
"jiggle",
"joggle",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"judder",
"quake",
"shake",
"shudder",
"vibrate",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010759",
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quivering":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a case for carrying or holding arrows":[],
": the act or action of quivering : tremor":[],
": the arrows in a quiver":[],
": to shake or move with a slight trembling motion":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"Her lips quivered when she heard the bad news.",
"aspen leaves quivering in the breeze"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1786, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French quivre , of Germanic origin; akin to Old English cocer quiver, Old High German kohhari":"Noun",
"Middle English, probably from quiver agile, quick; akin to Old English cwiferlice zealously":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwi-v\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"agitate",
"bucket",
"convulse",
"jerk",
"jiggle",
"joggle",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"judder",
"quake",
"shake",
"shudder",
"vibrate",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220052",
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quixotic":{
"antonyms":[
"clear-eyed",
"clear-sighted"
],
"definitions":{
": capricious , unpredictable":[]
},
"examples":[
"In \u2026 an earnest book-length essay of neo-Victorian public-mindedness that deplores the \"nasty, knowing abuse\" that the author would have us fear contaminates too much American humor lately, David Denby, a movie critic for The New Yorker , sets for himself what has to be one of the most quixotic projects that a moral reformer can undertake. \u2014 Walter Kirn , New York Times Book Review , 22 Feb. 2009",
"The history of biblical oil prospecting is filled with quixotic quests and colorful characters, starting with Welsie Hancock, a wealthy California man who in the 1960s dreamed that Jesus told him he would find black gold in the Holy Land. He sunk his entire fortune into two dry holes. \u2014 Mariah Blake , Mother Jones , January and February 2008",
"Mumey had announced his candidacy as an independent in the partisan election, which meant that he needed 2,300 signatures of registered voters in order to get on the ballot in the fall. It seemed a quixotic adventure, given the small size of Celebration and Mumey's lack of name recognition outside the town. \u2014 Douglas Frantz et al. , Celebration, USA , 1999",
"They had quixotic dreams about the future.",
"in this age of giant chain stores, any attempt at operating an independent bookstore must be regarded as quixotic",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"One of the documents appears to tie Eastman\u2019s efforts to Rudy Giuliani\u2019s quixotic campaign to overturn the results in court. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The last president even attempted to institute a historicist neoclassical style for new government buildings, as part of a quixotic and misguided attack on modernism in public architecture. \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"Even a politician running the most longshot, quixotic campaign can usually count on at least one vote: their own. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Some might call that dream rosy, even quixotic \u2014 especially as the area rapidly evolve into an entirely different reality. \u2014 Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Many of these proposals are far more elaborate, quixotic , and unprecedented in scope than the Commission\u2019s suggestions. \u2014 Michael Bobelian, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"When all is written, what will matter most is how Musk\u2019s quixotic quest affects Tesla. \u2014 Anne Sraders, Fortune , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Maryland transportation officials have declined a quixotic plan proposed by a startup rail company to dig a tunnel through downtown Baltimore and reroute Amtrak trains through a downtown hub that would replace the city\u2019s Penn Station. \u2014 Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The show also will feature some deep cuts, including a quixotic canvas depicting two men, one tall, the other much stockier, both wearing summery dresses and sandals. \u2014 Briana Miller | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 7 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1718, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Don Quixote":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"kwik-\u02c8s\u00e4-tik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for quixotic imaginary , fanciful , visionary , fantastic , chimerical , quixotic mean unreal or unbelievable. imaginary applies to something which is fictitious and purely the product of one's imagination. an imaginary desert isle fanciful suggests the free play of the imagination. a teller of fanciful stories visionary stresses impracticality or incapability of realization. visionary schemes fantastic implies incredibility or strangeness beyond belief. a fantastic world inhabited by monsters chimerical combines the implication of visionary and fantastic . chimerical dreams of future progress quixotic implies a devotion to romantic or chivalrous ideals unrestrained by ordinary prudence and common sense. a quixotic crusade",
"synonyms":[
"idealist",
"idealistic",
"quixotical",
"romantic",
"starry",
"starry-eyed",
"utopian",
"visionary"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070644",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"quixotical":{
"antonyms":[
"clear-eyed",
"clear-sighted"
],
"definitions":{
": capricious , unpredictable":[]
},
"examples":[
"In \u2026 an earnest book-length essay of neo-Victorian public-mindedness that deplores the \"nasty, knowing abuse\" that the author would have us fear contaminates too much American humor lately, David Denby, a movie critic for The New Yorker , sets for himself what has to be one of the most quixotic projects that a moral reformer can undertake. \u2014 Walter Kirn , New York Times Book Review , 22 Feb. 2009",
"The history of biblical oil prospecting is filled with quixotic quests and colorful characters, starting with Welsie Hancock, a wealthy California man who in the 1960s dreamed that Jesus told him he would find black gold in the Holy Land. He sunk his entire fortune into two dry holes. \u2014 Mariah Blake , Mother Jones , January and February 2008",
"Mumey had announced his candidacy as an independent in the partisan election, which meant that he needed 2,300 signatures of registered voters in order to get on the ballot in the fall. It seemed a quixotic adventure, given the small size of Celebration and Mumey's lack of name recognition outside the town. \u2014 Douglas Frantz et al. , Celebration, USA , 1999",
"They had quixotic dreams about the future.",
"in this age of giant chain stores, any attempt at operating an independent bookstore must be regarded as quixotic",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"One of the documents appears to tie Eastman\u2019s efforts to Rudy Giuliani\u2019s quixotic campaign to overturn the results in court. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The last president even attempted to institute a historicist neoclassical style for new government buildings, as part of a quixotic and misguided attack on modernism in public architecture. \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"Even a politician running the most longshot, quixotic campaign can usually count on at least one vote: their own. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Some might call that dream rosy, even quixotic \u2014 especially as the area rapidly evolve into an entirely different reality. \u2014 Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Many of these proposals are far more elaborate, quixotic , and unprecedented in scope than the Commission\u2019s suggestions. \u2014 Michael Bobelian, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"When all is written, what will matter most is how Musk\u2019s quixotic quest affects Tesla. \u2014 Anne Sraders, Fortune , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Maryland transportation officials have declined a quixotic plan proposed by a startup rail company to dig a tunnel through downtown Baltimore and reroute Amtrak trains through a downtown hub that would replace the city\u2019s Penn Station. \u2014 Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The show also will feature some deep cuts, including a quixotic canvas depicting two men, one tall, the other much stockier, both wearing summery dresses and sandals. \u2014 Briana Miller | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 7 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1718, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Don Quixote":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"kwik-\u02c8s\u00e4-tik"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for quixotic imaginary , fanciful , visionary , fantastic , chimerical , quixotic mean unreal or unbelievable. imaginary applies to something which is fictitious and purely the product of one's imagination. an imaginary desert isle fanciful suggests the free play of the imagination. a teller of fanciful stories visionary stresses impracticality or incapability of realization. visionary schemes fantastic implies incredibility or strangeness beyond belief. a fantastic world inhabited by monsters chimerical combines the implication of visionary and fantastic . chimerical dreams of future progress quixotic implies a devotion to romantic or chivalrous ideals unrestrained by ordinary prudence and common sense. a quixotic crusade",
"synonyms":[
"idealist",
"idealistic",
"quixotical",
"romantic",
"starry",
"starry-eyed",
"utopian",
"visionary"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200059",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"quiz":{
"antonyms":[
"ask",
"catechize",
"grill",
"inquire (of)",
"interrogate",
"query",
"question"
],
"definitions":{
": an eccentric person":[],
": practical joke":[],
": to look at inquisitively":[],
": to make fun of : mock":[],
": to question closely":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The teacher gave us a quiz on the material we studied yesterday.",
"always eager to put everything down, my boyfriend had to be a quiz and make fun of the actors and costumes in our local theater troupe's latest production",
"Verb",
"quickly quizzed her about the assignment before heading off to class",
"hated the way those relatives would quiz me about my partner and our living arrangements",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Test your knowledge on just how far apart the two parties are on gun control in our interactive quiz that looks at eight different gun violence prevention policies and how Democrats and Republicans feel about this issue. \u2014 Rick Klein, ABC News , 8 June 2022",
"Start by taking a quiz that assesses your dietary preferences, allergies, level of interest in cooking and delivery preferences to determine which meal plan is best for you and your family. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"Take this quiz and to learn more about Olmsted and his influence in Boston and beyond. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 12 June 2022",
"Test your knowledge of this literature\u2014or perhaps just learn more about it\u2014by taking the following quiz . \u2014 Daniel Akst, WSJ , 2 May 2022",
"Take this quiz to find out The traits in workouts that trainers and Gold have raved about has also turned into success on the race track. \u2014 Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal , 27 Apr. 2022",
"People taking the quiz were presented with a choice of four local landmarks: three located in their own state and one from another state. \u2014 Derenn Hollman, al , 11 Apr. 2022",
"The quiz contains 15 general knowledge questions about South Africa, including a multiple choice to identify the nation\u2019s capital, according to a copy published by the Beeld newspaper. \u2014 John Bowker, Fortune , 6 June 2022",
"The quiz contains 15 general knowledge questions about South Africa, including a multiple choice to identify the nation\u2019s capital, according to a copy published by the Beeld newspaper and other local media. \u2014 John Bowker, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Take the Warby Parker sunglasses quiz or explore the GUESS Eyewear Guide. \u2014 cleveland , 27 June 2022",
"The committee\u2019s initial request suggested investigators want to quiz McCarthy about his conversations with Trump during and after Jan. 6, 2021. \u2014 Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic , 12 May 2022",
"Drew, who likes to quiz Preston mid-game, likened the rookie\u2019s engagement during huddles to that of the five players actually about to re-enter the game. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Mar. 2022",
"My complaint is not with them, but with so many grandmas around who quiz me about my lack of grandchildren. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 6 Jan. 2022",
"My complaint is not with them, but with so many grandmas around who quiz me about my lack of grandchildren. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Scream\u2019s hyper-literate killers quiz their victims on horror movie trivia and orchestrate showy slayings. \u2014 Michelle Delgado, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Oct. 2021",
"Go ahead and quiz yourself: What state is the county in? \u2014 Aj Willingham, CNN , 29 June 2021",
"Before big matchups with his Texas Titans AAU team, Cunningham relied on his instincts and inquisitiveness to quiz coaches about their own game plans. \u2014 Callie Caplan, Dallas News , 21 June 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1787, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"circa 1781, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwiz"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"baiter",
"harasser",
"heckler",
"mocker",
"needler",
"persecutor",
"quizzer",
"ridiculer",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"tormentor",
"tormenter",
"torturer"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014808",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quizzer":{
"antonyms":[
"ask",
"catechize",
"grill",
"inquire (of)",
"interrogate",
"query",
"question"
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": practical joke":[],
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": to make fun of : mock":[],
": to question closely":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The teacher gave us a quiz on the material we studied yesterday.",
"always eager to put everything down, my boyfriend had to be a quiz and make fun of the actors and costumes in our local theater troupe's latest production",
"Verb",
"quickly quizzed her about the assignment before heading off to class",
"hated the way those relatives would quiz me about my partner and our living arrangements",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Test your knowledge on just how far apart the two parties are on gun control in our interactive quiz that looks at eight different gun violence prevention policies and how Democrats and Republicans feel about this issue. \u2014 Rick Klein, ABC News , 8 June 2022",
"Start by taking a quiz that assesses your dietary preferences, allergies, level of interest in cooking and delivery preferences to determine which meal plan is best for you and your family. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"Take this quiz and to learn more about Olmsted and his influence in Boston and beyond. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 12 June 2022",
"Test your knowledge of this literature\u2014or perhaps just learn more about it\u2014by taking the following quiz . \u2014 Daniel Akst, WSJ , 2 May 2022",
"Take this quiz to find out The traits in workouts that trainers and Gold have raved about has also turned into success on the race track. \u2014 Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal , 27 Apr. 2022",
"People taking the quiz were presented with a choice of four local landmarks: three located in their own state and one from another state. \u2014 Derenn Hollman, al , 11 Apr. 2022",
"The quiz contains 15 general knowledge questions about South Africa, including a multiple choice to identify the nation\u2019s capital, according to a copy published by the Beeld newspaper. \u2014 John Bowker, Fortune , 6 June 2022",
"The quiz contains 15 general knowledge questions about South Africa, including a multiple choice to identify the nation\u2019s capital, according to a copy published by the Beeld newspaper and other local media. \u2014 John Bowker, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Take the Warby Parker sunglasses quiz or explore the GUESS Eyewear Guide. \u2014 cleveland , 27 June 2022",
"The committee\u2019s initial request suggested investigators want to quiz McCarthy about his conversations with Trump during and after Jan. 6, 2021. \u2014 Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic , 12 May 2022",
"Drew, who likes to quiz Preston mid-game, likened the rookie\u2019s engagement during huddles to that of the five players actually about to re-enter the game. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Mar. 2022",
"My complaint is not with them, but with so many grandmas around who quiz me about my lack of grandchildren. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 6 Jan. 2022",
"My complaint is not with them, but with so many grandmas around who quiz me about my lack of grandchildren. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Scream\u2019s hyper-literate killers quiz their victims on horror movie trivia and orchestrate showy slayings. \u2014 Michelle Delgado, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Oct. 2021",
"Go ahead and quiz yourself: What state is the county in? \u2014 Aj Willingham, CNN , 29 June 2021",
"Before big matchups with his Texas Titans AAU team, Cunningham relied on his instincts and inquisitiveness to quiz coaches about their own game plans. \u2014 Callie Caplan, Dallas News , 21 June 2021"
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"1787, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"circa 1781, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"\u02c8kwiz"
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"tease",
"teaser",
"tormentor",
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": prison":[]
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"the robbers who made off with nearly a half million pounds will likely spend a good long time in quod",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The end of the poem reads, quod amantem iniuria talis / cogit amare magis, sed bene velle minus. \u2014 Jhumpa Lahiri, The New Yorker , 6 Nov. 2021"
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"circa 1700, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8kw\u00e4d"
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"guardroom",
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"hold",
"hoosegow",
"jail",
"jailhouse",
"joint",
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"lockup",
"nick",
"pen",
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"prison",
"slam",
"slammer",
"stir",
"stockade",
"tolbooth"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171532",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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": former , sometime":[
"a quondam friend"
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"examples":[
"a quondam oil baron now living comfortably in retirement",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"By coincidence, the same day that Reichstag burned, Einstein wrote to his quondam mistress, Margarete Lenbach. \u2014 Thomas Levenson, The Atlantic , 9 June 2017"
],
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"1539, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Latin, at one time, formerly, from quom, cum when; akin to Latin qui who \u2014 more at who":""
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"-\u02ccdam",
"\u02c8kw\u00e4n-d\u0259m"
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"erstwhile",
"former",
"late",
"old",
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"sometime",
"whilom"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": those whom a god wishes to destroy he first drives mad":[]
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": a fixed number or percentage of minority group members or women needed to meet the requirements of affirmative action":[],
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"examples":[
"The agency imposes strict fishing quotas .",
"The company has imposed quotas on hiring.",
"He lost his driver's license because he exceeded the quota of traffic violations.",
"The department set new sales quotas in January.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This resulted in Channel 4 falling short of its annual quota to subtitle 90% of programs on Freesat, achieving only 85.41%, which is in breach of its licence conditions. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 20 June 2022",
"Sorry, guys, but our quota for serial-necrophiliac jokes has already been reached. \u2014 Pat Myers, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"To encourage car purchases, Shanghai officials will increase the quota of vehicles in Shanghai by 40,000, as well as reduce taxes and offer subsidies to those buying electric vehicles. \u2014 Nicholas Gordon, Fortune , 30 May 2022",
"Civil servants \u2014 including in some instances professions like teachers with no public health role \u2014 are under pressure to track down and convince elderly people to take the vaccines, sometimes being allotted a quota of households to bring in. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
"At its core, the directive simply states that streamers must offer a 30% quota of European content to European subscribers. \u2014 Nick Vivarelli, Variety , 2 Apr. 2022",
"This comes after a judge cut down the daily quota of documents Eastman has to review from 1,500 to 1,000. \u2014 Grace Segers, The New Republic , 18 Mar. 2022",
"At the time, NBA team owners adhered to an unwritten but widely acknowledged quota of four Black players per team. \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Wisconsin had to end its wolf hunting season early in Spring 2021 after more than 200 wolves were killed in less than 60 hours, far surpassing the state\u2019s quota of 119. \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 Feb. 2022"
],
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"1618, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Medieval Latin, from Latin quota pars how great a part":""
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"\u02c8kw\u014d-t\u0259"
],
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"allotment",
"allowance",
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"piece",
"portion",
"proportion",
"share",
"slice",
"take"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103024",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an immigrant subject to the quota restrictions imposed by various U.S. immigration laws":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-192537",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quotable":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": fit for or worth quoting":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The season had so many memorable moments and quotable lines. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The coming-of-age movie, largely credited for kicking off the careers of actors who now identify as some of Hollywood's most notable A-listers, has stood the test of time thanks to its relatable plot and quotable dialogue. \u2014 Andrea Towers, EW.com , 6 Apr. 2022",
"There might not be illuminating and ceaselessly quotable verses about longing and heartbreak, but Lorde is offering up her own luxurious path to self-care. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The film, based on the best-selling novel by the late Mario Puzo, has several classic scenes and highly quotable lines that have become ingrained in the pop-culture lexicon. \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The drama elevated mafia movies into popular culture forever and arguably became the most quotable film of all time. \u2014 Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The part comes loaded with quotable lines, the most iconic being a piece of profanity shouted by Hurt at a corpse that, only seconds earlier, used to work for him. \u2014 Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Rogozin has always been a quotable , controversial figure. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 4 Mar. 2022",
"In fact, Tom Holland's first solo outing as Spider-Man in 2017's Homecoming skipped many recognizable beats of those previous films, not depicting the character's tragic origin story and omitting references to the quotable Uncle Ben. \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 17 Dec. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1811, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8kw\u014d-t\u0259-b\u0259l",
"also \u02c8k\u014d-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061008",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004707",
"type":[
"noun"
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": the act or process of quoting":[],
": the naming or publishing of current bids and offers or prices of securities or commodities":[]
},
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"He gathered quotations from the trial transcript to prove his point.",
"a well-known quotation attributed to Abraham Lincoln",
"a book of humorous quotations",
"She relied heavily on quotation in her essays, which made them less original.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For one thing, his characters are often literary folk, given to quotation . \u2014 Brad Leithauser, WSJ , 7 Jan. 2022",
"John Madden was the living embodiment of that quotation . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 Dec. 2021",
"Will those quotation marks stay in place during the course of the film or will matters start to become homicidal for real? \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The issue was that Cage, even at his most outlandish, has never put quotation marks around his performances. \u2014 cleveland , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Unsurprisingly, transparency from studios and especially streaming services remains a mostly theoretical concept, or one that to creators is framed by quotation marks. \u2014 Todd Gilchrist, Variety , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The senator did not say where that quotation came from. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Try to bring that quotation to mind the next time your uncle tries dragging you down into the mud for a fight. \u2014 cleveland , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Try to bring that quotation to mind the next time your uncle tries dragging you down into the mud for a fight. \u2014 Annie Lane, oregonlive , 9 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1607, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"also k\u014d-",
"kw\u014d-\u02c8t\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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"synonyms":[
"citation",
"quote"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185650",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"quote":{
"antonyms":[
"citation",
"quotation"
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"definitions":{
": borrow sense 2a":[
"quoting the motifs of past artists"
],
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": quotation mark":[
"\u2014 often used orally to indicate the beginning of a direct quotation"
],
": to cite in illustration":[
"quote a similar case"
],
": to give exact information on":[],
": to inform a hearer or reader that matter following is quoted":[],
": to repeat a passage from especially in substantiation or illustration":[],
": to set off by quotation marks":[],
": to speak or write (a passage) from another usually with credit acknowledgment":[],
": to state (the current price or bid-offer spread) for a commodity, stock, or bond":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"He began his speech by quoting Shakespeare.",
"The reporter quoted the police chief as saying that an investigation would be launched soon.",
"He quotes the Bible frequently.",
"Noun",
"Each chapter of the book began with an inspirational quote .",
"She included quotes from the poem in her essay.",
"The article included quotes from the mayor and several councilors.",
"The price quotes exceeded our expectations.",
"I checked the stock quotes online.",
"Titles of newspaper articles should be placed in quotes .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"There's only one thing to do, to quote T&C's summer cover: go. \u2014 Allie Holloway Styled By Marykate Boylan, Town & Country , 15 June 2022",
"The prisoners were reportedly, on paper, all quote -unquote volunteers who signed up to swallow DDT and a cup of milk every morning. \u2014 The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic , 4 May 2022",
"Some of his proposals include potentially charging websites a fee to quote or embed tweets from verified accounts. \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 12 May 2022",
"How often do people quote it to you/sing it at you now? \u2014 Ruth Kinane, EW.com , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Riordan went on to quote a Boston Globe article by Felice J. Freyer about implicit bias. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 May 2022",
"His and Black Violin\u2019s only concern these days is putting on a good show, a musical spectacle that keeps everyone guessing with unpredictable combinations as likely to quote Bruno Mars as Bach, Kendrick Lamar as Vivaldi. \u2014 Zachary Lewis, cleveland , 1 May 2022",
"Luttig had no idea that Pence had seen his tweet, or was going to quote him, until Pence released his statement. \u2014 Jamie Gangel And Jeremy Herb, CNN , 20 Feb. 2022",
"And listen, everyone and their mother loves to quote The Office, but this cannot be a coincidence. \u2014 Elizabeth Logan, Glamour , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The tweet generated more than 140,000 likes and nearly 5,000 quote tweets, including one from the film\u2019s director. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"This story was updated at 5/10/22 at 1:33 p.m. ET with a quote from DA Fani Willis about the use of music and lyrics in the indictment. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 10 May 2022",
"In a quote often repeated, the Republican political strategist Lee Atwater once traced the history of Southern white politicians using race to their advantage \u2014 from shouting the n-word on the stump to more abstract policy positions like tax cuts. \u2014 al , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Most notable in this quote is his mention of therapy. \u2014 Brianna Carter, SPIN , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Witherspoon, 45, gave her stamp of approval in a quote -tweet, referring to another one of the film's iconic lines. \u2014 Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Satterfield included in her filing a quote from Stephen Pierce, the son of Robert Pierce, who was a law intern in the District building when Muzikir shot him in his back. \u2014 Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post , 19 June 2022",
"Today Khalia Carter's senior quote is ringing true. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 16 June 2022",
"Technology has helped create more personalized insurance offerings, prompting users to enter relevant information and, within moments, receive a price quote for a policy. \u2014 Amit Nisenbaum, Forbes , 15 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1582, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"1888, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Medieval Latin quotare to mark the number of, number references, from Latin quotus of what number or quantity, from quot how many, (as) many as; akin to Latin qui who \u2014 more at who":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8kw\u014dt",
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"adduce",
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"mention"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193741",
"type":[
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"verb"
]
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"antonyms":[
"extraordinary",
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"rare",
"seldom",
"uncommon",
"unfamiliar",
"unusual"
],
"definitions":{
": belonging to each day : everyday":[
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": commonplace , ordinary":[
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": occurring every day":[
"quotidian fever"
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},
"examples":[
"not content with the quotidian quarrels that other couples had, they had rows that shook the entire neighborhood",
"plagued by a quotidian coughing fit, the result of years of smoking",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Those legends made what was disastrous seem quotidian , unremarkable. \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
"The rise of this particular bar reveals a lot about the state of natural wine in San Francisco, showing how this subculture has evolved from something extreme and exclusive to something quotidian and inclusive. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 6 May 2022",
"Compared to the daring outside, the Hyundai\u2019s interior style seems deliberately quotidian . \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 5 May 2022",
"So far, so fairy tale, but the story drifts back into the quotidian details of village life. \u2014 Ron Charles, Washington Post , 26 Nov. 2019",
"Many of the 17th-century artist\u2019s paintings center on women engaging in quotidian tasks such as reading, writing and playing musical instruments. \u2014 Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Apr. 2020",
"These characters' supernatural talents are presented in an utterly matter-of-fact manner, in a film which is solidly grounded in quotidian detail. \u2014 Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 Jan. 2020",
"The mundane and quotidian memories of smells, ephemera, or small gestures heightened the intensity of the allegations. \u2014 Treva B. Lindsey, Billboard , 22 Mar. 2019",
"The hustle of modern middle-class life\u2014work, kids, activities, socializing, conferences, travel\u2014has been reduced to the unit of the home, the radius of the local park, with quotidian destinations of grocery store and pharmacy. \u2014 Jenny Anderson, Quartz , 17 Apr. 2020"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English cotidian , from Anglo-French, from Latin quotidianus, cotidianus , from quotidie every day, from quot (as) many as + dies day \u2014 more at deity":""
},
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"kw\u014d-\u02c8tid-\u0113-\u0259n",
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"common",
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"garden-variety",
"household",
"ordinary",
"routine",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-011920",
"type":[
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"noun"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a tendency to get angry very quickly and easily":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142709"
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