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{
"Valentinian":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"name of 3 Roman emperors: I 321\u2013375 (reigned 364\u2013375); II 371\u2013392 (reigned 375\u2013392); III 419\u2013455 (reigned 425\u2013455)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccva-l\u0259n-\u02c8ti-n\u0113-\u0259n",
"-\u02c8tin-y\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110308",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Valentinianism":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": gnosticism in which the divine pleroma is conceived as being made up of aeons that are held to be aspects of the nature and activity of God":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"valentinian + -ism":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084819",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Valentino":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"American (Italian-born) actor":[
"Rodolfo Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla \\ \u02ccd\u00e4n-\u200bt\u0259\u014b-\u200b\u02c8gw\u022f-\u200bl\u00e4 \\"
],
"Rudolph 1895\u20131926 originally":[
"Rodolfo Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla \\ \u02ccd\u00e4n-\u200bt\u0259\u014b-\u200b\u02c8gw\u022f-\u200bl\u00e4 \\"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccva-l\u0259n-\u02c8t\u0113-n\u022f"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085243",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Valenzuela":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"city north of Manila, Philippines population 575,356":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"b\u0259-len-\u02c8swe-l\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124501",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Valsalva maneuver":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1886, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"after Antonio Maria Valsalva \u20201723 Italian anatomist, who described it":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"val-\u02c8sal-v\u0259-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-122913",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Van de Graaff generator":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an apparatus for the production of electrical discharges at high voltage commonly consisting of an insulated hollow conducting sphere that accumulates in its interior the charge continuously conveyed from a source of direct current by an endless belt of flexible nonconducting material":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1937, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"after Robert J. Van de Graaff \u20201967 American physicist, its inventor":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8van-d\u0259-\u02ccgraf-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055841",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Vancouver Island":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"island in British Columbia, Canada, off the southwest coast; chief city Victoria area 12,408 square miles (32,261 square kilometers)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135347",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Vancouver, Mount":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"mountain 15,700 feet (4785 meters) high in the Saint Elias Range on the Alaska\u2013Yukon boundary":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-180633",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Vandegrift":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Alexander Archer 1887\u20131973 American general":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8van-d\u0259-\u02ccgrift"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030735",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Vandemonian":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to a Vandemonian":[],
": ruffianly , violent":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"irregular (influenced by English demon entry 1 ) from Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) (from Anton Van Diemen \u20201645 Dutch statesman) + English -an":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccvand\u0259\u0307\u02c8m\u014dn\u0113\u0259n",
"-d\u0113\u02c8m-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031904",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"Vandenberg":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Arthur Hendrick 1884\u20131951 American journalist and politician":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8van-d\u0259n-\u02ccb\u0259rg"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015954",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Vanderbilt":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Cornelius 1794\u20131877 American industrialist":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8van-d\u0259r-\u02ccbilt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014627",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Varoh\u00edo":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a Taracahitian people of the R\u00edo Mayo valley between the states of Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico":[],
": a member of the Varoh\u00edo people":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccv\u00e4r\u0259\u02c8h\u0113(\u02cc)\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103820",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Varuna":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a chief Vedic god responsible for natural and moral order in the cosmos":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1828, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Sanskrit Varu\u1e47a":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8va-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8ver-\u0259-n\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190342",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Vasa Murrhina":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a late 19th century American glassware of variegated color and often with metallic flecking":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, literally, murrhine dish":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-m\u0259\u02c8r\u012bn\u0259",
"-r\u0113n\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232237",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Vasai-Virar":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"dual city north of Mumbai on the coast of the Arabian Sea in western Maharashtra, India population 1,222,390":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u00e4-\u02ccs\u012b-\u02c8vir-\u02cc\u00e4r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065407",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"va-et-vient":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": coming and going : to-and-fro : traffic":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"v\u00e4-\u0101-vy\u00e4\u207f"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105156",
"type":[
"French noun"
]
},
"vacancy":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a vacant office, post, or tenancy":[],
": a vacating of an office, post, or piece of property":[],
": an interval of leisure":[],
": physical or mental inactivity or relaxation : idleness":[],
": the state of being vacant : vacuity":[],
": the time such office or property is vacant":[]
},
"examples":[
"School administrators are trying to fill vacancies before the beginning of the school year.",
"There were no vacancies at the hotel.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"From December 2020 to December 2021, the area's nurse vacancy rates increased by 81%. \u2014 Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer , 8 June 2022",
"With Chicago office vacancy rates at an all-time high and companies tentatively beginning to herd employees back into communal settings, co-working spaces \u2014 hard hit during the pandemic \u2014 are making a comeback. \u2014 Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"The redevelopment comes as many malls have generally been seeing higher vacancy rates, Bruning said. \u2014 oregonlive , 20 May 2022",
"The judge ordered Dean to vacate the office and ordered a runoff to fill the vacancy . \u2014 Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al , 20 May 2022",
"Scott endorsed the university\u2019s decision to hire Freeman-Patton for the vacancy . \u2014 Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun , 4 May 2022",
"Jackson, 51, sits on DC's federal appellate court and had been considered the front-runner for the vacancy since Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement. \u2014 Alex Rogers, CNN , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Meeks retired in December from his job in the state legislature, and voting for this month's special election to fill that vacancy begins Thursday. \u2014 Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Lakeside Park City Council had 30 days to fill the vacancy under state law. \u2014 Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer , 11 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1598, in the meaning defined at sense 6":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"vac(ant) + -ancy , in part after Medieval Latin vacantia":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0101-k\u0259n(t)-s\u0113",
"\u02c8v\u0101-k\u0259n-s\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"black hole",
"blank",
"blankness",
"emptiness",
"vacuity",
"void"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054719",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vacant":{
"antonyms":[
"full"
],
"definitions":{
": being without content or occupant":[
"a vacant seat on a bus",
"a vacant room"
],
": devoid of thought, reflection, or expression":[
"a vacant smile"
],
": free from activity or work : disengaged":[
"vacant hours"
],
": having no heir or claimant : abandoned":[
"a vacant estate"
],
": not lived in":[
"vacant houses"
],
": not occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer":[
"a vacant office",
"vacant thrones"
],
": not put to use":[
"vacant land"
]
},
"examples":[
"These lockers are all vacant .",
"The seat was left vacant when the secretary resigned.",
"He had a vacant expression on his face.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Additional evidence connecting Frazier to one of the guns was found by officers during a raid in a vacant home in Harlem Park as part of the investigation into the death of Baltimore Police Detective Sean Suiter. \u2014 Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun , 2 June 2022",
"The body of a 25-year-old Cleveland woman who was reported missing last weekend was found Wednesday in a vacant home on the East Side, police say. \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 25 May 2022",
"The November election will bring a new crop of lawmakers to the Assembly to fill seats left vacant by legislators who have resigned, termed out, or declined to run for reelection. \u2014 Taryn Lunastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"While still in the hospital on Tuesday, Fetterman defeated his most prominent opponent, Rep. Conor Lamb, to become the Democratic nominee for the open Senate seat that will be left vacant when Republican Sen. Pat Toomey retires. \u2014 Carlie Porterfield, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"The district was left vacant when former state Rep. Mark Huizenga, R-Walker, won a special state Senate election last year. \u2014 Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press , 4 May 2022",
"The Red Hot Chili Peppers also will appear, taking the spot left vacant after the Foo Fighters pulled out due to the death of their drummer Taylor Hawkins last month. \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Von Wilpert said the mayor needs more power to help accelerate a city hiring process that has left more than 1,800 jobs vacant . \u2014 David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Many legislators and union leaders also insist the state must refill most of the posts left vacant by retirements, which would elevate labor expenses even more over the next four years. \u2014 Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant , 16 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English vacaunt , borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin vacant-, vacans , present participle of vac\u0101re \"to be empty or unoccupied, have space, be free,\"; perhaps akin to Hittite wakk\u0101ari \"lacks,\" wak\u0161yi- \"be lacking\"":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0101-k\u0259nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vacant empty , vacant , blank , void , vacuous mean lacking contents which could or should be present. empty suggests a complete absence of contents. an empty bucket vacant suggests an absence of appropriate contents or occupants. a vacant apartment blank stresses the absence of any significant, relieving, or intelligible features on a surface. a blank wall void suggests absolute emptiness as far as the mind or senses can determine. a statement void of meaning vacuous suggests the emptiness of a vacuum and especially the lack of intelligence or significance. a vacuous facial expression",
"synonyms":[
"bare",
"blank",
"clean",
"devoid",
"empty",
"stark",
"toom",
"vacuous",
"void"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214954",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"vacate":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to deprive of an incumbent or occupant":[],
": to give up the incumbency or occupancy of":[],
": to make legally void : annul":[],
": to vacate an office, post, or tenancy":[]
},
"examples":[
"She refused to vacate her post even under increased pressure.",
"The election will fill the congressional seat vacated by the retiring senator.",
"The police told everyone to vacate the premises.",
"Students must vacate their rooms at the end of the semester.",
"The court vacated the conviction.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Most modern courses built inland, on heavier soils, don\u2019t percolate surface water as quickly and need the help of a network of drainage pipe, catch basins and dry sumps to vacate their surface water. \u2014 Bradley S. Klein, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"But some residents didn\u2019t want to vacate the homes to which they are deeply connected. \u2014 Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic , 15 June 2022",
"The report notes that Utah is one of just three states that require renters to vacate a premise within three days or face penalties that are triple the rent owed. \u2014 Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"In September 2021, however, the property was sold \u2014 and they were given less than two weeks to vacate . \u2014 Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal , 17 May 2022",
"Days after Lateefah Simon was forced to vacate her position on the BART Board of Directors, two members want the agency to seek outside legal advice to determine if she could be reinstated. \u2014 Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Tensions between the board and DNR spiked earlier this year when Prehn, who was appointed in 2015 by former Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, refused to vacate his NRB position even though his six-year term expired May 1. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Oct. 2021",
"In addition to Bessemer Trust and Ingham requesting to resign from their roles in the conservatorship, the singer\u2019s longtime manager, Larry Rudolph, has also announced his intention to vacate his position. \u2014 Megan Mccluskey, Time , 14 July 2021",
"That ad has been fact checked by CBS17, which similarly found the ads lacked context \u2014 that the state Supreme Court had voted unanimously to vacate a death sentence. \u2014 Aaron Navarro, CBS News , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1643, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin vac\u0101tus , past participle of vac\u0101re \"to annul,\" going back to Latin, \"to be empty, have space\" (sense probably by confusion with Medieval Latin vacu\u0101re \"to annul,\" going back to Latin, \"to empty,\" derivative of vacuus \"empty\") \u2014 more at vacant , vacuum entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0101-\u02cck\u0101t",
"v\u0101-\u02c8k\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"abolish",
"abrogate",
"annul",
"avoid",
"cancel",
"disannul",
"dissolve",
"invalidate",
"negate",
"null",
"nullify",
"quash",
"repeal",
"rescind",
"roll back",
"strike down",
"void"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182646",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"vacated":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to deprive of an incumbent or occupant":[],
": to give up the incumbency or occupancy of":[],
": to make legally void : annul":[],
": to vacate an office, post, or tenancy":[]
},
"examples":[
"She refused to vacate her post even under increased pressure.",
"The election will fill the congressional seat vacated by the retiring senator.",
"The police told everyone to vacate the premises.",
"Students must vacate their rooms at the end of the semester.",
"The court vacated the conviction.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Most modern courses built inland, on heavier soils, don\u2019t percolate surface water as quickly and need the help of a network of drainage pipe, catch basins and dry sumps to vacate their surface water. \u2014 Bradley S. Klein, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"But some residents didn\u2019t want to vacate the homes to which they are deeply connected. \u2014 Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic , 15 June 2022",
"The report notes that Utah is one of just three states that require renters to vacate a premise within three days or face penalties that are triple the rent owed. \u2014 Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"In September 2021, however, the property was sold \u2014 and they were given less than two weeks to vacate . \u2014 Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal , 17 May 2022",
"Days after Lateefah Simon was forced to vacate her position on the BART Board of Directors, two members want the agency to seek outside legal advice to determine if she could be reinstated. \u2014 Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Tensions between the board and DNR spiked earlier this year when Prehn, who was appointed in 2015 by former Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, refused to vacate his NRB position even though his six-year term expired May 1. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Oct. 2021",
"In addition to Bessemer Trust and Ingham requesting to resign from their roles in the conservatorship, the singer\u2019s longtime manager, Larry Rudolph, has also announced his intention to vacate his position. \u2014 Megan Mccluskey, Time , 14 July 2021",
"That ad has been fact checked by CBS17, which similarly found the ads lacked context \u2014 that the state Supreme Court had voted unanimously to vacate a death sentence. \u2014 Aaron Navarro, CBS News , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1643, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin vac\u0101tus , past participle of vac\u0101re \"to annul,\" going back to Latin, \"to be empty, have space\" (sense probably by confusion with Medieval Latin vacu\u0101re \"to annul,\" going back to Latin, \"to empty,\" derivative of vacuus \"empty\") \u2014 more at vacant , vacuum entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0101-\u02cck\u0101t",
"v\u0101-\u02c8k\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"abolish",
"abrogate",
"annul",
"avoid",
"cancel",
"disannul",
"dissolve",
"invalidate",
"negate",
"null",
"nullify",
"quash",
"repeal",
"rescind",
"roll back",
"strike down",
"void"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034626",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"vacation":{
"antonyms":[
"holiday"
],
"definitions":{
": a period of exemption from work granted to an employee":[],
": a period spent away from home or business in travel or recreation":[
"had a restful vacation at the beach"
],
": a respite or a time of respite from something : intermission":[],
": a scheduled period during which activity (as of a court or school) is suspended":[],
": an act or an instance of vacating":[],
": to take or spend a vacation":[
"vacationed at the shore"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"Family vacations were a high point in my childhood.",
"When are you taking vacation this year?",
"Employees are entitled to 120 hours of paid vacation .",
"I don't have any vacation days left.",
"We have a one-week vacation in February.",
"The university will be closed for Christmas vacation .",
"Verb",
"hoping to vacation in Spain this summer",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In 1988, Cox was convicted of killing a Walt Disney World employee while on vacation in Florida with his family. \u2014 Kyani Reid, NBC News , 12 June 2022",
"The couples have their own love stories but most of them met on vacation in countries outside of the United States. \u2014 al , 10 June 2022",
"Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain play a couple on the brink of divorce who accidentally kill a boy while on vacation in Morocco. \u2014 Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue , 8 June 2022",
"The Grammy-Award-winning artist launched the brand after catching the golf bug on a vacation in Hawaii a few years ago. \u2014 Marykate Boylan, Town & Country , 7 June 2022",
"This roadside cottage enclave is a far cry from the accommodations your grandparents may have stayed in on a summer vacation in Maine. \u2014 Everett Potter, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Still on vacation in the Hamptons, the women try to ease tensions with some therapeutic boxing, shopping and drinking. \u2014 Hau Chu, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
"Not all are bound to C-suite rigidity, or looking only for something tasteful to wear on vacation in Vail. \u2014 Jacob Gallagher, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"The co-stars and real-life couple took a break from pondering Stranger Things season 4 to vacation in Italy. \u2014 Starr Bowenbank, ELLE , 29 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"My parents used to vacation near Acadia National Park. \u2014 Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News , 15 May 2022",
"Outside of Maryland and Paris, a decent chunk of Seydoux\u2019s upbringing was spent in Senegal, where Schlumberger once lived and where L\u00e9a would often vacation . \u2014 Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 May 2022",
"Corpus Christi is pretty much the gateway, gateway to the Gulf for many San Antonians who vacation along the coast. \u2014 Chris Quinn, San Antonio Express-News , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Among those drawn to the app \u2014 recently renamed Providers, from Fresh EBT \u2014 is Kimberly Wilson, a single mother in Spindale, N.C., who has a 7-year-old son and cleans vacation rental homes. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Vacasa lists, maintains and cleans vacation rental homes in 400 destinations from Nehalem to Nantucket. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 Dec. 2021",
"In another room, white cages once held the expensive rugs that wealthy East Siders used to store here before heading to vacation out of town. \u2014 Matthew Healey, BostonGlobe.com , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Some people are renting and paying for rooms on Airbnb, and similar sites such as VRBO, not to vacation in the war zone, but as a way to donate money directly to individual Ukrainian families. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Mar. 2022",
"And though The White Lotus pokes fun at the absurd privilege of those who vacation at such a speculator Hawaiian property, no one staying at Four Seasons Resort Maui seems to mind the irony. \u2014 Beck Bamberger, Forbes , 24 Oct. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Noun",
"1883, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English vacacioun , borrowed from Anglo-French vacacion , borrowed from Latin vac\u0101ti\u014dn-, vac\u0101ti\u014d \"exemption from service, respite from work,\" from vac\u0101re \"to be empty, be free, have leisure\" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns \u2014 more at vacant":"Noun"
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"v\u0101-\u02c8k\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"v\u0259-"
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"break",
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"hols",
"leave",
"recess"
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"antonyms":[
"dive (in)",
"plunge (in)"
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": fluctuate , oscillate":[],
": to sway through lack of equilibrium":[],
": to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses":[]
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"examples":[
"She has vacillated on this issue.",
"vacillated for so long that someone else stepped in and made the decision",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That\u2019s the keep-you-guessing appeal of Deep Water, which sees Vic and Melinda\u2019s relationship vacillate between tenderness and simmering rage. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Lucy\u2019s perceptions of her first husband vacillate in maddeningly recognizable ways. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Oct. 2021",
"Job candidates often feel awkward when talking about their skills and vacillate between being too aggressive or bland when interviewing. \u2014 Kim Thompson, Chron , 21 Aug. 2021",
"Then there will be players who vacillate about the vaccine, guys like Tampa Bay\u2019s Leonard Fournette. \u2014 Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times , 26 July 2021",
"In pieces like p1eta\u2122\ufe0f, Chapin tries to reconcile the polarity that women vacillate between \u2014 Eve as wicked and full of knowledge, the Virgin Mary as pure and worthy. \u2014 Brienne Walsh, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2021",
"Some dedicate half or whole days to each of their primary processes, but the key is to not vacillate back-and-forth between them. \u2014 Tim Maurer, Forbes , 11 Apr. 2021",
"Many South Korean voters vacillate between the two major parties and tend to make up their minds just weeks before presidential votes. \u2014 Andrew Jeong, WSJ , 7 Apr. 2021",
"But when what seems like her last shot at success slips away, Radha decides to reinvent herself as rapper, proceeding to vacillate between the worlds of hip-hop and theater on a quest to find her true voice. \u2014 Tyler Aquilina, EW.com , 26 Aug. 2020"
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"1597, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
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"borrowed from Latin vacill\u0101tus , past participle of vacill\u0101re \"to be unsteady, totter, be weak or inconstant, waver,\" of uncertain origin":""
},
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"\u02c8va-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vacillate hesitate , waver , vacillate , falter mean to show irresolution or uncertainty. hesitate implies a pause before deciding or acting or choosing. hesitated before answering the question waver implies hesitation after seeming to decide and so connotes weakness or a retreat. wavered in his support of the rebels vacillate implies prolonged hesitation from inability to reach a firm decision. vacillated until events were out of control falter implies a wavering or stumbling and often connotes nervousness, lack of courage, or outright fear. never once faltered during her testimony",
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"balance",
"dither",
"falter",
"halt",
"hang back",
"hesitate",
"scruple",
"shilly-shally",
"stagger",
"teeter",
"waver",
"wobble",
"wabble"
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"adverb",
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"dive (in)",
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": to sway through lack of equilibrium":[],
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},
"examples":[
"She has vacillated on this issue.",
"vacillated for so long that someone else stepped in and made the decision",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That\u2019s the keep-you-guessing appeal of Deep Water, which sees Vic and Melinda\u2019s relationship vacillate between tenderness and simmering rage. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Lucy\u2019s perceptions of her first husband vacillate in maddeningly recognizable ways. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Oct. 2021",
"Job candidates often feel awkward when talking about their skills and vacillate between being too aggressive or bland when interviewing. \u2014 Kim Thompson, Chron , 21 Aug. 2021",
"Then there will be players who vacillate about the vaccine, guys like Tampa Bay\u2019s Leonard Fournette. \u2014 Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times , 26 July 2021",
"In pieces like p1eta\u2122\ufe0f, Chapin tries to reconcile the polarity that women vacillate between \u2014 Eve as wicked and full of knowledge, the Virgin Mary as pure and worthy. \u2014 Brienne Walsh, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2021",
"Some dedicate half or whole days to each of their primary processes, but the key is to not vacillate back-and-forth between them. \u2014 Tim Maurer, Forbes , 11 Apr. 2021",
"Many South Korean voters vacillate between the two major parties and tend to make up their minds just weeks before presidential votes. \u2014 Andrew Jeong, WSJ , 7 Apr. 2021",
"But when what seems like her last shot at success slips away, Radha decides to reinvent herself as rapper, proceeding to vacillate between the worlds of hip-hop and theater on a quest to find her true voice. \u2014 Tyler Aquilina, EW.com , 26 Aug. 2020"
],
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"1597, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
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"borrowed from Latin vacill\u0101tus , past participle of vacill\u0101re \"to be unsteady, totter, be weak or inconstant, waver,\" of uncertain origin":""
},
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"\u02c8va-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vacillate hesitate , waver , vacillate , falter mean to show irresolution or uncertainty. hesitate implies a pause before deciding or acting or choosing. hesitated before answering the question waver implies hesitation after seeming to decide and so connotes weakness or a retreat. wavered in his support of the rebels vacillate implies prolonged hesitation from inability to reach a firm decision. vacillated until events were out of control falter implies a wavering or stumbling and often connotes nervousness, lack of courage, or outright fear. never once faltered during her testimony",
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"hesitate",
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"stagger",
"teeter",
"waver",
"wobble",
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"the president was soundly criticized for his vacillation before responding to the crisis",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Medo\u2019s vacillation between moneymaking and altruism has profoundly shaped this new industry. \u2014 Sushma Subramanian, Washington Post , 13 May 2022",
"After our fleeting brush with normalcy during Omicron\u2019s retreat, another very transmissible new version of the coronavirus is on the rise\u2014and with it, a fresh wave of vacillation between mask-donning and mask-doffing. \u2014 Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The Trump administration\u2019s tilt toward Riyadh and an Israel-Arab d\u00e9tente has been replaced by vacillation . \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Superstitious thinking requires a massive investment of energy; the vacillation between hopefulness and despair is what fuels the perpetual thinker\u2019s unending inquiry into what this or that new detail means. \u2014 Agnes Callard, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The Chinese are said to take the long view of history, unlike their vacillation -prone American rivals. \u2014 WSJ , 28 Dec. 2021",
"This would require a change in the culture at the Pentagon and Foggy Bottom from one of timidity and vacillation to one of decisiveness and courage\u2014not an easy business. \u2014 WSJ , 17 Oct. 2021",
"There\u2019s no ambiguity on this score, simply a vacillation between mostly depicting him as cold-blooded and occasionally tossing in a gesture towards feeling lonely in the suburbs because that\u2019s where this season is set. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 15 Oct. 2021",
"Fonda nails her character\u2019s vacillation between integrity and her own ambition, tapping into the era of America\u2019s first cultural reckoning with television news as entertainment. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 23 Feb. 2021"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English vacillacion , borrowed from Latin vacill\u0101ti\u014dn-, vacill\u0101ti\u014d , from vacill\u0101re \"to be unsteady, vacillate \" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns":""
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"fence-sitting",
"hesitance",
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"hesitation",
"indecision",
"irresolution",
"pause",
"shilly-shally",
"shilly-shallying",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": the state, fact, or quality of being vacuous":[]
},
"examples":[
"We tired of the vacuity of their conversation.",
"the seemingly endless vacuity between settlements in the desert",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Instead of interrogating Indian officials on their Ukraine policy, or providing space for in-depth discussion of what India should do, Indian outlets echo the vacuity of Foreign Ministry pronouncements. \u2014 Anjani Jain, Fortune , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Kaokept, who charms as the Balladeer, recedes into sympathetic vacuity when playing Oswald. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Meanwhile, traffic still roars over the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, and visitors must still cross the dispiriting vacuity of Virginia Avenue to get to the center. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Sep. 2021",
"That\u2019s how the familiar old criticisms of TV\u2014its vacuity , its low stakes, its familiar formulas\u2014can work, now, as terms of critical praise. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 27 Dec. 2020",
"The country is called to choose between a very effective executive whose behavioral foibles are sometimes outlandish and the dual personification of weakness and vacuity . \u2014 Conrad Black, National Review , 28 Oct. 2020",
"First, after years of appalling ineptitude and moral vacuity under Corbyn\u2019s catastrophic leadership, Britain\u2019s opposition will be led by a credible alternative prime minister whose competence, professionalism, and patriotism are unquestioned. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 6 Apr. 2020",
"The lyrics hint at Warhol's aura of vacuity and his callousness toward the deaths of regulars at the Factory - Warhol's studio - such as Candy Darling and Eric Emerson. \u2014 Judith A. Peraino, chicagotribune.com , 2 Nov. 2019",
"But the project\u2019s musical vacuity is matched only by the curious obscenity of its existence. \u2014 Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic , 30 July 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English vacuitee , borrowed from Latin vacuit\u0101s , from vacuus \"empty, unoccupied\" + -it\u0101s -ity \u2014 more at vacuum entry 1":""
},
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"v\u0259-",
"va-\u02c8ky\u00fc-\u0259-t\u0113"
],
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"black hole",
"blank",
"blankness",
"emptiness",
"vacancy",
"void"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": tonoplast":[]
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"type":[
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": the vacuole of the plant cell with all identifiable precursors and derivatives that constitute a fundamental system of organelles comparable to the plastids \u2014 compare vacuome":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000123",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"antonyms":[],
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": containing one or more vacuoles":[
"vacuolated epithelial cells"
]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1859, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"vacuole + -ated or -ate entry 3 , probably after French vacuol\u00e9":""
},
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"\u02c8va-ky\u0259-(\u02cc)w\u014d-\u02ccl\u0101-t\u0259d",
"\u02c8vak-y\u0259-(\u02cc)w\u014d-\u02ccl\u0101t-\u0259d"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090453",
"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": the development or formation of vacuoles":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1858, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"vacuole + -ation":""
},
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"\u02ccvak-y\u0259-(\u02cc)w\u014d-\u02c8l\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"\u02ccva-ky\u0259-(\u02cc)w\u014d-\u02c8l\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023403",
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a cavity or vesicle in the cytoplasm of a cell usually containing fluid \u2014 see cell illustration":[],
": a small cavity or space in the tissues of an organism containing air or fluid":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This vacuole pushes the cell\u2019s essential proteins, sugars and metabolites against its membrane, facilitating easier diffusion. \u2014 Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"Depending on the density of the flock and speed of the predator, the starlings\u2019 reactions can take many escape patterns, including flying outward to create a vacuole \u2014an empty space. \u2014 Lauryn Hill, Wired , 5 Feb. 2021",
"The central empty spaces are vacuoles , which get larger and larger as injured cells approach death. \u2014 Sharon Begley, STAT , 3 May 2018",
"Unlike Thioploca and a related genus called Beggiatoa, it was not contained in a containment sac called a vacuole . \u2014 Scientific American Blog Network , 21 Apr. 2017",
"In this slice of potato 1,000 times thinner than a Pringle, the red circles are vacuoles \u2014 \u2014 Tom Conlon, WIRED , 23 Oct. 2007",
"As the ice evaporated and carbon dioxide built up in the surrounding air, the acidity increased, causing the pigments stored in tiny vacuoles , or bubbles in the petal\u2019s outer cells, to shift from blue to pink. \u2014 Joanna Klein, New York Times , 2 Mar. 2016"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1853, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"borrowed from French, probably borrowed from New Latin vacuolum \"little vacuum,\" from Medieval Latin vacuum vacuum entry 1 + Latin -olum , variant of -ulum -ule with stems ending in a vowel":""
},
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"\u02c8va-ky\u0259-\u02ccw\u014dl",
"\u02c8vak-y\u0259-\u02ccw\u014dl"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-045939",
"type":[
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"noun"
]
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": any of various substances or structures in plant or animal cells that resemble the vacuolar system in segregating vital dyes (as neutral red): such as":[],
": chondriome":[],
": golgi apparatus":[],
": vacuolar system":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from vacu- (in vacuole ) + -ome":""
},
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"\u02c8vaky\u0259\u02ccw\u014dm"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114524",
"type":[
"noun"
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": an apparatus for measuring low pressures":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary vacu um + -o- + -meter":""
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"\u02ccvaky\u0259\u02c8w\u00e4m\u0259t\u0259(r)"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-161658",
"type":[
"noun"
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"antonyms":[
"full"
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": emptied of or lacking content":[],
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"a vacuous mind",
"a vacuous movie"
]
},
"examples":[
"a dull and vacuous movie",
"He had a vacuous expression on his face.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Cruz, 48, plays the eccentric and curly-haired auteur Lola Cuevas, while Banderas, 61, is F\u00e9lix Rivero, a vacuous and self-centered actor cast opposite the seemingly modest but committed Iv\u00e1n Torres (Oscar Mart\u00ednez). \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"In the series, writer/artist Frank Miller reimagines Batman as a grim, middle-aged avenger dispensing brutal justice in a post-apocalyptic landscape dominated by violent gangs and blanketed in vacuous media. \u2014 Rob Salkowitz, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Most movies that deploy violence tidy it up with empty outrage and vacuous moralizing; here, the violence haunts you. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"Because candidates' statements are usually vacuous , journalists tend to emphasize superficial qualities of vocal tone, body language, or diction. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Many critics love to pan overtly retro-sounding artists as derivative, calculating and vacuous cosplayers. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Also Gigi Grazer for skewering the vacuous Westside society. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Even Hilton and Fallon seem to be exhausted by going through the motions of revenue-creation in this particularly vacuous way. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Seeing a tiny blonde heroine \u2014 the type who'd normally make shrieking baddie fodder or vacuous on-screen arm candy \u2014 cast as a hero meant everything to kids who already sensed they too were destined to be underestimated. \u2014 Holly Thomas, CNN , 22 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1660, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Latin vacuus \"empty, unoccupied, idle\" + -ous \u2014 more at vacuum entry 1":""
},
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"\u02c8va-ky\u0259-w\u0259s"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vacuous empty , vacant , blank , void , vacuous mean lacking contents which could or should be present. empty suggests a complete absence of contents. an empty bucket vacant suggests an absence of appropriate contents or occupants. a vacant apartment blank stresses the absence of any significant, relieving, or intelligible features on a surface. a blank wall void suggests absolute emptiness as far as the mind or senses can determine. a statement void of meaning vacuous suggests the emptiness of a vacuum and especially the lack of intelligence or significance. a vacuous facial expression",
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"blank",
"clean",
"devoid",
"empty",
"stark",
"toom",
"vacant",
"void"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221456",
"type":[
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"noun"
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": a degree of rarefaction below atmospheric pressure":[],
": a space absolutely devoid of matter":[],
": a space partially exhausted (as to the highest degree possible) by artificial means (such as an air pump)":[],
": a state of isolation from outside influences":[
"people who live in a vacuum \u2026 so that the world outside them is of no moment",
"\u2014 W. S. Maugham"
],
": a state or condition resembling a vacuum : void":[
"the power vacuum in Indochina after the departure of the French",
"\u2014 Norman Cousins"
],
": emptiness of space":[],
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": of, containing, producing, or utilizing a partial vacuum":[
"separated by means of vacuum distillation"
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": to draw or take in by or as if by suction":[],
": to operate a vacuum device":[],
": to use a vacuum device (such as a vacuum cleaner) on":[
"vacuum the living room"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"the vacuum of outer space",
"A pump was used to create a vacuum inside the bottle.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The army\u2019s rot is reflective of dark forces in Russian society and politics at large\u2014forces that would likely reveal themselves in the event of a power vacuum . \u2014 Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ , 8 June 2022",
"When his father, Rulon Jeffs, died in 2002, Warren stepped into the power vacuum and declared himself President and Prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 7 June 2022",
"The high-power vacuum will clean up any wet or dry mess in their car, without taking up a ton of space. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 3 June 2022",
"There was a huge power vacuum left in the wake of the snap. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 3 June 2022",
"When the film begins, the institution\u2019s Grand Imam unexpectedly dies, leaving behind a power vacuum that the Egyptian government hopes to fill with their own sheik, even if the mosque and the state are supposed to remain independent bodies. \u2014 Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 May 2022",
"This happens, and we are told, this really fills a power vacuum , that apparently Russia has been missing a key battlefield commander. \u2014 NBC News , 10 Apr. 2022",
"The power vacuum created by the fall of Rome proved a time of constant warring between kings and bloodlines who struggled to claim influence and rule territories. \u2014 Emily Gray Tedrowe, USA TODAY , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Thiel's greater involvement also reflects a power vacuum in Republican donor circles, said Katie Harbath, a former GOP official who later spent a decade working for Facebook, most recently as the company's public policy director for elections. \u2014 Clare Duffy And Brian Fung, CNN , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Technology companies vacuum up customer data and use such data to tailor their products, services and, of course, advertisements. \u2014 Angelica Goetzen, Scientific American , 3 June 2022",
"To slow the rise of global temperatures, the world will need to find ways to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere \u2014 from planting trees to developing ways to vacuum it from the air, experts say. \u2014 Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY , 2 May 2022",
"Give your vehicle a bath, and vacuum it at a local car wash. \u2014 cleveland , 27 Nov. 2021",
"Doncic coming back would obviously vacuum up some or even most of those minutes from sketchy players, but in the meantime, the Jazz have a huge advantage with exploitable players to attack on either end of the floor. \u2014 Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Then flip the mat over, and vacuum up the grit that came out. \u2014 Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Delta Sonic plans improve traffic flow at its Naperville car wash at Route 59 and North Aurora Road by adding more spaces for waiting cars and constructing a building for customers to vacuum their cars out of the elements. \u2014 Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Sprinkle generously, wait for 15 minutes, then vacuum away. \u2014 Christina Poletto, Better Homes & Gardens , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Davenport used to personally clean the backboards and arrange the chairs on the benches and vacuum the locker room before games in Bellarmine\u2019s old gym. \u2014 Gentry Estes, USA TODAY , 11 Mar. 2022"
],
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"1550, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1825, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1922, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
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"borrowed from Medieval Latin (translation of Greek ken\u00f3n ), from neuter of Latin vacuus \"empty, unoccupied,\" from vac\u0101re \"to be empty or unoccupied, have space, be free\" + -uus , deverbal adjective suffix \u2014 more at vacant":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8va-\u02ccky\u00fcm",
"-y\u0259m",
"\u02c8vak-(\u02cc)y\u00fcm",
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"-ky\u0259m",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044238",
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": a vacuum platen used in the focal plane of a camera to hold the film during exposure":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073536",
"type":[
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]
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"definitions":{
": a piston actuated by the vacuum of the intake manifold and attached to the brake pedal of an automotive vehicle to apply added pressure on the brake cylinder":[]
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"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-233305",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Add a Stanley vacuum bottle to complete the look, or use with your own (be sure to check the dimensions). \u2014 Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science , 29 Oct. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Kyle Pudenz wedged himself next to the vacuum cleaner in his hall supply closet and white-knuckled the doorknob, pulling with all his might. \u2014 William Deshazer For Cnn, CNN , 7 May 2022",
"One ad said people who confirm their apartment purchases between April 30 and May 4 would also receive a set of 10 household appliances, including a vacuum cleaner , standing fan and food blender. \u2014 Anniek Bao, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The Bissell can also act as a removable handheld vacuum cleaner , which releases from the main unit at just the push of a button. \u2014 Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Clean floors often with a vacuum cleaner that has a HEPA filter. \u2014 Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press , 18 May 2022",
"While some of these new roles aren't natural fits, eventually even the dissident vacuum cleaner has to admit that some of these changes are awfully handy. \u2014 Lauren Morgan, EW.com , 12 May 2022",
"The robot vacuum cleaner can hit suction powers up to 1,800 pascals and includes four cleaning modes. \u2014 Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com , 6 May 2022",
"When running, the Ryobi mower is only 70 dB\u2014about as loud as a vacuum cleaner . \u2014 Better Homes & Gardens , 4 May 2022",
"Miners will be hosted on a private network to address the security risk and each of the initiative's three machines \u2013 as small as toaster ovens \u2013 will consume the same amount of energy as a household vacuum cleaner . \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 27 Apr. 2022"
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"Few, however, remain today, as so many in period succumbed to rust or maltreatment, being passed from one vagabond owner to the next, each toking his or her way from campground to campground. \u2014 Robert Ross, Robb Report , 13 June 2022",
"Since season 1, fans have been wondering what the deal is with the mysterious, seemingly all-knowing vagabond Horse (Brendan Sexton III). \u2014 Lauren Huff, EW.com , 22 Apr. 2022",
"If ever there was a good time be a vagabond , this stretch of the Lakers\u2019 schedule might be as good as any. \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Our surrogate, Kay, is a young woman who ran away from her southern Louisiana home to live as a vagabond . \u2014 Todd Martensgame Critic, Los Angeles Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Alexia is a vagabond , moving from place to place\u2014Siberia, Alaska\u2014apparently in search of her mother, who has somehow been lost to her. \u2014 Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
"All-Pro and three-time Pro Bowl selection during his time with the Pittsburgh Steelers (2013-17), has had a vagabond existence since sitting out the 2018 season while in a contract dispute with the Steelers. \u2014 Jim Reineking, USA TODAY , 21 Dec. 2021",
"The fair has become a vagabond in recent years, hopscotching from Hallandale Beach to Pembroke Pines and back. \u2014 Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com , 16 Nov. 2021",
"That guiso rojo was a cornerstone for the Generala Plate ($12), a fortifying combo that also included costilla, refried beans, chopped nopales and fresh corn tortillas for scooping like a trainyard vagabond (or just a hungry dad at a picnic). \u2014 Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News , 8 Oct. 2021",
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"There are records of albatrosses spending decades living as vagabond singletons in the wrong hemisphere, Lees said. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 7 Nov. 2021",
"By modern standards, Wray's story feels like rock and roll lore that edges on pulp: As a child, he was raised in poverty in Dunn, North Carolina, and learned to play guitar from a vagabond bluesman named Hambone. \u2014 Colin Stutz, Billboard , 10 Oct. 2017",
"Hill\u2019s book teems with sloppy and obvious devices (to the point of cliche), including a vagabond narrator (Steve Pacek) preempting for us the obvious songs that require no explanation. \u2014 Jim Rutter, Philly.com , 24 Sep. 2017",
"The vagabond fair has set up in a half-dozen different locations over the past 41 years, but it was forced to cancel its plans in recent years because of the problems securing city permits. \u2014 Larry Barszewski, Sun-Sentinel.com , 22 Sep. 2017",
"Spoiler alert: The Glass Castle, in theaters now and based on journalist Jeannette Walls\u2019 2005 best-selling memoir about her vagabond childhood, boasts one of the most unexpected, triumphant, hide-under-your-couch scenes in recent film history. \u2014 Justine Harman, Glamour , 16 Aug. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"More than 100,000 patients have received vagal nerve implants to treat intractable epilepsy, treatment-resistant depression, cluster headaches and migraine. \u2014 Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ , 13 Aug. 2021",
"Most recently, Liberles\u2019s team discovered cells in the brainstem, connected to vagal neurons, that trigger nausea. \u2014 Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS , 10 June 2021",
"In 2018, neuroscientist Diego Boh\u00f3rquez at Duke University discovered a direct vagal connection between nutrient-sensing cells in the mouse gut called neuropods and the brain. \u2014 Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS , 10 June 2021",
"According to a study, Loving-Kindness-Meditation created a healthy vagal tone in participants. \u2014 Womensmedia, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2021",
"The vagal response is an automatic response that occurs when the vagus nerve is stimulated by triggers like stress, fear and pain. \u2014 Camille Caldera, USA TODAY , 21 Dec. 2020",
"Most vagal nerve stimulators, including SetPoint\u2019s devices and those already in use for treating epilepsy and depression, are implants. \u2014 Scientific American , 14 Sep. 2018",
"The researchers are also using their approach to examine metabolic changes, injecting mice with insulin or glucose and looking for vagal responses. \u2014 Tim Hornyak, Scientific American , 10 May 2018",
"In an alternative approach to weight loss, Dr. David Prologo, an interventional radiologist from Emory University School of Medicine, and his colleagues froze a nerve called the posterior vagal trunk in 10 people who were significantly overweight. \u2014 Alexandra Sifferlin, Time , 21 Mar. 2018"
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"the vagaries of a rather eccentric, elderly lady",
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"At times, its operators seemed confounded by the vagaries of Toronto politics. \u2014 Aarian Marshall, Wired , 7 May 2020",
"Ford has a gift for nimble interior monologues and a superb ear for the varieties and vagaries of human speech. \u2014 Rand Richards Cooper, New York Times , 12 May 2020",
"New York has long prided itself on being a sort of cultural and political city-state, able to hold its own against any vagaries emanating from the White House. \u2014 David Remnick, The New Yorker , 12 Apr. 2020",
"Making the situation worse are the increasing vagaries of climate change. \u2014 S. Gopikrishna Warrier, Quartz India , 20 Jan. 2020",
"Was this a nod to the vagaries of supply and demand? \u2014 Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press , 16 Apr. 2020",
"The vagaries of ancestry are especially acute for many African Americans, largely because the slave trade severed familial links both within American life and to African origins. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Apr. 2020",
"Ordinarily, the absence of genetic diversity makes a population exceedingly vulnerable to the vagaries of its environment. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 23 Mar. 2020",
"The postseason is a marathon, 10-team tournament subject to the vagaries of short series. \u2014 John Shea, SFChronicle.com , 4 Mar. 2020"
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"1579, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While many things can cause painful intercourse (formally called dyspareunia), including vaginismus and low vaginal estrogen, there\u2019s usually a remedy for those problems, says Dr. King. \u2014 Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping , 24 June 2022",
"Some brands also add an antimicrobial layer to keep vaginal odors at bay. \u2014 Sarah Madaus, SELF , 23 June 2022",
"Birth control pills and other hormonal contraceptives\u2014including patches, injections and vaginal rings\u2014have been fully covered by almost all health insurance plans since the Affordable Care Act designated them as preventive health care. \u2014 Mariana Lenharo, Scientific American , 20 June 2022",
"At the same border crossing two days later, authorities said a 47-year-old woman attempted to smuggle 0.07 pounds of the drug in her vaginal cavity. \u2014 Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News , 16 June 2022",
"Contraceptives like intrauterine devices, oral pills, vaginal rings, and implants work by releasing small amounts of progesterone for several months to years. \u2014 Anuradha Varanasi, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"The space between the rectum and urinary tract is dissected, and the peritoneal tissue is then pulled down into the space between the rectum and the urethra to serve as the vaginal lining. \u2014 Mailee Osten-tan, Longreads , 8 June 2022",
"This dietary supplement helps with urinary and vaginal health. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"Whether the virus also spreads through semen or vaginal fluids, however, is unknown. \u2014 Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic , 3 June 2022"
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"a frequent victim to the vagrancies of the heart, she had a succession of passionate but short-lived romances",
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"Most residents consider crime and vagrancy bigger public threats than billionaires. \u2014 Allysia Finley, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"The stabbings are part of a general increase in subway crime that preceded, but has continued in the days since, Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a new crackdown on crime and vagrancy on the subway system. \u2014 NBC News , 2 Mar. 2022",
"It\u2019s the oldest park in Utah\u2019s capital, with 175 years of history and a reputation in recent decades of being run-down and prone to crime and vagrancy . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 Feb. 2022",
"An itinerant worker who had slept in a barn the night before, Randolph thought the men were attempting to arrest him for trespassing or vagrancy . \u2014 Clint Smith, The Atlantic , 2 Feb. 2022",
"The 100-player league has been practicing and playing for years on rundown ballfields ravaged by age, neglect, disrepair, vandalism and vagrancy . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Hill has an extensive history of misdemeanor cases involving trespassing, obstruction, battery, vagrancy , larceny and theft allegations. \u2014 Ken Ritter And Terry Tang, Star Tribune , 13 July 2021",
"Austin incentivized vagrancy as a lifestyle choice and did nothing to prepare for the consequences of the policy shift. \u2014 Matt Mackowiak, National Review , 23 May 2021",
"Levels of vagrancy in progressive redoubts like New York City and San Francisco have reached levels that are too high to ignore. \u2014 Jason L. Riley, WSJ , 18 May 2021"
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"Adjective",
"bands of vagrant children in the streets of the impoverished city",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Please don\u2019t glorify a homeless vagrant who has nowhere to go. \u2014 Dan Koeppel, Outside Online , 5 Sep. 2019",
"Research has demonstrated that the long-term impact of a single avian vagrant can in fact, be ecologically profound. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Citizen Ruth is about a paint-huffing vagrant who has been arrested 16 times and given birth to four children, all of whom were seized by the state. \u2014 Matthew Jacobs, Vulture , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Coronavirus seems to pounce on these attributes, like a famished vagrant at a free all-you-can-eat buffet. \u2014 Sam Adams, The Denver Post , 17 July 2020",
"The 35-year-old vagrant then grabbed the child, picked him up and threw him to the concrete, slamming his face on the ground, police said. \u2014 Fox News , 11 Oct. 2019",
"Neighboring what passes for a metro area out here, Hawkeye is no secret\u2014not from other hunters nor birders nor a cast of more nefarious characters ranging from mere vagrants to meth dealers. \u2014 Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream , 12 Mar. 2020",
"In 2019, the number of homeless citizens living in cars, vans and RVs increased, along with the number of vagrants living in tents or makeshift setups. \u2014 Nick Givas, Fox News , 15 Feb. 2020",
"Joshua Bright for The New York Times Dean Feldman spends so much time in the lobby of Schwab House, a co-op with some 600 units on the Upper West Side, that the uninitiated might easily mistake him for a doorman \u2014 or a vagrant . \u2014 Joanne Kaufman, New York Times , 14 Feb. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Some reports described him as a vagrant ; others labeled him a drug dealer. \u2014 James E. Causey, jsonline.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
"English roads teemed with men turned vagrant by penury; Spain was on the cusp of war. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Dec. 2021",
"The commissioner had heard screaming, looked outside and saw a father pushing a baby in a stroller accompanied by another toddler moving away from a person the witness described as a vagrant , who was following them with a brick, Krepp said. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Dec. 2021",
"North of Boston, a vagrant wood stork continued to be sighted in the vicinity of the Green Landing Marsh in Gloucester, a little blue heron at the Ross Field Mill Pond elsewhere in Gloucester. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 Nov. 2021",
"The group aged each bird by their appearance and found that vagrant , or birds that fly outside of their range, were always adolescents, per Science News. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 12 Nov. 2021",
"Birders dream of vagrant sightings, said Nick Lund, who works for Maine Audubon and counts himself lucky to have seen a great black hawk, native to Central and South America, in his home state in 2018. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 7 Nov. 2021",
"Synonyms for beggar include hobo, pauper, tramp, vagrant , derelict, mendicant, bum, supplicant, deadbeat, borrower. \u2014 Stephen Miller, WSJ , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Dreamlike and deliberate, pedestrian and theatrical, bland and strangely beautiful, \u2018About Endlessness\u2019 takes in the suffering, struggle and moments of vagrant joy in life and propels them into the cosmos. \u2014 Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 30 Apr. 2021"
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"Middle English vagaraunt \"inclined to wander, lacking a livelihood,\" borrowed from Anglo-French vageraunt, waucrant , present participle of vagrer \"to wander about\" \u2014 more at vagrant entry 1":"Adjective",
"Middle English vageraunt, vagraunt , borrowed from Anglo-French vageraunt , from present participle of vagrer \"to wander about,\" probably blend of vaguer \"to be unoccupied, wander about\" (borrowed from Late Latin vag\u0101re , Latin vag\u0101r\u012b \"to wander, roam\") and waucrer, wakrer \"to wander about,\" perhaps going back to Old Low Franconian (Frankish substratum of French) *walkaran- , frequentative derivative of Germanic *walkan- \"to roll, toss\" \u2014 more at vagabond entry 2 , walk entry 1":"Noun"
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"a vague stare"
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"vague accusations"
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"\u2014 Earle Birney"
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"When my three years of military service ended, I looked around for some way to get to spend time in rural Vietnam as a civilian. The driving force was still primarily intellectual curiosity, along with a desire to improve my language ability in a non-Western language and some vague idea of doing folkloristic or literary studies in the future. \u2014 Neil L. Jamieson , Understanding Vietnam , (1993) 1995",
"There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood. \u2014 Arthur Conan Doyle , A Study in Scarlet , 1887",
"At the end of half an hour Tom had a vague general idea of his lesson, but no more, for his mind was traversing the whole field of human thought, and his hands were busy with distracting recreations. \u2014 Mark Twain , Tom Sawyer , 1876",
"It thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to know that behind the dusky shroud, there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him, while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a spectral hand and one great heap of black. \u2014 Charles Dickens , A Christmas Carol , 1843",
"The instructions she left were vague and difficult to follow.",
"He gave only a vague answer.",
"The judges determined that the law was too vague to be fairly enforced.",
"She has been vague about her plans for college.",
"We had only a vague idea of where we were.",
"I think I have a vague understanding of how it works.",
"He longed in some vague way for something different.",
"She felt a vague sense of uneasiness when she was around him.",
"I had the vague impression that they were withholding information.",
"We could just barely make out the vague outline of a plane in the sky.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Unhelpful critique, on the other hand, is often vague and general. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"As the organization\u2019s revenue grew by hundreds of thousands of dollars each year, the tax filings remain vague and repetitive, providing no specifics on who provided contributions or to what charities revenue was donated. \u2014 Henri Hollis, ajc , 22 June 2022",
"The public housing developments were torn down, but plans for replacing them were often vague or simply abandoned. \u2014 Nick Blumberg, ProPublica , 14 June 2022",
"That question is left intentionally fuzzy, with the film offering vague and contradictory hints about the antagonist that don\u2019t quite add up. \u2014 Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"However, some doctors have said that exception is vague and unclear. \u2014 Carmen Forman, USA TODAY , 26 May 2022",
"Trump is promoting vague and baseless claims of election fraud in that race, in an awkward replay of post-2020 messaging. \u2014 Rick Klein, ABC News , 23 May 2022",
"For those who believe in the explicit White supremacist takes, the options are vague or distant, like dividing America into regions for different ethnicities. \u2014 Elle Reeve, CNN , 20 May 2022",
"The legislation was drafted in very broad and deliberately vague terms. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022"
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"circa 1661, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"borrowed from French, going back to Middle French, going back to Old French, \"wandering, vagabond,\" borrowed from Latin vagus \"moving freely, wandering,\" perhaps akin to Old High German wank\u014dn \"to totter, stagger,\" winkan \"to waver, stagger, wink,\" Old English wincian \"to close the eyes\" \u2014 more at wink entry 1":""
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"\u02c8v\u0101g"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vague obscure , dark , vague , enigmatic , cryptic , ambiguous , equivocal mean not clearly understandable. obscure implies a hiding or veiling of meaning through some inadequacy of expression or withholding of full knowledge. obscure poems dark implies an imperfect or clouded revelation often with ominous or sinister suggestion. muttered dark hints of revenge vague implies a lack of clear formulation due to inadequate conception or consideration. a vague sense of obligation enigmatic stresses a puzzling, mystifying quality. enigmatic occult writings cryptic implies a purposely concealed meaning. cryptic hints of hidden treasure ambiguous applies to language capable of more than one interpretation. an ambiguous directive equivocal applies to language left open to differing interpretations with the intention of deceiving or evading. moral precepts with equivocal phrasing",
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"fuzzy",
"indefinite",
"inexplicit",
"muzzy",
"unclear"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234128",
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"egoless",
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"uncomplacent"
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": in an irreverent or blasphemous manner":[
"Being a religion writer, I have always tried to avoid using the Lord's name in vain . I have not always succeeded.",
"\u2014 Don Lattin"
],
": marked by futility or ineffectualness : unsuccessful , useless":[
"vain efforts to escape"
],
": to no end : without success or result":[
"her efforts were in vain"
],
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"Being a religion writer, I have always tried to avoid using the Lord's name in vain . I have not always succeeded.",
"\u2014 Don Lattin"
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"For a half a century, scholars have searched in vain for the source of the jade that the early civilizations of the Americas prized above all else and fashioned into precious objects of worship, trade and adornment. \u2014 William J. Broad , New York Times , 22 May 2002",
"\u2026 the miseries of people's lives ought not to be exploited ad libitum in the furtherance of our profits or our careers, and in the vain conviction that we understand everything. \u2014 Richard Taruskin , New Republic , 24 Dec. 2001",
"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. \u2014 Charlotte Bront\u00eb , Jane Eyre , 1847",
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain . Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. \u2014 Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice , 1813",
"Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain \u2026 \u2014 William Shakespeare , King Richard the Second , 1596",
"She is very vain about her appearance.",
"He is the vainest man I know.",
"A vain effort to quell the public's fears only made matters worse.",
"Volunteers searched the area in the vain hope of finding clues.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Start making an effort to reach such a place -- your efforts shouldn't be in vain . \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"In a vain attempt to ward off further divine retribution, thousands of European men wandered from town to town as flagellants, whipping and scourging themselves in collective acts of expiation. \u2014 Niall Ferguson Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune , 31 July 2021",
"My brother queried what our own dear parents may have taught us, but my only recollection is being told to stab the veggies rather than chasing them around the plate in a vain attempt to shovel them. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
"Obama, this theory holds, naively waited for Republican support in Congress for his major initiatives and sacrificed Democratic priorities in a vain attempt to get it. \u2014 NBC news , 26 Apr. 2021",
"California alone shuffled its presidential primary six times in 30 years in a vain attempt to enhance its influence. \u2014 Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times , 23 Mar. 2021",
"Kevin Faulconer, the former mayor of San Diego and leading contender to oppose Newsom in a potential recall, slammed the governor's address as a vain attempt to salvage a floundering political career. \u2014 Carly Roman, Washington Examiner , 9 Mar. 2021",
"The Chiefs got too handsy in a vain attempt to cover Tampa Bay\u2019s receivers, too jumpy on the line of scrimmage, too chippy when things didn\u2019t go their way. \u2014 Eddie Pells, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Feb. 2021",
"All this in a vain attempt to figure out if I had been injected with a placebo or the real thing. \u2014 John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Dec. 2020"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
},
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"Middle English veyn \"empty, futile, groundless, foolish, excessively proud,\" borrowed from Anglo-French vain, vein , going back to Latin v\u0101nus \"lacking content, empty, illusory, marked by foolish or empty pride\" \u2014 more at wane entry 1":""
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"egoless",
"humble",
"modest",
"uncomplacent"
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": marked by vainglory : boastful":[]
},
"examples":[
"a vainglorious woman who always insists on being the center of attention",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As a reward of sorts, Ma is dispatched to Vietnam for an ostensible vacation that\u2019s really a covert operation, accompanied by his alternately vainglorious and spluttering Captain (Choi Gwi-hwa). \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 3 June 2022",
"The former soldier and schoolmaster is presented here as careless, petty, monomaniacal, vainglorious , technophobic and, worst of all, bored by the lovely people and landscapes of Tibet. \u2014 Michael O\u2019donnell, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"This kind of vainglorious self-regard disgusted Dickens. \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Turns out, his disappointment was of a slightly more vainglorious nature. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 Jan. 2022",
"Roll your eyes at the ogre's vainglorious rhetoric. \u2014 William Falk, The Week , 21 Nov. 2021",
"Societies of hunter-gatherers could be miserably hierarchical; some indigenous American groups, fattened on foraging and fishing, had vainglorious aristocrats, patronage relationships, and slavery. \u2014 Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books , 14 Jan. 2021",
"Booth shot Lincoln in 1865, and we have been caught in his vainglorious , paranoid, negationist riptide ever since. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Chinese police have arrested commentators who questioned the film\u2019s vainglorious portrayal of a military campaign where, by official counts, nearly 200,000 Chinese died, including 4,000 who froze to death at Lake Changjin. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Oct. 2021"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Middle English vaynegloryous , from vaynglorie vainglory + -ous -ous , after Middle French vaneglorious and Medieval Latin v\u0101nigl\u014drius":""
},
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"\u02ccv\u0101n-\u02c8gl\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259s"
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"a vainglorious woman who always insists on being the center of attention",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As a reward of sorts, Ma is dispatched to Vietnam for an ostensible vacation that\u2019s really a covert operation, accompanied by his alternately vainglorious and spluttering Captain (Choi Gwi-hwa). \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 3 June 2022",
"The former soldier and schoolmaster is presented here as careless, petty, monomaniacal, vainglorious , technophobic and, worst of all, bored by the lovely people and landscapes of Tibet. \u2014 Michael O\u2019donnell, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"This kind of vainglorious self-regard disgusted Dickens. \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Turns out, his disappointment was of a slightly more vainglorious nature. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 Jan. 2022",
"Roll your eyes at the ogre's vainglorious rhetoric. \u2014 William Falk, The Week , 21 Nov. 2021",
"Societies of hunter-gatherers could be miserably hierarchical; some indigenous American groups, fattened on foraging and fishing, had vainglorious aristocrats, patronage relationships, and slavery. \u2014 Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books , 14 Jan. 2021",
"Booth shot Lincoln in 1865, and we have been caught in his vainglorious , paranoid, negationist riptide ever since. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Chinese police have arrested commentators who questioned the film\u2019s vainglorious portrayal of a military campaign where, by official counts, nearly 200,000 Chinese died, including 4,000 who froze to death at Lake Changjin. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Oct. 2021"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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": vain display or show : vanity":[]
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"the vainglory that nations have historically shown after they have achieved military supremacy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Behind closed doors, people are nervously voicing that the annual grandstanding on stage has shifted too much towards vainglory , rather than progress against staggering challenges. \u2014 Charles Beames, Forbes , 31 Aug. 2021",
"Vidal gives wicked, witty renditions of the infighting, backstabbing and vainglory of such troublesome men as Gen. George B. McClellan, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and John Wilkes Booth. \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune , 6 Nov. 2020",
"Vidal gives wicked, witty renditions of the infighting, backstabbing and vainglory of such troublesome men as Gen. George B. McClellan, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and John Wilkes Booth. \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune , 6 Nov. 2020",
"Vidal gives wicked, witty renditions of the infighting, backstabbing and vainglory of such troublesome men as Gen. George B. McClellan, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and John Wilkes Booth. \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune , 6 Nov. 2020",
"Vidal gives wicked, witty renditions of the infighting, backstabbing and vainglory of such troublesome men as Gen. George B. McClellan, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and John Wilkes Booth. \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune , 6 Nov. 2020",
"Vidal gives wicked, witty renditions of the infighting, backstabbing and vainglory of such troublesome men as Gen. George B. McClellan, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and John Wilkes Booth. \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune , 6 Nov. 2020",
"Into what idiocies of optimism and vainglory might humanity collapse? \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 14 June 2020",
"Well, specifically, the organization that will present the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards in a deep vat of vainglory on CBS at 8 p.m. Sunday, the Recording Academy. \u2014 Chuck Yarborough, cleveland , 24 Jan. 2020"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English vaynglorie , borrowed from Anglo-French veineglorie , from veine , feminine of vain, vein vain + glorie glory entry 1 , after Medieval Latin v\u0101na gl\u014dria":""
},
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"\u02c8v\u0101n-\u02ccgl\u022fr-\u0113",
"\u02ccv\u0101n-\u02c8gl\u022fr-\u0113"
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"\u2014 Don Lattin"
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"\u2014 see also take in vain":[
"Being a religion writer, I have always tried to avoid using the Lord's name in vain . I have not always succeeded.",
"\u2014 Don Lattin"
]
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"For a half a century, scholars have searched in vain for the source of the jade that the early civilizations of the Americas prized above all else and fashioned into precious objects of worship, trade and adornment. \u2014 William J. Broad , New York Times , 22 May 2002",
"\u2026 the miseries of people's lives ought not to be exploited ad libitum in the furtherance of our profits or our careers, and in the vain conviction that we understand everything. \u2014 Richard Taruskin , New Republic , 24 Dec. 2001",
"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. \u2014 Charlotte Bront\u00eb , Jane Eyre , 1847",
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain . Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. \u2014 Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice , 1813",
"Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain \u2026 \u2014 William Shakespeare , King Richard the Second , 1596",
"She is very vain about her appearance.",
"He is the vainest man I know.",
"A vain effort to quell the public's fears only made matters worse.",
"Volunteers searched the area in the vain hope of finding clues.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Start making an effort to reach such a place -- your efforts shouldn't be in vain . \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"In a vain attempt to ward off further divine retribution, thousands of European men wandered from town to town as flagellants, whipping and scourging themselves in collective acts of expiation. \u2014 Niall Ferguson Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune , 31 July 2021",
"My brother queried what our own dear parents may have taught us, but my only recollection is being told to stab the veggies rather than chasing them around the plate in a vain attempt to shovel them. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
"Obama, this theory holds, naively waited for Republican support in Congress for his major initiatives and sacrificed Democratic priorities in a vain attempt to get it. \u2014 NBC news , 26 Apr. 2021",
"California alone shuffled its presidential primary six times in 30 years in a vain attempt to enhance its influence. \u2014 Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times , 23 Mar. 2021",
"Kevin Faulconer, the former mayor of San Diego and leading contender to oppose Newsom in a potential recall, slammed the governor's address as a vain attempt to salvage a floundering political career. \u2014 Carly Roman, Washington Examiner , 9 Mar. 2021",
"The Chiefs got too handsy in a vain attempt to cover Tampa Bay\u2019s receivers, too jumpy on the line of scrimmage, too chippy when things didn\u2019t go their way. \u2014 Eddie Pells, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Feb. 2021",
"All this in a vain attempt to figure out if I had been injected with a placebo or the real thing. \u2014 John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Dec. 2020"
],
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},
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"Middle English veyn \"empty, futile, groundless, foolish, excessively proud,\" borrowed from Anglo-French vain, vein , going back to Latin v\u0101nus \"lacking content, empty, illusory, marked by foolish or empty pride\" \u2014 more at wane entry 1":""
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"assured",
"biggety",
"biggity",
"bigheaded",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"consequential",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"important",
"overweening",
"pompous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-opinionated",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"swellheaded",
"vainglorious"
],
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": an address or statement of farewell or leave-taking":[],
": of or relating to a valediction : expressing or containing a farewell":[],
": valediction sense 1":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"a valedictory address given by the college president upon his retirement",
"Noun",
"He received a very warm valedictory for his long career.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"But those changes didn't hurt Youngkin, who comfortably beat Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a popular former governor seeking a valedictory term. \u2014 Brian Slodysko, ajc , 3 Nov. 2021",
"But those changes didn't hurt Youngkin, who comfortably beat Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a popular former governor seeking a valedictory term. \u2014 CBS News , 3 Nov. 2021",
"But those changes didn\u2019t hurt Youngkin, who comfortably beat Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a popular former governor seeking a valedictory term. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 Nov. 2021",
"In 2017 Ng summarized his vision in a valedictory post on the blogging platform Medium announcing his resignation from the Chinese technology company Baidu. \u2014 Sue Halpern, The New York Review of Books , 8 Apr. 2021",
"This shoot, with Vodianova as Farrand, model Karen Elson as her close friend and patron Mildred Bliss, and the actor Aldis Hodge as David Williston, the pioneering Black landscape artist who was Farrand\u2019s peer, has a valedictory air. \u2014 Chloe Malle, Vogue , 17 Aug. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Some of us had maintained hope that a great valedictory role would eventually present itself to an actor who so deserved one. \u2014 Adam Nayman, The New Yorker , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Two days before Sunday\u2019s equinox, the full moon, beaming through the mist, spoke of a celestial valedictory to winter and a welcome to springtime. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Mar. 2022",
"The fifth, an ideal culmination of everything that came before it, uses this premise as a filter for Adlon\u2019s valedictory meditations on personal history, family bonds, mortality and, above all, the constancy of change. \u2014 Judy Berman, Time , 28 Feb. 2022",
"The 1969 Mills College valedictory address mentioned at the review\u2019s beginning initiated my more than half-century of grappling with the complexity of problems like overpopulation, wildlands conservation, and women\u2019s reproductive rights. \u2014 Anna Louie Sussman, The New York Review of Books , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Gianopulos sounded a valedictory note in his statement. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 13 Sep. 2021",
"That gives it time for at least one more world premiere, an all-Beethoven road show, and a European tour plus an entire valedictory season. \u2014 Justin Davidson, Vulture , 26 Aug. 2021",
"His visit to the Bushwick Pool was part of a valedictory tour intended to spruce up his legacy. \u2014 Hunter Walker, The New Yorker , 19 July 2021",
"Joachim L\u00f6w, Southgate\u2019s counterpart, was in his valedictory tournament. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1651, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1779, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from New Latin valedict\u014drius , from Latin valedic- , alternate stem of vale d\u012bcere, valed\u012bcere \"to say goodbye\" + -t\u014drius , adjective suffix (originally derivatives of agent nouns ending in -t\u014dr-, -tor ) \u2014 more at valediction":"Adjective",
"noun derivative of valedictory entry 1":"Noun"
},
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"\u02ccva-l\u0259-\u02c8dik-t(\u0259-)r\u0113"
],
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"synonyms":[
"farewell",
"parting"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040550",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"valentinite":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a mineral Sb 2 O 3 consisting of antimony oxide in orthorhombic crystals polymorphous with senarmontite":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"German valentinit , from Basil Valentine , 15th century German alchemist + German -it -ite":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8val\u0259n\u2027\u02cct\u0113\u02ccn\u012b+"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084102",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"valiance":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": valor":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"From the moment she was born \u2014 two months premature with a heart murmur \u2014 to her final few breaths, Virginia Castillo demonstrated valiance . \u2014 AZCentral.com , 11 Mar. 2021",
"It\u2019s about the need for a kind of action movie valiance that, by 1971, is dead in a way and never entirely returns. \u2014 Wesley Morris, New York Times , 5 Nov. 2020",
"There\u2019s always a debate for reason versus passion, for valiance versus depravity, Knox argues. \u2014 Alex Kuczynski, New York Times , 4 Feb. 2020",
"Put anyone else on the UFC roster in Covington\u2019s shoes, and his valiance in a losing effort would be lauded. \u2014 Dave Doyle, MMA Junkie , 15 Dec. 2019",
"But Herrera\u2019s valiance and skills as one of the Mexican Revolution\u2019s most successful soldaderas are an example of the bravery and sacrifices women during this time made to change the history of Mexico\u2019s politics \u2014 and should not be forgotten. \u2014 Teen Vogue , 1 Apr. 2019",
"The same was true, with opposite partisan valiance , of Democrats who supported Bill Clinton or Ted Kennedy. \u2014 Jeet Heer, The New Republic , 2 July 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English vailliaunce , borrowed from Anglo-French vaillance , from vaillant \"worthy, strong, courageous\" + -ance -ance \u2014 more at valiant entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8val-y\u0259n(t)s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214125",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"valiant":{
"antonyms":[
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"chicken-livered",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"nerveless",
"poltroon",
"poor-spirited",
"pusillanimous",
"spineless",
"spiritless",
"timorous",
"uncourageous",
"ungallant",
"unheroic",
"weakhearted",
"yellow"
],
"definitions":{
": a valiant person":[],
": marked by, exhibiting, or carried out with courage or determination : heroic":[
"valiant feats"
],
": possessing or acting with bravery or boldness : courageous":[
"valiant soldiers"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"She died last year after a valiant battle with cancer.",
"Despite their valiant efforts, they lost the game.",
"She made a valiant attempt to fix the problem.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Allain\u2019s script makes a valiant effort at Regency humor but often falls flat by just being too mean. \u2014 Kristen Page-kirby, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"Moore took turns setting up his classmates for kills that overpowered a valiant defensive effort from the Minutemen (17-4). \u2014 Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"In a valiant effort, the Crusaders put together an 8-3 run, if only to mask the dominant effort put forward by the Bombers en route to a 25-16 win. \u2014 Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer , 29 May 2022",
"Despite years of valiant effort, attempts by Americans from both the left and the right to strengthen the indigenous Christian communities of the Near East have fallen short of expectations. \u2014 Robert Nicholson, National Review , 29 May 2022",
"The Tigers couldn't catch a break in Wednesday's 6-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, despite a valiant effort from six pitchers out of the bullpen. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 18 May 2022",
"Ukraine\u2019s valiant resistance has shown how highly motivated defenders with high-tech weapons can scramble the calculus of military power. \u2014 Roger Wicker, WSJ , 4 May 2022",
"Instead, gay men got much of their care and solace from valiant nurses, some family, and their gay and lesbian friends. \u2014 Frederick Isasi, STAT , 23 June 2022",
"Rhodes went on to gut out a valiant performance in an excellent match, where fans fervently rallied behind the top star with Rollins dominating Rhodes (and his pec). \u2014 Alfred Konuwa, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Still, having ruled out direct intervention, NATO knows that Ukraine\u2019s short-term fate will rest with the valiant , though hugely outmatched, Ukrainians. \u2014 Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 Mar. 2022",
"On their initiative, reconciliation was successfully used for the first time in 1980 in a valiant (though unsuccessful) attempt to balance the budget by cutting $8 billion in spending. \u2014 Philip Wallach, National Review , 8 Apr. 2021",
"Sunil Dowarkasing, a former government minister, called the effort valiant , but said oil had spread as far up the island\u2019s eastern coast as Ile aux Cerfs, a popular resort island. \u2014 Max Bearak, Washington Post , 9 Aug. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1589, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English vailant, valiant , borrowed from Anglo-French vaillant \"worthy, strong, courageous,\" from present participle of valer \"to be of worth,\" going back to Latin val\u0113re \"to have strength, be well\" \u2014 more at wield":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8val-y\u0259nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bold",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"gutty",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"manful",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"undaunted",
"valorous"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190744",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"valid":{
"antonyms":[
"illegitimate",
"illogical",
"incoherent",
"inconsequent",
"inconsequential",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"unsound",
"weak"
],
"definitions":{
": appropriate to the end in view : effective":[
"every craft has its own valid methods"
],
": conforming to accepted principles of sound biological classification":[],
": logically correct":[
"a valid argument",
"valid inference"
],
": well-grounded or justifiable : being at once relevant and meaningful":[
"a valid theory"
]
},
"examples":[
"There is no valid reason to proceed with the change.",
"Her objections were completely valid .",
"You make a valid point.",
"You must present valid identification.",
"Their marriage is not legally valid .",
"The agreement is no longer valid under international law.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Court documents say Jimenez also lacked a valid driver's license at the time of the crash. \u2014 Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer , 22 June 2022",
"Volunteers must be at least 50 years old, a U.S. citizen or legal resident who has applied for citizenship, and have a valid California driver\u2019s license and car insurance. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 June 2022",
"All these are valid and important questions, and their implications can be huge. \u2014 Solomon Amar, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"David Herrera, 18, of the 7300 block of S. Sacramento Avenue, Chicago, was charged with no valid driver\u2019s license, speeding and a failure to appear warrant from Livingston County, at 8:34 a.m. \u2014 Pioneer Press Staff, Chicago Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"Each beach offers cool Texas attractions with free or cheap access, but parking on the sand does require a $12 permit, valid for one year, and available at many gas stations and grocery stores; view locations here. \u2014 Robin Soslow, Chron , 3 May 2022",
"He was cited and a valid driver was allowed to drive the car from the scene. \u2014 Brian Lisik, cleveland , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Delilah Munoz, 21, of the 1300 block of South Tripp Avenue, Chicago, was charged with driving under the influence, possession of cannabis in a motor vehicle and driving without a valid driver\u2019s license at 4:05 a.m. April 2. \u2014 Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Critics also say the bill would do most harm to voters who lack a valid state driver's license or identification card like students, the elderly and tribal communities. \u2014 Kelly Mena, CNN , 30 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1571, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Middle French or Latin; Middle French valide \"in good health, having legal force,\" borrowed from Latin validus \"in good health, robust, potent, having legal authority,\" adjective derivative from the base of val\u0113re \"to have strength, be well\" \u2014 more at wield":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8va-l\u0259d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for valid valid , sound , cogent , convincing , telling mean having such force as to compel serious attention and usually acceptance. valid implies being supported by objective truth or generally accepted authority. a valid reason for being absent a valid marriage sound implies a basis of flawless reasoning or of solid grounds. a sound proposal for reviving the economy cogent may stress either weight of sound argument and evidence or lucidity of presentation. the prosecutor's cogent summation won over the jury convincing suggests a power to overcome doubt, opposition, or reluctance to accept. a convincing argument for welfare reform telling stresses an immediate and crucial effect striking at the heart of a matter. a telling example of bureaucratic waste",
"synonyms":[
"analytic",
"analytical",
"coherent",
"consequent",
"good",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sensible",
"sound",
"well-founded",
"well-grounded"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040044",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"validate":{
"antonyms":[
"disprove",
"rebut",
"refute"
],
"definitions":{
": to grant official sanction to by marking":[
"validated her passport"
],
": to make legally valid : ratify":[],
": to recognize, establish, or illustrate the worthiness or legitimacy of":[
"validate his concerns"
],
": to support or corroborate on a sound or authoritative basis":[
"experiments designed to validate the hypothesis"
]
},
"examples":[
"The court validated the contract.",
"A judge still needs to validate the election.",
"Customs officers validated our passports.",
"The decline in sales only validated our concerns.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On this episode of the Fifth & Mission podcast, Chronicle reporter Julie Johnson joins host Demian Bulwa to break down the story and talk about whether these revelations validate those fears. \u2014 Fifth & Mission Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The Yale researchers hope the findings will shed light on long-haul COVID-19 \u2014 and help validate patients\u2019 experience. \u2014 Eliza Fawcett, courant.com , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Multiple pieces of evidence validate their case, prosecution says Webb laid out in his closing statement six key pieces of evidence to demonstrate how Smollett allegedly carried out the hoax. \u2014 Omar Jimenez, CNN , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Payment happens only when both parties validate the agreement. \u2014 Katie Baron, Forbes , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Saban also declined this week to validate his claim that the Aggies bought their roster. \u2014 Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"Lastly, be wary of brands that use use unrelated certifications in an attempt to validate natural and organic claims. \u2014 Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping , 25 May 2022",
"With no means to natively validate the data, there\u2019s no way to tell when information has been tampered with. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 24 May 2022",
"Often the best way to intervene is to validate the experience of the victim of unwanted behavior. \u2014 Yasmin Dunn, Fortune , 29 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1648, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Medieval Latin valid\u0101tus , past participle of valid\u0101re \"to make valid,\" derivative of Latin validus \"in good health, having legal authority\" \u2014 more at valid":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8va-l\u0259-\u02ccd\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for validate confirm , corroborate , substantiate , verify , authenticate , validate mean to attest to the truth or validity of something. confirm implies the removing of doubts by an authoritative statement or indisputable fact. confirmed the reports corroborate suggests the strengthening of what is already partly established. witnesses corroborated his story substantiate implies the offering of evidence that sustains the contention. the claims have yet to be substantiated verify implies the establishing of correspondence of actual facts or details with those proposed or guessed at. all statements of fact in the article have been verified authenticate implies establishing genuineness by adducing legal or official documents or expert opinion. handwriting experts authenticated the diaries validate implies establishing validity by authoritative affirmation or by factual proof. validated the hypothesis by experiments",
"synonyms":[
"argue",
"attest",
"authenticate",
"bear out",
"certify",
"confirm",
"corroborate",
"substantiate",
"support",
"verify",
"vindicate"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031023",
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"validation":{
"antonyms":[
"disproof"
],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"I'm afraid we cannot act on your claim without validation .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For example, if an API gateway is not properly enforcing input validation on a particular API, this is only part of what an application or cloud security engineer needs to know. \u2014 Idan Plotnik, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"In one of these software systems, a large computer (the prover) validates financial transactions and places the validation computation into a PCP, so that a smaller computer (the verifier) can validate the transactions much faster. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 23 May 2022",
"But a large-scale validation challenge of 129 predictive algorithms showed that even the best performers miss their mark when applied to images that reflect the complexity of clinical practice. \u2014 Casey Ross And Katie Palmer, STAT , 4 May 2022",
"Separately, a report in late March said that the iPhone 14 series reached the engineering validation test (EVT) stage of development. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 4 May 2022",
"The developer behind Ronin, Sky Mavis, required five such validation keys across a nine-node network before users could transfer funds earned playing Axie Infinity. \u2014 David Uberti, WSJ , 5 Apr. 2022",
"This occurred because an validation error from the lottery's vendor. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The software was carefully designed to minimize the processing demands of a computationally complex process, and the whole thing benefits from our ability to do large-scale validation tests using molecular biology. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 25 Mar. 2022",
"They are used as part of the validation process for the vehicles GM makes for law enforcement agencies, the person confirmed. \u2014 Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press , 25 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1656, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"valid(ate) + -ation , perhaps after French validation":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccva-l\u0259-\u02c8d\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"attestation",
"confirmation",
"corroboration",
"documentation",
"evidence",
"proof",
"substantiation",
"testament",
"testimonial",
"testimony",
"voucher",
"witness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-042857",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"valor":{
"antonyms":[
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"poltroonery",
"spinelessness"
],
"definitions":{
": strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness : personal bravery":[]
},
"examples":[
"The soldiers received the nation's highest award for valor .",
"the absence of indecision even in the face of death is the true mark of valor",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As a result, when the nation awarded 146 Medals of Honor to U.S. servicemen for extraordinary valor in the Korean War, Williams didn\u2019t make the list. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 June 2022",
"Fort Hood in Texas would become Fort Cavazos, commemorating Richard Cavazos, who received the Purple Heart and other awards for valor in Vietnam and became the first Latino to reach the rank of general. \u2014 Jeff South, The Conversation , 3 June 2022",
"Sixty percent of Medal of Honor recipients died during their act of valor . \u2014 Garrett Andrews, oregonlive , 14 May 2022",
"However, the paperwork stopped after his division officials strictly interpreted a Geneva Convention rule that prohibited medical personnel from receiving valor awards. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
"Fort Hood, in Texas, would become Fort Cavazos, after Gen. Richard Cavazos, who received a Silver Star for valor during the Korean War and who became the first Hispanic Army general, a four-star officer. \u2014 New York Times , 24 May 2022",
"Congress first honored Morgan\u2019s valor with a medal designed by French artist Augustin Dupr\u00e9 and struck in Paris in 1789. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Also, players can only equip one valor -surge ability at a time, which can feel restrictive during later, more brutal encounters\u2014since players will unlock a dozen by the game's conclusion. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Hajiro was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross for his valor , which was later upgraded to a Medal of Honor. \u2014 Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY , 17 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English valour \"worth, worthiness, bravery,\" borrowed from Anglo-French valor, valur , inherited or borrowed from early Medieval Latin valor , from Latin val- (stem of validus \"in good health, robust, having legal authority,\" val\u0113re \"to be well, have strength\") + -or , noun suffix \u2014 more at valid , wield":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8va-l\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"bottle",
"bravery",
"courage",
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"daring",
"daringness",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"gutsiness",
"hardihood",
"heart",
"heroism",
"intestinal fortitude",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"moxie",
"nerve",
"pecker",
"prowess",
"stoutness",
"virtue"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030309",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"valorous":{
"antonyms":[
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"chicken-livered",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"nerveless",
"poltroon",
"poor-spirited",
"pusillanimous",
"spineless",
"spiritless",
"timorous",
"uncourageous",
"ungallant",
"unheroic",
"weakhearted",
"yellow"
],
"definitions":{
": valiant":[]
},
"examples":[
"valorous deeds that will be long remembered",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Outside of the White House, some recognized Kitt\u2019s action as valorous . \u2014 Scott Calonico, The New Yorker , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Breanna Jessop, from Myton, was named the USO\u2019s 2021 Soldier of the Year for valorous service in Afghanistan this summer. \u2014 Jeff Parrott, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 Dec. 2021",
"The 2020 defense policy bill removed a requirement that such awards be given within five years of a valorous act. \u2014 Josh Boak, Star Tribune , 21 May 2021",
"Bonhoeffer had written his now famous Letters and Papers from Prison to Eberhard, who in releasing them had introduced his valorous genius friend to the wide world. \u2014 Eric Metaxas, National Review , 26 Oct. 2020",
"Fear can make ordinary people turn valorous or villainous or just unattractive. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Apr. 2020",
"Also valorous , and critical to the battle, were the deeds of Brig. \u2014 Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com , 6 Mar. 2020",
"James Atlas, who died last week, of chronic lung disease, at seventy, was a valorous combatant who knew both glory and defeat. \u2014 Judith Thurman, The New Yorker , 9 Sep. 2019",
"The cult of the Lost Cause embraced an apocryphal history suffused with nostalgia for a world of valorous Confederates, kindly masters, and contented slaves. \u2014 Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic , 18 July 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"valor + -ous , after Middle French valeureux or Medieval Latin val\u014dr\u014dsus":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8va-l\u0259-r\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"bold",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"gutty",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"manful",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"undaunted",
"valiant"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212323",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"valuable":{
"antonyms":[
"cheap",
"inexpensive"
],
"definitions":{
": a usually personal possession (such as jewelry) of relatively great monetary value":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural"
],
": having desirable or esteemed characteristics or qualities":[
"valuable friendships"
],
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"A lot of valuable advice can be found in this book.",
"I learned a valuable lesson.",
"He made many valuable contributions to the field of science.",
"The volunteers provide a valuable service to the community.",
"She is a valuable member of the staff.",
"Clean air is a valuable natural resource that needs to be protected.",
"Please don't waste my time. My time is very valuable .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"These outside companies receive data including IP addresses, approximate Zip codes and service selections, which privacy experts worry could be valuable to state governments looking to prosecute abortions. \u2014 Tatum Hunter, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"In addition to their central role in keeping customers happy, the trend of service teams functioning as new and valuable sales channels means they are increasingly held in high esteem, particularly in high-performing organizations. \u2014 Richard Rosen, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Yet, without explanation, the conservative majority that Trump, with valuable assistance from Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, built on the high court put out an unsigned order in December allowing the law to go into effect. \u2014 Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"The fight for Rookie of the Year and those valuable Leaders Circle funds are tight as well, as are battles for life-changing rides and others' hopes just to remain in the series another year. \u2014 Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star , 28 June 2022",
"This approach has been valuable to Krieger who, for years, remained publicly quiet about her relationship with teammate Ashlyn Harris. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"Investors said that the free cash offered by dividend-paying companies is more valuable to them right now because interest rates are higher. \u2014 Karen Langley And Gunjan Banerji, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"Curry, who scored 34 points in the clinching game, was named the most valuable player of the finals. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"Bain was named most valuable player of the 35th District tournament, Ninth Region tournament, and state tournament. \u2014 James Weber, The Enquirer , 16 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"People carried their valuables , and on most buses, bags and mattresses were loaded. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Dec. 2019",
"The mattress and sock drawer aren\u2019t secure places for your cash and federal documents, because neither will protect your valuables from break-ins, fires, or flooding. \u2014 Popular Science , 11 Mar. 2020",
"Protect your valuables with this Pelican case\u2014\u200ba rugged water-, dirt-, and dustproof coffin that holds an oversize smartphone, USB cord, keys, and more. \u2014 The Editors, Field & Stream , 26 Feb. 2020",
"Inside, the bag is spacious, and comes with all sorts of traveler bonuses, from ties and clips to secure your valuables to a detachable clear wash bag for all of your toiletries. \u2014 Louis Cheslaw, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 21 Feb. 2020",
"Use a secure money belt or put your valuables in an inside pocket away out of reach. \u2014 Erica Lamberg, USA TODAY , 20 Jan. 2020",
"People carried their valuables , and on most buses, bags and mattresses were loaded. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Dec. 2019",
"People carried their valuables , and on most buses, bags and mattresses were loaded. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 25 Dec. 2019",
"San Francisco police are on the hunt for a 44-year-old swindler who\u2019s part of a citywide racket in which crooks put fake gold jewelry on victims and use sleight of hand to swipe their valuables , officials said Monday. \u2014 SFChronicle.com , 23 Dec. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Orange County Property Appraiser Rick Singh valuated the resorts at $353 million, while Disney is pushing for the value to drop to $180 million, according to Singh\u2019s office. \u2014 Gabrielle Russon, OrlandoSentinel.com , 30 Apr. 2018",
"According to Vidal, one of the best examples of how SpreadRank valuates a tweet is to compare two powerhouse Twitter users\u2014Justin Bieber and President Obama. \u2014 Valentina Palladino, WIRED , 25 Apr. 2013"
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"The total included a valuation of the company's assets.",
"The company was acquired at a high valuation .",
"Home valuations are at an all-time high.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In 2021, MasterClass raised $225 million in new funding, giving it a valuation of $2.75 billion, CNBC reported. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 22 June 2022",
"If selling to employees or family members is an option, the valuation may be different compared to selling to a third party because synergistic savings and cross-selling opportunities may not exist with an internal transfer. \u2014 David Tobin, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Software company Immuta became Boston\u2019s newest unicorn Wednesday, reaching a valuation of more than $1 billion. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
"Last year, Cameo raised $100 million from investors including Amazon, Google and UTA, giving the company a valuation of just over $1 billion. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Chicago Tribune , 5 May 2022",
"Or billionaire Ron Perelman, who challenged dealer Larry Gagosian over the valuation of a Popeye sculpture by Jeff Koons, among other works. \u2014 Mary Childs, Town & Country , 26 Apr. 2022",
"In July 2021, Egyptian ride-sharing startup Swvl announced its intention to go public on the NASDAQ via SPAC at a valuation of $1.5 billion. \u2014 Tom Collins, Quartz , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Musk\u2019s unsolicited offer of $54.20 per share to take Twitter private \u2014 a valuation of $43 billion \u2014 is an aggressive strategy that marks a dramatic escalation of his relationship with the social media platform over the past several weeks. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Apr. 2022",
"During the same period, according to the attorney general's office, Trump's financial statements represented that 40 Wall Street had a valuation of $601.8 million in 2010, $524.7 million in 2011, $527.2 million in 2012 and $530.7 million in 2013. \u2014 Aaron Katersky, ABC News , 8 Apr. 2022"
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"Noun",
"The company's stock continues to decline in value .",
"Real estate prices have doubled in value over the last decade.",
"The difference in value between the two currencies is not significant.",
"You may exchange the item for something of equal value .",
"We sold the home for less than its full value .",
"an increase in the value of the dollar",
"The home has a value of $1,000,000.",
"Property values tend to rise as interest rates fall.",
"The store advertises great values .",
"No one can deny the value of a good education.",
"Verb",
"She values the time she spends with her family.",
"The items are highly valued by collectors.",
"The herbs are valued for their medicinal properties.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"However, all three models\u2014RBAC, ABAC and PBAC\u2014have inherent value and explicit use cases. \u2014 Artyom Poghosyan, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"The Sazerac was considered by some to be a \u2018morning cocktail\u2019 because the Peychaud bitters were thought to have medicinal value . \u2014 Maureen Mackey, Fox News , 19 June 2022",
"What may be making the meltdown worse than the bear market afflicting stockholders is that crypto doesn\u2019t have any value in the real world. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"Good scents never get old and that\u2019s why the scented candle market had a value of $533.5 million in 2020. \u2014 Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence , 16 June 2022",
"Your experience does have value to your clients and participants. \u2014 Shauna Harrison, SELF , 14 June 2022",
"The Wilmington company has a market value of $77 billion. \u2014 Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"But the move is also calculated: a gourmet product that most people think should be free (butter) needs to be combined with cheap but trendy fish (anchovies) to convince diners the dish has value . \u2014 Noah Lederman, Bon App\u00e9tit , 9 June 2022",
"This is the first of three TROPICS satellite launches for NASA, which have a total contract value of $8 million for Astra. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Erivo echoed De Shields\u2019 sentiment and said substantial change can happen once leaders begin to value the impact of Broadway over profit. \u2014 Antonio Ferme, Variety , 13 June 2022",
"Throughout the afternoon, younger attendees lifted colorful signs urging the country to value their lives before guns. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"Fern\u00e1ndez had come of age under the dictatorship and had learned to value the freedoms brought about by the Concertaci\u00f3n governments. \u2014 Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Users can count their cans and bottles or simply use Sipzee's quick estimator to value their returnables. \u2014 Layla Mcmurtrie, Detroit Free Press , 4 June 2022",
"Esposito concluded his opening remarks by challenging the audience to value themselves. \u2014 Amanda Kondolojy, Orlando Sentinel , 20 May 2022",
"The dignity of being helped without judgment, and being the helper without judgment, may be the first step toward recovery \u2014 giving people a reason to value themselves when society largely doesn\u2019t. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022",
"In today\u2019s talent market, there may be fewer candidates for positions, leaving many employers willing to value your experience over a degree. \u2014 Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
"Lincoln\u2019s remarks in the throes of war prodded Americans then to value black soldiers\u2019 lives as equal to white soldiers\u2019. \u2014 WSJ , 16 May 2022"
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"Middle English, \"worth, high quality,\" borrowed from Anglo-French, noun derivative from feminine of valu (going back to Vulgar Latin *val\u016btus ), past participle of valer, valeir \"to be worth, have value,\" going back to Latin val\u0113re \"to be well, have strength\" \u2014 more at wield":"Noun"
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"lexicographers do not make value judgments about words when deciding whether they should be entered in the dictionary",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The study authors said that positions within it don\u2019t confer any value judgment nor any specific clinical disposition. \u2014 Kasra Zarei, STAT , 18 June 2022",
"The statement was not a political or value judgment . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 May 2022",
"Difference in and of itself is not something that needs to come under some value judgment . \u2014 Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times , 11 May 2022",
"To say that the Russian president is modern, in fact, is not to make a value judgment at all. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Dear Upset: Nothing in my answer conveyed a value judgment about pot use. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Nowadays lines are a fact of life, stripped of value judgment . \u2014 Sadie Stein, Town & Country , 17 Feb. 2021",
"This is not a value judgment on the goodness or evil of SUVs. \u2014 Jim Resnick, Ars Technica , 20 Sep. 2020",
"Many in the public health community have deemed the protests worth the risks; that's a value judgment . \u2014 Faye Flam Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune , 15 Sep. 2020"
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},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the 18 months of the pandemic, more than half of the revenue for local governments have come from property, as corporate-income and value-added tax receipts declined. \u2014 John Lee, WSJ , 6 Oct. 2021",
"Under the region\u2019s customs union, imports of pasta face a tariff of 20% and also value-added tax of 15%. \u2014 The Economist , 15 Mar. 2018"
],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And of course, the most valued and highly viewed sports programming, the playoffs, rarely shows up on RSNs but is usually broadcast exclusively on national cable networks. \u2014 Howard Homonoff, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"By asking, rather than directing, employees can experience a sense of control and agency at work, which can help them to feel safer and more valued , and therefore, to be more engaged. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"To build a culture of empathy where team members feel valued and purposeful, leaders must: 1. \u2014 Michael Kurland, Forbes , 21 Dec. 2021",
"This especially applies to their most valued and essential employees. \u2014 Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Dec. 2021",
"In the '20's, Spencer became one of Raytheon's most valued and well-known engineers. \u2014 Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics , 2 Sep. 2021",
"This approach can help you to build trust with your audience and become a valued influencer. \u2014 Adam Viener, Forbes , 18 June 2021",
"As automation within organizations increases, human connection will become more valued and unique, enabling companies who use it wisely to gain a competitive advantage. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 4 Mar. 2021",
"At a time in the world when competence is a more valued asset than ever, Berry is the kind of boss who -- in the midst of uncertainty -- will do his job. \u2014 Doug Lesmerises, cleveland , 14 Apr. 2020"
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"Noun",
"The company's stock continues to decline in value .",
"Real estate prices have doubled in value over the last decade.",
"The difference in value between the two currencies is not significant.",
"You may exchange the item for something of equal value .",
"We sold the home for less than its full value .",
"an increase in the value of the dollar",
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"Property values tend to rise as interest rates fall.",
"The store advertises great values .",
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"Verb",
"She values the time she spends with her family.",
"The items are highly valued by collectors.",
"The herbs are valued for their medicinal properties.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"However, all three models\u2014RBAC, ABAC and PBAC\u2014have inherent value and explicit use cases. \u2014 Artyom Poghosyan, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"The Sazerac was considered by some to be a \u2018morning cocktail\u2019 because the Peychaud bitters were thought to have medicinal value . \u2014 Maureen Mackey, Fox News , 19 June 2022",
"What may be making the meltdown worse than the bear market afflicting stockholders is that crypto doesn\u2019t have any value in the real world. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"Good scents never get old and that\u2019s why the scented candle market had a value of $533.5 million in 2020. \u2014 Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence , 16 June 2022",
"Your experience does have value to your clients and participants. \u2014 Shauna Harrison, SELF , 14 June 2022",
"The Wilmington company has a market value of $77 billion. \u2014 Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"But the move is also calculated: a gourmet product that most people think should be free (butter) needs to be combined with cheap but trendy fish (anchovies) to convince diners the dish has value . \u2014 Noah Lederman, Bon App\u00e9tit , 9 June 2022",
"This is the first of three TROPICS satellite launches for NASA, which have a total contract value of $8 million for Astra. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Erivo echoed De Shields\u2019 sentiment and said substantial change can happen once leaders begin to value the impact of Broadway over profit. \u2014 Antonio Ferme, Variety , 13 June 2022",
"Throughout the afternoon, younger attendees lifted colorful signs urging the country to value their lives before guns. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"Fern\u00e1ndez had come of age under the dictatorship and had learned to value the freedoms brought about by the Concertaci\u00f3n governments. \u2014 Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Users can count their cans and bottles or simply use Sipzee's quick estimator to value their returnables. \u2014 Layla Mcmurtrie, Detroit Free Press , 4 June 2022",
"Esposito concluded his opening remarks by challenging the audience to value themselves. \u2014 Amanda Kondolojy, Orlando Sentinel , 20 May 2022",
"The dignity of being helped without judgment, and being the helper without judgment, may be the first step toward recovery \u2014 giving people a reason to value themselves when society largely doesn\u2019t. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022",
"In today\u2019s talent market, there may be fewer candidates for positions, leaving many employers willing to value your experience over a degree. \u2014 Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
"Lincoln\u2019s remarks in the throes of war prodded Americans then to value black soldiers\u2019 lives as equal to white soldiers\u2019. \u2014 WSJ , 16 May 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":"Verb",
"1986, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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"Middle English valuen , borrowed from Anglo-French valuer \"to estimate, be worth,\" verbal derivative of value value entry 1":"Verb",
"Middle English, \"worth, high quality,\" borrowed from Anglo-French, noun derivative from feminine of valu (going back to Vulgar Latin *val\u016btus ), past participle of valer, valeir \"to be worth, have value,\" going back to Latin val\u0113re \"to be well, have strength\" \u2014 more at wield":"Noun"
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"\u02c8val-y\u00fc",
"\u02c8val-(\u02cc)y\u00fc"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for value Verb estimate , appraise , evaluate , value , rate , assess mean to judge something with respect to its worth or significance. estimate implies a judgment, considered or casual, that precedes or takes the place of actual measuring or counting or testing out. estimated the crowd at two hundred appraise commonly implies the fixing by an expert of the monetary worth of a thing, but it may be used of any critical judgment. having their house appraised evaluate suggests an attempt to determine relative or intrinsic worth in terms other than monetary. evaluate a student's work value equals appraise but without implying expertness of judgment. a watercolor valued by the donor at $500 rate adds to estimate the notion of placing a thing according to a scale of values. a highly rated restaurant assess implies a critical appraisal for the purpose of understanding or interpreting, or as a guide in taking action. officials are trying to assess the damage appreciate , value , prize , treasure , cherish mean to hold in high estimation. appreciate often connotes sufficient understanding to enjoy or admire a thing's excellence. appreciates fine wine value implies rating a thing highly for its intrinsic worth. values our friendship prize implies taking a deep pride in something one possesses. Americans prize their freedom treasure emphasizes jealously safeguarding something considered precious. a treasured memento cherish implies a special love and care for something. cherishes her children above all",
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"valuation",
"worth"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031207",
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"valve":{
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": a bodily structure (such as the mitral valve) that closes temporarily a passage or orifice or permits movement of fluid in one direction only":[],
": a device in a brass instrument for quickly channeling air flow through an added length of tube in order to change the fundamental tone by some definite interval":[],
": a leaf of a folding or double door":[],
": electron tube":[],
": one of the distinct usually hinged and movable pieces of which the shell of some shell-bearing animals (such as lamellibranch mollusks, brachiopods, and barnacles) consists":[],
": one of the segments or pieces into which a dehiscing capsule or legume separates":[],
": one of the two encasing membranes of a diatom":[],
": the portion of various anthers (as of the barberry) resembling a lid":[]
},
"examples":[
"They turned off the main water valve to the house.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Designed to be installed at the main shutoff valve of a home or business, the small, metal washer has a center aperture that measures just one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"The Range Rover is fitted with twin- valve air suspension, 48-volt electronic anti-roll bars, and four-wheel steering as standard equipment. \u2014 Michael Harley, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"The 420 Cup is a very different beast than the 1957 original, a car that featured a live rear axle and was powered by a 40-hp Ford side- valve engine. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 1 June 2022",
"Over 500,000 tests were conducted to make sure that this valve opens and closes properly. \u2014 Tim Kohut, BGR , 28 June 2021",
"With no release valve , there was simply no place for the Afghans to go. \u2014 Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica , 5 Apr. 2022",
"According to the agency's documents, the problem is believed to relate to a defective valve in the 2021 Bronco with the 2.7-liter EcoBoost engine. \u2014 Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver , 3 June 2022",
"Luckily the Fillmatic mostly self-inflates in a few minutes and thus requires little focus to set up: just open a valve , wait a bit, and then top off the pad with a minute or so of huffing and puffing. \u2014 Ryan Stuart, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"Other highlights include durable Viton seals and gaskets and a 21-inch stainless steel wand, plus four nozzles to swap out and a pressure relief valve for extra safety. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 20 May 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 5":""
},
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"Middle English, \"leaf of a folding door,\" borrowed from Latin valva (usually in plural valvae ) \"double or folding door, leaf of such a door,\" perhaps going back to an early derivative of the base of volvere \"to roll, make turn\" \u2014 more at wallow entry 1":""
},
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"\u02c8valv"
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"synonyms":[
"cock",
"faucet",
"gate",
"spigot",
"stopcock",
"tap"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032530",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"vamoose":{
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
],
"definitions":{
": to depart quickly":[]
},
"examples":[
"it's getting late, so we had better vamoose",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Khan\u2019s group packed fast and vamoosed on a small airplane, which rose straight into a thrashing thunderstorm. \u2014 David Quammen, The New Yorker , 4 May 2020",
"Nearby, a woman was making her own bathroom right next to the entrance of a residential building, vamoosing only when the doorman, Clever Santos Chavez, chased her away. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Feb. 2020",
"In November, the owner of the building housing Trump\u2019s SoHo hotel in Manhattan paid the Trump Organization to vamoose . \u2014 Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer , 27 Jan. 2018",
"The Senate left town for its August recess Thursday, a week after the House vamoosed , and let\u2019s hope the Members get an earful from constituents at home. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 4 Aug. 2017"
],
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"1859, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Spanish vamos \"let us go,\" suppletive 1st person plural imperative (going back to Latin vadimus , 1st person plural present indicative of vadere \"to proceed, go\") of ir \"to go,\" going back to Latin \u012bre \u2014 more at wade entry 1 , issue entry 1":""
},
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"va-",
"v\u0259-\u02c8m\u00fcs"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"bugger off",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up ",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out ",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"walk out"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210404",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"vamp":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a short introductory musical passage often repeated several times (as in vaudeville) before a solo or between verses":[],
": a woman who uses her charm or wiles to seduce and exploit men":[],
": improvise , extemporize":[],
": invent , fabricate":[
"vamp up an excuse"
],
": the part of a shoe upper or boot upper covering especially the forepart of the foot and sometimes also extending forward over the toe or backward to the back seam of the upper":[],
": to act like a vamp":[
"vamping for the camera"
],
": to piece (something old) with a new part : patch":[
"vamp up old sermons"
],
": to play a musical vamp":[],
": to practice seductive wiles on":[],
": to provide (a shoe) with a new vamp":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1599, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"1914, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1918, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"circa 1915, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English vampe, vaumpe \"covering for the foot, upper of a shoe,\" borrowed from Anglo-French, probably truncated from *vamp\u00e9 , reduced form of avanpi\u00e9 , from avant- \"fore-\" + pi\u00e9 \"foot,\" going back to Latin ped-, p\u0113s \u2014 more at vanguard , foot entry 1":"Noun",
"short for vampire":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vamp"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103225",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"vamp (up)":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination political spin doctors who can vamp up a justification for just about anything"
],
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-180228",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"vamphorn":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a megaphone used in churches during the 18th and early 19th centuries":[]
},
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"vamp entry 2 + horn ; from its use by the choir leader to amplify his voice as an accompaniment to the rest of the choir":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103617",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vampire":{
"antonyms":[
"prey"
],
"definitions":{
": a woman who exploits and ruins her lover":[],
": one who lives by preying on others":[],
": the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep":[],
": vampire bat":[]
},
"examples":[
"regarded debt collectors as vampires who made a living from the misery of others",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Publishers, Lucas pointed out, have nurtured audiences for items as strange as adult coloring books and young-adult vampire mysteries. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"Then again, maybe this was all just part of the Morbius star's process to get into character as a blood-sucking vampire . \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 14 June 2022",
"This 1985 horror-comedy finds Carrey as a very horny (and sometimes possessed) high schooler in the midst of a wild vampire story. \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 13 June 2022",
"However, by leaning into the mockery associated with the character, by essentially throwing themselves on the sword, Sony can use Jared Leto\u2019s self-serious living vampire as a comic foil for a later \u2018Sony\u2019s Spider-Man Universe\u2019 movie. \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Gellar played the eponymous vampire slayer Buffy Summers in the teen sci-fi series, which ran for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022",
"Try the ghost, bat and pumpkin, vampire and bat or Halloween hayride sets. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
"As mentioned, vampire Juliette is played by Sarah Catherine Hook and while her huntress lover Calliope is portrayed by Imani Lewis. \u2014 Seventeen , 17 May 2022",
"Within vampire fangdom, er, fandom, there are those who are suckers for all of it and those who get cross about The Rules. \u2014 Michael Ordo\u00f1a, Los Angeles Times , 1 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1732, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from French, borrowed from German Vampir , borrowed from Serbian vampir":""
},
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"\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012b(\u0259)r",
"\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012b(-\u0259)r",
"\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012br"
],
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"bloodsucker",
"buzzard",
"harpy",
"kite",
"predator",
"shark",
"vulture",
"wolf"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200427",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"van":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a detachable passenger cabin transportable by aircraft or truck":[],
": a multipurpose enclosed motor vehicle having a boxlike shape, rear or side doors, and side panels often with windows":[],
": a winnowing device (such as a fan)":[],
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1607, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1829, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1840, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, going back to Latin vannus , of uncertain origin":"Noun",
"by shortening":"Noun",
"short for caravan entry 1":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8van"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005223",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"vanda orchid":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": any of a large genus ( Vanda ) of eastern Asian epiphytic orchids often grown for their loose racemes of showy flowers":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This woman with the vanda orchid in her hair and her frequent states of incapacitation could put almost anyone under her power. \u2014 Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic , 16 May 2022",
"Mante\u2019 makes a lovely addition to borders, while periwinkle-blue vanda orchids (Vanda coerulea) can be grown indoors. \u2014 Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine , 5 Mar. 2020",
"In an adjoining gallery called the Silver Garden, vanda orchids are arranged almost as an art installation, more than 200 aloft on wires in a handful of intensely blue varieties. \u2014 Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman , 21 Feb. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1943, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from New Latin, borrowed from Sanskrit vand\u0101 , the orchid Vanda tesselata":""
},
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"\u02c8van-d\u0259-"
],
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181211",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vandal":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a member of a Germanic people who lived in the area south of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and the Oder rivers, overran Gaul, Spain, and northern Africa in the fourth and fifth centuries a.d. , and in 455 sacked Rome":[],
": one who willfully or ignorantly destroys, damages, or defaces property belonging to another or to the public":[]
},
"examples":[
"Vandals defaced the school's walls.",
"a group of vandals broke into the school and painted graffiti on the walls",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On Thursday, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan in Massachusetts released video footage of a vandal hurling a brick into Chooljian\u2019s home and asked anyone with information about his identity to contact police. \u2014 Jonathan Edwards, Anchorage Daily News , 1 June 2022",
"The 18-year-old vandal was convicted of a felony \u2014 impairing operations of a vital public facility, the same charge now leveled against Sled \u2014 and ordered to pay $10,000. \u2014 Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post , 19 May 2022",
"It was also damaged in an acid attack perpetrated by a vandal in the 1950s, and has since been kept behind glass. \u2014 Chron , 30 May 2022",
"Although the Molotov cocktail that was thrown through a window failed to ignite, the vandal or vandals started another fire nearby, the authorities said. \u2014 New York Times , 8 May 2022",
"Schaumburg Honda Automobiles manager Matthew Ashford said the vandal , who was caught on surveillance footage, had been seen at other dealerships, but his dealership was hit the hardest. \u2014 Bradford Betz, Fox News , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Authorities on Thursday asked the public to help identify a vandal who spray-painted racial and homophobic slurs at San Dieguito Academy High School in Encinitas on New Year\u2019s Day. \u2014 David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 Jan. 2022",
"The vandal also reportedly yelled at a man before running south, according to the police report. \u2014 Olivia Olander, chicagotribune.com , 31 Jan. 2022",
"He was denounced as a vandal in sonorous verses by the poet Lord Byron, a fellow member of the Ango-Scottish aristocracy, and the broader British public alike. \u2014 Bruce Clark, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Late Latin Vandal\u012b (plural) (Latin Vindil\u012b, Vandili\u012b ), probably borrowed from Germanic *wand-il- , noun derivative from a verbal base *wend- \"wind, wrap, turn, move\" (whence Old English windan to twist, move with speed or force\"), as in *auza-wandil- , perhaps, \"dawn-wanderer,\" name of a star and mythological figure (whence Old Norse Aurvandill , Old English \u0113arendel ) \u2014 more at wind entry 3":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vand-\u1d4al",
"\u02c8van-d\u1d4al",
"\u02c8van-d\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"defacer"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-174304",
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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": a member of a Germanic people who lived in the area south of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and the Oder rivers, overran Gaul, Spain, and northern Africa in the fourth and fifth centuries a.d. , and in 455 sacked Rome":[],
": one who willfully or ignorantly destroys, damages, or defaces property belonging to another or to the public":[]
},
"examples":[
"Vandals defaced the school's walls.",
"a group of vandals broke into the school and painted graffiti on the walls",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On Thursday, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan in Massachusetts released video footage of a vandal hurling a brick into Chooljian\u2019s home and asked anyone with information about his identity to contact police. \u2014 Jonathan Edwards, Anchorage Daily News , 1 June 2022",
"The 18-year-old vandal was convicted of a felony \u2014 impairing operations of a vital public facility, the same charge now leveled against Sled \u2014 and ordered to pay $10,000. \u2014 Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post , 19 May 2022",
"It was also damaged in an acid attack perpetrated by a vandal in the 1950s, and has since been kept behind glass. \u2014 Chron , 30 May 2022",
"Although the Molotov cocktail that was thrown through a window failed to ignite, the vandal or vandals started another fire nearby, the authorities said. \u2014 New York Times , 8 May 2022",
"Schaumburg Honda Automobiles manager Matthew Ashford said the vandal , who was caught on surveillance footage, had been seen at other dealerships, but his dealership was hit the hardest. \u2014 Bradford Betz, Fox News , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Authorities on Thursday asked the public to help identify a vandal who spray-painted racial and homophobic slurs at San Dieguito Academy High School in Encinitas on New Year\u2019s Day. \u2014 David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 Jan. 2022",
"The vandal also reportedly yelled at a man before running south, according to the police report. \u2014 Olivia Olander, chicagotribune.com , 31 Jan. 2022",
"He was denounced as a vandal in sonorous verses by the poet Lord Byron, a fellow member of the Ango-Scottish aristocracy, and the broader British public alike. \u2014 Bruce Clark, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 Jan. 2022"
],
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"1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Late Latin Vandal\u012b (plural) (Latin Vindil\u012b, Vandili\u012b ), probably borrowed from Germanic *wand-il- , noun derivative from a verbal base *wend- \"wind, wrap, turn, move\" (whence Old English windan to twist, move with speed or force\"), as in *auza-wandil- , perhaps, \"dawn-wanderer,\" name of a star and mythological figure (whence Old Norse Aurvandill , Old English \u0113arendel ) \u2014 more at wind entry 3":""
},
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"\u02c8vand-\u1d4al",
"\u02c8van-d\u1d4al",
"\u02c8van-d\u0259l"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000241",
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"definitions":{
": willful or malicious destruction or defacement of public or private property":[]
},
"examples":[
"acts of theft and vandalism",
"He was arrested for vandalism .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Officers requested backup units to respond to multiple vandalism suspects within the group. \u2014 Felicia Alvarez, Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"The site, which sits on land near office towers and just steps from where West Burnside Street slices past Old Town, had been plagued by street crime, drug use and vandalism for years. \u2014 oregonlive , 19 June 2022",
"County investigators arrested a 30-year-old man Thursday on vandalism and hate crime charges for allegedly spray-painting language believed to be a homophobic slur on the exterior of two libraries in early June, police and prosecutors said. \u2014 Clarence Williams, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Alexander pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of misdemeanor trespassing, two misdemeanor counts of battery and a misdemeanor vandalism charge. \u2014 Chloe Melas, CNN , 15 June 2022",
"To make the building more salable, the county has invested $5.3 million in removing asbestos, and other hazardous materials and debris, to add temporary electrical wiring, and to protect against break-ins and vandalism . \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 15 June 2022",
"Alexander, 40, pleaded not guilty in Ventura County court to the charge, along with misdemeanor counts of trespassing, vandalism and battery. \u2014 Andrew Dalton And Jeff Turner, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
"On May 29, 2020, downtown Atlanta and Buckhead endured acts of vandalism and looting during the demonstrations, spurring then-Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to implement a 9 p.m. curfew on May 30. \u2014 Wilborn Nobles, ajc , 14 June 2022",
"It was retouched in 2021 after fading from vandalism and weather. \u2014 Sean Scott, The Enquirer , 14 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1798, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"vandal + -ism":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vand-\u1d4al-\u02cci-z\u0259m",
"\u02c8van-d\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m"
],
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"defacing",
"trashing",
"vandalization"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"antonyms":[],
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": of or relating to vandalism":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1897, in the meaning defined above":""
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccvan-d\u0259-\u02c8li-stik"
],
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to subject to vandalism : damage":[]
},
"examples":[
"Our car was vandalized in the parking lot.",
"he decided to vandalize the store because the owner had kicked him out",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There have been several attempts to vandalize the painting, some more successful than others. \u2014 Maria Cramer, New York Times , 30 May 2022",
"Swipers have been known to vandalize MetroCard machines so that the machines are unable to accept cash. \u2014 Eric Lach, The New Yorker , 14 May 2022",
"Insiders may, for example, steal intellectual property or vandalize company assets to retaliate against Covid-19 mandates. \u2014 Fred Burton, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Fans vandalize a bus in Downtown Los Angeles late Sunday. \u2014 NBC News , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Other recent incidents involved another TikTok trend where students were encouraged to steal or vandalize school property that sometimes involved destroying soap dispensers and stealing classroom projectors. \u2014 Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic , 17 Dec. 2021",
"During the unrest of 2019, thousands of protesters fanned out across the city to vandalize Chinese banks and subways, often clashing with police in clouds of tear gas. \u2014 Elaine Yu, WSJ , 19 Jan. 2022",
"The rioters marched to the Capitol, and broke through police barricades to storm and vandalize the building in an effort to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden\u2019s electoral victory. \u2014 Char Adams, NBC News , 5 Jan. 2022",
"But these things that have happened in recent months where people are saying vandalize schools and tear out paper towel machines and break toilets up and stuff like that, that actually happened and kids were arrested for doing things like that. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 24 Dec. 2021"
],
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"1832, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"vandal + -ize":""
},
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"\u02c8vand-\u1d4al-\u02cc\u012bz",
"\u02c8van-d\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
],
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"deface",
"trash"
],
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"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to subject to vandalism : damage":[]
},
"examples":[
"Our car was vandalized in the parking lot.",
"he decided to vandalize the store because the owner had kicked him out",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There have been several attempts to vandalize the painting, some more successful than others. \u2014 Maria Cramer, New York Times , 30 May 2022",
"Swipers have been known to vandalize MetroCard machines so that the machines are unable to accept cash. \u2014 Eric Lach, The New Yorker , 14 May 2022",
"Insiders may, for example, steal intellectual property or vandalize company assets to retaliate against Covid-19 mandates. \u2014 Fred Burton, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Fans vandalize a bus in Downtown Los Angeles late Sunday. \u2014 NBC News , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Other recent incidents involved another TikTok trend where students were encouraged to steal or vandalize school property that sometimes involved destroying soap dispensers and stealing classroom projectors. \u2014 Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic , 17 Dec. 2021",
"During the unrest of 2019, thousands of protesters fanned out across the city to vandalize Chinese banks and subways, often clashing with police in clouds of tear gas. \u2014 Elaine Yu, WSJ , 19 Jan. 2022",
"The rioters marched to the Capitol, and broke through police barricades to storm and vandalize the building in an effort to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden\u2019s electoral victory. \u2014 Char Adams, NBC News , 5 Jan. 2022",
"But these things that have happened in recent months where people are saying vandalize schools and tear out paper towel machines and break toilets up and stuff like that, that actually happened and kids were arrested for doing things like that. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 24 Dec. 2021"
],
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"1832, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"vandal + -ize":""
},
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"\u02c8van-d\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz",
"\u02c8vand-\u1d4al-\u02cc\u012bz"
],
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"synonyms":[
"deface",
"trash"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073045",
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": garden heliotrope sense 1":[],
": valerian sense 2a":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"pronounciation":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104419",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a mineral CuUO 4 .2H 2 O consisting of a hydrous uranium and copper oxide in very dark green flattened crystals":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French vandenbrandeite , from P. Van den Brande , 20th century Belgian geologist + French -ite":""
},
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"\u02ccvand\u0259n\u02c8brand\u0113\u02cc\u012bt"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-083201",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vanguard":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the forefront of an action or movement":[],
": the troops moving at the head of an army":[]
},
"examples":[
"a style of jazz that the vanguard quickly recognized as new and exciting",
"talk radio is often regarded as being in the vanguard of the conservative movement",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His penchant for announcing proposals rather than building coalitions at times annoyed his European counterparts, leaving him portrayed as a vanguard of one, leading with no followers. \u2014 New York Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Despite threats and harassment, Arteaga was at the vanguard . \u2014 Jessica Hoppe, refinery29.com , 31 May 2022",
"To philanthropists and politicians, the institution begun by Joe Papp remains a gatekeeper for the American theater\u2019s body politic, the vanguard of theater as public work in New York City. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 25 May 2022",
"Some of these runners \u2014 especially Fenwick, Early Voting and Armagnac (12-1 morning line) \u2014 look likely to be in the early vanguard . \u2014 Frank Vespe, Baltimore Sun , 20 May 2022",
"But the far right \u2014 to which Orban bears a great deal of affinity \u2014 was not the only beneficiary, with parties further to the left, including a growing vanguard of Green factions, also coming to the fore. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"For more than seven years, Ali Schwebel has disrupted the status quo as a managing director for Beautycounter, arguably the vanguard in the Clean Beauty movement. \u2014 Simon Mainwaring, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Glencore, the Swiss mining and commodities giant, isn\u2019t exactly at the vanguard of corporate climate action. \u2014 Tim Mcdonnell, Quartz , 12 May 2022",
"American leadership is often at the vanguard of international support and can bring the collective power and influence of much of the world on board. \u2014 Nick Dowling, CNN , 20 Mar. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
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"Middle English vauntgard , borrowed from Anglo-French vantgarde, avantgarde , from avant- \"fore-\" (from avant \"before,\" going back to Late Latin abante ) + garde guard entry 1 \u2014 more at advance entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"also \u02c8va\u014b-",
"\u02c8van-\u02ccg\u00e4rd"
],
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"synonyms":[
"avant-garde",
"cutting edge",
"van"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014724",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"definitions":{
": a commercially important extract of the vanilla bean that is used especially as a flavoring":[],
": any of a genus ( Vanilla ) of tropical American climbing epiphytic orchids":[],
": flavored with vanilla":[],
": lacking distinction : plain , ordinary , conventional":[],
": vanilla bean":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The frosting is flavored with vanilla .",
"Adjective",
"The d\u00e9cor is pretty vanilla .",
"a plain vanilla version of a song that's been recorded more times than necessary",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The company said the body of this peculiar brew has hints of maple and vanilla oak and finishes with heavier notes of clove, cinnamon, and allspice. \u2014 Michael Casey, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"This soft vanilla birthday cake donut is grain-free and packed with all-star ingredients like cassava flour, blanched almond flour, tapioca flour and coconut flour. \u2014 Good Housekeeping , 28 June 2022",
"The company said the body of this peculiar brew has hints of maple and vanilla oak and finishes with heavier notes of clove, cinnamon and allspice. \u2014 Michael Casey, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
"Coconut lime cake with layers of coconut, key lime gelee and vanilla glaze. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 27 June 2022",
"Esther is celebrated every day but on this sweltering June afternoon, there\u2019s a vanilla cake decorated with purple flowers and a sign with balloons on the front lawn of a little yellow house in the Meadows neighborhood of the city's northeast side. \u2014 Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star , 27 June 2022",
"As someone who absolutely tore through both the endgame of vanilla Outriders and the expansion campaign here, things get hard quickly here. \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Items needed include cereals, canned soups, low-sugar snacks such as plain or cheese crackers, vanilla wafers, graham crackers, granola or breakfast bars, canned meals, pasta and pasta sauces. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"And, as with most vanilla ice creams, this one can be a jumping off point. \u2014 Ann Maloney, Washington Post , 24 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1662, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1846, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from New Latin, borrowed from Spanish vainilla \"the vanilla plant and fruit,\" diminutive of vaina \"sheath, pod,\" going back to Latin v\u0101g\u012bna \"scabbard, sheath\"; replacing earlier vaynilla , borrowed from Spanish":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8ne-",
"v\u0259-\u02c8nil-\u0259",
"-\u02c8nel-",
"v\u0259-\u02c8ni-l\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"beige",
"characterless",
"faceless",
"featureless",
"indistinctive",
"neutral",
"noncommittal",
"nondescript"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113429",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"vanish":{
"antonyms":[
"appear",
"materialize"
],
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": to assume the value zero":[],
": to cause to disappear":[],
": to pass completely from existence":[],
": to pass quickly from sight : disappear":[]
},
"examples":[
"The missing girl vanished without a trace a year ago.",
"The papers seem to have vanished into thin air .",
"Dinosaurs vanished from the face of the earth millions of years ago.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The floor seems to vanish beneath the men\u2019s work boots. \u2014 New York Times , 30 May 2022",
"Yet at its worst, biking in L.A. remains a dangerous errand of twisting through an incomplete network of fading white paint, miles of unprotected bike lanes that vanish into thoroughfares where cyclists compete with cars moving at high speeds. \u2014 Jonah Valdezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022",
"Vaccines that vanish from the body too quickly can also be forgettable. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 1 Dec. 2021",
"Avoid sticky notes that mysteriously vanish a week later. \u2014 Trinity Aikens, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"The idea that a sophisticated machine, with its modern instruments and redundant communications, could simply vanish seems beyond the realm of possibility. \u2014 Lisa Bubert, Longreads , 15 June 2022",
"To the south of the existing building are some sports fields that would vanish with the expansion plan. \u2014 Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The idea that blue paint could vanish entirely may seem absurd, but even the suggestion \u2014 made in headlines this fall \u2014 is enough to foment existential doom. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Sacrifice bunts would shrivel up and automatic intentional walks to face the pitcher would vanish , too. \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 31 Oct. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English vanisshen , borrowed from Anglo-French vaniss- stem of vanir, envanir, esvanir , going back to Vulgar Latin *exv\u0101n\u012bre , restructuring of Latin \u0113v\u0101n\u0113scere \"to fade away, disappear,\" from \u0113- e- entry 1 + v\u0101n\u0113scere \"to pass from existence,\" inchoative verb derivative of v\u0101nus \"empty, lacking content\" \u2014 more at wane entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8va-nish"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"dematerialize",
"disappear",
"dissolve",
"evanesce",
"evaporate",
"fade",
"flee",
"fly",
"melt",
"sink"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163603",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"vanished":{
"antonyms":[
"appear",
"materialize"
],
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": to assume the value zero":[],
": to cause to disappear":[],
": to pass completely from existence":[],
": to pass quickly from sight : disappear":[]
},
"examples":[
"The missing girl vanished without a trace a year ago.",
"The papers seem to have vanished into thin air .",
"Dinosaurs vanished from the face of the earth millions of years ago.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The floor seems to vanish beneath the men\u2019s work boots. \u2014 New York Times , 30 May 2022",
"Yet at its worst, biking in L.A. remains a dangerous errand of twisting through an incomplete network of fading white paint, miles of unprotected bike lanes that vanish into thoroughfares where cyclists compete with cars moving at high speeds. \u2014 Jonah Valdezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022",
"Vaccines that vanish from the body too quickly can also be forgettable. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 1 Dec. 2021",
"Avoid sticky notes that mysteriously vanish a week later. \u2014 Trinity Aikens, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"The idea that a sophisticated machine, with its modern instruments and redundant communications, could simply vanish seems beyond the realm of possibility. \u2014 Lisa Bubert, Longreads , 15 June 2022",
"To the south of the existing building are some sports fields that would vanish with the expansion plan. \u2014 Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The idea that blue paint could vanish entirely may seem absurd, but even the suggestion \u2014 made in headlines this fall \u2014 is enough to foment existential doom. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Sacrifice bunts would shrivel up and automatic intentional walks to face the pitcher would vanish , too. \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 31 Oct. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English vanisshen , borrowed from Anglo-French vaniss- stem of vanir, envanir, esvanir , going back to Vulgar Latin *exv\u0101n\u012bre , restructuring of Latin \u0113v\u0101n\u0113scere \"to fade away, disappear,\" from \u0113- e- entry 1 + v\u0101n\u0113scere \"to pass from existence,\" inchoative verb derivative of v\u0101nus \"empty, lacking content\" \u2014 more at wane entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8va-nish"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"dematerialize",
"disappear",
"dissolve",
"evanesce",
"evaporate",
"fade",
"flee",
"fly",
"melt",
"sink"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004652",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"vanity":{
"antonyms":[
"humbleness",
"humility",
"modesty"
],
"definitions":{
": a bathroom cabinet containing a sink and usually having a countertop":[],
": a fashionable trifle or knickknack":[],
": a small case or handbag for toilet articles used by women":[],
": compact entry 3 sense a":[],
": dressing table":[],
": inflated pride in oneself or one's appearance : conceit":[],
": of, relating to, or being a showcase for a usually famous performer or artist who is often also the project's creator or driving force":[
"write, direct, and star in a vanity film"
],
": of, relating to, or being a work (such as a book or recording) whose production cost is paid by the author or artist":[],
": something that is vain, empty, or valueless":[],
": the quality or fact of being vain":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The handsome actor's vanity was well-known.",
"She described her accomplishments without exaggeration or vanity .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"There's no vanity with this character, especially in this moment. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
"About two dozen spell out the F-word, and others easily get the point across without all four letters, a Wall Street Journal analysis of the roughly 115,000 vanity plates found. \u2014 Scott Calvert, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"Created in 2008 as a vanity project for Putin, the KHL hemorrhaged money but survived because of the largesse of oligarchs trying to stay in the good graces of the president. \u2014 Michael Hunt, Los Angeles Times , 16 May 2022",
"Forbidden Door is shaping up to be another successful vanity project for hardcore fans, as AEW also looks to expand its female demo with budding acts like Hook, Jungle Boy and The Baddies. \u2014 Alfred Konuwa, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"The stake sale disappointed some Tesla bulls who had hoped Musk would find alternative methods to finance a deal viewed as an expensive and distracting vanity project that only the world\u2019s richest human could possibly afford. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The Warriors like to make a splash but are unlikely to indulge a James vanity project by drafting his son Bronny, who is draft eligible in 2024. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The Dermaflash Luxe exfoliating tool is now $50 off too, and other items on sale at the moment include vanity mirrors and stylers. \u2014 Andrea Navarro, Glamour , 24 May 2022",
"These monuments to adoration, vanity and delusion were heavily damaged in the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
"circa 1925, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English vanite , borrowed from Anglo-French vanit\u00e9 , borrowed from Latin v\u0101nit\u0101t-, v\u0101nit\u0101s \"emptiness, lack of judgment, foolish pride,\" from v\u0101nus \"empty, lacking content\" + -it\u0101t-, -it\u0101s -ity \u2014 more at wane entry 1":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8va-n\u0259-t\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"amour propre",
"bighead",
"complacence",
"complacency",
"conceit",
"conceitedness",
"ego",
"egotism",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"self-admiration",
"self-assumption",
"self-conceit",
"self-congratulation",
"self-esteem",
"self-glory",
"self-importance",
"self-love",
"self-opinion",
"self-satisfaction",
"smugness",
"swelled head",
"swellheadedness",
"vaingloriousness",
"vainglory",
"vainness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182814",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"vanpool":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an arrangement by which a group of people commute to work in a van":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To that end, Hobbs' plan set aside about $4 billion for bus, vanpool , and ferry electrification grants while Fey's includes $6 billion for similar projects along with bike and pedestrian crossing grants. \u2014 Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner , 8 Apr. 2021",
"Officials also are looking at how to increase carpool and vanpool programs, as well as the use of technologies to discourage solo driving. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Dec. 2020",
"Another applicant, OmniRide based in Prince William County, sought funding to support three bus routes and a new vanpool program. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 July 2020",
"The flex tag allows carpools, vanpools , motorcycles, and eligible clean air vehicles to travel toll-free in the express lanes with the tag set to the 2 or 3+ position. \u2014 Gary Richards, The Mercury News , 12 July 2019",
"For example, in the future the agency could charge more for single-occupancy vehicles than for three-person carpools or vanpools , which already ride for free on the I-85 lanes. \u2014 David Wickert, ajc , 17 June 2019",
"The ordinance also would call on the resort to provide access to a vanpool , private bus or passes for mass transit to help employees get to work. \u2014 Hugo Martin, latimes.com , 2 May 2018",
"Cagle said the airport will talk with CATS about possibly subsidizing a vanpool service for airport employees. \u2014 Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver , 29 Mar. 2018",
"With a vanpool , a group of people decide to carpool and then rent a CATS van. \u2014 Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver , 29 Mar. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1973, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"van entry 1 + pool entry 3":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8van-\u02ccp\u00fcl"
],
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115850",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vanquish":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to defeat in a conflict or contest":[],
": to gain mastery over (an emotion, passion, or temptation)":[
"vanquish your fear"
],
": to overcome in battle : subdue completely":[]
},
"examples":[
"They were vanquished in battle.",
"vanquished nation after nation in his relentless conquest of Europe",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its unique design uses true HEPA filtration to vanquish virtually all airborne contaminants. \u2014 Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping , 21 June 2022",
"Kansas will play the winner of Saturday night\u2019s other semifinal between North Carolina and Duke on Monday night, allowing the Jayhawks to vanquish another memory \u2014 losing their most recent championship game, in the same Superdome a decade ago. \u2014 Billy Witz, New York Times , 2 Apr. 2022",
"One of her team\u2019s goals was to identify and systematically test substances used in traditional Chinese medicine in an effort to vanquish chloroquine-resistant malaria. \u2014 Maggie Villiger, The Conversation , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Hillary apologizes, and then two of them agree to join forces and vanquish Trump. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Surrounded by an army of little yellow minions and his impenetrable arsenal of weapons and war machines, Gru prepares to vanquish all who stand in his way. \u2014 Travis Bean, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Although the outnumbered fighters did not manage to vanquish the opposing force, Kaia, an accountant who had left her baby at home that weekend, was pleased with the training exercise. \u2014 Lisa Abend/klooga, Time , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The Peacocks now take on a Murray State squad that also needed overtime to vanquish their foe. \u2014 Alex Kay, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The town of 20,000 people is about 20 miles south of Kharkiv and has been victimized by its proximity to the sprawling regional jewel that Russia's military pounding has failed to vanquish . \u2014 Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY , 17 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English venquishen , borrowed from Anglo-French venquis- , extended stem of veintre, vaincre \"to defeat, conquer,\" going back to Latin vincere \u2014 more at victor":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8van-",
"\u02c8va\u014b-kwish"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vanquish conquer , vanquish , defeat , subdue , reduce , overcome , overthrow mean to get the better of by force or strategy. conquer implies gaining mastery of. Caesar conquered Gaul vanquish implies a complete overpowering. vanquished the enemy and ended the war defeat does not imply the finality or completeness of vanquish which it otherwise equals. the Confederates defeated the Union forces at Manassas subdue implies a defeating and suppression. subdued the native tribes after years of fighting reduce implies a forcing to capitulate or surrender. the city was reduced after a month-long siege overcome suggests getting the better of with difficulty or after hard struggle. overcame a host of bureaucratic roadblocks overthrow stresses the bringing down or destruction of existing power. violently overthrew the old regime",
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"dominate",
"overpower",
"pacify",
"subdue",
"subject",
"subjugate",
"subordinate"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063158",
"type":[
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"noun",
"verb"
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},
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"antonyms":[],
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": overcome or defeated in battle or in a conflict or contest":[
"a vanquished foe",
"In the dim light he could see Leslie's face freeze into its most queenly pose\u2014the kind of expression she usually reserved for vanquished enemies.",
"\u2014 Katherine Paterson",
"When this morning race was over, the Brown oarsmen waited at their boat house for their vanquished competitors to come around and hand over their rowing shirts, each with its distinctive colors and design.",
"\u2014 William N. Wallace",
"Exiting at 35th Street, we pass the new Comiskey Park with its vanquished predecessor now reduced to a placeless parking complex across the street \u2026",
"\u2014 Thomas J. Jablonsky"
]
},
"examples":[],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
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"\u02c8van-",
"\u02c8va\u014b-kwisht"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130725",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"vanquisher":{
"antonyms":[],
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"vanquish your fear"
],
": to overcome in battle : subdue completely":[]
},
"examples":[
"They were vanquished in battle.",
"vanquished nation after nation in his relentless conquest of Europe",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its unique design uses true HEPA filtration to vanquish virtually all airborne contaminants. \u2014 Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping , 21 June 2022",
"Kansas will play the winner of Saturday night\u2019s other semifinal between North Carolina and Duke on Monday night, allowing the Jayhawks to vanquish another memory \u2014 losing their most recent championship game, in the same Superdome a decade ago. \u2014 Billy Witz, New York Times , 2 Apr. 2022",
"One of her team\u2019s goals was to identify and systematically test substances used in traditional Chinese medicine in an effort to vanquish chloroquine-resistant malaria. \u2014 Maggie Villiger, The Conversation , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Hillary apologizes, and then two of them agree to join forces and vanquish Trump. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Surrounded by an army of little yellow minions and his impenetrable arsenal of weapons and war machines, Gru prepares to vanquish all who stand in his way. \u2014 Travis Bean, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Although the outnumbered fighters did not manage to vanquish the opposing force, Kaia, an accountant who had left her baby at home that weekend, was pleased with the training exercise. \u2014 Lisa Abend/klooga, Time , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The Peacocks now take on a Murray State squad that also needed overtime to vanquish their foe. \u2014 Alex Kay, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The town of 20,000 people is about 20 miles south of Kharkiv and has been victimized by its proximity to the sprawling regional jewel that Russia's military pounding has failed to vanquish . \u2014 Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY , 17 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English venquishen , borrowed from Anglo-French venquis- , extended stem of veintre, vaincre \"to defeat, conquer,\" going back to Latin vincere \u2014 more at victor":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8van-",
"\u02c8va\u014b-kwish"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vanquish conquer , vanquish , defeat , subdue , reduce , overcome , overthrow mean to get the better of by force or strategy. conquer implies gaining mastery of. Caesar conquered Gaul vanquish implies a complete overpowering. vanquished the enemy and ended the war defeat does not imply the finality or completeness of vanquish which it otherwise equals. the Confederates defeated the Union forces at Manassas subdue implies a defeating and suppression. subdued the native tribes after years of fighting reduce implies a forcing to capitulate or surrender. the city was reduced after a month-long siege overcome suggests getting the better of with difficulty or after hard struggle. overcame a host of bureaucratic roadblocks overthrow stresses the bringing down or destruction of existing power. violently overthrew the old regime",
"synonyms":[
"conquer",
"dominate",
"overpower",
"pacify",
"subdue",
"subject",
"subjugate",
"subordinate"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162949",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"vanquishing":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to defeat in a conflict or contest":[],
": to gain mastery over (an emotion, passion, or temptation)":[
"vanquish your fear"
],
": to overcome in battle : subdue completely":[]
},
"examples":[
"They were vanquished in battle.",
"vanquished nation after nation in his relentless conquest of Europe",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its unique design uses true HEPA filtration to vanquish virtually all airborne contaminants. \u2014 Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping , 21 June 2022",
"Kansas will play the winner of Saturday night\u2019s other semifinal between North Carolina and Duke on Monday night, allowing the Jayhawks to vanquish another memory \u2014 losing their most recent championship game, in the same Superdome a decade ago. \u2014 Billy Witz, New York Times , 2 Apr. 2022",
"One of her team\u2019s goals was to identify and systematically test substances used in traditional Chinese medicine in an effort to vanquish chloroquine-resistant malaria. \u2014 Maggie Villiger, The Conversation , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Hillary apologizes, and then two of them agree to join forces and vanquish Trump. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Surrounded by an army of little yellow minions and his impenetrable arsenal of weapons and war machines, Gru prepares to vanquish all who stand in his way. \u2014 Travis Bean, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Although the outnumbered fighters did not manage to vanquish the opposing force, Kaia, an accountant who had left her baby at home that weekend, was pleased with the training exercise. \u2014 Lisa Abend/klooga, Time , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The Peacocks now take on a Murray State squad that also needed overtime to vanquish their foe. \u2014 Alex Kay, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The town of 20,000 people is about 20 miles south of Kharkiv and has been victimized by its proximity to the sprawling regional jewel that Russia's military pounding has failed to vanquish . \u2014 Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY , 17 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English venquishen , borrowed from Anglo-French venquis- , extended stem of veintre, vaincre \"to defeat, conquer,\" going back to Latin vincere \u2014 more at victor":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8va\u014b-kwish",
"\u02c8van-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vanquish conquer , vanquish , defeat , subdue , reduce , overcome , overthrow mean to get the better of by force or strategy. conquer implies gaining mastery of. Caesar conquered Gaul vanquish implies a complete overpowering. vanquished the enemy and ended the war defeat does not imply the finality or completeness of vanquish which it otherwise equals. the Confederates defeated the Union forces at Manassas subdue implies a defeating and suppression. subdued the native tribes after years of fighting reduce implies a forcing to capitulate or surrender. the city was reduced after a month-long siege overcome suggests getting the better of with difficulty or after hard struggle. overcame a host of bureaucratic roadblocks overthrow stresses the bringing down or destruction of existing power. violently overthrew the old regime",
"synonyms":[
"conquer",
"dominate",
"overpower",
"pacify",
"subdue",
"subject",
"subjugate",
"subordinate"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-073908",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"vantage":{
"antonyms":[
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"handicap",
"liability",
"minus",
"penalty",
"strike"
],
"definitions":{
": a position giving a strategic advantage, commanding perspective, or comprehensive view":[],
": advantage sense 4":[],
": benefit , gain":[],
": in addition":[],
": superiority in a contest":[]
},
"examples":[
"the vantage had all been ours for the first half of the contest",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Nearby, my colleague from The Miami Herald, the photographer Tim Chapman, paced around our vantage spot in frustration \u2014 he had not been allowed to bring his cameras to document the moment. \u2014 New York Times , 12 June 2022",
"The shot\u2019s vantage foreshortens Susiraja\u2019s reclining figure, exaggerating its proportions, rendering her bare legs and midsection mountainous while shrinking her head, which almost aligns with the composition\u2019s vanishing point. \u2014 Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker , 22 May 2022",
"That\u2019s because tours often travel inland\u2014sometimes several hours into Finland\u2014to find the best vantage spots. \u2014 David Nikel, Forbes , 8 May 2022",
"There's nothing like the vantage from a high point. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 May 2022",
"Wildlife Viewing See rewilding in action at one of CVNP\u2019s conservation vantage points: the Beaver Marsh, a peaceful wetland with a boardwalk. \u2014 Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online , 14 Mar. 2022",
"With the city blanketed in pitch black and frost crowding the corners of Frank\u2019s window walls, Frank, Jeevan, and Kirsten could be stranded on a space station, observing the dead Earth from Dr. Eleven\u2019s remote vantage . \u2014 Amanda Whiting, Vulture , 30 Dec. 2021",
"From the vantage turkeys, francolin fowl, chukar partridge, mouflon sheep, Spanish goats and wild boars could be seen. \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 12 Dec. 2021",
"As folks flying out of the terminal wind their way through the security line, those closest to the walls have the best vantage for seven photographs taken via drone by San Antonian Gabe Zeckua. \u2014 Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News , 7 Dec. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French vantage, avantage \u2014 more at advantage entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8van-tij"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"advantage",
"better",
"bulge",
"catbird seat",
"drop",
"edge",
"high ground",
"inside track",
"jump",
"pull",
"stead",
"upper hand",
"whip hand"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-045531",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vantage point":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"You can see the whole valley from this vantage point .",
"From our vantage point in the 21st century, it is difficult to imagine life without computers.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"From their unique vantage point , the siblings took in the spectacular birthday parade for their great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth, before making their way to the balcony of Buckingham Palace for the royal family's iconic appearance there. \u2014 Janine Henni, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022",
"All the action happens from our vantage point here on Earth. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 28 May 2022",
"Similarly, Kang lives perpetually compared to our vantage point . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 16 May 2022",
"Chaotic as mosh pits seem, people typically look out for each other to ensure no one is hurt, and from my vantage point front and center on the balcony, there were no health or safety issues. \u2014 Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 13 May 2022",
"But over the past year, the plucky little helicopter known as Ingenuity has taken to the Martian skies 28 times, far exceeding expectations and giving scientists a new vantage point on the Red Planet. \u2014 Christian Davenport, Washington Post , 13 May 2022",
"Sitting in an office on the bank\u2019s trading floor, Olesky had a new vantage point . \u2014 Declan Harty, Fortune , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Three years later, Morikawa\u2019s vantage point will be far different. \u2014 Will Graves, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 Apr. 2022",
"The cherished vantage point is also a stellar vista showcasing the Cherokee National Forest and the city of Erwin and also serves as a go-to destination for hikers of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail to set up camp and watch the sunset. \u2014 Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure , 12 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1847, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"angle",
"eye view",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"shoes",
"slant",
"standpoint",
"viewpoint"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055837",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vantguard":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": vanguard":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English avaunt garde, vantgard":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033754",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vanthoffite":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a mineral consisting of a sulfate of sodium and magnesium that occurs in granular or layered aggregates":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Jacobus H. van't Hoff \u20201911 + English -ite":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-h\u00e4\u02ccf-",
"vant\u02c8h\u022f\u02ccf\u012bt",
"v\u00e4n-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133022",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vapid":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": lacking flavor, zest, interest, animation, or spirit : flat , dull":[
"a gossipy, vapid woman, obsessed by her own elegance",
"\u2014 R. F. Delderfield",
"London was not all vapid dissipation",
"\u2014 V. S. Pritchett"
]
},
"examples":[
"Waiting rooms, as I'm sure you know, are small rooms with plenty of chairs for waiting, as well as piles of old, dull magazines to read and some vapid paintings \u2026 while you endure the boredom that doctors and dentists inflict on their patients before bringing them in to poke them and prod them and do all the miserable things that such people are paid to do. \u2014 Lemony Snicket , The Ersatz Elevator , 2001",
"In a secular age, symbolic rituals such as lighting the Olympic torch inevitably risk seeming a little vapid . \u2014 Tony Perrottet , Civilization , June/July 2000",
"\u2026 the incompetent servant, by whomsoever employed, is always against his employer. Even those born governors, noble and right honourable creatures, who have been the most imbecile in high places, have uniformly shown themselves the most opposed (sometimes in belying distrust, sometimes in vapid insolence) to THEIR employer. What is in such wise true of the public master and servant, is equally true of the private master and servant all the world over. \u2014 Charles Dickens , Our Mutual Friend , 1865",
"a song with vapid lyrics",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sadly, this didn\u2019t last long as Zayn chose his vapid loyalty to the Bloodline over his lifelong friendship with Sami Zayn. \u2014 Alfred Konuwa, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
"Think: Tik Tok text quoting fictitious remarks from supporters of fast fashion, designed to dismiss commonly made arguments for fast fashion as ignorant and vapid . \u2014 Marielle Elizabeth, Vogue , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Ordinarily Hollywood Romanticism tends to be vapid . \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 7 Mar. 2022",
"More, still, found the whole uproar to be vapid , if not absurd. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Back then, Cary\u2019s hanging out with them as an attempt to boost his own profile led to degradation for all involved: These social-media models were shallow and vapid , but Cary, using them while holding them in contempt, was somehow worse. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Tanya is too pitiable to die in a comedy; Mark is too vapid to go in a drama. \u2014 Amanda Whiting, Vulture , 11 July 2021",
"Once viewed by the media as a vapid heiress and socialite, Paris Hilton is now having a sort of Parissance in the public sphere. \u2014 Natalie Morin, refinery29.com , 5 May 2021",
"Were these claims merely vapid that would be bad enough. \u2014 David Robert Grimes, Scientific American , 26 Apr. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1656, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin vapidus \"(of wine) having lost freshness, flat\"; akin to Latin vappa \"wine that has gone flat\" and perhaps to vapor \"exhalation, steam\" \u2014 more at vapor entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0101-",
"\u02c8va-p\u0259d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vapid insipid , vapid , flat , jejune , banal , inane mean devoid of qualities that make for spirit and character. insipid implies a lack of sufficient taste or savor to please or interest. an insipid romance with platitudes on every page vapid suggests a lack of liveliness, force, or spirit. an exciting story given a vapid treatment flat applies to things that have lost their sparkle or zest. although well-regarded in its day, the novel now seems flat jejune suggests a lack of rewarding or satisfying substance. a jejune and gassy speech banal stresses the complete absence of freshness, novelty, or immediacy. a banal tale of unrequited love inane implies a lack of any significant or convincing quality. an inane interpretation of the play",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055415",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"vapor":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a depressed or hysterical nervous condition":[],
": a foolish or fanciful idea":[],
": a substance in the gaseous state as distinguished from the liquid or solid state":[],
": diffused matter (such as smoke or fog) suspended floating in the air and impairing its transparency":[],
": exhalations of bodily organs (such as the stomach) held to affect the physical or mental condition":[],
": something unsubstantial or transitory : phantasm":[],
": to emit vapor":[],
": to indulge in bragging, blustering, or idle talk":[],
": to rise or pass off in vapor":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"a faded Southern belle tiresomely vaporing about all the handsome beaux she had in her long-ago youth",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The devices heat a nicotine solution into a vapor that\u2019s inhaled, bypassing many of the toxic chemicals produced by burning tobacco. \u2014 Tom Murphy, ajc , 24 June 2022",
"The devices heat a nicotine solution into a vapor that\u2019s inhaled, bypassing many of the toxic chemicals produced by burning tobacco. \u2014 Tom Murphy, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"The devices heat a nicotine solution into a vapor that\u2019s inhaled, bypassing many of the toxic chemicals produced by burning tobacco. \u2014 Matthew Perrone And Tom Murphy, Chicago Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"The devices heat a nicotine solution into a vapor that\u2019s inhaled, bypassing many of the toxic chemicals produced by burning tobacco. \u2014 Matthew Perrone, Anchorage Daily News , 23 June 2022",
"The devices heat a nicotine solution into a vapor that\u2019s inhaled, bypassing many of the toxic chemicals produced by burning tobacco. \u2014 Matthew Perrone, Chron , 23 June 2022",
"The devices heat a nicotine solution into a vapor that\u2019s inhaled. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 22 June 2022",
"There is no gradual rise from the floor or coalescence out of vapor . \u2014 Kent Russell, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"Both moons are known to have saltwater oceans under their thick icy surfaces and both appear have geysers that send some of that water\u2014as vapor \u2014into space. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Despite what ads tell you, no waterproof shell is completely breathable\u2014blocking water requires some impediments to vapor transfer. \u2014 Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"The work had to be done quickly as water vanished to vapor in the early summer heat. \u2014 Scott Wilson, Washington Post , 19 June 2021",
"Meanwhile, in a natural process called wicking, that moisture turns to vapor as it is continuously pulled outward from minuscule air spaces between the fibers of the felt, eventually evaporating entirely. \u2014 Emma Wartzman, Bon App\u00e9tit , 5 Nov. 2020",
"In the fourth, Evers used his veto in an attempt to ensure a tax on vaping products would apply to any device containing fluid and to vapor fluid sold separately. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 July 2019",
"In the fourth, Evers used his veto in an attempt to ensure a tax on vaping products would apply to any device containing fluid and to vapor fluid sold separately. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 July 2019",
"But whole body cryotherapy exposes the body for a couple of minutes to vapor that has been supercooled to somewhere between minus 200 and minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit. \u2014 Aaron E. Carroll, New York Times , 2 Jan. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English vapour , borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French vapor, vapour , borrowed from Latin vapor , earlier vap\u014ds \"exhalation, steam, warmth,\" perhaps akin to Lithuanian kv\u00e3pas \"smell, scent\"":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0101-p\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"boast",
"brag",
"bull",
"crow",
"gasconade",
"swagger",
"vaunt"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102438",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"vaporize":{
"antonyms":[
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
],
"definitions":{
": to become vaporized":[],
": to cause to become dissipated":[],
": to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor":[],
": to destroy by or as if by converting into vapor":[
"a tank vaporized by a shell"
],
": vapor sense 2":[]
},
"examples":[
"Heat is used to vaporize the liquid.",
"Pressure causes the chemical to vaporize .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Instead of firing a continuous beam, weapons would instead fire short but intense pulses rapid enough to vaporize the outer layer of any target. \u2014 David Hambling, Popular Mechanics , 23 May 2022",
"Which is hardly to say the music will vaporize : A CD release of both albums will follow just a week later, versus the previous month-long window that Evans fans used to have to wait for a wide release of the sets. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The ensuing fireball would vaporize every person and every structure within a half-mile. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Pearce used a laser to vaporize the zircon, then analyzed its chemical composition. \u2014 Simon Akam, The New Yorker , 15 Feb. 2022",
"The blast wave typically lasts longer than a conventional explosive and has the ability to vaporize people. \u2014 Fox News , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Given the city\u2019s population density, that would instantly vaporize tens of thousands of Americans, with indirect damage killing many more. \u2014 Andrew Follett, National Review , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Much like water vapor that gets cycled around on WASP-121b, these metal clouds may get shoved over to the dayside where the metals vaporize into gases. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 21 Feb. 2022",
"Continue boiling for 1 minute to vaporize the alcohol in the sake. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1803, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"vapor entry 1 + -ize":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0101-p\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bz"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"cream",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"do in",
"extinguish",
"nuke",
"pull down",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"rub out",
"ruin",
"shatter",
"smash",
"tear down",
"total",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083149",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"vari-":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": variation : variability":[
"vario meter"
],
": varied : diverse":[
"vari colored"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"vari- , combining form of Latin varius various entry 1 (probably after Medieval Latin models, as varipliciter \"variously,\" varificere \"to work in various ways\"); vario- from Latin varius + -o-":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-132810",
"type":[
"combining form"
]
},
"varia":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1926, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin, neuter plural of varius \"of different kinds, various entry 1 \"":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ver-\u0113-\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171051",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"variability":{
"antonyms":[
"established",
"fixed",
"immutable",
"inelastic",
"inflexible",
"invariable",
"nonmalleable",
"ramrod",
"set",
"unadaptable",
"unalterable",
"unbudgeable",
"unchangeable"
],
"definitions":{
": a factor in a scientific experiment that may be subject to change":[],
": a quantity that may assume any one of a set of values":[],
": a symbol representing a variable":[],
": able or apt to vary : subject to variation or changes":[
"variable winds",
"variable costs"
],
": characterized by variations":[],
": fickle , inconstant":[],
": having the characteristics of a variable":[],
": not true to type : aberrant":[
"\u2014 used of a biological group or character"
],
": something that is variable":[],
": variable star":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"The winds were light and variable .",
"The loan has a variable interest rate.",
"Noun",
"unemployment and other economic variables",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"That\u2019s a feature Apple will enable only on screens with variable refresh rates, however. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 20 June 2022",
"Countries with more than 50% of their external debt on variable rates include Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Zambia, World Bank data shows. \u2014 Jason Douglas, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"Credit card borrowers will see immediate pain, as cards have variable rates that go up as the Fed drives short term interest rates higher. \u2014 Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press , 15 June 2022",
"For starters, leaks report the A16 chip is a relatively minor upgrade from the A15, while the primary requirement for always-on displays are panels which can handle variable refresh rates to conserve battery life. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"One-quarter of the typical poor country\u2019s debt burden now carries variable interest rates, up from 11 percent in 2010. \u2014 David J. Lynch, Washington Post , 7 June 2022",
"The problem for Intel\u2019s factory engineers, West said, is that pay is highly variable , hours are long and job security is unreliable. \u2014 oregonlive , 11 May 2022",
"The move becomes more interesting when considering that HDMI 2.1 introduced variable refresh rates to the standard. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 2 May 2022",
"Winds are light and variable around five to 10 mph, mainly coming from the south by later in the day. \u2014 Ian Livingston, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This made the predictability of cloud costs an unknown variable , often leading to unpleasant surprises when the bill arrives. \u2014 Mike Fuhrman, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Dirty Pipe is caused by an uninitialized variable that allows an attacker to overwrite any file contents cached in memory. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 8 Mar. 2022",
"In addition, Neal points to swiftly rising house prices as another variable that may be discouraging homeowners from selling. \u2014 cleveland , 4 June 2022",
"That is has ruled for three weeks is mostly a matter of no big-scale competition, so the most important variable is the raw grosses rather than the arbitrary rank. \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 19 Sep. 2021",
"Natural light is another important variable to consider. \u2014 Karen Asp, USA TODAY , 20 May 2021",
"For one, education is becoming a more important variable in determining life outcome of people. \u2014 Fortune , 12 Apr. 2021",
"And humans can be slow to incorporate new information into their guiding principles, particularly if the change in a variable is slight. \u2014 Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 May 2022",
"Consumers participating in traditional market research may not want to admit, or have the self-awareness to realize, that their own self-image or self-aspiration may drive decision-making much more than any other variable . \u2014 Leslie Trigg, Fortune , 17 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1816, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Late Latin vari\u0101bilis \"changeable,\" from Latin vari\u0101re \"to make changeable, vary \" + -\u0101bilis -able":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ver-\u0113-\u0259-b\u0259l, \u02c8var-",
"\u02c8ver-\u0113-\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"adaptable",
"adjustable",
"alterable",
"changeable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"fluid",
"malleable",
"modifiable",
"pliable"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183123",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"noun,"
]
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"That\u2019s a feature Apple will enable only on screens with variable refresh rates, however. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 20 June 2022",
"Countries with more than 50% of their external debt on variable rates include Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Zambia, World Bank data shows. \u2014 Jason Douglas, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"Credit card borrowers will see immediate pain, as cards have variable rates that go up as the Fed drives short term interest rates higher. \u2014 Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press , 15 June 2022",
"For starters, leaks report the A16 chip is a relatively minor upgrade from the A15, while the primary requirement for always-on displays are panels which can handle variable refresh rates to conserve battery life. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"One-quarter of the typical poor country\u2019s debt burden now carries variable interest rates, up from 11 percent in 2010. \u2014 David J. Lynch, Washington Post , 7 June 2022",
"The problem for Intel\u2019s factory engineers, West said, is that pay is highly variable , hours are long and job security is unreliable. \u2014 oregonlive , 11 May 2022",
"The move becomes more interesting when considering that HDMI 2.1 introduced variable refresh rates to the standard. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 2 May 2022",
"Winds are light and variable around five to 10 mph, mainly coming from the south by later in the day. \u2014 Ian Livingston, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Over that time, the cost of technology has dropped and become more of a variable (vs. \u2014 Sayer Martin, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"Denis is one of the greatest directors working now, and also one of the most variable of great directors, one whose ardently attentive artistry is sparked in large measure by her choice of subject and her cast. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Exactly why is unclear because the new pricing algorithm isn\u2019t public, but Mr. Holehouse thinks a key reason is the inclusion of the cost-of-replacement variable . \u2014 WSJ , 1 Oct. 2021",
"This made the predictability of cloud costs an unknown variable , often leading to unpleasant surprises when the bill arrives. \u2014 Mike Fuhrman, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Dirty Pipe is caused by an uninitialized variable that allows an attacker to overwrite any file contents cached in memory. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 8 Mar. 2022",
"In addition, Neal points to swiftly rising house prices as another variable that may be discouraging homeowners from selling. \u2014 cleveland , 4 June 2022",
"That is has ruled for three weeks is mostly a matter of no big-scale competition, so the most important variable is the raw grosses rather than the arbitrary rank. \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 19 Sep. 2021",
"Natural light is another important variable to consider. \u2014 Karen Asp, USA TODAY , 20 May 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The image from Hubble shows a nebula (a gas cloud) that happened during one of the larger outbursts from the variable star . \u2014 Elizabeth Howell, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2021",
"According to some models, the luminous blue variable star might have skipped the supernova stage and formed a slow-spinning black hole instead, Allan told Gizmodo. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 6 July 2020",
"The ginormous star, a type of luminous blue variable star , shined between 2.5 and 3.5 times brighter than our sun. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 6 July 2020",
"Betelgeuse has always been a variable star (though far less variable than at present), and there are a couple of potential causes. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 14 Feb. 2020",
"An article on Tuesday about the Vera C. Rubin Observatory misidentified the astronomer who discovered a relationship between the luminosities and periodicities of variable stars . \u2014 New York Times , 14 Jan. 2020",
"On top of these random events, Betelgeuse is also known to be a semi-regular variable star . \u2014 The Economist , 11 Jan. 2020",
"Bright idea Skowron and her colleagues mapped the Milky Way in three dimensions using 2,431 classical Cepheid variable stars . \u2014 Nadia Drake, National Geographic , 1 Aug. 2019",
"The telescope gathered a trove of unprecedented data on the pulsations of variable stars throughout the galaxy. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 Mar. 2015"
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"The winds were light and variable .",
"The loan has a variable interest rate.",
"Noun",
"unemployment and other economic variables",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"That\u2019s a feature Apple will enable only on screens with variable refresh rates, however. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 20 June 2022",
"Countries with more than 50% of their external debt on variable rates include Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Zambia, World Bank data shows. \u2014 Jason Douglas, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"Credit card borrowers will see immediate pain, as cards have variable rates that go up as the Fed drives short term interest rates higher. \u2014 Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press , 15 June 2022",
"For starters, leaks report the A16 chip is a relatively minor upgrade from the A15, while the primary requirement for always-on displays are panels which can handle variable refresh rates to conserve battery life. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"One-quarter of the typical poor country\u2019s debt burden now carries variable interest rates, up from 11 percent in 2010. \u2014 David J. Lynch, Washington Post , 7 June 2022",
"The problem for Intel\u2019s factory engineers, West said, is that pay is highly variable , hours are long and job security is unreliable. \u2014 oregonlive , 11 May 2022",
"The move becomes more interesting when considering that HDMI 2.1 introduced variable refresh rates to the standard. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 2 May 2022",
"Winds are light and variable around five to 10 mph, mainly coming from the south by later in the day. \u2014 Ian Livingston, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Over that time, the cost of technology has dropped and become more of a variable (vs. \u2014 Sayer Martin, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"Denis is one of the greatest directors working now, and also one of the most variable of great directors, one whose ardently attentive artistry is sparked in large measure by her choice of subject and her cast. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Exactly why is unclear because the new pricing algorithm isn\u2019t public, but Mr. Holehouse thinks a key reason is the inclusion of the cost-of-replacement variable . \u2014 WSJ , 1 Oct. 2021",
"This made the predictability of cloud costs an unknown variable , often leading to unpleasant surprises when the bill arrives. \u2014 Mike Fuhrman, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Dirty Pipe is caused by an uninitialized variable that allows an attacker to overwrite any file contents cached in memory. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 8 Mar. 2022",
"In addition, Neal points to swiftly rising house prices as another variable that may be discouraging homeowners from selling. \u2014 cleveland , 4 June 2022",
"That is has ruled for three weeks is mostly a matter of no big-scale competition, so the most important variable is the raw grosses rather than the arbitrary rank. \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 19 Sep. 2021",
"Natural light is another important variable to consider. \u2014 Karen Asp, USA TODAY , 20 May 2021"
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"There was some variance in the results.",
"We noticed a slight variance between the quality of the samples.",
"He had to get a variance to add a garage on to his house.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There will be variance in how much the new vehicle will cost, too, for the same reason. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 10 Apr. 2022",
"For residents at Stonegate Hill, approving the tree variance is better than having Microsoft build a structure aimed at limiting tree removal. \u2014 Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News , 27 Jan. 2022",
"This statement cites the availability of vaccines, the variance in proper masking use and care, and the low rate of new cases among school-age individuals. \u2014 Ed Wittenberg, cleveland , 17 Feb. 2022",
"In the second vote, the council voted 7-1 to approve a height variance , design aspects and the overall site. \u2014 Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com , 10 Mar. 2021",
"Village Council has approved a zoning variance to allow the construction of four electric vehicle charging stations at Whole Foods Market at the Pinecrest shopping center. \u2014 cleveland , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The city Planning Commission approved a landscaping variance during a Dec. 7 meeting for a new restaurant at 4126 Elm Springs Road, Laurinda Joenks reported last month. \u2014 Garrett Moore, Arkansas Online , 7 Jan. 2022",
"Culture was linked to six percent of the variance , while eachscents' molecular influenced 40 percent of the selections. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 Apr. 2022",
"In the West, there\u2019s so much variance that Utah could fall in the first round if things broke poorly. \u2014 Shane Young, Forbes , 13 Oct. 2021"
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"the movie begins with a somewhat irreverent variation on the Nativity story",
"the latest in a long line of variations in her hair color",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Carre\u00f1o also said that connotations of risk words and sense of urgency can vary as a function of the variation of Spanish (for example, Mexican versus Puerto Rican). \u2014 Marshall Shepherd, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Breed accounted for only about 9% of behavioral variation in individual dogs and no trait was unique to a single breed of dog, the study found. \u2014 Katie Shepherd, Anchorage Daily News , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Commes des Gar\u00e7ons coach\u2019s jacket is my perfect variation on the theme. \u2014 Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"One variation offers an unusual activity report and a solution link for recipients to restore their accounts. \u2014 Carrie Brandon Elliott, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"This variation hits your rear delts hard as well as working your traps. \u2014 Jeff Tomko, Men's Health , 15 June 2022",
"Joker, released in 2019, took a very dark variation on the Batman villain. \u2014 Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone , 14 June 2022",
"This easy variation highlights the aromatic flavor of soy sauce, garlic and ginger, a combination that seeps into bone-in, skin-on fish. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"The ingredients happily accommodate variation : add some tarragon, leave out the garlic, swap the tuna for tinned salmon\u2014the correct answer is whatever happens to be on hand, though the better the fish, the better the results. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These recall the varicolored water specimens that Wolfe has exhibited previously. \u2014 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post , 8 Nov. 2019"
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"We try to eat a more varied diet.",
"My routine is varied enough so that I don't get bored.",
"She studies subjects as varied as chemistry and sculpture.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Scholarships varied from the lowest, $2,500, to the highest, $15,000. \u2014 Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 5 June 2022",
"Like a fireworks display, the last three concerts of the Cleveland Orchestra\u2019s 2021-22 season were varied , colorful, and hard-hitting. \u2014 Zachary Lewis, cleveland , 31 May 2022",
"Impacts will be varied , but the crisis at Lake Powell is bigger than hydropower. \u2014 Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 May 2022",
"The motives in each case varied \u2014 racist venom, in some \u2014 but the end result was the same: shock, heartbreak and bottomless grief, families and friends scrambling to make sense of the senseless. \u2014 Daniel Arkin, NBC News , 25 May 2022",
"At two-hour pace, estimates varied from about one to six minutes. \u2014 Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online , 14 May 2022",
"The surface tension, which is 10 times that of water, can even be varied by submerging the liquid metal in salt water and applying a voltage. \u2014 Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 May 2022",
"The tides varied dramatically, revealing the city\u2019s unpleasant, pungent mud flaps. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 6 May 2022",
"The dinosaurs are certainly varied in type and the CG work is solid enough for the most part, though some of the smaller, cuter species like the baby nasutoceratops look more like merchandizing opportunities than actual creatures. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 June 2022"
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"the variegated costumes of the dancers in the nightclub",
"a variety of variegated tulip that is highly prized by gardeners",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It\u2019s a variegated pepper that gets 18 to 24 inches high and 12 to 18 inches wide and is considered a mini bell pepper. \u2014 Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Beauty was an expression of variegated desires, not a thing. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Nov. 2021",
"Throughout much of its history, psychiatry didn\u2019t display a strong interest in precise and variegated definitions of mental disorders. \u2014 Stephen Eide, WSJ , 15 Aug. 2021",
"Across from a dog park in the heart of Washington, D.C., stands a striking, multicolored mural, in which two women reach for each other across a space teeming with variegated particles. \u2014 Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS , 24 June 2021",
"Between city and country lies a more variegated landscape of intermediates. \u2014 Nikil Saval, The New Republic , 26 Oct. 2020",
"Bill Buford has had a storied and variegated career, a mix of high and low and sensitive and almost macho \u2014 a career that has twisted gently, like a flamed citrus peel destined for a Negroni. \u2014 Dwight Garner, New York Times , 25 May 2020",
"Place these plants in a hanging basket or on a shelf to show off the variegated colors. \u2014 Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens , 14 May 2020",
"Growers must take cuttings from the plant to propagate new pink princesses, and only from the most variegated parts of a mother plant, which makes them finicky for commercial growing. \u2014 Arielle Pardes, Wired , 19 Feb. 2020"
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"\u02c8ver-\u0113-\u0259-\u02ccg\u0101-t\u0259d"
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"synonyms":[
"chromatic",
"colored",
"colorful",
"kaleidoscopic",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"multihued",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"varied",
"various"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171240",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"varier":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one that varies":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1860, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ver-\u0113-\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111956",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"varies":{
"antonyms":[
"compare",
"match"
],
"definitions":{
": deviate , depart":[],
": to exhibit divergence in structural or physiological characters from the typical form":[],
": to exhibit or undergo change":[
"the sky was constantly varying"
],
": to make a partial change in : make different in some attribute or characteristic":[],
": to make differences between items in : diversify":[],
": to take on successive values":[
"y varies inversely with x"
]
},
"examples":[
"The terrain varies as you climb higher.",
"The cost of a room at the hotel varies with the season.",
"Their services vary depending on the customer.",
"They've tried to improve their procedures, with varying degrees of success.",
"The diamonds vary in size.",
"Colors vary from light to dark.",
"I try to vary my diet by eating different kinds of foods.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Each case of endometriosis can vary from woman to woman; the same goes for the severity of symptoms and their impact on her fertility. \u2014 Jennifer \"jay\" Palumbo, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Fees for using chargers can vary from monthly or yearly flat rates to per-kilowatt to hourly rates. \u2014 Ron Wood, Arkansas Online , 27 June 2022",
"Laws on this sticky subject vary from state to state. \u2014 Kim Komando, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"Those restrictions vary from county to county and city to city. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"Beyond that, the specifics of human involvement are likely to vary widely from company to company, including whether a human driver will pilot vehicles in places like city streets. \u2014 Christopher Mims, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"The roots of the problems will vary from club to club. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"Ice cream machines vary in size from small personal bowls to large compressor-style machines. \u2014 Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"Conditions vary from ship to ship, and from sailing to sailing. \u2014 Jeremy Hsieh, Anchorage Daily News , 9 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English varien , borrowed from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French varier , borrowed from Latin vari\u0101re \"to mark with contrasting colors, give variety to, make changeable,\" derivative of varius \"having contrasting colors, of different kinds, changeable,\" of uncertain origin":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ver-\u0113, \u02c8var-\u0113",
"\u02c8ver-\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vary change , alter , vary , modify mean to make or become different. change implies making either an essential difference often amounting to a loss of original identity or a substitution of one thing for another. changed the shirt for a larger size alter implies a difference in some particular respect without suggesting loss of identity. slightly altered the original design vary stresses a breaking away from sameness, duplication, or exact repetition. vary your daily routine modify suggests a difference that limits, restricts, or adapts to a new purpose. modified the building for use by the disabled",
"synonyms":[
"contrast",
"differ"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112609",
"type":[
"adverb",
"intransitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"varietal":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a grape variety that is used to produce a varietal wine":[
"The grape, which produces lush fruit flavors of boysenberry and blackberry, along with vibrant acidity, it is without question Argentina's lead varietal .",
"\u2014 James Molesworth"
],
": a wine (such as merlot ) bearing the name of the principal grape variety from which it is produced":[
"Brothers Ross and Bill Spence established Matua in 1973 and were the first to bottle Sauvignon Blanc in New Zealand. Today, the winery produces a range of varietals at varying price points.",
"\u2014 Alison Napjus",
"Zinfandel works as a stand-alone, 100-percent varietal wine and also lends itself to blending.",
"\u2014 James Laube"
],
": of a varietal wine (see varietal entry 2 sense 1 )":[
"varietal grapes",
"varietal blends"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Guests can order flights to taste four different wines from around the state and learn more about varietal , terroir and the winemaker. \u2014 Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic , 21 June 2022",
"An interview with Matthew Ostrander of Ibantik Craft Beverages, who explains single varietal ciders. \u2014 Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune , 27 May 2022",
"Beautiful overall harmony, classic varietal purity and typicity and a wine of excellent structure. \u2014 Tom Hyland, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The perfect wine deserves a perfect glass, and that\u2019s what this extension of Riedel Winewings Series offers with their three varietal -specific stemless glassware for riesling, pinot noir and cabernet sauvignon. \u2014 Jillian Dara, Forbes , 10 Nov. 2021",
"Enjoy five tasting stations and 10 wine varietal samples, plus live music and food and a branded souvenir glass to take home. \u2014 Sara Butler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 Mar. 2022",
"This is a Barolo with notable charm as well as very good typicity and varietal character. \u2014 Tom Hyland, Forbes , 27 Oct. 2021",
"The estate handpicked and sorted the grapes, with each varietal and vineyard block vinified separately, aging in oak for about 12 months. \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Only then was the balance between each varietal conceived and married, and once again returned to barriques for another six months before aging for a further year once bottled, producing silky smooth tannins and a long finish. \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 15 Nov. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1866, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1941, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"variety + -al entry 1":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"v\u0259-\u02c8r\u012b-\u0259-t\u1d4al"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-083510",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"varietal wine":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a wine (such as merlot ) bearing the name of the principal grape from which it is produced":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Roussanne, a white Rh\u00f4ne variety, is an important grape for Rh\u00f4ne-expert Tablas Creek\u2014as a varietal wine and in their lovely blends. \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 27 Sep. 2021",
"Any red wine that\u2019s not a varietal wine \u2014 that is, composed of a single grape variety, like Pinot Noir or Sangiovese \u2014 is a red blend. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 Sep. 2021",
"As a varietal wine , petite sirahs are conventionally dark and tannic, even if not particularly alcoholic, and rarely interesting to me. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Rooms feature artisan pantries stocked with varietal wine and craft beer. \u2014 Kara Franker, Southern Living , 10 July 2020",
"Broadbent Sercial Madeira 10-Year-Old, NV, Portugal Named for Portugal\u2019s native sercial grape, this driest of Madeira styles is brighter and crisper than the other three Madeira varietal wines . \u2014 Dallas News , 15 May 2020",
"Crown Point Vineyard Known for Bordeaux varietal wines , this Happy Canyon AVA producer plans a series of virtual tastings launching next week with winemaker Simon Faury. \u2014 Matt Bean, Sunset Magazine , 25 Mar. 2020",
"With the help of a lead sommelier, the winery creates about 700,000 cases of blends and single varietal wines per year, according to the company website. \u2014 Tirion Morris, azcentral , 3 Jan. 2020",
"In skilled hands, frappato can be made as a single varietal wine that tastes like summer sunshine. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 24 Sep. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1950, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-083407",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"varietas":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": variety":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin varietat-, varietas":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"v\u0259\u02c8r\u012b\u0259\u02cctas"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104940",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"varietist":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one who varies from the norm (as in aptitudes, desires, or appetites)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"variety + -ist":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"v\u0259\u02c8r\u012b\u0259t\u0259\u0307st"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110202",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"variety":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a number or collection of different things especially of a particular class : assortment":[],
": any of various groups of plants or animals ranking below a species : subspecies":[],
": something differing from others of the same general kind : sort":[],
": the quality or state of having different forms or types : multifariousness":[],
": variety show":[]
},
"examples":[
"I was surprised by the variety of the choices that were available.",
"My life needs more variety .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Disability Rights Connecticut found that Whiting staff operate with an over-reliance on restraining patients and recommended more individualized care than standard hospital-wide practices for patients with a wide variety of needs. \u2014 Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant , 30 June 2022",
"Dish is not alone in supporting mobile use of the 12 GHz band\u2014a coalition created to lobby on the issue includes Dish along with a variety of telecoms, tech companies, industry lobby groups, and consumer advocacy groups. \u2014 Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica , 29 June 2022",
"Legal experts have suggested that Trump could be charged with a variety of federal crimes, including seditious conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstructing an official proceeding, and inciting an insurrection. \u2014 Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"The folio flap can be partially opened to serve as a kickstand with a variety of viewing angles. \u2014 Mike Richard, Men's Health , 29 June 2022",
"Thousands of pieces of candy are draped with chocolate as assembly lines roll, with a variety of quality-control measures in place. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 28 June 2022",
"At Manow Thai, this popular dish can be ordered with a variety of protein options and can be prepared to meet various dietary requirements. \u2014 Allana Haynes, Baltimore Sun , 28 June 2022",
"Given that Spider-Man resonates with a variety of age groups, the incorporation of such thorough digital elements will allow visitors to cater their experiences to their individual interests. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"Fox and deer live on the property, along with a wide variety of plants, insects and animals. \u2014 John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star , 27 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Middle French or Latin; Middle French variet\u00e9 , borrowed from Latin variet\u0101t-, variet\u0101s , from varius \"having contrasting colors, various entry 1 \" + -et\u0101t- -et\u0101s , variant of -it\u0101s -ity":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"v\u0259-\u02c8r\u012b-\u0259-t\u0113",
"v\u0259-\u02c8r\u012b-\u0259t-\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"assortment",
"diverseness",
"diversity",
"heterogeneity",
"heterogeneousness",
"manifoldness",
"miscellaneousness",
"multifariousness",
"multiplicity",
"variousness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215334",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"variety is the spice of life":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125112",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"variolitic":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or resembling variolite":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1808, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary variolite + -ic":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112300",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"variolitization":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": conversion into variolite : production of variolitic structure":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1890, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"variolite + -ization":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092103",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"variometer":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an aeronautical instrument for indicating rate of climb":[],
": an instrument for measuring magnetic declination":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1889, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from German Variometer , from vario- vario- + -meter -meter":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccver-\u0113-\u02c8\u00e4-m\u0259-t\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-043517",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"variorum":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an edition containing variant readings of the text":[],
": an edition or text with notes by different persons":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1728, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"circa 1763, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin vari\u014drum \"of various persons,\" (genitive plural masculine of varius various entry 1 ) in the New Latin phrase cum not\u012bs vari\u014drum \"with the notes of various persons\"":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccver-\u0113-\u02c8\u022fr-\u0259m"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220729",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"various":{
"antonyms":[
"colorless"
],
"definitions":{
": an indefinite number of separate individuals greater than one":[
"have read various of her essays"
],
": dissimilar in nature or form : unlike":[],
": having a number of different aspects or characteristics":[
"a various place"
],
": individual , separate":[
"rate increases granted in the various states"
],
": of an indefinite number greater than one":[
"stop at various towns"
],
": of differing kinds : multifarious":[],
": variable , inconstant":[],
": varicolored":[
"birds of various plumage"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"He has lived in places as various as New York and Beijing.",
"for their various and bizarrely shaped plumage, males of the bird of paradise species have few rivals",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Household names from Amazon to Starbucks have confronted organizing activity in various locations as employees seek to leverage a tight labor market to push for better working conditions and pay. \u2014 Catherine Thorbecke, CNN , 15 June 2022",
"Keene will have a multi-room exhibit including artworks from various collections and new works from the artist as well. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 14 June 2022",
"Printed copies are also available in various locations around Lebanon or by request. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 10 June 2022",
"Astoria Pride hosts Pride Parade on the Riverwalk, plus trivia, brunch and tons of performances continuing at various times Thursday-Sunday, June 9-12. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 June 2022",
"Their tops come in three shades\u2014light, medium and dark\u2014and various sizes. \u2014 Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune , 9 June 2022",
"Officials have associated the tailgating with loitering, drinking, smoking, gun-carrying and various disturbances. \u2014 Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 23 May 2022",
"Peterson has worked at Southwest Gas for more than 26 years in various leadership roles. \u2014 Sheryl Estrada, Fortune , 3 June 2022",
"Emhoff posed with an excess of Mulberry bags from the brand's Softie collection in various locations throughout the city. \u2014 Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 6":"Adjective",
"1877, in the meaning defined above":"Pronoun, plural in construction"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Latin varius \"having contrasting colors, of different kinds, changeable\" (of uncertain origin) + Middle English -ous, -os -ous":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ver-\u0113-\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for various Adjective different , diverse , divergent , disparate , various mean unlike in kind or character. different may imply little more than separateness but it may also imply contrast or contrariness. different foods diverse implies both distinctness and marked contrast. such diverse interests as dancing and football divergent implies movement away from each other and unlikelihood of ultimate meeting or reconciliation. went on to pursue divergent careers disparate emphasizes incongruity or incompatibility. disparate notions of freedom various stresses the number of sorts or kinds. tried various methods",
"synonyms":[
"chromatic",
"colored",
"colorful",
"kaleidoscopic",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"multihued",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"varied",
"variegated"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054947",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"pronoun, plural in construction"
]
},
"variously":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": by various designations":[
"known variously as principal, headmaster, and rector"
],
": in various ways : at various times":[
"was variously occupied teaching, farming, and clerking"
]
},
"examples":[
"He has been variously described as a hero and a villain.",
"The term is spelled variously in different places.",
"The concept of freedom has been variously understood by different people.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It has been variously described as post-apocalyptic science fiction, a feminist cultural critique, an early eco-novel and a defense of animal rights. \u2014 Martin Riker, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"This slim book on the legacies of colonialism has been described variously as a jeremiad and a mock travel guide. \u2014 Bo Seo, The Atlantic , 1 June 2022",
"Rumors swirled that the federation sidelined Cruz to prevent him from defecting, while official statements variously described the decision as tactical, strategic or disciplinary. \u2014 New York Times , 30 May 2022",
"The Soundsuits seem to be in motion, creating visual vortexes, variously spinning and rising or falling, conveying differing weights and textures of the figures\u2019 pelts and exaggerating the movements of the wearer. \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2022",
"Oriol was an early associate of the crew, and variously served as Cypress Hill\u2019s photographer, videographer, and tour manager for much of their three-decade run. \u2014 Andrew Barker, Variety , 23 Apr. 2022",
"New York designer Steven Gambrel, for example, has variously sheathed rooms in schemes of chocolate, olive and smoke\u2014tempered palettes his clients often request. \u2014 Kathryn O\u2019shea-evans, WSJ , 5 May 2022",
"His father, variously identified as a teacher, journalist and poet, was purged during the Stalin era and sent to the Soviet gulag. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
"Over the years, fans, contestants, and critics have brawled, variously , over accusations of shadiness by producers, bullying by fans, and misconduct by competitors. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 20 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1627, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ver-\u0113-\u0259s-l\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075944",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"variousness":{
"antonyms":[
"colorless"
],
"definitions":{
": an indefinite number of separate individuals greater than one":[
"have read various of her essays"
],
": dissimilar in nature or form : unlike":[],
": having a number of different aspects or characteristics":[
"a various place"
],
": individual , separate":[
"rate increases granted in the various states"
],
": of an indefinite number greater than one":[
"stop at various towns"
],
": of differing kinds : multifarious":[],
": variable , inconstant":[],
": varicolored":[
"birds of various plumage"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"He has lived in places as various as New York and Beijing.",
"for their various and bizarrely shaped plumage, males of the bird of paradise species have few rivals",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Household names from Amazon to Starbucks have confronted organizing activity in various locations as employees seek to leverage a tight labor market to push for better working conditions and pay. \u2014 Catherine Thorbecke, CNN , 15 June 2022",
"Keene will have a multi-room exhibit including artworks from various collections and new works from the artist as well. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 14 June 2022",
"Printed copies are also available in various locations around Lebanon or by request. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 10 June 2022",
"Astoria Pride hosts Pride Parade on the Riverwalk, plus trivia, brunch and tons of performances continuing at various times Thursday-Sunday, June 9-12. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 June 2022",
"Their tops come in three shades\u2014light, medium and dark\u2014and various sizes. \u2014 Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune , 9 June 2022",
"Officials have associated the tailgating with loitering, drinking, smoking, gun-carrying and various disturbances. \u2014 Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 23 May 2022",
"Peterson has worked at Southwest Gas for more than 26 years in various leadership roles. \u2014 Sheryl Estrada, Fortune , 3 June 2022",
"Emhoff posed with an excess of Mulberry bags from the brand's Softie collection in various locations throughout the city. \u2014 Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 6":"Adjective",
"1877, in the meaning defined above":"Pronoun, plural in construction"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Latin varius \"having contrasting colors, of different kinds, changeable\" (of uncertain origin) + Middle English -ous, -os -ous":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ver-\u0113-\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for various Adjective different , diverse , divergent , disparate , various mean unlike in kind or character. different may imply little more than separateness but it may also imply contrast or contrariness. different foods diverse implies both distinctness and marked contrast. such diverse interests as dancing and football divergent implies movement away from each other and unlikelihood of ultimate meeting or reconciliation. went on to pursue divergent careers disparate emphasizes incongruity or incompatibility. disparate notions of freedom various stresses the number of sorts or kinds. tried various methods",
"synonyms":[
"chromatic",
"colored",
"colorful",
"kaleidoscopic",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"multihued",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"varied",
"variegated"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114301",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"pronoun, plural in construction"
]
},
"variscite":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a bluish to greenish gem mineral sometimes confused with or substituted for turquoise":[
"\u2014 see amatrice"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"German variscit , from Medieval Latin Variscia , ancient name of the Vogtland district, Saxony, Germany + German -it -ite":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8var\u0259\u02ccs\u012bt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000657",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"variscite green":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a light green that is yellower and less strong than average mint green and yellower and paler than serpentine":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184515",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"varisized":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of various sizes":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1936, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"vari- + sized":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ver-i-\u02ccs\u012bzd"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131428",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"varlet":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a base unprincipled person : knave":[],
": a knight's page":[],
": attendant , menial":[]
},
"examples":[
"challenged the dastardly varlet to a duel"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English vadlet, valet, varlet \"male servant, groom, knight's attendant,\" \u2014 more at valet entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
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"brute",
"caitiff",
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"knave",
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"nazi",
"no-good",
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"reprobate",
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"savage",
"scalawag",
"scallywag",
"scamp",
"scapegrace",
"scoundrel",
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"noun"
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"The sheriff in the movie gets revenge on the dirty varmint who killed his brother.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The boa uses its muscles to move its prey down the length of its body to the stomach, where the unlucky varmint is digested over the next four to six days. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The plot is a boilerplate revenge saga, with Love (Jonathan Majors, a true movie star) hunting the hide of the varmint Buck (Idris Elba), who killed his ma and pa, but the exhilaration is all in Samuel\u2019s neo-exploitation execution. \u2014 Charles Bramesco, Vulture , 24 Nov. 2021",
"Lots of sunshine and clear blue skies are once again enveloping the Pharmalot campus, where the official mascot is sniffing about in search of varmint . \u2014 Ed Silverman, STAT , 5 Sep. 2021",
"Despite the rain, there was a festive feel to the distribution, thanks in large part to the presence of a large, soggy, green-eyed varmint . \u2014 Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News , 16 Apr. 2021",
"Or take turns spotting with your buddy for some competitive plinking or varmint control. \u2014 The Editors, Outdoor Life , 11 Nov. 2020",
"That\u2019s why the line includes a wide range of ammunition for plinkers, target and competition shooters, and small-game and varmint hunters. \u2014 Field & Stream , 2 Oct. 2020",
"Remington fitted its rifles with a 1:12 twist, which was ideal for lighter varmint bullets. \u2014 Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life , 21 Aug. 2020",
"The R-15 Predator was built with the varmint hunter in mind. \u2014 John Haughey, Outdoor Life , 10 Apr. 2019"
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"circa 1539, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"variant of vermin (with regular late Middle English opening of tautosyllabic er to ar and parasitic t )":""
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"beast",
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"bugger",
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"cad",
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"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"crud",
"crumb",
"cur",
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"heel",
"hound",
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"lout",
"pill",
"rat",
"rat fink",
"reptile",
"rotter",
"schmuck",
"scum",
"scumbag",
"scuzzball",
"skunk",
"sleaze",
"sleazebag",
"sleazeball",
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"slimeball",
"slob",
"snake",
"so-and-so",
"sod",
"stinkard",
"stinker",
"swine",
"toad",
"vermin"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120524",
"type":[
"noun"
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": the opening day of an art exhibition":[]
},
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"varnishing (gerund of varnish entry 2 ) + day":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120057",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vartabed":{
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"definitions":{
": a member of an order of celibate preachers in the Armenian clergy corresponding to the archimandrite in the Greek church":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Armenian vartabed , literally, teacher":""
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"\u00a6v\u00e4rt\u00e4\u00a6bed"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-111526",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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": a mineral (Na,Ca)(Mn,Fe) 2 (PO 4 ) 2 consisting of manganese, sodium, and calcium with minor amounts of iron, isomorphous with h\u00fchnerkobelite, and isostructural with triphylite and lithiophilite":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Swedish varulit , from Varu tr\u00e4sk, locality in northern Sweden + Swedish -lit -lite":""
},
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"\u02c8v\u00e4r\u0259\u02ccl\u012bt"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213333",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"a varus heel"
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"\u2014 used of the knee"
]
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"first_known_use":{
"1945, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"borrowed from Latin v\u0101rus \"bent outwards with converging extremities, bow-legged,\" of uncertain origin":""
},
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"\u02c8ver-\u0259s",
"\u02c8var-\u0259s, \u02c8ver-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163153",
"type":[
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"noun"
]
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": a pair of layers of alternately finer and coarser silt or clay believed to comprise an annual cycle of deposition in a body of still water":[]
},
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"1912, in the meaning defined above":""
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"borrowed from Swedish varv \"turn, round, layer,\" going back to Germanic *hwarban-, hwarb- \"turn, circle,\" whence Old Norse hvarf \"circle, ring, enclosed space,\" Old English hwearf \"turn, exchange, crowd, embankment\" \u2014 more at wharf":""
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"\u02c8v\u00e4rv"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175342",
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"Definition of varvel variant spelling of vervel"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-144224",
"type":[]
},
"varvity":{
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": stratification in varves":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"varve + -ity":""
},
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"\u02c8v\u00e4rv\u0259t\u0113"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091418",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vary":{
"antonyms":[
"compare",
"match"
],
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": to exhibit or undergo change":[
"the sky was constantly varying"
],
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": to make differences between items in : diversify":[],
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]
},
"examples":[
"The terrain varies as you climb higher.",
"The cost of a room at the hotel varies with the season.",
"Their services vary depending on the customer.",
"They've tried to improve their procedures, with varying degrees of success.",
"The diamonds vary in size.",
"Colors vary from light to dark.",
"I try to vary my diet by eating different kinds of foods.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Each case of endometriosis can vary from woman to woman; the same goes for the severity of symptoms and their impact on her fertility. \u2014 Jennifer \"jay\" Palumbo, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Fees for using chargers can vary from monthly or yearly flat rates to per-kilowatt to hourly rates. \u2014 Ron Wood, Arkansas Online , 27 June 2022",
"Laws on this sticky subject vary from state to state. \u2014 Kim Komando, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"Those restrictions vary from county to county and city to city. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"Beyond that, the specifics of human involvement are likely to vary widely from company to company, including whether a human driver will pilot vehicles in places like city streets. \u2014 Christopher Mims, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"The roots of the problems will vary from club to club. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"Ice cream machines vary in size from small personal bowls to large compressor-style machines. \u2014 Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"Conditions vary from ship to ship, and from sailing to sailing. \u2014 Jeremy Hsieh, Anchorage Daily News , 9 June 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English varien , borrowed from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French varier , borrowed from Latin vari\u0101re \"to mark with contrasting colors, give variety to, make changeable,\" derivative of varius \"having contrasting colors, of different kinds, changeable,\" of uncertain origin":""
},
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"\u02c8ver-\u0113, \u02c8var-\u0113",
"\u02c8ver-\u0113"
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"contrast",
"differ"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022316",
"type":[
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"intransitive verb",
"verb"
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"compare",
"match"
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": to exhibit divergence in structural or physiological characters from the typical form":[],
": to exhibit or undergo change":[
"the sky was constantly varying"
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": to make differences between items in : diversify":[],
": to take on successive values":[
"y varies inversely with x"
]
},
"examples":[
"The terrain varies as you climb higher.",
"The cost of a room at the hotel varies with the season.",
"Their services vary depending on the customer.",
"They've tried to improve their procedures, with varying degrees of success.",
"The diamonds vary in size.",
"Colors vary from light to dark.",
"I try to vary my diet by eating different kinds of foods.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Each case of endometriosis can vary from woman to woman; the same goes for the severity of symptoms and their impact on her fertility. \u2014 Jennifer \"jay\" Palumbo, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Fees for using chargers can vary from monthly or yearly flat rates to per-kilowatt to hourly rates. \u2014 Ron Wood, Arkansas Online , 27 June 2022",
"Laws on this sticky subject vary from state to state. \u2014 Kim Komando, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"Those restrictions vary from county to county and city to city. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"Beyond that, the specifics of human involvement are likely to vary widely from company to company, including whether a human driver will pilot vehicles in places like city streets. \u2014 Christopher Mims, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"The roots of the problems will vary from club to club. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"Ice cream machines vary in size from small personal bowls to large compressor-style machines. \u2014 Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"Conditions vary from ship to ship, and from sailing to sailing. \u2014 Jeremy Hsieh, Anchorage Daily News , 9 June 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English varien , borrowed from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French varier , borrowed from Latin vari\u0101re \"to mark with contrasting colors, give variety to, make changeable,\" derivative of varius \"having contrasting colors, of different kinds, changeable,\" of uncertain origin":""
},
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"\u02c8ver-\u0113, \u02c8var-\u0113",
"\u02c8ver-\u0113"
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"contrast",
"differ"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205535",
"type":[
"adverb",
"intransitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"varying hare":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": snowshoe hare":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The varying hare population has been high the past three years and is beginning to down-cycle. \u2014 John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News , 14 Nov. 2020",
"The ptarmigan, varying hares and the dog mushers may be the only ones who are celebrating this season's extension of winter. \u2014 John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News , 10 Apr. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1781, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021829",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an arctic lemming especially of the genus Dicrostonyx in which the pelage is more or less completely white in winter":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094311",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vas":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an anatomical vessel : duct":[],
": blood vessel":[
"vaso motor"
],
": vas deferens":[
"vas ectomy"
],
": vascular and":[
"vaso vagal"
],
": vasomotor":[
"vaso active"
],
": vessel: such as":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Before long the eggs were sharing space with cups, bowls, and vases . \u2014 William Grimes, BostonGlobe.com , 19 Apr. 2020",
"People are able to participate by delivering and leaving clean, medium sized vases in a box with their name on it at 150 N Galt Ave in Crescent Hill on the front porch. \u2014 Dominique Yates, The Courier-Journal , 29 Apr. 2020",
"They're often grown for cutting and display in vases , says Gragnani. \u2014 Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful , 31 Mar. 2020",
"Very heavy things like vases and very heavy coffee mugs. \u2014 Peter Van Sant, CBS News , 4 Apr. 2020",
"Musgrove said this could include lighter blankets, more colorful throw pillows, or things tucked away in cabinets like pitchers and vases . \u2014 Dallas News , 28 Mar. 2020",
"Its great heroes\u2019 aspirations to dominance are the seeds of the idea of perfection that appears in the figures on Greek vases and in sculpture long after Homer died. \u2014 Seth Cropsey, National Review , 28 Feb. 2020",
"Chestnuts feel very seasonal, and all nuts are nice strewn about, or piled into clear glasses or vases . \u2014 Katie Workman, NBC News , 27 Nov. 2019",
"Someone broke into a locked storage pod near the alley behind a real estate business and stole two Dell computers, two computer monitors, 48 flower vases and a box of promotional notepads. \u2014 La Ca\u00f1ada Valley Sun , 2 Oct. 2019"
],
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"1651, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
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"New Latin, from Latin vas":"Combining form",
"borrowed from New Latin v\u0101s, v\u0101sus , going back to Latin, \"container, vessel,\" going back to Italic *w\u0101ss- of obscure origin":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8vas"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012733",
"type":[
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"antonyms":[],
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": a blind tube that is occasionally present parallel to the first part of the vas deferens with which or with the epididymis it may communicate":[],
": slender arteries that are only occasionally present and that connect the axillary or brachial artery and the radial or other artery of the forearm or the subclavian artery and the thoracic aorta":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, literally, deviating vessel":""
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"\u02c8va\u02c8sab\u0259\u02ccranz"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-084412",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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"vas ectomy"
],
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"vaso vagal"
],
": vasomotor":[
"vaso active"
],
": vessel: such as":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Before long the eggs were sharing space with cups, bowls, and vases . \u2014 William Grimes, BostonGlobe.com , 19 Apr. 2020",
"People are able to participate by delivering and leaving clean, medium sized vases in a box with their name on it at 150 N Galt Ave in Crescent Hill on the front porch. \u2014 Dominique Yates, The Courier-Journal , 29 Apr. 2020",
"They're often grown for cutting and display in vases , says Gragnani. \u2014 Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful , 31 Mar. 2020",
"Very heavy things like vases and very heavy coffee mugs. \u2014 Peter Van Sant, CBS News , 4 Apr. 2020",
"Musgrove said this could include lighter blankets, more colorful throw pillows, or things tucked away in cabinets like pitchers and vases . \u2014 Dallas News , 28 Mar. 2020",
"Its great heroes\u2019 aspirations to dominance are the seeds of the idea of perfection that appears in the figures on Greek vases and in sculpture long after Homer died. \u2014 Seth Cropsey, National Review , 28 Feb. 2020",
"Chestnuts feel very seasonal, and all nuts are nice strewn about, or piled into clear glasses or vases . \u2014 Katie Workman, NBC News , 27 Nov. 2019",
"Someone broke into a locked storage pod near the alley behind a real estate business and stole two Dell computers, two computer monitors, 48 flower vases and a box of promotional notepads. \u2014 La Ca\u00f1ada Valley Sun , 2 Oct. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1651, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
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"New Latin, from Latin vas":"Combining form",
"borrowed from New Latin v\u0101s, v\u0101sus , going back to Latin, \"container, vessel,\" going back to Italic *w\u0101ss- of obscure origin":"Noun"
},
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074942",
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"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": any of several blackish brown Madagascan parrots of the genus Coracopsis (especially C. vasa )":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Malagasy v\u00e0za vasa parrot, literally, loud-voiced":""
},
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"\u00a6v\u00e4s\u0259-",
"-\u00e4z\u0259-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135453",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vast":{
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"midget",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pocket",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee"
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"definitions":{
": a boundless space":[
"the vast of heaven",
"\u2014 John Milton"
],
": very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially in extent or range":[
"vast knowledge",
"a vast expanse"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"She has a vast amount of knowledge on this subject.",
"The policy is supported by the vast majority of citizens.",
"a vast expanse of land",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"With its vast supply of artillery, armor and troops, Russia now has an edge, experts say. \u2014 John Bacon, USA TODAY , 24 June 2022",
"The Commonwealth\u2019s member states range from vast India to tiny Tuvalu. \u2014 Ignatius Ssuuna, ajc , 24 June 2022",
"With a vast number of sizes, forms, and colors, annuals often bloom from spring to frost for a season-long show. \u2014 Arricca Sansone, Country Living , 24 June 2022",
"Judd was inspired by the landscape \u2014 the vast openness of the nearly mile-high plain in the Chihuahuan Desert \u2014 and was able to manifest his idea to create public large-scale permanent art installations. \u2014 Anna Mazurek, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"The relatively sudden elimination of the dinosaurs created a vast ecological niche, and that niche was filled by tiny, furry creatures who\u2019d fled and hidden from their saurian overlords. \u2014 Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor , 23 June 2022",
"Since last month, the German government has been rapidly pumping fuel into the vast underground site in Rehden, hoping to fill it in time for the winter, when demand for gas surges to heat homes and businesses. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022",
"Motorists would cruise the mall\u2019s vast parking lots searching for a rare empty spot during the busy holiday seasons. \u2014 Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
"Though Congress clarified the law in 2018 to allow for research funding, there remains a vast gap of data never collected. \u2014 Asheley Van Ness, Scientific American , 23 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"These technologies will make the resulting image-continuum vast . \u2014 Rashed Haq, Wired , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Furthermore, it could be easily scaled up, thereby opening vasts swaths of the universe to observation without the hefty price tag associated with building large, solid telescopes. \u2014 Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED , 11 June 2019",
"That is a more ticklish argument: the obstruction laws are complicated and the ambit of presidential power vast . \u2014 The Economist , 7 June 2018",
"As a Cold War-era child who did drop-and-cover nuclear-attack drills under my desk, I\u2019d been ingrained with ominous, gray images of Soviet military tanks rolling through the vast cobbled landmark. \u2014 Norma Meyer, sandiegouniontribune.com , 20 Sep. 2017",
"Near Potsdam, and a stone\u2019s throw from the breathtaking gardens of Sanssouci Palace, lies Templiner See: Vast and choppy, there\u2019s a seaside holiday vibe in the air. \u2014 Alexandra Pereira, CNT , 9 Aug. 2017",
"A clatter of gunshots suggested the worst The Brillante was built like two rectangles joined at a right angle: one vast , flat, hollow shape that held the liquid cargo, and one smaller, upright stack that contained mechanical systems and crew spaces. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 27 July 2017",
"Vast and growing databases compiled for commerce and policing are also for sale to politicians and their strategists, who can now know more about you than your spouse or parents. \u2014 Nina Burleigh, Newsweek , 8 June 2017",
"Vast sums must be invested to build refineries and smelters to turn that ore into metal. \u2014 James R. Hagerty, WSJ , 10 Mar. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1585, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1604, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin v\u0101stus or vastus \"devoid of habitation, desolate, dreary,\" also, \"of great size, immense,\" probably in part continuing Indo-European *h 1 u\u032feh 2 -sto- (whence Old High German wuosti \"empty, deserted,\" Old English w\u0113ste , Old Irish f\u00e1s ), in part conflated with another base *wast- of uncertain origin":"Adjective",
"noun derivative of vast entry 1 , perhaps by analogy with deep entry 1 , deep entry 3":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vast"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vast Adjective enormous , immense , huge , vast , gigantic , colossal , mammoth mean exceedingly large. enormous and immense both suggest an exceeding of all ordinary bounds in size or amount or degree, but enormous often adds an implication of abnormality or monstrousness. an enormous expense an immense shopping mall huge commonly suggests an immensity of bulk or amount. incurred a huge debt vast usually suggests immensity of extent. the vast Russian steppes gigantic stresses the contrast with the size of others of the same kind. a gigantic sports stadium colossal applies especially to a human creation of stupendous or incredible dimensions. a colossal statue of Lincoln mammoth suggests both hugeness and ponderousness of bulk. a mammoth boulder",
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"mega",
"mighty",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"oceanic",
"pharaonic",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersize",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071728",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"vastly":{
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"somewhat"
],
"definitions":{
": to a very great or vast degree or extent : exceedingly":[
"two people with vastly different tastes",
"a vastly more powerful bomb",
"But bluff and bravado \u2026 won against potential enemies who vastly outnumbered him.",
"\u2014 David Gilmour",
"It was the most eclectic\u2014yet also vastly entertaining\u2014evening of dance I have seen in a long time.",
"\u2014 Rita Felciano"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Analysts have said a call-up of reservists by Russia could vastly alter the balance in the war but could also come with political consequences for President Vladimir Putin\u2019s government. \u2014 Yuras Karmanau, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"When Tesla awarded Elon Musk a multibillion-dollar pay package in 2018, the landmark deal helped to vastly increase the potential compensation of the chief executives at many of America\u2019s biggest public companies. \u2014 New York Times , 25 June 2022",
"The jobless rate is historically low and the number of job openings is vastly higher than the number of people searching for work. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"Three floors below at the hospital, 15-year-old Anastasia Pryhoda describes a vastly different experience, and a precocious ability to cope. \u2014 Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 June 2022",
"The vastly different experiences illustrate the unintended consequences of a $178 billion bailout that Congress dumped into the national health-care system at the start of the pandemic in an urgent attempt to keep hospitals and doctors afloat. \u2014 Christopher Rowland, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"The once over-the-top criticisms over the prequels have vastly subsided, and the films are now largely enjoyed by fans. \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
"And Tesla EVs are vastly more expensive on average. \u2014 Jon Markman, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"These Avs are vastly superior to the 2020 Dallas Stars and the 2021 Canadiens, the teams the Lightning beat to win their last two Stanley Cups. \u2014 Michael Arace, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1598, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vast-l\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"achingly",
"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
"badly",
"beastly",
"blisteringly",
"bone",
"colossally",
"corking",
"cracking",
"damn",
"damned",
"dang",
"deadly",
"desperately",
"eminently",
"enormously",
"especially",
"ever",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extra",
"extremely",
"fabulously",
"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"stinking",
"such",
"super",
"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172217",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"vasty":{
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"midget",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pocket",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee"
],
"definitions":{
": vast":[
"call spirits from the vasty deep",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
]
},
"examples":[
"the days when intrepid explorers sailed the vasty deep in small vessels",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But in room after room, the vasty majority of the objects were mute and meaningless, and only those that somehow referenced other periods of crisis spoke with clarity. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Oct. 2020",
"The Globe reports that Breggin spent most of Monday morning painting a vasty different picture of Carter than the one presented by prosecutors last week. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 12 June 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1596, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"vast entry 1 + -y entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8va-st\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"mega",
"mighty",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"oceanic",
"pharaonic",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersize",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204853",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"vaticinate":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": prophesy , predict":[]
},
"examples":[
"if he could really vaticinate the course of the stock market, he'd be rich enough to own Manhattan"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1623, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin v\u0101ticin\u0101tus , past participle of v\u0101ticin\u0101r\u012b \"to make divinely inspired predictions, prophesy, warn,\" verbal derivative of *v\u0101ticinium \"act of prophesying,\" from v\u0101t\u0113s \"prophet, seer\" + canere \"to sing, chant, utter\" + -ium , deverbal noun suffix \u2014 more at vatic , chant entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"va-",
"v\u0259-\u02c8ti-s\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"augur",
"call",
"forecast",
"foretell",
"predict",
"presage",
"prognosticate",
"prophesy",
"read"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095759",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"vaticination":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": prediction":[],
": the act of prophesying":[]
},
"examples":[
"the myopic prewar vaticinations that the conflict would be brief and relatively painless"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1603, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin v\u0101ticin\u0101ti\u014dn-, v\u0101ticin\u0101ti\u014d , from v\u0101ticin\u0101r\u012b \"to make divinely inspired predictions, prophesy\" + -ti\u014dn-, ti\u014d deverbal noun suffix \u2014 more at vaticinate":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"va-",
"v\u0259-\u02ccti-s\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"auguring",
"augury",
"bodement",
"cast",
"forecast",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"prediction",
"presaging",
"prognosis",
"prognostic",
"prognosticating",
"prognostication",
"prophecy",
"prophesy",
"soothsaying"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234710",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vault":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a burial chamber":[],
": a prefabricated container usually of metal or concrete into which a casket is placed at burial":[],
": a room or compartment for the safekeeping of valuables":[],
": an act of vaulting : leap":[],
": an arched or dome-shaped anatomical structure":[
"the cranial vault"
],
": an arched structure of masonry usually forming a ceiling or roof":[],
": an underground storage compartment":[],
": something (such as the sky) resembling a vault":[],
": to do or achieve something as if by a leap":[
"vaulted to sudden prominence"
],
": to form or cover with or as if with a vault : arch":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1538, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1576, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English vaute, voute , borrowed from Anglo-French voute, volte , going back to Vulgar Latin *volvita \"turn, arched structure,\" noun derivative from feminine of *volvitus , re-formation of Latin vol\u016btus , past participle of volvere \"to travel (a circular course), bring round, roll\" \u2014 more at wallow entry 1":"Noun",
"Middle English vowten , borrowed from Anglo-French vouter , verbal derivative of voute vault entry 1":"Verb",
"noun derivative of vault entry 3":"Noun",
"probably borrowed from Middle French vouster \"to turn about (on horseback), wheel, prance,\" going back to Vulgar Latin *volvit\u0101re , frequentative of Latin volvere \"to travel (a circular course), bring round, roll\" \u2014 more at wallow entry 1":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u022flt",
"\u02c8v\u022flt, chiefly British \u02c8v\u00e4lt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031832",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"vaunt":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a bragging assertive statement":[],
": a vainglorious display of what one is or has or has done":[],
": to call attention to pridefully and often boastfully":[
"people who vaunt their ingenuity"
],
": to make a vain display of one's own worth or attainments : brag":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"even the noblest of fellows have been known to vaunt a bit",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Regardless of what Garoppolo does, the 49ers\u2019 defense has to re- vaunt itself. \u2014 Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com , 20 Sep. 2020",
"Only in later years was Ms. Rol-Tanguy vaunted for her role in the Allied liberation of France in August 1944. \u2014 Phil Davison, BostonGlobe.com , 13 May 2020",
"The new effort will not have access to Sanders\u2019s vaunted e-mail list, Weaver said. \u2014 Shane Goldmacher, BostonGlobe.com , 28 Apr. 2020",
"Quarterback Kyler Murray had a promising rookie season, and Arizona had to continue to protect its investment against the 49ers vaunted defensive line. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, azcentral , 27 Apr. 2020",
"Paradoxically, the Valley\u2019s vaunted commitment to transparency and social change gets in the way of perceiving its actual social effects. \u2014 Ismail Muhammad, The Atlantic , 8 Feb. 2020",
"Despite the technology\u2019s vaunted promises, there are still many tasks \u2013 even technical ones \u2013 that humans do better. \u2014 Kevin O\u2019kelly, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 Apr. 2020",
"One of France\u2019s vaunted high-speed trains derailed Thursday morning on a trip to Paris, injuring 21 people including the driver, officials said. \u2014 USA TODAY , 6 Mar. 2020",
"This stat also highlights the shortcomings of Michigan\u2019s vaunted receiving corps, a group that accounted for 22 drops. \u2014 Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press , 28 Jan. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Perhaps the Huskers\u2019 new hire can have a similar effect and vaunt Nebraska back into his top group. \u2014 Chris Bumbaca, ajc , 1 Dec. 2017",
"French bank lobby vaunts Macron reforms in annual conference Prime Minister Philippe offers tax cuts to woo London bankers France\u2019s financial lobby insists the battle for post-Brexit banking jobs isn\u2019t over. \u2014 Fabio Benedetti Valentini, Bloomberg.com , 11 July 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English vaunten \"to speak vainly, boast,\" borrowed from Anglo-French vanter, vaunter , going back to Late Latin v\u0101nit\u0101re (only in participial forms v\u0101nitant\u0113s, v\u0101nitantia ), frequentative derivative of *v\u0101n\u0101re \"to make a vain display,\" derivative of Latin v\u0101nus \"lacking content, empty, illusory, marked by foolish or empty pride\" \u2014 more at wane entry 1":"Verb",
"Middle English, probably aphetic form of avaunt \"boast,\" noun derivative of avaunten \"to boast, brag,\" borrowed from Anglo-French avanter \"to boast about,\" from a- , prefix in transitive verbs (going back to Latin ad- ) + vanter \"to boast\" \u2014 more at ad- , vaunt entry 1":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u00e4nt",
"\u02c8v\u022fnt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vaunt Verb boast , brag , vaunt , crow mean to express pride in oneself or one's accomplishments. boast often suggests ostentation and exaggeration boasts of every trivial success , but it may imply a claiming with proper and justifiable pride. the town boasts one of the best museums in the area brag suggests crudity and artlessness in glorifying oneself. bragging of their exploits vaunt usually connotes more pomp and bombast than boast and less crudity or na\u00efvet\u00e9 than brag . vaunted his country's military might crow usually implies exultant boasting or bragging. crowed after winning the championship",
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"boast",
"brag",
"bull",
"crow",
"gasconade",
"swagger",
"vapor"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162001",
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
}
}
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