dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/nix_MW.json
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{
"nix":{
"antonyms":[
"allow",
"concede",
"grant",
"let",
"OK",
"okay",
"permit"
],
"definitions":{
": a water sprite of Germanic folklore":[],
": no":[
"\u2014 used to express disagreement or the withholding of permission \u2014 often used with on they said nix on our plan"
],
": nothing":[
"There's a whole day's work for nix ."
],
": to refuse to accept or allow (something) : veto , reject":[
"The court nixed the merger.",
"Many of Paris's newest hangouts are nixing gilded French style in favor of white walls, psychedelia and menus of tuna carpaccio and Parmesan-arugula salad.",
"\u2014 Jane Sigal",
"Prince has cited artistic factors for nixing the reunion.",
"\u2014 Chris Willman"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"our supervisor nixed my request to work from home, if only on a trial basis",
"movie audiences have effectively nixed the idea of the reviving the old-fashioned western by emphatically ignoring this latest effort"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1789, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1833, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1862, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"circa 1903, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"German nichts nothing":"Noun , Verb, and Adverb",
"German, from Old High German nihhus ; akin to Old English nicor water monster and perhaps to Greek nizein to wash":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8niks"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"decline",
"deny",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"negative",
"refuse",
"reject",
"reprobate",
"withhold"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114411",
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"nixtamal":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": limed kernels of corn that is ready to be ground into masa":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccn\u0113sht\u0259\u02c8m\u00e4l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl, from nextli ashes + tamalli tamale":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-175228"
},
"Nixon":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"Richard Milhous 1913\u20131994 American politician; vice president of the U.S. (1953\u201361); 37th president of the U.S. (1969\u201374)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8nik-s\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-214009"
},
"nixie":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": nix entry 4":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8nik-s\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"German Nixe female nix, from Old High German nichessa , feminine of nihhus nix":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1816, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-214344"
}
}