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{
"HOV":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"high-occupancy vehicle":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114958",
"type":[
"abbreviation"
]
},
"Hobart":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Garret Augustus 1844\u20131899 American politician; vice president of the U.S. (1897\u201399)":[],
"city and port in Australia; capital of Tasmania population 170,975":[],
"city in the northwestern corner of Indiana population 29,059":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014d-\u02ccb\u00e4rt",
"-b\u0259rt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183310",
"type":[
"biographical name",
"geographical name"
]
},
"Hobbema":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"1638\u20131709 Dutch painter"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4-b\u0259-m\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-053444",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Hobbism":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1691, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4-\u02ccbi-z\u0259m"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111850",
"type":[
"noun",
"noun or adjective"
]
},
"Hofmann reaction":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the conversion of an acid amide RCONH 2 to an amine RNH 2 with one less carbon atom by treatment with sodium hypobromite":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"after August Wilhelm von Hofmann \u20201892 German chemist":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125729",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Hofmannsthal":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Hugo von 1874\u20131929 Austrian poet and dramatist"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4f-m\u0259nz-\u02cct\u00e4l",
"\u02c8h\u022ff-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-072547",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Holectypina":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a suborder of extinct sea urchins (order Exocycloida) having a central peristome, an excentric periproct, an Aristotle's lantern, and nonpetaloid ambulacra and found in Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Eocene strata":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Holectypus , genus of sea urchins (from hol- + Greek ektypos worked in relief) + -ina":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u014d\u02cclekt\u0259\u02c8p\u012bn\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113505",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"Holgu\u00edn":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"city in the plateau region of eastern Cuba population 286,000":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"(h)\u022fl-\u02c8g\u0113n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-120240",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Holi":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
": a Hindu spring festival characterized by boisterous and usually ribald revelry including especially the throwing of colored water and powder"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Hindi hol\u012b , from Sanskrit holik\u0101"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dl\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-042126",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Holston":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"river 140 miles (225 kilometers) long in eastern Tennessee flowing southwest to unite with the French Broad River forming the Tennessee River":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dl-st\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135053",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Holt":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
": a small woods : copse",
"Harold Edward 1908\u20131967 Australian politician; prime minister (1966\u201367)",
"Luther Emmett 1855\u20131924 American pediatrician"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German holz wood, Greek klados twig"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dlt",
"\u02c8h\u014dlt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-115840",
"type":[
"biographical name ()",
"noun"
]
},
"Holy Week":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the week before Easter during which the last days of Christ's life are commemorated":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1710, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181753",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Holy Writ":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a writing or utterance having unquestionable authority":[
"its financial precepts were not necessarily Holy Writ",
"\u2014 Herbert Stein"
],
": bible sense 1":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"Bible",
"Book",
"Good Book",
"Scripture"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054937",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Holy Year":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a Roman Catholic jubilee year":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1699, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092059",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Homeria":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a genus of southern African herbs (family Iridaceae) that resemble tulips and are sometimes poisonous to cattle \u2014 see cape tulip":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Homer , Greek poet + New Latin -ia":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u014d\u02c8mir\u0113\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140834",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Homerian":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": homeric":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1717, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Homer + English -ian":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u014d\u02c8mir\u0113\u0259n",
"-m\u0113r-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200823",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"Homeric":{
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"unheroic",
"unimposing",
"unimpressive"
],
"definitions":{
": of epic proportions : heroic":[
"Homeric feats"
],
": of, relating to, or characteristic of the Greek poet Homer , his age, or his writings":[]
},
"examples":[
"the climactic scene of the movie is a pitched battle of Homeric proportions"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u014d-\u02c8mer-ik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"august",
"baronial",
"epic",
"gallant",
"glorious",
"grand",
"grandiose",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"imperial",
"imposing",
"magnific",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"massive",
"monumental",
"noble",
"proud",
"regal",
"royal",
"splendid",
"stately"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034750",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"Homeric simile":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": epic simile":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085820",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Homerican":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": homeric":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1678, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin Homeric us + English -an":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-r\u0259\u0307k\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101349",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"Homerist":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a specialist in Homer and his epics":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1695, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dm\u0259r\u0259\u0307st"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064344",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Homerologist":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a specialist in Homerology":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1890, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u014dm\u0259\u02c8r\u00e4l\u0259j\u0259\u0307st"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125531",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Hoosac Mountains":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"mountain range in northwestern Massachusetts and southwestern Vermont, a southern extension of the Green Mountains"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00fc-s\u0259k"
],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-093201",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Hoosac Tunnel":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"railroad tunnel through the Hoosac Mountains in western Massachusetts 4.75 miles (7.6 kilometers) long; opened in 1875 after 24 years of work":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115916",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Hopcalite":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4pk\u0259\u02ccl\u012bt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101547",
"type":[
"trademark"
]
},
"Hope":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": someone or something on which hopes are centered":[
"our only hope for victory"
],
": something desired or hoped for":[
"great hopes for the coming year"
],
": to cherish a desire with anticipation : to want something to happen or be true":[
"hopes for a promotion",
"hoping for the best",
"I hope so."
],
": to desire with expectation of obtainment or fulfillment":[
"I hope she remembers.",
"hopes to be invited"
],
": to expect with confidence : trust":[
"Your mother is doing well, I hope ."
],
": to hope without any basis for expecting fulfillment":[],
": trust":[],
": trust , reliance":[],
"Anthony \u2014 see Sir Anthony Hope hawkins":[],
"Bob 1903\u20132003 originally Leslie Townes Hope American (British-born) comedian":[],
"British soldier; viceroy of India (1936\u201343)":[
"Linlithgow \\ lin-\u200b\u02c8lith-\u200b(\u02cc)g\u014d \\"
],
"Victor Alexander John 1887\u20131951 2nd Marquis of":[
"Linlithgow \\ lin-\u200b\u02c8lith-\u200b(\u02cc)g\u014d \\"
],
"city in southwestern Arkansas that was the childhood home of President Bill Clinton population 10,095":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"No one knows yet if anyone survived the crash. At this point, we can only hope .",
"I hope you're feeling better soon.",
"That's what she hoped would happen.",
"Let's hope that the strike ends soon.",
"I hope I haven't bored you.",
"Everyone in your family is well, I hope .",
"Noun",
"When they started their life together, they were young and full of hope .",
"Rescuers have not yet abandoned hope that more survivors will be found.",
"The drug has brought hope to thousands of sufferers.",
"We allowed ourselves to entertain hopes that the crisis would end soon.",
"The goal raised the hopes of the team.",
"The hope is that there will be a settlement soon.",
"The lawyers do not want to raise false hopes of an early settlement.",
"He told them the truth with the hope that they would understand.",
"He had little hope of attending college.",
"The latest reports hold out hope for a possible end to this crisis.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"TyTy Washington will hope to follow in the footsteps of several fellow recent Kentucky basketball alums after sliding in the NBA draft Thursday. \u2014 Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal , 24 June 2022",
"Dinwiddie\u2019s recent campaign will be what decision makers hope can happen to Warren. \u2014 Tony East, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"The network, which connects the University of Chicago with Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, is a rudimentary version of what scientists hope someday to become the internet of the future. \u2014 Robert Mccoppin, Chicago Tribune , 18 June 2022",
"What gives you hope for the future of our fight against COVID? \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 18 June 2022",
"The organizers also hope to use their platform to highlight other key issues impacting communities of color. \u2014 Tat Bellamy-walker, NBC News , 15 June 2022",
"Higher spending on energy could, some economists hope , deplete demand in other sectors, allowing for other price pressures to ease. \u2014 Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News , 11 June 2022",
"Officials hope the shelter will be more than a place to escape the heat, though. \u2014 Haleigh Kochanski, The Arizona Republic , 9 June 2022",
"Lets hope their shooting is as bad as their pronunciation !!!!!! \u2014 Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The leaker\u2019s purpose seems obvious: a last-ditch effort to mobilize public opinion and activist protesters in hope of intimidating the justices into rethinking their position. \u2014 David B. Rivkin Jr. And Jennifer L. Mascott, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
"Inside is a baby girl who was thrown from the train by her Jewish father \u2013 whose wife no longer has enough milk to feed both his twins \u2013 in the hope of saving them both. \u2014 Lise Pedersen, Variety , 18 June 2022",
"So, with tension mounting, workers lined the long walkway with their bags packed as the quartet of office golfers gathered at one end in the hope of sinking the carpet putt of the century! \u2014 Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY , 16 June 2022",
"Alamo, which emerged from Chapter 11 in June, has continued to retool its business in the hope more movies will come from the major studios as the pandemic eases, even as the traditional theatrical window shortens. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
"Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi conducted a tour of the Pacific islands last month in the hope of securing a sweeping regional trade and security pact, but the island nations were unable to reach a consensus on a deal. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 13 June 2022",
"China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi conducted a tour of the Pacific islands last month in the hope of securing a sweeping regional trade and security pact, but the island nations were unable to reach a consensus on a deal. \u2014 Reuters, CNN , 12 June 2022",
"Maverick production in the hope of appearing in the sequel. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"Issues began when venue staff started letting fans into the venue a few hours before the show started and the first 100 to 200 fans allowed in ran towards the stage, in the hope of getting a spot close to the barricade. \u2014 Dave Brooks, Billboard , 8 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English hopian ; akin to Middle High German hoffen to hope":"Verb and Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dp"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for hope Verb expect , hope , look mean to await some occurrence or outcome. expect implies a high degree of certainty and usually involves the idea of preparing or envisioning. expects to be finished by Tuesday hope implies little certainty but suggests confidence or assurance in the possibility that what one desires or longs for will happen. hopes to find a job soon look , with to , implies assurance that expectations will be fulfilled looks to a tidy profit from the sale ; with for it implies less assurance and suggests an attitude of expectancy and watchfulness. look for rain when the wind shifts to the northeast",
"synonyms":[
"anticipate",
"await",
"expect",
"watch (for)"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-045115",
"type":[
"biographical name",
"geographical name",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"Hopea":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a genus of tropical trees (family Dipterocarpaceae) with simple leaves, usually fragrant flowers with one-sided spikes or racemes, and often hard heavy wood \u2014 compare merawan":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, after John Hope \u20201786 Scottish physician and botanist":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dp\u0113\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235547",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Horsens":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"city and port on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark population 86,377":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-s\u1d4an(t)s",
"\u02c8h\u022fr-s\u1d4anz"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114031",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Hostimella":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a form genus of fossil plants based on naked sporangia that are now commonly believed to be the fruiting structures of plants of the genus Asteroxylon":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Hostim , Czechoslovakia, its locality + New Latin -ella":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u00e4st\u0259\u02c8mel\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082010",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Hova":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a member of such people \u2014 compare malagasy":[],
": the dominant native people of central Madagascar":[],
": the language of the Hova people":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dv\u0259",
"\u02c8h\u00fcv"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202206",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Hove":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"town on the English Channel in East Sussex, southern England population 82,500":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dv"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064939",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Hovenia":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a genus of Asiatic trees or shrubs (family Rhamnaceae) having alternate serrate leaves, small greenish flowers, and indehiscent fruit":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from David ten Hove \u20201787 Dutch senator + connective -n- + New Latin -ia":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u014d\u02c8v\u0113n\u0113\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181057",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Hovenweep National Monument":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"site of prehistoric pueblos and cliff dwellings in southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014d-v\u0259n-\u02ccw\u0113p"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-051204",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Howard":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Catherine \u2014 see catherine":[],
"Henry 1517?\u20131547 Earl of Surrey English soldier and poet":[],
"John Winston 1939\u2013 prime minister of Australia (1996\u20132007)":[],
"Oliver Otis 1830\u20131909 American general and educator":[],
"Sidney Coe 1891\u20131939 American dramatist":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hau\u0307(-\u0259)rd"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005545",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Howe truss":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a truss having vertical and diagonal members between the upper and lower horizontal members":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"after William Howe \u20201852 American inventor":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hau\u0307-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-045907",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Howell":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a duplicate game conducted by the Howell system":[],
": a game of duplicate bridge in which match-point scoring is used":[],
": howell system":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"after E. C. Howell \u20201907 American journalist and whist expert":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hau\u0307(\u0259)l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133735",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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": a method of conducting a game of duplicate bridge or whist so that each pair plays one set of boards against each other pair \u2014 compare mitchell movement":[]
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"William Dean 1837\u20131920 American author"
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"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
],
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],
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"a ho-hum existence"
]
},
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"1924, in the meaning defined above":"Interjection",
"1969, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
},
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},
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"\u02c8h\u014d-\u02c8h\u0259m"
],
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"arid",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"interjection"
]
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"frost",
"hoarfrost",
"rime"
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": hoary":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"the hoar and crumbling stones of ruined temples",
"Noun",
"the hoar -covered meadow gleamed in the early-morning sun",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The hoar frost made the trees sparkle as though Earthquake Park were contained in a snow globe. \u2014 Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Jan. 2022",
"Furthermore, the clear conditions preceding the storm could have led to the formation of a layer of light, feathery frost, known as surface hoar . \u2014 Douglas Preston, The New Yorker , 10 May 2021"
],
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"1567, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
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"Middle English hor , from Old English h\u0101r ; akin to Old High German h\u0113r hoary":"Adjective",
"Middle English hor hoariness, from hor , adjective":"Noun"
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"\u02c8h\u022fr"
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"age-old",
"aged",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"antique",
"dateless",
"hoary",
"immemorial",
"old",
"venerable"
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"type":[
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"noun"
]
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"cache",
"lay away",
"lay by",
"lay in",
"lay up",
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"salt away",
"squirrel (away)",
"stash",
"stockpile",
"store",
"stow",
"treasure"
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"hoarding food"
],
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"\u2014 Virginia Woolf",
"the people outside disperse their affections, you hoard yours, you nurse them into intensity",
"\u2014 Joseph Conrad"
]
},
"examples":[
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"a squirrel's hoard of nuts",
"keeps a hoard of empty yogurt containers in his basement workshop for storing whatnots",
"Verb",
"he's been hoarding empty yogurt containers all winter, with the intention of using them to start seedlings in the spring",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But upon its return, Toyota didn\u2019t engineer its own car, despite being the largest automaker in the world and possessing a large enough cash hoard to fund it. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 11 June 2022",
"Stevie can do a hoard of manual chores such as making deliveries or picking up a list of items in a hospital. \u2014 Naveen Joshi, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Earlier this year, a badger in northwest Spain made headlines after digging up a hoard of more than 90 ancient coins, as Jack Guy reported for CNN in January. \u2014 Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 May 2022",
"No conversation on economics is possible without someone boasting about how large their nation's hoard of foreign currency is. \u2014 Vasuki Shastry, Fortune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Most of the hoard has vanished into private hands, a terrible loss to history. \u2014 Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Now, with its cash hoard shrinking, Credito Real faces a moment of truth. \u2014 Sydney Maki, Bloomberg.com , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Few of its hoard of Gauguins, Van Goghs, C\u00e9zannes, Renoirs, and Monets have traveled. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022",
"The Bank of Russia has kept 22% of its hoard in gold, most of which is held domestically and would be out of reach of Western sanctions, while about 13% of the central bank's holdings are in yuan, according to the latest data. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Humans are not designed to hoard a lot of information for retrieval at an undetermined time in the future. \u2014 David James, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Another threat to global supplies, experts say, is that countries will hoard their own food stocks. \u2014 New York Times , 24 May 2022",
"In 2021, merchants began to hoard stuff like sugar, flour, and cooking gas cylinders. \u2014 Quartz , 3 May 2022",
"And cities like Boston hoard not just money and jobs, but influence. \u2014 Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022",
"Unlike the dragons of European myth, these do not hoard treasure, cannot breathe fire, and, lacking wings, cannot fly. \u2014 Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
"Beijing officials refuted claims of an impending lockdown on Thursday and urged the public not to hoard food, asserting there were enough supplies available. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 13 May 2022",
"Abused dogs will sometimes resource- hoard their water. \u2014 Gene Weingarten, Washington Post , 8 Nov. 2021",
"People who have survived extreme food shortages will sometimes emerge from the experience with the impulse to hoard food. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022"
],
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"1757, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English hord , from Old English; akin to Goth huzd treasure, Old English h\u0233dan to hide":"Noun and Verb"
},
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"\u02c8h\u022frd"
],
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"cache",
"stash",
"stockpile",
"store"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172931",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hoarfrost":{
"antonyms":[],
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": frost sense 1b":[]
},
"examples":[
"the hoarfrost formed a delicate swirly pattern on the window",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Nearby, hoarfrost shimmered on hemlock branches, a bear cub peered out from a hole in the snow, and a sudden, terrifying silence echoed in the ears of the man\u2019s ski partners. \u2014 Caroline Van Hemert, Outside Online , 11 Aug. 2021",
"The hoarfrost in the subzero temperatures lifted a clean, white layer into the air that sparkled in the low sun. \u2014 Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News , 28 Dec. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8h\u022fr-\u02ccfr\u022fst"
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"frost",
"hoar",
"rime"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024843",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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": having a hoarse voice":[
"shouted himself hoarse"
],
": rough or harsh in sound : grating":[
"a hoarse voice"
]
},
"examples":[
"She could only speak in a hoarse whisper.",
"The cold made me a little hoarse .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Suddenly, what had been her sweet, warm voice turned hoarse and cold. \u2014 Souvankham Thammavongsa, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"His voice was hoarse and Maxey jumped back in his seat. \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
"Van Gundy and fellow analyst Mark Jackson had worked alongside Breen throughout the series, though Van Gundy's voice sounded hoarse during Game 7 and appeared to get progressively worse as the broadcast wore on. \u2014 Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"In a welcomed welcome for Melvin, Padres fans hollered themselves hoarse from the start. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Both have distinctive hoarse voices, great hair and a flair for self-aggrandizing themselves as the saviors of their profession. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Shouting so much, his voice is hoarse after every game, needing Throat Coat to recover. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Other croup symptoms include a hoarse voice, throat pain and stridor\u2014a creaking rattle when a child inhales. \u2014 Joanna Thompson, Scientific American , 3 Feb. 2022",
"An allergic reaction can include the following symptoms: skin rash, hoarse voice, shortness of breath, cough, itchy mouth or throat, swollen lips, tongue or eyelids, lightheadedness, abdominal pain, or vomiting. \u2014 Serena Coady, SELF , 23 Mar. 2022"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English hos, hors , probably from Old Norse *h\u0101rs, h\u0101ss ; akin to Old English h\u0101s hoarse, Old High German heis":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u014d(\u0259)rs, \u02c8h\u022f(\u0259)rs",
"\u02c8h\u022frs"
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"coarse",
"croaking",
"croaky",
"grating",
"gravel",
"gravelly",
"gruff",
"husky",
"rasping",
"raspy",
"rusty",
"scratchy",
"throaty"
],
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"modern",
"new",
"recent"
],
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": extremely old : ancient":[
"hoary legends"
],
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"bowed his hoary head"
]
},
"examples":[
"a hoary tale of revenge",
"He bowed his hoary head.",
"a man hoary with age",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The hoary old zombie drama has killed off perhaps the best character ever in this show\u2019s entire eleven-year run. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"But Feldstein doesn\u2019t quite have the theatrical confidence to convince us that this hoary music hall business could really kill. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Many who voted for M\u00e9lenchon have no use for his broad-brushed and hoary anticapitalist nostrums. \u2014 Arthur Goldhammer, The New Republic , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Three redpoll species are currently recognized: common, hoary , and lesser (a Eurasian species). \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 Feb. 2022",
"It was named Summit Lake, and then Alta Lake, and eventually Whistler because of the whistle sound made by its hoary marmots, a big squirrel-like animal. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 14 Mar. 2022",
"What at one point in Allen\u2019s long career may have felt clever and innovative simply comes off like a hoary device to pad an undernourished story. \u2014 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Another fanciful theory blames French monarch Charles V. American newspapers of the late 19th and early 20th century loved to trot out this hoary tale. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Dec. 2021",
"What is clear is that warnings like this do little aside from perpetuate a hoary and exploded myth, and seem to generate little more than derision from the public. \u2014 Chris Roberts, Forbes , 31 Oct. 2021"
],
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"1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u022fr-\u0113"
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"aged",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"antique",
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"hoar",
"immemorial",
"old",
"venerable"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235331",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forgery",
"humbug",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
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": an act intended to trick or dupe : imposture":[
"the victim of a cruel hoax",
"assumed the bomb threat was just a hoax"
],
": something accepted or established by fraud or fabrication":[
"believes the Loch Ness Monster is a hoax",
"a literary hoax"
],
": to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous":[
"were hoaxed by the website"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"a skilled forger who hoaxed the art world into believing that the paintings were long-lost Vermeers",
"Noun",
"The bomb threat is probably a hoax , but we should still evacuate the building.",
"She was the victim of a cruel hoax .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"After trying to hoax journalists with Project Veritas, Loomer moved to direct confrontations with public figures in recent years, disrupting interviews and news conferences. \u2014 Terry Spencer, sun-sentinel.com , 19 Aug. 2020",
"After trying to hoax journalists with Project Veritas, Loomer moved to direct confrontations with public figures in recent years, disrupting interviews and news conferences. \u2014 Terry Spencer, orlandosentinel.com , 19 Aug. 2020",
"False news articles were deliberately spread across our feeds to hoax us. \u2014 Joanna Stern, WSJ , 8 Nov. 2018",
"The effort, dubbed #ThinkBeforeYouPost, reminds would-be pranksters that hoax threats are not a joke and could result in federal or state charges. \u2014 Karen Kucher, sandiegouniontribune.com , 10 June 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Heard countersued Depp for $100 million over claims made by his lawyer that her accusations of abuse against Depp were a hoax . \u2014 Marisa Dellatto, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"The agents were legally cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in the incident, which critics said was a hoax \u2013 as the style of horsemanship utilizes split-reins, which are complementary to one-handed riding, to control the animals' movements. \u2014 Fox News , 16 June 2022",
"Depp has denied Heard\u2019s allegations and accused her of fabricating an elaborate hoax that destroyed his career. \u2014 Gene Maddaus, Variety , 27 May 2022",
"Instead, authorities found last month that Papini had been staying with an ex-boyfriend and received more than $30,000 in victim assistance money from the state as a result of what turned out to be an elaborate hoax , according to court documents. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Wu-Tang auctioned off the album, which was both lambasted as an elitist stunt-art hoax and embraced as a shrewd protest against digitization\u2019s erosion of music\u2019s value, for half that price in 2015. \u2014 Elias Leight, Rolling Stone , 20 Oct. 2021",
"And in September 2020, USA TODAY debunked an old hoax about thousands of giant skeletons being found and destroyed by the Smithsonian and the Vatican. \u2014 Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY , 14 Oct. 2021",
"In addition, the jury found that Depp, through his lawyer Adam Waldman, defamed Heard in one of three statements that called her accusations a hoax and awarded her $2 million. \u2014 Emily Yahr, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
"In evaluating Heard's counterclaims, jurors considered three statements by a lawyer for Depp who called her allegations a hoax . \u2014 Denise Lavoie, ajc , 2 June 2022"
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"1808, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"circa 1796, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
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"probably contraction of hocus":"Verb and Noun"
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"\u02c8h\u014dks"
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"bluff",
"buffalo",
"burn",
"catch",
"con",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fake out",
"fool",
"gaff",
"gammon",
"gull",
"have",
"have on",
"hoodwink",
"hornswoggle",
"humbug",
"juggle",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"snooker",
"snow",
"spoof",
"string along",
"suck in",
"sucker",
"take in",
"trick"
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"fake",
"forgery",
"humbug",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
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": an act intended to trick or dupe : imposture":[
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"a literary hoax"
],
": to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous":[
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]
},
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"Verb",
"a skilled forger who hoaxed the art world into believing that the paintings were long-lost Vermeers",
"Noun",
"The bomb threat is probably a hoax , but we should still evacuate the building.",
"She was the victim of a cruel hoax .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"After trying to hoax journalists with Project Veritas, Loomer moved to direct confrontations with public figures in recent years, disrupting interviews and news conferences. \u2014 Terry Spencer, sun-sentinel.com , 19 Aug. 2020",
"After trying to hoax journalists with Project Veritas, Loomer moved to direct confrontations with public figures in recent years, disrupting interviews and news conferences. \u2014 Terry Spencer, orlandosentinel.com , 19 Aug. 2020",
"False news articles were deliberately spread across our feeds to hoax us. \u2014 Joanna Stern, WSJ , 8 Nov. 2018",
"The effort, dubbed #ThinkBeforeYouPost, reminds would-be pranksters that hoax threats are not a joke and could result in federal or state charges. \u2014 Karen Kucher, sandiegouniontribune.com , 10 June 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Heard countersued Depp for $100 million over claims made by his lawyer that her accusations of abuse against Depp were a hoax . \u2014 Marisa Dellatto, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"The agents were legally cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in the incident, which critics said was a hoax \u2013 as the style of horsemanship utilizes split-reins, which are complementary to one-handed riding, to control the animals' movements. \u2014 Fox News , 16 June 2022",
"Depp has denied Heard\u2019s allegations and accused her of fabricating an elaborate hoax that destroyed his career. \u2014 Gene Maddaus, Variety , 27 May 2022",
"Instead, authorities found last month that Papini had been staying with an ex-boyfriend and received more than $30,000 in victim assistance money from the state as a result of what turned out to be an elaborate hoax , according to court documents. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Wu-Tang auctioned off the album, which was both lambasted as an elitist stunt-art hoax and embraced as a shrewd protest against digitization\u2019s erosion of music\u2019s value, for half that price in 2015. \u2014 Elias Leight, Rolling Stone , 20 Oct. 2021",
"And in September 2020, USA TODAY debunked an old hoax about thousands of giant skeletons being found and destroyed by the Smithsonian and the Vatican. \u2014 Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY , 14 Oct. 2021",
"In addition, the jury found that Depp, through his lawyer Adam Waldman, defamed Heard in one of three statements that called her accusations a hoax and awarded her $2 million. \u2014 Emily Yahr, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
"In evaluating Heard's counterclaims, jurors considered three statements by a lawyer for Depp who called her allegations a hoax . \u2014 Denise Lavoie, ajc , 2 June 2022"
],
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"1808, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"circa 1796, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
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"beguile",
"bluff",
"buffalo",
"burn",
"catch",
"con",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fake out",
"fool",
"gaff",
"gammon",
"gull",
"have",
"have on",
"hoodwink",
"hornswoggle",
"humbug",
"juggle",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"snooker",
"snow",
"spoof",
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"sucker",
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": a projection at the back or side of a fireplace on which something may be kept warm":[],
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"\u2014 used with play and raise always raising hob"
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": to furnish with hobnails":[]
},
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"1511, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1799, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
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"origin unknown":"Noun"
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],
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"devilishness",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"diablerie",
"espi\u00e8glerie",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"shenanigan(s)",
"waggery",
"waggishness",
"wickedness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060123",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": in a close and friendly relationship : in a warmly companionable relationship":[]
},
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"probably alteration of earlier hob or nob , alteration of hab or nab":"Interjection"
},
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"\"",
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],
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"interjection"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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"Definition of hobbadehoy archaic variant of hobbledehoy"
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"type":[]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": a pitched horseshoe or quoit leaning against a stake or peg without ringing it":[]
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4b\u0259(r)"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112936",
"type":[
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]
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"antonyms":[],
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": a stupid individual : dolt":[]
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"alteration of obsolete hoball , probably from hob entry 1":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4b\u0259\u0307l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112242",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hobbit":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a member of a fictitious peaceful and genial race of small humanlike creatures that dwell underground":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Take Airbnb, which has been known for renting out some of the world\u2019s wackiest properties, from UFO shuttles to above-ground submarines to real-life hobbit holes. \u2014 Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor , 23 June 2022",
"Long before Bilbo or Frodo's ancestors settled in the Shire, there were three types of hobbit predecessors: the Harfoots, the Stoors, and the Fallohides. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 14 June 2022",
"Memory is imperfect, as Forth explains in his book, and encounters with a modern-day hobbit can scare the willies out of anyone. \u2014 Rebecca Coffey, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"You're expected to just identify with an elf or a hobbit , but people can't identify in the same way with people of color. \u2014 Eva Recinos, refinery29.com , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, for instance, mapped the fantastical locations of Elven woods and hobbit homes throughout his imaginary Middle Earth. \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 Jan. 2022",
"For more than two decades, the actor Elijah Wood has kept a pair of hairy hobbit feet in the same box they were given to him in. \u2014 Carlos Aguilar, New York Times , 17 Dec. 2021",
"Thomas worried that a rogue elector -- without fear of penalty -- could vote for anyone, including a hobbit . \u2014 Ariane De Vogue, CNN , 21 Sep. 2021",
"After all, how does one follow up the biggest fantasy franchise of all time, which propelled him to global stardom as ring-bearing hobbit Frodo Baggins? \u2014 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY , 27 Aug. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1937, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"coined by J. R. R. Tolkien":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-b\u0259t"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031031",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"aid",
"assist",
"facilitate",
"help"
],
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": a hobbling movement":[],
": an awkward situation":[],
": something used to hobble an animal":[],
": to cause to limp : make lame : cripple":[],
": to fasten together the legs of (an animal, such as a horse) to prevent straying : fetter":[],
": to place under handicap : hamper , impede":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"She picked up her cane and hobbled across the room.",
"She is sometimes hobbled by self-doubt.",
"He has been hobbled by a knee injury.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Sergino Dest had to hobble off the Nef Stadium pitch on the 56th minute to be replaced by Ronald Araujo who filled in for him at right back. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022",
"But poor logistics and planning, and Ukraine\u2019s surprisingly fierce resistance, buoyed in part by weapons shipments from the West, have helped hobble the Russian leader\u2019s agenda. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Mar. 2022",
"But confusion over what exactly was happening in eastern Ukraine threatened to hobble a Western response. \u2014 Vladimir Isachenkov, orlandosentinel.com , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., and Jonathan Kanter, the nominee to run the Justice Department\u2019s antitrust division, have promised to hobble the power of the companies. \u2014 Cecilia Kang, New York Times , 9 Oct. 2021",
"Virtual connections can hobble the best of intentions with misunderstanding. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"Covid-19 outbreaks and lockdowns in China could hobble that country\u2019s economy, driving down global growth and demand for energy. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Europe in particular\u2014to do more to hobble Russia's energy sector. \u2014 Yvonne Lau, Fortune , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Many police officers, however, have said the law will hobble proactive policing and expose officers to financial ruin and hostile scrutiny from clueless review panels. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant , 17 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Through her years with Lil Hobbs, Kathryn has helped the dog with several health issues, including cataracts, arthritis, loose and fractured teeth, and permanent a hobble in the pup's walk. \u2014 People Staff, PEOPLE.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The hobble has straps that bind the ankles together, and can also attach to someone's waist. \u2014 Fox News , 21 Feb. 2022",
"The hobble has straps that bind the ankles together, and can also attach to someone's waist. \u2014 CBS News , 21 Feb. 2022",
"The department is replacing the hobble with a device that doesn't allow legs to be bent backwards. \u2014 NBC News , 24 May 2021",
"Another potential reason not to use the hobble was that the officers had called for paramedics. \u2014 Steve Karnowski, Star Tribune , 6 Apr. 2021",
"The woman was placed in a soft restraint hobble , which controls a person\u2019s ankles and can be connected to a waist chain or belt. \u2014 Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post , 17 July 2020",
"Aurora police policy states that using a hobble on someone increases the risk for medical complications, including positional asphyxia. \u2014 Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post , 17 July 2020",
"The officers then connected the hobble to the girl\u2019s handcuffs, forcing her into a sitting position, according to the lawsuit. \u2014 Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post , 10 Dec. 2019"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
"1726, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hoblen ; akin to Middle Dutch hobbelen to turn, roll":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8h\u00e4b-\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"clog",
"cramp",
"embarrass",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"handicap",
"hinder",
"hog-tie",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"shackle",
"short-circuit",
"stymie",
"tie up",
"trammel"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193825",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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": to attach hobbles to (as a horse) and allow to wander about especially in a pasture":[
"had hobbled out some horses not far from his cabin",
"\u2014 Ross Santee",
"and hobbled the animals out to graze",
"\u2014 Fred Gipson"
]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-132624",
"type":[
"transitive verb"
]
},
"hobblebush":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a white-flowered shrubby viburnum ( Vibernum alnifolium synonym V. lantanoides ) of eastern North America having serrate rounded leaves and red berries":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1818, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-b\u0259l-\u02ccbu\u0307sh"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220448",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an awkward gawky youth":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1540, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4-b\u0259l-di-\u02cch\u022fi"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182104",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hobby":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation":[
"Writing is just a hobby of his.",
"Her hobbies include gardening and bird-watching."
],
": a small Old World falcon ( Falco subbuteo ) that is dark blue above and white below with dark streaking on the breast":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1816, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hoby , from Anglo-French hobel, hob\u00e9":"Noun",
"short for hobbyhorse":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-b\u0113"
],
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"avocation",
"hobbyhorse",
"pursuit",
"recreation"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060325",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hobbyhorse":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a dancer wearing this figure":[],
": a figure of a horse fastened about the waist in the morris dance":[],
": a stick having an imitation horse's head at one end that a child pretends to ride":[],
": a topic to which one constantly reverts":[],
": a toy horse suspended by springs from a frame":[],
": buffoon":[],
": hobby entry 2":[],
": rocking horse":[]
},
"examples":[
"Once he gets on his hobbyhorse and starts talking about taxes, you can't get him to discuss anything else.",
"She's been riding that hobbyhorse for months.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Speculation about why this might be so tends to reflect the hobbyhorse of the speculator. \u2014 Zo\u00eb Heller, The New Yorker , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Donbas has served variously as a bargaining chip with Western powers, a cudgel to hold over them, a hobbyhorse for the home audience and an albatross. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Jan. 2022",
"In Finland, hobbyhorse riding, according to The Wall Street Journal, is a growing sport that involves young girls riding fake horses, made of cloth or plastic horse heads attached to sticks. \u2014 Eliza Huber, refinery29.com , 9 May 2021",
"She has been mentioned as a potential primary challenger in 2022 to Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader \u2014 an idea that is a particular hobbyhorse of Mr. Trump\u2019s. \u2014 Mark Leibovich, New York Times , 4 May 2020",
"There are also the hobbyhorses : school choice (pro), the mayor (con), bike lanes (rabidly averse), pervy teachers languishing in rubber rooms (averse to the point of obsession). \u2014 Sadie Stein, Town & Country , 30 May 2017",
"Girls have always loved horses, but in lieu of a real equine companion, maybe a hobbyhorse will do. \u2014 Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com , 19 Apr. 2018",
"But if the abolition of ICE becomes not just a left hobbyhorse but a core part of what progressives will ask of their candidates for 2020, that\u2019s going to be a harder choice for Democratic politicians to make. \u2014 Dara Lind, Vox , 19 Mar. 2018",
"The script by South African actress Le Clanch\u00e9 du Rand opens in a room with a hat rack, a couple of trunks, a hobbyhorse and the iconic wardrobe, portal to a land outside human time. \u2014 Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver , 9 Mar. 2018"
],
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"circa 1553, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"hobby small light horse, from Middle English hoby, hobyn , perhaps from Hobbin , nickname for Robert or Robin":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-b\u0113-\u02cch\u022frs"
],
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"avocation",
"hobby",
"pursuit",
"recreation"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082021",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hobbyist":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation":[
"Writing is just a hobby of his.",
"Her hobbies include gardening and bird-watching."
],
": a small Old World falcon ( Falco subbuteo ) that is dark blue above and white below with dark streaking on the breast":[]
},
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1816, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hoby , from Anglo-French hobel, hob\u00e9":"Noun",
"short for hobbyhorse":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-b\u0113"
],
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"avocation",
"hobbyhorse",
"pursuit",
"recreation"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020545",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hobgoblin":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a mischievous goblin":[],
": bogey sense 2 , bugaboo":[]
},
"examples":[
"intimidated by the hobgoblins of etiquette",
"in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream , Puck is a hobgoblin who plays pranks such as spoiling milk and tripping old ladies",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Evidently, consistency really is the hobgoblin of small minds\u2014the heirs to Scalia and Robert Bork don\u2019t bother themselves with it. \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 26 June 2022",
"Resistance is the hobgoblin of antiviral medicine, even with antivirals as effective as Paxlovid. \u2014 Jason Mast, STAT , 29 May 2022",
"Such hobgoblins of Hamilton\u2019s imagination bear an eerie resemblance to the current occupant of the White House, with his tweets, double talk and inflammatory rhetoric at rallies. \u2014 Ron Chernow, Twin Cities , 21 Oct. 2019",
"Nothing says Happy Halloween like a scary hobgoblin , all scowls and just looking for trouble. \u2014 Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day , 9 Sep. 2019",
"This fascination tells us more about ourselves than Sosa, who is demonstrating that foolish consistency said to be the hobgoblin of little minds. \u2014 Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com , 29 June 2018",
"Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote. \u2014 Robert Krier, sandiegouniontribune.com , 7 June 2018",
"The witches used some as nests, too, leaving them for hobgoblins to sleep in. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2018",
"God has His own Treblinka, with devils, hobgoblins , demons, angels of death. \u2014 Ben Taub, The New Yorker , 30 Apr. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"hob entry 1":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4b-\u02ccg\u00e4-bl\u0259n",
"\u02c8h\u00e4b-\u02ccg\u00e4b-l\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"brownie",
"dwarf",
"elf",
"faerie",
"faery",
"fairy",
"fay",
"gnome",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035237",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hobnob":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to associate familiarly":[],
": to drink sociably":[]
},
"examples":[
"He loves to hobnob with celebrities.",
"those two have been hobnobbing together since freshman year",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Applicants also have to hobnob with the committee at a cocktail reception. \u2014 Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
"This networking event is sure to give you some insight \u2013 and the chance to hobnob with folks who build festival lineups for a living. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Conceptually, the first season of Moon Knight feels intended less as a TV show and more as an explanation for why viewers would want to watch the character eventually hobnob with Doctor Strange or Blade or whomever. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Albright also appeared as herself in the 2011 film The Adjustment Bureau in a scene in which several real-life political figures hobnob with Matt Damon's congressman character. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 23 Mar. 2022",
"When basketball\u2019s best gather in Cleveland to dunk, fire 3-pointers and hobnob with corporate partners as the league celebrates its 75th anniversary this weekend, another group of players will get a chance to shine amid the glittering stars. \u2014 Tom Withers, baltimoresun.com , 15 Feb. 2022",
"For many in Trumpworld, the hotel was a place to see and be seen\u2014a bizarro Camelot where Republican lawmakers, conservative elites, and MAGA enthusiasts could cross paths, mingle, and hobnob the night away. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 14 Oct. 2021",
"The next opportunities to hobnob with the honchos are in November, with Disney chief Bob Chapek scheduled to make an appearance on Nov. 15 and JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon returning to Boston on Nov. 23. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 Oct. 2021",
"But there are still pervasive, sometimes pernicious assumptions about what a music director must look and act like \u2014 who can hobnob with donors, who can help sell tickets. \u2014 New York Times , 4 June 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1813, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"from the obsolete phrase drink hobnob to drink alternately to one another":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4b-\u02ccn\u00e4b"
],
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"associate",
"chum",
"company",
"consociate",
"consort",
"fraternize",
"hang (around ",
"hook up",
"mess around",
"pal (around)",
"run",
"sort",
"travel"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071019",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": to associate familiarly":[],
": to drink sociably":[]
},
"examples":[
"He loves to hobnob with celebrities.",
"those two have been hobnobbing together since freshman year",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Applicants also have to hobnob with the committee at a cocktail reception. \u2014 Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
"This networking event is sure to give you some insight \u2013 and the chance to hobnob with folks who build festival lineups for a living. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Conceptually, the first season of Moon Knight feels intended less as a TV show and more as an explanation for why viewers would want to watch the character eventually hobnob with Doctor Strange or Blade or whomever. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Albright also appeared as herself in the 2011 film The Adjustment Bureau in a scene in which several real-life political figures hobnob with Matt Damon's congressman character. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 23 Mar. 2022",
"When basketball\u2019s best gather in Cleveland to dunk, fire 3-pointers and hobnob with corporate partners as the league celebrates its 75th anniversary this weekend, another group of players will get a chance to shine amid the glittering stars. \u2014 Tom Withers, baltimoresun.com , 15 Feb. 2022",
"For many in Trumpworld, the hotel was a place to see and be seen\u2014a bizarro Camelot where Republican lawmakers, conservative elites, and MAGA enthusiasts could cross paths, mingle, and hobnob the night away. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 14 Oct. 2021",
"The next opportunities to hobnob with the honchos are in November, with Disney chief Bob Chapek scheduled to make an appearance on Nov. 15 and JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon returning to Boston on Nov. 23. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 Oct. 2021",
"But there are still pervasive, sometimes pernicious assumptions about what a music director must look and act like \u2014 who can hobnob with donors, who can help sell tickets. \u2014 New York Times , 4 June 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1813, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"from the obsolete phrase drink hobnob to drink alternately to one another":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4b-\u02ccn\u00e4b"
],
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"associate",
"chum",
"company",
"consociate",
"consort",
"fraternize",
"hang (around ",
"hook up",
"mess around",
"pal (around)",
"run",
"sort",
"travel"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040435",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": a homeless and usually penniless vagabond":[],
": a large shoulder bag shaped like a pouch":[
"To punctuate the all-blue outfit, the actress slung on an unstructured, oversized suede hobo , a practical antidote to the current craze for fanny packs and mini bags.",
"\u2014 Edward Barsamian"
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},
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"Noun",
"kind folks who always gave hoboes who came to the farm a meal and then sent them on their way",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Additional bullet points include exhortations to boycott products marked as Lite; hex the Muzak company; go on strike; dance all night; start a pirate radio station; put up posters; home-school your kids or teach them a craft; don\u2019t vote; be a hobo . \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"Do yourself a favor and swap out your boxy bag for a hobo . \u2014 Sarah Boyd, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Andy Griffith plays a folksy hobo turned megalomaniacal media star in Elia Kazan\u2019s biting 1957 satire. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Nov. 2021",
"From Japanese internees and hobos at the turn of the 20th century to taggers at the turn of the 21st, these graffiti artists reveal Los Angeles\u2019s underground history. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2020",
"Maisel bought the abandoned building in 1966, when the neighborhood was flush with hobos and artists, and the building is inextricably connected with his work as a photographer. \u2014 Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times , 15 Aug. 2019",
"The show started with asymmetrical skirts in large, dyed patchwork denim paired with slouchy jackets and hobo bags in earth tones. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Feb. 2020",
"Alternatively, squishable soft pouches and hobo bags have married into the ultimate hybrid baguette, with options from Bottega Veneta, Rag & Bone, and Staud. \u2014 Madeline Fass, Vogue , 21 Jan. 2020",
"Devon was played by Devon Abner, who in the episode in question was the one dressed as a hobo . \u2014 Omar Sanchez, EW.com , 15 Jan. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1888, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
"1906, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014d-b\u014d",
"\u02c8h\u014d-(\u02cc)b\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bindle stiff",
"bum",
"bummer",
"sundowner",
"swaggie",
"swagman",
"tramp",
"vagabond",
"vagrant"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014757",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hock":{
"antonyms":[
"bastille",
"big house",
"bridewell",
"brig",
"calaboose",
"can",
"clink",
"cooler",
"coop",
"guardroom",
"hold",
"hoosegow",
"jail",
"jailhouse",
"joint",
"jug",
"lockup",
"nick",
"pen",
"penitentiary",
"pokey",
"prison",
"quod",
"slam",
"slammer",
"stir",
"stockade",
"tolbooth"
],
"definitions":{
": a joint of a fowl's leg that corresponds to the hock of a quadruped":[],
": a small cut of meat from a front or hind leg just above the foot":[
"ham hocks"
],
": debt sense 2":[
"in hock to the bank"
],
": pawn":[],
": pawn entry 2 sense 2":[
"got his watch out of hock"
],
": prison":[],
": rhine wine sense 1":[],
": the tarsal joint or region in the hind limb of a digitigrade quadruped (such as the horse) corresponding to the human ankle but elevated and bending backward \u2014 see horse illustration":[],
": to forcefully spit out (something, such as phlegm)":[
"hock a loogie",
"hock a wad of tobacco"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb (1)",
"the prince had to hock the family jewels to pay his gambling debts"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1540, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1878, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1883, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1990, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"circa 1625, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Dutch hok pen, prison":"Noun and Verb",
"Middle English hoch, hough , from Old English h\u014dh heel; akin to Old Norse h\u0101sin hock":"Noun",
"modification of German Hochheimer , from Hochheim , Germany":"Noun",
"variant of hawk entry 3":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4k"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"pawn",
"pledge"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223230",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to perpetrate a trick or hoax on : deceive":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1675, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"obsolete hocus , noun, short for hocus-pocus":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u014d-k\u0259s"
],
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"probably from hocus pocus , imitation Latin phrase used by jugglers":"Noun"
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"the exhibit was a hodgepodge of mediocre art, bad art, and really bad art",
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"The state of the U.S. economy is a hodgepodge of strong data and alarming signals. \u2014 Charley Grant, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"At the turn of the 20th century, the United States was a hodgepodge of state divorce laws. \u2014 April White, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"There is still no national plan for curbing the spread of the disease, just a hodgepodge of conflicting local and state approaches to everything from shutdowns to masking up. \u2014 Marc Fisher, Washington Post , 12 Dec. 2020",
"The book is a hodgepodge of short, quirky chapters that cohere as a quasi-narrative because Mr. Reilly structures them around his relationship with his father\u2014which wasn\u2019t at all pretty. \u2014 John Paul Newport, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
"The event is being organized by a hodgepodge of anti-vaccine groups. \u2014 NBC News , 21 Jan. 2022",
"The Port of Beirut is overseen by a hodgepodge of government and security agencies with overlapping mandates. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Oct. 2021",
"The successful escape of Masoud's family is one of countless informal rescue missions put together during the chaotic final days of the US withdrawal by a hodgepodge of current and former US officials with experience in Afghanistan. \u2014 Katie Bo Lillis, CNN , 20 Oct. 2021",
"The battalion is a hodgepodge , with fighters from all over Ukraine and the world. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022"
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"old cars that are gas hogs"
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"Don't be such a hog ! Other people have to eat too!",
"The new software is a real memory hog .",
"Verb",
"He's been hogging the remote control all night.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Such hog farms, along with meat processing plants, have become mega incubators for pandemics. \u2014 Errol Schweizer, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Unexpectedly, the latest group to throw its weight behind the hog barons is the Biden administration\u2019s Department of Justice. \u2014 Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic , 29 June 2022",
"Pick up three dollars at the joint, five dollars from the offering plate at church, and make eight dollars for the weekend and live high on the hog when my peers were happy just to get the three dollars. \u2014 David Remnick, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"While the hog farms of Smithfield Foods have drawn criticism from activists, the county\u2019s economy depends on them. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 June 2022",
"Born in 1893, Osborne started hiccupping after an incident involving a hog . \u2014 Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 June 2022",
"The cheap plastic or soft metal fittings found on most garden hoses there days are fine if they\u2019re stepped on by a ground hog or a small child. \u2014 Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal , 20 May 2022",
"As for hog -tying Whitmer, that was puffery, the defense lawyer claimed. \u2014 Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press , 5 Apr. 2022",
"That\u2019s why a team led by Brandon Barton, an ecologist at Mississippi State University, recently dumped 15 tons of fresh feral hog carcasses\u2014or about 200 bodies\u2014into a large prairie grassland in Oklahoma. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Jan. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Shy Sally Holt grew up watching her beautiful older sister Kathy hog the spotlight with ease \u2013 and with jealousy as Kathy landed dreamy high school senior Billy Barnes. \u2014 Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY , 14 May 2022",
"On Monday, no doubt Shenae will try to hog the spotlight some more, either by trying to apologize and/or justify her shenanigans. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Carl Icahn are pressing fast-food giants like McDonald\u2019s Corp. , meatpacking companies and hog farmers like Mr. Deahr to provide pregnant hogs more space. \u2014 Patrick Thomas And Heather Haddon, WSJ , 27 Mar. 2022",
"As the men toiled with the huge swine, a small but growing group of visitors arrived, some of whom grew up going to hog slaughters in their own communities and some who were attending their first. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Rather than try to hog the spotlight or fall back on formula, the firm astutely figured out how to fortify an already great ensemble. \u2014 Justin Davidson, Curbed , 15 Dec. 2021",
"Toy Run organizers usually have permission to hog the road for charity, with police escorts shutting down highways for a few hours until the long line of motorcycles passes by. \u2014 Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com , 5 Dec. 2021",
"Hankey was accused of trying to hog the proceeds of a low-ball auction, which would then put it into a position to take ownership of and resell the property at a higher price. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Nov. 2021",
"Far removed from the times when Chicago was an industrial and manufacturing powerhouse and hog butcher to the world, Black Americans no longer arrive in the city with dreams of finding work. \u2014 William Lee, chicagotribune.com , 22 Nov. 2021"
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"\u02c8h\u00e4g",
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": an extremely satisfying state or situation":[]
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"We had plenty of food, good wine, and beautiful weather. We were in hog heaven .",
"a drink was in my hand, my butt was in a hot tub, and I was in hog heaven",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yellowstone fans are in hog heaven with new episodes airing every Sunday night on Paramount Network. \u2014 Rebecca Norris, Country Living , 29 Nov. 2021",
"Devoted fans of this pork operation rue the loss of the hams and sausage, but the Heil scrapple was the stuff of hog heaven . \u2014 Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com , 13 Nov. 2020",
"Today should be considered hog heaven : The economy is purring. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Oct. 2019"
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"1852, in the meaning defined above":""
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"definitions":{
": a line which is marked across a curling rink seven yards from the tee and beyond which a stone must pass or be removed from the ice":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1685, in the meaning defined above":""
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"1877, in the meaning defined above":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1829, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1597, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1886, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015036",
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"antonyms":[],
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": grossly selfish, gluttonous, or filthy":[]
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"was feeling hoggish after the hike and ate the whole bag of cookies",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Despite the plot\u2019s violence and death, this is not a despairing book, but a hopeful one, of Appalachian women taking back their life stories from hoggish men whose power, both in the home and outside of it, is largely an illusion. \u2014 Amy Rowland, New York Times , 12 May 2020"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221225",
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"antonyms":[],
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"first_known_use":{
"1905, in the meaning defined above":""
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"first_known_use":{
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"definitions":{
": a large cask or barrel":[]
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"examples":[
"the ship's hold carried 164 hogsheads of molasses",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To that end, Welsh and his team selected whisky aged for 52 years in just two casks, a sherry butt and American oak ex-bourbon hogshead , which were married together in equal proportions. \u2014 Jonah Flicker, Robb Report , 14 June 2022",
"An enormous shift from the costly and exhausting process of rolling hogshead barrels by land over bumpy roads behind oxen, bateaux would help open the Virginia frontier and fill the pockets of the farmers who stocked them. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Description: This is a very affordable 6 year old single Oloroso hogshead cask from Tullibardine, released by independent bottler The Single Cask. \u2014 Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes , 31 Oct. 2021",
"Happy Valley, where not just tents but hogsheads , dry goods boxes, a covered wagon and even beached ships were used as dwellings, may have been playful and carefree at first. \u2014 Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com , 29 May 2020",
"Once upon a time a ticket to the cinema cost just five quid, and a hogshead of mead but a farthing. \u2014 The Economist , 20 June 2019",
"Heavy first brought Guinness to America, when, on Oct. 16, 1817, eight hogsheads of Guinness porter were delivered to him somewhere in South Carolina. \u2014 Sean Rossman, USA TODAY , 15 Mar. 2018",
"The king and his guests consumed 27 hogsheads of wine, 400 head of pork, 3,000 fowl, 15,000 herring, 10,000 eels, 100 pounds of almonds, two pounds of spices and 66 pounds of pepper. \u2014 Jocelyn Mcclurg, USA TODAY , 20 Dec. 2017",
"The Layover: Amsterdam and BangkokThe Reward: Laphroaig the 1815 Legacy EditionIt's aged in both oversized hogsheads and bourbon barrels, lending fruit notes to a Scotch already potent with smoke aromas. \u2014 Meredith Heil, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 31 Oct. 2017"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8h\u022fgz-\u02cched",
"\u02c8h\u00e4gz-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014636",
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": an article (as a saddle or a pair of gloves) made of pigskin":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"definitions":{
": a wild boar in his third year":[]
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025931",
"type":[
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"definitions":{
": nonsense , balderdash":[],
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"You wouldn't believe the hogwash he was spouting at us.",
"the librarian told us a lot of hogwash about how you can go to jail for having overdue books",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some motorcycle enthusiasts think the whole idea of trying to shush biker noise is hogwash . \u2014 Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel , 14 May 2022",
"Also, please know that some pundits naively believe that self-driving cars will never get into car crashes and will apparently be crash-free, which is entirely unmitigated hogwash , see my ardent rejoinder at this link here). \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Through it all, Collins has remained focused on combating both the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the anti-science hogwash at the same time. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 5 Oct. 2021",
"And are we supposed to sit back and accept that a certain amount of anti-democracy hogwash will come with each vote? \u2014 Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com , 15 Sep. 2021",
"But that\u2019s hogwash , because a brisket by any other color would taste as good. \u2014 Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News , 6 July 2021",
"The Coronado Unified School District has featured squabbling over students who want their schools to be anti-racist, and community members who dismiss such actions as critical race theory hogwash . \u2014 Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times , 24 June 2021",
"There was no more truth in any of those assertions than there is in the hogwash and hearsay tossed about by the anti-vaccinationists of 2021. \u2014 John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 31 May 2021",
"Of course, to anyone steeped in the history of this organization, soft-pedaling any statement on playoff expansion is complete hogwash . \u2014 Dan Wolken, USA TODAY , 23 Apr. 2021"
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"aristocracy",
"best",
"choice",
"corps d'elite",
"cream",
"elect",
"elite",
"fat",
"flower",
"pick",
"pink",
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": people of distinction or wealth or elevated social status : elite":[],
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},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Leaning above quiet Cape Porpoise Harbor, Nunan\u2019s Lobster Hut attracts everyone from local fishermen to the hoi polloi from nearby Kennebunkport to rub elbows at its wooden tables beneath the lobster buoys hanging from its rafters. \u2014 Greg Melville, Outside Online , 24 June 2014",
"Both are complete traffic nightmares; both involve one group of people ending the night elated and drunk while another leaves despondent and drunk; both keep the big stars confined to special seating where the hoi polloi cannot even see them. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Feb. 2022",
"It was bonded to the belief that hoi polloi could take charge of their story. \u2014 Robin Givhan, Washington Post , 15 Nov. 2021",
"This has become something of a pundit subgenre after some similar encounters at restaurants went down during the Trump era, spawning talk of whether the hoi polloi needed an authoritative guide on how to interact with their betters in public. \u2014 Jason Linkins, The New Republic , 9 Oct. 2021",
"The New York club scene was markedly different in the early 1990s \u2014 VIP sections were rare, and stars rubbed elbows with the hoi polloi . \u2014 Elias Leight, Rolling Stone , 7 Oct. 2021",
"Biden\u2019s corporate-progressive alliance forces him to expand welfare for hoi polloi but also seeks to maintain and even expand oligarchal privileges. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 3 Oct. 2021",
"That there are a couple of gubernatorial candidates in the \u2019hood is not exactly generating chatter among the hoi polloi . \u2014 Washington Post , 26 July 2021",
"Now, to be clear, this is not an obituary for those gorgeous natural ectomorphs who continue to move among us, who torment hoi polloi with their slim figures, poreless skin and Dorian Gray agelessness. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 May 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1837, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Greek, the many":""
},
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"\u02cch\u022fi-p\u0259-\u02c8l\u022fi"
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"commoners",
"commons",
"crowd",
"herd",
"mass",
"millions",
"mob",
"multitude",
"people",
"plebeians",
"plebs",
"populace",
"public",
"rank and file"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-173722",
"type":[
"plural noun"
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"hoick":{
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": to move or pull abruptly : yank":[
"was hoicked out of my job",
"\u2014 Vincent Sheean"
]
},
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"He hoicked up his trousers and waded in.",
"hoicked up his pants and hastily waded into the water",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Besides hoicking up and holding one's boobs in place, and generally shaping the silhouette, a bra also tends to hide one's nipples (unless it is made from a very sheer or flimsy fabric). \u2014 Rosalind Jana, refinery29.com , 14 May 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1898, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably alteration of hike entry 1":""
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"\u02c8h\u022fik"
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"buck",
"hitch",
"jerk",
"jolt",
"twitch",
"yank"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094417",
"type":[
"verb"
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": drink sense 1":[
"hoist a few beers"
],
": the height of a flag when viewed flying":[
"a flag with a 20-foot hoist"
],
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"let it hoist to the upper deck"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The steel girders were hoisted into place and securely welded.",
"The engine was hoisted out with a winch.",
"The cargo was hoisted up onto the ship.",
"He stopped at a bar after work to hoist a few beers with his friends.",
"She hoisted a last-second shot that would have won the game if it had gone in.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Structurally reinforced pillars hoist the property up, creating the illusion of a floating vessel in the sky, from inside the home and from the perspective of the street below. \u2014 Brenda Richardson, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Nathan MacKinnon scored once and assisted on the tiebreaking goal, helping the Colorado Avalanche hoist the Stanley Cup in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday after a 2-1 win over the defending champion Lighting. \u2014 David K. Li, NBC News , 27 June 2022",
"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Sunday to meet with Ukrainian officials and hoist the Canadian flag again over his country\u2019s embassy in Kyiv. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 May 2022",
"Senior guard Zach Reichle said for the season\u2019s first two months, OSU guards often thought the best way to bail out the offense was to make a play or hoist a three. \u2014 oregonlive , 20 Mar. 2021",
"Since at least 2005, the city has allowed groups to hold flag-raising ceremonies on City Hall Plaza, during which participants can hoist a flag of their choosing on one of the three flagpoles that stand outside the entrance to City Hall. \u2014 Melissa Quinn, CBS News , 2 May 2022",
"And Saturday was as good a day as any to hoist a beer in their honor. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Seven of them will be in action this bowl season with a chance to snap their respective skids and hoist a bowl championship trophy. \u2014 Tom Layberger, Forbes , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Morgan, who went 11-for-16 for 199 yards and a third-quarter touchdown pass to Chris Autman-Bell, led the Gophers on the sprint into the end zone to hoist the 73-year-old trophy on their home field for the first time since 2003. \u2014 Dave Campbell, chicagotribune.com , 28 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"As part of the analysis, researchers roll immobilized polar bears onto a net, attach the net to a hoist and then lift the bear up for a measurement of its body mass. \u2014 Evan Bush, NBC News , 16 June 2022",
"Renodo put the foam back, and the students headed down the hoist . \u2014 John Seabrook, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"All celebrated with a medal, a trophy hoist and free chocolate milk, the official drink of the Ohio High School Athletic Association. \u2014 Scott Springer, The Enquirer , 4 June 2022",
"The vote authorizes $16 million for the purchase of the aircraft, outfitting it with specialized gear like a hoist , radios, skids that allow the helicopter to land in rough terrain and a 375-gallon water tank. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 May 2022",
"Chelan County Sheriff Brian Burnett confirmed the body was recovered via helicopter hoist March 31. \u2014 Caleb Hutton, oregonlive , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Another danger: Attaching the hoist ropes to the wrong point on the triangle could cause the structure to buckle and the pieces that held it together to pop apart. \u2014 Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Lifeguards and firefighters worked together to rescue the man, using a helicopter hoist to lift him on a stretcher from the canyon. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 Feb. 2022",
"In the dining hall, food arrives on a hoist from the ceiling. \u2014 Evan Osnos, The New Yorker , 11 Feb. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1654, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"chiefly dialectal \u02c8h\u012bst",
"\u02c8h\u022fist"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for hoist Verb lift , raise , rear , elevate , hoist , heave , boost mean to move from a lower to a higher place or position. lift usually implies exerting effort to overcome resistance of weight. lift the chair while I vacuum raise carries a stronger implication of bringing up to the vertical or to a high position. scouts raising a flagpole rear may add an element of suddenness to raise . suddenly reared itself up on its hind legs elevate may replace lift or raise especially when exalting or enhancing is implied. elevated the taste of the public hoist implies lifting something heavy especially by mechanical means. hoisted the cargo on board heave implies lifting and throwing with great effort or strain. heaved the heavy crate inside boost suggests assisting to climb or advance by a push. boosted his brother over the fence",
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"heft",
"jack (up)",
"upheave"
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": marked by an air of assumed importance : highfalutin":[
"a hoity-toity college professor",
"The restaurant was too hoity-toity for my tastes."
],
": thoughtless giddy behavior":[],
": thoughtlessly silly or frivolous : flighty":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1668, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1812, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"rhyming compound from English dialect hoit to play the fool":"Noun"
},
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"\u02cch\u012b-t\u0113-\u02c8t\u012b-t\u0113",
"\u02cch\u022fi-t\u0113-\u02c8t\u022fi-t\u0113"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221732",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
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": corny entry 1 sense 1":[
"the usual hokey melodrama"
],
": obviously contrived : phony":[
"the plots are tricky but not hokey",
"\u2014 Cleveland Amory"
]
},
"examples":[
"She gave us some hokey excuse for being late.",
"their father's sense of humor was hokey beyond belief and most people's endurance",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This moment, however, is dedicated to the epic\u2019s sometimes hokey philosophy. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Smith was aided with the book by self-help author Mark Manson, which may be why this otherwise exhilarating audiobook is burdened at times with passages of hokey advice on self-empowerment. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Dec. 2021",
"The first Evil Dead is kind of a melodrama, a lot of laughs come out of the excessive effects and hokey dialogue, and bad acting. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 12 July 2021",
"As a Valentine to them or something, HBO Max released the trailer on February 14, and this directorial cut of the film definitely appears to scrub all quippy, hokey signs of uncredited reshoot director Joss Whedon out of the picture. \u2014 Rebecca Alter, Vulture , 14 Mar. 2021",
"The popular Canadian television show might sound like a hokey reality show for the political set. \u2014 Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor , 5 May 2021",
"As a Valentine to them or something, HBO Max released the trailer on February 14, and this directorial cut of the film definitely appears to scrub all quippy, hokey signs of uncredited reshoot director Joss Whedon out of the picture. \u2014 Rebecca Alter, Vulture , 14 Mar. 2021",
"As a Valentine to them or something, HBO Max released the trailer on February 14, and this directorial cut of the film definitely appears to scrub all quippy, hokey signs of uncredited reshoot director Joss Whedon out of the picture. \u2014 Rebecca Alter, Vulture , 14 Mar. 2021",
"As a Valentine to them or something, HBO Max released the trailer on February 14, and this directorial cut of the film definitely appears to scrub all quippy, hokey signs of uncredited reshoot director Joss Whedon out of the picture. \u2014 Rebecca Alter, Vulture , 14 Mar. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1927, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u014d-k\u0113"
],
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"corn-fed",
"cornball",
"cornpone",
"corny"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185321",
"type":[
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"adverb",
"noun"
]
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": ice cream sold by street vendors":[]
},
"examples":[
"every year the legislature has to go through the same hokeypokey before it balances the state budget"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1878, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u014d-k\u0113-\u02c8p\u014d-k\u0113"
],
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"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
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"silliness",
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"stupidity",
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"tosh",
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"trumpery",
"twaddle"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030110",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"hokum":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a device used (as by showmen) to evoke a desired audience response":[],
": pretentious nonsense : bunkum":[]
},
"examples":[
"Everyone knows his story is pure hokum .",
"His new film is yet another piece of Hollywood hokum .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With hokum such as this, my credulity can be counted on. \u2014 Kent Russell, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"And, of course, Goop embraces the long-standing hokum known as homeopathy, which essentially claims ritualized dilutions of poisons can cure disease and anthropomorphic water molecules can remember how to heal you. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Greekman\u2019s feels subtly evocative without any hokum and serves uplifting food that meshes with the California growing seasons. \u2014 Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times , 4 Sep. 2021",
"This film and those of its ilk \u2014 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and The Dig being two superior examples \u2014 offer a more dignified alternative to the hokum of Nicholas Sparks, but in this case, not by much. \u2014 Charles Bramesco, Vulture , 25 Aug. 2021",
"President Biden is in part a hostage to his own campaign mythology \u2014 the blue-collar guy from Scranton \u2014 and all the hokum that goes along with it. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 15 June 2021",
"Yet the American space-industrial complex is sustained by Hollywood hokum . \u2014 David Beers, The New Republic , 7 Dec. 2020",
"Downtrodden Democrats will need to come to grips with the reality that vast swaths of the country like or, at least, accept the hokum and hatred that Trump has been peddling. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 3 Nov. 2020",
"This isn\u2019t some kind of health food store hippie hokum . \u2014 Tim Macwelch, Outdoor Life , 13 Mar. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1908, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably blend of hocus-pocus and bunkum":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u014d-k\u0259m"
],
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"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231615",
"type":[
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]
},
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": the four intermediate semiholidays between the first two and last two full festival days of Passover",
": the five intermediate days between the first two and last two days of Sukkoth"
],
"examples":[],
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"Hebrew \u1e25ol ha-moed , literally, the secular portion of the festival"
],
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-083030",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
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"clasp",
"clench",
"grapple",
"grasp",
"grip",
"handgrip",
"handhold"
],
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": a manner of grasping an opponent in wrestling":[
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],
": a nonphysical bond that attaches, restrains, or constrains or by which something is affected, controlled, or dominated":[
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"has lost its hold on the broad public",
"\u2014 Oscar Cargill"
],
": a sudden motionless posture at the end of a dance":[],
": accommodate":[
"the restaurant holds 400 diners"
],
": advocate , defend":[
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],
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],
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": fermata":[],
": full comprehension":[
"get hold of exactly what is happening",
"\u2014 J. P. Lyford"
],
": full or immediate control : possession":[
"get hold of yourself",
"wants to get hold of a road map"
],
": in a state of interruption during a telephone call when one party switches to another line without totally disconnecting the other party":[
"put me on hold while he talked to his supervisor"
],
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],
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"searched for holds in the rock"
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": such as":[
"hold the train"
],
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"released his hold on the handle",
"took hold of the rope"
],
": the cargo compartment of a plane":[],
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": to agree with or approve of":[
"don't hold with violence"
],
": to assemble for and carry on the activity of":[
"held a convention"
],
": to avoid emitting or letting out":[
"how long can you hold your breath"
],
": to be left empty-handed":[],
": to be or remain valid : apply":[
"the rule holds in most cases",
"\u2014 often used in the phrase hold true"
],
": to be the center of attention among friends or admirers":[],
": to bear alone a responsibility that should have been shared by others":[
"She was left holding the bag for their mistakes."
],
": to bear or carry oneself":[
"asked him to hold still"
],
": to bear the pressure of : support":[
"can the roof hold all of that weight"
],
": to cause to be carried on : conduct":[
"will hold a seminar"
],
": to continue in the same way or to the same degree : last entry 1":[
"hopes the weather will hold",
"\u2014 often used with up"
],
": to delay temporarily the handling of":[
"please hold all my calls"
],
": to derive right or title":[
"\u2014 often used with of or from lands held of the Crown"
],
": to enclose and keep in a container or within bounds : contain":[
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"this corral will not hold all of the horses"
],
": to engage one's hand with another's especially as an expression of affection":[],
": to forbear an intended or threatened action : halt , pause":[
"\u2014 often used as a command"
],
": to give firm assent to : adhere to strongly":[
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],
": to go ahead as one has been going":[
"held south for several miles"
],
": to have a dominant influence : rule":[],
": to have as a mark of distinction":[
"holds the record for the 100-yard dash",
"holds a PhD"
],
": to have as a privilege or position of responsibility":[
"hold a professorship"
],
": to have illicit drug material in one's possession":[],
": to have in the mind or express as a judgment, opinion, or belief":[
"I hold the view that this is wrong",
"hold a grudge",
"holding that it is nobody's business but his",
"\u2014 Jack Olsen",
"\u2014 often used with against in America they hold everything you say against you \u2014 Paul McCartney"
],
": to have possession or ownership of or have at one's disposal":[
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"the bank holds the title to the car"
],
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": to keep back from use":[
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"I'll have a hot dog, and hold the mustard"
],
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": to keep under restraint":[
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],
": to maintain (a certain condition, situation, or course of action) without change":[
"hold a course due east"
],
": to maintain a firm position":[],
": to maintain a grasp on something : remain fastened to something":[
"the anchor held in the rough sea"
],
": to maintain one's position : prove equal to opposition":[
"prove I can hold my own with the best of them"
],
": to maintain position : refuse to give ground":[
"the defensive line is holding"
],
": to maintain the current position or situation":[
"hold the line on prices"
],
": to make liable or accountable or bound to an obligation":[
"I'll hold you to your promise"
],
": to prevent free expression of":[
"hold your temper"
],
": to prevent from leaving or getting away":[
"hold the train"
],
": to prevent from some action":[
"ordered the troops to hold fire",
"the only restraining motive which may hold the hand of a tyrant",
"\u2014 Thomas Jefferson"
],
": to prevent oneself from breathing temporarily":[],
": to produce or sponsor especially as a public exhibition":[
"will hold an art show"
],
": to qualify for comparison with":[
"doesn't hold a candle to what she has suffered"
],
": to slow down or stop for a moment":[
"\u2014 usually used in the imperative"
],
": to speak at length : expatiate":[
"holding forth on the subject of politics"
],
": to stand up under criticism or analysis":[
"Their version of events doesn't hold water ."
],
": to stop counting during a countdown":[],
": to support in a particular position or keep from falling or moving":[
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"hold the ladder steady",
"a clamp holds the whole thing together",
"hold your head up"
],
": to take care of usual affairs":[
"is holding the fort until the manager returns"
],
": to think of in a particular way : regard":[
"were held in high esteem"
],
": to wait in anxious anticipation":[],
": touch sense 8":[
"\u2014 used with of tried to get hold of you, but you never answered your phone"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"Hold the rail so you won't fall.",
"He was holding a large package in his arms.",
"Would you hold this for me?",
"She showed him the correct way to hold the racket.",
"Some people just don't like to be held .",
"He held her close and kissed her.",
"He held the pen in his mouth while he dialed the number.",
"Hold the pen upright when you write.",
"She picked up the trophy and held it over her head.",
"You have to hold the button down for several seconds."
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"Middle English holden , going back to Old English healdan , going back to Germanic *hald-a- , whence also Old High German haltan \"to protect, guard, hold,\" Old Saxon haldan , Old Norse halda , Gothic haldan \"to tend, graze (cattle)\"; perhaps, if -d- (going back to Indo-European *-d h - ) is a root extension with resultative meaning, a derivative from the Indo-European base *kel- \"drive, urge\" (whence Greek kel\u00e9sthai \"to urge, exhort\"), with sense shift from \"pasture\" to \"keep, protect\" to \"hold\" \u2014 more at accelerate":"Verb and Noun",
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"It's your decision. You're holding all the cards ."
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"Noun",
"there'll be a holdback on production until the new machinery is fully installed",
"the only holdback to starting the new job is my contractual commitment to my current position",
"Verb",
"the only thing holding Joe back from joining the swim team is lack of transportation",
"held back her tears until she was alone",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But for now, teachers should continue moving forward with everything required under the law as if the holdback provision will be in place at the end of next school year. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 8 June 2021",
"Now, third graders in the 2021-22 school year will remain subject to a holdback provision. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 27 May 2021",
"In Mississippi, whose third-grade reading law Alabama\u2019s was modeled after, the state board of education suspended the holdback provision for the current school year only according to a department of education spokesperson. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 20 May 2021",
"In the case of escrow, a holdback is created at closing, which means the seller does not receive all the funds. \u2014 Robin Gagnon, Forbes , 11 May 2021",
"Typical issues are: The amount and length of the escrow holdback for indemnification claims. \u2014 Gary Miller, The Denver Post , 27 Oct. 2019",
"The Connecticut Department of Education sent Canterbury town officials a letter saying that the additional holdback of $250,000 would incur a $500,000 Education Cost Sharing penalty. \u2014 Denise Coffey, Courant Community , 3 Apr. 2018",
"Legislation is being discussed to do away with the penalty associated with cuts made after holdbacks were announced. \u2014 Denise Coffey, Courant Community , 3 Apr. 2018",
"Negotiators from the House had agreed near the end of the regular session to lower the holdback to $100 million. \u2014 Lsu Manship School News Service, NOLA.com , 13 June 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The dam is used not merely to generate power and hold back water reservoirs, but also to power a very special server hub. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"The digital payments specialist has announced layoffs and declared two profit warnings in recent quarters as inflation grinds higher and consumers hold back . \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"Less than 24 hours later, Fisher called an impromptu news conference Thursday and did not hold back with his displeasure with his former boss when the two were at LSU. \u2014 Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune , 19 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, Teresa's ex-husband Joe Giudice paid tribute to Gia's momentous day on social media and didn't hold back when gushing over his eldest daughter. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 8 Jan. 2022",
"The Buckeyes emptied their bench early, but Williams did not hold back . \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Britney Spears did not hold back when talking about her family following rumors that her brother, Bryan Spears, was set to attend her and Sam Asghari's wedding last week. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 June 2022",
"Producer Laurie Borg did not hold back on his thoughts on the rival period drama. \u2014 Janaya Wecker, Town & Country , 10 June 2022",
"The 4-year-old royal, who stood alongside his big brother Prince George, 8, and big sister Princess Charlotte, 7, didn't hold back at Trooping the Colour, the annual celebration of his great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth's birthday. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022"
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"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"Nobody is going to hold it against you if you don't come."
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"there'll be a holdback on production until the new machinery is fully installed",
"the only holdback to starting the new job is my contractual commitment to my current position",
"Verb",
"the only thing holding Joe back from joining the swim team is lack of transportation",
"held back her tears until she was alone",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But for now, teachers should continue moving forward with everything required under the law as if the holdback provision will be in place at the end of next school year. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 8 June 2021",
"Now, third graders in the 2021-22 school year will remain subject to a holdback provision. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 27 May 2021",
"In Mississippi, whose third-grade reading law Alabama\u2019s was modeled after, the state board of education suspended the holdback provision for the current school year only according to a department of education spokesperson. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 20 May 2021",
"In the case of escrow, a holdback is created at closing, which means the seller does not receive all the funds. \u2014 Robin Gagnon, Forbes , 11 May 2021",
"Typical issues are: The amount and length of the escrow holdback for indemnification claims. \u2014 Gary Miller, The Denver Post , 27 Oct. 2019",
"The Connecticut Department of Education sent Canterbury town officials a letter saying that the additional holdback of $250,000 would incur a $500,000 Education Cost Sharing penalty. \u2014 Denise Coffey, Courant Community , 3 Apr. 2018",
"Legislation is being discussed to do away with the penalty associated with cuts made after holdbacks were announced. \u2014 Denise Coffey, Courant Community , 3 Apr. 2018",
"Negotiators from the House had agreed near the end of the regular session to lower the holdback to $100 million. \u2014 Lsu Manship School News Service, NOLA.com , 13 June 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The dam is used not merely to generate power and hold back water reservoirs, but also to power a very special server hub. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"The digital payments specialist has announced layoffs and declared two profit warnings in recent quarters as inflation grinds higher and consumers hold back . \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"Less than 24 hours later, Fisher called an impromptu news conference Thursday and did not hold back with his displeasure with his former boss when the two were at LSU. \u2014 Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune , 19 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, Teresa's ex-husband Joe Giudice paid tribute to Gia's momentous day on social media and didn't hold back when gushing over his eldest daughter. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 8 Jan. 2022",
"The Buckeyes emptied their bench early, but Williams did not hold back . \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Britney Spears did not hold back when talking about her family following rumors that her brother, Bryan Spears, was set to attend her and Sam Asghari's wedding last week. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 June 2022",
"Producer Laurie Borg did not hold back on his thoughts on the rival period drama. \u2014 Janaya Wecker, Town & Country , 10 June 2022",
"The 4-year-old royal, who stood alongside his big brother Prince George, 8, and big sister Princess Charlotte, 7, didn't hold back at Trooping the Colour, the annual celebration of his great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth's birthday. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022"
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"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"The company held back the first shipment of the new product until it was completely ready."
],
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"He held several thousand dollars back in case of an emergency."
],
": to not allow (something) to be seen or known by someone":[
"He was unable to hold back his tears.",
"The government held back some crucial information from the media.",
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],
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"She might have been more successful, but bad health held her back .",
"He was held back in first grade."
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": a beam placed in the hold of a ship to supply usually transverse structural strength"
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"Verb",
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],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Announcing the ban, the government dismissed the demands of food, beverage and consumer goods companies to hold off the restriction to avoid disruptions. \u2014 Reuters, CNN , 1 July 2022",
"After taking a substantial lead after one lap on a hot Saturday afternoon at Mesa Community College, Phoenix South Mountain senior Brian Fair Jr., couldn't hold off Red Mountain's Tyler Mathews in the end. \u2014 Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic , 14 May 2022",
"The pick: O\u2019Ward won in Alabama earlier this month, and is ideally positioned to stay among the leaders and strike in the second half of the race to hold off Newgarden and VeeKay. \u2014 Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY , 27 May 2022",
"Is there a reason Democrats should hold off on the champagne? \u2014 David Faris, The Week , 18 May 2022",
"McElroy\u2019s squad battled through a tumultuous fifth inning to hold off a comeback by the Tigers (10-4). \u2014 Colin Bannen, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022",
"Harvin was the 400-meter champion after running a 50.18 to hold off Glenville\u2019s Malik Davis. \u2014 cleveland , 11 May 2022",
"The National Weather Service expects a period of about 24 hours where rain will hold off through the region as a brief area of high pressure builds. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 May 2022",
"The Naperville City Council will hold off authorizing overnight street parking in some neighborhoods where parking on the residential property can be a challenge for residents. \u2014 Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune , 8 June 2022"
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": to decide that (something) will happen at a later time : to postpone":[
"She decided to hold off on her vacation for a while longer.",
"He held off on announcing his decision."
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},
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"the ancient beliefs still held on in remote mountain villages",
"hold on a minute\u2014it's not your turn"
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"go out",
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"holding out for a shorter workweek"
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": to represent to be":[],
": to withhold something (such as information) from":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"He says he might be a holdout at the start of the next season if the team doesn't agree to pay him more.",
"He is expected to end his three-week holdout and join the team tomorrow.",
"A few holdouts still use typewriters, but nearly everybody uses computers now.",
"Verb",
"we hoped our supply of firewood would hold out until power was restored",
"luckily, the old outboard motor held out till we made it to shore",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"State high school associations and the N.C.A.A., though, set their own policies, and the N.C.A.A., whose softball rules are written by coaches, commissioners and others closely tied to the game, has become the holdout with the highest profile. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"Chen projects China, the world's last COVID-zero holdout , will mandate regular PCR tests until 2023. \u2014 Grady Mcgregor, Fortune , 31 May 2022",
"The steel mill has for weeks symbolized Ukraine's final holdout in Mariupol. \u2014 Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
"Hungary\u2019s Prime Minister Viktor Orban\u2014an EU bugbear and pal of Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2014had been the holdout . \u2014 Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ , 31 May 2022",
"But Kyiv said Wednesday that Russian forces have stepped up strikes on the facility, which is also a holdout for a small group of Ukrainian fighters who have refused to surrender. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Germany, in particular, had been a holdout due to its reliance on Russian gas and oil supplies. \u2014 Meredith Deliso, ABC News , 26 Feb. 2022",
"The last of the holdout fighters at the Azovstal steel plant have surrendered, the Russian Defense Ministry said, marking the end of the resistance against Russia\u2019s takeover of the southeastern port city. \u2014 Andrew Jeong, Washington Post , 21 May 2022",
"Sweden, another longtime holdout , is also expected to apply for membership soon. \u2014 Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ , 15 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Thankfully, watchers can hold out some joy at the movie-like length of these last few episodes. \u2014 Uvie Bikomo, Rolling Stone , 21 June 2022",
"Military analysts have viewed the Ukrainian army\u2019s decision to hold out in the city as a risky maneuver. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"That plays into the owners\u2019 ability to hold out , as does the general fact that their wealth considerably outpaces that of the players. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 9 Mar. 2022",
"In Missouri, which is being hammered by Delta, CNN reported that some people are getting their shots in secret to avoid social and political pressure to hold out . \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 3 Aug. 2021",
"In recent months the Afghan forces have ceded a significant amount of territory to the Taliban, raising questions about their ability to hold out after the U.S. completes its withdrawal. \u2014 Robert Burns, Star Tribune , 22 July 2021",
"The 130-mile ring is designed to hold out a storm surge of about 30 feet around New Orleans and suburbs in three parishes. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 31 May 2022",
"The intensity of the latest fighting and the influx of Russian troops have surprised Ukrainians, who are trying to hold out until more weapons can arrive, Zhdanov said. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 31 May 2022",
"The intensity of the latest fighting and the fact that Russia has poured troops in from their far east have come as a surprise to the Ukrainians, who are trying to hold out until more weapons can arrive, Zhdanov said. \u2014 Yuras Karmanau And Elena Becatoros, Anchorage Daily News , 30 May 2022"
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"circa 1556, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb"
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": to prolong the engagement of":[
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},
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"Noun",
"He is the only holdover from their last championship team.",
"This policy is a holdover from the previous administration.",
"Verb",
"the golf tournament had to be held over until the line of thunderstorms had passed through",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The overwrought exposition, which feels like a structural holdover from the movie\u2019s developmental origins as a Quibi series, gums up the pacing. \u2014 Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"The availability of one key holdover from last year is in question. \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 Mar. 2022",
"But that\u2019s nearly impossible: The swimsuit issue is a holdover from an earlier century. \u2014 Frankie De La Cretaz, CNN , 19 May 2022",
"This is a holdover from the island's colonial-era past, prior to the purchase by the U.S. and its transition of power in 1917. \u2014 Travel + Leisure , 12 May 2022",
"Ta\u2019Quan Roberson, the transfer from Penn State, has been taking a lot of the snaps at quarterback with Steven Krajewski, a holdover from last season. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 20 Apr. 2022",
"There will be a new offensive coordinator, however, in former Texas-San Antonio assistant Barry Lunney Jr., and the Illini still have to make a decision at quarterback between holdover Artur Sitkowski and Syracuse transfer Tommy DeVito. \u2014 Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY , 20 Apr. 2022",
"But one holdover executive seemed well positioned to thrive under new management. \u2014 Variety , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Eye View will serve as a follow-up to Cordae\u2019s 2021 holdover EP Just Until\u2026, as well as his first studio set since launching his own record label Hi Level back in June. \u2014 Glenn Rowley, Billboard , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The negative power that all this used to hold over me was rooted in silence. \u2014 Drew Petersen, Outside Online , 30 June 2021",
"That was before his Friday tweet that the $44 billion deal was now on hold over how many of the platform's accounts were spam or fake. \u2014 David Zurawik, CNN , 16 May 2022",
"The mysterious Spacing Guild and its Navigator use the spice to control their monopoly on space travel, granting them an iron hold over the Imperium itself. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 23 Oct. 2021",
"Once again, diplomacy failed to hold over the long term, but with very different consequences. \u2014 Noah Millman, The Week , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Think: the sun\u2019s hold over distant planets, or the journey light from far-off stars makes across the universe. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 7 Apr. 2022",
"His platform centered on two main points: ending the war in the east in a way palatable to Ukrainians and breaking up corrupt oligarchs\u2019 hold over the economy. \u2014 Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times , 14 Feb. 2022",
"The combination would consolidate the airlines\u2019 hold over some airports, which could put pressure on other carriers, such as JetBlue, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Allegiant Airlines, to join forces through partnerships or mergers. \u2014 Niraj Chokshi, New York Times , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Country singer Sara Evans' estranged husband Jay Barker shared his side of the story on social media Sunday after he was arrested and placed on a domestic violence hold over the weekend. \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 17 Jan. 2022"
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"Kosovo's culture minister Hajrulla Ceku, said the holdup resulted from festival organizers seeking a 99-year lease. \u2014 Llazar Semini, ajc , 15 June 2022",
"The holdup largely stems from a Commerce Department investigation into alleged tariff-dodging by Chinese manufacturers. \u2014 Evan Halper, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"The armed holdup happened Saturday at the store in the 9600 block of Vaughn Road in Pike Road, according to Central Alabama Crime Stoppers. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 3 May 2022",
"The last holdup was in Rhode Island, but a judge on Monday dismissed Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha\u2019s appeal in that state after the two sides reached a settlement. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
"The main holdup , according to Bahlil Lahadalia, Indonesia\u2019s Minister of Investment, is the lack of a level playing field. \u2014 Dan Reilly, Fortune , 23 May 2022",
"Originally scheduled for a Wednesday takeoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the mission was delayed due to a holdup with NASA's Artemis 1 Moon rocket. \u2014 Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The only holdup currently seems to be getting the supply chain back in place. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 3 Apr. 2022",
"The holdup isn\u2019t with the Park Service, says Jon Jarvis, NPS director during the Obama administration. \u2014 Frederick Reimers, Outside Online , 3 Oct. 2020",
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"That man also had a blue stain on his collarbone, which came from a brooch once used to hold up a cloak, reports the Guardian\u2019s Harriet Sherwood. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 June 2022",
"All offer some degree of UV protection (typically up to 95 percent) and are made to hold up to the elements. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 18 June 2022",
"Warriors point guard Steph Curry\u2019s foot seemed to hold up just fine in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"With that said, some are positioned to hold up well during times of economic turmoil. \u2014 Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"These kinds also tend to be higher in protein and have a sturdier texture that tend to hold up better on the grill. \u2014 Marygrace Taylor, SELF , 7 June 2022",
"Each of these categories could continue to hold up relatively well in a continuing environment of high inflation and rising interest rates, said Papagiannis, who manages model and multi-asset portfolios for Northern Trust in Chicago. \u2014 Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic , 5 June 2022",
"While Apple\u2019s growth could hold up , shareholder returns should be magnified by Apple\u2019s massive stock buyback program. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Throughout the playoffs, different players have stepped up in different games as support beams to hold up the NBA Finals dreams of the core of Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Smart. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 May 2022"
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"Marina Raphael\u2019s mini iteration of its signature holdall is brought to life by precision cut geometric shapes inspired by cafe tables and garden tiles of idyllic summer destination, Sardinia. \u2014 Bianca Salonga, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The holdall is a pleasure to use from the first day, but designed explicitly for the long haul\u2014and backed up by a quarter-century guarantee. \u2014 Alexander Freeling, Robb Report , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Few pieces inspire as much devotion (and hysteria) as the French brand\u2019s classic leather holdall . \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 14 Oct. 2020",
"The navy hue and clean lines of this ample holdall feel more urban adjacent than country retreat, not unlike Hampstead itself. \u2014 WSJ , 8 May 2018",
"Alfred Dunhill Ltd. manufactures and sells luxury goods, such as $1,090 Cadogan briefcases, $1,650 Boston backpacks, and $5,400 Duke holdalls . \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 28 July 2017",
"Greater Manchester Police found a gym bag (described as a holdall ) in a white Nissan Micra seized in the Rusholme area of Manchester, on June 2. \u2014 Emanuella Grinberg, CNN , 6 June 2017"
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"But for now, teachers should continue moving forward with everything required under the law as if the holdback provision will be in place at the end of next school year. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 8 June 2021",
"Now, third graders in the 2021-22 school year will remain subject to a holdback provision. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 27 May 2021",
"In Mississippi, whose third-grade reading law Alabama\u2019s was modeled after, the state board of education suspended the holdback provision for the current school year only according to a department of education spokesperson. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 20 May 2021",
"In the case of escrow, a holdback is created at closing, which means the seller does not receive all the funds. \u2014 Robin Gagnon, Forbes , 11 May 2021",
"Typical issues are: The amount and length of the escrow holdback for indemnification claims. \u2014 Gary Miller, The Denver Post , 27 Oct. 2019",
"The Connecticut Department of Education sent Canterbury town officials a letter saying that the additional holdback of $250,000 would incur a $500,000 Education Cost Sharing penalty. \u2014 Denise Coffey, Courant Community , 3 Apr. 2018",
"Legislation is being discussed to do away with the penalty associated with cuts made after holdbacks were announced. \u2014 Denise Coffey, Courant Community , 3 Apr. 2018",
"Negotiators from the House had agreed near the end of the regular session to lower the holdback to $100 million. \u2014 Lsu Manship School News Service, NOLA.com , 13 June 2017",
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"The dam is used not merely to generate power and hold back water reservoirs, but also to power a very special server hub. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"The digital payments specialist has announced layoffs and declared two profit warnings in recent quarters as inflation grinds higher and consumers hold back . \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"Less than 24 hours later, Fisher called an impromptu news conference Thursday and did not hold back with his displeasure with his former boss when the two were at LSU. \u2014 Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune , 19 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, Teresa's ex-husband Joe Giudice paid tribute to Gia's momentous day on social media and didn't hold back when gushing over his eldest daughter. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 8 Jan. 2022",
"The Buckeyes emptied their bench early, but Williams did not hold back . \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Britney Spears did not hold back when talking about her family following rumors that her brother, Bryan Spears, was set to attend her and Sam Asghari's wedding last week. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 June 2022",
"Producer Laurie Borg did not hold back on his thoughts on the rival period drama. \u2014 Janaya Wecker, Town & Country , 10 June 2022",
"The 4-year-old royal, who stood alongside his big brother Prince George, 8, and big sister Princess Charlotte, 7, didn't hold back at Trooping the Colour, the annual celebration of his great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth's birthday. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022"
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"The new record holder , described Thursday in the journal Science, resembles thin, hair-like filaments. \u2014 Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"Now, familiarize yourself with the new record- holder in the largest freshwater fish category: a giant stingray that measures about 13 feet long and weighs 660 pounds. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 22 June 2022",
"Courtney Frerichs is the American record- holder (8:57.77) who is coming off a silver-medal performance at last year\u2019s Olympics. \u2014 Brian Metzler, Outside Online , 22 June 2022",
"That bests the previous record- holder , season two of Bridgerton, which had 193 million hours of watch time over its opening weekend in March. \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 June 2022",
"The 13-foot fish dethrones the former record- holder , a 646-pound catfish found in northern Thailand in 2005. \u2014 Andrew Jeong, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"That would make Cheve the deepest in the world, following the current title- holder , Veryovkyna in Abkhazia in Georgia, which is about a quarter mile shorter. \u2014 Angela Dawson, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
"Now Evans is coaching the most recent South Mountain state record holder , a mark that nobody until a month ago had a shot at getting. \u2014 Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic , 11 May 2022",
"Today, the holder of the position, Sarah Clarke, must recreate this moment by banging on the door of the House of Commons three times with her rod. \u2014 Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com , 10 May 2022"
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"We were put in the holding room in one of the Senate office buildings for hours, and hours, and hours. \u2014 NBC News , 1 May 2022",
"Over the years the canals were filled, and the house evolved to meet the needs of the city, also serving as a tool shed for park staff, a watchman\u2019s lodge, and a temporary holding cell for Park Police. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Once, Putin kept Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice waiting for almost three hours in a Red Square holding room, only to be told that the meeting had been moved to Putin\u2019s dacha 40 minutes away in Barvikha. \u2014 Philip Elliott, Time , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Creppy knows his client could be spending the night in a frigid holding cell. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"In an extraordinary move on the night of Sept. 8, the Supreme Court stopped Ramirez\u2019s planned execution as the inmate waited in a holding room next to the death chamber. \u2014 Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News , 24 Mar. 2022",
"In the holding room, waiting like everyone else for the results, Cantrell began to feel better about the Pearl. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Officers removed the restraint system and left Lofton in a holding room at the JIAC, where a staff member came by to explain the assessment process and let him into the open foyer, the report said. \u2014 Christina Maxouris And Joe Sutton, CNN , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Interestingly, our machine learning engine expects the stock to observe a near-term rebound \u2013 indicating a strategy of selling after a short holding period. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Like the non- holding call against TCU on the Frogs\u2019 first touchdown drive. \u2014 Kirk Bohls, USA TODAY , 4 Oct. 2020",
"It was established in 1997 to meet the needs of parents in the community, focusing on activities for parents of children birth to 3 years old and holding interactive sessions each month for families, according to the schools website. \u2014 Charlie Lapastora, Fox News , 20 Apr. 2018",
"Here\u2019s how holding office affects Florida lawmakers\u2019 incomes But surprisingly, Florida lawmakers did not boost their incomes while in office. \u2014 Kevin Fahey, Washington Post , 10 Aug. 2017",
"Please explain how holding secret meetings on the health care bill relates to consent of the governed. \u2014 Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com , 27 June 2017"
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"These are two central characters who are, for the most part, stuck in a holding pattern , subject to the whims of another. \u2014 Anna Pitoniak, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"The fate of the 155-acre Country Club of Woodbridge property and main building remains in a holding pattern \u2014 for now. \u2014 Pam Mcloughlin, Hartford Courant , 11 June 2022",
"Granger appealed his termination and until a final decision is made or a judge acts, Lancaster and the former superintendent are in a holding pattern on the severance payment. \u2014 Emily Donaldson, Dallas News , 24 Mar. 2021",
"The Trump-era rule went into effect with the arrival of COVID-19 and has shuttered the border for the past two years, keeping everyone in this room in a holding pattern . \u2014 Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 June 2022",
"While Kiev isn\u2019t Paris and Moscow isn\u2019t Madrid, the war in Europe has apparently put millions of potential travelers into a holding pattern . \u2014 Michael Goldstein, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"However, Scott's office said in September that the city was in a holding pattern , awaiting the conclusion of HUD's investigation into Jarmon's complaint. \u2014 Tess Vrbin, Arkansas Online , 7 May 2022",
"When and for how long he\u2019ll be suspended remains unknown, leaving the Dodgers in somewhat of a holding pattern as teams rush to sign free agents before Wednesday night\u2019s impending lockout. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 29 Nov. 2021",
"Now the world is in a sort of information holding pattern . \u2014 Helen Regan, CNN , 29 Nov. 2021"
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"There have been a series of holdups at local banks.",
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"Kosovo's culture minister Hajrulla Ceku, said the holdup resulted from festival organizers seeking a 99-year lease. \u2014 Llazar Semini, ajc , 15 June 2022",
"The holdup largely stems from a Commerce Department investigation into alleged tariff-dodging by Chinese manufacturers. \u2014 Evan Halper, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"The armed holdup happened Saturday at the store in the 9600 block of Vaughn Road in Pike Road, according to Central Alabama Crime Stoppers. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 3 May 2022",
"The last holdup was in Rhode Island, but a judge on Monday dismissed Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha\u2019s appeal in that state after the two sides reached a settlement. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
"The main holdup , according to Bahlil Lahadalia, Indonesia\u2019s Minister of Investment, is the lack of a level playing field. \u2014 Dan Reilly, Fortune , 23 May 2022",
"Originally scheduled for a Wednesday takeoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the mission was delayed due to a holdup with NASA's Artemis 1 Moon rocket. \u2014 Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The only holdup currently seems to be getting the supply chain back in place. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 3 Apr. 2022",
"The holdup isn\u2019t with the Park Service, says Jon Jarvis, NPS director during the Obama administration. \u2014 Frederick Reimers, Outside Online , 3 Oct. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"That man also had a blue stain on his collarbone, which came from a brooch once used to hold up a cloak, reports the Guardian\u2019s Harriet Sherwood. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 June 2022",
"All offer some degree of UV protection (typically up to 95 percent) and are made to hold up to the elements. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 18 June 2022",
"Warriors point guard Steph Curry\u2019s foot seemed to hold up just fine in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"With that said, some are positioned to hold up well during times of economic turmoil. \u2014 Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"These kinds also tend to be higher in protein and have a sturdier texture that tend to hold up better on the grill. \u2014 Marygrace Taylor, SELF , 7 June 2022",
"Each of these categories could continue to hold up relatively well in a continuing environment of high inflation and rising interest rates, said Papagiannis, who manages model and multi-asset portfolios for Northern Trust in Chicago. \u2014 Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic , 5 June 2022",
"While Apple\u2019s growth could hold up , shareholder returns should be magnified by Apple\u2019s massive stock buyback program. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Throughout the playoffs, different players have stepped up in different games as support beams to hold up the NBA Finals dreams of the core of Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Smart. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 May 2022"
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"His mother's death left a hole in his life."
],
": an awkward position or circumstance : fix":[
"got the rebels out of a hole at the battle",
"\u2014 Kenneth Roberts"
],
": an opening through something : perforation":[
"The coat has a hole in it.",
"a bullet hole"
],
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": at a disadvantage":[],
": burrow":[
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],
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"His mother's death left a hole in his life."
],
": having a score below zero":[],
": such as":[
"a hole in an apple"
],
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"hole a putt",
"The dogs holed the fox."
],
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"The ship was holed along the waterline by enemy fire."
],
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},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"I have a hole in my sock.",
"He fixed the hole in the roof.",
"a mouse hole in the wall",
"The dog dug a deep hole .",
"Her putt rolled right into the hole .",
"She made a birdie on the seventh hole .",
"The course has 18 holes .",
"Verb",
"She holed a long putt for a birdie.",
"holed the target with a round of shots",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But his shot caught up on the lip, and fell to the ground after 43 yards, still 82 yards from the hole . \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 26 June 2022",
"But Fitz, who\u2019d already drained a couple long and bloodless putts on the back 9, hit the approach from the sand to 18 feet from the hole . \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 20 June 2022",
"Hoskins\u2019 two-out hit off Anthony Bass (1-3) scored Matt Vierling and capped a Phillies rally from a 2-1 hole in the seventh. \u2014 Dan Gelston, Sun Sentinel , 14 June 2022",
"The 156 golfers will tee off in the first round on Thursday in groups of three, 26 groups from the first hole , the other 26 from No. 10. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"Woods made five straight bogeys from the ninth hole . \u2014 CBS News , 21 May 2022",
"In July 2020, Belmar police, lifeguards, rescuers and firefighters saved a boy from a collapsed sand hole . \u2014 Ken Serrano, USA TODAY , 18 May 2022",
"Then the next year, a 12-year-old boy was hospitalized after being pulled from a collapsed sand hole in Surf City, a city in Long Beach Island, N.J., according to local news reports. \u2014 Lindsey Bever, Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"Nobody breaking from the three hole has won the Derby since Real Quiet in 1998. \u2014 Guy Martin, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"There's also drill- hole tabs at the base for permanent installation. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 13 May 2022",
"Apple is moving to hole -punch displays this year, but the notch replacement isn\u2019t quite as clean as on Android phones. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Add a few handfuls of worm castings to hole but no other amendments. \u2014 Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Oct. 2021",
"With Cantlay in close, the Spaniard had to hole the chip to have any chance of a playoff. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 5 Sep. 2021",
"Proximity to hole leaders from 175-200 yards include: Collin Morikawa, Charley Hoffman, Xander Schauffele, Viktor Hovland, Abraham Ancer, Daniel Berger, Will Zalatoris and Tony Finau. \u2014 Jay Ginsbach, Forbes , 17 June 2021",
"Betsy Wentz, founder of Studio B Interior Design, has an office/command center at one of three kitchen islands (more on those later) while her husband, a doctor, can hole away in a study. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 30 July 2020",
"Brady was the butt of the joke (quite literally when his pants split down the back) until the six-time Super Bowl winner holed -out from the fairway on the Par-5 7th hole in the greatest moment of the event. \u2014 Carolyn Manno, CNN , 25 May 2020",
"The two friends appear to have been holed together for the past week. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 19 Mar. 2020"
],
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
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"Middle English hole, holle, going back to Old English hol \"hollow place, cave, pit,\" noun derivative from neuter of hol \"hollow, deeply concave, sunken,\" going back to Germanic *hula- (whence also Old Saxon & Old High German hol \"hollow,\" Old Norse holr ), probably going back to Indo-European *\u1e31uH-l\u00f3- (with assumed shortening of pretonic vowel), zero-grade derivative of a base *\u1e31eu\u032fH- \"hollow,\" whence, with varying ablaut and suffixation, Greek ko\u00eelos, k\u00f3\u00eflos \"hollow, deep\" (from *\u1e31ou\u032fH-ilo- ), Latin cavus \"hollow, concave\" (from *\u1e31ou\u032fH-o- ), Middle Irish c\u00faa \"hollow space, cavity,\" Middle Welsh ceu \"hollow, empty\" (both from *\u1e31ou\u032fH-i\u032fo- ?), Old Church Slavic sui \"vain, empty\" (from *\u1e31ou\u032fH-i\u032fo- )":"Noun",
"Middle English holen, going back to Old English holian, derivative of hol hole entry 1":"Verb"
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"\u02c8h\u014dl"
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"aperture",
"opening",
"orifice",
"perforation"
],
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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},
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"noun"
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"1908, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"open",
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"public"
],
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},
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"1833, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8h\u014dl-\u0259n(d)-\u02c8k\u022fr-n\u0259r"
],
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"backstairs",
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"hush-hush",
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"privy",
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"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"stealth",
"stealthy",
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"underhand",
"underhanded"
],
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"type":[
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"\u02c8h\u014dl\u0259b\u0259l"
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},
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"origin unknown":""
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"\u02c8h\u014dl\u0113\u0259"
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"noun"
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"vacation"
],
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],
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],
": to take or spend a vacation or holiday (see holiday entry 1 sense 2 ) especially in travel or at a resort : vacation":[
"will holiday this year at the shore"
],
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],
"Eleanora 1915\u20131959 Billie American jazz singer":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"July 4 is a national holiday in the U.S.",
"The stock market is closed tomorrow because it's a holiday .",
"She'll have four weeks' holiday next year.",
"We're planning on taking a holiday in the Caribbean.",
"Verb",
"She likes holidaying in the Caribbean.",
"saw kangaroos while holidaying in Australia",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Another week, another retail therapy holiday for scooping up deals on end-of-season inventory and summer-ready goods. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 June 2022",
"And there are rules about how to properly count the number of days when the deadline falls on a holiday (or even on a day when the Tax Court is closed due to inclement weather). \u2014 Amber Gray-fenner, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"The federal holiday commemorating what happened on June 19, 1865, was Monday, June 20. \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 23 June 2022",
"Don\u2019t forget to wash down all of these adorable desserts with our Halloween cocktails for a creative, creepy holiday ! \u2014 Taylor Worden, Good Housekeeping , 21 June 2022",
"The Juneteenth holiday on Sunday, which caused some government offices and businesses to be closed on Monday, may have also affected Monday's new case numbers, Tumlison said. \u2014 Andy Davis, Arkansas Online , 21 June 2022",
"There isn\u2019t much a president can do to quickly lower the price of gas, but President Biden could call for a gas tax holiday , which could reduce the price at the pump by around 18 cents a gallon. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 21 June 2022",
"The holiday , which started in Texas, became a federal holiday last year. \u2014 Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun , 19 June 2022",
"The nation's youngest federal holiday , Juneteenth, is Sunday. \u2014 Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The surge came, worse than imagined, with Americans determined to holiday their way through the new year like the pandemic didn\u2019t exist. \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 26 Jan. 2021",
"For the world\u2019s beleaguered airline industry, the measures give travelers yet another reason to think twice before taking to the skies and will probably end Britons\u2019 plans of holidaying abroad this summer. \u2014 James Ludden, Bloomberg.com , 12 May 2020",
"Morrison returned home early from holidaying in Hawaii ahead of Christmas following the death of two firefighters and amid criticism his government was doing too little to address climate change and a country-wide drought. \u2014 NBC News , 29 Dec. 2019",
"Macey Ellison, 18, and her family, who were holidaying in Mallacoota, in the southeastern state of Victoria, took cover in a friend\u2019s small boat for more than four hours as the fire threatened the town. \u2014 Rachel Pannett, WSJ , 1 Jan. 2020",
"Check out the video above to see what makes some of your faves\u2019 holidays the Blackest celebration of all time. \u2014 Danielle Young, Essence , 24 Dec. 2019",
"Ticking off yet another Caribbean island, Queen Elizabeth II visited Mustique (where William and Kate are currently rumoured to be holidaying ) with her sister Princess Margaret in 1977. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 26 July 2019",
"The stimulus measures include incentives for Thais to holiday in their country, as well as extra support for farmers, small businesses and the poor. \u2014 The Economist , 22 Aug. 2019",
"According to the Sun, the Derby County manager, who has been holidaying in France with his family, is set to meet Roman Abramovich on his yacht in St Tropez this week for contractual talks. \u2014 SI.com , 18 June 2019"
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"1869, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-l\u0259-\u02ccd\u0101",
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"break",
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"verb"
]
},
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"cry",
"hoot",
"howl",
"shout",
"whoop",
"yell",
"yowl"
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": an African American work song freely improvised usually in terms of the particular occupation of the moment and often without words":[
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],
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],
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],
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"hollering for help"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"He was hollering across the fields to his workers.",
"They were screaming and hollering at each other all night.",
"She hollered across the street, \u201cDid you hear the news?\u201d.",
"Someone was hollering my name.",
"People always holler about tax increases.",
"Noun",
"heard a holler from somewhere in the woods and ran toward it",
"there didn't seem to be a thermostat setting that wouldn't bring a holler from somebody",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Kerrigan asks the audience, who hoot and holler in enthusiastic response. \u2014 Audra Heinrichs, ELLE , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Derrick\u2019s oft-absent mother comes out to holler , scattering the squid-throwing youth. \u2014 Bethy Squires, Vulture , 14 Dec. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Dressed casually in sneakers and a blue pull-over with the Fordson logo, the current state representative from Dearborn speaks in a microphone heard on the stadium loudspeakers as people holler in support. \u2014 Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press , 8 Nov. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Disney\u2019s Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue is back, presenting its hoot and a holler style of entertainment after an absence of more than two years at Fort Wilderness. \u2014 Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel , 24 June 2022",
"The parallels to America are clear, but Harris gives Sugarland its own ceremonies of remembrance and loss, including a semi-Pentecostal, funereal holler that made a holy terror announce itself in my body. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
"No Way Home hits its hoot-and- holler beats about as skillfully as Endgame did. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Wasn\u2019t a holler guy, didn\u2019t throw stools in the clubhouse. \u2014 Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times , 29 Nov. 2021",
"The spectacle of it all might be the initial draw, but infectious, holler -along hooks invite audiences to join in the fun. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Next person who sees Kenny Stabler, give us a holler . \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Boone relented, Cole punched out Alvarez on three pitches and then the Yankees All-Star let out an enormous holler . \u2014 Kristie Rieken, ajc , 11 July 2021",
"Boone relented, Cole punched out Alvarez on three pitches and then the Yankees All-Star let out an enormous holler . \u2014 Kristie Rieken, ajc , 11 July 2021"
],
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"1592, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1825, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-l\u0259r"
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"beef",
"bellyache",
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"bleat",
"carp",
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"fuss",
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"yammer",
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},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"far into the night searchers could be heard holloing for the lost child"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
"1588, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Interjection",
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"h\u00e4-\u02c8l\u014d",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-(\u02cc)l\u014d",
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"verb"
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},
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"cavity",
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"dent",
"depression",
"dint",
"hole",
"indentation",
"indenture",
"pit",
"recess"
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],
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],
": having an indentation or inward curve : concave , sunken":[
"hollow cheeks"
],
": having an unfilled or hollowed-out space within":[
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],
": in a way that reflects a lack of real value, sincerity, or substance":[
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"Their threats rang hollow ."
],
": lacking in real value, sincerity, or substance : false , meaningless":[
"hollow promises",
"a victory over a weakling is hollow and without triumph",
"\u2014 Ernest Beaglehole"
],
": reverberating like a sound made in or by beating on a large empty enclosure : muffled":[
"heard a hollow sound when he knocked on the wall"
],
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"Their threats rang hollow ."
],
": to become hollow":[
"his cheeks had hollowed"
],
": to form by removing the inside of something : to form by making something hollow":[
"\u2014 usually used with out rain barrels hollowed out from trees \u2014 Robert Shaplen hollowing out a tunnel"
],
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"a hollowed tree",
"hollowing out pumpkins for Halloween"
]
},
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"Adjective",
"There was a hollow spot in the field.",
"there's a noticeably hollow spot in the mattress where he has been sleeping",
"Noun",
"The owls nested in the hollow of a tree.",
"made a little hollow in her mound of mashed potatoes and filled it with gravy",
"Verb",
"They hollowed the log to make a canoe.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Luiza Dorner, 25, of Kyiv, whose husband is fighting in the Donbas region, said that statements from Zelenskyy and other government officials have started to ring hollow . \u2014 Lauren Egan, NBC News , 23 June 2022",
"But without Scope 3 emissions in those plans, the entire effort can ring hollow . \u2014 Kristine Gill, Fortune , 15 June 2022",
"But Gilpin\u2019s identity crisis is a bit too raw to ring hollow . \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 15 June 2022",
"Those words might ring hollow with fans these days, who've endured a rebuild since 2017 on the heels of a team that was constantly in go-for-it mode but never got the World Series title to show for it. \u2014 Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press , 11 May 2022",
"In such a small spider, each leg is likely finer than a human hair, Bhamla says, yet also hollow and able to create a lot of force using only microfluidic action. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Specialized arrows are equipped with a float and tipped with a small, hollow and sterile cylinder with barbs on the inside grab a bit of skin. \u2014 Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"AccessNow's Krapiva points out that the timing of the campaign in El Salvador underscores how hollow NSO Group's defense of its products has been. \u2014 Lily Hay Newman, Wired , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Like many other flying species during that time, this pterosaur had bones that were hollow to aid in flight, Brown said. \u2014 Megan Marples, CNN , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"At 9:51 a shotgun report echoed through the hollow below my position. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 May 2022",
"Tucked in a picturesque Appalachian hollow near Burnsville in western North Carolina, Carolina Native Nursery is one of the largest growers of exclusively native plants. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Speed skates have long, solid blades without a hollow . \u2014 Allison Goldstein, Popular Mechanics , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Then on Friday morning, hours before President Biden was scheduled to visit the city to discuss the condition of the country\u2019s infrastructure, the bridge collapsed into the snowy hollow below. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Running headlong down a steep hill in a Kentucky hollow , exhilarated by the danger of falling and breaking his legs. \u2014 Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Now, tuck your tailbone under so that the hollow between your low back and the doorframe disappears. \u2014 Jay Dicharry, Outside Online , 26 Apr. 2021",
"The other is done by an assistant, with each of his middle fingers pressing with persistent firmness into the hollow behind the ridge of the temporal bone, which forms the [side wall of the eye socket]. \u2014 Mark Fischetti, Scientific American , 16 Dec. 2021",
"This 36-foot-diameter spherical cavity, made of 132 individual elements, appears to emerge from a hollow in the earth. \u2014 Irene S. Levine, Forbes , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"While no single case is aimed at overturning Chevron, a string of victories would essentially hollow it out. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022",
"Take the tea out of a tea bag, hollow it out and stand it up, and (carefully) take a match to it. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 1 June 2022",
"The company originally used the water to hollow out five underground caverns, pumping it into the salt dome and then bringing it back up \u2014 full of dissolved salt \u2014 and storing it in the ponds. \u2014 Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"When the institutions of government hollow out, what\u2019s left is the chase for these cheap gratifications, removing the last self-restraints from those in power. \u2014 George Packer, The Atlantic , 18 May 2022",
"But the past two years have been unusual as Atlanta, like many other major American cities, has seen its central business districts hollow out. \u2014 Alexander Thompson, The Christian Science Monitor , 2 May 2022",
"Beech trees, which are native to Ohio and can live up to 300 years, also tend to hollow out over time, creating important nesting cavities for various critters. \u2014 Peter Krouse, cleveland , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Both Philip and the Inquisitor live on, however hollow their souls. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
"The rush to let anyone with a bank account big enough into the sport has made these kinds of actions hollow . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 25 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"That notion rings hollow to Nick Cady, legal director for Cascadia Wildlands, one of the environmental organizations that originally petitioned to protect fishers in Oregon in 2000. \u2014 oregonlive , 19 May 2020",
"But the Iranian government's tendency to point the finger at Washington, or other malicious foreign actors, for unrest at home is ringing hollow now. \u2014 Eliza Mackintosh, CNN , 13 Jan. 2020",
"This argument rings hollow , since college sports already sit on an uneven playing field. \u2014 Sean Gregory, Time , 1 Oct. 2019",
"But the call for peace rings hollow today when the past and future so miss the mark. \u2014 Lucy Dacus, New York Times , 6 Aug. 2019",
"Despite all the runs and belting that Khalid can do, his voice rings hollow , an untethered reverberation against slick, genre-melding production. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Aug. 2019",
"The command rings hollow as a packaging slogan, but Smith lays it out there as a pointed provocation, part of the show's larger assertion that acts of nurture and nationhood, art and humanity are profoundly linked. \u2014 Leah Ollman, latimes.com , 3 July 2018",
"The idea that these laws are intended to make women and children safer rings hollow . \u2014 Willie Parker, Glamour , 5 Apr. 2018",
"And some say his compassion for those affected by Harvey rings hollow given his lack of support for addressing climate change, which many see as exacerbating such major disasters. \u2014 Linda Feldmann, The Christian Science Monitor , 30 Aug. 2017"
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"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adverb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English holgh, holough \"hole, burrow, hollow of the hand,\" going back to Old English holh \"cavity, hole,\" going back to *hulha-, probably extended form of Germanic *hula- \"hollow, sunken\" \u2014 more at hole entry 1":"Noun",
"Middle English holgh, holugh, holwe, formally identical with holgh hollow entry 2 , with adjectival meaning apparently after hol, holle \"hollow, sunken,\" going back to Old English hol \u2014 more at hole entry 1":"Adjective",
"Middle English holowghen, holowen, holwen, derivative of holgh, holwe hollow entry 1":"Verb",
"derivative of hollow entry 1":"Adverb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4l-(\u02cc)\u014d, -\u0259(-w)",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-l\u014d",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-(\u02cc)l\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for hollow Adjective vain , nugatory , otiose , idle , empty , hollow mean being without worth or significance. vain implies either absolute or relative absence of value. vain promises nugatory suggests triviality or insignificance. a monarch with nugatory powers otiose suggests that something serves no purpose and is either an encumbrance or a superfluity. a film without a single otiose scene idle suggests being incapable of worthwhile use or effect. idle speculations empty and hollow suggest a deceiving lack of real substance or soundness or genuineness. an empty attempt at reconciliation a hollow victory",
"synonyms":[
"concave",
"dented",
"depressed",
"dished",
"indented",
"recessed",
"sunken"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-052400",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"holocaust":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a sacrifice (see sacrifice entry 1 sense 2 ) consumed by fire":[],
": a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life especially through fire":[
"a nuclear holocaust"
],
": the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II":[
"Several members of her family died in the Holocaust .",
"a Holocaust survivor"
]
},
"examples":[
"The museum is devoted to the Holocaust .",
"There were fears of a nuclear holocaust .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After witnessing the nuclear holocaust on November 25, 1963, Five is transported by Hazel to November 15, giving him time to stop the world from ending again. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
"This isn\u2019t the first time Binance has accidentally alluded to the holocaust during one of its marketing campaigns. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"But, to most of the Western world, the symbol is more closely associated with Nazism and the holocaust . \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Nazi obliteration of Jews during World War II is our most common example of a holocaust , but Cameron felt strongly about using the word to describe the plight and injustices of his race, too. \u2014 Mary Bergin, chicagotribune.com , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Biden is not going to listen to Pat Robertson egging him on, but there\u2019s something really perverse about hoping for nuclear holocaust . \u2014 Alex Morris, Rolling Stone , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Davis says the founder was asked to drop holocaust from the museum name, or move the museum to a different city, but Cameron refused. \u2014 Mary Bergin, chicagotribune.com , 16 Feb. 2022",
"It was followed by a secret and emotional ramble from Khrushchev about the spectre of nuclear holocaust . \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Our family has been in the holocaust , pograms, the pontic genocide, and further back, The Spanish Inquisition. \u2014 Fox News , 7 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Late Latin holocaustum , from Greek holokauston , from neuter of holokaustos burnt whole, from hol- + kaustos burnt, from kaiein to burn \u2014 more at caustic":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4-",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-l\u0259-\u02cck\u022fst",
"or \u02c8h\u022f-l\u0259-k\u022fst",
"also -\u02cck\u00e4st",
"\u02c8h\u014d-l\u0259-\u02cck\u022fst",
"\u02c8h\u014d-l\u0259-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"conflagration",
"fire",
"inferno"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171210",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hols":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": vacation sense 2":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1905, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"short for holidays":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4lz"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"break",
"holiday",
"leave",
"recess",
"vacation"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024541",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"holus-bolus":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
": all at once"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1857, in the meaning defined above"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"probably reduplication of bolus"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u014d-l\u0259s-\u02c8b\u014d-l\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-074317",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"holy":{
"antonyms":[
"antireligious",
"faithless",
"godless",
"impious",
"irreligious",
"ungodly",
"unholy"
],
"definitions":{
": devoted entirely to the deity or the work of the deity":[
"a holy temple",
"holy prophets"
],
": divine":[
"for the Lord our God is holy",
"\u2014 Psalms 99:9 (King James Version)"
],
": exalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness":[],
": having a divine quality":[
"holy love"
],
": venerated as or as if sacred":[
"holy scripture",
"a holy relic"
]
},
"examples":[
"a holy relic worn by one of the saints",
"the holy monk spent many hours on his knees in prayer",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Haram al-Sharif, known to Jews as the Temple Mount\u2014a holy site for both faiths that has become a defining symbol of the Palestinian national cause. \u2014 Shlomo Ben-ami, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"Zelenskyy posted video of the burning holy site on social media Saturday. \u2014 Fox News , 4 June 2022",
"Also on Sunday, Israel allowed hundreds of mostly nationalist and religious Jews to visit the holy site that Jews refer to as the Temple Mount and Muslims know as the Al-Aqsa mosque compound. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, ajc , 30 May 2022",
"The Temple Mount is the holy site in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City known in Arabic as the Haram al-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary, containing the Al Aqsa mosque. \u2014 Cnn's Rob Picheta, CNN , 19 May 2022",
"The conflicting claims to east Jerusalem often spill over into violence, helping fuel an 11-day war between Israel and Gaza militants last year and more recently sparking weeks of unrest at the city\u2019s most sensitive holy site. \u2014 Josef Federman, Chicago Tribune , 13 May 2022",
"The Palestinian militant group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, praised the attack and linked it to violence at the Jerusalem holy site. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 7 May 2022",
"Israel and Hamas fought an 11-day war a year ago, fed largely by disputes surrounding the same holy site. \u2014 Ronen Bergman, BostonGlobe.com , 6 May 2022",
"The Palestinian militant group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, praised the attack and linked it to violence at the Jerusalem holy site. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, Anchorage Daily News , 6 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English h\u0101lig ; akin to Old English h\u0101l whole \u2014 more at whole":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014d-l\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"devout",
"godly",
"pious",
"religious",
"sainted",
"saintly"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163636",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"holy ark":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": ark sense 3":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-113725",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"holy basil":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a basil ( Ocimum sanctum ) found in the tropics of the Old World that is extensively naturalized in tropical America and that in India is held sacred to Vishnu":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030000",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"holy bread":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": antidoron":[],
": bread consecrated in the Eucharist":[],
": bread provided for the Communion service":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English holy brede":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105638",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"holy cats":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-111759",
"type":[
"interjection"
]
},
"holy well":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a well or spring venerated often from pagan times for reputed healing properties":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033437",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"holy writ":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a writing or utterance having unquestionable authority":[
"its financial precepts were not necessarily Holy Writ",
"\u2014 Herbert Stein"
],
": bible sense 1":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"Bible",
"Book",
"Good Book",
"Scripture"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201836",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"holy-water sprinkler":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": morning star sense 2":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054207",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hom-":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": homosexual":[
"homo phobia"
],
": one and the same : similar : alike":[
"homo graph",
"homo sporous"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from Greek, from homos \u2014 more at same":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075437",
"type":[
"combining form",
"prefix"
]
},
"homa":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a stylized tree pattern originating in Mesopotamia as a symbol of the tree of life and used especially in Persian textiles":[],
": haoma":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"AV haoma haoma, plant that is the source of haoma and is conceived as the tree of life":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dm\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-100218",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"homage":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord":[],
": an act done or payment made in meeting the obligations due from a vassal to a feudal lord":[],
": expression of high regard : respect":[
"bowed in homage to the king",
"\u2014 often used with pay Her work pays homage to women artists of the past."
],
": something that shows respect or attests to the worth or influence of another : tribute":[
"his long life filled with international homages to his unique musical talent",
"\u2014 People"
],
": the relationship between a feudal lord and his vassal":[]
},
"examples":[
"The book is a deeply personal homage to her favorite city.",
"the poem is a moving homage to all who have served in our nation's armed services",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There\u2019s even an initiative whereby local Figeacois pay homage to Egypt in their shop windows. \u2014 Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
"The two rides are designed to pay homage to classic, 19th century Coney Island rides, as well as Zamperla\u2019s family, which has been involved in circuses, carnivals and amusement parks for generations. \u2014 Joseph Frederick, ajc , 30 June 2022",
"When Cremona took over Henry Jacques Perfumes, her vision was to build upon and pay homage to the company created by her parents. \u2014 Celia Shatzman, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Pay homage to your favorite creepy titles with a cool book-spine display. \u2014 Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping , 27 June 2022",
"In 1323, Isabella\u2019s brother Charles, now the king of France, insisted that Edward come and pay homage for lands that England held in France. \u2014 Anne Th\u00e9riault, Longreads , 21 June 2022",
"While its delectable food might be the main attraction, the marketplace is also famous for its bars, live jazz shows and concerts as well as two hallway-length murals that pay homage to Black history in Detroit. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 19 June 2022",
"Ankara aviators pay homage to the African heritage of its founders. \u2014 Thomas Hindle, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 June 2022",
"Powered by her rebellious vocals and electric guitars that pay homage to the Y2K pop-punk sound, the lyrics are about being in a toxic physical relationship, where most problems are solved in the bedroom. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 3 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French homage, omage , from home man, vassal, from Latin homin-, homo human being; akin to Old English guma human being, Latin humus earth \u2014 more at humble":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4-mij",
"sense 2b is often \u014d-\u02c8m\u00e4zh",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for homage honor , homage , reverence , deference mean respect and esteem shown to another. honor may apply to the recognition of one's right to great respect or to any expression of such recognition. the nomination is an honor homage adds the implication of accompanying praise. paying homage to Shakespeare reverence implies profound respect mingled with love, devotion, or awe. great reverence for my father deference implies a yielding or submitting to another's judgment or preference out of respect or reverence. showed no deference to their elders",
"synonyms":[
"accolade",
"citation",
"commendation",
"dithyramb",
"encomium",
"eulogium",
"eulogy",
"hymn",
"paean",
"panegyric",
"salutation",
"tribute"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194901",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hombre":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": guy entry 1 sense 1a , fellow sense 4c":[
"Back in the days of the Wild West, when every gunslinger tried to make his reputation by outdrawing the baddest hombre in town \u2026",
"\u2014 Bob Greene",
"Here we have four hombres who have been rocking and rolling for a long time \u2026",
"\u2014 Greg Sandow",
"His injuries have left him with a reputation as one tough hombre , a genuine stoic, a man who would battle Godzilla\u2014and win\u2014to stay at the job he loves.",
"\u2014 Rick Telander"
]
},
"examples":[
"two tough-looking hombres sauntered into the bar and ordered \u2026 lemonade",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Young hombres on bikes circled, ready to grab anything, even from moving vehicles. \u2014 David Hammond, chicagotribune.com , 17 Oct. 2019",
"Un ranchero de Texas est\u00e1 enamorado de una mujer que se casar\u00e1 con otro hombre . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Oct. 2019",
"King became a martyr in my home, a pobre hombre who died for the idea of social equality. \u2014 H\u00e9ctor Tobar, The New Yorker , 22 July 2019",
"La esposa y el ahijado de un hombre planean asesinarlo despu\u00e9s de que descubren que se han enamorado. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Sep. 2019",
"Despu\u00e9s del juicio, \u00e9l descubre que sus acciones liberaron a un hombre culpable. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Aug. 2019",
"And there are several more huge homer hombres who haven\u2019t yet surfaced in the Derby rumor mill: Edwin Encarnacion, Mike Moustakas, Jorge Soler, Freddie Freeman\u2026 the list goes on. \u2014 Jon Tayler, SI.com , 2 July 2019",
"The Warriors\u2019 most sensitive and emotionally fragile player might be the coldest-blooded crunch-time hombre in the league. \u2014 Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com , 11 June 2019",
"That Texas trio took its inspiration from being Lone Star State beer-drinking boogie-rock hombres . \u2014 John Adamian, courant.com , 19 May 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1630, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Spanish, man, from Latin homin-, homo":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u014dm-",
"\u02c8\u0259m-",
"-\u02ccbr\u0113",
"\u02c8\u00e4m-br\u0101"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bastard",
"bloke",
"buck",
"cat",
"chap",
"chappie",
"dude",
"fella",
"fellow",
"galoot",
"gent",
"gentleman",
"guy",
"jack",
"joe",
"joker",
"lad",
"male",
"man"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182239",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"home":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an establishment providing residence and care for people with special needs":[
"homes for the elderly"
],
": habitat":[
"the home of the kangaroo",
"The island is home to many species of birds."
],
": headquarters sense 2":[
"home of the dance company"
],
": house":[
"several homes for sale in the area"
],
": in harmony with the surroundings":[],
": of, relating to, or being a place of residence, place of origin, or base of operations":[
"the company's home office"
],
": on familiar ground : knowledgeable":[
"teachers at home in their subject fields"
],
": one's place of residence : domicile":[
"has been away from home for two weeks",
"a place to call home"
],
": operating or occurring in an area that is a headquarters or base of operations":[
"the home team",
"home games"
],
": out of jeopardy : in a comfortable position with respect to some objective":[],
": prepared, done, or designed for use in a home (see home entry 1 )":[
"home remedies",
"home cooking",
"a home entertainment system"
],
": relaxed and comfortable : at ease":[
"felt completely at home on the stage"
],
": the social unit formed by a family living together":[
"trying to make a good home for their children",
"comes from a loving home"
],
": to a final, closed, or ultimate position":[
"drive a nail home"
],
": to a vital sensitive core":[
"the truth struck home"
],
": to go or return to one's place of residence or origin : to go or return home (see home entry 1 )":[
"let us home"
],
": to move to or toward an objective by following a signal or landmark":[
"\u2014 usually used with on or in missiles homing in on a target mariners \u2026 sought the dark spires of Oakland's redwoods to home on \u2014 J. W. Noble"
],
": to or at an ultimate objective (such as a goal or finish line)":[
"fired the puck home"
],
": to or at one's place of residence or home (see home entry 1 sense 1a )":[
"told the dog to go home",
"stayed home all day"
],
": to proceed or direct attention toward an objective":[
"science is homing in on the mysterious human process",
"\u2014 Sam Glucksberg"
],
": to return accurately to one's native area of place of birth or origin from a distance : to return home":[
"The salmon will home to spawn."
],
": to send to or provide with a home":[
"hidden pools and much wider creeks each of which homed its cranes",
"\u2014 I. L. Idriess"
],
"Sir Alec Douglas- 1903\u20131995 British prime minister (1963\u201364)":[],
"William Douglas- 1912\u20131992 brother of Alec Douglas-Home British dramatist":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"Right now his home is a small apartment.",
"People are concerned about protecting their homes .",
"They have a second home on the lake.",
"There's no place like home .",
"I must have left my notes at home .",
"She made a good home for her husband and children.",
"The islands are home to many species of birds.",
"Can you find homes for these files in your office?",
"Adverb",
"She called home to say she would be late for dinner.",
"He's sending money home from a job overseas.",
"She is on her way home .",
"It's great to be back home .",
"I can't wait to come home .",
"He used a hammer to drive the nail home .",
"Adjective",
"She has a happy home life.",
"Please give us your home phone number.",
"What is your home address?",
"The team opens its home season in just two weeks.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Authorities also seized $5,000 in cash from Buie\u2019s home . \u2014 Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"Once, while traveling up the California coast, cookbook author Lukas Volger was invited to a friend\u2019s home for lunch. \u2014 G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"An 8-year-old boy who was missing in the northwest Germany city of Oldenburg for over a week was found in the city's sewer system about a 1,000 feet from his family's home on Saturday. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 30 June 2022",
"Alternatively, if northern climates are home , consider heading south for a change of natural surroundings. \u2014 Tracey Sawyer, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Blue Ash, home of the popular annual fireworks display Red, White and Blue Ash, only allows professional exhibitors to use fireworks, according to city code. \u2014 Erin Couch, The Enquirer , 29 June 2022",
"You album was recorded for Atlantic Records, home of Stax Records and Led Zeppelin, which makes her representative of where the music and media industry stand. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 29 June 2022",
"In March, federal agents searched Develin\u2019s home and found more than 25 firearms. \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 29 June 2022",
"At Madrid\u2019s Palacio de Liria, one of the largest private residences in the city and home to the dukes of Berwick and Alba and their families, there resides an impressive array of Cartier watches and clocks. \u2014 Paige Reddinger, Robb Report , 29 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Having the opportunity to come home and build this brand from the ground up with my family and friends by my side is a real dream come true,'' Dailey said. \u2014 Randy Tucker, The Enquirer , 29 June 2022",
"And don\u2019t come home and immediately crank up the heat or AC. \u2014 Mimi Montgomery, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"That\u2019s four consecutive race weekends where, if not for mistakes from Ilott, the No. 77 Chevy likely would\u2019ve come home with strong finishes. \u2014 Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star , 28 June 2022",
"Besides, most Black people just want to come home safe every night and will avoid taking risks that could result in injury or death. \u2014 Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"But despite their intense connection, Oliver\u2019s impending return home to the United States threatens to tear them apart. \u2014 Leah Campano, Seventeen , 25 June 2022",
"Bennett said his grandson\u2019s wish has always been to return home to Uvalde after college graduation to become a farmer like his father. \u2014 Danya Perez, San Antonio Express-News , 25 June 2022",
"His dad would come home , after a long day in Washington, D.C., talking about the inner workings of upcoming legislation. \u2014 IndyStar , 20 June 2022",
"Around 2014, Rivera left the Central Valley to become an English teacher at San Jose State University; they were forced to come home when their mom panicked about deportation amid Trump-era immigration raids. \u2014 Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle , 19 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"More than 30 San Antonio fire units were in a West Side neighborhood after a multi- home fire broke out Friday morning. \u2014 Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Current Sea Cliff neighbors include Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer (who owns a multi- home compound) and San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer. \u2014 Howard Walker, Robb Report , 21 Sep. 2021",
"Virtual care is likely here to stay: Medicare began covering remote appointment benefits in 2019, but limited them to rural areas and non- home settings. \u2014 oregonlive , 12 Oct. 2020",
"The Astros were scheduled to play two home exhibition games and six regular season games at Minute Maid Park prior to April 9 \u2014 the earliest date on which the schedule will resume. \u2014 Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle , 14 Mar. 2020",
"The Hawks will play two home exhibition games at Georgia Tech\u2019s McCamish Pavilion (Oct. 9 and Oct. 12) as Philips Arena undergoes renovation. \u2014 Michael Cunningham, ajc , 1 Oct. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"How can home shoppers find the most bang for their buck? \u2014 oregonlive , 19 June 2022",
"The pursuit ultimately concluded in front of Simpson\u2019s Brentwood home a little before 8 p.m., and negotiations began. \u2014 Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
"After its decision to close the Alaska Heritage Museum, the bank made plans to re- home its collection of 14,000 items at 35 different organizations, almost all of them in Alaska. \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Karen Landers, district medical officer for the Alabama Department of Public Health, told STAT on Thursday that not all of the cases had a high enough viral load to be able to conduct tests to home in on the type of adenovirus. \u2014 Helen Branswell, STAT , 24 Apr. 2022",
"For a decade, rock-bottom mortgage rates helped home buyers steadily bid up the cost of housing. \u2014 Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times , 23 Apr. 2022",
"For a decade, rock bottom mortgage rates helped home buyers steadily bid up the cost of housing. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Evans explores the impact that the Food Timeline had on its users, from podcast hosts to home cooks. \u2014 Hallel Yadin, Longreads , 24 Mar. 2022"
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"After drawing the Washington Spirit 1-1 in a physical affair, the Portland Thorns wrap up their four-game home stand with a matinee match against the Houston Dash on Saturday. \u2014 oregonlive , 21 May 2022",
"Portland comes off an 11-game home stand that saved their season. \u2014 Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive , 17 Dec. 2021",
"The series continues through Sunday and the \u2018Birds (8-3) will be back in Aberdeen Tuesday to begin a two-week home stand . \u2014 Randy Mcroberts, Baltimore Sun , 21 Apr. 2022",
"This is the fourth outing in an eight-game home stand for the Beavers, who are 10-5 this season at Goss Stadium. ... \u2014 oregonlive , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Austin will have a front-row seat this week as Miguel Cabrera looks to get the 3,000th hit of his career during the up-coming home stand against the New York Yankees and Colorado Rockies. \u2014 Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Bosquez is hopeful to return this weekend for the home stand beginning on Thursday at 5 p.m. against USC. \u2014 Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic , 24 Feb. 2022",
"This final 10-day home stand includes no off days, so the Brewers will need six starters to maintain that regimen. \u2014 Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 18 Sep. 2021",
"Newman, who injured his ankle on a dunk, added 13 points for Cincinnati, which closes out its three-game home stand Sunday against Temple. \u2014 Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer , 18 Feb. 2022"
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"For Muhammad al-Tarawneh, a mansaf chef in the central Jordanian town of Karak, considered the dish\u2019s homeland , the answer was clear: Mansaf in a cup is just plain wrong. \u2014 New York Times , 26 June 2022",
"Together, the father-and-son Kuti team creates a propulsive sonic gumbo with songs whose lyrics address the political and economic challenges that face Africa in general and their Nigerian homeland specifically. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Pope Francis recently postponed a trip to Biyombo's homeland , the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan of Africa. \u2014 Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic , 22 June 2022",
"Silva, however, who has already played in France where City paid Monaco \u20ac50mn ($53mn) plus \u20ac30mn ($32mn) in variables for his services in 2017, wants to be closer to his homeland Portugal which makes Barca his top priority choice. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Inspired by travels in her ancestral homeland , the artist made semiabstract, mixed-media pictures of members of the Surma and Mursi tribes. \u2014 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"The actor, host, and avid traveler has long been known for his love of the European nation, which also happens to be his ancestral homeland . \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure , 17 June 2022",
"In his more explicit essays and public talks, Mr. Yehoshua affirmed the Zionist ideal of a Jewish homeland , but indicated that Israelis had to accommodate the needs of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians exiled from that land. \u2014 Joseph Berger, BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2022",
"Authorities returned them not to South America, where some of their children were born, but to their original homeland \u2014 Haiti. \u2014 Fox News , 14 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Drop-off days are currently Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday with a reservation and any items Welcome Home can\u2019t use are repurposed, recycled, or donated to agencies like homeless shelters and animal rescues. \u2014 Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"Swanigan\u2019s brother, Carl Jr., said in the Bleacher Report article that living in Utah was especially difficult. Swanigan recalled in a 2017 ESPN story staying in five homeless shelters throughout his youth. \u2014 Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"Since last August, facilitators Belinda Breaux and Tom Barrett have guided negotiations over plans to transition out of the city\u2019s COVID-19-era mass care homeless shelters and to expand longer-term services in Anchorage. \u2014 Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News , 18 June 2022",
"Without those tests to rely on, county officials will pay more attention to cases in hospitals, nursing homes, homeless shelters and other high-risk settings. \u2014 Karen Kaplanscience And Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"Bring a new piece of luggage, backpack, duffel or new package of socks for the luggage and sock drive to benefit San Diego\u2019s homeless shelters and San Pasqual Academy and receive a special drink. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 June 2022",
"His wife has left them and Chris has nowhere to go, leading them to sleep in homeless shelters and subway stations. \u2014 Leah Campano, Seventeen , 10 June 2022",
"Right now there are veteran homeless shelters that have been renovated to serve more people thanks to grants from the foundation. \u2014 Gina Loveless, Men's Health , 7 June 2022",
"Lee\u2019s brother, Aaron Lee, previously told Rolling Stone that Lee has been in and out of homeless shelters in Los Angeles in recent years and has struggled with his mental health. \u2014 Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone , 2 June 2022"
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"Catherine Zeta-Jones got her start in this homely British series set in South East England in the 1950s. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, ELLE , 30 June 2022",
"The plot, set in frostbitten Wisconsin in 1907, was about a widower seeking a practical and homely mail-order bride and instead getting an ominous beauty. \u2014 Adam Bernstein, Washington Post , 14 May 2022",
"The reduced size makes for a truly bizarre and uncanny sight \u2014 highlighting its grim facades, its willfully homely form and the mammoth scale of its LED billboards, which have all the design grace of the drunk guy wearing a lampshade at the party. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Mar. 2022",
"The look is soft, opaque at times, doing away with hi-def graphics for something more childlike, homely and calm \u2014 a video game that will likely inspire art that will grace many a parent\u2019s fridge. \u2014 Todd Martens Game Critic, Los Angeles Times , 30 Jan. 2022",
"The measure of its slipping prestige is that one tends to think of it only in connection with homely children and with United States senators who have been defeated, preferably in the primary, for re-election. \u2014 Joan Didion, Vogue , 22 Oct. 2014",
"It's made of solid brass because life's too short for homely plastic watering cans. \u2014 Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Into this scene came the short, homely , ardent, Waldo-worshipping figure of Thoreau. \u2014 James Marcus, The New Yorker , 11 Oct. 2021",
"The outgoing, attention-loving critters are a hit in a section that focuses on homely farm breeds \u2014 as opposed to exotic wild species, say zoo officials. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 1 Oct. 2021"
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"Catherine Zeta-Jones got her start in this homely British series set in South East England in the 1950s. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, ELLE , 30 June 2022",
"The plot, set in frostbitten Wisconsin in 1907, was about a widower seeking a practical and homely mail-order bride and instead getting an ominous beauty. \u2014 Adam Bernstein, Washington Post , 14 May 2022",
"The reduced size makes for a truly bizarre and uncanny sight \u2014 highlighting its grim facades, its willfully homely form and the mammoth scale of its LED billboards, which have all the design grace of the drunk guy wearing a lampshade at the party. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Mar. 2022",
"The look is soft, opaque at times, doing away with hi-def graphics for something more childlike, homely and calm \u2014 a video game that will likely inspire art that will grace many a parent\u2019s fridge. \u2014 Todd Martens Game Critic, Los Angeles Times , 30 Jan. 2022",
"The measure of its slipping prestige is that one tends to think of it only in connection with homely children and with United States senators who have been defeated, preferably in the primary, for re-election. \u2014 Joan Didion, Vogue , 22 Oct. 2014",
"It's made of solid brass because life's too short for homely plastic watering cans. \u2014 Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Into this scene came the short, homely , ardent, Waldo-worshipping figure of Thoreau. \u2014 James Marcus, The New Yorker , 11 Oct. 2021",
"The outgoing, attention-loving critters are a hit in a section that focuses on homely farm breeds \u2014 as opposed to exotic wild species, say zoo officials. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 1 Oct. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This year featured a gentle breakup here, with no ice-jam flooding at the town of Eagle, nor 12 miles downriver, where Andy Bassich reported all was well at his homesite . \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 14 May 2022",
"Getting a homesite designation can take years, with a lengthy process of approvals from families with grazing permits, signoffs from archaeologists, fish and wildlife services, environmental reviews, surveys and grazing officer clearances. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 27 Apr. 2022",
"In Spring 2020, archaeologist Dr. Julie Schablitsky and a team from Maryland\u2019s Department of Transportation discovered the former homesite of Tubman\u2019s father, Ben Ross, within a portion of the refuge. \u2014 Donna M. Owens, baltimoresun.com , 10 Feb. 2022",
"The most recent Benefit home built was Chesmar Homes\u2019 Hillcrest plan in Lago Mar. Chesmar donated construction management and Land Tejas, the developer of Lago Mar, donated the homesite . \u2014 Chron , 21 Aug. 2021",
"While the property homesite sprawls over 7,500 square-feet, the villa itself covers just 1,650. \u2014 Howard Walker, Robb Report , 29 June 2021",
"If building your dream home is the plan, then the property at 3801 Beverly Drive covers two landscaped lots that were combined to create a 40-foot by 225-foot homesite on .75 acres. \u2014 Dallas News , 27 June 2021",
"Cindy Wright, the homeowner who lives on the corner directly adjacent to the project, also worries about a pair of Engelmann oaks \u2014 trees unique to Southern California and Baja California \u2014 at her homesite . \u2014 Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 June 2021",
"Now through Sunday, June 27, buyers can own an all new, 1-plus-acre homesite , during the Belle Oaks Grand Opening Land Sale. \u2014 Chron , 26 June 2021"
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"Last summer, Dua Lipa shared photos on her Instagram wearing a homespun iteration complete with flower and rainbow patches. \u2014 Vogue , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The Museum of Appalachia\u2019s origins were fittingly homespun . \u2014 Alex Traub, New York Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"His homespun sermons packed the church every weekend, and the priest frequently visited the region\u2019s agricultural fields with lunches for campesinos, many of whom hailed from his native Michoac\u00e1n. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 Oct. 2021",
"It\u2019s a fun, easy, inexpensive way to add a little professional flair to a homespun tree. \u2014 Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Both items use fabric left over from past Loeffler Randall designs, a homespun callback to the love of quilting and DIY-crafting Randall doubled down on last year. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 19 Nov. 2021",
"With its semi-old-school special effects\u2014who isn\u2019t a little nostalgic for those staticky, zig-zaggy ghostbuster-gun effects?\u2014it seeks to delight us with its homespun wholesomeness. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 19 Nov. 2021",
"For this reason, scientists have even likened the homespun structure to a gill. \u2014 Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 Oct. 2021",
"But overall, there is a kind of homespun quality that is personal yet creative. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Oct. 2021",
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"Since that first summer, when Norman firefighter Tim Suchy won with a 52-pound flathead weighed in at Bob\u2019s Pig Shop, Beesley\u2019s homespun competition has grown into the largest noodling competition in the nation. \u2014 Matt Carney, Outside Online , 15 June 2022",
"The three gossiping figures at the right, their homespun dresses echoing the colors of the rocks, are grounded in a circle of friendship and community. \u2014 Helen A. Cooper, WSJ , 10 June 2022",
"Reference the past To sound homespun , Biden often talks about his parents and his family, but all of that is about past. \u2014 Jerry Weissman, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"This can be over a meal or simply at a homespun or professional mixer. \u2014 Nona Djavid, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Her Ruthie, inheritor of a hallowed homespun eatery in Philadelphia, is the surefire anchor of the world-premiere production, with music and lyrics by Nolan Williams Jr. and a book by Williams and Nikkole Salter. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Given Charlene's absence and concerns over COVID, the twins' party will have a more homespun feel, Albert says. \u2014 Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com , 10 Dec. 2021",
"These towering platform suede sandals can carry you right into the holiday season, while these feminine slides have a homespun feel, and would look great with a little black dress or a laidback pair of straight-leg jeans, depending on your mood. \u2014 Jennifer Chan, PEOPLE.com , 3 Sep. 2021",
"The designer and entrepreneur has made waves on social media for his insanely innovative and unconventional DIYs; each design challenges the typical scope of most other homespun projects. \u2014 Nathalie Kirby, House Beautiful , 29 July 2021"
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"Byron Nongbri runs a homestay with his wife, near the famous double-decker bridge in Nongriat village. \u2014 Anne Pinto-rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor , 8 June 2022",
"Expedia, which offers travel bookings from hotels to cruises, didn\u2019t even consolidate its homestay brands into one until recently, finally redirecting HomeAway users to Vrbo.com in June of last year. \u2014 Laura Forman, WSJ , 1 June 2021",
"That bodes well for Airbnb\u2019s pace of recovery and consumers\u2019 likelihood to opt toward the safety of a homestay over the exposure of a hotel as the world slowly opens back up. \u2014 Laura Forman, WSJ , 26 Feb. 2021",
"After a homestay there, the couple returned to Minnesota on March 10, the day before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. \u2014 Star Tribune , 6 Nov. 2020",
"Even in tech, some companies such as ride-share services Uber and Lyft, travel sites Expedia and TripAdvisor, and homestay provider Airbnb face massive challenges in the coronavirus era. \u2014 Jay Greene, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2020",
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"Several trekking companies based in the city offer trip and homestay packages of varying lengths, prices, and difficulty. \u2014 National Geographic , 18 Jan. 2020",
"Our lodgings are a mixture of hotels and rustic homestays in rural villages. \u2014 Anna Hartley, Washington Post , 24 Jan. 2020"
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"The majority of the $600 million is expected to be used by DHHL for developing homestead lots and acquiring land \u2014 an effort that will be further boosted by a record $22.3 million that Congress approved earlier this year for Native Hawaiian housing. \u2014 Rob Perez, ProPublica , 6 May 2022",
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"After losing out on several properties due to all-cash offers, many of which were $100,000 over the asking price, the couple purchased a two-bedroom homestead cabin on five acres for $475,000 in February 2021. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
"In a tour across North America, Srinath helps aqua, rooftop, indoor, homestead , suburban and foraging farmers who are at a breaking point. \u2014 Carson Burton, Variety , 16 May 2022",
"Your will cannot avoid these homestead rights, as they were enacted to prevent a surviving spouse from becoming suddenly homeless. \u2014 Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel , 12 May 2022",
"The majority of the $600 million is expected to be used by DHHL for developing homestead lots and acquiring land \u2014 an effort that will be further boosted by a record $22.3 million that Congress approved earlier this year for Native Hawaiian housing. \u2014 Rob Perez, ProPublica , 6 May 2022",
"The lawsuit stems from a 1991 law allowing Native Hawaiians to file claims against the state for losses incurred while waiting for a homestead lease from 1959 to 1988. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 28 Apr. 2022",
"It was known to the government as Launch Facility E05, one of 52 active nuclear missile sites on the old homestead farms of Fergus County. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2022",
"The Denali dog teams stopped overnight at Jenna and David Jonas\u2019 homestead near Hadley Island and talked about their dogs over homemade pie. \u2014 Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News , 27 Mar. 2022",
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"Tour the first floor of Stonewalls, the 1720 Hayes homestead where the family resided. \u2014 courant.com , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Tour the first floor of Stonewalls, the 1720 Hayes homestead where the family resided. \u2014 courant.com , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Tour the first floor of Stonewalls, the 1720 Hayes homestead where the family resided. \u2014 courant.com , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Tour the first floor of Stonewalls, the 1720 Hayes homestead where the family resided. \u2014 courant.com , 17 Sep. 2021"
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"The horses are in the homestretch .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Construction of Auburn\u2019s new Football Performance Center is approaching the homestretch . \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 14 June 2022",
"The start line also changes from the backstretch to the homestretch depending on the placement of the water jump. \u2014 cleveland , 23 May 2022",
"Voters may think November\u2019s election is barely on the horizon, but for the industry built around petition drives, this is the homestretch . \u2014 John Myers, Los Angeles Times , 28 Jan. 2022",
"The homestretch lolls pleasantly, offering sweet butter and a hint of cool lemon custard. \u2014 Dan Dunn, Robb Report , 15 Dec. 2020",
"Our congressional correspondent Rachel Scott traveled to the Buckeye State as the primary race enters the homestretch . \u2014 ABC News , 24 Apr. 2022",
"But Delgado responded with a burst of speed down the homestretch , winning in 4:20.93. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Smith\u2019s current groove was crucial for Auburn during the homestretch of the regular season; the Tigers might not have won the regular-season crown without him playing at the level. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 9 Mar. 2022",
"In 1984, Jack Daniels and his wife, Nancy, sat for 10 days in the middle of the homestretch at the LA Olympics without seeing much of the track action. \u2014 Amby Burfoot, Outside Online , 23 July 2019"
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"court-appointed psychiatrists have described the accused as a homicidal maniac who should be put away for life",
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"In addition to two counts of first-degree murder, Holloway faces two counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child, one count of dismembering a human body, concealment of homicidal death and a several motor vehicle charges. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 15 June 2022",
"Background checks consistently miss people with homicidal tendencies. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 29 May 2022",
"Melinda's acceptance of Vic's homicidal tendencies also adds a twist to a film whose main, potentially deflating, revelation is that the person who has been calling himself a murderer all along is indeed a murderer. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Thus, an occasional homicidal track is less likely to have an effect than a steady diet. \u2014 Tom Roland, Billboard , 25 May 2022",
"The patient, a serial killer played by Domhnall Gleeson, demands to be cured of his homicidal urges. \u2014 Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
"The last is dangerous, homicidal and enigmatic in a way that pushes the movie to the edge of its PG-13 rating, bearing a greater resemblance to Heath Ledger's Joker than Jim Carrey's manic incarnation, much less the colorful 1960s version. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 4 Mar. 2022",
"The story rose to a new level of prominence after police soon arrested her husband, novelist Michael Peterson, and charged him with murder, saying that Kathleen's injuries were consistent with homicidal assault. \u2014 Patrick Rogers, PEOPLE.com , 5 May 2022",
"But as the two of them begin arguing, the truth about their toxic, homicidal relationship bubbles to the surface, and madness soon takes hold. \u2014 Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter , 3 May 2022"
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"The number of homicides increased last year.",
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"Sean Kinchla of the West Bureau homicide unit said at the time. \u2014 Kevin Rectorstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to call the homicide unit at (619) 531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477. \u2014 Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"Anyone with information is urged to contact the Cincinnati Police Department's homicide unit at 513-352-3542. \u2014 Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer , 19 June 2022",
"The department's homicide unit is handling the investigation, Smiley said. \u2014 Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal , 12 June 2022",
"Brazilian police have made a second arrest in the disappearance of a British reporter and an Indigenous expert in the Amazon jungle, while signaling a shift to a homicide probe 10 days after the pair went missing. \u2014 Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News , 15 June 2022",
"These temperatures can be linked to at least 17 causes of death, most of them related to heart and breathing issues but also including suicide, drowning and homicide . \u2014 Jen Christensen, CNN , 15 June 2022",
"But the story itself feels like an afterthought, and the energy level tends to droop whenever Bridges is not getting his homicide on. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 14 June 2022",
"Three adults and a 15-year-old boy are dead in Casselberry in what police say is a triple- homicide and suicide. \u2014 Abigail Hasebroock, Orlando Sentinel , 14 June 2022"
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"tends to speak in homiletic aphorisms, which can be a little tiresome",
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"There\u2019s a word for this style of narrative preaching\u2014 homiletic . \u2014 Jo Livingstone, The New Republic , 6 Apr. 2021",
"That interpretation of Kipling\u2019s homiletic verse required her to overlook its gender-specific language, which is directed exclusively to boys who want to be men. \u2014 Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor , 15 July 2019",
"There was no Jesus in that house, no Bible, no devotional materials of any kind, no crucifixes or homiletic asides, nothing. \u2014 Stephen Metcalf, The New Yorker , 19 May 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Although sermons used to be reprinted regularly in newspapers, such controversies are uncommon, and homiletics rarely makes headlines anymore. \u2014 Casey Cep, The New Yorker , 7 Oct. 2021"
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"The priest gave a brief homily on forgiveness.",
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"Despite these strong words, the court ruling didn\u2019t explicitly come up during the homily at Sunday\u2019s service at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles, blocks from where protesters had gathered over the past three days. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 June 2022",
"Family members and other funeral attendees paid their respects at the funeral, where Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros, right, gave the homily . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"On Wednesday, Morales concelebrated the Garcias\u2019 joint funeral, though Garc\u00eda-Siller gave the homily . \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
"Father Edward Estok, pastor of St. Albert the Great Parish in North Royalton, will provide the homily . \u2014 Evan Macdonald, cleveland , 28 Sep. 2021",
"Cardinal Timothy Dolan delivered a homily on the life of one of their own, Dorothy Day, a native New Yorker and anarchist writer and activist who died in 1980. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Father Edward Estok, pastor of St. Albert the Great Parish in North Royalton, will provide the homily . \u2014 Evan Macdonald, cleveland , 28 Sep. 2021",
"Tutu also delivered a homily to 500 people at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Madison. \u2014 Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 27 Dec. 2021",
"As a humble, Catholic man, devoted to the Virgin of Guadalupe and considered a family man who knew how to unite nations through his song, this is how Fern\u00e1ndez was remembered during the homily of the present body mass on the stage of his Arena VFG. \u2014 Diana Garc\u00eda, The Arizona Republic , 13 Dec. 2021"
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"In their natural state, mountains of this type are almost entirely covered by dense forest. The wooded landscape is very uniform, lacking in contrast, and any disturbance of the homogeneous green blanket is very obvious \u2026 \u2014 John Crowley , Focus on Geography , Winter 2007",
"One odd side effect is that, during the last 20 years, the formerly homogeneous , rather stodgy world of academic criticism has diversified into an incoherent mob of competing factions. \u2014 Walter Kendrick , New York Times Book Review , 24 Dec. 1995",
"The Benedictine convents for women, which had begun to be founded soon after Benedict's day, became particularly homogeneous in their social composition. The nuns of the ninth and tenth centuries were all high-born ladies, and it was almost impossible to be admitted to these convents without being a widowed or maiden relative of an important lord. \u2014 Norman F. Cantor , The Civilization of the Middle Ages , 1993",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Critically though, neurodivergent traits are not homogeneous . \u2014 Nancy Doyle, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"He was born in 1962, into a Reykjav\u00edk that was, in many ways, still a village: small, dull, remote, conservative, homogeneous . \u2014 New York Times , 13 Jan. 2022",
"Democrats find themselves in a position similar to Republicans in recent years: Their majorities are small by historical standards, but more ideologically homogeneous than before. \u2014 W. James Antle Iii, The Week , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Cultivating a homogeneous workforce is not a strategy for success. \u2014 Kara Alaimo For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN , 3 June 2022",
"Her research revealed the details of what, to a casual observer, might seem a homogeneous slice of the long-ago. \u2014 New York Times , 22 May 2022",
"At the same time, Korea is a homogeneous , mono-ethnicity country that has maintained its own cultural identity throughout its long history. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 May 2022",
"Usually, a successful tenant association is a homogeneous group, led by neighbors from similar backgrounds. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
"At higher temperatures, there is a risk of not obtaining a homogeneous cream. \u2014 CNN , 8 May 2022"
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": to make uniform in structure or composition throughout : to make homogeneous":[],
": to reduce to small particles of uniform size and distribute evenly usually in a liquid":[]
},
"examples":[
"The new curriculum is an attempt to homogenize education throughout the county.",
"plans to homogenize the science curriculum in public high schools throughout the state",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"When enough brands and retailers begin using these inventory tactics and trend-prediction methods, the results homogenize over time. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 23 June 2022",
"And this basically puts it back to a point where, like most of these issues when one side of the aisle wants to homogenize it federally, is not the right way to do it. \u2014 Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The movement seeks to homogenize Indian culture around Hindu values. \u2014 CNN , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Once Hollywood signed the overseas talent, there were two approaches: one was to homogenize the imports and turn them into Hollywood\u2019s version of Americana. \u2014 Tim Gray, Variety , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Even as the various Romanian regimes, especially the Communists, strove to demographically homogenize the major cities seized from Hungary, Temesv\u00e1r retained much of its cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic character and Western orientation. \u2014 Diarmaid Macculloch, The New York Review of Books , 3 Dec. 2020",
"Even as the various Romanian regimes, especially the Communists, strove to demographically homogenize the major cities seized from Hungary, Temesv\u00e1r retained much of its cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic character and Western orientation. \u2014 Diarmaid Macculloch, The New York Review of Books , 3 Dec. 2020",
"Even as the various Romanian regimes, especially the Communists, strove to demographically homogenize the major cities seized from Hungary, Temesv\u00e1r retained much of its cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic character and Western orientation. \u2014 Diarmaid Macculloch, The New York Review of Books , 3 Dec. 2020",
"Even as the various Romanian regimes, especially the Communists, strove to demographically homogenize the major cities seized from Hungary, Temesv\u00e1r retained much of its cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic character and Western orientation. \u2014 Diarmaid Macculloch, The New York Review of Books , 3 Dec. 2020"
],
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"1835, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
},
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"see homogeneous":""
},
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"h\u0259-",
"h\u014d-\u02c8m\u00e4-j\u0259-\u02ccn\u012bz"
],
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"formalize",
"normalize",
"regularize",
"standardize"
],
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"decline",
"deny",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"negative",
"reject",
"turn down",
"veto"
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"examples":[
"to be effectual, a judge must homologate the plea bargain between the district attorney and the defense",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Porsche\u2019s first 911 Turbo came to market in 1975, with the factory needing 400 examples to homologate its 911 for Group 4 racing. \u2014 Robert Ross, Robb Report , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Born of the need to homologate the 911 GT3 Cup racer's control-arm front suspension, the strut-type layout that 911s have used since the 1960s is tossed aside for this model. \u2014 Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver , 20 Apr. 2021",
"Porsche paleontologists who dig into the 911 fossil record can trace the DNA of the GT3 to the 1973 911 Carrera RS 2.7, a limited run made in Touring and Sport configuration to homologate a lightweight 911 for competition. \u2014 Robert Ross, Robb Report , 20 Apr. 2021",
"The affordable and stylish Fiat allowed Ferrari to reach the production volume needed to homologate the V6 engine for racing. \u2014 Chuck Squatriglia, WIRED , 19 Sep. 2008"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1593, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Medieval Latin homologatus , past participle of homologare to agree, from Greek homologein , from homologos":""
},
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"h\u014d-\u02c8m\u00e4-l\u0259-\u02ccg\u0101t",
"h\u0259-"
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"accredit",
"approbate",
"approve",
"authorize",
"clear",
"confirm",
"finalize",
"formalize",
"OK",
"okay",
"ratify",
"sanction",
"warrant"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061917",
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"hon":{
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"definitions":{
": honey sense 2a":[],
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},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"I'm so glad you're home, hon .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Like English, Swedish used two pronouns to indicate the gender of a person, hon (she) and han (he). \u2014 Adam Rogers, WIRED , 15 Aug. 2019",
"In the Walled Garden, Bonsai and Beyond members will be displaying a rich composition of (miniature) treasures from the plant world including bonsai, saikei, penjing, hon non bo, kusamono, terrariums, fairy gardens and hanging gardens. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, sandiegouniontribune.com , 4 Apr. 2018",
"And my hon mirin, true mirin, which is hard to find in the U.S. \u2014 Mari Uyehara, Bon Appetit , 8 Mar. 2018",
"David Cote, chief executive officer of Honeywell International Inc. ( hon ), said at the time. \u2014 Fortune , 22 Jan. 2018",
"Hon seems to have the most fun pouring two half-tastes for each dish, allowing guests to sample quite a few wines without doing excessive damage to one's budget or liver. \u2014 Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com , 14 Aug. 2017",
"Though their outfits were extravagant, Baltimore\u2019s original hons , now retirement age and beyond, say their fashion sense was rooted in the identity of working mother and community caretaker. \u2014 Brittany Britto, baltimoresun.com , 1 June 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1906, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8h\u0259n"
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"beloved",
"darling",
"dear",
"flame",
"honey",
"love",
"squeeze",
"sweet",
"sweetheart",
"sweetie",
"sweetie pie",
"truelove"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085837",
"type":[
"abbreviation",
"noun"
]
},
"honcho":{
"antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"shrimp",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch"
],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"the office was all abuzz because some honchos from corporate headquarters were coming for a visit",
"he's definitely the head honcho in that company",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And something the head honcho will surely write about in her next annual report. \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 16 June 2022",
"Trump\u2019s anger reportedly prompted his team\u2019s efforts to lobby Fox head honcho Rupert Murdoch to retract the call. \u2014 Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"The first half of the show, comprising those corporate honcho separates of suiting, beautiful coats, sinewy skirts, pussybow blouses, and macho blazers, are part of a new line the house is launching called Garde-Robe. \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 23 May 2022",
"Liotta played Paul Krendler, a snarky Justice Department honcho who clashed with FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore). \u2014 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
"Kyle Whittingham, who was his position coach his senior year, is now the head honcho . \u2014 Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Longtime Spider-Man super-grump J. Jonah Jameson, the Daily Bugle head honcho , arranged the match. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Apr. 2022",
"And though the In De Goot honcho may be over 70, slowing down is not in his future. \u2014 Katherine Turman, Variety , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The xenotechnology expert finds herself in a departmental turf war with a scientific advisor and seeks support from the head honcho at Naval Intelligence. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 14 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1945, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Japanese hanch\u014d squad leader, from han squad + ch\u014d head, chief":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4n-(\u02cc)ch\u014d"
],
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"big",
"big boy",
"big cheese",
"big gun",
"big leaguer",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"big-timer",
"bigfoot",
"biggie",
"bigwig",
"fat cat",
"heavy",
"heavy hitter",
"heavyweight",
"high-muck-a-muck",
"high-muckety-muck",
"kahuna",
"kingfish",
"kingpin",
"major leaguer",
"muckety-muck",
"muck-a-muck",
"mucky-muck",
"nabob",
"nawab",
"nibs",
"nob",
"pooh-bah",
"poo-bah",
"wheel"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185243",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"blunt",
"dull"
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"helped her hone her comic timing",
"\u2014 Patricia Bosworth"
],
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": whetstone":[],
": yearn":[
"\u2014 often used with for or after"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Another key tactic to hone your intuition is meditation and visualization. \u2014 Francesca Sipma, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"Mykhailo Skliar started his residency at Hospital No. 3 expecting to slowly hone the basics of trauma medicine by treating household injuries and other more common accidents. \u2014 Ievgeniia Sivorsk, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
"In one sign of the stakes involved, the committee has tapped former ABC News president James Goldston to help hone its presentation, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Washington Post. \u2014 Jeremy Barr, Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
"The University of Michigan commit took his craft to the next level, obsessively watching YouTube videos to hone his form. \u2014 Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com , 4 June 2022",
"And as Deborah and Ava work to hone their new material, Hacks itself begins to feel sharper. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 10 May 2022",
"There, McCreary worked to hone his skillset while studying up on his college film and playbooks as part of his preparation for meetings with NFL teams during the leadup to the draft. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 26 Apr. 2022",
"With his degree in finance, Young helped to hone the direction of the app, while Hendrickson \u2014 Thurman's cousin and longtime friend \u2014 used his love of coding and graphic design to create and build the interface. \u2014 Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press , 25 Apr. 2022",
"As the postseason \u2014 when games are more likely to be decided on penalties \u2014 nears, the Lions might need to hone their penalty-taking selection. \u2014 Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com , 28 Aug. 2021"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1788, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English, from Old English h\u0101n stone; akin to Old Norse hein whetstone, Latin cot-, cos , Sanskrit \u015bi\u015b\u0101ti he whets":"Noun and Verb",
"Middle French hoigner to grumble":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8h\u014dn"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"edge",
"grind",
"sharpen",
"stone",
"strop",
"whet"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-161737",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"honed":{
"antonyms":[
"blunt",
"dull"
],
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": to make more acute, intense, or effective : whet":[
"helped her hone her comic timing",
"\u2014 Patricia Bosworth"
],
": to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone":[],
": whetstone":[],
": yearn":[
"\u2014 often used with for or after"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Another key tactic to hone your intuition is meditation and visualization. \u2014 Francesca Sipma, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"Mykhailo Skliar started his residency at Hospital No. 3 expecting to slowly hone the basics of trauma medicine by treating household injuries and other more common accidents. \u2014 Ievgeniia Sivorsk, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
"In one sign of the stakes involved, the committee has tapped former ABC News president James Goldston to help hone its presentation, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Washington Post. \u2014 Jeremy Barr, Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
"The University of Michigan commit took his craft to the next level, obsessively watching YouTube videos to hone his form. \u2014 Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com , 4 June 2022",
"And as Deborah and Ava work to hone their new material, Hacks itself begins to feel sharper. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 10 May 2022",
"There, McCreary worked to hone his skillset while studying up on his college film and playbooks as part of his preparation for meetings with NFL teams during the leadup to the draft. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 26 Apr. 2022",
"With his degree in finance, Young helped to hone the direction of the app, while Hendrickson \u2014 Thurman's cousin and longtime friend \u2014 used his love of coding and graphic design to create and build the interface. \u2014 Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press , 25 Apr. 2022",
"As the postseason \u2014 when games are more likely to be decided on penalties \u2014 nears, the Lions might need to hone their penalty-taking selection. \u2014 Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com , 28 Aug. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1788, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English h\u0101n stone; akin to Old Norse hein whetstone, Latin cot-, cos , Sanskrit \u015bi\u015b\u0101ti he whets":"Noun and Verb",
"Middle French hoigner to grumble":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dn"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"edge",
"grind",
"sharpen",
"stone",
"strop",
"whet"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083309",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"honest":{
"antonyms":[
"dishonest",
"fibbing",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"prevaricating",
"untruthful"
],
"definitions":{
": direct and uncomplicated : innocent , simple":[
"some good honest sleep"
],
": free from fraud or deception : legitimate , truthful":[
"an honest plea",
"an honest presentation of facts"
],
": genuine , real":[
"making honest stops at stop signs",
"\u2014 Christian Science Monitor"
],
": good , worthy":[
"an honest fellow"
],
": humble , plain":[
"good honest food"
],
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"I have ever found thee honest true",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
],
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"an honest appraisal",
"an honest discussion"
],
": marked by integrity":[
"honest merchants"
],
": reputable , respectable":[
"honest decent people"
],
": with all sincerity":[
"I didn't do it, honest"
],
": worthy of praise":[
"an honest day's work",
"put forth an honest effort"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"He says that it's impossible to find an honest politician.",
"These criminals pose a danger to honest citizens.",
"He has an honest face.",
"Just give me an honest answer.",
"If you want my honest opinion, you should get a job.",
"To be perfectly honest , I don't want to go.",
"He gave us a painfully honest account of his childhood.",
"It was an honest error.",
"He still goes to the office every morning and puts in an honest day's work.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"If the Singapore regulator discovers that Three Arrows was not honest in its communications on additional occasions, the penalties could be severe, said Holland. \u2014 Joanna Ossinger, Fortune , 1 July 2022",
"Because crypto people are pretty ignorant about the corporate governance literature, to be honest . \u2014 Steven Ehrlich, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"These were only a few of the many comments praising her for being honest , for showing her true beauty and being unapologetically herself on the social media app. \u2014 Annie O\u2019sullivan, Good Housekeeping , 26 June 2022",
"And Don's baby, to be honest , and fair to him, was 60 Minutes. \u2014 Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com , 23 June 2022",
"But to be honest , the goal is to make it through first stage onto second and then get some status on the Epson (Tour), which is the one below LPGA and then play there right out of college. \u2014 Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel , 16 June 2022",
"But to be honest , people wasn\u2019t doing that around that time. \u2014 Nora Lee, Billboard , 16 June 2022",
"If not \u2014 and be honest \u2014 use a non-tinted mineral sunscreen underneath, just to be safe. \u2014 Megan Decker, refinery29.com , 14 June 2022",
"Well, to be honest , what interested me most was working with Pixar. \u2014 Angelique Jackson, Variety , 13 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1654, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adverb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin honestus honorable, from honos, honor honor":"Adjective and Adverb"
},
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"\u02c8\u00e4-n\u0259st"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for honest Adjective upright , honest , just , conscientious , scrupulous , honorable mean having or showing a strict regard for what is morally right. upright implies a strict adherence to moral principles. a stern and upright minister honest stresses adherence to such virtues as truthfulness, candor, or fairness. known for being honest in business dealings just stresses conscious choice and regular practice of what is right or equitable. workers given just compensation conscientious and scrupulous imply an active moral sense governing all one's actions and painstaking efforts to follow one's conscience. conscientious in the completion of her assignments scrupulous in carrying out the terms of the will honorable suggests a firm holding to codes of right behavior and the guidance of a high sense of honor and duty. a difficult but honorable decision",
"synonyms":[
"truthful",
"veracious"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050219",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"honest broker":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a neutral mediator":[]
},
"examples":[
"after all the bad blood on both sides, we need to find someone who hasn't been influenced and can act as an honest broker",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In London, Travers said, Byford has been able to position himself as a kind of honest broker between Khan and the national government whenever differences have flared. \u2014 Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022",
"These statements undercut America\u2019s effectiveness as an honest broker in diplomatic negotiations aimed at ending the war. \u2014 Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic , 28 Mar. 2022",
"But in their opening comments, most every senator promised to be respectful, to ask tough questions and to ostensibly be an honest broker . \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Sometimes, being a frank and honest broker \u2013 and offering to talk things through and provide considerate feedback \u2013 is the best way to be supportive. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 5 Feb. 2022",
"Sometimes, being a frank and honest broker \u2014 and offering to talk things through and provide considerate feedback \u2014 is the best way to be supportive. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Sometimes, being a frank and honest broker \u2014 and offering to talk things through and provide considerate feedback \u2014 is the best way to be supportive. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Sometimes, being a frank and honest broker \u2014 and offering to talk things through and provide considerate feedback \u2014 is the best way to be supportive. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Like so many, she was drawn by Abiy\u2019s pledges to build a new Ethiopia, free of the bloody ethnic rifts of the past \u2014 overtures that built Abiy\u2019s global reputation as an honest broker and helped win him a Nobel Peace Prize. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Dec. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1878, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"broker",
"buffer",
"conciliator",
"go-between",
"interceder",
"intercessor",
"intermediary",
"intermediate",
"interposer",
"mediator",
"middleman",
"peacemaker"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031359",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"honestly":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": in an honest manner: such as":[],
": really , genuinely":[
"was honestly scared"
],
": to be honest : to tell the truth":[
"honestly , I don't know"
],
": without cheating":[
"counted the ballots honestly"
],
": without frills":[
"food honestly prepared"
]
},
"examples":[
"Officials counted the votes honestly .",
"The bank has always dealt honestly with me.",
"I can honestly say that I have never seen that man before today.",
"He spoke honestly about the mistakes he had made.",
"She honestly believes that she has been mistreated.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The late-night talk shows have undergone two years of experimentation due to the COVID-19 pandemic \u2014 and honestly , that\u2019s been a rare silver lining in these bizarre times. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 21 June 2022",
"And a lot of that, honestly , has been anthemic for our friend group throughout the years, but probably one of my biggest personal inspirations is Coldplay, Green Day \u2013 just such great songwriting. \u2014 Jude Zhu, Billboard , 16 June 2022",
"But honestly , the Miller Lite Oasis may not be large enough to contain the Navy vet and Oklahoma native's soaring fan base. \u2014 Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"In the billion-year timeframe of Earth\u2019s life, the last magnetic pole reversal 42,000 years ago is honestly not that far back. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 13 June 2022",
"And honestly , this might be the first time that Michigan has been in the same place that Ohio State football was back in 1934 -- looking to remember belief that paid off. \u2014 Doug Lesmerises, cleveland , 6 June 2022",
"Okuno: There was an earnest effort to keep making Francis less of a d\u2014, honestly . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"And honestly , for a lot of people, that's the truth too. \u2014 Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
"The other criteria, honestly , is the only reason to be in these movies, and that is to harass the star. \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4-n\u0259st-l\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"actually",
"admittedly",
"forsooth",
"frankly",
"indeed",
"really",
"truly",
"truthfully",
"verily"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094458",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"honesty":{
"antonyms":[
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
],
"definitions":{
": adherence to the facts : sincerity":[
"doubted the honesty of the witness"
],
": any of a genus ( Lunaria ) of European herbs of the mustard family with toothed leaves and flat disk-shaped siliques":[],
": chastity":[],
": fairness and straightforwardness of conduct":[
"calling for honesty in politics"
]
},
"examples":[
"She is admired for her kindness and her honesty .",
"He demands honesty from everyone who works for him.",
"He didn't even have enough honesty to tell me he was leaving.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That\u2019s the honesty a decades-long friendship deserves. \u2014 Carolyn Hax, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"Music is about honesty for NoCap, who never fails to leave a piece of himself on each track. \u2014 Nora Lee, Billboard , 16 June 2022",
"Somerville praises director Hiro Murai for capturing this moment\u2019s emotional honesty . \u2014 Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 June 2022",
"Most importantly, though, we are driven by honesty at all touch points. \u2014 Rebecca Suhrawardi, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"One of the undercurrents of your work is the honesty . \u2014 Tyler Malone, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"The company is also committed to honesty , providing users with thorough information on each batch of CBD oil produced. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 May 2022",
"Watching Miller in the role, Vaughan noted the rawness of her performance, the seeming honesty of it. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Ahead of the 2022 season, the seniors led leadership meetings to establish a culture of accountability and honesty within the team. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 9 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see honest entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4-n\u0259-st\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for honesty honesty , honor , integrity , probity mean uprightness of character or action. honesty implies a refusal to lie, steal, or deceive in any way. honor suggests an active or anxious regard for the standards of one's profession, calling, or position. integrity implies trustworthiness and incorruptibility to a degree that one is incapable of being false to a trust, responsibility, or pledge. probity implies tried and proven honesty or integrity.",
"synonyms":[
"integrity",
"probity",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"verity"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014658",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"honey":{
"antonyms":[
"adulate",
"belaud",
"blarney",
"butter up",
"flatter",
"hero-worship",
"massage",
"overpraise",
"puff",
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": a superlative example":[],
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": a sweet viscid material elaborated out of the nectar of flowers in the honey sac of various bees":[],
": an attractive woman":[],
": much loved : dear":[],
": of, relating to, or resembling honey":[],
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": to speak ingratiatingly to : flatter":[],
": to sweeten with or as if with honey":[],
": to use blandishments or cajolery":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"She likes honey in her tea.",
"Your car is a real honey .",
"Verb",
"she knew that the hairstylist was honeying her for a reason\u2014the expectation of a generous tip",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Of course, honey isn\u2019t new \u2014 the ancient Egyptians were hip to the sweet stuff long before today\u2019s tastemakers. \u2014 Emily Heil, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"The end of the June was when honey was ready to harvest, which made this the sweetest moon. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 15 June 2022",
"Each year at harvest time, church members gather to jar the honey and make beeswax candles. \u2014 Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"The chips come in three flavors: Superberry, fruity from strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries; Almond Butter Banana, with a honey sweet-savory taste; and Cocoa, whose flavor suggests a creamy hot cocoa drink. \u2014 Ann Trieger Kurland, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"Don\u2019t leave town without\u2026 Bee Blessed Honey, a local brand that specializes in small batch honey . \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 25 May 2022",
"The shop also does a mean grandma square, and its iconic Phoenix Pie with spicy soppressata and homemade hot honey is a marvel. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 25 May 2022",
"Bees make honey with the pollen of manuka trees, known for their medicinal properties. \u2014 Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 May 2022",
"Pair with honey slathered grilled salmon or a creamy risotto. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Products range throughout the season from dahlias to honey to fresh produce like sugar snap peas, carrots and potatoes. \u2014 Naomi Stock, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"Hard to believe that her hair could have gone from iced espresso to honey in such a short time. \u2014 Elizabeth Loga, Glamour , 2 Aug. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Talley is not exactly honey -colored, but choosing a euphemistic description for the color of black skin has long been a way to make blackness less black to white people. \u2014 New York Times , 15 May 2020",
"Her naturally jet-black hair colour appears to be dyed a soft, honey blonde in the clip. \u2014 Aimee Simeon, refinery29.com , 2 Apr. 2020",
"Laura Dern\u2019s oh, honey nonverbal reaction to that line, which is tapped visually into place perfectly by the editor Jennifer Lame, becomes one of a hundred character details to savor here. \u2014 Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com , 12 Nov. 2019",
"To make the honey magic: In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, combine the dulce de leche, \u00bd cup burned honey and salt until well combined. \u2014 Tara Duggan, SFChronicle.com , 20 Sep. 2019",
"Earthworks Farm will be at all three markets with honey crafted on the Valley Farm and plenty of their Abeille Alaska beeswax and honey body care products and soaps. \u2014 Steve Edwards, Anchorage Daily News , 24 Jan. 2018",
"Daddy: That grass isn't going to cut itself, honey bunch! \u2014 Southern Living , 3 Apr. 2017",
"Daddy: That grass isn't going to cut itself, honey bunch! \u2014 Southern Living , 1 May 2017"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
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"Middle English hony , from Old English hunig ; akin to Old High German honag honey, and probably to Sanskrit k\u0101\u00f1cana gold, Latin canicae bran":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8h\u0259-n\u0113",
"\u02c8h\u0259n-\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"babe",
"beauty",
"beauty queen",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"cutie",
"cutey",
"dolly bird",
"enchantress",
"eyeful",
"fox",
"goddess",
"knockout",
"queen",
"stunner"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-195529",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"honker":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a very large nose":[],
": one that honks":[]
},
"examples":[
"with a honker like that, you must need a hankie the size of a bedsheet",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"From mallard purists to pit blind honker hunters, our favorite bird species often dictates our hunting style. \u2014 Ryan Chelius, Outdoor Life , 1 Mar. 2021",
"And big honker or petite button, our sniffers hate when bad odors linger nearby. \u2014 Dan Seitz, Popular Science , 10 Mar. 2021",
"Keep the honkers away from the ducks and bar-bellies. \u2014 Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life , 6 Jan. 2020",
"Combined with good scouting and a spread that looks a little different, these two calls will pull even the wariest big honkers . \u2014 Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream , 2 Jan. 2020",
"Volkert said honkers find spots with good food supplies and access to water, their primary means of escape from predators. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 June 2018",
"As new ones grow in, the honkers are unable to fly. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 June 2018",
"Public awareness campaigns and fines of around $4.80 for honkers brought drivers into line. \u2014 Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post , 20 Dec. 2017",
"Our shotguns rang out and the first two honkers of 2017 were in hand. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 Sep. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1836, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u022f\u014b-",
"\u02c8h\u00e4\u014b-k\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"beak",
"conk",
"neb",
"nose",
"nozzle",
"proboscis",
"schnoz",
"schnozz",
"schnozzle",
"smeller",
"snoot",
"snout"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114426",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"honor":{
"antonyms":[
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"recognize"
],
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": a ceremonial rite or observance":[
"buried with full military honors"
],
": a course of study for superior students supplementing or replacing a regular course":[],
": a gesture of deference : bow":[],
": a keen sense of ethical conduct : integrity":[
"a man of honor"
],
": a person of superior standing":[
"\u2014 now used especially as a title for a holder of high office if Your Honor please"
],
": a showing of usually merited respect : recognition":[
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],
": an academic distinction conferred on a superior student":[],
": an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit in bridge":[],
": an award in a contest or field of competition":[],
": an evidence or symbol of distinction: such as":[],
": an exalted title or rank":[],
": badge , decoration":[],
": chastity , purity":[
"fought fiercely for her honor and her life",
"\u2014 Barton Black"
],
": good name or public esteem : reputation":[],
": one whose worth brings respect or fame : credit":[
"an honor to the profession"
],
": one's word given as a guarantee of performance":[
"on my honor , I will be there"
],
": privilege":[
"had the honor of joining the captain for dinner"
],
": social courtesies or civilities extended by a host":[
"asked her to do the honors"
],
": the center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon":[],
": the privilege of playing first from the tee in golf":[],
": the scoring value of honors held in bridge":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural"
],
": to accept as payment":[
"honor a credit card"
],
": to give special recognition to : to confer honor on":[],
": to live up to or fulfill the terms of":[
"honor a commitment"
],
": to regard or treat (someone) with admiration and respect : to regard or treat with honor":[],
": to salute with a bow in square dancing":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"Many of the Persians, despite belonging to the Barbarian Other, come off with honor and dignity in his pages, even during the final narrative of Xerxes' invasion. \u2014 Peter Green , New York Review of Books , 15 May 2008",
"Whoever footed the bill, the episode gave Marsh a taste of the grand life she yearned for. Presiding at balls in her honor and making entrances at lavish picnics were distinctions she could never have dreamed of back home. \u2014 Edmund S. Morgan et al. , New York Review of Books , 27 Sept. 2007",
"\"As I was saying,\" he said, smiling at the sea of students before him, all of whom were still gazing transfixed at Mad-Eye Moody, \"we are to have the honor of hosting a very exciting event over the coming months, an event that has not been held for over a century.\" \u2014 J. K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , 2000",
"These people deserve to be treated with honor .",
"The team brought honor to the school.",
"The building was named in honor of the city's founder.",
"He was prepared to fight to defend his family's honor .",
"She has a keen sense of honor .",
"He would not do it as a matter of honor .",
"He's a man of honor .",
"It was an honor to be invited.",
"Verb",
"Cape Ann, an hour's drive north of Boston, is far sleepier than the famous elbow that bounds the southern reach of Massachusetts Bay. \u2026 There aren't any schmaltzy songs about my granite cape, which was named to honor a queen, thank you very much. \u2014 Anita Diamant , National Geographic Traveler , September 2005",
"But by talking with hikers and trail builders in the years since, and tracing the history these stone piles carry with them, I would learn that cairns are more than just interesting curiosities. I would discover that cairns honor the dead, save lives, mark boundaries, protect vegetation, claim territory, and reflect the seasons. \u2014 Barbara Claire Kasselmann , AMC Outdoors , May 1999",
"Ricketts left for Mexico to study typhus in July of that year, where it killed him in 1910 at the age of thirty-nine. To honor his memory, the organisms that cause typhus and sundry spotted fevers were dubbed rickettsia in 1916. \u2014 Wayne Biddle , A Field Guide to Germs , 1995",
"\"Elegant Attire is a tradition in the Saratoga Clubhouse,\" says a sign outside the clubhouse. \"Ladies and gentlemen who continue to honor this tradition (e.g., dresses, suits or sport jackets) are always appreciated.\" It is not easy to arbitrate good taste, particularly when the temperature is soaring toward the 90's on a humid day. \u2014 George Vecsey , New York Times , 21 Aug. 1994",
"When we got married, we promised to love and honor each other.",
"We were honored with the queen's presence.",
"She has been honored by several organizations for her charitable works.",
"We need to find an appropriate way to honor these brave people.",
"They have established a scholarship as a way to honor his memory.",
"They are accused of failing to honor their debts.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In honor of its 120th anniversary in July, the resort will be featuring a variety of new and returning summer programming perfect for the Fourth of July holiday weekend. \u2014 Roger Sands, Forbes , 26 June 2022",
"Netrebko became one of Russia\u2019s most famous cultural ambassadors, and in 2008 Putin awarded her the title of People\u2019s Artist, the country\u2019s highest honor for performers, at a ceremony in St. Petersburg that also featured Gergiev. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"All of those are considered quality Eagle Scout service projects enabling a Boy Scout the opportunity of pursuing the organization\u2019s highest honor . \u2014 al , 19 June 2022",
"Dual is currently competing at the 17U Team USA minicamp in Colorado Springs, where 35 invitees are vying to make the 12-player roster, another high honor in a spring full of them. \u2014 Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star , 19 June 2022",
"James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson are being accorded BFI Fellowships, the highest honor bestowed by the British Film Institute. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 17 June 2022",
"Lil Nas X was honored with the Hal David Starlight Award, while Paul Williams received the highest songwriting honor , the Johnny Mercer Award. \u2014 Joe Lynch, Billboard , 17 June 2022",
"Among the slew of artisanal makers, some are producing interesting flavors, such as creamed chocolate pomegranate honey from Honey Gramz, which won the show\u2019s top honor in the sweetener category. \u2014 Emily Heil, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Wright\u2019s Troop leader, Chris Keune, said the Gold Award is the equivalent of the Boy Scouts\u2019 Eagle Award, and is the highest honor a Girl Scout can earn. \u2014 Steve Smith, Hartford Courant , 16 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Decisions made today should honor the seven generations that came before you and should consider the impact on the next seven generations. \u2014 Denise Davidson, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 June 2022",
"Some companies only honor these requests from people in California because of the state\u2019s privacy law, but others accept requests from anywhere. \u2014 Danielle Abril, Washington Post , 26 June 2022",
"Now, the 6-3 hurler will honor his commitment to play college baseball at Vanderbilt. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 26 June 2022",
"The award, which will be given to Diddy by the Black Entertainment Television network, is meant to honor Black musicians who have significantly shaped the industry culture, become a leader in their field, and inspired generations of people. \u2014 Bellamy Richardson, PEOPLE.com , 26 June 2022",
"Some companies only honor these requests from people in California because of the state\u2019s privacy law, but others accept requests from anywhere. \u2014 Heather Kelly, Tatum Hunter, Danielle Abril, Anchorage Daily News , 26 June 2022",
"The tribute \u2014 a designation for a portion of State Road A1A backed by state legislators and city commissioners \u2014 will honor a man who dedicated more than two decades of his life to the community. \u2014 Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel , 24 June 2022",
"How to get discount tickets to the 2022 Arizona State Fair A three-week presale will honor bringing 23 days of fair fun this year. \u2014 Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022",
"All Rosa Mexicano locations want to honor all great dads with a meal on the house - dad's entree is complimentary with entree purchases for the rest of the party (unless dad gets the ribeye, which is excluded from the offer). \u2014 Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes , 15 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French onur, honur , from Latin honos, honor":"Noun and Verb"
},
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"\u02c8\u00e4-n\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for honor Noun honor , homage , reverence , deference mean respect and esteem shown to another. honor may apply to the recognition of one's right to great respect or to any expression of such recognition. the nomination is an honor homage adds the implication of accompanying praise. paying homage to Shakespeare reverence implies profound respect mingled with love, devotion, or awe. great reverence for my father deference implies a yielding or submitting to another's judgment or preference out of respect or reverence. showed no deference to their elders synonyms see in addition honesty",
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"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"uprightness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112303",
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"honorable":{
"antonyms":[
"base",
"dishonest",
"dishonorable",
"ignoble",
"low",
"unethical",
"unjust",
"unprincipled",
"unrighteous",
"unworthy"
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"definitions":{
": attesting to creditable conduct":[
"honorable wounds"
],
": characterized by integrity : guided by a keen sense of duty and ethical conduct":[
"Brutus is an honorable man",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare",
"assured her that his intentions were honorable"
],
": consistent with a reputation that is not tarnished or sullied":[
"an honorable withdrawal",
"received an honorable discharge from the army"
],
": deserving of respect or high regard : deserving of honor":[
"an honorable profession"
],
": entitled to honor or respect":[
"\u2014 used as a title for the children of certain British noblemen and for various government officials the Honorable Judge Smith the Honorable Senator from California"
],
": of great renown : illustrious":[
"the college's long and honorable history"
],
": performed or accompanied with marks of honor or respect":[]
},
"examples":[
"The college has a long and honorable history.",
"It is not honorable of you to behave like that.",
"They are trying to find an honorable way out of this dispute.",
"He assured her that his intentions were honorable .",
"He received an honorable discharge from the army.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Cruising is an honorable quest, no matter how sordid the baths or open the subway station. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
"Judi Farmer, a Navy veteran, discovered Harrington\u2019s story in 2018 and was shocked to learn that Chabrol had been permitted an honorable final resting place at Arlington. \u2014 Hope Hodge Seck, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"Johnson criticized the legislation for excluding veterans with other than honorable discharges. \u2014 Peggy Mccarthy, Hartford Courant , 22 June 2022",
"Ouch! Democrats and other liberals don\u2019t need to tarnish honorable Republicans when childish right-wingers do the job for them. \u2014 Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"The vast majority of human resource professionals, recruiters and others involved with the hiring process are decent and honorable folks. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"That\u2019s a very messy situation, and neither parent really acted in wholly honorable ways. \u2014 Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 June 2022",
"The show is a romanticization of a kind of eminently British working class ideal: profane but honorable , hard-living but heroic. \u2014 Taylor Antrim, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
"Nisolo is also a Certified B Corporation with honorable labor and environmental practices. \u2014 Olivia O'bryon, Forbes , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see honor entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4n-r\u0259-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8\u00e4n-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8\u00e4-n\u0259-r\u0259-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8\u00e4-n\u0259r-(\u0259-)b\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for honorable upright , honest , just , conscientious , scrupulous , honorable mean having or showing a strict regard for what is morally right. upright implies a strict adherence to moral principles. a stern and upright minister honest stresses adherence to such virtues as truthfulness, candor, or fairness. known for being honest in business dealings just stresses conscious choice and regular practice of what is right or equitable. workers given just compensation conscientious and scrupulous imply an active moral sense governing all one's actions and painstaking efforts to follow one's conscience. conscientious in the completion of her assignments scrupulous in carrying out the terms of the will honorable suggests a firm holding to codes of right behavior and the guidance of a high sense of honor and duty. a difficult but honorable decision",
"synonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"honest",
"just",
"noble",
"principled",
"respectable",
"righteous",
"stand-up",
"upright",
"upstanding"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095706",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"honorably":{
"antonyms":[
"base",
"dishonest",
"dishonorable",
"ignoble",
"low",
"unethical",
"unjust",
"unprincipled",
"unrighteous",
"unworthy"
],
"definitions":{
": attesting to creditable conduct":[
"honorable wounds"
],
": characterized by integrity : guided by a keen sense of duty and ethical conduct":[
"Brutus is an honorable man",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare",
"assured her that his intentions were honorable"
],
": consistent with a reputation that is not tarnished or sullied":[
"an honorable withdrawal",
"received an honorable discharge from the army"
],
": deserving of respect or high regard : deserving of honor":[
"an honorable profession"
],
": entitled to honor or respect":[
"\u2014 used as a title for the children of certain British noblemen and for various government officials the Honorable Judge Smith the Honorable Senator from California"
],
": of great renown : illustrious":[
"the college's long and honorable history"
],
": performed or accompanied with marks of honor or respect":[]
},
"examples":[
"The college has a long and honorable history.",
"It is not honorable of you to behave like that.",
"They are trying to find an honorable way out of this dispute.",
"He assured her that his intentions were honorable .",
"He received an honorable discharge from the army.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Cruising is an honorable quest, no matter how sordid the baths or open the subway station. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
"Judi Farmer, a Navy veteran, discovered Harrington\u2019s story in 2018 and was shocked to learn that Chabrol had been permitted an honorable final resting place at Arlington. \u2014 Hope Hodge Seck, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"Johnson criticized the legislation for excluding veterans with other than honorable discharges. \u2014 Peggy Mccarthy, Hartford Courant , 22 June 2022",
"Ouch! Democrats and other liberals don\u2019t need to tarnish honorable Republicans when childish right-wingers do the job for them. \u2014 Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"The vast majority of human resource professionals, recruiters and others involved with the hiring process are decent and honorable folks. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"That\u2019s a very messy situation, and neither parent really acted in wholly honorable ways. \u2014 Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 June 2022",
"The show is a romanticization of a kind of eminently British working class ideal: profane but honorable , hard-living but heroic. \u2014 Taylor Antrim, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
"Nisolo is also a Certified B Corporation with honorable labor and environmental practices. \u2014 Olivia O'bryon, Forbes , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see honor entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4n-r\u0259-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8\u00e4-n\u0259r-(\u0259-)b\u0259l",
"\u02c8\u00e4n-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8\u00e4-n\u0259-r\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for honorable upright , honest , just , conscientious , scrupulous , honorable mean having or showing a strict regard for what is morally right. upright implies a strict adherence to moral principles. a stern and upright minister honest stresses adherence to such virtues as truthfulness, candor, or fairness. known for being honest in business dealings just stresses conscious choice and regular practice of what is right or equitable. workers given just compensation conscientious and scrupulous imply an active moral sense governing all one's actions and painstaking efforts to follow one's conscience. conscientious in the completion of her assignments scrupulous in carrying out the terms of the will honorable suggests a firm holding to codes of right behavior and the guidance of a high sense of honor and duty. a difficult but honorable decision",
"synonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"honest",
"just",
"noble",
"principled",
"respectable",
"righteous",
"stand-up",
"upright",
"upstanding"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004249",
"type":[
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"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"honorand":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one that is awarded an honor (as an honorary degree)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1935, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"from Latin honorandus , gerundive of honorare to honor":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-raa(\u0259)nd",
"\u00a6\u00e4n\u0259\u00a6rand"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-120332",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"honorarium":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a payment for a service (such as making a speech) on which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set":[
"donated the honoraria from his speaking engagements"
]
},
"examples":[
"We are willing to offer a small honorarium that we hope you will accept for judging the competition.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"When an album is chosen, the artist receives a $250 honorarium , which also represents a licensing agreement for the library to post and share the music. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 11 June 2022",
"The board also approved a $600 honorarium for the district Teacher of the Year. \u2014 Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Le Guin said the 2022 jurors, who will each receive a small honorarium , were chosen for their professional or personal connections to Le Guin. \u2014 oregonlive , 21 Oct. 2021",
"The honorarium for Knowles, the city poet laureate, is funded by corporate and foundational grants, but the Hartford Commission on Cultural Affairs successfully campaigned to set aside money in the city budget for the two new roles. \u2014 Seamus Mcavoy, courant.com , 18 Oct. 2021",
"Full-time employees whose annual earnings are below $75,000 will also receive a one-time honorarium payment of $750. \u2014 Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer , 16 June 2021",
"The poet laureate program is also a literal investment: The position comes with a $20,000 honorarium to be disbursed at three milestones over their two-year term. \u2014 Julianna Morano, Dallas News , 9 June 2021",
"At the conclusion of the conference, the honorarium pool will be divided evenly across all presenters. \u2014 Paolo Gaudiano, Forbes , 7 June 2021",
"That support, Libby says, is crucial to being able to pay each artist a modest honorarium toward costs of material, fabrication, installation, not to mention creative labor. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1609, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from neuter of honorarius":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u00e4-n\u0259-\u02c8rer-\u0113-\u0259m"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103044",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"honorary":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": commemorative":[
"an honorary plaque"
],
": conferred or elected in recognition of achievement or service without the usual prerequisites or obligations":[
"an honorary degree",
"an honorary member"
],
": dependent on honor or a keen sense of ethical conduct for fulfillment":[
"an honorary obligation"
],
": having or conferring distinction":[
"an honorary engineering society"
],
": unpaid , voluntary":[
"an honorary chairman"
]
},
"examples":[
"He was awarded an honorary degree.",
"He's an honorary member of the club.",
"He is the honorary president of the commission.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Owens received an honorary doctoral degree from Cincinnati in 2008. \u2014 Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer , 22 June 2022",
"Rodricks received an honorary Doctor of Journalism degree during the graduate ceremony. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 23 May 2022",
"At New England Conservatory\u2019s 151st commencement ceremony, school officials on Sunday granted singer, songwriter ,and six-time Grammy winner James Taylor with an honorary doctor of music. \u2014 John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
"Wade returned to Milwaukee to receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Marquette and serve as the school's commencement speaker. \u2014 Corrinne Hess, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 May 2022",
"Ken Burns will speak to the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s graduates, and Penn will award him an honorary doctor of arts degree. \u2014 Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2022",
"She has been recommended for an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. \u2014 David Jesse, Detroit Free Press , 17 Mar. 2022",
"During the May 9 ceremony on the Emory Quadrangle, the actor and director is also set to receive an honorary doctor of letters degree. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 7 Mar. 2022",
"In 2019, Carleton University awarded her a doctorate in biology along with an honorary doctor of law degree for her climate work. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Feb. 2022"
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"1606, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"Latin honorarius , from honor":""
},
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"\u02c8\u00e4-n\u0259-\u02ccrer-\u0113"
],
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"commemorative",
"memorial",
"memorializing"
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"noun"
]
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},
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"\u2014 Vanessa Friedman",
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"\u2014 Lee Child"
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"fuss",
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"hurly-burly",
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"squall",
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"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
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"\u2026 she wore the jacket again \u2026 \u2014wore it unapologetically knowing all the hoo-ha it had caused \u2026",
"\u2014 Vanessa Friedman",
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"\u2014 Lee Child"
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"1931, in the meaning defined above":""
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"shanty"
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"1960, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8h\u014d\u1e35",
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"alcohol",
"aqua vitae",
"ardent spirits",
"booze",
"bottle",
"drink",
"firewater",
"grog",
"inebriant",
"intoxicant",
"John Barleycorn",
"juice",
"liquor",
"lush",
"moonshine",
"potable",
"rum",
"sauce",
"spirits",
"stimulant",
"strong drink",
"tipple"
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": a sexually promiscuous young woman":[]
},
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"took up with some hoochie he had met at a biker bar"
],
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"1991, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"perhaps from hootchy (as in hootchy-kootchy exotic dance)":""
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"\u02c8h\u00fc-ch\u0113"
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"chippie",
"chippy",
"doxy",
"doxie",
"fancy woman",
"floozy",
"floozie",
"hussy",
"Jezebel",
"minx",
"quean",
"tramp",
"trollop",
"wench"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"gangsta",
"gangster",
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},
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"1880, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1967, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun"
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"Middle English -hod , from Old English -h\u0101d ; akin to Old High German -heit state, Goth haidus way, manner":"Noun suffix",
"Middle English, from Old English h\u014dd ; akin to Old High German huot head covering, huota guard":"Noun",
"short for neighborhood":"Noun"
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"\u02c8h\u00fcd",
"\u02cchu\u0307d",
"\u02c8hu\u0307d"
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"blanket",
"cloak",
"cope",
"cover",
"cover-up",
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"coverture",
"curtain",
"mantle",
"mask",
"pall",
"penumbra",
"robe",
"shroud",
"veil",
"wraps"
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"biographical name",
"noun",
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"transitive verb"
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": a young ruffian":[]
},
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"a couple of hoodlums held up the convenience store",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The boys\u2019 boredom and anxiety is offset by a visit from their Uncle Louie, a low-level hoodlum who is on the run after stealing from a mobster named Hollywood Harry. \u2014 courant.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Dutt plays genial hoodlum Munna Bhai, who inadvertently ends up being a do-gooder and Arshad Warsi plays his loyal sidekick Circuit. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 6 Feb. 2022",
"There was plenty to loathe about certain members of the band of criminals who surrounded our hoodlum -in-chief. \u2014 John R. Macarthur, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021",
"And, of course, there\u2019s Mark Wahlberg, an ace actor who parlayed his Calvin-Klein- hoodlum -of-rap image into true movie stardom. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 28 Nov. 2021",
"In one scene the country-music legend, who portrayed a hoodlum named Johnny Cabot, grabbed Ron and held him hostage. \u2014 Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times , 12 Oct. 2021",
"For years, Gentile was known to but mostly ignored by FBI and state police mob investigators, who wrote him off as a nickel and dime hoodlum . \u2014 Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com , 22 Sep. 2021",
"Hern\u00e1ndez de Cruce\u00f1o, however, was new in town, and had the look of a malandro, or hoodlum . \u2014 Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2020",
"Hern\u00e1ndez de Cruce\u00f1o, however, was new in town, and had the look of a malandro, or hoodlum . \u2014 Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2020"
],
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"1866, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"perhaps from German dialect (Swabia) hudelum disorderly":""
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"\u02c8h\u00fcd-l\u0259m",
"\u02c8hu\u0307d-"
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"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
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"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"yob",
"yobbo"
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": a body of practices of sympathetic magic traditional especially among African Americans in the southern U.S.":[],
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": something that brings bad luck":[]
},
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"Noun",
"some economists have characterized the proposal as economic hoodoo that should be hooted down",
"some hoodoo must be at work\u2014I lost both sets of house keys",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But unlike those hoodoo -dotted landscapes, this park takes a different approach. \u2014 Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Cue pandemonium inside Wembley, as the crowd finally started to believe their tournament hoodoo against Germany was coming to end. \u2014 Matias Grez, CNN , 29 June 2021",
"Bryce Canyon\u2019s hoodoo collection is most enchanting at sunrise and sunset, but days here are filled with hiking and rock climbing. \u2014 Brandon Schultz, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2021",
"Visitors can view the hoodoo heaven from the park\u2019s many hiking trails and several scenic overlooks. \u2014 Nick Kontis, USA Today , 12 Apr. 2021",
"In Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition, as Bloomfield notes, author Yvonne Chireau argues that alternative forms of Black religion such as conjure and hoodoo are a complement to African-American Christianity. \u2014 Stephanie Long, refinery29.com , 28 Feb. 2021",
"Making it past the last four had become something of a hoodoo for Bayern Munich; heading into its match against Lyon, the Germans had lost in each of its last four Champions League semifinals. \u2014 Matias Grez, CNN , 21 Aug. 2020",
"Manchester United's penalty hoodoo appears to be over. \u2014 SI.com , 18 Sep. 2019",
"The crash happened near a highway rest stop a few miles from Bryce Canyon, known for intricately shaped red-rock spires called hoodoos . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Sep. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Exploring the numerous phenomena is made easy thanks to a 7-mile, drivable loop that meanders through mind-bending cone, spatter, and hoodoo formations, some of which solidified in mid-flight as far back as 15,000 years ago. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 16 May 2022",
"Black women in particular have launched Black girl magik meetups, witchcraft conventions, hoodoo festivals and goth clothing lines. \u2014 NBC News , 30 Oct. 2020",
"Real Madrid finally broke their Signal Iduna Park hoodoo at the seventh time of asking with a 3-1 over Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League on Tuesday evening. \u2014 SI.com , 26 Sep. 2017"
],
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"1868, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1868, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
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"perhaps alteration of voodoo":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8h\u00fc-(\u02cc)d\u00fc"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175727",
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"noun",
"verb"
]
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"undeceive"
],
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"people who allow themselves to be hoodwinked by such promises"
]
},
"examples":[
"Don't let yourself be hoodwinked into buying things you don't need.",
"Tom Sawyer famously hoodwinked the other boys into thinking there was nothing more enjoyable than whitewashing a fence.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Couples who manage to hoodwink their families stay in the competition, while those who can't sell the lie are out. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Paired with knowledge gleaned over decades from scientists studying the mechanisms the immune system uses to detect foreign invaders, these tools could be used to hoodwink it into regarding the pig as something more akin to a friendly tourist. \u2014 Megan Molteni, STAT , 24 Jan. 2022",
"But the intention of the piece was not to hoodwink . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Here\u2019s how that would possibly be cleverly staged to hoodwink the baddies. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 12 June 2021",
"Was Fox a co-conspirator in the effort to hoodwink the American people? \u2014 Nicholas Goldberg, Star Tribune , 5 May 2021",
"Polls after the election found voters recognized the taxing and spending numbers didn\u2019t add up, and disliked Mr. Corbyn for trying to hoodwink them. \u2014 Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ , 24 Sep. 2020",
"Throughout his trial, Scrushy denied knowledge of any financial impropriety, saying he\u2019d been hoodwinked by high-level employees at HealthSouth. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 14 May 2020",
"This order in its entirety is a casual attempt, cosmetic in its nature, to hoodwink the people of J&K who genuinely believed that post-Oct. \u2014 Riyaz Wani, Quartz India , 6 Apr. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1562, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
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"hood entry 1 + wink":""
},
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"\u02c8hu\u0307d-\u02ccwi\u014bk"
],
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"bamboozle",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"buffalo",
"burn",
"catch",
"con",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fake out",
"fool",
"gaff",
"gammon",
"gull",
"have",
"have on",
"hoax",
"hornswoggle",
"humbug",
"juggle",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"snooker",
"snow",
"spoof",
"string along",
"suck in",
"sucker",
"take in",
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-173807",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": nonsense":[
"What sort of melodramatic hooey is this?",
"\u2014 Brock Yates",
"Pretentious, contrived hooey , purporting to show and tell how all teens have the same\u2014gulp\u2014feelings.",
"\u2014 Stephen Schaefer",
"Allen's opinion is that the figures the bowling establishment touts are, in a word, hooey .",
"\u2014 Frank Deford",
"\u2014 often used in phrases like a bunch of hooey and a load of hooey Here's somebody, surely, who'd never try to sell you a bunch of hooey . \u2014 David Gates \u2026 there's only one way to describe it: It's a load of hooey . \u2014 The Animals Advocate As usual, the fight scenes are powerful, but Rocky's total fall from grace \u2026 and the street-fight finale are just a lot of Hollywood hooey . \u2014 Ed Weiner"
]
},
"examples":[
"Don't waste your money on that book\u2014it's a lot of hooey .",
"stories about the inn being haunted are just a lot of hooey",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The old line about the 28 gauge having a square load is hooey . \u2014 Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life , 11 Dec. 2019",
"But as comforting as a toddy may be, the notion of a dose of booze as a cold cure has always struck me as a load of hooey . \u2014 M. Carrie Allan, sacbee , 23 Jan. 2018",
"But as comforting as a toddy may be, the notion of a dose of booze as a cold cure has always struck me as a load of hooey . \u2014 M. Carrie Allan, charlotteobserver , 23 Jan. 2018",
"The scene where Skerrett has a highland fling with a blond, bearded hunk is more than a wee bit full of hooey . \u2014 David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle , 10 Jan. 2018",
"There was a whole lot of narrative hooey to explain the theme, which mostly had to do with caterpillars becoming butterflies, girls becoming women, et cetera. \u2014 Vanessa Friedman, New York Times , 22 Sep. 2017",
"Contrary to the previous load of hooey dispensed by Junior and the first family, this dude was not a translator. \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 18 July 2017",
"John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, and not the most substantial waffle in the breakfast buffet, has been particularly energetic in slinging this hooey at the American people. \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 7 July 2017",
"And that 38 percent believes accusations that Trump's campaign conspired with Russian hackers and spies to influence the election's outcome -- and the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the election -- are nothing but hooey . \u2014 Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com , 15 June 2017"
],
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"1912, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u00fc-\u0113"
],
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"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
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"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165535",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hoof (it)":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to move or travel on foot : to walk or run":[
"We quickly hoofed it down to the subway station."
]
},
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"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000640",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"hook":{
"antonyms":[
"arch",
"bend",
"bow",
"crook",
"curve",
"swerve"
],
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": a curved or bent device for catching, holding, or pulling":[],
": a device especially in music or writing that catches the attention":[],
": a selling point or marketing scheme":[],
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": buttonhook":[],
": by any means":[],
": by oneself : independently":[],
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": hook shot":[],
": out of trouble":[],
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"\u2014 used with get or give the pitcher got the hook after giving up three runs"
],
": something intended to attract and ensnare":[],
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": to connect by or as if by a hook":[
"\u2014 often used with up"
],
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": to form into a hook : crook":[],
": to hit or throw (a ball) so that a hook results":[],
": to make (something, such as a rug) by drawing loops of yarn, thread, or cloth through a coarse fabric with a hook":[],
": to seize or make fast by or as if by a hook":[],
": to work as a prostitute":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"She hit a hook into the left rough.",
"He threw a right hook to his opponent's body.",
"Verb",
"The train cars were hooked together.",
"My sweater was hooked on a branch.",
"I hooked the door shut.",
"The dress hooks in the back.",
"The two parts hooked together.",
"He hooked a large fish.",
"He hooked his arm around my neck.",
"She hooked her fingers around the doorknob.",
"He hooked his thumb through a loop of his pants.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The fisherman, Moul Thun, caught the giant stingray with a hook and line on the evening of June 13, and then contacted researchers the next morning. \u2014 Evan Bush, NBC News , 20 June 2022",
"As for cleaning the screen, just wipe the black frame down with a cloth as needed, and detach the white screen from the hook -and-loop closures to give it a rinse. \u2014 Rachel Simon, Better Homes & Gardens , 16 June 2022",
"The two hip pockets have a hook -and-loop seal to keep your essentials safe, while the smaller pockets on the back are the perfect size for keys, cards, and other small items. \u2014 Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure , 15 June 2022",
"The straps are adjustable and can easily be converted to a racerback style with a hook in the back, and additional colors and sizes are available, as well. \u2014 Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
"Many of the works have rarity in common, but Remnant Trust Chairman Chris Talley said the characteristic is a hook and not the driving factor. \u2014 Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The song serves as a response track, with several overt shots and subliminal disses directed at YoungBoy Never Broke Again, but stands out with a jagged hook and free flowing bars. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The Cleer Arc earbuds have an ear hook with a flexible hinge which is designed for a comfortable but secure fit. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"Kim was effectively let off the hook for the defamation claim last week when the final version of jury instructions \u2014 read to jurors on Thursday \u2014 failed to spell out how Kim allegedly defamed White. \u2014 Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone , 2 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Robinhood helped hook millions of Americans on buying and selling stocks, options and cryptocurrencies. \u2014 Caitlin Mccabe, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"Although the plunge pool is equipped with a heater, the owners had not initially planned to hook it up. \u2014 Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com , 5 June 2022",
"If a new immigrant needed a job or a place to live, Lyoya was known to hook them up with a factory job or an apartment. \u2014 Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Prop it on the picnic table, toss it in your duffel, or hook it to your tent with the webbing loop (provided you\u2019re far from other groups). \u2014 Will Palmer, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"Scammers are known to exploit public fear by using it to hook victims. \u2014 Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"The hybrid model does seem to hook streamers, with 43% of this type of search happening within the first few weeks. \u2014 Chris Morris, Variety , 8 June 2022",
"With the tile work complete, Schmidt returned to install the appliances, then the electricians and plumber returned to hook everything up. \u2014 Joan Elovitz Kazan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 June 2022",
"Opening a story with a shock of violence is an obvious way to kick-start events, create intrigue, hook the audience. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
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"The interview will be broadcast through a satellite hookup .",
"The cabin has electric and water hookups .",
"Verb",
"how that odd couple ever hooked up we'll never know",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Take advantage of the park\u2019s 30-amp full hookup , water-only and primitive campsites; screened shelters; cabin; and group facilities. \u2014 Perri Ormont Blumberg, Chron , 29 May 2022",
"For their final week at Erin\u2019s home, Noah is determined to get Howie to lean into the hookup culture that the area invites. \u2014 Kimmy Yam, NBC News , 2 June 2022",
"Another consumer favorite, the litter box installs easily in your bathroom or laundry room, using a cold-water hookup and a drain to flush the waste \u2013 no plumber necessary. \u2014 Lynn Redmile, Good Housekeeping , 9 May 2022",
"Experts project there will be 35 million EVs will be on the road by 2030, and even with most only requiring an occasional hookup , the need for public chargers in the coming years will swell exponentially. \u2014 Jim Gorzelany, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"An early bird window is open through Friday for current tent reservation holders to rent any available cabin or electric or full- hookup site during the same week as their tent reservations. \u2014 Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press , 2 Feb. 2022",
"For the newly dry Sam, there are a lot of firsts: first sober dance, first sober hookup , first sober writing session. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Her character, Cassie, has had her fair share of hookup scenes this season thanks to her budding situationship relationship with Nate Jacobs, which means Sydney had to lose clothes for some scenes. \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Amid all these beaus, tucked away in plain sight, was Miranda's on-and-off- hookup -turned-husband Steve Brady, an affable, glasses-sporting bar owner and basketball fan with a thick Brooklyn accent. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 26 Jan. 2022"
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"The interview will be broadcast through a satellite hookup .",
"The cabin has electric and water hookups .",
"Verb",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Take advantage of the park\u2019s 30-amp full hookup , water-only and primitive campsites; screened shelters; cabin; and group facilities. \u2014 Perri Ormont Blumberg, Chron , 29 May 2022",
"For their final week at Erin\u2019s home, Noah is determined to get Howie to lean into the hookup culture that the area invites. \u2014 Kimmy Yam, NBC News , 2 June 2022",
"Another consumer favorite, the litter box installs easily in your bathroom or laundry room, using a cold-water hookup and a drain to flush the waste \u2013 no plumber necessary. \u2014 Lynn Redmile, Good Housekeeping , 9 May 2022",
"Experts project there will be 35 million EVs will be on the road by 2030, and even with most only requiring an occasional hookup , the need for public chargers in the coming years will swell exponentially. \u2014 Jim Gorzelany, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"An early bird window is open through Friday for current tent reservation holders to rent any available cabin or electric or full- hookup site during the same week as their tent reservations. \u2014 Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press , 2 Feb. 2022",
"For the newly dry Sam, there are a lot of firsts: first sober dance, first sober hookup , first sober writing session. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Her character, Cassie, has had her fair share of hookup scenes this season thanks to her budding situationship relationship with Nate Jacobs, which means Sydney had to lose clothes for some scenes. \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Amid all these beaus, tucked away in plain sight, was Miranda's on-and-off- hookup -turned-husband Steve Brady, an affable, glasses-sporting bar owner and basketball fan with a thick Brooklyn accent. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 26 Jan. 2022"
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"origin unknown"
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"We had four great beefy hooligans on to us when Linton got his tooth knocked out.",
"\u2014 P. G. Wodehouse",
"\"At school I ran with the hooligans and tried to act tough.\"",
"\u2014 John Keen",
"More recently the tabloid press dubbed English football hooligans \"lager louts\" as if it was the fizzy beer that was the problem rather than that many supporters were more interested in fighting than football.",
"\u2014 Henry Jeffreys"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But then came an incident where the two teens went on some kind of hooligan tour around the Bishop of Chester\u2019s property, drunkenly pulling down fences, scattering his deer and other game. \u2014 Anne Th\u00e9riault, Longreads , 21 June 2022",
"In his youth the rapper, born Ivan Dremin, was briefly drawn into the far-right soccer hooligan culture in his hometown of Ufa in Russia\u2019s south. \u2014 John Arterbury, Rolling Stone , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The Hypermotard has melded supermoto culture and sportbike speed better than any other, and over time has become the hooligan \u2019s bike of choice to really stand out from the crowd. \u2014 Peter Jackson, Robb Report , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Yet Stefanov\u2019s patient eye looks beyond that veneer of violent masculinity and finds through Tsetso, a skinhead hooligan with a Swastika on his chest and a single father, a wide range of nuance that give surprising depth to their human experience. \u2014 Emiliano Granada, Variety , 28 Mar. 2022",
"River City\u2019s buffoonish Mayor Shinn (Jefferson Mays, full of red-faced comic bluster) is furious that his eldest daughter is going steady with the town hooligan , Tommy Djilas (Gino Cosculluela). \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 14 Feb. 2022",
"While the Ioniq 5 encourages a relaxed driving style, the EV6 encouraged my inner hooligan \u2014at least as long as the low-rolling-resistance tires cooperated. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 30 Jan. 2022",
"When behaving less like a hooligan , the CX-T grips, goes and shrugs off anything the rally course can throw at it. \u2014 Alistair Charlton, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021",
"My mother [Debbie Reynolds] says Gary is a hooligan . \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 21 Oct. 2021"
],
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"1896, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"perhaps from Patrick Hooligan flourished 1896 Irish hoodlum in Southwark, London":""
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": rowdy, violent, or destructive behavior":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There have certainly been acts of cultural hooliganism in areas occupied by the Russians. \u2014 CNN , 9 May 2022",
"In France and England, hooliganism often has been triggered by social tensions, with violence once so commonplace in the United Kingdom that it was referred to as the English Disease, and women and children were dissuaded from attending games. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 6 Mar. 2022",
"More than 50 countries on six continents have seen some level of soccer hooliganism . \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Most crimes committed in the district in 2014 were drunken fights, robberies, and hooliganism , according to the Moscow Times. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 19 Nov. 2014",
"Suggesting that fans react with hooliganism is another type of principle. \u2014 Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY , 18 Jan. 2022",
"This new-blood Auburn basketball, with a fanbase that feels like soccer hooliganism dipped in a deep fryer, is something blue-blood college basketball isn\u2019t quite sure what to do with. \u2014 Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al , 18 Jan. 2022",
"The September episode that led to the hooliganism charges centered on a suspicious bag at a bus stop. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Dec. 2021",
"During the height of hooliganism in the \u201970s and \u201980s, fighting sometimes broke out between rival sets of fans. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Sep. 2021"
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"\u02c8h\u00fc-li-g\u0259-\u02ccni-z\u0259m"
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": a circle or series of circles of flexible material used to expand a woman's skirt":[],
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},
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"Noun",
"made Christmas garlands from hoops of red and green construction paper",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Curry has spent his career filling games with parabolic 3-pointers and dazzling drives to the hoop . \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"Omer Yurtseven was tearing it up on the boards and around the hoop while Bam Adebayo was recovering. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Later, Salazar slays a lion \u2014 played by an actor who roars while aggressively waving a hula hoop lined with streamers \u2014 which elicits a similar crowd reaction. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Nov. 2021",
"Just was out of control on so many possessions, looked even overmatched sometimes around the hoop . \u2014 Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 17 Aug. 2021",
"In one, the Post reported, a woman was seen using a hula hoop without clothing. \u2014 Jeff Weiner, orlandosentinel.com , 5 Apr. 2021",
"There\u2019s a basketball hoop and a ring toss\u2014both of which are small in size\u2014that can be set up at either end of a pool. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 26 May 2022",
"The three-story light-blue structure has a big, neatly mowed lawn, a basketball hoop in the driveway and a pool in the backyard. \u2014 Shawn Boburg, Anchorage Daily News , 18 May 2022",
"From cross-court skip passes, to behind-the-back dimes, Williams can thread the needle from the post, but against the Longhorns, the All-Big Ten third-teamer concentrated on exploiting mismatches and putting the ball in the hoop . \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Children start hoop dancing at very young ages, such as those who were under 5 and participated in the grand entry of the competition. \u2014 Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Garrett has been known to still hoop from time to time, and last June a highlight reel of one of his summer pickup games went viral with Garrett showing off his dunking abilities. \u2014 Ashley Bastock, cleveland , 18 Feb. 2022",
"In the traditional game, celebrities from film, television and music \u2013 as well as NBA legends and WNBA players \u2013 hoop it up. \u2014 cleveland , 17 Feb. 2022",
"All-girls leagues weren\u2019t popular yet, but Quinn relished any chance to hoop . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 July 2021",
"Melvin Booker, in his day, had been the Big Eight player of the year at Missouri and was good enough to hoop professionally in the NBA and overseas. \u2014 Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic , 15 May 2021",
"Wayne Tinkle's children can hoop Tinkle's daughter Joslyn went to three Sweet 16s while playing basketball at Stanford and is currently playing professionally in Australia. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 27 Mar. 2021",
"Find inspiration in the monthly patterns that appear in Country Living and download our free templates\u2014or hoop it up with your own starter kit. Document your family history. \u2014 Country Living Staff, Country Living , 11 June 2020",
"Being here means that another college hoops season is about to go full swing. \u2014 Tom Noie, Indianapolis Star , 31 Mar. 2020"
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"12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"examples":[
"Many people have grown tired of all the hoopla surrounding the opening of the new theater.",
"for all of the hoopla , very little news emerged from the governor's press conference",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Despite all the marketing hoopla about strategically placed cushioning and support panels, most pairs wind up feeling the same. \u2014 Ariella Gintzler, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"In December, Johnson announced, with much hoopla , that New York would field an AL team in 1903; the Orioles were out. \u2014 Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun , 16 June 2022",
"Some spectators have struggled to contain their excitement at being allowed to join in the hoopla . \u2014 WSJ , 12 Feb. 2022",
"Amid the hoopla and celebration, the Beijing government will be asked about its crackdowns in Hong Kong and Tibet and the repressive treatment of its predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority. \u2014 Kurt Streeter, New York Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
"While superfast cars racing around loops might not have impressed him, the hoopla around Formula 1 sure did. \u2014 New York Times , 13 May 2022",
"Despite the hoopla over streaming services cannibalizing legacy outlets, live-TV rights holders keep returning to the friendly confines of network television, ESPN, and a few cable channels. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Krzyzewski is well-aware of how Saturday's hoopla could distract his team. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 4 Mar. 2022",
"In Pattinson, the producers have found a Dark Knight worthy of the hoopla , while creating a Gotham much in need of him. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 4 Mar. 2022"
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": black ash sense 1",
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"\u201c Hooray !\u201d he cried when he heard that his team had won"
],
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"1686, in the meaning defined above":""
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"perhaps from German hurra":""
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"hu\u0307-\u02c8r\u0101"
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"glory be",
"ha",
"hah",
"hallelujah",
"hey",
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"wahoo",
"whee",
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": jail":[
"\u2026 ended the evening in the local hoosegow .",
"\u2014 Burton Bernstein",
"\u2026 treat your dogs and cats humanely or you might wind up in the hoosegow .",
"\u2014 Bill Hendrick"
]
},
"examples":[
"she ended up in the hoosegow for disorderly conduct",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Her ex \u2014 still in the hoosegow in Los Angeles \u2014 was tried and sentenced to a two-year stretch at San Quentin. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
"From 1868 to 1890, legend says Wickenburg scofflaws were chained to a mesquite tree that served as the town hoosegow . \u2014 Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic , 28 Nov. 2020",
"Most famously, in 1968 Johnny Cash serenaded state inmates at the max-security Folsom Prison in California, later turning the hoosegow act into a live album titled At Folsom Prison. \u2014 Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle , 15 Nov. 2019",
"Carved from a granite cliff overlooking the Colorado River, this was America\u2019s most notorious 19th century hoosegow . \u2014 Roger Naylor, azcentral , 4 Oct. 2019",
"And Blankenship has charged that Manchin, who was governor at the time of the mine explosion, conspired with Barack Obama (not a popular figure in West Virginia) to send him to the hoosegow . \u2014 Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer , 20 Mar. 2018",
"And worse yet from the governor\u2019s point of view, the prosecutor with jurisdiction over these matters is the same one trying to send him to the hoosegow for the privacy and blackmail charge, St. Louis circuit attorney Kim Gardner. \u2014 Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer , 17 Apr. 2018",
"The charges if pursued and confirmed would definitely land Netanyahu in the hoosegow . \u2014 Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer , 13 Feb. 2018"
],
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"1895, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Spanish juzgado panel of judges, courtroom, from past participle of juzgar to judge, from Latin judicare \u2014 more at judge entry 2":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u00fcs-\u02ccgau\u0307"
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"big house",
"bridewell",
"brig",
"calaboose",
"can",
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"hock",
"hold",
"jail",
"jailhouse",
"joint",
"jug",
"lockup",
"nick",
"pen",
"penitentiary",
"pokey",
"prison",
"quod",
"slam",
"slammer",
"stir",
"stockade",
"tolbooth"
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"noun"
]
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"don't give a hoot"
],
": something or someone amusing":[
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": to assail or drive out by hooting":[
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},
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"Verb",
"We could hear an owl hooting in the woods.",
"I hooted at the car in front of me.",
"The crowd booed and hooted when it was announced that the show was canceled.",
"The crowd hooted its disapproval.",
"The speaker was hooted off the platform by a small group of protesters.",
"Noun",
"The announcement was met with hoots of derision.",
"the courtroom erupted in hoots of laughter upon hearing the witness's sarcastic retort",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Kerrigan asks the audience, who hoot and holler in enthusiastic response. \u2014 Audra Heinrichs, ELLE , 19 Feb. 2022",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"People will want to see those on the screen together and hoot and holler. \u2014 Peggy Noonan, WSJ , 16 Dec. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Even without that deeper layer of introspection, Loot is a hoot . \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 21 June 2022",
"The good news is that the whole kit and kaboodle are a hoot to consider. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"But for those wishing to see Ukraine in a gentler\u2014if not exactly flattering\u2014light, the first season of Servant of the People is now streaming on Netflix, and it\u2019s a hoot . \u2014 David Klion, The New Republic , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Toni diBuono and Debra Cardona as Mrs. Brice\u2019s poker buddies are a hoot . \u2014 Frank Rizzo, Variety , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Kidman is a hoot , juggling fire and ice in an enjoyably over-the-top turn. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Polly Walker remains a snooty hoot as the scheming Lady Featherington, whose efforts to secure her family's financial situation are complicated by the arrival of her late husband's brother. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Regardless of the body style or power delivery, the M4 is a hoot to hoon, and its ride is remarkably civil when hunting apexes isn't part of the daily commute. \u2014 Car and Driver , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The runway return of barrier-breaking Black models Beverly Johnson and Veronica Webb in Sergio Hudson\u2019s hoot of an ersatz 1980s fashion show in giant giraffe prints and Palm Beach power suits. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Feb. 2022"
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"1540, in the meaning defined above":"Interjection",
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"origin unknown":"Interjection"
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"\u02c8h\u00fct"
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"firewater",
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"intoxicant",
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"liquor",
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"potable",
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"spirits",
"stimulant",
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"tipple"
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"noun"
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"hop":{
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"ball",
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"cotillon",
"dance",
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],
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"\u02c8h\u00e4p"
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"bound",
"lollop",
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"skip",
"trip"
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]
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"mile"
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},
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"it looked like only a hop, skip, and jump on the map, but the drive took six hours",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The residence, which has had a makeover by design studio Bergman & Mar, is located on 101 Cleveland Street\u2014just a hop, skip, and jump away from Dickens\u2019 first home. \u2014 Kaitlyn Mcinnis, Forbes , 26 Feb. 2021"
],
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"ace",
"hair",
"hairbreadth",
"hairsbreadth",
"hairline",
"inch",
"neck",
"shouting distance",
"step",
"stone's throw"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"1858, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140555",
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"noun"
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": bine sense a":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130456",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184912",
"type":[
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]
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],
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"great hopes for the coming year"
],
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"hoping for the best",
"I hope so."
],
": to desire with expectation of obtainment or fulfillment":[
"I hope she remembers.",
"hopes to be invited"
],
": to expect with confidence : trust":[
"Your mother is doing well, I hope ."
],
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"Bob 1903\u20132003 originally Leslie Townes Hope American (British-born) comedian":[],
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"Linlithgow \\ lin-\u200b\u02c8lith-\u200b(\u02cc)g\u014d \\"
],
"Victor Alexander John 1887\u20131951 2nd Marquis of":[
"Linlithgow \\ lin-\u200b\u02c8lith-\u200b(\u02cc)g\u014d \\"
],
"city in southwestern Arkansas that was the childhood home of President Bill Clinton population 10,095":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"No one knows yet if anyone survived the crash. At this point, we can only hope .",
"I hope you're feeling better soon.",
"That's what she hoped would happen.",
"Let's hope that the strike ends soon.",
"I hope I haven't bored you.",
"Everyone in your family is well, I hope .",
"Noun",
"When they started their life together, they were young and full of hope .",
"Rescuers have not yet abandoned hope that more survivors will be found.",
"The drug has brought hope to thousands of sufferers.",
"We allowed ourselves to entertain hopes that the crisis would end soon.",
"The goal raised the hopes of the team.",
"The hope is that there will be a settlement soon.",
"The lawyers do not want to raise false hopes of an early settlement.",
"He told them the truth with the hope that they would understand.",
"He had little hope of attending college.",
"The latest reports hold out hope for a possible end to this crisis.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"TyTy Washington will hope to follow in the footsteps of several fellow recent Kentucky basketball alums after sliding in the NBA draft Thursday. \u2014 Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal , 24 June 2022",
"Dinwiddie\u2019s recent campaign will be what decision makers hope can happen to Warren. \u2014 Tony East, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"The network, which connects the University of Chicago with Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, is a rudimentary version of what scientists hope someday to become the internet of the future. \u2014 Robert Mccoppin, Chicago Tribune , 18 June 2022",
"What gives you hope for the future of our fight against COVID? \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 18 June 2022",
"The organizers also hope to use their platform to highlight other key issues impacting communities of color. \u2014 Tat Bellamy-walker, NBC News , 15 June 2022",
"Higher spending on energy could, some economists hope , deplete demand in other sectors, allowing for other price pressures to ease. \u2014 Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News , 11 June 2022",
"Officials hope the shelter will be more than a place to escape the heat, though. \u2014 Haleigh Kochanski, The Arizona Republic , 9 June 2022",
"Lets hope their shooting is as bad as their pronunciation !!!!!! \u2014 Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The leaker\u2019s purpose seems obvious: a last-ditch effort to mobilize public opinion and activist protesters in hope of intimidating the justices into rethinking their position. \u2014 David B. Rivkin Jr. And Jennifer L. Mascott, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
"Inside is a baby girl who was thrown from the train by her Jewish father \u2013 whose wife no longer has enough milk to feed both his twins \u2013 in the hope of saving them both. \u2014 Lise Pedersen, Variety , 18 June 2022",
"So, with tension mounting, workers lined the long walkway with their bags packed as the quartet of office golfers gathered at one end in the hope of sinking the carpet putt of the century! \u2014 Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY , 16 June 2022",
"Alamo, which emerged from Chapter 11 in June, has continued to retool its business in the hope more movies will come from the major studios as the pandemic eases, even as the traditional theatrical window shortens. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
"Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi conducted a tour of the Pacific islands last month in the hope of securing a sweeping regional trade and security pact, but the island nations were unable to reach a consensus on a deal. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 13 June 2022",
"China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi conducted a tour of the Pacific islands last month in the hope of securing a sweeping regional trade and security pact, but the island nations were unable to reach a consensus on a deal. \u2014 Reuters, CNN , 12 June 2022",
"Maverick production in the hope of appearing in the sequel. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"Issues began when venue staff started letting fans into the venue a few hours before the show started and the first 100 to 200 fans allowed in ran towards the stage, in the hope of getting a spot close to the barricade. \u2014 Dave Brooks, Billboard , 8 June 2022"
],
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English hopian ; akin to Middle High German hoffen to hope":"Verb and Noun"
},
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"\u02c8h\u014dp"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for hope Verb expect , hope , look mean to await some occurrence or outcome. expect implies a high degree of certainty and usually involves the idea of preparing or envisioning. expects to be finished by Tuesday hope implies little certainty but suggests confidence or assurance in the possibility that what one desires or longs for will happen. hopes to find a job soon look , with to , implies assurance that expectations will be fulfilled looks to a tidy profit from the sale ; with for it implies less assurance and suggests an attitude of expectancy and watchfulness. look for rain when the wind shifts to the northeast",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010340",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"hope chest":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The only item that appeared to be missing was a .357-caliber pistol Jean kept in her hope chest . \u2014 NBC News , 5 Dec. 2020",
"The only item that appeared to be missing was a .357-caliber pistol Jean kept in her hope chest . \u2014 NBC News , 5 Dec. 2020",
"The only item that appeared to be missing was a .357-caliber pistol Jean kept in her hope chest . \u2014 NBC News , 5 Dec. 2020",
"The only item that appeared to be missing was a .357-caliber pistol Jean kept in her hope chest . \u2014 NBC News , 5 Dec. 2020",
"The only item that appeared to be missing was a .357-caliber pistol Jean kept in her hope chest . \u2014 NBC News , 5 Dec. 2020",
"The only item that appeared to be missing was a .357-caliber pistol Jean kept in her hope chest . \u2014 NBC News , 5 Dec. 2020",
"The only item that appeared to be missing was a .357-caliber pistol Jean kept in her hope chest . \u2014 NBC News , 5 Dec. 2020",
"The only item that appeared to be missing was a .357-caliber pistol Jean kept in her hope chest . \u2014 NBC News , 5 Dec. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1911, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101358",
"type":[
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]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
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"All we can do is hope for the best ."
]
},
"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034518",
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"antonyms":[
"applicant",
"applier",
"aspirant",
"campaigner",
"candidate",
"contender",
"expectant",
"prospect",
"seeker"
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],
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": having qualities which inspire hope":[
"hopeful signs of economic recovery"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"The mood is sad rather than hopeful .",
"He was hopeful that things would get better soon.",
"I still feel hopeful about the future.",
"She is hopeful of winning the race.",
"a hopeful tone of voice",
"There are hopeful signs that the crisis may end soon.",
"The movie has a hopeful ending.",
"Investigators report that there have been some hopeful developments in the case.",
"Noun",
"the three mayoral hopefuls are going to debate on local TV",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The colt sighting at Midewin offers plenty of reasons for bird enthusiasts and experts to be hopeful . \u2014 Adriana P\u00e9rez, Chicago Tribune , 20 June 2022",
"The now 37-year-old coach has since built and began installing an offense the franchise is hopeful will elevate a unit that in recent years has hovered statistically just above average. \u2014 Jori Epstein, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"After the equity market\u2019s woeful After the equity market\u2019s woeful performance in April, investors were hopeful for better days ahead. \u2014 Taesik Yoon, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Conservationists are hopeful the site, which sits close to the border with India, will attract Indian tourists. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 May 2022",
"Both Holsman and Asner are hopeful in the face of massive marine system shifts, though. \u2014 Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic , 11 May 2022",
"The cafe, originally a livestreaming space, was hit badly by the coronavirus pandemic, but Kawai is now hopeful as word of mouth spreads about its new format. \u2014 CNN , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Some in the Chicago small business community are hopeful , saying business has picked up in recent weeks. \u2014 Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Still, the next six weeks could provide a reason to be hopeful , at least if past dips in the market are anything to go by. \u2014 Katie Roof, Bloomberg.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"There is a close race between the next two top vote-getters, Ammar Campa-Najjar, a former congressional hopeful , and Chula Vista Councilmember Jill Galvez. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 June 2022",
"Diehl is one of five statewide candidates but the only gubernatorial hopeful to join the program, which offers public funds to candidates in return for agreeing to limits on spending. \u2014 Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com , 8 June 2022",
"Elon Musk\u2019s purchase of Twitter has many on the political right hopeful that, once under his control, the site will take down less conservative content than in the past. \u2014 Jessica Melugin, National Review , 12 May 2022",
"Allan West, the former Florida congressman turned Texas GOP chairman and unsuccessful gubernatorial hopeful , is trying to unseat National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, per The Reload. \u2014 Mark Murray, NBC News , 10 May 2022",
"In particular, the young hopeful developed a fondness for fellow Atlantan Jeezy and his early trap sounds. \u2014 A.d. Amorosi, Variety , 24 Feb. 2022",
"On the other side, the leading Senate Democratic hopeful , Rep. Tim Ryan, has spent less than $3 million so far in positive television ads promoting his own push to protect Ohio manufacturing jobs from China. \u2014 Steve Peoples, Chron , 2 May 2022",
"Lee faces multiple challengers in his race, including the anti-Trump former presidential hopeful , Evan McMullin. \u2014 NBC News , 4 Apr. 2022",
"In a statement, the campaign for Bruce V. Spiva, the attorney general hopeful who brought the challenge, declared that the matter was settled. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Apr. 2022"
],
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"1568, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1720, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"\u02c8h\u014dp-f\u0259l"
],
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"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
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": it is hoped : I hope : we hope":[
"hopefully the rain will end soon"
]
},
"examples":[
"They gazed up at us hopefully .",
"Hopefully , things will get better soon.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But a scene this gloomy ( hopefully ) can\u2019t last forever. \u2014 Madison Feller, ELLE , 16 June 2022",
"Now, after being delayed two years, hopefully the Milwaukee date, Bieber's first in the city in 10 years, will happen. \u2014 Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"That knowledge will hopefully bolster efforts to root out cases and close contacts, get them into isolation and quarantine, and vaccinate the (for now) limited number of vulnerable people. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
"The demon slayer stays his hand and sets Tanjiro off on a journey to train as a demon slayer himself and hopefully cure his sister in the process. \u2014 Ollie Barder, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"After introductions, the discussion quickly turned to the topic of hiring \u2014 or, more hopefully , talent acquisition. \u2014 Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"Well, with my six cats and my dog and my son, and hopefully one day grandchildren. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"Well, with my six cats and my dog and my son, and hopefully one day grandchildren. \u2014 Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping , 10 June 2022",
"But, hopefully , Marvel won\u2019t need two movies to get fans on board. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 10 June 2022"
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"1593, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170822",
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"applicant",
"applier",
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"campaigner",
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"seeker"
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"Olympic hopefuls"
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"hopeful signs of economic recovery"
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},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"The mood is sad rather than hopeful .",
"He was hopeful that things would get better soon.",
"I still feel hopeful about the future.",
"She is hopeful of winning the race.",
"a hopeful tone of voice",
"There are hopeful signs that the crisis may end soon.",
"The movie has a hopeful ending.",
"Investigators report that there have been some hopeful developments in the case.",
"Noun",
"the three mayoral hopefuls are going to debate on local TV",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The colt sighting at Midewin offers plenty of reasons for bird enthusiasts and experts to be hopeful . \u2014 Adriana P\u00e9rez, Chicago Tribune , 20 June 2022",
"The now 37-year-old coach has since built and began installing an offense the franchise is hopeful will elevate a unit that in recent years has hovered statistically just above average. \u2014 Jori Epstein, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"After the equity market\u2019s woeful After the equity market\u2019s woeful performance in April, investors were hopeful for better days ahead. \u2014 Taesik Yoon, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Conservationists are hopeful the site, which sits close to the border with India, will attract Indian tourists. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 May 2022",
"Both Holsman and Asner are hopeful in the face of massive marine system shifts, though. \u2014 Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic , 11 May 2022",
"The cafe, originally a livestreaming space, was hit badly by the coronavirus pandemic, but Kawai is now hopeful as word of mouth spreads about its new format. \u2014 CNN , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Some in the Chicago small business community are hopeful , saying business has picked up in recent weeks. \u2014 Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Still, the next six weeks could provide a reason to be hopeful , at least if past dips in the market are anything to go by. \u2014 Katie Roof, Bloomberg.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"There is a close race between the next two top vote-getters, Ammar Campa-Najjar, a former congressional hopeful , and Chula Vista Councilmember Jill Galvez. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 June 2022",
"Diehl is one of five statewide candidates but the only gubernatorial hopeful to join the program, which offers public funds to candidates in return for agreeing to limits on spending. \u2014 Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com , 8 June 2022",
"Elon Musk\u2019s purchase of Twitter has many on the political right hopeful that, once under his control, the site will take down less conservative content than in the past. \u2014 Jessica Melugin, National Review , 12 May 2022",
"Allan West, the former Florida congressman turned Texas GOP chairman and unsuccessful gubernatorial hopeful , is trying to unseat National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, per The Reload. \u2014 Mark Murray, NBC News , 10 May 2022",
"In particular, the young hopeful developed a fondness for fellow Atlantan Jeezy and his early trap sounds. \u2014 A.d. Amorosi, Variety , 24 Feb. 2022",
"On the other side, the leading Senate Democratic hopeful , Rep. Tim Ryan, has spent less than $3 million so far in positive television ads promoting his own push to protect Ohio manufacturing jobs from China. \u2014 Steve Peoples, Chron , 2 May 2022",
"Lee faces multiple challengers in his race, including the anti-Trump former presidential hopeful , Evan McMullin. \u2014 NBC News , 4 Apr. 2022",
"In a statement, the campaign for Bruce V. Spiva, the attorney general hopeful who brought the challenge, declared that the matter was settled. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Apr. 2022"
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"1568, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1720, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"fair",
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"likely",
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"rosy",
"upbeat"
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"antonyms":[
"curable",
"reclaimable",
"recoverable",
"redeemable",
"reformable",
"remediable",
"retrievable",
"savable",
"saveable"
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"The situation looked hopeless ."
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": having no expectation of good or success : despairing":[
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": incapable of redemption or improvement":[
"She's a hopeless romantic.",
"the most hopeless group of golfers you've ever seen"
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": incapable of solution, management, or accomplishment : impossible":[
"a hopeless task"
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": not susceptible to remedy or cure":[
"doctors say his condition is hopeless"
]
},
"examples":[
"He felt confused and hopeless after losing his job.",
"We were the most hopeless group of golfers you ever saw.",
"He's very ill, but his condition isn't hopeless .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Emotional symptoms can include numbness, self-isolation and feeling overwhelmed, powerless or hopeless . \u2014 Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 June 2022",
"Her son lives with us and is, basically, a hopeless alcoholic. \u2014 Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive , 14 June 2022",
"While conceding that Palazzo's request may well be legitimate because of her narrow margin in the relatively large district, Adams told The Courier Journal current law doesn't prevent similar abuse in hopeless recount requests. \u2014 Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal , 3 June 2022",
"Their hopeless romantic hearts are bursting with optimism and empathy. \u2014 Glamour , 31 May 2022",
"For all that, the goal of implementing sensible gun-control laws is not hopeless \u2014most Americans favor restrictions such as universal background checks. \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 22 May 2022",
"Postpartum depression, a condition that can leave women feeling hopeless after giving birth, also increased with nearly one in 10 mothers diagnosed in 2018, according to the Blue Cross-Blue Shield analysis. \u2014 Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 May 2022",
"We were left feeling hopeless ; Rebecca\u2019s test results showed that her condition and her treatment had conspired to prevent her body from mounting a full immune system response to the vaccine. \u2014 Rob Relyea, CNN , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Our stories about environmental catastrophe used to be set in distant futures: the desolate endlessness of The Road, or the hopeless , cutthroat scrounging in the Parable of the Sower. \u2014 Heather Hansman, The Atlantic , 10 May 2022"
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"1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"\u02c8h\u014d-pl\u0259s"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for hopeless despondent , despairing , desperate , hopeless mean having lost all or nearly all hope. despondent implies a deep dejection arising from a conviction of the uselessness of further effort. despondent about yet another rejection despairing suggests the slipping away of all hope and often despondency. despairing appeals for the return of the kidnapped child desperate implies despair that prompts reckless action or violence in the face of defeat or frustration. one last desperate attempt to turn the tide of battle hopeless suggests despair and the cessation of effort or resistance and often implies acceptance or resignation. the situation of the trapped miners is hopeless",
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"incorrigible",
"incurable",
"irrecoverable",
"irredeemable",
"irreformable",
"irremediable",
"irretrievable",
"unrecoverable",
"unredeemable"
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"curable",
"reclaimable",
"recoverable",
"redeemable",
"reformable",
"remediable",
"retrievable",
"savable",
"saveable"
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"The situation looked hopeless ."
],
": having no expectation of good or success : despairing":[
"felt hopeless and alone"
],
": incapable of redemption or improvement":[
"She's a hopeless romantic.",
"the most hopeless group of golfers you've ever seen"
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": incapable of solution, management, or accomplishment : impossible":[
"a hopeless task"
],
": not susceptible to remedy or cure":[
"doctors say his condition is hopeless"
]
},
"examples":[
"He felt confused and hopeless after losing his job.",
"We were the most hopeless group of golfers you ever saw.",
"He's very ill, but his condition isn't hopeless .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Emotional symptoms can include numbness, self-isolation and feeling overwhelmed, powerless or hopeless . \u2014 Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 June 2022",
"Her son lives with us and is, basically, a hopeless alcoholic. \u2014 Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive , 14 June 2022",
"While conceding that Palazzo's request may well be legitimate because of her narrow margin in the relatively large district, Adams told The Courier Journal current law doesn't prevent similar abuse in hopeless recount requests. \u2014 Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal , 3 June 2022",
"Their hopeless romantic hearts are bursting with optimism and empathy. \u2014 Glamour , 31 May 2022",
"For all that, the goal of implementing sensible gun-control laws is not hopeless \u2014most Americans favor restrictions such as universal background checks. \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 22 May 2022",
"Postpartum depression, a condition that can leave women feeling hopeless after giving birth, also increased with nearly one in 10 mothers diagnosed in 2018, according to the Blue Cross-Blue Shield analysis. \u2014 Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 May 2022",
"We were left feeling hopeless ; Rebecca\u2019s test results showed that her condition and her treatment had conspired to prevent her body from mounting a full immune system response to the vaccine. \u2014 Rob Relyea, CNN , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Our stories about environmental catastrophe used to be set in distant futures: the desolate endlessness of The Road, or the hopeless , cutthroat scrounging in the Parable of the Sower. \u2014 Heather Hansman, The Atlantic , 10 May 2022"
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"1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"\u02c8h\u014d-pl\u0259s"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for hopeless despondent , despairing , desperate , hopeless mean having lost all or nearly all hope. despondent implies a deep dejection arising from a conviction of the uselessness of further effort. despondent about yet another rejection despairing suggests the slipping away of all hope and often despondency. despairing appeals for the return of the kidnapped child desperate implies despair that prompts reckless action or violence in the face of defeat or frustration. one last desperate attempt to turn the tide of battle hopeless suggests despair and the cessation of effort or resistance and often implies acceptance or resignation. the situation of the trapped miners is hopeless",
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"unrecoverable",
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"nonaddict",
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": a drug addict":[]
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"in the early 20th century hopheads were people one expected to find only in the netherworld of jazz",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With that in mind, Free Press deputy sports editor Ryan Ford ranked all 30 teams\u2019 offerings this year \u2014 with some commentary by assistant sports editor Marlowe Alter, the Freep\u2019s true hophead \u2014 while sorting them into five tiers. \u2014 Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press , 28 July 2021",
"This ale is a hophead 's dream, despite the (surprising) 58 International Bittering Units. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 2 Aug. 2020"
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"1895, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8h\u00e4p-\u02cched"
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"addict",
"dopehead",
"doper",
"druggie",
"druggy",
"fiend",
"freak",
"head",
"hype",
"junkie",
"junky",
"stoner",
"user"
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"type":[
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"antonyms":[
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": being under the influence of a narcotic":[],
": having more than usual power : being souped up":[],
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"first_known_use":{
"1920, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"\u02c8h\u00e4pt-\u02c8\u0259p",
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"stoned",
"strung out",
"wasted",
"wiped out",
"zonked",
"zonked-out"
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"adjective"
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"hopping":{
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
],
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": a going from one place to another of the same kind":[
"\u2014 usually used in combination gallery- hopping bar- hopping"
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": extremely , violently":[
"\u2014 used in the phrase hopping mad"
],
": extremely angry":[],
": intensely active : busy":[
"they kept us hopping"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"The boss kept me hopping all day.",
"when he saw what I'd done to his car, the other driver was hopping",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The town is home to nearly 10,000 year-round residents and millions of tourists, with a hopping , walkable apres scene and hotels and condos that neighbor cultural amenities, like the Squamish Lil\u2019wat Cultural Centre. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 14 Mar. 2022",
"But the hoppingest place to be is the locals-favorite The Mangy Moose, a cavernous, packed, two-level, two-bar building hung with license plates and a huge, well, ragged taxidermied moose. \u2014 Alex Postman, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 21 Mar. 2018",
"The Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport will be a hopping place this coming weekend and next for Christmas and New Year's Day. \u2014 Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com , 20 Dec. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has already begun to dive into some dimensional hopping , so that could represent something of the future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. \u2014 Milan Polk, Men's Health , 22 June 2022",
"The number of open jobs has been relatively constant despite the number of people out of work, meaning employees are job- hopping instead of staying put. \u2014 Ken Sterling, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"The two went bar hopping Thursday night and returned to the Grand Hyatt Hotel, where the president is now staying. \u2014 Sara Cook, CBS News , 20 May 2022",
"Also, cultural norms of lengthy tenure in EMEA are at odds with job hopping frequency seen in the US. \u2014 Micah Smurthwaite, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"For the other half of the Peppers\u2019 rhythm section, Flea\u2019s hopping , loping basslines both propelled and held the Peppers\u2019 songs together. \u2014 Tristram Lozaw, BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2022",
"Card hopping can net you major points thanks to signup bonuses but can be hard to manage, says Jamie Harper, mother of four and author of the travel blog Fly by the Seat of Our Pants. \u2014 Kelsey Sheehy Of Nerdwallet, Chron , 10 May 2022",
"Another factor driving all the job- hopping is that workers who take new roles are more likely to see higher pay, Hamrick says. \u2014 Megan Leonhardt, Fortune , 7 May 2022",
"But once the dimension- hopping kicked off, Raimi\u2019s goofy, morbid sense of humor started to assert itself on-screen, and Multiverse of Madness settled into a far more satisfying rhythm. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 3 May 2022"
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"1675, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"1785, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1879, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"see hop entry 1":"Noun"
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-pi\u014b"
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": to fetter the feet of (as a horse or cow) : hobble",
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"definitions":[
": having the taste or aroma of hops"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Like its hoppy counterpart, the wine category also has plenty of brands with offerings such as Null, Surely, Naughty and Proteau. \u2014 Morgan Hines, USA TODAY , 22 June 2022",
"And the brewery is about to embark on a super- hoppy IPA, but that took finding hops that would not have its flavor changed by the dealcoholizing process. \u2014 Outside Online , 31 July 2019",
"The first glimpse of success was a gold medal in 2018 at the Oregon Beer Awards for Papyrus Iris, which won the hazy hoppy IPA category. \u2014 oregonlive , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Heavy-Handed, Atom Smasher and Cane and Ebel, a hoppy red ale that has always been among my favorites. \u2014 Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Craft beer is so closely associated with big, hoppy flavors that the idea of making beer without hops might sound impossible. \u2014 Lou Bustamante, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Feb. 2022",
"The 8,000-square-foot space will allow Cellarmaker to not only serve Detroit-style pies with hoppy beers but also more than double its brewing capacity. \u2014 Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle , 25 Jan. 2022",
"The postponement is especially disappointing to beer geeks after the 2021 release of the ultra- hoppy brew, a triple India IPA that clocks in at over 10% ABV, took place online due to pandemic concerns. \u2014 Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle , 12 Jan. 2022",
"There's a stronger penchant for fuller-flavored, but less hoppy brews such as fruit beers, Berliner Weisses and sours. \u2014 Brian Manzullo, Detroit Free Press , 22 Dec. 2021"
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"circa 1889, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-072133",
"type":[
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-224136",
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a rough-surfaced loosely woven clothing fabric":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The chair is in original condition and has the original hopsack material and color associated with the 1960s. \u2014 Carolyn Patten | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com , 3 Mar. 2018"
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"1888, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
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"examples":[
"Verb",
"The tour hopscotched from city to city.",
"We hopscotched across the country.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The small cafe, housed in a former gas station, is decorated with plants potted in Caf\u00e9 Bustelo coffee cans, a hopscotch diagram drawn in front by a 10-year-old and a painting of a Puerto Rican flag. \u2014 Jonmaesha Beltran, The Arizona Republic , 26 June 2022",
"Hamlet leaping around the stage like a child playing hopscotch , or the chorus lined up and facing forward, rigid as automatons. \u2014 Heidi Waleson, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
"Draw creative designs or use the chalk to play games such as tic-tac-toe or hopscotch . \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 6 May 2022",
"The Spurs are hoping to turn a two-night trip to the Big Easy into a week-plus hopscotch across the country ending in a return to the full-fledged NBA postseason for the first time since 2019. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Antonio Express-News , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Punch lines have included everything from the driver skipping down a chalked hopscotch grid to getting violently attacked by the customer\u2019s loose dogs. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Other new additions are tether ball courts, a hopscotch area \u2014 or fitness walk \u2014 and racing lanes for children. \u2014 Hank Beckman, chicagotribune.com , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Justin Vivian Bond, this exuberant, irreverent game of genre hopscotch tickled the tears out of audiences at its St. Ann\u2019s Warehouse premiere in September. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Although not technically homeless, families like the De La Cruzes hopscotch from short-term rentals to living with other family members to living in their vehicles. \u2014 Imelda Garc\u00eda, Dallas News , 26 Aug. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Their control of tone is unnervingly magnificent, with scenes that freely hopscotch from outlandish action extravaganza to intensive up-close psychodrama and goofy farce. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 27 June 2022",
"To work there, the researchers buried barrels of fuel along the snowy coastline, creating makeshift depots that a helicopter could hopscotch between. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 16 June 2022",
"That strategy helped Delta rapidly outstrip several of its wilier but more sluggish competitors and hopscotch across the globe. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 24 Aug. 2021",
"Having defined freedom mainly in its absence, Menand feels free to hopscotch through his favorite parts of midcentury mass high culture \u2014 painting, literature, the avant gardes \u2014 without concern for coherence or connection. \u2014 Andy Lewis, Los Angeles Times , 20 Apr. 2021",
"One class with just three students played hopscotch six feet apart. \u2014 Melody Petersen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 19 Apr. 2021",
"In sharp contrast, today\u2019s downtown is becoming a place where residents, workers and visitors can hopscotch \u2014 park to park \u2014 from one end to the other. \u2014 Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News , 24 Sep. 2020",
"There\u2019s a backpack on another, a pair of basketball players and hopscotch squares in the distance. \u2014 Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star , 25 June 2020",
"Contesting small states Candidates hopscotched across smaller states in a search for delegates where traffic was lighter. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 2 Mar. 2020"
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"1801, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1918, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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"hop entry 1 + scotch entry 2 (line, score)":"Noun"
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"\u02c8h\u00e4p-\u02ccsk\u00e4ch"
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"1959, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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": a people or tribe of nomadic life":[],
": a political subdivision of central Asian nomads":[]
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"A horde of tourists entered the museum.",
"Hordes of reporters were shouting questions.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As of June 14, MicroStrategy\u2019s crypto horde is worth about $1.1 billion less than what the company paid for it. \u2014 Scott Nover, Quartz , 14 June 2022",
"As the Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade passes by at Magic Kingdom, a horde of parkgoers brings up the rear, strolling behind the final float. \u2014 Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel , 17 May 2022",
"Rescue workers across the middle of the country combed through wreckage for survivors on Saturday after a horde of tornadoes ripped a catastrophic swath from Arkansas through Kentucky. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Dec. 2021",
"Instead of embracing others, this Buzz time-traveled far into the future, put together a horde of mechanical soldiers and traveled back to use young Buzz's hyper-speed crystal to fix everything. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 18 June 2022",
"Ahmed teams with artist Joey Vazquez for a manic story that pits Kamala against a zombie horde . \u2014 Joe George, Men's Health , 14 June 2022",
"Thanks to their inability to control its stupid T-Virus, the Umbrella Corporation has once again unleashed a horde of zombies and other creatures from the games\u2014this time on New Raccoon City, described as a kind of corporate utopia. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 6 June 2022",
"From Luca Evans: The crescendo rose, the familiar wall of noise building amid the nighttime horde , fans in the outfield bleachers at Dodger Stadium standing and waiting with open arms. \u2014 Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
"Demand has grown in Europe, too, prompting Belgium\u2019s federal nuclear control agency to assure the public on March 1 that the situation in Ukraine does not pose any danger to its residents and that there is no reason to buy or horde supplies. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Mar. 2022"
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"1555, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"Middle French, German, & Polish; Middle French & German, from Polish horda , from Ukrainian dialect gorda , alteration of Ukrainian orda , from Old Russian, from Turkic orda, ordu khan's residence":""
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"\u02c8h\u022frd"
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"crush",
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"multitude",
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"scrum",
"swarm",
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"definite",
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"limited",
"restricted"
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"a horizonless array of opportunities for a young, ambitious person at the new company",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The world of this Macbeth feels as horizonless as the king-to-be\u2019s prospects. \u2014 K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone , 15 Jan. 2022",
"In front of us, there is nothing but horizonless blue ocean. \u2014 James Nestor, Scientific American , 12 Feb. 2018",
"The austere landscape surrounding Albuquerque finds its way into his light-filled, horizonless canvases, soaked in the palette of the Southwest. \u2014 Julia Couzens, sacbee , 26 Oct. 2017"
],
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"circa 1839, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"h\u0259-\u02c8r\u012b-z\u1d4an-l\u0259s"
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"bottomless",
"boundless",
"endless",
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"illimitable",
"immeasurable",
"immensurable",
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"infinite",
"limitless",
"measureless",
"unbounded",
"unfathomable",
"unlimited"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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": a bryozoan of the genus Flustra":[]
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"noun"
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"1579, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8h\u022frn-\u02c8mad"
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"angry",
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"frigid",
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"horny teenagers"
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"a horny growth"
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"in her view, \u201cteenage boys are perpetually horny \u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There was one bit of stuntcasting that absolutely worked in Season 3: Alexander Skarsgard as a maniacally horny version of himself in the finale, seeking the attentions of women like Van who don\u2019t mind humiliating him for their mutual enjoyment. \u2014 Inkoo Kang, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"Gayle is calling out her horny friend on late-night TV. \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 16 Mar. 2022",
"But with Moordale getting sold, who knows where the horny students will earn their diplomas? \u2014 ELLE , 14 Apr. 2022",
"No event in recent history \u2014 not Harry Styles in a dress on the cover of Vogue, not changing the green M&M\u2019s footwear, not even the horny Beto O\u2019Rourke tweet \u2014 has inspired so many brain-dead takes as the Slap Heard \u2018Round the World, a.k.a. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 30 Mar. 2022",
"As a horny post-vax summer looms, many aspire to use their mouths to greet friends and strangers both in celebration and victory. \u2014 Allie Volpe, refinery29.com , 18 May 2021",
"The horny comic-relief dialogue from Betty Garrett as the taxi driver, Hildy, is ageless. \u2014 Alison Willmore, Vulture , 6 Dec. 2021",
"And Just Like That would be less horny than the average Folger\u2019s ad. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 23 Dec. 2021",
"The model and chef was initially scouted to vocalize the horny thoughts of high school heartthrob Paxton Yoshida (Darren Barnet) in his own brief solo episode. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 16 July 2021"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"\u02c8h\u022fr-n\u0113"
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"goatish",
"hot",
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"lecherous",
"lewd",
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"licentious",
"lubricious",
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"lustful",
"oversexed",
"passionate",
"randy",
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"satyric",
"wanton"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063325",
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"adjective",
"noun"
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"antonyms":[
"undeceive"
],
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": to trick or deceive (someone) : bamboozle , hoax":[
"\u2026 trying to avoid getting hornswoggled by advertising claims \u2026",
"\u2014 Jennifer Rude Klett",
"\u2014 often used with into or out of By the end of the call, Santillo had allegedly hornswoggled Olson into parting with her life savings \u2026 \u2014 Gary Craig If you want to know what hell can really do in the way of furies, look for the chap who has been hornswoggled into taking a long and unnecessary bicycle ride in the dark without a lamp. \u2014 P. G. Wodehouse He also saw his mother get hornswoggled out of $500\u2014seven weeks' salary, the family's entire savings\u2014by a slick traveling vacuum salesman. \u2014 Kim Lachance Shandrow"
]
},
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"I think we've been hornswoggled by that carnival barker."
],
"first_known_use":{
"1877, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"origin unknown":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u022frn-\u02ccsw\u00e4-g\u0259l"
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"bamboozle",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"buffalo",
"burn",
"catch",
"con",
"cozen",
"deceive",
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"dupe",
"fake out",
"fool",
"gaff",
"gammon",
"gull",
"have",
"have on",
"hoax",
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"juggle",
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"snooker",
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"spoof",
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"suck in",
"sucker",
"take in",
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"verb"
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a hawk moth caterpillar having a hornlike tail process \u2014 compare tomato hornworm":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That is a hornworm caterpillar from the genus Smerinthus. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 July 2020",
"Our research team at Michigan State University\u2019s Plant Resilience Institute watched what happened in hotter weather when hornworm caterpillars attacked a tomato plant. \u2014 Nathan Havko, The Conversation , 7 Apr. 2020",
"The hornworm is a voracious eater of plants \u2014 mainly tomatoes and peppers. \u2014 Joan Morris, The Mercury News , 15 July 2019",
"Some people argue that the caterpillars should be left to do their thing because the reward is seeing the moth, but gardeners often don\u2019t see it that way and go out on hornworm hunts. \u2014 Joan Morris, The Mercury News , 15 July 2019",
"The hickory horned devil, spiny oak worm, and hornworms all have spiky looking horns that can be scary to see, but are not venomous. \u2014 Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, AL.com , 22 Aug. 2017",
"KENNETH SETZER Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden They\u2019re known to resist cracking from intense rains, but problems come from tomato hornworms that devoured my plant mercilessly. \u2014 Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald , 24 May 2017",
"Basil naturally repels mosquitoes, aphids, flies, mites and tomato-eating hornworms . \u2014 Debbie Arrington, sacbee.com , 2 June 2017",
"KENNETH SETZER Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden They\u2019re known to resist cracking from intense rains, but problems come from tomato hornworms that devoured my plant mercilessly. \u2014 Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald , 24 May 2017"
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"first_known_use":{
"1676, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u022frn-\u02ccw\u0259rm"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133621",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"hornwort":{
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"definitions":{
": any of a genus ( Ceratophyllum of the family Ceratophyllaceae) of rootless thin-stemmed aquatic monoecious herbs with female flowers having a single carpel":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Anthocerotae Anthocerotae, also known as hornworts , are the third type of bryophyte. \u2014 Kevin Espiritu For Partselect.com, Good Housekeeping , 29 Aug. 2017",
"Oishi said humid cities where moss thrives could benefit most from using bryophytes \u2013 a collective term for mosses, hornworts and liverworts \u2013 as bioindicators, adding moss could be monitored in its natural environment or cultivated for analysis. \u2014 Sophie Hares, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 Aug. 2017"
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1805, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8h\u022frn-\u02ccw\u0259rt",
"-\u02ccw\u022frt"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091603",
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"noun"
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"frigid",
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"horny teenagers"
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"a horny growth"
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"examples":[
"in her view, \u201cteenage boys are perpetually horny \u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There was one bit of stuntcasting that absolutely worked in Season 3: Alexander Skarsgard as a maniacally horny version of himself in the finale, seeking the attentions of women like Van who don\u2019t mind humiliating him for their mutual enjoyment. \u2014 Inkoo Kang, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"Gayle is calling out her horny friend on late-night TV. \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 16 Mar. 2022",
"But with Moordale getting sold, who knows where the horny students will earn their diplomas? \u2014 ELLE , 14 Apr. 2022",
"No event in recent history \u2014 not Harry Styles in a dress on the cover of Vogue, not changing the green M&M\u2019s footwear, not even the horny Beto O\u2019Rourke tweet \u2014 has inspired so many brain-dead takes as the Slap Heard \u2018Round the World, a.k.a. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 30 Mar. 2022",
"As a horny post-vax summer looms, many aspire to use their mouths to greet friends and strangers both in celebration and victory. \u2014 Allie Volpe, refinery29.com , 18 May 2021",
"The horny comic-relief dialogue from Betty Garrett as the taxi driver, Hildy, is ageless. \u2014 Alison Willmore, Vulture , 6 Dec. 2021",
"And Just Like That would be less horny than the average Folger\u2019s ad. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 23 Dec. 2021",
"The model and chef was initially scouted to vocalize the horny thoughts of high school heartthrob Paxton Yoshida (Darren Barnet) in his own brief solo episode. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 16 July 2021"
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"type":[
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112711",
"type":[
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},
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": laminae on the inside of the wall of an animal's hoof":[]
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"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225250",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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": a common chub ( Nocomis biguttatus ) of the larger streams from Pennsylvania to Wyoming and south to Alabama distinguished by the males having the head covered with conical hornlike processes during the breeding season":[]
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},
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"definitions":{
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},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
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"type":[
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]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
": a timekeeping device"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
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"Middle English orloge , from Anglo-French oriloge , from Latin horologium , from Greek h\u014drologion , from h\u014dra hour + legein to gather \u2014 more at year , legend"
],
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"\u02c8h\u022fr-\u0259-\u02ccl\u014dj",
"\u02c8h\u00e4r-"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"horologer":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133914",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"horrendous":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": extremely bad or unpleasant : horrible , dreadful":[
"His audition was horrendous .",
"horrendous crimes"
]
},
"examples":[
"Her taste in clothes is horrendous .",
"a horrendous explosion shook the building",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For a runner like Liang to lose his life, conditions must have been truly horrendous . \u2014 Will Ford, Outside Online , 25 May 2021",
"The pain and struggle with mental health is horrendous . \u2014 Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al , 9 May 2022",
"Guyton, however, shares these horrendous posts on her social media platforms to help put a stop to this behavior. \u2014 Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
"At the sentencing, the judge called Vicki the evil mastermind of a perverse and horrendous crime. \u2014 Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Milwaukee had horrendous luck with pitching health in 1991. \u2014 Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 Apr. 2022",
"After unleashing horrendous firepower, the decisive blow exerted against Chechnya was the use of loyalist Chechens to impose control. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Mar. 2022",
"But the evidence of such attacks in Ukraine verified by AP and Frontline is both mounting and horrendous , and belies Russian claims that they were staged, self-inflicted or militarily justified. \u2014 Michael Biesecker, Erika Kinetz, Beatrice Dupuy, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Iron Mountain came from the U.P. three years ago and lost the state title on a couple of horrendous calls by the officials. \u2014 Mick Mccabe, Detroit Free Press , 24 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1659, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Latin horrendus \"inspiring terror or awe, dreadful\" (gerundive of horr\u0113re \"to be stiffly erect, bristle, shudder, shiver\") + -ous \u2014 more at horror entry 1":""
},
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"h\u022f-\u02c8ren-d\u0259s",
"h\u00e4-",
"h\u0259-"
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"fearsome",
"forbidding",
"formidable",
"frightening",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"hair-raising",
"horrible",
"horrifying",
"intimidating",
"redoubtable",
"scary",
"shocking",
"spine-chilling",
"terrible",
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"He suffered a horrible death.",
"The crime scene was too horrible to describe.",
"The team had a horrible season last year.",
"He realized that he had made a horrible mistake.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Led by general manager Sid Abel, a legendary Red Wings player, coach, GM and later broadcaster, the Scouts were beyond horrible . \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 14 June 2022",
"First off, there\u2019s no need to go cold turkey or follow any other kind of horrible detox program. \u2014 Elijah Rawls, Men's Health , 14 June 2022",
"That\u2019s because many of the ones sent my way are utterly horrible . \u2014 Scott Kramer, Forbes , 12 June 2022",
"The Browns look horrible for embracing Watson and still might need to find a quarterback for this year. \u2014 Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"Their scars from that horrible day were on clear display. \u2014 David Zurawik, CNN , 8 June 2022",
"The consequences of a Supreme Court assassination are horrible even to contemplate. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 8 June 2022",
"Another reason some guys say no to sunscreen is that many sunscreens have a horrible fragrance. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"Chabon gestures at the same horrible potential\u2014father as destroyer\u2014but sublimates it in theatrics. \u2014 Daniel Engber, The Atlantic , 7 June 2022"
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"\u2014 Robert Graves"
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"People there are living in horrid conditions.",
"He's a horrid little man.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sunday\u2019s three-act play in London \u2014 great first half, horrid third quarter, stirring fourth quarter \u2014 was equal parts enthralling and appalling for the Raiders and their fans. \u2014 Michael Lerseth, SFChronicle.com , 6 Oct. 2019",
"At the beginning of the crisis, Chinese ambassadors were hauled over by foreign ministers and other government representatives to explain the horrid scenes that had gone viral on social media, and to offer immediate remedies. \u2014 Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa , 22 May 2020",
"Across African capitals, Chinese ambassadors are being hauled over by foreign ministries to explain horrid scenes that have gone viral on social media platforms of African migrants being evicted from apartments and refused entry into hotels. \u2014 Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Quartz Africa , 11 Apr. 2020",
"Now called the Winter Park Express Train, the scenic ride takes two hours, and completely bypasses the horrid I-70 weekend traffic. \u2014 Stephanie Granada, Sunset Magazine , 24 Jan. 2020",
"Portland is far too good to have this poor of a record, as a horrid start to the season put them way back in the standings. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, azcentral , 20 Jan. 2020",
"Coming off of a horrid January, the Buckeyes have won five of their last six games to re-enter the top 25. \u2014 Stephen Means, cleveland , 17 Feb. 2020",
"Now called the Winter Park Express Train, the scenic ride takes two hours, and completely bypasses the horrid I-70 weekend traffic. \u2014 Stephanie Granada, Sunset Magazine , 24 Jan. 2020",
"Xavier shot a horrid 11 for 25 on free throws, but the Muskeeters also had their best shooting night of the season by going 11 for 22 (47.8%) on three-pointers. \u2014 Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 29 Jan. 2020"
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"borrowed from Latin horridus \"bristly, rough, uncouth, shivering with cold, inspiring dread,\" from horr\u0113re \"to be stiffly erect, bristle (of hair, weapons, plants), shudder, shiver\" + -idus, adjective suffix of quality \u2014 more at horror entry 1":""
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"\u2014 Robert Graves"
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"People there are living in horrid conditions.",
"He's a horrid little man.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sunday\u2019s three-act play in London \u2014 great first half, horrid third quarter, stirring fourth quarter \u2014 was equal parts enthralling and appalling for the Raiders and their fans. \u2014 Michael Lerseth, SFChronicle.com , 6 Oct. 2019",
"At the beginning of the crisis, Chinese ambassadors were hauled over by foreign ministers and other government representatives to explain the horrid scenes that had gone viral on social media, and to offer immediate remedies. \u2014 Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa , 22 May 2020",
"Across African capitals, Chinese ambassadors are being hauled over by foreign ministries to explain horrid scenes that have gone viral on social media platforms of African migrants being evicted from apartments and refused entry into hotels. \u2014 Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Quartz Africa , 11 Apr. 2020",
"Now called the Winter Park Express Train, the scenic ride takes two hours, and completely bypasses the horrid I-70 weekend traffic. \u2014 Stephanie Granada, Sunset Magazine , 24 Jan. 2020",
"Portland is far too good to have this poor of a record, as a horrid start to the season put them way back in the standings. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, azcentral , 20 Jan. 2020",
"Coming off of a horrid January, the Buckeyes have won five of their last six games to re-enter the top 25. \u2014 Stephen Means, cleveland , 17 Feb. 2020",
"Now called the Winter Park Express Train, the scenic ride takes two hours, and completely bypasses the horrid I-70 weekend traffic. \u2014 Stephanie Granada, Sunset Magazine , 24 Jan. 2020",
"Xavier shot a horrid 11 for 25 on free throws, but the Muskeeters also had their best shooting night of the season by going 11 for 22 (47.8%) on three-pointers. \u2014 Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 29 Jan. 2020"
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"borrowed from Latin horridus \"bristly, rough, uncouth, shivering with cold, inspiring dread,\" from horr\u0113re \"to be stiffly erect, bristle (of hair, weapons, plants), shudder, shiver\" + -idus, adjective suffix of quality \u2014 more at horror entry 1":""
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"horrific images of torture that shocked the conscience of the world",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Remember when Donald Trump was president, and so many of us began each day dreading the inevitable and horrific developments in the White House ? \u2014 Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"Health care professionals face the horrific reality of gun violence every day. \u2014 Joseph V. Sakran, Scientific American , 28 June 2022",
"The past few years have seen a number of tragedies on global, national and local levels from the murder of George Floyd to the horrific shootings that have recently plagued the country. \u2014 Eugene Dilan, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg has spoken out on the horrific discovery inside of an 18-wheeler in the southwest part of the city. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 28 June 2022",
"Phillips is reacting, with shot nerves and barely concealed panic, to a horrific disaster. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"In the aftermath of the horrific shooting at Robb Elementary School that claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers, the Duchess of Sussex traveled to the rural Texas town to offer her condolences and support the community. \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 26 June 2022",
"Last month, The Onion staged a similar front-page takeover following the horrific shooting deaths of 19 children and two adults at an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 25 June 2022",
"Our condolences continue to be with the family, friends and loved ones of Alyssa Elsman, who suffered a terrible and tragic loss, and all of the victims of this horrific incident. \u2014 Lauren Del Valle, CNN , 23 June 2022"
],
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"1653, in the meaning defined above":""
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"awful",
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"\u2014 Arthur Miller"
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"The details of the crime horrified the nation.",
"They were horrified by the movie's violence.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The devastation is going to horrify Europe and North America. \u2014 Peter Bergen, CNN , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Her progressive ideas horrify the White status quo, but they\u2019re welcomed by Motormouth Maybelle, who hosts the one show each month that a Black host and teen dancers are allowed on the air. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Nov. 2021",
"That will horrify some climate warriors in the U.S. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 6 Nov. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021"
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"shock",
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"startle",
"terrify",
"terrorize"
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"The details of the crime horrified the nation.",
"They were horrified by the movie's violence.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The devastation is going to horrify Europe and North America. \u2014 Peter Bergen, CNN , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Her progressive ideas horrify the White status quo, but they\u2019re welcomed by Motormouth Maybelle, who hosts the one show each month that a Black host and teen dancers are allowed on the air. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Nov. 2021",
"That will horrify some climate warriors in the U.S. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 6 Nov. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for horrify dismay , appall , horrify , daunt mean to unnerve or deter by arousing fear, apprehension, or aversion. dismay implies that one is disconcerted and at a loss as to how to deal with something. dismayed at the size of the job appall implies that one is faced with that which perturbs, confounds, or shocks. I am appalled by your behavior horrify stresses a reaction of horror or revulsion. was horrified by such wanton cruelty daunt suggests a cowing, disheartening, or frightening in a venture requiring courage. a cliff that would daunt the most intrepid climber",
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"The details of the crime horrified the nation.",
"They were horrified by the movie's violence.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The devastation is going to horrify Europe and North America. \u2014 Peter Bergen, CNN , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Her progressive ideas horrify the White status quo, but they\u2019re welcomed by Motormouth Maybelle, who hosts the one show each month that a Black host and teen dancers are allowed on the air. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Nov. 2021",
"That will horrify some climate warriors in the U.S. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 6 Nov. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Its science-fiction stories are still sharp and clever with twists that surprise, delight and horrify . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021"
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"\u2014 H. G. Wells"
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"contemplating the horror of their lives",
"\u2014 Liam O'Flaherty"
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},
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"Noun",
"There was a look of horror on her face.",
"The crowd watched in horror as the fire spread.",
"His friends were shocked by the horror of his death.",
"His crimes were unspeakable horrors .",
"His memoirs recount the horrors of the war.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Bit of a horror movie in retrospect, but that was the 2000s, a decade Sandler dominated financially. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 29 June 2022",
"The resulting images are pleasing, and feels more natural than the horror -movie Red or Halloween-y as the Orange. \u2014 Jim Fisher, PCMAG , 28 June 2022",
"That's the magic of a really terrifying horror movie. \u2014 Men's Health , 27 June 2022",
"Russell Crowe is set to star in The Pope\u2019s Exorcist, a supernatural thriller that Julius Avery, the helmer behind the 2018 horror movie Overlord, will direct for Screen Gems. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 June 2022",
"Mustaine had watched a horror movie about people visiting the site of the infamous Ukrainian nuclear meltdown, where people had fled without their canines. \u2014 Kory Grow, Rolling Stone , 23 June 2022",
"That popcorn-spilling jump at a scary scene in a horror movie is one thing, but psychological thrillers get inside your head and stay there, for a totally different kind of scare that can linger long after the closing credits roll. \u2014 Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping , 22 June 2022",
"The horror movie will be the opening night feature film, and will be followed by three evenings of local and national short films. \u2014 Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 20 June 2022",
"Even then, some of the dogs don\u2019t die, and the butchers simply carry on, horror -movie style. \u2014 Liza Lentini, SPIN , 16 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"From the creators of Dark, an intriguing period mystery/ horror German series called 1899. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 6 June 2022",
"M\u00f3rbido describes itself as a communications platform, a generator of own, independent and commercial content, all related to the fantastic and horror genre in pop-culture, technology and entertainment. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 22 May 2022",
"The Vigil is a much better horror picture and is currently on Hulu), offering at least something amid a gun-shy industry qualifies as an act of charity. \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 14 May 2022",
"The new film and series projects span a wide array of genres, ranging from thrillers, action, dramas, comedies and romances to supernatural and horror titles for a YA audience, as well as biographies, true-crime and investigative docudramas. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The box office recovery is still being driven largely by young people, particularly young men, which doesn\u2019t inspire much confidence that non-superhero, non- horror and non-video game action franchises will do much business in cinemas anytime soon. \u2014 Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times , 1 Mar. 2022",
"To understand how crucial the flexibility of audio in Dead by Daylight is, consider how horror films use sound in a linear format. \u2014 Nina Corcoran, Wired , 30 Oct. 2021",
"Candyman from Nia DaCosta and Last Night in Soho from Edgar Wright will test the waters of audiences\u2019 eagerness to pay to see specifically horror films on the big screen. \u2014 Eliana Dockterman, Time , 28 June 2021",
"As a breezy, 100-minute collection of puzzles and jump scares, the first film was a surprise hit, the kind of low-stakes entertainment even non\u2013 horror fans can enjoy. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 5 June 2021"
],
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"from attributive use of horror entry 1":"Adjective"
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"There\u2019s something frustrating about this relentless construction of motherhood as a horror show , and not just because mothers experience the full range of human emotions (some of which are more faithfully explored in a Hallmark movie). \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
"Controlling, manipulative, but incredibly cute, the baby twists Natasha's life into a surreal horror show . \u2014 Lauren Huff, EW.com , 28 Feb. 2022",
"During the 2008-09 horror show , the S&P 500 lost around half its value. \u2014 Larry Light, Fortune , 11 May 2022",
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"This comic puts its female Muslim protagonist through a dark horror story instead of an uplifting superhero saga. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 17 June 2022",
"Like many apartment hunters, our search quickly turned from a romcom fantasy to a real estate horror story . \u2014 Trey Williams, Fortune , 8 June 2022",
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"For Alfred, Amsterdam appears to be the opposite of a horror story . \u2014 New York Times , 23 Mar. 2022",
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"The film does not have a title or official logline yet, but it will be based on a true horror story . \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 24 Jan. 2022"
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"Back in 2011, Daniels, a former Bush White House official and two-term Indiana governor known for his conservative horse sense and low-key manner, passed on a White House run and went on to accept the Purdue presidency. \u2014 Frederick Hess, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"In an age when Hollywood\u2019s highest-profile parent-child relationship is that between Britney Spears and her father, what could be more refreshing than the homespun horse sense of the Howard boys? \u2014 Peter Tonguette, WSJ , 7 Oct. 2021",
"People have many ways of talking about intuition: gut, nose, sixth sense, horse sense , Spidey-sense. \u2014 Steve Kolowich, Washington Post , 20 June 2019",
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"In the winter of 1777, the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe set off on horseback from his home in the central German city of Weimar and traveled a hundred miles north to the forests of the Harz region. \u2014 Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure , 20 June 2022",
"Los Angeles Times After the image went viral last fall, the photograph of a Border Patrol agent on horseback wielding a whip while grabbing a Haitian migrant by his shirt drew outrage among many officials. \u2014 Marisa Gerberstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
"The coin depicts an image of a Border Patrol agent on horseback pulling on a Haitian migrant\u2019s shirt. \u2014 Essence , 17 June 2022",
"From taking the salute on horseback at Trooping the Colour to leading the tributes at the Platinum Party at the Palace, Charles was in the spotlight. \u2014 Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com , 16 June 2022",
"Footage of border patrol officers on horseback chasing Haitian migrants and allegedly swinging their reigns like whips caused national outrage after surfacing online. \u2014 Ariana Garcia, Chron , 15 June 2022",
"As the situation worsened, agents were sent out on horseback to control the situation. \u2014 Bill Melugin, Fox News , 15 June 2022",
"At the time, Border Patrol agents on horseback were photographed corralling migrants, images that some people said were suggestive of slavery. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"Yet the science of paleontology has moved on; no longer is dinosaur hunting financed by industry barons desperate to one-up one another, and no longer are dinosaurs collected by frontiersmen on horseback . \u2014 Steve Brusatte, The Atlantic , 7 June 2022",
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"Horseback riders share the trails with hikers at Brett Woods, a 185-acre conservation area. \u2014 Lisa Prevost, New York Times , 8 Mar. 2017"
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"There\u2019s no argument that today\u2019s cars, trucks, and SUVs are built and engineered far better than at any point since the days of the horseless carriage . \u2014 Jim Gorzelany, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Within a decade, however, the horseless carriage had greatly reduced demand for horse clippers. \u2014 Gregg Opelka, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
"Ford's ' horseless carriage ' had two speeds \u2014 10 and 20 miles per hour selected by twin drive belts. \u2014 Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press , 4 June 2021",
"The horseless carriage made its debut in Washington in 1897. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2021",
"Electricity has actually been competing with gasoline\u2014and steam\u2014to power automobiles since the very dawn of the horseless carriage . \u2014 Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver , 27 May 2020",
"Still, the arguments filmmakers are making in favor of the movie-theater experience over the living-room experience are akin to those once made in favor of transportation by Palomino stallion rather than horseless carriage . \u2014 Bill Carter For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN , 7 Feb. 2020",
"One of America's first horseless carriages is taken for a short test drive in Springfield, Mass., by Frank Duryea, who had designed the vehicle with his brother, Charles. \u2014 Fox News , 22 Sep. 2019",
"In 1893, one of America\u2019s first horseless carriages was taken for a short test drive in Springfield, Mass., by Frank Duryea, who had designed the vehicle with his brother, Charles. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 Sep. 2019"
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"Burnight, then the principal, describes the incident as essentially horseplay . \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Martha and George\u2019s fictitious baby \u2014 one of their private games Martha took upon herself to share with her guests in a night of brutal horseplay \u2014 will have to die. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022",
"His father, Aurvandil War-Raven (Ethan Hawke), is a pretty fun dad for a warrior chieftain, turning Amleth\u2019s initiation ceremony into a night of silly, flatulent horseplay . \u2014 New York Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Sue says the fall was the result of the careless horseplay of teen boys, who\u2019d been dangling the child. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Ultimately, embracing horseplay is about giving your kids the space and trust to fulfill their needs for connection and joy. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Dec. 2021",
"The scene, which sets up eight years of horseplay between the two office pranksters, is also a feat of food engineering. \u2014 Ali Francis, Bon App\u00e9tit , 22 Nov. 2021",
"The Alabama Legislature special session on redistricting has taken a detour into anti-vaccine mandate horseplay . \u2014 J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al , 3 Nov. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The better to handicap them later in events like the Breeders\u2019 Cup, presuming horseplayers are not blinded by 3\u00bd-year-olds. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Apr. 2020",
"Even as the world changes, horseplayers stay the same. \u2014 Danielle Allentuck, New York Times , 10 Apr. 2020",
"Old-school horseplayers should play the connections alone. \u2014 John Cherwa, latimes.com , 15 June 2019",
"Our goal is to deliver an ultra-competitive racing product with more entries and high-quality horses that appeal to bettors and horseplayers nationwide. \u2014 Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal , 6 Sep. 2019",
"Thank you to all of the dedicated horseplayers , horsemen, owners, front-side personnel and fans for your participation and support of Golden Gate Fields. \u2014 John Cherwa, latimes.com , 7 June 2018",
"Also on Twitter, @BetKeeneland is an interactive handle that provides horseplayers with real-time handicapping tips and insights while benefitting the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance through its Handicapper of the Day series. \u2014 Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal , 5 Apr. 2018",
"Thank you to all of the dedicated horseplayers , horsemen, owners, front-side personnel and fans for your participation and support of Golden Gate Fields. \u2014 John Cherwa, latimes.com , 7 June 2018",
"Also on Twitter, @BetKeeneland is an interactive handle that provides horseplayers with real-time handicapping tips and insights while benefitting the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance through its Handicapper of the Day series. \u2014 Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal , 5 Apr. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1947, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u022frs-\u02ccpl\u0101-\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205256",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"horseplaying":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": betting on horse races":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"horse entry 1 + playing":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165957",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"horsepond":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a pond for watering horses":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-113509",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"horsepower":{
"antonyms":[
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness",
"weakness"
],
"definitions":{
": a unit of power equal in the U.S. to 746 watts and nearly equivalent to the English gravitational unit of the same name that equals 550 foot-pounds of work per second":[],
": effective power":[
"intellectual horsepower",
"computing horsepower"
],
": the power that a horse exerts in pulling":[]
},
"examples":[
"an engine with 200 horsepower",
"that architectural firm probably doesn't have the creative horsepower to produce a truly innovative design",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That isn\u2019t very different from the price of a four-wheel-drive V8-powered F-150 XL work truck which has a similar 400 horsepower and only 410 pound-feet of torque. \u2014 Peter Valdes-dapena, CNN , 11 May 2022",
"On Monday, the automaker announced that its electric pickups will have more horsepower and a higher payload capacity than first expected. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 3 May 2022",
"The i3 has 282 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque, and a 66.1-kWh battery providing 327 miles of range on China\u2019s test cycle. \u2014 Caleb Miller, Car and Driver , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The autonomous tractor is a version of Deere\u2019s existing 8R series machine, the largest of which has 410 horsepower . \u2014 John Mccormick, WSJ , 5 Jan. 2022",
"For those into bench racing, the twin-turbo V6 has a higher specific output\u2014 horsepower per liter\u2014than any McLaren engines other than the 4.0 L V8s in the Senna and the Elva. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 14 June 2022",
"Despite this, the Panther reportedly still has a 1,100 kilowatt/1,500 horsepower engine, the same amount of power available to the Leopard 2, so there might not be much difference to the power pack. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 14 June 2022",
"Several other once-promising EV companies are running out of runway, as legacy automakers belatedly begin to flex their horsepower and manufacturing costs spike. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 13 June 2022",
"More Blazer EV specs will be released in July, including range estimates, horsepower and torque ratings, and possibly even pricing. \u2014 Joey Capparella, Car and Driver , 13 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1806, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u022frs-\u02ccpau\u0307-\u0259r",
"\u02c8h\u022frs-\u02ccpau\u0307(-\u0259)r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"energy",
"firepower",
"force",
"might",
"muscle",
"potence",
"potency",
"power",
"puissance",
"sinew",
"strength",
"vigor"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090348",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"horsepower-hour":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the work performed or energy consumed by working at the rate of one horsepower for one hour, being equal to 1,980,000 foot-pounds":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054740",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"horsepox":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a virus disease of horses related to cowpox and marked by a vesiculopustular eruption of the skin especially on the pasterns and sometimes by a vesiculopapular inflammation of the buccal mucosa":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055753",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"horsewhip":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to flog with or as if with a whip made to be used on a horse":[]
},
"examples":[
"He thinks that any government official who steals public money should be horsewhipped .",
"the cruel guards promptly horsewhipped the prisoners if they collapsed under the heavy loads they were forced to carry",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Speccie\u2019s star columnist is the rudest man in Christendom, the Godzilla of contumely, an all-time non-sufferer of fools who horsewhips his targets the way Hunter S. Thompson and Christopher Hitchens once did. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 23 Apr. 2020",
"In reality, Watson wasn\u2019t a bar fighter or famous for horsewhipping cowboys. \u2014 Eliza Mcgraw, Smithsonian , 12 Mar. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1751, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u022frs-\u02cc(h)wip",
"\u02c8h\u022frs-\u02cchwip",
"\u02c8h\u022frs-\u02ccwip"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"birch",
"cowhide",
"flagellate",
"flail",
"flog",
"hide",
"lash",
"leather",
"rawhide",
"scourge",
"slash",
"switch",
"tan",
"thrash",
"whale",
"whip"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204715",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"horsing around":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"the boys were horsing around on the boat when one of them fell overboard"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1919, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"act up",
"clown (around)",
"cut up",
"fool around",
"hotdog",
"monkey (around)",
"show off",
"showboat",
"skylark"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033637",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hose":{
"antonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"shake down",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
],
"definitions":{
": a close-fitting garment covering the legs and waist that is usually attached to a doublet by points":[],
": a cloth leg covering that sometimes covers the foot":[],
": a flexible tube for conveying fluids (as from a faucet or hydrant)":[],
": short breeches reaching to the knee":[],
": stocking , sock":[],
": to deprive of something due or expected : trick , cheat":[],
": to fire automatic weapons at":[
"\u2014 usually used with down"
],
": to spray, water, or wash with a hose":[
"\u2014 often used with down hose down a stable floor"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"There are several hoses stored in the shed.",
"We need another 50 feet of hose .",
"Verb",
"when the guy failed to return with our money, we sooned realized that we had been hosed",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The fire hose of foreign cash and international aid that propped up the U.S.-backed governments in Kabul for two decades was turned off overnight. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"Since then, Caruso has opened a fire hose of political spending that probably dwarfs the output of all other candidates combined. \u2014 Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times , 22 Mar. 2022",
"After securing multiple supply lines, firefighters extended hose lines and attacked the fire. \u2014 Haleigh Kochanski, The Arizona Republic , 4 June 2022",
"Millions of Americans suddenly relied on their phones and computers as lifelines to remote jobs, classes, now-distant family and friends, food and grocery deliveries, and a fire hose of news to understand the novel coronavirus. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Apr. 2022",
"An atmospheric river is a long, narrow region in the atmosphere that can transport moisture thousands of miles, like a fire hose in the sky. \u2014 Jennifer Gray, CNN , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Millions of Americans suddenly relied on their phones and computers as lifelines to remote jobs, classes, now-distant family and friends, socially distanced food and grocery deliveries, and a fire hose of news to understand the novel coronavirus. \u2014 Danielle Abril And Hannah Good, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Use an all-purpose household cleaner and a microfiber cloth for spills, or spray it down with a garden hose . \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 18 May 2022",
"Clean the vent duct behind your dryer using a vacuum cleaner hose . \u2014 Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Squish them with your fingers or hose them off with a sharp spray of water. \u2014 Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"Rugs made from plastic materials are easy to hose down. \u2014 Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens , 9 May 2022",
"Always the panic of motion and then, between strings, a reprieve to hose down the deck. \u2014 Outside Online , 11 Nov. 2020",
"The second is that the house where Nacho goes to hose himself down belongs to a guy who doesn't want to kill him \u2014 a friendly, middle-aged auto mechanic who offers him the use of a towel and a telephone. \u2014 Kat Rosenfield, EW.com , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Outdoor showers are also available for guests to hose off after a long day out on the bay. \u2014 Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure , 15 Apr. 2022",
"For aphids, hose off as many as possible and then use either Mosquito Bits (a Baccillus product that nurseries sell) or spray plants with any product containing pyrethrin. \u2014 Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Remain in one place for an hour, and someone will drive past with something to give: coffee and sandwiches out of a car trunk, ice cream or beer from a cooler, or an offer to hose out a house. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The seats are made from marine-grade vinyl and the Bronco Raptor's rubber flooring is made to be easy to hose off. \u2014 Peter Valdes-dapena, CNN , 24 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1889, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English hosa stocking, husk; akin to Old High German hosa leg covering":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dz"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"sock",
"stocking"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091035",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hospice":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a lodging for travelers, young persons, or the underprivileged especially when maintained by a religious order":[]
},
"examples":[
"She chose to go to a hospice instead of a hospital.",
"the monks run a hospice for travelers in their mountain retreat",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Violent crimes committed by Japanese dementia patients are rare but a case similar to Tomizawa's in 2014 saw a 72-year-old man with dementia strangle an 82-year-old woman to death in a hospice . \u2014 Heather Chen And Yuki Kurihara, CNN , 11 June 2022",
"Based on the Christopher Pike novel of the same name, the 10-episode show follows a group of seven teenagers at a hospice for terminally ill young adults known as the Rotterdam Home. \u2014 Carson Burton, Variety , 6 June 2022",
"James Lee Bynum, one of two surviving Tuskegee Airmen in San Antonio who was known for telling its story to groups around town, has died in a local hospice . \u2014 Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News , 3 May 2022",
"Jacqueline Lopez-Devine, chief clinical officer at Trustbridge hospice , said in her 15 years working with the dying, no couple had arrived together. \u2014 Terry Spencer, USA TODAY , 22 Mar. 2021",
"Keiichi Shibahara went from making pocket money on wine arbitrage to building Japan\u2019s most valuable hospice care firm Amvis. \u2014 James Simms, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"Additionally, a cyberattack against Greater Baltimore Medical Center, a prominent health system in Maryland, caused disruptions to their services\u200b\u200b \u2014 resulting in delayed procedures and impacting hospice care. \u2014 David Stapleton, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"Dear Missing my Dog: In-home hospice care for a dying animal is a true gift. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 19 May 2022",
"Dear Missing my Dog: In-home hospice care for a dying animal is a true gift. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 19 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1818, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from French, going back to Middle French hospise, borrowed from Medieval Latin hospitium \"hospitality, lodgings, monastic guesthouse, shelter maintained by a religious order for the poor and infirm,\" going back to Latin,\"accommodation of guests, hired lodgings,\" from hospit-, hospes \"guest, host\" + -ium, denominal suffix of function or occupation \u2014 more at host entry 3":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4s-p\u0259s",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-sp\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"auberge",
"caravansary",
"caravanserai",
"hostel",
"hostelry",
"hotel",
"inn",
"lodge",
"public house",
"tavern"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105223",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hospitable":{
"antonyms":[
"inhospitable",
"ungenial",
"ungracious",
"unsociable"
],
"definitions":{
": given to generous and cordial reception of guests":[
"a kind, hospitable people",
"they are hospitable \u2026 : give a guest everything, and leave him free to do as he likes",
"\u2014 Bram Stoker"
],
": offering a pleasant or sustaining environment":[
"grows in even the least hospitable climates"
],
": promising or suggesting generous and friendly welcome":[
"hospitable faces"
],
": readily receptive : open":[
"hospitable to new ideas"
]
},
"examples":[
"The people of that country are very hospitable .",
"It's a hearty plant that grows in even the least hospitable climates.",
"elderly people moving to Florida for its hospitable climate",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Essentially the heat and low humidity combined create a more hospitable environment for the fires to grow. \u2014 Allison Chinchar, CNN , 13 May 2022",
"The onus is on leaders to make the workplace more hospitable , protective, flexible and inclusive. \u2014 Quentin Mcdowell, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"And all of these weirdnesses were mitigated by the fact that that was one of the most kind, generous, hospitable , just incredibly lovely group of people. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Many have already arrived in the small but hospitable outpost of Vilnius, a city of medieval streets and half a million residents with a history of protecting human rights activists. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Mar. 2022",
"So why not extend that soul-soothing effect by adding foliage to a bathroom, a habitat particularly hospitable to flora? \u2014 Yelena Moroz Alpert, WSJ , 8 Feb. 2022",
"There may be ways to make your backyard less hospitable to the squirrels. \u2014 Jeanne Huber, Washington Post , 31 May 2022",
"In the Indian River Lagoon, the turbid brown waters are much less hospitable . \u2014 New York Times , 9 Apr. 2022",
"To avoid any unwanted coyote interactions, Michiganders should be vigilant of their pets and make their backyards less hospitable to coyotes. \u2014 Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press , 7 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1570, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Medieval Latin hospit\u0101bilis, from hospit\u0101re \"to lodge, reside, give lodging to, house\" (going back to Latin hospit\u0101r\u012b \"to put up as a guest, give lodging to,\" derivative of hospit-, hospes \"guest, host\") + Latin -bilis \"capable (of acting) or worthy (of being acted upon)\" \u2014 more at host entry 3 , -able":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4-spi-",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-(\u02cc)spi-",
"h\u00e4-\u02c8spi-t\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"affable",
"cordial",
"genial",
"gracious",
"sociable"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-002927",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"host":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a country, government, etc. that agrees to allow an outside business, organization, group of people, etc. to operate, function, or live within in its boundaries, jurisdiction, or population":[
"\u2014 often used before another noun In short, the problem is that the interests of a large multinational company may not be coincident with the development interests of the host countries. \u2014 E. S. Simpson \u2026 when a United States service member commits an offense within a foreign country, should the accused be tried in a court-martial or in a court of the host country? \u2014 Charles A. Shanor and Timothy P. Terrell Although the guest workers were distinct\u2014in the sense that they were initially expected to go home and not be absorbed into the host society\u2014in practice, many have stayed and thereby contributed to the ethnic diversity of Europe. \u2014 Michael Chisholm"
],
": a great number : multitude":[
"a whole host of options"
],
": a living organism on or in which a parasite lives":[
"\u2026 a single-celled protozoan parasite that is able to sexually reproduce in only one host \u2014cats.",
"\u2014 Erin Tomb",
"\u2026 the parasite larvae develop inside each bee, rapidly consuming their host from the inside out.",
"\u2014 Paul Schmid-Hempel",
"Cryptosporidium is an enteric parasite of emerging importance in normal and immunocompromised hosts .",
"\u2014 Peter S. Millard et al.",
"\u2026 there is a wide array of mechanisms by which the parasite evades or modulates host immunological attack.",
"\u2014 Rick M. Maizel et al."
],
": a person who receives or entertains guests socially, commercially, or officially":[
"Ourself will mingle with society / And play the humble host .",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare",
"\u2026 another blog disclosed that he [John Edwards] had been the host of an off-the-record dinner with several bloggers at his house in Washington.",
"\u2014 Time",
"On Thursday night, [Dawn] Staley will be the host at a black tie fundraising dinner for her foundation in suburban Philadelphia.",
"\u2014 The New York Times",
"\u2026 the Inn at Little Washington has become one of America's premier dining destinations, a cozy world of casual luxury and terrific American food created by chef Patrick O'Connell and host Reinhardt Lynch.",
"\u2014 Thomas Matthews"
],
": a person who talks to guests on a program (such as a radio or television show or a podcast)":[
"As chairman of Harpo Entertainment Group, as well as host , star, and supervising producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Winfrey is the most successful woman ever to enter the field of television.",
"\u2014 Harry Allen",
"Not only was he confident, with a malleable voice that was equal parts game show host and morning-radio DJ, but his jokes were seemingly fully formed.",
"\u2014 Peter Rubin",
"As [Randi] Rhodes demonstrates every afternoon drive, a liberal talk radio host can be just as bombastic, hyperbolic, and plain old nasty as a conservative one.",
"\u2014 Jason Zengerle",
"The YouTuber and podcast host has gained millions of subscribers with her opinionated brand of energy and excitement.",
"\u2014 Vanessa Jackson",
"Even though some YouTube hosts are iconic for rarely showing their faces \u2026, it's typically a good idea to know some basics about hosting a video and honing your online personality.",
"\u2014 Shelby Brown"
],
": a place or organization that provides facilities and services for an event or function":[
"The night before he scored 18 points and got 18 rebounds to help Winthrop beat host UNC-Asheville 75-62.",
"\u2014 Seth Davis",
"For the pleasure of visitors who like to combine running and jumping with more intellectual pursuits, Olympic hosts have traditionally set forth a generous display of cultural events. Seoul came up to snuff.",
"\u2014 E. J. Kahn, Jr."
],
": an individual into which a tissue, part, or embryo is transplanted from another":[
"Allogeneic transplantation is more complicated than syngeneic or autologous transplantation because of immunologic differences between donor and host .",
"\u2014 Frederick R. Appelbaum",
"This suggests that functional connections develop between the transplanted neural tissue and the host brain.",
"\u2014 Gary W. Arendash et al."
],
": army":[
"the destruction of Pharaoh's host in that sea",
"\u2014 W. L. Sperry"
],
": emcee":[
"hosted a series of TV programs"
],
": the eucharistic bread":[],
": the larger, stronger, or dominant member of a commensal or symbiotic pair":[
"When one species, known as the symbiont, lives within the body of the other, known as the host , the relation is called endosymbiotic.",
"\u2014 James. J. Childress et al.",
"In a number of natural associations, such as nitrogen-fixing bacteria in legumes, the host organism receives a significant benefit, but the symbiont partner gets little in return.",
"\u2014 Physics Today"
],
": to assemble in an army usually for a hostile purpose":[],
": to receive or entertain guests at or for":[
"host a dinner",
"host friends"
],
": to serve as host (see host entry 3 sense 1a ) to":[
"host a dinner",
"host friends"
],
"\u2014 see also cohost":[
"As chairman of Harpo Entertainment Group, as well as host , star, and supervising producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Winfrey is the most successful woman ever to enter the field of television.",
"\u2014 Harry Allen",
"Not only was he confident, with a malleable voice that was equal parts game show host and morning-radio DJ, but his jokes were seemingly fully formed.",
"\u2014 Peter Rubin",
"As [Randi] Rhodes demonstrates every afternoon drive, a liberal talk radio host can be just as bombastic, hyperbolic, and plain old nasty as a conservative one.",
"\u2014 Jason Zengerle",
"The YouTuber and podcast host has gained millions of subscribers with her opinionated brand of energy and excitement.",
"\u2014 Vanessa Jackson",
"Even though some YouTube hosts are iconic for rarely showing their faces \u2026, it's typically a good idea to know some basics about hosting a video and honing your online personality.",
"\u2014 Shelby Brown"
],
"\u2014 see also definitive host , host cell , intermediate host":[
"\u2026 a single-celled protozoan parasite that is able to sexually reproduce in only one host \u2014cats.",
"\u2014 Erin Tomb",
"\u2026 the parasite larvae develop inside each bee, rapidly consuming their host from the inside out.",
"\u2014 Paul Schmid-Hempel",
"Cryptosporidium is an enteric parasite of emerging importance in normal and immunocompromised hosts .",
"\u2014 Peter S. Millard et al.",
"\u2026 there is a wide array of mechanisms by which the parasite evades or modulates host immunological attack.",
"\u2014 Rick M. Maizel et al."
],
"\u2014 see also graft-versus-host disease":[
"Allogeneic transplantation is more complicated than syngeneic or autologous transplantation because of immunologic differences between donor and host .",
"\u2014 Frederick R. Appelbaum",
"This suggests that functional connections develop between the transplanted neural tissue and the host brain.",
"\u2014 Gary W. Arendash et al."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hoste, oste \"sacrificial offering, bread consecrated in the Eucharist,\" borrowed from Anglo-French hoste, hoiste, going back to Late Latin hostia \"Eucharist,\" going back to Latin, \"sacrificial animal,\" derivative from the base of host\u012bre \"to recompense, requite,\" hostis \"foreigner, stranger, enemy\" \u2014 more at guest entry 1":"Noun",
"Middle English hosten, osten, derivative of ost, host host entry 3":"Verb",
"Middle English ost, host \"army, detachment, body of attendants, multitude, throng,\" borrowed from Anglo-French, going back to Late Latin hostis \"archenemy, the Devil, army,\" going back to Latin, \"foreigner, stranger\" (in early use), \"enemy,\" going back to dialectal Indo-European *g h ost-i- \"outsider, guest\" \u2014 more at guest entry 1":"Noun",
"Middle English ost, host \"person who receives guests, guest,\" borrowed from Anglo-French oste, hoste, going back to Latin hospit-, hospes \"guest, visitor, person receiving guests,\" going back to dialectal Indo-European *g h osti-pot- (whence probably also Old Church Slavic gospod\u012d \"lord, master\"), from *g h ost-i- \"outsider, guest\" + *pot- \"one in control, master\" \u2014 more at guest entry 1 , potent entry 1":"Noun",
"derivative of host entry 1":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8h\u014dst"
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"army",
"bike",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"legion",
"mass",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"rout",
"scrum",
"swarm",
"throng"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092355",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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": a supervised institutional residence or shelter (as for homeless people)":[],
": an inexpensive lodging facility for usually young travelers that typically has dormitory-style sleeping arrangements and sometimes offers meals and planned activities":[],
": inn":[],
": to stay at hostels overnight in the course of traveling":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"in the old days, a traveler could spend the night at one of the hostels placed along the coach route",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Another startup using NFTs is Stay Open, which converts unutilized retail and office space into hostel -like lodgings. \u2014 Peter Grant, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"Arian and her cousin are living in a tiny hostel room in Islamabad, paid for by her siblings\u2019 wire transfers. \u2014 Deepa Fernandes, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 Feb. 2022",
"And then every other girl in the hostel room was sharing very similar situations. \u2014 Katherine Singh, refinery29.com , 24 Aug. 2021",
"Left in the economic lurch, resorts vied for the only fat wallets left: destination skiers who no longer cared to hook up and sleep in a hostel . \u2014 Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online , 20 Nov. 2020",
"The owner said Miller was staying with the couple at the hostel . \u2014 NBC News , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The new arrivals in Warsaw are typically greeted by volunteers who, within a few hours, match them with a family or hostel willing to house them. \u2014 Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic , 3 May 2022",
"The settlers took over part of one of the hotels \u2014 a popular backpacker hostel \u2014 last month. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, ajc , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The couple accused Miller of barging into their bedroom and threatening them at a hostel in Hilo, the same Big Island town where the actor had been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and harassment in a separate incident in late Match. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"That\u2019s when the first upscale hostels appeared, determinedly different from those hosteling clich\u00e9s. \u2014 Mark Ellwood, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 12 Sep. 2018",
"Of course, hosteling originated as a way for young backpackers to sleep safely and comfortably without the expense of a hotel. \u2014 Rick Steves, miamiherald , 3 May 2018"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
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"Middle English, \"lodging, accommodation, inn, dwelling place,\" borrowed from Anglo-French ostel, hostel, going back to Latin hospit\u0101le \"guest accommodation\" (in plural hospit\u0101lia ) \u2014 more at hospital":"Noun",
"derivative of hostel entry 1":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4s-t\u1d4al",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-st\u1d4al"
],
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"hospice",
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"hotel",
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"lodge",
"public house",
"tavern"
],
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
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": inn , hotel":[]
},
"examples":[
"the grande dame of the city's hostelries , it has played host to presidents, kings, and Hollywood royalty",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Over the years, the hostelry grew to more than 110 rooms with a conference center. \u2014 Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"These properties permit residents to avail themselves of the same pampering high-end amenities enjoyed by guests of the hostelry . \u2014 Jeffrey Steele, Forbes , 12 Oct. 2021",
"The transformed hostelry \u2019s second-floor accommodations feature cool hues of white and gray, with live-edge headboards and white subway tile. \u2014 Valerie Stivers, WSJ , 29 Dec. 2020",
"Back in Spain, where the hostelry business had been riding high before the pandemic amid robust growth and record tourism numbers, entrepreneurs face similar tough choices on whether or not to resume operations. \u2014 Jeannette Neumann, Bloomberg.com , 10 May 2020",
"Over the decades, the saloon has taken on various incarnations \u2014 a post office, stage depot and a hostelry \u2014 morphing to suit the needs of a developing community along a popular emigrant trail. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com , 29 Jan. 2020",
"Naturally, that aesthetic includes big, welcoming fireplaces, the heart of any New England hostelry . \u2014 Linda Laban, USA TODAY , 16 Feb. 2020",
"Today, some version of Pisco Punch is served in a number of San Francisco hostelries . \u2014 Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com , 27 Dec. 2019",
"Consisting of 12 scenes written and staged by seven directors including showrunner Lee Liebeskind, the production conjures incidents that take place in the eponymous hostelry \u2019s Room 109 over the course of a year. \u2014 Celia Wren, Washington Post , 16 Oct. 2019"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hostelrye, ostelrye, borrowed from Anglo-French hostillerie, from hostel er hosteler + -erie -ery":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4-st\u1d4al-r\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"auberge",
"caravansary",
"caravanserai",
"hospice",
"hostel",
"hotel",
"inn",
"lodge",
"public house",
"tavern"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105000",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hostile":{
"antonyms":[
"friendly",
"hospitable",
"nonantagonistic",
"nonhostile",
"sympathetic"
],
"definitions":{
": adverse to the interests of a property owner or corporation management":[
"a hostile takeover"
],
": having an intimidating, antagonistic, or offensive nature":[
"a hostile workplace"
],
": marked by malevolence : having or showing unfriendly feelings":[
"a hostile act"
],
": not hospitable":[
"plants growing in a hostile environment"
],
": of or relating to an enemy":[
"hostile fire"
],
": of or relating to the opposing party in a legal controversy":[
"a hostile witness"
],
": openly opposed or resisting":[
"a hostile critic",
"hostile to new ideas"
]
},
"examples":[
"Dugoni, a lawyer who coauthored a nonfiction book about an Idaho worker brain-damaged in 1996 by cyanide fumes, opens his debut novel with a wrongful death attorney in San Francisco, David Sloane, about to make his closing remarks defending a corporation in a similar case. Sloane, who has won 14 cases in a row, hates his arrogant client and must face an obviously hostile jury. \u2014 Publishers Weekly , 9 Jan. 2006",
"Relations with neighboring societies may be intermittently or chronically hostile . A society may be able to hold off its enemies as long as it is strong, only to succumb when it becomes weakened for any reason, including environmental damage. \u2014 Jared M. Diamond , Collapse , 2005",
"I do not want a hostile relationship with my surgeon. But it's obvious he's pigeonholed me into the last of the four patient categories that doctors use when writing a case history: young, middle-aged, senior, elderly. \u2014 Sylvia Simmons , Newsweek , 10 June 2002",
"Even when one is inside a climate-controlled spacecraft, sheltered from the deadly vacuum outside, space is a hostile setting. Terrestrial organisms venturing off the planet face a number of threats, chief among them cosmic radiation and the near absence of gravity. \u2014 Kenneth S. Kosik , Air & Space , June/July 2001",
"Lotus Development Corp. succumbed to a sweetened offer of $3.52 billion, or $64 a share, from International Business Machines Corp. in one of the fastest capitulations ever in a hostile takeover. A marathon week of negotiations, which began shortly after IBM unveiled a surprise bid of $60 a share for Lotus last Monday, ended yesterday with the signing of a definitive agreement. \u2014 Laurie Hays et al. , Wall Street Journal , 12 June 1995",
"While the stereotype of the tortured artist brooding alone in a drafty garret may be an exaggeration, artists of all kinds\u2014painters, musicians, poets, singers\u2014often find themselves struggling to cope in a \u2026 world downright hostile to their work. Financial hardships, loneliness, family members who nag them to get \"real\" jobs, and their own self-destructive attitudes and habits can block creativity and prevent artists from pursuing their vision. \u2014 New Age Journal , Winter 1995",
"They were entering hostile territory.",
"Her suggestions were given a hostile reception.",
"It was a small town that was hostile to outsiders.",
"The camel is specially adapted to its hostile desert habitat.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This milestone moment offers a small respite from the increasingly hostile environment in American public life for LGBTQ+ and particularly trans people. \u2014 Allison Hope, CNN , 30 June 2022",
"The Ukrainian military also hopes to use residents behind enemy lines as a force multiplier by staging sabotage operations, scouting enemy targets, and generally creating a hostile environment for occupation forces. \u2014 Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2022",
"Diaz alleged that his colleagues and a supervisor subjected him to a hostile work environment that included slurs, caricatures and swastikas in his nine months working at the Fremont plant in 2015 and 2016. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 21 June 2022",
"The Eastern Conference champs emerged victorious in a pair of Game 7\u2019s to reach this point and won\u2019t be fazed by the hostile environment at the Chase Center this evening. \u2014 Alex Kay, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"The first is trading the friendly confines of Jim Patterson Stadium for a hostile road environment. \u2014 Brooks Holton, The Courier-Journal , 9 June 2022",
"In a court filing, the judge in the case said Crawford had not proven the existence of a hostile work environment. \u2014 Brian Steinberg, Variety , 8 June 2022",
"Complaints obtained by the Orlando Sentinel said Bell contributed to a hostile work environment. \u2014 Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel , 1 June 2022",
"At the crux of Meta\u2019s policy is the desire to avoid a hostile work environment. \u2014 Sarah Todd, Quartz , 24 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1580, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, borrowed from Latin host\u012blis, from hostis \"enemy\" + -\u012blis \"pertaining to or characteristic of (such persons)\" \u2014 more at host entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4-st\u1d4al",
"-\u02ccst\u012b(-\u0259)l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"adversarial",
"adversary",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"inhospitable",
"inimical",
"jaundiced",
"mortal",
"negative",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-051110",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"hostile fire":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a fire that is not confined in a receptacle specifically made to contain fire":[
"\u2014 used in fire-insurance contracts"
],
"\u2014 compare friendly fire":[
"\u2014 used in fire-insurance contracts"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131430",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hostile takeover":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an attempt to buy a company when the people who own the company do not want to sell it":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073742",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hostile witness":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": witness in a legal case who supports the opposing side":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224323",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
": the quality or state of being hostile"
],
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[
"-\u1d4aln\u0259\u0307s",
"-\u012bln-",
"-iln-"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-122355",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hostilities":{
"antonyms":[
"amity"
],
"definitions":{
": conflict, opposition, or resistance in thought or principle":[
"there was tension, there was hostility and envy in the air",
"\u2014 Theodor Reik"
],
": deep-seated usually mutual ill will":[
"glad to have gotten through the divorce proceedings without any visible signs of hostility",
"showed open hostility toward outsiders"
],
": hostile action":[
"the Spanish expedition encountered hostility \u2026 and was forced to flee",
"\u2014 R. W. Murray"
],
": overt acts of warfare : war":[
"Peace talks were stalled after recent hostilities ."
]
},
"examples":[
"They were both glad to have gotten through the divorce proceedings without any visible signs of hostility .",
"The townspeople showed open hostility to outsiders.",
"Peace talks were stalled after recent hostilities .",
"Both sides are calling for a cessation of hostilities .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Blaine amendments arose against a backdrop of anti-Catholic hostility in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 21 June 2022",
"The tone-setting declaration was necessary because the division, like many other media brands after the summer of 2020, had made headlines for workplace inequity and racial hostility . \u2014 Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 May 2022",
"Some hostility broke out recently over the space occupied by a taco truck that happened to be right in front of a new taqueria in Chinatown. \u2014 Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
"In a nearby neighborhood called Batla House, mechanical engineer Sanaullah Akbar sees ghettos as spaces where Muslims can live without fear, even if these areas lack infrastructure or attract hostility . \u2014 Tarushi Aswani, The Christian Science Monitor , 30 June 2022",
"The resurgence of neo-fascist movements and authoritarian rule around the world has unsurprisingly coincided with a ramping-up of hostility against press freedom. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 15 June 2022",
"This hostility has only led school Principal Michael Wilson to double down on making Magic City Acceptance Academy a safe space. \u2014 Michela Moscufo, ABC News , 9 June 2022",
"Tony Blair remains a virtual pariah to this day, David Cameron a figure of open disdain, and Thatcher a source of such continuing hostility that a statue honoring her is egged by protesters. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 6 June 2022",
"The roots of DeSantis\u2019 hostility to transgender people are murky. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hostilite, hostilitie, borrowed from Late Latin host\u012blit\u0101t-, host\u012blit\u0101s, from Latin host\u012blis \"of an enemy, hostile \" + -it\u0101t-, -it\u0101s -ity":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u00e4-\u02c8sti-l\u0259-t\u0113",
"h\u00e4-\u02c8stil-\u0259t-\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for hostility enmity , hostility , antipathy , antagonism , animosity , rancor , animus mean deep-seated dislike or ill will. enmity suggests positive hatred which may be open or concealed. an unspoken enmity hostility suggests an enmity showing itself in attacks or aggression. hostility between the two nations antipathy and antagonism imply a natural or logical basis for one's hatred or dislike, antipathy suggesting repugnance, a desire to avoid or reject, and antagonism suggesting a clash of temperaments leading readily to hostility. a natural antipathy for self-seekers antagonism between the brothers animosity suggests intense ill will and vindictiveness that threaten to kindle hostility. animosity that led to revenge rancor is especially applied to bitter brooding over a wrong. rancor filled every line of his letters animus adds to animosity the implication of strong prejudice. objections devoid of personal animus",
"synonyms":[
"animosity",
"animus",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bad blood",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"jaundice",
"rancor"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080451",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"hostility":{
"antonyms":[
"amity"
],
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": conflict, opposition, or resistance in thought or principle":[
"there was tension, there was hostility and envy in the air",
"\u2014 Theodor Reik"
],
": deep-seated usually mutual ill will":[
"glad to have gotten through the divorce proceedings without any visible signs of hostility",
"showed open hostility toward outsiders"
],
": hostile action":[
"the Spanish expedition encountered hostility \u2026 and was forced to flee",
"\u2014 R. W. Murray"
],
": overt acts of warfare : war":[
"Peace talks were stalled after recent hostilities ."
]
},
"examples":[
"They were both glad to have gotten through the divorce proceedings without any visible signs of hostility .",
"The townspeople showed open hostility to outsiders.",
"Peace talks were stalled after recent hostilities .",
"Both sides are calling for a cessation of hostilities .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Blaine amendments arose against a backdrop of anti-Catholic hostility in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 21 June 2022",
"The tone-setting declaration was necessary because the division, like many other media brands after the summer of 2020, had made headlines for workplace inequity and racial hostility . \u2014 Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 May 2022",
"Some hostility broke out recently over the space occupied by a taco truck that happened to be right in front of a new taqueria in Chinatown. \u2014 Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
"In a nearby neighborhood called Batla House, mechanical engineer Sanaullah Akbar sees ghettos as spaces where Muslims can live without fear, even if these areas lack infrastructure or attract hostility . \u2014 Tarushi Aswani, The Christian Science Monitor , 30 June 2022",
"The resurgence of neo-fascist movements and authoritarian rule around the world has unsurprisingly coincided with a ramping-up of hostility against press freedom. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 15 June 2022",
"This hostility has only led school Principal Michael Wilson to double down on making Magic City Acceptance Academy a safe space. \u2014 Michela Moscufo, ABC News , 9 June 2022",
"Tony Blair remains a virtual pariah to this day, David Cameron a figure of open disdain, and Thatcher a source of such continuing hostility that a statue honoring her is egged by protesters. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 6 June 2022",
"The roots of DeSantis\u2019 hostility to transgender people are murky. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"Middle English hostilite, hostilitie, borrowed from Late Latin host\u012blit\u0101t-, host\u012blit\u0101s, from Latin host\u012blis \"of an enemy, hostile \" + -it\u0101t-, -it\u0101s -ity":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u00e4-\u02c8sti-l\u0259-t\u0113",
"h\u00e4-\u02c8stil-\u0259t-\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for hostility enmity , hostility , antipathy , antagonism , animosity , rancor , animus mean deep-seated dislike or ill will. enmity suggests positive hatred which may be open or concealed. an unspoken enmity hostility suggests an enmity showing itself in attacks or aggression. hostility between the two nations antipathy and antagonism imply a natural or logical basis for one's hatred or dislike, antipathy suggesting repugnance, a desire to avoid or reject, and antagonism suggesting a clash of temperaments leading readily to hostility. a natural antipathy for self-seekers antagonism between the brothers animosity suggests intense ill will and vindictiveness that threaten to kindle hostility. animosity that led to revenge rancor is especially applied to bitter brooding over a wrong. rancor filled every line of his letters animus adds to animosity the implication of strong prejudice. objections devoid of personal animus",
"synonyms":[
"animosity",
"animus",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bad blood",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"jaundice",
"rancor"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204842",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"hostler":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one who takes care of horses or mules":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"More than halfway through the film, Manny and Buck discover a formerly napping hostler , Sara. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 12 Apr. 2021",
"Harris, who had worked as a hostler for the county sheriff, was arrested a short time later and taken to the jail on Main Street in Bel Air. \u2014 David Anderson, The Aegis , 16 May 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hostiller, osteler \"innkeeper, servant at an inn attending horses, person keeping horses for hire\" \u2014 more at hosteler":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4-sl\u0259r",
"\u02c8\u00e4-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140754",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hot":{
"antonyms":[
"apace",
"briskly",
"chop-chop",
"double-quick",
"fast",
"fleetly",
"full tilt",
"hastily",
"hell-for-leather",
"lickety-split",
"posthaste",
"presto",
"pronto",
"quick",
"quickly",
"rapidly",
"snappily",
"soon",
"speedily",
"swift",
"swiftly"
],
"definitions":{
": a period of relatively high temperature : a period of heat":[
"during the hot of the day"
],
": absurd , unbelievable":[
"wants to fight the champ? that's a hot one"
],
": being in an excited state":[],
": capable of giving a sensation of heat or of burning, searing, or scalding":[
"working outside in the hot sun",
"fried in hot oil"
],
": close to something sought":[
"hot on the trail"
],
": currently popular or in demand":[
"She's become one of Hollywood's hottest commodities.",
"a hot item in stores this year"
],
": eager , zealous":[
"hot for reform"
],
": electrically energized especially with high voltage":[
"That wire is hot ."
],
": emotionally exciting and marked by strong rhythms and free melodic improvisations":[],
": extremely exasperated or angry":[],
": fast":[
"a hot new fighter plane",
"a hot lap around the track"
],
": fast , quickly":[],
": having a component (such as capsaicin ) that creates a burning or tingling sensation in the mouth : pungent , peppery":[
"hot mustard",
"the hottest chili I've ever tasted"
],
": having a relatively high temperature":[
"hot and humid weather",
"serving hot meals to the poor"
],
": having heat in a degree exceeding normal body heat":[
"Your forehead feels hot ."
],
": having or causing the sensation of an uncomfortable degree of body heat":[
"hot and tired",
"it's hot in here"
],
": heat , warm":[
"\u2014 usually used with up I asked the waitress to hot up another slice of pie."
],
": hotly":[
"the sun shines hot",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
],
": newly made : fresh":[
"a hot scent",
"bread hot from the oven",
"hot off the press"
],
": of intense and immediate interest":[
"some hot gossip"
],
": one that is hot (such as a hot meal or a horse just after a workout)":[],
": recently and illegally obtained":[
"hot jewels",
"admitted that the car was hot"
],
": sexually excited or receptive":[
"It's obvious he's hot for her."
],
": sexy":[
"That guy she's dating is really hot ."
],
": strong sexual desire":[
"\u2014 used with the has got the hots for the new guy in the office"
],
": suggestive of heat or of burning or glowing objects : very bright":[
"hot colors",
"hot pink"
],
": temporarily capable of unusual performance (as in a sport)":[],
": unusually lucky or favorable":[
"on a hot streak"
],
": very good":[
"a hot idea",
"not feeling too hot"
],
"\u2014 see also hot pepper , hot sauce":[
"hot mustard",
"the hottest chili I've ever tasted"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"It is hot in the summer and cold in the winter.",
"The baked potatoes were too hot to handle with our bare hands.",
"We worked all afternoon in the hot sun.",
"The chicken was fried in hot oil.",
"Your forehead feels hot . I think you might have a fever.",
"I was feeling hot and tired.",
"a selection of hot beverages",
"The new toys are so hot that stores can't keep them in stock.",
"Her new book is a hot seller.",
"She spoke about the latest hot trends in the computer industry.",
"Adverb",
"workers were working hot and heavy to repair the breach in the levee",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The hot temperatures and high humidity are expected to produce heat indexes into the triple digits in many locations. \u2014 Talal Ansari, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"Temperatures are expected to stay extremely hot into Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. \u2014 Brook Endale, The Enquirer , 15 June 2022",
"The layoffs come as the once- hot housing market is starting to cool as high mortgage rates and inflation rates of about 6% dominate. \u2014 Terry Collins, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"When overnight temperatures remain hot , the human body is deprived of its natural cool-down window, and doesn\u2019t have an opportunity to reset before daytime heat returns. \u2014 Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Grandstand gates open at 5 p.m. both Friday and Saturday with hot lap and qualifying beginning at 6:30 and opening ceremonies at 7:30. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"Her piece depicts Christ emerging from a floral arch covered in, yes, hot pink flowers. \u2014 Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"The report also highlighted shoppers\u2019 pullback on some of the products that were in hot demand during the height of the pandemic but are now falling out of favor. \u2014 Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"At just 22 years-old, the Tampa, Florida, rapper is another hot name in the list of female rappers taking over the industry. \u2014 Morayo Ogunbayo, ajc , 15 June 2022",
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"The University of Arkansas struggled to find a pitcher who could contain hot -hitting Ole Miss in a big winner's bracket game on Monday night at the College World Series. \u2014 Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online , 22 June 2022",
"Extremely dry fuels combined with heavy fuel loading are keeping fires burning hot even through the nights. \u2014 Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times , 4 Oct. 2021",
"In October 2012, a campfire blew up near Fern Lake, on the south side of the park, burning hot through January and smoldering into May. Fires have never burned so high and so late into winter here. \u2014 Jon Waterman, Outside Online , 15 June 2020",
"With her new gear, Wisz continued her hot -hitting postseason in Oklahoma City. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 June 2022",
"Standing in his way: the hot -hitting Giancarlo Stanton. \u2014 Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune , 14 May 2022",
"O'Brien plays a hot -tempered young mobster named Richie, who helps run his father's crime organization out of an unassuming tailor shop owned by Leonard (Rylance), an English immigrant with a mysterious past, and his assistant, Mable (Zoey Deutch). \u2014 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY , 18 Mar. 2022",
"This was not a style competition, though, and the Duckbill had one serious issue for this hot -headed runner: the front\u2019s recycled nylon grabbed onto moisture and held it. \u2014 Joe Jackson, Outside Online , 12 Oct. 2020",
"If Curry\u2019s on his game and Poole keeps lighting up the scoreboard, a hot -shooting Thompson will be too much for the Celtics to overcome. \u2014 Sporting Green Staff, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Now the consequences are being felt: a three-month-long flood in the Florida Keys, wildfires across a record hot and dry Australia, deadly heat waves in Europe. \u2014 Somini Sengupta, New York Times , 12 Mar. 2020",
"Pwell had 12 points, seven rebounds and three blocked s hots , and Laquaria Mays had 12 points \u2013 all on 3-pointers \u2013 to go with three assists and three steals. \u2014 Josh Bean | Jbean@al.com, al , 18 Feb. 2020",
"The record hot and dry summer left bare ground and stressed lawns \u2014 environments that are ideal for opportunistic winter weeds to move in. \u2014 Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com , 2 Jan. 2020",
"The state suffered raging wildfires through the Kenai Peninsula after a record hot , dry summer turned the grass to kindling. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 10 Dec. 2019",
"Cleveland police updated their car chase policy in 2014, two years after a chase that ended in officers shooting 137 hots at Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, who were unarmed. \u2014 Evan Macdonald, cleveland , 20 Dec. 2019",
"Since only the pan gets hots , a hot element will never be exposed, preventing fire hazards and the risk of burns in the first place. \u2014 Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping , 17 Dec. 2019",
"Sliced chicken cutlet subs for the pork, long hots add the spice. \u2014 Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 31 Oct. 2019",
"The tuna tartare was bountiful and fresh, its creamy layer of avocado warmed by the spice of roasted Italian long hots . \u2014 Craig Laban, Philly.com , 6 July 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"So, she hot glued them to a piece of twine and strung it across the ceiling. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 24 Dec. 2019",
"The holding company \u2013 which traces its roots to hot the \u201990s Web firm CMGI \u2014 consists of two units today, one in supply chain management and the other in direct marketing. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Dec. 2019"
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"There are some hot up -and-comers in the Q category this year, giving BBQ-lovers all around the metro a better shot at enjoying fall-off-the-bone goodness without making too big a trek. \u2014 Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 25 Feb. 2022",
"These water bottles will keep your beverages cold up to 24 hours or hot up to 12 hours and are backed by a lifetime warranty. \u2014 Caitlin Chen, Forbes , 5 Mar. 2021",
"If the pace is hot up front, Enforceable figures to be making a charge at the end. \u2014 Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal , 28 Aug. 2020",
"According to a report in The Sun, Bristol City boss Johnson is ready to renew his interest in the 20-year-old as the Championship promotion race hots up . \u2014 SI.com , 13 Oct. 2019",
"Bayern Munich have postponed their annual squad photo, as talk of a move to bring Leroy Sane to the Allianz Arena hots up . \u2014 SI.com , 30 July 2019",
"Inter host Juventus at San Siro this Saturday, as the title race in Serie A hots up with Napoli breathing down Juventus' neck. \u2014 SI.com , 27 Apr. 2018",
"No other clubs have been officially named as having an interest in Torres' signature, but expect his name to be splashed across the back pages in the coming months as a potential battle for his services hots up . \u2014 SI.com , 3 Apr. 2018",
"The race for AC Milan star Suso continues to hot up , after transfer speculation has repeatedly linked him to both Liverpool and Real Madrid this week. \u2014 SI.com , 14 Apr. 2018"
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"She's full of hot air .",
"his taking credit for the rescue was mostly hot air , since the boat was actually saved by the Coast Guard",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In Spain, where hot air blowing in from Africa has helped push up temperatures, authorities have issued dozens of heat warnings and emergency services are continuing to battle wildfires. \u2014 Rick Noack, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"The series will delve into Aoki\u2019s colorful life as a mogul and businessman, from founding Benihana to being an Olympic wrestler, professional speed boat racer, hot air balloonist, and nightclub impresario. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 8 June 2022",
"Want a memorable way to teach kids that hot air rises? \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 1 June 2022",
"Several people were in a hot air balloon that drifted into the desert and started to lose altitude because of the heat and air pressure. \u2014 Colin Dickey, Longreads , 30 Mar. 2022",
"In theory, the rapid updraft of hot air and ash from an erupting volcano into the upper atmosphere could trigger gravity waves on a much larger scale. \u2014 David Adam, Scientific American , 19 Jan. 2022",
"And buildings themselves produce heat\u2014especially factories\u2014or vent hot air from AC units. \u2014 Matt Simon, Wired , 2 Sep. 2021",
"That hot air won\u2019t stick around too long, as it\u2019s also predicted to drop to a low of 66 in the evening with skies remaining partly cloudy. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The hot air in your oven may escape, but the ripping hot baking steels will radiate much of the heat needed to give your crust a nice oven spring. \u2014 Carlo Mirarchi, Robb Report , 30 Nov. 2021"
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"The film is considered very controversial for all the hot buttons it pushes.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Aside from the growing use of plant protein, more sustainable and ethically-farmed meat is also a hot button with Gen Z. \u2014 Jeff Fromm, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The festival\u2019s online ticket portal has been a hot button issue, plagued by server crashes all week. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 May 2022",
"The best thing to do if technoference is a hot button issue in your relationship? \u2014 Nikki Campo, SELF , 3 May 2022",
"Younger workers increasingly want employers that share their values, potentially leaving executives who ignore hot button issues at a disadvantage. \u2014 Jonathan Vanian, Fortune , 1 Apr. 2022",
"This was a hot button for me, because a number of people in my life, including my parents, have said that my innocent actions were rude. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Bosley suggests addressing the hot button issues, like the rules that keep responsible farmers from selling raw milk and raw milk cheeses. \u2014 Beth Segal, cleveland , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Depending on the hot button issue, the banning of books can come from the right or the left. \u2014 Marybeth Gasman, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
"This year Sundance has several films that examine women\u2019s rights, which has been a hot button issue in this country for years. \u2014 Addie Morfoot, Variety , 22 Jan. 2022"
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"His opponents have accused him of hotdogging after he scores a touchdown.",
"a skier who couldn't resist the urge to hotdog on the slopes whenever he wanted to impress a girl",
"Noun",
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": someone or something unusually good":[]
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"His music was hot stuff back in those days.",
"The new guy in her office is hot stuff .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"However, climate change is affecting the company\u2019s ability to make the hot stuff . \u2014 Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"More hot stuff :The perfect chicken wing is hard to find. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Madden\u2019s defense was hot stuff , recording 11 shutouts in the three years and allowing fewer than 10 points in two-thirds of the games. \u2014 Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Hydro Flask makes 21-ounce bottles that keep cold stuff cold and hot stuff hot, with handle tops. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Nov. 2021",
"The Cowboy from Hell behaves like somebody built a slider with all the hot stuff in the trailer at once just to see if anybody would order it. \u2014 Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News , 12 Mar. 2021",
"At that time, the company filled and labeled 72,000 bottles of the hot stuff a day. \u2014 Jeff Suess, The Enquirer , 2 Apr. 2021",
"The Toro Stinger is hot stuff , a latte propelled by espresso and amplified with cinnamon and honey. \u2014 Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News , 28 Jan. 2021",
"By filtering for infrared scientists are able to peer through the visible stuff that gets in the way, like gas and dust and other material, to see heat, and in space there\u2019s a lot of hot stuff . \u2014 Wired , 19 Oct. 2019"
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"The musical is this season's hot ticket .",
"She's a hot ticket on the lecture circuit.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Paramount+ is set to make a splash at its U.K. launch in London on June 20, with a galaxy of stars from its original shows set to feature at the hot ticket event. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 17 June 2022",
"There is no diplomatic obligation on heads of state to attend an Olympic Games, and attending a Winter Games is less of a hot ticket than the summer edition. \u2014 Graham Dunbar, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Until then, mark the calendar for what looks to be fall\u2019s hot ticket . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Aug. 2021",
"Heads of state have no diplomatic obligation to attend an Olympics, and attending a Winter Games is less of a hot ticket than the summer edition. \u2014 Graham Dunbar, chicagotribune.com , 9 Dec. 2021",
"There is no diplomatic obligation on heads of state to attend an Olympic Games, and attending a Winter Games is less of a hot ticket than the summer edition. \u2014 Graham Dunbar, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 Dec. 2021",
"There is no diplomatic obligation on heads of state to attend an Olympic Games, and attending a Winter Games is less of a hot ticket than the summer edition. \u2014 Graham Dunbar, ajc , 8 Dec. 2021",
"The other hot ticket is Amass, chef Matthew Orlando's sustainable restaurant in Refshale\u00f8en, a part of the city that used to be closed off for military use. \u2014 Helen Russell, CNN , 14 Dec. 2021",
"And any number of other items that became hot ticket items. \u2014 Allison Morrow, CNN , 9 Jan. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The walk-out basement level features a hot tub room, barbershop, mahogany bar, gym, wine cellar and a poker and theater / recreation room with a fireplace. \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Robb Report , 10 June 2022",
"The outdoor living space has a hot tub spa, fire pit, outdoor kitchen, and bar as well as stunning panoramic city views. \u2014 Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com , 13 May 2022",
"Ten Thousand Waves is a Japanese-style thermal water resort with private hot tub suites, saunas, and cold-plunge pools. \u2014 Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure , 5 May 2022",
"Dern, Goldblum and Neill were in the lobby, while Pineda and Lachman were coming out of the hot tub , wearing bathrobes. \u2014 Angelique Jackson, Variety , 10 June 2022",
"The neighboring hot tub boasts a similarly spectacular overlook. \u2014 Brad Japhe, Forbes , 29 May 2022",
"Stock up at the general store, grab a bite from the onsite food truck, lounge in the communal lodge or the hot tub , and enjoy the wide expanse of nature that surrounds you. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 24 May 2022",
"Stage 4 \u2013 Blame: When the hot tub turns out to be nothing more than a large, pink plastic vat with knobs that don\u2019t work, your friend decides to rip the Bandaid off. \u2014 Kris Frieswick, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"Police responded to the Drury Inn & Suites concerning a report of a man exposing himself in the hotel hot tub around 10:30 p.m. on April 20. \u2014 Thomas Jewell, cleveland , 30 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There are some hot up -and-comers in the Q category this year, giving BBQ-lovers all around the metro a better shot at enjoying fall-off-the-bone goodness without making too big a trek. \u2014 Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 25 Feb. 2022",
"These water bottles will keep your beverages cold up to 24 hours or hot up to 12 hours and are backed by a lifetime warranty. \u2014 Caitlin Chen, Forbes , 5 Mar. 2021",
"If the pace is hot up front, Enforceable figures to be making a charge at the end. \u2014 Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal , 28 Aug. 2020",
"According to a report in The Sun, Bristol City boss Johnson is ready to renew his interest in the 20-year-old as the Championship promotion race hots up . \u2014 SI.com , 13 Oct. 2019",
"Bayern Munich have postponed their annual squad photo, as talk of a move to bring Leroy Sane to the Allianz Arena hots up . \u2014 SI.com , 30 July 2019",
"Inter host Juventus at San Siro this Saturday, as the title race in Serie A hots up with Napoli breathing down Juventus' neck. \u2014 SI.com , 27 Apr. 2018",
"No other clubs have been officially named as having an interest in Torres' signature, but expect his name to be splashed across the back pages in the coming months as a potential battle for his services hots up . \u2014 SI.com , 3 Apr. 2018",
"The race for AC Milan star Suso continues to hot up , after transfer speculation has repeatedly linked him to both Liverpool and Real Madrid this week. \u2014 SI.com , 14 Apr. 2018"
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"fortunately, the cool relationship between the two nations never escalated into a hot war",
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"But Sternberg plays out a Cold War pantomime that parallels the hot war of male\u2013female relations. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 8 June 2022",
"Ships and shore stations suspended preparations and training for the Korean hot war for a day in honor of fallen buddies. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 31 May 2022",
"Wednesday, Biden suggested the U.S. might soon be in a hot war with nuclear-armed Russia. \u2014 Jack Durschlag, Fox News , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Reagan fought and won a cold war because even a successful hot war might have resulted in the annihilation of a significant portion of our population. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"And now it\u2019s about urging the administration to prevent us from stumbling into a hot war . \u2014 Kk Ottesen, Washington Post , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Is Facebook ready or even willing to help during a hot war ? \u2014 Andy Kessler, WSJ , 2 Jan. 2022",
"Unlike in 1962, a hot war is already raging over territory that one side considers important to its national interest, and the other knows is necessary to its national survival. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 14 Mar. 2022",
"While a hot war raged in Southeast Asia, the Cold War percolated nearly everywhere else in the world, as the United States and its allies sought to counter the Soviet Union. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2022"
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"\u2014 Richard Henry Dana Jr.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After plunging her face in a bowl of hot water each night, according to Keogh, Monroe would grab anywhere from five to 10 hours of sleep in an extra-wide single bed, huddled beneath a heavy down comforter. \u2014 Vogue , 1 June 2022",
"The second floor has bunk rooms, with big flat-screen monitors for movies, and a washing machine and showers with plenty of hot water . \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 4 Apr. 2022",
"More than half of the restaurants shuttered by the city\u2019s health department so far this year have been cited, not for the usual offenses, like rodents or lack of hot water , but for operating without a valid license or permit. \u2014 Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com , 16 Mar. 2022",
"If mixture looks too tight, loosen with splashes of hot water . \u2014 Kitty Greenwald, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"By putting the right team of experts in place as a business begins, leaders will be able to lean on them and gather the solid facts, as needed, to keep the company out of hot water and ahead of any changes in the marketplace. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Servicemembers described enduring a lack of hot water for years and did not believe leadership was addressing the problems. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Feb. 2022",
"While the joke provided a good laugh for both, The Masked Singer host recalled getting into a bit of hot water with the mothers of his children before Hart revealed himself as the prankster. \u2014 Starr Bowenbank, Billboard , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Some people notice a change in the smell or color of hot water in their tap. \u2014 Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens , 10 Feb. 2022"
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"Aside from the growing use of plant protein, more sustainable and ethically-farmed meat is also a hot button with Gen Z. \u2014 Jeff Fromm, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The festival\u2019s online ticket portal has been a hot button issue, plagued by server crashes all week. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 May 2022",
"The best thing to do if technoference is a hot button issue in your relationship? \u2014 Nikki Campo, SELF , 3 May 2022",
"Younger workers increasingly want employers that share their values, potentially leaving executives who ignore hot button issues at a disadvantage. \u2014 Jonathan Vanian, Fortune , 1 Apr. 2022",
"This was a hot button for me, because a number of people in my life, including my parents, have said that my innocent actions were rude. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Bosley suggests addressing the hot button issues, like the rules that keep responsible farmers from selling raw milk and raw milk cheeses. \u2014 Beth Segal, cleveland , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Depending on the hot button issue, the banning of books can come from the right or the left. \u2014 Marybeth Gasman, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
"This year Sundance has several films that examine women\u2019s rights, which has been a hot button issue in this country for years. \u2014 Addie Morfoot, Variety , 22 Jan. 2022"
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"The Latinx Files newsletter looks into the controversial Radio Mamb\u00ed, which has become a hotbed for Spanish-language disinformation. \u2014 Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
"At our company, Peru has become the hotbed for corporate call centers. \u2014 Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 May 2022",
"With its talent pool of over 700,000 developers, Mexico has become a hotbed of software engineering talent within Latin America. \u2014 Steve Taplin, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The growth, the great weather, the coaching have all made Arizona a hotbed for colleges from all over the country to find top players,'' Obert said. \u2014 Chris Coppola, The Arizona Republic , 10 May 2021",
"As a result, companies based there, like Spotify, have thrived, making Sweden a hotbed of new-economy entrepreneurship. \u2014 Fortune , 8 Apr. 2021",
"The food industry continues to be a hotbed of exploitation and supply chain issues. \u2014 Errol Schweizer, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Even as Senator John McCain fashioned himself into a moderate maverick, the state was a hotbed of conservative anti-immigration politics that helped give rise to Mr. Trump\u2019s candidacy and presidency. \u2014 Jennifer Medina, New York Times , 5 May 2022",
"Some Union-Tribune readers have criticized the need for parking, its location in a hotbed of homeless activity and have said the money should be used for other things downtown. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 May 2022"
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": pancake",
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"hotcakes and maple syrup will be served at the church breakfast",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There were also his calls for the road warriors to pick up his breakfast\u2014McDonald's hotcakes and sausage\u2014or lunch\u2014a Brawny Lad from Big Boy. \u2014 Becca Hackett, Car and Driver , 22 May 2020",
"Published in 1826, James Fenimore Cooper\u2019s The Last of the Mohicans\u2014which elevated the myth of the vanishing Indian to a romanticized cornerstone of white U.S. identity\u2014sold like backcountry hotcakes . \u2014 Caitlin Fitz, The Atlantic , 8 Apr. 2020",
"Doughnuts were selling like hotcakes with people coming from across the country. \u2014 CBS News , 10 Dec. 2019",
"Houstonians can fill up on delicious hotcakes for a good cause, as proceeds from pancake week will be donated to local community gardens and organizations, depending on the location. \u2014 Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle , 18 Feb. 2020",
"Fun fact: cookbooks are actually selling like hotcakes . \u2014 Fortune , 15 Dec. 2019",
"Instant Pot Duo 60 The most popular Instant Pot model, the Duo 60, has been selling like hotcakes yet is still available on Amazon and remains at its lowest price ever\u2014just $49 compared to its usual $80 price tag. \u2014 Isabelle Kagan, USA TODAY , 2 Dec. 2019",
"Like the past several years, Delhi residents are reaching for anti-pollution masks, which are selling like hotcakes . \u2014 Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India , 15 Nov. 2019",
"In a point-and-click world, that was a seismic move. TRC Lab is selling like hotcakes . \u2014 Martha Mccully, Los Angeles Times , 17 Sep. 2019"
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"\u02c8h\u00e4t-\u02cck\u0101k",
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"Sunday supper was a hotchpotch of leftovers.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On match days, the squad is a hotchpotch of bright sparks scrambling around to recover an unrecoverable ambiance only 17 seasons of the Argentine\u2019s flair can bring. \u2014 Henry Flynn, Forbes , 28 Sep. 2021",
"Rather, members of the country\u2019s single biggest religious group vote along a hotchpotch of social and demographic lines. \u2014 The Economist , 25 Apr. 2020",
"In any case, an all-populist coalition could give itself a limited mandate to alter Italy\u2019s hotchpotch of an electoral law, enact a few popular reforms and then go back to the country. \u2014 The Economist , 27 Mar. 2018"
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"1567, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"His opponents have accused him of hotdogging after he scores a touchdown.",
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"check out of a hotel",
"for their 50th anniversary they stayed at one of the finest hotels in San Francisco",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Centrally located on a prominent corner where Calle Sevilla and Calle Alcal\u00e1 meet, the stately hotel is part of a significant urban revitalization project called Centro Canalejas. \u2014 Katie Chang, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"The hotel is a local option for a cool getaway experience within Indianapolis. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 23 June 2022",
"The hotel has been around since the late 1800s, according to its website, and suffered from two other damaging fires in 1913 and 1978. \u2014 Eve Sampson, Detroit Free Press , 22 June 2022",
"The hotel is open from May to October; rates start at $535 per night. \u2014 Rachel Dube, Robb Report , 21 June 2022",
"City officials, neighbors and Mark Vengroff, the CEO of One-Stop Housing, have said the hotel has been crime-ridden, and frequently battled code enforcement over the year. \u2014 Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel , 21 June 2022",
"Don't let that prime location mislead you, though; the hotel is the epitome of serenity. \u2014 Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure , 18 June 2022",
"Because it was constructed of granite, the hotel was one of just a few buildings that made it through the 1923 earthquake. \u2014 AccessAtlanta , 17 June 2022",
"The hotel was about 80 percent occupied when the bomb went off moments later, about 8:30 a.m. on Feb. 24. \u2014 Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 June 2022"
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"1687, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"borrowed from French h\u00f4tel, going back to Old French hostel, ostel \"lodging, accommodation\" \u2014 more at hostel entry 1":"Noun"
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"h\u014d-\u02c8tel",
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"Adverb",
"lowered his plane hotfoot onto a pasture when the engine started to sputter",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"As a demolitions expert, Daniel Craig hotfoots the story, delightfully, in the role of Joe Bang, adding the right degree of menace beneath the surface. \u2014 Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com , 17 Aug. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Our long-term BMW M340i hotfoots to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds and blasts through the quarter-mile in 12.3 seconds. \u2014 Annie White, Car and Driver , 3 Apr. 2020",
"Thankfully there\u2019s Warren Carlyle\u2019s blissful choreography, especially the hotfoot , slip-sliding tap numbers. \u2014 Alexis Soloski, New York Times , 9 Apr. 2018",
"Thankfully there\u2019s Warren Carlyle\u2019s blissful choreography, especially the hotfoot , slip-sliding tap numbers. \u2014 Alexis Soloski, New York Times , 9 Apr. 2018"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"1896, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1934, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"to proceed or move quickly you'd better hotfoot it to the bus stop if you're going to catch the bus"
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"Noun",
"grows tomatoes in his hothouse all winter long",
"an urban enclave of bohemians that acquired a reputation for being a hothouse of creativity",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Caroline Rafferty\u2019s midcentury modern Palm Beach home is surrounded by hothouse plants. \u2014 Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor , 13 May 2022",
"Garnish as one desires, perhaps with a juicy blackberry or a hothouse flower, something dewy and tremulous, to be sure. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
"This just takes us deeper into a world dominated by oil and gas\u2014the kind of hothouse in which Putinish despots thrive. \u2014 Bill Mckibben, The New Yorker , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The faculty-lounge cultural and intellectual hothouse of today\u2019s Democratic Party is the legacy of Wilson. \u2014 Dan Mclaughlin, National Review , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Into this hothouse of jealousy slithers Derek, a manipulative contractor who talks the school\u2019s owners into an expensive makeover that strains frayed nerves to the breaking point. \u2014 Tom Nolan, WSJ , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Las Vegas is in ways a hothouse , with its gaming and hospitality industry expanding rapidly in recent decades, helping fuel the Culinary\u2019s growth\u2026. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 17 Feb. 2022",
"In addition to growing hothouse microgreens, Michael and Kasey Oliver also operate the Woodland Charm Primitive Campsite on their 10-acre farm in Blanco. \u2014 Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Most planets can\u2019t be turned into an ice world and a hothouse at the same time. \u2014 Ramin Skibba, Wired , 16 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Fracas, fittingly beloved by personality-plus women such as Madonna, Martha Stewart, and Isabella Blow, dials the heady, hothouse opulence of tuberose up to 11 with the addition of jasmine, tonka bean, and musk. \u2014 April Long, Town & Country , 13 Sep. 2019",
"These fragile and artificial economies require hothouse conditions that a weakened OPEC can no longer provide. \u2014 Walter Russell Mead, WSJ , 11 Dec. 2017"
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"1556, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Noun",
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"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
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"hot off the press"
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": sexually excited or receptive":[
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": sexy":[
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"the hottest chili I've ever tasted"
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"Adjective",
"It is hot in the summer and cold in the winter.",
"The baked potatoes were too hot to handle with our bare hands.",
"We worked all afternoon in the hot sun.",
"The chicken was fried in hot oil.",
"Your forehead feels hot . I think you might have a fever.",
"I was feeling hot and tired.",
"a selection of hot beverages",
"The new toys are so hot that stores can't keep them in stock.",
"Her new book is a hot seller.",
"She spoke about the latest hot trends in the computer industry.",
"Adverb",
"workers were working hot and heavy to repair the breach in the levee",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The hot temperatures and high humidity are expected to produce heat indexes into the triple digits in many locations. \u2014 Talal Ansari, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"Temperatures are expected to stay extremely hot into Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. \u2014 Brook Endale, The Enquirer , 15 June 2022",
"The layoffs come as the once- hot housing market is starting to cool as high mortgage rates and inflation rates of about 6% dominate. \u2014 Terry Collins, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"When overnight temperatures remain hot , the human body is deprived of its natural cool-down window, and doesn\u2019t have an opportunity to reset before daytime heat returns. \u2014 Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Grandstand gates open at 5 p.m. both Friday and Saturday with hot lap and qualifying beginning at 6:30 and opening ceremonies at 7:30. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"Her piece depicts Christ emerging from a floral arch covered in, yes, hot pink flowers. \u2014 Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"The report also highlighted shoppers\u2019 pullback on some of the products that were in hot demand during the height of the pandemic but are now falling out of favor. \u2014 Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"At just 22 years-old, the Tampa, Florida, rapper is another hot name in the list of female rappers taking over the industry. \u2014 Morayo Ogunbayo, ajc , 15 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"The University of Arkansas struggled to find a pitcher who could contain hot -hitting Ole Miss in a big winner's bracket game on Monday night at the College World Series. \u2014 Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online , 22 June 2022",
"Extremely dry fuels combined with heavy fuel loading are keeping fires burning hot even through the nights. \u2014 Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times , 4 Oct. 2021",
"In October 2012, a campfire blew up near Fern Lake, on the south side of the park, burning hot through January and smoldering into May. Fires have never burned so high and so late into winter here. \u2014 Jon Waterman, Outside Online , 15 June 2020",
"With her new gear, Wisz continued her hot -hitting postseason in Oklahoma City. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 June 2022",
"Standing in his way: the hot -hitting Giancarlo Stanton. \u2014 Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune , 14 May 2022",
"O'Brien plays a hot -tempered young mobster named Richie, who helps run his father's crime organization out of an unassuming tailor shop owned by Leonard (Rylance), an English immigrant with a mysterious past, and his assistant, Mable (Zoey Deutch). \u2014 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY , 18 Mar. 2022",
"This was not a style competition, though, and the Duckbill had one serious issue for this hot -headed runner: the front\u2019s recycled nylon grabbed onto moisture and held it. \u2014 Joe Jackson, Outside Online , 12 Oct. 2020",
"If Curry\u2019s on his game and Poole keeps lighting up the scoreboard, a hot -shooting Thompson will be too much for the Celtics to overcome. \u2014 Sporting Green Staff, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Now the consequences are being felt: a three-month-long flood in the Florida Keys, wildfires across a record hot and dry Australia, deadly heat waves in Europe. \u2014 Somini Sengupta, New York Times , 12 Mar. 2020",
"Pwell had 12 points, seven rebounds and three blocked s hots , and Laquaria Mays had 12 points \u2013 all on 3-pointers \u2013 to go with three assists and three steals. \u2014 Josh Bean | Jbean@al.com, al , 18 Feb. 2020",
"The record hot and dry summer left bare ground and stressed lawns \u2014 environments that are ideal for opportunistic winter weeds to move in. \u2014 Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com , 2 Jan. 2020",
"The state suffered raging wildfires through the Kenai Peninsula after a record hot , dry summer turned the grass to kindling. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 10 Dec. 2019",
"Cleveland police updated their car chase policy in 2014, two years after a chase that ended in officers shooting 137 hots at Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, who were unarmed. \u2014 Evan Macdonald, cleveland , 20 Dec. 2019",
"Since only the pan gets hots , a hot element will never be exposed, preventing fire hazards and the risk of burns in the first place. \u2014 Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping , 17 Dec. 2019",
"Sliced chicken cutlet subs for the pork, long hots add the spice. \u2014 Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 31 Oct. 2019",
"The tuna tartare was bountiful and fresh, its creamy layer of avocado warmed by the spice of roasted Italian long hots . \u2014 Craig Laban, Philly.com , 6 July 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"So, she hot glued them to a piece of twine and strung it across the ceiling. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 24 Dec. 2019",
"The holding company \u2013 which traces its roots to hot the \u201990s Web firm CMGI \u2014 consists of two units today, one in supply chain management and the other in direct marketing. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Dec. 2019"
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"scalding",
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"inexpert",
"nonexpert"
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"\u2014 Fred W. Frailey"
],
": a person trained to fight forest fires especially in remote areas":[
"As a hotshot , his job was to rappel from helicopters into wildfires across the country.",
"\u2014 Anton L. Delgado and Dustin Patar",
"\u2014 often used before another noun [Firefighter Zachary] Resnick said his hotshot crew used to get a break fighting wildfires from late November to late spring. Now, they're on duty nearly year-round. \u2014 Lilia Luciano"
],
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"There are, of course, people here who believe that most Washington hotshots , journalistic as well as governmental, are fatly overpaid already \u2026",
"\u2014 Meg Greenfield",
"\u2026 some young hotshots are leaving mutual funds \u2026 to set up hedge funds at a rate of more than one a day.",
"\u2014 Mitchell Pacelle",
"\u2014 often used before another noun a hotshot actor These days, the only teasing that Leinart gets is from friends who tell him that he doesn't take advantage of being a hotshot college quarterback. \u2014 Phil Taylor"
]
},
"examples":[
"The company has hired a couple of young hotshots to revamp its advertising campaign.",
"That guy thinks he's a real hotshot .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Pipeline Fire had 561 fire personnel made up of 12 hotshot crews, seven hand crews, 54 engines, nine water tenders and two dozers, per officials. \u2014 The Arizona Republic , 15 June 2022",
"In the critically and commercially successful Top Gun: Maverick (2022), Cruise is the old-timer showing young hotshot Miles Teller the ropes. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 1 June 2022",
"On Wednesday, the historic Yavapai County Courthouse in downtown Prescott will ring the bell 19 times \u2014 once for each hotshot \u2014 beginning at 4:42 p.m. \u2014 Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic , 30 June 2021",
"In recent years, Mario Badescu has a become hotshot in the self-care world. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 May 2022",
"From prolific prize winners to hotshot debuts, the best and brightest books to devour this season. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 9 May 2022",
"This year's Big Chief, Dr. Michael Golding, borrowed straight from the Felix playbook and designated one of the precious sponsor exemptions for 18-year-old hotshot Preston Summerhays, an Arizona State freshman. \u2014 Adam Schupak, The Arizona Republic , 7 Feb. 2022",
"The job vacancies included positions on the seven-person engine crews, which operate 273 trucks across California when fully staffed, as well as on hand crews, hotshot teams, smokejumper units and more. \u2014 Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The 27-year-old super late model hotshot from Seymour will race full time in the No. 66 Toyota for championship-winning ThorSport in the Camping World Truck Series, the team announced Friday. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 12 Feb. 2022"
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"artist",
"authority",
"cognoscente",
"connoisseur",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dab",
"dab hand",
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"fiend",
"geek",
"guru",
"hand",
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"master",
"maven",
"mavin",
"meister",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022458",
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"briskly",
"chop-chop",
"double-quick",
"fast",
"fleetly",
"full tilt",
"hastily",
"hell-for-leather",
"lickety-split",
"posthaste",
"presto",
"pronto",
"quick",
"quickly",
"rapidly",
"snappily",
"soon",
"speedily",
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"a hot item in stores this year"
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"hot mustard",
"the hottest chili I've ever tasted"
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"hot and humid weather",
"serving hot meals to the poor"
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],
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"it's hot in here"
],
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"\u2014 usually used with up I asked the waitress to hot up another slice of pie."
],
": hotly":[
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"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
],
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"bread hot from the oven",
"hot off the press"
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"hot jewels",
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"not feeling too hot"
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"hot mustard",
"the hottest chili I've ever tasted"
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"Adjective",
"It is hot in the summer and cold in the winter.",
"The baked potatoes were too hot to handle with our bare hands.",
"We worked all afternoon in the hot sun.",
"The chicken was fried in hot oil.",
"Your forehead feels hot . I think you might have a fever.",
"I was feeling hot and tired.",
"a selection of hot beverages",
"The new toys are so hot that stores can't keep them in stock.",
"Her new book is a hot seller.",
"She spoke about the latest hot trends in the computer industry.",
"Adverb",
"workers were working hot and heavy to repair the breach in the levee",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The hot temperatures and high humidity are expected to produce heat indexes into the triple digits in many locations. \u2014 Talal Ansari, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"Temperatures are expected to stay extremely hot into Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. \u2014 Brook Endale, The Enquirer , 15 June 2022",
"The layoffs come as the once- hot housing market is starting to cool as high mortgage rates and inflation rates of about 6% dominate. \u2014 Terry Collins, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"When overnight temperatures remain hot , the human body is deprived of its natural cool-down window, and doesn\u2019t have an opportunity to reset before daytime heat returns. \u2014 Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Grandstand gates open at 5 p.m. both Friday and Saturday with hot lap and qualifying beginning at 6:30 and opening ceremonies at 7:30. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"Her piece depicts Christ emerging from a floral arch covered in, yes, hot pink flowers. \u2014 Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"The report also highlighted shoppers\u2019 pullback on some of the products that were in hot demand during the height of the pandemic but are now falling out of favor. \u2014 Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"At just 22 years-old, the Tampa, Florida, rapper is another hot name in the list of female rappers taking over the industry. \u2014 Morayo Ogunbayo, ajc , 15 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"The University of Arkansas struggled to find a pitcher who could contain hot -hitting Ole Miss in a big winner's bracket game on Monday night at the College World Series. \u2014 Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online , 22 June 2022",
"Extremely dry fuels combined with heavy fuel loading are keeping fires burning hot even through the nights. \u2014 Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times , 4 Oct. 2021",
"In October 2012, a campfire blew up near Fern Lake, on the south side of the park, burning hot through January and smoldering into May. Fires have never burned so high and so late into winter here. \u2014 Jon Waterman, Outside Online , 15 June 2020",
"With her new gear, Wisz continued her hot -hitting postseason in Oklahoma City. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 June 2022",
"Standing in his way: the hot -hitting Giancarlo Stanton. \u2014 Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune , 14 May 2022",
"O'Brien plays a hot -tempered young mobster named Richie, who helps run his father's crime organization out of an unassuming tailor shop owned by Leonard (Rylance), an English immigrant with a mysterious past, and his assistant, Mable (Zoey Deutch). \u2014 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY , 18 Mar. 2022",
"This was not a style competition, though, and the Duckbill had one serious issue for this hot -headed runner: the front\u2019s recycled nylon grabbed onto moisture and held it. \u2014 Joe Jackson, Outside Online , 12 Oct. 2020",
"If Curry\u2019s on his game and Poole keeps lighting up the scoreboard, a hot -shooting Thompson will be too much for the Celtics to overcome. \u2014 Sporting Green Staff, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Now the consequences are being felt: a three-month-long flood in the Florida Keys, wildfires across a record hot and dry Australia, deadly heat waves in Europe. \u2014 Somini Sengupta, New York Times , 12 Mar. 2020",
"Pwell had 12 points, seven rebounds and three blocked s hots , and Laquaria Mays had 12 points \u2013 all on 3-pointers \u2013 to go with three assists and three steals. \u2014 Josh Bean | Jbean@al.com, al , 18 Feb. 2020",
"The record hot and dry summer left bare ground and stressed lawns \u2014 environments that are ideal for opportunistic winter weeds to move in. \u2014 Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com , 2 Jan. 2020",
"The state suffered raging wildfires through the Kenai Peninsula after a record hot , dry summer turned the grass to kindling. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 10 Dec. 2019",
"Cleveland police updated their car chase policy in 2014, two years after a chase that ended in officers shooting 137 hots at Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, who were unarmed. \u2014 Evan Macdonald, cleveland , 20 Dec. 2019",
"Since only the pan gets hots , a hot element will never be exposed, preventing fire hazards and the risk of burns in the first place. \u2014 Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping , 17 Dec. 2019",
"Sliced chicken cutlet subs for the pork, long hots add the spice. \u2014 Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 31 Oct. 2019",
"The tuna tartare was bountiful and fresh, its creamy layer of avocado warmed by the spice of roasted Italian long hots . \u2014 Craig Laban, Philly.com , 6 July 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"So, she hot glued them to a piece of twine and strung it across the ceiling. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 24 Dec. 2019",
"The holding company \u2013 which traces its roots to hot the \u201990s Web firm CMGI \u2014 consists of two units today, one in supply chain management and the other in direct marketing. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Dec. 2019"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022925",
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"bird-dog",
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"course",
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"follow",
"pursue",
"run",
"shadow",
"tag",
"tail",
"trace",
"track",
"trail"
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"Noun",
"in the yard an old hound greeted us with a single bark",
"a camera hound even before the baby arrived, he's now become obsessive",
"Verb",
"He is being hounded by the press.",
"They hounded me with questions.",
"They hounded me for my autograph.",
"hound a politician out of office",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"There, a Clawson coffee hound finds an oasis: espresso, under a tent, courtesy of Soul Blends Coffee Roasters. \u2014 Andrew Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 June 2022",
"The Boomer 8 Dog Bowl, $50, is dent-resistant and can be used to water and feed your hound . \u2014 Wendy Altschuler, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The Bonn-Oberkassel dog is not the only ancient hound to have received such honors. \u2014 Virginia Morell, Scientific American , 1 July 2015",
"Graysou is the grey- hound of the eleven, and his tackling is of the highest order. \u2014 al , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Ben had been brought into the series in a previous season of the show to provide a counterpoint to The Farmer, its leading human character, who lives at Mossy Bottom Farm with his faithful hound Bitzer, and the less faithful flock of sheep. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 24 Dec. 2021",
"Animal: Blue, 10-month-old, 44-pound female hound mix. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 Jan. 2022",
"During my time in town, a local shoots a polar bear for allegedly trying to kill his hound . \u2014 Travel , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Mikey's looking at me now with his basset- hound eyes. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Authoritarian governments have abused the system in the past to hound opponents and limit their freedom of movement. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Admins who don't want this will have to hound each individual user to shut it off. \u2014 Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica , 2 Feb. 2022",
"But questions will still hound several quarterbacks throughout the weekend. \u2014 Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY , 21 Jan. 2022",
"LeVert gives them hope -- and credibility -- in a first-round series, where opponents were poised to hound Garland and force the ball out of his hands. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Caruso and Ball hound ballhandlers outside the arc to complicate their passes into the post and force difficult switches in pick-and-rolls. \u2014 Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com , 3 Jan. 2022",
"Lethargic starts continue to hound Maryland, which led just once in the final 9:21 of the first half. \u2014 Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com , 30 Dec. 2021",
"Supporters praise him, conspiracy theorists hound him, bricks get thrown this his window and everyone knows his name. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Fiennes\u2019s politician \u2014 who, again, is a local assemblyman not even elected to the Senate \u2014 cannot shake off the paparazzi, who hound him with the sort of fervor usually reserved for young British royals. \u2014 Rachel Handler, Vulture , 7 Dec. 2021"
],
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"1528, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
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},
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"\u02c8hau\u0307nd"
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"shadow",
"tag",
"tail",
"trace",
"track",
"trail"
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"Noun",
"in the yard an old hound greeted us with a single bark",
"a camera hound even before the baby arrived, he's now become obsessive",
"Verb",
"He is being hounded by the press.",
"They hounded me with questions.",
"They hounded me for my autograph.",
"hound a politician out of office",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"There, a Clawson coffee hound finds an oasis: espresso, under a tent, courtesy of Soul Blends Coffee Roasters. \u2014 Andrew Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 June 2022",
"The Boomer 8 Dog Bowl, $50, is dent-resistant and can be used to water and feed your hound . \u2014 Wendy Altschuler, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The Bonn-Oberkassel dog is not the only ancient hound to have received such honors. \u2014 Virginia Morell, Scientific American , 1 July 2015",
"Graysou is the grey- hound of the eleven, and his tackling is of the highest order. \u2014 al , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Ben had been brought into the series in a previous season of the show to provide a counterpoint to The Farmer, its leading human character, who lives at Mossy Bottom Farm with his faithful hound Bitzer, and the less faithful flock of sheep. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 24 Dec. 2021",
"Animal: Blue, 10-month-old, 44-pound female hound mix. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 Jan. 2022",
"During my time in town, a local shoots a polar bear for allegedly trying to kill his hound . \u2014 Travel , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Mikey's looking at me now with his basset- hound eyes. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Authoritarian governments have abused the system in the past to hound opponents and limit their freedom of movement. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Admins who don't want this will have to hound each individual user to shut it off. \u2014 Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica , 2 Feb. 2022",
"But questions will still hound several quarterbacks throughout the weekend. \u2014 Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY , 21 Jan. 2022",
"LeVert gives them hope -- and credibility -- in a first-round series, where opponents were poised to hound Garland and force the ball out of his hands. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Caruso and Ball hound ballhandlers outside the arc to complicate their passes into the post and force difficult switches in pick-and-rolls. \u2014 Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com , 3 Jan. 2022",
"Lethargic starts continue to hound Maryland, which led just once in the final 9:21 of the first half. \u2014 Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com , 30 Dec. 2021",
"Supporters praise him, conspiracy theorists hound him, bricks get thrown this his window and everyone knows his name. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Fiennes\u2019s politician \u2014 who, again, is a local assemblyman not even elected to the Senate \u2014 cannot shake off the paparazzi, who hound him with the sort of fervor usually reserved for young British royals. \u2014 Rachel Handler, Vulture , 7 Dec. 2021"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
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"Adverb",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Low-income and hourly -waged women\u2014and, frankly, anyone who doesn\u2019t work at a progressive tech company\u2014are potentially one miscarriage or complicated pregnancy away from losing their job. \u2014 Nicole Lapin, Forbes , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Zapolin explained that ketamine clinics are currently limited to low-dose lozenges that have to take them hourly . \u2014 Benjamin Adams, Forbes , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Employees working hourly will get paid time-and-a-half. \u2014 Keira Wingate, USA TODAY , 18 June 2021",
"The burrito chain plans to reach that compensation level by the end of June and will set hourly starting wages at $11 to $18 an hour, according to a statement Monday. \u2014 Fortune , 10 May 2021",
"Their proposal would raise the federal minimum gradually to $15 hourly by 2025, well above the $7.25 floor in place since 2009. \u2014 Alan Fram, Star Tribune , 25 Feb. 2021",
"In every corner of the world, new beauty products crawl off production lines and out of Crock-Pots hourly , clamoring for human eyes and wallets and cheekbones. \u2014 Brennan Kilbane, Allure , 23 Feb. 2021",
"The House bill would also hoist the federal minimum wage to $15 hourly by 2025, more than doubling the current $7.25 floor that\u2019s been in effect since 2019. \u2014 Alan Fram, chicagotribune.com , 26 Feb. 2021",
"The measure would gradually lift that minimum to $15 hourly by 2025, doubling the current $7.25 floor in effect since 2009. \u2014 Alan Fram, Chron , 27 Feb. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"It was created by the journalist Amy Westervelt, who used Bureau of Labor Statistics data to assign an hourly wage to different tasks\u2014cleaning, considering the emotional needs of family members, doing yard work, cooking, etc. \u2014 Angela Garbes, The Atlantic , 13 May 2022",
"California\u2019s current $15 minimum hourly wage for large businesses is the nation\u2019s highest, according to federal data. \u2014 John Myers, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Amazon has said that its minimum hourly wage is $15 and that the average starting wage in warehouses is above $18. \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
"Cover said a 2% salary increase was added to the base hourly rate of 22,453 executive branch employees, resulting in a first-year cost of $21.2 million to the state. \u2014 Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online , 28 May 2022",
"Unlike in many union-organizing drives, wages are not the dominant issue in this campaign, since Delta pays a higher hourly rate than most other airlines. \u2014 Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Light jet costs are up 35%, with hourly rates now averaging $7,564, compared to $5,600 just 15 months ago. \u2014 Doug Gollan, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Flight attendants will be paid half their hourly rates during this time, then will presumably receive their full rate once the boarding doors close. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 26 Apr. 2022",
"According to the court filing, the company was using bonuses and artificially low hourly rates to pay employees that same for each hour of work including overtime hours. \u2014 Sean Mcdonnell, cleveland , 9 Mar. 2022"
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"\u2014 Thomas P. Farley",
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"\u2014 A. W. Long"
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"Noun",
"Would you like to come to my house for dinner?",
"I spent the weekend just puttering around the house .",
"He made enough noise to wake the whole house .",
"Verb",
"More prisons are needed to house the growing number of inmates.",
"The museum houses an impressive collection of jewels.",
"The carpenter built casing to house the hot water pipes.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The price of ether, the in- house currency of the Ethereum network, fell as low as $1,013 on Wednesday and was most recently at $1,080, down 9% from its 5 p.m. ET level Tuesday. \u2014 Caitlin Mccabe, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"The theories of what went on in that house , and about Parsons\u2019 end, have engrossed writers and filmmakers for decades. \u2014 Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"Although the house was still under construction, Antoon had put it up for sale earlier that month, for about sixteen million U.S. dollars. \u2014 Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Bartt was older and had already moved out, so the house was a fresh start for Sherrill and Suzie. \u2014 Kyani Reid, NBC News , 12 June 2022",
"The house \u2019s biggest space is a drab conference room. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
"Trap house is slang for a place where drugs are sold. \u2014 Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun , 8 June 2022",
"According to Sinkewich, the Countryside Antiques house is 101 years old. \u2014 cleveland , 4 June 2022",
"While this trying transit can be rather difficult to deal with at times, the 6th house is your personal domain, Virgo, so don't forget that you're naturally equipped to handle the issues coming your way! \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Here\u2019s a breakdown of the products the new companies will house : The global snacking company will include brands like Pringles, Cheez-It, Pop-Tarts, Kellogg\u2019s Rice Krispies Treats, Nutri-Grain, and RXBAR, among others. \u2014 Michelle Cheng, Quartz , 21 June 2022",
"The veterans\u2019 ashes will be laid to rest in a columbarium that will house the urns and display a veteran plaque to honor their service to their country. \u2014 Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant , 17 June 2022",
"The image embodies the tension between the messy process of construction and the grand aspiration of the building itself, which would eventually house Bangladesh\u2019s national parliament after the country\u2019s 1971 war of independence with Pakistan. \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"Investors that house the majority of their assets within the stock market are no doubt feeling the effects of the investment rollercoaster that started in 2019 and continues persistently. \u2014 Kelli Click, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"The $92 million, state-of-the-art facility that will house the Tigers\u2019 football program is now 70 percent complete, according to the university\u2019s June facilities report. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 14 June 2022",
"But there are shelter systems run by other city agencies that house roughly another 10,000 people, including many domestic violence victims and runaway youth. \u2014 New York Times , 14 June 2022",
"To the aft, there is also an impressive float-in dock that can house additional toys and tenders. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 13 June 2022",
"Construction continues on a UCSD village that will house 2,000 students. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 June 2022"
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"the house cat at the Cheshire Cat Bookstore has the dual responsibility of being mascot and mouser",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The front door of the house stands open; the declawed house cat is wandering outside; the living room is in disarray. \u2014 Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post , 12 June 2022",
"Larger than a house cat but smaller than a big cat, clouded leopards are named for their irregular, cloud-like spots. \u2014 Rebecca Cairns; Video By Hazel Pfeifer, CNN , 10 May 2022",
"Lions and leopards, like any house cat , are leery of water, and tend to avoid wet grasses, which soften their claws. \u2014 Mark Ellwood, Robb Report , 22 Mar. 2022",
"There's even a house cat named Pilou roaming the halls. \u2014 Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Red pandas are considered full-grown around two years of age and reach the size of a fluffy house cat . \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 11 Mar. 2022",
"This coincided with the appearance of a feral house cat . \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 19 Feb. 2022",
"This is the genuine article, direct out of the imagination, right down to the house cat \u2013Rusty\u2013with his half-missing ear patrolling the deck looking for handouts, but not petting. \u2014 Chadd Scott, Forbes , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Moreover, zoo animals are exposed to many more people than the average house cat , and many are highly endangered. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Nov. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The new facility, St. Joseph Orphanage, was completed in 1854 to house 100 boys and, in 1855, began to also house girls . \u2014 Jennifer Edwards Baker, Cincinnati.com , 1 May 2020"
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"We have houseguests this weekend.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Keep in mind that your houseguest will be staying with you only a few more weeks. \u2014 Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive , 28 Apr. 2022",
"In the past month, Moakler was a houseguest on CBS' Celebrity Big Brother. \u2014 Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com , 24 Feb. 2022",
"To drive the point home about nonsensical series alterations and further poke fun at Fox executives, the Simpson family has a hip teenage houseguest named Roy drop in for the episode. \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Beth must confront a houseguest ; Kayce and his family seek out a new home. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Dec. 2021",
"Sooki turns out to be an ideal houseguest \u2013 self-sufficient, tidy, quiet, thoughtful. \u2014 Heller Mcalpin, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Dehnart said the Cookout should be applauded for its savvy and strategy \u2014 each member has formed a friendship with a non-Cookout houseguest in order to lower suspicion. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Aug. 2021",
"One weekend, the Buchanans invited Elizabeth Taylor as a houseguest . \u2014 Sam Dangremond, Town & Country , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Amy manage an understaffed precinct; Jake and Charles investigate; Rosa gets a new houseguest ; Jake and Amy make a system to balance both work and children. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Aug. 2021"
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"a household that consists of a single mom, her two kids, and her widowed mother",
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"\u201cozone\u201d is now a household word, thanks to global warming",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Arizona will be dramatically expanding its education savings account program to all the state\u2019s 1 million-plus K-12 kids, regardless of household income. \u2014 Steve Forbes, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"This closure drew criticism from residents, and a Globe review found that just two of the seven public pools open at the time were in neighborhoods where the median household income was below the city average. \u2014 Kate Selig, BostonGlobe.com , 26 June 2022",
"Mississippi has long been starved for high-paying jobs, historically ranking last among states for median household income. \u2014 Anita Lee, ProPublica , 24 June 2022",
"The National Association of Realtors\u2019 measure of home affordability, based on mortgage rates, home prices and household income, showed that as of April existing homes were at their least affordable level since July 2007. \u2014 Justin Lahart, WSJ , 21 June 2022",
"Thompson said the median household income has risen between 1-2% over much of the last two decades. \u2014 Scott Turner | Sturner@al.com, al , 19 June 2022",
"The median household income for San Antonians is $67,521 a year, nearly $15,000 less than the national median. \u2014 Arelis R. Hern\u00e1ndez, Washington Post , 19 June 2022",
"Median household income in the city is just under $40,000. \u2014 Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor , 14 June 2022",
"Among the Bay Area\u2019s five most populated counties, Alameda County and its East Bay neighbor, Contra Costa County, have the lowest median household income, $104,000 to $105,000. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The toughest restrictions since the pandemic began are to go into effect today, including an unprecedented move to limit multi- household gatherings on private premises to two families. \u2014 Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 10 Feb. 2022",
"The toughest restrictions since the pandemic began are set to come into effect on Thursday, including an unprecedented move to limit multi- household gatherings on private premises to two families. \u2014 Shirley Zhao, Bloomberg.com , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Non- household members visited us outside in the backyard. \u2014 Rob Relyea, CNN , 13 Apr. 2022",
"As with other tests the streamer has conducted, there\u2019s no guarantee that the option to pay for non- household members will end up permanently part of the service. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 16 Mar. 2022",
"One option is the installation of solar panels on a free-standing building, such as a house, or a multi- household dwelling. \u2014 University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Parents should also be aware of the possibility of intra- household transmission to themselves or their other children. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 Aug. 2021",
"Naomi Osaka, a Japanese citizen who has spent all but the first three years of her life in the U.S., and is now one of the biggest stars in tennis, got bounced out of the Olympics by a non- household name in the second round. \u2014 Joe Queenan, WSJ , 30 July 2021",
"Six feet of spacing between tables and other seating will still be recommended as is spacing between non- household parties. \u2014 Post-tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com , 30 Mar. 2021"
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": troops appointed to attend and guard a sovereign or the residence of a sovereign":[]
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"Meanwhile, Ray wasn\u2019t the only househusband making waves. \u2014 Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com , 29 Sep. 2019",
"Hayes MacArthur takes the Keaton role of the hapless househusband and Andrea Anders plays the mom suddenly facing modern workplace culture. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 Sep. 2019",
"The couple believed that Daniel's transformation into a househusband made more economic sense than hiring a nanny. \u2014 Meryl Gordon, Town & Country , 21 May 2014",
"Things are scarcely better at home, where her cheery househusband (Jos\u00e9 Garcia) greets her with elaborately prepared meals and insultingly sexist advice. \u2014 Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times , 26 Apr. 2018",
"This storied writer-director-actor and Casanova turned househusband showed up unannounced and had attendees gather around him in the lounge, like courtiers. \u2014 Cara Buckley, New York Times , 26 Oct. 2016"
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"There were families with little children laid off from amusement parks, housekeeping jobs and restaurants. \u2014 Jack Healy, New York Times , 12 Apr. 2020",
"Vincent Tullo for The New York Times Growing up in California, Orion Tait used to watch his father\u2019s weekend housekeeping routine. \u2014 Steven Kurutz, New York Times , 14 Feb. 2020",
"Found property: Quarry Lane Management at a hotel reported a handgun found in a room by housekeeping staff at 9:30 a.m. Jan. 15. \u2014 Brian Lisik, cleveland , 27 Jan. 2020",
"Hence, FTSE Russell\u2019s earlier reclassification plan, which sent a signal to money managers worldwide, may seem like housekeeping to some but was quite a bit more significant to the treasury departments of oil and gas producers. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Oct. 2019",
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"Residents of the building have access to the services of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, which include a health spa, a lounge, in-room dining services, meeting rooms and housekeeping upon request. \u2014 Katherine Clarke, WSJ , 19 Dec. 2018"
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"In their statement, Murdaugh's law firm also addressed South Carolina Law Enforcement Division's (SLED) criminal investigation into the February 2018 death of Gloria Satterfield, a housekeeper for the Murdaugh family, and the handling of her estate. \u2014 Claire Colbert, CNN , 26 Sep. 2021",
"Cooper, 101, grew up in the segregated South, and his single mom worked as a live-in housekeeper to afford tuition at Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 2 June 2022",
"Addressing the crowd, microphone in hand, was Francia M\u00e1rquez, 40, who once worked as a housekeeper and is now Colombia\u2019s leading vice-presidential candidate as the nation prepares for elections later this month. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
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"Elvia Angulo, a housekeeper at the Oakland Marriott City Center for 17 years, is the main breadwinner in her family. \u2014 Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, USA TODAY , 26 May 2022",
"Starring a cast of relatively unknown Mexican actors, Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n's semi-autobiographical black-and-white film follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a housekeeper for an upper-class family in 1970s Mexico City. \u2014 Meg Walters, EW.com , 11 May 2022",
"South Carolina authorities on Tuesday released the full, unredacted version of the 911 call for Gloria Satterfield, a housekeeper for prominent lawyer Alex Murdaugh. \u2014 Danielle Wallace, Fox News , 1 Dec. 2021"
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"Housekeeping policies vary based on the type of hotel, Rogers said, with luxury hotels tending to provide daily housekeeping unless guests opt out. \u2014 Jennifer Sinco Kelleher And Anita Snow, Anchorage Daily News , 26 May 2022",
"In conjunction with driving the aging parent, the worker can also help with things like shopping, cooking, housekeeping or other tasks. \u2014 Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Housekeeping policies vary based on the type of hotel, Rogers said, with luxury hotels tending to provide daily housekeeping unless guests opt out. \u2014 Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, USA TODAY , 26 May 2022"
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"Elizabeth was first his housemaid and then his second wife. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 May 2022",
"After a tryst with her secret lover, Paul Sheringham (Josh O\u2019Connor), Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young), a housemaid from a nearby manor, finds herself alone, wandering through the empty rooms of Paul\u2019s home. \u2014 Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times , 25 Mar. 2022",
"To hasten her return, Honey's 47-year-old mother moved to Qatar as a housemaid , pulling together the money needed to open a case in Dubai last month. \u2014 Fox News , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Benedict\u2019s novel, An Offer From a Gentleman, consists of a Cinderella-esque plot where Benedict falls in love with a housemaid . \u2014 Amanda Kohr, refinery29.com , 28 Nov. 2021",
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"At first horrified by the thought of carrying Prasad\u2019s child, Naina changes her mind after talking to her housemaid , Savitri (Semma Azmi), who is terrified of being exposed as a Muslim in her poor neighborhood. \u2014 Richard Kuipers, Variety , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Her mother, the late Vernita Lee, who was working as a housemaid in suburban Fox Point, told Winfrey that Santa Claus was not coming that year because the single mother didn't have much money to buy presents. \u2014 Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 19 Oct. 2021",
"Paul is established as a decent person, one who risks his own life early on to save a random housemaid . \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 15 Oct. 2021"
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"The temporary rules augment three areas of state law: housing development , transportation planning and metropolitan greenhouse gas reduction targets. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 26 May 2022",
"Such projects can include housing development , housing services and crime prevention and safety. \u2014 Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 23 May 2022",
"Elsewhere in Washington, D.C., House Democrats are alleging that Trump-era Interior Secretary David Bernhardt orchestrated a bribery scheme involving an Arizona housing development , which Bernhardt denies. \u2014 Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"Developers are focusing on upscale senior- housing development because some baby boomers\u2014people who were born between 1946 and 1964\u2014are approaching the age that people typically enter senior housing, according to senior-housing industry participants. \u2014 Peter Grant, WSJ , 22 Mar. 2022",
"But the effort has drawn the ire of some pro- housing development , or YIMBY, advocates and others who say the city must give up some aesthetic control to address a dire housing shortage. \u2014 Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The other two bills add money into the state's Housing Trust Fund, which is used to fund affordable housing development , housing assistance programs and homeless shelters. \u2014 Jessica Boehm, The Arizona Republic , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Its caretakers, who for years have been fighting against an affordable- housing development for low-income seniors that would occupy the site, have been ordered to vacate by October 31. \u2014 Kim Velsey, Curbed , 30 Sep. 2021",
"The funds include $3 million to assist four ongoing affordable housing development projects that will create 454 new units in the Bates-Hendricks, Hawthorne, North Willows, and Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhoods. \u2014 The Indianapolis Star , 26 Apr. 2022"
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"He was born in Sydney and raised by a single mother in a public housing estate . \u2014 Time , 20 May 2022",
"The film has been shooting in Rome and its suburbs, including the local beach resort Ostia, public housing estate Corviale and a variety of neighborhoods off the beaten track. \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 18 Feb. 2022",
"The outbreak in a public housing estate and signs of virus found in sewage led to mass testing at dozens of apartment blocks, involving thousands of people. \u2014 Jinshan Hong, Bloomberg.com , 21 Jan. 2022",
"In January, parts of the Kwai Chung public housing estate were locked down for up to a week for mass testing after an outbreak that made headlines across the city. \u2014 Ezra Cheung, NBC News , 15 Mar. 2022",
"The coming of age story follows siblings Laura (16), Mira (12) and Steffi (7), fending for themselves in a Swedish working-class suburban housing estate , as their mother vanishes for lengthy periods. \u2014 Annika Pham, Variety , 2 Feb. 2022",
"This social- housing estate , which had 300 apartments in it, was fantastic. \u2014 Bilge Ebiri, Vulture , 23 Nov. 2021",
"It\u2019s about a girl on a West London housing estate , who is a conduit to the lives of all the other people in her orbit. \u2014 Michaela Coel, Vulture , 9 Sep. 2021",
"The first chapter introduces 8-year-old Damla, who in 1999 is living with her mother, Ayla, and her brother and sister in a housing estate in London\u2019s Tottenham section. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Sep. 2021"
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"He was raised in public housing project in Savannah by his father, a veteran and preacher, and his mother, according to his campaign website. \u2014 Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY , 18 May 2022",
"Born in Detroit and raised by a single mother in a housing project and in other areas, Mathis\u2019 young adult life included time with the Errol Flynn\u2019s street gang and incarceration in the Wayne County Jail as a juvenile. \u2014 Whitney Friedlander, Variety , 4 May 2022",
"The few times Black Angelenos made major news in this neighborhood were when families were firebombed in 1992 and 2014, by people who wanted them out of the Ramona Gardens housing project . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"The developer of the housing project , Sunroad Enterprises, did not return a request for comment. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 Sep. 2021",
"Mobb Deep, huddled with friends on the rooftop of a Queensbridge housing project . \u2014 New York Times , 29 May 2021",
"At issue is whether Geoffrey Sager can build a three-story apartment complex almost directly across Route 4 from UConn Health, the first large-scale, high-density housing project in that immediate area. \u2014 Don Stacom, Hartford Courant , 13 June 2022",
"The city has expressed support in collaborating with Southwestern on the housing project , which is in the early design stages. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Apr. 2022",
"After World War II, the land was selected for a big federal public housing project . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022"
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"Before their new house was built, Reyes and her husband, Leandro Membre\u00f1o, rented a hovel made of clay and galvanized metal sheets. \u2014 Soudi Jim\u00e9nez, Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
"Hovey said her mom had asked her to be patient and wait until they were settled in that hovel -like shelter. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"These big things are displayed in Moreau\u2019s studio, which is more an immense gallery than office, hovel , or workspace. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 10 Mar. 2022",
"After the building was demolished, Warner moved into a hovel at 406\u00bd Francisco St., just steps away from the site of his beloved saloon. \u2014 Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle , 5 Mar. 2021",
"Producers and directors whose story lines call for gritty hovels , classic capes, bungalows, grand beachfront properties and every sort of residence in between have an incentive to make do with the housing stock in the five boroughs. \u2014 Joanne Kaufman, New York Times , 6 Sep. 2019",
"Inside, my hovel smelled musty as a summer cottage in the off-season. \u2014 Wes Enzinna, Harper's magazine , 19 Nov. 2019",
"At the core of the play is the relationship between Sawyer and Scratch (Evan Jonigkeit), the alluring devil who one strange day appears in her hovel . \u2014 Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter , 30 Aug. 2019",
"These days, Will and Kate live in Kensington Palace in London, but back in her bachelorette phase, Kate wasn't living in a hovel with roommates and subsisting on ramen and hope like many recent grads. \u2014 Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire , 22 Sep. 2018"
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"\u2014 John P. Wiley Jr.",
"After a careful check outside to ensure that his flight path was clear, one of the pilots lifted his helicopter to a hover , then maneuvered to the middle of the valley.",
"\u2014 Breck Henderson"
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"\u2014 Tennessee Williams",
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"\u2014 Kelly Heyboer"
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"The patient was hovering between life and death.",
"The country hovers on the brink of famine.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Temperatures will hover around the low 90s for the rest of the week and into next, with thunderstorm odds between 40% and 50% Thursday through Monday. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel , 29 June 2022",
"On May 12, the price of Luna dropped 96% in a day, down to less than 10 cents and has continued to hover around zero since. \u2014 Taylor Locke, Fortune , 26 May 2022",
"The Beehive State\u2019s jobless rate continued to hover at about half the national average, which was 6.3% in January. \u2014 Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 Mar. 2021",
"Over the last week, the daily case report continued to hover in the 4,000-7,000 range, having only dipped below 4,000 once since Oct. 31. \u2014 Paola P\u00e9rez, orlandosentinel.com , 7 July 2020",
"With employee numbers that hover around 100,000, this could mean 10,000 workers being shown the door. \u2014 Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"The essays in this book are not confined to downtown, though many hover there. \u2014 The Week Staff, The Week , 13 June 2022",
"Drones fitted with cameras hover over centuries-old farms, allowing farmers to use fertilizer only where it is really needed, while nearby laboratories use the same lasers employed by NASA on Mars to perform soil analysis in seconds. \u2014 Vinod Sreeharsha, WSJ , 8 June 2022",
"Russian troops faced no real adversary in Syria; the war was mostly an air force operation where the pilots could hover over targets at will. \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2022"
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"\u02c8h\u0259-v\u0259r",
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"poise",
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": a vehicle that is supported above the surface of land or water by a cushion of air produced by downwardly directed fans":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The hovercraft handled about two dozen evacuations for several years before being abandoned in 2010 as too costly and incapable of operating in high seas or winds. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
"At one point King Cove received millions of federal dollars to buy a fast hovercraft , and a road was built to a landing site near the refuge. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
"The futurist and the test pilot Is the world ready for wingless hovercraft levitating over cities and hotrodding through congested air corridors? \u2014 New York Times , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Commissioned in 2009, Cavour is also equipped with a well deck capable of launching and recovering landing craft, hovercraft , and amphibious vehicles. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Switalski piloted the hovercraft while Howard approached the swan with a blanket on the ice. \u2014 Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 16 Dec. 2021",
"In January of this year, a similar case was reported in Massachusetts in which a dog had to be rescued from a frozen pond with the aid of a hovercraft . \u2014 Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Snowmachines and hovercraft remain prohibited on state roads, but on Thursday, Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer signed regulations that remove restrictions on many other vehicles starting Jan. 1. \u2014 James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Oct. 2021",
"Farmers and residents scrambled to save cattle as the water quickly rose above the animals' heads, even deploying a hovercraft . \u2014 Jess Winter, CNN , 17 Nov. 2021"
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"1959, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8h\u0259-v\u0259r-\u02cckraft",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-"
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": any of a family (Syrphidae) of dipteran flies that are noted for frequenting flowers and hovering at one place in the air and include some whose larvae prey on plant lice":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To glean insights from the hoverfly , the team spent more than a decade carefully studying the neuronal pathways of its eyes and measuring their electrical responses to light. \u2014 Monique Brouillette, Scientific American , 20 Apr. 2022",
"For this study, the researchers examined the hoverfly \u2019s visual system to develop a tool that uses similar mechanisms to clean up noisy data. \u2014 Monique Brouillette, Scientific American , 20 Apr. 2022",
"What\u2019s more, some of the most important hoverfly species are migratory, so huge numbers can turn up and far outnumber honeybees at crucial times of the year. \u2014 Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Mar. 2021",
"There have also been reports of great hoverfly migrations in the US, Nepal and Australia, suggesting that the phenomenon is widespread. \u2014 Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Mar. 2021",
"Chiffchaffs and willow warblers sing in the sallow and alder, while every leaf seems to hold a butterfly or dragonfly or hoverfly . \u2014 The Economist , 5 July 2018"
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"1881, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8h\u0259-v\u0259r-\u02ccfl\u012b",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-"
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": a distribution of energy, pitch, or duration in two adjacent syllables in some utterance of verse when a heavy syllable occurs next to a syllable bearing the metrical ictus so that for perception the stress seems to be divided or diffused nearly equally over both (as cornfield in the line \u201cthat o'er\u00b4/the green\u00b4/cornfield/did pass\u00b4\u201d)":[]
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"short for how do you do":""
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"(\u02c8)hau\u0307d\u00a6d\u00fc"
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},
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"Definition of how goes it? \u2014 used as an informal greeting like \"how are you?\" Hi Paul. How goes it ?"
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": a stony meteorite composed essentially of anorthite, olivine, and bronzite":[]
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"Luke Howard \u20201864 English meteorologist + English -ite":""
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"however",
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"nonetheless",
"notwithstanding",
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"still and all",
"though",
"withal",
"yet"
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"our visit to Niagara Falls was very pleasant, howbeit slightly shorter than we had planned",
"Adverb",
"I've never written a poem before; howbeit , I feel my first attempt is quite good."
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"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Conjunction",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb"
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"hau\u0307-\u02c8b\u0113-\u0259t"
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"albeit",
"although",
"altho",
"as",
"much as",
"notwithstanding",
"though",
"when",
"whereas",
"while",
"whilst"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044352",
"type":[
"adverb",
"conjunction"
]
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"antonyms":[],
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": a lurching rocking movement":[],
": to move from side to side or up and down":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":"Intransitive verb"
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"\"",
"\u02c8h\u0259u\u0307d"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000540",
"type":[
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a seat or covered pavilion on the back of an elephant or camel":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1774, in the meaning defined above":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Hindi & Urdu hauda , from Arabic hawdaj":""
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"\u02c8hau\u0307-d\u0259"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034647",
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to heap or crowd together : huddle":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"frequentative of howd":""
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"\u02c8h\u0259u\u0307d\u0259r"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041614",
"type":[
"transitive verb"
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": midwife":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
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"antonyms":[],
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": although":[],
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"however did you manage to do it"
],
": in spite of that : on the other hand":[
"still seems possible, however , that conditions will improve",
"would like to go; however , I think I'd better not"
],
": in whatever manner or way":[
"shall serve you, sir, truly, however else",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
],
": in whatever manner or way that":[
"will help however I can"
],
": to whatever degree or extent":[
"couldn't convince him, however hard she tried",
"has done this for however many thousands of years",
"\u2014 Emma Hawkridge"
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},
"examples":[
"Conjunction",
"Do it however you like.",
"I will help however I can.",
"Adverb",
"I'm all out of eggs; however , I can still make us a nice breakfast.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"The vast majority in the crowd, however , were effusive in their praise for the mayor. \u2014 Kate Selig, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"The proof of this performance pudding will be in the eating, however . \u2014 James Morris, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Cutting through that humor, however , is something deeper: a heart-rending character study about the fear of the unknown and the beauty of everyday existence. \u2014 Thomas Floyd, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Economists are downbeat about the prospects for a major revival, however , given the darkening global backdrop and the risk of further Covid outbreaks. \u2014 Jason Douglas, WSJ , 30 June 2022",
"What is certain, however , is that Bond will be a little different this time out. \u2014 Justine Browning, EW.com , 29 June 2022",
"An arriving officer was able to unlock the door; however , the driver wasn\u2019t so lucky. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 29 June 2022",
"This issue, however , is much more personal for her. \u2014 Steve Gardner, USA TODAY , 29 June 2022",
"Ankara, however , hasn't always been a thorn in the side of the alliance. \u2014 Nadeen Ebrahim And Abbas Al Lawati, CNN , 29 June 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Conjunction",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adverb"
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"hau\u0307-\u02c8e-v\u0259r"
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"even so",
"howbeit",
"nevertheless",
"nonetheless",
"notwithstanding",
"still",
"still and all",
"though",
"withal",
"yet"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215321",
"type":[
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"conjunction"
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": haunt , resort":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1711, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Dutch hof enclosure; akin to Old English hof enclosure, and perhaps to hufil hill":""
},
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"\u02c8hau\u0307f",
"\u02c8h\u014df"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223905",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a running graph of the progress of an airplane flight involving the distance covered, fuel consumed, and time elapsed and enabling the pilot to determine the equitime point":[]
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"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"alteration of the phrase how goes it?":""
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"pronounciation":[
"hau\u0307\u02c8g\u014dz\u0259\u0307t-"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115108",
"type":[
"noun"
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
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": to drown out or cause to fail by adverse outcry":[
"\u2014 used especially with down"
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": to emit a loud sustained doleful sound characteristic of members of the dog family":[],
": to go on a spree or rampage":[],
": to utter with unrestrained outcry":[]
},
"examples":[
"The dogs were howling at the moon.",
"several coyotes began howling close by as the sun went down",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As the music built, Allen and then Jagger sashayed down the catwalk, two divas determined to make their drama bring down the house, then faced one another to howl out all the emotion in the lyrics. \u2014 Rob Levine, Billboard , 6 June 2022",
"Among these behaviors, breed did play some role \u2014 for example, beagles and bloodhounds tend to howl more, border collies are biddable, and Shiba Inus are far less so. \u2014 CBS News , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The misogynistic keyboard warriors will no doubt howl at even the suggestion that the women deserve equal treatment, claiming the NCAA is only prioritizing what makes money. \u2014 Nancy Armour, USA TODAY , 14 Mar. 2022",
"After two years of development, Nightbitch with Amy Adams is ready to howl . \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"On average, beagles and bloodhounds are more likely to howl . \u2014 Katie Shepherd, Anchorage Daily News , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Edgar loves to interact with others, has shown to be extremely social, is an expert at giving kisses and will even howl to show his happiness. \u2014 Adam Schwager, The Arizona Republic , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The wind continued to howl and shake the building all night. \u2014 CBS News , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Some are calm and bashful while others howl or jump, full of energy. \u2014 Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News , 11 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English houlen ; akin to Middle High German hiulen to howl":""
},
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"\u02c8hau\u0307l",
"\u02c8hau\u0307(-\u0259)l"
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"bay",
"keen",
"ululate",
"wail",
"yowl"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003439",
"type":[
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"verb"
]
},
"hox":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": hamstring":[],
": to pester by following : harass , annoy":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hoxen , from hox hock sinew, from Old English h\u014dhsinu , from h\u014dh heel + sinu, seonu sinew":""
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4ks"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183503",
"type":[
"transitive verb"
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": a small usually sloop-rigged coasting ship":[]
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Interjection",
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"\u02c8h\u022fi"
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": any of a genus ( Hoya ) of climbing Asian and Australian evergreen shrubs of the milkweed family":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With a green hoya , a sansevieria and a ZZ plant, you\u2019ll be fully stocked with plants that are easy to care for. \u2014 Kai Burkhardt, CNN Underscored , 5 Apr. 2021",
"With a green hoya , a sansevieria and a ZZ plant, you\u2019ll be fully stocked with plants that are easy to care for. \u2014 Kai Burkhardt, CNN Underscored , 5 Apr. 2021",
"With a green hoya , a sansevieria and a ZZ plant, you\u2019ll be fully stocked with plants that are easy to care for. \u2014 Kai Burkhardt, CNN Underscored , 5 Apr. 2021",
"With a green hoya , a sansevieria and a ZZ plant, you\u2019ll be fully stocked with plants that are easy to care for. \u2014 Kai Burkhardt, CNN Underscored , 5 Apr. 2021",
"With a green hoya , a sansevieria and a ZZ plant, you\u2019ll be fully stocked with plants that are easy to care for. \u2014 Kai Burkhardt, CNN Underscored , 5 Apr. 2021",
"With a green hoya , a sansevieria and a ZZ plant, you\u2019ll be fully stocked with plants that are easy to care for. \u2014 Kai Burkhardt, CNN Underscored , 5 Apr. 2021",
"With a green hoya , a sansevieria and a ZZ plant, you\u2019ll be fully stocked with plants that are easy to care for. \u2014 Kai Burkhardt, CNN Underscored , 5 Apr. 2021",
"With a green hoya , a sansevieria and a ZZ plant, you\u2019ll be fully stocked with plants that are easy to care for. \u2014 Kai Burkhardt, CNN Underscored , 5 Apr. 2021"
],
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"1851, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"New Latin, from Thomas Hoy \u20201821 English gardener":""
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"\u02c8h\u022fi-\u0259"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174212",
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": a girl or woman of saucy, boisterous, or carefree behavior"
],
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"1676, in the meaning defined above"
],
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"perhaps from obsolete Dutch heiden country lout, from Middle Dutch, heathen; akin to Old English h\u01e3then heathen"
],
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"\u02c8h\u022fi-d\u1d4an"
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},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Rudeness is of course still frowned upon, and sometimes hoydens behaved in ways that are rude by today\u2019s standards \u2013 a girl who pushed another out of her seat at school was a hoyden in 1865. \u2014 Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor , 24 May 2018"
],
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"1676, in the meaning defined above":""
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"perhaps from obsolete Dutch heiden country lout, from Middle Dutch, heathen; akin to Old English h\u01e3then heathen":""
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"\u02c8h\u022fi-d\u1d4an"
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"-\u1d4an\u02cciz\u0259m"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031543",
"type":[
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"hoyle":{
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": an encyclopedia of the rules of indoor games and especially card games":[],
"Sir Fred 1915\u20132001 British astrophysicist":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1926, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Edmond Hoyle \u20201769 English writer on games":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u022fi(-\u0259)l"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193945",
"type":[
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"noun"
]
}
}
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