dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/gno_MW.json
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"gnome":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an ageless and often deformed dwarf of folklore who lives in the earth and usually guards treasure":[],
": an elemental being in the theory of Paracelsus that inhabits earth":[],
": maxim , aphorism":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1563, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1661, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from New Latin gnomus":"Noun",
"Greek gn\u014dm\u0113 , from gign\u014dskein to know \u2014 more at know":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u014dm"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"brownie",
"dwarf",
"elf",
"faerie",
"faery",
"fairy",
"fay",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"hobgoblin",
"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112508",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"gnomon":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an object that by the position or length of its shadow serves as an indicator especially of the hour of the day: such as":[],
": the pin of a sundial":[],
": a column or shaft erected perpendicular to the horizon":[],
": the remainder of a parallelogram after the removal of a similar parallelogram containing one of its corners":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u014d-m\u0259n",
"-\u02ccm\u00e4n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The gnomon , or the shadow-casting protrusion, is 35 feet tall with a shadow twice that length. \u2014 Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure , 15 Nov. 2021",
"But the most original marketing device was a giant sundial, its vertical monument (called a gnomon ) 28 feet long and 17 feet high and standing in a circle 34 feet in diameter. \u2014 Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 July 2021",
"The pole serves as a gnomon , the part of a sundial that casts a shadow to denote time. \u2014 Jeanne Huber, Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2020",
"There are many types of sundials, but in general each consists of a gnomon , a thin rod that casts a shadow onto a dial, and a flat plate or platform. \u2014 Megan Arnett, Scientific American , 15 Mar. 2018",
"The original clock is missing its gnomon , the part of a sundial that casts a shadow, but an 18th-century museum curator described it having one in the shape of a pig\u2019s tail, so Parslow re-created that, too. \u2014 National Geographic , 19 Jan. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin gn\u014dm\u014dn \"pointer of a sundial,\" borrowed from Greek gn\u1e53m\u014dn \"examiner, interpreter, carpenter's square, pointer of a sundial,\" from gn\u014d-, base of gign\u1e53skein \"to perceive, know\" + -mon-, -m\u014dn, agent suffix \u2014 more at know entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1546, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183914"
},
"Gnomonia":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus (the type of the family Gnomoniaceae) of ascomycetous fungi having rostrate perithecia and hyaline 2-celled to 4-celled ascospores":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"n\u014d\u02c8m\u014dn\u0113\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek gn\u014dm\u014dn carpenter's square + New Latin -ia ; from the shape of the ostiole":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184044"
},
"gnomonic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to the gnomon of a sundial or its use in telling time":[],
": gnomic":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)n\u014d\u00a6m\u00e4nik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"gnomonic from Latin gnomonicus , from Greek gn\u014dmonikos , from gn\u014dmon-, gn\u014dm\u014dn pointer on a sundial + -ikos -ic; gnomonical from Latin gnomonic us + English -al":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000209"
},
"gnomology":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an anthology of gnomes":[],
": gnomic writing":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"n\u014d\u02c8m\u00e4l\u0259j\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek gn\u014dmologia anthology of gnomes, sententious style, from gn\u014dmo- (from gn\u014dm\u0113 maxim) + -logia -logy":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-014948"
},
"gnomic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": characterized by aphorism":[
"gnomic utterances"
],
": given to the composition of gnomic writing":[
"a gnomic poet"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u014d-mik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"He made gnomic utterances concerning death.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Pop Smoke was a gnomic figure with a rich, booming voice; Fivio is less enigmatic but more entertaining, a charismatic and sometimes witty host who wants to keep everyone happy. \u2014 Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Samuel Greenberg, the doomed, gnomic poet-naif Crane describes, was already six years dead at the time of the letter\u2019s writing, having succumbed to tuberculosis in 1917, at the age of twenty-three, in the Manhattan State Hospital on Wards Island. \u2014 Dustin Illingworth, The New York Review of Books , 14 May 2020",
"Samuel Greenberg, the doomed, gnomic poet-naif Crane describes, was already six years dead at the time of the letter\u2019s writing, having succumbed to tuberculosis in 1917, at the age of twenty-three, in the Manhattan State Hospital on Wards Island. \u2014 Dustin Illingworth, The New York Review of Books , 14 May 2020",
"Like Fitzgerald, Levy has a gift for the pithy, annihilating moment of gnomic insight. \u2014 Kirsten Denker, The New Republic , 31 Aug. 2021",
"The style is Delphic: cautious; obfuscatory; verbose (or the opposite, gnomic ); vague; artfully ambiguous; subtle; fascinating. \u2014 George Calhoun, Forbes , 10 May 2021",
"There\u2019s Duncan\u2019s assistant, Jimmy Jellico, who is mentally challenged but who comes out with astonishing gnomic splinters of wisdom. \u2014 Joanne Kaufman, WSJ , 23 Apr. 2021",
"Some of the passages closely echo Oyler\u2019s riffs on contemporary foibles, except written in gnomic fragments. \u2014 Kate Knibbs, Wired , 1 Feb. 2021",
"Coleman had a gnomic way with words himself, however. \u2014 Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic , 5 June 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Greek gn\u014dmik\u00f3s \"dealing in maxims, didactic,\" from gn\u1e53m\u0113 \"maxim\" + -ikos -ic entry 1 \u2014 more at gnome entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1784, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-022121"
},
"gnomologic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": characterized by or consisting of gnomes or precepts : gnomic":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6n\u014dm\u0259\u00a6l\u00e4jik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"gnomologic from Greek gn\u014dmologikos , from gn\u014dmologia + -ikos -ic; gnomological from gnomologic + -al":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-043501"
},
"gnomonic chart":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a chart on the gnomonic projection":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-150842"
},
"gnothi seauton":{
"type":[
"Greek phrase"
],
"definitions":{
": know yourself \u2014 compare nosce te ipsum":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gn\u014d-th\u0113-\u02ccse-au\u0307-\u02c8t\u022fn"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-151334"
},
"gnomonic projection":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an azimuthal projection of a part of a hemisphere showing the earth's grid as projected by radials from a point at the center of the sphere onto a tangent plane so that all straight lines represent arcs of great circles thereby making this projection valuable for navigation when used in conjunction with the Mercator projection":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174330"
},
"gnosticize":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to embrace or propound Gnostic views":[],
": to make Gnostic : give Gnostic color or quality to":[
"threatened for a time to gnosticize Christianity"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-t\u0259\u02ccs\u012bz"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Gnostic + -ize":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-214413"
},
"gnosticism":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the thought and practice especially of various cults of late pre-Christian and early Christian centuries distinguished by the conviction that matter is evil and that emancipation comes through gnosis":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u00e4-st\u0259-\u02ccsi-z\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In this sense, the woke dialect is a new kind of gnosticism , separating the elite from the great unwashed. \u2014 Nate Hochman, National Review , 12 Feb. 2022",
"In effect, as Del Noce argued throughout his career, Marxism was and is a new form of an old heresy, gnosticism . \u2014 Francis X. Maier, WSJ , 6 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"see gnostic":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1664, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-233219"
},
"gnosis":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": esoteric knowledge of spiritual truth held by the ancient Gnostics to be essential to salvation":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u014d-s\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Another noted Alexandrian thinker was Valentinus, whose interpretation of Christianity required believers to embrace divine knowledge\u2014in Greek, gnosis . \u2014 National Geographic , 19 Apr. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek gn\u014dsis , literally, knowledge, from gign\u014dskein":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1703, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-051331"
},
"gnotobiotic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccn\u014d-t\u0259-(\u02cc)b\u012b-\u02c8\u00e4t-ik",
"-b\u0113-",
"\u02ccn\u014d-t\u014d-b\u012b-\u02c8\u00e4-tik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek gn\u014dtos known (from gign\u014dskein to know) + biot\u0113 life, way of life \u2014 more at know , biota":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1949, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-155305"
},
"gnomonics":{
"type":[
"noun plural but singular in construction"
],
"definitions":{
": the art of using or making dials, especially sundials":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"n\u014d\u02c8m\u00e4niks"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-023630"
},
"gnome owl":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": pygmy owl":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"gnome entry 2":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-145539"
},
"gnostic":{
"type":[
"adjective,",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an adherent of gnosticism":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u00e4-stik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin gnosticus , from Greek gn\u014dstikos of knowledge, from gign\u014dskein":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1587, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-165726"
},
"gnoseology":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the philosophic theory of knowledge : inquiry into the basis, nature, validity, and limits of knowledge":[
"gnoseology became coextensive with the whole of metaphysics",
"\u2014 C. A. Hart"
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin gnoseologia , from gnoseo- (from Greek gn\u014dsis knowledge) + Latin -logia -logy":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-180031"
},
"gnoseological":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to gnoseology":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-195905"
},
"Gnorimoschema":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of small dull narrow-winged moths related to the pink bollworm and including larvae that cause galls in plants, others that are leaf miners, and still others that are borers \u2014 see potato tuberworm":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccn\u014dr\u0259m\u014d\u02c8sk\u0113m\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from gnorimo- (from Greek gn\u014drimos well known) + Latin schema shape, form; akin to Greek gign\u014dskein to know":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-041611"
},
"gnocchi":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": dumplings usually made with potato or semolina and served with sauce":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u00e4-",
"\u02c8ny\u022f-",
"\u02c8n\u022f-k\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some of the lightest gnocchi in memory are draped with a tomato sauce that concludes with some heat from Calabrian chiles. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Oct. 2021",
"Strain all the gnocchi , and place them on a baking tray lined with a paper towel. \u2014 Christina Bernstein, Outside Online , 12 Nov. 2020",
"Place your gnocchi in the boiling water in several batches. \u2014 Christina Bernstein, Outside Online , 12 Nov. 2020",
"Trader Joe's has long found success with its gnocchi and has introduced a slew of flavors, including Sweet Potato Gnocchi, Gorgonzola Gnocchi, Kale Gnocchi or its wildly popular Cauliflower Gnocchi. \u2014 Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com , 1 Dec. 2021",
"Our next course has arrived\u2014wild rabbit and gluten-free gnocchi for Haugen. \u2014 Noreen Malone, Vogue , 16 Nov. 2021",
"Consider pairing with marinated lamb, or potato gnocchi and herbs. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 11 Sep. 2021",
"While there is a time and place to bake bread from scratch or make your own gnocchi , summer doesn\u2019t have to be it. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 July 2021",
"The current version features a pea puree on the bottom with crunchy romano beans mingling with the gnocchi . \u2014 Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian, plural of gnocco , from Italian dialect (Veneto), probably of Germanic origin; akin to Middle High German kn\u00f6chel knuckle, knoche bone \u2014 more at knuckle":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1891, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-213152"
}
}