dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/vat_MW.json
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{
"vaticinate":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": prophesy , predict":[]
},
"examples":[
"if he could really vaticinate the course of the stock market, he'd be rich enough to own Manhattan"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1623, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin v\u0101ticin\u0101tus , past participle of v\u0101ticin\u0101r\u012b \"to make divinely inspired predictions, prophesy, warn,\" verbal derivative of *v\u0101ticinium \"act of prophesying,\" from v\u0101t\u0113s \"prophet, seer\" + canere \"to sing, chant, utter\" + -ium , deverbal noun suffix \u2014 more at vatic , chant entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"va-",
"v\u0259-\u02c8ti-s\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"augur",
"call",
"forecast",
"foretell",
"predict",
"presage",
"prognosticate",
"prophesy",
"read"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095759",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"vaticination":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": prediction":[],
": the act of prophesying":[]
},
"examples":[
"the myopic prewar vaticinations that the conflict would be brief and relatively painless"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1603, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin v\u0101ticin\u0101ti\u014dn-, v\u0101ticin\u0101ti\u014d , from v\u0101ticin\u0101r\u012b \"to make divinely inspired predictions, prophesy\" + -ti\u014dn-, ti\u014d deverbal noun suffix \u2014 more at vaticinate":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"va-",
"v\u0259-\u02ccti-s\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"auguring",
"augury",
"bodement",
"cast",
"forecast",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"prediction",
"presaging",
"prognosis",
"prognostic",
"prognosticating",
"prognostication",
"prophecy",
"prophesy",
"soothsaying"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234710",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vatic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": prophetic , oracular":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8va-tik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Stone\u2019s fiction abounds with Delphic oracles and vatic pronouncements like this. \u2014 Scott Bradfield, The New Republic , 20 May 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin v\u0101t\u0113s, v\u0101tis \"prophet, seer\" (akin to Gaulish\u2014Greek spelling\u2014 ou\u0101\u0301 teis \"those performing sacred rites,\" Old Irish f\u00e1ith \"seer, prophet,\" f\u00e1th \"prophecy, prophetic wisdom,\" Welsh gwawd \"song of praise, satire\"; Gothic wods \"possessed,\" Old English w\u014dd \"raging, senseless,\" Old Norse \u00f3\u00f0r \"frantic, furious,\" all going back to Germanic *w\u014dd- ; Old High German wuot \"rage, frenzy,\" going back to Germanic *w\u014ddi- ; Old English w\u014dth \"sound, noise, voice, song,\" Old Norse \u00f3\u00f0r \"mind, sense, song, poetry,\" both going back to Germanic *w\u014d\u00fea- ) + -ic entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1603, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-043733"
},
"vatman":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a worker who washes, dyes, cooks, or chemically treats products in a vat: such as":[],
": a workman who forms sheets of handmade paper by dipping a mold into a vat of stock":[],
": one who saturates logs and flitches with hot water or steam to soften the fibers prior to veneer cutting":[],
": an operator of a dye reel or jig : jigger":[],
": plater sense 1a(2)":[],
": one who pasteurizes and ripens cream for use in making butter":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vatm\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-120934"
},
"vat machine":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": cylinder machine":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-154557"
},
"Vatnaj\u00f6kull":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"glacier in southeastern Iceland that covers active volcanoes and is set aside as a national park":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u00e4t-n\u00e4-\u02ccy\u0153-k\u00fc-t\u1d4al"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-202613"
},
"vat-lined":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": having liners affixed by a cylinder machine":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-201134"
},
"vat paper":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": handmade paper":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-081330"
},
"vatu":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
"the basic monetary unit of Vanuatu \u2014 see Money Table":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u00e4-\u02cct\u00fc"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably borrowed from vatu \"stone\" in Raga or another language of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu (going back to Proto-Oceanic *patu \"stone\")":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1981, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-112627"
},
"Vat Jade Green":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a green anthraquinone vat dye":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-123233"
}
}