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2709 lines
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"anal":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": of, relating to, characterized by, or being personality traits (such as parsimony , meticulousness, and ill humor) considered typical of fixation at the anal stage of development : anal-retentive":[
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"an anal disposition",
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"\u2014 often used in nontechnical contexts to describe someone as extremely or excessively neat, careful, or precise I have a mania for neatness in some matters that is almost anal . \u2014 Joseph Heller"
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],
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": of, relating to, characterized by, or being the stage of psychosexual development which follows the oral stage (see oral entry 1 sense 3 ) and during which the child is concerned especially with his or her feces":[],
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": of, relating to, situated near, or involving the anus":[
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"an anal fin"
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],
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"analogy":[],
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"analysis ; analytic":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"He can be pretty anal about keeping his office neat.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"More cheerfully, younger Chinese are not as superstitious, and so are less likely to believe that a baby born without an anal opening, for example, must be cursed and fit only for abandonment. \u2014 The Economist , 6 June 2020",
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"Since the attack, India has amended its rape laws, widening the definition to include anal and oral penetration. \u2014 Vedika Sud, CNN , 19 Mar. 2020",
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"EcoHealth Alliance researchers have long collected blood, urine, feces, and oral and anal swabs from wild bats in China and elsewhere in an effort to solve such puzzles. \u2014 Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS , 30 Apr. 2020",
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"Anderson assaulted and abused the wrestler on at least 35 occasions, or 70 total acts of nonconsensual anal penetration and genital fondling, between 1984 and 1989 when the wrestler was between the ages of 17 and 22, the suit alleges. \u2014 David Jesse, Detroit Free Press , 5 Mar. 2020",
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"Aside from skipping the necessary prep work, forgetting to use lube is one of the main reasons why anal can be unpleasant for some people. \u2014 Sophie Saint Thomas, refinery29.com , 8 Apr. 2020",
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"In 2018, inspectors at one of Mr. Scheiner\u2019s nursing homes in Balch Springs, Texas, spotted a staff member who failed to wash or sanitize her hands before cleaning a resident\u2019s anal area. \u2014 Jesse Drucker, New York Times , 14 Mar. 2020",
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"Current tests for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, look for genetic material of the virus, for instance in saliva or nasal, oral, or anal swabs, using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). \u2014 Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS , 27 Feb. 2020",
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"At one visit, in the spring of 2017, Rannestad could not complete a pelvic exam because of the extreme swelling around Addimando\u2019s vaginal and anal areas. \u2014 Rachel Louise Snyder, The New Yorker , 20 Dec. 2019"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1769, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from New Latin \u0101n\u0101lis, from Latin \u0101nus anus + -\u0101lis -al entry 1":"Adjective"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8\u0101n-\u1d4al",
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"\u02c8\u0101-n\u1d4al"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085818",
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"type":[
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"abbreviation",
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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]
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},
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"analgesic":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia":[
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"opioid analgesics",
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"a topical analgesic",
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"Aspirin and acetaminophen are the oral analgesics of first choice in the treatment of mild to moderate pain caused by cancer.",
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"\u2014 William T. McGivney et al."
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"the doctor prescribed an analgesic and rest for my injured knee",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Intended to be rolled directly onto achy areas, the formula combines 17 essential oils, including geranium and chamomile, which are thought to stimulate circulation, and capsaicin (the active compound in the chili pepper) for an analgesic effect. \u2014 Laura Regensdorf, Vogue , 1 Nov. 2017",
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"Meperidine \u2013 Meperidine is another narcotic analgesic , similar to morphine. \u2014 Cnn Library, CNN , 18 Sep. 2017",
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"Social connection Pain research confirms that love is analgesic . \u2014 Beth Darnall, Washington Post , 12 Sep. 2017",
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"In these complaints\u2014and in additional posts to its members\u2014PETA alleged that Lattin had killed around 250 birds and performed painful experiments without analgesics , and that her work had no relevance to conservation or other species. \u2014 David Grimm, Science | AAAS , 8 Sep. 2017",
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"Many of the drug\u2019s victims are addicts, but others are unaware as traffickers have begun lacing other drugs, including marijuana, with fentanyl which is the synthetic opiate analgesic , Espinosa said. \u2014 Krista Torralva, OrlandoSentinel.com , 11 Aug. 2017",
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"The decline documented in the analysis also coincided with the federal government\u2019s tightening of prescribing rules in 2014 for one of the most common painkillers: hydrocodone combined with a second analgesic , such as acetaminophen. \u2014 Abby Goodnough, The Seattle Times , 6 July 2017",
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"The decline documented in the analysis also coincided with the federal government's tightening of prescribing rules in 2014 for one of the most common painkillers: hydrocodone combined with a second analgesic , like acetaminophen. \u2014 The New York Times, cleveland.com , 6 July 2017",
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"Meperidine \u2013 Meperidine is another narcotic analgesic , similar to morphine. \u2014 Steve Almasy, CNN , 6 July 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1852, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
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"1860, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"analgesia + -ic entry 1":"Adjective",
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"noun derivative of analgesic entry 2":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cca-n\u1d4al-\u02c8j\u0113-zik",
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"-\u02c8j\u0113-zik",
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"-sik"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"anesthetic",
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"anodyne",
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"painkiller"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223938",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"analog computer":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a computer that operates with numbers represented by directly measurable quantities (such as voltages or rotations) \u2014 compare digital computer , hybrid computer":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"In the 1940s, the analog computer MONIAC had to use actual tanks and pipes of colored water to model the UK economy. \u2014 Amanda Rees, Wired , 27 Dec. 2021",
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"The video features electronic effects created by director Hays using an analog computer system. \u2014 Billboard , 29 July 2021",
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"And although there were basic analog computers for computing firing solutions, tracking ships and calculating their headings was manual work, done by men with paper and slide rules. \u2014 Haomiao Huang, Ars Technica , 25 Mar. 2020",
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"Applied Dynamics Ann Arbor plant: Supplied analog computers . \u2014 Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press , 18 July 2019",
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"His voting machine\u2014essentially an analog computer \u2014recognized if the voter was a man or a woman and allowed them to vote accordingly. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian , 26 June 2019",
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"The award will fund research that examines how computationally intensive engineering and physics problems can be solved more quickly using new types of analog computers for electromagnetic, magnetohydrodynamic and fluid mechanic applications. \u2014 Megan Becka, cleveland.com , 11 June 2017",
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"Memory as an analog computer Phase change memory is based on materials that can take two different forms as a solid. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 26 Oct. 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1948, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-182848",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"analogate":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a thing, term, or concept analogized : analogue":[
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"the First Being is the prime analogate"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1874, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"analog ue + -ate":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259\u02c8nal\u0259\u02ccg\u0101t",
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"-g\u0259\u0307t"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032613",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"analogical":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": expressing or implying analogy":[],
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": of, relating to, or based on analogy":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"It was intended to paint the EU\u2019s role in this diplomatic dispute as that of the anti-colonial insurgent, a role that chimes well with the limited, analogical way that American liberals have of understanding Ireland. \u2014 Cameron Hilditch, National Review , 18 June 2021",
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"Leveraging the power of analogical and computational thinking. \u2014 Heide Abelli, Forbes , 6 May 2021",
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"In short, the key to prepare for the future is analogical reasoning. \u2014 Christian Stadler, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2021",
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"Teddy Roosevelt\u2019s crusade against the robber barons has a lot of analogical appeal for people who agree with Miller about the coercive nature of private corporations. \u2014 Cameron Hilditch, National Review , 28 Feb. 2021",
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"So George Dyson argues in this brilliant, idiosyncratic meta-meditation on analogical analogs throughout history. \u2014 Wired Staff, Wired , 16 Dec. 2020",
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"Similar habits of analogical inference guide scientists in their speculations about features of the cosmos. \u2014 Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books , 7 Jan. 2020",
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"The signatories of the open letter to the USHMM were entirely right to say that analogical reasoning is indispensable to the human sciences. \u2014 Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books , 7 Jan. 2020",
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"Yet unless McEwan really means to suggest that his countrymen on the Brexiting right are evil, the gesture simply lacks analogical power. \u2014 Graham Hillard, National Review , 24 Oct. 2019"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1609, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin analogicus \"of grammatical analogy\" (borrowed from Greek analogik\u00f3s \"based on mathematical ratios, of analogy in grammar,\" from analog\u00eda \"proportion, analogy \" + -ikos -ic entry 1 ) + -al entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8l\u00e4-ji-k\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232450",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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]
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},
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"analogion":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a stand on which choir singers in the Eastern Church keep their books":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1850, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Greek analogeion reading desk, from analegesthai to read through, from ana- + legein to gather, speak":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u0259\u02c8l\u022f\u02ccy\u022fn",
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"\u02cc\u00e4n\u0259\u02ccl\u022f\u02c8y\u0113\u02cc\u022fn"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001327",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"analogism":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": reasoning by analogy":[
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"investigates the philosophy of Aristotle and \u2026 rejects it as analogism",
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"\u2014 L. A. Foley"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1706, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"analogy + -ism":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259\u02c8nal\u0259\u02ccjiz\u0259m"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-195741",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"analogist":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": one who searches for or reasons from analogies":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1788, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"analogy + -ist entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8na-l\u0259-jist"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112803",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"analogize":{
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"antonyms":[
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"contrast"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to compare by analogy":[],
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": to use or exhibit analogy":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"analogized the White House scandal to a cancer that was spreading to every internal organ of the body",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Some might incorrectly analogize the pandemic to a natural disaster, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 or Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when presidents have sent in military troops to assist in mitigation and relief. \u2014 John Yoo, National Review , 20 Mar. 2020",
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"Nonetheless, analogizing energy to digital tech remains a go-to for policymakers and pundits. \u2014 Mark P. Mills, National Review , 5 Mar. 2020",
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"Our tendency to analogize senators to jurors, and the Senate to a court, is not accidental. \u2014 Adam White, National Review , 19 Dec. 2019",
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"To analogize to calculus, if human reasoning is a Riemann sum, machine learning may be the integral that results as the Riemann calculation approaches infinity. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 11 Nov. 2019",
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"In private and online, each side says the other slate is a pack of liars and both sides analogize the other to Donald Trump and the toxic state of national politics. \u2014 Jonathan Handel, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 Aug. 2019",
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"Warren, for instance, analogizes her own plan, which includes a $1.5 trillion federal procurement commitment, to the industrial policy America previously undertook for the space race and our mobilization against Nazi aggression. \u2014 Catherine Rampell, The Denver Post , 9 June 2019",
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"Ditto their love for each other and their city, analogized to an Antarctica that\u2019s breaking apart and must be put back together. \u2014 Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 Apr. 2018",
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"So is there enough previous case law for courts to analogize to this situation"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1655, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"analogy + -ize":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8na-l\u0259-\u02ccj\u012bz"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"assimilate",
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"bracket",
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"compare",
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"equate",
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"liken"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235553",
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"type":[
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"analogon":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": analogue":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1797, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Greek, from neuter of analogos":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-g\u0259n",
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"-\u02ccg\u00e4n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-081904",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"analogous":{
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"antonyms":[
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"different",
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"dissimilar",
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"diverse",
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"unakin",
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"unlike"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": similar in a way that invites comparison : showing an analogy or a likeness that permits one to draw an analogy":[
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"Timbre in music is analogous to color in painting.",
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"\u2014 Aaron Copland",
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"An airplane's joystick is somewhat analogous to the reins on a horse.",
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"a town council and a government body that serves an analogous function"
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],
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": similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail":[
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"Timbre in music is analogous to color in painting.",
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"\u2014 Aaron Copland",
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"An airplane's joystick is somewhat analogous to the reins on a horse.",
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"a town council and a government body that serves an analogous function"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"\u2026 gluons, force particles analogous to the photons of electromagnetism. \u2014 Andrew Watson , Science , 22 Jan. 1999",
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"\u2026 great stretches of algae, analogous to terrestrial woodlands, in which kelp fills the role of trees. \u2014 William K. Stevens , New York Times , 5 Jan. 1999",
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"\u2026 not by means superior to, though analogous with, human reason \u2026 \u2014 Charles Darwin , On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection , 1859",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The Higgs boson and the Higgs field are analogous to photons and the electromagnetic field. \u2014 Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American , 24 June 2022",
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"Such questions, of course, are analogous to those currently faced by the Jan. 6 committee. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
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"One researcher suggests to Yong that this mode of perception, known as active electrolocation, is analogous to sensing hot and cold. \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
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"The effect of this ruling on reconsideration is thus analogous to reducing the Goodyear Blimp to a child's birthday balloon. \u2014 Jay Adkisson, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
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"Other tree species may have similarly specialized shoots; pines, for example, have two types that might be analogous to those on redwoods, Chin says. \u2014 Ula Chrobak, Scientific American , 1 June 2022",
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"Not only is this bad policy, but it is based on the faulty premise that advertising markets are analogous to securities markets. \u2014 M. Todd Henderson, WSJ , 16 May 2022",
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"If the neurons in DeGray\u2019s skull were like notes on a piano, then his distinct intentions were analogous to unique musical compositions. \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
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"Their solutions are analogous to putting a Band-Aid on a cancer. \u2014 WSJ , 3 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1646, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin analogus \"proportionate\" (Medieval Latin, \"conforming to analogy\") + -ous ; analogus borrowed from Greek an\u00e1logos \"proportionate, conformable,\" parasynthetic derivative from an\u00e0 l\u00f3gon \"proportionately,\" from an\u00e1 \"up, throughout\" + l\u00f3gon, accusative of l\u00f3gos \"word, speech, relation, correspondence, proportion\" \u2014 more at ana- , legend":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8nal-\u0259-g\u0259s",
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"\u0259-\u02c8na-l\u0259-g\u0259s"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for analogous similar , analogous , parallel mean closely resembling each other. similar implies the possibility of being mistaken for each other. all the houses in the development are similar analogous applies to things belonging in essentially different categories but nevertheless having many similarities. analogous political systems parallel suggests a marked likeness in the development of two things. the parallel careers of two movie stars",
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"synonyms":[
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"akin",
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"alike",
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"cognate",
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"comparable",
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"connate",
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"correspondent",
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"corresponding",
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"ditto",
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"like",
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"matching",
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"parallel",
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"resemblant",
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"resembling",
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"similar",
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"such",
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"suchlike"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-222733",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"analogousness":{
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"antonyms":[
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"different",
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"dissimilar",
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"diverse",
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"unakin",
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"unlike"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": similar in a way that invites comparison : showing an analogy or a likeness that permits one to draw an analogy":[
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"Timbre in music is analogous to color in painting.",
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"\u2014 Aaron Copland",
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"An airplane's joystick is somewhat analogous to the reins on a horse.",
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"a town council and a government body that serves an analogous function"
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],
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": similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail":[
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"Timbre in music is analogous to color in painting.",
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"\u2014 Aaron Copland",
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"An airplane's joystick is somewhat analogous to the reins on a horse.",
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"a town council and a government body that serves an analogous function"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"\u2026 gluons, force particles analogous to the photons of electromagnetism. \u2014 Andrew Watson , Science , 22 Jan. 1999",
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"\u2026 great stretches of algae, analogous to terrestrial woodlands, in which kelp fills the role of trees. \u2014 William K. Stevens , New York Times , 5 Jan. 1999",
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"\u2026 not by means superior to, though analogous with, human reason \u2026 \u2014 Charles Darwin , On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection , 1859",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The Higgs boson and the Higgs field are analogous to photons and the electromagnetic field. \u2014 Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American , 24 June 2022",
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"Such questions, of course, are analogous to those currently faced by the Jan. 6 committee. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
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"One researcher suggests to Yong that this mode of perception, known as active electrolocation, is analogous to sensing hot and cold. \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
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"The effect of this ruling on reconsideration is thus analogous to reducing the Goodyear Blimp to a child's birthday balloon. \u2014 Jay Adkisson, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
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"Other tree species may have similarly specialized shoots; pines, for example, have two types that might be analogous to those on redwoods, Chin says. \u2014 Ula Chrobak, Scientific American , 1 June 2022",
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"Not only is this bad policy, but it is based on the faulty premise that advertising markets are analogous to securities markets. \u2014 M. Todd Henderson, WSJ , 16 May 2022",
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"If the neurons in DeGray\u2019s skull were like notes on a piano, then his distinct intentions were analogous to unique musical compositions. \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
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"Their solutions are analogous to putting a Band-Aid on a cancer. \u2014 WSJ , 3 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1646, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin analogus \"proportionate\" (Medieval Latin, \"conforming to analogy\") + -ous ; analogus borrowed from Greek an\u00e1logos \"proportionate, conformable,\" parasynthetic derivative from an\u00e0 l\u00f3gon \"proportionately,\" from an\u00e1 \"up, throughout\" + l\u00f3gon, accusative of l\u00f3gos \"word, speech, relation, correspondence, proportion\" \u2014 more at ana- , legend":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8nal-\u0259-g\u0259s",
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"\u0259-\u02c8na-l\u0259-g\u0259s"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for analogous similar , analogous , parallel mean closely resembling each other. similar implies the possibility of being mistaken for each other. all the houses in the development are similar analogous applies to things belonging in essentially different categories but nevertheless having many similarities. analogous political systems parallel suggests a marked likeness in the development of two things. the parallel careers of two movie stars",
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"synonyms":[
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"akin",
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"alike",
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"cognate",
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"comparable",
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"connate",
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"correspondent",
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"corresponding",
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"ditto",
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"like",
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"matching",
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"parallel",
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"resemblant",
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"resembling",
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"similar",
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"such",
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"suchlike"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130142",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"analogy":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect":[],
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": correspondence between the members of pairs or sets of linguistic forms that serves as a basis for the creation of another form":[],
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": correspondence or similarity in form or function between parts (such as the wings of birds and insects) of unrelated or distantly related species that is the result of convergent evolution \u2014 compare homology , homoplasy":[],
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": inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others":[],
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": resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike : similarity":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"He does, though, suffer from the occupational deformation of international relations specialists: an enthusiasm for ransacking the past in search of precedents, analogies , patterns, and cycles that might explain the present and forecast the future. \u2014 Tony Judt , New York Book Review , 10 Apr. 2003",
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"People who do this call themselves \"white-hat\" hackers\u2014good people who show other people their vulnerabilities. Take the following analogy : I've designed a great new lock pick, and I'm going to give this great new gadget away to show everyone that the typical door lock is ineffective against my new pick. \u2014 John C. Dvorak , PC Magazine , 4 Apr. 2000",
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"It has often been said that movie stars are the royalty of America. (The better analogy , really, is that the royals are the movie stars of Britain.) \u2014 Neal Gabler , Life: The Movie , 1998",
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"Parts of the far-infrared sky look like colonies of spiders gone mad. The fine structure seen there is called cirrus, by analogy with filamentary clouds on Earth. \u2014 Virginia Trimble et al. , Sky & Telescope , January 1995",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Malik uses the analogy of a stem-plus-branching approach to studying a phenomenon using multidisciplinary lenses. \u2014 Benjamin Laker, Forbes , 18 Oct. 2021",
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"Huggins uses a sports analogy to describe his advice to Da\u2019Vinchi, who portrays Southwest T, and Demetrius (Lil Meech) Flenory Jr., who was chosen and mentored by 50 Cent to play the role of his father, Big Meech. \u2014 Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press , 1 Oct. 2021",
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"Nelsy Ni\u00f1o, a researcher at the Instituto Humboldt who designs outreach for the expeditions, uses the analogy of a public library when talking to communities or groups of young people. \u2014 Federico Rios, New York Times , 31 Aug. 2021",
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"While poetry often uses analogy and plays with language, the obituary poems seem very different, plainspoken. \u2014 Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times , 6 Apr. 2021",
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"Scott Fraser, a cell biologist at U.C. San Diego, uses the analogy of watching a football game: a technique like Bessel beam illumination is like a wide-view of the whole field, whereas super-resolution techniques are like binoculars. \u2014 Jen Christiansen, Scientific American , 21 May 2013",
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"To the far right, the historical analogy is the Boston Tea Party, with liberals, Democrats, and the Washington establishment as the redcoats. \u2014 Calvin Woodward, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
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"To use an analogy from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ohanian says that in the past, a startup picking a top tier firm would be like signing a partnership with the Avengers. \u2014 Kenrick Cai, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
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"To use an analogy , each film is like playing an NBA basketball game. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English analogie, borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, borrowed from Latin analogia \"ratio, proportion, correspondence in the inflection and derivation of words, the use of this correspondence in word derivation,\" borrowed from Greek analog\u00eda \"proportion, relation, correspondence in the inflection and derivation of words,\" from an\u00e1logos \"proportionate, conformable, analogous \" + -ia -y entry 2":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8nal-\u0259-j\u0113",
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"\u0259-\u02c8na-l\u0259-j\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for analogy likeness , similarity , resemblance , similitude , analogy mean agreement or correspondence in details. likeness implies a closer correspondence than similarity which often implies that things are merely somewhat alike. a remarkable likeness to his late father some similarity between the two cases resemblance implies similarity chiefly in appearance or external qualities. statements that bear little resemblance to the truth similitude applies chiefly to correspondence between abstractions. two schools of social thought showing points of similitude analogy implies likeness or parallelism in relations rather than in appearance or qualities. pointed out analogies to past wars",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091825",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"analphabetic":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a person who cannot read : illiterate":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1881, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from New Latin analphab\u0113tus, derivative of analphab\u0113tus, adjective, \"illiterate,\" borrowed from Greek analph\u00e1b\u0113tos, from an- an- + -alphab\u0113tos, derivative of alph\u00e1b\u0113tos alphabet":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"(\u02cc)an-\u02c8al-f\u0259-\u02ccbet",
|
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"-b\u0259t"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003905",
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"type":[
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"adjective or noun",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"analysis":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a branch of mathematics concerned mainly with limits, continuity , and infinite series":[],
|
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": a detailed examination of anything complex in order to understand its nature or to determine its essential features : a thorough study":[
|
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"doing a careful analysis of the problem"
|
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],
|
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": a method in philosophy of resolving complex expressions into simpler or more basic ones":[],
|
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": a statement of such an examination":[],
|
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": a statement of the constituents of a mixture":[],
|
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": calculus sense 1b":[],
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": clarification of an expression by an elucidation of its use in discourse":[],
|
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": proof of a mathematical proposition by assuming the result and deducing a valid statement by a series of reversible steps":[],
|
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": psychoanalysis":[
|
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"a patient who is in/undergoing analysis"
|
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],
|
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": separation of a whole into its component parts":[],
|
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": the identification or separation of ingredients of a substance":[
|
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"a chemical analysis of the soil"
|
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],
|
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": the use of function words instead of inflectional forms as a characteristic device of a language":[]
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"His analyses expose hidden fractures with the clarity of an X-ray, and his rhetorical skill, though modulated in a journalistic style, owes much to the give and take of Euripides' crisp dialogue. \u2014 G. W. Bowersock , New York Review of Books , 6 Nov. 2008",
|
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"In order to depict economic decisions mathematically, economists needed to assume that human behavior is both rational and predictable. They imagined a representative human, Homo economicus, endowed with consistent preferences, stable moods, and an enviable ability to make only rational decisions. This sleight of hand yielded some theories that had genuine predictive value, but economists were obliged to exclude from their analyses many phenomena that didn't fit the \u2026 framework, such as stock-market bubbles, drug addiction, and compulsive shopping. \u2014 John Cassidy , New Yorker , 18 Sept. 2006",
|
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"Thus little more than a month before the convention was due to assemble in Philadelphia, James Madison fashioned a powerful and comprehensive analysis of the problems of federalism and republicanism. \u2014 Jack N. Rakove , Original Meanings , 1996",
|
|
"Thanks to some pioneering studies, and an increasing body of editions, translations, and detailed analyses , we now have a good general picture of the spiritual culture of late-medieval women on the Continent, especially in the Low Countries and Germany. \u2014 Nicholas Watsons , Speculum , July 1993",
|
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"a scientific analysis of the data",
|
|
"make a chemical analysis of the soil",
|
|
"a detailed analysis of the bone structure of horses",
|
|
"performing chemical analysis of the soil",
|
|
"The newspaper printed an analysis of each candidate's positions.",
|
|
"That's not a bad analysis of the situation.",
|
|
"It's a problem that requires careful analysis .",
|
|
"He has been in analysis for many years.",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Before beginning its analysis , the court noted that the defendants did not oppose the plaintiff\u2019s motion to proceed under a pseudonym at the time of the motion, but sought the right to revisit the issue later on in the litigation process. \u2014 Jack Greiner, The Enquirer , 30 June 2022",
|
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"But our analysis does not suggest a mass exodus from the labor force. \u2014 Mike Gousha And John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"The study, which for this year evaluated 2,650 U.S. hospitals, relies on publicly available Medicare data for its analysis . \u2014 Fortune , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"Now University of Missouri professor Keith Herman has repeated his analysis of the impact of the intervention, but this time looking at the results before and after the shooting of Michael Brown. \u2014 Nick Morrison, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
|
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"Our analysis with CBS News also discovered a difference by race. \u2014 Andy Sheehan, CBS News , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"Our analysis of the articles show that the public started to associate fine dust with China during that event. \u2014 Dongwook Kim, Scientific American , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Though the department said its analysis was based in science, bay foundation scientists question whether that can be true. \u2014 Scott Dance, Baltimore Sun , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"The bulk of their analysis drew on the administrative records of over 120,000 individuals working at 77 higher education institutions between 2013 and 2016. \u2014 Elissa Welle, STAT , 23 June 2022"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"borrowed from Medieval Latin, borrowed from Greek an\u00e1lysis \"loosing, releasing, breaking something down into its elements, solution of a problem,\" from anal\u00fdein \"to loosen, undo, dissolve, resolve into constituent elements,\" from ana- ana- + l\u00fdein \"to loosen, undo\" \u2014 more at lose":""
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u0259-\u02c8nal-\u0259-s\u0259s",
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8na-l\u0259-s\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"anatomizing",
|
|
"anatomy",
|
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"assay",
|
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"breakdown",
|
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"deconstruction",
|
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"dissection"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-161707",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
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},
|
|
"analytic":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
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"illegitimate",
|
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"illogical",
|
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"incoherent",
|
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"inconsequent",
|
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"inconsequential",
|
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"invalid",
|
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"irrational",
|
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"unreasonable",
|
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"unsound",
|
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"weak"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": being a proposition (such as \"no bachelor is married\") whose truth is evident from the meaning of the words it contains \u2014 compare synthetic":[],
|
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": capable of being expanded in a Taylor's series in powers of x \u2212 h in some neighborhood of the point h":[],
|
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": characterized by the use of function words rather than inflectional forms to express grammatical relationships":[
|
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"analytic languages"
|
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],
|
|
": differentiable at every point in some neighborhood of a given point":[],
|
|
": psychoanalytic":[],
|
|
": skilled in or using analysis especially in thinking or reasoning":[
|
|
"a keenly analytic person/mind",
|
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"an analytical study"
|
|
],
|
|
": treated or treatable by or using the methods of algebra and calculus":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"presented a very analytical argument for the defendant's guilt",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Josh Greenstein, president of Sony Motion Pictures Group, says at Sony, movie campaign strategies are informed by parsing 500 proprietary analytic inputs. \u2014 Robert Marich, Variety , 23 May 2022",
|
|
"Back on the boat, the scientists put the samples on ice before sending them to the lab of Gertrud Morlock, an analytic chemist at Germany\u2019s Justus Liebig University Giessen and lead author on the new study. \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"But he has not been afforded the cloak of impersonality that shrouds most analytic philosophers. \u2014 Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
|
|
"In terms of human resources and talent management, this means the use of robotic process automation (RPA) and data analytic tools and technology, as well as artificial intelligence and machine learning are critical enablers. \u2014 Ron Schmelzer, Forbes , 23 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"As his father pursued his academic studies in analytic chemistry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, the family moved to Tennessee. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Cogastro\u2019s annual license fees, providing access to data monitoring and analytic platform, depend on the size and the needs of each insect farm. \u2014 Jackie Abramian, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Startup delivers data and analytic tools to CFOs of fast-growing companies to help bring financial planning into the modern era. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The Giants ranked second in the majors in payroll in 2018, in the $200 million neighborhood, trailing only the Red Sox, but have slipped dramatically since moving to a more analytic approach under executive Farhan Zaidi. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 22 Mar. 2022"
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"analytic borrowed from Late Latin analyticus, borrowed from Greek analytik\u00f3s, from anal\u00fdein \"to loosen, dissolve, resolve into constitutent elements\" + -t-, verbal adjective formative + -ikos -ic entry 1 ; analytical from Late Latin analyticus + -al entry 1 \u2014 more at analysis":""
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccan-\u1d4al-\u02c8it-ik",
|
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8li-tik"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"coherent",
|
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"consequent",
|
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"good",
|
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"logical",
|
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"rational",
|
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"reasonable",
|
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"sensible",
|
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"sound",
|
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"valid",
|
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"well-founded",
|
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"well-grounded"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170357",
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"analytical":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
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"illegitimate",
|
|
"illogical",
|
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"incoherent",
|
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"inconsequent",
|
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"inconsequential",
|
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"invalid",
|
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"irrational",
|
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"unreasonable",
|
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"unsound",
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"weak"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": being a proposition (such as \"no bachelor is married\") whose truth is evident from the meaning of the words it contains \u2014 compare synthetic":[],
|
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": capable of being expanded in a Taylor's series in powers of x \u2212 h in some neighborhood of the point h":[],
|
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": characterized by the use of function words rather than inflectional forms to express grammatical relationships":[
|
|
"analytic languages"
|
|
],
|
|
": differentiable at every point in some neighborhood of a given point":[],
|
|
": psychoanalytic":[],
|
|
": skilled in or using analysis especially in thinking or reasoning":[
|
|
"a keenly analytic person/mind",
|
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"an analytical study"
|
|
],
|
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": treated or treatable by or using the methods of algebra and calculus":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"presented a very analytical argument for the defendant's guilt",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Josh Greenstein, president of Sony Motion Pictures Group, says at Sony, movie campaign strategies are informed by parsing 500 proprietary analytic inputs. \u2014 Robert Marich, Variety , 23 May 2022",
|
|
"Back on the boat, the scientists put the samples on ice before sending them to the lab of Gertrud Morlock, an analytic chemist at Germany\u2019s Justus Liebig University Giessen and lead author on the new study. \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"But he has not been afforded the cloak of impersonality that shrouds most analytic philosophers. \u2014 Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
|
|
"In terms of human resources and talent management, this means the use of robotic process automation (RPA) and data analytic tools and technology, as well as artificial intelligence and machine learning are critical enablers. \u2014 Ron Schmelzer, Forbes , 23 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"As his father pursued his academic studies in analytic chemistry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, the family moved to Tennessee. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Cogastro\u2019s annual license fees, providing access to data monitoring and analytic platform, depend on the size and the needs of each insect farm. \u2014 Jackie Abramian, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Startup delivers data and analytic tools to CFOs of fast-growing companies to help bring financial planning into the modern era. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The Giants ranked second in the majors in payroll in 2018, in the $200 million neighborhood, trailing only the Red Sox, but have slipped dramatically since moving to a more analytic approach under executive Farhan Zaidi. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 22 Mar. 2022"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"analytic borrowed from Late Latin analyticus, borrowed from Greek analytik\u00f3s, from anal\u00fdein \"to loosen, dissolve, resolve into constitutent elements\" + -t-, verbal adjective formative + -ikos -ic entry 1 ; analytical from Late Latin analyticus + -al entry 1 \u2014 more at analysis":""
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccan-\u1d4al-\u02c8it-ik",
|
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8li-tik"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
|
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"coherent",
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"consequent",
|
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"good",
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"logical",
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"reasonable",
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"sensible",
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"sound",
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"valid",
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"well-founded",
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"well-grounded"
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041014",
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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|
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]
|
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|
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"analytical psychology":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": an approach to psychology and psychotherapy that is based on the theories and methods of Carl Gustav Jung and represents a modification of Freudian psychoanalysis which adds to the concept of the personal unconscious a collective unconscious and the process of individuation (see individuation sense 1c ) and advocates that psychotherapy be conducted in terms of the patient's present-day conflicts and maladjustments":[
|
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"Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology , observed that his least-happy patients were always the most self-absorbed, and the most happy were those most interested in other people and the world around them.",
|
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"\u2014 Gyles Brandreth",
|
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"\u2026 Carl Jung, the father of analytical psychology who had a famous break with Sigmund Freud over the role of the unconscious mind in aberrant behavior.",
|
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"\u2014 Jeffrey Mullins"
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"first_known_use":{
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"1915, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-193522",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"analyze":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": psychoanalyze":[],
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": to study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of (something) by analysis":[],
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": to subject to scientific or grammatical analysis":[
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"chemically analyze a specimen",
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"analyze a sentence"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"While Wroe offers some basic biographical information and quotes copiously from Shelley's writings, she does not tell a chronological story or analyze individual poems. \u2014 Adam Kirsch , New Yorker , 27 Aug. 2007",
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"They are not doing the math. Doing the math would mean demonstrating that the voters' intuitive judgments are roughly what they would get if they analyzed the likely effects of candidates' policies, and this is a difficult calculation to perform. \u2014 Louis Menand , New Yorker , 30 Aug. 2004",
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"Ms. Magazine 's online daily weblog, written by Christine Cupaiuolo, analyzes the representation of women in media and popular culture. Here are excerpts from recent postings. \u2014 Ms. , Fall 2003",
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"The data was recorded and analyzed by computer.",
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"We took the sample to be chemically analyzed by a lab.",
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"Researchers are busy analyzing the results of the study.",
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"The bacteria were analyzed under a powerful microscope.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Artificial intelligence can be used to gather and analyze public data sets to detect new regulations for travel, severe weather and an area\u2019s overall safety. \u2014 Dustin Radtke, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
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"Each of the 56 FBI field offices has assigned an agent to collect and analyze threat reports, and federal prosecutors have been trained in assessing and investigating threats. \u2014 Michael Wines, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
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"Despite these awe-inspiring possibilities, a more likely scenario is that our first inklings of life in outer space will arrive via tools that can analyze electromagnetic properties, such as the gas composition surrounding a planet. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 20 June 2022",
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"Suicide is the leading case of death among male residents, according to a recent study that did not analyze the numbers by race or ethnicity. \u2014 Usha Lee Mcfarling, STAT , 20 June 2022",
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"Guralnik\u2019s sessions with a peer advisory group, who analyze the couples\u2019 progress and her technique. \u2014 Lidija Haas, The New Republic , 10 June 2022",
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"The technology underpinning Meta\u2019s success\u2014the ability to collect and analyze massive amounts of data, then translate that information into micro-targeted ads\u2014is under attack. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
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"In wider use now are algorithms using a form of AI known as machine learning that crunches statistical data from sensors and can analyze changes in body position or movement that could indicate fatigue, weaknesses or a potential injury. \u2014 Eric Niiler, WSJ , 4 June 2022",
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"In November, the Defense Department announced the creation of an investigative body to track and analyze UAPs. \u2014 N'dea Yancey-bragg, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
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"1587, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"probably by back-formation from analysis , with -is taken as a suffix, and -ys- identified with the verb-forming suffix -ize , spelled -yze/-ize/-yse/-ise in the 17th century":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for analyze analyze , dissect , break down mean to divide a complex whole into its parts or elements. analyze suggests separating or distinguishing the component parts of something (such as a substance, a process, a situation) so as to discover its true nature or inner relationships. analyzed the collected data dissect suggests a searching analysis by laying bare parts or pieces for individual scrutiny. commentators dissected every word of the speech break down implies a reducing to simpler parts or divisions. break down the budget",
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"synonyms":[
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"anatomize",
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"assay",
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"break down",
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"cut",
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"deconstruct",
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"dissect"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201302",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun",
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"transitive verb",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"anamnesis":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a preliminary case history of a medical or psychiatric patient":[],
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": a recalling to mind : reminiscence":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"an extended, highly fruitful anamnesis that was triggered by the simple act of biting into a madeleine",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"The white horse and classic car tricked out with chandeliers are obviously fantastic; more coded are the homages to the 2000s, which the twenty-somethings involved seem to have anamnesis for. \u2014 Vogue , 8 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1593, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Greek anamn\u0113sis , from anamimn\u0113skesthai to remember, from ana- + mimn\u0113skesthai to remember \u2014 more at mind":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccan-\u02ccam-\u02c8n\u0113-s\u0259s",
|
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"\u02cca-\u02ccnam-\u02c8n\u0113-s\u0259s"
|
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"memory",
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"recall",
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"recollection",
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"remembrance",
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"reminiscence"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181526",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"anapest":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a metrical foot consisting of two short syllables followed by one long syllable or of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable (such as unaware )":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1596, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Latin anapaestus , from Greek anapaistos , literally, struck back (a dactyl reversed), from ana- + -paistos , verbal of paiein to strike":""
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccpest"
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-123951",
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"type":[
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"adjective or noun",
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"noun"
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]
|
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},
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"anarchic":{
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"antonyms":[
|
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"law-abiding",
|
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"orderly"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": lacking order, regularity, or definiteness":[
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"anarchic art forms"
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],
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": likely to bring about anarchy":[
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"anarchic violence"
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],
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": of, relating to, or advocating anarchy":[]
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"the citywide blackouts caused anarchic looting and rioting",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Rigid hierarchies are replaced by a more democratic, borderline- anarchic practice. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"In Jerusalem, as in Shakespeare, to go into the woods is to embrace anarchic lawlessness and surreal adventure. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
|
|
"Mischief has often been a creative, anarchic weapon of defense among the marginalized: free, adaptable, difficult to control. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
|
|
"His camera is a character of its own, with shots that lurch, zoom across rooms, and crash into actors\u2019 faces with anarchic impunity. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 3 May 2022",
|
|
"But this sloppy attempt to harness the anarchic improvisational energy of a Christopher Guest movie ends up more of an irritant, especially after the gentle charms of The King of Staten Island. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 31 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The pavilion\u2019s anarchic din feels as generous and resilient, in its way, as Leigh\u2019s serene and silent sculptures in the U.S. Pavilion. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"In Allen\u2019s convincingly reptilian performance, Mooney is an anarchic force, deliberately jangling everyone\u2019s nerves with non sequiturs and contradictions that invite an effort to pin him down. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Acid is Steve Jobs-approved, and Burning Man \u2014 in the 1990s, an expression of anarchic freedom \u2014 has basically become a glamping retreat for corporate C.E.O.s. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"probably borrowed from New Latin anarchicus, from Medieval Latin anarchia anarchy + Latin -icus -ic entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-",
|
|
"a-\u02c8n\u00e4r-kik"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"disorderly",
|
|
"lawbreaking",
|
|
"lawless",
|
|
"unruly"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090524",
|
|
"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"anarchical":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"law-abiding",
|
|
"orderly"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": lacking order, regularity, or definiteness":[
|
|
"anarchic art forms"
|
|
],
|
|
": likely to bring about anarchy":[
|
|
"anarchic violence"
|
|
],
|
|
": of, relating to, or advocating anarchy":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the citywide blackouts caused anarchic looting and rioting",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Rigid hierarchies are replaced by a more democratic, borderline- anarchic practice. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"In Jerusalem, as in Shakespeare, to go into the woods is to embrace anarchic lawlessness and surreal adventure. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
|
|
"Mischief has often been a creative, anarchic weapon of defense among the marginalized: free, adaptable, difficult to control. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
|
|
"His camera is a character of its own, with shots that lurch, zoom across rooms, and crash into actors\u2019 faces with anarchic impunity. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 3 May 2022",
|
|
"But this sloppy attempt to harness the anarchic improvisational energy of a Christopher Guest movie ends up more of an irritant, especially after the gentle charms of The King of Staten Island. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 31 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The pavilion\u2019s anarchic din feels as generous and resilient, in its way, as Leigh\u2019s serene and silent sculptures in the U.S. Pavilion. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"In Allen\u2019s convincingly reptilian performance, Mooney is an anarchic force, deliberately jangling everyone\u2019s nerves with non sequiturs and contradictions that invite an effort to pin him down. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Acid is Steve Jobs-approved, and Burning Man \u2014 in the 1990s, an expression of anarchic freedom \u2014 has basically become a glamping retreat for corporate C.E.O.s. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"probably borrowed from New Latin anarchicus, from Medieval Latin anarchia anarchy + Latin -icus -ic entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-",
|
|
"a-\u02c8n\u00e4r-kik"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"disorderly",
|
|
"lawbreaking",
|
|
"lawless",
|
|
"unruly"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091652",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"anathema":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"benediction",
|
|
"benison",
|
|
"blessing"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a ban or curse solemnly pronounced by ecclesiastical authority and accompanied by excommunication":[],
|
|
": a vigorous denunciation : curse":[],
|
|
": one that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority":[],
|
|
": someone or something intensely disliked or loathed":[
|
|
"\u2014 usually used as a predicate nominative \u2026 this notion was anathema to most of his countrymen. \u2014 Stephen Jay Gould"
|
|
],
|
|
": the denunciation of something as accursed":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Maugham was not only prolific but also a best-seller, though snobs dismissed his work as middlebrow (a category that few people worry about in our day but that once was anathema ). \u2014 Edmund White , New York Review of Books , 12 Feb. 2009",
|
|
"While everything pointed to an immense flood, Bretz knew such a notion would be anathema to his fellow geologists. In part that was because the quantity of water needed for such a flood would exceed the flow of all the world's modern rivers combined. \u2014 Richard Lovett , New Scientist , 21-27 Apr. 2007",
|
|
"Big Jeff was devoted to Purcell. He haunted his room and patiently endured his abuse just to sit in the corner and watch him shave or do push-ups or dress for dinner, and listen to him pronounce his opinions and anathemas . \u2014 Tobias Wolff , Old School , 2003",
|
|
"For all the artistic wonders it has preserved, the Holy Mountain is not a museum, and the idea of playing host to sightseers is anathema to the monks. Male visitors of all faiths are welcome, but they come as pilgrims, not tourists, and only 110 \"residence permits\" are issued each day by patristic officials in Ouranoupolis. \u2014 Nicholas Basbanes , Smithsonian , August 1999",
|
|
"a politician who is anathema to conservatives",
|
|
"ideas that are an anathema to me",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Once in a while, a couture collection goes viral\u2014a state anathema to couture, perhaps, and all the more titillating for it. \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 28 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Unfortunately, the current environment makes the question all too easy to answer: In the summer of George Floyd, certain opinions about the state of America that would have been considered normal only a few months earlier suddenly became anathema . \u2014 Joshua Katz, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"And recently the same work \u2014 specifically the paintings of Klansmen \u2014 has been the source of another, different controversy, one that has brought anathema down on the art establishment itself. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Some critics may consider electronic screens to be anathema to learning, but digitization can be seen as the latest step in making the library\u2019s longstanding democratic ideals a reality. \u2014 Maris Kreizman, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Along with high taxes, regulations were viewed by Trump as an anathema to corporate growth and profits. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"But in California, whose $40 billion wine industry is largely modeled on France, hybrid grapevines are widely regarded as anathema \u2014 derided by the industry's mainstream as producing nasty-tasting wines and, as a result, scarcely planted. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"That might seem like anathema to hip-hop artists, who don\u2019t always care about a vinyl release and like the immediacy of working up to the last minute (or after it, like Kanye West). \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 3 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"One of the precipitating factors that led to the Civil War was the election of a president perceived by the South as anathema . \u2014 Kimberl\u00e9 Williams Crenshaw, The New Republic , 21 Dec. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1582, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Late Latin anathemat-, anathema , from Greek, thing devoted to evil, curse, from anatithenai to set up, dedicate, from ana- + tithenai to place, set \u2014 more at do":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8na-th\u0259-m\u0259"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"ban",
|
|
"curse",
|
|
"execration",
|
|
"imprecation",
|
|
"malediction",
|
|
"malison",
|
|
"winze"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-002558",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"anathematize":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"bless"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to pronounce an anathema upon":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"heretics anathematized by the church leaders",
|
|
"fundamentalist preachers who anathematize any departure from a literal interpretation of the Bible",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"In a democracy, the question of what to do about climate change and for that matter the decision to anathematize entire sectors of the economy ought to be matters for voters not moneymen. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 9 Dec. 2020",
|
|
"Still, some people now reflexively anathematize this brilliant novel because its self-justifying, unreliable narrator is a pedophile. \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 1 Jan. 2020",
|
|
"The most serious native challenge to liberalism, made by the slaveholding oligarchy of the Old South, was crushed on the battlefield, and, despite the efforts of an ever-dwindling number of apologists, morally anathematized . \u2014 Park Macdougald, Daily Intelligencer , 27 Feb. 2018",
|
|
"In some ways, the grotesqueries of his persona, rather than anathematizing him to voters, only enhanced his appeal among those wishing for something different. \u2014 Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine , 24 Jan. 2017",
|
|
"BuzzFeed was so anathematized that by presser\u2019s end, fellow journalists were picking up their lunch trays and moving to the other side of the cafeteria. \u2014 Will Oremus, Slate Magazine , 12 Jan. 2017",
|
|
"But 33 members of the law faculty published a letter anathematizing her. \u2014 Mona Charen, National Review , 8 Sep. 2017",
|
|
"And if anyone shall be led by his cupidity or arrogance to break this truce, by the authority of God and with the sanction of this Council he shall be anathematized . \u2014 James Carroll, The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2017"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1566, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8na-th\u0259-m\u0259-\u02cct\u012bz"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"beshrew",
|
|
"curse",
|
|
"imprecate",
|
|
"maledict"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000053",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"anatomize":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": analyze":[],
|
|
": to cut in pieces in order to display or examine the structure and use of the parts : dissect":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"if you anatomize the problem, you'll see it stems from a combination of her bad behavior and your unwillingness to speak to her about it",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"And some of it was a compulsive need to re-define and re- anatomize what Carmichael and Hamilton had already defined and anatomized so well. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, Quartz , 1 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"Kundera, meanwhile, made his career on novels that anatomized kitsch and subsequently became kitsch, thanks to a generation of earnest high schoolers. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 9 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"This is just one of many intergenerational failings that Kafka anatomizes . \u2014 Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2018",
|
|
"Maybe gay shame is itself being appropriated, or merging with the common human shame that writers have been anatomizing since Adam and Eve. \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 26 Feb. 2018",
|
|
"This is just one of many intergenerational failings that Kafka anatomizes . \u2014 Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2018",
|
|
"Maybe gay shame is itself being appropriated, or merging with the common human shame that writers have been anatomizing since Adam and Eve. \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 26 Feb. 2018",
|
|
"In part, Zettelmaier\u2019s story anatomizes the jealousy that arises when an artist like Virginie has to step aside (or stay in the shadows) while someone else grabs the glory. \u2014 Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com , 10 Oct. 2017",
|
|
"Jeremy Stahl anatomizes a shameless act of exploitation. \u2014 Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine , 10 Aug. 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8na-t\u0259-\u02ccm\u012bz"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"analyze",
|
|
"assay",
|
|
"break down",
|
|
"cut",
|
|
"deconstruct",
|
|
"dissect"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211803",
|
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"type":[
|
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"transitive verb",
|
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"verb"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"anatomizing":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": analyze":[],
|
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": to cut in pieces in order to display or examine the structure and use of the parts : dissect":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"if you anatomize the problem, you'll see it stems from a combination of her bad behavior and your unwillingness to speak to her about it",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"And some of it was a compulsive need to re-define and re- anatomize what Carmichael and Hamilton had already defined and anatomized so well. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, Quartz , 1 Apr. 2021",
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"Kundera, meanwhile, made his career on novels that anatomized kitsch and subsequently became kitsch, thanks to a generation of earnest high schoolers. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 9 Oct. 2019",
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"This is just one of many intergenerational failings that Kafka anatomizes . \u2014 Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2018",
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"Maybe gay shame is itself being appropriated, or merging with the common human shame that writers have been anatomizing since Adam and Eve. \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 26 Feb. 2018",
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"This is just one of many intergenerational failings that Kafka anatomizes . \u2014 Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2018",
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"Maybe gay shame is itself being appropriated, or merging with the common human shame that writers have been anatomizing since Adam and Eve. \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 26 Feb. 2018",
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"In part, Zettelmaier\u2019s story anatomizes the jealousy that arises when an artist like Virginie has to step aside (or stay in the shadows) while someone else grabs the glory. \u2014 Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com , 10 Oct. 2017",
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"Jeremy Stahl anatomizes a shameless act of exploitation. \u2014 Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine , 10 Aug. 2017"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u0259-\u02c8na-t\u0259-\u02ccm\u012bz"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"analyze",
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"assay",
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"break down",
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"cut",
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"deconstruct",
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"dissect"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185934",
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"type":[
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"verb"
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]
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"anatomy":{
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"definitions":{
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": a body dissected or to be dissected":[],
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": a branch of morphology that deals with the structure of organisms":[],
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": a separating or dividing into parts for detailed examination : analysis":[
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"the anatomy of a marriage"
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],
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": a treatise on anatomical science or art":[],
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": mummy":[],
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": skeleton":[],
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": structural makeup especially of an organism or any of its parts":[
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"the anatomy of birds",
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"human anatomy"
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],
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": the art of separating the parts of an organism in order to ascertain their position, relations, structure, and function : dissection":[],
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": the human body":[
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"wore an outfit that showed off various parts of her anatomy"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"We had to take a class on anatomy .",
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"learning about the anatomies of different types of birds",
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"learning about the anatomy of an earthquake",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"That the pumpkin toadlet has shrunk some of its anatomy out of the realm of utility makes a weird sort of sense. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
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"However, every patient is evaluated as an individual and the treatment plan is customized to their specific anatomy . \u2014 Micaela English, Town & Country , 14 June 2022",
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"In hyena society, females outrank males, resembling them so closely that their genital anatomy confuses the human observer. \u2014 David P. Barash, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
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"Plevris added that Greece also plans to ban surgeries on intersex infants and babies born with atypical chromosomes that affect their reproductive anatomy in a way that does not fit with the normative definition of male or female. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 12 May 2022",
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"But in the years since, scientists have amassed more than 20 specimens and seen more of its anatomy , including its pelvis, hind fin and the joints of its skull. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"That software basically gives surgeons a 3d x-ray that shows the inside of a patient and their internal anatomy to a surgeon. \u2014 Leila Atassi, cleveland , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"In the controlled setting of a laboratory, Katija might have reconstructed its anatomy by taking a high-speed video of particles flowing through and around the creature. \u2014 The New Yorker , 15 Apr. 2022",
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"Because of your anatomy of the clot and the hormonal treatment, treatment with anticoagulation is a very reasonable option. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 12 Apr. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Late Latin anatomia dissection, from Greek anatom\u0113 , from anatemnein to dissect, from ana- + temnein to cut":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8nat-\u0259-m\u0113",
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"\u0259-\u02c8na-t\u0259-m\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"analysis",
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"anatomizing",
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"assay",
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"breakdown",
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"deconstruction",
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"dissection"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114558",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"anatomically correct":{
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"type":[
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"idiom"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": having body parts like those of actual people":[
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"anatomically correct dolls"
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]
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},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150933"
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},
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"Anatolian shepherd":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": any of a breed of large rugged working dogs of Turkish origin":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1980, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151732"
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},
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"anapaite":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a calcium ferrous iron hydrous phosphate occurring in pale-green transparent triclinic crystals and in columnar massive forms (hardness 3\u20134, specific gravity 3.81)":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259\u02c8nap\u0259\u02cc\u012bt"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"German anapait , from Anapa , seaport on Black sea, U.S.S.R., its locality + German -it -ite":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1903, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165958"
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"Anatolian":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a native or inhabitant of Anatolia and specifically of the western plateau lands of Turkey in Asia":[],
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": a branch of the Indo-European language family that includes a group of extinct languages of ancient Anatolia \u2014 see Indo-European Languages Table":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8t\u014d-l\u0113-\u0259n",
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"-\u02c8t\u014dl-y\u0259n"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1590, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-191913"
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"Anaphalis":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a genus of herbs (family Compositae) of north temperate regions having canescent foliage and small discoid heads of dioecious flowers \u2014 see pearly everlasting":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259\u02c8naf\u0259l\u0259\u0307s"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from New Latin, borrowed from Greek anaphal\u00eds , variant (in Dioscorides) of gnaphall\u00eds, gnaph\u00e1llion , the plant Otanthus maritimus":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1846, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-203446"
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"Anatolia":{
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"type":[
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"geographical name"
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],
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"definitions":{
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"historical name for the western part of Asia Minor, specifically the peninsula bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west":[
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"\u2014 often used of Asia Minor in its entirety"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"-\u02c8t\u014dl-y\u0259",
|
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8t\u014d-l\u0113-\u0259"
|
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-203505"
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},
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"ananym":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a pseudonym consisting of the real name written backwards":[
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"Elberp is the ananym of Preble"
|
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]
|
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8an\u0259\u02ccnim"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"ana- + -nym (as in anonym )":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1867, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-205657"
|
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},
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"Anatolic":{
|
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"type":[
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"adjective"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": anatolian":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u00a6an\u0259\u00a6t\u00e4lik"
|
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Anatolia + English -ic":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1836, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214047"
|
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},
|
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"anatomico-":{
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"type":[
|
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"combining form"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": anatomical and : anatomical":[
|
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"anatomico pathological",
|
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"anatomo clinical"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccan\u0259\u2027\u00a6t\u00e4m\u0259\u0307(\u02cc)k\u014d"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"anatomic":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-003534"
|
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},
|
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"Anaxagoras":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"biographical name"
|
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],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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"circa 500\u2013 circa 428 b.c. Greek philosopher":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02cca-\u02ccnak-\u02c8sa-g\u0259-r\u0259s"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-005835"
|
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},
|
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"anaphase":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": the stage of mitosis and meiosis in which the chromosomes move toward the poles of the spindle":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccf\u0101z",
|
|
"\u02c8an-\u0259-\u02ccf\u0101z"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1887, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-021726"
|
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},
|
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"anatropous":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
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],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": having or being a plant ovule inverted so that the micropyle is bent down to the funiculus to which the body of the ovule is united":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8na-tr\u0259-p\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"borrowed from New Latin anatropus, from ana- ana- + -tropus -tropous":""
|
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},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"1835, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-025033"
|
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},
|
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"anatta":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": a basic Buddhist doctrine affirming the nonexistence of a soul, essence, or any other enduring substantial entity underlying any form of phenomenal existence":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02cc\u0259n\u0259\u02c8t\u00e4"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Pali & Sanskrit: Pali anatta , from Sanskrit an\u0101tman , literally, having no soul":"Noun"
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1880, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-041935"
|
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},
|
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"anaxial":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": having no distinct axis or axes : irregular in form":[]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"(\u02c8)a\u00a6naks\u0113\u0259l"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"an- + axial":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1867, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-063829"
|
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},
|
|
"anatomical age":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": the age of a person derived by measuring the physical development of the person's body":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1886, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-072848"
|
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},
|
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"anabolism":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": the constructive part of metabolism concerned especially with macromolecular synthesis \u2014 compare catabolism":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u0259-\u02c8na-b\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m",
|
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"\u0259-\u02c8nab-\u0259-\u02ccliz-\u0259m"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Muscle tissue is sensitized to anabolism for 24 hours after exercise. \u2014 Oliver Lee Bateman, Men's Health , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Regardless of an organism\u2019s energy source, its metabolism is a balance of catabolism, breaking energy down into usable units, and anabolism , using those units for vital building projects such as bone growth. \u2014 Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine , 6 Feb. 2017"
|
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],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"International Scientific Vocabulary ana- + meta bolism":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1886, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-075830"
|
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},
|
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"anatomical":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"adverb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": of or relating to anatomy or the body structure of organisms":[
|
|
"anatomical studies/structures/mechanisms",
|
|
"The mollusks are divided according to common anatomical traits into seven classes \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Carol M. Lalli and Ronald W. Gilmer",
|
|
"Mayberg has been mapping anatomical areas of the brain that are either hyperactive or inactive in depressed men and women.",
|
|
"\u2014 Siddhartha Mukherjee",
|
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"Diabetes mellitus is characterized by a broad array of physiologic and anatomic abnormalities, but its most notable feature is disturbed glucose metabolism, which results in inappropriate hyperglycemia.",
|
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"\u2014 George F. Cahill, Jr. et al."
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]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8t\u00e4-mi-k\u0259l"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"The soft, quick-drying, removable footbed comes with a gel insert and a dual-density anatomical polyurethane construction, which works with the high-rebound EVA midsole for solid comfort. \u2014 Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure , 31 May 2022",
|
|
"Our visual effects people do an incredible amount of anatomical research. \u2014 John Jurgensen, WSJ , 4 June 2022",
|
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"Its neck was long, but nothing like a modern giraffe\u2019s, and researchers have yet to pinpoint how the animal\u2019s anatomical features connect with its counterparts today. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
|
|
"Above, Marshall has pasted anatomical drawings of a developing embryo; below, a lapis-blue sea roils over a grinning gray skull. \u2014 Julian Lucas, The New Yorker , 4 May 2022",
|
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"In chronic pain, the body part that hurts may be undamaged and even seem healthy; what\u2019s altered is the area of the brain that corresponds to its anatomical location. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"In one of the photos, Ratajkowski showed off her statement earrings, a gold pair featuring pearl embellishments and abstract anatomical details. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
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"In 2014, real estate investor Aby Rosen decorated his front lawn in Old Westbury, on Long Island, with a Damien Hirst\u2014a 33-foot-tall bronze, nude, pregnant woman with an anatomical cross section that included her fetus. \u2014 Mary Childs, Town & Country , 26 Apr. 2022",
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"Currently, my focus is more on creating organic and anatomical mirror structures that will be different from my previous geometric sculptures. \u2014 Sonya Rehman, Forbes , 17 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1627, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-075853"
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},
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"anabolic steroid":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": any of a group of usually synthetic hormones that are derivatives of testosterone, are used medically especially to promote tissue growth, and are sometimes abused by athletes to increase the size and strength of their muscles and improve endurance":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8b\u00e4-lik-"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Creatine has the most efficacy, which is well documented, but even the best supplements don\u2019t give anabolic steroid -like effects. \u2014 Oliver Lee Bateman, Men's Health , 19 May 2022",
|
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"The National Institutes of Health characterize nandrolone as a synthetic, anabolic steroid , similar to testosterone. \u2014 Tom Schad, USA TODAY , 15 June 2021",
|
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"The synthetic anabolic steroid was banned by the International Olympic Committee and World Athletics in 1974. \u2014 Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz , 5 May 2022",
|
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"Drummond\u2019s punishment stems from his role as coach of sprinter Tyson Gay, who tested positive for an exogenous androgenic anabolic steroid in and out of competition in 2013. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 18 Dec. 2014",
|
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"Johaug missed the 2018 Games while serving an 18-month ban for using an anabolic steroid , clostebol. \u2014 Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News , 11 Feb. 2022",
|
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"Hossein Saveh Shemshaki gave a sample Monday, Feb. 7 that tested positive for an anabolic steroid and was provisionally suspended on Wednesday, Feb. 9. \u2014 Dave Skretta And Graham Dunbar, The Christian Science Monitor , 10 Feb. 2022",
|
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"Hossein Saveh Shemshaki gave a sample Monday that tested positive for an anabolic steroid and was provisionally suspended late Wednesday. \u2014 Dave Skretta, chicagotribune.com , 10 Feb. 2022",
|
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"Shelby Houlihan, the American record-holder in the 1,500, was suspended for four years last month after testing positive for nandrolone, an anabolic steroid . \u2014 Matthew Futterman, New York Times , 6 July 2021"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1946, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-080616"
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},
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"anabolic":{
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
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": marked by or promoting metabolic activity concerned with the biosynthesis of complex molecules (such as proteins or nucleic acids) : relating to, characterized by, or stimulating anabolism":[
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"anabolic agents",
|
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"anabolic therapy to promote bone formation",
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"If the anabolic and catabolic processes are in balance, tissue remains intact and good health is sustained. But if the rate of decay is only a little faster than the rate of repair, there is a net loss of healthy tissue \u2026",
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"\u2014 Paul Clayton"
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],
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"\u2014 see also anabolic steroid":[
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"anabolic agents",
|
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"anabolic therapy to promote bone formation",
|
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"If the anabolic and catabolic processes are in balance, tissue remains intact and good health is sustained. But if the rate of decay is only a little faster than the rate of repair, there is a net loss of healthy tissue \u2026",
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"\u2014 Paul Clayton"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8b\u00e4-lik"
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1876, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-082506"
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},
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"anarchy":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
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": absence of government":[],
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": a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority":[
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"the city's descent into anarchy"
|
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],
|
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": a utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom without government":[],
|
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": absence or denial of any authority or established order":[
|
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"anarchy prevailed in the war zone"
|
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],
|
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": absence of order : disorder":[
|
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"not manicured plots but a wild anarchy of nature",
|
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"\u2014 Israel Shenker"
|
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],
|
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": anarchism":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259r-k\u0113",
|
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"-\u02ccn\u00e4r-"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"lawlessness",
|
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"misrule"
|
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],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Its immigration policies in the last five years have become the envy of those in the West who see in all but the most restrictive laws the specter of terrorism and social anarchy . \u2014 Caroline Moorehead , New York Review of Books , 16 Nov. 2006",
|
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"Fueled by booze and the euphoria of having seen their school win a share of its first \u2026 title in 36 years, a mob of Beavers fans hurled itself at the cops, breaching both chains and creating anarchy . \u2014 Austin Murphy , Sports Illustrated , 27 Nov. 2000",
|
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"But by the early 1800s, the mines began to play out, and the colonists challenged the Spanish throne for independence. The Silver Cities survived not only the bloody revolution of 1821 but also the ensuing century of anarchy and bloodshed. \u2014 David Baird , Continental , February 1999",
|
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"The anarchy of the Internet may be daunting for the neophyte, but it differs little from the bibliographical chaos that is the result of five and a half centuries of the printing press. \u2014 Fred Lerner , The Story of Libraries , (1945) 1998",
|
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"Anarchy reigned in the empire's remote provinces.",
|
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"When the teacher was absent, there was anarchy in the classroom.",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Police are sending a message of anarchy and, unfortunately, are telling youth not to take the judgement seriously. \u2014 Atika Shubert, Abeer Salman And Lauren Izso, CNN , 23 May 2022",
|
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"With its rapidly-shifting visual style and other Boyle-ish flourishes, Pistol clearly aspires to bring some of the same anarchy to the calcified state of the modern prestige TV drama. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 31 May 2022",
|
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"It isn\u2019t destined that liberal nations win or even survive the inherent anarchy of the current order. \u2014 WSJ , 6 May 2022",
|
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"Despite closing with two straight losses, No. 22 Texas (21-10, 10-8 Big 12) still surfaced from the Big 12 anarchy with a No. 4 seed for this week\u2019s conference tournament at the T-Mobile Center. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 9 Mar. 2022",
|
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"This time around, Rachel Wolfson, Eric Andr\u00e9, and Machine Gun Kelly, among others, join in on the anarchy . \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 6 Feb. 2022",
|
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"Allusions to what\u2019s happening around the world at this time suggest that the Frankist cult was an example of the religious anarchy unleashed by the Enlightenment. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Feb. 2022",
|
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"Over the last eight years, writer-director James DeMonaco has built a name for himself with the lawless anarchy of The Purge franchise (on screens both big and small). \u2014 Josh Weiss, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021",
|
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"Instead of becoming stewards of law and order, dictators become agents of anarchy who proliferate war, genocide, poverty and pandemics. \u2014 Daniel Twining, WSJ , 6 May 2022"
|
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"borrowed from Medieval Latin anarchia, borrowed from Greek anarch\u00eda \"lack of a leader, lawlessness,\" from \u00e1narchos \"without a head or chief, leaderless\" (from an- an- + -archos, derivative of arch\u00f3s \"leader, chief\") + -ia -y entry 2 , -arch entry 1":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1539, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-084153"
|
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},
|
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"anaphor":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": a word or phrase with an anaphoric function":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccf\u022fr"
|
|
],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"back-formation from anaphoric":""
|
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},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"1971, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-085257"
|
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},
|
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"Ananke":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a personification of compelling necessity or ultimate fate to which even the gods must yield":[]
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259\u02c8na\u014b(\u02cc)k\u0113",
|
|
"-an\u02cck\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Greek Anank\u0113 , from anank\u0113 necessity; akin to Old Irish \u00e9cen necessity, need, Welsh angen , Cornish & Breton anken":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1642, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-102733"
|
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},
|
|
"anabohitsite":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a variety of olivine-pyroxenite rock containing hypersthene, hornblende, and about 30 percent of ilmenite and magnetite":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccan\u0259b\u014d\u02c8hit\u02ccs\u012bt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French anabohitsite , from Anabohitsy , Madagascar, its locality + French -ite":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1920, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103812"
|
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},
|
|
"anagrams":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"adverb",
|
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"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": a word or phrase made by transposing the letters of another word or phrase":[
|
|
"The word \"secure\" is an anagram of \"rescue.\""
|
|
],
|
|
": a game in which words are formed by rearranging the letters of other words or by arranging letters taken (as from a stock of cards or blocks) at random":[],
|
|
": anagrammatize":[
|
|
"anagrammed the letters of \"battle\" to form \"tablet\""
|
|
],
|
|
": to rearrange (the letters of a text) in order to discover a hidden message":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccgram"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Much like Cheung\u2019s fish-out-of-water star, Vikander\u2019s Mira (dig that anagram ) is caught in a cultural vortex that both excites and confuses her. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"Cravotta's simple anagram game\u2014whose gameplay closely resembled PikPok's popular, pre-existing Four Letters\u2014received a few updates in the months after its release, but then sat untouched and largely unnoticed for years. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 5 May 2022",
|
|
"Over time, the boundary between Mira and her character, Irma Vep (an anagram of vampire), begins to blur, as does the line between fiction and reality. \u2014 Melissa Giannini, ELLE , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"The new material was dubbed spandex, an anagram of expands. \u2014 Andrew Freeman, Outside Online , 21 May 2012",
|
|
"Turtles can't spell, so Godwin likened the aquarium team's role to that of an anagram solver, simply rearranging. \u2014 Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press , 18 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Early on in the pandemic, the New York Times\u2019s Spelling Bee anagram honeycombs were splashed all over on Twitter. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"During the first year of the pandemic, the pair had dived into popular online word games created by the Times, such as Spelling Bee, a daily anagram puzzle, and the paper\u2019s daily crossword. \u2014 Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker , 20 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Tellingly, an anagram of all the letters in omicron is moronic. \u2014 Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"Every time someone joins (several people a week) the Devs commence to anagram the newbie\u2019s name in every which way but the real one \u2014 sometimes dozens. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Feb. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"probably from Middle French anagramme , from New Latin anagrammat-, anagramma , modification of Greek anagrammatismos , from anagrammatizein to transpose letters, from ana- + grammat-, gramma letter \u2014 more at gram":"Noun",
|
|
"derivative of anagram entry 1":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1589, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
|
|
"1622, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-104709"
|
|
},
|
|
"Ananism":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": Karaism as taught by Anan ben David":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8an\u0259\u02ccniz\u0259m",
|
|
"\u0259\u02c8n\u00e4\u02ccn-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Anan ben David, 8th century Jewish religious leader in Persia + English -ism":""
|
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},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1901, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-105314"
|
|
},
|
|
"ana":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"abbreviation",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"plural noun suffix",
|
|
"prefix"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": of each an equal quantity":[
|
|
"\u2014 used in writing prescriptions"
|
|
],
|
|
": a collection of the memorable sayings of a person":[],
|
|
": a collection of anecdotes or interesting information about a person or a place":[],
|
|
"American Nurses Association":[],
|
|
": up : upward":[
|
|
"ana bolism"
|
|
],
|
|
": back : backward":[
|
|
"ana tropous"
|
|
],
|
|
": collected items of information especially anecdotal or bibliographical concerning":[
|
|
"Americ ana"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8\u0101-",
|
|
"\u02c8\u00e4-",
|
|
"\u02c8a-n\u0259",
|
|
"\u02c8an-\u0259"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Medieval Latin, from Greek, at the rate of, literally, up":"Adverb",
|
|
"-ana":"Noun",
|
|
"Latin, from Greek, up, back, again, from ana up \u2014 more at on":"Prefix",
|
|
"New Latin, from Latin, neuter plural of -anus -an & -ianus -ian":"Plural noun suffix"
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
|
|
"1728, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-113100"
|
|
},
|
|
"anaplasmosis":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a tick-borne disease of cattle and sheep caused by a bacterium ( Anaplasma marginale ) and characterized especially by anemia and by jaundice":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u02ccplaz-\u02c8m\u014d-s\u0259s",
|
|
"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02ccplaz-\u02c8m\u014d-s\u0259s"
|
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],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"One difference, however, is that bites from ticks infected with Lyme usually result in a telltale rash, often shaped like a bull\u2019s-eye; bites from ticks infected with anaplasmosis do not. \u2014 New York Times , 26 June 2022",
|
|
"In Wisconsin ticks can spread Lyme disease, anaplasmosis , babesiosis, Borrelia miyamotoi, ehrlichiosis, Powassan virus, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 May 2022",
|
|
"Ticks can also cause other diseases, including Lyme disease, anaplasmosis , ehrlichiosis, babesiosis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. \u2014 Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Rickettsial illnesses include ehrlichiosis (15%), Rocky Mountain spotted fever (6%) and anaplasmosis (5%). \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 May 2022",
|
|
"Ticks can also transmit microbes that cause Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia and human granulocytic anaplasmosis , among other diseases. \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Those who are older or who have weakened immune systems may be at risk for severe illness due to anaplasmosis . \u2014 Alexandria Hein, Fox News , 2 July 2021",
|
|
"Other tick-borne diseases include anaplasmosis , babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, spotted fever rickettsiosis and tularemia. \u2014 Rachel Trent, CNN , 12 July 2021",
|
|
"The county\u2019s health commissioner said Thursday that there have been six cases of anaplasmosis already reported in 2021, compared to just three cases reported over the last five years. \u2014 Alexandria Hein, Fox News , 2 July 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin Anaplasma, genus of gram-negative bacteria (from ana- ana- \u2014 perhaps erroneously for a- a- entry 2 \u2014 + -plasma -plasm ) + -osis":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1910, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-122044"
|
|
},
|
|
"anarchism":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a political theory holding all forms of governmental authority to be unnecessary and undesirable and advocating a society based on voluntary cooperation and free association of individuals and groups":[],
|
|
": the advocacy or practice of anarchistic principles":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8a-n\u0259r-\u02ccki-z\u0259m",
|
|
"-\u02ccn\u00e4r-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"But alongside Chile\u2019s institutional habits runs a current of anarchism and bohemianism. \u2014 Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
|
|
"Caserta had a red and black anarchist flag draped on his living room wall, and had books related to practicing anarchism . \u2014 Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press , 29 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The Boogaloo Bois\u2019 flavor of libertarian, anti-law-enforcement anarchism can be hard to peg on the left-right political spectrum. \u2014 Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone , 20 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The book is full of anarchism and vitriol with regard to land use, not to mention Abbey\u2019s signature bluntness and wry, dry humor. \u2014 John Mcphee, The New Yorker , 31 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Is anarchism feasible in a society of any considerable size or complexity, where coordination, authority, and expertise are essential",
|
|
"These are questions that Graeber, a committed anarchist\u2014an exponent not of anarchy but of anarchism , the idea that people can get along perfectly well without governments\u2014asked throughout his career. \u2014 William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic , 18 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"The Dawn of Everything is not a brief for anarchism , though anarchist values\u2014antiauthoritarianism, participatory democracy, small-c communism\u2014are everywhere implicit in it. \u2014 William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic , 18 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Banksy attributed the quotation to Pablo Picasso, but it was actually said by Mikhail Bakunin, a 19th century Russian who was a leading theorist of anarchism . \u2014 NBC News , 14 Oct. 2021"
|
|
],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"anarchy + -ism ; as a political theory after French anarchisme":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-135523"
|
|
},
|
|
"anagrammatism":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
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": the formation of anagrams":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccan\u0259\u02c8gram\u0259\u02cctiz\u0259m"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French anagrammatisme , from Greek anagrammatismos":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1605, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-142113"
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},
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"Anableps":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a genus of tropical American saltwater and freshwater fishes comprising the four-eyed fishes, being closely related to the topminnows but constituting a separate family, and having the eyes divided into an upper and lower division by the growth of two processes of the iris across the pupil and a band of conjunctiva across the cornea, the upper part serving to see objects in the air, the lower part to see objects under water":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8an\u0259\u02ccbleps"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Greek anableps- , stem of anablepein to look up, from ana- + blepein to look":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1804, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-145451"
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},
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"anagram":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun",
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"verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a word or phrase made by transposing the letters of another word or phrase":[
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"The word \"secure\" is an anagram of \"rescue.\""
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],
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": a game in which words are formed by rearranging the letters of other words or by arranging letters taken (as from a stock of cards or blocks) at random":[],
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": anagrammatize":[
|
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"anagrammed the letters of \"battle\" to form \"tablet\""
|
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],
|
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": to rearrange (the letters of a text) in order to discover a hidden message":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccgram"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Much like Cheung\u2019s fish-out-of-water star, Vikander\u2019s Mira (dig that anagram ) is caught in a cultural vortex that both excites and confuses her. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 20 June 2022",
|
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"Cravotta's simple anagram game\u2014whose gameplay closely resembled PikPok's popular, pre-existing Four Letters\u2014received a few updates in the months after its release, but then sat untouched and largely unnoticed for years. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 5 May 2022",
|
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"Over time, the boundary between Mira and her character, Irma Vep (an anagram of vampire), begins to blur, as does the line between fiction and reality. \u2014 Melissa Giannini, ELLE , 18 May 2022",
|
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"The new material was dubbed spandex, an anagram of expands. \u2014 Andrew Freeman, Outside Online , 21 May 2012",
|
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"Turtles can't spell, so Godwin likened the aquarium team's role to that of an anagram solver, simply rearranging. \u2014 Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press , 18 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Early on in the pandemic, the New York Times\u2019s Spelling Bee anagram honeycombs were splashed all over on Twitter. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Jan. 2022",
|
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"During the first year of the pandemic, the pair had dived into popular online word games created by the Times, such as Spelling Bee, a daily anagram puzzle, and the paper\u2019s daily crossword. \u2014 Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker , 20 Jan. 2022",
|
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"Tellingly, an anagram of all the letters in omicron is moronic. \u2014 Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Dec. 2021",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
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"Every time someone joins (several people a week) the Devs commence to anagram the newbie\u2019s name in every which way but the real one \u2014 sometimes dozens. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Feb. 2020"
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"probably from Middle French anagramme , from New Latin anagrammat-, anagramma , modification of Greek anagrammatismos , from anagrammatizein to transpose letters, from ana- + grammat-, gramma letter \u2014 more at gram":"Noun",
|
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"derivative of anagram entry 1":"Verb"
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1589, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
|
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"1622, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-151106"
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},
|
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"anatriaene":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a triaene with downcurved cladi":[]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccan\u0259\u02c8tr\u012b\u02cc\u0113n"
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"ana- + triaene":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1887, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-151124"
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},
|
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"analytic geometry":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": the study of geometric properties by means of algebraic operations upon symbols defined in terms of a coordinate system":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"High school mathematics adds up Once Johnson completed the standard mathematics curriculum at West Virginia State College, Claytor created advanced classes just for her, including a course on analytic geometry . \u2014 Della Dumbaugh, The Conversation , 26 Feb. 2020",
|
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"Several disciplines comprised the 18 new courses with the biggest subject being mathematics, as six classes were added, including honors calculus, analytic geometry and honors statistics. \u2014 Andrew J. Campa, latimes.com , 21 Mar. 2018"
|
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1801, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-153910"
|
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},
|
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"Ananino":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": of or belonging to a culture of east central Europe transitional between the Bronze and Iron ages and possibly ancestral to the culture of the early Volga Finns":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u0259\u02c8n\u00e4ny\u0113\u02ccn\u014d",
|
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"-\u00e4n\u0259\u02cc-"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"from Ananino , town in the Kirov region, U.S.S.R., its type station":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1927, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-160042"
|
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},
|
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"anaphoric":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"adverb"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8f\u022fr-ik",
|
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"-\u02c8f\u00e4r-"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1872, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180251"
|
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},
|
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"anaphora":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect":[
|
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"Lincoln's \"we cannot dedicate\u2014we cannot consecrate\u2014we cannot hallow\u2014this ground\" is an example of anaphora"
|
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],
|
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"\u2014 compare epistrophe":[
|
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"Lincoln's \"we cannot dedicate\u2014we cannot consecrate\u2014we cannot hallow\u2014this ground\" is an example of anaphora"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u0259-\u02c8na-f(\u0259-)r\u0259"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Throughout the book, Evans uses anaphora in conjunction with evocative imagery. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Oct. 2021"
|
|
],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Late Latin, from Late Greek, from Greek, act of carrying back, reference, from anapherein to carry back, refer, from ana- + pherein to carry \u2014 more at bear":""
|
|
},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180819"
|
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},
|
|
"anagrammatize":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to transpose the letters in (a word or phrase) so as to form an anagram":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8gra-m\u0259-\u02cct\u012bz"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1588, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181614"
|
|
},
|
|
"anauxite":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a mineral consisting of hydrous aluminum silicate, occurring as interstratified layers of silica Si 8 O 16 and kaolin Al 4 Si 4 O 10 (OH) 8 with the latter predominant, and being a constituent of certain clays":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259\u02c8n\u022fk\u02ccs\u012bt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"German anauxit , from Greek anaux\u0113s not increasing (from an- + -aux\u0113s , from auxein to increase) + German -it -ite":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1842, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-182229"
|
|
},
|
|
"anadama bread":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a leavened bread made with flour, cornmeal, and molasses":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8da-m\u0259-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"origin unknown":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1915, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-182840"
|
|
},
|
|
"analytical table":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": key sense 3c":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1819, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183433"
|
|
},
|
|
"anagen":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the active phase of the hair growth cycle that precedes catagen and telogen , that is marked by rapid division and differentiation of cells in the lower portion of the hair follicle and by lengthening of the hair shaft, and that typically lasts between two to six years":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8an-\u0259-\u02ccjen",
|
|
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccjen"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Loss of hair in the anagen phase is never normal and most commonly results from a toxic exposure like treatment with anticancer drugs. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Feb. 2020",
|
|
"Other causes of anagen hair loss that can be permanent include radiation and heavy metal poisoning. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Feb. 2020",
|
|
"When placed against the scalp for eight minutes three times a week, the laser light seems to have the ability to take dormant hair follicles that are in the resting, or nongrowth, phase into the anagen , or growth, phase. \u2014 Nicole Catanese, Harper's BAZAAR , 28 Aug. 2015",
|
|
"The subsequent decline in estrogen levels and rise of the stress hormone cortisol causes hair to move from the anagen cycle (growth) to the telogen phase (shedding), Wesley describes. \u2014 Priya Rao, Vogue , 19 Mar. 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"ana- + -gen":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1926, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183547"
|
|
},
|
|
"anarchistic":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8a-n\u0259r-kist",
|
|
"-\u02ccn\u00e4r-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"This first-person account is written by Bevel\u2019s ghostwriter, Ida Partenza, the daughter of an Italian anarchist who works, much to her father\u2019s chagrin, for their class enemy. \u2014 Jane Hu, The Atlantic , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"Outline toured the South in Antonoff\u2019s parents\u2019 minivan, playing a strip mall in Virginia and an anarchist bookstore in Florida. \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
|
|
"These words are spoken in 1938 by an Italian-American anarchist ideologically opposed to capitalism. \u2014 Sam Sacks, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The former is a socialist, the latter an anarchist . \u2014 Farah Abdessamad, The Atlantic , 12 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Caserta presented himself as an anarchist to the group, often showing discontent to notions of co-defendant Adam Fox being the ringleader. \u2014 Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press , 18 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Caserta had a red and black anarchist flag draped on his living room wall, and had books related to practicing anarchism. \u2014 Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press , 29 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The protesters say they were inspired by Nestor Makhno, who led a Ukrainian anarchist army in 1917. \u2014 Fortune , 14 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Ford is a student, a part-time dog walker and an anarchist , but there are also communists, libertarians, mechanics, cashiers, teachers and government employees. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"anarchy + -ist entry 1 ; as a proponent of a political theory after French anarchiste.":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1646, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-184342"
|
|
},
|
|
"anapolysis":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the retention of ripe proglottids throughout life (as in most pseudophyllidean tapeworms) \u2014 compare apolysis":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccan\u0259\u02c8p\u00e4l\u0259s\u0259\u0307s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin, from an- + apolysis":""
|
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},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1951, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-212004"
|
|
},
|
|
"anapophysial":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": of or relating to an anapophysis":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u00a6a\u02ccnap\u0259\u00a6fiz\u0113\u0259l",
|
|
"a\u00a6n-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin anapophysis + English -al":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1851, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-212305"
|
|
},
|
|
"anargyros":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": one of thirteen saints who were mostly physicians said to have assisted the suffering and needy without accepting payment":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u00e4\u02c8n\u00e4ry\u0113\u02ccr\u022fs"
|
|
],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Late Greek, from Greek, adjective, without money, not accepting money, from an- + argyros silver, money":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1930, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-213140"
|
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},
|
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"anablepid":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": of or belonging to Anableps or to the four-eyed fishes":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u00a6an\u0259\u00a6blep\u0259\u0307d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin Anablepidae , family of fishes, from Anableps , type genus + -idae":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1943, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-220044"
|
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},
|
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"anagoge":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": interpretation of a word, passage, or text (as of Scripture or poetry) that finds beyond the literal, allegorical, and moral senses a fourth and ultimate spiritual or mystical sense":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccg\u014d-j\u0113"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Late Latin anagoge , from Late Greek anag\u014dg\u0113 , from Greek, reference, from anagein to refer, from ana- + agein to lead \u2014 more at agent":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-220214"
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},
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"anabibazon":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the ascending node of the moon's orbit with the ecliptic":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccan\u0259\u02c8bib\u0259\u02ccz\u00e4n"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Greek anabibaz\u014dn , present participle active of anabibazein to raise, mount, from ana- + bibazein to lift, from bainein to go":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1726, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-221353"
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},
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"analog":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": of, relating to, or being a mechanism or device in which information is represented by continuously variable physical quantities":[
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"Your speakers are analog technology in all its nearly century-old glory \u2026 . As the speakers get their signals from the cables, the drivers vibrate in a continual state of flux as the changing analog signals are fed to them. The drivers are presenting an analogy of what came from the original source, even if the source started off digital, such as a CD.",
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"\u2014 Ron Goldberg"
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],
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": of or relating to an analog computer":[
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"In an analog machine each number is represented by a suitable physical quantity, whose value, measured in some pre-assigned unit, is equal to the number in question.",
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"\u2014 The World Treasury Of Physics"
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],
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": having both hour and minute hands":[
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"an analog watch"
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],
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": not digital : not computerized":[
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"Of course, it's possible to meet someone online, but it's just as tough as the old, analog ways.",
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"\u2014 Anita Hamilton"
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],
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": of, relating to, or being an analogue":[],
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": something that is similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail : something that is analogous to something else":[
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"historical analogues to the current situation",
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"an aspirin analogue"
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],
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": an organ or part similar in function to an organ or part of another animal or plant but different in structure and origin":[
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"The gill of a fish is the analogue of the lung of a cat."
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],
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": a chemical compound that is structurally similar to another but differs slightly in composition (as in the replacement of one atom by an atom of a different element or in the presence of a particular functional group)":[],
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": a food product made by combining a less expensive food (such as soybeans or whitefish) with additives to give the appearance and taste of a more expensive food (such as beef or crab)":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02ccl\u00e4g",
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccl\u022fg"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"Telephone lines carry data in analog form.",
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"It receives an analog video signal and converts it to a digital signal.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"In the past hundred years, technology has changed the process of recording, editing, and engineering sounds, but the techniques of Foley have remained stubbornly analog . \u2014 Anna Wiener, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
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"Just to confirm, these were primarily analog recording sessions, right",
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"The Whole Earth Catalog can be seen as a sluggish, analog anticipation of the internet. \u2014 Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic , 14 June 2022",
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"Yamaha bought Sequential Circuits in 1987, but by then cheaper digital synthesizers had grown more popular than analog instruments like the Prophet-5, and in 1989 Yamaha shut the company down. \u2014 Jon Pareles, New York Times , 8 June 2022",
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"When people with dementia disappear, most Japanese communities still take an analog approach to finding them. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Feb. 2022",
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"The unit also has an array of inputs and outputs that enables the CA1000 to be connected to digital and analog sources. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
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"To be back in the saddle of a somewhat analog motorcycle is rather refreshing in this day and age of electronic suspension and Cornering ABS. \u2014 Peter Jackson, Robb Report , 6 May 2022",
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"Consider: Before cars incorporated intelligence, everything was manual and analog \u2014from the stick shift to the cassette player. \u2014 Ana Pinczuk, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"from attributive use of analogue entry 1 ; (sense 1) after analog computer , in which physical quantities (as electrical potential or mechanical motion) are analogues of corresponding quantities in the problem to be solved":"Adjective"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1844, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adjective"
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-222118"
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},
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"anarchist":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02ccn\u00e4r-",
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259r-kist"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"This first-person account is written by Bevel\u2019s ghostwriter, Ida Partenza, the daughter of an Italian anarchist who works, much to her father\u2019s chagrin, for their class enemy. \u2014 Jane Hu, The Atlantic , 26 May 2022",
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"Outline toured the South in Antonoff\u2019s parents\u2019 minivan, playing a strip mall in Virginia and an anarchist bookstore in Florida. \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
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"These words are spoken in 1938 by an Italian-American anarchist ideologically opposed to capitalism. \u2014 Sam Sacks, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"The former is a socialist, the latter an anarchist . \u2014 Farah Abdessamad, The Atlantic , 12 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Caserta presented himself as an anarchist to the group, often showing discontent to notions of co-defendant Adam Fox being the ringleader. \u2014 Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press , 18 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Caserta had a red and black anarchist flag draped on his living room wall, and had books related to practicing anarchism. \u2014 Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press , 29 Mar. 2022",
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"The protesters say they were inspired by Nestor Makhno, who led a Ukrainian anarchist army in 1917. \u2014 Fortune , 14 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Ford is a student, a part-time dog walker and an anarchist , but there are also communists, libertarians, mechanics, cashiers, teachers and government employees. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Feb. 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"anarchy + -ist entry 1 ; as a proponent of a political theory after French anarchiste.":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1646, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-225830"
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},
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"Ananindeua":{
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"type":[
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"geographical name"
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],
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"definitions":{
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"city northeast of Bel\u00e9m in northern Brazil population 471,500":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02ccn\u00e4-n\u0113n-\u02c8d\u0101-w\u0259"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-233734"
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},
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"analytic judgment":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a judgment in which what is predicated is already implied in the subject of the predication":[
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"\u2014 opposed to synthetic judgment"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1797, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-234640"
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},
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"analytic mechanics":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
|
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": theoretical mechanics especially as treated by the methods of infinitesimal calculus":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1829, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001526"
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},
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"Anagyris":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a small genus of shrubs (family Leguminosae) of the Mediterranean region having trifoliolate leaves, yellow flowers, and narrow compound pods \u2014 see bean trefoil sense 1":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccan\u0259\u02c8j\u012br\u0259\u0307s"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"New Latin, from Greek, alteration of anagyros bean trefoil, from ana- + gyros ring":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1754, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-015957"
|
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},
|
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"anatonosis":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": the process of adjustment of intracellular osmotic pressure of plant cells by variation of the sugar content of the vacuolar sap":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccan\u0259t\u0259\u02c8n\u014ds\u0259\u0307s"
|
|
],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"New Latin, from ana- + Greek ton\u014dsis strengthening":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1938, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-020035"
|
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},
|
|
"anatocism":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": compound interest : the taking of compound interest":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u0259\u02c8nat\u0259\u02ccsiz\u0259m"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Latin anatocismus , from Greek anatokismos , from ana- + tokismos usury, from tokizein to lend on interest (from tokos interest, offspring, from tiktein to beget) + -ismos -ism":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1656, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-025643"
|
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},
|
|
"anandamide":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a derivative of arachidonic acid that occurs naturally in the brain and in some foods (such as chocolate) and that binds to the same brain receptors as the cannabinoids (such as THC) derived from cannabis":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u0259-\u02c8nan-d\u0259-\u02ccm\u012bd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Then there\u2019s the chocolate, which, in addition to sugar, contains small amounts of a compound known as anandamide . \u2014 Kelly Murray, CNN , 4 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"The trigger to release BDNF after exercise may be anandamide , the body\u2019s endocannabinoid molecule, which is itself released by exercise and may be responsible for the runner\u2019s high. \u2014 Brodie Ramin, Outside Online , 30 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Interestingly, anandamide is also a brain chemical that targets the same cell receptors as THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the active ingredient in marijuana that is responsible for its mood-altering effects. \u2014 Kelly Murray, CNN , 4 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Cacao naturally promotes the bliss molecule or anandamide in the body. \u2014 Bianca Salonga, Forbes , 10 May 2021",
|
|
"According to them, chiles can lower LDL cholesterol (that\u2019s the bad one) and bind with receptors in the digestive system creating anandamide , a chemical shown to reduce inflammation in the gut. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 3 May 2021",
|
|
"Chocolate also contains a neurotransmitter known as anandamide , which can alter dopamine levels in the brain, causing a sense of peace and relaxation. \u2014 Kimberly Wilson, Essence , 2 May 2020",
|
|
"For the non-scientists among us, by blocking FAAH, CBD can help increase your level of anandamide . \u2014 Laurel Leicht, Marie Claire , 26 Mar. 2019",
|
|
"Our bodies actually make our own cannabis-type chemical called anandamide , also known as the bliss molecule. \u2014 Meirav Devash, Allure , 25 June 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Sanskrit \u0101nanda \"joy, bliss\" (from \u0101- \"near, toward\"\u2014going back to Indo-Iranian *\u0101-, of uncertain origin \u2014 + -nanda, noun derivative of nandati \"[s/he] rejoices, takes delight,\" of uncertain origin) + amide":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1992, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-043959"
|
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},
|
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"anaplasm":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8an\u0259\u02ccplaz\u0259m"
|
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],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"New Latin anaplasma":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1912, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-050450"
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}
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} |