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| -- Adminer 4.8.1 MySQL 10.4.27-MariaDB dump | |
| SET NAMES utf8; | |
| SET time_zone = '+00:00'; | |
| SET foreign_key_checks = 0; | |
| SET sql_mode = 'NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO'; | |
| SET NAMES utf8mb4; | |
| DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `eng`; | |
| CREATE TABLE `eng` ( | |
| `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, | |
| `name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, | |
| `type` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, | |
| `status` int(11) DEFAULT 0 COMMENT '0 add,1 incraw, 2 error ,3 done, 4 notfound', | |
| `us_sound` varchar(500) DEFAULT NULL, | |
| `us_link` varchar(500) DEFAULT NULL, | |
| `us_link_root` varchar(500) DEFAULT NULL, | |
| `uk_sound` varchar(500) DEFAULT NULL, | |
| `uk_link` varchar(500) DEFAULT NULL, | |
| `uk_link_root` varchar(500) DEFAULT NULL, | |
| `example` text DEFAULT NULL, | |
| `content` text DEFAULT NULL, | |
| `more` text DEFAULT NULL, | |
| `update` datetime DEFAULT current_timestamp() ON UPDATE current_timestamp(), | |
| PRIMARY KEY (`id`), | |
| UNIQUE KEY `name` (`name`) | |
| ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_general_ci; | |
| -- 2023-10-24 18:03:28 | |
| SET NAMES utf8mb4; | |
| INSERT INTO `eng` (`id`, `name`, `type`, `status`, `us_sound`, `us_link`, `us_link_root`, `uk_sound`, `uk_link`, `uk_link_root`, `example`, `content`, `more`, `update`) VALUES | |
| (1, 'a', 'noun', 32, 'eɪ', '../audio/a/a_01_00.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/a_0/a_01_/a_01_00.mp3', 'eɪ', '../audio/a/uka____001.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____001.mp3', 'This concerto is in the key of A major.\nSophie got an A for English.\nShe got straight As (= all her marks were As) in her final exams.\nJim is a straight-A student (= all his marks are A).\nI\'ve bought a car.\nShe\'s got a boyfriend.\nThere was a sudden loud noise.\nWhat a shame that you couldn\'t go to the party.\nI heard a child crying.\nIs he a friend of yours (= one of your friends)?\nShe wants to be a doctor when she grows up.\nThis is a very mild cheese.\nExperts think the painting may be a Picasso (= one done by Picasso).\nCan you ride a bike?\nA cheetah can run faster than a lion.\nA teacher needs to have a lot of patience.\nI only have a limited knowledge of Spanish.\nHe has a great love of music.\nThere was a fierceness in her voice.\nTake a look at this, Jez.\nI\'m just going to have a snack.\nThere was a knocking at the door.\nI\'d love a coffee.\nAll I had for lunch was a yogurt.\na cup and saucer\na knife and fork\na few days\na bit of wool\na lot of money\nThere\'s a Ms Evans to see you.\nIs that a Wilson over there?\nMy birthday is on a Friday this year.\nIt\'s been a very wet June.\na hundred\na thousand\na dozen\nThere were three men and a woman.\nhalf a mile\na quarter of a kilo\nthree quarters of an hour\nsix tenths of a second\nTake one tablet three times a day.\nI swim once a week.\nShe earns $100,000 a year.\nMy plumber charges £30 an hour.\nI pay £25 a week for my parking permit.\nTake one tablet three times a day.\nThese shoes cost $30 a pair.\nThe teacher gave me an A for my essay.', 'A, a noun\n(LETTER)\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\n[ C or U ] the first letter of the English alphabet\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nLetters of alphabets\naitch\nalphabet\nalphabetic\nalphabetical\nalphabetically\nalphabetization\nalphanumeric\nalphanumerically\nB, b\ngamma\nI, i\niota\nJ, j\nK, k\nkappa\nQ, q\nrho\nS, s\nsigma\nT, t\nSee more results »\nA, a noun\n(MUSIC)\n[ C or U ] a note in Western music: This concerto is in the key of A major.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nNotes of the musical scale\nB, b\nC, c\nD, d\ndoh\nE, e\nflat\nhigh doh\nla\nlah\nmajor\nmi\nmiddle C\nminor\nregister\nscale\nsemitone\nsoh\nsol\nsol-fa\nte\nSee more results »\nA, a noun\n(MARK)\n[ C or U ] a mark in an exam or for a piece of work that shows that your work is considered excellent: Sophie got an A for English. She got straight As (= all her marks were As) in her final exams. Jim is a straight-A student (= all his marks are A).\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nMarks & results\n2:1\n2:2\nB, b\nC, c\nclass\ncontinuous assessment\nformatively\nGPA\ngrade boundary\ngrade-point average\nhonor student\npass\npass rate\npassing grade\npositive\npositivity\nscore\nstraight As\nstraight-A\nthird\nSee more results »\nIdioms\nfrom A to B\nfrom A to Z\na determiner\n(NOT PARTICULAR)\nA1 used before a noun to refer to a single thing or person that has not been mentioned before, especially when you are not referring to a particular thing or person: I\'ve bought a car. She\'s got a boyfriend. There was a sudden loud noise. What a shame that you couldn\'t go to the party. I heard a child crying. Is he a friend of yours (= one of your friends)?\nA1 used to say what type of thing or person something or someone is: She wants to be a doctor when she grows up. This is a very mild cheese. Experts think the painting may be a Picasso (= one done by Picasso).\nA1 used to mean any or every thing or person of the type you are referring to: Can you ride a bike? A cheetah can run faster than a lion. A teacher needs to have a lot of patience.\nused before some uncountable nouns when you want to limit their meaning in some way, such as when describing them more completely or referring to one example of them: I only have a limited knowledge of Spanish. He has a great love of music. There was a fierceness in her voice.\nA2 used before some nouns of action when referring to one example of the action: Take a look at this, Jez. I\'m just going to have a snack. There was a knocking at the door.\nA2 used when referring to a unit or container of something, especially something you eat or drink: I\'d love a coffee. All I had for lunch was a yogurt.\nA2 used before the first but not the second of two nouns that are referred to as one unit: a cup and saucer a knife and fork\nA2 used before some words that express a number or amount: a few days a bit of wool a lot of money\nused in front of a person\'s name when referring to someone who you do not know: There\'s a Ms Evans to see you.\nused in front of someone\'s family name when they are a member of that family: Is that a Wilson over there?\nused before the name of a day or month to refer to one example of it: My birthday is on a Friday this year. It\'s been a very wet June.\nMore examplesFewer examplesWhat is the usual pay for a job like this one?Suddenly a dog ran out into the road in front of us.The customer said she\'d like this coat if it was a nicer colour.Colin told a joke about a postman, but it wasn\'t very funny.Shall I bring a bottle of wine with me?\na determiner\n(ONE)\nA1 one: a hundred a thousand a dozen There were three men and a woman.\nA2 used between a fraction and a unit of measurement: half a mile a quarter of a kilo three quarters of an hour six tenths of a second\nA2 used when saying how often something happens in a certain period: Take one tablet three times a day. I swim once a week.\nA2 used when saying how much someone earns or how much something costs in a certain period: She earns $100,000 a year. My plumber charges £30 an hour. I pay £25 a week for my parking permit.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nNumbers: cardinal, including nought & zero\nB, b\nbi\ncipher\ndeca-\nduodecillion\nfifteen\nforty\ngoogol\njillion\nkazillion\nnaught\nnineteen\nsix\nsixty\nten\nthirteen\nthirty\nunit\nzero\nzillion\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nFractions\nLinguistics: both, all, each & every\nGrammar\nA/an and theA/an and the are articles. They are a type of determiner and they go before a noun. …\nA/an and the: meaningA/an and the are articles. They are a type of determiner and they go before a noun. …\nWhen do we use a and when do we use an?In speaking, we use a /ə/ before a consonant sound: …\nHow do we pronounce the?We pronounce the in two ways depending on whether the sound which comes after the is a vowel or a consonant: …\nWhen do we use articles? …\nA/an and the: typical errorsWe don’t use the with plural nouns when we are referring to things in general: …\nA noun\n(ELECTRICITY)\nwritten abbreviation for\namp\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nElectricity - units\namp\namperage\ncoulomb\nelectron\nerg\nkilowatt\nlumen\nmegawatt\nmicrocoulomb\nmilliampere\nmuon\nohm\nterawatt\nthe Faraday constant\nvolt\nvoltage\nW, w\nwatt\nwattage\nIdiom\nfrom A to B\na preposition\n(EACH OR EVERY)\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nin or for each or every; per: Take one tablet three times a day. These shoes cost $30 a pair.\nA noun\n(LETTER)\n[ C ] (also a) plural A’s or a’s the first letter of the English alphabet\nA noun\n(MUSICAL NOTE)\n[ C/U ]\n  music\n  plural A’s or As in Western music, the sixth note in the scale (= series of notes) that begins on the note C, or a set of notes based on this note\nA noun\n(MARK)\n[ C ] plural A’s or As a mark that means excellent, given to something of the highest quality, esp. school work: The teacher gave me an A for my essay.', 'More meanings of A, a\nAll\nG&A\na/c\nA/D\na/r\nA/S\na/s/l\nC/A\nSee all meanings\nPhrasal Verbs\npop in/into (somewhere)\nburst in/into (somewhere)\ncome by (somewhere)\ndrop by (somewhere)\ngo round (somewhere)\nhole up (somewhere)\nkeep to somewhere\nSee all phrasal verb meanings\nIdioms and phrases\non a collision course idiom\na bit phrase\na bit... phrase\na few phrase\na lot (of) phrase\na pop idiom\na bite (to eat) idiom\nSee all idioms and phrases', '2023-10-22 23:05:00'), | |
| (5, 'aa', 'noun', 32, 'ˌeɪˈeɪ', '../audio/a/usad___004.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___004.mp3', 'ˌeɪˈeɪ', '../audio/a/uka____006.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____006.mp3', 'an AA meeting\nWe recommend only those funds with the high ratings of AA or AAA.', 'AA noun\n(DEGREE)\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\n[ C ] abbreviation for Associate in Arts: a degree given by an American college to someone after they have finished a two-year course, or a person who has this degree\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nQualifications: university & college\nAB\nassociate\'s degree\nBA\nbaccalaureate\nbachelor\'s degree\ndouble major\nDPhil\nemerita\nemeritus\ngraduation\nhonorary\nMaster\'s degree\nMB\nMBA\nMPhil\nMSc\npostgraduate\nPostgraduate Certificate in Education\nsumma cum laude\ntripos\nSee more results »\nAA noun\n(ALCOHOL)\nabbreviation for Alcoholics Anonymous: an organization for people who drink too much alcohol and want to cure themselves of this habit: an AA meeting\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nAddiction\n-aholic\n-oholic\naddicted\naddiction\naddictiveness\nalcoholic\nbe a slave to something idiom\ncure\ndelirium tremens\ndependence\ndetoxification centre\ndrunk\nhabit-forming\nkick\nkick the habit idiom\nmat\nover-dependence\nover-dependent\npledge\nthe DTs\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nNamed organizations & societies & their members\nAA noun\n(CARS)\nthe AA\nabbreviation for the Automobile Association: an organization in the UK that gives help and information to drivers who are members of it\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nEmergency services in general\n911\n999\naid station\nair ambulance\nair drop\nair-dash\nAmber Alert\nblue-light\nCFR\ncoastguard\nemergency services\nincident command\nlifeguard\nlifesaver\nlockdown\nMayday\nparamedic\nrescue\nSOS\nthe RAC\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nFINANCE, STOCK MARKET used by ratings agencies (= organizations that calculate the level of risk of investments) to describe bonds, etc. with a low risk of not being paid back: We recommend only those funds with the high ratings of AA or AAA.\n→\nthe Advertising Association', 'More meanings of AA\nAll\nAA rating\nthe AA, at the Advertising Association\nAA rating, at average audience rating\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:00'), | |
| (6, 'aaa', 'noun', 32, 'ˌeɪ.eɪˈeɪ', '../audio/a/usad___005.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___005.mp3', 'ˌeɪ.eɪˈeɪ', '../audio/a/uka____007.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____007.mp3', 'The fund was awarded an AAA rating by a Wall Street bond house.', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nabbreviation for American Automobile Association: an organization in the US that gives help and information to drivers who are members of it\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nEmergency services in general\n911\n999\naid station\nair ambulance\nair drop\nair-dash\nAmber Alert\nblue-light\nCFR\ncoastguard\ndrop\nincident command\nlifeguard\nlifesaver\nlockdown\nMayday\nparamedic\nrescue\nSOS\nthe RAC\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nFINANCE, STOCK MARKET used by ratings agencies (= organizations that calculate the level of risk of investments) to describe bonds, etc. with a very low risk of not being paid back: The fund was awarded an AAA rating by a Wall Street bond house.', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:00'), | |
| (7, 'aah', 'exclamation', 32, 'ɑː', '../audio/a/usad___006.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___006.mp3', 'ɑː', '../audio/a/uka____008.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____008.mp3', '', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nanother spelling of\nah\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nLinguistics: sounds used as interjections\naha\nahem\nbah\nbam\nblah\nblah, blah, blah\ncor\nduh\nhuh\now\npsst\nshh\nsquee\ntut\nuh-huh\nvocable\nvroom\nwham\nwhee\nwhew\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of aah\nAll\naah, at ah\nooh and aah idiom\nSee all meanings\nIdioms and phrases\nooh and aah idiom', '2023-10-22 23:05:00'), | |
| (17, 'aardvark', 'noun', 32, 'ˈɑːrd.vɑːrk', '../audio/a/usad___007.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___007.mp3', 'ˈɑːd.vɑːk', '../audio/a/uka____009.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____009.mp3', '\n They rely heavily on the kinds of anecdotes which they themselves would dismiss if they concerned the green accouchi or the aardvark.\n \n\n If we note the features not added, we can say that the images do not depict giraffe, elephant, baboon, aardvark and so on.\n \n\n The discernment of this collection of attributes allows us to recognize the animal as an aardvark.\n \n\n It has got past aardvark, which is the first word in the dictionary.\n \n\n The aardvark and the ant eater use long tongues to prey upon termite and ant nests.\n \n\n The usages \"an aardvark\" and \"a bear\" are grammatical.\n \n\n There is little reason to assume it was similar in general form to the aardvark.\n \n\n Among the only living ambulatory mammals to have a fused tibia and fibula are the armadillo and the aardvark.\n \n\n Species like the aardvark have few close relatives and have been evolving independently for many millions of years.\n \n\n An aardvark\'s weight is typically between 60and(-) 80.\n \n\n The nasal area of the aardvark is another unique area, as it contains ten nasal conchae, more than any other placental mammal.\n \n\n His doctoral dissertation concerned the teeth of the aardvark, which had previously defied classification.\n \n\n It has no complete resemblance to any known creature, although it does resemble a composite of an aardvark, a donkey, and a jackal.\n \n\n The head of the aardvark contains many unique and different features.\n \n\n Whereas the aardvark is considered digitigrade, it appears at time to be plantigrade.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nan African mammal with a long nose and large ears that lives underground and eats insects\nGlobalP/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nWild mammals\nanteater\narmadillo\nBactrian\nbandicoot\nbig beast\ngrizzly bear\nhedgehog\nhippopotamus\njavelina\njoey\npeccary\npine marten\nplatypus\npolar bear\npolecat\ntamandua\ntapir\nTasmanian devil\nTasmanian wolf\nthylacine\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:00'), | |
| (33, 'ab', 'noun', 32, 'ˌeɪˈbiː', '../audio/a/usad___008.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___008.mp3', 'ˌeɪˈbiː', '../audio/a/epd31078.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/e/epd/epd31/epd31078.mp3', '', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\n→\nBA\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nQualifications: university & college\nassociate\'s degree\nBA\nbaccalaureate\nbachelor\'s degree\nbed\nchartered\nDPhil\nemerita\nemeritus\ngraduation\nhonorary\nhonors degree\nMB\nMBA\nMPhil\nMSc\nnon-degree\nPostgraduate Certificate in Education\nsumma cum laude\ntripos\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nabbreviation for Aktiebolaget: a legal form of company in Sweden that is similar to a limited company in other countries', 'More meanings of AB\nAll\nB.A.\nAB, at BA\nA.B., at B.A.\nab initio\nvoid ab initio\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:00'), | |
| (34, 'aba', 'noun', 32, '', '../audio/a/usbp0004.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usb/usbp0/usbp0004.mp3', '', '../audio/a/ukbp0004.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/ukb/ukbp0/ukbp0004.mp3', 'The ABA report said that consumer borrowing is likely to slow down because of higher interest rates.', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nabbreviation for American Bankers Association: a professional organization that represents the US banking industry: The ABA report said that consumer borrowing is likely to slow down because of higher interest rates.', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:00'), | |
| (49, 'aback', 'adverb', 32, 'əˈbæk', '../audio/a/usad___009.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___009.mp3', 'əˈbæk', '../audio/a/uka____011.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____011.mp3', 'I was somewhat taken aback by her honesty.\n\n I was at first taken aback, not quite sure what was going on.\n \n\n The arguments confounded many, and the western press was taken aback.\n \n\n That took us all aback, but they are experiences that are remembered with a degree of pleasure.\n \n\n I think that everyone here was taken aback by this enumeration of the amendments that have been refused, often without very detailed explanations.\n \n\n I am equally grateful, though slightly taken aback, that he has answered them as well.\n \n\n I was a little taken aback to see that we had been relegated to the last page and almost the last paragraph.\n \n\n I was always taken aback by the lack of knowledge of local people about what was going on.\n \n\n I was a little taken aback suddenly to find that he had tabled early-day motion 1809.\n \n\n He was taken aback and began saying something about not being a legal expert.\n \n\n I never cease to be taken aback by the role of psychiatrists.\n \n\n I was a little taken aback by that.\n \n\n We are not children; we know what is going on in politics, and we are rather taken aback at his attitude.\n \n\n I was taken aback at first, but have gradually come round to his way of thinking.\n \n\n I was taken aback when the announcement of the chairman was made this morning.\n \n\n They were taken aback because many small businesses, especially new businesses, could have been landed with unknown, potentially damaging cash liabilities.\n ', 'be taken aback\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nto be very shocked or surprised: I was somewhat taken aback by her honesty.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nSurprised\nagape\naghast\namazed\nappalled\nastonished\nflabbergasted\nflat-footed\ngobsmacked\ngoggle-eyed\nheadlight\nhorror of horrors idiom\njaw\nnot know what hit you idiom\nopen-eyed\nopen-mouthed\npalpitation\npearl-clutching\nsomeone\'s jaw drops (open) idiom\nstalk\nyou have (got) to be kidding idiom\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nMaking people sad, shocked and upset', 'More meanings of aback\nAll\ntaken aback\ntake someone aback\nSee all meanings\nPhrasal Verbs\ntake someone aback\nSee all phrasal verb meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:00'), | |
| (59, 'abacus', 'noun', 32, 'ˈæb.ə.kəs', '../audio/a/abacus.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/aba/abacu/abacus.mp3', 'ˈæb.ə.kəs', '../audio/a/uka____012.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____012.mp3', '\n Only one out of three had even heard of an abacus.\n \n\n The police national computer will be a mere abacus compared with the computer required to administer the national identity card scheme.\n \n\n I think that somebody has run away with the abacus as the scheme will clearly cost considerably more.\n \n\n In this interesting context, he suggested that abacus man had no heart, compassion or feeling.\n \n\n I have only a simple abacus; how can it be so?\n \n\n He is particularly rewarded if he foresees it and produces, say, a pocket calculator in place of an abacus; or even, these days, produces a pocket computer.\n \n\n I have not used a slide rule, calculator or abacus to do the calculation, although before the end of the debate we may need an abacus.\n \n\n An inverted kalasha adorns the top, which also has a corbelled abacus.\n \n\n Machines for calculating fixed numerical tasks such as the abacus have existed since antiquity, aiding in computations such as multiplication and division.\n \n\n Their abacus blocks are decorated with volutes containing human and animal figures.\n \n\n Each column has a capital of two parts, the upper, on which rests the lintels, being square and called the abacus.\n \n\n Using the abacus, find all the products of the divisor from 1 to 9 by reading the displayed numbers.\n \n\n The nano-abacus has the potential to be used in a variety of nanotechnological inventions such as the nano-computer.\n \n\n The name and logo of this software are based on the abacus calculation tool.\n \n\n The long and fascinating history of the abacus also turns up time and time again in counting history.\n ', 'abacus noun [C]\n(COUNTING TOOL)\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\na square or rectangular frame holding an arrangement of small balls on metal rods or wires, used for counting or for doing calculations\njoey333/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nMeasuring, weighing, & counting devices\ndial\ndipstick\nfitness tracker\ngage\ngamma counter\ngamma meter\ngradation\nhydrograph\nindicator\nlight meter\nmicrometer\nplumb line\nprobe\nsensor\nsmart meter\nstraight edge\ntracker\nvoltmeter\nwand\nweather balloon\nSee more results »\nabacus noun [C]\n(IN BUILDING)\narchitecture\n  specialized a flat slab (= piece of stone, etc.) at the top of a column\nPHAS/Universal Images Group/GettyImages\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nParts of buildings: arches, columns & beams\nabutment\narch\narchitrave\narchway\nbeam\nbeamy\ncapital\ncolonnade\nCorinthian\nDoric\nionic\njoist\nkeystone\nplinth\nportico\nsoffit\ntorus\nvault\nvaulted\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\na frame that holds thin metal rods with balls that slide on them, used for counting, adding, and subtracting', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:00'), | |
| (68, 'abaft', 'adverb', 32, 'əˈbæft', '../audio/a/cdo0318usabaf0009.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo03/cdo0318usabaf0009.mp3', 'əˈbɑːft', '../audio/a/epd00010.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/e/epd/epd00/epd00010.mp3', '\n The foremost barbette was located ahead of the foremast, and had a field of fire ahead, extending to well abaft the beam on both sides.\n \n\n Her hull has been crushed from just abaft the conning tower all the way to the stern, though the forward hull appeared intact.\n \n\n It would appear that the blast effects on the superstructure from firing abaft the beam were not regarded as important.\n \n\n She had two electrically driven rudders on the centerline, the main rudder abaft the smaller auxiliary rudder.\n \n\n Two gunpowder-propelled catapults were located on the beam abaft the mainmast.\n \n\n The fisherman\'s staysail, a four-sided fore-and-aft sail, is not strictly a staysail, but is clewed abaft the foremast.\n \n\n The paddlewheels were mounted one abaft the other in a center well.\n \n\n Two sets of twin 533mm in torpedo tubes were mounted abaft the single funnel.\n \n\n It was 8in mm thick amidships, but reduced to six inches fore and abaft the machinery spaces and to 5 in at the stern.\n \n\n Snows carried square sails on both masts, but had a small trysail mast, sometimes called a \"snowmast,\" stepped immediately abaft the mainmast.\n \n\n For example, the mizzenmast is abaft the mainmast.\n \n\n The low middle platform abaft the mast held the two broadside cannon (usually 9-pounders) and a fireplace.\n \n\n As she swung left, to bear on the target, a violent underwater explosion occurred just abaft the bridge.\n \n\n Another idea, subsequently adopted, was to design the forecastle to break abaft the turrets.\n \n\n Uniquely, she possessed two armoured pilot towers, one on either side just abaft the waist.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nat the back of or behind a ship or boat\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nParts of ships & boats\nbilge water\nboathook\nboiler room\nbowline\ncleat\ncockpit\nconning tower\ncouchette\nescape hatch\nkeel\npaddle\nperiscope\npropeller\nspar\nstem\nstrop\nsun deck\nsuperstructure\ntopsail\nwaterline\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nTerms for location & direction used at sea', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:00'), | |
| (83, 'abalone', 'noun', 32, 'æb.əˈloʊ.ni', '../audio/a/ca2us001.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/ca2/ca2us/ca2us001.mp3', 'æb.əˈləʊ.ni', '../audio/a/epd00011.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/e/epd/epd00/epd00011.mp3', '\n Among abalone populations, the microbial pressure on the egg surface could be different both spatially and temporally, depending on the habitats and geographical distributions.\n \n\n In the early 1790s, the domain eliminated the role of merchants and began to purchase abalone and sea cucumbers directly from coastal villages.\n \n\n Initial species divergence in abalone is in some way linked to selection for high amino acid altering (non-synonymous) nucleotide substitution.\n \n\n These comparisons of abalone lysins are some of the highest ratios of amino acid altering to silent codon differences known in any protein.\n \n\n Fusion of liposomes induced by a cationic protein from the acrosome granule of abalone spermatozoa.\n \n\n Amino acid sequence of an egg-lysin protein from abalone spermatozoa that solubilizes the vitelline layer.\n \n\n By 1862 however, tea had jumped to the lead, occupying roughly 22%, silk around 15%, and marine products (kelp, shark fins, abalone, and sea cucumbers) just over 16%.\n \n\n Returning to abalone, the argument can be made that in the above microbial model, individual variation in the lysin sequence should be found within the species.\n \n\n In its original form, the age prediction is a difficult problem because the data set contains only very few entries for very young or very old abalones.\n \n\n But if one wants to sell haliotis—not halitosis—one must label it abalone or ormer.\n \n\n For reasons not yet well understood, some abalone can be infected with the bacterium without developing the disease.\n \n\n These include turquoise, jet, argillite, steatite, red shale, freshwater clam shell, abalone, and spiny oyster.\n \n\n Local specialties include \"myeolchijeot\" (fermented anchovy), abalone, wakame, and squid.\n \n\n It is released from the dead or dying abalones and ingested by the abalone while feeding.\n \n\n Black abalone are broadcast spawners, and successful spawning requires that individuals be grouped closely together.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na small sea creature that can be eaten. It lives inside a shell that is the shape of an ear and is white and shiny inside.\nchengyuzheng/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nFish & seafood\nalbacore\nAmerican shad\nbarramundi\nbay scallop\nbeluga\ncrappie\ncrawdad\ncrawfish\ncray\ncrayfish\nlobster thermidor\nlox\nmahi mahi\nmarron\nmatelote\nshad\nshellfish\nshrimp\nshrimp cocktail\nskipjack tuna\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nSea creatures', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:11'), | |
| (91, 'abandon', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbæn.dən', '../audio/a/abandon.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/aba/aband/abandon.mp3', 'əˈbæn.dən', '../audio/a/uka____013.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____013.mp3', 'We had to abandon the car.\nBy the time the rebel troops arrived, the village had already been abandoned.\nAs a baby he was abandoned by his mother.\nWe were sinking fast, and the captain gave the order to abandon ship.\nThe game was abandoned at half-time because of the poor weather conditions.\nThey had to abandon their attempt to climb the mountain.\nThe party has now abandoned its policy of unilateral disarmament.\nHe abandoned himself to his emotions.\nWe danced with wild abandon.\nAir attacks forced the villagers to abandon their homes.\nThe weather was so bad, we abandoned our plans for a picnic.\nArcheologists don’t know what could have caused a mass abandonment of the area.\nThe car maker has abandoned its plans to build a giant new plant.\nThe high cost of legal representation can influence a person\'s decision about whether to abandon a claim. \nHe kept the company going because he didn\'t want to abandon his staff.\nA vehicle had been abandoned on the side of the road.\nHigh winds forced the abandonment of efforts to erect the structure.\n\n However, they soon were forced to abandon these plans after running into a powerful barrage of criticism.\n \n\n However, this does not warrant totally abandoning the notion of separate senses, particularly in light of evidence of limits in cross-modal representations.\n \n\n They lost virtually all their cattle and were left with the choice of abandoning the lobola system or finding a new lobola currency.\n \n\n However, surgery directed to the treatment of the failing systemic ventricle should be abandoned in favor of heart transplantation.\n \n\n Reasons for abandoning the trial included sickness of the farmer and the desire to grow crops other than maize at the experimental site.\n \n\n The efforts were soon abandoned for a watered-down version of no beef-eating and less drinking.\n \n\n This project engaged some attention, but it was soon felt to be impracticable, and the thought was consequently abandoned.\n \n\n But as soon as costs and benefits are assigned to separate persons, maximisation should be abandoned.\n \n\n Relating transformation to abandonment is somewhat more difficult, but in a sense the village, already partially abandoned, was transformed into ruins.\n \n\n The tendency to focus exclusively or predominantly on the role of economic factors in processes of political change ought to be rethought and perhaps abandoned.\n \n\n The behavioural details that dominated in the earlier production are now abandoned in favour of psychological states and their nuances.\n \n\n Rather, she has not begun, or has abandoned, a parental project.\n \n\n Projects begun in southern universities on revolutionary republicanism in the 1960s and 1970s were, in some instances, delayed for decades or abandoned altogether.\n \n\n The last explosion fires, very far away, have abandoned their long reverberations and are exhausted as they trail away.\n ', 'abandon verb [T]\n(LEAVE)\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nB2 to leave a place, thing, or person, usually for ever: We had to abandon the car. By the time the rebel troops arrived, the village had already been abandoned. As a baby he was abandoned by his mother.abandon ship We were sinking fast, and the captain gave the order to abandon ship.\nMore examplesFewer examplesIf disturbed, the bird may abandon the nest, leaving the chicks to die.It was his instinct for self-preservation that led him to abandon his former friends and transfer his allegiance to the new rulers.According to an eyewitness account, the thieves abandoned their vehicle near the scene of the robbery and then ran off.The police are trying to trace the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned outside a hospital.The house had been abandoned for several years before they decided to demolish it.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nDeparting\nabandon ship\nabandonment\nabsquatulate\nbackward\nbe ready to roll idiom\ngone\nmove\np.o.q.\npiss off\npull\npull out\npull something off\npush along\npush off\nsea\nvacate\nvamoose\nwalk\nwalk off (somewhere)\nwalk out\nSee more results »\nabandon verb [T]\n(STOP)\nC1 to stop doing an activity before you have finished it: The game was abandoned at half-time because of the poor weather conditions. They had to abandon their attempt to climb the mountain. The party has now abandoned its policy of unilateral disarmament.\nThesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples\nto cancel somethingcancelSorry, I have to cancel our plans tonight.call offThe game has been called off because of the weather.offThe meeting\'s off because James is ill.scrapWe\'ve scrapped our plans for a trip to France.suspendThe ferry service has been suspended for the day because of bad weather.postponeWe\'ve postponed the wedding until next year.\nSee more results »\nMore examplesFewer examplesSweden isn\'t likely ever to abandon its traditional neutrality.Pressure to abandon the new motorway is increasing.We were unable to get funding and therefore had to abandon the project.A lot of farming techniques have been abandoned because they were too labour-intensive.Most European countries have abandoned laws that make vagrancy a crime.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nCausing something to end\nabandonment\nall good things (must) come to an end idiom\nand have done with it idiom\nbe over the hump idiom\nbitter\nbrake\ncure\nhang\njack something in\nkill something stone-dead idiom\nknock\nknock off (something)\nlay\nlid\nsnap\nstamp on something\nstamp something out\nstanch\nstaunch\nstem\nSee more results »\nabandon yourself to something\nto allow yourself to be controlled completely by a feeling or way of living: He abandoned himself to his emotions.\nSee more\nRelated words\nabandoned\nabandonment\nwith (gay/wild) abandon\nin a completely uncontrolled way: We danced with wild abandon.\nSee more\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nto leave behind or run away from someone or something, or to give up something: Air attacks forced the villagers to abandon their homes. The weather was so bad, we abandoned our plans for a picnic. abandonment noun [ U ] us\nYour browser doesn\'t support HTML5 audio\n/əˈbæn·dən·mənt/\nArcheologists don’t know what could have caused a mass abandonment of the area.\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nto stop an activity before it is finished, usually because you think you cannot succeed: abandon a project/plan/an idea The car maker has abandoned its plans to build a giant new plant.abandon a lawsuit/case/claim The high cost of legal representation can influence a person\'s decision about whether to abandon a claim.\nto leave a person, place, or thing that needs you to care for them: He kept the company going because he didn\'t want to abandon his staff. A vehicle had been abandoned on the side of the road.\nINSURANCE to allow an insurance company to keep property that has been lost or damaged, in exchange for an insurance payment\nabandonment noun [ U ]\nHigh winds forced the abandonment of efforts to erect the structure.', 'More meanings of abandon\nAll\nabandon ship\nabandon yourself to something phrase\nwith (gay/wild) abandon phrase\nabandon/jump ship\nSee all meanings\nIdioms and phrases\nabandon yourself to something phrase\nwith (gay/wild) abandon phrase\nSee all idioms and phrases', '2023-10-22 23:05:11'), | |
| (93, 'abandoned', 'adjective', 32, 'əˈbæn.dənd', '../audio/a/abandoned.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/aba/aband/abandoned.mp3', 'əˈbæn.dənd', '../audio/a/uka____015.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____015.mp3', 'An abandoned baby was found in a box on the hospital steps.\nThe world is full of abandoned mines.\nPeople feel abandoned by the government.\nShelters are full of abandoned pets.\nThe fire started in an abandoned warehouse.\nThe planned site for the development is an abandoned quarry.', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nB2 left in a particular place or condition, usually forever: An abandoned baby was found in a box on the hospital steps. The world is full of abandoned mines. People feel abandoned by the government. See\nabandon\nMore examplesFewer examplesThe number of abandoned pets brought to the shelter has doubled.Many abandoned warehouses are being converted into fashionable shops.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nAlone\nalienate\nalienated\napart\nbe cast away idiom\nbe in a minority of one idiom\nherself\nhimself\nlonely\nloner\nlonesome\nminority\noutcast\nshut\nshut someone away\nsole\nsolely\nsolitarily\nsolitary\nsolitude\nsolo\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nleft behind, or left without care and protection: Shelters are full of abandoned pets. The fire started in an abandoned warehouse.\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nan abandoned place or vehicle is no longer being used or cared for because its owner does not want it any more: The planned site for the development is an abandoned quarry.', 'More meanings of abandoned\nAll\nabandon\nabandon ship\nabandon yourself to something phrase\nSee all meanings\nIdioms and phrases\nabandon yourself to something phrase', '2023-10-22 23:05:11'), | |
| (98, 'abandoning', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbæn.dən', '../audio/a/abandon.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/aba/aband/abandon.mp3', 'əˈbæn.dən', '../audio/a/uka____013.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____013.mp3', 'We had to abandon the car.\nBy the time the rebel troops arrived, the village had already been abandoned.\nAs a baby he was abandoned by his mother.\nWe were sinking fast, and the captain gave the order to abandon ship.\nThe game was abandoned at half-time because of the poor weather conditions.\nThey had to abandon their attempt to climb the mountain.\nThe party has now abandoned its policy of unilateral disarmament.\nHe abandoned himself to his emotions.\n\n However, this does not warrant totally abandoning the notion of separate senses, particularly in light of evidence of limits in cross-modal representations.\n \n\n Reasons for abandoning the trial included sickness of the farmer and the desire to grow crops other than maize at the experimental site.\n \n\n Abandoning this assumption produces further insight into the behavior of the monetary system, and monetary instability.\n \n\n The play then changes radically, abandoning the conventions of realism, dislocating the hotel room, and placing it into an undisclosed war-zone.\n \n\n In fact, however, the state was abandoning direct control in favour of a more indirect approach: talk of the state \'pulling out\' was simplistic.\n \n\n The most likely objection to abandoning the apostrophe is probably the resultant confusion between homographs (words of identical spelling).\n \n\n Not being able to clinically describe brain failure should not, however, lead to abandoning the disorder \"delirium,\" and to focus only on the primary causes.\n \n\n My analysis would suggest that, at this point, the physicians and hospitals were unfortunately stuck, since they could not have justified abandoning either patient.\n \n\n The king has been tricked, abandoning his empire for the empty pleasures of grand opera.\n \n\n In contrast, cultural relativism - the uncritical acceptance of any culture\'s views as valid within that culture - risks abandoning the substantive values of one\'s own culture.\n \n\n His contribution to the understanding of prosocial behavior would also benefit from abandoning the traditional (and excessively restrictive) definition of altruism.\n \n\n And the hearer is expected to recognize that the contradiction should be resolved by abandoning (36b).\n \n\n The third strategy consists of abandoning the idea that cognition exclusively involves symbol manipulation.\n \n\n In this way does the abandoning of good works.\n \n\n We think the anomalies he catalogues can be accounted for without abandoning this foundational principle of deterministic behavioral science.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npresent participle of\nabandon\nabandon verb [T]\n(LEAVE)\nB2 to leave a place, thing, or person, usually for ever: We had to abandon the car. By the time the rebel troops arrived, the village had already been abandoned. As a baby he was abandoned by his mother. We were sinking fast, and the captain gave the order to abandon ship.\nMore examplesFewer examplesIf disturbed, the bird may abandon the nest, leaving the chicks to die.It was his instinct for self-preservation that led him to abandon his former friends and transfer his allegiance to the new rulers.According to an eyewitness account, the thieves abandoned their vehicle near the scene of the robbery and then ran off.The police are trying to trace the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned outside a hospital.The house had been abandoned for several years before they decided to demolish it.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nDeparting\nabandon\nabandon ship\nabandonment\nabsquatulate\nbackward\ndrive\np.o.q.\npiss off\npull\npull out\npull something off\npush along\npush off\nsea\ntrack\nvamoose\nwalk\nwalk off (somewhere)\nwalk out\nwithout (so much as) a backward glance idiom\nSee more results »\nabandon verb [T]\n(STOP)\nC1 to stop doing an activity before you have finished it: The game was abandoned at half-time because of the poor weather conditions. They had to abandon their attempt to climb the mountain. The party has now abandoned its policy of unilateral disarmament.\nThesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples\nto cancel somethingcancelSorry, I have to cancel our plans tonight.call offThe game has been called off because of the weather.offThe meeting\'s off because James is ill.scrapWe\'ve scrapped our plans for a trip to France.suspendThe ferry service has been suspended for the day because of bad weather.postponeWe\'ve postponed the wedding until next year.\nSee more results »\nMore examplesFewer examplesSweden isn\'t likely ever to abandon its traditional neutrality.Pressure to abandon the new motorway is increasing.We were unable to get funding and therefore had to abandon the project.A lot of farming techniques have been abandoned because they were too labour-intensive.Most European countries have abandoned laws that make vagrancy a crime.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nCausing something to end\nabandon\nabandonment\nall good things (must) come to an end idiom\nand have done with it idiom\nbe over the hump idiom\ncure\nhang\njack something in\nkill something stone-dead idiom\nknock\nknock off (something)\nlay\nlid\nlift\nraise\nstamp something out\nstanch\nstaunch\nstem\nstopper\nSee more results »\nabandon yourself to something\nto allow yourself to be controlled completely by a feeling or way of living: He abandoned himself to his emotions.\nSee more Related words\nabandoned\nabandonment', 'More meanings of abandoning\nAll\nabandon\nabandon ship\nabandon yourself to something phrase\nSee all meanings\nIdioms and phrases\nabandon yourself to something phrase', '2023-10-22 23:05:11'), | |
| (99, 'abandonment', 'noun', 32, 'əˈbæn.dən.mənt', '../audio/a/abandonment.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/aba/aband/abandonment.mp3', 'əˈbæn.dən.mənt', '../audio/a/uka____016.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____016.mp3', 'The abandonment of the island followed nuclear tests in the area.\nHis abandonment by his mother when he was a baby affected him all his life.\n\n Relating transformation to abandonment is somewhat more difficult, but in a sense the village, already partially abandoned, was transformed into ruins.\n \n\n The crisis evoked fears of abandonment, but it also evoked fears of entrapment.\n \n\n It is this infamous notion of the \' abandonment \' of older people by their families that has been prominent in the western gerontological debate.\n \n\n In many of these areas the large number is likely to be the result of the repeated abandonment of houses.\n \n\n In all forest fallows, ranging from 0.2-1.5 ha in size, tobacco and cotton were cultivated for a period of 3 y prior to abandonment.\n \n\n In this article, we analyze the simplest abandonment model, assuming that the customer\'s patience is exponentially distributed.\n \n\n In some poetry, sensitivity, she suggests, \"has become almost pathological in intensity, and has led to a dangerous abandonment to sensation\" (182).\n \n\n The registers indicate dates of divorces and the abandonment of women (men who were abandoned by their wives were not registered as such).\n \n\n The disclosure of infection could lead to domestic violence and/or abandonment, unemployment, and social isolation.\n \n\n From another perspective, cities combine images of mobility with those of loss and abandonment.\n \n\n The author also describes the historical developments leading to the abandonment of partial advance funding, as was the legislation\'s original intent.\n \n\n The landscape is a mosaic of crop fields, secondary forests of different development stages resulting from the abandonment of agricultural lands and primary forest.\n \n\n When judges read rationales of appellate decisions carefully, they may be reading to discover whether the appellate decision is ripe for abandonment or modification.\n \n\n However, dissatisfaction with how realistic the assignments to this category were in some centers led to its abandonment.\n \n\n Most of the hotels are long gone, having fallen victim to fire or abandonment caused by changes in vacation fashions.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe act of leaving someone or something or of ending or stopping something, usually forever: The abandonment of the island followed nuclear tests in the area. His abandonment by his mother when he was a baby affected him all his life. See\nabandon\nMore examplesFewer examplesThe Mayan civilization went into a decline that ended with the almost complete abandonment of their cities.High winds caused the abandonment of the second day of racing.At the core of all trauma is a profound sense of abandonment.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nRemoving and getting rid of things\nbanish\nbe scattered to the four winds idiom\nbin\ncast someone/something aside/away/off\ncast someone/something out\nelimination\nerase\nevacuation\nexorcism\nexpunge\nexpurgate\nexpurgated\nshrug something off\nshuck\nshuck something off\nshuffle something off\nsling\nsling someone out\ntoss\nturf\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nDeparting\nCausing something to end', 'More meanings of abandonment\nAll\nabandonment noun, at abandon\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:11'), | |
| (117, 'abase', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbeɪs', '../audio/a/usad___010.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___010.mp3', 'əˈbeɪs', '../audio/a/uka____017.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____017.mp3', '', 'abase yourself\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nto make yourself seem to be less important or to not deserve respect\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nHumiliating and degrading\nabasement\nbe under a cloud idiom\nbring/take someone down a peg (or two) idiom\nbruise someone\'s ego idiom\ncut someone down to size idiom\ndishonour\ndishonourable\ndishonourably\ndoghouse\nexhibition\nignobly\nignominious\nignominiously\nignominy\nin the doghouse idiom\nshoddiness\nshoddy\nstoop\nstoop to something\nundignified\nSee more results »\nRelated word\nabasement', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:11'), | |
| (118, 'abased', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbeɪs', '../audio/a/usad___010.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___010.mp3', 'əˈbeɪs', '../audio/a/uka____017.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____017.mp3', '', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npast simple and past participle of\nabase\nabase yourself\nto make yourself seem to be less important or to not deserve respect\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nHumiliating and degrading\nabase\nabasement\nbe under a cloud idiom\nbring/take someone down a peg (or two) idiom\nbruise someone\'s ego idiom\ndisgraced\ndishonour\ndishonourable\ndishonourably\ndoghouse\nignoble\nignobly\nignominious\nignominiously\nignominy\nshoddily\nshoddiness\nshoddy\nstoop\nstoop to something\nSee more results »\nRelated word\nabasement', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:11'), | |
| (121, 'abasement', 'noun', 32, 'əˈbeɪs.mənt', '../audio/a/usad___011.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___011.mp3', 'əˈbeɪs.mənt', '../audio/a/uka____018.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____018.mp3', 'These children were abandoned to a life of degradation and abasement.\nHe is obsessed with the abasement of those he perceives as his enemies.\n\n This abasement is but the prelude to a further, more glorious transfiguration.\n \n\n We certainly do not want to see an abasement of the wages.\n \n\n You persist, then, in continuing to employ these terms of servility and abasement.\n \n\n We should suffer certain moral abasement.\n \n\n Any failure in this central business involved a monstrous abasement, and against that our poor souls sought blindly for the most extravagant consolations.\n \n\n The phrase is not a great claim; neither, however, is it an example of abasement before the shrine of antiquity.\n \n\n Common elements in absurdist fiction include satire, dark humour, incongruity, the abasement of reason, and controversy regarding the philosophical condition of being nothing.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe act of causing someone to seem as if they deserve no respect and have no power or importance: These children were abandoned to a life of degradation and abasement. He is obsessed with the abasement of those he perceives as his enemies. Related word\nabaseSee also\nself-abasement\nMore examplesFewer examplesThe politician has had to endure a year of abasement.They talk about the personal abasement that follows from sexual immorality.He said that the abasement of intellectuals to Soviet Communism disgusted him.They tried to change his mind by methods ranging from friendly persuasion to grovelling abasement.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nHumiliating and degrading\nabase\nbe under a cloud idiom\nbring/take someone down a peg (or two) idiom\nbruise someone\'s ego idiom\ncut someone down to size idiom\ndishonour\ndishonourable\ndishonourably\ndoghouse\nexhibition\nignobly\nignominious\nignominiously\nignominy\nin the doghouse idiom\nshoddiness\nshoddy\nstoop\nstoop to something\nundignified\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of abasement\nAll\nself-abasement\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:11'), | |
| (127, 'abash', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbæʃ', '../audio/a/cdo1121usabas0004.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo11/cdo1121usabas0004.mp3', 'əˈbæʃ', '../audio/a/cdo1121ukabas0004.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/c/cdo/cdo11/cdo1121ukabas0004.mp3', 'Her elder cousins abashed her by commenting on her shyness.\nThey tried not to be abashed by the unfamiliar luxury.', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nto embarrass someone or make them feel uncomfortable: Her elder cousins abashed her by commenting on her shyness. They tried not to be abashed by the unfamiliar luxury.\nMore examplesFewer examplesFive years ago I wrote a piece suggesting that the company was doomed, and was then abashed by its apparent recovery.The fact that they seemed to wish to get rid of him did not abash him in the least. His gratitude abashed me by its immensity.The fact that Mary was twenty years her senior did not abash her.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nAshamed and embarrassed\nabashed\nashamed\nawkward\nawkwardly\nawkwardness\negg\nguiltiness\nhangdog\nhave egg on your face idiom\nhumbling\nhumblingly\nmortify\nmortifying\nnot know where to put yourself idiom\npride\nshamefaced\nsilly\nsmallness\nsquirm\nswallow your pride idiom\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:11'), | |
| (128, 'abashed', 'adjective', 32, 'əˈbæʃt', '../audio/a/abashed.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/aba/abash/abashed.mp3', 'əˈbæʃt', '../audio/a/uka____019.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____019.mp3', 'He said nothing but looked abashed.\n\n I am not at all abashed by the accusations of disloyalty or lack of courage or panic.\n \n\n I hope that they will not feel in any way abashed.\n \n\n I am not prepared to be abashed today over criticism of the tabling of amendments.\n \n\n I remember previous occasions when he had good reason to be abashed and when he said so.\n \n\n Modestly, and somewhat abashed, the traveller says he cannot find room.\n \n\n They all stood up and cheered and the young man was very abashed.\n \n\n In the 19th century when private patronage was not unusual, neither party—the patron or the systematist—was abashed to commemorate a patron\'s identity in a new taxonomic name.\n \n\n The yokel may be checked, abashed, and undone.\n \n\n He wished the princesses were there to show them how abashed they should be.\n \n\n Horrified and abashed, the landlord staggers to his bedroom and locks himself in.\n \n\n The young women were abashed before him, because they used to mock him.\n \n\n Pundarika feels abashed, and asks for his rosary back in mock-anger.\n \n\n And when he saw his fellows come out and issue all abashed, he mocked them and called them cowards.\n \n\n And the hands wrung one another, abashed, and the tongue took over.\n \n\n Abashed, he let the women pass on.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nembarrassed: He said nothing but looked abashed.\nThesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples\nashamedashamedHe was ashamed that he had been caught stealing.embarrassedI was too embarrassed to admit I was wrong.abashedShe looked at the floor, abashed.shamefacedHe stood shamefaced at the door, looking at the vase he had just knocked to the ground.sheepishShe startled, then gave him a sheepish smile as she picked up her dropped papers.\nSee more results »\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nAshamed and embarrassed\nabash\nashamed\nawkward\nawkwardly\nawkwardness\negg\nguiltiness\nhangdog\nhave egg on your face idiom\nhumbling\nhumblingly\nmortify\nmortifying\nnot know where to put yourself idiom\npride\nshamefaced\nsilly\nsmallness\nsquirm\nswallow your pride idiom\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:11'), | |
| (140, 'abasing', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbeɪs', '../audio/a/usad___010.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___010.mp3', 'əˈbeɪs', '../audio/a/uka____017.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____017.mp3', '\n We then find the politicians abasing themselves and saying how much they got it wrong and how right they are to say how much they got it wrong.\n \n\n In his poem he attacks womankind, abasing them as vile and disgusting creatures.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npresent participle of\nabase\nabase yourself\nto make yourself seem to be less important or to not deserve respect\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nHumiliating and degrading\nabase\nabasement\nbe under a cloud idiom\nbring/take someone down a peg (or two) idiom\nbruise someone\'s ego idiom\ndisgraced\ndishonour\ndishonourable\ndishonourably\ndoghouse\nignoble\nignobly\nignominious\nignominiously\nignominy\nshoddily\nshoddiness\nshoddy\nstoop\nstoop to something\nSee more results »\nRelated word\nabasement', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:53'), | |
| (150, 'abate', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbeɪt', '../audio/a/abate.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/aba/abate/abate.mp3', 'əˈbeɪt', '../audio/a/uka____020.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____020.mp3', 'The storm/wind/rain has started to abate.\nThe fighting in the area shows no sign of abating.\nOur desire for consumer goods has not abated.\nGains in oil prices are unlikely to abate within the next few months.\nInflation is finally showing signs of abating.\nThe mayor plans to abate air pollution in the city by limiting traffic.\n\n Therefore, the tax payments are not high enough to affect the decision to abate by using a different coal type.\n \n\n The plants choose low-ash coal to abate particulate emissions.\n \n\n An emissions tax induces efficient allocation of abatement across firms, even when all the firms are different and some firms abate more than the others.\n \n\n However, we will disregard that possibility as plants always have other ways of abating emissions than reducing production.\n \n\n We conclude with estimates of the marginal cost of abating additional carbon emissions using crop residues.\n \n\n The second theme, having breathing space in suffering, provided an opportunity to recover balance in life when intense suffering abated.\n \n\n Healthy adaptation (indeed survival) relies on the ability to produce increased levels of cortisol under stress and to reduce production once stress has abated.\n \n\n Her suffering abated insofar as the framework of self against which illness is experienced and understood disintegrated.\n \n\n The other five sources considered in this study would compensate for this by abating more than their legislated requirements.\n \n\n At the same time it may be cheaper to abate today than in the future.\n \n\n However, this study also identifies other factors that cause agricultural extensification at the household level to abate.\n \n\n All this can be interpreted as an attempt to diminish the cost of abating pollution from buses and trucks.\n \n\n Unfortunately, it appears that the confusion has not abated.\n \n\n The brisk counterpoint and stern tone abates only briefly towards the end, for a moment of hymn-like unity on the words \'be pious, be wise\'.\n \n\n As the complication phase abated, the patients experienced that they regained hopefulness and had time to reflect on existential issues.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nto become less strong: The storm/wind/rain has started to abate. The fighting in the area shows no sign of abating. See also\nunabated formal\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nBecoming and making less strong\nabatement\nadulterate\nadulterated\nadulteration\nattenuate\ndecline\nenervating\nenervatingly\nenfeeble\nenfeebled\nevisceration\nfade\nmelt\nrelieve\nsink\nundimmed\nunsubdued\nwane\nwaste away\nwater something down\nSee more results »\nRelated word\nabatement\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nto become less strong, or to make something less strong: Our desire for consumer goods has not abated.\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\n[ I ] if something such as a price or level abates, it goes up more slowly than before, or it goes down: Gains in oil prices are unlikely to abate within the next few months.\n[ I or T ] to become or make something become weaker, lower, less serious, etc.: Inflation is finally showing signs of abating. The mayor plans to abate air pollution in the city by limiting traffic.', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:54'), | |
| (151, 'abated', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbeɪt', '../audio/a/abate.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/aba/abate/abate.mp3', 'əˈbeɪt', '../audio/a/uka____020.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____020.mp3', 'The storm/wind/rain has started to abate.\nThe fighting in the area shows no sign of abating.\n\n The second theme, having breathing space in suffering, provided an opportunity to recover balance in life when intense suffering abated.\n \n\n Healthy adaptation (indeed survival) relies on the ability to produce increased levels of cortisol under stress and to reduce production once stress has abated.\n \n\n Her suffering abated insofar as the framework of self against which illness is experienced and understood disintegrated.\n \n\n Unfortunately, it appears that the confusion has not abated.\n \n\n As the complication phase abated, the patients experienced that they regained hopefulness and had time to reflect on existential issues.\n \n\n The rash typically appears when the elevated temperature has abated, and can last for only a few hours before subsiding (fig001sdr).\n \n\n Pollution is generated by consumption and can be abated.\n \n\n Conversely, between 1985 and 1996 the overall moderate deconcentration trend abated.\n \n\n The next day after admission, these complaints abated as he realized that his pain could be well controlled with intravenous administration of morphine chloride.\n \n\n They argue that the distribution of power within a society can influence the extent to which pollution emissions are abated.\n \n\n If isolation were abated, would death be chosen?\n \n\n Rising income increases consumption and abatement expenditures as was to be expected since consumption and abated pollution are normal goods.\n \n\n Water treatments were started one week after transplanting when the transplanting shock had abated.\n \n\n The use of a structured nominal group interview technique abated professional dominance and generated a diverse array of research questions.\n \n\n The crisis seemed to have abated by itself and was overcome by the end of the summer.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npast simple and past participle of\nabate\nto become less strong: The storm/wind/rain has started to abate. The fighting in the area shows no sign of abating. See also\nunabated formal\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nBecoming and making less strong\nabate\nabatement\nadulterate\nadulterated\nadulteration\nenervate\nenervating\nenervatingly\nenfeeble\nenfeebled\nfade\nhedge\nmelt\nrelieve\nsink\nturn to jelly idiom\nundimmed\nunsubdued\nwane\nwaste away\nSee more results »\nRelated word\nabatement', 'More meanings of abated\nAll\nabate\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:54'), | |
| (152, 'abatement', 'noun', 32, 'əˈbeɪt.mənt', '../audio/a/usad___012.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___012.mp3', 'əˈbeɪt.mənt', '../audio/a/uka____021.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____021.mp3', 'The tax abatement will save the business thousands of pounds.\nWe need some noise abatement.\nWe have requested an abatement of interest on our late tax payment, as we received the tax bill late.\nIndustries have been set targets for the abatement of carbon emissions.\nnoise abatement \n\n The use of flexibility mechanisms is restricted to being supplemental to the domestic abatement.\n \n\n Using simulations, we have seen that increases in abatement spending may yield a win-win situation.\n \n\n The findings on costs and abatement efficiencies are similar to those reported in section 2 of this paper.\n \n\n The cost function estimates provide evidence of significant scale economies and high marginal abatement cost in wastewater treatment by small-scale factories.\n \n\n These results again suggest that low charge rates can have effects in transition economies, if abatement costs are low enough.\n \n\n This result suggests that contrary to what we expected, the existence of abatement equipment such as filters, electrostatic precipitators.\n \n\n Such abatement, however, is costly and the greater the extent of abatement, for example as a fraction of potential emissions, the more costly abatement becomes.\n \n\n Variation in operating costs across abatement facilities was mainly based on differences in the quantity of electricity used, equipment maintenance costs, and labour cost.\n \n\n Emission standards should be set with a consideration of both marginal abatements costs and marginal abatement benefits, relations that are plant and location specific.\n \n\n When the expected marginal penalty exceeds the marginal abatement costs of the source, it will choose to comply with its emission permits.\n \n\n The difference in response could also reflect increasing marginal abatement costs: abatement activities are more difficult and expensive at advanced stages of cleanup.\n \n\n If the expected marginal damages are large, because the probability and/or magnitude of possible harms are large, then stringent first-period abatement will be appropriate.\n \n\n Therefore, in terms of social costs of abatement an emissions tax is as efficient as a standard.\n \n\n An emissions tax induces efficient allocation of abatement across firms, even when all the firms are different and some firms abate more than the others.\n \n\n It is the final allocation of emissions and associated abatement costs that countries ultimately care about.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na reduction in the amount or degree of something: The tax abatement will save the business thousands of pounds. We need some noise abatement. See\nabate\nMore examplesFewer examplesA complete abatement of symptoms usually occurs within a few months.Strict targets are being set for pollution abatement.We went to the landlord and worked out an abatement of rent.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nBecoming and making less strong\nabate\nadulterate\nadulterated\nadulteration\nattenuate\ndecline\nenervating\nenervatingly\nenfeeble\nenfeebled\nevisceration\nfade\nmelt\nrelieve\nsink\nundimmed\nunsubdued\nwane\nwaste away\nwater something down\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\na situation in which a rate, price, etc. goes down, or goes up more slowly than before: We have requested an abatement of interest on our late tax payment, as we received the tax bill late.\na reduction in level, especially of something that is harmful: Industries have been set targets for the abatement of carbon emissions. noise abatement See also\ncarbon abatement\nletter of abatement\nrent abatement\ntax abatement', 'More meanings of abatement\nAll\nIRS abatement\nrent abatement\ntax abatement\nabatement order\ncarbon abatement\nletter of abatement\nnoise abatement order\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:54'), | |
| (158, 'abating', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbeɪt', '../audio/a/abate.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/aba/abate/abate.mp3', 'əˈbeɪt', '../audio/a/uka____020.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____020.mp3', 'The storm/wind/rain has started to abate.\nThe fighting in the area shows no sign of abating.\n\n However, we will disregard that possibility as plants always have other ways of abating emissions than reducing production.\n \n\n We conclude with estimates of the marginal cost of abating additional carbon emissions using crop residues.\n \n\n The other five sources considered in this study would compensate for this by abating more than their legislated requirements.\n \n\n All this can be interpreted as an attempt to diminish the cost of abating pollution from buses and trucks.\n \n\n By 1970, the riots had subsided but the war on crime campaign was in full swing and showed no sign of abating.\n \n\n They suggested a range of incentive-based policy instruments for abating emissions other than an emissions tax, which is the existing policy for emission control.\n \n\n At the same time, over the last decade global inequalities grew wider, and they show no sign of abating.\n \n\n Evident from these two tables is the fact that as policy becomes stricter, the number of plants abating increases.\n \n\n A justification for this assumption is that abating costs by the abating firms are cheaper.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npresent participle of\nabate\nto become less strong: The storm/wind/rain has started to abate. The fighting in the area shows no sign of abating. See also\nunabated formal\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nBecoming and making less strong\nabate\nabatement\nadulterate\nadulterated\nadulteration\nenervate\nenervating\nenervatingly\nenfeeble\nenfeebled\nfade\nhedge\nmelt\nrelieve\nsink\nturn to jelly idiom\nundimmed\nunsubdued\nwane\nwaste away\nSee more results »\nRelated word\nabatement', 'More meanings of abating\nAll\nabate\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:54'), | |
| (171, 'abattoir', 'noun', 32, 'ˈæb.ə.twɑːr', '../audio/a/cald4us0003.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cal/cald4/cald4us0003.mp3', 'ˈæb.ə.twɑːr', '../audio/a/uka____022.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____022.mp3', '\n However, the frequency of infected flocks showed considerable variation depending on the abattoir, the season, and the farm from which the samples originated.\n \n\n The results presented here can be validated by the implementation of an abattoir survey.\n \n\n These abattoirs were visited between 2001 and 2002.\n \n\n Several visits were made to the abattoir in 1999 until a total of 23 sheep had been sampled.\n \n\n Cloned transgenic offspring resulting from somatic cell nuclear transfer in the goat: oocytes derived from both follicle-stimulating hormone-stimulated and nonstimulated abattoir-derived ovaries.\n \n\n They were immediately moved to a central, on-site location where samples were collected in the same manner as at the abattoir.\n \n\n The city was growing but the volume of meat handled in the abattoir was declining.\n \n\n The number of herds selected at each abattoir was proportional to the number of herds in that area.\n \n\n This analysis was conducted for samples collected on farm and for the combined on-farm and abattoir results.\n \n\n We also thank all the abattoirs and the farmers for their cooperation.\n \n\n One half was randomly assigned to on-farm necropsy, the other half to abattoir necropsy.\n \n\n The subjects were randomly selected among the farm workers and abattoir employees enrolled in the food-handler regional register.\n \n\n Occupational exposure (sewer workers, abattoir workers, veterinarians, farmers) to leptospires is common.\n \n\n Work to reduce carriage in cattle and crosscontamination in the abattoir will serve to reduce the risk further.\n \n\n Generally, three tools can be identified : organism detection in faeces, organism detection in post-mortem samples collected at the abattoir, and detection of serum antibodies.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na place where animals are killed for their meat\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nKilling\n-cide\nanti-suicide\nassisted suicide\nbutchery\nclaim someone\'s life idiom\ncommit\nculpable homicide\ndeadly\ndestroy\nexterminate\nliquidate\nmisery\nmortal\nneutralization\nneutralize\nnon-fatal\noverlie\npoison\nsuicide pact\nwring\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nFactories\nAnimal farming - general words', 'More meanings of abattoir\nAll\nabattoir, at slaughterhouse\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:54'), | |
| (200, 'abbey', 'noun', 32, 'ˈæb.i', '../audio/a/abbey.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abb/abbey/abbey.mp3', 'ˈæb.i', '../audio/a/uka____024.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____024.mp3', 'Westminster Abbey\n\n Apparently, the abbey had suffered from the loss of seasonal pastures, a recurring but disastrous phenomenon.\n \n\n The cry went up among the abbey party that the mayor intended to remove the sanctuary men.\n \n\n The abbey was to achieve a much clearer victory in 1120.\n \n\n Some bishops accumulated the revenues from six large abbeys.\n \n\n From the mid-fourteenth century the abbey\'s manors had been farmed out wholesale including demesne, rent roll and court perquisites.\n \n\n The first three houses were abbeys, the last a priory.\n \n\n Most of the original windows of the abbey have been filled with masonry, so lighting conditions in the interior can be difficult.\n \n\n There are a number of possible reasons for the abbey\'s surprising absence from most religious histories of the period.\n \n\n In my view, a comparison with the creation of abbeys is inappropriate.\n \n\n While the abbey could thus expect to come under the gaze of the political nation, it also exerted a more direct influence over the locality.\n \n\n Commercial life was also stimulated by the abbey.\n \n\n Stevens took the opportunity to complain of the abbey\'s alleged transgressions.\n \n\n That the abbey did not accept this offer is a clear indication of its long-term priorities regarding policy.\n \n\n They targeted the abbey because the saint\'s jurisdiction adjoined their minster and presumably in the hope of its patronage.\n \n\n The abbeys were not reserved for the clergy, they were distributed among the nobility, to women and even to children as additional sources of income.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na building where monks or nuns live or used to live. Some abbeys are now used as churches: Westminster Abbey\nMore examplesFewer examplesWe glimpsed the ruined abbey from the windows of the train.The abbey was completely rebuilt in 1503 after it had been destroyed by fire.The town\'s fame rests on its beautiful 14th-century abbey.The abbey was recently restored after decades of disuse.We walked through the ruins of the abbey.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nReligious buildings & places\nashram\ncaliphate\ncathedral\nchapel\nchurch\nhermitage\nholy city\nhouse of God\nhouse of worship\nmadrasa\nmosque\nnunnery\npagoda\npantheon\nparsonage\ntabernacle\nthe Holy See\nUnited Church of Canada\nvicarage\nwat\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nReligious people: monks & nuns\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\na building for monks (= religious men) or nuns (= religious women) to live in', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:54'), | |
| (205, 'abbess', 'noun', 32, 'ˈæb.es', '../audio/a/usad___014.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___014.mp3', 'ˈæb.es', '../audio/a/uka____023.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____023.mp3', '\n And every bishop, abbot and abbess who is able to do so is to give a pound of silver in alms.\n \n\n Petitioners recognized the influential position the abbess had obtained as a result of her own patronage of the exiled and impecunious royalists.\n \n\n In return for the aid, the abbess expected to reap the fruits of royal patronage once the king\'s fortunes were reversed.\n \n\n The introductory essay provides a vivid account of some of the last abbesses and prioresses drawn mainly from episcopal and archiepiscopal visitation records.\n \n\n The monastery itself provided accommodation for the symposium participants, thanks to the hospitality of the abbess.\n \n\n The abbess\'s influence with the king and his courtiers is only comprehensible in the light of the business she conducted on their behalf.\n \n\n Every bishop but one, and a very high proportion of abbots and abbesses, were of noble family.\n \n\n It offers a detailed description of the abbess\'s involvement in royalist affairs, but does not explore the motives for her assistance.\n \n\n Given the network of agents the abbess employed, it is probable that some were more invisible to government probing than others.\n \n\n Moreover, the abbess ignored other more serious obstacles to her plan.\n \n\n The other obstacles hindering the abbess were her gender and her religious profession.\n \n\n The abbess acquired such a formidable reputation as a successful patron that other royalists approached her when their own applications to the king\'s ministers had failed.\n \n\n The nuns\' duty was to pray and sing the divine office in the convent church with their sisters, attend the chapter chaired by the abbess, and engage in collective works.\n \n\n Barrin was, however, convinced of a concerted attempt to undermine the authority of the new abbess, with some nuns claiming her letters of provision were defective.\n \n\n As abbess, thelburg began work on a church in honour of the twelve apostles which was left unfinished at her death in 664.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na woman who is in charge of a convent Compare\nabbot\nprioress\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nReligious people: monks & nuns\nabbey\nabbot\nanchorite\nascetic\nbenedictine\nconvent\nfriar\nfriary\nhabit\nhermit\nlay brother\nlay sister\nmonastically\nmonasticism\nmonk\nmother\nnovice\npriory\nTrappist monk\nveil\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:54'), | |
| (213, 'abbot', 'noun', 32, 'ˈæb.ət', '../audio/a/usad___015.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___015.mp3', 'ˈæb.ət', '../audio/a/uka____025.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____025.mp3', '\n And every bishop, abbot and abbess who is able to do so is to give a pound of silver in alms.\n \n\n The abbot finds him and persuades him to take shelter in the hospice.\n \n\n Benedictines, for instance, were to be provided by their abbots (or the relevant obedientiary) with the material tools necessary for their spiritual work.\n \n\n For this he required a licence from the diocesan and permission from his abbot and brethren.\n \n\n They figured among the most personal councillors and guards of emperors and empresses, they officiated as patriarchs, metropolitans, bishops and abbots.\n \n\n Every bishop but one, and a very high proportion of abbots and abbesses, were of noble family.\n \n\n This sequence concerns the appointment of the abbot and his tenure from the king.\n \n\n An abbot, an archbishop, and the viking raids of 1006-7 and 1009-12 at which viking raids were certainly discussed.\n \n\n And he rejects an abbot\'s remonstrances with him to repent and pray.\n \n\n This passage is found in the \' negligences of the abbot \' section.\n \n\n In the abbot\'s somewhat outlandish style, the former archbishop is referred to as one \'whose memory is not to be annihilated\'.\n \n\n An abbot, an archbishop, and the viking raids of 1006-7 and 1009-12 century, and, in combination, provide a remarkable analogy for the coinage.\n \n\n Rather than yield to discouragement, the abbot set about rebuilding the abbey and reconstructing his research materials.\n \n\n And see to it as you love me that you have the abbot treated justly and honorably.\n \n\n The fact that the titular abbot was also the metropolitan and primate cast the convent into a peculiar position.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na man who is in charge of a monastery\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nReligious people: monks & nuns\nabbess\nabbey\nanchorite\nascetic\nbenedictine\nconvent\nfriar\nfriary\nhabit\nhermit\nlay brother\nlay sister\nmonastically\nmonasticism\nmonk\nmother\nnovice\npriory\nTrappist monk\nveil\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:54'), | |
| (226, 'abbreviate', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbriː.vi.eɪt', '../audio/a/eus70010.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/e/eus/eus70/eus70010.mp3', 'əˈbriː.vi.eɪt', '../audio/a/uka____026.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____026.mp3', '\"Chief Executive Officer\" is abbreviated as \"CEO\".\n\"Daniel\" is often abbreviated to \"Dan\".\nWe had to abbreviate the names of the states.\nAn abbreviated version was published last year.\n\n Because of this restriction, a type containing type variables cannot be abbreviated in this way.\n \n\n For the sake of perspicuity, abbreviated names of constraints are spelled out.\n \n\n The attributes total, associative, etc. further specify the functionality, but also abbreviate appropriate clauses.\n \n\n Distilling melodic motion to the most expectant and abbreviated of half cadences, the motive makes a strong impression of incompleteness and immediate demand.\n \n\n The following section with tonic return is abbreviated, mm. 40-2, using, as noted, the \"borrowed\" closing music and text of the preceding recitative.\n \n\n Frailty is associated with symptomatic long-term disease, decline in function, and abbreviated survival.\n \n\n The complete structure of the case is not shown; we have abbreviated the subnetwork corresponding to the case information as jones-case-information.\n \n\n Each entry then continues with a comprehensive bibliography of the object, abbreviated and in chronological order.\n \n\n The description here is abbreviated, focussing on the main conceptual points.\n \n\n Asymptotically almost surely (abbreviated to a. a. s.) denotes that an event occurs with probability 1 - o(1).\n \n\n So, the two rules above are often abbreviated by the formula edge ko(0, 1).\n \n\n In that case, the abbreviations and the words they were assumed to abbreviate are added to the abbreviation lexicon.\n \n\n The description may be abbreviated when well-accepted techniques are used with appropriate reference to previously published methods.\n \n\n Independent variables in regressions models are abbreviated as follows: clay (clay content), trees (number of trees) and litter (volume of litter).\n \n\n It can\'t be paraphrased or abbreviated: one wants it all.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nto make a word or phrase shorter by using only the first letters of each word: abbreviate something as \"Chief Executive Officer\" is abbreviated as \"CEO\".abbreviate something to \"Daniel\" is often abbreviated to \"Dan\".\nThesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples\nto be the abbreviation for somethingbe an/the abbreviation forDST is the abbreviation for daylight saving time.stand forGPS stands for \"Global Positioning System\".short for somethingJo is short for Josephine.be abbreviated toThe word \"immunoglobulin\" is often abbreviated to \"Ig\".be shortened toThe word \"propeller\" is often shortened to \"prop\".\nSee more results »\nMore examplesFewer examplesThere are many different ways to abbreviate the name \"Elizabeth\".It\'s normal to abbreviate a lot of words when writing text messages.\"Centimetres\", is generally abbreviated to \"cm\" without any full stop after it.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nPunctuation\nabbreviated\naccent\nacute\napostrophe\nat sign\nblock capitals\ncaron\ncolon\ncomma\ndiacritical\ndouble prime\npunctuation mark\nsemicolon\nsmall cap\nsmall capitals\nsolidus\nsquare brackets\nstroke\nunbracketed\nuncapitalized\nSee more results »\nRelated word\nabbreviated\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nto shorten a word or words, or to make something shorter: We had to abbreviate the names of the states. abbreviated adjective [ not gradable ] us\nYour browser doesn\'t support HTML5 audio\n/əˈbri·viˌeɪ·t̬ɪd/\nAn abbreviated version was published last year.', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:54'), | |
| (227, 'abbreviated', 'adjective', 32, 'əˈbriː.vi.eɪ.t̬ɪd', '../audio/a/cus00021.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cus/cus00/cus00021.mp3', 'əˈbriː.vi.eɪ.tɪd', '../audio/a/cuk00021.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/c/cuk/cuk00/cuk00021.mp3', 'The show was broadcast in abbreviated form the next day.\nThey exchanged a passionate, but abbreviated, kiss.\nThe students were given an abbreviated intelligence test.\n\"Di\" is the abbreviated form of \"Diane\".\nThe bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich is more commonly referred to by its abbreviated name, BLT.\n\n Surely this abbreviated family history neglects some lines of descent, given the eighteenth-century use of the term.\n \n\n Once the practical limit of abbreviated inpatient stays is reached, further efficiencies will be attainable chiefly by addressing clinical practices themselves.\n \n\n Whether those with passive cercarial dispersion and those with abbreviated life-cycles are equally vulnerable to pollution has yet to be investigated.\n \n\n Because of this restriction, a type containing type variables cannot be abbreviated in this way.\n \n\n For the sake of perspicuity, abbreviated names of constraints are spelled out.\n \n\n Abbreviated life cycles in trematodes : short is sweet?\n \n\n Broadcasting directly to a personal pager again requires natural language, but in a far more abbreviated form to allow for a pager\'s limited message length.\n \n\n The use of an abbreviated assessment (with the expected increase in measurement error and reduced variance) likely attenuated the associations observed in the present study.\n \n\n Distilling melodic motion to the most expectant and abbreviated of half cadences, the motive makes a strong impression of incompleteness and immediate demand.\n \n\n The following section with tonic return is abbreviated, mm. 40-2, using, as noted, the \"borrowed\" closing music and text of the preceding recitative.\n \n\n Frailty is associated with symptomatic long-term disease, decline in function, and abbreviated survival.\n \n\n This approach prunes a large number of states and transitions corresponding to character sequences that are never manifested in the abbreviated text input.\n \n\n There is no obvious functional explanation for the abbreviated anterior opisthosomal segments.\n \n\n The article begins with abbreviated reviews of research on networks and instruments, and then offers a rationale for connecting the themes theoretically.\n \n\n The complete structure of the case is not shown; we have abbreviated the subnetwork corresponding to the case information as jones-case-information.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nshorter than usual or shorter than expected: in abbreviated form The show was broadcast in abbreviated form the next day. They exchanged a passionate, but abbreviated, kiss. The students were given an abbreviated intelligence test.\n(of a word or phrase) made shorter by using only the first letters of each word : abbreviated form \"Di\" is the abbreviated form of \"Diane\". The bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich is more commonly referred to by its abbreviated name, BLT. See\nabbreviate\nMore examplesFewer examplesHer answers became progressively more abbreviated.He hopes to beat the odds and outlive his abbreviated life expectancy.What follows is an abbreviated guide to what\'s available.Texting and instant messaging have their own abbreviated jargon.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nShort in time\nat a moment\'s/two hours\'/three weeks\', etc. notice idiom\nawhile\nbe short notice idiom\nbite-sized\nblink\nblitz\nbout\nbrief\nbriefly\ndose\nin small doses idiom\nin the blink of an eye idiom\ninstant\njiffy\nmicro-moment\nshortness\nsnatched\nsplit second\ntransient\ntransiently\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nPunctuation', 'More meanings of abbreviated\nAll\nabbreviated adjective, at abbreviate\nabbreviate\nabbreviated form\nabbreviated accounts\nin abbreviated form\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:57'), | |
| (230, 'abbreviating', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbriː.vi.eɪt', '../audio/a/eus70010.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/e/eus/eus70/eus70010.mp3', 'əˈbriː.vi.eɪt', '../audio/a/uka____026.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____026.mp3', '\"Daniel\" is often abbreviated to \"Dan\".\n\"Chief Executive Officer\" is abbreviated as \"CEO\".\n\n In such cases, the proof of the later often refers in some general terms to the former, abbreviating it even further.\n \n\n A mechanism for abbreviating contexts might make type signatures readable and maintainable, even in this kind of program.\n \n\n The formalization does not yet include patterns for float constants and for type constructors abbreviating polymorphic variants (# typeconstr).\n \n\n Given the highly formulaic nature of these cases, the editor has greatly abbreviated the individual entries both by omitting less significant information and by actually abbreviating words.\n \n\n Jonson colloquialises periodic construction by abbreviating it and placing the main clause/verb very early.\n \n\n Furthermore, abbreviating an equation s t = true in a goal as s t, we can treat s t as if it were an ordinary (non-strict) equation.\n \n\n I thought that afterwards, we might save time by abbreviating it.\n \n\n We are now abbreviating that period to three years, and therefore we are greatly assisting the executors of the wife\'s estate.\n \n\n I am abbreviating the procedure somewhat.\n \n\n I was abbreviating my remarks.\n \n\n That is why we say that far from the debates so far being a reason for abbreviating the discussions, they are a reason for extending it.\n \n\n We are abbreviating everything now.\n \n\n There are other abbreviating devices, including capitalisation, and the use of punctuation marks to denote combinations of sounds.\n \n\n There is of course difficulty in abbreviating a presentation of work which covers more than 700 papers and 25 books.\n \n\n With little room in the margins, instructors use more underlining, coding, and abbreviating.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npresent participle of\nabbreviate\nto make a word or phrase shorter by using only the first letters of each word: \"Daniel\" is often abbreviated to \"Dan\". \"Chief Executive Officer\" is abbreviated as \"CEO\".\nThesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples\nto be the abbreviation for somethingbe an/the abbreviation forDST is the abbreviation for daylight saving time.stand forGPS stands for \"Global Positioning System\".short for somethingJo is short for Josephine.be abbreviated toThe word \"immunoglobulin\" is often abbreviated to \"Ig\".be shortened toThe word \"propeller\" is often shortened to \"prop\".\nSee more results »\nMore examplesFewer examplesThere is a list of abbreviations near the beginning of the book.What does the abbreviation WHO stand for?Please use the abbreviation \"cm\" for \"centimetres\", without any full stop after it.Sorry - could you explain what some of these abbreviations mean in your letter?We generally use the abbreviation \"MP\" instead of writing out \"Member of Parliament\" in full.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nPunctuation\nabbreviated\naccent\nacute\napostrophe\nat sign\nblock capitals\nbracket\ncaron\ncolon\ncomma\ndiacritical\ndouble prime\npunctuation mark\nsemicolon\nsmall cap\nsmall capitals\nsolidus\ntilde\nunbracketed\nuncapitalized\nSee more results »\nRelated word\nabbreviated', 'More meanings of abbreviating\nAll\nabbreviate\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:57'), | |
| (231, 'abbreviation', 'noun', 32, 'əˌbriː.viˈeɪ.ʃən', '../audio/a/abbreviation.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abb/abbre/abbreviation.mp3', 'əˌbriː.viˈeɪ.ʃən', '../audio/a/uka____027.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____027.mp3', '\"ITV\" is the abbreviation for \"Independent Television\".\nUN is the abbreviation for the United Nations.\nThe letters i.e. are an abbreviation of a Latin phrase that means \"that is.\"\n\n At this point it will be convenient to introduce some abbreviations to save space in diagrams.\n \n\n See table 1 for abbreviations of names of populations.\n \n\n The language extends simple arithmetic (with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) by adding user-definable constants (abbreviations) and user-definable unary functions.\n \n\n The ring is dated on artistic grounds, a dating supported by the script and the large quantity of abbreviation used.\n \n\n It is nondeterministic in the backward direction; multiple word sequences may yield the same abbreviation.\n \n\n Other examples include the common practice of eliminating vowels in creating abbreviations or program identifiers.\n \n\n The section ends with a brief note on etymology, including one or two pointers to etymological abbreviations and conventions found in dictionaries.\n \n\n Type abbreviations can help simplify the presentation of concrete types, but abstract encodings require type variables and those variables need to appear in the interface.\n \n\n Such modifications are cunning, especially given her abbreviations elsewhere.\n \n\n In addition to serving as abbreviations, class types can be combined to establish new class types.\n \n\n The dictionary includes over 12 000 entries with over 640 abbreviations listed in a separate table.\n \n\n The same abbreviations appear in reverse order beneath the characters\' names and have been crossed out.\n \n\n Because of this, e-mail writers start using abbreviations, omitting subject pronouns and auxiliaries, and decapitalizing the initial letters in sentences or proper nouns.\n \n\n We begin by defining a convenient -calculus formula abbreviation, using familiar notation.\n \n\n Four appendices follow, containing origin of life models, definitions of life, a dictionary of technical terms and a list of abbreviations.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na short form of a word or phrase: \"ITV\" is the abbreviation for \"Independent Television\".\nThesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples\nto be the abbreviation for somethingbe an/the abbreviation forDST is the abbreviation for daylight saving time.stand forGPS stands for \"Global Positioning System\".short for somethingJo is short for Josephine.be abbreviated toThe word \"immunoglobulin\" is often abbreviated to \"Ig\".be shortened toThe word \"propeller\" is often shortened to \"prop\".\nSee more results »\nMore examplesFewer examplesThere is a list of abbreviations near the beginning of the book.What does the abbreviation WHO stand for?Please use the abbreviation \"cm\" for \"centimetres\", without any full stop after it.Sorry - could you explain what some of these abbreviations mean in your letter?We generally use the abbreviation \"MP\" instead of writing out \"Member of Parliament\" in full.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nLinguistics: terminology & vocabulary\nabbreviated form\naccommodation\nalphabetic\nAmericanism\nAnglicism\nantonymous\nbuzzword\ncognate\ncoinage\nhomographic\nhomography\nhomonymic\nhomonymy\nhomophonic\npalindrome\npragmatics\nproductive\nproductively\nreceptive\nreceptively\nSee more results »\nGrammar\nInitialsAn initial is the first letter of a word. We often use initials to refer to the names of countries and organisations: …\nAcronymsAcronyms are words which are formed from the first letters of other words, and which are pronounced as full words. Examples of acronyms: …\nAbbreviations, initials and acronymsWhen we abbreviate a word or phrase, we shorten it. Abbreviations can be formed from the first letters of the word or phrase. In such cases, we normally say them by spelling out each letter: …\nAbbreviations and lettersWhen we abbreviate a word or phrase, we shorten it. Abbreviations can be formed from the first letters of the word or phrase. In such cases, we normally say them by spelling out each letter: …\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\na shortened form esp. of a word or phrase: UN is the abbreviation for the United Nations. The letters i.e. are an abbreviation of a Latin phrase that means \"that is.\"', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:57'), | |
| (238, 'abc', 'noun', 32, 'ˌeɪ.biːˈsiː', '../audio/a/usad___016.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___016.mp3', 'ˌeɪ.biːˈsiː', '../audio/a/uka____028.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____028.mp3', 'He\'s learning his ABC at school.\nWhat I need is a book that contains the ABC of carpentry.', 'ABC noun\n(ALPHABET)\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\n[ S ] UK (US ABCs [ plural ]) the alphabet: He\'s learning his ABC at school.\n[ S ] UK (US ABCs [ plural ]) basic information about a subject: What I need is a book that contains the ABC of carpentry.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nLetters of alphabets\naitch\nalphabet\nalphabetic\nalphabetical\nalphabetically\nalphabetization\nalphanumeric\nalphanumerically\nB, b\ngamma\nI, i\niota\nJ, j\nK, k\nkappa\nQ, q\nrho\nS, s\nsigma\nT, t\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nLettering & alphabets\nInformation and messages\nABC noun\n(TV)\nabbreviation for American Broadcasting Company: an organization that broadcasts on television in the US the ABC\nabbreviation for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: an organization that broadcasts on radio and television in Australia and is paid for by the government\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nBroadcasting organizations\nCBS\ncommercial\nITV\nMTV\nNBC\nnon-commercial\nnon-network\noutlet\nPBS\nstreaming service\ntelecom\nthe BBC\nthe Beeb\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nabbreviation for\nthe Audit Bureau of Circulations', 'More meanings of ABC\nAll\nABCs\nABC method\nABC, at ABCs\nABC, at the Audit Bureau of Circulations\nABC analysis\nABC method, at ABC analysis\n(as) easy as pie/ABC/anything/falling off a log idiom\nSee all meanings\nIdioms and phrases\n(as) easy as pie/ABC/anything/falling off a log idiom', '2023-10-22 23:05:57'), | |
| (252, 'abdicate', 'verb', 32, 'ˈæb.də.keɪt', '../audio/a/abdicate.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abd/abdic/abdicate.mp3', 'ˈæb.dɪ.keɪt', '../audio/a/uka____030.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____030.mp3', 'King Edward VIII abdicated (the British throne) in 1936.\nShe abdicated all responsibility for the project.\nEdward VIII abdicated the British throne in 1936.\nThe administration has abdicated its leadership on this critical issue.\nI think it’s an abdication of your responsibility if you don’t vote.\n\n What some of my colleagues call \"depoliticising monetary policy\"others might call\"abdicating responsibility for monetary policy\".\n \n\n If he abdicated from his position of wanting the compulsory powers, a great deal of the difficulty would go.\n \n\n Abdicating power to the market undermines and devalues democracy, and gives comfort only to those for whom democracy is a threat.\n \n\n We realise that free public opinion has abdicated its position in this country.\n \n\n I say it is abdicating its responsibilities now.\n \n\n We are not abdicating responsibility—that is what happened under the previous lot.\n \n\n Has he abdicated all responsibility for public sector housing?\n \n\n They have abdicated their responsibility in the way in which they have sought to tackle these problems.\n \n\n They have abdicated any further responsibility for the evolution of these arrangements.\n \n\n The company abdicated its responsibility by going into liquidation and trading under another name.\n \n\n She is abdicating responsibility for the decisions taken about her life and future.\n \n\n Certainly, insurance companies have a role to play in abdicating insurance if a drunken driver is found guilty of an offence.\n \n\n Any government which fail to act in that capacity have abdicated a primary responsibility.\n \n\n He has abdicated his responsibilities and he should resign.\n \n\n About 20 years ago, the cricket authority abdicated its responsibility to young cricket players by producing wickets at county level that produced results.\n ', 'abdicate verb\n(KING/QUEEN)\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\n[ I or T ] If a king or queen abdicates, he or she makes a formal statement that he or she no longer wants to be king or queen: King Edward VIII abdicated (the British throne) in 1936.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nRetiring & resigning\nabdication\nattrition\nbow\nbow out\nchuck\nchuck something in\ndefenestrate\ngolden handcuffs\ngolden handshake\ngolden parachute\nhand in your notice phrase\nleave the field open for someone idiom\npension\nretire\nretired\nretiree\nretirement\nretiring\nserve out\nturnover\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nStop having or doing something\nabdicate verb\n(NOT DO)\nabdicate responsibility formal disapproving\nto stop controlling or managing something that you are in charge of: She abdicated all responsibility for the project.\nSee more Related word\nabdication\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nto give up a position as king, or to fail to take responsibility for something: [ T ] Edward VIII abdicated the British throne in 1936. The administration has abdicated its leadership on this critical issue. abdication noun [ C/U ] us\nYour browser doesn\'t support HTML5 audio\n/ˌæb·dɪˈkeɪ·ʃən/\n[ U ] I think it’s an abdication of your responsibility if you don’t vote.', 'More meanings of abdicate\nAll\nabdicate responsibility phrase\nSee all meanings\nIdioms and phrases\nabdicate responsibility phrase', '2023-10-22 23:05:57'), | |
| (253, 'abdicated', 'verb', 32, 'ˈæb.də.keɪt', '../audio/a/abdicate.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abd/abdic/abdicate.mp3', 'ˈæb.dɪ.keɪt', '../audio/a/uka____030.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____030.mp3', 'King Edward VIII abdicated (the British throne) in 1936.\nShe abdicated all responsibility for the project.\n\n Not only were the violators not punished, but local officials stopped convening meetings or demanding compulsory labour, as though they had abdicated their authority.\n \n\n On the contrary, he had let himself be prevailed upon to abandon his kingdom without a government and had thus abdicated the throne.\n \n\n The point is that government has a responsibility to decide which cannot be abdicated by deference to a belief in the inevitability of market forces.\n \n\n As they condescended (or abdicated their distinction), visitors were required to act like the people they were trying to help.\n \n\n They thus abdicated their monopoly on leadership.\n \n\n Condescension originally denoted an act whereby an authority figure temporarily abdicated the privileges of his or her position for the benefit of a dependant.\n \n\n Morality as such was abdicated in favour of an immutable \'cosmic process\'.\n \n\n If he abdicated from his position of wanting the compulsory powers, a great deal of the difficulty would go.\n \n\n We realise that free public opinion has abdicated its position in this country.\n \n\n Has he abdicated all responsibility for public sector housing?\n \n\n They have abdicated their responsibility in the way in which they have sought to tackle these problems.\n \n\n They have abdicated any further responsibility for the evolution of these arrangements.\n \n\n The company abdicated its responsibility by going into liquidation and trading under another name.\n \n\n Any government which fail to act in that capacity have abdicated a primary responsibility.\n \n\n He has abdicated his responsibilities and he should resign.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npast simple and past participle of\nabdicate\nabdicate verb\n(KING/QUEEN)\n[ I or T ] If a king or queen abdicates, he or she makes a formal statement that he or she no longer wants to be king or queen: King Edward VIII abdicated (the British throne) in 1936.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nRetiring & resigning\nabdicate\nabdication\nattrition\nbow out\nchuck\nchuck something in\nget off\ngolden handcuffs\ngolden handshake\ngolden parachute\nhand in your notice phrase\npension\nresignation\nretd\nretire\nretired\nretiree\nretirement\nretiring\nturnover\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nStop having or doing something\nabdicate verb\n(NOT DO)\nabdicate responsibility formal disapproving\nto stop controlling or managing something that you are in charge of: She abdicated all responsibility for the project.\nSee more\nRelated word\nabdication', 'More meanings of abdicated\nAll\nabdicate\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:57'), | |
| (255, 'abdicating', 'verb', 32, 'ˈæb.də.keɪt', '../audio/a/abdicate.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abd/abdic/abdicate.mp3', 'ˈæb.dɪ.keɪt', '../audio/a/uka____030.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka__/uka____030.mp3', 'King Edward VIII abdicated (the British throne) in 1936.\nShe abdicated all responsibility for the project.\n\n Others thought that they were the responsibility of their employers and were at risk of abdicating responsibility.\n \n\n What some of my colleagues call \"depoliticising monetary policy\"others might call\"abdicating responsibility for monetary policy\".\n \n\n Abdicating power to the market undermines and devalues democracy, and gives comfort only to those for whom democracy is a threat.\n \n\n I say it is abdicating its responsibilities now.\n \n\n We are not abdicating responsibility—that is what happened under the previous lot.\n \n\n She is abdicating responsibility for the decisions taken about her life and future.\n \n\n Certainly, insurance companies have a role to play in abdicating insurance if a drunken driver is found guilty of an offence.\n \n\n In doing so, they are abdicating the responsibility they have in playing a part in the security of the civilian population.\n \n\n It would appear that they are abdicating their responsibilities in that regard.\n \n\n This may protect your dogmas, but as politicians you are simply abdicating your responsibility to do everything in your power to combat unemployment.\n \n\n If an organisation is in the position of assessing people and deciding what services to provide, then the local authority would be abdicating its responsibilities.\n \n\n Is that not abdicating international control over two-thirds of the earth\'s surface, which is already potentially an arsenal, a gold mine and a sewer?\n \n\n In the past year, it has responded by abdicating responsibility and undermining the principle of authority, which is profoundly damaging to our children\'s education.\n \n\n We are abdicating our responsibilities if we do not take up that challenge.\n \n\n He referred to county councils abdicating their responsibilities.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npresent participle of\nabdicate\nabdicate verb\n(KING/QUEEN)\n[ I or T ] If a king or queen abdicates, he or she makes a formal statement that he or she no longer wants to be king or queen: King Edward VIII abdicated (the British throne) in 1936.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nRetiring & resigning\nabdicate\nabdication\nattrition\nbow out\nchuck\nchuck something in\nget off\ngolden handcuffs\ngolden handshake\ngolden parachute\nhand in your notice phrase\npension\nresignation\nretd\nretire\nretired\nretiree\nretirement\nretiring\nturnover\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nStop having or doing something\nabdicate verb\n(NOT DO)\nabdicate responsibility formal disapproving\nto stop controlling or managing something that you are in charge of: She abdicated all responsibility for the project.\nSee more\nRelated word\nabdication', 'More meanings of abdicating\nAll\nabdicate\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:57'), | |
| (256, 'abdication', 'noun', 32, 'ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən', '../audio/a/abdication.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abd/abdic/abdication.mp3', 'ˌæb.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃən', '../audio/a/ukabdic001.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic001.mp3', 'The council denied that their decision represented any abdication of responsibility.\nIt is difficult to imagine a more flagrant abdication of duty.\nThe romance between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson resulted in Edward\'s abdication from the throne.\nHis abdication speech was broadcast on the radio.\n\n Yet these are precisely the kinds of reactions that promote abdication of control and hope on the part of those suffering from mental disorder.\n \n\n The results could be abdication of personal responsibility and an undermining of traditional religious morality.\n \n\n It is only by becoming an official of the state that such an abdication of responsibility is justifiable.\n \n\n The very nation he had served now betrayed him; he wavered between revenge, abdication and denial.\n \n\n The copious pleasures on offer there are too artificial, too flagrantly polymorphous to allow the subject his conventional abdication of the self.\n \n\n The emergence of a culture of compromise should not be misinterpreted as an abdication of the role of congress as a comptroller of executive ambitions.\n \n\n His abdication undermined the framework of military unity.\n \n\n While this characterization may have been apt in some instances, intimidation rather than ideological orientation was responsible for many of the abdications.\n \n\n In the case of total abdication this intersection would be empty.\n \n\n His abdication is not therefore judged a failure.\n \n\n By the same token, this may explain why abdication in favour of one of his sons was said finally to have commended itself to the king himself.\n \n\n Medical training inculcates this belief and if physicians were to relinquish this power to patients, they would most likely believe this was an abdication of their professional responsibility.\n \n\n Only if the panic had been great enough to cause an abdication, or at least some change of policy, would the perpetrators have felt able to boast of their tactics.\n \n\n Its ethical open-endedness, the multiplicity of perspectives, voices, and judgments it offers, and its abdication of narrative authority, may all be construed as forms of resistance to narrative closure.\n \n\n Wilkes may have had no serious expectation of forcing his king\'s abdication, yet he did create conditions that, had circumstances developed perfectly, might have led in that direction.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe fact of no longer controlling or managing something that you are in charge of: The council denied that their decision represented any abdication of responsibility. It is difficult to imagine a more flagrant abdication of duty.\nan occasion when a king or queen makes a formal statement that he or she no longer wants to be king or queen: The romance between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson resulted in Edward\'s abdication from the throne. His abdication speech was broadcast on the radio. See\nabdicate\nMore examplesFewer examplesIt was a shocking abdication of responsibility.His abdication of presidential authority was observed with mounting concern. She believes that the pursuit of consensus is the abdication of leadership. It was an extraordinary time in Nepal, with the declaration of a democratic republic in May and the abdication of the king in June.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nStop having or doing something\nabdicate\nbail out\nbandh\nbomb out\nbreak with something\nbreak with tradition\nforfeitable\nforgo\nforsake\nforswear\nghost\ngive up\ngive up the ghost idiom\nlay\nself-denying\nself-denyingly\nself-sacrifice\nself-sacrificing\nself-sacrificingly\nthrow\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nRetiring & resigning', 'More meanings of abdication\nAll\nabdication noun, at abdicate\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:57'), | |
| (264, 'abdomen', 'noun', 32, 'ˈæb.də.mən', '../audio/a/abdomen.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abd/abdom/abdomen.mp3', 'ˈæb.də.mən', '../audio/a/ukabdic002.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic002.mp3', 'This virus causes terrible abdominal pain.\n\n When at rest the wings slightly diverge and are elevated at a considerable angle above the thorax and abdomen.\n \n\n They underwent surgery because of the serious lesions in their abdomen, and not because of their overall poor condition.\n \n\n The stomach is seen as a sonolucent area in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen.\n \n\n An immediate and visible release of the stomach wall and abdomen followed.\n \n\n The abdomen of the female was held straight out, with the ovipositor slightly raised.\n \n\n The hind legs and lower abdomen rapidly became coated with a thick layer of pollen.\n \n\n As they walked, they waggled their abdomens from side to side, while their hind legs moved backwards and forwards, apparently combing pollen from the anthers.\n \n\n She reported a sensation of inner restlessness in both upper arms, abdomen, and back, but denied such inner restlessness in the lower extremities or legs.\n \n\n Ventral surface of thorax and abdomen brown, more or less extensively suffused and marbled with bluish or greenish grey.\n \n\n The remainder of the gut was removed by dissection from the posterior end of the abdomen.\n \n\n Abdomen : the tergites basally banded from the third segment, the bands pale creamy, otherwise dark brown.\n \n\n The remaining organs of the thorax and abdomen were also arranged in their anticipated normal fashion.\n \n\n Soldiers have a thorax and abdomen that resemble those of workers.\n \n\n In mating, the male mounts the female and curves his abdomen round one side of the ovipositor, usually the left side.\n \n\n The abdomen of the male was curved under its head.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe lower part of a person\'s or animal\'s body, containing the stomach, bowels, and other organs, or the end of an insect\'s body\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nThe human torso\n-bellied\n-chested\nabs\naxilla\nbread basket\nbreast\ncoeliac\ndiaphragm\nflank\ngroin\npot\nshoulder\nsix-pack\nspare tyre\nthoracic\nthorax\numbilicus\nvisceral muscle\nwaisted\nwaistline\nSee more results »\nRelated word\nabdominal\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe part of the body that contains stomach, bowels, and other organs in a person or animal abdominal adjective [ not gradable ] us\nYour browser doesn\'t support HTML5 audio\n/æbˈdɑm·ə·nəl, əb-/\nThis virus causes terrible abdominal pain.', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:57'), | |
| (267, 'abdominal', 'adjective', 32, 'æbˈdɑː.mə.nəl', '../audio/a/abdominal.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abd/abdom/abdominal.mp3', 'æbˈdɒm.ɪ.nəl', '../audio/a/ukabdic003.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic003.mp3', 'abdominal pains\nA membrane covers the abdominal cavity.\nThis exercise works your abdominal muscles.\n\n On the sides of the eighth abdominal segment a pair of small 5-branched feathered tufts (fig. 11, e).\n \n\n This would suggest that the condition of the viscera was ascertained through palpation, in particular, of the abdominal body surface.\n \n\n The remainder of the descending thoracic aorta was also stiff and somewhat narrow, while the abdominal aorta was pliable and of normal caliber.\n \n\n The value of examination of the relationship of the abdominal great vessels as part of the fetal scan, therefore, should be emphasized.\n \n\n A group of 50 mice was exposed via the abdominal skin to 300 cercariae each.\n \n\n They also represented one normally relatively minor (cough and/or sore throat) and one, at least potentially, more serious condition (abdominal pain).\n \n\n The cost-effectiveness of early surgery versus watchful waiting in the management of small abdominal aortic aneurysms.\n \n\n Symptoms included diarrhoea (100 %), abdominal cramps (76 %), vomiting (46 %), and fever (46 %).\n \n\n From there, efferent impulses are carried by the vagus and phrenic nerves to the stomach and abdominal musculature, resulting in vomiting.\n \n\n Some patients may suffer from severe abdominal cramps, fever, chills, headache and myalgia, nausea and malaise.\n \n\n First seven abdominal terga and sterna with densely and veryfinelyasperate ampullae, those of intermediate segments smaller, that of 7th tergum larger than the others.\n \n\n Cuticular prominences as in the two previous instars occur on all the thoracic and abdominal segments except the prothorax, disposed as in the previous instar.\n \n\n Open spiracles occur on the prothorax and first eight abdominal segments.\n \n\n Weighted regressions were used for abdominals and sternopleurals as the sample sizes were not constant for all populations.\n \n\n From the 116 completed questionnaires, 82 other children recorded at least one symptom, most commonly headache (41/116) and/or abdominal discomfort (33/116).\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nin, forming, or relating to the abdomen: abdominal pains A membrane covers the abdominal cavity. This exercise works your abdominal muscles. See\nabdomen\nMore examplesFewer examplesHe underwent abdominal surgery last week.The inner surface of the abdominal wall is pink and shiny.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nRelating to particular parts of the body\nabdominally\nabdominis\nanally\naortic\narterial\naural\nbronchial\ncranial\ngenito-urinary\nmotor\nneural\nnoncardiac\nnonvascular\noptic\norally\npubis\npulmonary\nrectal\nrenal\nspinal\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of abdominal\nAll\nabdominal adjective, at abdomen\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:57'), | |
| (271, 'abdominally', 'adverb', 32, 'ˌæbˈdɑː.mə.nəl.i', '../audio/a/cdo0623usabdo0003.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo06/cdo0623usabdo0003.mp3', 'æbˈdɒm.ɪ.nəl.i', '../audio/a/cdo0623ukabdo0003.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/c/cdo/cdo06/cdo0623ukabdo0003.mp3', 'The doctor palpated the patient abdominally.\nA hysterectomy can be performed either vaginally or abdominally. ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nin a way that relates to the abdomen or is done through the wall (= the outer part) of the abdomen: The doctor palpated the patient abdominally. A hysterectomy can be performed either vaginally or abdominally.\nMore examplesFewer examplesUltrasounds of the uterus done abdominally usually do not provide the detail needed for accurate diagnosis.As part of the experiment, the insects were injected abdominally with the extract.Learning to breathe abdominally can bring many health benefits, including a general relief of tension. Abdominally obese people have a dangerous amount of excess fat around their belly.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nRelating to particular parts of the body\nabdominal\nabdominis\nanally\naortic\narterial\naural\nbronchial\ncranial\ngenito-urinary\nmotor\nneural\nnoncardiac\nnonvascular\noptic\norally\npubis\npulmonary\nrectal\nrenal\nspinal\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:58'), | |
| (272, 'abdominals', 'noun', 32, 'æbˈdɑː.mə.nəlz', '../audio/a/cus00022.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cus/cus00/cus00022.mp3', 'æbˈdɒm.ɪ.nəlz', '../audio/a/cuk00022.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/c/cuk/cuk00/cuk00022.mp3', '\n Weighted regressions were used for abdominals and sternopleurals as the sample sizes were not constant for all populations.\n \n\n Losses of quantitative versus molecular variation best-fitting quadratic relationships for our experiments, the predicted values of proportions of quantitative genetic variation retained were 0.90 for abdominals and 0.66 for sternopleurals.\n \n\n The longest median suture is between the abdominals and the shortest is between the gulars, which equals about one half that between the humerals.\n \n\n The suture between the pectorals is not shorter than the suture between the abdominals.\n \n\n The plank strengthens the abdominals, back, and shoulders.\n \n\n The equipment is mainly used for the lower back, but can also target the gluteal muscles and the abdominals.\n \n\n It is a convergence of the diaphragm and the abdominals, so that when both sets of muscles (diaphragm and abdominals) tense, the epigastrium pushes forward.\n \n\n While breathing and engaging abdominals in this position, no strain should be felt through the lower back.\n \n\n The mainstays since inception included high and low-impact, legs, abdominals, body toning.\n \n\n Increasing the distance will also increase the load on the abdominals due to leverage.\n \n\n These nerves include the intercostals, phrenic, and abdominals.\n \n\n In order to keep the lower abdominals close to the spine; the breathing needs to be directed laterally, into the lower rib cage.\n \n\n It is caused by tight hip flexors and erector spinae with inhibited weak gluteals and abdominals.\n \n\n If the back stays flat on floor and abdominals are tight, this keeps the abs engaged.\n \n\n With controlled breaths, with a mid-way starting point, pull the abdominals back toward the spine, hold for 2 seconds and return to the mid-way point.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nmuscles in the abdomen\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nThe human torso\n-bellied\n-chested\nabs\naxilla\nbread basket\nbreast\ncoeliac\ncrotch\ndiaphragm\nflank\ngroin\npot\nshoulder\nsix-pack\nspare tyre\nthoracic\nthorax\numbilicus\nvisceral muscle\nwaisted\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:58'), | |
| (294, 'abduct', 'verb', 32, 'æbˈdʌkt', '../audio/a/abduct.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abd/abduc/abduct.mp3', 'æbˈdʌkt', '../audio/a/ukabdic004.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic004.mp3', 'The company director was abducted from his car by terrorists.\nListen for a clicking sound as the child\'s hips are abducted.\nKidnappers abducted the child from the playground.\nThe abduction took place in front of several helpless witnesses.\n\n Breathy voice is implemented primarily through abducting the vocal folds via the posterior cricoarytenoid muscles.\n \n\n Quite a few of these were abducted from small towns and villages rather than being volunteers.\n \n\n Some people prefer to adduct the other fingers and some abduct the other fingers so as not to disturb manipulation.\n \n\n It also points to the public nature of the abducting \'ceremony\'.\n \n\n The rebels on the other hand had few problems in replenishing and expanding their military stock by abducting young men in the territories they overran.\n \n\n It lacked the affective followership of armed movements in other failed states and most of its recruits were abducted.\n \n\n This is not the case for voiceless plosives, however, and both aspirated and unaspirated voiceless plosives have an abducted glottis throughout oral closure.\n \n\n The abducting men carried cudgels hidden in their clothes but took them out only if necessary.\n \n\n The widow was confronted by an abducting party with a sedan chair ready to take her away.\n \n\n Their property was sequestered and the women were abducted.\n \n\n Their arms are placed in the following position: forearms neutral, 2 elbows flexed to about radians and shoulders slightly abducted and flexed.\n \n\n But the shortfall does not necessarily indicate that many fewer women were abducted in the states.\n \n\n This is because, in order to produce frication, the vocal folds need to be slightly abducted.\n \n\n In one experiment, we gave participants a choice between abducting or adducting their hand in picking up the bar.\n \n\n The central plot concerns a king whose beloved sister is abducted by an ogre (nyak) ruler who transforms himself into a hawk to carry her away.\n ', 'abduct verb [T]\n(TAKE A PERSON)\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nto force someone to go somewhere with you, often using threats or violence: The company director was abducted from his car by terrorists. Synonyms\nkidnap\nsnatch (TAKE QUICKLY)\nThesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples\nto take someone somewheretakeI have to take my mother to the doctor today.go withI offered to go with him to the police station.come withCan you come to the hospital with me?accompanyChildren under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.driveMy husband usually drives the kids to school.give someone a liftCan you give me a lift into town?\nSee more results »\nabduct verb [T]\n(MOVE BODY PART)\nmedical\n  specialized to move a part of the body away from the central part of the body or away from another body part: Listen for a clicking sound as the child\'s hips are abducted.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nDirection of motion\nabduction\nadduct\nadduction\naround\nas the crow flies idiom\ncross-country\ndestined\ndirection\ndirection of travel\nen route\nfacing\nfollow\ngo\ninland\ninto\noutbound\noverland\nright\nstraightly\nthe right/wrong/other way around idiom\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nto take a person away by force: Kidnappers abducted the child from the playground. abduction noun [ C/U ] us\nYour browser doesn\'t support HTML5 audio\n/æbˈdʌk·ʃən, əb-/\n[ C ] The abduction took place in front of several helpless witnesses.', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:59'), | |
| (295, 'abducted', 'verb', 32, 'æbˈdʌkt', '../audio/a/abduct.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abd/abduc/abduct.mp3', 'æbˈdʌkt', '../audio/a/ukabdic004.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic004.mp3', 'The company director was abducted from his car by terrorists.\nListen for a clicking sound as the child\'s hips are abducted.\n\n Quite a few of these were abducted from small towns and villages rather than being volunteers.\n \n\n It lacked the affective followership of armed movements in other failed states and most of its recruits were abducted.\n \n\n This is not the case for voiceless plosives, however, and both aspirated and unaspirated voiceless plosives have an abducted glottis throughout oral closure.\n \n\n The girl also cannot turn around or be compelled to say that she had been abducted.\n \n\n This move obviates a legal charge from the girl\'s family that the boy abducted the girl.\n \n\n Their property was sequestered and the women were abducted.\n \n\n Their arms are placed in the following position: forearms neutral, 2 elbows flexed to about radians and shoulders slightly abducted and flexed.\n \n\n In many such cases the girl, under pressure from her family, charges that the boy abducted her.\n \n\n But the shortfall does not necessarily indicate that many fewer women were abducted in the states.\n \n\n This is because, in order to produce frication, the vocal folds need to be slightly abducted.\n \n\n To be sure, the published figures for the recovery of abducted women seem to paint a slightly different picture.\n \n\n The central plot concerns a king whose beloved sister is abducted by an ogre (nyak) ruler who transforms himself into a hawk to carry her away.\n \n\n I have not been abducted by aliens.\n \n\n Nanhui women who were abducted or witnessed abductions are generally in their eighties and nineties.\n \n\n Why had they been abducted?\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npast simple and past participle of\nabduct\nabduct verb [T]\n(TAKE A PERSON)\nto force someone to go somewhere with you, often using threats or violence: The company director was abducted from his car by terrorists. Synonyms\nkidnap\nsnatch (TAKE QUICKLY)\nThesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples\nto take someone somewheretakeI have to take my mother to the doctor today.go withI offered to go with him to the police station.come withCan you come to the hospital with me?accompanyChildren under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.driveMy husband usually drives the kids to school.give someone a liftCan you give me a lift into town?\nSee more results »\nabduct verb [T]\n(MOVE BODY PART)\nmedical\n  specialized to move a part of the body away from the central part of the body or away from another body part: Listen for a clicking sound as the child\'s hips are abducted.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nDirection of motion\nabduct\nabduction\nadduct\nadduction\naround\ncircumduction\ncross-country\ndestined\ndirection\ndirection of travel\nen route\nfollow\ninto\nmultidirectional\noutbound\noverland\nright\nstraightly\nthe right/wrong/other way around idiom\nwest\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of abducted\nAll\nabduct\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:59'), | |
| (296, 'abducting', 'verb', 32, 'æbˈdʌkt', '../audio/a/abduct.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abd/abduc/abduct.mp3', 'æbˈdʌkt', '../audio/a/ukabdic004.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic004.mp3', 'The company director was abducted from his car by terrorists.\nListen for a clicking sound as the child\'s hips are abducted.\n\n Breathy voice is implemented primarily through abducting the vocal folds via the posterior cricoarytenoid muscles.\n \n\n It also points to the public nature of the abducting \'ceremony\'.\n \n\n The rebels on the other hand had few problems in replenishing and expanding their military stock by abducting young men in the territories they overran.\n \n\n The abducting men carried cudgels hidden in their clothes but took them out only if necessary.\n \n\n The widow was confronted by an abducting party with a sedan chair ready to take her away.\n \n\n In one experiment, we gave participants a choice between abducting or adducting their hand in picking up the bar.\n \n\n In the old days one of the favourite local hobbies of the lads of the village was abducting wealthy heiresses.\n \n\n In some cases, we know that the abducting parent has agreed to return the child voluntarily.\n \n\n Are there any other known cases of a burglar being disturbed and abducting a house owner in his or her own car?\n \n\n It may be that such an offender did not get any further than abducting the child because the child was rescued before any more serious offence was committed.\n \n\n Surely the purpose of the convention also is to prevent any party from gaining an advantage in an application for care and custody by abducting a child to another country.\n \n\n So they have taken to abducting schoolchildren.\n \n\n Despite the desirability of criminal sanctions, it is certainly my hope that the abducting parent will still be first and foremost answerable to the court whose order has been flouted.\n \n\n It is abducting children—a ghastly business.\n \n\n People with a lesion of superior gluteal nerve have weakness of abducting the thigh at the hip.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npresent participle of\nabduct\nabduct verb [T]\n(TAKE A PERSON)\nto force someone to go somewhere with you, often using threats or violence: The company director was abducted from his car by terrorists. Synonyms\nkidnap\nsnatch (TAKE QUICKLY)\nThesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples\nto take someone somewheretakeI have to take my mother to the doctor today.go withI offered to go with him to the police station.come withCan you come to the hospital with me?accompanyChildren under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.driveMy husband usually drives the kids to school.give someone a liftCan you give me a lift into town?\nSee more results »\nabduct verb [T]\n(MOVE BODY PART)\nmedical\n  specialized to move a part of the body away from the central part of the body or away from another body part: Listen for a clicking sound as the child\'s hips are abducted.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nDirection of motion\nabduct\nabduction\nadduct\nadduction\naround\ncircumduction\ncross-country\ndestined\ndirection\ndirection of travel\nen route\nfollow\ninto\nmultidirectional\noutbound\noverland\nright\nstraightly\nthe right/wrong/other way around idiom\nwest\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of abducting\nAll\nabduct\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:59'), | |
| (297, 'abduction', 'noun', 32, 'æbˈdʌk.ʃən', '../audio/a/abduction.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abd/abduc/abduction.mp3', 'æbˈdʌk.ʃən', '../audio/a/epd31081.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/e/epd/epd31/epd31081.mp3', 'There has been a series of abductions of young children from schools in the area.\nHe was charged with abduction.\nhip abduction exercises\n\n Unlike most of these previous works on abduction in the logic programming framework, in this paper we study abduction with penalization from logic programs.\n \n\n Analysis of the type of abductions made as part of the inference process provides insight into how the system is behaving when answering questions.\n \n\n Our work is evidently related to previous studies on semantic and knowledge representation aspects of abduction over logic programs.\n \n\n Our second goal is to characterize various types of knowledge base updates through extended abduction.\n \n\n As such, only the tendons essential for the index finger flexion/extension and abduction/adduction are studied and mimicked in our design.\n \n\n In his later period, he came to use abduction in a much more general way, as the process by which any creative hypothesis is formed.\n \n\n In one paragraph, he talks about \' abduction \' according to his original definition, as the matching of observed results with a given law.\n \n\n We first analyse the methods of abduction, which focus on explaining the evidence.\n \n\n The divergence can most easily be seen if we compare the definitions of abduction in some recent dictionaries of linguistics and of philosophy.\n \n\n To perform an abduction, we need to make a set of assumptions to match the new facts.\n \n\n Abduction required careful planning and might require several attempts.\n \n\n Lawyers and courts provided additional public space in which abduction spectacles could be produced.\n \n\n However, existing approaches characterize the view update problem using normal abduction, which result in somewhat indirect formulations for representing fact removal or view deletion.\n \n\n The role of deduction and abduction as reasoning paradigms is widely accepted.\n \n\n In this paper we use extended abduction and formalize different types of update problems such as view updates, theory updates, and consistency restoration.\n ', 'abduction noun\n(TAKING PERSON)\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\n[ C or U ] the act of making a person go somewhere with you, especially using threats or violence: There has been a series of abductions of young children from schools in the area. He was charged with abduction.\nabduction noun\n(MOVEMENT OF BODY PART)\n[ U ]\n  medical\n  specialized the movement of a part of the body away from the central part of the body or from another body part: hip abduction exercises\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nDirection of motion\nabduct\nadduct\nadduction\naround\nas the crow flies idiom\ncross-country\ndestined\ndirection\ndirection of travel\nen route\nfacing\nfollow\ngo\ninland\ninto\noutbound\noverland\nright\nstraightly\nthe right/wrong/other way around idiom\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of abduction\nAll\nabduction noun, at abduct\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:59'), | |
| (299, 'abductor', 'noun', 32, 'æbˈdʌk.tɚ', '../audio/a/usad___018.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___018.mp3', 'æbˈdʌk.tər', '../audio/a/ukabdic006.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic006.mp3', 'She was tortured by her abductors.\nIt is thought that the woman might have known her abductor.', 'abductor noun [C]\n(PERSON)\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\na person who makes someone go somewhere with them, especially using threats or violence: She was tortured by her abductors. It is thought that the woman might have known her abductor.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nMurderers & attackers\nassailant\nassassin\nattacker\nbandit\nbasher\nbutcher\ncyberbully\ndeath squad\ngunman\nhighwayman\nhitman\nkiller\nmugger\nmurderer\nparricide\npoisoner\nregicide\nserial killer\nslayer\nstrangler\nSee more results »\nabductor noun [C]\n(MUSCLE)\nmedical\n  specialized a muscle that moves a part of the body away from the middle of the body or from another body part\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nSubstances & structures in the body\naccessorius\nadductor\nadenoid\nagonist\nagonistic\nGnRH\ngonadotropin\ngracilis\ngrey matter\ngroove\norigin\noxytocin\npapilla\npapillary\nparietal\nventriculus\nvesica\nvesical\nvesicle\nvestibular\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:59'), | |
| (320, 'abeyance', 'noun', 32, 'əˈbeɪ.əns', '../audio/a/usad___022.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___022.mp3', 'əˈbeɪ.əns', '../audio/a/ukabdic012.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic012.mp3', 'Any proposed abeyance of the bylaws must be approved by the entire committee.\nHostilities between the two groups have been in abeyance since last June.\nThe project is being held in abeyance until agreement is reached on funding it.\n\n After some initial success the drainage commissioners found themselves immersed in legal wranglings with landowners and maintenance of the drainage system largely fell into abeyance.\n \n\n The tradition of multi-media spectaculars fell into abeyance towards the end of the century.\n \n\n Carruthers appears to suspect this, and he asks the reader to hold in abeyance any sentiments against the assumption.\n \n\n At various points along the way, the methods have been employed together or one type of method has been hegemonic and the other in abeyance.\n \n\n As moots fell into desuetude, the inns\' educative function also fell into abeyance.\n \n\n If it was in abeyance, how could it be recovered?\n \n\n Rationalist scepticism is held in abeyance, yet complete belief is undercut by an ironic awareness that one is holding scepticism at bay.\n \n\n Above all this meant keeping animal propensities in abeyance.\n \n\n Hence, the conservative preference for labour market employment over public assistance was held in abeyance by the economic realities of the period.\n \n\n In biographic terms, the house is invariably \'finished\' and occupied; only rarely is it analysed while under construction or, even less frequently, in a state of abeyance or dilapidation.\n \n\n It seems odd to suggest that the compositional semantic interpretation most naturally associated with an expression should be held in abeyance for an indeterminate period, only to emerge later.\n \n\n The transfer of power and high politics of partition overwhelmed provincial politics, and those politicians who were unable to swim with the tide were forced into abeyance.\n \n\n This led to an \'abeyance\' of the state, which, she rightly points out, is not the same as its destruction, though she does also use the term \'fracturing\'.\n \n\n The sensibility necessary for this involves an immediacy with the given, a holding in abeyance of all waking state presuppositions - those reactions that are not inherent to the required knowledge.\n \n\n We have peerages in abeyance now, do we not?\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na state of not happening or being used at present: Any proposed abeyance of the bylaws must be approved by the entire committee.in abeyance Hostilities between the two groups have been in abeyance since last June.be held in abeyance The project is being held in abeyance until agreement is reached on funding it. Synonyms\ndormancy\nlatency (NOT YET ACTIVE) formal\nsuspension (STOP)\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nPauses & interludes\nadjournment\nasynchronously\nbreak\nbreak-journey\ncaesura\ncoffee break\nhiatus\nhold something in abeyance\nin abeyance\ninterlude\nintermission\ninterval\nlapse\nnon-continuous\none-stop\npause\nplateau\npostponement\nrespite\nsuspension\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of abeyance\nAll\nin abeyance\nhold something in abeyance\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:59'), | |
| (329, 'abelia', 'noun', 32, 'əˈbiː.li.ə', '../audio/a/cdo0623usabel0004.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo06/cdo0623usabel0004.mp3', 'əˈbiː.li.ə', '../audio/a/cdo0623ukabel0004.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/c/cdo/cdo06/cdo0623ukabel0004.mp3', 'The flowerbeds were planted with a collection of abelias, camelias, and rhododendrons that were a riot of colour when in flower.\nAbelia is not just tough, it is also beautiful.\nWhen established, abelia are very drought tolerant plants.', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na type of evergreen bush (= one that does not lose its leaves) often grown in gardens, with dark green leaves and groups of white, red, or pink bell-shaped flowers: The flowerbeds were planted with a collection of abelias, camelias, and rhododendrons that were a riot of colour when in flower. Abelia is not just tough, it is also beautiful. When established, abelia are very drought tolerant plants.\nMore examplesFewer examplesThe most widely cultivated abelia is Abelia grandiflora, which can grow up to 8 feet tall. The abelia is named after a Dr Abel, a nineteenth-century English botanist. This variety of abelia has clusters of white bell-shaped flowers that have a pale pink tinge to them.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nBushes & shrubs\nabutilon\nangel\'s trumpet\naronia\nartemisia\nbarberry\ndogwood\neglantine\nephedra\nfirethorn\nforsythia\nmanzanita\nmayflower\nMexican orange\nmock orange\nmultiflora rose\nsnowberry\nspicebush\nstaghorn sumac\nsumac\nsweetbriar\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:05:59'), | |
| (345, 'aberdeen', 'noun', 32, 'æb.ɚˈdiːn', '../audio/a/cdo0318usaber0014.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo03/cdo0318usaber0014.mp3', 'æb.əˈdiːn', '../audio/a/cdo0318ukaber0003.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/c/cdo/cdo03/cdo0318ukaber0003.mp3', 'I was working for an oil company in Aberdeen.', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na city in northeastern Scotland: I was working for an oil company in Aberdeen.\nMore examplesFewer examples Aberdeen has been the northern base for Britain\'s oil activities since the 70s.Last year house prices rose 20% in Glasgow, 16% in Dundee, 15% in Edinburgh and 10% in Aberdeen.700 miles is equivalent to the distance from Aberdeen to Penzance.Aberdeen businesses back the golf tournament.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nTowns & regions: city names & their inhabitants\nAberdonian\nAbidjan\nAbu Dhabi\nAbuja\nAccra\nBrazzaville\nBridgetown\nBrisbane\nBristol\nBrno\nEdinburgh\nEl Paso\nEton\nFaisalabad\nFargo\nMelbourne\nMemphis\nMiami\nMontreal\nMoscow\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of Aberdeen\nAll\nAberdeen City\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:05:59'), | |
| (347, 'aberdonian', 'noun', 32, 'ˌæb.ɚˈdoʊ.ni.ən', '../audio/a/cdo0318usaber0017.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo03/cdo0318usaber0017.mp3', 'ˌæb.əˈdəʊ.ni.ən', '../audio/a/epd00057.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/e/epd/epd00/epd00057.mp3', 'They discovered that he was an Aberdonian.\nMany Aberdonians emigrated to Canada in that period.\nThe Aberdonian housekeeper was very strict.\nthe Aberdonian accent', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na person from Aberdeen, a city in Scotland: They discovered that he was an Aberdonian. Many Aberdonians emigrated to Canada in that period.\nMore examplesFewer examplesLindsay, a native Aberdonian, has worked in the offshore industry since 1978.Aberdonians were well known for their kindness to their neighbours.As Aberdonians, we were on the same wavelength straight away.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nTowns & regions: city names & their inhabitants\nAberdeen\nAbidjan\nAbu Dhabi\nAbuja\nAccra\nBrazzaville\nBridgetown\nBrisbane\nBristol\nBrno\nEdinburgh\nEl Paso\nEton\nFaisalabad\nFargo\nMelbourne\nMemphis\nMiami\nMontreal\nMoscow\nSee more results »\nfrom, in, or relating to Aberdeen, a city in Scotland: The Aberdonian housekeeper was very strict. the Aberdonian accent\nMore examplesFewer examplesHe was the son of an Aberdonian doctor.He published a memoir about his Aberdonian childhood.It\'s not unusual to hear an Aberdonian twang on the streets of Baku.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nTowns & regions: city names & their inhabitants\nAberdeen\nAbidjan\nAbu Dhabi\nAbuja\nAccra\nBrazzaville\nBridgetown\nBrisbane\nBristol\nBrno\nEdinburgh\nEl Paso\nEton\nFaisalabad\nFargo\nMelbourne\nMemphis\nMiami\nMontreal\nMoscow\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:06:01'), | |
| (355, 'aberrant', 'adjective', 32, 'ˈæb.ə.rənt', '../audio/a/usad___020.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___020.mp3', 'əˈber.ənt', '../audio/a/ukabdic008.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic008.mp3', 'aberrant behaviour/sexuality\n\n The people who are the aberrants will be dealt with, we hope, by the world at large.\n \n\n Such a view treats the chords as exotic or aberrant decorations without any real structural importance.\n \n\n In both groups over-eating was associated with more aberrant behaviour.\n \n\n In two other patients with the echocardiographic diagnosis of aberrant right subclavian artery, the origin of the vessel was not mentioned in the operative note.\n \n\n The second trade-off occurred approximately 100,000- 150,000 years ago, when genetic changes in some individuals resulted in aberrant connectivity in these cortical circuits.\n \n\n Also, aberrant values can result from a bad choice of variate.\n \n\n The present results indicate that a step is a single photon response with an aberrant long-lasting shut-off mechanism.\n \n\n The statistical analysis of the data will include an assessment of the effect of aberrant and missing values upon the interpretation of the study.\n \n\n The aberrant activation or dysregulation of organotypic stem cell pathways has been classically associated with tumor growth and progression.\n \n\n Recent reports indicated that aberrant activation of cell cycle machinery contributed to overproliferation and apoptosis of cells in various insults.\n \n\n Since many of these women migrated outside the family context, they were construed as aberrant.\n \n\n When the theory is unveiled, we are often amazed to see that these seemingly aberrant bridges do exist by themselves naturally.\n \n\n A normal fetus might falsely appear trisomic if an extra signal occurs as a result of aberrant binding.\n \n\n Analysis with molecular markers has revealed additional defects including aberrant neural crest differentiation\\migration.\n \n\n An awareness of these aberrant forms allows us to move beyond conventional assumptions about the fixity of print and the fluidity of manuscript.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\ndifferent from what is typical or usual, especially in an unacceptable way: aberrant behaviour/sexuality Synonyms\nabnormal\ndeviant\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nStrange, suspicious and unnatural\naberrantly\nabnormal\nabnormally\nadd\nAlice-in-Wonderland\nfreakishness\nfunnily\nfunnily enough idiom\nghostliness\nghoul\nperverse\nperversely\nperversity\nperverted\npervy\nunhealthily\nunorthodox\nwack\nwackadoodle\nwackily\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nWrong', '', '2023-10-22 23:06:01'), | |
| (356, 'aberrantly', 'adverb', 32, 'ˈæb.ə.rənt.li', '../audio/a/cdo0623usaber0005.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo06/cdo0623usaber0005.mp3', 'əˈber.ənt.li', '../audio/a/cdo0623ukaber0005.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/c/cdo/cdo06/cdo0623ukaber0005.mp3', 'Bats that end up being tested for rabies are generally those that behave aberrantly.\nThis cell-death process is required for the normal development of the nervous system, but it can be aberrantly activated in neurodegenerative diseases.', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nin a way that is different from what is normal or usual: Bats that end up being tested for rabies are generally those that behave aberrantly. This cell-death process is required for the normal development of the nervous system, but it can be aberrantly activated in neurodegenerative diseases.\nMore examplesFewer examplesA large number of proteins have been found in excess or to be aberrantly expressed in muscle cells in these patients. The company has experienced an aberrantly strong first quarter.The college has produced an aberrantly high number of senior judges.The researchers found some aberrantly plumaged specimens of the bird.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nStrange, suspicious and unnatural\naberrant\nabnormal\nabnormally\nadd\nAlice-in-Wonderland\nfreakishness\nfunnily\nfunnily enough idiom\nghostliness\nghoul\nperverse\nperversely\nperversity\nperverted\npervy\nunhealthily\nunorthodox\nwack\nwackadoodle\nwackily\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nWrong', '', '2023-10-22 23:06:01'), | |
| (361, 'aberration', 'noun', 32, 'ˌæb.əˈreɪ.ʃən', '../audio/a/aberration.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abe/aberr/aberration.mp3', 'ˌæb.əˈreɪ.ʃən', '../audio/a/ukabdic009.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic009.mp3', 'I\'m sorry I\'m late - I had a mental aberration and forgot we had a meeting today.\nIn a moment of aberration, she agreed to go with him.\nThe misconduct was an aberration from the norm for him. \nThe drop in our school’s test scores was dismissed as an aberration.\n\n To date aberrations in a number of signalling pathways have provided potential mechanisms for antioestrogen resistance.\n \n\n This simulation shows that the amplitude of the modulations dues to the static aberrations are independent of the correction.\n \n\n The highest number of assessments was found in the case of screening for genetic aberrations and severe congenital malformations.\n \n\n This result suggested that chromatic aberration might account, in part, for color assimilation over small, but not large, enclosed areas.\n \n\n These exceptional quality crystals introduce negligible aberration into the frequency doubled beam.\n \n\n Indeed, such changes might be as important as the more widely studied genetic mutations and chromosomal aberrations that characterise tumour cells.\n \n\n To date 24 chromosomal loci have been mapped, 11 chromosomal aberrations verified and 17 of the genes identified.\n \n\n When the distribution of the scientists\' citations on sources was analyzed, astonishing aberrations were observed.\n \n\n Lenses for correcting chromatic aberration of the eye.\n \n\n By optimizing the extraction diode geometry and reducing the beam current, the spherical aberration was later improved and therefore the beam profile became more uniform.\n \n\n The only requirement on pump beam aberrations is that the pump beam divergence must be less than the phase matching angular tolerance.\n \n\n Chiasmatic recombination thus might have been the mechanism that freed organisms from such aberrations by making large chromosome numbers unnecessary.\n \n\n Therefore, for a compensated optical design, both the diffraction of the grating and the dominant aberrations have to be corrected.\n \n\n Moreover, the province\'s figure is not simply a recent aberration.\n \n\n Good marriages are presented as just as much of an aberration in that they are portrayed as curiosities, as objects on display.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na temporary change from the typical or usual way of behaving: mental aberration I\'m sorry I\'m late - I had a mental aberration and forgot we had a meeting today. In a moment of aberration, she agreed to go with him. The misconduct was an aberration from the norm for him.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nFaults and mistakes\nAchilles heel\nadrift\nblack mark\nblemish\nbloomer\nfailing\nfalse move\nfaux pas\nflaw\nfossilization\nmalapropism\nmisfunction\nmisperception\nmisprint\nmisspelling\nmisstep\ntypo\nwardrobe malfunction\nweakness\nwhat price...? idiom\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\na change from what is typical or usual, esp. a temporary change: The drop in our school’s test scores was dismissed as an aberration.', 'More meanings of aberration\nAll\nchromatic aberration\nspherical aberration\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:06:01'), | |
| (372, 'abet', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbet', '../audio/a/abet.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abe/abet_/abet.mp3', 'əˈbet', '../audio/a/ukabdic010.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic010.mp3', 'His accountant had aided and abetted him in the fraud.\nShady lawyers abetted the company’s officers in stealing the funds.\n\n Even more widespread was the consumption of things that aided and abetted conversable sociability.\n \n\n In essence, this could be seen as condoning and abetting \"teenage\" pregnancy - which is culturally and professionally discouraged.\n \n\n In these circumstances, physicians can play a crucial role if they choose to abet draft evasion.\n \n\n Will prescribing and dispensing such pills constitute \"aiding and abetting\"?\n \n\n Such globalization increases poverty, malnutrition, starvation, sometimes abets the drug trade, in some places increases illiteracy and increases either joblessness or marginal employment.\n \n\n There is no doubt of his attraction to the power of flamenco, whose representations oijouissance his camera continually abets with dramatic angles and dancing movements.\n \n\n A war of words and definitions erupted between the two factions, aided and abetted by the jazz press.\n \n\n We cater for human well-being by ambitiously overcoming, rather than abetting, what otherwise would happen naturally and to our disadvantage.\n \n\n In fact, he denounced those intellectuals who turned themselves into servants of a monarchy and thereby aided and abetted an oppressive social and political order.\n \n\n This cycle is probably due to recurrent depression that is abetted by lack of a social support network.\n \n\n This uncertainty has doubtless abetted the quantity of literature on the subject.\n \n\n Gaming the system is close to abetting draft evasion with one significant difference.\n \n\n In response, we surmise that some physicians who abet draft evasion are answering to a higher moral principle that transcends both the law and bioethics.\n \n\n The transaction costs of security reform also abetted growing crime.\n \n\n Yet, it was argued not only that the history of the world vindicated this position but that the very construction of the universe aided and abetted it.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nto help or encourage someone to do something wrong or illegal: His accountant had aided and abetted him in the fraud.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nHelping and co-operating\naccommodative\naid\nany port in a storm idiom\nassist\nassist with something\nassistance\nbridge\ncarry\nfacilitation\nfinancial assistance\ngive someone a leg up idiom\ngive/lend someone a helping hand idiom\ngo a long way toward(s) doing something idiom\nrelief\nrun errands idiom\nshare a platform idiom\nsolid\nsponsor\nstart (something) off\nsuccour\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nEncouraging and urging on\nRelated words\nabetment\nabettor\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nto help or encourage a person or thing to do something, esp. something wrong or illegal: Shady lawyers abetted the company’s officers in stealing the funds.', 'More meanings of abet\nAll\naid and abet someone phrase\naid and abet\naid and abet someone\nSee all meanings\nIdioms and phrases\naid and abet someone phrase', '2023-10-22 23:06:01'), | |
| (373, 'abetment', 'noun', 32, 'əˈbet.mənt', '../audio/a/cdo0318usabet0018.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo03/cdo0318usabet0018.mp3', 'əˈbet.mənt', '../audio/a/cdo0318ukabet0007.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/c/cdo/cdo03/cdo0318ukabet0007.mp3', 'Such acts will be treated as abetment to fraud.\nIt would be wrong to treat the offence of abetment lightly.', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe act of helping or encouraging someone to do something wrong or illegal: Such acts will be treated as abetment to fraud. It would be wrong to treat the offence of abetment lightly. See\nabet\nMore examplesFewer examplesAbetment in the offence of murder is as serious the offence of murder itself.Such activities may be considered abetment to fraud.A clear case of abetment is made out against him.', '', '2023-10-22 23:06:01'), | |
| (382, 'abettor', 'noun', 32, 'əˈbet̬.ɚ', '../audio/a/usad___021.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___021.mp3', 'əˈbet.ər', '../audio/a/ukabdic011.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic011.mp3', 'They are all aiders and abettors.\nHe sounds like every other abettor of terrorism.', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nsomeone who helps or encourages another person to do something wrong or illegal: They are all aiders and abettors. He sounds like every other abettor of terrorism. Compare\nassistant\nhelperSee\nabet\nMore examplesFewer examplesDesire for status sometimes leads people to act as abettors of crime.The abettor of an offence may also be liable to punishment.They had been abettors of the enemy.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nHelpers and accomplices\na tower of strength idiom\naccessory\naccomplice\nacolyte\naide\naider\nbackup\ncollaborator\nconfederate\nden mother\nenabler\nfacilitator\nman Friday\nmate\nmoll\nright-hand man\nroom parent\nsponsor\nstrength\nsupport group\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nCriminals - general words', '', '2023-10-22 23:06:01'), | |
| (393, 'abhor', 'verb', 32, 'æbˈhɔːr', '../audio/a/eus70011.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/e/eus/eus70/eus70011.mp3', 'əˈbhɔːr', '../audio/a/ukabdic013.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic013.mp3', 'I abhor all forms of racism.\nHis opponent abhors the death penalty.\nShe has an abhorrence of violence.\nHis attitude of superiority is abhorrent.\n\n Indeed, they argue that this preoccupation leads us, as gerontologists, to perpetuate the very conditions that we abhor.\n \n\n Local magistrates, for their part, abhorred the litigious society.\n \n\n Both writers\' works contain expositions of the theory of justification by faith alone, a doctrine the king abhorred.\n \n\n It seems to be a topic most abhor, yet many obsess over.\n \n\n They abhor the perfidious means by which they have been deprived of the humanist decalogue.\n \n\n But in shunning any attempt to give it correspondence to contemporary economic circumstances he left a vacuum which many historians have naturally abhorred.\n \n\n It is a moral tale with a moral lesson that young female readers, one might imagine, would abhor.\n \n\n She abhorred games of all kinds, suggesting that they appeal to the indolent without the imagination to invent their own learning and growing activities.\n \n\n In domestic politics, they abhor the exercise of real leadership because it disturbs the comfortable web of vested interests.\n \n\n Ordinarily, high churchmen abhorred the idea of baptism by total immersion.\n \n\n Malay politics seems to abhor the vacuum of authoritarian leadership.\n \n\n It was abhorred because it was perceived, wrongly or rightly, as an unjust tax levied upon the politically unrepresented producers of colonial wealth.\n \n\n He therefore abhors the word \"axiom,\" which in its usual usage evokes the idea of definitive truth.\n \n\n He welcomes the elementary, but abhors the banal.\n \n\n The depersonalizaing effects of the process of dying can be such that people simply abhor to exist in that way.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nto hate a way of behaving or thinking, often because you think it is not moral: I abhor all forms of racism. Synonyms\nabominate formal\ndetest\nloathe\nThesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples\nto hate someone or somethinghateI hate camping.detestI detest any kind of cruelty.loathe\"Do you like cabbage?\" \"No, I loathe it.\"despiseShe despised him for the way he treated her.\nSee more results »\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nNot liking\nabide\nabominate\nanti-American\nanti-British\nanti-Catholic\ncivil\ncup\ncut\ndespise\ndetest\ndisdain\ndisdainful\ndisdainfully\ngo off\nmisanthropically\nnon-fan\nnot be someone\'s cup of tea idiom\nnot go much on something idiom\nnot have a civil word to say about someone idiom\ntire\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nto hate something or someone: His opponent abhors the death penalty. abhorrence noun [ U ] us\nYour browser doesn\'t support HTML5 audio\n/æbˈhɔr·əns, əb-, -ˈhɑr-/\nShe has an abhorrence of violence. abhorrent adjective us\nYour browser doesn\'t support HTML5 audio\n/æbˈhɔr·ənt, -ˈhɑr-/\nHis attitude of superiority is abhorrent.', '', '2023-10-22 23:06:01'), | |
| (395, 'abhorrence', 'noun', 32, 'æbˈhɔːr.əns', '../audio/a/abhorrence.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abh/abhor/abhorrence.mp3', 'əˈbɒr.əns', '../audio/a/ukabdic014.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic014.mp3', 'She looked at him in/with abhorrence.\nShe has an abhorrence of change.\n\n The abhorrence of the pantheistic view may be misguided since we can retain some important traditional theistic doctrines along with pantheism.\n \n\n The writer reviews the effect of this blunt abhorrence of abnormal forms,47 which register deep psychological terror in the imagery of nightmare.\n \n\n The degree of contamination perceived ranges on a scale which has fear, abhorrence, loathing and contempt at one end, and nothing worse than low social esteem at the other.\n \n\n Koven first turns his attention to the labours of elite women, focusing on their simultaneous abhorrence of and fascination with the \'dirt\' of slum life.\n \n\n Morton also earned the abhorrence of western agrarians.\n \n\n More to the point, left-wing abhorrence of a movement that would have banned their organizations, imprisoned their leaders and activists, and established a dictatorial government hardly seems peculiar.\n \n\n Salem scholarship did not really begin until the mid-nineteenth century, and when it did, it arose as a reaction of abhorrence that such an event could have occurred.\n \n\n The exclusion of the courts and judicial review is an abhorrence within our system.\n \n\n In all such cases, when the judge wishes to impose a life sentence, should not that feeling of abhorrence be expressed?\n \n\n The conclusions are an adherence to the democratic process and an abhorrence of and moving away from the use of arms.\n \n\n Although there are complications, on balance it would be worth it to mark our abhorrence of that type of crime.\n \n\n From the economic viewpoint, there is the abhorrence of the waste of human and physical assets.\n \n\n One of the characteristics in the forward surge of mankind to greater civilisation is a growing abhorrence of all forms of cruelty.\n \n\n I accept the present situation with abhorrence and reluctance.\n \n\n More than that, it is vital and correctly reflects society\'s abhorrence of the evils that it seeks to address.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na feeling of hating something or someone: She looked at him in/with abhorrence. She has an abhorrence of change. Synonyms\nloathing formal\nodium formal\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nFeelings of dislike and hatred\nabomination\nanathema\nanimosity\nanimus\nanti-Catholicism\ndislike\ndistaste\ndistastefully\nenmity\nexecrate\nmisandrist\nmisandry\nmisanthrope\nmisanthropy\nmisogynist\nrepulsion\nsore point\ntechnophobe\ntransmisogyny\nvitriol\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of abhorrence\nAll\nabhorrence noun, at abhor\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:06:01'), | |
| (398, 'abhorrent', 'adjective', 32, 'æbˈhɔːr.ənt', '../audio/a/abhorrent.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abh/abhor/abhorrent.mp3', 'əˈbɒr.ənt', '../audio/a/ukabdic015.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic015.mp3', 'an abhorrent crime\nRacism of any kind is abhorrent to me.\n\n A particular divine command may be as abhorrent as one can imagine.\n \n\n Because of this they can commit acts which are wrong and would be abhorrent to them in any other circumstance.\n \n\n These claims, while not uncommon, will be abhorrent to some.\n \n\n Theists not trained in philosophy will almost surely reject it, finding abhorrent the idea that we are parts of the divine mind.\n \n\n Kipling\'s ironic deployment of abhorrent discourses of racial essentialism resonates throughout his opening sentence.\n \n\n The concept that physicians prolong a patient\'s dying by their efforts to restore health is repugnant and abhorrent to all in healthcare.\n \n\n As far as the state\'s irredentist rhetoric went, exclusionary nationalism was counterintuitive, if not abhorrent.\n \n\n He cannot admit the possible authenticity of anything he happens to find abhorrent and irreconcilable to his categories of valuation.\n \n\n Colonial pragmatism required its adoption, even though such methods might be regarded as culturally alien and abhorrent.\n \n\n While his misogyny and imperialism may seem alien and indeed abhorrent to modern readers, the book\'s value as a historical document remains undiminished.\n \n\n Clinicians in particular, highly educated and trained to care for vulnerable people, are prone to view racism as morally abhorrent, as a violation of both personal and professional values.\n \n\n With the exceptions we have noted, writers simply assume that the manipulation of voting schemes is abhorrent and then consider the possibilities for avoiding strategic voting.\n \n\n Using patients as hostages, as happened last year, is abhorrent to any fair-minded person.\n \n\n I would find it abhorrent if human remains in war graves were disturbed, unless there were overriding imperatives of marine or environmental safety.\n \n\n It takes away the right of free speech, and it does all the things that are abhorrent to every civilised people.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nmorally very bad: an abhorrent crime Racism of any kind is abhorrent to me. Synonyms\ndisgusting\nloathsome\nnauseating\nrepellent\nrepugnant formal\nrepulsive\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nMorally wrong and evil\nabhorrently\namoral\namorality\nanomie\nantichrist\ndissolute\ndissolutely\ndissoluteness\nenormity\nevil\nno good idiom\nno more Mr Nice Guy idiom\nnon-ethical\nobscene\nobscenely\nturpitude\nunconscionable\nunconscionably\nunethical\nunprincipled\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of abhorrent\nAll\nabhorrent adjective, at abhor\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:06:01'), | |
| (399, 'abhorrently', 'adverb', 32, 'æbˈhɔːr.ənt.li', '../audio/a/cdo0623usabho0006.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo06/cdo0623usabho0006.mp3', 'əˈbɒr.ənt.li', '../audio/a/cdo0623ukabho0006.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/c/cdo/cdo06/cdo0623ukabho0006.mp3', 'He was bullied abhorrently at school from the day he started.\nHas no one noticed how abhorrently awful this outfit is?', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nin a way that is very bad and shocking: He was bullied abhorrently at school from the day he started. Has no one noticed how abhorrently awful this outfit is?\nMore examplesFewer examplesThe whole country was appalled by how abhorrently the child had been treated by his parents.I find their entire argument abhorrently cynical.He\'s not the abhorrently selfish person they portrayed him as.They served us the most abhorrently awful food on the flight.There are many people who feel they have been wrongly terminated or treated abhorrently while employed at the company.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nMorally wrong and evil\nabhorrent\namoral\namorality\nanomie\nantichrist\ndissolute\ndissolutely\ndissoluteness\nenormity\nevil\nno good idiom\nno more Mr Nice Guy idiom\nnon-ethical\nobscene\nobscenely\nturpitude\nunconscionable\nunconscionably\nunethical\nunprincipled\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:06:20'), | |
| (413, 'abide', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbaɪd', '../audio/a/abide.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abi/abide/abide.mp3', 'əˈbaɪd', '../audio/a/ukabdic016.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic016.mp3', 'I can\'t abide her.\nHe abided in the wilderness for forty days.\n\n The nature of that empire has been of abiding interest, as the extensive bibliography of the book under review shows.\n \n\n The abiding impression is of a composer whose work embodies some intriguing contradictions.\n \n\n Of abiding importance, though, is the fundamental distinction, alluded to above and accepted by the vast majority of studies, between repetition and revision.\n \n\n In most cases, the leaders abided by these restrictions rather than face years of imprisonment ; most of those who did not fled into exile.\n \n\n Postnational narratives formed a continuum with national narratives, moreover, in their covert but abiding reliance on traditional narrativity itself.\n \n\n However, if such women abided by police rules, they would be left alone.\n \n\n Neither was it feasible to construct a spine of policy dimensions to act as a suitable general backdrop or abiding reference point.\n \n\n Overall, that must be the abiding judgement on this volume.\n \n\n Because of its abiding popularity as a pastime, opera was a convenient method of instilling ideology in the people as a whole.\n \n\n What is the difference between the abiding state or countr y and the government of the day?\n \n\n Indeed, ritual propriety in accordance with the oracles\' temporary and unpredictable demands is an abiding source of anxiety for practitioners in these expensive times.\n \n\n Schelling\'s abiding interests in nature and mythology are combined with a relative disinterest in politics.\n \n\n Ethnic elements have been retained, and there is an abiding impression of innovation.\n \n\n How, then, was he to square this abiding passion with the odium attached to evolution theory?\n \n\n One of his abiding ambitions was to make such collaboration seem both plausible and worthwhile to his readers.\n ', 'can\'t abide someone/something\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nIf you can\'t abide someone or something, you dislike them very much: I can\'t abide her.\nSee more\nabide verb\n(LIVE)\n[ I usually + adv/prep ] old use to live or stay somewhere: He abided in the wilderness for forty days.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nLiving or sleeping somewhere\nco-resident\nco-residential\ndomiciled\ndwell\nexist\ninhospitably\nlive in\nlive in sin idiom\nlive out\nlodge\nnon-residency\npopulate\nrepopulate\nrepopulation\nreside\nresidence\nresidency\nsettle\nslum\ntenancy\nSee more results »\nPhrasal verb\nabide by something', 'More meanings of abide\nAll\nabide by something\ncan’t abide idiom\ncan\'t abide someone/something phrase\nSee all meanings\nPhrasal Verbs\nabide by something\nSee all phrasal verb meanings\nIdioms and phrases\ncan’t abide idiom\ncan\'t abide someone/something phrase\nSee all idioms and phrases', '2023-10-22 23:07:14'), | |
| (414, 'abided', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbaɪd', '../audio/a/abide.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abi/abide/abide.mp3', 'əˈbaɪd', '../audio/a/ukabdic016.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic016.mp3', 'I can\'t abide her.\nHe abided in the wilderness for forty days.\n\n It is, however, unclear how much these stipulations were effectively abided by and how far the supervision into the daily routine could go.\n \n\n However, if such women abided by police rules, they would be left alone.\n \n\n That agreement, however, was reached and abided by in the context in which the ban was embodied in quite different legislation.\n \n\n If that is done those who have hitherto abided by the law and paid their bills will continue to do so.\n \n\n There is a system of pay research, and we have abided by it.\n \n\n It is a matter of confidentiality whether an employer abided by the basic principles of employment law.\n \n\n We expect that to be abided by strictly, but it adds to the air of puzzlement.\n \n\n If one went through the membership and strictly abided by that standard, then it would most regrettably fall off sharply.\n \n\n But that is not necessarily a reason for changing the rules by which we have always abided.\n \n\n They are fine even for the manufacturers who will know whether they have abided by the regulations when there is a disaster or an accident.\n \n\n If licensed premises had abided by the code, legislation would not have been necessary.\n \n\n One would imagine that everyone has abided by the terms of the pay limits.\n \n\n We have abided by that decision since we began site searching in 2001.\n \n\n They did not much like it, but they abided by it.\n \n\n I have only abided by the current rules.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npast simple and past participle of\nabide\ncan\'t abide someone/something\nIf you can\'t abide someone or something, you dislike them very much: I can\'t abide her.\nSee more\nabide verb\n(LIVE)\n[ I usually + adv/prep ] old use to live or stay somewhere: He abided in the wilderness for forty days.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nLiving or sleeping somewhere\nabide\nco-resident\nco-residential\ndomiciled\ndwell\ninhospitable\ninhospitably\nlive in\nlive in sin idiom\nlive out\npopulate\nreoccupation\nrepopulate\nrepopulation\nreside\nresidence\nsettle\nslum\ntenancy\nwarehousing\nSee more results »\nPhrasal verb\nabide by something', 'More meanings of abided\nAll\nabide\nabide by something\nSee all meanings\nPhrasal Verbs\nabide by something\nSee all phrasal verb meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:14'), | |
| (419, 'abiding', 'adjective', 32, 'əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ', '../audio/a/abiding.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abi/abidi/abiding.mp3', 'əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ', '../audio/a/ukabdic017.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic017.mp3', 'My abiding memory is of him in the garden.\nShe holds an abiding affection for her old school.\nMuir had an abiding interest in dogs.', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nAn abiding feeling or memory is one that you have had for a long time: abiding memory My abiding memory is of him in the garden. She holds an abiding affection for her old school. Synonyms\ndurable\nenduring\nimperishable literary\nindelible\nindestructible\nineradicable formal\ningrained\nlasting\nlong-lasting\npermanent\nstubborn\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nContinuous & permanent\nabidingly\nad infinitum\naround-the-clock\nbe\nceaseless\nimmanence\nimmanent\nimmanently\nimperishable\nimperishably\non the bounce idiom\non the spin idiom\non the trot idiom\nperennial\npermanence\nunrelentingly\nunrelieved\nunrelievedly\nunremitting\nunremittingly\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nlasting for a long time: Muir had an abiding interest in dogs.', 'More meanings of abiding\nAll\nabide\nlaw-abiding\nabiding memory\nabide by something\nSee all meanings\nPhrasal Verbs\nabide by something\nSee all phrasal verb meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:14'), | |
| (420, 'abidingly', 'adverb', 32, 'əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ.li', '../audio/a/cdo1121usabid0006.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo11/cdo1121usabid0006.mp3', 'əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ.li', '../audio/a/cdo1121ukabid0006.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/c/cdo/cdo11/cdo1121ukabid0006.mp3', 'These playwrights are three of the strongest, most individual and most abidingly relevant voices in theatre. \nThanksgiving is one of the most abidingly popular institutions of American culture. ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nin a way that continues for a long time: These playwrights are three of the strongest, most individual and most abidingly relevant voices in theatre. Thanksgiving is one of the most abidingly popular institutions of American culture.\nMore examplesFewer examplesVoice, Song and Dance are core elements of Asante culture that abidingly hold and hand down myths and tribal history.His literary creations are abidingly attractive to highbrow and lowbrow alike.The play\'s subject is an abidingly important debate about education and religion. The effect of the park is abidingly pleasant.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nContinuous & permanent\nabiding\nad infinitum\naround-the-clock\nbe\nceaseless\nimmanence\nimmanent\nimmanently\nimperishable\nimperishably\non the bounce idiom\non the spin idiom\non the trot idiom\nperennial\npermanence\nunrelentingly\nunrelieved\nunrelievedly\nunremitting\nunremittingly\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:14'), | |
| (449, 'ability', 'noun', 32, 'əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i', '../audio/a/eus70013.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/e/eus/eus70/eus70013.mp3', 'əˈbɪl.ə.ti', '../audio/a/ukabdic018.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic018.mp3', 'There\'s no doubting her ability.\nShe had the ability to explain things clearly and concisely.\nShe\'s a woman of considerable abilities.\nI have children in my class of very mixed abilities (= different levels of skill or intelligence).\na mixed-ability class\nsuitability\nvulnerability\nThey should not be taking in somebody they don\'t have the ability to care for.\nHer teammates respect her abilities.\nThere\'s no doubting her ability.\nA good leader has the ability to motivate people.\nWe like our employees to have a broad range of abilities, not just good qualifications.\n\n The ability to manipulate speech sounds depends on knowing alphabetic writing.\n \n\n This condition thus permitted us to measure the influence of performing two mental operations on the storage abilities of the children.\n \n\n Coordination problems abound, and their solutions are facilitated when players have the ability to quickly acquire expectations about fellow players\' behavior.\n \n\n The change trials tested the participants\' ability to respond appropriately to relevant phonetic differences between tokens and distinguish stops drawn from two different categories.\n \n\n At first, infants display discriminatory abilities which span a broad range of phonetic pairs.\n \n\n This is because their phonetic ability is low and their functional knowledge (in terms of the recoverability principle) is not yet developed.\n \n\n In conjunction, these properties of social-psychological research have impeded the development of theories with explanatory power and the ability to generate novel and nontrivial hypotheses.\n \n\n No discrepancy in the ability to define anatomic structure was encountered for the body or outflow regions of the right ventricle.\n \n\n The insula and temporal gyrus regions are also linked to verbal and language abilities.\n \n\n The ability of this numerical method to consider non-isotropic initial data represents a decided advantage over other approaches.\n \n\n Where communities are less well organized, the ability to use events to improve policy is reduced, even if policy making appears to be event-driven.\n \n\n Could it account for language acquisition and the ability to talk about things that are far removed in time and space?\n \n\n We made four predictions about the possible roles of group differences, perceptual- motor ability, task difficulty, and chronological age in nonlinguistic performance.\n \n\n The biofilm\'s physical properties play important roles in controlling its metabolic activity and its ability to adhere to the substratum and itself.\n \n\n By teaching useful strategies in the four skill areas, students will have the ability and confidence needed to decode the target language.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nB1 the physical or mental power or skill needed to do something: There\'s no doubting her ability. [ + to infinitive ] She had the ability to explain things clearly and concisely. She\'s a woman of considerable abilities. I have children in my class of very mixed abilities (= different levels of skill or intelligence). a mixed-ability class Synonyms\ncapability (ABILITY)\ncapacity\npowers\nMore examplesFewer examplesHe had no doubts about his team\'s ability to reach the World Cup finals.Computer literacy is now as essential as the ability to drive a car.Organizational ability is essential in a good manager.Man\'s ability to talk makes him unlike any other animal.All the children are taught together in one class, regardless of their ability.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nSkill, talent and ability\naccomplishment\naccuracy\nacumen\nadroitness\naptitude\nendowment\nforte\nfunctional skills\nfunctioning\ngenius\ngift\npolish\nprestidigitation\nproficiency\nprowess\npyrotechnic\nspeciality\nwheelhouse\nwizardry\nworkmanship\nSee more results »\nused to form nouns from adjectives ending in \"-able\" to mean the quality of being the stated adjective: suitability vulnerability\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nConditions and characteristics\n-ance\n-ancy\n-ibility\nadverse conditions\nage\nambience\nappearance\ncharacter\nhave it in you idiom\nhood\nhumanity\nin\npresentation\nrespect\nshape\ntrappings\nunaffiliated\nundercurrent\nvibe\nvibe check\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe mental or physical power or skill needed to do something: [ U ] They should not be taking in somebody they don\'t have the ability to care for. [ C ] Her teammates respect her abilities.\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe power or skill needed to do something, or the fact that someone is able to do something: There\'s no doubting her ability. the ability to do sth A good leader has the ability to motivate people. We like our employees to have a broad range of abilities, not just good qualifications.', 'More meanings of ability\nAll\nmixed-ability\nability to pay principle\nto the best of your ability phrase\nto the best of your ability\nSee all meanings\nIdioms and phrases\nto the best of your ability phrase', '2023-10-22 23:07:14'), | |
| (469, 'abiotic', 'adjective', 32, 'ˌeɪ.baɪˈɑː.t̬ɪk', '../audio/a/cdo0318usabio0019.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo03/cdo0318usabio0019.mp3', 'ˌeɪ.baɪˈɒt.ɪk', '../audio/a/epd00086.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/e/epd/epd00/epd00086.mp3', '\n The final two chapters review physiological and biochemical indicators of stress tolerance and breeding approaches to improving abiotic stress tolerance.\n \n\n However, this technique only provides an external morphological description of putative fossilized cells and is incapable of distinguishing between abiotic fossils of similar morphologies.\n \n\n Previous experimental results suggest the potential for abiotic organic synthesis under seafloor hydrothermal conditions.\n \n\n However, these chemical species can be formed by abiotic geochemical processes.\n \n\n Abiotic factors can significantly influence the abundance of gill monogeneans on fish.\n \n\n The characterization of organic phases, from abiotic or biotic sources, also appears to be a fundamental issue.\n \n\n Abiotic factors impose constraints on when, where and how ticks quest for hosts.\n \n\n Laboratory experiments were conducted to evaluate the possibility that this process might also result in abiotic synthesis of hydrocarbons.\n \n\n In this case, the expenditure trends of the national government on air, water, land, and mined abiotic resources in the annual budget are considered.\n \n\n However, the same trends in metal concentration and behaviour were observed in both biotic and abiotic components, indicating metal-specific ligands were not produced.\n \n\n In the growth experiment, ligand production would be indicated by enhanced metal leaching in the biotic component as compared to the abiotic control.\n \n\n The latter provides a powerful general optimization tool that has been used successfully for solving numerous practical problems in biotic, as well as abiotic systems.\n \n\n Non-equivalent limiting factors may be biotic, such as pollinators and herbivores, or abiotic, such as available nutrients and water.\n \n\n Which abiotic factors limit vegetative growth in a vascular epiphyte?\n \n\n Insects are also affected by the abiotic conditions in gaps, which can act as a filter that excludes many species.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nrelating to things in the environment that are not living\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nAnimal & plant biology - general words\nanatomical\nanatomically correct\nanti-Darwinian\nanti-Darwinism\nartificial selection\nbiologist\nDarwinism\nDarwinist\nentomological\nentomologist\neukaryote\nmorph\nnaturalist\npoisonous\nprimary producer\nprimitively\nprokaryote\npseudopod\nrecolonization\nzoology\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nearth science relating to things in the environment that are not living', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:14'), | |
| (484, 'abysmal', 'adjective', 32, 'əˈbɪz.məl', '../audio/a/abysmal.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/aby/abysm/abysmal.mp3', 'əˈbɪz.məl', '../audio/a/ukabsor028.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabs/ukabsor028.mp3', 'abysmal working conditions\nThe food was abysmal.\nThe standard of the students\' work is abysmal.\ntitanic heights and abysmal depths\nThis experiment could help a lot of people, or it could be an abysmal failure.\n\n Similarly, we have an abysmal transport system, especially the public transport infrastructure.\n \n\n No, it is not based on abysmal ignorance of the facts, but this fact is not available.\n \n\n He hopes that he will be able to distract attention from the abysmal failure that has become self-evident across the whole of housing policy.\n \n\n The quality of care for our constituents\' parents was abysmal.\n \n\n Their record for forecasts is abysmal, and their record on economic management is worse.\n \n\n One of the things that has most struck me about horticultural marketing is the abysmal absence of market intelligence.\n \n\n To think that the 90 days constitute the consultation period shows an abysmal understanding of sound industrial relations policy.\n \n\n When they talk about empty properties, they really ought to look at their own abysmal record.\n \n\n The wording may be even more abysmal than is usually found in the documents in front of us.\n \n\n They see that welfare provision in the south is even more abysmal.\n \n\n The quality of mental health care is abysmal.\n \n\n They counted the pennies on everything and did not mind the fact that people were at risk because of their abysmal policies.\n \n\n Such complete and abysmal lack of understanding of the social forces can spring only from a deeply morbid interpretation of right and wrong.\n \n\n He showed in his very uninteresting and abysmal performance that he has no grasp of the problems now facing the industry.\n \n\n Anyone who did this would be deservedly castigated; for he would expose his abysmal ignorance in the very act of decrying it.\n ', 'abysmal adjective\n(BAD)\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nvery bad: abysmal working conditions The food was abysmal. The standard of the students\' work is abysmal. Synonyms\nabominable\natrocious (VERY BAD)\nawful (BAD)\ndire mainly UK informal\ndreadful (LOW QUALITY) mainly UK\nfrightful old-fashioned informal\ngrim (WITHOUT HOPE)\nhorrendous\nhorrible\nhorrid old-fashioned informal\nterrible (UNPLEASANT)\nThesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples\nbad weather, conditions, situations, etc.badIf the weather is bad, we\'ll have to find something else to do.poorShe\'s 87 and in poor health.direThe predictions for the economy are dire.grimShe was quickly brought back to the grim reality of her life.awfulThe smell from the bins was awful.\nSee more results »\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nSerious and unpleasant\nabominable\nabominably\nabysmally\napocalyptic\nappalling\nfrightful\nfrom hell idiom\nfun\nghastliness\nGothically\nnot be all fun and games idiom\nnoxiously\nobjectionable\nobjectionably\nodious\nunpretty\nunspeakable\nunspeakably\nunsupportable\nunsympathetically\nSee more results »\nabysmal adjective\n(DEEP)\nliterary very deep: titanic heights and abysmal depths\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nHigh, tall and deep\naltitude\nbottomless\ndeep\nectomorph\nelevated\neye level\nfloor-to-ceiling\nheight\nlofty\novershadow\nrangy\nrear\nrear above/over something/someone\nsix-footer\nstand\ntallish\ntallness\ntower\ntower above/over someone/something\ntowering\nSee more results »\nRelated word\nabysmally\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nvery bad: This experiment could help a lot of people, or it could be an abysmal failure.', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:14'), | |
| (485, 'abysmally', 'adverb', 32, 'əˈbɪz.məl.i', '../audio/a/usabut_003.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usabu/usabut_003.mp3', 'əˈbɪz.məl.i', '../audio/a/ukabsor029.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabs/ukabsor029.mp3', 'It was an abysmally poor interview.\nThe critics were abysmally wrong on almost every point.\n\n Yet the average standard of language learning is abysmally low, particularly for such a highly literate and educated society.\n \n\n Despite the effort, the (theoretical) rates of convergence of the h-version of discrete differential forms can be abysmally poor.\n \n\n By the mid-1940s, fringe benefits became increasingly elaborate to compensate for abysmally low wages and to prevent flight.\n \n\n Doctors and nurses are poorly trained and abysmally paid.\n \n\n How can he be so abysmally complacent against the background of these disgraceful unemployment figures?\n \n\n The mark would go up very substantially, presumably the pound, the franc, the dollar and lira, and all other points west would sink pretty abysmally.\n \n\n It tried internment without trial, which failed abysmally.\n \n\n It has tried to get money from investors, but it has failed abysmally.\n \n\n If it were strictly classical and good it would be abysmally inappropriate for commercial uses and therefore dead from the start.\n \n\n And lack of money is due to the abysmally low price of primary products, mainly food, in the countries where this malnutrition already exists.\n \n\n The evidence suggests in every word, syllable, figure and statistic that we shall fail abysmally if we do.\n \n\n One of the reasons for higher unemployment is that the proportion of profits has fallen to abysmally low levels.\n \n\n It has failed abysmally in the exercise of this duty.\n \n\n Generally speaking, even intelligent people are abysmally ignorant of the cost of medicine.\n \n\n They have failed abysmally to answer that central question in these debates.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nin an extreme and bad way: It was an abysmally poor interview. The critics were abysmally wrong on almost every point. See\nabysmal\nMore examplesFewer examplesThe industry has set an abysmally low standard.Many voters are abysmally ignorant of even very basic political information.Students scored abysmally on their geographic knowledge.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nSerious and unpleasant\nabominable\nabominably\nabysmal\napocalyptic\nappalling\nfrightful\nfrom hell idiom\nfun\nghastliness\nGothically\nnot be all fun and games idiom\nnoxiously\nobjectionable\nobjectionably\nodious\nunpretty\nunspeakable\nunspeakably\nunsupportable\nunsympathetically\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:14'), | |
| (487, 'abyss', 'noun', 32, 'əˈbɪs', '../audio/a/usabut_004.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usabu/usabut_004.mp3', 'əˈbɪs', '../audio/a/ukabsor030.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabs/ukabsor030.mp3', 'The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness.\nShe found herself on the edge of an abyss.\n\n Our line is too short to fathom such immense abysses.\n \n\n The ridge on which we stood ran right against it; it was the only means of approach, while ghastly abysses fell on either side.\n \n\n There are more than 200 caves and underground abysses.\n \n\n Infernal abysses do not frighten us, nor the blazes of thunder.\n \n\n How is the earth fixed above the abyss: independently, or resting on the heavenly spheres beneath it?\n \n\n Horrible anguish and abysses opened up for me.\n \n\n Same as always - the abyss yawning its head off at your feet, while you struggle with the monster that is trying to push you in.\n \n\n The \' abyss \' that allegedly separated this faction from the traditional right was, in fact, easily reconcilable, as the developments in the wake of the election show.\n \n\n The bottomless space or the abyss in which perceptible matter is contained would suggest to us the notion of this phenomenon, resulting in the unlimited synonymity of space and infinity.\n \n\n She was sliding into the abyss.\n \n\n As palliative care physicians we are often in the position of staring, along with our patients, into the mysterious abyss of life\'s most unanswerable and unknowable existential questions.\n \n\n We all know where it leads: to the abyss and to horror.\n \n\n Last weekend we faced an abyss so deep we could see no bottom.\n \n\n There is no escape from that except into the abyss of a full statutory policy.\n \n\n I said at that time that it seemed to me that we were descending into an abyss.\n ', 'abyss noun [C usually singular]\n(HOLE)\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nliterary a very deep hole that seems to have no bottom Compare\ncanyon\nchasm\ncleft\ncrater noun\ncrevasse\ndefile noun literary\ngorge noun (VALLEY)\ngulf (AREA) formal\ngully (CHANNEL)\nravine\nrift\nsinkhole noun (HOLE)\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nGeography: valleys\narroyo\ncanyon\nchasm\ncirque\ncorrie\ncwm\ndale\ndefile\ndell\nglen\ngorge\ngulch\ngully\nhanging valley\ninter-valley\nlandform\nrift valley\nvale\nvalley\nwadi\nSee more results »\nabyss noun [C usually singular]\n(BAD SITUATION)\na difficult situation that brings trouble or destruction: The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness. She found herself on the edge of an abyss.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nDifficult situations and unpleasant experiences\na (heavy) cross to bear idiom\na rough ride idiom\nadversity\nat your worst idiom\nAugean\nbad hair day\ncrunch\nemergence\ngenie\ngrief\nhardness\nhave a bumpy ride idiom\nhave someone over a barrel idiom\nhell\nrabbit hole\nreversal\nrigour\nrollercoaster\nthe Augean Stables idiom\nvortex\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:14'), | |
| (489, 'abyssal', 'adjective', 32, 'əˈbɪs.əl', '../audio/a/eus00140.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/e/eus/eus00/eus00140.mp3', 'əˈbɪs.əl', '../audio/a/epd00145.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/e/epd/epd00/epd00145.mp3', 'abyssal marine life\n\n Another feature is that most of the variation of potential density is found near the upper surface, whereas the abyssal waters are relatively homogeneous.\n \n\n Chromian spinel as a petrogenetic indicator in abyssal and alpine-type peridotites and spatially associated lavas.\n \n\n Abyssal relies similarly on extended and unusual techniques for soloist and ensemble alike.\n \n\n Abyssal hills have relatively sharply defined edges and climb to heights of no more than a few hundred meters.\n \n\n It consists of 6 whorls, which glisten with that peculiar spun-glass or flossy luster noticeable in so many abyssal species.\n \n\n Here, then, the term abyssal indifference takes on concrete meaning.\n \n\n It is an abyssal book, hardly fully comprehensible by any but a few.\n \n\n The upwelling water drags abyssal species to the surface and sometimes strands them on the shore.\n \n\n A region of the abyssal plain that is covered in such hill structures are termed an abyssal-hills province.\n \n\n Despite the low density, there is a fairly diverse community living on the abyssal plain.\n \n\n The modern xenophyophores are giant single-celled protozoans found throughout the world\'s oceans, largely on the abyssal plain.\n \n\n It has a muddy floor in the abyssopelagic zone and scattered rocky abyssal hills that rise into the bathypelagic zone forming seamounts and knolls.\n \n\n Major habitat types are identified: polar, temperate shelves and seas, temperate upwelling, tropical upwelling, tropical coral, pelagic (trades and westerlies), abyssal, and hadal (ocean trench).\n \n\n Snails can be found in a very wide range of environments, including ditches, deserts, and the abyssal depths of the sea.\n \n\n Again, abyssal fauna and troglobites, living in deep water or caves as they do, are notoriously prone to adaptive loss of eyes and pigments.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nfound in the deepest parts of the ocean or on the bottom of deep oceans: abyssal marine life\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nSeas & oceans\nAegean\nbathypelagic\nbriny\nCaribbean\ndepth\nEnglish Channel\nguyot\ninterocean\ninteroceanic\nMediterranean\nsubmarine\nsubsea\ntablemount\nthe Adriatic Sea\nthe Arabian Sea\nthe Baltic Sea\nthe doldrums\nthe high seas\nthe Irish Sea\nunderwater\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of abyssal\nAll\nabyssal plain\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:14'), | |
| (502, 'abject', 'adjective', 32, 'ˈæb.dʒekt', '../audio/a/abject.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abj/abjec/abject.mp3', 'ˈæb.dʒekt', '../audio/a/ukabdic019.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic019.mp3', 'They live in abject poverty.\nan abject apology\nHe is almost abject in his respect for his boss.\nThey live in abject poverty.\nMy experiment was an abject failure.\n\n In this, the abject is unlike the object, which stabilizes the subject in a reciprocal relationship of otherness.\n \n\n Fabulous wealth and abject gloom, though apparently contradictory, were the two effects.\n \n\n By lunchtime on the following day, everything - including its abject side, the expulsion of the worthless, consumed commodity - has disappeared from view.\n \n\n Their financial situation suggests that they had started to move out of abject poverty.\n \n\n In this sense even abject failure can be turned to economic, political, and of course academic benefit.\n \n\n With the abject failure of its longstanding policy of exemplary libel prosecutions, the government simply gave up trying to control language.\n \n\n The subject is identified both with what it repudiates and what is repudiated: not subject but abject.\n \n\n Not only is the returned colonial \"unhomely,\" he is frequently abject in his destitution and disfigurement.\n \n\n The doubling and return of colonials - some abject, some not - is, then, a trope that expresses a number of underlying cultural anxieties.\n \n\n Consequently, women who violate physical norms of gender are imagined as abject, criminal subjects in a way that men are not.\n \n\n Without husbands most of the health retirees would live in abject poverty by any standard.\n \n\n As may be expected, the most dramatic accounts of abject poverty are written by women who grew up in the late nineteenth century.\n \n\n He did this in the hope that in this ugly and abject form, the book would seem contemptible in his eyes and his longing to read it would subside.\n \n\n Our interpretation is that the intensity of multi-dimensional poverty among rural-black households is so overwhelming that the social pension income is insufficient to lift its recipients out of abject poverty.\n \n\n The kneeling postures called for in the disposizione create a similar effect: the body is briefly effaced, abject, in communion not with the audience but with a higher power.\n ', 'abject adjective\n(EXTREME)\nabject misery, poverty, failure, etc.\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe state of being extremely unhappy, poor, unsuccessful, etc.: They live in abject poverty.\nSee more\nabject adjective\n(NOT PROUD)\nshowing no pride or respect for yourself: an abject apology He is almost abject in his respect for his boss.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nFeeling sad and unhappy\na dog\'s life idiom\na long face idiom\nabjection\nangsty\nbe cut up idiom\nbe down in the mouth idiom\nbe in a funk idiom\ndistraught\ndistressed\ndog\ndoleful\nlovelorn\nlovesick\nlow-spirited\nlugubrious\nwistful\nwistfully\nwoe\nwoe is me idiom\nwoebegone\nSee more results »\nRelated word\nabjectly\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nextreme and without hope: They live in abject poverty. My experiment was an abject failure.', 'More meanings of abject\nAll\nabject misery, poverty, failure, etc. phrase\nSee all meanings\nIdioms and phrases\nabject misery, poverty, failure, etc. phrase', '2023-10-22 23:07:52'), | |
| (504, 'abjection', 'noun', 32, 'æbˈdʒek.ʃən', '../audio/a/cdo0623usabje0007.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo06/cdo0623usabje0007.mp3', 'æbˈdʒek.ʃən', '../audio/a/cdo0623ukabje0007.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/c/cdo/cdo06/cdo0623ukabje0007.mp3', 'The actor does a great job in portraying the abjection of this most pitiful of characters.\nWorking-class women led a life of abjection and unending toil at that time.', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe state of being extremely unhappy, poor, unsuccessful, etc.: The actor does a great job in portraying the abjection of this most pitiful of characters. Working-class women led a life of abjection and unending toil at that time.\nMore examplesFewer examplesIt\'s astonishing that such fantastic music was created at a time when the country was in such a state of abjection.The new manager brought a sense of optimism in stark contrast to the abjection of recent years.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nFeeling sad and unhappy\na dog\'s life idiom\nangsty\nbe cut up idiom\nbe down in the mouth idiom\nbe in a funk idiom\nbe in bits idiom\ndistressed\ndog\ndoleful\ndolefully\nlovelorn\nlovesick\nlow-spirited\nlugubrious\nlugubriously\nwistfully\nwoe\nwoe is me idiom\nwoebegone\nwoeful\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:58'), | |
| (507, 'abjectly', 'adverb', 32, 'ˈæb.dʒekt.li', '../audio/a/abjectly.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abj/abjec/abjectly.mp3', 'ˈæb.dʒekt.li', '../audio/a/ukabdic020.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic020.mp3', 'The administration had failed abjectly in its duty to protect the country.\nThey performed abjectly, losing all four of their matches.\n\"I let you down all the time\", he said abjectly.\nHe abjectly pleaded illness to avoid doing the test.\n\n Last week\'s banning orders proved conclusively that a policy of no sanctions has abjectly failed.\n \n\n Who will deny that it has completely and abjectly broken down?\n \n\n They have abjectly failed to consider how we should devise wiser courses to deal with these problems.\n \n\n Private enterprise failed abjectly to invest in manufacturing industry.\n \n\n Why are some of them so abjectly slow in bringing it forward?\n \n\n The outlook for such a man in the big towns and in districts such as my district is utterly and abjectly hopeless.\n \n\n The system fails abjectly to protect the public.\n \n\n Employers have been abjectly entreated to allow their men to go, and in certain cases half-crowns have been offered.\n \n\n We have tried all that before and it has failed dismally, disastrously and abjectly.\n \n\n We have chosen at these great moments to die on our feet as free men, rather than to live abjectly on our knees.\n \n\n The truth is that overseas development is yet another area in which they have abjectly failed.\n \n\n We do not want simply to make a few people very rich and a very large number even more abjectly poor.\n \n\n In other countries, however, it is not only the most abjectly poor who have been affected.\n \n\n On the contrary, he is abjectly fatalistic about the erosion of civil liberties.\n \n\n First, they have abjectly failed in their policy for removing failed asylum seekers.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nin an extreme or bad way: The administration had failed abjectly in its duty to protect the country. They performed abjectly, losing all four of their matches.\nin a way that shows no pride or respect for yourself: \"I let you down all the time\", he said abjectly. He abjectly pleaded illness to avoid doing the test.\nMore examplesFewer examplesWhat went so abjectly wrong?They are not abjectly poor like some of the people in the village.It was an abjectly miserable experience.He said he was abjectly ashamed of his behaviour.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nFailing and doing badly\nat-risk\nbackbencher\nballs (something) up\nbe on your beam ends idiom\nbe running on empty idiom\nblow (someone/something) up\nbomb\negg\nflog a dead horse idiom\nflop\nflub\nflunk out\nfounder\nfray around/at the edges idiom\nrunning on empty idiom\nsclerotic\nscrew\nscrew (something) up\nsmoke\nthe rot sets in idiom\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nLinguistics: very & extreme\nDisappointing yourself and others\nSee\nabject', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:58'), | |
| (522, 'abjuration', 'noun', 32, 'ˌæb.dʒʊˈreɪ.ʃən', '../audio/a/cdo0623usabju0008.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo06/cdo0623usabju0008.mp3', 'ˌæb.dʒʊˈreɪ.ʃən', '../audio/a/cdo0623ukabju0008.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/c/cdo/cdo06/cdo0623ukabju0008.mp3', 'She was forced to make an abjuration of her Catholic faith.\nHer abjuration of her belief in independence for the country came as a major shock. ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na formal or public statement that you no longer agree with a belief or way of behaving: She was forced to make an abjuration of her Catholic faith. Her abjuration of her belief in independence for the country came as a major shock.\nMore examplesFewer examplesFollowing his abjuration of his dissolute past, he was accepted back into the Church. Galileo was forced into an abjuration of his belief that the Earth orbits the Sun.One of the duties of a coroner in the Middle Ages was to accept the abjurations of those seeking sanctuary.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nRefusing & rejecting\nabnegate\nabnegation\nbar\nbat something/someone away\nblow (something) out\nbrush\njettison\nmiss a chance/opportunity idiom\nopt out\npunt on something\nquit\nquit on someone\nreact\nreact against something\nrebuff\nrepudiate\nresistant\nspurn\nturn your nose up idiom\nwild horses wouldn\'t drag me idiom\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (525, 'abjure', 'verb', 32, 'əbˈdʒʊr', '../audio/a/eus70015.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/e/eus/eus70/eus70015.mp3', 'əbˈdʒʊər', '../audio/a/ukabdic021.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic021.mp3', 'He abjured his religion/his life of dissipation.\n\n The assumption is that he had attained citizenship, either through marriage or through naturalization, and at that point may have been abjured from returning.\n \n\n He abjures the coherent, instantly understandable, text and the consistent oeuvre in favour of a proliferation that reflects the fundamentally nonlinear character of cognition.\n \n\n The film upholds the value of compassion and abjures all forms of retribution.\n \n\n Thus, he proceeded to pressure several priests and bishops into abjuring their positions.\n \n\n The guest agreed tacitly to take an oath of truce and symbolically abjured all vengeance.\n \n\n He abjures the decadence of modern life...\n \n\n The violent capture of all existing governments is one article of the creed of that faith communism, which abjures the possibility of success by lawful means.\n \n\n Nothing on earth would lead me to abjure that power because it has to be used in the national interest.\n \n\n To guarantee these children a first-rate education is just as important a principle in the national interest as to abjure selection.\n \n\n He upset some good people who belonged to none of these categories yet still wanted to abjure nuclear defence.\n \n\n The thing which we absolutely abjure and abhor is the idea that there should be first and second-class citizens.\n \n\n Let him publicly condemn violence; let him abjure violence, and a new situation would be immediately created.\n \n\n They proposed that nations should abjure the use of force.\n \n\n We must make up our minds to abjure that principle whatever consequent difficulties or embarrassments arise.\n \n\n We abjure any need to adapt ourselves to changing world conditions.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nto say formally or publicly that you no longer agree with a belief or way of behaving: He abjured his religion/his life of dissipation. Synonyms\nforswear formal\nrecant formal\nretract formal\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nRefusing & rejecting\nabjuration\nabnegate\nabnegation\nbar\nbat something/someone away\nbrush\njettison\nmiss a chance/opportunity idiom\nopt out\npass something up\npunt on something\nquit\nquit on someone\nreact\nrebuff\nrepudiate\nresistant\nspurn\nturn your nose up idiom\nwild horses wouldn\'t drag me idiom\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (526, 'abjured', 'verb', 32, 'əbˈdʒʊr', '../audio/a/eus70015.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/e/eus/eus70/eus70015.mp3', 'əbˈdʒʊər', '../audio/a/ukabdic021.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic021.mp3', 'He abjured his religion/his life of dissipation.\n\n And yet she abjured self-indulgence, being ever-attentive and subservient to the needs of her family.\n \n\n By 1530 he had abjured his clerical status to marry.\n \n\n We have abjured the use of force.\n \n\n However, that is what they have abjured.\n \n\n The assumption is that he had attained citizenship, either through marriage or through naturalization, and at that point may have been abjured from returning.\n \n\n The guest agreed tacitly to take an oath of truce and symbolically abjured all vengeance.\n \n\n Moreno abjured relations with the others and shut himself in his home.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npast simple and past participle of\nabjure\nto say formally or publicly that you no longer agree with a belief or way of behaving: He abjured his religion/his life of dissipation. Synonyms\nforswear formal\nrecant formal\nretract formal\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nRefusing & rejecting\nabjuration\nabnegate\nabnegation\nbar\nbat something/someone away\ndecline\ndemur\njettison\nmiss a chance/opportunity idiom\nopt out\npass something up\npunt on something\nquit\nquit on someone\nreact\nrebuff\nresistant\nspurn\nturn your nose up idiom\nwild horses wouldn\'t drag me idiom\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of abjured\nAll\nabjure\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (531, 'abjuring', 'verb', 32, 'əbˈdʒʊr', '../audio/a/eus70015.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/e/eus/eus70/eus70015.mp3', 'əbˈdʒʊər', '../audio/a/ukabdic021.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic021.mp3', 'He abjured his religion/his life of dissipation.\n\n One might conclude that this partial restoration is a reward for abjuring idolatry and loving responsibly.\n \n\n This policy was not now repudiated, but the presence of abjuring heretics at the ceremony was itself tangible evidence of a more direct, locally focused approach.\n \n\n I have not managed to trace the slightest record of them abjuring such a tactic.\n \n\n By abjuring the most severe penalty we may be giving up what is to some people a deterrent.\n \n\n Thus, he proceeded to pressure several priests and bishops into abjuring their positions.\n \n\n Abjuring priests (jurors) became known as constitutional clergy, and nonjuring priests as refractory clergy.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npresent participle of\nabjure\nto say formally or publicly that you no longer agree with a belief or way of behaving: He abjured his religion/his life of dissipation. Synonyms\nforswear formal\nrecant formal\nretract formal\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nRefusing & rejecting\nabjuration\nabnegate\nabnegation\nbar\nbat something/someone away\ndecline\ndemur\njettison\nmiss a chance/opportunity idiom\nopt out\npass something up\npunt on something\nquit\nquit on someone\nreact\nrebuff\nresistant\nspurn\nturn your nose up idiom\nwild horses wouldn\'t drag me idiom\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of abjuring\nAll\nabjure\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (548, 'ablate', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbleɪt', '../audio/a/cdo0318usabla0020.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo03/cdo0318usabla0020.mp3', 'əˈbleɪt', '../audio/a/cdo0318ukabla0008.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/c/cdo/cdo03/cdo0318ukabla0008.mp3', 'The aim of the operation is to ablate the diseased bowel while preserving normal function.\nThe two comets are entirely ablated before they hit the earth\'s surface. \n\n The wire cores are gradually depleted as they ablate more coronal material that is rapidly accelerated towards the accreting precursor plasma on axis.\n \n\n Aspiration was used to selectively ablate only the lateral white matter tracts and a minimal portion of the dorsal and ventral gray matter.\n \n\n Investigation of laser ablated plumes using fast photography.\n \n\n One can see that the number of the thermally ablated atoms is close to the number of atoms in a monoatomic layer.\n \n\n The thermal front advances into the cold shell ablating material to the hot-spot.\n \n\n It is not surprising therefore to see some successful mating when all the three appendages have been ablated.\n \n\n The ablating block moving against the laser (negative velocities) is broader and slower than the compressing block moving into the plasma.\n \n\n The size of the tumor that can be ablated is a function of the size and shape of the electrode.\n \n\n In laser percussion drilling, the metal is ablated by a combination of evaporation and melt ejection.\n \n\n Ovarian oestrogen production in premenopausal breast cancer patients can be irreversibly ablated with either oophorectomy or ovarian irradiation.\n \n\n Quasi-steady expansion of plasmas ablated from laser-irradiated pellets.\n \n\n These arrhythmias currently can be mapped and ablated using catheter techniques.\n \n\n Diagnostics of laser ablated plasmas using fast photography.\n \n\n Investigation of laser ablated metal and polymer plasmas in ambient gas using fast photography.\n \n\n The number of ions ablated is higher when the electric vector lies in the plane containing the target normal and the ion collector axis.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nmedical\n  specialized to remove body tissue surgically (= by a medical operation): The aim of the operation is to ablate the diseased bowel while preserving normal function.\ngeology, physics\n  specialized to remove surface material from a rock, a glacier (= mass of ice), etc. by the action of wind, melting, or friction: The two comets are entirely ablated before they hit the earth\'s surface.\nMore examplesFewer examplesThree-dimensional CT models give a map that helps physicians track where they need to ablate tissue. The cardiologist uses the tip of a special heated wire to \"ablate\", or destroy, a small area of tissue that is causing the abnormal heart rhythm.Radiosurgery devices can ablate otherwise untreatable tumors. Most meteoritic material, by the time it reaches the Earth\'s surface, has been reduced to dust or to spherules of ablated material in its passage through the atmosphere.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nRemoving and extracting\nabstract\nabstraction\nbowdlerization\nbowdlerized\nclear the decks idiom\ndrain\nextraction\ngouge something out\ngrapeseed\nirremovable\nirremovably\nlet someone down\nscoop\nscratch\nslice\nsnowploughing\nsuck\nsuck someone/something dry idiom\ntake something away\nunboxing\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nMedical treatment: surgery\nThe Earth & outer space - general words', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (552, 'ablation', 'noun', 32, 'ˌæbˈleɪ.ʃən', '../audio/a/eus40007.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/e/eus/eus40/eus40007.mp3', 'əˈbleɪ.ʃən', '../audio/a/epd00091.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/e/epd/epd00/epd00091.mp3', 'Annual measurements have revealed that ice motion and ablation are not uniform from place to place or from year to year.\nThe hospital was one of the first institutions to use radiofrequency ablation on kidney tumours.\nMinimally invasive surgical ablations use the latest technology to enable surgeons to perform surgeries through needle-sized holes.\n\n We are of the opinion that this is just the main thermodynamic difference between the \"cold\" ablation and the organic material ablation.\n \n\n The outlet of the first shock in the gas induces a strong rarefaction wave which reflects also into a shock at the ablation radius.\n \n\n Only with the high exit velocities possible with pulsed laser ablation propulsion is it possible to overcome this problem.\n \n\n This brings to a decoupling of the laser beam from the target and, as a result, the mass ablation rate decreases with time.\n \n\n A fraction of the electric current flows close to the wall and causes heating and subsequent ablation.\n \n\n Low-energy low-divergence pulsed indium atomic beam by laser ablation.\n \n\n In the earlier reports, pulsed high power laser is focused onto the target resulting into the ablation of material, giving pulsed atomic beam.\n \n\n This served the purpose of identification as well as to approximate the handling given to treatment beetles during ablation of appendages.\n \n\n With our present knowledge it is not possible to quantify the contribution of each of these processes in reducing the ablation depth exactly.\n \n\n The models show the potential pathways along how organic molecules can survive the ablation process, albeit chemically altered.\n \n\n Pulsed laser ablation mechanisms of thin metal films.\n \n\n The best ablation efficiency was observed with femtosecond laser pulses.\n \n\n Synthesis and processing of silicon nanocrystallites using a pulsed laser ablation supersonic expansion method.\n ', 'ablation noun\n(OF ICE OR ROCK)\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\n[ U ]\n  environment, geology\n  specialized the loss of ice or snow from a glacier or iceberg, or the loss of rock or similar material, caused by a process such as melting or erosion (= gradual damage and removing by waves, rain, or wind): Annual measurements have revealed that ice motion and ablation are not uniform from place to place or from year to year.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nThe Earth & outer space - general words\nablate\nanti-gravity\natmosphere\natmospherically\nauroral\ngravity\nhorizon\nhydrosphere\nionospheric\nlithosphere\nlithospheric\nmacrocosm\nmesosphere\nmesospheric\nMother Nature\nthe Big Bang\nunconformity\nunderground\nweightlessness\nzero gravity\nSee more results »\nablation noun\n(OF TISSUE)\n[ C or U ]\n  medical\n  specialized a medical treatment that involves cutting away or destroying a small amount of tissue from the body, for example using heat or cold: The hospital was one of the first institutions to use radiofrequency ablation on kidney tumours. Minimally invasive surgical ablations use the latest technology to enable surgeons to perform surgeries through needle-sized holes. See also\ncardiac ablation\nRFA\nMore examplesFewer examplesAblation is the intentional destruction of tissue, usually with heat. In most ablations the quantity of tissue affected is minuscule.In catheter ablation a tiny probe is threaded through the arteries to the interior of the heart, where it zaps a few cells that have occasionally been making the heart beat too fast.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nMedical treatment: surgery\nablate\nadrenalectomy\namputation\namputee\nanaesthesiology\nanaesthetize\nharvesting\nhave something out\nimplantable\nimplantation\nincision\ninteroperative\nlaughing gas\nliposuction\nreplacement\nresected\nresection\nrhino\nrhinoplasty\ntransfusion\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of ablation\nAll\nablation zone\ncardiac ablation\ncatheter ablation\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (556, 'ablative', 'noun', 32, 'ˈæb.lə.t̬ɪv', '../audio/a/cdo0318usabla0021.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo03/cdo0318usabla0021.mp3', 'ˈæb.lə.tɪv', '../audio/a/epd00093.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/e/epd/epd00/epd00093.mp3', 'These are ablatives after the prepositions ab, de, and ex.\nthe ablative case\n\n Lasing in an ablative capillary discharge with structured return conductor.\n \n\n Pulsed laser ablative deposition of thin metal films.\n \n\n Non-invasive testing, tilt testing and 24-h monitoring were performed < 72 h before the electrophysiological study, and again within 24 h of the ablative procedure.\n \n\n Moreover, the variations within the syntactic expression of the ablative are correlated with various sociolinguistic groups.\n \n\n Nonetheless, the data collected may suggest how the change is working within the ablative pattern.\n \n\n However, those informants that used these other variants as the ablative preposition also used them for other prepositions, including locative and instrumental 0 comitative.\n \n\n There is little doubt that high-frequency stimulation and ablative lesions have similar functional effects with different underlying mechanisms.\n \n\n The transition from the exploding foil regime to the ablative one with foil thickening has been simulated and analyzed at various values of laser light intensity.\n \n\n At 9.5 ns, the effect of viscosity on the growth rate is considerably larger, but at all times the dominant stabilization mechanism is the ablative stabilization.\n \n\n The combination of a superficial location on the thorax and lack of intervening organs makes the breast ideal for ablative therapies, one of which is cryoablation.\n \n\n Historically, a male with metastases from breast cancer was treated with different ablative surgical procedures: adrenalectomy, hypophysectomy and orchidectomy, which in historical series showed a 55-80% response rate [49].\n \n\n In the case of the ablative compression, the discrepancy between the calculation and the experimental scaling achieves about 2-3!.\n \n\n The breast is an ideal model for ablative therapies owing to its superficial location on the thorax and absence of intervening organs between it and the skin.\n \n\n To conclude, we have demonstrated the utility of a simple laser ablative technique for accurately determining the timing and velocity of a neutral par ticle beam.\n \n\n Figures 12-20 reflect the flow field of ablative discharge plasma at the instant of 200 s, corresponding to the maximum input power from the laminar and turbulent flow, respectively.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective that in some languages, for example Latin, shows by whom or what something is done, or where something comes from: These are ablatives after the prepositions ab, de, and ex.\nMore examplesFewer examplesMany instances of the ablative of cause may be analyzed in two ways: e.g., \"vulnere mortuus est\" could be understood as \"he died from a wound\" or \"he died by means of a wound\".The ablative after prepositions of place or time denotes location in place and time.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nLinguistics: grammatical terms\napposition\nappositive\nappositively\nattributively\nconcessive\nconcord\ndative\nfeminine\ngenitive\ninflected\nnominative\nparticle\npostposition\npostpositional\npostpositive\npostpositively\npredicatively\nquantifier\nsingular\nsyntax\nSee more results »\n(in some languages, for example Latin) showing by whom or what something is done, or where something comes from: the ablative case\nMore examplesFewer examplesThe ablative form indicates an agent, instrument or cause. The ablative case is found in ancient languages such as Latin and Sanskrit, as well as modern languages like Turkish and Hungarian.The material out of which something is made is put in the ablative case.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nLinguistics: grammatical terms\napposition\nappositive\nappositively\nattributively\nconcessive\nconcord\ndative\nfeminine\ngenitive\ninflected\nnominative\nparticle\npostposition\npostpositional\npostpositive\npostpositively\npredicatively\nquantifier\nsingular\nsyntax\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (562, 'ablaze', 'adjective', 32, 'əˈbleɪz', '../audio/a/ablaze.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abl/ablaz/ablaze.mp3', 'əˈbleɪz', '../audio/a/ukabdic022.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic022.mp3', 'The house was ablaze, and the flames and smoke could be seen for miles around.\nThe ballroom was ablaze with lights.\nThe field was ablaze with wild flowers.\nHer eyes were ablaze with excitement.\nFire spread quickly until the whole building was ablaze.\nThe ballroom was ablaze with lights.\n\n As the contents easily caught fire, the building was fully ablaze in a short time.\n \n\n The fire spread rapidly to several decks and by the evening the whole of the upper structure was ablaze.\n \n\n In a few seconds the whole of the clothing is ablaze and the person may be burned from head to foot.\n \n\n The adjacent timber yard was set ablaze again, almost as a demonstration against authority.\n \n\n Now the finance committee will have to be ablaze with life.\n \n\n He was lighting a decoy fire, but the trouble is that had the fire got well alight it would have set ablaze everything in the country that is worth having.\n \n\n They had thought that it was out, but it had reignited when they started and, by the time they reached the other end of the site, it was ablaze.\n \n\n At any rate, people must really understand if they play with fire in one respect the chances are sparks from that fire will set things ablaze in other directions.\n \n\n After plundering the chapel, they set the other buildings ablaze.\n \n\n If a free man set a house ablaze, he shall build the house, again.\n \n\n Tires were filled with gasoline, thrown inside vehicles and set ablaze.\n \n\n After dark clashes continued, and rubbish was set ablaze.\n \n\n The fire was started when an arsonist stacked wooden tables against the front doors of the building, poured gasoline on them, and set them ablaze.\n \n\n After the first chorus, the band members are shown with their instruments ablaze.\n \n\n Within five minutes, flames had spread to the main clubroom and the entire nightclub was ablaze.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nburning very strongly: The house was ablaze, and the flames and smoke could be seen for miles around. Synonyms\naflame literary\nalight (BURNING)\non fire\nThesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples\na burning building, vehicle, etc.burningHe entered a burning house to rescue a child.in flamesThe whole block was in flames.ablazeBy nightfall dozens of buildings were ablaze.aflameShops and vehicles were set aflame.alightSoon the neighbouring houses were alight.\nSee more results »\nbrightly lit or brightly coloured: The ballroom was ablaze with lights. The field was ablaze with wild flowers.\nfull of energy, interest, or emotion: Her eyes were ablaze with excitement.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nBurning, burnt & on fire\nafire\naflame\nalight\nblaze\nburn (something) down\nburn sb up\nburned out\nburnt out\ncombustible\nconsume\nflare\nfrazzled\nincinerate\ninflammable\non fire idiom\npost-burn\nreignite\nscald\nself-immolation\nunburnable\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nThe qualities of light\nThe qualities of colour\nExcited, interested and enthusiastic\nEnergetic and lively\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nburning or very bright: Fire spread quickly until the whole building was ablaze. The ballroom was ablaze with lights.', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (563, 'able', 'adjective', 32, 'ˈeɪ.bəl', '../audio/a/able.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abl/able_/able.mp3', 'ˈeɪ.bəl', '../audio/a/ukabdic023.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic023.mp3', 'Will she be able to cope with the work?\nGet a good night\'s sleep and you\'ll feel better able to cope.\nan able child/student/secretary\nThis problem is now being looked at by some of the ablest minds/scientists in the country.\nbreakable\nwashable\nmovable\nan admirable person\nan acceptable answer\nI lost my job and wasn’t able to afford my old apartment.\nWe won’t be able to keep up this kind of effort much longer.\nHe is an able student.\nHe does his job very ably.\n\n Will he circularise all the known dis- abled with a catalogue of what aids are available?\n \n\n They can call before them permanent secretaries, senior civil servants, chairmen of nationalised industries and other members of that great coterie of unanswer-ables.\n \n\n The automatic telephone en- ables us to dispense with that part of the system altogether, because the automatic telephone provides an automatic record which is necessarily and absolutely correct.\n \n\n We may want to harbour the inconsistency until we are better able to resolve it.\n \n\n Civilian governments arguably more consolidated than at any time in history, have been able to move the security agenda forward in many ways previously unimaginable.\n \n\n We have also been able to synthesize code for a large number of mixture problems.\n \n\n An artificial connection with the main river channel is open only during peak discharges and during this time, fish are able to enter the oxbow.\n \n\n The diporpa must be able to recognize its fusion partner and, at the same time, avoid the immune response of the fish host.\n \n\n Although the resulting programming model is not general, it is able to describe a wide range of numerical algorithms.\n \n\n Animals which are debilitated, less active and less aggressive on the one hand but also less able to assess risk will be more vulnerable.\n \n\n In the end, though, it was able to maintain power because of its control of the government.\n \n\n In a warmer climate, the agent might not be able to withstand the environmental changes, resulting in the decay of its virulence.\n \n\n Good photomultipliers are able to respond to single photons, so the corresponding requirement in the optical range is one photon per bit.\n \n\n A 106 km telescope would be able to see free oxygen lines in planetary atmospheres near the pseudo event horizon.\n \n\n At this distance from the star only photoresistant molecules are able to survive to the decomposition.\n ', 'able adjective\n(CAN DO)\nbe able to do something\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nA2 to have the necessary physical strength, mental power, skill, time, money, or opportunity to do something: Will she be able to cope with the work?\nSee more be better able to do something\nto find it easier to do something: Get a good night\'s sleep and you\'ll feel better able to cope.\nSee more\nable adjective\n(SKILFUL)\nC2 intelligent or good at what you do: an able child/student/secretary This problem is now being looked at by some of the ablest minds/scientists in the country.\nThesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples\ngood at doing something because of practiceskilfulShe\'s a skilful driver.skilledHe\'s a skilled mechanic.good atShe\'s very good at dealing with people.ableShe\'s a very able student.giftedShe\'s a gifted musician.talentedHe\'s a very talented actor.\nSee more results »\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nSkilled, talented and able\nably\naccomplished\nadept\nadeptly\nadroit\ndexterously\ndigital native\nexpert\nexpertly\nexplosiveness\npedigreed\npolished\npractised\nproficient\nproficiently\nup to (doing) something idiom\nwell qualified\nwhite-collar\nwith the best of them idiom\nworkmanlike\nSee more results »\nGrammar\nBe about toBe about to is used to talk about things which are going to happen very soon: …\n-able suffix\n(CAN BE)\nadded to verbs to form adjectives that mean able to receive the action of the stated verb: breakable washable movable\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nAchievable\n-ible\naccomplishable\nachievable\nattainable\ndoable\nenabled\nfeasible\nfeasibly\nhumanly\nin/out of the running idiom\nmight\nposs\npossible\npracticability\npracticable\npracticably\npractical\nreach\nrunning\nvincible\nSee more results »\n-able suffix\n(WORTH BEING)\nadded to verbs to form adjectives that mean worth receiving the action of the stated verb: an admirable person an acceptable answer\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nSuitable and acceptable\nacceptability\nacceptable\nacceptably\naccepted\naccordingly\nconvenience\ncorrectly\ncorrectness\ndecent\ndecently\neligibility\nfelicity\nlegitimate\npractical\nre-eligible\nrelevance\nrelevant\nrelevantly\nrespectability\nticket\nSee more results »\nable adjective\n(HAVING WHAT IS NEEDED)\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\n[ + to infinitive ] having what is needed to do something, esp. the physical or mental power, skill, time, money, or opportunity: I lost my job and wasn’t able to afford my old apartment. We won’t be able to keep up this kind of effort much longer.\nable adjective\n(SKILLFUL)\ngood at what you do: He is an able student. ably adverb us\nYour browser doesn\'t support HTML5 audio\n/ˈeɪ·bli/\nHe does his job very ably.', 'More meanings of able\nAll\nable-bodied\nthe able-bodied\nable seaman\nget-at-able\n-able, at -ible\nbe able to do something phrase\nbe better able to do something phrase\nSee all meanings\nIdioms and phrases\nbe able to do something phrase\nbe better able to do something phrase\nSee all idioms and phrases', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (564, 'abled', 'adjective', 32, 'ˈeɪ.bəld', '../audio/a/cdo1121usable0008.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/c/cdo/cdo11/cdo1121usable0008.mp3', 'ˈeɪ.bəld', '../audio/a/cdo1121ukable0008.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/c/cdo/cdo11/cdo1121ukable0008.mp3', 'They hold live online forums where viewers from around the world, abled and disabled, can interact.\nThe workshops are for abled and disabled dancers.', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nnot having a disability (= an illness, injury, or condition that makes it difficult for someone to do some things that other people do): They hold live online forums where viewers from around the world, abled and disabled, can interact. The workshops are for abled and disabled dancers. Compare\nable-bodiedSee also\ndifferently abled\nMore examplesFewer examplesThe participants will be athletes in every field, abled and disabled.People have so many issues regarding the human body to do with being fat or thin, abled or disabled, black or brown, male or female.I believe you can teach the same content to a student with a learning disability as to an academically abled student and achieve success.825 users of the screen reader responded to the survey, consisting of a mix of disabled (90%) and abled users (10%).The centre will open early next year to meet the needs of less abled people.', 'More meanings of abled\nAll\ndifferently abled\ndifferently-abled, at differently abled\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (585, 'ably', 'adverb', 32, 'ˈeɪ.bli', '../audio/a/ably.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abl/ably_/ably.mp3', 'ˈeɪ.bli', '../audio/a/ukabdic026.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic026.mp3', 'He performs his duties very ably.\n\n This is a fine collection, ably edited and with plentiful and helpful notes to explain dating and identify individuals.\n \n\n Ably marshalling the threads of the previous chapters, it functions nicely as a conclusion, with a provocative twist.\n \n\n All five reviews ably described interactions between neuronal systems, but only in global terms of activation and inhibition.\n \n\n Yet this edifice seems to participate most ably and eloquently in its surroundings.\n \n\n The research is impeccable, the detail nuanced, the portraits convincing, the argument ably sustained.\n \n\n There is, nonetheless, a significant amount of data, which is ably presented here.\n \n\n It is for this reason the book is valuable: it more than ably fulfils what it sets out to do.\n \n\n To the positive, they ably demonstrate the importance of sensorimotor contingencies in visual perception.\n \n\n Trained midwives were expected to operate ably at the bottom of the medical hierarchy with comparatively little professional and financial support.\n \n\n As the rest of the book ably demonstrates, the space-bound laboratory opens up a challenging new world of scientific possibilities.\n \n\n The arguments are ably anatomized without losing sight of the rapidly changing political context.\n \n\n It is a most interesting address which summarizes very ably, and in remarkably brief compass, developments which took place over so many years.\n \n\n Their big red sails were managed less ably by simply tying the sheet rope in the corner and the sails were \'loosefooted\'.\n \n\n Keeping track of all the children who are not under parental guidance becomes a serious responsibility, generally very ably managed by the project committee.\n \n\n Durston ably surveys the historiography surrounding the major-generals in his first chapter.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nskilfully: He performs his duties very ably.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nSkilled, talented and able\nable\naccomplished\nadept\nadeptly\nadroit\ndexterously\ndigital native\nexpert\nexpertly\nexplosiveness\npedigreed\npolished\npractised\nproficient\nproficiently\nup to (doing) something idiom\nwell qualified\nwhite-collar\nwith the best of them idiom\nworkmanlike\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of ably\nAll\nably adverb, at able\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (597, 'ablution', 'noun', 32, 'əˈbluː.ʃən', '../audio/a/eus70017.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/e/eus/eus70/eus70017.mp3', 'əˈbluː.ʃən', '../audio/a/ukabdic024.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic024.mp3', 'Ablution is part of some religious ceremonies.\nHe went off to the baths to perform his ablutions.\n\n Sadu, who has just completed performing ablutions and bathing, appears in front of the mendicant covered only by her long tresses.\n \n\n While the bandaging no longer takes place, the ritual ablutions are still performed.\n \n\n The completed one faces north and is accompanied by an image of a boar, rock-basins possibly cut for ceremonial ablutions and an ogham inscription.\n \n\n The temple towers flanking the main building had courtyards with pools used for ablutions at each end, flanked by stoas on three sides.\n \n\n Additionally, clean dirt or dust can serve as a substitute for someone who is performing ablutions in the absence of clean water.\n \n\n The first spartan ablutions were established in the middle of a large rose garden out front, but shower facilities were not established for several weeks.\n \n\n Ritual ablutions are performed by the men in the canal.\n \n\n Between the two main sheds is an ablutions block with toilets and shower facilities for the staff.\n \n\n Members regularly perform ritual ablutions, and are baptized when they join the assembly.\n \n\n In ecclesiastical usage it was applied to the basin used for ablutions and sometimes other sacraments.\n \n\n He would perform the deity\'s ablutions, decorate the deity with flowers and leaves from the tarwad shrub.\n \n\n The large camping terrain has sites for caravans, motor homes and tents; campers share the ablutions, cooking and wash-up facilities.\n \n\n In the past, people used the water for ablutions before prayers.\n \n\n Cisterns, fed by rainwater, were used for ablutions and cleaning.\n \n\n Two ablutions fountains, both of which are roofed.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\n[ U ] the act of washing yourself: Ablution is part of some religious ceremonies. ablutions\n[ plural ] formal or humorous Your ablutions are the things you do when you wash yourself: perform your ablutions He went off to the baths to perform his ablutions.\nSee more\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nPersonal care - general words\namenity kit\nbaby wipe\nbeach body\nbeardy\nbed bath\ndouche\nfat-shaming\nfatphobia\nfatphobic\nflossing\nhand gel\nscrub\nscrub up well idiom\nshave\nspruce\nweak-chinned\nwell groomed\nwhirlpool bath\nwindblown\nwindswept\nSee more results »', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (599, 'ablutions', 'phrase', 32, '', '', '', '', '', '', 'He went off to the baths to perform his ablutions.\nWe waited for James, who was finishing his ablutions.\nA teacher supervised their minimal ablutions.\nWhen her ablutions were completed, she put on the clean clothes.\nMy ablutions always followed the same pattern.', '', 'More meanings of ablutions\nAll\nperform your ablutions\nablutions\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (607, 'abnegate', 'verb', 32, 'ˈæb.nə.ɡeɪt', '../audio/a/usad___026.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___026.mp3', 'ˈæb.nɪ.ɡeɪt', '../audio/a/ukabdic027.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic027.mp3', 'to abnegate responsibility/guilt\n\n Although this finding has been abnegated as being insignificant, it cannot be refuted or overlooked.\n \n\n My generation and that which followed mine must be held responsible for abnegating our duty to instil moral values in our children.\n \n\n However, for some years that committee has abnegated that responsibility.\n \n\n The importance of this is that it is not their rights that are abnegated.\n \n\n The victim in our system has abnegated his right to bring a trial.\n \n\n We would be abnegating our responsibilities.\n \n\n I am quite sure my noble friend did not mean that we should abnegate any responsibility that we have now assumed.\n \n\n I do not think that they can abnegate their responsibilities.\n \n\n I am sure that he would not suggest that we should abnegate our responsibilities to someone whose report we have not yet seen.\n \n\n However, for some reason local authorities now want to abnegate that responsibility.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nto not allow yourself to have something, especially something you like or want\nto not accept something, or to say that you do not have something: to abnegate responsibility/guilt\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nRefusing & rejecting\nabjuration\nabnegation\nbar\nbat something/someone away\nblow (something) out\nbrush\njettison\nmiss a chance/opportunity idiom\nopt out\npunt on something\nquit\nquit on someone\nreact\nreact against something\nrebuff\nrepudiate\nresistant\nspurn\nturn your nose up idiom\nwild horses wouldn\'t drag me idiom\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nDenying & contradicting\nRelated word\nabnegation', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (611, 'abnegation', 'noun', 32, 'ˌæb.nəˈɡeɪ.ʃən', '../audio/a/usad___027.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usad_/usad___027.mp3', 'ˌæb.nɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən', '../audio/a/ukabdic028.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic028.mp3', 'They believe it is the duty of women to live for others in complete abnegation of themselves.\nIt is a heart-warming tale of courage and abnegation.\nTo ignore these issues would be a serious abnegation of responsibility.\nThis abnegation of customer care really annoys me. \n\n The oxymoron \'logic plus control\' expresses the abnegation of such a natural identification.\n \n\n Notwithstanding this self abnegation, he left an estate of £240,000.\n \n\n There cannot, however, be such a thing in time of war, because war itself is an abnegation of all law.\n \n\n These observations seem to imply the abnegation of public and almost all private virtues.\n \n\n I think that would a shameless abnegation of our responsibility.\n \n\n It was one of the great abnegations of history but a movement which for many people was bound to have profound psychological effects.\n \n\n It is not a question of the complete abnegation of his rights.\n \n\n Indeed, a failure to appreciate that is an abnegation of the very concept of government itself.\n \n\n Internationalism means the negation of patriotism and the abnegation of everything of which we should be proud.\n \n\n That is what is sad about it: the complete abnegation and repudiation of authority, and the abnegation of moral responsibility—the running away.\n \n\n It is the complete abnegation of all patriotism, which should be next to religion, and, in point of fact, is no bad substitute for it.\n \n\n That was not an abnegation of his duty.\n \n\n Simply to ask for a judicial inquiry about an essentially political decision is not an assumption of parliamentary responsibility, but an abnegation of it.\n \n\n It was the most shameful abnegation of responsibility that this country has ever known.\n \n\n This is an abnegation of a very important principle.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe act of not allowing yourself to have something, especially something you like or want: They believe it is the duty of women to live for others in complete abnegation of themselves. It is a heart-warming tale of courage and abnegation.\nthe act of not accepting something, or of saying that you do not have something: To ignore these issues would be a serious abnegation of responsibility. This abnegation of customer care really annoys me. See\nabnegate\nMore examplesFewer examplesThey regarded nakedness as part of the abnegation necessary to achieve true enlightenment. Unlike solo parts, singing in the chorus is one big abnegation.The greatest abnegation of law imaginable is putting an innocent person to death.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nRefusing & rejecting\nabjuration\nabnegate\nbar\nbat something/someone away\nblow (something) out\nbrush\njettison\nmiss a chance/opportunity idiom\nopt out\npunt on something\nquit\nquit on someone\nreact\nreact against something\nrebuff\nrepudiate\nresistant\nspurn\nturn your nose up idiom\nwild horses wouldn\'t drag me idiom\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nDenying & contradicting', 'More meanings of abnegation\nAll\nself-abnegation\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (620, 'abnormal', 'adjective', 32, 'æbˈnɔːr.məl', '../audio/a/abnormal.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abn/abnor/abnormal.mp3', 'æbˈnɔː.məl', '../audio/a/ukabdic029.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic029.mp3', 'abnormal behaviour/weather/conditions\nTests revealed some abnormal skin cells.\nWe had an abnormal amount of snow.\nHe has an abnormal heartbeat.\nNo abnormalities showed up in the blood tests.\nIt was abnormally hot this summer.\n\n Many languages have mechanisms for reporting abnormal situations that arise at runtime.\n \n\n Specifically, early processing biases are likely to be altered, probably resulting in the development of abnormal patterns of interregional specialization.\n \n\n On cardiac examination, an abnormal four-chamber view was detected, mainly due to dilation of the right atrium.\n \n\n The analysis concludes that the market behaves \' \' semi-efficiently\' \', partly but not fully taking into account abnormal assumptions.\n \n\n In addition to its abnormal position, the tongue behaves differently.\n \n\n The latter sample is abnormal for several elements, and was evidently the most strongly affected by cumulate processes.\n \n\n Three of the babies were adopted and the social circumstances were very abnormal in three of the remaining nine.\n \n\n Such socially deprived monkeys have (not surprisingly) exhibited severely abnormal behavior and vocal calls.\n \n\n Flow in die descending aorta was abnormal, with retrograde flow in diastole at die level of the diaphragm.\n \n\n We consider this unsuccessful development of reconstituted eggs to be due mainly to abnormal spindle formation and/or unequal distribution of chromatids, as described above.\n \n\n Two abnormal systemic vessels supplying the sequestered lower part of the right lung were embolized using catheter-inserted coils.\n \n\n Eight of these specimens were in pre-implantation stages and four of these were grossly abnormal and presumably non-viable.\n \n\n Thus, regional brain maturation is most likely abnormal in autism, but this abnormality is compounded by experientially based abnormality.\n \n\n Increased risk because of arrhythmias, sluggish blood flow in abnormal circulation and metallic prosthetic valves.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nC1 different from what is usual or average, especially in a way that is bad: abnormal behaviour/weather/conditions Tests revealed some abnormal skin cells.\nMore examplesFewer examplesThey said that the delay to our flight was due to abnormal bad weather conditions.It isn\'t abnormal to have spots at your age.Abnormal levels of radiation have been recorded in the area.It\'s abnormal to have temperatures in the 30s here at this time of year.Because he has to work abnormal hours, Jack doesn\'t often eat with the rest of the family.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nStrange, suspicious and unnatural\naberrant\naberrantly\nabnormally\nadd\nAlice-in-Wonderland\nfreakishness\nfunnily\nfunnily enough idiom\nghostliness\nghoul\nperverse\nperversely\nperversity\nperverted\npervy\nunhealthily\nunorthodox\nwack\nwackadoodle\nwackily\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nWrong\nRelated word\nabnormally\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nnot usual or average: We had an abnormal amount of snow. He has an abnormal heartbeat. abnormality noun [ C/U ] us\nYour browser doesn\'t support HTML5 audio\n/ˌæb·nɔrˈmæl·ɪ·t̬i, -nər-/\n[ C ] No abnormalities showed up in the blood tests. abnormally adverb us\nYour browser doesn\'t support HTML5 audio\n/æbˈnɔr·mə·li, əb-/\nIt was abnormally hot this summer.', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (628, 'abnormality', 'noun', 32, 'ˌæb.nɔːrˈmæl.ə.t̬i', '../audio/a/eus70019.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/e/eus/eus70/eus70019.mp3', 'ˌæb.nɔːˈmæl.ə.ti', '../audio/a/ukabdic030.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabd/ukabdic030.mp3', 'genetic/congenital abnormalities\nAn increasing number of tests are available for detecting foetal abnormalities.\nThe X-rays showed some slight abnormality.\n\n Growing evidence indicates that abnormalities in brain development play determining roles in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.\n \n\n But we do not need a technical linguistic term for abnormality/uncommonness/unusualness/ unexpectedness.\n \n\n Theoretically, however, given that there is plasticity, the fact that there is structural abnormality does not in itself predict functional abnormality.\n \n\n Only those with parietal cortex abnormalities had abnormally long reaction times to invalidly cued targets.\n \n\n In cases of isolated mild/moderate ventriculomegaly the risk of a karyotype abnormality is also unclear from the literature.\n \n\n Exactly how important abnormalities in personality functioning are in the aetiology and onset of late-life paranoid psychoses is unclear.\n \n\n Using tests of executive function, they found abnormalities particularly during mania, and related particularly to thought disorder.\n \n\n A 22-year-old pregnant woman was referred for a detailed fetal echocardiogram because an abnormality of the fetal heart was suspected on routine antenatal scanning.\n \n\n Within one week, the child clinically improved; pulmonary function were normal after 6 weeks and radiographic abnormalities resolved.\n \n\n A woman\'s fertility begins to decline at about the age of 35 and the chances of 42 genetic abnormalities increase dramatically.\n \n\n Structural and functional abnormalities in elderly patients clinically recovered from early- and late-onset depression.\n \n\n In four of our patients, the double orifice was found to represent an abnormality in the left valve of an atrioventricular septal defect.\n \n\n In our case, variations can be ascribed primarily to center-specific private costs and different modes of subject management after the detection of abnormalities.\n \n\n It is thus an advantage, that only fully comparable individuals with exactly the same abnormalities are included in the present study.\n \n\n Functional imaging of facial emotion recognition may be a useful probe of cortical and subcortical abnormalities in mood disorders.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nsomething abnormal, usually in the body: genetic/congenital abnormalities An increasing number of tests are available for detecting foetal abnormalities. The X-rays showed some slight abnormality.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nDisease & illness - general words\naggressiveness\nautoimmune disease\nbilharzia\nbluetongue\ncalculus\nCFS\ncomplication\niatrogenic\nill health\nimpairment\nincurably\ninfantile\noutbreak\nseizure\nserial interval\nsubvariant\nsystemically\nteratoma\nterminally\nuntreated\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of abnormality\nAll\nabnormality noun, at abnormal\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (633, 'abnormally', 'adverb', 32, 'æbˈnɔːr.məl.i', '../audio/a/abnormally.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abn/abnor/abnormally.mp3', 'æbˈnɔː.məl.i', '../audio/a/ukabnor001.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabn/ukabnor001.mp3', 'The success rate was abnormally high.\nAn abnormally large number of students have signed up for my course.', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nin a way that is abnormal (= different from what is usual or average): The success rate was abnormally high. An abnormally large number of students have signed up for my course. See\nabnormal\nMore examplesFewer examplesHer heart was pumping abnormally. The lungs of baby monkeys develop abnormally when exposed to pollution. His squad is training in abnormally low temperatures.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nStrange, suspicious and unnatural\naberrant\naberrantly\nabnormal\nadd\nAlice-in-Wonderland\nfreakishness\nfunnily\nfunnily enough idiom\nghostliness\nghoul\nperverse\nperversely\nperversity\nperverted\npervy\nunhealthily\nunorthodox\nwack\nwackadoodle\nwackily\nSee more results »', 'More meanings of abnormally\nAll\nabnormally adverb, at abnormal\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (640, 'abo', 'noun', 32, 'ˌeɪ.biːˈoʊ', '../audio/a/usa31008.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/u/usa/usa31/usa31008.mp3', 'ˌeɪ.biːˈəʊ', '../audio/a/uka31008.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/uka31/uka31008.mp3', 'the ABO blood group system', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe system that divides human blood into four main blood groups (= types of blood), known as A, B, AB, and O: the ABO blood group system\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nThe circulatory system & blood\naccessory pathway\nantegrade\nanterograde\nanti-platelet\nantigen test\nblood donor\nblood vessel\ncapillary\nerectile\nintravascular\nintravenously\njugular\njugular vein\nleucocyte\nplatelet\nvasoconstriction\nvasodilation\nVEGF\nveined\nvena\nSee more results »\nan extremely offensive word for a member of the group of people who were the first people to live in Australia', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (641, 'aboard', 'adverb', 32, 'əˈbɔːrd', '../audio/a/aboard.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abo/aboar/aboard.mp3', 'əˈbɔːd', '../audio/a/ukabnor003.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabn/ukabnor003.mp3', 'The flight attendant welcomed us aboard.\nWelcome aboard flight BA345 to Tokyo.\nThe train\'s about to leave. All aboard!\nWe spent two months aboard ship (= on the ship).\nWe finally went aboard the plane three hours later.\n\n By sheer accident, an empty trolley, nobody aboard, is starting to roll down a certain track.\n \n\n The rapidity with which social demarcations get consolidated aboard ship reveals the profound impact of class performatives on the life of the nation.\n \n\n You awaken one morning on your amply outfitted but very small boat to find that a shipwrecked sailor has climbed aboard.\n \n\n The decks were hosed down with sea water until free of debris brought aboard from the landing.\n \n\n Each boat also has a woman aboard, one nursing a child.\n \n\n Head and lower jaws were cut off and hoisted aboard separately, followed by the rest of the carcass.\n \n\n You yourself should know what difficulties lice provide aboard a ship and what a giant work is needed to get rid of them.\n \n\n Whatever the value, none could have been pleasant to handle or to have aboard ship, but those containing the most ammonia were the most foul-smelling.\n \n\n A float-plane was taken aboard and transported to the edge of the pack ice where it took off.\n \n\n Of 11 passengers identified aboard the ship with a recent onset of influenza symptoms, 2 had positive rapid influenza results.\n \n\n As early as 1864, special agents were riding aboard mail cars and using them to monitor delivery and distribution of mail.\n \n\n Between 1500 and 1640, spatial adverbs, such as ashore, aboard, home, and past, are found in addition.\n \n\n Through judicious techniques of estimation, the editors have projected that some 7 million captives were aboard the vessels in the database.\n \n\n In addition to mechanistic questions, all cognitive science, comparative cognition included, should take aboard functional questions into research.\n \n\n This right allows for an attempt to smuggle a mock explosive aboard an aircraft by someone whose role includes that prerogative.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nC1 on or onto a ship, aircraft, bus, or train: The flight attendant welcomed us aboard. Welcome aboard flight BA345 to Tokyo. The train\'s about to leave. All aboard! We spent two months aboard ship (= on the ship).\nMore examplesFewer examplesHe was a radio technician aboard the USS Missouri.Many experiments are carried out in the weightless conditions which are experienced aboard space stations.I jumped aboard the motor boat and we set off for the island.Nobody is allowed aboard the plane without a security check.The bus drove off just as she was climbing aboard.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nBoarding and alighting from modes of transport\nbestride\nboard\nclimb\ndebark\ndeplane\ndisembark\ndisembarkation\ndismount\nembark\nembarkation\nentrain\nget\nget off\nget on\nget out\nhop\nmount\nreboard\nsettle\nstraddle\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nAir travel: travelling by aircraft\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\non or onto a ship, aircraft, bus, or train: We finally went aboard the plane three hours later.', 'More meanings of aboard\nAll\nclose aboard\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (646, 'abode', 'noun', 32, 'əˈboʊd', '../audio/a/abode.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abo/abode/abode.mp3', 'əˈbəʊd', '../audio/a/ukabnor004.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabn/ukabnor004.mp3', 'Welcome to my humble abode!\nThe defendant is of no fixed abode (= has no permanent home).\nPlease list your permanent address or, if you are a citizen of another county, the address of your habitual abode in this country.\nDespite being called The Cottage, their estate was the largest abode in the county.\nI bought you some nice candlesticks for your new abode. \nHe was a wanderer with no permanent abode.\nHe voted to allow 50,000 Hong Kong families the right of abode in Britain.\nThree men, all of no fixed abode, appeared in court charged with violent disorder.\n\n If true, this theoretical work would rule out half the stars on the sky as being possible abodes for life.\n \n\n And rightly so, for sweetness in mercy and courtesy have in her their abode.\n \n\n These spirits are often imagined as having a name and a personality, and to have their abode in an invisible world.\n \n\n Although at times they did become a party to gang robberies, their fixed abodes acted as a constraint.\n \n\n In males, 5.0 % were of no fixed abode, compared with 0.7 % of females.\n \n\n This was carried in the hunter\'s bag (wuopuo) and might be installed as a shrine in the new abode.\n \n\n We thought we were entering the tranquil and neatly ordered abode of reason, but we find ourselves in a factory.\n \n\n She joined her husband in her journey to her heavenly abode.\n \n\n She enjoys a separate abode in temple precincts, and has a large number of rituals and ceremonies connected to her.\n \n\n The entrance to the abode of the mysterious cliff-dwellers is a cave in the side of the rock.\n \n\n In his own state of wandering (between one abode and the next), he too might be considered liminal - a liminal man in a liminal landscape.\n \n\n Only 2 of the 1851 patients gave the workhouse as their previous place of abode, suggesting recent arrival for the remainder.\n \n\n She departed for her heavenly abode.\n \n\n As the \'occasional \' thugs often had no fixed abode they occupied a precarious position between sedentary and peripatetic society.\n \n\n The word \'home\' (\'eternal home\') has been used only once while its formal and literary variant \'abode\' (\'heavenly abode\') figures in very many ads.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe place where someone lives: humble abode humorous Welcome to my humble abode!no fixed abode UK formal The defendant is of no fixed abode (= has no permanent home). Please list your permanent address or, if you are a citizen of another county, the address of your habitual abode in this country. Despite being called The Cottage, their estate was the largest abode in the county. I bought you some nice candlesticks for your new abode. Synonym\ndwelling formal\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nHome\naccommodation\nbolthole\ncrib\ndomestically\ndomesticated\nfold\ngaff\ngive something/someone houseroom phrase\nhabitation\nhangout\nharem\nnest\nnon-domestic\nnon-home\npad\npremises\nrabbit hutch\nresidence\nresidential\nroof\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nfml the place where someone lives: [ C ] He was a wanderer with no permanent abode.\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\na home or permanent place to live: He voted to allow 50,000 Hong Kong families the right of abode in Britain.\nno fixed abode\nused in legal cases to say that someone does not have a permanent address: Three men, all of no fixed abode, appeared in court charged with violent disorder.', 'More meanings of abode\nAll\nhumble abode\nno fixed abode\nbe of/have no fixed abode/address idiom\nSee all meanings\nIdioms and phrases\nbe of/have no fixed abode/address idiom', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (664, 'abolish', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbɑː.lɪʃ', '../audio/a/abolish.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abo/aboli/abolish.mp3', 'əˈbɒl.ɪʃ', '../audio/a/ukabnor005.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabn/ukabnor005.mp3', 'I think bullfighting should be abolished.\nNational Service was abolished in the UK in 1962.\nMassachusetts voters abolished rent control.\nEducationalists have called on the government to abolish tax on computers.\nThe government has pledged to abolish child poverty by 2020.\n\n However, rural reform has not abolished such ruralism but replaced it with its own version.\n \n\n For these regions, this tax may now be abolished.\n \n\n To placate his enemies, restrictions on the freedom of the press were first eased and then abolished.\n \n\n In contrast, an electronic answering form can abolish this artificial answering effect.\n \n\n The reform in 1986 also abolished a special rate for families with low incomes, which had been adopted since 1978.\n \n\n And yet, field studies are needed to retrieve this interpretation, which is forbidden, abolished, purified away by the top part.\n \n\n In 1747, the system of land tenure by which a tenant could be summoned for military service, known as hereditary ward-holding, was abolished.\n \n\n Just one year later, an amendment to abolish capital punishment was carried by a similarly close margin of 293 to 262 votes.\n \n\n But this does not mean that compulsion has been abolished.\n \n\n Ordinance 9 of 1882 abolished the capitation tax and reinstated the export duty on plantation crops to finance the scheme.\n \n\n Moreover, instead of abolishing referrals, it argued in favour of harmonisation of the national procedures.\n \n\n Its reformist zeal was most evident in the desire to abolish pre-capitalist modes of agricultural production symbolised by feudal intermediaries or zamindars.\n \n\n He consolidated and clarified a host of statutes, abolished obsolete offences, made significant procedural changes, and introduced a professional police force.\n \n\n The practice of deputization, which had rendered some posts essentially sinecures, was abolished, and meaningful salaries replaced compensation by fees.\n \n\n Instead, they invoked these same values for abolishing cruel penalities.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nB2 to end an activity or custom officially: I think bullfighting should be abolished. National Service was abolished in the UK in 1962.\nMore examplesFewer examplesThe government ought to abolish the tax altogether.The government is planning to abolish subsidies to farmers.Is monarchy relevant in the modern world or should it be abolished?In Britain, national service was abolished in 1962.Gradually the laws that underpinned apartheid were abolished.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nUK politics: legislation & law-making\nabrogate\nabrogation\namend\namendment\nassemblyman\nassemblywoman\nenact\nenforce\nguillotine\nhard Brexit idiom\nirrepealable\njurisprudence\njurisprudentially\npocket veto\npresiding officer\nPrime Minister\'s Questions\nprivate member\'s bill\nprohibit\nsanction\nwrit\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nForbidding and banning things\nRelated word\nabolition\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nto put an end to something, such as an organization, rule, or custom: Massachusetts voters abolished rent control.\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nLAW, GOVERNMENT to end an activity, custom, etc. completely or by law or official action: Educationalists have called on the government to abolish tax on computers. The government has pledged to abolish child poverty by 2020.', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (666, 'abolished', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbɑː.lɪʃ', '../audio/a/abolish.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abo/aboli/abolish.mp3', 'əˈbɒl.ɪʃ', '../audio/a/ukabnor005.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabn/ukabnor005.mp3', 'I think bullfighting should be abolished.\nNational Service was abolished in the UK in 1962.\n\n However, rural reform has not abolished such ruralism but replaced it with its own version.\n \n\n For these regions, this tax may now be abolished.\n \n\n To placate his enemies, restrictions on the freedom of the press were first eased and then abolished.\n \n\n The reform in 1986 also abolished a special rate for families with low incomes, which had been adopted since 1978.\n \n\n And yet, field studies are needed to retrieve this interpretation, which is forbidden, abolished, purified away by the top part.\n \n\n In 1747, the system of land tenure by which a tenant could be summoned for military service, known as hereditary ward-holding, was abolished.\n \n\n But this does not mean that compulsion has been abolished.\n \n\n Ordinance 9 of 1882 abolished the capitation tax and reinstated the export duty on plantation crops to finance the scheme.\n \n\n The \' morning gift \' was abolished, except for childless wives.\n \n\n He consolidated and clarified a host of statutes, abolished obsolete offences, made significant procedural changes, and introduced a professional police force.\n \n\n However, this was almost precisely balanced by the 19 per cent of councils who relaxed or abolished disqualification rules in the same period.\n \n\n The practice of deputization, which had rendered some posts essentially sinecures, was abolished, and meaningful salaries replaced compensation by fees.\n \n\n The immediate rise was abolished in pregnant rabbits by thoracolumbar myelotomy or spinal anaesthesia, but not by bilateral nephrectomy.\n \n\n The anterior thalamic head-direction signal is abolished by bilateral but not unilateral lesions of the lateral mammillary nucleus.\n \n\n Traditional requirements of brotherhoods to prove the \' purity \' of their bloodline were abolished and the dues of the judges were reduced.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npast simple and past participle of\nabolish\nB2 to end an activity or custom officially: I think bullfighting should be abolished. National Service was abolished in the UK in 1962.\nMore examplesFewer examplesThe government ought to abolish the tax altogether.The government is planning to abolish subsidies to farmers.Is monarchy relevant in the modern world or should it be abolished?In Britain, national service was abolished in 1962.Gradually the laws that underpinned apartheid were abolished.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nUK politics: legislation & law-making\nabolish\nabrogate\nabrogation\namend\namendment\nassemblyman\nconstitutionally\nenact\nGreen Paper\nguillotine\nhard Brexit idiom\nirrepealable\njurisprudence\nPMQs\npocket veto\npresiding officer\nPrime Minister\'s Questions\nprivate member\'s bill\nsanction\nwrit\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nForbidding and banning things\nRelated word\nabolition', 'More meanings of abolished\nAll\nabolish\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (670, 'abolishing', 'verb', 32, 'əˈbɑː.lɪʃ', '../audio/a/abolish.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abo/aboli/abolish.mp3', 'əˈbɒl.ɪʃ', '../audio/a/ukabnor005.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabn/ukabnor005.mp3', 'I think bullfighting should be abolished.\nNational Service was abolished in the UK in 1962.\n\n Moreover, instead of abolishing referrals, it argued in favour of harmonisation of the national procedures.\n \n\n Instead, they invoked these same values for abolishing cruel penalities.\n \n\n This demonstrates that magnesium-free medium and picrotoxin are abolishing directional selectivity by different mechanisms.\n \n\n Treatment with diazepam, however, had a further depressant action, practically abolishing feeding altogether.\n \n\n The widening of music as a study is not to do with abolishing categories, it is to do with rethinking them and redrawing the boundaries.\n \n\n Thus, cholesterol stabilizes the fluidity by abolishing the temperature influence.\n \n\n These acts aimed at abolishing the zamindari system and giving occupancy rights in land to the tillers.\n \n\n Arguing in favour of abolishing privilege, he adopted the view that theatrical enterprises were a form of industry.\n \n\n Abolishing the means test should further encourage taking out private retirement income among low income groups such as domestic workers and informal sector workers.\n \n\n Natural environments seem to be intolerable and abolishing for a great majority of microorganisms.\n \n\n State and federal governments revised their criminal codes, effectively abolishing parole, imposing mandatory minimum sentences, and allowing juveniles to be incarcerated in adult prisons.\n \n\n On the contrary, the fact such an imperial decree was made tells us that abolishing capital punishment in a particular case was exceptional.\n \n\n Therefore, abolishing it without changing the conditions is bound to worsen the outcome.\n \n\n In various cases, they established a second arrangement without abolishing the first.\n \n\n It also recommended the integration of financial considerations into water management, with the implied necessity of abolishing selective pricing policies.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\npresent participle of\nabolish\nB2 to end an activity or custom officially: I think bullfighting should be abolished. National Service was abolished in the UK in 1962.\nMore examplesFewer examplesThe government ought to abolish the tax altogether.The government is planning to abolish subsidies to farmers.Is monarchy relevant in the modern world or should it be abolished?In Britain, national service was abolished in 1962.Gradually the laws that underpinned apartheid were abolished.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nUK politics: legislation & law-making\nabolish\nabrogate\nabrogation\namend\namendment\nassemblyman\nconstitutionally\nenact\nGreen Paper\nguillotine\nhard Brexit idiom\nirrepealable\njurisprudence\nPMQs\npocket veto\npresiding officer\nPrime Minister\'s Questions\nprivate member\'s bill\nsanction\nwrit\nSee more results »\nYou can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:\nForbidding and banning things\nRelated word\nabolition', 'More meanings of abolishing\nAll\nabolish\nSee all meanings', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (673, 'abolition', 'noun', 32, 'ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.ən', '../audio/a/abolition.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abo/aboli/abolition.mp3', 'ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.ən', '../audio/a/ukabnor006.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabn/ukabnor006.mp3', 'He fought for abolition of the death penalty in Britain.\nthe abolition of slavery\nThe party supports the abolition of tax relief on pension funds.\n\n The extensive chapter on abolition, for example, skims over modes of liberation, the roles of families and post-liberation livelihoods.\n \n\n In this setting, proposals for the abolition of poverty were varied and plentiful.\n \n\n He proposes the abolition of all welfare benefits, contributory and non-contributory, and their replacement with short-term transitional assistance for anyone not in work.\n \n\n The latter drew an income derived mainly from money-rents from tenants, which were untouched by the abolition of \' feudalism \' in 1798.\n \n\n The analysis would suggest that the thorough cipipification of chieftaincy saved the institution from outright abolition, even if a good many individual chiefs were removed.\n \n\n The agitation was used to demand abolition of reservations altogether.\n \n\n This goal had been completed with the abolition of the three estates and the creation of a unitary and sovereign representative assembly.\n \n\n Abolition of spindle oscillations in thalamic neurons disconnected from nucleus reticularis thalami.\n \n\n French judicial institutions themselves remained equally popular after 1814, especially after the abolition of the non-jury special courts.\n \n\n With the abolition of the national district in the early 1980s, however, this \'window of transparency\' was gone.\n \n\n On a practical level, this new image of the sati as victim was deeply implicated in the political debate about abolition.\n \n\n Such compulsory measures have undergone little change even after the abolition of the unified grain purchase and sale system in 1985.\n \n\n This was associated with a shortening and eventually abolition of the oscillatory response.\n \n\n There has also been a major new factor, the abolition, or, perhaps more accurately the reduction, of capital controls.\n \n\n Abolition of regulationism may be seen as part of this reform process.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe act of ending an activity or custom officially: He fought for abolition of the death penalty in Britain. the abolition of slavery See\nabolish\nMore examplesFewer examplesThe reforms that followed led to the abolition of the monarchy. The abolition of student grants has forced many students to take on jobs during term time. We advocate the abolition of all nuclear weapons.\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nForbidding and banning things\nabolish\nabolitionist\nanti-censorship\nban\nbannable\ndecertification\ndecertify\ndisallow\ndisqualification\ndisqualify\noff-limits\nout of bounds idiom\noutlaw\nprohibit\nprohibition\nunapproved\nunauthorized\nunkosher\nunsanctioned\nverboten\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nthe official ending of an activity or custom\nUS history Abolition also means the official end to slavery in the US, which took place in 1863.\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nLAW, GOVERNMENT the complete ending of an activity or custom by law or official action: The party supports the abolition of tax relief on pension funds.', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'), | |
| (679, 'abolitionist', 'noun', 32, 'ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.ən.ɪst', '../audio/a/abolitionist.mp3', '/media/english/us_pron/a/abo/aboli/abolitionist.mp3', 'ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.ən.ɪst', '../audio/a/ukabnor007.mp3', '/media/english/uk_pron/u/uka/ukabn/ukabnor007.mp3', '\n The abolitionist was, constitutionally speaking, neither officer nor prisoner and as a consequence may stand for the ordinary citizen - \"society,\" the people at large.\n \n\n Yet, in many instances, these abolitionist judges dismissed the actions as legally insufficient.\n \n\n Some readers may miss ready recipes for abolitionist action by international lobby groups and donor organizations, or a critical analysis of their activities.\n \n\n They demonstrate above all the ambivalent attitude of the three abolitionists towards the use of violence.\n \n\n The following two chapters examine the responses of the three conventions and the wider abolitionist community to the addresses.\n \n\n In the last two chapters, he shows the gradual convergence of abolitionist factions in the late 1840s.\n \n\n I wonder, however, how much of a role such strategic constitutional thinking really played in the culmination of the radical abolitionist project.\n \n\n There were reasons other than cowardice or self-interest to resist abolitionist immediatism.\n \n\n The fundamentalists who want to ban all animal research do so from the non-negotiable position of the abolitionist.\n \n\n The decree was revoked in 1888 as a result of abolitionist protests, but new and similar regulations were issued soon after.\n \n\n As one might expect, he is far more successful, though not totally convincing, in illustrating the importance of liberal ideas to the abolitionists.\n ', 'Add to word list\nAdd to word list\na person who supports the abolition of something\nSMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases\nForbidding and banning things\nabolish\nabolition\nanti-censorship\nban\nbannable\ndecertification\ndecertify\ndisallow\ndisqualification\ndisqualify\noff-limits\nout of bounds idiom\noutlaw\nprohibit\nprohibition\nunapproved\nunauthorized\nunkosher\nunsanctioned\nverboten\nSee more results »\nAdd to word list\nAdd to word list\nUS history a person who supported an end to slavery', '', '2023-10-22 23:07:59'); |
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