📖 E — The English dictionary · page 12

embitter — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To embitter someone is to make them resentful and angry for a long time, after they have been hurt or treated unfairly.↗ Example: For they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.↗ (Writings PSA.106.33, JPS 1917)↗ · The unfair loss embittered him.↗ · Years of teasing embittered the poor boy.↗ · The king grew more embittered each day.↗

emblem — Everyday, meaning 1: A picture or object that stands for a country, group, team or idea: «The maple leaf is the emblem of Canada».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something that represents a quality: «The dove is an emblem of peace».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A badge with such a picture.↗ Example: The maple leaf is Canada's national emblem.↗ · The dove is an emblem of peace.↗ · Our school emblem is an owl holding a book.↗ · The shamrock is an emblem of Ireland.↗ · The cross is the main emblem of Christianity.↗ · The team's emblem is printed on every shirt.↗ · The silver fern is a famous emblem of New Zealand.↗ · She said that an apple-branch was a most lovely object, and an emblem of spring in its most charming aspect.↗

embodied — Everyday, meaning 1: Showed or represented an idea or quality clearly, as a perfect example.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Included as part of something, like rules embodied in a law.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science, formal) Having a body; in AI and robots, «embodied» means having a body that acts in the real world.↗ Example: The firefighter embodied courage.↗ · Our school's values are embodied in five simple rules.↗ · The robot is an embodied AI that walks around the lab.↗ · For many, Nelson Mandela embodied forgiveness.↗ · The team embodied the spirit of fair play.↗ · His kind smile embodied his gentle nature.↗

embodiment — Everyday, meaning 1: The embodiment of a quality is a person or thing that shows that quality perfectly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An embodiment is a real form of an idea or feeling.↗ Example: She is the embodiment of kindness.↗ · The witch was the embodiment of evil.↗ · Our teacher is the embodiment of patience.↗

embody — Everyday, meaning 1: To embody an idea is to show it clearly in a person or thing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To embody something is to include it or contain it as a part.↗ Example: The fox embodies cunning.↗ · This tale embodies an old lesson.↗ · The statue embodies the spirit of the city.↗

embrace — Everyday, meaning 1: To put your arms around someone to show love or friendship; to hug.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A hug.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To accept a new idea, change or opportunity happily and with enthusiasm.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal) To include or contain: «The course embraces many subjects.».↗ Example: The friends embraced when they met at the airport.↗ · She gave her grandad a long embrace.↗ · Our school embraced the idea of a vegetable garden.↗ · Embrace the challenge and try your best.↗ · The mother held the baby in a warm embrace.↗ · (formal) The topic embraces both history and geography.↗ · I simply cannot wait to embrace you!↗ · And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.↗ (Torah GEN.48.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept.↗ (Torah GEN.33.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house.↗ (Torah GEN.29.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Let his left hand be under my head, and his right hand embrace me.↗ (Writings SNG.2.6, JPS 1917)↗ · His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.↗ (Writings SNG.8.3, JPS 1917)↗ · They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.↗ (Writings JOB.24.8, JPS 1917)↗

embroider — Everyday, meaning 1: To embroider means to sew patterns or pictures onto cloth with coloured thread.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To embroider a story means to add made-up details to make it more exciting.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To embroider can also mean to cover something so thickly with things that it looks decorated, like a carriage crowded with people.↗ Example: Gran embroidered my name on my bag.↗ · We embroidered flowers on a cushion in class.↗ · The shirt has a dragon embroidered on the back.↗ · He embroidered the story to make it funnier.↗ · It takes 30 stitches to embroider one petal; how many for 5 petals?↗ · Don't embroider the facts — just say what happened.↗ · Carriages and omnibuses are crowded, stuffed and embroidered with people.↗

embroidery — Everyday, meaning 1: Embroidery is decorating cloth by sewing patterns on it with coloured thread.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An embroidery is a piece of cloth decorated in this way.↗ Example: She stitched flowers in red thread as embroidery.↗ · Grandma's tablecloth has beautiful embroidery.↗ · The princess spent the winter at her embroidery.↗ · A damsel, two damsels to every man; to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, a spoil of dyed garments of embroidery, two dyed garments of broidery for the neck of every spoiler?'↗ (Prophets JDG.5.30, JPS 1917)↗

embryo — Everyday, meaning 1: A living thing at a very early stage of growing, before it is born or hatches: inside an egg, a seed or its mother's womb.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The tiny part inside a seed that will grow into a new plant.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (in embryo) Something at a very early stage that may develop later, like an idea.↗ Example: A chick embryo grows inside the egg for three weeks.↗ · Inside the bean seed is a tiny embryo.↗ · A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at first.↗ · We saw a picture of a frog embryo in the jelly.↗ · The idea for our club was only an embryo then.↗ · The embryo gets food from the yolk.↗

emendation — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A change made to a text to fix a mistake or make it clear.↗ Example: The second word, שטותה, cannot be made sense of without emendation.↗ שְׁטוּתָה shetutah would appear to be passed on a root שָׁטָה shatah which means ‘to mock, ridicule’, found in words like שְׁטוּת shetut ‘stupidity’.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

emerald — Everyday, meaning 1: An emerald is a bright green precious stone used in jewellery.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Emerald is a bright, rich green colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The Emerald Isle is a nickname for Ireland, because of its green fields.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Emerald City is the name of a famous imaginary city in the story of The Wizard of Oz.↗ Example: The queen's ring had a huge emerald.↗ · The sea was a sparkling emerald green.↗ · Ireland is called the Emerald Isle.↗ · Dorothy followed the road to the Emerald City.↗ · Emeralds are mined in Colombia.↗ · “That must be the Emerald City,” said Dorothy.↗ · and the second row a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald; (Torah EXO.28.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald.↗ (Torah EXO.39.11, JPS 1917)↗

emerge — Everyday, meaning 1: To come out from inside or behind something and be seen.↗ e.g. A chick emerged from the egg.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To become known.↗ e.g. The truth emerged later.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To appear or develop.↗ e.g. New problems emerged.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To come through a hard time.↗ e.g. She emerged from the illness stronger.↗ Example: A butterfly emerged from the chrysalis.↗ · The sun emerged from behind the clouds.↗ · It later emerged that the money was missing.↗ · Shoots emerge from the soil in spring.↗ · The swimmer emerged from the water, shivering.↗ · New ideas emerged during the meeting.↗ · The first to emerge from his tree was Curly.↗ · From them emerge Fire and Water, being divided male and female.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

emergence — Everyday, meaning 1: Coming out from somewhere and becoming visible, like an insect from a cocoon.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Starting to exist or becoming known or important, like a new idea or country.↗ Example: We watched the emergence of a butterfly from its chrysalis.↗ · The emergence of the first shoots shows spring is here.↗ · The emergence of the internet changed how people talk.↗ · History tells of the emergence of the first cities.↗ · The mayfly's emergence happens in early summer.↗ · Scientists studied the emergence of a new island from the sea.↗

emergency — Everyday, meaning 1: A sudden dangerous situation where help is needed quickly: a fire, a bad accident, someone who can't breathe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, used in such a situation.↗ e.g. "emergency exit", "emergency services".↗ Example: Call 911 in an emergency.↗ · A fire is an emergency.↗ · The emergency exit is at the back.↗ · An ambulance is one of the emergency services.↗ · Only call the number in a real emergency.↗ · Learn your address in case of an emergency.↗ · We practise for emergencies with fire drills.↗ · The doctor had an emergency and left.↗ · But in this emergency Poseidon came to the aid of the son of Tantalus.↗

emergent — Everyday, meaning 1: Emergent means starting to appear, grow or become known.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) An emergent plant grows in water but its top sticks up out of the water, like a reed.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science, rainforest) The emergent layer is the very top of a rainforest, where the tallest trees poke above the canopy.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal) An emergent property is something a whole group has that its single parts do not have.↗ Example: The emergent layer is home to eagles and monkeys.↗ · The tallest trees in the rainforest are emergent trees.↗ · Reeds are emergent plants at the edge of the pond.↗ · Teachers help emergent readers with simple books.↗ · An ant colony is clever even though each ant is simple — that is an emergent property.↗ · Emergent countries are growing quickly.↗

emerging — Everyday, meaning 1: Emerging is the -ing form of «emerge», which means to come out from somewhere hidden or dark.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Emerging means new and beginning to grow or become important, like an emerging artist or an emerging country.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Emerging can mean becoming known: new facts are emerging.↗ Example: The butterfly is emerging from its chrysalis.↗ · Tiny shoots are emerging from the soil.↗ · The sun was emerging from behind the clouds.↗ · She is an emerging writer with her first book out.↗ · New facts are emerging about the old shipwreck.↗ · Robots are an emerging technology in hospitals.↗ · The frogs are emerging from the pond as the evening gets dark.↗ · “It’s all right,” John announced, emerging from his hiding-place.↗ “I say, Peter, can you really fly?”↗ · Both items refer to anatomical hiddenness: the word emerging from the tongue, hidden in the mouth, and circumcision of the genitals, the concealed lower organs revealed during circumcision.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

emerods — Early Modern English, meaning 1: painful lumps or sores that swell on the skin, here as a plague sent on the wicked.↗ Example: The LORD will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.↗ (Torah DEU.28.27, JPS 1917)

emetic — Everyday, meaning 1: (medicine) A medicine or substance that makes a person vomit (be sick).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Making someone sick, as an adjective.↗ Example: In the old days, doctors gave an emetic to poison victims.↗ · Salty water was once used as an emetic.↗ · The vet gave the dog an emetic after it ate chocolate.↗ · Some plants are emetic and make animals sick.↗ · Today, doctors rarely use emetics.↗ · If someone swallows something poisonous, call for help at once.↗

emigrant — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who leaves their own country to live in another country.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Emigrant can also be used as a describing word for people who are leaving their own country, such as emigrant families.↗ Example: Many Irish emigrants sailed to America during the famine.↗ · My great-grandparents were emigrants from Italy.↗ · The emigrants waved goodbye to their village.↗ · Emigrants often send money home to their families.↗ · Ships full of emigrants arrived in New York.↗ · Ten-pound Poms were British emigrants to Australia.↗ · I saw a caravan of emigrant peasant families who were bound to Hamburgh, there to take ship for America, where fancied prosperity would bloom for them.↗

emigrate — Everyday, meaning 1: To leave your own country to go and live permanently in another country.↗ Example: My grandparents emigrated from Ireland to Canada.↗ · Many families emigrated to Australia by ship.↗ · They emigrated to New Zealand for a new life.↗ · Her uncle plans to emigrate next spring.↗ · Millions of people emigrated during hard times.↗ · He emigrated from Scotland and never returned.↗ · He emigrated into Greece, where, at the court of Oenomaus, king of Elis, he beheld Hippodamia, the king's daughter, whose beauty won his heart.↗

emigration — Everyday, meaning 1: Emigration is leaving your own country to go and live permanently in another country.↗ Example: There was huge emigration from Ireland during the famine.↗ · Emigration to Australia was popular among British families.↗ · Many emigrants left by ship, a journey of many weeks.↗ · Emigration can split families across the world.↗ · Poverty and war are common causes of emigration.↗ · Grandad talks about his emigration from Scotland to Canada.↗

eminence — Everyday, meaning 1: Eminence is the state of being famous, important or high in rank.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An eminence is a high hill or rising ground (formal use).↗ Example: He rose to eminence as a great doctor.↗ · From the eminence we saw the sea.↗ · Her skill brought her great eminence.↗ · Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay.↗ (Writings JOB.13.12, JPS 1917)↗

eminent — Everyday, meaning 1: Eminent means famous, respected and important, known for doing something very well.↗ Example: She is an eminent judge.↗ · The king called on eminent doctors.↗ · The eminent mice chose the general.↗ · In the volume entitled "La Kabbale" by the eminent French scholar and Membre de L'Institut, Adolphe Franck, there is a chapter on the "Sepher Yetzirah.'↗ He writes as follows: (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · 'My beloved is white and ruddy, pre-eminent above ten thousand.↗ (Writings SNG.5.10, JPS 1917)↗ · that thou hast built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.24, JPS 1917)↗ · in that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thy lofty place in every street; and hast not been as a harlot that enhanceth her hire.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.31, JPS 1917)↗