📖 O — The English dictionary · page 15

originate — Everyday, meaning 1: To begin or come from a place, time or source (the game originated in Scotland).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To invent or start something new.↗ Example: Football originated in England.↗ · Chocolate originated in Central America.↗ · The river originates in the mountains.↗ · Where did this word originate?↗ · The idea originated with a pupil in our class.↗ · The storm originated far out at sea.↗ · They think that a tale probably originated where it was found.↗ · At first existed these three mothers, and there arose three masculine powers, and hence all things have originated.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · originated.↗ (Thimus Harmonikale Symbolik Koeln 1876, vol. 1, pp.↗ 79-83).↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · From this sym- bol originated the numeral 0 (.ji in the East-Arabian notation.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

originator — Everyday, meaning 1: The originator of something is the person who first thought of it, made it or started it.↗ Example: Who was the originator of this plan?↗ · The originator of the rumour turned out to be a jealous classmate.↗ · He is the originator of the popular board game.↗ · The originator of the idea got a prize.↗ · Scientists are not sure who was the originator of the joke.↗ · Each new email shows the originator's address.↗ · The tongue is, as it were, the descriptive pen of all the spiritual issues, and the genital parts are the originators of the corporeal substances.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

ornament — Everyday, meaning 1: An ornament is a small object used to make a room, a shelf or a Christmas tree look nice, rather than for a practical use.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ornament is decoration added to something to make it beautiful, like carving on a building.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To ornament something is to decorate it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (music) An ornament is extra notes added to decorate a tune.↗ Example: We hung shiny ornaments on the Christmas tree.↗ · The cat knocked a china ornament off the shelf.↗ · Grandma's house is full of little ornaments.↗ · The church door was carved with beautiful ornament.↗ · We made paper ornaments in art class.↗ · The garden had a stone frog as an ornament.↗ · Blooming flowers ornament the staircases, and soft carpets the floors.↗ · And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward.↗ (Torah EXO.33.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man did put on him his ornaments.↗ (Torah EXO.33.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?↗ (Prophets JER.2.32, JPS 1917)↗ · I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.11, JPS 1917)↗ · As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.↗ (Writings PRO.25.12, JPS 1917)↗

ornamental — Everyday, meaning 1: Ornamental means used to decorate and make something look nice, rather than for a practical use.↗ Example: The garden has an ornamental pond with goldfish.↗ · The fireplace is only ornamental; it doesn't work.↗ · Ornamental cherry trees have pretty flowers but no fruit.↗ · The church door has ornamental carvings.↗ · Ornamental grasses sway in the wind.↗ · That sword is ornamental, not for fighting.↗ · I see that you are useful, as well as ornamental, my little lady."↗

orphan — Everyday, meaning 1: An orphan is a child whose parents have both died.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be orphaned is to become an orphan.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An orphan animal has lost its mother.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (printing, computing) An orphan is a single line or word left alone at the top or bottom of a page.↗ Example: Anne Shirley was an orphan who went to live on a farm.↗ · The orphan was looked after by her aunt.↗ · Harry Potter was orphaned as a baby.↗ · The zoo is raising an orphaned baby elephant.↗ · The Bible tells believers to care for orphans and widows.↗ · An orphanage was once a home for orphans.↗ · We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.↗ (Writings LAM.5.3, JPS 1917)↗

orphanage — Everyday, meaning 1: An orphanage is a home where children who have no parents live and are cared for.↗ Example: The children lived in an orphanage in the city.↗ · She was adopted from the orphanage.↗ · The orphanage had a big garden for the children.↗

orthodontist — Everyday, meaning 1: A dentist who specialises in straightening teeth and fixing the way teeth and jaws fit together, often by fitting braces.↗ Example: I'm going to the orthodontist to get my braces tightened.↗ · The orthodontist said my teeth are too crowded.↗ · My sister wears a retainer from the orthodontist at night.↗ · The orthodontist took a mould of my teeth.↗ · You can't eat sticky toffee when you have braces, says the orthodontist.↗ · After two years, the orthodontist took my brace off.↗

orthodox — Everyday, meaning 1: Orthodox means following the usual, accepted ideas or ways of doing something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (church) The Orthodox Church is a big family of Christian churches, strong in Greece, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia and other places, with icons, candles and ancient services.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (religion) Orthodox Jews keep the Jewish laws strictly, such as the sabbath and food rules.↗ Example: My friend Eleni is Greek Orthodox and lights candles before icons.↗ · Orthodox Easter is sometimes a week later than ours.↗ · The coach's unorthodox training had us running backwards.↗ · An orthodox Jewish family does not use the car on the sabbath.↗ · The orthodox way to solve this sum is long division.↗ · The Orthodox church has a golden dome and beautiful paintings.↗ · This is rank sacrilege in the eyes of the rigid orthodox in matters folk-lorical.↗ · Postellus, the orthodox, gives Deus Vivus.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

orthography — Everyday, meaning 1: Orthography is the system of spelling and writing a language: which letters stand for which sounds, and rules for capital letters, hyphens and punctuation.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Orthography is correct spelling.↗ Example: English orthography has many silent letters, like the «k» in «knee».↗ · Spanish orthography is more regular than English.↗ · The orthography of Ukrainian uses the Cyrillic alphabet.↗ · Noah Webster changed American orthography, writing «color» instead of «colour».↗ · Learning orthography means learning the spelling rules.↗ · Old books show a different orthography, like «olde shoppe».↗ · For the Hebrew orthography which has been and is still taught, is not Hebrew but Arabic.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Finding that my views on Hebrew orthography harmonized Avith those of the Sefer Yetzirah, I made an exhaustive study of it.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The reason why they have remained so long an unsolved problem is partly due to a lack of knowledge of Hebrew orthography, on which the Sefer Yetzirah is based.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

orthoptist — Everyday, meaning 1: A health professional who checks and treats problems with how the eyes move and work together, such as a squint or a lazy eye.↗ Example: The orthoptist checked how my eyes moved together.↗ · My little brother sees an orthoptist about his squint.↗ · The orthoptist gave her an eye patch to wear.↗ · At the hospital eye clinic, we saw an orthoptist and then an eye doctor.↗ · An orthoptist can test a baby's eyes too.↗ · The school nurse sent me to an orthoptist after the eye test.↗

oryx — Everyday, meaning 1: An oryx is a large antelope of the deserts and dry grasslands of Africa and Arabia, with very long, straight, pointed horns and a pale coat with dark face markings.↗ Example: An oryx can live in the desert without drinking for weeks.↗ · The oryx has long, straight horns like spears.↗ · The Arabian oryx was saved by breeding them in zoos.↗ · A herd of oryx crossed the dry plain.↗ · The scimitar-horned oryx has curved horns.↗ · From the side, an oryx with one horn hidden looks a bit like a unicorn.↗

os — Everyday, meaning 1: (computing) OS is short for "operating system", the main program that runs a computer or phone, like Windows, macOS, Android or iOS.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK) OS is short for Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency of Great Britain; "OS maps" are detailed maps used for walking.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Latin, medicine) "os" means bone (plural "ossa") or mouth (plural "ora") in Latin; also (French) "os" means bone.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (clothing) OS can mean "one size" or "oversized".↗ Example: My phone needs an OS update.↗ · Android and iOS are mobile OSs.↗ · We used an OS map on our Duke of Edinburgh walk.↗ · OS maps show footpaths, churches and contour lines.↗ · In Latin, "os" means bone.↗ · The label on the hoodie said OS, meaning one size.↗ · The Hebrew term תֹּהוּ tohu is much more similar in sense to the Greek kháos than it is to English chaos.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Now, what is tiie "great secret," which the three mother letters (vowels) B'OS contain according to the Sefer Yetzirah?↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

oscar — Everyday, meaning 1: An Oscar is a gold statue given each year as a top prize for films, also called an Academy Award.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Oscar is a boy's name.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In the spelling alphabet used on radios, "Oscar" stands for the letter O.↗ Example: The film won three Oscars.↗ · She was nominated for an Oscar for best actress.↗ · My best friend is called Oscar.↗ · We watched the Oscars on TV.↗ · In the radio alphabet, O is "Oscar".↗ · Oscar the cat sleeps on my bed.↗

oscillate — Everyday, meaning 1: To swing or move back and forth regularly, like a pendulum.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To keep changing between two feelings, ideas or states, as in "oscillate between hope and fear".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) Of electric current or waves, to change direction or strength in a regular rhythm.↗ Example: A pendulum oscillates from side to side.↗ · The fan oscillates so it cools the whole room.↗ · Guitar strings oscillate when you pluck them.↗ · His mood oscillated between happy and grumpy.↗ · The price oscillated between £5 and £6 all week.↗ · The spring oscillated up and down after we let go.↗

oscillating — Everyday, meaning 1: Swinging or moving back and forth regularly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Moving or turning from side to side, as in "an oscillating fan".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Changing back and forth between two states or feelings.↗ Example: An oscillating fan turns from side to side.↗ · The oscillating sprinkler watered the whole lawn.↗ · We timed the oscillating pendulum in science.↗ · The pendulum kept oscillating for a long time.↗ · The prices kept oscillating up and down.↗ · The oscillating light on the lighthouse swept across the bay.↗ · The three mother letters A, M, SH are the foundations of the whole; and resemble a Balance, the good in one scale, the evil in the other, and the oscillating tongue of the Balance between them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

oscillation — Everyday, meaning 1: A regular movement back and forth, like a pendulum swing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) One full swing or vibration, from one side to the other and back.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A change back and forth between two states, feelings or opinions.↗ Example: We counted ten oscillations of the pendulum.↗ · One oscillation means swinging there and back again.↗ · Sound is made by the oscillation of air particles.↗ · A longer pendulum has slower oscillations.↗ · There was an oscillation in her mood all day.↗ · The bridge's oscillation in the wind worried engineers.↗

osier — Everyday, meaning 1: A kind of willow tree or bush that grows by rivers and wet ground, with long thin bendy shoots.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: One of those long thin bendy willow shoots, used to weave baskets and fences.↗ Example: The little boat slid in among the osiers by the bank.↗ · Basket makers cut osiers in winter when the leaves have fallen.↗ · A moorhen built her nest under the osiers.↗ · The osier beds along the river were thick and green.↗ · We wove a little fence from thin osiers in our school garden.↗ · The wind rustled through the osiers as the Mole watched the water.↗ · The poet placed his osier basket on the grass.↗

osprey — Everyday, meaning 1: An osprey is a large bird of prey with brown wings and a white underside that dives feet-first into water to catch fish.↗ Example: An osprey dived into the lake and caught a trout.↗ · Ospreys fly to Africa for the winter.↗ · We watched the osprey nest on a webcam.↗ · The osprey carried the fish head-first.↗ · Ospreys returned to Scotland after many years.↗ · An osprey's feet have spikes to grip fish.↗

ossified — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Ossified means turned into bone: soft cartilage that has hardened into bone, as happens in a growing child's skeleton.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Ossified describes ideas, rules or groups that have become fixed, stiff and unable to change, like old dry bones.↗ Example: A baby's skull is not fully ossified, so it has soft spots.↗ · As children grow, cartilage in the bones becomes ossified.↗ · The old club had ossified rules that nobody dared to change.↗ · The teacher said the empire's government had become ossified and slow.↗ · The X-ray showed which bones had ossified.↗ · Some ideas grow ossified if nobody questions them.↗

ostentation — Everyday, meaning 1: Ostentation is showing off to be noticed, with too much display of wealth or fine things.↗ Example: The rich man's house was full of ostentation.↗ · She spoke with ostentation about her new car.↗ · Ostentation is not the same as true kindness.↗