{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "lɑ", "lɔ" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/law.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/law.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/law.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/law.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English lawe, laȝe, from Old English lagu (“law”), borrowed from Old Norse lǫg (“law”, literally “things laid down or firmly established”), originally the plural of lag (“layer, stratum, a laying in order, measure, stroke”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą (“that which is laid down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Cognate with Scots law (“law”), Icelandic lög (“things laid down, law”), Faroese lóg (“law”), Norwegian lov (“law”), Swedish lag (“law”), Danish lov (“law”). Replaced Old English ǣ and ġesetnes. More at lay. \nNot related to French loi and Spanish ley, which instead derive from Latin lēx, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather”).", "From Middle English lawe, from Old English hlāw (“burial mound”). Also spelled low.", "From Middle English lagh, from Old Norse lag (“that which is lying or laid, position, price, way, sting, blow”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą (“that which is laid”). Cognate with Scots lauch (“one's tavern-reckoning or one's share of the cost, a score; a payment for drink or entertainment”), Middle English lai (“one's share of expenses, one's bill or account”).", "Compare la and Lawd." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(usually with \"the\") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.\n\nThe courts interpret the law but should not make it.\nIn theory, entrapment is against the law.", "submean": [ "The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.\nproperty law\ncommercial hunting and fishing law", "Common law, as contrasted with equity." ] }, { "mean": "A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.\nThere is a law against importing wallabies.\nA new law forbids driving on that road.\nThe court ruled that the executive order was not law and nullified it." }, { "mean": "(more generally) A rule, such as:", "submean": [ "Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)\n\"Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you\" is a good law to follow.\nthe law of self-preservation", "A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.\nthe laws of playwriting and poetry\n", "A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)\nSynonyms: see Thesaurus:law of nature\n\nthe laws of thermodynamics\nNewton's third law of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.\nThis is one of several laws derived from his general theory expounded in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.", "(mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.\nMathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.", "Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.\nthe law of scarcity\nthe law of supply and demand", "(linguistics) A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.\nGrimm's law\nDahl's law", "(cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC." ] }, { "mean": "The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.\nThey worked to maintain law and order.\nIt was a territory without law, marked by violence." }, { "mean": "(informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).\nHere comes the law — run!\nthen the law arrived on the scene" }, { "mean": "The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).\nHe is studying for a career in law.\nShe has practiced law in New York for twenty years." }, { "mean": "Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.\nShe went to university to study law." }, { "mean": "Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).\nThey were quick to go to law." }, { "mean": "(now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair." }, { "mean": "(aviation) A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.\nnormal law; alternate law; direct law" }, { "mean": "(fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos." }, { "mean": "(law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases \"wager of law\", \"wage one's law\", \"perform one's law\", \"lose one's law\".)" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) To work as a lawyer; to practice law.\n1889, New York (State). Court of Appeals, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs, page 71:That was in 1877 you were lawing with Herdick?\n1897, The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta - Volume 21, page 210:J. H. Turner is married and lawing in Milwaukee.\n1923, Briton Hadden, Time - Volume 29, page 59:The American Bar Association ruefully admits that the legal profession is overcrowded, especially in large cities. It has a committee studying the situation. Last week an editorial in the New York Law Journal urged a youthful revolt against the city, twanged an idyll of lawing in the country." }, { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive, chiefly dialectal) To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.\n1860, George Eliot (Mary Anne Lewes), The Mill on the Floss:\nYour husband's so given to lawing, they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies.\n1886, Charles Dudley Warner, Their Pilgrimage, page 144:\"I like folks to be up and down and square,\" she began saying, as she vigilantly watched the effect of her culinary skill upon the awed little party. \"Yes, I've got a regular hotel license; you bet I have. There's been folks lawed in this town for sellin' a meal of victuals and not having one.\"\n2014, Joseph Andrew Orser, The Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America:“So I said to her, 'Well, no man ever made anything lawing with his wife, so, if your mind is set on having a divorce and the children you will want plenty to raise them with,' so I deed her the farm in Sumner county and everything on it—horses, mules, machinery, everything.”" }, { "mean": "(nonstandard) To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.\n1939, Henry Green Hodges, City management: theory and practice of municipal administration:At its 1933 session, the Kansas legislature provided for funding outstanding bills and floating debts of those cities which could not make payment by a fixed date. By this stroke of its imagination, the legislature lawed all Kansas cities onto a \"cash\" basis and admonished them to stay there.\n1969, Aryan Path - Volume 40, page 338:Earth lies in the chorus of the stars' congregation in the lawed line of their movement, in the balanced rotation of their light, bound by that lawed line, conceived in the focus of that turning; a vessel fashioned on the wheel of endless time.\n1979, Gokhale, Surat In The Seventeenth Century, →ISBN, page 27:Nicholas Downton (February 1615) says of the people of Surat: \"a mixt people, quiet, peaceable, very subtle; civil, and universally governed under one King, but diversely lawed and customed\".\n2007, Henry Grenryk Ledesma, The Little Book: The Sound of the Seventh Trumpet, page 38:So that, when GOD said, “Let there be light:” Behold the first created light burst out unto its glory (here GOD lawed the power of heat, fire, light, melting, cooling, and freezing)\n2011, Brian Freemantle, The Iron Cage, →ISBN:Beyond the ocher and yellow-washed buildings, French colonial with a suggestion of Beau Geste from the castellated balconies, it is an arm-grabbing, loosely lawed bazaar of a place." }, { "mean": "(informal) To enforce the law.\n1918, Eldred Kurtz Means, E.K. Means, page 50:De gram jury lawed me all de time an' dat place got too hot.\n1972, Bill Peterson, Coaltown revisited: an Appalachian notebook, page 28:The only time I ever got lawed was for the union. Happened three times.\n2008, Ron McLarty, Art in America: A Novel, →ISBN:So we're on the road with the micks, maybe a mile from the precinct, and Reedy just pulls over, takes them out onto the Commons, takes off the cuffs, and we knock about twenty pounds of shit out of them.” Petey sensed the agent watching him talk and tried to explain it all another way. “What I mean is, lawing used to be pretty damn pure.\n2013, J B Bergstad, Hyde's Corner - Book II - In The Name of Vengeance, →ISBN:The sheriff jabbed his thumb at his chest. \"I run this shebang. Been doing so for forty-six years. You think you can come in here and preach lawing to me?" }, { "mean": "To subject to legal restrictions.\n1895, The Chronicle - Volumes 55-56, page 125:Insurance may fairly be said to head the list of objects of legislative interference. It has been lawed and lawed until it is nearly outlawed, and the cry for more continues to go up unsatisfied\n1914, California Outlook - Volume 16, page lxx:No man knew what his water rights were until they had been lawed over, and lawed over, and lawed over again.\n1920, Weight and Measure, page 34:It has been truly said that we are lawed into existence and lawed through life and lawed out of it more than any other nation\n1994, Lisa Lewis, The Unbeliever, →ISBN, page 58:She knows what's tethered underwater. Not Children's bodies, but their toys, their lost, Lawed-against pleasures" } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Appendix:Legal terms\nAppendix:Glossary of legal terms\nCategory:Law\nlawe" } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) A tumulus of stones." }, { "mean": "(Northern England, Scotland, archaic) A hill.\n1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Lantern-bearers”, in Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays, London: Chatto & Windus, , →OCLC, part I, page 209:ou might climb the Law, where the whale's jawbone stood landmark in the buzzing wind, and behold the face of many counties, and the smoke and spires of many towns, and the sails of distant ships." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(dialectal or obsolete) A score; share of expense; legal charge." } ] }, { "name": "Interjection", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.\n1791-92, Jane Austen, ‘The Three Sisters’, Juvenilia:\n‘Do tell me once for all, whether you intend to marry Mr Watts or not?’ ‘Law Mama, how can I tell you what I don't know myself?’" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "인터젝션", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }