{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "saʊr", "saʊər" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/sour.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/sour.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”).\nCognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sur, French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”),\nPolish ser (“cheese”),\nCzech sýr (“cheese”),\nSlovak syr (“cheese”),\nRussian сырой (syroj, “raw”),\nUkrainian сири́й (syrýj, “raw”),\nOld Church Slavonic сꙑръ (syrŭ, “moist, cheese”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.\nLemons have a sour taste.\n1631, Francis , “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , 3rd edition, London: William Rawley; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.\n2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, Wired, \"The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel\":\nA few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for \"sour.\" Sugars get received as \"sweet.\" Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades." }, { "mean": "Made rancid by fermentation, etc.\nDon't drink that milk; it's turned sour." }, { "mean": "Tasting or smelling rancid.\nHis sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him." }, { "mean": "(of a person's character) Peevish or bad-tempered.\nHe gave me a sour look.\nc. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :He was a scholar / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men that sought him sweet as summer." }, { "mean": "(of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.\nsour land\na sour marsh" }, { "mean": "(of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.\nsour gas smells like rotten eggs" }, { "mean": "Unfortunate or unfavorable.\n1613 (date written), William Shakespeare; , “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Let me embrace thee, sour adversity\n2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎:The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity." }, { "mean": "(music) Off-pitch, out of tune.\n2010, Aniruddh D. Patel, Music, Language, and the Brain, page 201:Unlike what the name implies, there is nothing inherently wrong with a sour note: It is perfectly well-tuned note that would sound normal in another context (and which presumably would not sound sour to someone unfamiliar with tonal music)." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The sensation of a sour taste.\n(Can we add an example for this sense?)" }, { "mean": "A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.\n(Can we add an example for this sense?)" }, { "mean": "(by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice." }, { "mean": "A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.\n1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:For many Years of Sorrow can dispense; A Dram of Sweet is worth a Pound of Sour" }, { "mean": "The acidic solution used in souring fabric." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To make sour.\nToo much lemon juice will sour the recipe." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To become sour.\n1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, on transcribing my Poems\nSo the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.\n1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.\n1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A Millar, , →OCLC:\nHe was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To become disenchanted.\nWe broke up after our relationship soured." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.\n1832, Joseph Harrison, Sir Joseph Paxton, The Horticultural Register, page 396:\nstagnant water , which tends to sour the soil" }, { "mean": "To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }